John Gets Worked Up

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't touch that dial or change the channel because it's
Sunday at seven pm and you are listening to WRKO
on Ihearts six eighty am.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm John Daton. This is the Hard Truth. Hope everybody
had a great week. Welcome back.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Remember you can reach me at John at Hard Truthshow
dot com. That's John at Hardtruthshow dot com. Listen, I
haven't talked about bitcoin or crypto for a little bit.
I told you I would update you, So right now
I'm gonna put on my glasses and I'm gonna check

(00:36):
right now the price of bitcoin. Now, remember I was
recommending bitcoin when it was under ten thousand dollars. It
is currently one hundred and twenty three thousand, five hundred
and twenty four dollars and eighteen cents, basically one hundred
and twenty four thousand dollars per bitcoin. Other cryptocurrencies, we've

(00:59):
got xrp is at three thirty three, and we've got
ethereum at forty seven hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
So listen.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
When I ran for Senate last year against Elizabeth Warren,
I said that crypto was going to be a big deal.
When I meant by big deal, I didn't mean a
big deal in the election.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I didn't mean that.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
I thought it was a top ten kitchen table issue
for voters, but I said that it was going to
be a big deal because our traditional banking system is broken.
We are thirty seven trillion dollars in debt and we
still have fractional banking. Now, remember we used to have

(01:49):
the dollar backed by gold. Richard Nixon took us off
the gold standard. So for every dollar that was printed
in the United States dates it was backed by gold,
the gold that we had in Fort Knox.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
When we went.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Off the gold standard, people would say, well, what's backing
the dollar now? Because you could just keep printing. You
just keep hitting the print button and trillions of dollars
get printed out of thin air. But as you know,
the more you create something, the less valuable it becomes.

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It's pure economics one oh one supply and demand. If
you have more and more and more dollars, that means
each dollar becomes less valuable. And so if it's not
backed by hard assets such as gold, then you debase
your currency and each dollar becomes less valuable, which means

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inflation prices go up. So now it takes you know,
a lot more dollars to buy the same things that
we used to buy ten years ago, twenty years ago.
The reality is people that from two thousand, the dollar
has been devalued by seventy five percent. The dollar since

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we went off the gold standard has been devalued by
ninety five cents. Okay, now those are just facts. We
print so much money. We're thirty seven trillion dollars in debt.
Every year we go two trillion dollars more in debt.
Remember how big is a trillion? I think I said

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this in a previous show.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It's worth repeating.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
When I was young, they used to say this government
project was going.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
To cost so many millions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
When I got to college, okay, this would be in
the late eighties, things costed the billions. And today when
we talk about governments spending infrastructure bill, big beautiful bill.
Whether it's Republican or Democrat initiative, doesn't matter. It's they say, well,
this is going to cost two trillion dollars. This is

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going to cost one point five trillion dollars. But to
show you just how big one trillion that number is,
I want you to google how many years does one
trillion seconds equal, and you're gonna find out it's over

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thirty four thousand years. That's how big a trillion is
from the day that Jesus was crucified. Right, just as
a historical fact in history, if you take the date
of crucifixion until today, and you add one million dollars

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per day every day from the date that Christ was crucified,
it does not equal one trillion dollars.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's how big the number trillion is.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
And we our government just keeps going in debt two
trillion a year. We're at thirty seven trillion now, and
that's why you're experiencing the fact that you're purchasing power
of the United States dollar is less than what it
used to be, and inflation is keeping and that's what

(05:34):
causes inflation. What causes inflation is that we just keep
printing so much damn money, and the more we keep.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Printing, the less valuable it becomes. And so that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
And so I said that we're gonna need an alternative,
and that's why I got into bitcoin, and that's why
I got into cryptocurrency, and I predicted that the new
wave of innovation one of them. An addition to artificial intelligence.
An addition to robotics, in addition to quantum computing would

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be blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has a limited supply.
There will only be twenty one million bitcoins ever created.
We've already created nineteen plus million, okay, and four or

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five million of them have been lost. And so since
we know that there's this limited supply of bitcoin, and
people are wanting bitcoin and buying bitcoin, it's going to continue.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
To go up.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Now, in the race against Elizabeth Warren, I brought up
the fact that she was trying to ban bitcoin. She
had a bill, and that bill was written by the
Banking Policy Institute, which is all the banks, JP, Morgan, Chase,
Bank of America, Wells Fargo. They all wrote her bill. Okay,

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and Elizabeth Warren wanted to ban bitcoin. Remember she said
it was just for drug dealers, it was just for terrorists.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
How many times did she say that?

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Remember when she ran and announced her reelection, she said
she was building an anti crypto army. Well, Donald Trump wins,
but before he wins, he promises to make crypto the capital.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Of the world.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
To make America the crypto capital of the world. It's
what I meant to say. But here's the thing. Guess
who or what just bought one hundred and thirty nine
million dollars worth of bitcoin Harvard Harvard's Endowment, where Elizabeth

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Warren was a professor at Harvard Law. Harvard's endowment now
is one of the largest institutional owners of the bitcoin ETF.
They bought black Rocks, ibit ibi t is the ticker,
it is a ETF, it's a spot TF.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's just like the gold ETF.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
So Harvard now is one of the biggest owners of
the bitcoin ETF. So I will take credit. I said
that bitcoin was going to be revolutionary. I said it
was going to be a big deal. And there's other
tokens other than Bitcoin that are also going to be
significant as we move forward. I've stated them before, ethereum, XRP,

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and there are a few others as well. Although bitcoin
is the granddaddy, it's the gold standard. It is now
considered digital gold, digital form of property, and everybody is
racing to buy it. And so when Harvard bought it

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did not surprise me at all. But I want to
point out that five years ago, Harvard's chief economist predicted
bitcoin was going to zero and.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
That it was worthless.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
We fast forward five years later, John Deaton gets criticized
by Elizabeth Warren and now her alma mater is one
of the largest institutional owners of the bitcoin etf So just.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Wanted to update you on that.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
I've said from the beginning, we're moving forward in a
different type of era. I believe that if you are
trying to build wealth, if you are trying to maintain
your wealth, that it is negligent to not have any
exposure to this new asset class. I've told you folks

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out there. You know you're not listening to this show
for financial advice. But if your financial advisor is saying
things like, you know, bitcoin and crypto is just used
for criminals and terrorists, fire him or her. They don't
know what they're talking about. Larry Fink, he is the
CEO chairman of black Rock. Okay, black Rock, which has

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eleven trillion dollars under management. Larry Fink is a bitcoiner now,
so it would be reckless, in my opinion, and negligent
if you didn't have any Now, Elizabeth Warren made a
big deal that eighty percent of my net worth was
in the asset class. You don't have to be me, obviously,

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but I think that you should have five ten percent
of your exposure. If you got one hundred thousand dollars
that you can invest and you don't have five or
ten thousand of that invested in bitcoin, I.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Think you're being foolishly. I really do.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Interest rates are going to get cut this fall when
you look at the data.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Jerome Powell, the Fed, he's got no choice.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
The question is is he going to go by twenty
five basis points or is he going to cut by
fifty basis points. I think he should cut by fifty
basis points because of the impact on the real estate market,
which basically dictates a lot of our economy. When he
cuts those interest rates, you're going to see bitcoin go

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from one hundred and twenty four thousand. It's going to
go to two hundred and fifty thousand.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
In the next year.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
In my opinion, it will double. Ethereum will go up
over ten thousand. Most likely, XRP will probably get the
six dollars.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
So that's your crypto corner for this week.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
When we come back, we're going to talk about some
big things that happened this week. Stay tuned, listening to
the Hard Truth. But John deet Allight, welcome back to
the show. You listen to the Hard Truth. This is
John Daton.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
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Speaker 2 (12:33):
And they were exposed to asbestos, that's.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
What I've done for thirty years here in Massachusetts, representing
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to one of the world's most known poisons, which is asbestos,
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Speaker 2 (12:56):
So you can reach out.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
To me at the Daton Law Firm, which is the
sponsor of this show. And so let's talk about some
things that happened since we spoke last. First of all,
let's do the Epstein update, because that's something that is
never going away, and we know that the Deputy Attorney

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General has interviewed Maxwell Glaine Maxwell.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
She's been moved to Texas. He spent two days.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
We know her attorneys are asking for President Trump to
issue a pardon. I've been interviewed several times across the
country about whether I support that not. The answer to
that is no, I don't support giving her a pardon.
But the biggest travesty, the biggest injustice related to the
Epstein issue, is that Epstein who's dead, right, whether he

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killed himself or whether he's murdered.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Whatever you think on that, he's gone.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
And you've got his female pimp who brought these children,
these girls to him and participated in the abuse. She's
serving twenty years. But what about all the other people
that are involved. How Come there's never been an investigation
what happened to all the people who participated on the island.

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How Come there's never been an indictment of any of
those people. That's what people are sick and tired of.
People are sick and tired of this two tiered justice
system that the wealthy and the powerful get to play
by different rules. And I predicted that the Epstein thing
wouldn't go away, and it's not going away, no.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Matter what President Trump says.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
He can call it a hoax, he can say it whatever,
but even his base wants justice. And so I think
we're going to have a release soon of more information.
I can't tell you what it's going to be be,
but I believe it's going to be. I don't think
President Trump will pardon Maxwell. But if she can lead

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to the prosecution and conviction of some of these child
predators who went on that island and they participated raping
minor women, then shave five years off, you know, or
something like that, cut her a deal. You could commute
her sentence so she doesn't necessarily do twenty years. But

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I certainly wouldn't pardon her. But that's one big topic
that's been talked about.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
This last week. Now.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Another thing that's heating up is the political campaigns.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
We've got Michelle Wou and Josh Craft in the mayor's race.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
It looks like Michelle Wu is just going to blow
Josh Craft out of the water. The preliminary election, I
believe is around the fifteenth of September next month. I
think it's going to be a blowout Craft. You know,
we'll be in the top two. But for all tents

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and purposes, it looks like, you know, Michelle wu is
going to easily win a re election in Boston, and
that's just the way it is. On the other side,
we have the governor's race that's heating up.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
We know that Mori Healy is obviously running for re election.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
And on the Republican.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Side, we've had there's three declared people that I know.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
This show has had two of them on.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I will invite the other one, Aaron Packard, I know,
has declared, but a lot of people are not considering
that a serious race, and a lot of people don't
believe that will make the ballot. But you know, my
show is going to be fair to everyone. If Packard
wants to come on here and make the case to

(17:08):
the people, he's going to get the opportunity the hard truth.
I interviewed Brian short Sleeve and I interviewed Mike Kneely.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And those two are heating up. The attacks are picking up.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
We know that both sides are digging in deeper, and
that's what primary politics is about. However, I believe we're
going to see a third big name entrance into the
governor's race, and the rumors.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Are that.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Mike mcnogue an executive from Gloucester. I believe maybe a
billionaire is going to get in the race, and it's
going to be a big announcement. If Mike mcnog gets
the race, I'll have him on the hard truth so
that he can make his case. That's what's going on

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with the Republican gubernatory race. And the real question here
is when these Republicans get done fighting it out and
one of them wins the primary, will that person be
able to defeat Moriheey Moriheey's ratings. Approval ratings are going down.

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Last time I checked, she was under fifty percent. You
know that's a lot different. I believe Baker was at
seventy percent when he ran for reelection and easily won.
But she could be in for a tough race, and
this could be the year that a Republican wins, and

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I believe it is absolutely necessary. I want you to
think about this, everybody for a minute. Massachusetts is right
now one of the unfortunately for us who live here,
it is one of the premier I don't want to
use the word best, but I will best examples of

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what happens to a state.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
When only one party.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Is ruling when only one party is completely in control,
when only one party is represented at the governance table,
not the governor. I'm saying the table of governance, all right,
And what I mean by that is every single state

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wide office in Massachusetts is occupied by a Democrat. The governor,
lieutenant governor, Secretary of State, attorney general, auditor, treasurer, every
single state office. And then when you look at the legislature,

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eighty five to eighty eight percent is Democrats.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Okay, when we go to the federal office.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
All nine US House of Representatives, congressmen and women, all
nine are Democrats. The two United States Senators, Elizabeth Warren
ed Marquis Democrats. So every single office of authority in

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Massachusetts is held by a Democrat. And some of them
are far left radicals, radicals who favor illegal migrants over
combat vets, radicals who are focusing right now on they're
going to ban plastic grocery bags at a time when

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people can't afford the groceries to.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Go in the bags. They're going to go carbon neutral
and ban natural gas pipelines while electric bills are going
through the roof.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
New housing. We're in a housing crisis, and they won't
allow gas pipelines for the houses. They all got to
be electric, which is super expensive. And not just that
where the housing crisis takes two years for builders to
pull the permits. They're buried in red tape. It is

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an absolute study of why you need dual representation. And
everyone out there, I'm sure that if for twenty years
right wing Republicans were in charge of every single office,
in every single policy, I'd probably feel the same way.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
But right now that's not the case.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
It is far left politicians who are running Massachusetts and
they're running it into the ground, and they've become so arrogant.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Now, so arrogant because.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
They're in power and there's they believe there's no threat
that they're going to lose any power, that they're going
to lose any seats. They become so arrogant, so complacent.
And the best example of that is the state audit.
Seventy two percent of the voters said that they wanted

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to make it law that the state auditor, who is
Diana Desaglia, who is a Democrat, by the way, that
she can audit the state legislature so that we can.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
See how our money is being spent.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
I mean, we lost a hospital in Dorchester, Carney Hospital closed.
Moriheeley said there was no money to save it. Nashoba
Valley Medical Centers closed in Central Massachusetts. Maraheeley said there
was no money to save it. A year before that,

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the Maternal Leave maternity leave in central mass shut down.
Marheeley said, there's no money to save it.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yet we spent a billion dollars per year.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
On illegal migrants, feeding them, housing them, clothing them, giving
them healthcare, and yet they don't want you to be
able to see where the money goes, who gets the contracts.
It's absurd. All Right, you're listening to the Hard Truth.
When we come back, we'll continue. All right, welcome back
to the Hard Truth.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
You're listening.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
This is John Deaton and you can reach me at
John at Hartruthshow dot com.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Johnhardtruthshow dot Com.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
I was getting worked up when we had to cut
to the break because I was talking about the audit.
I was talking about the absurdity, the air against, the contempt,
the disdain that these elected politicians in Massachusetts have. They
won't even allow an audit that seventy two percent of
the voters demand it be the law. They say Nope,

(24:35):
it's not constitution Now. Mora Heally says she supported it.
Attorney General Campbell says she supported the audit.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
But guess what. Attorney General Campbell won't help the state auditor.
She won't help her.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Diana Dissaglia is out there trying to get a firm
to sue the legislature because Andrea Campbell won't do it.
But Andrea Campbell will get up every other day and say, hey,
I filed another lawsuit against the Trump administration. She has
sued the Trump administration twelve times, but she won't pay
attention to what's going on in her own state. We

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don't even know how these one bid, no bid contracts
are being.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Granted by Mara Healey all.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Right, seven million dollars for this dry cleaning service, five
million dollars for this car service, eight million dollars for
meal service.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
We don't know if there's competition.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Morihey has been operating under a state of emergency this
entire time, which means she doesn't have to be as
transparent because it's a state of an emergency.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
These people are corrupt. Let me just say it right now.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
If they're fighting an audit, if the Speaker Ron Marianno
and the Senate Leader Karen Spilker, if they won't allow
an audit from a fellow Democrat audit the legislature and
where all our tax dollars are going and how it's
being spent. If they're getting up there saying we're not

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going to allow you to do it, because now they're
claiming it's unconstitutional.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
It's what they're saying.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
They believe that the audit that you voted for, that
got passed into law by seventy two percent of the voters,
that it's unconstitutional, even though Andrea Campbell said it was
constitutional and that it was in proper form to be
on the ballot. Why do you think they're fighting it.
There's only one reason, and that reason is corruption.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
I guarantee it.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
That hiding, where the money's going, how the money's going, kickbacks,
you name it, it's going down. I'm telling you right now,
Massachusetts looks like every other week, someone else, you know,
now it's a sheriff, someone else is being indicted, someone
else is being prosecuted.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yet it's not by our attorney general, it's by the Feds.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
These people are corrupt, and that's the reason they don't
want you to learn how your tax dollars are being spent.
There is no other explanation. Otherwise they would say, here's
the books. We've got nothing to hide. But they do
have something to hide. And think about what I said earlier.

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We don't have a seat at the table people. If
you are someone and you're a Republican or you consider
yourself a center right person, we don't have a voice
at the table.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Listen. I ran against Elizabeth Warren and I got my
butt kicked. But as a first.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Time candidate, no one knew who I was. Yes, I've
been a lawyer here for twenty five years up until then,
but you still didn't know who I was. No one
had ever heard of John Deaton. Yet I got forty
percent of the vote. I got over forty percent of
the vote, So forty percent of the voters said that

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they wanted John Deaton and not Elizabeth Warren forty But
we don't have one person in our federal government or
statewide government that would represent that forty percent. It's all Democrats,
and some of them, like I said, are far left radicals.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
So we've got to do something.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
We've got to make progress, and I'm hoping that that
the people out there are witnessing what's happening in Massachusetts.
We are in trouble. We are witnessing an exodus of
people leaving the Commonwealth because they cannot.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Afford to live here.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Six hundred and fifty thousand dollars is the average home
across the Commonwealth. That is over two hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars more than the national average. And god
forbid if you're trying to be in the Greater Boston area,
because the average home is for one million.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Dollars in the Greater Boston area. People can't afford that.
Our electric bill is seventy five percent higher than the
national average. That's incredible.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Massachusetts is the second most expensive state to live in
after Hawaii. We're beating out New York, We're beating out California.
That's not something we want to win. We don't want
to be the second most unaffordable state to live in,
but we are, and people are leaving. Old people are

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being forced out because they can't afford the cost of living.
Young people in their prime of their working years, where
they're going to generate tax revenue.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
For our state. They're leaving because they can't afford it.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
And their solution, Governor Healey's solution, the Democrat solution to everything,
is raised taxes.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
That's why they call it tax Achusetts.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Let's just raise taxes, candy tax, popcorn tax, wealth tax,
you name it.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
They put a new tax on, the car tax. That's right.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
They're taxing taxes now. It's absurd, but that's what's happening.
So the question is have people in Massachusetts been paying attention?
Have they had enough? Okay, because these people they wake
up and they just say, you know what, We're gonna
just start changing stuff, ridiculous stuff. We're gonna take mother

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and father off of birth certificates. There's none you can
do about it. None you can do.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
You don't have a seat of the table.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
They're gonna create a new gun law that's so vague
that you can't comply with it. It requires things that
there's no infrastructure in place in the state to be
able to comply with it. Well, that's just a de
facto ban on the Second Amendment. They could do it.
You don't have a seat the table. You can't even
slow it down, you can't object. You got to get

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a seat at the table. Otherwise, this is what they do.
Do you realize that, whether it's banning plastic grocery bags
or now it's bills that say, you know what, we're
gonna track how many miles that you drive your car,
and if you go over a certain amount that these

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people on Beacon Hill deemed to be too many miles
per year, they're gonna tax you because they're going to
lower the carbon emissions.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
We're gonna be carbon neutral in.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Massachusetts by a certain arbitrary date that they picked out
of their button that nobody can comply. In the meantime,
Massachusetts entire year carbon emissions. An entire year of carbon
emissions in Massachusetts equals.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Two days of China's emissions.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
It only takes China two days for their carbon footprint
to match our yearly carbon footprint. But these politicians think
that they're gonna solve climate change in Massachusetts when it's
a global problem. And that's why you're seeing all of
these these mandatory alternative energy mandates.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Affecting your electric bill.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
You're seeing solar surg charges and offshore wind surve charges
jacking your bills up because they believe they're.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Gonna solve climate change. Here in Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
All they're doing is punishing us, the taxpayer and businesses
in Massachusetts because they want to pick this date to
be carbon neutral.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
We're gonna have all electric cars by this date. Now.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Listen, I drive a fully electric car. I have a Tesla,
and hey, I have some solar panels in my house. Okay,
I think it was June I didn't have electric bill
because of the solar panels.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
And so this is not like I don't believe in
climate change. It's not like I don't.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Believe that we should try to take steps to lower
our carbon footprint. But my god, they this Green New
Deal crap that MARKI and AOC came up. Whether you
might as well sparkle some some fairy dust on it,
you know, And because it's a fairy tale, and it
doesn't even make sense, because they'll say, well, we're gonna

(34:11):
increase off sure wind. Well, you're destroying the oceans, you're
killing whales, you're affecting commercial fishermen, and the carbon footprint
of maintaining that and installing that, it's gonna take you
decades to offset.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
It makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
And when the wind doesn't blow, then there's gonna be
gaps when the sun doesn't shine, there's gonna be gaps.
And guess what they use to fill those gaps.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Fossil fuels. So the Green New Deal, that.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Fantasy that Marky is part of, actually causes us to
be dependent on fossil fuels, not replace fossil fuels. It's
all absolute rhetoric nonsense, okay, but that's what they're doing
here in Massachusetts. And they're going to be all electric cars.

(35:14):
We don't even have the grid for it. We don't
have the infrastructure for it. There's not enough charging stations
to do that. Do you know what trillions of dollars
it would take? What their solution raise taxes some more.
All you're gonna do is push more people out of
Massachusetts and we're going to continue to see this exodus.

(35:34):
So this election in twenty twenty six, there has to
be progress. We have to get two parties involved. There
has to be another voice at that table to represent
the forty percent that voted for me. As an example,
you're listening to the Hard Truth on WRKO six eighty am.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
I'm John Deaton.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Come back after the break, All right, welcome back to
the show. This is John Deeton and you listen to
the hard truth on ihearts WRKO.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
We were trying to discuss.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
This one party rule here in Massachusetts and the desperate
need for change.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
And right now twenty twenty six is there's going to
be a huge fight.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Right it doesn't look like the Senate can be flipped
by Democrats.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
But the House is really in play.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
And that's because there's like three seats now with retirements
that the Republicans lead the House. It is the slimmest
majority in the House since the nineteen thirties.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
And so.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
You have this redistricting that's taking place in Texas. The
Democrats did it in Illinois and they've done it before.
Now everybody's fighting over their.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
States, right these these state legislatures. They left Texas because.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
They wanted to break quorum so that the governor couldn't
do what he's doing. And then California said that they're
going to do redistricting even.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
More heally got involved.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
And said that you know, they'll do it, like they
don't have enough seat in Massachusetts. Like I said, forty
voted for me, but there's not one seat. There's not
one Republican seat at the table. They're not even independent
seat at the table. All Democrats, All Democrats, some of

(37:46):
which are far left radicals. And you know, listen when
it comes to redistricting. Redistricting when when politicians start drawing
the lines instead of voters, it's not democracy.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
See, it's a hostage situation. Okay.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
And I got to tell you the Democrats they're threatening
to retaliate, and they're saying that they have to save democracy.
And I'm going to remind everyone out there that. And
if I could give any advice to the people on
the left, it would be this.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
You need to.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Stop trying to save democracy by sacrificing democracy.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Hey, it's just like racism.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
You don't solve racism or discrimination with racism or discrimination.
You don't save democracy by sacrificing democracy. And you would
think that people on the left would get this because
they keep saving democracy.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Let's go back to Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Remember they thought that Hillary Clinton needed to be president
of the United States and we had to defeat Donald Trump.
And so Bernie Sanders got screwed by the Democratic Party
because they were coronating Hillary Clinton in that primary. And

(39:22):
Bernie got screwed. But they were trying to save democracy. Now,
let's fast forward to just.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Last year.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
And when Joe Biden dropped out, what did the Democrats do.
They coronated Kamala Harris. They didn't do democracy, they didn't
have an expedited.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Primary.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
They picked Kamala Harris, who had never received a vote. Okay,
let's remember she was the first Democrat out of the
Democratic primary for president. Tausy Gabbard lasted longer and got
more votes than Kamala Harris when Tausy Gabbert was a Democrat.

(40:19):
Now Tauca Gabbert is the Director of National Security. Okay,
she's part of the Trump administration. But she got more
votes as a Democrat than Kamala Harris. But nope, they
had to save democracy from Donald Trump, and so they
sacrificed democracy and the name of saving democracy.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Now they're gonna redistrict and they're going.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
To retaliate in this state and that state, Massachusetts, all
of this, and they're gonna save democracy. You've heard people
like James Carville, that old guy's in his eighties. He's
a strategist, and he said that, oh, you've got to
expand the Supreme Court to thirteen people. You've got to
make Puerto Rico state district of Columbia State. You got

(41:09):
to read district, all the states. You got to give,
you know, all of the illegals and citizenship so that
they vote Democrats in order to save the republic. So
you would think that after these failed attempts of saving
democracy by sacrificing democracy, they would stop doing that, but

(41:29):
they're not. You know, now I'm going to I said
I would read some of your comments and criticisms and
all of that.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
So I got an email. I got an email from Jennifer.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
From New Bedford and Jennifer from New Bedford rights John,
I want you to run again?

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Will you consider it? And so a poll was done.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
By people who want me to run against Ed Markey,
and that pole was in February. And I really didn't
think I was necessarily ever going to run again. And
I still don't know what I'm going to do, but
that poll showed that I could beat Marky between three
and seven points. Now, it's just one pole. It could

(42:29):
never put too much emphasis on one pole. But I
will say this, No Poe ever showed that I could
beat Elizabeth Warren. You know, I just didn't want Elizabeth
Warren to get a free pass I wanted to stand
on that stage and hold her accountable as much as
I could as someone who didn't have, you know, the
money she had, the name recognition she had.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
And I'm proud of the race I ran.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
But this poll does show that potentially I could beat Markey.
And it's because he's been there for fifty years. He's
been in Washington for five zero. He's seventy nine years old,
he'll be eighty next year when he's during the election.
And he's literally been in Washington, D C. Since nineteen

(43:20):
seventy six. Ladies and gentlemen, I am not a young man.
I'm fifty eight years old. And when Ed Marky first
went to Washington, I was.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Eight eight years old. The Red Sox were cursed.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Tickets of Finnway, where dollar twenty five, about twenty five
to go to Finnway, gas, sixty cents to wish for years,
fifteen hundred dollars bu ABC. It's crazy. And this is
a guy who does not live here. Okay, when he

(44:12):
ran last time, even the mainstream media said to him,
you know, when you're never here, you're never in this.
You live in Chevy Chase, Maryland. And Mark he stood
on the stage and he said he was going to
prove that he was really here in Massachusetts. Well, his
water bill, month after month after month, year after year,

(44:33):
is the minimum amount for a water bill? What's that mean, everybody?
That means there's nobody there taking a shower, there's nobody
taking a bath, there's no one running the dishwasher in
a washing machine.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Okay, that's what that means.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
You're paying the minimum balance water bill every month for decades.
All right, Yet this guy is going to run again.
I mean, this is why we got to have term limits.
Do you realize what's going to happen if Marky wins.
Let me tell you right now, if Markey wins reelection

(45:16):
at eighty years old, at about eighty three, eighty four,
eighty five years old, he's going to retire, and they're
hoping that they'll be a Democratic governor. And then they'll
give it to michellebou or they'll give it to Aana Pressley,
or they'll give it to someone else that they decide

(45:41):
who's going to be in that seat.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
That's how this works.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Why would an eighty year old man who's been in
Washington for fifty years, I mean, listen to this Ed
Markey voted for the nineteen ninety four crime bill. That
bill incarcerated black men at a rate five times more

(46:07):
than whites. Markie now wants to reform the law that
he voted and enacted twenty seven years ago, thirty years ago.
When you're in office and you vote stuff in right,
you make the law, and then your later are now

(46:31):
complaining about the law that you voted in and you
are now arguing to reform that law, it might be
a time to leave. It might be your time to
get off the stage and let someone younger who might
have different ideas than you, who might have better ideas

(46:53):
than you. Because you can't relate to everyday people. I'm sorry.
If you've lived in the Washington bubble for fifty years,
that's a half a century. That is a decade longer
than the average age voter in Massachusetts average eight voters

(47:17):
thirty nine point five years old, forty years old. Marky's
been in Washington, d C. For fifty years, So he's
been in Washington, d C. Ten years longer than the
people who are voting in the midterms has been alive.
That's obscene, that's absurd, and polling shows that whether you're
an independent or a Democrat or a Republican, fifty five

(47:39):
sixty percent say enough is enough. We need change. So
I don't know if I'll run again, but boy do
we need someone else other than Ed Markey. You can
reach me at John at Haardtruthshow dot com. John at
Hardtruthshow dot com.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Have a great week.