12-3-24 - 9am - Government Spending on Gender Transition and Act Blue

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Michael. My grandfather always used to say, if you
get the butt's attention, the rest of the body will follow,
because when you send that shockwave to the brain and
it starts to react.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Rag and I think we touched the nerve about spanking.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Not exactly wrong about that though, not at all.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Who And you know what's even worse than the actual
pain itself is the anticipation, the lead up to it. Yes,
it's the anticipation that you know it's coming.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Come here, all right, bend over the knee and you
just can't help because you're doing a little dancing.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Why didn't I put on four pair of underwear this morning?
Speaking of the anticipation, So I just I kind of
scrolled through the stories you left on the console this morning.
Oh yeah, AI, who's this? AI?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I keep you It's it's al Al at capital a
lowercase ol.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Okay okay. So al Al is promising a more exact
prediction of the day that she'll die. This is, according
to Bloomberg, an ol powered death clock promises a more
exact prediction of the day you die. The model is
trained on longevity studies. It's a pop It's popular on
fitness apps. That's not I don't have it on my
app might have wider applications and economics and finance. Uh,

(01:31):
let's see. The recently released death Clock, an OL powered
longevity app, has proved a hit with paying customers downloaded
one hundred and twenty five thousand times since it launch
in July, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Do
you know the exact day that you're going to die?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I prefer to know the activity so that I can
stay away from it. Yeah, in time, I don't think
I care.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Uh. And then this one Japanese bank executives vowed to
pay with their lives if found guilty of irregularities. Shikoku Bank.
I'm trying to figure it is this? Is this a
national bank anyway? Is a Japanese bank that if any
of their employees.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Wait, you don't go to your local Hikoku bank that's
over here on the corner.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, I do some want people to know?

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Bank?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's true? Yeah? Yeah, let's see. Considering that they handle
the wealth of thousands, sometimes millions of people, but while
they face serious punishment in case, excuse me, in case
of fraud or embezzlement, they aren't quite expected to pay
with their lives. But that's not the case with the

(02:47):
management of Shikoku. UH twenty three top executives, including the president,
signed a blood oath requiring them to commit suppuku. That's
you know, when you take your you get on the pillow,
you cross your legs, and they hand you the sword.

(03:07):
You pull it out, you lay down the cover and
you grab it both hands and then you chab it
into your guts and then you bleed out right there.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's not just that you have to go from one side, it's.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's right, you have to get to your side to side.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think there's an upward movement as well.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I don't remember the upward I do remember the side
to side. I remember the upward movie.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Because if you don't complete the whole procedure, then your
family does not have its honor restored.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Right, Yeah, you got to do the whole thing. I've
seen too many movies of suppuku being Maybe maybe we
could get management here to agree that, you know, any
malfeasan sell commits supuku. But with my luck, they do
it here in the studio and just mess up the

(03:59):
studio even more than it already is.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
While you're on the air.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah. Well, and while I'm on the air too, now
this one I want to ask you about. Uh oh,
do American workers actually feel appreciated during the holidays, reads
the headline. The poll of two thousand US employees found
that fifty five percent I would ask you too, fifty

(04:23):
five percent of these two thousand employees that were surveyed
feel more appreciated during the holiday season than at any
other time of the year. Then the deck's paragraph is
what caught my attention, dragon, I want you to listen closely.
For the holidays. Two in three, or sixty five percent,

(04:44):
said they're likely to attend their workplaces holiday party this year.
Did you attend our holiday party this year?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
There was a holiday party this year.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's why I wanted to see what your answer was,
because I never got the invite to a holiday party.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Same neither did I, so I don't even know if
we're having one.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
How was your did you what'd you spend your company
gift card on? See?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
I think it was even the last year. Our Christmas
party wasn't until January, late January, so it just hasn't
come yet.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh so the gift cards haven't arrived yet? Yeah, yeah, oh, okay, okay, okay,
all right. Well then many said they would either come
for free food. We've seen what they bring for free food.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's just in trade.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I don't think yesterday they had a they were having
their Monday morning sales meeting, and dragon I walked past
the table out there four boxes of donuts, donuts, and
then of course oranges and orange juice. It was just sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar,
and then there was some more sugar. And then thirty

(05:59):
nine said they would go if their workplace friends came.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
People have workplace friends that like, who the hell would
that be? We have coworkers one moron I'm staring at
right now.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
But friends friends friends friends friends friends. If I ask
you to name two, three, four, maybe even five issues
that cost Kamala Harris the camp the election, why would

(06:35):
one of those five be one of the five? I
think would be her answer when she announced that she
was back back several years back, several years ago, when
she answered the question that yes, she supported transgender surgeries
for prisoners. Then she was asked during the campaign if

(06:59):
she still supported that, and she said that she did,
And I think that's one of the issues that cost
her the election. There's just a visceral reaction I think
among hard working Americans that struggle to pay their taxes
every year that look at transgender Look, look I need

(07:20):
I need my appendix out, and I can't even afford
to do that. And you're gonna go whack it off
for somebody in prison, and you're gonna pay for it.
And then once they get it whacked off, you're gonna
put them over in the in the in the female prison.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Nah.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't think. I don't think I go along with that. Well,
now we know that they have, They, meaning Biden and Harris,
have vastly increased spending for transgender surgeries and treatments, including
sex change surgeries for minors, spending millions of your dollars

(07:57):
those here's another area for you. Between January of eighteen
to September twenty three, sixteen states allocated more than one
hundred and sixty five million dollars for gender transition services. Now,
of the one hundred and sixty five million dollars, there
was forty five million dollars for procedures on children under

(08:18):
the age of seventeen. Of course, I should say seventeen
and undred to be technically correct. So seventeen under the
age of eighteen, seventeen and under, we spent forty five
million dollars on transgender surgeries for kids. Where do we
get the figures? States apparently think about how difficult we

(08:39):
have getting crime statistics. You know, the FBI puts out
its crime data report, and then we find out, oh,
maybe it's not as accurate as we think, because a
lot of police departments in the cities and municipalities don't
report their crimes to the FBI data database.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
State records on reimbursements for gender transition services covered by
state insurance and medical assistance programs do get recorded because
they employ medical billing codes in order to get reimbursed,
including those from the International Classification of Diseases. Illinois, Oregon,

(09:22):
Washington recorded the highest reimbursements for those services, including forty
point eight million, thirty million, and twenty seven point one million,
so every somewhere around thirty million dollars each for Illinois, Oregon,
and Washington services for miners, they spent fourteen point three

(09:45):
million dollars in Illinois alone. Maryland, Nevada also contributed huge
amounts to those services. The data reflects a sixty six
zero percent increase in funding for those interventions between twenty
twenty in twenty twenty two. HM, well, that's their policy.

(10:06):
So if that's their policy, what follows policy money to
implement the policy, And that's exactly what they did. One
such policy included diverting federal foster care money to pay
for fake penises for kids to support their chosen gender identity.
A fake penis? Is that real? Or is that memoryis?

(10:28):
Or we need a better uh tagline? Is that real?
Or is that blank? Fill in the blank for me?
Or what would you say? And then, of course, because
we all pay for medicaid, the Medicaid funding for transgender
related surgeries for minors has been made even more accessible

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and all because of changes in federal policy regarding discrimination
under the Affordable Care Act Obama roll that Obamacare that
played a role in twenty fourteen. Under the Obama Biden government,
federal rules were further altered to include protections for gender
identity and that prevented the insurance companies from denying coverage

(11:08):
for sex change procedures. You might want to go check
out your health insurance policy because you might be entitled
to you I can see the commercial. Now, you know,
trial lawyers have got the you know, if you've been
involved in a car accident like I do for Dan Caplis,
well you know, uh, do you need to have your

(11:29):
penis removed? Do you need to have your h on
the female side? Do you need to have something extended out?
Well call one eight hundred. You know, fix it, fix it, Richard.

(11:49):
We'll make sure that you get reimbursed for your sex change.
Why am I laughing? I shouldn't be laughing, because this
is true. This is what we're actually doing now because
the federal anti discrimination rules they were that were reinstated
by Biden Harris after Trump reversed them. Yeah, I think

(12:10):
this is one of the reasons why they lost. Now recently,
the prescription of puberty blockers has been deemed unsafe in
a lot of foreign countries and actually banned in some
foreign countries, but not here. We actually pay for it.
We actually pay for it. I didn't want to talk

(12:35):
too much about the pardon, but I need, I do
need to mention the pardon today too. White House Press
Secretary Kreean Abdul Jabbar Kreeen Jean Pierre has denied that
the eighty two year old farts now broken. Promises should

(12:59):
now be seen should not now be seen as lies.
She said, first of all, one of the things that
the President always believes is to be truthful to the
American people. That is something that he always truly believes.
This is all on a Gaglin air Force one. She said,
Honey was singled out because his last name was Biden. No,

(13:22):
Honey was singled out because he committed a crime. I
haven't been singled out because I haven't committed a crime.
I haven't lied on a background check. So there and
saying that Biden decided to issue the blanket pardon because
quote enough is enough. So then she gets pressed by
the White House Press Corps on whether the first son

(13:43):
supposedly singled out politically proves that DOJ is indeed partisan,
obviously trying to get them caught in a trap of
admitting that what Donald Trump says about the politicization that
the DOJ is true, and that his part based on
the fact that they singled him out unjustly and used

(14:06):
the full force of the federal government to come after
him solely because his last name was starting to say Trump,
which is Freudian is Biden. Doesn't that prove that indeed
the DJ is politicized. Well, she didn't give a clear answer,
saying that Biden believes in the Department of Justice, but

(14:27):
politics in fact of the process. Here is what she
had to say, topic of the day.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
You have said repeatedly yourself since the election, and the
President has said for months no pardon was coming. I
just I wanted to ask you to those statements have
be seen as lives.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Of the American people.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
Is there really a credibility issue here?

Speaker 6 (14:47):
Given now this announcement, first of all, one of the
things that the president always believes to be truthful to
the American people. That is something that he always truly believes.
And if you see the end of his I assume
that you've read his statement and you look at the
end of that statement, and he actually says that in

(15:08):
the first line, in the last paragraph and respects the
thinking and how the American people will actually see this
in his decision making. And I would encourage everyone to
read and full the President's statement. I think he lays
out his thought process, He lays out how he came
to this decision. He came to this decision this weekend

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so let's be very clear about that. He says it himself,
it's in his voice. He said he came to this
decision this weekend, and he said he wrestled with us
and because he believed.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
You think they wrestled with it over Thanksgiving dinner. I
think that's what they did. Hey, Dad, you know, going
around the table, what are you thankful for? And they
get the Hunter. Dad, I'm thankful that you're going to
pardon me. Oh yeah, I need. I need to do that,
don't I, Jill go right up.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
A statement leaves in the justice Simpson, but he also
believes that the war politics infected the process and led
to a miscarriage of justice. This is his words. I'm
just repeating what the president said. He also said that
no reasonable person, if you are looking at this in
a good faith way, if you are looking at the
facts of Hunter's cases and can reach you can't reach

(16:25):
any other conclusion. Right, and what we have seen, and
not just us, there's other people who have commented on
the President's actions in the last.

Speaker 7 (16:36):
Twenty four hours.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
I've lost track of time and could see that Hunter
was singled out and because his last name was Bagant,
because he if you.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Just switched the names Hunter and Biden to Donald and Trump. Yeah,
he proves that it was all politicized.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Hey, Mike, I just heard Joe Biden's third cousin, once removed,
was caught shoplift and he'll be receiving a pardon too.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
It wouldn't surprise me.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Seems fair.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Forty four to sixteen rites, Michael, I think the nomination
of Cash Betel scared the but Jesus out of the
Bidens because I believe that Cash knows where all the
bodies may be buried, and that is why Hunter Biden's pardon.
My belief is that more Biden family pardons are coming.
I agree. I think James Biden will be done on
January twentieth. He'll be one of the last ones because

(17:28):
I will be controversial because that will be pretty much
an admission that the whole money laundering and influence peddling scheme,
and for that matter, the violation of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act, the taking money from our enemies, the corruption
in Ukraine. I think all that will come to a head.

(17:49):
And I think that this is timed so that you
know now that we're over the shock. Although nobody should
be shocked that he pardoned his son. I'm a little
shocked at the timing. That's the only thing that surprises me.
I really thought he would do it, you know, on
January twentieth. But maybe things are moving faster than we

(18:12):
think they are in terms of any sort of investigation
that involves Joe Biden, James Biden. And of course they
know the incoming administration and Congress will be back in
session even before January twentieth, and Congress can start issuing subpoenis,
which is kind of a double edged sword. Because Hunter
Biden's no longer protected by the Fifth Amendment, he can

(18:34):
still refuse to comply with subpoena. He can still refuse
to testify, but will then be held in contempt of Congress.
And whether whether the Congress actually prosecutes or gets anybody
to prosecute him for the contempt charges will become immaterial
because even though under the Fifth Amendment their refusal to testify,

(18:56):
you cannot imply guilt. We all know that we do,
and we know that when you refused. Now, there are
times when it is legitimate to not testify. Daniel Penny,
for example, didn't take the stand in his case going
on in that New York subway case. No need for

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him to, because he fully cooperated, which still makes me cringe.
But he fully cooperated with the cops because he did
not know at the time, and in fact, Neely had
not at the time of his interview with the New
York PD. He did not know that Neely passed away.
Neely passed away either during or after the interview.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Are you referring to via Jordan Williams subway murder case?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I think that may be what you're thinking about, But
then you also think that we're allies with South Korea.
So you know, what can I what can I say?

Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's one of my own personal buggerbooies? Is it really
bugs me? Just just search for yourself.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
You know, we need to make we need to make
a list of like we need a chart and hear
of Igan's personal bugaboos. So I can as I'm talking,
I can look up and glance occasionally kind of kind
of expecting that you're going to, you know, throw in
your bugaboo about.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's the closest case possible. It's as close to apples
and apples as you can ever get.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
And and just how is that mister producer.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, in one case, we have a guy acting erratically
on a subway train and another guy steps in chokeholds him.
In the other case, we have a guy on a
subway train acting erratically and a intervener who stabs the

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guy acting erratically and dies one of them we're hearing
about right now. The other was dismissed immediately.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Because if it was so bad that you had to
stab that, it was clearly self defense must have been.
You just don't You just don't understand the law.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
No other differences at.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
All in the case trus Yes, there is. One had
a knife and one just simply had his physical condition
and his physical ability. That's all for argument's sake. Though.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yes, in the second case, the erratic person supposedly did
slap somebody on the train, but the other one.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Was threatening to kill people on the train.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, that's that's the biggest difference that I can see.
Go look it up yourself, Jordan Williams, New York Sebway,
You'll see what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
I don't think there's any difference at all. I really
don't think there's any difference at all. I mean, okay,
in a court of law. Yes, there is the physical
contact where he slapped the person on the train, but
here he was threatening people on the train. We treat

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those kinds of threats the same. There's a court case
I want to tell you about, if I ever get
to it. But before I tell you about the court case,
let's go back in time to the election, which is
almost now a month old, and thankfully, at least for
those of us on the right or Republican side of

(22:22):
the political spectrum, almost all the emails and text messages
and fundraising and all that's come to a halt. If
you are on the other side, well sucks to be you,
because you're still getting them. Not this past Saturday, but
the Saturday before. The formerly Harris Wall's campaign, formerly the

(22:44):
Biden Harris Campaign, is now known as the Harris Fight
Fund the Harris Fight Fund. They send an email to
all their supporters with this subject line, we need to
level with you about where we are. I can tell
you where you are. You're in arrears, You're in debt,

(23:05):
You're in the hole, your Deafit is spending. You're a
typical Democrat in spending that would make almost any you know,
drunken sailor blush. The Hair's campaign blew through more than
a billion dollars in only one hundred and seven days.
You know, the campaign was all about vibes, right, well,
you know, buying vibes is pretty expensive. Apparently maybe it's inflation.

(23:27):
You know, the price of vibes has gone up. Now
there's no mention in the email of the Hair's campaigns.
Absolutely reckless financial spending, not at all. Instead, they so
called level with their supporters by fear mongering guess what
Project twenty twenty five and that Trump is power hungry

(23:51):
and his cabinet nominees are power hungry. And then based
on all of that, they ask you to chip in
to directly power their fight againgainst orange Man bad. Now
that's just one single example of the losing candidates money grab.
On November eleven, they sent an emailed supporters warning that

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the Democrats needed more resources to ensure that to ensure
every vote would be counted in races that were either
too close to call or within the marginal recounts, or
that were already being you know, continuing to be counted.
And then just a few days later, the same Harris
Fhyte Fund asked for fifty dollars from their supporters to
hold Trump and his then nominee Matt Gates accountable. They

(24:37):
didn't say accountable for what, just we need to hold
them accountable. So I think that maybe she is bratt.
Remember that became a word that it went way past me,
But that became a word brat. How else would you
describe someone that spends all their money on concer call

(25:01):
her daddy set and it has the audacity to ask
for more of it while laying low at the MINDALVII
Wine families thirteen hundred dollars night vacation property on the
Big Island in Hawaii. Brat's probably an understatement. But to
add insult to injury political reports, how Harris is telling
advisors to keep her political options open while the talking

(25:23):
heads are saying she's done, go away no more. So,
which one am we going to believe? Whether or not
there is more appetite for Kamala, I think is unclear.
I think there are a lot of supporters, supporters, in
other words, just average Joe blows out there. They would

(25:45):
probably like to see her run again. That really do
buy into all of her ball crap. But it takes
a lot of money, and I think the donors are
fed up. So James Carvill is hitting the air waves.
He says that for the past decade decade, we concludes

(26:07):
two years of the Obama Biden administration, that the Democrat
Party has completely lost its way, and that the donors
are completely fed up and that they're never going to
give another dime, that they're over, and that she's over
and she needs to go away. Well, interestingly, Wisconsin court

(26:29):
is placing a lot of scrutiny on Act Blue. Surely
you remember me telling you about Act Blue. That's the
Democrat fundraising platform. That's where they try to funnel all
of the money into Waukeshaw County Circuit Court Judge Brad
Schimmel approved a subpoena directed at Act Blue demanding explanations

(26:50):
concerning Republican consultant Mark Blocks claims about unauthorized donations using
his email identity. In other words, they would use someone
else's email to fundraise, or they would attribute a contribution
to a email account like you know, they would take

(27:11):
you know, Michael Brown adiheartmedia dot com and claim money laundry.
In effect, claim that I contributed two hundred and fifty dollars.
Maybe I should go check. Maybe I have. Maybe I'm
a part of it. I don't even realize it. It's
a it's a way to get unauthorized donations using somebody

(27:32):
else's identity. It's identity theft. And all of that legal
action is part of a broader investigation that's being coordinated
by Congress and nineteen different states attorneys general. So Judge
Shimmel kicked out Actblues objections, which claimed compliance with subpoenia
was overly burdensome. Really, your job is to fundraise, and

(27:56):
as part of fundraising, your job is to track the
don their addresses, their email address, their occupation, all of
which is required by the Federal Election Commission. And yet
when they ask for the records, oh, producing those is
just that's just too much trouble. That's too much of
a burden. So the court granted mister Block and his

(28:20):
legal team from the America First Policy Institute God Bless
them permission to go ahead with the discovery aiming to
uncover potential fraud that is tied to the unauthorized donations
from mister Bock's old email address that was linked to
various liberal campaigns. So ActBlue, Yeah, this is going to

(28:45):
get better, it's not going away. But I don't know
is this retribution or revenge or is it accountability?

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Hey Michael, how about we end this show on a
positive note?

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Well you don't care, hey, Dragon, how about we end
this show on a pousetive note.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
How about those Broncos?

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Eh, go Broncos? What was the score last night?

Speaker 3 (29:08):
For two?

Speaker 4 (29:11):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Okay, yeah, all right? How about them OSU cowboys? Who
are they? Did you see that score? Who are they?
Fifty two to zip? I don't know what it was?
So back to Act Blue for just a moment. So

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even the House, the Congress has gotten it in the Act.
They've issued a subpoen at Act Blue about illicit foreign funding.
The Treasury Departments Detection System flagged hundreds of suspicious activity
reports related to the Act Blue platform, prompting further legislative scrutiny.

(29:53):
And now the knives are out. If you don't think
she's done, listen to this member of the Act National Committee.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Wow, why millions of dollars spent our starts started concerts celebrities.
Two point five million dollars went to Oprah's production company.
Oprah very well could have taken could have made an
in kind contribution and cover the production costs and her
employee's salary herself, but she decided to take in and
she decided to take payment from the campaign instead. And
also we learned recently that five hundred thousand dollars was

(30:24):
given to Al Sharpton kid shortly before he interviewed Kamala Harris.
So there's a lot of conflict of interests here and
we need a careful accounting and probably more granular than
SEC report would offer. So somebody needs to carefully explain
why they decided to, for example, spend nine hundred thousand
dollars on the sphere, because if we don't do that,

(30:46):
how are voters and donors ever going to trust the
Democratic Party? Again?

Speaker 7 (30:50):
Do you think on the flip side, a little over
one hundred days to mount a campaign was a near
impossible task. Would there have been criticism if the Harris
campaign did not spend, did not leave everything on the
table to spend every single dollar they have.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
And then some notice how she's trying the little talking
head over at News Nations trying to justify the spending. Well,
they'm they didn't have enough time, so they were just
throwing money at everything. Well, that shows how incompetent they were,
as opposed to sitting down even if he only had
one hundred and seven days strategically spending money appropriately. He

(31:28):
didn't need to pay Oprah. You didn't need to pay
you know, the whatever that Daddy podcast was, You didn't
need Al Sharpton. Has Al Sharpton ever come on air
and explained to his superiors or to his audience why
he took half a million dollars from the campaign for
his charity before he did the interview?

Speaker 7 (31:49):
Isn't it common for campaigns to end in debt?

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Well, when Obama ended in debt in twenty twelve, I
left the DNC in a terrible position because we had
to climb out of debt. That took a while, and
that definitely Even Hillary Clinton cited the twenty twelve Obama
dad as a reason why she lost because initially her
campaign was at a disadvantage. And also, there's no reason
why consultants became overnight millionaires.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Who became and that's the key. Consultants became overnight millionaire.
They soaked her and she was too stupid to know
it or she was complicit the