October 17, 2025 • 40 mins
odd unpacks CNN’s town hall with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders and explains why the left’s storyline on the ongoing government shutdown doesn’t add up. From filibuster math and continuing resolutions to Trump’s executive order protecting military pay, Todd lays out the context the media skips and contrasts big–government promises with limited–government reality. He also responds to AOC’s claims about the GOP “radicalizing” young men, and why that kind of performance politics falls flat with everyday Americans. Plus, quick hits on party messaging, what really drives shutdown blame, and why shrinking Washington’s scope still matters most for liberty and prosperity. Subscribe to The Daily Truth for the full Stack and transcript.
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she had a couple of guests, Alexandria Accasio Cortes AOC
and Bernie Sanders. They were both on there having this
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All right, friends, that being said, let's hit the ground
running here today. There was a town hall event town
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hall event at CNN on CNN yesterday, moderated by Caitlin Collins.
As I mentioned, the event was I think it was
technically on the government's shut down, but they of course
talked about several things.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Was located in New York City.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Where Oz visited last week, as you well know, her
first time to the Big Apple. It had guests on
there Alexandria Occasio Cortes, Democrat representative of course from New York,
and Bernie Sanders, who's an independent except every time a
presidential election cycle comes around and he wants to run
for president, he becomes a Democrat so he can get
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their nomination. But he's technically an independent who caucuses with
Democrats in.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The state of Vermont.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
The context of, of course, the town hall was that
we were at the time on day sixteen. We're now
on day seventeen of the Schumer shutdown. Day one, of course,
was October first, of a couple of weeks ago here
and the Senate has failed multiple times.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I believe it's.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Ten times they failed to reached the sixty vote threshold
to reopen the government. So again that's the filibuster. The
filibuster is different. It's it's unique to the Senate and
it requires three fifths super majority for there to be
a for the bill. To be able to be called
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for a final vote. They've gotten close a couple of times,
but they've never gotten there. They've been in the mid fifties.
I think this last vote, this says was fifty one
to forty five.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know if that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I've seen fifty five to forty five, but that could
have been the case. Who knows, but it's they've they've
not gotten there yet. As the bottom line, and the
day before the town hall, Trump signed off on an
executive executive order that ensured the military pay would continue
during the shutdown. This, of course has caused more problems,
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and like I think I saw that there's a lawsuit
the Democrats are suing over this anyway, So that's kind
of the context on this town hall. Of course, the
larger context is that we have a nation that is
at a political cultural crossroads, a crossroads of worldview. And
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actually it's not a crossroads, it's a crossroads of which
direction we're going to go. These worldviews don't come within
a country mile of one another. On one side, and listen,
I understand that there's exceptions to all of this, but
in general, on one side, you have people who love
this country as founder, who believe in the Constitution, the
Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence. You have people
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who believe in liberty, prosperity. You have people who believe
in free markets. You have people who believe in basically
as small of government as possible, limited government, maximum individual liberty.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You have those folks.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's where I fall, by the way, That's where I
fall here on the continuum, and it is not where
the other side falls. The other side falls on the
side that says, we believe in big government. We believe
in a government that basically takes care of all of
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your needs.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
We believe in they say, I say we.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I'm saying from their perspective, I don't even want to
this to have a sound bite that's got a clip
of me saying I believe or we believe in socialism.
I'm saying that's what they believe, and they believe in socialism.
They believe from each according to his ability, to each
according to his need, which, of course, if you've read
Marx you will recognize that line. You have folks who
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believe the government should exist to solve all of the
problems that we have this side of heaven. They believe
that government can achieve an absolute utopia. They believe that
government is the answer for everything, which is crazy to
me because I think people you hold you hold the
answers to your not to say you don't ever need help.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I don't mean this in some.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
In some arrogant, self righteous you know you are a
god sort of thing. That's not at all what I'm saying.
In fact, I will tell you point blank that we
all are in need of a savior. None of us
can ultimately save ourselves, especially when it comes to the
issue of the consequences of our sin. What I am
saying is that nobody cares more about your problems than you,
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And that's kind of the starting point here. We have
to have a situation where the pain can cause us,
the pain, the discomfort, the things that aren't going well,
that becomes a motivation for us to seek what is
best and begin to try to solve the problem. It
doesn't mean that we have all the answers ourselves. It
means that we have a motivation to go out and
to seek the answers, to find the people who can
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help direct us or give us the sorts of things
that we need, and so forth. But the government says,
you don't worry about that. They care more, they're smarter.
That's the lovers of big government. They've never met a
problem that they don't think they have an answer to.
Of course, every time that they try, every s angle
time that they try, they fail incredibly miserably, because that's
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just not the way that it works. It doesn't work
that someone else is more responsible for your problems, for
solving the problems you deal with, than you are.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
That's just the case.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That's the case for me, it's a case for you,
it's a case for every person. Again, it doesn't mean
that we have the power, in the ability in and
of ourselves to solve these things. It means that we're
the ones that are navigating that that ship, were the
ones that are making those individual choices. And that matters tremendously,
my friends, That matters tremendously so. But the left not
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only do their solutions never work, they always blame somebody else.
They always say, well, we didn't have enough money for this,
we didn't have enough time for this. In the case
of the lovers of communism, they'll tell you that they
didn't have the right leader.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
That was the problem. The leader was the problem. They
didn't have the.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Benevolent dictator rise up who put all of his or
her self interest aside and just governed benevolently. Of course,
this is crazy thinking, because this violates human nature. This
is not the way that we were expected or designed
to live this side of heaven. But people pursue this,
and I would say Bernie Sanders and AOC are pushing
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us in that direction. You can argue and quibble about
how far in that direction they want to push us,
But my friends, they definitely are not people who are
interested in reducing the size and scope, responsibility, cost of
our federal government. So we of course have this shutdown,
and it's a blame game. Now, it's a blame game.
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And I listen, I don't mind that it's a blame game.
I don't mind at all that it's a blame game,
because I think it's undeniable that there are people that
are responsible for this. Now, I've said before and I
stand by this. By the way, I think the average
person is somewhat immune from caring too much about a
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government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I think the average person.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Maybe just exhausted with this, maybe is preoccupied with everything.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Else going on.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Has maybe awakened to the fact that this has been
weaponized against the American people before that it's been used
as a tool to not ever actually reduce the size
and scope of government the things that actually need to happen.
I think the average American is impacted by this less
and less each time is tried. And by the way,
we're on day seventeen of the shutdown, Day seventeen, and
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you ask yourself, like, there are times that I have
to pause and think, oh, the government's shut down. Now,
let me say, for those of you, there are people
who are impacted directly by this. There are people who
are impacted directly by this, and that is not the
situation for them. But it's a smaller percentage of that
doesn't matter. I'm just what I'm saying here is that
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the average person is realizing that all the stuff that
we're spending to have our government do, we kind of
don't need them to do it. A lot of those
things anyway. Now, there is a group, a subset of
people who are impacted tremendously by this. Of course, CNN
has some of these people on as people who are
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asking questions at their town hall, people who have been
furloughed people who are maybe small business owners who might
you be looking to, I don't know, access SBA loans,
or maybe do business with a government entity. Maybe they're
waiting on a check. Of course, those are people waiting
on a check from a government entity. Those are people
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that could legitimately they're experiencing pain.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Right now. Let me say this.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Let me say this, as a small business entrepreneur, I
understand what it's like to be on the edge, the
cutting edge. I know that some of the pain that
I felt as an entrepreneur, A lot of folks don't
feel that pain until much less. There were things that
we felt during certain changes in the economy or during
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COVID that other people may not have felt. Well, I
don't necessarily care if people really want to understand the
difficulties of being an entrepreneur and so forth, if they're
not interested in their business. But I will say that
a lot of people who were insulated didn't really care
how it impacted people if it wasn't them, And that's
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a shame. That's not the way that it should be.
We should think about this and understand. Look, the government
needs to shrink in size and scope. There are real
things that need to be cut. There are real people
that are impacted by these cuts. I'm aware of all
these things. I'm a human being. I understand what I
think is in the best interest of liberty, what's in
the best interest of this nation. Reducing the size and
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scope of government is at the top of that list.
And so these I also realized that in the day
to day sort of life, the average American is coming
to realize that this government is not what the left
tells us it is. We don't need our government to
manage our lives nearly anywhere remotely.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
As close as these leftists would tell you.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And so they've got this setting of the town hall
where they have people asking questions, and they've got these
couple of lunatics up there providing what they tell you
our answers. And I want to play a couple of
these things, and I also want to talk about them
briefly as well.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
AOC in this first clip.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Slams GOP lawmakers for refusing to negotiate to end the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
This is rich, this is ironic.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
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garbage that she's about to spue here. But we're going
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All Right, that being said, let's get here to the clip.
AOC's sitting down here, Bernie's here as well. I don't
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know if Bernie chimes in on this one. I think
he I think he might. I have two clips. I
think he might on this one. But they're sitting with
Caitlin Collins being asked questions about just this political climate,
right and again, if you want to have the full context,
I given you a little bit. But on top of this,
remember the other thing that's happening here is that the
Democrat Party is an absolute disarray.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Earlier this year, it was predicted.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
By the probability markets, Calsh and so forth, that the
Democrats had an eighty three percent chance of winning the
House of Representatives in the mid terms, which are about
a year away. Now, the projections we talked about this
yesterday are that they have those odds have decreased by
twenty percent, so now they have a sixty three percent chance.
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They have no leadership, they have no message, they have
Zoron Mondami. Who's out there, Who's I think going to
ultimately hurt the cause of these leftists, well, the average
Democrats in flyover country, but these the liberals are in
a mess. The Democrat Party is in a mess. The
radical left is in a mess. They're looking for some
sort of traction, give people some sort of reason and
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hope to vote for their party again. They've the generic
ballot numbers we talked about yesterday, or nowhere near where
they were this time in Trump's presidency the first term
in October of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
They're hurting. They're hurting here. They're looking for something.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
They think that they can cause enough pain and just
havoc with this shutdown to give themselves some reason, some reason,
some argument, some narrative leading us into the twenty twenty
six midterms. So that's a little bit about the context
AOC is. Of course, they're talking here about the shutdown
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and who to blame. And I just want you to
listen to this, and we're going to talk about this.
I'm gonna do my best to be quiet through as
much of this as I can, but I'm going to
tell you it's going to be impossible for me to
sit there silently the whole time.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That being said, here's AOC.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Do you think by Thanksgiving the government could still be
shut down? I mean, I would certainly hope not. I
would certainly hope not. My hope is that we're able
to resolve this as quickly as possible. I'm ready to negotiate.
Bernie's ready to negotiate. I mean, we are all open
and ready.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Is anyone actually negotiating right now?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
But let me reiterate, one.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Negotiate with people who refuse even to show up to
do their jobation for yes.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yes, House Republicans have been on vacation.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
For a but the Republican senators are here, and House
Speaker Mike Johnson, we've had them on.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
He said, We've done our job. We passed the clean's
yard in the House. It's now to the Senate to
make these negotias.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
They need to pick up a phone, Caitlin, if they
need to pick up a phone. They're saying that they're
doing all this work. They are twiddling their thumbs and
talking to each other. They it is actually an unconscionable
abdication and refusal to work.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
They refuse.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I've never seen people who hate working so much in
my life. I mean genuinely, they won't even pick up
the phone.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They won't.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
If I were Mike Johnson, you should be in that
office negotiating with a keen Jeffries every jam day until
we reach open and any day that you don't do
that is a failure. It is a failure. And until
there is accountability for people who refuse to workhow to work,
then we're going to continue to be in this cycle.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, okay, so she said as an I don't have
the quote exactly, but she said, it's an abdication, an
abdication for the Republicans to not try to negotiate and
to fix this.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I've thought a little bit about this, and I've got
an analogy. It's a simple analogy, and without that most
analogies it may not be perfect. But there's something here
that I would say is accurate and true. And I
try to think about in terms that you know, if
someone on the left tunes in is listening to this program,
I want it to be in terms that you know,
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isn't just abstract. And so I was thinking, it's kind
of like, you know, Republicans. Republicans have said. All they've
said is let's continue the funding as it was on
September thirtieth, Let's continue that on October first, and then
we can negotiate a longer spending package within the next
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six or seven weeks, whatever that timeframe was. And Democrats
said no, that's the bottom line. No matter how you
shape this or try to argue this, that's what's happened here.
And it is absolutely disingenuous for her to say to Republicans
are not negotiating with the reason they're not negotiating is
because you've shut the government down. Open the government back
just as it was, Let everything get back to working
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as it should, and then you can negotiate. It's very simple, AOC.
It's not complicated. But it would be similar to, in
my opinion, if you were a tenant and you were
renting a house or an apartment, and let's say you
fell behind on your payments and the owner of the
property came to you and said, I'm going to evict you.
And he said, listen, okay, we need to work this out.
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But here's what I'm going to do. I can resume
payments right now, and then we can negotiate how to
fix whatever else we've got to deal with, what the
least can look like moving forward, how I get you
back pay and then it would be like in this case,
the Democrats say, absolutely not evicted me first. Evict me first,
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and then I'll negotiate. But see that just doesn't make
any sense. This is disingenuous. This is political theater. This
is the sort of thing that only appeals to people
who are either completely to the left or just I
guess averse to truth. But I got to take a break.
My friends, sit tight a little bit long. The segment
back in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Welcome back to my friends.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You can actually make that analogy about a lot of things.
If you're on if you're trying to negotiate a new
well raise at your company and you say, well, let's
continue working at this current rate I'm being paid, this
might even be a better analogy. I'll continue working at
the rate I'm being paid, but I would really like
to negotiate a higher salary. You don't demand that you
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get fired and then negotiate a higher wage. I mean,
I know sometimes that in you know, extreme labor negotiations,
this is what unions will do when they go on strike.
It's considered to be a very dramatic attempt to put
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pressure on negotiations.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
And that's what the left saying here.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
They're saying, Look, in order to get these things really addressed,
we've got to turn up the heat.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I can accept that that that's your conclusion, but don't
then tell us. Don't tell us that you're not responsible
for the shutdown. You are respond is this is undeniable friends.
I said, we shared a couple of days ago on
one of our episodes one of the podcasts, that this
is a Even the media is realizing that the Democrat
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Party has caused this shutdown. It's it's incredibly simple if
they want to negotiate. If AOC is serious about negotiating.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
She will.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Pass a continuing result, which they have in the House.
So I guess it doesn't apply to AOC. But Bernie
Sanders is in the Senate. Bernie Sanders can vote for
a continuing resolution. It's very easy to do, and then
you can begin negotiations. It's so disingenuous.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Listen. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I think as social media has become obviously the powerhouse
that it is, I think many people are aware of
things that maybe they weren't aware of in previous generations.
You know, people understand social media in fact, now I
say people do, but I some people still fall for
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the trap they follow these influencers. I can tell you
I follow no influencer.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I don't consider myself By the way, I don't consider
myself an influencer.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Our audience is here on podcasted radio.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
We haven't invested a whole lot in social media just
because of we will and we've done a lot, but
not you know, that's that's not where we've gotten Most
of Most of our connections and listeners are on podcast
and radio and that.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
But but people understand a lot of people understand anyway
that the the people who are these influencers put forward
aside of themselves that they want you to see. They
want you to see, Oh look how successful, Look how
happy this product makes me over the moon. I mean,
I just got it all together. Hashtag happy life or
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whatever it is out there, right, And I know that
there's an appeal to people the grass is always greener.
But let me tell you, for those who are uncertain,
that's not reality. I'm not saying there's not moments that
things aren't picturesque and perfect and wonderful. But we all
have those moments. And to try to look at someone
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else's life and think, wow, I wish I could be
that person, it's such a waste of effort, and it's
an effort in futility. Be so much better off trying
to think of ways that I can personally make my
own life better instead of just dreaming and trying to
live vicariously through people who far too often are just
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creating kind of a what I want.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
To say, an.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Image, I guess, an image that they want to produce
out there. But I think there's more people now that
are aware of this. They understand that we're being sold
a bill of goods. In fact, I would say, I
would say that some people have become so aware of
this that they don't believe anything that is ever said
from a politician. And that's why you'll hear me occasionally
(27:21):
say on this program, we give these folks too much credit.
While this was designed to be a performance, while this
town hall was designed to be something that was highly
produced and very well orchestrated and talked about behind the scenes.
In fact, if you look there, Bernie in that previous
clip said something about kind of gave a wink and
(27:43):
a nod to AOC. You know, one of our bullet
points is that Republicans don't want to work.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
They don't want to do their job.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Wink wink, Remember AOC Republicans don't want to do their job.
You got to put that in your answer so that
this can go viral and we can have this out
there on social media and people can share this and
it sounds good because it's at a superficial level. We
don't actually have to go into the details. There's just
a clip of you saying Republicans don't want to work
Mike Johnson's on vacation, when in reality, the Democrats don't
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want the government opened. If they did, it would be opened.
That's the bottom line. No matter how you cut this,
Senate Democrats have prevented this, and there's disingenuous objections out there.
I've heard people say Republicans control the House, Republicans control
the Senate, Republicans control the Presidency, but yet they don't
want to take responsibility for keeping the government open.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
That's because of the filibuster.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
They by very definition, they have a need for at
least at least seven Democrats to vote with them in
the in the Senate on this because they only have
fifty three Republicans and they need to get to sixty votes,
and Rand Paul is not voting with them a lot
of times, maybe all the time, on this particular measure.
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And way to you know, get this this problem resolved,
so there might need to be eight Democrats. So it's
just this isn't real. This is designed to be deceptive,
and I want to hammer that point home here today.
So AOC, AOCA, remember I just people. I'm not saying
to be a forgiving person. All of sin, the Bible
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says and falls fall short.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Of the glory of God. We're to be a graceful people.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
We should seek to forgive, but we should also learn
what we're dealing with. Right forgiveness really gives up my
claim to get even with somebody, and I can say
I forgive you. I'm not trying to get back at that.
But I also have understood that you're the type of
leader AOC who's involved in pure sophistry. You're the type
of leader AOC who's involved whose biggest interest seems to
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be seems to be in political performance. And that's what
this is. I go back in my memory bank, and
some people who haven't followed politics for long don't even
know this, But several years ago, AOC traveled to the
southern border. She did a photo shoot where she was
pretending to cry. She had all wide on out there
in the desert, pretending that she was standing outside of
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cages where Trump had put children, of course, separated from
their families, who undoubtedly were in another cage.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And she was pretending to cry. It was staged.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
There weren't any such cages. She wasn't standing outside of
any such cages. There was an intention facility back on
the hill that was way. She wasn't anywhere close to
that facility. She was outside the fence. There's dramatic pictures
of her like gazing off into the distance, trying to
look sad, trying to convey or remote a certain feeling
from those who see that to say, while she cares,
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she's trying to save these children from the harms inflicted
upon them by Donald J.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
The only problem was it's all fake, fake, fake, fake.
That's the problem here. She is disingenuous. I don't believe
a word that she says. This is orchestrated. You know
how she came, you know how she became a candidate
for US Congress. There was and I forget the name
of the group. I can maybe find this during the break,
(31:00):
or maybe OZ can Oz.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
See if you can google.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oz's not paying attention here, see if you can find
the group that put out a casting call for AOC's
that AOC's brother responded to. AOC's brother responded to a
casting call. So think about this. You had a Democrat,
a leftist group who said, we're trying to find people
that we think we can get elected to Congress. Doesn't
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matter what you think anything. We're just looking for someone
who can play the role. It's literally a casting call.
It's like you're producing a play or a movie and
you're looking for actors and actresses that you think could
fit the part, that you could put into the role.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
And her brother responded, what's it called justice? Democrats? Right?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
And her brother responded to the ad and she she
was selected, and then she ran and then she won,
and now we have this today. She is more actor
than she is congresswoman.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Hear me say this.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
She is more actor than she is congresswoman. Now, unfortunately,
by being a fully fledged congresswoman, she has a vote
that's equal to the other four hundred and thirty four
people in the House of Representatives, and she should have
it as an elected member.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
But I'm saying she is she.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Is someone who's interested in what the outside looks like
more than what stands or what's within the idea, the
what's on the inside. It's all about how she can
make it look. This whole thing was orchestrated. This whole
thing was I think, just silliness. Now I've got another
clip here that I'm not gonna have time to play
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In fact, as I was thinking here during the break,
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The other thing is the other thing that I want
to make sure I say, is well, no, that's it.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I did both of them in that in that bite.
So there you go. All right, let's play this sound
bite another sound.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Bite from AOC's performance during this town hall meeting. She
was asked about Republicans and their success with you know,
they were talking about their success with young men, and
I want you to listen to the way that AOC
describes how Republicans have succeeded with young men. This is
(35:40):
you talk about missing the mark. In fact for this,
I say keep talking, AOC, because if you want to.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
If you want to.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Not have people who don't agree with you, if you
if you're well, let me say it this way. If
you want people to see things from your respective and
follow what you're saying in your movement, this is not
going to work. This isn't gonna work. This isn't persuading anybody.
This might be riling up the base a little bit,
(36:11):
which tells you about where they think that they are,
but this persuades nobody with any brain. The way that
she describes how the Democrats assued me, how the Republicans
have appealed have appealed to men.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I just want you to listen to this and.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
In and it is it is clear to communicate that
as an individual. Now to the question earlier as well,
when they talk about Republicans and their success online, they
have been successful because they have also been very clear,
especially digitally, about what they believe. That women are inferior
(36:50):
here we go, that do not and they do not
deserve equal rights, That they believe that LGBTQ Americans are sub.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Human, subhuman who say that they believe.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
And are soulating disgusting racial and and white supremacist messaging
that they are able to get away with digitally and online,
and they are able to radicalize, radical and target and
exploit a generation of young boys, in particular unbeli away
(37:24):
from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires
the domination of others.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
These are so delusional.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Rounder darker or a different gender than them, and that
is why they are resonating online, because they are appealing
to the most basest and worst parts of human nature
to divide us.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
And I just pause that she she says that Republicans
are trying to appeal to young men and basically basically
stir up hatred within them to hate people who are
poor and darker than them.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
What on earth is this?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
This brand that she's talking about here is a made up.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Narrative in her mind.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Now, I will tell you that this is why some
of these narratives, and it's why I want to talk
about the messages between the young Republicans. It doesn't mean
that there's not a knucklehead out there who's saying racial things.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Of course that's the case.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
But may I point out that you can be racist
against white people as well.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
It's not just that white people can be racist. That's absurd.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
You can't even say there are some colleges they won't
let you say that, some places of employment that they
won't let you say that. You can't say that someone
who's a minority can be racist.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Of course they can be.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
What in the world, what do I think these words
mean she she's bumbling here about something that is completely
just made up out of whole cloth. This is not
ask yourself this now, I'm not. I can't say that
there's no Republican out there who's not done something that
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I don't that I would disagree with, because I certainly
would not agree with everything.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I can't. That's not my point.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
But I just think how many things that she's saying
have you heard here on my show? Zero?
Speaker 3 (39:16):
None of this?
Speaker 5 (39:17):
She continues ry to divide us so that the same
people who own those platforms, people like Elon Musk, Peter
teel Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Is she talking about zuck These people continue.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
To get away with highway robbery, in tax cuts and
in order to lease all of our pockets, cut our healthcare,
keep our wages low so that they can so that
we remain fighting amongst ourselves.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Well, they make themselves richer.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
And so in order for us to fight back against that,
we must be clear about what we believe here we
go have strong beliefs and also what are they completely
unwilling to bow to that kind of division and stand
in solidarity with one another, especially when it is someone
whose culture is different from ours, or whose background we
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may not entirely understand, but that we honor, love, and
see as our fellow American.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I mean, these are the sorts of things that people
stand and applaud, but it means nothing. Lots of words
are being said there that are not based in reality
at all, lots of things being talked about there that
are not accurate in the slightest bid, and the people
are not in agreement. She lives in another universe. And
this is again, this is all part of the performance.
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It was a performance, make no mistake about it.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
My friends.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
My time here today is done. I hope you have
a wonderful weekend. Thank you so much for listening. We
will see you on Monday.
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hall event at CNN on CNN yesterday, moderated by Caitlin Collins.
As I mentioned, the event was I think it was
technically on the government's shut down, but they of course
talked about several things.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Was located in New York City.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Where Oz visited last week, as you well know, her
first time to the Big Apple. It had guests on
there Alexandria Occasio Cortes, Democrat representative of course from New York,
and Bernie Sanders, who's an independent except every time a
presidential election cycle comes around and he wants to run
for president, he becomes a Democrat so he can get
(05:31):
their nomination. But he's technically an independent who caucuses with
Democrats in.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The state of Vermont.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
The context of, of course, the town hall was that
we were at the time on day sixteen. We're now
on day seventeen of the Schumer shutdown. Day one, of course,
was October first, of a couple of weeks ago here
and the Senate has failed multiple times.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I believe it's.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Ten times they failed to reached the sixty vote threshold
to reopen the government. So again that's the filibuster. The
filibuster is different. It's it's unique to the Senate and
it requires three fifths super majority for there to be
a for the bill. To be able to be called
(06:18):
for a final vote. They've gotten close a couple of times,
but they've never gotten there. They've been in the mid fifties.
I think this last vote, this says was fifty one
to forty five.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know if that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I've seen fifty five to forty five, but that could
have been the case. Who knows, but it's they've they've
not gotten there yet. As the bottom line, and the
day before the town hall, Trump signed off on an
executive executive order that ensured the military pay would continue
during the shutdown. This, of course has caused more problems,
(06:51):
and like I think I saw that there's a lawsuit
the Democrats are suing over this anyway, So that's kind
of the context on this town hall. Of course, the
larger context is that we have a nation that is
at a political cultural crossroads, a crossroads of worldview. And
(07:12):
actually it's not a crossroads, it's a crossroads of which
direction we're going to go. These worldviews don't come within
a country mile of one another. On one side, and listen,
I understand that there's exceptions to all of this, but
in general, on one side, you have people who love
this country as founder, who believe in the Constitution, the
Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence. You have people
(07:32):
who believe in liberty, prosperity. You have people who believe
in free markets. You have people who believe in basically
as small of government as possible, limited government, maximum individual liberty.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You have those folks.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's where I fall, by the way, That's where I
fall here on the continuum, and it is not where
the other side falls. The other side falls on the
side that says, we believe in big government. We believe
in a government that basically takes care of all of
(08:08):
your needs.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
We believe in they say, I say we.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I'm saying from their perspective, I don't even want to
this to have a sound bite that's got a clip
of me saying I believe or we believe in socialism.
I'm saying that's what they believe, and they believe in socialism.
They believe from each according to his ability, to each
according to his need, which, of course, if you've read
Marx you will recognize that line. You have folks who
(08:32):
believe the government should exist to solve all of the
problems that we have this side of heaven. They believe
that government can achieve an absolute utopia. They believe that
government is the answer for everything, which is crazy to
me because I think people you hold you hold the
answers to your not to say you don't ever need help.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I don't mean this in some.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
In some arrogant, self righteous you know you are a
god sort of thing. That's not at all what I'm saying.
In fact, I will tell you point blank that we
all are in need of a savior. None of us
can ultimately save ourselves, especially when it comes to the
issue of the consequences of our sin. What I am
saying is that nobody cares more about your problems than you,
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And that's kind of the starting point here. We have
to have a situation where the pain can cause us,
the pain, the discomfort, the things that aren't going well,
that becomes a motivation for us to seek what is
best and begin to try to solve the problem. It
doesn't mean that we have all the answers ourselves. It
means that we have a motivation to go out and
to seek the answers, to find the people who can
(09:43):
help direct us or give us the sorts of things
that we need, and so forth. But the government says,
you don't worry about that. They care more, they're smarter.
That's the lovers of big government. They've never met a
problem that they don't think they have an answer to.
Of course, every time that they try, every s angle
time that they try, they fail incredibly miserably, because that's
(10:04):
just not the way that it works. It doesn't work
that someone else is more responsible for your problems, for
solving the problems you deal with, than you are.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
That's just the case.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That's the case for me, it's a case for you,
it's a case for every person. Again, it doesn't mean
that we have the power, in the ability in and
of ourselves to solve these things. It means that we're
the ones that are navigating that that ship, were the
ones that are making those individual choices. And that matters tremendously,
my friends, That matters tremendously so. But the left not
(10:36):
only do their solutions never work, they always blame somebody else.
They always say, well, we didn't have enough money for this,
we didn't have enough time for this. In the case
of the lovers of communism, they'll tell you that they
didn't have the right leader.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
That was the problem. The leader was the problem. They
didn't have the.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Benevolent dictator rise up who put all of his or
her self interest aside and just governed benevolently. Of course,
this is crazy thinking, because this violates human nature. This
is not the way that we were expected or designed
to live this side of heaven. But people pursue this,
and I would say Bernie Sanders and AOC are pushing
(11:15):
us in that direction. You can argue and quibble about
how far in that direction they want to push us,
But my friends, they definitely are not people who are
interested in reducing the size and scope, responsibility, cost of
our federal government. So we of course have this shutdown,
and it's a blame game. Now, it's a blame game.
(11:38):
And I listen, I don't mind that it's a blame game.
I don't mind at all that it's a blame game,
because I think it's undeniable that there are people that
are responsible for this. Now, I've said before and I
stand by this. By the way, I think the average
person is somewhat immune from caring too much about a
(11:59):
government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I think the average person.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Maybe just exhausted with this, maybe is preoccupied with everything.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Else going on.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Has maybe awakened to the fact that this has been
weaponized against the American people before that it's been used
as a tool to not ever actually reduce the size
and scope of government the things that actually need to happen.
I think the average American is impacted by this less
and less each time is tried. And by the way,
we're on day seventeen of the shutdown, Day seventeen, and
(12:33):
you ask yourself, like, there are times that I have
to pause and think, oh, the government's shut down. Now,
let me say, for those of you, there are people
who are impacted directly by this. There are people who
are impacted directly by this, and that is not the
situation for them. But it's a smaller percentage of that
doesn't matter. I'm just what I'm saying here is that
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the average person is realizing that all the stuff that
we're spending to have our government do, we kind of
don't need them to do it. A lot of those
things anyway. Now, there is a group, a subset of
people who are impacted tremendously by this. Of course, CNN
has some of these people on as people who are
(13:15):
asking questions at their town hall, people who have been
furloughed people who are maybe small business owners who might
you be looking to, I don't know, access SBA loans,
or maybe do business with a government entity. Maybe they're
waiting on a check. Of course, those are people waiting
on a check from a government entity. Those are people
(13:37):
that could legitimately they're experiencing pain.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Right now. Let me say this.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Let me say this, as a small business entrepreneur, I
understand what it's like to be on the edge, the
cutting edge. I know that some of the pain that
I felt as an entrepreneur, A lot of folks don't
feel that pain until much less. There were things that
we felt during certain changes in the economy or during
(14:07):
COVID that other people may not have felt. Well, I
don't necessarily care if people really want to understand the
difficulties of being an entrepreneur and so forth, if they're
not interested in their business. But I will say that
a lot of people who were insulated didn't really care
how it impacted people if it wasn't them, And that's
(14:30):
a shame. That's not the way that it should be.
We should think about this and understand. Look, the government
needs to shrink in size and scope. There are real
things that need to be cut. There are real people
that are impacted by these cuts. I'm aware of all
these things. I'm a human being. I understand what I
think is in the best interest of liberty, what's in
the best interest of this nation. Reducing the size and
(14:52):
scope of government is at the top of that list.
And so these I also realized that in the day
to day sort of life, the average American is coming
to realize that this government is not what the left
tells us it is. We don't need our government to
manage our lives nearly anywhere remotely.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
As close as these leftists would tell you.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And so they've got this setting of the town hall
where they have people asking questions, and they've got these
couple of lunatics up there providing what they tell you
our answers. And I want to play a couple of
these things, and I also want to talk about them
briefly as well.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
AOC in this first clip.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Slams GOP lawmakers for refusing to negotiate to end the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
This is rich, this is ironic.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It takes a special type of individual to buy this
garbage that she's about to spue here. But we're going
to talk about it, and we'll get to that, my
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All Right, that being said, let's get here to the clip.
AOC's sitting down here, Bernie's here as well. I don't
(17:08):
know if Bernie chimes in on this one. I think
he I think he might. I have two clips. I
think he might on this one. But they're sitting with
Caitlin Collins being asked questions about just this political climate,
right and again, if you want to have the full context,
I given you a little bit. But on top of this,
remember the other thing that's happening here is that the
Democrat Party is an absolute disarray.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Earlier this year, it was predicted.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
By the probability markets, Calsh and so forth, that the
Democrats had an eighty three percent chance of winning the
House of Representatives in the mid terms, which are about
a year away. Now, the projections we talked about this
yesterday are that they have those odds have decreased by
twenty percent, so now they have a sixty three percent chance.
(17:53):
They have no leadership, they have no message, they have
Zoron Mondami. Who's out there, Who's I think going to
ultimately hurt the cause of these leftists, well, the average
Democrats in flyover country, but these the liberals are in
a mess. The Democrat Party is in a mess. The
radical left is in a mess. They're looking for some
sort of traction, give people some sort of reason and
(18:15):
hope to vote for their party again. They've the generic
ballot numbers we talked about yesterday, or nowhere near where
they were this time in Trump's presidency the first term
in October of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
They're hurting. They're hurting here. They're looking for something.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
They think that they can cause enough pain and just
havoc with this shutdown to give themselves some reason, some reason,
some argument, some narrative leading us into the twenty twenty
six midterms. So that's a little bit about the context
AOC is. Of course, they're talking here about the shutdown
(18:53):
and who to blame. And I just want you to
listen to this, and we're going to talk about this.
I'm gonna do my best to be quiet through as
much of this as I can, but I'm going to
tell you it's going to be impossible for me to
sit there silently the whole time.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That being said, here's AOC.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Do you think by Thanksgiving the government could still be
shut down? I mean, I would certainly hope not. I
would certainly hope not. My hope is that we're able
to resolve this as quickly as possible. I'm ready to negotiate.
Bernie's ready to negotiate. I mean, we are all open
and ready.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Is anyone actually negotiating right now?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
But let me reiterate, one.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Negotiate with people who refuse even to show up to
do their jobation for yes.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yes, House Republicans have been on vacation.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
For a but the Republican senators are here, and House
Speaker Mike Johnson, we've had them on.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
He said, We've done our job. We passed the clean's
yard in the House. It's now to the Senate to
make these negotias.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
They need to pick up a phone, Caitlin, if they
need to pick up a phone. They're saying that they're
doing all this work. They are twiddling their thumbs and
talking to each other. They it is actually an unconscionable
abdication and refusal to work.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
They refuse.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I've never seen people who hate working so much in
my life. I mean genuinely, they won't even pick up
the phone.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They won't.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
If I were Mike Johnson, you should be in that
office negotiating with a keen Jeffries every jam day until
we reach open and any day that you don't do
that is a failure. It is a failure. And until
there is accountability for people who refuse to workhow to work,
then we're going to continue to be in this cycle.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, okay, so she said as an I don't have
the quote exactly, but she said, it's an abdication, an
abdication for the Republicans to not try to negotiate and
to fix this.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I've thought a little bit about this, and I've got
an analogy. It's a simple analogy, and without that most
analogies it may not be perfect. But there's something here
that I would say is accurate and true. And I
try to think about in terms that you know, if
someone on the left tunes in is listening to this program,
I want it to be in terms that you know,
(21:14):
isn't just abstract. And so I was thinking, it's kind
of like, you know, Republicans. Republicans have said. All they've
said is let's continue the funding as it was on
September thirtieth, Let's continue that on October first, and then
we can negotiate a longer spending package within the next
(21:35):
six or seven weeks, whatever that timeframe was. And Democrats
said no, that's the bottom line. No matter how you
shape this or try to argue this, that's what's happened here.
And it is absolutely disingenuous for her to say to Republicans
are not negotiating with the reason they're not negotiating is
because you've shut the government down. Open the government back
just as it was, Let everything get back to working
(21:57):
as it should, and then you can negotiate. It's very simple, AOC.
It's not complicated. But it would be similar to, in
my opinion, if you were a tenant and you were
renting a house or an apartment, and let's say you
fell behind on your payments and the owner of the
property came to you and said, I'm going to evict you.
And he said, listen, okay, we need to work this out.
(22:18):
But here's what I'm going to do. I can resume
payments right now, and then we can negotiate how to
fix whatever else we've got to deal with, what the
least can look like moving forward, how I get you
back pay and then it would be like in this case,
the Democrats say, absolutely not evicted me first. Evict me first,
(22:40):
and then I'll negotiate. But see that just doesn't make
any sense. This is disingenuous. This is political theater. This
is the sort of thing that only appeals to people
who are either completely to the left or just I
guess averse to truth. But I got to take a break.
My friends, sit tight a little bit long. The segment
back in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Welcome back to my friends.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You can actually make that analogy about a lot of things.
If you're on if you're trying to negotiate a new
well raise at your company and you say, well, let's
continue working at this current rate I'm being paid, this
might even be a better analogy. I'll continue working at
the rate I'm being paid, but I would really like
to negotiate a higher salary. You don't demand that you
(23:27):
get fired and then negotiate a higher wage. I mean,
I know sometimes that in you know, extreme labor negotiations,
this is what unions will do when they go on strike.
It's considered to be a very dramatic attempt to put
(23:48):
pressure on negotiations.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
And that's what the left saying here.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
They're saying, Look, in order to get these things really addressed,
we've got to turn up the heat.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I can accept that that that's your conclusion, but don't
then tell us. Don't tell us that you're not responsible
for the shutdown. You are respond is this is undeniable friends.
I said, we shared a couple of days ago on
one of our episodes one of the podcasts, that this
is a Even the media is realizing that the Democrat
(24:28):
Party has caused this shutdown. It's it's incredibly simple if
they want to negotiate. If AOC is serious about negotiating.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
She will.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Pass a continuing result, which they have in the House.
So I guess it doesn't apply to AOC. But Bernie
Sanders is in the Senate. Bernie Sanders can vote for
a continuing resolution. It's very easy to do, and then
you can begin negotiations. It's so disingenuous.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Listen. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I think as social media has become obviously the powerhouse
that it is, I think many people are aware of
things that maybe they weren't aware of in previous generations.
You know, people understand social media in fact, now I
say people do, but I some people still fall for
(25:17):
the trap they follow these influencers. I can tell you
I follow no influencer.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I don't consider myself By the way, I don't consider
myself an influencer.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Our audience is here on podcasted radio.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
We haven't invested a whole lot in social media just
because of we will and we've done a lot, but
not you know, that's that's not where we've gotten Most
of Most of our connections and listeners are on podcast
and radio and that.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
But but people understand a lot of people understand anyway
that the the people who are these influencers put forward
aside of themselves that they want you to see. They
want you to see, Oh look how successful, Look how
happy this product makes me over the moon. I mean,
I just got it all together. Hashtag happy life or
(26:11):
whatever it is out there, right, And I know that
there's an appeal to people the grass is always greener.
But let me tell you, for those who are uncertain,
that's not reality. I'm not saying there's not moments that
things aren't picturesque and perfect and wonderful. But we all
have those moments. And to try to look at someone
(26:34):
else's life and think, wow, I wish I could be
that person, it's such a waste of effort, and it's
an effort in futility. Be so much better off trying
to think of ways that I can personally make my
own life better instead of just dreaming and trying to
live vicariously through people who far too often are just
(26:54):
creating kind of a what I want.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
To say, an.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Image, I guess, an image that they want to produce
out there. But I think there's more people now that
are aware of this. They understand that we're being sold
a bill of goods. In fact, I would say, I
would say that some people have become so aware of
this that they don't believe anything that is ever said
from a politician. And that's why you'll hear me occasionally
(27:21):
say on this program, we give these folks too much credit.
While this was designed to be a performance, while this
town hall was designed to be something that was highly
produced and very well orchestrated and talked about behind the scenes.
In fact, if you look there, Bernie in that previous
clip said something about kind of gave a wink and
(27:43):
a nod to AOC. You know, one of our bullet
points is that Republicans don't want to work.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
They don't want to do their job.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Wink wink, Remember AOC Republicans don't want to do their job.
You got to put that in your answer so that
this can go viral and we can have this out
there on social media and people can share this and
it sounds good because it's at a superficial level. We
don't actually have to go into the details. There's just
a clip of you saying Republicans don't want to work
Mike Johnson's on vacation, when in reality, the Democrats don't
(28:11):
want the government opened. If they did, it would be opened.
That's the bottom line. No matter how you cut this,
Senate Democrats have prevented this, and there's disingenuous objections out there.
I've heard people say Republicans control the House, Republicans control
the Senate, Republicans control the Presidency, but yet they don't
want to take responsibility for keeping the government open.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
That's because of the filibuster.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
They by very definition, they have a need for at
least at least seven Democrats to vote with them in
the in the Senate on this because they only have
fifty three Republicans and they need to get to sixty votes,
and Rand Paul is not voting with them a lot
of times, maybe all the time, on this particular measure.
(28:52):
And way to you know, get this this problem resolved,
so there might need to be eight Democrats. So it's
just this isn't real. This is designed to be deceptive,
and I want to hammer that point home here today.
So AOC, AOCA, remember I just people. I'm not saying
to be a forgiving person. All of sin, the Bible
(29:14):
says and falls fall short.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Of the glory of God. We're to be a graceful people.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
We should seek to forgive, but we should also learn
what we're dealing with. Right forgiveness really gives up my
claim to get even with somebody, and I can say
I forgive you. I'm not trying to get back at that.
But I also have understood that you're the type of
leader AOC who's involved in pure sophistry. You're the type
of leader AOC who's involved whose biggest interest seems to
(29:42):
be seems to be in political performance. And that's what
this is. I go back in my memory bank, and
some people who haven't followed politics for long don't even
know this, But several years ago, AOC traveled to the
southern border. She did a photo shoot where she was
pretending to cry. She had all wide on out there
in the desert, pretending that she was standing outside of
(30:04):
cages where Trump had put children, of course, separated from
their families, who undoubtedly were in another cage.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And she was pretending to cry. It was staged.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
There weren't any such cages. She wasn't standing outside of
any such cages. There was an intention facility back on
the hill that was way. She wasn't anywhere close to
that facility. She was outside the fence. There's dramatic pictures
of her like gazing off into the distance, trying to
look sad, trying to convey or remote a certain feeling
from those who see that to say, while she cares,
(30:35):
she's trying to save these children from the harms inflicted
upon them by Donald J.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
The only problem was it's all fake, fake, fake, fake.
That's the problem here. She is disingenuous. I don't believe
a word that she says. This is orchestrated. You know
how she came, you know how she became a candidate
for US Congress. There was and I forget the name
of the group. I can maybe find this during the break,
(31:00):
or maybe OZ can Oz.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
See if you can google.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oz's not paying attention here, see if you can find
the group that put out a casting call for AOC's
that AOC's brother responded to. AOC's brother responded to a
casting call. So think about this. You had a Democrat,
a leftist group who said, we're trying to find people
that we think we can get elected to Congress. Doesn't
(31:26):
matter what you think anything. We're just looking for someone
who can play the role. It's literally a casting call.
It's like you're producing a play or a movie and
you're looking for actors and actresses that you think could
fit the part, that you could put into the role.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
And her brother responded, what's it called justice? Democrats? Right?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
And her brother responded to the ad and she she
was selected, and then she ran and then she won,
and now we have this today. She is more actor
than she is congresswoman.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Hear me say this.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
She is more actor than she is congresswoman. Now, unfortunately,
by being a fully fledged congresswoman, she has a vote
that's equal to the other four hundred and thirty four
people in the House of Representatives, and she should have
it as an elected member.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
But I'm saying she is she.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Is someone who's interested in what the outside looks like
more than what stands or what's within the idea, the
what's on the inside. It's all about how she can
make it look. This whole thing was orchestrated. This whole
thing was I think, just silliness. Now I've got another
clip here that I'm not gonna have time to play
(32:42):
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I've got to go, my friends, quick time out back
here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Final
segment of the week. Couple of things I've got to
confess here off the top of this segment. Number one,
I can't get to everything that I planned to get to.
In fact, as I was thinking here during the break,
(34:17):
my thinking, my thought is I can at least touch
on some of what I was planning to talk about
in the newsletter today, which again, if you sign up
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But you can read some of the things that I
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(34:59):
to touch on those things in today's issue number one.
The other thing is the other thing that I want
to make sure I say, is well, no, that's it.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I did both of them in that in that bite.
So there you go. All right, let's play this sound
bite another sound.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Bite from AOC's performance during this town hall meeting. She
was asked about Republicans and their success with you know,
they were talking about their success with young men, and
I want you to listen to the way that AOC
describes how Republicans have succeeded with young men. This is
(35:40):
you talk about missing the mark. In fact for this,
I say keep talking, AOC, because if you want to.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
If you want to.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Not have people who don't agree with you, if you
if you're well, let me say it this way. If
you want people to see things from your respective and
follow what you're saying in your movement, this is not
going to work. This isn't gonna work. This isn't persuading anybody.
This might be riling up the base a little bit,
(36:11):
which tells you about where they think that they are,
but this persuades nobody with any brain. The way that
she describes how the Democrats assued me, how the Republicans
have appealed have appealed to men.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I just want you to listen to this and.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
In and it is it is clear to communicate that
as an individual. Now to the question earlier as well,
when they talk about Republicans and their success online, they
have been successful because they have also been very clear,
especially digitally, about what they believe. That women are inferior
(36:50):
here we go, that do not and they do not
deserve equal rights, That they believe that LGBTQ Americans are sub.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Human, subhuman who say that they believe.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
And are soulating disgusting racial and and white supremacist messaging
that they are able to get away with digitally and online,
and they are able to radicalize, radical and target and
exploit a generation of young boys, in particular unbeli away
(37:24):
from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires
the domination of others.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
These are so delusional.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Rounder darker or a different gender than them, and that
is why they are resonating online, because they are appealing
to the most basest and worst parts of human nature
to divide us.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
And I just pause that she she says that Republicans
are trying to appeal to young men and basically basically
stir up hatred within them to hate people who are
poor and darker than them.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
What on earth is this?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
This brand that she's talking about here is a made up.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Narrative in her mind.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Now, I will tell you that this is why some
of these narratives, and it's why I want to talk
about the messages between the young Republicans. It doesn't mean
that there's not a knucklehead out there who's saying racial things.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Of course that's the case.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
But may I point out that you can be racist
against white people as well.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
It's not just that white people can be racist. That's absurd.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
You can't even say there are some colleges they won't
let you say that, some places of employment that they
won't let you say that. You can't say that someone
who's a minority can be racist.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Of course they can be.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
What in the world, what do I think these words
mean she she's bumbling here about something that is completely
just made up out of whole cloth. This is not
ask yourself this now, I'm not. I can't say that
there's no Republican out there who's not done something that
(39:05):
I don't that I would disagree with, because I certainly
would not agree with everything.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I can't. That's not my point.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
But I just think how many things that she's saying
have you heard here on my show? Zero?
Speaker 3 (39:16):
None of this?
Speaker 5 (39:17):
She continues ry to divide us so that the same
people who own those platforms, people like Elon Musk, Peter
teel Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Is she talking about zuck These people continue.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
To get away with highway robbery, in tax cuts and
in order to lease all of our pockets, cut our healthcare,
keep our wages low so that they can so that
we remain fighting amongst ourselves.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Well, they make themselves richer.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
And so in order for us to fight back against that,
we must be clear about what we believe here we
go have strong beliefs and also what are they completely
unwilling to bow to that kind of division and stand
in solidarity with one another, especially when it is someone
whose culture is different from ours, or whose background we
(40:09):
may not entirely understand, but that we honor, love, and
see as our fellow American.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I mean, these are the sorts of things that people
stand and applaud, but it means nothing. Lots of words
are being said there that are not based in reality
at all, lots of things being talked about there that
are not accurate in the slightest bid, and the people
are not in agreement. She lives in another universe. And
this is again, this is all part of the performance.
(40:36):
It was a performance, make no mistake about it.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
My friends.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
My time here today is done. I hope you have
a wonderful weekend. Thank you so much for listening. We
will see you on Monday.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
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