Promises Made Promises Kept

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Sandy Shack sitting in for Jeff Tooner, who's
winding up a road trip with his son. Our number
is six one seven two, six sixty eight sixty eight
to get on board. And my question for you is
are you tired of winning it? President Trump promised us
back in twenty sixteen, first time around, that if we
elected him, we would get tired of winning. Do you remember?

(00:25):
I have it for you just in case you don't, Mike,
could you play cut one hundred.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're gonna win so much you may even get tired
of winning, and you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning.
We can't take it anymore.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Are we there yet? Has President Trump's promised winning streak
come to fruition? And if so, does that spell the
end of the Democratic Party? Can they survive all the
winning after all their gloom and doom prognostications. I guess
when you think about whether it is a horrible end,

(01:08):
it looks like for the Democratic Party. You first have
to decide is the Trump administration on a winning streak?
So let's look at it. Let's look at a few
different things. For instance, in regard to the economy, the
latest economic report blew the doors off all expectations. The

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second quarter GDP rocketed up by three percent, which is
higher than any of the legacy media experts ever predicted.
Consumer confidence just posted another gain a The stock market
is setting new highs. Americans are working, they're investing, and

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they're keeping faith with President Trump, who promised we would
be winning today GDP. This past GDP growth came in
above market expectations, and last week consumer confidence went up
as well. Americans appear to be trusting in President Trump's

(02:12):
America First economic agenda and the experts keeping proven wrong basically.
And I think that's what Caroline Lovitt, the White House
Press Secretary, actually said from the podium last week. She
said that President Trump has reduced America's reliance on foreign products,
boosted investment in the US, created thousands of jobs. He's

(02:35):
delivering on its promise to make America wealthy again. The
data is clear. There are no more excuses. Isn't this
what we were waiting for? Is that, you know, a
politicization of what's going on? Or is it accurate? Is
it hyperbole or is it basically the truth? I guess

(02:57):
that's the question that that we have to look at.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
One of the indisha. One of the things that shows
me that it's accurate and not just political hype from
the White House are the reactions of people like Jim
Kramer on CNBC. He I don't know if you ever
watched CNBC. I generally don't. I check in on it
once in a while. But and they're not exactly pro Trump,
to be honest with you, but Jim Kramer got so

(03:28):
excited last week on how well the economy was doing
after the announcement of President Trump's European Union trade deal
that he basically let the F bomb fly live on
the air. That's cut number fifteen a Mike.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Our biggest problem is we have so much growth that
the Fed won't cut What the Jesus Oh, I'm so sorry, everybody, Okay,
that's right. In the moment, it was.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Just it's a cable with a cable with a ticker.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
As would take that back now. He later posted an
apology to all the viewers. He said, I apologize to
all viewers. I was too effusive and making my point
about the great economy we have. But wow, I mean
he Jim Kramer is excited about about the economy. What's
going on and that EU deal was a massive triumph.

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Under the terms of that deal, the EU has agreed
to buy seven hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of
energy from the US, and they're going to make six
hundred billion investments in the US, and they're going to
purchase hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment.
And European goods will be coming into the US with
a fifteen percent tariff, and the U EU is going

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to put zero percent on US tariffs zero percent. Does
this feel like winning to you?

Speaker 5 (04:58):
You know?

Speaker 1 (04:58):
And that was not the only trade deal that's been
happening lately. I mean, have you seen the list? I mean,
what was this? This was announced April second, I believe
it was, and the President was using trade deficits to
help calculate the tariff, right, and then he lowered that
a little bit, and he allowed countries time to negotiate,

(05:20):
and negotiate they did. Besides the European Union trade deal,
which as I said, is probably the biggest trade deal
according to the Commissioner of the U, the biggest trade
deal ever to announce, we also reached a deal with Japan,
settling a fifteen percent tariff on Japanese goods lower is

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in the twenty five percent tariff that Trump had threatened
to impose. Japan is also going to invest five hundred
and fifty billion dollars in projects in the US, and
it's going to open its markets to US automobiles and
I think rice and some other agricultural products as well.
The Philippines have agreed to a trade deal with the
US that lowers US tariffs on its ex sports from

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twenty percent to nineteen percent. There's an agreement with Indonesia
that is setting a tariff rate of nineteen percent. And
don't forget I think the first trade deal that was
announced was the United Kingdom and that was back in May.
That agreements at the tariff rate at ten percent, down
from twenty five percent. And then the US and China

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are also working on a deal to slave off or
to stave off a trade war between the two countries,
and the US reduced its tteriff frate from one hundred
and forty five percent to thirty and China reduced its
right from one hundred and twenty five percent to ten.
This there are all sorts of deals that are still

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in the in negotiations like Canada, Mexico, the Koreas, you know, Tunisia, Cambodia,
all these other places that they that they are currently
working on. So this all sounds like winning to me?
Does it sound like you know, winning to you? I'm
just kind of I'm just kind of wondering, because you

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know what the impact of these tariffs, this tariff policy
is essentially is to cut down our debt, completely cut
down our debt. And it now appears that the effective
tariff rate or the net impact is about fifteen to

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twenty percent range. Now, liberal economists had promised that the
aggressive tariffs that President Trump was proposing on his Liberation Day,
we're going to spike inflation and lead to a pronounced
slowdown or recession. But these doomsday pronouncements have not come

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to pass. Instead, you have a stabilization of the economy,
a lowering of the inflation rate it grows in the GDP,
and economists are now saying that, you know, the strong
global backdrop and less than expected long term inflationary impact
of the tariffs, and a general easing in financial conditions

(08:13):
are all making the economy look very good. JP Morgan
Chase lowered its recession risk from Liberation Day level of
sixty percent down to forty percent. Now, why because it
is working. The tariffs are working. That's what is happening.
And on top of this, President Trump has said that

(08:35):
he has an idea he's floating a tariff revenue funded
rebate for middle and low income earners, which I think
is a great idea. He's emphasizing that the whole purpose
of the tariffs is to pay down the national debt
and that's the top priority, but he's open to tariff
funded dividends for the American people, specifically middle income and

(08:58):
lower income. But first things first, let's get the debt
down and then see what we can do. So these
are the policies that President Trump is putting out there,
and I support what he's doing because it sounds and
my own pocketbook tells me that it's working. But you know,

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these tariffs have defied the naysayers. But even with these
clear cut signs that President Trump, at least in regard
to the economy, knows what he's doing, it still doesn't
deter the Trump dysphoric people from trying to fear monger
and continue to try to scare those who may not

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be economically savvy, or those who don't want to believe
that Trump can do something good, that will always believe
the worst of him. And for example, all this economic
good news, what does one of the leading Democrats and
the RYD does he say, Hey, let's let let byguns
be got by guns, at least in regard to the economy.

(10:05):
And I'll tell you that, okay, when it comes to
the economy, the Trump administration is bringing relief to the
American people. That's what we all want. No, he doesn't
say that. The minority leader of the US Senator, Senator
Chuck Schumer, does not say that. He got out on
the Senate floor this past week and he made an

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astonishing statement in regard to the GDP. And in case
somebody doesn't know what the GDP is, it's the GDP
equals the total monetary value of all fetish goods and
services was in the US that were produced in the
past year. It's a key measure of the nation's economic health.
And as of last week, the GDP of the US

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had surged in the second quarter. It had grown three percent.
And you know, and by the way, so did consumer
confidence go up. Positive sentiment is climbing. Good news news
is that you know that this is like the consumer
sentiment is the largest part of the economy. So what
was check Schumer's response to that? The text number is

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seven zero four seven zero. President Trump said if we
elected him, we would get tired of winning. Are we winning?
And does this spell the end of the Democratic Party?
The economy is booming. The GDP went up three percent
in the second quarter. This is important because it is
one of the most basic and accurate ways we have

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of measuring the growth or reduction in the economy. A
three percent surge is good news, and one would think
that you would be dancing in the streets saying this
is wonderful, and I think most people are, unless, of course,
you're a Democrat or your name is Chuck Schumer. What
Chuck Schumer did on the Senate floor this week or

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this past week? Did he say this is a good start,
well done?

Speaker 6 (11:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Here is Senator Chuck Schumer of New York on the
floor of the Senate cut twenty two.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
While the Trump administration will try to wave rosy headlines
about the Q two number, today's GDP number is in
fact a mirage because some ominous numbers lurk under the hood.
Business investment plunged in the second quarter by three point
one percent. The fact that business investment plunged so starkly

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is very troubling. It shows that already businesses are worried
about growing their operations, worried about hiring more workers, worried
about trading with their international partners, and worried in general
about the future. And this number is another data.

Speaker 8 (12:47):
Point in a larger pattern.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
Donald Trump's tariffs are weighing down the US economy, spiking
costs for small businesses and families alike. And if Donald
Trump keeps up the chaos, the dangers for the economy
will continue to get worse.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
So Chuck Schumer turned a three percent surge in the
GDP into something threatening. What the bleep he is standing
there telling you that the sky is green and not
to believe you're lying eyes which tells you that it's blue.

(13:26):
I was completely floored by that. And by the way,
can we talk about hypocrisy? Maybe he wants to talk
about prices. When inflation surged under President Biden, his party's leader,
current leader still former President Joe Biden made life in
America a whole lot more expensive for everybody. Inflation has

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actually cooled under President Trump, but Chuck completely decided to
ignore that. And not only that, what he's decided to
ignore is that people can feel how much better the
economy is. That to me is despicable. It's fear mongering

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on people who already have a lot to deal with
and trying to hide good news. And he's not the
only Democratic mouthpiece trying to convince everybody that the sun
is not shining when they can see the rays for themselves.
You have you have, for instance, the New York Times,

(14:32):
which is you know, again doing the same thing, trying
to say that the uh that this that the sky
is green. They are basically spitting mad about the GDP
surge according to them. According to the Times, even though
the economy grew at a solid three percent in the

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second quarter, which beat everybody's expectations, you should believe that
that doesn't really count. Why because they say Trump's tariff
policies are skewing the numbers, and the Times dismisses the
growth as a statistical fluke and says that the real

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story is slow growth with more doom coming soon thanks
to these tariffs. Government spending cuts and tighter immigration enforcement.
This all bodes badly for us, they say. In other words,
no matter how good the numbers look, it's still somehow
bad because President Trump is a bad man. And let's

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not forget that. Democrats in the New York Times predicted
that Trump's tariffs would wreck the economy. But now the
growth is exceeding expectations. They're scrambling, they're desperate to explain
it away, and so what they're trying to do is
blame those very same tariffs for artificially and the numbers.

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So when the economy struggles, is Trump's fault, and when
it's booming, it's actually not, and it's still Trump's fault.
That is the load of hornswoggle that they're trying to
sell you. And it's rich coming from people who had
us in an economic you know, morass, a doldrum. Before

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the twenty twenty four election, life was horrible on an
economic level. Their policies were dreadful. And you can still
see the effect of liberal and progressive economic policies in
some states. You know, for instance, I'm going to show
you even though most of the country is doing better.

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You can't lead a horse to water and make it drink.
I mean, California has really slit its own economic throats
to the point where people are fleeing that state. I
want to give you an example of what they've done.
They have a twenty dollars factast food minimum wage law
that has reportedly cost nearly eighteen thousand jobs according to

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the National Bureau of Economic Research. They put out a
a study earlier this month, so they found that fast
food jobs in California dropped three point two percent after
this twenty dollars fast food minimum wage law went into effect.
It was a loss of eighteen thousand jobs in that sector.
I mean, so this bill was supposed to help low

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income workers and instead it lost them their jobs. It
was passed I think September twenty twenty three, and Gavin
Newsom signed it into being. It was called the Fast
Food Council, and their job was to set minimum wages
and workplace standards for the fast food sector. That's what
their job was to do in order to better the

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lives of people who work in that industry. But what
they did is they raised their rate to twenty dollars
per hour. And what happened and that basically destroyed the
ability of those restaurants to hire people or to hire
as many people as they were before. So and by

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the way, fast food employment grew across the rest of
the country, but not in California. In California it dropped.
So I want you to think about California. You got
the train to nowhere there, you got fire hydrants with
no water in the middle of wildfire season. You got
endless handouts for illegal immigrants. And then you have raising

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raising the minimum wage rate so that restaurants can't afford
to pay it anymore. That's what liberal economic policies brought you.
So they have the nerve to say a three percent
growth in GDP is a bad thing. This is Sandy
Shack sitting in for Jeff Cuner. This is the Kuner Report.
Our text number is seven zero four seven zero on

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the text line five the way, says Sandy. President Trump
surprised the nation with a bold statement suggesting that tariffs
could potentially eliminate all income taxes. Trump aims to eliminate
income taxes for those earning under two hundred thousand annually
using tariff revenues, he said when he floated his tariff proposition,
that that would be his ultimate goal to get there.

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That he wants to get us away from an income
tax driven society back to a tariff driven government funded government,
which is what we used to be before the Civil War.
So that is that's what he said, and so that
is what he's working toward. But first and foremost, he
has said over and over again, it's about paying the

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debt down first. We need to pay the debt down
before we can do any of the other things like
give people a rebate if they're middle or lower income,
or eliminate the income tax if you make less than
two hundred Obviously, I don't know anybody who wouldn't like
that unless your name is maybe you know, mom Donnie
in New York and you're a communist and you want

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to you know, you want free grocery stores and housing
for everybody, and you can't figure out how to pay
for that. It's kind of like the Star Trek vision
of the future. But you need a tax base in
order to do that. And that's something that people like
him always seem to forget. But I digress. President President

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Trump is at the helm of what appears to be
a surging economy and with the economy bustling along like
it is. The democrats democrats. Democrats wants you to believe
that Trump is an economic dnce, So they are trying
to ignore the GDP or make you believe it doesn't

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represent what it does, and instead they're focusing on something
like the jobs report. If there's a there's a slump
in the jobs market that came out last week. It
basically shows that the US has had the weakest job
growth in a long time, a few years. And this

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came on the heels of a substantial downward revision in
the number of jobs are add it in May and June.
And President Trump actually response was to fire the commissioner
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, doctor Erica Mecintarfer, because

(21:23):
he said she faked the job numbers. Now, I don't
know whether she faked the job numbers or not, to
be honest with you, but he was asked about this
on Friday, Cut one O three. Please, Mike, I didn't.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
You get these numbers with the numbers for a long time,
but today we're doing so well. I believe the numbers
were phony, just like they were before the election, and
there were other times so you know what I did.
I fired her, and you know what, I did the
right thing.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Now again, I don't know if she faked the numbers
or not, but he's right. The economy was doing really well.
And there have been some suspicious reports that have been
put out. But this is what I do know. There's
a contrast between the Trump economy and former President Joe
Biden's economy. And it's start contrast. Under Biden, after the
economy matched its pre COVID employment levels, that was July

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of twenty twenty two, the economy added three point three
million jobs over the next two and a half years.
But here's the thing, here's the dirty little secret with
that number. Three point one million of those jobs went
to foreign born workers. Native born workers i e. Americans

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gained just one hundred and eighty nine thousand jobs over
that same time period. Now compare that to the Trump economy.
In just seven months of the Trump economy, US workers
have gained over two million jobs. That's many, many, many
many times more than US workers' jobs gained than US

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workers did under the Biden administration. The Biden economy was
great if you were a foreigner, if you were outside
the US, the trump economy, on the other hand, has
its focus on the American worker. So when you look
and you see seventy three thousand jobs gained in July

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and the unemployment rate ticking up to four point two percent,
that doesn't sound like a booming economy. But those numbers
don't capture the underlying churn that's taking place because instead
of an economy dependent on a mass influx of illegal
immigrant labor and foreign workers, Trump is building an economy

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where native born workers get the jobs they deserve at
wages where they can support a family. President Biden allowed
about five point six million illegal immigrants to enter the
country during his administration. Removing them was always going to
have an economic impact overall. That has meant slower job

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growth as illegal immigrants leave the workforce, but it has
also meant booming job growth and higher wages for American workers.
And that is what people voted for last year. But
that is not what most of the progressive Democrats and
their acolytes will tell you. That's part of the dirty

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secret there. What they want you to believe is in
fact that all is lost, the terrorifts are going to
destroy the country. The GDP means nothing and the job
and the job surge or the lack of a job surge,
is an a disha of a dying economy, that doom

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and gloom. You know, when they put it out there,
that fear mongering, does that make you trust the Democrats more?
Or does that make you say? What the hell is
wrong with these people? And why have I ever listened
to them? If I ever did? Is their pushback against

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President Trump's winning on an economic level causing the Democrats
more hurt than say congratulating him saying job well done,
Let's work together, because to me, that is the way
forward for the Democratic Party. But I don't see anybody
doing that.

Speaker 9 (25:25):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
What do you think? Is President Trump winning and is
his winning having a reverse effect on the Democratic Party
to the point where they are shooting themselves in the
foot and destroying themselves right before I very eyes. Dave
in Pennsylvania, welcome to WRKO. How are you, Dave?

Speaker 9 (25:48):
Martin Sandy? How are you doing? You and Mike you're
doing their fantastic job. But obviously Jeff Mike City was
from Takie, so God bless him coming home. Well, God
bless you and Mike. You guys are doing wain a
good job.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Thank you, Dave. That's really kind. So tell me something.
Are you tired of winning?

Speaker 9 (26:05):
At Sandy? I'm loving the winning. And if I've could
steal a little bit of your thunder, I'll tell you what.
The Democrats the subject from the TSW like I told
Michael self and point the gunshot wound.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah, And they're blaming everybody.

Speaker 9 (26:22):
Else, saying, you know, it's the blame game, the fan mongering.
It's everybody's fault, but our wron all Trump people who
read this, you know, it's like my sister in law,
no matter what you tell her, if you support Trump,
Handy Seamy, who wants me and you do? We're the
bad guys and we're the racist and we lack tolerance
and diversity. But you know what's Sandy, Like I've said

(26:44):
to Jeff and you before that I'm a clans preach
a good game, but they don't practice it. You know
what I mean, I holler its diversity. They're the last
ones to practice it. Sandy.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, do you think do you think that they've gone
too far? I mean when you go to this, when
I go to the grocery store now, I mean I
do the grocery shopping in my household. I know what
eggs used to cost. I know what they cost me now.
I know it a lot of things. There are a
lot of things that are still still high. Not everything's
come down, but a lot of things have. And I
can buy more groceries now than I could a year ago.

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Let me just put it that way. I still has
we still have a lot of improvement to make, but
I think we're on the right path. But then I
have people turning around and telling me on CNN or
MSNBC or wherever they are saying, oh, no, eggs haven't
gone down like a grocery shop. I mean, I've seen
them go down. Is this, in your face misrepresentation of

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the economy, in their in their fear of Donald Trump's succeeding.
Is this doing nothing? Is this destroying them as opposed
to destroying Trump? What do you think?

Speaker 6 (27:49):
Dave?

Speaker 9 (27:51):
Yes, Sandy And if I can real quick those beside
correct your quote, Jeff. I want to get Jeff some kudos.
Over the weekend he sat down with my beautiful pitch
break leading Wennie Bell on common sense for News Match
and Jeff get it out of the park and you
know that's you guys have the results of Jeff said,
you're do a great job. Mike does a great job.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
We're gonna win so much you may even get tired
of winning, and you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
We can't take it anymore.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Has Trump fulfilled his promise to make us sick of winning?
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number here? Seven zero four seven zero is
the text number. And has all of President Trump's success
driven the Dems to self destructive behavior? It's amazing to
me whenever a good report comes out what their response

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has been. And there was a really funny example of
this last week. The Democratic National Committee UH jumped into
UH this issue last week on the on the Economy
and they posted a now deleted graph. It was a

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social media post that showed how the cost of groceries
skyrocketed under former President Joe Biden. That's not what they
intended to post, by the way. The post it was
on x It included a graph of soaring cheese, alcohol, dairy,
grocery produce, and meat prices dating back to October twenty nineteen,

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with the major inflection point being near the start of
the Biden administration in twenty twenty one, and the caption
underneath it was Trump's America prices are higher today than
they were on July twenty twenty four, all in major
categories listed below. That's what the caption on the graphic read.
By the way, they didn't show what the source of
their data was. They just had this graph up. But

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the White House was quick to respond, as were a
lot of other people on social media. So what they
did is they added a Biden label with two arrows
pointing to the price jumps under the previous administration. And
the interesting thing is that the Biden era surges, highlighted
and read by the White House, took up the majority

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of the graph, whereas the more stable costs of good
under Trump were just a little tiny part of the chart.
And so a lot of people on social media were
pointing out this self owned by the Democratic Party, going,
I don't know, kind of looks like Biden's America. That
was one ex user put up there, and then another
podcaster wrote on sent out an ex post as one

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of the dumbest posts in ex history and noted that
the DNC deleted it after getting basically ragged into oblivion
for it, and people saying it was the biggest self
owned they'd ever seen. So, in other words, they pointed
a graph up trying to make fun of President Trump,
but what they showed was that the huge inflation increases

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had happened under Biden. Bizarre behavior. That's a destructive, bizarre
behavior to do. I mean, what the hell, why, what's
wrong with you? And here's the thing. Every time they
post something trying to denigrate the economy, President Trump's handling
of the economy, what they forget about is that Americans

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conceive for themselves what is happening outside their little echo
chamber they have going on. We don't live in a
fantasy recession, which is what the mainstream media and the
Democratic Party wanted you to believe would happen. We're now
seeing paychecks that stretch further. We see companies creating jobs

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here at home, and we see an economic dynamism that
the leftist policies never delivered. President Trump promised to make
America wealthy again, and he is doing it. It may
not happen as fast as a lot of people wanted to,
but it is happening, and the progressive left can't spin that.

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You know, the numbers speak for themselves, and the media
meltdown over those numbers kind of proves the point I think,
don't you so, basically, are you tired of winning it?
And has all this winning driven the Democrats crazy? And
they just now are hurting themselves with their negative responses

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to all that winning. Eddie and Charlestown, welcome to WRKO.
How are you, Eddie?

Speaker 6 (32:40):
Good Sandy? Thank you for taking one call.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
You're welcome.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
I think the President in his administration is doing an
awesome job. They stopped the Biden bleeding. And however, the
only thing I'm disappointed in is the prices that the
guests still hover around three dollars a gallon. I know
it's coming down.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
And that's a lot better than during the Biden administration,
when it was five dollars a gallon, don't you think?

Speaker 6 (33:12):
Well, not in Massachusetts had never really hit five dollars.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Again, it did where I live, my friend so in Massachusetts.
So it may not have at the station where you
go to, but it did here. It did in other
places in Massachusetts, absolutely it did.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
But I drove by a gas station in Wilmington two
days ago, and the price was two sixty three, and
that's the lowest sentence since President Trump's first administrations, which
was great. However, two days after I drove by, it
went up fourteenth cents to two seventy seven. So that

(33:51):
still amazes me. There's some price gouging going on. So
the President has the address that I don't hear any more. Drill,
baby drill. What happened at drill, baby drill?

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Well that's because they are drilling, Eddie. They he doesn't
have he's not you know, he may not be saying drill,
baby drill, but they're actually following through on the oil leases.
So they are drilling, which is why the prices are
coming down, because we're becoming more and more dependent on
our own gas than we are on All of this
takes time, don't forget. So we have to wean ourselves

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off of Opak, which is where President Biden sent us
we are and he also basically drained our strategic reserves,
President Biden did, so we have to build those back
up again and we have to go back to you know, drilling,
which we are doing. But drilling doesn't mean you stick

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you know, you stick a drill on the ground and
you have gas at the pump the next day. There's
a process and it takes a while, and that's why
the prices are coming down. And I'm sure they will
come down more, but it's a process and it takes
a little bit of time. That's all.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Realize that.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
And I know it's only been seven months and he's
done a great job cleaning up the big mess that
he lives left.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
And well, do you think Eddie does you're not tired of?
When I was going to say, do you think Eddie
that with the pushback that the Democratic Party is making
and their friends in the mainstream media are making, are
they just hurting themselves at this point? Because you just
told me you saw prices coming down, they're not as
low as you want them, and you want them to
keep going down. But they're telling you that prices haven't

(35:38):
gone down at all. And what does that make you
think of them?

Speaker 6 (35:43):
The public? And then, and it just amazes me that
the people that vote vote these people in, how do
they believe their lives?

Speaker 1 (35:53):
You know, I don't know, I don't know how they
I think a lot of cases you have people have,
you know, they go into denial, they don't want to.
They don't want to believe that they could be wrong
about something, that they could be wrong about President Trump's
handling of the economy. You have, you do have people
who are who are smart enough to know when they

(36:17):
should say they're wrong, and we've had a few of those,
but they're the exception, not the rule. And some people
just have a really hard time saying that they were
wrong about something, and that's why they're happy to believe
a fable that's spun out to them by somebody like
Chuck Schumer who says, oh, GDP surge of three percent,

(36:37):
that's bad. It's it's it's there's something worse coming behind it,
like there's a tsunami, if something bad coming behind it
a GDP surge growth. This is the same guy who
was happily, you know, whistling through the graveyard as our
economy was falling apart under under President Biden. So I
think that what's happening is they are destroying their own

(36:58):
credibility every time they lie to you, and every time
they lie, they peel off more Democrats to say, I
can't do this anymore, and I'm going I'm not gonna
I'm not going to be complicit with this, and they
and they wander off and they maybe don't come over
to Trump, but they don't stay on the left side anymore.

(37:18):
They go to the middle and they sit there and
they try to decide which way to go. What am
I going to do? And do I stay here? Do
I stay with the Democratic Party? I think a lot
of people have found the Democratic Party have left them
and what And that is sad for me to be
honest with you. I know, people, how can you say
that I think our country works best with a two

(37:41):
party system and to do that you need too healthy parties,
and that's how you compromise and your work and so forth.
We have not had that in a while. We have
not had too healthy parties in a while. So I
think that the Democratic Party as it exists now is
eating its self through the lies it tells, through the

(38:03):
misrepresentations it tells. And I think it's destroying itself, and
hopefully that will make way for something better to take
its place. I maybe maybe not. I don't know, Eddie,
But we'll see you, won't we. So meanwhile, keep your
eyes peeled on the gas pump. I'm sure it's going
to go down, Thank you so much for the call.
I appreciate it very much. Russ in Boston, Russ, welcome

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to w r KO. How are you, Russ.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Andy. I'm happy, winning, winning, winning. My political sabba has
rerisen and we're back on the right road again, thank god. Okay,
now here in Massachusetts, most of those who vote for
the Democratic Communist body suck up propaganda like a sponge.

(38:50):
They refuse to open their minds to conservative thinking and
with they fail to understand we are in a serious
point of model hazard. Well, our President Trump changing direction.
We are on the road to bankruptcy and Communist China domination.
There's no question about that. Now, let's get into tariffs, Okay,
with some of these people in the stand listen in

(39:12):
the ignorant talking heads, the misleading sobs that they are. Okay,
we are the world's largest consumer of goods and services.
The war cannot survive without us buying the goods and services.
We have the upper hand. They cannot run a trode
war against the United States of America, okay, and especially
those Solbs and Communist China, which we've given them all

(39:35):
the ammunition, everything to kill us. And that's their objective
is world domination and people stick their head in the stand,
don't understand that. And it was Donald Trump and oh god,
I can't think his name at the moment he ran
against George Bushy get twenty percent of the vote, you
know what I mean. Anyways, they only could bring it

(39:57):
up about communist China, balance of trade and everything else. Now,
the last comment I'm under gonna makes about that scumbag,
Chuck Schumer. Okay, he is a snake of snakes, and
he is nothing but a rotten backstabber. Okay. Now when
Osam Obama and I like calling him that, Remember I
got that from Ted Kennedy. Yeah, when Sam Obama peddled

(40:18):
the Iran deal, Okay, he knew that ultimately it could
eliminate the state of Israel because if they're in the
atomic bomb, they would use it against the State of
Israel without question. Okay, Now what that scumbag did. If
he was out against that from the beginning, that would
have got squashed. But he kept his mouth shut. But
then the week of it, he is he waited until

(40:41):
it came up for voting and it was too far
down the road to battle it, to bury it. He
turned around and he voted against it, so if you
look on paper, it looked like he was against it,
that he could have killed that in the beginning. And
I'm going to say this. I know a lot of
people are like what I'm about to say. Okay, but
as far as I concerned, he's no better than Judge Sorows.

(41:02):
And if he was around during World War to, just
like Judge Sorows, he wouldn't be a Nazi collaborator to
save his own his own re rent. So he is
no good. And that's all it was to it.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Okay, I like a man who stands by his opinions.
For us, I have to say, I don't. I don't
disagree with you. I think that the interesting thing to
me about what's happening in the economy is that it's
it's the action and the reaction that you see. They're

(41:34):
almost like complete, uh polar opposites, like magnetic pole opposites.
So the better that President Trump does, the worse the
Democratic Party does, because for the simple reason that they
won't get on board and say, okay, let's let's support
what's going on. We'll bide our time and we'll run.

(41:56):
We'll run somebody that we think can bring in some
you know, different policy and do more of what we
want to do in twenty twenty eight. Instead, they in
their panic, they're kind of like those what are they lemmings?
They just you know, they kind of like jumping off
a cliff. One goes and the rest just follow. And

(42:16):
President Trump for US has a name for these people,
and it cracks me up. Have you heard it? Pannikins?
Have you heard the name PanicIn?

Speaker 8 (42:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (42:25):
I haven't.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Okay, so this is him explaining a pankin. I love
this Resshold on cut number one, please, Mike.

Speaker 10 (42:34):
I call them panikins because maybe they're not smart, because
they're playing red into the enemy's camp. And in other
cases they really are people of the panic. They can't
handle pressure, and you know, both are sort of dangerous.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yeah, I agree that they're dangerous. I love that name.
I'm going to I'm I am, I am, promise myself
to use it once a day. How about you?

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Oh what I use? I use pedalists. Okay, that's what
I've been using. They are panic pedalers. I don't listen
to panic pedalers because they're always into doom and gloom. Okay,
And I'm an optimistic person who loves this country and
so proud of being an American. I'm a person of
Italian descent and I still communicate with my relatives in Italy,

(43:21):
and I'm proud to be an American. And I'm thankful
to my grandparents who made the sacrifice to come here
back in the early part of the twentieth century. And
I wouldn't have the guts to do what they did, Sandy,
I'm telling you to leave their country not being able
to speak this language and forge ahead.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
I know it took a special kind of bravery that
I am in awe of. And that's true for you know,
a lot of people, especially those who take on the
immigration system and come in the legal way. It's an
uphill climb, and they do it. It takes years, and
they do it. And I welcome every single one of
those people who go through what they have to go

(44:00):
through to become American citizens, because you have to really
want to be an American to do that. The rest
of us may be very proud of our heritage and
proud to be Americans, but we were born here. It
was a gift. Those people came here, you know, with
nothing and became the backbone of a country because of
their bravery and their work ethic, and you should be

(44:23):
and you are obviously extremely proud of your ancestors, as
am I. For that matter. Thank you so much for
the call, russ I appreciate it very much. When you
hear a call drop off, it means a line has
opened up for you. The number is six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight. So what is
your take on the economy? Do you see the winning

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or are you more of a Czech Shumer New York
Times Democratic National Convention type of person? Are and nothing
Trump does is positive? Are you on the winning side
or are you on the side of the pannikins and
the fearmongers. Dave and Medford. Welcome to WRKO.

Speaker 8 (45:07):
How are you Dave, I'm doing fine.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (45:12):
I'm doing fine. Thank you for calling this morning.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
David.

Speaker 8 (45:15):
I liked the guy that was before you for a
minute there. He said that they have our peddlers of
propaganda and they like to push pessimism. Yeah, something, That's
when I know that we're doing well, because though they
even lie when they were trying to lie for buying

(45:39):
and then push the truth when they lie about the economy,
and you both face from this thing. You're looking at
him like you're still like you wanted your mind. I said,
we both go to this, we both go by, we
buy food, we buy groceries, we buy gas. You're telling

(46:00):
me it stinks. I'm telling you, no, it doesn't. It's
moving positively. Now, how over the economy can move because
it's a giant, big gang and you got tabobs.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
You know how I think about it, Dave, just interpreting.
I think about it as do you have a boat
you go in the water, you know, a little motor
boat can putts around and make world. You know, go
go do a three sixty and all the rest. A
ship takes football fields to stop. That's the economy. It
takes forever to course carange course correct, because it is

(46:35):
so large. Just to make your point.

Speaker 8 (46:38):
Then, because it's what was it?

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Way back?

Speaker 8 (46:41):
It was called trickle down? Yeah, number that trickle down?

Speaker 5 (46:44):
Be it?

Speaker 8 (46:45):
This one seems to be statting right in the middle
of all the populace of all the people. It seems
to have started right there. It was a change because
people felt it. If the people on the street feel it,
that's more important. That's why you and I don't call
them democrats. I call them communist traders. And I'm going

(47:08):
to tell you something else, I don't call them republican giva.
There are a bunch of pansy butts that ain't doing nothing,
even though we got two bills through. So either way,
they're all when they start lying big because the people,
and that's I'm going to take all fifty stakes, are saying, hey,
something that's happening that is good and that really sticks

(47:33):
in their craw because you can't then take it out
of the populous mouth because they feel it.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah, they do, they do feel it. And that's what
I always found to be shocking with some of the
statements that were made by some of these moderators on CNN.
And I don't have the cut of it, but it
happened a week before last I think, where Scott Jennings
got into a fight with one of the other panelists

(48:02):
on CNN because they said specifically, eggs haven't gone down,
they've gone up. He's like, I'm sorry, did you go
into a store lately? Of course they've gone down. I
mean they just boldface lied and didn't expect to get
a pushback on it, and the person looks that looks
bad in that is the person representing the Democratic Party
when they lied, when I can literally go to the

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store and see that eggs are no longer six ninety
nine a dozen, so it's like.

Speaker 6 (48:30):
They're not that.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
I don't know what she's talking about. It either tells
me that she has never gone grocery shopping and she
has somebody do it for her and has no idea
because she lives in a rarefied existence that has no no,
nothing touching the reality that the rest of us live in,
or she's lying. It's one of those two things, Dave.

(48:51):
So I'm not sure which one it is, but either
one of them make me want to not trust her.
Don't you think.

Speaker 8 (48:58):
My thing is that they just playing line, because you
know what gets me they actually follow a script. And
when you go and I don't watch all those talking heads,
but I, yeah, I can listen to them read the paper.
It's like someone writes a script and they all follow it,
and it's like, look at you look it. Yeah, we're
not stupid, just saying the same thing. So it's coming

(49:21):
from the same.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
And David, a lot of times it's literally word for word.
It's like there was a facts that went around or
an email that went around and saying this is the line,
and they literally and you can usually tell because there's
somewhere in the line is an odd word that you
don't hear very often, or a particular description of a policy.
And the only way they could all get it is
if they all had the same line delivered to them.

(49:45):
So is that what you're talking about?

Speaker 8 (49:47):
That's exactly right and everyone knows it. Everyone knows it.
That's why when it comes up, most people will say, oh,
you got to be kidding me. Change the station.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
See, I've looked at me.

Speaker 8 (50:00):
I don't need to find out how bad the economy is.
Give me another beer.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Yeah, yeah, indeed, indeed.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Thank you for the call, David. I really appreciate it
and I agree with your insights. It is very disconcerting
to have Chuck Schumer say one line, then have an
MSNBC anchor say the exact same line, and then have
somebody over on CNN say the exact same line on
a panel. It's like, I'm sorry, was there a meeting
and nobody invited the rest of us