Ep. 538 Panic Everywhere on the Left as They Lose the Narrative
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Hey, lots to talk about.
Let's get right into it.
So the left is not forfeiting the narrative no matter what.
Remember yesterday's show?
The gaslighting?
The left cannot tell you the truth.
They are obsessed with narratives all the time, which is frankly disgusting, pitiful, grotesque in a time of an epic national tragedy that, again, we just can't come together Uh, with people on the left.
Now, we have no problem coming together with Democrats, with, you know, reasonable Americans, but the liberal left wants to sit in their stupid bubble, their insulated bubble of profound dopiness, 100% dopiness on the gangster curve.
They want to sit there and they want to stick to the narrative no matter what.
So I've been teasing this clip All week, but something happened to me yesterday, too, which, again, the left will not forfeit the narrative.
Gaslighting matters to them.
Remember, repeat a lie over and over again.
Repeat it confidently and isolate people from the truth.
So, what's the lie?
What am I talking about?
The left will never, ever let a crisis go to waste, ever, because they're sick.
That's just what they do.
So this horror of what's happening right now in Texas is being blamed on, of course, climate change.
They do not want the climate change narrative to change no matter what.
No pun intended there.
But I have some numbers on this too, as well, just to debunk it, because this show involves facts and data, and it has nothing to do at all with climate change.
Not the severity of the storm, not the so-called frequency of the storms, none of this.
But the left will not forfeit the narrative no matter what.
And when the narrative starts to get out of their comfort zone, Joe, which is climate change, because we have to take political advantage of this if you're a liberal.
That's all they do all the time.
They get uncomfortable.
Now, let's establish the narrative first, in case you say to yourself, oh, come on, Dan.
Now you're politicizing it.
This isn't really happening.
The left isn't committed to a narrative about climate change in a time of national tragedy.
Oh!
Are you sure?
Now, Joe, you can confirm from here that this is a hat tip to Grabian out there.
This is a Grabian clip, G-R-A-B, grab, I-E-N.
They do a lot of these things.
This was a two minute clip, right?
I think we took like a minute of it, right?
Because we didn't want to... Yeah, a minute twenty-five, something like that.
This goes on.
We just have a minute of the media hacks, because they are liberals, trying to establish for you a narrative that politically benefits them in a time of national crisis, despite the fact that none of it is actually true.
Play the cut.
Is there a why?
I'm probably wouldn't attribute what we're looking at here.
This is not an uncommon occurrence.
Could climate change be fueling the history-making nature of this storm?
It's a question a lot of people are wondering.
So watch out!
There could be more monster hurricanes to come.
And that's the theory that climate change is impacting all of this.
Well, we're not sure.
The local officials in Houston didn't have any plans to study the effects of climate
change in the city or think about whether the city needs to plan for more frequent and
more intense rainstorms, which most scientists say are a sure thing.
We do have a changing climate.
We do have warming waters.
With warming waters, you get more moisture coming into the atmosphere.
And what hurricanes absolutely love is moisture because that gives them rainfall.
And that's what's happened in this situation with Hurricane Harvey.
There is no doubt that climate change makes, particularly because of warming the ocean waters and the Gulf waters, makes storms like this more common.
President Trump signed an executive order rolling back an Obama-era regulation which required all government construction to take into account the flood risk which was being caused and the future flood risk being caused by climate change and rising ocean temperatures and sea levels.
The timing now seems almost ironic.
All right, that goes on.
That goes on for another minute.
Right?
Joe, I'm not making this up.
That was a two minute and 20 second or something cut.
I said to Joe when I sent it over, I said, Joe, can you do me a favor?
Can you cut this up for the show?
He's like, the whole thing?
I said, no, it's too long.
I said, you know, I don't want to bore my audience.
That goes on for another minute.
Media hacks trying to tell you that climate change is doing this because, folks, they can never, ever, I don't know how I come off to you.
despite the fact that what they're telling you is factually inaccurate from the wall street journal today in case you're
having any doubt that all will maybe a tribe in the climate change climate change that the
intensity the frequency the sort of what they are just making up this is what infuriates me about the far left now.
You know I want to be candid with you because I love my audience and I I
I don't know how I come off to you like you can never analyze that
they when I was in graduate school for [BLANK_AUDIO]
Psychology, they had this thing called, we used to study, called social monitoring.
People who are good social monitors are those guys and ladies who, in a crowd, are always the center of attention.
People enjoy being around them.
They're good social monitors, meaning that they see themselves, or can see themselves, as other people see them.
A bad social monitor, Joe, is that clown at a party who everybody's trying to get away from, who constantly talks about himself and puffs his chest all the time.
You know, everybody knows that guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Everybody knows that guy, right?
Now, I bring this up because my mother-in-law listens to the show, and so does my wife, and they don't like it when I go after liberals.
They don't.
They think like I should go easy on them.
And that's cool.
My mother-in-law, I love her to death.
She's like one of the greatest women I've ever met.
And I obviously love my wife.
She's just the bomb.
But folks, this is why, an explanation for you, not to get you into my personal life, but I think about this stuff a lot.
Sometimes I go to the gym, not every day, but typically after the show, and I'm like, was I too angry today?
I'll say to myself, I'll question everything.
But folks, this is why I'm angry.
This is why sometimes I have to go after these people.
And I'm not talking about all Democrats.
I'm talking about liberals, because they do things to you that are so deranged, so I mean, so below what any reasonable human being would do.
This is an epic level crisis we've had in the United States.
We haven't seen something on this scale since Sandy and Katrina, but even on this scale, this is going to be even more than that.
We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.
We have people who died, people lost their homes, and all the left can do, all they can think about, which is a sign of a complete moral vacuum and a genuinely, genuinely sick person.
I don't use those terms lightly.
All they can think about is how do we lie to people?
Because what they're telling about climate change is factually absolutely not true.
And I'll show you in a second here.
How can we lie to people and how can we score political points?
I mean, Joe, As friends, you and I. Seriously.
I mean, I know we're talking to our audience, too.
I don't want to be ridiculous, but that's just sick.
Yeah.
I mean, that's just really, really sick.
Like, psychopathological.
We've talked about this a number of times.
I know you're genuine on this, and I feel the same way.
Yeah, I know you do.
And it just, it really bothers me, folks.
I mean, what would happen if there was like an alien invasion tomorrow?
Would the liberals like start talking about, oh, it was the budget cuts for extraterrestrial research.
I mean, is there any level of human tragedy where when you're a liberal, you just start thinking about human beings first?
I mean it.
I mean, it's a sincere question.
I know we have liberal listeners because I get your hate emails.
It's a genuine question.
I know it comes off snarky, but I really mean it.
Is there any human tragedy, mass human starvation, a virus that wipes out a third of the United States, an epic flood or natural disaster that kills hundreds of thousands, is there any human crisis deep enough and profound enough that you will forfeit gaslighting and forfeit a political narrative?
Anything?
I mean, the fact that you're doing this to America and dividing us up, and I guess a fair enough point, Joe, for some people would be, well, why are you doubling down?
Aren't you contributing to it?
No, folks, because, listen, I'm not.
We're in a fight here, and until you understand what that fight is, we cannot allow the left to continue to put out there to American people nonsensical, bogus information that's going to allow them or incentivize them to make bad decisions in the future.
This is not due to climate change.
You're literally just making it up.
All right, from the Wall Street Journal.
Here's a quote from an op-ed piece today, which I'll put in the show notes.
The problem with this argument, the climate change argument, is that it's fact-free.
As Roger Pilkey Jr.
has noted, the link between global warming and recent hurricanes and extreme weather events is, quote, unsupported based on research and evidence.
Mr. Pilkey, who is no climate change denier, has shown with data that hurricanes hitting the U.S.
Here it is, folks.
have not increased in frequency or intensity since 1900.
There is no notable trend up or down in global tropical cyclone landfall since 1970 and floods have
not increased in frequency or intensity in the U.S. since 1950. I mean it does that even bother you
a little bit? I mean if you're a liberal does it bother you a little bit that what you're
saying in the in the wake of a really incredible human tragedy on a mass scale in one of the
largest states in the union, does it bother you even a little bit that you're just lying
to people?
I mean, I'm being really sincere here.
And then you wonder why, I mean, you know, again, my mother-in-law and my wife at times are like, you know, why are you always so angry at these people?
You know, my wife thinks it hurts the show.
She does.
She says, well, Dan, you know, sometimes you come off really, really hot about stuff.
I'm not.
I'm just being genuine.
Well, here's the answer you'll get.
Eh, he don't know what he's talking about.
Yeah, because they don't want- Joe, that's all they have, though!
They will never say- When you say- And here's the response I'll give them.
Okay, where?
What part of what I just told you about intensity of hurricanes, number or frequency of hurricanes, what part of that that I told you is factually incorrect?
And they don't have anything!
They'll be like, oh, you're a racist.
Now!
See, here's the funny part.
I did that on purpose.
I'm not kidding.
I set you up on purpose, Armacost, because that's funny to you.
Because it should be, because it's so dumb.
Like, oh my gosh, you're a racist.
You're talking about what happens in a hurricane?
Clearly, you're a racist.
It happened!
It happened.
ThinkProgress, hack far-left website.
I mean, really, what media matters?
I mean, the two biggest clowns out there.
I mean, even worse than Salon.
ThinkProgress has a piece up.
I'm not gonna put it to show notes, but yeah, listen, look it up if you want.
I'd rather you not give them the clicks, but that's up to you.
ThinkProgress, up on their website, has a piece talking about my Tucker Carlson appearance the other night, talking about looters.
How looters were, how you have to be a savage to steal from people in times of a hurricane.
Joe, again, you're the audience on Budsman.
I would agree, I think you would agree as well, a completely non-controversial point in any respect.
You wait for a hurricane, you walk in and you steal somebody's cash register, I would pretty much call you what I called you on the air.
Yeah.
Which is a certifiable savage man beast.
Here we go!
Think progress!
Joe, that was racist.
We're racist on Tucker Carlson.
I told you!
I'll explain to you quickly where they're going.
They're like, this is coded language for racism.
You know, folks, it's so tired.
I'm glad you laughed.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't even bring this up because it's so stupid.
But again, it shows you how when they lose the narrative, When they lose the narrative.
The narrative has to stay focused on something that's going to benefit liberals.
And I'm going to explain to you in a second how they're moving on from climate change.
The climate change narrative, by the way, they're losing it.
And how they're trying to move on to other things now.
But the climate change narrative, they were losing it.
When they saw looting, they were like, oh my gosh, this is going to turn a narrative over to law and order.
And how law and order doesn't work for the left.
They have to stay focused on climate change.
So what do they do?
Anytime people bring anything up, That diverts away from their narrative, Joe, climate change.
You gotta go with the racist thing.
You have to.
That's their go-to.
That's their ground ball.
That's it.
That's their bunt.
They have it every time.
The problem is that they don't see this.
They really don't.
I think moderate Democrats do.
It's tired, Joe.
It's old.
You know, when I was a kid, I don't know if they still use this term, you know, it was played out.
It's over.
Nobody listens to you anymore.
It's the same old crap.
Every single time.
Nobody is listening, folks.
And the sad thing is, genuine, authentic cases of racism, which should always be called out, and thankfully are, by whatever your party affiliation is, They get watered down by baseless charges of rape.
The word doesn't even mean anything anymore.
The left uses it every single time.
How is calling out a guy or a woman who's stealing someone else's property?
How is that racist?
It isn't.
The answer is when you're a deranged leftist who has nothing else, you don't have anything.
And your narrative about climate change is being lost.
You have to stay focused on things that matter to you.
So what do you do?
You call the other side racist.
It happens every single time.
Now, The climate change narrative is, they're losing it because, I mean, candidly folks, nobody cares.
Nobody cares right now about climate change, not in any significant number.
Nobody cared about climate change before this thing, outside of the fringe left, because they made, they fudged statistics on it for so long, they lost their own credibility.
So all of their dire warnings about how we're all going to be floating and polar bears are going to be in Florida, none of it came true.
So people just tuned them out.
If you're on the left, and this is the first time listening to the show, and I get it by some of the reviews on iTunes, some of the leftists who go in there, they get angry when they listen.
And you know why they get angry?
Because I'm telling you the truth.
Nobody cares.
You are irrelevant.
Matter of fact, there's a piece on Drudge today, by Matthew Continetti at the Free Beacon, talking about how irrelevant the Democrats are.
Like, Joe, the Republicans are in total chaos, but the Democrats are completely irrelevant in a national argument.
Let me get this straight.
Houston.
Massive flooding.
Epic human tragedy.
Democrats' talking point?
Climate change.
What?
Dude, like, are you serious?
Like, you really think this is a credible party platform to show your leadership for 2020 and 2018?
You're nuts!
Your party is totally irrelevant.
Your ideas are bankrupt.
Your party's bankrupt.
You are literally a party of fringe kooks like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
That's it!
You're a party of nuts!
A total nuts!
It's really shameful.
Totally, completely shameful about what's going on here.
Now, they're losing the climate change narrative because it's false and it's nonsense, so now they're moving on to another one, Joe, and this is a doozy.
Their narrative now is that Houston did this to itself.
I mean, folks, if you think the climate change narrative on this is a loser, Blaming Texas for this?
And Texans?
For this, I mean, unbelievably horrific event?
Wow.
I mean, just when you think the left has hit 100% on the gangster curve for dopiness, They've managed to surpass that.
We have to actually reset the curve on the exam for dopiness.
I mean, this is just staggering.
It's happening already.
I'm going to send out some tweets and I'll put in the show notes today articles from the Media Research Center showing how Salon and other far-left outlets insinuate that this is the Houstonians and the Texans that did this.
Why?
Because of zoning.
Now zoning's the new thing, Joe.
Remember, the left loves zoning rules.
Zoning rules are basically local and state, in some cases, guidelines about what you can build where.
Now, what's fascinating about zoning is Houston is known for its paucity of zoning regulations.
There are relatively few.
Now, what has that led to?
All kinds of horrible things, Joe, like rent 60% lower than in California.
Of course, I'm being sarcastic, because when you don't have a bunch of zoning laws, you don't have to pay an army of lawyers and accountants to do what?
To get around those zoning laws or comply with them.
So Houston, as long as you meet safety standards, I mean, they're not going to allow you to put a nuclear power plant inside of a school, but as long as you get around some basic safety standards in Houston, you can build what you want when you own the land.
Whoa!
Oh my!
Oh!
Liberals, folks, liberals quake in their shoes over that.
They love zoning because zoning allows them to do whatever they want.
Zoning allows them to discriminate against people.
Zoning allows them to move people around based on racial quotas.
Remember the shows we did on the affirmative housing thing under the Obama administration where they were going to move minorities into neighborhoods because they didn't meet a racial quota?
Not in reverse, by the way.
They weren't going to move white people into black neighborhoods.
They wanted to move people who were minorities into white neighborhoods because they weren't diverse enough.
Keep in mind, there were no allegations of racism in those neighborhoods at all.
Nobody ever was telling people, if you're black or Hispanic or Asian, you can't move here.
It's just that the government didn't like where black people chose to live.
So they love zoning laws precisely because of this, because they can use those zoning laws to sue the states.
So now, the narrative, folks.
The narrative matters always, more than anything.
Now that the narrative has started to change to a couple of different things.
They lost climate change.
The climate change thing, they're still going to try it, but they're getting laughed at pretty much roundly by everybody in America right now because that's what the Liberal Party is.
It's a bunch of kooks.
The narrative has started to change through a few things.
There are stories about religion and Houstonians' love for church and love for God and love for their faith.
You've seen viral videos of gospel singers at these shelters.
I don't know if you saw that, Joe.
Just an amazing performance by a woman, the left, by the way, who happens to be black.
Oh my gosh, we're mentioning on the show, this is like triple reverse quadruple reverse racism now.
I'll have to cut that out.
Yeah, that's it.
Triple quadruple double reverse racism.
They're just mentioning a black woman who has faith in God because they want to seem like they're not racist because they're conservatives who are automatically racist.
You're like...
I'm trying to follow liberal, which is getting increasingly difficult because my brain cells, my dendrites are slowly withering away every time I mention liberalism.
But the narrative is changing away to the truth.
And the truth is not the lie, the gas-lit narrative lie that the liberals want you to believe.
And they are deeply troubled, so they're moving to zoning.
Now, the narrative is focused on religion.
You've seen stories about this, how their faith is getting them through this.
People on the news all the time talking about God.
That is absolutely not going to work for the liberals.
As I've said to you repeatedly, liberals cannot stand big R God-given rights and any affirmation of faith.
Because what does it do?
Competes with the power of the state.
Liberals can't have any of that.
So conversations about religion are to be suppressed immediately and they're starting to permeate the social media ecosystem.
Number two.
Stories of rescues on a mass scale.
By people who are not government.
This is driving the liberals mad.
Folks, please, I implore you, don't think I'm making this up.
And to steal a line from Rush, don't doubt me.
Don't doubt me on this at all.
These social media viral things that they know people are seeing, it is driving liberals wild.
Cajun Navy, the Texas Navy, people with monster trucks who the liberals think are all a bunch of stupid rednecks.
That's all you are.
You don't understand us coastal elites with their Thurston Howell bowtie wearing, you know, cigarette and a stick snobbery.
They see all of us down South.
And listen, I grew up in the Northeast.
I live in the South now.
I've lived, uh, you know, Maryland.
It depends.
I mean, they say what Northeasterners think Marylanders are the South and
Marylanders think they're the North, or whatever, maybe I got that backwards.
But having seen both and grown up in both environments, trust me, coastal elites think you're all a bunch of dopes,
because that's just what they do.
They are deeply disturbed by pictures of men carrying women out of the floodwaters.
Oh my gosh, that's like white male privilege or something.
Critical theory.
Monster truck southerners.
Oh my gosh, look at these hayseeds.
They're rescuing people.
In one case, rescuing members of the National Guard who got their truck stuck.
Another bunch of heroes, by the way.
They're like, militaries doing the right thing?
Oh my gosh, private citizens rescuing people?
No, you know, without instructions from the government?
We gotta do something.
We can't let people see the truth.
Narrative number three.
They were... Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't doubt me on this.
Well, I've listened to Rush every day, so shout out to Rush on that one.
I'm acknowledging the theft of that line.
Footnote.
Hat tip, Rush Limbaugh.
Do not doubt me for a second.
There are liberals out there, a large swath of them, not all, who are absolutely hoping for Trump to blow it.
They were hoping!
Joe, you and I both know it.
They had their fingers crossed and they were like, oh my gosh, please blow it.
Now, I want to be crystal clear on this.
This is not over.
This is not even close to over.
This is going to be a multi-year operation.
The rebuilding of the Houston infrastructure, the rebuilding of Houston's economy.
This is not over by any stretch.
There is still a, sadly, a tremendous opportunity to screw this up.
But folks, any, any reasonable person, notice I'm not talking to liberals right now, please, again, tune out, what are we at, the 23 mark or whatever when we put in a promo, it's 24?
You can tune out now, this is for reasonable people, any reasonable person would have to conclude at this point that given the epic nature of this tragedy, That the government under Donald Trump and under the excellent governorship of Greg Abbott and some fine local leadership has done a pretty, pretty good job.
Yeah.
There's always room for improvements.
And what's bothering them even more is that the one decision that has been questioned, the decision not to evacuate Houston, it's driving them crazy.
I'm telling you, I'm just telling you what's out there, was made by a Democrat, the Houston mayor.
Now, notice, And I mean this.
I'm being incredibly sincere on this.
I have not harped on that decision by the Houston mayor because it's not the time for that.
Now, if he was a Republican mayor, I assure you the liberals in the media would be calling for a hanging and effigy.
That's just what they do.
They would call for a public trial, a tar and feathering, because that's what liberals do.
I am very proud that conservative media outlets have largely kept away from this.
Because although I think it was a bad call, it's, this is not the time for that.
This is not, this is time to back the man up.
He's doing a decent job.
He's out there.
This is not the time to, you get what I'm saying?
Sure.
And I'm not like quietly like bringing it up either to, I'm not, I strongly encourage, forget all of that.
That is not, it's not relevant now.
But believe me when I tell you Democrats are seething that the only decision really in this that's been largely questioned is that one.
And it was a Democrat.
I'm telling you what they're thinking.
The religion narrative, the excellent non-government response, and the excellent government response under Donald Trump are driving liberals mad.
They can't have it, folks.
They are obsessed with the narrative at all times.
They will never, ever, ever let a crisis go to waste.
So what do they switch to?
They switch to zoning.
Now, I want to read to you just quick another line from this Wall Street Journal op-ed, which is really terrific, and it describes how they're completely uncomfortable libs with what's going on right now.
They're talking about the response.
It says this has happened even faster than usual, perhaps because the Katrina 2 scenario of emergency mismanagement didn't pan out.
The state, local, and federal governments have done a competent job under terrible conditions and stories about neighborly charity Racial goodwill, the heroism of rescuers, and big business donating money and goods don't fit into any agenda.
Liberals are ringing over Melania Trump's heels and also lacks political legs.
I didn't even think of that.
Corporate goodwill.
That's driving them nuts.
American businesses are supposed to be evil.
And the fact that American businesses, you have Walmart stepping up, you have a bunch of people out there, you have Home Depot stepping up, doing the right thing, is driving liberals crazy because the gas-lit narrative they've told you over and over.
Climate change did this?
Wrong.
Corporate America is horrible?
Wrong.
The government is the only way to fix our problems?
Wrong.
Donald Trump is an idiot, he's going to be incompetent?
Wrong.
Nothing they've told you is true.
So they have to move on.
They moved on to climate change.
Anytime you try to change the narrative, it's always, that guy's a racist.
Anytime you, if that narrative doesn't work, they move right on to the next one.
This one about zoning.
Now, for those of you say, well, and keep in mind, you may say, well, what do you mean with zoning?
And maybe I wasn't clear on that.
With the zoning, what the liberals are trying to say is that, well, you know, Houston built all over the place because there was no rules on who could build what, where.
You following, Joe?
Yeah.
And because of that, it led to this massive flooding.
Folks, New York and New Jersey, as pointed out in the Journal today, have some of the strictest zoning laws in the country.
And had an epic disaster with, what, one-tenth of the rain?
I mean, I don't even know what the rain was in Sandy, but I can tell you right now, as a fact, it wasn't even close to what came down in Hurricane Harvey, and the damage was phenomenal.
I mean, it has nothing to do with... All I'm trying to say is not that... And by the way, zoning leads to very cheap rents, cheap house prices.
These are all the things you think liberals would fight for.
But again, liberals are not interested in the truth.
They're not interested in helping people.
They're interested in power and control and controlling what you think.
Whether what you think is true or not, I'm telling you folks, it's completely irrelevant to them.
It doesn't matter.
Zoning.
Well, zoning leads to cheap housing.
We don't want cheap housing.
We want to control the housing.
Damn it, we're liberals.
What are you, an idiot?
Get with the program, Jack.
Yeah, it's just really frustrating every time.
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Three big Trump stories that have gone the way of the woolly mammoth because the media just doesn't want to cover anything positive on Trump.
I'd like to believe we're kind of fair arbiters with what's going on with the Trump administration.
I'll admit, I'm obviously biased.
I'm a conservative, and I like Donald Trump.
I mean, personally, I think he's got the right attitude going into the swamp.
But I think we've been pretty fair.
But these are three stories where I think he deserves a really solid round of applause from the conservative crowd out there.
Some of them have been fairly so, including some of our people at CR.
And I mean it, fairly so.
I've given them some guff over some decisions.
And, you know, they're right.
But these are three solid ones.
Here's number one.
So you probably missed this story yesterday, so that's what the renegade Republican's here for, to fill in the gaps and hack left media coverage.
So he revoked the Obama administration's waivers of work requirements for welfare.
Let me just explain to you what happened quick, why this isn't really a huge deal, but it still does matter.
After the Newt Gingrich Congress in the Clinton years, there were work requirements built into welfare, meaning you could only collect that supplemental assistance from the government, what we would call welfare, if you agreed to a certain amount of work requirements or you were actively looking for a job.
Clear, Joe?
Well, Obama, you know, in his effort to get as many people in America not working and on the government dole as possible, he decided he was going to change that and make things like, I'm not making this up, folks.
This is not a joke.
This is real.
Make things like attending Weight Watchers sessions classified as looking for work so you wouldn't have to actually go get a job and you could still collect government welfare benefits.
I'm not kidding.
Okay.
So dude, you need to cut that out.
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Okay.
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Okay.
We can hit the okay button every now and then.
Cause you just said it like it was great.
Okay.
Yes.
So Weight Watchers is now looking for work.
Now, obviously that's ridiculous and it's just an Obama administration or was an Obama administration initiative to get people on the government dole because it leads to more votes.
I mean, that's just what they do, libs, you know, because they need control at all times.
Well, Trump revoked that.
Now you have to actually be looking for actual work, like not trying to drop a few LBs at the local Weight Watchers with their, you know, low calorie brownies or whatever it may be.
And there's more power to Weight Watchers, but that's not looking for work, okay?
Now, you may say, oh, that's great news.
Why are you selling it short?
I'm not.
I'm just saying that I'm glad Trump did it.
I mean, obviously, that's why I'm talking about the story.
I'm just trying to tell you that if, you know, because we're here for facts and data, it's not going to have a big effect.
And why is that?
Because as a state, you had to apply for a waiver to get like Weight Watchers included as a looking for work and no states did.
So I'm glad he got rid of it because now states don't even have the option of doing it, which is great.
But truth be told to you folks, it's not going to really change anything because no one had applied.
But it's very good for Trump.
I applaud him for doing it.
Story number two.
I didn't hear anything about the first one.
It was limited.
I mean, really, no one was talking about it.
But it happened.
There's a strong rumor going around that today, Friday, we're going to see Trump ending DACA, the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, which was the program under the Obama administration.
Where if you were brought here as a child, illegally, that you could stay.
And not only that, that you could eventually get a work permit if you were brought here before a certain date.
Trump is talking about ending that today.
I think that's a good idea, folks.
If you want to change the policy, then, you know, elect representatives that'll go to Congress and change it.
We are a country of laws.
The laws say how you can come here legally.
If you don't like those laws, then change them.
I'm sorry.
We have courts for the hard cases, but he's talking about ending DACA today.
Meaning he will not renew, I think it was every two years, he will not renew any, there will be no waivers, that you will be subjected to deportation like anyone else.
So, good, getting rid of DACA.
Also, the third story, which is really easy to describe because it's just, I think, a very nice gesture.
Sorry, I got something in my eye there.
Trump donated a million dollars of his personal money towards the Harvey effort.
Listen, is the guy a billionaire?
I don't know.
I don't have access to his financial records, and nor do I want them.
But, ladies and gentlemen, let's be honest.
I mean, a million dollars is a lot of money.
I don't care how rich you are, that's a lot of dough.
And, you know, do we need to sit there and genuflect at his feet over it?
No.
But it's a really nice gesture, and it deserves a nice pat on the back.
For the President of the United States to take his own money, a million beans, that's a lot of beans.
And say, you know what?
I'm gonna donate this.
Remember, he doesn't take a salary at all for being president.
He donates his salary, too.
You know, for a second, I get it.
You're not gonna vote for him.
I get it.
There's a swath of my liberal audience out there that just viscerally hates Trump.
I get it.
Don't vote for him.
Whatever.
But can you just for a second say, hey, you know what?
Nice gesture.
Even if you say it internally, don't say it around friends because Antifa will come beat you up.
So I don't want you to get hurt.
I mean, Antifa will slug you and then put one of those shields and bury you and try to suffocate you to death.
But maybe internally for a second, you could say to yourself, you know what?
It's really, really not bad.
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There's one more liberal freak out I wanted to talk about.
It's not just that they're losing the narrative on the Texas response.
First, climate change.
Now, they're moving on to zoning laws, which is just ridiculous and absurd.
I mean, it's absolutely nothing to do with it.
As I said, Hurricane Sandy had zoning laws everywhere.
The damage was outrageous.
Liberals are freaking out left and right about how good Trump is on the stump when it comes to taxes.
He's been pretty good.
His speech in Missouri, I thought was good.
Ann Coulter didn't like it.
You know, I know Ann.
I like Ann, but I thought she was off.
She thought he should focus more on immigration.
That's fine.
But I thought the speech was very good.
And Joe, liberals are freaking out because they have owned the tax cut argument for years.
Tax cuts are always about the rich.
They're evil, rich, and the fact that Trump went out and sold it as what it was, a growth agenda, a tax cut agenda to benefit the middle class, liberals are totally freaking out.
I covered this on yesterday's show and the day before, so I don't want to beat this horse to death.
You know, some of my proudest moments on the show are telling you what's coming down the liberal pipeline.
I'm telling you, the narrative doesn't work for them right now.
The narrative that these tax cuts are going to benefit growth and benefit the middle class, I'm telling you, they're freaking out.
Just go to Twitter, give a look at Salon, anywhere.
They are melting down.
They're like, these are not middle class tax cuts, this is for the rich!
They're losing their minds.
You are going to see a concerted effort to freak the hell out on the left and scare the American people into believing that these are tax cuts for the rich, and they're just upset that Trump seems to be selling it like no one else did in the past.
They're losing their collective mmm over the whole thing.
So mark my words, you're going to see more and more pieces.
You're going to see a reference to Piketty, his old class warfare book.
You're going to see Paul Krugman.
They're all going to start putting out pieces about how these only benefit the rich because they're panicking that Trump is getting it done.
All right, a final story I saw, which was interesting.
I read in the journal today You know, I like to pull these stories you don't hear anywhere else out.
I mean, you'll see it in the journal, but this isn't going to get a lot of PR, but it's important to you.
And it's stories about a different model for unionization in America.
I mean, I'll put it in the show notes if you want to read it.
Frankly, the article was interesting, but the overall premise, I didn't think, was fascinating.
But some of the nuggets in there were.
And one of the premises in the piece is why unionization in America is dropping.
You know, I thought, you know, this guy nailed it.
You know, unionization in America, here are some numbers for us from the piece.
It says since 1953, union membership has fallen, this is staggering, Joe, from 36% of the private labor force to less than 7%.
But yeah, here's the kicker though.
While workers' share of national income has increased to 66.1% from 64.5%.
Now, we haven't whipped out the abacus in a while, but Joe, get that out, all right?
The abacus, all right?
Here we go.
Now, if your share of national income, and you're a worker out there, goes from 64.5% to... You got that, Abacus?
Good.
Jay's Abacus.
Shout out to Jay.
64.5 to 66.1.
Let me ask you this.
Jay's abacus, shout out to Jay. 64.5 to 66.1.
Let me ask you this, on your abacus, is 66.1 greater than 64.5?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No!
Jay Zabikus to the rescue again!
Boom!
This Jay man was a wizard sending Joe the abacus.
It's amazing.
So union membership is gone.
I'm not knocking unions, folks.
Believe me.
My dad was in a union.
My brother's in a union.
You want to join a union?
Have at it.
They do some good things.
I was in a semi kind of union, the Patrolman's Benevolent Association
when I was a cop.
I'm just telling you that if you're gonna tell me that union membership
leads to all these wonderful things all the time, I do facts and data. I'd ask
you to provide them. And the fact of the matter is union membership has collapsed
from 36% to 70% in the private workforce while the workers share of national
income has gone up by a pretty good jump. 64 to 66 percent.
Now, a lot of that's due to worker productivity and technology, and you could probably make the case, you know, making a silly economic argument, but a counterfactual, well, it would have went up more, and you know, anybody can say that though.
But what's interesting about this is, so number one, your argument that unionization and forcing people to unionize is an automatic positive public good really goes out the window based on some of the numbers, but here's the second part.
There was an interesting point this guy made in the piece that I wanted to put out there.
He said, listen, Here's one of the reasons people aren't joining unions anymore.
Not only, basically, has national income gone up and worker productivity gone up and wages have stayed pretty decently high in the United States, but Joe, all the stuff that unions used to do, a lot of good stuff that they used to do, fighting for worker rights in the early part of the century, the last century, when it was pretty darn dangerous to work in some places, a lot of this stuff's already lost.
He makes the point that government laws are already in effect for 40-hour work weeks, overtime, minimum wage, health insurance, safety standards on the job.
Now, you don't have to agree with these.
I certainly don't agree with minimum wage and a lot of forced labor laws.
I think we should be able to make private contracts on our own.
But really, I mean, I'm just saying, like, for unions, I'm not knocking you.
I'm just saying, well, what are you bargaining for anymore?
I don't even understand.
Most of the big stuff is already done.
And if you're asking people to pay a large swath of their wages to support you lobbying for things, you should be able to tell people what those things are.
So again, it's not a knock on unions.
I know a lot of people like them, and that's great.
But forcing people to join unions?
Eh.
Not so sure that's a real winner anymore.
But interesting story nonetheless, I thought I'd bring up.
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