November 5, 2025 • 38 mins
Democrats across the nation came out on top in Tuesday’s election. The Democratic Party had major wins in New York City with the newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani, in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, and on Proposition 50, the California redistricting vote. What does this mean for the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party (as they were Tuesday’s big losers)?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan ray On telling you bas
Boston's News.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Radio before we get back to the calls. And I'm
going to get back to the quickly, I promise. This
is the twenty twenty eight Democratic presidential nominee, Governor Gavin
Newsom of California. After that Prop fifty vote cut number
one rob.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let me Hender score, It's been a good evening for everybody,
not just the Democratic Party, but what a night for
the Democratic Party, a party that is in its ascendancy,
a party that's on its toes, no longer on its heels,
from coast to coast, sea to shining Sea. But it
was not just a victory tonight for the Democratic Party,
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as a victory for the United States of America, for
the people of this country and the principles that are
founding fathers lived and died for. And so we're proud.
We're proud here in California to be part of this narrative.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now. Meanwhile, in New York, Mindami the Democratic Socialist, he
was not especially magnanimous towards the man he defeated, or
one of the too many defeated Former New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo cut five a Rob.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life,
but let tonight be the final time I utter his
name as we turned the page on a politics that
abandons the many and answers only to the fume.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
New York.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Tonight, you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate
for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a
city we can afford, and a mandate for a government
that delivers exactly that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Uh on the other side of the equation of Cuomo
was much more gracious to Uh Mundami UH and actually
cautioned his supporters when they bowed Mundami's name. Cut fourteen Rob.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Congratulations to Zoron Mondami.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
No no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That is no that is not right.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
That hey, that is not right, and that is not us.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That is not us. The losing candidate in New Jersey, Ciderelli,
was very gracious towards the Democrat who beat him. This
has cut twenty two Rob.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
Throughout this campaign, what we talked about is the people
of New Jersey no longer living with any insecurity or
fear that their children can't get the education they so
rightfully deserve, that their children can't ultimately get the job
of their dreams here, that they can't start a business here,
that they can't raise a middle class family here, that
they can't retire here. These are all the things that
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people are terribly insecure of today here in New Jersey.
These are all the things that we talked in very specific.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Terms on how to solve.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
I believe in my brand of leadership. I haven't stopped
believing because of the outcome of tonight's election. It is
my hope that Mikey Cheryl has hurt us in terms
of what we need to do to make New Jersey
that place where everybody can once again feel they can
achieve their American dream.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Senator of Pennsylvania responded to some comments that Nancy Pelosi
made Fetamen. I think is emerging as a leader in
the Democratic Party. That's my opinion. You can agree or disagree.
Cut twenty five.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I would say that's part of the worst creatures on
the face of the earth. Are Hamas or like the
leadership of Iran Or there's a lot of people on that.
I would never use those kind of terms, and I
wouldn't describe our president. You can really disagree with them
and then I do disagree, but I don't think that's
really entirely appropriate. But that's her words for that. So
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for me, that's just the different kinds of a democrat.
For me, I don't gonna call people they're fascists, they're Nazis,
or compare the people and those kinds of terms. If
you use those kind of terms now you might have
to realize that if you voted for them as well.
And I know people that have done that in my state,
and I know those people aren't fascists or they're trying
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to destroy our democracy either, And that's different as a
democrat here.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And then of course, leave it to Donald Trump this
morning at the White House to turn a horrific night
for the Republicans into something about him. Cut thirty eight, Rob.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
If you read the posters, the shutdown was a big
factor negative for the Republicans, and that was a big factor.
And they say that I wasn't on the ballot, it
was the biggest factor, But I don't know about that,
but I was honored that they said that. I think
it's very important we have to get the country open,
and the way we're going to do it this afternoon
is to terminate the fellow US, and it's possible you're
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not going to do that, and I'm going to go
by your wishes. You're very smart people, we're good friends.
But I think it's a tremendous mistake.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Will. It would be a tragic mistake. Actually, it's time.
It's time. So that's just a little sense of last
night from different spokespeople. Let me see what you think tonight,
Bill is in Pennsylvania. Bill, tough night for the Republicans.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, I agree with you, Dan, it was. It was
a tough night. But when I when I look at
it from thirty thousand feet, I'm thinking, Okay, Uh, the
two ladies that won in New Jersey and uh Virginia,
I would I would have to say, they're they're pretty moderate.
So that tells me that the progressives in the Democrat
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Party aren't, you know, aren't really uh getting the uh
the support that they that they're going to need to
do the takeover. But uh, then I look at and
it was I was interested to hear from Harvey this evening, Dan,
because I think I think Harvey still believes that that
Donald Trump was a Russian agent, and you know that
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was that was.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The by the way. I don't think Harvey believes that
at all. By the way, and I know Harvey.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Pretty well well, that just that's just the impression I
get when I listened to him. He's going, he's going
a little bit radical last couple of times you talk
to him, I.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Think, But not at all, not at all. Harvey was
involved in a legal manner on the opposite side of
the table from Donald Trump in the nineteen nineties. It
was fairly high profile case. Uh, And we've talked privately,
and he felt that that Trump always felt, you know,
that he was the smartest guy in the room, and
probably smarter than his own attorneys, which is always a
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big mistake. But no, he would he would not think that.
He thinks, he thinks that what he said, what Harvey,
what Harvey thinks he will say if he thought he thought,
But he pulls no punches that He and I disagreed tonight.
He talked about the emolument's clause. I'm not sure. And
he's a better lawyer than I can ever imagine to be,
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but I don't think the emolument's clause has the uh,
the application that that Harvey might might perceive. In my opinion,
I think I think Harvey is offended by, like maybe
I am, that they were selling Trump watches and we're telling,
you know, Trump cufflings. I just think that, you know,
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that sort of marketing is should not be done by
the presidents of the United States in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well that's that's your opinion. But I just I just
ordered my new MAGA hat and it says Trump and
twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So you know, look, that's what free speech is all about.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't think that legally he can run for the
presidency again because he will have served two terms. I
think that will be a slam dunk if he decides
to do it. But at the same time, I do
not believe.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I just like to wear the hat and yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You're trolling people, and you I get it. I get it, Bill,
you're trolling people.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Good for youm melt down butt Dan, listen. I don't
think that after all, today the Democrats have got no
more power than they had yesterday, They got no more
ideas than they had yesterday, and they got no more
leadership than they had yesterday. So I ain't sweating it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, I'll tell you if that's you, ifview want it,
that's fine, but they have they have they had enough
ideas in New Jersey and Virginia to flip one state
from a Republican governor to a Democratic governor and the
other race in New Jersey. I mean, look, Ciderelli got
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fewer votes I think this year, if I'm if I'm
not mistaken, that he did in twenty twenty one. Let
me see if I'm correct on that he grew away.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Because Dan, you said thirteen percent was the vote voter
turnout in Boston. I wonder what it was in the
five boroughs of New York.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't have that. I could probably try to find that,
but I'll tell you this, I suspect it was much
heavier than that, only because he.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Usually usually yeah for mayor, for mayor Deblasio and those guys.
It was running right around, uh, right around eighteen percent.
So it's that goes to show you. But anyways, uh,
if it wasn't for if it wasn't for uh for
uh talk radio. Okay, Thus people out here in the
hinterland wouldn't be getting any news.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well, I know you're you're out there, as you describe it,
in the hitchland, but I appreciate you listening to night
Sign and continue to call simple as that.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You're right, Dan, You're right, Dan. Keep an eye on Fetterman.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I've done. I got to tell you, he's impressed me.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Just his reach out has He's impressed. He's impressed. He's
impressed me. And the then the people that I hang
out with too, they're all going, hey, who would have
ever thought that John Fetterman is the is the is
the you know, the spokesman for for the moderate side
of the Democrat Party. And that's what he's turning out
to be.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah. Voted turnout, by the way, in New York City,
uh in the recent mayoral election reached over two million,
marking the highest participation in more than fifty years.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I'm glad the people the largest turnout uh here and
I'm looking at uh New York City voter turnout mayoral
election largest and more than fifty years official say uh,
and that is out of a WNBC in New York.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
So godry, thank.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You, Bill. Have a great night. Take quick break back
on Nightside Worn from Fall River is next six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty.
The only lines that are opening are right there six, one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And by the way, I just wanted to read to
you from the eumol Humans clause, also called the farn
and Molutman's clauses a violation of the US Constitution, Article one,
Section nine, paragraph eight. They generally forhi its federal officeholders
from receiving any gift, payment, or other object or service
of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers,
or representatives. So again, I think that with Trump selling
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Trump coins, it's pretty distasteful and I don't think that
it is consistent with the dignity of the office. Warren
and fall Rivers next on NIGHTSID, go ahead, Warren, how
are you hey? Dan?
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Yeah, I'm more worried about what's what happened out in
California with that crop fifty, with them being able to
jerrymander you know, you know, Republican representation out of you know.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
They Jerry the Republicans started it. They did some gerrymandering
in the state of Texas.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Governor Adams, I understand that, I understand that, I mean,
I mean, I mean, I live in Massachusetts and I
had zero representation at all here. I mean in about
fort Massachusetts vote Republican. And so I'm more worried about.
I'm more worried about. You know, if California is allowed
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to do that, then what's the stuff every every state
to kind of do it on their own and you know.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
In normally states do that every ten years after the census.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
But that should be that that should be an independent
you know, any of the doing that. It shouldn't be
you know, the members in charge. It should be you know,
you know, it should be I don't know how they
do it by population.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know, what you're remandering is that you you were
given at when I'll when when the said this comes in.
And let's say the determination is made that on in
January first, twenty thirty or whatever the dates specific that
there are you know, three hundred and fifty million Americans,
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they divide that number, and fifty million US citizens they
divide that number by four to thirty five. The number
of seats in Congress. It used to be that each
congressional district represented about five hundred thousand people. Now it's
up to run seven hundred thousand people. That's our population grows,
and then they make determinations as to well, Massachusetts has
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nine seats, in California has fifty five. It's all based
on population, and then it is up to the states
themselves to decide. It's up to the each state to
decide where the lines are drawn. If let's say your
New Hampshire and you have two seats, all you're entitled
to two members. You're tied to two US Senators that
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they run state wide, but you're entitled to two members
of Congress. They draw a line and they say, okay,
you know part this part of the state which is
north of this line, or this part of the state
which is south of this line. It's easy in those states.
But in a state like California, which is a big state,
in the state like Texas, you can really mess around.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
And yeah, you can really mess around and all stuff
like that. But I you know, the one comment that
I would have to say about last night, and you
know what happened is whenever there's a bad economy, the
the political party in charge always suffers. I mean, I mean,
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I mean Trump, I mean, you know what he's trying
to do with the tarists and all stuff, which are
basically trade deals. But it's not working out for the
American people at this moment. I mean, the cost of
everything's higher, and it's more.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What's the what is the cost of gasoline in I.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Mean in the cost of gasoline. But you know, but
but if you offset that offsets with the higher cost
at the grocery store or if you're gonna if you're
gonna buy wood, or if you're gonna buy steel, or
if you're gonna if if you're buying buying a car
or a used car, everything offsets.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And so well, it does.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But but what I'm trying to understand is I go
to the grocery store. Uh, and I don't know that
prices are lower, but those are decisions that are made
at the grocery store. So probably tomorrow I'm going to
take a ride to market Basket because I need to
restock some things at my home. Uh, I'm making that decision.
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I know what I can get at market Basket, and
I do it myself because I'm not interested in paying
higher prices. So unless we're gonna have price controls, and
the and and the Trump administration is going to say,
let's have price controls, and you can only charge this
for that and this amount for that amount. I don't
think that can happen. I think that there are a
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lot of.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Companies I don't think it can happen either. But it's
just you know, a supply and demand. And I mean,
if you're buying coffee beans from you know, from South America,
you know, and you're putting a tariff on that, I mean, yeah,
but the price of coffee is gonna, you know, go up,
you know, fifty.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The price of coffee. Will you will be impacted by that,
You're right. At the same time, the price of coffee's
gone up, I'm told because they've had some really bad weather,
uh and and there they have lost some of their
their abilities to u to produce, you know, coffee beans.
So you know that that can happen. But all of
you're saying is the thing I watch is gas prices,
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because if the gas prices go up to five or
six dollars, then everything that you and I by across
the board is going to go up because the cost
is shipping. So right now, the one that I most important,
most watched most closely are gas prices or oil prices.
And I can I can probably go in here at
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some point and tell you what the price of a
crude price of a barrel of crude oil is today,
and I'll bet you's down around fifty dollars, And which
is enough?
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Now, what do you think Trump is already talking about
getting rid of the filibuster.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
It's a mistake, I think.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
And I think that's a mistake.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Because that will come back to haunt Republicans. I think
that's a mistake.
Speaker 10 (18:39):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I mean again, I think
it's atop. But that's the only way that he's saying
that he can, you know, get through his legislation, you know,
or what he wants to pass.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
But then what's good for the goose is good for
the gander. And when the situation is you know, so,
I think I think it's a mistake. By the way,
the price of oil is sixty three brent crude is
sixty three dollars and seventy six sense, it's it hovers
around a little bit on each side of sixty and fifteen.
As long as we can keep it down there, that
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is a very that's a very good thing across the board.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yep. I agree.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
All right, Thanks Warren, talk to you soon.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Okay, thank you, thank you, La cal take quick break.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
We got John in Pennsylvania coming up, Neck got Tim
and Wooburn, Tom and Pennsylvania. Who got a lot of
Pennsylvania costs? Tonight, Tom and Rockneen one call open, six, one,
seven nine.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Back we go. Let's go to my friend John and Pennsylvania. John,
your next on Night Side. I'm so happy to hear
from you. You go right.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Ahead, Well, thank you for taking my call. I suppose
the question I might pose to some of the more
entrenched Trump supporters is that if, as they contend, his
programs are like everyone who voted for him, or at
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least I didn't think it important enough to vote for
his opponent, are simply being enacted as as he said
they would be in they're being executed extremely Well, then
why has his approval writing declined recipitously and why did
the results of the election turn out as they did
last night?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well? I think you and I think you asked a
rhetorical question, and you know the answer to that question.
There is a lot of concern, and if the Republicans
are smart, they will look at this and make an
adjustment and say, Okay, what's working, well, we'll continue to
do it. There are some things that are causing people discomfort.
Let's address those as well.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Oh, I think that. I think the Republican congressmen are
frankly too supine to do so. I do think Trump
will likely get some relief from the Supreme Court because
I believe they may actually rule that he has abused
the Emergency Powers Act in invoking these tariffs arbitrarily, many
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of many of them simply across the board, but others
clearly for personal reasons, such is when he announced tariffs
against Brazil uh with which we have a trade surplus,
because they were prosecuting his erstwhile ally ally Bolsonaro. Or
or for example, when he simply went into a bit
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of a snit fit with Chili just because of the
diplomatic incident, and again simply to impose tariffs, not because
of any any trade deficit or unfair trade practices, but
simply because of his own peak.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, I don't think the Supreme Quol will call him
out on that. I think that if they decide that
the imposition of tariffs really rest with Congress, they would
find the Court would find the higher ground to rule,
to rule on those those issues.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
In my opinion, the executive branch is not supposed to
be able to uh to institute a regular stream of revenue.
That's that's the job of Congress, right.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
That's the point of that you're agreeing with My point, John,
is that the Court is not going to call him
out on this specific or that specific with the specificity
that you just invoked. They will look at it more
from constitutional principle to point of view, if if they
if they decide to go their way mine. I did
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not listen to the arguments today, but the reports that
I read were that both some of the conservative justices
as well as some of the more liberal justices on
the Court asked tougher questions of the Solicitor General's office
and they than they did of the plaintiffs in this case.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Well, the constitution, his constitutional text is actually clear on
that point. And I actually will I'm not an attorney,
but I will spill speak to your friend, mister Silverglade's
point about the emolument's clause. Donald Trump's solicited the gift
from Qatar. That's that's now on record, and given that
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it would take likely to estimated uh two, perhaps even
three years for the plane to be stripped, cleared of
any security concerns, and then retrofected to be worthy, you know,
to be to be able to be used as Air
Force one. By that time. Of course, he will be
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out of officer nearly so, and he has previously announced
his intention to take Kadar's gift and retire the plane
to rest in his currently unbuilt presidential library. I suspect
that that is allowed to happen, he will find and
and if he's still in good, relatively good health, he
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will find ample cause to travel the world doing business
to year deals in the new Trump Forsewan. Well, if
we will.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
See if that happens. And I don't know that I
agree with you that would happen. I believe that Reagan
has an Air Force one in his presidential libraries and
a library in California. I don't know how that occurred,
but again occurred.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
That occurred.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
That occurred thirteen years after he had already left the office,
and it was not a foreign gift.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
No, I understand that. At the same time, I'm just
saying that is a precedent. I'm not defending what Trump did.
What I'm saying is, if it occurs in the manner
in which you suggest, I think that there will be
plenty of lawsuits against him. Whether he is president of
the United States or a former president of the United States,
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there will be many people and many organizations that would
file to prevent him from benefiting from that. That's all again, I.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Think again the Republican Congress could simply say, let's at
hear the constitution. The Constitution says.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
But he hasn't taken. The problem, John, is that you're assuming, John, John,
you're assuming that he is going to take ownership of
that of that plane.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
And then he made that statement in the past. I
take the man as a word.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, again, he the plane right now is not in
his possession. He doesn't have control over it. I'm not
going to waste my time speculating on something. There's plenty
of things that he's doing now, whether it's the Trump
coins that that seemed to me to be uh.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Those are small change, literally, those are those are small change.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But okay, find John, John, You're right, he's gonna take
that plane and he's gonna fly that plane everywhere. If
that makes you happy, John that's fine, but I'm done
with that. I'm done with the speculative conversation. If you
can't come up with a better reason to be critical
of Donald Trump on this night after his party has
just lost two very significant elections. Uh, there's also normally
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you bring your a game. You didn't bring your a
game tonight, John, And I'm moving on. I'm not gonna
put you in the water, but I'm gonna move on
because we've done seven minutes and we've wasted part of
my show tonight talking about an allegation that isn't even
an allegation yet because it hasn't happened and it's got
nothing to do at this point. It is, it is, it's,
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it's it's just you know, it's it's chatter. That's he's
in your head, John, he's in your head. Charge him
some rent, Thanks, Sean. Let's keep rolling here. I am
going to go to Tim and Woolber and Tim, you're
next on nights. I go right ahead.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
This is a special day today, Dan.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It is.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
It's my birthday.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh man, happy birthday. I know you're never supposed to
ask us. I know you're never supposed to ask someone
how old are you today, John.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Tim.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I'm Tim, Tim, I said Tim. I meant to say Tim.
I was still clearing my head of my last caller, Tim,
go right ahead.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I was in walled in today on spring seat doing
the set of Brish Stairs. The guy gave me a
seed or a hundred dollars tip. He says to me,
how much do I are you? I said, show me
the money like Cruise and Juba good in junior. And
you know I was fourteen hundreds of the job, right.
He gave me a hundred dollars tip. I said, it's
my birthday, he said to me close. The old man
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used to always say that, don't spend it all one place.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That's okay. So how what age did you achieve today? Tim? Well,
I'm selling seventy four all right, and you're still working
and you're still uh and you're still working as a mason.
So you right, how's this?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
And I also right? I left Walton at two o'clock.
I went to market basket. I had my fingers clashed.
Maybe I'm bumming a dan Way and buying a sandwich
and a coffee.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You were a market basket in Waltham.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
On Yeah, I was there.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I'm thinking I'm not promising, but.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
A president of DNA, Well, I'm not, but I might.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I might make an appearance there tomorrow because I'm I'm
down on some provisions after what's that? I don't know
what time? In all honesty, Tim, I really yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
What's the status with market Basket?
Speaker 10 (28:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, Well at this point de Mulis, you know Arthur T. Demulis,
I believe it's suing uh and there's some there. They're
entering into the discovery phase of a wash, whereby the
plaintiff is able to the lawyers for the plaintiff is
are able to conduct interrogatories, depositions, et cetera, and hopefully
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you'll get ready for trial. I have no idea what
his grounds are going to be here.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Great, I got questions. There is a sist after the money,
have no idea, right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
There were three sisters. There were three sisters who have
who own I think between the three of them they
own sixty percent of the value of the company. And therefore,
as long as they stick together, their world will rule
because they have sixty percent. It's a mathematical equation, nothing
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more and nothing less.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Anyhow, I've said it before. Money changes everything. It's all
money anyhow, market Bashard right. I was Ela and Waltham
and I was on spring Steet doing a set of stairs.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Fourteen gave me one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
It is my birthday was don't spend it all in
one place.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Than good for you, Tim. It was that little extra
birthday present you didn't expect. Buddy. I got to run
here because I'm up against my break. I've talked soon
and we'll see you.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Birthday present, my biggest birthday present seventy four is talking
to you.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Thanks very much. I'm honored by that comment. Tim. I'm
right right back at you. Thanks, buddy, we'll talk soon.
Have a good one, happy birthday, Tim. Six one seven
two five four ten thirty. Uh six one seven nine
three one ten thirty. Coming right back on night side.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you
Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
You have a couple of lines available six one seven, two,
five four ten thirty one right there, and I have
a couple at six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Let me go to Tom in Brockton, Tom and brock
go right ahead, Tom, help me out, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
All right, so yeah, there's there's no question the Republicans
took a h the beating. One night, I really thought
the Chittarelli was going to pull it out in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, the thing, the thing about him was that he
came within like a point and a half of beating
for you know, they're now soon to be former Governor
Murphy down there in Pennsylvania. Murphy, who by the way,
grew up in Needham, Massachusetts, was ended up as the
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governor of New Jersey, and Cidarelli came within a couple
of points of tipping him off. And everybody was saying, well,
Cidarelli always under poles, and if he's polling as close
as he is in this race, he's under he'll under
pole and he'll win the race. It turns out he
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got maybe one hundred thousand more votes in twenty twenty
five than he did, but the Democrat who beat him
got six hundred thousand and eighty three thousand more votes
than Governor Murphy got in in twenty twenty one. I mean,
it's both Ciderelli kind of stayed flat up, stayed where
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he was, but the Democrats pulled a lot more people
to the polls in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and
the Republicans better be worried about that.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, you know, you know you had a previous caller
from Pennsylvania or before him, someone brought up the fact that,
you know, Trump with his tariffs and all the investments
he's getting but coming into the country, that's not going
to happen for a couple of years. But you did
mention or someone mentioned about going for the nuclear option.
(32:46):
Need to remind you that when Biden won and they
had a narrow lead in the Senate fifty plus one
with the vice president, they wanted to to have Puerto
Rico as a fifty first state as well as DC. Sure,
and you know, I would think that from Trump's perspective,
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in the Republican's perspective, they know that if they lose
the Senate, they're going to blow that up. And the
way that that happened was you can thank Harry Reid
from Nevada. He was the one who got rid of
the filibuster for federal judge appointments. And you know the
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thing is is that the Constitution was originally set up
to make it so it wouldn't be radical changes so quickly.
If they do that, yes, it will be radical changes quickly.
But on the other hand, you know, I just look
at the Democratic Party now of where it really is
going much further to the left. And you know, I
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yearned for the days of Bill Clinton, who I voted
for twice. He came off as kind of a moderate
Democrat that of the end of big government is over with. Yeah,
and the five year maximum for welfare recipients, you know,
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and that's turned into it. Obviously that was ninety six
or ninety four, but thirty years ago. We're not the
same country we were then, and those rules no longer
apply in many cases. But I don't know, well he did.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I mean, you know, Clinton, when you look back at it,
you're correct only to have it. But again he was
a southern governor, blue dog Democrat, a little different than
what we're talking about here, way different, Madonni. Yeah, I
say that as an understatement, way different. With mandami and
Mandamie's presence in New York City, he will become the
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poster boy for the Democratic Party across the country there.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I'm going to make a prediction. I'm going to make
a prediction. AOC is gonna it is gonna primary Schumer.
It's going to be a big push h and I
see that happening, you know, hold me to my word.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
And Hakeem Jeffries might get primary somewhere as well.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I mean, shut all I can say. All I can
say is thank God for Perston Cinema and Joe Mancheon
because if I really don't have anything against Puerto Rico,
but you know, that's a US territory. And yes, Hawaii
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was a US territory. Alaska was a US territory. There's
kind of balance. But we got Puerto Rico because of
the Spanish American War. And d C was never meant
to be a state, uh, people always it.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Was always meant it was created to be to be,
not a state. It was it was going to be
the seat of our government. Uh. It was a federal district.
It was always been a federal district. No, you're right
on all of these points. You're right.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
The only thing is that the people want reation in
DC for senatorial they should belong to parts of it.
You belong to Delaware, Virginia, Maryland or whatever places border them.
But uh, you know, you know.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
You're breaking up on me, Tom and I think I'm.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Using you all right. Yeah, take care, Bye bye, Tom.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Thank you very much one of the best calls of
the night to end on. You provided a very important
perspective and there was nothing that you said that I
would disagree with. Thank you so much for your call.
Have a good one, all right. We have done for
the night, Rob Brooks eight. Job is a while night.
I hope Tom from Pennsylvania is okay in the morning
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because I think he could have you know, he could
have a rough night there. It's tough to sleep sometimes. Anyway.
I want to thank Marita, I want to thank all
the callers. Whether you agree or disagree, feel free to
join the conversation here on Nightside. We'll be back tomorrow night.
No idea what we'll be doing tomorrow night, but we're
probably going to back away from politics after this evening,
at least for a little while. I gave everybody an
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Radio before we get back to the calls. And I'm
going to get back to the quickly, I promise. This
is the twenty twenty eight Democratic presidential nominee, Governor Gavin
Newsom of California. After that Prop fifty vote cut number
one rob.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let me Hender score, It's been a good evening for everybody,
not just the Democratic Party, but what a night for
the Democratic Party, a party that is in its ascendancy,
a party that's on its toes, no longer on its heels,
from coast to coast, sea to shining Sea. But it
was not just a victory tonight for the Democratic Party,
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as a victory for the United States of America, for
the people of this country and the principles that are
founding fathers lived and died for. And so we're proud.
We're proud here in California to be part of this narrative.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now. Meanwhile, in New York, Mindami the Democratic Socialist, he
was not especially magnanimous towards the man he defeated, or
one of the too many defeated Former New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo cut five a Rob.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life,
but let tonight be the final time I utter his
name as we turned the page on a politics that
abandons the many and answers only to the fume.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
New York.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Tonight, you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate
for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a
city we can afford, and a mandate for a government
that delivers exactly that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Uh on the other side of the equation of Cuomo
was much more gracious to Uh Mundami UH and actually
cautioned his supporters when they bowed Mundami's name. Cut fourteen Rob.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Congratulations to Zoron Mondami.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
No no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That is no that is not right.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
That hey, that is not right, and that is not us.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That is not us. The losing candidate in New Jersey, Ciderelli,
was very gracious towards the Democrat who beat him. This
has cut twenty two Rob.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
Throughout this campaign, what we talked about is the people
of New Jersey no longer living with any insecurity or
fear that their children can't get the education they so
rightfully deserve, that their children can't ultimately get the job
of their dreams here, that they can't start a business here,
that they can't raise a middle class family here, that
they can't retire here. These are all the things that
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people are terribly insecure of today here in New Jersey.
These are all the things that we talked in very specific.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Terms on how to solve.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
I believe in my brand of leadership. I haven't stopped
believing because of the outcome of tonight's election. It is
my hope that Mikey Cheryl has hurt us in terms
of what we need to do to make New Jersey
that place where everybody can once again feel they can
achieve their American dream.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Senator of Pennsylvania responded to some comments that Nancy Pelosi
made Fetamen. I think is emerging as a leader in
the Democratic Party. That's my opinion. You can agree or disagree.
Cut twenty five.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I would say that's part of the worst creatures on
the face of the earth. Are Hamas or like the
leadership of Iran Or there's a lot of people on that.
I would never use those kind of terms, and I
wouldn't describe our president. You can really disagree with them
and then I do disagree, but I don't think that's
really entirely appropriate. But that's her words for that. So
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for me, that's just the different kinds of a democrat.
For me, I don't gonna call people they're fascists, they're Nazis,
or compare the people and those kinds of terms. If
you use those kind of terms now you might have
to realize that if you voted for them as well.
And I know people that have done that in my state,
and I know those people aren't fascists or they're trying
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to destroy our democracy either, And that's different as a
democrat here.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And then of course, leave it to Donald Trump this
morning at the White House to turn a horrific night
for the Republicans into something about him. Cut thirty eight, Rob.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
If you read the posters, the shutdown was a big
factor negative for the Republicans, and that was a big factor.
And they say that I wasn't on the ballot, it
was the biggest factor, But I don't know about that,
but I was honored that they said that. I think
it's very important we have to get the country open,
and the way we're going to do it this afternoon
is to terminate the fellow US, and it's possible you're
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not going to do that, and I'm going to go
by your wishes. You're very smart people, we're good friends.
But I think it's a tremendous mistake.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Will. It would be a tragic mistake. Actually, it's time.
It's time. So that's just a little sense of last
night from different spokespeople. Let me see what you think tonight,
Bill is in Pennsylvania. Bill, tough night for the Republicans.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, I agree with you, Dan, it was. It was
a tough night. But when I when I look at
it from thirty thousand feet, I'm thinking, Okay, Uh, the
two ladies that won in New Jersey and uh Virginia,
I would I would have to say, they're they're pretty moderate.
So that tells me that the progressives in the Democrat
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Party aren't, you know, aren't really uh getting the uh
the support that they that they're going to need to
do the takeover. But uh, then I look at and
it was I was interested to hear from Harvey this evening, Dan,
because I think I think Harvey still believes that that
Donald Trump was a Russian agent, and you know that
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was that was.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The by the way. I don't think Harvey believes that
at all. By the way, and I know Harvey.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Pretty well well, that just that's just the impression I
get when I listened to him. He's going, he's going
a little bit radical last couple of times you talk
to him, I.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Think, But not at all, not at all. Harvey was
involved in a legal manner on the opposite side of
the table from Donald Trump in the nineteen nineties. It
was fairly high profile case. Uh, And we've talked privately,
and he felt that that Trump always felt, you know,
that he was the smartest guy in the room, and
probably smarter than his own attorneys, which is always a
(07:29):
big mistake. But no, he would he would not think that.
He thinks, he thinks that what he said, what Harvey,
what Harvey thinks he will say if he thought he thought,
But he pulls no punches that He and I disagreed tonight.
He talked about the emolument's clause. I'm not sure. And
he's a better lawyer than I can ever imagine to be,
(07:51):
but I don't think the emolument's clause has the uh,
the application that that Harvey might might perceive. In my opinion,
I think I think Harvey is offended by, like maybe
I am, that they were selling Trump watches and we're telling,
you know, Trump cufflings. I just think that, you know,
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that sort of marketing is should not be done by
the presidents of the United States in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well that's that's your opinion. But I just I just
ordered my new MAGA hat and it says Trump and
twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So you know, look, that's what free speech is all about.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't think that legally he can run for the
presidency again because he will have served two terms. I
think that will be a slam dunk if he decides
to do it. But at the same time, I do
not believe.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I just like to wear the hat and yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You're trolling people, and you I get it. I get it, Bill,
you're trolling people.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Good for youm melt down butt Dan, listen. I don't
think that after all, today the Democrats have got no
more power than they had yesterday, They got no more
ideas than they had yesterday, and they got no more
leadership than they had yesterday. So I ain't sweating it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, I'll tell you if that's you, ifview want it,
that's fine, but they have they have they had enough
ideas in New Jersey and Virginia to flip one state
from a Republican governor to a Democratic governor and the
other race in New Jersey. I mean, look, Ciderelli got
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fewer votes I think this year, if I'm if I'm
not mistaken, that he did in twenty twenty one. Let
me see if I'm correct on that he grew away.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Because Dan, you said thirteen percent was the vote voter
turnout in Boston. I wonder what it was in the
five boroughs of New York.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't have that. I could probably try to find that,
but I'll tell you this, I suspect it was much
heavier than that, only because he.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Usually usually yeah for mayor, for mayor Deblasio and those guys.
It was running right around, uh, right around eighteen percent.
So it's that goes to show you. But anyways, uh,
if it wasn't for if it wasn't for uh for
uh talk radio. Okay, Thus people out here in the
hinterland wouldn't be getting any news.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well, I know you're you're out there, as you describe it,
in the hitchland, but I appreciate you listening to night
Sign and continue to call simple as that.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You're right, Dan, You're right, Dan. Keep an eye on Fetterman.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I've done. I got to tell you, he's impressed me.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Just his reach out has He's impressed. He's impressed. He's
impressed me. And the then the people that I hang
out with too, they're all going, hey, who would have
ever thought that John Fetterman is the is the is
the you know, the spokesman for for the moderate side
of the Democrat Party. And that's what he's turning out
to be.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah. Voted turnout, by the way, in New York City,
uh in the recent mayoral election reached over two million,
marking the highest participation in more than fifty years.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I'm glad the people the largest turnout uh here and
I'm looking at uh New York City voter turnout mayoral
election largest and more than fifty years official say uh,
and that is out of a WNBC in New York.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
So godry, thank.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You, Bill. Have a great night. Take quick break back
on Nightside Worn from Fall River is next six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty.
The only lines that are opening are right there six, one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And by the way, I just wanted to read to
you from the eumol Humans clause, also called the farn
and Molutman's clauses a violation of the US Constitution, Article one,
Section nine, paragraph eight. They generally forhi its federal officeholders
from receiving any gift, payment, or other object or service
of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers,
or representatives. So again, I think that with Trump selling
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Trump coins, it's pretty distasteful and I don't think that
it is consistent with the dignity of the office. Warren
and fall Rivers next on NIGHTSID, go ahead, Warren, how
are you hey? Dan?
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Yeah, I'm more worried about what's what happened out in
California with that crop fifty, with them being able to
jerrymander you know, you know, Republican representation out of you know.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
They Jerry the Republicans started it. They did some gerrymandering
in the state of Texas.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Governor Adams, I understand that, I understand that, I mean,
I mean, I mean, I live in Massachusetts and I
had zero representation at all here. I mean in about
fort Massachusetts vote Republican. And so I'm more worried about.
I'm more worried about. You know, if California is allowed
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to do that, then what's the stuff every every state
to kind of do it on their own and you know.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
In normally states do that every ten years after the census.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
But that should be that that should be an independent
you know, any of the doing that. It shouldn't be
you know, the members in charge. It should be you know,
you know, it should be I don't know how they
do it by population.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know, what you're remandering is that you you were
given at when I'll when when the said this comes in.
And let's say the determination is made that on in
January first, twenty thirty or whatever the dates specific that
there are you know, three hundred and fifty million Americans,
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they divide that number, and fifty million US citizens they
divide that number by four to thirty five. The number
of seats in Congress. It used to be that each
congressional district represented about five hundred thousand people. Now it's
up to run seven hundred thousand people. That's our population grows,
and then they make determinations as to well, Massachusetts has
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nine seats, in California has fifty five. It's all based
on population, and then it is up to the states
themselves to decide. It's up to the each state to
decide where the lines are drawn. If let's say your
New Hampshire and you have two seats, all you're entitled
to two members. You're tied to two US Senators that
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they run state wide, but you're entitled to two members
of Congress. They draw a line and they say, okay,
you know part this part of the state which is
north of this line, or this part of the state
which is south of this line. It's easy in those states.
But in a state like California, which is a big state,
in the state like Texas, you can really mess around.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
And yeah, you can really mess around and all stuff
like that. But I you know, the one comment that
I would have to say about last night, and you
know what happened is whenever there's a bad economy, the
the political party in charge always suffers. I mean, I mean,
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I mean Trump, I mean, you know what he's trying
to do with the tarists and all stuff, which are
basically trade deals. But it's not working out for the
American people at this moment. I mean, the cost of
everything's higher, and it's more.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What's the what is the cost of gasoline in I.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Mean in the cost of gasoline. But you know, but
but if you offset that offsets with the higher cost
at the grocery store or if you're gonna if you're
gonna buy wood, or if you're gonna buy steel, or
if you're gonna if if you're buying buying a car
or a used car, everything offsets.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And so well, it does.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But but what I'm trying to understand is I go
to the grocery store. Uh, and I don't know that
prices are lower, but those are decisions that are made
at the grocery store. So probably tomorrow I'm going to
take a ride to market Basket because I need to
restock some things at my home. Uh, I'm making that decision.
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I know what I can get at market Basket, and
I do it myself because I'm not interested in paying
higher prices. So unless we're gonna have price controls, and
the and and the Trump administration is going to say,
let's have price controls, and you can only charge this
for that and this amount for that amount. I don't
think that can happen. I think that there are a
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lot of.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
Companies I don't think it can happen either. But it's
just you know, a supply and demand. And I mean,
if you're buying coffee beans from you know, from South America,
you know, and you're putting a tariff on that, I mean, yeah,
but the price of coffee is gonna, you know, go up,
you know, fifty.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The price of coffee. Will you will be impacted by that,
You're right. At the same time, the price of coffee's
gone up, I'm told because they've had some really bad weather,
uh and and there they have lost some of their
their abilities to u to produce, you know, coffee beans.
So you know that that can happen. But all of
you're saying is the thing I watch is gas prices,
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because if the gas prices go up to five or
six dollars, then everything that you and I by across
the board is going to go up because the cost
is shipping. So right now, the one that I most important,
most watched most closely are gas prices or oil prices.
And I can I can probably go in here at
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some point and tell you what the price of a
crude price of a barrel of crude oil is today,
and I'll bet you's down around fifty dollars, And which
is enough?
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Now, what do you think Trump is already talking about
getting rid of the filibuster.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
It's a mistake, I think.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
And I think that's a mistake.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Because that will come back to haunt Republicans. I think
that's a mistake.
Speaker 10 (18:39):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I mean again, I think
it's atop. But that's the only way that he's saying
that he can, you know, get through his legislation, you know,
or what he wants to pass.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
But then what's good for the goose is good for
the gander. And when the situation is you know, so,
I think I think it's a mistake. By the way,
the price of oil is sixty three brent crude is
sixty three dollars and seventy six sense, it's it hovers
around a little bit on each side of sixty and fifteen.
As long as we can keep it down there, that
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is a very that's a very good thing across the board.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yep. I agree.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
All right, Thanks Warren, talk to you soon.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Okay, thank you, thank you, La cal take quick break.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
We got John in Pennsylvania coming up, Neck got Tim
and Wooburn, Tom and Pennsylvania. Who got a lot of
Pennsylvania costs? Tonight, Tom and Rockneen one call open, six, one,
seven nine.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Back we go. Let's go to my friend John and Pennsylvania. John,
your next on Night Side. I'm so happy to hear
from you. You go right.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Ahead, Well, thank you for taking my call. I suppose
the question I might pose to some of the more
entrenched Trump supporters is that if, as they contend, his
programs are like everyone who voted for him, or at
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least I didn't think it important enough to vote for
his opponent, are simply being enacted as as he said
they would be in they're being executed extremely Well, then
why has his approval writing declined recipitously and why did
the results of the election turn out as they did
last night?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well? I think you and I think you asked a
rhetorical question, and you know the answer to that question.
There is a lot of concern, and if the Republicans
are smart, they will look at this and make an
adjustment and say, Okay, what's working, well, we'll continue to
do it. There are some things that are causing people discomfort.
Let's address those as well.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Oh, I think that. I think the Republican congressmen are
frankly too supine to do so. I do think Trump
will likely get some relief from the Supreme Court because
I believe they may actually rule that he has abused
the Emergency Powers Act in invoking these tariffs arbitrarily, many
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of many of them simply across the board, but others
clearly for personal reasons, such is when he announced tariffs
against Brazil uh with which we have a trade surplus,
because they were prosecuting his erstwhile ally ally Bolsonaro. Or
or for example, when he simply went into a bit
(21:35):
of a snit fit with Chili just because of the
diplomatic incident, and again simply to impose tariffs, not because
of any any trade deficit or unfair trade practices, but
simply because of his own peak.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, I don't think the Supreme Quol will call him
out on that. I think that if they decide that
the imposition of tariffs really rest with Congress, they would
find the Court would find the higher ground to rule,
to rule on those those issues.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
In my opinion, the executive branch is not supposed to
be able to uh to institute a regular stream of revenue.
That's that's the job of Congress, right.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
That's the point of that you're agreeing with My point, John,
is that the Court is not going to call him
out on this specific or that specific with the specificity
that you just invoked. They will look at it more
from constitutional principle to point of view, if if they
if they decide to go their way mine. I did
(22:38):
not listen to the arguments today, but the reports that
I read were that both some of the conservative justices
as well as some of the more liberal justices on
the Court asked tougher questions of the Solicitor General's office
and they than they did of the plaintiffs in this case.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Well, the constitution, his constitutional text is actually clear on
that point. And I actually will I'm not an attorney,
but I will spill speak to your friend, mister Silverglade's
point about the emolument's clause. Donald Trump's solicited the gift
from Qatar. That's that's now on record, and given that
(23:21):
it would take likely to estimated uh two, perhaps even
three years for the plane to be stripped, cleared of
any security concerns, and then retrofected to be worthy, you know,
to be to be able to be used as Air
Force one. By that time. Of course, he will be
(23:45):
out of officer nearly so, and he has previously announced
his intention to take Kadar's gift and retire the plane
to rest in his currently unbuilt presidential library. I suspect
that that is allowed to happen, he will find and
and if he's still in good, relatively good health, he
(24:08):
will find ample cause to travel the world doing business
to year deals in the new Trump Forsewan. Well, if
we will.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
See if that happens. And I don't know that I
agree with you that would happen. I believe that Reagan
has an Air Force one in his presidential libraries and
a library in California. I don't know how that occurred,
but again occurred.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
That occurred.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
That occurred thirteen years after he had already left the office,
and it was not a foreign gift.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
No, I understand that. At the same time, I'm just
saying that is a precedent. I'm not defending what Trump did.
What I'm saying is, if it occurs in the manner
in which you suggest, I think that there will be
plenty of lawsuits against him. Whether he is president of
the United States or a former president of the United States,
(25:05):
there will be many people and many organizations that would
file to prevent him from benefiting from that. That's all again, I.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Think again the Republican Congress could simply say, let's at
hear the constitution. The Constitution says.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
But he hasn't taken. The problem, John, is that you're assuming, John, John,
you're assuming that he is going to take ownership of
that of that plane.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
And then he made that statement in the past. I
take the man as a word.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, again, he the plane right now is not in
his possession. He doesn't have control over it. I'm not
going to waste my time speculating on something. There's plenty
of things that he's doing now, whether it's the Trump
coins that that seemed to me to be uh.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Those are small change, literally, those are those are small change.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But okay, find John, John, You're right, he's gonna take
that plane and he's gonna fly that plane everywhere. If
that makes you happy, John that's fine, but I'm done
with that. I'm done with the speculative conversation. If you
can't come up with a better reason to be critical
of Donald Trump on this night after his party has
just lost two very significant elections. Uh, there's also normally
(26:28):
you bring your a game. You didn't bring your a
game tonight, John, And I'm moving on. I'm not gonna
put you in the water, but I'm gonna move on
because we've done seven minutes and we've wasted part of
my show tonight talking about an allegation that isn't even
an allegation yet because it hasn't happened and it's got
nothing to do at this point. It is, it is, it's,
(26:51):
it's it's just you know, it's it's chatter. That's he's
in your head, John, he's in your head. Charge him
some rent, Thanks, Sean. Let's keep rolling here. I am
going to go to Tim and Woolber and Tim, you're
next on nights. I go right ahead.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
This is a special day today, Dan.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It is.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
It's my birthday.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh man, happy birthday. I know you're never supposed to
ask us. I know you're never supposed to ask someone
how old are you today, John.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Tim.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I'm Tim, Tim, I said Tim. I meant to say Tim.
I was still clearing my head of my last caller, Tim,
go right ahead.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I was in walled in today on spring seat doing
the set of Brish Stairs. The guy gave me a
seed or a hundred dollars tip. He says to me,
how much do I are you? I said, show me
the money like Cruise and Juba good in junior. And
you know I was fourteen hundreds of the job, right.
He gave me a hundred dollars tip. I said, it's
my birthday, he said to me close. The old man
(27:51):
used to always say that, don't spend it all one place.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That's okay. So how what age did you achieve today? Tim? Well,
I'm selling seventy four all right, and you're still working
and you're still uh and you're still working as a mason.
So you right, how's this?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
And I also right? I left Walton at two o'clock.
I went to market basket. I had my fingers clashed.
Maybe I'm bumming a dan Way and buying a sandwich
and a coffee.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You were a market basket in Waltham.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
On Yeah, I was there.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I'm thinking I'm not promising, but.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
A president of DNA, Well, I'm not, but I might.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I might make an appearance there tomorrow because I'm I'm
down on some provisions after what's that? I don't know
what time? In all honesty, Tim, I really yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
What's the status with market Basket?
Speaker 10 (28:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, Well at this point de Mulis, you know Arthur T. Demulis,
I believe it's suing uh and there's some there. They're
entering into the discovery phase of a wash, whereby the
plaintiff is able to the lawyers for the plaintiff is
are able to conduct interrogatories, depositions, et cetera, and hopefully
(29:12):
you'll get ready for trial. I have no idea what
his grounds are going to be here.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Great, I got questions. There is a sist after the money,
have no idea, right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
There were three sisters. There were three sisters who have
who own I think between the three of them they
own sixty percent of the value of the company. And therefore,
as long as they stick together, their world will rule
because they have sixty percent. It's a mathematical equation, nothing
(29:43):
more and nothing less.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Anyhow, I've said it before. Money changes everything. It's all
money anyhow, market Bashard right. I was Ela and Waltham
and I was on spring Steet doing a set of stairs.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Fourteen gave me one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
It is my birthday was don't spend it all in
one place.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Than good for you, Tim. It was that little extra
birthday present you didn't expect. Buddy. I got to run
here because I'm up against my break. I've talked soon
and we'll see you.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Birthday present, my biggest birthday present seventy four is talking
to you.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Thanks very much. I'm honored by that comment. Tim. I'm
right right back at you. Thanks, buddy, we'll talk soon.
Have a good one, happy birthday, Tim. Six one seven
two five four ten thirty. Uh six one seven nine
three one ten thirty. Coming right back on night side.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you
Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
You have a couple of lines available six one seven, two,
five four ten thirty one right there, and I have
a couple at six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Let me go to Tom in Brockton, Tom and brock
go right ahead, Tom, help me out, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
All right, so yeah, there's there's no question the Republicans
took a h the beating. One night, I really thought
the Chittarelli was going to pull it out in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, the thing, the thing about him was that he
came within like a point and a half of beating
for you know, they're now soon to be former Governor
Murphy down there in Pennsylvania. Murphy, who by the way,
grew up in Needham, Massachusetts, was ended up as the
(31:27):
governor of New Jersey, and Cidarelli came within a couple
of points of tipping him off. And everybody was saying, well,
Cidarelli always under poles, and if he's polling as close
as he is in this race, he's under he'll under
pole and he'll win the race. It turns out he
(31:49):
got maybe one hundred thousand more votes in twenty twenty
five than he did, but the Democrat who beat him
got six hundred thousand and eighty three thousand more votes
than Governor Murphy got in in twenty twenty one. I mean,
it's both Ciderelli kind of stayed flat up, stayed where
(32:13):
he was, but the Democrats pulled a lot more people
to the polls in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and
the Republicans better be worried about that.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, you know, you know you had a previous caller
from Pennsylvania or before him, someone brought up the fact that,
you know, Trump with his tariffs and all the investments
he's getting but coming into the country, that's not going
to happen for a couple of years. But you did
mention or someone mentioned about going for the nuclear option.
(32:46):
Need to remind you that when Biden won and they
had a narrow lead in the Senate fifty plus one
with the vice president, they wanted to to have Puerto
Rico as a fifty first state as well as DC. Sure,
and you know, I would think that from Trump's perspective,
(33:10):
in the Republican's perspective, they know that if they lose
the Senate, they're going to blow that up. And the
way that that happened was you can thank Harry Reid
from Nevada. He was the one who got rid of
the filibuster for federal judge appointments. And you know the
(33:33):
thing is is that the Constitution was originally set up
to make it so it wouldn't be radical changes so quickly.
If they do that, yes, it will be radical changes quickly.
But on the other hand, you know, I just look
at the Democratic Party now of where it really is
going much further to the left. And you know, I
(33:58):
yearned for the days of Bill Clinton, who I voted
for twice. He came off as kind of a moderate
Democrat that of the end of big government is over with. Yeah,
and the five year maximum for welfare recipients, you know,
(34:19):
and that's turned into it. Obviously that was ninety six
or ninety four, but thirty years ago. We're not the
same country we were then, and those rules no longer
apply in many cases. But I don't know, well he did.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I mean, you know, Clinton, when you look back at it,
you're correct only to have it. But again he was
a southern governor, blue dog Democrat, a little different than
what we're talking about here, way different, Madonni. Yeah, I
say that as an understatement, way different. With mandami and
Mandamie's presence in New York City, he will become the
(35:00):
poster boy for the Democratic Party across the country there.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I'm going to make a prediction. I'm going to make
a prediction. AOC is gonna it is gonna primary Schumer.
It's going to be a big push h and I
see that happening, you know, hold me to my word.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
And Hakeem Jeffries might get primary somewhere as well.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I mean, shut all I can say. All I can
say is thank God for Perston Cinema and Joe Mancheon
because if I really don't have anything against Puerto Rico,
but you know, that's a US territory. And yes, Hawaii
(35:45):
was a US territory. Alaska was a US territory. There's
kind of balance. But we got Puerto Rico because of
the Spanish American War. And d C was never meant
to be a state, uh, people always it.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Was always meant it was created to be to be,
not a state. It was it was going to be
the seat of our government. Uh. It was a federal district.
It was always been a federal district. No, you're right
on all of these points. You're right.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
The only thing is that the people want reation in
DC for senatorial they should belong to parts of it.
You belong to Delaware, Virginia, Maryland or whatever places border them.
But uh, you know, you know.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
You're breaking up on me, Tom and I think I'm.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Using you all right. Yeah, take care, Bye bye, Tom.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Thank you very much one of the best calls of
the night to end on. You provided a very important
perspective and there was nothing that you said that I
would disagree with. Thank you so much for your call.
Have a good one, all right. We have done for
the night, Rob Brooks eight. Job is a while night.
I hope Tom from Pennsylvania is okay in the morning
(37:06):
because I think he could have you know, he could
have a rough night there. It's tough to sleep sometimes. Anyway.
I want to thank Marita, I want to thank all
the callers. Whether you agree or disagree, feel free to
join the conversation here on Nightside. We'll be back tomorrow night.
No idea what we'll be doing tomorrow night, but we're
probably going to back away from politics after this evening,
at least for a little while. I gave everybody an
(37:28):
opportunity to sound off tonight. I am done for the night.
I will be on night Side Facebook. Nice hour, Dan
Ray in a couple of minutes. I'll end us always
all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
my pelle. Charlie Rays who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's where all your pets are. Your pets. You love them,
(37:49):
they loved you. I truly do believe you're going to
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