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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I warned you. I warn you about these bloody influencers.
I warned you they were going to destroy society. That's right,
influencers and the death of the West. It must have
been ten years ago when this whole bit on influencers started.
Social media influencers. South Park did a funny episode of
the influencers and their postings on Yelp and other people
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and demanding free stuff at restaurants, and we've seen the
way they act. Go to I go to a gym
and I'm pretty much a senior citizen in the gym
that I work out at, and for whatever reason it
may be, people feel the need to bring tripods with
their phone or cameras attached them and film their workouts. Now,
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I love this gym, the equipment it has, it's it's awesome,
but I hate that crap. Man. Can you find something
else to do with your life instead of coming to
a coming to a public place and filming yourself, working out,
and that's that's really how you're training to make a
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living right now. But I guess many people do. Many
people do. But anyway, be careful of all of these
influencers and listening to them. And I don't care if
it's left or right, doesn't make any difference. I'm gonna
give you an example. Many people, many people. Again, they
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they get they make money, They make money off of
the people that follow them, them, the post things, all
these various different things, whether it be left or right. Again,
I want to talk about some MAGA influencers. Oh yeah,
they wanted to get paid. Oh yeah, they did. As
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it turns out, you noticed that some of these conservative
quote unquote conservative MAGA influencers out there, all of a sudden,
all of a sudden, are railing against what Robert F.
Kennedy Junior wants to do with soda and the Snap program.
Oh yeah, oh, the government wants to block soda purchases
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for Americans on Snap. Remember when New York City tried
this and it completely backfired. President Trump profoundly or proudly,
excuse me, had a diet coke button in the Oval office.
This is ridiculous. Government over each Let the people decide
for themselves. We got other ones coming out there. We
cannot allow make America healthy again messaging to be used
to force media Americans into not buying certain things at
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one conservative influencer after another. As it turns out, guess
who paid these people for these posts? Yeah, big soda.
Oh you know the lobbying groups. Now they're paying off
people again. I don't. I don't know how these people
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live with them. I really don't. I was batting around
this back of my head. You know, I've often alluded
to on I talk about this when it comes to
financial scams. I mentioned that the world's second oldest profession
is get rich quick connors. We talk about the world's
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oldest profession prostitution. To all of these, all of these
conservative conservative yes, uh influencers out there, now, shall I
put this gently? You're a whore. You are you are,
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but you're actually I mean, I don't want to degrade
hookers quite frankly, but now you are willing to say
whatever someone wants you to say because you're getting paid
for that. I mean, uh, you're doing you do more
damage with that than any hookers. I mean again, I
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feel you know, hookers prospibly, you know whatever. They're hurting
themselves more than anything else. What's worse, Well, I'm the
same thing that you see these people that you know
when you were doing something that is morally wrong, you know,
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is wrong for money. That make sure plenty of them.
I mean, you can get on the payroll, you can
be a paid contributor for a major network, and you
are technically, in my opinion, longer. And that's that's what
these people are. Oh, I've got this many followers, this
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many people are following me, pay me, pay me, and
I'll say whatever you want again. Which is worse, the
street walker or these people? You got them on both sides.
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