November 7, 2025 • 14 mins
Did you know that over the past ten years only 33 House Democrats have voted in a more bi-partisan way than Nancy Pelosi? In fact, did you know that Nancy Pelosi co-sponsored 14% of the legislation proposed by Republicans over the past decade that eventually became a law?
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
From Pelosi to Tariff's a great thing for America. Happy
Friday to you as we wade into today. Something that
has not changed other than the day.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Senate Republicans with a new plan to end the government shutdown,
the GOP, challenging Democrats to block a test vote funding
the va AG programs in Congress until next fall, plus
a band aid for the rest of government into January.
But it's unclear if Democrats will go along.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, so we're day thirty eight, no indication that things
are going to change. So they're going to try a
different tactic and vote today in the Senate. We'll see
where that goes in the meantime. My top takeaway for
you is a great thing for America. Who said a
great thing for America yesterday?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That would have been President Trump, and I believe he
was talking about Nancy saying bye bye.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He had a lot of nice things to say when
he was informed by Fox's Peter Doocy that Nancy was retiring.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
He had a lot of nice things like this to say,
She's an evil woman. I'm glad she's retiring.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I think she did the country a great service. By Richard,
I think she was a tremendous liability for the country.
And I thought she was an evil woman who did
a poor job to cross the country a lot in
damages and in reputation. I thought she was.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Terrible other than that great.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And you pointed it out earlier, Brian.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And Dick Cheney, you've said enough bad things about my hero.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So about halfway through his twenty seconds of thoughts about
Nancy Pelosi, you hear the female reporter in the background going.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Dick Cheney, Yeah, let's change yourself. Nancy's great.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So yeah, that's what Trump had to say about Nancy
Pelosi and the news of her retirement yesterday. Now, one thing,
you know, Trump was talking about her like she was
in the past. Tense there, I mean, and a lot
of respects maybe, But in reality, she's staying on through
this Congress. So Nancy will still be around through the
end of next year. A couple things about this. I'm
(02:26):
forty five years old. I was seven when she first
assumed her seat in the House of Representatives. And that's
to say a couple of things. First, I don't really
remember a time when Nancy Pelosi wasn't in Congress. And also,
for those who would love to see congressional term limits,
she's got to like exhibit A to make your case
right now. But here's the other thing that came to
(02:48):
mind yesterday when I was thinking about the era of
Pelosi coming to an end. For most of that time,
she was the example, the example of what a radical
liberal looked like from appointed policy, a term that was
and occasionally still is betting about in conservative circles. Is
a San Francisco Liberal right now. The whole idea of
(03:10):
the San Francisco liberal has been around since at least
the sixties. Hate Ashbury, all that kind of stuff, But
she's the one who really brought it to politics, right
because she was the San Francisco Liberal who ended up
shaping national politics amid her rise to prominence in the
Democrat Party, culminating in her multi decade role in leadership,
(03:31):
including multiple terms as House Speaker.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So to be sure, there would have.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Been a time that I would have taken a look
at Nancy Pelosi and gone, yeah, getting her out of
here would be a great thing for America. But today
with the Democrat Party on the verge of going full
mom dommi COMMI. I don't actually agree with President Trump
on this one. And here's why I had to research this.
(03:57):
I had an instinct about this, just being the analyst
and observer that I am. I researched Pelosi's voting record
over the past decade against her contemporaries. Here's something that
definitely surprised Joel. See how it hits you. Over the
past ten years, You've had approximately four hundred members Democrat
(04:22):
members of Congress. Okay, out of approximately four hundred Democrats
in Congress over the past decade, how many voted more
conservatively than Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
And you know, Brian, when you asked me that, I
had no concept. I was going to based on where
it sounded like you were going, I was going to
give her the benefit of the doubt and put her
around the midpack or middle fifty somewhere around there.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Okay, it's pretty reasonable.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Did you know that only thirty three House Democrats have
voted in a more bipartisan way Nancy Pelosi over the
past decade. It is just crazy, only thirty three, in fact,
did you know that Nancy Pelosi actually has co sponsored
fourteen percent of all of the Republican led bills that
(05:13):
have been signed into law over the past seconde And
here's the thing. I'm not making a case about how
from a conservative's perspective Nancy Pelosi has been misunderstood all
these years. That's not what I'm saying at all. She's
still very far left. She's still the san fran lived
(05:35):
that she's always been. This is my second takeaway today.
But what she has been is consistent. And I'm going
to come back to this point here in a moment.
But first, something that actually is great for America.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
A tremendous country with a tremendous leader, has officially joined
the Abraham of Courts. And I just want to thank you,
mister President. It's great honor.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan in the fold. And a couple of things
about this I think are interesting. The first is our
own Frank Marengos. So frankly speaking, he was the keynote
speaker at the Annual Asian Summit in Kazakhstan last week.
So Frank goes there, he delivers a keynote. Next thing
you know, they're joining the Abraham accords can't be a coincidence.
(06:24):
So I credit Marengos for being for being the person
who got it done.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The uh. But back to my takeaways on Nancy and
what she represents. So she has been consistent.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
See, the fact is that twenty years ago Pelosi was
the liberal standard bearer in this country and with reason.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What's different is the state of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So Pelosi, who was once as liberal of a member
of Congress as you were going to find by way
of voting record, now has a voting record that is
quote unquote more conservative than eighty three percent of her party.
She votes to the right of eighty three percent of
Congressional Democrats now. So in a week that's featured the
(07:17):
next major step of the socialist takeover the Democrat Party
with the insurgence of Zorron, Mom Dummy and the AOC
birding wing of the party, Pelosi's exit provides a perfect
contrast for just how far down the commune road the
Democrat Party has already traveled. And here's the next thing
about her exit not being a great thing for America.
(07:37):
What district does Nancy represent? She's the San Franciscan treat right,
the gift that just keeps all given. So this is
now the age of mom Dummy. What do you think
the odds are that the constituents of San Francisco are
(07:59):
going to replace na Was someone who actually turns out
to be one of the absolute most moderate members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I think there's a better chance that's.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Going to happen, or you're going to have someone that
you would not recognize by way of their biological sex.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Over under on these two things happening here Joel's reaction.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
We're talking about it birth.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Or what or what said future representative of San Francisco,
what they resemble will not be congruent with their biological sex,
that is I'm saying, I'm offering up the question, is
that more likely we get somebody who's an apostrophe or
(08:45):
an ampersan on the homosexual alphabet, or is to the
right of eighty three.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Percent of Democrats.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I'll take the ampers Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So I think it's far more likely that we're going
to get San France version of aoc Mondami here. So, yeah,
her exit is almost certainly only going to take her
party even further left, and so that is not a
great thing for this country.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But something that is bess. Here's another thing that's great
for this country.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Eli, Lilly and.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Novo Nordisk have agreed to provide all of their other
medications to Medicaid at most Favored Nations prices most favorite nations,
meaning that you will pay the lowest price anywhere in.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The world, most favored, not just a little favorite, not
just kind of carrying some on the periphery here, but
most the most favorite. And so yeah, you got Novo,
you got Lily in the mix here for massive price reductions,
the lowest that will be anywhere around the world. We're
talking about tens of billions of dollars in savings for
(09:50):
consumers of their prescribed drugs per year. This comes not
long after he had a recent a similar deal with
Astrozenica brought Astrozenca into the fold with the most favored pricing.
So this is all good. You know, There's something else
I think is going to be good. The death of
Trump's tariffs My third takeaway today. It was on March seventeenth,
(10:13):
at advance of Trump's Liberation Day. I left a lot
of people, including Joel, feeling not so liberated, very nervous.
And it was at that time March seventeenth, that first
I foreshadowed Liberation Day, which is why I was so
surprised that people were surprised on a liberation Day. But
on that day, when it was clear what was coming,
(10:35):
I said, as a free trader by nature, I've never
been a tariff person, and I can tell you that
on November seventh, I'm still not to the bottom line
is if I were a president for day, I wouldn't
be put in tariffs in place. But what I did
say back in March, in at varying point at times
throughout the year, is that President Trump is right that
(10:55):
the US has historically been taken an advantage of untraded
over the years, with US companies in a times consumers
getting the short end of the sick. And I've also
said that the tariffears in Trump's first term proved to
be dead wrong, as inflation was never an issue and
the limited tariffs that he put in place.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Proved to be effective.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I've also illustrated why the Liberation Day tariffiars were overblown
and how and why it would be that almost all
of the terrific spence would be eaten on the foreign
and corporate end of things.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
As opposed to being passed straight through to consumers.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's all happened, but still there has been some impact,
even if small en consumers. In my most recent economic
analysis related to tight all the stuff together, just about
two months ago, I brought you this. So during the
first three quarters of the year of the Trump administration's
wage growth, it's outpaced inflation by one point eight percent.
(11:53):
And there are several factors waiting into the phenomenon. However,
one of the largest is a dynamic of highlighted with
each of the monthly jobs reports in recent months. There
are one point one million fewer foreign born workers AMIDA
total of two million deportations that have taken place through
the first nine months of the Trump administration. So effectively,
(12:13):
illegal immigrants in the workforce were suppressing wages and taking
job opportunities from legal citizens. Okay, and so it's been
the deflationary impact of Trump's immigration policy that resulted in
economists overstating the net inflation impact of tariffs. However, by
analysis also showed that somewhere between one point three to
one point seven percent of the current inflation rate is
(12:36):
directly attributable to the Trump tariff policy. So while the
overall rate of inflation is lower than it was before,
and while it's true that the average American average family
has been able to slightly get ahead, it's still producing
a higher rate of inflation than otherwise would exist. The
most recent inflation rate was three percent. Effectively, without Trump
(13:00):
tariff policy, the inflation rate would be cut in half
to something just north of one percent, pretty much in
line with where he was during his first administration when
things were awesome, And that would also allow the Federal
Reserve to cut interest rates to well less than half
of where they are today because we'd be blowed the
fence two percent target.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Rate for inflation. So the calculation right along.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Is whether the foreign policy effects of the Trump tariff
policy were slash are worth a slightly higher cost of
living Looking around the economy today, with affordability concerns that
are still the top concerns for most Americans, I think
if the average American had to vote, I'd almost certainly
say no. But as that broke down yesterday, the Supreme
(13:45):
Court is likely to vote know in striking down in
Trump's tariff policy, which ironically could be one of the
best things that could happen for him. And the GOP
heading into next year's midterm elections. A ruling that comes
down this year would provide enough time for the effects
of lower prices lower inflation to be felt well before
next November, and that could be a great thing for America.
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
From Pelosi to Tariff's a great thing for America. Happy
Friday to you as we wade into today. Something that
has not changed other than the day.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Senate Republicans with a new plan to end the government shutdown,
the GOP, challenging Democrats to block a test vote funding
the va AG programs in Congress until next fall, plus
a band aid for the rest of government into January.
But it's unclear if Democrats will go along.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, so we're day thirty eight, no indication that things
are going to change. So they're going to try a
different tactic and vote today in the Senate. We'll see
where that goes in the meantime. My top takeaway for
you is a great thing for America. Who said a
great thing for America yesterday?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That would have been President Trump, and I believe he
was talking about Nancy saying bye bye.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He had a lot of nice things to say when
he was informed by Fox's Peter Doocy that Nancy was retiring.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
He had a lot of nice things like this to say,
She's an evil woman. I'm glad she's retiring.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I think she did the country a great service. By Richard,
I think she was a tremendous liability for the country.
And I thought she was an evil woman who did
a poor job to cross the country a lot in
damages and in reputation. I thought she was.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Terrible other than that great.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And you pointed it out earlier, Brian.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And Dick Cheney, you've said enough bad things about my hero.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So about halfway through his twenty seconds of thoughts about
Nancy Pelosi, you hear the female reporter in the background going.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Dick Cheney, Yeah, let's change yourself. Nancy's great.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So yeah, that's what Trump had to say about Nancy
Pelosi and the news of her retirement yesterday. Now, one thing,
you know, Trump was talking about her like she was
in the past. Tense there, I mean, and a lot
of respects maybe, But in reality, she's staying on through
this Congress. So Nancy will still be around through the
end of next year. A couple things about this. I'm
(02:26):
forty five years old. I was seven when she first
assumed her seat in the House of Representatives. And that's
to say a couple of things. First, I don't really
remember a time when Nancy Pelosi wasn't in Congress. And also,
for those who would love to see congressional term limits,
she's got to like exhibit A to make your case
right now. But here's the other thing that came to
(02:48):
mind yesterday when I was thinking about the era of
Pelosi coming to an end. For most of that time,
she was the example, the example of what a radical
liberal looked like from appointed policy, a term that was
and occasionally still is betting about in conservative circles. Is
a San Francisco Liberal right now. The whole idea of
(03:10):
the San Francisco liberal has been around since at least
the sixties. Hate Ashbury, all that kind of stuff, But
she's the one who really brought it to politics, right
because she was the San Francisco Liberal who ended up
shaping national politics amid her rise to prominence in the
Democrat Party, culminating in her multi decade role in leadership,
(03:31):
including multiple terms as House Speaker.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So to be sure, there would have.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Been a time that I would have taken a look
at Nancy Pelosi and gone, yeah, getting her out of
here would be a great thing for America. But today
with the Democrat Party on the verge of going full
mom dommi COMMI. I don't actually agree with President Trump
on this one. And here's why I had to research this.
(03:57):
I had an instinct about this, just being the analyst
and observer that I am. I researched Pelosi's voting record
over the past decade against her contemporaries. Here's something that
definitely surprised Joel. See how it hits you. Over the
past ten years, You've had approximately four hundred members Democrat
(04:22):
members of Congress. Okay, out of approximately four hundred Democrats
in Congress over the past decade, how many voted more
conservatively than Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
And you know, Brian, when you asked me that, I
had no concept. I was going to based on where
it sounded like you were going, I was going to
give her the benefit of the doubt and put her
around the midpack or middle fifty somewhere around there.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Okay, it's pretty reasonable.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Did you know that only thirty three House Democrats have
voted in a more bipartisan way Nancy Pelosi over the
past decade. It is just crazy, only thirty three, in fact,
did you know that Nancy Pelosi actually has co sponsored
fourteen percent of all of the Republican led bills that
(05:13):
have been signed into law over the past seconde And
here's the thing. I'm not making a case about how
from a conservative's perspective Nancy Pelosi has been misunderstood all
these years. That's not what I'm saying at all. She's
still very far left. She's still the san fran lived
(05:35):
that she's always been. This is my second takeaway today.
But what she has been is consistent. And I'm going
to come back to this point here in a moment.
But first, something that actually is great for America.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
A tremendous country with a tremendous leader, has officially joined
the Abraham of Courts. And I just want to thank you,
mister President. It's great honor.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan in the fold. And a couple of things
about this I think are interesting. The first is our
own Frank Marengos. So frankly speaking, he was the keynote
speaker at the Annual Asian Summit in Kazakhstan last week.
So Frank goes there, he delivers a keynote. Next thing
you know, they're joining the Abraham accords can't be a coincidence.
(06:24):
So I credit Marengos for being for being the person
who got it done.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The uh. But back to my takeaways on Nancy and
what she represents. So she has been consistent.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
See, the fact is that twenty years ago Pelosi was
the liberal standard bearer in this country and with reason.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What's different is the state of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So Pelosi, who was once as liberal of a member
of Congress as you were going to find by way
of voting record, now has a voting record that is
quote unquote more conservative than eighty three percent of her party.
She votes to the right of eighty three percent of
Congressional Democrats now. So in a week that's featured the
(07:17):
next major step of the socialist takeover the Democrat Party
with the insurgence of Zorron, Mom Dummy and the AOC
birding wing of the party, Pelosi's exit provides a perfect
contrast for just how far down the commune road the
Democrat Party has already traveled. And here's the next thing
about her exit not being a great thing for America.
(07:37):
What district does Nancy represent? She's the San Franciscan treat right,
the gift that just keeps all given. So this is
now the age of mom Dummy. What do you think
the odds are that the constituents of San Francisco are
(07:59):
going to replace na Was someone who actually turns out
to be one of the absolute most moderate members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I think there's a better chance that's.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Going to happen, or you're going to have someone that
you would not recognize by way of their biological sex.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Over under on these two things happening here Joel's reaction.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
We're talking about it birth.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Or what or what said future representative of San Francisco,
what they resemble will not be congruent with their biological sex,
that is I'm saying, I'm offering up the question, is
that more likely we get somebody who's an apostrophe or
(08:45):
an ampersan on the homosexual alphabet, or is to the
right of eighty three.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Percent of Democrats.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I'll take the ampers Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So I think it's far more likely that we're going
to get San France version of aoc Mondami here. So, yeah,
her exit is almost certainly only going to take her
party even further left, and so that is not a
great thing for this country.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But something that is bess. Here's another thing that's great
for this country.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Eli, Lilly and.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Novo Nordisk have agreed to provide all of their other
medications to Medicaid at most Favored Nations prices most favorite nations,
meaning that you will pay the lowest price anywhere in.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The world, most favored, not just a little favorite, not
just kind of carrying some on the periphery here, but
most the most favorite. And so yeah, you got Novo,
you got Lily in the mix here for massive price reductions,
the lowest that will be anywhere around the world. We're
talking about tens of billions of dollars in savings for
(09:50):
consumers of their prescribed drugs per year. This comes not
long after he had a recent a similar deal with
Astrozenica brought Astrozenca into the fold with the most favored pricing.
So this is all good. You know, There's something else
I think is going to be good. The death of
Trump's tariffs My third takeaway today. It was on March seventeenth,
(10:13):
at advance of Trump's Liberation Day. I left a lot
of people, including Joel, feeling not so liberated, very nervous.
And it was at that time March seventeenth, that first
I foreshadowed Liberation Day, which is why I was so
surprised that people were surprised on a liberation Day. But
on that day, when it was clear what was coming,
(10:35):
I said, as a free trader by nature, I've never
been a tariff person, and I can tell you that
on November seventh, I'm still not to the bottom line
is if I were a president for day, I wouldn't
be put in tariffs in place. But what I did
say back in March, in at varying point at times
throughout the year, is that President Trump is right that
(10:55):
the US has historically been taken an advantage of untraded
over the years, with US companies in a times consumers
getting the short end of the sick. And I've also
said that the tariffears in Trump's first term proved to
be dead wrong, as inflation was never an issue and
the limited tariffs that he put in place.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Proved to be effective.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I've also illustrated why the Liberation Day tariffiars were overblown
and how and why it would be that almost all
of the terrific spence would be eaten on the foreign
and corporate end of things.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
As opposed to being passed straight through to consumers.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's all happened, but still there has been some impact,
even if small en consumers. In my most recent economic
analysis related to tight all the stuff together, just about
two months ago, I brought you this. So during the
first three quarters of the year of the Trump administration's
wage growth, it's outpaced inflation by one point eight percent.
(11:53):
And there are several factors waiting into the phenomenon. However,
one of the largest is a dynamic of highlighted with
each of the monthly jobs reports in recent months. There
are one point one million fewer foreign born workers AMIDA
total of two million deportations that have taken place through
the first nine months of the Trump administration. So effectively,
(12:13):
illegal immigrants in the workforce were suppressing wages and taking
job opportunities from legal citizens. Okay, and so it's been
the deflationary impact of Trump's immigration policy that resulted in
economists overstating the net inflation impact of tariffs. However, by
analysis also showed that somewhere between one point three to
one point seven percent of the current inflation rate is
(12:36):
directly attributable to the Trump tariff policy. So while the
overall rate of inflation is lower than it was before,
and while it's true that the average American average family
has been able to slightly get ahead, it's still producing
a higher rate of inflation than otherwise would exist. The
most recent inflation rate was three percent. Effectively, without Trump
(13:00):
tariff policy, the inflation rate would be cut in half
to something just north of one percent, pretty much in
line with where he was during his first administration when
things were awesome, And that would also allow the Federal
Reserve to cut interest rates to well less than half
of where they are today because we'd be blowed the
fence two percent target.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Rate for inflation. So the calculation right along.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Is whether the foreign policy effects of the Trump tariff
policy were slash are worth a slightly higher cost of
living Looking around the economy today, with affordability concerns that
are still the top concerns for most Americans, I think
if the average American had to vote, I'd almost certainly
say no. But as that broke down yesterday, the Supreme
(13:45):
Court is likely to vote know in striking down in
Trump's tariff policy, which ironically could be one of the
best things that could happen for him. And the GOP
heading into next year's midterm elections. A ruling that comes
down this year would provide enough time for the effects
of lower prices lower inflation to be felt well before
next November, and that could be a great thing for America.
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