March 5, 2025 • 39 mins
Senate Democrats continue to try and pander to young voters. This time, 22 of them all posted the same exact video, trying to blame Trump for all the problems Joe Biden created. They think you'll fall for that because they think you're stupid.
The fallout from Zelenskyy's Oval Office visit continues. The million-dollar question now is, why did it go so wrong, and what's next for Ukraine?
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The fallout from Zelenskyy's Oval Office visit continues. The million-dollar question now is, why did it go so wrong, and what's next for Ukraine?
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, y'all, welcome back to the next Gen Report. I
got something I want to get off my chest here.
I tend to be pretty happy with who I am
as a person. Obviously, I, like everyone else, have room
to improve. You know, there's there's things that I need
to work on with myself. I think everybody has that.
But overall, I'm I'm fairly confident and happy with just
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kind of who I am as a person. I'm an American,
I'm a man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
These are these are things that I don't have any
problem with. I enjoy great benefits because of them, and
I like that I enjoy those those simple facts. Here's
one thing about myself that I don't part particularly appreciate,
and that simple that one little issue, one thing that
if I could tweak, I would tweak just a little bit.
(01:08):
Is I happen to fall somewhere in between that millennial
gen Z generation. I think I'm technically gen Z uh,
But depending on who you ask, I might not be
either one. I'm just right there in the middle.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Part of that, You know, twenty something year olds that
aren't quite gen Z aren't quite millennials. But we get
all the negative downsides of both of those. There is
I think a very righteous dislike of young people in
modern America. And the reason I say that is because
of clips like the one I'm about to play you
once again from TikTok As if we needed more evidence
(01:44):
that that app is a sess pit. It's disgusting and
as horrible. Don't be on there, just don't. There's nothing
good there. I found this video actually because Kenny Webster
reposted it. If you missed the episode we did with
him last Saturday, go check it out. It's really good stuff.
But I found this after he reposted it. Take a
listen to this chick. I guess she's non binary, and
(02:05):
she's complaining about the fact that she's non binary. But
most of her co workers, like all of her co workers,
are women, so they will. By the way, it's worth
noting she's very clearly a biological female as well, so
she's a woman. She doesn't like that she's a woman,
and she doesn't like the fact that she gets grouped
in with all her other women coworkers. So how do
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you handle a situation like that? Obviously there's a lot
of moving parts there, right, Well, she decides to handle
it by just being a massive inconvenience to all of
her coworkers and bosses. That's not just me saying that,
she admits this herself. Take a listen to this chick
complaining about the fact that nobody's going out of their
way to cater to her specific pronouns and so she's
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going to be a pain in the butt to all
of her fellow coworkers. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Two things to note. I'm non binary, I go by
they them, and I work in a sword that is
pretty much all women. So whenever they're like addressing us
or when they're talking, they're always like, hey ladies. So
I've taken it upon myself, as someone that is non binary,
to use this uh to not listen. And whenever anyone
addresses a group as ladies, I am not included. So
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when they say hey ladies, let's like stop talking, or
hey ladies, let's like get to work, I will do
none of it because you're not talking to me. You're
not talking to me, you're not talking to me.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So I will not.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Listen to anything that is said when it is started
with hey ladies, I'm a vady, not a lady, a vighty.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I mean this chick is the like full package of young, liberal,
obnoxious millennial gen z. I mean, every single box on
the checklist she hits. I mean, she's got the weird
short haircut that's dyed an unnatural color. She's like shaved
her eyebrows into a pattern. She's got the septum piercing,
the nose piercing of big dangly earrings with a little
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holes in her ear lobes. Like if I were to
ask AI to generate an image of an obnoxious liberal woman,
it would generate this chick. But what do I make
of the video itself, the you know, substance of what
she's saying. Honestly, I hope she gets fired. I really do.
I hope she gets fired. Why because she deserves it.
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She deserves to be making next to no money working
as a barista in a coffee shop that treats her poorly,
where she has terrible management. That's what she deserves. And
you know, I guarantee you she's the exact same type
of chick that would be going and complaining about the
fact that you know, she can't move up in the
professional world. She can't go make more money, she can't
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get a good paying job to pay off her loans.
There's a clear reason for that. If you run a
business and you know you want to hire the best
possible people to do the best possible job, are you
going to hire this chick? I would venture to say no,
I wouldn't hire her because I know she's going to
be a massive inc convenience. You think this is the
only instance, the only issue, where she's drawn some obnoxious
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line in the sand. This is a clear cut case
of unbridled entitlement. Nobody wants to work with that. That
is an inconvenience to the people around you. Your labor
isn't worth the hassle that it is for you to
have around. So why would you move up in the world.
Why would you be making more money and getting a
better job. Like imagine you're trying to have a meeting,
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right you gather your team. You know you've got a
busy work day ahead of you. Something big is going on,
some events, some sale, what have you. I don't know
what she does. She didn't say, but I assume it's
probably she works in a coffee shop or some department store.
Some garbage like that. You try to get them together
to lay out the game plan, and you're like, all right,
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everyone quiet up, it's time for the meeting, ladies. Because
everyone you work with is a woman. All your employees
are females, except for this one goober who insists that
you call her a vedy and you're trying to have
a meet is she just won't shut up because you
didn't say hey, vades, which is not a word. I'm
even going to go off on a limb and say
that probably most of her coworkers don't like her, because
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I imagine there's at least some people there that work
with her that are actually trying to get work done.
There's got to be at least one, right, And so
if you're trying to in that same meeting, sit and
listen and pay attention and figure out what you're supposed
to be doing. And this quote unquote Vady in the
corner won't quit yapping about gay rights. You're trying to work.
We're here to work. Go push your social values where
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you go to the Pride rally and protest for this.
This is not the time and place. But yet young
people wonder why they're so disliked. It's because a whole
lot of us are like this a whole lot. I mean,
the root issue here isn't even the gender identity nonsense.
That is definitely a big problem. But the root issue
here is the entitlement. And this is something that's not
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unique to any particular political aisle. There are so many
young people today that are so ridiculously entitled, and that
has all sorts of ways of manifesting itself, and they're
all bad. This just happens to be the most vocal one.
And there's hundreds of thousands of videos just like this,
other people who share these same ideologies, that are spouting
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the same nonsense, the same entitlement. No wonder nobody likes
young people, especially in the business world. They're obnoxious. And
I say this as a young person. I'm the same generation.
So to all my fellow young people out there, I
give you this piece of advice. Shut up and get
your work done. You're getting hired to a job to
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do a job, not to push your social values. Be quiet,
do your work. All right, We've got a great show
coming up. Stay tuned. We will be right back after
this quick break. The Democrats are really running out of ideas,
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aren't they. Have you noticed that they keep doing the
same thing. They all say the same things, they all
focus on the same things. There's no originality in that party.
There's nobody doing anything that's, you know, particularly groundbreaking. There's
nobody kind of taking the lead and saying, Okay, I
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will push this party forward through the next couple of
years towards the next election, and we will focus on
these issues and we will win. You just have a
bunch of tired old Democrats doing the exact same thing.
It's not a good look for them, and it's definitely
not a good strategy. Remember, we have another election next year,
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so you kind of need to be working on and
how you're gonna win that. And as of right now,
it kind of looks like they've got nothing going on.
So here's what they do have. They do have one
script that all of the Senate Democrats got a copy
of and all of them made the exact same video
that they all posted on social media. I'm not kidding.
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They all made the exact same video, twenty two Senate Democrats.
So here's what I'm gonna do. They did this yesterday
and I just I couldn't pass up on an opportunity
to make fun of them for this. So here's what
we're gonna do. I'm gonna play the video that Chuck
Schumer posted, and then i'm gonna play you two other
Democrats saying the exact same thing at the exact same time.
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These are all Senate Democrats, by the way. And then
I'm gonna play you twenty two Senate Democrats all saying
the exact same thing. And I'm not kidding. They all
shot and uploaded the exact same social media video. Take
a listen to this first, so you know what they're
all saying, because as they stack up, it gets hard
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to tell the difference. Here is a former Senate Majority leader,
and I guess now he's the Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer,
talking about Donald Trump and his failures perceived failures I
should say on social media. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
When I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting
on day watch.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
That ain't true. That's what you just heard. Since day
one of Donald Trump's presidency. Prices are not down, they're up.
Inflation is getting worse, not better. The prices of groceries, yes, housing, eggs,
of essentials, it's not getting better, it's getting worse. Meanwhile,
Donald Trump has done nothing goose eggs to lower prices
for you. Instead, he's pardoned violent criminals who savagely beat
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police officers on January sixth. That's an ef and disgrace.
He's letting Elon Musk take a chainsaw to vital government
programs and then even worse, giving him access to American's
most sensitive dates.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
All right, I'm gonna stop him right there. You get
the picture first of all, Chucky Chuck, Shoeman, shoe doggy
dog cry about it. Honestly, I will say it's nice
that the Democrats finally care about the price is rising,
because for years they ignored this issue entirely. We were
actually told that it wasn't happening under Joe Biden, or
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that if it was happening, it was just for a
minute and it would go away. Guess what it wasn't.
Here's something that I think, for some reason, a lot
of people are incapable of understanding. You have four years
of bad policy. They try to cover up the effects
of that four years of bad policy for those four years,
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so basically everything is falling apart. They're taking the pieces
and they're sweeping them under the carpet, and then we
have Donald Trump come in and now he starts trying
to fix things. Okay, you can't fix four years of
bad policy and disaster in thirty seconds. That's just not
how it works. Everybody is well aware of the fact
that it's going to take time to fix the problems
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that Joe Biden created. And as we go and figure
out the true extent of the problems, as we kind
of peel back and find the data that the Biden
administration had been hiding for years, things are probably going
to get a little bit worse before they get better.
That's the unfortunate reality of how the world works. And
I think most people, for the record know that. And
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you should be insulted that the Democrats think you're too
stupid to know that, frankly, and if you are too
stupid to know that, well, I mean sucks to be you.
I guess I can't help you there. But all that aside,
because the actual substance of what Chuck Schumer said isn't
really what's important here. What's important here is the fact
that twenty two Senate Democrats all said the exact same
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thing in an identical video, literally twenty two, and the
number may very well be higher by now, but at
the very least, twenty two Senate Democrats all recorded the
exact same video saying the exact same thing. So let
me play you. I've got a video of three of
these side by side, so that you can see Elizabeth Warren,
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Chuck Schumer, and Corey Booker all saying the exact same
thing in their own videos. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
When I will immediately bring prices down starting on daywatch.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
That's what you just heard since day one day Donald Truss,
prices are not down, is getting worse. Get the prices
of gross is not getting better. He's getting worse. Meanwhile
has done.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
All right, you get the point, but it gets worse.
This is now five. That was three. Here's five. Who
did they add to the mix?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Here?
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Mark Henry from Arizona and I think the senator from
Virginia who was Hillary Clinton's VP nominee back in the day.
Here they all are saying, once again, the exact same thing,
all five of them.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
When I will immediately bring prices down starting on day watch.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
That's what we just heard President.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
All Right, you get the picture. I can't. I can't
keep listening to that. So that goes up to twenty
two by the way, and Charlie Kirk posted the compilation
of twenty two people saying that I'm gonna go ahead
and spare you from that. I'm not gonna play that
just because it'll make your ears pop. I still have
the headache from when I first listened to it. It's
a disease. But like I said just a minute ago,
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it really goes to show you exactly how washed up
the Democrat Party is. I mean, they're still trying to
do this thing where they go and you know, pender
to young people. I mean, they've all got those little
clip on bluetooth lapel mics and they're holding them up
and they're speaking into them like a bunch of gen
Z influencer types do and their ridiculous TikTok videos and whatnot.
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They're doing the exact same thing. They're trying to be
young and they're trying to appeal to young people, but
they have nothing but tired old talking points. I mean,
everything they said in those videos can be refuted in
thirty seconds or less. The idea that Trump is doing
nothing here on egg prices is ridiculous. The idea that
Donald Trump even is the cause of the egg prices,
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which is what they're insinuating is ridiculous. I mean, the
egg prices are going up as a result of Joe
Biden having throughout the course of his administration over one
hundred and six million egg laying hens killed due to
bird flu concerns. Donald Trump didn't do that. Joe Biden
did that. Donald Trump can't fix that overnight. The price
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of eggs has gone up fifty three percent since January
of twenty twenty four. Now, remember Donald Trump didn't come
into office until January of twenty twenty five, so by
the time Donald Trump got there, the price had already
risen like fifty percent. And you think he can just
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snap his fingers and make the supply of eggs skyrocket,
because that's what caused the price to go up. Right,
Less egg laying chickens means less eggs. The demand for
eggs isn't going down at all, which means the price
goes up because you have less eggs and the same
amount of demand. This is simple economics. It's not that hard.
And it's also not hard to understand that Donald Trump
can't magically create chickens or eggs frankly, but in a
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video clearly targeted to young people. They just cross their
fingers and hope you don't know that, young people, the
Democrats think you are stupid. They really do. Kamala Harris
has openly said this. They think you're dumb. They assume
you have no understanding of agriculture, they assume you have
no understanding of economics, and then because they think you're
completely stupid, they try to take advantage of you and
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trick you into voting for them. That's what's happening here.
You can clearly tell everything about this video is clearly
catered to young people, who they assume will not understand
that what they're saying is BS, and then twenty two
of them put out these identical garbage propaganda clips. It's unbelievable,
and honestly, if it works, I have no idea where
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we're headed as a society, because if the young people,
if my generation, like we just talked about in that
last segment, if we're stupid enough to fall for this,
then we deserve everything we get. Thankfully, I'm confident, I'm
very confident actually that young people aren't actually dumb enough
to fall for this. We're not stupid people. We're not.
We see through you, Chuck Schumer, and you're ridiculous overproduced
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recycled video. I honestly try harder, frankly, get better propaganda
if we deserve that, at least better propaganda. I think,
all right, stay tuned, We're gonna be right back. I
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think it's worthwhile to take a minute to talk about
Vladimir Zelensky a little bit more. We talked about that
in depth on Saturday's episode. Since then Vice President JD.
Vance did an interview on Fox News, and I think
there was a couple of interesting points that I want
to hit from this interview. There's sort of a confusion
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as to where things broke down. I think remember, Vladimir
Zelensky was there to sign a deal that, as far
as everybody on the Americans side, had already been negotiated
and agreed to. Marco Rubio had been a part of
these negotiations, as had JD. Vance, as had Vladimir Zelenski.
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We were all under the impression that this was a
largely ceremonial operation. We were going to go in, shake hands,
sign the deal, call it today. And then Vladimir's Lensky
started trying to renegotiate the deal in front of everybody,
and obviously that rubbed everybody the wrong way because we
thought we had a deal.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So here is Vice President JD. Vance talking a little
bit more about this. He's like, oh, okay, listen, here's
where things went wrong. We were all there to shake
hands and have a good time and then it exploded.
Here's why take it away, JD.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
And I do think that there was just a certain
sense of there's a lack of respect, there was a
certain sense of entitlement, and most importantly, look, we can
look past all that stuff. But the President has set
a very clear goal for his administration.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
He wants the killing to stop.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
And I think that it's very important that Presidents Zelenski
and of course President putin two they've both got to
come to the negotiating table, and that's ultimately where things
broke apart. I really don't care what President Zelenski says
about me or anybody else, but he showed a clear
unwillingness to engage in the peace process that President Trump
has said is the policy of the American people and
of their president. That's the real breakdown is I think
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Selensky wasn't yet there, and I think frankly now still isn't.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
There, but I think we'll get there eventually. He has to.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
That is an incredibly important point to make because people
on the left are trying to make the case that
essentially this was just Donald Trump and JD. Vance having
an ego trip. You know, Vladimir Zelensky would not bow
down to Donald Trump, kiss the ring and give us minerals.
This was never really about the mineral rights. Obviously, that's
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part of it. I think the American taxpayers deserve to
be reimbursed for the money that we've given to Ukraine,
but that's really kind of a secondary issue. The primary
issue here is there's a war going on that we
need to stop.
Speaker 9 (20:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Zelensky, in the midst of what was supposed to be
him signing a deal that was supposed to be sort
of the next step towards ending that war, Zelensky was
wanting to take steps that would have, you know, scaled
the war up. And I think that's incredibly important that
we make that clear. What Selenski was asking for was
security guarantees. Security guarantees means that if Russia goes after Ukraine. Again,
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that's American boots on the ground in Ukraine fighting the Russians.
I think it's important that we very clearly explain what
that leads to. If America gets tied into a war
with Russia, that triggers NATO Article five, which means all
of the countries in NATO are all of a sudden
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in a hot war with Russia. That's World War three, right,
That's pretty clearly world War three. Now, of course, there
is the question would Russia have the guts to actually
make a move on Ukraine if he knows that we'll
draw down all of NATO against him. I don't know. Frankly,
I have no idea. I'd rather not take that risk.
I'd rather not be in the position where that's a possibility, because, listen,
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this may be shortsighted and America centrist of me. I
really don't care what happens in Europe, and I for
sure I'm not gonna go fight a war for it.
I'm an American. This has no effect on me whatsoever.
We have enough oil that we don't need oil from Russia.
We have enough farmland we can grow on food. We
don't need wheat from Ukraine. This has no bearing on
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me whatsoever. I could not care less what happens in Ukraine.
I just want people to stop dying because I think
human life is valuable. That is the position of Trump
and the Trump administration. So far as I can tell,
it doesn't look like Zelenski was there, and so that's
why everything kind of fell apart. Like, the harsh reality
of this situation is Russia is going to win a
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little bit. They're gonna walk away with a little bit
of land that used to be Ukraine's. That's just the
hard truth. There is no other alternative other than an
endless war and or World War IIIE. Neither of those
second options are good options. I would rather Russia just
have a small sliver of Ukraine we call it today.
There's a bunch of leftists online that will tell me
I'm a terrible person because I think that way, And
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to them, I say, you aren't going to Ukraine and
picking up a rifle, are you? So shut up? If
you really feel that strongly about a war that's happening
thousands of miles away, that has no effect on your
life other than people are dying, and that's a tragedy.
Whenever it happens. But I don't want to go fight,
and you probably don't want to go fight either. So
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how about let's find a way to end this war
so that we don't get dragged into it. Because every
second it keeps going, America gets closer to being involved.
That's a harsh reality. Let's just end it now. Let's
quit while we're ahead, right, and hey, maybe while we're
at it, let's reimburse the United States for the hundreds
of billions of taxpayer dollars that we sent to Ukraine
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that probably got laundered into the pockets of Ukrainian elites.
I think that's fair. I think that's reason. Is anything
I've said unreasonable? I don't think so. At least it's
a plan, right, an actual strategy, to quote the President,
a concept of the plan at least. But these leftists
all they want is to just keep the war going forever,
with no viable endpoint. This is another point that JD.
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Vance hitting this interview with Sean Hannity, He literally says
the Biden administration had no plan other than keep fighting forever.
That doesn't work. If you're fighting a war, you have
to know what does victory look like? And is that
definition of victory achievable? Here's JD. Vance talking about that,
talking about the fact that like there was no plan
to actually end this war. It was just keep it
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going forever. Take a listen, and.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
You know, when you would talk to the Biden administration
officials in private, it's another example of a terrible situation
that Biden admin left the Trump administration. When you ask them,
what's the plan. Okay, we're going to spend tens of
billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukraine,
what is your plan? And they would honestly tell you, well,
we're just gonna and then weapons for as long as
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we can and hope eventually they can turn the tide.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
Hope is not a strategy.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Throwing money and ammunition at a terrible conflict that is
not a strategy.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
The only guy in town with a strategy.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Is the President of the United States, and everybody needs
to follow his leaders.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
What scares me is Lensky when he says it's going
to go on for years, how many more lives is
it going to be lost?
Speaker 9 (25:21):
He's not going to have a country to save it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Actually that the minerals deal would have provided the money
is to rebuild their country and a strong US presidence
and maybe European.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Troops as well. And this is this is an important
part of it.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
The President knows that, Look, if you want real security guarantees,
if you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does
not invade Ukraine, again, the very best security guarantee is
to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine.
That is a way better security guarantee than twenty thousand
troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war
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in thirty or forty years. The security guarantee and also
the i'm a guarantee for Ukraine is to rebuild the
country and ensure that America has a long term interest.
You're not going to do that if you come to
the Oval Office and sault the president and refuse to
follow his plan for peace.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And again this is an incredibly important point. At least
Donald Trump has a plan, right, bring both parties to
the table, negotiate, both parties win some, both parties loose some.
We call it today. Now, you may not like that plan.
You might prefer to just shovel money endlessly down the
pit that is Europe and just wait for something to explode.
(26:34):
Because that's what we've been doing for the last what
three years now, and it hasn't worked. I think it's
time to shake it up a little bit. Let's try
something else. Let's take a different angle. And that's exactly
what the Trump administration did. They took a different angle.
So on Monday, Trump announced that we would not be
sending any more military aid to Ukraine. Now here's why
this is important. As the BBC pointed out, Ukraine really
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can't continue this war without US military aid. They just can't.
This is something even the BBC pointed out. And in
their article about this, they say Fidir Venislavsky, a member
of the Ukrainian Parliament's Defense Committee, estimates his country's weapons
stockpile will last just six months after Donald Trump's decision
to pause shipments of military equipment. Now, of course, you
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had all the European leaders that got together and made
a big show of how much they were going to
support Ukraine, which, by the way, is a good thing.
Let Europe handle this. This is a European problem. I
have no problem with that. But at the end of
the day, the United States of America is the central
pillar that's holding this whole operation up right now, that's
an objective and observable fact. Donald Trump's strategy, presumably is Okay,
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Ukraine does not want to negotiate while they can still fight,
So I'm going to take away their ability to fight
and then they'll have to negotiate. It looks like that
was the plan, and it looks like that plan is
working because just yesterday, a day after Donald Trump froze
the military aid, Zelensky got out on Twitter and he
started talking about how willing he is to assign a
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deal and come to the negotiating table and follow Trump's leadership.
He got out there and he said, I would like
to reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace. None of us wants
an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the
negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.
Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I
stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to
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get a piece that lasts. Okay, so hey, at least
he's saying the right things here, right, I mean, let's
see what he actually does. But the lip surface is there,
so we'll take it. Remember, this war's not going to
end by itself. It's an endless war of attrition, World
War III, or a negotiated settlement. Those are the only options.
Pick your favorite. I know which mine is.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
All Right, stay tuned, we'll be right back after the break.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
All Right, you'll have to forgive me to jamming to
that song a little bit. I've made it very clear
how I feel about that song. I like it quite
a bit, so I tend to let that one play
a little bit longer than some of my other pump music.
If you don't like it, I'm sorry, cry about it.
I like it. I think it's good. So let's talk
a little bit about AOC. I try to avoid talking
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about her, just because I think there's nothing I can
say about AOC that a million other conservative talking heads
haven't said already. And I want to be unique, you know,
I want to bring something to the table that people
aren't getting elsewhere. I think my younger perspective is part
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of that. But you know all that to say, everybody
always talks about AOC. She's an easy target, so I
try to avoid doing that. However, I think in this
one instance, we have found a situation in which she
is worth bringing up just because she said something really stupid.
She was on Morning Edition, an NPR program. So, by
(30:36):
the way, your tax dollars paid for this NPR National
Public Radio, as the word public would suspect, they are
funded by the government, So you paid for this. She
was asked about the fact that what Donald Trump is
doing seems to be relatively popular, particularly when it comes
to doge. He is gaining a lot of ground with this.
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He's being very productive here. People seem to like that.
That's happening, and even some Democrats have been vocal about
the fact that, hey, we as the Democrats, should try
to hit this point a little bit as well, because
it's pretty popular. Cutting down on government waste and fraud
is popular with the taxpayers. We should do this a
little bit too, and maybe we'll win some votes that way.
(31:18):
That seems reasonable, right, That makes perfect sense. AOC rejected
the premise entirely. Here's what that sounded like.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Dean Phillips, one of your fellow Democratic members, was on
television this past week Fox News, as a matter of fact,
and he appeared to wish Democrats acted a little more
like Trump in this way. He wished that they would
appeal to business people to get smart people into government
to talk about efficiency. He seemed to wish Democrats would
do what Elon Musk is doing, even if he doesn't
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agree with the way that Elon Musk is doing it.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
I would say that instead of appealing to other politicians,
we should be appealing to the American people. And if
you ask the American people what they think of what
Elon Musk Doge are doing with government right now, they
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are vehemently opposed.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Okay, first of all, since when does saving money and
the money that we do spend spending that responsibly? Since
when does that not appeal to anybody? I mean, I'm
a taxpayer. I want my taxpayer dollars spent wisely. I
want them spent on good things that have a practical
benefit to the American people. I think most people would
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agree with that. I don't understand why she seems to
think that that's just appealing to politicians. That's appealing to everybody.
And you know what, the data backs me up on
that as well, because notice she just kind of said
that and didn't follow that up with any data. What
I'm saying I'm about to follow that up with some data.
We've got polls that show that what Elon Musk and
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Doge and Trump are doing actually is popular. So this
is from a Harvard cap Harris Pole. Shout out to
libs of TikTok for posting this along with that clip
of AOC. So it's all right there together, easy for
me to find.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
One of the.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Questions that was asked was do you think that the
government expenditures are basically fair and reasonable or do you
think they are filled with waste, fraud and inefficiency. Seventy
percent of people said they are filled with waste, fraud,
in efficiency. Seventy percent. That is not a small number.
That's not like a very slim majority of people support
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what Trump and Doze are doing. That's seventy percent. That
is a huge number. When it comes to political polls,
anything over about fifty five is massive, and this is
hell over fifty five. This is a huge number. Only
thirty percent of people say it's fair and reasonable. Now,
it doesn't give me the party breakdown on that, and
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I think that's a good thing, because I don't think it.
I think this is a relatively bipartisan issue. I think
most voters, even the Democrats, want their tax dollars spent
on reasonable things. And I think most of them are
smart enough to understand that the Democrat Party has been
lying to me and wasting my money for a very
long time. But that wasn't the only question they asked.
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The next question on this poll was do you support
or oppose the goal of cutting one trillion dollars of
government expenditures. Guess what the percentage of people who supported
cutting that trillion dollars was. I'll give you a second,
tick tick times up sold sixty nine percent. Darn near seventy. Again,
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this is a majority issue for Trump and the Republicans.
Most people are on board with this. Why the Democrats
refuse to get their head out of their butts and say, hey,
we should follow suit on this because it'll win us votes.
It's police malpractice. Frankly, it makes no sense to me.
There is no upside here to opposing what Donald Trump
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is doing other than the fact that you know a
lot of this money was probably being laundered back into
the campaign accounts of these Democrats. That's almost definitely what
was happening here. But those are just concepts, right, Those
are ideas. Do you think the government expenditures are fair
or not? Most people say no. Do you oppose the
goal of cutting a trillion dollars of government expenditures? Most
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people actually want those cuts to happen in concept, right,
So what about the practicality of establishing something like DOGE. Well,
they asked about that too, Do you think there should
be a US government agency focused on efficiency initiatives or not?
Seventy two percent of people said yes, even people that thought, Okay,
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what we've got going on right now is fair and reasonable.
Even some of those people say we should have an
agency that's there to make sure that that's what's happening.
Seventy two percent. Huge numbers. Why does AOC think this
is unpopular because her head is stuck in the liberal
echo chamber? But hey, maybe they support the concept and
(36:15):
the ideas and even the idea of putting a team
into practice, but they just don't want Elon Musk doing it.
They just don't like what DOGE is doing. Well, according
to the data, even that's incorrect. So the last question
up here is do you think the so called Department
of Government Efficiency aka DOGE, led by Elon Musk, is
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helping make major cuts in the government expenditures or no.
Sixty percent of people said yes, sixty forty. That was
the breakdown on that. At the end of the day,
Donald Trump is being practical and realistic and the voters
like that. They want that, But don't take my word
for it. Here's Stephen A. Smith on the view of
all Places. And again I don't like Steven A. Smith
(36:57):
because he's a Cowboys hater and I'm a Cowboys fan.
But that's besides the point. He clearly breaks down the
fact that, look, the voters were very clear with what
they wanted and Donald Trump is giving it to them.
Take a listen.
Speaker 11 (37:06):
It's only been in office for six weeks. Seems like
six years, doesn't it. And he's been going around with
his cronies touting his so called l landslawde and blowout win.
But he won the popular vote by one point five percent,
one of the smallest ever, and he won the general
election by less than fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
So what kind of mandate is this really?
Speaker 4 (37:25):
It is a mandate, then I'm going to explain why,
and I don't mind the question, but let me be
very clear. I'm no supporter of Trump. I'm a supporter
of truth in the facts, and here's the facts. The
man won every swing state. He increased in terms of
his voter turnout in his favor. From the standpoint of blacks, Latinos,
and young voters, he increased his numbers in that regard.
From twenty twenty, eighty nine percent of the counties shifted
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to the right. That's a mandate. We can sit up
there and play around all we want to. In twenty twenty,
they didn't Trump didn't win the popular vote. He didn't
win the electoral college vote. A matter of fact, the
Republicans had won the popular vote if I remember correct,
two thousand and.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
Four, but they did this year.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
So twenty years after they last won a popular vote,
they wanted a popular vote, they won the electoral college vote.
The man won every swing state, and on top of all,
eighty nine percent of the counties shift against I don't
understand how people can look at that and say there's
no mandate.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
There's a mandate.
Speaker 11 (38:24):
That's of a mandate, I guess.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
But the problem is that if you're a Democratic Party
and you lost forty nine point eight percent to forty
eight point three percent, and you're looking at that one
point five percent. That's an excuse for you to say
what we did really wasn't that, Dad? We should continue
to do that. No, don't continue to do to find
a new strategy.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Stephen A is completely right here. Donald Trump did have
a mandate. He got that mandate because he was honest
with the voters, told them what he was going to do,
and they liked it. The Democrats should look at that
and say, okay, how can we emulate that, not bury
their heads in the sand and claim they were right
the entire time when they clearly weren't.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
That's all I've got for you today Today, stay tuned.
We're going to be back on Saturday with a lot more.
Thank you for listening.
Hey, y'all, welcome back to the next Gen Report. I
got something I want to get off my chest here.
I tend to be pretty happy with who I am
as a person. Obviously, I, like everyone else, have room
to improve. You know, there's there's things that I need
to work on with myself. I think everybody has that.
But overall, I'm I'm fairly confident and happy with just
(00:42):
kind of who I am as a person. I'm an American,
I'm a man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
These are these are things that I don't have any
problem with. I enjoy great benefits because of them, and
I like that I enjoy those those simple facts. Here's
one thing about myself that I don't part particularly appreciate,
and that simple that one little issue, one thing that
if I could tweak, I would tweak just a little bit.
(01:08):
Is I happen to fall somewhere in between that millennial
gen Z generation. I think I'm technically gen Z uh,
But depending on who you ask, I might not be
either one. I'm just right there in the middle.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Part of that, You know, twenty something year olds that
aren't quite gen Z aren't quite millennials. But we get
all the negative downsides of both of those. There is
I think a very righteous dislike of young people in
modern America. And the reason I say that is because
of clips like the one I'm about to play you
once again from TikTok As if we needed more evidence
(01:44):
that that app is a sess pit. It's disgusting and
as horrible. Don't be on there, just don't. There's nothing
good there. I found this video actually because Kenny Webster
reposted it. If you missed the episode we did with
him last Saturday, go check it out. It's really good stuff.
But I found this after he reposted it. Take a
listen to this chick. I guess she's non binary, and
(02:05):
she's complaining about the fact that she's non binary. But
most of her co workers, like all of her co workers,
are women, so they will. By the way, it's worth
noting she's very clearly a biological female as well, so
she's a woman. She doesn't like that she's a woman,
and she doesn't like the fact that she gets grouped
in with all her other women coworkers. So how do
(02:26):
you handle a situation like that? Obviously there's a lot
of moving parts there, right, Well, she decides to handle
it by just being a massive inconvenience to all of
her coworkers and bosses. That's not just me saying that,
she admits this herself. Take a listen to this chick
complaining about the fact that nobody's going out of their
way to cater to her specific pronouns and so she's
(02:48):
going to be a pain in the butt to all
of her fellow coworkers. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Two things to note. I'm non binary, I go by
they them, and I work in a sword that is
pretty much all women. So whenever they're like addressing us
or when they're talking, they're always like, hey ladies. So
I've taken it upon myself, as someone that is non binary,
to use this uh to not listen. And whenever anyone
addresses a group as ladies, I am not included. So
(03:15):
when they say hey ladies, let's like stop talking, or
hey ladies, let's like get to work, I will do
none of it because you're not talking to me. You're
not talking to me, you're not talking to me.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So I will not.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Listen to anything that is said when it is started
with hey ladies, I'm a vady, not a lady, a vighty.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I mean this chick is the like full package of young, liberal,
obnoxious millennial gen z. I mean, every single box on
the checklist she hits. I mean, she's got the weird
short haircut that's dyed an unnatural color. She's like shaved
her eyebrows into a pattern. She's got the septum piercing,
the nose piercing of big dangly earrings with a little
(03:59):
holes in her ear lobes. Like if I were to
ask AI to generate an image of an obnoxious liberal woman,
it would generate this chick. But what do I make
of the video itself, the you know, substance of what
she's saying. Honestly, I hope she gets fired. I really do.
I hope she gets fired. Why because she deserves it.
(04:20):
She deserves to be making next to no money working
as a barista in a coffee shop that treats her poorly,
where she has terrible management. That's what she deserves. And
you know, I guarantee you she's the exact same type
of chick that would be going and complaining about the
fact that you know, she can't move up in the
professional world. She can't go make more money, she can't
(04:42):
get a good paying job to pay off her loans.
There's a clear reason for that. If you run a
business and you know you want to hire the best
possible people to do the best possible job, are you
going to hire this chick? I would venture to say no,
I wouldn't hire her because I know she's going to
be a massive inc convenience. You think this is the
only instance, the only issue, where she's drawn some obnoxious
(05:06):
line in the sand. This is a clear cut case
of unbridled entitlement. Nobody wants to work with that. That
is an inconvenience to the people around you. Your labor
isn't worth the hassle that it is for you to
have around. So why would you move up in the world.
Why would you be making more money and getting a
better job. Like imagine you're trying to have a meeting,
(05:28):
right you gather your team. You know you've got a
busy work day ahead of you. Something big is going on,
some events, some sale, what have you. I don't know
what she does. She didn't say, but I assume it's
probably she works in a coffee shop or some department store.
Some garbage like that. You try to get them together
to lay out the game plan, and you're like, all right,
(05:48):
everyone quiet up, it's time for the meeting, ladies. Because
everyone you work with is a woman. All your employees
are females, except for this one goober who insists that
you call her a vedy and you're trying to have
a meet is she just won't shut up because you
didn't say hey, vades, which is not a word. I'm
even going to go off on a limb and say
that probably most of her coworkers don't like her, because
(06:11):
I imagine there's at least some people there that work
with her that are actually trying to get work done.
There's got to be at least one, right, And so
if you're trying to in that same meeting, sit and
listen and pay attention and figure out what you're supposed
to be doing. And this quote unquote Vady in the
corner won't quit yapping about gay rights. You're trying to work.
We're here to work. Go push your social values where
(06:33):
you go to the Pride rally and protest for this.
This is not the time and place. But yet young
people wonder why they're so disliked. It's because a whole
lot of us are like this a whole lot. I mean,
the root issue here isn't even the gender identity nonsense.
That is definitely a big problem. But the root issue
here is the entitlement. And this is something that's not
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unique to any particular political aisle. There are so many
young people today that are so ridiculously entitled, and that
has all sorts of ways of manifesting itself, and they're
all bad. This just happens to be the most vocal one.
And there's hundreds of thousands of videos just like this,
other people who share these same ideologies, that are spouting
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the same nonsense, the same entitlement. No wonder nobody likes
young people, especially in the business world. They're obnoxious. And
I say this as a young person. I'm the same generation.
So to all my fellow young people out there, I
give you this piece of advice. Shut up and get
your work done. You're getting hired to a job to
(07:36):
do a job, not to push your social values. Be quiet,
do your work. All right, We've got a great show
coming up. Stay tuned. We will be right back after
this quick break. The Democrats are really running out of ideas,
(08:16):
aren't they. Have you noticed that they keep doing the
same thing. They all say the same things, they all
focus on the same things. There's no originality in that party.
There's nobody doing anything that's, you know, particularly groundbreaking. There's
nobody kind of taking the lead and saying, Okay, I
(08:37):
will push this party forward through the next couple of
years towards the next election, and we will focus on
these issues and we will win. You just have a
bunch of tired old Democrats doing the exact same thing.
It's not a good look for them, and it's definitely
not a good strategy. Remember, we have another election next year,
(08:58):
so you kind of need to be working on and
how you're gonna win that. And as of right now,
it kind of looks like they've got nothing going on.
So here's what they do have. They do have one
script that all of the Senate Democrats got a copy
of and all of them made the exact same video
that they all posted on social media. I'm not kidding.
(09:21):
They all made the exact same video, twenty two Senate Democrats.
So here's what I'm gonna do. They did this yesterday
and I just I couldn't pass up on an opportunity
to make fun of them for this. So here's what
we're gonna do. I'm gonna play the video that Chuck
Schumer posted, and then i'm gonna play you two other
Democrats saying the exact same thing at the exact same time.
(09:43):
These are all Senate Democrats, by the way. And then
I'm gonna play you twenty two Senate Democrats all saying
the exact same thing. And I'm not kidding. They all
shot and uploaded the exact same social media video. Take
a listen to this first, so you know what they're
all saying, because as they stack up, it gets hard
(10:05):
to tell the difference. Here is a former Senate Majority leader,
and I guess now he's the Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer,
talking about Donald Trump and his failures perceived failures I
should say on social media. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
When I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting
on day watch.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
That ain't true. That's what you just heard. Since day
one of Donald Trump's presidency. Prices are not down, they're up.
Inflation is getting worse, not better. The prices of groceries, yes, housing, eggs,
of essentials, it's not getting better, it's getting worse. Meanwhile,
Donald Trump has done nothing goose eggs to lower prices
for you. Instead, he's pardoned violent criminals who savagely beat
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police officers on January sixth. That's an ef and disgrace.
He's letting Elon Musk take a chainsaw to vital government
programs and then even worse, giving him access to American's
most sensitive dates.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
All right, I'm gonna stop him right there. You get
the picture first of all, Chucky Chuck, Shoeman, shoe doggy
dog cry about it. Honestly, I will say it's nice
that the Democrats finally care about the price is rising,
because for years they ignored this issue entirely. We were
actually told that it wasn't happening under Joe Biden, or
(11:23):
that if it was happening, it was just for a
minute and it would go away. Guess what it wasn't.
Here's something that I think, for some reason, a lot
of people are incapable of understanding. You have four years
of bad policy. They try to cover up the effects
of that four years of bad policy for those four years,
(11:43):
so basically everything is falling apart. They're taking the pieces
and they're sweeping them under the carpet, and then we
have Donald Trump come in and now he starts trying
to fix things. Okay, you can't fix four years of
bad policy and disaster in thirty seconds. That's just not
how it works. Everybody is well aware of the fact
that it's going to take time to fix the problems
(12:06):
that Joe Biden created. And as we go and figure
out the true extent of the problems, as we kind
of peel back and find the data that the Biden
administration had been hiding for years, things are probably going
to get a little bit worse before they get better.
That's the unfortunate reality of how the world works. And
I think most people, for the record know that. And
(12:27):
you should be insulted that the Democrats think you're too
stupid to know that, frankly, and if you are too
stupid to know that, well, I mean sucks to be you.
I guess I can't help you there. But all that aside,
because the actual substance of what Chuck Schumer said isn't
really what's important here. What's important here is the fact
that twenty two Senate Democrats all said the exact same
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thing in an identical video, literally twenty two, and the
number may very well be higher by now, but at
the very least, twenty two Senate Democrats all recorded the
exact same video saying the exact same thing. So let
me play you. I've got a video of three of
these side by side, so that you can see Elizabeth Warren,
(13:16):
Chuck Schumer, and Corey Booker all saying the exact same
thing in their own videos. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
When I will immediately bring prices down starting on daywatch.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
That's what you just heard since day one day Donald Truss,
prices are not down, is getting worse. Get the prices
of gross is not getting better. He's getting worse. Meanwhile
has done.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
All right, you get the point, but it gets worse.
This is now five. That was three. Here's five. Who
did they add to the mix?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Here?
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Mark Henry from Arizona and I think the senator from
Virginia who was Hillary Clinton's VP nominee back in the day.
Here they all are saying, once again, the exact same thing,
all five of them.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
When I will immediately bring prices down starting on day watch.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
That's what we just heard President.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
All Right, you get the picture. I can't. I can't
keep listening to that. So that goes up to twenty
two by the way, and Charlie Kirk posted the compilation
of twenty two people saying that I'm gonna go ahead
and spare you from that. I'm not gonna play that
just because it'll make your ears pop. I still have
the headache from when I first listened to it. It's
a disease. But like I said just a minute ago,
(14:43):
it really goes to show you exactly how washed up
the Democrat Party is. I mean, they're still trying to
do this thing where they go and you know, pender
to young people. I mean, they've all got those little
clip on bluetooth lapel mics and they're holding them up
and they're speaking into them like a bunch of gen
Z influencer types do and their ridiculous TikTok videos and whatnot.
(15:06):
They're doing the exact same thing. They're trying to be
young and they're trying to appeal to young people, but
they have nothing but tired old talking points. I mean,
everything they said in those videos can be refuted in
thirty seconds or less. The idea that Trump is doing
nothing here on egg prices is ridiculous. The idea that
Donald Trump even is the cause of the egg prices,
(15:27):
which is what they're insinuating is ridiculous. I mean, the
egg prices are going up as a result of Joe
Biden having throughout the course of his administration over one
hundred and six million egg laying hens killed due to
bird flu concerns. Donald Trump didn't do that. Joe Biden
did that. Donald Trump can't fix that overnight. The price
(15:50):
of eggs has gone up fifty three percent since January
of twenty twenty four. Now, remember Donald Trump didn't come
into office until January of twenty twenty five, so by
the time Donald Trump got there, the price had already
risen like fifty percent. And you think he can just
(16:11):
snap his fingers and make the supply of eggs skyrocket,
because that's what caused the price to go up. Right,
Less egg laying chickens means less eggs. The demand for
eggs isn't going down at all, which means the price
goes up because you have less eggs and the same
amount of demand. This is simple economics. It's not that hard.
And it's also not hard to understand that Donald Trump
can't magically create chickens or eggs frankly, but in a
(16:34):
video clearly targeted to young people. They just cross their
fingers and hope you don't know that, young people, the
Democrats think you are stupid. They really do. Kamala Harris
has openly said this. They think you're dumb. They assume
you have no understanding of agriculture, they assume you have
no understanding of economics, and then because they think you're
completely stupid, they try to take advantage of you and
(16:57):
trick you into voting for them. That's what's happening here.
You can clearly tell everything about this video is clearly
catered to young people, who they assume will not understand
that what they're saying is BS, and then twenty two
of them put out these identical garbage propaganda clips. It's unbelievable,
and honestly, if it works, I have no idea where
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we're headed as a society, because if the young people,
if my generation, like we just talked about in that
last segment, if we're stupid enough to fall for this,
then we deserve everything we get. Thankfully, I'm confident, I'm
very confident actually that young people aren't actually dumb enough
to fall for this. We're not stupid people. We're not.
We see through you, Chuck Schumer, and you're ridiculous overproduced
(17:43):
recycled video. I honestly try harder, frankly, get better propaganda
if we deserve that, at least better propaganda. I think,
all right, stay tuned, We're gonna be right back. I
(18:18):
think it's worthwhile to take a minute to talk about
Vladimir Zelensky a little bit more. We talked about that
in depth on Saturday's episode. Since then Vice President JD.
Vance did an interview on Fox News, and I think
there was a couple of interesting points that I want
to hit from this interview. There's sort of a confusion
(18:39):
as to where things broke down. I think remember, Vladimir
Zelensky was there to sign a deal that, as far
as everybody on the Americans side, had already been negotiated
and agreed to. Marco Rubio had been a part of
these negotiations, as had JD. Vance, as had Vladimir Zelenski.
(19:00):
We were all under the impression that this was a
largely ceremonial operation. We were going to go in, shake hands,
sign the deal, call it today. And then Vladimir's Lensky
started trying to renegotiate the deal in front of everybody,
and obviously that rubbed everybody the wrong way because we
thought we had a deal.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So here is Vice President JD. Vance talking a little
bit more about this. He's like, oh, okay, listen, here's
where things went wrong. We were all there to shake
hands and have a good time and then it exploded.
Here's why take it away, JD.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
And I do think that there was just a certain
sense of there's a lack of respect, there was a
certain sense of entitlement, and most importantly, look, we can
look past all that stuff. But the President has set
a very clear goal for his administration.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
He wants the killing to stop.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
And I think that it's very important that Presidents Zelenski
and of course President putin two they've both got to
come to the negotiating table, and that's ultimately where things
broke apart. I really don't care what President Zelenski says
about me or anybody else, but he showed a clear
unwillingness to engage in the peace process that President Trump
has said is the policy of the American people and
of their president. That's the real breakdown is I think
(20:10):
Selensky wasn't yet there, and I think frankly now still isn't.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
There, but I think we'll get there eventually. He has to.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
That is an incredibly important point to make because people
on the left are trying to make the case that
essentially this was just Donald Trump and JD. Vance having
an ego trip. You know, Vladimir Zelensky would not bow
down to Donald Trump, kiss the ring and give us minerals.
This was never really about the mineral rights. Obviously, that's
(20:40):
part of it. I think the American taxpayers deserve to
be reimbursed for the money that we've given to Ukraine,
but that's really kind of a secondary issue. The primary
issue here is there's a war going on that we
need to stop.
Speaker 9 (20:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Zelensky, in the midst of what was supposed to be
him signing a deal that was supposed to be sort
of the next step towards ending that war, Zelensky was
wanting to take steps that would have, you know, scaled
the war up. And I think that's incredibly important that
we make that clear. What Selenski was asking for was
security guarantees. Security guarantees means that if Russia goes after Ukraine. Again,
(21:22):
that's American boots on the ground in Ukraine fighting the Russians.
I think it's important that we very clearly explain what
that leads to. If America gets tied into a war
with Russia, that triggers NATO Article five, which means all
of the countries in NATO are all of a sudden
(21:43):
in a hot war with Russia. That's World War three, right,
That's pretty clearly world War three. Now, of course, there
is the question would Russia have the guts to actually
make a move on Ukraine if he knows that we'll
draw down all of NATO against him. I don't know. Frankly,
I have no idea. I'd rather not take that risk.
I'd rather not be in the position where that's a possibility, because, listen,
(22:06):
this may be shortsighted and America centrist of me. I
really don't care what happens in Europe, and I for
sure I'm not gonna go fight a war for it.
I'm an American. This has no effect on me whatsoever.
We have enough oil that we don't need oil from Russia.
We have enough farmland we can grow on food. We
don't need wheat from Ukraine. This has no bearing on
(22:28):
me whatsoever. I could not care less what happens in Ukraine.
I just want people to stop dying because I think
human life is valuable. That is the position of Trump
and the Trump administration. So far as I can tell,
it doesn't look like Zelenski was there, and so that's
why everything kind of fell apart. Like, the harsh reality
of this situation is Russia is going to win a
(22:50):
little bit. They're gonna walk away with a little bit
of land that used to be Ukraine's. That's just the
hard truth. There is no other alternative other than an
endless war and or World War IIIE. Neither of those
second options are good options. I would rather Russia just
have a small sliver of Ukraine we call it today.
There's a bunch of leftists online that will tell me
I'm a terrible person because I think that way, And
(23:13):
to them, I say, you aren't going to Ukraine and
picking up a rifle, are you? So shut up? If
you really feel that strongly about a war that's happening
thousands of miles away, that has no effect on your
life other than people are dying, and that's a tragedy.
Whenever it happens. But I don't want to go fight,
and you probably don't want to go fight either. So
(23:33):
how about let's find a way to end this war
so that we don't get dragged into it. Because every
second it keeps going, America gets closer to being involved.
That's a harsh reality. Let's just end it now. Let's
quit while we're ahead, right, and hey, maybe while we're
at it, let's reimburse the United States for the hundreds
of billions of taxpayer dollars that we sent to Ukraine
(23:54):
that probably got laundered into the pockets of Ukrainian elites.
I think that's fair. I think that's reason. Is anything
I've said unreasonable? I don't think so. At least it's
a plan, right, an actual strategy, to quote the President,
a concept of the plan at least. But these leftists
all they want is to just keep the war going forever,
with no viable endpoint. This is another point that JD.
(24:16):
Vance hitting this interview with Sean Hannity, He literally says
the Biden administration had no plan other than keep fighting forever.
That doesn't work. If you're fighting a war, you have
to know what does victory look like? And is that
definition of victory achievable? Here's JD. Vance talking about that,
talking about the fact that like there was no plan
to actually end this war. It was just keep it
(24:38):
going forever. Take a listen, and.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
You know, when you would talk to the Biden administration
officials in private, it's another example of a terrible situation
that Biden admin left the Trump administration. When you ask them,
what's the plan. Okay, we're going to spend tens of
billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukraine,
what is your plan? And they would honestly tell you, well,
we're just gonna and then weapons for as long as
(25:01):
we can and hope eventually they can turn the tide.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
Hope is not a strategy.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Throwing money and ammunition at a terrible conflict that is
not a strategy.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
The only guy in town with a strategy.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Is the President of the United States, and everybody needs
to follow his leaders.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
What scares me is Lensky when he says it's going
to go on for years, how many more lives is
it going to be lost?
Speaker 9 (25:21):
He's not going to have a country to save it.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Actually that the minerals deal would have provided the money
is to rebuild their country and a strong US presidence
and maybe European.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Troops as well. And this is this is an important
part of it.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
The President knows that, Look, if you want real security guarantees,
if you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does
not invade Ukraine, again, the very best security guarantee is
to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine.
That is a way better security guarantee than twenty thousand
troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war
(25:55):
in thirty or forty years. The security guarantee and also
the i'm a guarantee for Ukraine is to rebuild the
country and ensure that America has a long term interest.
You're not going to do that if you come to
the Oval Office and sault the president and refuse to
follow his plan for peace.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And again this is an incredibly important point. At least
Donald Trump has a plan, right, bring both parties to
the table, negotiate, both parties win some, both parties loose some.
We call it today. Now, you may not like that plan.
You might prefer to just shovel money endlessly down the
pit that is Europe and just wait for something to explode.
(26:34):
Because that's what we've been doing for the last what
three years now, and it hasn't worked. I think it's
time to shake it up a little bit. Let's try
something else. Let's take a different angle. And that's exactly
what the Trump administration did. They took a different angle.
So on Monday, Trump announced that we would not be
sending any more military aid to Ukraine. Now here's why
this is important. As the BBC pointed out, Ukraine really
(26:59):
can't continue this war without US military aid. They just can't.
This is something even the BBC pointed out. And in
their article about this, they say Fidir Venislavsky, a member
of the Ukrainian Parliament's Defense Committee, estimates his country's weapons
stockpile will last just six months after Donald Trump's decision
to pause shipments of military equipment. Now, of course, you
(27:21):
had all the European leaders that got together and made
a big show of how much they were going to
support Ukraine, which, by the way, is a good thing.
Let Europe handle this. This is a European problem. I
have no problem with that. But at the end of
the day, the United States of America is the central
pillar that's holding this whole operation up right now, that's
an objective and observable fact. Donald Trump's strategy, presumably is Okay,
(27:46):
Ukraine does not want to negotiate while they can still fight,
So I'm going to take away their ability to fight
and then they'll have to negotiate. It looks like that
was the plan, and it looks like that plan is
working because just yesterday, a day after Donald Trump froze
the military aid, Zelensky got out on Twitter and he
started talking about how willing he is to assign a
(28:07):
deal and come to the negotiating table and follow Trump's leadership.
He got out there and he said, I would like
to reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace. None of us wants
an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the
negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.
Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I
stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to
(28:30):
get a piece that lasts. Okay, so hey, at least
he's saying the right things here, right, I mean, let's
see what he actually does. But the lip surface is there,
so we'll take it. Remember, this war's not going to
end by itself. It's an endless war of attrition, World
War III, or a negotiated settlement. Those are the only options.
Pick your favorite. I know which mine is.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
All Right, stay tuned, we'll be right back after the break.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
All Right, you'll have to forgive me to jamming to
that song a little bit. I've made it very clear
how I feel about that song. I like it quite
a bit, so I tend to let that one play
a little bit longer than some of my other pump music.
If you don't like it, I'm sorry, cry about it.
I like it. I think it's good. So let's talk
a little bit about AOC. I try to avoid talking
(29:52):
about her, just because I think there's nothing I can
say about AOC that a million other conservative talking heads
haven't said already. And I want to be unique, you know,
I want to bring something to the table that people
aren't getting elsewhere. I think my younger perspective is part
(30:13):
of that. But you know all that to say, everybody
always talks about AOC. She's an easy target, so I
try to avoid doing that. However, I think in this
one instance, we have found a situation in which she
is worth bringing up just because she said something really stupid.
She was on Morning Edition, an NPR program. So, by
(30:36):
the way, your tax dollars paid for this NPR National
Public Radio, as the word public would suspect, they are
funded by the government, So you paid for this. She
was asked about the fact that what Donald Trump is
doing seems to be relatively popular, particularly when it comes
to doge. He is gaining a lot of ground with this.
(30:57):
He's being very productive here. People seem to like that.
That's happening, and even some Democrats have been vocal about
the fact that, hey, we as the Democrats, should try
to hit this point a little bit as well, because
it's pretty popular. Cutting down on government waste and fraud
is popular with the taxpayers. We should do this a
little bit too, and maybe we'll win some votes that way.
(31:18):
That seems reasonable, right, That makes perfect sense. AOC rejected
the premise entirely. Here's what that sounded like.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Dean Phillips, one of your fellow Democratic members, was on
television this past week Fox News, as a matter of fact,
and he appeared to wish Democrats acted a little more
like Trump in this way. He wished that they would
appeal to business people to get smart people into government
to talk about efficiency. He seemed to wish Democrats would
do what Elon Musk is doing, even if he doesn't
(31:46):
agree with the way that Elon Musk is doing it.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
I would say that instead of appealing to other politicians,
we should be appealing to the American people. And if
you ask the American people what they think of what
Elon Musk Doge are doing with government right now, they
(32:10):
are vehemently opposed.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Okay, first of all, since when does saving money and
the money that we do spend spending that responsibly? Since
when does that not appeal to anybody? I mean, I'm
a taxpayer. I want my taxpayer dollars spent wisely. I
want them spent on good things that have a practical
benefit to the American people. I think most people would
(32:34):
agree with that. I don't understand why she seems to
think that that's just appealing to politicians. That's appealing to everybody.
And you know what, the data backs me up on
that as well, because notice she just kind of said
that and didn't follow that up with any data. What
I'm saying I'm about to follow that up with some data.
We've got polls that show that what Elon Musk and
(32:54):
Doge and Trump are doing actually is popular. So this
is from a Harvard cap Harris Pole. Shout out to
libs of TikTok for posting this along with that clip
of AOC. So it's all right there together, easy for
me to find.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
One of the.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Questions that was asked was do you think that the
government expenditures are basically fair and reasonable or do you
think they are filled with waste, fraud and inefficiency. Seventy
percent of people said they are filled with waste, fraud,
in efficiency. Seventy percent. That is not a small number.
That's not like a very slim majority of people support
(33:33):
what Trump and Doze are doing. That's seventy percent. That
is a huge number. When it comes to political polls,
anything over about fifty five is massive, and this is
hell over fifty five. This is a huge number. Only
thirty percent of people say it's fair and reasonable. Now,
it doesn't give me the party breakdown on that, and
(33:57):
I think that's a good thing, because I don't think it.
I think this is a relatively bipartisan issue. I think
most voters, even the Democrats, want their tax dollars spent
on reasonable things. And I think most of them are
smart enough to understand that the Democrat Party has been
lying to me and wasting my money for a very
long time. But that wasn't the only question they asked.
(34:20):
The next question on this poll was do you support
or oppose the goal of cutting one trillion dollars of
government expenditures. Guess what the percentage of people who supported
cutting that trillion dollars was. I'll give you a second,
tick tick times up sold sixty nine percent. Darn near seventy. Again,
(34:45):
this is a majority issue for Trump and the Republicans.
Most people are on board with this. Why the Democrats
refuse to get their head out of their butts and say, hey,
we should follow suit on this because it'll win us votes.
It's police malpractice. Frankly, it makes no sense to me.
There is no upside here to opposing what Donald Trump
(35:07):
is doing other than the fact that you know a
lot of this money was probably being laundered back into
the campaign accounts of these Democrats. That's almost definitely what
was happening here. But those are just concepts, right, Those
are ideas. Do you think the government expenditures are fair
or not? Most people say no. Do you oppose the
goal of cutting a trillion dollars of government expenditures? Most
(35:31):
people actually want those cuts to happen in concept, right,
So what about the practicality of establishing something like DOGE. Well,
they asked about that too, Do you think there should
be a US government agency focused on efficiency initiatives or not?
Seventy two percent of people said yes, even people that thought, Okay,
(35:53):
what we've got going on right now is fair and reasonable.
Even some of those people say we should have an
agency that's there to make sure that that's what's happening.
Seventy two percent. Huge numbers. Why does AOC think this
is unpopular because her head is stuck in the liberal
echo chamber? But hey, maybe they support the concept and
(36:15):
the ideas and even the idea of putting a team
into practice, but they just don't want Elon Musk doing it.
They just don't like what DOGE is doing. Well, according
to the data, even that's incorrect. So the last question
up here is do you think the so called Department
of Government Efficiency aka DOGE, led by Elon Musk, is
(36:36):
helping make major cuts in the government expenditures or no.
Sixty percent of people said yes, sixty forty. That was
the breakdown on that. At the end of the day,
Donald Trump is being practical and realistic and the voters
like that. They want that, But don't take my word
for it. Here's Stephen A. Smith on the view of
all Places. And again I don't like Steven A. Smith
(36:57):
because he's a Cowboys hater and I'm a Cowboys fan.
But that's besides the point. He clearly breaks down the
fact that, look, the voters were very clear with what
they wanted and Donald Trump is giving it to them.
Take a listen.
Speaker 11 (37:06):
It's only been in office for six weeks. Seems like
six years, doesn't it. And he's been going around with
his cronies touting his so called l landslawde and blowout win.
But he won the popular vote by one point five percent,
one of the smallest ever, and he won the general
election by less than fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
So what kind of mandate is this really?
Speaker 4 (37:25):
It is a mandate, then I'm going to explain why,
and I don't mind the question, but let me be
very clear. I'm no supporter of Trump. I'm a supporter
of truth in the facts, and here's the facts. The
man won every swing state. He increased in terms of
his voter turnout in his favor. From the standpoint of blacks, Latinos,
and young voters, he increased his numbers in that regard.
From twenty twenty, eighty nine percent of the counties shifted
(37:50):
to the right. That's a mandate. We can sit up
there and play around all we want to. In twenty twenty,
they didn't Trump didn't win the popular vote. He didn't
win the electoral college vote. A matter of fact, the
Republicans had won the popular vote if I remember correct,
two thousand and.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
Four, but they did this year.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
So twenty years after they last won a popular vote,
they wanted a popular vote, they won the electoral college vote.
The man won every swing state, and on top of all,
eighty nine percent of the counties shift against I don't
understand how people can look at that and say there's
no mandate.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
There's a mandate.
Speaker 11 (38:24):
That's of a mandate, I guess.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
But the problem is that if you're a Democratic Party
and you lost forty nine point eight percent to forty
eight point three percent, and you're looking at that one
point five percent. That's an excuse for you to say
what we did really wasn't that, Dad? We should continue
to do that. No, don't continue to do to find
a new strategy.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Stephen A is completely right here. Donald Trump did have
a mandate. He got that mandate because he was honest
with the voters, told them what he was going to do,
and they liked it. The Democrats should look at that
and say, okay, how can we emulate that, not bury
their heads in the sand and claim they were right
the entire time when they clearly weren't.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
That's all I've got for you today Today, stay tuned.
We're going to be back on Saturday with a lot more.
Thank you for listening.
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