Lara Trump joins the show to defend President Trump's decision to go to war with Iran, asserting his intelligence-based judgment against nuclear ambitions and religious extremism. The discussion covers Texas primary elections where Proposition 10 passed and Jasmine Crockett lost to Tallarico, alongside concerns over voting trends involving candidates like John Cornyn and Chip Roy. Lara addresses economic indicators, noting low gas prices despite broader improvements, while the host critiques a New York child care program as a socialist trap following the Cloward and Piven strategy. Ultimately, the episode argues that ignoring these political shifts risks losing Texas to the GOP and validates Trump's leadership against media narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
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Texas Election Scandal and Sharia Law00:12:58
Let's talk a little bit about what happened in Texas.
Good news.
It looks like Proposition 10 passed, which means it's going to the general ballot in November.
Is Texas going to pass a law that says no Sharia law ever in Texas?
I would say that is a no-brainer, but I'm not sure anymore.
I'm not sure anymore because there's too many people walking around with no brains, apparently.
But that passed, so it is going to November.
Crockett, it's very disappointing.
Crockett lost to Tallarico.
Explain.
We know who Crockett is.
She's nuts.
Now, she's claiming that this was this, it was stolen from her.
I don't know who would have stolen it.
It wasn't the GOP that would have stolen it because the GOP, I would have loved to have her run.
You have the side of that?
Go ahead, play.
Here she is.
We should all be standing together, Democrats, Republicans, and we should all be raising hail.
But unfortunately, this was always the plan.
And so I am grateful for this court order.
And as Congressman Allred has already stated, we encourage each and every one of you to remain resilient.
We cannot allow this type of behavior to be rewarded because so long as they know that they can win, even if it means cheating, then they will continue to do it.
Who is they?
And by the way, did you see any reason she's made any point here, brought up anything that makes you think that there is a possibility of it?
Because I know that it exists.
Cheating.
Is this something we should look into?
I mean, I think we should treat all of these equally and look into it, but what is she claiming?
I don't know, but there were more people who voted in the Texas Senate Democrat primary than the Republican Senate primary.
And that is a little concerning.
But I have a feeling it was some of our own on our side that were voting for Crockett in creating a surge.
I was going to say, if you could have voted for her over Tell Rico, I think I would have.
I think I would be like, yeah, I'm going to vote for that one.
I mean, so I think I have a feeling that was probably a few Republicans voting in that.
But we should take it.
We should take claims of all cheating seriously.
And if there was cheating, then it should be taken care of.
Talrico is a real problem.
Do you want to explain a little why Talrico is so Talrico?
Sorry.
It's okay.
Yeah, he's a smooth-talking Presbyterian who is a wolf in sheep's clothing, if you will.
Is he getting his ministerial license?
I know that he was on the way to that.
On the way to that, okay.
But yeah, he's gotten high-profile appearances with Joe Rogan.
Many of the cable news networks on the left love him, but he is, he's all dressed up in socialism.
I actually think that they refer to his faith as a Christian version of socialism, if there's such a thing.
I know you have a rant on that coming up.
I do.
Jason's laughing.
I want to hear why.
I mean, what pisses me off is because he reminds me of a Raphael Warnock, where we pulled up, we did an entire show on Warnock, where he's just proselytizing at the pulpit there socialism and communism.
But he will never get accused of being a Christian nationalist ever.
No, ever.
But neither one is Tallarico.
You know, they can say whatever the heck they want to and bend the scriptures any way they want to.
Never will get accused of that.
Right.
Because that kind of religion isn't dangerous.
Although that kind of religion is the kind of religion that leads to 100 million dead in the 20th century.
But don't worry about that.
Yeah, he strikes me as dangerous because you're going to get, there's a thing in Texas where I think Texans see scandal and they don't like scandal at all.
And that, I guess, is a good thing, but not when the scandal blinds you to who the other person is.
And Tallarico seems like a very good, smooth talker that can do exactly what happened in Virginia and say, hey, I'm a moderate.
I'm just, you know, I'm just following the words of Christ.
I just care about my fellow man.
And then next thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire who has had all of his money taken by the federal government for some stupid, crazy program.
And I think this is why a lot of people are concerned.
You might have Cornyn win that runoff against Paxton in May because he doesn't have a scandal surrounding him.
And you know Democrats are going to play up.
Cornyn sucks beyond belief.
I mean, how are you going to, I mean, I'm going to vote.
I'm going to vote.
If I were in Texas, I just switched my voting.
But if I would vote in Texas, I would have a really hard time voting for Cornyn.
take everything in me to check that box for Cornyn.
Everything in me to check that box.
And the only reason I would do it is because I would know who Tallarico is.
And so I would check it.
But most, most Republicans are not going to pay that much attention.
And they're going to see this guy as, oh, you know what?
I don't really like Cornyn.
I'm kind of sick of Cornyn.
What has he done lately?
We need some fresh blood in there.
And this guy seems like a good guy of God.
Watch, that's what will happen.
Tell Rico as a good chance of winning.
What pisses me off with Cornyn is he is everything that the entire voting population cannot stand about politics right now.
He is the establishment candidate, and he has always survived within the establishment.
Going back to the Tea Party, where he's voting for bailouts.
He should not have made it past there.
It makes no sense to me going all the way up to the validity shooting where he's trying to use that to push gun laws, red flag laws, things like that.
I'm like, how is this guy here?
But he is that in-depth of the establishment.
But now, if you're in Texas, if you look at all of his campaign ads, every other word is Trump.
He is trying to tie himself to Trump so hard.
It's like, you know, Cornyn went to the grocery store, bought peas, and Trump.
Courtney went to the park today, slid on the slide, and Trump.
I'm like, oh my gosh, it's so annoying.
He's like a concrete.
Never getting rid of him.
You may not, but what's interesting about this is his campaign was the most expensive in Senate primary race history.
He's won $125 million and yet is only headed to a runoff.
He didn't win handily.
You would think with that amount of money behind him, he would have won handily.
So it's got to be an interesting amendment.
If Paxton hadn't have had his scandal that happened when he was AG and they tried to impeach him and everything else, if he wouldn't have had that, he would have beat Cornyn.
But Cornyn spent enough money and there's enough people going, I'm not sure about Paxton, blah, blah, blah, that it had to go to a runoff.
But I'm telling you, Tellarico is a real, real danger, especially with the way things are running in Texas.
Texas, I'm telling you, we lose Texas.
We lose the country forever.
And Texans, wake the hell up.
It's not the tech.
You know what?
You need to move away from Texas and then come back.
It's not the Texas that it used to be.
It's not.
They're moving in from California.
What do you think they're going to vote for?
You've got to stand up and defend Texas.
We're going to lose Texas if we're not careful.
And it could happen with the primary.
I mean, it could happen with the Senate this time around.
Looking at some of the voting trends, it is very, especially if this is a projection to where this is going in other states as more of these elections start popping up.
There's something going on in Texas with voting.
You can't even look at my social media right now.
Everything popping up is a different group pushing early voting for the left.
Something big with funding for that is going on.
And if you look at early voting.
Early voting.
Early voting.
I was talking to somebody in Washington State the other day, and they said, you know, when the state of Washington turned around, because 2016, it was like the number one state for business, like top three business state.
Now you can't get out of there fast enough if you're a businessman.
I mean, they are just, they're crazy.
He said the whole thing really started to turn once they had early voting.
Once they did early voting, it was over.
And, you know, that's why the Save Act has to be passed.
And, you know, the Save America Act is the one that Donald Trump was pushing, and that's what they're trying to get through.
And that includes the early voting and the mail-in ballots and all of that stuff.
It's just all got to stop.
I mean, you know, we didn't have these problems before.
I know it was a hassle that we all had to go to vote on a Tuesday, but we didn't have these problems before.
Why are we inventing these problems?
We're making it easier and easier and easier to vote.
And as we do that, we say, and we're making it really easy for everybody to vote, which makes it safer.
Those two things don't go together.
They never go together.
What are we doing?
Also, Chip Roy is now headed for a runoff with Mays Middleton.
I don't think we've had Mays on, have we?
We haven't, but I think May is David Barton's guy.
Yeah, I think it is.
I think it is.
We should have him on.
Crenshaw, thank God.
Crenshaw.
Oh, thank God he's gone.
What will happen to his salary, his way of life?
How will he be able to do that?
Oh, he'll go into the military-industrial complex.
You don't think he can live off of the congressional trading?
Well, yeah, of course he can live off of that, but he'll go into the military-industrial complex.
Any doubt on that one, Jason?
Oh, no, 100%.
That's what's going to happen.
The thing that I was really peaking my interest on this is not only are we, did Jasmine Crockett take a hit here, but also did you see that Al Green is headed to a runoff?
We might be done with Al Green.
The scariest thing possible is that the stupid within the Democratic Party looks like it's being targeted big time.
And I kind of want the stupid to stay there.
They represent their party well.
I'm so torn.
I'm so torn.
I would rather have the stupid than the people who are effective and actually believe in Marxism.
So yeah, I would rather have the stupid.
Tony Gonzalez, he's in a runoff.
Now, he had scandals of an affair.
And then didn't his girlfriend set herself on fire?
Alleged girlfriend set herself on fire?
Yeah, this is trouble.
He's headed to a runoff with Brandon Herrera.
Who's MAGA?
He's very MA, very two-way.
I'm a little interested to see if he's impacted by the affair scandal, what will happen to others who have been impacted, or if they will be impacted by affair scandals.
Don't affairs seem like so quaint now.
So 2016?
Yeah, they're just so, oh, they had an affair.
Now everybody's like, oh, no, who hasn't?
And you're like, wait, what?
It does seem like voters are more interested in policy these days than no, they're not.
No.
No, they're not.
Well, how did we get Trump?
Because they want somebody who's going to disrupt the system.
That's what they're interested in.
They want somebody that will just do something.
And when I say that, they mean a Marxist who will just give me free stuff or somebody who is not going to be like John Corny, or I mean, yeah, John Cornyn and just do the same old stuff.
They're looking for Donald Trump won because, I mean, it's really funny.
In 2016, actually, 2007, I said, if Barack Obama wins, we're going to get a guy who is the guy who sits at the end of the bar and just says something that everybody loves, but they think he's a little nuts.
And he might even have like a little ketchup stain on his tie because he's just like you.
If Obama wins, that's what the next president's going to be because of the pendulum.
That was Donald Trump.
Okay.
The Patriot Mobile Prediction00:02:48
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That's exactly, we didn't get it in the president because he was just a mask.
Okay.
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I think this time by 2028, you're going to have a Marxist and hopefully a constitutionalist.
But I think we're going to have the choice in front of us.
It will be a clear choice.
Marxism or capitalism.
That's what's going to happen in 2028.
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The President's Nuclear Moment00:14:43
Laura Trump, welcome.
How are you?
Good morning.
I'm great.
Thank you.
And thank you for making the exception.
I feel very honored.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you are welcome anytime.
I just, I just love you.
Laura, I got to start with, you got to start with this crazy question because I know your father somewhat, not like you do, not like the family does, but I think all of America knows your father enough to say nobody leads him around by the nose.
But we are now hearing that Israel has dragged Donald Trump into this war, and it's coming from the president, some of the president's former supporters in right-wing media saying that he's just been duped by Israel.
How do you respond to that?
Yeah, no, you're exactly right.
The only person who makes decisions for Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
And you don't actually have to even spend that much time around him, Glenn, to know that that's the case.
He takes, you know, account of what people around him have to say.
He likes to get a lot of opinions, a lot of thoughts, which any smart person and any good leader would actually do.
But then he's the person who makes that decision.
And let's be really clear.
When it comes to Iran, this is a regime that has been for nearly 50 years chanting death to America and death to Israel.
They call us the big Satan.
They call Israel the Little Satan.
They were on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon that would have been detrimental not only to the United States, but to the entire world.
And this president has always said he wants to put America first.
You don't have an America if Iran has a nuclear weapon because we know they would have deployed it on us.
They want to wipe us off the map.
So the reason that we went in, the reason that this was the time, according to this president and all of his intelligence, is because you can't allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
The talks were going nowhere between, you know, Jared, my brother-in-law, and Steve Woodcock.
And this was the right time.
So no, no one has made any decision other than this president, based on the intelligence, based on his assessment of things, based on the fact that he wants to put America first and protect American citizens above all else.
You know, the nuclear weapon thing, I've been on Iran my whole career.
I've been talking about Iran.
They're extraordinarily dangerous because they're 12.
They're Shia 12ers that believe in the 12th, the mom is going to return.
And so a lot of their speeches from their president has been in the past, oh, Allah, help me have the strength to hasten the return of the promised one.
That is like book of Revelation stuff, really, really scary.
To hasten the return of the promised one, they have to wash the world in blood and burn it in the fiery furnace of the Islamic fury.
Okay.
That sounds like a nuclear weapon, that last part.
And they're dead serious because they actually believe these things.
But I have heard the nuclear weapon thing for so long.
I don't think that rings like a defense with people because they're like, you know, first of all, remember the, and your father was all over this when it happened, the Iraq war, when that happened, the, you know, weapons of mass destructions lie that we got.
But what was it that tipped him on this time?
Because I have personally been told over and over again for 25 years, they could be weeks away.
What was it this time that made him go, that's, that we have to take care of it right now?
Or was it a bunch of stuff, including that?
Yeah, listen, I mean, I obviously don't get the detailed intelligence readings like he does, but I'll just say this.
I think that this president has always known, and maybe he knew more than ever after Butler, Pennsylvania happened, that he was really made for this moment.
And I mean that in so many different senses.
I think he definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, believes that his life was spared in Butler, Pennsylvania, so that he could go on to lead this country.
And he was made for such a time as this.
I don't know, Gwen, that you would have ever gotten another person in that office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who would have had the guts to do this.
People, you know, treated Iran with kick gloves for so long.
My God, we had Obama sending pallets of cash.
Biden sent cash back to them as well.
He had no strength on the world stage.
And I don't know that this president thinks that there would have ever been anyone else who would have seized a moment like we have right now to take care of a problem that would have gone on in perpetuity.
And let's face it, we know if they had the means to do it, they would wipe us off the map.
And so, like so many other things, other presidents have talked about it before, much like, you know, recognizing the Golan Heights and moving the embassy in Israel, you know, in Israel to from Toledo to Jerusalem.
This is something this president said, you know, so many people have talked about it before.
I'm actually going to do it.
I'm actually going to do the right thing here.
Because I actually don't think he thought anyone else would have the guts to do it.
And he's probably right.
So I 100% agree about Butler.
I mean, he told me what he was thinking when he was down on the ground with a pile of Secret Service agents.
He was like, you're not afraid.
Get up.
This is embarrassing.
You're not afraid of these people.
Get up.
You're the president.
And I thought, boy, there's like nobody that kind of thinks that way when somebody's shooting at you.
There's almost nobody that thinks that way.
So he was made for this time.
But I was thinking this weekend, one reason I could never be president, and maybe because a lot of people like me have been president in the past.
He seems to know what he is the right thing to do, but he has this ability to actually pull the trigger where I thought all this weekend, I know he's surrounded by people going, Mr. President, this could end poorly.
And he knows that it could end poorly.
He knows that it'll be bad if it does end poorly or drags on for his campaign and for the Republicans, which hurt him in other ways.
But he just makes this decision anyway because he believes this decision is right and to hell with the consequences.
That's really unusual.
What gives him that?
Yeah.
And you know what, Glenn?
He sort of had the same attitude about all of this from the beginning.
I actually remember before he came down the golden escalator in 2015 to announce he was running for president.
I remember him telling us, you know what, kids, we're going to do this the right way.
And if that means that I go in and I get one term in office, then that's okay with me because I want to do the right thing for this country.
And I want to make sure that things are set in motion properly because they haven't been for so long because so many people have been afraid to do things the right way because of politics, because of what you just said.
Maybe it impacts the Republican Party negatively or whatever it might be.
He's always felt like the consequences maybe are, he takes them seriously, but I think he understands the bigger picture.
And I think he understands that this is so much greater than him.
And it's so much greater than even this moment.
This is about the future of our country, the future of the world.
And he's always had this attitude of, I will do the right thing no matter what it costs me.
My God, look at what this man has been through.
He's pressed on and he's most any other normal person would have said a long time ago, enough is enough.
I can't do this.
But no matter what it is, he really is a unique individual.
And I do believe that he's a perfect person for this time, for this office.
And my God, forget my proximity to him.
I think all the time about how lucky I am just to live in a time when Donald Trump is president of the United States.
It's incredible stuff.
I actually pray Thanksgiving all the time that we're living in these times.
Just to witness what we're witnessing right now is really a remarkable time to be alive.
I heard you talk about the UFO thing.
I don't want to get in the UFO this time.
I'd really like to, but I know we're short on time.
But you said the way your father answered about UFOs, he didn't say something.
And you all looked at each other like, wow, he's not saying this.
So I wonder if he knows.
His countenance never seems to change to the average person.
You know, you're watching him and you'd have no idea, you know, when he's at Mar-a-Lago this weekend that he's launching a war.
You'd have no idea.
Did you see a countenance change?
Do you ever see a countenance change when he's weighing something this heavy?
Does the family notice?
I don't know what he's wrestling with, but he's wrestling with something.
To a certain extent, if you know someone really well, yeah, you see a little bit of change in them.
But, you know, he has an amazing ability as well to sort of, I don't know, compartmentalize things maybe is the right way to describe it.
And, you know, when he's with us as a family, he's, you know, he's a family man and he's my father-in-law and my husband's dad and my kid's grandfather.
And then when he's on the job and he's doing what he needs to do, he's fully focused on that.
But, you know, I'll say the only time I've ever seen him really change is truly after he left office on January 20th of 2021.
That's maybe the one moment I saw a different side of him.
And he was, he was definitely down and he was definitely worried, not about himself, but about the country, I believe.
And he knew that day that he was going to have to come back because he wasn't finished and there was so much more to do.
But no, you know, it's pretty amazing to see a person who can do as much as he does.
And, you know, he likes to talk about the weave whenever he gives a speech, right?
He'll have words written.
He'll have a teleprompter speech.
But we all know Donald Trump does not like to say to the teleprompter and he weaves all around, but he ultimately comes back to the point.
And he's got this ability, I guess, to compartmentalize things and focus on what needs to happen in the moment and not let it weigh on him other times.
His speech, speaking of taking up teleprompter, was the most focused I've ever seen him on teleprompter with the State of the Union.
I think it was the best speech he's ever given in performance and also in strategy.
I mean, it was obvious that he was setting this really brilliant trap of stand if you believe that, you know, the government's first job is to protect U.S. citizens.
And that seemed, you know, that was clearly planned and really well done.
But I got the impression when they weren't standing for other things or they were shouting while everybody else was chanting USA, USA for the hockey.
You had what's her name, Ariana, what's her face, Presley, actually chanting KKK, KKK.
And your father-in-law looked at the left a lot of times and said, you people are crazy, or I can't believe you're not standing.
That seemed like he was genuinely surprised by how far they've gone and are willing to show it.
Do you think that is that accurate?
Well, God, aren't we all surprised by how far they've gone?
Aren't we all surprised?
I am.
That at this point, it feels like we have, I said this the other day on Fox.
It seems like there are more people who are pro-America in Iran right now than people in our own Democratic Party here in the United States who are pro-America.
It feels like it's not about Republican versus Democrat or left versus right.
This is about those of us who love this country and those who hate this country.
And when you are willing to side with terrorists, when you are willing to say that, you know, Nicholas Maduro, a drug lord who was responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths because of the poison he sent into this country, the way he terrorized his own people, that that's a bad thing to bring a guy like that to justice.
You can't admit that taking out the Ayatollah Khomeini, a person who has also been responsible for countless torture and death of his own people, of the American people.
My God, you can't admit that that's good.
You have a real problem.
But he's exposed so much of that.
And I think that, you know, he'll go down, I think in the history books as, if not the greatest president, one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country.
There's no doubt about it.
The things he's been able to do just in the past year are remarkable.
But one of the big things that this president did is he exposed a lot.
He exposed the legacy media for being fake news.
He coined that term.
And so many people initially were like, what are you talking about?
They get it now.
He's exposed the rot in Washington, D.C., and he's exposed the Democrats for being absolute lunatics.
And I agree with you.
I think the State of the Union speech was one of his best speeches he's ever given.
And believe me, I've been to a lot of Donald Trump speeches in my life.
That was one of his best.
I loved every second of it.
Two hours flew by.
And if nothing else, he showed live on television to the American people.
Here is what you get when you vote for Democrats.
People who aren't willing to stand for our service members, people who are going to chant KKK instead of USA in a moment where the American hockey team comes back.
It's insane.
They're crazy.
And he's been able to expose all of it.
Let me ask you one last question.
I'm running out of time.
I know you have to go too.
But I have been trying to explain the big picture.
He is changing the way the whole system works all around the world.
And I believe he has gone after the system that is keeping people in their place and not allowing people to get into business and do all the things.
He's got to take all those gatekeepers that are global off of people's back.
And he's done that.
But people see that as not affecting them.
And I don't think they're going to really understand what Donald Trump has done for another maybe five years because it has such long-term ramifications.
But his own voters are saying, well, yeah, but the economy, the economy.
Economic Signs Americans Feel00:02:30
And there are signs the economy is doing much better.
Is he hearing that?
Because the worst thing that can happen is try to convince people that, no, you're not feeling it.
Is he aware of that?
Really listening to his people?
Because I've never seen him out of touch.
But if that doesn't change, we're going to have a hard time in the election.
Oh, I agree.
And believe me, he's focused on that.
And yes, this is not Biden 2.0, where they tell you that inflation is transitory and that you're just imagining prices are rising whenever everything is more extensive.
Look, the reality is, if you look at the numbers, things are trending in the right direction.
And Senator Markway Mullen gave me this analogy, and I think it is so spot on.
He said, you know, changing this economy back to what it was when he left office is almost like turning around an aircraft carrier.
It takes one mile to turn around an aircraft carrier.
This stuff doesn't happen overnight.
But I think, you know, you have the one big beautiful bill.
So much of that will actually start to be felt by the American people this year.
And it is about how they feel and they have to feel it to believe it.
And so, yeah, I think he has to continue to talk about what he's done.
He is absolutely listening to the people of this country.
I mean, I don't know that we've had a president who has listened more to the people of this country or been more willing to communicate with the people of this country than Donald Trump and be as transparent as he has been on every possible front.
But it takes time.
And I do think we need to remind people of that.
Look at the gas prices.
Gas prices are under $3 a gallon right now in most states in America.
Some places under $2 a gallon.
Whenever you open up the pipelines, whenever you allow us to drill, baby, drill, whenever you do all the things that he's done for this economy, investment, real wage growth, that actually does impact people, but it doesn't happen overnight.
So I get it.
He hears it.
He understands it.
And I think people, hopefully, by the second quarter of this year are going to start feeling that.
Laura, I know your entire family has paid a deep, deep price.
My family prayed for all of the members of your family, even though you weren't there at Mar-Lago when this guy stormed the gates a couple of weeks ago.
I can't imagine what it's like to be a Trump right now.
We pray for you and appreciate it.
And thank you for being on.
Appreciate it.
God bless you.
Oh, my gosh.
Well, thank you.
Thank you for the prayers.
Thank you for everything.
And we appreciate you, Glenn.
Thanks so much.
Thanks.
You bet.
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The Rich Pay for It00:13:12
So taxpayers in New York, whatever taxpayers are left, taxpayers are going to shell out more than $36,000 per child for Mom Danny's free 2K pilot program.
Okay.
It's $13,000 more per child than the private market.
Let me repeat that.
Program designed to make child care less expensive and cheaper is 55% more expensive than the system that already exists.
Why wouldn't you just say, you know, instead of coming up with our whole new system, why don't we just use that system and we'll pay them the $23,000 instead of the $36,000?
Because this is not a bug.
This is the system.
All right.
I put up on the chalkboard, there's a three-step pattern to socialist programs.
Okay.
And you can almost explain every socialist program in three steps.
Step one, you got to declare something a right.
Housing is a right.
Healthcare is a right.
Child care is a right.
Because you have to start there.
Because once you declare it a right, you never talk about the cost again.
You talk about morality.
You talk about you don't believe that children should be taken care of.
No, but I, but it's 26, it's 20, it's 36,000 instead of 23, that this is a right.
We're doing what's right.
Okay.
So anyone asking about math instantly becomes a villain because it's a human right.
The second step is they promise you that it'll only cost the rich.
You know, if we just got these rich people to pay their fair share, millionaires are going to pay.
Okay.
That's who's going to pay for this.
The millionaires, the people who aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
Okay.
That's step two.
It's only going to be paid for by the rich.
It doesn't never affect you.
You just get the free stuff.
All right.
Here's the problem.
Millionaires, unlike most people, are very mobile.
They don't like something.
They move.
They can move.
When taxes spike, they move.
Why?
Well, we saw France.
They put a wealth tax on.
Even French this.
The French put on a wealth tax for billionaires and uber millionaires.
People started moving out of the country and they're like, okay, that was a bad idea.
And they reversed it.
Okay.
When they leave, what happens?
The tax base collapses.
We're only going to, this will only affect the top 10% of wage earners.
And you're so far away from that, you don't have to worry about the top 10%.
You're not in the top 10%.
Unless the top 10% decide to leave, then guess who's in the top 10%?
The one that was the 80 to 90%.
And if they leave, guess who's in the top 10%?
As jobs start to go away, as people get poorer because of socialism, you find yourself in the top 10%.
Somebody's got to pay for it.
And then the third step that happens every time with socialism, you can count on these three steps.
The system becomes unsustainable.
It starts to break.
And then the government says, we've got to fix this.
They don't say, let's get out of it.
They say, we're going to fix this.
And here's why it breaks.
Because the government, Marxism, socialists, they don't respond to signals.
The market signals.
They don't respond to that.
They respond to political incentives.
So who cares if it's 36,000 over 23?
We're not talking about math.
We're talking about rights.
And you're not going to have to worry about it.
The rich are going to pay for it.
And when it doesn't work, they know all they have to do is just find a way to convince you that somebody else is screwing you and you'll continue to vote for them.
That's a lot easier than fixing things.
So the costs rise, bureaucracy grows, fraud appears, and suddenly the system costs far more than the private system it replaced because we know this one will because it started there.
And that's what we're seeing.
So why does this happen?
Well, it's happening now because people are feeling like capitalism has failed.
And the reason why they feel that way is because we haven't done capitalism for a long time.
We are in crony capitalism.
The capitalism in America today is barely capitalism.
It's absolutely corrupt because it's in bed with the government.
You know, the military-industrial complex, everybody talks about that.
Everybody talks about the military, and everybody accepts that, okay?
That big business is in bed with the federal government.
Well, why don't you make that connection with healthcare?
That big health care and big insurance is in bed with the federal government.
And every time the federal government says they're going to fix something, it's not fixing the big corporations.
It's fixing you and helping the big corporations, right?
Have you noticed that?
Every time they say, we're going to, you know what, Obamacare is going to lower your cost by $2,000 per family and it's gone up by what, $3,000 per family?
You didn't say anything.
And they're still telling you, well, that's because we got to fix it.
And who are they in bed with?
Donald Trump is the first guy who says, you know what, insurance companies, right or wrong.
He's the first guy who says, we're not doing that anymore.
But this market, even like this, it's still operating in two realities that Marxism ignores.
Incentives and scarcity.
When people spend their own money, they look for value.
When you have, you know, you get a big check back from the IRS, that's your money.
But because they've held it for so long, it feels free to you.
It doesn't feel like your money.
It feels like you won the lottery.
And so what do you do?
How do you spend it?
Very few people take it and go, you know what?
I'm going to save this.
I'm going to pay down debt.
Most people will take it and go, we're going on vacation.
And when somebody has given you money, this is why people who win the lottery, they always go broke because they didn't earn it.
And so they just blow the money.
When it's your money, you don't blow it.
When politicians spend your money, it's not their money.
All they're doing is they're trying to build up a way that they can always get voted back in.
And that's the entire difference.
The value they're looking for is how am I going to keep my power.
So you have that strategy going on.
And then also in New York, you also have the strategy of Cloward and Piven.
This is the darker possibility on why these things are happening and why they're appealing.
In the 1960s, two professors at the City University of New York, Cloward and Piven, husband and wife, proposed something really, really radical.
Overwhelm the government system.
Get everybody that can possibly be on welfare or on the system, get them in, sign them up, and flood the system with demand.
It will cause the system to go bankrupt.
And you know what?
They used it in the 1970s.
And what did it do to New York?
New York went bankrupt.
It worked.
Then in the 1980s, did they go away?
No.
No, they continued.
In the 1990s, did they go away?
Well, Cloward was dead, but Frances Fox Piven wasn't, and she was good friends with the Clintons.
Guess what she had to do, what her job was with Clinton in the Clinton administration?
Do you even know?
She's the one.
She's the pivot in Cloward and Piven collapse the system, get everybody into the system, collapse it financially.
So then we're going to build another system that it will collapse into, and it'll be a Marxist system.
Do you know what her job with Clinton was to design the system?
The motor voter law.
Now, wait a minute.
Hang on just a second.
I thought she was all about finances.
No, she's all about Marxism and collapsing a system into a new Marxist system.
So they came up with a way to collapse it, and that's get everybody on board.
But you also need to get everybody to be able to vote the way you want them to vote.
So let's get every possible person we can to say, yeah, they're registered to vote.
All you have to do is just sign up for your license.
And now all of a sudden, you can vote.
See how these two are now attached to each other?
This has been a very long time coming.
And anybody who says and tells you that, I can show you the evidence.
I can show you in their own words what they're saying they're going to do and have now done.
But if you bring it up, that's a conspiracy.
Well, yes, it is a conspiracy.
It's just not a conspiracy theory.
It's a conspiracy fact.
So they use this crisis and they use the lax voting laws to replace capitalism and our rule of law with something entirely new.
So that's what's happening in a couple of places.
Okay.
New York, Minnesota, California.
And I'm not sure.
Is it ideological blindness?
The first reason this is happening is because, you know, they actually believe in this because they are Marxist and they're just that stupid.
They just don't look at human nature that they just do that.
Or is it because they know exactly what they're doing that Marxism never works, you know, and so you're going to have to collapse it and they win.
But the result is the same.
Programs expand, costs explode, the system collapses.
And then the politicians demand more power to fix the crisis that they created.
You know, if you look at Venezuela, people think, you know, collapse happens overnight.
It doesn't.
And that's why they can get away with a lot of this.
Venezuela looked in the late 1990s exactly like America.
It was doing well.
It was the second richest nation in the hemisphere next to us.
They had all this oil.
It was great.
Then they decided, you know what?
We're greedy.
We're horrible.
You know, we have debts we have to pay.
We have to help people out.
We have to help people out that aren't working because we're just too greedy.
All of this stuff that everything's been saying to us.
And so they go into free housing and free health care and free food programs.
And they start slowly.
First, they just have to dismantle capitalism and take over the natural gas and the oil industry, which then starts to collapse their economy, which means more people have to have health care and more people have to have free housing.
And so they say, don't worry about it.
We're only going to tax the rich.
And everybody is cheering.
And then the wealthy left and businesses started to fall apart.
Businesses closed.
Production collapsed.
And suddenly the middle class became the rich.
And then they were paying the bill.
And then they were no longer rich.
And so then all of a sudden you have the poor people and you don't have a way to pay for any of these programs.
So let me give you one way to convince your friends.
Okay.
Nothing is free.
Nothing is free.
You will either pay now through prices or later through taxes and collapse.
Capitalism, when it's done openly, it makes the cost visible.
Socialism hides the cost until it explodes.
That's why it's so dangerous, okay?
Whenever you hear the word free, this is what I want you to think of.
Every time you hear the word free, wake up, ask, there is no such thing as free.
Who is actually paying?
If it's the rich, you know exactly what this pattern is.
If the answer is vague, you know the truth.
The worst part of this is people actually do need help with child care.
Families are drowning.
But instead of fixing the cost drivers, regulation, liability, licensing, insurance, politicians build a new, on top of all that, government system that costs even more.