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your support. On Twitter, the Hellian sent me a Babylon
B headline. Babylon B a satirical website, but somehow has
their finger on the pulse headline. Democrats vow to starve
as many food stamp recipients as it takes to get
free healthcare for illegal immigrants. Yes. In fact, Stephen Miller,
a writer at The Spectator, at a series of posts
on Twitter or tweets, I should say, quoting these democrats,
I played a bunch of the audio clips in the
last hour, and I have over the last week or so.
Democrats are coalescing around this, messaging this narrative that this
is their only leverage in negotiations with the Republicans. Republicans
passed a Clean Continuing Resolution to fund the government passed
the House with Democrats supporter. It went to the Senate
where two Democrats and an independent Angus king of the
famous meat family, they along with a fetterman and was
a Mastio I think the two Democrats that also agreed
to it. I was a bipartisan vote. They got like
it was fifty four votes I think in the Senate
to pass the clean cr and then all of the
other Democrats opposed it, and they continue to oppose and
they have been struggling to come up with a narrative.
The best that they could come up with was that
Republicans control the trifecta. They have the trifecta, which means
Republicans control the House, and they have a majority in
the Senate and they have the White House. That's the trifecta, right,
That's what they've been saying for the last twenty five
days up until about two or three days ago when
the narrative shifted, okay, because it wasn't really making a
lot of sense, because yes, they control the House by
a was it two seats or something, very slim majority.
But that's all you need in the House is a
slim majority. All you need is fifty percent plus one
to pass anything, and then it goes to the Senate.
But in the Senate, yeah, it's a little tougher. See
in the Senate, you have to be able to overcome
a filibuster when threatened by the minority party in this
case the Democrats. And the filibuster used to mean you
had to stand up there and run your mouth, you know,
until you like passed out or died or you stop
talking or whatever. But that was the way that you
would block legislation. So you couldn't just be steamrolled like
you can be steamrolled in the House as the minority party.
And along the years, throughout the years, the you know,
the gentlemanly agreement in the Senate was, Okay, we're not
going to make you actually stand up there and talk,
because that's hard and we would not like to have
to do that either. So we'll just say it's a
legislative filibuster. And so you don't actually have to do
the running of the gums. You just have to say
you would run your gums if you had to. So
that means you have to get sixty votes. And so
anybody that understands how the filibuster works, and really it's
that simple. You need sixty votes. It means you need
Democrats to sign on. You need seven Democrats to agree
with the fifty three Republicans, and they have not been
able or fifty two Republicans, they have not been able
to get enough Democrats on board to pass the cr
And so Democrats running around saying, you control all of
the branches of government, it doesn't matter because the minority
party is blocking it. If they actually controlled the Senate
with the votes necessary to pass it, they would have
done it already, but they cannot, so they have not.
Speaker Mike Johnson, oh, hang on, before I get to him,
I got to run through what Steven Miller said that
this narrative starving people on government food benefits is our
only leverage. Okay, that's the narrative. That's their talking point. Now,
that's their strategy, their response to every time they get
asked about this, they're like, this is our moment of
time to exert maximum leverage, which is to make people
feel the pain of starvation. By the way, I wonder
what all of the people who were you know, who
were the alarm about famine in Gaza, where are all
you guys, You guys worried about all of the famine
in America that might be caused by this eight points
out here? You still don't think that the Democrat Party
is Zoron Mamdani's Communist Party like it's already been captured.
The entire Snap thing would have been deployed by the
media three weeks ago if they actually meant it. That's
a great point. Why are we hearing this narrative now?
Why is it only now? Is it because the SNAP
benefits are not going to get paid out in another
two days, three days, whatever? Or is it because they
didn't actually mean it and they're trying to now scramble
to find any message to justify their actions. Pay attention
to all the millions of people dependent upon the government
for food who will starve if you don't give us
what we want. That is the actual position of a
major political party in America right now. We're going to
starve our own voters unless you cave to our demands.
Is it any wonder why these people backed Hamas. They're
using their own people as human shields, right. They have
learned from Hamas that if you are willing to sacrifice
your own people, to have your own constituents suffer and
maybe die of starvation. Right, if you're willing to do that,
then you can milk the pr You can milk the
suicidal empathy that has captured the American psyche. This is
a Kami negotiation. Mamdani is the Democrat party. There doesn't
even have to be an attempt to make in the
face of it. In fact, this strategy was employed the
great leap forward in Maos China. Only leverage is to
starve the people that we provide food for. Right, you
are Democrats. You are proving the very point that Republicans
and conservatives and libertarians have been making for decades, which
is that when you make a class of people dependent
on you, you are locking them in as voters. And
it is a cynical thing. It's an evil thing to do.
You're making them dependent so you can maintain power. At
least now they're saying it, right, at least now they're
openly admitting it. They have voted thirteen times against funding
the clean Continuing Resolution keeping the government open because they
want the leverage. They want to try to drag the
Republicans to the negotiating table to make Republicans do things
that Republicans have opposed for a decade and a half.
And Democrats know this. They know Republicans aren't going to
do this. You're asking them to betray their voters, and
that would be a massive betrayal. Speaker Mike Johnson listed
in some of these things in a tweet that Democrats
refuse to fund the government unless they restore two hundred
billion dollars in health benefits for illegal aliens. Do you
understand what Donald Trump ran on, what he won on,
what Republicans and conservatives have been banging the drum about
for twenty five years on immigration, five hundred million dollars
for leftist media outlets, and huge cuts to rural hospitals.
You're aware of that. Yeah, they want to move like
fifty billion dollars out of rural hospital funds. That's what
they're demanding Republicans do. Oh and the foreign components here,
they want cuts to USAID restored. Right, the things that
Republicans have been demanding. And by the way, there is
a reason for this, obviously, which is that cutting off
the NGO funding was a huge hit to the leftist machinery.
That's why they are willing to starve their own people,
to starve Americans in order to get that funding stream reopened,
to get the NGOs refunded so they can continue with
their Color Revolution tactics. To me, this is very clear.
You may have a different opinion, but that's how I
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more transparent. Last hour, I made mention of these two
competing bills that would REOPE or sorry, that would reinstitute
funding for food stamps or the Supplemental Nutritional Program, the
SNAP program, and one is coming from the Senate Republican
Josh Hawley. There is another that is being pushed by
Democrat Senator ben Ray Lujon from New Mexico. And while
both would allocate the money for SNAP benefits for the
month of November at a cost that SNAP says or
the USDA says the SNAP program would cost like nine
point two billion dollars, Lujon's bill would also fund a
separate food aid program serving low income women and children. Okay,
so about that This from CNN back on Asober twenty fourth,
about one in eight Americans receive help buying food through SNAP,
a key pillar of the nation's safety net. The program
provides enrollees with an average monthly benefit of one hundred
and eighty eight dollars per person, right, So the more
people you have in your house, the more money you get. Okay.
And by the way, this contributes to a thing called
the welfare cliff. If you've never heard this term, it
refers to the gap basically between when benefits shut off
and how much money you need to make to cover
the cost of the lost benefits. Okay, so for it,
And I'm just going to make these numbers up. It's
been years since I looked at the numbers and the
data on what the welfare cliff is. But let's say
you're making thirty thousand dollars a year, and that then
entitles you to welfare benefits of all sorts, not just SNAP,
but you know, all sorts of other subsidies, transfer payments,
all that stuff. And so let's say you're making thirty
k and you have twenty thousand dollars a year worth
of benefits that come to you, Okay, So that essentially
means that you are taking in fifty thousand dollars a
year right in your income, but also in your transfer
payments by way of welfare benefits. So if you then
were to make let's say you get a promotion at
your job and you then make an extra ten thousand dollars,
so now you're up to forty K. But when you
get that promotion and now you make forty thousand, you
now lose all of your benefits, so you've essentially taken
a ten thousand dollars pay cut. Right, the pay cut
is because you lost twenty thousand dollars in benefits, you
only got ten k extra, So now you are at
a forty thousand dollars annual sort of income plus transfers,
and that's the welfare cliff. You fall off the cliff
because now you've incentivized people to not take the money
the promotion, which is you know, short term foolish or sorry,
long term foolish, because not taking the promotion means you
don't learn the new skills. You aren't now positioned for
another promotion or maybe going to a better job making
more money. Right, that's how you would generally progress through
your career. But now you can't do it because you
fell off the welfare cliff. You've incentivized people to stop trying.
That's what makes this so dangerous. And I know people
like to think that, oh, this is just a help
people it's a safety net and all of that. Sometimes
the safety net en snares you. Sometimes it becomes a hammock.
The food Stamp program is the second nutrition assistance lifeline
at risk of running out of money. Again, this was
from five days ago. And here's here's the connection to
the Democrat proposal, which is to fund the WIC program
Women and Infant Children WICK that provides food aid to
nearly seven million pregnant women, new moms, young children. That
was on course to deplete its funding earlier this month,
but the Trump administration shifted three hundred million dollars in
tariff revenue that's typically used to fund child nutrition programs.
They transferred the money to keep WICK operating and so
that has been enough to cover the cost for the
rest of the month. But that too is going to
run out. So when Democrats are saying that, oh, you
need to be able to tap the contingency funding that
Congress set up, but the USDA is saying, first off,
it's not enough money to cover the cost of the
program just snap alone, let alone WIIC. But also that's
supposed to just be there to supplement a shortfall in
the regular payments. It's not to supplant the regular payments,
so we can't do it, and Democrats are saying that's
not true. Now they're suing, right. Jeff Jackson from North
Carolina signed on with all the Democrats from around the country,
which is, by the way, why the Republican Party in
North Carolina passed a bill, although I don't think it
was enacted to try to prevent the Attorney General from
engaging in these types of lawsuits these parties in lawsuits
with his fellow Democrats. So that's where that stands. But
I bring this up because if the Trumpet administration was
willing and in fact did transfer money in order to
pay for the Wick program, why does the media believe
Democrats when they say that you guys could pay for
this program out of existing money, but you're just not
doing so because you want people to starve, or you're
trying to make us cave. He already did it once.
The administration already did it, so it seems like if
they could do it, they probably would. Maybe it's the
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Schumer brushed off calls yesterday from the biggest federal workers
union for Congress to end the shutdown and pass a
clean continuing resolut I gave you this update yesterday. It
was from the American Federal Government Employees Union, and they
were saying, past the clean cr and reopen the government.
You got people that are going without paychecks here, and
Schumer says pound sand He says, we can do both,
and we need to do both. Have federal workers get
paid in every way, and negotiate a way to resolve
Americans pain in the healthcare crisis. So pain in the
healthcare crisis? Huh? I thought Obamacare fixed healthcare. The Washington
Post the other day editorial board finally admitted that the
so called Affordable Care Act, like the most notorious piece
of Obama era legislation foisted upon consumers by lawmakers and
the liberal media, turned out to be an expensive mess.
This is from Joseph Vasquez atnewsbusters dot org. The Washington
Post said the real problem is the Affordable Care Act.
Obamacare was never actually affordable. Oh wow, really, if only
somebody could have predicted such a thing. I mean, except for,
like most economists and Republicans and such, the architects of
former President Barack Obama's twenty ten signature achievement assumed that
risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be.
As a result, policies cost more than expected. Oh no,
that's awfully a different tone than the liberal rag was
striking in twenty twenty four. Back then, they were celebrating
how Obamacare was working brilliantly. For now. Just a year ago,
it was working brilliantly. But now, hmm, this slight miscalculation.
Policies are more than expected. Why are they saying that now? Well,
I would submit. They're saying it now in order to
prop up the Democrat argument that we have to make
the subsidies permanent. We can't get rid of Obamacare. Thank
you John McCain, who hated Donald Trump so much that
he locked us all into this, into this behemoth of
a bill, right, this Leviathan. That was John McCain, because
he didn't like Donald Trump. And so when the Republicans
were one vote away from repealing Obamacare, McCain did the
thumbs down to win him the support of Democrats everywhere,
and then he passed away. Thanks a lot, John McCain.
Eleven years ago, the editorial board sang the praises of
Obamacare's so called free market economics. The newspaper then deflected
criticism of the infamous lie if you like your doctor,
you can keep your doctor. Right. The Washington Post actually
says the following. This is how entitlement programs work. Once
you habituate people to some generous government handout, they grow
dependent on it, and it becomes politically perilous, if not impossible,
to fully claw it back. That's the Washington Post acknowledging
the argument that conservatives and Republicans and libertarians have been
making for decades, this constant expansion of government benefits, transfer payments, welfare,
that the Democrats have been cobbling together a permanent constituency
of dependence. And now all you dependents, now you see
what they will do to you. Right now, you see
they will take away your benefits in order to leverage
for something else. So you're going to starve. That's what
they're saying. We will starve the people that we have
hooked onto the government trough. We will starve them. They
no longer know how to provide for themselves. We will
starve them, and you will cave to us. Because much
like the pr effort with Hamas, you know, allowing its
own people to be the meat shields in a war
that Hamas started, they can then play the victim. And
that's what we're seeing. This is a Hamas strategy that
the Democrats are employing right now. Now, what does Charlie
Kirk's assassination have to do with all of this? Glad
you asked, Well, there is a woman I've never heard
of before. There are actually several of them, but I've
never heard of this person named Jennifer Welch. I believe
is her name, Jennifer Welch. I don't know if she's
related to the Jelly Magnates, but she was apparently on TV.
She was a Bravo somebody or other. Let me see here,
liberal podcaster. She's a liberal podcaster, but before that, she
was some reality TV personality type. And she's now a
podcaster and she she threatens not just MAGA, but also
Chuck Schumer. And this is what the Democrat Party is
now dealing with because they have fostered this kind of
this kind of cancer inside their party. And by the way,
that's why people on the right are pointing out people
like Nick Fouentes, Candice Owens, now Tucker Carlson pointing to
these people saying they're doing the same thing on the
right that these radicals did on the left. They're trying
to co opt the Democrat Party and they've done so.
Mamdani is proof of that. Right, they have taken it over.
What you are seeing right now is that the radicals
are in charge of the Democrat Party. Now, that's why
this shutdown is continuing. That's why they are using their
own people. I mean, it's hard for me to believe,
but it's true that the same people that were out
there banging the drums and wearing their cafias for the
Hamas terrorists have adopted their tactics and are using their
own constituency and using these dependents in order to leverage
the pr against their opponents. But that's what they're doing,
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dot com. Jennifer welch Okay. She is a former Bravo
reality television personnel from a show that I've never heard
of called Sweet Home Oklahoma, and she is now a host,
co host or something apparently a popular podcast called I've
Had It, which that's problematic. Piece of advice that I
had gotten from John Hancock years ago when I first
started hosting, was when you brand yourself with a name
of a show like this, or you come out and
say this is what the show is about, you know
you are now locked into that. And so when you
brand your show as I've had it, unless you're like
touring the world talking about all the food you've eaten
in different places, when you say I've had it, that
means you have to be perpetually fed up with something, right,
So now you are in a constant race to keep
churning out things that you are fed up with. You
can never just say, oh, this is an interesting story. No,
the name of your podcast is I've had It, So
you have to say I've had it with this, right,
So it's just rage bait. So here is what she
did on her podcast, talking about democrat establishment types that
they need to get on board with the Mom Donnis,
with the radical left.
Speaker 2: Finally, if you think this Zorn thing is happening just
in New York, and you think people are waking up
only in New York, city, You're mistaken. Look at this
clip of a wine mom at the No King's March play.
Speaker 1: The clip bird's name was Charlie Kirk. Mam, yeah, him
is horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk is horrible.
Speaker 1: Yes, somebody's not here. You're glad he's dead.
Speaker 2: Yes? Why would you say something like that? Mats He
was horrible on the campuses the college campus is horrible person.
Speaker 1: You know what I do the exact same thing. Would
you be glad if I would die? Maybe I'd have
to think about it. Should be ashamed of yourself, ashamed
of yourself.
Speaker 2: My friend just that she'd be happy if I died.
Speaker 1: All right, So not only is this woman in the
clip wishing death on her on conservatives, but her friend
that has then asked about this comment. She laughs, and
the host herself, Jennifer Welch, is also laughing at this,
and then Welch comes back amid her laughter.
Speaker 2: So listen, at democratic establishment. You can either jump on
board with this or we're coming after you in the
same way that we come after Maga period. Stop taking
a pac maney go on, and I'm sorry I took
a pack many atonement to her. If you want to
stay in power. Stop missing out on these big rallies.
Speaker 1: By the way, does that sound like Marjorie Taylor Green? See,
this is why people are calling it the woke right.
You're having a harder time distinguishing between the commentary on
the woke left and woke right. Stop taking a pac money.
So in other words, it's the Jews. The Jews are
controlling the Democrat Party. You better get on board with
this red Green alliance. Here.
Speaker 2: Hakim and Chuck should have been front and center introducing
the next mayor of New York City. But no, they
wouldn't show up because they're peace They're peas that are
beholden to the same corporations that Donald Trump, that helped
Donald Trump get elected. And this is just an embarrassment.
Kudos to Bernie, to Aoc, to Zoron and that woman
out in somewhere Middle America saying Charlie Kirk, he was
a racist. He was a piece of it. There are
so many more of us than there are of them.
And these Democrats that continue to play patty cake with
corporations and lobbyists. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants you. We
want politicians to speak freely and look at what the
benefit is, look at what is happening in New York,
and you dip this are sitting on the sidelines doing
running your social media like complete dorks. It's embarrassing. Get together,
Hakim and Chuck, seriously, get your shit together, because the
Democratic Party is moving on. We are moving on.
Speaker 1: I don't know what she meant thereby they want politicians
that speak freely, because I don't think you do, because
you just celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk, right, So
you don't want that. You just want people that you
agree with to speak freely. And what does she mean
when and she says, you can either jump on board
with this or we're coming after you in the same
way we come after Maga. Am I supposed to take that?
Considering you preface that comment with a clip of a
woman saying Charlie Kirk deserve to die, as do as
does this female interviewer. Right, So what exactly do you
mean when you say they're going to come after you
the way they become after Maga? Is that a threat
to Chuck Schumer?
Speaker 2: That's what it.
Speaker 1: Sounds like, And maybe that explains why Schumer is willing
to starve his own dependent constituents in order to get leverage.
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