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Race To The Left - April 8th, Hour 3
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Uh, as we are now at a critical juncture in Washington in terms of getting this reconciliation bill passed.
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Uh, we did this show last night, and I've been talking a little bit about it today, about the rise of the radical left, and it's just gotten so ridiculously out of hand.
Democrats remain silent as we witness domestic terrorism acts at Tesla.
We've watched bullets being fired into Tesla dealerships.
We've watched charging uh stations put ablaze.
We have watched cars being put ablaze.
Uh, we've seen the doxing of Tesla owners, and the list goes on and on and on.
I mean, this is nothing but domestic terrorism.
I mentioned earlier a report that this violent, you know, political rhetoric has become increasingly normalized.
Nearly 50% of leftists said that they could somewhat justify an Elon Musk assassination.
Fifty-five percent said the same thing about Donald Trump.
The only 58% on the left said destroying a Tesla dealership is partly acceptable.
In what world is that ever acceptable?
It it's never acceptable under any circumstances at all, whatsoever.
But this is the the radical left in America today.
You know, Carville comparing those cooperating with Trump as Nazi collaborators.
I mean, it's it's pretty remarkable that this is the country that we are sadly Living in.
And but it is what it is, isn't it?
Let's go back to some of the things that we've been playing.
You know, look at the leadership that has now emerged among the left wing in this country.
Jasmine Crockett, you know, here's some of a more recent viral outbursts.
Y'all know we got Governor High Wheels down there.
Come on now.
When I first became a public defender, I had no criminal defense experience.
And I walked in and I told my boss Charlie, I said, listen, you should hire me.
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I mean, like, this dude has to be knocked over the head like hard, right?
Like, there is no niceties with him.
Like at all.
Like, you you go clean off on him.
In fact, I'm a skip off real quick because they have tried to come for you, Miss Mayor.
And I just want to clarify, you did not work for NPR when those statements were made, did you?
That is correct, Mike.
And to be clear, free speech is not about whatever it is that y'all want somebody to say.
And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bull.
All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Eli to be taken down.
Yes.
And it's not just her.
Let me play the remark of James Carville comparing Trump allies to Nazi collaborators.
Do you know these collaborators with the country is going to feel toward collaborators with this regime?
Maybe you need to go in history and see what happened in the August of 1944.
Or after Paris was liberated, they didn't take very kindly to the collaborators.
No.
It was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris.
I'm not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their heads shaved, march down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit up.
I'm not saying that.
But I'm saying that that did happen.
And I'm saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think that these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States.
Anyway, here to weigh in on all of this, our friend Horace Cooper's with us, legal commentator, co-chair of the Black Leadership Network, Project 21, author of Put Y'all Back in Chains, How Biden's Policies Harm Blacks.
Great to have you, Horace.
How are you?
Good.
Um, as you just outlined, we're in very, very dangerous territory.
We haven't seen in this country the kind of willingness for large numbers of Americans to join in acts of violence for nearly 30 years.
You you've got to go all the way back to the Black Panthers and some of the other uh left-wing radical front groups.
I mean, between now and then, we saw a lot of dangerous activity by radical environmentalists.
But this has come to a head, and with that Rutgers study that you mentioned, it shows that large numbers of people who identify as activists of the left are willing to pick up whatever the weapon they find to use it in perhaps very, very deadly ways.
What do you make of where the Democratic Party is now?
I thought it was pretty interesting in this this poll for the data for progress.
55% of likely Democratic primary voters in New York said they would support AOC, and only 36% lean towards Chucky Schumer.
That's a 19-point advantage.
That tells me that if she runs and challenges Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer's out on his ass.
Like I I said before, when you're having work done on your house, maybe you're rehabbing your kitchen and you're unhappy with what the electrician has done.
You don't normally hire an arsonist as a consequence.
But this is what it looks like the left is doing.
They are taking the most radical and extreme steps.
The truth of the matter is any party, Democrat, Republican, Communist, whatever it might be, needs to put together a program, a Platform of the kinds of things that they hope the American people will support.
What we are seeing looks a lot more like the resist movement from the South during Jim Crow.
Whatever Donald Trump and whatever the American people want, it's just no.
So we saw all these protests around the country all weekend.
And we even sent our friend Joe Concha.
He got we by the way, we gotta we gotta fix this with Concha.
I said it to him on the air last night.
He was in a jacket, he didn't have his tie on, but he had a suit on.
I'm like, okay, you're among a bunch of hippie left-wing has been 60s radicals, and you're dr you stand out like a sore thumb.
The only thing missing was the Fox News flag on his microphone, and they literally said to them, I hate you.
I hate Elon Musk, and even one one young girl justifying violence against Tesla and Elon Musk.
And I'm thinking, that's an awful lot of hate.
Now, putting the hate part aside, how do you how do you persuade people that that point of view and these actions that you support are something that any reasonable human being with an ounce of common sense is ever wanna ever gonna want to be a part of?
I don't think you ever convince them of that.
Look, I was on Capitol Hill when uh the Republicans came up with the contract for America, and that laid out in a very straightforward way how if the American people granted Republicans a majority in Congress the kinds of things that they would do.
And they were common sense.
What I can't figure out, well, of course the left, the radicals, are on the wrong side.
It's often said that they picked the 20 of a 2080 issue.
But it's time for some leaders to step up and say, We have a plan, we have a platform.
These are the kinds of things going around and keying people's cars, or worse, blowing them up, burning them down, threatening to assassinate people, even threatening to assassinate ICE agents, that's not a plan.
That's a sign of a political meltdown.
Heading into the 2026 election, if this doesn't change, and I mean like this week, if this doesn't change, they're gonna be locked in to a substantial loss of seats in the House and the Senate.
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We're going to continue now with our friend Horace Cooper looking at the rise of the radical left in America.
Well, maybe you can explain something to me.
Tell me where Liz Cheney is when we need her, you know, Madam January 6th or so.
Where's Adam Kinzinger?
Uh, where are all these January 6th people that have been talking about this for five years?
Now they were the same people that lied to us and said that the 574 riots in the summer of 2020 were mostly peaceful.
Uh meanwhile, dozens of Americans died, thousands of cops were injured.
They were slammed with bricks, rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, billions in property damage was done.
There was no congressional investigation, there was no equivalent to the J 6 committee.
You know, why all of a sudden the very people that that were doxing Supreme Court justices and Chucky Schumer, you will rule the day, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, Ba Baba, and and all this.
Uh they're so against January 6th, they're obsessed, even to this day, January 6th, January 6th, January 6th.
And meanwhile, they remain silent in the summer of 2020.
They remain silent with pro-Hamas, which are terrorists, a terrorist organization, uh agitators and violent people on campus.
Charlie Kirk's group, you know, they had their tables overthrown at UC Davis.
Uh they're they're silent on the attacks on Tesla.
They're silent on the attacks against any conservative.
Uh, and the violent rhetoric against Trump is almost like on a daily basis.
So they're just phony hypocrites lying for not one but two assassination attempts against the prominent presidential candidate.
Now they're openly, there are people part of their movement that are openly calling for assassination and are involved in domestic terrorism and they're not doing a damn thing.
Well, I think you answered your question.
They're a bunch of hypocrites.
They knew back when we had the quote mostly peaceful protests that the insurance industry said they paid out more than a billion dollars in damages.
They knew that that wasn't true.
And even some of the ones that said we can't go to church, we can't gather in our communities, we can't go shopping at Walmart, overlooked all of these people gathering in mobs when it came time to discuss COVID.
Today their silence tells us everything about what hypocrites they are.
But I will tell you this, at least these uh renegade so-called Republicans have figured out that it's gonna, you know, sneak away and disappear because they're not going to be instrumental in whether or not the party that they were members of thrives.
It's incumbent upon the Democrats to come up with some plans and some solutions and to say, Jasmine Crockett, shut up and sit down.
They absolutely must rise to the occasion, and I repeat, a failure to do so.
The American people are watching, a failure to do so could prove very, very crippling for their political party's livelihood.
Yeah, but don't worry, they'll have their bingo cards and they won't stand for mothers that lost their children or a young man that survived cancer.
Uh, not one Democrat stood for these people during the joint session uh speech of Donald Trump.
How disgusting was that.
Yeah, absolutely.
Uh it's like they've completely gone deranged, and they think every destructive thing that any advisor, I mean, I you normally don't need an advisor to say when a kid has cancer and they think it's terminal and you hear about it, you respond with sympathy.
You don't need a political advisor to help you understand that.
But if you're dark and black inside your heart, apparently you do.
I only offer the advice that I offer because competition is good.
We need two viable, amazing uh political.
No, no, no, we don't.
I'm perfectly fine with them self-destructing.
Just saying.
But you're right.
I mean, you don't have a heart, a soul, or a conscience if you can't stand for that young man.
And then he became a secret service agent that night.
How cool was that?
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Big Joe, what's going on, Joe?
How are you?
Sean, great show.
Sean, I'm 85 years old, and I've been calling your program for 32 years.
I work out every day.
I've got a trainer, and my goal is to be on your show calling into your show ten years from now when I'm 95 years old.
Well, I'm gonna say that prayer that that happens and that God grant you the longevity you deserve.
So I interviewed this guy, health, wellness, fitness expert.
Him, his name is Gary Brucker.
Him and Gillian Michaels have been really, really helpful in in terms of me dialing in and getting healthier, right?
And Gary Brecker believes that if you can live five more years, and you will, I have every belief you will, Joe, that that artificial intelligence is gonna make it so that we will be able to diagnose any any illness you have that much earlier, and your odds of living well past a hundred are gonna go up exponentially.
I got a friend of mine and uh that stopped by from Washington here today, he's a tech guru.
Uh is that all true?
That in five years, right?
Artificial intelligence?
Um anyway, well, uh, what is it called?
Groc.
That's Elon's, which is I which is believed to have surpassed whatever the Chinese version of AI is and to believe to be the most sophisticated.
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Uh, let us say hi to Lisa.
She's in the great state of Texas.
Lisa, how are you?
God bless Texas.
Thanks for checking in.
Thank you, sir.
And yes, God bless Texas, and and we can send Jasmine to California.
So um, I have a comment to make.
I think with this tariff thing, there's gotta be money that's um passing through hands.
And I really do believe that there could be lobbyists from other countries that are dealing with these democrats to keep them from backing this plan.
And I make you know, I I I I'm so cynical at this point in my life.
I've seen so much corruption.
Uh I don't think any of us ever expected Doge to discover hundred, you know.
I think we're getting close to 200 billion dollars now.
I don't think anyone ever expected that they would be so deceitful.
Look, for example, DEI programs in Burma or any of these other foreign nations and and wokeism and transgenderism and the Green New Dealism, nobody they didn't put they didn't write down 45 million for Burm or DEI.
What they did is they thought they were clever, put it under some obscure heading, and they knew damn well where the money was going.
And that is called corruption.
So I'm as cynical as you.
I think that anything's possible.
I hate being cynical, but that's I mean, that's the only way I can do it.
And and I'm like, how much and how sad do you have to be to want these other countries to succeed so your pockets lined but you don't care about your constituents?
And that's the way I feel about it.
How can anybody intelligently argue that if countries are charging us tariffs, they're doing it for their own benefit, number one.
Number two, they're hurting us by doing it.
And number three, giving these countries the free will and choice of having free and fair trade with us, especially when you kind of factor in that without the United States military, these countries pretty much are screwed, if God forbid anything ever happens.
We're the ones that are gonna be s you know supporting Europe if all hell ever breaks out loose out over there.
We're the ones that are gonna be helping Japan.
We're gonna help Taiwan.
You think little Justin and Canada are capable of Defending Canada from an attack from Russia.
I promise you, they couldn't even shoot out a spy balloon because their airplane couldn't make altitude.
They can't do, you know, they can't do a thing without us.
And so now we're saying, you know what?
The free ride is over, ripping us off institutionally.
Yeah, you've got away with it for 50 years, 60 years.
It's over.
And now if you want to be trading partners, it's going to be free, fair, or you get reciprocal tariffs.
The choice is yours.
And by the way, if we give you money, uh, we still have the right to tariff you.
That's fundamental fairness.
Um their country, it's time to build ours.
Yeah, and how about we stop stealing from our children and grandchildren?
You know, ever since I had kids, I mean, and I was I was not making anywhere near the money I'm making now.
Everyone knows that I started, you know, for most of my twenties, I was living paycheck to paycheck.
But when I had my children from the very beginning, I started saving money.
Because I my I what do I always say about money?
It doesn't make you happy.
I'm I probably was happier.
I could make the argument I was happier with less money.
And I could say the people ask me all the time, I could go back to how I was living with a crappy TV that was on a box that I picked up at the grocery store on a $75 smoky smelly couch that I bought at a garage sale.
I could if I had to.
It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
And but it does give you freedom.
Money equals freedom.
I say that all the time.
Freedom matters.
And by the way, if if liberals had their way, they would want to confiscate my wealth the minute I died.
And I love my accountants.
They always would say to me when I lived in New York before I got smartened up and moved to the free state of Florida.
It's a whatever you do, don't die in New York.
And I'd look at them every year when we'd go over my finances, I'd say, I'll have a good conversation with God over that.
Yeah, because New York takes 10.
You pay all that money in taxes.
You pay your federal taxes your whole life, and you die, and they take another 40%.
And then if you live in New York, they get 10 more percent.
It's like they would take the gold out of your teeth if they could.
Unbelievable.
I'm getting worked up here.
Through the nose, out through the mouth.
All right.
Let's get back to our phones.
Lisa in Texas got me all worked up.
Uh let us say hi to John and Sandiego, uh Kogo Radio.
What's up, John?
How are you?
Okay, Sean, before I get to it, um, that lady that called yesterday whining about losing her shirt because uh she was a professional trader and she lost all her money.
If she didn't sell any of her shares, she didn't lose any money.
And I'm pretty sure she was uh you were kind to her, you shouldn't have been.
But uh she was a one of uh Russia's seminar callers, everything she said was a was fake.
Okay.
I'm glad you said that because while that call was going on, Linda, I hit what's called the talk back button where you can't hear me on the air.
I said, Linda, immediately, what did I say?
Linda, this is a seminar caller.
I said immediately seminar calling.
What did I say?
You that you doubted me.
Oh, I I still disagree with you.
I'm not doubting you.
No, let me tell you, John in San Diego and Sean Hannity are right.
You're wrong.
What John in San Diego does not know, but what you know, because I've shared it with you, is that that caller has called you.
The caller that drinks coffee.
Yeah, that caller has called you many, many times.
Now, she, like many people, some of which may be seminar callers that are put up by lunatic, you know, watchdogs who think that they should earn a living sitting in their underwear listening to Sean Hannity, which is weird for a variety of reasons.
But putting that to the side, that particular woman has always called the show.
Love to talk about your move to Florida, how Biden was a bozo, you know, totally normal.
Now just saying, I think she lost her mind, like a lot of people, because people get freaked out by the quick correction that is happening in the markets, which is to be expected because Trump is writing a wrong that has been wrong for decades.
So Elon and Trump got to write it up.
It's gonna take a minute, and everybody's just gotta take a deep breath.
The man's been there for three months.
Three months.
But Diane, the caller from yesterday with John in San Diego.
I see.
I call Adam Schiff, uh Adam Bullshiff on Linda.
I think you're right and I'm right.
Okay, okay.
Well, okay, we'll say she's a rookie seminar caller.
Anyway, my thing is that you John, you listen.
Let John talk.
He's talking.
Let John talk.
John's agreeing with you.
Go ahead, John.
All right, here's what's gonna happen in the next two weeks with Trump's uh negotiation.
Okay, almost every country that's mouthing off about uh Trump now, they're gonna have to, they're gonna cancel their tariffs because like China, China's got a 300 billion dollar trade surplus with us.
They cannot afford to cancel their business with us.
I don't care.
By the way, if China cancels, I'm actually okay with it.
I love the fact that we're getting smart for another reason.
Think about this.
Now we're gonna build semiconductor chips here.
It's a national security threat.
Anything happens and we can't, and we can't build our own.
We're in deep atom shift.
What about the grid in Texas?
Great point.
The grid in Texas is another great example.
I'll give you another one.
Uh pharmaceuticals.
Too much too many of our pharmaceuticals come.
We learned that during COVID.
Anyway, last word, John, because I um we took too much of your time.
Yeah.
Well, okay, so anyway, they can't afford, so they're gonna have to capitulate.
And uh then prices drop.
We have deflation, which is good for us.
And when we have deflation, then Powell can't keep complaining that, oh, I can't look I can't lower interest rates because they tie their interest rates on treasuries to inflation.
We go back down to one percent, that's a trillion a year off the budget surplus just on interest.
Then as prices drop, we get to uh we get to have better trade, and the small countries that can't afford to buy our products, they're gonna have to start buying uh what we sell commodities that are internationally priced, like oil, uh natural gas, rare earth metals, because they're they gotta buy those.
They can't get it cheaper anywhere else, and we end up with a balance of trade.
That's another trillion dollars of every dollar of trade deficit is a dollar loss in tax revenue for us, and it's five dollars lost in GDP.
You stop that, there's a balanced budget, and it's not that it's not a fake balanced budget like they had in the 90s, where the debt action went up every year.
And then the let me bottom line you got my way out because I gotta run.
By the way, I love the Del Coronado.
Although I had one very bad experience.
I said a friend there that didn't appreciate the great gift that I gave this individual once.
You're a terrible friend.
I'm a I was that was awful.
Horrible.
You would think uh, but I think it's the greatest hotel on earth.
Anyway, I gotta roll, my friend.
800-941 Sean.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
We will be in our nation's capital.
We have a Senate Town Hall, John Thune, Senator Tom Cotton, Senator Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, uh, Mark Wayne Mullen, I mean, Katie Britt.
I can't even remember everybody.
All coming up.
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