It's Because You Jokers Went & Spent All The Money Corey Booker

It's Because You Jokers Went & Spent All The Money Corey Booker

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Eight oh five Tuesday edition. The show here on the
first of April, April Fools Day. Appreciate you joining us
this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
We're covering this morning's top stories. We're less than twenty
four hours away from what President Trump calls our Liberation Day.
On Wednesday, new reciprocal tariffs are set to take effect
against Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union. The White
House says the tariffs will undo decades of those powers
taking advantage of the United States. Market analysts expect a

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volatile Wall Street week with the uncertainty of the tariffs.
President Trump's expecting five trillion dollars in US investments after
his tariffs take effect. Nobody really even knows what these
tariffs are going to be yet.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, in what aspect do you mean by that? On
what to whom, or well, how.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Much they're going to be? He keeps like wavering. He's
kind of left the ball in the air and left people.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Wondering, including the countries with which he is negotiating. I mean,
it's kind of what I'm talking, Yeah, art of the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, I mean, but that also leaves you know, no
room for companies in the United States to adjust.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, I could see where it leaves room for uncertainty,
and we see that in the market and how they're reacting.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Right, I'm just saying, you know, we'll find out tomorrow
what it all means, you know, what the what his
plans are, but he hasn't announced them yet.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, because it's the first of April, April fools, and
he you know, he was suspicious. What's superstitious about it?
Literally he said.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, I'm just saying he hasn't come out and said, well,
here's exactly what I'm going to do. He'll say, well,
it could be this, or it could be that, or
we might be friendly to them, or we might be
you know, kinder to them than they are to us.
But he hasn't really laid out any concrete you know,
things that companies in this that they can preempt uply.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Do Do you think maybe that will lead to unfortunately
layoffs and companies reacting in ways that maybe they should
hold off on.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, I don't know. I mean, we'll have to wait
and see what the extent of the tariffs are.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Or higher cost going up before we see what tariffs
may you know, the effects of may actually bring.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well quite possibly, but you know, there may be room
for these companies to absorb you know, some of this.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, the the economists out here, it's unbelievable. The
I mean, I don't know any other way to really
put fear bongering of it's going to drive the cost
of cars up by five thousand dollars, and I mean,
you know, the numbers are pretty astronomically scary for the
average Joe and Jane.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Frankly, well, sure if they look through the media and
believe the chicken little stories that they're reporting, you know, yes,
And I mean I can't say I'm not concerned for
the economy, but that doesn't mean that I disagree with
what's being done right exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, I mean they're out here twenty five percent tariffs
gonna shrink or possibly eliminate profit margins for US manufacturers.
Then why is the car industry when we're talking about
unions earlier, why are they behind you know, tariffs, Because
this is bringing manufacturing and jobs back to America. The
prosperity will be there. Is it going to take time

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to build? Yes, what that looks like of course we're questioning.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, the car industry is not behind the tariffs. The
United Auto Workers are behind.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
The terriffs I'm referencing, right, and.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
The US steel workers, but the industry themselves, the companies
are certainly not for it. And you know, they've adjusted to,
you know, the conditions that they were dealt with before,
and they're like, Okay, we're comfortable here, we figured it out.
We don't want to mess with this, so we'll see
how it all shakes out. And you know, there could

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be some more context being reported. And I pointed this
out yesterday and even this morning, like the media is
not doing their job. They're not giving any context to
the story. They're not saying why Trump is instituting these tariffs.
They're not talking about the decimation that the that NAFTA created,
you know, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the trade

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and balances that it created, the unfairness that President Trump
refers to. And you would think when he says I'm
doing this because we've been treated unfairly, that the media
would look into how we've been treated unfairly and report
on that. But they have not. So we're going to
try to do that at least a little bit this morning.
Coming up next, use headlines and the talk you need.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze on
ninety four to three WUSC.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Look at the unfair trade practices that we have. Fifty
percent from the European Union on American dairy. You have
a seven hundred percent tariff from Japan on American rice.
You have a one hundred percent tariff from India on
American agricultural products. You have nearly a.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Three hundred percent tariff from Canada on American butter and
American cheese. This makes it virtually impossible for American products
to be imported into these markets, and it has put
a lot of Americans out of business and out of
work over the past several decades. So it's time for reciprocity,
and it's time for a president to take historic change

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to do what's right for the American people.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
White House folks will make Caroline Levitt, they're hitting the
fake news media with tariff receipts yesterday.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well there you go, and again the media should have
been reporting on that already. That's part of the story.
But they haven't done their job, and they don't do that.
So Caroline Lovet has to point these things out. And
it's smart of the Trump administration to be specific about
why exactly it is unfair and why these tariffs are
being implemented. And I had mentioned yesterday, go to any

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of these other countries. Let's take automobiles for example, go
to Germany. How many American cars are on the streets
of German cities? How many American cars are on the
streets of Chinese cities. And she just talked about agricultural
products and other goods and the trade deficit since NAFTA
has just skyrocketed. So this is what you know. The

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takeaway was. So I try to go and find a
chart of exactly what Caroline Lovett was just pointing out,
and it's nearly impossible. I mean they uh yes.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
The media is not doing their job having to do
it for them. It's so ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's also you can go to these government agencies and
it's all this government speak and it's averaged, you know,
number in average numbers. To me, I've talked about this before.
I'm in real estate. We don't use average numbers because
averages can skew the numbers considerably and it doesn't paint
the correct picture because you know, one number might be

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you know, if if there's a one percent tariff on
something in a two hundred percent tariff on something else,
think about what the average is one hundred percent right
somewhere thereabouts, so you see how far off it is
when when really it's you know, two hundred percent on
that one item. So anyway, it paints the wrong picture

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when you use these averages. But I went through and
try to add up these numbers, and we have big
trade deficits. The biggest takeaway I found was with China.
So the US had a two hundred and ninety five
billion dollar trade deficit with China last year. Now that
number is down from twenty eighteen when it was four
hundred and eighteen billion, So a four hundred and eighteen

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billion dollar trade deficit in two thousand and eight eighteen,
a two hundred and ninety five billion dollar trade deficit
in twenty twenty four. So what changed? What made that
number shrink? Tariffs did Trump first term? Right? And and
let's point out that President Biden also left those tariffs
in effect when he could have lifted them.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's what's never been talked about that I've ever heard,
not really.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
And then really let's get down to what the real
villainous thing here is NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.
So in nineteen ninety four, the year that NAFTA was implemented,
the United States had an overall trade deficit of one
hundred and sixty six point six billion dollars with all

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of its trading partners, so all of its trading partners combined,
and then you add up how much is going out
how much is coming in. We had a one hundred
and sixty six point six billion dollar deficit in nineteen
ninety four. They enacted NAFTA in twenty twenty four. What
do you think that overall trade deficit is now? Remember
it was one sixty six point six See, I know

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the answer in nineteen ninety four. I know because I
already not going to say an nine hundred and eighteen
billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
And what's that the sound of American jobs leaving?

Speaker 3 (09:18):
This giant sucking sound that Ross Perrot described when he's
ran as an independent, you know, against George Bush and
Bill Clinton, and he warned us way back then in
nineteen you know, when they did this in ninety two
is I think when they passed the law that this
was going to suck jobs right out of the United

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States of America, and that's exactly what it did. And
so Trump's trying to fix it. And what are they
doing to Trump for trying to fix it, same thing
they're doing to Elon for trying to fix it. They're
villainizing him. And it's right there, plain as day.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Still doesn't it You still can't make it make sense.
I mean, one hundred percent tariff in India on agricultural products,
seven hundred person tarra from Japan on rice, I mean,
the whole thing. But you can continue to spit what
you think are common sense facts, but it isn't stopping
the lunacy of the left, and that includes the talking

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head propaganda press. Who I wonder how many people are
going to play the Caroline Levitt SoundBite like we did
there amongst the fake news media that we're standing there
today or yesterday, I should.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Say, well, all we can do is make sure that
people are informed is as much as we can, and
urge them to inform themselves even further. I mean, you know,
we're here just to point these things out and give
you a starting point to go do your own research
and look into this.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Let's see, facts are boring, right, Feelings are a lot
more exciting, and that's exactly why we sadly have a
division in this country.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, I would argue that the you know, the Democrats
take advantage of those feelings, and they also take advantage
of mental instability and to push their nefarious deeds that
they're all getting rich on. And we talked about this earlier,
and Elon Musk is now investigating how all these government officials,

(11:12):
how especially people in Congress, both houses, both chambers, the
Senate and you know, the House, are all of a
sudden rich, I mean filthy rich, tens of millions of dollars.
How did they get that money?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Look at Nancy hundreds of millions.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, And so I mean that's really what all of
this comes down to. And again it comes down to,
and I mean overall, what it comes down to, whether
you're talking the Department of Education or you're talking us AID,
or you're talking you know, why we're letting all of
these illegal aliens into the country, or why they're so

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upset that Trump's imposing these tariffs, because it's upsetting the
gravy train. That's why we'll continue the conversation coming up.
Seven to two one talk. Seven to two one, eight,
two five five is the number to the studio on
this Tuesday morning, April Fool's Day.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Flay's who.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Phone lines are loaded here. We are talking about special
elections coming up. We've got running down today's top stories,
including Elon musk in the attacks frankly that continue, but
there have been arrests, which is a great thing.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah. The Supreme Court could rule this week on several
emergency applications related to President Trump's executive orders. These include
the deportations of Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
Trump wants to the High Court to lift a federal
judges restraining order that's blocking their removals. Justices may also
design on a lower court's ruling requiring the government to

(12:47):
reinstate millions of Department of Education grants. Additionally, a ruling
could come soon on the firing of thousands of probationary
federal employees.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's almost like you need to read that last line again.
Probationary employees, so their attempting to let them go, and
you've got activist judges stepping in the way of this.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think the judges. You know,
as I've said before, I think the judge's role is
to decide the legality, not decide the policy. So I
don't like when they put stops and they do all
these things and try to run block and the Democrats
go judge shopping and all of that. So you know,

(13:29):
the judge's job is to simply decide whether it meets
the letter of the law or not quite literally, and
instead you have these activist judges swaying policy and and
I get it. You don't have to agree with the
firing of these probationary employees. I saw somebody's point of

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view was that there's a bunch of old wood in
the bureaucracy, and so these probationary employees were the new
blood that could come in and change things, and instead
they're getting rid of them and leaving the old dead weight.
So there's a point to that, but we can debate
that outside of a judicial chamber exactly.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, So let's just say you, Michael Blaze, are that
probitionary young gun. What would you do? I would turn
right around and reapply for my job, and I would
explain to them exactly why I should be kept where
I am or was well.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
And it kind of shows you another fashion in which
the federal government is broken, right, and why they shouldn't
be unionized, because why is there that dead wood and
why aren't they replaced with fresh blood on a regular
basis the underperforming workers because they're protected by the unions,
That's why. And so I'm all for organized labor. I'm

(14:51):
all for collective bargaining, but not in every aspect, and
especially not in the government. Sorry, I don't think that
the labor unions have a place in the US government.
It just invites too much fraud.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
Frankly, well, I was trying to find a diplomatic way
to say this, but I mean, in most cases, a
lot of these unions, we know the money gets funneled
back to the Democrats, right, So there's that, but it
goes even beyond that.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
It's it goes to efficiency, and it goes to you know,
the government ought to be and you could argue that
so should private industries. But unfortunately in private industry they
mistreated workers and continue to do so, you know, and
I was talking about that with the media companies. Look
at the sad state of media where we don't get

(15:43):
any context, any stories. A lot of times they don't
even make any damn sense they're so poorly written.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh, we should be clear about media that I call
propaganda press because we are media, so it's not all media.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
It's like, well, don't get your panties in a bunch.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Over the Well, I'm not immediately saying I'm merely saying
that there are members of the media that aren't propaganda
in out here spewing Democrat talking points. Clearly we are
not amongst them.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I didn't say that.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, you were sort of broad brushing it.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I didn't say, you know, there's plenty of them that
are spreading propaganda and Democrat talking points. That was not
my point. My point was that they're not even doing
the most basic of their job, which is reporting stories,
giving them context, giving you the five w's, who, what, when, where? Why.

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The stories are poorly written, they're poorly reported upon, and
they're not informative at all, and they're not doing their
job as the fourth estate of government to keep the
government honest. That was my point, Well, it's.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Been that way for over a decade plus at this point.
Thank god we have you know, new media that continues
to crop up to balance out the bad. Frankly, and
I'm most happy to see that the White House is
going to shake up the press corps the seating inside
their White House briefings. They had a big podcast summit

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with you know, all kinds of rising stars, if you will,
and of course the left's going crazy over it. They're like, oh,
these people are the ones who are the propagandasts. They're
all right wing. I mean, you know, well, but my.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Whole point to begin with was, you know, unions and
collective bargaining and probationary employees in all of this, so
it's become much more difficult to maneuver yourself into position
with good employees when you're unionized. Now that doesn't mean
that I'm anti union, because, as I said, private industry

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has proved that they'll mistreat workers and continued and continues
to do so. But when it comes to the federal government,
those workers weren't mistreated, and they didn't The whole reason
that the those unions were created in the first place
was to create these great big voting blocks and another

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way to launder money back to the Democrats. So we
can debate this, and we should, but it shouldn't be
up to a judge to decide.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
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Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.

Speaker 7 (18:28):
I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble.
I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business
of the United States Senate for as long as I
am physically able.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Oh the virtue signaling. That's Senator Corey Booker. He's been
speaking on the Senate floor for hours now in protest
to the Trump administration. The New Jersey Democrats started his
marathon speech at seven o'clock last night Eastern Time. He
went through the night and says he'll go as long
as he's physically able. Booker's protesting President Trump's tariffs, steps,

(19:03):
Trump's taking to dismantle the Department of Education, and other
Trump policies, saying the nation is in crisis. The speech
means that staff, police and others working the Senate chamber
have also had to work through the night while Corey
Booker talks to absolutely nobody.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
This, like you said, virtue signaling is you know what,
I'm gonna agree with them. Yeah, America is broken. It's
why there was a massive mandate that clamped down on
your failing party and elected re elected President Donald Trump.
He's out here talking about the Social Security You know,

(19:46):
here Elon is literally exposing so much when it comes
to the waste, fraud, and abuse, not just all over DOE,
USAID and other things, but what about the two plus
million Social Security numbers he just laid out in the
last what forty eight hours given to illegal immigrants who
are siphoning off the system? Are you were in my

(20:09):
tax paying dollars that we've paid into. Listen to the
insanity this guy spewing just about Social Security alone with
regards to Elon and Trump.

Speaker 8 (20:18):
It's the hard earned savings of working Americans and it
belongs to Americans. Yeah, President and Elon Musk need to
keep their hands off of it. What it's not theirs
to take, and it's not theirs to break.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
It's broken, and who's taking it?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
It's been broken for quote a while. Yeah, and they're
not taking it. And they don't have their hands on it.
You have their hands on it. Corey Booker. The Senate's
had their hands on it. Who raids the Social Security
Fund on a consistent basis? Why is social Security not fluid?
It's because you jokers went and spent all the money,
Corey Booker. And now I'm going to get pissed off.

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You want somebody to talk, I'll talk back to you
for seven hours on this interview, bunch of thieven losers,
and then to get up there and virtue signal. And
this isn't about saving the United States of America or
it's in crisis. This is about Corey Booker running for
president next cycle and getting attention, yes, getting attention for himself.

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And that's all that this is about.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
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