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Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. I'm Ben Mycellas, joined by Michael Cohen.

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We've got a lot to discuss. Let's just start off

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with Donald Trump in an interview this morning with Politico,

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saying that he would grade the current economy that's experienced

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by most Americans as an A plus plus plus plus

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plus plus. He says, here, let's just play this clip.

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Speaker 2: Pretty good, but I do want to talk about the economy,

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sir here at home, and I wonder what grade you

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would give.

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Speaker 3: A plus, A plus, A plus plus plus plus plus.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting as I'd probably give it about a

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D minus to an F right now, probably i'd.

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Speaker 2: Say I don't know if I would give it an F.

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For a D minus, I'm thinking maybe a C minus

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at best.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think for I think for most Americans

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who live paycheck to paycheck, if they're fortunate enough to

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have paycheck to paycheck, the feeling is an F. I

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give it a D minus because if you include the

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stock market in people's four oh one k's, which has

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actually gone up despite most people not being invested in

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the market, you could at least say, look, it's objectively

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true the market has gone up, but a lot of

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that's been because of AI inflating the valuations and deals

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that we're doing that undermine our long term national security

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in order to pump up the price of stocks like Nvidia.

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And just an example of that is Donald Trump posting

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yesterday that he will be giving China the H two

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hundred series of these GPUs the semiconductor chips, and these

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H two hundred products are so highly classified, are so

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important to our national security interests in the United States

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that we just gave away that Trump's own Department of

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Justice prosecuted people yesterday the same day Trump made the announcement.

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People were prosecuted for selling these to China or selling

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him to a conduit, a middleman, to then give to China.

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And in the filing by the Department of Justice, they

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describe what a grave threat that poses to our national

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security interest that it is a felony for people to

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give this to China. But then Donald Trump's just like China,

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you can have it, and Trump's giving it to China

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to encourage them to buy the soybeans and to allow

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the rare earth elements to flow back into the United

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States that they restricted and that they're not purchasing when

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it comes to the soybeans because of Trump's trade war

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against the world, where China's out maneuvered them. So now

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I guess Trump's policy was declare a trade war against

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the world. China stops buying the soybeans and cuts off

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rare earth elements. We then give China our highly classified

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H two hundred GPUs and technology.

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Speaker 2: And what do we get. Oh, we get to give

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twenty billion dollars to our farmers in order to keep

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them going, right, That's what we get, you know, Ben,

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I got to just tell you with an F you know,

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or a D minus. I'm glad that I don't have

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you as my professor because you're clearly a rough grader there.

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But I'm with you. I mean, this is definitely this

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is definitely D class material here. You know, I actually

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have a little bit of knowledge in regarding these Navidia

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H two hundred chips and so on. In your spot

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on it is actually a crime. It is to the

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extent of almost treason to provide China with these highly classified,

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extremely technological chips that are used not just in AI

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as they're trying to tell the American people, but on

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top of that for our military guidance system, for the

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for the laser guidance systems that's used. The big problem

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that America is going to have because Ben, once again

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you spot on right, what did America get for this

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big trade? What America is going to take twenty five

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percent on these chips? Do you realize that the second

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you sell the Chinese one one of these do you

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think the Chinese give two shits about intellectual property? They

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do not not a There is not a chance in

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the world that they will not reverse engineer or at

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least try to reverse engineer both the H one hundred

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and the H two hundred chip. It's just it's what

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they do, and they'll figure out a way at worst

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to turn around and to make a slight modification, so

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in that way they don't end up in the International

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Court for a theft of intellectual property rights. But China

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doesn't believe in intellectual property rights, meaning after the first

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batch that gets sold to them, they will put their

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top scientists, and trust me when I tell you their

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top scientists are pretty damn good. They will put them

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on there to reverse engineer this in order to start

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to create their own H one hundred h two hundred ship.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, in the Trump news cycle, that's just

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something that happens, and like people don't pay enough attention

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to it, and it's why we focus on it here

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at the outset of the show. Right the same way,

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Donald Trump put forward his national Security strategy which says

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it's official policy of the United States to basically harm

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the European Union to prevent the expansion of the EU

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or the solidarity of the EU, and it's actually to

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prevent the permanent expansion and the perception of expansion and

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existence of NATO. In the official United States strategy National

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Strategy document, it literally looks like it could have been

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drafted by Putin. And it comes at the same time

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that the Financial Times has reported that over the past

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year or so, Putin was planning of how he was

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going to basically move these cargo containers into United States

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passenger planes and cargo planes and blow them up and

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to try to create mass chaos and mass casualties worse

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than nine to eleven. And Donald Trump is rewarding Russia

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and treating Russia, as you know, as the ally of

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the US, while Donald Trump's formal position about Europe is

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that Europe is in the sphere of influence of Russia.

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That's how it's described. Europe is in the sphere of

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influence of Russia. Russia takes that territory. Then Trump says

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the United States sphere of influence is the western hemisphere,

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and that there's a renewed Monroe doctrine as he frames it,

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such that Canada the castle state of the United States

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of America, and it belongs to the US, as does

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all of Central South America, Mexico. And you know, part

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of the Trump invasion plan of Venezuela, you know, is

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you know that that that belongs to us, the same

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way Putin says Ukraine belongs to him, and the same

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way China says Taiwan belongs to us. That's how that's

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how the policy sees its spheres.

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Speaker 2: Of Sure, so Ben, you're spot on when you say,

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how come nobody is talking about that article where Russia

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was contemplating on putting bombs on US flights. I mean,

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my friends, do you realize that you're talking about government

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sanctioned murder of Americans and other and you know, and

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other individuals from other countries, and yet nobody's talking about it.

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But what they are doing is they're treating, as you said,

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Russia like they are an ally, and treating all of

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our allies like they are the worst adversaries, like they

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are Russia or China or North Korea or Iran. I mean,

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this is completely out of control. We've really lost not

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even that we've lost our weight, We're we're completely in

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the wrong. We're not even in the right state. I mean,

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this is seriously out of control. And yet we're talking

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about now assisting Russia in terms of the complete and

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total annihilation of Ukraine. Where how great was it when

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Zelenski turned around and said, I cannot even consider this

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twenty nine point of twenty eight point proposal. First of all,

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it's outside of my authority and it's actually it's inhumane

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right to turn around and to say that I'm going

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to give up territory, I'm going to ignore the fact

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that land was stolen from us, give up our mineral rights,

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turn around and agree that NATO will never be the

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Ukraine will never become part of NATO, and the other

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twenty five or so twenty four points each one more

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devastating to the people of Ukraine, especially as he said

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to the memory of those Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who

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have died for their right to exist.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, think about it. You know, the way Donald Trump

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floods the zone with whatever diabolical thinking he has overturn

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the results of the twenty twenty election, say that January

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sixth was not what it was the way and this

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is a skill set that he has, but it's a

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bad one, and you have to stand up to him.

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He will throw everything at it. He will be relentless

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about it and every single moment. That's the thing. And

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then he will get a bunch of stooges who will

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risk their lives and their career. And you know it

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Cohen more than anyone, you know, you know, And it's

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hard to get out of, you know, basically his own

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kamakazies unless they can get out of it. And there's

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a price to pay when you get out of it.

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And they just push it. And it's a relentless fire hose.

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It doesn't matter. You look at Trump with the wildfires

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here in California. You know, even though it's the most

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ridiculous thing to say that Newsome cared more about the

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smelt than putting out the fires. And he was focused

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on fish and the reservoirs were in full when they

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were full, and that Trump saved the day. Trump creates

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his scenario, and you want.

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Speaker 2: The holding back, then, the holding back on the relief

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package that had it's been granted to California simply because

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California is a blue state and Gavin Newsom is trolling him.

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You could only think about this.

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Speaker 1: Governor Newsom the governor of the most populous state in

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the United States of America, the state that gives the

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most to the federal government and takes the least relative

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to what it gives, a state that would be the

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fourth largest GDP in the world if it was a country.

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The governor of that state takes a trip to Washington,

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d C. Across the country to meet with Donald Trump,

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to meet with the President of the United States. Donald

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Trump refuses to take the meeting, so then the governor says, Okay,

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can I meet with the head of FEMA, whoever that

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is because the last guy left the guy before that. No,

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can I meet with Christinole. She makes a lot of

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propaganda videos as the governor of the largest state, most populous,

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and wealthiest, who gives the most money to fund these things.

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Can I meet with No? No, Can I meet with

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the White House staffer or a FEMA staffer so that

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the governor's office can at least have a voice.

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Speaker 2: Wait, can I guess what they said?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? No, they said no. And then so Newsom did

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this great interview with Jack Kochirella and I played this interview.

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It was the morning video that I did where he

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was overlooking the White House and he was calling Donald

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Trump out. But the broader point I'm making there though,

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and why I was talking about Zelensky and then move

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there is Trump's mind is made up. It is Ukraine

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belongs to Russia. That's it. So the question is is

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how you get there?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: So last week it was the twenty eight point piece plan, right,

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which is really a plan of surrender. This week it

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is don Bas. It's okay, let's just ignore those points.

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Just give Russia all of don Bas. Now, Ukraine controls

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thirty percent of don Vas and they and European intelligence

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estimate that it would take Russia another four years and

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over a million Russian soldiers' lives to be able on

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a best case scenario to get that thirty percent. So

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for Ukraine, why would they give up land that they control.

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That's their bargaining chip because the moment Ukraine gives Russia Donbas,

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which Russia can't conquer by force. Cohen, what do you

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think Russia does next? Do they go great or do

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you think they used don Bas to go further west

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and eventually into Europe.

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Speaker 2: So they had this young lady who was part of

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the parliament in Ukraine on television and she said what

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everybody else who has half a brain is saying, that

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Vladimir Putin did this years ago? Right, I think it

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was what twenty fourteen when he turned around and he

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took part of Russia. We're talking about the Dombas region. Well, okay,

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they kick back, they shut up, They pretend, pretend that

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they are going to be compliant with whatever agreement has

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been reached. But know what they're doing is they're restocking.

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Remember that a million Russian soldiers have already died on

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this battlefield, all right. They have already basically depleted their

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male population from like the age of eighteen to in

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the forties. All Right, that's how crazy this is. Not

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only are they looking to replenish, but they're also looking

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to replenish their stockpile of armaments, because, let me be clear,

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Russia doesn't have the system, they don't have the money,

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they don't have the resources within which to keep producing

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the number of missiles and rockets and ammunition and guns

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that you know they currently need in order to be Ukraine.

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was it like two hundred? Right, where two hundred is

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fighting one hundred thousand. These Ukrainians are fighting for their lives.

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go down lightly. You could blow up all the houses

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That's okay. The Ukrainians are strong people. They are determined.

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They want to be independent and not be under the

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thumb of Vladimir Putin and Russia, plain and simple, and

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they will fight to the end. By the way, who

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am I most impressed with? Yes, I know that. I'm

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sorry the movie was three hundred? Apologies? Right? Who am

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I most impressed with? Truth be told, Europe. Europe is

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now meeting with Zelenski, and unlike our president, they're treating

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him with the respect that he deserves. They're treating him

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like the president of a country that is that is

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in war, under attack from a hostile adversary, and let

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me tell you something, they get to him some of

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the necessary armaments. There's no doubt in my mind that

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at some point in time Zelenski will do a full

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on freaking offensive right into Red Square, right into Moscow,

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which is Vladimir Putin's you know, krem de la Creme,

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it's his crown jewel. And right after that they'll turn

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around and they'll go after Saint Petersburg and all of

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the places that Vladimir Putin holds deer as a nationalist,

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that places that he holds deer, they will annihilate.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing too, Europe, in its own self interest,

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sees the United States as no longer aligned with Europe,

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no longer aligned with NATO and Europe. Out of their

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own self interest, they view that if they don't do

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this to help Ukraine, that in the next two to

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three years there actually is. One may even suggest that

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right now there is a world war taking place that's

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not being called as such, with all of the wars

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and proxy fights taking place across the country in various regions.

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Perhaps it's not the way we think about it in

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World War I and World War two, but Europe is

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planning in its own mind. People need to realize they

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are planning that if things keep going the way they

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are in US continues to do what it does, that

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Europe is going to potentially be at war against Russia

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and the United States, and the US is no longer

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viewed by Europe internally as an ally and they no

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longer reviewed as really a part of NATO. Europe gives

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it lip service because they feel they have to at

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this point to at least try to keep the US

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in a neutral posture. But if you look at the

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alignments taking place right now, we've never seen anything like

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this since right before World War One and then right

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before World War Two. And Trump likes to always talk about, oh,

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world War three of Biden, we are so close to that.

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And I'm not trying to be hyperbolic in Doom's Day esque,

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but that's truly if you look at what's happening in

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the world, and it's why we cover this on the

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Midas touched no work, and you don't see this covered elsewhere.

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I mean, just look at what's happening right now between

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Japan and China, where the new Prime Minister of Japan

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Takeishi recently said, if China invades Taiwan, we as Japan

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will have to protect Taiwan because there's no US help

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being offered, to which the main ambassadors of China responded,

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we are going to cut the head off. We're going

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to behead the Prime minister of Japan. Japan was then

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looking for the United States ambassador to summon the ambassador

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of China to cool things down. That's not what happened. Instead,

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what happened was Jijingping called Donald Trump, and Jijingping said,

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you need to call Japan and tell Prime Minister Takaishi

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to chill out, and that if you want to visit

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us in China, Donald, then you want us to buy

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those soybeans and release the rare earth elements. And they

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keep holding this over is that you need to call

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Japan and tell them to shut up. So then Trump

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calls Japanese Prime Minister Takeishi and tells her calm down,

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to which Prime Minister Takaishi and Japan knows, wow, we

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can't rely on the US. So what are they doing

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in Japan? The biggest military build up right now in

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their history since pre World War two. That's happening right now.

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A massive military build up in Japan, a massive military

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build up in Germany. You have Canada looking to now

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purchase its planes and its war weapons from Sweden and

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elsewhere and move away from the US. And the thing is,

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as you watch these alliances being formed, the US is

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kind of in no man's land. And they lost Europe,

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in Canada and Australia because we're openly hostile with it.

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Trump's like begging jijingping, and he's uplifting Putin. But the

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Bricks Alliance is weakening the United States as the US

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moves away from its allies.

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Speaker 2: It's the crazy though he doesn't see it that way.

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Trump does not see it this way. Let me enlighten

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if I can for two seconds, Ben, stay with me,

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because I want to see your reactions, as if you would.

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I want to enlighten our brigadors on something when something

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like this happens. He's not listening to someone who's logical,

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who is thoughtful in his words, I'm talking about you, Ben,

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He's listening to a group of acolytes and sycophants that

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are willing to tell him anything. So when somebody turns

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around and says to him, you realize that America has lost,

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not is losing, has lost its allies throughout Europe, that

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if we allow Russia to take Ukraine, next will be Poland.

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After Poland will be the Baltics, whereby Putin, while he's

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still living, is hell bent on reforming the former Soviet

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Union with himself as Zar Nicholas. Well, when you tell

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this to Trump, he'll turn around and tell you it's

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not true. He's more popular in Europe in his own mind,

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simply because again it's reinforced by these acolytes. Where he

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was bold enough to say to Dasha whatever her last

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name is on that interview, that they call him Daddy Trump.

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He just received the FIFA Peace Prize. These are being

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regurgitated to him and repeated to him over and over

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and over to the point that he's actually believing his

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own bullshit. And that, my friends, is where we come in.

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And that's where again I say it all the time.

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It's why I say Midas Touch Network needs to have

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not five and a half six million, you need to

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have twenty million, forty million, fifty million. Because I know

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it's a big number. Trust me, I understand numbers. But

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the reason it's so important is if you have any

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intention of ensuring that Daddy Trump and this administration get

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their asses handed to them, that there is a blue

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tsunami that wipes the red right off the map, you

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need to have one specific place where people can go

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to get information that is honest and truthful instead of

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going to places that are fraught fraught with misinformation, disinformation,

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malinformation all day long within which to keep their narrative

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going for their viewers. That's what it's all about. I

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mean state sponsored media. With what's going on now between

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this Netflix and Warner and Paramount, all of this does

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not benefit It does not in or to our benefit.

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And that's why we need to have a place to

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be united, a place for information and might just touch network,

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it's the place to go. Look.

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Speaker 1: I think that Europe is very late in the realizations

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that they're now making, and I still think that these

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European leaders are being too weak. Although you may say, oh, well,

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what would you do in that situation, Ben where you're

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running these countries and you have to deal with this

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all of a sudden about face of the United States

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becoming a fascist regime and how do you balance the

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fact that there was a world order post World War

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II created by the United States that in a flash

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was ripped away from you. But I think the best

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lesson Frankly, you know, I'm gonna say Cohen, of how

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you deal with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, to me,

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it's not even a close call Mom Donnie. When Mom

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Donnie went into the Oval Office, he didn't sacrifice for

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a moment any of the things that he believed. He

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called Donald Trump a fascist to Donald Trump's face when

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he was asked about it, and he said, let's take

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a photo in front of FDR. And at no point

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did Mom Donnie look like he was begging Donald Trump

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for anything. And he said, where we have alignment, great,

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Where we don't, we're going to duke it out. And

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that's nothing's changed. I don't take back anything. You contrast

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that to NATO, and it was actually Mark Rutt, the

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Secretary General of NATO, who, as part of what he

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perceived as a joke, it's Donald Trump's daddy, Donald Trum's daddy.

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And when Trump sees somebody say that, or sees the

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European nations march into the Oval Office and bend to

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him or beg him or give him attention. Trump sees

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that as an affirmation of what he feels about Europe,

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that it's weakness and the only way to get respect

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or to fight back is you have to put it

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on the line, even if that means your country in

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Europe can face economic pain by the disentanglement of the

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world order. Newsflash, the world order is disentangling, whether you

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beg Donald Trump or not. So the question is is

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how do you deal with it? Because all you're doing

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is putting off the inevitable where things will be worse

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firsut if you confront it.

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Speaker 2: So to me are dealing with it? Ben That's the difference. Canada,

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as an example, they're not selling their soft lumber to

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the United States because of taxes. They're selling it elsewhere.

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The United States slapped on a rolled steel tariff or

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a steel tariff. What are they doing? They're selling it elsewhere.

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What happened, For example, when Trump screwed up our farmers

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so and China needs to get their soy somewhere, they

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went to Argentina, who we just bailed out. So Argentina

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is selling now to China soy using our money. I mean,

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the whole thing is batshit crazy. So the problem is

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countries like Canada, countries like England and Italy and France

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and just all all the NATO countries and others that

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we considered our close friends are allies. What are they doing?

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They're now looking for alternate routes in order to obtain

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the the products that they need. And I want to

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be clear about something. The United States doesn't really manufacture

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too much of anything. Yeah, we manufacture cars. They don't

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even want our cars. Our cars are too big for

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their roads. You ever see an American car in Italy,

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good luck making a left turn to go down a

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street that was lucky that a horse can get through.

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That's why the European cars are thinner than the American cars,

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while they're smaller. Good luck selling a Ford f one

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point fifty anywhere in Europe. They don't want it. That's

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the whole point. We don't really manufacture shit here. And

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for whatever the reason, this entire group of sicophant idiots

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are all sitting there telling you, hey, you know, you know,

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everybody wants our product. Everyone wants them, everybody wants the products.

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We don't make shit, all right. In fact, we don't

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even want to make it because we can't compete with

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countries like China, all right, who pay two dollars a

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one dollar an hour to their employees. Americans want cheap goods,

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and we sell other things. And what will happen? They

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will now go ahead and they will start to invest

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as a group the way the United States and Israel

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has certain relationships. They will then form their own relationships.

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They will come up with their own military might, and ultimately,

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who knows, maybe it'll even surpass the United States, which

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then puts us completely in the doghouse, all thanks to

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this administration.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Political Beatdown. We're back in action after that

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great ad read by Michael Cohen. Great adreads there, Colin.

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Speaker 1: Let's uh want to show some other clips from this

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morning quickly. Let's talk about when Donald Trump was pressed

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by the reb nottra press is the right word to

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ask by asked gently by the reporter with actually very

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little pushback. So what do you make of people heading

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into this holiday season who aren't able to spend as

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much and see the higher prices? Trump says, stop being dramatic.

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Speaker 2: We got it.

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Speaker 1: Do we got it? Or do we not have a Germany?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Maybe you to the people, not to the insurance.

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Speaker 2: Now people are buying their holiday President's presidence, they're planning.

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Don't be dramatic. No, no, here's here's what I know

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and what I want to do.

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Speaker 1: Don't be dramatic. Don't be dramatic.

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Speaker 2: Cohen, Well, nothing, I mean nothing like being dramatic when

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you know, you end up calling nine to one one

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for an ambulance to take you because you're having you know,

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chest pains or maybe a little kidney stone or god

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knows what else it could potentially be. And unfortunately they

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turn around, they tell you you're going to need to sign

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over here because you don't have insurance, and then ultimately

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what happens, your whole life gets turned upside down. You know,

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most people in this country don't have clearly enough money

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put off to the side in order to protect themselves

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from some form of catastrophic health issue. But don't be dramatic. Dasha. Now, no, no, no,

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don't you be don't you dare be dramatic, because you know,

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he is the affordability president, and everybody under this administration

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will have the ability to buy their own insurance. By

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the way, it's with the same money that he's promised

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everybody you were going to be receiving for Christmas, because

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we're taking in so much money from all of these

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idiot foreign countries that are paying us to.

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Speaker 4: Do business that schmucks liked Joe Biden and Barack Obama

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and every other president before him just did not understand,

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and that allowed our country to be driven in to

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hell by all these other countries.

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Speaker 2: Truly amazing, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it still is very hard for me

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to believe, you know. And it just goes to partisanship.

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Speaker 2: It goes to.

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Speaker 1: What people are feeling. I don't know, I mean, Colin,

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when you hear that, you know, like Trump's approval rating,

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depending on which pole you use, is anywhere from thirty

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seven percent to about forty two percent approval, which is

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very low. But like you think about the thirty seven

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to forty two percent of people who hear him saying,

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don't be traumatic, you know, and it's just you think

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about it, like what's going on in Russia right now,

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where the economy is horrible and people are doing really bad,

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and people live in these buildings without air conditioning and

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freezing cold weather, and their sons are being sent as

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basically fire fodder in Ukraine getting killed. I mean, whether

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it's a million deaths or whatever. You know, the economy

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of Russia struggling. You see these gas lines in Russia

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for people just to get basic necessities. Sometimes you see

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these speeches that it's people like freezing, you know, you know,

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next to each other's shoulder to shoulder. But they've been

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trained or brainwashed to believe that the peanuts and scraps

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that they have from their leader Putin is what they deserve,

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and that there's this broader mission of denazification, which is

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we all know is BS or whatever these pretexts are

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for this Greater Russia nationalism that they Putin's pull numbers

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are all made up. The elections, they are all rigged,

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we know that. But the fact that people go along

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and about their days tells you about the human condition.

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Because the economy there's total trash, and what this regime

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wants Americans to feel is that their life and their

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existence is trash. They want a dangle. Just around the corner.

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There may be these riches, whether it's a Doge dividend check,

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a tariff rebate check, replacing your insurance with a check

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for two thousand dollars, and that that's going to be better.

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That actually prescription drugs are going to go down seventeen

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hundred percent, which is it's all right around the corner,

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don't you worry? And the human condition can be molded

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to accept breadcrumbs and to accept what Trump is trying

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to do. And that's the tension that that we have

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thirty seven to forty one percent approval while he's telling

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people don't be dramatic, while he's quite literally screwing people's lives.

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I mean job losses this year, job losses.

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Speaker 2: Sixty percent of this deep percent since last step percent

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of this country is also saying that they don't believe

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a single word that the president is saying right now

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as it relates to the economy. I want you all

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to think about that sixty percent now of that remaining

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forty percent of I would call them dopes. That it

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should be one hundred percent because you know that what

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he's saying, and it's not that I'm telling you or

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Ben's telling you. And you got to say, well, who's

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telling the truth? Is it Cohen? Is that Trump? Is it?

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Is it mysell Is is it Ben? You know saying

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it Trump? Whatever? No? No, no, no, you know it

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because you reach into your pocket every time you go

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to the supermarket. You know, the market, that word that

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nobody uses anymore, along with groceries. Nobody uses those words anymore.

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They're old fashion words. Sure, sure, well, I go to

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the grocery store and I buy my groceries. So let

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me be crystal clear. I know how much more I'm

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paying for a bigger groceries right now than I did

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ten months ago, or two years ago or three years ago.

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I know every time I go to buy something at

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the store or I order something online, I know how

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much more I'm paying, and so does everybody. I mean,

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it's the one thing that none of us are ignorant to,

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and that is our own finances. So when sixty percent

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say they don't believe a goddamn thing he's saying or

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his people is saying. As it relates to the economy,

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that's a fact. So now let's just quickly break down

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the remaining forty percent. Twenty three percent say that they

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somewhat believe what he's saying every now and then, not

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all of it, but they don't disregard everything, all right,

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And then thirteen percent turn around and say they believe

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every single thing that comes out of Trump's mouth, no

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matter what. Those are the numbers, those are actual statistics

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and numbers not by one polster, but by a multitude

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that all basically plus or minus two percent. That's a

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serious number. But again, I personally am not happy with

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sixty percent of the people complaining about the truth being

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told to them. Regarding the economy. It should be eighty percent.

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And you know what, maybe then, maybe then you'll start

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to see Republican members of Congress step up knowing that

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they're going to get fucking salacked, salacked during the mid terms.

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That's what we need.

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Speaker 1: One of the things we'll be watching tonight or just

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a few hours on the East Coast is the results

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of the Miami mayor's race. That could be the first

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time a Democrat wins there in about thirty years. The

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Democrats projected or expected to be in the lead as

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of now. We'll wait until we see the results actually

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come in. But something that I want to be focused

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on as well, it's not getting enough attention. That's a

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big data point right right there, because Miami South Florida

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and Florida in general turned ruby red from blue. And

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you know, will that be having a shift back.

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Speaker 2: Let me show you.

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Speaker 1: What Sean from the Real World road Rules Challenge and

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what he's been saying. So you know, he's Sean Duffy,

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the Transportation Secretary. So he's been out and about saying

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that people need to dress better on airplanes and that's

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been a main focus. People need to dress up and

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wear suits to the airplanes. And someone asked him he

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held this weird press conference at Yeah, and he was like,

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you know what we should be doing here in the

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airport is we need pull up bars and we should

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be doing workouts in the airport. And people are like, dude,

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what weird shit?

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Speaker 2: Is this?

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Speaker 1: Like what we're doing?

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Speaker 2: Pull up bars?

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Speaker 1: So he got he got asked a question though, which

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is okay, well, what are you going to do to

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lower costs at the airport. It's like, do you have

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a afordability plan? The way Pete Boodhaji was very focused

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on consumer protections that airplane companies airliners didn't like because

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they were very consumer friendly and the airliners thought, we

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can't give these types of refunds. But that was the

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priority of Boodhaji. So what's your plan, Duffy? Surely with

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affordability being the biggest issue, like you have a plan

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right here playing this quick.

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Speaker 2: Take costs.

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Speaker 3: So the question is lowering the cost of food and airports.

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And again it's it's interesting, it's it's market demand and supply.

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They have people, you know, pretty totally contained and there's

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not a lot of options, and so I don't have

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a plan to reduce costs. What I am trying to

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do is provide healthier options for people. And again, again,

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who doesn't love a greasy burger at the airport?

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Speaker 2: I know, I do? Okay, time, this guy could be

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the stupidest human being that I've ever met in my

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entire life. And that's a that's a hell of a

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statement to make based upon the stupidity we're seeing from

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morons like christinome Her you know her pet project there,

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Corey Lewandowski or Pete Hegseth or any of the other

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ones that are now gracing right the cabinet table. But

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this idiot, first of all, Oh, it's a limited space

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with a limited number of companies that are selling food.

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I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I'm out of

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my mind because I live in New York, maybe because

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I go to JFK Airport, which is huge, or maybe

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I go to to New Jersey right to what do

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you call it? To New Jersey Airport over there, or

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maybe even LaGuardia. But the second you walk in, if

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there's not fifteen different food vendors there, I'm all selling food.

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How about this? Maybe charge them less so in that

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way they send savings along to the contum You go there,

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as I did when I was traveling down to Florida

712
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,719
to see my folks. I got a cup of coffee,

713
00:45:13,159 --> 00:45:17,119
a small black coffee, a bagel with some cream cheese

714
00:45:17,159 --> 00:45:20,000
on it, and then I got myself a muffin to

715
00:45:20,079 --> 00:45:22,559
take on the airplane in case I felt like I

716
00:45:22,599 --> 00:45:27,039
got hungry. It's like nineteen dollars and you turn around

717
00:45:27,079 --> 00:45:29,320
and you say, wait for a cup of coffee, for

718
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:34,360
a bagel, and for a muffin. Sure, it's very simple,

719
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,039
very very simple. I'm one person. What if you're traveling

720
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with you, your wife and your two kids. You're talking

721
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,519
about like eighty dollars seriously, and what he wants to

722
00:45:45,519 --> 00:45:49,400
do instead is spend money so that some guy or

723
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a girl who decides to start working out and shits

724
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,639
in like a pig, sits next to you and stinks,

725
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,239
or now you're gonna what have to also build showers, right,

726
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,039
because that's what everybody wants. I want to wake up

727
00:46:03,119 --> 00:46:05,320
at six o'clock in the morning to be on a

728
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,679
seven thirty flight to Florida, and I want to be

729
00:46:07,679 --> 00:46:09,519
able to get my steps in. I want to be

730
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able to do a workout so that the person sitting

731
00:46:12,039 --> 00:46:15,320
next to me, right, you know, can turn around and say,

732
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,519
you know, you're kind of like sweaty and all, maybe

733
00:46:17,559 --> 00:46:20,039
you could sit someplace else. I mean, that just makes

734
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perfect sense. And so Sean Duffy, you fucking idiot, You

735
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,400
idiot making stupid ass comments like that so you can

736
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show off that you can do what ten pull ups

737
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or seven pull ups whatever next to the other idiot.

738
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,840
RFK Junior, Honestly, it's time you shut the hell up.

739
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,159
It's time you start thinking before you say stupid things.

740
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You have all day long to prepare for this press conference.

741
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,519
This didn't just pop up simply because you showed up there.

742
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:50,400
This thing was planned, So maybe you ought to think

743
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,119
twice before you open up your mouth. And for being

744
00:46:53,159 --> 00:46:56,159
such a stupid asshole. Fuck you.

745
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about the things that this regime

746
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,400
got done, right. I mean, often it's what they inflict

747
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,920
upon people, pain, suffering, what they take away from people.

748
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,559
But when you think about the things that they like

749
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,880
do where they sit around a room and they're like,

750
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,119
what what do we want to produce? Like what's our

751
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:17,039
affirmative ideas?

752
00:47:17,679 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 2: Right?

753
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Speaker 1: You know one of them is nursing, And you'd be thinking,

754
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:25,159
you mean like helping the nursing profession. No, it's removing

755
00:47:25,199 --> 00:47:29,199
the professional degree designation from nursing. It's like, let's pick

756
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,800
on our heroes, the nurses and screw them over. And

757
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,679
someone's like, yeah, good idea, let's push that forward. And

758
00:47:35,679 --> 00:47:40,079
then someone's like, well, why don't we start promoting like

759
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:45,920
nooses and swastikas and other racist symbols in the Coastguard. Yeah,

760
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,159
let's let's let's do that. You know what we really

761
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you know, what's really missing in the airport.

762
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Speaker 2: Yes, what what's.

763
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,199
Speaker 1: Really missing is someone could be smoking while doing push

764
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ups or while doing pull ups. I've never even conceived

765
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of this idea.

766
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Speaker 2: Bringing back to dirty water dog ben for the realities.

767
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 1: And to your point, it's like, do they listen to

768
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the words that they're saying. Is there any thought in it?

769
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Because the whole point of this press conference, as deranged

770
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:20,320
as it was, was to promote this idea of like

771
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doing workouts and pull ups, which is the craziest concept

772
00:48:24,599 --> 00:48:26,000
in an airport. So let me just show you that

773
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message first, because this is what they want, This is

774
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what they did this for. Is we need more pull

775
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,880
up bars and airports, Like who right now is saying

776
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that's what we need? This regime here?

777
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 2: Play this clip.

778
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Speaker 3: Pretty wide open on what airports want to ask ask

779
00:48:40,119 --> 00:48:42,360
for a grant. But it might be I want to

780
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:47,119
expand the play areas for kids. I want additional nursing

781
00:48:47,199 --> 00:48:50,360
pods for nursing mothers. Maybe I want to work out

782
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,559
area where people might get some blood flow and doing

783
00:48:53,639 --> 00:48:56,719
some pull ups or some step ups in the airport.

784
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Speaker 2: But it could be any range of things.

785
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Speaker 3: Maybe you want to work you know, this is tsa

786
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we're gonna help on this as well. Maybe you want

787
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to have a different lane for families to get through TSA.

788
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:09,119
How can we make the experience better as you come

789
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through an airport? One billion dollars is going to go

790
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to that.

791
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Speaker 2: Maybe we should bring back prostitution and allow and allow

792
00:49:17,119 --> 00:49:19,920
these massage polos to be opened up or right next

793
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:24,519
to every single Starbucks in a in an airport, because right,

794
00:49:24,639 --> 00:49:26,920
who doesn't want to tug and rub when you're sitting

795
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,639
there at seven o'clock in the morning waiting for a

796
00:49:29,679 --> 00:49:33,679
delayed flight. How stupid is this idiot? Right? I mean,

797
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,480
that's yes, it's exactly what I want. I want to

798
00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:40,360
CrossFit center in everything. Why not some wall climbing so

799
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,559
maybe see maybe people can fall off the wall, breaking

800
00:49:43,639 --> 00:49:45,559
on in a leg and therefore you now have the

801
00:49:45,559 --> 00:49:48,119
hospital there. But of course you don't have now insurance

802
00:49:48,119 --> 00:49:49,760
for it, so you can have to pay in cash,

803
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,119
which means that the state or the government can make

804
00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:54,239
more money because now you have to have the doctors

805
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,039
there and you have to pay with your credit card

806
00:49:56,079 --> 00:49:58,400
and with cash on the spot. Otherwise you can take

807
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,320
your broken limb and you could go go on to

808
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,960
your airplane. And keep going. I mean, if this is

809
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not the stupidest press conference, I cannot wait for Saturday

810
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,679
Night Live to end up doing one of their sticks

811
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:16,159
on this or South Park, because this one really goes

812
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,199
to show you exactly what Ben is saying. They spin

813
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,960
a wheel of stupidity and they come up with ideas.

814
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Speaker 1: Versus the real things that former President Biden did that

815
00:50:27,639 --> 00:50:32,440
was actually legislated, that became law, the Inflation Reduction Act,

816
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,599
the Infrastructure Act. When you all go to your airports

817
00:50:35,679 --> 00:50:40,960
right now, you probably do see that there's construction happening

818
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,119
across the country at airports, and a lot of that

819
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:47,400
comes from the Inflation Reduction Act in the Infrastructure Act. Now,

820
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,920
imagine if the time and effort Donald Trump in this

821
00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:56,639
regime spent doing stupid stuff and dangerous stuff and deadly

822
00:50:56,679 --> 00:50:59,599
stuff and hurting people that if Trump wanted to be like,

823
00:50:59,679 --> 00:51:03,480
I'm a great builder, imagine if he rallied people so

824
00:51:03,559 --> 00:51:07,239
that all of those projects that are taking place, the

825
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,440
red tape goes away and those can get done quicker,

826
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and all of a sudden we start seeing an acceleration

827
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of those programs. Imagine if rather than attacking USAID and

828
00:51:20,559 --> 00:51:24,039
probably killing tens of thousands or potentially even millions of

829
00:51:24,079 --> 00:51:27,719
people with DOGE. And what Elon Musk and Trump did

830
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:32,079
when they precipitously just started removing critical aid and functions.

831
00:51:32,199 --> 00:51:34,199
I don't think we'll ever truly know the tally of

832
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,639
how many people died as a result. But imagine if

833
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:43,559
the ingenuity of these potential billionaires or billionaires was actually

834
00:51:43,599 --> 00:51:48,400
spent building affordable homes everywhere and when you were driving

835
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,800
now rather than seeing ice agents and border patrol agents

836
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:56,360
making people disappear. Two hundred billion dollars that just went

837
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,559
to ice and border patrol, or nine hundred billion dollars

838
00:51:59,639 --> 00:52:04,679
that's in the National Authorization the National Defense Authorization Act

839
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,480
went to building homes. And so you start driving and

840
00:52:07,519 --> 00:52:09,599
those you know, those mini homes that are like eight

841
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:13,440
hundred square feet but have all the great accommodations are

842
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,519
now housing people, and people are able to live with

843
00:52:16,639 --> 00:52:20,079
dignified lives, and we have there are less homeless people

844
00:52:20,119 --> 00:52:23,800
on the street, and the unhoused community is being helped. Like,

845
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,000
imagine if this money was invested in mental health. Like

846
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:32,679
the money is there and and it's just being used

847
00:52:33,039 --> 00:52:38,679
to prop up AI and data centers and Palenteer and

848
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,440
taking away our data and making us live in a

849
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,039
police state and a militarized state. But you know, it's

850
00:52:46,119 --> 00:52:49,880
not you know, it's it's it's not a complicated formula.

851
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:54,360
If we wanted to move from Obamacare Affordable Care Act

852
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:59,159
subsidies to single pay or Medicare for all, the money exists,

853
00:52:59,559 --> 00:53:02,280
it's just matter of it's being used by a regime

854
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,360
to inflict pain and harm people and blow things up

855
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,639
versus investing in the people. And to me, that's a

856
00:53:11,199 --> 00:53:13,480
you know, that's an issue that needs to be addressed

857
00:53:13,559 --> 00:53:15,960
the right way, and it needs to be and it's

858
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,679
a winning message. And anybody, to me, who shies away

859
00:53:18,679 --> 00:53:22,159
from that message and doesn't deliver on that message and

860
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,039
uses it as just a way to get elected but

861
00:53:25,119 --> 00:53:27,360
doesn't deliver it does so at their own peril. You

862
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,719
listen to what the people are saying. That's what people want.

863
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,280
People want Medicare for all. People want healthcare free, you

864
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,519
know they you know, or very very cheap. They want education.

865
00:53:36,639 --> 00:53:38,920
They want to be able to work a job and

866
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,119
then have a home and not worry am I going

867
00:53:41,199 --> 00:53:43,960
to be able to afford next month's mortgage or be

868
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,119
able to pay my rent. I'm working a job, dammit,

869
00:53:46,639 --> 00:53:49,039
and want and look, CEOs should make a lot of money,

870
00:53:49,039 --> 00:53:52,039
and I get it, you know, I'm not against CEOs

871
00:53:52,119 --> 00:53:55,960
and entrepreneurs making money, but also I want them to

872
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,599
treat workers with dignity because it's ridiculous where someone's making

873
00:53:59,679 --> 00:54:00,639
five has dollars.

874
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 2: Everybody can live with honor and decency, with the American

875
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,719
dream instead of having to go to the airport, you know, husband,

876
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:12,920
wife and their two kids and have to take out

877
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,679
a mortgage on the house to buy a bagel, you know.

878
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:21,599
Speaker 1: And that's to me, it's attainable, It's achievable. Trump's been

879
00:54:21,639 --> 00:54:26,760
able to sense the desperation on people, but exploit it

880
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,000
and lie to them and turn tens of millions of

881
00:54:30,039 --> 00:54:33,880
Americans into his mark. But what the people are feeling

882
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:38,119
and what they want is real, and people need to

883
00:54:38,159 --> 00:54:39,840
see it, and they need to listen better and not

884
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:41,840
just talk. You need to listen and hear what people

885
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,760
are going through. People are terrified about what AI is

886
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,880
going to do to their future job prospects. People are

887
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,519
really worried about not being able to afford a home,

888
00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:55,119
not even being able to afford rent. Older generations have

889
00:54:55,199 --> 00:54:57,159
their children living with them, and they want to see

890
00:54:57,159 --> 00:54:59,639
their kids be able to start the lives that they

891
00:54:59,639 --> 00:55:02,039
were able to start, you know, when they were their age,

892
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,760
and kids are living with their parents into their forties

893
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,760
an hour, late thirties if that, and because there's nowhere

894
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,440
else to go and nowhere else, but if their parents

895
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,920
are lucky enough to have a home. And we don't

896
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,159
want to be gas lit into thinking, oh my god,

897
00:55:14,199 --> 00:55:14,840
this is great.

898
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:15,519
Speaker 2: It's it's not.

899
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:20,039
Speaker 1: It's not great. It's very bad. The situation in our

900
00:55:20,079 --> 00:55:23,639
country is just getting worse by the day, and internationally

901
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,800
it is. But we're just going to deliver the information.

902
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,519
I think the biggest skill we have here Cohen, on

903
00:55:28,519 --> 00:55:30,840
this network is we listen to people. We listen to

904
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,840
what they're saying, and we respond to that. We feel

905
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,599
the same way that you all feel. So we're just

906
00:55:35,599 --> 00:55:37,199
trying to do our best to get the truth out.

907
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,280
So any final words, Cohen before we go.

908
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:43,639
Speaker 2: I don't I'm just nauseated by you know, I can't

909
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:50,320
imagine Ben Pete hag Seth. I'm sorry, Pete Boudages literally

910
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,119
going to an airport, a guy who's turning around and

911
00:55:53,119 --> 00:55:56,840
saying no, no, no, hold on. You pay five hundred

912
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:02,559
dollars for your flight, you're permitted, it's two fifty each way.

913
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:07,679
You deserve to take off on time and to land

914
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,840
on time, and if in fact that you don't, that's

915
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,599
on the airline, and so they're going to have to

916
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:17,199
pay you for your time, for your inconvenience. That's a

917
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:24,239
Pete Budage Joe Biden idea that benefits all Americans. The

918
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,920
fact that you had these two idiots literally and shame

919
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,039
on the media for even showing up. The second this

920
00:56:31,159 --> 00:56:34,559
asshole takes off his tie and starts to enchin ups,

921
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,079
that's when I would have turned around and have said,

922
00:56:37,119 --> 00:56:39,639
and now we're going to go to Michael Cohen regarding

923
00:56:39,679 --> 00:56:42,239
this present. Yeah, this is about the stupidest thing I've

924
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,679
ever seen in my entire life. We're not going to

925
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:48,199
waste your time with idiot number one and idiot number two.

926
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And so with that, we apologize for wasting your time,

927
00:56:51,639 --> 00:56:54,480
and if in fact that you're paying for this service,

928
00:56:54,639 --> 00:56:57,360
we're going to rebate you a dollar, right or something

929
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,800
like that. This is so screwed up the fact that

930
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,519
they are able to get the press there to watch

931
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them show off to do chin ups or pull ups

932
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,599
or whatever else that they're doing, all to prove a

933
00:57:08,679 --> 00:57:13,880
point that there is pointless. Again, I'm so lost at

934
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:19,360
this entire group of morons. I mean, it's it's spectacular.

935
00:57:19,679 --> 00:57:22,719
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a lot of Cohen's great interviews, and he's a great

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interviewer and brings out a lot of information from people

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that you don't really get to hear anywhere else and

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subscribe to Michael Cohen's substack. It's the Michael Cohen Substack.

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Check that out as well. Thanks everybody for watching Political Beatdown.

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Thank you as always, and we'll see you next time.

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Shout out Beatdown Brigaders, and shout out Midas Mighty.