WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.639 One of the most significant aspects to President Trump's election 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.039 victory was the shift in the Latino vote. Latino's voted 3 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:12.800 I believe it was forty five percent of Latino's voted 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:15.560 for Donald Trump. So it's not a majority yet, but 5 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:21.600 it's better than any Republican president has done, better than 6 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:24.399 George W. Bush I think even did in two thousand 7 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:31.920 and four, and he gets this percentage of the Latino vote. 8 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:35.479 When he's Donald Trump, he's the guy going around saying 9 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:40.679 he wants mass deportations, he wants to secure the border, 10 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:50.320 and liberals are dumbfounded by this. They are utterly completely baffled. 11 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:57.880 They cannot fathom how in God's green Earth this could 12 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:02.280 possibly be. So much of the media messaging we have 13 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:08.640 on the Latino vote the concept of Latinos as persons 14 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:15.519 of color within the liberal categories of intersectionality. So, of 15 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:18.239 those who don't know, intersectionality is kind of the liberal 16 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:25.359 calculus for are you some kind of historically oppressed minority 17 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:39.519 that we liberals will lavish with favor, with preference both socially, culturally, politically, economically, legally, 18 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:45.840 et cetera. Latinos are deemed to be an oppressed minority 19 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.319 for purposes of stuff like the California Voter Rights Act 20 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:55.560 or something. The Chinese aren't the legacy of the Chinese 21 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.799 in California being an oppressed minority is far greater than that, 22 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.719 at least as significant, I should say, as that of Latinos. 23 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:09.639 But no Latinos are deemed to be this oppressed minority. 24 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.360 African Americans are deemed to be this suppressed minority, and liberals, 25 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:14.479 in various ways try to give some kind of legal 26 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:19.919 favorite advantage. Let's note, though, that a lot of that 27 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.879 legal favor or advantage that liberals give to these historically 28 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:31.319 oppressed groups so called, is based on a certain kind 29 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:36.439 of deal. And the deal is these all have to 30 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:40.560 be people who vote for Democrats. All of the various 31 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.319 California voter rights acts that allow them to kind of 32 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:50.159 that prevent us in California from drawing reasonable looking redistricting 33 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:58.080 lines to reflect geography or something. Basically, California blocks California 34 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:02.560 almost mandates jerry andering in ways that favor liberals because 35 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.960 you cannot break up the power of minority votes. So 36 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:10.840 basically to correct the historic wrongs that that basically various 37 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:14.280 African American communities in the South experience with redistricting, So 38 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:23.319 redistricting political redistricting, the redrawing of the lines for members 39 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.360 of the House representatives members of your state legislature historically 40 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.560 is always done by the state legislature and it was 41 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:34.400 governed by the political process. It wasn't really something that's 42 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.840 reviewable by the courts. Well. The problem is that in 43 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:43.960 the South, very often politicians would draw the electoral map 44 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:51.599 in ways that would mitigate, dilute, minimize African American voting 45 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.240 powers that they take in African American neighborhood and chop 46 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:58.639 it up into basically so that this one African American 47 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:02.120 neighborhood enjoy Georgia is all of a sudden, it's part 48 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.280 of ten different congressional districts that's sliced up like a pizza, 49 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.560 so that there's no one district where African Americans have 50 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.599 any power whatsoever. Or maybe you shove all the African 51 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.280 Americans into one district and then all the other districts 52 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.040 are totally white and African American power is minimized in 53 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.720 that way. There were all kinds of shenanigans like that, 54 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:27.959 that sort of racist white powers that be would visit 55 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.399 upon African American. They're African American brethren in the South, 56 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:36.279 and it was bad. It was a bad thing. This 57 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:39.639 is happening though, in California almost the reverse, where basically, 58 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:48.240 because of that historic wrong, Latinos in California, basically reasonable 59 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:53.639 kinds of redistricting and district line drawing are not allowed 60 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:58.399 to happen under the pretext of oh, you're breaking up 61 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.360 Latino political power in the San Joaquin Valley. How could you? 62 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:03.959 You can't, So you can't do that. So we have 63 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.639 to draw our redistricting lines to give maximal power to Latinos. 64 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:12.319 And really the goal of this is, well, let's get 65 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:17.439 as many Democrats to vote as possible, maximize Democrat political 66 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:21.959 might as best we can. The whole premise for Latinos 67 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:27.000 being part of the liberal oppressed minority family, the whole 68 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:33.439 premise is they will vote for us. Well, now that 69 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:42.920 Latinos aren't voting for Democrats, what do they do. You're 70 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:48.000 already starting to hear rumblings, particularly from African American liberals, 71 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:55.600 that Mexicans Latinos are should not be viewed as quote 72 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:59.079 persons of color. Already you're starting to see a shift 73 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:05.000 about the problematic reality of misogyny among Latino households and 74 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:11.639 Latino families. All of a sudden, this monolith is breaking. 75 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:20.240 Now here's why liberals cannot fathom it. Liberals can't fathom 76 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:25.600 all of this because most of American liberal political culture 77 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:33.040 is dictated by liberals in the Northeast. Yeah, there are 78 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.720 liberals in California, but they're not setting the tone for 79 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:42.639 politics for the rest of the country. That tone is 80 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:48.800 being set by liberals graduating from IVY leagues, college professors 81 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:52.480 who went to IVY leagues and are teaching in schools 82 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:57.639 in the Northeast, maybe going into the Midwest, But most 83 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:03.639 of American political American liberal political culture is being dictated 84 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:12.079 by the Northeast. Even the political culture, the political culture 85 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:18.319 I would say of academic hard lefty Latinos in California, 86 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:24.839 I think is very much influenced by that culture. And 87 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.040 here's the thing. Take this from me as someone who 88 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:31.800 I lived in the Midwest for seven years. I lived 89 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:36.199 in Massachusetts for two years, visited New York, a lot, 90 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:41.759 visited Boston, a lot visited Washington, DC, a lot lived 91 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:47.720 in Massachusetts for two years. I think a lot of 92 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:57.959 Northeast liberals don't understand Latino voters in America at all, 93 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:05.519 because they rarely ever actually encounter them, hang out with them, 94 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:13.319 talk with them. They view by the way, this is 95 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:17.600 me characterizing them, not me characterizing me. They view brown 96 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:24.720 as brown, and they even this belated adoption of the 97 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:30.839 term brown as a reference to Latinos, which I feel 98 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.000 like twenty five years ago would have been highly politically 99 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:37.559 incorrect just to call Latinos brown, But that's the language 100 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:43.120 that's been adopted by academic liberals. The plight of black 101 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.600 and brown people and brown people just means Latinos Latinos broadly. 102 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:02.320 I think they fundamentally Northeast liberals fundamentally don't understand Latinos 103 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:06.440 in this country, and specifically though they don't really understand 104 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:14.600 Mexican Americans Latinos coming who either have come or are coming, 105 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.000 or came generation or two ago from the southern border, 106 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.600 most of them from Mexico, with whom do Latinos in 107 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:30.159 the Northeast interact chiefly different kinds of Latinos, And this 108 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:34.279 is part of the problem. Northeast liberals paint with this 109 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:42.759 very broad Latino brush as if a comedian telling a joke. 110 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:44.759 Remember the comedian who told the joke at the Trump 111 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:46.879 rally at Madison Square Garden. He told the joke about 112 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.480 Puerto Rico, and he said Puerto Rico is a big, 113 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:53.440 floating island of trash, which actually is kind of funny, 114 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:58.360 given that Puerto Rico has massive problems with waste management 115 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.399 and how they're disposing of waste. They do have problems 116 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:03.600 with a lot of trash loading in around the island. 117 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:12.600 But the reaction from Northeast white liberals and a lot 118 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.120 of this I think was kind of wish casting, hoping 119 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.320 that this would hurt Donald Trump is say this is 120 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:20.480 going to turn Latino voters off across the country, when 121 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.679 I'm just laughing thinking about my Mexican my friends who 122 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:30.399 are of Mexican descent, they don't care about someone making 123 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.480 a joke about Puerto Ricans. That would be like an 124 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.960 Italian in their eyes. That would be like an Italian 125 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:41.840 getting upset that someone made a joke about a Spaniard 126 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:45.519 or a Frenchman being upset that someone made a joke 127 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:49.440 about an Italian. There's no It's not like there's some 128 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:57.639 kind of pan Latino brother unified brotherhood where an insult 129 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.720 against a Puerto Rican is an insult against all peoples 130 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:08.960 who speak Spanish. No, the Mexican American experience and the 131 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:20.360 Puerto Rican experience are wildly different experiences racially, historically, governmentally 132 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:24.080 how it relates to immigration, and Puerto Rico is in 133 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:28.120 American territory that there's not as much immigration stuff with 134 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:32.240 someone who's a Puerto Rican. As such, the experience of 135 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:35.559 being a Dominican versus a Mexican are entirely different things. 136 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:38.879 A Puerto Rican versus a Mexican different things, as South 137 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:44.879 American Venezuelan versus a Mexican different things, highly different things. 138 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.279 And I think a lot of Northeast liberals their primary 139 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:59.080 interface with Latinos, a lot of it are is with 140 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:03.080 the kinds of Latinas who live on the East Coast 141 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:11.639 and particularly in the Northeast, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and others 142 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:19.919 who are very very left, who even when they become citizens, 143 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:23.679 remain very very left, who continue to have this constant 144 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:27.399 interplay of family who are coming back and forth, who 145 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:31.720 are flying back and forth where illegal immigration issues impacting, 146 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.759 whether it's Dominicans or South Americans, the kinds of people 147 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:41.879 who are in who are Spanish speaking but in New 148 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:47.000 York for example, or Massachusetts for example. It's a very 149 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:53.000 different experience from American citizens of Mexican descent who live 150 00:12:53.320 --> 00:13:04.279 in the American Southwest, who live in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Colorado, Nevada, 151 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:16.879 et cetera. I think it's actually a fairly ra I 152 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.000 hate just throwing around that everyone's racist, everyone's racist. I 153 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.120 think it is a somewhat let me put it this way, 154 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:27.360 I think it is an ignorant viewpoint that Northeast liberals 155 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:33.000 take that just views, well, they're someone who from a 156 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:35.000 country that used to be owned by Spain, and they 157 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:39.200 speak Spanish, so therefore they're all the same. They don't 158 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:41.120 say that they would be a horror, of course, I 159 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.120 don't believe that, but the way they act kind of 160 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:47.120 indicates that's what they do. Believe that the Cuban experience 161 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:57.519 is miles different from the Mexican American experience. So when 162 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:05.960 Donald Trump says I want to deport the huge influx 163 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:08.919 of illegal immigrants who came into this country under the 164 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:15.639 Biden administration, the idea that they are dumbfounded at the 165 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:25.639 idea that Mexican Americans, American citizens of Mexican descent, background, ancestry, whatever. 166 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:30.879 They are flabbergasted at the idea that they are shifting 167 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:35.840 more towards the Trump position than otherwise. When we return, 168 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:38.799 I'll kind of explain a little bit about why that 169 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:43.919 is next on the John Girardi Show. Liberals are dumbfounded 170 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:47.240 and angry at the massive shifts that are happening in 171 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:50.840 the Latino vote. Donald Trump got forty five percent of 172 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:55.879 the Latino vote in this last election. Why how did 173 00:14:55.879 --> 00:15:03.600 this happen? I think it's because now they are dumbfounded. 174 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.720 I think, as I was explaining in the first segment, 175 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.120 I think liberals are dumbfounded at this because they're from 176 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:14.840 the Northeast. They really have very little experience living in 177 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:21.440 a community that has a high, high, high, high percentage 178 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:26.679 of Latinos. I grew up in the Fresno area. I'm 179 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:32.080 pretty sure Fresno at this point is majority Hispanic, close 180 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:40.480 to that, and it's totally not unfamiliar to me. I 181 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:45.159 grew up going to parts of town or everyone's speaking Spanish, 182 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:47.480 or a store where everyone speaking Spanish, or a restaurant 183 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:51.320 where everyone' speaking Spanish. I grew up going to school 184 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:56.000 with families who were Mexican families who had family back 185 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.960 in Mexico, Families who were here and sometimes go back 186 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.320 there for vacations. Families where the husband's Mexican and the 187 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.000 wife is you know, Polish or whatever. You know. It 188 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:09.799 just everywhere. That's it's just part. I'm hardly some rare, 189 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:14.000 you know, icon of a diverse childhood or something that 190 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.519 that's just the experience of growing up in the Sawaquin Valley. 191 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.879 Tons of people you know are Mexicans. Probably most statistically speaking, 192 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.559 maybe most of the people you know are Mexican or 193 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:29.840 of Mexican heritage or blah blah blah blah blah. You know, 194 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.960 forgive me if I'm not using all the proper uh 195 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.159 dotting my eyes and crossing my teas of political correct 196 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:42.399 you know, descriptors. And the thing that Northeast liberals are ignoring, 197 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:50.440 I think is that there is a massive difference between 198 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:59.159 a person of Mexican descent whose grandfather immigrated, so now 199 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:04.119 they're you know, second third generation whose grandfather immigrated. But 200 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:07.400 they maybe it's someone who's my aid. Maybe it's someone 201 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:10.359 in their mid thirties. They were born in America, they 202 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.960 were raised in America, they went to American schools. They 203 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.039 can speak some Spanish, but they grew up mostly speak 204 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:21.119 in English. They're working a job just like anybody else. 205 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:25.240 They went to college or you know, trade school or 206 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:31.960 high school, whatever. But the idea that someone like that, 207 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:38.759 who is counted within you know, survey data as a 208 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:43.599 quote Latino voter. The idea that someone like that, let's 209 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:47.640 take that example. A third, someone whose grandfather immigrated to 210 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:52.319 the United States, who is of Mexican descent, but again 211 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:57.079 born here, raised here, when the schools here, is working 212 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:03.799 a job, just trying to get by. Someone that many 213 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.559 generations in might be married to a white person. They 214 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:09.920 might not be, but they might be. They probably have 215 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.799 white friends. They are just working a job just like 216 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:21.279 anyone else does. They're not working the fields. They're here legally. Also, 217 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:24.720 of course they're here legally, they were born here. They're 218 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:33.759 American citizens. The idea that someone like that is identifying 219 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:42.079 with the cause of someone who entered this country illegally 220 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:47.119 just fifteen minutes ago and saying that is my people, 221 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:50.960 that is my person whom I'm sticking up for. That's 222 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.359 the person I most identify with politically, is this immigrant 223 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:57.400 who just came in ten minutes ago against the law 224 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:03.039 who came in pretending it was an asylum claim when 225 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:04.799 really it wasn't. He just wanted to come here for 226 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:09.519 economic reasons. Yes, that's my kindred spirit that I'm gonna 227 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.519 vote to protect to make sure he doesn't get deported. No, 228 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:17.920 why would someone who just hap is an American who 229 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:22.920 happens to be of Mexican descent, but who's concerns when 230 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:27.759 it comes to his work, the economy, inflation, his job, 231 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:32.480 et cetera. Why would he be having his vote be 232 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:39.279 driven by the immigration plight of someone who's just arriving 233 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:44.559 into this country, you know, fifteen minutes ago. And that's 234 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:46.480 not to say that just because you've been in this 235 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:48.839 country a couple generations, you hate all immigrants and you 236 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:50.799 don't care about immgants. And that's not what I'm saying. 237 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:54.319 And by the way, I'm not saying that like we 238 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:59.119 should be brutalizing immigrants or you know, horrifically separating people 239 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:04.319 blah blah blah blah bla, but fair immigrant it. The 240 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:10.279 Biden administration let in huge waves of immigrants illegally and 241 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:16.160 under under speciously legal theories like the border was an 242 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:18.559 absolute disaster for the Biden administration. For Trump to take 243 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.039 corrective action against that is not crazy, It is not punitive, 244 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:25.079 Nor do I think even I would make the contention 245 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:30.160 it's not in opposition to my Christian beliefs about loving 246 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.440 our fellow man. Countries don't have to take in an 247 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:40.839 unlimited number of immigrants. But I think this is the 248 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:46.039 thing that liberals don't understand. Just because you happen to 249 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:49.240 be of Mexican descent doesn't mean you will always end 250 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:55.359 forever continue to view the problems of immigration at the 251 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:58.480 southern border as the most important thing in your life, 252 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:02.240 Nor will you continue to have the same thoughts, viewpoints 253 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:07.839 ideas about Southern border immigration that maybe someone would if 254 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:10.799 he were a first generation immigrant or someone who's not 255 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.720 yet a citizen. Let's recall everyone voting in the election, 256 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:19.000 or hopefully everybody voting in the election, even if they 257 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:28.119 are of Mexican descent, is an American citizen. People of 258 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:31.759 Mexican descent who are American citizens. Yes, maybe there are 259 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:34.359 some of them who really are animated by the border 260 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:37.920 and are really animated by the idea that Trump will 261 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.000 take action to deport people in ways that they think 262 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.559 are wrong. And look, Trump still got I think Harris 263 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:48.839 still got a majority of the Latino vote, but a 264 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.440 lot of them just aren't that way. They're Americans now, 265 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.640 they're integrated into American society, and they have the same 266 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.079 exact kind And I feel like an idiot lecturing Fresno 267 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:04.000 about this, but I'm sure more than Havy listening to 268 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:07.039 this are Mexicans, and you have this of Mexican heritage, 269 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:09.480 of Mexican descent, whatever, but you're American citizens and you 270 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:11.519 have the same concerns that I have. You have the 271 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:14.359 same concern about your job, You have the same concerns 272 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.119 about the economy, You have the same concerns about inflation. 273 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.720 You have the same concerns I have about taxes and 274 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:25.599 all the other things that citizens vote on all the time. 275 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:30.400 You have opinions about stuff like abortion, you have opinions 276 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:34.559 about stuff like the whole panoply of American issues, and 277 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:36.599 those are the things you vote for. You're not only 278 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:39.240 voting necessarily on the basis of immigration. 279 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:50.359 So I think this is why the left is so befuddled, 280 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:55.519 is that, Look, people change over time, Demographic shifts happen 281 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:56.200 over time. 282 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:02.200 Latinos are integrating within American society over the last twenty 283 00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:07.039 thirty years. And that's after you've become an American citizen 284 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:09.400 or integrated and you're having normal jobs just like a 285 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:14.079 normal American citizen would. Maybe the border isn't your only 286 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:21.599 thing that you're ever concerned with, and certainly your attitudes 287 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:25.079 about it might be quite different depending on what kind 288 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:28.559 of Latino you are. The experience of a Cuban in Florida, 289 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:34.279 a Mexican American living in Arizona or Nevada, and someone 290 00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:37.839 from the Dominican who lives in New York City are 291 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.799 not comparable. It's like comparing a Frenchman, an Italian and 292 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:45.559 a Spaniard. When we return how to make a Thanksgiving 293 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.480 dinner for fifty eight dollars for ten people? Next on 294 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:53.160 The John Girardi Show, I hope you're all enjoying this 295 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:59.319 Thanksgiving week. As you're enjoying it, I wanted to regale 296 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:04.240 you with maybe the stupidest little bit of regime propaganda. 297 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:08.319 We're not gonna get many more efforts like this. Occasionally, 298 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:10.759 you'll see when a Democrat administration is in power and 299 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:16.559 the economy is doing badly, they'll present these infographics about 300 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:19.920 how things are actually doing fine. I remember, I think 301 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:22.559 this was early in the Biden administration when inflation was 302 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:25.119 really jumping up. How they were trying to present these 303 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:28.839 infographics to say, actually, the cost of a Fourth of 304 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:32.880 July cookout is actually not higher than it was last 305 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:36.160 year at all. Here's the prices of everything. Your Fourth 306 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:39.039 of July cookout should cost this much. Average cost of 307 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:42.000 hot dogs is this much, Average cost of Hamburger ground 308 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:44.559 beef is this much. And they would present all these 309 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:54.680 obviously either out of date or inaccurate or unrealistic pricing lists, 310 00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:00.920 And it was various like Biden administration media facing efforts 311 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.160 to try to convince people are, actually the economy is 312 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:05.559 not that bad. Oh, this inflation thing, it's all in 313 00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:08.599 your head. Back in twenty twenty one, when they were 314 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:12.079 just trying to convince, oh, what inflation, there's no inflation happening. 315 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:17.240 Then yeah, obviously there's massive inflation happening. Well, it looks 316 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:21.759 like we're going to get our last sort of grand 317 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:25.599 attempt at this from I guess some liberals who have 318 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:29.359 something to prove. So this is from the American Farm 319 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:35.680 Bureau Federation. Now this is being pushed out by them. 320 00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:38.000 I'm not sure why. I see a lot of Trump 321 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:44.279 sort of Biden surrogates Democrat operatives like Frank Luntz, for example, 322 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:50.200 trying to push this out. Actually, I don't think Frank 323 00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:53.200 Lunz is actually a genuine Democrat operative. He's just kind 324 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:55.559 of a media operative, And it's part of this whole 325 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:58.160 liberal thing of trying to stay well. I'm inflation is 326 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:02.640 not that bad America. This is the liberal explanation for 327 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:05.960 way Kamala Harris lost. Americans think the economy is bad, 328 00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:08.519 but actually the economy is much better than Americans think that. 329 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:11.400 You don't believe, you're lyon eyes. The economy is actually 330 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.160 doing great. You're all wrong that. That's basically the liberal 331 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:17.200 messaging on this. I don't know why the American Farm 332 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:22.160 Bureau is trying to sort of play into this by 333 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:27.400 publishing this stuff. Anyway. Peace published by NBC News, written 334 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:32.279 by Jingfeng, who writes you may not know it by 335 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:35.039 looking at sticker prices in grocery aisles, but Thanksgiving dinner 336 00:26:35.079 --> 00:26:37.759 is more affordable than it has been in years. The 337 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:43.319 cost of this year's holiday feast estimated at fifty eight 338 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:48.480 dollars and eight cents for a ten person gathering five 339 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:54.680 dollars eighty one cents ahead, dropped five percent since last year, 340 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:59.799 the lowest level since twenty twenty one. Let me repeat 341 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:02.400 this stat that they're trying to push on us. They're 342 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:07.480 trying to make you think this is even close to reasonable. 343 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:20.480 Fifty eight dollars for Thanksgiving dinner for ten people, this 344 00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:24.640 fine Thanksgiving week. Any of you who are listening to this, 345 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.000 is that what you are spending on your Thanksgiving? Is 346 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:34.119 that what you've spent? Like, raise your hand, if you 347 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:36.559 only spend fifty eight dollars, if you're if you were 348 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:40.680 the one prepping Thanksgiving, I'll even go farther. You're making 349 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:47.480 Thanksgiving for five people. It's just you, your spouse, your 350 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:50.480 three kids, your dog, and the white picket fence, all right, 351 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.480 just your home, your no grandma, no cousins. 352 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:55.599 Just. 353 00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:01.480 You, your wife, your three kids, you, your husband, you three kids. 354 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:07.599 Is there anyone who only spend fifty eight dollars on Thanksgiving? 355 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:15.319 Let's do the breakdown here. So Frank Luntz was pushing 356 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:21.839 this out, who again, is a kind of media talking 357 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:28.000 head personality. He's trying to push this out. The American 358 00:28:28.039 --> 00:28:32.000 Farm Bureau is pushing this out. CNBC is pushing this out, 359 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:38.240 and my wife sent me this the breakdown. Holly. My wife, 360 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:41.319 Holly is the true genius behind the John Jardi Show. 361 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:43.839 She and my mom are kind of the shadow producers. 362 00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:47.119 All my best segment ideas come from them. Here's the 363 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:50.640 breakdown of how the American Farm Bureau thinks your Thanksgiving 364 00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:57.880 dinner will go cost wise, A sixteen pound turkey twenty 365 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:04.079 five dollars and sixty seven cents all right. First of all, 366 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:08.960 twenty five pound, sixteen pound turkey that only costs twenty 367 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:12.599 five dollars. That's less than two dollars a pound. I 368 00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.319 don't know how many people are getting turkeys for that cheap. 369 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:21.559 That's a pretty cheap turkey. Also, a sixteen pound turkey 370 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:27.160 for ten people, I don't think that's enough turkey. You 371 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:31.400 probably need a bigger turkey to feed ten people. Let's remember, 372 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:36.519 I mean of that sixteen pound turkey, how much of 373 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:40.319 that turkey is bones and stuff? How many pounds of 374 00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:44.720 that sixteen is bones? All right, so everyone's gonna get 375 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:47.839 let's say it's I don't know, you know, let's say 376 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:53.400 eight pounds of that are gonna be edible. So eight 377 00:29:54.359 --> 00:29:58.799 pounds of meat for ten people. That's a bit scant. 378 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:05.440 I don't know. I guess it depends on the people. 379 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:10.200 Think you might need a bigger turkey than that. And again, 380 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:12.480 twenty five dollars for a sixteen pound turkey, less than 381 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.319 two dollars a pound. That's pretty cheap. That's like a 382 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.720 buck fifty Almo, that's a little more than a buck fifty. No, 383 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:24.440 a buck buck fifty, a gobble double fifty. All right, cranberries, 384 00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:27.160 we're getting one twelve ounce can of cranberries for two 385 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.559 thirty five. How's that feeding ten people? That's not gonna work. 386 00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:37.119 Three pounds of sweet potatoes two dollars and ninety three cents. 387 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:44.160 Carrots and celery a half pound each eighty four cent. No, 388 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:46.680 one's getting just a half pound of carrot and a 389 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:50.359 half pound of celery for what for as part of 390 00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:58.880 the stuffing? Green peas one pound is a dollar seventy three? Again, 391 00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:02.279 this is ten. Is everyone gonna get one tenth of 392 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:09.599 a pound of string beans? Two nine inch pie shells 393 00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:16.799 three dollars and forty cents, but only one can a 394 00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:21.079 pumpkin pie mix, which is four fifteen. You need more 395 00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:24.079 than that? What if you have the temerity to make 396 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:28.519 some kind of pie other than a pumpkin pie, you 397 00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:30.680 gotta buy. Apples, you gotta buy you might want to 398 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:36.440 buy something other than already made pie crust. One gallon 399 00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:39.119 of whole milk, three twenty one, half a pint of 400 00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:44.200 whipping cream, a buck eighty one, a dozen dinner rolls 401 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:48.440