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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of
talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing
a heck of a job.
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The Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey, welcome back to the
Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me.
I mean, I really am You think I just come
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the snark that's there. Trust me, there's a lot of
snark because that's just well, that's the way I am. Uh,
this hour is going to be. I'm just warning you
it's gonna be a little convoluted because I know what
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I want to do for the third hour. I think
I know what I want to do for the third hour,
But for this hour, I want to get through a
bunch of a bunch of short stories. So this is
short story time. You might so, so if you're if
you're folding along in your big chief tablet and your
crayons get ready, because well we're gonna We're gonna draw
on every page on your on your big chief tablet.
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So we had the jobs numbers come out on Friday,
and the job's numbers were lower than expectations by some
twenty or forty thousand. I forget the exact number. It
doesn't make any difference for this conversation. It's just that
they were lower than what all the economists expected. But
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here's something that nobody seemed to want to talk about,
and that is that non farm payrolls take out all
farming and agriculture. You know how I love to talk
about trend lines. Well, when you look at a let
me pull this graph up. When you look at non
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farm payrolls and job growth going back to July of
twenty eleven, and I'm going back to that date simply
because the chart that I found goes back to that date.
The point is that non farm payrolls never recovered to
their pre pandemic trend, but now over the past year
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they were at least growing at the same rate as
the pre pandemic trend line. But now that's not even
true because now the labor market is adding even fewer
and fewer jobs, especially after all the downward revisions were considered.
Remember we had a downward, a downward revision for last
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month that went back for a little more than a
year that said, wait, oh, you know what, we overestimated
the number of job growths, the numbers of jobs by
a million. I think the exact number was like eight
hundred ninety thousand or something. Might as well round it
up to a million. They overestimate it. Now, if you
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look at the chart that I'm looking at, which I
know you aren't, but let me describe it. So, total
nonfarm payrolls in thousands that are seasonally adjusted back in
twenty eleven were slightly greater than one hundred and thirty
two thousand. That was the job growth for non farm
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payrolls in thousands back in twenty eleven. Now, that chart
just trends upward until you get let's just stop at
August of twenty eighteen. At August of twenty eighteen, the
job growth the number of new jobs in August of
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twenty eighteen had increased to about one hundred fifty thousand,
sighty less. Let's just say one hundred and fifty thousand,
So you had a steady job growth between two thousand
and eleven and twenty eighteen that went from on average
one hundred and thirty thousand per month to slighty around
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one hundred fifty thousand per month, and then you get
to I just want to make this dramatic, so listen
to the numbers closely. You get somewhere between November of
twenty nineteen and April of twenty twenty, that's right when
the pandemic was I would say, at its initial height,
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the trend line in job growth had increased too well,
over one hundred fifty thousand, about halfway between one hundred
and fifty and one hundred and fifty five thousand. But
then in April twenty twenty, it just straight lined that
trend line that was gradually going, you know, upwards, in
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April of twenty twenty just slamed straight down back to
one hundred and thirty thousand jobs, which was the scene
or actually less than what the number was in twenty eleven.
And then it began to steadily increase again after the
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pandemic and we started, you know, people realized that the
government was picking winners and losers some employees were deemed
essential and some weren't. You know, Walmart could stay open,
but your local hardware store couldn't. Home Depot could stay open,
but your local hardware store couldn't. You know, Safeway or
Publics or whatever supermarket you go to, they could all
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stay open. But oh, the convenience stores couldn't, But the
liquor stores could. I always found that fascinating. The liquor
stores could stay open, the u the bars could stay open.
The liquor stores could stay open, but the churches couldn't. No,
because they don't want people having, you know, wine for communion.
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It was an insane time. But then after April of
twenty twenty, the job rate growth trend line starts to
trend back upwards. But when you get to October of
twenty twenty two, if you look at the projected trend
line from the pre pandemic trend, and let's just go
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to June of this year, we should have been well
or almost at one hundred and sixty five thousand jobs.
New jobs should have been in June of this year
closer to one hundred and sixty five thousand, but instead
were slightly blow one hundred and sixty thousand. Now, that
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may not seem significant except that the trend line is
beginning to slightly dip again, which means that, well, we're
not doing so good in job growth after all, which
is why so many people are saying we're entering into
a recession. And that's one more reason why the Federal
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Reserve will probably cut the Federal reserve rate by at
least twenty five basis points. Some people say fifty. I
don't believe that, but you know they may drop it
by twenty five basis points, which, well, you know, I'm
not going to complain. I find it interesting that they're
doing it in September, just before a November election. But oh,
there's nothing to see here. They would never do anything
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for political reasons, right, of course they wouldn't. But here's
what I'm want to leave you with. In August foreign
born workers. Job growth with foreign born workers was plus
six hundred and thirty five thousand. In August, native born workers,
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or you might say US citizen workers, was down one
point three two five million in August. Yes, more than
one point three million native born Americans lost a job
in August, while those one point three plus million were
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losing jobs that were American citizens. Foreign workers gained six
hundred and thirty five thousand jobs. Nothing to see here,
nothing at all to see here. Oh wait a minute,
maybe there is something. Now more than ever, Chuck Schumer,
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Democrat Senate majority leader, Now.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
More than ever was short of workers. We have a
population that is not reproducing it on its own with
the same level that.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It used to.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
The only way we're going to have a great future
in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the Dreamers,
and all of them, because our ultimate goal is to
help the dreamers, but get a path to citizenship for
all eleven million or however many undocumented there are here
now more than.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
They do them care about you. They do not care
about you. The Great Replacement therapy theory, which is supposedly
a right wing conspiracy, Chuck Schumer just said the quiet
part out loud. Democrats literally confirmed the Great replacement theory
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theory on camera, and yet some people still don't believe it.
Just remember those jobs numbers. Foreign born workers in August
gained six hundred and thirty five thousand jobs. Will native
born American workers lost one point three million jobs? Yeah,
just let that sink in. Text any question or comment
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Over sometime this past week doesn't mean the difference one
day it was. But over the past week, the former
Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, along with
his daughter, announced that they were going to be voting
for Kamala Harris and they were going to be voting
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for Kamala Harris because they believe that Donald Trump is
the greatest threat to this Republic that has ever existed.
Forget Nazi Germany. Forget the Japanese in World War Two.
Forget China as an existential threat to US right now,
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Forget illegal aliens invading the country, Forget the national debt,
forget just Democrats in general that are truly truly Marxists.
He wants to vote for Kamala Harris. I was so
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irritated by that statement that this is what I tweeted
out yesterday. Let me just let me just read it verbatim.
During my almost six years in the Bush administration, there
were people, including President Bush himself, with whom I disagreed
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with on policy, and there were people that I just
did not like, And I assume the feeling may have
been mutual. You know, it is true with any large
group of people that you work with. The President Bush
and I did not agree on every policy. That there
were things that you know, they did that I had
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nothing to do with that I disagreed with. But you know,
it wasn't my job or my role to criticize the
president about something that wasn't in my bailiwick, or as
they'd like to say in DC, wasn't in my wheelhouse.
It was somebody else's department. I might express that dislike
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to you know, the chief of staff or someone else.
But again that's because I can speak freey. I mean
I can speak freely with Bush too, But it was
just that it's just not my nature. Hey, you're doing
this and I don't like it. Well, he doesn't care
if I like it or not, because that's what he's
decided to do. You learn if when and if you
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ever get to work with the President of the United States,
you soon learn that he is the boss and you
can offer your opinion, but if he's made up his
mind about something, that's what he's going to do. And
there were people that I absolutely adored that I thought
were so professional, so good, they were so likable, they
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were just people that I truly enjoyed working with. And
there were people that I just did not enjoy working with.
They were just complete and utter a holes. So back
to the tweet, I said, but some people with whom
I disagreed on policy and viscerally disliked, and Dick Cheney
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was at the top of that list of people that
I disagreed with on policy and I vicerally disliked. Now
Dick Cheney's staff, David, I can't remember David's last name
stupid anyway, David who was his chief of staff, Scooter Libby.
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That name may sound familiar to you. Scooter is the
one that ended up being convicted of a crime for
which I don't think he was guilty of. I think
that Colin Powell's deputy was actually guilty of the crime,
but Scooter's the one that got nailed for it. Scooter
Libby is one of the smartest, most genuine human beings
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that I've ever met, and I loved working with him.
But the Vice President himself was an ass. He just was.
He was unpleasant. Uh, many of the things that he
advocated in meetings with the president, a lot of people
disagreed with it, and a lot of people didn't like
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what he proposed. But nonetheless, he's a vice president and
you have to work with him. And I know for
a fact he didn't like me, so there the feeling
was was mutual. In fact, at the end of my tenure,
he and I kind of had a I wouldn't call
it a knockdown drag out, but we had we had
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somewhat of a pretty strong public disagreement over the way
he was treating my staff because while I might criticize
my staff for doing something if they asn't cold did something.
I would do that in a staff meeting. If one
individual did something that I thought was inappropriate, I would
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pull that person aside and privately chastise that staff member
for doing something that I disagreed with or thought he
was doing wrong. But Cheney, Cheney was rude to probably
about a dozen of my staff members, and it was
totally uncalled for, and it was inappropriate. And so as
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he got up to leave the briefing, I got up
and followed him out, and I stood and turned in
front of him, or I turned and stood in front
of him, and I said, mister Vice President, those people
in that room spent the better part of all night
long preparing that briefing. And your wife, lynn Lynn Cheney,
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who was in the briefing also, she was just traveling
with him. She actually read through the briefing and looked
through it. You didn't look through it once. You didn't
ask any questions, You didn't offer any criticisms, any compliments,
you didn't offer anything. I don't think you were paying
attention to it, and I really think you ought to
go back in and either ask them some questions or
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let them, you know, offer to explain anything further. I
don't need it. I don't need all right, Fine, you
want to be an ass, you want to be an
asked the word I can't say. Fine. It wasn't just
that one time, it was numerous times. But here's what
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has really kind of pushed me over the edge about Chainey.
You're going to vote for someone who is clearly a
Marxist because you think that Donald Trump the disruptor? What
are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? Mister
Vice President? If you think that Donald Trump's the threat
to a constitutional republic and that Kamala Harris is not,
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You've had way too many heart attacks, way too many
heart attacks. There's not enough blood getting to your brain.
Shame on you. So we came with Michael Brown. Hang tight,
I'll be right back. Michael Brown joins me here.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
The former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie,
You're doing a heck of a job.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The Weekend with Michael Brown broadcasting live from Denver, Colorado. Again,
it's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Really happy to have
you joining the program today. Follow me on X formerly Twitter,
it's at Michael Brown USA. You want to see the
video of Chuck Schumer talking about the great replacement theory
right out in the open, it's there. And if you
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want to see the employment chart, employment number charts, those
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Just start your message with the word Mike or Michael,
tell me whatever you want to tell me. So kind
of in line with my my really bad attitude toward
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Dick Cheney, I've got a really good attitude toward emeritus
Professor Alan Dershowitz, a former daycrat and former constitutional law
professor from ha the University. I've always liked Professor Dershowitz,
and just like I've always liked Professor Turley, Jonathan Turley,
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because they they are true constitutionalists. Now when it comes
to other policies, they're diehard liberals. Now, they're not Marxists.
Don't get me wrong. There's a difference between a liberal
and a Marxist. Kamala Harris is a Marxist, and we've
proven that on this program before. Dershowitz is a traditional
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liberal Democrat, as is Jonathan Turley. But they're both constitutionalists
and they believe that the Constitution means what it says,
and so they're often at odds with their own party
because while they may be Democrats, and while they may
be you know, in support of you know, some government
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program that's going to you know, save society, it still
has to meet constitutional muster. And they believe that the
Democrat Party has gone off the rails. Fascinating that almost
I don't whether it actually curdling the exactly the same
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day or not, but certainly within the same say, forty
eight hours, that Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney come out
and say that they're going to support Kamala Harris because
Donald Trump is such a threat to the republic. He's
not a threat to the republic. He's a threat to
the establishment. And there's a huge difference. As I've said,
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he's a disruptor. You know, there are a lot of
things I don't like about Donald Trump. I think he's
a bombastic new Yorker, and I've dealt with a lot
of bombasting New Yorkers in my life. You don't think
that post nine to eleven, trying to deal with the
New York Fire Department and the NYPD, trying to deal
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with Rudy Giuliani, trying to deal with Governor Pataki, trying
to deal with you know, the police and fire commissioners
and all the city councilmen and I everybody else. You
don't think I haven't dealt with a lot of bombasic
New Yorkers. Of course I am, and I know how
to deal with bombastic New Yorkers. And if you happen
to be a bombastic new Yorker, well let's get it on,
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because I know how to deal with you. And sometimes
Trump drives me crazy because he goes off onto these
kind of you know, just oh, here's what's on the teleprompter,
but let's just go to a stream of consciousness about
some other topic. And I'm like, no, shut up, get back, focus, focus.
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He's like the kid. You know, I've never been a
public school teacher. I've been a law school professor, but
never a public school teacher. But I can imagine trying
to be a public school teacher. And you've got a
bunch of kids that are adhd in your class, and
they're always wandering off. It's like having Calvin from Calvin
and Hobbes in your classroom. Right. He was always getting
in trouble because he's always imagining things and always going
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off on things that to me, you know, Calvin Calvin
and Donald Trump are kind of the same, same, same people.
But I love his policies and I actually, in other
circumstances other than campaigning, really love the bombastic New Yorker
attitude because you have to admit, he just he just
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calls balls and strikes. He just calls things as he
sees it. And I think he's been changed since the
assassination attempt. So what does all of that have to
do with Dick Cheney or Alan Dershowitz or Jonathan Turley,
Because at the same time that Dick Cheney thinks that, uh,
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Donald Trump is a threat to the republic for for
trying to reign in government spending, trying to improve the
health of Americans, trying to you know, stand up and
be a strong America so that our enemies fear us
and respect us, and our allies respect us. That's what
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I want. I think that's what most Americans, if you
understand the geopolitical nature of where America is in the world.
If you understand basic economics, you've really got to be
on the side of Donald Trump, who is the head
of the Republican Party. Whether you like it or not,
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you cannot if you believe in the American world order.
And if you believe in that, you know, cutting taxes,
you know, we have proof from the Kennedy tax cuts,
we have proof from the Reagan tax cuts, Hell's bells,
We've got proof from the Trump tax cut that when
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you cut tax rates, you actually increase the flow of
revenue into the US treasury. Why, because people have more
money to spend. Corporations can grow and expand, And when
corporations grow and expand, they spend money with other companies
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or other individuals, and those people now have more money
to spend. It's just a growth of the economic pie.
Something that Alexandria Cosi Cortez has never understood, or Elizabeth
Ward has never understood, and Kamala Harris certainly does not understand.
The problem is that while revenue to the treasury increased,
government spending increased more than the rate of increased revenue
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was to the treasury. Trump understands that now, Trump sometimes
is kind of bad about spending, and nobody the Republican
aren't good at spending. When push comes to shove, everybody
likes to spend taxpayer money. But we may be reaching
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a tipping point where that's no longer viable. So let's
go back to Cheney. Cheney decides that Trump bad, Harris good,
and I'm thinking you're out of your freaking mind. And
at the same time that that's going on, Professor Dershowitz
is doing a podcast and says this.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
There were no fine people at the debate at the
standing outside of the convention center and screaming Hamas will win,
screaming we are all Hamas, screaming there was nothing wrong
with October seventh, what's wrong with Ourtoba seventh? Somebody said, no,
there aren't fine people and they don't make fine points,
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and so I was disgusted as a Democratic National Convention,
absolutely disgusted. We steve when Harvard Law Professor maretus Alan
Avid Dershowitz, so, are you ready to leave the Democratic Party?
Democratic Party? I am no longer a Democrat, I am
an independent. I'll decide who to vote for at the
last minute based on totality the circumstances. I want to
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see how they deal with Iran. I want to see
how they deal if you run attacks the United States.
I want to encourage the current administration to support Israel.
So I'm not revealing my vote until you know, maybe
November first. I hate to hear all the information, all
the evidence, but I am no longer a member of
the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
As when did you resign the Democratic Party? Well, gradually
over time.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I think a lot of things pushed me in that direction.
Kamala Harris's failure to comply with our constitutional obligation to
preside over the Senate in the House joint sessions for
Naton who pushed me a lot over that, and what
Joe Biden said pushed me over that. But I think
the thing that really pushed me is how the Democrats
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conducted their convention. I cannot be associated with a party
that features as its speakers AOC Sharpton, Liz Warren, and
Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Think about what all those people stand for. Think about
what they stand for. Now. Those are the people that
Democrats had speaking at their convention. Bertie Sanders, a self
avowed socialist, Elizabeth Warren, who lies about her native American
heritage and is essentially a socialist Al Sharpton who is
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a pathetic racist and by the way, a tax evader.
Have you paid your taxes? Have you? That's the Democrat part.
That is the modern Democrat. Oh, I forgot aoc. She's
just a dits but she's a useful idiot and a
Marxist also, if not an outright communist when you think
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about some of her policies. That's that's the Democrat Party,
and that's who Dick Cheney wants in office. That's who
Dick Cheney's throwing his support behind. At the same time
that a liberal Democrat Jew is saying, you know what,
they've gone too far. I can't be a part of that.
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And so I've dropped my membership in the Democrat Party.
And I'm not announcing today who I'm going to vote for,
but I bet you a dollar to a donut. I
know who Alan Nursherwich is going to vote for. It's
not Kamala Harris. It may not be Donald Trump. He
could be Bobby Kennedy Junior. I don't think it'll be
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Cornell West. I don't think it'll be Jill Stein, but
it will be either Trump or Bobby Kennedy Junior. And
I think because Bobby Kennedy Junior is telling all of
his supporters to vote for Trump, I think that's who
Dersherwich probably will vote for. So think about how topsy
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turvy things are. A former secretary of Defense, a former
chief of staff to the President, and a former vice president,
a former president of Halliburton, and whose daughter was a
United States congressman from Wyoming says that, oh no, I
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can't vote for Donald Trump. I'm going to go vote
for Kamala Harris. At the same time that Alan Durscherwitch
is saying, look who look, look at the clowns on
that stage. I cannot be a part of that. Man.
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for whatever ails. You just do that right now, I'm
talking like Kamala Harris. Right now, I'm just talking like
a good old Southern boy. Yeah. Now, let's see if
I can I do the black as. I can't do
the black accent. I don't know how to do that.
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I think I know why Kamala Harris never talks to anybody.
What would she tell voters who think that Trump is
better on the economy, Because the polls show us that
an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump would
be better for the economy than Kamala Harris. I think
this is why she hasn't done except that one little
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interview on CNN, which was a eighteen minute joke.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Vice President Harris Still people.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Believe that he can anyway, she's on a podcast. Uh
jujo Angel Baby, I don't know, don't ask me. I'm
just telling you what it is.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Vice President Harris Still, people believe that he can handle
the economy better. What would you say to them that
are listening to you right now? How could you change
their minds that you could do it? And even better?
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Well, you should look at what I've accomplished thus far.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Okay, let's do that. What have you accomplished that thus far? Well,
let's see the Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed on
a tie vote, which you broke. Let's see trillions of
dollars for a bunch of government boondoggles. Let's see though,
the border crisis. So, whether you were the technically the
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borders are or not, you were supposed to find the
root causes of illegal immigration and apparently you didn't even
find the root causes, let alone a solution to the
root causes. You haven't done, squad. You haven't done well.
I can't say it, but you haven't done that either.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
The work that I've done for example, that has resulted
in Latino small businesses growing faster in this moment in history,
in these last three and a half years than ever before.
Has a lot to do with the work that I
have done to build up community banks and put more
money into community banks so that those dollars can then
get into the community and small businesses.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So I've built more community banks, and I've put more
money into community banks, and those community banks have been
in Latino communities. Really, so exactly how did you uh
did you? Did you go to uh banking commissioners because
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these are community banks? Did you go to state banking
commissioners and say you have to build more community banks?
Which you can only build them? I mean, isn't this redlining. Look,
here's a bunch of white people over here, No, put
a community bank there. Over here is a bunch of
Hispanics and Mexicans on Latinos. So put a bank over here.
Now no, Now, don't tell anybody, but there's a black
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community over here. Don't put a bank just because I'm
going to go on a podcast and the podcast is
a Latino woman. So let's don't talk about blacks or
Asians or white people. Let's just talk about Latinos. Okay,
So over here on the Latino community, I went to
banking commissioners. I said, you better build banks here, and
then I'm gonna I'm gonna make the fit government money.
I'm going to capitalize those banks with federal tax dollars. Sweetheart,
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That's not how it works. So you're just lying. Not
only are you lying, but you're pretty much admitting to discrimination.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Goldman Fact which is a very highly respected financial advisor
and leader, had said that my plan will increase the
gross national product and the growth and the GDP, and
that Trump's plan would actually lower it. So these are
objective analyzes by by some of the smartest economists in
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the country and in the world. And I just have
to say this is that you also have to look
at this guy. You know, yeah, he he talked about
being so rich he inherited hundreds of millions of dollars
from his father.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Wait a minute, we wanted to hear what you were
going to do. What So now you're gonna or we're
not going to play a classism We're not excuse me,
We're now going to gripe about Trump inherited money. Are
you just jealous?
Speaker 5 (35:08):
And went bankrupt six times.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
And I'm not unusual. I think United Airlines is probably
American Airline. They've all gone bankrupt. A lot of banks
and a lot of companies have gone bankrupt. Oh, but
Donald Trump did, so that's bad.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
I think that we know that when we look at
somebody who actually has come from a working background and
understands the needs of working people, that's when working people benefit.
And that's the contrast in the selection. By the way,
sixteen Nobel Laureates the smartest economists in the world.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I love them when they throw out these sixteen Nobel Laureates.
Is that kind of like the fifty one intelligence officers
that said that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
I love them when they come out with these lists
of people. I could come up with a list too,
could I could go find, you know, fifteen sixteen, a
(36:01):
couple of dozen Nobel Laureates to say something that, you know,
But if I were running for president, I could get
a list. Yeah, you know what, I might be able
to get a list.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Regardless, had said that Trump's plans would increase inflation and
land US in a recession by the middle of next year.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Wait, a minute. I think that's gonna happen anyway. It
has nothing to do with Trump. It has to do
with the current jobs numbers, has to do with the
current inflation rate, has to current do with the fact
that the Federal Reserve is going to have to cut
interest rates. Yeah, I think we're on our way to
a recession, regardless of who's elected. It's the weekend with
Michael Brown, Texas word Michael, Michael to three three, one
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To night.
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The Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey, welcome back to the
Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me.
I mean, I really am You think I just come
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the snark that's there. Trust me, there's a lot of
snark because that's just well, that's the way I am. Uh,
this hour is going to be. I'm just warning you
it's gonna be a little convoluted because I know what
(00:53):
I want to do for the third hour. I think
I know what I want to do for the third hour,
But for this hour, I want to get through a
bunch of a bunch of short stories. So this is
short story time. You might so, so if you're if
you're folding along in your big chief tablet and your
crayons get ready, because well we're gonna We're gonna draw
on every page on your on your big chief tablet.
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So we had the jobs numbers come out on Friday,
and the job's numbers were lower than expectations by some
twenty or forty thousand. I forget the exact number. It
doesn't make any difference for this conversation. It's just that
they were lower than what all the economists expected. But
(01:41):
here's something that nobody seemed to want to talk about,
and that is that non farm payrolls take out all
farming and agriculture. You know how I love to talk
about trend lines. Well, when you look at a let
me pull this graph up. When you look at non
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farm payrolls and job growth going back to July of
twenty eleven, and I'm going back to that date simply
because the chart that I found goes back to that date.
The point is that non farm payrolls never recovered to
their pre pandemic trend, but now over the past year
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they were at least growing at the same rate as
the pre pandemic trend line. But now that's not even
true because now the labor market is adding even fewer
and fewer jobs, especially after all the downward revisions were considered.
Remember we had a downward, a downward revision for last
(02:52):
month that went back for a little more than a
year that said, wait, oh, you know what, we overestimated
the number of job growths, the numbers of jobs by
a million. I think the exact number was like eight
hundred ninety thousand or something. Might as well round it
up to a million. They overestimate it. Now, if you
(03:14):
look at the chart that I'm looking at, which I
know you aren't, but let me describe it. So, total
nonfarm payrolls in thousands that are seasonally adjusted back in
twenty eleven were slightly greater than one hundred and thirty
two thousand. That was the job growth for non farm
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payrolls in thousands back in twenty eleven. Now, that chart
just trends upward until you get let's just stop at
August of twenty eighteen. At August of twenty eighteen, the
job growth the number of new jobs in August of
(04:01):
twenty eighteen had increased to about one hundred fifty thousand,
sighty less. Let's just say one hundred and fifty thousand,
So you had a steady job growth between two thousand
and eleven and twenty eighteen that went from on average
one hundred and thirty thousand per month to slighty around
(04:22):
one hundred fifty thousand per month, and then you get
to I just want to make this dramatic, so listen
to the numbers closely. You get somewhere between November of
twenty nineteen and April of twenty twenty, that's right when
the pandemic was I would say, at its initial height,
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the trend line in job growth had increased too well,
over one hundred fifty thousand, about halfway between one hundred
and fifty and one hundred and fifty five thousand. But
then in April twenty twenty, it just straight lined that
trend line that was gradually going, you know, upwards, in
(05:08):
April of twenty twenty just slamed straight down back to
one hundred and thirty thousand jobs, which was the scene
or actually less than what the number was in twenty eleven.
And then it began to steadily increase again after the
(05:30):
pandemic and we started, you know, people realized that the
government was picking winners and losers some employees were deemed
essential and some weren't. You know, Walmart could stay open,
but your local hardware store couldn't. Home Depot could stay open,
but your local hardware store couldn't. You know, Safeway or
Publics or whatever supermarket you go to, they could all
(05:51):
stay open. But oh, the convenience stores couldn't, But the
liquor stores could. I always found that fascinating. The liquor
stores could stay open, the u the bars could stay open.
The liquor stores could stay open, but the churches couldn't. No,
because they don't want people having, you know, wine for communion.
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It was an insane time. But then after April of
twenty twenty, the job rate growth trend line starts to
trend back upwards. But when you get to October of
twenty twenty two, if you look at the projected trend
line from the pre pandemic trend, and let's just go
(06:32):
to June of this year, we should have been well
or almost at one hundred and sixty five thousand jobs.
New jobs should have been in June of this year
closer to one hundred and sixty five thousand, but instead
were slightly blow one hundred and sixty thousand. Now, that
(06:54):
may not seem significant except that the trend line is
beginning to slightly dip again, which means that, well, we're
not doing so good in job growth after all, which
is why so many people are saying we're entering into
a recession. And that's one more reason why the Federal
(07:15):
Reserve will probably cut the Federal reserve rate by at
least twenty five basis points. Some people say fifty. I
don't believe that, but you know they may drop it
by twenty five basis points, which, well, you know, I'm
not going to complain. I find it interesting that they're
doing it in September, just before a November election. But oh,
there's nothing to see here. They would never do anything
(07:37):
for political reasons, right, of course they wouldn't. But here's
what I'm want to leave you with. In August foreign
born workers. Job growth with foreign born workers was plus
six hundred and thirty five thousand. In August, native born workers,
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or you might say US citizen workers, was down one
point three two five million in August. Yes, more than
one point three million native born Americans lost a job
in August, while those one point three plus million were
(08:26):
losing jobs that were American citizens. Foreign workers gained six
hundred and thirty five thousand jobs. Nothing to see here,
nothing at all to see here. Oh wait a minute,
maybe there is something. Now more than ever, Chuck Schumer,
(08:47):
Democrat Senate majority leader, Now.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
More than ever was short of workers. We have a
population that is not reproducing it on its own with
the same level that.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It used to.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
The only way we're going to have a great future
in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the Dreamers,
and all of them, because our ultimate goal is to
help the dreamers, but get a path to citizenship for
all eleven million or however many undocumented there are here
now more than.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
They do them care about you. They do not care
about you. The Great Replacement therapy theory, which is supposedly
a right wing conspiracy, Chuck Schumer just said the quiet
part out loud. Democrats literally confirmed the Great replacement theory
(09:38):
theory on camera, and yet some people still don't believe it.
Just remember those jobs numbers. Foreign born workers in August
gained six hundred and thirty five thousand jobs. Will native
born American workers lost one point three million jobs? Yeah,
just let that sink in. Text any question or comment
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(10:22):
would like to see Chuck Schumer say the quiet part
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Over sometime this past week doesn't mean the difference one
day it was. But over the past week, the former
Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, along with
his daughter, announced that they were going to be voting
for Kamala Harris and they were going to be voting
(11:10):
for Kamala Harris because they believe that Donald Trump is
the greatest threat to this Republic that has ever existed.
Forget Nazi Germany. Forget the Japanese in World War Two.
Forget China as an existential threat to US right now,
(11:32):
Forget illegal aliens invading the country, Forget the national debt,
forget just Democrats in general that are truly truly Marxists.
He wants to vote for Kamala Harris. I was so
(11:57):
irritated by that statement that this is what I tweeted
out yesterday. Let me just let me just read it verbatim.
During my almost six years in the Bush administration, there
were people, including President Bush himself, with whom I disagreed
(12:20):
with on policy, and there were people that I just
did not like, And I assume the feeling may have
been mutual. You know, it is true with any large
group of people that you work with. The President Bush
and I did not agree on every policy. That there
were things that you know, they did that I had
(12:42):
nothing to do with that I disagreed with. But you know,
it wasn't my job or my role to criticize the
president about something that wasn't in my bailiwick, or as
they'd like to say in DC, wasn't in my wheelhouse.
It was somebody else's department. I might express that dislike
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to you know, the chief of staff or someone else.
But again that's because I can speak freey. I mean
I can speak freely with Bush too, But it was
just that it's just not my nature. Hey, you're doing
this and I don't like it. Well, he doesn't care
if I like it or not, because that's what he's
decided to do. You learn if when and if you
(13:23):
ever get to work with the President of the United States,
you soon learn that he is the boss and you
can offer your opinion, but if he's made up his
mind about something, that's what he's going to do. And
there were people that I absolutely adored that I thought
were so professional, so good, they were so likable, they
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were just people that I truly enjoyed working with. And
there were people that I just did not enjoy working with.
They were just complete and utter a holes. So back
to the tweet, I said, but some people with whom
I disagreed on policy and viscerally disliked, and Dick Cheney
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was at the top of that list of people that
I disagreed with on policy and I vicerally disliked. Now
Dick Cheney's staff, David, I can't remember David's last name
stupid anyway, David who was his chief of staff, Scooter Libby.
(14:26):
That name may sound familiar to you. Scooter is the
one that ended up being convicted of a crime for
which I don't think he was guilty of. I think
that Colin Powell's deputy was actually guilty of the crime,
but Scooter's the one that got nailed for it. Scooter
Libby is one of the smartest, most genuine human beings
(14:48):
that I've ever met, and I loved working with him.
But the Vice President himself was an ass. He just was.
He was unpleasant. Uh, many of the things that he
advocated in meetings with the president, a lot of people
disagreed with it, and a lot of people didn't like
(15:10):
what he proposed. But nonetheless, he's a vice president and
you have to work with him. And I know for
a fact he didn't like me, so there the feeling
was was mutual. In fact, at the end of my tenure,
he and I kind of had a I wouldn't call
it a knockdown drag out, but we had we had
(15:31):
somewhat of a pretty strong public disagreement over the way
he was treating my staff because while I might criticize
my staff for doing something if they asn't cold did something.
I would do that in a staff meeting. If one
individual did something that I thought was inappropriate, I would
(15:53):
pull that person aside and privately chastise that staff member
for doing something that I disagreed with or thought he
was doing wrong. But Cheney, Cheney was rude to probably
about a dozen of my staff members, and it was
totally uncalled for, and it was inappropriate. And so as
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he got up to leave the briefing, I got up
and followed him out, and I stood and turned in
front of him, or I turned and stood in front
of him, and I said, mister Vice President, those people
in that room spent the better part of all night
long preparing that briefing. And your wife, lynn Lynn Cheney,
(16:37):
who was in the briefing also, she was just traveling
with him. She actually read through the briefing and looked
through it. You didn't look through it once. You didn't
ask any questions, You didn't offer any criticisms, any compliments,
you didn't offer anything. I don't think you were paying
attention to it, and I really think you ought to
go back in and either ask them some questions or
(16:59):
let them, you know, offer to explain anything further. I
don't need it. I don't need all right, Fine, you
want to be an ass, you want to be an
asked the word I can't say. Fine. It wasn't just
that one time, it was numerous times. But here's what
(17:20):
has really kind of pushed me over the edge about Chainey.
You're going to vote for someone who is clearly a
Marxist because you think that Donald Trump the disruptor? What
are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? Mister
Vice President? If you think that Donald Trump's the threat
to a constitutional republic and that Kamala Harris is not,
(17:44):
You've had way too many heart attacks, way too many
heart attacks. There's not enough blood getting to your brain.
Shame on you. So we came with Michael Brown. Hang tight,
I'll be right back. Michael Brown joins me here.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
The former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie,
You're doing a heck of a job.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The Weekend with Michael Brown broadcasting live from Denver, Colorado. Again,
it's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Really happy to have
you joining the program today. Follow me on X formerly Twitter,
it's at Michael Brown USA. You want to see the
video of Chuck Schumer talking about the great replacement theory
right out in the open, it's there. And if you
(18:28):
want to see the employment chart, employment number charts, those
are in my timeline now too, and you can go
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you want to send me a message, ask me anything,
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Just start your message with the word Mike or Michael,
tell me whatever you want to tell me. So kind
of in line with my my really bad attitude toward
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Dick Cheney, I've got a really good attitude toward emeritus
Professor Alan Dershowitz, a former daycrat and former constitutional law
professor from ha the University. I've always liked Professor Dershowitz,
and just like I've always liked Professor Turley, Jonathan Turley,
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because they they are true constitutionalists. Now when it comes
to other policies, they're diehard liberals. Now, they're not Marxists.
Don't get me wrong. There's a difference between a liberal
and a Marxist. Kamala Harris is a Marxist, and we've
proven that on this program before. Dershowitz is a traditional
(19:38):
liberal Democrat, as is Jonathan Turley. But they're both constitutionalists
and they believe that the Constitution means what it says,
and so they're often at odds with their own party
because while they may be Democrats, and while they may
be you know, in support of you know, some government
(20:00):
program that's going to you know, save society, it still
has to meet constitutional muster. And they believe that the
Democrat Party has gone off the rails. Fascinating that almost
I don't whether it actually curdling the exactly the same
(20:21):
day or not, but certainly within the same say, forty
eight hours, that Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney come out
and say that they're going to support Kamala Harris because
Donald Trump is such a threat to the republic. He's
not a threat to the republic. He's a threat to
the establishment. And there's a huge difference. As I've said,
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he's a disruptor. You know, there are a lot of
things I don't like about Donald Trump. I think he's
a bombastic new Yorker, and I've dealt with a lot
of bombasting New Yorkers in my life. You don't think
that post nine to eleven, trying to deal with the
New York Fire Department and the NYPD, trying to deal
(21:08):
with Rudy Giuliani, trying to deal with Governor Pataki, trying
to deal with you know, the police and fire commissioners
and all the city councilmen and I everybody else. You
don't think I haven't dealt with a lot of bombasic
New Yorkers. Of course I am, and I know how
to deal with bombastic New Yorkers. And if you happen
to be a bombastic new Yorker, well let's get it on,
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because I know how to deal with you. And sometimes
Trump drives me crazy because he goes off onto these
kind of you know, just oh, here's what's on the teleprompter,
but let's just go to a stream of consciousness about
some other topic. And I'm like, no, shut up, get back, focus, focus.
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He's like the kid. You know, I've never been a
public school teacher. I've been a law school professor, but
never a public school teacher. But I can imagine trying
to be a public school teacher. And you've got a
bunch of kids that are adhd in your class, and
they're always wandering off. It's like having Calvin from Calvin
and Hobbes in your classroom. Right. He was always getting
in trouble because he's always imagining things and always going
(22:13):
off on things that to me, you know, Calvin Calvin
and Donald Trump are kind of the same, same, same people.
But I love his policies and I actually, in other
circumstances other than campaigning, really love the bombastic New Yorker
attitude because you have to admit, he just he just
(22:33):
calls balls and strikes. He just calls things as he
sees it. And I think he's been changed since the
assassination attempt. So what does all of that have to
do with Dick Cheney or Alan Dershowitz or Jonathan Turley,
Because at the same time that Dick Cheney thinks that, uh,
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Donald Trump is a threat to the republic for for
trying to reign in government spending, trying to improve the
health of Americans, trying to you know, stand up and
be a strong America so that our enemies fear us
and respect us, and our allies respect us. That's what
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I want. I think that's what most Americans, if you
understand the geopolitical nature of where America is in the world.
If you understand basic economics, you've really got to be
on the side of Donald Trump, who is the head
of the Republican Party. Whether you like it or not,
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you cannot if you believe in the American world order.
And if you believe in that, you know, cutting taxes,
you know, we have proof from the Kennedy tax cuts,
we have proof from the Reagan tax cuts, Hell's bells,
We've got proof from the Trump tax cut that when
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you cut tax rates, you actually increase the flow of
revenue into the US treasury. Why, because people have more
money to spend. Corporations can grow and expand, And when
corporations grow and expand, they spend money with other companies
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or other individuals, and those people now have more money
to spend. It's just a growth of the economic pie.
Something that Alexandria Cosi Cortez has never understood, or Elizabeth
Ward has never understood, and Kamala Harris certainly does not understand.
The problem is that while revenue to the treasury increased,
government spending increased more than the rate of increased revenue
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was to the treasury. Trump understands that now, Trump sometimes
is kind of bad about spending, and nobody the Republican
aren't good at spending. When push comes to shove, everybody
likes to spend taxpayer money. But we may be reaching
(25:09):
a tipping point where that's no longer viable. So let's
go back to Cheney. Cheney decides that Trump bad, Harris good,
and I'm thinking you're out of your freaking mind. And
at the same time that that's going on, Professor Dershowitz
is doing a podcast and says this.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
There were no fine people at the debate at the
standing outside of the convention center and screaming Hamas will win,
screaming we are all Hamas, screaming there was nothing wrong
with October seventh, what's wrong with Ourtoba seventh? Somebody said, no,
there aren't fine people and they don't make fine points,
(25:50):
and so I was disgusted as a Democratic National Convention,
absolutely disgusted. We steve when Harvard Law Professor maretus Alan
Avid Dershowitz, so, are you ready to leave the Democratic Party?
Democratic Party? I am no longer a Democrat, I am
an independent. I'll decide who to vote for at the
last minute based on totality the circumstances. I want to
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see how they deal with Iran. I want to see
how they deal if you run attacks the United States.
I want to encourage the current administration to support Israel.
So I'm not revealing my vote until you know, maybe
November first. I hate to hear all the information, all
the evidence, but I am no longer a member of
the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
As when did you resign the Democratic Party? Well, gradually
over time.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I think a lot of things pushed me in that direction.
Kamala Harris's failure to comply with our constitutional obligation to
preside over the Senate in the House joint sessions for
Naton who pushed me a lot over that, and what
Joe Biden said pushed me over that. But I think
the thing that really pushed me is how the Democrats
(27:00):
conducted their convention. I cannot be associated with a party
that features as its speakers AOC Sharpton, Liz Warren, and
Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Think about what all those people stand for. Think about
what they stand for. Now. Those are the people that
Democrats had speaking at their convention. Bertie Sanders, a self
avowed socialist, Elizabeth Warren, who lies about her native American
heritage and is essentially a socialist Al Sharpton who is
(27:36):
a pathetic racist and by the way, a tax evader.
Have you paid your taxes? Have you? That's the Democrat part.
That is the modern Democrat. Oh, I forgot aoc. She's
just a dits but she's a useful idiot and a
Marxist also, if not an outright communist when you think
(27:57):
about some of her policies. That's that's the Democrat Party,
and that's who Dick Cheney wants in office. That's who
Dick Cheney's throwing his support behind. At the same time
that a liberal Democrat Jew is saying, you know what,
they've gone too far. I can't be a part of that.
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And so I've dropped my membership in the Democrat Party.
And I'm not announcing today who I'm going to vote for,
but I bet you a dollar to a donut. I
know who Alan Nursherwich is going to vote for. It's
not Kamala Harris. It may not be Donald Trump. He
could be Bobby Kennedy Junior. I don't think it'll be
(28:40):
Cornell West. I don't think it'll be Jill Stein, but
it will be either Trump or Bobby Kennedy Junior. And
I think because Bobby Kennedy Junior is telling all of
his supporters to vote for Trump, I think that's who
Dersherwich probably will vote for. So think about how topsy
(29:01):
turvy things are. A former secretary of Defense, a former
chief of staff to the President, and a former vice president,
a former president of Halliburton, and whose daughter was a
United States congressman from Wyoming says that, oh no, I
(29:25):
can't vote for Donald Trump. I'm going to go vote
for Kamala Harris. At the same time that Alan Durscherwitch
is saying, look who look, look at the clowns on
that stage. I cannot be a part of that. Man.
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for whatever ails. You just do that right now, I'm
talking like Kamala Harris. Right now, I'm just talking like
a good old Southern boy. Yeah. Now, let's see if
I can I do the black as. I can't do
the black accent. I don't know how to do that.
(30:50):
I think I know why Kamala Harris never talks to anybody.
What would she tell voters who think that Trump is
better on the economy, Because the polls show us that
an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump would
be better for the economy than Kamala Harris. I think
this is why she hasn't done except that one little
(31:14):
interview on CNN, which was a eighteen minute joke.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Vice President Harris Still people.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Believe that he can anyway, she's on a podcast. Uh
jujo Angel Baby, I don't know, don't ask me. I'm
just telling you what it is.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Vice President Harris Still, people believe that he can handle
the economy better. What would you say to them that
are listening to you right now? How could you change
their minds that you could do it? And even better?
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Well, you should look at what I've accomplished thus far.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Okay, let's do that. What have you accomplished that thus far? Well,
let's see the Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed on
a tie vote, which you broke. Let's see trillions of
dollars for a bunch of government boondoggles. Let's see though,
the border crisis. So, whether you were the technically the
(32:17):
borders are or not, you were supposed to find the
root causes of illegal immigration and apparently you didn't even
find the root causes, let alone a solution to the
root causes. You haven't done, squad. You haven't done well.
I can't say it, but you haven't done that either.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
The work that I've done for example, that has resulted
in Latino small businesses growing faster in this moment in history,
in these last three and a half years than ever before.
Has a lot to do with the work that I
have done to build up community banks and put more
money into community banks so that those dollars can then
get into the community and small businesses.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So I've built more community banks, and I've put more
money into community banks, and those community banks have been
in Latino communities. Really, so exactly how did you uh
did you? Did you go to uh banking commissioners because
(33:20):
these are community banks? Did you go to state banking
commissioners and say you have to build more community banks?
Which you can only build them? I mean, isn't this redlining. Look,
here's a bunch of white people over here, No, put
a community bank there. Over here is a bunch of
Hispanics and Mexicans on Latinos. So put a bank over here.
Now no, Now, don't tell anybody, but there's a black
(33:41):
community over here. Don't put a bank just because I'm
going to go on a podcast and the podcast is
a Latino woman. So let's don't talk about blacks or
Asians or white people. Let's just talk about Latinos. Okay,
So over here on the Latino community, I went to
banking commissioners. I said, you better build banks here, and
then I'm gonna I'm gonna make the fit government money.
I'm going to capitalize those banks with federal tax dollars. Sweetheart,
(34:04):
That's not how it works. So you're just lying. Not
only are you lying, but you're pretty much admitting to discrimination.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Goldman Fact which is a very highly respected financial advisor
and leader, had said that my plan will increase the
gross national product and the growth and the GDP, and
that Trump's plan would actually lower it. So these are
objective analyzes by by some of the smartest economists in
(34:37):
the country and in the world. And I just have
to say this is that you also have to look
at this guy. You know, yeah, he he talked about
being so rich he inherited hundreds of millions of dollars
from his father.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Wait a minute, we wanted to hear what you were
going to do. What So now you're gonna or we're
not going to play a classism We're not excuse me,
We're now going to gripe about Trump inherited money. Are
you just jealous?
Speaker 5 (35:08):
And went bankrupt six times.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
And I'm not unusual. I think United Airlines is probably
American Airline. They've all gone bankrupt. A lot of banks
and a lot of companies have gone bankrupt. Oh, but
Donald Trump did, so that's bad.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
I think that we know that when we look at
somebody who actually has come from a working background and
understands the needs of working people, that's when working people benefit.
And that's the contrast in the selection. By the way,
sixteen Nobel Laureates the smartest economists in the world.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I love them when they throw out these sixteen Nobel Laureates.
Is that kind of like the fifty one intelligence officers
that said that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
I love them when they come out with these lists
of people. I could come up with a list too,
could I could go find, you know, fifteen sixteen, a
(36:01):
couple of dozen Nobel Laureates to say something that, you know,
But if I were running for president, I could get
a list. Yeah, you know what, I might be able
to get a list.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Regardless, had said that Trump's plans would increase inflation and
land US in a recession by the middle of next year.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Wait, a minute. I think that's gonna happen anyway. It
has nothing to do with Trump. It has to do
with the current jobs numbers, has to do with the
current inflation rate, has to current do with the fact
that the Federal Reserve is going to have to cut
interest rates. Yeah, I think we're on our way to
a recession, regardless of who's elected. It's the weekend with
Michael Brown, Texas word Michael, Michael to three three, one
(36:42):
zero three, don't go away, be right back.
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