August 1, 2024 • 37 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features comedian Tim Mathis. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Boeing. Boeing has a new ceo. Congratulations, just got hired
over there. I don't know if the employees are as
excited as the rest of us are. Oh, we're not
excited at all. Huh Now, Boeing got a new ceo
and if employees have any concern, his door will always
be open, probably because it wasn't installed properly. Hey, thanks
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for turning on your radio. It's me. I'm Kenny. You're you.
We got a big show today. We're gonna go to
Hollywood and figure out what is woke and why is
it going? Broke the Rock, Dwayne the Rock Johnson got
hired by US, the American taxpayers, to help with military recruitment.
How did that go? Not very well? Oh, the world
of women's boxing. It's getting a lot of attention right
now because of an alleged trans athlete. We'll give you
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all the details on that. But before we go anywhere,
why don't we start with the latest from Kamala Harris.
Apparently a report today the Daily Beast reveals Josh Shapiro,
that's the governor of Pennsylvania. He's a Jewish guy. And
Mark Kelly, the Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, he's an astronaut.
Are being vetted, closely vetted in the Kamala Harris Viepsteak.
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So two of these guys very likely to be the
vice presidential pick for Kamala Harris. For the the candidate
as it is, she's not elected yet or anything like that.
But how is Kamala doing without a running mate? She
didn't have one yet? A question that's being asked right
now by Matt vespo Over at townhall dot com. Can
Kamala Harris win? And based on polling right now and
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the media's pervasive interference on her appalling record, she could
possibly could win. Let's be real, guys, it's very possible.
She's erased the Democrat Party's deficits in voter enthusiasm and
fundraising for now. But you know that polster Nate Silver,
You're familiar. You've seen him before. He tossed a hand
grenade into the middle of this parade. Since Democrats remained
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behind in one crucial content, the electoral college. Yeah, I
know she's popular, but remember the popular vote does not matter,
and when it's this close and Donald Trump is the candidate,
the advantage goes to the Republicans. Nate Silver then listed
scenarios that could screw over or benefit either candidate. But
the fact is Kamala Harris is getting a quote she's
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different bump in the polls right now. That's true, but
it's not nearly enough to overcome Trump's lead in the
electoral college. Donald Trump has a sixty one percent chance
of winning this election. Nate Silver relays what factors he's
plugging into this model, and it goes a bit like
this vote. She's a modest underdog to Trump in the
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electoral college, risking a repeat of the popular vote electoral
college split that costs Democrats the twenty twenty sixteen elections.
Kamala isn't unique in this regard. Biden also had a
large electoral college popular vote gap in twenty twenty, barely
winning several tipping point states despite winning the popular vote
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by four point five percent. But this is still a
problem for Democrats, and we show Kamala as having a
slightly wider popular vote electoral college gap than Biden had
in his version of the forecast. Since Kamala isn't president herself,
she doesn't get the same bonus that Biden did, and
we think that makes sense other things being equal, That is,
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notwithstanding Biden's terrible polling against Trump and voter concerns about
his age, you wouldn't want to replace an elected incumbent
president who won the same matchup last time with his VP.
So whereas Biden was a roughly two point favorite in
the pop vote, in our fundamental model, it has the
Harris Trump matchup as almost an exact tie in the
popular vote. This could shift upwards or downwards in the
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remaining days of the election based on economic data. The
model collects end to quote. So basically, the model does this.
Take the current polling based snapshot, which shows Trump ahead
by zero point four points, adjust for the convention bounce
which puts Harris very slightly ahead, regress towards the fundamentals
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based prior, which shows a tied popular vote. The prior
currently gets twenty five percent of the weight, and we'll
fade to zero by election day. That's how we get
to forecast of Harris winning the popular vote, but only
by point six percent, and that's not enough to get
the electoral college, which means she loses. She's not going
to be the president, according to Nate Silver. So it
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all circles back to the electoral college, and that's breaking
for the GOP. We live in a country where the
system in which we elect a new president rewards candidates
with geographic DIVERSI that's Trump, whose coalition is very efficiently diversed,
especially in areas where elections are decided. Kamala is an
inner city and coastal, snobby elites kind of gal that's
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not representative of the country as a whole. So Nate
Silver also points out, quote, I know people don't like
to talk about that electoral college because there's nothing that
Democrats could do about it. But the election is likely
to be close, and it's a big disadvantage when the
tie goes to Republicans. And this doesn't bode well for
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the Kamala Harris army of childless cat ladies, does it.
They're not thrilled about this, But as the Democrats sprint
to define who Kamala is, what she represents, and work
as hard as they can to erase her past. The
Republicans really need to regroup just as quickly because the
lack of messaging and attacking her will come back to
bite them in the ass. Kamala's record alone is enough
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to crank out multiple attack lines and ads, and I
would assume Trump and these people would focus on that
exclusively instead of doubting her racial background and calling her
a dei higher even if she is those things. Those
two things will only animate the liberal base who need
to depress and make hopeless again. And that's where we're
at with this whole thing. At the end of the day,
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Donald Trump can win this, but the messaging needs to change,
and it needs to change fast.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Were here to talk about something bout politics and government
and Nulice hit and code Glub.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
She in this show here? Ain't you average? This podcast?
You gotta get its own, Dan, we can.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
This just puts your whole happiness.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
A woman in California. This woman in California has over
one hundred allergies. Unfortunately, she's also a Taylor Swift fan,
so she has no choice but to own a cat.
Isn't that sad?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Kenny Webster here, thanks for turning us on. If you
watch the news over the last twenty four hours, you
probably heard this SoundBite. By now it's Donald Trump with
a black female journalist.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill,
have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the first
black and Asian American woman to serve as vice president
and be on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire?
Is that acceptable language to you? And will you tell
those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
How do you how do you define DEEI?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Go ahead? How do you define diversity?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Equity inclusion?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, yeah, go ahead? Is that what your definition?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Give me? That is that? That is?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Give me a definition?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Then would you give me a definition?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Ye, give me a definition.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
They're am asking you a question.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Direct define it from me if I just defined it?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only
on the ticket because she.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Is a black woman?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, I can say no.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
I think it's maybe a little bit different. So I've
known her a long time indirectly.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Not correctly, and here we go.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
She was always of Indian heritage, she was only promoting
Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a
number of years ago when she happened to turn black,
and now she wants to be known as black.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Okay, So people didn't like that, he said that. I mean,
you know, black people didn't like it. Black. These women
didn't like it. For the record, Trump's not wrong about this. Now, well,
hang on before you disagree with me. Here's the Associated
Press November ninth, twenty sixteen headline, Kamala Harris California is
Kamala Harris becomes first Indian American US Senator. So this
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is true. When she first showed up on the scene,
she marketed herself as a Indian American. And that's how
the liberal media marketed her. If you don't believe me,
here she is, you know, the Indian woman on the office.
Kelly is her character on the show Kelly Kapor. In
real life, she's an actress named Mindy Kaling. Some time ago,
her and Kamala Harris did a cooking segment together, presumably
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for social media, where they both agreed that they're both Indian.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Okay, So what.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
We're going to cook today, okay, is an Indian recipe?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes? Because you are ye, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Okay, And I don't know that everybody knows that.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, she's Indian, she says, yes, she's in Nah. I
know this isn't going to probably blow your mind, but
I just need to say it out loud. You can
be black and be Indian at the same time. But
does Kamala Harris represent black culture? Maybe she does, maybe
she doesn't. The truth is to independent voters or undecided voters,
of which there probably aren't that many. Odds are very rich,
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billionaire and white man Donald Trump, defining Kamala Harris's race
is probably not gonna help. So instead of doing that,
what do we do as Republicans? How do we frame
Kamala Harris as a bad candidate? All you have to
do is focus on her accomplishments. There's a report today
about this at town hall dot com and that make
a lot of really interesting points. You know, you can
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you could focus on her abysmal voting record. The Democrat
that we're talking about here has pretty much flipflopped on
every issue she's ever supported. She previously supported Medicare for all,
now she doesn't. She previously supported ban all quote unquote
assault weapons. You know rifles. Now she doesn't feel that way.
She previously supported banning fracking, Now she doesn't support that.
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And she's associated with and attached not only to Joe
Biden's abysmal economy, but Gavin Newsom's as well, because in
addition to being Joe Biden's vice president, she was a
Senator from California, where the economy sucks. Number one for poverty,
number one for inflation, number one for unemployment. Democrats and
their partners in the news media will parlay Kamala Harris's
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running mate selection and the following convention has opportunities to
improve her image. There's no doubt about that. They're hoping
to pull her into the lead in this race through
an avalanche of glowing publicity and propaganda. That's what they do.
And frankly, this framing is hysterical because even if Kamala
despised the press and vice versa, they would have all
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come together for this honeymoon, and the instant she becomes
their party's presumptive nominee turns into wonder woman. They're united
and their shared commitment to defeat Republicans. That's all they are,
that's all they've ever been and part of the reason
Kamala has a poor job approval rating and she does
is that, of course she's deeply associated with the failed
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Biden Harris record over the past two years, because she is,
after all, the Harris in the phrase Biden Harris. People
can't discern any real achievement she's posted in her vice presidency.
She's failed utterly, as quote unquote borders are to the
point that they're pretending she never even had that job.
So what has she done? Pray tell the answer to
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that questions? Kind of interesting, right, what has Vice President
Harris done? Senator Coons tried to answer that question. He said, quote,
something that I think hasn't gotten much coverage is her
passion for entrepreneurship, for wealth creation, for securing and stabilizing
the middle class. He was asked this question by Brett
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Baer in a recent interview. Clearly he was caught off
guard by that question, sputtering such nonsense as her passion
for entrepreneurship. She has never been an entrepreneur. She opposes
economic conditions that allow them to thrive. She never owned
a business, she's never created a business. The one thing
she's reportedly quite good at is creating job openings within
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her own office, having experienced dramatic staff turnover throughout her career.
Various news outlets reported on that ugliness before she even
became their collective party's standard bearer. There's a column from
twenty nineteen. It's quite interesting who published this article. Let's see,
this is the Union dot com quote. As many of
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you know, this is an article by who wrote this
Terry mc Terry mccateer. You don't have to know who
that is. Terry is the child of Jay Eugene McAteer,
San Francisco supervisor and state senator until he died at
age fifty one. Very critical of Kamala, Harris said that
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she would vocally throw around f bombs another profanity, constantly
at her staff. She would beerate them, she would harass
the people in her own office. They didn't like her.
They quit left and right. Didn't want to work for weird.
Why does everybody in your office we keep quitting their job.
It didn't just happen when she was the attorney general
or the Senator of California. It's happened as Vice President.
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Elizabeth Warren tried to explain what Kamala Harris's biggest accomplishment
was and she said this.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
What do you think has been her biggest accomplishment since
she's been vice president?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I have to say, since the Dobbs opinion, the way
that she has rallied women and friends of women, also
called men around this country on the issue of abortion,
and just taken it home. First vice president in history
to visit an abortion clinic.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Go get them.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know she's pause, pause pause. Warren's answer is kind
of ghoulish, isn't it. Kamala Harris's biggest achievement was visiting
an abortion clinic. This is a party that is not
pro choice on abortion. It is actively pro abortion. Donald
Trump's position is that states can devise policy on this
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thorny ethical, scientific, and moral issue through elected and accountable officials,
generally focusing on his opposition to late term abortion but
leaving it up to the states. Kamala's position is that
taxpayers should fund elective abortions for any reason, on demand,
throughout all nine months of pregnancy, right up till the
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day the baby is supposed to be born, including for
illegal immigrants. Who do you think has a better position
on abortion? Kamala's position is grotesque, it is inhumane. But
on the accomplishments front, it seems as though voters are
as stumped as professional democrats on this question. Kasha missed it.
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Seventy percent of people cannot name a single Kamala Harris
accomplishment from her time as vice president. I'm surprised it's
that high. Excuse me that low. I would think one
hundred percent of people couldn't name a single thing. Frank
once asked this question, can you name a single Kamala
Harris accomplishment or result from the time she was elected
VP three and a half years ago? Could you name one?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Can you name a single Harris accomplishment or result from
the time that she was elected vice president three and
a half years can you name just one? Seventy percent
cannot name anything anything.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, thank you. I just said that. I thought they
were going to answer the question. They don't. The latest
push from the Kamala campaign and the media is to
just wish away these nationally televised commitments to ban fracking,
all the things she said she supported over the years.
She sang about it on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
I mean, this is an actual SoundBite from what was
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supposed to be a comedy sketch play the tape.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
I am committed to passing a green new deal, creating
clean jobs, and finally putting an end to fracking once
and for all. There's no question I'm in favor of
banning fracking.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Starting and starting with what we can do on day
one around public lands, right, and then there has to
be legislation. But yes, and this is something I've taken
on in California.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I have a history of working on this issue. Yeah,
she has a history of working on it. Huh. Her
team is now denying that she supports the goal to banfracking,
something she strongly endorsed out loud on multiple occasions. This
is what they're going to try to do on a
long parade of issues. This sort of media coverage is
shameless and kudos to the CNN reporter who has also
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told the truth about Harris defunding the police extremism for
calling that out that actually happened. Andy Kazinski said this
is bizarre framing. He posted a thing online from Politico.
Harris Camplaign pledges she won't banfracking after Trump accusation and
Andy Kazinski, works at CNN, posted that online and said
it's bizarre framing. It's not an accusation or allegation. She
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said it on record numerous times in twenty nineteen. The
news is that she just recently changed her position, not
that Trump accused her of it. Kamala in twenty nineteen
and Kamala in twenty twenty had very different positions on
a laundry list of issues than how she feels about
things in twenty twenty four. That should be the messaging.
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That should be the language from Trump and his people
to independent moderate voters. Kamala is not really black. I
don't think it's working. Kids.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of happiness, very spicy.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Radio Disneyland employees got a thirty one percent pay raise,
which means they can now afford the exact same turkey
legs that they sell. How exciting. Thanks for turning on
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the radio. We still got some more to go coming
up in a little bit. We're gonna go to Hollywood
with stand up comedian Tim Mathis and all the latest
on some of the bizarre things happening there. The intersection
between culture and politics, that's coming up real soon, but
before we get there, but talking about the election, but
talking about Kamala versus Trump, because it's all anything anybody
wants to talk about. Sadly, and and you know, for
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a good reason. We're getting really close to the presidential election.
Donald Trump has good policies, maybe not great messaging, but
great policies. If you're an independent voter, if you're in
you know, an unemployed person right now, if you work
in the service industry, you can't look at Donald Trump's
economic policies and not easily understand that they're I mean,
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it's not hard to understand why they're better than Kamali's policies.
Think about it. If you're in the service industry, you
don't have to pay taxes on tips under Donald Trump's
tax plan. Waiters and waitresses of America, how do you
vote for Kamala Harris, knowing full well the alternative would
be you actually get to keep your money. And he's
got a similar plan for senior citizens living off Social Security.
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Here's your report today at Breitbart dot com, Donald Trump
called for an end to the tax many seniors pay
on their Social Security income. Donald Trump says seniors should
not pay tax on Social Security. He made this big
announcement Wednesday morning. Currently, if you are single and your
combined income social Security and outside job exceeds twenty five
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thousand dollars, you may have to pay the standard income
tax rate on up to twelve five hundred dollars of
your annual Social Security income. It's a lot of money
if you're on a fixed income. If you are single
and your combined income exceeds thirty four thousand dollars, you
may have to pay the standard income tax rate of
up to eighty five percent of that thirty four thousand dollars.
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It means basically giving all the money to the government
that you already gave to the government that you were
supposed to get at a later point in life so
you could retire and live comfortably. But you can't because
inflation's too high and the cost of living's too high,
and so that money that the government took from you
that was supposed to be for your retirement isn't because
you earn just a little too much money, doesn't that suck?
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The thresholds are only a little higher for a join
income thirty two thousand dollars forty four thousand dollars. Not
only is ending the Social Security tax a good idea,
but it's smart play on Trump's part for senior voters.
Another thing to watch as more polling becomes available is
whether Trump's numbers with seniors improve against Biden. Trump was
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doing particularly poorly with this traditionally Republican demographic, but against
Harris Kamala, who's arguably far more radical of a Democrat
than Biden, this demographic could easily revert, and if the
other demographic shifts that we saw before with Trump versus
Biden stay the same, with Trump gaining the benefits with
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very young voters, Hispanic voters, and Black voters that he
did before, this could bottom out the Harris campaign sooner
rather than later. Watching the senior vote benefit Biden wasn't
as counterintuitive as it seemed. Joe was under attack for
being old. Older people might have resented that. Also, high
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interest rates are a boon for retirees, most of whom
are already in their homes and counting on a stable
retirement income that benefits from higher interest rates. Two things
might move seniors in Trump's direction. One the coup against
the aging Joe Biden. It doesn't look good. Got to
think a lot of older voters see what happened to him,
And two putting an end to the stupid tax on
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social Security. Why in the world would the government send
you a check and then tax you for it. It's
like taxing lottery winnings. It makes no sense not to
mention those income thresholds listed above or not tied to inflation.
So when you're living under the oppressive Biden Harris economy
where accumulated inflation hovers around twenty percent, your Social Security
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goes nowhere near as far, but the tax threshold doesn't change.
Most seniors receiving Social Security have paid taxes their whole life.
And then there's this not small fact throughout your entire
working life, the government takes your money through the Social
Security tax, uses it, and pays you no interest on it.
I mean you're giving them a no interest loan. That's
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money you could have invested over forty years, which means
that even as a modest five percent annual interest rate
you double it or better, you're losing investment income on
money the government confiscates. It only seems fair to not
charge seniors taxes. And this is not an unheard of idea.
Prior to nineteen eighty four, social Security was not taxed,
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But when the law changed in nineteen eighty four, the
US medium income was twenty four thousand, eight hundred and
fifty dollars, and only those individuals whose income exceeded twenty
five thousand dollars had their Social Security tax, while the
threshold for joint filers was thirty two thousand dollars. Now,
consider what that number looks like with inflation. Doesn't make
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any sense. So only those making above the median income
were paying taxes on their Social Security But today the
median income is seventy four thousand dollars, so the tax
thresholds are almost exactly the same as they were forty
years ago, meaning instead of a Social Security tax on
those making more than the median income, people making less
than half of today's medium income are also taxed. That's crazy,
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isn't it. It's very very difficult to be a senior
citizen in this country right now. It's very difficult to
live on a fixed income. I think I get paid
a generous amount of money to do this for a living,
and I looked at how much money I spent last
month and I couldn't believe how high it was. And
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I'm just living my life. I didn't buy a new
car or anything like that. If somebody in my position,
you know, not wealthy, but probably doing better than most people,
probably better than more than half of people. I don't
have kids, I'm not married. If I feel like the
cost of living right now is very high, all I
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can do is assume what it must be like for
normal people or people below the average income level. I
get that, You get that. It seems like Donald Trump
gets that. His economic policy ideas certainly seemed that way. Sadly,
Kamala Harris does not understand it. She's had that government
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pension her whole life, dangling out in front of her
face like a donkey with a carrot, knowing full well
she didn't really have to worry about anything. She's got
the liberal lobbyists injecting money into her can't pain coffer,
Knowing full well she can go on a shopping spree
if she wants to, and write it off as a
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campaign expense. She'll be fine. What about the rest of us?
Her economic plans don't make any sense. Make fuel more expensive,
make groceries more expensive, send more money overseas for war.
Who wants this? Nobody? The problem is that Republicans are
too busy talking about what race and color and ethnicity
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and gender. Kamala Harris says, and I don't think it's working. Kids.
That's not the winning strategy right now. It's time to
renavigate the ship. She's so come home. Every day I
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have a collapsed by food. It takes my.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Stop it government, get out of my life.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness radio. All right,
little Hollywood news for you. Keanu Reeves says he's obsessed
with death. Does that mean he got married?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat or what?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yes, Hollywood where cocaine snorting pedophiles tell you that there's
something wrong with you, that you're weird because you want
to defend your right to free speech and own a
gun and that sort of thing. They actually have a
guy in Hollywood right now. Don't hold it against him.
He's a Texas comedian. You may have heard him on
the show before. Stand up comedian Tim Mathis has been
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following the details of Gina Carano's lawsuit with Disney, Disney actress,
former actress, Well, former Disney actress Gina Carano claimed that
Disney discriminated against her, turning a blind eye to politically
charged posts from her mail co stars, but she got
canceled because she had conservative views. You remember this Gina Carano.
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Now she's suing. She actually thinks that Pedro Pascal, John
Favreau and ex Disney chief Bob Chappik need to testify.
They need to be part of this lawsuit. Here are
the details. Stand up comedian and notable Texas former resident
Tim Mathis, Tim explain to us what's going on here.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
So basically, a few years ago, Gina Crano made a
post that wasn't even a very hateful if they didn't
have any hate in it or anything like that, And
she basically just had a problem with the people trying
to enforce the whole pronoun thing that you have to
put your pronouns in your bio, in your emails.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, email signa Corporate America require they them. She heard
that sort of thing, yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
And it's it's really weird because, I mean, for most people,
you're just going by the standard pronouns that we've been
using since the invention of the English language right, and
people were wanting her to put her pronouns in her bio,
and she made fun of that. She didn't make fun
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of them, she made fun of the fact that people
wanted her to do it. One thing led to another.
She gets fired from The Mandalorian, where she was a
breakout star. You know, that's one beef I have with Disney.
Disney claims they want to create female characters that are
strong and empowered, and you have this woman who's literally
an MMA fighter, who is actually a strong woman who
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has her own opinions, and they're not even like I said,
they weren't hateful. She didn't you know, put anybody down
or anything like that. But they get rid of her. Meanwhile,
her male co stars are making overtly political and sometimes
hateful statements about you know, a third to one half
of the country, and they're allowed to continue on. So
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basically the lawsuit. Disney tried to stop the lawsuit, but
a judge a couple of days ago said that it
can go forward into discovery, where she's going to get
all the internal emails from people like Kathleen Kennedy allegedly
Leslie Hedlin, who was also trying to get her fired,
basically implying that the company itself was the one that
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was leading the campaign to get her fired.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So, and like I said, they terminated her, and they
didn't terminate somebody like Pedro Pascal. So John Favreau is
probably on her side. Favreau had her schedule to do
her own spinoff series and all this stuff. From what
I heard, he actually was trying to keep her on.
But Kathleen Kennedy doesn't like anybody who goes outside the norm,
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and that's how this town is. James Woods just did
an interview with Laura Ingram where he pointed out, and
I didn't know this I got down here, so it
probably got me on some lists too. Casting directors will
go through your social media and see, oh, well this
guy or girl disagrees with us on this, well they're out.
Uh so that's yeah. I had no idea about that,
(30:15):
but yeah, they do do that. There was a lot
of times when I would be lined up for a
gig and everything was good to go, and then you know,
you never hear back from people. So he got to
be suspicious on that type stuff. If Krano opens up
this Pandora's box. There might be a lot more stuff
in it that will lead to maybe a class action
(30:37):
lawsuit on behalf of a bunch of different actors. I'm
not in that conversation because I was. I'm not to
that level yet. But you know, people like James Woods.
James Wood said he had to keep his keep his
role in Oppenheimer a secret, was told by the studio
to keep his role a secret because they were worried
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it would hurt his box office.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And he's a very famous actor. You would think James
Woods with Celtic.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
The greatest actors. Yeah, he's one of the greatest actors
of the last forty years. And if you notice, he's
not in much anymore. And that's the reason why.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Okay, so a couple things here. Pedro Pascal, he's the
guy that plays Mando and the Mandalorian the and he
in twenty seventeen compared Trump to Hitler on social media.
He was never punished for it, but Gina Carano was
published by punished by Disney for making fun of pronouns
Like you said. She didn't insult any individual, She insulted
(31:33):
a policy. Now I I know Kathleen Kennedy is I
assume most of our listeners do, but not everybody does.
They made fun of her in a not too recent
episode of south Park. For those that don't know who
that is, who is.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
She tim She's the head of Disney right now as
far as the production side of it, right Yeah, So
she's the one responsible for why Star Wars sucked. Now,
she's the one responsible for making Indiana Jones a cuck
in this last Indiana Jones film getting punched out by
(32:10):
Fleabag herself. So Kathleen Kennedy is to blame for a
lot of the reasons why the products over at Disney
right now are hot garbage.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, and you're not kidding about that. Disney is falling apart.
There's an interesting article today in the New York Times
Disney comes for Deadpool. Here's the sub headline, making fun
of schlocky over rot superhero movies used to be the
Deadpool signature, but with Deadpool and Wolverine and Disney's push
into the Marvel universe, that thread is lost. And then
(32:42):
they go on to make the point here that yeah,
Deadpool and Wolverine might be really successful, but Disney's still
really great too. And I don't know, I don't know
what to make of this Deadpool and Marvel. Deadpool and
Wolverine's doing fantastic, but when Disney does a Marvel thing,
it usually sucks. Who made Deadpool and Wolverine?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
The main driving creative force behind the entire Deadpool franchise
is than Ryan Reynolds, the guy who plays Deadpool, right,
and considering how well the first two films did, he
has a lot of Pool in regards to how those
movies are are put together. So that's that's one good
thing you have. You have a few creatives in this
town that have enough power that they can actually go
(33:28):
against what the studios are trying to do and even
no go ahead.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Well, this is a Disney distributed film, right, This is
the first one, the first Deadpool movie that Disney's been
associated with. Or am I wrong about that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I mean I think the second one they kind of
had some say in it, but the first one definitely not.
But yeah, this one is officially under the Disney umbrella.
But it's it's it's not even a lesson that Disney
wants to learn a lot of them. And I've been
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talking to people online about this too, that this movie
is going to make at least one billion dollars and
it might make a billion five.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Oh yeah, it's already over half a billion in a week,
so I got to think, yeah, it's kind I haven't
even gone to see it yet, and I'm you know,
that's one more ticket right there. I guess right.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I would definitely, by the way, I would recommend it
to everybody, especially anybody who's a fan of nineties comic book.
Nineties comic books. It's essentially a nineties X Men book
crossover come to life. I really enjoyed it. I'm going
to see it again. So if that tells you anything, Yeah,
and Disney won't learn from their success instead of thinking, oh, well,
(34:41):
we're going to fix the upcoming stuff that we had planned,
because say, they've got some terrible looking stuff coming up.
I mean they're on reshoot number two or three with
the new Captain America movie that's going to be coming out,
and it's going to do well, but it won't do
as well as Dead Bull and Wolverine.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I'm guessing, all right, you are a military veteran. I
often I like to point that out. Tim Mathis isn't
a liberal, but he's not like a right wing ideologue either.
He's a libertarian Navy veteran, and I'm curious your thoughts
on this. There was a partnership between the US Army
and Dwayne the Rock Johnson. They gave him eleven million
dollars to help boost enlistment figures. As you know, a
(35:19):
lot of people, people aren't enlisting in the military right now.
It's very popular, unpopular with Joe Biden as president, says
a high profile marketing deal, and it didn't lead to
a single new Army recruitment. If anything, it cost them
recruitment numbers. It's gone down. I'm curious how as a
military veteran, how do you feel about this.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I'm stoked about it. I'm happy about it. People are
finally starting to realize that our military is not something
they should be thinking of as as a first or
second option. We're always at war. When I signed up,
it was at the right at the beginning of the thing.
(36:01):
But nine to eleven hadn't happened yet when I signed up,
And since nine to eleven, I mean, there hasn't been
a day that the US hasn't been involved in some
illegal conflicts. So I'm glad that people are finally starting
to realize that most veterans that I know, and back
in the day you would have veterans tell their kids,
you know, hey, you should join in and help blub blah.
A lot of veterans I know are telling their kids,
(36:22):
under no circumstances, should you sign up for the military.
They see what's coming. The deep stay if you will,
or CIA, as some people like to call them, want
world War three, whether it starts in Ukraine or in Israel, Gaza,
they don't care. So a lot of people are finally
clued into that and are are telling people to ignore
(36:44):
the propaganda, because, let's face it, that's what it is.
If you hire one of the biggest stars in Hollywood
to go into your commercials to try to entice people
to get them to sign up for a military that
you yourself know, we're gonna be in a major warson
if it keeps trending the way it is. So, I mean,
I don't know. I don't blame the Rocks for taking
(37:05):
a payday, but to me, it's kind of an evil
move by the US government and I'm glad it failed.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, Well, put my man, Tim mathis find him on
social media. Tim mathis Comedy on Twitter and Instagram. To
the rest of you, have an awesome afternoon. We'll be
back bright and early for more of what you bought
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Boeing. Boeing has a new ceo. Congratulations, just got hired
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and if employees have any concern, his door will always
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for turning on your radio. It's me. I'm Kenny. You're you.
We got a big show today. We're gonna go to
Hollywood and figure out what is woke and why is
it going? Broke the Rock, Dwayne the Rock Johnson got
hired by US, the American taxpayers, to help with military recruitment.
How did that go? Not very well? Oh, the world
of women's boxing. It's getting a lot of attention right
now because of an alleged trans athlete. We'll give you
(01:06):
all the details on that. But before we go anywhere,
why don't we start with the latest from Kamala Harris.
Apparently a report today the Daily Beast reveals Josh Shapiro,
that's the governor of Pennsylvania. He's a Jewish guy. And
Mark Kelly, the Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, he's an astronaut.
Are being vetted, closely vetted in the Kamala Harris Viepsteak.
(01:29):
So two of these guys very likely to be the
vice presidential pick for Kamala Harris. For the the candidate
as it is, she's not elected yet or anything like that.
But how is Kamala doing without a running mate? She
didn't have one yet? A question that's being asked right
now by Matt vespo Over at townhall dot com. Can
Kamala Harris win? And based on polling right now and
(01:54):
the media's pervasive interference on her appalling record, she could
possibly could win. Let's be real, guys, it's very possible.
She's erased the Democrat Party's deficits in voter enthusiasm and
fundraising for now. But you know that polster Nate Silver,
You're familiar. You've seen him before. He tossed a hand
grenade into the middle of this parade. Since Democrats remained
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behind in one crucial content, the electoral college. Yeah, I
know she's popular, but remember the popular vote does not matter,
and when it's this close and Donald Trump is the candidate,
the advantage goes to the Republicans. Nate Silver then listed
scenarios that could screw over or benefit either candidate. But
the fact is Kamala Harris is getting a quote she's
(02:41):
different bump in the polls right now. That's true, but
it's not nearly enough to overcome Trump's lead in the
electoral college. Donald Trump has a sixty one percent chance
of winning this election. Nate Silver relays what factors he's
plugging into this model, and it goes a bit like
this vote. She's a modest underdog to Trump in the
(03:02):
electoral college, risking a repeat of the popular vote electoral
college split that costs Democrats the twenty twenty sixteen elections.
Kamala isn't unique in this regard. Biden also had a
large electoral college popular vote gap in twenty twenty, barely
winning several tipping point states despite winning the popular vote
(03:23):
by four point five percent. But this is still a
problem for Democrats, and we show Kamala as having a
slightly wider popular vote electoral college gap than Biden had
in his version of the forecast. Since Kamala isn't president herself,
she doesn't get the same bonus that Biden did, and
we think that makes sense other things being equal, That is,
(03:46):
notwithstanding Biden's terrible polling against Trump and voter concerns about
his age, you wouldn't want to replace an elected incumbent
president who won the same matchup last time with his VP.
So whereas Biden was a roughly two point favorite in
the pop vote, in our fundamental model, it has the
Harris Trump matchup as almost an exact tie in the
popular vote. This could shift upwards or downwards in the
(04:09):
remaining days of the election based on economic data. The
model collects end to quote. So basically, the model does this.
Take the current polling based snapshot, which shows Trump ahead
by zero point four points, adjust for the convention bounce
which puts Harris very slightly ahead, regress towards the fundamentals
(04:30):
based prior, which shows a tied popular vote. The prior
currently gets twenty five percent of the weight, and we'll
fade to zero by election day. That's how we get
to forecast of Harris winning the popular vote, but only
by point six percent, and that's not enough to get
the electoral college, which means she loses. She's not going
to be the president, according to Nate Silver. So it
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all circles back to the electoral college, and that's breaking
for the GOP. We live in a country where the
system in which we elect a new president rewards candidates
with geographic DIVERSI that's Trump, whose coalition is very efficiently diversed,
especially in areas where elections are decided. Kamala is an
inner city and coastal, snobby elites kind of gal that's
(05:11):
not representative of the country as a whole. So Nate
Silver also points out, quote, I know people don't like
to talk about that electoral college because there's nothing that
Democrats could do about it. But the election is likely
to be close, and it's a big disadvantage when the
tie goes to Republicans. And this doesn't bode well for
(05:32):
the Kamala Harris army of childless cat ladies, does it.
They're not thrilled about this, But as the Democrats sprint
to define who Kamala is, what she represents, and work
as hard as they can to erase her past. The
Republicans really need to regroup just as quickly because the
lack of messaging and attacking her will come back to
bite them in the ass. Kamala's record alone is enough
(05:54):
to crank out multiple attack lines and ads, and I
would assume Trump and these people would focus on that
exclusively instead of doubting her racial background and calling her
a dei higher even if she is those things. Those
two things will only animate the liberal base who need
to depress and make hopeless again. And that's where we're
at with this whole thing. At the end of the day,
(06:16):
Donald Trump can win this, but the messaging needs to change,
and it needs to change fast.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, let's get straight to discussion.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Were here to talk about something bout politics and government
and Nulice hit and code Glub.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
She in this show here? Ain't you average? This podcast?
You gotta get its own, Dan, we can.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
This just puts your whole happiness.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
A woman in California. This woman in California has over
one hundred allergies. Unfortunately, she's also a Taylor Swift fan,
so she has no choice but to own a cat.
Isn't that sad?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Kenny Webster here, thanks for turning us on. If you
watch the news over the last twenty four hours, you
probably heard this SoundBite. By now it's Donald Trump with
a black female journalist.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill,
have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the first
black and Asian American woman to serve as vice president
and be on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire?
Is that acceptable language to you? And will you tell
those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
How do you how do you define DEEI?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Go ahead? How do you define diversity?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Equity inclusion?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, yeah, go ahead? Is that what your definition?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Give me? That is that? That is?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Give me a definition?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Then would you give me a definition?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Ye, give me a definition.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
They're am asking you a question.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Direct define it from me if I just defined it?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only
on the ticket because she.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Is a black woman?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, I can say no.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
I think it's maybe a little bit different. So I've
known her a long time indirectly.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Not correctly, and here we go.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
She was always of Indian heritage, she was only promoting
Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a
number of years ago when she happened to turn black,
and now she wants to be known as black.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Okay, So people didn't like that, he said that. I mean,
you know, black people didn't like it. Black. These women
didn't like it. For the record, Trump's not wrong about this. Now, well,
hang on before you disagree with me. Here's the Associated
Press November ninth, twenty sixteen headline, Kamala Harris California is
Kamala Harris becomes first Indian American US Senator. So this
(08:30):
is true. When she first showed up on the scene,
she marketed herself as a Indian American. And that's how
the liberal media marketed her. If you don't believe me,
here she is, you know, the Indian woman on the office.
Kelly is her character on the show Kelly Kapor. In
real life, she's an actress named Mindy Kaling. Some time ago,
her and Kamala Harris did a cooking segment together, presumably
(08:52):
for social media, where they both agreed that they're both Indian.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Okay, So what.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
We're going to cook today, okay, is an Indian recipe?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes? Because you are ye, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Okay, And I don't know that everybody knows that.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, she's Indian, she says, yes, she's in Nah. I
know this isn't going to probably blow your mind, but
I just need to say it out loud. You can
be black and be Indian at the same time. But
does Kamala Harris represent black culture? Maybe she does, maybe
she doesn't. The truth is to independent voters or undecided voters,
of which there probably aren't that many. Odds are very rich,
(09:23):
billionaire and white man Donald Trump, defining Kamala Harris's race
is probably not gonna help. So instead of doing that,
what do we do as Republicans? How do we frame
Kamala Harris as a bad candidate? All you have to
do is focus on her accomplishments. There's a report today
about this at town hall dot com and that make
a lot of really interesting points. You know, you can
(09:45):
you could focus on her abysmal voting record. The Democrat
that we're talking about here has pretty much flipflopped on
every issue she's ever supported. She previously supported Medicare for all,
now she doesn't. She previously supported ban all quote unquote
assault weapons. You know rifles. Now she doesn't feel that way.
She previously supported banning fracking, Now she doesn't support that.
(10:11):
And she's associated with and attached not only to Joe
Biden's abysmal economy, but Gavin Newsom's as well, because in
addition to being Joe Biden's vice president, she was a
Senator from California, where the economy sucks. Number one for poverty,
number one for inflation, number one for unemployment. Democrats and
their partners in the news media will parlay Kamala Harris's
(10:32):
running mate selection and the following convention has opportunities to
improve her image. There's no doubt about that. They're hoping
to pull her into the lead in this race through
an avalanche of glowing publicity and propaganda. That's what they do.
And frankly, this framing is hysterical because even if Kamala
despised the press and vice versa, they would have all
(10:54):
come together for this honeymoon, and the instant she becomes
their party's presumptive nominee turns into wonder woman. They're united
and their shared commitment to defeat Republicans. That's all they are,
that's all they've ever been and part of the reason
Kamala has a poor job approval rating and she does
is that, of course she's deeply associated with the failed
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Biden Harris record over the past two years, because she is,
after all, the Harris in the phrase Biden Harris. People
can't discern any real achievement she's posted in her vice presidency.
She's failed utterly, as quote unquote borders are to the
point that they're pretending she never even had that job.
So what has she done? Pray tell the answer to
(11:38):
that questions? Kind of interesting, right, what has Vice President
Harris done? Senator Coons tried to answer that question. He said, quote,
something that I think hasn't gotten much coverage is her
passion for entrepreneurship, for wealth creation, for securing and stabilizing
the middle class. He was asked this question by Brett
(12:00):
Baer in a recent interview. Clearly he was caught off
guard by that question, sputtering such nonsense as her passion
for entrepreneurship. She has never been an entrepreneur. She opposes
economic conditions that allow them to thrive. She never owned
a business, she's never created a business. The one thing
she's reportedly quite good at is creating job openings within
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her own office, having experienced dramatic staff turnover throughout her career.
Various news outlets reported on that ugliness before she even
became their collective party's standard bearer. There's a column from
twenty nineteen. It's quite interesting who published this article. Let's see,
this is the Union dot com quote. As many of
(12:45):
you know, this is an article by who wrote this
Terry mc Terry mccateer. You don't have to know who
that is. Terry is the child of Jay Eugene McAteer,
San Francisco supervisor and state senator until he died at
age fifty one. Very critical of Kamala, Harris said that
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she would vocally throw around f bombs another profanity, constantly
at her staff. She would beerate them, she would harass
the people in her own office. They didn't like her.
They quit left and right. Didn't want to work for weird.
Why does everybody in your office we keep quitting their job.
It didn't just happen when she was the attorney general
or the Senator of California. It's happened as Vice President.
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Elizabeth Warren tried to explain what Kamala Harris's biggest accomplishment
was and she said this.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
What do you think has been her biggest accomplishment since
she's been vice president?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I have to say, since the Dobbs opinion, the way
that she has rallied women and friends of women, also
called men around this country on the issue of abortion,
and just taken it home. First vice president in history
to visit an abortion clinic.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Go get them.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know she's pause, pause pause. Warren's answer is kind
of ghoulish, isn't it. Kamala Harris's biggest achievement was visiting
an abortion clinic. This is a party that is not
pro choice on abortion. It is actively pro abortion. Donald
Trump's position is that states can devise policy on this
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thorny ethical, scientific, and moral issue through elected and accountable officials,
generally focusing on his opposition to late term abortion but
leaving it up to the states. Kamala's position is that
taxpayers should fund elective abortions for any reason, on demand,
throughout all nine months of pregnancy, right up till the
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day the baby is supposed to be born, including for
illegal immigrants. Who do you think has a better position
on abortion? Kamala's position is grotesque, it is inhumane. But
on the accomplishments front, it seems as though voters are
as stumped as professional democrats on this question. Kasha missed it.
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Seventy percent of people cannot name a single Kamala Harris
accomplishment from her time as vice president. I'm surprised it's
that high. Excuse me that low. I would think one
hundred percent of people couldn't name a single thing. Frank
once asked this question, can you name a single Kamala
Harris accomplishment or result from the time she was elected
VP three and a half years ago? Could you name one?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Can you name a single Harris accomplishment or result from
the time that she was elected vice president three and
a half years can you name just one? Seventy percent
cannot name anything anything.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, thank you. I just said that. I thought they
were going to answer the question. They don't. The latest
push from the Kamala campaign and the media is to
just wish away these nationally televised commitments to ban fracking,
all the things she said she supported over the years.
She sang about it on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
I mean, this is an actual SoundBite from what was
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supposed to be a comedy sketch play the tape.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
I am committed to passing a green new deal, creating
clean jobs, and finally putting an end to fracking once
and for all. There's no question I'm in favor of
banning fracking.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Starting and starting with what we can do on day
one around public lands, right, and then there has to
be legislation. But yes, and this is something I've taken
on in California.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I have a history of working on this issue. Yeah,
she has a history of working on it. Huh. Her
team is now denying that she supports the goal to banfracking,
something she strongly endorsed out loud on multiple occasions. This
is what they're going to try to do on a
long parade of issues. This sort of media coverage is
shameless and kudos to the CNN reporter who has also
(16:54):
told the truth about Harris defunding the police extremism for
calling that out that actually happened. Andy Kazinski said this
is bizarre framing. He posted a thing online from Politico.
Harris Camplaign pledges she won't banfracking after Trump accusation and
Andy Kazinski, works at CNN, posted that online and said
it's bizarre framing. It's not an accusation or allegation. She
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said it on record numerous times in twenty nineteen. The
news is that she just recently changed her position, not
that Trump accused her of it. Kamala in twenty nineteen
and Kamala in twenty twenty had very different positions on
a laundry list of issues than how she feels about
things in twenty twenty four. That should be the messaging.
(17:39):
That should be the language from Trump and his people
to independent moderate voters. Kamala is not really black. I
don't think it's working. Kids.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of happiness, very spicy.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Radio Disneyland employees got a thirty one percent pay raise,
which means they can now afford the exact same turkey
legs that they sell. How exciting. Thanks for turning on
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the radio. We still got some more to go coming
up in a little bit. We're gonna go to Hollywood
with stand up comedian Tim Mathis and all the latest
on some of the bizarre things happening there. The intersection
between culture and politics, that's coming up real soon, but
before we get there, but talking about the election, but
talking about Kamala versus Trump, because it's all anything anybody
wants to talk about. Sadly, and and you know, for
(18:30):
a good reason. We're getting really close to the presidential election.
Donald Trump has good policies, maybe not great messaging, but
great policies. If you're an independent voter, if you're in
you know, an unemployed person right now, if you work
in the service industry, you can't look at Donald Trump's
economic policies and not easily understand that they're I mean,
(18:52):
it's not hard to understand why they're better than Kamali's policies.
Think about it. If you're in the service industry, you
don't have to pay taxes on tips under Donald Trump's
tax plan. Waiters and waitresses of America, how do you
vote for Kamala Harris, knowing full well the alternative would
be you actually get to keep your money. And he's
got a similar plan for senior citizens living off Social Security.
(19:15):
Here's your report today at Breitbart dot com, Donald Trump
called for an end to the tax many seniors pay
on their Social Security income. Donald Trump says seniors should
not pay tax on Social Security. He made this big
announcement Wednesday morning. Currently, if you are single and your
combined income social Security and outside job exceeds twenty five
(19:38):
thousand dollars, you may have to pay the standard income
tax rate on up to twelve five hundred dollars of
your annual Social Security income. It's a lot of money
if you're on a fixed income. If you are single
and your combined income exceeds thirty four thousand dollars, you
may have to pay the standard income tax rate of
up to eighty five percent of that thirty four thousand dollars.
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It means basically giving all the money to the government
that you already gave to the government that you were
supposed to get at a later point in life so
you could retire and live comfortably. But you can't because
inflation's too high and the cost of living's too high,
and so that money that the government took from you
that was supposed to be for your retirement isn't because
you earn just a little too much money, doesn't that suck?
(20:20):
The thresholds are only a little higher for a join
income thirty two thousand dollars forty four thousand dollars. Not
only is ending the Social Security tax a good idea,
but it's smart play on Trump's part for senior voters.
Another thing to watch as more polling becomes available is
whether Trump's numbers with seniors improve against Biden. Trump was
(20:41):
doing particularly poorly with this traditionally Republican demographic, but against
Harris Kamala, who's arguably far more radical of a Democrat
than Biden, this demographic could easily revert, and if the
other demographic shifts that we saw before with Trump versus
Biden stay the same, with Trump gaining the benefits with
(21:02):
very young voters, Hispanic voters, and Black voters that he
did before, this could bottom out the Harris campaign sooner
rather than later. Watching the senior vote benefit Biden wasn't
as counterintuitive as it seemed. Joe was under attack for
being old. Older people might have resented that. Also, high
(21:24):
interest rates are a boon for retirees, most of whom
are already in their homes and counting on a stable
retirement income that benefits from higher interest rates. Two things
might move seniors in Trump's direction. One the coup against
the aging Joe Biden. It doesn't look good. Got to
think a lot of older voters see what happened to him,
And two putting an end to the stupid tax on
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social Security. Why in the world would the government send
you a check and then tax you for it. It's
like taxing lottery winnings. It makes no sense not to
mention those income thresholds listed above or not tied to inflation.
So when you're living under the oppressive Biden Harris economy
where accumulated inflation hovers around twenty percent, your Social Security
(22:09):
goes nowhere near as far, but the tax threshold doesn't change.
Most seniors receiving Social Security have paid taxes their whole life.
And then there's this not small fact throughout your entire
working life, the government takes your money through the Social
Security tax, uses it, and pays you no interest on it.
I mean you're giving them a no interest loan. That's
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money you could have invested over forty years, which means
that even as a modest five percent annual interest rate
you double it or better, you're losing investment income on
money the government confiscates. It only seems fair to not
charge seniors taxes. And this is not an unheard of idea.
Prior to nineteen eighty four, social Security was not taxed,
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But when the law changed in nineteen eighty four, the
US medium income was twenty four thousand, eight hundred and
fifty dollars, and only those individuals whose income exceeded twenty
five thousand dollars had their Social Security tax, while the
threshold for joint filers was thirty two thousand dollars. Now,
consider what that number looks like with inflation. Doesn't make
(23:15):
any sense. So only those making above the median income
were paying taxes on their Social Security But today the
median income is seventy four thousand dollars, so the tax
thresholds are almost exactly the same as they were forty
years ago, meaning instead of a Social Security tax on
those making more than the median income, people making less
than half of today's medium income are also taxed. That's crazy,
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isn't it. It's very very difficult to be a senior
citizen in this country right now. It's very difficult to
live on a fixed income. I think I get paid
a generous amount of money to do this for a living,
and I looked at how much money I spent last
month and I couldn't believe how high it was. And
(24:00):
I'm just living my life. I didn't buy a new
car or anything like that. If somebody in my position,
you know, not wealthy, but probably doing better than most people,
probably better than more than half of people. I don't
have kids, I'm not married. If I feel like the
cost of living right now is very high, all I
(24:22):
can do is assume what it must be like for
normal people or people below the average income level. I
get that, You get that. It seems like Donald Trump
gets that. His economic policy ideas certainly seemed that way. Sadly,
Kamala Harris does not understand it. She's had that government
(24:44):
pension her whole life, dangling out in front of her
face like a donkey with a carrot, knowing full well
she didn't really have to worry about anything. She's got
the liberal lobbyists injecting money into her can't pain coffer,
Knowing full well she can go on a shopping spree
if she wants to, and write it off as a
(25:05):
campaign expense. She'll be fine. What about the rest of us?
Her economic plans don't make any sense. Make fuel more expensive,
make groceries more expensive, send more money overseas for war.
Who wants this? Nobody? The problem is that Republicans are
too busy talking about what race and color and ethnicity
(25:26):
and gender. Kamala Harris says, and I don't think it's working. Kids.
That's not the winning strategy right now. It's time to
renavigate the ship. She's so come home. Every day I
(25:48):
have a collapsed by food. It takes my.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Stop it government, get out of my life.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness radio. All right,
little Hollywood news for you. Keanu Reeves says he's obsessed
with death. Does that mean he got married?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat or what?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yes, Hollywood where cocaine snorting pedophiles tell you that there's
something wrong with you, that you're weird because you want
to defend your right to free speech and own a
gun and that sort of thing. They actually have a
guy in Hollywood right now. Don't hold it against him.
He's a Texas comedian. You may have heard him on
the show before. Stand up comedian Tim Mathis has been
(26:47):
following the details of Gina Carano's lawsuit with Disney, Disney actress,
former actress, Well, former Disney actress Gina Carano claimed that
Disney discriminated against her, turning a blind eye to politically
charged posts from her mail co stars, but she got
canceled because she had conservative views. You remember this Gina Carano.
(27:09):
Now she's suing. She actually thinks that Pedro Pascal, John
Favreau and ex Disney chief Bob Chappik need to testify.
They need to be part of this lawsuit. Here are
the details. Stand up comedian and notable Texas former resident
Tim Mathis, Tim explain to us what's going on here.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
So basically, a few years ago, Gina Crano made a
post that wasn't even a very hateful if they didn't
have any hate in it or anything like that, And
she basically just had a problem with the people trying
to enforce the whole pronoun thing that you have to
put your pronouns in your bio, in your emails.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, email signa Corporate America require they them. She heard
that sort of thing, yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
And it's it's really weird because, I mean, for most people,
you're just going by the standard pronouns that we've been
using since the invention of the English language right, and
people were wanting her to put her pronouns in her bio,
and she made fun of that. She didn't make fun
(28:17):
of them, she made fun of the fact that people
wanted her to do it. One thing led to another.
She gets fired from The Mandalorian, where she was a
breakout star. You know, that's one beef I have with Disney.
Disney claims they want to create female characters that are
strong and empowered, and you have this woman who's literally
an MMA fighter, who is actually a strong woman who
(28:40):
has her own opinions, and they're not even like I said,
they weren't hateful. She didn't you know, put anybody down
or anything like that. But they get rid of her. Meanwhile,
her male co stars are making overtly political and sometimes
hateful statements about you know, a third to one half
of the country, and they're allowed to continue on. So
(29:02):
basically the lawsuit. Disney tried to stop the lawsuit, but
a judge a couple of days ago said that it
can go forward into discovery, where she's going to get
all the internal emails from people like Kathleen Kennedy allegedly
Leslie Hedlin, who was also trying to get her fired,
basically implying that the company itself was the one that
(29:26):
was leading the campaign to get her fired.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So, and like I said, they terminated her, and they
didn't terminate somebody like Pedro Pascal. So John Favreau is
probably on her side. Favreau had her schedule to do
her own spinoff series and all this stuff. From what
I heard, he actually was trying to keep her on.
But Kathleen Kennedy doesn't like anybody who goes outside the norm,
(29:53):
and that's how this town is. James Woods just did
an interview with Laura Ingram where he pointed out, and
I didn't know this I got down here, so it
probably got me on some lists too. Casting directors will
go through your social media and see, oh, well this
guy or girl disagrees with us on this, well they're out.
Uh so that's yeah. I had no idea about that,
(30:15):
but yeah, they do do that. There was a lot
of times when I would be lined up for a
gig and everything was good to go, and then you know,
you never hear back from people. So he got to
be suspicious on that type stuff. If Krano opens up
this Pandora's box. There might be a lot more stuff
in it that will lead to maybe a class action
(30:37):
lawsuit on behalf of a bunch of different actors. I'm
not in that conversation because I was. I'm not to
that level yet. But you know, people like James Woods.
James Wood said he had to keep his keep his
role in Oppenheimer a secret, was told by the studio
to keep his role a secret because they were worried
(30:59):
it would hurt his box office.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And he's a very famous actor. You would think James
Woods with Celtic.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
The greatest actors. Yeah, he's one of the greatest actors
of the last forty years. And if you notice, he's
not in much anymore. And that's the reason why.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Okay, so a couple things here. Pedro Pascal, he's the
guy that plays Mando and the Mandalorian the and he
in twenty seventeen compared Trump to Hitler on social media.
He was never punished for it, but Gina Carano was
published by punished by Disney for making fun of pronouns
Like you said. She didn't insult any individual, She insulted
(31:33):
a policy. Now I I know Kathleen Kennedy is I
assume most of our listeners do, but not everybody does.
They made fun of her in a not too recent
episode of south Park. For those that don't know who
that is, who is.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
She tim She's the head of Disney right now as
far as the production side of it, right Yeah, So
she's the one responsible for why Star Wars sucked. Now,
she's the one responsible for making Indiana Jones a cuck
in this last Indiana Jones film getting punched out by
(32:10):
Fleabag herself. So Kathleen Kennedy is to blame for a
lot of the reasons why the products over at Disney
right now are hot garbage.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, and you're not kidding about that. Disney is falling apart.
There's an interesting article today in the New York Times
Disney comes for Deadpool. Here's the sub headline, making fun
of schlocky over rot superhero movies used to be the
Deadpool signature, but with Deadpool and Wolverine and Disney's push
into the Marvel universe, that thread is lost. And then
(32:42):
they go on to make the point here that yeah,
Deadpool and Wolverine might be really successful, but Disney's still
really great too. And I don't know, I don't know
what to make of this Deadpool and Marvel. Deadpool and
Wolverine's doing fantastic, but when Disney does a Marvel thing,
it usually sucks. Who made Deadpool and Wolverine?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
The main driving creative force behind the entire Deadpool franchise
is than Ryan Reynolds, the guy who plays Deadpool, right,
and considering how well the first two films did, he
has a lot of Pool in regards to how those
movies are are put together. So that's that's one good
thing you have. You have a few creatives in this
town that have enough power that they can actually go
(33:28):
against what the studios are trying to do and even
no go ahead.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Well, this is a Disney distributed film, right, This is
the first one, the first Deadpool movie that Disney's been
associated with. Or am I wrong about that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I mean I think the second one they kind of
had some say in it, but the first one definitely not.
But yeah, this one is officially under the Disney umbrella.
But it's it's it's not even a lesson that Disney
wants to learn a lot of them. And I've been
(34:01):
talking to people online about this too, that this movie
is going to make at least one billion dollars and
it might make a billion five.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Oh yeah, it's already over half a billion in a week,
so I got to think, yeah, it's kind I haven't
even gone to see it yet, and I'm you know,
that's one more ticket right there. I guess right.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I would definitely, by the way, I would recommend it
to everybody, especially anybody who's a fan of nineties comic book.
Nineties comic books. It's essentially a nineties X Men book
crossover come to life. I really enjoyed it. I'm going
to see it again. So if that tells you anything, Yeah,
and Disney won't learn from their success instead of thinking, oh, well,
(34:41):
we're going to fix the upcoming stuff that we had planned,
because say, they've got some terrible looking stuff coming up.
I mean they're on reshoot number two or three with
the new Captain America movie that's going to be coming out,
and it's going to do well, but it won't do
as well as Dead Bull and Wolverine.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I'm guessing, all right, you are a military veteran. I
often I like to point that out. Tim Mathis isn't
a liberal, but he's not like a right wing ideologue either.
He's a libertarian Navy veteran, and I'm curious your thoughts
on this. There was a partnership between the US Army
and Dwayne the Rock Johnson. They gave him eleven million
dollars to help boost enlistment figures. As you know, a
(35:19):
lot of people, people aren't enlisting in the military right now.
It's very popular, unpopular with Joe Biden as president, says
a high profile marketing deal, and it didn't lead to
a single new Army recruitment. If anything, it cost them
recruitment numbers. It's gone down. I'm curious how as a
military veteran, how do you feel about this.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I'm stoked about it. I'm happy about it. People are
finally starting to realize that our military is not something
they should be thinking of as as a first or
second option. We're always at war. When I signed up,
it was at the right at the beginning of the thing.
(36:01):
But nine to eleven hadn't happened yet when I signed up,
And since nine to eleven, I mean, there hasn't been
a day that the US hasn't been involved in some
illegal conflicts. So I'm glad that people are finally starting
to realize that most veterans that I know, and back
in the day you would have veterans tell their kids,
you know, hey, you should join in and help blub blah.
A lot of veterans I know are telling their kids,
(36:22):
under no circumstances, should you sign up for the military.
They see what's coming. The deep stay if you will,
or CIA, as some people like to call them, want
world War three, whether it starts in Ukraine or in Israel, Gaza,
they don't care. So a lot of people are finally
clued into that and are are telling people to ignore
(36:44):
the propaganda, because, let's face it, that's what it is.
If you hire one of the biggest stars in Hollywood
to go into your commercials to try to entice people
to get them to sign up for a military that
you yourself know, we're gonna be in a major warson
if it keeps trending the way it is. So, I mean,
I don't know. I don't blame the Rocks for taking
(37:05):
a payday, but to me, it's kind of an evil
move by the US government and I'm glad it failed.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, Well, put my man, Tim mathis find him on
social media. Tim mathis Comedy on Twitter and Instagram. To
the rest of you, have an awesome afternoon. We'll be
back bright and early for more of what you bought
a radio for tomorrow. Right here on KPRC nine fifty.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
You are listening to the Pursuit of Happiness Radio.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I'll tell the government to kiss your ass when you
listen to this show.
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