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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Thank you, Scott Shannon, Thanks to all of
you for being with us. Write down our toll free
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if you want to join us. Well, everybody needs to
know a little bit of context here in the hours
leading up to the Alaska summit with President Trump and
Vladimir Putin Ukraine, was you know, bombing the night before
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up to you know, like twelve hours before the actual
summit took place, and Vladimir Putin immediately there thereafter the war,
they never the ceasefire was never really one of the
top priorities of the president, and he pointed that out
and every other agreement he's been involved in from India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, Rwanda, Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Zabaijan, Ethiopia,
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and Egypt, you know, they never had the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
First.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He said his goal was going in to have the
second meeting, and it looks like it's going to happen,
but I don't know that it's going to happen. I mean,
at the end of the day, Donald Trump can only
do so much. I don't think there's any other world
leader that had the stature, the strength, the ability to
pull off what he's pulled off so far. Bringing Vladimir
Putin to the table. I think he did it from
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a position of strength. I think by strengthening NATO. Nations
commitments to NATO played a big part in it, and
they more than doubled their percentage of GDP that they
will contribute to their defense. I think getting the European
Union to wake the hell up. I went into great
specificity in detail in this on this last night. It's
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so frustrating on so many levels to watch the Europeans
be so stupid when it comes to Vladimir Putin. It's
actually mind I mean, because they're the ones that have
been funding Putin's war machine the entire time. You know,
the President is showing by strengthening NATO, by doing a
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trade deal that takes nearly a trillion dollars in energy
energy purchases out of Putin's pocket, by pressuring India and
with tariffs and saying you keep buying Russian oil, it's
it's going to be a fifty percent tariff on you.
And he is He's going right to the heart of
the Russian economy. That's why when the President said the
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consequences will be dire, he's not talking about America going
to war with with Vladimir Putin. He's talking about America crushing,
crushing Vladimir Putin's economy. And you know, I think that
is the only way to get Putin's attention. I think
those those are the main reasons why that you know,
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you finally got you finally got Putin to the table
in the first place. Now, as far as I'm concerned,
I'm I'm furious with Europe because as bad as Obama was,
you got to take this back to when Bill Clinton
pressured I just want you guys, you know you don't
need after the breakup of the Soviet Union, you guys
don't need these nuclear weapons going to be in the
best interest, We'll have security guarantees.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
The biggest mistake Ukraine ever made was given up the
nuclear weapons. They never should have listened to Bill Clinton.
And when Crimea happened and it was annexed in twenty
fourteen and Obama's president, he didn't lift a finger in
spite of the fact that the US was a party
to an agreement that would guarantee security for Ukraine and
prevent that from happening.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Nothing. Joe Biden. We know the story about Joe Biden.
Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You know Putin's building up troops, military equipment on the
Ukrainian border.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
He does absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But the other factor in all of this is the
rest of Europe and how they have grossly mismanaged this
regional crisis, and frankly, are are equally as responsible as
past democratic American presidents in terms of showing weakness and
stupidity in naivete when it comes to Vladimir Putin, because
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it's them that have been funding his war machines for decades.
I pointed this out and went into great specificity in
detail on TV last night. Prior to Putin's invasion to Ukraine.
A lot of these European countries, they're buying one hundred
percent of their gas, the natural gas, which is the
lifeblood of the world's economy, from Russia. This is why
Trump what he I keep telling you what he what
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he did with Angela Merkel was basically when he handed
her the white flag of surrender, because that's what Europe
has been doing. They're surrendering their culture, they're surrendering so
many different things. It's really spectacular to watch, you know,
the decline of a continent. But major European powers like
Germany's sending tens of billions of dollars to Putin. That
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funded his military build up, that's funding his war machine.
And in Trump's first term, Europe defied his warnings, doubled
down on dumb and dumber, and they kept building more
pipelines into Russia. He was shutting down nord Stream too.
If you recall back in the day, and even several
years ago, Europe was still sending Putin around twenty you know,
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twenty two billion dollars a year for Russian energy. In
other words, they're funding Putin's war machine. So I say
this in light of the news that broke just earlier
today that NATO had to scramble warplanes because Russia hit
near the Romanian border in Ukraine, and two German warplanes
were scrambled overnight from Romania after Russia launched a large
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scale missile and drone attack in Ukraine less than a
mile from the NATO borderline. Now that's Vladimir Putin's saber rattling,
but it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
This decision of whether the war is going to stop
is going to be made by Vladimir Putin and by
President Zolensky of Ukraine, and if they let this opportunity
pass well, the results will be devastating. The results for
Vladimir Putin are going to be severe. Economically, the lifeblood
of Russia's economy is the sale of energy. And right now,
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Lindsey Graham in the US Senate, you never get eighty
five senators to agree on anything, but they're all sitting
tight on top of a sanctions bill that will go
after Russia and their energy. And then the President will
use the power of our economy to prevent other countries
from buying Russian energy period And I think Plan B
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probably starts right about now for President Trump, and that
is punishing Moscow, and by doing it, you're doing it economically.
And then the fact that the President will sell sophisticated
weaponry to Ukraine is another motivation that it should motivate,
you know, Putin to want to make a deal here.
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Do I think it's in the best interest of Ukraine
to stop this. I do because at the end of
the day, the fact that they have fought so valiantly
and so successfully. I don't think anybody at the start
of this conflict thought that we'd be three years into
this and that Russia has not been more successful than
they have been. I mean, yeah, they've hit a lot
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of areas within Ukraine, but in terms of territory that
they gained relatively small considering what was supposed to be
the overwhelming might of the Russian army, which has not
been particularly impressive, especially in my view. You know, you
kind of use the plan that I think the president
used with Iran and with Hamas and funding of terror.
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I mean, we know that the Iranians of the number
one state sponsor of terror. We know that they helped
PLoP plan and scheme when happened October seventh, twenty twenty three.
We know that revolutionary forces were responsible in part of
the planning, Kud's forces part of the planning. We know
that they provided the weaponry for Hamas in the south
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and for Lebanon and the north, and for the Huti
rebels and other terror groups throughout the region. And you know,
it's interesting after the fiftieth day that Donald Trump gave
Iran to go to the table and make a nuclear deal,
and they basically thumbed their middle finger at the US.
On the fifty first day, Israel went in there and
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decimated them, absolutely decimated them, taking out their missile battery systems,
taking out their air defense systems, taken out pretty much everything,
which paved the way for a very difficult what ended
up being an extraordinar extraordinarily successful effort, and that was
to take out their nuclear sites. Now the result is
they the Iranians were near bankruptcy during Trump's first term
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because of the sanctions that he had put on them.
They were working and you saw the people in Iran
beginning to rise up because they were sick and tired
of living under these you know, rigid mullahs in Iran
and these rigid rules that were put in place. Anyway
to fast forward, we have a group of reformers now
inside of Iran and this was reported on today in
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the New York Post. They're calling for a ran to
suspend their uranium and Richmond program, in other words, give
up their nuclear ambition. Why because they want to reach
a deal with the US to ease sanctions on the
country as they face widespread power and water shortages, and
they're struggling financially, and their people are beginning to struggle.
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And if they continue to struggle, you know, usually the
outcome of such a struggle ends up with some type
of new government taking over. And that's kind of similar
to what happened in the Cold War. I mean, Ronald
Reagan showed strength. Ronald Reagan came into office, he had
militarily what he called a gap of vulnerability. He had
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planes that couldn't fly at ships that couldn't go out
to sea. We had a depleted military, very similar to
what President Trump just inherited, and he set about building
a six hundred ship navy and modernizing all our military equipment,
replenishing our military equipment, advancing our military technology. The big
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issue as President Reagan went into his summit with Gorbachev
at Reikievic was the issue of strategic defense. With the
media in this country mocked as you know, Star Wars, well,
real life Star Wars has been happening all over the
Middle East thanks to Ronald Reagan's vision of strategic defense,
and I argue that might go down in history as
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his greatest legacy. I think if the President's capable of
building out a golden dome to protect America from you know,
new modern weaponry that it is being developed on a
daily basis, including hypersonic technology. You know, we there could
be down the line in the future at some point,
at some date, untold millions of lives that can ultimately
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be said because of the technology we're beginning to develop
even today. And I know people that are working on it,
and they are going, you know, hardcore, deep in the
paint to get this done as quickly and as expeditiously
as humanly possible. You have a viral video of a
Rhode Island Democrat attorney general threatening police while resisting arrest
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after being told to leave a restaurant. Linda, did you
see that video? It's unbelievable. See the horrible, I mean,
it's insane body camera footage showing a Rhode Island prosecutor
but rating a police officer and attempting to avoid arrest
after a drunken night out with a friend. The Rhode
Island Special Assistant Attorney General, Devin Flanagan Hogan, a Democrat,
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arrested Thursday for allegedly trespassing at Clark cook House, a
swanky waterfront restaurant in Newport. I'm an ag. I'm an ag.
You know what are your probable cause to detain me? For?
Hogan complaining as the cops are trying to handcuff her
and jeezus out there in the slinky little dress trying
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to you know, tell them you better turn off your
You're going to regret this. You're going to regret this.
Why do people do? It's sort of like those people,
famous people that walk into arrested. Do you know who
I am? You do not know who I am. I
can't stand these people. Unbelievable. A top Justice Department mortgage
fraud prosecutor is urging New York Attorney General Leticia James resign.
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The Justice Department Special Attorney for mortgage fraud Ed Martin
has now urged the New York Attorney General Letitia James
to resign as his office is investigating her for potential
mortgage fraud. He sent a letter to James attorney Abby
Lowell on August the twelfth, in which he said James
would best served the good of the state and the
nation by resigning from office. Who addressed the issues in
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the referral. A resignation from office would give the people
of New York and America more peace than proceedings. It's
so interesting to watch those people that were most active
in weaponizing justice and her and Adam Schiff and all
these other people. Adam shift got the preemptive pardon. It's
going to be difficult to go after him. I don't
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think Letitia James got one. I didn't see her name
on the list. I didn't see Alvin Bragg's name on
the list. But Adam Schiff, you know, man, Democrats, I
guess they're just so arrogant. They think they can get
away with everything. I have to hire accountants and attorneys
for every aspect of my life because I know if
I don't dot every eye and cross every tee, forget it,
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they'd come after me in a heartbeat. Good news today
New York Times. Voters are abandoning the Democratic Party in droves.
I don't want to say the death cycle of the
Democratic Party, but there seems to be no end to this,
one voter. One voter registration expert said anyway. According to
the detailed analysis the Times headline this morning, Democratic Party
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faces a voter registration crisis. The party is bleeding support
beyond the ballot box. The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters
long before they even go to the polls of the
thirty states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats
lost ground to Republicans in every single one between twenty
twenty and twenty twenty four, often by a lot. The
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four year swing towards Republicans adds up to four point
five million voters, a deep political hole. I don't even
know if this current Democratic Party can pull their way
out of that. So things are changing. And you saw
in Matt Towery insider advantage in his poll. You know,
every demographic is moving towards Donald Trump fifty four percent approval,
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forty four percent disapproval, and every demographic he's on the
positive side, not on the negative side.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So there is a movement in this country that is
very real.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And as I have pointed out, there are most polling
outfits oranizations, especially if they're related to the legacy media.
They have never really polled Donald Trump well in the
ten years he's been on the political scene. Since twenty fifteen,
they just haven't and they don't understand him they don't
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understand the people that support him. They use methodologies that
are biased and designed to be biased. They will usually
overpoll Democrats as a means of creating an impression that
is false. You know, Like recently, up until this week,
I've been seeing poll after poll kind of showed that, oh,
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Donald Trump, is that a loan? Now it's at thirty
eight percent, and it shows up on a liberal website somewhere.
And then when a poll comes out by Matt Towery,
who has consistently along with Robert Kahley and John McLaughlin
and Rasmussen and Atlas Polling, who really only shows up
during election years, and I don't even know who they are,
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but they have been the people that have been consistently
correct and consistently right. And so when Matt Powery after
the Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin shows Trump with a
fifty four percent approval rating forty four percent dis approval rating,
I believe his numbers because he was right in twenty sixteen,
he was right in twenty twenty, he was right in
twenty twenty four. Anyway, So for the New York Times
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to hit the panic button like they have with the
headline the Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis and
that the party's bleeding support beyond the ballot box. It's
not hard to figure out why. I mean, it's every
issue we talk about every day. I mean to see
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the Democratic Party be the party of sanctuary cities and states,
the party of defund dismantled no bail laws, the party
of wokeism, Deiism, championing the right of men to play
women's sports, the party higher energy prices, the party of
now outright Marxism. Forget about which is the Green New
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Deal is is basically the same thing, just with a
different name. But that's you know, cradle to grave, womb
to the tomb. And so this party has been radicalized.
Any moderate voices that might exist are fearful to take
on those loud voices that now control the Democratic Party.
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And you know the names Pocahontas and Grandpa Bernie. And
if you look to the younger generation, it's Mom Donnie,
Marxist Mum Donnie and AOC and squad members and and
so this is what people hear every day and see
every day. And Jasmine Crockett, I mean Stephen A. Smith
gives me a hard time because I know.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
What you're doing.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Like, what do you mean you know what I'm doing? Yes,
I see, I see the Democrats that you play on
you show, you play, you play the crazies in the
Democratic Party said pretty much they're all crazy. And for
those people that might not be crazy, well, where are
their voices except for John Fetterman. And John Fetterman is
excoriated by his own party and is very very telling
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to see Josh Shapiro was what I thought would be
a more moderate Democrat, definitely dipping his toe in the
water and to see if there's any appetite for him
to run in twenty twenty eight, you know, by coming
out championing the right of men and women's sports and
him coming out what was the other woke issue that
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he came out with, It was one other one. I mean,
for him to take on these radical social positions means
to me that he knows that he if he's thinking
about running for president, he can't win if he's going
to be a moderate. Here's their long term problem is
that on every eighty twenty seventy five, twenty five, ninety ten,
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ninety five to five issued they're on the wrong side.
They don't want to build a wall. They lie to
us for four years. They don't even want to ever
call or acknowledge people that have been victims of the
twelve to twenty million unvetted Biden Harris, the illegals in
this country, people that are victims of murder, rape, and
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their families and in the aftermath of this other violent crimes.
They don't want to deal with it. They'd rather be
the party that stands up for Brego Garcia. They'd rather
be the party of sanctuary cities.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Now, California, we find out this truck driver in Florida
came into the country in twenty eighteen illegally. And this
guy goes to California gets a commercial driver's license. The
Trump administration denied him his right to a commercial license.
Joe Biden's administration gave him a commercial license. One report
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today that the guy didn't even know how to read English,
and he's out there driving a rig and he makes
a U turned and now we have three dead Americans.
At what point do we not recognize the democratic policies
aren't keeping people safe and secure?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
How? How has this defund dismantled no bail law idiocy
worked out not working out very well. You know, our
nation's capital, just like New York and California and Illinois.
Look at look at how many we don't even count
dead people in Chicago anymore. We don't even doesn't even
make news anymore. The only reason it makes any news ever,
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it's on shows like this. I mean, we have, we
have tried to highlight this issue since Barack Obama was president.
We could only find two, maybe three times in his
entire presidency that he talked about the murder rate and
the violence in his hometown of Chicago. You know, if
it wasn't for Giano Calwell, who lost his little brother,
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who was murdered, innocently murdered, lauded on the streets of Chicago,
just another name, And if he hasn't been out there,
you know, screaming loudly and championing on on this show
and on Fox and other places, you know, nobody would
know anything about Chicago violence. But it's still going on.
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It's still happening in cities like New York. It's still
you know, all these cities that have adopted all of
these insane no bail laws and defund and dismantle and
let's put in social workers' attitude and reimagine the police nonsense.
That's not working out.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Democrats just voted for the largest tax increase in the
history of the country instead of the lower the largest
tax decrease in American history. They claim to care about
working men and women, they voted to raise their taxes.
Donald Trump Republicans thankfully prevailed. And now we have no
tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and every American
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that makes money is getting a tax cut everyone, and
the president's protecting social security. Democrats like Obama told us
forever that manufacturing was never coming back to America. All right, Well,
Donald Trump, he was getting excoriated by all the quote pundits,
the punditry class over the issue of tariffs. Well, those
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tariffs resulted in a massive change in behavior. And America
had been ripped off, taken advantage of for so many years,
and it just nobody ever dared challenge the status quo.
He challenges the status quo on everything. He's been able
to control the borders. He's now deporting illegal immigrant criminals.
He's opened up drilling and fracking and coal mining. That's
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going to be. We can't even begin to calculate the
impact that's going to have on the economy. He's gotten
over fifteen trillion dollars in committed moneys and manufacturing over
the next four years, high paying career jobs for Americans,
and that's in auto manufacturing that wasn't going to come
back to America. We were told, you know, we have
outsourced pharmaceutical manufacturing, which is dangerous to our supply chain lines.
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You know, We've outsourced semiconductor chips, that's been dangerous. We've
outsourced rare earth minerals, which are vital and critical to building,
you know, our defense. It's necessary for our defense Department
in ways that I can't even begin to describe, but
I've talked to the experts about it, and that includes magnets.
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You can't build cars without magnets and rarer minerals, you
just can't. And yet we have outsourced a lot of
these raw materials to other countries because of these strident
environmental policies of the Democrats. So when you see this
attrition among the Democratic Party, it should not be a surprise.
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Of the thirty states that they tracked voter registration by
political party Democrats of lost ground to Republicans and every
one of them and in most cases by an awful
lot a lot to make a difference. And you know,
it's up to nearly five million voters, and there's a stampede.
And again this is just post twenty twenty four. If
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Donald Trump is is able to bring the economy back
to anywhere near the boom that I expect, again putting
aside unforeseen circumstances, if he's able to bring back the
economy with manufacturing in fifteen trillion, and also add to
the coffers, because now we're putting tariffs on countries that
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have abused us and taken advantage of us all these years.
And if lower taxes stimulate the economy as it always
has historically, like when Reagan gave us, at the time
the largest tax cut in history, dropping the top marginal
rate from seventy to twenty eight percent, revenues doubled. If
we can get you know, fifteen to twenty million new
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jobs online, if you get Americans off of government assistance
and back in the workforce, that's going to increase revenues.
And if you you know, deregulate, if you eliminate regulation.
How do you fail? And this is what? Now? What
on what issue is the Democratic Party on the right
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side on? You know, for the first time since twenty eighteen,
more new voters nationwide are choosing to be Republicans than Democrats.
All told, Democrats lost two point one million registered voters
between and twenty twenty four in thirty states along with
Washington d C that allow people to register with a
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political party, and the remaining twenty state voters do not
register with a political party. Republicans, you know, all told,
have gained nearly five million people. I mean, what adds
up to a you know, a a net ad of
just shy of five million people for the Republican Party.
Democrats went from a nearly eleven point advantage over Republicans
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on election day in twenty twenty in those places with
partisan registration to just over six percentage points in twenty
twenty four. And it's going down precipitously because they have
not had any introspection any course correction.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I mean, it really is.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
If you look at Gavin Newsom, I don't think there's
any doubt about it that Gavin Newsom definitely imagines himself
in the Oval office. Being president. That's my take. I
don't dislike the guy personally, got along great with him.
He doesn't like me anymore. I don't know why that's
up to him. But if you look at him, for example,
he's tried being a podcaster. He's, you know, first he's
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we're building up a fund to fight Trump, and then
it becomes well, let me talk to conservatives, let me
bring on Steve Bannon, let me bring on people like
Charlie Kirk, and then he says I've never been for
men playing women's sports, until the tape comes out and
contradicts exactly what he's saying. You know, Gavin's of the
unfortunate situation for Gavin is he can try to evolve
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and create new images. Now he's trying to be you know,
Donald Trump, like, you know, going after people on Twitter,
and it's backfiring because it looks silly. Even Morning Joe
is making fun of it today. If Liberal Joe's making
fun of you and you're a Democrat, you got a problem.
You got a big problem. But that's not what's gonna
you know, it doesn't matter how slicky is, doesn't matter
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that he can talk speak well, None of that matters
when you have a twenty five thirty year track record
and every comment you've ever made in every position you've
ever taken is going to be examined, and you're on
the wrong side of every issue. And there's a reason
that people have been leaving California in droves. It's the
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number one tax state in the country, is the worst
schools in the country. It's a sanctuary state. You have
sanctuary cities all over the place. The quality of life
issues are very, very real in California. I mean, stores
are closing left and right. And I saw today. I
don't know if you've heard about bed Bath and Beyond,
but they made an interesting observation. At least I thought
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it was pretty interesting. And I like bed Bath and Beyond,
not that I ever go shopping, but they've been struggling financially.
They actually put out a statement from the executive on
the board of bed Bath and Beyond and they put
it on Twitter, and he said, you're not going to
open up any retail stores in California. This isn't about politics,
It's about the reality. A California system makes it nearly
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impossible for businesses to succeed. And I won't put our company,
our employees, or our customers in that position.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It's not about politics.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Higher taxes, hire fees, hire wages that many businesses simply
cannot sustain, and endless regulations that strangle growth that sums
up the Democratic Party today. None of this is surprising
to me. No course correction, no introspection, nothing, and I
wouldn't expect it either. I don't think all of a sudden,
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the Democrats are gonna wake up tomorrow and Chuck Schumer
and how came Jefferies, will will find an ounce of
courage and stand up to the likes of Jasmine Crockett,
AOC the Squad, Bernie and Pocahontas that are the dominant
voices in their party. I don't think that's gonna happen.
I don't think they're gonna say let's secure the border.
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I don't think they're gonna say let's refund the police.
I don't think they're gonna say they support tax cuts.
I don't think they're gonna want to deregulate. I don't
think they're gonna want energy dominance. They didn't even want
to take out a RAN's nuclear sites. They can't even
praise Trump for trying to bring peace in the Middle
East and Europe. They couldn't stand for the families that
lost loved ones because of their open borders when they
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lie to US and said the borders were closed.