Best of the Program | Guest: Jeffy Fisher | 11/27/19

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It's Pat and Stu, and unfortunately, Jeff Fisher is joining us as well.

Unfortunately, I'm just hanging out.

Good to see you.

Nice to be here.

Oh, yeah.

I'm just seeing.

Unfortunately, it wasn't here for the entire show.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to do.

I was saying, oh, well, okay, then.

Oh, well, we'll try to deal with it.

Yeah, we went through a lot of the election stuff.

We're getting set into kind of the final

stretch here.

As we're only, you know, I mean, we've got up until Christmas, and then we're only a few weeks away from

the new year when we start voting.

After the holidays, it'll be literally what three to four weeks before Iowa.

Early February.

So that's coming up right around the corner.

We get into that.

Which is later than it used to be because

they moved it back a little bit.

Okay, yeah.

We got an alternative take on Bloomberg.

Is there a positive case to be made for Bloomberg?

No.

We attempted.

I don't know that it's perfectly successful, but there's an interesting idea there.

We also go into a

potential UFO.

Was there a UFO sighting?

I don't know.

It feels like there was.

It feels like there was, Jeffy says.

And also, we have Jeffy's new business.

Yes, thank you.

Yeah, Jeffy's opening up a new business.

I'm very excited.

Be on the lookout for that.

I'm excited about it.

If you need bad news told to someone and you don't want to do it yourself, I'm here for it.

Jeffy's here.

Bad news breakers for you right now.

We have all that and more on a very

fun day.

It's the last day before Thanksgiving.

We come back on Monday.

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This is going to be, I guess, the storyline to the end of the year.

The Democrats want to get this impeachment thing over by the end of the year.

They want the vote by the end of the year.

Well, it's strange because they're going to the

Judiciary Committee now with Jerry Nadler.

If you have an ironclad case, like we heard last week from Schiff,

why are you pushing this now to the judiciary?

Vote?

Well, they have to do the Articles of Impeachment.

Yes.

But does it?

My understanding of the process.

The judiciary writes those up.

Is that what it is?

It's the judiciary that's going to come up with those.

And they go through a series of hearings that are less about the evidence of the case and more about the process of how impeachment needs to work and what they're going to go after and how they're going to create the articles of impeachment.

You know what the problem is?

This just all takes too long.

If we were more like China, we'd just do this.

Just get them out.

Just throw him out.

That's what you do.

Really?

Yeah.

This whole constitutional thing slows things down.

It makes it to you.

It makes you ponder things, makes you think about it.

It doesn't allow you to just do things on impulse,

which is what we need.

I mean, we need impeachment to be like the Hershey's bar in the checkout line of the grocery store.

You're going through and you see some gum and you see Hershey's and like races.

You just pick them up.

They're in your mouth.

Think about it.

Is it a good choice?

Do I need this candy?

No.

You don't think about that.

Don't worry about that.

Yeah.

You're 30 seconds later, you're just eating candy.

Yeah, and then you feel terrible about yourself after.

And that's the way this all ends.

We all just feel terrible about ourselves.

It's interesting to see this because I don't.

There's an interesting case to be made for Democrats to say,

why are we going to cut this short?

Right?

Like, let's just keep calling witnesses.

Let's let's draw it out let's draw it out let's call all the people in the uh in the in the west wing people like mulvaney and and formerly bolton um that

say that they would testify if courts demand they testify let's put it through the court system let's wait the several months until it all it all shakes out let's just keep it going Because what

it looks like to me now, and I think to a lot of people who are

maybe in the middle and looking at this, not really understanding the process and not really knowing where this is going, it looks like the Democrats are just rushing through this, which, by the way, they are.

I mean, it's true.

They are.

But it's not supposed to look that way.

When you're doing that, it's supposed to look like you're doing this fair thing and we just want to get to the facts.

How can you even argue that when you've spent two weeks on it?

This whole call just came to light like four weeks ago.

And in four weeks, we're already at the point basically where there's a vote on impeachment.

It's insanity.

And I think they're doing that because if it goes to the Senate, then you could get the senators who were running for president embroiled in that

and keep them off the campaign trail, and they don't want that.

But again, who are you talking about?

You're talking about Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders,

Kamala Harris, right?

Like, you know,

there's a good argument to be made that a lot of people in the Democratic Party and the leadership probably don't want any one of those three as the actual candidate.

I mean, they might want a Biden, they might want a Buddha Jej.

I mean, they definitely don't like Sanders.

They don't care about Sanders.

I mean, I don't know.

I am a little concerned about Michael Bennett and what's going to happen to him if he can't campaign.

Because right now, he is rocketing to 0%.

And will he get beyond that?

I don't know.

So hard to get beyond that.

Tori Booker is another one, by the way.

Booker, I love that.

Mr.

Spartacus is struggling at still, according to Quinnipiac, 2%.

2%.

He's tied with Yang.

Now, Yang Gang.

In the national Quinnipiak poll, this is amazing to me.

Biden is at number one again, 24%.

So he's up three percentage points.

Then it's Buddha Judge, up six to 16%.

He's number two now nationally.

Amazing.

That's crazy.

He's the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

And again, no offense to South Bend, Indiana, but the mayor of Miramar, Florida just dropped out of the race, Wayne Mesamentum Messum.

And it's bigger than

South Bend.

For whatever reason, the Democrats, I assume, because I've learned from Democrats, it must be skin color.

Wayne Messum's black, so that's, I assume that's why they don't like him, but they like Budajej.

But it is bizarre that this guy, who is a mayor of a small to mid-sized city, is the number two guy, beating out everybody except Joe Biden.

Somebody nobody had ever heard of until a few months ago.

He does strike you, though, just from the sort of eye test, as one of the more competent people.

You could tell he's smart.

He doesn't get flustered by a lot of stuff.

Yeah, he's well-spoken.

Yeah, and he's controlled.

And he has no record, which is a nice benefit for the left.

They don't have a lot of stuff to pick him apart on.

They're like, well, he once fired a police chief that was unpopular in his community.

It's like, all right, that's your...

There's not a lot of negative on the guy, right?

And you could see this with the other candidates.

They struggle to find things to say that are bad about him because he hasn't done anything.

He's like 12 years old.

Yeah.

It's like, wow, he skipped a birthday party last year and it was at a trampoline park.

They had to pay the fee.

And he promised the friend he'd be there.

Yeah, he promised the other thing.

And then no present afterwards.

You know, and when he did finally give him a present after he was called out on it, it was the same

present he got from another kid at his birthday party, a blatant re-gift.

Like, that's about all.

I don't know.

I don't know what he's, you know, he hasn't really done anything.

And yet, there he is at number two.

It's crazy.

Number two.

And Warren has slipped to third.

She's going away.

She dropped 14%

over the last couple of weeks.

It does give you 14%.

Does that give you a little bit of hope?

It does.

Yeah, it does.

And especially since Sanders is behind her at 13%.

So it does give me hope that maybe, you know, we're not quite there to the socialism yet.

And American people, the American people don't want socialism.

I hope that's still the case.

And it seems like it is because Biden's not a socialist, and I don't think Buddha Judge is either.

Then you go to the bottom tier, and you see that Bloomberg's already at 3%, tied with Harrison and Klobuchar.

But he's spending a ton of money to get to that 3%.

Do you think he'll ever have his moment where he rockets

into the teens?

We have to take a 60-second break here, but I want to come back on the other side.

I have been very dismissive.

of the Bloomberg thing.

I have too.

And I think with good reason.

There's a lot of good reasons why to be dismissive of Michael Bloomberg.

However,

I was listening yesterday to Jim Garrity, who's a very, very smart guy who sees this stuff.

He's with National Review.

And he made a case in the affirmative for Bloomberg that I thought was pretty compelling.

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It might be just as simple, though, as, you know, Joe Biden just pretty much number one

lead candidate start to finish.

That is what it is so far.

So far, I mean, he had moments where

Warren passed him a little bit for a while in some polls, not even in every poll.

Nope.

Yeah, it was never more than half the polls that she passed.

It was really kind of a statistical dead heat for about two weeks.

And now people have gotten to know her, and I don't think they like her.

They don't.

And I don't think they like her policies.

And they understand that, come on, we can't spend $52 trillion on your stuff.

We can't do it.

And I think they understand that that estimate is probably way low.

And it can't be done.

It just can't happen.

Just Medicare for all will cost us more than $50 trillion over 10 years.

This is everyone's like, oh, they estimated it at $32 trillion.

It's not going to be $32 trillion.

Whatever is.

We've explained why on several occasions.

You can go back and listen to those shows in depth if you want.

But I mean, the point here is that we all know these things blow up above their budget.

There's a lot of really obvious fundamental reasons why, including in this case, you know, like when you do

when you when Medicaid or Medicare pays hospitals, pays doctors, they pay a lower rate than for private insurance.

And one of the things that Warren assumes in her plan is that she will just pay everybody at that rate.

We already pay a rate for Medicare.

We'll just continue to pay that rate and just spread it out over the entire health system.

Well, the reason why they're able to pay or accept Medicare and Medicaid payments that are lower, the reason doctors do that is because they charge private insurance more.

Right.

So they even it out.

They basically say, okay, well, this one's coming from the government.

We'll accept less and we'll accept more from over here and that'll give us a nice midpoint number.

Well, when you take everyone down to that lower payment number,

it's going to shake the health system apart.

And that's the type of thing that will not in reality actually happen.

They're not going to, they're going to have to raise the payments so these places can stay in business, so the hospitals don't start closing down.

They're not going to allow that to happen.

So they'll just print more money and spend more money.

And instead of 32 trillion, it'd be 52 trillion.

And instead of 59 trillion in total cost for all these plans it'll be 79 trillion yeah you know what there's a reason doctors make a lot of money and the reason is they were in school for 24 years

and then they did a residency and they didn't make any money doing it and they come out with massive debt uh they have to work long hours they have and i know it sounds like a sob story to somebody who's making 50 000 when they're making you know nine hundred and fifty thousand or a million dollars a year But really, they deserve it.

They've done a lot of schooling.

They've got a skill that not many people have.

They were willing to sacrifice the first section of their lives to do this.

And it's hard.

And you're on call all the time and you got crappy hours.

I mean, it's not easy, especially if you're a surgeon and you're on call.

And I've got a really good friend who's

on call all the time, like five times a month.

They could call him at any time of the day or night, and he's picking through somebody's brain in 15 minutes.

You know,

it's hard.

And so they're they're not going to want to take a massive pay cut because we have a universal healthcare system now.

They're not going to want to do that.

You're going to lose a lot of doctors, a lot of good doctors.

Especially if you're 58, you're like, I'm a few years away from retirement.

I'm going to donate a lot of money.

Yeah.

Screw this.

Right.

You know, you're gone.

Yep.

And now look, a lot of, it's, it's, you can't just summarize it that way.

So many doctors do this because they, they love it and because they want to help people.

But, but in, in addition to that, they do want to keep their doors open and pay their people.

Yes.

It's not just about becoming a millionaire.

And there's nothing wrong with wanting them to pay themselves either.

Yeah, I have nothing wrong with that.

No problem with it.

But even people who don't mind sacrificing their own stuff, well, it's not that simple.

Yeah.

You know, we've seen what a disaster the paperwork can be with these things.

I mean, when's the last time a government program came along that was incredibly efficient that you're just like, wow, you're mesmerized by the way they're able to handle this.

I mean, this is, you know, they launched these electronic records for doctors, and now they all have to do that.

They hate it.

They hate it.

It's a terrible system.

It eats up half their time with their patients.

Like, this is not something.

These things don't work when the government tries to do them.

And they're going to try to give this one size fits all thing for our entire healthcare system.

And we're all going to be freaking driving somewhere else to get our health care.

If this goes through, if it really happens, we're going to long for the days

of the crappy healthcare system that we have now that's behind Cuba and Botswana

in the eyes of so many.

You're going to see how great the American healthcare system is if we ever go to universal healthcare.

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BillO'Reilly.com had a pretty interesting interview

with

somebody called, was it Donald Tramp?

Trump?

Donald Trump?

Yeah, I guess

selected president of the United States after he manipulated the Russian choice

for president.

Sorry, we're doing our MSNBC impression here.

So Trump was on with O'Reilly on billorilly.com.

And

tell me

if people are reading into this too much.

Is he basically throwing Rudy under the bus here, Giuliani?

Because, I mean, I do kind of feel like, end of the day, there's a good chance this is where this ends.

The one, like, we have lots of people on record saying

that

this was an edict, right?

That there was a quid pro quo for varying circumstances and varying ways they learned about this.

And we can go over all that and we have.

But everybody basically seems to say they got word of this from Rudy Giuliani.

Yeah.

Not from Trump, but from Rudy Giuliani.

And here's Trump kind of putting a little, it seems to be a little bit of a dividing wall between himself and Giuliani.

This is Trump with Bill O'Reilly yesterday.

What was Rudy Giuliani doing in Ukraine on your behalf?

Well, you have to ask that to Rudy, but Rudy, I don't even know if I knew he was going to go to Ukraine, and I think he canceled the trip.

Rudy Giuliani, he's your personal lawyer.

Giuliani's your personal lawyer.

So you didn't direct him to go to Ukraine to do anything or put any heat on it?

I didn't direct him, but

he is a warrior.

Rudy's a warrior.

Rudy went.

He possibly saw some.

But you have to understand, Rudy has other people that he represents.

Oh, my.

I mean, oh, my.

He just said

he had nothing to do with Rudy Giuliani going to Ukraine.

So that's a, I mean, that's a pretty strong separation ball.

Now, remember, in the past, Giuliani has said he was there at the direction of Trump,

which I don't remember Trump disagreeing with, but I don't remember him ever confirming it either.

So is this going to be kind of the defense?

Like, look, and as we've said a million times, I don't think this is impeachable.

Uh,

it's not my view that this is an impeachable situation.

That being said,

the administration's job here, right, is to politically to protect the president at all costs.

Yeah.

Now, you could say, I mean, a lot of people would say, well, that's not the right thing to do, but I mean, that's what the political job to do is.

I mean, do you believe that he didn't direct Rudy Giuliani to go to Ukraine?

Hard to believe.

It's impossible.

Again, I'm going under the assumption.

Of course, he sent Rudy to Ukraine.

I'm going under the assumption here.

I view this entire thing

as Donald Trump did want a quid pro quo with this money.

And the report in the New York Times today that they're saying that Trump

when they released the funds to Ukraine, it was after they had learned about the whistleblower report.

Yes.

So

they've been saying that for a while.

Well, this was, I guess, an additional confirmation then because it broke today in the Times.

And look, I don't, people keep saying, well, I don't agree with that.

And that didn't happen.

I don't care if it happened.

Like, to me, there is a question as to whether it was for the good of the country or it was just his own political benefit.

If it was his own political benefit, then he should be impeached.

I don't think that's what it was, though.

I think there was more to it than that.

I think it was for the country.

I think it was for both.

I don't know why they won't say that.

Yeah, I don't know why.

Frankly, I think it was for both.

I think he liked the idea,

you can do a quid pro quo all day long if it's in the good of the country.

Right.

Anytime you want, we don't have to give them any aid.

Right.

Let alone $400 million.

Exactly.

So we all, and that's why I'm operating.

I don't care about this back and forth because I don't see it as one of these things that is a problem if it's done for the good of the country.

We all know that it happens all the time.

Yes.

So when you look at this, though, I mean.

Biden did it.

You may not have admitted to it.

Exactly.

You may not have legalistic proof that Donald Trump is on paper or on a recording saying, Rudy, you got to do this.

We're going to hold back the aid.

But I think if you look at the breadth of evidence, it's likely that this did occur, or at least the impression was strongly given because everyone, even people who opposed the quid pro quo,

for some reason was still doing it.

Like, you know, Sandlin is like opposed to it, and he's still going to Ukraine and telling them, yeah, it's a quid pro quo.

Well, why would he do that?

There's no, he, if he doesn't, I mean, he believes that that's the directive, whether it is or not, right?

But I don't care if it's the directive, if it's for the good of the country.

And I think, like, that's the line they need to go to.

Here, though, you can see a defense developing of, look, Rudy's just a renegade.

He's out there doing all sorts of crazy crap.

I have no idea what it is.

That is, it's not the, it's not the day, the thing you want to hear if you're Rudy Giuliani.

I'll say that.

It's not your favorite moment of this entire escapade.

It's not the thing I wanted to hear as Pat Gray.

I don't get it.

I don't think that can, you know, that's not going to hold up.

That just can't hold up.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Americans is just so stingy, so pathetic.

Like this, you know, this billionaire, Jeff Bezos.

$100 million.

What's he ever done?

I don't know.

Seriously,

he shouldn't have the money he does.

He shouldn't have it.

Well, a billionaire shouldn't exist.

They shouldn't exist.

They're evil.

You know what?

You get a lot of good outcomes when a government comes together and says a certain group of people shouldn't exist.

Always ends well.

In every case, right?

In every case.

Can you think of any case where that hasn't...

You're really testing me here.

I mean, I'm sure there may be one.

But I mean, usually when a government comes together and says, you know what, this group of people should not, we should wipe them off the planet.

That usually ends well.

It does.

It does.

And I think it will with billionaires, too.

Oh, I think so.

When you start dragging them out of their offices and beating them to death in the street, won't that be great?

Oh, it will all be there.

And they're all billionaires.

So Bezos gave $100 million to charity, and that's

selfish,

I guess, because he has more money than that.

And by the way, he's donated more money than that to charity.

It just happens to be this particular donation to homelessness was $100 million.

The response from people is so incredible.

Like this guy, a whopping 0.09%

of his net worth.

Thanks so much, Jeff.

Unbelievable.

How much did you give?

Yeah.

How generous of him to donate less than what he makes in an hour,

which I don't know that he makes a

really good hour.

That's a good hour.

Billionaires are evil.

He could end homelessness if he wanted to.

No, he couldn't.

No, he couldn't.

Homelessness involves a lot of mental illness.

And, you know, you can't buy people out of their mental health.

No.

What if you spend a lot, though?

You still can't.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You could spend $100 trillion.

There'd still be homeless people.

Really?

$200 trillion.

I don't know where you get that from.

There's certainly never been

any

historic books that have discussed the fact that there will always be poor people.

Something called the Bible.

I think it's related to Michael.

Yeah, there's a Bible out there that says there will always be the poor among us.

Yeah.

Also, we've kind of found that out our own selves with President Johnson's Great Society and $23 trillion spent in the war on poverty.

And still, is there homelessness?

I think there's the other skills.

Is there poverty?

Yeah, exactly the same amount there was percentage-wise in 1965.

Just an embarrassing failure.

It is.

And we should point this out, and it's not said enough.

When you come down and you're making the

Mount Rushmore of the worst presidents in U.S.

history, Lyndon Johnson needs to be carved into the mountain.

He's one of the four, for sure.

He never gets the credibility he deserves as one of the presidents.

Let's go ahead and carve him in.

He's the first one we're carving right now.

Yes.

You also got to carve a sculpture of FDR.

Woodrow Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama.

There's your four, I think.

You think?

I think so.

FDR.

Would you put FDR?

I mean, FDR,

I guess, I mean, because you have the war stuff.

You have all the government programs that kept us in the Great Depression for 12 years rather than pulling out in a year or two like everybody else did.

I'm not arguing he's a good president, but I mean, I'm saying, is he on the four?

Because I think you got to have Lyndon Johnson on there.

Here's a guy who's put all the the devil

instead of fdr

because obviously woodrow wilson do you also argue with barack obama got to have woodrow wilson on there obama i yeah i mean i it feels like you need a contemporary you know i mean he

i guess i guess i put him i'm trying to think i mean what about andrew jackson andrew jackson maybe probably needs

talked about and uh

treatment of the native americans trail of tears all of that yeah there's some i mean a good case could be made for andrew jackson i mean Taft couldn't even fit in a bathtub.

Do you put him on there?

I think we might have.

Because he was a fat tub of goo.

Yeah, I mean, he was

overweight.

Right.

And so I think that could be

something.

I don't know.

If you put Taft up there, you'd need another mountain.

Like, you'd have to have

double the mountain space.

It'd be like putting Jeffy up there.

No.

You couldn't do that.

You can't do that.

No.

We have a look back at the life of William Howard Taft.

All right, right just roll it i guess

the glenn beck program presents retrospective

on today's episode william howard taft born in cincinnati ohio in 1857 grew up to become america's 27th president he died in 1930

he was overweight

this has been retrospective

of the glenbeck program.

Limited factories.

So

that was the one notable thing about it, I guess.

He was

overweight.

It's really the only thing anyone ever says about Taft.

It is.

I have no idea what his policies were.

I'm sure they were wonderful for the time.

But I do know he was overweight.

Yeah.

We do know that.

I mean, if you're redoing the actual Mount Rushmore, I mean, I think we're both putting Coolidge up there, right?

For sure.

Coolidge is definitely going up.

Absolutely.

I mean, Reagan's going up.

Coolidge, Reagan.

For me, I got to have George Washington up there.

Got to have Washington.

And maybe Jefferson.

I love Thomas Jefferson.

But Coolidge,

Reagan.

Oh, Lincoln.

You've got to get Lincoln there.

Yeah, you can.

That's hard.

We've had a lot of good presidents out there.

Yeah, we have.

The really terrible ones, we've had a decent amount of.

I mean, because if you want to talk about most ineffective presidents, right, like you could put Jimmy Carter on that list easily.

Oh, yeah.

But you don't think of him as like a real

upending our entire system.

Because you didn't.

He was just really bad at his job.

Yeah.

Everything he did sucks.

Yeah.

But it wasn't like Wilson who, I mean, you know, the Wilson policies, we'd look back at now and be like, wow, those are really conservative.

But he changed the whole fabric of the country.

Yeah.

Right.

A lot of that was one of those things where, you know, he took a country that was going down one path and jammed the whole country in reverse and went down another path.

Where like someone like Johnson just accelerated us down that path so fast.

And people, because you know, look, it came after the Kennedy thing, there was a feeling of he kind of just overlooked everything at that point, I think.

And the fact that, you know, Johnson is responsible for,

you know, a massive amount of our problems in this country when it comes to debt

is overlooked.

And not to mention, the guy was an incredible racist and a jerk to almost everybody around him.

And people will say, well, the he signed the bill.

He signed the civil rights bill.

Yeah, after opposing it for 20 years.

Yeah, he did finally because he knew he had to by then.

He had to.

Even the stuff he said to the people around him,

including constantly to African Americans.

I mean, the guy, yeah, not a good guy.

Absolute racist.

Yeah.

You have to have put him in the conversation there for worst president of all time.

He also

enmeshed us much more deeply in Vietnam, which was a massive, to me, mistake.

You know, it would be nice if we could learn from some of those mistakes now and stop getting involved in everybody else's problems.

That's a good idea.

Yeah.

It's a good idea.

That is,

it's fascinating to you that, like, you know.

The Republicans are the warmongers.

Well, it was Nixon that got us out of there, right?

You know,

it is.

Nixon's the guy who's doing diplomacy with China.

Like, you know, it is a weird, the way this stuff, you know, the narratives change in such strange ways with this stuff.

Where Republicans who fought for the only people who cared about civil rights for a hundred years

the whole time.

Yeah, the whole time.

And, you know, Democrats are the ones, I mean, we go back with this.

I mean, you know, D'Souza said this in his book.

And I have no reason to, I have not found evidence to the contrary that every single member of the KKK was a Democrat.

All of them.

It was a Democrat organization.

It was kind of the militant wing of the Democrat Party, in fact, when, you know,

in the early days of the Klan.

Does he claim that there was never a question?

I mean, I don't know if he says it about like, I mean, because there's probably like 19 Klan members today.

I don't know what they are.

Like, what is David Duke?

I mean, David Duke has run as both a Democrat and a Republican, right?

I think he has.

Over the years.

Yeah.

You know, certainly it's possible now.

But I believe that was his statement.

I I remember him saying it on the air.

I was like, really?

Is that true?

And he went back and

had a decent amount of backing on it.

I haven't gone through every member's list.

That's an amazing thing.

But that's an incredible thing.

In fact, if that's absolutely true, that's amazing.

Wow.

And so we know all this, and somehow it gets twisted.

Yeah.

Republicans are the racists.

They're the ones that hate minorities.

No?

Yeah.

And it's interesting to see this has been one thing that has been fascinating about the Trump presidency and

more recent parts of it specifically,

since the Kanye West thing has gone on.

There's a poll that came out from Rasmussen, who, you know, looked,

has a lot of favorable polls for the president, but says that something like 34% of African Americans are now supporting Donald Trump.

Now, if that number were to be true,

we could just cancel the election.

Because Trump will definitely win if that number is true.

Now,

I will say I don't believe the number's that high, but I do believe it's increased.

And, you know, this, there is an effect.

We all know there's a reason why companies pay billions of dollars every year to hire celebrities to talk about their products.

Because it moves people.

It makes people consider things they might not have considered before.

Right?

If you see a new, like, you know, this happens all the time with, you look at Us Weekly,

I don't even know if it exists anymore, but that magazine, Us Weekly, and certainly a million different TMZ-type websites, they put the pictures of, like, here's a random celebrity walking down the street.

You're like, why would anyone care what

this person looks like walking down the street as they're shopping?

Well, I mean,

I watched my wife read those stories and look at those pictures, and she looks at every little detail: what bag are they carrying?

What shoes are they wearing?

What sunglasses do they have on?

And a lot of the times that stuff's just planted, right?

Like they're coming out of a specific store.

There's some deal that they have going on.

Celebrities do move people, and purchases are not the only category for that.

And so when you have a guy like Kanye West who's making the arguments that are completely true, I don't, like, I have no,

you know, I'm not a Kanye West guy.

You know, I'm not his target demo.

But

he is saying things that conservatives and, you know, dozens or hundreds of conservative black individuals have called us over the years to say these things.

I'm sick of just being told this is how I vote because of the color of my skin.

I'm an individual here.

And Kanye just bringing that argument to the table and convincing.

And he's calling that out as racist.

As racist.

And at least opening the minds of people who don't follow politics every day.

You know, there's a lot of people who are African-American and it's like, I believe the Democrats have the right vision for me for whatever reason, even though I don't agree with it.

But there's a lot of people, just like there are in every group, who

have no connection to politics and issues on a daily basis.

They watch the Kardashians.

Well, now the Kardashians are hanging in with Donald Trump.

And the other guy in the Kardashians is hanging out with Donald Trump.

And he's saying, you know what, maybe you guys should consider at least looking at a different option.

We've tried all this crap for 100 years.

It's not working out all that well for us.

And now we have the lowest unemployment we've ever seen for African Americans.

Why don't we, I don't know, why don't we

entertain this a little bit?

So I do think there is a bump there that's real.

And when that can be challenged, when it can be the counterculture way,

you know,

when the cool thing to do is to question

the thing everyone else is doing.

That's what it used to be, right?

Like when you're growing up, you see what your parents did.

You're like, I don't want to do that.

I want to do this.

I want to go the other way.

Everyone's saying I should do this.

I want to do that.

And that, for whatever reason, has not crossed over

with the Democrats and younger voters and black voters and to some level, Hispanic voters.

If that can be overturned and people can say, just giving a chance, you don't have to agree, but give a chance to the idea that maybe freedom is the best way for you to go.

Maybe you having your own money is the best way for you to go.

Maybe not going to the government for so many things is a better approach.

If that can get out there, there's no reason that can't connect with every group.

It's very human.

You know, not wanting someone in your way, having an opportunity to control your own destiny, is very human.

And I think any group would like that.

But it's just got such a crappy brand name on it right now.

Yeah, it's hard to convince others.

But I, I mean, someone like Kanye West can make a dent with that audience, I think.

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Anyone buying that there was a super velocity UFO that just passed by the Earth?

NASA's released photographs of

unexplained sound waves moving across the Earth at high velocity speeds.

High-tech cameras on the International Space Station captured it.

The bizarre images have sparked a frenzy of speculation of where it came from.

The images show a strange cloud pattern that looks as if it was produced by some unidentified flying object, a secret sonic weapon.

The mysterious ripples in the clouds extend for miles from space.

The images were first spotted by NASA,

the NASA website, by Blake and Brett Cousins, who run the conspiracy theorist group YouTube channel, Third Phase of the Moon.

But they're right on a lot of things.

Really?

A lot of things.

Third phase of the moon?

Yeah.

They're right in the first two phases.

Yes.

Both of the YouTubers agree that whatever it was, it was massive.

Both of them agree.

Do we have

news stories that include the phrase both of the YouTubers agree?

That's a news story.

What's wrong with that?

It doesn't seem like that's like what they're like, two people said on Twitter.

Like, that's not a news story.

Yeah, that's not.

The fact that two people said something on Twitter just means it's a thing that can be said.

All things are said on Twitter.

I know, but two YouTubers agreed with NASA here.

And let's not forget they have a website called Third Phase of the Moon.

So,

oh, that's a great point and all, but I just

feel like, you know, maybe we'd need a little more evidence.

Really?

Like, for example, yesterday when they shut the White House down, they were like, oh, where did you hear about that?

The slow blob moving in the sky.

Yeah, that freaks you out.

A slow blob moving in the sky.

They locked down the White House.

It was a bunch of birds.

That's it?

In a flock.

Has that been confirmed on YouTube yet?

Third Phase of the Moon thinks it was an alien.

But everyone else seems to think

it was birds.

But again, those are the same people who tell you that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

Thank you.

They closed down the White House for 20 minutes because of birds.

Wow, they're aggressive birds.

That's amazing.

It is amazing.

And it can be by the way.

And embarrassing.

Yeah.

Embarrassing.

Wow.

Well, the same day he was pardoning birds, then more birds are shutting down the White House and then the world's gone.

Right?

World's gone.

Shut it down.

He was actually pretty funny on the pardon of the turkey thing when

he was talking about the fact that, yes, they've been pardoned, but they've already been subpoenaed by Adam Schiff and his group.

He'll be asked to testify in the basement of

the Capitol building.

He didn't get a laugh.

That was a pretty good moment for him.

He didn't.

He didn't get the laughs he deserved.

I know.

So, all right.

Well, have a great Thanksgiving.

Thank you.

Not you.

Not you.

Everybody else, have a great Thanksgiving.

Jeffy, yours.

You can have an okay Thanksgiving.

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