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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Here, Welcome to the Bob and Emeric See of America Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
My name is Bob and we'll be adjust my mic
se y'all can hear me? My name is Eric Mactheini.
Thank you all for tuning in. Happy Saturday, Happy May.
We got to Kentucky Derby tomorrow, Bob. I went to
that like seventeen years ago. I went. I had so
much fun. I was a prosecutor at the time, so
I was dead broke because I couldn't afford anything but
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the infield seats because as you know, the grand stands
like five hundred bucks a ticket. And we went a
couple of buddies and I and we had the time
of our lives. So I really I don't I'm not
only into horse racing. I don't watch it, but going
there and being part of the tradition, like drinking mint julips.
It's it's a warm Kentucky day and May you're drinking
this thick, syrupy sugar drink. I learned to bet a
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little bit. Actually, made a couple of bucks. Someone talk
to me, this is what a super fact is. I'm like,
all right, I don't do what you tell me. But anyway,
Derby days tomorrow and guys, thank you for tuning in.
Please have Patreon, Patreon, dot com, slash Bob and Eric.
Everything you give help to show continue to come to
you week after week after week, and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think, I think, what we do?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You know? Someone I was on the Hell's Name, I
was on a on a show this week and they
were saying something about the new media, don't I don't
like that because I see guys that do this full
time and they're actually finding things out. I don't uncover shit.
You don't uncover shit. We merely opine on what's already
(01:48):
in the news. So I don't like to call us that,
but I do think that just ordinary folks having a
platform and being able to speak has created a new
age of media where we're aware of it shoes that
previously we weren't aware, weren't even talking about it. Think
about you know back in the day, Bob of just
like I'm going to go watch Fox News or even
CNN or anything like that where you just get your
(02:10):
news from quote unquote professional journalists. And that's that. And
how narrow and regimented you're thinking on issues is. I mean,
I go back think of like the twenty twelve election,
we're like Omit Romney principal conservative, I'm voting for him, Like,
but the idea of like they're being a deep state
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or government on both sides being corrupt or whatever the
case may be. I mean, we just saw like Democrats
think one way, Republicans think the other way. And I
feel like our thinking was so black and white and
it wasn't until Trump brand that it changed the entire system.
And I say that to bring up this point is
we are in a position right now where we have
the White House, we have the Senate, we have the House,
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and we have a president who is right now ruling
by executive order because Congress will not get behind him
and take those orders and put them into law. And
my fear, Bob, because we talked about in the pendulum
always goes back the other way. What if in the
midterms Democrats reclaim a House of Congress. What if in
the next election Democrats win the presidency. What happens to
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all the work that we've done It's not just about
putting our country in a positive position for four years.
It's about putting our country in a positive position for
the next seven generations. So where is that GOP Congress
that you and I and all of us are told
we have to get elected every midterm cycle. Why aren't
they taking those executive orders and making a law out
(03:38):
of them?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Because they suck and a bunch of rhinos. Do I
think the big beautiful bills get to pass. I do so.
And I think the big terms are going to be
a blood bath for Democrats because they're on the wrong
side of every issue.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I get that, But I would like to see the
first and foremost priority of our Congress take these executive
orders and going We're going to make long standing law
out of this. And this is how you create a legacy.
It's not just we're going to do things one way
for four years and then it's going to turn. That's
how you create a banana republic where governments, entire governments
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are changing every election cycle, where you're going from one
end to the spectrum to the other. America first, Making
America great again means building a country and building a
legacy that lasts longer than Trump, that lasts longer than
one administration. So you know, it pisses me off that
this happens. And then you know, we're told every election takeer,
we must elect Republicans. But the country's in the position
(04:36):
it's in right now because of who elected as president.
It's not who's sitting in some congressional seat in some
district you never heard of. It's not your senator. I mean,
by and large, these people are utterly worthless. So I
would like to see that priority where they're they're putting
into play. The things that Donald Trump is doing, one
of which I mean and people were freaking out about,
(04:57):
were the tariffs. But I think if you we're panicking,
if you were freaking out, if you were like pull
my money out of the stock market, I think you've
got egg on your face right now, because I think
the tariff issue has been one of the greatest political
plays we've seen it probably since we had peace with
North Korea, since Donald Trump crossed into North Korea and
shook hands and that whole, you know, kind of burgeoning
(05:19):
cold war scenario was put to bed.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
What's you what really pissed me off about the whole
tariff thing is rand Paul. The tariffs are totally working.
And then ran Paul, I guess you got activated the
guys that scummback trader and I always loaned them.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh I felt pride.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It happened.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, but here's the thing. So you know, Americans, and
I think by our very nature, I'm not even gonna
say Americans. I'm gonna say humankind in twenty twenty five,
because we live in an era where everything is instantaneous.
We want that gratification to happen immediately. And if we
have any period of time where there's gonna be turmoil
in the markets or things are gonna be a little unsteady,
(05:58):
people start freaking out out. Yeah, it pandic. It is,
as Trump coined the phrase. So you see them Mark,
You see the market take a hit, which it's always
going to take a hit. Guys, you gotta understand the
stock market is very fragile. You know, if the wind
blows in one direction, you know, people are gonna sell
their stocks. So we see a drop off, he'd be like,
oh my god, my retirement is done.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know, think about your grandparents and it's rebounded, it's recovered,
and now it's on an upward trajectory because how many
nations have come to Trump. It's so funny when when
you saw the Pope's funeral, you know how many leaders
were there just like get some FaceTime with Trump. Did
you see the video of that?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, I thought not a whole lot. I thought everybody
was pissed out of the video I saw.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I saw people like you would have thought a major
celebrity walked in the room, which which he did, because
you know, Trump is the foremost celebrity in the world.
But people were, you know, clawing their way through crowds
to get a couple of minutes to shake his hand.
And the world really respects him. They respect him, they
fear him. They may not all necessar like him, which
again I'd rather be feared than loved, as ice Cube said,
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but they certainly respect what he's doing. And we have
a new sheriff in town. And it's amazing because we
just seld ready the first hundred days of Trump's presidency
and I see an entirely transformed country. But we sit
here on May second, or May third, or rather twenty
twenty five, just think back where we were a year ago.
Donald Trump under indictment, Joe Biden's stumbling falling down two
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months shy of being pulled from the ticket, and then
two months from now, a year ago, Donald Trump's assassination attempt.
We really have rebounded as a country. And I know
that's kind of a trope on the internet America's back,
but we really are back. And it's amazing how just
a little bit of leadership and dominance on the world
stage can change that.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, look at the southern border boomed.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It's so funny you say that, because the southern border
this time last year, this time, you know, even eight
months ago, nine months ago, was the foremost issue. And
I think that's the foremost issue as to why Trump
won the presidency. But it's it's fallen out of the
news and because there's nothing to report. Eight ninety nine
percent decrease in crossings, and again for a number of reasons,
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you know, ICE and Homeland Security and you know customs
and Border patrol now have the resources and the backing
of an administration to do what they need to do.
It's the same exact reason why Donald Trump in his
first term defeated Isis in ten months because he he
said guys, go do what you need to do. Do
your job. The mark of any great executive is delegating
properly and giving those people who are under you the
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power to make decisions. And he certainly has done that.
But the other thing, and you got to remember, just
the symbolism of having Trump in office is enough to
deter people from crossing the border.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It seems that way, and NGOs aren't getting any more
money to help them.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That's peace through strength, So you know, obviously, I think
that's the thing that he I think one of the
major reasons why he was reelected did was to do that,
and he has done that. Democrats, however, they continue to
double down on this guy in l Salvador, AOC who
(09:09):
is a major contender. She's really positioning herself to be
the presidential nominee in twenty twenty eight. Which are we
going to ask you something, Bobb? I think we owe
it to our viewers and listeners to discuss it. I mean,
we blow her off so easily, but trying to be
as objective as possible. Is she a threat because she's
young and she could pull younger voters? Is that something
(09:31):
we I don't want to write her off. I don't
respect her, I don't think she's qualified, but that doesn't
mean a damn thing in today's political arena. Kamala Harris
was the same way. Granted Trump trounced her. You know,
if they put AOC on the ticket, is that going
to be a threat.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I don't think so. But I'd love to see t
d Vance to bait her because she doesn't know shit.
But of course she'll have all the questions ahead of time,
and then.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well here here's the thing that that that we got
to remember is that AOC is popular, but with a
small percentage of the Democrat base. There are a lot
of Democrats in the Midwest, you know, in other parts
of the country that are outside of her district in
New York that wouldn't vote for her. They either don't
think she's qualified, they don't like her brand of democratic politics,
(10:25):
or they or they simply just will sit the election out. Jd.
Vance has a lot of appeal. He has a lot
of appeal. I didn't know a whole lot about him
before he was on the ticket. I didn't, yeah, I didn't.
I didn't think much of him. I just knew he
was a junior senator but really in that first debate
when he came out there, and and what I've seen
from him since. And he's younger than I am, which
(10:47):
is crazy to think that people younger in the me
are now in charge. But that thing said, he's uh,
he's remarkably sharp, and he's a great debater, and he's
very effective, and I absolutely see him as carrying the torch.
Do you think DeSantis is gonna launch a primary challenge?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
He's so efing stupid to run before, So yeah, you'll
probably probably do something.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Let me, Hey, we didn't talk about the you touched
on a little bit, but the stock market would up
for nine days in a row. It's the biggest bull
run in like forty fifty years. So everybody that's sold,
you're an idiot. Just hold, don't sell, don't sell your
bit coin, don't sell gold, don't sell your stocks.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's hold.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
This econdomy's gonna blow up. It's already blowing up, but
six months from now we're gonna be like, holy shit,
Well hold on.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You make a good point there. Hold on to your
gold and silver because gold is what like thirty three
hundred an ounce right now?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, I've twenty six.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Silver is on the way up. And if you look
at you know, one month of the stock market really
when the tariffs began in the beginning of April, you know,
we're positive from where we were on April first, and yeah,
we you're absolutely right. We have had was a nine
consecutive days of games and when when the market was
falling for you know, a good portion of the early
(12:07):
part of April, I was getting you know, my alerts
every other day, you know, bye bye bye from Charles Schwab,
going like, yeah, they're doing what they need to be doing.
The right brokers, the smart money managers out there, we're
buying up all the bargains, and we were saying like,
you know, people are going to come out of this
on top, and we're gonna come out of it in
a better position because one, the rest of the world's
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not gonna be in a position to take advantage of
us in trade anymore. And two, ultimately we're going to
come to terms with these other nations that have these
unfair trade practices and it's going to bring down prices
for everybody. Gas prices are down, grocery prices are down,
Inflation is coming down. We just had a great jobs report.
Inflation was zero last month, and yeah, we're blew it
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out of the water. So and he's people are just
building factories now. I mean, what do you see the
year from now, it's gonna be saying it was what
was it like two two and a half years ago,
inflation was almost at nine percent?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The house I'm sitting in was worth
one hundred and eighty eight thousand and twenty nineteen. Now
it's four hundred and twenty five thousand.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
It's like really ruined the American dream for if you're
in your twenties, Well, if you know homes that that
that's a market that's you know, during.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
COVID, when interest rates were low and a lot of
people were moving a lot of bargains, you could buy
up these homes for next to nothing, and the market
was really hot for like a year or two, especially
in Florida because people were coming here left and right.
You know, friends that were realtors couldn't couldn't keep them
off the market. And then what happened is now everything's
kind of come to a stalemate because you're in these
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homes that have appreciated tremendously, so you're sitting on an asset.
I mean your home is is is a great asset
to you. Now there a lot of them are worth
double what they were five years ago. The problem is one,
interest rates still haven't come down to where they're palatable.
I mean there's still like six seven percent. I remember,
you know, when you can buy a house for two
point now nine three percent. Now, if that's ever going
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to happen again, who knows. But if you if you
have a house that you bought for seven hundred and
twenty nineteen now sitting at a million five, you've got
a ton of equity in it. Even if you could
pull out, you know, eight nine hundred thousand inequity. Where
are you going to go? What's the lateral move for
a house that's worth you know, a million five?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Now, where do you want to go.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
When I retire? South Dakota?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
So that's where can you go to get a goodbye?
I've bet South Dakota didn't appreciate like Florida.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
No, the homes I like in South Dakota. So I
like deadwood and deadwood is that it's say deadwood, But
you know it's hard to get to You gotta fly
into rapid City. You can't get a direct flight to
Rapid City. Then you got to drive you forty five
minutes after Deadwood. The homes up there that I like.
First of all, the homes are like one hundred and
forty years old, so who knows how much work gets
put into them. But you know they go in the
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twos twos to three range. So one day, one day,
maybe we'll be doing the podcast. They'll be sitting on
my porch drinking my coffee looking out the Black Hills
can By the way, was.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
That I want to bitch about the FEN You know
their job is to is to keep every employed and
keep inflation down.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, now everybody's getting employed, in inflation's down. We're not
lowering rates.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You suck.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You're just a political arm of the Democrats in the
deep state.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I hate the fet Yeah, it would be it would
be good right now, be a real you know, boost
in the arm to the economy if they could drop
the interest rates and bring it down and you know,
make a or enable a situation. I don't say make
because I don't like the government to make anything but
remove the obstacle a barrier for a lot of especially
young people buying homes. You gotta remember, you know, we
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have to look at it in terms of the economy.
We also have to look at it in terms of
you know, culturally and societally. You know, when I was
in my twenties, you know, in the you know, early
two thousands, like you got married and you bought a home,
like there was a natural progression to life. And culturally,
what we see now is more and more young people,
especially young men, you know, not getting married, not dating,
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not seeking that traditional life that our parents and grandparents
are basically since the beginning of time have followed. So
I think economic barriers are are one thing that we
have to consider that young people, they're not being encouraged
to start families and purchase homes and settle down. And
what happens to a society where people don't get married,
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don't have kids, don't purchase homes. It falls apart exactly.
You own nothing, you have no wealth, you have no equity,
you have you're not pro creating, You're not you know,
it's not I don't know, man, I don't know what.
I don't know what drives young people these days. I
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guess like I'm at the point in my life where I'm,
you know, on my porch and I'm yelling at the
kids on my lawn, but there are no kids on
my lawn because they're all inside playing on the tablets. Right,
I don't know. We got it. We have to the
the idea of government and the idea of America needs
to be be as little as a hint be. Do
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not be an obstacle, you know, do or do not
stand in the way of progress. You know, do not
prevent progress. Keep your foot off the break, you know.
Let things happen as they will. But whatever you can
do to enable everybody to have equal opportunity and encourage
people to acquire and create wealth and build lives for themselves,
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that's what we should be doing. So when we talk
about like bringing down interest rates, it's not just for
what it's going to do to the economy. At the
same time, you're creating an environment where young people who
are working jobs you know, or if you're working, if
you're making sixty thousand dollars a year and you know
your future spouse is making sixty thousand a year, you
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can buy a home. You can buy a home, you
can find something to buy a home. You can get
a mortgage faha, you know, three percent down. That used
to be a thing, and I feel like you don't
see that as much anymore. And I was at a
happy hour last night for as Couter, who's leaving the
State Attorney's office. I left their sixteen seven now if
they're eight sixteen years ago. And I bought a house
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when I was still a prosecutor. I was making next
to nothing. I was able to buy a house. And
all these guys and they're making twice what I was
making because they had to, you know, raise it for
a cost of living increase. They can't buy homes, I mean,
even with spouses, even making you know, household income of
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars between two people, they're
having a hard time getting a mortgage and finding an
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affordable home. Grand And where we are, I mean, I'm
sure it's different in Omaha, Nebraska than in Miami, Florida,
but I feel like there are greater barriers to entry
now for young people than they were. But Bob, is
is that just us looking back or is that the
way it always was? Because our parents bought a house.
My parents bought the house that I grew up in
for one hundred ninety thousand dollars in Los Angeles, California.
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It's probably worth a million six now it's a tiny,
little tracked house. Their parents bought homes for like ten grand.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I think it's the FED.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Since nineteen thirteen, part of nineteen thirteen, we have IRS
and there FED, which by the way, we've had the
Federal Reserve three times.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
They named it a couple of things. And by the way,
Trump is gonna wipe out the Federal Reserve and the IRS.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
But the Federal Reserve and our dollars if you look
at it, it's lost ninety eight percent since nineteen thirteen.
So in nineteen thirteen that house is like you said,
eight thousand dollars and now it's one point five million.
So it's inflation, it's a it's a trap. It's it's
a hidden tax. It's it's what's killed why you can't
buy a house, I mean, a little starter home is
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four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars at seven percent,
it's like, the hell can afford that?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, you got to remember there's also a major push globally,
which again is another you know why we should be
you know, one world government doesn't work. There is a
major push to eliminate private home ownership. That is kind
of one of the main themes of globalism. You will
own nothing and you will be happy, which is why
you see these conglomerates like Black Rock and all these
(20:00):
companies coming in and buying a lot of properties up
and turning them into rentals. Yea to be illegal. It
absolutely should be. And private property is one of the
hallmarks of our republic. That is one of the cornerstones
of the American dream, you know, life, pursuit of happiness,
private property, your own piece of land. You know, people
(20:23):
crossed oceans for that dream. You know in countries where
only the king could own land and you could only
work the fields. We're here in America. You could own
your own land, which goes to another issue. People have
been talking about a lot of property taxes. I mean,
if you if you own a home, you pay that
home off. You work, you pay that damn thirty year
note you pay that thing off. You're in your seventies,
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you're trying to retire, and every year you've got to
come up with that fourteen or fifteen thousand dollars payment
for property tax. And if you don't, they can kick
you out of your home, the home that you own outright,
no no bank leans on it whatsoever, and they can
take that from you. There's something to be said about
eliminating property taxes, and that's really gaining a lot of
(21:05):
Momentum'm hearing a lot of people talk about that it's
so sad that here, you know, it's eighty year old
getting thrown out of their house. It's like, so sad
it happens. Look, I understand, And again, you know, you
could be as diet of the wool like taxationist theft
as anybody, and I certainly consider myself.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
To be that.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
But we also have to understand that there are certain
services and things we have to pay for. We have
pay for law enforcement, we have to pay pay for
the roads, we have to pay for public parks. So
I understand the idea of property taxes. That also understanding
from an exclusionist standpoint, which I am a firm believer,
and exclusion is, as you work in life, and as
you increase your social status, you have the right to
(21:46):
live where you want to live, away from impoverished, crime
ridden areas. So if I work my ass off and
I want to live in a nice neighborhood surrounded by
people who are in my socioeconomic bracket, who are around
people that are not going to be committing crimes or
breaking in my house or breaking in my cart. And
I want to live in a gated community somewhere nice
that costs money. And one of the exclusionist provisions is
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that the property taxes are high. And the property taxes
are high because the home values are high and the
people can afford it. And that's why we have the
good public schools and we have the good roads to
good parks in the safe communities.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I'm okay with property tax, but there's got to be
a limit on it. I believe that there's got to
be an age, just like an age where you begin
collecting Social Security and age where your property tax no
longer applies. I love that idea. Sixty. How about that? No,
I wouldn't even say sixty, because look sixty. I think
for a lot of people, sixty you're still in your
(22:41):
peak earning years. I would say that when you become
eligible for Social Security is when you no longer have
to pay property taxes. Again, going back to what we
were talking about earlier, Bob, we're talking about eliminating barriers
to entry. We also have to eliminate barriers to exit,
barriers to exiting your work life that you know, hustle
and bustle portion of your life. Where now you can
(23:02):
ease into your retirement, you can enjoy life, quality of life,
happiness index is going to go up. We're gonna have
happier people. We're gonna have people with more disposable income.
All those boomers that can go take their two week
you know, cruises and vacations that that's also a tremendous
boost to the economy. But not putting these hintrances upon
people who have spent forty fifty years working their asses off,
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paying into the system, paying into a system that disproportionately
favors people who don't work and are unable or unwilling
to provide I mean, top five percent of taxpayers of
paying fifty percent of the tax anyway, So the people
that have have to bear the tax burden should not
have barriers in place where they can go into their retirement.
(23:49):
They could spend the last you know, I suppose now
with modern medicine, twenty years plus maybe of enjoying the
fruits of your labor and not putting these undefined angel
Burton's on them wherever year They've got to come up
with that fifteen thousand dollars property tax, because otherwise the
house that you just paid for and you lived there
your whole life, now you have to sell it. Now
you have to sell it. You can't leave it to
(24:11):
your kids because you can't afford to pay the property
tax on it. So you sell it. Uncle Sam gets
a big bite to that capital gains tax because you're paying.
You know, if you bought that house for four hundred
thousand one day you sell it for two million. You
know that one point six million you made, you're paying
Uncle Sam for that capital gains.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
It sounds like a common sense plan approved.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I agree. I agree completely, man. I think that's the
way to go. So that being said, one hundred days
of Trump, what grade would you give him for his
first hundred days in this term? I'm in the camp,
but after his first term he should have been put
on not muchmore so. The first hundred days blew my
mind way better than I thought he could pull off,
(24:55):
way better. I think his first hundred days in this
administration significantly improved from the first hundred days in his
first administration. But I think that's the case a lot
of the time because now he doesn't have the burden
of having to be re elected. Well, he's got the
lay of the land, he knows the people. He saw
people that backstabbed him with.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
The four years off, so he just had much better
people going into this administration.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
He does have much better people. He really has learned
and I think he's vetted. I mean it's not perfect,
but he's certainly done a better job. He's not surrounded
by people that are backstabbing him. But you got to
remember to what he's dealt with for the last four years.
Search warrants, indictments, trials, I mean, he has been persecuted
and prosecuted, shot. This is a guy with he's got
(25:43):
nothing in the world stopping him, and he doesn't care anymore,
Like no fucks left, and he goes in there and
he's just gonna do what he wants to do, to
hell with anybody who gets in his way. And really,
Trump is the terminator without the burden of reelection, is
the warrior we need. And that's why going back to
what we were saying, at the beginning of the show.
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Pisses me off that Congress is not in lockstep, going, Okay,
President Trump executive Order, we're now putting this into law,
and we have the votes that we have the ability
to do it. I just don't know why that's not
a top tier priority of Congress, because that's how we
establish this amazing legacy that's going to transform the landscape
and rebuild this country the way that it should be rebuilt,
(26:25):
and paved the way for the next hundred years of success,
long after Trump and long after all these individuals are
no longer here. Otherwise it's all for not because you
get some crazy Democrat who comes in one day. Let's
say Democrats managed to steal another election, AOC becomes president
and with the stroke of a pen undoes everything that
Trump has done and the country is now unrecognizable. And
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that's what Biden did. Ooh, you know, that's exactly what
Biden did. So Republican congressmen, women senators, make this a priority.
Take take what Trump is doing, put it into law.
One hundred days down. I give him a firm, very
well deserved A plus. I think it's been great. I
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think it's been one win after the other. I also
don't think he gets enough credit for just how hard
he works. For a man his age. It's tireless. He
works like seventeen hours a day. Maybe he loves this.
I think he lives for this. I don't think this
is a guy like everybody says, like, if I d
his kind of money, I'd be on a beach. I
think he'd go crazy being on a beach. This is
not a guy that can be idle. This is someone
(27:31):
who is operating at a frequency that most of us
cannot even fathom. And I think he's just always in
this state of perpetual motion, whether he's playing golf, whether
he's making deals, He's always working. And you know, there's
still the same level of Trump hate out there, but
(27:55):
I don't know. I said, it's a different I think
there's a lot more Trump acceptance in twenty twenty five
than there was.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
The CN and the interview they interviewed a couple of
black people and they said, uh, we don't really like him,
but we like his policies basically, So I don't think
anybody's jumped off the shift, and any news organization that
says that is a complete liar.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And again like when we have these trade trade wars
and things like that, and trade wars, yeah, I guess
like shakeups are. They're always healthy because we have to
remind our trade partners that it's not business as usual
and you can't take advantage of us. So things like
this are healthy. And yes, there are short term you know,
there is short term instability that makes people nervous, and
(28:40):
I get it, but you have to you have to
hang in there, and you have to trust that this
guy that we've elected is doing exactly what we elected him.
But we did not elect Donald Trump to go in
there and maintain the status quo. We did not elect
him for business as usual. We elected him to be
the monkey wrench that you throw into the gears and
up the whole machine. And he's he's doing that. What
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do you want to see in the next hundred days.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, the big beautiful bill pass, that's for sure. Drill baby,
drill in the Gulf of America. So oil price is
coming down. I think we're going into a deflationary period
because oil If oil prices comes down, and everything comes
down with it. So that's what I want to say.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I want to see that I think Ukraine and Russia
are going to have to make peace with each other.
The unlimited funds have been turned off. You're realizing that
and now they're actually talking peace. That's important, but it's
not It's not high on my perorder list because, as
I've said on the show many times, I really don't
care what happens in Ukraine and Russia. But you know,
(29:44):
continuing efforts with the border, continuing to do what he's doing,
removing dangerous illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Was that negotiating and getting a deal with China. I
buy products and sell them online from China, and it's
not good.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, I know that that needs to be done, but hey,
you know what, China is the boogeyman. They are certainly
a greater enemy to us than Russia. Russia is not
the enemy, but China doesn't want to lose our business,
and they're gonna They're gonna work out a deal. I
think it's gonna be a good deal. I think it's
gonna be better than what we've had. It may not
be perfect, but it's going to be better. And this
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is going to do a lot for evening the playing
field and making sure that we're not taking advantage of
my China anymore.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yep, I agree.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It means to get done. I just or read it
up if I'm like, really, you know you're not gonna.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
End up there. Give it time. You know, China's gonna
be the last one. You know, all the other countries
have come to the table. But China's look, hey, respect China.
China's a you know, it's a it's a foe. It
is a force to be reckoned with on the global political,
military stage, you name it. They are and they want
to usurp. You know, they want to take our spot,
(30:57):
they want the you know, global hedgemons spot. But we're
not going to see it that easy. I like being
at the top. Being at the top is nice, but
we don't need to involve ourselves in every conflict. Just
simply being at the top and having the leverage that
we have in negotiation and military might is enough to
make us safe and enough to enable us to just
(31:19):
live our own lives and sort of be isolationist where
we're not relying upon the global community. Let them be
relying upon us because we benefit from that financially. But
as far as what happens in Ukraine and Russia, our
trade deals going on abroad if it doesn't involve the
United States to help with it. Yeah, that's what That's
what America First means exactly. Guys, thank you for spending
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Thank you all for tuning in. Happy Saturday, Happy May.
We got to Kentucky Derby tomorrow, Bob. I went to
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much fun. I was a prosecutor at the time, so
I was dead broke because I couldn't afford anything but
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the infield seats because as you know, the grand stands
like five hundred bucks a ticket. And we went a
couple of buddies and I and we had the time
of our lives. So I really I don't I'm not
only into horse racing. I don't watch it, but going
there and being part of the tradition, like drinking mint julips.
It's it's a warm Kentucky day and May you're drinking
this thick, syrupy sugar drink. I learned to bet a
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Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think, I think, what we do?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You know? Someone I was on the Hell's Name, I
was on a on a show this week and they
were saying something about the new media, don't I don't
like that because I see guys that do this full
time and they're actually finding things out. I don't uncover shit.
You don't uncover shit. We merely opine on what's already
(01:48):
in the news. So I don't like to call us that,
but I do think that just ordinary folks having a
platform and being able to speak has created a new
age of media where we're aware of it shoes that
previously we weren't aware, weren't even talking about it. Think
about you know back in the day, Bob of just
like I'm going to go watch Fox News or even
CNN or anything like that where you just get your
(02:10):
news from quote unquote professional journalists. And that's that. And
how narrow and regimented you're thinking on issues is. I mean,
I go back think of like the twenty twelve election,
we're like Omit Romney principal conservative, I'm voting for him, Like,
but the idea of like they're being a deep state
(02:30):
or government on both sides being corrupt or whatever the
case may be. I mean, we just saw like Democrats
think one way, Republicans think the other way. And I
feel like our thinking was so black and white and
it wasn't until Trump brand that it changed the entire system.
And I say that to bring up this point is
we are in a position right now where we have
the White House, we have the Senate, we have the House,
(02:52):
and we have a president who is right now ruling
by executive order because Congress will not get behind him
and take those orders and put them into law. And
my fear, Bob, because we talked about in the pendulum
always goes back the other way. What if in the
midterms Democrats reclaim a House of Congress. What if in
the next election Democrats win the presidency. What happens to
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all the work that we've done It's not just about
putting our country in a positive position for four years.
It's about putting our country in a positive position for
the next seven generations. So where is that GOP Congress
that you and I and all of us are told
we have to get elected every midterm cycle. Why aren't
they taking those executive orders and making a law out
(03:38):
of them?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Because they suck and a bunch of rhinos. Do I
think the big beautiful bills get to pass. I do so.
And I think the big terms are going to be
a blood bath for Democrats because they're on the wrong
side of every issue.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I get that, But I would like to see the
first and foremost priority of our Congress take these executive
orders and going We're going to make long standing law
out of this. And this is how you create a legacy.
It's not just we're going to do things one way
for four years and then it's going to turn. That's
how you create a banana republic where governments, entire governments
(04:14):
are changing every election cycle, where you're going from one
end to the spectrum to the other. America first, Making
America great again means building a country and building a
legacy that lasts longer than Trump, that lasts longer than
one administration. So you know, it pisses me off that
this happens. And then you know, we're told every election takeer,
we must elect Republicans. But the country's in the position
(04:36):
it's in right now because of who elected as president.
It's not who's sitting in some congressional seat in some
district you never heard of. It's not your senator. I mean,
by and large, these people are utterly worthless. So I
would like to see that priority where they're they're putting
into play. The things that Donald Trump is doing, one
of which I mean and people were freaking out about,
(04:57):
were the tariffs. But I think if you we're panicking,
if you were freaking out, if you were like pull
my money out of the stock market, I think you've
got egg on your face right now, because I think
the tariff issue has been one of the greatest political
plays we've seen it probably since we had peace with
North Korea, since Donald Trump crossed into North Korea and
shook hands and that whole, you know, kind of burgeoning
(05:19):
cold war scenario was put to bed.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
What's you what really pissed me off about the whole
tariff thing is rand Paul. The tariffs are totally working.
And then ran Paul, I guess you got activated the
guys that scummback trader and I always loaned them.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh I felt pride.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It happened.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, but here's the thing. So you know, Americans, and
I think by our very nature, I'm not even gonna
say Americans. I'm gonna say humankind in twenty twenty five,
because we live in an era where everything is instantaneous.
We want that gratification to happen immediately. And if we
have any period of time where there's gonna be turmoil
in the markets or things are gonna be a little unsteady,
(05:58):
people start freaking out out. Yeah, it pandic. It is,
as Trump coined the phrase. So you see them Mark,
You see the market take a hit, which it's always
going to take a hit. Guys, you gotta understand the
stock market is very fragile. You know, if the wind
blows in one direction, you know, people are gonna sell
their stocks. So we see a drop off, he'd be like,
oh my god, my retirement is done.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know, think about your grandparents and it's rebounded, it's recovered,
and now it's on an upward trajectory because how many
nations have come to Trump. It's so funny when when
you saw the Pope's funeral, you know how many leaders
were there just like get some FaceTime with Trump. Did
you see the video of that?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, I thought not a whole lot. I thought everybody
was pissed out of the video I saw.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I saw people like you would have thought a major
celebrity walked in the room, which which he did, because
you know, Trump is the foremost celebrity in the world.
But people were, you know, clawing their way through crowds
to get a couple of minutes to shake his hand.
And the world really respects him. They respect him, they
fear him. They may not all necessar like him, which
again I'd rather be feared than loved, as ice Cube said,
(07:04):
but they certainly respect what he's doing. And we have
a new sheriff in town. And it's amazing because we
just seld ready the first hundred days of Trump's presidency
and I see an entirely transformed country. But we sit
here on May second, or May third, or rather twenty
twenty five, just think back where we were a year ago.
Donald Trump under indictment, Joe Biden's stumbling falling down two
(07:25):
months shy of being pulled from the ticket, and then
two months from now, a year ago, Donald Trump's assassination attempt.
We really have rebounded as a country. And I know
that's kind of a trope on the internet America's back,
but we really are back. And it's amazing how just
a little bit of leadership and dominance on the world
stage can change that.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, look at the southern border boomed.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It's so funny you say that, because the southern border
this time last year, this time, you know, even eight
months ago, nine months ago, was the foremost issue. And
I think that's the foremost issue as to why Trump
won the presidency. But it's it's fallen out of the
news and because there's nothing to report. Eight ninety nine
percent decrease in crossings, and again for a number of reasons,
(08:12):
you know, ICE and Homeland Security and you know customs
and Border patrol now have the resources and the backing
of an administration to do what they need to do.
It's the same exact reason why Donald Trump in his
first term defeated Isis in ten months because he he
said guys, go do what you need to do. Do
your job. The mark of any great executive is delegating
properly and giving those people who are under you the
(08:34):
power to make decisions. And he certainly has done that.
But the other thing, and you got to remember, just
the symbolism of having Trump in office is enough to
deter people from crossing the border.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It seems that way, and NGOs aren't getting any more
money to help them.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That's peace through strength, So you know, obviously, I think
that's the thing that he I think one of the
major reasons why he was reelected did was to do that,
and he has done that. Democrats, however, they continue to
double down on this guy in l Salvador, AOC who
(09:09):
is a major contender. She's really positioning herself to be
the presidential nominee in twenty twenty eight. Which are we
going to ask you something, Bobb? I think we owe
it to our viewers and listeners to discuss it. I mean,
we blow her off so easily, but trying to be
as objective as possible. Is she a threat because she's
young and she could pull younger voters? Is that something
(09:31):
we I don't want to write her off. I don't
respect her, I don't think she's qualified, but that doesn't
mean a damn thing in today's political arena. Kamala Harris
was the same way. Granted Trump trounced her. You know,
if they put AOC on the ticket, is that going
to be a threat.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I don't think so. But I'd love to see t
d Vance to bait her because she doesn't know shit.
But of course she'll have all the questions ahead of time,
and then.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well here here's the thing that that that we got
to remember is that AOC is popular, but with a
small percentage of the Democrat base. There are a lot
of Democrats in the Midwest, you know, in other parts
of the country that are outside of her district in
New York that wouldn't vote for her. They either don't
think she's qualified, they don't like her brand of democratic politics,
(10:25):
or they or they simply just will sit the election out. Jd.
Vance has a lot of appeal. He has a lot
of appeal. I didn't know a whole lot about him
before he was on the ticket. I didn't, yeah, I didn't.
I didn't think much of him. I just knew he
was a junior senator but really in that first debate
when he came out there, and and what I've seen
from him since. And he's younger than I am, which
(10:47):
is crazy to think that people younger in the me
are now in charge. But that thing said, he's uh,
he's remarkably sharp, and he's a great debater, and he's
very effective, and I absolutely see him as carrying the torch.
Do you think DeSantis is gonna launch a primary challenge?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
He's so efing stupid to run before, So yeah, you'll
probably probably do something.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Let me, Hey, we didn't talk about the you touched
on a little bit, but the stock market would up
for nine days in a row. It's the biggest bull
run in like forty fifty years. So everybody that's sold,
you're an idiot. Just hold, don't sell, don't sell your
bit coin, don't sell gold, don't sell your stocks.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's hold.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
This econdomy's gonna blow up. It's already blowing up, but
six months from now we're gonna be like, holy shit,
Well hold on.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You make a good point there. Hold on to your
gold and silver because gold is what like thirty three
hundred an ounce right now?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, I've twenty six.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Silver is on the way up. And if you look
at you know, one month of the stock market really
when the tariffs began in the beginning of April, you know,
we're positive from where we were on April first, and yeah,
we you're absolutely right. We have had was a nine
consecutive days of games and when when the market was
falling for you know, a good portion of the early
(12:07):
part of April, I was getting you know, my alerts
every other day, you know, bye bye bye from Charles Schwab,
going like, yeah, they're doing what they need to be doing.
The right brokers, the smart money managers out there, we're
buying up all the bargains, and we were saying like,
you know, people are going to come out of this
on top, and we're gonna come out of it in
a better position because one, the rest of the world's
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not gonna be in a position to take advantage of
us in trade anymore. And two, ultimately we're going to
come to terms with these other nations that have these
unfair trade practices and it's going to bring down prices
for everybody. Gas prices are down, grocery prices are down,
Inflation is coming down. We just had a great jobs report.
Inflation was zero last month, and yeah, we're blew it
(12:51):
out of the water. So and he's people are just
building factories now. I mean, what do you see the
year from now, it's gonna be saying it was what
was it like two two and a half years ago,
inflation was almost at nine percent?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The house I'm sitting in was worth
one hundred and eighty eight thousand and twenty nineteen. Now
it's four hundred and twenty five thousand.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
It's like really ruined the American dream for if you're
in your twenties, Well, if you know homes that that
that's a market that's you know, during.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
COVID, when interest rates were low and a lot of
people were moving a lot of bargains, you could buy
up these homes for next to nothing, and the market
was really hot for like a year or two, especially
in Florida because people were coming here left and right.
You know, friends that were realtors couldn't couldn't keep them
off the market. And then what happened is now everything's
kind of come to a stalemate because you're in these
(13:40):
homes that have appreciated tremendously, so you're sitting on an asset.
I mean your home is is is a great asset
to you. Now there a lot of them are worth
double what they were five years ago. The problem is one,
interest rates still haven't come down to where they're palatable.
I mean there's still like six seven percent. I remember,
you know, when you can buy a house for two
point now nine three percent. Now, if that's ever going
(14:01):
to happen again, who knows. But if you if you
have a house that you bought for seven hundred and
twenty nineteen now sitting at a million five, you've got
a ton of equity in it. Even if you could
pull out, you know, eight nine hundred thousand inequity. Where
are you going to go? What's the lateral move for
a house that's worth you know, a million five?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Now, where do you want to go.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
When I retire? South Dakota?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
So that's where can you go to get a goodbye?
I've bet South Dakota didn't appreciate like Florida.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
No, the homes I like in South Dakota. So I
like deadwood and deadwood is that it's say deadwood, But
you know it's hard to get to You gotta fly
into rapid City. You can't get a direct flight to
Rapid City. Then you got to drive you forty five
minutes after Deadwood. The homes up there that I like.
First of all, the homes are like one hundred and
forty years old, so who knows how much work gets
put into them. But you know they go in the
(14:50):
twos twos to three range. So one day, one day,
maybe we'll be doing the podcast. They'll be sitting on
my porch drinking my coffee looking out the Black Hills
can By the way, was.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
That I want to bitch about the FEN You know
their job is to is to keep every employed and
keep inflation down.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, now everybody's getting employed, in inflation's down. We're not
lowering rates.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You suck.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You're just a political arm of the Democrats in the
deep state.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I hate the fet Yeah, it would be it would
be good right now, be a real you know, boost
in the arm to the economy if they could drop
the interest rates and bring it down and you know,
make a or enable a situation. I don't say make
because I don't like the government to make anything but
remove the obstacle a barrier for a lot of especially
young people buying homes. You gotta remember, you know, we
(15:37):
have to look at it in terms of the economy.
We also have to look at it in terms of
you know, culturally and societally. You know, when I was
in my twenties, you know, in the you know, early
two thousands, like you got married and you bought a home,
like there was a natural progression to life. And culturally,
what we see now is more and more young people,
especially young men, you know, not getting married, not dating,
(15:58):
not seeking that traditional life that our parents and grandparents
are basically since the beginning of time have followed. So
I think economic barriers are are one thing that we
have to consider that young people, they're not being encouraged
to start families and purchase homes and settle down. And
what happens to a society where people don't get married,
(16:18):
don't have kids, don't purchase homes. It falls apart exactly.
You own nothing, you have no wealth, you have no equity,
you have you're not pro creating, You're not you know,
it's not I don't know, man, I don't know what.
I don't know what drives young people these days. I
(16:39):
guess like I'm at the point in my life where I'm,
you know, on my porch and I'm yelling at the
kids on my lawn, but there are no kids on
my lawn because they're all inside playing on the tablets. Right,
I don't know. We got it. We have to the
the idea of government and the idea of America needs
to be be as little as a hint be. Do
(17:01):
not be an obstacle, you know, do or do not
stand in the way of progress. You know, do not
prevent progress. Keep your foot off the break, you know.
Let things happen as they will. But whatever you can
do to enable everybody to have equal opportunity and encourage
people to acquire and create wealth and build lives for themselves,
(17:23):
that's what we should be doing. So when we talk
about like bringing down interest rates, it's not just for
what it's going to do to the economy. At the
same time, you're creating an environment where young people who
are working jobs you know, or if you're working, if
you're making sixty thousand dollars a year and you know
your future spouse is making sixty thousand a year, you
(17:44):
can buy a home. You can buy a home, you
can find something to buy a home. You can get
a mortgage faha, you know, three percent down. That used
to be a thing, and I feel like you don't
see that as much anymore. And I was at a
happy hour last night for as Couter, who's leaving the
State Attorney's office. I left their sixteen seven now if
they're eight sixteen years ago. And I bought a house
(18:07):
when I was still a prosecutor. I was making next
to nothing. I was able to buy a house. And
all these guys and they're making twice what I was
making because they had to, you know, raise it for
a cost of living increase. They can't buy homes, I mean,
even with spouses, even making you know, household income of
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars between two people, they're
having a hard time getting a mortgage and finding an
(18:28):
affordable home. Grand And where we are, I mean, I'm
sure it's different in Omaha, Nebraska than in Miami, Florida,
but I feel like there are greater barriers to entry
now for young people than they were. But Bob, is
is that just us looking back or is that the
way it always was? Because our parents bought a house.
My parents bought the house that I grew up in
for one hundred ninety thousand dollars in Los Angeles, California.
(18:52):
It's probably worth a million six now it's a tiny,
little tracked house. Their parents bought homes for like ten grand.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I think it's the FED.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Since nineteen thirteen, part of nineteen thirteen, we have IRS
and there FED, which by the way, we've had the
Federal Reserve three times.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
They named it a couple of things. And by the way,
Trump is gonna wipe out the Federal Reserve and the IRS.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
But the Federal Reserve and our dollars if you look
at it, it's lost ninety eight percent since nineteen thirteen.
So in nineteen thirteen that house is like you said,
eight thousand dollars and now it's one point five million.
So it's inflation, it's a it's a trap. It's it's
a hidden tax. It's it's what's killed why you can't
buy a house, I mean, a little starter home is
(19:33):
four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars at seven percent,
it's like, the hell can afford that?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, you got to remember there's also a major push globally,
which again is another you know why we should be
you know, one world government doesn't work. There is a
major push to eliminate private home ownership. That is kind
of one of the main themes of globalism. You will
own nothing and you will be happy, which is why
you see these conglomerates like Black Rock and all these
(20:00):
companies coming in and buying a lot of properties up
and turning them into rentals. Yea to be illegal. It
absolutely should be. And private property is one of the
hallmarks of our republic. That is one of the cornerstones
of the American dream, you know, life, pursuit of happiness,
private property, your own piece of land. You know, people
(20:23):
crossed oceans for that dream. You know in countries where
only the king could own land and you could only
work the fields. We're here in America. You could own
your own land, which goes to another issue. People have
been talking about a lot of property taxes. I mean,
if you if you own a home, you pay that
home off. You work, you pay that damn thirty year
note you pay that thing off. You're in your seventies,
(20:43):
you're trying to retire, and every year you've got to
come up with that fourteen or fifteen thousand dollars payment
for property tax. And if you don't, they can kick
you out of your home, the home that you own outright,
no no bank leans on it whatsoever, and they can
take that from you. There's something to be said about
eliminating property taxes, and that's really gaining a lot of
(21:05):
Momentum'm hearing a lot of people talk about that it's
so sad that here, you know, it's eighty year old
getting thrown out of their house. It's like, so sad
it happens. Look, I understand, And again, you know, you
could be as diet of the wool like taxationist theft
as anybody, and I certainly consider myself.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
To be that.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
But we also have to understand that there are certain
services and things we have to pay for. We have
pay for law enforcement, we have to pay pay for
the roads, we have to pay for public parks. So
I understand the idea of property taxes. That also understanding
from an exclusionist standpoint, which I am a firm believer,
and exclusion is, as you work in life, and as
you increase your social status, you have the right to
(21:46):
live where you want to live, away from impoverished, crime
ridden areas. So if I work my ass off and
I want to live in a nice neighborhood surrounded by
people who are in my socioeconomic bracket, who are around
people that are not going to be committing crimes or
breaking in my house or breaking in my cart. And
I want to live in a gated community somewhere nice
that costs money. And one of the exclusionist provisions is
(22:10):
that the property taxes are high. And the property taxes
are high because the home values are high and the
people can afford it. And that's why we have the
good public schools and we have the good roads to
good parks in the safe communities.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I'm okay with property tax, but there's got to be
a limit on it. I believe that there's got to
be an age, just like an age where you begin
collecting Social Security and age where your property tax no
longer applies. I love that idea. Sixty. How about that? No,
I wouldn't even say sixty, because look sixty. I think
for a lot of people, sixty you're still in your
(22:41):
peak earning years. I would say that when you become
eligible for Social Security is when you no longer have
to pay property taxes. Again, going back to what we
were talking about earlier, Bob, we're talking about eliminating barriers
to entry. We also have to eliminate barriers to exit,
barriers to exiting your work life that you know, hustle
and bustle portion of your life. Where now you can
(23:02):
ease into your retirement, you can enjoy life, quality of life,
happiness index is going to go up. We're gonna have
happier people. We're gonna have people with more disposable income.
All those boomers that can go take their two week
you know, cruises and vacations that that's also a tremendous
boost to the economy. But not putting these hintrances upon
people who have spent forty fifty years working their asses off,
(23:26):
paying into the system, paying into a system that disproportionately
favors people who don't work and are unable or unwilling
to provide I mean, top five percent of taxpayers of
paying fifty percent of the tax anyway, So the people
that have have to bear the tax burden should not
have barriers in place where they can go into their retirement.
(23:49):
They could spend the last you know, I suppose now
with modern medicine, twenty years plus maybe of enjoying the
fruits of your labor and not putting these undefined angel
Burton's on them wherever year They've got to come up
with that fifteen thousand dollars property tax, because otherwise the
house that you just paid for and you lived there
your whole life, now you have to sell it. Now
you have to sell it. You can't leave it to
(24:11):
your kids because you can't afford to pay the property
tax on it. So you sell it. Uncle Sam gets
a big bite to that capital gains tax because you're paying.
You know, if you bought that house for four hundred
thousand one day you sell it for two million. You
know that one point six million you made, you're paying
Uncle Sam for that capital gains.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
It sounds like a common sense plan approved.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I agree. I agree completely, man. I think that's the
way to go. So that being said, one hundred days
of Trump, what grade would you give him for his
first hundred days in this term? I'm in the camp,
but after his first term he should have been put
on not muchmore so. The first hundred days blew my
mind way better than I thought he could pull off,
(24:55):
way better. I think his first hundred days in this
administration significantly improved from the first hundred days in his
first administration. But I think that's the case a lot
of the time because now he doesn't have the burden
of having to be re elected. Well, he's got the
lay of the land, he knows the people. He saw
people that backstabbed him with.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
The four years off, so he just had much better
people going into this administration.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
He does have much better people. He really has learned
and I think he's vetted. I mean it's not perfect,
but he's certainly done a better job. He's not surrounded
by people that are backstabbing him. But you got to
remember to what he's dealt with for the last four years.
Search warrants, indictments, trials, I mean, he has been persecuted
and prosecuted, shot. This is a guy with he's got
(25:43):
nothing in the world stopping him, and he doesn't care anymore,
Like no fucks left, and he goes in there and
he's just gonna do what he wants to do, to
hell with anybody who gets in his way. And really,
Trump is the terminator without the burden of reelection, is
the warrior we need. And that's why going back to
what we were saying, at the beginning of the show.
(26:04):
Pisses me off that Congress is not in lockstep, going, Okay,
President Trump executive Order, we're now putting this into law,
and we have the votes that we have the ability
to do it. I just don't know why that's not
a top tier priority of Congress, because that's how we
establish this amazing legacy that's going to transform the landscape
and rebuild this country the way that it should be rebuilt,
(26:25):
and paved the way for the next hundred years of success,
long after Trump and long after all these individuals are
no longer here. Otherwise it's all for not because you
get some crazy Democrat who comes in one day. Let's
say Democrats managed to steal another election, AOC becomes president
and with the stroke of a pen undoes everything that
Trump has done and the country is now unrecognizable. And
(26:48):
that's what Biden did. Ooh, you know, that's exactly what
Biden did. So Republican congressmen, women senators, make this a priority.
Take take what Trump is doing, put it into law.
One hundred days down. I give him a firm, very
well deserved A plus. I think it's been great. I
(27:09):
think it's been one win after the other. I also
don't think he gets enough credit for just how hard
he works. For a man his age. It's tireless. He
works like seventeen hours a day. Maybe he loves this.
I think he lives for this. I don't think this
is a guy like everybody says, like, if I d
his kind of money, I'd be on a beach. I
think he'd go crazy being on a beach. This is
not a guy that can be idle. This is someone
(27:31):
who is operating at a frequency that most of us
cannot even fathom. And I think he's just always in
this state of perpetual motion, whether he's playing golf, whether
he's making deals, He's always working. And you know, there's
still the same level of Trump hate out there, but
(27:55):
I don't know. I said, it's a different I think
there's a lot more Trump acceptance in twenty twenty five
than there was.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
The CN and the interview they interviewed a couple of
black people and they said, uh, we don't really like him,
but we like his policies basically, So I don't think
anybody's jumped off the shift, and any news organization that
says that is a complete liar.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And again like when we have these trade trade wars
and things like that, and trade wars, yeah, I guess
like shakeups are. They're always healthy because we have to
remind our trade partners that it's not business as usual
and you can't take advantage of us. So things like
this are healthy. And yes, there are short term you know,
there is short term instability that makes people nervous, and
(28:40):
I get it, but you have to you have to
hang in there, and you have to trust that this
guy that we've elected is doing exactly what we elected him.
But we did not elect Donald Trump to go in
there and maintain the status quo. We did not elect
him for business as usual. We elected him to be
the monkey wrench that you throw into the gears and
up the whole machine. And he's he's doing that. What
(29:02):
do you want to see in the next hundred days.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, the big beautiful bill pass, that's for sure. Drill baby,
drill in the Gulf of America. So oil price is
coming down. I think we're going into a deflationary period
because oil If oil prices comes down, and everything comes
down with it. So that's what I want to say.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I want to see that I think Ukraine and Russia
are going to have to make peace with each other.
The unlimited funds have been turned off. You're realizing that
and now they're actually talking peace. That's important, but it's
not It's not high on my perorder list because, as
I've said on the show many times, I really don't
care what happens in Ukraine and Russia. But you know,
(29:44):
continuing efforts with the border, continuing to do what he's doing,
removing dangerous illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Was that negotiating and getting a deal with China. I
buy products and sell them online from China, and it's
not good.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, I know that that needs to be done, but hey,
you know what, China is the boogeyman. They are certainly
a greater enemy to us than Russia. Russia is not
the enemy, but China doesn't want to lose our business,
and they're gonna They're gonna work out a deal. I
think it's gonna be a good deal. I think it's
gonna be better than what we've had. It may not
be perfect, but it's going to be better. And this
(30:22):
is going to do a lot for evening the playing
field and making sure that we're not taking advantage of
my China anymore.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yep, I agree.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It means to get done. I just or read it
up if I'm like, really, you know you're not gonna.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
End up there. Give it time. You know, China's gonna
be the last one. You know, all the other countries
have come to the table. But China's look, hey, respect China.
China's a you know, it's a it's a foe. It
is a force to be reckoned with on the global political,
military stage, you name it. They are and they want
to usurp. You know, they want to take our spot,
(30:57):
they want the you know, global hedgemons spot. But we're
not going to see it that easy. I like being
at the top. Being at the top is nice, but
we don't need to involve ourselves in every conflict. Just
simply being at the top and having the leverage that
we have in negotiation and military might is enough to
make us safe and enough to enable us to just
(31:19):
live our own lives and sort of be isolationist where
we're not relying upon the global community. Let them be
relying upon us because we benefit from that financially. But
as far as what happens in Ukraine and Russia, our
trade deals going on abroad if it doesn't involve the
United States to help with it. Yeah, that's what That's
what America First means exactly. Guys, thank you for spending
your Saturday with us. We really appreciate it. We will
(31:41):
see you next week again. Hit up Thepatreon Patreon dot
com slash Bob America everything you gave, help to show
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indefinitely hopefully. Thank you, guys, and enjoy the rest of
your week. God bless you.
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