March 15, 2025 • 39 mins
The left lost big during the 2024 election, and thanks to the political malpractice of the Democrats, they're headed for another big loss. So they're turning to political violence.
Trump continues to negotiate with both Ukraine and Russia to end the war. Democrats say that this is bad, but they don't really have a better option.
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Trump continues to negotiate with both Ukraine and Russia to end the war. Democrats say that this is bad, but they don't really have a better option.
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, the good news is we didn't have a government shutdown.
The bad news is also we didn't have a government shutdown.
I tend to roof for the government shutdown. I gotta
be honest with y'all. I like the government shut down.
Less government. I think in almost every case, with maybe
a few exceptions, is better. And you know, as I've
said multiple times across the history of this show, whenever
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you start hearing people lose their minds over a possible
government shutdown, that's usually not ever connected with reality. Your
life keeps going virtually exactly the same as it was
if there's a government shutdown, But it changes nothing unless
you're a government employee, and if you are, I would
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encourage you look for a different job. I mean, we
always knew that this was going to happen. There was
never really any doubt that this wasn't going to pass, because,
as Thomas Massey pointed out, right after the Republicans in
the House passed this continuing resolution, Speaker Mike Johnson sent
everybody home, which is a pretty strong indicator that he's
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already done all the negotiations and he already knows that
the Democrats are going to pass this so he doesn't
need the House members to hang around and sort of
continue the negotiations and maybe vote on something different. He said, Okay,
we did it. We know they're going to do their job,
so we can all go home. We all knew this
was going to happen because Thomas mass he told us
(01:44):
he was right. Good job, Thomas Massey. So on Friday,
that was the deadline day, like it had to be
done by midnight. Yesterday, the Gop led Senate pass the
stopgap bill to stave off a partial government shut down
at the stroke of midnight, sending the legislation to President
Donald Trump to sign into law after Democrats gave up
their last chance to block it. That's the Daily Wires
(02:06):
Daniel Chaiton reporting on that the real story here isn't
the fact that it passed, but the fact that Democrats
made such a big deal about not wanting it to pass.
And this, I think is important because it kind of
speaks to why the Democrat Party has such a low
approval rating right now. They pick such random issues to
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make such a big, you know, stand on, and then
they just immediately cave on it. Right, So, the Democrats
were all up in arms about this spending bill, which
I remind you is just a continuation of the last
spending bill that their guy Joe Biden signed into law.
But here is Rep. Jasmine Crockett from I believe the
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Dallas area. She's from here in Texas. Unfortunately, she's very dumb,
very dumb. But here she is explaining why this bill
is so terrible and it's preferable for the Democrats to
shut down the government then pass this bill. Now I'm
inclined to agree with her that it's preferable to shut
down the government then pass this bill because it's too big,
it's too much spending. She's using an incorrect formula to
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get to the right answer. So here she is blabbering
about that.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
In my opinion, if we're shut down, you can't be fired.
And what does that mean. It does mean that people
will not be paid, but it does mean that they
will get their back pay, so hopefully we can stop
some of the bleeding. We just saw that the Department
of Education laid off fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Of their workforce.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So I don't really understand why anybody would say, oh,
we got to take the high road, we got to listen.
He is decimating the federal government and you're talking about
whether or not we're going to keep the doors open.
He literally is shutting down departments anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So yeah, that's her argument. We don't pass this bill,
we shut down the government so that Trump can't do
all the things that he is doing anyway. But just wait,
it gets better. All the other House Democrats all got
on the same boat with her. And Okay, I'm seeing
i think nine different posts from different House Democrats that
are all exactly the same. Like, it's what they did
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with that goofy video that we played a couple episodes ago,
where they all recorded the exact same video with the
exact same script. Well, they did the same thing with
tweets now in the House, like nine different House representatives
and there's probably more on the Democrat side of the aisle.
All of them tweeted out House Democrats stand united for
a four week funding extension that stops harmful cuts, keeps
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government open, and allows Congress to reach a true bipartisan
funding agreement. At least nine of them, probably more all
posted the exact same thing. So you'd think now that
I mean, for whatever reason, they're gonna dig in here
and this is gonna be their hill that they're gonna
die on. I'm gonna question your judgment, but at least
you're picking a hill, right. You're giving your base something
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to get behind. You're encouraging all of them to kind
of stand up and support whatever it is you're doing.
This is incredibly important. We're working to push this piece
of legislation. We're going to stop the bad piece of legislation.
All of us get in on this. Call your representatives,
call your senators, get to work, and so you fire
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up the base doing that. That's the goal, right, And
I mean the Senate Democrats did the exact same thing.
They stood up and said, you know, this is partisan.
The Republicans are terrible for doing this, and we're going
to stop it. Take a listen to Chuck Schumer saying
that House Democrats are not going to get behind this.
We're going to stop this from happening.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Mister President, the Democratic leader. Funding the government should be
a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting
their Continuing Resolution without any input, any input from Congressional Democrats.
Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in
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the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our
caucus is unified a clean April eleventh CR that will
keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate
five parties in legislation that can pass.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
So, if you're part of the Democrat base, if you're
a Democrat voter, you're looking at this and you're saying, Okay,
this is our issue, right, We're we're, you know, up
in arms about this. We're gonna we're gonna do something
about this. We're gonna get something done here. I've got
the Democrats telling me this is what we're focused on,
this is what they're working on, and they're trying to
put a stop to this. Okay, it's something, it's nothing great,
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but it's something to kind of give to the voters
and say, hey, we're working on this, we're fighting for
this up until the fact that you just turn around
and say, nope, never mind, just kidding, which is exactly
what Chuck Schumer did. All the Democrats voted to end closure,
all right, I guess not all of them, but enough
to get sixty votes, which is what you need to say. Okay,
we're gonna be done debating this, and now we're gonna
actually vote on it. That's the way this works in
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the Senate. You have to get sixty people to vote
to vote on the bill, and then you can vote
on the bill. So, like less than twenty four hours
after Chuck Schuber got up and said, hey, we're not
gonna support this, We're not gonna let this pass. He
then immediately turned around and said, never mind, we're gonna
let it pass. And then sixty two senators, including a
bunch of Democrats, voted to vote on the bill. And
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then when they voted on the bill, the bill passed.
All those Democrats then turned around and voted against the bill,
but it required just a simple majority, which the Republicans have,
so the Democrats knew that when they voted to vote
on this bill, it was going to pass. So basically
what ended up happening here is the Democrats did a
bunch of performative garbage to get their base worked up,
and then they rug pulled their base. That's not a
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good look. They're not gonna win anything doing that. All
they're doing is pissing off their base and making their
base feel betrayed. It's political malpractice. I don't know why
they do it. All right, stay tuned. We got a
great show coming up. We'll be right back after this break.
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All right, let's talk economy for a little bit here.
I think that's worthwhile. We had a pretty big market
correction over the course of the week. I say pretty big.
It's in line with other market corrections. Actually, it was
about a ten percent correction, which we have had a
significant number of those over history. That's not necessarily anything
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particularly shocking. You don't need to lose your mind. It's
a natural part of the economy. This actually tends to
happen from what I have seen in the first kind
of quarter of a new president, the market does a
little bit of a correction. That this is not anything
unheard of. But yet we have been told that this
is a signal that all the different things Trump is
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doing clearly isn't working and we need to just reverse
course right now. I remind you what I think, less
than four full months into this presidency, right now, these
things take time. As I've dug into in the past,
this is kind of one of those one step back
so that we can then take several steps forward situations.
(09:15):
I think that's where we are, and it's not just
me despite what you might think if you're you know,
constantly buried in the headlines, people seem to actually feel
pretty good about the economy. And here's why I say that,
I'm not just making that up. We have a report
from CNBC that weekly mortgage demand has surged eleven percent
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higher as interest rates dropped for the sixth straight week.
That's a good sign, right, interest rates on home loans
are starting to go down. That's great news in the
short term, sure, but will that last? Are people kind
of thinking, Okay, I can actually make this investment long
term and be fine. Well, yeah, the mortgage rates are surging,
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the interest rates go down, more people decided, you know what,
I think we'll be fine over the long term. If
I invest a huge portion of money into owning a home.
That's really not something you do if you think the
economy is going to immediately turn around and tank. Now,
on top of that, it gets even better. Inflation is
actually slowing now, it's still going up, right, Prices are
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still getting more expensive, but that doesn't actually ever stop,
Thank you, Federal Reserve. The goal is to have two
percent inflation every single year, So every year the dollar
loses two percent of its value. I don't know why
we've set that as a goal. It seems ridiculous to me,
but hey, whatever, It's been way higher for a long
time under Joe Biden because of government spending. Now, in February,
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which was the first full month of Donald Trump's presidency,
we actually saw inflation start to creep closer to that
two percent target. So from the month of February twenty
twenty four to February twenty two, twenty five, experts at
like Dow Jones had expected that the prices would rise
at two point nine percent. They actually came in at
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two point eight percent, which is lower than they thought,
which means the economy is doing better than the experts
thought it was doing. Now, remember in January, which was
kind of the last month of Joe Biden's presidency and
then it transitioned into Donald Trump, that number was like
three percent, which these sound like really small numbers, but
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economically speaking, they have a big impact. Another good sign
that we saw in that same report is that gasoline
prices are starting to fall down month over month, which
is great because, like Trump has pointed out on a
number of occasions, that kind of is connected to everything else, Right,
everything you buy has to get there, probably by a
vehicle that burns gasoline. So the more expensive gasoline is
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that works its way into the cost of what you buy.
So if gasoline prices start to fall, guess what, all
the other prices go with that, and same and rever.
If gasoline prices rise, all the other prices rise with it.
So this is all really good signs. And it's very
early signs too, So I mean, we can expect this
to hopefully continue. So Scott Jennings, who is CNN's basically
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kind of in house Republican, he goes up there and
he says, look, I know that we've had a market correction.
This actually is not really as bad as y'all are
saying it is. It's not great. Market corrections aren't great.
People do lose money. But is it the end of
the world.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Is it normal?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And if you look below those headlines, if you dig
into the surface, we're actually seeing a lot of good
economic data here. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Wholesale inflation is down, consumer inflation is down, gas prices
are decreasing, mortgage rates coming down. Egg prices are four
dollars and eighty nine cents today, they were six dollars
and fifty five cents on January twenty. First, we've seen
manufacturing jobs and the last jobs are port go up.
Private investment announcements are going up, and a whole bunch
of nutty climate regulations have been viscerated by this administration.
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So the stock market is one measurement. It's not unusual
for corrections to occur. But there's a whole bunch of
green shoots that I think we can look to and say,
maybe there's some optimism to be had.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I mean, I personally feel pretty optimistic. I think things
are starting to work out again. This is going to
be a slow process. It's not going to happen immediately,
but I would allow that for a little bit of time,
we can kind of trust the process here right now. Again,
if you really want to kick up and jumpstart the
economy and really get it going, what you kind of
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have to do is rein in government spending a whole lot,
which is something Dosh has been working on doing, and
then allow Americans to keep more of their money in
their pocket. This is something you can do all at
once by just really drawing down on how much tax
everyone has to pay or saying, hey, if you make
this amount of money, you don't have to pay tax
at all because you're not really making that much, so
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we'll let you keep all of your money. That would
be great, Right, We can kill two birds with one
stone there if we say, hey, this huge portion of
people don't have to pay taxes, that's going to really
limit the federal budget, which means they can't go overspend
and cause more inflation, and things will be cheaper and
you can afford more stuff. Great. The Trump administration now
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wants to do that by saying, hey, if you make
less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,
maybe you just don't pay income tax. Perfect. I love that.
Do it, and then we can you know, go from
there and to hey, nobody has to pay any income
tax because it's ridiculous and immoral. But that's a whole
nother question. Here's Howard Lutnik talking about that. Hey, we
don't want people to be paying taxes on their tips,
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taxes on their social security. We don't want them to
have to pay into the Social Security system, which is
kind of already bankrupt. And you know, if you're making
less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
You just shouldn't be paying income tax. Here he is saying,
all that take a listen to.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
This is to have external revenue. You know, the way
I think about it. We all are so used to
paying taxes. We're so used with we have like Stockholm syndrome.
You know. Don't stop the internal revenue service. God forbid?
How about this? The rest of the world leans on
our economy, breathes off our economy. Not only is our
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economy twenty nine trillion dollars GDP, but we consume twenty
trillion dollars a year. We are the buyer of everybody's stuff.
We buy everybody's stuff. So who is more important for
people who sell stuff or the people who buy stuff?
So we are the buyer of everybody's commodities, products, goods,
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and services. Everything comes from us. Right. Let them pay
a membership fee. We all understand that model. Let them
pay How about we, you and I and every single
person we know pay less? How About no tax on tips?
How about no tax on overtime? How about no social security?
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How about all those things? These are the kind of
thoughts that will change America. Know what his goal?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Is no tax for.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Anybody who makes less than one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year. That's his goal. That's what I'm working for.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
See, that's the type of thing that I hear and
I think, Okay, Well, if these are the people that
are in power, that are, you know, making the policies
for the United States, and these are their stated goals,
that makes me feel good about the future of the
economy because you can make the case, and you'd probably
be correct that tariffs would raise the prices of certain
foreign goods. Yes, however, you'll probably be able to pay
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for that just fine and still have money left over
if the government isn't leaching off your paycheck. Like if
you tell me prices are going to rise five percent,
but I'll have fifty percent more money sold, I'll take it.
You have my attention. I'm all the way there. And
if you tell me that that could very well become
a reality, because that's what the people at the top
level of government are pushing for, I feel great. I'm
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willing to weather the stock market going up and down
because it's volatile because we have a new president. That's normal,
that happens anyway every time we get a new president.
This is a normal market correction. So what's my point?
Where am I going with all of this? Let me
wrap all of this up nicely in a bow for you.
Don't look at all of the headlines, because those are
just there to kind of freak you out a little bit.
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Look at all of the deeper data that's not being
handed to you on a silver platter. Think for yourself
a little bit about what this could mean long term.
Everything has consequences every action you take, every policy. So
what I encourage you to do is do a lot
of digging. Try to get as much info as possible
about what's happening, what the economy is doing, what it
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could be doing long term, and recognize we are at
the very beginning of a bumpy road that leads to
something quite a bit better. So try not to automatically
assume the worst just because things go up and down
a little bit. Think long term. I'm pretty sure we'll
be fine, all right, We'll be right back, stay tunes,
(18:15):
all right? So what is going on in Europe? We
talked on Wednesday about how Ukraine had agreed to the
sort of basic principles and whatnot of the thirty day
ceasefire that the US had proposed, and now what was
left was for Russia to come to the table and
then also sign off on that, and then we have
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a ceasefire and you know, the killing stops at least temporarily,
and then we can you know, look at having a
long term formal end to the war. Right So that's
where we were on Wednesday, and we were hoping for
an update. We have somewhat of an update, kind of
Russia hasn't exactly agreed to it, but it seems like
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they're sort of, you know, getting to the point where
they're ready to sign off on this or if not this,
exactly something similar. It seems like they don't like this deal,
but they like the concept and they just want to
negotiate a little bit further. Those those talks, those negotiations
are ongoing. Here's Marco Rubio talking about that, talking about
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the fact that you know, we're working on this, we're
talking with the Russians, and we're making progress. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
We continue to recognize this is a difficult and complex situation.
It will not be easy, it will not be simple,
but we certainly feel like we're at least some steps
closer to ending this war and bringing peace.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Caroline Levitt. Meanwhile, the White House Press Secretary, she's also
signaling optimism. Here. She is out in front of the
White House saying, hey, look, we're putting pressure on the
Russians right now, and we think that they're getting close.
We think that's working. Take a listen. Well, I think
President will talk to President puts In during the day.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
I don't have any thing on the President's schedule, but
that could obviously always change. As you saw his true
social this morning, he is putting pressure on the on
President Pulin and the Russians to do the right thing.
Yesterday was a productive day for the United States of
America and for the world in terms of peace. We
have never been this close to peace. You saw the
NATO Secretary General in the Oval Office yesterday, you were
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there with us, who said that only because of President
Trump are we here on the verge of brokering a
peace deal.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
As far as Trump himself, he posted on truth Social
I believe last night saying we had a very good
and productive discussion with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday,
So this would have been I believe. On Thursday he
talked with Putin and he said, there's a very good
chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to
an end. But at this very moment, thousands of Ukrainian
troops are completely surrounded by the Russian military and in
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a very bad and vulnerable position. I have strongly requested
to Putin that their lives be spared. This would be
a horrible massacre, not one scene since World War II.
God blessed them all. Essentially, the negotiation seem to be underway,
which is good, but we have not reached an agreement
yet that makes sense that all checks out. This is
going to be a long process. Obviously Russia has to
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save face here. Putin's not just going to walk out
with nothing, right. They spend a lot of time and
effort in life in Ukraine. They're not going to leave
without getting anything. And obviously, as we've discussed in detail
in the past, Ukraine cannot just outright win this war.
They physically can't unless we put NATO boots on the ground.
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I don't see a reason for us to do that.
So the negotiation is good. It is now there are
those that would say, no, we can't negotiate at all.
We have to keep fighting forever. And when I say we,
I mean the Ukrainians, because thankfully we're not actually involved
in that yet. And to that, I just post this
simple question, why why should we keep fighting this war forever,
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keep funding this war forever? What is in it for us?
Why is this important to us? And that's a question
that I can't seem to get anyone who's on the
other side of this issue, who wants this war to
just keep going without negotiating with Russia, They can't answer
that question. Actually ended up having this discussion on Facebook
with somebody, somebody I used to work with, posted hashtag
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stand with Ukraine, and you know, I just thought, okay, well,
you seem to have a strong opinion on this. My
question is why should we keep doing what we're doing?
Because when they say stand with Ukraine, that's what they mean.
They mean keep giving Ukraine a bunch of money and
funding this war endlessly. And to that, I say why.
So I commented that I just simply said why. The
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response that I got back was from a third party
who then just said, well, how would you feel if
Russia invaded the United States? I mean probably not great.
I would probably go do something about it. Thank god
we have the Second Amendment for situations just like that.
I wouldn't feel great about it, and I probably wouldn't
be particularly interested in negotiating. But I also wouldn't drag
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another country into this for no reason. I'd go handle
it myself or die trying. And also, that's not the
question I asked. The question is why should we be
standing with Ukraine. That's not a hypothetical My real world
question was responded to with a hypothetical question, which is
not an answer to my question. So I just simply said,
Russia hasn't invaded the United States. And this other person
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responded and they said, you're right, they invaded Ukraine, so
we can empathize with Ukraine for wanting their peace back
on their own soil. They made no aggressive moves out
of Russia, only sought to do what was best for
their country. Russia should get out and leave them alone.
Fair enough, I agree in principle with everything that was
said just then. That makes perfect sense. Empathize with them,
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absolutely sure, But at the end of the day, is
that in line with reality? No, should Russia just say, oh,
what we did was wrong. We should leave. Yeah, probably,
But the reality is that's not how geopolitics works. That's
not how wars work. It never has and it never
will be. They're not just gonna say, oh, never mind,
my bad, we're gonna leave. Sorry about that. I apologize
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that was wrong with me. That's not in line with reality.
So empathized with them. Sure, but I still don't see
any clear reason why America should be involved in this
at all. I really don't. Why should we keep sending
them our money? Why should we just stand with Ukraine?
What is the practical, real world reason that the United
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States should be involved in this? And I asked that question.
The response I got to that was just no. One
says we have to be involved, but we shouldn't be
supporting Russia. No reason why we can't say we stand
with Ukraine. Well, first of all, tons of people do
say we should be involved. Sending money and weapons to
Ukraine is involvement in this war, it is. Is it
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direct military involvement, No, but it is still involvement nonetheless,
So we are still involved, and we are still being
told that we need to remain involved without an explanation
as to why. I mean, what it seems like they're
saying here is just say stand with Ukraine. It's not
that big of a deal. Why not just stand with them?
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It's the nice thing to do. And I mean that's fine,
I guess, but at that point that's just platitude. So
why even bother? Like, what does stand with Ukraine mean
in this situation? If you're saying, just say I stand
with Ukraine, so that you can say I said I
stand with Ukraine, I mean, fair enough, but that's worthless.
When people say stand with Ukraine, they're implying some sort
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of action, be that money or sending them weapons or
what have you. So as it stands right now, the
definition of stand with Ukraine is either pander to overly
empathetic people with platitudes, or send Ukraine more money. And
if we're just going to pander, well then that's a
waste of everybody's time. And if we're going to be
sending them more money and weapons, I need to know
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what's in it for us. Why we should care enough
to send our money and our military assets to another
country to fight a war or on another continent that
we shouldn't be involved in at all. Like at this point,
looking back. It seems like the position we've gotten ourselves
into is politicians used empathy to rack up a bunch
of political points, and they don't actually have any plans
to deal with the issue. And it's an issue that
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we shouldn't even be having to deal with at all.
So then I just kind of straight up asked this person,
all right, we've got all this debt, we've got all
the successive spending. Make the case to me why being
involved in this and giving Ukraine all these different weapons
and all this money. Explain to me why that's in
our best interest? Why should we be doing that? They
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just responded saying, I believe we should not spit in
the faces of countries who simply want to live in
peace and make the best decision for their country. Russia
protested because Ukraine was looking to join NATO. So the
complete disrespect that gave Zelensky and expecting him to somehow
make peace when he is not the one invading Russia.
Russia is invading Ukraine. They have to get out or
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there is no peace. Is that the ideal reality for Ukraine?
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Probably is that realistic? No, that will never happen. Both
sides have to be forced to negotiate, and both sides
have to be willing to give up a little and
take a little bit. Otherwise this war is never going
to end. This is the objective reality. Pointing that out
and dealing with that objective reality does not make you
a bad person. Russia is the aggressor here, sure, fair enough,
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sometimes things work out a little bit for the aggressor.
That's the harsh reality. So do you want to just
keep going forever and just say, fine, screw it, we
stop you from taking over Ukraine, But you can have
these little regions here and here, maybe so that you
feel like you got something for all your effort and
you stop attacking us. That's what needs to happen here.
That's the only possible off ramp to this war. But
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if you point that out, the left will call you
a bad guy and say that you're siding with the Russians.
I'm not siding with the Russians, just like I'm not
siding with the Ukrainians. I'm not in Europe. I don't
care who wins this war. I just wanted to stop.
But again, there's no alternative proposed by the left other
than keep fighting forever, which is ridiculous that you would
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continue to say that, Like, what is your alternative plan
if you don't like the fact that Donald Trump is
negotiating with both parties trying to broke her peace? What
is your alternative if you don't have one, shut up.
If you're just mad with the solution we have but
aren't gonna propose something else, be quiet. And if you're
gonna propose something else, you better be ready to explain
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why this other thing is a better option. And again
I tried and tried, and I pried, and I asked questions,
and I tried to give the benefit of the doubt
here and figure out what the alternative solution is. And
there isn't one. There's just weaponized empathy. We just need
to stand with Ukraine because we need to stand with Ukraine,
and god forbid we actually come up with a solution,
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because then we wouldn't be standing with Ukraine. It's ridiculous
and it's unpractical. All right, stay tuned, we'll be right back.
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I really don't think the left knows at all how
to lose. I really don't. They're very sore losers. And
this has gotten to the point where it's actually creating
you know, imminent danger for normal, regular people around the country.
They're actually in legitimate danger because of what sore losers,
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your average leftist is. And here's why I say that.
There's two kind of primary prongs of this issue that
really it came about over the course of this week.
First of all, we have had a huge amount of
conservative you know, influence answers and whatnot swatted recently. If
you don't know what swatting is, that's when you basically
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file a false police report saying like, hey, so and
so has got a gun and they've got hostages and
they're killing people. You've got to get there right now.
Then the police, the swat teams, they all gear up,
they mobilize really quickly, and they emergency respond to whatever
address that the person doing the swatting has given them.
And the way this usually works out is some public
(30:29):
figure somebody will figure out where they live and then
call in this swatting. This happens a lot like with
you know, video game streamers and whatnot. But the goal
is to basically just kind of scare the crap out
of them, because you've got the police showing up with
guns drawn, kicking in your door, because as far as
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they are concerned, you're in there executing hostages and they've
got to do something about it right now. Now, obviously
this is illegal to do. You can't file a false
police report, and you definitely can't call a swat team
to somebody's house just because you think it would be funny.
But leftists have been doing this to conservative figures as
sort of an intimidation tactic, and it really is scary
(31:10):
because people could legitimately die because of this. Like, remember
who's being targeted here. These are you know, conservative people
who traditionally are you know, pro Second Amendment and have guns.
That's very common. So when you've got out of the blue,
some guy who's minding his business, not doing anything, and
then somebody kicks it in his door with a gun drawn,
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and you know you have guns, you're a gun owner,
there's a good chance that turns into a shootout, possibly
in a very tense situation like that where a bunch
of people have guns and you know, law enforcement is like, okay,
I have truly believed that there's something going on here
that's incredibly legal and dangerous and I need to stop it.
And then you kick in that door and oh, look
there's the guy with the gun. You take that shot
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one hundred percent of the time. So, I mean, there's
been a lot of people that are saying, hey, we
need to call this what this is. It's an attempted murder.
They're trying to get these conservative influencers killed because when
we swat them and they don't know what's going on,
they might pull a gun on the police officer who
just kicked their door in, because remember, you don't know
why the cop is kicking your dor and you haven't
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done anything. You're enjoying a nice evening with your family
after bullying the Democrats online, and next thing you know,
somebody kicks your door in with a gun. And then,
if you're the cops, you've been told this person is
murdering people. You kick open the door and he has
a gun. It's not hard to see how this goes
bad really quickly. So this has been happening to a
number of high profile conservative personalities, especially once on X
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like Gunther Eagleman. I've seen a lot of his posts.
He posts a lot of good stuff. Walter Kurt, who's
an investigative journalist, he got swatted a guy by the
name of Sean Farage, who's another really popular kind of
conservative influencer on x He got swatted too. He actually
posted a video talking about it. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Hey guys, it's Sean, my wife Brennan, and wanted to
give you guys an update. We did just get swatted
here in Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (33:02):
The officers said they received a phone call that that
somebody murdered somebody in the house and was planning a
suicide by cop. So I received the call with that information.
We cooperated with police. They were very nice, nice, very
very nice. They were not aware that this was going
on across the country. Was that, you know what, how
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did you feel about that? Was what was going through
your head when you saw officers in the backyard with guns.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I was shaking. I was terrified. I was the only
one awake.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
He was asleep, Yeah, and they were just pointing their
guns into the house.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
And it's I.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That was very scared.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
And that's the point, And that's what these people are
trying to do. They are trying to silence folks who
are not afraid to speak their mind online.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Absolutely terrifying stuff, Absolutely terrifying stuff because I mean, I
can tell you as a gun owner. I mean, if
I see somebody just creeping around my backyard pointing guns
into my house, and I don't know what they're doing,
and I don't know why they're there, and I don't
know who they are, and this is often happening in
the dark, late at night, so you can't really even
see where. Do you think that leads not a safe place?
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I'll tell you that right now. Thankfully, this has made
it up onto Cash Pttel who is the director of
the FBI. It's on his radar. He's speaking out about it.
He says, I want to address the alarming rise in
swatting incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of
this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already
taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable. He says.
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Weaponizing law enforcement against any American is not only morally reprehensible,
but also in dangerous lives, including those of our officers,
that will not be tolerated. We are fully committed to
working with local law enforcement to crack down on these crimes.
More updates to come, So okay, good take this issue seriously,
put a stop to it. This is dangerous and somebody
is going to get killed because of this. So that's
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one kind of example of the left has no ability
to lose with grace. They lose their mind and get legitimately.
The other issue is what we've seen at Tesla dealerships,
which has reached the point where it does border terrorism.
There's a strong stance to be made that what we've
seen happening at Tesla dealerships across the country is legitimate terrorism.
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The media will try to tell you this is just protests.
This is protests in the way that the BLM riots
were protests. This is people, you know, throwing molotov cocktails
at car dealerships, brightening to shoot up car dealerships. This
is not protesting. This is violence. This is terrorism. Literally,
we're getting into mass shooting territory here and the Left
(35:38):
is continuing to call this just protests. Take a listen
to this report from Breitbart. Gunmen have targeted a Tesla
dealership in to Guard, Oregon repeatedly this week, with the
latest incident occurring on Thursday. Although the perpetrators fired more
than a dozen shots in the latest incident, no one
was hurt. In the early hours of Thursday morning, the
t Guard Police Department reported that more more than a
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dozen shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in the
Portland suburb, causing extensive damage to vehicles and showroom windows.
This incident marks the second shooting at the location within
a week, with a similar attack occurring on March sixth. Fortunately,
no injuries were reported in either incident, and this isn't
an isolated case. This has been happening all over the country.
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Tesla dealerships have been vandalized. We've seen cars have swastikas
spray painted on them. So there have been instances of
just protesting and you know, just some vandalism. But remember
vandalism is a crime. Obviously, it's one that we know
the Left doesn't care about even slightly, but it is
still illegal. But we've also had instances where guys show
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up with firebombs. That one was in South Carolina, targeted
Tesla charging stations with firebombs, ended up actually dentally just
setting himself on fire in the process. I don't think
he actually hurt anybody, but he did damage the charging
station and he put his own life at risk because
he accidentally set himself on fire. Now, Obviously the right says, hey,
we shouldn't be doing terrorism at American businesses because we
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don't like the politics of the CEO. That's somehow controversial.
Donald Trump speaking on saying we're going to put a
stop to this because it is dangerous in putting people's
lives at risk. That's looked at by MSNBC as an
attack on freedom of speech. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 8 (37:20):
But then you also overnight have this post claiming that
protests at Tesla dealerships are illegal. He said today he
would label violence against dealerships domestic terrorism. And you know,
I am judicious in how I play this sound, but
I think you need to hear it from him.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
But suppose he talks about some of the violence that's
been going on.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Around the country at dealerships.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Some say they should be labeled domestic terrorists.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
I just do that.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I'll do it.
Speaker 10 (37:48):
I'm going to stop them. We catch anybody doing it,
because they're harming a great American company.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Let me tell you, you.
Speaker 10 (37:54):
Do it to Tesla, and you do it to any company,
we're going to catch you, and you're going to You're
going to go through hell.
Speaker 8 (38:02):
So just to be clear, you protest a private company.
You are labeled by this administration a domestic terrorist.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
No, no, no, let me stop you right there, crazy
MSNBC lady. It's not your protesting at a dealership and
that's illegal. It's you're literally doing terrorism. You're shooting at
a building, putting the lives of anybody that may or
may not be inside of it at risk. You're throwing
firebombs at charging equipment, which puts everybody at risk. You're
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setting yourself on fire because you're an idiot playing with
a firebomb. That's domestic terrorism, and it is you should
not be allowed to do that. That used to be
universally agreed on. I don't know why it's not. How
do we share a country with these people? They went
from being the party that says, oh, we need to
do whatever we can to stop gun violence too. Gun
violence is okay as long as it's against Elon Musk
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and Tesla, and if you try to put a stop
to it, you're a fascist. Make that make sense? All right?
That's all I got. I'll see you all again next
week next Wednesday. Stay tuned on up to this Ston
Well, the good news is we didn't have a government shutdown.
The bad news is also we didn't have a government shutdown.
I tend to roof for the government shutdown. I gotta
be honest with y'all. I like the government shut down.
Less government. I think in almost every case, with maybe
a few exceptions, is better. And you know, as I've
said multiple times across the history of this show, whenever
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you start hearing people lose their minds over a possible
government shutdown, that's usually not ever connected with reality. Your
life keeps going virtually exactly the same as it was
if there's a government shutdown, But it changes nothing unless
you're a government employee, and if you are, I would
(01:03):
encourage you look for a different job. I mean, we
always knew that this was going to happen. There was
never really any doubt that this wasn't going to pass, because,
as Thomas Massey pointed out, right after the Republicans in
the House passed this continuing resolution, Speaker Mike Johnson sent
everybody home, which is a pretty strong indicator that he's
(01:24):
already done all the negotiations and he already knows that
the Democrats are going to pass this so he doesn't
need the House members to hang around and sort of
continue the negotiations and maybe vote on something different. He said, Okay,
we did it. We know they're going to do their job,
so we can all go home. We all knew this
was going to happen because Thomas mass he told us
(01:44):
he was right. Good job, Thomas Massey. So on Friday,
that was the deadline day, like it had to be
done by midnight. Yesterday, the Gop led Senate pass the
stopgap bill to stave off a partial government shut down
at the stroke of midnight, sending the legislation to President
Donald Trump to sign into law after Democrats gave up
their last chance to block it. That's the Daily Wires
(02:06):
Daniel Chaiton reporting on that the real story here isn't
the fact that it passed, but the fact that Democrats
made such a big deal about not wanting it to pass.
And this, I think is important because it kind of
speaks to why the Democrat Party has such a low
approval rating right now. They pick such random issues to
(02:26):
make such a big, you know, stand on, and then
they just immediately cave on it. Right, So, the Democrats
were all up in arms about this spending bill, which
I remind you is just a continuation of the last
spending bill that their guy Joe Biden signed into law.
But here is Rep. Jasmine Crockett from I believe the
(02:48):
Dallas area. She's from here in Texas. Unfortunately, she's very dumb,
very dumb. But here she is explaining why this bill
is so terrible and it's preferable for the Democrats to
shut down the government then pass this bill. Now I'm
inclined to agree with her that it's preferable to shut
down the government then pass this bill because it's too big,
it's too much spending. She's using an incorrect formula to
(03:11):
get to the right answer. So here she is blabbering
about that.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
In my opinion, if we're shut down, you can't be fired.
And what does that mean. It does mean that people
will not be paid, but it does mean that they
will get their back pay, so hopefully we can stop
some of the bleeding. We just saw that the Department
of Education laid off fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Of their workforce.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So I don't really understand why anybody would say, oh,
we got to take the high road, we got to listen.
He is decimating the federal government and you're talking about
whether or not we're going to keep the doors open.
He literally is shutting down departments anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So yeah, that's her argument. We don't pass this bill,
we shut down the government so that Trump can't do
all the things that he is doing anyway. But just wait,
it gets better. All the other House Democrats all got
on the same boat with her. And Okay, I'm seeing
i think nine different posts from different House Democrats that
are all exactly the same. Like, it's what they did
(04:08):
with that goofy video that we played a couple episodes ago,
where they all recorded the exact same video with the
exact same script. Well, they did the same thing with
tweets now in the House, like nine different House representatives
and there's probably more on the Democrat side of the aisle.
All of them tweeted out House Democrats stand united for
a four week funding extension that stops harmful cuts, keeps
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government open, and allows Congress to reach a true bipartisan
funding agreement. At least nine of them, probably more all
posted the exact same thing. So you'd think now that
I mean, for whatever reason, they're gonna dig in here
and this is gonna be their hill that they're gonna
die on. I'm gonna question your judgment, but at least
you're picking a hill, right. You're giving your base something
(04:53):
to get behind. You're encouraging all of them to kind
of stand up and support whatever it is you're doing.
This is incredibly important. We're working to push this piece
of legislation. We're going to stop the bad piece of legislation.
All of us get in on this. Call your representatives,
call your senators, get to work, and so you fire
(05:15):
up the base doing that. That's the goal, right, And
I mean the Senate Democrats did the exact same thing.
They stood up and said, you know, this is partisan.
The Republicans are terrible for doing this, and we're going
to stop it. Take a listen to Chuck Schumer saying
that House Democrats are not going to get behind this.
We're going to stop this from happening.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Mister President, the Democratic leader. Funding the government should be
a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting
their Continuing Resolution without any input, any input from Congressional Democrats.
Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in
(05:52):
the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our
caucus is unified a clean April eleventh CR that will
keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate
five parties in legislation that can pass.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
So, if you're part of the Democrat base, if you're
a Democrat voter, you're looking at this and you're saying, Okay,
this is our issue, right, We're we're, you know, up
in arms about this. We're gonna we're gonna do something
about this. We're gonna get something done here. I've got
the Democrats telling me this is what we're focused on,
this is what they're working on, and they're trying to
put a stop to this. Okay, it's something, it's nothing great,
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but it's something to kind of give to the voters
and say, hey, we're working on this, we're fighting for
this up until the fact that you just turn around
and say, nope, never mind, just kidding, which is exactly
what Chuck Schumer did. All the Democrats voted to end closure,
all right, I guess not all of them, but enough
to get sixty votes, which is what you need to say. Okay,
we're gonna be done debating this, and now we're gonna
actually vote on it. That's the way this works in
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the Senate. You have to get sixty people to vote
to vote on the bill, and then you can vote
on the bill. So, like less than twenty four hours
after Chuck Schuber got up and said, hey, we're not
gonna support this, We're not gonna let this pass. He
then immediately turned around and said, never mind, we're gonna
let it pass. And then sixty two senators, including a
bunch of Democrats, voted to vote on the bill. And
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then when they voted on the bill, the bill passed.
All those Democrats then turned around and voted against the bill,
but it required just a simple majority, which the Republicans have,
so the Democrats knew that when they voted to vote
on this bill, it was going to pass. So basically
what ended up happening here is the Democrats did a
bunch of performative garbage to get their base worked up,
and then they rug pulled their base. That's not a
(07:36):
good look. They're not gonna win anything doing that. All
they're doing is pissing off their base and making their
base feel betrayed. It's political malpractice. I don't know why
they do it. All right, stay tuned. We got a
great show coming up. We'll be right back after this break.
(08:12):
All right, let's talk economy for a little bit here.
I think that's worthwhile. We had a pretty big market
correction over the course of the week. I say pretty big.
It's in line with other market corrections. Actually, it was
about a ten percent correction, which we have had a
significant number of those over history. That's not necessarily anything
(08:34):
particularly shocking. You don't need to lose your mind. It's
a natural part of the economy. This actually tends to
happen from what I have seen in the first kind
of quarter of a new president, the market does a
little bit of a correction. That this is not anything
unheard of. But yet we have been told that this
is a signal that all the different things Trump is
(08:54):
doing clearly isn't working and we need to just reverse
course right now. I remind you what I think, less
than four full months into this presidency, right now, these
things take time. As I've dug into in the past,
this is kind of one of those one step back
so that we can then take several steps forward situations.
(09:15):
I think that's where we are, and it's not just
me despite what you might think if you're you know,
constantly buried in the headlines, people seem to actually feel
pretty good about the economy. And here's why I say that,
I'm not just making that up. We have a report
from CNBC that weekly mortgage demand has surged eleven percent
(09:36):
higher as interest rates dropped for the sixth straight week.
That's a good sign, right, interest rates on home loans
are starting to go down. That's great news in the
short term, sure, but will that last? Are people kind
of thinking, Okay, I can actually make this investment long
term and be fine. Well, yeah, the mortgage rates are surging,
(09:58):
the interest rates go down, more people decided, you know what,
I think we'll be fine over the long term. If
I invest a huge portion of money into owning a home.
That's really not something you do if you think the
economy is going to immediately turn around and tank. Now,
on top of that, it gets even better. Inflation is
actually slowing now, it's still going up, right, Prices are
(10:21):
still getting more expensive, but that doesn't actually ever stop,
Thank you, Federal Reserve. The goal is to have two
percent inflation every single year, So every year the dollar
loses two percent of its value. I don't know why
we've set that as a goal. It seems ridiculous to me,
but hey, whatever, It's been way higher for a long
time under Joe Biden because of government spending. Now, in February,
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which was the first full month of Donald Trump's presidency,
we actually saw inflation start to creep closer to that
two percent target. So from the month of February twenty
twenty four to February twenty two, twenty five, experts at
like Dow Jones had expected that the prices would rise
at two point nine percent. They actually came in at
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two point eight percent, which is lower than they thought,
which means the economy is doing better than the experts
thought it was doing. Now, remember in January, which was
kind of the last month of Joe Biden's presidency and
then it transitioned into Donald Trump, that number was like
three percent, which these sound like really small numbers, but
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economically speaking, they have a big impact. Another good sign
that we saw in that same report is that gasoline
prices are starting to fall down month over month, which
is great because, like Trump has pointed out on a
number of occasions, that kind of is connected to everything else, Right,
everything you buy has to get there, probably by a
vehicle that burns gasoline. So the more expensive gasoline is
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that works its way into the cost of what you buy.
So if gasoline prices start to fall, guess what, all
the other prices go with that, and same and rever.
If gasoline prices rise, all the other prices rise with it.
So this is all really good signs. And it's very
early signs too, So I mean, we can expect this
to hopefully continue. So Scott Jennings, who is CNN's basically
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kind of in house Republican, he goes up there and
he says, look, I know that we've had a market correction.
This actually is not really as bad as y'all are
saying it is. It's not great. Market corrections aren't great.
People do lose money. But is it the end of
the world.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Is it normal?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And if you look below those headlines, if you dig
into the surface, we're actually seeing a lot of good
economic data here. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Wholesale inflation is down, consumer inflation is down, gas prices
are decreasing, mortgage rates coming down. Egg prices are four
dollars and eighty nine cents today, they were six dollars
and fifty five cents on January twenty. First, we've seen
manufacturing jobs and the last jobs are port go up.
Private investment announcements are going up, and a whole bunch
of nutty climate regulations have been viscerated by this administration.
(13:02):
So the stock market is one measurement. It's not unusual
for corrections to occur. But there's a whole bunch of
green shoots that I think we can look to and say,
maybe there's some optimism to be had.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I mean, I personally feel pretty optimistic. I think things
are starting to work out again. This is going to
be a slow process. It's not going to happen immediately,
but I would allow that for a little bit of time,
we can kind of trust the process here right now. Again,
if you really want to kick up and jumpstart the
economy and really get it going, what you kind of
(13:31):
have to do is rein in government spending a whole lot,
which is something Dosh has been working on doing, and
then allow Americans to keep more of their money in
their pocket. This is something you can do all at
once by just really drawing down on how much tax
everyone has to pay or saying, hey, if you make
this amount of money, you don't have to pay tax
at all because you're not really making that much, so
(13:51):
we'll let you keep all of your money. That would
be great, Right, We can kill two birds with one
stone there if we say, hey, this huge portion of
people don't have to pay taxes, that's going to really
limit the federal budget, which means they can't go overspend
and cause more inflation, and things will be cheaper and
you can afford more stuff. Great. The Trump administration now
(14:12):
wants to do that by saying, hey, if you make
less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,
maybe you just don't pay income tax. Perfect. I love that.
Do it, and then we can you know, go from
there and to hey, nobody has to pay any income
tax because it's ridiculous and immoral. But that's a whole
nother question. Here's Howard Lutnik talking about that. Hey, we
don't want people to be paying taxes on their tips,
(14:34):
taxes on their social security. We don't want them to
have to pay into the Social Security system, which is
kind of already bankrupt. And you know, if you're making
less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
You just shouldn't be paying income tax. Here he is saying,
all that take a listen to.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
This is to have external revenue. You know, the way
I think about it. We all are so used to
paying taxes. We're so used with we have like Stockholm syndrome.
You know. Don't stop the internal revenue service. God forbid?
How about this? The rest of the world leans on
our economy, breathes off our economy. Not only is our
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economy twenty nine trillion dollars GDP, but we consume twenty
trillion dollars a year. We are the buyer of everybody's stuff.
We buy everybody's stuff. So who is more important for
people who sell stuff or the people who buy stuff?
So we are the buyer of everybody's commodities, products, goods,
(15:34):
and services. Everything comes from us. Right. Let them pay
a membership fee. We all understand that model. Let them
pay How about we, you and I and every single
person we know pay less? How About no tax on tips?
How about no tax on overtime? How about no social security?
(15:54):
How about all those things? These are the kind of
thoughts that will change America. Know what his goal?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Is no tax for.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Anybody who makes less than one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year. That's his goal. That's what I'm working for.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
See, that's the type of thing that I hear and
I think, Okay, Well, if these are the people that
are in power, that are, you know, making the policies
for the United States, and these are their stated goals,
that makes me feel good about the future of the
economy because you can make the case, and you'd probably
be correct that tariffs would raise the prices of certain
foreign goods. Yes, however, you'll probably be able to pay
(16:31):
for that just fine and still have money left over
if the government isn't leaching off your paycheck. Like if
you tell me prices are going to rise five percent,
but I'll have fifty percent more money sold, I'll take it.
You have my attention. I'm all the way there. And
if you tell me that that could very well become
a reality, because that's what the people at the top
level of government are pushing for, I feel great. I'm
(16:53):
willing to weather the stock market going up and down
because it's volatile because we have a new president. That's normal,
that happens anyway every time we get a new president.
This is a normal market correction. So what's my point?
Where am I going with all of this? Let me
wrap all of this up nicely in a bow for you.
Don't look at all of the headlines, because those are
just there to kind of freak you out a little bit.
(17:15):
Look at all of the deeper data that's not being
handed to you on a silver platter. Think for yourself
a little bit about what this could mean long term.
Everything has consequences every action you take, every policy. So
what I encourage you to do is do a lot
of digging. Try to get as much info as possible
about what's happening, what the economy is doing, what it
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could be doing long term, and recognize we are at
the very beginning of a bumpy road that leads to
something quite a bit better. So try not to automatically
assume the worst just because things go up and down
a little bit. Think long term. I'm pretty sure we'll
be fine, all right, We'll be right back, stay tunes,
(18:15):
all right? So what is going on in Europe? We
talked on Wednesday about how Ukraine had agreed to the
sort of basic principles and whatnot of the thirty day
ceasefire that the US had proposed, and now what was
left was for Russia to come to the table and
then also sign off on that, and then we have
(18:37):
a ceasefire and you know, the killing stops at least temporarily,
and then we can you know, look at having a
long term formal end to the war. Right So that's
where we were on Wednesday, and we were hoping for
an update. We have somewhat of an update, kind of
Russia hasn't exactly agreed to it, but it seems like
(18:59):
they're sort of, you know, getting to the point where
they're ready to sign off on this or if not this,
exactly something similar. It seems like they don't like this deal,
but they like the concept and they just want to
negotiate a little bit further. Those those talks, those negotiations
are ongoing. Here's Marco Rubio talking about that, talking about
(19:19):
the fact that you know, we're working on this, we're
talking with the Russians, and we're making progress. Take a
listen to this.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
We continue to recognize this is a difficult and complex situation.
It will not be easy, it will not be simple,
but we certainly feel like we're at least some steps
closer to ending this war and bringing peace.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Caroline Levitt. Meanwhile, the White House Press Secretary, she's also
signaling optimism. Here. She is out in front of the
White House saying, hey, look, we're putting pressure on the
Russians right now, and we think that they're getting close.
We think that's working. Take a listen. Well, I think
President will talk to President puts In during the day.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
I don't have any thing on the President's schedule, but
that could obviously always change. As you saw his true
social this morning, he is putting pressure on the on
President Pulin and the Russians to do the right thing.
Yesterday was a productive day for the United States of
America and for the world in terms of peace. We
have never been this close to peace. You saw the
NATO Secretary General in the Oval Office yesterday, you were
(20:20):
there with us, who said that only because of President
Trump are we here on the verge of brokering a
peace deal.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
As far as Trump himself, he posted on truth Social
I believe last night saying we had a very good
and productive discussion with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday,
So this would have been I believe. On Thursday he
talked with Putin and he said, there's a very good
chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to
an end. But at this very moment, thousands of Ukrainian
troops are completely surrounded by the Russian military and in
(20:49):
a very bad and vulnerable position. I have strongly requested
to Putin that their lives be spared. This would be
a horrible massacre, not one scene since World War II.
God blessed them all. Essentially, the negotiation seem to be underway,
which is good, but we have not reached an agreement
yet that makes sense that all checks out. This is
going to be a long process. Obviously Russia has to
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save face here. Putin's not just going to walk out
with nothing, right. They spend a lot of time and
effort in life in Ukraine. They're not going to leave
without getting anything. And obviously, as we've discussed in detail
in the past, Ukraine cannot just outright win this war.
They physically can't unless we put NATO boots on the ground.
(21:32):
I don't see a reason for us to do that.
So the negotiation is good. It is now there are
those that would say, no, we can't negotiate at all.
We have to keep fighting forever. And when I say we,
I mean the Ukrainians, because thankfully we're not actually involved
in that yet. And to that, I just post this
simple question, why why should we keep fighting this war forever,
(21:56):
keep funding this war forever? What is in it for us?
Why is this important to us? And that's a question
that I can't seem to get anyone who's on the
other side of this issue, who wants this war to
just keep going without negotiating with Russia, They can't answer
that question. Actually ended up having this discussion on Facebook
with somebody, somebody I used to work with, posted hashtag
(22:16):
stand with Ukraine, and you know, I just thought, okay, well,
you seem to have a strong opinion on this. My
question is why should we keep doing what we're doing?
Because when they say stand with Ukraine, that's what they mean.
They mean keep giving Ukraine a bunch of money and
funding this war endlessly. And to that, I say why.
So I commented that I just simply said why. The
(22:37):
response that I got back was from a third party
who then just said, well, how would you feel if
Russia invaded the United States? I mean probably not great.
I would probably go do something about it. Thank god
we have the Second Amendment for situations just like that.
I wouldn't feel great about it, and I probably wouldn't
be particularly interested in negotiating. But I also wouldn't drag
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another country into this for no reason. I'd go handle
it myself or die trying. And also, that's not the
question I asked. The question is why should we be
standing with Ukraine. That's not a hypothetical My real world
question was responded to with a hypothetical question, which is
not an answer to my question. So I just simply said,
Russia hasn't invaded the United States. And this other person
(23:22):
responded and they said, you're right, they invaded Ukraine, so
we can empathize with Ukraine for wanting their peace back
on their own soil. They made no aggressive moves out
of Russia, only sought to do what was best for
their country. Russia should get out and leave them alone.
Fair enough, I agree in principle with everything that was
said just then. That makes perfect sense. Empathize with them,
(23:43):
absolutely sure, But at the end of the day, is
that in line with reality? No, should Russia just say, oh,
what we did was wrong. We should leave. Yeah, probably,
But the reality is that's not how geopolitics works. That's
not how wars work. It never has and it never
will be. They're not just gonna say, oh, never mind,
my bad, we're gonna leave. Sorry about that. I apologize
(24:06):
that was wrong with me. That's not in line with reality.
So empathized with them. Sure, but I still don't see
any clear reason why America should be involved in this
at all. I really don't. Why should we keep sending
them our money? Why should we just stand with Ukraine?
What is the practical, real world reason that the United
(24:26):
States should be involved in this? And I asked that question.
The response I got to that was just no. One
says we have to be involved, but we shouldn't be
supporting Russia. No reason why we can't say we stand
with Ukraine. Well, first of all, tons of people do
say we should be involved. Sending money and weapons to
Ukraine is involvement in this war, it is. Is it
(24:47):
direct military involvement, No, but it is still involvement nonetheless,
So we are still involved, and we are still being
told that we need to remain involved without an explanation
as to why. I mean, what it seems like they're
saying here is just say stand with Ukraine. It's not
that big of a deal. Why not just stand with them?
(25:07):
It's the nice thing to do. And I mean that's fine,
I guess, but at that point that's just platitude. So
why even bother? Like, what does stand with Ukraine mean
in this situation? If you're saying, just say I stand
with Ukraine, so that you can say I said I
stand with Ukraine, I mean, fair enough, but that's worthless.
When people say stand with Ukraine, they're implying some sort
(25:31):
of action, be that money or sending them weapons or
what have you. So as it stands right now, the
definition of stand with Ukraine is either pander to overly
empathetic people with platitudes, or send Ukraine more money. And
if we're just going to pander, well then that's a
waste of everybody's time. And if we're going to be
sending them more money and weapons, I need to know
(25:52):
what's in it for us. Why we should care enough
to send our money and our military assets to another
country to fight a war or on another continent that
we shouldn't be involved in at all. Like at this point,
looking back. It seems like the position we've gotten ourselves
into is politicians used empathy to rack up a bunch
of political points, and they don't actually have any plans
to deal with the issue. And it's an issue that
(26:14):
we shouldn't even be having to deal with at all.
So then I just kind of straight up asked this person,
all right, we've got all this debt, we've got all
the successive spending. Make the case to me why being
involved in this and giving Ukraine all these different weapons
and all this money. Explain to me why that's in
our best interest? Why should we be doing that? They
(26:35):
just responded saying, I believe we should not spit in
the faces of countries who simply want to live in
peace and make the best decision for their country. Russia
protested because Ukraine was looking to join NATO. So the
complete disrespect that gave Zelensky and expecting him to somehow
make peace when he is not the one invading Russia.
Russia is invading Ukraine. They have to get out or
(26:55):
there is no peace. Is that the ideal reality for Ukraine?
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Probably is that realistic? No, that will never happen. Both
sides have to be forced to negotiate, and both sides
have to be willing to give up a little and
take a little bit. Otherwise this war is never going
to end. This is the objective reality. Pointing that out
and dealing with that objective reality does not make you
a bad person. Russia is the aggressor here, sure, fair enough,
(27:24):
sometimes things work out a little bit for the aggressor.
That's the harsh reality. So do you want to just
keep going forever and just say, fine, screw it, we
stop you from taking over Ukraine, But you can have
these little regions here and here, maybe so that you
feel like you got something for all your effort and
you stop attacking us. That's what needs to happen here.
That's the only possible off ramp to this war. But
(27:45):
if you point that out, the left will call you
a bad guy and say that you're siding with the Russians.
I'm not siding with the Russians, just like I'm not
siding with the Ukrainians. I'm not in Europe. I don't
care who wins this war. I just wanted to stop.
But again, there's no alternative proposed by the left other
than keep fighting forever, which is ridiculous that you would
(28:06):
continue to say that, Like, what is your alternative plan
if you don't like the fact that Donald Trump is
negotiating with both parties trying to broke her peace? What
is your alternative if you don't have one, shut up.
If you're just mad with the solution we have but
aren't gonna propose something else, be quiet. And if you're
gonna propose something else, you better be ready to explain
(28:30):
why this other thing is a better option. And again
I tried and tried, and I pried, and I asked questions,
and I tried to give the benefit of the doubt
here and figure out what the alternative solution is. And
there isn't one. There's just weaponized empathy. We just need
to stand with Ukraine because we need to stand with Ukraine,
and god forbid we actually come up with a solution,
(28:50):
because then we wouldn't be standing with Ukraine. It's ridiculous
and it's unpractical. All right, stay tuned, we'll be right back.
(29:22):
I really don't think the left knows at all how
to lose. I really don't. They're very sore losers. And
this has gotten to the point where it's actually creating
you know, imminent danger for normal, regular people around the country.
They're actually in legitimate danger because of what sore losers,
(29:45):
your average leftist is. And here's why I say that.
There's two kind of primary prongs of this issue that
really it came about over the course of this week.
First of all, we have had a huge amount of
conservative you know, influence answers and whatnot swatted recently. If
you don't know what swatting is, that's when you basically
(30:08):
file a false police report saying like, hey, so and
so has got a gun and they've got hostages and
they're killing people. You've got to get there right now.
Then the police, the swat teams, they all gear up,
they mobilize really quickly, and they emergency respond to whatever
address that the person doing the swatting has given them.
And the way this usually works out is some public
(30:29):
figure somebody will figure out where they live and then
call in this swatting. This happens a lot like with
you know, video game streamers and whatnot. But the goal
is to basically just kind of scare the crap out
of them, because you've got the police showing up with
guns drawn, kicking in your door, because as far as
(30:50):
they are concerned, you're in there executing hostages and they've
got to do something about it right now. Now, obviously
this is illegal to do. You can't file a false
police report, and you definitely can't call a swat team
to somebody's house just because you think it would be funny.
But leftists have been doing this to conservative figures as
sort of an intimidation tactic, and it really is scary
(31:10):
because people could legitimately die because of this. Like, remember
who's being targeted here. These are you know, conservative people
who traditionally are you know, pro Second Amendment and have guns.
That's very common. So when you've got out of the blue,
some guy who's minding his business, not doing anything, and
then somebody kicks it in his door with a gun drawn,
(31:31):
and you know you have guns, you're a gun owner,
there's a good chance that turns into a shootout, possibly
in a very tense situation like that where a bunch
of people have guns and you know, law enforcement is like, okay,
I have truly believed that there's something going on here
that's incredibly legal and dangerous and I need to stop it.
And then you kick in that door and oh, look
there's the guy with the gun. You take that shot
(31:52):
one hundred percent of the time. So, I mean, there's
been a lot of people that are saying, hey, we
need to call this what this is. It's an attempted murder.
They're trying to get these conservative influencers killed because when
we swat them and they don't know what's going on,
they might pull a gun on the police officer who
just kicked their door in, because remember, you don't know
why the cop is kicking your dor and you haven't
(32:13):
done anything. You're enjoying a nice evening with your family
after bullying the Democrats online, and next thing you know,
somebody kicks your door in with a gun. And then,
if you're the cops, you've been told this person is
murdering people. You kick open the door and he has
a gun. It's not hard to see how this goes
bad really quickly. So this has been happening to a
number of high profile conservative personalities, especially once on X
(32:36):
like Gunther Eagleman. I've seen a lot of his posts.
He posts a lot of good stuff. Walter Kurt, who's
an investigative journalist, he got swatted a guy by the
name of Sean Farage, who's another really popular kind of
conservative influencer on x He got swatted too. He actually
posted a video talking about it. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Hey guys, it's Sean, my wife Brennan, and wanted to
give you guys an update. We did just get swatted
here in Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (33:02):
The officers said they received a phone call that that
somebody murdered somebody in the house and was planning a
suicide by cop. So I received the call with that information.
We cooperated with police. They were very nice, nice, very
very nice. They were not aware that this was going
on across the country. Was that, you know what, how
(33:23):
did you feel about that? Was what was going through
your head when you saw officers in the backyard with guns.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I was shaking. I was terrified. I was the only
one awake.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
He was asleep, Yeah, and they were just pointing their
guns into the house.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
And it's I.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That was very scared.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
And that's the point, And that's what these people are
trying to do. They are trying to silence folks who
are not afraid to speak their mind online.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Absolutely terrifying stuff, Absolutely terrifying stuff because I mean, I
can tell you as a gun owner. I mean, if
I see somebody just creeping around my backyard pointing guns
into my house, and I don't know what they're doing,
and I don't know why they're there, and I don't
know who they are, and this is often happening in
the dark, late at night, so you can't really even
see where. Do you think that leads not a safe place?
(34:11):
I'll tell you that right now. Thankfully, this has made
it up onto Cash Pttel who is the director of
the FBI. It's on his radar. He's speaking out about it.
He says, I want to address the alarming rise in
swatting incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of
this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already
taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable. He says.
(34:32):
Weaponizing law enforcement against any American is not only morally reprehensible,
but also in dangerous lives, including those of our officers,
that will not be tolerated. We are fully committed to
working with local law enforcement to crack down on these crimes.
More updates to come, So okay, good take this issue seriously,
put a stop to it. This is dangerous and somebody
is going to get killed because of this. So that's
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one kind of example of the left has no ability
to lose with grace. They lose their mind and get legitimately.
The other issue is what we've seen at Tesla dealerships,
which has reached the point where it does border terrorism.
There's a strong stance to be made that what we've
seen happening at Tesla dealerships across the country is legitimate terrorism.
(35:16):
The media will try to tell you this is just protests.
This is protests in the way that the BLM riots
were protests. This is people, you know, throwing molotov cocktails
at car dealerships, brightening to shoot up car dealerships. This
is not protesting. This is violence. This is terrorism. Literally,
we're getting into mass shooting territory here and the Left
(35:38):
is continuing to call this just protests. Take a listen
to this report from Breitbart. Gunmen have targeted a Tesla
dealership in to Guard, Oregon repeatedly this week, with the
latest incident occurring on Thursday. Although the perpetrators fired more
than a dozen shots in the latest incident, no one
was hurt. In the early hours of Thursday morning, the
t Guard Police Department reported that more more than a
(36:00):
dozen shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in the
Portland suburb, causing extensive damage to vehicles and showroom windows.
This incident marks the second shooting at the location within
a week, with a similar attack occurring on March sixth. Fortunately,
no injuries were reported in either incident, and this isn't
an isolated case. This has been happening all over the country.
(36:23):
Tesla dealerships have been vandalized. We've seen cars have swastikas
spray painted on them. So there have been instances of
just protesting and you know, just some vandalism. But remember
vandalism is a crime. Obviously, it's one that we know
the Left doesn't care about even slightly, but it is
still illegal. But we've also had instances where guys show
(36:43):
up with firebombs. That one was in South Carolina, targeted
Tesla charging stations with firebombs, ended up actually dentally just
setting himself on fire in the process. I don't think
he actually hurt anybody, but he did damage the charging
station and he put his own life at risk because
he accidentally set himself on fire. Now, Obviously the right says, hey,
we shouldn't be doing terrorism at American businesses because we
(37:06):
don't like the politics of the CEO. That's somehow controversial.
Donald Trump speaking on saying we're going to put a
stop to this because it is dangerous in putting people's
lives at risk. That's looked at by MSNBC as an
attack on freedom of speech. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 8 (37:20):
But then you also overnight have this post claiming that
protests at Tesla dealerships are illegal. He said today he
would label violence against dealerships domestic terrorism. And you know,
I am judicious in how I play this sound, but
I think you need to hear it from him.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
But suppose he talks about some of the violence that's
been going on.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Around the country at dealerships.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Some say they should be labeled domestic terrorists.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
I just do that.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I'll do it.
Speaker 10 (37:48):
I'm going to stop them. We catch anybody doing it,
because they're harming a great American company.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Let me tell you, you.
Speaker 10 (37:54):
Do it to Tesla, and you do it to any company,
we're going to catch you, and you're going to You're
going to go through hell.
Speaker 8 (38:02):
So just to be clear, you protest a private company.
You are labeled by this administration a domestic terrorist.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
No, no, no, let me stop you right there, crazy
MSNBC lady. It's not your protesting at a dealership and
that's illegal. It's you're literally doing terrorism. You're shooting at
a building, putting the lives of anybody that may or
may not be inside of it at risk. You're throwing
firebombs at charging equipment, which puts everybody at risk. You're
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setting yourself on fire because you're an idiot playing with
a firebomb. That's domestic terrorism, and it is you should
not be allowed to do that. That used to be
universally agreed on. I don't know why it's not. How
do we share a country with these people? They went
from being the party that says, oh, we need to
do whatever we can to stop gun violence too. Gun
violence is okay as long as it's against Elon Musk
(38:49):
and Tesla, and if you try to put a stop
to it, you're a fascist. Make that make sense? All right?
That's all I got. I'll see you all again next
week next Wednesday. Stay tuned on up to this Ston
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