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Aug. 19, 2024 - Louder with Crowder
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Is Kamala Harris an Alcoholic Communist? | GUEST: Paulo Figueiredo
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That's what happens when you have a birthday party for three-year-olds.
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We are all getting sick.
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A little overkill with that.
The bouncy water slide.
That was a 70-foot slide.
Yeah, it was a 70-foot slide.
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All right, we all had a good time.
But hey, A lot to get to today.
Kamala Harris is a drunk.
Now, I'm not going to say that she's an alcoholic, because that is a medical condition.
It's different.
Apparently.
And it's the only medical condition that makes you feel really good sometimes.
But she is absolutely a drunk.
And I know people are talking about it, but we have catalog.
We've gone back through the catalog and made sure that there's no fake news included, because some things have been doctored out there.
And we also have, of course, her economic policy.
She released We were talking about price fixing last week, and now she's going to do the price fixing.
So that's going to be in there.
And we also have, of course, we have Mr. Figueredo on here today.
Paulo Figueredo, because Elon Musk is now banning, not banning, he's just not going to be practicing in Brazil.
He's closing down his offices because of a Supreme Court justice there.
We've talked about it quite a bit in the show.
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It's one of the few shows where, you know, We do it live, without Annette, as I'm sure you can tell by me talking about a bouncy slide.
It was just on our mind because we're all talking about it.
It was like, it ends up being more a party for the parents.
Question, if you could name a cocktail after Kamala Harris, what would you name it?
What would be in it?
That's a good question.
We have a few of our own.
Number two, Captain Morgan, CEO, how are you?
I'm doing well.
I'm trying not to say things that would get me in trouble.
The cocktail names!
They just make themselves, okay?
Yes, they do.
I'm not going to say any of them.
How are you?
I'm good.
Yeah?
A little sick?
Throat's okay?
It's okay.
You know.
Which one did you go with?
Did you go with the full throttle?
No, I went with the one with the Swedish guy with the bugle.
Ah.
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You love him.
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How are you, sir?
I'm good.
I'm good.
I want to answer the question.
I would call it a Kamalapalitan and it would have Valium in it.
I would call.
Just a glass of pills.
I mean it has booze in it also and a little cherry.
You can also have a Kamala on the beach or a sex in the mayor's office.
Either way.
Sex in the bay they used to call it.
Sex in the DA.
Well sex in the hospice probably now.
You could call it side piece.
Isn't there a fuzzy nipple drink?
I would say it'd be a hairy nipple.
Side piece.
Hairy nipple?
Hey!
It's a classic drink of... Don't talk about my mom like that.
Cognac, triple sec, Cointreau.
But a lot of people don't know the side car.
Are you aware of the five classic cocktails?
Oh my god.
Comment below.
There are five classic cocktails that are the basis for all cocktails.
If you don't know, you're not a man.
One of them is the tour bus.
One of them is Air Force Two.
Are you giving out the answers?
Oh, sorry.
Before we get to any of that, here's something that, you know, every now and then, look, the Paul brothers do something kind of right.
So, the upcoming fight with Mike Tyson, which I'm sure will take place, Jake Paul actually had some comments for New York, and this is what happens after you meet President Trump once.
He's playing the new Spider-Man.
That's fun.
He got a red pill.
Just like Mike Tyson, you were good 20 years ago.
You New Yorker, f*** you.
He's playing the new Spider-Man.
Democratic city.
It's fun.
He got a red bill.
Fact check true.
He's making boxing like the new WWE.
He is.
I don't know.
He is.
People who are under the age of like 24, is that actually how you dress?
Because I've never been trendy no matter what.
You can see me when I was like 15, 18, 20, 30.
I've pretty much always just tried to wear things that fit, and I get that there's in style.
But is it like the bad NSYNC days?
Is that the new style?
Because that's what I see them doing, and you know what?
Maybe I just don't get it.
The Two-Face suit?
He's like the black and white cookie if it was made of newspaper.
Ebony and Ivory.
Yes.
I don't know what that style is.
I'm not cool, dude.
No, I don't know what it is.
I just wear jeans and t-shirts, you know?
I'm old school.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think he does too, except, you know, he just ruins them.
So!
It's been 28 days.
Since Kamala Harris has been the nominee and she still has given zero formal interviews, zero official press conferences, but credit where it's due, she finally went off script and answered a question.
It didn't go great.
Didn't they make a movie about this?
Yeah, that makes sense.
Oh!
Which brings us to... Scary times!
Which brings us to, and this will set up, of course, the segment we have on Is She a Drunk?
The answer is yes, but we'll prove why today in Kamala.
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?
Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy.
I'm buying pickles and barbecue sauce.
As a democracy.
Ah, Dougie, there they are.
Thank you.
You want this?
There you go.
You want corn nuts over there?
We know there's a duality to the nature of democracy.
Do you wear your ears on?
I do, and this is my go-to, the original nacho cheese.
Incredibly strong and incredibly fragile.
Knowing that you will be undefeated even if you don't win every game, but no circumstance or event or moment will defeat your spirit.
That was her voice?
Well, haven't had it today.
One day at a time.
One day at a time.
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?
So the thing that stands out to me from all those clips is that no one around her seems even remotely content.
I just... Yes.
The people in the background are all just like... Which makes sense when you understand how abusive alcoholics can be.
So another... Drunks.
Drunks.
Not alcoholics.
...clip has resurfaced, I guess, where Kamala is talking to a crowd in Madison, Wisconsin.
There's been some speculation.
And by speculation, I mean you have eyes and ears.
I wanted to come by to thank you.
She's drunk.
Thank you.
Because when we think about the strength of our democracy, you know, I think that there's a duality to the nature of democracy.
She had to gain her center of gravity.
When it's intact, oh, it's so strong.
She's saying lines from her scripted speech.
In terms of what it does to uphold and protect individual rights and freedoms.
It's so strong in its nature.
I feel like having a beer right now.
Very fragile.
It will only be as strong as our willingness to fight for it.
Will it only be as strong as our willingness?
It's very strong.
Our willingness to fight.
Bring it in for a hug.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Let's be honest, it was basically an instructional.
This has led the internet to do some digging and then we had to verify.
Okay, what out there, what that exists in the internet here is true because there's some clips out there that are slowed down, there are some that are edited, I think some have used some AI, so what I can tell you is you can check all the references at lotterworthcreditor.com, link in the description.
What you are about to see, these are accurate clips from the original sources.
Oh no.
And I will be careful with my wording and refer to them as drunk adjacent.
Everything is in context.
My mother used to, she would give us a hard time sometimes and she would say to us, I don't know what's wrong with you young people.
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
Our extraordinary President Joe Biden!
And he's going to speak in a minute, but there's a lot of love and history for our president.
Worst toast ever.
Is it getting a fresh choking?
Yeah, it's being delivered tomorrow.
One minute out, I have one minute.
Kosher salt, fresh ground pepper, maybe top up a little thyme.
And just, and then you can mix it even a little.
Okay, so do the salt and pepper all over it.
Like, just like lather that baby up.
I call myself a joyful warrior.
Right?
No.
You could also chop up, but not with the thyme, just the salt and pepper.
No thyme.
Mix that up also with some thyme.
You could even do a little rosemary if you want.
Under the skin with some butter before you're gonna cook it.
Never let anyone take your joy from you.
That's her favorite short name.
You do what you gotta do.
And as a woman, there's a balance to be struck between being tough and being a bitch.
Bitch!
Yes, America, you're about to be ruled potentially by Pinterest Mom.
Here, baby, have some, go to sleep.
**laughter** President Kamala Harris, or as they know her at the bar, Handy Harris, because let's be... That's a long line of guys.
Do you think it was like, maybe like Hennessy, or do you think it's like an India Pale Ale?
Well... I just want to know.
She's drunker than I was in my mug shot.
Have you seen that?
And Nick Nolte.
Kalua Kamala is, that's what they're, I can imagine, Kalua Kamala, that's what they're calling her, Kalua Kamala.
At VP Irish Car Bomb.
I hear she's creamy but smooth going down.
She looks almost as drunk as her husband when he has to light her Kwanzaa candles.
That's the three symbols of African unity, even though no one in Africa celebrates it.
Or India, don't know what she is.
She looks like she's playing rock, paper, stroke, is what she looks like.
Well, stroke always wins.
And her family's there!
Now, I'm not saying that Donald Trump should focus on this.
He absolutely should not.
But we can spend time on this because it's funny, and personal opinion, I absolutely think that she was soused.
I just want to be very, very clear.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Actually, they interviewed her.
She answered her first question this morning.
They said, what have you been doing the last three years?
She said, give me a break, I was drunk.
I can't remember.
She's the only person who's going to have to blow into a device so Air Force One can lift off.
Everybody should troll our campaign and just mail her those little BAC things, the portable breathalyzers that you can take.
Get me past this!
Come on, do it!
Right now, Kamala!
Look, here's the thing, and you guys, if you guys want to send, you know, tips to us, lwctipsatprotonmail.com, if you work in the hotels, show us how many of the miniature bottles are missing from the minibar.
Just show us a picture.
Gotta be able to prove it.
So look, we can't say, and I question you genuinely, do you think she's a drunkard?
Yes.
Um, I can't say, but we can tell you... I think she just likes brunch.
Yes, she just likes brunch, her and Brian Stelzner.
Every meal is brunch.
During her time in the Senate, she was a part of the Wine Caucus.
That's fine, but... She picks up her wine owners using a pseudonym.
She does seem to host a lot of late night ragers with lady senators.
She drinks her wine with ice, which is probably the most offensive portion of it all.
She also had a line of whiskey inspired by her.
Also, she finds herself tremendously inspired by whiskey.
Is it Mad Dog 2024?
And they are making a movie about her life, which you seem, it seems like this may be foreshadowing starring Denzel Washington called Vices.
I was drunk.
I'm drunk now.
I'm drunk.
Thank you.
I'm drunk right now.
laughter laughter
They went with a more serious, less laughing version.
laughter I'm drunk right now, okay?
How else are you supposed to go down on Willie Brown, right?
You tell me, huh?
Them saggy-ass balls.
Saggy-ass ball.
I wish he took less time.
Alright.
Open up cases on all of you!
Dean Martin ain't got nothing on me!
She's a drunk.
She's a drunk.
It's fun.
It's fun to have a laugh.
We'll get to her economic policy, which is terrifying, and you know she didn't write it because it wasn't riddled with typos and every other paragraph saying that she really loves you.
Here's another fest!
We should hang out more, man.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what she says to everybody who never responds.
So, Wisconsin's Minoka Brewing Company, they also have a 9.7% ABV beer named La.
It's named after Harris.
Now, that's just kind of funny.
It doesn't mean she has anything to do with this brewery, but the brewery also has an Antifa Oktoberfest, the Labor Lager, and Maga Tears.
So, anyone out there, if you happen to be in that area of Wisconsin, Uh, don't go there.
Never drink that beer.
Ever.
Don't spend any money on it.
Also, she did, you know, Birds of a Feather?
You've heard that?
You know how it ends?
Birds of a Feather... Flocking.
When they get drunk.
Stick together.
So, yeah, because they eat the fermented berries.
She did pick a running mate who has a DUI on his record.
It's true.
And he does look like perpetually drunk Faces of Death Gerald Ford.
My point is... Looks pretty cool to me.
I just...
It's like a cool guy you go out with.
He's like, I'll take the hit, dude, don't worry about it.
She seems drunk, but the policies that she's proposed, even from pro-Barack Obama economists, their response has basically been, with the rollout of her economic policy or the proposals, their response has been like, yeah, she's drunk.
Yeah, so what, dude?
You're not drunk?
What do you mean, Josh?
You just go home and feel?
Let's go through some of the economic policies from Kamala Harris.
The worst one is it includes outright price controls.
Okay?
Yeah.
So, again, all the references are available at LatticeCredit.com.
This is according to the Washington Post, the first ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries, setting clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can't unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.
So what that means is if goods or services or the raw materials or the energy costs go up, the government, run by drunk Kamala Harris, will come in and say, no, this is what you charge.
Yes.
That doesn't make any sense.
Well, it makes complete sense.
And this is just, it's all so tiresome.
This has happened before in many other countries.
They've even attempted it softly here in the United States.
It always leads to hyperinflation and it leads to shortages.
The idea that you can step in, let's just think about this for a second.
We talked about it last week where she said, the price fixing from corporations.
Corporations don't price fix.
It doesn't make sense.
They're competitive with each other.
All the corporations, and now maybe if you have just a duopoly or a tripopoly, and that's why we have antitrust laws, if they collude together, for example, like American auto manufacturers, especially when they receive never-ending bailout subsidies.
You see that, for example, with airlines.
There may be some of that because they effectively are.
wings of the government, but in individual grocers, different franchises, or individual
restaurants, guess what? They have to be competitive. They need to court your business.
And so, if a couple companies would price fix, another company would come in and say,
hey, we can clean up. Yeah, exactly. And at that point, wouldn't, you know, farmers and
ranchers, wouldn't they price fix together too for their prices to the stores?
Well, the price-fixing does happen with ranchers and farmers.
It would go all the way up.
From the government, for example.
This is a good example for the government in Michigan.
Cherries.
Do you know this?
This is what they do with cherries.
In order to keep the prices of cherries artificially high, if they have a year with record yield, they make them dump the cherries.
If they have a year where there aren't enough cherries, they subsidize them.
So the farmers get paid either way.
Because the government says we can't have a year where there are so many cherries that the price goes down, and the next year the prices go up.
So we're going to fix them.
They don't even let farmers keep them to make their own pies in Michigan.
No.
It's well known.
The government is the one in charge of price fixing.
So to solve the fake problem of corporations price fixing, which makes no sense, she says the government is going to step in and price fix.
I don't know if you know this, it's been tried.
Yes.
Tried it.
Of course Venezuela, any fascist communist dictatorship has tried it.
The results?
Food shortages.
Oh, I thought it was going to be good.
No consumer basic products like phones, cars, Lois jeans, not even Wranglers.
No central heating, cooling, sewage.
They end up with black markets.
Of course, they end up with hyperinflation.
And you know this, it's also the exact same policies that led to the infamous breadlines in Nicaragua.
But it shouldn't be surprising that the Democratic Party is still supporting those policies today.
It's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food.
That's a good thing.
Oh, OK.
Oh, that is, huh?
This is the one area.
So grocery stores, there is so much competition for food right now.
Their margins run at around 2%.
That is dramatically lower than even the second worst industry.
And it's because of competition.
And they're saying, oh, they're price gouging.
Are you serious?
This is the free market working wonderfully.
You have to have scale.
They're like, we need more mom and pop grocery.
You can't!
Because it's so little margin, because these big guys are competing like crazy with each other, it works really well, and people are going after them for milk?
Well, the price fixing will favor, again, the giant grocers, just like we saw during COVID.
Remember during COVID?
They could survive it!
Yeah, exactly.
During COVID, the franchises didn't all shut down.
Mom-and-pop businesses shut down.
If you were in Michigan, under, you know, wicked governor of the West, the Midwest, Gretchen Whitmer, you could go to Costco, you could go to Walmart, You couldn't go to a local grocer.
You couldn't go to a farmer's market.
You could go to the weed store, but you couldn't go to a nursery to get the plant seeds that you need.
And so what happened is you had an unbelievable number of local businesses that shut down.
You saw the same thing in Minnesota, by the way.
Yeah.
You saw, I believe it was 1,500, we cited this last week, 1,500 at least confirmed businesses that went under that will never come back as a result of the lockdown policies.
When you end up implementing regulations into an industry, That are in no way beholden to the free market.
Larger corporations can survive it.
They have more padding.
And even worse, larger corporations that are too big to fail don't care at all.
They don't have to provide you with anything of value because they'll end up with a never-ending supply of taxpayer dollars.
For proof, see how shitty American auto manufacturing has become outside of Tesla.
Let's think of the most heavily subsidized and regulated markets.
You guys thrilled with airlines?
You guys thrilled with dealing with auto manufacturers or car dealerships?
What about health insurance?
Are these the industries that you say customer service is performed with a plum?
Or you go, oh man, these are the worst phone calls you have to make.
If you have to call someone on customer service.
Well, they don't care.
These are people who are subsidized by the government.
It's very different from a local business.
Here's another part of her.
Really quickly, I think I have to fact check you.
Research, let me know.
You said 1,500 businesses.
I think that was the Summer of Love in Minnesota.
Just the Summer of Love, sorry, in Minnesota.
Over 10,000 businesses because of the COVID lockdowns closed down in Minnesota.
Okay.
Admonish me.
Admonish me.
It's way worse.
I apologize.
I was going by road and I was playing it conservatively.
It's 10 times worse than I told you.
And it still sounded bad!
So here's another policy here that she is proposing, but the left is saying, oh, this is the same thing as people on the right.
It's not.
And I'll explain to you the difference, comparing Kamala Harris versus JD Vance.
She wants to provide this $6,000 tax credit to families for each newborn baby.
It's, I get it, the one, hey, baby steps, it's the one instance where the Democrat Party He actually sees a newborn baby and thinks anything other than how to kill it.
Well, that's fair, but it has to be born to get to 6K.
You can't just get close.
Yes, exactly.
That sounds terrible.
Yeah.
So they're trying to compare this to JD Vance.
Some people are even saying it's a ripoff, but it's not even close.
So JD Vance has proposed a $5,000 child tax credit.
All right.
There's a big difference between the two.
Here are two CNBC headlines discussing Kamala versus Vance's policies.
Okay, August 12th.
Vance wants to raise the child tax credit to $5,000.
Here's why that could be difficult.
August 16th.
Harris calls for the expanded child tax credit of up to $6,000 for families with newborns.
Four days apart!
Four days apart.
This is going to be difficult.
That's a criticism, obviously.
They'll try and say that they're objective.
And the other one is just, hey, we're just giving you the facts.
By the way, I don't know if you remember this.
She also proposed no taxes on tips.
Which was kind of a landmark policy from Donald Trump, and she was a tiebreaker on the bill that of course increased IRS surveillance and taxations on tips.
So she is stealing from their playbook, but then she gets it wrong.
And the way she gets it wrong is there are none of the income, or effectively the productivity requirements for child tax credits.
So I don't know if you know this, Um, but this is how you end up creating the kind of problem that you've seen, uh, with black American families.
After we saw this with Lyndon Johnson, and we saw this with Model Cities, and we saw this, you know, with the Great Societies program, where you have women—you've heard the term baby mamas, and people will say it's racist, but it's a term that's used because you have women who, if they are not married, they don't have the father in the household.
They get more credits, more income.
You have some people who effectively end up having more children because it allows them to not work.
So now if you add on top of that just a child tax credit, which we're not talking about EBT or actual welfare benefits, but a child tax credit with no income, no work requirements, you are now encouraging effectively On productivity.
And you're going to compound the problem of fatherless households.
It needs to come with some prerequisites.
I don't know if you know this, but I don't necessarily believe that if you subsidize something, you get more of it.
Because we don't really see that with solar.
We don't really see that with wind or renewable resources.
But we certainly do see taxation and relief from taxation as a behavioral modification.
And in this instance, why would you want to reward people not working?
It'd be like rewarding people for smoking and drinking, which Kamala Harris likely does as well.
It doesn't make sense to give a tax credit for someone who doesn't pay taxes.
Right.
I mean, it's just in the name, you know.
Right.
This also brings us, so we see, okay, price fixing.
Let's go through all this.
Price fixing.
Hey, companies, this is what you're going to charge.
All right?
What do we think happens there?
Hyperinflation, shortage of goods and services.
Okay?
Just a tax credit.
Who's going to pay for it?
Take a guess.
Me.
You, of course.
Then we have the housing assistance.
One of the worst.
And we've been here before.
I don't know if you guys know this.
I know a lot of you who watch, our median viewer here is 30 or under in many instances.
So if you're watching right now, are you aware of what happened with the housing crisis in 2008?
And are you aware what led to it?
So she wants to provide $25,000.
As basically down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers.
So where will she get the money?
Already first-time homebuyers!
You!
You!
You saved, scraped, and paid for a house, and now through your tax dollars you get to pay for someone else to get a $25,000 down payment from Uncle Sam.
I don't know if you know this, there's already a shortage of 4.5 million homes in this country.
She wants to increase, effectively, demand at a time where there is arguably record low supply or certainly historically low supply.
This would mean what?
What?
What?
Again, more inflation.
If you were to design a policy just to create more inflation, which we've done for the last three years, we've seen similar policies, this would be a brilliant way to go about it.
Yeah it would actually drive like we said we will drive the prices up now whether it drives it up you know by $25,000 as some people have said per house no that's probably not going to happen but it will drive the prices up it's not addressing the thing that is keeping people from buying homes right now which is mortgage interest rates it's massive we did a segment on this and how much you would have to pay every single month yeah Huge amounts of money going out because the interest rate went from around 3 or 4 percent to 7 percent.
I don't know what it is today.
Even worse than that is Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, buying up single family homes.
To rent them out.
Yes, exactly.
They want to create a class of renters.
I don't know if you know this, but Elizabeth Warren has said they are too big to fail.
So there's a reason that home prices have gone up, and then you have the exacerbation by the interest rates going up.
Yeah, and she's not doing anything to take that challenge on.
Just give people more money.
Yeah, that worked great with college tuition.
Just give people free money to go to college, because now universities are charging $300,000, $400,000 a year.
And I'm not talking like Harvard.
Right.
I'm talking other universities.
That's in, sorry, for a four year, not one year.
Well, the good news is... University of Phoenix, even.
Yes.
Hey.
I'm a phoenix.
You gotta pay for that online.
Nothing wrong with that.
And she was asked, I rise from the digital ashes.
Hey, burn you flaming man.
Yes.
What?
It's a phoenix, it's a burning animal.
Oh, shut up.
It's a mythical creature.
They're a mascot of the Disco Inferno guy.
Alright.
I've seen Harry Potter, I know.
She was asked, though, about how she would pay for all of these things.
Okay, we're talking about child tax credit without the same requirements.
We're talking about housing assistance.
Okay, we're talking about just basically fixing prices, which means eventually you have to subsidize them.
Hey, Kamala, how are you going to pay for all this?
Well, I don't know if you are aware, the answer went poorly.
economic policies, plus greed.
Can you explain how you're going to pay for those, and can you give us a sense of what other policies
you want to unveil going forward?
Sure, well, I mean, you just look at it in terms of what we are talking about, for example, around children,
and the child tax credit, and extending the EITC.
That is at $6,000 for the first year of a child's life.
The return on that investment, in terms of what that will do and what it will pay for, will be tremendous.
We've seen it when we did it, the first year of our administration, we reduced child poverty by over 50%.
So that's a lot of the work.
And then what we're doing in terms of the tax credits, we know that there's a great return on that investment.
And when we increase homeownership in America, So, okay, she just keeps saying, return on investment, return on investment.
We get it.
We've watched Shark Tank 2.
It's like she's trying to prove she knows what it means.
I know what ROI is.
I read E-Trade paragraph once.
to not critically evaluate how you measure the return on investment.
So, okay, she just keeps saying return on investment, return on investment. We get it.
We've watched Shark Tank 2.
It's like she's trying to prove she knows what it means.
Yeah, exactly.
I know what ROI is.
ROI.
It's a red E-Trade paragraph once.
Hey, it's an acronym. Like, like YOLO.
So, that's it.
That's not like that at all.
I think it is.
This is all predicated, and this is the mistake that has constantly been made.
It's predicated on the idea of, you're going to increase the tax base, property taxes, that people will make those payments, that people will be able to afford it.
If you are giving someone $25,000 as a down payment on a house, What are the prerequisites there that prove this person guaranteed will be able to make those payments?
Here's the thing.
We know historically, they don't.
The 2008 financial crisis.
I don't know if you remember this.
People were subsidized to buy homes they couldn't afford.
Under the names of effectively what is originally kind of DEI, right?
ESG.
It was, hey, we need to make sure that people, people who can't afford homes, people who haven't saved for a down payment, banks, you can't discriminate.
You have to lend out to these people.
And then they blame the banks when they insured this, right?
The government said, and by the way, if these people default, we are the ones who will deem you too big to fail and we'll foot the bill.
None of this happens if the government doesn't step in and say, we will foot the bill through the taxpayer dime.
Banks wouldn't take that risk.
Yeah.
Everyone defaulted.
It created a term that then the left again corrects.
It's the exact same thing that you see with the price fixing.
So, let me just simplify this for you.
You'll say this is reductive, but it's by design, okay?
Because I don't have enough time to get into all of it.
But you have Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, right?
Yes, Dodd-Frank.
Okay, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.
You have these bills, effectively, that are designed to re-engineer society and to tell financial institutions, hey, a certain portion of the population are not getting homes.
And the banks say, well, yeah, because they can't afford them and we wouldn't lend these people money because they won't pay them back.
The government says, you have to give those people homes.
You have to lend them out.
And the bank said, well, how are we going to do that?
And the government basically said, you're going to do it effectively with no money down
and like 2%.
And the bank said, you're bullshitting.
They said, if you don't do it, it's racist and or whatever else is today and that will punish you.
But if you do it, don't worry, we'll foot the bill if they should happen to default.
That's exactly what happened.
And people ended up defaulting.
Like crazy.
And then they invented the term to deal with it, to blame the banks, predatory lending.
As though banks were going around, lenders were going, today I hope I find a sucker who I can give free money to who can't pay it back!
Nope.
It fails to operate without the guarantee of the government, without prerequisites.
This is what we've done, and you've seen it in the past.
You want to talk about the swamp?
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush said pretty much the exact same thing, which led to the 2008 crisis.
We're attracting more capital into affordable housing and community development by strengthening the Community Reinvestment Act, expanding the network of community development financial institutions, making permanent mortgage revenue bonds and the low-income housing tax credit, and gaining greater commitments from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Less than half of all African Americans and Hispanic Americans are homeowners.
When a low-income family is qualified to buy a home, but comes up short on the down payment, the American Dream Down Payment Fund will help provide the needed funds.
It's a bad idea no matter who says it, and here's a little bit of cold water for you.
Down payments are kind of a barrier to entry for a reason.
When you go to apply for a loan, you have to show that that money has been in your account.
You can't have somebody give you money for a down payment and it just magically show up in the bank and go, that sounds good enough for me.
They want to see a pattern of behavior that indicates that you will pay back the loan, that you understand that this is going to cost you to do.
And giving people money To go into a house doesn't do that.
It's a barrier to entry for a reason.
I want everybody to have a home.
I would love that.
But it's just not possible for so many people.
We saw it in 2008.
And what is worse?
To put all of your life savings into it, to get a loan, to go into a home, and then to lose it two, three years later when you can't make the payments.
That's worse than saying, hey, I got to rent for a little while longer and tighten the belt a little bit.
But I wanted to sum all of this up with one of your favorite songs.
This is Kamala Harris's kind of thing.
What?
Kamala Claus.
Oh, God.
Stop it.
It's your favorite Christmas song.
Stop it.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, please do.
I would like that.
He knows that I hate Bruce Springsteen.
I do.
But he didn't realize that I would also hate him.
Well, good for you.
You interrupted him.
But he's still doing it.
He's still doing it.
We're trying to talk over him.
Bruce Springsteen is a mumbling bag of talentless shit.
Everyone knows that.
I don't like him.
My very first time doing this show on radio was a three-hour show Friday mornings syndicated 6 to 9 a.m.
I did an entire segment on why Bruce Springsteen was the worst person on earth and they wiped the internet of those old clips where you can find him when he was young talking like this, he was talking like this, and then he's talking like he's the boss.
Really?
You're 5'6", you've never done anything tough in your life, and I could hurt you.
It's gonna be stuck in your head, you know.
No, it's not.
It will.
It's absolutely not going to be stuck in my head.
Cut his mic, Billy.
Also, the other thing... Play that ROI clip again.
There's one thing there that I also want to point out.
You just look at it in terms of what we are talking about, for example, around children
and the child tax credit and extending the EITC.
That is at $6,000.
Let me ask you this.
Do any of you believe that?
Yeah, the claim.
Do you think that anyone believes that?
That Joe Biden reduced child poverty by 50%?
Think of these claims that they make.
So, she wants you to believe that in the United States, Child poverty was 50% higher under the Trump administration than Joe Biden.
That's an insane number.
They said it in first year, over 50% reduction, when they did what?
She's talking about the tax credit, the earned income tax credit for the child, right?
You didn't change it much.
If you reduce child poverty by changing things by $1,000, we've been doing this wrong for a long time.
Also, Trump had doubled that child tax credit.
Yes.
It was like $1,200, I think he made it $2,400.
They make these claims out there where they go, crime is lower than ever.
Is anyone buying that?
I understand that there's politics at play and you have to sort of package yourself.
Anyone buy that child poverty was cut in half?
Because if that was true, I don't know, there would be papers all over the world.
Economists saying, hey, child poverty is a thing of the past.
It no longer exists, effectively.
We've done away with it.
You know, I have noticed a lot less kids selling chiclets on my street.
Yes.
That's Addy.
They're selling there.
Oh, I see.
I've been buying it.
What is it with chiclets?
What is it?
Hey, can you guys, what is it with chiclets?
If you're in, you know, South America or Cuba, whenever I go there, they would always ask for chiclets.
I gave them chiclets.
I mean, but I wanted to tell him, like, we have a lot better candy in America than Chiclets.
Like, I don't know if you know this, but when tourists come to your land, you guys can, you mustn't be afraid to dream a little bit bigger, love.
Like, Chiclets, we can bring cool stuff, and you're still fixated on the Chiclets?
Well, I don't set their expectations too high.
You don't want to tell these kids all about Sour Patch Kids and all that.
I guess, yeah.
Could you imagine a bunch of kids living under Communist Cuba with a few sour straws?
For crying out loud, the cash straws wouldn't stand a chance!
A couple of airheads are done.
Were they warheads?
Warheads and airheads.
Speaking of foreign lands, we are going to have Mr. Figueredo here on the show, which I guess, well, you know, if you're watching, you won't be able to see this on Rumble in Brazil, so that's the value, I guess, of still having YouTube, because some of YouTube is available in Brazil, I think.
It is, surprisingly.
This is something that's pretty scary.
And this is why we talk about big tech, where it's not just about the United States, because other governments apply pressure to these companies.
And then they implement foreign government policies here in the United States.
It's kind of a way of importing socialism digitally.
So I'm glad to see Elon Musk take a stand here.
Rumble has already done this.
Back in November, I think?
Yeah, supportive of them.
Elon Musk announced that X is going to be closing its office in Brazil.
He wrote this, he said, the decision to close the X office in Brazil was difficult, but if we had agreed to Alexandria's This is Morais, his illegal secret censorship and private information handover demands.
There was no way we could explain our actions without being ashamed.
It's kind of a funny way of describing it.
Yes.
I'd be very ashamed.
And this is a Supreme Court justice.
We've been covering this for a long time here on the show.
Alexander Morais said that X's legal representative would be arrested If the site did not remove accounts of specifically 19 influencers and one politician.
Think about that.
A Supreme Court justice.
One politician, I can guess.
One person threatening X. Threatening people with arrest if they don't remove opinions that they don't like.
The entire accounts of opinions they don't like.
You may not know this.
Some people have fled the country over this.
People have been jailed over this.
So when people talk about freedom of speech existing elsewhere in the world, it's not a thing.
And it's certainly not a thing in Brazil.
Remember, Marias, he's the person, he campaigned against the Brazilian right-wingers under the guise of combating digital militias, that's what he said, digital militias, we have to get rid of these digital militias.
So soft.
And he also temporarily banned Telegram.
in I believe 2022 over a pro-Bolsonaro account. Think about this. A politician, a Supreme Court
judge had a private application banned because someone was pro-one candidate. And people think
the only way that they steal elections is by ballot harvesting or by rigging a machine. Do
you see how it happens? It happens across the world all the time. Well, these guys also shut
down an entire news organization because of its kind of truth telling to power that they didn't
And look, here in the United States, we get it.
There's a lot of people who say stuff that we disagree with, that gets us off message, that moves us in places, that we're like, ah, that's fake, okay, fine, we have to deal with that.
But you've got one guy just basically saying, no, this one goes, this one goes, this one goes.
So this is the same kind of thing when you talk about define hate speech, right?
When you put the power in one person's hand.
Let me go back to Kamala real quick.
Define price gouging.
Right.
No, but there is no definition for it.
Just like there's no definition for hate speech or whatever the heck they want to call it here in Brazil.
It's just one person going, I don't like you.
You're gone.
Yep.
It's more of, it's less, I don't like you.
It's more of you're threatening my power.
Yeah.
By the way.
Oh, I forgot to tell you guys, uh, Tuesday, sorry.
We're Monday.
Yes, it is Monday.
I know we've been spending so many, so many, uh, minutes on here talking about drunk and Kamala's life.
I feel drunk.
Oh, Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday and Thursday we are not streaming in the morning because we are live streaming the DNC.
Live fact-checking the DNC.
Both Tim Walz and Kamala Harris.
And we're gonna have special guests.
All of that.
So live drinking game rules to follow and I am going to be very careful with this because we've been too good with our drinking game rules.
We have.
Did we confirm if Adam Kinzinger is speaking still on Thursday night?
I don't know if he is.
It was up there originally.
I don't know if it's controlling.
They seem pretty disorganized, but I'm telling you this, the DNC is going to be lit!
There are already so many protesters who've shown up because they hate Jews.
Oh man, they took over their opening party.
Did you see that?
Yeah, because they hate Jews!
It's just so funny, because Donald Trump, he says things that sometimes are silly, but it's accurate.
Like, he could just go, look at the DNC!
Hates Jews!
And you'd be like, yeah, that's right!
Look at all those people!
They hate the Jews!
Is this for, oh, the protesters.
We have video, obviously, of the protesters storming the stage.
We can come back to that if you want to.
No, let's go to it right now.
Yeah, that's fine.
Oh, y'all can do better than that.
Mike DeMondi!
Wait, what?
I thought it was 40.
Okay, I'm going to tell you, I don't like that.
I don't like that clip.
I don't like that clip.
Why?
Because there was no body slam.
I'm sorry.
There were not enough consequences.
That's a huge stage!
You gotta take advantage of that!
Do not get in a stormy stage like that, especially after we had an attempted assassination.
That woman deserves to know what it feels like to be suplexed by an all-American D1 wrestler.
It will be a lesson that she'll keep with her for the rest of her days, and she will thank you for it.
And if it's a man, I'm sorry, but that's your fault.
You know what I think is hilarious, though, about those protesters and the ones that I've seen outside?
They're wearing masks.
You're doing the one thing to muffle your...
You're doing the one thing to muffle your...
Fun.
Yes. They have a butt mask?
I don't understand.
It's like a dental dam for the... They make those for the other one.
This whole world is so perverse.
I'm just waiting for the flood.
It's not gonna happen by flood.
He said he wouldn't do that again.
Do you have any idea, like, sometimes you ever just think about God, and he's like, ah, if there are only ten decent, if there are ten good men left, like, what does it take for a portion of this globe just to be turned into pillars of salt?
Like, he's looking down, he's like, wait a second, what?
You got these people protesting because they want to wipe Israel off the face of the map, and what, half of these people have monkey pox?
How do they get monkey pox?
Wait, they're doing things with the monkeys again?
Guys, guys, did we unleash monkey pox yet?
What is this?
You know, Michael, I knew the monkeys were a problem.
You were right the whole time.
It's just so tiresome.
So back to Brazil.
In December of 2023, Rumble left Brazil, right over the censorship threats from this Mariah's Supreme Court Justice.
And then in April, the same man ordered Elon Musk to block accounts on X kind of had to pretend that the ban was for terms of service violations, not by the judge's order.
That's what was happening back then.
And it was pretty scary.
We had a couple of notable Brazilian journalists on this show quite a few times here, and that's because we understand that there are parallels here with Brazil, if you're in the United States, that you need to be following.
It's kind of the playbook.
It's playing out in real time over there.
And of course, if you look at the people who are allies with, I don't even want to say liberal, the socialist factions in Brazil, of course, they're the same socialist factions here in the United States.
And these, I believe we have a montage for those who haven't been caught up on these people from Brazil who were very grateful to have given a platform and a voice because they couldn't speak on Rumble and they couldn't speak on Axe in Brazil for a long time as per orders from their government.
I used to have sometimes more viewers than Fox News on primetime in the U.S.
The U.S.
has been, so far in the past few years, a force for evil and censorship in Brazil.
And I think the U.S.
needs to become, again, a force for freedom and democracy.
And one day, I woke with everything blocked, and plus, all my assets in Brazil, all my assets and bank accounts were frozen.
We have been learning that the whole theoretical framework So here to discuss this and more in the recent developments is a noted journalist and I guess you could say outlaw, yeah, and adorable Brazilian Paulo Figueiredo.
Mr. Figueiredo, can you see me, hear me, sir?
Very well, Stephen, how are you?
I am doing okay.
I don't know what to... Where's the best place for people to go before we start talking to support you?
I know you're stateside, but obviously, where should people of Brazil go?
Well, they can go to locals.
I have my own website.
It's my name, which is very hard to type in English, but it's paulofigueridoshow.com, and I'm also on X, and so people can support me several ways.
So, let me ask you this.
Speaking of X, right?
This is kind of a development.
Elon is now shutting down the X office in Brazil.
What has changed, because I know before he was maybe kind of kowtowing a little bit, or was it under the guise of terms of service violations?
Can you let people know what the change is right now as far as Elon Musk and the status of, you know, voices of opposition in Brazil and X?
Well, first of all, I hope you like my mug.
Oh, I do!
Yeah, I hope you do.
Well, things in Brazil are always kind of crazy.
We're a crazy bunch, as you know, first-hand.
But these last two weeks have been totally insane, okay?
I haven't been able to hit the mats, no jiu-jitsu for me.
And I think you guys did a solid summarizing of what went down in Brazil.
But there's a little bit of context.
Because last Tuesday, Glenn Greenwald, yeah, that Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who blew the lid off the U.S.
deep state and the NSA with the Snowden files, the Pulitzer winner and all, very leftist, he dropped a bombshell in Brazil.
So for those who are out of the loop, Glenn lives in Brazil.
He was married to a Brazilian socialist congressman who recently passed, and he got his hands on six gigabytes of cell phone chats, conversations, from the staff of Moraes, Brazil's dictator, Moraes.
And man, those conversations were damning as hell, for sure.
I would also imagine very gay, but yes, go on.
Well, you'll be the judge of that, okay?
For starters, the first report showed that on December 30th, and we're talking about Folha de São Paulo is a leftist mainstream newspaper in Brazil.
They're often compared to the New York Times, okay?
They're the largest, most known newspaper in the country.
So Glenn Greenwald, on this newspaper, He showed on his report that on December 30th, while everyone was partying and getting drunk, Morais, a justice from the Supreme Court, was putting together a dossier against, on me, and me, and another journalist, Rodrigo Constantino, who is also based here in the US.
So, I think that's very hard to wrap your head around, because finding out that a Supreme Court Justice is building a dossier against you, it's mind-blowing.
I mean, the fact that a judge is complying evidence for accusation, it's definitely a violation, a crazy violation of due process.
So when he was not happy with the dossier, his lackeys asked for more of my tweets to be added saying, well, oh, he's got a bee on his bonnet.
So and and when that happens, it's a nightmare.
So he's at staff talking about him putting up a dossier against journalists.
So in another chat, he's asking to censor Brazil's highest right-wing magazine.
And when the people say they only found journalist content on the side, they can't censor that.
Marais, right-hand man orders, get creative.
Right.
But there's way more.
I don't want to get into all the details.
But it is, I mean, this is something people need to know.
Of course, you had an election that many people in Brazil and the United States Questioned and again like I said there are many ways to tilt an election or outright steal an election in silencing voices of opposition silencing stories and removing content that could inform the public and certainly would inform their vote is one of those ways what's odd to me I shouldn't say odd is that even after
You know, the election that they won in Brazil, they're still pushing for it, which means they want to stranglehold forevermore, right?
They want to maintain that grip on power.
Let me ask you this, since ex-employees may not, I guess they may not be like in danger in Brazil anymore, do you think that Elon's going to be reinstating all of these accounts that the Brazilian Supreme Court forced him to ban?
I don't know.
I left out the worst part of the dialogues of Morais because there's one point where his Chief of Staff talks about Alan, Alan DeSantis, who you met.
Yeah, great guy.
You know very well.
Great guy.
Also a journalist, also under asylum here in the U.S.
There's a moment on these conversations that Morais' Chief of Staff literally says, Well, it makes me want to send some thugs to grab this guy by force and shove him on a Brazilian plane.
He's talking about kidnapping.
The Marais Chief of Staff is talking about kidnapping a journalist on U.S.
soil.
Yeah.
And that's on the dialogue.
And DeSantos has, by the way, spent time in prison.
A lot of people don't realize that, too.
Like, this is not just one new example.
So the fact that they're still trying to persecute is... it's got to be terrifying.
Well, I was the one that spent time on prison.
Alan didn't yet, so we hope he doesn't.
Oh, I guess he spent time in exile.
No, he's been here under exile since 2021.
So, here's the kicker.
So, we started to have the mainstream media criticizing Moraes.
Senators of Brazil huddled up and said they were going to push for Moraes' impeachment.
An online petition for his impeachment kicked off on Friday, had already reached As we talked, 800,000 signatures.
There's a protest.
Elon Musk was invited for this protest, this demonstration, on September 7th, which is our Independence Day in Brazil.
Musk was invited by a Brazilian congressman, and the word on the street says it's going to be the biggest in Brazilian history.
We're talking about millions of people.
Okay, this is the context.
And then, That's what happened.
Now, let's talk back, let's talk Axe, as you asked.
Morais hit back, ordering Axe to block new profiles, including my fifth profile, opened last month.
Right.
Yes, fifth profile.
I kept opening new accounts, he kept closing them out.
And he already blocked four of them, and this one had 150,000 followers.
So he went out, like, asking for more profiles to be censored.
Apparently there was a mix-up notifying, serving Axe legal reps in Brazil who had changed recently.
And if you ask me, I think Elon Musk was already phasing out Axe out of Brazil following his promise early this year.
So, Moraes took this as Axe flipping him, the bird, and threatening three things.
One, to freeze the bank accounts of Axe's employee, the legal representative in Brazil, as an individual, not the company, the individual.
Wow.
He also booted the company's execs from their positions, yes.
We have a government judge booting executives out of the company.
And finally, He threatened to throw them in prison for content.
Right.
So Elon Musk finally said enough of this crap and pulled the plug on Axe operations in Brazil.
As for now, the platform is still up and running, but there's a real chance he might block the DNS of Axe and ask for the removal from the App Store and Google Play Store in any second.
VPN downloads in Brazil went through the roof.
Then, yesterday, ProtonVPN, who's a sponsor of my channel and one of the largest in Brazil, they vanished from App Store, from Apple App Store, and no one knows why.
Proton's Twitter account said that it might be due to a secret censorship order from Rice.
So that's where we stand right now.
Is that just, it's disappeared in Brazil or globally?
In Brazil.
Okay, all right.
Can people still, is there a way around it where they can go to the website and download it?
Yeah, well, you can download it through the website, and people that use Androids can also download either through the Google Play Store, or they can, people that use... Well, give it a, give it a big plug.
Let people know while you're, while you're right here.
Yeah, straight people that use, that don't use iPhones.
Hey, hey, hey, I'm not the one who enjoyed prison, buddy.
Well, yeah.
I didn't drop the soap, though.
No, you didn't.
You gave other people soap baskets, like Sherry the Berries.
So, I mean, I get that it's a power move, but still, you didn't have to have that big of a smile on your face.
But what's the website where people can go who are watching right now so they can download this VPN?
I think ProtonVPN.com, they can download the VPN.
But other VPNs are also very good.
Proton is responsible, ExpressVPN is good, NordVPN, other VPNs work.
The only thing that's weird is the fact that we already have an app that's being censored by the Brazilian court, apparently.
So that's where we stand right now.
And it's Look, people have got to realize the magnitude of that.
Brazil has 220 million people, is the fifth largest market of Axe in the world, and Axe operates in 195 countries.
This is like two countries more than the UN has as members.
Right.
So the fact that Brazil is shutting down Axe is huge.
Right.
Yeah, let me ask you this.
What do you think the endgame is?
What actions are being taken in Brazil by the people?
Aside from just what you've just mentioned, are there other steps that can be taken to stop this judge specifically?
Are people becoming aware of Marias the judge specifically?
Because you can come on here and talk about it.
Do the Brazilian people know how corrupt this guy is and how far his power reaches?
Well, the pressure is definitely starting to build up.
Marais, a year ago, he was winning all the awards as like personality of the year.
It's like the cover of the Time Magazine.
He was the savior of the Brazilian democracy.
It's like almost like the The press was treating Morais kind of like the same way that the U.S.
press used to treat Anthony Fauci.
Like, this is the greatest guy on the planet and he's saving our society and all that.
That started to change.
And now we're seeing Congress starting, they're very afraid of Morais, but they're starting to take a few steps.
And then you have this petition.
People expected until September 7, this petition will have 5 million signatures.
And then there's the demonstrations on September 7th.
Bolsonaro will be there.
Musk was invited.
So it's supposed to be big.
So the pressure is building up.
Also, it looks like the U.S.
Congress is going to introduce the Brazilian Democracy and Freedom Act anytime in September.
That's what I've heard.
And that will create, will propose sanctions to Brazilian authorities that violate human rights, such as free speech.
So the pressure is building up, and the only way for the country to survive this is impeaching Marias.
Otherwise, things are not great in Brazil at all, otherwise I wouldn't be here with as many journalists, prohibited from going back to my country.
But, look, can you imagine the moral hazard if we have all these dialogues, chats, becoming public, and nothing happens?
He's going to be more and more empowered.
So we have two ways.
One, we impeach Moraes and we establish a little bit over the rule of law in Brazil, things will get better.
Show accountability for those who violate Well, I really hope not.
Now, we're going to continue here on Mug Club.
I know September 7th is going to be the big protest.
My question to you is, if you're planning with that many people in Brazil, how are you going to make sure they arrive on time?
So we'll continue this on Mug Club.
Toolman with Mr. Figueiredo.
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