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Ah.
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I am sorry that I was out last week. Couldn't
be helped. But I'm here and we're going to do this,
and I'm going to go back a week and I'm
going to dish on some feelings that I have about
Governor Tim Walls, big daddy, mister stolen valor. Look, I
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wanted to do this last week and I didn't get to.
But I have to get this off my chest. And
a lot of people out there are either dismissive or
very forgiving of his lies, particularly the lies related to
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his military service. The man has no honor, he has
no integrity. He's a lyning sack of shit, and he
deserves to be called out for it. Why because we
honor each other as veterans. We don't honor ourselves. We
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honor the men that were around us that did what
they were supposed to do and the women. Okay, the
fact of the matter is is that Tim Walls did
not ascend to the rank of command sergeant major. He
has lied about that on numerous occasions. He filled the
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role of a vacant command sergeant major. That is not
the same thing as attaining the rank of He was
an acting command sergeant major. He did not get promoted
to command sergeant major. It is a blatant lie, and
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he dishonors himself and he discredits his twenty four years
of service in line. He lied about carrying quote unquote
weapons of war in war. He dishonored the men that did.
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As a veteran, it's not hard to just tell the
truth about what you did in the military. You're you know,
it's on your record. It's their plain as day. There's
a reason they scrubbed it from Kamala's campaign page because
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they know it's true. They know he lied, and they
kept this piece of shit regardless because Ooh vibes you know,
all the all the high kicks. He acts like he
wants to be a roquette. I think they told him
to cut the kicks out. If you saw him walk
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out at the at the convention tonight, he looked like
a game show contestant coming out. He's not serious, But
I guess that makes sense because she's not either. We're
gonna we're gonna push into some things. You know. I'm
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going to reference a couple of articles by both Noah
Rothman and Charles C. W. Cook, So you know, bear
with me as I go through this. But Kamala Harris thin,
fragile manufactured. Nominating her without a primary fight was an
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accident of circumstances, but also probably a necessity. Her signature
phrases are banal or risibly vacuous. We can start with
the coconut tree, and unburdened by what has been her
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brat branding is derivative. She didn't come up with the
concept or even the idea that she herself is brat.
She doesn't even know what it is until somebody explained
it to her. By now, I'm sure all of this
is correct, and paradoxically is both Harris's biggest strength and
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her biggest weakness. I don't know if you've noticed it.
Heading into this last weekend and into the start of
the convention, the vibes are kind of going away, not completely,
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you know, they're still trying, but it's kind of shifting.
And well, if you want to know why, it's because
she's starting to get pressed and she that she has
to start talking about policy. And guess what happens when
she does. That's right, we find out that she is
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every bit the lunatic that she always has been. You know,
all honeymoons come to an end, but mostly because her
almost complete lack of substance is proving to be politically unstable.
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It's going to do her in. I don't know if
everybody has seen yet the gena Raymondo at the convention.
She's the Secretary of Commerce. Gina Raymondo is former governor.
I forget what state. Not important, She's unimportant in her
position anyway. They asked her about the job's revision and
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she dismissed it as saying that she doesn't believe that
statistic because Donald Trump has never said anything true. And
the reporter even said it's the Bureau of Labor, the
Bureau of Labor, which is hand in hand with the
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Department of Commerce, and she said she is unfamiliar with them.
The fuck have you been doing since twenty twenty or
twenty twenty one? Excuse me, the last three and a
half years as the Secretary of Commerce and you're not
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familiar with the Bureau of Labor. This is the whole
damn problem with Harris and Biden and the whole joint
administration is everything about them is a fucking cartoon. They
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don't have a damn clue. Ah. With Harris, as with
other beneficiaries of hype driven marketing campaigns, the line between
cool and a national joke is pretty thin. Done right,
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coconut tree nonsense is superficially pleasing, But when the air
goes out of the room, it's likely to look suddenly ridiculous.
Think about other circumstances in which the same stimulus changes
dramatically depending on the context. Music at a party feels
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great until somebody there has a heart attack, at which
point it sounds absurd. And ploying a child's bedroom becomes
immediately more poignant after they have flown the nest, even
if nothing in it has been removed. A newly purchased
boat or golf cart goes from being a fun toy
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to a stressful liability the second that the owner loses
their job, so it goes with vacuo campaigns of affinity.
Politicians who are known for concrete ideas or achievements are
often able to weather storms. Politicians whose reputations are built
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atop fluff and adorned with babbles are not. Kamala Harris.
You know, she may well win the election in November,
who's to say at this point. But even if she does,
she's going to come unstuck long before because pace all
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the press installed scaffolding that is holding her up. At
the present, she remains the shallow, mediocre, off putting, unlikable
fool that she always has been a ghastly cackle that
has temporarily been transmuted into a virtue by the media
and the left. It won't appear that way when things
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get serious. Her total inability to construct a sentence that
doesn't read like a drunk non English speaker wrote a
fortune cookie using Google Translate. When the stakes are high,
it's a liability when the preposterous flip flopping, which is
being sold as healthy pragmatism, it'll bite when applied to
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a salient issue on which voters do not want to
be dismissed, like the economy, like the border, like mortgages.
If in the last few days it feels as if
the momentum behind Harris has slowed a little, that's likely
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because having smiled along the palm tree emojis for a
few days, voters have started to ask what else is
in the offer here and been a little less excited
by the response than they imagine they would be at
the start. Now, does that mean they're going to turn
and run and vote for Trump? No? Trump pulling his
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own stupidity today in North Carolina, saying that he has
enough votes to win, he's not worried about getting more
people to come vote for him. Stupid move, stupid move.
The votes aren't there until they're there. And you know,
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back to Harris. A facade with nothing behind it is
all well and good when the sun is shining, but
as ever, it is considerably less so when you're in
need of somewhere to sleep. She can't keep this up forever.
She has to talk. The party doesn't even want her
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to debate. They're telling her no policy issues. Well, the
three she's thrown out so far, doozies. You talk about
sending the country into a depression and recession, recession, depression, depression, recession,
however you want to line it up. It's an economic disaster,
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unrealized gains, unrealized gains. Oh but don't worry, it's only
on people that have a net worth more than one
hundred million. I don't care. It's not right. And if
it starts off as only people over one hundred million,
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what's to stop them from moving it down to say fifty,
and then ten, and then one and then five hundred thousand.
I know you're saying you're still only in the top
one percent, but we're increasing the number of people in
that top one percent. What happens when it gets to
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middle class, because no matter what twenty eight percent corporate
tax rate, uh, forty four percent unrealized capital is? I
forget what that? What's forty four percent? Rick? Are you
with me? Still? No? He's not. That's fine. So one
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of one of the tax proposals was forty four percent,
twenty eight percent, and then the unrealized gains I believe
we're twenty five if I'm remembering correctly. Anyway, you add
it all up, you add it all up. Two point
two five trillion dollars? Is what this costs? Where's that
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coming from? All she can say is you don't have
to worry about the cost because of the return on investment. Well,
that's not going to wash. You do have to worry
about the cost, especially if you're going to try to
play the game that only people that make more than
one hundred million are going to be hit by this. Well,
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you're not getting any money then. I mean, honestly, how
many people are worth more than one hundred million in
this country? It's a very small number. Yes, we do
have some billionaires here, again, this is a small number.
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This is also a way to disincentivize hiring corporate growth,
job's growth, you name it. She's working to nix it all.
She'll have to talk eventually, so you know, let's back up.
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You can tell that the GOP's effort to hit Harris's
anti price gouging scheme as price controls has some bite
to it. Why can you tell? Because those who are
invested in Harris's success are twisting themselves into the most
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inconceivable pretzels to insist that the government setting price limits
by FIAT is somehow distinct from price controls. Even some
middle of the road economic commentators have been hyperventilating saying
that she's essentially calling for price controls. I mean, even
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the idiot Paul Krugman, you know, I mean, really, we
should be grateful to Krugman for voluntarily distancing himself from
even middle of the road economic commentators whose prudence and
intellectual honesty he does not share. What she has actually
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called for is legislation banning price gouging on groceries, Krugman said.
He goes on to say that Harris's detail free policy
slogan is probably no more radical than Elizabeth Warren's anti
price gouging plan, which is at the very least damnation
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by faint praise. All Harris's plan attempts to do, according
to Krugman, is set price limits, without which businesses actively
collude to impose shortages on consumers. The example he cites
is California's oppressively regulated energy market, which he appears to
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allege has deprived consumers of access to on demand power
for no particular reason. Now, whatever the merits of Krugman's logic,
he certainly does not explain why a plan to control
prices does not in fact constitute a price control. While
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Krugman was phoning it in, Axios, reporter Emily Peck did
her best to craft a cog in argument in favor
of this hopelessly illogical proposal. Don't call it price controls,
Peck's outfit declared, claiming to show how price gouging bands
really work. She follows Krugman's lead in asserting that it
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would not be a federal ice controls scheme if the
federal government set prices because state level laws already prohibit
price gouging. That's a non sequitur, but it's one to
which Harris's defenders are partial, so basically they have nothing
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to point to that validates this position. I mean, unless
they're going to call out the great toilet paper shortage
of the covid era. But even at that, that wasn't
a shortage. That was people hoardage, and there was no
price gouging. They limited what you could buy, but that
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wasn't the government, you know. Going back, Peck noted that
most states in the Union have restrictions on excessive price hikes,
but those laws are triggered in a natural disaster during
which the governor or federal government has declared an emergency.
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Under these laws, companies that raise prices can defend themselves
by demonstrating that they increase prices because their cost went up.
Excuse me, Peck rights that, citing Fordham University professor and
one time far left gubernatorial candidate in New York Zephyr
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teach Out, that means that they should be able to
maintain their profit margins. Excuse me again. If teach Out
says businesses will satisfy their fiduciary obligations to their stakeholders,
the matter must be settled, right Yeah. Having made no argument,
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Peck declares the case closed. Price gouging is not the
same as price controls where a government sets prices for
certain goods. The US dabbles, they're just a smidge, you know.
See the new insulin price cap. And don't get me wrong,
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I think that's a great thing for diabetics. I you know,
I'm not gonna sit here and tell somebody that they
shouldn't get cheaper medicine. I'm also not going to sit
here and say that the government should make them sell
it for a certain price. I don't know how I
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could comment on that, you know, even more accurately, other
than to say it doesn't affect me. So I'm not
in the boat, so to speak. But this is what
passes for intellectual rigor among Kamala Harris's brain trust in
the commentariat. And I'm telling you this is going to
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make for a long and infuriating campaign because they're going
to contort, they're going to deflect, they're going to word
salad us into submission. That I think is the whole plan.
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I really do. I think they have absolutely nothing of
substance to run on, and that's why they're pushing hard
with this vibes thing and the joy thing. Oh by
the way, yeah, speaking of that, you know, we're We're
in the third We're into the third night of the
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Democratic National Convention. As anybody that's watched, have you seen
much joy from the speakers on stage? I have. They
all seem like bitter ass old people that can't ruin
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our lives enough, so it's pissing them off even more.
And you know, they also keep using the word forward.
They like that word forward. But they're they're saying that
they're going forward and they won't go back. So what
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do they do for the Democratic National Convention? They drag
in the past, the Obamas, the Clintons, even Joe, he's
the past. He is an empty suit. He's every bit
the empty suit. He is a lame duck, doddling old fool,
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and he absolutely let himself get there. I feel bad
for Joe. Hell no, Joe's a despicable son of a
bitch and he always has been and he deserves every
bit of it. The problem is is we don't all right.
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We are to the bottom of the hour. I think
it's time to take that break. Rick's gonna push a button.
We can refill our drinks, stretch our legs, and be
back here in four minutes. On your mark, Get set
we hit the button. Rick. I don't know where Rick is. Yeah,
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he was going to make his dinner plate. I don't know.
I guess we're gonna hold off on that break for
a minute or two. It'll be all right, h ah man,
We'll just keep pushing. Let's see. Yeah, you know, price controls,
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higher taxes, government intervention, subsidies, paid for by printing a
constantly devalued currency. There you go. These are all the
pillars of twenty first century socialism and the radical left
ideology of paranism that obliterated Argentina. These are also the
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main elements of the economic plan so far presented by
Kamala Harrison the Democratic Party. Undoubtedly, this is the most
radical socialist economic plan ever put out by Democrats. According
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to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Harris's proposals
will bare bones cost one point ninety five trillion over
ten years. However, it emphasizes that that is bare bones,
and that certain measures that are very likely to become
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permanent would raise this figure to over two point two
five trillion dollars. The Harris campaign has stated that these
costs will be offset by a classic excuse of socialism
in any election. Higher taxes on corporations and high earners.
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This is obviously ludicrous because there is no revenue measure
that will cover the already bloated two trillion dollar annual
deficit and the added two trillion dollars from Harris's proposals.
Increasing the corporate tax to twenty eight percent will cripple
small businesses and reduce investment, while the large corporations that
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Harris attax can move parts of their businesses to other countries.
This would bring the United States to one of the
highest business tax burdens in developed nations. The worldwide average
statutory corporate income tax rate is twenty three point four five. Ironically,
Harris boasts about a record tax receipts in twenty twenty
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four using the Trump tax rate. Yes yes, In her
own proposal, she admits that increasing the corporate tax rate
would harm the economy. She admits it, yet she wants
to do it anyway. Why if not, has she lowered
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it from her thirty five percent proposal of twenty twenty Yeah,
that's right. When she was campaigning, when she was on
the trail pulling at zero percent before dropping out, when
she was railing Biden like he was her three dollars
date and she was the ramrod. Why did she change it?
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Why seven percent lower now? Furthermore, the optimistically estimated revenue
boost of eight hundred billion over a decade, which is
even more than debatable, does not even scratch the surface
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of the two point two five trillion dollar expenditure added
to the two point six trillion dollar deficit. The mantra
of higher taxes for the rich always means higher taxes
and more inflation, a hidden tax not so hidden right
now or in the future. If she wins for you,
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when is it going to be time for the assholes
that we elect to become responsible and cut the spending?
When I just want to know who's actually got the
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balls to do it. The Congressional Budget Office has already
warned of a fiscal disaster of the United States with
an annual deficit of six percent of GDP, despite not
accounting for a recession and projecting record tax revenues from
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twenty twenty four to twenty thirty four. The CBO predicts
an explosion in the budget deficit from one point nine
trillion to two point eight by twenty thirty four, even
before factoring in Harris's new spending plan that means the
adjusted deficit will rise above six point nine percent of GDP,
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almost twice the average of three point seven percent over
the previous fifty years. Are you starting to see how
dangerous this woman is and her ideology is. Are you
getting it yet? Have you seen the jobs numbers? Most
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people have just gleaned the headline today They they they
down graded the jobs over the past twelve months by
a million a million. We talked about it earlier. That
was Gina Raimondo, you know, claiming she didn't believe it.
The other part that you have to read down in
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to page two or three of this report about the
downward revision is that of the jobs that actually were created,
nearly eighty percent are either government jobs or part time jobs,
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so they're being funded by US taxpayers. They're creating jobs
that we pay for so that they can claim that
they're creating jobs, and in the interim, people are losing
their asses, losing their jobs, and going to work part
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time because that's all they can find. It's disgusting. Following
the Harris Plan, United States public debt will likely increase
by twenty four trillion dollars in a decade. There is
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no set of revenue measures that can bring two trillion
dollars per year in additional tax receipts, and tax hikes
will harm both investment and growth. An economy that generates
an annual deficit of six percent of GDP to achieve
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a mere two percent annual growth is already on a
dangerous path, and Harris's plan would only accelerate this and
make it worse. There's no way around it. She can't
explain this away when when the leather meets the pavement,
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where the rubber meets the road. They have to make
her give details. Somebody has to so she can start
cackling and say, return on investment, return on investment. She
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promises to cut inflation by spending and printing more money,
reducing competition, and attacking businesses. She is the current Vice
president of the United States, and on day one, when
she and Joe Biden took office, they claimed that this
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was a joint administration and that they would both do
everything policy wise together. Why is she now trying to
separate herself from that. The reporter even asked Biden, what
if you two disagree on policy? Who remembers this? I
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know not the only one that remembers this. I remember
Biden said, I will resign and hand it all over
to her. How in the hell have the last three
and a half years of their policies of cutting inflation
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by spending and printing more money and reducing competition and
attacking businesses do we need to see before we realize
it's not working. Welcome to the paranism of the United States.
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Former Argentine President Juan Perone instituted a form of socialism
that bankrupted Argentina and is now threatening to devastate the
United States as well. Imagine all the United States citizens
who have escaped Latin American or European economies impoverished by
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interventionism to find a better opportunity in the United States,
only to find out that the same policies will be
implemented by Harris. The narrative of price gouging and greedflation
that drives American peronism is simply false. In twenty twenty three,
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profit margins in the grocery industry hit the lowest level
since twenty nineteen, at one point six percent. This is
according to the socialist organization the International Monetary Fund Corporations.
Even if they were stupid and reckless, cannot make all
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prices rise constantly competition and would eat away at their
market share. Newcomers would eliminate them, and aggregate prices would fall. Furthermore,
stores and businesses cannot make aggregate prices soar, maintain the
increase and consolidate it, which is the measure of inflation
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consumer price index we read every month. The only thing
that can make all prices rise and continue increasing at
a slower pace is printing money and eroding the purchasing
power of the currency. The only thing that can make
aggregate prices rise constantly is the destruction of the purchasing
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power of our currency, which comes from the massive government
spending and printing currency to disguise fiscal imbalances. Kamala Harris
and her team know that their spending plan will make
the national debts soar, and that price controls do not
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reduce prices. In fact, these should not be called price controls,
but limits to competition. If corporations were the cause of
inflation and price controls were the solution, Peronist Argentina would
have enjoyed the lowest inflation in the world in the
past decades. Harris's proposals to forgive debt are profoundly anti
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social They do not forgive any debt, They just add
it to the national debt and make you pay for it.
This enormous increase in public debt will be a burden
for every American, particularly the poorest. With persistent inflation and
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lower real wages. US citizens have already endured negative real
wage growth since January of twenty one, when Biden took office.
That's according to the Federal Reserve. You can expect worse
if Harris wins this election. Why does Harris promote, excuse me,
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the same policies that have failed everywhere. Promising free stuff
and blaming others or the negative consequences is the defining
strategy of socialist politicians. Are you really surprised to see
how Germany, France, and other historically rich nations slump into stagnation,
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high debt, persistent inflation, enormous taxes, and the destruction of
their middle class. It's those same policies that Harris is promising.
Who benefits well? The vast government and its surrounding corporation
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cronies reap the benefits. Many people hold the belief that
a nation cannot be considered socialist if it contains private companies.
This argument makes no sense. State control does not limit
itself to capital ownership, but also to the imposition of
increasingly restrictive laws, regulations, and confisca confiscatory taxes. Damn it,
(44:36):
I'll get it out. In fact, the government likes to
absorb most of the wealth created by the private sector
without the inconvenience of managing the businesses. Guerta de Soto
defines socialism as any system of institutional methodical aggression against
(44:57):
the free exercise of entrepreneurs. And that's exactly exactly what
Harris promises to do. With higher taxes, more debt, and
price controls that aren't price controls. The government will print
(45:18):
money to provide subsidies in a currency that is constantly
losing value. It will blame stores and businesses for inflation.
Interventionist policies will continue to erode the private sector, and
they will repeat. The makers of these policies are aware
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that they will negatively impact the economy, yet they will
also leave a significant number of basically enslaved citizens who
rely on the government and must abide by its decisions.
This is what they do. They break the middle class,
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and they chip off the bottom edge of it every time,
and they get them hooked on government subsidies. And then
they build the middle class back a little bit, and
then they break it again, and they chip off that
bottom piece and add it, and they keep adding, and
they keep adding, and they keep breaking and chipping away
and adding, and eventually they'll have enough people depending on
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them to where they can't afford to go against the government.
You know, voters, they see an alleged tsunami of free money,
but they ignore the fact that they will pay for
it through higher inflation, lower wages, diminishing opportunities for small
businesses and families. The Harris team believes deficits do not matter,
(46:50):
and that the Federal Reserve can always disguise any budget imbalance. However,
the cracks are already appearing in these policies. Persistent inflation
is the consequence of years of excessive spending and monetization,
as it was in Peronism. The next step is the
risk of losing the US dollar as the world reserve
(47:10):
currency when the world stops accepting the ever increasing debt.
Harris's plan is simply anti growth. Her main advisors are
not even trying to disguise it. Barack Obama, there's not
a single pro growth policy in the plans announced, nothing,
(47:36):
absolutely nothing. There is nothing more antisocial than to destroy
the purchasing power of the currency and accumulate trillions of
dollars in debt. Big government has led to big debt
and diminishing opportunities for businesses and families. What the United
States needs is a pro growth plan, small government, sound
(48:01):
monetary policy, and lower taxes to stimulate it all. How
do we get that, Well, we're not going to get
it completely with Donald Trump, but he is a damn
site better at it than Kamala will ever be. Because
(48:22):
she doesn't want to be. She is for our destruction
and our undoing because they want to be in charge.
They don't care about you, they don't care about me.
They care about themselves. And when you're at the top
(48:43):
of the food chain, controlling the government, controlling the industries,
controlling the people, what do you care. You're living high
on the hog. It's the Marie Antoinette SENDERI let them
eat cake. She didn't even say it, by the way,
(49:05):
you know, she gets bum wrapped for that. Some other
Heifer actually said it, not Marie Antoinette. Anyway, I kind
of blew through this a little quicker. I had the
commercial break built in. We could probably still use the
commercial break, Rick, if you've got it cued.
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I mean, you've only got twelve minutes left now.
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Well, I know I'm down to the happy ending story.
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So I never heard you call for the break. But
I was also dealing with something else, so that was well.
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I did right at the bottom of the hour, but
you were not there, so we kept going.
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Had that slider set wrong? Hang on, let me get
it right.
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We're gonna take a short break, folks. When we come back,
we'll get Geez guaranteed happy ending?
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You damn skippy. All right, all right, we needed the
break to spend my time. I had my showtime perfectly
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to add the break in. Can you imagine that? Uh?
I know, I mean really it's crazy, but that's that's
that's how it's gonna work out. Look, I don't know
what anybody's opinion of this man is. Excuse me, my
screen is trying to go to sleep. But recently, there
(54:43):
has been a huge shake up in the world of
sports broadcasting, and it's it's it's really huge. It is
if if you are at all a fan of the NBA.
UH Turner Sports uh TNT lost out on the upcoming
(55:03):
eleven year rights deal to broadcast the NBA games. So
they have one more year I think after this one,
so it'll be the twenty five to twenty six season,
and then they lose their rights to broadcast, so that'll
be the end of their eleven year contract. But while
(55:26):
they may have lost, it's it's sad for them, But
I mean, here's the deal they lost. Yeah, they lost
their Apex product because that is like their big thing
for sports. They didn't lose their Apex mouthpiece who turned
(55:51):
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go join the team that's going to be broadcasting the
NBA games after TNT loses out. Who are we talking about?
None other than Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley turned down one
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hundred million dollars to go join the other team, and
this is his reasoning for doing it. He said that
the team he did it so that the team that
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supports him at TNT in the studio and on the
air could maintain their jobs for their final year together.
Barkley revealed on the Dan Levitard Show that as TNT
enters the final year of its contract to broadcast the
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NBA Games, he had the option to end his participation
with the network and go on to sign for one
hundred million dollars with their competition, who won the broadcasting rights.
Barkley will be entering his twenty fifth year with the
(57:22):
company and is at the end also with this next
last season the end of his ten year contract, but
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the team maintained their livelihoods. Yeah, Barkley said, I love
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always has been, We'll be keeping our people together for
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(58:30):
the next eleven years of NBA coverage, while TNT's offer
of the same amount of money was rebuffed, so that's
that's interesting. The league stated that it looked forward to
another season on TNT, and Turner is pouting about it,
(58:53):
saying they're going to examine legal options. I don't know
what your legal options are if they choose to go
elsewhere at the end of the contry, But you know,
Barkley said he wanted to thank all of those networks
for reaching out to him. He said it was humbling
and very cool to be honest, and he said, even
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though they were throwing crazy numbers quote unquote like damn,
but as long as I got my people safe at TNT,
he said, I really feel good about the decision. And
you know me, I don't like anybody. I don't celebrate
people losing jobs. So I have some tremendous respect for
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Charles on this. He may not be my favorite person,
especially when he starts running his mouth about politics, but
I have mad respect for that. And there are a
lot of people working today because of that. And if
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I am sorry that I was out last week. Couldn't
be helped. But I'm here and we're going to do this,
and I'm going to go back a week and I'm
going to dish on some feelings that I have about
Governor Tim Walls, big daddy, mister stolen valor. Look, I
(07:06):
wanted to do this last week and I didn't get to.
But I have to get this off my chest. And
a lot of people out there are either dismissive or
very forgiving of his lies, particularly the lies related to
(07:27):
his military service. The man has no honor, he has
no integrity. He's a lyning sack of shit, and he
deserves to be called out for it. Why because we
honor each other as veterans. We don't honor ourselves. We
(07:53):
honor the men that were around us that did what
they were supposed to do and the women. Okay, the
fact of the matter is is that Tim Walls did
not ascend to the rank of command sergeant major. He
has lied about that on numerous occasions. He filled the
(08:16):
role of a vacant command sergeant major. That is not
the same thing as attaining the rank of He was
an acting command sergeant major. He did not get promoted
to command sergeant major. It is a blatant lie, and
(08:44):
he dishonors himself and he discredits his twenty four years
of service in line. He lied about carrying quote unquote
weapons of war in war. He dishonored the men that did.
(09:07):
As a veteran, it's not hard to just tell the
truth about what you did in the military. You're you know,
it's on your record. It's their plain as day. There's
a reason they scrubbed it from Kamala's campaign page because
(09:30):
they know it's true. They know he lied, and they
kept this piece of shit regardless because Ooh vibes you know,
all the all the high kicks. He acts like he
wants to be a roquette. I think they told him
to cut the kicks out. If you saw him walk
(09:51):
out at the at the convention tonight, he looked like
a game show contestant coming out. He's not serious, But
I guess that makes sense because she's not either. We're
gonna we're gonna push into some things. You know. I'm
(10:15):
going to reference a couple of articles by both Noah
Rothman and Charles C. W. Cook, So you know, bear
with me as I go through this. But Kamala Harris thin,
fragile manufactured. Nominating her without a primary fight was an
(10:40):
accident of circumstances, but also probably a necessity. Her signature
phrases are banal or risibly vacuous. We can start with
the coconut tree, and unburdened by what has been her
(11:01):
brat branding is derivative. She didn't come up with the
concept or even the idea that she herself is brat.
She doesn't even know what it is until somebody explained
it to her. By now, I'm sure all of this
is correct, and paradoxically is both Harris's biggest strength and
(11:26):
her biggest weakness. I don't know if you've noticed it.
Heading into this last weekend and into the start of
the convention, the vibes are kind of going away, not completely,
(11:48):
you know, they're still trying, but it's kind of shifting.
And well, if you want to know why, it's because
she's starting to get pressed and she that she has
to start talking about policy. And guess what happens when
she does. That's right, we find out that she is
(12:09):
every bit the lunatic that she always has been. You know,
all honeymoons come to an end, but mostly because her
almost complete lack of substance is proving to be politically unstable.
(12:30):
It's going to do her in. I don't know if
everybody has seen yet the gena Raymondo at the convention.
She's the Secretary of Commerce. Gina Raymondo is former governor.
I forget what state. Not important, She's unimportant in her
position anyway. They asked her about the job's revision and
(12:55):
she dismissed it as saying that she doesn't believe that
statistic because Donald Trump has never said anything true. And
the reporter even said it's the Bureau of Labor, the
Bureau of Labor, which is hand in hand with the
(13:17):
Department of Commerce, and she said she is unfamiliar with them.
The fuck have you been doing since twenty twenty or
twenty twenty one? Excuse me, the last three and a
half years as the Secretary of Commerce and you're not
(13:37):
familiar with the Bureau of Labor. This is the whole
damn problem with Harris and Biden and the whole joint
administration is everything about them is a fucking cartoon. They
(14:00):
don't have a damn clue. Ah. With Harris, as with
other beneficiaries of hype driven marketing campaigns, the line between
cool and a national joke is pretty thin. Done right,
(14:21):
coconut tree nonsense is superficially pleasing, But when the air
goes out of the room, it's likely to look suddenly ridiculous.
Think about other circumstances in which the same stimulus changes
dramatically depending on the context. Music at a party feels
(14:42):
great until somebody there has a heart attack, at which
point it sounds absurd. And ploying a child's bedroom becomes
immediately more poignant after they have flown the nest, even
if nothing in it has been removed. A newly purchased
boat or golf cart goes from being a fun toy
(15:04):
to a stressful liability the second that the owner loses
their job, so it goes with vacuo campaigns of affinity.
Politicians who are known for concrete ideas or achievements are
often able to weather storms. Politicians whose reputations are built
(15:25):
atop fluff and adorned with babbles are not. Kamala Harris.
You know, she may well win the election in November,
who's to say at this point. But even if she does,
she's going to come unstuck long before because pace all
(15:46):
the press installed scaffolding that is holding her up. At
the present, she remains the shallow, mediocre, off putting, unlikable
fool that she always has been a ghastly cackle that
has temporarily been transmuted into a virtue by the media
and the left. It won't appear that way when things
(16:09):
get serious. Her total inability to construct a sentence that
doesn't read like a drunk non English speaker wrote a
fortune cookie using Google Translate. When the stakes are high,
it's a liability when the preposterous flip flopping, which is
being sold as healthy pragmatism, it'll bite when applied to
(16:34):
a salient issue on which voters do not want to
be dismissed, like the economy, like the border, like mortgages.
If in the last few days it feels as if
the momentum behind Harris has slowed a little, that's likely
(16:55):
because having smiled along the palm tree emojis for a
few days, voters have started to ask what else is
in the offer here and been a little less excited
by the response than they imagine they would be at
the start. Now, does that mean they're going to turn
and run and vote for Trump? No? Trump pulling his
(17:17):
own stupidity today in North Carolina, saying that he has
enough votes to win, he's not worried about getting more
people to come vote for him. Stupid move, stupid move.
The votes aren't there until they're there. And you know,
(17:41):
back to Harris. A facade with nothing behind it is
all well and good when the sun is shining, but
as ever, it is considerably less so when you're in
need of somewhere to sleep. She can't keep this up forever.
She has to talk. The party doesn't even want her
(18:01):
to debate. They're telling her no policy issues. Well, the
three she's thrown out so far, doozies. You talk about
sending the country into a depression and recession, recession, depression, depression, recession,
however you want to line it up. It's an economic disaster,
(18:27):
unrealized gains, unrealized gains. Oh but don't worry, it's only
on people that have a net worth more than one
hundred million. I don't care. It's not right. And if
it starts off as only people over one hundred million,
(18:48):
what's to stop them from moving it down to say fifty,
and then ten, and then one and then five hundred thousand.
I know you're saying you're still only in the top
one percent, but we're increasing the number of people in
that top one percent. What happens when it gets to
(19:15):
middle class, because no matter what twenty eight percent corporate
tax rate, uh, forty four percent unrealized capital is? I
forget what that? What's forty four percent? Rick? Are you
with me? Still? No? He's not. That's fine. So one
(19:39):
of one of the tax proposals was forty four percent,
twenty eight percent, and then the unrealized gains I believe
we're twenty five if I'm remembering correctly. Anyway, you add
it all up, you add it all up. Two point
two five trillion dollars? Is what this costs? Where's that
(20:04):
coming from? All she can say is you don't have
to worry about the cost because of the return on investment. Well,
that's not going to wash. You do have to worry
about the cost, especially if you're going to try to
play the game that only people that make more than
one hundred million are going to be hit by this. Well,
(20:26):
you're not getting any money then. I mean, honestly, how
many people are worth more than one hundred million in
this country? It's a very small number. Yes, we do
have some billionaires here, again, this is a small number.
(20:46):
This is also a way to disincentivize hiring corporate growth,
job's growth, you name it. She's working to nix it all.
She'll have to talk eventually, so you know, let's back up.
(21:14):
You can tell that the GOP's effort to hit Harris's
anti price gouging scheme as price controls has some bite
to it. Why can you tell? Because those who are
invested in Harris's success are twisting themselves into the most
(21:35):
inconceivable pretzels to insist that the government setting price limits
by FIAT is somehow distinct from price controls. Even some
middle of the road economic commentators have been hyperventilating saying
that she's essentially calling for price controls. I mean, even
(21:59):
the idiot Paul Krugman, you know, I mean, really, we
should be grateful to Krugman for voluntarily distancing himself from
even middle of the road economic commentators whose prudence and
intellectual honesty he does not share. What she has actually
(22:23):
called for is legislation banning price gouging on groceries, Krugman said.
He goes on to say that Harris's detail free policy
slogan is probably no more radical than Elizabeth Warren's anti
price gouging plan, which is at the very least damnation
(22:44):
by faint praise. All Harris's plan attempts to do, according
to Krugman, is set price limits, without which businesses actively
collude to impose shortages on consumers. The example he cites
is California's oppressively regulated energy market, which he appears to
(23:09):
allege has deprived consumers of access to on demand power
for no particular reason. Now, whatever the merits of Krugman's logic,
he certainly does not explain why a plan to control
prices does not in fact constitute a price control. While
(23:36):
Krugman was phoning it in, Axios, reporter Emily Peck did
her best to craft a cog in argument in favor
of this hopelessly illogical proposal. Don't call it price controls,
Peck's outfit declared, claiming to show how price gouging bands
really work. She follows Krugman's lead in asserting that it
(23:58):
would not be a federal ice controls scheme if the
federal government set prices because state level laws already prohibit
price gouging. That's a non sequitur, but it's one to
which Harris's defenders are partial, so basically they have nothing
(24:24):
to point to that validates this position. I mean, unless
they're going to call out the great toilet paper shortage
of the covid era. But even at that, that wasn't
a shortage. That was people hoardage, and there was no
price gouging. They limited what you could buy, but that
(24:52):
wasn't the government, you know. Going back, Peck noted that
most states in the Union have restrictions on excessive price hikes,
but those laws are triggered in a natural disaster during
which the governor or federal government has declared an emergency.
(25:13):
Under these laws, companies that raise prices can defend themselves
by demonstrating that they increase prices because their cost went up.
Excuse me, Peck rights that, citing Fordham University professor and
one time far left gubernatorial candidate in New York Zephyr
(25:36):
teach Out, that means that they should be able to
maintain their profit margins. Excuse me again. If teach Out
says businesses will satisfy their fiduciary obligations to their stakeholders,
the matter must be settled, right Yeah. Having made no argument,
(25:58):
Peck declares the case closed. Price gouging is not the
same as price controls where a government sets prices for
certain goods. The US dabbles, they're just a smidge, you know.
See the new insulin price cap. And don't get me wrong,
(26:19):
I think that's a great thing for diabetics. I you know,
I'm not gonna sit here and tell somebody that they
shouldn't get cheaper medicine. I'm also not going to sit
here and say that the government should make them sell
it for a certain price. I don't know how I
(26:39):
could comment on that, you know, even more accurately, other
than to say it doesn't affect me. So I'm not
in the boat, so to speak. But this is what
passes for intellectual rigor among Kamala Harris's brain trust in
the commentariat. And I'm telling you this is going to
(27:01):
make for a long and infuriating campaign because they're going
to contort, they're going to deflect, they're going to word
salad us into submission. That I think is the whole plan.
(27:22):
I really do. I think they have absolutely nothing of
substance to run on, and that's why they're pushing hard
with this vibes thing and the joy thing. Oh by
the way, yeah, speaking of that, you know, we're We're
in the third We're into the third night of the
(27:45):
Democratic National Convention. As anybody that's watched, have you seen
much joy from the speakers on stage? I have. They
all seem like bitter ass old people that can't ruin
(28:06):
our lives enough, so it's pissing them off even more.
And you know, they also keep using the word forward.
They like that word forward. But they're they're saying that
they're going forward and they won't go back. So what
(28:26):
do they do for the Democratic National Convention? They drag
in the past, the Obamas, the Clintons, even Joe, he's
the past. He is an empty suit. He's every bit
the empty suit. He is a lame duck, doddling old fool,
(28:54):
and he absolutely let himself get there. I feel bad
for Joe. Hell no, Joe's a despicable son of a
bitch and he always has been and he deserves every
bit of it. The problem is is we don't all right.
(29:18):
We are to the bottom of the hour. I think
it's time to take that break. Rick's gonna push a button.
We can refill our drinks, stretch our legs, and be
back here in four minutes. On your mark, Get set
we hit the button. Rick. I don't know where Rick is. Yeah,
(29:48):
he was going to make his dinner plate. I don't know.
I guess we're gonna hold off on that break for
a minute or two. It'll be all right, h ah man,
We'll just keep pushing. Let's see. Yeah, you know, price controls,
(30:10):
higher taxes, government intervention, subsidies, paid for by printing a
constantly devalued currency. There you go. These are all the
pillars of twenty first century socialism and the radical left
ideology of paranism that obliterated Argentina. These are also the
(30:35):
main elements of the economic plan so far presented by
Kamala Harrison the Democratic Party. Undoubtedly, this is the most
radical socialist economic plan ever put out by Democrats. According
(30:57):
to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Harris's proposals
will bare bones cost one point ninety five trillion over
ten years. However, it emphasizes that that is bare bones,
and that certain measures that are very likely to become
(31:20):
permanent would raise this figure to over two point two
five trillion dollars. The Harris campaign has stated that these
costs will be offset by a classic excuse of socialism
in any election. Higher taxes on corporations and high earners.
(31:43):
This is obviously ludicrous because there is no revenue measure
that will cover the already bloated two trillion dollar annual
deficit and the added two trillion dollars from Harris's proposals.
Increasing the corporate tax to twenty eight percent will cripple
small businesses and reduce investment, while the large corporations that
(32:07):
Harris attax can move parts of their businesses to other countries.
This would bring the United States to one of the
highest business tax burdens in developed nations. The worldwide average
statutory corporate income tax rate is twenty three point four five. Ironically,
Harris boasts about a record tax receipts in twenty twenty
(32:29):
four using the Trump tax rate. Yes yes, In her
own proposal, she admits that increasing the corporate tax rate
would harm the economy. She admits it, yet she wants
to do it anyway. Why if not, has she lowered
(32:55):
it from her thirty five percent proposal of twenty twenty Yeah,
that's right. When she was campaigning, when she was on
the trail pulling at zero percent before dropping out, when
she was railing Biden like he was her three dollars
date and she was the ramrod. Why did she change it?
(33:21):
Why seven percent lower now? Furthermore, the optimistically estimated revenue
boost of eight hundred billion over a decade, which is
even more than debatable, does not even scratch the surface
(33:42):
of the two point two five trillion dollar expenditure added
to the two point six trillion dollar deficit. The mantra
of higher taxes for the rich always means higher taxes
and more inflation, a hidden tax not so hidden right
now or in the future. If she wins for you,
(34:07):
when is it going to be time for the assholes
that we elect to become responsible and cut the spending?
When I just want to know who's actually got the
(34:29):
balls to do it. The Congressional Budget Office has already
warned of a fiscal disaster of the United States with
an annual deficit of six percent of GDP, despite not
accounting for a recession and projecting record tax revenues from
(34:49):
twenty twenty four to twenty thirty four. The CBO predicts
an explosion in the budget deficit from one point nine
trillion to two point eight by twenty thirty four, even
before factoring in Harris's new spending plan that means the
adjusted deficit will rise above six point nine percent of GDP,
(35:14):
almost twice the average of three point seven percent over
the previous fifty years. Are you starting to see how
dangerous this woman is and her ideology is. Are you
getting it yet? Have you seen the jobs numbers? Most
(35:37):
people have just gleaned the headline today They they they
down graded the jobs over the past twelve months by
a million a million. We talked about it earlier. That
was Gina Raimondo, you know, claiming she didn't believe it.
The other part that you have to read down in
(36:00):
to page two or three of this report about the
downward revision is that of the jobs that actually were created,
nearly eighty percent are either government jobs or part time jobs,
(36:23):
so they're being funded by US taxpayers. They're creating jobs
that we pay for so that they can claim that
they're creating jobs, and in the interim, people are losing
their asses, losing their jobs, and going to work part
(36:43):
time because that's all they can find. It's disgusting. Following
the Harris Plan, United States public debt will likely increase
by twenty four trillion dollars in a decade. There is
(37:07):
no set of revenue measures that can bring two trillion
dollars per year in additional tax receipts, and tax hikes
will harm both investment and growth. An economy that generates
an annual deficit of six percent of GDP to achieve
(37:28):
a mere two percent annual growth is already on a
dangerous path, and Harris's plan would only accelerate this and
make it worse. There's no way around it. She can't
explain this away when when the leather meets the pavement,
(37:52):
where the rubber meets the road. They have to make
her give details. Somebody has to so she can start
cackling and say, return on investment, return on investment. She
(38:14):
promises to cut inflation by spending and printing more money,
reducing competition, and attacking businesses. She is the current Vice
president of the United States, and on day one, when
she and Joe Biden took office, they claimed that this
(38:37):
was a joint administration and that they would both do
everything policy wise together. Why is she now trying to
separate herself from that. The reporter even asked Biden, what
if you two disagree on policy? Who remembers this? I
(38:59):
know not the only one that remembers this. I remember
Biden said, I will resign and hand it all over
to her. How in the hell have the last three
and a half years of their policies of cutting inflation
(39:23):
by spending and printing more money and reducing competition and
attacking businesses do we need to see before we realize
it's not working. Welcome to the paranism of the United States.
(39:46):
Former Argentine President Juan Perone instituted a form of socialism
that bankrupted Argentina and is now threatening to devastate the
United States as well. Imagine all the United States citizens
who have escaped Latin American or European economies impoverished by
(40:07):
interventionism to find a better opportunity in the United States,
only to find out that the same policies will be
implemented by Harris. The narrative of price gouging and greedflation
that drives American peronism is simply false. In twenty twenty three,
(40:32):
profit margins in the grocery industry hit the lowest level
since twenty nineteen, at one point six percent. This is
according to the socialist organization the International Monetary Fund Corporations.
Even if they were stupid and reckless, cannot make all
(40:56):
prices rise constantly competition and would eat away at their
market share. Newcomers would eliminate them, and aggregate prices would fall. Furthermore,
stores and businesses cannot make aggregate prices soar, maintain the
increase and consolidate it, which is the measure of inflation
(41:19):
consumer price index we read every month. The only thing
that can make all prices rise and continue increasing at
a slower pace is printing money and eroding the purchasing
power of the currency. The only thing that can make
aggregate prices rise constantly is the destruction of the purchasing
(41:45):
power of our currency, which comes from the massive government
spending and printing currency to disguise fiscal imbalances. Kamala Harris
and her team know that their spending plan will make
the national debts soar, and that price controls do not
(42:05):
reduce prices. In fact, these should not be called price controls,
but limits to competition. If corporations were the cause of
inflation and price controls were the solution, Peronist Argentina would
have enjoyed the lowest inflation in the world in the
past decades. Harris's proposals to forgive debt are profoundly anti
(42:34):
social They do not forgive any debt, They just add
it to the national debt and make you pay for it.
This enormous increase in public debt will be a burden
for every American, particularly the poorest. With persistent inflation and
(42:55):
lower real wages. US citizens have already endured negative real
wage growth since January of twenty one, when Biden took office.
That's according to the Federal Reserve. You can expect worse
if Harris wins this election. Why does Harris promote, excuse me,
(43:20):
the same policies that have failed everywhere. Promising free stuff
and blaming others or the negative consequences is the defining
strategy of socialist politicians. Are you really surprised to see
how Germany, France, and other historically rich nations slump into stagnation,
(43:44):
high debt, persistent inflation, enormous taxes, and the destruction of
their middle class. It's those same policies that Harris is promising.
Who benefits well? The vast government and its surrounding corporation
(44:06):
cronies reap the benefits. Many people hold the belief that
a nation cannot be considered socialist if it contains private companies.
This argument makes no sense. State control does not limit
itself to capital ownership, but also to the imposition of
increasingly restrictive laws, regulations, and confisca confiscatory taxes. Damn it,
(44:36):
I'll get it out. In fact, the government likes to
absorb most of the wealth created by the private sector
without the inconvenience of managing the businesses. Guerta de Soto
defines socialism as any system of institutional methodical aggression against
(44:57):
the free exercise of entrepreneurs. And that's exactly exactly what
Harris promises to do. With higher taxes, more debt, and
price controls that aren't price controls. The government will print
(45:18):
money to provide subsidies in a currency that is constantly
losing value. It will blame stores and businesses for inflation.
Interventionist policies will continue to erode the private sector, and
they will repeat. The makers of these policies are aware
(45:40):
that they will negatively impact the economy, yet they will
also leave a significant number of basically enslaved citizens who
rely on the government and must abide by its decisions.
This is what they do. They break the middle class,
(46:01):
and they chip off the bottom edge of it every time,
and they get them hooked on government subsidies. And then
they build the middle class back a little bit, and
then they break it again, and they chip off that
bottom piece and add it, and they keep adding, and
they keep adding, and they keep breaking and chipping away
and adding, and eventually they'll have enough people depending on
(46:25):
them to where they can't afford to go against the government.
You know, voters, they see an alleged tsunami of free money,
but they ignore the fact that they will pay for
it through higher inflation, lower wages, diminishing opportunities for small
businesses and families. The Harris team believes deficits do not matter,
(46:50):
and that the Federal Reserve can always disguise any budget imbalance. However,
the cracks are already appearing in these policies. Persistent inflation
is the consequence of years of excessive spending and monetization,
as it was in Peronism. The next step is the
risk of losing the US dollar as the world reserve
(47:10):
currency when the world stops accepting the ever increasing debt.
Harris's plan is simply anti growth. Her main advisors are
not even trying to disguise it. Barack Obama, there's not
a single pro growth policy in the plans announced, nothing,
(47:36):
absolutely nothing. There is nothing more antisocial than to destroy
the purchasing power of the currency and accumulate trillions of
dollars in debt. Big government has led to big debt
and diminishing opportunities for businesses and families. What the United
States needs is a pro growth plan, small government, sound
(48:01):
monetary policy, and lower taxes to stimulate it all. How
do we get that, Well, we're not going to get
it completely with Donald Trump, but he is a damn
site better at it than Kamala will ever be. Because
(48:22):
she doesn't want to be. She is for our destruction
and our undoing because they want to be in charge.
They don't care about you, they don't care about me.
They care about themselves. And when you're at the top
(48:43):
of the food chain, controlling the government, controlling the industries,
controlling the people, what do you care. You're living high
on the hog. It's the Marie Antoinette SENDERI let them
eat cake. She didn't even say it, by the way,
(49:05):
you know, she gets bum wrapped for that. Some other
Heifer actually said it, not Marie Antoinette. Anyway, I kind
of blew through this a little quicker. I had the
commercial break built in. We could probably still use the
commercial break, Rick, if you've got it cued.
Speaker 11 (49:26):
I mean, you've only got twelve minutes left now.
Speaker 6 (49:28):
Well, I know I'm down to the happy ending story.
Speaker 11 (49:31):
So I never heard you call for the break. But
I was also dealing with something else, so that was well.
Speaker 6 (49:38):
I did right at the bottom of the hour, but
you were not there, so we kept going.
Speaker 11 (49:45):
Had that slider set wrong? Hang on, let me get
it right.
Speaker 6 (49:48):
We're gonna take a short break, folks. When we come back,
we'll get Geez guaranteed happy ending?
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You damn skippy. All right, all right, we needed the
break to spend my time. I had my showtime perfectly
(54:19):
to add the break in. Can you imagine that? Uh?
I know, I mean really it's crazy, but that's that's
that's how it's gonna work out. Look, I don't know
what anybody's opinion of this man is. Excuse me, my
screen is trying to go to sleep. But recently, there
(54:43):
has been a huge shake up in the world of
sports broadcasting, and it's it's it's really huge. It is
if if you are at all a fan of the NBA.
UH Turner Sports uh TNT lost out on the upcoming
(55:03):
eleven year rights deal to broadcast the NBA games. So
they have one more year I think after this one,
so it'll be the twenty five to twenty six season,
and then they lose their rights to broadcast, so that'll
be the end of their eleven year contract. But while
(55:26):
they may have lost, it's it's sad for them, But
I mean, here's the deal they lost. Yeah, they lost
their Apex product because that is like their big thing
for sports. They didn't lose their Apex mouthpiece who turned
(55:51):
down a whopping one hundred million dollar contract offer to
go join the team that's going to be broadcasting the
NBA games after TNT loses out. Who are we talking about?
None other than Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley turned down one
(56:18):
hundred million dollars to go join the other team, and
this is his reasoning for doing it. He said that
the team he did it so that the team that
(56:40):
supports him at TNT in the studio and on the
air could maintain their jobs for their final year together.
Barkley revealed on the Dan Levitard Show that as TNT
enters the final year of its contract to broadcast the
(57:01):
NBA Games, he had the option to end his participation
with the network and go on to sign for one
hundred million dollars with their competition, who won the broadcasting rights.
Barkley will be entering his twenty fifth year with the
(57:22):
company and is at the end also with this next
last season the end of his ten year contract, but
he chose to stay on board to make sure that
the team maintained their livelihoods. Yeah, Barkley said, I love
(57:46):
my TNT Sports family. My number one priority is and
always has been, We'll be keeping our people together for
as long as possible. He said. We have the most
amazing people and they are what they do and I'm
looking forward to continuing to work with them on both
(58:08):
shows we currently have and new ones that we develop
in the future. In late July, the NBA chose to
sign a one point eight billion dollars per year offer
from ESPN's parent company, Walt Disney, NBC, and Amazon for
(58:30):
the next eleven years of NBA coverage, while TNT's offer
of the same amount of money was rebuffed, so that's
that's interesting. The league stated that it looked forward to
another season on TNT, and Turner is pouting about it,
(58:53):
saying they're going to examine legal options. I don't know
what your legal options are if they choose to go
elsewhere at the end of the contry, But you know,
Barkley said he wanted to thank all of those networks
for reaching out to him. He said it was humbling
and very cool to be honest, and he said, even
(59:13):
though they were throwing crazy numbers quote unquote like damn,
but as long as I got my people safe at TNT,
he said, I really feel good about the decision. And
you know me, I don't like anybody. I don't celebrate
people losing jobs. So I have some tremendous respect for
(59:34):
Charles on this. He may not be my favorite person,
especially when he starts running his mouth about politics, but
I have mad respect for that. And there are a
lot of people working today because of that. And if
that's not good news, I don't know what is in
this economy. And friends, that's the show. If you like it,
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