11-14-24 - 7am - We're Always The Bad Guys

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mike and a gesture of bipartisan support to meet Truck
Schumer halfway.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I think the Republicans should resurrect the Democratic proposals to
expand the Supreme Court.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
You know, I keep hearing that a lot, and I
know most people are saying, and I hope you're saying
it tongue in cheek, but can you imagine if I mean,
I think about that. So you've got John Thune and
Speaker Johnson come out and announce legislation to expand the

(00:33):
Supreme Court by let's add four let's make it thirteen
thirteen justices. Now I think of that it might be
a good idea because their brains would short circuit and

(00:55):
that'd be the end of that. So I want to
go through the lessons that there's a couple more lessons
that I don't think the Democrats are going to learn.
But what I love about this audience is that you
get it. So let's go back to Chuck for just

(01:16):
a moment. This is the current Senate Majority Leader, soon
to be the Senate Minority Leader, clutching electron, reading word
for word over those stupid glasses. He keeps all the
way down on the end of his nose, reading barely
able to stand up. My God, get the dinosaurs out
of DC, and just telling us watch out.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now. Let me turn to my colleagues on the other
side of the aisle. Another closely contested election now comes
to an end. To my Republican colleagues, I offer a
word of caution in good faith, take care not to
misread the will of the people, and do not abandon

(02:02):
the need for bipartisanship. After winning an election, the temptation
may be to go to the extreme. We've seen that
happen over the decades, and it's consistently backfired on the
party in power. So instead of going to the extremes,
I remind my colleagues that this body is most effective
when it's bipartisan. If we want in the next four

(02:24):
years the Senate to be as productive as the last four,
the only way that will happen is through bipartisan cooperation.
Democrats will be ready to do what we have consistently done,
work with both sides when the opportunity arises. Democrats will
never abandon our values, but neither will we reject an

(02:44):
opportunity to move the ball forward to.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Make people's lives better. When we can.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
The question is now whether or not Republicans are willing
to do the same. To my colleagues on the other side,
once again, do not abandon bipartisanship the best and most
effective way to get things done. It was true in
the last four years and will be true in the
years to come.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
You know, that is as much of a word salad.
When you stop and just and you just kind of
let the words sink into your brain, you realize that
he Chuck Schumer speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
Chuck Schumer speak with fork tongue. Yes, and it's all

(03:29):
bull crap. It's all utter bull crap. You know, the
sinus most effectively works most effectively when we when we
work on a bipartisan basis, and Democrats love to work
on a bipartisan basis when we can find an opportunity
to do so. Meaning well, if we don't see an opportunity,
if we don't like what you're doing, then we're not

(03:50):
going to work in a bipartisan manner. I despise these people.
The sad part is not this audience, not you, but
too many Americans, particularly those on the left, will applaud

(04:11):
this kind of bull crap, they'll applaud it as Oh see,
Democrats are always the one that are willing to bend
over and do what's right for the country. So when
we win the majorities and we want to do what
we think is right for the country, we're still the
bad guys. So we're always the bad guys and the

(04:35):
quicker we learn that we're always the bad guys. You know,
if if you listen to me for any length of
time at all, almost almost twenty years now on radio,
I have always said that bipartisanship is way overrated. That's
not to say that when there's some sort of unanimous

(04:57):
agreement on something that you ought to step back and
really consider it and ask yourself, wait a minute, why
is your unanimous agreement on this. I'm always if I'm
sitting in a meeting and it's not my meeting, I'm
just sitting. I'm part of a meeting. So iheart's having
a meeting, and I got i gotta go to the meeting.

(05:20):
And everybody agrees on something, my natural instinct is to
wait a minute. I'm worried because everybody is room agrees
what's wrong here? What's wrong here?

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Right?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Like what are we missing and how much group think
is going on? It's just my nature and maybe it's
my nature both personality wise and the lawyer brain that
I've got, but it's just like question everything. Well, these
people are just encourageable because they'll come out and nobody

(05:59):
will ever challenge them on any of this stuff, including
most Republicans. Now what, I don't care Republicans go out
and challenge Chuck Schumer because it's not going to do it.
It doesn't make any difference. But for those of us
that live out here in the real world, then I

(06:19):
think we ought to take notice that this is the
kind of crap that goes onside on inside the Beltway.
And the audience for that speech, Who do you think
the audience really was? Have you have you thought about that?
Always think about who's the speaker? Who are they really
speaking to? That's the other thing I tend to do.
I'm sitting in a meeting and I'm listening to the boss,

(06:40):
whoever it is. I'm trying to figure out who are
they talking about me? Are they talking about dragon? Are
they talking about on air talent? They talking about producers,
they talking about the salespeople. Who's this really directed at,
because most times managers don't really want to directly address,

(07:02):
particularly in a group meeting, any particular subgroup of that group,
or anyone individual. They just want to broad strokes, you know,
just which leads into the next lesson that I think
democrats will never learn. And I don't know whether this
is true for you, but it's certainly true for me.

(07:25):
We have endured a hell of a lot of scolding
from the ruling class, and I just don't like it.
We've got to invert this relationship. The relationship is we
elect them, and they work for us. And in fact,

(07:46):
not only do they work for us in a general sense,
but they literally work for us because we pay their salaries.
All of us schlubs going to work today that are
working our asses office. You're going to see clients, you're
trying to go you're going on sales calls, you're making deliveries,

(08:07):
you're working in retail, you're working in wholesale, whatever you're doing.
Part of your paycheck, part of every dollar that you
earned today will go to support those a holes. They
work for you, but they don't believe that. And that's

(08:28):
why I don't take very well to being scolded by them.
It's why and again my perspective, which most Americans unfortunately
don't have, from having, as I say, worked among them
in the wild, roamed among them. I've watched them in

(08:48):
their natural habitat. I've watched them, you know, hibernate and
eat and drink and well, I haven't watched them fornic gate,
but you know, I'm sure they probably did in some
office that I was walking by. Point, I've watched them
in the real in their not in the real world.
I've watched them in their world, and so I just
don't take kindly to being scolded by them. How can

(09:13):
you vote for that fascist Donald Trump? He loves Hitler,
have paying fun for the avocados when we deport all
the brown people who work for the fields. And let's
not forget, where the f is your mask? You psycho?
And what was it?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (09:32):
The Post told us that we were selfish bastards. Selfish bastards,
he called Jared Post, the governor of Colorado, called us
selfish bastards for either not getting the jab or not
wearing a mask. Will you selfish bastard?

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Screw you?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
At a certain point, any normal, healthy mentally stable individual
will just tune out the constant heck drink for no
other reason than just self preservation. But to a Democrat,
if you start to tune them out, that just means

(10:12):
to them that they're they're not shouting at you loud enough,
they're not disrupting your dinner enough, they're not getting in
your faith enough. And even now a lot of them
are insisting that they were not big enough a holes
to begin with. And insofar as them being a holes,

(10:34):
that dial goes all the way to infinity. There is
no end to the spectrum on them being a holes.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Now.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
I'm sure there's a lot of other stuff that I've
left out that the Democrats that that didn't work, but
you kind of get the idea. I think it's good
for all of us to be scared of the ruling class,
and that includes people of our own party. I I

(11:11):
don't look. The one person I vociferously objected to becoming
the Senate majority leader was John Cornyan. John Cornyn was
there when I was there, and John Cornyn was just
He's just a Republican swamp creature. Now, don't get me wrong,
we need John Cornyn's votes. I don't want him as

(11:33):
Majority leader because John Cornyn is one of these people
that is, and I might look in the real world again.
Someone said yesterday that I was the mayor of Realville,
and I took that as a great compliment because that's
something that Rush used to call himself. Well, I don't

(11:55):
dare call myself that because I don't dare compare myself
to Rush Limbaugh. However, I take it as a great compliment.
That's one of you out there thought that I was
yesterday just being the mayor of Realville. Well, I'm trying
to be the mayor of Reelville today. Two because the
election or the defeat of John Cornyn was a good

(12:16):
day for Republicans. The election of John Thune, I'll wait
to see the proof will be and how he conducts
the Senate. Now, let's not forget he was Mitch McConnell's deputy.

(12:37):
You worked with someone for Mitch McConnell for eighteen years
or longer, I'm sure of the precise years, has been
either the Senate Majority or the Senate Minority leader. He's
been in that leadership position for almost two decades. If
you've been his deputy for the majority of that time

(13:00):
when you start to kind of clone each other, you
start to kind of become like each other. Now he
will John Thune will want to carve his own path,
and he will want to be his own individual, because
they all do. And so I I carve out reservations
to see how he performs. But Republicans have, as I

(13:24):
explained yesterday, they have a monumental They're climbing Mount Everest
right now, and right now they're still at base camp level.
But to get to the summit, they're gonna need sherpas,

(13:44):
which you're gonna be you and me. They're gonna need
oxygen tanks, which is gonna be additional, you know, in
special elections to replace some of these retiring congressmen. They're
gonna need governors in some of these senators like Lord
or We're gonna need the santis to make certain that
we get not just currently good Republican replacements, but replacements

(14:09):
they can go on to win reelection in their own right.
So it's gonna take a lot of pushing and pulling
to get to the top of the mountain, and it's
gonna be a long slog to do so. For all
of the reasons that I described yesterday, which brings me

(14:34):
to the email, and you know there are I love
getting emails and text messages, even when you're critical, because
they make me think. This one who comes from Lynn
Miller really sets me off because it proved my point

(15:02):
that if we don't listen to the truth about the
reality that we face, then we're going to squander this opportunity.
Lynn Miller writes yesterday at eight pm, Michael, if you
truly believe that we as Americans are all ft as

(15:24):
a nation because there's just no way our newly elected
and appointed government can overcome the democratic machine and all
the little bs laws they passed to protect themselves, that
I believe you should retire and just shut it. We
as citizens know exactly what the problems are in this country.
We also know what the solutions are. I live with

(15:47):
serious adversity my whole life, and I have triumphed over
at all. That's what Americans do. Please get on board
or go do something else. Sincerely, Lynn Miller, Really, Lynn,
you took from yesterday? Did I believe that we are

(16:07):
after as the nation? Because there's no way that are
elected or appointed officials can overcome the Democrat machine. No,
I outline exactly what they have to do to overcome
that Democrat machine. But you're so wound up that you
refuse to listen to the reality.

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on us, okay.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Ver ver ver ver ver.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
One of the things that was the entire point of
yesterday's discussion, By the way, I want to let me
get back over to text messages, the hang on, hang on,

(18:14):
uh do do do do do do? Anyway, several of
you sent me I, there's we've gotten too many and
since then, but several of you recognize that the whole
point of yesterday's discussion was that I'm trying to temper

(18:36):
expectations and and and I think I don't think it's
obvious to me that Lynn Miller suffers from too high
of expectations. Or I should say, maybe our expectations should
be high, but those expectations need to beered in terms

(19:01):
of how quickly things can be turned around. This country
is approaching two hundred and fifty years of age, and
I would say starting from Woodrow Wilson on, so from
the early nineteen hundreds on, this country has been on

(19:23):
a fairly steady upward slope of progressivism. On a March
toward Marxism, with some blips along the way, most notably
I would say, well, if you really want to go back,
I would say Eisenhower, even John F. Kennedy to a

(19:44):
certain extent, and then you dip back down again with LBJ.
You dip down even more so with Richard Nixon, who
was really a progressive Republican. And then of course you
fast forward and you get Ronald Reagan, who was a
blip getting off that trend line of the march toward progressivism.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
And then you.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Get you get people like a moderate like Bill Clinton,
who you know, at least Bill Clinton and Nut Genrich
got us a balanced budget for a year or two,
and Clinton did a couple of good things, you know,
work requirement for welfare, but beyond that not much. Still

(20:31):
pretty progressive march toward Marxism. And then comes along Trump
in the first term. But I want you to think,
between Trump's first term and the second term, how rapidly,
rapidly we made the march toward Marxism. So that trend

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line starting in the nineteen hundreds, as if you were
to draw on the act, if you were to draw
from a market point at nineteen hundred, all the way
to let's just say twenty twenty, that trend line is
at a forty five degree angle just straight up, not

(21:20):
straight up, but forty five degree angle up, consistently up.
But there would be leaps up and down along that
trend line where we made quicker marches toward Marxism, and
then it would get slowed down. So, you know, Jimmy
Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter come in, and they've got
all of their progressive ideas. You know, we get Nixon

(21:42):
gives us the EPA, and we get all these regulatory
agencies because that was that was Nixon's whole philosophy. And
then Carter comes along and he exacerbates things, starts kind
of denigrating the military. Reagan comes along and gets this
kind of back on track. George H. W. Bush just
kind of maintains but does stupid stuff, doesn't really advance

(22:06):
the degree of the cause of conservatism much. And then
Trump comes along and post COVID or prior to COVID,
is able to start unwinding some of that stuff, particularly
with regard to immigration and to regulations. Does yeomans work

(22:27):
in that regard? But then COVID comes along and not
just COVID, but all the impeachment proceedings, the Russian collusion hoax,
and effectively prevents Trump from getting as much done as
he would have liked to have done in his first term.

(22:49):
Then comes along twenty twenty, and man, that trend line
just shoots straight up. The Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure
Bill that cares act, all of that stuff. Just I mean,
we go from an annual average budget of three or
four trillion dollars to seven eight trillion dollars. And once

(23:10):
COVID's gone, that money, that budget level didn't disappear, we
didn't drop back down. So they expanded the role of
the federal government and control over our lives exponentially in
these four years of the Biden Hairs administration. So the

(23:34):
entire portion of yesterday's program was to temper the expectations
that that can all be turned around in four years.
And then you really need to focus on the next
two years because there is no guarantee that our majorities

(23:54):
will survive the midterm elections. History proves to us that
the party in power generally loses seats in the midterm elections.
So in twenty twenty six, if history is any sort
of indicator, we have a better than fifty to fifty
chance of losing seats and losing the majority in one

(24:14):
or both houses of the Congress. Now, maybe this will
be the aberration and it won't happen, but you can't
depend on having a majority for the final two years
of Trump's term, which means you have to do as
much as you can in these first two years. And
Lynn Miller, and I'm speaking directly to you right now.

(24:37):
What I pointed out yesterday was that whether it's Elon
Muskin or the Vake Ramaswami, or whether it's Pete Hegseath
at Defense or it's Marco Rubio at State, they can
go in and they can start, you know, turning the tables,
throwing the chairs. They can be the bulls in the

(24:59):
China cl and they can start upending everything. And whether
you like it or not, And I don't give a
ra adce ask whether you like it or not. I'm
just telling you the reality of what it is. And
if you refuse to accept reality, then I'd say you're
part of the problem. The reality is that the existing

(25:20):
laws in many cases are going to have to be
changed and or complied with in order to make the
changes that we all voted for last week. And if
you can't accept that, then you're setting yourself up for
a huge disappointment. The reality is, if you want to

(25:45):
impound funds, you want to rescind funding, they are procedures
that have to be followed and Congress has to approve
some of that. That's the law. If you don't like that,
then the law has to be changed. And for the
law to be changed, you're going to have to get
a majority of the Republicans. We're actually going to forget

(26:07):
all the Republicans in the House, and you're going to
have to get well in the Senate, depending on whether
they're going to require a sixty vote majority or not,
you're going to have to get some Democrats to back you.
So Trump walks in with majorities, but then majorities and

(26:27):
a majority in the private sector is different than a
majority in the public sector because in the Senate, more
often than not, you need sixty votes to do something
as opposed to fifty one votes. I just want everyone
to be prepared for the reality that Donald Trump faces. Now,

(26:52):
Donald Trump understands that, and that is seen in the
people that he is appointing or that he is nominating
for these positions. Take Rubio for example. Rubio is a
brilliant choice in my opinion, because Rubio is a staunch
anti communist. So when it comes to Russia and China

(27:15):
for that matter, of North Korea or Venezuela or any
of the other craphole countries, he's prepared to take them on,
face them on strongly and with the backing of the President,
to force them to stand down. HEGSA, if he has

(27:36):
the right people behind him, will get rid of HEGSA
has two issues, two main main strategic objectives at Defense,
and it is first and foremost to get rid of
all of the social and cultural bull crap that Defense
has now implemented that has made us a weaker fighting

(27:59):
than what we should be. That's number that's goal number one.
That's the easy part. The second part is rebuilding the military,
getting the nuclear submarines built that we owe under the
Aucus Agreement, getting the troops ready, getting recruitment back up,

(28:25):
making certain that they're fit, that they are working cohesively
as teams, and that they're not focused on the stupid
dei and cultural crap that they've imposed on the military.
That's going to be a longer thing to do because
that takes a long timeline. The point being you'll see

(28:48):
some immediate changes. Trump will walk in on day one
with I bet more than one hundred executive orders unwinding
a lot of things that Biden did by executive order.
All those will be gone, and then there will be
executive orders with regard to regulations, things like instructing all
the Cabinet secretaries and all of the regulatory heads like

(29:12):
the different administrators of EPA and other places, to start
going through and rescending as many regulations as they possibly
can under existing law, and then presenting to the Office
of Management and Budget and to the White House Legislative
Office their plan for legislation to unwind the laws that

(29:32):
have to be unwound, to get rid of that regulatory state,
the administrative state. All of that has to be done,
and all of that takes time. And for you to
claim that somehow I believe there were ft as a nation. No,
I'm just telling you the truth about what has to
be done. You don't know it.

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Speaker 3 (30:54):
Gus Ery curiosity.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
When's the last time the Democrats won by a landslide
like crumpkiss gear?

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Hmm, I'm going back in my mind, I think that.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Do you think he's talking just presidential or we're talking
Senate in the House too.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Oh, I was, I was thinking presidential They they really haven't.
Who am I leaving out here? Clinton? I forget Clinton's
electoral Let me see if I can find a list
of electoral votes. M we'll see who did. There have

(31:42):
been several inances where they've had majorities.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Three real quickly before before you tell us those numbers, Dragon,
don't forget this. It was forty years, forty years until
the election of Nuke Genred and the Contract of America
that Republicans ever had a majority in the House for

(32:07):
zero four decades.

Speaker 6 (32:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Congressman Michaels from Illinois was the House minority leader, but
forever forty years. Think of the damage done in those
forty years where Republicans were just always on the defensive.
What'd you find, Dragon, three.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Sixty five in Uh?

Speaker 4 (32:31):
I lost it.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, Obama had gotten some ridiculously out large large number.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yeah, funny. I had a mental block in Obama. Couldn't
think of Obama.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
My page refreshed, and I don't have the date area,
but he.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Was at three sixty five correct. Yeah, And my guess
is that was against John McCain.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
It was exactly two thousand and eight. John McCain three
sixty five, one seventy three.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah. So if there's your answer, there's a text message
though that I think is important with respect to put
it in perspective. What at the same time, the Chuck
Schumer's out there lecturing us about by partisanship. Now I've
read about this, but I've not heard it, and that

(33:15):
is that Polis was on with Neil Cavudo yesterday and
Polis talked about how he and Governor Pritzker, the Hyatt
Hotels heir, that's the current governor of Illinois, are writing
a manual for other Democrat governors on how to fight

(33:36):
Trump's policies. So, goubern over six zero eight five rights,
can you imagine the fallout if Republican governors did that?
By the way, gentlemen, he writes, have you looked at
the condition of your own states? Chicagu was the murder
capital of the United States, and look at Colorado. You know,

(33:57):
I joked very quickly, yet I didn't really go into
depth about it. But you know, January one, the price
of egg, I mean, egg prices are already exorbitant January one,
They're going to be even higher. Because remember Colorado, with
the help of Polos's husband Marlon Reese and all the

(34:18):
stupid Democrats, you can only sell caged free eggs in Colorado. Yeah,
so wait till the black market pops up. I guess
Tamrad will just go. When we go to New Mexico
and we start to have back, we'll just stock up
on non cage free eggs and just haul them back. Well,

(34:43):
why don't you just raise chickens and just sell medi
eg How about that?

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Or what we'll do is we'll have the goobers raise chickens,
and we'll buy eggs from the goobers. Since you are
since you and I make so much money from I,
since we're just brazillionaires because of iHeart, We'll just buy
eggs from the goobers.