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We'll all be fire jail and if you want a
little bang in yan, come along. If you are a
threat to our people, the United States will find you
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and take you out. Oh he's right, because this bill
does raise taxes. They're wrong. It does not raise taxes.
And I've said this before. So think from a wind
farm in Iowa to a suburb in Chicago, or from
a solar farm in Nevada to a family farm in Missouri.
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and more bold inspired solutions for America. This is a
special edition of the Sean Hannity Show America Trapped Behind
Enemy Lines, Day number three fifty four. Day three fifty four,
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Joey abandoned our fellow Americans. Coming up now on the
one year anniversary of all of this, But they've turned
the page. They don't really care, do they now? Look
what's happened to the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan and it's
just so sad. Now it's a safe haven once again
for terrorist organizations, as we told you it would be.
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I mean, I'm glad they took Iwan's al Zawari out.
Happy about that. A great piece by Piers Morgan today
in the New York Post. Why is al Qaeda in Afghanistan? Hmm,
interesting question. I'll answer it for your peers. They're there
because they are now once again a terrorist safe haven.
He congratulated the President and of course our great military
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and intelligence services for what they did. I mean, this
guy was a killer. But the problem is, and nobody,
you know, everyone wants to go on that big victory lap.
There's one big, huge, gaping hole missing in the discussion,
and that is why have we allowed Afghanistan after twenty years,
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to get back in the hands of the same Taliban
that now don't let little girls go to school, that
prevent women from going to work and tell them how
to dress full Sharia law is an effect, etc. Etc.
And here's al Zawari casually just hanging out on a
balcony in downtown at our cobble and it was widely
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reported it's an al Qaeda's safe house. And now Thankfully
we were able to take the guy out. This, by
the way, it's really cool missile that they use with
this drone. It's it's the newest version of the health
Fire missile. It's it's a variant of the health Fire family,
and it's built as a precision weapon of targeted targeting
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for assassination a specific instance, just like this, when you
know the exact location of your target. Anyway. It's it's
the most it has its most distinguished characteristic inasmuch as
it doesn't explode. It simply uses its weight, momentum and
blade like appendages. There are four of them to kill now.
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It was first revealed in twenty nineteen and it's been
modified and it gets rid of the standard Hellfire's explosive
warhead with a halo of six metal fins, not four.
Six that look like swords, and they're sharp enough to
cut through concrete and steel on their way to a target.
In other words, they can go right through concrete, right
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throots steel and then hit the target and anyway. The
leaf payload has earned the name the flying Ghinzo or
the ninja bomb within the defense community. It's designed to
be launched from unmanned drones. It's one hundred pounds and
it deploys the blades through its skin while it's in flight,
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and one US official described the weapon as you know,
speeding literally, you know, falling from the sky with knives
wide open. I mean, it's this is a horrible way
to die. Anyway, good riddance. I'm sure he's in hell
with his buddy of Bin Lauden. All right, So last
night we had a lot of primaries, a lot of
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interesting primaries. If Kansas. For all the talk about Roe v.
Wade being overturned, overturned and the dab's decision and the
impact on twenty twenty two Kansas, it's probably the perfect
case and point that all of the fear tactics, all
of the hyperb all of the outright lyne that has
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gone on, that a woman's right to choose going to
be taken away. No, it's not. Because in Kansas they
proposed a state constitutional amendment that would end protections for abortion.
It's in their constitution. So the referendum on the issue,
it's the first one since the Supreme Court decision adopts decision,
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and what happened there is voters in the state of Kansas.
They flocked to the polls all day yesterday. And while
this referendum would have cleared the way for lawmakers to
decide not the constitution where that right is protected, in
very strong numbers, the people of Kansas voted to keep
the constitutional provision that allows abortion to be legal in Kansas.
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They rejected in that sense any opportunity for the legislature
in Kansas to restrict abortion in that state. And everybody
was thinking that that would never happen anyway. So if
you look at the numbers, I mean it was like
sixty three thirty eight the last time I looked. I
don't know what the final numbers were. So that was
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just one of the big races we were watching last night.
In Michigan, I think we may have a rising star here.
Well I've heard from a lot of people. I don't
know her, but conservative commentator Tutor Dixon won the support
of President Trump and she got the nomination to challenge
Governor Whitlas Whitmer in November. So that's going to be
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interesting to watch. And Missouri, the President decided it at
the end of the day that either Eric Brighton's or
Schmidt would be you know, good for the States. But
Eric Schmidt won this by a pretty big margin in
that state. It was a great nine for Donald Trump.
Will get to that in a second. When asked by ABC,
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there was a horrible New York debate last night. I mean,
Gerald Nadler was days confused. He was worse than Joe Biden.
His opponents are standing one Carol and Maloney. Both of
those are incumbents, but because of redistricting, they're now in
the same district, so they're fighting each other. And a
young Democratic politician, what's his name, Patel? I think anyways,
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he was. He apparently cleaned up both of them because
they're so out of touch there, both in their mid
to late seventies. Anyway, son Nadler couldn't even stand for
the debate, he had to sit in a chair. And Maloney,
by the way, this primary race because of the redistricting. Anyway,
Maloney made the comment that Joe Biden's not gonna run
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in twenty twenty four. Now, maybe she knows something that
other Democrats don't know. It looks like last night's Arizona
primary delivered a little poetic justice to the January sixth
Committee witness. You might remember Arizona how Speaker Rusty Bowers,
he lost his GOP primary bid to a challenger that
was backed by President Trump, coming weeks after Bauers delivered
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his testimony before that committee. I think next week we
go to Wyoming, where Liz Cheney is behind according to
the polls in her race for the nomination for Republican Party.
Out there. I think she probably is already aware that
her odds of winning are not high, and I think
she probably has her sight set on presidential run, either
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as a Democrat or maybe as a third party candidate
to try and siphon votes away from if it's Donald
Trump on the ballot in twenty twenty four. So Trump
made forty two endorsements in recent primaries, and if you
look at the figures overall, Trump is now in terms
of the candidates he's endorsed one hundred and fifty seven wins,
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ten losses. And if you look last night, the attorney
general candidate that he supported, the Secretary is State candidate
that he's supported, the Senate candidate he's supported, We were
supporting Bernovitch, she supported Blake Masters, will now support Masters
in his effort out there, And it looks like Carrie Lake,
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who had been trailing for a big part of the night,
came through with a really strong finish. But some of
the vote is still outstanding. They've not made a call
in that race yet. They did make the call in
the attorney general race, but we're waiting for the Arizona
governor race. But it looks like Trump could have run
the table last night when we finally get calls in
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Washington in District three, in Washington District four, it's hard
to tell because their primary system and Washington just takes
forever to count votes, but it was any way, you
look at it a great night for Trump, as you know,
when all said and done, he may have ended up
running the table. We'll see so much from the reports
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from the liberal medium mob that Trump's political demise is imminent,
perhaps greatly exaggerated, which shows this urgency to take a
one sided committee here where there's no defense at all presented,
there's no opposition voices at all, and they only give
one side of a narrative and don't even want to
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hear from the main principal players that involved in the
safety and security of the Capitol, like Nancy Pelosi and
Chuck Schumer and the sergeant of arms or the Capitol
police chief. You know, none of those people actually got
to testify. I mean it was that's how one sided
it was. Thinking, oh, we'll just hand all of this
one sided information to the Attorney general who's already politicized
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the Department of Justice, and he'll make an indictment. That's
what's going to happen. Well, let's see over time. But
you know what, where their minds are at at this point,
Democrats will do anything. Leftists in this country will do
anything they whatever it is. They just hate Donald Trump.
They don't want to hear about any other potential evidence,
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any other side of it, which is why they bubble
and fizz every time they hear his name or see
his face. Anyway, So if you look at all the
candidates around the country and in very key battleground states Michigan, Arizona,
for example, some fascinating results, all of it good if
you're a Trump supporter. I think this pro life amendment.
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It may be a warning for some Republicans, like for example,
I noticed Linda in your state of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court,
I believe, unconstitutionally has upheld the state's mail in voting law. Yeah, yeah, okay,
that's a five two ruling and two Republican justice is
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both voting no, meaning expanded vote by mail will likely
be in place for these key races for governor in
the US Senate. But the only problem is your state
constitution in Pennsylvania has very specific provisions that allow for
voting by mail, and that if they want to change
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the constitution and there's a whole process for that, I
believe this ruling is unconstitutional. I would agree with you wholeheartedly,
and I don't think it happened the timing of it,
with the USPS now having this new division that will
handle just mail in ballots, not to mention the fact
that the USPS union endorsed Biden in twenty twenty. So listen,
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I'm not against you can do mail voting the right way. Florida,
I think has figured it out better than any other state,
and I think there's a way to do it right.
Do I think that every state will do it right? No,
I do not. But anyway, quote, we find no restriction
in our constitution on the General Assembly's ability to create
universal mail in voting. According to the Justice and the
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majority opinion anyway five two ruling two Republican justices, both
voting no means expanded voting by mail will likely be
in place for races in November. I'm not sure if
they can appeal this to the US Supreme Court. I
would imagine they could, and if I was them, I
would and I would do it immediately. So we'll see
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two more prominent New York representatives join the list of
Democrats that refuse to openly support Joe Biden. And that
came out last night. I mean, they're running for the
hills when Jerry Nadler and Carol and Maloney both say
I don't believe he's running for reelection. In the case
of Maloney, too early to say, says Nadler, doesn't serve
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the purpose of the Democratic Party to deal with it
until after the midterms. You know, they're running away from
from anything Biden. And this is where this this new candidate,
I've never heard of. This guy could tell have you
ever heard of him? I haven't. But if he's going
to crush Nadler and Maloney, I'm all in. I like
anybody who makes them. He's gonna vote the same way
they would vote anyway. I don't know that. I mean,
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you and I have talked about this before. If it's
in New York, you don't have a lot of options.
You know, you have to run as a Democrat. You
really don't have a lot of options. Be good to
see Nadler and Maloney both lose. By the way, a
lot of articles today suggesting that AOC is the best option.
Who are the Democratic Party for president? Yeah? A Democratic
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strategist writing this anyway, Michael Star Hopkins arguing in an
op ed in The Hill that he compared the congresswoman
to Barack Obama as fresh air that the Democrats need
for their party AOC. Did you imagine an AOC presidency?
I honestly am getting sick just hearing you talk about it.
It's these people are so unqualified. What qualifies her to be?
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I wouldn't nominate her for I wouldn't elect her president
of her own apartment. I mean, it's what are we
talking about? The president of what? Her own apartment? She
can't run her kitchen. Have you seen her? I mean,
have you seen some of these videos she puts out.
It's frightening videos, pretty fascinating to watch. There's a picture
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television cameras called Joe mentioned kneeling on the Chambers blue
carpet next to the Presiding Officer's desk, seemingly trying to
convince Kristen Cinema to come over and support the bills.
She has been nothing but quiet on this, refusing to
say where she stands. It's now been a full week
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since Mansion and Schumer made their big announcement made this deal,
and the only thing we've read is that they purposely
kept Cinema out of the process so her resistance as
Democrats so frustrated Mansion. It's a funny picture. Do I
think he was actually on his knees begging no, but
it looks like it. It's pretty funny. And as the
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uncertainty bills, Mansion is waging apparently a charm offensive to
win over Kristen Cinema after he left her out of
the secret negotiations with Schumer. Now, Mansion left Cinema message
on Monday in the hopes of talking to her and
explaining why he struck the deal and why she should
support it, and he tried to catch her on the
floor for a conversation during the Monday evening vote, but
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without success. Mansion finally tracked her down on Tuesday when
she was scheduled to preside over the floor duty that
is routinely assigned to a more junior member at the
upper Chamber, and television cameras caught him kneeling on the
carpet next to the presiding officer's desk, seemingly trying to
talk her into it. Now, at the end of the day,
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do I think am I putting all my hope in
Kristen Cinema? I'm not If she ultimately caves the Schumer mansion,
five hundred billion dollars Green New Deal energy spending spree
is going to become law, and it's a disaster. The
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radio show, the mainstream media love state. This is the
Sean Hannity Show, all right, twenty five to the top
of the hour, eight hundred and nine four one sewn
want to be a part of the program as we
dig deeper into this Mansion Schumer monstrosity, This inflation Reduction
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Act that is the biggest lie ever told, This inflation
creating act at they're supporting. Not only does it hurt
the coal industry, which hurts West Virginia in particular. We're
now finding out that the Mansion Schumer Quote Inflation Reduction
Act LIE would reinstate sixteen point four cents per barrel
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tax on crude oil imports and taxes on imported petroleum products.
Why would Mansion go along with us at a time
of inflation, record inflation, record high gas prices. Biden has
tried three times to reinstate the tax has been unsuccessful
thus far. Why did he give in on this occasion? Anyway?
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The group Americans for Tax Reforms say the tax will
be paid for, of course, as usual, by you, the consumer,
because you'll be paying higher gas and energy costs at
a time when people can't afford to pay the increases
we're experiencing. Now, do you realize when you look at
this bill and you really dig down deep, and it
takes a while to cut through all the clutter and
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the weeds in this but in less than two years,
Democrats will have added four trillion dollars in new spending
in less than two years. That includes a trillion dollar
bill out to states like oh California, New York. Why
do red states that elect politicians that are fiscally responsible,
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that balance their budgets, that have balanced budget amendments. Why
are they giving you all of this money, trillions of
dollars to states like New York and California one point
one trillion for new Green deal pet projects and quote
infrastructure investments. They call it investing in what cylinder on steroids.
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Now they've got another five hundred billion to impete to
appease the religious green climate energy cult that is basically
running the entire Democratic Party. You look, despite the phony
name the Inflation Reduction Act, it doesn't reduce inflation. It's
not going to bring down any cost for anybody anywhere.
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In fact, if you look at Forbes, they said on
net this proposal is a recipe for worsening inflation and
persistent economic stagnation. If you look at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation,
this is their quote, by reducing long run economic growth
of Bill Worsen's inflation by constraining the productive capacity of
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the economy. The University of Pennsylvania Wharton budget model that
I've been quoting all week found that this bill will
increase America's inflation rate over the next two years. And
if you look at the nonpartisan Joint Committee on TAXA,
they determine a majority of the tax costs from the
bill will be borne by households YEP earning less than
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four hundred thousand dollars a year. And that means people
the majority of the sixteen point seven billion in year
one in new taxes will be paid by households earning
less than two hundred thousand dollars a year. And as
far as corporations and small businesses and those in the
manufacturing sector, they're gonna get they're gonna get clobbered with
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higher taxes, and of course they don't pay taxes. They're
going to pass the cost on to you, the consumer,
so you end up paying all of it. And in
order to squeeze we the American people to build doubles
the size of the IRS. We have what seventy some
one thousand IRS agents. Now we're going to add another
eighty seven thousand IRS agents. Now it's not gonna that
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won't impact my life. I always say, you'll just get
the Hannity treatment. I mean, I have it down to
a science. I haven't accounting firm, financial firm with some
of the best people. They do the first run of
my taxes every year. Then we hand it over to
my lawyers, tax accountants, and then they do it separate
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and apart from my tax accountants, and then the lawyers
all go over it so I don't make a mistake.
And usually the words pay pay it, pay it, pay
it will come out of my mouth one hundred times
in the course of the process. Well, you know, you're
probably eligible for this, but they might question it pay
it because there's no point because we already know that
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the IRS is corrupt. So with eighty seven more thousand
IRS agents, who do you think they're gonna be going after?
They're already go after the likes of me every year,
so they're gonna go after you. And by the way,
they usually get nothing out of me because we do
it perfectly, and we pay all our taxes, and I
advise everybody pay your taxes, just pay it. Linda, how
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true is all of that? You know for a fact
it's all true. Yeah, it's pretty sad. Actually, it's just pathetic.
Just why because I have political opinions and people of
the IRS hate me so that I could's been downhill
since Lois Learner. Ever since Lois Learner. It's just been
a nightmare. And nobody ever got held accountable, did they? No?
She pleaded the fifth. Yeah, so you know, Mansion apparently
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doesn't trust the nonpartisan experts at the Wharton Business School,
the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Foundation, you Pen,
Wharton School Business Model, none of that. So its supposed
to trust Mansion. Mansion was on with Harris Faulkner yesterday
saying over and over again, No, that's wrong. There is
no tax increase. No, Harris Faulkner was right. You were wrong, Joe,
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You're just wrong. It's your bill. You don't even know
what's in it. The same Democrats who swore that the
trillions of dollars of news spending wouldn't cause inflation, you know,
the same people that lied to us, Oh, inflation is
only transitory. We're supposed to put our faith in them.
You know, the same people that swore spending trillions will
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not cause inflation. We're in a recession and causing record
high inflation. The same people that said the US is
not in a recession. Okay, we have two consecutive quarters
of negative growth. That is historically the definition of a recession.
You know, the people that stopped oil and gas exploration.
Let's see in the Atlantic, the Pacific and anmir leases
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on federal lands killed the Keystone XL pipeline that would
have been done, we would be importing nine hundred thousand
barrels of Canadian oil every single day by now, the
same people that tell you to go buy that electric
car that cost you twenty grand more than a gas
fueled automobile charged eighty eight percent charged with fossil fuels,
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coal and natural gas and a battery produced from mining
all these minerals like cobalt and nickel and manganese and
everything else from Mother Earth with big heavy equipment that
uses diesel fuel. Okay, that makes sense to everybody, right,
you know, but of course you know he's going to
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get his favorite pipeline apparently that one of his donors
will benefit from. I mean, it's just the whole thing
just makes me sick. And now we're going to raise
taxes on oil when we're paying more for oil than
we've ever paid before. There's a Reuter's piece out today.
Now we now have had six consecutive months, two straight
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quarters of negative GDP growth, We're in a recession, and
is now telling us that the number of US workers
on the job and the total hours worked fell in
July according to industry data before the release of the
monthly unemployment report that is expected to show the labor
market is cooled after a surprise economic contraction in the
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second It's not a surprise. We saw a coming. We
kept quoting the Atlanta FED predicting that this would happen.
Employees worked approximately twelve percent fewer hours. Why are we
working more hours? Everyone else is working twelve percent few hours.
I need to work few hours anyway in July than
in the previous month, according to the analysis. Anyway, and
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they tracked data for about two million employees working for
more than one hundred thousand small businesses. The data aligned
with expectations for a slowdown in job growth. By the way,
this is exactly what Lawrence Summers says needs to happen
if we're ever going to get a handle on this inflation.
The Cleveland FED that we heard from the Minneapolis Fed,
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We heard from the Atlanta Fed. Anyway, The president of
the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank is now warning that the
staggering nine point one percent inflation rate that slammed all
of us in June is likely to get worse when
July numbers come in. Now and he's and they're saying
that the Federal Reserve is going to have to go
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on raising interest rates because inflation is not yet even peaked.
Cleveland FED President Loretta Mester said yesterday, we have more
work to do because we've not seen that turn inflation.
It's got to be a sustained several months of evidence
that inflation is first peaked. We haven't seen that yet. No,
because it keeps rising. How can you peak when it
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keeps going up. Other federal policymakers also signaled that they
and their colleagues remained resolute, completely united on getting US
interest rates up to a level that will significantly curb
economic activity and put a dent in the highest inflation
since the eighties. Great, let's slow down the economy. Let's
take out all the money that you had in your
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iray you four to one k, all the equity you
thought you once had in your home, which will evaporate
pretty much overnight. It's happening already. Energy experts are saying
the bidens session is the reason pump prices are falling. Now.
This was an interesting development I saw on the Wall
Street Journal today. By plunging the nation into a deeper recession,
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Americans have been forced to cut back on driving, cut
back on their air conditioning, cut back on long distance vacations,
and with the demand for oil way down thanks to
the depressed Biden economy, prices are finally dropping. And remember
in the lead up to the second quarter GDP numbers,
they were releasing strategic petroleum reserves just to artificially make
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it look like gas prices we're going lower. But that's
the temporary band aid solution they've tried in the past before.
And then as soon as they stop tapping those resources,
which by the way, we would need in the case
of an emergency, then all of a sudden, the gas
prices go up again. But now they're saying that people
just can't afford it, so they're not doing it, and
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it gets worse here. If inflation has impeaqued, that's bad
for everybody. Let's see Reuter's reporting a number of people
on the job, total hours work has fallen. I mean,
so where are we going from here? What does this?
What does this mean for the average American? So the
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Blaze had an article today two thirds nearly two thirds
of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck. I've lived that life.
That's not a fun life to live. It's not. You're
always worried about money always, and if you have kids,
it's even that much worse. According to this report new
report from the Payments Lending Club, they're pointing out sixty
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one percent of Americans one hundred and fifty seven million
adults living paycheck to paycheck as of June. That's up
from fifty eight percent in May and fifty five percent
from a year ago. And last summer, we were all
worried how quickly the economy would recover. Now, as implation
continues its upward swing, consumers are finding it more difficult
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to manage spending and eating into their savings, and financial
pressures are mounting. Well, what's supposed to happen? You know?
There's an interesting piece in the New York Sun too
about the politics behind demonizing American energy producers. Why do
we do that? Why do we always go after Why
do they demonize, for example, Walmart? I like Walmart? Why
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do they demonize big box stores? I like big box stores.
Why do they demonize big oil, big big you know
whatever it is, big pharmaceutical companies? Well, okay, those pharmaceutics.
You don't have to buy the pharmaceuticals. You don't have
to lower your blood pressure, you don't have to lower
your cholesterol, you don't have to take chemotherapy if you
don't want it. But I'm kind of glad that they're
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out there investing what ends up being hundreds of millions
of dollars before they ever get a drug that's approved
and brought to market. And many times they don't even
make it that far. But yet they lose those investments.
So when they finally get a medicine that actually works
and goes through the approval process, well we should be
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happy because it might save lives in the end. But
let's demonize pharmaceutical industry. Let's demonize big oil. Let's demonize
you know, how about big how about demonizing politicians. These
people are idiots, you know, well, they're just they're so
out of touch. There's so out of touch with what
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life is like for the average person. You know, for
a lot of people in Congress, they're they're making more
money for them than they've ever they could ever make
in the market place themselves, because they're not that great
at what they do. You're not watching this debate. The
highlights of it with Maloney and Nadler and this other guy.
The other guy was the best of the three by
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a long shot. Now, what did I tell you it
was going to happen with the housing market. I told
you new home construction is going to come to a
screeching halt. I told you that sale of pre existing
homes will then also come to a screeching halt, and
that the home valuations are going to decline, probably rather precipitously.
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Thirty year fixed mortgage rates saw its biggest weekly decline
since the beginning of the pandemic. Well, why because everything
I predicted to and told you it was going to
happen is now happening. In other words, they're not going
to be building new homes because people are not going
to be able to afford them with all the interest
rate hikes that they're having. We got a little window here,
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We got some good news where actually interest rates went
down even after the seventy five basis point increase last week.
All right, we got a lot of ground to get
tom By the way, we're going to be in Dallas
tomorrow doing the show from there from Seapack, looking forward
to seeing people there will be doing the TV show
also from there. When we come back, Bill O'Reilly later
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on Match Slap, who's the organizer of Seapack, I'll be
given a speech which will be fun. I haven't been there.
I've missed one year. I usually go every year. It's
one of the few events that I do. I want
to do it is a lot of young conservatives go
to these events and honestly, they're the future of saving
They're the future to save the country. Put it that way.