Trump's Approval Rating; Tariffs; Listener Phone Calls

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This hour of programming on seven ten doubor. He's sponsored
by Toyota City and Mamaranac and Nissan City of port Chester,
proud members of the Integrity Automotive Group. Now former Westchester
County Executive Rob Astoria on seven.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ten eighty degrees eighty degrees. Wow, I hope you're outside
listening on the iHeart app. Maybe have the I don't know,
windows down in the car with the radio up doing
a little raking. Oh, it's so nice. It was great

(00:42):
to walk across town after my Newsmax show here at
seven ten wr All right, so I'm gonna tell you
about the bad news on the horizon. Isn't that a song?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Bad?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
There is some really bad news and warning signs for Republicans.
It ain't all rosy right now. The crazy part is
if you look at the polling right now, historically it
is high, extraordinarily high for Donald Trump personally. He's got
a favorability rating that's above water. He has people thinking

(01:19):
that the state is going in the right direction of
the state, this country in the right direction for the
first time in over twenty years. So think about that
for a moment. In twenty years, twenty five years. Depending
on the polling, more Americans think this at the same time,
that we're going in the wrong direction. Some of that

(01:39):
is the political lens that they look upon. You know,
if I'm a Democrat and there's a Republican and I
think we're going in the wrong direction, and vice versa.
But it's always been higher than what it is when
Biden was there, the right track, wrong track, which is
a very big indicator of whether people are happy or not.
Seventy percent we were going in the wrong direction. That

(02:01):
was one of the reasons why I knew Donald Trump
was going to win no matter what the polling said.
Here it's about forty five to fifty something like that,
which again historically over the last twenty five year is
the best position we've been in. So Donald Trump is
going in the right direction with his policies. They actually

(02:24):
like him favorably right now, they think his job approval
is pretty good. And yet, and here's the big Yet,
Republicans are in a heap of trouble. And I've been
through it, and I will tell you exactly what I
went through, and this is what I think, unfortunately, Republicans
are going to face this year, and how to break

(02:46):
that is difficult and it's not really about money. So
let's go back to two thousand and sixteen. Let's go
into Manhattan at the Sheridan as the county executive in Westchester,
the state Conservative Party was having an event to endorse
Donald Trump for president, and so I went as a Republican.

(03:10):
I was invited to go, and I am in the
front row and there was a platform and Donald Trump
comes out. The state party chair endorses him. We all
go yeah, you know, and so Trump starts talking, and
so typical of Donald Trump, he sees me in the
front row and he shouts out my name, and he

(03:34):
like stops what he's saying and says, oh, Rob as
Dorino's here, my friend, Rob as Dono. Come on up, Rob,
come on up to the stage. So he calls me up,
and and you know, I said a couple of nice
words about him, because and I believe that I was
definitely in favor of him, and in twenty fifteen and
sixteen when he ran, endorsed him and voted for him.

(03:57):
But I knew with the bank of cameras there and
being a Republican in three to one Democrat Westchester going
into my election re election the following year. I knew
that the Democrats had the picture that they wanted me
and Donald Trump on stage together because for too many people,

(04:21):
clearly of the left, when the Trump derangement syndrome started,
they couldn't see anything other than that. So now go
ahead to the following year, he gets elected, he's now governing.
Remember what it was like in that first term. They
were going ballistic, the left one absolutely crazed, the TDS five,

(04:44):
the media supporting them of course, peddling all these lies,
the Russia Gate, the impeachment. I just everything was going
on and on and on and on and on. And
I at the time was in twenty seventeen starting my
reelection campaign. So we did polling and we knew that, Okay,

(05:05):
there's a little rumbling out there, but so far, we're
in pretty decent shape so far, even like twenty twenty
five percent of Democrats, which is a very high number.
If you can get a crossover of twenty twenty five
percent of the other party, you're in excellent shape no
matter where you are. But for a Republican in the

(05:27):
state of New York, a Republican in Westchester County County wide,
like I was, you have to draw enough people to
cross their party and vote for you, so nobody would
mistaken me for you know, anything other than what I
was a conservative period fiscal conservative, and what I did

(05:48):
in County is I, you know, cut the workforce, cut taxes,
did not raise spending a dime in eight years, unheard of.
I was Doge before Doge and all of us sudden.
You know, our numbers were always very strong. I got
re elected in thirteen and I was going for the
final term in twenty seventeen, and the numbers that we

(06:12):
were showing in the polling was good. And as we
kept going along in the summer and into the fall,
the numbers were dwindling, but we still had the lead
and we were still in pretty good shape. My job
approval numbers were like sixty percent. I mean, you kill
for that, and my likability. People liked me, including enough Democrats.

(06:32):
So we were doing and they all thought we were
going in the right direction. But and here's the butt.
We started doing our town hall events. So we went
I think the first town hall, I forget the month
it might have been in like February or March of seventeen.
Trump would have been president for a year at that point.

(06:53):
When did he start, No, he just started. He started
in seventeen. And so we go to Courtland town Hall
than Westchester, and you know, we send out a message
to people, robo call and everything, letting them know I'm
going to be there. And I had done some of
these throughout the three previous years. You get you know,
twenty people, thirty people, forty people maybe, and I called

(07:14):
them ask Astorino, and I would take their questions. I
would tell them, you know, give an update on what
was going on in Westchester, take questions. An hour later,
I'm home. So this first one we go to in again,
it was maybe March or April. Whenever we go to
Courtland town Hall, and Indian Point was an issue there.
It was open, but it was an issue and the

(07:35):
Democrats were making an issue. So we start to show up.
I remember pulling up to the Courtland Town Hall and
there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people there
and I'm like, oh my god, what's going on here?
And the minute I stepped out of the car and
get into that town hall, it was you could just

(07:55):
feel the anger and it was just ready to explode.
So I get up there and I'm standing in front
of a massive crowd, and I start talking about what
we're doing in the county and mentioned about Indian Point,
and then it gets to the part where I say,
all right, you know what questions and then they go nuts,

(08:19):
Donald Trump is a racist, Donald Trump is a Nazi?
You support Donald Trump? The Paris Accords, that this the
anything but local issues, And they were crazed. And I
still remember Westchester County police, you know, they were actually
concerned at one point, and they wanted me to leave,

(08:39):
and I said no, and so we ended up doing
that the next month. I did it in white plains
and the county police actually working with white planes police
they expected, and we got about one thousand people showed
up to my town hall. There they were outside in
the halls, they were outside on the street, eat with

(09:00):
these nasty placards. But the police had started to get
chatter that there was gonna be violence, that they were
gonna be potential threats against me. But I still said,
I'm going I don't care. I mean, your job is
to make it safe and protect not just me but
everybody there. But I'm not gonna back down. So I

(09:21):
go and it was off the wall nuts, off the
wal nuts. These people were seething and foaming, and it
was all about Donald Trump. It almost I mean, I
was like a side show, but I was the way
that they could channel their anger. And it wasn't until

(09:42):
towards the end of the campaign that we realized we
got a problem here. Even though the numbers are good,
the left is energized and Donald Trump is the boogeyman
and Donald Trump is basically on the ballot. And I
remember being at shopping centers or campaigning and people would say,
you know, I, I do like you, but I'm not
voting for you this time. I'm sending Donald Trump a message.

(10:05):
And I had some Republicans say that that you thought
were clearheaded, and I just looked at them, like, what
is wrong with you? But there was this wave and
it was very hard to break it. And what happened was,
I mean, to hit our numbers, we always had to
get about twenty percent of the Democrats. We got that.

(10:25):
We actually got over twenty percent in the polling of
Democrats on election day, and yet I lost by about
thirteen points. You know why, because there was a massive
amount of Democrats that voted that election. It was the
first time they could vote since Trump was in and
they stormed to the polls and voted straight Democrat, no

(10:47):
matter what. And I and many other Republicans just got
caught up and we drowned in that horrible blue wave
and that was it. I lost. And I say that
because I am a little concerned right now that we're
going back to Trump.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Two.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh. We keep making fun of the Democrats right now,
but they are getting energized. And we've seen it now
in five special elections around the country. Now you could say, well,
what a state Senate race in Pennsylvania. Yeah, a state
Senate race in Pennsylvania that was a solidly red district

(11:25):
and the Democrat won. An assembly race or a house
race in Western Pa probably more Democrat, but they won huge.
And now you've got these special elections in Florida. You know,
when Matt Gates stepped down, that created on the Panhandle
an open seat. Most likely the Republicans are going to

(11:46):
hold onto that. I mean that if we lost that,
it is doomsday. But I'm more concerned about the other
way near Daytona Beach, which Mike Waltz is old seat
that is a Solidary Republican District two. However, Democrats are
outspending the Republican there ten to one, ten to one.

(12:08):
And you know who they're running against, Donald Trump and
Elon Musk, this is who they're running against. And they
are absolutely lying that there will be significant cuts to
Medicaid and Social Security and Medicare, and they're going to
get away with it. And right now that race is

(12:29):
neck and neck. So you wonder why Elie Stefanik, who
was nominated by Trump to become the ambassador to the
United Nations, why they slow walk that. And I know
for a fact because I talked to people about why
they were slow walking that to put it to the
Senate to get her nominated and get confirmed. Because this

(12:51):
imbecile here in New York at the Hocal was holding
up the special election and they were threatening to change
the law in New York so instead of having to
call a special election after sixty days from a vacancy,
they would hold it and they would keep that seat
vacant until November. Completely unfair to people in the North

(13:14):
Country and in that congressional district, those fifteen counties. But
they don't care, honestly, I mean look, by now we
know the Democrats care less about voter integrity, clearly, but
the Republicans don't have a thirty seat advantage. They have
a minuscule advantage. And I remember when Donald Trump in

(13:35):
November was picking Matt Waltz and Mike Walton, Matt Gates
and then Elise Defonic and some other I'm like, okay,
do we not know what the math is here? Every
time you take away one of these members of Congress,
you're creating a void and a vacancy, and you've got

(13:57):
to win that. Now, they should win these, even at
least a phonics race, they should win that. But it's
been a lot closer in the polling, and now they
have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to defend this,
and you're just putting yourself at risk. So that's why
with Upstate New York, and there's there's more at play here.

(14:18):
The state Conservative Party had their own candidate they wanted
to run, and the Republicans they couldn't get their act together.
So the fifteen county chairs that make up that district,
they were all over the place, and so it was
an utter mess. It was an unforced error and we
potentially could have lost that elast Dephonics seat. What's that play?

(14:42):
The House of Representatives flipping to the Democrats. So unfortunately,
and you know what, God bless Elise, she and Trump
said in the long run to day't worth it. You know,
pull the nomination. I'll stay in Congress and we don't
have to worry about that seat. So they kind of
get back and screw Kathy Hochel at her own game.

(15:04):
But Alise and I have known each other since twenty
fourteen when I first ran for governor against Andrew Cuomo.
I was traveling around the state and Elise Stefanik, this
young kid almost running for Congress up there. So anytime
I would campaign up there north of Albany, she and
I would get together and we would campaign and she

(15:26):
was great. So we've known each other now for eleven years,
and obviously she's skyrocketed where she is. So I feel
really bad personally that my friend Alistaphonic's not going to
become the UN ambassador. But what she's doing is selfless
because she's saving that seat, and you know, God knows
how many tens of millions of dollars we'd have to

(15:47):
spend to defend it. The point of all this is, yes,
Donald Trump is personally doing well in the polling, and
yes I agree in the direction he's going. But here's
the butt. The butt is the Democrats are now getting
very organized. They are raising a gazillion dollars in small door,

(16:10):
small donor dollars, small little donations, which are a lot
more worrisome and effective than George Soros writing out a
one hundred million dollar check to a pack And this
is scary because they're close to picking up some seats.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
Now.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think we're gonna win definitely. The one in the
Panhandle will probably hold on to the other one near
Daytona Beach. But let's look at what's going on Tuesday. Tuesday,
there's this statewide race in Wisconsin. Now, what the hell Wisconsin?
Who cares? It's a state judge race, right for the
Supreme Court in Wisconsin? Who cares? Who cares? One hundred

(16:49):
million dollars has been put into this race? One hundred
million dollars on a judicial race in Wisconsin. Because here's
what's at stake right now, it's for to three. The
Liberals lead this seat will determine whether it will be
flipped to conservatives for to three, which they'll hold on

(17:10):
for several years, or the liberals will hold on probably
for four or five years as the majority on that court.
What's coming in front of that court, I don't know.
Voter id laws, paper ballots and mail in ballots, redistricting. Okay,
you've got a very liberal Wisconsin governor and the state House,

(17:33):
and they'll take it to the courts. She was already caught.
The leftist judge has already been caught on tape as
saying she was on a zoom meeting with donors. She admitted,
give to me, and I will make sure we flip
those two Democratic to the congressional seats. Can you imagine that?

(17:53):
I mean that, not only is that a quid bro quo,
that's illegal, not a peep, not a peep. If Republican
judge had done that, of course he would have been disbarred.
So what's at stake potentially the state of Wisconsin in
the next presidential and certainly next year in the congressional races.
They if they jerry mander and flip two seats to Democrats,

(18:15):
there's their house. That's what's at stake. I actually might
be going out there for that race on Tuesday. So
they are unfortunately organized, and I think there's gonna be
a bell weather. It's a canary Nicole mine. I'm very
concerned about this race on Tuesday in Wisconsin. I think
she the liberal, is gonna win. And I still remember

(18:38):
back in two thousand and nine when I first ran,
we were going towards the election night headquarters to the
hotel and before I left the house because Virginia closes
their polls at seven o'clock. I still remember the Virginia
governor's race in nine and the Republican won, and I said,
we're gonna win this because it was a bell weather

(19:02):
for how the suburbs were thinking, even a suburb like
Westchester and some of the liberal areas here. And this
is this is what I'm looking at as I look
down the tube. Here, organized Democrats, they've got their boogeymen,
they're raising their money. We're not putting up great candidates,
and we're not focused on getting out the vote. And unfortunately,

(19:24):
when Donald Trump's not on the ballot, we don't do well.
Republicans stay home. They're fat and happy right now, So
keep your eye on that. So here's my questions to
you at one one hundred and three two one zero
seven ten. Here's my question to you. The anger is
being caused by and the left is using Elon Musk

(19:47):
and Donald Trump. What they're doing with immigration, what they're
doing with education, maybe abolishing the Education Department good, what
they're doing with you know, these protesters, what they're doing
with potential cuts and government. And of course they're pretending
and scaring about Medicare medicaid, but they're using that in

(20:11):
the way that is best for them. And here's my question.
Should Donald Trump should doze, Should they start putting the
brakes on, or should they keep going full steam ahead.
That's kind of my question right now. What do you think?
One hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
One in one hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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(20:35):
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Sondra in New Jersey at one eight hundred and three
two one zero seven ten. She knows that number, I say,

(25:59):
I can't yep.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Okay, because I have my earpads on today, I know
I'm not supposed to. I want you to say that.
I think the question you're asking is to Donald Trump
slow down a bit because maybe he's agitating a lot
of people. I don't know the answer, but I do
know that first of all, they're gonna try to not
keep keep headsets, and they're gonna try and get rid

(26:21):
of Wolf, and then they're gonna try to reteach Trump
and they're already destroying Elon Musk's life. So there's a
lot that they're already doing which is very, very disturbing.
So to hold back the brakes, I don't know if
that's gonna make a difference. I'll find something else to
tick on. I'm also very impressed that Donald Trump singled
you out and have you on the stage. I'm so

(26:42):
happy to hear that. I think you're a realist. I
think you're very perceptive. You're seating very clearly, Rob. So
I'm concerned because and that you know Elon Trump instance,
they say he has a one hundred and thirty day
kind of commitments. How come all of a sudden we're

(27:02):
hearing that we didn't hear it before. Is it because
he's searing his life as he said with Joe Rogan
and explain, I was very impressed with Ulan Trump and
his team that you know we got to see with
Jill there. I thought there were young, brilliant kids. These
are very grown men, very seasoned professionals. So I just

(27:25):
want to add I was very very.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Impressed with that, Sondra, thanks for the call. So yeah,
I thought, and they should have done this a long
time ago. They sat down with Brett Bear on Fox.
It was Elon Musk and his you know, the sort
of the senior folks running doge and then you know
there are others in each department assigned and yeah there's

(27:47):
some kids, tech kids whatever, tech bros. But there are
adults in the room, and they let the narrative get
away from them because it was like, yeah, you got
these like seventeen eighteen year old kids storming into the irs,
demanding to see everything again. Typical lies that's latched onto
by the media, and unfortunately too many people are are misinformed.

(28:11):
I was out to dinner the other night with two
of my closest friends, going back to high school, going
back to middle school, and they're both educated they're both smart,
and we had the I mean, we got it. One
is a liberal and one is a Republican, and we
we kind of got I got in the argument with
the Republican. She and I went at it, and we've

(28:34):
never done that, and I mean it was it was respectful,
but we kind of got a little heated, and we
were in a restaurant and we kind of lost track
of where we were. Her whole thing was that, you know,
Trump is a king. Trump is becoming a king. And
I used to love Elon Musk, but you know him
and his stupid little kids running around and how And
I said to her, excuse me, but like, how many

(28:58):
people has Elon Musk fired? And she said, you know,
thousands intents of I said, the answer is zero, because
he doesn't have the ability to fire anybody. And she goes, well,
he's not even legal. I said, oh, he's not legal. Really,
he was duly appointed by the President of the United States,

(29:21):
who runs the executive branch. The president can appoint anyone
he chooses. Some need advice and consent to the Senate.
This particular one, and this is what Sondra was mentioning,
This particular one is a special government employee. That is
a legal position. Biden did it, Trump did it, Obama it.

(29:45):
This goes back. All presidents can do this. A special
government employee has certain carve outs so they don't need
to follow the rules of most employees, which you know,
if I, let's say I were to even go down
be appointed by Donald Trump to a full time job
in his administration, I could have zero dollars, zero outside income.

(30:08):
I have to disclose every everything about me over the
last like god knows how long for the FBI background check,
which by the way, I've been in FBI background checks
in my positions, so to me it doesn't matter. But
everything has to be disclosed. So some of these folks,
like Elon Musk, the last thing he wants is to
get you know, the financial anima that they got to

(30:29):
do and they got to show everything. He didn't want
to do that. So they have this special government employee
which he has designated, and there is a term of
one hundred and thirty days. Now he potentially could be reappointed,
but this gives people an opportunity to serve in a
specialty function. He has the all the powers deemed by

(30:54):
the president as a special advisor. So when I was
getting back and forth with her, who what right does
he have to walk in? And he has every right.
Who elected him, of course, is what they're saying now,
Who elected him? Who elected any secretary of the department.
We elected a president who has the authority under the
Constitution to appoint his his top advisors, his cabinet secretaries.

(31:19):
He's administrators, and they have the full force of law.
So you don't want Elon Musk to have the opportunity
to go look at personnel records or functions. Well, it's
the same thing acting on the behalf of the president
as the Secretary of Treasury or Secretary of Commerce or
the IRS administrator whatever. And they weren't get She just

(31:43):
wasn't accepting that because she now she loved Elon Musk,
now she hates them because she's buying into the left craziness.
So this is the narrative that we're dealing with right now.
Pam and Patterson, how are you, Pam.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
It's the prefaces. I am not fooling for the Democrat line.
I'm a Trumpster and everything, but I'm getting a little
stressed out and nervous over the lack of focus on
the tax rules expiring. That takes a lot of work
getting that vote, and I just heard and it's some
kind of a vote they did. The Democrats voted against it,

(32:23):
So we're doing bad in that area. I'm there for
doze and everything. However, they're going beyond and they're starting
to like shut down on services. And I don't know
about anybody else, but I just went through a bureaucratic
hell in the last two weeks trying to get somebody
on the phone on the internet on this on that

(32:45):
you can't get anybody anymore. And you know, for those
people who like to mock old people, and I've seen
that before. It gets difficult in this cold, bitter winter
getting to offices and everything and waiting online and everything.
And the fact that that now they're starting to close
down services does annoy me. Having taken care of my parents,

(33:07):
been a caregiver, specialized teacher. That is getting me nervous.
And experts that I've been listening to are noticing that
Trump is losing focus and he needs to get those
tax that rules that are aspiring and the capital gains
done done with. And I haven't heard, you know, so

(33:28):
much talk about I heard a lot about tips and
no tax on tips. That nothing about no tax on
social security or.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
You know.

Speaker 7 (33:39):
Anyway, but what I'm jetting in and then I'm not
just saying just for me, but I understand the stress.
And it's not because I'm listening to the Democrats. I
listened to me.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Pam, thanks for the call. Yeah, well, the no tax
on tips, the no tax on social Security, all of
that is happening. It's of the bill that they're trying
to get through Congress right now in the negotiations with
the Senate and the House. And unfortunately, when you have
a slim majority, which was getting slimmer, everyone wants their

(34:12):
pound of flesh and so they're trying to get to
a consensus on that. But they will get that done.
But let's just take like the headlines for a second.
You know, doge cuts ten thousand jobs. No, Doze didn't
cut anything. And like Health and Human Services for a second,
it has eighty two thousand employees, cutting the workforce there

(34:36):
by ten percent or so. Trust me, they're not going
to cut the most important jobs. And what's not being
told is that Joe Biden went on a spending spree
and a hiring spree and hired so many new employees
over the last year or two. Well, if they weren't
necessary so for so many years, why do they just

(34:58):
do it? And as long as they do it the
right way, they can keep cutting. But Trump has said
a zillion times he is not cutting benefits for Social Security,
he is not cutting Medicaid, he is not cutting Medicare.
But have you seen the stuff that they're uncovering, All
the double billing, all the dead people, all the one

(35:19):
hundred and twenty year old still on the list right now,
all of those things matter because if we're wasting all
of that money, then we're taking away from recipients or
future recipients. And in order to keep this system alive,
you gotta what hire new people. No, you got to
get back to the to the basics, and that's what

(35:40):
they're trying to do. But the Democrats have the emotional argument.
Now I'm not saying Pam's wrong that sometimes services aren't
going to be cut, but when they're you know, and
they're saying these phone systems and the the what's more
important the computer systems. The software is so antiquated, they've

(36:03):
been working on it for thirty years. And they don't
talk to each other. The systems don't talk to each other.
This is the stuff they're uncovering. It has to be fixed,
and when it is fixed, it will be a lot easier,
not only savings wise, but you will you know what
way I think about it. Remember the toll booths. Remember

(36:26):
the toll booths. We used to have to, you know,
pull up to a toll booth and either throw a
twenty five cents in the Garden State Parkway or whatever,
or pay somebody who sat in that booth. Well then
it long came easy pass and they took your money
just as fast. But what happened they were fighting to

(36:47):
keep the toll booth folks who were sitting there kind
of doing nothing because you have these scanners who were
doing the jobs. They'd either bill you or it would
automatically come out. That's kind of what they're doing. They're
going after the the antiquated job position of the toll
booth guy, and and they're not being allowed to do
it in some respects. Let me talk to Kevin and

(37:10):
Long Island. Kevin, how are you? You're on seven ten WR?

Speaker 5 (37:14):
Yeah, I Ron. You know the impatience of these Republicans
kills me. The guy's been in office less than unwell,
I know, I know, and he has to take care
of thirty years of this mess that's been going on,
and everybody's getting very impatient and it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yeah, no, I know. I look. Gas prices, by the way,
are coming down. Egg prices are down a lot because
they took action. And people are still concerned because they're like,
you know, you've been in office now and things aren't
as good as they should be. Oh my god, it
is going to take time. But people are impatient. They
really are.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
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the weekend. Next Sunday, I'm gonna see my son in
the in the Air Force there for two days. I'm
actually gonna fly into Memphis and meet him, which is

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two hours from Little Rock, and we're gonna spend Sunday
afternoon in Memphis, have some great barbecue, maybe go to
some of the you know, the clubs, and then and
then get out of Memphis before dark because it becomes
a danger zone. I mean the bullet before the bullets
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(39:19):
don't know if you saw this. This is so despicable,
so disgusting, and so where the left is right now
on abortion? This this I hope this shocks you. I
will play this in just a moment when I come back,
So stick around the rob Astorino show here on seven ten. W. R.
My Son called me up before the show and said,

(39:42):
when you come out here, just expect. When when I
go to Little Rock, just expect it's gonna be really
bad for allergies. He goes, it's like crazy. There's pollen everywhere.
It's just horrible. It's like just like this green junk everywhere.
You know, I've been feeling the last couple of days.
I've been feeling it. I've been very tired and I

(40:04):
could just feel. So I gotta remind myself to take
the zertec or something to start building it up, because
you can't take it when it happens. You got to
build it up. So whatever you do, if you do that,
like a legro whatever, start now, so when the pollen
starts flying around on days like this, you'll hopefully have
enough in your system. Because I get that really dry

(40:26):
hacking cough. Oh, it is so annoying. It's just like
it's like a tickle in your throat because when you cough,
you want phlem, you want something good. You want to
reward at the end, but it's that horrible dry cough,
and I hope I don't get that this year because
I can't sleep. I'm literally I'm coughing at night. My

(40:47):
poor wife. And there were times when I had like
public speaking things or a show and it's like you
got a cough. It's really bad. So anyway, it's allergy
season come upon us. The weather like this today is great,
but you know what's coming next, and those scatas are
coming out every Could you imagine every seventeen years these

(41:09):
things pop up. What do they do down there for
seventeen years? Are they sleeping? They partying down there? What
are they doing in the dirt? But it's like the
it's like their iPhone alarm goes off. Seventeen years later,
they come out and they make all that noise, but
they're ready to pop out soon. And they say this
is going to be the worst year ever. They kind
of always say that, but that they're going to be

(41:30):
the loudest ever. Nissan City, Nissan City, Well, I talked
about Toyota City before. Time to talk about Nissan City
because that's the place to go for a Nissan you know,
like I said, too if you're on Long Island or
you're in Brooklyn or the BX, that's the Bronx for

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of times, and this is true, a lot of times

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the cars are kind of the same. You know, the
price eventually becomes about the same. So it's really about
the aftermarket stuff. Are you gonna use them for servicing?
Are you gonna use them for the financing? And my
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why wouldn't it be with eighty degrees, head over to
Nissan City and Portchester and you tell them rob Astorino

(42:59):
sent you. By the way, I just so. I texted
in the break my friend who was going to Toyota
City today, and I said, how's it going there? And
let's see. He said, really great, I drove the Siena
to playland without crashing it. Well, that's good news. But
he was taking a test drive of Toyota Siena. All right, great,

(43:25):
how do you say you're gonna play that forever? That's
a good one. So, just so you know how fervent
these pro abortionists start. This has become not something that
we all should regret having to deal with. I say

(43:45):
this all the time. I feel really really bad for
women who have to make a decision on whether or
not to keep their child or to have an abortion,
and I hope to God that they choose life instead
of the what's become the sanitized decision of an abortion.

(44:07):
But there's nothing nice about abortion. It is a violent
act against another human being, as small as he or
she may be. But we're being taught now that abortion
is not only a right, but it is it's something
you should do. It's like fun, it's great. And it
used to be like Bill Clinton used to say, let's

(44:27):
have it rare and legal and safe, that ain't the case.
Now the Democratic Party is just so far left that
it has become godless. And when you're godless, you could
care less about life. And so now abortion is a
huge industry, obviously, but it has become the litmus test

(44:49):
for anybody running on a Democratic line. You better be
for unfettered access to abortion on demand, taxpayer funded up
to the moment of birth. That is their platform. And
if you don't believe me, listen to any Democrat when
they're asked, well, what restrictions do you support? They support zero? None.

(45:11):
That's between a doctor and a woman. Bull Okay, where
tell me where you can meet me in the middle
or not even in the middle. They won't, they can't.
This is the Colorado Speaker of the House where they
have passed a bill. They just made abortion legal through

(45:31):
constitutional amendment. But this is how far they're going. Listen
to what she says about a bill that would allow
Medicaid to pay for abortions. So taxpayer dollars to pay
for abortions in Colorado. And here's why that.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
Savings comes from the averted berths that will not occur
because abortions happened instead, So a birth is more expensive
than an abort, So the savings comes in medicaid births
that will not occur. This bill will actually decrease costs

(46:11):
for our health care policy and financing department, our Medicaid
expenditures in both this year and out year out years,
as the savings from averted births outweigh the cost of
covering reproductive healthcare of our coloraces.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Okay, so just stop her, please, Oh my god, averted births.
How sanitized and robotic and bureaucratic and far left and radical.
Averted births so we can save taxpayer dollars. Okay, think
about that for one second. What she is saying poor

(46:50):
people shouldn't have kids. Do you understand what planned parent
Go look up the history of planned parenthood. By the way,
Margaret Sanger, what was it about. It was in poor neighborhoods,
minority neighborhoods, to rid the world of quote imbeciles and
people of color. That's what it was. That's what planned

(47:13):
parenthood was all about. I'm not making it up. Go
look at the history of planned parenthood, and Margaret Sanger,
you think it's in your rich white neighborhoods. No, it's
so disgusting and hideous. You know what's hideous too? Did you?

(47:34):
Did you see the north Bergen, New Jersey police chief
and the hot water? This guy is in, chief Robert Farley,
So they have video and photos. He's being sued by
five members of the police department for you know, a
hostile workplace environment. I'd say, so this chief. There are
photos in the posts and other places. He was shirtless

(47:59):
and shaving his body hair on someone's desk. He put
adderall and viagra in the communal coffee pot. And it
gets worse. He would walk out of the bathroom with
his pants down so everyone could see his you know what.

(48:20):
And he would say, oh, look how big it is.
Are you surprised? And the worst, he apparently defecated multiple
times on the floor and the cleaning people have pictures
of it. And he thought this was funny. These pranks
were funny. This is a police chief if this were true,

(48:44):
If this is true, why is this guy still there
in north Bergen? This is look it up? I mean,
this is it is so absurd. What is happening? He
thought this was fine? I mean and a the north
Bergen town board. So far I've been backing him up.

(49:07):
This world is just total and Santurday. All right, listen,
I'll be back here next Saturday. Of course, I start
my Saturdays from one to three on Newsmax. Make sure
you watch that, and then I walk over here on
seven to ten WR for the rob Astreno Show. Thanks
to Bruce Clayton Noah Fleischmann. Appreciate all your hard work.
Keep me on the air, folks, Thank you for listening.

(49:29):
Make sure you stay with me next Saturday right here
at four o'clock the rob Astrino Show. Enjoy this great weekend.

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