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Welcome one

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and all to the

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Damage Report, A

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special Friday edition of

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the Damage Report, a

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special purple edition of the Damage Report, because we

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have not

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only me, John DeRula, but also

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the newly purpled Brett Ehrlich. Brett, how's

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it going? I would say I would

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go so far as to say I'm

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blurple, John. Blurpled, yeah, it's

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a little bit blue with your lighting, but

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it is purple in reality. I

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can change certain aspects to this, but not

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many aspects of it. The problem with purple

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is it's very difficult to make. In

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person, you would see me go like, my

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God, bro, you are very purple, as

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you did. Your lighting is very

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different right now. It's the only way

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to get purple to show up on

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this SLR camera here, I'll change some

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stuff. You don't have to change

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anything, but maybe you could provide an explanation as

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to, I like the purple hair. I think it

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looks great, by the way, if people have seen

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pictures on your Instagram and everything. It's

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that, my God, are

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you in Guardians of the Galaxy now? No

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earthly way of knowing which to

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stop purple anymore. But

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anyway, whatever you're doing with

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the lighting also made your lips very

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vibrant. I know, is that

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better? That's less that. That's what they look like in

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real life. I'm going to have to ask the work

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marks in the chat. They're so, they're ruby, they're all

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in ruby. They just draw the eyes, you can't

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look at anything other than your lips. But

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anyway, put on nude lipstick. As Bad Fetch

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says, there were strong

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Yondu vibes. And producer

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Mike Dragon says, we're a news show. No,

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this is how every episode of Cuomo's

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show starts. But anyway. I never tasted

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Tarrant before. This is

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just a normal news show. It's just two

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purple boys doing two purple boy things. I

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got my fin, I'm full. undo.

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I like it actually. I occasionally will

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push mine. I don't have enough stuff in it

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right now. But I would like to say I've

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been sort of planning after the month I'm going

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to cut it before the IR RNC and maybe

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even midway through I might try a shorter look

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when I go to Texas because I don't want

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to get shot. But I do have to say I

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like it. I

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don't know if I even want to cut it now

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actually. Like it's a little bit poofy and off kilter

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right now. I didn't do much with it but I

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am enjoying it. I am enjoying it. Am

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I less purple now? Yeah, I just want to live that

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purple life. That's just what I want.

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We're both just so vain. We're talking about ourselves.

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Am I less purple? You're like I'm going to

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Texas. All right, let's do this.

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Okay, and for lunch anyway, we do a lot

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of talk about it. In fact, we have so

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much talk about that we should probably get into

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it. There's so much news. It's fascinating. We've got

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corruption and we've got people just

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being sick of things and just disgusting

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behavior. I love it. Insulting cities that

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might have consequences there and a whole

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lot more besides. That's all in the

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first hour. Definitely stick around for the

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throwing away of the garbage in the

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soon to be named Trashy.

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Trashy is the informal nickname

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now. And we have

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a special garbage person this week

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that was chosen by leaderboard

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winner Anthony McClendon in our first Dragonathon.

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So we'll be discussing that as

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well. Lots to talk about. Why

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don't we start talking about it

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with this? I'll lose the debate on purpose.

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Maybe I'll do something like that. That's

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about right. Donald Trump about

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two weeks away from debating

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Joe Biden continuing his preemptive

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surrender tour. He clearly has no

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confidence in his ability to beat

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Joe Biden, sleepy or jacked up

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Joe. Either way, he's scared. And

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now he's saying he's going to

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lose on purpose, which

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I buy from someone as vain and

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narcissistic as Donald Trump. Trump someone who

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prizes winning so much that he will

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never be able to admit when he

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is lost. He's now saying that

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he's going to take a dive so that

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he can have Joe Biden. Well, look, I don't believe

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it. But I think it's only fair for

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us to at least hear him explain why it is that

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he would do such a thing. If

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he does make it through, which I think he

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will, they're going to feed him a lot of stuff.

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And we should do a drug test. I'd love

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to do a drug test beforehand. We have to

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wonder. He makes it through no matter how bad

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he is, they'll say he was great. He was

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genius. Yeah, of course. I don't believe him. But

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you look at the state of the union and

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the way he performed there and then the way

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he performed in Normandy, for example, these are two

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different people. Very different. Well, you know, interestingly, they've

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done polling and I do better

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against almost everybody. This guy

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does better than the

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Democrats that you're talking about, including

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Whitmer. He does

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better than them. I don't quite understand that.

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I'm a little surprised. But

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he actually polls better than all

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of the people that you're talking about. And so

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they don't want to take him off. It

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depends. Maybe I'm better off losing the

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debate. I'll make sure he says I'll lose the debate

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on purpose. Maybe I'll do something like that. Yeah,

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I'm not checking any of those claims he

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made about the polls because for one, I

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don't care. Two, I don't have any faith

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that Biden would step down, although I think

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that would be a good path to go

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for the Democrats. And three, we know from

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years of experience that Donald Trump is physically

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incapable of saying anything true about any poll.

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So and also he's talking about like he mentions

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Whitmer and he's like, I do better against all

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these people you're talking about. I

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listened to the interview. The host didn't bring up

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any of this. It was just Donald Trump talking

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about it. So the whole thing's weird and I

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don't buy it at all. We have a little

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bit more, but Brett, what do you make of

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the claim that he would take a dive on

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purpose? Here's the problem. I used to play basketball

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against this kid named Reuben. And every time I

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beat him, he would say I wasn't even trying.

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That's Donald Trump is seventh

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degree. raid, Reuben energy.

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That's it. It's that guy

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and someone told Donald Trump

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that the simple sentence probably

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at some point that performance

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in debates is all

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about expectation. Yeah. And

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that's it. And he started saying stuff like,

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oh, I'm gonna lose. Maybe I'll lose on

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purpose. And he's like, maybe

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it's when it comes to debating Donald

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Trump or Biden scores better than

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all the other Democrats. Yeah. Cause

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he debated you. Yeah. And

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you're horrible at it. Like everybody was

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so, when Trump first showed up

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and appeared at the debates, I

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remember laughing my ass off cause

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he was actually charming and funny

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and hilarious and disruptive. And I

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had, I had lived with 35

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years of these limp

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Republican weirdo fake creatures like Ted

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Cruz messaging within an inch of

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his life. And everybody just went

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along with it because they were

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all doing the same stilted nonsense.

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Yeah. But then by

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the time Trump took the stage against Biden,

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we were just so on with that. Biden

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showed up and we had an adult

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get a couple sentences out that made

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us feel confident that if we took

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the entire country away from the baby

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known as Donald Trump, we could have

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someone with a head on his shoulders

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just do the work. Yeah. Yeah,

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look, and I don't necessarily

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buy the humor thing as much as you, but we'll debate

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that in the aftermath. We have a topic for it. But

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yeah, he, look, Donald Trump in

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the 2016 Republican primary debates did the

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thing that we now think of Trump's

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debate performances as being of clowning them

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and joking around and being weird and

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bizarre and all that. The

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issue for Trump has been that that's not

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who he is when he debates Democrats when

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he debated Hillary Clinton and we debated Joe

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Biden. He was angry

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and vindictive and dark and

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small and that's why he

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wasn't rated by the by

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the population. in polls to have won

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any of those debates. He couldn't beat Hillary

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Clinton, who I don't think of as a

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great debater. He couldn't beat Joe Biden, who

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is arguably sleepy Joe, but it doesn't matter.

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Trump can't beat them. And following that, he

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was done with debates. He's not

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debating the Republicans this time around. He might pull out

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of this. We know Sean Hannity has been saying it

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would be a good idea for him to drop out.

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And Trump is even saying, there's only a 10% chance

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CNN will be fair to me as the

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debate. So he might well pull out. And

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so he just, regardless of what he might

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have done when his target was

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Marco Rubio, we are years and years

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away from that. And I don't think

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he has confidence in himself. I don't

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think the Republicans have confidence in him

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to win. And that's why

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they're putting forward all these conspiracies that

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Joe will definitely win because he's

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prepping a lot, like that's unacceptable,

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or because he'll be jacked up on caffeine

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or something. But then they also can't admit

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that he'll be better as a result of

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that. So they have to simultaneously say, which

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they did in this interview, that also every

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one of his speeches is terrible. He's a terrible

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speaker. Well, then why is he gonna beat your guy? It's this

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mixed messaging, but all of it, the one message

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that comes through clear is they don't think that

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Trump can beat this guy, or at least they're

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very worried that he won't, which is why I

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think there's still a significant chance that he pulls

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out. I think that that would be

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very damaging to him. It would look incredibly cowardly, so

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I still would put my money on them debating. But

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I do think that in the end, Joe Biden

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will probably come out of it looking like the

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victor, not necessarily even because of his strength as

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a debater, but just because Donald Trump will look

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like a deranged, dangerous, little weenie. Any

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final thoughts on this debate board move on? No,

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I think I just screwed up my video on

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this. I like it. I like it. It's

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got dark. Real dumb. I have no clue

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which has happened. That was the only color

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that comes through. Okay. Well, you deal with

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that while I launch us into our next

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topic, you weirdo. Sorry. Anyway, Sean Hannity is

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trying to save Trump. from himself by

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getting him to pull out of the debates. But

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others at Fox are actually boosting him in fairly

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ridiculous ways. Take a look at this. And

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if Trump wins 150 years from

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now, this will be referred

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to as the age of Trump. He

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dominates the policy debate in ways that

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no one has done since Reagan. It's

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not even close. And if he

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picks a strong VP, and we have every reason to

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believe he will, and

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if this new coalition becomes a

10:28

governing coalition, well, it can be in power

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for 50 years. It could end

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up changing the world. And most

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importantly for us, for our kids, our

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grandkids, saving America. Look,

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we might disagree with some of the specific

10:43

things that Loringram said there, and we will

10:45

analyze those, but I wanna give her credit

10:47

at least that, look, it's not the hardest

10:49

thing in the world to deliver a monologue like

10:51

that reading off a teleprompter. But it is significantly

10:53

more difficult when you have to do it with

10:55

both of Donald Trump's boots in your mouth. And

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I think that she did a pretty good job

10:59

with the pronunciation, regardless of that. But that was

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ridiculous. That was buffoonish.

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He dominates the policy debate. Look,

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if you wanna say that he dominates

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the debate and thus there can be

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no talk of policy, sure,

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I guess that's fine. But the idea

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that anything about Trump or the MAGA

11:19

movement, or the Trump era that she's

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talking about, has been uniquely focused on

11:23

policy is utterly ridiculous. Infrastructure week is

11:25

a joke for a reason. The

11:28

Donald Trump healthcare plan is a joke for a

11:30

reason. He doesn't have the policies, but don't worry,

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he'll get back to you in two weeks or

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so. But anyway, if

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he gets in, he could end up

11:39

changing the world. I do agree with

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her with that. I think that

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if he becomes president again, it will mark

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a very significant change in America and in

11:47

the world. I just don't think that that

11:49

change will save us in any way, Brett.

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What do you make of her mini-Rike

11:54

argument that she's making there? It's

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weird and it's already been disproven cuz

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Trump was president. That's what

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they don't seem to understand is

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like, if what you're saying is

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true, why didn't it happen already?

12:08

He was president of the United States, all

12:10

he did was lose various chambers of Congress.

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No one wants that thing. The

12:16

only reason that the Republican Party swung back

12:18

the other way is because Americans by and

12:21

large are like, I don't know what will

12:23

fix it, but I don't like it now.

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And so around the margins, people

12:29

are so polarized, but around the

12:31

margins, you can win back the

12:33

house because people

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look at the president and they're like, there

12:38

have been times when there

12:40

are these giant coalition shifts

12:43

in America where one party

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dominates at least one chamber

12:47

of the government. The

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Democrats had this insane run of things

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for a while because they

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did some of the stuff they

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do now and some of the

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stuff the Republicans do now. It

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was this weird unholy alliance between

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Southern racists and progressive everyone else's.

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That was it. That was how it worked. Something

13:08

like that is something that Laura

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Ingram is really crossing her fingers

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happens with Donald Trump the second

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go around, but no one has

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any reason to believe the only

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person he dominates is your average

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Republican politician. He doesn't dominate

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Democrats. He doesn't dominate with normal

13:25

people. He just bitch smacks your

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weirdos like you and you've all

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obviously fallen in line. Just

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listen to how you're talking, Lolo. 100%,

13:35

yeah, no, he dominates Republicans like

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Cesar Milan would dominate a dog. He

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does that, I suppose. He gives them

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a little like that. And

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she's dominated. As you

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said, that right there is evidence

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of her domination. Not just her, there's

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nothing special about Laura Ingram at Fox.

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Most of them have already been exposed. We are

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years out from them having been exposed. their

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private text messages being leaked, that they don't

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like him, they don't like his lies. But

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they also really like being on TV,

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so please, please, please keep looking at

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me to cite Brett's book. And

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so I'll remind you of some of those. So this

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is what she said about the attempt in 2020 of

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that governing coalition to hold onto power.

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She said no serious lawyer could believe what

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they were saying, talking about Trump's legal argument

14:23

that the election have been stolen. No serious

14:25

lawyer could believe it. Then on

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air one night later, she told her viewers

14:30

that she believed the election was rife with

14:32

problems and potential fraud, but that Biden would

14:35

be nonetheless inaugurated on January 12th. Which, look,

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arguably is still more responsible than most of

14:39

the Fox hosts. But she says

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in private, this is ridiculous, buffoonish, it's

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not true. And then to her viewers who

14:46

she doesn't give a damn about, oh yeah,

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no, it was totally stolen, by the way.

14:50

Tucker Carlson texted her around that time to

14:53

say Sidney Powell is lying, by the way,

14:55

I caught her, it's insane. Sidney

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Powell is a complete nut, Ingram responded,

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no one will work with her. Did

15:02

it with Rudy, it's unbelievably offensive to

15:04

me, says Carlson. Our viewers

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are good people and they believe it. And

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then on air that very same night, Laura

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Ingram criticized those who dismissed Trump's

15:13

challenges as conspiracy theories. So

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again, she is dominated.

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She's on the ground, paws in the air,

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he nipped her in the belly or whatever,

15:22

and now she's playing ball. Because she wants

15:24

her salary and she wants her TV show.

15:27

She doesn't wanna be stuck on OAN or

15:29

whatever, which probably wouldn't even have her at

15:31

that point. And this is

15:34

what the Trump era is.

15:36

It's not about dominating a

15:38

policy debate or leading the

15:40

way to a bold new American

15:42

future. It's about Republicans being

15:44

cowed, being brought to heel

15:46

by Donald Trump. America might well

15:48

be okay, but the Republican Party

15:50

conservatism that I'm not as sure

15:53

about. And that said, super

15:55

fast point, we have another topic. And Trumpism

15:57

has made its way into how they're just.

16:00

mimicking him. And that's why

16:02

you see the contradiction day

16:04

in, day out among their

16:07

own coverage. It's completely contradictory

16:10

arguments and framings of things like,

16:12

Trump is such a badass, but

16:14

he's gonna lose the debate and

16:16

that's a good thing. It's a

16:18

bunch of doublespeak throughout. Yeah,

16:20

yeah. Well, look, as

16:22

ridiculous as that monologue by her

16:24

was, if you

16:26

don't think that Republicans can descend to

16:28

deeper levels of humiliation, we've got a

16:31

great example for you. Obviously,

16:33

congressional Republicans are always competing with each

16:35

other to see who can be more

16:38

clownishly deferential to Donald Trump. And

16:40

I think this probably takes the

16:42

cake. One House Republican wants

16:45

to rename the US coastline after

16:47

Donald Trump. That coastline that you're seeing

16:49

right there. So this

16:52

is Greg Stube. He plans to

16:54

vote to rename the entire coastline

16:56

surrounding the United States as the

16:58

Donald John Trump exclusive economic zone.

17:01

He, by the way, represents Florida voters

17:03

very close to Mar-a-Lago. He's gonna introduce

17:05

this bill to rename it on official

17:08

documents, maps, and laws specifically

17:10

to honor Trump on Friday, his

17:12

78th birthday. Because

17:15

when you have a dear leader and it's

17:17

the dear leader's birthday, you need to

17:19

give them a big old present. And

17:21

our coastline, it's not about America or

17:24

Americans, it's just a thing to be

17:26

offered to Donald Trump. And

17:28

this is the way that he announced it

17:30

on Twitter, saying, President Trump took several commendable

17:33

actions for our oceans as part of his

17:35

work to make America strong, secure, and economically

17:37

prosperous. Rename air waters will serve as a

17:40

reminder of as many contributions to our nation

17:42

for generations to come. First of all, America,

17:45

our economy took an absolute, a

17:48

complete drop in the latter part of

17:50

the Trump term. I think that we

17:53

all remember that. So it's ridiculous to

17:55

claim that he made us strong, certainly

17:57

economically, it's the most ridiculous. But

17:59

he did do a lot of things. lot when it came

18:01

to the ocean. So I understand why

18:03

Greg Stube is doing this. I'll remind

18:05

you of some of his effects on

18:07

the ocean. He withdrew from the Paris

18:10

climate accord, which will help to contribute

18:12

to increased temperatures in oceans across the

18:14

world. He expanded offshore drilling, increasing the

18:16

risk of oil spills that could damage

18:18

the ocean, kill marine life. He removed

18:21

protection specifically for marine protected areas. He

18:23

increased fishing seasons for certain species by

18:25

10 times, risking overfishing

18:27

and the perhaps collapse of

18:29

those populations of fish. He

18:31

ordered massive cuts to the

18:34

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

18:37

And he launched it very early on

18:39

in his presidency and executive order to

18:41

refocus ocean policy away from Obama era

18:43

conservation policies. And so yeah, no,

18:45

he did some stuff policy-wise to the ocean.

18:47

None of it was good for

18:50

the water or the fish, but he

18:52

also was interested in the ocean. We have to

18:54

give him credit for that. Remember when he talked

18:57

about nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting the

18:59

US? That would be just

19:01

the best for the oceans. You

19:03

need some nuclear fallout. Maybe we'd have some cool

19:05

new mutant fish. Or remember

19:07

when he showed a fake hurricane map

19:10

where he drew a Sharpie to

19:12

make it look like our hurricane was going

19:14

to sweep out of the Atlantic and go

19:17

in a particular direction. I don't know

19:19

if that's what Greg Stube was talking about or

19:21

thinking about when he came up with this plan.

19:23

Maybe it was just Trump's rant over the weekend

19:25

about how he'd rather die by electrocution than being

19:28

killed by a shark. Maybe it's that,

19:30

Brett. I don't know. What do you think? I

19:33

saw that watch my video on that very

19:35

moment this weekend on Rebel HQ. It's pretty

19:37

awesome. God, it's a pretty, pretty glass you

19:40

got there, John. God, I love

19:42

those glasses. They're like sturdy, but

19:45

yeah, Donald Trump loves

19:48

him some big water. That

19:50

doesn't mean we should give him

19:53

big water. Why are you...

19:55

It's just so bad. It's

19:57

such panderporn. It's like daddy,

19:59

please notice me. How weird

20:01

would it be to, I

20:04

think it's weird when they change the one

20:06

18 to Ronald Reagan expressway and they change

20:08

the, you know, rodeo to Obama Boulevard. I

20:10

think it's weird when we do stuff like

20:12

that. And I don't care who

20:14

it is. It's just strange. And it's just

20:16

like, Oh, I'm driving down Ronald Reagan expressway.

20:18

It sounds like Irvy and gross, especially the

20:20

way these guys are like, Oh, he's made

20:23

my water so wet. Like, I mean, maybe

20:26

it's appropriate off the coast of Florida when it's

20:28

got that bright orange algae

20:30

tide. Maybe

20:32

that's, that's it reminds them

20:35

of him. I do like

20:37

the idea though, for a president that

20:39

has done so much to convince conservatives

20:42

that climate change isn't happening and has

20:44

done so much as president to accelerate

20:46

climate change. When the oceans begin to

20:49

devour more and more of our coastline,

20:51

I like that the attack will be

20:53

coming from the Donald Trump exclusionary zone.

20:56

Oh, I think that's hilarious. That's iconic,

20:58

I think. Yeah. But anyway, what is

21:00

what? Look, if you want to rename

21:02

a street, maybe arguably the voters that

21:05

use that street might like

21:07

the president. It's weird regardless.

21:09

I agree with you, but

21:11

maybe an entire coastline. It's

21:14

just, it's clown behavior and people had

21:16

fun online. Adam Kinzinger tweeted in my

21:18

12 years in Congress, which was three

21:20

times longer than Trump held office. I

21:22

could never have fathomed being this much

21:24

of a dorky try hard, which I

21:26

like. Greg Stube, the ultimate dorky try

21:28

hard. But I have to give

21:30

the gold medal to Hayden Clark who said

21:32

the Dal J Trump coastal waters will be

21:34

the cleanest and most pure water ever with

21:36

one of the North Korean state media hosts.

21:38

Look, I think that's true of

21:41

Greg Stube. It's also true of Laura Ingram.

21:43

I mean, they're just recreating North

21:45

Korean state media. I mean, that's

21:48

what they're doing at Fox, but for some reason it's doing

21:50

well for them in terms of the ratings. Mr.

22:00

Speaker, the Supreme Court is not

22:02

facing an ethics crisis, it's a

22:04

corruption crisis. But it

22:06

seems like that every single day, there's new

22:08

headlines about more corruption about

22:11

coming out of the RUS Supreme Court.

22:13

But let me be clear, Thomas and Lidl need to

22:15

be impeached and removed from the bench now. I

22:19

could not agree more with Representative Tlaib right

22:21

there. It does seem like every week more

22:23

news comes out. And in fact, it's time

22:26

once again to dive into the corruption of

22:28

the Supreme Court, particularly Clarence Thomas who, look,

22:31

it takes a lot to make the other

22:33

justices look ethical, but he does a good

22:35

job. He just takes so many gifts and

22:37

apparently, so many trips. Now,

22:39

traditionally, it's been ProPublica who's been doing

22:41

these revelations about his corruption. But in

22:43

this case, we have the Senate Judiciary

22:46

Committee, who has now uncovered three more

22:48

trips from Clarence Thomas that

22:50

he had not disclosed. Even after all of

22:52

the scandals and all the news cycles, he

22:54

was hiding more. So the new

22:56

details released by the Senate don't make clear what the purpose

22:58

of the trips were. They only

23:00

listed flight dates and locations. So we

23:02

have a May 2017 trip from St.

23:05

Louis to Kalispell, Montana, the location of

23:07

Glacier Park International Airport. So maybe

23:09

he was going to, I don't know, see

23:11

nature. Then from Montana to Dallas two

23:13

days later, he was scheduled to be in St.

23:15

Louis at the time for a speech to a

23:17

local bar association. Okay, now, to

23:20

be clear, these are separate from two other trips that were

23:22

in 2019 that Thomas did

23:24

disclose. They were paid for by Harlan

23:26

Crow. These ones also were

23:29

paid for by Harlan Crow. The

23:31

newly revealed flights add to the picture of

23:33

Thomas's frequent use of Crow's jet for personal

23:36

travel, allowing the justice to fly in the

23:38

style of the ultra wealthy. Thank you, ProPublica,

23:40

for talking about that. Crow owns

23:43

a high-end Bombardier Global

23:45

5000, a jet that can cost over

23:47

$10,000 per flight hour

23:50

to charter, according to charter company

23:52

estimates. And so More

23:54

trips due to Harlan Crow, more reason

23:56

to worry about the connection between those

23:59

two. Full details which

24:01

we can't disclose. It would take the

24:03

full hour of the show. Look back

24:05

on this or Tarling Pro on the

24:07

damage report. You'll find tons of details

24:09

and so now sorely, we've found all

24:11

of the trips right and all of

24:13

the gifts he wouldn't possibly be hiding

24:15

any more. Brat are you think. I.

24:18

Mean like it's so

24:21

brazen. It's so

24:23

insane. Like. The whole

24:25

point of supreme Court

24:28

justices is there supposed

24:30

to at least do

24:32

me the courtesy of

24:34

pretending that year impartial.

24:36

A pretending that you give a

24:39

crap. About America But

24:41

know. They. Come up

24:43

through this arm system

24:45

that gives you extra

24:47

benefits if you are

24:49

a psychotic. Artists

24:52

in a Hat. And

24:54

they are no you toward the supreme court

24:56

because of course they will. They.

24:58

Realize that was an opportunity to get

25:00

rid of Rovers is wade. That.

25:02

Was the sense that Crux of Jobs

25:05

You Know mentioned yesterday? They were so

25:07

many single issue voters about that issue

25:09

that they saw it as a big

25:12

opportunity. And at

25:14

least they could do as the courtesy

25:16

of not drive and on jumbo jets

25:18

or be or lead eight with with

25:21

these mega donors. Or. Having their

25:23

ways. Me: Sued or parts

25:25

of January Six Legged At least

25:28

pretend that you care. At least

25:30

try to hide it a little

25:32

better than just not reporting and

25:35

hubbub. Don't do it. Now.

25:38

I'm doing. Yardy. Make four

25:40

hundred thousand dollars a year. You.

25:42

already have guaranteed massive political power

25:44

and it's not enough for them

25:46

because than supreme court justices are

25:48

just as susceptible the dragon sicknesses

25:50

the rest of i'm barons obsessive

25:53

and ambitious and greedy greedy greedy

25:55

greedy greedy that's what they are

25:57

and they're also protected by the

25:59

way I'm glad

26:01

that the Senate unveiled these other

26:03

trips, but nothing's gonna happen. Doesn't

26:06

matter and they're gonna keep doing more of

26:08

this. They now know that they can accept these

26:10

gifts and they can take these trips and nothing

26:12

will happen. And they'll be protected by the Republicans.

26:15

Back in November, there was an effort to get

26:17

Harlan Crow to reveal information about these gifts and

26:19

everything. That was stopped by

26:21

the GOP. And Senate Republicans

26:23

also blocked this week, Democrats Supreme Court

26:25

ethics bill. Because they don't want the

26:27

Supreme Court to have to abide by

26:29

ethics. They love the idea of donors

26:31

being able to buy Supreme Court justices.

26:33

Just the same way that those Senate

26:36

Republicans have themselves already been bought.

26:39

And so the idea that these people are

26:42

suspicious of the elites or

26:44

trying to check elite interests and wealth

26:46

and power and all that is utterly

26:49

ridiculous. Their every move is designed to

26:51

either enshrine the ability of the rich

26:53

to do that or distract from the

26:55

fact that that's what they're doing right

26:57

now. And Clarence Thomas is just an

26:59

amazing continued case study of how that

27:01

works. They're such a leader.

27:03

One of them is named a

27:06

lead. One

27:11

of them is named Harlan Crow,

27:14

which sounds like a really over the top

27:16

villain name in one of my fantasies. True.

27:21

One of my stories is about a crow. Anyway, with that

27:23

said, why don't we move on to other news? Keep

27:26

an eye on Clarence Thomas

27:28

as we go. Donald

27:31

Trump has made the utterly bizarre

27:33

decision to smear the city of

27:35

Milwaukee, the site of this year's

27:37

Republican National Convention where he will

27:39

be formally put forward as the

27:41

Republican nominee. And this happened

27:43

at a closed door meeting with House

27:45

Republicans where unfortunately for him, what

27:48

he said came out. Now the Democrats

27:50

are already jumping on this. And apparently

27:52

in the Milwaukee area area, there's already

27:54

a campaign of 10 new billboards talking

27:56

about what Donald Trump said about the

27:58

city. Here is what

28:00

he apparently said, according to

28:03

some source on the inside,

28:05

Milwaukee, where we're having

28:07

our convention, is a horrible city.

28:10

Which is definitely how you should talk about

28:12

any American city, let alone the one that

28:14

you guys have decided to have your convention

28:16

at. And so look, normally,

28:18

they would just lie their way out of

28:20

this. They'd lie, maybe it would be obvious

28:22

they're lying, but they'd move on with their

28:24

lives. But that's not actually how it's working

28:27

out. It's really messy, the way that they're

28:29

trying to cover for this. We've a few

28:31

great examples of that, so stick around. But

28:33

first, I wanna get to House Speaker Mike

28:36

Johnson, his attempt to protect Donald Trump. President

28:40

Trump has been attributed to him that he

28:42

took a shot at Milwaukee. Did he do

28:44

that? No, I didn't

28:46

hear it, and I was sitting right next to him. Democrats

28:49

are also hitting you on this comment that

28:51

you made about Milwaukee, the

28:53

host city for the RNC, for the convention.

28:55

And they seem to believe that you said

28:57

that it was a horrible city. Can you

28:59

just nip this in the bud and clarify

29:01

what you meant? Well, I think

29:04

it was very clear what I meant. I

29:06

said we're very concerned with crime. Oh

29:09

my God, I love that so much. Not only that

29:11

the Fox reporter there is not like, can you tell

29:13

us whether you said it or not? It's can you

29:15

nip this in the bud? I can't believe that you

29:17

would insult the city. It's only what you do constantly,

29:19

as we'll show. But there he

29:21

does the thing that he always does with

29:23

Mike Johnson. He sends his little boy out,

29:26

and then he undercuts them. He makes them

29:28

look like a fool. So now Johnson is

29:30

on the record saying he didn't say it.

29:32

And Trump is saying, no, I said something.

29:34

But what exactly did he say? So he

29:36

goes on to say, it was very clear

29:38

what I meant. I said we're

29:40

very concerned with crime. I love Milwaukee.

29:42

I have great friends in Milwaukee. But

29:44

it's as you know, the crime numbers

29:46

are terrible. We have to be very

29:49

careful. But I was referring

29:51

to also the election, the

29:55

ballots, the way it went

29:57

down. It was very bad in Milwaukee, very,

29:59

very bad. bad. And the people understand that

30:01

and they agree with me. Everybody agrees.

30:03

No, that was a fake story that

30:05

came out. Doesn't sound like it. Yeah.

30:07

Milwaukee has a problem with crime as

30:09

do most Democrat run cities. So

30:12

he definitely said it, but what he meant

30:14

was obvious. It was about the crime or

30:17

the election or the ballots or the

30:19

Democrats. And then he smears it as

30:21

a Democrat run the city, which is

30:23

like the worst thing they ever say

30:25

about these cities. And so he

30:28

now makes Johnson look ridiculous. He definitely

30:30

said the thing. Let's go

30:32

now to Jesse Waters attempt to navigate

30:35

the situation for him. He

30:39

doesn't like Milwaukee. It's a horrible city, he says. The

30:42

campaign has pushed back on that. Everybody comes out and says

30:45

he didn't say it. Of course he said it. I mean,

30:47

that is

30:49

according to almost everybody in the room. But

30:51

everybody in the room says he didn't say it. As

30:54

soon as the news broke, people inside of the room

30:56

debunked it. A congressman says

30:58

I was in the meeting. President Trump

31:01

never disparaged Milwaukee. Another one,

31:03

I was in the room. President Trump did

31:05

not say this. Another, Trump

31:08

was specifically referring to the

31:10

crime rate in Milwaukee. Okay,

31:13

so first of all, I love the growth

31:15

just in the tweets that Jesse Waters cites.

31:18

It didn't happen. Okay,

31:20

well, no, it definitely happened, but it was

31:22

about this thing. And even

31:24

the people that he cites there, some of

31:26

them said it wasn't happening. But then Trump

31:28

comes out and admits that he said it.

31:31

So now they have to do interviews like

31:33

GOP representative Brian Steele, who's like, okay, well,

31:35

no, he did say it. But

31:37

again, it was about crime or being

31:39

Democratic or whatever. Like, God, they all

31:41

look like such weenies. But Brad,

31:44

I know you're raring to go. What

31:46

do you

31:48

think? I'm gonna compare it to

31:51

a comedian, right?

31:54

For Republican Viewers, it's like when

31:56

you see a comedian, it's very

31:58

hard for people to believe. leave

32:00

A comedian is really funny but

32:02

then once people do they can

32:04

do anything and everyone like that.

32:06

I'd went know marry math. He

32:08

does make me when I see

32:11

myself. That. Is the

32:13

Republican voters? so everybody believes

32:15

Trump and believes does Fox

32:17

News so much met even

32:19

if they're not putting forth

32:21

a good argument. These

32:23

folks just think it's a

32:25

good argument. He could

32:28

answering together three consistent

32:30

pieces of evidence out

32:32

of story. He

32:35

just needed one more and even if

32:37

he did that.on. for up as out

32:39

there think go. I said it. I

32:42

didn't say Milwaukee sucks. If.

32:44

Milwaukee sucks so much. Why are

32:46

you guys having your convention there?

32:48

He also stop and think to

32:50

yourself if there's any republican controlled

32:52

place that's good, why don't you

32:54

have is there? Oh, because there's

32:56

no infrastructure, it's not big enough.

32:58

And more importantly, Donald Trump wouldn't

33:01

be caught dead. Their. Yup,

33:03

Hundred. Percent there's is not a big

33:05

enough place that Donald Trump bit and

33:07

then think about these things Donald Trump

33:09

would like Milwaukee even if it was

33:11

quote save. Know. He

33:14

doesn't like Chicago. He doesn't like any

33:16

of those cities he he does in

33:18

Miller. Does he like a town it's

33:20

ninety minutes outside of Chicago. and in

33:22

Wisconsin? know? that's the kind of you

33:24

know, elitists snob. Donald Trump turns his

33:26

nose of us. He sued like it.

33:29

There. The number one food is

33:31

fried cheese curds. Of.

33:34

Is it a go on?

33:37

But. He doesn't He doesn't like it

33:39

and republicans had like it. Theoretically they

33:41

should like it because they're big thing

33:43

is beer. But just ask Kid Rock

33:46

whether he likes beer anymore and he

33:48

pulls out a Uzi and starts soon

33:50

at it. But. Even he

33:52

has turned back to drinking Bud light. I'd

33:54

leave. Oh yeah, you're You're hundred percent right.

33:56

And look, this is the reason the people

33:58

find it very easy. Don't believe that

34:01

he said this is because he

34:03

constantly smears American city. Say that

34:05

Unique in this. Republicans do this

34:07

all the time. They take any

34:09

effort to imply that like criticizing

34:11

a policy outcome means you hate

34:13

America. but the needs a smear.

34:15

San Francisco on a daily basis.

34:17

From goes even further than that.

34:19

He says bad things happen in

34:21

Philadelphia. so he got a problem

34:23

Philadelphia. He talks about Baltimore being

34:25

a rodent infested mess. Chicago's got

34:27

horrible tyrant Aids. It's like a

34:29

war zone. Washington. D sees rat

34:31

infested brizzi invested as so where

34:33

people are being tailed and of

34:36

course how much as he had

34:38

to say about New York ever

34:40

since they dared to put him

34:42

on trial. He hates all of

34:44

these cities. A bad mouths All

34:47

of these cities. He definitely said

34:49

it hundred percent. Oh

34:52

by the way, just. For. The record? Not

34:54

that sachs matter anymore. But.

34:56

Is bulky actually crime infested? So much

34:58

so that Donald Trump needs to spontaneously

35:01

bring it up in a meeting with

35:03

Congressional Republicans on the eve of their

35:05

convention. Their well with the first quarter

35:07

of you Milwaukee police say the homicides

35:09

of decrease thirty nine percent down to

35:11

twenty three from thirty eight. this time

35:13

between twenty three property crime is that

35:15

eleven percent auto theft or down ten

35:17

percent down to a little less and

35:19

thirteen hundred from over fourteen under this

35:21

time in twenty twenty three and look

35:23

you could say that that still some

35:25

crime but it like. Most major cities

35:27

in America has had a great year.

35:29

year and a half were those crime

35:32

rates are coming down from fairly predictable

35:34

reasons. They hate that. That's that things

35:36

are getting better because they want to

35:38

ask for. They think it'll help them

35:40

get nauseous. Okay,

35:44

Let's. Was less video does for funds these. I

35:47

don't know many people in The

35:49

Walking who lives thirty four sell

35:51

any ah tells against the. World

35:55

where answer is gonna go up when

35:57

he realizes that more are there is

35:59

a threat. Oh every to

36:01

get battle over the final down serve

36:03

as a fellow A put anyway any

36:05

final point robert form of on Netflix

36:07

typical M S N B C jokes

36:10

may I know by now and lords

36:12

who don't like. Humor:

36:14

I'm busier with his i am a

36:16

seen it before joked once I joked

36:18

ones. anyway. okay with that said, were

36:20

you think a break because on the

36:22

other side of this when a closer

36:24

the our talking about what Donald Trump's

36:26

next term will actually be a bow

36:28

and it doesn't have much to do

36:30

with me. That much to do with.

36:32

for conservatives there are some wealthy interest

36:34

you are really interested in what he

36:36

can do for them and will break

36:38

that down. Amorphous. Of

36:45

really fast as Message by Be One Six six yards

36:47

as I get no shot of are going through to

36:49

tear three know I that's why I was saying i

36:51

hope to see you in the tier three members hang

36:53

out that so that was a reference to But thank

36:55

you for your support and at Tier three I do

36:57

appreciate it. Yeah man that's. What I.

37:00

Said yeah I'm sorry I ruined of say

37:02

okay with that a chump. To. Bonus.

37:05

I will say I was surprised. I

37:07

spoke to a number of Ceos who

37:09

I would say washington the meeting been

37:12

trump. Supporter is or

37:14

thinking that they might be meaning

37:16

that direction who said that he

37:18

was remarkably meandering or could not

37:20

keep a straight thought was all

37:22

over the map and the baby.

37:24

I was maybe not surprising, but

37:26

was interesting to me because these

37:29

were people who I think. Might.

37:32

Have been actually predisposed to him actually

37:34

walked out of the room less real

37:36

opposed I'm actually predisposed to making this

37:38

is not necessary as one person is

37:41

may not be any different or better.

37:43

Than a biden thought If

37:45

you're thinking. Okay,

37:48

we'll We'll have to return to whether

37:50

they'll end up supporting down Trump these

37:52

incredibly wealthy Ceos, but I love the

37:54

idea that these well see well to

37:56

do titans of industry go into a

37:58

meeting with Donald Trump. The year of

38:00

Our Lord. Twenty Twenty Four. And they're like.

38:03

Man. He can't really carry

38:05

a thought. Have. You

38:07

been paying attention to America, But he

38:09

did have a big meeting with Ceos

38:12

that includes A T. Morgan say Ceo

38:14

Jamie Diamond seen Frazier as the Citigroup

38:16

Ceo and Big of America Ceo Brian

38:19

Moya Hands Or and here's apparently what

38:21

he said to them were to summarize

38:23

it because he meanders a Trump said

38:26

that if he returns the White House,

38:28

he'll cut taxes shockingly including income taxes

38:30

and bring back the same economic policies

38:33

enacted during his first term which did

38:35

such damage to the American economy. By

38:37

the end of efforts from a quote,

38:39

we're gonna give you more of the

38:41

same for the next four years and

38:43

we know that that is almost certainly

38:46

the case. See us are brought up

38:48

the same claim that he recently became

38:50

obsessed with when he went to Nevada

38:52

that he's going to stop or taxing

38:54

tips of have tipped workers. That's an

38:56

idea that he came up with five

38:58

minutes before giving. That species will soon

39:00

forget about. But he did repeat it

39:02

and apparently when he told the Ceos

39:05

that be last at it. I'm.

39:09

I'm not. Maybe they're alternative explanations for

39:11

why they would last either the last,

39:13

because they know how significant Bear tax

39:15

cuts are going to be in dollar

39:17

terms, and they know how relatively paltry

39:19

not taxing tips will be for all

39:21

of the pores in society. Maybe they

39:23

think that that's hilarious from a lease

39:26

point of view, or they don't think

39:28

that will actually go through with it

39:30

either, where they just fine as an

39:32

interpretation, But he also told them that

39:34

he wants to bring the corporate tax

39:36

rate down from twenty one to twenty

39:38

percent Bear. In mind. He also he already

39:40

cut it nearly in half and his first

39:42

term now is looking to do it on

39:45

even more. But in addition to the income

39:47

tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporate

39:49

tax cuts, he also promised that he would/regulations

39:51

if he won a second term. Regulations Of

39:53

course, if you haven't been following American politics

39:55

very long, are the things that protects you

39:57

from the excesses of corporations. The things like.

40:00

The second, or kill your family, your

40:02

friends, you will not have those protections

40:04

anymore. In said those will be removed

40:06

so they can make even more money

40:09

hand over fist than they already were

40:11

and so we have more bread. But

40:13

what you make of this. He.

40:15

Adds I go my garden mids like this

40:18

First say it sounds business meeting sounds like

40:20

one of those Jos. it's like what do

40:22

you call twenty lawyers at the bottom of

40:24

the ocean? A good start.

40:26

Like this is just a group

40:29

of people that are so reviled

40:31

in one room at the same

40:33

time at. The fact that take

40:36

away is that when it comes

40:38

to the economy generally it's very

40:40

skittish. Even the bullet stuff markets

40:42

is skittish and they are most

40:45

afraid of uncertainty. And.

40:47

Donald Trump. In my opinion,

40:50

my appraisal the situation brings

40:52

more uncertainty is then Joe

40:54

Biden. Joe Biden has a

40:57

twenty one percent. A.

40:59

Very very low. Corporate.

41:01

Tax rate. Biden.

41:04

Is on record saying nothing will fundamentally changes

41:06

of the things that most progressives are very

41:08

upset with Biden about. For. Your

41:10

average Ceo. Know. That

41:12

Biden is the Delaware Senator and

41:14

everybody's incorporated in Delaware because Delaware

41:16

has no corporate tax. This is

41:18

a guy that has been very

41:20

friendly to industry is is been

41:23

a guy that when he disappears

41:25

from the public eye he's just

41:27

go in and doing the work

41:29

of government. By the scenes he's

41:31

smitten rid of his foot in

41:33

in certain regulations, get rid of

41:35

others but Donald Trump. Could

41:37

neither his people by the way, right?

41:40

Aren't these all rich? Ios in a

41:42

room and all the other rich Ceos

41:44

are looking at this guy going like

41:46

god. I wish I was in real

41:48

estate instead cause any idiot can become

41:50

a billionaire. Evidently a.

41:53

Hundred percent. Look, I'm. i

41:56

i still think that most of them will

41:58

want him for the same reason they

42:00

all do, he'll cut taxes. And

42:02

maybe he'll only cut the corporate tax by a

42:04

little bit, but they'll do another massive tax get

42:06

a continuation of the Trump air tax cuts on

42:09

income that will deliver hundreds of thousands

42:11

or millions of dollars to those individuals and they

42:13

will make tons of money. He'll do terrible damage

42:15

to the economy. It won't benefit any regular MAGA

42:17

person who's ever shown up in a red hat

42:19

to a Trump rally, but they'll like it.

42:22

And honestly, I don't even think that they do need to,

42:24

like you talked about the stability. The

42:26

stock market has done amazingly well under Joe

42:29

Biden. It's at literally record highs. Trump wishes

42:31

he could have had the stock market that

42:33

they have. And for most people watching this,

42:35

that's irrelevant. It has nothing to do with

42:37

the economy as they experience on a daily

42:40

basis. But from the point of view of

42:42

the rich, this is supposed to be what

42:44

they want. What more could they want? I

42:47

think the answer is more, actually, and they think that they could get

42:49

it under him. But I will remind

42:51

you that the Trump tax cuts that we already got in 2017

42:53

did very little to boost economic

42:55

growth in 2018. And

42:58

that corporate tax avoidance was rampant during the

43:00

first five years of the Trump GOP law.

43:03

What do you know?

43:12

Donald Trump has declared war on your

43:14

wallet, declared war on your bank account.

43:16

And the way that he is doing

43:18

it is deceptive. He is hoping that

43:21

you will not realize what he's doing.

43:23

But he made a claim, a promise

43:25

in the smoke-filled room filled with billionaire

43:27

CEOs and all that that he is

43:29

going to propose an all-terrace policy that

43:31

could result in the end of income

43:33

taxes. We don't need an income tax

43:36

anymore. Eventually, he says, if we move

43:38

to just tariffs, okay? And

43:40

that's supposed to confuse you. It's supposed to make

43:42

you go to sleep. I mean, tariffs, I don't

43:44

know, it sounds walkier, whatever, but don't worry. We're

43:46

gonna simplify this. Bear in mind,

43:48

CEOs love this idea because they make

43:51

tons of money. And the

43:53

income tax takes a comparatively large

43:55

amount of money that they pay.

43:58

For you, for those of you who who spend virtually

44:00

everything that you make to struggling to

44:03

survive. Okay, when tariffs

44:05

raise prices on everything from

44:07

cars to electronics, to fruit,

44:09

to clothing, to

44:11

everything that you buy, that is a massive

44:13

tax under a different name

44:15

that you will pay. And it will make

44:17

up a significant portion of

44:20

your income. For them, they save and

44:22

invest most of their money. They're not going

44:24

to pay much more as a result of

44:26

the tariffs. So they love this thing, but

44:28

that's what he's proposing. So not only is

44:30

it a massive transfer of your money

44:32

to the wealthy, but it's also a

44:35

stupid, clownish idea for actually

44:37

funding the government. Because there's absolutely no

44:39

way that you can fund the US

44:41

government off of tariffs. Tariffs make

44:43

up 2% of government receipts,

44:45

and I understand he wants to raise them. I

44:47

don't think he's going to raise them

44:50

by 50 times, and if he did, that

44:52

would be disastrous for the American economy. And

44:54

so we'll get some more, but Brett,

44:56

you looked like you liked the idea? No,

44:58

I can't even wrap my mind around

45:00

how it would work. It is definitely a

45:03

regressive tax. And regressive, it's like when people

45:05

say I just want to do sales tax

45:07

and that's it. It's like the crap people

45:09

buy, it's more of

45:11

a poorer person's income. It's

45:15

a higher percentage of my income

45:17

as a poor goes to buying

45:19

food because I only have this

45:21

much money and food costs this

45:23

much money. And then if

45:26

I have a bigger income, maybe I

45:28

buy slightly more food, but it's definitely

45:30

a smaller portion of my income than

45:32

you. All those goods that you buy,

45:34

not necessarily services, but the goods

45:37

you buy are going to be so

45:39

much more expensive to make up for

45:41

this, or they're going to have

45:44

to be produced in America. In which

45:46

case, there's not going to

45:49

be a tariff applied to it. So

45:51

if we make up for the tariffs, for

45:54

the tariffs, by using all the American

45:57

goods, great. all

46:00

want that, but now we're not

46:02

collecting any tax for

46:04

the government. So the

46:07

deficit is

46:09

going between what we spend on

46:11

stuff to make the government work

46:13

and America work is

46:15

going to be so enormous if

46:18

we account for the tariffs properly,

46:20

that America is like it's the

46:22

top. It's like, it's

46:25

like, put it all on the

46:27

orange roulette wheel. I want

46:29

that one. It's like, we don't have one. Just put it

46:31

all over there. What a

46:33

crazy ass approach. I

46:35

love your explanation because the sort of thing

46:38

where if it doesn't achieve its stated goal

46:40

of getting more businesses here, then it can't

46:42

fund the US government. But if it does

46:44

succeed, then it definitely can't fund the US

46:47

government. It doesn't succeed for what they say

46:49

they wanted to do in any

46:51

occurrence, but it will definitely succeed in what

46:54

they wanted to do, which is lowering taxes

46:56

on the wealthiest people in the country. And

46:58

this is the most Trump thing is

47:01

like, listen, everyone's like, he didn't

47:03

actually nuke a hurricane. He didn't actually do,

47:05

he isn't gonna actually make it a tariff.

47:07

But no, this is how dumb he is.

47:10

He is telling you at every

47:12

turn, put bleach in the body. He didn't

47:14

do it. He just blow out the idea.

47:16

No, you know how, like, don't say the

47:19

dumb stuff this loud or at all, or

47:22

at all, that would be great. And by the

47:24

way, I wanna put this in more absolute

47:26

terms. So there was an estimate that was

47:28

provided for if you were to do his

47:31

thing where you get rid of income taxes

47:33

and you replace it with a big tariff,

47:35

they estimated what effect those two things would

47:37

have on different aspects of the economy. So

47:39

if we could bring up this Brendan Duke

47:42

tweet, he's an economist. For those in the

47:44

bottom 20% of income, you would effectively lose,

47:46

it's small font, I apologize, I

47:48

think it's 26% of your

47:50

money you would lose in comparison

47:53

to where you're already at. So imagine the struggle

47:55

that you experienced day to day and Imagine

47:57

it being a quarter harder than it

48:00

is now, but don't worry, that may

48:02

be tougher for you, but you can

48:04

always make yourself feel better by knowing

48:07

that for the wealthiest in society literally

48:09

the top one percent, they'd make twenty

48:11

percent more money than they do right

48:13

now. You know, those people who have

48:16

boats that take them to their boats

48:18

bill and twenty percent more money? Those

48:20

people who literally can't find stuff to

48:23

spend all of their mounds of money

48:25

on spell at twenty percent bigger mountains

48:27

been they have right now while you

48:30

struggle. Even harder than you already are

48:32

and this sort of plan I'm sure

48:34

if even talk about on Fox news

48:36

they're just gonna lavishing with praise. They've

48:38

been talking about inflation, everything, they're going

48:40

to deflate your bank account by a

48:42

quarter and spit in your face or

48:44

they do it is crazy and they're

48:47

going to say like miss and at

48:49

least these think as a kid the

48:51

defend all of a they make and

48:53

least he think in out of the

48:55

box Joe Biden he's dumb. He's.

48:58

Oh like that's the kind of stuff the

49:00

bill say it is. Textbook.

49:02

Wow. What? Own

49:04

weird seeing to pitch to

49:07

say out loud. My.

49:09

God. And he talks about it

49:11

with business leaders who know how stupid it

49:13

is, sets like a burglary like let's just

49:16

clean the whole thing out with the use

49:18

you be why they are by and essentially

49:20

wants. It's like when he loved must talks

49:22

about programming in front of programmers and they

49:24

tweet how nonsensical everything he thinks he knows

49:26

about programming is like scare. You can fool

49:28

the rooms, but you can't fool the people

49:31

who actually have the expertise. In any event,

49:33

as the photos I'm a I'm for the

49:35

first hour of the show. Thank you everyone

49:37

for joining us To those be watching live

49:39

there's more to come. In the aftermath including the

49:41

garbage people of the week at the special one zoc,

49:43

I want to miss it over a back up to

49:46

them.