WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:07.040 Well, whiskey, come and take my pain, the money. 2 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:11.679 The way, Oh whiskey. Why think alone when you can 3 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:14.839 drink it all in with Ricochet's Three Whiskey Happy Hour, 4 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:19.679 Join your bartenders, Steve Hayward, John, You and the International 5 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:27.280 Woman of Mystery Lucretia where the laps it up? And David, 6 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:28.480 ain't you easy on? 7 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:30.120 The show cats? 8 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:32.479 Gotta give me and let that whiskey. 9 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.280 Welcome everybody to this super super special edition of the 10 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:40.039 Three Whiskey Happy Hour. Why because we're all together, although 11 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:42.920 it's only on Zoom, but we're happy to be together. 12 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:46.119 We really hate it when it's not all three of us. 13 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:47.960 I'll be honest with you. Think you just don't work 14 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:50.719 very well, you know Steve and I and we're not. 15 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:54.079 We're kind of uninteresting without John. I'll just say that. 16 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:55.439 So John, welcome back. 17 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:56.240 True. 18 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.719 See it is true. Yeah, because there's a nice balance 19 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.599 of you guys being idiots and me having but different kinds. No, 20 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.840 I'm kidding, but there is a nice balance between my 21 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:15.680 fiery sorts of ideas and Steve's historical analogies. And then 22 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:18.000 you come in and you're kind of this moderate guy 23 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:22.359 who just sort of elitist. You know, it all works, 24 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.519 It all works, and folks love it. They say that, 25 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.319 I know you don't read comments, but now the comments 26 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:33.560 mostly come to me as by the way, as private 27 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:39.840 messages on x and just sorry for this, but for 28 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.200 one of those private messages out there. I did open 29 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.519 my brunello last night as I was instructed, and you're right, 30 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.680 it's delicious. So I get all sorts of nice advice 31 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:55.040 as a result of people listening to this podcast. John, 32 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.120 you really should sort of be more open to the 33 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.000 idea of listening to the listeners once in a while. 34 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.560 But John, even when. 35 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:06.879 They hate there, are you kidding like the pedestrians that 36 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:08.039 I run over in my car? 37 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:12.879 No, these are our listeners are highly intelligent, thank you 38 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:16.639 very much. They are listen to influencers. 39 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.759 Lucretia exaggerates a little bit. There are many commenters, John, 40 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.840 who are on your side. Oh yes, really yes? 41 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:27.120 How many would you say is a percentage of our listenership? 42 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:30.280 H forty? I was gonna lower the. 43 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:34.879 Wow at any given time, John, at any given. 44 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:37.560 Time, I was hoping for a third. 45 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:41.560 The thing that frustrates our listeners most about you is 46 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:47.879 your purposeful ignorance about certain things that you refuse to 47 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.159 learn about them, and you refuse to learn about them. 48 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:50.800 Does that make. 49 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.319 Sense conspiracy theories? 50 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:57.039 No, I mean even just going outside of the the rate, 51 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:01.000 the lamestream media, whatever you want to call it, to 52 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:06.479 some more edgy kinds of media sources. You won't do that, 53 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:08.639 which is why you don't know a lot of things 54 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:10.560 that are happening because they aren't reported. 55 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.800 Are you talking about like professional wrestling magazines. 56 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:18.280 Like No, I'm talking about even just reading Breitbart or 57 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:22.479 reading Daily Caller or reading I don't know, Newsmax. There's 58 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.439 all sorts of places that you can get it from 59 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:28.159 besides X, which everybody should be on X. But anyway, 60 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:32.479 that's a different story. Okay, today we have some really 61 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.479 interesting things to talk about, because the life is just 62 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.800 interesting these days. We do want we're coming a little 63 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:42.360 late to the party, but my co hosts want to 64 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:46.039 talk a little bit about the hundred days. Why one 65 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.520 hundred days is an exceptional mark in a presidency is 66 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:52.159 a little bit lost on me. It reminds me of 67 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:55.319 my short time in the public schools, where at one 68 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:01.719 hundred days, that's where public schools get their budgets are 69 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:05.479 based upon what the attendance is enrollment and attendances of 70 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.039 public school children the first hundred days. So they always 71 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:10.520 celebrate it by counting one hundred m and ms and 72 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.039 one hundred beans and one hundred this and that. So 73 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.079 let's count one hundred beans and let me hear John, 74 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:18.279 what you have to think about the first hundred days 75 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:19.319 of the Trump administration. 76 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.959 So Steve recommended we read these accounts, which were much 77 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.319 more pro Trump than probably a lot of the people 78 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.519 in the media saying things like, well, Trump's been much 79 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:37.439 more successful. Trump's been the kind of change that conservatives needed, 80 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.000 basically because I think of his brashness and willingness to 81 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:45.319 disrupt and change things up. So I think there's a 82 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.439 lot of good that Trump has done. The thing that 83 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.240 worries me is whether it's going to be ephemeral. And 84 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.920 by that I mean a lot of things he's done 85 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:56.639 so far can be easily reversed, and what he really 86 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.079 needs to do is to get Congress and the courts 87 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.240 to codify what he's done so it becomes more permanent. 88 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.920 So take, for example, doge a lot of publicity. I think, 89 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:08.920 as all of us know, you're really not gonna be 90 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.920 able to cut the enormous federal budget deficit unless you 91 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.759 do something about social spending. Nevertheless, I think it's really 92 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:18.560 good that you sent this agency, you know, these outsiders 93 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:21.120 in defined as much cutting as can be done by 94 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.920 the budget and the budget yeah, and fraud and waste, 95 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.680 you know, and find fraud and abuse. But a lot 96 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:31.639 of it's not going to succeed unless Congress ratifies the changes, right, 97 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.560 Like you know, Doge can come in and say, we'd 98 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.720 like to fire these people, we'd like to cut the money. 99 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:37.680 But that's why we're seeing a lot of the litigation. 100 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:41.519 If Congress went in and authorized it, or if Congress 101 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.120 came in and just adopted all the changes does recommended, 102 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.439 there'd be no court suits. It would be if the 103 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.000 president Congress. So that's my point is Trump has did 104 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:51.399 a good job with getting rid of DEI, right, with 105 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:56.199 shaking up spending, with impowerments and so on. But they 106 00:05:56.279 --> 00:06:00.639 could be very fleeting unless Congress, that is rep. Right 107 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.040 the House in the center of controller this. If he 108 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.279 doesn't do that to really close the deal, it could 109 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.040 all be fleeting successes. And that's what really worries me 110 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.160 about the first hundred days is that you don't want 111 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:12.720 them to be the first hundred days. You want them 112 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.000 to be the first you know, a thousand days. But 113 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.800 without Congress, it could just be a few hundred days. 114 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.600 Anyway, Steve, are you there? I guess Steve doesn't want 115 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:23.639 to play with us anymore. 116 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:26.759 I'm totally here. I was just waiting my term patiently. 117 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.560 I didn't want to interrupt. 118 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:30.959 That's not like you. 119 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.920 Well, I'm you know, I uh well, I'm working on 120 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:39.560 my lafroy ten here tonight. I'm feeling mellow. Look. First 121 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.240 of all, a I don't like tariffs. I think you're 122 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:45.000 a bad idea. Be Trump is taking a huge risk 123 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.199 and he might win. That is the history of prompt 124 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:50.959 eastne that in business. And there's some evidence, and I 125 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.639 won't board listeners with it now that he may win 126 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.319 this battle. A lot of evidence out of China that 127 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.759 they're feeling the heat, and more and more news reports 128 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.720 that they're willing, they're ready to talk. They deny it, 129 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:04.920 but who knows what you believe what you read in 130 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:07.040 the media. But I think there's a chance Trump is 131 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:08.920 gonna come out on top of this. It may be 132 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:13.639 MESSI I don't like it, but nonetheless, let's reserve judgment. 133 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:17.600 But second about the forget all the stupid polls. This 134 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:19.839 is lucreatia. You had it right. This is a psi 135 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:24.240 op by the media, and I do remember it's maybe 136 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:26.680 kind of reversal in some ways but consistent in others. 137 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:29.839 But back in the Reagan years, Reagan was always popular, 138 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.000 except for when he had a recession and be Iran contra. Otherwise, 139 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:38.319 his popularity ratings were always great, and the media would say, well, 140 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:42.680 he's personally popular, but the American people don't like what 141 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:46.319 he's doing. That turned out if you actually pulled issues, 142 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.560 that was largely untrue. Also, there are a few places 143 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.839 he did poorly on issues, but in most places he 144 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.160 was His issue stands were just as popular as he was. 145 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:58.720 I think the media is doing that now, except I 146 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:00.920 do think there may be something to the view that 147 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.800 there's still a lot of people think, you know, Trump's 148 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.199 kind of rude, and I don't know, but we like 149 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:07.920 a lot of what he's doing, like at the border 150 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:10.959 and other things. And I think you discount these poles 151 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:13.279 that show him underwater on tariffs and all the rest 152 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.560 of that. I think some of that's genuine. But again 153 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.720 i'll just plant here the axiom I've said many times 154 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.519 that do not trust poles or do not credit polls 155 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.120 that are about attitudes about issues, because those are you know, 156 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:29.040 a mile wide an inch deep. And I'll stop there. 157 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:33.639 But the third thing is, look, the media has clearly 158 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.519 chosen sides, more so than they've ever done in their history. 159 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.679 We know they're always biased in the hostile to Republicans, 160 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.759 but they have decided they have to destroy Trump. And 161 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.639 so here to one hundred days. Okay, one hundred days 162 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:49.639 is arbitrary. On the other hand, it's an arbitrary measure 163 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.440 the liberals invented, so let's use it against them. And 164 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:55.200 so they're trying to say, oh, Trump's in big trouble, 165 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.960 and you know the VS Republicans like David Brooks says, 166 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.279 oh Trump's in big trouble. And that's why I was 167 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:06.159 taken by the articles first by Martin Gurry in City Journal. 168 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:08.159 I never heard of this guy until he wrote this 169 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:10.120 A hold up for you guys. He wrote this, Oh 170 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.799 I don't have my camera on. Sorry. He wrote this 171 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:16.200 big fat book six seven years ago about populism that 172 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.519 gets the whole matter quite right, I think. And he 173 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.480 says this week. You know, I underestimated Trump. Turns out 174 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:25.320 this guy's got more to him than I thought. I 175 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:28.200 think this is very significant when people who otherwise would 176 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.159 keep their distance from Trump say, oh, maybe there's something 177 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.960 to this guy. And then today Thursday, as we're talking 178 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:39.120 in the Wall Street Journal, my old colleague Karl zin Smeister, 179 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.399 who he used to clash with at the American Enterprise Institute, 180 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:46.279 has this article saying, boy, did conservatism ever need a 181 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.240 Trump reset? Why that's important? And for listeners who'd never 182 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.799 heard of Carl or don't know him, is he worked 183 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.519 in the George W. Bush White House. He is as 184 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:00.440 conventional and mainstream conservative as they come these days. That 185 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:02.879 would be criticism. It would it wasn't, you know, twenty 186 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:09.120 years ago? But yes, it was well for you, right, Okay, 187 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.159 very good. I'm almost done to the crease. I promise 188 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:14.039 you're read very very patient with me tonight. But for 189 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:17.879 him to say that suggests to me why we're seeing 190 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:21.080 a what what is often called the cascade preference. But 191 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.159 the point is is that I think the story in 192 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:27.480 one hundred days is exactly the opposite of what the 193 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:30.240 media is saying. I think Trump is moving from triumph 194 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.159 to triumph. Oh, there's lots of things to say. This is, 195 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:34.919 you know, wrong, and this and that, and you know, 196 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.120 I can pick on lots of things he's said. But 197 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.080 of course I said that about Reagan too, who made 198 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.000 lots of mistakes a lot along the way. So I 199 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:44.639 think I give Trump an a plus at one hundred days. 200 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:48.879 And I'm usually pretty tough on these things. 201 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:54.639 So I want to just throw out that. What I 202 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.840 told you guys, I was going to say is that 203 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:02.320 the people who have really been defeated in the first 204 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.799 hundred days are the are the Democrats. And Trump has 205 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:08.360 put the nail in the coffin. But I don't want 206 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:10.559 to leave it there, because what I want to say is, 207 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.240 not only are the Democrats lame and useless, and across 208 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.360 the board they have I mean, they have no bench, 209 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:23.120 they have no leaders, they have no consistent ideas except 210 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:27.679 for maybe falling back on, you know, the radical leftism 211 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:31.000 that got them defeated, you know, and they're fighting over that. 212 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.600 What it comes down to is the Democratic Party is useless, 213 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:39.799 and who's taken the opposition roll away from the Democratic Party. 214 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:44.200 It's the media. Yeah, it's the media, And so yeah, 215 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:48.399 and absolutely, stevee just give me a second. Pete Hegseth 216 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.519 goes on Twitter and puts up I got a score 217 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.320 of one hundred. Do you know what that score was? 218 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:59.480 It was media media? What's the media research or media? 219 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.440 I always get a mixed up the good guys versus 220 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.360 the bad guys. Whichever the good guys are. They came 221 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.120 out and said that in the month of I believe 222 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.320 it was the month of February March, one hundred percent 223 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:18.200 of the media coverage of hag Seth was negative. 224 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.919 That's our right, that's our friends, that's our friends at 225 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.320 the Media Research Center, Brents Bosel and those guys. I 226 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.320 don't know anybody's ever gotten one hundred percent. So that 227 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:27.320 is a great achievement. 228 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.799 It is a great achievement. I mean, Elon Musk only 229 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:34.440 got ninety six percent, and who was it? Somebody else 230 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:37.200 only got somebody else came in at eighty six percent. 231 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.480 Oh Rfk came in and only eighty six percent. So 232 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.200 Haig says, says, you guys got to do better. But 233 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:49.559 that's a serious point. Go ahead, Steve, Well, there's just 234 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:50.159 one sentence. 235 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:53.080 I mean, it emerged this week that Hakeem Jeffries, the 236 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:56.159 House leader, announced the caucus, and somebody leaked it that 237 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.320 he said no more trips to El Salvador. Why more 238 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.840 information comes out about that guy they shipped over and 239 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.799 you forget due process in those arguments. But they realize 240 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.399 this is actually bad politics because it tells people we're 241 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.720 on the side of a gang member. We care more 242 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.799 about gang members and El Salvador than Americans in America. 243 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.120 And even dim with the Democrats can figure that out. 244 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:19.519 Let score another one for Trump. 245 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.559 Yeah, I totally agree with Lucretia that that, you know, what, 246 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.080 how are you know, troubled Trump's the first time the 247 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:34.399 days are no like however, however tru But I just 248 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.200 want to say Democrats are far worse shape. But that's 249 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:40.679 what But that goes to the tarrific economics issue to me, 250 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.159 which is the major I think major defect of the 251 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:47.519 first hundred days is that Trump's handing the Democrats the 252 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:50.879 issue of the economy. You know, the Democrats don't have 253 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.399 any issues other than just like what Trump's giving them. 254 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.559 They have no ur great lookers, they have no agenda, 255 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.679 they have no outstanding figures right they I was at 256 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:03.679 some event involving political scientists this weekend. They said, you know, 257 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.799 the odds are that the Democrats will take the House 258 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.399 just because of normal historical patterns, there's sory such a slow, 259 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.159 small majority in the out of power party usually wins 260 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.320 the House and the midterm elections in a second term. 261 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.559 So the thing that that's why I think you're right 262 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.600 that the Democrats are in terrible shape. But if the 263 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:28.200 economy turns sour because Trump spent too much energy and 264 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.120 all these other issues in didn't address inflation and economy first, 265 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:33.639 then it'll been his own fault. 266 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:37.879 But you said yourself, Congress doing something. If Congress fails 267 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:42.879 to reenact the Trump tax cuts, then the tariffs don't 268 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:48.159 worry me. But if those tax cuts expire and huge 269 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:51.720 tax increases across the board, as much as the stupid 270 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.600 Democrats try to claim that they were tax cuts for 271 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:59.480 the rich, people like us and people that make less 272 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.360 money than a actually saw more money in their pockets 273 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:04.799 because of those tax cuts. And if those tax cuts 274 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:08.279 expire because the useless Republicans can't get off there you 275 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:10.559 know what's and get it done, then there will be 276 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:13.440 a recession and they will lose the House and probably 277 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:13.919 the Senate. 278 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:17.679 I was talking to a friend of mine who's, you know, 279 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.960 very prominent Wall Street banker, and he, you know, he says, look, 280 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.080 Trump can pull this out if two things happen. You 281 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:27.080 have to pull the get the tax cuts through, and 282 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.279 the tariff system has to and maybe it'll turn into 283 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:34.440 this mostly focused on China, that if we can actually 284 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:36.960 use the tariffs to enter into good trading deals with 285 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:41.759 our allies like the Europeans and we all have a 286 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.960 better free trade agreements with them, and all of us 287 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:49.120 raise tariffs on China, then actually it it will be 288 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:52.320 a great success. I'm not sure they're going to do it, 289 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.039 but that's the route out, and you know Trump has 290 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:56.000 a room to maneuver. 291 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.279 Well, let's let's on that happy note, take a break 292 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:08.840 for TAMU to come on and sponsor a program. And 293 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.279 we all know that what we need is a whole 294 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:14.879 lot more cheap Chinese goods at cheap cheap prices. 295 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:17.080 Well, how do you know that the ad we just 296 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.519 listened to, which is all customized to where listeners are, 297 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:21.080 was from I've. 298 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:26.080 Actually never heard a TMU ad. I've seen them all alright. 299 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:29.879 Right, Well, no, Lucretia, I mean, I just wanted to 300 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:33.799 budle and say, look, I mean, yeah, we're the big enchilada, 301 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.519 as they say with our Spanish language ads. Is whether 302 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:39.360 the House and the Senate are going to get together 303 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.480 and pass a good tax cut bill over the summer. 304 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:44.960 That's the big drama. However, I think what should be 305 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.879 noted today and won't be in the press, is that 306 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:51.159 the House voted on Thursday in a bipartisan majority, with 307 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:55.200 thirty five or thirty six Democrats agreeing with Republicans to 308 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:00.000 kill California's electric car mandate, which something like twenty understand 309 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:02.440 it's a copied that's the mandate that said that by 310 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.079 the year twenty thirty five you cannot sell a gasoline 311 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:10.400 powered car in California, which is insane. And so now 312 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.920 there's been some thought that the Senate Parliamentarian says, well, 313 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:17.519 I'm not sure this requires or that satisfies the requirements 314 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:21.160 of the Congression Review Act. And if John Thune does 315 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:26.119 not squash the parliamentarian and past this, then he will 316 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:28.960 be worse in your mind, Lucatia, I think than Mitch 317 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.000 McConnell as a Senate majority leader. That's all out. 318 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:35.359 Okay, Ouch, that's the worst. That's the worst you could be. 319 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:37.440 I know. That's why I brought it up. 320 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.039 Okay, I don't know. I'm not I don't. I don't 321 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.319 worry about the whole tear of things. I think it's 322 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:48.519 I think you guys are going to realize that everything 323 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.640 I've predicted about this tear for is going to become true, 324 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:54.440 and that at the end of it, America will be 325 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:57.039 in a much better place. But I am prepared to 326 00:17:57.079 --> 00:17:59.039 be corrected if it turns out you guys are right. 327 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.480 It just never happened that way. I'm all, I always 328 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.519 end up being right. But anyway, I actually saw the 329 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:06.400 funnies thing. I just have to go on this on 330 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:10.000 X about trying to teach people about tariffs, and I'm 331 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.000 not going to read the whole thing, even though it's hilarious, 332 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.200 but it starts off by saying that suppose you buy 333 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:20.359 an inflatable woman from China, and then it's the whole 334 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.799 thing about how teriff's actually work, and and and you 335 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:29.839 know the idea that a supplier would raise their their prices, 336 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:34.400 you know, fifty percent, if they could raise their prices 337 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:36.839 and get them to sell fifty percent higher, they would 338 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:38.640 have already done it, you know, so that's the whole 339 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:40.720 point of it. But it's a whole thing about buying 340 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:44.960 your inflatable women from China. So there you go. Off 341 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:49.039 to you all right, back to back to sirius. I'm sorry, Steve, Steve, 342 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:51.279 I'm embarrassing him. 343 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:56.240 You are my gosh, let's talk about Canada for a minute, 344 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.519 and I want to start start the conversation unless you 345 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:04.000 guys had to say about so des No, I want 346 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:06.480 to start the conversation with what I think is my 347 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:09.720 favorite post that I saw. 348 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.359 Of all times. And I'm so Steve. I listened to 349 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:17.680 your thing last week and your nice friend mister Bryce 350 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:18.680 has a pie mouth. 351 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:21.680 Well I know, yeah, but okay, so. 352 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:24.160 Because I'm quoting, I'm going to be like your nice 353 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:27.039 friend for a moment. So forgive me family show. We 354 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:31.200 can shit on Canada all day, but don't forget just 355 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:35.000 four years ago we in America elected a senile conman 356 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:38.240 who had accomplished nothing during his fifty years in government. 357 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.440 No nation is immune to the media stoked madness of 358 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:43.160 the electorate. 359 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:45.720 Yeah, okay, fair enough. 360 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.680 Okay, that's that's pretty much puts in a few words 361 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.519 what you said in your political Questions posts the other 362 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:54.440 day without the body part. 363 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:57.000 Look, I mean, well, I think it was an unforced 364 00:19:57.160 --> 00:19:59.519 error on Trump's part because the idea of making Canada 365 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:04.680 the fifty state is really a bad idea. And that's because, 366 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.039 you know, there's a reason the Tories went to Canada 367 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:10.400 in seventeen seventy six, and why they accepted the metric 368 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:13.279 system in the seventies without any fuss, whereas we said, no, 369 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:14.000 we don't want that. 370 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:17.039 Crap, and they're seceeding. 371 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:19.279 Well, yes, no, I well, I did say that in 372 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:24.160 my posts. Let's take Alberta in It's well, they're there. Well, 373 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:27.079 I said, let's entice them to become the fifty first state. 374 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.400 They are the Texas of Canada, by the way, you know, 375 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:34.480 again another reason to love Trump. He invited Jeffrey Goldberg 376 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.200 of the famous single Chat and the Atlantic editors to 377 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.359 come in and interview with I mean, Biden will let 378 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:43.400 anybody in for a free, willing, free wheeling interview, but 379 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:46.799 he had Jeffrey Goldberg in, and Jeffrey Goldberg pressed Trump, 380 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:49.759 I think exactly right, saying, wait, Canada would be a 381 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:52.000 liberal state. To be a democratic state, it would be 382 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:56.799 two democratic senators and twenty five Democratic House members, and 383 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:59.119 Trump said that's okay, I don't care. You know it 384 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:01.640 was I don't know, I don't know why. I think 385 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:06.359 i've heard the Actually I heard from shoot the Canadian 386 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:08.039 guy who came with us on Ricochet, whos and they 387 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:10.680 might forget who said this began as a joke. Whereas 388 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:14.119 Justin Trudeau was at marl Lago in December before Trump 389 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.880 was inaugurated and said something dumb and Trump just said, 390 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:20.319 you ought to be the fifty first state of America. 391 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:24.359 I call you, Governor Trudeau, and apparently Trudeau responded weekly 392 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:26.599 and so Trump ran with it the way Trump does. 393 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:29.440 Is the world's greatest comedian. You know, the world is 394 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.200 the greatest improv comedy club for Trump, which is not 395 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:36.079 a criticism, by the way, Maybe a little bit, but anyway, 396 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:37.920 it was a dumb thing for to double down on 397 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:42.880 and keep talking about. And I think that was an 398 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:45.359 unforced era Trump. 399 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:48.200 Trump's mistake is not about conquest. It's why do they 400 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.359 get to be a state? Why don't we just take 401 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:52.440