I Need To Give Credit

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't touch that dial or change the channel because it's
Sunday at seven pm and you're listening to the Hard
Truth on Iheart's WRKO. I'm John Deaton. Good evening everyone,
as usual. It has been a busy week. We have
seen all kinds of things go down. Big news, huge
news in the world today in the fact that President

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Trump has seemed to have negotiated a cease fire peace
deal between Hamas and Israel and the Palestinian people. Huge news,
huge news. And I got to tell you something if

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President Trump, and many of you know, I haven't been
a big Trump supporter, right and now. I support the policies,
but I haven't been like the biggest fan of President Trump.
I've been critical of President Trump in the past. I've
given President Trump credit. However, when I believe that credit
is deserved, and I am shocked, Well, you know what,

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I'm not shocked. I'm saddened that only one Democrat in
the United States Senate or even the House has said
something positive about the fact that there is negotiated peace
in the Middle East. And when we say negotiated peace,

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understand right now, it's not just that a cease fire
has been agreed to and that the hostages, if alive
or whoever is still alive, will be released. It's that
the surrounding Arab countries have agreed and have supported it

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and are on board to support this deal. I mean,
when is the last time you had all those different
factions of the world in the Middle East in an agreement.
And you have to give credit to President Trump because
of his style, his personality, his unpredictability, whatever leadership or

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even lack of leadership quality, critics want to say it
helped lead to this peace agreement. And one United States Senator,
Fetterman from Pennsylvania, has come out and said giving credit
to President Trump, and he's even went as far as
to say that if President Trump is also able to

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negotiate and be instrumental in bringing a peace deal between
Russia and Ukraine, that Fetterman, a Democrat Pennsylvania United States senator,
will lead the charge in trying to get the Nobel
Peace Prize warded to President Trump. And there is silence.

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Bernie Sanders silence, Elizabeth Warren silence, Ed Markey silence, AOC silence,
a Presley silence. All the people that were screaming for
a ceasefire that were yeh, calling genocide and all of
these things. They have said nothing. They haven't posted one

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thing like this is good, this is great. You know,
when Trump derangement syndrome has reached your brain and infected
your brain to a level that you can't say good job.
Where this is positive, people will stop dying, children will

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stop dying, Palestinians will stop starving, and that's a good thing.
You can't say that because you're afraid by some kind
of implication that you're giving credit to President Trump. When
you hate a human being that much, you can't. You

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shouldn't be an elected office. You shouldn't be in office.
You don't have the leadership, you don't have the maturity
to be in office. If you allow hate to consume
you to that degree, then you can't lead your constituents.

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You can't do what's right for America because you're consumed
with hate. I'm just you know, I can't even be angry.
I'm sad. It's so tragic that that's the state of
affairs that we've gotten into in this country, in this division,
that we can't say, you know, good job. I mean,
imagine this, do you think ed Markey, who's running for reelection.

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You think he'll be able to stand on the stage
and say, you know, illegal crossings at our southern border
are down ninety five percent, ninety five percent. The border
is pretty much closed secure, and only people who have
legitimate business in America. Okay, legitimate paperwork to be in

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America are coming in through our southern and our northern border.
That's a good thing. And you know who it's good for.
It's good for Massachusetts because, let's be honest, the border
crisis has bankrupt the state. That's not hyperbole, that's not
an exaggeration. It has bankrupt us because of piss poor

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leadership by our elected leaders. Governor Healy has spent four
billion dollars four billion dollars housing, feeding, giving healthcare, uber
rides to appointments to these illegals. No American citizen who

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is struggling, who was born here, to my knowledge, is
given free uber rides, free lift rides. I mean American here.
If they don't have a car, and they don't walk,
if they don't if they're not walking distance to the supermarket,

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you know what they use. They use public transportation like
me and my mom used to use we get on
a bus, and sometimes you have to catch two buses
or even three buses to get to the grocery store.
And then you get from the grocery store, you get
back on a bus. Okay, that's what people who were

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born here, who don't have money and don't have a car,
that's what they do. But yet, you could come here
illegally and we'll put you up in a hotel. We'll
send three meals a day, will cater them and pay
millions and millions and millions of dollars to catering companies
to bring your food to you to your hotel room.

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We'll give you money, food stamps and cash. Here, here's
a cell phone. And when you got to go to
the doctors, No, you don't have to catch a bus.
We'll just give a contract to a car company and
you can just call that car company and get free

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transportation anywhere you want to go. You can be catered to.
I mean, you realize that if you've lived here and
you're in the poverty under the poverty line here in Massachusetts,
that you're watching illegals be treated like royalty. And that's
not an exaggeration. Trust me, I lived in the hood.

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I lived on food stamps and welfare. I didn't eat
for days. I listened to my mother cry at night
many a night because we all went to bed hungry,
and her children were saying, but mommy, I'm hungry, But mommy,
I'm hungry. It's time to go to bed, John, John,
but mommy, I'm hungry, And then listen to her cry

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her self to sleep and listen to that shame that
she had in those tears. I've lived that life, and
trust me, if we were watching struggling like that going
to bed hungry as an American citizen. But these illegal migrants,

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and it's nothing against the illegal migrants. It's not their fault.
It's not their fault. It's elected leaders fought. But imagine
that poor person living in Mattapan, Roxbury, Brockton, Low Lrence, Holio,
and you're seeing these people being catered to. That's how

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you're gonna view it, like what is special about them.
I've been here all my life and no one is
feeding me, no one's given me free rides. I'm struggling.
No one's given me that much in food stamps. That

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is how they perceive it, because that's the only way
you would perceive it. But that's what we've been doing.
And so the fact that the border has been secured
is a good thing. Yet these left liberal Democrats, they

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don't want to acknowledge that, Yes, I disagree with other things.
I don't agree with snatching up that student and off
the street who was here on a visa, and Marco
Rubio denied the visa and validated it and then they
snatched her off the street to deport her. I one

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hundred percent disagree with that. I mean, what she wrote
was an opted and it was against Israel. But we
don't snatch people off the street. So you can two
things can be equal at the same time. You could
say I disagree with President Trump's administration on this situation,
but boy, I'm glad. I'm sure glad that the border

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is closed because it's bankrupting our state and he deserves
credit on that issue. Okay, that's the border. They love
to talk about race and xenophobia, and so they're going
to refuse to give credit where credit is due on
the border because of all those racial and xenophobia issues.

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And they're seeing ICE agents come and and take illegals
out of the country, and so they're gonna never give
credit for that. Okay, fine, it's stupid and illogical, as
I think that is fine. But peace still where people
stop dying, where children stop starving, where bombs stop getting dropped.

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You're telling me really that you can't tweet. AOC can't tweet,
she can even tweet. I still hate President Trump, but
good job on the peace deal. We don't even get
Trump credit. How about this is good news? But they can't.

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And you're gonna ask yourself why you are listening to
the Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. You can reach me
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Daton Number one, Johnny Daton one on X And if
you really want to learn all there is to know
about me, the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. Okay,
it's all in there. You can read my book Food
Stamp Warrior that's available on Amazon. You know we were
talking before the break about truck derangement syndrome, the fact

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that people can't even bring themselves to give credit that
a piece deal has been struck between Israel and Hamas,
Palestinians and GAYSA bombs are going to stop being dropped
on human beings, children, There's going to be a two

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state solution. According to the plan, all the things that
Bill Clinton tried to do with yachtser air fat Okay,
that Bill Clinton. We're talking about the nineties. We could
go back further, Nat, and we could talk about Jimmy Carter.
You know, you know who knows a lot about this
would be Ed Markey because he was in office. Believe

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it or not, he was in Congress before Jimmy Carter
became president. That's how long Ed Markey has been in
United in the United States Congress since nineteen seventy six.
But this conflict between Israel and Palestinians, the state solution.

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Are we not going to have a two state solution?
All of that has been going on for decades and decades,
many would argue for thousands of years, and a peace
deal is on the table. And I want you to
think about if Barack Obama were president and this happened,

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and you know, I think it's I think it's actually
a good thing that I wasn't a Trump supporter, you know,
I really do, because it gives me, I think, more
credibility in many ways, not more credibility, that's the wrong word.

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It sends a message that you have to be able
to have an independent voice. If you're going to be
a leader in the United States Congress, you have to
be able to not just succumb to an agenda that
one side wants. And we know we have elected leaders,

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you know, Elizabeth Warren. When I ran against Elizabeth Warren,
her main argument against me, her number one argument. It
was really her only argument, and this came up during
the debates, was don't vote for Deaton because he's a Republican.

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That was it. That was her argument. She's a Democrat.
She knows that Massachusetts historically votes blue. She demonized Republicans,
made all Republicans seem like.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
They were infected with disease, that they were toxic, that
they were evil, that they were fascists, that they were
Hitler loving Nazis or something.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
If you all remember, on the stage, on the debate stage,
I addressed this head on when I said to the audience,
to the camera, I said, you know, Senator Warren wants
to act like all Democrats are great and all Republicans
are evil. I got news for your senator. All of

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you suck in Congress. Some of you listening may remembered
that moment during the debates. Well, I meant that. I
meant that my criticism is bipartisan. Brother. I think that
Lindsey Graham, who is a Republican, has got to go.
I think that Mitch McConnell, who is a Republican, has

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got to go. I think that Chuck Grassley, who is
ninety two years old and thinking of running again, which
would mean if he wins, he'd be one hundred and
one years old in the United States Senate. He's a
Republican in Iowa. I think it's time to go. I

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don't think you need to be hundred years old sitting
in the Senate voting on blockchain and artificial intelligence and
robotics and automation. I think it's time for you to
go play with the great great great grandkids. You're so
damn old. Okay. Ed Markey is eighty years old. He's
been in the Congress for fifty years fifty Okay, everybody

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listened to me five oh fifty, not fifteen fifty years.
Do you realize that Ed Markey has been in the
in Congress ten years longer than the average person in

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Massachusetts has been alive. The average voter in Massachusetts is
forty years old, the average person forty. Marky's been in
DC fifty years. So for a decade, he's been in
Washington long than the average person in Mastersett's been alive.
It's insane, okay, And so but because I wasn't, you know,

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this sort of Trump disciple, and I was focusing on
our issues and our problems, and I was like, well,
you know, if half the country hate you, then you
know you really can't lead. We need to find someone
who can unite the country. This division is what's killing us.
It's killing us. So but anybody with common sense can say,

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I'm glad the border is secured, and man, am I
glad that people are going to stop dying in the
Middle East? And you know what, President Trump's not a
perfect person. I disagree with him on many things, but
God bless him for this deal. Like, what's so difficult
about that? But they can't do it. I think can

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you imagine if AOC or I in a presley, or
any of them, Marky and Warren, if they could get
on camera and say, like, I disagree with President Trump
on many things, but God bless him for this deal
because young children are going to stop dying and starting
I think that their bodies would start convulsing like they

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just got infected. The cure, the TDS cure was injected
in them, and now their bodies reacting to it. That's
what I think would happen. I think they think that
that's what might happen, and they can't bring themselves to
say a damn thing that is positive, and that is
just tragic. It's tragic in our country. But I'll say it, Okay,

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I'll say it. God bless President Trump for negotiating this
peace deal, because I got to tell you something. I
saw some of the pictures of the wreckage in Gaza.
I've seen some of the videos. I've seen children without limbs, okay,
And I'm telling you, I can feel the motion coming

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out of my voice right now. You look at children
who's their arms are hanging off or their head has
been crushed by a building that is crushed on them,
and you realize that two year old is dead, and
then you look at these pictures of people starving, and
that's going to end. And my god, let's all rejoice,

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stand up, applaud and it's okay, good job, President Trump.
I'm proud of you for that. Okay. Every American should
be able to say that, because we've been spending billions
of dollars, billions of dollars on these wars. Okay, In

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the last two years, we have spent thirty one billion
dollars in aid to Israel. Okay. Now, granted I know
that Israel's are ally okay, but thirty one billion dollars.
And I want you to think about this. In Israel,

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every citizen in Israel has a bank account given to
them by the government. In Israel, they have healthcare for
all their citizens, they have pensions, they have free college education.

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So that thirty one billion dollars helps a foreign country,
even though there are an ally and Israel's our ally
and I ran last time. You know that I'm pro
Israel and their right to defend themselves and all those things.
I think they took it too far. I think there

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were war crimes committed that does happen in war, and
those need to be addressed. But I'm not taking anything
away from our relationship with Israel. But thirty one billion dollars,
and they have free education, they have free health care.
We don't. We're thirty one dollars. We're thirty one trillion.

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We have a government shutdown that we're going to talk
about after the break, a government shutdown over healthcare and
nasty politics in America. But that thirty one billion dollars
went there. You want to talk about Ukraine, we have
spent two hundred billion dollars. I just want you all

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to know what two hundred billion dollars on the Ukraine
war that would end homelessness in America. That two hundred
billion dollars would provide pre free, universal pre k Okay
childcare for ten years and have a lot of money

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left over for everyone in America. You could take the
two hundred billion, you could extend Medicaid into the states
that haven't adopted it and provide healthcare for twenty million
Americans who are uninsured. You could do that for twenty

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years and still have money left over. Think of what
we could do for infrastructure. Are roads two hundred billion dollars.
And the last infrastructure they had one hundred billion for
bridges and roads. Imagine two hundred billion that could fix
our bridges and our roads across America. Think of our deficit.

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So the fact that that's going to stop and we're
not going to have to spend that much money is
a good thing. You listen to the heart come back,
We'll go back to the show. You listen to the
Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. You could reach me at
John at Hard truthshow dot com. So we've been talking
about the piece deal, We've been talking about TDS, Trump
derangement syndrome, all kinds of things, and there's so much

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more to talk about. I mean, we really haven't addressed
the shutdown. And this is what is very troubling, this
shutdown that we're in right now. I think we're in
day nine or ten. I don't know the exact day
is probably the best I mean, it's more appropriate to

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say worse, but best example of just how broken that
our politics have become in this country, and how politicians
love to say one thing one day and then when
they faced that very same thing, all this sudden they

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have amnesia and I'll give you an example. In twenty twenty,
President Biden won the election and became president. The Senate
in the House were also won by Democrats, so you

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had the Democrats in control of the House, the Senate,
and the presidency, and Republicans didn't like it. Conservatives didn't
like it, and there was all kinds of things going on.
We know about the DOJ, we know about law fair,
we know about weaponization. But they passed legislation and there

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were Republicans who disagreed with that legislation. I'll give you
an example. Biden passed the infrastructure bill, and a lot
of Republicans voted against the infrastructure bill because it increased
the deficit, because of multiple reasons. But that's what happens.

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There was an election, the Democrats won, they have enough
votes to pass a bill that they want to pass. Now.
I want to point out, because I can't let it go,
that in that infrastructure bill I mentioned in the last
before the break, one hundred and ten billion dollars was
dedicated to bridges across America. Yet out of that infrastructure bill,

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not a dollar was allocated to the two Cape Cod
bridges that were deemed functionally obsolete by the Army Corps
of Engineers. So I just want you to think about that.
We had two United States Senators, okay, nine congressmen and women,
and not a dollar of the Infrastructure Bridge Bill went

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to our bridges. We don't even have a voice in
the United States Senate when Democrats are in control. And
why is that? Because Elizabeth Warren and Marky are going
to do whatever the leadership tells them to do, whatever
is in the best interest of the Democratic Party, the

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Democratic agenda. They're going to do it. They're not going
to hold up and say, maybe you know what, Massachusetts
isn't getting enough, so I may not vote for this.
They will never do that, never, So Massachusetts doesn't have
a voice. We need to send somebody who will stand
up and say, I'm not voting for this because it's

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not good enough for Massachusetts and America. Okay, just like
the Big Beautiful Bill. Lisa Murkowski and Alaska wouldn't vote
for it at first, but then she said Alaska's not
getting enough, and then Alaska got billions of dollars and
she voted for it. We need someone who's willing to

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stand up and say whether if I was in the
United States Senate and President Trump and the Congress passed
the bill. If it wasn't good enough for Massachusetts, I
would say, you're not getting my vote. Massachusetts is going
to have to get something, We're going to have to
get paid. I'm not going to just let it go
to all these other states. You need someone to fight
for our state, for our citizens. They don't do that. Okay,

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But the point I'm making is that the infrastructure bill passed,
and then there was a threat of a shutdown, right
because couldn't agree not agree. Well, the Republicans went ahead
and voted for a continuing resolution with the Democrats in control.

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And the Democrats when they won the twenty twenty election,
they said, elections have consequences. Remember, elections have consequences. They
kept saying it over and over and over. Now let's
fast forward to twenty twenty four. There's an election. President

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Trump not only wins the Electoral College, he wins the
popular vote, but the Senate flips to Republican and the
House also flips. So basically, in twenty twenty, the Democrats
were in control. In twenty twenty four, the Republicans were

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in control, and the Republicans voted for a bill, and
that bill is called the Big Beautiful Bill. And I've
talked about that bill, and I've told you my shortcomings
I have with that bill, my criticism, and I told
you that if I was in the United States Senate,

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I would have used my leverage to get Massachusetts part
of that bill. That we'd have got something, just like
Alaska got something, and just like other states got something
because their senators spoke up and said, unless my state
gets something, I'm not voting. And the point is that

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the Republicans got their bill passed, just like the Democrats
did with the Infrastructure Bill. And in the Big Beautiful Bill,
the bill has provisions that restrict Medicaid. It also takes

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Medicaid away from abled body workers. Okay. And so the
Democrats are upset because there are subsidies related to the
Affordable Care Act Obamacare. And we'll talk about that, because
the Affordable Care Act was never affordable. See it's only

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affordable because the government uses tax payer dollars to subsidize
the insurance payments and premiums. Well, basically, the Big Beautiful
Bill has stripped down some of those subsidies, many of them, Okay,

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And the Democrats are like, well, guess what's gonna happen.
People's premiums are gonna go up and people are gonna
lose health care. And that's true. It is gonna happen
for some. It's not quite as catastrophic as the Democrats claim,
but there is no doubt that people's premiums are gonna

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go up, and it's something we have to address. We
have to fix health care in this country. We have to.
We must. Okay, we spend over four trillion dollars a
year on healthcare in this country, and the Affordable Care
Act Obamacare, was never affordable. It is a failure. Okay,
there's parts of it that we can use, but we

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have to reform it. But the point I'm trying to
make is that the Democrats have shut down the government
because they're demanding that those provisions of the big beautiful
Bill be rescinded. So do you understand the problem here?

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There was an election and Trump won, and the Republicans won,
and they passed legislation. That's how our system works. And
the Democrats are now saying, no, we don't like that,
and you have to change the bill that you just
passed or We're not going to pay soldiers, sailors, marines, Coastguard,

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air traffic controllers. We're going to shut down the whole
thing because we are mad that you won Trump. That's
really what it comes down to. Because if the Republicans
would have shut down the government after the infrastructure build

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because they disagreed with certain provisions of the infrastructure built,
can you imagine the outrage. And that's what they did.
That's not how the system works, what you normally do,
because they never talk about a balance budget. I mean,
there hasn't been a congressman or a United States Senator
in twenty years that the word balance budget has come

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out of their mouth. So what they do is they
pass a continuing resolution that's called a clean continuing resolution,
which means there's no pork in it. The Republicans don't say, okay,
well we want to do add this or add that.
It just basically says the status quo will pass this
continuing resolution and so the lights stay on in the

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government so that we pay our bills. There's no extras
for anyone. That's what a clean resolution, continuing resolution means.
And they wouldn't do it. They said, nope, we don't
like the fact that about these subsidies related to Obamacare,
and unless you change them, well, this is what I'm

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getting at. Elections have consequences, and that is such a
bad precedent because what it means is when you have
the minority in the Congress, all they have to do
is threaten to shut the government down and play this

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game hoping that because you're in control, your party's in control,
that it'll be blamed on you. And that's what they're doing.
Jakeim Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer. They're basically looking in
the camera to the American people and saying who's in charge.
The Republicans are in charge. Trump's in the White House,

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and the Republicans have the Senate and they have the House,
so if there's a government shut down, it must be
their fault. They're in charge. That's the political game that
they're playing. But people are going to miss a paycheck
this week, and hard working people are not going to
be able to pay their mortgage. People are not going

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to be able to buy groceries. Here's a statistic, people,
sixty percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, sixty percent,
sixty percent of Americans don't have one thousand dollars set aside,
one thousand set aside in case they have an emergency

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that month, and we're going to deny them their paychecks
because of politics. Shame shame on all of them. Listen
of the Hard truth come back, Welcome back to the
Hard Truths. I'm John Deaton. This is WRKO six eighty am,
and you can reach me at John Hard Truthshow dot com.
John at Hard Truthshow dot com. So we've been talking

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about Trump derangement syndrome to shut down all kinds of things. Well,
as I said before the break, shame on all these politicians.
Shame on them because they're holding the American people hostage.
And the American people are going to suffer now what

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we're going to see. Also, and I think that the Democrats,
you know, Trump isn't going to get a third term. Okay.
He loves to needle them, he loves to poke at them,
he loves it. Right, he offers them Trump twenty twenty
eight hats when they come into the White House. But
Trump's eighty years old and he's not going to try

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to run for a third time. He can't. Okay, The
reality is we have. You know, it's in the Constitution.
There was amendment after FDR was president for sixteen years,
they wanted to change it, so they changed it and
it's now in the Constitution twenty third Amendment that president

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can only serve two terms. So President Trump can't run,
but he can take this opportunity because he's not worried
about a reelection. Remember, and this applies to President Trump too.
And some of you out here who deny that you're
just being blinded by your love or loyalty for President Trump.

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But when President Trump was first elected in twenty sixteen,
they immediately begin worrying about re election. And Obama was
that way, Biden was that way, George W. Bush was
that every president's way. Right. They want to go into

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the White House for eight years, so as they're in
their first term, they're always worried about, well, is this
going to cost me reelection? And it causes them to
have a lot more concerned And I think President Trump,

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just like everyone else, had that issue during his first term,
and I think that's why you didn't see him drain
the swamp the way that he has said he was
going to. In that the deep state and all of
those things, and he was more reserved, right, and he
deferred to more of the political handlers, if you will,

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because they're worried about the re election. Well, now he's
in his second term, and contrary to his jabbing and
poking of them, he's not going to run for a
third term, going to try to test the constitutionality of
that amendment. Plus, he's eighty years old. He's going to

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want to golf, right, He's going to want to work
on his library, and he's going to want to have
the best presidential library that any president's ever had. I
imagine President Trump's treamly going to go around look at
all the different presidential libraries and decide that they're going
to have the biggest and the beddest, the baddest, and
the most incredible, and the most expensive and the most

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glorious presidential library. I guarantee you that that's what President
Trump's attention is going to be on. And so the
point I'm making here is that when you have that
kind of freedom where you're not worried about being reelected,
you become more unpredictable. And President Trump is going to

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probably use this shutdown to do things that normally he
wouldn't have the power to do so. For example, we're
hearing that there's going to be a permanent furlough. Now
that means fired, not just laid off, but a fifty

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percent of IRS agents. All right, now, you can hear
the people cheering that, but fifty percent. Remember under Biden,
they wanted eighty seven thousand more IRS agents and personnel
hired eighty seven thousand. And remember when they said to you, oh,

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it's for the billionaires. Well, there's two hundred billionaires. I'm sorry,
there's eight hundred billionaires, eight hundred billionaires in America. So
if you're going to dedicate it to the billionaires, then
you only need eight hundred IRS agents and each one
of them gets one billionaire. You don't need eighty seven thousand.

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Those eighty seven thousand were coming for small business is
they were coming for you and me right, Because we're
running at a deficit of two trillion dollars a year.
We take in five trillion dollars in taxes per year.
Five four point nine trillion is the exact number. We
spend seven trillion dollars per year. So we bring in

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five trillion, we spend seven trillion. That's a two trillion
dollar deficit every year each year. That's why we have
a thirty seven trillion dollar deficit. So those eighty seven
thousand IRS agents were going to come in and they
were going to try to make up that difference, not
by going after the billionaires or the multi multi millionaires,

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but going by the pizza shop owner, the sandwich shop owner,
the coffee shop owner. Okay, small businesses. And so President
Trump is like, Okay, half of you are gone and
you're not getting your job back even when we shut
the lights back on in the government, and I think
you're going to see there's talks of as many as

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seven hundred and fifty thousand federal employees are going to
permanently be fired. Listen, there's going to be litigation when
the government comes back on. Eventually, those folks that were
fired are going to file lawsuits. There'll be unions representing them,
they'll be litigation. Maybe they get reinstated, maybe they don't.

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But the point I'm making here is that the Democrats,
I think are again underestimating the situation, and they pushed
for a shutdown. They rejected a continuing resolution in order
to try to force President Trump's hand, And the theory

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that they're going on is that the public pressure, the
American people being outraged and upset that the government is
shut down, the loss of services, that that's going to
cause outrage, and the outrage will be taken on against
the administration and power, which is Trump. Okay, I understand

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the theory. The flaw in that argument is that they
think Trump cares about reelection or something and he does it.
And you know, does he have a young vice president
with JD. Vance? Yes? Is Marco Rubio young? Yes? Are

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there young Republicans who want to continue what President Trump
has done and stay in power? Yes? But President Trump
himself isn't worried about it. And so I think they're
overplaying their hand and He'll just cut whatever he wants
to cut and let the cards, you know, fall on

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the table as they may. I think that's what's going
to happen. And so I just think that they want
to gain power that this could backfire on them, and
you know, the Republicans will show a pole that the
public blames it on the Democrats. The Democrats will show
a pole that the public blames it on the Republicans. Listen,

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there's a reason these people only have twenty percent approval rating.
My position is that they all have got to go.
We need new people, We need new leadership because this
old leadership, this old way of doing things, has got
to change. We're in an era of artificial intelligence, automation, robotics,

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quantum computing, blockchain, crypto technologies. The world is changing and
this AI is changing every day. We have got to
have leaders who appreciate that, who only want to put
the country in the state they represent first. Who doesn't

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want to go to Washington and live there for thirty
forty years? My god, I want to ask ed Markey,
I really do. I want to sit at across the
table from this eighty year old man and say ed,
why the hell are you running again? Why the hell

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do you want to You've been in Washington for fifty years.
What is so attractive about that swamp? You haven't accomplished anything.
You preach Medicare for all that's never happened. It's never
gonna happen. We're never going to go to a single payer,
government run, exclusively government run healthcare system. It's never going

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to happen. You're never going to get enough votes for that,
plus it would cost about fifty trillion dollars in ten years.
So it's never gonna happen. The Green New Deal is
never going to happen, ed Mark. He didn't even vote
for the Green New Deal, and he's the co author.

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It came on the Senate floor and he voted. At present,
he can't even give his own support for the Green
New Deal. But you're going to watch in this election.
He's going to talk about the Green New Deal just
like you talked about the Green New Deal in twenty nineteen.
And it's never gonna happen. So he only talks like

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these talking points. Right, got to care for all Green
New Deal, We have to get rid of all guns.
We have to allow biological boys to compete against girls.
Of course, men can get pregnant. I mean, that's what
he says. He says all these talking points for the

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progressives and the far left so he can stay in office.
And fine, that's what he believes he has to say
to continue to win. You like the Democratic primary, and
then assume that he's going to win because he's in
Massachusetts and he's a Democrat, and that they're never going
to vote for a Republican. I get the political thought process,

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but my question, on a personal level, I want to say, Ed,
why the hell do you want to be in Washington
with these people? Like really this swamp? Don't you want
to do other things in your life? You really want it,
but you need to ask yourself why would someone want

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to stay there because of the perks, Because it's self
service not public service. Listen this show flew by. I
had so much more to get to the crime in
Massachusetts that's happening, and troops possibly coming and ice. I'll
see you next week. Be safe.