July 2, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 3 (01:04):
Welcome to another edition of Carnivore Bites. I'm your host,
Jeff Sherman, along with doctor Eric Lopkin. I've never seen
anything like this, And I've always been into politics, believe
it or not, since the sixth grade. And I've never
seen a president or any political figure. Baby, I wasn't
around men. Even though I'm getting older, Winston Churchill back
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and you know, having amazing you know times, you know,
pinnacle historical defeats. But I have never seen an American
politician having the last couple of weeks that Donald J.
Trump has had, and especially with the big beautiful bill
that's in play now. In your thoughts, doctor Lopkin.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, he has had a phenomenal few weeks. As we
record this. The big beautiful bill is back in the
House because they now have to vote on the Senate's changes,
and you know, and it only barely passed the Senate.
It was a fifty to fifty vote and JD. Vance
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cast the tiebreaker to push it over. So this is
not something that is overwhelmingly positive for the Republicans, but
it is an important start. There are some big problems
that I have with the bill. First of all, the
fact that it's so huge. I hate omnibus bills. I
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think every bill should just be this is what it does,
this is how we pay for it, pass or failed done.
The reason they did it this way is so they
could negotiate with all of the different parties and try
to get it across. Also, they had to drop some
things from the bill that the House had passed because
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the Senate parliamentarian said, you can't keep those in and
go through reconciliation. They don't qualify. So there were some
changes overall.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh, you need to interject one thing, doctor Lockkittz, that
maybe will even aid in the doctor's analysis, I heard
an amazing point. The ex senator from Pennsylvania escased me
right now, But anyway, he was on a panel and
he was talking about rand Paul and how him voting
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no sent this thing into a more precarious situation in
the House because now you had Makowski from Alaska throwing
some things in there, like green new deals, so blah
blah blah, that are more less attractive to the House.
I'll sort of that caveat and now you can run
with a doctor.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't think the stuff that was tossed in is
going to be enough to keep it from past the House.
It may cause some debate, but I think ultimately it
will pass. But some of that is part of why
I have a problem with the bill. There's still too
much spending in it. They should have cut more. But
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on balance, we are much better off if this passes
than if it doesn't, primarily because of the tax cuts.
If this bill does not pass, ninety two percent, according
to the IRS, ninety two percent of Americans will see
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a tax increase of up to sixty three percent. And
this isn't the one percent that it's going to hit
because it all boils down to the cutting in half
of the standard deduction, which approximately ninety percent of the
country he takes advantage of. So this is going this
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is going to hit the working class hard if it
does not get passed.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So yeah, the one thing else in there, Sorry doctor Lockett,
but in your comment on it, I also think, because
you're one hundred percent correct, if it does not pass
in getting the tax implications, it will I almost guarantee
it throw America into a recession.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
On you like that, Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The the tax burden that it will impose by not
if it doesn't pass, will throw the US into a
recession because it's going to be the highest tax increase
in history. So that that is that will cripple our economy.
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Now that being said, Trump has been doing so much
else to help boost our economy. We just got a
trade deal with Vietnam huge, which yes, it was a
major deal. And I know most people are going, well,
it's Vietnam. It's a small country, we don't do a
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lot of trade. Why is it important Because it's one
more place for people to relocate manufacturing out of China.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes, and it puts more pressure on China again. It's
playing three D chess versus checkers to make a deal.
Because also capital moves around globally, as you know, doctor Lopkin,
and it was moving to Vietnam anyway to perpetuates it
and puts China in a more precarious situation. I do
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you like that, Lopkin exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We also have the trade talks with Canada that came
to a very abrupt halt because Canada was about to
tax American tech companies like Netflix and Amazon a digital
tax that now this is not unheard of tax, it's
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you know, for activities in their country. The EU has one,
England has one, but unlike the other countries, Canada was
going to implement this. It was p It was scheduled
to go into effect this past Monday and was going
to be retroactive to twenty twenty two. Wow, So American
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companies were going to have to all of a sudden
pay three years of taxes that they didn't have to.
And Trump went, no, that's not going to happen. We're
cutting off your trade talks until you repeal that. And
I think it took them twenty four hours to say no,
we're pausing that, we'll put it on hold, let's have
the trade talks.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Love, And you know, how.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Will you assess Trump's two weeks two? I mean, we're
are gonna get into all the particulars. I say, on
a scale of one to one hundred, you got to
give it an in my opinion ninety nine. I think
it's taken all the oxygen out of the room.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
What do you think love, it really has and more
than just what he's accomplishing with the bombing of the
Iranian nuclear sites, with the increased trade deals, with him
standing up to Canada, with the fact that now we
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are expecting two new signatories to the Abraham Accords. Trump
has once in for all, put an end to the
Obama doctrine of oh, we're going to lead from behind. No,
you don't lead from you don't lead from behind, you
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lead from the front. And that is exactly what Trump
is doing. And the meeting, the NATO meeting was not Native.
The G seven meeting was absolutely hysterical because you've got
Trump going over there.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, I'm sorry, I was right. The first time. Was
the Native it was nat Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well, they're refer they're referring to him as you know,
Dad's come home and he's putting the kids in their place,
and that's exactly what he's doing. People did not seem
to understand that under the Biden administration, not only was
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America rudderless, there was no leadership in the world. Everybody
was just floundering. And now all of a sudden, America
has taken the leadership role again and people are falling
into line you're seeing.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
As to a question, doctor, I want to you a
question on that historical I believe it has never been
more profound America's leadership. That's my opinion. What is yours,
doctor Lockin? I'm going back to Reagan.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I think, well, certainly in recent memory.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I I was a little young during Reagan's time, but
I'm gonna I'm gonna say, you know, Reagan was.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Also up there, right up there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But honestly, I.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Don't think American leadership other than the Reagan administration has
been this strong, possibly since World War Two.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That's my point, and I agree with that one hundred percent.
And being older than you beats the alternative, I believe. Actually,
how do you like this? Reagan and Trump are very similar,
not in a personality standpoint, it's because they were both
skilling vacuues. How do you like that?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, they they both came into office under very similar conditions.
We knew there were huge We kept making comparisons between
the Biden administration and the Carter administration, and.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Certainly the malaise.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
That everybody referred to, you know, during the Carter administration,
was also present during the Biden administration, up to the
point where Biden had that disastrous debate where that malaise
actually turned to panic.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Agreed, Yes, I one hundred percent agree. And it's very interesting.
You talk about daddy, Daddy's coming home. You look at
you penn apology, Okay, you look at him just getting
in the heads of everyone. I really believe. I love this,
the marketing perspective, the alligator alcatraz I mean, yes, I
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got it. Some of it has obvious, you know, utility,
But it's more he's become a master of just not caring.
Not not that he's frivilis. I don't mean that, And
I'm quoting O'Reilly on that because there is no second term.
He knows how to own the Democrats, Am I not correct?
He don't you lord To'donald Carry you had Laurence to
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o'donald on MSNBC. I'm glad it just happened to come
by by accident. And he was talking, Oh horrible to speak,
seeding people to outg like, God, you gotta be kidding me.
I'm sorry, go ahead. But he owns their head, doesn't he.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He's been living rent free in the Democrats head since
twenty sixteen. The difference is he went came into twenty
sixteen very unprepared.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
He did not he.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Did not understand how deep the deep state went. He
did not understand how he was going to have to
collaborate with the other areas of government, and he did
not understand who was an ally and who wasn't. He
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came in, yes, now, absolutely prepared. He spent the last
four years making sure he was prepared. He hit the
ground running before the inauguration, and he hasn't looked back since.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And he may I ask you a question, doctor Lopkin,
on that. Okay, this is kind of metaphysical, but you're
certainly a person that can handle this. I think that
twenty sixteen is first administration. He was not unpopular, He
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was not ingratiated with America. I think he's become a
pop icon.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I really believe that.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I think the first term people were not really digging
his act. I think people are starting to enjoy it,
especially when we're talking about Carter Reagan, Biden Trump, you
had a four year depicit of you had a walking corpse.
I think people, even Democrats, don't want it with me.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The guy's funny, Yeah, he does not unlike Reagan. He
does know how to toss out a one liner. He
does have that timing, and he's out there. You know,
we got used to Biden being hidden behind the you know,
closed doors where you know, behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
He was a dynamo by you know.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
In contrast, you've got Donald Trump going on Maria Bartiromo saying,
you know, I just got back from Europe. It's been
a very busy two weeks. I'm exhausted. I want to
make this a short interview, and that short interview was
an hour.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, no question, No, again, we didn't have this in
the pre planning. But what do you think? I have
my own opinion, but I defer to you for this one.
How big of a scandal. I know we talked about it.
I want to be labor a point, but there's been
people saying that this snakes Watergate look like a non event,
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that is the Biden cover up, and there isn't even talk.
I don't think it's going to happen that doctor Jill
might be prosecuted. I don't do nothing that's going to happen.
But what do you I mean, this is in my
lifetime the biggest scandal was I mean Watergate dance compared
to this.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
No, this was a bigger scandal than Watergate.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Without question. And you're seeing.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
A lot of liberals actually admit that, yes, this was
a bigger scandal.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Granted a lot of them are admitting it because they've
got tell All books coming out and they want to
sell the books. But you're seeing this massive shift. You
had Bill Maher the other day saying, how what the
Democrats need to do is get the view to sit
down and shut up. You've got tons of people and
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you know, you started to say people are starting to.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Be enamored with Trump.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, and yes, he is now an icon because he
is the bad boy. He is fighting the machine. People
did not believe that. You know, he talked about draining
the swamp, but nobody believed it because you had CNN, MSNBC, Facebook, Twitter,
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all talking about Orange Man bad. But over the course
of the Biden administration, the facade fell apart, and now
everybody went, oh, look at how you've been They've been
lying to us. And what really propelled Trump in the
minds of many was the lawfare that was done while
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he was out of office, because there was a huge
percentage of African American males going, well, wait a minute,
we never felt the justice system was fair to us,
but look they're doing the same thing to him.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well, yes, one hundred percent agree. But I think your
bigger point, which is awesome, is the boogeyman theory. How
do you like that one?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Is?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
In twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, it was deep see
and you know, no one really believed it. It was
kind of like, eh, now people do believe it, and
people are like, yeah, I mean, in other words, it
was almost like the boy who cried wolf for yelling
in the woods. It didn't really resonate. Now. I think
it really read now with guys in the world liberals
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because they're insane and they're part of it. But your
average person's going, yeah, he got screwed, you know, with
these ferbolous lawsuits and even the value of his property.
The judge was a ex cab driver, you know property
values like I know astrophysics. It was. It was. I
think your point is well founded. More than well found.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I think.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The laws, the lawsuits showed that yes they were out
to get Trump, and yes there was a deep state.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That no that you know was the first cracks.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
What blew it open was Biden's debate, because everybody went,
wait a minute. They've been telling us he's running circles
around them. They've been telling us, you know that he's brilliant.
But and everybody saw for what it was. And the
simple fact of the matter is the way government works,
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you can't have one person going, oh, you know, the
president's not confident. I have to keep this to myself.
It requires a group of people to be shielding him,
hiding him, scheduling him. So all of a sudden, people went, oh,
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my god, Trump was right. The deep state Israel.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Do you know something that will be in history books.
I can assure you a teacher, fifty years from now,
this will be the It'll be the McCarthy situation only
fifty years from now. Is that all of a sudden
it was a deep state, you know, fake news, and
then for all the world to see, oh my god,
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it's true, and you couldn't you couldn't do it any
other way. But that, in other words, the impact could
not have been more profound seeing it with your own eyes.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Right, because it wasn't somebody telling you there was a
deep state or telling you well, Biden's incompetent. He came
out and everybody saw it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
With their own eyes. And of course what.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Made it even more impactful was the fact that the
next day the Democrats scrambled, oh he had a cold. No, no, no,
he was fine, and everyone's going, no, no, we watched it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That's not a cold that you know.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Listen. Yeah, okay, you're a business person. Uh you've had cold.
You know, you just gotta you gotta, you gotta plow
through it, dude. I mean, you know, it's not a cold.
It was dementia. How do you like that? But we
talked about getting in the head. I you know, I
had a lot of liberal friends. I think it's hysterical
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when he launches the merchandise. I think it's just one
more little pin prick in their little brain, like he's
got the cologne. I think it's just another way of
essen with you.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Do you agree with that, well, part of it is.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Part of it is actually self defense because presidential merchandise
is nothing new. What makes it different this time is
that Trump is actually exerting some control over it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Or at least the Trump organization is.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't think he's personally involved in any of it.
It's his companies that are doing it. We've seen presidential
merchandise for decades, Halloween costumes with presidential masks. The one
that I will never forget was the Chia Obama head
because one because once you are in public office, you're
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a public figure and people are allowed to do what
they want with your likeness, which is why there's always
been this presidential merchandise. But Trump is and everybody knows
Trump for real estate. But the truth of the matter is,
even within his real estate, Trump is first and foremost
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a marketer, no doubt that is what he's doing, and
if you take a look at everything he does, there's
a marketing spin to it.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
That was one of the reasons that when.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The Israeli I ran, ceasefire didn't quite take effect yet
and they were still you know, lobbing missiles at each other.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He went off because it wasn't the image that he.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Was trying to create, and that actually ended up working
in his favor because he went off. He had a
conversation with net Yahoo and net Yaha, I get it,
I get it. Okay, we'll pull back, and they did,
and the sea fire held.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yes, yes, I do it. My only nuance of that
would be yeah, it was. But I think it's also
when I listened to my liberal friends, it's kind of like,
because liberals always ticket themselves as above the fray, the elite. Intellectually,
they went to this school, that school, blah blah blah,
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and it's kind of like cologne and shoe it's just
getting under their skin. He's not publishing the World Book, okay, right.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He's selling merchandise to have Americans. Yes, he's selling the
stuff that you would pick up at a department store exactly.
But that was the whole key to his his election
was he wasn't reaching out for the elites. He wasn't
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trying to count tell to Wall Street. He was reaching
out to the working class. That's why you had unprecedented
union membership supporting him. Because he wasn't saying, well, we
know what's best for you, don't worry about it, will
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take care of it. He was going to these places
and listening, and he was going to places like Harlem,
like union meetings where the Democrats kept telling these folks, oh,
we know what's best and never showed up in their neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Talk about condescending attitudes. That's pretty condescending. But also he
talked about the marketing aspect. But there's also the substance,
and there's no way to get around that. You look
at the so called experts, well, the stock market's going
to crash under in it's over. It's over. I know
people that have actually pulled out they regret it now.
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You know, look at the market right, and look at
the Congo and Rwanda. That conflict has been going on,
a bloody, brutal conflict. These are real things. I mean
Obama got a trophy for showing up. That is a
Nobel peace fries Trump look at what he's done. Yeah,
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I mean you can't dispute it. It's impossible. And no
one more things before he comments, if the big beautiful
bill passes, I think it's check. Please, how do you
like that. Yeah, I mean take that'll be the end
of the end.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Take a look at the actual accomplishments. Okay, yeah, Congo
and Rwanda. This has been one of the bloodiest wars
in human history and it has been going on for.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Thirty years, and Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Sticked in and when enough is enough, we're getting a
piece deal done.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And the main stream media just ignored it. They didn't
even know. They don't even talk about.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You have Syria and Lebanon, two countries that up until
recently were pledged to the destruction of Israel. They are
expected to sign on to the Abraham Accords.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Who are those countries again, I'm sorry for our audience.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Syria and Lebanon.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
A monumental Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Then you take a look at the economy in the markets. Okay,
Inflation has been dropping, which remember under Biden it hit
record highs. So we've got inflation dropping, gas prices dropping.
They're actually lower now than at any point during the
Biden administration. You have the lower Yes, you have the
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S and P five hundred just hit an all time record.
You've got the Dow Jones Industrial average on a winning streak.
NASDA struggling a little bit, but that's more because of
the tech sector than anything in politics. It is absolutely
unfathomable that people are still going, oh my god, his
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presidency's gonna be a disaster. No, take a good look
at what he's accomplished. And this is six months in.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I agree, but you look at the answer the retort
from the Democrats. You got the manorial rate in New
York City, that are esteem government governor of Connecticut thaughways
just graded someone something to emulate. I think that speaks
volumes of where the two parties are. You have the
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Trump Party, which is the Republican Party, he remade it.
And then you have you said, be the fringe. Now
this is the mainstream Democratic Party, socialist, non socialist, communist,
anti semi let's cut the crap, anti Israeli, and some
degree anti amerriage. That's a fact.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
The fact that this candidate actually won the Democratic primary
is horrifying.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
However, I actually have a lot of.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I don't want to say faith, because I don't have
any faith in the Democratic Party, but I have encouragement
because the number of Democrats that have come out and
said we are going to throw everything at this man
to make sure he never serves a day as mayor
of New York. You've got Bill Ackman, who is a
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major Democratic fundraiser, pledging millions to make sure this guy
never takes office. You've got well, first of all, you've
got Eric Adams, who now I mean he's running as
an independent because talk about the party leaving you, not
you leaving the party. Eric Adams was you know, was
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a Democratic darling when he was elected, and the fact
that you're actually doing things that worked, the whole party
turned against him.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, because we always talked about this when you're a Democrat,
theoretical bullshit always Trump's no pun intended, actual accomplishments, allah
AOC and the others. But I do believe I'm sorry
to say this, and I really am sorry to say
I think he will get in because Adams and Cuomo
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are going to split the independent vote. He will get in.
God bless New York City. But it will be you
can make real upon reel upon reel of messaging for
twenty twenty six from twenty twenty eight that will live
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in internitum honey like that. Yeah. I don't maybe keeps
on getting.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't know that he's actually going to get in
because he actually has. I think he's got a bigger
uphill battle than he thinks he does, because yeah, he will.
He will take the elites in Manhattan, but there's no
way he's carrying Staten Island. It's gonna be very difficult
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for him to carry Queens. He's certainly going to lose
a big part of Brooklyn in the Bronx. And I
don't know that Cuomo and Eric Adams are gonna split
the independent vote. I think you're going to see the
Democratic vote split three ways.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I think Eric Adams will take the bulk.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Of the Democrats. Remember he wasn't even in the Democratic primary,
so it wasn't even an option to vote for him.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And let's not.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Forget you still have Curtis Leewah on on the ballot.
He ran against Adams and didn't do badly. Now, if
these three split the Democratic vote, he may actually be
able to take the victory lap.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
You know something, that's a very good analysis because people
are probably scared shitless about you know, he's talking about
defunding the police, blah blah blah. Freewell might actually pull
it off because oh, you know, Albert, you got to
have a life, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I still think Sleewah is a long shot. Personally, my
money's my money's on Eric Adams for pulling out another term.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But Yo, the more he.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yells about defunding the police, a study just came out
of all of these blue cities that refunded the police,
and low and low and be hold, there's been a
massive drop in crime when you refund the police.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Shocking.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
But you know, we talked about Trump two point zero
and pushing back against his foes, the deep state media.
Your analysis, Please about the paramount losses. They settled for
at least sixteen could be thirty mil. The sixteen minutes
what I used to watch. I haven't watched it in
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twenty years. I'm gonna watch it this Sunday because I'm
gonna love Pelly's response.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, they can be beautiful.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
They officially settled for sixteen million. Now, remember this is
not the first media settlement against Trump, because ABC and
Disney had previously settled because of Stephanopolis overstepping his bounds.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
So you're starting.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
To see the heads of the corporations looking at this
going all right, you know what, We've got to cut
this off. We cannot go to court because we're going
to lose yep, and they're realizing that the propaganda train
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is over. So it was a it's going to be
a major blow to the leftists in CBS News. It's
why you've seen people leaving there. It's why you've seen
people told they're leaving there. You know, I always, I
always love when you see the the announcements that such
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and such has tendered their resignation. And of course it's
not that they decided to resign, it's that they were told,
you're resigning, you're out of here.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
No, it's like being in corporate Bobby, Bob has left
to pursue other options. Yes, Bobby was making two hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. No, he's not pursuing other options
to be a camp counselor the why I'm right, Yeah,
he's not pursuing other options.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Sorry to break it to you, but you're sitting now.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I mean, there's other things that go along with this.
There has been a lot of talk Paramount is actually
right now in merger talks with Skydance Entertainment, and there's
been a lot of accusations that the only reason they
agreed to settle is because they don't want the DOJ
stepping in to block the merger. Now, I don't know
(34:39):
if that's true or not. I think the DOJ will
investigate the merger. Quite frankly, I've taken a look at
the terms of this deal, and I don't think the
DOJ has any reason to block the merger forgetting about
any settlement. So I don't think that that was that
big an issue. But you are now, you're all. It's
(35:04):
also part of a bigger trend because we are in
July now, which means we are now officially done with
Pride months. Well, take a look at how many corporate
sponsors stayed out of Pride Month this year.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Do sound take even Let's look at Target, their big
push over the last two years. Pride price done. Yes,
a vacuum.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
You Pen just came out with this statement going all right,
you know, we apologize, we were wrong.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
We you know this was not good.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Harvard is now starting to talk with the administration, saying
all right, you know, uncle, you got us, We're going
we'll cooperate. This is all and none of this has
anything to do with any point of view.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
This has to do with what we started.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
This conversation with Dad has come home and the kids
now have to behave.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
One hundred percent. It was a free for all. No,
you're right, the you're you're your young kid and the
seventeen year old babysitter who was on the phone talking
to his girlfriend or something, and everyone went crazy. And
now the parents have come home and it's, oh God,
better clean up the place.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Correct, that's exactly what's going on.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
The party is over, and now it's time to clean
everything up because dad came home and he's not happy
about how you trash the country.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
A one hundred percent well done. I'm kind of a
I say, less serious note, although it was very serious.
What happened? What are your thoughts on the p Diddy?
It looks like he's going to get four years. He's been,
I believe, convicted of two of the lesser charges. I
(37:06):
was talking with someone, Oh it's well, four years in
prisons kind of sucks, and he's fifty six. I mean,
you're talking pretty much game over. I mean, it couldn't
happen to a nicer guy. I don't feel sorry for
the guy, but I wouldn't retry him. Four years in
a shithole, that's pretty beat when you've been living in
a fifty million dollar house. I think that's pretty much
(37:29):
a good job.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I don't know that they're going to retry him. I
think this is the case where he was clearly guilty,
but the state failed to meet the burden of reasonable doubt.
And I was talking to a former prosecutor just a
few weeks ago, a few days ago, not about p Diddy,
(37:53):
We're actually talking about the Karen Reid trial, yep. And
he said, the way the legal system is set up,
if the state cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt, it
does not matter if the person is guilty or not.
They have to let him go. And I think that's
what happened on these greater charges for Diddy.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
They did not.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Meet the charge of beyond a reasonable doubt. Now everybody
knew that he was guilty. I mean, the stories have
been ad infinitum and they're yes, and there are a
lot more than what we're actually presented in court. So yes,
he'll get off with the four years in prison, which
(38:41):
I don't think is going to be a cake walk
for him.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
No, but.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's also going to open him up to civil cases
from all the people that were abused. I think that's
going to do damage. I think his career is over.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Good bye.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
And also, hold on, baby, oil sales are going to
plummet while he's in prison. Don't get rid of Johnson
and Johnson if it's in your portfolio, because basically it's
going to be cut by a third.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Well, I mean you're talking about cutting, you know, investments.
I think, quite frankly, if this socialist moron actually gets
into office in New York City, everybody needs to invest
in real estate in New Jersey and Connecticut because the
prices are going.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
To go through the roof as everybody leaves.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
If you were a really funny but true Yeah, if
you're a real estate person in Fairfield County or Lichfield,
you I'm sorry. You know you want to be put
the country's best interests ahead of you, ahead of yourself.
But you're a real estate agent and lych Field. You
(40:03):
would be boaming at the mouth waiting for that to happen.
Oh yes, you could answer.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
All the call. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I mean, and this isn't just speculation. I can actually
almost guarantee this will happen because we saw something very
similar during COVID. Everybody was running to get out of
New York City, which was a hot spot at real
estate prices in Connecticut. New Jersey went through the roof.
(40:33):
I think you're gonna see that again. And historically we've
seen this before, back in the nineteen seventies when all
of the rich people went, you know what, this place
has gone to hell.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
We're out of here.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
And the only person so far that is actually seems
to be preparing for this possibility is the governor of Florida,
who's already talking to businesses going, no move down here, we.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Got your back.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
I think that's very well done and pretty prudent. I
think they could have a Wall Street South as it
really plays out. The last topic is the hypocrisy of
the left. You have Leonardo DiCaprio, like Bono and others,
(41:23):
another high school drop out who claims expertise on global warming,
who he's an expert on his h Well, just won't
get into that. But anyway, Yes, he had the Bezos wedding,
and he flew in like others do the wedding in
his own private jet, but this time he had a
(41:45):
baseball cab and blah blah blah. I don't think he
was going to be playing second base that night. I
think he's trying to hide himself your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, I mean this is an old story. We see
it all the time. Do as I say, as I do.
They want everybody else to see right, they want everybody
else to cut back their emissions, and they're flying around
in private jets. You know what, if you want to
be taken seriously on climate change, you should never be
(42:14):
seen in a private jet. You should be You should
be driving a hybrid. I'm not going to say you
should be driving an ev because guess what, the electricity
is generated by coal and oil, but you should be.
You should be driving a hybrid. You should be living
in a small apartment that doesn't require a lot of electricity,
(42:35):
not a mega mansion like most of these folks are.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
If your carbon fra should you be you should be
having a huge cruise ship with bimbos on it, like DiCaprio. Right,
that might be a little echo non friendly.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
When your carbon footprint is greater than some towns.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Shut your mouth. Shut your mouth about global warming.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Well, our listeners should not shut their mouth. They can
voice their opinions on the show, can't they Yes.
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Speaker 3 (43:39):
Great show, See you next week, doctor Lopkin.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
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Welcome to another edition of Carnivore Bites. I'm your host,
Jeff Sherman, along with doctor Eric Lopkin. I've never seen
anything like this, And I've always been into politics, believe
it or not, since the sixth grade. And I've never
seen a president or any political figure. Baby, I wasn't
around men. Even though I'm getting older, Winston Churchill back
(01:27):
and you know, having amazing you know times, you know,
pinnacle historical defeats. But I have never seen an American
politician having the last couple of weeks that Donald J.
Trump has had, and especially with the big beautiful bill
that's in play now. In your thoughts, doctor Lopkin.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, he has had a phenomenal few weeks. As we
record this. The big beautiful bill is back in the
House because they now have to vote on the Senate's changes,
and you know, and it only barely passed the Senate.
It was a fifty to fifty vote and JD. Vance
(02:13):
cast the tiebreaker to push it over. So this is
not something that is overwhelmingly positive for the Republicans, but
it is an important start. There are some big problems
that I have with the bill. First of all, the
fact that it's so huge. I hate omnibus bills. I
(02:36):
think every bill should just be this is what it does,
this is how we pay for it, pass or failed done.
The reason they did it this way is so they
could negotiate with all of the different parties and try
to get it across. Also, they had to drop some
things from the bill that the House had passed because
(03:00):
the Senate parliamentarian said, you can't keep those in and
go through reconciliation. They don't qualify. So there were some
changes overall.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh, you need to interject one thing, doctor Lockkittz, that
maybe will even aid in the doctor's analysis, I heard
an amazing point. The ex senator from Pennsylvania escased me
right now, But anyway, he was on a panel and
he was talking about rand Paul and how him voting
(03:33):
no sent this thing into a more precarious situation in
the House because now you had Makowski from Alaska throwing
some things in there, like green new deals, so blah
blah blah, that are more less attractive to the House.
I'll sort of that caveat and now you can run
with a doctor.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't think the stuff that was tossed in is
going to be enough to keep it from past the House.
It may cause some debate, but I think ultimately it
will pass. But some of that is part of why
I have a problem with the bill. There's still too
much spending in it. They should have cut more. But
(04:17):
on balance, we are much better off if this passes
than if it doesn't, primarily because of the tax cuts.
If this bill does not pass, ninety two percent, according
to the IRS, ninety two percent of Americans will see
(04:40):
a tax increase of up to sixty three percent. And
this isn't the one percent that it's going to hit
because it all boils down to the cutting in half
of the standard deduction, which approximately ninety percent of the
country he takes advantage of. So this is going this
(05:03):
is going to hit the working class hard if it
does not get passed.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So yeah, the one thing else in there, Sorry doctor Lockett,
but in your comment on it, I also think, because
you're one hundred percent correct, if it does not pass
in getting the tax implications, it will I almost guarantee
it throw America into a recession.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
On you like that, Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The the tax burden that it will impose by not
if it doesn't pass, will throw the US into a
recession because it's going to be the highest tax increase
in history. So that that is that will cripple our economy.
(05:50):
Now that being said, Trump has been doing so much
else to help boost our economy. We just got a
trade deal with Vietnam huge, which yes, it was a
major deal. And I know most people are going, well,
it's Vietnam. It's a small country, we don't do a
(06:13):
lot of trade. Why is it important Because it's one
more place for people to relocate manufacturing out of China.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes, and it puts more pressure on China again. It's
playing three D chess versus checkers to make a deal.
Because also capital moves around globally, as you know, doctor Lopkin,
and it was moving to Vietnam anyway to perpetuates it
and puts China in a more precarious situation. I do
(06:45):
you like that, Lopkin exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We also have the trade talks with Canada that came
to a very abrupt halt because Canada was about to
tax American tech companies like Netflix and Amazon a digital
tax that now this is not unheard of tax, it's
(07:12):
you know, for activities in their country. The EU has one,
England has one, but unlike the other countries, Canada was
going to implement this. It was p It was scheduled
to go into effect this past Monday and was going
to be retroactive to twenty twenty two. Wow, So American
(07:37):
companies were going to have to all of a sudden
pay three years of taxes that they didn't have to.
And Trump went, no, that's not going to happen. We're
cutting off your trade talks until you repeal that. And
I think it took them twenty four hours to say no,
we're pausing that, we'll put it on hold, let's have
the trade talks.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Love, And you know, how.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Will you assess Trump's two weeks two? I mean, we're
are gonna get into all the particulars. I say, on
a scale of one to one hundred, you got to
give it an in my opinion ninety nine. I think
it's taken all the oxygen out of the room.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
What do you think love, it really has and more
than just what he's accomplishing with the bombing of the
Iranian nuclear sites, with the increased trade deals, with him
standing up to Canada, with the fact that now we
(08:36):
are expecting two new signatories to the Abraham Accords. Trump
has once in for all, put an end to the
Obama doctrine of oh, we're going to lead from behind. No,
you don't lead from you don't lead from behind, you
(08:57):
lead from the front. And that is exactly what Trump
is doing. And the meeting, the NATO meeting was not Native.
The G seven meeting was absolutely hysterical because you've got
Trump going over there.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, I'm sorry, I was right. The first time. Was
the Native it was nat Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well, they're refer they're referring to him as you know,
Dad's come home and he's putting the kids in their place,
and that's exactly what he's doing. People did not seem
to understand that under the Biden administration, not only was
(09:40):
America rudderless, there was no leadership in the world. Everybody
was just floundering. And now all of a sudden, America
has taken the leadership role again and people are falling
into line you're seeing.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
As to a question, doctor, I want to you a
question on that historical I believe it has never been
more profound America's leadership. That's my opinion. What is yours,
doctor Lockin? I'm going back to Reagan.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I think, well, certainly in recent memory.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I I was a little young during Reagan's time, but
I'm gonna I'm gonna say, you know, Reagan was.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Also up there, right up there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But honestly, I.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Don't think American leadership other than the Reagan administration has
been this strong, possibly since World War Two.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That's my point, and I agree with that one hundred percent.
And being older than you beats the alternative, I believe. Actually,
how do you like this? Reagan and Trump are very similar,
not in a personality standpoint, it's because they were both
skilling vacuues. How do you like that?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, they they both came into office under very similar conditions.
We knew there were huge We kept making comparisons between
the Biden administration and the Carter administration, and.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Certainly the malaise.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
That everybody referred to, you know, during the Carter administration,
was also present during the Biden administration, up to the
point where Biden had that disastrous debate where that malaise
actually turned to panic.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Agreed, Yes, I one hundred percent agree. And it's very interesting.
You talk about daddy, Daddy's coming home. You look at
you penn apology, Okay, you look at him just getting
in the heads of everyone. I really believe. I love this,
the marketing perspective, the alligator alcatraz I mean, yes, I
(12:04):
got it. Some of it has obvious, you know, utility,
But it's more he's become a master of just not caring.
Not not that he's frivilis. I don't mean that, And
I'm quoting O'Reilly on that because there is no second term.
He knows how to own the Democrats, Am I not correct?
He don't you lord To'donald Carry you had Laurence to
(12:25):
o'donald on MSNBC. I'm glad it just happened to come
by by accident. And he was talking, Oh horrible to speak,
seeding people to outg like, God, you gotta be kidding me.
I'm sorry, go ahead. But he owns their head, doesn't he.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He's been living rent free in the Democrats head since
twenty sixteen. The difference is he went came into twenty
sixteen very unprepared.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
He did not he.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Did not understand how deep the deep state went. He
did not understand how he was going to have to
collaborate with the other areas of government, and he did
not understand who was an ally and who wasn't. He
(13:19):
came in, yes, now, absolutely prepared. He spent the last
four years making sure he was prepared. He hit the
ground running before the inauguration, and he hasn't looked back since.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And he may I ask you a question, doctor Lopkin,
on that. Okay, this is kind of metaphysical, but you're
certainly a person that can handle this. I think that
twenty sixteen is first administration. He was not unpopular, He
(13:56):
was not ingratiated with America. I think he's become a
pop icon.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I really believe that.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I think the first term people were not really digging
his act. I think people are starting to enjoy it,
especially when we're talking about Carter Reagan, Biden Trump, you
had a four year depicit of you had a walking corpse.
I think people, even Democrats, don't want it with me.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The guy's funny, Yeah, he does not unlike Reagan. He
does know how to toss out a one liner. He
does have that timing, and he's out there. You know,
we got used to Biden being hidden behind the you know,
closed doors where you know, behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
He was a dynamo by you know.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
In contrast, you've got Donald Trump going on Maria Bartiromo saying,
you know, I just got back from Europe. It's been
a very busy two weeks. I'm exhausted. I want to
make this a short interview, and that short interview was
an hour.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, no question, No, again, we didn't have this in
the pre planning. But what do you think? I have
my own opinion, but I defer to you for this one.
How big of a scandal. I know we talked about it.
I want to be labor a point, but there's been
people saying that this snakes Watergate look like a non event,
(15:25):
that is the Biden cover up, and there isn't even talk.
I don't think it's going to happen that doctor Jill
might be prosecuted. I don't do nothing that's going to happen.
But what do you I mean, this is in my
lifetime the biggest scandal was I mean Watergate dance compared
to this.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
No, this was a bigger scandal than Watergate.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Without question. And you're seeing.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
A lot of liberals actually admit that, yes, this was
a bigger scandal.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Granted a lot of them are admitting it because they've
got tell All books coming out and they want to
sell the books. But you're seeing this massive shift. You
had Bill Maher the other day saying, how what the
Democrats need to do is get the view to sit
down and shut up. You've got tons of people and
(16:21):
you know, you started to say people are starting to.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Be enamored with Trump.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, and yes, he is now an icon because he
is the bad boy. He is fighting the machine. People
did not believe that. You know, he talked about draining
the swamp, but nobody believed it because you had CNN, MSNBC, Facebook, Twitter,
(16:50):
all talking about Orange Man bad. But over the course
of the Biden administration, the facade fell apart, and now
everybody went, oh, look at how you've been They've been
lying to us. And what really propelled Trump in the
minds of many was the lawfare that was done while
(17:13):
he was out of office, because there was a huge
percentage of African American males going, well, wait a minute,
we never felt the justice system was fair to us,
but look they're doing the same thing to him.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well, yes, one hundred percent agree. But I think your
bigger point, which is awesome, is the boogeyman theory. How
do you like that one?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Is?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
In twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, it was deep see
and you know, no one really believed it. It was
kind of like, eh, now people do believe it, and
people are like, yeah, I mean, in other words, it
was almost like the boy who cried wolf for yelling
in the woods. It didn't really resonate. Now. I think
it really read now with guys in the world liberals
(18:00):
because they're insane and they're part of it. But your
average person's going, yeah, he got screwed, you know, with
these ferbolous lawsuits and even the value of his property.
The judge was a ex cab driver, you know property
values like I know astrophysics. It was. It was. I
think your point is well founded. More than well found.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I think.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The laws, the lawsuits showed that yes they were out
to get Trump, and yes there was a deep state.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That no that you know was the first cracks.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
What blew it open was Biden's debate, because everybody went,
wait a minute. They've been telling us he's running circles
around them. They've been telling us, you know that he's brilliant.
But and everybody saw for what it was. And the
simple fact of the matter is the way government works,
(19:01):
you can't have one person going, oh, you know, the
president's not confident. I have to keep this to myself.
It requires a group of people to be shielding him,
hiding him, scheduling him. So all of a sudden, people went, oh,
(19:22):
my god, Trump was right. The deep state Israel.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Do you know something that will be in history books.
I can assure you a teacher, fifty years from now,
this will be the It'll be the McCarthy situation only
fifty years from now. Is that all of a sudden
it was a deep state, you know, fake news, and
then for all the world to see, oh my god,
(19:49):
it's true, and you couldn't you couldn't do it any
other way. But that, in other words, the impact could
not have been more profound seeing it with your own eyes.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Right, because it wasn't somebody telling you there was a
deep state or telling you well, Biden's incompetent. He came
out and everybody saw it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
With their own eyes. And of course what.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Made it even more impactful was the fact that the
next day the Democrats scrambled, oh he had a cold. No, no, no,
he was fine, and everyone's going, no, no, we watched it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That's not a cold that you know.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Listen. Yeah, okay, you're a business person. Uh you've had cold.
You know, you just gotta you gotta, you gotta plow
through it, dude. I mean, you know, it's not a cold.
It was dementia. How do you like that? But we
talked about getting in the head. I you know, I
had a lot of liberal friends. I think it's hysterical
(20:55):
when he launches the merchandise. I think it's just one
more little pin prick in their little brain, like he's
got the cologne. I think it's just another way of
essen with you.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Do you agree with that, well, part of it is.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Part of it is actually self defense because presidential merchandise
is nothing new. What makes it different this time is
that Trump is actually exerting some control over it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Or at least the Trump organization is.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't think he's personally involved in any of it.
It's his companies that are doing it. We've seen presidential
merchandise for decades, Halloween costumes with presidential masks. The one
that I will never forget was the Chia Obama head
because one because once you are in public office, you're
(21:51):
a public figure and people are allowed to do what
they want with your likeness, which is why there's always
been this presidential merchandise. But Trump is and everybody knows
Trump for real estate. But the truth of the matter is,
even within his real estate, Trump is first and foremost
(22:13):
a marketer, no doubt that is what he's doing, and
if you take a look at everything he does, there's
a marketing spin to it.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
That was one of the reasons that when.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The Israeli I ran, ceasefire didn't quite take effect yet
and they were still you know, lobbing missiles at each other.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He went off because it wasn't the image that he.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Was trying to create, and that actually ended up working
in his favor because he went off. He had a
conversation with net Yahoo and net Yaha, I get it,
I get it. Okay, we'll pull back, and they did,
and the sea fire held.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yes, yes, I do it. My only nuance of that
would be yeah, it was. But I think it's also
when I listened to my liberal friends, it's kind of like,
because liberals always ticket themselves as above the fray, the elite. Intellectually,
they went to this school, that school, blah blah blah,
(23:23):
and it's kind of like cologne and shoe it's just
getting under their skin. He's not publishing the World Book, okay, right.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He's selling merchandise to have Americans. Yes, he's selling the
stuff that you would pick up at a department store exactly.
But that was the whole key to his his election
was he wasn't reaching out for the elites. He wasn't
(23:58):
trying to count tell to Wall Street. He was reaching
out to the working class. That's why you had unprecedented
union membership supporting him. Because he wasn't saying, well, we
know what's best for you, don't worry about it, will
(24:19):
take care of it. He was going to these places
and listening, and he was going to places like Harlem,
like union meetings where the Democrats kept telling these folks, oh,
we know what's best and never showed up in their neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Talk about condescending attitudes. That's pretty condescending. But also he
talked about the marketing aspect. But there's also the substance,
and there's no way to get around that. You look
at the so called experts, well, the stock market's going
to crash under in it's over. It's over. I know
people that have actually pulled out they regret it now.
(25:01):
You know, look at the market right, and look at
the Congo and Rwanda. That conflict has been going on,
a bloody, brutal conflict. These are real things. I mean
Obama got a trophy for showing up. That is a
Nobel peace fries Trump look at what he's done. Yeah,
(25:22):
I mean you can't dispute it. It's impossible. And no
one more things before he comments, if the big beautiful
bill passes, I think it's check. Please, how do you
like that. Yeah, I mean take that'll be the end
of the end.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Take a look at the actual accomplishments. Okay, yeah, Congo
and Rwanda. This has been one of the bloodiest wars
in human history and it has been going on for.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Thirty years, and Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Sticked in and when enough is enough, we're getting a
piece deal done.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And the main stream media just ignored it. They didn't
even know. They don't even talk about.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You have Syria and Lebanon, two countries that up until
recently were pledged to the destruction of Israel. They are
expected to sign on to the Abraham Accords.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Who are those countries again, I'm sorry for our audience.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Syria and Lebanon.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
A monumental Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Then you take a look at the economy in the markets. Okay,
Inflation has been dropping, which remember under Biden it hit
record highs. So we've got inflation dropping, gas prices dropping.
They're actually lower now than at any point during the
Biden administration. You have the lower Yes, you have the
(26:51):
S and P five hundred just hit an all time record.
You've got the Dow Jones Industrial average on a winning streak.
NASDA struggling a little bit, but that's more because of
the tech sector than anything in politics. It is absolutely
unfathomable that people are still going, oh my god, his
(27:11):
presidency's gonna be a disaster. No, take a good look
at what he's accomplished. And this is six months in.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I agree, but you look at the answer the retort
from the Democrats. You got the manorial rate in New
York City, that are esteem government governor of Connecticut thaughways
just graded someone something to emulate. I think that speaks
volumes of where the two parties are. You have the
(27:44):
Trump Party, which is the Republican Party, he remade it.
And then you have you said, be the fringe. Now
this is the mainstream Democratic Party, socialist, non socialist, communist,
anti semi let's cut the crap, anti Israeli, and some
degree anti amerriage. That's a fact.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
The fact that this candidate actually won the Democratic primary
is horrifying.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
However, I actually have a lot of.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I don't want to say faith, because I don't have
any faith in the Democratic Party, but I have encouragement
because the number of Democrats that have come out and
said we are going to throw everything at this man
to make sure he never serves a day as mayor
of New York. You've got Bill Ackman, who is a
(28:46):
major Democratic fundraiser, pledging millions to make sure this guy
never takes office. You've got well, first of all, you've
got Eric Adams, who now I mean he's running as
an independent because talk about the party leaving you, not
you leaving the party. Eric Adams was you know, was
(29:09):
a Democratic darling when he was elected, and the fact
that you're actually doing things that worked, the whole party
turned against him.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, because we always talked about this when you're a Democrat,
theoretical bullshit always Trump's no pun intended, actual accomplishments, allah
AOC and the others. But I do believe I'm sorry
to say this, and I really am sorry to say
I think he will get in because Adams and Cuomo
(29:41):
are going to split the independent vote. He will get in.
God bless New York City. But it will be you
can make real upon reel upon reel of messaging for
twenty twenty six from twenty twenty eight that will live
(30:02):
in internitum honey like that. Yeah. I don't maybe keeps
on getting.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't know that he's actually going to get in
because he actually has. I think he's got a bigger
uphill battle than he thinks he does, because yeah, he will.
He will take the elites in Manhattan, but there's no
way he's carrying Staten Island. It's gonna be very difficult
(30:29):
for him to carry Queens. He's certainly going to lose
a big part of Brooklyn in the Bronx. And I
don't know that Cuomo and Eric Adams are gonna split
the independent vote. I think you're going to see the
Democratic vote split three ways.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I think Eric Adams will take the bulk.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Of the Democrats. Remember he wasn't even in the Democratic primary,
so it wasn't even an option to vote for him.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And let's not.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Forget you still have Curtis Leewah on on the ballot.
He ran against Adams and didn't do badly. Now, if
these three split the Democratic vote, he may actually be
able to take the victory lap.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
You know something, that's a very good analysis because people
are probably scared shitless about you know, he's talking about
defunding the police, blah blah blah. Freewell might actually pull
it off because oh, you know, Albert, you got to
have a life, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I still think Sleewah is a long shot. Personally, my
money's my money's on Eric Adams for pulling out another term.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But Yo, the more he.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yells about defunding the police, a study just came out
of all of these blue cities that refunded the police,
and low and low and be hold, there's been a
massive drop in crime when you refund the police.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Shocking.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
But you know, we talked about Trump two point zero
and pushing back against his foes, the deep state media.
Your analysis, Please about the paramount losses. They settled for
at least sixteen could be thirty mil. The sixteen minutes
what I used to watch. I haven't watched it in
(32:32):
twenty years. I'm gonna watch it this Sunday because I'm
gonna love Pelly's response.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, they can be beautiful.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
They officially settled for sixteen million. Now, remember this is
not the first media settlement against Trump, because ABC and
Disney had previously settled because of Stephanopolis overstepping his bounds.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
So you're starting.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
To see the heads of the corporations looking at this
going all right, you know what, We've got to cut
this off. We cannot go to court because we're going
to lose yep, and they're realizing that the propaganda train
(33:19):
is over. So it was a it's going to be
a major blow to the leftists in CBS News. It's
why you've seen people leaving there. It's why you've seen
people told they're leaving there. You know, I always, I
always love when you see the the announcements that such
(33:42):
and such has tendered their resignation. And of course it's
not that they decided to resign, it's that they were told,
you're resigning, you're out of here.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
No, it's like being in corporate Bobby, Bob has left
to pursue other options. Yes, Bobby was making two hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. No, he's not pursuing other options
to be a camp counselor the why I'm right, Yeah,
he's not pursuing other options.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Sorry to break it to you, but you're sitting now.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I mean, there's other things that go along with this.
There has been a lot of talk Paramount is actually
right now in merger talks with Skydance Entertainment, and there's
been a lot of accusations that the only reason they
agreed to settle is because they don't want the DOJ
stepping in to block the merger. Now, I don't know
(34:39):
if that's true or not. I think the DOJ will
investigate the merger. Quite frankly, I've taken a look at
the terms of this deal, and I don't think the
DOJ has any reason to block the merger forgetting about
any settlement. So I don't think that that was that
big an issue. But you are now, you're all. It's
(35:04):
also part of a bigger trend because we are in
July now, which means we are now officially done with
Pride months. Well, take a look at how many corporate
sponsors stayed out of Pride Month this year.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Do sound take even Let's look at Target, their big
push over the last two years. Pride price done. Yes,
a vacuum.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
You Pen just came out with this statement going all right,
you know, we apologize, we were wrong.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
We you know this was not good.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Harvard is now starting to talk with the administration, saying
all right, you know, uncle, you got us, We're going
we'll cooperate. This is all and none of this has
anything to do with any point of view.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
This has to do with what we started.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
This conversation with Dad has come home and the kids
now have to behave.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
One hundred percent. It was a free for all. No,
you're right, the you're you're your young kid and the
seventeen year old babysitter who was on the phone talking
to his girlfriend or something, and everyone went crazy. And
now the parents have come home and it's, oh God,
better clean up the place.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Correct, that's exactly what's going on.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
The party is over, and now it's time to clean
everything up because dad came home and he's not happy
about how you trash the country.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
A one hundred percent well done. I'm kind of a
I say, less serious note, although it was very serious.
What happened? What are your thoughts on the p Diddy?
It looks like he's going to get four years. He's been,
I believe, convicted of two of the lesser charges. I
(37:06):
was talking with someone, Oh it's well, four years in
prisons kind of sucks, and he's fifty six. I mean,
you're talking pretty much game over. I mean, it couldn't
happen to a nicer guy. I don't feel sorry for
the guy, but I wouldn't retry him. Four years in
a shithole, that's pretty beat when you've been living in
a fifty million dollar house. I think that's pretty much
(37:29):
a good job.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I don't know that they're going to retry him. I
think this is the case where he was clearly guilty,
but the state failed to meet the burden of reasonable doubt.
And I was talking to a former prosecutor just a
few weeks ago, a few days ago, not about p Diddy,
(37:53):
We're actually talking about the Karen Reid trial, yep. And
he said, the way the legal system is set up,
if the state cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt, it
does not matter if the person is guilty or not.
They have to let him go. And I think that's
what happened on these greater charges for Diddy.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
They did not.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Meet the charge of beyond a reasonable doubt. Now everybody
knew that he was guilty. I mean, the stories have
been ad infinitum and they're yes, and there are a
lot more than what we're actually presented in court. So yes,
he'll get off with the four years in prison, which
(38:41):
I don't think is going to be a cake walk
for him.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
No, but.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's also going to open him up to civil cases
from all the people that were abused. I think that's
going to do damage. I think his career is over.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Good bye.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
And also, hold on, baby, oil sales are going to
plummet while he's in prison. Don't get rid of Johnson
and Johnson if it's in your portfolio, because basically it's
going to be cut by a third.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Well, I mean you're talking about cutting, you know, investments.
I think, quite frankly, if this socialist moron actually gets
into office in New York City, everybody needs to invest
in real estate in New Jersey and Connecticut because the
prices are going.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
To go through the roof as everybody leaves.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
If you were a really funny but true Yeah, if
you're a real estate person in Fairfield County or Lichfield,
you I'm sorry. You know you want to be put
the country's best interests ahead of you, ahead of yourself.
But you're a real estate agent and lych Field. You
(40:03):
would be boaming at the mouth waiting for that to happen.
Oh yes, you could answer.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
All the call. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I mean, and this isn't just speculation. I can actually
almost guarantee this will happen because we saw something very
similar during COVID. Everybody was running to get out of
New York City, which was a hot spot at real
estate prices in Connecticut. New Jersey went through the roof.
(40:33):
I think you're gonna see that again. And historically we've
seen this before, back in the nineteen seventies when all
of the rich people went, you know what, this place
has gone to hell.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
We're out of here.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
And the only person so far that is actually seems
to be preparing for this possibility is the governor of Florida,
who's already talking to businesses going, no move down here, we.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Got your back.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
I think that's very well done and pretty prudent. I
think they could have a Wall Street South as it
really plays out. The last topic is the hypocrisy of
the left. You have Leonardo DiCaprio, like Bono and others,
(41:23):
another high school drop out who claims expertise on global warming,
who he's an expert on his h Well, just won't
get into that. But anyway, Yes, he had the Bezos wedding,
and he flew in like others do the wedding in
his own private jet, but this time he had a
(41:45):
baseball cab and blah blah blah. I don't think he
was going to be playing second base that night. I
think he's trying to hide himself your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, I mean this is an old story. We see
it all the time. Do as I say, as I do.
They want everybody else to see right, they want everybody
else to cut back their emissions, and they're flying around
in private jets. You know what, if you want to
be taken seriously on climate change, you should never be
(42:14):
seen in a private jet. You should be You should
be driving a hybrid. I'm not going to say you
should be driving an ev because guess what, the electricity
is generated by coal and oil, but you should be.
You should be driving a hybrid. You should be living
in a small apartment that doesn't require a lot of electricity,
(42:35):
not a mega mansion like most of these folks are.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
If your carbon fra should you be you should be
having a huge cruise ship with bimbos on it, like DiCaprio. Right,
that might be a little echo non friendly.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
When your carbon footprint is greater than some towns.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Shut your mouth. Shut your mouth about global warming.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Well, our listeners should not shut their mouth. They can
voice their opinions on the show, can't they Yes.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
They can we want to hear from you. Go to
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(43:28):
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Speaker 3 (43:39):
Great show, See you next week, doctor Lopkin.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
We'll see you then,
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