2-5-25 - 6am - Paradigm Shift

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning from South Dakota.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
President Trump is signing so many orders that he's giving
out pens like the governor did, paddle balls on blazing saddles.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Everyone have a great day.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh that's that's a good way to start out day.
Oh that was pretty good. So as long as we're
talking about good news, let's let's talk about some good
news and then and then we'll swerve into the into
the usual bull crap that we that we peddle out
here as a part of this uh whatever whatever it
is that we do on this.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Program, whatever it is we do, if they like it.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, whatever, whatever whatever it is, they like it, and
whatever it is. The uh details still to be fine lives.
But uh, let's just say that I'm.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Here for a while longer tag nabit.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
However, some of the details still to be worked out,
I would say, are fairly important.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
If I don't have enough money to buy my coax,
you guys are gonna have to chip in.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Don't worry.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
The company will pay for your McDonald's app to Oh,
they'll pay for that.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
They'll pay for that. The free app that you use
to purchase, they.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
They'll they'll download it for me. So and I have.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
What I have to do is I have to turn
over my phone to management. For I have to unlock
my phone and turn it over to them so they
can download the app exactly. You know, the day that
I turned my phone over to anybody, anybody in this building,
including you, it's probably the day that you just pull
it out at my dead cold hands.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
This is good news.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
However, good news always comes with a caveat or a butt,
or however you want to put it. But the Democrat
Party is underwater in Colorado. The disapproval ratings for Democrats
in Colorado has climbed to over fifty percent, albeit only
one percent at fifty one percent, but nonetheless there are more.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
There's more dis.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Approval of Democrats in Colorado then there is approval. A
poll commissioned by One Main Street no idea what that is.
It was in the stories of the Denver Post, which appears,
at least to me, looks to be like a moderate
Democrat polling organization. That's so, that's bad news for Democrats.

(02:23):
There was another poll by Keeping Research that showed that
only forty five percent of voters that they polled held
a favorable view of the Democrat Party in Colorado, compared
to that fifty one percent unfavorable opinion by one Main
Street where they did it. Here's what the Denver Post wrote, quote,
A majority of unaffiliated voters and a majority of voters

(02:44):
overall said Republicans better represented the working class, and we're
better at addressing the economy and inflation than Democrats.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Ouch out ouch ouch ouch ouch.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
So they talked to the chair of the Democrat Party,
Shad Marib Marub Marib. I don't know, m ri ib
nharb Shad Mahrib. I wonder if Shad Marib fits any
of those identities that we talked about.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Remember that they were voting for a DNC vice chair,
and you know, if we vote for a male and
we vote for a female or we've got two males,
we gotta do this.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
We got to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I wonder which category he fits in or she or
whoever Shad is. I don't know, Uh, actually admitted the
state Democrat Party chair actually admitted that these results could
have been worse because there is a Quinnipiac poll that
shows that the national Democrat Party's approval rating stands at

(03:46):
only thirty one percent, again compared to the forty five
percent in Colorado. Now, Republicans in Colorado poll higher than that.
They had a thirty seven percent approval rating. New York
Times and a story about these polls has this headline.

(04:08):
Many Americans say the Democratic Party does not share their priorities.
A poll from The New York Times and IPSOS found
that Americans believe abortion, LGBTQ issues, and climate change concerned
Democrats more than the cost of living.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Well.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
It doesn't take much to understand that, other than to
look at, oh, November, it was twenty years ago, a
couple of decades ago, we had an election and there
was a complete paradigm shift, which I want you to
keep that phrasing your mind for a moment. Oh yeah,
it was just November of last year, November of twenty
twenty four, when that paradigm shift revealed itself in the

(04:50):
Trump putting the popular vote and sweeping the electoral college.
So it's it's it shouldn't be surprising. You go back
to the Denver Post, though they say this still. Marie
the chair of the Democrat Party in Colorado, said he
was concerned about colorado voters identification of the Republican Party
with the working class a plurality of the polls. Participants

(05:14):
also said Democrats lost in November because the party was
out of touch with voters. You mean, because I've got
a story, you know, if I don't have a story,
But I want to talk in a moment of just
about paradigm shifts. But paradigms are not the only thing shifting.
The magnetic polls are shifting, yes, And might that have

(05:39):
something to do with climate change? And so are we
going to figure out a way to stop the shifting
of the polls? You see, they set up these straw
men that sensibly are to make us fearful of everything,
when what we're truly fearful of are things like having

(05:59):
a job or keeping a job, or getting paid enough
in a job to you know, meet your living expenses,
or what the grocery prices are. How much does a
or what do you get for one hundred dollars worth
of groceries, which you know, considering the price of eggs
and Denmark, is you know, not a whole lot. So
you people are just more concerned about that stuff. Do

(06:22):
you think that most Americans even knew what US aid
was before all the news broke? And I would even
ask now this audience, you I think are an exception.
But I think if you said that, or somebody just
saw the acronym, as I pointed out yesterday, think about
the acronym US Agency for International Development us ai D.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's you.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
It's pronounced us AID. Michael, What did I say, USAID?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's oh yeah, yeah, USAID.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's how you say it is us AID. Yes, and
see it right, Michael.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, if you would just let me get to the
point about the acronym, I would.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Say USA the acronym, it's USAID.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
So it's us aiding everybody else.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's us eiding everybody else. Yes, it's us aiding everybody else.
And when you look at the palettes of stuff that
end up in the Gaza strip, which is an amazing
story in and of itself, it says USAID, USAID, And
so people just think, oh, well, that's that's part of
our four and AID well to a certain degree. But

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it also goes to fund a lot of things that
you absolutely would not believe. So there there's this shift
going on, there's this realignment going on. I saw one
chart yesterday that showed, you know, concerns of voters uh
and you go look at concerns of voters, say twenty

(07:55):
years ago, and the concerns of I mean, the vote
concerns of voters are always the same. But the flip flop,
the poll shift has been in the party that best
represents that. The Republican Party has traditionally been the party
of you know, big business, big pharm, of big everything,
and you know, we were the party of the wealthy
and all of that. And I think that's always been

(08:19):
a misnomer. And it's an example of how Republicans have
been utterly inadequately nincome poops. When it comes to explaining
to people why conservative politics, conservative policies benefit the workingman.

(08:43):
The conservative politics and conservative policies is what and free
markets are what create jobs. Is what makes people able
to you know, afford you know, whether it's just an
average home or a really nice.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Home to afford.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
What it is that they're willing to strive for to
be able to afford, you know, whether or not to
you know, I always I always get a kick out
of of.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Don't don't get me wrong.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
I have a friend he may in fact, he may
be listening right now, who for his entire life, new
cars were his big thing. Always had to have a
new car, and every year he was always trading cars.
In fact, I have a son of the law like
that is like that that is constantly trading cars. And
I grew up in a family where my dad left

(09:33):
loved to have a new car, but once he got
that new car, he drove it until literally they had
to just bury it on the spot. And I've kind
of picked up that habit. And while I love new cars,
I love the Beamer and the Jeep. And you know,
my age might as well just keep those cars because
hell's bells, they'll probably you know, all die before they die.
But the point is we we take what skills, talents,

(09:58):
abilities that we have and we use those to the
best advantage. And if we have free markets, we can
either one create our own income by you know, starting
our own business figuring out a way to make money,
and there's a bazillion ways in this country to make money,

(10:19):
or the free markets enable you know, other people to
invest their money, put it into a savings account, or
put it into a CD, or actually put it into
equities in a brokerage account, or do something with it,
and those people accumulate capital and that capital then allows
somebody to create, you know, to borrow that capital or

(10:41):
to have that capital directly invested into a startup, and
they start a business, and that person goes on to
become an Elon Musk or a Bill Gates or I mean, anybody,
whether you like them or not. Those people create jobs.
And it doesn't have to be on the scale of
an Elon Musk. It can be on the scale of
money that starts a business that has you know, two outlets,

(11:04):
or two you know retail places, or two you know,
manufacturing places, or whatever it may be. But it's it's
those conservative principles that allow this country to be the strongest,
most dynamic economy on the face of the planet. It's
not communist China, it's not Russia, it's not some third

(11:24):
world craphole country. It's the United States of America. And
it's our free market capitalism. And it's conservative policies that
allow that. Now to give some credit, but very little
credit to Democrats, set aside all their cultural issues for
a moment. The Democrats have always been but you know,

(11:47):
we need to take care of the poorest of the poor. Now,
I believe, I sincerely believe this. I sincerely believe that
if we just eliminated all of the social welfare programs,
that one and all of the money that we spend
on those social welfare programs was returned to the private sector,

(12:08):
that the private sector. There would be all sorts of NGOs,
but in a good way, or a charitable organization or
a nonprofit organization, whatever label you want to put on it,
that would that would fill the gap. Now, I know
that we'll never get there because we're we're never going
to get rid of Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid.

(12:29):
Those entitlements are here to stay and we're not and
we're not going to get rid of them. But all
of the other things that we do that you know,
whether it's I mean, have you ever just thought about
the concept of school lunches. Now, let's think about school
lunches for a moment, because it's actually kind of a
bugaboo of mine. So now we provide school lunches, and

(12:51):
I'm going to use the word free here, although we
you and I know that it's not free because you
and I pay for those and we pay for school
lunch even for people who can afford to pay for
school lunches. But let's just say that we eliminated that
all together, and let's say that school districts eliminated it
all together, and there were kids in schools that couldn't

(13:14):
afford lunch. You can't tell me that there aren't nonprofits
that wouldn't rise up and their whole purpose would be
to provide meals for kids at school they couldn't afford
a school lunch. Or alternatively, a local school district, a
local school board would say we want to provide school lunches.

(13:35):
So rather than the federal government providing funding for all
these school lunches, school districts by school district by school
district would make that decision on their own, and then
you and I, as voters for that school board, would
make our individual decision for our individual community well, not
to provide school lunches. That's a conservative policy that fits

(13:57):
a liberal idea of let's help the pores of the poor.
The best way to help the purse of the poor
is through conservative policies. So this shift that this poll
points out is not surprising to me in the least.
You know, if you're a Christian, you recognize that God

(14:23):
always doesn't always, but you know, God sometimes picks people
that one. You know, when you pray that you know
they will be done. Yeah, it's pretty dangerous. That's a
pretty dangerous prayer because that means that you may be
set upon a path that hmm, maybe you really didn't
want to do, but that's what God's will is.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Or you don't really think.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
That you have the skills or the talent or the
ability to do something, and suddenly you find yourself in
that position and well, you may not be the best
at it, but you're.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Going to get the job done.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
You know. That's kind of how I viewed Donald Trump
right now, because what Donald Trump has done is Donald
Trump has started and now I want to swing into
the paradigm shift. He has swung into a complete, utter
paradigm shift about how we view the federal government. Yes,

(15:19):
there are certain things that the federal government should do,
national security, border security, you know, national defense to some degree,
I think this is way overblown. But interstate commerce according
to the Constitution, and of course you know, a judicial system,
you know those kind of basic things that are outlined

(15:39):
in the Constitution. Well, now he's in an upheaval kind
of bowl in the China closet way said, okay, well,
then let's do that. Let's look at every single thing
the federal government is doing, and let's figure out a
way to get rid of those things that we should

(16:00):
not be doing.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
And he's actually doing it. Now.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
What I find fascinating is this comes at a time
when Republicans have majorities in both the House and the Senate,
which is again why I say we're looking at a
two year window. I hope we're looking at a four
year window, or maybe an eight or twelve or a
sixteen year window, but nonetheless, right now, if you're just

(16:24):
looking out in front, we have a two year window.
And so to the point about handing out you know, paddles,
like when Blazing saddles, That's exactly what Trump's doing. He's
not wasting a minute of up ending the apple cart
of whatever stupid cliches I can use up ending the

(16:47):
apple cart. He's the bowl in the china closets, he's
turning over the money changer tables. He's doing he's doing
all of this stuff, and the Democrats don't know what
to do. They literally don't know what to do. And
some Republicans don't know what to do. And I think

(17:09):
some people who voted for Trump are starting to get nervous, like, oh,
we wanted change, but maybe we could have done some
incremental change. Maybe we could have done some things, maybe
a little you know, a little more subtle, to which

(17:30):
I would say why. Tama mentioned at we were having
dinner with some friends over this past weekend, and she mentioned,
I hadn't thought about this woman in a long time.
But we both had history teachers. She had Missus Herbal
and I had Missus Collins. And Missus Herbal was this
you know, I don't know she was. She was probably

(17:52):
my age when I had her, and I thought she was,
you know, near her deathbed, but she was, you know,
she was an older teacher. Missus Collins was a much
younger teacher. But they both taught primarily the same thing.
We both learned the same thing, and that was if
you go back and you think about the Founding fathers,
they were radicals. And if you're going to change something,

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if you want to take Peggy Noonan's ruler, and you
want to have a shift from that left of center
on the six inch mark and try to get past
the six inch mark to move to the writer center,
that takes things that push you way off the edge
on the right side of the scale to get you
to move even a little bit to the right. And

(18:35):
that's exactly what Donald Trump's doing.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
Michael and Dragon. Did you see the video of Chuck
Schumer and Maxine Waters holding hands chanting we will win?
Didn't the Dems lose everything like Dandy days ago? Interesting video.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
As a matter of fact, when.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Pray well, when way well, when way well, when we
well win, we will.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
We won't rest.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
We won't rest, we won't rest, we won't rest.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
Thank you, everybody, Regulator, sheer.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Thank you Schumer. Oh way. Well, when they're.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
They're all standing outside the U. S a i d Offices,
I'm sorry, the US eight officers there's they're standing there.
They're standing outside the offices chanting, we will win. Wait
wait you will you lost? You lost big time. Now
before I go now, I want to do this. I

(19:55):
still have more things to say about Trump.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
But goober number.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Ninety one twenty two, you answer my question for me.
Because today, rather than going to Circle K, I decided
that I wanted a McDonald's diet coke.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
So I went through.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
You know, I opened the app and I placed my
order for two diet cokes, and I noticed that, Wait
a minute, that's like significantly more money than I usually
pay for two diet cokes. And I open up the
the order and sure enough, you no longer buy one,

(20:40):
get one for a dollar.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's I don't know what to do.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Uh worst day ever ninety one twenty two, writes Mike
mickeyde got rid of the buy one, get one for
a dollar thing. The dollar drinks were a thing of
the past. Having a company pay for your diet coke
is a legitimate benefit. So Dragon, when I go back
to kind of uh finalize the yes, do you think

(21:07):
I can get Let's see what was I think today?
The cost was two ninety eight or something eight, So
let's just say three dollars fifteen dollars. You know I
can get a fifteen dollars a week raise.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
I mean, if Trump can get the diet coke button
in the oval office, I mean you should be able
to get one out.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
And somebody said, somebody wanted to know whether or not
I had the uh diet coke Michael seventy two thirty.
Do you have a diet coke button in your square
office that comes from Andy? So you may have not.
Well you didn't know it because you never pay any
attention to me. But I thought this was a pentagon.

(21:45):
But it's not one, two, three, four, five six, it's
a sixth shape.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Six side.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Do you count that little pillar there too, because I
mean it's.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, because it's it's at an angle.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well, does each one of those count? I mean, and
I know it's just a structural pillar in the in
the room, but it is a corner of the window,
so it would be.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
If you look.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
But if you look there angle.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
But there are three of them.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
No, there's just one angle. There's that.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
There's two windows at one angle, and then there are
three windows at another angle. So there's this side that side.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
But the pillar. But you don't count the pillar.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
No, I didn't count the pillar.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
The column.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
No, I didn't count the pillar itself.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Gotcha right?

Speaker 1 (22:32):
So one, two, three, four, the door five behind me? Site?
So what's the sixth sided? Heck?

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Segon?

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Is that a hexagon? I think I think you may
be right. I think you may be right, But no,
I don't have it. I don't all I've got the
closest thing I have to a diet coke button. Is
it's red and it's actually kind of red on top,
but I don't want to touch it because it's his
bald head. And every time I've tried to get him

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to get me a diet coke, it never works.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
It ain't happening.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
It ain't happening. So but you would think that, you know,
to save me a little bit of time. You think
that when I walk in the front door, that there
would be a goober out there waiting with, you know,
a couple of diet cokes for me from mc donald's
every day, and you all could take turns doing that.
That's the least you could do, considering the amount of
services that we provide to you every single day, considering

(23:28):
what we do and the value of what we do
for you every single day. And the least you could
do is, like, you know, bring and I don't want
to know damn cans of diet coke because that's not
the same. I need fountain diet coke. And it's got
to be of a certain the carbonation has to be precisely. Look,
you're talking to a diet coke connoisseur here, and I
you know, I'm the Sammie of diet coke, and you

(23:50):
got you gotta be.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
It's gotta be damn good.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
You line a coke diet, coke, Coke zero, Coke free
next to each other.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
He'll tell you the difference between all of them. Who
will you? Who you?

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I will yeah? Absolutely, yeah, Yeah, I have a confess.
I I wasted, you know, the little mini cans I
told you about. I thought I was those little eight
or six ounces whatever they are. Yeah, So I thought
I was buying some little mini cans of coke zero.

(24:23):
It should have to be coke zero Oreo flavored Oreo
Oreo flavored Coke zero Oreo flavor.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
What the hell is that?

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
But I opened it, you know, and put it in
the fridge and pulled one out, and I thought, well,
this is just you know, some unusual branding a can
or you know can. So I opened it up, took
a swig up it and thought, oh my god, that's awful.
It actually tastes like an six month old Oreole cookie,
which tastes the same as a fresh Monday Oreole cookie.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
And I I tried.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
I finished that one, and I thought I tried another
one later, you know, maybe a few days later, And
I thought I just can't do this. Then the kids
were over and my grandson grabbed one and he threw it.
He took hits and he threw his way. So I
had maybe I don't know how many Camp twelve cans,
so I may have had eight cans left in that box.

(25:24):
I finally just threw them away. Couldn't ten. I couldn't
take it, could not take it. So yeah, they're all
standing outside usaid, all cheering, we will win, we will win.
And I'm and I'm looking at it, and I'm thinking,
you know, you're a you're a United States Senator, You're

(25:44):
the Senate Minority leader. You're one time were the Senate
majority leader. Some of the most famous Americans have been
Senate majority leaders. You know, one in particular, probably the
most effective majority leader ever was LBJ Lynda Main Johnson,

(26:05):
and I just can't imagine. I mean LBJ was a character.
You know, he pulls the beagles ears up and you know,
takes a dump while he's talking to his staff. I mean,
he was quite a character.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
He was.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Now I disagree with just about everything he did, but
I was fascinated by him, and I would encourage you
to read the Robert Carroll Biographies of LBJ, because if
you want to understand a politician and how they are manipulative,
how they maneuver, how they operate, how they do things,
the Carrol Biographies of LBJ are a must read series

(26:44):
of books. And I wish Carol would finished the final book.
But I don't know why he's not finishing him. But
I wish it would have been like a decade or so.
But I can't imagine Lynda Maines Johnson ever going anywhere
in DC and acting like Chuck Schumer acts. Our politics

(27:06):
have turned into third world politics. They act like there
are a bunch of well they are mentally there are
a bunch of kids. There are a bunch of rug
rats brightened yet did you find that video? If you
have it, I'll retweet it real quickly and you can
put it up, which again is why you should be
following me on x at Michael Brown USA, I was.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Busy looking for the Oreo Coca Cola video.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
You were talking about the Schumer one.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yes, I just posted it.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, I got it up at Michael says, go here
it comme as well as the U Oreo coke.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
You found it video?

Speaker 1 (27:39):
You didn't believe me, did you.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
I was hoping that that thing didn't exist and it
was just a fever dream from you.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
But no, it's it's real.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
When I have fever dreams, it's a you. It's like
I'm dreaming that you and I actually worked together. That's
when I have like a hundred degree temperature, you know,
and they're trying to you know, me down, and they're
giving me all sorts of fluids and anibotics. That's when
I have hallucinations of actually working with you.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
That's that. Those are my fever dreams, not an oreo
coke zero.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yes, I got the whole.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
It's about an hour and a half or so protest,
the denis protesting the ua US aid shut down.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
It's absurd. I mean, it's just utterly absurd.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah, and I've got it right to the Shumer we
will we will wear.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
I mean he.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
And then he's grabbing people's arms and and I can't
remember the congressman's name who's kind of got us back
to the camera, looking at Chuck as if as if
I idolize you, Chuck, I idolize you.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I don't know, I mean, I know Trump does his dance.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Now, quite honestly, I think the dance is kind of stupid,
but you know, okay, go do the dance. But the
minute Trump starts doing the dance and starts putting his
hands in the air and starts shouting, we are winning,
we are winning.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Okay, then I'm going to draw the line at that.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Uh, you're the president of the United States, You're the
Senate majority leader.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Act like it.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
So back to back to Trump. So he continues to
ride this wave of just public popularity. Recent polls show
that Trump's public approval rating is hitting a high. Data
from Real Clear Politics, not exactly you know, your right
wing you know, nutjob organization indicates that forty eight point

(29:32):
eight percent of voters have a favorable impression of the Donald,
above the forty seven point nine percent who view him unfavorably. Now,
you may think to yourself, wait a minute, only forty
eight point eight percent have a favorable impression. Yeah, but
forty seven point nine percent view them unfavorably. And whatever

(29:53):
that delta is, that difference is is insignificant. But think
of it in the context of, you know, the governor
handing out paddle boards and blazing sidles all the time,
it's been non stop. And what I noticed last night,

(30:14):
and I know I've said this pubblicly before, but it's
one thing to say it, and it's another thing to
actually observe it. And that was, first and foremost, Donald Trump,
or at least the staff, or I should say Donald Trump.
Donald Trump and the staff and he's putting around him,
understands the power of television and television production. And I'll

(30:40):
tell you why next.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Acronyms are generally pronounced the way that start smelled. So
USAID wouldn't let me.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
You said, you.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Said, you said, yep, I'll just tell you inside the Beltway,
it's USAI d that's just ways and being the insider
that I am, that's just the way I did.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
That's I've always done at USAID.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
So with regard to Trump using every aspect of the
Oval Office and the presidency to do what I've been
screaming about for the past four years, and that's the
lack of world leadership, he has stepped fully into that role.

(31:23):
And I think that's reflected by these favorability ratings forty
eight point eight percent. I know it's less than fifty percent,
but considering everything that he is doing. That is an
amazing number. And I think that the wave of that
support is largely driven by his aggressive implementation of what

(31:44):
he said he was going to do. He signed I've
lost count a bevy of executive orders during the first
two weeks in the White House. He's launched this deportation
I mean actually deporting people. But more importantly, he is
showing us what he is doing. That's why you see

(32:09):
excuse me, That's why you see the video of Christy
Nome or Tom Homan. That's why you see Pete Hegsith.
That's why you see Lee's Alden. That's why you see
all the members of the cabinet who have been confirmed.
That's why you see them on television so much in
the field, not necessarily in their offices at the crash

(32:33):
site on the Potomac. In the Oval offices are greeting
Benjamin Nett and Yahoo. And there was a video that
I saw. I'm so sorry I swallowed run. That's why
there's this video which you can find on X. I
just reposted it on my X feed at Michael Brown USA.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Go follow me there.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
That is the kind of production that shows, first of all,
he will show you a great siders view of the
West Wing. It will show you what most people don't see.
He leaves the Oval office because he's going to walk
down this You walk down this hallway and you go
down the hallway of the East Wing to go to

(33:17):
the south portico where Benjamin Nettanya, who's limousine's going to
pull up, and the camera shop above and behind him
showing him walking down and people stepping aside against the
hallway because the West wing's a crowded place. People think
it's this huge place. It's very very small, very cramped,

(33:37):
very very tight, and so people step along the wall
so the President of the United States of American can
walk by, and then they show him waiting for the
limo to pull up, and it's just this powerful visual
and I think he understands this is from its TV days,
and so the people around him understand that if we're

(33:59):
going to keep breaking the China like we are, we're
going to have to have visuals to show what we're
doing in addition to just talking about it. And I
think that is driving some of these poll numbers. Now,
stop and close your eyes for a minute. Now, I
know if you're stuck in traffic. It's safe to do
because you're not going anywhere anyway. Just close your eyes

(34:20):
and think over the past four years and think about
what we saw with Joe Biden. First of all, you
barely ever saw him, and then the second gold when
you did see him, it just gave us father to
make fun of him the next day because he couldn't speak,
He couldn't talk, he was half asleep most of the time.
I mean, think of how many videos we have of

(34:41):
him sitting in a meeting with his eyes closed or
looking down at notes whilst Trump doing Trump sitting behind
the resolute desk, answering reporters questions as he's signing documents
off the cuff. This is an activist president and that's
exactly what we wanted.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
And the