November 4, 2025 • 44 mins
*Trump continues to take on the drug cartel....and win
*Great cabinet selections in the current administration
*Trump's plan to stop China....no oil from Venezuela for China
*All the craziness over the White House new ballroom
*Is there hope for the mainstream media to finally report both sides of political issues?
*Truth coming out about 2020 election
*2000 Mules...book about the 2020 election
*A nation cannot tax and spend its way to prosperity
*The United States is losing the war on poverty
*Republican states are now educating their children at a much higher rate of success than democratic states and school choice is having a large role in the success
*Why Zohran Mamdani will be a terrible choice for mayor of New York City
*Why rent freeze doesn't work
*George Orwell 'The Road to Wigan Pier'
*Great cabinet selections in the current administration
*Trump's plan to stop China....no oil from Venezuela for China
*All the craziness over the White House new ballroom
*Is there hope for the mainstream media to finally report both sides of political issues?
*Truth coming out about 2020 election
*2000 Mules...book about the 2020 election
*A nation cannot tax and spend its way to prosperity
*The United States is losing the war on poverty
*Republican states are now educating their children at a much higher rate of success than democratic states and school choice is having a large role in the success
*Why Zohran Mamdani will be a terrible choice for mayor of New York City
*Why rent freeze doesn't work
*George Orwell 'The Road to Wigan Pier'
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Here's your host, Bowtriven.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
All right, good morning everybody. And so it begins the
uh long, long long wait for spring. I uh and
the weather has turned and this past week has been
(00:57):
a lot of rainy, nasty gray. Yeah, I hate it.
Want some sunshine back, some fun, some excitement, some energy.
I tolerate it because Tennessee, in my opinion, is tied
for the greatest state in the Union, just my opinion.
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And I'm look, I lived in Florida for fifty one
years before I moved up here, and the two states
have an awful lot in common, with the exception of
the weather, and but everything else about them is. Tennessee's
prettier than Florida to me. I mean, Florida's a lot
of flat pine trees that look like weeds, just really,
(01:40):
really tall weeds. But I just this weather man. I
hate it. Anyways, it's four months from now. And you
know the other thing, it's uh, I think tonight, if
you're listening to this on Saturday morning, tonight is going
to be the night we turned the clocks back, so
you get one extra hour sleep. But that it also
means it gets dark at four thirty or five o'clock,
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which to me, I got to find a way to
have some energy and excitement during the wintertime. I haven't
figured it out yet. Anyways, we talk about energy and excitement.
I don't know about you, but if I happened to
be caught up in the drug running business in the Caribbean,
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I'm reassessing my career goals at this point because he
has not he being President Trump has not fooled around.
He is dead serious about blowing those guys up. And
Marco Rubio will probably go down as the greatest Secretary
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of State ever. He is an amazing pick for that job. Trump.
Every one of Trump's cabinet members are incredible at the
jobs He's got them doing, and they can all deftly
deal with the media and smack them down in the
way that they've been deserving to be smacked down for
quite some time. But Republicans always played nice. They were
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always the polite you know, we're not going to go
there there. We as opposed to these crazy guys that
are running this party. Now. I don't understand it. They
have definitely seeded the party to the crazies. You know,
how can you get let me go back. I'll talk
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about that in a second, But I don't know what
Nicholas Maduro down in Venezuela thinks is going to happen.
But at this point, they've got a fifty million dollar
bounty on his head. We have staged more military assets
in the Caribbean than we've ever had there in like
ever and it's a show of force. And I'm telling
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you it would not surprise me if Trump put started
attacking on land, not with boots on the ground, because
we had we don't need to do that. We have,
but we got two aircraft carriers sitting out there right
now with a lot of assets, and part of it
is stopping China from moving into the South South American continent.
China has designs through their Belton Road initiative. They have
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designs to get closer and closer to taking over the world,
and the only place that can stop them is the
United States of America. And if we don't step up,
it will be worldwide dominance by the Chinese. And I
think that Trump has realized that, and Maduro is just
one pawn in this whole puzzle of getting China out
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of their China wants Venezuela's oil and we can't let
that happen. We can't let them get that close. And
so he's also ready to stop the actual war on
drugs is really a war on drugs at this point.
He is willing to do whatever it takes to stop
the absolute poisoning of the United States of America. Youth.
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The equivalent of three Nayland stadiums. Die has died in
the last five years from fentnyl overdose and primarily coming
from China. We just got to stop this mess. They
have declared war on us, and they're doing it quietly. Anyways,
what I was going to say a minute ago is
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how can these crazies in the left on the left
get so upset about the East wing and building a ballroom.
Every president for the last ten has said we need
to have some sort of something where we can greet dignitaries.
We do this under tents. When we have these large
state gatherings where there's three hundred people, we have to
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do it in a tent. Why are we doing this?
We need and so Trump, being the ever masterful builder
that he is, said, Hey, I know how we can
get this done. We just take out these offices that
are old, they've been there since the forties or fifties,
and clear that out, and we can build a beautiful ballroom.
And we can do it without the taxpayers having to
spend a penny. And so Eric Swalwell, you know, sir
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farts a lot. If you don't know what that means,
go look up Eric Swalwell and flatulence. He you know,
he the guy that also slept with the Chinese spy
that was working for him. But Eric Swalwell literally came
out and said that it's a non starter for anybody
that wants to run for president for the Democratic Party
in twenty twenty eight if they don't commit to tearing
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down the ballroom. What in the world are you talking about.
You're going to tear it down just because the man
built something nice that everybody gets to have and did
it without taxpayer money. Hakeem Jefferies issued a warning. The
Speaker of the House issued a warning saying that he
was going to with no evidence whatsoever, but that he
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was going to investigate all of the companies that donated
to have the ballroom built because he knew it was
a pay for play scheme. You know, do you realize
when you look at the list of donors, most of
them are on the left side of politics. When it's Microsoft, Google,
There were tons of companies that donated to build this
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ballroom for the United States of America so that we
look like the power that we are on the world
stage and we don't have other dignitaries coming from across
the world and having to sit under a tent where
it might be raining, it might be soggy, and yet
you guys are up in arms about it. It's the
most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's like you.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Don't know how to get out of your own way.
And I don't understand what it is that causes this mentality.
I get that Trump is bombastic, and I get that
he but do you have to hate everything he does?
Because at some point it just becomes useless. You can't
just hate everything the demand does. All right, this is
(07:53):
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Speaker 2 (08:34):
Here's your host, Bowtriven.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
All right, welcome back everybody. So I don't know how
many of you guys keep up with this, but a
lady named Barry Weiss was appointed as the head of
CBS News recently. And Barry Weisse, she used to work
for The New York Times and she was a lean
left is a lean left type of person, but she's
(09:02):
got a witch about her. And she finally quit at
the New York Times because she said she couldn't deal
with all of the one way thinking and there was
no room for debate and it was just so she
quit and CBS hired her to be their new head
of the news division. And in a twist the other day,
(09:23):
because CBS, along with all the rest of the mainstream medium,
has been so anti Trump and so on the bandwagon
of one way, one way, one way, and I don't
know whether everybody that was on those shows actually believed
it or was coerced into saying it, or said it
because they felt like if they didn't lean that way
and show those proclivities to lean towards the left, that
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they'd be ostracized in their own newsrooms. But anyway, the
other night on Meet the Nation or Face the Nation,
I'm sorry, Face the Nation on CBS, Margaret Brennan, who
is the uh, same one that started the meme from
jd Vance of frankly, I don't care Margaret. That's that
(10:06):
Margaret because she was always trying to catch Jady Vance
and something. Anyway, so she had Hakim Jeffries on the
other day and in a twist she actually held him
to account. They were talking about jerrymandering and the Democrats'
efforts to or the Republican efforts to sort of start jerrymandering,
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and some of the other states that haven't been jerrymandered
yet to see if we could pick up some additional
Republican seats in the House of Representatives. If you remember,
this all started with Texas saying they needed to redraw
their maps. Texas needed to redraw their maps because they've
had such an influx of population from all of the
other blue states over the last five years that their
representation didn't really work. So Margaret Brennan goes on and
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starts asking Hakim Jeffries about the other states because jerrymandering
the Blue states and how that was different. He said
it was they were trying that the Republicans were trying
to rig the elections. And she actually said, you can
say that now, but you guys just lambasted everybody from
President Trump to anybody else who said anything about the
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twenty twenty elections being rigged. When you said it about him.
Let's see if I can find the exact quote here.
It was Democrats were appalled when President Trump used the
language like that. Brennan said, how do you justify using that? Now?
Doesn't that undermine faith for voters? You need to show up.
He goes on and says, no, it's not the same,
all right, because it's never the same when Democrats do it.
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But I noticed that just pushing him from that point
of view and not letting him just get away with
saying the elections are going to be rigged is not
something you would have gotten from the mainstream media not
too long ago. And so I have hope that somebody
is going to start telling the story the way it
should be told, from a fair and balanced perspective. But
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you know that that goes along to the next thing.
I don't know if you guys saw this the other day,
but President Trump tweeted out or put out on truth
social we now know everything about the twenty twenty elections.
I don't know what they found, but I do know
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that in twenty twenty, when there were court after court
after court across the country said the Trump campaign lacked
standing to bring their lawsuits, just to question what happened,
because if you don't, if you remember back then, they
were county after county across the country. The turnout numbers
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just shattered what was normal. There were more people voting
eighty one million votes for President Biden. That's just that
didn't make any sense. In some cases, the totals somehow
exceeded the number of registered voters, and yet you were
not allowed to say anything about it. And then if
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you factored in the late editions and the unverifiable registrations
that conveniently happened after election day, the stopping the counting
of the votes in the middle of the night and
not waiting, and nobody being able to be able to
monitor it, there were just so many anomalies in that election,
and yet nobody was allowed to even question it. If
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you questioned it at all, you were labeled crazy or
a denier or a conspiracy theorist or whatever. And yet
they could continue, they, being the people on the left,
could continue to say that George Bush stole the election
twenty in two thousand against Al Gore, or they could
say that President Trump stole the election from Hillary Clinton
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in twenty sixteen. But if anybody questioned the serious anomalies
that happened because of COVID, you were labeled an absolute
lunatic and a denier and a crazy person. Somehow, the
people who actually wanted transparency, the ones who noticed all
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of the anomalies and the inconsistencies, the extremists, the enemies
of the state, a threat to democracy. The hypocrisy is
off the charts with these people, and I don't know
how they don't see it, but I truly hope that
at this point we are going to hold them to
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account for everything that they There was a I think
it was Denise Desuza put out a movie twenty Mules
or something like that. I don't remember the name of
the of it, but it went through and listed a
lot of the anomalies in the election. And oddly enough,
the elections can come down to a few votes here
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and there in certain counties. Because of our electoral college,
which I'm a huge fan of, you don't have to
you just have to have some well placed votes in
certain areas. And we know for a fact that there
are people who are illegally here in the country that
are on the voter rolls. It's been proven time and
time again. All the things you say don't happen. Okay, well,
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they don't happen very often. Okay, well, they happen more
often than anything. But it's not that bad. Oh well,
they happen more often than anything, and that's a good thing.
It's always got the same pattern with these people. And
now you've got the state of Minnesota who's literally fighting
and I don't understand all the states that fight against
voter ID, since eighty percent, eighty five percent of the
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Americans want voter ID, but you've got the state of
Minnesota literally filing lawsuit to not have to clean up
their voter rolls, and yet we're supposed to act as
if all of this is normal. I don't understand it.
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I will never understand it. I will never understand the
thought processes of those people. And I don't know if
you just openly hate the United States of America that
much or if there is some other nefarious reason for it.
But so switching gears a little bit. You know, there
has never been a nation, any civilization, people, anybody that's
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been able to tax and spend their way out of
or into prosperity. And yet the Democrats seem to think
that there's some way that we can just give people
handouts and that's going to make us all better. Zoren Mendami,
the guy that's running for mayor of the New York City,
is a firm believer that we just need to take
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it away from somebody else and give it to somebody
else so that they can have a better life. But
they don't Oprah Winfrey did an experiment one time where
she gave a homeless man one hundred thousand dollars and
said he could do anything he wanted to with it,
and long story short, within about six months he was
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completely broken, homeless again and was mad at Oprah for
giving him the money, said it it messed his life up.
You cannot just take from somebody and give to somebody
else and make that somebody else feel what they need
to feel to feel successful and happy in their life.
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We have we're losing this war on poverty. Let's see
if I can give you the statistics here. So while
Biden was in office, the overall child poverty rate, the
overall and child poverty rates swelled. While while Biden was
in office, the overall poverty rate grew by forty percent
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from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four in a four
year period, and the child poverty rate spiked by thirty
eight percent of the same period. It goes into the
magazine Arcle says, if you choose twenty nineteen as your
point of comparison, the increase in poverty under Biden is
soap is really bad. If you choose twenty twenty it's catastrophic.
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We cannot Biden's part of the reason that the poverty
rates went up was because he crushed us with inflation.
But you cannot take from somebody else to give to
somebody else and have them that the person that's the
recipient automatically be successful. That's not how this works. You
have to want it, you have to. We do it
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because of hard work, because of effort, because of meritocracy,
because of trade. We do it because we want to
do it, not because we.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Have to do it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I am I don't know how to fix it, but
I think at some point we're gonna figure out. You
can't fix it that people have to be able to
do it on their own. All right. This is Bonos
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Speaker 2 (19:35):
Here's your host, Bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
All right, welcome back everybody. So, I, uh, I wasn't
a very good student. I was obviously intelligent enough to
make it through, but I wasn't. I wasn't a very
good student. I I didn't study much in high school.
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I got good grades. I got into Steton University, which
at the time was a very tough university to get into.
What I didn't realize at the time was because I
wasn't challenged in high school. Nobody really challenged me to
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make me want to form good study habits. My parents,
my father never went to college. He was started selling
cars when he was nineteen or twenty years old, had
two kids by the time he was twenty two, and
so he college wasn't his thing, and so I didn't.
I didn't get it at home. Nobody in my family
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had gone to college before me, and so you didn't.
I wasn't pushed in that academia way. Look, I ended
up with a decent life. But so I'm not complaining.
I'm just simply saying that I didn't have the foundation
necessary to challenge me, and so I've formed bad study
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habits and by the time I got to college, where
it became much more difficult and the material was much
more difficult. I didn't have the ability and the capacity
to want to study and do the things I wish
I had. I don't know that it would have changed
my life, but I wish I had, just simply because
I set forth to try to do something and then
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didn't complete it. And it's one of the regrets I
have in life. I say that because our school systems
are designed to educate what should be the greatest student
body on earth, and we continue to indoctrinate our kids,
but we are not educating them. So there was an
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article I was reading not too long ago, and I'm
just going to give you We've talked about on this show.
I've talked about the education to and how bad they are,
and not just because of COVID. COVID certainly played a
part in accelerating the decline, but they definitely it's not
the only reason. So let me just read it to
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you real quick. Roughly fifty two percent of Mississippi's black
fourth graders read at grade level, compared with only twenty
eight percent in California. Louisiana is the only state where
fourth grade achievement levels have returned to pre pandemic levels.
An Urban Institute study adjusted for the demographics of the
student bodies, found that schools in Mississippi are educating their
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fourth graders more successfully in math and reading than schools
in any other state. Other rising stars include Florida, Texas,
and Georgia. So He's the article that this guy, David
Brooks was writing about was referring to the Republican policies
and how they have they are educating our students, the
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students in their states at a much higher level and
pushing them. And the part that he did not connect
in his article that I think is the reason for
all of this is school choice. The ability for parents
to say, the tax dollars that I'm putting in to
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pay for all of that, they don't have to go
to somebody's going to indoctrinate my kid. I can use
those tax dollars and take them and because it's fungible,
I can use them to go take them to a
different school, a charter school. I can homeschool them. I
have the funds to be able to work with to
be able to teach my children the way I think
they need to be taught. I think that's a huge reason.
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Competition makes everything better everything, I don't care what it is.
And competition when there's no competition for government run schools
other than you have to send them to that school
because that's the area you live, and you don't get
a choice, because unless you're you're wealthy enough to send
them to a private school, you're just stuck with government education.
Well that's not the way it's supposed to be. Why
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do I have to be stuck with what you tell
me even though I'm paying taxes simply because I paid
the taxes and now I don't have any money left
to be able to spend it on educating my children
the way I think they should be educated. School choice
is a huge, huge incentive for the teachers' unions to
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do a better job teaching the kids. Why can you
get away with in California, how can the teachers get
away with having a twenty eight percent reading proficiency in
fourth grade? Twenty eight percent? You are failing three out
of four children, and you still fight to get more salary,
more money, and more taxes taken out of everybody for
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what you're not actually doing your job, But yet you
get tenure, you get these contracts and say you can't
be fired. You can literally go in and it's not
happening with one or two teachers. It's across the board.
Win twenty eight percent of all the students in the
entire state of California, which is thirty five million people,
when all of the students in fourth grade only one
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out of every four of them actually can read at
grade level. You are failing your job. I don't care
how you measure it, and you can do that. I've
talked about Baltimore where, at one point recently in the
last year or two, I talked about it on an
article that said that they were only like five percent
of all of the graduating seniors in Baltimore in their
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public school system actually could read at grade level five percent.
You have failed these people. How are they supposed to
get good jobs? And why do the teachers' unions continue
to fight for more money and fight for themselves simply
when you're without doing your job. There is something drastically
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broken with that system. And I don't think that that
the guy that's writing the article really was thinking about
it that way. But I think it's school choice and
speaking of bad ideas, I read an article the other
day that was talking about Zoran Memdani, and I keep
talking about that guy because he's going to be running
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the largest city in the United States of America pretty soon,
and his ideas are absolutely going to be devastating to
that city. Devastating. And it's unfortunately, because of the way
that they do their elections, a city of eight million people,
nine million people, whatever it is, can get elect the
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American get elected with three hundred thousand votes. It's not
going to be like some landslide election where fifty percent
of the people voted for it. It's going to be
a small number overall, based on the population of the
city of New York that actually gets that man elected.
And most of them will be rich, white liberals that
aren't going to be affected by his policies because they're
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going to sit up in their penthouses and high rises
and not have to be affected by it. But rent
controls are going to absolutely destroy what they're talking about
capping rent. The reason you have such a cost of
living issue to begin with, you've been run by Democrats.
The entire city has been run by Democrats since Rudy
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Giuliani twenty something years ago, and you're talking about an affordability crisis.
The affordability crisis is based on the fact that you
don't have enough supply. Unleash the building, let the builders build,
and watch what happens to rent. They go down because
you have enough supply to meet demand. But when you
artificially restrict supply, that does not help with overall rents.
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But he's got a father by the name of Muck
mood Mundani and his father is a Ugandan born scholar
and is a professor at Columbia University. Now, I want
to tell you, this guy's thirty three years old. This
man Donni. He's going to be elected mayor of the
City of New York, running the largest city in the
state of in the United States and one of the
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largest cities in the world. He's never held a job
outside of public service. He's never managed anybody, He's never
had had to. He is so unqualified for this job,
it's unbelievable. But on the flip side, we got I guess,
we got aoc who is a bartender and is actually
going to could possibly be a senator from the state
of New York. But Mackmoudman. Doni, his father has apparently
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spent decades trying to to shape a doctrine that's decolonization,
and has talked about how merit and education and having
advanced classes for people and separating them out is literally
part of colonialization, and that it is not fair when
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you separate out kids who are smarter that have a
better chance of being successful in being pushed. That goes
back to the point I was making at the beginning
when I said I wasn't a good student, had I
had something challenging me in the beginning all the way
through high school. I got almost straight a's all the
way through high school. It wasn't that I wasn't smart enough.
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It was that I wasn't challenged. It was too easy
for me, and I needed something to make it harder
so that I was forced to do the work. But
Ma'm Donnie. One of his other policies now because he's father,
following following his father's footsteps, is he wants to get
rid of all advanced classes for students that are smarter.
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Let's just face it, there's a lot of people out
there a lot smarter than me. So when I say
smarter It just is what it is. Some of us
are born smarter than others, some of us are born
stronger than others, some of us are born faster than others.
That doesn't mean that the people who aren't as smart
or as fast or can't be successful. It just means
they needed to take a different route. But when we
get rid of advanced classes, we are absolutely saying that
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mediocrity is the best we're gonna do. We're going to
all be mediocre so we can all be happy. Now,
how does that ever advance a society? If everybody is mediocre,
nobody stands out, how is that advancing anything? And you're
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gonna take all of these kids, the ones that had
a chance to break the poverty chain, that are smart
but that will never get challenged, and you're gonna tell them, hey, sorry,
you're gonna be like everybody else. Well, that doesn't that
doesn't help anybody. I I do not understand the policies.
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I will never understand the thought process. I will never
understand how you can't just reasonably see that you have
to you have to challenge people to make them better.
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Speaker 1 (31:16):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he is
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Speaker 2 (31:37):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
All right, welcome back everybody. So I found this quote
from George Orwell. We all know about the book nineteen
eighty four and how things are Orwellian. But I found
this quote from Georgia Orwell. It was back in apparently
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he wrote a book. Read wrote a book called The
Road to Wigan Peer and it had to do with
some poverty and those kind of things. But anyways, the
quote was. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere
words socialism and communism draw towards them the magnetic force
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every fruit, juice drinker, nudist, sandal weaver, sex maniac, quaker,
nature cure quack, pacifist and feminists in England. Let me
read it again. One sometimes gets the impression that the
mere words socialism and communism draw towards them the magnetic
force every fruit juice drinker, new to sand Aware, sex maniac, quaker,
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nature cure quack, pacifist and feminist in England, so they're
attracted to the words communists and socialism, communism and socialism.
I think I've gone through this before. Many many studies
show that people that tend to be right and concerned,
right on the political spectrum and conservative tend to be happier,
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more well adjusted, friendlier than the people who are perpetually
aggrieved of something. And there was a study done well
part of that if you go back and the guy
was reading, had traced that back to the sixties when
it wasn't people in the sixties when that leftist movement
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really started and the free love and let's get high
on hate and Ashbury Street and then the psychedelics and
all of that that it was also the beginning of
narcissism and self absorption that the left took over and
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hasn't ever bothered tolect go of. So there was there
was some research that also said that those on the
left are less interested in getting married. Right thirty percent
of those who were very liberal said it was important.
In contrast to that, sixty five percent of right wingers
say that getting married is important. I made a note
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to myself that basically said, we don't have to you know,
we don't have to worry about the people on the left.
They're going to not have any children. They're gonna breed
themselves out in one or two generations because there are
a bunch of females that don't want children, and some
of the other stuff I'm going to tell you here
highlights that. So this study that there was a general
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social survey that came out in this article called it
the Premier Social Research Database, And one of the questions
that they surveyed was is it your obligation to care
for a seriously injured ill spouse or parent or should
you give care only if you really want to? So
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is your obligation or shed to do it only if
you really want to? Of those who describe themselves as conservatives,
seventy one percent said it was it was your responsibility.
Only forty six percent on those of the left agreed.
There was another question, you get happiness by putting someone
else's happiness ahead of your own? Fifty five percent of
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those who were very conservative said yes, but only twenty
percent of those who are very liberals said yes. Twenty
percent versus fifty five percent said that getting I get
happiness by putting someone else's happiness above mine. So they
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also had the research that says research on the also
indicated on the left that those on the left are
less interested in getting married. The same holds true with
the question about having children. Progressive American cities like San
Francisco and Portland and Seattle are Let's see. This guy's
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name was Joel Kotkin, who's an expert on urban development.
He called those cities, yeah, childless Liberal boutiques also goes on,
says the World World Value Survey also asked whether parents
should sacrifice their own well being for those of their children.
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Those on the left were nearly twice as likely to
say no, that parents shouldn't sacrifice their own well being
for their for the well being of their children. But
it also goes on talks about money. It was really
surprising to me that all the reputable research out there
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shows that the left are way more interested in money
than people on the right. In the World Value Survey,
it went on to say that left wingers are more
likely to raise high income as an important factor in
choosing a job, more likely to say, after good health,
money is the most important thing. Those on the right
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less way less inclined. I think it was like twenty
percent less inclined to say that money mattered. But they
also went through and talked about charitable work. So those
on the left are less likely to give to charities,
but when they do give to charities, it's more likely
to be an organization that advocates for political actions, like
Barbara streisand it talked about her specifically, Barbara Streisand's a
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big She gives a lot of money to charities, but
most of it is to the Bill Clinton Foundation or
other charitable organizations that push forward a political point of view.
So I think it goes on. It says that much
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of the desire to tax and distribute, well, let me
just say, let me read the part that really made
a difference, all right. So they scholars at Oxford and
Warwick Universities set up an experiment and basically what it
did was they set up a computer game that allowed
people to accumulate money. They gave participants the option to
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spend some of their own money in order to take
away more from someone else. So the way it worked was,
here's this game. You can spend some of your money
to take some more, to take even more money from
somebody else. The result was those who considered themselves left
of center were much more willing to give up some
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of their own money if it meant taking more money
from someone else. So much of the desire to distribute
wealth and higher taxation is motivated by envy, the desire
to take someone from someone else, and bitterness. They're just better,
they're better that somebody has more than they do, and
so they just want to take it from them. And
it made perfectly good sense to me when you start
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looking at how how they talk tax the rich, tax
the rich, tax the rich. You wouldn't feel that way
if you had been the one who invented Facebook, or
you had been the one who started Tesla, or you
had been the one who invented Microsoft. I understand the
need to take care of people, but people on the
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right are willing to do that without being forced through taxation,
because that is the most ineffective way to redistribute wealth,
the most ineffective when you pass it through government, government
takes all of their chunks and screws it up, and
people are getting rich from the ouse. There was a
a article this past week about a fund, but there
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was some arrest made in Los Angeles County because they
were buying hotels. They literally went out to try to
cure homelessess. You know where they were talking about that
twenty five billion, twenty eight billion dollars. Where did it go?
I'll tell you where it was. So the City of
Los Angeles set up this fund, and they set up
this way to be able to buy properties and do
it through emergency action, so it required very little oversight.
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Somehow or another, the City of Los Angeles stroked a
check for thirty something million or I think it was
eighty one million dollars for three hotels that they bought
from Blackrock, the largest hedge fund in the world. And
they buy these hotels from Blackrock. Turns out that the
eighty one million dollars they spent because they were going
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to turn them into homeless shelters. Three years later, they're
still sitting there empty and they were only worth something
like fifteen million dollars in normal market value. So they
paid eighty one million dollars for three hotels that are
still sitting empty that were really only worth fifteen million
dollars on the open market that Blackrock had paid something
like ten million dollars for. So what happened to the
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difference between the eighty one million and the fifteen million
that it was actually worth. Somebody pocketed some money somewhere. Now,
to the DOJ's credit, they're at least trying to look
into it and figure out what happened, and maybe we'll
get some people put in jail for stealing taxpayer money.
That's what happens when government is in charge of redistributing wealth.
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Somebody is taking a grift on the other side, and
the taxpayer me and you were getting screwed. It would
be so much easier. It's sort of like Girl Scout cookies.
I'm going to go get buy one hundred dollars with
the Girl Scout cookies, and the Girl Scouts are going
to get fifteen dollars off of it, and the cookie
manufacturer and all the other people are going to get
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the other eighty five dollars. Why don't I just give
you one hundred dollars or better yet, I'll just give
you fifty, I'll save fifty. You'll be ahead. By thirty five.
I'll still have fifty more dollars in my pocket and
I can go buy some cookies in the grocery store
because it's inefficient. I am tired of hearing this tax
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the rich, tax the rich, the rich. And you know what,
you will never find anybody able to tell you when
they say, we just want Bernie Sanders, we just want
them to pay their fair share. Okay, here's my question.
What is the fair share? Bernie?
Speaker 2 (42:13):
How much?
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Just give me a number. Tell me what you think
the fair share is. And oh, by the way, you
socialists that are out there like Bernie Sanders that have
three houses, don't tell socialism is good for everybody else
but not for you. Right. It is absolutely astounding to
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me that people on the left. I don't know if
they are attracted to the ideology because they're bitter, or
if the ideology makes them want to be better. I'm
not sure. But it sucks last, but not leaves. I'm
going to cover it very quickly.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Here.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
There was an article I read the other day that's
talking about the AI companion plague. Is get getting worse
for teens I'm going to talk about this next week.
But teens are formidable, right, we all know you peer pressure,
you can shape teens, You can do lots of stuff
with the teenage brain. They are starting to use AI
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as their companions. And that is a scary, scary proposition
because AI is not real. It does not have any emotions,
it doesn't have any way of connecting back to you.
It is regurgitating the things that you're saying to it
and other people have said to it. At some point,
we need real emotional connections between human beings and get
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back to the things that are important. Family, love, energy, positivity.
Those kind of things are what's going to fix us,
not all of the other stuff. All right, I really
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Here's your host, Bowtriven.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
All right, good morning everybody. And so it begins the
uh long, long long wait for spring. I uh and
the weather has turned and this past week has been
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a lot of rainy, nasty gray. Yeah, I hate it.
Want some sunshine back, some fun, some excitement, some energy.
I tolerate it because Tennessee, in my opinion, is tied
for the greatest state in the Union, just my opinion.
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And I'm look, I lived in Florida for fifty one
years before I moved up here, and the two states
have an awful lot in common, with the exception of
the weather, and but everything else about them is. Tennessee's
prettier than Florida to me. I mean, Florida's a lot
of flat pine trees that look like weeds, just really,
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really tall weeds. But I just this weather man. I
hate it. Anyways, it's four months from now. And you
know the other thing, it's uh, I think tonight, if
you're listening to this on Saturday morning, tonight is going
to be the night we turned the clocks back, so
you get one extra hour sleep. But that it also
means it gets dark at four thirty or five o'clock,
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which to me, I got to find a way to
have some energy and excitement during the wintertime. I haven't
figured it out yet. Anyways, we talk about energy and excitement.
I don't know about you, but if I happened to
be caught up in the drug running business in the Caribbean,
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I'm reassessing my career goals at this point because he
has not he being President Trump has not fooled around.
He is dead serious about blowing those guys up. And
Marco Rubio will probably go down as the greatest Secretary
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of State ever. He is an amazing pick for that job. Trump.
Every one of Trump's cabinet members are incredible at the
jobs He's got them doing, and they can all deftly
deal with the media and smack them down in the
way that they've been deserving to be smacked down for
quite some time. But Republicans always played nice. They were
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always the polite you know, we're not going to go
there there. We as opposed to these crazy guys that
are running this party. Now. I don't understand it. They
have definitely seeded the party to the crazies. You know,
how can you get let me go back. I'll talk
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about that in a second, But I don't know what
Nicholas Maduro down in Venezuela thinks is going to happen.
But at this point, they've got a fifty million dollar
bounty on his head. We have staged more military assets
in the Caribbean than we've ever had there in like
ever and it's a show of force. And I'm telling
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you it would not surprise me if Trump put started
attacking on land, not with boots on the ground, because
we had we don't need to do that. We have,
but we got two aircraft carriers sitting out there right
now with a lot of assets, and part of it
is stopping China from moving into the South South American continent.
China has designs through their Belton Road initiative. They have
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designs to get closer and closer to taking over the world,
and the only place that can stop them is the
United States of America. And if we don't step up,
it will be worldwide dominance by the Chinese. And I
think that Trump has realized that, and Maduro is just
one pawn in this whole puzzle of getting China out
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of their China wants Venezuela's oil and we can't let
that happen. We can't let them get that close. And
so he's also ready to stop the actual war on
drugs is really a war on drugs at this point.
He is willing to do whatever it takes to stop
the absolute poisoning of the United States of America. Youth.
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The equivalent of three Nayland stadiums. Die has died in
the last five years from fentnyl overdose and primarily coming
from China. We just got to stop this mess. They
have declared war on us, and they're doing it quietly. Anyways,
what I was going to say a minute ago is
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how can these crazies in the left on the left
get so upset about the East wing and building a ballroom.
Every president for the last ten has said we need
to have some sort of something where we can greet dignitaries.
We do this under tents. When we have these large
state gatherings where there's three hundred people, we have to
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do it in a tent. Why are we doing this?
We need and so Trump, being the ever masterful builder
that he is, said, Hey, I know how we can
get this done. We just take out these offices that
are old, they've been there since the forties or fifties,
and clear that out, and we can build a beautiful ballroom.
And we can do it without the taxpayers having to
spend a penny. And so Eric Swalwell, you know, sir
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farts a lot. If you don't know what that means,
go look up Eric Swalwell and flatulence. He you know,
he the guy that also slept with the Chinese spy
that was working for him. But Eric Swalwell literally came
out and said that it's a non starter for anybody
that wants to run for president for the Democratic Party
in twenty twenty eight if they don't commit to tearing
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down the ballroom. What in the world are you talking about.
You're going to tear it down just because the man
built something nice that everybody gets to have and did
it without taxpayer money. Hakeem Jefferies issued a warning. The
Speaker of the House issued a warning saying that he
was going to with no evidence whatsoever, but that he
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was going to investigate all of the companies that donated
to have the ballroom built because he knew it was
a pay for play scheme. You know, do you realize
when you look at the list of donors, most of
them are on the left side of politics. When it's Microsoft, Google,
There were tons of companies that donated to build this
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ballroom for the United States of America so that we
look like the power that we are on the world
stage and we don't have other dignitaries coming from across
the world and having to sit under a tent where
it might be raining, it might be soggy, and yet
you guys are up in arms about it. It's the
most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's like you.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Don't know how to get out of your own way.
And I don't understand what it is that causes this mentality.
I get that Trump is bombastic, and I get that
he but do you have to hate everything he does?
Because at some point it just becomes useless. You can't
just hate everything the demand does. All right, this is
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Speaker 3 (08:38):
All right, welcome back everybody. So I don't know how
many of you guys keep up with this, but a
lady named Barry Weiss was appointed as the head of
CBS News recently. And Barry Weisse, she used to work
for The New York Times and she was a lean
left is a lean left type of person, but she's
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got a witch about her. And she finally quit at
the New York Times because she said she couldn't deal
with all of the one way thinking and there was
no room for debate and it was just so she
quit and CBS hired her to be their new head
of the news division. And in a twist the other day,
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because CBS, along with all the rest of the mainstream medium,
has been so anti Trump and so on the bandwagon
of one way, one way, one way, and I don't
know whether everybody that was on those shows actually believed
it or was coerced into saying it, or said it
because they felt like if they didn't lean that way
and show those proclivities to lean towards the left, that
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they'd be ostracized in their own newsrooms. But anyway, the
other night on Meet the Nation or Face the Nation,
I'm sorry, Face the Nation on CBS, Margaret Brennan, who
is the uh, same one that started the meme from
jd Vance of frankly, I don't care Margaret. That's that
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Margaret because she was always trying to catch Jady Vance
and something. Anyway, so she had Hakim Jeffries on the
other day and in a twist she actually held him
to account. They were talking about jerrymandering and the Democrats'
efforts to or the Republican efforts to sort of start jerrymandering,
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and some of the other states that haven't been jerrymandered
yet to see if we could pick up some additional
Republican seats in the House of Representatives. If you remember,
this all started with Texas saying they needed to redraw
their maps. Texas needed to redraw their maps because they've
had such an influx of population from all of the
other blue states over the last five years that their
representation didn't really work. So Margaret Brennan goes on and
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starts asking Hakim Jeffries about the other states because jerrymandering
the Blue states and how that was different. He said
it was they were trying that the Republicans were trying
to rig the elections. And she actually said, you can
say that now, but you guys just lambasted everybody from
President Trump to anybody else who said anything about the
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twenty twenty elections being rigged. When you said it about him.
Let's see if I can find the exact quote here.
It was Democrats were appalled when President Trump used the
language like that. Brennan said, how do you justify using that? Now?
Doesn't that undermine faith for voters? You need to show up.
He goes on and says, no, it's not the same,
all right, because it's never the same when Democrats do it.
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But I noticed that just pushing him from that point
of view and not letting him just get away with
saying the elections are going to be rigged is not
something you would have gotten from the mainstream media not
too long ago. And so I have hope that somebody
is going to start telling the story the way it
should be told, from a fair and balanced perspective. But
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you know that that goes along to the next thing.
I don't know if you guys saw this the other day,
but President Trump tweeted out or put out on truth
social we now know everything about the twenty twenty elections.
I don't know what they found, but I do know
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that in twenty twenty, when there were court after court
after court across the country said the Trump campaign lacked
standing to bring their lawsuits, just to question what happened,
because if you don't, if you remember back then, they
were county after county across the country. The turnout numbers
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just shattered what was normal. There were more people voting
eighty one million votes for President Biden. That's just that
didn't make any sense. In some cases, the totals somehow
exceeded the number of registered voters, and yet you were
not allowed to say anything about it. And then if
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you factored in the late editions and the unverifiable registrations
that conveniently happened after election day, the stopping the counting
of the votes in the middle of the night and
not waiting, and nobody being able to be able to
monitor it, there were just so many anomalies in that election,
and yet nobody was allowed to even question it. If
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you questioned it at all, you were labeled crazy or
a denier or a conspiracy theorist or whatever. And yet
they could continue, they, being the people on the left,
could continue to say that George Bush stole the election
twenty in two thousand against Al Gore, or they could
say that President Trump stole the election from Hillary Clinton
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in twenty sixteen. But if anybody questioned the serious anomalies
that happened because of COVID, you were labeled an absolute
lunatic and a denier and a crazy person. Somehow, the
people who actually wanted transparency, the ones who noticed all
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of the anomalies and the inconsistencies, the extremists, the enemies
of the state, a threat to democracy. The hypocrisy is
off the charts with these people, and I don't know
how they don't see it, but I truly hope that
at this point we are going to hold them to
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account for everything that they There was a I think
it was Denise Desuza put out a movie twenty Mules
or something like that. I don't remember the name of
the of it, but it went through and listed a
lot of the anomalies in the election. And oddly enough,
the elections can come down to a few votes here
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and there in certain counties. Because of our electoral college,
which I'm a huge fan of, you don't have to
you just have to have some well placed votes in
certain areas. And we know for a fact that there
are people who are illegally here in the country that
are on the voter rolls. It's been proven time and
time again. All the things you say don't happen. Okay, well,
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they don't happen very often. Okay, well, they happen more
often than anything. But it's not that bad. Oh well,
they happen more often than anything, and that's a good thing.
It's always got the same pattern with these people. And
now you've got the state of Minnesota who's literally fighting
and I don't understand all the states that fight against
voter ID, since eighty percent, eighty five percent of the
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Americans want voter ID, but you've got the state of
Minnesota literally filing lawsuit to not have to clean up
their voter rolls, and yet we're supposed to act as
if all of this is normal. I don't understand it.
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I will never understand it. I will never understand the
thought processes of those people. And I don't know if
you just openly hate the United States of America that
much or if there is some other nefarious reason for it.
But so switching gears a little bit. You know, there
has never been a nation, any civilization, people, anybody that's
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been able to tax and spend their way out of
or into prosperity. And yet the Democrats seem to think
that there's some way that we can just give people
handouts and that's going to make us all better. Zoren Mendami,
the guy that's running for mayor of the New York City,
is a firm believer that we just need to take
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it away from somebody else and give it to somebody
else so that they can have a better life. But
they don't Oprah Winfrey did an experiment one time where
she gave a homeless man one hundred thousand dollars and
said he could do anything he wanted to with it,
and long story short, within about six months he was
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completely broken, homeless again and was mad at Oprah for
giving him the money, said it it messed his life up.
You cannot just take from somebody and give to somebody
else and make that somebody else feel what they need
to feel to feel successful and happy in their life.
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We have we're losing this war on poverty. Let's see
if I can give you the statistics here. So while
Biden was in office, the overall child poverty rate, the
overall and child poverty rates swelled. While while Biden was
in office, the overall poverty rate grew by forty percent
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from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four in a four
year period, and the child poverty rate spiked by thirty
eight percent of the same period. It goes into the
magazine Arcle says, if you choose twenty nineteen as your
point of comparison, the increase in poverty under Biden is
soap is really bad. If you choose twenty twenty it's catastrophic.
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We cannot Biden's part of the reason that the poverty
rates went up was because he crushed us with inflation.
But you cannot take from somebody else to give to
somebody else and have them that the person that's the
recipient automatically be successful. That's not how this works. You
have to want it, you have to. We do it
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because of hard work, because of effort, because of meritocracy,
because of trade. We do it because we want to
do it, not because we.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Have to do it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I am I don't know how to fix it, but
I think at some point we're gonna figure out. You
can't fix it that people have to be able to
do it on their own. All right. This is Bonos
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Speaker 3 (19:39):
All right, welcome back everybody. So, I, uh, I wasn't
a very good student. I was obviously intelligent enough to
make it through, but I wasn't. I wasn't a very
good student. I I didn't study much in high school.
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I got good grades. I got into Steton University, which
at the time was a very tough university to get into.
What I didn't realize at the time was because I
wasn't challenged in high school. Nobody really challenged me to
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make me want to form good study habits. My parents,
my father never went to college. He was started selling
cars when he was nineteen or twenty years old, had
two kids by the time he was twenty two, and
so he college wasn't his thing, and so I didn't.
I didn't get it at home. Nobody in my family
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had gone to college before me, and so you didn't.
I wasn't pushed in that academia way. Look, I ended
up with a decent life. But so I'm not complaining.
I'm just simply saying that I didn't have the foundation
necessary to challenge me, and so I've formed bad study
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habits and by the time I got to college, where
it became much more difficult and the material was much
more difficult. I didn't have the ability and the capacity
to want to study and do the things I wish
I had. I don't know that it would have changed
my life, but I wish I had, just simply because
I set forth to try to do something and then
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didn't complete it. And it's one of the regrets I
have in life. I say that because our school systems
are designed to educate what should be the greatest student
body on earth, and we continue to indoctrinate our kids,
but we are not educating them. So there was an
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article I was reading not too long ago, and I'm
just going to give you We've talked about on this show.
I've talked about the education to and how bad they are,
and not just because of COVID. COVID certainly played a
part in accelerating the decline, but they definitely it's not
the only reason. So let me just read it to
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you real quick. Roughly fifty two percent of Mississippi's black
fourth graders read at grade level, compared with only twenty
eight percent in California. Louisiana is the only state where
fourth grade achievement levels have returned to pre pandemic levels.
An Urban Institute study adjusted for the demographics of the
student bodies, found that schools in Mississippi are educating their
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fourth graders more successfully in math and reading than schools
in any other state. Other rising stars include Florida, Texas,
and Georgia. So He's the article that this guy, David
Brooks was writing about was referring to the Republican policies
and how they have they are educating our students, the
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students in their states at a much higher level and
pushing them. And the part that he did not connect
in his article that I think is the reason for
all of this is school choice. The ability for parents
to say, the tax dollars that I'm putting in to
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pay for all of that, they don't have to go
to somebody's going to indoctrinate my kid. I can use
those tax dollars and take them and because it's fungible,
I can use them to go take them to a
different school, a charter school. I can homeschool them. I
have the funds to be able to work with to
be able to teach my children the way I think
they need to be taught. I think that's a huge reason.
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Competition makes everything better everything, I don't care what it is.
And competition when there's no competition for government run schools
other than you have to send them to that school
because that's the area you live, and you don't get
a choice, because unless you're you're wealthy enough to send
them to a private school, you're just stuck with government education.
Well that's not the way it's supposed to be. Why
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do I have to be stuck with what you tell
me even though I'm paying taxes simply because I paid
the taxes and now I don't have any money left
to be able to spend it on educating my children
the way I think they should be educated. School choice
is a huge, huge incentive for the teachers' unions to
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do a better job teaching the kids. Why can you
get away with in California, how can the teachers get
away with having a twenty eight percent reading proficiency in
fourth grade? Twenty eight percent? You are failing three out
of four children, and you still fight to get more salary,
more money, and more taxes taken out of everybody for
(24:46):
what you're not actually doing your job, But yet you
get tenure, you get these contracts and say you can't
be fired. You can literally go in and it's not
happening with one or two teachers. It's across the board.
Win twenty eight percent of all the students in the
entire state of California, which is thirty five million people,
when all of the students in fourth grade only one
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out of every four of them actually can read at
grade level. You are failing your job. I don't care
how you measure it, and you can do that. I've
talked about Baltimore where, at one point recently in the
last year or two, I talked about it on an
article that said that they were only like five percent
of all of the graduating seniors in Baltimore in their
(25:30):
public school system actually could read at grade level five percent.
You have failed these people. How are they supposed to
get good jobs? And why do the teachers' unions continue
to fight for more money and fight for themselves simply
when you're without doing your job. There is something drastically
(25:53):
broken with that system. And I don't think that that
the guy that's writing the article really was thinking about
it that way. But I think it's school choice and
speaking of bad ideas, I read an article the other
day that was talking about Zoran Memdani, and I keep
talking about that guy because he's going to be running
(26:14):
the largest city in the United States of America pretty soon,
and his ideas are absolutely going to be devastating to
that city. Devastating. And it's unfortunately, because of the way
that they do their elections, a city of eight million people,
nine million people, whatever it is, can get elect the
(26:34):
American get elected with three hundred thousand votes. It's not
going to be like some landslide election where fifty percent
of the people voted for it. It's going to be
a small number overall, based on the population of the
city of New York that actually gets that man elected.
And most of them will be rich, white liberals that
aren't going to be affected by his policies because they're
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going to sit up in their penthouses and high rises
and not have to be affected by it. But rent
controls are going to absolutely destroy what they're talking about
capping rent. The reason you have such a cost of
living issue to begin with, you've been run by Democrats.
The entire city has been run by Democrats since Rudy
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Giuliani twenty something years ago, and you're talking about an affordability crisis.
The affordability crisis is based on the fact that you
don't have enough supply. Unleash the building, let the builders build,
and watch what happens to rent. They go down because
you have enough supply to meet demand. But when you
artificially restrict supply, that does not help with overall rents.
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But he's got a father by the name of Muck
mood Mundani and his father is a Ugandan born scholar
and is a professor at Columbia University. Now, I want
to tell you, this guy's thirty three years old. This
man Donni. He's going to be elected mayor of the
City of New York, running the largest city in the
state of in the United States and one of the
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largest cities in the world. He's never held a job
outside of public service. He's never managed anybody, He's never
had had to. He is so unqualified for this job,
it's unbelievable. But on the flip side, we got I guess,
we got aoc who is a bartender and is actually
going to could possibly be a senator from the state
of New York. But Mackmoudman. Doni, his father has apparently
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spent decades trying to to shape a doctrine that's decolonization,
and has talked about how merit and education and having
advanced classes for people and separating them out is literally
part of colonialization, and that it is not fair when
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you separate out kids who are smarter that have a
better chance of being successful in being pushed. That goes
back to the point I was making at the beginning
when I said I wasn't a good student, had I
had something challenging me in the beginning all the way
through high school. I got almost straight a's all the
way through high school. It wasn't that I wasn't smart enough.
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It was that I wasn't challenged. It was too easy
for me, and I needed something to make it harder
so that I was forced to do the work. But
Ma'm Donnie. One of his other policies now because he's father,
following following his father's footsteps, is he wants to get
rid of all advanced classes for students that are smarter.
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Let's just face it, there's a lot of people out
there a lot smarter than me. So when I say
smarter It just is what it is. Some of us
are born smarter than others, some of us are born
stronger than others, some of us are born faster than others.
That doesn't mean that the people who aren't as smart
or as fast or can't be successful. It just means
they needed to take a different route. But when we
get rid of advanced classes, we are absolutely saying that
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mediocrity is the best we're gonna do. We're going to
all be mediocre so we can all be happy. Now,
how does that ever advance a society? If everybody is mediocre,
nobody stands out, how is that advancing anything? And you're
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gonna take all of these kids, the ones that had
a chance to break the poverty chain, that are smart
but that will never get challenged, and you're gonna tell them, hey, sorry,
you're gonna be like everybody else. Well, that doesn't that
doesn't help anybody. I I do not understand the policies.
(30:41):
I will never understand the thought process. I will never
understand how you can't just reasonably see that you have
to you have to challenge people to make them better.
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All right, welcome back everybody. So I found this quote
from George Orwell. We all know about the book nineteen
eighty four and how things are Orwellian. But I found
this quote from Georgia Orwell. It was back in apparently
(32:05):
he wrote a book. Read wrote a book called The
Road to Wigan Peer and it had to do with
some poverty and those kind of things. But anyways, the
quote was. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere
words socialism and communism draw towards them the magnetic force
(32:29):
every fruit, juice drinker, nudist, sandal weaver, sex maniac, quaker,
nature cure quack, pacifist and feminists in England. Let me
read it again. One sometimes gets the impression that the
mere words socialism and communism draw towards them the magnetic
force every fruit juice drinker, new to sand Aware, sex maniac, quaker,
(32:50):
nature cure quack, pacifist and feminist in England, so they're
attracted to the words communists and socialism, communism and socialism.
I think I've gone through this before. Many many studies
show that people that tend to be right and concerned,
right on the political spectrum and conservative tend to be happier,
(33:14):
more well adjusted, friendlier than the people who are perpetually
aggrieved of something. And there was a study done well
part of that if you go back and the guy
was reading, had traced that back to the sixties when
it wasn't people in the sixties when that leftist movement
(33:38):
really started and the free love and let's get high
on hate and Ashbury Street and then the psychedelics and
all of that that it was also the beginning of
narcissism and self absorption that the left took over and
(33:58):
hasn't ever bothered tolect go of. So there was there
was some research that also said that those on the
left are less interested in getting married. Right thirty percent
of those who were very liberal said it was important.
In contrast to that, sixty five percent of right wingers
say that getting married is important. I made a note
(34:20):
to myself that basically said, we don't have to you know,
we don't have to worry about the people on the left.
They're going to not have any children. They're gonna breed
themselves out in one or two generations because there are
a bunch of females that don't want children, and some
of the other stuff I'm going to tell you here
highlights that. So this study that there was a general
(34:42):
social survey that came out in this article called it
the Premier Social Research Database, And one of the questions
that they surveyed was is it your obligation to care
for a seriously injured ill spouse or parent or should
you give care only if you really want to? So
(35:03):
is your obligation or shed to do it only if
you really want to? Of those who describe themselves as conservatives,
seventy one percent said it was it was your responsibility.
Only forty six percent on those of the left agreed.
There was another question, you get happiness by putting someone
else's happiness ahead of your own? Fifty five percent of
(35:24):
those who were very conservative said yes, but only twenty
percent of those who are very liberals said yes. Twenty
percent versus fifty five percent said that getting I get
happiness by putting someone else's happiness above mine. So they
(35:44):
also had the research that says research on the also
indicated on the left that those on the left are
less interested in getting married. The same holds true with
the question about having children. Progressive American cities like San
Francisco and Portland and Seattle are Let's see. This guy's
(36:04):
name was Joel Kotkin, who's an expert on urban development.
He called those cities, yeah, childless Liberal boutiques also goes on,
says the World World Value Survey also asked whether parents
should sacrifice their own well being for those of their children.
(36:27):
Those on the left were nearly twice as likely to
say no, that parents shouldn't sacrifice their own well being
for their for the well being of their children. But
it also goes on talks about money. It was really
surprising to me that all the reputable research out there
(36:49):
shows that the left are way more interested in money
than people on the right. In the World Value Survey,
it went on to say that left wingers are more
likely to raise high income as an important factor in
choosing a job, more likely to say, after good health,
money is the most important thing. Those on the right
(37:14):
less way less inclined. I think it was like twenty
percent less inclined to say that money mattered. But they
also went through and talked about charitable work. So those
on the left are less likely to give to charities,
but when they do give to charities, it's more likely
to be an organization that advocates for political actions, like
Barbara streisand it talked about her specifically, Barbara Streisand's a
(37:37):
big She gives a lot of money to charities, but
most of it is to the Bill Clinton Foundation or
other charitable organizations that push forward a political point of view.
So I think it goes on. It says that much
(37:59):
of the desire to tax and distribute, well, let me
just say, let me read the part that really made
a difference, all right. So they scholars at Oxford and
Warwick Universities set up an experiment and basically what it
did was they set up a computer game that allowed
people to accumulate money. They gave participants the option to
(38:21):
spend some of their own money in order to take
away more from someone else. So the way it worked was,
here's this game. You can spend some of your money
to take some more, to take even more money from
somebody else. The result was those who considered themselves left
of center were much more willing to give up some
(38:42):
of their own money if it meant taking more money
from someone else. So much of the desire to distribute
wealth and higher taxation is motivated by envy, the desire
to take someone from someone else, and bitterness. They're just better,
they're better that somebody has more than they do, and
so they just want to take it from them. And
it made perfectly good sense to me when you start
(39:02):
looking at how how they talk tax the rich, tax
the rich, tax the rich. You wouldn't feel that way
if you had been the one who invented Facebook, or
you had been the one who started Tesla, or you
had been the one who invented Microsoft. I understand the
need to take care of people, but people on the
(39:24):
right are willing to do that without being forced through taxation,
because that is the most ineffective way to redistribute wealth,
the most ineffective when you pass it through government, government
takes all of their chunks and screws it up, and
people are getting rich from the ouse. There was a
a article this past week about a fund, but there
(39:50):
was some arrest made in Los Angeles County because they
were buying hotels. They literally went out to try to
cure homelessess. You know where they were talking about that
twenty five billion, twenty eight billion dollars. Where did it go?
I'll tell you where it was. So the City of
Los Angeles set up this fund, and they set up
this way to be able to buy properties and do
it through emergency action, so it required very little oversight.
(40:12):
Somehow or another, the City of Los Angeles stroked a
check for thirty something million or I think it was
eighty one million dollars for three hotels that they bought
from Blackrock, the largest hedge fund in the world. And
they buy these hotels from Blackrock. Turns out that the
eighty one million dollars they spent because they were going
(40:32):
to turn them into homeless shelters. Three years later, they're
still sitting there empty and they were only worth something
like fifteen million dollars in normal market value. So they
paid eighty one million dollars for three hotels that are
still sitting empty that were really only worth fifteen million
dollars on the open market that Blackrock had paid something
like ten million dollars for. So what happened to the
(40:54):
difference between the eighty one million and the fifteen million
that it was actually worth. Somebody pocketed some money somewhere. Now,
to the DOJ's credit, they're at least trying to look
into it and figure out what happened, and maybe we'll
get some people put in jail for stealing taxpayer money.
That's what happens when government is in charge of redistributing wealth.
(41:17):
Somebody is taking a grift on the other side, and
the taxpayer me and you were getting screwed. It would
be so much easier. It's sort of like Girl Scout cookies.
I'm going to go get buy one hundred dollars with
the Girl Scout cookies, and the Girl Scouts are going
to get fifteen dollars off of it, and the cookie
manufacturer and all the other people are going to get
(41:38):
the other eighty five dollars. Why don't I just give
you one hundred dollars or better yet, I'll just give
you fifty, I'll save fifty. You'll be ahead. By thirty five.
I'll still have fifty more dollars in my pocket and
I can go buy some cookies in the grocery store
because it's inefficient. I am tired of hearing this tax
(41:58):
the rich, tax the rich, the rich. And you know what,
you will never find anybody able to tell you when
they say, we just want Bernie Sanders, we just want
them to pay their fair share. Okay, here's my question.
What is the fair share? Bernie?
Speaker 2 (42:13):
How much?
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Just give me a number. Tell me what you think
the fair share is. And oh, by the way, you
socialists that are out there like Bernie Sanders that have
three houses, don't tell socialism is good for everybody else
but not for you. Right. It is absolutely astounding to
(42:35):
me that people on the left. I don't know if
they are attracted to the ideology because they're bitter, or
if the ideology makes them want to be better. I'm
not sure. But it sucks last, but not leaves. I'm
going to cover it very quickly.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Here.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
There was an article I read the other day that's
talking about the AI companion plague. Is get getting worse
for teens I'm going to talk about this next week.
But teens are formidable, right, we all know you peer pressure,
you can shape teens, You can do lots of stuff
with the teenage brain. They are starting to use AI
(43:15):
as their companions. And that is a scary, scary proposition
because AI is not real. It does not have any emotions,
it doesn't have any way of connecting back to you.
It is regurgitating the things that you're saying to it
and other people have said to it. At some point,
we need real emotional connections between human beings and get
(43:38):
back to the things that are important. Family, love, energy, positivity.
Those kind of things are what's going to fix us,
not all of the other stuff. All right, I really
appreciate you guys tuning in. I hope touch a little bit,
(43:58):
maybe just enjoyed it at least. This is Bono's Cars,
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