June 25, 2025 • 40 mins
The Middle East, The NYC Mayoral Election, another try an impeachment and more news, analysis and commentary
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
Welcome to another edition of Carnivore Bites. I'm your host
Jeff Sherman along with doctor Eric Loopkin and a monumental weekend.
This past weekend ramifications. As I said, the shot or shots.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Heard around the world.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Your thoughts, Dr.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Lopkin, Yeah, this was an amazing strike. Let's start with
the fact that this is something only the US could do.
We are the only ones in the world that have
the bunker Buster bombs, so if we didn't do this,
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Iran's nuclear enrichment sites would have been completely safe. Now
it has not been up until now. With as radical
as the Democrats have gotten it has not been controversial
to say that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Reagan said it,
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Bush said it, Clinton said it, Bush Junior said it,
Obama said it.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yes, even Biden said.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It, except nobody on either side of the aisle ever actually.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Did anything about it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
This is the first time that an American president said
to Iran, all right, you've got sixty days, come to
the table, let's negotiate. And Iran screwed around and didn't
take it seriously, and they went, all right, that's it.
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Guess what Iran's taking negotiations seriously now, I.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yes, well done, a one hundred percent agree, and even
beyond the bunker busters, which are impressive, just the logistic
it was a master class in military in a military
initiative up there with anything the Israelis have done or
we've done previous to that. And to me it says
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a lot, because I think there has been a Biden malaise,
meaning was questioning could we even paint the sidewalk and
do it competently. I think it sent a signal, obviously
obviously to Iran, but the rest of the Gulf State
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and the world, including China and Russia, your thoughts on that.
It definitely sent a huge message.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It definitely sends a message Russia and China now know
you know we're serious about what we tell you, which,
let's face it, during the entire Biden administration, nobody took
him seriously.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
What was his big threat?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Don't Well, now Trump has said, look, I told you
what I'm going to do. If you don't believe me,
screw around and find out what was absolutely amazing about
this operation. This is not an operation that could be
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done at the drop of a hat. We had to
get naval ships into position that takes days, if not weeks,
depending on where they're currently stationed. We had to get
the planes set up. This is not something that, you know, again,
you can do with the drop of a hat. When
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Trump said he was going to give negotiations two weeks weeks,
he had to have already been planning this. And the
fact that it was planned, it was executed, and nobody
heard a word about it until the operation was underway
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was an absolute master stroke. And of course Congress was yelling, well,
you didn't tell us. Well, first of all, he actually
did contact several.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Of them, didn't pick up the phone right.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Jefferies didn't pick up the phone. But realistically, what are.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You going to do? Call Ill and Omar and it leaked, Adam.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Shaff you, it will leaked so fast.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, so the way they killed it off was speaking
of secrecy.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yes, but then post strike, you had the deep State
wearing its ugly head, don't you, in the form of
the leaker.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, you've you've got this anonymous leaker. And I'll be
really honest, I'm not one hundred percent sure the leaker
actually exists. The reporter that broke the story that the
leaker allegedly gave them also reported that the Hunter Biden
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laptop was Russian misinformation. Also reported that the Steel dossier
was legitimate. Also reported that Joe Biden was sharp as attack.
I don't know that this reporter has any legitimate sources.
They may just be making this stuff up. And I
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have never accused a reporter of that, but the New
York Times does have a history of that. Everybody remembers
the Stephen Glass controversy, and it has happened in other outlets.
So I don't know that there's an actual leaker, or
if the reporter just decided to make up what they
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called facts, or if they're so called source, isn't somebody
that has access to information. It's just somebody that wants
to make Trump look bad, so they keep calling this
reporter who is obviously not good enough to verify the source.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I think it could be all of the above, doctor Lopin.
If I was a betting man, I'd say it's a
low level bureaucrat who might have seen a memo that
barely reflect on anything and calling his buddy at the
New York Times. I do love And I heard this
in real time because I'm on vacation that Trump exacerated
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scene end in New York Times and ms DNC, so
I flicked as soon as the conference press conference is
over to CNN. It was like the honeymoonersa We'll split through.
They were shaken. You could tell they were nervous, and
they were rattled, saying, oh, don't we don't have any
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disparity about the troops and blah bla blah, and it
was very interesting. I think it is a new Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think he.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Learned a lot of lessons from the first term, and
I actually enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
How do you like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I think what's really amazing is that CNN, MSNBC in
the New York Times didn't learn their lesson from the
Hunter Biden laptop from the Steel dossia. You would think
they would be more careful about reporting things before checking
them out, but apparently if it goes against Trump, they
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don't care if it's true. They just want to get
it out again. That's not journalism. Journalism is about the facts.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I mean the.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Democrat Yeah, journalism has fallen by the wayside.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
But the there you go, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
The Democrats have also just lost their mind calling for
his impeachment. And this was Representative Green, who has been
trying to impeach Donald Trump since he reelected. AOC called
for the impeachment. They were slapped down, not just by
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the Republicans, but by the majority of Democrats who basically
just said, no, we are not impeaching him. We're not
looking into impeaching him. Sit down and shut up.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And I think it's good. How do you like this prediction,
doctor Lopkin for their own survival? That's going to become
more common. AOC Crockett Omar, please shut up. You're embarrassing us.
You're just you were already taking on water don't put
another torpedo in our boat. I mean, and the rebuke
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that Trump did was masterclass, called her low IQ. I mean,
it was just un Crockett in the AOCS I'm paraphrasing
obviously is low IQ. But then you've got to go
to Krockett to get really stupid. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It was, It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Last last week, Crockett made a whole bunch of comments.
This is actually before the strike, and you know she
said so much that is absolute nonsense, absolute stupidity. There
was a question in the briefing room to Caroline Levitt,
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asked about the fact that your Crockett can keep saying
these things and she's a rising star in the Democratic Party.
And Levitt's response was yes, and the Republicans are thrilled
that she's a rising star because every time she opens
her mouth it makes the Democrats look worse.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I one hundred percent agree. I think you talk about
being Trump being in their minds. There's talk about Trump
getting a potential Nobel Peace Prize not only for the
current Middle East events, but the putting the Kabash or
cooling down tangents between Pakistan and India. What will be
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the degree of their heads exploding if that ever happens.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, I mean certain certainly their heads would explode. But
let we need people need to pull back on that talk.
Because he was not actually nominated yet. A GOP representative
from Congress wrote a letter to the Nobel Committee nominating
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Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee
has not accepted the nomination. It has not been put forth. Also,
the Nobel nominations actually came out in March. So even
if the Nobel Committee does decide, okay, we're going to
accept this, that nomination isn't going to come out until
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March twenty twenty six, for you know, for right for
next year's well again certainly the elections, but for next
year's Nobel prizes. So he has not actually gotten a
Nobel nomination yet. He's been suggested for one by a
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member of the Republican Party. Knowing how far left the
Nobel Committee.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Is, Obama will get it again, all.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right, I'm not going to remember remember he Obama got
the Nobel Prize, Nobel Peace Prize for participation.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
He showed up.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yes, he hadn't even been president yet and he got
the Nobel Peace Prize, and of course, quite frankly, given uh,
what Russia did in Crimea under Obama, all of the
upset in the Middle East under Obama, they should have
forced him to give it back.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
One well, you know, talk about getting back. This was
not on the agenda as we prepped before the podcast.
But I think he's basically given back. That is Obama
his entire legacy. I think the Obama Library is a
microcosm of his post presidency. I think he hasn't bought
as much weight and Paul in America as who knows
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an Elvison personator your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, he's doing speaking engagements now and at Walmart. He
made one recently in Connecticut where he was of course
disparaging Trump and the divide in the American public that
he's blaming on Trump. The divide actually started under his watch.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
But yes, especially the racial divide by Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But this was basically a big thing in the news
cycle for about half an hour. Obama's influence is done.
The only reason at this point I think that he's
doing these speaking engagements is because he needs to build
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up a war chest for the divorce settlement.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think you're in to get the hell out of
the house. You don't want some crazy lady calling you
an asshole, do you know? And in speaking of that,
I think it's hysterical. She had a clip on her
Unwatchable podcasting Unwatchable and she would be one of the
people on her show is like, oh, you have two girls,
it would have been great to.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Have a little boy.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
She was, oh, my god, no, it would have been
a little uh, little little Obama, like a little Baraque.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
And I was like, whoa dude?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Like right, insult consult, yes, insult your husband, who is still,
despite his waning influence, still the titular head of the
Democratic Party.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I mean Biden.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Biden can't string two sentences together. The kid, the kids
are running the show, and when the Democrats actually need
to get a message across, they bring Dad back to
you know, bring some order to it. But he's lost
complete control. And of course, you know, insult.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yes, yeah, I think Obama again. Rolling Stone's twenty twenty
four tour. Yeah it's great. Yeah, it's not nineteen eighty
one anymore. His sticks even the way I saw him
on the show in Connecticut, you know, his professorial approach,
the whole stick's gone. Sorry, it's it's yesterday's news. How
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do you like that the tour is over?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It is in every time, Michelle Obama says another comment,
his legacy dies a little more.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Happened to a nicer guy. Let's before we leave and
get into other issues. We want the doctor's assessment viewpoint
on how does this impact the Middle East? Does this
reset things? I have my own opinion, and what does
this due to the old the overall geopolitical framework of
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the world.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
What we saw a major reshuffling this week after the strike.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
When I when.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Iran did a missile attack on a US air base
in Katar. Now, the attack itself was feckless. I mean
it didn't know, there wasn't even any injuries. But the
only Middle East countries that did not condemn the attack
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were Iraq and Afghanistan. Every other Middle East country stood
against Iran. Iran has never been this isolated. On top
of that, before the strike, while they were doing volleys
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back and forth with Israel, intelligence has reported that Iranian
leadership expected support from Hesbola, who was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So even there, the number you have reached is not
in service at.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
This time, even their own proxies are going No, we
don't want to have anything to do with this. Iran
has been completely isolated. The only allies they apparently have left,
and let's be honest, these are not allies to be
taken lightly are Russia, China, and North Korea.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I can't getting back to the strike though, again, this
definitely is in line with talking about global resets. I
think the spectacular nature of this strike basically causes pause
for concerns on our adversaries.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
This is not Joe Biden is not.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And looking at the capabilities of the United States versus
even a country like a Asia like China is night
and day at this particular point in time.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Do you agree?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yes, Trump showed that the US has teeth again, that
we're not going to be bullied, We're not going to
be bossed around. But what I find really funny is
that again I mentioned on the last podcast that there
are ties between Iran and Russia. Iran has been supplying
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Russia with arms for their war in Ukraine. Now, what's
the one thing everybody has heard ad infinitum from the
Ukraine War about NATO? Why is Ukraine not being allowed
into NATO? At this time, because right from the NATO Charter,
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an attack on one is an attack on all. Now
you've got NATO committing to spending five NATO states committing
to spend five percent of their GDP on defense in
twenty sixteen, most of them weren't spending two percent. When
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Iran's proxies didn't come to their rescue, when every country
in the Middle East but two condemned their strike on Cutter,
they suddenly realized, wait a minute, we can't take on
the United States. And not only would it be the
United States, they would have to take on all of NATO.
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Who at this point, I mean, let's face it, when
you've got Middle Eastern countries telling the US, yeah, use
our airspace, no problem.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
When you've got woo.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Before you go on, that is not something to be
taken lightly. That is monumental. That is a paradigm shift,
you agree, doctor Welcan.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And it goes further because when you've got Syria telling Israel, yeah,
use our airfields.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
These are countries I think you're going to be.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
These are countries that would never have stood up to
Iran in the past. And now you've got the son
of the former Shah of Iran, who's been in exile
since the nineteen eighty speaking to the people of Iran
via broadcast, trying to get them to rise up against
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the regime.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's funny that you mentioned this, doctor Lockkin, about the
only two Arab countries or Islamic countries condemning the race.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay, but we.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Also have Bernie did too, the self hating genes.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yes, the strike was condemned by a number of the
Democrats immediately. What is really amazing, though, the strike was
condemned by a number of the Democrats. But what's really
amazing is that if you listen to what they're saying,
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and when they said it, every one of them, except
for the most extreme the squad Bernie, they all backtracked.
They all came out immediately, Oh, this was irresponsible.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
And then two days later, when the Iranian.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Airstrike failed, when it became very obvious that the ceasefire
was now going to hold, these Democrats that were so
quick to go was irresponsible.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
He should never have done it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
We're going, well, you know, it was an important decision,
and you know, I hope it works out.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
It's like all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's like they're backtracking because it was the right call
and like they've been doing no.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
But it's also the tea leads America was one hundred nuns,
overwhelming majority was in favor of this. It showed America's power.
And once again the Democrats take the twenty percent, not
the em They're a ruddlership without direction and they were
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scrambling two days later. Am I not correct, doctor Locket?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You are like they did with immigration, like they did
with trans men in sports. They picked the wrong side again,
you know. And part of this is Iran threatened to
retaliate not with missiles but by activating sleeper cells here.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
In the US.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, yes, well Ice, ICE has been rounding up illegal
Iranian immigrants. But who let these sleeper cells in? Joe
Biden and the Democrats. And there's nothing that you can
say that's gonna change that fact one percent.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
God forbid if it ever plays out another egg in
your face moment. But they can't help themselves. You have
an LA County mayor, okay, a of a small city
outside in the La Metro area, basically telling gang bangers
to defend their turf against Ice. This is a state
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of the Democratic Party and then you look go one
step further, you look at New York and anti Semitic,
anti Israeli. Of course, Bernie supported him, is now in
the leadership position in terms of ascending to the Democratic
nomination for mayor of New York City. And as DeSanto said, well,
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I'm going to have to prepare a lot more condos
for the people exiting New York City, and I agree
with him on that.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yes, the fact, well, first of all, let's take a
look at the actual results, because this was the Democratic
primary in New York City. Now, we know historically it
is the far left and the far right that turns
out for primaries.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
The centrists tend not to.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
There was no Republican primary, or I mean, I think
technically there was, but Curtis Leewa was the only candidate.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
On the Democratic ballot.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Though you had this idiot the only you had a
couple of other people that were so minor, you know,
nobody knew who they were, and you had Andrew Cuomo,
who apparently did very little in the way of campaigning
and nothing. And yet none of these people actually got
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fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Of the vote.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
So you're actually talking about the fact that the Democratic
primary was one by somebody that has a plurality of
the vote, not a majority, and quite frankly, not a
big plurality. Now why is that important Because when it
comes to the general election, that's when the moderates come out,
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and that's when everybody is going to be voting in
the same election, Democrats and Republicans, and you don't just
have Curtis Leewa. Eric Adams is still on the ballot
as an independent, Andrew Cuomo is still on the ballot
from one of the minor parties, and possibly also as
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an independent. I'm not sure how he registered. But that
means that you have a very good chance of the
Democrats splitting their vote three ways, which.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Means very good, doctor Wopkin.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Which means actually, I think because the moderates did not
come out to vote. You also have to remember that
turnout in this election was incredibly low because it was
one hundred and two degrees in New York City on
primary day.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Correct, well done, Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So I think you've got a very good shot at
this point.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I think that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think the the odds on favorite is probably Eric Adams.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Because.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I think Curtis Lee was going to do better than
people expect, but I don't actually think this. This wacko
leftist has a shot. And if he does. Looking to
the bright side, if he actually wins the New York
City election, this is going to be an absolute boon
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for New Jersey and Connecticut. Who's real estate because the
rich folks are going to get the hell out of
New York City. It'll probably be a boon for Westchester.
Businesses are going to flee the city.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You know something, It'll be Connecticut's brightest hour. You're gonna
have Fairfield County in Lichfield County you couldn't buy out.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yes, this is this is going to that if he wins,
that is going to be the best thing that could
have ever happened to Connecticut and New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Nice speaking of good things that are happening, it looks
like Omar, who's basically from Minnesota claiming America is the
worst country, she's facing a little more headwinds and in
her chances for reelection. In your thoughts, I don't she's
going to get it. But hey, it's happened before. What
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we had last cycle, a couple of the squad getting
getting whacked.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And this is not the first time. This has happened
with her two years.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
In the twenty twenty four election, she barely squeaked out
the victory. So yeah, I mean, when when the primary
comes along for her, she's going to have another primary opponent.
She had one in twenty twenty four. She was able
to withstand it, but not by much. And I think
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her heart star has failed. And quite frankly, we are
seeing little by little the dismantling of the squad because
they they keep fighting for the issues that America is against.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Plus wait forgut, yes, yes, yes, but also America shifted
twenty twenty with the Summer of Look, that's like ancient history.
Now America has changed, they have not. I think it's
a valid point. What do you think, doctor Lobskin?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It is a valid point, and it is very different
in twenty twenty, the so called Summer of Love, when
the George floor Floyd riots happened, not only was there
no help for the police, nobody sent in the National Guard,
nobody sent in the military. The police actively surrendered areas
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of cities, areas of Portland, Seattle, Chicago. The police just
said we're gonna let him do what they want there,
And you know it was absolutely amazing, and I believe
it was Portland. They actually lost control of one of
their police stations.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yes, it's true. Yeah, now it was Portland.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Fast forward to twenty twenty five riots in LA Get
out of get out of hand. Trump sends in the
National Guard, Bass and Newsome throw a hissy fit, and
the Ninth Circuit, which is a very liberal appeals court,
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comes in and says unanimously, Trump has the right to
do this.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
You you've got no case here. Now.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I'm sure he's going to appeal that. But if the
liberal Ninth Circuit said Newsom doesn't have a case, do
you really think the Supreme Court is.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Going to change that that decision?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I have a bridge to sell you. How do you
like that?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So, speaking of the landscape changing twenty twenty, twenty seventeen,
all that you're senn, especially in a mid mid Trump
first term was kind of right in the way, so
to speak. Okay, they're in deep dog. Do do they
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have executive flinging? Cost cutting? I know we've talked about
it before, but this time this shit's really hitting the fan. Well,
no viewers, no viewers zero part of the fucking shows.
Diather than that.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Part of that is the fact that they were lying
to the American public for years and now everybody sees it.
But part of it, the cost cutting the executives leaving,
actually has little to do with that and more to
do with the fact that Warner Brothers Discovery has announced
that they are selling off all of their channels, so
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it's not just CNN CNN Discovery Channel. All of their
cable channels are being packaged together and spun off into
its own company, so that Warner Brothers is essentially going
to be its own standalone company again. And you have
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the massive shift from linear television to streaming. In fact,
just yeah, I believe it was a week and a
half ago. For the first time in history, streaming services
took more of a flight out of the audience then
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linear TV did. Netflix and YouTube television had more viewers
than the cable networks did, than the cable than the
cable providers did. So it is a massive shift, and
CNA to take advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yes, I think it's worse than what you've articulated. The
few viewers that are left are basically in retirement homes
and they're certainly not in the Prize demographic.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
No, well, CNN has been losing that demographic for about
fifteen years already, so it shouldn't it shouldn't come as
a surprise that young people aren't watching CNN. To be
perfectly honest, I'm there is still a significant group of
young people watching Fox, and that actually amazes me because
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when you No.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Kinder checks something about that, I think it's not going
to be long for the world. It will happen to
them as well. But you, if you're a young person Fox,
there's some attractive aspects to it, literally and figurably. They're
attractive people. They have fun. It's just about the whole thing.
CNN Liberal, boring, dodgy. Okay, this is Fox Conservative's fun.
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You know, it's entertaining. CNN's like watching paint dry butt
for airports. They have like one viewer.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
But the trends are I mean, Fox is the lagger
in these trends that they're not losing that audience as quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
They I think it will happen to them eventually.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
They're also losing that audience because the young audience is
not watching linear television. They want news, they get alerts
on their phone. They're not watching. You know, the day
of Walter Cronkite, when everybody would make sure to be
around the television for the six thirty national news.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Those days are dead and buried. Now news happens.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
You get an alert on your phone phone, especially young folks,
if they're interested, they hit the story, They read the story.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
That's it done. They don't have to check it again yet.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
But it's even beyond news. Even a dinosaur, a living
fossil like myself, I don't watch. I watch a small
fraction of it as well as you say linearar TV
that I used to. I have my subscriptions on YouTube
other platforms, and it's tailor made to what I like
(36:46):
and what I enjoy. So beyond just getting the news
bit or information piece, it's people tailoring. They're what they
want to see from places like YouTube and others, which
I don't think. Again I talk about Fox, they might
be doing better now, but their days are number two.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I think.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I think there's always going to be linear TV in
some form or another. Because YouTube, all of all of
these other the streaming platforms, all this.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
In terms of news.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
They still need a division to actually create the news.
And you can't really do that on a on a
digital platform like sending out an alert, you need to
have a team actually doing interviews, and as long as
they're doing it, you might as well.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Aim a camera at them.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
So I think there's always going to be some form
of linear news available, but it's going to end up
being a very small part of the market, probably going
eventually going the way of new newspapers, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
One hundred percent. And one thing I do find amusing
your opinion, your opinion on as please is they still
think they're wagging the big stick that is CNN, MSNBC.
They're almost yelling in the middle of the woods, tree falling,
tree falling. No one's there.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, they're they're preaching to the choir. They have their audience,
which is shrinking rapidly. But those that are still watching
are true believers. They believe everything. MSNBC and CNN says,
that's why they're watching. But that audience is shrinking, and
they're they're actually both of them are getting a larger
(38:44):
and larger share of a massively shrinking audience, which.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Is not good. It's not a good no, it's not
a good thing to be in.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And I think the same people that are watching CNN
and MSNBC are going to the The Dead reunion as well,
and the Neil Young and the list goes on basically
as you said, the tour of the relevancy. Well, doctor Lopkin,
another show, very interestingweek. Your opinions again were awesome and
(39:15):
we'll be back next week. And our listeners can comment
on the show and give their opinion suggestions for topics
all the.
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Speaker 2 (39:56):
Thank you, doctor Lockin.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
See you next week.
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We'll see you then.
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
Welcome to another edition of Carnivore Bites. I'm your host
Jeff Sherman along with doctor Eric Loopkin and a monumental weekend.
This past weekend ramifications. As I said, the shot or shots.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Heard around the world.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Your thoughts, Dr.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Lopkin, Yeah, this was an amazing strike. Let's start with
the fact that this is something only the US could do.
We are the only ones in the world that have
the bunker Buster bombs, so if we didn't do this,
(01:49):
Iran's nuclear enrichment sites would have been completely safe. Now
it has not been up until now. With as radical
as the Democrats have gotten it has not been controversial
to say that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Reagan said it,
(02:15):
Bush said it, Clinton said it, Bush Junior said it,
Obama said it.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yes, even Biden said.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It, except nobody on either side of the aisle ever actually.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Did anything about it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
This is the first time that an American president said
to Iran, all right, you've got sixty days, come to
the table, let's negotiate. And Iran screwed around and didn't
take it seriously, and they went, all right, that's it.
(02:55):
Guess what Iran's taking negotiations seriously now, I.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yes, well done, a one hundred percent agree, and even
beyond the bunker busters, which are impressive, just the logistic
it was a master class in military in a military
initiative up there with anything the Israelis have done or
we've done previous to that. And to me it says
(03:23):
a lot, because I think there has been a Biden malaise,
meaning was questioning could we even paint the sidewalk and
do it competently. I think it sent a signal, obviously
obviously to Iran, but the rest of the Gulf State
(03:43):
and the world, including China and Russia, your thoughts on that.
It definitely sent a huge message.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It definitely sends a message Russia and China now know
you know we're serious about what we tell you, which,
let's face it, during the entire Biden administration, nobody took
him seriously.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
What was his big threat?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Don't Well, now Trump has said, look, I told you
what I'm going to do. If you don't believe me,
screw around and find out what was absolutely amazing about
this operation. This is not an operation that could be
(04:32):
done at the drop of a hat. We had to
get naval ships into position that takes days, if not weeks,
depending on where they're currently stationed. We had to get
the planes set up. This is not something that, you know, again,
you can do with the drop of a hat. When
(04:54):
Trump said he was going to give negotiations two weeks weeks,
he had to have already been planning this. And the
fact that it was planned, it was executed, and nobody
heard a word about it until the operation was underway
(05:20):
was an absolute master stroke. And of course Congress was yelling, well,
you didn't tell us. Well, first of all, he actually
did contact several.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Of them, didn't pick up the phone right.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Jefferies didn't pick up the phone. But realistically, what are.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You going to do? Call Ill and Omar and it leaked, Adam.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Shaff you, it will leaked so fast.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, so the way they killed it off was speaking
of secrecy.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yes, but then post strike, you had the deep State
wearing its ugly head, don't you, in the form of
the leaker.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, you've you've got this anonymous leaker. And I'll be
really honest, I'm not one hundred percent sure the leaker
actually exists. The reporter that broke the story that the
leaker allegedly gave them also reported that the Hunter Biden
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laptop was Russian misinformation. Also reported that the Steel dossier
was legitimate. Also reported that Joe Biden was sharp as attack.
I don't know that this reporter has any legitimate sources.
They may just be making this stuff up. And I
(06:52):
have never accused a reporter of that, but the New
York Times does have a history of that. Everybody remembers
the Stephen Glass controversy, and it has happened in other outlets.
So I don't know that there's an actual leaker, or
if the reporter just decided to make up what they
(07:15):
called facts, or if they're so called source, isn't somebody
that has access to information. It's just somebody that wants
to make Trump look bad, so they keep calling this
reporter who is obviously not good enough to verify the source.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I think it could be all of the above, doctor Lopin.
If I was a betting man, I'd say it's a
low level bureaucrat who might have seen a memo that
barely reflect on anything and calling his buddy at the
New York Times. I do love And I heard this
in real time because I'm on vacation that Trump exacerated
(07:59):
scene end in New York Times and ms DNC, so
I flicked as soon as the conference press conference is
over to CNN. It was like the honeymoonersa We'll split through.
They were shaken. You could tell they were nervous, and
they were rattled, saying, oh, don't we don't have any
(08:21):
disparity about the troops and blah bla blah, and it
was very interesting. I think it is a new Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think he.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Learned a lot of lessons from the first term, and
I actually enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
How do you like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I think what's really amazing is that CNN, MSNBC in
the New York Times didn't learn their lesson from the
Hunter Biden laptop from the Steel dossia. You would think
they would be more careful about reporting things before checking
them out, but apparently if it goes against Trump, they
(09:02):
don't care if it's true. They just want to get
it out again. That's not journalism. Journalism is about the facts.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I mean the.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Democrat Yeah, journalism has fallen by the wayside.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
But the there you go, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
The Democrats have also just lost their mind calling for
his impeachment. And this was Representative Green, who has been
trying to impeach Donald Trump since he reelected. AOC called
for the impeachment. They were slapped down, not just by
(09:43):
the Republicans, but by the majority of Democrats who basically
just said, no, we are not impeaching him. We're not
looking into impeaching him. Sit down and shut up.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And I think it's good. How do you like this prediction,
doctor Lopkin for their own survival? That's going to become
more common. AOC Crockett Omar, please shut up. You're embarrassing us.
You're just you were already taking on water don't put
another torpedo in our boat. I mean, and the rebuke
(10:19):
that Trump did was masterclass, called her low IQ. I mean,
it was just un Crockett in the AOCS I'm paraphrasing
obviously is low IQ. But then you've got to go
to Krockett to get really stupid. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It was, It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Last last week, Crockett made a whole bunch of comments.
This is actually before the strike, and you know she
said so much that is absolute nonsense, absolute stupidity. There
was a question in the briefing room to Caroline Levitt,
(10:57):
asked about the fact that your Crockett can keep saying
these things and she's a rising star in the Democratic Party.
And Levitt's response was yes, and the Republicans are thrilled
that she's a rising star because every time she opens
her mouth it makes the Democrats look worse.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I one hundred percent agree. I think you talk about
being Trump being in their minds. There's talk about Trump
getting a potential Nobel Peace Prize not only for the
current Middle East events, but the putting the Kabash or
cooling down tangents between Pakistan and India. What will be
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the degree of their heads exploding if that ever happens.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, I mean certain certainly their heads would explode. But
let we need people need to pull back on that talk.
Because he was not actually nominated yet. A GOP representative
from Congress wrote a letter to the Nobel Committee nominating
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Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee
has not accepted the nomination. It has not been put forth. Also,
the Nobel nominations actually came out in March. So even
if the Nobel Committee does decide, okay, we're going to
accept this, that nomination isn't going to come out until
(12:30):
March twenty twenty six, for you know, for right for
next year's well again certainly the elections, but for next
year's Nobel prizes. So he has not actually gotten a
Nobel nomination yet. He's been suggested for one by a
(12:52):
member of the Republican Party. Knowing how far left the
Nobel Committee.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Is, Obama will get it again, all.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right, I'm not going to remember remember he Obama got
the Nobel Prize, Nobel Peace Prize for participation.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
He showed up.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yes, he hadn't even been president yet and he got
the Nobel Peace Prize, and of course, quite frankly, given uh,
what Russia did in Crimea under Obama, all of the
upset in the Middle East under Obama, they should have
forced him to give it back.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
One well, you know, talk about getting back. This was
not on the agenda as we prepped before the podcast.
But I think he's basically given back. That is Obama
his entire legacy. I think the Obama Library is a
microcosm of his post presidency. I think he hasn't bought
as much weight and Paul in America as who knows
(14:00):
an Elvison personator your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, he's doing speaking engagements now and at Walmart. He
made one recently in Connecticut where he was of course
disparaging Trump and the divide in the American public that
he's blaming on Trump. The divide actually started under his watch.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
But yes, especially the racial divide by Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But this was basically a big thing in the news
cycle for about half an hour. Obama's influence is done.
The only reason at this point I think that he's
doing these speaking engagements is because he needs to build
(14:50):
up a war chest for the divorce settlement.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think you're in to get the hell out of
the house. You don't want some crazy lady calling you
an asshole, do you know? And in speaking of that,
I think it's hysterical. She had a clip on her
Unwatchable podcasting Unwatchable and she would be one of the
people on her show is like, oh, you have two girls,
it would have been great to.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Have a little boy.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
She was, oh, my god, no, it would have been
a little uh, little little Obama, like a little Baraque.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
And I was like, whoa dude?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Like right, insult consult, yes, insult your husband, who is still,
despite his waning influence, still the titular head of the
Democratic Party.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I mean Biden.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Biden can't string two sentences together. The kid, the kids
are running the show, and when the Democrats actually need
to get a message across, they bring Dad back to
you know, bring some order to it. But he's lost
complete control. And of course, you know, insult.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yes, yeah, I think Obama again. Rolling Stone's twenty twenty
four tour. Yeah it's great. Yeah, it's not nineteen eighty
one anymore. His sticks even the way I saw him
on the show in Connecticut, you know, his professorial approach,
the whole stick's gone. Sorry, it's it's yesterday's news. How
(16:22):
do you like that the tour is over?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It is in every time, Michelle Obama says another comment,
his legacy dies a little more.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Happened to a nicer guy. Let's before we leave and
get into other issues. We want the doctor's assessment viewpoint
on how does this impact the Middle East? Does this
reset things? I have my own opinion, and what does
this due to the old the overall geopolitical framework of
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the world.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
What we saw a major reshuffling this week after the strike.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
When I when.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Iran did a missile attack on a US air base
in Katar. Now, the attack itself was feckless. I mean
it didn't know, there wasn't even any injuries. But the
only Middle East countries that did not condemn the attack
(17:32):
were Iraq and Afghanistan. Every other Middle East country stood
against Iran. Iran has never been this isolated. On top
of that, before the strike, while they were doing volleys
(17:53):
back and forth with Israel, intelligence has reported that Iranian
leadership expected support from Hesbola, who was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So even there, the number you have reached is not
in service at.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
This time, even their own proxies are going No, we
don't want to have anything to do with this. Iran
has been completely isolated. The only allies they apparently have left,
and let's be honest, these are not allies to be
taken lightly are Russia, China, and North Korea.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I can't getting back to the strike though, again, this
definitely is in line with talking about global resets. I
think the spectacular nature of this strike basically causes pause
for concerns on our adversaries.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
This is not Joe Biden is not.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And looking at the capabilities of the United States versus
even a country like a Asia like China is night
and day at this particular point in time.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Do you agree?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yes, Trump showed that the US has teeth again, that
we're not going to be bullied, We're not going to
be bossed around. But what I find really funny is
that again I mentioned on the last podcast that there
are ties between Iran and Russia. Iran has been supplying
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Russia with arms for their war in Ukraine. Now, what's
the one thing everybody has heard ad infinitum from the
Ukraine War about NATO? Why is Ukraine not being allowed
into NATO? At this time, because right from the NATO Charter,
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an attack on one is an attack on all. Now
you've got NATO committing to spending five NATO states committing
to spend five percent of their GDP on defense in
twenty sixteen, most of them weren't spending two percent. When
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Iran's proxies didn't come to their rescue, when every country
in the Middle East but two condemned their strike on Cutter,
they suddenly realized, wait a minute, we can't take on
the United States. And not only would it be the
United States, they would have to take on all of NATO.
(20:47):
Who at this point, I mean, let's face it, when
you've got Middle Eastern countries telling the US, yeah, use
our airspace, no problem.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
When you've got woo.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Before you go on, that is not something to be
taken lightly. That is monumental. That is a paradigm shift,
you agree, doctor Welcan.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And it goes further because when you've got Syria telling Israel, yeah,
use our airfields.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
These are countries I think you're going to be.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
These are countries that would never have stood up to
Iran in the past. And now you've got the son
of the former Shah of Iran, who's been in exile
since the nineteen eighty speaking to the people of Iran
via broadcast, trying to get them to rise up against
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the regime.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's funny that you mentioned this, doctor Lockkin, about the
only two Arab countries or Islamic countries condemning the race.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay, but we.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Also have Bernie did too, the self hating genes.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yes, the strike was condemned by a number of the
Democrats immediately. What is really amazing, though, the strike was
condemned by a number of the Democrats. But what's really
amazing is that if you listen to what they're saying,
(22:28):
and when they said it, every one of them, except
for the most extreme the squad Bernie, they all backtracked.
They all came out immediately, Oh, this was irresponsible.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
And then two days later, when the Iranian.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Airstrike failed, when it became very obvious that the ceasefire
was now going to hold, these Democrats that were so
quick to go was irresponsible.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
He should never have done it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
We're going, well, you know, it was an important decision,
and you know, I hope it works out.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
It's like all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's like they're backtracking because it was the right call
and like they've been doing no.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
But it's also the tea leads America was one hundred nuns,
overwhelming majority was in favor of this. It showed America's power.
And once again the Democrats take the twenty percent, not
the em They're a ruddlership without direction and they were
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scrambling two days later. Am I not correct, doctor Locket?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You are like they did with immigration, like they did
with trans men in sports. They picked the wrong side again,
you know. And part of this is Iran threatened to
retaliate not with missiles but by activating sleeper cells here.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
In the US.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, yes, well Ice, ICE has been rounding up illegal
Iranian immigrants. But who let these sleeper cells in? Joe
Biden and the Democrats. And there's nothing that you can
say that's gonna change that fact one percent.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
God forbid if it ever plays out another egg in
your face moment. But they can't help themselves. You have
an LA County mayor, okay, a of a small city
outside in the La Metro area, basically telling gang bangers
to defend their turf against Ice. This is a state
(24:57):
of the Democratic Party and then you look go one
step further, you look at New York and anti Semitic,
anti Israeli. Of course, Bernie supported him, is now in
the leadership position in terms of ascending to the Democratic
nomination for mayor of New York City. And as DeSanto said, well,
(25:18):
I'm going to have to prepare a lot more condos
for the people exiting New York City, and I agree
with him on that.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yes, the fact, well, first of all, let's take a
look at the actual results, because this was the Democratic
primary in New York City. Now, we know historically it
is the far left and the far right that turns
out for primaries.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
The centrists tend not to.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
There was no Republican primary, or I mean, I think
technically there was, but Curtis Leewa was the only candidate.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
On the Democratic ballot.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Though you had this idiot the only you had a
couple of other people that were so minor, you know,
nobody knew who they were, and you had Andrew Cuomo,
who apparently did very little in the way of campaigning
and nothing. And yet none of these people actually got
(26:23):
fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Of the vote.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
So you're actually talking about the fact that the Democratic
primary was one by somebody that has a plurality of
the vote, not a majority, and quite frankly, not a
big plurality. Now why is that important Because when it
comes to the general election, that's when the moderates come out,
(26:51):
and that's when everybody is going to be voting in
the same election, Democrats and Republicans, and you don't just
have Curtis Leewa. Eric Adams is still on the ballot
as an independent, Andrew Cuomo is still on the ballot
from one of the minor parties, and possibly also as
(27:13):
an independent. I'm not sure how he registered. But that
means that you have a very good chance of the
Democrats splitting their vote three ways, which.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Means very good, doctor Wopkin.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Which means actually, I think because the moderates did not
come out to vote. You also have to remember that
turnout in this election was incredibly low because it was
one hundred and two degrees in New York City on
primary day.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Correct, well done, Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So I think you've got a very good shot at
this point.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I think that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think the the odds on favorite is probably Eric Adams.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Because.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I think Curtis Lee was going to do better than
people expect, but I don't actually think this. This wacko
leftist has a shot. And if he does. Looking to
the bright side, if he actually wins the New York
City election, this is going to be an absolute boon
(28:34):
for New Jersey and Connecticut. Who's real estate because the
rich folks are going to get the hell out of
New York City. It'll probably be a boon for Westchester.
Businesses are going to flee the city.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You know something, It'll be Connecticut's brightest hour. You're gonna
have Fairfield County in Lichfield County you couldn't buy out.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yes, this is this is going to that if he wins,
that is going to be the best thing that could
have ever happened to Connecticut and New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Nice speaking of good things that are happening, it looks
like Omar, who's basically from Minnesota claiming America is the
worst country, she's facing a little more headwinds and in
her chances for reelection. In your thoughts, I don't she's
going to get it. But hey, it's happened before. What
(29:31):
we had last cycle, a couple of the squad getting
getting whacked.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And this is not the first time. This has happened
with her two years.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
In the twenty twenty four election, she barely squeaked out
the victory. So yeah, I mean, when when the primary
comes along for her, she's going to have another primary opponent.
She had one in twenty twenty four. She was able
to withstand it, but not by much. And I think
(30:01):
her heart star has failed. And quite frankly, we are
seeing little by little the dismantling of the squad because
they they keep fighting for the issues that America is against.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Plus wait forgut, yes, yes, yes, but also America shifted
twenty twenty with the Summer of Look, that's like ancient history.
Now America has changed, they have not. I think it's
a valid point. What do you think, doctor Lobskin?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It is a valid point, and it is very different
in twenty twenty, the so called Summer of Love, when
the George floor Floyd riots happened, not only was there
no help for the police, nobody sent in the National Guard,
nobody sent in the military. The police actively surrendered areas
(31:04):
of cities, areas of Portland, Seattle, Chicago. The police just
said we're gonna let him do what they want there,
And you know it was absolutely amazing, and I believe
it was Portland. They actually lost control of one of
their police stations.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yes, it's true. Yeah, now it was Portland.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Fast forward to twenty twenty five riots in LA Get
out of get out of hand. Trump sends in the
National Guard, Bass and Newsome throw a hissy fit, and
the Ninth Circuit, which is a very liberal appeals court,
(31:51):
comes in and says unanimously, Trump has the right to
do this.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
You you've got no case here. Now.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I'm sure he's going to appeal that. But if the
liberal Ninth Circuit said Newsom doesn't have a case, do
you really think the Supreme Court is.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Going to change that that decision?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I have a bridge to sell you. How do you
like that?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So, speaking of the landscape changing twenty twenty, twenty seventeen,
all that you're senn, especially in a mid mid Trump
first term was kind of right in the way, so
to speak. Okay, they're in deep dog. Do do they
(32:39):
have executive flinging? Cost cutting? I know we've talked about
it before, but this time this shit's really hitting the fan. Well,
no viewers, no viewers zero part of the fucking shows.
Diather than that.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Part of that is the fact that they were lying
to the American public for years and now everybody sees it.
But part of it, the cost cutting the executives leaving,
actually has little to do with that and more to
do with the fact that Warner Brothers Discovery has announced
that they are selling off all of their channels, so
(33:15):
it's not just CNN CNN Discovery Channel. All of their
cable channels are being packaged together and spun off into
its own company, so that Warner Brothers is essentially going
to be its own standalone company again. And you have
(33:39):
the massive shift from linear television to streaming. In fact,
just yeah, I believe it was a week and a
half ago. For the first time in history, streaming services
took more of a flight out of the audience then
(34:02):
linear TV did. Netflix and YouTube television had more viewers
than the cable networks did, than the cable than the
cable providers did. So it is a massive shift, and
CNA to take advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yes, I think it's worse than what you've articulated. The
few viewers that are left are basically in retirement homes
and they're certainly not in the Prize demographic.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
No, well, CNN has been losing that demographic for about
fifteen years already, so it shouldn't it shouldn't come as
a surprise that young people aren't watching CNN. To be
perfectly honest, I'm there is still a significant group of
young people watching Fox, and that actually amazes me because
(34:59):
when you No.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Kinder checks something about that, I think it's not going
to be long for the world. It will happen to
them as well. But you, if you're a young person Fox,
there's some attractive aspects to it, literally and figurably. They're
attractive people. They have fun. It's just about the whole thing.
CNN Liberal, boring, dodgy. Okay, this is Fox Conservative's fun.
(35:28):
You know, it's entertaining. CNN's like watching paint dry butt
for airports. They have like one viewer.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
But the trends are I mean, Fox is the lagger
in these trends that they're not losing that audience as quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
They I think it will happen to them eventually.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
They're also losing that audience because the young audience is
not watching linear television. They want news, they get alerts
on their phone. They're not watching. You know, the day
of Walter Cronkite, when everybody would make sure to be
around the television for the six thirty national news.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Those days are dead and buried. Now news happens.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
You get an alert on your phone phone, especially young folks,
if they're interested, they hit the story, They read the story.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
That's it done. They don't have to check it again yet.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
But it's even beyond news. Even a dinosaur, a living
fossil like myself, I don't watch. I watch a small
fraction of it as well as you say linearar TV
that I used to. I have my subscriptions on YouTube
other platforms, and it's tailor made to what I like
(36:46):
and what I enjoy. So beyond just getting the news
bit or information piece, it's people tailoring. They're what they
want to see from places like YouTube and others, which
I don't think. Again I talk about Fox, they might
be doing better now, but their days are number two.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
I think.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I think there's always going to be linear TV in
some form or another. Because YouTube, all of all of
these other the streaming platforms, all this.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
In terms of news.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
They still need a division to actually create the news.
And you can't really do that on a on a
digital platform like sending out an alert, you need to
have a team actually doing interviews, and as long as
they're doing it, you might as well.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Aim a camera at them.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
So I think there's always going to be some form
of linear news available, but it's going to end up
being a very small part of the market, probably going
eventually going the way of new newspapers, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
One hundred percent. And one thing I do find amusing
your opinion, your opinion on as please is they still
think they're wagging the big stick that is CNN, MSNBC.
They're almost yelling in the middle of the woods, tree falling,
tree falling. No one's there.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, they're they're preaching to the choir. They have their audience,
which is shrinking rapidly. But those that are still watching
are true believers. They believe everything. MSNBC and CNN says,
that's why they're watching. But that audience is shrinking, and
they're they're actually both of them are getting a larger
(38:44):
and larger share of a massively shrinking audience, which.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Is not good. It's not a good no, it's not
a good thing to be in.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And I think the same people that are watching CNN
and MSNBC are going to the The Dead reunion as well,
and the Neil Young and the list goes on basically
as you said, the tour of the relevancy. Well, doctor Lopkin,
another show, very interestingweek. Your opinions again were awesome and
(39:15):
we'll be back next week. And our listeners can comment
on the show and give their opinion suggestions for topics
all the.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Above correct, Yes, let us know what you're thinking. Go
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Speaker 2 (39:56):
Thank you, doctor Lockin.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
See you next week.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
We'll see you then.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
The first
Speaker 4 (40:10):
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