Sean Hannity Show - Lock Box Was Raided - February 27th, Hour 1

Feb. 28, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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Lock Box Was Raided - February 27th, Hour 1

Remember when Al Gore was putting your Social Security in a "lock box?" Sean breaks down the latest numbers that reminds Americans that the lock box has been raided...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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	We've got more information to impart to you than I can possibly get in in a three-hour show.
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	Um I'll get to that in just a second.
	Uh, a reminder, I mean, we've been doing all these audience shows on Hannity, the TV show on Fox News, and and so many people want to come that, you know, we've we're trying to meet the demand that is out there.
	Uh, and by the way, we have a great show tonight.
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	Uh, yeah, Rand Paul was right about the Wuhan Virology lab leak.
	You know, last week we found out fake face masks that made little to no difference in preventing the spread of COVID.
	Everything they told us about COVID was wrong.
	So he's on.
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	We have a great time in between breaks, we're throwing around footballs, we're having a good time, we're taking questions, we're making fun of Joe Biden.
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	We have a great I'm I'm glad people like it as much as they have been telling me.
	Um, on this show, one of the things I always tell you is don't trust the government.
	The government lies to you.
	You know, I and we we are now seeing this.
	I feel so sorry, and we had Joe Biden out there this weekend saying that he's he's not going to be going to East Palestine.
	You know, he's not gonna make the effort, he's not gonna make the attempt.
	And he defended his handling of East Palestine when they did absolutely positive nothing to help the people of East Palestine.
	I was, I'll be honest, I was a little bit shocked to see that the of all places, the Washington Post actually reviewed every possible regulatory change as it relates to railways under Donald Trump, and they found not a single one of his changes contributed at all to the Ohio train derailment.
	Not one.
	So the House Oversight Accountability Committee, they're now launching a probe into the transportation secretary and pothole Pete Buddigudge in their response to this train derailment.
	We have far more dead fish and animals than originally thought, over 50,000 fish, apparently, and and we've the loot people were losing chickens.
	Now we have uh chickens and foxes and and other dead animals.
	Now apparently people are reporting health issues themselves.
	And I'm like, at what point do people just realize you cannot trust the government?
	You know, back in the day after 9 11, and I remember covering 9-11, and we were doing Hannoning and Combs at the time, and over our shoulder was ground zero.
	And I mean, we did our show there for a number of days after 9-11, and it was snowing dust and debris all over the place, and we were on, you know, maybe like the 20th or 30th floor of a of a building.
	And it was it was like snow.
	It looked like snow on television.
	And it was dust and it was debris.
	You didn't have to be a genius or a health expert to determine that's that's probably not healthy for people.
	But the EPA at the time, it was Christy Todd Whitman, went out there telling everybody that everything's safe at ground zero.
	Now we know because there's been such a horrible fallout.
	People that spent months and months down there over the years have been suffering unique respiratory illnesses, in part because the government was telling them it's safe.
	You know, this I this is why I don't know why people trust the government the way they do.
	You know, the same government that promised you that, well, with Obamacare, you're going to keep your doctor, you're going to keep your plan, and average family's going to save 2500 bucks a year.
	Well, millions lost their doctors, millions lost their plans.
	The average American is now paying 250% more in spite of promises that we'd pay less.
	And for inferior care, we have over 40% of the country that only has one Obama care exchange option open to them, available to them where they live.
	Uh, so it didn't work out the way that they said that they would.
	You know, Social Security and Medicare, and I I know it's the third rail in politics, and nobody wants to talk about it moving towards insolvency, but that lock lockbox that they said they were putting all your money in, they rated it, they spent it, they squandered it, and both Medicare and Social Security are headed for bankruptcy, and no politician wants to talk about it because it's it's like political suicide.
	But the reality is it's headed for insolvency.
	Nobody wants to talk about it.
	Um then we had last week this report came out, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you know, on, you know, think back to what Dr. Fauci first said about masks on 60 minutes in the early days of COVID.
	He said a mask isn't gonna help.
	He goes, Maybe it'll stop one droplet.
	Then he became the biggest advocate for masks, and then the federal government, everyone was saying that if you if you got the vaccine that you would never get COVID, you wouldn't have to worry about it.
	You wouldn't have to worry about spreading it.
	That turned out not to be true.
	Then it was one shot, then it was a second shot, then it was one booster, two boosters.
	I think they're up to three boosters.
	I have no idea because I'm not getting them.
	I'm never going to listen to these politicians ever again.
	Uh now they're telling the people in East Palestine that everything's going to be okay, and you have some politicians even drinking the water to show off and say, see, I'm drinking it.
	Okay, well, I wouldn't drink that water.
	We need some independent body that's going to go in there, test the water with no agenda at all, and test the air quality and make sure that it's safe for the people of East Palestine to move back to.
	But clearly Buddha judge doesn't care, and clearly Biden doesn't give a rip at all.
	Uh otherwise uh I think he would have made the trip to East Palestine ahead of his trip to Kyiv and Ukraine.
	But, you know, that's not that's wasn't the case.
	Last week we learned that after initial initially claiming that, you know, putting a mask on uh would prevent the spread of of COVID 19.
	Uh remember the CDC changed course in April of 2020, calling on uh every American, even kids as young as two, no two-year-old was going to keep a mask on.
	But anyway, that September, the CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield said that during a Senate hearing, face masks are the most important powerful health tool we have.
	Anyway, like everything else the government does, they end up being wrong.
	A new scientific study led by twelve researchers from esteemed universities around the world suggest that the widespread masking may have done little to nothing to stop the transmission of COVID 19.
	Published by uh Cochreen uh Library, the the review dug into the findings of seventy-eight randomized control trials to determine whether physical interventions, including face masks and hand washing lessened the spread of the re of the virus, and when comparing the use of medical and surgical masks to wearing no mask, the review found that wearing a mask made little to no difference at all in how many people caught COVID 19.
	So it didn't work out well.
	Now, here's something that you probably won't be hearing about in today's reports about the Biden energy department confirmation that the COVID pandemic was started by this leak at the Wuhan Virology Lab.
	Now I I want to remind you, because there was there's four separate instances where evidence was emerging before our very eyes that not only did our government know about it, but your taxpayer dollars was partly responsible for funding what happened here.
	Now we had the original flurry of emails in early January of 2020 between uh Fauci and and high-ranking NIH officials, you know, because they knew damn well the Eco Health Alliance uh was getting money from the NIH and they were giving some of that money to the Wuhan Virology lab.
	Everybody knew the Wuhan Virology lab was involved in gain of function research and coronavirus research.
	So it made sense, but then you know, you had people like Fauci and others saying, Oh no, no, it's it's not that at all.
	Um anyway, Donald Trump, who not only backed the lab leak theory nearly two years ago, but demanded China pay the rest of the world, you know, trillions of dollars for the pain and suffering they inflicted around the world.
	China d dismissed the demands.
	The WHO, you know, they they ran interference on all of this, and they did nothing.
	Uh, but you know, finally, you know, we're now discovering the truth.
	And when we found out on Sunday afternoon, after the energy department reported reportedly assessed the COVID nineteen pandemic likely originated in this lab leak from this, you know, Wuhan Virology lab in China.
	Energy par department previously was undecided on the origin of the pandemic.
	They now joined the FBI stance that the coronavirus likely spread due to a mishap at the Chinese lab.
	Wall Street Journal had a big report on this, citing a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
	This should have been told to us immediately, and the elites and the academics owe everyone who had legitimate questions and concerns that were all called conspiracy theorists uh about the origins of COVID and apology.
	Congressman Ken Buck tweeted.
	The American people deserve to see the information concerning the Chinese lab leak and the origins of COVID.
	This won't be forgotten.
	Senator Tent Cruz said four clown emojis for I guess Glen Glenn Kessler, the so-called fact checker at the Washington Post, who previously said it's virtually impossible for the virus to jump from the lab.
	You know, remember they were telling us that this was likely the cause of wet markets.
	All right, but now let's go back in time, because we have the tapes to prove it.
	Here were all the media experts suggesting the Wuhan lab leak theory was a conspiracy.
	Listen.
	Well, the answers are still not certain.
	It seems likely the coronavirus originated in bats.
	Could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
	There is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan.
	Does our reporting back up that there is significant evidence of this?
	I was uh surprised to hear Pompeo say this today.
	One of Trump world's most favorite conspiracy theories.
	New York Times reports this quote senior Trump administration officials have pushed American spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unsubstantiated theory that a government lab in Wuhan, China, was the origin of the coronavirus outbreak.
	In terms of this particular claim that the virus was leaked from a Wuhan lab, this has been disputed by many experts and scientists from around the world.
	Let me stop there.
	Now I got the media mocking Trump for the Wuhan lab leak theory.
	They just made fun of him.
	Turns out Trump was right.
	Listen.
	The best evidence suggests that the kind of bat from which this virus jumped to humans wasn't even present there.
	But you know the worst of it, whether it came from the lab or came from the bats, or came it all came from China.
	Because we don't know where the novel coronavirus came from yet, the conspiracy theories fill the void.
	I'm telling you the Chinese are trying to weaponize this thing.
	Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh with zero proof suggesting a Chinese bioweapon lab is to blame.
	We know that it's been debunked.
	Those same agencies now have been tapped with investigating one of Trump World's most favorite conspiracy theories this week.
	Donald Trump is still pushing the debunked bunkum, despite his own intelligence community finding that that is.
	Do you see how the media lies?
	Then you got flip-flop Fauci on COVID origins.
	Listen to this.
	It's very, very strongly leaning towards this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
	So I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?
	No, I'm not convinced uh about that.
	I think that we should continue to investigate what went on in China.
	Yeah, some of our taxpayer dollars funneled from the NIH to the Eco Health Alliance, paid for it.
	And you know what?
	They got they were wrong on everything, wrong on the vaccine, wrong on masks, wrong on the wet markets.
	They were wrong on all of it.
	Who's gonna get held accountable?
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	So we have Rand Paul on tonight.
	Ran Ram Paul repeatedly accused Fauci of lying to Congress about the origins of coronavirus.
	He's right.
	He was right the whole time.
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	So you think about this and think about, you know, now they're telling the people of East Palestine.
	You have you know, Joe Biden could barely be bothered to even go there.
	And yet you have elected officials drinking the water to say, see, I'm drinking it.
	I don't trust them.
	They were wrong about ground zero.
	When when this 500, you know, when this, you know, five hundred dead fish, or however many numbers, fifty thousand, I think is the number, and you have dead animals and you have people that are sick, odds are they're not telling you the truth.
	They weren't telling people the truth about the possible risk to people's lungs uh at the site of ground zero uh during the recovery uh Efforts and the re you know after after that happened down there.
	And then many people still to this day are suffering, you know, health effects as a result.
	You know, now we look they were wrong about the vaccine that they would prevent you from getting COVID.
	They were wrong about the boosters.
	They were wrong about, you know, they were wrong to stop the one therapeutic that worked, monoclonal antibodies.
	You know, what what have they been right in that that gives you any confidence that the government knows what the hell they're doing or talking about?
	And unless there's some independent group that tells the people of East Palestine uh that the water's safe to drink and the air safe to breathe, I wouldn't believe a single thing the federal government tells you.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Locker up!
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	And I'm Ted Cruz.
	Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
	Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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	So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, that's Right, locker up.
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	And I'm Ted Cruz.
	Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
	Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
	And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
	We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
	So Down, verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
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	Um so I want to go back to just one more second.
	So just think back here for a minute.
	The government at this was under EPA director uh Christy Todd Whitman at the time.
	Oh, ground zero safe.
	Ground zero wasn't safe.
	And I knew that from my own personal experience broadcasting down there.
	I mean, it was like snowing dust and debris for weeks and weeks and weeks, and I wasn't on the pile of rubble like all the rescue workers and recovery workers that were there for months and months and months that were trying to find the remains of those people that that were killed that day.
	And a lot of them suffering still health, you know, issues as of today.
	It's unit's it's fairly unbelievable.
	You know, now we're finding out they were wrong about ground zero.
	Everything they told us about COVID turned out to be false.
	If you if you get the vaccine, it's it's uh it's gonna prevent you from getting COVID wrong.
	Uh the Delta variant proved that wrong pretty quickly.
	Uh if you get the booster, you're gonna be safer.
	If you get this, if you get that, you know, there's nothing that they said that ended up being true.
	And all they did, they want to tell it complain.
	Everybody's a conspiracy theorist.
	Everybody that had a different point of view has to be a conspiracy theorist.
	So last week we learned that masks made little to no difference in preventing the spread of COVID, according to the study that I I mentioned in the last half hour.
	You know, now we're discovering Republicans are apoplectic about this, and rightly so, that the energy department of Joe Biden confirming that the Wuhan lab was most likely the source of COVID.
	Now we already had evidence that they believed this from the Fauci NIH emails in January of 2020, and then the Intercept came out with what, 900 pages of documents uh that that told a very different story.
	Project Veritas also.
	And then, of course, we got the NIH emails as well.
	And then it turns out that we, the American taxpayer, were funding a lot of this.
	But if you go back at the time, if if anyone dared to utter that this was done in the Wuhan Virology lab, you know, you'll smeared and slandered as a conspiracy theorist or a racist, um, or or whatever they were calling you at the time.
	You know, how dare you have a different point of view.
	Now, in spite of all of this evidence, it turns out in response to the Wall Street Journal's report, based on the scientific studies and based on the evidence that has now come out.
	Uh, you have the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan saying, Well, there's a variety of views in the intelligence community, and that the origin of COVID 19 remained under investigation.
	Here's what I can tell you.
	President Biden has directed repeatedly communities to put effort and resources behind getting to the bottom of the question.
	Well, it seems like we got to the bottom of the question.
	And that is everything that we suspected.
	This was a virology lab involved in coronavirus research involved in gain of function research.
	Remember, it was Dr. Fauci bragging and that even if it resulted in a worldwide tandemic, he said in 2012, he would still support gain of function research.
	And now the Biden Energy Department is finding the Wuhan lab league confirms what Trump had been saying the entire time.
	Then they were mad at Trump and calling Trump racist because he called it the China virus.
	You know, remember that China did one thing that should that revealed everything you need to know about what they knew about COVID.
	They would not allow people in Wuhan province to travel to any other part of China.
	They wouldn't let people from any other part of China to travel to Wuhan province.
	But they would let people in Wuhan province travel around the world, which they did, you know, spreading this pretty much here, there and everywhere.
	You know, that's why I say, you know, Joe Biden has no intention of visiting East Palestine.
	And people are so quick, you know, politicians are so quick to say, see, I'm drinking the water.
	I'm not believing that the water is safe after their controlled chemical burn.
	You know, I'm I'm I'm not that encouraged that Joe Biden refuses to go there and find out and get the people of East Palestine good information.
	You know, it's it's downright scary that they just race to tell everybody things are safe, things are safe, things are safe.
	Now, for the last three weeks, we've been hearing that Donald Trump made regulatory changes for uh railways, and that's responsible uh for what happened in East Palestine.
	Even the Washington Post, they reviewed every possible regulatory change made under Donald Trump, and they found not one of them contributed to the Ohio train derailment.
	Not a single one.
	Now, Joe Biden could have gone to East Palestine over the weekend.
	He could have shown that he cared.
	He could have committed to people that he's he's not going to give the okay to drink the water or you know, go back and live in your homes until we know for sure that the water is safe, the air is safe to breathe.
	You know, but he doesn't really care.
	And he even says, no, I'm not going there.
	Like, why not?
	That's where you should be, that you're the president.
	Uh we have bad news for Biden.
	A poll shows the American people overwhelmingly support cognitive tests for candidates over 75.
	By the way, Donald Trump said, sure, I'll take a cognitive test again.
	I have no problem.
	Why won't Joe Biden?
	The New York Times published an essay urging Joe Biden to dump Kamala Harris.
	Quote, he should take a page from Roosevelt's book by telling his party he will not dictate who will be his running mate, but instead leave it up to the delegates to pick the person who is best equipped to take on the task.
	So the New York Times is now floating a new strategy to make voters more comfortable re-electing the eighty-two-year-old Joe Biden whose chances of having, you know, to step down for health reasons in the next six years seem to be based on my observations of him being weak and frail and a cognitive mess, you know, higher than any president that I've seen in my lifetime at least.
	Anyway, Joe Biden's party should show a United Front in support of his reelection.
	But even as we put our faith in Mr. Biden, the questions about his age, physical condition will not go away, and it's fair for voters to want reassurances and decisions that show that the White House will be in solid hands.
	He should take steps to make those reassurances, but he, you know, Vice President Kamala Harris and the rest of the party should also consider making some bold decisions to address the actual concerns and show that they're being taken seriously considering the age factor alone.
	Many experts agree Mr. Biden is much more likely to die within the next decade than a man ten years younger, and he's the oldest man ever sworn into office.
	Then they go on to compare Biden at a dying FDR who knew the end was near 1944.
	So Roosevelt replaced his unpopular left-wing vice president Henry Wallace with Harry Truman.
	That's the New York Times throwing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris down the stairs.
	Even Biden admitted in an interview that concerns about his age are totally legitimate.
	This was not a very particularly good interview with Joe Biden.
	He was on ABC.
	And, you know, I know the MAGA crowd is questioning Ukraine spending.
	They're questioning your your unbelievable stupidity and not wanting to fight to win the war.
	Because Joe Biden has repeatedly said no to Western European countries that wanted to give fighter jets to Ukraine.
	And at that point, you're now fighting for a tie at best.
	A quagmire and a long protracted conflict at best.
	He said he's not sending F-16 fighters for now.
	Suggest the war can go on at least two to three more years.
	In Washington speak, that probably means 12 to 14 years.
	And, you know, then he defended his handling of East Palestine, which he did nothing, and then blame the railroad company.
	He doesn't answer if he would travel to East Palestine.
	He can't even recall if he ever spoke to the mayor of East Palestine.
	That's how bad this interview went for him.
	And his counsel has advised him not to comment on the classified document scandal.
	He doesn't know what's in them.
	Then he bristles at David Muir when he brings up the handling of classified documents.
	Well, he's the one that said how it's irresponsible.
	It's irresponsible.
	It's just wrong.
	How did that happen?
	That's what he said about Donald Trump.
	Anyway, so Fox News reporter hit the Democrats, you know, as the economy, you know, all the news on the economy seems to get worse.
	Four and ten Americans now say they're worse off than when Biden was elected.
	Only 16% say they are better off.
	You know, I mean, what has Biden done?
	You know, what is Kamala Harris?
	I played this this montage last week.
	What was the what was the word she was using?
	Venn diagrams.
	What the hell is going on?
	That's so unbelievable to me.
	Um I know that uh we'll have Ron DeSantis on this radio show tomorrow.
	I know he's out there promoting his new book, and a lot of people are wondering what whether or not he's gonna throw his hat in the ring.
	Uh we do have the latest poll numbers.
	Trump has 43%, DeSantis 28, Nikki Haley and Mike Pence at 7%.
	Greg Abbott, Liz Cheney at 2%.
	I don't know why they didn't include Senator Tim Scott.
	He seems like he'd be the most likely to want to jump in.
	Um I think I just think a lot of this is too early.
	And yeah, I mean, but with that said, I mean, this time next year, you know, we're dealing with the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Super Tuesday states.
	I mean, it's gonna go fast once we get to next year.
	The first Republican debate will be in August in Wisconsin.
	Um, I'm sure we will be there.
	Uh GOP primary candidates, according to Ronald McDaniel, will have to agree to a loyalty pledge.
	In other words, that they will support whoever wins the nomination.
	He was asked specifically about President Trump.
	I did not know that President Trump had signed that in 2015 or 16.
	I don't remember what year.
	Um the reason that uh we'll just have to wait and see.
	You know, it's the saddest thing is Joe Biden is the one that had to answer the question for Joe Biden that he's pretty much ready to announce his 2024 presidential run.
	You know, how many times does he have to say it before you believe it?
	Well, he hasn't said it yet.
	He said he's too busy.
	And one weird note, a judge ordered Donald Trump and Christopher Ray to be deposed by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
	Wow.
	Talk about, you know, a dual justice system or unequal justice under the under the law.
	Well, you've got it.
	Just look at the last two presidential elections and the thumb of the FBI all over those elections.
	Lawrence Summers is urging Western governments to seize assets to fund the Ukrainian war.
	Um, Biden's inflation has millennials now drowning in debt.
	There was a big Wall Street Journal piece after you know a full year of this, after a full two plus years of inflation nightmare because of Biden, young adults in their 20s and 30s are finding themselves drowning in debt.
	You know, more people are putting fair necessities on on credit cards, and others are tapping into their retirement savings just to make ends meet on a weekly and monthly basis.
	Voters tell Fox News they become poorer under Joe Biden.
	Sixty percent have less money in their pocket than they did just a year ago.
	And by the way, watch out for your gas stoves because yes, it's back again.
	The Biden administration has now put out a rule on cooking appliances that would effectively ban half of all gas stoves on the U.S. market from being sold.
	By the way, I like to cook.
	You know the worst thing to cook on is an electric stove.
	It is the worst.
	Um, then we have electric grid problems, a Wall Street Journal editorial piece.
	Um, the PGM interconnection sound uh sounds with the latest alarm with the fossil fuel plant shutting down without adequate replacement.
	In other words, the piece goes on to describe that the forecast for power supply and demand through 2030 across 13 eastern states, covering 65 million people, and what they've discovered is fossil fuel power plants are retiring much faster than quote renewable sources are getting developed, which will lead to energy imbalances.
	In short, that means there are going to be shortages and blackouts on the East Coast, just like they've experienced on the West Coast.
	That's not good.
	Biden on the economy, it's under it's understandable.
	Why people are just down.
	They're just down.
	They're down because they can't afford anything.
	That's why they're down.
	Warren Buffett issues a stark inflation warning.
	Fiscal deficits have consequences.
	After last week's 5.4% Wall Street Journal saw the worst week in 20 since in the whole year of 2023.
	He's warning about inflation and tough economic times to come.
	Following JP Morgan uh chase Jamie Dimon and following Lawrence Summers' warnings.
	Uh Summers saying the chances of a soft landing are receding.
	We don't get to we don't get to inflation target without any meaningful slowdown.
	I mean, in other words, this is all gonna get worse.
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