April 30, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
Hello, welcome to another edition of Carnivore Bites. I'm your
host Jeff Sherman, along with doctor Eric Lopkin, and first
on the list, and there's no way there's around that
is Trump's first hundred days. I'm going to throw it
out to doctor Eric Loopkin.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, you know, we we started, we started talking about
this last week at his one hundred days have been
unlike anything that we've seen prior. And I find some
of the reactions absolutely hysterical because you've got well you've
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got the folks on the left of course, yelling that
it was one hundred days of hell, yeah, okay, And
in fact, Chuck Schumer actually said that on on the
Senate floor, So it's like and he's going, oh, chaos
equals Trump, Trump equals chaos.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, I think you're rejecting. One thing is I want
your and I'm sure our listeners want your insight into
this has Trump It is dis part of the questions
quasi rhetorical got into their heads and has he learned
so much in his first term that I mean when
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you see when you see Chuck Schumer, Jeffries Booker. W'll
talk more about their sit in later, but it almost
becomes comical unless you're die in the world nutcase. I
mean Trump, there's no traction.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Trump has been living rent free in their heads for
six years already, and it is they are absolutely obsessed
with Trump, and I think, honestly, it all goes back
to the fact that they thought they were going to
coronate Hillary Clinton as president and he blew, we're out
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of the water.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And I also think, yes, I agree with that one,
but it's beyond that. I think they represent the entrenched
bureaucracy slash swamp. Also the globalist elitists that have sown
the seeds for America's decline since World War Two, and
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Trump represents the end of their gravy train and the
end of their comfy lifestyle. And I truly believe that's
really at the heart of it. It started with Hillary,
but it's ended with that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I think it's more about the deep state than it
is globalization. I think they are absolutely terrified that Trump
is dismantling all of the mechanisms that they put in
place to allow them to steal taxpayer money and fund
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it to their campaigns and their pets. And that's coming
to an end. And I think it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Hard provid to keep them in power too. I one
hundred percent agree with that. I will throw a ten
percent elitist globalist. I think they've been on that gravy
train along with some rhinos. But he's blowing up that
whole thing. And if you want my honest opinion, if
he succeeds, America's maybe not best days, but some really
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good days could be out of us if he fails.
Especially when you look at like you're comment on this
through social media and other insights and especially editorial, AOC
looks like she is positioning herself for twenty twenty eight.
Your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, AOC's positioning is laughable at best.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You're going for fort me to say, well, let me
ask you one question, doctor Lopkin, so we can better
digest this, Okay with normal people. Do you think there's
enough nutcases that she could actually accomplish something.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
No, there's enough nutcases that she could win the Democratic nomination,
but she'll never get past the general. There is nothing
about her that will appeal to independence. And I mean
Republicans you know, obviously they're not going to vote for AOC.
But there is nothing about her that is going to
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appeal to independence. And that is the swing. That is
where Trump won the election. He focused on independence, on
Democrats that had been forgotten by the party. He didn't
bother doing much campaigning towards Republicans because he had that
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sewn up.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Okay, but he didn't run as a populist. Can't she
She's already doing this, but their position herself as.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
A populist now because she's already blown that that ship
has sailed. Everybody knows she's a socialist. She identifies herself
as a democratic socialist. The fact that she you know,
she could call herself a populist. But people already know
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who she is, and they know she was to the
left of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So we talking if she happens to squil and she could.
Here's what I really believe. I think the Democratic Party.
You look at Ron Vogoyevitch, right, former governor of Illinois,
was pardoned by Trump, but he believes that We've talked
about this many times on Carnivore bites that there's gonna
be no moderation. They're shifting further to the left, so
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give it. And I do believe that, By the way,
if that is the case and she does squeak out
a nomination, are we looking at McGovern two point zero,
by the way, lost.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Essentially yes, I mean she is the next generation of McGovern.
And I'm not completely convinced that the party is irredeemable
and that they'll all and that they'll fall in line
for AOC. I still honestly believe that Gretchen wick Meyer
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is going to run for president. She is She's I mean,
you can't call her a conservative by any stretch of
the imagination, but she is much more moderate than AOC,
and she's also so much more intelligent. I think whoa whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Lenin is more moderate than AOC. Yes, and my cat Carl,
who I love a lot greatly, is more intelligent. I'm
dead serious, but that in any kind of cognitive test
he could beat AOC that open doors, he can take
care of himself.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Go ahead, But that's the key. AOC has never faced
an actual debate. If she's gonna run for president, she's
gonna have to have multiple debates during the primaries, and
then she's gonna have to have a debate during the general. Now,
first of all, Whitmer will decimate her in a debate.
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And I think once the Democrats see that, they're gonna
go oh, there's no way she can win a general
if they still decide to swing behind her. I don't
know that there's anybody on the Republican side that she
can beat in the debate.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Never mind, yo, I believe if if capital I capital
F she squeaks out the nomination for the Democratic she
will be electrocuted in the electoral college. Hony like that.
Oh yeah, And and I believe it will be maybe
not the end, but pretty close. It will be life
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support for the Democratic Party you're talking Wig Party two
point zero and that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Actually I can think of one Republican she might be
able to beat in a debate, but fortunately she's not
running for president in twenty twenty eight, and that's Marjorie
Taylor Green.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You're probably right, possibly, yeah, So getting back to the
first one hundred days, I find it. I think there's
some disruption, but with major change is always going to
be disruption. I think the caravs. I'm a free trader,
but it wasn't free trade. And these agreements now so
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the list can go on forever and for items, so
to speak, have gutted out the mis and you have
morons like Janet Yelton right, a complete idiot, with the
rest of that moronic cabinet says, oh, it's only an illusion.
We talked about this last week to bring back manufacturing.
What the hell? Where are you? Like? Do you know
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what's going on with AI? Do you know what's going
on with robotics? Are you stupid? Which he is stupid?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, no, I mean the answer to that is no,
they don't know what's going on in AI or robotics.
They can barely understand what's going on on Facebook. These
are not folks that are at the top of their game,
and that's the big problem. But you're you're also seeing
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you mentioned the disruption. Yes, things are being disrupted, and
this is for two main reasons. One, Trump is moving
at a speed unheard of in politics, and this is
something that neither side can quite understand. Because there was
an interview done with someone from the National Review. Now
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I think everybody will agree there's nothing liberal about the
National Review.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
No one time.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yes, you know, and they were saying, you know, one
of the big problems that Trump is facing is that
he hasn't gotten the tax bill across Congress yet. It's
been one hundred days. It took Obama with a super majority,
almost two years to get the ACA passed. Hm hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I agreed, no, and I think it's also that made
his introject. One other thoughts, I think the speed in
which when we talked about this last week, Trump is
moving at is indicative of the kind of people he
he he is and has in his cabinet because they're
from the private sector what Biden had, We're all basically
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life in either academia or some other bullshit part of bureaucracy.
Who knew absolutely nothing about the real world. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The second part of what's causing all this disruption, and
I find this absolutely hysterical, is because it's what everybody
on both sides of the aisle has been asking for
for twenty years. Trump is the most transparent president we
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have ever had. He shows everything that they're doing at
the time they're doing it. So when things change this
quickly like well, wait a minute, he just said this,
and now it's that yes, because things have changed already
and you're actually seeing it. The truth of the matter is,
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I don't think most of America actually wanted to see
how the sausage is made.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
True. Yes, true, and they're not used to this kind
of activity. For them, chaos equals uncertainty, and I think
they're uncomfortable. But I'm good with that because if things
work out, then Democrats have more than Democrats have taken
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as big of a risk as Trump. How do you
like this analysis? Because if things do work out, then
they have more than an egg on their face. It's
almost like the media with the you know, Russia Gate
and the laptop and all this other craps, they will
lose any credibility they have. And speaking of that, flipping
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for a little bit. Did you happen to see the
sit in talking about losing that was there's pathetic and
then there's beyond. There's no such words as I can articulate.
It was in another universe of being pathetic, another galaxy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, some of the visuals that are coming out of
the Democratic Party are absolutely hysterical. I mean, you had
these folks on the steps of the Capitol singing, And
first of all, these are folks that should obviously never sing.
And if and this is not the first time, so
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if they're dead set on singing at these things, they
for God's sakes need to invest in some vocal coaches
to teach them how to sing. But they started singing
on the steps of the Capitol, and you look at
this visual and I'm dating myself on this, but I
swear you would think they were about to start singing.
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I'm just a bill.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
They did.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It was no, no, no, I mean this was no.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
They did did they they did? They did?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I know I'm older than you are. I know what
you're talking about. And I think Joaquin Jeffries no is
Corey Booker. Yeah, I feel like, yes, that is a fact, good,
absolute facts. Yes, that is a fact, and.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah that that's actually part of the problem the Democrats
are facing right now because you've got who who is
supporting them. They've got Joan Biez on tour, They've got
uh with Bil Young, Neil Young is on It's like
they're reliving their glory days of the sixties. Well, guess what,
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it's not the sixties anymore. You don't have a real
cause and you just look like out of step morons.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That is, you could not have said it any better.
It's like, welcome back to the nineties. They're totally It's
like the kid from high school that was the man,
he was the best pitcher, got all the chicks, and
now he's working at a gas station. When he goes
to a party, what do you think he's talking about
how he filled a couple of tanks up with regular
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Now remember when I struck out. Yet, that's what they're doing.
And by the way, that tour, yes, and the tour
should be called at least be sponsored by like depends.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That depends Jerretol.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You know, it's something.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It is a ridiculous tour. And they keep touting the
fact that, oh, they're bringing in thousands of people. No,
they're not if you take.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Like twenty people.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well no, no, they're getting big crowds.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
No, I'm the steps, there was only like twenty people.
It was no.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
No, I'm not talking about on the steps. I'm talking
about Bernie and AOC's tour. They're getting thousands of people
at these rallies, so they think AOC some of them
are paid. But they took a page from Kamala Harris's playbook.
They're not having just rallies. Those rallies are all being
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held in conjunction with a free concert, and people are
going to the concert and then they're starting to leave
as soon as Bernie and AOC start talking.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, you know something that's very interesting, doctor Lopkin, because
I'm glad you brought it up, because I was not
aware of that, and I was thinking, what the hell's
going on? And it's kind of interesting how the corporate
media doesn't never, never say anything about that. It's these
guys in gal you know, AOC and Bernie are you
cutting it? They're like the Rolling Stones nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
They didn't say anything about it when Harris was doing
that during the campaign.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Flipping to that though, what do you think of Harr's
making a speech, her first major speech. Hopefully she won't
be intoxicated on this one so called serious speech that's
going to go after Trump, and she's also going to
chee up gubernatorial race. My humble opinion, first before or
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the doctor, I think the speech will be pathetic. I
think I'm not sure she can win the governorship of
California if she does the best thing that ever happened
to the Republican Party because she actually having to do
something will be hysterical. And she's also only charging twenty
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five dollars for live stream. Well that's you know, you
might go up pretty quickly, so I would go online
right now, Doctor Hopkin, Well, that's put your card in.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's the live stream, the ticket to tickets to actually
be there in person are ridiculously expensive. And I don't
think she's gonna fill the audience. There's already been speculation
that the only people that are going to subscribe for
the live stream are the mainstream media who have to
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cover it, and the the absolute die hard Democrats. So
you're not you're not talking about a big audience. Also,
and I'm not one hundred percent sure of this one.
But I did hear that she's not actually the one
putting this speech together. Apparently she's being paid to do this.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You think she's actually capable of putting a speech together?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Probably not well, I mean, if she's being paid for it, maybe,
if she has any sense, which of course she doesn't,
she'll have hired writers and producers to do this for her,
so that all she has to do is read a teleprompter,
which actually she's already proven she can't do.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I want to see some excerpts from this because I'm
sure it'll be hysterical. My favorite part of Kamala is
two favorite parts is her word salads. But I love
it because she knows she lacks curiousness. People don't see
her when she tries to be very serious and sulid.
That cracks me up. And and you you're prepared for
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something profound, and it's like yellow school buses are important.
You're like, oh god, please, But it's all good. And
speaking of all good, though she was part of the
Biden go Ahead, and yeah, she.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Was part of the Biden administration's disaster. But yeah, you
mentioned she's considering a run for the governor of California.
Allegedly she's also considering another run for the White House. Personally,
I want to see her run for the White House
again because again I want to see her in a
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debate against Gretchen and Whitmer. I want to see Whitmer
just smack her around.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I think they all will. I don't think there's no
love lost between the Democratic Party and her glove off
but Whitmer.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
In particular, one of the recent books that came out
from Aharis Staffer went into detail how Harris torpedoed Whitmer
during the selection process for Vice president because apparently Whitmer
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was one of the candidates and Harris Harris's folks went
out of their way to make sure Whitmer did not
get this. That Whitmer. And then again when they had
to replace Biden, her people made sure Whitmer was not
on the short list. And again the book goes into
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details about all the dirty tricks they did to make
sure that she beat Whitmer out. That's why I want
Gretchen Whitmer to have a chance at smacking her around.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I will watch that debate with popcorn and a cold bud.
It'll be excellent. And I did mention the fact that
obviously everyone knows this is part of the Biden administration,
but isn't really interesting possibly quinc I'm kidding about the
coincidental that now all of a sudden, all these books
are coming out. There is a media awards get together
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in New York. Can someone want a pulitzer or something
for being so brave to come out, you know, after
the fact. Obviously that Trump was basically eating apple sauce
and everything, right, But it isn't really interesting that all
these people, including Clive Burne, I believe Maryland, saying that
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he just wasn't around Biden that much. I mean, I
believe this is it's biggest scandal in my lifetime political scandal.
It is could have been nuclear war. This guy was
blown out.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
This is literally bigger than Watergate was. Nobody knows who
was in command of the White House, but it's pretty
obvious it was not Biden. All of these senators and
congressmen that are saying, well, you know, we didn't know
how bad he was because we didn't see him all
that often. First of all, the fact that you didn't
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see him that often should have sent up red flags.
The fact that he was not holding cabinet meetings on
a regular basis should have sent up red flags. The
fact that he was calling a lid at four o'clock
when he didn't start his day until ten should have
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sent up red flags. Not seeing him is not an excuse.
There were all of this this evidence that showed he
was not in command, He was not even in control
of his own faculties. And again we reported that he
supposedly had dementia in twenty nineteen, and it.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Was actually before that that people, even twenty seventeen, people
have suggested that going back, you know, almost ten years ago,
quite into a huge scandal. And you know the person
that got the the straw that broke the Campbell's back
was George Clooney. Well, I really don't like I think
he's like a pretty boy who's you know what, college dropout,
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but he thinks he's a men's a candidate. And now
he's playing Edward R. Morrow on Broadway and he gives
a little soliloquy about how the press has to be
vigilant and just just shut up and act. And I
don't know what kind of roles you're going to get
at this point, but anyway, his lovely wife and I'm
sure he married her because he checked all the boxes.
She's hot, she's liberal, and she's anti Semitic slash Israeli
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and was a big, a big force for the international
court issuing that essentially arrest warrant Burnette and Yahoo. So
basically it's been reported that she might have trouble if
she leaves America getting back in all well, crimea River.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, you know, I feel so for her.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Him. He's such a sweet guy and a genius too,
a genius, you.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Know, that's that's the problem. You know, we talked back
during the campaign of how Robert de Niro has played
so many tough guys that he actually thinks he's a
tough guy. Now, well, George Clooney has actually played a
number of very intelligent characters, not the least of which
is Edward R. Murrow, which is what he's reprising on
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Broadway now from the movie good Night and Good Luck.
But he's played so many intelligent characters he actually thinks
he's intelligent.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Oh no, I think it's one hundred percent. And getting
back to de Niro, I believe he was a tough guy,
you know what I mean, And ago he looked his career,
not that he really cares, doesn't need the money check please,
But also we talked about, you know, when we were
talking about the first hundred days and getting into Democrats
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in the media's head. I think it was perfect that
he put these signs of the illegal alien criminals on
the White House lawn. So basically, any reporter that's doing
live seed has to have them in the background. And
it was really funny. MSNBC was freaking out saying, well,
you need to gray them out, gray them out. It's
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just he he just knows how to pull their level
stir up.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Oh, he really does. And I mean this is nothing new.
Trump has known how to push their buttons, you know,
from day one. But he just gave an interview and
I'm not sure who this was. It's a reporter I've
never heard of before. And I saw a clip of
this interview and Trump told the guy point blank, he said, look,
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you're lucky to be in the room with me. I
don't have to do this interview. It was ABCS, Well
it was ABC, but I don't know the name of
the reporter.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It's me either, right, I do I recognize his face.
It doesn't make a difference. Yes, he's upped one of
their major figures.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yes, but this is what he's telling them. And the
fact of the matter is he's right because he's going
on all of these left leaning interviews and they're eating
it up because it's the only thing that's getting them ratings.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
True, And I do like the new Cabinets approach because
unlike the old I think they were part of the swamp.
I don't know if they were really all of them
on really on his side, that was kind of obvious.
But these guys are very smart, like Bassett and others.
They go on these shows with these talking heads. They
had to get the head handed to him. Rubio kicked
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her ass on NBC Meet the Press, which, by the way,
when I was a kid, actually used to be a
real show. Now joke, but yes, it is quite funny.
And speaking of real shows, the president of Sixteen Minutes,
producer of stepped down and Scott Pelly, who I used
to think was a real reporter and over the last
several years I dismissed that possibility went on a tie
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rate about how it was such an outrage. Yeah, okay,
you edited Kamala's interview, you moron.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
See see The problem is Hollywood and the media are
in denial about that. There was an article in the
Hollywood Reporter. Now Trump has I believe it's a six
billion dollar lawsuit against sixty minutes for election interference, and
the Hollywood reporters saying, nobody takes that lawsuit seriously because
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all they did was edit down an interview from forty
five minutes to twenty so it fit in their time slot,
which they do all the time. Except that's not what
they did, and the American people saw that they literally
changed the meaning of what she said through those edits.
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And the producer of sixty minutes was the guy who
was responsible for that. So it is not surprising that
corporate is that was now slapping him down, saying, no,
you've got to rain We've got to rain you in.
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And the fact of the matter is their parent company, Paramount,
is in a merger deal with Skydance Entertainment. Now, whether
or not the folks at sixty minutes or the folks
at CBS are fans of the Trump administration or they
want to go after him, the head of Paramount, Sherry Lansing,
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knows full well that the tr Trump administration has to
bless that merger. They can stop it with us say so,
and she knows if she rocks the boat, that will
happen because they decided again like the Democrats chose the
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wrong hill to die on, She's going, this is not
the hill I want to die on. They did try
to interfere in the election.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
There isn't a defense one hundred percent. And I do
harken back to now. It's gotta be twenty years. I'm
sorry to say that, but I used to watch sixty
minutes religiously. I don't watch it at all. There's nothing
to do with Trump. It sucks, it's a it's a
it's a political hack show, and it's lost all relevancy
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and very uninteresting. It's gotten on the boring train. How
do you like that? But al if I want to
ask doctor Lopkin our listeners, I'm sure want to know
you're inside. Talk about the first one hundred days. A
lot of very positive things. Illegal immigrations practically zero. In fact,
they say, the guards, the border guards are literally bored.
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There's nothing to do, which is a good thing. However,
there is some economic news that's not exactly positive. The
GDP or growth shrink zero point three percent. Not a lot. However,
inflation is down and in fact, somewhere gas is less
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than two dollars to believe it or not, and consumer
spending seems to be still strong. So a lot to
digest their But my little feedback is that part of
that is just the Biden hangover, and part of that
is uncertain to do the terriffs. I am not alarmed
at it at this point, give it more time.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I'm not alarmed with it, although I honestly don't leave
most of it has anything to do with the tariffs,
because this is for first quarter. It's January, February March.
We weren't even talking about the tariffs. Yes, you know,
they might have been mentioned in late March, but that
nothing had been put in place.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yet, and it was not an issue in late mor right,
it was.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Not really an issue. But what people are not paying
attention to, and I understand why they're not paying attention
to it because it hasn't been a major indicator since
the mid seventies. But now it's coming back to the
forefront is the credit utilization data. This is now incredibly
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important because when Biden pushed inflation to historic highes, people
were relying on their credit cards to pay for groceries,
to pay for necessities. Now those credit card bills are
not just coming due, they're overdue. And for a lot
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of people, those cards are maxed out, so they don't
have another choice but to start pulling back on purchases.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Well done, and that's why Trump refers it to a
Biden hangover, which has some relevancy.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right, now, of course this has you know, again,
why hasn't this had relevancy before? Because the last time
it might have been relevant was during the Great Recession
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. But we
had low interest rates then, so you weren't paying twenty
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nine percent interest on that credit card, which makes that
credit limit come up so much faster. And we haven't
had the combination of higher interest rates and skyrocketing inflation
since the seventies. So that was why it was important. Then,
That's why it's important.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Now are you taking out your disco ball?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I am not taking out my disco ball, but it's
you know that, And that's something else. Though. Let's assume
that the Biden administration years were very similar to the seventies,
which they were.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Well, yes, they were.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Look look at what followed. The eighties were an economic powerhouse. Boom,
yeah and quite.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Let me put in perspective. Hold on, let me put
it in perspective just for two seconds now, to put
in perspective. I was out of college in eighty two. Okay,
got my MBA in eighty eight. Why do I mention
that because anyone that was remotely capable had a job. Yes,
(34:58):
in the corporate world, yes, it was a booming time.
The only way you didn't have a job it is
that if you didn't spell something on your resume correctly
pretty much it yes, no, yeah, But now.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You're seeing Donald Trump, who is just as pro business
as Reagan is, but he's also taking steps to protect
union jobs, which Reagan didn't do. So you combine those
two things, you're looking at the possibility if these if
(35:35):
these trade deals get done, and we already have words
that one of them is completed, it's just waiting for
the other party's leadership to vote to approve it. So
we're starting to see them come out. Those start coming out.
The economy is going to start booming like you haven't.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Seen, correct, and it'll be a broad brushed growth. It's
not just going to be Wall Street in the elite.
It will be more well, actually, maybe a resurgent resurgence
of the middle class that we haven't seen since the eighties.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
It's very possible. And you know, you mentioned the stock market.
I find it absolutely hysterical. Obviously everybody has noticed the
volatility in the stock market. Now. First of all, volatility
is measured by the VIX index, and for quite a
long time, the VIX index was about fifteen, which is
(36:42):
very low for volatility, so people got used to that dura.
Right after what Trump called Liberation Day, the vics shot
up to sixty, which is fairly volatile. But now it's
back down to twenty five.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
So the volatility market is fine right now.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, the stock market keeps recovering. Yes, it's going back
and forth, but it keeps recovering. Yes, it's going to
recover what it lost. But more than that, you've got
all of these democrats yelling about what's going on in
the stock market, and oh my god, people's four to
(37:22):
oh one case. And yet during Trump's first administration, when
he would point to the successes in the stock market,
the democrats would say, oh, well, that's not indicative of anything.
That's just the ricture in this Yeah, that's just for
the rich now only a sudden they're changing their tune.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Yes, but you bring up a very more than Salien.
That's why they're without a leader and basically crying wolf
too many times. They've already lost credibility. If things start well,
if things solidify on Wall Street, the economy starts improving,
(38:02):
here's my prediction. Jeffrey L. Sherman. I am not the doctor,
but I have this opinion. If things which I believe
they will stabilize and start going up, and if on
the global arena there's some movement in the Middle East
and some positive aspects in Ukraine, I believe not only
(38:24):
in it's pretty sure bet that the Republicans will keep
and maybe gain in the Senate, but I believe they'll
maintain a hold on Congress as well.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
There is a very strong possibility of that, and in fact,
most of the advanced polling shows that that's what will happen.
I mean, what we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Will there be a come to Jesus meeting in the
Democratic I know they don't believe in God, but come
to something meeting. I don't know will or will they
just go more radical. We're not radical enough.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I don't know. I mean again, if they go more radical,
they're just going to lose more general elections. They may
be able to pick up a seat here or a
seat there, but right now they're gonna be tearing each
other apart in the midterms because the far left is
planning on primarying just about everybody.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
And genius one of the who's a boy genius they
put in charge? Oh my god, it's whatever who cares brutal,
But well, doctor Lobla, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
But what they're doing, though, is, you know, they've been
hanging on their hat. You know, one of the last
most recent polls said, you know, Trump only had forty
five or and some it was down actually all the
way down to thirty nine percent approval rating. And it's like, see,
America doesn't like him. The Democrats have a twenty three
(39:54):
percent approval rating.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, I don't believe that, not just because I'm or
leaning one way or another. Poles or snapshots. People don't
like disruptions. They hear what's going on, they think, oh,
this guy lost his mind. I bet if you do
the polls two weeks from now, when things start evening out,
you'll be it'll be more than five, well more than five.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I want to see the poles that'll be taken right
after the first couple of trade deals are announced.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
That's what I'm saying. Yes, better done. Yes, you are correct,
but doctor Lopkin, that concludes another Carnivore Bytes edition. Our
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Thank you, doctor Lockkin. See you next week.
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
Hello, welcome to another edition of Carnivore Bites. I'm your
host Jeff Sherman, along with doctor Eric Lopkin, and first
on the list, and there's no way there's around that
is Trump's first hundred days. I'm going to throw it
out to doctor Eric Loopkin.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, you know, we we started, we started talking about
this last week at his one hundred days have been
unlike anything that we've seen prior. And I find some
of the reactions absolutely hysterical because you've got well you've
(01:43):
got the folks on the left of course, yelling that
it was one hundred days of hell, yeah, okay, And
in fact, Chuck Schumer actually said that on on the
Senate floor, So it's like and he's going, oh, chaos
equals Trump, Trump equals chaos.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, I think you're rejecting. One thing is I want
your and I'm sure our listeners want your insight into
this has Trump It is dis part of the questions
quasi rhetorical got into their heads and has he learned
so much in his first term that I mean when
(02:21):
you see when you see Chuck Schumer, Jeffries Booker. W'll
talk more about their sit in later, but it almost
becomes comical unless you're die in the world nutcase. I
mean Trump, there's no traction.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Trump has been living rent free in their heads for
six years already, and it is they are absolutely obsessed
with Trump, and I think, honestly, it all goes back
to the fact that they thought they were going to
coronate Hillary Clinton as president and he blew, we're out
(03:00):
of the water.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And I also think, yes, I agree with that one,
but it's beyond that. I think they represent the entrenched
bureaucracy slash swamp. Also the globalist elitists that have sown
the seeds for America's decline since World War Two, and
(03:23):
Trump represents the end of their gravy train and the
end of their comfy lifestyle. And I truly believe that's
really at the heart of it. It started with Hillary,
but it's ended with that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I think it's more about the deep state than it
is globalization. I think they are absolutely terrified that Trump
is dismantling all of the mechanisms that they put in
place to allow them to steal taxpayer money and fund
(03:57):
it to their campaigns and their pets. And that's coming
to an end. And I think it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Hard provid to keep them in power too. I one
hundred percent agree with that. I will throw a ten
percent elitist globalist. I think they've been on that gravy
train along with some rhinos. But he's blowing up that
whole thing. And if you want my honest opinion, if
he succeeds, America's maybe not best days, but some really
(04:27):
good days could be out of us if he fails.
Especially when you look at like you're comment on this
through social media and other insights and especially editorial, AOC
looks like she is positioning herself for twenty twenty eight.
Your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, AOC's positioning is laughable at best.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You're going for fort me to say, well, let me
ask you one question, doctor Lopkin, so we can better
digest this, Okay with normal people. Do you think there's
enough nutcases that she could actually accomplish something.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
No, there's enough nutcases that she could win the Democratic nomination,
but she'll never get past the general. There is nothing
about her that will appeal to independence. And I mean
Republicans you know, obviously they're not going to vote for AOC.
But there is nothing about her that is going to
(05:27):
appeal to independence. And that is the swing. That is
where Trump won the election. He focused on independence, on
Democrats that had been forgotten by the party. He didn't
bother doing much campaigning towards Republicans because he had that
(05:49):
sewn up.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Okay, but he didn't run as a populist. Can't she
She's already doing this, but their position herself as.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
A populist now because she's already blown that that ship
has sailed. Everybody knows she's a socialist. She identifies herself
as a democratic socialist. The fact that she you know,
she could call herself a populist. But people already know
(06:23):
who she is, and they know she was to the
left of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So we talking if she happens to squil and she could.
Here's what I really believe. I think the Democratic Party.
You look at Ron Vogoyevitch, right, former governor of Illinois,
was pardoned by Trump, but he believes that We've talked
about this many times on Carnivore bites that there's gonna
be no moderation. They're shifting further to the left, so
(06:54):
give it. And I do believe that, By the way,
if that is the case and she does squeak out
a nomination, are we looking at McGovern two point zero,
by the way, lost.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Essentially yes, I mean she is the next generation of McGovern.
And I'm not completely convinced that the party is irredeemable
and that they'll all and that they'll fall in line
for AOC. I still honestly believe that Gretchen wick Meyer
(07:30):
is going to run for president. She is She's I mean,
you can't call her a conservative by any stretch of
the imagination, but she is much more moderate than AOC,
and she's also so much more intelligent. I think whoa whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Lenin is more moderate than AOC. Yes, and my cat Carl,
who I love a lot greatly, is more intelligent. I'm
dead serious, but that in any kind of cognitive test
he could beat AOC that open doors, he can take
care of himself.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Go ahead, But that's the key. AOC has never faced
an actual debate. If she's gonna run for president, she's
gonna have to have multiple debates during the primaries, and
then she's gonna have to have a debate during the general. Now,
first of all, Whitmer will decimate her in a debate.
(08:32):
And I think once the Democrats see that, they're gonna
go oh, there's no way she can win a general
if they still decide to swing behind her. I don't
know that there's anybody on the Republican side that she
can beat in the debate.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Never mind, yo, I believe if if capital I capital
F she squeaks out the nomination for the Democratic she
will be electrocuted in the electoral college. Hony like that.
Oh yeah, And and I believe it will be maybe
not the end, but pretty close. It will be life
(09:12):
support for the Democratic Party you're talking Wig Party two
point zero and that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Actually I can think of one Republican she might be
able to beat in a debate, but fortunately she's not
running for president in twenty twenty eight, and that's Marjorie
Taylor Green.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You're probably right, possibly, yeah, So getting back to the
first one hundred days, I find it. I think there's
some disruption, but with major change is always going to
be disruption. I think the caravs. I'm a free trader,
but it wasn't free trade. And these agreements now so
(09:55):
the list can go on forever and for items, so
to speak, have gutted out the mis and you have
morons like Janet Yelton right, a complete idiot, with the
rest of that moronic cabinet says, oh, it's only an illusion.
We talked about this last week to bring back manufacturing.
What the hell? Where are you? Like? Do you know
(10:17):
what's going on with AI? Do you know what's going
on with robotics? Are you stupid? Which he is stupid?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, no, I mean the answer to that is no,
they don't know what's going on in AI or robotics.
They can barely understand what's going on on Facebook. These
are not folks that are at the top of their game,
and that's the big problem. But you're you're also seeing
(10:44):
you mentioned the disruption. Yes, things are being disrupted, and
this is for two main reasons. One, Trump is moving
at a speed unheard of in politics, and this is
something that neither side can quite understand. Because there was
an interview done with someone from the National Review. Now
(11:07):
I think everybody will agree there's nothing liberal about the
National Review.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
No one time.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yes, you know, and they were saying, you know, one
of the big problems that Trump is facing is that
he hasn't gotten the tax bill across Congress yet. It's
been one hundred days. It took Obama with a super majority,
almost two years to get the ACA passed. Hm hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I agreed, no, and I think it's also that made
his introject. One other thoughts, I think the speed in
which when we talked about this last week, Trump is
moving at is indicative of the kind of people he
he he is and has in his cabinet because they're
from the private sector what Biden had, We're all basically
(11:59):
life in either academia or some other bullshit part of bureaucracy.
Who knew absolutely nothing about the real world. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The second part of what's causing all this disruption, and
I find this absolutely hysterical, is because it's what everybody
on both sides of the aisle has been asking for
for twenty years. Trump is the most transparent president we
(12:29):
have ever had. He shows everything that they're doing at
the time they're doing it. So when things change this
quickly like well, wait a minute, he just said this,
and now it's that yes, because things have changed already
and you're actually seeing it. The truth of the matter is,
(12:50):
I don't think most of America actually wanted to see
how the sausage is made.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
True. Yes, true, and they're not used to this kind
of activity. For them, chaos equals uncertainty, and I think
they're uncomfortable. But I'm good with that because if things
work out, then Democrats have more than Democrats have taken
(13:18):
as big of a risk as Trump. How do you
like this analysis? Because if things do work out, then
they have more than an egg on their face. It's
almost like the media with the you know, Russia Gate
and the laptop and all this other craps, they will
lose any credibility they have. And speaking of that, flipping
(13:38):
for a little bit. Did you happen to see the
sit in talking about losing that was there's pathetic and
then there's beyond. There's no such words as I can articulate.
It was in another universe of being pathetic, another galaxy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, some of the visuals that are coming out of
the Democratic Party are absolutely hysterical. I mean, you had
these folks on the steps of the Capitol singing, And
first of all, these are folks that should obviously never sing.
And if and this is not the first time, so
(14:18):
if they're dead set on singing at these things, they
for God's sakes need to invest in some vocal coaches
to teach them how to sing. But they started singing
on the steps of the Capitol, and you look at
this visual and I'm dating myself on this, but I
swear you would think they were about to start singing.
(14:40):
I'm just a bill.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
They did.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It was no, no, no, I mean this was no.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
They did did they they did? They did?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I know I'm older than you are. I know what
you're talking about. And I think Joaquin Jeffries no is
Corey Booker. Yeah, I feel like, yes, that is a fact, good,
absolute facts. Yes, that is a fact, and.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah that that's actually part of the problem the Democrats
are facing right now because you've got who who is
supporting them. They've got Joan Biez on tour, They've got
uh with Bil Young, Neil Young is on It's like
they're reliving their glory days of the sixties. Well, guess what,
(15:25):
it's not the sixties anymore. You don't have a real
cause and you just look like out of step morons.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That is, you could not have said it any better.
It's like, welcome back to the nineties. They're totally It's
like the kid from high school that was the man,
he was the best pitcher, got all the chicks, and
now he's working at a gas station. When he goes
to a party, what do you think he's talking about
how he filled a couple of tanks up with regular
(15:55):
Now remember when I struck out. Yet, that's what they're doing.
And by the way, that tour, yes, and the tour
should be called at least be sponsored by like depends.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That depends Jerretol.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You know, it's something.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It is a ridiculous tour. And they keep touting the
fact that, oh, they're bringing in thousands of people. No,
they're not if you take.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Like twenty people.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well no, no, they're getting big crowds.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
No, I'm the steps, there was only like twenty people.
It was no.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
No, I'm not talking about on the steps. I'm talking
about Bernie and AOC's tour. They're getting thousands of people
at these rallies, so they think AOC some of them
are paid. But they took a page from Kamala Harris's playbook.
They're not having just rallies. Those rallies are all being
(16:55):
held in conjunction with a free concert, and people are
going to the concert and then they're starting to leave
as soon as Bernie and AOC start talking.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, you know something that's very interesting, doctor Lopkin, because
I'm glad you brought it up, because I was not
aware of that, and I was thinking, what the hell's
going on? And it's kind of interesting how the corporate
media doesn't never, never say anything about that. It's these
guys in gal you know, AOC and Bernie are you
cutting it? They're like the Rolling Stones nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
They didn't say anything about it when Harris was doing
that during the campaign.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Flipping to that though, what do you think of Harr's
making a speech, her first major speech. Hopefully she won't
be intoxicated on this one so called serious speech that's
going to go after Trump, and she's also going to
chee up gubernatorial race. My humble opinion, first before or
(17:58):
the doctor, I think the speech will be pathetic. I
think I'm not sure she can win the governorship of
California if she does the best thing that ever happened
to the Republican Party because she actually having to do
something will be hysterical. And she's also only charging twenty
(18:19):
five dollars for live stream. Well that's you know, you
might go up pretty quickly, so I would go online
right now, Doctor Hopkin, Well, that's put your card in.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's the live stream, the ticket to tickets to actually
be there in person are ridiculously expensive. And I don't
think she's gonna fill the audience. There's already been speculation
that the only people that are going to subscribe for
the live stream are the mainstream media who have to
(18:50):
cover it, and the the absolute die hard Democrats. So
you're not you're not talking about a big audience. Also,
and I'm not one hundred percent sure of this one.
But I did hear that she's not actually the one
putting this speech together. Apparently she's being paid to do this.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You think she's actually capable of putting a speech together?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Probably not well, I mean, if she's being paid for it, maybe,
if she has any sense, which of course she doesn't,
she'll have hired writers and producers to do this for her,
so that all she has to do is read a teleprompter,
which actually she's already proven she can't do.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I want to see some excerpts from this because I'm
sure it'll be hysterical. My favorite part of Kamala is
two favorite parts is her word salads. But I love
it because she knows she lacks curiousness. People don't see
her when she tries to be very serious and sulid.
That cracks me up. And and you you're prepared for
(20:01):
something profound, and it's like yellow school buses are important.
You're like, oh god, please, But it's all good. And
speaking of all good, though she was part of the
Biden go Ahead, and yeah, she.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Was part of the Biden administration's disaster. But yeah, you
mentioned she's considering a run for the governor of California.
Allegedly she's also considering another run for the White House. Personally,
I want to see her run for the White House
again because again I want to see her in a
(20:35):
debate against Gretchen and Whitmer. I want to see Whitmer
just smack her around.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I think they all will. I don't think there's no
love lost between the Democratic Party and her glove off
but Whitmer.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
In particular, one of the recent books that came out
from Aharis Staffer went into detail how Harris torpedoed Whitmer
during the selection process for Vice president because apparently Whitmer
(21:12):
was one of the candidates and Harris Harris's folks went
out of their way to make sure Whitmer did not
get this. That Whitmer. And then again when they had
to replace Biden, her people made sure Whitmer was not
on the short list. And again the book goes into
(21:33):
details about all the dirty tricks they did to make
sure that she beat Whitmer out. That's why I want
Gretchen Whitmer to have a chance at smacking her around.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I will watch that debate with popcorn and a cold bud.
It'll be excellent. And I did mention the fact that
obviously everyone knows this is part of the Biden administration,
but isn't really interesting possibly quinc I'm kidding about the
coincidental that now all of a sudden, all these books
are coming out. There is a media awards get together
(22:10):
in New York. Can someone want a pulitzer or something
for being so brave to come out, you know, after
the fact. Obviously that Trump was basically eating apple sauce
and everything, right, But it isn't really interesting that all
these people, including Clive Burne, I believe Maryland, saying that
(22:31):
he just wasn't around Biden that much. I mean, I
believe this is it's biggest scandal in my lifetime political scandal.
It is could have been nuclear war. This guy was
blown out.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
This is literally bigger than Watergate was. Nobody knows who
was in command of the White House, but it's pretty
obvious it was not Biden. All of these senators and
congressmen that are saying, well, you know, we didn't know
how bad he was because we didn't see him all
that often. First of all, the fact that you didn't
(23:05):
see him that often should have sent up red flags.
The fact that he was not holding cabinet meetings on
a regular basis should have sent up red flags. The
fact that he was calling a lid at four o'clock
when he didn't start his day until ten should have
(23:25):
sent up red flags. Not seeing him is not an excuse.
There were all of this this evidence that showed he
was not in command, He was not even in control
of his own faculties. And again we reported that he
supposedly had dementia in twenty nineteen, and it.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Was actually before that that people, even twenty seventeen, people
have suggested that going back, you know, almost ten years ago,
quite into a huge scandal. And you know the person
that got the the straw that broke the Campbell's back
was George Clooney. Well, I really don't like I think
he's like a pretty boy who's you know what, college dropout,
(24:14):
but he thinks he's a men's a candidate. And now
he's playing Edward R. Morrow on Broadway and he gives
a little soliloquy about how the press has to be
vigilant and just just shut up and act. And I
don't know what kind of roles you're going to get
at this point, but anyway, his lovely wife and I'm
sure he married her because he checked all the boxes.
She's hot, she's liberal, and she's anti Semitic slash Israeli
(24:38):
and was a big, a big force for the international
court issuing that essentially arrest warrant Burnette and Yahoo. So
basically it's been reported that she might have trouble if
she leaves America getting back in all well, crimea River.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, you know, I feel so for her.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Him. He's such a sweet guy and a genius too,
a genius, you.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Know, that's that's the problem. You know, we talked back
during the campaign of how Robert de Niro has played
so many tough guys that he actually thinks he's a
tough guy. Now, well, George Clooney has actually played a
number of very intelligent characters, not the least of which
is Edward R. Murrow, which is what he's reprising on
(25:29):
Broadway now from the movie good Night and Good Luck.
But he's played so many intelligent characters he actually thinks
he's intelligent.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Oh no, I think it's one hundred percent. And getting
back to de Niro, I believe he was a tough guy,
you know what I mean, And ago he looked his career,
not that he really cares, doesn't need the money check please,
But also we talked about, you know, when we were
talking about the first hundred days and getting into Democrats
(26:01):
in the media's head. I think it was perfect that
he put these signs of the illegal alien criminals on
the White House lawn. So basically, any reporter that's doing
live seed has to have them in the background. And
it was really funny. MSNBC was freaking out saying, well,
you need to gray them out, gray them out. It's
(26:22):
just he he just knows how to pull their level
stir up.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Oh, he really does. And I mean this is nothing new.
Trump has known how to push their buttons, you know,
from day one. But he just gave an interview and
I'm not sure who this was. It's a reporter I've
never heard of before. And I saw a clip of
this interview and Trump told the guy point blank, he said, look,
(26:51):
you're lucky to be in the room with me. I
don't have to do this interview. It was ABCS, Well
it was ABC, but I don't know the name of
the reporter.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It's me either, right, I do I recognize his face.
It doesn't make a difference. Yes, he's upped one of
their major figures.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yes, but this is what he's telling them. And the
fact of the matter is he's right because he's going
on all of these left leaning interviews and they're eating
it up because it's the only thing that's getting them ratings.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
True, And I do like the new Cabinets approach because
unlike the old I think they were part of the swamp.
I don't know if they were really all of them
on really on his side, that was kind of obvious.
But these guys are very smart, like Bassett and others.
They go on these shows with these talking heads. They
had to get the head handed to him. Rubio kicked
(27:53):
her ass on NBC Meet the Press, which, by the way,
when I was a kid, actually used to be a
real show. Now joke, but yes, it is quite funny.
And speaking of real shows, the president of Sixteen Minutes,
producer of stepped down and Scott Pelly, who I used
to think was a real reporter and over the last
several years I dismissed that possibility went on a tie
(28:17):
rate about how it was such an outrage. Yeah, okay,
you edited Kamala's interview, you moron.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
See see The problem is Hollywood and the media are
in denial about that. There was an article in the
Hollywood Reporter. Now Trump has I believe it's a six
billion dollar lawsuit against sixty minutes for election interference, and
the Hollywood reporters saying, nobody takes that lawsuit seriously because
(28:49):
all they did was edit down an interview from forty
five minutes to twenty so it fit in their time slot,
which they do all the time. Except that's not what
they did, and the American people saw that they literally
changed the meaning of what she said through those edits.
(29:11):
And the producer of sixty minutes was the guy who
was responsible for that. So it is not surprising that
corporate is that was now slapping him down, saying, no,
you've got to rain We've got to rain you in.
(29:32):
And the fact of the matter is their parent company, Paramount,
is in a merger deal with Skydance Entertainment. Now, whether
or not the folks at sixty minutes or the folks
at CBS are fans of the Trump administration or they
want to go after him, the head of Paramount, Sherry Lansing,
(29:57):
knows full well that the tr Trump administration has to
bless that merger. They can stop it with us say so,
and she knows if she rocks the boat, that will
happen because they decided again like the Democrats chose the
(30:17):
wrong hill to die on, She's going, this is not
the hill I want to die on. They did try
to interfere in the election.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
There isn't a defense one hundred percent. And I do
harken back to now. It's gotta be twenty years. I'm
sorry to say that, but I used to watch sixty
minutes religiously. I don't watch it at all. There's nothing
to do with Trump. It sucks, it's a it's a
it's a political hack show, and it's lost all relevancy
(30:49):
and very uninteresting. It's gotten on the boring train. How
do you like that? But al if I want to
ask doctor Lopkin our listeners, I'm sure want to know
you're inside. Talk about the first one hundred days. A
lot of very positive things. Illegal immigrations practically zero. In fact,
they say, the guards, the border guards are literally bored.
(31:13):
There's nothing to do, which is a good thing. However,
there is some economic news that's not exactly positive. The
GDP or growth shrink zero point three percent. Not a lot. However,
inflation is down and in fact, somewhere gas is less
(31:34):
than two dollars to believe it or not, and consumer
spending seems to be still strong. So a lot to
digest their But my little feedback is that part of
that is just the Biden hangover, and part of that
is uncertain to do the terriffs. I am not alarmed
at it at this point, give it more time.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I'm not alarmed with it, although I honestly don't leave
most of it has anything to do with the tariffs,
because this is for first quarter. It's January, February March.
We weren't even talking about the tariffs. Yes, you know,
they might have been mentioned in late March, but that
nothing had been put in place.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yet, and it was not an issue in late mor right,
it was.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Not really an issue. But what people are not paying
attention to, and I understand why they're not paying attention
to it because it hasn't been a major indicator since
the mid seventies. But now it's coming back to the
forefront is the credit utilization data. This is now incredibly
(32:45):
important because when Biden pushed inflation to historic highes, people
were relying on their credit cards to pay for groceries,
to pay for necessities. Now those credit card bills are
not just coming due, they're overdue. And for a lot
(33:08):
of people, those cards are maxed out, so they don't
have another choice but to start pulling back on purchases.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Well done, and that's why Trump refers it to a
Biden hangover, which has some relevancy.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right, now, of course this has you know, again,
why hasn't this had relevancy before? Because the last time
it might have been relevant was during the Great Recession
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. But we
had low interest rates then, so you weren't paying twenty
(33:45):
nine percent interest on that credit card, which makes that
credit limit come up so much faster. And we haven't
had the combination of higher interest rates and skyrocketing inflation
since the seventies. So that was why it was important. Then,
That's why it's important.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Now are you taking out your disco ball?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I am not taking out my disco ball, but it's
you know that, And that's something else. Though. Let's assume
that the Biden administration years were very similar to the seventies,
which they were.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Well, yes, they were.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Look look at what followed. The eighties were an economic powerhouse. Boom,
yeah and quite.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Let me put in perspective. Hold on, let me put
it in perspective just for two seconds now, to put
in perspective. I was out of college in eighty two. Okay,
got my MBA in eighty eight. Why do I mention
that because anyone that was remotely capable had a job. Yes,
(34:58):
in the corporate world, yes, it was a booming time.
The only way you didn't have a job it is
that if you didn't spell something on your resume correctly
pretty much it yes, no, yeah, But now.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You're seeing Donald Trump, who is just as pro business
as Reagan is, but he's also taking steps to protect
union jobs, which Reagan didn't do. So you combine those
two things, you're looking at the possibility if these if
(35:35):
these trade deals get done, and we already have words
that one of them is completed, it's just waiting for
the other party's leadership to vote to approve it. So
we're starting to see them come out. Those start coming out.
The economy is going to start booming like you haven't.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Seen, correct, and it'll be a broad brushed growth. It's
not just going to be Wall Street in the elite.
It will be more well, actually, maybe a resurgent resurgence
of the middle class that we haven't seen since the eighties.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
It's very possible. And you know, you mentioned the stock market.
I find it absolutely hysterical. Obviously everybody has noticed the
volatility in the stock market. Now. First of all, volatility
is measured by the VIX index, and for quite a
long time, the VIX index was about fifteen, which is
(36:42):
very low for volatility, so people got used to that dura.
Right after what Trump called Liberation Day, the vics shot
up to sixty, which is fairly volatile. But now it's
back down to twenty five.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
So the volatility market is fine right now.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, the stock market keeps recovering. Yes, it's going back
and forth, but it keeps recovering. Yes, it's going to
recover what it lost. But more than that, you've got
all of these democrats yelling about what's going on in
the stock market, and oh my god, people's four to
(37:22):
oh one case. And yet during Trump's first administration, when
he would point to the successes in the stock market,
the democrats would say, oh, well, that's not indicative of anything.
That's just the ricture in this Yeah, that's just for
the rich now only a sudden they're changing their tune.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Yes, but you bring up a very more than Salien.
That's why they're without a leader and basically crying wolf
too many times. They've already lost credibility. If things start well,
if things solidify on Wall Street, the economy starts improving,
(38:02):
here's my prediction. Jeffrey L. Sherman. I am not the doctor,
but I have this opinion. If things which I believe
they will stabilize and start going up, and if on
the global arena there's some movement in the Middle East
and some positive aspects in Ukraine, I believe not only
(38:24):
in it's pretty sure bet that the Republicans will keep
and maybe gain in the Senate, but I believe they'll
maintain a hold on Congress as well.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
There is a very strong possibility of that, and in fact,
most of the advanced polling shows that that's what will happen.
I mean, what we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Will there be a come to Jesus meeting in the
Democratic I know they don't believe in God, but come
to something meeting. I don't know will or will they
just go more radical. We're not radical enough.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I don't know. I mean again, if they go more radical,
they're just going to lose more general elections. They may
be able to pick up a seat here or a
seat there, but right now they're gonna be tearing each
other apart in the midterms because the far left is
planning on primarying just about everybody.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
And genius one of the who's a boy genius they
put in charge? Oh my god, it's whatever who cares brutal,
But well, doctor Lobla, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
But what they're doing, though, is, you know, they've been
hanging on their hat. You know, one of the last
most recent polls said, you know, Trump only had forty
five or and some it was down actually all the
way down to thirty nine percent approval rating. And it's like, see,
America doesn't like him. The Democrats have a twenty three
(39:54):
percent approval rating.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, I don't believe that, not just because I'm or
leaning one way or another. Poles or snapshots. People don't
like disruptions. They hear what's going on, they think, oh,
this guy lost his mind. I bet if you do
the polls two weeks from now, when things start evening out,
you'll be it'll be more than five, well more than five.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I want to see the poles that'll be taken right
after the first couple of trade deals are announced.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
That's what I'm saying. Yes, better done. Yes, you are correct,
but doctor Lopkin, that concludes another Carnivore Bytes edition. Our
listeners can contribute to the show.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
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Speaker 2 (41:10):
Thank you, doctor Lockkin. See you next week.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
We'll see you then,
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