1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free, write to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,640 your support. On Twitter, the Hellian sent me a Babylon 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,520 B headline. Babylon B a satirical website, but somehow has 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:43,439 their finger on the pulse headline. Democrats vow to starve 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,880 as many food stamp recipients as it takes to get 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:53,759 free healthcare for illegal immigrants. Yes. In fact, Stephen Miller, 14 00:00:54,759 --> 00:01:01,320 a writer at The Spectator, at a series of posts 15 00:01:01,359 --> 00:01:07,200 on Twitter or tweets, I should say, quoting these democrats, 16 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,560 I played a bunch of the audio clips in the 17 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,640 last hour, and I have over the last week or so. 18 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:19,079 Democrats are coalescing around this, messaging this narrative that this 19 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:26,079 is their only leverage in negotiations with the Republicans. Republicans 20 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,599 passed a Clean Continuing Resolution to fund the government passed 21 00:01:29,599 --> 00:01:33,840 the House with Democrats supporter. It went to the Senate 22 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:38,400 where two Democrats and an independent Angus king of the 23 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:43,359 famous meat family, they along with a fetterman and was 24 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,840 a Mastio I think the two Democrats that also agreed 25 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,840 to it. I was a bipartisan vote. They got like 26 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:52,640 it was fifty four votes I think in the Senate 27 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,519 to pass the clean cr and then all of the 28 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,120 other Democrats opposed it, and they continue to oppose and 29 00:02:01,519 --> 00:02:05,480 they have been struggling to come up with a narrative. 30 00:02:05,719 --> 00:02:07,799 The best that they could come up with was that 31 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:12,800 Republicans control the trifecta. They have the trifecta, which means 32 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,599 Republicans control the House, and they have a majority in 33 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:21,039 the Senate and they have the White House. That's the trifecta, right, 34 00:02:21,479 --> 00:02:24,360 That's what they've been saying for the last twenty five 35 00:02:24,479 --> 00:02:27,840 days up until about two or three days ago when 36 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:31,039 the narrative shifted, okay, because it wasn't really making a 37 00:02:31,039 --> 00:02:35,639 lot of sense, because yes, they control the House by 38 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:41,199 a was it two seats or something, very slim majority. 39 00:02:41,599 --> 00:02:43,879 But that's all you need in the House is a 40 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,759 slim majority. All you need is fifty percent plus one 41 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,319 to pass anything, and then it goes to the Senate. 42 00:02:50,319 --> 00:02:53,960 But in the Senate, yeah, it's a little tougher. See 43 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,240 in the Senate, you have to be able to overcome 44 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:02,319 a filibuster when threatened by the minority party in this 45 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,879 case the Democrats. And the filibuster used to mean you 46 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,919 had to stand up there and run your mouth, you know, 47 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,360 until you like passed out or died or you stop 48 00:03:12,439 --> 00:03:14,439 talking or whatever. But that was the way that you 49 00:03:14,439 --> 00:03:18,120 would block legislation. So you couldn't just be steamrolled like 50 00:03:18,159 --> 00:03:21,479 you can be steamrolled in the House as the minority party. 51 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:25,520 And along the years, throughout the years, the you know, 52 00:03:25,599 --> 00:03:28,599 the gentlemanly agreement in the Senate was, Okay, we're not 53 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,800 going to make you actually stand up there and talk, 54 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,159 because that's hard and we would not like to have 55 00:03:34,199 --> 00:03:37,159 to do that either. So we'll just say it's a 56 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,080 legislative filibuster. And so you don't actually have to do 57 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,599 the running of the gums. You just have to say 58 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:49,120 you would run your gums if you had to. So 59 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:51,960 that means you have to get sixty votes. And so 60 00:03:52,039 --> 00:03:55,319 anybody that understands how the filibuster works, and really it's 61 00:03:55,319 --> 00:03:57,520 that simple. You need sixty votes. It means you need 62 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,960 Democrats to sign on. You need seven Democrats to agree 63 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,360 with the fifty three Republicans, and they have not been 64 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,520 able or fifty two Republicans, they have not been able 65 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,599 to get enough Democrats on board to pass the cr 66 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:12,599 And so Democrats running around saying, you control all of 67 00:04:12,639 --> 00:04:16,040 the branches of government, it doesn't matter because the minority 68 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:19,519 party is blocking it. If they actually controlled the Senate 69 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,240 with the votes necessary to pass it, they would have 70 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,160 done it already, but they cannot, so they have not. 71 00:04:26,439 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker Mike Johnson, oh, hang on, before I get to him, 72 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,839 I got to run through what Steven Miller said that 73 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:38,199 this narrative starving people on government food benefits is our 74 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:43,279 only leverage. Okay, that's the narrative. That's their talking point. Now, 75 00:04:43,399 --> 00:04:46,199 that's their strategy, their response to every time they get 76 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,800 asked about this, they're like, this is our moment of 77 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,920 time to exert maximum leverage, which is to make people 78 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,040 feel the pain of starvation. By the way, I wonder 79 00:04:57,079 --> 00:04:59,680 what all of the people who were you know, who 80 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,360 were the alarm about famine in Gaza, where are all 81 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:06,560 you guys, You guys worried about all of the famine 82 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:12,160 in America that might be caused by this eight points 83 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,839 out here? You still don't think that the Democrat Party 84 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:21,839 is Zoron Mamdani's Communist Party like it's already been captured. 85 00:05:22,439 --> 00:05:25,439 The entire Snap thing would have been deployed by the 86 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,600 media three weeks ago if they actually meant it. That's 87 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:32,639 a great point. Why are we hearing this narrative now? 88 00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:36,040 Why is it only now? Is it because the SNAP 89 00:05:36,079 --> 00:05:37,920 benefits are not going to get paid out in another 90 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,279 two days, three days, whatever? Or is it because they 91 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:44,920 didn't actually mean it and they're trying to now scramble 92 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:49,480 to find any message to justify their actions. Pay attention 93 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,240 to all the millions of people dependent upon the government 94 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,480 for food who will starve if you don't give us 95 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,759 what we want. That is the actual position of a 96 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,759 major political party in America right now. We're going to 97 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:06,000 starve our own voters unless you cave to our demands. 98 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:13,040 Is it any wonder why these people backed Hamas. They're 99 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:19,360 using their own people as human shields, right. They have 100 00:06:19,519 --> 00:06:23,399 learned from Hamas that if you are willing to sacrifice 101 00:06:23,439 --> 00:06:28,040 your own people, to have your own constituents suffer and 102 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,680 maybe die of starvation. Right, if you're willing to do that, 103 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,759 then you can milk the pr You can milk the 104 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:43,759 suicidal empathy that has captured the American psyche. This is 105 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:49,519 a Kami negotiation. Mamdani is the Democrat party. There doesn't 106 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:51,000 even have to be an attempt to make in the 107 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,040 face of it. In fact, this strategy was employed the 108 00:06:55,079 --> 00:07:00,839 great leap forward in Maos China. Only leverage is to 109 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:05,920 starve the people that we provide food for. Right, you 110 00:07:06,079 --> 00:07:12,439 are Democrats. You are proving the very point that Republicans 111 00:07:12,439 --> 00:07:16,800 and conservatives and libertarians have been making for decades, which 112 00:07:16,839 --> 00:07:20,519 is that when you make a class of people dependent 113 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,720 on you, you are locking them in as voters. And 114 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:28,959 it is a cynical thing. It's an evil thing to do. 115 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:35,160 You're making them dependent so you can maintain power. At 116 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,160 least now they're saying it, right, at least now they're 117 00:07:39,199 --> 00:07:46,000 openly admitting it. They have voted thirteen times against funding 118 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,800 the clean Continuing Resolution keeping the government open because they 119 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:54,879 want the leverage. They want to try to drag the 120 00:07:54,959 --> 00:08:00,279 Republicans to the negotiating table to make Republicans do things 121 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,720 that Republicans have opposed for a decade and a half. 122 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:07,319 And Democrats know this. They know Republicans aren't going to 123 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:14,759 do this. You're asking them to betray their voters, and 124 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:20,480 that would be a massive betrayal. Speaker Mike Johnson listed 125 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,319 in some of these things in a tweet that Democrats 126 00:08:23,319 --> 00:08:25,800 refuse to fund the government unless they restore two hundred 127 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:30,360 billion dollars in health benefits for illegal aliens. Do you 128 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:34,120 understand what Donald Trump ran on, what he won on, 129 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:39,120 what Republicans and conservatives have been banging the drum about 130 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:44,879 for twenty five years on immigration, five hundred million dollars 131 00:08:44,919 --> 00:08:50,080 for leftist media outlets, and huge cuts to rural hospitals. 132 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:52,519 You're aware of that. Yeah, they want to move like 133 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,879 fifty billion dollars out of rural hospital funds. That's what 134 00:08:55,919 --> 00:09:02,679 they're demanding Republicans do. Oh and the foreign components here, 135 00:09:02,799 --> 00:09:07,360 they want cuts to USAID restored. Right, the things that 136 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,440 Republicans have been demanding. And by the way, there is 137 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,320 a reason for this, obviously, which is that cutting off 138 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:19,559 the NGO funding was a huge hit to the leftist machinery. 139 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,039 That's why they are willing to starve their own people, 140 00:09:24,279 --> 00:09:29,840 to starve Americans in order to get that funding stream reopened, 141 00:09:30,159 --> 00:09:33,919 to get the NGOs refunded so they can continue with 142 00:09:34,039 --> 00:09:38,080 their Color Revolution tactics. To me, this is very clear. 143 00:09:38,879 --> 00:09:41,080 You may have a different opinion, but that's how I 144 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,840 see it, all right. 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Last hour, I made mention of these two 166 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:56,480 competing bills that would REOPE or sorry, that would reinstitute 167 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:04,639 funding for food stamps or the Supplemental Nutritional Program, the 168 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:13,279 SNAP program, and one is coming from the Senate Republican 169 00:11:14,039 --> 00:11:18,919 Josh Hawley. There is another that is being pushed by 170 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:24,919 Democrat Senator ben Ray Lujon from New Mexico. And while 171 00:11:25,039 --> 00:11:30,759 both would allocate the money for SNAP benefits for the 172 00:11:30,759 --> 00:11:34,559 month of November at a cost that SNAP says or 173 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,519 the USDA says the SNAP program would cost like nine 174 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:45,080 point two billion dollars, Lujon's bill would also fund a 175 00:11:45,279 --> 00:11:51,480 separate food aid program serving low income women and children. Okay, 176 00:11:52,200 --> 00:12:00,919 so about that This from CNN back on Asober twenty fourth, 177 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:07,159 about one in eight Americans receive help buying food through SNAP, 178 00:12:07,639 --> 00:12:11,080 a key pillar of the nation's safety net. The program 179 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,159 provides enrollees with an average monthly benefit of one hundred 180 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,559 and eighty eight dollars per person, right, So the more 181 00:12:17,639 --> 00:12:24,320 people you have in your house, the more money you get. Okay. 182 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,120 And by the way, this contributes to a thing called 183 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:33,480 the welfare cliff. If you've never heard this term, it 184 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:39,759 refers to the gap basically between when benefits shut off 185 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:45,000 and how much money you need to make to cover 186 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,919 the cost of the lost benefits. Okay, so for it, 187 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:50,799 And I'm just going to make these numbers up. It's 188 00:12:50,799 --> 00:12:53,320 been years since I looked at the numbers and the 189 00:12:53,399 --> 00:12:56,440 data on what the welfare cliff is. But let's say 190 00:12:56,759 --> 00:13:01,720 you're making thirty thousand dollars a year, and that then 191 00:13:01,879 --> 00:13:06,360 entitles you to welfare benefits of all sorts, not just SNAP, 192 00:13:06,399 --> 00:13:09,000 but you know, all sorts of other subsidies, transfer payments, 193 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,080 all that stuff. And so let's say you're making thirty 194 00:13:12,159 --> 00:13:16,519 k and you have twenty thousand dollars a year worth 195 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,679 of benefits that come to you, Okay, So that essentially 196 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:24,080 means that you are taking in fifty thousand dollars a 197 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,120 year right in your income, but also in your transfer 198 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:34,000 payments by way of welfare benefits. So if you then 199 00:13:34,279 --> 00:13:38,600 were to make let's say you get a promotion at 200 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:42,480 your job and you then make an extra ten thousand dollars, 201 00:13:43,159 --> 00:13:46,399 so now you're up to forty K. But when you 202 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,919 get that promotion and now you make forty thousand, you 203 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,960 now lose all of your benefits, so you've essentially taken 204 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:01,679 a ten thousand dollars pay cut. Right, the pay cut 205 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:04,519 is because you lost twenty thousand dollars in benefits, you 206 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:08,000 only got ten k extra, So now you are at 207 00:14:08,039 --> 00:14:12,840 a forty thousand dollars annual sort of income plus transfers, 208 00:14:14,279 --> 00:14:17,080 and that's the welfare cliff. You fall off the cliff 209 00:14:17,159 --> 00:14:24,240 because now you've incentivized people to not take the money 210 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:30,759 the promotion, which is you know, short term foolish or sorry, 211 00:14:30,799 --> 00:14:34,840 long term foolish, because not taking the promotion means you 212 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,000 don't learn the new skills. You aren't now positioned for 213 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,159 another promotion or maybe going to a better job making 214 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,480 more money. Right, that's how you would generally progress through 215 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:48,320 your career. But now you can't do it because you 216 00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:52,960 fell off the welfare cliff. You've incentivized people to stop trying. 217 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,320 That's what makes this so dangerous. And I know people 218 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,000 like to think that, oh, this is just a help 219 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,600 people it's a safety net and all of that. Sometimes 220 00:15:02,639 --> 00:15:06,960 the safety net en snares you. Sometimes it becomes a hammock. 221 00:15:08,679 --> 00:15:13,080 The food Stamp program is the second nutrition assistance lifeline 222 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,519 at risk of running out of money. Again, this was 223 00:15:15,519 --> 00:15:20,279 from five days ago. And here's here's the connection to 224 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:25,759 the Democrat proposal, which is to fund the WIC program 225 00:15:25,919 --> 00:15:30,559 Women and Infant Children WICK that provides food aid to 226 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,840 nearly seven million pregnant women, new moms, young children. That 227 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,720 was on course to deplete its funding earlier this month, 228 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,759 but the Trump administration shifted three hundred million dollars in 229 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:48,080 tariff revenue that's typically used to fund child nutrition programs. 230 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:53,759 They transferred the money to keep WICK operating and so 231 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,679 that has been enough to cover the cost for the 232 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,960 rest of the month. But that too is going to 233 00:15:59,039 --> 00:16:02,000 run out. So when Democrats are saying that, oh, you 234 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,279 need to be able to tap the contingency funding that 235 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,519 Congress set up, but the USDA is saying, first off, 236 00:16:09,519 --> 00:16:11,559 it's not enough money to cover the cost of the 237 00:16:11,559 --> 00:16:17,799 program just snap alone, let alone WIIC. But also that's 238 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,200 supposed to just be there to supplement a shortfall in 239 00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:26,320 the regular payments. It's not to supplant the regular payments, 240 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,279 so we can't do it, and Democrats are saying that's 241 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,440 not true. Now they're suing, right. Jeff Jackson from North 242 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,840 Carolina signed on with all the Democrats from around the country, 243 00:16:38,039 --> 00:16:40,399 which is, by the way, why the Republican Party in 244 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,960 North Carolina passed a bill, although I don't think it 245 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,559 was enacted to try to prevent the Attorney General from 246 00:16:48,559 --> 00:16:51,639 engaging in these types of lawsuits these parties in lawsuits 247 00:16:51,639 --> 00:16:57,279 with his fellow Democrats. So that's where that stands. But 248 00:16:57,559 --> 00:17:01,159 I bring this up because if the Trumpet administration was 249 00:17:01,279 --> 00:17:04,839 willing and in fact did transfer money in order to 250 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:09,640 pay for the Wick program, why does the media believe 251 00:17:09,759 --> 00:17:12,519 Democrats when they say that you guys could pay for 252 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:15,000 this program out of existing money, but you're just not 253 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,799 doing so because you want people to starve, or you're 254 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,599 trying to make us cave. He already did it once. 255 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:28,000 The administration already did it, so it seems like if 256 00:17:28,039 --> 00:17:31,240 they could do it, they probably would. Maybe it's the 257 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,200 Democrats that are spinning us. Here's a great idea. 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It 283 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:09,000 was from the American Federal Government Employees Union, and they 284 00:19:09,039 --> 00:19:12,799 were saying, past the clean cr and reopen the government. 285 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:16,240 You got people that are going without paychecks here, and 286 00:19:16,319 --> 00:19:20,240 Schumer says pound sand He says, we can do both, 287 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,119 and we need to do both. Have federal workers get 288 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,079 paid in every way, and negotiate a way to resolve 289 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:31,640 Americans pain in the healthcare crisis. So pain in the 290 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:41,559 healthcare crisis? Huh? I thought Obamacare fixed healthcare. The Washington 291 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:45,039 Post the other day editorial board finally admitted that the 292 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:49,640 so called Affordable Care Act, like the most notorious piece 293 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,319 of Obama era legislation foisted upon consumers by lawmakers and 294 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,160 the liberal media, turned out to be an expensive mess. 295 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:03,839 This is from Joseph Vasquez atnewsbusters dot org. The Washington 296 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,559 Post said the real problem is the Affordable Care Act. 297 00:20:06,839 --> 00:20:14,640 Obamacare was never actually affordable. Oh wow, really, if only 298 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:18,759 somebody could have predicted such a thing. I mean, except for, 299 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,400 like most economists and Republicans and such, the architects of 300 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:27,759 former President Barack Obama's twenty ten signature achievement assumed that 301 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,680 risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. 302 00:20:31,039 --> 00:20:35,319 As a result, policies cost more than expected. Oh no, 303 00:20:37,759 --> 00:20:40,200 that's awfully a different tone than the liberal rag was 304 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,720 striking in twenty twenty four. Back then, they were celebrating 305 00:20:43,759 --> 00:20:48,160 how Obamacare was working brilliantly. For now. Just a year ago, 306 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:54,039 it was working brilliantly. But now, hmm, this slight miscalculation. 307 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:59,640 Policies are more than expected. Why are they saying that now? Well, 308 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,440 I would submit. They're saying it now in order to 309 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:06,440 prop up the Democrat argument that we have to make 310 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:12,200 the subsidies permanent. We can't get rid of Obamacare. Thank 311 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,880 you John McCain, who hated Donald Trump so much that 312 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,799 he locked us all into this, into this behemoth of 313 00:21:19,839 --> 00:21:24,920 a bill, right, this Leviathan. That was John McCain, because 314 00:21:25,079 --> 00:21:28,359 he didn't like Donald Trump. And so when the Republicans 315 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,680 were one vote away from repealing Obamacare, McCain did the 316 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:36,279 thumbs down to win him the support of Democrats everywhere, 317 00:21:36,319 --> 00:21:40,079 and then he passed away. Thanks a lot, John McCain. 318 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,319 Eleven years ago, the editorial board sang the praises of 319 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,640 Obamacare's so called free market economics. The newspaper then deflected 320 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,880 criticism of the infamous lie if you like your doctor, 321 00:21:51,920 --> 00:22:00,000 you can keep your doctor. Right. The Washington Post actually 322 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:04,599 says the following. This is how entitlement programs work. Once 323 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:09,200 you habituate people to some generous government handout, they grow 324 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,720 dependent on it, and it becomes politically perilous, if not impossible, 325 00:22:13,759 --> 00:22:19,759 to fully claw it back. That's the Washington Post acknowledging 326 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,920 the argument that conservatives and Republicans and libertarians have been 327 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:31,039 making for decades, this constant expansion of government benefits, transfer payments, welfare, 328 00:22:32,599 --> 00:22:37,559 that the Democrats have been cobbling together a permanent constituency 329 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:44,599 of dependence. And now all you dependents, now you see 330 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:49,799 what they will do to you. Right now, you see 331 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:55,240 they will take away your benefits in order to leverage 332 00:22:55,799 --> 00:23:01,640 for something else. So you're going to starve. That's what 333 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,559 they're saying. We will starve the people that we have 334 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,640 hooked onto the government trough. We will starve them. They 335 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,759 no longer know how to provide for themselves. We will 336 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:19,119 starve them, and you will cave to us. Because much 337 00:23:19,279 --> 00:23:24,559 like the pr effort with Hamas, you know, allowing its 338 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:27,720 own people to be the meat shields in a war 339 00:23:27,759 --> 00:23:32,960 that Hamas started, they can then play the victim. And 340 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,839 that's what we're seeing. This is a Hamas strategy that 341 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:41,160 the Democrats are employing right now. Now, what does Charlie 342 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,400 Kirk's assassination have to do with all of this? Glad 343 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,160 you asked, Well, there is a woman I've never heard 344 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,119 of before. There are actually several of them, but I've 345 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:56,559 never heard of this person named Jennifer Welch. I believe 346 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,559 is her name, Jennifer Welch. I don't know if she's 347 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:10,559 related to the Jelly Magnates, but she was apparently on TV. 348 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:15,279 She was a Bravo somebody or other. Let me see here, 349 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:23,480 liberal podcaster. She's a liberal podcaster, but before that, she 350 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:30,559 was some reality TV personality type. And she's now a 351 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:38,400 podcaster and she she threatens not just MAGA, but also 352 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:42,000 Chuck Schumer. And this is what the Democrat Party is 353 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:46,519 now dealing with because they have fostered this kind of 354 00:24:46,559 --> 00:24:49,119 this kind of cancer inside their party. And by the way, 355 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,759 that's why people on the right are pointing out people 356 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:57,319 like Nick Fouentes, Candice Owens, now Tucker Carlson pointing to 357 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,680 these people saying they're doing the same thing on the 358 00:24:59,759 --> 00:25:03,640 right that these radicals did on the left. They're trying 359 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,000 to co opt the Democrat Party and they've done so. 360 00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:10,599 Mamdani is proof of that. Right, they have taken it over. 361 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,279 What you are seeing right now is that the radicals 362 00:25:14,319 --> 00:25:18,599 are in charge of the Democrat Party. Now, that's why 363 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:22,400 this shutdown is continuing. That's why they are using their 364 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,440 own people. I mean, it's hard for me to believe, 365 00:25:25,519 --> 00:25:28,720 but it's true that the same people that were out 366 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,599 there banging the drums and wearing their cafias for the 367 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,799 Hamas terrorists have adopted their tactics and are using their 368 00:25:37,839 --> 00:25:42,119 own constituency and using these dependents in order to leverage 369 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,039 the pr against their opponents. But that's what they're doing, 370 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,599 and that's what this woman articulates. You know, stories are powerful. 371 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,759 They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences, 372 00:25:54,039 --> 00:25:56,319 stories connect us to the people of our past while 373 00:25:56,319 --> 00:25:59,720 transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life 374 00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:03,720 and art. Stories are told through images and videos. 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She is a former Bravo 390 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:03,440 reality television personnel from a show that I've never heard 391 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:10,119 of called Sweet Home Oklahoma, and she is now a host, 392 00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:17,559 co host or something apparently a popular podcast called I've 393 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:23,240 Had It, which that's problematic. Piece of advice that I 394 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,559 had gotten from John Hancock years ago when I first 395 00:27:26,599 --> 00:27:31,279 started hosting, was when you brand yourself with a name 396 00:27:31,319 --> 00:27:33,880 of a show like this, or you come out and 397 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,799 say this is what the show is about, you know 398 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,200 you are now locked into that. And so when you 399 00:27:39,319 --> 00:27:42,279 brand your show as I've had it, unless you're like 400 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,920 touring the world talking about all the food you've eaten 401 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,880 in different places, when you say I've had it, that 402 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:55,279 means you have to be perpetually fed up with something, right, 403 00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:00,319 So now you are in a constant race to keep 404 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,680 churning out things that you are fed up with. You 405 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,319 can never just say, oh, this is an interesting story. No, 406 00:28:06,599 --> 00:28:08,920 the name of your podcast is I've had It, So 407 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,319 you have to say I've had it with this, right, 408 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,799 So it's just rage bait. So here is what she 409 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:23,960 did on her podcast, talking about democrat establishment types that 410 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,880 they need to get on board with the Mom Donnis, 411 00:28:28,519 --> 00:28:30,400 with the radical left. 412 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:33,799 Speaker 2: Finally, if you think this Zorn thing is happening just 413 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,640 in New York, and you think people are waking up 414 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,920 only in New York, city, You're mistaken. Look at this 415 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:44,240 clip of a wine mom at the No King's March play. 416 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: The clip bird's name was Charlie Kirk. Mam, yeah, him 417 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,480 is horrible, horrible. 418 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:50,799 Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk is horrible. 419 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: Yes, somebody's not here. You're glad he's dead. 420 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,599 Speaker 2: Yes? Why would you say something like that? Mats He 421 00:28:57,799 --> 00:29:02,160 was horrible on the campuses the college campus is horrible person. 422 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: You know what I do the exact same thing. Would 423 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,720 you be glad if I would die? Maybe I'd have 424 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:10,480 to think about it. Should be ashamed of yourself, ashamed 425 00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:11,079 of yourself. 426 00:29:11,279 --> 00:29:15,559 Speaker 2: My friend just that she'd be happy if I died. 427 00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: All right, So not only is this woman in the 428 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:26,160 clip wishing death on her on conservatives, but her friend 429 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,920 that has then asked about this comment. She laughs, and 430 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,720 the host herself, Jennifer Welch, is also laughing at this, 431 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,880 and then Welch comes back amid her laughter. 432 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 2: So listen, at democratic establishment. You can either jump on 433 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,480 board with this or we're coming after you in the 434 00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:51,960 same way that we come after Maga period. Stop taking 435 00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:55,759 a pac maney go on, and I'm sorry I took 436 00:29:55,839 --> 00:29:58,279 a pack many atonement to her. If you want to 437 00:29:58,319 --> 00:30:04,480 stay in power. Stop missing out on these big rallies. 438 00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:09,799 Speaker 1: By the way, does that sound like Marjorie Taylor Green? See, 439 00:30:09,799 --> 00:30:12,400 this is why people are calling it the woke right. 440 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:21,279 You're having a harder time distinguishing between the commentary on 441 00:30:21,359 --> 00:30:26,519 the woke left and woke right. Stop taking a pac money. 442 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,000 So in other words, it's the Jews. The Jews are 443 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,400 controlling the Democrat Party. You better get on board with 444 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,440 this red Green alliance. Here. 445 00:30:33,839 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 2: Hakim and Chuck should have been front and center introducing 446 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,200 the next mayor of New York City. But no, they 447 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,799 wouldn't show up because they're peace They're peas that are 448 00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:48,359 beholden to the same corporations that Donald Trump, that helped 449 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,799 Donald Trump get elected. And this is just an embarrassment. 450 00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:57,960 Kudos to Bernie, to Aoc, to Zoron and that woman 451 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,759 out in somewhere Middle America saying Charlie Kirk, he was 452 00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:05,960 a racist. He was a piece of it. There are 453 00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:08,319 so many more of us than there are of them. 454 00:31:08,359 --> 00:31:11,480 And these Democrats that continue to play patty cake with 455 00:31:11,599 --> 00:31:18,279 corporations and lobbyists. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants you. We 456 00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:22,960 want politicians to speak freely and look at what the 457 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,480 benefit is, look at what is happening in New York, 458 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,680 and you dip this are sitting on the sidelines doing 459 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,640 running your social media like complete dorks. It's embarrassing. Get together, 460 00:31:34,839 --> 00:31:37,880 Hakim and Chuck, seriously, get your shit together, because the 461 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,680 Democratic Party is moving on. We are moving on. 462 00:31:42,759 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: I don't know what she meant thereby they want politicians 463 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,119 that speak freely, because I don't think you do, because 464 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,000 you just celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk, right, So 465 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:55,839 you don't want that. You just want people that you 466 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,799 agree with to speak freely. And what does she mean 467 00:31:59,839 --> 00:32:02,559 when and she says, you can either jump on board 468 00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:04,839 with this or we're coming after you in the same 469 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,279 way we come after Maga. Am I supposed to take that? 470 00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:12,519 Considering you preface that comment with a clip of a 471 00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:16,920 woman saying Charlie Kirk deserve to die, as do as 472 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:22,079 does this female interviewer. Right, So what exactly do you 473 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,039 mean when you say they're going to come after you 474 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,039 the way they become after Maga? Is that a threat 475 00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:27,839 to Chuck Schumer? 476 00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:28,759 Speaker 2: That's what it. 477 00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:31,519 Speaker 1: Sounds like, And maybe that explains why Schumer is willing 478 00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:35,519 to starve his own dependent constituents in order to get leverage. 479 00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:39,119 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 480 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,160 so much for listening. 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