August 11, 2025 • 39 mins
President Trump has coined a new name for Democrats behaving badly, New York takes umbrage at Texas redistricting, and the democratic socialists of America let it all hang out. Politics is getting crazier and crazier as you can tell from our "did they really just say that" clips from this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
President Trump has coined a new name for Democrats behaving badly.
New York takes umbrage at Texas redistricting and the Democrat
Socialists of America let it all hang out. Politics is
getting crazier and crazier, or so you can tell fromar
Did they really just say that? Clips from this week.
I'm Nancy Shack.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm getting crazier too. I'm Ben Parkers.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I call them pannikins because maybe they're not smart, because
they're playing red into the enemy's camp. And in other
cases they really are people of the panic. They can't
handle pressure, and you know, both are sort of dangerous.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
This is a war. We are at war, and that's
why the gloves are off, and I say bring it on.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That's the only real difference between marriage and prostitute is
the price and the duration of the contract.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
We can fight for family abolition. We can imagine family abolison.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I believe, I'm I believe I'm going to lose my
mind one of these days. Yeah, So that that was.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That last one she's saying, we can fight for family abolition.
In case you were unaware of what she was saying,
that that was a panel of Democrat Socialists of America.
And as you heard briefly, they want to abolish the family.
Oh and if you I'm not sure, we haven't the clip.
They also want to have abortions in church cut thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Please and on that revolutionary arives and want to perform
abortions out of church, you know, for it's all set
and on that.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the
price and the duration of the contract.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
We can fight for family abolition. We can imagine family
abolition because we have seen black women do it, because
we have seen these like indigenous.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Communities to do it.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
But you know, it is to me, it is the
institution of marriage can only exist alongside the criminalization of
sex workers.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Children whose parents are unable to provide either housing, food,
or safety are treated as if they have committed a crime.
So kids themselves are treated as if they have committed
a crime if they're not born into a family that
can support them.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
They just give me a headache. I don't know about you,
but it's just you know, that's the far left, by
the way, that's the direction of the Democratic Party is heading.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This should go without saying, but I'm a say it anyway.
It's just like when people get pissed off about what
they see on TV or here on the road. Look, listen,
you can make your own choices. If you don't like marriage,
if you don't like the family unit, if you don't,
don't get involved in it. This whole like they want
their views to shift over to the entire world. And
(02:51):
trust me, there are issues with I've been married twice,
so I mean, look, I get it. There's things wrong
with marriage, there's things wrong with sometimes a lot of
things wrong with family units. Sometimes we all have that.
But it's like, why are you people taking your crazy
and trying to implement it across the country. We have
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enough crazy. We don't need you adding more crazy. Keep
your one crazy in your own house.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh if only that were true. More and more Democrats
are sounding crazy like those socialists. And it's every time
I every day I come into work and there's something more.
Jasmine Crockett, the congresswoman from Texas, she has been I'm
starting to keep a list of the craziest of the dumbs,
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and she's right up there. Take a listen to Jasmine
cut thirteen.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
The Supreme Court has paved the way for half the
stuff that we see that is going on. Listen, Donald
Trump is a piece of Okay, we know it.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Yes, yes he is, he is.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
He is.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
But in a.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Functioning democracy, he's still will not be able to get
away with this. But he's been able to get away
with this because the House Republicans are complicit. He's been
able to get away with this because Senate Republicans are complicit.
But most importantly, the courts, especially the Supreme Court, is complicit.
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And so I think one of the places that we
have to start is we are absolutely they are the
highest court in the lands and they have no ethics guardrails.
Now you go down to the lower courts and they do.
How much sense does that make? Well, we know that
they're taking money, we have the paper trail, and they
refuse to put guardrails on themselves. So it's time for
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us to do.
Speaker 10 (04:41):
It for them.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, she has no idea what she's talking about. She's
talking rag time, giving this information and calling the President
of the United States a piece of bleep as a
sitting congresswoman. Yet she wasn't through. She was not through.
She also decided to threaten Republicans cut thirty four and.
Speaker 11 (05:02):
I'm sorry, but instead we are not only going to
punch you back, but we are going to knock you out.
So I fully anticipate that we are going to take
control of the United States House because that is what
the American people want, and that is why Donald Trump
and his regime is so afraid.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, they're not afraid of you. And can I just
say that you just threatened violence, actual physical violence on
the opposing party, and you know they're not going to
take the mid terms. And I'll tell you why. I
think it's going to be a little bit different than
it was in twenty eighteen. First of all, in twenty eighteen,
there are more Democrats registering the Republicans. That is not
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does not exist anymore. Republicans are now registering at a
higher rate, not the current to the Wall Street Journal,
by the way, that's I think, and you correct me
if I'm wrong, bound, but I think the crazier the
more vicious these people become, the less people want to
deal with them. They don't have to like the Republicans,
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they just have to dislike the Democrats a little bit more.
And that is I think what is happening with this
bizarre behavior.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And you know, I think you hit it on the
head or at least damn close. Look, you're always dealing,
first of all, in elections with that middle ground. Right,
you've got the far left, far right. They're always going
far left, far right. We get that there are people
like that who just they're going to vote already regardless.
It's everybody else in the middle. And the thing is
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the Democrats, as we've seen in the national elections and
local elections and regional elections recent of late, that middle
ground is shifting over to the right at least to vote. Look,
they may not be that way politically, but they and
the crazy, as you met, the crazier one side gets.
The other way is the way the main.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Stry are reasonable, the other side right.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
For lack of a better term, the mainstream people lean.
So if the left is own berserk, they're going to
lean a little bit to the right, not all the way.
To look at there, I hope. I know people who
are Democrats, or at least have been Democrats who don't
like anything the Democrats are doing. By contrast, when the
Republicans were struggling and they have had their ups and
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downs too, I've known people who were more right leaning
who are like, well, this is insane. So they're just
not only are they shooting themselves in the foot with
some of the stuff that they're doing presently, they're cutting
their foot right the hell off is what they're doing.
And so, yeah, I agree with you, winning the midterms,
winning anything, winning a dog catcher's seat is going to
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be hard if they keep playing this game that they're playing,
and it's really not a game. It's the future of
the country. But whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But they're not just you know, in treating violence here.
They're also trying and Jasmine Crockett is very responsible of this,
so trying to convince the voting public that white is
black or that the sky's green and basically they lie
through their teeth in desperation to denigrate the man that
has exposed all, you know, their faults, their failures, and
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that would be President Trump and his party. And President
Trump has a name for them, and you heard this
in the open cut number one.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I call them panikins because maybe they're not smart, because
they're playing red into the enemy's camp. And in other
cases they really are people of that panic. They can't
handle pressure, and you know, both are sort of dangerous I.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Think they're very dangerous and one of the biggest pannikins.
And I will expand that definition to people who fear monger,
people who like to try to increase to make panic,
as well as those who who feel it. And one
of the biggest pannikins that I see right now is
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the senior Senator from New York.
(08:55):
There was a huge example of that this past week
because the Report's Economic Reports came out that there was
a three percent surge in the GDP for the month
of July. That's a big deal. The GDP is what
we use to measure all goods and services that are
that are produced, that are finalized in the US, and
it's the best in disue we have of if the
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economy is growing, stagnant, or in a recession, and right
now it's growing, and it's three percent is a huge number.
It's a massive number, and this was extremely good news. Now,
did Chuck Schumer go out there and say, Okay, I
don't agree with President Trump on a lot of things,
but okay, this is a good sign. Three percent. Let's
not forget that that did not happen under Biden. Let's
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not forget that Obama tried to convince people that a
gdb crowth of like one and a half was going
to be the new norm. That's how they basically put
their foot in it, or feet in it on an
economic level. So there's a three percent GDP growth for
July is good news. This is Chuck Schumer on the
floor of the Senate, and he is what I would say,
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the definition here of fear mongering cut number twenty two.
Speaker 12 (10:05):
While the Trump administration will try to waive rosy headlines
about the Q two number, today's GDP number is in
fact a mirage because some ominous numbers lurk under the hood.
Business investment plunged in the second quarter by three point
one percent. The fact that business investment plunged so starkly
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is very troubling. It shows that already businesses are worried
about growing their operations, worried about hiring more workers, worried
about trading with their international partners, and worried in general
about the future. And this number is another data point
in a larger pattern. Donald Trump's tariffs are weighing down
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the US economy, spiking costs for small businesses and families, alike.
And if Donald Trump keeps up the chaos, the dangers
for the economy will continue to get worse.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
If Chuck Schumer keeps up the chaos, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
First of all, that's lying through his teeth. The economy
is doing very well. The tariffs are paying down the debt.
Not so much so by the way that there are
now two propositions being floated. Once the debt is paid down,
which is the primary purpose of the tariffs, the question
has come, do we give a payback to low and
middle income families to offset any tariff pain that they
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may have, or do we get rid of the income
tax completely and go back to the system we have
before the Civil War, which was tariff driven. That's how
well the tariffs are doing. It is garbage what he said.
It was pure utter fear mongering. And that is from
one of the big leaders of the Democratic Party. And
he's not the only one. And it's so bad and
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so obvious that even members of the mainstream media are like,
what the bleep is going on? In this case. This
is CNBC, it's Joe Kernin and Rick Santelli, and they're
ripping Massachusetts Center. Sabeth Warren for fear mongering as well.
Cut twenty four.
Speaker 13 (12:03):
The left and people that don't like the president and
don't want things to work, and you know, like Center
Elizabeth Warre will come out and say, inflation's out of
control in the economy is getting killed by what's happening
by these tariffs, this three percent with the market at
new highs, and really we haven't seen inflation, you know,
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go up back to three for maybe it will this week,
maybe we'll see it. But none of these things, none
of these horrible things have happened, but they still talk
like it's happening. It's amazing.
Speaker 14 (12:33):
Well, the important there's an important lesson there. Don't pick
a congressman to be your money manager atte That's what
I would say. But in the end, Congress has their
own reasons to point out certain things. And the Democrats,
of course, as you pointed out, really don't want to
see the current administration have some success. But there's no
doubt that this is some success. We're seeing more horse power,
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we're seeing better equities. Inflation, Inflation really hasn't changed change
much in the last year or so.
Speaker 15 (13:02):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Inflation has stabilized and gone down, which is a meat
trick if you could ever do it. But what the
policy that they or the playbook that the Democrats are
following here Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and the like, is
meant to save the power of the Democratic Party to
convince you that don't believe you're lying in eyes when
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you go to the grocery store or you go to
the gas pump, or you see that your paycheck goes further.
And so this whole plan that's supposed to save the
Democratic Parties party, in my opinion, looks like they are
self creating an extinction level event where their credibility is
so destroyed that there's not going to be a Democratic
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Party in particular one that exists as it does now.
It may more, if it may have to tear itself
apart and rebuild itself into something else, but it certainly
won't be the one that exists now.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't thing they're creating their own nuclear winter.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, exactly, That's exactly what I think. And these you know,
the problem is one of the big problems is there
is no titular head of the Democratic Party anymore that
anybody that encompasses what they're for. All they do is
to go the sky is falling. The sky is falling.
When you look up and you see the sky firmly affects,
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it's like something's wrong here. And so we have Chuck
Schumer who gets you know, who get Chicken little there
along with along with Elizabeth Warren and some others. Then
you have investigations being launched into other, you know, I
would say, senior members of the Democratic Party, which is
further eroding their credibility, people like Nancy Pelosi who's now
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under investigation for inside trading. Now Donald Trump came out
and said, what's going on there? She needs to be
investigated Cut fifty three A.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
What I do think is Nancy Pelosi should be investigated
because what she has the highest return of anybody practically
in the history of Wall Street save a few. And
how did that happen. It happened by she knows exactly
what's going to happen, what's going to be announced, She
buys stock, and then the stock goes up after the
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announcements made, and she had to be investigated.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And I agree she should be investigated. And what was
interesting is she went on CNN with Jake Tapper, and
Jake Tapper wanted to ask her about this going. You know,
President Trump said she should be investigated, and he had
a little technical problem. She was in full blown panic,
shut the question down mode, which never bodes well. Cut
fifty three.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
President Trump mentioned you, and he made an allegation about
your investments. I want to roll that clip and then
give you a chance to respond. Yeah, seemed to be
having some sort of Yeah, let me just read what
he said. I'm sorry that we had some sort of technicalish.
Nancy Pelosi became rich.
Speaker 16 (15:57):
I might you had to read that. We're here to
talk about the sixth see at the anniversary of Medicaid.
That's what I agreed to come to talk. Yeah, but
I wanted to that means in the election.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
I wanted to give you a chances to respond. He
accused you of insider trading. What's your response to that?
Speaker 16 (16:11):
That's very ridiculous. In fact, I very much support the
stop the trading of members of Congress, not that I
think anybody's doing anything wrong. If they are, they are
prosecuted and they go to.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
A humma hummahumminy. But say go to jail. And she's
not the only big Democrat that's under investigation. President Trump
also said, what about uh say, Hillary cut one on one.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Be investigating for election?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I hope so, I hope so.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I don't know whether or not that will happen, but
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So these are these are pretty big name Democrats, people
that the voting public turned to to find out where
the Democratic Party studentsor doesn't seem to be a leader.
And the person you would think would be the leader,
which was the failed presidential candidate from the last election,
Kamala Harris. You would think that she would be the
titular head at least now, and normally it would be
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Joe Biden, but Joe Biden is, you know, can't trump Biden.
Joe Biden is now everybody concedes have severe issues from
basically aging. So the next one up would be the
vice president Kamala Harris. And she went on with Stephen Colbert,
somebody who's gotten the acts and will be leading, leaving
because he cost his network forty million dollars a year
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even though he's number one the time spot, the whole
genre appears to be on rocky foot, not bringing in advertising.
But she was asked on Colbert, who is the leader
of the Democratic Party. Listen to what she said, cut
one on nine.
Speaker 13 (17:42):
You're no longer you know, you're not running for office
right now, you're stepping away from that life right now.
Speaker 17 (17:48):
Who's leading the Democratic Party?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
There are lots of leaders, and it was generally.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
A leader of the Democratic Party, you know, like, oh,
that's the leader Donative Party.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Who comes to mind. I think there are a lot
of I'm not going to go through names because then
I'm going to leave somebody out and then I'm going
to hear about it. But let me just let me
say this. I think it is a mistake for us
who want to figure out how to get out and
through this and get out of it, to put it
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on the shoulders of any one person. It's really on
all of our shoulders, it really is.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, that's what's called a non answer answer.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And you talk about a friendly crowd. She doesn't answer it,
and they're.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Like yeah, yeah, and a friendly interviewer in the whole bit,
and she can't answer who the first of all, the
answer should have been me or Joe Biden. One of
those should be.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
The answer in that particular case, because yeah, I agree
with you, zombie.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
But you do pick one of them, and you don't say, oh,
we have a lot of that. Just that right there
is why the Democratic Party is in deep crap. That
response right there. Nobody knows who the leader is. And
is it any wonder that the polls regarding the Democrats
are just crashing around us and it makes them look
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just you know, toothless, completely toothless. And you would think
that they would go, oh my god, look in the mirror. Right,
We've got to figure out how to fix our party.
Look at the polls are like thirty The Democrats are
at a thirty percent low. They've never been as low
as they have now since I think the nineteen nineties,
and so it is just no credibility whatsoever. So my
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response would be, what are we doing wrong? Let's figure
it out. Well, that's not the response of a lot
of the Democrats, and especially if your name is Senator
Amy Klobrascher. She went on CNN and said, oh, the
horrible polling for damas well, that's Donald Trump's fault. Cut
one oh six voters out there.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
While they have started to say that they're unhappy with
Donald Trump in many ways, with his numbers have dipped
on issues that he's otherwise strong on like the economy
and immigration. They're still not happy with Democrats. And that's
different twenty eighteen, which was the first half of his
first term. What's different now? Why aren't Democrats feeling the
love from voters?
Speaker 18 (20:11):
Well, first of all, I can understand how they're feeling.
They're just feeling that there's more chaos, more corruption, and
there's costs are going up, and they know in Republicans
control both houses and he's president. This is a rubber
stamp situation. So I'm just I'm telling you right now,
when you look at the actual numbers, I don't expect
everyone to be loving politicians right now. This is a
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really hard time to be in America.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, except that it's not all politicians that are having
the problem. It is Democrats. And this is a beautiful
example of it. This is a woman Democrat caller and
she's calling into the Chris Cuomo show, which is now
on NewsNation, and she's not too upset to admit that
she was wrong about Donald Trump, and she now sees
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a light cut one twelve.
Speaker 19 (21:00):
I'm not too proud to say that I am wrong
about Trump. I'm a proud Democrat and he's done a
lot of things with immigration. I'm happy about what's happening
with immigration. I thought the stock market would tank, and
I'm pretty happy with my four oh one k. There's
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a few things that I just thought things would go wrong,
and I'm very happy.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well, that is big of you to say.
Speaker 20 (21:27):
It'll probably lose you some friends in this polarized environment
that we're in right now. But there's nothing wrong with
being happy with results, no matter who gives them to you. Right,
So I appreciate your candor.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, unless your name is Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi
or Elizabeth Warren. And even on CNN, this is Harry Enton.
He's the CNN data analyst. He says, this is not
a case of all politicians being bad. This is a
case of Democrats being bad. And in fact, President Trump
has become the most influential president of this century and
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into the last century cut one thirteen.
Speaker 17 (22:07):
The Donald Trump administration is arguably the most influential this
century and probably as well dating back a good portion
of the last century as well.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Love it, like it, lump it.
Speaker 17 (22:16):
Trump is remaking in the United States of America. Let's
talk about tariffs first, right, there's all this talk that
Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to tariffs.
Uh uh, no tacos for Trump. The effective tariff ray
get this, it's eighteen percent, the highest, the highest since
the FDR administration in the nineteen thirties, up from get this,
just two percent last year, from just two percent last year.
We're talking about a level, an effective tariffray level get
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this nine times as high this year than last year.
But is not just on tariff's which, of course Donald
Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
What about immigration? Of course Trump ran and has always
run on a very hawkish immigration platform.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Get this.
Speaker 17 (22:55):
Twenty twenty five net migration in the United States down
at least sixty percent from land. In fact, we may
be heading for the first time and at least fifty
years in which we have negative negative migration into the
United States.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, so that's what's happening. That it's not politics is bad.
Politicians are bad. It's that Democrats are toothless, and they
are except for this one woman caller and CNN who
were saying, hey, you know what I was wrong about Trump,
We've gotten positive results. Chuck Schumer won't say that, Nancy
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Pelosi won't say it. The heads of the Democratic Party
won't say that. If they can even decide who the
head is. And against this backdrop of Democrats shooting themselves
in the foot, you go to Texas and guess what's
happening in Texas.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Let's get into it and then I'll give you my opinion.
Cash out.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
In Texas, Democratic legislators fled the state so they wouldn't
have to vote on a gerrymandering, a redistricting of congressional districts.
And just to explain it to everybody, this is Texas
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who does a very good job
spelling it out.
Speaker 21 (24:08):
Cut three New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, and Washington State.
Donald Trump received on average forty two percent of the vote,
but in Congress in those states the Democrats have ninety
representatives and Republicans only have twenty seven. In Prinsker's state,
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the president got forty three percent of the vote and
fourteen of seventeen are Democrats. Now, we are doing what
is legal, We are doing what is right on behalf
of Texans. We've had over two million people move here
in the last couple of years, they're voting more and
more Republican and they deserve and want Republican representation in Congress.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
So that's what the redistricting legislation is for. So instead
you have democratic our Democrats sorry, Democrat reps in the
state and the Texas State Legislature who don't want to
have to vote on this because it's going to put
more Republicans in power. So instead of by the way, debating.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I do want to say this, I just want to
interject this. I believe you're you're correct. I mean that
there'll be more Republicans getting elected, But in the end,
it doesn't guarantee it. The voters are the ones who
put Rights Center in power. So yeah, it doesn't even matter.
Well it does, but in a way I've always scratched
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my head about this whole. When they get upset about redistricting,
the voters still vote. Listen, if you suck as a
Republican vote for you.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You still have your vote. So that's but that's why
they want redistricting because they believe that the way the
current congressional districts are drawn up, they're not really representing
the population. And he gave you the statistics as to why.
So here come the text reps who are flying out.
By the way, they're flying on private planes that are
paid for by Beto O'Rourke's pack, who is, you know,
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a failed Texas politician Democrat. So they're getting out and
this is their and and they're they're filming themselves as
they leave because now they feel like they are from Selma.
You know, this is like a civil rights thing. They're
protecting democracy. Cut number two.
Speaker 20 (26:13):
Who would not relent to an authoritarian president it wills
to steal?
Speaker 22 (26:18):
And racially, Jerry May, there are black and brown district.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
This extraordinary set of our corps break so that your
voices can be heard.
Speaker 22 (26:25):
This is the destruction of America and the destruction of
value of our vote. So you see me look at here.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Bye, I'm out, I'm here for you. Yeah, as he
remembers as he's leaving, his job is to be at
the legislator voting, debating, making deals, whatever it is. But
it's his job to be on the legislative floor. Instead,
he's running away and he says, bye, I'm out of here,
and then he remembers what his job is and goes,
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oh oh, and I'm here for you. No you're not.
You're in Illinois or you're in New York. So and
this is no now this this what's happened is that.
And by the way, there are some issues with some
of these people being paid to leave, which is bribery
and in fact a criminal issue. But they all these
legislators have been ordered home by the governor, and I
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believe the FBI is involved in tracking some of them
down now because you know, they've crossed state lines and
made this a national issue because they're supposed to be
back in Texas doing their job, and if they don't
fulfill that contract, it is within the power of the
governor and the Lieutenant governor and the Secretary of State
in Texas to declare their seats vacant and put new
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people in them. So they're going to lose their seats
if they don't get their butts back. But meanwhile, you
have blue state governors who are furious at the idea
that there could be more Republicans in Congress, like you said,
could be, there's no guarantee. But so what they're doing
is they're going, well, if Texas is going to redistrict,
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we're going to redistrict too. Here's New York Governor Kathy
Hokel cut to I thank them so much for making
this journey.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
You are on the right side of history, and you're
not alone. We are in solidarity with each and every
one of you and your colleagues in another state, hosted
by my great friend Jamie Pritzker, who welcome you as well.
As I said, History will judge us and how we
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respond to this moment. But here in New York, we
will not stand on the sidelines with the timid souls
on the sidelines who don't care, will not invest their
heart and soul into this battle. This is a war.
We are at war, and that's why the gloves are off,
and I say bring it on.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Here's the thing. First of all, your government New York,
not Texas. You have no business butting into Texas on
any level, to be honest with you. Secondly, nobody is
discounting people's votes. As you said, it's still up to
the voters. The lines are being drawn differently, that is all.
It doesn't mean nobody's being cut out, nobody's being told
they can't vote. Everybody can still.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Voaech hapens a lot. By the way, I mean, this
is not something that never happens in the district of
New York.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
New York has been redistrict to a fairly weell. And
what's really interesting is that she says, thanks to my
friend Governor J. B. Pritzker in Illinois, Illinois is the
most gerrymandered state in the Union. In the Union. I mean,
that is just it's bizarre. So that you have these
Texans running to Illinois, the gerrymanding capital of the world,
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saying we're running away because they want a jerrymander. You
ran right to the heart of jerrymanderville. So with Governor Pritzker,
who's walking in welcoming them with open arms, then you've
got Gavin Newsom in California the same thing. We can't
allow redistricting in Texas. We may have to redistrict to
put more he's assuming we may have to put more
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Democrats in Congress. So we're going to redistrict and make
sure that that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
To have to try, and.
Speaker 22 (30:05):
They've triggered this response, and we're not going to roll over,
and we're going to fight fire with fire, but we're
going to do so not just punching with the weight
of the fourth largest economy, the most populous state in
our Union, the size of twenty one state populations combined.
But we also will punch above our weight in terms
of the impact of what we're doing, and I think
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that should be absorbed by those in the Texas delegation.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I don't think you can cut out all the Republican
voters in California, because I think there's more there than
you think, my friends, just saying, because what you would
have to do to guarantee that is you would have
to disenfranchise Republican voters, which means you'd have to say,
like Orange County, you get zero votes, or you'd have
to say, I mean because there are bastions of Republicanism there.
(30:56):
And regardless of whether you like the Democrats or the Republicublicans,
this is Texas's issue. Has nothing to do with California,
nothing to do with New York. You're supposed to be
a bit busy with your own state, not paying attention
to what Texas does. And in the end, it is
up to the Texas voters what they want to do.
(31:16):
It is not up to the people in New York
or people in California. How would you feel if somebody
from say South Dakota, told you that you couldn't pass
the law because they didn't like how it was going
to affect Congress, what would you say to them, my guests,
is I don't care where you live. Unless you in
any state other than South Dakota, you'd say, bleep off
of yours.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, listen, I don't want to take this down too
far off the rabbit hole. But this is something that's
been stewing in my head since this whole thing started. Look,
every state has a different balance of power in their
state legislature. Massachusetts, where we're headquartered, very democratic, maybe blue,
very blue. In New York very blue or relatively blue
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in their state legislature California, And you can flip it around,
and there's plenty of Republican states. Here's the thing. You
were voted into office to do basically one thing. Okay,
propose laws and all this o blah blah blah, to
vote on stuff. And so when you don't vote on
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stuff whatever, and it doesn't matter. This issue is redistricting.
It could be on funding schools, it could be on
funding medical it could be on funding anything. It could
be on anything, anything, anything. You are paid to go
to the freaking state capitol and cast your vote. And
by the way, if you don't like something, vote against it.
If you like something, vote in favor of it. Try
to swing your colleagues to go the other way. This
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is how this works. And I just this is what
bothers me the most, or it all bothers me, so
I can't even say the most is Okay, Let's pretend
for a second that instead of this happening in republican
state with Dems fleeing, this was happening in a democratic
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state like Massachusetts with enough for a And of course
in Massachusetts all the Republicans could leave and they still
have enough people to vote. But let's let's say it
was the opposite way and the Republicans were fleeing to
stop the vote from happening. I guarantee you they're holding
up democracy. These democracy haters, they hate you, they hate democracy,
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and they don't want this is democracy. Listen, if you
don't like the way the legislature in your state votes Texas,
then you can go to the polls next November or
whatever the next legislative elections are and vote the people
out and put in the people you want to do
your work right now, they're doing the work of the
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Texas people who said this is how we want our
legislature to look. Now, I don't particularly care for the
alignment of the legislature in the state I live in,
but that's what the voters said they wanted.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
It's business, nobody else's well.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
And that as well. So and you know, darn well
Kathy hokeel And and Dan Pritzker, JB. Pritsker, sorry, all
these people who are coming out and saying this is democracy,
and the thank god the Democrats are standing up for
democracy by leaving their jobs that they were paid to
do and not vote that they would be saying the
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exact opposite if the thing was flipped around. And I'm
tired of this because the hypocrisy from stem to stern
is it makes me want to throw up.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
It's hypocrisy and it's faux outrage. It's there, I mean,
because it's behavior that they themselves have been guilty of.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
JB.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Pritskers has absolutely posed his state is so freaking jerrymandered
it's not even funny. Yet here he is welcoming Texas
Democrats into his home state cut number eight.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Texas Democrats were left no choice but to leave their
home state, block a vote from taking place, and protect
their constituents.
Speaker 21 (34:56):
This is a righteous act of courage.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It's not a righteous act of courages. First of all,
it's cowardly. And can I point out, by the way, Benjamin,
that Texas Demas have done this before, they have fled
the state other than and it didn't work for them then,
Yet here they are doing the same thing expecting a
different result.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I'm still going to It's just it's ridiculous, and it's stupid,
and it's and again it's hypocrisy.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I think it's going to spell it's one of the
things that's going to spell the death of the Democratic Party.
And I'm saying it won't come back in another form.
But I think the Democratic Party has just been slitting
its own risks left and right. Because it goes back
to that adage if you and your friend are out
and you meet a mad bearer, you don't have to
run faster than the barriers, to run faster than yourself
(35:44):
the friend, yeah, yeah, and your friend. In this particular case,
Republicans don't have to be loved by everybody. They just
have to be more loved than the Democrats, and the
Democrats are making themselves out to be crazy, they're making
themselves out to be Hippoco critical, and they're making themselves
out to be liars. So even if you don't like
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the Republicans, you like them a little bit more than
you like the Democrats. And so that's what's gonna win
I think the Midtermal I look saying.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Look, if you if you were elected to anything, and
I don't care if it's the city council or the
state legislature or Congress, you were you were voted, You
were voted in by the people to go and vote
on the business of the people. Get your ass in
your chair and do it. And by the way again,
fight to get things changed there if you want. I mean,
that's that's on you. I mean, I don't give a
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crap what Texas does. I don't care what South Dakota does,
as you said, because that's not where I live. But
in my business, I can't, I can't even anymore. I'm leaving.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I take you to do this.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I'm going to go do I'm going to go to Illinois.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah okay, wow, Yeah, that's that would not be on
my list of places to move. But okay, to each throne. Yeah,
we we end each week with a truth control. This
week is no different and as usual, we don't we
don't look for Trump trolls and truth truth controls, but
they just seem to populate the landscape. And there's another
one today. He was on CNBC basically saying the self
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departed the Democrat Party is self destruction, much like the
conversation we just had. But he he was I think
upset about Jasmine Crockett calling him, you know, a piece
of you know what. He had some words for her,
and you can decide whether he really means her, whether
he's just screwing with her. Cut thirty three.
Speaker 15 (37:30):
The Democrat Party is self destructing. I mean when you
have low IQ people like Crockett, I wonder if she's
in a relation to ship to the late great Davy Crockett,
who was a great, great, great gentleman. I wonder if
she's got any relationship to Davy Crockett, the great old
Davy Crockett. But you have this woman Crockett, She's a
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low very low IQ person. Somebody said the other day
she's one of the leaders of the party. I think
you gotta be getting the Democrats are lost. They have
Trump derangement syndrome so bad that they can't walk. I
don't know where they're doing. Is finished watched the other days.
He's lost all of his confidence.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
So does he honestly think that Jasmin Crockett is related
to the late great Davy Crockett, who is immortalized by
the way by Fess Parker.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I don't know if he believes that. I mean, who
knows who it was? Funny. I think the rest of
it is true, though, I think all this stuff that
he was saying Democrats is true.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
It's a mixture truth and troll. This week it's got
both in there, telling the truth and trolling Jasmine Crockett
all at the same time, and.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Calling her low IQ, which I don't know what her
IQ is, but she certainly makes me a little If.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
If she's not low IQ, then she's just one of
the biggest liars I've ever seen her.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
By the way, you can have a high IQ and
still be a lunatic on one side of the park like.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
That, I'm hoping you don't understand what you're saying, because
especially if you're elected official, because that's just you know.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Pad, Maybe she does know what she's saying, which is
why she's saying it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
That could be, in which case she's just bad news
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Speaker 2 (39:21):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
This is news Bite
President Trump has coined a new name for Democrats behaving badly.
New York takes umbrage at Texas redistricting and the Democrat
Socialists of America let it all hang out. Politics is
getting crazier and crazier, or so you can tell fromar
Did they really just say that? Clips from this week.
I'm Nancy Shack.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm getting crazier too. I'm Ben Parkers.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I call them pannikins because maybe they're not smart, because
they're playing red into the enemy's camp. And in other
cases they really are people of the panic. They can't
handle pressure, and you know, both are sort of dangerous.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
This is a war. We are at war, and that's
why the gloves are off, and I say bring it on.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That's the only real difference between marriage and prostitute is
the price and the duration of the contract.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
We can fight for family abolition. We can imagine family abolison.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I believe, I'm I believe I'm going to lose my
mind one of these days. Yeah, So that that was.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That last one she's saying, we can fight for family abolition.
In case you were unaware of what she was saying,
that that was a panel of Democrat Socialists of America.
And as you heard briefly, they want to abolish the family.
Oh and if you I'm not sure, we haven't the clip.
They also want to have abortions in church cut thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Please and on that revolutionary arives and want to perform
abortions out of church, you know, for it's all set
and on that.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the
price and the duration of the contract.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
We can fight for family abolition. We can imagine family
abolition because we have seen black women do it, because
we have seen these like indigenous.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Communities to do it.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
But you know, it is to me, it is the
institution of marriage can only exist alongside the criminalization of
sex workers.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Children whose parents are unable to provide either housing, food,
or safety are treated as if they have committed a crime.
So kids themselves are treated as if they have committed
a crime if they're not born into a family that
can support them.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
They just give me a headache. I don't know about you,
but it's just you know, that's the far left, by
the way, that's the direction of the Democratic Party is heading.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This should go without saying, but I'm a say it anyway.
It's just like when people get pissed off about what
they see on TV or here on the road. Look, listen,
you can make your own choices. If you don't like marriage,
if you don't like the family unit, if you don't,
don't get involved in it. This whole like they want
their views to shift over to the entire world. And
(02:51):
trust me, there are issues with I've been married twice,
so I mean, look, I get it. There's things wrong
with marriage, there's things wrong with sometimes a lot of
things wrong with family units. Sometimes we all have that.
But it's like, why are you people taking your crazy
and trying to implement it across the country. We have
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enough crazy. We don't need you adding more crazy. Keep
your one crazy in your own house.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh if only that were true. More and more Democrats
are sounding crazy like those socialists. And it's every time
I every day I come into work and there's something more.
Jasmine Crockett, the congresswoman from Texas, she has been I'm
starting to keep a list of the craziest of the dumbs,
(03:38):
and she's right up there. Take a listen to Jasmine
cut thirteen.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
The Supreme Court has paved the way for half the
stuff that we see that is going on. Listen, Donald
Trump is a piece of Okay, we know it.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Yes, yes he is, he is.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
He is.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
But in a.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Functioning democracy, he's still will not be able to get
away with this. But he's been able to get away
with this because the House Republicans are complicit. He's been
able to get away with this because Senate Republicans are complicit.
But most importantly, the courts, especially the Supreme Court, is complicit.
(04:18):
And so I think one of the places that we
have to start is we are absolutely they are the
highest court in the lands and they have no ethics guardrails.
Now you go down to the lower courts and they do.
How much sense does that make? Well, we know that
they're taking money, we have the paper trail, and they
refuse to put guardrails on themselves. So it's time for
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us to do.
Speaker 10 (04:41):
It for them.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, she has no idea what she's talking about. She's
talking rag time, giving this information and calling the President
of the United States a piece of bleep as a
sitting congresswoman. Yet she wasn't through. She was not through.
She also decided to threaten Republicans cut thirty four and.
Speaker 11 (05:02):
I'm sorry, but instead we are not only going to
punch you back, but we are going to knock you out.
So I fully anticipate that we are going to take
control of the United States House because that is what
the American people want, and that is why Donald Trump
and his regime is so afraid.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, they're not afraid of you. And can I just
say that you just threatened violence, actual physical violence on
the opposing party, and you know they're not going to
take the mid terms. And I'll tell you why. I
think it's going to be a little bit different than
it was in twenty eighteen. First of all, in twenty eighteen,
there are more Democrats registering the Republicans. That is not
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does not exist anymore. Republicans are now registering at a
higher rate, not the current to the Wall Street Journal,
by the way, that's I think, and you correct me
if I'm wrong, bound, but I think the crazier the
more vicious these people become, the less people want to
deal with them. They don't have to like the Republicans,
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they just have to dislike the Democrats a little bit more.
And that is I think what is happening with this
bizarre behavior.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And you know, I think you hit it on the
head or at least damn close. Look, you're always dealing,
first of all, in elections with that middle ground. Right,
you've got the far left, far right. They're always going
far left, far right. We get that there are people
like that who just they're going to vote already regardless.
It's everybody else in the middle. And the thing is
(06:30):
the Democrats, as we've seen in the national elections and
local elections and regional elections recent of late, that middle
ground is shifting over to the right at least to vote. Look,
they may not be that way politically, but they and
the crazy, as you met, the crazier one side gets.
The other way is the way the main.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Stry are reasonable, the other side right.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
For lack of a better term, the mainstream people lean.
So if the left is own berserk, they're going to
lean a little bit to the right, not all the way.
To look at there, I hope. I know people who
are Democrats, or at least have been Democrats who don't
like anything the Democrats are doing. By contrast, when the
Republicans were struggling and they have had their ups and
(07:16):
downs too, I've known people who were more right leaning
who are like, well, this is insane. So they're just
not only are they shooting themselves in the foot with
some of the stuff that they're doing presently, they're cutting
their foot right the hell off is what they're doing.
And so, yeah, I agree with you, winning the midterms,
winning anything, winning a dog catcher's seat is going to
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be hard if they keep playing this game that they're playing,
and it's really not a game. It's the future of
the country. But whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But they're not just you know, in treating violence here.
They're also trying and Jasmine Crockett is very responsible of this,
so trying to convince the voting public that white is
black or that the sky's green and basically they lie
through their teeth in desperation to denigrate the man that
has exposed all, you know, their faults, their failures, and
(08:09):
that would be President Trump and his party. And President
Trump has a name for them, and you heard this
in the open cut number one.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I call them panikins because maybe they're not smart, because
they're playing red into the enemy's camp. And in other
cases they really are people of that panic. They can't
handle pressure, and you know, both are sort of dangerous I.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Think they're very dangerous and one of the biggest pannikins.
And I will expand that definition to people who fear monger,
people who like to try to increase to make panic,
as well as those who who feel it. And one
of the biggest pannikins that I see right now is
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the senior Senator from New York.
(08:55):
There was a huge example of that this past week
because the Report's Economic Reports came out that there was
a three percent surge in the GDP for the month
of July. That's a big deal. The GDP is what
we use to measure all goods and services that are
that are produced, that are finalized in the US, and
it's the best in disue we have of if the
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economy is growing, stagnant, or in a recession, and right
now it's growing, and it's three percent is a huge number.
It's a massive number, and this was extremely good news. Now,
did Chuck Schumer go out there and say, Okay, I
don't agree with President Trump on a lot of things,
but okay, this is a good sign. Three percent. Let's
not forget that that did not happen under Biden. Let's
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not forget that Obama tried to convince people that a
gdb crowth of like one and a half was going
to be the new norm. That's how they basically put
their foot in it, or feet in it on an
economic level. So there's a three percent GDP growth for
July is good news. This is Chuck Schumer on the
floor of the Senate, and he is what I would say,
(10:01):
the definition here of fear mongering cut number twenty two.
Speaker 12 (10:05):
While the Trump administration will try to waive rosy headlines
about the Q two number, today's GDP number is in
fact a mirage because some ominous numbers lurk under the hood.
Business investment plunged in the second quarter by three point
one percent. The fact that business investment plunged so starkly
(10:30):
is very troubling. It shows that already businesses are worried
about growing their operations, worried about hiring more workers, worried
about trading with their international partners, and worried in general
about the future. And this number is another data point
in a larger pattern. Donald Trump's tariffs are weighing down
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the US economy, spiking costs for small businesses and families, alike.
And if Donald Trump keeps up the chaos, the dangers
for the economy will continue to get worse.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
If Chuck Schumer keeps up the chaos, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
First of all, that's lying through his teeth. The economy
is doing very well. The tariffs are paying down the debt.
Not so much so by the way that there are
now two propositions being floated. Once the debt is paid down,
which is the primary purpose of the tariffs, the question
has come, do we give a payback to low and
middle income families to offset any tariff pain that they
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may have, or do we get rid of the income
tax completely and go back to the system we have
before the Civil War, which was tariff driven. That's how
well the tariffs are doing. It is garbage what he said.
It was pure utter fear mongering. And that is from
one of the big leaders of the Democratic Party. And
he's not the only one. And it's so bad and
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so obvious that even members of the mainstream media are like,
what the bleep is going on? In this case. This
is CNBC, it's Joe Kernin and Rick Santelli, and they're
ripping Massachusetts Center. Sabeth Warren for fear mongering as well.
Cut twenty four.
Speaker 13 (12:03):
The left and people that don't like the president and
don't want things to work, and you know, like Center
Elizabeth Warre will come out and say, inflation's out of
control in the economy is getting killed by what's happening
by these tariffs, this three percent with the market at
new highs, and really we haven't seen inflation, you know,
(12:23):
go up back to three for maybe it will this week,
maybe we'll see it. But none of these things, none
of these horrible things have happened, but they still talk
like it's happening. It's amazing.
Speaker 14 (12:33):
Well, the important there's an important lesson there. Don't pick
a congressman to be your money manager atte That's what
I would say. But in the end, Congress has their
own reasons to point out certain things. And the Democrats,
of course, as you pointed out, really don't want to
see the current administration have some success. But there's no
doubt that this is some success. We're seeing more horse power,
(12:55):
we're seeing better equities. Inflation, Inflation really hasn't changed change
much in the last year or so.
Speaker 15 (13:02):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Inflation has stabilized and gone down, which is a meat
trick if you could ever do it. But what the
policy that they or the playbook that the Democrats are
following here Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and the like, is
meant to save the power of the Democratic Party to
convince you that don't believe you're lying in eyes when
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you go to the grocery store or you go to
the gas pump, or you see that your paycheck goes further.
And so this whole plan that's supposed to save the
Democratic Parties party, in my opinion, looks like they are
self creating an extinction level event where their credibility is
so destroyed that there's not going to be a Democratic
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Party in particular one that exists as it does now.
It may more, if it may have to tear itself
apart and rebuild itself into something else, but it certainly
won't be the one that exists now.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't thing they're creating their own nuclear winter.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, exactly, That's exactly what I think. And these you know,
the problem is one of the big problems is there
is no titular head of the Democratic Party anymore that
anybody that encompasses what they're for. All they do is
to go the sky is falling. The sky is falling.
When you look up and you see the sky firmly affects,
(14:24):
it's like something's wrong here. And so we have Chuck
Schumer who gets you know, who get Chicken little there
along with along with Elizabeth Warren and some others. Then
you have investigations being launched into other, you know, I
would say, senior members of the Democratic Party, which is
further eroding their credibility, people like Nancy Pelosi who's now
(14:47):
under investigation for inside trading. Now Donald Trump came out
and said, what's going on there? She needs to be
investigated Cut fifty three A.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
What I do think is Nancy Pelosi should be investigated
because what she has the highest return of anybody practically
in the history of Wall Street save a few. And
how did that happen. It happened by she knows exactly
what's going to happen, what's going to be announced, She
buys stock, and then the stock goes up after the
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announcements made, and she had to be investigated.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And I agree she should be investigated. And what was
interesting is she went on CNN with Jake Tapper, and
Jake Tapper wanted to ask her about this going. You know,
President Trump said she should be investigated, and he had
a little technical problem. She was in full blown panic,
shut the question down mode, which never bodes well. Cut
fifty three.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
President Trump mentioned you, and he made an allegation about
your investments. I want to roll that clip and then
give you a chance to respond. Yeah, seemed to be
having some sort of Yeah, let me just read what
he said. I'm sorry that we had some sort of technicalish.
Nancy Pelosi became rich.
Speaker 16 (15:57):
I might you had to read that. We're here to
talk about the sixth see at the anniversary of Medicaid.
That's what I agreed to come to talk. Yeah, but
I wanted to that means in the election.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
I wanted to give you a chances to respond. He
accused you of insider trading. What's your response to that?
Speaker 16 (16:11):
That's very ridiculous. In fact, I very much support the
stop the trading of members of Congress, not that I
think anybody's doing anything wrong. If they are, they are
prosecuted and they go to.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
A humma hummahumminy. But say go to jail. And she's
not the only big Democrat that's under investigation. President Trump
also said, what about uh say, Hillary cut one on one.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Be investigating for election?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I hope so, I hope so.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I don't know whether or not that will happen, but
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So these are these are pretty big name Democrats, people
that the voting public turned to to find out where
the Democratic Party studentsor doesn't seem to be a leader.
And the person you would think would be the leader,
which was the failed presidential candidate from the last election,
Kamala Harris. You would think that she would be the
titular head at least now, and normally it would be
(17:05):
Joe Biden, but Joe Biden is, you know, can't trump Biden.
Joe Biden is now everybody concedes have severe issues from
basically aging. So the next one up would be the
vice president Kamala Harris. And she went on with Stephen Colbert,
somebody who's gotten the acts and will be leading, leaving
because he cost his network forty million dollars a year
(17:27):
even though he's number one the time spot, the whole
genre appears to be on rocky foot, not bringing in advertising.
But she was asked on Colbert, who is the leader
of the Democratic Party. Listen to what she said, cut
one on nine.
Speaker 13 (17:42):
You're no longer you know, you're not running for office
right now, you're stepping away from that life right now.
Speaker 17 (17:48):
Who's leading the Democratic Party?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
There are lots of leaders, and it was generally.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
A leader of the Democratic Party, you know, like, oh,
that's the leader Donative Party.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Who comes to mind. I think there are a lot
of I'm not going to go through names because then
I'm going to leave somebody out and then I'm going
to hear about it. But let me just let me
say this. I think it is a mistake for us
who want to figure out how to get out and
through this and get out of it, to put it
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on the shoulders of any one person. It's really on
all of our shoulders, it really is.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, that's what's called a non answer answer.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And you talk about a friendly crowd. She doesn't answer it,
and they're.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Like yeah, yeah, and a friendly interviewer in the whole bit,
and she can't answer who the first of all, the
answer should have been me or Joe Biden. One of
those should be.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
The answer in that particular case, because yeah, I agree
with you, zombie.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
But you do pick one of them, and you don't say, oh,
we have a lot of that. Just that right there
is why the Democratic Party is in deep crap. That
response right there. Nobody knows who the leader is. And
is it any wonder that the polls regarding the Democrats
are just crashing around us and it makes them look
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just you know, toothless, completely toothless. And you would think
that they would go, oh my god, look in the mirror. Right,
We've got to figure out how to fix our party.
Look at the polls are like thirty The Democrats are
at a thirty percent low. They've never been as low
as they have now since I think the nineteen nineties,
and so it is just no credibility whatsoever. So my
(19:32):
response would be, what are we doing wrong? Let's figure
it out. Well, that's not the response of a lot
of the Democrats, and especially if your name is Senator
Amy Klobrascher. She went on CNN and said, oh, the
horrible polling for damas well, that's Donald Trump's fault. Cut
one oh six voters out there.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
While they have started to say that they're unhappy with
Donald Trump in many ways, with his numbers have dipped
on issues that he's otherwise strong on like the economy
and immigration. They're still not happy with Democrats. And that's
different twenty eighteen, which was the first half of his
first term. What's different now? Why aren't Democrats feeling the
love from voters?
Speaker 18 (20:11):
Well, first of all, I can understand how they're feeling.
They're just feeling that there's more chaos, more corruption, and
there's costs are going up, and they know in Republicans
control both houses and he's president. This is a rubber
stamp situation. So I'm just I'm telling you right now,
when you look at the actual numbers, I don't expect
everyone to be loving politicians right now. This is a
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really hard time to be in America.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, except that it's not all politicians that are having
the problem. It is Democrats. And this is a beautiful
example of it. This is a woman Democrat caller and
she's calling into the Chris Cuomo show, which is now
on NewsNation, and she's not too upset to admit that
she was wrong about Donald Trump, and she now sees
(20:58):
a light cut one twelve.
Speaker 19 (21:00):
I'm not too proud to say that I am wrong
about Trump. I'm a proud Democrat and he's done a
lot of things with immigration. I'm happy about what's happening
with immigration. I thought the stock market would tank, and
I'm pretty happy with my four oh one k. There's
(21:20):
a few things that I just thought things would go wrong,
and I'm very happy.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well, that is big of you to say.
Speaker 20 (21:27):
It'll probably lose you some friends in this polarized environment
that we're in right now. But there's nothing wrong with
being happy with results, no matter who gives them to you. Right,
So I appreciate your candor.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, unless your name is Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi
or Elizabeth Warren. And even on CNN, this is Harry Enton.
He's the CNN data analyst. He says, this is not
a case of all politicians being bad. This is a
case of Democrats being bad. And in fact, President Trump
has become the most influential president of this century and
(22:05):
into the last century cut one thirteen.
Speaker 17 (22:07):
The Donald Trump administration is arguably the most influential this
century and probably as well dating back a good portion
of the last century as well.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Love it, like it, lump it.
Speaker 17 (22:16):
Trump is remaking in the United States of America. Let's
talk about tariffs first, right, there's all this talk that
Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to tariffs.
Uh uh, no tacos for Trump. The effective tariff ray
get this, it's eighteen percent, the highest, the highest since
the FDR administration in the nineteen thirties, up from get this,
just two percent last year, from just two percent last year.
We're talking about a level, an effective tariffray level get
(22:40):
this nine times as high this year than last year.
But is not just on tariff's which, of course Donald
Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
What about immigration? Of course Trump ran and has always
run on a very hawkish immigration platform.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Get this.
Speaker 17 (22:55):
Twenty twenty five net migration in the United States down
at least sixty percent from land. In fact, we may
be heading for the first time and at least fifty
years in which we have negative negative migration into the
United States.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, so that's what's happening. That it's not politics is bad.
Politicians are bad. It's that Democrats are toothless, and they
are except for this one woman caller and CNN who
were saying, hey, you know what I was wrong about Trump,
We've gotten positive results. Chuck Schumer won't say that, Nancy
(23:30):
Pelosi won't say it. The heads of the Democratic Party
won't say that. If they can even decide who the
head is. And against this backdrop of Democrats shooting themselves
in the foot, you go to Texas and guess what's
happening in Texas.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Let's get into it and then I'll give you my opinion.
Cash out.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
In Texas, Democratic legislators fled the state so they wouldn't
have to vote on a gerrymandering, a redistricting of congressional districts.
And just to explain it to everybody, this is Texas
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who does a very good job
spelling it out.
Speaker 21 (24:08):
Cut three New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, and Washington State.
Donald Trump received on average forty two percent of the vote,
but in Congress in those states the Democrats have ninety
representatives and Republicans only have twenty seven. In Prinsker's state,
(24:28):
the president got forty three percent of the vote and
fourteen of seventeen are Democrats. Now, we are doing what
is legal, We are doing what is right on behalf
of Texans. We've had over two million people move here
in the last couple of years, they're voting more and
more Republican and they deserve and want Republican representation in Congress.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
So that's what the redistricting legislation is for. So instead
you have democratic our Democrats sorry, Democrat reps in the
state and the Texas State Legislature who don't want to
have to vote on this because it's going to put
more Republicans in power. So instead of by the way, debating.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I do want to say this, I just want to
interject this. I believe you're you're correct. I mean that
there'll be more Republicans getting elected, But in the end,
it doesn't guarantee it. The voters are the ones who
put Rights Center in power. So yeah, it doesn't even matter.
Well it does, but in a way I've always scratched
(25:26):
my head about this whole. When they get upset about redistricting,
the voters still vote. Listen, if you suck as a
Republican vote for you.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You still have your vote. So that's but that's why
they want redistricting because they believe that the way the
current congressional districts are drawn up, they're not really representing
the population. And he gave you the statistics as to why.
So here come the text reps who are flying out.
By the way, they're flying on private planes that are
paid for by Beto O'Rourke's pack, who is, you know,
(25:57):
a failed Texas politician Democrat. So they're getting out and
this is their and and they're they're filming themselves as
they leave because now they feel like they are from Selma.
You know, this is like a civil rights thing. They're
protecting democracy. Cut number two.
Speaker 20 (26:13):
Who would not relent to an authoritarian president it wills
to steal?
Speaker 22 (26:18):
And racially, Jerry May, there are black and brown district.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
This extraordinary set of our corps break so that your
voices can be heard.
Speaker 22 (26:25):
This is the destruction of America and the destruction of
value of our vote. So you see me look at here.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Bye, I'm out, I'm here for you. Yeah, as he
remembers as he's leaving, his job is to be at
the legislator voting, debating, making deals, whatever it is. But
it's his job to be on the legislative floor. Instead,
he's running away and he says, bye, I'm out of here,
and then he remembers what his job is and goes,
(26:53):
oh oh, and I'm here for you. No you're not.
You're in Illinois or you're in New York. So and
this is no now this this what's happened is that.
And by the way, there are some issues with some
of these people being paid to leave, which is bribery
and in fact a criminal issue. But they all these
legislators have been ordered home by the governor, and I
(27:15):
believe the FBI is involved in tracking some of them
down now because you know, they've crossed state lines and
made this a national issue because they're supposed to be
back in Texas doing their job, and if they don't
fulfill that contract, it is within the power of the
governor and the Lieutenant governor and the Secretary of State
in Texas to declare their seats vacant and put new
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people in them. So they're going to lose their seats
if they don't get their butts back. But meanwhile, you
have blue state governors who are furious at the idea
that there could be more Republicans in Congress, like you said,
could be, there's no guarantee. But so what they're doing
is they're going, well, if Texas is going to redistrict,
(27:55):
we're going to redistrict too. Here's New York Governor Kathy
Hokel cut to I thank them so much for making
this journey.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
You are on the right side of history, and you're
not alone. We are in solidarity with each and every
one of you and your colleagues in another state, hosted
by my great friend Jamie Pritzker, who welcome you as well.
As I said, History will judge us and how we
(28:25):
respond to this moment. But here in New York, we
will not stand on the sidelines with the timid souls
on the sidelines who don't care, will not invest their
heart and soul into this battle. This is a war.
We are at war, and that's why the gloves are off,
and I say bring it on.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Here's the thing. First of all, your government New York,
not Texas. You have no business butting into Texas on
any level, to be honest with you. Secondly, nobody is
discounting people's votes. As you said, it's still up to
the voters. The lines are being drawn differently, that is all.
It doesn't mean nobody's being cut out, nobody's being told
they can't vote. Everybody can still.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Voaech hapens a lot. By the way, I mean, this
is not something that never happens in the district of
New York.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
New York has been redistrict to a fairly weell. And
what's really interesting is that she says, thanks to my
friend Governor J. B. Pritzker in Illinois, Illinois is the
most gerrymandered state in the Union. In the Union. I mean,
that is just it's bizarre. So that you have these
Texans running to Illinois, the gerrymanding capital of the world,
(29:35):
saying we're running away because they want a jerrymander. You
ran right to the heart of jerrymanderville. So with Governor Pritzker,
who's walking in welcoming them with open arms, then you've
got Gavin Newsom in California the same thing. We can't
allow redistricting in Texas. We may have to redistrict to
put more he's assuming we may have to put more
(29:56):
Democrats in Congress. So we're going to redistrict and make
sure that that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
To have to try, and.
Speaker 22 (30:05):
They've triggered this response, and we're not going to roll over,
and we're going to fight fire with fire, but we're
going to do so not just punching with the weight
of the fourth largest economy, the most populous state in
our Union, the size of twenty one state populations combined.
But we also will punch above our weight in terms
of the impact of what we're doing, and I think
(30:27):
that should be absorbed by those in the Texas delegation.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I don't think you can cut out all the Republican
voters in California, because I think there's more there than
you think, my friends, just saying, because what you would
have to do to guarantee that is you would have
to disenfranchise Republican voters, which means you'd have to say,
like Orange County, you get zero votes, or you'd have
to say, I mean because there are bastions of Republicanism there.
(30:56):
And regardless of whether you like the Democrats or the Republicublicans,
this is Texas's issue. Has nothing to do with California,
nothing to do with New York. You're supposed to be
a bit busy with your own state, not paying attention
to what Texas does. And in the end, it is
up to the Texas voters what they want to do.
(31:16):
It is not up to the people in New York
or people in California. How would you feel if somebody
from say South Dakota, told you that you couldn't pass
the law because they didn't like how it was going
to affect Congress, what would you say to them, my guests,
is I don't care where you live. Unless you in
any state other than South Dakota, you'd say, bleep off
of yours.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, listen, I don't want to take this down too
far off the rabbit hole. But this is something that's
been stewing in my head since this whole thing started. Look,
every state has a different balance of power in their
state legislature. Massachusetts, where we're headquartered, very democratic, maybe blue,
very blue. In New York very blue or relatively blue
(31:54):
in their state legislature California, And you can flip it around,
and there's plenty of Republican states. Here's the thing. You
were voted into office to do basically one thing. Okay,
propose laws and all this o blah blah blah, to
vote on stuff. And so when you don't vote on
(32:15):
stuff whatever, and it doesn't matter. This issue is redistricting.
It could be on funding schools, it could be on
funding medical it could be on funding anything. It could
be on anything, anything, anything. You are paid to go
to the freaking state capitol and cast your vote. And
by the way, if you don't like something, vote against it.
If you like something, vote in favor of it. Try
to swing your colleagues to go the other way. This
(32:36):
is how this works. And I just this is what
bothers me the most, or it all bothers me, so
I can't even say the most is Okay, Let's pretend
for a second that instead of this happening in republican
state with Dems fleeing, this was happening in a democratic
(32:57):
state like Massachusetts with enough for a And of course
in Massachusetts all the Republicans could leave and they still
have enough people to vote. But let's let's say it
was the opposite way and the Republicans were fleeing to
stop the vote from happening. I guarantee you they're holding
up democracy. These democracy haters, they hate you, they hate democracy,
(33:19):
and they don't want this is democracy. Listen, if you
don't like the way the legislature in your state votes Texas,
then you can go to the polls next November or
whatever the next legislative elections are and vote the people
out and put in the people you want to do
your work right now, they're doing the work of the
(33:41):
Texas people who said this is how we want our
legislature to look. Now, I don't particularly care for the
alignment of the legislature in the state I live in,
but that's what the voters said they wanted.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
It's business, nobody else's well.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
And that as well. So and you know, darn well
Kathy hokeel And and Dan Pritzker, JB. Pritsker, sorry, all
these people who are coming out and saying this is democracy,
and the thank god the Democrats are standing up for
democracy by leaving their jobs that they were paid to
do and not vote that they would be saying the
(34:16):
exact opposite if the thing was flipped around. And I'm
tired of this because the hypocrisy from stem to stern
is it makes me want to throw up.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
It's hypocrisy and it's faux outrage. It's there, I mean,
because it's behavior that they themselves have been guilty of.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
JB.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Pritskers has absolutely posed his state is so freaking jerrymandered
it's not even funny. Yet here he is welcoming Texas
Democrats into his home state cut number eight.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Texas Democrats were left no choice but to leave their
home state, block a vote from taking place, and protect
their constituents.
Speaker 21 (34:56):
This is a righteous act of courage.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It's not a righteous act of courages. First of all,
it's cowardly. And can I point out, by the way, Benjamin,
that Texas Demas have done this before, they have fled
the state other than and it didn't work for them then,
Yet here they are doing the same thing expecting a
different result.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I'm still going to It's just it's ridiculous, and it's stupid,
and it's and again it's hypocrisy.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I think it's going to spell it's one of the
things that's going to spell the death of the Democratic Party.
And I'm saying it won't come back in another form.
But I think the Democratic Party has just been slitting
its own risks left and right. Because it goes back
to that adage if you and your friend are out
and you meet a mad bearer, you don't have to
run faster than the barriers, to run faster than yourself
(35:44):
the friend, yeah, yeah, and your friend. In this particular case,
Republicans don't have to be loved by everybody. They just
have to be more loved than the Democrats, and the
Democrats are making themselves out to be crazy, they're making
themselves out to be Hippoco critical, and they're making themselves
out to be liars. So even if you don't like
(36:04):
the Republicans, you like them a little bit more than
you like the Democrats. And so that's what's gonna win
I think the Midtermal I look saying.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Look, if you if you were elected to anything, and
I don't care if it's the city council or the
state legislature or Congress, you were you were voted, You
were voted in by the people to go and vote
on the business of the people. Get your ass in
your chair and do it. And by the way again,
fight to get things changed there if you want. I mean,
that's that's on you. I mean, I don't give a
(36:33):
crap what Texas does. I don't care what South Dakota does,
as you said, because that's not where I live. But
in my business, I can't, I can't even anymore. I'm leaving.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I take you to do this.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I'm going to go do I'm going to go to Illinois.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah okay, wow, Yeah, that's that would not be on
my list of places to move. But okay, to each throne. Yeah,
we we end each week with a truth control. This
week is no different and as usual, we don't we
don't look for Trump trolls and truth truth controls, but
they just seem to populate the landscape. And there's another
one today. He was on CNBC basically saying the self
(37:12):
departed the Democrat Party is self destruction, much like the
conversation we just had. But he he was I think
upset about Jasmine Crockett calling him, you know, a piece
of you know what. He had some words for her,
and you can decide whether he really means her, whether
he's just screwing with her. Cut thirty three.
Speaker 15 (37:30):
The Democrat Party is self destructing. I mean when you
have low IQ people like Crockett, I wonder if she's
in a relation to ship to the late great Davy Crockett,
who was a great, great, great gentleman. I wonder if
she's got any relationship to Davy Crockett, the great old
Davy Crockett. But you have this woman Crockett, She's a
(37:51):
low very low IQ person. Somebody said the other day
she's one of the leaders of the party. I think
you gotta be getting the Democrats are lost. They have
Trump derangement syndrome so bad that they can't walk. I
don't know where they're doing. Is finished watched the other days.
He's lost all of his confidence.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
So does he honestly think that Jasmin Crockett is related
to the late great Davy Crockett, who is immortalized by
the way by Fess Parker.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I don't know if he believes that. I mean, who
knows who it was? Funny. I think the rest of
it is true, though, I think all this stuff that
he was saying Democrats is true.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
It's a mixture truth and troll. This week it's got
both in there, telling the truth and trolling Jasmine Crockett
all at the same time, and.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Calling her low IQ, which I don't know what her
IQ is, but she certainly makes me a little If.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
If she's not low IQ, then she's just one of
the biggest liars I've ever seen her.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
By the way, you can have a high IQ and
still be a lunatic on one side of the park like.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
That, I'm hoping you don't understand what you're saying, because
especially if you're elected official, because that's just you know.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Pad, Maybe she does know what she's saying, which is
why she's saying it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
That could be, in which case she's just bad news
all the way. Do you like a Fox, Well, there's
that option. Thank you everybody for joining us. We upload
a new episode every single Monday, so you can check
back next Monday and see what new offerings we have.
You can talk contact Ben and I on x at
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Speaker 2 (39:21):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
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