Mmmmm... Fiscal Pie

Hour 2 of A&G features...

• Trump tariffs & the economy
• Man shot outside of White House
• Fentanyl coming over the Canadian border
• Elon's ladies & the Bernie Sanders trans rally

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
President Trump out of sight as his words sent the
stock market into free fall, Wall Street suffering its worst
day of the year, the Dow closing nearly nine hundred
points down after the President refused to rule out that
the US could be heading into a recession.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Uh yeah, a lot of negative headlines about Wall Street yesterday.
I'm always interested in that. In that a lot, a lot,
a lot of Americans aren't in the stock market, and
it's I'd like to know what percentage of the audience
that watches mainstream evening news is in the stock other?

(01:01):
Are you including four one ks in that m Maybe
maybe not. I don't know investment, but certainly the average
person watching the evening news is not into the daily
ups and downs of the stock market. True, they're in
the the long you know, the long game, and and
and very little context ever around any of this stuff anytime.

(01:25):
And I'm not just like now just always there's almost
no context. Biggest point drop whatever. Sometimes they use points
because it's more dramatic sometimes these percentage whatever and they
go back and forth and it's all very it's it's
it's designed to make it sound as great or as
awful as possible, to make it more exciting. But anyway,

(01:46):
New York christ and known this has been a big
down for the last week and a half or whatever
since the Tarif announce But no doubt about that. New
York Post headline today, buckle up NASGA, DAX suffers biggest
loss in three years. Dow falls eight after Trump recession
dodge after Trump didn't absolutely just flat out say no
to the recession question. It's amazing how much news that

(02:09):
made that one answer. And he knew that, Like I
said yesterday, he's aware of that, and he doubled down
on air Force one essentially. Oh, the significance of it
is he didn't say we will do everything we need
to to avoid a recession. That's why that's significant, right,
which gets to what we were saying last hour. I
wish he would give some sort of speech where he

(02:29):
explains what his long game end is and why I
think he can get more people on board or calmed down.
I think that is so obviously a great idea it
is shocking to me. It hasn't happened yet. Drudge hates Trump,
but his headlines economy cracks, stocks lose four trillion dollars.
Oh that That's one of the things about the news reporting.

(02:50):
I feel like it's for people who don't understand that
that money didn't actually disappear, never to come back. It's
the stock is down and yet adds up to four trilli.
But unless you sold yesterday, you didn't actually lose the money,
and it could be back up in two weeks and
nothing happened. I mean, well, and you quote unquote lost
the money from if you would have sold it three
weeks ago. So it's all, yeah, imaginary, it's not even

(03:13):
on paper. It's in the ether. Any who. So, getting
to Mark Alprin's newsletter today, I think he is a
fair arbiter of these sorts of things. He and he
gets a lot of h He has a lot of
connections in left and right, Republican and Democrat. He wrote
this Monday when job boning by all Trump economic advisors
could not stop a market selloff or deter business leaders,

(03:35):
economic analysts, analysts, Paul's and Trump supporters from calling, texting,
and emailing me to say the sky is falling, and
it is in their collective you explicitly and unambiguously Trump's fault.
In my career, I don't recall anything quite like Monday
as whoosh, Team Trump lost the confidence of a bunch
of key actors in one fell swoop. Thought that was

(03:58):
interesting that behind the scenes, a lot of people that
normally really really big on Trump, we're calling Mark Apperton
and saying, what the hell is he doing? The business world,
the American business world, was absolutely confident that Trump would
slash regulations and make permanent tax cuts and that would
be his main thrust. This whole call it protectionism, you know,

(04:21):
seeking a new global norm for trade, whatever you want
to call it, is surprising to them and it's led
to a great deal of uncertainty. Business hates uncertainty, right.
And then got to get to what I was talking
about yesterday, which I fully fully believe. I mean, don't
feel like the Wall Street journal crowd has your best
interest in mind. They have the best interest of like,

(04:42):
what's gonna make the Dow close higher today for a
lot of the crowd who actually does day trade, or
certainly this quarter, not what's best for America long term.
And you know, fortunately or unfortunately, I guess Anne Ryan
would say that's the way it's supposed to work. You know,
they're looking out for themselves. That's what drives the whole thing.
But yeah, I would say as a guy who reads

(05:03):
practically cover to cover the journal every single day, they
have a wide range of opinions and writers there. Not
all of them are merely chasing quarterly profits. But I
wanted to get to this and I didn't know this.
So Mark Alpernan has a bunch of links to a
whole bunch of different newspaper articles talking about the how

(05:26):
much damage has been done, whether it's temporary, long term,
blah blah blah. Than this team Trump came in with
the theory of the case that they could rebalance the
economy by shifting economic activity back to the private sector
from the public sector. It's part of the whole doge
thing and tariffs together. Trump advisors have said they think
the government is now twenty five percent of the economy.

(05:49):
Mark Awprin said, in reality, it's way higher, maybe closer
to fifty percent. Wow, what fifty percent of the economy
is the gouver with Medicare and Medicaid. No one wants
to admit it, but to a large extent, the US
economy has really just become the US government spending in transfers.

(06:09):
This is evidenced by the fact that we've been running
huge fiscal deficits during strong economic times. And the new
Treasury Secretary is proposed fixing this by cutting government spending
with musk combined with tariffs to rebounce trade, to rebuild
American manufacturing, but to bring it home. He gets into,
we live in a wah blah blah blah blah blah.
The top ten percent. Studies have shown there's a very

(06:32):
high correlation between their propensity to spend, with spending being
you know, two thirds of our economies people going out
and spending money, and where the stock prices are. For
whatever reason, when the top ten percent are feeling wealthy,
they buy stuff. But if they're not feeling wealthy, they don't.

(06:54):
And this especially is true now, and this could get
us into a real doom loop of uh tariffs, negative feelings,
stock market going down, people pulling back, et cetera, et cetera,
cutting the government, which is half the economy. You see,
there's the spiral. If Doge is laying off people and
cutting the government and it's fifty percent of the economy,

(07:15):
that automatically is going to drop the economy, which makes
the rich ten percent spend less, which drops the economy.
And it's just that, you see, it's a cycle that
could catch on. Yeah. My only objection to that theory
or a question I have about it, is that what
Doge is doing is nibbling around the edges of the

(07:36):
actual fiscal pie. Sure, I don't appreciate it because I
like the edges of the pie. Oh fiscal pie debitious.
And it's funny because you have conservatives saying they're they're
they're not attacking entitlements and that's most of the budget
blah blah blah blah blah. But at the same time
it might cause a doom loop. I just I don't

(07:56):
I don't know. Nobody ever knows on any of this stuff.
As we've said for years, because if you were the
old thing, if you ask you know, ten economists, you'll
get eleven opinions. Or there's only two people that understand
the global economy and they don't agree, you know, any

(08:18):
of those sayings. And but you know, if you could
predict this stuff, well, you'd be the richest person on
planet Earth, you know, immediately, so that you know, there's
a lot of moving pieces and theory and everything like that.
But I do find that very troubling. Yeah, all of
it's troubling. I find myself imagining if Trump were to
craft the sort of message you've suggested, explaining exactly what

(08:40):
his goals are, why it's going to be worth enduring
a bit of pain or upheaval for a while, be
it two years or more likely five or ten or
fifteen or twenty years, because that would get the popular support.
Doing something difficult would require, because there's one thing democracies
are terrible at. That's doing what is difficult. Like in

(09:03):
your family, you could say, hey, we are going to
severely restrict spending for this year to get a down
payment together to buy the house or make the investment
or open the business we've long dreamed of. People You're
on the wall of a house with a pool and
say this is why we're doing it. Yeah. You know,
I've always been a fan of the like the thermometer
thing where you actually track your savings, because it gives

(09:25):
you enthusiasm for it. Judy and I used to do
that when we were young. Anyway, as a family, you
can do that. But democracies are famously horrible at saying
all right, we're all going to endure some pain for
a while an austerity plan. It happens. I don't think
it's hard to get going. I don't think we're grown
up enough for this. I think we're too used to
easy sale in smooth saleing. But even if Trump were

(09:49):
to do that, though, Wall Street would probably freak out
for a while, and then people would see it, would
check their four to one k's and freak out. And
I just I don't know if we have the right
stuff to institute what Trump's talking about before it's a

(10:10):
horrible emergency. Well, imagine if Trump or somebody representing Trump
came out and gave a speech says, look, half the
economy is the government. Do you know that half the
economy's the government? And that can't be that's not sustainable.
And our debt is this, and our deficit is this,
and you know our payments are this, and blah blah blah.
And if that wasn't go ahead, sorry there's more. No,

(10:31):
that's fine. I was gonna say, and if if that
wasn't bad enough, folks, here's the chunk of the economy
that would collapse and you would starve if China decides
to jump ugly. So A, we got to reign in
the government. B we've got to wean ourselves from being
China junkies. Their economic heroin is they're gonna pull it

(10:52):
back on us and we're gonna be on our hands
and knees and our economy is gonna be puking and
turning green and pooping on itself. Wow, because they're gonna
pull it out cold turkey. Do you want that? Do
you want that? Huh? Okay, we're going to restructure the economy.
You would be a disgusting economics teacher. Yeah, but compelling.
M Uh. There's no way this works because we have

(11:14):
an election every two years. We're already like a year
away from constantly talking about the mid terms and uh,
and the Democrats are gonna run on He says, we
can't blah blah blah. We say you you we can
lose with me. Everybody says, yeah, I want everything for nothing,

(11:34):
and there you go. So to summarize, we're toomed I'm
moving along aren't you glad you tuned in? Oh boy, Well,
but everybody should me and everyone we should realize that
we're not retiring today. What the stock market does today,
unless you are retiring today, somebody listening somewhere, and so
I hope you would have restructured your you know, your investments.

(11:56):
If somebody somewhere on our seventy stations is listening, is
retiring today or yesterday, he retired yesterday, I understand while
you're upset. Sorry, sorry, oh man, that's something I wanted
to tease. Well, yeah, there's a yeah, my golly. There

(12:16):
are a couple of stories that are the classic if
it was if the shoe was on the other foot,
they would be enormous, enormous stories. We will bring them
to you so you get a better rounded perspective on
life in America. Well, yeah, and the arrest of that
so called terrorist Columbia student kid. That's pretty interesting from

(12:37):
a whole free speech standpoint. We need to talk a
little more about that. Yeah. I will not, and I'm
sure most of you will not trade the principles that
made this country great to keep it great. That's fascism
and it's ugly. On the other hand. I want the
jihaties thrown out on their ears. So let's strike a
good balance, can we. I also want to tell you
about Bernie Sanders trans rally he had over the weekend

(12:59):
that didn't get enough attention. She had a penis No,
he does not. He is, Oh, well, what did it
cost to come over with venus twenty seven dollars? Stay
with us? I hate spring forward so much, and this
to me, this is Donald Trump's big opportunity. We want

(13:20):
to make America great again, and this daylight saving madness
will ever look up puzzles, I dare way, thank you.
By the way, We'll do this all over again next
year on six months. But so we want whatever we
got now right permanently. Is that what we want? Yeah,

(13:42):
there's some problems with the kids having to get up
in the darkness. Scientists say, is really like I keep saying,
let's try it once, let's try it once, and whatever
he says. So he's choosing golfers playing in the afternoon
meet and I'm happy over America's children. You must let's
see if it's true. Try it once and see what
all that was? Horrible? My kid couldn't get out of

(14:03):
bed and he got run over by the bus whatever,
or find a way to move school back by a
little bit of time, and employers that say, oh, you
got to come in at nine thirty instead of nine
for a while. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, it's not like
it'll cause you know, cataclysms, rains of fire from the sky,
a plague of front. The fact that Arizona doesn't do it,

(14:25):
and there aren't stacks of dead children. I mean, I don't.
I don't get why are there the states around Arizona
and the same you know, time zone of when the
sun comes up and comes down. Me and I don't
get it. We've got it. We've got one state that
does it, and it's not like hell there, they don't.
Everybody I wanted to live in Arizona, I had to

(14:47):
move because I don't change the clocks. I got to
call my dad to make sure he's still alive after
the non time change in Arizona. Oh my, you're so right.
These stories would be ginormous if the shoe was on
the other foot. And you know, the fun has gone
out of beating up the media. Honestly, I think everybody's
gotten the word. They're wildly ideological. They're uniformly left. They're

(15:09):
just clickbait driven sensationalist cranks and should be mostly ignored.
But the stories they ignore are also worth hearing. For instance,
a leftist UCLA law professor, This is not some sort
of gender studies dope. This is a law professor at
UCLA has called from military insurrection against President Trump. Oh

(15:33):
my god, how do you keep your job after that?
Professor Peter Aronella. At this point, my only hope for
the US to avoid becoming an ally to Russia is
a violent resistance by our military. Tragic to say that,
because the military is trained to avoid any political motivated intervention. Yeah,
firing all the Joint chiefs and military leaders blah blah blah,
and for good reason. Ultimately, we will get what we

(15:56):
deserve by giving Trump a second chance to destroy our
democracy armed exertion. All right, crackpot. America's law schools are
absolutely as bad as any other province of the educational
system right now in terms of being wildly woe. Your
kid got into UCLA law school. You're paying a ridiculous

(16:16):
amount of money, and that guy is teaching your kid
right right, and accepting some really really good law schools
where they point out, hey, now this is my opinion
on this. A conservative scholar would tell you this is
the way to interpret these laws, and where that happens,
it's great. That is far from universal. An adult male
brandishing a firearm was shot by US Secret Service officers

(16:39):
near the White House shortly after midnight on Sunday. Saw that. Yeah,
the local police at earlier reported a suicidal individual possibly
traveling to DC from Indiana. You're in Indiana, you're suicidal,
and so what is your plan exactly? They knew about
this guy too. They suicide by cop. They'd picked up
his social media or something, so they were aware of

(16:59):
him before he even got there. Yeah, Trump was at
mar Lago, by the way, so it was never at risk,
even though he wouldn't be much at risk. Don't have
time for this, but Christy Noman has figured out a
couple of the leakers leaking the ICE operations.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
How it wasn't dogs Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
So Elon Musk, in a long ranging interview, said this yesterday,
And we just did a bunch of economic stuff. Going
to give you a short version of some breaking news
here and then we'll fill in all the blanks maybe
an hour three. But Elon Musk said this yesterday.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
I mean the ways important in entitlement spending, which is
all of the which is most of the federal spending
is entitlements. So that's that's like the big one to
eliminate is that's the show.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
So there you go. That's all you need to hear there.
Elon Musk touched, the has been the third Raila government
of my whole wife. You can't talk about cutting entitlements.
Speaker Johnson just came out with the big bill, the
big tax cut, a giant everything thrown into one bill bill.
Speaker Johnson just said, and there's no entitlement cuts on

(18:06):
the table. Zero. So you want to make that very
very clear. With Elon having said that yesterday. Then the
other news is Trump has doubled the tariffs on Canada
aluminum and something else twenty five percent in addition to
the previous twenty five percent is now fifty percent. So
more on that later. Yeah, a couple of things. First

(18:28):
of all, I came across a really informative but really
complicated analysis of how medicaid medicare work and how they're
funded by the states and the federal government and what
the states do determines the amount of federal government support.
But the states have flexibility that the federal government is
responding to. And the longest short of it is, it's
so intertwined, so expensive, and there are so many people

(18:51):
dependent on it now that undoing and Obamacare is a
huge factor in it too, and compensation rates for I mean,
it's all in medical procedures. It's all just a complex
stew of Oh my lord, how do we untangle this?
And I was trying to figure out if it was
even conceivable to present it to you all, if you

(19:13):
don't like, have the charts in front of you, and
I decided probably not. But I'm telling you, it is
truly a Gordian knot.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
So.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
My financial advisor said to me the other day, we're
just having a just kind of sitting around shooting the bull,
as they say, talking about social security, and I said,
you know, if I ever get my soci security, and
he had presented to me what I was going to
get in social security, which is more than I thought
it was going to be. But I said, well, if
I ever get it, and he said, you'll get it,

(19:40):
but your kids won't do you do you think that's
the yeah, most likely outcome. That's pretty pretty good prediction.
And he's a smart guy too, so I know him
as well, and uh yeah, that sounds about right. Yep, wow,
so yeah, I know. Wow. It's just hey, too depressing.

(20:01):
I'm going to stop myself for once, that little self restraint.
So that was the first point I want to make.
The second point re Canada is I really truly don't
get what Trump is trying to accomplish with Canada specifically,
which is one of our closest allies. And he set
the trade deal with them last time around, which is,

(20:23):
you know, four and a half short years ago. Well
I guess the trade deal itself was more than that.
But anyway, I'm confused, and so are the Canadians. And
I don't think this is going to help us in
the long time. We're going to build an igloo and
Canada is going to pay for it, all right, Well
that's a plan anyway. Oh. Oh, the part of the

(20:45):
tariffs thing that I don't quite get is the tariffs
are super important to rebuild American manufacturing and steal and
aluminum capacity and the rest of it, to forge the
future and they're gonna go away as soon as Canada
helps us with the fentanyl, or Mexico as soon as

(21:07):
they give in to It's like, it's like a circular argument,
and I just, I honestly don't get it. On the
other hand, this I thought this was very, very informative
on the issue of Canada and the drug trade. Why
don't you say you understand from a former senior law

(21:28):
enforcement official in northwest Montana that the numbers that are
being reported regarding drug trafficking across the Canadian border are
off by at least an order of magnitude. It's more
like twenty percent versus the two percent that's being reported
I met, writes the former senior law enforcement official in
northwest Montana. I met with the local DEA folks regarding

(21:51):
fentanyl precursors and finished products being sent across the border
and being manufactured and distributed across the millions of acres
of tribal reservation land as the staging area. He claimed
to have no knowledge of this. A year later, it
was a major priority for the DEA in Montana. What
this indicates is a massive disconnect between what the federal
law enforcement folks are hearing and the local sheriffs are

(22:14):
observing in their counties. This may account for the differential
and what the FEDS now know and how those percentages
are being reported in the news, likely sourced from old
data that is misleading. On the street, sheriff's deputies and
detectives are seeing a massive increase in the quantity of
fentanyl and other drugs that are definitely not coming up
from the Southern border. I thought that was an interesting perspective,

(22:35):
and I had repeated the off sited. You know it's
two or three percent figure. That person seems to be
in the know, I know who it is, has no
acts to grind. Well, interesting perspective just from a logical standpoint.
If you really crack down on the cartel's business coming
across the southern border, they're not dumb. Well, what's a

(22:59):
different way to get our drugs into the United States?
How about the longest undefended border in the world right right,
and vast tribal areas that are effectively not under the
control of most law enforcement other than the tribal police,
depending on what country you're talking about. Although while all
that I think is one hundred percent true, that's not

(23:22):
why Trump is doing the tariffs. It's part of his
restructuring the World Economic Plan. He's got to use the
drug thing as a emergency reason to do it, right,
Oh right, that's just the legal pretext. Yeah, how soon
until the Supreme Court rules on that whether his use
of the emergency tariff powers is a legitimate use of

(23:43):
executive power. I don't know. I'm always amazed how much
leeway governors and presidents are given re emergency powers. It
takes way freaking too much, in my opinion, not this specifically,
but if you want to talk about one principle that
we all ought to be rallying around, it's that when
the other guys in office, they will cite often imaginary

(24:07):
emergencies and do things we abhor, so we can't let
our guy do it. I was hearing about fentanyl. What
new story I hear today about fentanyl addicts? I never
thought about a fentanyl addict because I just always assume
you died pretty quickly. So it's not like, you know,

(24:29):
RFK Junior was a heroin addict for what do you say,
seventeen years or something like that, twelve whatever it was.
It was long time, ridiculously long time to be. You
can't be a fentanyl addict for that long, can you. No,
you're on a tight rope because it's so easy to overdose. Yeah. Hey,
by the way, back to the tariff thing, And that
wasn't an argument against the tariffs per se, but just
emergency powers. If the tariffs are such a good idea,

(24:52):
and as Jack said, Trump needs to make this speech.
We need to restructure the American economy because the global
economy is changing so fast and not for our good.
And China were addicted to the heroine of Chinese manufacturing
and blah blah blah. That's screed. I on leashed earlier.
Have Congress passed the laws. Have those useless cowards who
are in the article one branch of government, not as

(25:17):
Nixon said, a coequal branch. They're in the main branch
of government. Have those lazy, rotten fundraising bastards do something
if it's such a good idea, click baiting Instagram abusing
fundraising bastards. I stand by those words. One thing we
do on the Armstrong and Getty radio show, if you're

(25:38):
new to it because we've added new stations, is we
try to remember what things like are actually going to
matter to you in your real life today. I mean,
like the whole tariff thing in economy, obviously that matters,
but like getting a good night's sleep, and that sounded
like that sounded like a transition into an AD. That's
why we suggested to say, I don't I don't have this.
I don't have this AD really sounded like transition to

(26:00):
it alive and dead. But that's not what I was doing.
I mentioned earlier, I slept the last two nights all
night long for the first time, and I don't know
how long, many many many months, maybe a year, because
I took Valerian root and magnesium, And I really think
that's why we got this text. Magnesium is vital for
sleep and also regulates melatonin production and release, and studies

(26:23):
show this Valerian roote currently has no strong clinical evidence
of being useful for sleep. Just FYI from a fellow
insomnia supper. So I don't know that both have kept
me asleep, and I don't know which one might be
keeping me asleep. But I'm just telling you I've taken
them both, and I've slept all night long, two nights
in a row. And then we run into the ever

(26:45):
present question. If you're taking like a multi vitamin, are
you getting plenty of magnesium? And if you take a supplement,
you're just going to secrete it right in the way
that humans get rid of extra stuff. Yeah, keying, I'm sorry?
What am I tap dancing around this? You're gonnat urinated out.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Or not?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
I would like to know that because I take your
standard older guy multi, then you probably get plenty of magnesium.
I don't get I don't think I get any Valerian
root in my diet though. So if this turns out
to work, away did this is one of the best
pieces of news I've had in my life in a
long time. If I've stumbled upon something that is going

(27:26):
to help me sleep all night long, this is freaking awesome.
So I'm just passing along. I tried it. It work
right right, good luck? Let us say your results, may Harry,
let us know. So Bernie Sanders had a trans rally
over the weekend in Milwaukee, of all places. He was
a she, now she is a he, and we must
respect that. The Democratic Party doubling down on an issue

(27:51):
that is like ninety ten. Trump said the other day,
I think it's more like eighty twenty, but still millionaires
and billionaires should not be the only people to re genitals. Anyway,
I got that and a bunch of other stuff on
the waist. Stay here.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
The internet was all abuzz because at the speech, Elon
Musk was there and he was sitting next to an
attractive blonde woman. But it turns out that they were
just seated together.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
It never met her.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
There's no connection, and her due data is in Descember.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
That's pretty funny. I knew where he was going, but
his wording was still surprising, very very good joke. I
wondered that myself too. Probably a lot of people did, Okay,
who's the hot blonde sit next to Elon? What's uh?
What's going on there? But just happened to be sitting there.
I had to at least cross her mind. Man, if
I could just get pregnant real quick, I wonder how
I could do that. I wonder how that's what's the

(28:49):
monthly support? I don't know, Grimes. I was talking to
somebody about that the other day. That would be someday,
Well that'll be written. What is the financial deal he
makes with these women? How much is it? Is it
reasonably rich? Like ten million? Dollars flat fee, which would
be awesome. Obviously that's a ton of money, or is
it crazy elon money? I don't know. I don't know either.

(29:12):
Does he you know if before you get married he
got to sign a pre nup? Does he have them
sign a pre shtup? Hey? Now those are ryme. Hey. Oh,
there's a little vaudeville humor, therefore you little cat skills
nineteen sixties humor. Yeah, sort of thing Bernie Sanders would
have enjoyed, as he didn't had Sanders. So a fair
amount has been said and written, includes said on this

(29:33):
show of it's shocking that the left is continuing to
hang on to the trans issue despite all the polling
and the fact that their party got drubbed and everybody
considers the most successful ad of the entire presidential election
there for they them, He's for you, you know, that sort
of thing. But they, at least the Twitter left continues

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to go down that road. Bernie Sanders had a trans
rally over the weekend in Milwaukee. For some reason, I
just wanted to mention this part. Uh. The octagenarian lawmaker
opened the rally in Milwaukee with a performance by a
transgister transgender musician named Laura Jane Grace who built it

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out the lyrics and this is kind of rough. This
is not for the kids. I will use initials. Does
it rhyme with between us singing? No, it rhymes with rick.
Oh boy? Does your God have a big fat D?
Because it feels like he's effing me? Were the lyrics

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to the song to open the rally that Bernie Sanders
was leading. You really just keep going, I keep going
that good job of getting the working class back and
Hispanic males and black males particularly back on your side
with that you morons. Wow, it's astounding, is I mean?

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It's it's good for conservatism. You could be it's auto
worker union member, blue collar democrat your whole life, your
parents were Democrats. You never considered voting Republican in your
whole life, and you see that and think I'm voting Republican. Yeah, yeah, yeah, remarkable.

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One of my favorite writers with a headline, don't be fooled,
Gavin Newsom is no moderate on trans issues. Worth looking
into that next hour maybe. Yeah. So speaking of that
sort of thing reminded me of I was in bumper
around Los Angeles over the weekend. With my son and
his friends on their birthday. And we took an uber
to the Peterson Car Museum from Burbank and so the

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decent ride like a half an hour and I don't
remember how we got in this.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
So the guy, the uber driver, he said, yeah, I'm
born and raised in Los Angeles. He was English speaking,
which was awesome. And I'm sitting in the front because
of the three kids in their back, and he said,
I'm born and raised in Los ange Angelus. I said wow.
He said, yeah, you know, there aren't that many natives anymore.
A lot of the natives have I left. And I said,
have you been here the whole time? He said, I
was briefly up in the Bay Area, because he asked
me where I was living, and I said, why'd you

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leave there? And he said that jobs just dropped and
there just wasn't enough driving and everything like that. Between
COVID and the crime, I said, oh yeah, yeah, I said,
I was in downtown San Francisco and I'm talking about
how dead it is and everything like that. He said, well,
if you let crime run rampant like that, you know,
And I'm always surprised to hear that sort of thing
anywhere in California really, but certainly in Los Angeles or

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San Francisco or something like that. So, I mean, he
kind of hinted toward where his thinking was on this
sort of stuff, and I said, yeah, I know, between
the homeless and the crime. He said, oh, don't get
me started on the homeless. And anyway, we ended up
at a place where we both you know, it's probably
I never I've never was a pot smoker, but it's
probably like the way you weed heads back in the day,
sussed out whether somebody was, you know, on your side

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or not, with code words or with code words or whatever.
I go, okay, where we're together, where we're both okay
on this. So then we and I could both talk
openly about how we filed about the politics at California.
And he said, I never talk about this. Give it
uber rides for obvious reasons, he said, but you'd be surprised,
he said, I voted for Trump three times, three times,

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This born and raised Los Angeles uber driver voted for
Trump three times, and in he said, I never talk
about politics, he said, but you'd be surprised how many
secret conservatives I'd drive around this town just nobody has
the courage to say it out loud. And I feel
like if more people said it out loud, we'd all,
you know, we'd all feel like, oh yeah, there's more
of us than I realized. Let's let's start saying it

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out loud, right, Yeah, Well, let's I remember, there are
a couple of big articles right after the election or
the inauguration about how the culture was changing and people
were wearing their mega hats and you know, coming out
as either pro Trump or conservative, which is not necessarily
the same thing. And I'd love to see more of it. Definitely,
we're just not as mean as the woke left. That's

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part of it. Does that put that a thousand times?
If it's fifty five forty five liberally conservative, that's a
landslide in every single election. But you can almost have
the population utterly unrepresented, unrepresented and bullied. But what drove
his thinking was what drives a lot of people that
you know, voted for Trump who might not otherwise. He's
got a couple of kids, He's got a six year

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old and an eight year old, and he said, I
look around the city and it's too dangerous for him
to walk down the streets that I used to walk down.
There's almost crazy people everywhere. I mean, I got my
kids in private school, which I gotta pay for because
the public schools are insane and teaching them all kinds
of crazy stuff. It's just I don't see this changing
anytime real soon. Unless you know, you got Bernie Sanders

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and Gavin Newsome's scared to say that dude shouldn't be
in girls' sports and all that sort of stuff. Until
you recognize, like that Uber Drivers needs, you're gonna lose
a lot of elections. I need to design a T
shirt or a meme or something that says, policies yield results.
Good policies, good results, bad policy bad results. If you

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are seeing bad results around you, it's probably because of
bad policies. Because it's shocking to me the number of
people for whom that little calculation is just they never
even think about it. Yeah, as opposed to supporting whatever
seems the nicest or coolest or whatever. Precisely and there
are actually results from these policies. If you miss a

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