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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, thanks is outrageous as trying to get workers
back into the office, Kelly Nash. We actually had workers
that showed up at the office to protest having to
come back to work at the office.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show. Well, they showed up outside.
They weren't going to go inside. I'm sure they were
wearing their mask. They're still in a COVID mindset. You're
trying to kill me. You want me to go inside
a controlled atmosphere like the ventilation that recirculates, and I'll
get COVID.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Is that really what they're I mean, I haven't paid
a lot of attention to the to the story.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
But it's I don't give a damn what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
My impression had been we just liked I mean, we
don't have a good reason. We just like working from
our couch. So fu we're not coming back to work.
I thought that had been their attitude. But now it's like, Okay,
well I will come to work to just protest coming
to worry.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm not actually going to work right. So but at
least they found a way to feel their day.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
You know, there's an old phrase, and it gets truer
every day. I don't know if Ronald Reagan was the
first one to say it. I think it's the first
one I heard say it, which is that the safety
net has become a hammock. And people in America, you
don't if you don't have a job, you don't have
to worry, and that shouldn't be the case. You should
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have to worry. And people who have a job should
be very thankful for their jobs and work very hard
to keep their jobs and or even improve themselves and
get other jobs. It might pay more. That's the way
the system is supposed to work. But you've got people
here making six figures who are just like, I'm not
coming to work. You don't actually think I'm gonna do
anything for that money, do you.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We have absolutely two classes of people lying in the hammock.
We got people who just gave up. They're willing to
take whatever the Democrats negotiated for them. We learned that
early with the Ted Kennedy and uh, oh my gosh,
one of our proud South Carolinians. Okay, now I'm not
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talking about Dustin Johnson.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You'll never talk about him again. After he insulted Myrtle
Beach in Coastal Carolina.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, gotta put that in this podcast. Dustin Johnson can
kiss my ass.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
That's two podcasts.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's in now, and I'll put it in the title
of this one too, just to make sure everybody knows.
He says, any any misunderstanding.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Don't let your words being misinterpreted like his might be
being misinterpreted. He tried a joke. It didn't work.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But anyway, by the way, that's popping up in newspapers
all across our state. Now. By the time he finishes
his round of the Gusta, his phone is going to
be filled with text messages. And if you have Dustin
Johnson's mobile number, please send it to me.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, all right, Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Anyway, back to what we were talking about. We got
people who have just they just decided that they will
line up and take whatever entitlement programs that the Democrats
sign them up for, and they'll just live that life,
which is, according to most standards of the world, that's
a pretty good life. You know, when you get your
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housing and you get all the availability, you got your
Obama phone, you got everything you need and that's okay.
Then you've got the ex you've got the higher rung
of hammock layers. Those would be federal workers who openly,
it's not just a long running joke, it's the truth.
Once you go to work for and state governments the
same way, once you go to work for the federal government,
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they can't fire you. They got a union to protect them.
Even FDR said you can't let civil workers unionize, but
RFK not RK. JFK decided to change all that. So look,
I get it. I mean it's politics. Right. State of
New York, if I remember correctly, was the first state
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to allow civil workers to unionize and work so well
and help somebody win the election. And JFK said, hey,
I can pull that trick off nationally, and he did so.
The Democrat Party again, the party of indentured servantship. That's
what they sign you up for when they give you
a voter registration and you can find them everywhere signing
people have to vote. So you've got now this higher
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level where they're going to get one hundred thousand dollars
a year and then they retire at sixty percent of
their salary. They get help benefits for the rest of
their lives. So you've got all that going on. So
you know, I guess we have to recognize that there's
going to be a pushback when you try to cut
the rope on the hammock. There's plenty of pushback.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, you know, you mentioned you can't fire federal workers.
Apparently you can't do anything at the federal level because
at some point you're going to meet some sort of
judge who's going to try to stop it. And when
a judge in Portland, Oregon rules against the president, it
stops everything nationwide.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Takes a look to the House for passing that. When
we get the Senate to vote on it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
They vote and it was straight down party lines, so
you need every vote.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And this was the Republican in the House that voted
against it. I don't think that there was one. Was
there was one. I was well reported on MSNBC, So
who knows.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Let's see, the final vote was two nineteen to two thirteen.
I know that, and then I see that, you know,
the Senate says that they think they can get it
through so hopefully, because I mean, the insanity of a
judge in like wherever, like how about this California or Libs,
next time you got a Democrat, we just have some
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sort of right wing circuit court judge in Texas or something.
Stop whatever you're trying to do. It's it's not what
a circuit court judge is supposed to do. They're not
supposed to have that power. That it's a nationwide mandate.
And uh, it's funny because remember with the Kennedy Center,
Trump said he's taken that over. They all tried to
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block that. Then the Libs said that Donald Trump had
destroyed the arts. The arts are now lost. The fascist
has ruined it. That the people will have no art.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Forget about those youngsters throwing spaghettios on art exhibits. Donald
Trump just shut down the whole place.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, I love this headline. The Kennedy Center breaks all
time attendance record with the first public events since Trump takeover,
and according to the Kennedy Center, seventy three percent of
the attendees said they have never been to the Kennedy
Center before that night.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So pry fifty, you know it existed.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So Donald Trump again is a populist. He's going to
give the people what they want, and it might not
line up with what the high brow folks want, and
it might not line up even with you know, in
some instances what Republicans want. But Donald Trump's a populist,
so he went ahead, and you're going to get some
art at the Kennedy Center. It might not be the
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kind of art you want, like a banana tape to
a wall, or might not be a high brow, but
he did like, by the way, you need a banana
in hack, the banana hammock. That's a very popular swimsuit
in Brazil.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The federal work banana in a hammock.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We got a ballerina out. I know he's probably not
a fan of the ballet per se, but today Donald
Trump got a ballerina out of a Russian prison.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah. I didn't get a whole lot of press coverage.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Because Donald Trump was involved. But she's on a flight.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
In the arts like no other president I can remember
Joe Biden ever celebrated the arts other than Hunters.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, I was going to say, he did celebrate the
one Russian prisoner who happened to also be a gay
basketball player, so that that person got special Biden privileges.
We left everybody else.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Behind, all right, So by the way. If I am
Donald Trump's chief negotiator, which I am the least the
last one on the list of possible negotiators for Donald Trump,
I got it with everybody reporting. I guess Charlie Gasparino
was the first one to talk about it yesterday that
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I saw that it wasn't about the stock market, It's
about the bond market, and Japan started dumping off a
bunch of our bonds. If I'm the negotiator for this,
it's not just we negotiate tariffs and other border excuse me,
and other trade barriers like the eus ever popular VAT tax.
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You're not going to be putting that on Cadillacs another
GM manufactured of Forward manufactured automobiles. You're going to agree
to a particular tariff level. You're going to take down
those barriers, and then you're going to buy X number
of X number of millions of dollars of US treasury bonds.
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I'm adding the treasury bond purchase into every negotiated deal
because China, I'm sure, is thinking, how can we dump
off a bunch of these treasuries and then put them
in a better position to negotiate the final negotiation, which
will be of course with g So yeah, I'm writing in,
you got to purchase exit. You made all these billions
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of dollars off of us for the past fifty years
by us allowing you to make money off of the teriffs.
Now you've got to kick in and buy X number
of billions of dollars of our treasury notes. You need
some skin in the game to make sure that you
show your financial commitment to America outside of just lowering
your trade tariffs.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, this morning, the Chinese Commerce Ministry reached out to
Donald Trump and said, quote, please meet us halfway. So
China has blunk is that somewhere.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Between eighty four percent and one hundred and twenty five
percent is halfway.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
They said, we will never surrender. Remember that will never surrender.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Surrender.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
They just surrendered. But look, I mean, I'm making light
of the situation. It's it's in all honesty. Donald Trump
masterfully played everybody, including us. The goal was to get
the world united against China. I didn't think this strategy
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would work. The tariffs on everybody's strategy. He put a
tariff literally on every country in the world, including countries
that don't have people, just penguins. And he said at
the time, do not retaliate. If you retaliate against our tariffs,
then we will be vicious. But if you don't retaliate,
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we're going to make a nice, beautiful deal with you.
This is not going to be the end of it.
We just want to see how you respond, because you know,
you've all been taking advantage of us. Yes, even Israel
took advantage of us. Everybody did so. I know seventy
five countries called but in the world. Out of all
the countries in the world, nobody retaliated except one, China.
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So now China's on the out side. All these countries
are coming alongside the US. And if you're in if
you're in China's shoes, you're realizing today, crap. Not only
is America. By the way, ninety four percent of the
goods in China end up in the United States. It's
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an unbelievable amount. We are by far their largest market,
but we're also the largest market for you know, the
Europeans and everybody like that.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But you said ninety percent of their exports end up here, right, Yes,
but I heard yesterday an interesting number. Correct me if
I'm wrong or them, because it came from CNN. Twenty
percent of our imports come.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
From China for US.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
For US, it's only twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yes, yes, but so that's why it's going to be
Like when Scott Bessett was making the claim, well, it's
not a claim, it's a fact that in the tariff game,
if you're going to play the tariff game, the one
who is being tariffed, meaning in this and since it's
going to be China, if they retaliate, it goes worse
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for them because they have the trade and balance they
need us. We don't need China. Now, if you take
China out of our equation, things are going to be
difficult and things are going to be more expensive. I
just I think that people need to understand that moving forward,
things are going to It's I don't want to call
it necessarily inflation, although I guess that would be an
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easy way of translating it. Prices are going to go
up on everything, stuff from Vietnam, stuff from England, wherever.
It's all going to go up a bit, but it
is going to bring in more money into the United States.
The goods that we sell will make us more money
as well. So the hope the theory is that in
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the long run, everybody gets a raise and that your
buying power goes further, even though prices have gone up
as well. But China, if they can't cut deals with
Europe or somebody to get rid of this crap that
they've got, they are screwed because they're literally like a
trillion dollars in debt on just manufactured goods that they
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haven't sold yet. So you're and that's and when people
talk about Chinese businesses, be honest, it's really the Chinese government.
The CCP owns TikTok, The CCP owns everything that you're
you're buying on insert name of random website that sells
you as shine or whatever. That's all China. And it's
the Chinese government. It's not like some mom and pop
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shop just popped up, you know, people because somebody yesterday
was trying to go back at me. And well, so
the Chinese are just going to move their businesses to
Vietnam and non tariffed countries. They're gonna beat the system.
I'm like, maybe there's a few that could do that.
And our partners like Vietnam and other places. What they say,
thank you for the jobs. You've created America by forcing
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them over here. But the reality of it is the huh.
But what I'm saying is the most of the businesses
are government run, so they're not moving from China. But
if you could get out of China, it's still going
to be more expensive. Everything's going to be more expensive.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I loved it when the EU thought they were going
to bow up for a minute and retract their zero
zero offer, a zero on both sides, we'll have free trade,
zero zero tariffs. And then they backed up on that
briefly because in Sally's like, well, the EU just said
that they're not you know, they've withdrawn their offer for
zero zero, So he missed it. I said, what's the
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EU going to do? I mean, the EU, for God's sake,
It's not like you have to look for a historical marker,
just look for a cemetery. The EU, you think, is
going to get in bed with China, who's already in
bed with Russia, who you've already know because you've told
us now for five years six that Putin wants to
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not only reconstruct the old Sylvia Union, he wants to
march across Europe. So the EU is going to bow
to China, who's in bed with Russia, and they're gonna
do what watch a recreation of a Hitler movie. But
the EU can't even defend itself. They have to have
the NATO forces that we provide in order for the
EU to be a free country or free union. So
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you take France to Spain and put them all together,
Germany included, you know, so what are they going to do.
They're going to have to come back to the table.
This whole thing about retracting it. Come on, give me
a break.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well, and when you talk about tariffs, I know I
had seen some liberals and then I guess it was Monday. China,
the actual Chinese government tweeted out part of a Reagan
speech and it was a radio address that Reagan made
back in nineteen eighty seven, and that actually had to
do with Japan, and Japan was stealing intellectual property, which
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is one of the biggest problems with China is that
they steal. But you know, the short term is IP.
So when you're somebody talking about IP, that's what they're
talking about, intellectual property. They deal it, they then make
it cheaper, and then they sell it back to the country.
That's a massive thing that they've been doing to us.
But back in nineteen eighty seven, Reagan, if you take
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part of his speech or is addressed to the nation,
he said, those in Congress who want to go for
the quick political advantage, risk American prosperity for the sake
of a short term appeal to some special interest groups,
to forget that more than five million American jobs are
directly tied to foreign export business and additional millions are
tied to the imports. So that was the clip that
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they played. The Chinese are playing that for the Americans,
and a lot of people are like, see, Trump is
a moron. But if you actually go and listen to
the entire and you could just put in Ronald Reagan
tariff's speech. I mean, you can find it on YouTube.
It's only like eight minutes. It was a radio address.
He's sitting there in his plaid shirt, you know, at
his desk and wherever he was California, I guess. But
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he also said that nobody wants a tariff war, but
we will have a tariff when needed. And if Japan,
I'm inviting because I don't want a terraform with Japan
and so we have seen right now that you seem
to be abiding by what we had already agreed to.
China has never agreed to the agreements that they've signed.
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They have been ripping us off, and we can go back.
I mean, I heard Carolyn Levitt yesterday. I went and
found the original speech of Nancy Pelosi in nineteen ninety six.
That's a great speech she got. She was like khrush Chef.
She's like banging the table. You know, the American workers
are being screwed by China and this administration needs to
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stand up and do something about it. She's calling out
Bill Clinton in nineteen ninety six, we need to fight
for the middle class. And she had her little charts
and she was showing how, yes, there was like one
hundred thousand jobs that were created by the exports to China,
and yet ten million American jobs, by her calculation or
whoever she was using at that time, were lost to China.
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We created ten million jobs for them over there. And
she was making the point. And then you know, I
had another clip this morning. I was listening to twenty
seventeen Chuck Schumer's at a I think it was a
steel plant in Syracuse, and he's talking about the last
time I visited here is when I first learned about
Chinese currency manipulation, specifically when it comes to how they
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screw the American steel worker. And so I am hoping
now this is in twenty seventeen, so Trump had just
become the president. He says, I happen to agree with
President Trump more than I did Barack Obama or his
predecessors when it comes to trade with China. And I'm
hoping that Donald Trump will be tough, especially because of
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the currency manipulation. Well, guess what, hey granted. Wish you
just got it there, Chuck. It don't seem so happy
today though.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
When they were playing the I think it was ninety
six as well, Nancy Pelosi when you mentioned when they
were playing the audio back, I have my back to
the television and I hear this voice he's making the
Trump position argument. I'm like, damn, that sounds like Chuck Schumer.
And I turned around a look, and it's Chuck Schumer
thirty years ago, making the exact argument.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh there's another great speech, not a speech, that's a debate.
Barack Obama verus Hillary Clinton in two thousand and eight.
They're in Ohio, and he says that because of you,
and he's pointing at Hillary. You and your husband both
took the position that NAFTA was working, and it wasn't working.
And he said, when I first got to Chicago, he said,
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there were lines of unemployed workers, and I went and
talked to them, and he said, these are white blacks, Latinos.
They're out of work because their jobs have been shipped
to China because of your trade agreements and what you
didn't put in there, the protections that the American workers needed. Now,
we need to figure out a way to get those
jobs back to America. That's Barack Obama two thousand and eight.
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He says, I think we can do it. I think
we can help the people here in Ohio. Now, he
apparently came to some realization in twenty fifteen or something
that you needed a magic wand to do it, and
he didn't have the magic Wand Donald Trump's got the
magic wand he's bringing those jobs back.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I'm sorry, I misstated. It's one hundred and forty five
percent a terror from China at the overall tariff. That's incredible.
So and now, by the way, MSNBC. Sorry, let's see
in it. MSNBC now that after yesterday's market rebound, although
they'll point out Donald Trump still for you seniors, he's
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going to take away your social security, he's going to
take away your Medicare and Medicaid, and now he's going
to take away your social security. He's just taking money
out of your savings account. So that will continue today,
I'm sure. But they switched over to rfk's measles vaccine
crisis as their next big headline of the day. So yeah,
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we'll continue to watch this play out no matter what
Scott Bessett told you, and you know MSNBC told you
all day yesterday that was a lie. This was not
all planned out. Look, Trump told you it's going to
be flexible. When you get seventy five people return a
phone call, it's going to take you a while to
get all those negotiated out, because he's already said we're
not going to do a cookie cut or agreement with
each of these countries. They're going to be tailor fit.
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When I get us buy a suit off the rack,
is going to be tailor fit for each of these countries.
Because obviously there are some countries that we need more
things out of. And by the way, the biggest thing
that comes to mind, and we started screaming about this
during COVID our dependency upon China for even penicillin, let
alone the rest of the pharmaceuticals that we get. So
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and we talked about a little bit about that yesterday.
So I don't want to believe in the point. However,
we'll see all this play out today as he remains
flexible and continues to negotiate. And I know that maybe
Scott Bessett when he said this was the plan the
whole time, I don't know how broad a conversation he's
talking about, but certainly they've always and he told you
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this repeatedly, they've always left in the availability for flexibility.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Well, I mean, the path they were walking didn't make
sense to the rest of us. It just didn't make
any sense unless this was the goal to unite the
world against China. So right now, there's China and then
there's everybody else. Every Iran is against China in the
trade war right now.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
The bad actors, all right, So now and there rash
thought today we were talking about there's this, you know,
the high speed rail system in California. Wow, what a
what a shining example of nicupal and state money. Are
you being sarcastic? Have you not seen all the great
videos of people riding the bullet train? How much money
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are they already sunk into that thing? Is like three
hundred million dollars and they don't even have all I
got one rail.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I was gonna say, you're more likely to get Joe
Biden's Bridge to South Africa or whatever it was before
you're gonna get this high speed rail train finished. Let's see,
here's a okay, Cali matters one day ago, new plan
to accelerate the California High Speed Rail. Oh good, So
does it tell me how much we're going to do
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it right now? Because they've been working on this okay,
right now. The goal is to get it launched in
the early twenty thirties. Oh my god, in the early
twenty thirties, ten.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Years from now. They were supposed to have already built
it ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
The revenues vary from year to years. The market determined
price of carbon fluctuates with the allocation toward the heightspeed
rail project, now upwards of one point two five billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Forget it. Elon Musk will have a flying car before
you ever get that done, and it won't cost one
dollar in federal money. He'll do it all on his own.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
But anyway, here we want we got. I think we've
got a great negotiation option because you've got the Libs
in Atlanta and the Libs in Charlotte, and there's a
lot of Libs in both states. They want a high
speed rail to connect those two cities, but it has
to go through the upstate of South Carolina, and the
South Carolina delegation so far has shown no interest, to
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the point where two of the five on the subcommittee
didn't even show up to the hearing yesterday.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, the geographical challenges with the topography would demand that,
not only because it's the closest point between the closest
the straightest line between two points, but it's also you
try to go through the mountains of the high speed rail,
it's gonna be like a roller coaster ride at six flags.
You'll never keep it on the right rails to begin with.
But nonetheless, it needs to be flat plainly because it's
going to be traveling fast. So the beautiful part is, hey,
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they got to come through here anyway. We're going to
sell them the land of the astronomical figure and just
give them like what do you call it when you
get a property easement? You're going to give them an easement?
Or do you just want to hold them up? You
just want to hold them up? Which I think is
the best part period. Absolutely, turn that geo opportunity into
a g Oh. We can make a ton of freaking
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money off of these libs and Charlotte and Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Absolutely, you know, we want twenty five percent of all
ticket sales.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And you're going to stop. You're going to stop in
Greenville and any South Carolinian shows. Says I'll be sure
and get your real ID. You got till May fifth
to get it. You show you a real ID, you
get to ride free, either to Charlotte or Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Sonny Hosten says that women can't get IDs in America.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
In an amazing How are we going to ever have
a domestic flight for women in this country when they're
supposed to take their driver's license before May fifth? Or
you're not going to be able to get on a
domestic flight and you want to fly to Atlanta or Charlotte.
But if you don't have a real ID, and if
you don't have a driver's license, how are you going
to get an improve driver's license that has the star
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in the corner?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
She was making that case. Was that on a podcast
or something yesterday where she was making the claim that
when you that real democracy means showing no voter ID
because especially for women, you know, sometimes you get married
and so your last name is different than on your
birth certificate, and so then you can't vote.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
What when you get married and you take on a
different last name, then you're not able to vote again.
That's what she wants you to believe.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, Angela and Ash has been Angela and Ash since
twenty seventeen and has voted in every election.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So and remember when we got our voter ID passed
here the governor. Then Nikki Haley did a public service
announcement that entered on every television and radio station. If
you need a picture, a state issued picture I D
then all you need to do is call this eight
hundred number. We don't give a damn where you live.
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You could be in the furthest corner of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia and in the sticks in Salem,
South Carolina, or you can live in the Corridor of Shame.
We will send a sled vehicle with a sledge driver
to pick you up.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's probably a fancy SUV. Huh, that's probably a fancy
su Probably I should have called for one of those
rides to.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Take you to the strom Thermon building and walk you
in because you don't have an ID, walk you in
so we can get you a picture ID. That went
on for months, and we did have people respond. They
did statewide. We did nine people call because they did
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not have a picture ID. Nine nine people.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
JO I'm doing all that by memory, so have we?
So does that mean we've handled it here in South Carolina?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I hope that eight hundred numbers still working.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I hope so too.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I hope they still have that anyway, So that issue
is now. I love the way the article was written.
Even the committee members, so the general Assembly is not interested.
Even the committee members are assigned this committee. Two of
them were late, three of them didn't show up. I
think two of them left early. There's no interest in
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this in the state that we're not going to be
spending taxpayer dollars, so we need to borrow when the
Trump's negotiators to negotiate this deal. Let's make some money
off of this, because land is money. You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
By the way I looked up it was the toll
free number was eight five to five State ID. But
you only had till five pm on September twenty second
to call that over. And Dick Harpoolian was very upset
at the time, and he said, this is ridiculous one
day to get this done for the one hundred and
seventy eight thousand people who don't have ID in this state.
I don't know where you got that number from me,
but he said, there's one hundred and seventy thousand people
(28:42):
who don't have ID. So this is a dishonest, cruel
attempt and it's but I got to oh, he said,
this is not even a very good PR stunt by
our governor. Seems actually, Dick, you got to at least
salute it as a PR stunt.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's a I mean, we're talking about it. This is
in twenty eleven, we're still talking about it fourteen years later.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Look, Dick knows how to pull off a PR stunt,
so he's a master yeah, on his scale, this is
probably not a great one. I would agree with it.
Even really, I would agree with that. I find myself
agreeing with the carparentley in here occasionally more so than
probably even he would inspack. And tomorrow I want to
talk a little bit more about the state budget. Oh
(29:25):
do you yes, we're going to start cutting out ear
marks around here.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well, if we cut out the ear marks and we
cut the deal, because Henry McMaster is friends with with
Donald Trump, so maybe he can learn a little bit
about negotiation. So if we get the high speed rail
deal cut, it could be we could be an attax
free state here and no time.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
You know, something that is supposedly the goal. We just
got to find a way to get there faster.
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, thanks is outrageous as trying to get workers
back into the office, Kelly Nash. We actually had workers
that showed up at the office to protest having to
come back to work at the office.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show. Well, they showed up outside.
They weren't going to go inside. I'm sure they were
wearing their mask. They're still in a COVID mindset. You're
trying to kill me. You want me to go inside
a controlled atmosphere like the ventilation that recirculates, and I'll
get COVID.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Is that really what they're I mean, I haven't paid
a lot of attention to the to the story.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
But it's I don't give a damn what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
My impression had been we just liked I mean, we
don't have a good reason. We just like working from
our couch. So fu we're not coming back to work.
I thought that had been their attitude. But now it's like, Okay,
well I will come to work to just protest coming
to worry.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm not actually going to work right. So but at
least they found a way to feel their day.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
You know, there's an old phrase, and it gets truer
every day. I don't know if Ronald Reagan was the
first one to say it. I think it's the first
one I heard say it, which is that the safety
net has become a hammock. And people in America, you
don't if you don't have a job, you don't have
to worry, and that shouldn't be the case. You should
(01:28):
have to worry. And people who have a job should
be very thankful for their jobs and work very hard
to keep their jobs and or even improve themselves and
get other jobs. It might pay more. That's the way
the system is supposed to work. But you've got people
here making six figures who are just like, I'm not
coming to work. You don't actually think I'm gonna do
anything for that money, do you.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We have absolutely two classes of people lying in the hammock.
We got people who just gave up. They're willing to
take whatever the Democrats negotiated for them. We learned that
early with the Ted Kennedy and uh, oh my gosh,
one of our proud South Carolinians. Okay, now I'm not
(02:10):
talking about Dustin Johnson.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You'll never talk about him again. After he insulted Myrtle
Beach in Coastal Carolina.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, gotta put that in this podcast. Dustin Johnson can
kiss my ass.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
That's two podcasts.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's in now, and I'll put it in the title
of this one too, just to make sure everybody knows.
He says, any any misunderstanding.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Don't let your words being misinterpreted like his might be
being misinterpreted. He tried a joke. It didn't work.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But anyway, by the way, that's popping up in newspapers
all across our state. Now. By the time he finishes
his round of the Gusta, his phone is going to
be filled with text messages. And if you have Dustin
Johnson's mobile number, please send it to me.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, all right, Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Anyway, back to what we were talking about. We got
people who have just they just decided that they will
line up and take whatever entitlement programs that the Democrats
sign them up for, and they'll just live that life,
which is, according to most standards of the world, that's
a pretty good life. You know, when you get your
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housing and you get all the availability, you got your
Obama phone, you got everything you need and that's okay.
Then you've got the ex you've got the higher rung
of hammock layers. Those would be federal workers who openly,
it's not just a long running joke, it's the truth.
Once you go to work for and state governments the
same way, once you go to work for the federal government,
(03:34):
they can't fire you. They got a union to protect them.
Even FDR said you can't let civil workers unionize, but
RFK not RK. JFK decided to change all that. So look,
I get it. I mean it's politics. Right. State of
New York, if I remember correctly, was the first state
(03:55):
to allow civil workers to unionize and work so well
and help somebody win the election. And JFK said, hey,
I can pull that trick off nationally, and he did so.
The Democrat Party again, the party of indentured servantship. That's
what they sign you up for when they give you
a voter registration and you can find them everywhere signing
people have to vote. So you've got now this higher
(04:19):
level where they're going to get one hundred thousand dollars
a year and then they retire at sixty percent of
their salary. They get help benefits for the rest of
their lives. So you've got all that going on. So
you know, I guess we have to recognize that there's
going to be a pushback when you try to cut
the rope on the hammock. There's plenty of pushback.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, you know, you mentioned you can't fire federal workers.
Apparently you can't do anything at the federal level because
at some point you're going to meet some sort of
judge who's going to try to stop it. And when
a judge in Portland, Oregon rules against the president, it
stops everything nationwide.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Takes a look to the House for passing that. When
we get the Senate to vote on it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
They vote and it was straight down party lines, so
you need every vote.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And this was the Republican in the House that voted
against it. I don't think that there was one. Was
there was one. I was well reported on MSNBC, So
who knows.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Let's see, the final vote was two nineteen to two thirteen.
I know that, and then I see that, you know,
the Senate says that they think they can get it
through so hopefully, because I mean, the insanity of a
judge in like wherever, like how about this California or Libs,
next time you got a Democrat, we just have some
(05:33):
sort of right wing circuit court judge in Texas or something.
Stop whatever you're trying to do. It's it's not what
a circuit court judge is supposed to do. They're not
supposed to have that power. That it's a nationwide mandate.
And uh, it's funny because remember with the Kennedy Center,
Trump said he's taken that over. They all tried to
(05:53):
block that. Then the Libs said that Donald Trump had
destroyed the arts. The arts are now lost. The fascist
has ruined it. That the people will have no art.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Forget about those youngsters throwing spaghettios on art exhibits. Donald
Trump just shut down the whole place.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, I love this headline. The Kennedy Center breaks all
time attendance record with the first public events since Trump takeover,
and according to the Kennedy Center, seventy three percent of
the attendees said they have never been to the Kennedy
Center before that night.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So pry fifty, you know it existed.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So Donald Trump again is a populist. He's going to
give the people what they want, and it might not
line up with what the high brow folks want, and
it might not line up even with you know, in
some instances what Republicans want. But Donald Trump's a populist,
so he went ahead, and you're going to get some
art at the Kennedy Center. It might not be the
(06:51):
kind of art you want, like a banana tape to
a wall, or might not be a high brow, but
he did like, by the way, you need a banana
in hack, the banana hammock. That's a very popular swimsuit
in Brazil.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The federal work banana in a hammock.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We got a ballerina out. I know he's probably not
a fan of the ballet per se, but today Donald
Trump got a ballerina out of a Russian prison.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah. I didn't get a whole lot of press coverage.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Because Donald Trump was involved. But she's on a flight.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
In the arts like no other president I can remember
Joe Biden ever celebrated the arts other than Hunters.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, I was going to say, he did celebrate the
one Russian prisoner who happened to also be a gay
basketball player, so that that person got special Biden privileges.
We left everybody else.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Behind, all right, So by the way. If I am
Donald Trump's chief negotiator, which I am the least the
last one on the list of possible negotiators for Donald Trump,
I got it with everybody reporting. I guess Charlie Gasparino
was the first one to talk about it yesterday that
(08:06):
I saw that it wasn't about the stock market, It's
about the bond market, and Japan started dumping off a
bunch of our bonds. If I'm the negotiator for this,
it's not just we negotiate tariffs and other border excuse me,
and other trade barriers like the eus ever popular VAT tax.
(08:28):
You're not going to be putting that on Cadillacs another
GM manufactured of Forward manufactured automobiles. You're going to agree
to a particular tariff level. You're going to take down
those barriers, and then you're going to buy X number
of X number of millions of dollars of US treasury bonds.
(08:49):
I'm adding the treasury bond purchase into every negotiated deal
because China, I'm sure, is thinking, how can we dump
off a bunch of these treasuries and then put them
in a better position to negotiate the final negotiation, which
will be of course with g So yeah, I'm writing in,
you got to purchase exit. You made all these billions
(09:10):
of dollars off of us for the past fifty years
by us allowing you to make money off of the teriffs.
Now you've got to kick in and buy X number
of billions of dollars of our treasury notes. You need
some skin in the game to make sure that you
show your financial commitment to America outside of just lowering
your trade tariffs.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, this morning, the Chinese Commerce Ministry reached out to
Donald Trump and said, quote, please meet us halfway. So
China has blunk is that somewhere.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Between eighty four percent and one hundred and twenty five
percent is halfway.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
They said, we will never surrender. Remember that will never surrender.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Surrender.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
They just surrendered. But look, I mean, I'm making light
of the situation. It's it's in all honesty. Donald Trump
masterfully played everybody, including us. The goal was to get
the world united against China. I didn't think this strategy
(10:12):
would work. The tariffs on everybody's strategy. He put a
tariff literally on every country in the world, including countries
that don't have people, just penguins. And he said at
the time, do not retaliate. If you retaliate against our tariffs,
then we will be vicious. But if you don't retaliate,
(10:33):
we're going to make a nice, beautiful deal with you.
This is not going to be the end of it.
We just want to see how you respond, because you know,
you've all been taking advantage of us. Yes, even Israel
took advantage of us. Everybody did so. I know seventy
five countries called but in the world. Out of all
the countries in the world, nobody retaliated except one, China.
(10:58):
So now China's on the out side. All these countries
are coming alongside the US. And if you're in if
you're in China's shoes, you're realizing today, crap. Not only
is America. By the way, ninety four percent of the
goods in China end up in the United States. It's
(11:20):
an unbelievable amount. We are by far their largest market,
but we're also the largest market for you know, the
Europeans and everybody like that.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But you said ninety percent of their exports end up here, right, Yes,
but I heard yesterday an interesting number. Correct me if
I'm wrong or them, because it came from CNN. Twenty
percent of our imports come.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
From China for US.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
For US, it's only twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yes, yes, but so that's why it's going to be
Like when Scott Bessett was making the claim, well, it's
not a claim, it's a fact that in the tariff game,
if you're going to play the tariff game, the one
who is being tariffed, meaning in this and since it's
going to be China, if they retaliate, it goes worse
(12:04):
for them because they have the trade and balance they
need us. We don't need China. Now, if you take
China out of our equation, things are going to be
difficult and things are going to be more expensive. I
just I think that people need to understand that moving forward,
things are going to It's I don't want to call
it necessarily inflation, although I guess that would be an
(12:27):
easy way of translating it. Prices are going to go
up on everything, stuff from Vietnam, stuff from England, wherever.
It's all going to go up a bit, but it
is going to bring in more money into the United States.
The goods that we sell will make us more money
as well. So the hope the theory is that in
(12:48):
the long run, everybody gets a raise and that your
buying power goes further, even though prices have gone up
as well. But China, if they can't cut deals with
Europe or somebody to get rid of this crap that
they've got, they are screwed because they're literally like a
trillion dollars in debt on just manufactured goods that they
(13:09):
haven't sold yet. So you're and that's and when people
talk about Chinese businesses, be honest, it's really the Chinese government.
The CCP owns TikTok, The CCP owns everything that you're
you're buying on insert name of random website that sells
you as shine or whatever. That's all China. And it's
the Chinese government. It's not like some mom and pop
(13:31):
shop just popped up, you know, people because somebody yesterday
was trying to go back at me. And well, so
the Chinese are just going to move their businesses to
Vietnam and non tariffed countries. They're gonna beat the system.
I'm like, maybe there's a few that could do that.
And our partners like Vietnam and other places. What they say,
thank you for the jobs. You've created America by forcing
(13:51):
them over here. But the reality of it is the huh.
But what I'm saying is the most of the businesses
are government run, so they're not moving from China. But
if you could get out of China, it's still going
to be more expensive. Everything's going to be more expensive.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I loved it when the EU thought they were going
to bow up for a minute and retract their zero
zero offer, a zero on both sides, we'll have free trade,
zero zero tariffs. And then they backed up on that
briefly because in Sally's like, well, the EU just said
that they're not you know, they've withdrawn their offer for
zero zero, So he missed it. I said, what's the
(14:28):
EU going to do? I mean, the EU, for God's sake,
It's not like you have to look for a historical marker,
just look for a cemetery. The EU, you think, is
going to get in bed with China, who's already in
bed with Russia, who you've already know because you've told
us now for five years six that Putin wants to
(14:49):
not only reconstruct the old Sylvia Union, he wants to
march across Europe. So the EU is going to bow
to China, who's in bed with Russia, and they're gonna
do what watch a recreation of a Hitler movie. But
the EU can't even defend itself. They have to have
the NATO forces that we provide in order for the
EU to be a free country or free union. So
(15:14):
you take France to Spain and put them all together,
Germany included, you know, so what are they going to do.
They're going to have to come back to the table.
This whole thing about retracting it. Come on, give me
a break.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well, and when you talk about tariffs, I know I
had seen some liberals and then I guess it was Monday. China,
the actual Chinese government tweeted out part of a Reagan
speech and it was a radio address that Reagan made
back in nineteen eighty seven, and that actually had to
do with Japan, and Japan was stealing intellectual property, which
(15:48):
is one of the biggest problems with China is that
they steal. But you know, the short term is IP.
So when you're somebody talking about IP, that's what they're
talking about, intellectual property. They deal it, they then make
it cheaper, and then they sell it back to the country.
That's a massive thing that they've been doing to us.
But back in nineteen eighty seven, Reagan, if you take
(16:11):
part of his speech or is addressed to the nation,
he said, those in Congress who want to go for
the quick political advantage, risk American prosperity for the sake
of a short term appeal to some special interest groups,
to forget that more than five million American jobs are
directly tied to foreign export business and additional millions are
tied to the imports. So that was the clip that
(16:32):
they played. The Chinese are playing that for the Americans,
and a lot of people are like, see, Trump is
a moron. But if you actually go and listen to
the entire and you could just put in Ronald Reagan
tariff's speech. I mean, you can find it on YouTube.
It's only like eight minutes. It was a radio address.
He's sitting there in his plaid shirt, you know, at
his desk and wherever he was California, I guess. But
(16:54):
he also said that nobody wants a tariff war, but
we will have a tariff when needed. And if Japan,
I'm inviting because I don't want a terraform with Japan
and so we have seen right now that you seem
to be abiding by what we had already agreed to.
China has never agreed to the agreements that they've signed.
(17:17):
They have been ripping us off, and we can go back.
I mean, I heard Carolyn Levitt yesterday. I went and
found the original speech of Nancy Pelosi in nineteen ninety six.
That's a great speech she got. She was like khrush Chef.
She's like banging the table. You know, the American workers
are being screwed by China and this administration needs to
(17:37):
stand up and do something about it. She's calling out
Bill Clinton in nineteen ninety six, we need to fight
for the middle class. And she had her little charts
and she was showing how, yes, there was like one
hundred thousand jobs that were created by the exports to China,
and yet ten million American jobs, by her calculation or
whoever she was using at that time, were lost to China.
(18:00):
We created ten million jobs for them over there. And
she was making the point. And then you know, I
had another clip this morning. I was listening to twenty
seventeen Chuck Schumer's at a I think it was a
steel plant in Syracuse, and he's talking about the last
time I visited here is when I first learned about
Chinese currency manipulation, specifically when it comes to how they
(18:21):
screw the American steel worker. And so I am hoping
now this is in twenty seventeen, so Trump had just
become the president. He says, I happen to agree with
President Trump more than I did Barack Obama or his
predecessors when it comes to trade with China. And I'm
hoping that Donald Trump will be tough, especially because of
(18:42):
the currency manipulation. Well, guess what, hey granted. Wish you
just got it there, Chuck. It don't seem so happy
today though.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
When they were playing the I think it was ninety
six as well, Nancy Pelosi when you mentioned when they
were playing the audio back, I have my back to
the television and I hear this voice he's making the
Trump position argument. I'm like, damn, that sounds like Chuck Schumer.
And I turned around a look, and it's Chuck Schumer
thirty years ago, making the exact argument.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Oh there's another great speech, not a speech, that's a debate.
Barack Obama verus Hillary Clinton in two thousand and eight.
They're in Ohio, and he says that because of you,
and he's pointing at Hillary. You and your husband both
took the position that NAFTA was working, and it wasn't working.
And he said, when I first got to Chicago, he said,
(19:31):
there were lines of unemployed workers, and I went and
talked to them, and he said, these are white blacks, Latinos.
They're out of work because their jobs have been shipped
to China because of your trade agreements and what you
didn't put in there, the protections that the American workers needed. Now,
we need to figure out a way to get those
jobs back to America. That's Barack Obama two thousand and eight.
(19:54):
He says, I think we can do it. I think
we can help the people here in Ohio. Now, he
apparently came to some realization in twenty fifteen or something
that you needed a magic wand to do it, and
he didn't have the magic Wand Donald Trump's got the
magic wand he's bringing those jobs back.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I'm sorry, I misstated. It's one hundred and forty five
percent a terror from China at the overall tariff. That's incredible.
So and now, by the way, MSNBC. Sorry, let's see
in it. MSNBC now that after yesterday's market rebound, although
they'll point out Donald Trump still for you seniors, he's
(20:32):
going to take away your social security, he's going to
take away your Medicare and Medicaid, and now he's going
to take away your social security. He's just taking money
out of your savings account. So that will continue today,
I'm sure. But they switched over to rfk's measles vaccine
crisis as their next big headline of the day. So yeah,
(20:53):
we'll continue to watch this play out no matter what
Scott Bessett told you, and you know MSNBC told you
all day yesterday that was a lie. This was not
all planned out. Look, Trump told you it's going to
be flexible. When you get seventy five people return a
phone call, it's going to take you a while to
get all those negotiated out, because he's already said we're
not going to do a cookie cut or agreement with
each of these countries. They're going to be tailor fit.
(21:15):
When I get us buy a suit off the rack,
is going to be tailor fit for each of these countries.
Because obviously there are some countries that we need more
things out of. And by the way, the biggest thing
that comes to mind, and we started screaming about this
during COVID our dependency upon China for even penicillin, let
alone the rest of the pharmaceuticals that we get. So
(21:36):
and we talked about a little bit about that yesterday.
So I don't want to believe in the point. However,
we'll see all this play out today as he remains
flexible and continues to negotiate. And I know that maybe
Scott Bessett when he said this was the plan the
whole time, I don't know how broad a conversation he's
talking about, but certainly they've always and he told you
(21:58):
this repeatedly, they've always left in the availability for flexibility.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Well, I mean, the path they were walking didn't make
sense to the rest of us. It just didn't make
any sense unless this was the goal to unite the
world against China. So right now, there's China and then
there's everybody else. Every Iran is against China in the
trade war right now.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
The bad actors, all right, So now and there rash
thought today we were talking about there's this, you know,
the high speed rail system in California. Wow, what a
what a shining example of nicupal and state money. Are
you being sarcastic? Have you not seen all the great
videos of people riding the bullet train? How much money
(22:46):
are they already sunk into that thing? Is like three
hundred million dollars and they don't even have all I
got one rail.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I was gonna say, you're more likely to get Joe
Biden's Bridge to South Africa or whatever it was before
you're gonna get this high speed rail train finished. Let's see,
here's a okay, Cali matters one day ago, new plan
to accelerate the California High Speed Rail. Oh good, So
does it tell me how much we're going to do
(23:15):
it right now? Because they've been working on this okay,
right now. The goal is to get it launched in
the early twenty thirties. Oh my god, in the early
twenty thirties, ten.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Years from now. They were supposed to have already built
it ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
The revenues vary from year to years. The market determined
price of carbon fluctuates with the allocation toward the heightspeed
rail project, now upwards of one point two five billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Forget it. Elon Musk will have a flying car before
you ever get that done, and it won't cost one
dollar in federal money. He'll do it all on his own.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
But anyway, here we want we got. I think we've
got a great negotiation option because you've got the Libs
in Atlanta and the Libs in Charlotte, and there's a
lot of Libs in both states. They want a high
speed rail to connect those two cities, but it has
to go through the upstate of South Carolina, and the
South Carolina delegation so far has shown no interest, to
(24:11):
the point where two of the five on the subcommittee
didn't even show up to the hearing yesterday.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, the geographical challenges with the topography would demand that,
not only because it's the closest point between the closest
the straightest line between two points, but it's also you
try to go through the mountains of the high speed rail,
it's gonna be like a roller coaster ride at six flags.
You'll never keep it on the right rails to begin with.
But nonetheless, it needs to be flat plainly because it's
going to be traveling fast. So the beautiful part is, hey,
(24:38):
they got to come through here anyway. We're going to
sell them the land of the astronomical figure and just
give them like what do you call it when you
get a property easement? You're going to give them an easement?
Or do you just want to hold them up? You
just want to hold them up? Which I think is
the best part period. Absolutely, turn that geo opportunity into
a g Oh. We can make a ton of freaking
(25:00):
money off of these libs and Charlotte and Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Absolutely, you know, we want twenty five percent of all
ticket sales.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And you're going to stop. You're going to stop in
Greenville and any South Carolinian shows. Says I'll be sure
and get your real ID. You got till May fifth
to get it. You show you a real ID, you
get to ride free, either to Charlotte or Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Sonny Hosten says that women can't get IDs in America.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
In an amazing How are we going to ever have
a domestic flight for women in this country when they're
supposed to take their driver's license before May fifth? Or
you're not going to be able to get on a
domestic flight and you want to fly to Atlanta or Charlotte.
But if you don't have a real ID, and if
you don't have a driver's license, how are you going
to get an improve driver's license that has the star
(25:48):
in the corner?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
She was making that case. Was that on a podcast
or something yesterday where she was making the claim that
when you that real democracy means showing no voter ID
because especially for women, you know, sometimes you get married
and so your last name is different than on your
birth certificate, and so then you can't vote.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
What when you get married and you take on a
different last name, then you're not able to vote again.
That's what she wants you to believe.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, Angela and Ash has been Angela and Ash since
twenty seventeen and has voted in every election.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So and remember when we got our voter ID passed
here the governor. Then Nikki Haley did a public service
announcement that entered on every television and radio station. If
you need a picture, a state issued picture I D
then all you need to do is call this eight
hundred number. We don't give a damn where you live.
(26:46):
You could be in the furthest corner of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia and in the sticks in Salem,
South Carolina, or you can live in the Corridor of Shame.
We will send a sled vehicle with a sledge driver
to pick you up.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's probably a fancy SUV. Huh, that's probably a fancy
su Probably I should have called for one of those
rides to.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Take you to the strom Thermon building and walk you
in because you don't have an ID, walk you in
so we can get you a picture ID. That went
on for months, and we did have people respond. They
did statewide. We did nine people call because they did
(27:29):
not have a picture ID. Nine nine people.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
JO I'm doing all that by memory, so have we?
So does that mean we've handled it here in South Carolina?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I hope that eight hundred numbers still working.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I hope so too.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I hope they still have that anyway, So that issue
is now. I love the way the article was written.
Even the committee members, so the general Assembly is not interested.
Even the committee members are assigned this committee. Two of
them were late, three of them didn't show up. I
think two of them left early. There's no interest in
(28:08):
this in the state that we're not going to be
spending taxpayer dollars, so we need to borrow when the
Trump's negotiators to negotiate this deal. Let's make some money
off of this, because land is money. You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
By the way I looked up it was the toll
free number was eight five to five State ID. But
you only had till five pm on September twenty second
to call that over. And Dick Harpoolian was very upset
at the time, and he said, this is ridiculous one
day to get this done for the one hundred and
seventy eight thousand people who don't have ID in this state.
I don't know where you got that number from me,
but he said, there's one hundred and seventy thousand people
(28:42):
who don't have ID. So this is a dishonest, cruel
attempt and it's but I got to oh, he said,
this is not even a very good PR stunt by
our governor. Seems actually, Dick, you got to at least
salute it as a PR stunt.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's a I mean, we're talking about it. This is
in twenty eleven, we're still talking about it fourteen years later.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Look, Dick knows how to pull off a PR stunt,
so he's a master yeah, on his scale, this is
probably not a great one. I would agree with it.
Even really, I would agree with that. I find myself
agreeing with the carparentley in here occasionally more so than
probably even he would inspack. And tomorrow I want to
talk a little bit more about the state budget. Oh
(29:25):
do you yes, we're going to start cutting out ear
marks around here.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well, if we cut out the ear marks and we
cut the deal, because Henry McMaster is friends with with
Donald Trump, so maybe he can learn a little bit
about negotiation. So if we get the high speed rail
deal cut, it could be we could be an attax
free state here and no time.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
You know, something that is supposedly the goal. We just
got to find a way to get there faster.
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