Biden's Low Marks - November 27th, Hour 1
The Biden Administration is failing spectacularly with the economy. Sean breaks down the numbers and explains just how bad the failure is! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Biden Administration is failing spectacularly with the economy. Sean breaks down the numbers and explains just how bad the failure is! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Alright, did everybody have a good Thanksgiving? | |
Linda, you have a good Thanksgiving. | |
Thank you for asking. | |
How was yours? | |
When was very good. | |
Uncle James that Uncle James Fried the Toyki this year. | |
Oh God, are you still doing that? | |
Yeah, of course. | |
What do you mean am I still doing that? | |
Of course. | |
The only way to eat turkey. | |
Well, probably. | |
Well, it's also when you're like it's like the one day you're off your diet as well. | |
Uh not necessarily. | |
Uh long pause. | |
Nah, not necessarily. | |
I I think I came in the same way the next day uh when I get on the scale. | |
I've been very committed the last six months to getting in the possibly can. | |
And no question. | |
For me, it's about health, it's not about vanity. | |
Um anyway, we start out today with some bad news. | |
Amer this is really sad, especially after the Thanksgiving Day holiday. | |
Americans under 30 don't trust religion or anything else. | |
Well, I hope they don't trust government because government has not earned your trust. | |
Think about that. | |
What has government done that is successful? | |
How's government social security and Medicare? | |
How's that all working out? | |
Because they're both headed towards insolvency. | |
How's government doing on Obamacare promises? | |
Keep your doctor, keep your plan. | |
Average family saves $2,500 a year. | |
They're not doing well there either. | |
How's government doing educating your kids or indoctrinating now your children in your public schools? | |
They're not doing great there either. | |
How are their their standardized test scores doing? | |
Most cities, most states, not particularly well, especially compared to the industrialized world. | |
And especially considering we pay more per capita per student than any other country on the face of the earth. | |
That's not particularly good either. | |
How do they do it on law and order in your city, your town? | |
Now maybe if you like Jason LD's Dean song with that doesn't happen in a small town or try that in a small town, you know, things are a little bit different. | |
But in big cities, we see the violence, the murder, the shootings, the robberies, that you know, even on what, Black Friday, all these smash robberies going on all around the country. | |
I mean, it's unbelievable. | |
No wonder why people spend more money than ever before buying their Christmas presents online, and you really can't blame people, can you? | |
Because they don't want to go to a store. | |
And I and I see more in what's going to happen is it's going to result in a loss of jobs. | |
You know, there actually are people that like to shop. | |
I just happen not to be one of them. | |
I hate shopping. | |
I walk into a store and I'm like, every bit of energy seems drained out of my body. | |
I can't stand it. | |
If I do go to a store, it's because I want to get one specific, or I go grocery shopping. | |
I do love grocery shopping. | |
That does not drain me. | |
That is something of great, I don't know why. | |
I like to I like to pick out everything myself. | |
Uh so that I like to do. | |
But I don't like shopping in the traditional sense of going out shopping. | |
If somebody wants something, well, Linda will laugh at this. | |
You know, when I go grocery shopping, people will ask me all the time, well, what are you doing here? | |
And I'm like, I'm shopping, buying food. | |
But if I really want something else and it has to be bought online, I do need to ask other people to do it. | |
And that part is true. | |
That is well, I don't have a computer. | |
I don't have an email account, I don't have access to social media. | |
It is possible to do it on my phone, but I don't want to go straight. | |
It is possible, but it's often um a lot more work because then you screw it up and we have to do it anyway. | |
So it's usually better if you just hand it to us. | |
What do you mean? | |
You I well, first of all, I usually don't hand it to you. | |
That's not that's not what you do. | |
I didn't say me, I said us, but all the people that think but all the people in the grocery store that are like, well, don't you have people to do this for you? | |
I actually do have people that work for me that'll say, Do you mind uh you know, ordering this for me? | |
And I'll send the link. | |
Here's my credit card. | |
Yeah, but I think you I think you like to go to the grocery store and look at all the food you can't eat, you know. | |
You just go and you see the food to eat that. | |
No, because no, no, it's not what I do at all. | |
I go in, I have in my head what I want to buy. | |
I know exactly where every item is because I go to the same grocery store every week, or there's two stores that I go to. | |
And I well, actually, three. | |
I choose between the three of them because they all have one or two items that the other store doesn't have that I like to have. | |
So true. | |
Um, which is kind of odd because you think every grocery store is the same thing, right? | |
Well, that's not true. | |
You would, but it's you're totally right. | |
You know, it goes against every instinct in my body, and I've been watching the the prisoner transfer and this you know, ceasefire. | |
Um, we have new images of hostages that were just released, so I assume that means that the ceasefire, temporary ceasefire will continue. | |
Uh, I was watching the release of this this American girl, four years old. | |
Uh, the sad story that on October 7th, you know, here comes Hamas terrorists, they kill her mother and father. | |
She has her brother and a sister hiding somewhere, and and they did thankfully didn't find them. | |
They took a four-year-old little girl, it's an American girl, happened to be in Israel hostage. | |
Her parents are dead. | |
Um, and and anyway, she she's been held hostage ever since. | |
We're learning about the conditions that they've been living under these hostages. | |
You know, one of the uh the cousins of her at least hostages was saying how scarce food was, how hostages were sleeping on plastic benches, how they had to wait up to two hours before even being allowed to use the bathroom, uh eating but not eating regular regularly, not all the time. | |
There were days where they didn't get food, they couldn't even move, the food they were getting were like pita bread, things like that. | |
And you know, it's most of them lost significant amounts of weight, and you know, there's you gotta worry in situations like that about what their medical condition is. | |
They didn't get rice occasionally is on top of the pita bread. | |
Uh, but if you wanted to go to the bathroom, you had to knock on a door, and then sometimes, you know, they'd be waiting for the door to be opened. | |
Sometimes they were waiting, you know, one and a half, two hours just to go to the bathroom, and they were sleeping on benches in like a reception room. | |
Some people are underground in these tunnels, and it's just the whole thing is just pathetic. | |
Now, is I I know that there are people out there, and there's a part of me that knows in my heart that you know if the Israelis have to give up three terrorists that have been convicted that are being held in Israeli prisons in exchange for one innocent hostage. | |
That's frustrating to me. | |
But then I try to put myself in the position of the families that want their loved ones back, and I'm like, I sympathize completely with them. | |
And I probably, and even though in my heart I know that if you de make deals for hostages, you often end up with more hostage taking, or the certainly the risk goes up, but I want to see every single hostage freed, and I want to see these families reunited. | |
And I I have a kind of have the feeling that what Hamas is going to try to do here is drag this out as long as they can because they're going to try and re-arm and recalibrate their war strategy against Israel, and probably come back and try and do it again. | |
So there's a part of me that worries about that aspect of it. | |
At the end of this, at some point, Israel is going to have to win the war. | |
And Prime Minister Netanyahu, his entire war cabinet have stated repeatedly that they are on top of that. | |
We have more examples, by the way, of anti-Semitism among top Democrats. | |
This one in North Carolina, leader of the North Carolina Progressive Democratic Caucus, saying that the Jewish caucus is affiliating with the party would end it. | |
Anyway, Ryan Jenkins is the president of the Tar Heel State's Progressive Caucus attacking the North Carolina Democratic Jewish Caucus after the group was denied affiliation with the state's Democratic Party. | |
He said the members of the Jewish group are attacking every single person who either didn't attend or they're threatening people who voted to abstain. | |
If the Democratic Party caves to it, that's the end of the Democratic Party, he said. | |
We're not Democrats. | |
We're the Jewish caucus, we're a Zionist group because they control everything. | |
Oh, the Jews control everything. | |
Ah, I wouldn't say that that is a trope of any kind or or an example of rabid anti-Semitism by yet another Democrat. | |
On top of that, we even had Congresswoman Talib making more stupid comments even after her censure. | |
So I that obviously meant none nothing to her. | |
Uh and I have no idea why this happened, but it did, but Joe Biden is out there apologizing to Muslim American leaders for questioning the Hamas death toll. | |
Well, we know for a fact this is what they have done for years. | |
We know Hamas and these terror organizations, they are notorious for number one, they're using the Palestinian people's human shields. | |
We know that in more detail than ever before. | |
We know that they love to fire their rockets into Israel, especially from schools and from hospitals, because they're using schools and hospitals as shields so that they can then say if Israel strikes back, oh see, they blew up a school, see, they blew up a hospital. | |
Look how quickly the world's media was was it was willing to jump in without any facts, any truth behind it, and blame Israel for firing a rocket just because the Palestinians said so, that took out a hospital and killed 500 doctors and patients and nurses. | |
A hospital was never hit with a rocket. | |
Now, the adjacent parking lot was hit with a rocket, but the rocket we know now was fired by the Islamic Jihad. | |
Of course, no consequences. | |
So I'm not exactly sure why Biden is offering an apology to Muslim American leaders for questioning Hamas's death toll. | |
Hamas is a terror group that uses human shields all the time at its very core lies. | |
Because they were the ones that were lying to the gullible mob in the media in this country. | |
Oh, by the way, I gotta I got some news that I just have to share, Linda. | |
You're gonna love this. | |
So we have not talked about Humpty, Humpty Dumpty, uh, in a long time. | |
Who had a great fall, was fired from fake news CNN. | |
Remember him? | |
Oh, yeah. | |
Oh, he came out with a new book. | |
And he did. | |
Um did he write about? | |
Well, I didn't read the book. | |
I only read the this asinine excerpt of his. | |
He actually thinks he knows who my sources are. | |
He actually thinks that he knows exactly what I know when in and then on the other hand, he's out there. | |
You can't even make this stuff. | |
He's so stupid. | |
And the media is so gullible to go along with his stupidity. | |
But he actually claims that I know so much more about what's going on in or knew about what was going on in Donald Trump's brain. | |
He has no idea what whether I ever even talked to the guy. | |
But he can just speculate, lie, make it up, make pretend. | |
He did that all the way on the Russian hoax. | |
He should be held accountable for that too. | |
Anyway, so it comes out with this book. | |
This is now the second major book this fall that has been released attacking Fox. | |
Now, the numbers are in. | |
It's not a New York Times bestseller. | |
It sold a whopping 3,807 copies. | |
That's nationwide, Linda. | |
That is an unmitigated disaster for any publisher. | |
I gotta be honest. | |
I mean, I I didn't know that guy could spell sources, let alone talk about them with any sort of authority. | |
I mean, it's a good thing. | |
Well, he used to host a show, unreliable liberal sources. | |
I didn't even know the name of his show, to be honest with you. | |
I mean, he's just ridiculous. | |
All right, but he's just a liar, and this is like his second book on Fox. | |
The first book didn't do well either. | |
He right now is, you know, imagine this. | |
And thankfully, you know, I'm not writing any more books, but I I wrote one after 10 years. | |
Don't say that. | |
You always say that. | |
Don't say that. | |
I said it, and then I waited 10 years before. | |
Anyway, and then you did it. | |
Okay, but it it it was number one on the New York Times bestseller list for many, many years. | |
It was indeed. | |
It was the other books that I've written, and then Michael Wolf wrote a book. | |
He wrote about stuff about me. | |
Somebody sent it to me. | |
I'm like, that's total BS. | |
There's not one word of truth in what he's saying. | |
It's basically clickbait for books. | |
That's what they do. | |
They mention your name in the hopes of selling something. | |
Okay, so right now, if you go on Amazon at the time of this writing on Mediate, six days on Amazon bestsellers list, he's 6,638. | |
I mean, how do you fail that spectacularly and keep writing books and not be totally humiliated and embarrassed, or Michael Wolf, he actually sold less books with his anti-Fox screed at 3,219 books. | |
And I know for a fact, because uh the specific things people sent me that he said about me are just false. | |
Flat out false. | |
There's not one true thing about it. | |
Did anybody reach out to you for a comment? | |
No, never. | |
Shocker. | |
What a shocker. | |
What a shocker. | |
Um, you know, so I never talk about these books when they're released or pay attention to them because I know they're gonna fail and I just enjoy shoving it in their face because if you're not embarrassed about how horrible a writer you must be and how uninteresting you are, and how lacking in credibility you are at that point. | |
I mean, because they think so much of themselves, but that's the one thing these two have in common. | |
And both kind of look like Humpty Dumpty twins. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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 Nafok 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'll tell you one thing that nobody seems to be talking about. | |
There have now been over 75 attacks against Americans in Syria, Iraq, and other areas in the region. | |
And now another aggressive action by the by the Chinese Navy in the South China Sea against American or America's Navy. | |
And it's like and these are international waterways. | |
It doesn't matter what China ever does. | |
It doesn't seem to matter what the mulos in Iran ever do. | |
Biden appointed a suspected Iranian spy to a top defense intelligence post, uh uh, according to Miranda Devine in an article she put out in a New York Post. | |
You know, what 60 billion in sanctions, relief, and unfrozen assets? | |
Why would we be surprised? | |
No consequences for the spy balloon, intellectual property theft, no consequences for unfair trade practices, no consequences at all. | |
But China's aggression against Taiwan, uh, China's aggression against our Air Force and international airspace, our Navy and international waterways. | |
Why? | |
I don't know. | |
Could it maybe possibly have something to do with what the Chinese may have on the Biden family syndicate, knowing that they got tens of millions of dollars from them? | |
We now know, according to James Gomer. | |
Keeping Uncle Sam accountable to you every day. | |
Hannity is on. | |
The Biden administration won't confront China. | |
They're not confronting Iran either. | |
They're doing just the opposite. | |
Matter of fact, we have a another uh bought and paid for attack by Iran against us, the United States, this time an American destroyer in the mid east. | |
We had two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthi rebels uh controlling Yemen. | |
That is an Iranian-backed proxy war. | |
Uh, but anyway, the U.S. Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, according to the U.S. military. | |
The tanker identified as the Central Park had been carrying a cargo of phosphorus, uh phosphoric acid when the crew called for help that they were under attack from an unknown entity. | |
And anyway, the Pentagon spokesman said that under international maritime norms and laws, when there is a distress signal, all vessels in the vicinity are required to come and help and support. | |
The writer added that there were three Chinese Navy vessels in the vicinity that did not respond. | |
Now, supposedly those ships are there as part of a counterpiracy mission, but they didn't respond to this, and we did. | |
Any consequences? | |
No. | |
I mentioned Congresswoman Taleb recently censured, apparently being censured by the House for her from the river to the sea, basically wiped Israel off the map message. | |
Didn't make much of an impression on her because days after a bipartisan group of lawmakers uh anyway did this. | |
Uh anyway, she was out there speaking at a candlelight vigil in Detroit, urging a ceasefire in Gaza, and also spoke to at a pro Hamas event after being censored, according to reports. | |
Great, great great news. | |
Let me let me play one thing in a second. | |
I want to play Joe Biden actually claiming that the economy is doing great. | |
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All right, let me go to this uh tape if I can. | |
This is Joe Biden actually saying that the cost of food and groceries are down, and I don't know one person who would agree with that. | |
Listen. | |
I mean, literally, not figure. | |
Most conversations have been going on at kitchen tables all across America for a while now. | |
The conversation, the conversation about whether we'd have enough left over at the end of the month for my dad to be able to used to say, have a little bit of breathing room. | |
Well, this past week, as Americans gathered around their own Kitchen tables for Thanksgiving dinner. | |
That was our goal to get them a little more breathing room. | |
And together we made progress. | |
You know, uh, from Turkey to air travel to tank of gas, costs went down. | |
They went down. | |
No, the cost of gas is up, Joe. | |
It's up significantly. | |
And then this probably takes the cake, because then Karine Jean Pierre, your White House press secretary, she's blaming the turmoil in the economy because the Trump administration, uh, you know, the best economy in American history until they pushed COVID to steal you know, whatever. | |
Listen to this. | |
Why do you think it is that when you say the economy is improving, and President Biden says the economy is improving, that a majority of Americans outside of this building are not buying. | |
So here's the thing. | |
When we walked into this administration, the economy was on a tail sick, a tailspin. | |
That is the fact. | |
Because of the last administration, because of the Trump administration, because of how they dealt with uh dealt with COVID and the pandemic, because they didn't have a comprehensive plan. | |
The president came in, he passed the American Rescue Plan, which was able to get the economy back on its feet, which is able to open up small businesses. | |
Well, small businesses were able to open up, schools were able to open up, and we understand what Americans have been feeling over the last two, three years. | |
It's going to take some time. | |
We get that. | |
It's going to take some time. | |
But it does not take away how we have seen the economy getting back on its feet. | |
We actually had to fix the problem that we saw that the last administration left. | |
All right. | |
Well, that's what they're saying, and then now that three years in, they're going to what blame the Trump administration? | |
Look, for 2023 alone, according to the USDA's own website, all food prices are predicted to increase 5.8%, with a prediction interval of 5.7 to 6.0 to 6.0%. | |
And food at home prices are predicted to increase 5.2%. | |
And don't forget every item you buy at every store you go to costs more because the cost of fuel is is way higher. | |
Under Donald Trump four years as president, the average price of a gallon of gasoline never reached $3 a gallon, not for one day during his time as president. | |
You know, now looking at different estimates, it's been changing anywhere. | |
It was going up again as high as four dollars a gallon, you know, now down to about $3.70 the last time I looked. | |
Food prices are going up. | |
Pretty much the cost of everything you buy in every store you go to costs more. | |
And now you're going to blame it on the you're going to blame the two trillion in debt that they accumulated last year on the Trump administration, too? | |
Because that's what they're doing. | |
It's pretty unbelievable. | |
If you think, you know, 2024 and the 2024 elections, and you think about what are the two things that usually drive elections. | |
One, well, is peace. | |
Uh, tell me where the world is peaceful. | |
Europe is at war. | |
Uh now come under heavy fire. | |
I saw Justin Trudeau trying to blame MAGA Republicans in the United States for the fact that conservatives in Canada no longer want to give Ukraine any more money. | |
In large part, I think probably they're seeing what we've been seeing, which is that the money has been misappropriated. | |
A, B people like Joe Biden to put handcuffs on President Zelensky and any any chance he would ever have to win the war by not accepting MiG jets, for example, from Poland, right from the get-go, uh, and and certainly not allowing certain other weapons to be used, although they keep changing their mind back and forth. | |
Um, you know, on the economy, even the Washington Post was admitting that Bidenomics is now become, quote, a negative word within the Democratic Party. | |
I mean, that was the word that Biden supposedly had planned to use for his big re-election effort on Meet the Press this weekend. | |
The Washington Post Democrat literally said about Biden's low marks on the economy. | |
The the marks on the economy have been earned because the economy is atrocious, because their policies have failed and they have failed spectacularly. | |
It's not like it just failed a little bit. | |
You know, if you look over at Thanksgiving, I saw there's a big fight. | |
Some of the found uh findings, if you look at the food price outlook for 2023 and 24, you know, the consumer price index for food, all CPI items, a measure of the economy wide inflation unchanged from September of 2023 to October of 2023. | |
But again, it's it's up, it's expected to be up. | |
The food away from home, restaurant purchases, etc. | |
October 23, 5.4% higher than October of 2022, and they were higher in 2022. | |
Food prices expected to grow a little more slowly, but predicted to increase 5.8% this year, maybe as high as six percent. | |
These are all their own government numbers, and yet they don't even want to own it. | |
And they're not really saying Bidenomics anymore. | |
So now I guess they're just gonna go out and flat out lie to people. | |
Well, there are other articles out there pointing to the economy showing that uh this is not going very well in large part because Americans, they have actually now gotten to a point where they have maxed out or getting close to maxing out on their credit card utilization, and delinquency rates are on the rise. | |
And we already knew prior to this that nearly two-thirds of American families are living paycheck to paycheck. | |
So Bidenomics, the word they were counting on to run on in 2024, has now become a negative term, and that's from coming directly from the Washington Post. | |
Existing home sales have now fallen to the lowest level since the Obama Biden recession. | |
New York's power officials now have to turn to fossil fuels as green energy is failing to keep up with demand. | |
What a shocker there. | |
Black Friday Shoppers spent a record 9.8 billion in in the U.S. online sales are up seven and a half percent from last year, because I think a lot of people are scared to death that they're not gonna be able to uh go to a store without being a victim of some type of crime with all these smash and grab robberies going on all over the place, and it's it is really that bad. | |
Add to that the homelessness issues involved in a lot of these areas, and you know, you got yourself a problem. | |
Uh it just came out today. | |
Kerry Pickett wrote this, our friend of the Washington Times, the top FBI uh officials that were appointed were a vocal Trump hater to oversee the Mar-a-Lago documents case. | |
This just breaking. | |
Top FBI officials ordered an agent to scrub his Facebook page to delete anti-Trump vitriol before they would promote him to the head of the Bureau's Miami Field Office, which covers former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, according to a whistleblower. | |
This disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee, the whistleblower, they give the name, I won't give it, was promoted earlier this year to become a special agent in charge of the Miami office, the whistleblower adamantly, vocally anti-Trump. | |
Now, why why is anybody in the FBI political in any way if justice is supposed to be blind? | |
Anyway, the whistleblower said this guy adamantly vocally was anti-Trump, said the FBI director Christopher Ray and deputy director and executive assistant director were involved in directing this guy to cleanse his social media account so they can give them the promotion. | |
Well, does that sound like they care about how the FBI's been politicized and the investigation by the Judiciary Committee and how they've been weaponized? | |
Interesting political article, political article, how Democrats are panicking about the wrong thing, and they're saying that all these polls showing that Joe Biden is trailing all these candidates, they claim is not worth much. | |
There may be some truth to that. | |
It's too early. | |
Voters, you know, didn't see it that way. | |
They like, you know, they like that something was a little cheaper. | |
Moreover, the toll cuts reinforced a key of, and they're talking about Iri Hogan's first campaign, et cetera, et cetera. | |
But that's not how most Americans are seeing it. | |
Two-thirds of the American people, almost two-thirds now, are living paycheck to paycheck. | |
What's going to be interesting? | |
What's going to be interesting is what comes out of this effort. | |
There is real fear and real paranoia. | |
Um, by the way, the educational secretary Miguel Cardona said, I think it was Reagan who said, We're from the government, we're here to help. | |
You know, yeah, that we're gonna set up follow-up calls with every governor we met with to make sure we're available. | |
Um, as uh I think it was President Reagan said, We're from the government, we're here to help. | |
Um there's there are resources there, there's technical assistance there, and there's a playbook that could support the work you're doing. | |
Count on us as a partner in this. | |
Our students are waiting. | |
Uh, Reagan warned that the worst words you can hear is I'm from the government and I'm here to help. | |
Uh Reagan said it in just the opposite way. | |
But you know, don't expect Democrats to actually be deep thinking people. | |
Um, there is more articles out there how Biden's poll numbers get worse and worse and worse. | |
Starting with the New York Times, Siena College poll showing Trump ahead in four swing states, followed by another poll showing him ahead in five of six swing states. | |
I mean, up dramatically in just about every single solitary poll that's out there. | |
Even now these polls are coming out showing Trump winning the popular vote. | |
Look, I think it's too early to tell. | |
But and there's a lot that's going to happen over the next year. | |
There's a lot that's going to happen as it relates to President Trump. | |
He's defied up to this point all conventional political gravity when it comes to what you would think would happen if a presidential candidate gets arrested and arraigned. | |
Every single time his poll numbers have gone up, they have not gone down. | |
Every poll now showing the American people believe the Department of Justice of Joe Biden is weaponized and politicized. | |
More and more information coming out about the Biden family syndicate and Joe Biden's direct involvement in dealing with some of our country's top geopolitical foes and the family making tens of millions of dollars. | |
You know, the media tried to report that at the USC Clemson game that Trump was booed. | |
We'll play the tape later. | |
Just the opposite happened. | |
There was a smattering of boos when his when his motorcade came into the stadium, but I mean it was like you can almost hear the individuals booing when he walked out with Governor McMaster of South Carolina to midfield during halftime. | |
I mean, it was just nonstop, very loud cheering. | |
I mean, as a matter of fact, let's play. | |
Woo! | |
I mean, the crowd went nuts. | |
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