Ignore Your Dwindling Bank Account: Biden Says We Beat Inflation! | 8/15/24

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Speaker 1 Yeah, we spotted the president of the United States of America. It's not Kamala Harris.
Did they have to tap three times

Speaker 1 on the door, and then he poked his head out? That's how that works, right? That's how it works. Bill Murray was there covering it.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Yeah.
And this all happened at

Speaker 1 Groundhog Festival in Punksatoni, Pennsylvania. What was it? Gobbler's Knob.
Gobbler's Knob. Yes, right.
As many times as I've seen that movie, I should have remembered Gobbler's Knob.

Speaker 1 But here is the President of the United States being asked some questions by reporters. Listen very carefully to what he says about inflation.

Speaker 1 Inflation, I'm the president. Yes, yes, yes.
I told you we're going to have a soft landing. We're going to have a soft landing.
My policies are working. Start writing that way, okay?

Speaker 1 Okay. Oh, yes, Master.
Yes, we will. That's the structure of our country, right? Where the president tells the reporters what to do.
What to write. Yeah, it's not great.

Speaker 1 By the way, that is the structure of our country. I'm not joking there.
That is actually what happens. Usually it happens behind the scenes.

Speaker 1 Here it happens right in front of your eyes. That's exactly what happens all the time.
Every news story that you read is basically what you just heard.

Speaker 1 It was a little hard to hear what the reporter asked, but he asked him

Speaker 1 if the U.S. has beaten inflation.
And the answer was, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 I told you we're going to have a soft landing my policies are working are they really grocery prices are up by 30 or something um that doesn't seem like it's working to me really yeah i in what way um do you have any way that it's way more expensive now than it used to be and that's bad okay yeah okay i see what you're saying there i don't yeah i don't know it's it's a little bit of a leap for me to understand

Speaker 1 well maybe it's because I own a small business too that relies on groceries and ingredients and things like butter and sugar and cream. Just the basics.
Just the basics.

Speaker 1 This is, of course, Kexi.com is the company you're talking about. That's the company that makes really, really good cookies.
Yeah. Really gourmet cookies.

Speaker 1 And the amount of butter that goes into these cookies. Substantial.
Substantial. It is substantial.
Multiple cows worth in each cookie. Yes.

Speaker 1 80 cows. 80 cows per cookie.

Speaker 1 80 cows worth of butter. Per cookie.
Per cookie. Uh-huh.
But calorie-free, which was,

Speaker 1 I don't know how we did it. I don't even ask.
You'll have to talk to my wife about it. She's really good at it.
But yeah, I'm pretty sure there's almost no calories. I mean, there's not 10,000

Speaker 1 per cookie. No.

Speaker 1 Two cookies, you might hit that number, but not with one.

Speaker 1 Not with one. Not one.
Oh, they're so delicious. Now, can we just stop talking about the economy and instead talk about cookies? I'd rather do that.
Yeah, I would too. I would too.

Speaker 1 It's a much better topic because the inflation is destroying Americans. And this is hitting

Speaker 1 lower income people a lot harder than upper income people. So this is really a problem that most people should be concerned with.
Yeah, I would say, too.

Speaker 1 And we need to really look back at the history of this a little bit because he's sitting here and he did say they would have a soft landing. That's true.
Now, have we had one? I would argue no.

Speaker 1 I think it crashed into the side of a mountain. Yeah, a lot of kind of landing we've had.
We hit the ground. He's right about that.

Speaker 1 The soft part of it, I don't know that I would agree with. But remember that this all follows them saying it wasn't going to happen at all.
Right.

Speaker 1 And he had the exact same reaction in front of cameras and behind the scenes. Start writing that way.
You know, hey,

Speaker 1 that is incredible.

Speaker 1 It's a great illustration as to how this stuff works. Behind the scenes, they are saying that to reporters every single day.
Do you wonder why you get these things coming out? Like,

Speaker 1 what was the headline I saw?

Speaker 1 I think it was Politico that said, Trump is now trying to tie Harris to Biden.

Speaker 1 What? Yeah. And I thought, you know,

Speaker 1 I thought

Speaker 1 they, you know, there's a Biden-Harris administration. She said they were a team working together on all these issues this entire time.

Speaker 1 And now it's Biden trying to, or Trump trying to tie Biden to Harris. And how does that headline happen?

Speaker 1 I think a lot of people think, well, there's this liberal who's trying to make this argument

Speaker 1 on behalf of Harris. And that, of course, does happen.
But much more likely is the fact that someone from Harris's campaign went to a reporter and told them to write this, and they said yes.

Speaker 1 Because that's the way they want this framed.

Speaker 1 So they hear these things. And this is why before inflation really started picking up, when people were saying, I think inflation might happen if we pass

Speaker 1 the American Rescue Act, that's a lot of money we're just throwing out the window. And, you know, we're already past the situation where the pandemic is, you know, is already gone.

Speaker 1 And we already have these supply chain issues starting to pop up. Right now, if we dump a bunch of money into this economy, we're going to have massive inflation.

Speaker 1 And that came from hardcore conservative sources like Larry Summers, who worked in the Obama administration, and Jason Fuhrman, who worked in the Obama administration. And then it happened, right?

Speaker 1 But the whole time before it happened, they said it wasn't going to happen. You should write that way.
And what did the press do? They wrote that way. They told us it wasn't going to happen.

Speaker 1 And then when it started happening, they said it was transitory. And they went behind the scenes and in front of cameras and said, you know, Gensaki said it a thousand times.

Speaker 1 Hey, start writing that way. Start writing that it's transitory.
So they did. They all wrote that it was transitory.
And then it wasn't.

Speaker 1 And this happened throughout, they said over and over, every time they'd get the slightest drop in inflation as it was rising, they'd say it was over. And they wrote that way.
Media did it again.

Speaker 1 And then we hit the peak. And everyone was like, oh my gosh, this is terrible.
We've gone up 20%.

Speaker 1 And then it started to come down in a percentage of increase, right? It wasn't that prices came down. It's that they increased more slowly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they weren't going up by 9%. They were going up by 5%.
Right. 4%.
And when you would say that, the average person would say, well, my prices are still going up.

Speaker 1 And they're going up from a much higher level. That's how people felt that.

Speaker 1 But the White House went to reporters and said you know what you should do is say that inflation and prices are coming down right that way and so they did and they wrote that way and they said prices were coming down and inflation was coming down

Speaker 1 now we're at the period where they finally got one number that was close to a target of theirs 2.9 was i think the number the other day so that's the first time they've been able to hit any of their targets in three years

Speaker 1 And that's still an increase on prices. And importantly, it's an increase on the already high prices.
So if you have something that costs $100, it goes up to $133.

Speaker 1 And they say, well, prices are up 3%. That doesn't mean it goes back down to $103.

Speaker 1 That means like $135.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 this is happening to people all the time. They have to deal with it.
You have to deal with it as a small business owner.

Speaker 1 And the... The argument from everybody in the press is the argument that the White House wants them to have.
It's right that way. That is the entire media structure right now.
Write that way.

Speaker 1 This is the way we want you to write it. So write it that way.
And that's what they're doing.

Speaker 1 And they've complied the entire time. And then he acts like they're so

Speaker 1 tough on him. Yeah.
Oh, like, what are they supposed to write?

Speaker 1 They've been writing the whole time that inflation is down, that it's coming down at an incredible rate, and that it's not 9% anymore, and that inflation has been lowered by Bidenomics and they've been that's how they've written the whole time and it's still not good enough for him still not good enough it's incredible I saw a story today that said they've framed some story I can't remember exactly what it was but the the summary was they have to be the New York Times has to be careful or they will be accused of pro-Trump media bias I said pro-Trump media bias they've been basically running an inspirational video on to to get this guy assassinated for four years.

Speaker 1 And it almost worked.

Speaker 1 And like, we're going to have to worry about pro-Trump bias.

Speaker 1 It's insanity.

Speaker 1 I mean, there's no.

Speaker 1 You can certainly find people who like Donald Trump in this country. About half the country really loves the guy.
And the people on conservative media, obviously, can find positive coverage.

Speaker 1 But in mainstream media, you cannot find positive coverage of this guy.

Speaker 1 Every single thing that he does is horrible, going to ruin the country, and has been that way. And I said four years, but of course I'm not thinking back to the first election.

Speaker 1 It's been a decade almost of this, of nonstop hatred for the guy publicly.

Speaker 1 And we're supposed to now worry about pro-Trump bias. It's insane.
While Kamala Harris is in the afterglow of one of the most amazing launches of all time, where

Speaker 1 she is... Not required to give us any of her policies.
She's not required to do any interviews. She's not required to do any press conferences.
She's not even required to announce her own flip-flops.

Speaker 1 That just comes behind the scenes, once again, from the campaign who says, hey, media, write this way.

Speaker 1 And it works somehow. And yet we're worried about pro-Trump media bias, a big problem in this country, Pat.
Well, they've hidden her agenda for ever, well, ever since she became the nominee.

Speaker 1 They've played along with hiding everything she stands for.

Speaker 1 And the fact that she's supposedly flip-flopped on certain items, I don't really think she has flip-flopped on her incredible progressive agenda.

Speaker 1 I think she's just trying to hide it until such time as she could implement it because you can't be elected the way

Speaker 1 with an agenda like hers because she is so extreme on so many different things. That's a good point.

Speaker 1 And we did a show last night on Studios America, more Kamala flip-flops, which was the second in a series, which is every time we try to finish it, there's more.

Speaker 1 And you're right, they're not flip-flops in the sense of her actually changing her opinion. That's not what's occurring here.
No, right. What she believed in 2019 was what she really believes.

Speaker 1 That is real. The stuff that she's doing now, like, you know, like no taxes on tips is a really blatant example of it.
But, like, she obviously doesn't believe this, right?

Speaker 1 Like, she's just, she got internal polling that showed it's a really popular proposal and now she's adopting it. Like, that's,

Speaker 1 it is a flip-flop in her public-facing policy. However, it's not really what she believes.
She's not going to get into office and fight for that. You're insane if you believe that.

Speaker 1 If you were in Nevada and you're sitting there going, wow, now both candidates believe this. No, they don't.
No.

Speaker 1 I guarantee you, Kamala Harris will not spend one minute trying to pass that policy if she is elected. Absolutely not.
Of course not. In fact, Democrats

Speaker 1 have basically said they don't want this policy to go through.

Speaker 1 They were critical of Donald Trump, and all of them said what a bad policy it was and how much money it was going to cost, and we can't give any more tax cuts and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1 They did this whole thing when they thought it was Trump's policy.

Speaker 1 They're all zipping their lips now and they're all going behind the scenes to reporters and saying, hey, write this way, that we actually didn't oppose it for the past

Speaker 1 few months since Trump announced it. But like, that's not a real policy.
It's not a real policy that she's going to be hard on the border. Those aren't real policy switches.

Speaker 1 Those are public-facing policy switches. And they have to be because she can't get elected as radical as she is.
Right.

Speaker 1 I hope.

Speaker 1 That's a good point. She might be able to be.

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Speaker 1 Kamala wants every American to understand her agenda.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah, she does. She's just like,

Speaker 1 telepathically, how are we supposed to?

Speaker 1 Yeah, because she's not answering any questions. No, you're just supposed to know.
Don't you just know? Don't you just feel it from her? You know, I just love it.

Speaker 1 It's the vibe that she gives off, you know, that she's fantastic and you're going to love it, whatever it is. You're going to love it.

Speaker 1 Her campaign spokesperson told MSNBC's morning joe that they're on a two-track process okay check this out cut five we run a two-track process one that makes sure that everyone every american and every voter understands vice president's agenda oh really

Speaker 1 isn't that interesting is that the first track or that's both tracks i don't the two-track process one that every American understands our agenda, which you haven't explained it at all.

Speaker 1 So how could we? Right. And I would actually argue, and correct me if you think I'm wrong on this, Matt, but they actually do run a two-track process.

Speaker 1 They're running one track, which is to the American people, saying, Actually, all the popular positions on the issues you think I'm terrible on, those are the ones I have. Yes.

Speaker 1 Trust me, I'm really good on the border. Trust me, I'm harsh on crime.
Trust me, you know, I'm going to stop inflation. Trust me, tax cuts for all, right?

Speaker 1 And then the second track, which is the real one, which is what she did in 2019. And you notice that because she's not saying these things, she's not pissing off her base.

Speaker 1 She is flip-flopping from liberal issues to more, at least moderate ones, right? Oh, I'm going to be good on the border. We're going to keep this

Speaker 1 border crackdown in place. We're going to, no tax on tips.
All that stuff is going on. The crackdown that allowed 10 million people to cross illegally.
Huge crackdown. Oh, my gosh.
Man.

Speaker 1 Huge crackdown. Could have been 50 million.
No, it could have. But it wasn't.
And I think it was probably more closer to 20. Yeah.
But it wasn't 50. We don't think.
It might have been 50.

Speaker 1 It wasn't 500 million, though. That we know.
Not every person in Mexico and Central and South America emptied out of those countries. Right.

Speaker 1 Like, if you go to Chile right now, there's still people there. There's still people there.
And they're not here yet. I mean, they probably will be soon, but they're not here yet.
But they're not yet.

Speaker 1 They're not yet. There are still residents of Chile.
It's been a tough crackdown. It has been.

Speaker 1 And this idea that they're tough on all these things and suddenly have found themselves in the position after three and a half years of doing nothing to all of a sudden find the popular position on the border is not real.

Speaker 1 And that's part of the charm of being able to leak these things through your campaign officials because your base never hears you say them.

Speaker 1 They don't, you know, your base never has you on record saying, well, actually, we don't want illegal immigrants here.

Speaker 1 Instead, they have her on

Speaker 1 record saying the opposite. And we, as the American people, are just supposed to believe the more popular thing.
So, that is a two-track process. Maybe she's right on that.

Speaker 1 I doubt that's where that interview went, and she explained it that way, but that would be accurate.

Speaker 1 It is stunning, though, to me, that they've been able to get away with this so far. I mean, it looks like people are liking her better than they did before.
Yeah, and

Speaker 1 this has worked so far. It's been a positive.
It's been a good launch, and

Speaker 1 not because she's done anything to deserve it. It's just not a single thing, Right.
It's been one of those things where she's just been handed this by the media, and that is frustrating.

Speaker 1 But also, I don't know, maybe there's a couple of cracks.

Speaker 1 Have you like, have you, I don't know if we'll come back on the other side with a clip from CNN

Speaker 1 where they're starting to ask some questions. Is this the Jim Acosta? Yeah, Acosta.
Yeah, that's right. And again, Jim Acosta is a close, close friend of all things liberal.

Speaker 1 He adores. And he hates Donald Trump's guts.
Oh, my God. Hates him.
Yes. Maybe more so than anybody else in the media.
Right.

Speaker 1 Even Jake Tapper. I mean,

Speaker 1 he hates Donald Trump. I think he does.
I think he hates him more. And he built his entire persona on the idea that he hates Donald Trump.
And yet he had a Kamala Harris spokesperson on yesterday.

Speaker 1 And even he's like, all right, come on.

Speaker 1 It's palpable. Give us something.
Like, he wants to be

Speaker 1 there to defend you.

Speaker 1 Right? He wants to be there to defend you. He wants to be able to say, well, that's not true.
She did that one press conference where

Speaker 1 I asked her a bunch of tough questions, even if they were very easy questions.

Speaker 1 They want to have some argument to bring to the people, but they don't, and that's really pissing them off because you won't answer any questions by them.

Speaker 1 You're not allowing them to do the job they think they should be doing. They're hitting the wall.
And that's defending you. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 And they're hitting the wall on that. And that is,

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Speaker 1 You were talking about the Jim Acosta interview with one of the campaign spokespeople for Kamala. Pretty interesting.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Because I think even CNN's getting a bit frustrated now.
And it's important to understand why they're getting frustrated. By the way, Jeff Fisher of Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher joins us.

Speaker 1 Hello. Welcome, Jeffy.
You know, it's important to understand why Acosta's angry here. He's angry because he's making Acosta's job, the campaign is making Acosta's job difficult.

Speaker 1 And the job he sees as his job is making Kamala Harris win. It affects him.
It affects him. He has to go out there.

Speaker 1 It's a hard, it's not one of these arguments that Donald Trump is making this crazy conspiracy theory argument. It's obvious she really is not taking questions.

Speaker 1 She really is not running a normal campaign. Yeah.
No way. She really is avoiding the media in any possibility.
And she really is making them work for their multi-million dollar salary. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They have to try a little bit harder than they normally do. They're her mouthpiece.
Yes. Right.
And they want to be her mouthpiece. Yes.
Give us something. Anything.
Help me help you.

Speaker 1 It's the old Tom Cruise thing. It's like, help me.
I'm trying to help you. Help me help you.

Speaker 1 It's amazing to me that she hasn't had

Speaker 1 one interview, just one. She could lay the groundwork.
I can't believe she could make a call right now today and say, hey,

Speaker 1 you know, I want this person and this network, and these are the questions, and these are my answers, and I want full editorial process at the end. Can we do that in 15 minutes?

Speaker 1 The trucks would be out in front of the world. You know what Rachel Maddow would say to that? She'd say, what plane should I be on to get there? We could be there.

Speaker 1 Where do you need me to be to make that happen? Exactly.

Speaker 1 They would approve of that in a second. We remember this with Biden.
Remember Biden, after

Speaker 1 he had the bad debate, they were talking about him maybe dropping out. Oh, right.
And

Speaker 1 he had those events. He did a couple of radio interviews.

Speaker 1 Which were terrible. They were terrible.
But they were all scripted. But they were all scripted.
He knew what all the questions were in advance. And eventually they admitted that.

Speaker 1 And these poor radio hosts got fired for it, which is like, shouldn't this be more of a campaign issue, an American issue than these poor radio hosts? But they went along with it.

Speaker 1 They wanted to have the president on, so they went along with it.

Speaker 1 And I think that's where we are with Kamala Harris now, right? Like where

Speaker 1 she, I mean, she could go on with Rachel Maddow, and every question will be, how did you get to be so awesome? Like, there's no right.

Speaker 1 She doesn't even need to do an interview with somebody difficult that's going to ask a tough question or two.

Speaker 1 And she's too scared to do that.

Speaker 1 I don't know if it's the campaign or her. I mean, she's terrible, right? And she can't do anything comfortable.
You know, if we were talking this morning,

Speaker 1 I'm Pat Gray Unleashed, that

Speaker 1 if she were to go on the view, that's too comfortable. You know, I know that it's all friendly, but she would get to cackling and they'd be, you know, it'd be the girls' club.

Speaker 1 And she can't really do that because that makes it even more of a nightmare of her just cackling.

Speaker 1 It's pretty telling, though, that she won't even do that. Yeah.
That's pretty amazing. That's true.

Speaker 1 I think the view is an interesting one because the problem with the view is the hosts are really dumb. Well, Kamala's, I don't know if you know this.
She's no genius either.

Speaker 1 But they don't know what lines to walk to not ruin her campaign. They're too stupid to understand they shouldn't ask about Medicare for all or something, right? Like they might just pull it.

Speaker 1 Well, they think that's a great thing. Because they think they're all Americans.

Speaker 1 Now, Rachel Maddow also thinks that, but she's smart enough to know it would hurt her campaign, so she wouldn't ask about it.

Speaker 1 Right. Like, there is, it's a little bit of an uncontrolled environment.
It's like you're just going into a room of

Speaker 1 babbling morons, and they might just say something that hurts you. That should be the name of the show, in fact.
The Babbling Morons. It would be more descriptive.
Yeah, it would.

Speaker 1 It would be more descriptive. Would it still be under the ABC News banner? Right, yes, which is incredible.
The Babbling Morons of the Coven. It could be called.
That would be great.

Speaker 1 It's a little longer than that. That's a little.

Speaker 1 Just call it the Coven. Just call it the Coven.
We'll know they're Babbling Morons when they start speaking.

Speaker 1 Let's listen to this Jim Acosta clip. This is with

Speaker 1 some campaign spokesperson I've never seen before. But the bottom line is listen to Acosta and listen to his approach here because this is not an approach where he's like, I demand an interview.

Speaker 1 It's not that at all. It's very friendly.
Listen.

Speaker 1 Would it kill you guys to have a press conference? Why hasn't she had a press conference?

Speaker 1 Listen, the vice president and Governor Walls have been busy crisscrossing this country since the launch of the campaign and adding Governor Wallace to the ticket.

Speaker 1 You saw the ways in which they went across the battleground states last week, generating rallies of thousands, 10,000 here, 15,000 there.

Speaker 1 But Michael, you know, a campaign rally is not a press conference. It's going to be inclusive.

Speaker 1 Do you mind if I cut in? I mean,

Speaker 1 a campaign rally is not a press conference. Why isn't she at a press conference? She's the vice president.
She can handle the questions. Why not do it? No, she can't.
That's the problem.

Speaker 1 We absolutely are going to do it. You hear her take questions.

Speaker 1 And she said last week, we're going to be having a sit-down interview here before the end of the month. I love it.
What she's going to be focused on, it's not what she's saying.

Speaker 1 It's going to be focused on, is communicating directly with the voters that are actually going to decide the pathway to 270 electoral votes. That's why she's been to a press conference this week.

Speaker 1 That's why we're doing a bus tour in Pennsylvania as we head into Chicago.

Speaker 1 And it's why we'll sit down for an interview before the end of the month to make sure that we're going to be that conversation about the vision that Kamala Harris has for where she wants to take this country in the contrast that we're going to have with Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 We're going to have plenty of opportunities to do that throughout the month.

Speaker 1 One interview by the end of the month of this month and throughout the rest of this campaign.

Speaker 1 I don't want to

Speaker 1 belabor this, but one interview before the end of the month. I mean,

Speaker 1 that's not a lot. I mean, can you commit to a press conference before the end of the month? No.
No, we can't.

Speaker 1 We will commit to directly engage with the voters that are actually going to decide this election. And that is going to be complete with rallies, with sit-down interviews, with press conferences.

Speaker 1 I love that. With all the digital assets that we have at our disposal.
All the digital assets. They're going to tweet a lot for you.
That's going to happen. Wow.
TikToks, Instagram.

Speaker 1 Amazing. Now, was there a big demand that they weren't doing enough crisscrossing? Was that a thing?

Speaker 1 That is their line. That is.
That is their line. They are crisscrossing the United States.
What does that have to do with the question? Who cares what geographical patterns you're going into?

Speaker 1 Because we're talking to the American people. We're out there talking to the American people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You're talking to the American people without any questions coming from the American people. It's not like she's doing town halls.

Speaker 1 Even if she was skipping interviews and press conferences, if she was doing town halls and you got some unscripted questions that came in and put her in some difficult situations, maybe you could excuse it a little bit.

Speaker 1 And when are the town halls not scripted? Right. They're always scripted when it comes to the Democrats.
Now, with Trump, he's always getting crazy questions. He just goes...

Speaker 1 That's what that happens, isn't it? Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's an amazing clip because Acosta, I mean, he's almost apologizing for asking the question.

Speaker 1 I'm so sorry. I got to bring this in.
I know it's annoying, but like, can you kill you to this? Do a press conference. Just do one.

Speaker 1 Make my life a little easier and just do a press conference so I can say that to everybody. How many press, like that? We're still going to report that she's great.
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 It's like, it really is the plea. Like, we're still going to cover for you.
Don't you understand that? Give us a press conference. The questions won't be hard.
We're the ones asking them.

Speaker 1 You're going to pick the people asking the questions. Just pick us and we'll ask good questions, easy ones.
Hey, Hey, I mean, I got to... I don't even submit the questions like we always do.

Speaker 1 We always ahead of time. And you can think about it.
We don't even ask the questions that you send us.

Speaker 1 We don't have to submit anything. Just tell us what we need to ask.
Right. We'll ask you whatever you want, but we have to be able to have some argument to go back to the American people with.

Speaker 1 That's all he wants. And that's it.
And the fact that she can't do that and hasn't done that yet,

Speaker 1 crisscrossing the nation so busily. I love that.
It's really telling.

Speaker 1 It shows how bad a candidate she is. And this is why she lost so quickly when she ran in the first place in 2019.
Yeah. She was the first one out.
She didn't even make it to the primary.

Speaker 1 She was so bad. Didn't even make it to Iowa.
And she did have a couple moments there. I mean, she was up at 13, 14% in the polls, which was good enough for second or third at one point.

Speaker 1 After she had that one debate where she called Joe Biden a racist, and that worked pretty well. People really believed that.
And

Speaker 1 they are right on that because he is.

Speaker 1 But I thought that that is, you know, it's interesting, though. And let me ask you this,

Speaker 1 from a campaign management perspective, aren't they doing the right thing? Like, if your goal right now was to get Kamala Harris into the White House, which I know it is not, but if it was,

Speaker 1 would you change anything about this approach right now? Probably not. No, I think the less, the better.
I think less is more.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, that's the, that's the, they just flipped Joe Biden in his basement. It worked for him.
It worked for him. It was 2020.
It worked for him. It's working for her.

Speaker 1 She's gone from a 30-something percent approval rating. She's now leading the race in a lot of these polls.
She's totally, at the very least, has removed all of the debate, post-debate

Speaker 1 sink of

Speaker 1 depression

Speaker 1 canyon of Joe Biden. At the very least, I think she's had the dementia issue.
She doesn't have that. That was a big thing.
She wipes that off the table. But she does have the dumb issue.
She does.

Speaker 1 She does, but but this is what I'm saying. They're not showing that part of her.
Right.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 the part of Kamala Harry is a little bit of a little bit of a little

Speaker 1 bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

Speaker 1 little,

Speaker 1 when she's crisscrossing. Since

Speaker 1 she comes out and reads the same script and stick to it, you can tell she works hard, man. No laughing.
No, it's serious. She doesn't know how to handle the protesters.

Speaker 1 She just wants to read her script and walk away. Yep.

Speaker 1 And she seems to, because I can criticize her intelligence like anybody else, but she seems to be smart enough to realize America won't like her if she speaks too much.

Speaker 1 Well, they already, they are, but they've proven that. They've proven it.
And she, but like, it's a hard lesson to learn, right?

Speaker 1 It was a hard lesson for Biden to learn when people kept saying he was too old. He kept denying it and denying it and denying it.
He said, just watch me over and over and over again.

Speaker 1 And they did, and he lost.

Speaker 1 Right? She's smart enough to look at this and say, I tried this last time. People did not enjoy me very much.

Speaker 1 As a vice president, I came out and spoke from time to time and was the least popular vice president in American history. People don't like me.

Speaker 1 So, I mean, in some ways, you give them credit from a strategy perspective of understanding that, like, they have a candidate people don't like, and the more you can hide her, the better.

Speaker 1 And until the press gets that level and more all over the place demanding this happens, it's not going to happen. I'm surprised her press is starting to get mad.

Speaker 1 If you look at it like that, like they're doing it on purpose, this is her deal, other than just wanting her to shut up and not make a mistake.

Speaker 1 But the press on her side, they should be, you know, get their morning facts saying,

Speaker 1 look,

Speaker 1 she's not going to do any interviews.

Speaker 1 Quit asking her to do interviews.

Speaker 1 Blame it on the conservative reporters. Yep.
Because

Speaker 1 the conservative reporters are just going to twist everything she says into lies,

Speaker 1 and that's why she's not going to do these interviews. Blame it on racism.
Blame it on sexism. Come up with some reason why she's not doing it and just keep writing it out.

Speaker 1 And the only thing that will change that is like massive public and media demand. I mean, think about it.
Think about it from

Speaker 1 the Republican primary perspective. Donald Trump didn't do any of the debates.
Why? He was winning.

Speaker 1 Why would he do them?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 there were calls for him to come do the debates. Hey, get in front.
Donald Trump's not going to have, he's good at debates.

Speaker 1 He's obviously had, he had the most historic debate victory in American history against Joe Biden, right? He could do debates.

Speaker 1 He might have lost, you know, I know a lot of DeSantis supporters were like, hey, what the heck? Get him out here.

Speaker 1 And there was a decent amount of people saying that, but there wasn't an overwhelming demand. The race never got close enough for him to justify it.

Speaker 1 And as long as she continues to be rising in the polls, why the hell would she change anything? Yeah, she's already anointed. Yeah, she's been anointed by the media.

Speaker 1 They won't demand anything out of her. That's about as harsh.

Speaker 1 That Acosta clip is about as good as it's been able to get from his conversation with some completely unknown campaign spokesperson where he sort of never seen that guy before.

Speaker 1 I've never seen him before. And he sort of kind of asks

Speaker 1 in a way of like how you'd ask your best friend.

Speaker 1 Dude, you got to show up to the gym.

Speaker 1 I got this membership. You got to show up with me every once in a while.
It's like that. It is.
You know, it's like, you told me we were going to get a membership. We're going to work out together.

Speaker 1 And you never show up. You got to just shit.

Speaker 1 Would it kill you to show up one Tuesday? Yeah, I can't do that. Can't do that.
Sorry. Not coming to the gym.
Right? That's all that was. It was like best friends saying, hey,

Speaker 1 I keep going to the corporate happy hour and you never show up.

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Speaker 1 Uh, thank you so much, and it loves you.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah, um, so uh, he is the same age, almost exactly the same age. He's a little about a month older than Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 They're both 81 years old,

Speaker 1 but

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Speaker 1 Biden's like 356

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Speaker 1 they didn't get rid of him yeah i mean they're getting rid of him they just made him go away from the campaign yeah no and they're getting rid of him obviously in in uh in january uh at the very latest

Speaker 1 i thought that he'd already be gone to be honest are you speculating that that might happen sooner i i let's just say there's a situation where kamala is down by five points like let's say you know they had this little boomlet here with the kamala launch and then trump takes control of this again and it starts to look like it did back in uh you know around the the debate soon yeah if that were to happen i think they might say hey it's uh oct it's october 9th you're almost there you're almost there step down you step down

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Speaker 1 Okay, so Kamala is going to announce her economic agenda today. Yeah.
Is that possible? A big chunk of it. Now, this is not her very original idea of not taxing tips.

Speaker 1 She came up, she's already announced that part of it. That is a central part of her belief system.

Speaker 1 Always has been. Always has been.
From the beginning. Until Trump stole it from her

Speaker 1 a couple of months ago.

Speaker 1 It's weird that he announced it before she did when, you know, he got it from her. I think there are spies.
I think Trump has spies inside Kamala's campaign. Interesting.

Speaker 1 And that is what's happening.

Speaker 1 That's the only thing that could possibly explain.

Speaker 1 The other day, I played the clip of Trump from his convention speech explaining

Speaker 1 how he came up with this policy. And it's like so Donald Trump, it's incredible.

Speaker 1 Because, you know, most of these guys, you know, they shop it through white paper at a think tank.

Speaker 1 Now, he's like, I was at the restaurant, a Trump Tower, and I was talking talking to this waitress, and she was like, ah, these taxes. He said, what about these, what if he didn't have taxes on tips?

Speaker 1 And she was like, yeah.

Speaker 1 That's like the whole story. What's wrong with that? That's America.
That's a whole, yeah, I think. That's America.
I mean, it is kind of incredible.

Speaker 1 Like Donald Trump, right? And you know that story is true.

Speaker 1 I actually, we stayed at the Trump Tower when I was out in Vegas, you know, in February. And there's only one restaurant there.
There's one restaurant on the ground floor.

Speaker 1 It's a different hotel than a lot of those, you know, big resorts there. It doesn't have a casino in it, for example.

Speaker 1 It's like a little, he said it was on the strip. It's near the strip.
It's right, you know, it's like, it's a little bit of a walk to get to the strip.

Speaker 1 But like, you know, they have those huge, you know, the ARIA and the MGM and the Wynn. These are massive hotels with like dozens and dozens of restaurants.

Speaker 1 There's only one restaurant in that Trump building. Like, we need to send a reporter.
We sent a reporter there to just talk to the. It's probably the best restaurant on the

Speaker 1 strip. It had some damn good breakfast, I will tell you.
It had some damn good breakfast.

Speaker 1 But I mean, it would be interesting to have a reporter go there and just talk to the waitresses because one of them is definitely the person. Yeah.

Speaker 1 One of them is the person who he talked to at breakfast and just was like, hey, you know, do you mind if I, you know, just what about no taxes on tips? All right. Now, now both parties agree.

Speaker 1 Like, yeah. Started with ground zero right there.
Right there. Can you imagine what the internal polling is saying on that policy for Kamala to

Speaker 1 embarrassingly have to adopt it in public? 85, 90%. We got to be against it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 you could come. Look, I think there's real arguments to lower taxes on people.

Speaker 1 You know, the tips thing, it's a little arbitrary.

Speaker 1 Like, like the people in the back of the house making the food don't get the tax cut, but the people in the front, like, it's a little arbitrary from an economic perspective. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'd rather just have it be a broad-based tax cut. But again, that's not sexy.
And hopefully it'll be that too. I mean, you could do both.
Sure. You sure could.

Speaker 1 I mean, Connell is certainly not going to. She's going to raise taxes on everybody, including corporations, to 35%.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 And the other thing she wanted to do was raise capital gains taxes to

Speaker 1 income tax rate.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Wait, okay.
So since I've already paid the initial tax on that, now I get to pay the same tax on the double tax, too? Oh, that's beautiful. That's great.
Isn't that great? You're welcome.

Speaker 1 I love that. I love that.
Yeah. It's a disaster for America.
It's a disaster. The good thing, though, is she's not going to raise taxes on anyone who's making less than $400,000 a year.

Speaker 1 And that is the important thing you need to remember.

Speaker 1 The only thing you need to remember about your policies.

Speaker 1 Now, of course, even if that were true, which it is not,

Speaker 1 still those people who are making less than $400,000 have to pay the prices after all their inflation. So

Speaker 1 you've been taxed one way or another. It's a matter of whether you recognize that.
She's going to make a big speech today about lowering inflation.

Speaker 1 And she's had unfortunately no control over this for multiple years. It's not like she's been in the White House.
She's had no influence on policy. She's got nothing to do with Joe Biden.
Right.

Speaker 1 Nothing to do with

Speaker 1 this failed president, who's one of the greatest presidents of all time. He should go on Mount Rushmore.
And also failed. So he had to change all of his policies.
Yes, we did.

Speaker 1 I mean, how does anybody fall for this? I agree. He should go on the Mount Rushmore presidents, though.
The worst of all time. The worst president of the world of all time.

Speaker 1 Mount Rushmore. He'd be on there.

Speaker 1 He would be front and center of that Mount Rushmore. What else are we putting on there? We're putting Woodrow Wilson on there, obviously.
Obviously,

Speaker 1 you have to understand it's a legal requirement for us to include Woodrow Wilson in a conversation about presidential money. And he must be very prominent.
Yes. But you've also got to have LBJ.

Speaker 1 Oh, yes. I'm glad you brought him up.
A lot of people ignore him to be on that. On there for me, 100%.
Biden's on there. That's three.
If I have to, I'll carve his face into it myself.

Speaker 1 I've got a little extra time. And between like 11 in the morning and 3 o'clock the next morning, I got some time to be carving and

Speaker 1 chisel away, and chisel away at the stone, yeah. But then I got to be here for show prep and that kind of thing, but then I'm going right back out to

Speaker 1 chiseling. So you got Biden,

Speaker 1 you got Woodrow Wilson, you got LB, LBJ, who would be the fourth, and then the fourth. I don't know, you got to have Biden's

Speaker 1 hair, it's a tough one because you got FDR to consider. That's who I was thinking of.
You've got Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 1 I was going to say Carter. That's a good one.
You've got Barack Obama.

Speaker 1 The thing is, Jimmy Carter still loved America, I think.

Speaker 1 I believe Jimmy Carter still loved America. That's probably true.
He was terrible. Yeah, he was terrible, but I believe he still.
I think he was a patriot. Yeah, I do too.

Speaker 1 And his was a problem of incompetence more than anything else. I mean, he had bad ideas, too, but he was really bad at

Speaker 1 just managing them and doing the job. Where like Woodrow Wilson was pretty good at doing the job when he didn't have a stroke.

Speaker 1 He was pretty good at doing the job.

Speaker 1 The things he was doing hurt the country a lot. I mean, you can make that argument maybe with Barack Obama as well.
I think you can partially make that argument with Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 I mean, I think if you look at Joe Biden's presidency from

Speaker 1 a liberal perspective, pretty good, right? I mean,

Speaker 1 like, if you're a hardcore progressive wanting to turn this country towards socialism,

Speaker 1 he's done that. Yes, he has.

Speaker 1 He's done a lot to destroy it. I would argue that I don't want the country turned towards socialism.

Speaker 1 I think he's a terrible, terrible president.

Speaker 1 But in the same way, you'd look at Woodrow Wilson and say, okay, well, I mean, I don't think the results of his presidency were good, but you could still say he turned the country away from a direction of freedom towards one of control by the central government.

Speaker 1 And he made those arguments overtly.

Speaker 1 And so did FDR. Yeah, FDR is a good one.
I mean, there's probably like, you know, those 1800s guys I lose track of mostly. But, I mean, you can certainly go back to some.
There's a recency bias.

Speaker 1 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 And, you know, you go back, you basically have the founders and recent guys.

Speaker 1 That's the way like people like john tyler just sitting there and you're like who who the hell is that wait a minute what about james buchanan he's going to be on there he's going to be in there probably would be in that conversation to be on on the mount rush more of bad presidents but like i don't know it just feels like you're being lazy and james who even knows you know

Speaker 1 right it's too long ago it's too long recovered from it absolutely these guys have we though uh a little bit yeah i think we did and then and then we didn't and then we did again and then no we've come out of slums He was still paying for Jackson's mistakes, right?

Speaker 1 Jackson's another one. Glenn would certainly bring up Andrew Jackson if he were here.
Yes, he would. There's a lot of names that can go on there, but it's hard for me

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 knock any of those other three off. I think between Biden,

Speaker 1 Woodrow Wilson, and LBJ, like I am locked in on those.

Speaker 1 I've already chiseled. Me too.
I don't know who that fourth one's going to be. You're just going to put a little candle with like six or seven little heads on it.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think you've got to go Barack Obama, frankly. The guy who fundamentally transformed the United States of America and set it up for Biden to finish the job.

Speaker 1 Again, I wonder if we're. I'm not going to pay for it by putting him on it because they'd think, oh my gosh, we're honoring a Barack.
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 I will say, I wonder if we're in recency bias too much by putting the last two Democratic presidents on there, which is. But I mean, Biden just seems.

Speaker 1 But look what's happened to America since then. It took the two of them.
How long did it take Obama to go from, well, I can't just do anything on the board. I can't just make these people citizens.

Speaker 1 You know, DACA, what

Speaker 1 eventually became DACA, he denied that for about six years

Speaker 1 before he actually did it, if my memory is correct. Like, it took him a long time to break the Constitution to do it.
He tried to convince people in Congress to do it.

Speaker 1 Biden did like 10 of those things in three years. Yeah.
He did. Between student loans and eviction moratoriums.
I mean, we could go through the whole list.

Speaker 1 But you could make the argument that a lot of that was as a result of Obama's. Yeah, the groundwork was laid.
Yeah. And that's the same argument you'd make with Wilson, to be fair.

Speaker 1 I mean, like, you look at Wilson's stuff and you'd be like, that's tame compared to what they're doing today. But

Speaker 1 he opened up the possibilities of those things occurring. Right.
You know, same thing with LBJ in some ways.

Speaker 1 Like, he passed programs that wound up growing into the thing that has destroyed our economy. And honestly, he's probably more responsible for inflation than anything that Biden did.

Speaker 1 I mean, the LBJ programs have grown so big, they've taken over our entire budget. And then weirdly, LBJ, who was maybe one of the biggest racists ever to hold office of the presidency,

Speaker 1 is given credit for helping blacks.

Speaker 1 I don't even know how that gets possible

Speaker 1 because he signed into law the Civil Rights Act, I guess. I guess that's why they give him credit.
He've opposed it for years leading up to that.

Speaker 1 And then when the pressure got to be such that he could no longer resist, yes, he did finally reluctantly sign it, but you can't give him that. But he is

Speaker 1 one of the most racially important presidents that constantly use the N-word. And I don't think people necessarily understand that.

Speaker 1 He's super, super positive on racial equality. plus the constant use of the n-word in private

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 talking down to black employees and not even treating them as human beings.

Speaker 1 But, you know, what a racially important president that LBJ was. So he's up.
He's up on the

Speaker 1 chiseling of you. He's there.
I just thought that fourth one is interesting. I think Obama's up there.
FDR is up there.

Speaker 1 Carter

Speaker 1 is going against Joe Biden. Oh, Biden's on.
I think Biden's there. I thought we could only get the other one.

Speaker 1 I thought we could only have a fire. Oh, Spider already done.
It's a rare combination of wanting to overturn our entire system of government, which has been a bunch of presidents.

Speaker 1 A bunch of presidents have been that.

Speaker 1 But combining that with real legitimate incompetence, I mean, something like the Afghanistan withdrawal doesn't even get talked about anymore, but it is the largest

Speaker 1 foreign affairs failure of any president in my lifetime for sure, and maybe of all time.

Speaker 1 And this is a great time to bring it up. Yes.
Because the Taliban just showed off all of the equipment, the $80 billion worth of equipment and weapons we left behind.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we have some of this footage, and this is

Speaker 1 just if you're watching, if you're not watching it

Speaker 1 American equipment being created by the Taliban. I had read this story and not seen the pictures.
This is not a small parade. No, it is no it's huge.
And look at the helicopters. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We just the Apache helicopters that one after another

Speaker 1 Then you've got this guy babbling gibberish we don't we don't know what he's saying. But it might be a language.
We're not sure.

Speaker 1 It's an ad for a car wash.

Speaker 1 Something. We don't know.

Speaker 1 We don't know. We don't know.
There are discounts. It's embarrassing.

Speaker 1 It's embarrassing. It's humiliating.

Speaker 1 And that's why they do it, obviously. Of course.
And so what is Kamala Harris going to do? Which, by the way, I should point out to people, because there's a lot of confusion on this,

Speaker 1 she is in. the administration right now.
She's the vice president of the United States currently. She has been the deciding vote on every single

Speaker 1 one of these policies. In fact, she's

Speaker 1 got more deciding votes than any person in history. Interesting.
Okay, that's something you should know.

Speaker 1 Because what I heard today was a Donald Trump campaign trying to tie Harris to Biden. Are you kidding? You mean because her name comes after him in the Biden-Harris administration?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're the ones that tie. We're the one that did that.

Speaker 1 He picked her as the vice president of the United States, and the party picked her as the president without her getting any votes. So, yes, they can be tied together.
It's amazing to me.

Speaker 1 I still can't, I can't get past that. It is incredible.
It's amazing to me. I thought for sure, I mean, nobody liked her, right? No, no one liked her.
Even in the media and her own staff.

Speaker 1 I mean, they were trashing her, including Joe Biden, who allowed a lot of this to happen.

Speaker 1 The Biden people allowed her to be trashed in the media over and over and over again because they didn't like her and they wanted to show that she's doing nothing. She was a do-nothing vice president.

Speaker 1 And they kept to that lie or that line until the lie lie was more necessary, which was she's great. She's wonderful.
She's Rosa Parks. She's whoever she is today.

Speaker 1 So that's where we are now. She's going to come out with this big economic speech today.
We should get to that because we did a little sidetracked at the beginning.

Speaker 1 More coming up in one minute.

Speaker 1 Do you think people notice we got sidetracked there at all?

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Speaker 1 who's on your Mount Rushmore of terrible presidents. Terrible president.
I mean, you agree with us on on those three? The three that we kind of locked in on were Biden, LBJ, and Woodrow Wilson.

Speaker 1 Who's your fourth? And maybe you think we're wrong on some of those. Give us your nominations.
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Speaker 1 Vice President Kamala Harris will call for a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries

Speaker 1 in a speech laying out her economic agenda on Friday. So that's actually.
Who decides what is gouging and what isn't? Who decides that? Assume it's Kamala.

Speaker 1 I guess it would have to be. Oh, those damn big grocers.
Or she'll appoint a commission of some sort. A commission of left-wing nut jobs

Speaker 1 to tell us which prices are too high.

Speaker 1 Is your arugula too high? As we learned from Barack Obama, it can be. It really can be too high.

Speaker 1 This is a speech coming up on Friday. Campaign officials said late Wednesday.
So again, we're not getting this from her. We're getting this from more campaign officials.

Speaker 1 The plan includes large overlaps with efforts that the Biden administration has pursued for several years to target corporate consolidation and price gouging, including attempts to stoke more competition in the meat industry and the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit this year that seeks to block the merger of two large grocery retailers, Kroger and Albertson.

Speaker 1 Again, big grocers. Big grocers.
And that's what they're going to do. Price controls, right? They're going to say, you've raised prices too much.
And this is their only out.

Speaker 1 Every other explanation of this problem leads to them. So the only one it could be is corporations during the last three years have discovered greed.

Speaker 1 Before that, they were just ambivalent, nice people who never thought to try to charge too much on prices. But then they saw, wait a minute,

Speaker 1 it's 2022, 2021. What if we raised our prices and just sucked in more of the people's money on tomatoes? They would not be able to say no.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So they discovered all of this greed and implemented it during the Harris Biden administration. I wish they wouldn't have discovered it.
No,

Speaker 1 it's like fire. I wish they wouldn't have.
You know, it's like the nuclear bomb. Did you see the movie, the three-hour?

Speaker 1 Why am I not? It was Barbie and Hammerheimer, thank you.

Speaker 1 And Oppenheimer. And Oppenheimer, and he

Speaker 1 created the the nuclear bomb. And if he didn't do that, who knows? The world would have been a much better place, as we learned in the movie.

Speaker 1 Here, it's the same thing. Corporations discovered greed, probably from Donald Trump.
They didn't discover it while he was president.

Speaker 1 They were looking at Donald Trump and they were like, this guy who wrote the Art of the Deal back in the 80s and has gold apartment buildings.

Speaker 1 We can't detect any greed there.

Speaker 1 We only have detected in the last couple of years and have decided to just rake these people over the coals.

Speaker 1 And we're going to do it, by the way, in an administration that's on the left that always complains about it.

Speaker 1 So instead of trying to do this when Trump was president, try to get greedy then when this obviously greedy president would have been fine with it, instead they've now gone the other direction and only came up with the greed in the last couple of years.

Speaker 1 So that will be solved. I mean, that's what we have to believe.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it is, right? It's the only thing that would explain it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And this is happening as well. Joe Biden, who apparently is still the president of the United States.
Still in office. Still in office, is now pushing a rent control scheme.

Speaker 1 This is another

Speaker 1 thing? Yeah, it is basically a nationwide rent control thing. By the way, if you're interested in

Speaker 1 how economists feel on that,

Speaker 1 they're not in favor of it. Yeah, they probably aren't renters.
They actually.

Speaker 1 Have they been to New York? Because it's worked so well there.

Speaker 1 Look at the low prices in New York that you pay.

Speaker 1 It's worked really well. It works really well.
What percentage of economists agree with the the rent control scheme? Do you have any idea? Oh, it's got to be 90, 95%.

Speaker 1 Two.

Speaker 1 Two percent of economists think it's a good idea.

Speaker 1 Legitimately, two. It's two percent.
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Speaker 1 Pat and Stu with Jeffy today for Glenn, 888-727-BECK. You have an update on the economic agenda of Kamala Harris? Well, a couple, actually, submissions on the Mount Rushmore of Terrible Presidents.

Speaker 1 Oh, good. 888727 BECK, if you want to call in with yours.
Jimmy Carter is the worst president. It should be on the Mount Rushmore of the United States.
Over Barack Obama. Over Barack Obama.

Speaker 1 Another one says James Buchanan should be the guy. Okay.
And then we have this one.

Speaker 1 We can't put him there. He was our first gay president, supposedly.
Yeah, that's very. Oh, really? Oh, okay.
I didn't know that. Yeah, we can't do that.

Speaker 1 Who should know that? Okay.

Speaker 1 Who should be on the Mount Rushmore of Memorializing the Absolute Worst, Most Vile, Evil, America-crushing presidents next to Woodrow Wilson, LBJ, and FDR. So that's their fourth one.

Speaker 1 You're eliminating Joe Biden, or are they including no, including Joe Biden? Okay, Joe Biden, LBJ, LBJ, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR.

Speaker 1 By the way, let's go with that. That one comes in from Pat Unleashed on Twitter.

Speaker 1 Apparently, you actually did already do this and say

Speaker 1 that FDR was your fourth. Yeah, we did.
This is from a couple weeks ago. I think we did five, though.

Speaker 1 I think we did five.

Speaker 1 had to say added a fifth. You can't add a fifth.
Because I couldn't just do four. There had to be five.

Speaker 1 So guess what? You can't remember what it was, though. Yes.
You can't remember what it was.

Speaker 1 I think we're going to be. Look, when you start chiseling and

Speaker 1 you're already there. Yeah, right.
You're already there.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 you said you had a full day between

Speaker 1 11 and 3. So you can get that done.

Speaker 1 By the way,

Speaker 1 the reason why we were talking about the Kamala Harris economic agenda, she's got this big speech coming out. Price controls and rent control are two of the big proposals that are going to be made.

Speaker 1 Now, the chances of these things actually being passed, I would think, were low because there's such catastrophes for

Speaker 1 a Democratic majority, you never know. You never know.
If they get all three, you know,

Speaker 1 God forbid. All of Congress and the White House, who knows what could happen.
But I will say the reason why it's being proposed is simple.

Speaker 1 As As I said, only 2% of economists agree that rent control is a good policy. That actually will, the way it's framed is

Speaker 1 interesting, too. It's not just, is it a good policy? It is

Speaker 1 just 2%. It's not going to help Americans.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just 2% of economists agreed with the idea that Biden's rent cap proposal would make middle-income Americans substantially better off over the next 10 years. So that's a really specific thing.

Speaker 1 It's not like some conservative framing it in a way that would be harsh on Biden's proposal.

Speaker 1 Only 2% of economists agreed, but 73% of voters agreed that they want rent control. Now, of course,

Speaker 1 people don't like high rent.

Speaker 1 And more people are renting. Yeah.
And this is the, people can't afford houses because of the Biden policies. The mortgage rates are so high

Speaker 1 that people are pushed into this thing. Well, gosh, I need help.
And when they need help, for the first time, we are living in a country now where they look to the government for it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We forever were not. That's unfortunate.
And that is a big, big negative. That's been a big problem for our country for many years, and it is showing itself here.

Speaker 1 And it's like, if you've got a 73% approval rating on a policy, you look at that as a success, whether it's going to kill the country or not.

Speaker 1 And that's not true. One little rent policy isn't going to kill the country.

Speaker 1 Just stacked on top of all the rest could well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I mean, they just keep piling it on.
I mean, hello, that's the problem.

Speaker 1 Speaking of which, Disney has another little controversy going because their new Snow White star, Rachel Ziegler,

Speaker 1 she just posted a free Palestine

Speaker 1 post, and apparently people are going crazy. Oh,

Speaker 1 she, at the end of her, her tweet said, and always remember free Palestine. Oh,

Speaker 1 I think we all feel that way. Don't we?

Speaker 1 Don't we? Free Palestine. Free Palestine.
Because,

Speaker 1 you know, I expected that to happen a little bit more at the Olympics, but I didn't see very much of it.

Speaker 1 I think there was one guy. I saw in

Speaker 1 the men's basketball

Speaker 1 presentation for the medal ceremony,

Speaker 1 I saw one guy from France, and I don't recall who it was, had the Palestine flag.

Speaker 1 And that was it.

Speaker 1 And then, you know, we were talking off the air. I don't remember any of the other

Speaker 1 things happened once. I don't remember any of the winners wrapping a flag or holding up a sign or shouting free Palestine into the camera.
No, I don't remember that. It's an improvement.

Speaker 1 Certainly an improvement from 1972, for example.

Speaker 1 That's an improvement. I don't know that necessarily the rest of the world is improving on that particular thing, but it was nice to see.
There were some nice moments in the Olympics, actually.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there were. I mean,

Speaker 1 what did you think of the Britney Griner thing? Because

Speaker 1 the National Anthem. Here's someone who took a knee.
I was moved, frankly. Really? It moved me.
Yeah. I liked it.
I thought that was really kind of cool. It kind of did, too.
I hate to admit it.

Speaker 1 Did she

Speaker 1 develop an appreciation for her nation that saved her from a Russian prison? Let's hope so. I think so.
Let's hope so, yeah. I guess a lot of people thought it was insincere.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I don't think she was necessarily faking the tears. I don't think she's that kind of actress, per se.

Speaker 1 But, I mean, I do think that the things she likes about America are different than probably the things that she's

Speaker 1 she may have been crying out of, you know, happiness that she won the gold medal and how life has turned out. I don't know that she was crying because how great America is.

Speaker 1 You know, I think you could probably parse that. That's probably accurate.

Speaker 1 But I mean, I think if you think about her experience from being in a Russian prison to standing on the stage receiving a gold medal in the Olympics, pretty cool. I mean, it's a good moment.

Speaker 1 And then look, at the end of the day,

Speaker 1 she lives in a country that actually cares enough to try to get her out, to give up massive terrorists to get her out of prison.

Speaker 1 Yep. You live in a country that will give up mass murderers to get you home.
And that is,

Speaker 1 it's a good country

Speaker 1 that would do something like that. It might not be a smart country,

Speaker 1 but it is one.

Speaker 1 I think now all Russian terrorists are back in Russian soil to wind up murdering again over the past couple of weeks of hostage releases. But we got a female basketball player back out of it.
We did.

Speaker 1 So that was good. And she won the gold medal.
And she won the gold medal. So I get, you know, I'm a little conflicted on it, but it was.

Speaker 1 You get to that point where you're having a good time. That gold medal is the one that

Speaker 1 was the men's that tied us. So we tied them up.
We tied it 40

Speaker 1 and then beat them by 35 in overall medals.

Speaker 1 I always get irritated with the websites that place the gold medal winner at number one, regardless of how many overall medals there are. Like that one gold medal is going to overcome the other 35?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Well, we have way more people than China, though. So we can't

Speaker 1 compete.

Speaker 1 I like making that point until I start looking at like Finland.

Speaker 1 Well, let's not look at the

Speaker 1 Australia. Don't think about that.

Speaker 1 Don't worry about that at all. It only counts between us and China.

Speaker 1 Well, when you think about what China does, you know, where they take kids out of their families at three and four years old and put them in sports academies and raise them there

Speaker 1 and uh you know beat the crap out of them and torture them when they come back home without gold yeah because that doesn't happen here it's pretty amazing well that doesn't happen here the parents are doing it here okay yeah so it's totally different completely different than the government

Speaker 1 first of all it is uh but uh secondly also yeah maybe we should get some of that under control uh but uh you know i think it was interesting to watch the olympics because i mean like for example like i hate many people will know that i do not i'm not a fan fan of LeBron James.

Speaker 1 And the fact that he was the

Speaker 1 centerpiece.

Speaker 1 I thought of you the entire time, Stu, just so you know. Just feeling the centerpiece.
He always. And he, you know, like, just, you know, pushed a kid away or whatever he did.

Speaker 1 Oh, well,

Speaker 1 yeah. Always.

Speaker 1 And he was like, you know, get out of my face, basically, just some kids. Go and get an autograph.
Go. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Really irritated. I mean, he's not, look, he's not a good guy.
I'm not a fan of him at all.

Speaker 1 But even watching that, with all the LeBron hatred that I have, I still wanted the Americans to win basketball gold medal. Now, that's not the case with soccer where I want us to lose.

Speaker 1 I want us to lose every single time because the more soccer victories we have, the more it will be covered by national media. And I want it to be covered less because I hate soccer.

Speaker 1 But that's just a separate point. I don't mind if the difference between us losing to China and the Olympics is losing a soccer medal, I'm fine with it.
That is,

Speaker 1 I'm completely okay. I think it's better for the country that we talk about soccer less.

Speaker 1 So that's just me. That's actually a very patriotic standpoint.
People would say, well, why are you rooting against America? Because I want America to be a better place, a better place without soccer.

Speaker 1 That's why.

Speaker 1 And soccer is a communist sport. So

Speaker 1 I understand that. That is my stance.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But we did win the gold, right? We got the gold in that. I think we did.

Speaker 1 The women's soccer, not the men's. Yeah.
Yeah, the men. Did the men even did they make it?

Speaker 1 Did they qualify?

Speaker 1 I don't know if they even qualified.

Speaker 1 They were a way down. They were way out.
I think

Speaker 1 there was only one sport

Speaker 1 we didn't compete in, and that was the team handball.

Speaker 1 What? Which we should.

Speaker 1 We should be great at handball.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we should be great at handball.

Speaker 1 I think you'd be a wonderful handball. Penny sport.

Speaker 1 Penny sport, yes. Because you are athletic

Speaker 1 overweight.

Speaker 1 So the athletic part of that really comes

Speaker 1 shining through. Thank you.
It comes first. Thank you.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a weird sport. I don't necessarily appreciate your tone.
It's a cross between lacrosse, soccer, and hockey, sort of. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The handball thing. It's weird.
It's weird. And you're hitting it with your hands? You throw it.
You throw it. It's just throwing.
But you don't have to. See, that's the problem.

Speaker 1 Americans don't know the sport. I don't know the sport.
That's the problem. Americans don't know the sport.
If Americans knew the sport, we'd go, well, we could do that. I can do that.
And we'd do it.

Speaker 1 It's like ping-pong. Why aren't we better at ping-pong than we are? I mean, I think because everyone who dominates it with like robots, that's why.

Speaker 1 They've hit the ball 9 zillion miles an hour impossibly. I don't know how anyone could be better than the people that were playing it.
It looks impossible. It's incredible.

Speaker 1 And I think that's what we decided as a nation. Nah, China's got it.
So I'm not even going to play it.

Speaker 1 If I do that, I'm going to be drinking.

Speaker 1 So, yeah.

Speaker 1 But I'm looking forward to Milan already in two years. Yeah.
I'm not. It's going to be fun.

Speaker 1 You're not a big

Speaker 1 Olympics fan? I watched more of it than I would have expected. I was on vacation that week, so it was on TV at night, every night, and we watched the Noah Lyles, right? Noah.

Speaker 1 That was a fun thing to watch. One won the gold in the 100 meters for the first time in 20 years.
And then it was awesome. And then came out to the 200 and came in third because he had COVID.

Speaker 1 Yeah, weird. And was competing with COVID.
Like, how far have we come? They wouldn't let anyone in the stadium last time. He's hugging the other athletes and breathing on everybody accidentally.

Speaker 1 COVID. Coughing in people's face.
And we're like, ah, don't worry about it. It's just COVID.

Speaker 1 I mean, when did everyone everyone turn into a conservative on this issue? I don't know. I've never

Speaker 1 really amazing. No one was in the stadium last time they did the Olympics.
Right. No one.
Right. I mean, that's why the numbers were so bad, right? I mean, they were

Speaker 1 the Tokyo, the no-touching, no-breathing, stay away from everybody Olympics. Yeah.
And by the way, we should point out that Tim Walls,

Speaker 1 in case you were wondering his particular approach to COVID, not only was he one of the biggest shutdown governors, he was doing that in November of 2020, 2020, shutting down all public gatherings in November

Speaker 1 of 2020. Not March, not April, not May,

Speaker 1 November

Speaker 1 of 2020. We played a video the other day on Pat Ground Leash.
I don't know if you're familiar with the program. I love that show.
Freaking love it.

Speaker 1 Except that one, when you have that one guest now that comes on a couple days a week. Oh, God.
Jeffy.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah, that's terrible.
But other than that, I love the show. I thought I heard the show Loved You Back, but I could have heard wrong.

Speaker 1 We played a video that has been trying to have been scrubbed from the internet, I'm told, but Tim Walls was sending police and military out to enforce their

Speaker 1 lockdowns. Yeah, and so for people to get back on their in their homes, oh, here we go.

Speaker 1 I don't think it's much of a distinction. I just want to make it.
I think it's a distinction without a difference. But my understanding was it was actually more related to the George Floyd lockdowns.

Speaker 1 So, like, it wasn't COVID-related as much as it was, okay, our cities are on fire. And, but it doesn't make any difference.
No, like, I mean, first of all, they're both related, number one.

Speaker 1 And number two, they were still trying to keep people in their houses. And people who were in their houses on their porches were still getting fired at with paintballs.

Speaker 1 So, I don't think it's any better, but I just know I see what you're saying. It is in that period, in the middle of that period.
But he was terrible. I mean, he had the COVID snitching lines.

Speaker 1 And this is what's been driving me crazy. And I know we're running late and I'll go to a break here in a second.

Speaker 1 But, like, what has been driving me crazy is he's the guy with the COVID snitching lines. Tell us what people are, you know, not wearing enough masks.
Yeah, hey, my neighbor just left their driveway.

Speaker 1 They're going somewhere. And every speech he's making right now is, well, what we do is we mind our own damn business.
Right. Oh, do you? Do you, Tim? Unbelievable.
All right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Take a look at this. This is happening.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The actual video. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, the curfew. So this curfew was not really COVID.
It was the George Floyd. Yeah, it's just a different curfew.
It was in 2020. It was in May, right? That was the.
Well,

Speaker 1 we can't hear the officers, but they're screaming at people to get back in your house! Get inside! And then they say light them up. Go inside now! Get in the hill!

Speaker 1 Jeez, and they're firing paintballs at them, which hurts, by the way. Get in, get in, get in, get in, get in, get in!

Speaker 1 Get in!

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 this is insanity. How about

Speaker 1 insanity?

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Speaker 1 There is a practice that's really common in America. It's called civil asset forfeiture.
It is blatant

Speaker 1 theft by the government. Apparently legalized theft, but it's absolutely unconstitutional, but it keeps getting worse.

Speaker 1 We'll tell you about an incident, well, an ongoing situation in Indiana that is happening right now that is really hard to believe. Coming up in one minute.

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Speaker 1 uh civil asset forfeiture uh you know what you love it situation in indiana that is outrageous we've talked about this before where if you're carrying cash and you're pulled over by law enforcement and it's a lot of cash oftentimes they'll just relieve you of the cash so that you're not burdened by it any longer uh relieving relieving i didn't know they got relieved of the cash that's what they do i mean they'll they just blatantly take tens of thousands of dollars from people if you have it in cash and they pull you over for any reason and they find that there's cash on you.

Speaker 1 It's not illegal to carry cash.

Speaker 1 And it's not illegal to carry $10,000 or $20,000 or $50,000 in cash.

Speaker 1 You can do that. It's not.
And the justification seems to be basically it's suspicious that you have that much cash, therefore we could just take it. Right.
Right?

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 And then you have to prove that it's not suspicious. You have to go to them and prove that.
It's the opposite of our system. Yes.
Correct. Yes.
Correct. It's 180 degrees in the opposite direction.

Speaker 1 It all started with

Speaker 1 going against the drug kingpins. Yes.
That's what they wanted.

Speaker 1 Because a lot of times people who deal in drugs have a lot of cash on them, right? You sell the

Speaker 1 drugs.

Speaker 1 I just look in your direction. It was nothing specific.
I'm just saying that it does seem that people who handle drugs often do maybe carry around cash.

Speaker 1 Not really a big credit card business, right, Jeffy? No, it is not. No, it is not.
It's lighting the card for the Scottoman.

Speaker 1 There's a case in Utah we talked about a while ago. This happened a few years ago, but the guy was pulled over on a highway in Utah, and he had $490,000 in cash on him or something.

Speaker 1 I don't know why. It's none of my business why.
It's none of the government's business why.

Speaker 1 But he had a lot of cash. And they took it.
They just took it because they suspected. Well, you must be a drug dealer.

Speaker 1 And I think it goes beyond that. It's like, we want that cash and we're going to

Speaker 1 do it started out with arguably good intentions, right? Arguably good intentions. But still, you can't do that.
You can't do it. And it's not illegal to carry it.

Speaker 1 And what a lot of people would say is, well, what was, let's, in that case, $490,000. Why did he have that much money? As you point out,

Speaker 1 it doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter.
If the person commits another crime, like there are ways to go get his $490,000, prove he committed a crime, and then you can have it. Yes.
In some cases,

Speaker 1 I think he was saying, I think his excuse was, and he shouldn't have to make an excuse. No, correct.

Speaker 1 If you don't have any reason to believe that he committed a crime, if you don't have evidence of it, then

Speaker 1 move on. Yeah, move on.
But I think he was going to pay cash for a house or something. I don't know the circumstances.
And again, who cares? It's not your.

Speaker 1 They never charged him with anything. That's the biggest biggest thing.
If you charge someone,

Speaker 1 you could argue, and I don't argue this, but you could argue, if you're charged with a crime, we're going to take your money and hold it so you can't just go spend it on stuff.

Speaker 1 But we're not going to spend it in the meantime. We're going to hold it until such time as...
You're found innocent. Right.

Speaker 1 And if we find out they're ill-gotten gains, then

Speaker 1 we're going to take it and maybe redistribute it to the people that were stolen from previously or whatever.

Speaker 1 But that's not what they do.

Speaker 1 I would argue that you need to convict someone of a crime before you start taking it. That was the thing behind the drug kingpins, though, is that they would

Speaker 1 have evidence that these were drug kingpins, but they had all this cash, automobiles, homes that they could move around and slide around and live here and take this.

Speaker 1 If they wanted to be able to confiscate that,

Speaker 1 which would hinder the drug kingpins' business. Right.

Speaker 1 And to be fair, they would charge a drug kingpin with a crime and they would find ways to rid, they would relieve themselves of the money before it was, and so they would convict them, and then there would be no money to take.

Speaker 1 And you know what? That's really hard. And gosh darn it, sometimes things are hard.
Then people got upset.

Speaker 1 Then people got upset about

Speaker 1 people. Then people got upset about how they, when it started going down the road of just taking people's $10,000, $12,000, $40,000, that they said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay, you're right, man.

Speaker 1 That is bad. But it's not us.
We've got to deal with the federal government now.

Speaker 1 And so we're taking it, but we're not keeping it. We're giving it to the federal government.
And we're

Speaker 1 going to split it with the federal government. The federal government has given us a kickback from that, but we're not taking it all.
So it's not all on us. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so it's really hard to get your money back. This guy, the guy in Utah took it all the way to the Supreme Court in Utah, and they ruled in his favor eventually, but I've never

Speaker 1 don't think he's still gotten his money back. Then there's a case, I mean, there's all kinds of these cases all over the country.

Speaker 1 People stopped at airports with large amounts of money because they're going to buy trucks when they get to their destination. Whatever they're going to do.

Speaker 1 Again, it's none of our business. So what? I don't, I don't, it's none of my business.
And it's not the government's business why they have cash on hand.

Speaker 1 Unless you've got evidence they did something wrong. And even then, you got to get the conviction before you can take the money.
So it's crazy. Yeah.
And there's so many cases.

Speaker 1 We're going to tell you about this Indiana one in a second, but another one that comes to mind all of a sudden all the time when I think of these cases there's this one guy who was a car he was a car repairman and he had you know a bunch of tools

Speaker 1 he's in Chicago that's right he's in Chicago he's fixing people's cars and he's working on someone's uh car who's at a shop he uh doesn't have a ride needs a ride back to his wherever he was going so he goes yeah sure I'll just give you a ride he takes his car he puts his tools for his business in the back of his car starts driving uh you know driving this guy uh back to his destination in the meantime on his way there he gets pulled over can't remember what the reason was some traffic violation i think

Speaker 1 likely story right uh when so they they ask him to get out of the car they search him and the the passenger who was just a customer at his shop has drugs on him now he didn't have drugs on him they didn't accuse him of having drugs on him but his passenger who was just a customer of his has drugs on him they take his car and do not even let him get the tools for his business out of the back of his car.

Speaker 1 So he fought this for years and years and years to get his car back so he could maintain going to work and the tools

Speaker 1 for his business. For his business.
And it took, I don't, I think eventually, after multiple years, it went wound through the courts and he was able to get his stuff back.

Speaker 1 But of course, how much does it cost him? It would cost him a fortune and his life

Speaker 1 multiple years. And you might recognize that again as the opposite of the way our judicial system works.
You're innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around.

Speaker 1 But that's not how we're operating now.

Speaker 1 And in Indiana, there's a class action lawsuit where law enforcement is seizing millions of dollars a year from cash from FedEx packages without ever informing owners of what crime they're suspected of violating.

Speaker 1 So they don't even have to say, hey, we took your money because we think that there's drugs involved. They don't even tell them that.
The money's just gone. Yeah, we took it.

Speaker 1 Henry and Min Cheng, who run a small small California jewelry wholesaler business, allege in a class action lawsuit in Indiana state court that police seized over $42,000 in cash from a FedEx package en route to them from a client in Virginia.

Speaker 1 County prosecutors then filed a lawsuit to forfeit their money through civil asset forfeiture, claiming that Chang's money was connected to a violation of a criminal statute, but they never said what statute was violated.

Speaker 1 Weird. It's incredible.

Speaker 1 It's incredible.

Speaker 1 I have multiple questions.

Speaker 1 And this is going on multiple times to multiple people in Indiana.

Speaker 1 So obviously, Indiana has found a way to say, are we just stopping FedEx trucks and randomly

Speaker 1 having dogs sniff packages? And when they're

Speaker 1 talking about it, this is what's crazy about it. Is they're basically just allowing these dogs to walk by packages and sniff them

Speaker 1 on a facility. If they sniff cash they pull it out and they take the cash

Speaker 1 which just sounds like a great business if you can get in

Speaker 1 it sure does I need to get me a cash sniffing dog I'll tell you that I know and and you know a lot of times they justify it and they say well we they the dog smelled cocaine on the cash yeah the cash gets a hit of drugs of course they do say that what 90 something percent of of of cash has some sort of residue that would be illegal on it i know that's what i say yeah i don't know about who they but I say that.

Speaker 1 But I mean, it's incomprehensible that you would do it this way. So they're not even looking for a specific person, a specific criminal, a specific crime.

Speaker 1 They're just sniffing a bunch of packages to try to find cash, and when they find the cash, they confiscate it. They confiscate it.

Speaker 1 That is incomprehensible. I mean, if that's accurate, and it is a lawsuit,

Speaker 1 so we don't, the lawsuit is not complete yet. We don't know the whole story, I suppose.
But it is happening all over America, and it does seem like the... Federalists can't allow that to happen.

Speaker 1 I mean, I guess they're saying that it would be for your safety that they have

Speaker 1 law enforcement come through to look for bombs or whatever.

Speaker 1 This particular FedEx hub is massive. It's the second largest in the country.
It processes up to 99,000 items an hour.

Speaker 1 So almost 100,000 items are processed through here an hour. You're going to find cash and probably a good number of them.
I mean, maybe people just need to stop sending cash.

Speaker 1 Maybe that's what needs to happen. Maybe it's none of the business of the state of Indiana to decide who sends cash and who doesn't.
I know. Maybe it's none of their business.

Speaker 1 But that's what people will say, and that's why they're getting away with it. Well, you shouldn't send cash.
Why the hell

Speaker 1 is none of your business? Why? It doesn't. That's beside the point.
I mean, yes, it's probably advisable to send a check or money order or whatever that can be.

Speaker 1 It'd be fascinating to see what all they've taken, what all they've confiscated in the tens of millions of dollars. Tens of

Speaker 1 millions of dollars. And how many, I'd like to know the, you know, like if, you know, grandma and grandpa send send their grandkids, you know, 100 bucks.
They're not going to bother with that.

Speaker 1 Probably it's not that much. I would assume it's larger amounts than that.

Speaker 1 If they get a hit on the cash, though, package gets thrown into the confiscation bag. Could.
It could. And it's just wrong.

Speaker 1 I mean, even if you are doing it for criminal reasons, it is the requirement of the government to prove you have committed this crime in a court of law before they can just start taking crap from you.

Speaker 1 Right. Like that is, even if, even if your answer is actually, you know, the reality is I was going to try to buy some drugs with it.
Unless they've proved that, they can't take your money.

Speaker 1 But for whatever reason, we've decided as a country that this is okay. It is completely at odds with our system of government.

Speaker 1 Un-American. It's completely un-American.
It is, it's like you're going back to Czechoslovakia. It is.
It's not how this is supposed to go.

Speaker 1 It is not. A lot of people on the right, too, support this.
I mean, there's a lot because it's tied to

Speaker 1 this. Oh, Oh, yes, Deborah.

Speaker 1 He did it. He did.
I haven't heard him talk about it. He had the big round table of sheriffs, and they talked him into, you know, civil asset forfeiture was a great thing.
And

Speaker 1 he was helping. Yeah, I can't imagine he even is aware of stuff like this.
Honestly, it's not something he's talked about a lot. And obviously, he's pro-law enforcement.

Speaker 1 And look, law enforcement makes these arguments, and they are in some ways correct with the arguments, which is it is a heck of a lot easier to throw a drug dealer in prison when you can just do this stuff.

Speaker 1 And it is. Yes.
It is easier. It is easier.
That is not the goal. The goal is not to make it easier.

Speaker 1 Isn't it the easiness quality? The easiness clause is there.

Speaker 1 It's the 304th Amendment to the Constitution, and we should make everything easy for the government to do. And

Speaker 1 Joe Biden's been taking advantage of that. I really have student loans, and no one will pass it.

Speaker 1 And so, therefore, I'll just do it. The Easiness Clause is used all the time by our government, but it's actually not part of the Constitution.
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Speaker 1 How do you feel about geofencing warrants? That's another issue that

Speaker 1 I have with what's going on right now that's un-American. I mean, this is incomprehensible.
The things that our government is doing right now,

Speaker 1 law enforcement-wise, that just are unconstitutional. And a federal appeals court just ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional.

Speaker 1 Now, if they would do the same thing with the civil asset forfeiture, that would be a really good step in the right direction. But the Friday ruling from the U.S.

Speaker 1 Court of Appeals in the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, found that geofense warrants are categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unwarranted searches and seizures.

Speaker 1 This is where they just

Speaker 1 take like

Speaker 1 the cell tower and take all the records from the cell phone usage in that area. So people that have just passed through that area have made a phone call, they become part of the search.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 a lot of these people don't belong in your search. And so, that's the problem there, that they're just scooping up everybody in this thing.

Speaker 1 That's a general warrant, specifically, once again, what we were trying to prevent in the Constitution. Exactly.
There was a case a while ago that we talked about when

Speaker 1 it was just brand new. There was some guy that biked past a house, and this was in the Midwest somewhere, but he biked past this house every day and made phone calls while he was biking

Speaker 1 to whoever. And

Speaker 1 so the house was eventually robbed, and the resident, who was an elderly woman, was hurt during the robbery.

Speaker 1 And so they went in and did this geofencing warrant and just got the records of everybody who had made phone calls or who had been in that area.

Speaker 1 And he was one of them so they were charging him with a crime because circumstantially he was there all the time he must have been casing the joint well you're making kind of a leap there because people do jug people do bicycle people do make calls in certain areas And that doesn't mean they've committed a crime in that area.

Speaker 1 That's true. That's true.

Speaker 1 Well, this. And of course, sometimes you can tell, right? Like, I mean,

Speaker 1 this was essentially the Fonnie Willis defense, remember, with the guy she was sleeping with? And they had like 12,000 calls. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 He was over there at like 2 a.m. 25 times.
I was like, well, they're like, it's a very busy area.

Speaker 1 There's a shopping center nearby. Oh, yeah.
He was just probably shopping at 2.34 a.m. on a Tuesday.

Speaker 1 That's a certain amount. It happens all the time.
And like, you know, in those investigations, when you have someone, you can use those records. That's very common with law enforcement.

Speaker 1 Collecting everybody who comes by an area is not common. It's not the way to go.
It should not be the way to go.

Speaker 1 Now, you know, the interesting thing about this particular case where the Fifth Circuit ruled that the geofence warrants were unconstitutional,

Speaker 1 the guy that brought the case, yeah, he's still guilty. Because the court said, yeah, the police department acted in good faith.

Speaker 1 Oh, good. That's nice.

Speaker 1 Geofencing was a novel idea back then. The police didn't really know what they were doing.

Speaker 1 So he won the case, but he lost the case. He's still guilty.
Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 that is unbelievable. So a lot of that stuff going on right now.
Yeah. It's just like you keep saying, Glenn keeps saying, like, gosh, I never thought I'd see the day when this happened.

Speaker 1 And it's like, it just keeps, you keep saying that enough. And suddenly,

Speaker 1 like, I've eliminated out of my vocabulary the phrase, unless something crazy happens. Because I've said it so many times.
And then something crazy always happens.

Speaker 1 Like, you could say it's a very close race in the presidential race right now. And it probably will be close unless something crazy happens.

Speaker 1 And then, like, there's an assassination attempt and a presidential candidate drops out and

Speaker 1 they just

Speaker 1 implant somebody into the nomination.

Speaker 1 Crazy stuff will happen

Speaker 1 because they respect democracy so much. That's why they love democracy.
That's why they just implanted somebody.

Speaker 1 You know, the other thing that we've stopped saying, and for good reason, but when we first all moved to the great state of Texas.

Speaker 1 And this happened in Texas. Yeah, I don't say that.
No one says that anymore. Yeah, it does seem like that.
It's too common. Way too common to say that anymore.
It's sad, it is, but true. Really sad.

Speaker 1 I mean, we might be one of the last vestiges of freedom

Speaker 1 in the country. Absolutely.
It's still freer than many other places, but not like it used to be. That's for sure.
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Speaker 1 727 B E C K. We're going through the details of a story and trying to figure it out exactly.

Speaker 1 It's a very bizarre one, but we wanted to bring it to your attention because it kind of, I don't know, ties into what we've been talking about this hour, these crazy things that are happening in our country that don't seem possible, right?

Speaker 1 They don't seem like like

Speaker 1 in America, we'd have things like this go on, but they seem to be more and more common by the day.

Speaker 1 So there's a story of, and I'm going to let Jeffy set this up because he's the one with it in front of him, but it's a story about Disney and a lawsuit that's going on right now, which involves a trip to a restaurant and some allergies and one of the craziest arguments you've ever heard.

Speaker 1 In October of. You got to turn your microphone on.
I don't have. No, thank you.

Speaker 1 They don't allow me to touch buttons. Understandable.
I agree with that.

Speaker 1 I understand that. So in October of 2023,

Speaker 1 this

Speaker 1 Canoko Porn Tang Son,

Speaker 1 her husband, Jeffrey Piccolo, and Piccolo's mother dined at this Irish pub at Disney Springs.

Speaker 1 And they dined there because they believed that it would have proper safeguards against serving dairy and nuts to Tang Sun due to her allergies.

Speaker 1 And they were guaranteed that the food would be made allergen-free. They asked the waiter several times.
When the food came out, some of the food didn't have the allergen-free flags on it.

Speaker 1 And they said, hey, it doesn't have the allergen-free flags on it. And the waiter said, no, it's fine.
Don't worry about it. Wow.

Speaker 1 And so that was the problem, which put her into anaphylaxic shock, elevated levels of dairy and nuts in her system. And that's what caused her to die.
So she dies over this. Wow.

Speaker 1 Now, this to me, and Jeffy was sort of disagreeing with this off the air, but this to me sounds like one of those instances that they have a pretty freaking good case, right?

Speaker 1 Like, they came there, they went to a restaurant specifically to avoid these allergens. They made points about it.
They made points about it. They brought it up.
They came out with the flags.

Speaker 1 They said, hey, there's no flag in this food. Is this allergen free? And the waiter says, yes.
I mean, if that is true, that is, and then the person dies over it. That is a

Speaker 1 worthwhile lawsuit, in my view.

Speaker 1 Right. Right.
Now, Disney is trying to get out of this. This is what's incredible, I think, about the story more than anything else.

Speaker 1 By saying that Jeffrey Piccolo, the husband, had signed up for one-month trial of the streaming service Disney Plus,

Speaker 1 which required trial users to arbitrate all disputes with the company.

Speaker 1 But is that disputes over Disney Plus, or is that

Speaker 1 food elevators? Well, they're saying the whole thing. That covers everything.
Anything related to that, everything in life.

Speaker 1 Everything in life. They also claim that because Piccolo used the Walt Disney Parks website to buy Ebcott Center tickets, Disney is shielded from a lawsuit from the estate of Piccolo's deceased wife.

Speaker 1 My gosh. I mean, this is, first of all, disgraceful by Disney, which is, of course,

Speaker 1 their motto at this point. We will be more disgraceful tomorrow than we were today.
That seems to be the way they're going at this point. But I mean,

Speaker 1 for all the freaking money they bring in to not help a family that you basically murdered at your park because they signed up to Disney Plus a few months before.

Speaker 1 I don't even think it was

Speaker 1 before. I mean, I feel like.
I think it was 2019, I think, was the signup, if I'm correct. Oh, yes, yes, that's correct.

Speaker 1 In 2019, the guy signs up for a one-month subscription to Disney Plus, a trial, not even the full subscription, a trial subscription. And they bought tickets.
And then they bought tickets online.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you just click on these things. You click, I agree to the terms and conditions.
You don't look at them. Nobody does.
No one does. No one does.
You just want.

Speaker 1 You just want to take the picture with the app on my phone.

Speaker 1 I don't care what you want me to do. Just let me take the picture.
And they put you in that position. And then, of course, you just click OK.
Yeah. You click, I agree.

Speaker 1 And God only knows what you're agreeing to. There was a documentary that came out, I think it was 2013 or so, called Terms and Conditions May Apply.

Speaker 1 And that's what it was about, about all the things that you agree with. Now, we know how much worse it is now than it was in 2013.
I can't even imagine what the sequel to this would look like.

Speaker 1 But they highlighted a bunch of different stories like this. And

Speaker 1 the craziest one, which was kind of just funny, was a company, I think it was a software company that put in, you know, by signing up to this, you agree to be launched into space, into the sun, and to be burned crisp.

Speaker 1 Like it was like this whole thing that was just stuck in there and every single person clicked. No one called him out on it.
Every person agreed. Yeah, I agree to be launched into the sun.

Speaker 1 I agree, I agree. Because we just want to take the picture.

Speaker 1 I just want to use the app. I just want to

Speaker 1 work. That's all I want.
Make it work. Please make it work.
Yes, take my children.

Speaker 1 Take it all. I just want it to work.
Yes. Yes.
And that's what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 I get a seven-day free trial out of it. Yes.

Speaker 1 I'm in. Fine.

Speaker 1 Just do it. I don't care if I have to pay $1,000 a month for the rest of my life.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to do it. And this sounds insane, but then you remember that one of the most popular apps in the world is run by the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok.
And we're like, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, whatever. But the funny videos.
Spy on me. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And we already know how bad that app is. What information continues to go back to the head of TikTok.
Yeah, the head of TikTok. Who's definitely keeping it separate? Separate.

Speaker 1 Totally separate, even though we know it's not separate.

Speaker 1 Allegedly. Allegedly, we should point out.
But, you know, I really want to see that

Speaker 1 woman dance.

Speaker 1 I got to buy the bags of stones.

Speaker 1 I got to buy the bag of rocks. She's a bag of stones.
That funny dance she's doing and lip-syncing at the same time. You got to have that.
And we got to have the new

Speaker 1 food hack of the day. We got to see that.
Yeah. You know, that's really important.
So who cares if the Chinese government gets more power? What's that for that? Whatever. No big deal.
No big deal.

Speaker 1 It's a weird, I mean,

Speaker 1 it also goes back to the fact that we just don't trust anybody, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. We don't nor should we, right?

Speaker 1 Well, but we shouldn't worry about mega corporations telling us that they screwed up and killed someone, and we're not going to pay you because you signed up for our app. Yeah, for Disney Plus.

Speaker 1 Sorry, man, we want to give you, we'd love to give you more than $50,000, but it says right here we don't have to. Right.

Speaker 1 And it's so bizarre because we have the simultaneous,

Speaker 1 we don't trust the media, we don't trust our elections, we don't trust our government, we don't trust any of our institutions.

Speaker 1 But we absolutely trust every app that we sign up to, that they're not putting something bad in the terms and conditions.

Speaker 1 It's insane. It's insane.

Speaker 1 Speaking of this, there's a new story out from the Wall Street Journal that broke last night that is supposedly the real story of what happened with the Nord Stream pipeline.

Speaker 1 Oh, where they discuss how the United States blew up that pipeline? No, that's not what it's story about. That's not what it says? No, I mean, the U.S.
is involved in the story.

Speaker 1 In what way? Just we didn't do it, though. No, in fact, not only did we do it.
Even though Joe Biden said we were going to do it,

Speaker 1 he did basically say that. Russia invades.

Speaker 1 That means tanks or troops crossing

Speaker 1 the border of Ukraine

Speaker 1 again. Then

Speaker 1 there will be no longer a North Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.

Speaker 1 You'll bring an end to it. Wait.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 how will you do that? I love that question.

Speaker 1 How will you do that?

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Exactly.
Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control.

Speaker 1 We will,

Speaker 1 I promise you, we will be able to do it. Oh,

Speaker 1 okay.

Speaker 1 And then it was done. It was done.
But we didn't do it. We didn't do it.
Oh, okay. Coincidence.
All right, well, good.

Speaker 1 What an amazing coincidence that is. What happened?

Speaker 1 What happened?

Speaker 1 So what happened was... It was just just the Serbians again.
No,

Speaker 1 no, Serbs. It wasn't the Serbs.
No, it is the Croats. How about the Croats? Is that who did this?

Speaker 1 Here's what I will say about the Bosnians. The story is...
The Herzegovinians. Yeah, well, maybe.
The Houthis. The Inogata Gavinians.
The Hooties. Oh, the Houthis.
The Hooties.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Hooties and the Blowfishers. Because they did it.
The Houdies and the Blowfish. Yeah, they both got some terrorists.

Speaker 1 So what I will say about this story, it is absolutely unbelievable. And so that can go two ways.
It can be, when you say, sometimes you say a story is unbelievable, that just means it's amazing.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Right. Incredibly, amazing story.
It could be that.

Speaker 1 It also could be absolutely unbelievable as if you should not believe it in any way. It's one of the two.
All right. You make the call, but basically, what happened was

Speaker 1 a bunch of people went out to a bar. This is true.
This is really what they're saying happened. A bunch of people went out to a bar.
Who are these people? Some of them. Where are they from?

Speaker 1 They're Ukrainian. Some of them were Ukrainian citizens.
Some of them were military members of Ukraine.

Speaker 1 And they were around a bar. They got hammered.
They started talking about what they should do because they just got invaded by

Speaker 1 Russia. And they said, you know what, we should do is we should blow up that pipeline because all this money is going back to Russia all the time.
That's wrong, obviously. They just invaded us.

Speaker 1 We need to stop them from getting all the money. Bastards.
So

Speaker 1 what if we severed the pipeline? Oh, okay. And that's easy to do.

Speaker 1 Anybody could do that. Well,

Speaker 1 just hanging out at a bar drinking. drinking, you just hop in your car.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you just drive down to the ocean, and then you just do a little

Speaker 1 bit of diving. You didn't let me finish.

Speaker 1 They took deep sea diving lessons. Of course, I swear to you.
It didn't happen in the story. Did not happen that night.

Speaker 1 They got hammered and they brought this, apparently, this idea to Vladimir Zelensky. Okay.
Who agreed to it? All right.

Speaker 1 So this is the country's comedian leader. Comedian in chief.
Yeah. He agreed to this and said it was a good idea.

Speaker 1 Then the Danish,

Speaker 1 not the breakfast food.

Speaker 1 The Danish,

Speaker 1 Danish intelligence.

Speaker 1 From Daneland. From Daneland.
You know, the windmill people. The windmill people.
Formerly Holland, now the Netherlands. Now the Lethal.
But it was Danish. Or maybe it was Denmark.

Speaker 1 It was one of the two. It was one of them, too.
Maybe it was the Dutch. It might have been the Dutch.
It was one of the two. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I get the Danes and the Dutch. Whatever one it was.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
Their intelligence, their intelligence

Speaker 1 uncovered this plot. Or the Dutch.
All right. They uncovered this plot and they told the CIA about it.
Oh. Okay.
So we didn't have knowledge of this happening. But the CIA said

Speaker 1 don't do it. And went to Zelensky and said, whatever you do, don't do this.
Did they pinky promise that this is how it went down?

Speaker 1 Because if the CIA pinky promised, I believe it. Okay, that's good.

Speaker 1 I don't know if there's a pinky promise, though. We'll have to check on that.
So the CIA then went to Zelensky and said, don't do it. Don't do it.
Zelensky said, okay.

Speaker 1 Knowing that, of course, we are their money bags. Said, okay, fine, we won't.
Tried to cancel it. Oh, no.
But

Speaker 1 it was already underway. Oh, no, I worked.
Could not get that.

Speaker 1 The deep sea diving lessons didn't take that long, apparently. No, it did.
It took months, apparently. Oh, it did.

Speaker 1 Okay. So this is legitimately what they're saying happened.

Speaker 1 Yes. Unreal is a good word.
Unreal is a good word for this.

Speaker 1 Okay. It will either be the most incredible movie of all time when it happens, because not after they have this drinking thing, they pitch this all around.

Speaker 1 they get a few military members but not all military members because they don't want it to be obvious when they rent a yacht and go out on a yacht with six people six people on a yacht okay three of them just regular citizens this is months later though after all the training

Speaker 1 right including one woman who took diving lessons to make it look like well this can't be a terrorism or a sabotage operation

Speaker 1 because this woman's there and she's just waiting to throw them off the track that's really smart yeah put a a woman in there. It can't be up to her.
It can't be up to her.

Speaker 1 Then they go and take a trip across the water and stop in various places where the pipeline is under, which they use maps like available online.

Speaker 1 They go down, they deep sea dive down all the way to the pipeline on themselves. There's only six people on a yacht.

Speaker 1 They go down there, they put explosives on there, then they blow the thing up, they leave, they make a mistake when they leave. Oh, no.
Oh, no. Yeah, they made a mistake.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 Which was they did not wash the boat out. So they left their fingerprints and they were caught.

Speaker 1 So now they know who it was. And now some of the people were admitting and talking to the Wall Street Journal and saying that, yes, this was us.
One of the guys

Speaker 1 was a high-level German, or excuse me, Ukrainian

Speaker 1 general.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 if you remember, he was recently relieved of his duties out of nowhere. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 That was why. That was why.
I mean, that's the thought. It's not, they didn't admit that, but this is the thought is that they knew he was about to get caught and he was responsible for this plot.

Speaker 1 So they took him out of

Speaker 1 circulation as one of the big military guys. Because now you have a situation, and in all seriousness, if this is true, right?

Speaker 1 You have a situation where Germany was dumping billions of dollars into this war on Ukraine's behalf.

Speaker 1 And this plot, which ruined their economy, was actually taken out at some level of agreement in the Ukrainian government and military.

Speaker 1 So they're a little pissy about it right now, if it's actually true. They're pissy because Joe Biden said he was going to get rid of it too.
No. And did he do it? But he didn't.
He didn't.

Speaker 1 It was the Ukrainians. No, he didn't.
Russia invades. Here's what that means.
Yeah. Tanks or troops crossing the

Speaker 1 border. Thank you for the definition of a

Speaker 1 invasion.

Speaker 1 There will be no longer the Norse Team 2. We will bring an end to it.
Oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 But we didn't. No.
Because a bunch of drunk Ukrainians. Drunk Ukrainians and a woman, a woman diver, a female diver.

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Speaker 1 It's Pat Stewart and Jeffy. Let me add to the tale you were just telling with a tale of a fateful trip.
It started on a tropic isle aboard a tiny ship. Okay.

Speaker 1 The mate was a mighty sailing man. The skipper, brave and sure.
Wow. Well, these five passengers set sail that day on a three-hour tour.
Okay. Well, they eventually dropped anchor.

Speaker 1 They didn't know this, Right above the Nord Stream Q pipeline. Really? Yeah.
Wow. And the anchor was so long and so heavy that it smashed into it.
Well, that's what happened. Completely destroyed it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I think there's been some charges on that too. There have been.
Yeah, there was the skipper to

Speaker 1 the millionaire and his wife have been charged. A movie star, I believe.
The professor. And Mary and Mary was all of them.

Speaker 1 So, yeah.

Speaker 1 Just as believable is the story you just told us about the Ukrainian more believable. Maybe more believable.

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