Is the End Near for New York?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Explosion. There's just no other way to put it. It's
been about fifteen to twenty minutes now. The text line,
I think it's just gonna blow. The texts are pouring
in my inbox is emails are flooding my inbox on
Messenger as well, a ton of messages and it's I
don't want to say one hundred to zero, but it's

(00:22):
ninety nine to one. It is pouring in where well,
let me just.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Read to you.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is from Eric, just to give you one example
on Messenger, Jeff, I agree with you. The Trump voters
are still waiting for relief at home. Many of us
are still on financial survivor mode, going to work day
after day, praying that none of our bills keep going up.

(00:53):
I mean, Dave, our Western Pa constitutionalist correspondent out in
you know, Pittsburgh, you don't get a more diehard Trump
supporter than him. I mean literally, I think you go
to war for Trump. Seriously, Jeff, Trump does need to
focus on domestic issues.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
So it's like it's just come.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's like a chorus where Cooner Country anyway is saying, look,
enough with the peace deals, and enough with traveling abroad,
and just enough with foreign policy in general. You've got
to focus now on inflation, the economy, and bringing the

(01:36):
high cost of living down. Crime, yes, the border, yes, deportations, yes,
but men people are saying we're hurting and it doesn't
seem like things are getting better. So I want to
throw this big log on the fire. Do you believe

(01:56):
that the message Trump should receive and the Republican from
the Democratic sweep in Tuesday nights off year elections is
that Republicans Trump and the administration overall that they need
to now focus a lot more on bringing down the

(02:19):
price of groceries, energy utilities, gas rent, in other words,
make America affordable again. In other words, put America first,
focus on the economy. Yes, no, agree, disagree? Meil in

(02:40):
Sarah Toga up in New York. Thanks for holding Mel
and welcome.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yes, come on, Jeff Mel. Yeah, my answer to the
to your question is yes, you need to focus on
domestic issues, never mind the rest of the world. Once
we got our house in order in order, then we
can branch out and you know, help our allies so
called allies quote unquote allies and uh, you know, just

(03:11):
take care of home first. But what I wanted to ask, well, well,
Mara Heally, heally, she does have the right to remove
Michelle Woo if she is so inclined. I think that,
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong that that is
the case. I guess the governor does have that right

(03:32):
to remove anywhere that they seem fit that is not
doing what they took an oath to do. And I
kind of think that with the I think the whole
card that President Trump might be might have it in
his hand, is at least the phonic even though I

(03:52):
I'm kind of I kind of you know, have uh,
you know, some reservation in regards to her, in regards
to her affiliation with Wes. But I think that's the
whole card to if she she runs for governor because
out there and I I mean, uh, I don't know.
I even think that the Democrat Party has has has
reservations for what she's done to the state. So I

(04:16):
I think that at least would probably be a shoe
in a walking and that she would have that right
in regards to man Danny, the stam Danny, I should say,
uh to remove him from office. And anyone who's you know,
like his un well, what is it? Cole mayor attorney

(04:38):
or whatever. But anyhow and replace him probably with this
New York State attorneys general who would be a part
of her administration.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
But uh well, now look.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
You put your finger on it. The problem with mom
Donnie is that he's so wild. Honestly, he's unhinged. You
can see it on him. He's not right in the
head and you can sense it. And so he's so
he's so mercurial, he's so volatile, he's so unpredictable, and

(05:12):
he's so disrespectful. He really is an insurrectionist, and he
doesn't seem to know his own limits. And he's now
drunk with power. He's drunk with hubris. He cannot believe
what he has pulled off. He can't, the Muslim Brotherhood can't,
his supporters can't. They just can't believe it. And so
Hokel now is underwater. You look at all the poles.

(05:34):
You're completely right. She's deep underwater, and she's got a primary.
People are forgetting this. Her lieutenant governor, who's from the
Mamdanni left, is going to go after Hokel in a primary.
The left is saying she's too quote unquote moderate. They
want to do to her what mum Donnie did to
Andrew Cuomo, and so Hokel is most likely going to

(05:58):
go even more left.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Eight is the number. Okay, Tony in Florida. Thanks for
holding Tony, and welcome.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Good morning, Jeff, my fellow patriot. Unbelievable, right, this mom
Donnie here is about to take over New York City.
It's really it's unreal, Jeff, you know what the way
I look at it really is I believe, I mean,
this guy's a hamas lover. All right, let's just let's
just tell it like it is here, okay. And I

(06:33):
feel like, you know, seeing I mean, I didn't see
the whole speech. I heard a few, you know, sentences
or whatever, right, but it almost feels like, you know,
it's a lot of people have a short memory out there,
I think, and it feels like a continuation of nine
to eleven oh one Jeff's and I don't mean to
be dramatic about it, but I mean, he just he's

(06:55):
like he's a terrorist. To me, the guy's a terrorist.
And he said in that speech to President Trump turned
the vote, he said, I have four words for President
Trump because I know you're listening, turned up the volume,
and I'm like, you want to challenge that man? To me,
he's the greatest president that ever lived. And I'm never
going to come up with that opinion. Okay, but I'm

(07:17):
going to say this, Jeff that don't worry. He's listening.
And I'm going to tell you something, Jeff. Let him
get in there and be mayor, and he's all going
to be high in his FORRCE over there in New
York City thinking he's, uh, you know, this big shot right,
and he's gonna you know, pre Sharia Lah and Muslim
and radical Islam and terror and continue the nine to

(07:38):
eleven because in his heart, he's dancing on ground zero.
Let me tell you, well, look, this is not.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Only how we stopped Trump, it's how we stop the
next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Have four words for you. Turn the volume up.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I mean, Tony to your point, he's openly challenging Trump.
He's openly mocking Trump. He's openly taunting Trump. Please continue, Tony,
you were saying that deep down he's celebrating what happened
on nine to eleven. He would love to dance on
Ground Zero and dance on the graves and the bodies

(08:29):
of all those who died on that fateful day. Please
keep going, Tony.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yes, Jeff, Oh, he probably already has danced on it,
you know, with his with his Muslim friends or whatever.
He's a lunatic and he's a terrorist. That's we have
to call it like it is, and you have to
define it to defeat it. Jeff. My feeling is this
because I know President Trump's people listen to your show
and I and I just want to say to them,

(08:56):
you know, and President Trump to hear me now, because
I'm gonna tell you, as a supporter of him, since
he came down that escalator, I love that man, and
I'm gonna say something, Jeff, as it's very important that
he needs to get together with Pete Hegsett, the Secretary
of War and say here's what we're gonna do. The
day he gets in office.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
And he's in that mansion in New York City, we
are gonna surround that city. First of all, we're gonna
bring in a nice big aircraft carrier with a few
nice birds sitting on the TOMMAC. We're gonna bring in
special forces to get it and we ice and national God,
I'm all for it, but let's let's flex our muscles, okay,

(09:40):
of the country that we are, and we're gonna put
in an aircraft carrier with some nice shiny birds on
the tom Mac. We're gonna we're gonna.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Bring in special forces, we're gonna bring in every branch
of the military, and we're gonna surround and corner that
man and we're gonna go right up to his face
and say you step out the line and you miss
behave one time. This is going to be over in
less than ten minutes and you're done. And that's it.

(10:09):
That's all you have to do is just steer him
right in the face and just tell him what fought.
So that's the volume I want him to turn up.
And that's really what I think he needs.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, no, Tony, it's not, you're right, but the other
volume that's going to get turned up, and it's gonna
happen very quick. Remember he's inaugurated, he's sworn into office.
Forgive me, he's sworn into office on January first, Okay,
twenty twenty six, So what is it now, less than
two months?

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Now?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
You watch, he's going to have a honeymoon. He'll have
about four months, maybe six months. This will go into
the summer, a fawning media. They're going to love him.
The Democrats are going to praise him. He's going to
become now the face of the Democratic Party. He's going
to do interview after interview. You're going to see his
face everywhere. And he's going to attack Trump. He's going

(10:58):
to insult Trump. AOC will be with him, Bernie will
be with him, Obama will be with him. And they
think that they're building now a new Democratic Party, a
communist party that can challenge the midterms Republicans in the
midterms and defeat jad Vance.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Most likely in twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
You watch about fall of next year and the disillusionment,
because here's the problem. You've already got businesses leaving, and
the guy hasn't even been sworn in yet, hasn't been
what even not even two days since he's won. You've
got people resigning left, right and center, including the fire chief,

(11:39):
the commissioner of the New York Fire Department. And that's
just the beginning. So no one's going to want to
work under him. Crime is going to explode because he's
going to release criminals. Crime is going to explode because
he's going to defund and ultimately dismantle the police. You're
going to have crime all these sort of free buses

(12:01):
in the winter time. You watch when it starts getting cold.
They're gonna there's gonna be homeless people living on those buses.
Criminals are gonna be on those buses, drug addicts, drug
dealers are gonna be on those buses. It's gonna be
a disaster. And as the Jews flee, as white neighborhoods flee,

(12:23):
as taxpayers flee, as businesses flee, that's gonna be hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs. And you're
gonna see shops boarded up, businesses boarded up. You're gonna
see homeless encampments everywhere. And then they're gonna start asking
where's the free childcare, And he's gonna say there's no money.

(12:45):
And then they're gonna start asking, but where's the thirty
dollars an hour minimum wage? And he's gonna say, well,
we have no businesses left. And then they're gonna say, well,
hold on, what about the city run grocery stores? And
he's gonna give it to them, and then there's gonna
be long food lines and breadlines. And then in other words,

(13:06):
and when New York starts to go bankrupt and then
there's no money for any other social services. But he's
promised illegals they're all going to get welfare. Then they're
going to start to turn on each other, and then
eventually they're going to turn on him. And this hope
is going to turn into anger. Then it's going to

(13:26):
turn into bitter disillusionment, and then it's going to turn
into out and out hatred. So yeah, he's going to
be riding high for a while. But I'm telling you,
no one is more disillusioned than a former Marxist or
a former socialist. And they're gonna find out what the
people of Cuba found out, or Venezuela, or Russia or

(13:50):
China or North Korea or Eastern Europe. Socialism, communism leads
to misery, and that's all this guy's gonna give the
people of New York. But with one difference, Tony, there's
gonna I'm telling you, they're not coming back from this.

(14:10):
When you had Wall Street, you gave it away. You
were the financial center of America. You gave it away,
and there's gonna be no coming back. New York will
be a shell of its former self again if we're lucky,
unless other cities fall as well. So, you know, these

(14:35):
New York moonbats now are finally gonna live, you know,
with the consequences of their actions. And two terms of
Bill de Blasio wasn't enough. You know, It's not as
if they had Rudy Giuliani for forty years. They had Giuliani,
then they had Michael Bloomberg. They basically had twenty years
of good, competent governance. New York was prosperous. Businesses were booming,

(15:00):
each were safe, There was law and order. You could
raise your family in New York. It was a hell
of a lot more affordable under Giuliani than it was
with the when the left took over. And then they
got Big Bird, who was an admirer of the Nicaragua
and Sandinistas, another communist, okay, former communist, and he drove

(15:21):
New York into the ground. And then Eric Adams picked
up where he left off. And then you had that
that that that that Cuomo who turned New York into
a sanctuary state and New York City into a sanctuary
city and murdered how many homeless, how many elderly and
senior citizens. So the Democrats have run the entire state

(15:43):
and the city into the ground. And now you elect
a commie, and what you think, He's just gonna snap
his fingers and suddenly your rent is going to be
frozen and you're gonna have free everything, and all of
a sudden, it's going to be a utopia. Six one

(16:04):
seven two six x sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay,
let me ask all of you. It is the Kooner
country Pole. Question of the Day sponsored by Marios Marios
Quality roofing, siding and windows. Is the cost of living

(16:30):
in America?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
You know? For you?

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Is the cost of living still too high? In other words,
when you look at your utility, energy bills, your grocery costs,
your gas, you know what you pay for gas, whatever rent.
In other words, yes, inflation's coming down, no question, But

(16:54):
is the cost of living still too high? I'm just
curious because the way Trump is presenting it, And I
don't know if he's just trying to give his party
a shot in the arm, but he's presenting it as
we've taken care of inflation, it's now well beneath you know,

(17:15):
it's well within normal, and the big beautiful bill is
working and it's going to continue to work even more.
And so the issue of inflation, the economy, jobs, of course,
the cost of living, that has already been taken care of,
and according to him, the reason why the Democrats won

(17:38):
the mid the off year elections, the reason why they
did so well. On Tuesday, he said, Number one, I
wasn't on the ballot, so my people weren't motivated to
come out, and the numbers they usually come out, and
he said the government shutdown, that Republicans were getting killed
by the politics of the shutdown, especially in places like Virginia.

(18:01):
Northern Virginia has a huge population of federal government employees,
most of whom hate Trump.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
With a passion.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
So they came out in much bigger numbers than our
side did. And so, as far as he's concerned, this
is not a warning sign that costs are too high
and that the economy is not doing well enough. He
thinks the economy is doing very well and will only
get even better, and that essentially he has tamed inflation.

(18:33):
So my question to you is the cost of living
for you and your family. Is it still too high?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
A yes, B no.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
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slash cooner wrko dot com slash cooner.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
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Speaker 1 (18:59):
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in national Er. If I was to vote in the poll,
I never do, but if I was, I would be

(19:20):
an A. I'm telling you for my family, it is
definitely still too high. The cost of living is still
too high. Inflation is going down, that is true, but
I still pay way too much. I pay way too
much for everything. And I know if Grace was voting
in this poll, she would be a hell yes. She

(19:44):
thinks we still got a long way to go to
really tame inflation. Agree, disagree. Lisa in New Hampshire. Thanks
for holding Lisa, and welcome.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
Thanks Jeff for taking my well. Yeah, the cost of
living is too high. But if everybody included country remembers,
you know, we've talked about this over the years. He
doesn't have a magic wand he can't just say Okay,
I'm president.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Everybody loves the prices.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
It doesn't work that way. He's been setting the stage
for a year. It's only nine months. It wasn't going
to happen overnight. How is it going to happen. He's
going to get the fuel costs down, which he's working on.
He's trying to do the thing with tariffs. He's bringing
in trillions of dollars of business into the country for

(20:36):
people to have jobs. And it doesn't just happen. I mean, unfortunately,
it's a stepping stone. And the only way he personally
could get caught down is to be a socialist or
a communist. He doesn't demand food prices. He has to
set the stage for everybody else to lower the cost

(21:00):
of business, which will get the cost of food prices down.
You can't have it both ways. You can't have an
electrician making sixty five dollars an hour so he can
pay his mortgage and support his family and at the
same time, you know, think that people aren't going to
want to get a fee wage and the wages aren't

(21:21):
going to go up for everybody else. It's all a
big basket, right. So the key is is that you've
got to get business flow in, fuel costs down, and
you have to do something with taxes. And when you
do all that, which he's been doing since minute one,
then it's up to the capitalists, to the business people,

(21:44):
you know as well as I know.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Once prices go.

Speaker 7 (21:46):
Up, they never come down. You remember what two thousand
and eight was like, everything doubled, everything, the package has
got smaller. You know, the only thing that's going to
change the rent prices is that people have to stop
renting the houses, right because supply and demand is never
going to change. If we want to live in a

(22:07):
capitalist country, we have to figure out how to get
the fuel costs and the cost of doing business down
in order for it to trickle downhill. And he's doing
all of that, and he his job is to be
all over the world. His job is to get the
countries to buy our oil if it means threatening them

(22:30):
with tariffs. His job is to keep the streets safe.
What's he doing? He sends it in the National God,
he's got all these different tasks for us. I mean,
he's one man, one man doing a kick ass job
in nine months. Everybody needs to take a deep breath
and give the guy a break. It's been fifteen minutes.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Well, Lisa, that's you know, you kind of I think,
really articulated just the difference that Grayson I have. This
is often a dinner table discussion that we have. She'll
go on about the stability of the tariff regime that
she thinks the tariffs are just being applied to selectively,

(23:13):
to willy nilly, there's no discipline to them, there's no stability.
So she's critical of Trump in certain ways. My argument
to her is Rome wasn't built in a day. I mean,
I remember as a young kid Reagan, the recession that
Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter, and really the country really

(23:33):
only didn't get out of it until nineteen eighty three.
You know, Reagan passes his tax cuts, his deregulation, his
economic package in nineteen eighty one, and it really took
about a good eighteen twenty months before the economy really
started to boom and skyrocket. In fact, Reagan took a
beating in the eighty two midterm elections because many Americans

(23:57):
were saying, nah, the economy is just as bad as
we voted for Reagan to fix things, and we don't
see it getting fixed. And Reagan was just saying be patient.
Be patient, it's gonna work. Be patient. These things take time,
and so one of the things. Look, it's one of
our great strengths as a people. But you know, the
Irish have a very famous saying, every strength is a weakness,

(24:18):
every weakness is a strength. We're an impatient people. Now
that's good in some ways. We want the best service
we want. You know, we have one of the most
efficient countries in the world. We always we you know,
we produce great entrepreneurs. We always want the next new thing.
So we're dynamic, right, you know, like in America. Boy,

(24:40):
you know this, We're always on the move. We're always
on the move. We always want more, better, more modern, newer.
So in that sense there impatience is like a key
edge that we have. It motivates us, it propels us,
it drives us. But the other problem is, like, as
you put it, it's been fifteen minutes, it's been nine months,

(25:02):
Like give him a chance, Like, you know, hey, it
took Biden the Democrats four full years to wreck our country.
He doesn't he's not a dictator, he's not a king.
He can't just wave a wand and suddenly everything changes.
Plus you know, he can only do so much. He's
blocked by Congress, and the Republicans are blocking him. Not everything,

(25:25):
but on many things. He's being constantly blocked by Democrats.
He's being blocked by judges. He's being blocked by the bureaucracy.
He's being hammered and attacked relentlessly by the media. I mean,
he's being attacked on all sides. So the tariffs are
bringing in trillions of dollars in investment. There's no question

(25:48):
the tariffs are reindustrializing America.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
This takes time. You know.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Inflation is now under three percent. Gas is continuing to
go down as much as I would like, but it's
going down, so I think eventually. Now I will say this, Lisa,
and I don't know if you agree or disagree, and
I'd love to ask the whole audience this.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I don't like.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Trump's policy of bailing out Argentina. I disagree with that completely,
sending Malay, one of his allies, who is you know,
because credit he's an anti communist, he's a libertarian. A
twenty billion dollar bailout. I'm against bailouts of any country,

(26:36):
and I'm against bringing in Argentinian beef. Trump says we
need to bring in more beef to drive down prices
because our domestic cattle producers are having a hard time
producing enough beef through their cattle. This the cattle producers
in this country feel betrayed by Trump. They're saying, no,

(26:58):
you're bringing in Argentinian beef, which is going to undercut
our cattle. And yeah, it may temporarily bring prices down
for a while, but you're going to hurt our cattle
industry in the long run. So there are some things
that Trump is doing, to be honest, that I am against.
I don't like bailing out Argentina. I'm against it. I

(27:19):
don't want Argentinian beef. First of all, I don't trust
Argentinian beef to be honest. Our beef has much higher standards.
But overall, I want to support domestic beef producers, our
cattle ranchers here, not the cattle ranchers in Argentina and Argentina.
But you know, okay, that's a policy difference I have

(27:43):
with him, But on the whole, he's not your own Powell.
The biggest lag on the economy is Jerome Powell. He's
refusing to lower the rates deep enough and fast enough,
and that's that's what's causing the lag in the economy.
And I think one other thing, Lisa, if you look

(28:05):
at the companies now, the AI revolution, artificial intelligence, it
is changing the economy and it happened to happen just
under Trump. Ups literally just laid off forty three thousand workers.
Amazon is laying off tens of thousands. And I'm not
talking to people on the floor. I'm talking white collar workers.

(28:29):
They're getting laid off company after company after company. It's
a blood path out there. Companies are laying off, they're
shrinking their workforces because all of these companies now are
investing in artificial intelligence.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
I know my sister in law lost a job.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
She was a communications director and they said, nah, we're
not going to pay you your salary. We think we
can get AI to do your job for you. And
this is happening across many sectors of the economy. Now,
this is not Trump's fault. This is a technological revolution
that's taking place. So all these companies are investing what billions,

(29:12):
hundreds of billions in AI, but it's leading now to
people losing their jobs. Now down the road, they say
AI will end up creating even more jobs, but we're
not seeing that right now. So we're in a kind
of a no higher economy. The investment is there, the

(29:36):
plants are there, the technology is there, the productivity is there,
but the hiring is weak. Why because everybody's into this
freaking AI. Now, that's not Trump's fault. That's the economy,
the nature of the economy. And look, this is a

(29:56):
separate issue. I don't want to talk about AI. I
really think it's a stand the loan topic that you
deserve to have, that we deserve to discuss, and you
deserve for us to talk about. I think AI is bad.
I'm not saying there aren't good things to it. We're
rushing towards AI and we're not looking at all the consequences,
and I think it is going to make a lot

(30:18):
of people's jobs obsolete. And I don't think there's a
plan B. And I think that's a serious problem that
we're going to start to run up against. But let
that go. Okay, that's another debate for another time. My
point is things are happening structurally in the economy. I'm

(30:38):
going to talk like an economist for ten seconds and
be incredibly boring. Things are happening structurally in the economy
that are leading many employers to lay off a lot
of workers, which has nothing to do with Trump. It
would have happened whoever was president of the United States,

(30:59):
no matter what, that's what it would have happened.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
So there's that as well.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
But overall, look, I believe give it another six months.
Talk to me in the spring of twenty twenty six,
and I think you're going to see the economy roaring.
The fundamentals are there. Trump has done the hard work,
He's laid the groundwork, and I think, now you know,
these things just take time.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Am I wrong? Agree? Disagree? But look to me, there's
no question.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Inflation is still too high, you know, And now you know,
Lisa says, well, you know, prices never really go down,
but wages tend to go up, and the wages are
still not coming up, so the price is still feel
too high.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
That's the point. Six months.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Look, I mean, I don't want to give you the
story of my life. I haven't had a pay increase
and I don't know how many years. I mean, I'm
not complaining because I always fight for editorial independence. I
don't ask for a pay increase. I asked to keep
my editorial independence. But I'm telling you that I'm making
as much now as I did four years ago, and

(32:15):
everything is much more expensive. We're falling behind where I'm
still doing fine. I still live well. I still have
a roof, we have two cars. The kids are you know,
they got clothes on their back. And we still eat
out once a week or whatever. I mean, we still
you know, there's a full fridge. I'm not saying I'm

(32:36):
not pleting poverty, but I'm just telling you. My wife
is always telling me, we're it's check to check. We're
just you know, it's bill to build, check to check.
It's expensive and the cost of living keeps getting more
and more expensive. And it's getting to the point now
where people find cities literally unlivable. I mean, and that's

(33:00):
really the rebellion that's happening in New York. And I
said the story, this was two years ago where at
a popular Manhattan deli, like a sandwich place. This is
where the Mamdani revolution took off. This was in Manhattan.
People were off for launch. They went to grab a sandwich.

(33:21):
It was like a ham and cheese or a turkey
in cheese. It was a very ordinary sandwich on white bread,
you know, packaged, and it was thirty two dollars and
fifty cents. And some woman yelled or screamed or I
think she threw the package at the owner or the manager.
It was like a bit of a big deal in

(33:42):
the local media. But they were like, I can't pay this,
like this is beyond outrageous, like this no, I mean
a sandwich thirty two dollars?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Are you insane?

Speaker 1 (33:52):
And mom Donnie jumped on that issue. And by the way,
that's where he came up with the thirty dollars an
hour minimum wage. You know, like where do you get
thirty dollars because it's thirty bucks to get a sandwich
in Manhattan. So he said, okay, well pay him at
least thirty bucks an hour so they can afford a
sandwich when they go for lunch. So the issue of affordability,

(34:15):
the issue of the cost of living, the issue of inflation,
that's what Mam Donnie and the left has now seized.
Now their solutions are all wrong. But how come Republicans
aren't speaking about these problems? This is what every day
ordinary Americans, you know, every day ordinary Americans are facing
living with every single day. Why isn't meager Mike talking

(34:37):
about that? Why isn't John Thune talking about that? Frankly,
why isn't President Trump talking about that? I mean, I
know he's talking about the deals and he's talking about investment,
but he's got to start talking about I know you're
still hurting, and my this is how my policies are
going to help you. It's as if the Republicans are

(35:00):
seating the affordability issue the ground completely to the left
and to the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
And I don't know why they're doing.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
That, because it's politically it's going to be a disaster
for the Republicans.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Agree, disagree.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Tim in South Carolina, Thanks for holding Tim, and welcome.

Speaker 8 (35:23):
Hi Jeff, good morning, Thanks for having me again. I
you know what, I'm not sure that the economic policy
can really be addressed right now on an immediate basis.
We have an insurrection going on in this country. We're
in trouble physically. People are being shot, people are threatened

(35:46):
to be shot.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
You have.

Speaker 8 (35:49):
It looks like the main outpost is in New York
City now and this is getting dangerous. I don't mean
to you know, oupoo, inflation and high taxes and all that,
but I think most people don't understand the situation we're
in right now. We're in a physical war. I you know,

(36:12):
you talked earlier about possibly sending in the National Guard
to New York City, and I'm thinking, why don't we
just lock it down at the borders. Just lock down
the borders of New York City. This might sound crazy,
of course, but if people want to leave, let them leave.
If illegal aliens choose to leave, then they need to

(36:34):
be immediately deported. Maybe freeze the airports because this can
only spread and it needs to be contained. Anyway, those
are my thoughts. They might sound outrageous, but.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, well look, Tim, that's I think you're that's Trump's a.
Trump's argument is I'm fighting on how many fronts? And
he said, you know, I can't do everything at once.
And this is all by design, deliberately by design by
the Democrats to sow as much chaos anarchy and to

(37:17):
really destroy Trump's presidency. And look, you're right, we have
an insurrection now. And what's scary about the insurrection in
New York? And I think that's why it's more dangerous
than say Chicago or Portland or Boston, or La.