Sean Hannity Show - Attacks on Democracy - December 21st, Hour 1

Dec. 22, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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Attacks on Democracy - December 21st, Hour 1

Joe Concha & Carol Roth guest host for the vacationing Sean and immediately recap all of the reasons why America should be scared about the attacks on democracy. The liberal left is celebrating the rulings where President Trump is being removed from state ballots. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	And I have a very special co-host today.
	I'll introduce myself first, get the boring stuff out of the way.
	I am a Fox News contributor.
	I am a regular guest on this show, both radio and television, a columnist for The Messenger, and a one-time best-selling author.
	So I said, you know what?
	Let me one-up myself.
	Let me find somebody who's a two-time New York Times best-selling author.
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	It's somewhat new, but hey, a perfect stocking stucker.
	You still got time.
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	And that, of course, was written by the recovering investment banker and the advocate for big hair, who is Carol Roth.
	Carol, welcome to the show as my co-host.
	We're going national, baby.
	Joe, I love that I'm a very special co-host.
	It reminds me of those very special episodes of sitcoms in the 80s where we had, you know, facts of life and different strokes, had a very special episode.
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	If I'm Locklear, I would have been quite a bit.
	I'm sure you think she was a very special guest star for many reasons.
	But before we digress, all right, I don't know if you know this, Joe, but we have a very important holiday coming up this weekend.
	No, it's not that one that you're thinking of.
	We have a holiday for the rest of us called Festivus, an amazing holiday that was brought to life by the wonderful series that I know is one of both of our favorites, Seinfeld.
	I believe it was George Costanza's father, Frank Costanza, who had a lot of grievances that he wanted to air.
	And so he brought it together with Festivus.
	In fact, maybe let's play Soundbite 8 so we can hear about this.
	Newcomers.
	The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances.
	I got a lot of problems with you people.
	No, you're going to hear about it.
	The best.
	You're going to hear about this, Joe.
	We have a lot of problems, certainly with the Biden administration.
	We have a lot of problems.
	Certainly not with each other and not with the wonderful listeners here today, but a lot of problems that we have to get out of our soul today.
	So what do you think about Festivus?
	Well, first of all, Festivus officially is celebrated on Saturday.
	That would be the 23rd of December.
	And look, that is the Democratic Party in 2023 and really 2022, 2021.
	Let's face it, 2020, as far as being the party of grievances, where they're very good at complaining about things, particularly when they ran in 2020, talking about kids in cages at the border, talking about how Donald Trump was, they were even saying it then, a threat to democracy, talking about how we have to defund the police.
	All these things, when they were complaining, they had all this rosy rhetoric, right?
	Or as far as the border is concerned, where they said, literally, Joe Biden said during a primary debate in 2019, he urged everybody in Central America and all parts of the world to surge the border because that's who we are as a country while Jim Acosta is reading poetry about the Statue of Liberty to whoever the White House press secretary was at the time.
	The point is, all the rosy rhetoric has now met reality.
	You can't have an open border.
	You can't spend trillions while we have already record budget deficits and record inflation because that's only going to add to the problem.
	You can't defund the police.
	Even Democrats are admitting that now.
	So I could go down the line.
	But as far as being the party of grievances, that's the Democratic Party.
	And when they're actually given power and they actually had to govern, well, the rhetoric didn't meet the reality.
	And now reality is hitting us right in the face.
	Yeah, no, I hear you.
	We certainly have a lot of grievances as individuals, whether it be the economy, as you mentioned, the border, the general backlash.
	But, you know, there are plenty of places for us to start.
	Maybe we should start with the thing that is sort of dominating the headlines and the most important right now.
	And that is the recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling that is meant to keep Trump off the ballot.
	I have a lot of problems with this, as I imagine you do as well.
	You know, they're using this pretend insurrection.
	I don't remember any point in time that President Trump has been found guilty of insurrection.
	We seem to have all of these words that lose meaning and get changed around depending on whatever it is that the Democrats want them to mean.
	What do you think is at the core of this?
	Is this about Trump?
	Is this about, you know, just saying if you disagree with the narrative, then you are going to, we're going to find a way to come after you?
	Is this about delegitimatizing the Supreme Court?
	You know, there's always something else going on with the Democrats.
	So what do you think that is?
	Well, I think if you're looking at the most craptastic definition of electoral interference, election interference, Carol, as a true threat to democracy, you got to look at what's happening in Colorado and what just happened.
	And what they're doing now is keeping the odds on favor to win back the presidency in the form of Donald Trump off the ballot, as you just laid out and as everybody has been talking about for the past two days.
	And you see this celebration on MSNBC for the most part, CNN, all these networks and publications who are pointing to the 14th Amendment and saying, ha, see, this is how constitutionally democracy is supposed to operate when it's the very opposite of democracy, where democracy is supposed to allow the people to decide to cast their votes.
	And if they don't want to vote for Trump, fine.
	If they want to vote for Trump, fine.
	If they want to stay home, fine.
	But give them that option.
	If this somehow holds up in the Supreme Court, and there's no shot in hell that it does.
	I mean, I'm even seeing people who aren't fans of Donald Trump saying that there's a chance, even in this Supreme Court, which never unanimously agrees on anything, that this could come back 9-0 as far as rejecting this.
	But if somehow, for whatever miracle happens where the Supreme Court upholds this, then you're going to see Donald Trump off the ballot in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and then the chips will fall because the precedent is set.
	And then you'll have a situation where you have the guy who is clearly the frontrunner to be the 47th president and president again in Donald Trump, not even given the opportunity to be afforded the right to win or lose on the merits.
	And again, that is just a whole bowl of wrong, but I think in the end, the Supreme Court will come back decisively, shoot this down, and then you're going to see a boomerang effect, which will only help improve Trump's chances next November because everybody sober and sane and objective sees this for what it is.
	The weaponization of the justice system to save the current president, Joe Biden, who's currently coming in three polls now, 33%, 33%, 34% approval.
	We're talking where Nixon was when he was entering 1974, just months before he resigned from office.
	That's how low Joe Biden is.
	And this literally is the only thing that could save him, Carol, because inflation, the economy ain't, and crime ain't, and the border ain't, and education ain't, and the world being on fire, because it is, ain't.
	He can't run under his record, so take out your opponent.
	Hello, Soviet Union.
	Great to have you back.
	Yeah, it's kind of amusing that they want to save democracy by using the courts to try to take out political opponents.
	I have to go back.
	There was a lot that you said there that I'd love to unpack, but the one thing that stood out to me is this Festivus miracle that you somehow think.
	think that the Supreme Court is coming back nine to zero on this thing when we know we have several justices, which happen, I know this is shocking, this happens to follow along party lines, that don't actually see the Constitution as a Constitution.
	It's like a set of guidelines or, you know, a suggestion box, if you will.
	Do you really think that there would be this Festivus miracle where we're going to have a 9-0 decision on something which we all know is the right decision, but can we trust the courts to do that?
	And at the end, even if we get the courts to come back with the right decision, doesn't that then feed that narrative that, oh, the courts, you know, need to be packed because they're just a political tool coming from the other side?
	Look, Carol.
	I'm not Star Jones.
	I'm not a lawyer.
	All right.
	But I talk a lot on TV and I watch a lot of LA law and reruns.
	That Corbin Burnson.
	Wow.
	What a piece of, you know what?
	I mean, wow.
	I mean, I'm a heterosexual guy, but that's a good-looking guy back in the day.
	Anyway, before I go off on the tangent, the point is, though, we have actual, you know what?
	I'm going to go actually to a Hall of Famer, some call, with all due respect to Mickey Mantle and to Ted Williams, the greatest offensive weapon in baseball history, Ty Cobb, has come back from the dead to weigh in on this.
	All right, it's the Ty Cobb who was Trump's lawyer, right?
	I don't think he's too much of the biggest fan of Trump.
	He was on earlier to talk about, I think it was with CNN, how he thinks they're going to come back 9.0.
	I believe that's cut one go.
	So I think this case will be handled quickly.
	I think it could be 9-0 in Supreme Court for Trump.
	That's right.
	And when you have a career batting average of 347, back in the Deadball era, you listen to that guy, Gary.
	No question.
	Yeah, you're not a lawyer.
	You don't play one on TV.
	When you were saying Star Jones, I was thinking Deion Warwick and the Psychic Friends Network.
	So I thought maybe you had a special reading in there.
	But I went to a completely different place because that's just how my brain operates.
	But I think that's going to be really, really, really difficult to have that come back, even though we know it is the right thing to do.
	But what happens?
	Whether, I mean, assuming it's not 9-0, let's go, let's just walk down this choose our own adventure and say that the Democrats decide that they're going to take a different line on that.
	Doesn't that get back to the issue of potentially court packing and them trying to delegitimatize the Supreme Court and say, oh, you know, this is political and we're in the wrong, you know, situation here.
	I mean, doesn't this open up a whole other can of worms that creates even more chaos and more frenzy and maybe is the reason why they're doing this to begin with, that it's not really about Trump, but it's really more about the courts.
	Ah, you're saying this is 3D chess where they want in the Supreme Court so they could say, see, the Supreme Court now is no longer a body that basically comes to decisions on the Constitution and the law, but because they support one team or the other.
	So now in order to even things out, we're going to add four justices to it.
	So then we have more balance on there.
	And if they win back the Senate, well, they have the Senate, but if they keep the Senate and they win back the House and somehow Joe Biden wins reelection, then that is a scenario that very easily could happen.
	So, all right, Carol, I like where you're thinking here.
	But for this time being at least, let's hear from that staunch Republican, probably the next keynote speaker at CPAC, Claire McCaskill.
	Okay, she's not.
	She's one of the biggest, most rabid, most partisan Democrats you could possibly find.
	And since she's part of the Morning Joe team on MSNBC, she's right at home.
	And even she thinks that this is a bad idea.
	Cut 11, go.
	As a lawyer, I get this.
	And I think there is a real strong case for the Supreme Court to agree with Colorado.
	As somebody who is a politician, I think it's a real bad decision because I think it really helps Donald Trump.
	And I don't like anything that helps Donald Trump.
	I find myself in the weird position of agreeing with Bill Barr in terms of it helping him.
	I think it does help him.
	Well, there you go.
	And here's the thing.
	They talk about how they have to keep Donald Trump off the ballot because he's a threat to democracy and he can't get back to the White House because so many bad things are going to happen.
	I mean, we're talking about things that we have not seen since Stalin and the old Soviet Union in the 1950s.
	And I have proof of this, Carol.
	And I want to get your reaction on the other side.
	This would be cut to Ethan, where here are the warnings of what will happen in a hyperbolic situation if Donald Trump were to win reelection.
	Cut two, go.
	We're not going to do it.
	All right.
	No problem.
	Yeah, I hear you.
	But no, let's just play how about the first 45 seconds.
	How's that sound?
	Can we do that?
	Okay.
	What would a second Donald Trump term look like?
	Well, he cannot be the next president.
	Because if he is.
	You can't imagine the things that he's going to do.
	Mexico, Canada.
	We can't go to Canada because eventually Canada will become annexed to America and shoot visitors to the White House.
	Yeah.
	That means he can shoot the first lady.
	We're going to see violence, the likes of which we didn't even see on January 6th.
	Make it illegal to run against him, to throw his opponents in jail, to shut down the media.
	He will make himself into the Fuhrer and he will make everybody raise their hand and salute him using martial law against the American people.
	Terminate the Constitution.
	Rewrite the Constitution.
	Create mass internment camps.
	Internment camps.
	You hear all of this, right?
	Shoot your opponents was also thrown out there.
	They forgot some of the bigger ones.
	There's also going to be gas station sushi for all meals.
	All water will come from Flint, Michigan.
	Santa Claus won't come anymore.
	Mean tweets will come back, but some of us like that.
	Yeah, all kinds of bad things are going to happen, Joe, and we can certainly get to more of that.
	Just ahead.
	And we will.
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	I mean, it's Thursday, right?
	We have a Sunday, Christmas Eve, and a Monday, Christmas.
	So we are only just a couple of days away.
	Hope you got all your holiday shopping done.
	I know I did, and I proudly did so, Carol, without stepping foot into even one store this entire shopping season.
	What can I say?
	Amazon is my friend.
	You say you're shopping with the big guys.
	You're not supporting your local small businesses.
	Give it back to your community, Joe Concha.
	You just decided to give over all of your money to big tech and you're going to admit that on national radio.
	I suck.
	Oh, you just, when you put it that way, but I avoided some lines.
	And that same day delivery.
	Boy, that's hard to resist, but you're right.
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	You know, Joe, we were talking just a moment ago about all the bad things that were going to happen under a Trump presidency that the media keeps telling us.
	You know, it's funny.
	I've lived through a Trump presidency and I've lived through a Biden presidency.
	And I'm pretty sure that the place where the bad things happen was under the ladder.
	So what are they talking about?
	Well, you look at the first 100 days of Joe Biden, for example.
	Now, remember when you had Donald Trump on with Sean Hannity about two weeks ago on Fox for a town hall that he had, and Sean asked, are you going to be a dictator?
	And then Trump, you know, obviously chung in cheek, half tongue-in-cheek, I should say, says, I'll only be a dictator on day one.
	And I'm going to close down the border and I'm going to drill, drill, drill, baby.
	And the media went insane over this saying, ah, see, he admitted it.
	But meanwhile, when you look at Biden, he had more executive orders in action in his first 100 days, including on day one, where he basically shut down the XL pipeline.
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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 Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hammond.
	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 Podcast, 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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	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 Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	Who the Go Bye?
	Rise Anne!
	This is, uh, I shouldn't know this, but I do.
	You don't bring me flowers?
	No?
	That's his promises, isn't it?
	Okay.
	Yeah, you don't bring me flowers is a lot slower.
	Either way, congratulations, everybody listening out there on the like 9,000 stations that we're on across the country.
	This is the first time I would think ever, and Linda would have to confirm this, that we've ever played Barbara Streisand on this show without mocking her in some way.
	But don't worry, that's coming, Carol.
	Yes, Joe, that's a very nice little segue there.
	Obviously, I'm Carol Roth.
	You're Joe Concha, and you are teeing up Barbara Streisand because as we are celebrating Festivus and we are airing our grievances, Festivus coming up this Saturday, Barbara Streisand, which we know as we heard her wonderful singing voice, apparently she is also a noted economist.
	And while the rest of us are struggling our way through the Biden presidency, she's tweeted that we are just wrong.
	Yesterday, she sent out a tweet, or I guess they're called posts now because we're now on X. Donald Trump had the worst jobs record of any president in recent years.
	President Biden has produced a jobs boom and inflation caused by the pandemic is now coming down and prices are thankfully falling.
	So Barbara Streisand, multi, you know, worth probably hundreds of millions of dollars, does not want you to worry about the fact that you cannot pay for your rent, pay for your food, pay for your electricity, that you are struggling, that you probably have had to take a second job.
	She thinks that you are doing just great.
	And oh, by the way, she linked, just in case you didn't believe her, to noted economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times, who put out a piece that is the most chef's kiss title of all time.
	Beware economists who won't admit they were wrong from a man who's only been right one time.
	I'll keep you in suspense.
	Joe, what do you think?
	I think that my hair hurts when I read that from Paul Friggin Krugman of all people to say that warning that, you know, economists must admit when they're wrong.
	This is the guy, and I'm going to quote this one.
	All right.
	In 1998, that's who said, again, this is the guy who went.
	I know what it is.
	You do?
	I know what this is.
	I do, right?
	Can I guess?
	Can we make a guess and guess?
	All right.
	So this is, this is when he said that the internet would be about as useful as a fax machine.
	Do I win?
	You win, Carol Roth.
	Congratulations.
	Yes.
	Quote, by 2005 or so, it will become clear that the internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machines.
	It's had one of the greatest impacts on any economy in human history.
	So I got that one wrong.
	Then in 2016, after Donald Trump won, we'll make this a game show.
	What did he predict, Carol, without looking it up?
	Okay, so if I remember, and by the way, this is just, this is literally a game show because I do not have your notes in front of me.
	I think this was when he predicted that the stock market was going to crash.
	Is that correct, Joe?
	Stock market would crash and that would result in a not even U.S. recession, global recession.
	In other words, Donald Trump, the great businessman, was going to take down the world.
	And obviously, we had one of the best economies that we've seen under any president.
	So there's such a long list here, but we only have finite time.
	But let's get back to Babs for a second, all right, as far as Streisand, because she makes a claim that many Democrats make, which is Joe Biden, his administration has created 14 million jobs, right?
	Dwarfing every other president, including his boss, Barack Obama, including the last Democratic president before him and Bill Clinton.
	And then they show a graph of Donald Trump losing jobs during his presidency.
	What they leave out, of course, is that little thing called the pandemic, where the country was shut down, businesses were shut down, people lost their jobs arbitrarily.
	And the jobs that Biden has added back, they're not created.
	They have been restored.
	There's a big difference between the two and nobody buys it, thank God, because you see where Biden is polling as far as his handling the economy and inflation, that too, also in the low 30s.
	And as far as inflation is concerned, and you corrected me in my analogy one time on this, Carol, where I said, hey, let's say I gained 50 pounds in one year and my wife says, hey, you know, Joe, when I married you, it wasn't just for your sense of humor, you know, quite the body there.
	And then now you look like, you know, the Stanley Cup, right?
	Like you look like you're in your second trimester, start to lose some weight.
	So then the following year, I go ahead and I only gain 15 pounds.
	And I say, see, honey, I'm losing weight.
	That's what the inflation is doing right now.
	It went up to 9% just because it came down to three.
	It's still not below 1.3%, which is what it was when Donald Trump left office.
	So Democrats keep saying that, oh, we're bringing inflation down.
	It's still 250% higher than it was before Donald Trump left office.
	So what are they talking about?
	Yeah, I mean, this is the Paul Krugmans, the Barbara Streisands, who are living in the lap of luxury.
	They're having a great time.
	And so they are looking down their noses at you, middle class and working class, who are getting absolutely crushed, saying, I don't understand why you don't understand the way that economists look at things and the rate of inflation has slowed and you should be, you know, out there throwing a party.
	We've seen that the cost for the average family has gone up by five figures per year.
	And this is a permanent tax on the middle class, something that people are going to have to contend with for the rest of their lives.
	So when Biden promised no more taxes, this is, in fact, a tax.
	It's just a very sneaky and sticky one that cannot be legislated away.
	And the fact that you get the gaslighting from these mouthpieces, from someone like Barbara Streisand, the Streisand effect, right?
	She's the one that came up with this of calling attention to something that wouldn't have been a big deal if you just didn't shine a light on it.
	And she's now re-shining a light on how bad the Biden administration has been for the middle class, but then wants to gaslight you into trying to say that you're wrong about it.
	And that's the part that hurts my heart.
	It hurts my heart more than anything because it's kind of like when you pay taxes.
	Like it's really annoying that you have to pay all of this money to the government, but then they make you jump through hoops.
	You have to do work.
	You have to work harder.
	And that makes it like, that's like a second, you know, twisting of the knife in the heart.
	And I feel like this is the same thing too.
	It's like, it's bad enough that we have this inflation that we're dealing with, but then you want to tell me that it's not a big deal.
	It's just turning the knife in the heart again and again.
	And couldn't they just come out and say, yes, we know it's been a struggle and we've gotten it wrong.
	And here are our policies to change it.
	Of course not.
	They just want to gaslight you into thinking that you're wrong and thinking that this is a winning message for them, which is why as we're airing our grievances here, I've got a real big problem with this, Joe.
	Give Bill Clinton credit because at least he went with the line, I feel your pain.
	And that at least shows empathy or sympathy.
	And instead, you have like a Joe Biden who has multi-million dollar homes throughout Delaware.
	Not quite sure how exactly he afforded that on a Senate salary, but then Barbara Streisand, who is worth tens of millions of dollars and Paul Krugman, who's also worth seven figures.
	They're telling you that this isn't happening because they don't feel it, right?
	And like so many people do who are working multiple jobs, including us, Carol, by the way.
	I think I'm up to four at this point.
	But let's play cut 12, shall we?
	Because this is the Biden administration, to your point, gaslighting 101 as far as telling you that no, really, really, Bidenomics is working.
	How are we like affording life right now?
	And guess what?
	Bidenomics is working.
	It's to a point where people can't live.
	You're not budgeting your money.
	Oh, you're not doing this.
	Oh, you're buying coffee.
	And it's like, no, I'm literally not doing any of this thing.
	That's binomics inaction.
	And the American people are beginning to feel binomics.
	Live paycheck to paycheck every week because I'm trying to pay every bill that the world is throwing at me right now.
	Binomics is growing the economy from the middle out and bottom up.
	And the government's response to that is, oh, hey, everybody, aliens are real.
	We don't give a f about aliens.
	We're trying to afford a roof over our heads.
	The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal initially call my plan Bidenomics.
	I'm not sure they meant it totally complimentary right at the time.
	But guess what?
	It's working.
	I'm just really tired of like not making you want to do the things that I want.
	Prices on everything are up from food, gas, rent to 60 bucks to fill up your gas thing.
	It's 140 instead of 99 cents for eggs.
	It's three dollars.
	Rent's going from three grand to five grand.
	All that adds up.
	And wages aren't going up fast enough.
	Bidenomics.
	And Bidenomics is working.
	So what did most of us have to do, myself included, with the extra $400 a month I was spending on gas?
	I had to use my credit cards.
	Even with three jobs now, I'm not even going to make a dent on those credit card bills.
	I seriously want to know what the end game is because soon we're not going to have any money for anything anymore.
	Bidenomics is working.
	Why the f are we working so hard to make money for other people to use and steal our income just for us to never see it?
	We have the strongest economy in the world.
	You're looking at me a little skeptical, but I promise you.
	Check it out.
	I'm working just to basically pay bills, just to survive.
	We had to bleep three F-bombs in that montage, Carol.
	Yeah, no, I mean, only somebody like the president we have that has oatmeal for brains would take this pejorative term in Bidenomics and go, you know what?
	Let's try and turn that one around and use it and just keep shining a light on what a terrible job that we're doing.
	He touts these job numbers.
	As you mentioned, some of them were reclaimed jobs from the pandemic.
	But also, there are a lot of people who've had to take on multiple jobs to be able to afford the standard cost of living.
	We know people have dipped into their personal savings.
	The personal savings rate is down.
	We know that debt is household debt is at record levels.
	So people's personal balance sheets are getting killed.
	Yet he wants to take credit for a booming economy.
	But when you look at the polls, the number one issue is the economy.
	And nobody in that administration, not even Kamala Harris and her Venn diagrams, have done an overlapping circle to say this don't make any sense and we should probably move in a different direction here.
	Here's the thing.
	You see these polls with young voters now going to Trump, where Trump lost by something like 30 points among young voters in 2020.
	And now he's actually beating Biden among this demographic.
	And I actually saw some real journalism done where you had folks go out to young people, put these panels together and say, why?
	Why would you leave Joe Biden?
	Why are you disappointed in this presidency?
	And it's as if they read your book, Carol.
	You will own nothing.
	And they talk about the fact that they feel like they're going to have to rent for the rest of their life and maybe even stay in the same apartment because to even upgrade is an impossibility because all of their savings is gone or doesn't exist, or they're obviously paying off interest on their credit cards as they continue to spend on that front.
	And there's just nothing left because they also have all this student loan debt.
	And you say, well, Biden's trying to forgive student loan debt.
	Well, yeah, no, 50% of that is to forgive student loans for graduate degrees or advanced degrees, the type of people who become lawyers and doctors that could pay it back.
	So that's not going to solve.
	to bring the cost of college down and that's certainly not going to happen anytime soon i say this my brother runs a trade school in patterson new jersey it's about 15 minutes from my house it's a rough town all right it's it's a low to middle class town hardworking people uh but if you're born in pattern you really got to work to to get out of there and the way you get out of places is by educating yourself but to go to college If you want to go to Harvard, for example, then that's $80,000 a year.
	It's $320,000 over four years.
	It's $500,000 before taxes you would have to earn to send one kid to college.
	All right.
	And that's not just Harvard.
	It could be Duke.
	It could be Stanford.
	Your average state school is even way too expensive for these kids.
	So they go to trade school instead and they learn to become a mechanic or a contractor or an electrician.
	And my brother tells me that after they graduate, the job placement, and it's called Hohoka School Trades, is 97%.
	They get out and there's a job waiting for almost all of these kids if they have the proper training.
	So that is booming right now as far as trade schools are concerned.
	And I would go down that route.
	But to get back to our overall point, young people are leaving Biden because they're experiencing what everybody's experiencing.
	And that's the fact that achieving the American dream, having a house, getting your kids a good college education, that's out of reach for almost all Americans outside of the very, very rich or the very, very well-placed in terms of family money.
	Yes.
	And at this point, I'm not sure who would want to send their kid to Harvard or to My Alma Modern University of Pennsylvania, MIT, any of these other schools that have become hedge funds with indoctrination camps attached to it.
	But if you do send your kid there, you're not getting your loans forgiven by the Biden administration, which they knew to begin with, which is why that promise was broken, why people are, again, dismayed with this president.
	Because there really is nothing to hang their head on, is there, Joe?
	Nope, he's not sending flowers to the American people, that's for sure.
	And this is the way I'm going to pivot out of here by, Ethan, let's queue it up because now we're going to break the record.
	All right, a record that we broke just 15 minutes ago as far as Barbara Streisand, the second time on the Sean Hannity show, and probably the last time if Sean has anything to do with this, let's get out of here.
	You don't bring me flowers, Barbara Streisand.
	Yes.
	Let's keep going.
	Let's blow up this great foul song.
	You don't bring me flowers of summer.
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