May 25, 2023 • 27 mins
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- Fox News contributor Elizabeth Ames on raising the debt ceiling
- Governor DeSantis announces his bid for presidency
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What we need is more common sense. Got the youth panel breaking down the
world's nonsense about pow American common sense. We'll see us through with the common
sense of Houston. I'm just procommon sense for Houston. From Houston.
Way is talking about com. Thisis the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to
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you by Viewin dot Com. Nowhere's Jimmy Barrett. All right, welcome
to the show. It's Thursday.He's we get every closer to the Memorial
Day weekend. Glad you could joinus here today. Let's talk a little
bit about Tarja. You know Target, tar Jay, you still use the
same thing with the J. C. Penney, which makes, you know,
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a regular department store sound a lotmore fancy. Right. I'm not
really much of a Target shopper andnever really have been. Um It's not
that I disliked Target or what theysell. I just I don't know why
I find myself in a Walmart,for example, versus going into a Target.
But it seems that way. I'vealways kind of looked at in the
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in the grand scale of things,UM, in reverse order, I've always
looked at UM dollars store at thebottom, uh Walmart next link up.
Target would be the next link abovethat, and then uh, you know,
past that, I really don't spenda lot of time shopping for things
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that are not food related most mosteverything else. I guess we shop for
online at this at this point atversus shopping for in the in the actual
store. And so I'm sure ina in a competitive field like like um,
you know, discount department stores,which I guess is what you would
consider Target to be, right,a discount department store, it's a very
competitive field. You got you gotto deal with Walmart, and people who
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are shopping at Target, I wouldimagine to be I don't know for a
fact, because I'm not I'm sureI'm not their target audience, so to
speak, but I'm guessing that whatthey're who they're trying to appeal to,
generally speaking, are people who arepeople who are looking for deals or discounts,
but they're looking for something slightly betterquality than what they're likely to find
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at a Walmart store. Now,I don't know if in reality the quality
is any different, but I imagine, at least in my mind, based
on you know, what the storelooks like and they're advertising and all that
that's that's who they're going after,and I would think that it wouldn't seem
at least to me. Of course, it doesn't seem to me in any
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case, to make a lot ofsense to specifically target yourself for activist groups
when you're kind of be all thingsto all people, kind of a store
the way a Walmart or Target is. So I'm a little surprised that Target
found themselves in the controversy. Ofcourse, all this stuff started with bud
Light, Does it not feel that'show all this stuff is different? Now
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that the whole for whatever reason,the bud Light debacle was sort of the
straw that broke the beer can,that that broke the camel's back, so
to speak, was when that happened, And since then, we've seen a
lot of other companies that you wouldthink would no better follow down the same
path because it's a no win proposition. It is officially a no win proposition
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if you're one of these stores andyou're trying to appeal to a woke crowd
or get brownie points with people whorate stores based on their wokenness, not
I see, I wouldn't want tohave brownie points from anybody who rates you
based on your wokeness? But evidentlythese companies do. They deem it to
be important. So once you sawwhat happened with bud Light, if you
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had any plans to just kind ofgo out of your way to appeal to
the trans crowd, what do youthink you would think about it twice and
say, listen, let's take alook at what happened with bud Light.
Basically, they tried to appeal tothat crowd and it backfired spectacularly. And
then when they tried to apologize forwhat they did, they ended up pissing
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off the left. The left isreally mad at them now. So the
right's mad and the left's mad.So who's happy nobody? How is that
a good marketing plan for anybody?And here's a prime example. The views
not happy with Target either. They'reupset with Target because you know what happened.
They had all these all these pridedisplays with women's bathing suits made for
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men so they could tuck it away, and the regular patrons got upset,
and everybody who heard about the newsstories on it, they got upset,
And before you know it, they'redown there going, yeah, we don't
like what you're doing, and nowTargets going, oh no, oh,
no, no, what do wedo? Well, we let's just move
to display all the way in theback. Maybe nobody will notice. And
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that's what they did, except theleft noticed. The left noticed you moved
to displayed to the back of thestore, and they're not happy about that.
And the ladies on the view wentcrazy. Take a listen to this.
I think it's kind of despicable becausewe need good corporate citizens. We
know that boycotts have been very effective. Let's say in North Carolina where you
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had the boycott because they had sortof a don't say gay type of bill
that was like seven years ago,and it stopped Major Baseball from being there.
It's and yes, people lost jobs, but they've made the point.
And I'm very disappointed that a chainlike Target couldn't stand their ground and instead
put the LGBTQ plus community in theback of the bus. I am sick
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of people moving my desires because theirdesires are not being met in some way.
I am sick of people telling meI can't go to a drag show.
I'm sick of people telling me thatmy friends are different because you don't
understand them. I'm sick of it. This is America. You're supposed to
be able to be who any youare. I'll stop with all the stuff.
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You know what, you can bewhoever you are, whoopee Goldberg.
But your friends, those friends,they are different. They're not normal,
okay, as normal as defined.If being transsexual was normal, the majority
of us would be transsexual. Thereforeit's not normal. It's abnormal by definition.
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I'm sorry if you don't like thatassessment, but that's what it is.
And as far as you going toto go and enjoy drag queen shows,
go to as many of them asyou want. You're an adult.
You can make your own decisions.That's not where we have the problem.
The problem we have is bringing thedrag shows to the kids. His kids
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can't make their own decisions at thatpoint. They're too young to do it.
They shouldn't be exposed to that atthat early age, or anything else
that's sexual for that matter. Allright, quick little break back with morna
moment Jimmy Barrett show here on anine fifty KPRC. All right, I
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don't think there's been any real progresssince this morning, way early by fifty
This Morning Movie talked to Elizabeth Ames, Fox News contributor about the death ceiling.
But let's check here, anything newabout the dead ceiling today, Elizabeth,
I haven't heard anything new. I'mjust just keep hearing new threats from
the Democrats. And you know,this is a really ninety percent theater.
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It's a negotiation, so I'm surewe have a lot more, you know,
suspenseful moments to endure before they maketheir last minute agreement, and everybody
comes away saying that they want dodo these threats actually work? And I
can't. I hate that, youknow, to call up old stories and
nursery rhymes, but there's a littlestory called you Chicken, Little Ride.
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The sky is falling, the skyis falling. How many times can you
get away? As a politician wassaying, the sky is falling and the
sky doesn't fall, and yet itworks again the next time. Well,
it keeps working because immedia parrots it, and that's the reason. And you
know, it's almost like we've neverbeen here before. But the reality is,
the death ceiling has been raised morethan a hundred times since nineteen seventeen.
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When these negotiations, the system ofnegotiations began, and the US has
never had a full default. Theclosest we came was in twenty eleven,
and again that was just you know, they closed down some non essential operations.
It wasn't a real It wasn't areal default. Which is a default
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is when you don't pay the interestto your bondholders. That never happened,
That hasn't happened, and that won'thappen. And the government has plenty of
money. This is really just youknow, a lot of brinksmanship. The
government has around three hundred and sixtyseven billion, I believe, uh,
you know, dollars that are leftover that unspent COVID relief. That's one
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thing. And government revenues are morethan enough to pay the interest on our
debt. The interest on our debtis actually a fairly small percent of our
revenues per month, so that caneasily be done. So we're not going
to we're not going to miss onpaying the bills when it gets right down
to it. Nobody's going to takeanybody's Social Security check away. There's not
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going to be a delay on incometax refunds. And less of course,
we deem you know, some ofthose IRS workers not essential, in which
case your refund may get delayed.But it is certainly still coming right correct.
I think it is. Hopefully theywill scale back the eighty seven thousand
IRS agents that they have their scheduleto add. That is I'm personally rooting
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for, although apparently there's been somerumblings that they may have on that.
But that's you know, there's anumber of things. The amount that we're
that we're really bargaining over is avery small percentage of the overall spend that
the Democrats have already appropriated. Thereal answer to this, the real answer
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is to stabilize the dollar, becauseif you don't, you're going to keep
extending the death ceiling. The deathceiling right now is about it's about thirty
one trillion dollars, and it's morethan twice what it was in twenty eleven.
So if we keep going on thispath, you just keep diluting the
value of your money, the purchasingpower of your dollar. And the real
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threat of this, which nobody reallyunderstands fully, is hyperinflation. You know,
if we keep doing this, thatwill ultimately how much can you dilute?
We had a forty percent drop inthe dollars purchasing power since the year
two thousand and if you look atyou know, the turn of the twentieth
century, since nineteen seventeen, it'sabout a ninety seven percent drop and purchasing
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power. So the real threat isthat is inflation, and to stop that
you have to make the value ofthe dollars stable. And people don't really
grasp that idea fully on either side. No, I think you're right in
one of the areas. I thinkthere's always a misunderstanding as well, and
politicians on both sides of the allare very good at playing this game.
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Is at the end of this assumingthat the Republicans get some a few of
the concessions they're looking for, they'regoing to stand up and beat their chest
and tell us how they cut thebudget, when reality is, we've never
really cut the budget. The onlything we've ever really done is reduced an
increase in the budget. In allwords, there was a temp percent increase
in the budget and we got weknocked that down to five percent. There
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was still an increase, but itwas a cut compared to what it was
they were going to get before.Is that what we're looking at here as
well. Yes, it's really moreslow spending too levels. You know,
it's slowing the growth. It's noteven cutting spending, it's slowing it to
you know, slowing it down,slowing the growth down. So it's going
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to keep growing, it's just notgoing to grow as fast as as it
was growing. That's not a cutto me. Is that a cut to
you? No? The real issuehere, which nobody wants to talk about,
is entitlements. The big you know, medicare, so security, Medicaid,
what all of that adds up tolike a little bit under seventy percent,
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sixty something percent of our budgets.No one is touching any of that.
All of the things that you hearabout are usually at the edges,
and you know, the entitlements arewhat is our budgets. It's a you
know, we've become basically a youknow, social welfare state, you know,
not as not quite as as badas Europe, but we're there,
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you know, and we have tofigure out way a way to deal with
this. Well, I think,you know, in a perfect worlds with
things, I would like to thinkthat the answer to this is a balanced
budget amendment. We have tried thatbefore the states are required to balance their
budgets. They're not allowed to spendany more than they take in. They
have to make cuts if they,you know, if they're running at a
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deficit. California doesn't seem to befollowing that model, but when I lived
in Virginia, they certainly did.And here in Texas we certainly do.
So what ultimately happens when this happensis we actually the state actually begins to
run a little bit more like abusiness where they say, listen, we
are you know, we're losing youknow, a billion dollars or one point
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five billion dollars, whatever it is. We need to make up those losses
with cuts. And the governor willgo to the very different, you know,
state department heads and say I needyou to cut your budget by five
percent or seven percent or whatever itis. And I'm you know, I
put you in this position because Itrust you to find five to seven percent
of waste. And they go outand they find it and they get rid
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of the waste, and nobody's everthe wiser, and nobody nobody knows this
is any difference. It seems tome that if we had anybody with any
business acumen in the federal government,they could do the same thing. Well,
that's asking a lot because with businessacuments, some of these people have
never they have never been in theprivate sector, including you know, the
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president. I mean, they've neverhad private many of them. All they
know is asking for more. Ifthey ever had, if they ever had
a charge card or a checking account, for God's sakes, I don't if
they have, I wouldn't want tolook at the balance, the statement balance.
You're right, I wouldn't want tolook at it either. You know,
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it seems like such common sense doesbut it is amazing how you know,
government doesn't work under that premise,does it. They. I don't
think they think that any of themwill be remembered or appreciated for saving money
or balancing the budget. They wantto be known and appreciated for something else.
And I guess they think whatever that'ssomething else is it's going to take
a whole lot of money. Well, the thing about it is too people.
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Um, you know, sometimes theytake some of these people at face
value, and really this is youknow a lot of these politicians are in
the business of buying votes, soyou know, they hammer the private sector
for you know, marketing and youknow, trying to sell. But they're
selling. They're they're selling to theirvoters, who you know, want to
get whatever free bee is on thetable and then they'll vote for whomever.
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And I think that is an underappreciatedI mean, you know, I think
that people sometimes believe that some ofwhat you're hearing from the extreme leftist sincere
and frankly, you know, maybeit is sometimes maybe it's well intentioned,
but a lot of it, Ithink is a you know, they know
what's going to appeal to their base, and if they get whatever free be
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passed, which is of course meaningmore spending, that's going to get them
reelected. And that's really I thinkthat that's how the system works in many,
many instances. No, you're right, You're absolutely right. Hey,
before I let you go, Iwant to get your thoughts on Governor Rond
de Santis made his announcement yesterday.It was done on Twitter, was not
done without a whole lot of technicalglitches, which there were. Do you
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read anything into that? Is thatthe beginning of a disastrous campaign? Is
that what you get for going onTwitter to make your announcement? What do
you think? Well, actually,I think that was a bold strategy,
and sometimes risks don't quite pan out. I think a lot of being made
about that, but I frankly Ididn't see it, and a lot of
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people didn't see it. It onlygot to about three hundred thousand people,
which is I mean, it's anice number of people, but it's not
enormous, you know, when youthink of the country. And I heard
him Entrey Gaudy, and I thoughthe sounded some very good notes. And
when you think of he's just gettingstarted, I would cut him some slack.
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He's got a great track record,and he said some very good things.
He said he would start restoring youknow, staane energy policies on day
one, stop the war on fossilfuels. He'd fight, now this is
huge. He'd fight the unelected bureaucracieswhose regulations are strangling the economy and threatening
our freedoms. And that is anenormous point that he's made. Actually,
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Trump was very good at cutting thoseregulations. People didn't realize how many he
cut, but in any case,he had he founded notes that it made
me think he could deliver trump inpolicies without a lot some of the drama.
He said he'd address China's threat,you know, and I think he
was a better start than what criticswere saying. Okay, here's here's my
question about that though, because weknow the baggage that comes along with Donald
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J. Trump. But can youfight can you win the nomination without slugging
it out with Donald Trump, whichwould require you to get into the mud
along with him. Well, Ithink he has shown that he's pretty strategic
in doing that. Iowa, forexample, you know, he showed up
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Trump had to Trump for whatever reasoncanceled his appearance and the Santis was right
there. You know, he doesn'tnecessarily say things. He'll sometimes do things.
Trump also is going to have alot of problems in the fall with
all those lawsuits, and you know, he's going to have a lot of
baggage. And maybe some people aregoing to say, well, gee,
maybe we want, you know,something a little bit new and different and
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you know, to go forward.But I think he's going to be a
more of an adversary for Trump thanpeople are saying now. I also think
that most narratives never quite pan outas expected. So you know, people
are saying, oh, he's youknow behind, he's so behind. Well,
you know, the front runners atthis stage in a campaign have faded
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in the past. So I thinkthat he's quite formidable and he's a highly
intelligent I've I've followed him as youprobably can gather, and he was spectacularly
successful during the recent Hurricane Ian.He kept Florida open during COVID. He's
got quite a track record to speakabout. So I think that it's end
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school choice. He's terrific on schoolchoice. He's got a lot of strong
points. It's going to be interestingto say the lease. Elizabeth, good
to talk to you. Thank you. Have a great Memorial Day holiday.
Thank you, you too, havea good weekend. Thank you Bye,
Elizabeth Thames, Fox News contributor tojoining us back with Mona MoMA Jimmy Barrett
Show here on the A nine fiftyKPRC. All right, we're back.
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We talked a little earlier with ElizabethThames about De Santis Rohn de Santis lease
a little bit, so I thoughtI would share a couple of things with
you and you know, in case, in case you missed them. Now,
the Rohn de Santis has officially tossedhis head into the ring. He's
way behind Trump. It's about thirtypoints behind Trump at this point, which
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means nothing. At this point.It's we're May of twenty twenty three.
We have a long way to gobefore we get to the point where we
have a nominee and conventions and allthe other things that go along with it.
So let's do this first. Let'sstart with the left just and I
share this with you only from thestandpoint of, you know, people with
Trump, people always talk about thedrama, right, so much drama.
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So tired of the drama, Sotired of listening to, you know,
the left just bashing him left andright. Can we get somebody who's more
of a diplomat in there, somebodythat the media won't go nuts over.
I got news. The media willgo nuts over whoever the Republican nominee is,
and that includes Ron de Santis.Here is what the left was saying
about Ron de santiss after his presidentialrun announcement, with some little reaction at
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the other end from Jimmy Payla onFox. I don't want to just slide
you. I can't help it.Why do you dislike people color? What's
wrong with American history? Yeah,what's wrong with gay folks, you're seeing
his lack of political skills and hislack of political judgment and maybe a little
bit of wis whiff of desperation.Here is obviously that RHN de Santas is
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a white supremacist. Right. Thisis not a freedom agenda. This is
a do what RHN de Santis tellsyou to do the state owns you agenda.
On some level, there's a partof me that admires anybody who runs
for president just because I'd never passedthe background check. So the fact that
they've gotten that far with the dopeahead of make Haraldo shots fired. Let
me jump in here really quick.You can tell by the media reaction that
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DeSantis is the guy they feel threatenedby, because they're already coming at him
with everything imaginable. You know theold adage, when you have the facts,
pound the facts. When you havenothing, pound the table. They're
pounding the table pretty aggressively. Hedidn't ban books. He clearly didn't ban
gay people. Anybody who think FloridaBay and gay people has never been to
Key West. Okay, they're havinga fabulous time down there, as they
should. But where DeSantis has moretraction than people realize is he's leading the
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way and a lot of policies thatpeople agree with but don't feel comfortable speaking
too out loud. And a goodexample of that would be the parental rights
an education bill. Parents supported thatbill, Democrats called it don't say gay,
and parents kind of stood back.But if you're a parent, as
I am, you realize we're livingin America where one in three kids can't
read at a great level. Okay, if you're a guy who wants to
focus on education as opposed to thepeople who want to give your kid a
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drag show from some guy named Cinnabuns, I'm telling you you're scoring with parents,
and he's got a lot of upwardmobility, Okay, And I think
that's a fair assessment right there.So the Twitter thing, as you've heard,
had all these technical glitches and problemsand what have you. But he
did go on Fox. De Santisdid last night. He was on with
Trey Gotty. Trey Gotty was thefill in host at eight o'clock, which
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is the old Tucker Carlson slod.I'm not sure what the viewership was compared
to it. Tucker was there,and I'm sure a been a lot more
of Tucker was there talking to RonDe Santis. But at any rate,
here's Ron des Sentis. He gotDrey Gutty. Why now? Why now?
I think it's because the country's goingin the wrong direction. If we
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have another four years of the Bidenadministration, I think some of the damage
is going to be irreversible. Ithink we have an opportunity now, kind
of like the late nineteen seventies whenJimmy Carter was president, to really move
the country in a much stronger directionand really bring a lot of bold leadership
to bear. Why me, Well, I think what we've been able to
do in Florida is two things.One, we've had unprecedented policy success.
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All the things that we believe asRepublicans are as conservatives for many, many
years, We've been able to takethose values and those principles and actually turn
them into reality. Every single day. We put up big wins on the
board. But we're doing that whilealso enjoying major political success. You alluded
to it. We were able towin reelection by a historic margin over one
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point five million votes, and youcan't do that in a swing state like
Florida just by getting Republicans we wereable to win counties like Miami Dade County,
which had voted for Hillary Clinton bythirty points in twenty sixteen. We
not only want it, we wantit by double digits. We're in sixty
percent of the Hispanic vote. Wewant independence by eighteen percentage points. And
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now, for the first time sincethe Civil War era, there's not a
single Democrat elected in statewide office inthe state of Florida. You got to
be able to win, and thenwhen you get in office, you've got
to be able to deliver results.And I think we've been able to do
both of those as good or betterthan anybody in the country. Yeah.
Well, you can't really argue withthe results, can you. I don't
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think there's anybody who thinks that run. Well, there's plenty on the left,
I guess who think the run.De Santis has done a horrible job
with Florida, But I don't thinkanybody who would consider themselves a moderate or
conservative would say that he's done ahell of a job running that state.
Now, can you do the samething in running the country? I don't
know. I don't know if hecan win the nomination, let alone get
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elected and run the country, Buddies, certainly not a bad candidate. No,
how about the economy and inflation.That's number one in everybody's mind.
Here's Governor DeSantis on those two issues. Of course, the overspending is driving
inflation. I mean, if yougo back to March of twenty twenty,
you've seen massive amounts of debt added. You've seen the Federal Reserve print trillions
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and trillions of dollars. Anybody knewat the time, and people like our
friend Thomas Massey were screaming from therooftops at the time that it was going
to lead to persistent inflation. Soyou need to spend less money. You
also need to expand domestic energy production. Energy costs contribute to inflation. We
have an abundance of resources here thatthis president doesn't want to use, so
we will reverse Biden's energy policies veryquickly. But we also need a federal
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Reserve that's going to focus on maintaininga stable dollar. They should not be
the economic central planner for our country. They're not accountable to anybody, they're
not elected by anybody, and yettheir printing of money has really thrust us
into this. They said there wouldn'tbe inflation, and yet here we are
now they've been hiking interest rates andthat hurts the economy. So we need
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a FED focused on a stable dollarand don't worry about trying to manipulate the
rest of the economy. Here's whatI know going forward. If we do
not elect somebody with an R nextof their name in the next presidential election,
then I think the path will becomeirreversible, the path that worked currently
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on and I believe that path tobe the Sloban study drum beat towards a
socialist government, a Democrats socialist governmentthat will be re elected in perpetuity.
And I think twenty four is thelast chance, which is why everything's going
to be on the line for Democrats, and they're gonna be willing to do
anything to make sure that they winthat election. The question is what a
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Republican is going to be willing todo to make sure that they don't.
All right, y'all, have agreat weekend. We're gonna do a little
best up for you tomorrow. Wehave a special show airing on Memorial Day
and then we'll see you Tuesday.So I have a great Memorial Day holiday
to those of you who serve,thank you for your service. To those
of you who have family members whohave passed who did serve, well,
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this is the weekend to remember them. Thanks again, have a great weekend.
Talk to you Tuesday. Here ona nine fifty KPRC
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Way is talking about com. Thisis the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to
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you by Viewin dot Com. Nowhere's Jimmy Barrett. All right, welcome
to the show. It's Thursday.He's we get every closer to the Memorial
Day weekend. Glad you could joinus here today. Let's talk a little
bit about Tarja. You know Target, tar Jay, you still use the
same thing with the J. C. Penney, which makes, you know,
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a regular department store sound a lotmore fancy. Right. I'm not
really much of a Target shopper andnever really have been. Um It's not
that I disliked Target or what theysell. I just I don't know why
I find myself in a Walmart,for example, versus going into a Target.
But it seems that way. I'vealways kind of looked at in the
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in the grand scale of things,UM, in reverse order, I've always
looked at UM dollars store at thebottom, uh Walmart next link up.
Target would be the next link abovethat, and then uh, you know,
past that, I really don't spenda lot of time shopping for things
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that are not food related most mosteverything else. I guess we shop for
online at this at this point atversus shopping for in the in the actual
store. And so I'm sure ina in a competitive field like like um,
you know, discount department stores,which I guess is what you would
consider Target to be, right,a discount department store, it's a very
competitive field. You got you gotto deal with Walmart, and people who
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are shopping at Target, I wouldimagine to be I don't know for a
fact, because I'm not I'm sureI'm not their target audience, so to
speak, but I'm guessing that whatthey're who they're trying to appeal to,
generally speaking, are people who arepeople who are looking for deals or discounts,
but they're looking for something slightly betterquality than what they're likely to find
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at a Walmart store. Now,I don't know if in reality the quality
is any different, but I imagine, at least in my mind, based
on you know, what the storelooks like and they're advertising and all that
that's that's who they're going after,and I would think that it wouldn't seem
at least to me. Of course, it doesn't seem to me in any
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case, to make a lot ofsense to specifically target yourself for activist groups
when you're kind of be all thingsto all people, kind of a store
the way a Walmart or Target is. So I'm a little surprised that Target
found themselves in the controversy. Ofcourse, all this stuff started with bud
Light, Does it not feel that'show all this stuff is different? Now
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that the whole for whatever reason,the bud Light debacle was sort of the
straw that broke the beer can,that that broke the camel's back, so
to speak, was when that happened, And since then, we've seen a
lot of other companies that you wouldthink would no better follow down the same
path because it's a no win proposition. It is officially a no win proposition
(03:31):
if you're one of these stores andyou're trying to appeal to a woke crowd
or get brownie points with people whorate stores based on their wokenness, not
I see, I wouldn't want tohave brownie points from anybody who rates you
based on your wokeness? But evidentlythese companies do. They deem it to
be important. So once you sawwhat happened with bud Light, if you
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had any plans to just kind ofgo out of your way to appeal to
the trans crowd, what do youthink you would think about it twice and
say, listen, let's take alook at what happened with bud Light.
Basically, they tried to appeal tothat crowd and it backfired spectacularly. And
then when they tried to apologize forwhat they did, they ended up pissing
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off the left. The left isreally mad at them now. So the
right's mad and the left's mad.So who's happy nobody? How is that
a good marketing plan for anybody?And here's a prime example. The views
not happy with Target either. They'reupset with Target because you know what happened.
They had all these all these pridedisplays with women's bathing suits made for
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men so they could tuck it away, and the regular patrons got upset,
and everybody who heard about the newsstories on it, they got upset,
And before you know it, they'redown there going, yeah, we don't
like what you're doing, and nowTargets going, oh no, oh,
no, no, what do wedo? Well, we let's just move
to display all the way in theback. Maybe nobody will notice. And
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that's what they did, except theleft noticed. The left noticed you moved
to displayed to the back of thestore, and they're not happy about that.
And the ladies on the view wentcrazy. Take a listen to this.
I think it's kind of despicable becausewe need good corporate citizens. We
know that boycotts have been very effective. Let's say in North Carolina where you
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had the boycott because they had sortof a don't say gay type of bill
that was like seven years ago,and it stopped Major Baseball from being there.
It's and yes, people lost jobs, but they've made the point.
And I'm very disappointed that a chainlike Target couldn't stand their ground and instead
put the LGBTQ plus community in theback of the bus. I am sick
(05:46):
of people moving my desires because theirdesires are not being met in some way.
I am sick of people telling meI can't go to a drag show.
I'm sick of people telling me thatmy friends are different because you don't
understand them. I'm sick of it. This is America. You're supposed to
be able to be who any youare. I'll stop with all the stuff.
(06:12):
You know what, you can bewhoever you are, whoopee Goldberg.
But your friends, those friends,they are different. They're not normal,
okay, as normal as defined.If being transsexual was normal, the majority
of us would be transsexual. Thereforeit's not normal. It's abnormal by definition.
(06:36):
I'm sorry if you don't like thatassessment, but that's what it is.
And as far as you going toto go and enjoy drag queen shows,
go to as many of them asyou want. You're an adult.
You can make your own decisions.That's not where we have the problem.
The problem we have is bringing thedrag shows to the kids. His kids
(06:58):
can't make their own decisions at thatpoint. They're too young to do it.
They shouldn't be exposed to that atthat early age, or anything else
that's sexual for that matter. Allright, quick little break back with morna
moment Jimmy Barrett show here on anine fifty KPRC. All right, I
(07:20):
don't think there's been any real progresssince this morning, way early by fifty
This Morning Movie talked to Elizabeth Ames, Fox News contributor about the death ceiling.
But let's check here, anything newabout the dead ceiling today, Elizabeth,
I haven't heard anything new. I'mjust just keep hearing new threats from
the Democrats. And you know,this is a really ninety percent theater.
(07:43):
It's a negotiation, so I'm surewe have a lot more, you know,
suspenseful moments to endure before they maketheir last minute agreement, and everybody
comes away saying that they want dodo these threats actually work? And I
can't. I hate that, youknow, to call up old stories and
nursery rhymes, but there's a littlestory called you Chicken, Little Ride.
(08:05):
The sky is falling, the skyis falling. How many times can you
get away? As a politician wassaying, the sky is falling and the
sky doesn't fall, and yet itworks again the next time. Well,
it keeps working because immedia parrots it, and that's the reason. And you
know, it's almost like we've neverbeen here before. But the reality is,
the death ceiling has been raised morethan a hundred times since nineteen seventeen.
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When these negotiations, the system ofnegotiations began, and the US has
never had a full default. Theclosest we came was in twenty eleven,
and again that was just you know, they closed down some non essential operations.
It wasn't a real It wasn't areal default. Which is a default
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is when you don't pay the interestto your bondholders. That never happened,
That hasn't happened, and that won'thappen. And the government has plenty of
money. This is really just youknow, a lot of brinksmanship. The
government has around three hundred and sixtyseven billion, I believe, uh,
you know, dollars that are leftover that unspent COVID relief. That's one
(09:15):
thing. And government revenues are morethan enough to pay the interest on our
debt. The interest on our debtis actually a fairly small percent of our
revenues per month, so that caneasily be done. So we're not going
to we're not going to miss onpaying the bills when it gets right down
to it. Nobody's going to takeanybody's Social Security check away. There's not
(09:35):
going to be a delay on incometax refunds. And less of course,
we deem you know, some ofthose IRS workers not essential, in which
case your refund may get delayed.But it is certainly still coming right correct.
I think it is. Hopefully theywill scale back the eighty seven thousand
IRS agents that they have their scheduleto add. That is I'm personally rooting
(10:01):
for, although apparently there's been somerumblings that they may have on that.
But that's you know, there's anumber of things. The amount that we're
that we're really bargaining over is avery small percentage of the overall spend that
the Democrats have already appropriated. Thereal answer to this, the real answer
(10:22):
is to stabilize the dollar, becauseif you don't, you're going to keep
extending the death ceiling. The deathceiling right now is about it's about thirty
one trillion dollars, and it's morethan twice what it was in twenty eleven.
So if we keep going on thispath, you just keep diluting the
value of your money, the purchasingpower of your dollar. And the real
(10:46):
threat of this, which nobody reallyunderstands fully, is hyperinflation. You know,
if we keep doing this, thatwill ultimately how much can you dilute?
We had a forty percent drop inthe dollars purchasing power since the year
two thousand and if you look atyou know, the turn of the twentieth
century, since nineteen seventeen, it'sabout a ninety seven percent drop and purchasing
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power. So the real threat isthat is inflation, and to stop that
you have to make the value ofthe dollars stable. And people don't really
grasp that idea fully on either side. No, I think you're right in
one of the areas. I thinkthere's always a misunderstanding as well, and
politicians on both sides of the allare very good at playing this game.
(11:28):
Is at the end of this assumingthat the Republicans get some a few of
the concessions they're looking for, they'regoing to stand up and beat their chest
and tell us how they cut thebudget, when reality is, we've never
really cut the budget. The onlything we've ever really done is reduced an
increase in the budget. In allwords, there was a temp percent increase
in the budget and we got weknocked that down to five percent. There
(11:50):
was still an increase, but itwas a cut compared to what it was
they were going to get before.Is that what we're looking at here as
well. Yes, it's really moreslow spending too levels. You know,
it's slowing the growth. It's noteven cutting spending, it's slowing it to
you know, slowing it down,slowing the growth down. So it's going
(12:11):
to keep growing, it's just notgoing to grow as fast as as it
was growing. That's not a cutto me. Is that a cut to
you? No? The real issuehere, which nobody wants to talk about,
is entitlements. The big you know, medicare, so security, Medicaid,
what all of that adds up tolike a little bit under seventy percent,
(12:33):
sixty something percent of our budgets.No one is touching any of that.
All of the things that you hearabout are usually at the edges,
and you know, the entitlements arewhat is our budgets. It's a you
know, we've become basically a youknow, social welfare state, you know,
not as not quite as as badas Europe, but we're there,
(12:56):
you know, and we have tofigure out way a way to deal with
this. Well, I think,you know, in a perfect worlds with
things, I would like to thinkthat the answer to this is a balanced
budget amendment. We have tried thatbefore the states are required to balance their
budgets. They're not allowed to spendany more than they take in. They
have to make cuts if they,you know, if they're running at a
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deficit. California doesn't seem to befollowing that model, but when I lived
in Virginia, they certainly did.And here in Texas we certainly do.
So what ultimately happens when this happensis we actually the state actually begins to
run a little bit more like abusiness where they say, listen, we
are you know, we're losing youknow, a billion dollars or one point
(13:37):
five billion dollars, whatever it is. We need to make up those losses
with cuts. And the governor willgo to the very different, you know,
state department heads and say I needyou to cut your budget by five
percent or seven percent or whatever itis. And I'm you know, I
put you in this position because Itrust you to find five to seven percent
of waste. And they go outand they find it and they get rid
(13:58):
of the waste, and nobody's everthe wiser, and nobody nobody knows this
is any difference. It seems tome that if we had anybody with any
business acumen in the federal government,they could do the same thing. Well,
that's asking a lot because with businessacuments, some of these people have
never they have never been in theprivate sector, including you know, the
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president. I mean, they've neverhad private many of them. All they
know is asking for more. Ifthey ever had, if they ever had
a charge card or a checking account, for God's sakes, I don't if
they have, I wouldn't want tolook at the balance, the statement balance.
You're right, I wouldn't want tolook at it either. You know,
(14:39):
it seems like such common sense doesbut it is amazing how you know,
government doesn't work under that premise,does it. They. I don't
think they think that any of themwill be remembered or appreciated for saving money
or balancing the budget. They wantto be known and appreciated for something else.
And I guess they think whatever that'ssomething else is it's going to take
a whole lot of money. Well, the thing about it is too people.
(15:03):
Um, you know, sometimes theytake some of these people at face
value, and really this is youknow a lot of these politicians are in
the business of buying votes, soyou know, they hammer the private sector
for you know, marketing and youknow, trying to sell. But they're
selling. They're they're selling to theirvoters, who you know, want to
get whatever free bee is on thetable and then they'll vote for whomever.
(15:26):
And I think that is an underappreciatedI mean, you know, I think
that people sometimes believe that some ofwhat you're hearing from the extreme leftist sincere
and frankly, you know, maybeit is sometimes maybe it's well intentioned,
but a lot of it, Ithink is a you know, they know
what's going to appeal to their base, and if they get whatever free be
(15:48):
passed, which is of course meaningmore spending, that's going to get them
reelected. And that's really I thinkthat that's how the system works in many,
many instances. No, you're right, You're absolutely right. Hey,
before I let you go, Iwant to get your thoughts on Governor Rond
de Santis made his announcement yesterday.It was done on Twitter, was not
done without a whole lot of technicalglitches, which there were. Do you
(16:12):
read anything into that? Is thatthe beginning of a disastrous campaign? Is
that what you get for going onTwitter to make your announcement? What do
you think? Well, actually,I think that was a bold strategy,
and sometimes risks don't quite pan out. I think a lot of being made
about that, but I frankly Ididn't see it, and a lot of
(16:34):
people didn't see it. It onlygot to about three hundred thousand people,
which is I mean, it's anice number of people, but it's not
enormous, you know, when youthink of the country. And I heard
him Entrey Gaudy, and I thoughthe sounded some very good notes. And
when you think of he's just gettingstarted, I would cut him some slack.
(16:55):
He's got a great track record,and he said some very good things.
He said he would start restoring youknow, staane energy policies on day
one, stop the war on fossilfuels. He'd fight, now this is
huge. He'd fight the unelected bureaucracieswhose regulations are strangling the economy and threatening
our freedoms. And that is anenormous point that he's made. Actually,
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Trump was very good at cutting thoseregulations. People didn't realize how many he
cut, but in any case,he had he founded notes that it made
me think he could deliver trump inpolicies without a lot some of the drama.
He said he'd address China's threat,you know, and I think he
was a better start than what criticswere saying. Okay, here's here's my
question about that though, because weknow the baggage that comes along with Donald
(17:41):
J. Trump. But can youfight can you win the nomination without slugging
it out with Donald Trump, whichwould require you to get into the mud
along with him. Well, Ithink he has shown that he's pretty strategic
in doing that. Iowa, forexample, you know, he showed up
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Trump had to Trump for whatever reasoncanceled his appearance and the Santis was right
there. You know, he doesn'tnecessarily say things. He'll sometimes do things.
Trump also is going to have alot of problems in the fall with
all those lawsuits, and you know, he's going to have a lot of
baggage. And maybe some people aregoing to say, well, gee,
maybe we want, you know,something a little bit new and different and
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you know, to go forward.But I think he's going to be a
more of an adversary for Trump thanpeople are saying now. I also think
that most narratives never quite pan outas expected. So you know, people
are saying, oh, he's youknow behind, he's so behind. Well,
you know, the front runners atthis stage in a campaign have faded
(18:49):
in the past. So I thinkthat he's quite formidable and he's a highly
intelligent I've I've followed him as youprobably can gather, and he was spectacularly
successful during the recent Hurricane Ian.He kept Florida open during COVID. He's
got quite a track record to speakabout. So I think that it's end
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school choice. He's terrific on schoolchoice. He's got a lot of strong
points. It's going to be interestingto say the lease. Elizabeth, good
to talk to you. Thank you. Have a great Memorial Day holiday.
Thank you, you too, havea good weekend. Thank you Bye,
Elizabeth Thames, Fox News contributor tojoining us back with Mona MoMA Jimmy Barrett
Show here on the A nine fiftyKPRC. All right, we're back.
(19:42):
We talked a little earlier with ElizabethThames about De Santis Rohn de Santis lease
a little bit, so I thoughtI would share a couple of things with
you and you know, in case, in case you missed them. Now,
the Rohn de Santis has officially tossedhis head into the ring. He's
way behind Trump. It's about thirtypoints behind Trump at this point, which
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means nothing. At this point.It's we're May of twenty twenty three.
We have a long way to gobefore we get to the point where we
have a nominee and conventions and allthe other things that go along with it.
So let's do this first. Let'sstart with the left just and I
share this with you only from thestandpoint of, you know, people with
Trump, people always talk about thedrama, right, so much drama.
(20:26):
So tired of the drama, Sotired of listening to, you know,
the left just bashing him left andright. Can we get somebody who's more
of a diplomat in there, somebodythat the media won't go nuts over.
I got news. The media willgo nuts over whoever the Republican nominee is,
and that includes Ron de Santis.Here is what the left was saying
about Ron de santiss after his presidentialrun announcement, with some little reaction at
(20:53):
the other end from Jimmy Payla onFox. I don't want to just slide
you. I can't help it.Why do you dislike people color? What's
wrong with American history? Yeah,what's wrong with gay folks, you're seeing
his lack of political skills and hislack of political judgment and maybe a little
bit of wis whiff of desperation.Here is obviously that RHN de Santas is
(21:15):
a white supremacist. Right. Thisis not a freedom agenda. This is
a do what RHN de Santis tellsyou to do the state owns you agenda.
On some level, there's a partof me that admires anybody who runs
for president just because I'd never passedthe background check. So the fact that
they've gotten that far with the dopeahead of make Haraldo shots fired. Let
me jump in here really quick.You can tell by the media reaction that
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DeSantis is the guy they feel threatenedby, because they're already coming at him
with everything imaginable. You know theold adage, when you have the facts,
pound the facts. When you havenothing, pound the table. They're
pounding the table pretty aggressively. Hedidn't ban books. He clearly didn't ban
gay people. Anybody who think FloridaBay and gay people has never been to
Key West. Okay, they're havinga fabulous time down there, as they
should. But where DeSantis has moretraction than people realize is he's leading the
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way and a lot of policies thatpeople agree with but don't feel comfortable speaking
too out loud. And a goodexample of that would be the parental rights
an education bill. Parents supported thatbill, Democrats called it don't say gay,
and parents kind of stood back.But if you're a parent, as
I am, you realize we're livingin America where one in three kids can't
read at a great level. Okay, if you're a guy who wants to
focus on education as opposed to thepeople who want to give your kid a
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drag show from some guy named Cinnabuns, I'm telling you you're scoring with parents,
and he's got a lot of upwardmobility, Okay, And I think
that's a fair assessment right there.So the Twitter thing, as you've heard,
had all these technical glitches and problemsand what have you. But he
did go on Fox. De Santisdid last night. He was on with
Trey Gotty. Trey Gotty was thefill in host at eight o'clock, which
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is the old Tucker Carlson slod.I'm not sure what the viewership was compared
to it. Tucker was there,and I'm sure a been a lot more
of Tucker was there talking to RonDe Santis. But at any rate,
here's Ron des Sentis. He gotDrey Gutty. Why now? Why now?
I think it's because the country's goingin the wrong direction. If we
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have another four years of the Bidenadministration, I think some of the damage
is going to be irreversible. Ithink we have an opportunity now, kind
of like the late nineteen seventies whenJimmy Carter was president, to really move
the country in a much stronger directionand really bring a lot of bold leadership
to bear. Why me, Well, I think what we've been able to
do in Florida is two things.One, we've had unprecedented policy success.
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All the things that we believe asRepublicans are as conservatives for many, many
years, We've been able to takethose values and those principles and actually turn
them into reality. Every single day. We put up big wins on the
board. But we're doing that whilealso enjoying major political success. You alluded
to it. We were able towin reelection by a historic margin over one
(23:56):
point five million votes, and youcan't do that in a swing state like
Florida just by getting Republicans we wereable to win counties like Miami Dade County,
which had voted for Hillary Clinton bythirty points in twenty sixteen. We
not only want it, we wantit by double digits. We're in sixty
percent of the Hispanic vote. Wewant independence by eighteen percentage points. And
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now, for the first time sincethe Civil War era, there's not a
single Democrat elected in statewide office inthe state of Florida. You got to
be able to win, and thenwhen you get in office, you've got
to be able to deliver results.And I think we've been able to do
both of those as good or betterthan anybody in the country. Yeah.
Well, you can't really argue withthe results, can you. I don't
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think there's anybody who thinks that run. Well, there's plenty on the left,
I guess who think the run.De Santis has done a horrible job
with Florida, But I don't thinkanybody who would consider themselves a moderate or
conservative would say that he's done ahell of a job running that state.
Now, can you do the samething in running the country? I don't
know. I don't know if hecan win the nomination, let alone get
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elected and run the country, Buddies, certainly not a bad candidate. No,
how about the economy and inflation.That's number one in everybody's mind.
Here's Governor DeSantis on those two issues. Of course, the overspending is driving
inflation. I mean, if yougo back to March of twenty twenty,
you've seen massive amounts of debt added. You've seen the Federal Reserve print trillions
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and trillions of dollars. Anybody knewat the time, and people like our
friend Thomas Massey were screaming from therooftops at the time that it was going
to lead to persistent inflation. Soyou need to spend less money. You
also need to expand domestic energy production. Energy costs contribute to inflation. We
have an abundance of resources here thatthis president doesn't want to use, so
we will reverse Biden's energy policies veryquickly. But we also need a federal
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Reserve that's going to focus on maintaininga stable dollar. They should not be
the economic central planner for our country. They're not accountable to anybody, they're
not elected by anybody, and yettheir printing of money has really thrust us
into this. They said there wouldn'tbe inflation, and yet here we are
now they've been hiking interest rates andthat hurts the economy. So we need
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a FED focused on a stable dollarand don't worry about trying to manipulate the
rest of the economy. Here's whatI know going forward. If we do
not elect somebody with an R nextof their name in the next presidential election,
then I think the path will becomeirreversible, the path that worked currently
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on and I believe that path tobe the Sloban study drum beat towards a
socialist government, a Democrats socialist governmentthat will be re elected in perpetuity.
And I think twenty four is thelast chance, which is why everything's going
to be on the line for Democrats, and they're gonna be willing to do
anything to make sure that they winthat election. The question is what a
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Republican is going to be willing todo to make sure that they don't.
All right, y'all, have agreat weekend. We're gonna do a little
best up for you tomorrow. Wehave a special show airing on Memorial Day
and then we'll see you Tuesday.So I have a great Memorial Day holiday
to those of you who serve,thank you for your service. To those
of you who have family members whohave passed who did serve, well,
(27:21):
this is the weekend to remember them. Thanks again, have a great weekend.
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