September 29, 2023 • 26 mins
Fox News and The GOP put together probebly the most dumpster fire debate I have ever had the misfortune of watching.
The Houst begins their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, but will it acutally lead to any results? I wouldnt hold my breath.
Minimum wage for fast food workers in California is $20.00 an hour, is this a win for the working man, or an economic disaster waiting to happen?
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The Houst begins their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, but will it acutally lead to any results? I wouldnt hold my breath.
Minimum wage for fast food workers in California is $20.00 an hour, is this a win for the working man, or an economic disaster waiting to happen?
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Gentlemen, welcoming to the next generalreport. I'll tell you what. I
don't know if you caught the GOPdebate on Wednesday, but that was something,
and by something, I of coursemean something not great at all.
That was a terrible, terrible debateto have to sit through and listen to
because it was just so much noiseconstantly. There was too many people on
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the stage, There was too manypeople arguing with each other. If you
didn't catch the debate, I wantyou to do this, close your eyes
and picture like seven preschoolers, right, And you know how preschoolers are.
They all want the attention, theyall want the toys, they all want
to be like the center, thefocus, right, And you've got seven
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of them all fighting with each otherover being the center of attention, over
being the focus, over all thatgood stuff. Now, imagine you have
three completely and utterly incompetent adults,which is two more than you needed in
that situation, and they're just desperatelytrying to argue over the children that are
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also spending their time arguing. Sowhat you essentially have is just ten people
arguing with each other, and themoderators are just trying so hard to be
the authority figures, but at thesame time they're just being sprinted over by
the actual debaters. It was ridiculous. The theme of the night was question
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answer, everybody start yelling all atonce, and then the moderators just desperately
try to yell over everybody to regaincontrol of the conversation of the situation and
then go back to arguing. Itwas baffling, Like I wanted to cry
sitting there listening the amount of timesthat I was sitting there in my room
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listening to this debate, just goingshut up. Everybody shut up, Please,
please shut up. If I hada dollar for every time I did
that, I would be a verywealthy man, very very wealthy. Indeed,
all that being said, there wasthere was a very small amount of
substance. Of course, once again, Donald Trump wasn't there. We all
knew that already. That's not news. People keep talking about that like it's
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news. We know Donald Trump wasnot there. We know Donald Trump was
never going to be there. Youcan plain about it all you want.
I really don't care. But he'snot going to show up to any of
these debates, and he doesn't haveto. He's doing fine the polls without
it. So, as I didwith the last debate, I will be
judging this one purely based off ofwho was there and the people who hurt
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were there, what did they say, Because I don't care about the fact
that Trump wasn't there. That meansless than nothing to me. As far
as who stood out, really nobody, nobody actually had a chance to really
be the person that like stepped upand took command of the stage. And
that's because they were all spending theentire time everybody talking over each other.
So there was really no point inwhich anybody at all really looked anything more
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than just ridiculously childish. Like Iwish I could come to you and say
so and so stood out, orso and so did a good job.
But I mean everybody did just kindof all right. Doug Bergham, I
was sidelined the entire debate. Hegot maybe two or three good moments in
good quotes, and then he wasjust he was just another guy there,
which as much as I liked thethings that he said, he I think
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has a really great understanding of theConstitution. Every time he speaks on an
issue, like he comes out andwas like Okay, well, here is
clearly what the Constitution says or doesnot say about this. Unfortunately, he
really has just absolutely nothing going forhim at this time. He is not
going anywhere in the polls. He'snot going to go anywhere in the polls.
He did not need to be onthat debate stage. As much as
I like the fact that he wasthere, he didn't need to be there.
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We gained nothing by him being there. And then of course everybody else
was just kind of there yelling ateach other. So we're gonna break down
everything. I'm gonna give you someclips and highlights and stuff, stuff that
I thought was interesting, stuff thatcaught my attention. I wanted, just
for kicks and giggles, start byopening things up by listening to the host
just completely or the one of themoderators just completely stumble over the introductions that
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because that just cracked me up.I just I was driving in my car
listening to it as we kind ofopened up, and there's this big grand
entrance and he's like, I'm soand so with Fox Business, and he
is so and so with the FoxNews Channel, and here's blah blah blah
blah. It just I got crackout of his phenomenal play for you a
Fox Business and I am thrilled tobe sitting alongside Mike kil moderator's Fox News
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Channel, Dana Perino, and Eliacalderon Univision. There you go, budd
you made it, you got it. From that point on, it was
pretty much all downhill. That rightthere basically sums up the entire night.
It was just two hours of thatall right. One thing that I do
think is noteworthy that kind of madeitself evident right off the back of Vivek
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really changed tone from the from thefirst debate to this one. You'll remember
in the last debate he was verymuch kind of out there taking shots at
everybody, and he switched his tuneup. I'm not sure why he tried
more to be kind of like thatfriendly, let's all get together, let's
all be buddies, lady daddy dah, that kind of nonsense, which I
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don't know what his strategy there fordoing that was, because, as Tim
Scott discovered during the first bait,that person doesn't ever really get anywhere if
you're the one that's kind of tryingto bring everybody together and be everybody's friend,
you're just gonna get walked all overfor the duration of debate. That
ended up kind of happening with Viveka lot that really first became evidence in
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like the first question it was liketo Tim Scott, and then they asked
it was about the auto workers orsomething. It was about whether Tim Scott
would fire the striking auto workers,And Tim Scott's answer was really good.
He's like, listen, the presidentcan't fire anybody in the private sector,
obviously, so that's a ridiculous question. And of course then he didn't went
and pinned it on Biden, whichis of course pinned on Biden, go
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for it. He just talked abouthow this is Joe Biden's fault. Joe
Biden shouldn't be at the picket lineswith these guys. He should be,
you know, fixing the crisis onthe southern border or whatever. He started
this problem. And then Vivek justgoes in and like pats him on the
back when he's asked to follow upquestions or here's that. I agree with
some of what he said, forsure, I like the spirit of it.
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I'll say that I don't have alot of patience for the union bosses.
I think that's where he and Iactually have a common view. I
do have a lot of sympathy forthe workers. However, people are going
through real hardship in this country.I've been through hardship growing up. My
father stared down layoffs, said geeunder Jack Welch's tenure at the ge plant
in Evandale, Ohio. My momhad to work overtime in nursing homes in
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southwest Ohio to make ends meet andpay off our home loan. So I
understand that hardship is not a choice, but victimhood is a choice. His
response was very oh yeah, weagree, we see eye to eye.
And it was a whole lot ofthat basically all night, and it didn't
end up panning out for him.He was trying to, I think,
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kind of take some of the pressureoff himself and maybe just let other people
fight with each other and he'll justbe standing there watching. But that didn't
end up working, because, likeI said, he just ended up getting
walked all over. Another theme ofthe night that emerged really on, as
I've already mentioned, kind of it'sjust people just running circles. Everybody on
the station was running circles. Aroundthe moderators and that that came out really
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early. I think it was likeNicky Haley's first question. She came out,
she gave a decent answer. Itwas again about the autoworkers strikes.
She's like, we need to fixthese small business taxes, we need to
fix the all the gas taxes andwhatnot. We need to get rid of
that so that these workers have moremoney in their pockets. Like, okay,
agree with that. And then hertime went up and she kind of
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ran over the time a little bitgiving her answer. And then I believe
it was Doug Bergham, just likeShoe warned his way in and he had
no business opening his mouth and speakingthen because it was not his turn and
it was not his question and whatnot. But here's what that sounded like.
Or cash in the pockets of workers. That's when we'll be able to deal
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with strikes like this, not sittingon a picket line like Joe Biden,
thank you. We have other questionsto get to about economy. Allow me
too. I'm sorry, allow meto allow me too. We're missing the
point, and every other network ismissing the point. The reason why people
are striking in Detroit is because JoeBiden's interference with capital markets, and she's
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sitting there like, we have otherstuff to get to allow me to do
this, Allow me to do this, and Doug Burd's like, no,
I will not allow you to dothat. I want to speak on this.
Bless his heart, he just absolutelykicked in the front door and put
himself in the middle of that conversation, and that lady was just sitting there
like, what's happening, What's goingon? What do I do? They
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should have been way less generous withwho got their mic turned on or not.
I want to say it was oneof the debates during the last presidential
election where they were just like,okay, you know what, we the
moderators will be controlling the mics andwho gets them turned on and turned off.
And that ended up happening later onin the debate as it just got
more and more chaotic, believe itor not, that was one of the
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times where they were the most respectfulof the bell and the debate clock and
the times and everything that was it. That was the most respectful moment of
the debate. Right there, rightafter that, Christie did he had a
couple of really good moments. HeI think he actually did really well,
and that he did much better inthis debate than he did in the last
debate. His whole thing, onceagain was just a tag Donald Trump attag
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Donald Trump attacked Donald Trump. Butthe points he made this time around,
I think were a lot better.He got asked a question about like the
government shut down and everything, andhe made the true and valid point that
like, hey, this isn't justthe Democrats, the Republicans did this too.
Donald Trump added seven trillion dollars tothe deficit, which is a fact.
Donald Trump did do that. Andright after he made that point and
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of course then devolved in the chaos. So here's what that sounded like.
Vice President Pence was that politics ofquote Trump's populists, proteges like mister Ramaswamy
are a road to ruin for theGOP the government should sound Should voters blame
populists? Republicans voters lay everybody who'sin Washington, DC. They get sent
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down there to do the job,and they've been failing at doing the job
for a very long time. Andlet's be honest about this with the voters.
You know, during the Trump administration, they had seven trillion dollars,
seven trillion dollars in national debt,and now the Biden administration has put another
five trillion on and counting. Theyhave failed, and they're in the spot
they're in now because none of themare willing to tell the truth. None
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of them are willing to take onthe difficult tissues. They just want to
keep kicking the can down the road. And the inflation that Nikki spoke about
is absolutely right, and it's causedby government spending. And that's why people
all across this country are suffering tonight. And yet we don't get any answers
because Joe Biden hides in his basementand won't answer as to why he's raising
the debt the way he's done.And Donald Trump he hides behind the walls
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of his golf clubs and won't showup here to answer questions like all the
rest of us are up here toanswer. He puts seven trillion on the
debt, he should be in thisroom to answer those questions for the people
you talk about who are suffering.And if the government and if the government
closes, and if the government closes, it's the blame. It is to
the blame of everyone in Washington,DC who has failed to do their job
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and just plays to the grand standardrespect you haven't spoken people in Washington,
and that there basically sums up thewhole night that like somebody would give Get
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a question, they would answer thequestion, and then everybody would just pile
on top of it. Like thisis the thing that just aggravates me the
most about Mike Pence. I heinfuriates me. I don't know what it
is, but something about him justabsolutely just pisses me off. And one
of the big parts of it isChris Christy isn't even done talking and Mike
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pants is already Can I speak onthat? Can I speak on that?
Hey? Can I can I speakon that? I was like, dude,
he's in the middle of a sentence. Let Chris Christie finished speaking,
and then if you want to juststart interrupting and yelling, Like if I'm
fine with the interrupting and yelling happens, that that's politics, baby, But
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can you let the man finish answeringhis question before everybody interrupts and starts yelling
at each other, And then thatpoor moderator, bless her heart, I
sincerely hope that like she slept inThursday morning and just took some time to
herself to recuperate because they were justwalking all She's sitting there like, can
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we please respect the time? Canwe please respect the time? And then
nobody is respecting the time. Thereis no respect of the time happening in
this debate. And it was blessher heart, and that really was just
about it. It was just awhole bunch of that all night, Nicki
Haley. A lot of people havebeen talking over the last couple of days
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about how on the attack she was. I don't really care. I don't
think it helped her any but atthe same time, I don't think it
hurt her any. And here's whyshe really doesn't have anything to lose.
She's not going to be the nominee. She's not, and she's almost definitely
not gonna manage to swing up aboveDeSantis. And the reason I know that
is because she didn't really ever havethe chance to get after DeSantis. She
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got after Chris Christie, she gotafter vveg she got after Tim Scott a
lot, which was like, whoadude, that's that's a senator from your
state. That's your guy right there. But yeah, she went she went
after everybody pretty much. Accept shedidn't have any big, hard hitting moments
against Assantis, which if she wantsto go anywhere in this primary, that's
what she's gonna have to do.But she, at least not that I
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really saw, she didn't do thatat all. She didn't hit DeSantis in
any way that was notable, Andbecause of that, I don't think her
performance was notable. So because I'mnot really gonna waste my time or years
talking about it, just nothing shesaid really mattered in the grand scheme of
thing. Nothing most of these peoplesaid really madden in the grand scheme of
things. So I won't waste yourtime talking about it anymore. So that,
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yeah, that's enough debate talk.If you didn't see it, you
didn't miss anything. If you're stillon the fence for who to vote for
in the Republican primary, just flipa coin and vote for DeSantis her Trump.
It's the same thing at this point. But yeah, let's go ahead
and with that out of the way, let's jump in and move to some
news, because we have had overthe last couple of days some pretty interesting
breaking news. Okay, so theBiden impeachment inquiry has of course begun,
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and that's big news for no reason. I will be interested to see what
information we see from this, Iam. I would be very surprised if
it's stuff we don't already know.There's already so much that we just know
from just by virtue of Hunter's laptop. I don't know what they could possibly
bring out that we don't already know. I don't think there's going to be
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anything that anybody's surprised by. Buthere is James Comber, the representative who's
heading the committee that's leading this impeachmentinquiry, going on about it yesterday.
This was kind of like his openingdiscussion or his opening monologue before the hearing
began for this committee. The HouseOversight and Accountability Committee has uncovered a mountain
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of evidence revealing how Joe Biden abusedhis public office for his family's financial gain.
For years, President Biden has liedto the American people about his knowledge
of and participation in his family's corruptbusiness schemes. At least ten times,
Joe Biden lied to the American peoplethat he never spoke to his family about
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their business dealings. He lied bytelling the American people that there was an
absolute wall between his official government dutiesand his personal life. Let's be clear,
there was no wall. The doorwas wide open to those who purchased
what a business associate described as theBiden brand. Yeah, I would not
be surprised if most of the stuffwe end up just kind of hearing and
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seeing talked about. It's just stuffthat's that we've already seen from Hunter's laptop
and whatnot. Like, like Isaid, there's not a whole lot knew
that they could possibly bring out here. We all knew this stuff already.
That's really why I'm hesitant to sayanything's gonna come of this. As much
as I don't want to be apessimist, I want to be able to
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say I think this is finally gonnabe it. We're finally gonna see justice
come down on Joe Biden's head,and it's finally going to be outed that
he was selling access to himself toeverybody who would give him a dollar so
that he could become rich and costingthe American people their security because of it.
But I don't think that's going tohappen, because if they can bury
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their heads in the sand and pretendthe stuff that's on Hunter Biden's laptop is
that the fact that just the laptopalone didn't blow the roof off of this
kind of made me lose faith andall of us because there it is.
Right then, it's like clear emails, text messages, pictures of Hunter doing
all this stuff, and yet we'restill pretending like there's a did this?
Didn't this happen? Here? Thereshouldn't need to be a whole committee hearing
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if if people were honest, theywould just say, yeah, this guy
needs to be in peace right now. If people were really honest, he
never would have even won the election. He would have had to drop out
because everybody and their mother would havebeen saying this guy should not be the
president. But here we are anyway, so that just by virtue of that,
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I have no faith in this process. Was however, I just don't.
And I hate to be a pressimist. I hate to be the guy
that's just showering bad news on you, But that's that's just how I see
it. I am hoping to Godthat I'm proven wrong. I look forward
with great excitement for that happening.But I wouldn't put money on it.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting onit either. I also want to now
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turn our attention over to California becausethey are once again making news by being
just terribly, horribly stupid. Californiahas raised the minimum wage for fast food
workers to twenty dollars an hour,which is so freaking stupid. Which is
so stupid. I just on principle, and I'm very what's the ward to
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say, I'm very suspicious at bestof any minimum wage whatsoever. I don't
think it's the government's job to cramdown on companies what they should be paying
employees. That that doesn't sit rightwith me, just because I have my
libertarian tendencies. But I understand theargument for some sort of minimum wage,
Lady Dati da I. I don'tthink that's the government's job. I just
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don't. But whatever it is,it should definitely not be freaking twenty dollars
an hour for flipping burgers. Youknow what that's gonna do. That's just
going to raise the cost of theburger, and that's going to lead to
the result. The result there's justgoing to be the automation of the process.
And if you don't believe me,walk into a McDonald's anywhere right now,
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and you'll see right there in yourface at kiosk waiting to take your
order, and there'll be one personat the counter, just one, and
they will take orders. Sometimes mostof the time they're not even there.
They have one register that's just setup to take cash payments, and that's
like one out of every five people. What do you think happened to I
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remember back in the day when youwalked into a fast food restaurant and there
was five people lined up waiting totake your order, and now there's one.
Sometimes you don't think that's a directresult of the government saying that you
have to pay these people more thanwhat the labor they're doing is worth.
And that's not to crap on thepeople doing the work. I worked in
fast food for a long time.I should not have been paid twenty dollars
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an hour for what I did.I'm glad I wasn't. This is only
going to lead to less people beingemployed in these jobs, and then the
product that they're producing is going tobecome way more expensive. This right here
is the real reason that California issuch an economic garbage fire, because of
artificial inflation. This is just thegovernment saying you have to pay these people
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more money, so the product becomesmore expensive. And that's happening not just
with fast food, that's happening everywhere. So every product from food to housing
to everything in between becomes more expensivebecause you're mandating that these employees be paid
more. All that leads to it'sthe spiral keeps going. Twenty dollars an
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hour is still not a minimum orminimum wage. Twenty dollars an hour is
still not a living wage in California. It's not. The cost of living
in California is almost forty eight thousanddollars. Forty seven eight hundred and one
dollars a year is the cost ofliving in California average cost of living.
So let's do the math right herein real time. Let's say you just
work flipping burgers in California twenty ortwenty dollars per hour, and you work
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forty hours a week, full time, and you do that four weeks out
of the month. That puts youat three thousand, two hundred dollars a
month. But four taxes, Okay, this is not factoring taxes. Now,
three thousand, two hundred a monthtimes twelve months, that's thirty eight
four hundred dollars a year. Sothat still misses our target of forty seven
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thousand dollars a year by several thousanddollars. And that's before taxes. Something
like fifty percent of that is goingto be taken out between local governments in
California, California state government, andthen the federal government. Between those three
bodies of government in taxes, abouthalf of that money is going to be
taken away. So their whole argumentis, we need to be able to
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pay, We need to mandate thatwe pay these people twenty dollars an hour,
because every single worker, no matterwhat the job is, needs to
be making a living ways in California. But this doesn't even come close.
And all you've done is you've raisedthe cost of the goods, because who
do you think is really paying theseworkers twenty dollars an hour? The company
or the person who just bought aten dollar burger and a freaking fifteen dollar
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meal. That's where that money's comingfrom. And then guess what that person
who just spent ten to fifteen dollarson a freaking cheeseburger at McDonald's. They're
sitting there eating their burger, thinking, Wow, the cost of food has
really gone up. I don't knowhow I'm gonna be able to make it.
You know what I should do.I should go to my representative in
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the California legislature or whatever, andI should tell them that they need to
pass a law that gives me ahigher minimum wage. And repeat the cycle,
and repeat the cycle again and againand again and again, because every
single person in every single industry inthe entire state of California is going to
experience this same freaking thing. Theircost of living is gonna go up,
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their cost of feeding themselves is gonnago up. This is a vicious cycle
that starts the moment that you saywe're gonna have a minimum wage. The
moment you say we're gonna have aminimum wage, and even back in the
day when when the minimum which islike seven fifteen and nobody thought it was
a big deal, but that slipperyslope has led to hear and now the
person flipping burgers at the back ofthe McDonald's is making twenty dollars an hour
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and the burger costs ten dollars justfor the burger and the fries and the
drink are gonna be a whole hellof a lot extra. And then people
wonder why California is unlivable, whyCalifornia is too expensive, because y'all are
doing crap like this. It's notaffordable and it's not even doing they tug
at your heartstrings. This is whatreally ticks me off about the Democratic Party.
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They go so far out of theirway to play this morality game.
We have to do this to helpthese people. We have to forget the
fact that it's a terrible idea.We need to do this to help these
paper But what you're doing doesn't helpthe people. How many times do we
have to explain this to you.You can say you're doing this to help
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to people all you want, it'snot gonna help anybody. You can't just
magically say I'm doing this to helpyou and that makes it help. That
doesn't help. It disappoints me howstupid these people are. And there's people
that are willfully ignorant about this,and then there's people that are just gullible
enough to buy into this. Ihonestly, legitimately feel bad for the people
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out there who are sitting there lookingat these posts about California's new minimum wage
for McDonald's workers and are sitting theregoing, oh, that's so great for
them. I'm so happy for them. I'm so glad that Democrats did this.
This is a good thing, andthey truly believe it. They truly
believe it through no fault of theirown. They're just that gullible. It
disappoints me to no end. Alrighty, that's going to do it for the
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show today, everybody, Thank youvery much for listening. Stay tuned for
Monday. I got a lot morestuff to talk about. I didn't end
up getting everything I wanted to getto today just because I spent so much
time on the debate, which was, if I'm being honest, this debate
was a complete waste of time.Once again, I cannot stress this enough.
If you didn't catch it, don'tbother. It's not worth it.
You will gain nothing from watching it. Yeah, definitely follow the podcast on
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all the platforms because Monday morning we'regonna have some good stuff for you.
Or I say Monday morning, probablybe Monday afternoon or Monday evening. Really,
just looking at my schedule. Ifnothings are going to play out,
but Monday got a great show coming. It's gonna be awesome. We're gonna
be touching on a lot of veryinteresting things. Once again, I want
to encourage you to reach out tome and give me comments on the show
topics we discuss something you want tohear more about. I'd love to hear
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the foodback from you. As always, I'm gonna have my social media tags
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or Twitter or I guess it's calledX. It always slips in my mind
to call it X. All right, once again, thank you all very
much for listening, and I willsee you on Monday for the next GM Report.
Gentlemen, welcoming to the next generalreport. I'll tell you what. I
don't know if you caught the GOPdebate on Wednesday, but that was something,
and by something, I of coursemean something not great at all.
That was a terrible, terrible debateto have to sit through and listen to
because it was just so much noiseconstantly. There was too many people on
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the stage, There was too manypeople arguing with each other. If you
didn't catch the debate, I wantyou to do this, close your eyes
and picture like seven preschoolers, right, And you know how preschoolers are.
They all want the attention, theyall want the toys, they all want
to be like the center, thefocus, right, And you've got seven
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of them all fighting with each otherover being the center of attention, over
being the focus, over all thatgood stuff. Now, imagine you have
three completely and utterly incompetent adults,which is two more than you needed in
that situation, and they're just desperatelytrying to argue over the children that are
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also spending their time arguing. Sowhat you essentially have is just ten people
arguing with each other, and themoderators are just trying so hard to be
the authority figures, but at thesame time they're just being sprinted over by
the actual debaters. It was ridiculous. The theme of the night was question
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answer, everybody start yelling all atonce, and then the moderators just desperately
try to yell over everybody to regaincontrol of the conversation of the situation and
then go back to arguing. Itwas baffling, Like I wanted to cry
sitting there listening the amount of timesthat I was sitting there in my room
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listening to this debate, just goingshut up. Everybody shut up, Please,
please shut up. If I hada dollar for every time I did
that, I would be a verywealthy man, very very wealthy. Indeed,
all that being said, there wasthere was a very small amount of
substance. Of course, once again, Donald Trump wasn't there. We all
knew that already. That's not news. People keep talking about that like it's
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news. We know Donald Trump wasnot there. We know Donald Trump was
never going to be there. Youcan plain about it all you want.
I really don't care. But he'snot going to show up to any of
these debates, and he doesn't haveto. He's doing fine the polls without
it. So, as I didwith the last debate, I will be
judging this one purely based off ofwho was there and the people who hurt
(03:05):
were there, what did they say, Because I don't care about the fact
that Trump wasn't there. That meansless than nothing to me. As far
as who stood out, really nobody, nobody actually had a chance to really
be the person that like stepped upand took command of the stage. And
that's because they were all spending theentire time everybody talking over each other.
So there was really no point inwhich anybody at all really looked anything more
(03:32):
than just ridiculously childish. Like Iwish I could come to you and say
so and so stood out, orso and so did a good job.
But I mean everybody did just kindof all right. Doug Bergham, I
was sidelined the entire debate. Hegot maybe two or three good moments in
good quotes, and then he wasjust he was just another guy there,
which as much as I liked thethings that he said, he I think
(03:55):
has a really great understanding of theConstitution. Every time he speaks on an
issue, like he comes out andwas like Okay, well, here is
clearly what the Constitution says or doesnot say about this. Unfortunately, he
really has just absolutely nothing going forhim at this time. He is not
going anywhere in the polls. He'snot going to go anywhere in the polls.
He did not need to be onthat debate stage. As much as
I like the fact that he wasthere, he didn't need to be there.
(04:17):
We gained nothing by him being there. And then of course everybody else
was just kind of there yelling ateach other. So we're gonna break down
everything. I'm gonna give you someclips and highlights and stuff, stuff that
I thought was interesting, stuff thatcaught my attention. I wanted, just
for kicks and giggles, start byopening things up by listening to the host
just completely or the one of themoderators just completely stumble over the introductions that
(04:41):
because that just cracked me up.I just I was driving in my car
listening to it as we kind ofopened up, and there's this big grand
entrance and he's like, I'm soand so with Fox Business, and he
is so and so with the FoxNews Channel, and here's blah blah blah
blah. It just I got crackout of his phenomenal play for you a
Fox Business and I am thrilled tobe sitting alongside Mike kil moderator's Fox News
(05:05):
Channel, Dana Perino, and Eliacalderon Univision. There you go, budd
you made it, you got it. From that point on, it was
pretty much all downhill. That rightthere basically sums up the entire night.
It was just two hours of thatall right. One thing that I do
think is noteworthy that kind of madeitself evident right off the back of Vivek
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really changed tone from the from thefirst debate to this one. You'll remember
in the last debate he was verymuch kind of out there taking shots at
everybody, and he switched his tuneup. I'm not sure why he tried
more to be kind of like thatfriendly, let's all get together, let's
all be buddies, lady daddy dah, that kind of nonsense, which I
(05:51):
don't know what his strategy there fordoing that was, because, as Tim
Scott discovered during the first bait,that person doesn't ever really get anywhere if
you're the one that's kind of tryingto bring everybody together and be everybody's friend,
you're just gonna get walked all overfor the duration of debate. That
ended up kind of happening with Viveka lot that really first became evidence in
(06:15):
like the first question it was liketo Tim Scott, and then they asked
it was about the auto workers orsomething. It was about whether Tim Scott
would fire the striking auto workers,And Tim Scott's answer was really good.
He's like, listen, the presidentcan't fire anybody in the private sector,
obviously, so that's a ridiculous question. And of course then he didn't went
and pinned it on Biden, whichis of course pinned on Biden, go
(06:36):
for it. He just talked abouthow this is Joe Biden's fault. Joe
Biden shouldn't be at the picket lineswith these guys. He should be,
you know, fixing the crisis onthe southern border or whatever. He started
this problem. And then Vivek justgoes in and like pats him on the
back when he's asked to follow upquestions or here's that. I agree with
some of what he said, forsure, I like the spirit of it.
(06:58):
I'll say that I don't have alot of patience for the union bosses.
I think that's where he and Iactually have a common view. I
do have a lot of sympathy forthe workers. However, people are going
through real hardship in this country.I've been through hardship growing up. My
father stared down layoffs, said geeunder Jack Welch's tenure at the ge plant
in Evandale, Ohio. My momhad to work overtime in nursing homes in
(07:20):
southwest Ohio to make ends meet andpay off our home loan. So I
understand that hardship is not a choice, but victimhood is a choice. His
response was very oh yeah, weagree, we see eye to eye.
And it was a whole lot ofthat basically all night, and it didn't
end up panning out for him.He was trying to, I think,
(07:41):
kind of take some of the pressureoff himself and maybe just let other people
fight with each other and he'll justbe standing there watching. But that didn't
end up working, because, likeI said, he just ended up getting
walked all over. Another theme ofthe night that emerged really on, as
I've already mentioned, kind of it'sjust people just running circles. Everybody on
the station was running circles. Aroundthe moderators and that that came out really
(08:05):
early. I think it was likeNicky Haley's first question. She came out,
she gave a decent answer. Itwas again about the autoworkers strikes.
She's like, we need to fixthese small business taxes, we need to
fix the all the gas taxes andwhatnot. We need to get rid of
that so that these workers have moremoney in their pockets. Like, okay,
agree with that. And then hertime went up and she kind of
(08:26):
ran over the time a little bitgiving her answer. And then I believe
it was Doug Bergham, just likeShoe warned his way in and he had
no business opening his mouth and speakingthen because it was not his turn and
it was not his question and whatnot. But here's what that sounded like.
Or cash in the pockets of workers. That's when we'll be able to deal
(08:46):
with strikes like this, not sittingon a picket line like Joe Biden,
thank you. We have other questionsto get to about economy. Allow me
too. I'm sorry, allow meto allow me too. We're missing the
point, and every other network ismissing the point. The reason why people
are striking in Detroit is because JoeBiden's interference with capital markets, and she's
(09:09):
sitting there like, we have otherstuff to get to allow me to do
this, Allow me to do this, and Doug Burd's like, no,
I will not allow you to dothat. I want to speak on this.
Bless his heart, he just absolutelykicked in the front door and put
himself in the middle of that conversation, and that lady was just sitting there
like, what's happening, What's goingon? What do I do? They
(09:31):
should have been way less generous withwho got their mic turned on or not.
I want to say it was oneof the debates during the last presidential
election where they were just like,okay, you know what, we the
moderators will be controlling the mics andwho gets them turned on and turned off.
And that ended up happening later onin the debate as it just got
more and more chaotic, believe itor not, that was one of the
(09:54):
times where they were the most respectfulof the bell and the debate clock and
the times and everything that was it. That was the most respectful moment of
the debate. Right there, rightafter that, Christie did he had a
couple of really good moments. HeI think he actually did really well,
and that he did much better inthis debate than he did in the last
debate. His whole thing, onceagain was just a tag Donald Trump attag
(10:16):
Donald Trump attacked Donald Trump. Butthe points he made this time around,
I think were a lot better.He got asked a question about like the
government shut down and everything, andhe made the true and valid point that
like, hey, this isn't justthe Democrats, the Republicans did this too.
Donald Trump added seven trillion dollars tothe deficit, which is a fact.
Donald Trump did do that. Andright after he made that point and
(10:37):
of course then devolved in the chaos. So here's what that sounded like.
Vice President Pence was that politics ofquote Trump's populists, proteges like mister Ramaswamy
are a road to ruin for theGOP the government should sound Should voters blame
populists? Republicans voters lay everybody who'sin Washington, DC. They get sent
(11:03):
down there to do the job,and they've been failing at doing the job
for a very long time. Andlet's be honest about this with the voters.
You know, during the Trump administration, they had seven trillion dollars,
seven trillion dollars in national debt,and now the Biden administration has put another
five trillion on and counting. Theyhave failed, and they're in the spot
they're in now because none of themare willing to tell the truth. None
(11:26):
of them are willing to take onthe difficult tissues. They just want to
keep kicking the can down the road. And the inflation that Nikki spoke about
is absolutely right, and it's causedby government spending. And that's why people
all across this country are suffering tonight. And yet we don't get any answers
because Joe Biden hides in his basementand won't answer as to why he's raising
the debt the way he's done.And Donald Trump he hides behind the walls
(11:50):
of his golf clubs and won't showup here to answer questions like all the
rest of us are up here toanswer. He puts seven trillion on the
debt, he should be in thisroom to answer those questions for the people
you talk about who are suffering.And if the government and if the government
closes, and if the government closes, it's the blame. It is to
the blame of everyone in Washington,DC who has failed to do their job
(12:15):
and just plays to the grand standardrespect you haven't spoken people in Washington,
and that there basically sums up thewhole night that like somebody would give Get
(12:37):
a question, they would answer thequestion, and then everybody would just pile
on top of it. Like thisis the thing that just aggravates me the
most about Mike Pence. I heinfuriates me. I don't know what it
is, but something about him justabsolutely just pisses me off. And one
of the big parts of it isChris Christy isn't even done talking and Mike
(13:01):
pants is already Can I speak onthat? Can I speak on that?
Hey? Can I can I speakon that? I was like, dude,
he's in the middle of a sentence. Let Chris Christie finished speaking,
and then if you want to juststart interrupting and yelling, Like if I'm
fine with the interrupting and yelling happens, that that's politics, baby, But
(13:22):
can you let the man finish answeringhis question before everybody interrupts and starts yelling
at each other, And then thatpoor moderator, bless her heart, I
sincerely hope that like she slept inThursday morning and just took some time to
herself to recuperate because they were justwalking all She's sitting there like, can
(13:43):
we please respect the time? Canwe please respect the time? And then
nobody is respecting the time. Thereis no respect of the time happening in
this debate. And it was blessher heart, and that really was just
about it. It was just awhole bunch of that all night, Nicki
Haley. A lot of people havebeen talking over the last couple of days
(14:03):
about how on the attack she was. I don't really care. I don't
think it helped her any but atthe same time, I don't think it
hurt her any. And here's whyshe really doesn't have anything to lose.
She's not going to be the nominee. She's not, and she's almost definitely
not gonna manage to swing up aboveDeSantis. And the reason I know that
is because she didn't really ever havethe chance to get after DeSantis. She
(14:26):
got after Chris Christie, she gotafter vveg she got after Tim Scott a
lot, which was like, whoadude, that's that's a senator from your
state. That's your guy right there. But yeah, she went she went
after everybody pretty much. Accept shedidn't have any big, hard hitting moments
against Assantis, which if she wantsto go anywhere in this primary, that's
what she's gonna have to do.But she, at least not that I
(14:46):
really saw, she didn't do thatat all. She didn't hit DeSantis in
any way that was notable, Andbecause of that, I don't think her
performance was notable. So because I'mnot really gonna waste my time or years
talking about it, just nothing shesaid really mattered in the grand scheme of
thing. Nothing most of these peoplesaid really madden in the grand scheme of
things. So I won't waste yourtime talking about it anymore. So that,
(15:09):
yeah, that's enough debate talk.If you didn't see it, you
didn't miss anything. If you're stillon the fence for who to vote for
in the Republican primary, just flipa coin and vote for DeSantis her Trump.
It's the same thing at this point. But yeah, let's go ahead
and with that out of the way, let's jump in and move to some
news, because we have had overthe last couple of days some pretty interesting
breaking news. Okay, so theBiden impeachment inquiry has of course begun,
(15:35):
and that's big news for no reason. I will be interested to see what
information we see from this, Iam. I would be very surprised if
it's stuff we don't already know.There's already so much that we just know
from just by virtue of Hunter's laptop. I don't know what they could possibly
bring out that we don't already know. I don't think there's going to be
(15:56):
anything that anybody's surprised by. Buthere is James Comber, the representative who's
heading the committee that's leading this impeachmentinquiry, going on about it yesterday.
This was kind of like his openingdiscussion or his opening monologue before the hearing
began for this committee. The HouseOversight and Accountability Committee has uncovered a mountain
(16:17):
of evidence revealing how Joe Biden abusedhis public office for his family's financial gain.
For years, President Biden has liedto the American people about his knowledge
of and participation in his family's corruptbusiness schemes. At least ten times,
Joe Biden lied to the American peoplethat he never spoke to his family about
(16:38):
their business dealings. He lied bytelling the American people that there was an
absolute wall between his official government dutiesand his personal life. Let's be clear,
there was no wall. The doorwas wide open to those who purchased
what a business associate described as theBiden brand. Yeah, I would not
be surprised if most of the stuffwe end up just kind of hearing and
(17:00):
seeing talked about. It's just stuffthat's that we've already seen from Hunter's laptop
and whatnot. Like, like Isaid, there's not a whole lot knew
that they could possibly bring out here. We all knew this stuff already.
That's really why I'm hesitant to sayanything's gonna come of this. As much
as I don't want to be apessimist, I want to be able to
(17:22):
say I think this is finally gonnabe it. We're finally gonna see justice
come down on Joe Biden's head,and it's finally going to be outed that
he was selling access to himself toeverybody who would give him a dollar so
that he could become rich and costingthe American people their security because of it.
But I don't think that's going tohappen, because if they can bury
(17:45):
their heads in the sand and pretendthe stuff that's on Hunter Biden's laptop is
that the fact that just the laptopalone didn't blow the roof off of this
kind of made me lose faith andall of us because there it is.
Right then, it's like clear emails, text messages, pictures of Hunter doing
all this stuff, and yet we'restill pretending like there's a did this?
Didn't this happen? Here? Thereshouldn't need to be a whole committee hearing
(18:07):
if if people were honest, theywould just say, yeah, this guy
needs to be in peace right now. If people were really honest, he
never would have even won the election. He would have had to drop out
because everybody and their mother would havebeen saying this guy should not be the
president. But here we are anyway, so that just by virtue of that,
(18:27):
I have no faith in this process. Was however, I just don't.
And I hate to be a pressimist. I hate to be the guy
that's just showering bad news on you, But that's that's just how I see
it. I am hoping to Godthat I'm proven wrong. I look forward
with great excitement for that happening.But I wouldn't put money on it.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting onit either. I also want to now
(18:49):
turn our attention over to California becausethey are once again making news by being
just terribly, horribly stupid. Californiahas raised the minimum wage for fast food
workers to twenty dollars an hour,which is so freaking stupid. Which is
so stupid. I just on principle, and I'm very what's the ward to
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say, I'm very suspicious at bestof any minimum wage whatsoever. I don't
think it's the government's job to cramdown on companies what they should be paying
employees. That that doesn't sit rightwith me, just because I have my
libertarian tendencies. But I understand theargument for some sort of minimum wage,
Lady Dati da I. I don'tthink that's the government's job. I just
(19:37):
don't. But whatever it is,it should definitely not be freaking twenty dollars
an hour for flipping burgers. Youknow what that's gonna do. That's just
going to raise the cost of theburger, and that's going to lead to
the result. The result there's justgoing to be the automation of the process.
And if you don't believe me,walk into a McDonald's anywhere right now,
(20:00):
and you'll see right there in yourface at kiosk waiting to take your
order, and there'll be one personat the counter, just one, and
they will take orders. Sometimes mostof the time they're not even there.
They have one register that's just setup to take cash payments, and that's
like one out of every five people. What do you think happened to I
(20:23):
remember back in the day when youwalked into a fast food restaurant and there
was five people lined up waiting totake your order, and now there's one.
Sometimes you don't think that's a directresult of the government saying that you
have to pay these people more thanwhat the labor they're doing is worth.
And that's not to crap on thepeople doing the work. I worked in
fast food for a long time.I should not have been paid twenty dollars
(20:47):
an hour for what I did.I'm glad I wasn't. This is only
going to lead to less people beingemployed in these jobs, and then the
product that they're producing is going tobecome way more expensive. This right here
is the real reason that California issuch an economic garbage fire, because of
artificial inflation. This is just thegovernment saying you have to pay these people
(21:10):
more money, so the product becomesmore expensive. And that's happening not just
with fast food, that's happening everywhere. So every product from food to housing
to everything in between becomes more expensivebecause you're mandating that these employees be paid
more. All that leads to it'sthe spiral keeps going. Twenty dollars an
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hour is still not a minimum orminimum wage. Twenty dollars an hour is
still not a living wage in California. It's not. The cost of living
in California is almost forty eight thousanddollars. Forty seven eight hundred and one
dollars a year is the cost ofliving in California average cost of living.
So let's do the math right herein real time. Let's say you just
work flipping burgers in California twenty ortwenty dollars per hour, and you work
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forty hours a week, full time, and you do that four weeks out
of the month. That puts youat three thousand, two hundred dollars a
month. But four taxes, Okay, this is not factoring taxes. Now,
three thousand, two hundred a monthtimes twelve months, that's thirty eight
four hundred dollars a year. Sothat still misses our target of forty seven
(22:18):
thousand dollars a year by several thousanddollars. And that's before taxes. Something
like fifty percent of that is goingto be taken out between local governments in
California, California state government, andthen the federal government. Between those three
bodies of government in taxes, abouthalf of that money is going to be
taken away. So their whole argumentis, we need to be able to
(22:41):
pay, We need to mandate thatwe pay these people twenty dollars an hour,
because every single worker, no matterwhat the job is, needs to
be making a living ways in California. But this doesn't even come close.
And all you've done is you've raisedthe cost of the goods, because who
do you think is really paying theseworkers twenty dollars an hour? The company
or the person who just bought aten dollar burger and a freaking fifteen dollar
(23:04):
meal. That's where that money's comingfrom. And then guess what that person
who just spent ten to fifteen dollarson a freaking cheeseburger at McDonald's. They're
sitting there eating their burger, thinking, Wow, the cost of food has
really gone up. I don't knowhow I'm gonna be able to make it.
You know what I should do.I should go to my representative in
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the California legislature or whatever, andI should tell them that they need to
pass a law that gives me ahigher minimum wage. And repeat the cycle,
and repeat the cycle again and againand again and again, because every
single person in every single industry inthe entire state of California is going to
experience this same freaking thing. Theircost of living is gonna go up,
(23:47):
their cost of feeding themselves is gonnago up. This is a vicious cycle
that starts the moment that you saywe're gonna have a minimum wage. The
moment you say we're gonna have aminimum wage, and even back in the
day when when the minimum which islike seven fifteen and nobody thought it was
a big deal, but that slipperyslope has led to hear and now the
person flipping burgers at the back ofthe McDonald's is making twenty dollars an hour
(24:11):
and the burger costs ten dollars justfor the burger and the fries and the
drink are gonna be a whole hellof a lot extra. And then people
wonder why California is unlivable, whyCalifornia is too expensive, because y'all are
doing crap like this. It's notaffordable and it's not even doing they tug
at your heartstrings. This is whatreally ticks me off about the Democratic Party.
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They go so far out of theirway to play this morality game.
We have to do this to helpthese people. We have to forget the
fact that it's a terrible idea.We need to do this to help these
paper But what you're doing doesn't helpthe people. How many times do we
have to explain this to you.You can say you're doing this to help
(24:52):
to people all you want, it'snot gonna help anybody. You can't just
magically say I'm doing this to helpyou and that makes it help. That
doesn't help. It disappoints me howstupid these people are. And there's people
that are willfully ignorant about this,and then there's people that are just gullible
enough to buy into this. Ihonestly, legitimately feel bad for the people
(25:18):
out there who are sitting there lookingat these posts about California's new minimum wage
for McDonald's workers and are sitting theregoing, oh, that's so great for
them. I'm so happy for them. I'm so glad that Democrats did this.
This is a good thing, andthey truly believe it. They truly
believe it through no fault of theirown. They're just that gullible. It
disappoints me to no end. Alrighty, that's going to do it for the
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show today, everybody, Thank youvery much for listening. Stay tuned for
Monday. I got a lot morestuff to talk about. I didn't end
up getting everything I wanted to getto today just because I spent so much
time on the debate, which was, if I'm being honest, this debate
was a complete waste of time.Once again, I cannot stress this enough.
If you didn't catch it, don'tbother. It's not worth it.
You will gain nothing from watching it. Yeah, definitely follow the podcast on
(26:04):
all the platforms because Monday morning we'regonna have some good stuff for you.
Or I say Monday morning, probablybe Monday afternoon or Monday evening. Really,
just looking at my schedule. Ifnothings are going to play out,
but Monday got a great show coming. It's gonna be awesome. We're gonna
be touching on a lot of veryinteresting things. Once again, I want
to encourage you to reach out tome and give me comments on the show
topics we discuss something you want tohear more about. I'd love to hear
(26:26):
the foodback from you. As always, I'm gonna have my social media tags
in the description of this episode soyou can reach out to me on Instagram
or Twitter or I guess it's calledX. It always slips in my mind
to call it X. All right, once again, thank you all very
much for listening, and I willsee you on Monday for the next GM Report.
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