Speaker 1: One of the most significant aspects to President Trump's election
Speaker 1: victory was the shift in the Latino vote. Latino's voted
Speaker 1: I believe it was forty five percent of Latino's voted
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. So it's not a majority yet, but
Speaker 1: it's better than any Republican president has done, better than
Speaker 1: George W. Bush I think even did in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, and he gets this percentage of the Latino vote.
Speaker 1: When he's Donald Trump, he's the guy going around saying
Speaker 1: he wants mass deportations, he wants to secure the border,
Speaker 1: and liberals are dumbfounded by this. They are utterly completely baffled.
Speaker 1: They cannot fathom how in God's green Earth this could
Speaker 1: possibly be. So much of the media messaging we have
Speaker 1: on the Latino vote the concept of Latinos as persons
Speaker 1: of color within the liberal categories of intersectionality. So, of
Speaker 1: those who don't know, intersectionality is kind of the liberal
Speaker 1: calculus for are you some kind of historically oppressed minority
Speaker 1: that we liberals will lavish with favor, with preference both socially, culturally, politically, economically, legally,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Latinos are deemed to be an oppressed minority
Speaker 1: for purposes of stuff like the California Voter Rights Act
Speaker 1: or something. The Chinese aren't the legacy of the Chinese
Speaker 1: in California being an oppressed minority is far greater than that,
Speaker 1: at least as significant, I should say, as that of Latinos.
Speaker 1: But no Latinos are deemed to be this oppressed minority.
Speaker 1: African Americans are deemed to be this suppressed minority, and liberals,
Speaker 1: in various ways try to give some kind of legal
Speaker 1: favorite advantage. Let's note, though, that a lot of that
Speaker 1: legal favor or advantage that liberals give to these historically
Speaker 1: oppressed groups so called, is based on a certain kind
Speaker 1: of deal. And the deal is these all have to
Speaker 1: be people who vote for Democrats. All of the various
Speaker 1: California voter rights acts that allow them to kind of
Speaker 1: that prevent us in California from drawing reasonable looking redistricting
Speaker 1: lines to reflect geography or something. Basically, California blocks California
Speaker 1: almost mandates jerry andering in ways that favor liberals because
Speaker 1: you cannot break up the power of minority votes. So
Speaker 1: basically to correct the historic wrongs that that basically various
Speaker 1: African American communities in the South experience with redistricting, So
Speaker 1: redistricting political redistricting, the redrawing of the lines for members
Speaker 1: of the House representatives members of your state legislature historically
Speaker 1: is always done by the state legislature and it was
Speaker 1: governed by the political process. It wasn't really something that's
Speaker 1: reviewable by the courts. Well. The problem is that in
Speaker 1: the South, very often politicians would draw the electoral map
Speaker 1: in ways that would mitigate, dilute, minimize African American voting
Speaker 1: powers that they take in African American neighborhood and chop
Speaker 1: it up into basically so that this one African American
Speaker 1: neighborhood enjoy Georgia is all of a sudden, it's part
Speaker 1: of ten different congressional districts that's sliced up like a pizza,
Speaker 1: so that there's no one district where African Americans have
Speaker 1: any power whatsoever. Or maybe you shove all the African
Speaker 1: Americans into one district and then all the other districts
Speaker 1: are totally white and African American power is minimized in
Speaker 1: that way. There were all kinds of shenanigans like that,
Speaker 1: that sort of racist white powers that be would visit
Speaker 1: upon African American. They're African American brethren in the South,
Speaker 1: and it was bad. It was a bad thing. This
Speaker 1: is happening though, in California almost the reverse, where basically,
Speaker 1: because of that historic wrong, Latinos in California, basically reasonable
Speaker 1: kinds of redistricting and district line drawing are not allowed
Speaker 1: to happen under the pretext of oh, you're breaking up
Speaker 1: Latino political power in the San Joaquin Valley. How could you?
Speaker 1: You can't, So you can't do that. So we have
Speaker 1: to draw our redistricting lines to give maximal power to Latinos.
Speaker 1: And really the goal of this is, well, let's get
Speaker 1: as many Democrats to vote as possible, maximize Democrat political
Speaker 1: might as best we can. The whole premise for Latinos
Speaker 1: being part of the liberal oppressed minority family, the whole
Speaker 1: premise is they will vote for us. Well, now that
Speaker 1: Latinos aren't voting for Democrats, what do they do. You're
Speaker 1: already starting to hear rumblings, particularly from African American liberals,
Speaker 1: that Mexicans Latinos are should not be viewed as quote
Speaker 1: persons of color. Already you're starting to see a shift
Speaker 1: about the problematic reality of misogyny among Latino households and
Speaker 1: Latino families. All of a sudden, this monolith is breaking.
Speaker 1: Now here's why liberals cannot fathom it. Liberals can't fathom
Speaker 1: all of this because most of American liberal political culture
Speaker 1: is dictated by liberals in the Northeast. Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: liberals in California, but they're not setting the tone for
Speaker 1: politics for the rest of the country. That tone is
Speaker 1: being set by liberals graduating from IVY leagues, college professors
Speaker 1: who went to IVY leagues and are teaching in schools
Speaker 1: in the Northeast, maybe going into the Midwest, But most
Speaker 1: of American political American liberal political culture is being dictated
Speaker 1: by the Northeast. Even the political culture, the political culture
Speaker 1: I would say of academic hard lefty Latinos in California,
Speaker 1: I think is very much influenced by that culture. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Take this from me as someone who
Speaker 1: I lived in the Midwest for seven years. I lived
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts for two years, visited New York, a lot,
Speaker 1: visited Boston, a lot visited Washington, DC, a lot lived
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts for two years. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: Northeast liberals don't understand Latino voters in America at all,
Speaker 1: because they rarely ever actually encounter them, hang out with them,
Speaker 1: talk with them. They view by the way, this is
Speaker 1: me characterizing them, not me characterizing me. They view brown
Speaker 1: as brown, and they even this belated adoption of the
Speaker 1: term brown as a reference to Latinos, which I feel
Speaker 1: like twenty five years ago would have been highly politically
Speaker 1: incorrect just to call Latinos brown, But that's the language
Speaker 1: that's been adopted by academic liberals. The plight of black
Speaker 1: and brown people and brown people just means Latinos Latinos broadly.
Speaker 1: I think they fundamentally Northeast liberals fundamentally don't understand Latinos
Speaker 1: in this country, and specifically though they don't really understand
Speaker 1: Mexican Americans Latinos coming who either have come or are coming,
Speaker 1: or came generation or two ago from the southern border,
Speaker 1: most of them from Mexico, with whom do Latinos in
Speaker 1: the Northeast interact chiefly different kinds of Latinos, And this
Speaker 1: is part of the problem. Northeast liberals paint with this
Speaker 1: very broad Latino brush as if a comedian telling a joke.
Speaker 1: Remember the comedian who told the joke at the Trump
Speaker 1: rally at Madison Square Garden. He told the joke about
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, and he said Puerto Rico is a big,
Speaker 1: floating island of trash, which actually is kind of funny,
Speaker 1: given that Puerto Rico has massive problems with waste management
Speaker 1: and how they're disposing of waste. They do have problems
Speaker 1: with a lot of trash loading in around the island.
Speaker 1: But the reaction from Northeast white liberals and a lot
Speaker 1: of this I think was kind of wish casting, hoping
Speaker 1: that this would hurt Donald Trump is say this is
Speaker 1: going to turn Latino voters off across the country, when
Speaker 1: I'm just laughing thinking about my Mexican my friends who
Speaker 1: are of Mexican descent, they don't care about someone making
Speaker 1: a joke about Puerto Ricans. That would be like an
Speaker 1: Italian in their eyes. That would be like an Italian
Speaker 1: getting upset that someone made a joke about a Spaniard
Speaker 1: or a Frenchman being upset that someone made a joke
Speaker 1: about an Italian. There's no It's not like there's some
Speaker 1: kind of pan Latino brother unified brotherhood where an insult
Speaker 1: against a Puerto Rican is an insult against all peoples
Speaker 1: who speak Spanish. No, the Mexican American experience and the
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican experience are wildly different experiences racially, historically, governmentally
Speaker 1: how it relates to immigration, and Puerto Rico is in
Speaker 1: American territory that there's not as much immigration stuff with
Speaker 1: someone who's a Puerto Rican. As such, the experience of
Speaker 1: being a Dominican versus a Mexican are entirely different things.
Speaker 1: A Puerto Rican versus a Mexican different things, as South
Speaker 1: American Venezuelan versus a Mexican different things, highly different things.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of Northeast liberals their primary
Speaker 1: interface with Latinos, a lot of it are is with
Speaker 1: the kinds of Latinas who live on the East Coast
Speaker 1: and particularly in the Northeast, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and others
Speaker 1: who are very very left, who even when they become citizens,
Speaker 1: remain very very left, who continue to have this constant
Speaker 1: interplay of family who are coming back and forth, who
Speaker 1: are flying back and forth where illegal immigration issues impacting,
Speaker 1: whether it's Dominicans or South Americans, the kinds of people
Speaker 1: who are in who are Spanish speaking but in New
Speaker 1: York for example, or Massachusetts for example. It's a very
Speaker 1: different experience from American citizens of Mexican descent who live
Speaker 1: in the American Southwest, who live in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Colorado, Nevada,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I think it's actually a fairly ra I
Speaker 1: hate just throwing around that everyone's racist, everyone's racist. I
Speaker 1: think it is a somewhat let me put it this way,
Speaker 1: I think it is an ignorant viewpoint that Northeast liberals
Speaker 1: take that just views, well, they're someone who from a
Speaker 1: country that used to be owned by Spain, and they
Speaker 1: speak Spanish, so therefore they're all the same. They don't
Speaker 1: say that they would be a horror, of course, I
Speaker 1: don't believe that, but the way they act kind of
Speaker 1: indicates that's what they do. Believe that the Cuban experience
Speaker 1: is miles different from the Mexican American experience. So when
Speaker 1: Donald Trump says I want to deport the huge influx
Speaker 1: of illegal immigrants who came into this country under the
Speaker 1: Biden administration, the idea that they are dumbfounded at the
Speaker 1: idea that Mexican Americans, American citizens of Mexican descent, background, ancestry, whatever.
Speaker 1: They are flabbergasted at the idea that they are shifting
Speaker 1: more towards the Trump position than otherwise. When we return,
Speaker 1: I'll kind of explain a little bit about why that
Speaker 1: is next on the John Girardi Show. Liberals are dumbfounded
Speaker 1: and angry at the massive shifts that are happening in
Speaker 1: the Latino vote. Donald Trump got forty five percent of
Speaker 1: the Latino vote in this last election. Why how did
Speaker 1: this happen? I think it's because now they are dumbfounded.
Speaker 1: I think, as I was explaining in the first segment,
Speaker 1: I think liberals are dumbfounded at this because they're from
Speaker 1: the Northeast. They really have very little experience living in
Speaker 1: a community that has a high, high, high, high percentage
Speaker 1: of Latinos. I grew up in the Fresno area. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure Fresno at this point is majority Hispanic, close
Speaker 1: to that, and it's totally not unfamiliar to me. I
Speaker 1: grew up going to parts of town or everyone's speaking Spanish,
Speaker 1: or a store where everyone speaking Spanish, or a restaurant
Speaker 1: where everyone' speaking Spanish. I grew up going to school
Speaker 1: with families who were Mexican families who had family back
Speaker 1: in Mexico, Families who were here and sometimes go back
Speaker 1: there for vacations. Families where the husband's Mexican and the
Speaker 1: wife is you know, Polish or whatever. You know. It
Speaker 1: just everywhere. That's it's just part. I'm hardly some rare,
Speaker 1: you know, icon of a diverse childhood or something that
Speaker 1: that's just the experience of growing up in the Sawaquin Valley.
Speaker 1: Tons of people you know are Mexicans. Probably most statistically speaking,
Speaker 1: maybe most of the people you know are Mexican or
Speaker 1: of Mexican heritage or blah blah blah blah blah. You know,
Speaker 1: forgive me if I'm not using all the proper uh
Speaker 1: dotting my eyes and crossing my teas of political correct
Speaker 1: you know, descriptors. And the thing that Northeast liberals are ignoring,
Speaker 1: I think is that there is a massive difference between
Speaker 1: a person of Mexican descent whose grandfather immigrated, so now
Speaker 1: they're you know, second third generation whose grandfather immigrated. But
Speaker 1: they maybe it's someone who's my aid. Maybe it's someone
Speaker 1: in their mid thirties. They were born in America, they
Speaker 1: were raised in America, they went to American schools. They
Speaker 1: can speak some Spanish, but they grew up mostly speak
Speaker 1: in English. They're working a job just like anybody else.
Speaker 1: They went to college or you know, trade school or
Speaker 1: high school, whatever. But the idea that someone like that,
Speaker 1: who is counted within you know, survey data as a
Speaker 1: quote Latino voter. The idea that someone like that, let's
Speaker 1: take that example. A third, someone whose grandfather immigrated to
Speaker 1: the United States, who is of Mexican descent, but again
Speaker 1: born here, raised here, when the schools here, is working
Speaker 1: a job, just trying to get by. Someone that many
Speaker 1: generations in might be married to a white person. They
Speaker 1: might not be, but they might be. They probably have
Speaker 1: white friends. They are just working a job just like
Speaker 1: anyone else does. They're not working the fields. They're here legally. Also,
Speaker 1: of course they're here legally, they were born here. They're
Speaker 1: American citizens. The idea that someone like that is identifying
Speaker 1: with the cause of someone who entered this country illegally
Speaker 1: just fifteen minutes ago and saying that is my people,
Speaker 1: that is my person whom I'm sticking up for. That's
Speaker 1: the person I most identify with politically, is this immigrant
Speaker 1: who just came in ten minutes ago against the law
Speaker 1: who came in pretending it was an asylum claim when
Speaker 1: really it wasn't. He just wanted to come here for
Speaker 1: economic reasons. Yes, that's my kindred spirit that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: vote to protect to make sure he doesn't get deported. No,
Speaker 1: why would someone who just hap is an American who
Speaker 1: happens to be of Mexican descent, but who's concerns when
Speaker 1: it comes to his work, the economy, inflation, his job,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Why would he be having his vote be
Speaker 1: driven by the immigration plight of someone who's just arriving
Speaker 1: into this country, you know, fifteen minutes ago. And that's
Speaker 1: not to say that just because you've been in this
Speaker 1: country a couple generations, you hate all immigrants and you
Speaker 1: don't care about immgants. And that's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm not saying that like we
Speaker 1: should be brutalizing immigrants or you know, horrifically separating people
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah bla, but fair immigrant it. The
Speaker 1: Biden administration let in huge waves of immigrants illegally and
Speaker 1: under under speciously legal theories like the border was an
Speaker 1: absolute disaster for the Biden administration. For Trump to take
Speaker 1: corrective action against that is not crazy, It is not punitive,
Speaker 1: Nor do I think even I would make the contention
Speaker 1: it's not in opposition to my Christian beliefs about loving
Speaker 1: our fellow man. Countries don't have to take in an
Speaker 1: unlimited number of immigrants. But I think this is the
Speaker 1: thing that liberals don't understand. Just because you happen to
Speaker 1: be of Mexican descent doesn't mean you will always end
Speaker 1: forever continue to view the problems of immigration at the
Speaker 1: southern border as the most important thing in your life,
Speaker 1: Nor will you continue to have the same thoughts, viewpoints
Speaker 1: ideas about Southern border immigration that maybe someone would if
Speaker 1: he were a first generation immigrant or someone who's not
Speaker 1: yet a citizen. Let's recall everyone voting in the election,
Speaker 1: or hopefully everybody voting in the election, even if they
Speaker 1: are of Mexican descent, is an American citizen. People of
Speaker 1: Mexican descent who are American citizens. Yes, maybe there are
Speaker 1: some of them who really are animated by the border
Speaker 1: and are really animated by the idea that Trump will
Speaker 1: take action to deport people in ways that they think
Speaker 1: are wrong. And look, Trump still got I think Harris
Speaker 1: still got a majority of the Latino vote, but a
Speaker 1: lot of them just aren't that way. They're Americans now,
Speaker 1: they're integrated into American society, and they have the same
Speaker 1: exact kind And I feel like an idiot lecturing Fresno
Speaker 1: about this, but I'm sure more than Havy listening to
Speaker 1: this are Mexicans, and you have this of Mexican heritage,
Speaker 1: of Mexican descent, whatever, but you're American citizens and you
Speaker 1: have the same concerns that I have. You have the
Speaker 1: same concern about your job, You have the same concerns
Speaker 1: about the economy, You have the same concerns about inflation.
Speaker 1: You have the same concerns I have about taxes and
Speaker 1: all the other things that citizens vote on all the time.
Speaker 1: You have opinions about stuff like abortion, you have opinions
Speaker 1: about stuff like the whole panoply of American issues, and
Speaker 1: those are the things you vote for. You're not only
Speaker 1: voting necessarily on the basis of immigration.
Speaker 2: So I think this is why the left is so befuddled,
Speaker 2: is that, Look, people change over time, Demographic shifts happen
Speaker 2: over time.
Speaker 1: Latinos are integrating within American society over the last twenty
Speaker 1: thirty years. And that's after you've become an American citizen
Speaker 1: or integrated and you're having normal jobs just like a
Speaker 1: normal American citizen would. Maybe the border isn't your only
Speaker 1: thing that you're ever concerned with, and certainly your attitudes
Speaker 1: about it might be quite different depending on what kind
Speaker 1: of Latino you are. The experience of a Cuban in Florida,
Speaker 1: a Mexican American living in Arizona or Nevada, and someone
Speaker 1: from the Dominican who lives in New York City are
Speaker 1: not comparable. It's like comparing a Frenchman, an Italian and
Speaker 1: a Spaniard. When we return how to make a Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: dinner for fifty eight dollars for ten people? Next on
Speaker 1: The John Girardi Show, I hope you're all enjoying this
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving week. As you're enjoying it, I wanted to regale
Speaker 1: you with maybe the stupidest little bit of regime propaganda.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna get many more efforts like this. Occasionally,
Speaker 1: you'll see when a Democrat administration is in power and
Speaker 1: the economy is doing badly, they'll present these infographics about
Speaker 1: how things are actually doing fine. I remember, I think
Speaker 1: this was early in the Biden administration when inflation was
Speaker 1: really jumping up. How they were trying to present these
Speaker 1: infographics to say, actually, the cost of a Fourth of
Speaker 1: July cookout is actually not higher than it was last
Speaker 1: year at all. Here's the prices of everything. Your Fourth
Speaker 1: of July cookout should cost this much. Average cost of
Speaker 1: hot dogs is this much, Average cost of Hamburger ground
Speaker 1: beef is this much. And they would present all these
Speaker 1: obviously either out of date or inaccurate or unrealistic pricing lists,
Speaker 1: And it was various like Biden administration media facing efforts
Speaker 1: to try to convince people are, actually the economy is
Speaker 1: not that bad. Oh, this inflation thing, it's all in
Speaker 1: your head. Back in twenty twenty one, when they were
Speaker 1: just trying to convince, oh, what inflation, there's no inflation happening.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, obviously there's massive inflation happening. Well, it looks
Speaker 1: like we're going to get our last sort of grand
Speaker 1: attempt at this from I guess some liberals who have
Speaker 1: something to prove. So this is from the American Farm
Speaker 1: Bureau Federation. Now this is being pushed out by them.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why. I see a lot of Trump
Speaker 1: sort of Biden surrogates Democrat operatives like Frank Luntz, for example,
Speaker 1: trying to push this out. Actually, I don't think Frank
Speaker 1: Lunz is actually a genuine Democrat operative. He's just kind
Speaker 1: of a media operative, And it's part of this whole
Speaker 1: liberal thing of trying to stay well. I'm inflation is
Speaker 1: not that bad America. This is the liberal explanation for
Speaker 1: way Kamala Harris lost. Americans think the economy is bad,
Speaker 1: but actually the economy is much better than Americans think that.
Speaker 1: You don't believe, you're lyon eyes. The economy is actually
Speaker 1: doing great. You're all wrong that. That's basically the liberal
Speaker 1: messaging on this. I don't know why the American Farm
Speaker 1: Bureau is trying to sort of play into this by
Speaker 1: publishing this stuff. Anyway. Peace published by NBC News, written
Speaker 1: by Jingfeng, who writes you may not know it by
Speaker 1: looking at sticker prices in grocery aisles, but Thanksgiving dinner
Speaker 1: is more affordable than it has been in years. The
Speaker 1: cost of this year's holiday feast estimated at fifty eight
Speaker 1: dollars and eight cents for a ten person gathering five
Speaker 1: dollars eighty one cents ahead, dropped five percent since last year,
Speaker 1: the lowest level since twenty twenty one. Let me repeat
Speaker 1: this stat that they're trying to push on us. They're
Speaker 1: trying to make you think this is even close to reasonable.
Speaker 1: Fifty eight dollars for Thanksgiving dinner for ten people, this
Speaker 1: fine Thanksgiving week. Any of you who are listening to this,
Speaker 1: is that what you are spending on your Thanksgiving? Is
Speaker 1: that what you've spent? Like, raise your hand, if you
Speaker 1: only spend fifty eight dollars, if you're if you were
Speaker 1: the one prepping Thanksgiving, I'll even go farther. You're making
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving for five people. It's just you, your spouse, your
Speaker 1: three kids, your dog, and the white picket fence, all right,
Speaker 1: just your home, your no grandma, no cousins.
Speaker 2: Just.
Speaker 1: You, your wife, your three kids, you, your husband, you three kids.
Speaker 1: Is there anyone who only spend fifty eight dollars on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Let's do the breakdown here. So Frank Luntz was pushing
Speaker 1: this out, who again, is a kind of media talking
Speaker 1: head personality. He's trying to push this out. The American
Speaker 1: Farm Bureau is pushing this out. CNBC is pushing this out,
Speaker 1: and my wife sent me this the breakdown. Holly. My wife,
Speaker 1: Holly is the true genius behind the John Jardi Show.
Speaker 1: She and my mom are kind of the shadow producers.
Speaker 1: All my best segment ideas come from them. Here's the
Speaker 1: breakdown of how the American Farm Bureau thinks your Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: dinner will go cost wise, A sixteen pound turkey twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars and sixty seven cents all right. First of all,
Speaker 1: twenty five pound, sixteen pound turkey that only costs twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars. That's less than two dollars a pound. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many people are getting turkeys for that cheap.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty cheap turkey. Also, a sixteen pound turkey
Speaker 1: for ten people, I don't think that's enough turkey. You
Speaker 1: probably need a bigger turkey to feed ten people. Let's remember,
Speaker 1: I mean of that sixteen pound turkey, how much of
Speaker 1: that turkey is bones and stuff? How many pounds of
Speaker 1: that sixteen is bones? All right, so everyone's gonna get
Speaker 1: let's say it's I don't know, you know, let's say
Speaker 1: eight pounds of that are gonna be edible. So eight
Speaker 1: pounds of meat for ten people. That's a bit scant.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess it depends on the people.
Speaker 1: Think you might need a bigger turkey than that. And again,
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars for a sixteen pound turkey, less than
Speaker 1: two dollars a pound. That's pretty cheap. That's like a
Speaker 1: buck fifty Almo, that's a little more than a buck fifty. No,
Speaker 1: a buck buck fifty, a gobble double fifty. All right, cranberries,
Speaker 1: we're getting one twelve ounce can of cranberries for two
Speaker 1: thirty five. How's that feeding ten people? That's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: Three pounds of sweet potatoes two dollars and ninety three cents.
Speaker 1: Carrots and celery a half pound each eighty four cent. No,
Speaker 1: one's getting just a half pound of carrot and a
Speaker 1: half pound of celery for what for as part of
Speaker 1: the stuffing? Green peas one pound is a dollar seventy three? Again,
Speaker 1: this is ten. Is everyone gonna get one tenth of
Speaker 1: a pound of string beans? Two nine inch pie shells
Speaker 1: three dollars and forty cents, but only one can a
Speaker 1: pumpkin pie mix, which is four fifteen. You need more
Speaker 1: than that? What if you have the temerity to make
Speaker 1: some kind of pie other than a pumpkin pie, you
Speaker 1: gotta buy. Apples, you gotta buy you might want to
Speaker 1: buy something other than already made pie crust. One gallon
Speaker 1: of whole milk, three twenty one, half a pint of
Speaker 1: whipping cream, a buck eighty one, a dozen dinner rolls
Speaker 1: for sixteen. This is not enough food, all right, anyone
Speaker 1: who's listening to this, there's no way that you didn't
Speaker 1: drop at least one hundred bucks on your Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, unless look, I know there are families
Speaker 1: out there who are struggling who maybe they and they're
Speaker 1: wonderful charitable drives that we're seeing all over that we've
Speaker 1: seen all over the Sanwakin Valley this Thanksgiving for giving
Speaker 1: people turkeys and giving food, and that's that's wonderful. But
Speaker 1: for people who are buying their own way, people who
Speaker 1: are going to Costco, Save Mart, Vaughn's, whatever, you know
Speaker 1: whatever for their Thanksgiving shopping. And I'm not talking bougie plate,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking your Whole Foods Thanksgiving, all right. I'm
Speaker 1: just normal middle of the road grocery stores, all right.
Speaker 1: You're spending way more than fifty eight dollars. And it's
Speaker 1: this whole thing, this whole narrative that was so insulting
Speaker 1: and defensive throughout the election season, which is that well,
Speaker 1: inflation is fixed. We fixed inflation. These people are just
Speaker 1: getting so upset about inflation and it doesn't make any sense. Well,
Speaker 1: this is the problem with inflation. It's not like we're
Speaker 1: ever going to have deflation. So you can tell me
Speaker 1: it's okay, inflation is now under control. It's only going
Speaker 1: up two percent. Well, it went up. The prices went
Speaker 1: up like much more than two percent, and they're still
Speaker 1: up to that really high level. Our prices aren't going down.
Speaker 1: And that's the frustrating thing, is that the prices for
Speaker 1: everything are still high and real wages still haven't caught
Speaker 1: up with those increases in price. So it's like this
Speaker 1: whole narrative was attempted to be constructed. It was one
Speaker 1: of the major economic bases of the Hairs campaign was
Speaker 1: to try to say that the economy is really not
Speaker 1: that bad. And there was only so much you could
Speaker 1: push it because I'm sure when it was you know,
Speaker 1: when it was workshopped, the focus group response was probably terrible.
Speaker 1: It's really dismissive, it's really demeaning to just tell people, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. We know that you're hurting. We know that
Speaker 1: you're seeing how much you're spending on your grocery bill.
Speaker 1: We know you're seeing all the impacts of stuff that
Speaker 1: you used to be able to buy just very easily,
Speaker 1: and now you just can't afford to splurge on it
Speaker 1: all the time. We know that you're seeing all this,
Speaker 1: but no, no, no, no, no, don't believe that. Don't believe
Speaker 1: you're lion eyes. I mean, when I go to the
Speaker 1: grocery store now and I see pork, you can't get
Speaker 1: a pork chop practically for less than five dollars a pound.
Speaker 1: When pork used to be like the most economical way
Speaker 1: for people to get produce, you know, you could get
Speaker 1: pork chops for two dollars a pound, two or three
Speaker 1: dollars a pound. It was a very affordable meat. Chicken,
Speaker 1: you can't get boneless chicken anymore, for it's very rare
Speaker 1: to get bone less chicken for under like four bucks
Speaker 1: a pound. And beef, I mean, forget about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: beef is always crazy expensive. There's no more getting chuck roast.
Speaker 1: I mean, occasionally you'll get a sale and you can
Speaker 1: get a massive chuck roast for like three or four
Speaker 1: for four bucks a pound, rarely three something. It's usually
Speaker 1: in the four and you get it and you stick
Speaker 1: it in your freezer and you do your best. But
Speaker 1: like you know, you're just not getting those options anymore.
Speaker 1: And it's a combination of a lot of things, a
Speaker 1: combination of California laws that are changing the ways that
Speaker 1: pork has to be raised, which is making everything more expensive.
Speaker 1: Gas is getting more expensive. Therefore the cost of everything
Speaker 1: goes up. Everything, everything has gone up, and it just
Speaker 1: seems so offensive to try to put out these sort
Speaker 1: of infographics. Oh well, if you just have one gallon
Speaker 1: of milk for ten people, and one half pint of
Speaker 1: whipping cream for ten people, and one pumpkin pie for
Speaker 1: ten people, and one relatively not that huge turkey for
Speaker 1: ten people, one box of stuffing for ten people, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you can get by with the Thanksgiving dinner that cost
Speaker 1: fifty eight bucks. Get out of here. There is hardly
Speaker 1: there is basically no family who's who paid their way
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving, who was spending less than three digits there's
Speaker 1: no way when we return a thought about Thanksgiving family
Speaker 1: conversations next on The John Jubwardy Show this week, as
Speaker 1: you're gathered together with your families. Also, it seems like
Speaker 1: schools are taking way more time off for Thanksgiving than
Speaker 1: back in my back in my day. Back in my day,
Speaker 1: kids would go to school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: then you'd only get Thursday and maybe Friday off. But
Speaker 1: now it seems like everyone's got the whole week off.
Speaker 1: So you're probably gonna have lots of dinners with family
Speaker 1: and friends over the course of this long weekend end. Here,
Speaker 1: this long week of Thanksgiving celebrations. I'll just throw in
Speaker 1: my two cents here. You know, the old saying that
Speaker 1: politics and religion, You shouldn't discuss politics and religion. I
Speaker 1: will say this, don't let this election be the occasion
Speaker 1: for Are you boomer parents out there antagonizing your millennial
Speaker 1: kids more new millennial kids listening antagonizing your boomer parents.
Speaker 1: You know, you only get so many of these get
Speaker 1: togethers with your parents, especially any of you millennials listening. Okay,
Speaker 1: you only get so many of these dinners with your
Speaker 1: mom and dad, and trust me. You'll regret the ones
Speaker 1: that had sort of antagonism, and you'll really look fondly
Speaker 1: with love and affection on the ones that had a
Speaker 1: lot of love. I haven't lost my dad this year.
Speaker 1: I'm more aware of this. So don't let Thanksgiving dinner
Speaker 1: be the occasion for political fighting. Just don't do it.
Speaker 1: That'll do it, John Girardi Show, See you next time
Speaker 1: on Power Talk.