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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 ihearts WRKOH. 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, piece
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.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Supporter right now.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
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, I'm not shocked. I'm saddened that only
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one Democrat in the United States Senate or even the
House has said something positive about the fact that there
is negotiated.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Peace in the Middle East. And when we say negotiated.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Peace, 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
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it 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.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
As far as to say that if President Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is also able to 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.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh, and.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
There is silence, Bernie Sanders silence, Elizabeth Warren silence, Ed
Markey silence, AOC silence, an A Presley silence. All the
people that were screaming for a ceasefire that were yeah,
calling genocide and all of these things. They have said nothing.
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They haven't posted one 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
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will stop dying, children will 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
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that much, you can't. You 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. You can't do what's right
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for America because you're consumed with hate. I'm just you know,
I can't even be angry.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm sad. It's so tragic that that's the state of affairs.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That we've gotten into in this country, in this division,
that we can't say, you know, good job.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I mean, imagine this, do you think ed Markey, who's
running for re election.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's a good thing. And you know who it's good for.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
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
leadership by our elected leaders. Governor Healy has spent four
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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 ut 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
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to the supermarket, 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 the bus. Okay, that's what people
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who were 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
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your hotel room. 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.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You can be catered to.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
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.
I lived on food stamps and welfare. I didn't eat
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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
her self to sleep and listen to that shame that
she had.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
In those tears.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I've lived that life, and trust me, if we were
watching struggling like that going to bed hungry as an
American citizen.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But these illegal.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Migrants, and it's nothing against the illegal migrants.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's not their fault. It's not their fault. It's elected
leaders fought.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But imagine that poor person living in Mattapan, Roxbury, Brockton, Low, Holyo,
and you're seeing these people being catered to. That's how
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,
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no one's given me that much in food stamps. That
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
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is a good thing. Yet these left liberal Democrats, they
don't want to acknowledge that, Yes, I disagree with other things.
I don't agree with snatching up that student off the
street who was here on a visa and Marco Rubio
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denied the visa and validated it, and then they snatched
her off the street to deport her. I one 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
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I disagree with President Trump's administration on this situation, but boy,
I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I'm sure glad that.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
The border is closed because it's bankrupting our state and
he deserves credit on that issue.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay, that's the border.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
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. And they're seeing ICE agents come and take
illegals out of the country, and so they're gonna never
give credit for that. Okay, fine, it's stupid and illogical,
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as I think that is fine.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
But a peace still.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Where people stop dying, where children stop starting, where bombs
stop getting dropped. You're telling me, really that you can't tweet.
AOC can't tweet, she can even tweet. I still hate
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President Trump, but good job on the peace deal. We
don't even give Trump credit?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
How about this is good news? But they can't.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And you gotta ask yourself why you are listening to
the Hard Truth.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm John Deaton.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You can reach me at John at Hard Truthshow dot com.
Come back from the break, Welcome back to the show.
You're listening to the Hard Truth.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm John Daton. Listen everyone.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You can reach me at John at Hard Truthshow dot com,
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And if you really want to learn all there is
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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 that people can't even bring themselves
to give credit that a piece deal has been struck
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between Israel and Hamas Palestinians, and guy's bombs are going
to stop being dropped on human beings children, There's going.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
To be a two state solution.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
According to the plan, all the things that Bill Clinton
tried to do a yachtser air fat.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Okay, that Bill Clinton. We're talking about the nineties.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
We can 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 it or not, he was in Congress
before Jimmy Carter became president. That's how long Ed Markey
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has been a United in the United States Congress since
nineteen seventy six. But this conflict between Israel and Palestinians,
the state solution.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Are we not going to have a two state solution?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
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, and.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know, I think it's I think it's actually a
good thing that I wasn't a Trump supporter, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Really do, because it gives me, I think, more credibility
in many ways, not more credibility, that's the wrong word.
It sends a message that you have to be able
to have an independent voice. If you're going to be
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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,
you know Elizabeth Warren. When I ran against Elizabeth Warren,
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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 Deeton because he's a Republican.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That was it. That was her argument.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
She's a Democrat. She knows that Massachusetts historically votes blue.
She demonized Republicans, made all Republicans seem like they were
infected with disease, that they were toxic, that they were evil,
that they were fascists, that they were Hitler loving Nazis
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or something. 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.
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All of 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.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think that Lindsey Graham, who is a Republican, has
got to go. I think that Mitch McConnell, who is
a Republican, has 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
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and one years old in the United States Senate. He's
a Republican in Iowa, I think it's time to go.
I don't think you need to be one 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.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You're so damn old. Okay. Ed Markey.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Is eighty years old. He's been in the Congress for
fifty years. Fifty okay, everybody 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
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the average person in 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 longer than the average person in
Massachusetts been alive.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's insane, okay, And so but.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Because I wasn't, you know, 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.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So but.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Anybody with common sense can say, 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
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this deal. Like, what's so difficult about that? But they
can't do it? I think, can 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
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to stop dying and starting I think that their bodies
would start convulsing like they 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
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our country. But I'll say it, Okay, I'll say it.
God bless President Trump for negotiating this peace deal, because.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I got to tell you something.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I saw some of the pictures of the wreckage in Gaza.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I've seen some of the videos.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I've seen children without limbs, okay, And I'm telling you,
I can feel the motion coming 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.
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And my god, let's all rejoice, stand up, applaud and
it's okay. Good job, President Trump. I'm proud of you
for that.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Every American should be able to say that, because we've
been spending billions of dollars, billions of dollars on these wars. Okay,
in the last two years, we have spent thirty one
billion dollars in aid to Israel.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Now, granted, I know that Israel's are ally okay, but
thirty one billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And I want you to think about this.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
In Israel, 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. So that thirty one billion dollars helps
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a foreign country, even though there are an ally and
Israel's our ally and I ran last time.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You know that I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Pro Israel and their right to defend themselves and all
those things.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I think they took it too far.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I think there 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.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
We don't. We're thirty one dollars, We're thirty one trillion.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
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.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That two hundred billion dollars would provide pre free, universal pre.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
K Okay childcare for ten years and have a lot
of money left over for everyone in America.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You could take the two hundred billion, you could.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
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 years and still have money
left over. Think of what we could do for infrastructure,
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are roads? Two hundred billion dollars In the last infrastructure bill,
they had one hundred billion for bridges and roads. Imagine
two hundred billion that could fix our bridges and our
roads across America.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Think of our deficit. So the fact that that's.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Going to stop and we're not going to have to
spend that much money is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You listen to the heart, come back.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Welcome back to the show. You listen to the Hard Truth.
I'm John Deaton. You can 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.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So much more to talk about.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Exact day.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Is probably the best I mean, it's more appropriate to
say worse, but best example of just how broken that
our politics have become in this country, and how politicians
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love to say one thing one day and then when
they faced that very same thing, all this sudden they
have amnesia.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
And I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
In twenty twenty, President Biden won the election and became president.
The Senate in the House were also won by Democrats,
so you had the Democrats in control of the House,
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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 were Republicans who.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Disagreed with that legislation. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
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. There was
an election, the Democrats won. They have enough votes to
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pass a bill that they want to pass.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
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, not a dollar was allocated to the two
Cape Cod bridges that were deemed functionally obsolete by the
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Army Corps.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Of engineers. So I just want you to think about that.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
We had two United States Senators, okay, nine congressmen and women,
and not a dollar of the Infrastructure Bridge Bill went
to our bridges. We don't even have a voice in
the United States Senate when Democrats are in control.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And why is that?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
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 Democratic agenda.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
They're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They're not going to hold up and say, maybe, you
know what, Massachusetts isn't getting enough, so I may not.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Vote for this.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
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
not good enough for Massachusetts and America. Okay, just like
the Big Beautiful Bill. Lisa Murkowski and Alaska wouldn't vote
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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
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
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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,
But the point I'm making is that the infrastructure bill passed,
and then there was a threat of a shutdown, right
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because couldn't agree not agree. Well, the Republicans went ahead
and voted for a continuing resolution with the Democrats in control,
and the Democrats when they won the twenty twenty election,
they said, elections have consequences. Remember, elections have consequences. They
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kept saying it over and over and over. Now let's
fast forward to twenty twenty four. There's an election. President
Trump not only wins the electoral College, he wins the
popular vote, but the Senate flips to Republican and the
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House also flips. So basically, in twenty twenty, the Democrats
were in control. In twenty twenty four, the Republicans were
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
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I have with that bill, my criticism, and I told
you that if I was in the United States Senate,
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
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gets something, I'm not voting. And the point is that
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.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
The insurance payments and premiums.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Well, basically, the Big Beautiful Bill has stripped down some
of those subsidies, many of them, okay, 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
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not quite as catastrophic as the Democrats claim, but there
is no doubt that people's premiums are gonna go up,
and it's something.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
We have to address.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
We have to fix health care in this country.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
We have to. We must. Okay, we spend over.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Four trillion dollars a year on health care 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 have.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
To reform it.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
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? There was an election
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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, Coast Guard, air traffic controllers. We're
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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 because they disagreed with
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certain provisions of the infrastructure build, can you imagine the outrage.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
And that's what they did.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
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
out of their mouth. So what they do is they
pass a continuing resolution that's called a clean continuing resolution,
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which means there's no pork in it. The Republicans don't say, okay,
well we want to do add this or add that.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It just basically says the status.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Quo will pass this continuing resolution and so the lights
stay on in the 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.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Like the fact that.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
About these subsidies related to Obamacare, and unless you change them, Well,
this is what I'm 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
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they have to do is threaten to shut the government
down and play this 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. Jakem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer,
they're basically looking in the camera to the American people
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and saying.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Who's in charge. The Republicans are in charge.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Trump's in the White House 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.
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People are not going 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
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in case they have an emergency that month, and we're
going to deny them their paychecks because of politics. Shame
shame on all of them. Listen, 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
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dot com. So we've been talking 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.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
And the American people are going to suffer. Now what
we're going to see.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Also, and I think that the Democrats, you know, Trump
isn't going to get a third term.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
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
to run for a third time.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
He can't. Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
The reality is we have you know, it's in the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
It was amendment.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
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 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,
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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. But when
President Trump was first elected in twenty sixteen, they immediately
begin worrying about re election. And Obama was that way,
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Biden was that way, George W.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Bush was that way. Every president's way, right.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
They want to go into 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 concern And I think
President Trump, just like everyone else, had that issue during
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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, because they're worried about the re election. Well,
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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.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Plus, he's eighty years old. He's going to want to golf, right,
He's going to want to.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
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 glorious presidential library. I guarantee you that that's what
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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
re elected, you become more unpredictable. And President Trump is
going to probably use this shutdown to do things that
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normally he wouldn't have the power to do.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
So.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
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 percent of IRS agents. All right, now
you can hear the people cheering that, but fifty percent.
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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, it's for the billionaires. Well,
there's two hundred billionaires. I'm sorry, there's eight hundred billionaires.
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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. 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
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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 five trillion, we spend
seven trillion. That's a two trillion dollar deficit every year
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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, but going by the
pizza shop owner, the sandwich shop owner, the coffee shop owner. Okay,
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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.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
On in the government.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
And I think you're going to see there's talks of
as many as 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
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be unions representing them, they'll be litigation.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Maybe they get reinstated, maybe they don't.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
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 has
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?
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yes? Is Marco Rubio young? Yes?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Are there young Republicans who want to continue what President
Trump has done and stay in power?
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (43:48):
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 the table as they may.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I think that's what's going to happen. And so I
just think that they want to gain.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
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 poll
that the public blames it on the Republicans. Listen, there's
a reason these people only have twenty percent approval rating.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
My position is that they all have got to go.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
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,
quantum computing, blockchain, crypto technologies. The world is changing and
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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
want to go to Washington and live there for thirty
forty years? My god, I want to ask ed Markey,
(45:17):
I really do. I want to sit at across the
table from this eighty year old man and.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Say ed, why the hell are you running again? Why
the hell.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
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
(45:55):
to happen. You're never going to get enough votes for that.
Plus it would cost about fifty trillion dollars in ten years.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
So it's never gonna happen. The Green New Deal is
never going to happen.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Ed, Marky didn't even vote for the Green New Deal,
and he's the co author. It came on the Senate
floor and he voted at present, he can't even give
his own support for the Green New Deal.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
But you're going to watch in this election.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
He's going to talk about the Green New Deal just
like you talked about the Green New Deal in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
And it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
So he only talks like these talking points, right, medicare
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,
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that's what he says. He says all these talking points
for the 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
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the political.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Thought process, but my question.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Listen this show flew by.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
I had so much more to get to the crime
in Massachusetts that's happening, and troops possibly coming and ice.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
I'll see you next week. Be safe.
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 ihearts WRKOH. 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, piece
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.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Supporter right now.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
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, I'm not shocked. I'm saddened that only
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one Democrat in the United States Senate or even the
House has said something positive about the fact that there
is negotiated.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Peace in the Middle East. And when we say negotiated.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Peace, 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
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it 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
(02:16):
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.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
As far as to say that if President Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is also able to 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.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh, and.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
There is silence, Bernie Sanders silence, Elizabeth Warren silence, Ed
Markey silence, AOC silence, an A Presley silence. All the
people that were screaming for a ceasefire that were yeah,
calling genocide and all of these things. They have said nothing.
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They haven't posted one 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
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will stop dying, children will 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
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that much, you can't. You 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. You can't do what's right
(04:37):
for America because you're consumed with hate. I'm just you know,
I can't even be angry.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm sad. It's so tragic that that's the state of affairs.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That we've gotten into in this country, in this division,
that we can't say, you know, good job.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I mean, imagine this, do you think ed Markey, who's
running for re election.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's a good thing. And you know who it's good for.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
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
leadership by our elected leaders. Governor Healy has spent four
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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 ut 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
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to the supermarket, 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 the bus. Okay, that's what people
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who were 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
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your hotel room. 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.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You can be catered to.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
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.
I lived on food stamps and welfare. I didn't eat
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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
her self to sleep and listen to that shame that
she had.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
In those tears.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I've lived that life, and trust me, if we were
watching struggling like that going to bed hungry as an
American citizen.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But these illegal.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Migrants, and it's nothing against the illegal migrants.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's not their fault. It's not their fault. It's elected
leaders fought.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But imagine that poor person living in Mattapan, Roxbury, Brockton, Low, Holyo,
and you're seeing these people being catered to. That's how
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,
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no one's given me that much in food stamps. That
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
(09:43):
is a good thing. Yet these left liberal Democrats, they
don't want to acknowledge that, Yes, I disagree with other things.
I don't agree with snatching up that student off the
street who was here on a visa and Marco Rubio
(10:05):
denied the visa and validated it, and then they snatched
her off the street to deport her. I one 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
(10:26):
I disagree with President Trump's administration on this situation, but boy,
I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I'm sure glad that.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
The border is closed because it's bankrupting our state and
he deserves credit on that issue.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay, that's the border.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
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. And they're seeing ICE agents come and take
illegals out of the country, and so they're gonna never
give credit for that. Okay, fine, it's stupid and illogical,
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as I think that is fine.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
But a peace still.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Where people stop dying, where children stop starting, where bombs
stop getting dropped. You're telling me, really that you can't tweet.
AOC can't tweet, she can even tweet. I still hate
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President Trump, but good job on the peace deal. We
don't even give Trump credit?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
How about this is good news? But they can't.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And you gotta ask yourself why you are listening to
the Hard Truth.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm John Deaton.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You can reach me at John at Hard Truthshow dot com.
Come back from the break, Welcome back to the show.
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Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm John Daton. Listen everyone.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
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(12:26):
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 that people can't even bring themselves
to give credit that a piece deal has been struck
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between Israel and Hamas Palestinians, and guy's bombs are going
to stop being dropped on human beings children, There's going.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
To be a two state solution.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
According to the plan, all the things that Bill Clinton
tried to do a yachtser air fat.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Okay, that Bill Clinton. We're talking about the nineties.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
We can 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 it or not, he was in Congress
before Jimmy Carter became president. That's how long Ed Markey
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has been a United in the United States Congress since
nineteen seventy six. But this conflict between Israel and Palestinians,
the state solution.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Are we not going to have a two state solution?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
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, and.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know, I think it's I think it's actually a
good thing that I wasn't a Trump supporter, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Really do, because it gives me, I think, more credibility
in many ways, not more credibility, that's the wrong word.
It sends a message that you have to be able
to have an independent voice. If you're going to be
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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,
you know Elizabeth Warren. When I ran against Elizabeth Warren,
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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 Deeton because he's a Republican.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That was it. That was her argument.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
She's a Democrat. She knows that Massachusetts historically votes blue.
She demonized Republicans, made all Republicans seem like they were
infected with disease, that they were toxic, that they were evil,
that they were fascists, that they were Hitler loving Nazis
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or something. 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.
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All of 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.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think that Lindsey Graham, who is a Republican, has
got to go. I think that Mitch McConnell, who is
a Republican, has 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
(16:51):
and one years old in the United States Senate. He's
a Republican in Iowa, I think it's time to go.
I don't think you need to be one 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.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You're so damn old. Okay. Ed Markey.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Is eighty years old. He's been in the Congress for
fifty years. Fifty okay, everybody 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
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the average person in 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 longer than the average person in
Massachusetts been alive.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's insane, okay, And so but.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Because I wasn't, you know, 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.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So but.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Anybody with common sense can say, 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
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this deal. Like, what's so difficult about that? But they
can't do it? I think, can 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
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to stop dying and starting I think that their bodies
would start convulsing like they 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
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our country. But I'll say it, Okay, I'll say it.
God bless President Trump for negotiating this peace deal, because.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I got to tell you something.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I saw some of the pictures of the wreckage in Gaza.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I've seen some of the videos.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I've seen children without limbs, okay, And I'm telling you,
I can feel the motion coming 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.
(20:27):
And my god, let's all rejoice, stand up, applaud and
it's okay. Good job, President Trump. I'm proud of you
for that.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Every American should be able to say that, because we've
been spending billions of dollars, billions of dollars on these wars. Okay,
in the last two years, we have spent thirty one
billion dollars in aid to Israel.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Now, granted, I know that Israel's are ally okay, but
thirty one billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And I want you to think about this.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
In Israel, 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. So that thirty one billion dollars helps
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a foreign country, even though there are an ally and
Israel's our ally and I ran last time.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You know that I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Pro Israel and their right to defend themselves and all
those things.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I think they took it too far.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I think there 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.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
We don't. We're thirty one dollars, We're thirty one trillion.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
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
(22:44):
to know what two hundred billion dollars on the Ukraine
war that would end homelessness in America.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That two hundred billion dollars would provide pre free, universal pre.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
K Okay childcare for ten years and have a lot
of money left over for everyone in America.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You could take the two hundred billion, you could.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
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 years and still have money
left over. Think of what we could do for infrastructure,
(23:40):
are roads? Two hundred billion dollars In the last infrastructure bill,
they had one hundred billion for bridges and roads. Imagine
two hundred billion that could fix our bridges and our
roads across America.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Think of our deficit. So the fact that that's.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Going to stop and we're not going to have to
spend that much money is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You listen to the heart, come back.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Welcome back to the show. You listen to the Hard Truth.
I'm John Deaton. You can 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.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So much more to talk about.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Exact day.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Is probably the best I mean, it's more appropriate to
say worse, but best example of just how broken that
our politics have become in this country, and how politicians
(24:57):
love to say one thing one day and then when
they faced that very same thing, all this sudden they
have amnesia.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
And I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
In twenty twenty, President Biden won the election and became president.
The Senate in the House were also won by Democrats,
so you had the Democrats in control of the House,
(25:31):
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 were Republicans who.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Disagreed with that legislation. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
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. There was
an election, the Democrats won. They have enough votes to
(26:19):
pass a bill that they want to pass.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
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, not a dollar was allocated to the two
Cape Cod bridges that were deemed functionally obsolete by the
(26:43):
Army Corps.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Of engineers. So I just want you to think about that.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
We had two United States Senators, okay, nine congressmen and women,
and not a dollar of the Infrastructure Bridge Bill went
to our bridges. We don't even have a voice in
the United States Senate when Democrats are in control.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And why is that?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
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 Democratic agenda.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
They're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They're not going to hold up and say, maybe, you
know what, Massachusetts isn't getting enough, so I may not.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Vote for this.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
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
not good enough for Massachusetts and America. Okay, just like
the Big Beautiful Bill. Lisa Murkowski and Alaska wouldn't vote
(27:52):
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
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
(28:14):
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,
But the point I'm making is that the infrastructure bill passed,
and then there was a threat of a shutdown, right
(28:36):
because couldn't agree not agree. Well, the Republicans went ahead
and voted for a continuing resolution with the Democrats in control,
and the Democrats when they won the twenty twenty election,
they said, elections have consequences. Remember, elections have consequences. They
(28:58):
kept saying it over and over and over. Now let's
fast forward to twenty twenty four. There's an election. President
Trump not only wins the electoral College, he wins the
popular vote, but the Senate flips to Republican and the
(29:19):
House also flips. So basically, in twenty twenty, the Democrats
were in control. In twenty twenty four, the Republicans were
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
(29:44):
I have with that bill, my criticism, and I told
you that if I was in the United States Senate,
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
(30:07):
gets something, I'm not voting. And the point is that
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
(30:34):
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
(30:57):
affordable because the government uses tax payer dollars to subsidize.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
The insurance payments and premiums.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Well, basically, the Big Beautiful Bill has stripped down some
of those subsidies, many of them, okay, 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
(31:32):
not quite as catastrophic as the Democrats claim, but there
is no doubt that people's premiums are gonna go up,
and it's something.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
We have to address.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
We have to fix health care in this country.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
We have to. We must. Okay, we spend over.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Four trillion dollars a year on health care 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 have.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
To reform it.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
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? There was an election
(32:29):
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, Coast Guard, air traffic controllers. We're
(32:55):
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 because they disagreed with
(33:18):
certain provisions of the infrastructure build, can you imagine the outrage.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
And that's what they did.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
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
out of their mouth. So what they do is they
pass a continuing resolution that's called a clean continuing resolution,
(33:48):
which means there's no pork in it. The Republicans don't say, okay,
well we want to do add this or add that.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It just basically says the status.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Quo will pass this continuing resolution and so the lights
stay on in the 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.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Like the fact that.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
About these subsidies related to Obamacare, and unless you change them, Well,
this is what I'm 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
(34:40):
they have to do is threaten to shut the government
down and play this 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. Jakem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer,
they're basically looking in the camera to the American people
(35:01):
and saying.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Who's in charge. The Republicans are in charge.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Trump's in the White House 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.
(35:29):
People are not going 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
(35:50):
in case they have an emergency that month, and we're
going to deny them their paychecks because of politics. Shame
shame on all of them. Listen, 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
(36:12):
dot com. So we've been talking 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.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
And the American people are going to suffer. Now what
we're going to see.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Also, and I think that the Democrats, you know, Trump
isn't going to get a third term.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
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
to run for a third time.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
He can't. Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
The reality is we have you know, it's in the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
It was amendment.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
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 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,
(37:33):
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. But when
President Trump was first elected in twenty sixteen, they immediately
begin worrying about re election. And Obama was that way,
(37:56):
Biden was that way, George W.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Bush was that way. Every president's way, right.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
They want to go into 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 concern And I think
President Trump, just like everyone else, had that issue during
(38:27):
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, because they're worried about the re election. Well,
(38:49):
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.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Plus, he's eighty years old. He's going to want to golf, right,
He's going to want to.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
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 glorious presidential library. I guarantee you that that's what
(39:33):
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
re elected, you become more unpredictable. And President Trump is
going to probably use this shutdown to do things that
(39:56):
normally he wouldn't have the power to do.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
So.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
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 percent of IRS agents. All right, now
you can hear the people cheering that, but fifty percent.
(40:21):
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, it's for the billionaires. Well,
there's two hundred billionaires. I'm sorry, there's eight hundred billionaires.
(40:43):
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. 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
(41:03):
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 five trillion, we spend
seven trillion. That's a two trillion dollar deficit every year
(41:26):
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, but going by the
pizza shop owner, the sandwich shop owner, the coffee shop owner. Okay,
(41:51):
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.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
On in the government.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
And I think you're going to see there's talks of
as many as 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
(42:23):
be unions representing them, they'll be litigation.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Maybe they get reinstated, maybe they don't.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
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
(42:52):
that they're going on is that the public pressure, the
American people being outraged and upset that the government has
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
(43:17):
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?
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yes? Is Marco Rubio young? Yes?
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Are there young Republicans who want to continue what President
Trump has done and stay in power?
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (43:48):
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 the table as they may.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I think that's what's going to happen. And so I
just think that they want to gain.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
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 poll
that the public blames it on the Republicans. Listen, there's
a reason these people only have twenty percent approval rating.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
My position is that they all have got to go.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
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,
quantum computing, blockchain, crypto technologies. The world is changing and
(44:54):
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
want to go to Washington and live there for thirty
forty years? My god, I want to ask ed Markey,
(45:17):
I really do. I want to sit at across the
table from this eighty year old man and.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Say ed, why the hell are you running again? Why
the hell.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
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
(45:55):
to happen. You're never going to get enough votes for that.
Plus it would cost about fifty trillion dollars in ten years.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
So it's never gonna happen. The Green New Deal is
never going to happen.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Ed, Marky didn't even vote for the Green New Deal,
and he's the co author. It came on the Senate
floor and he voted at present, he can't even give
his own support for the Green New Deal.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
But you're going to watch in this election.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
He's going to talk about the Green New Deal just
like you talked about the Green New Deal in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
And it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
So he only talks like these talking points, right, medicare
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,
(46:55):
that's what he says. He says all these talking points
for the 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
(47:18):
the political.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Thought process, but my question.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
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
(47:42):
to stay there because of the perks, Because it's self
service not public service.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Listen this show flew by.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
I had so much more to get to the crime
in Massachusetts that's happening, and troops possibly coming and ice.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
I'll see you next week. Be safe.
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