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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.

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Are we looking at the first black ops run for the presidency in US history? What do I mean by that? Well, President Trump's going to speak this weekend at CPAC, and I can almost guarantee you guarantee take it to the bank cash that check, spend the money that President Trump's speech at CPAC will be censored now will be live streamed on rumble. Of course, you know, I'm an investor. They're in trouble. They will not censor it.

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We actually believe in free speech. But I can almost assure you that that speech on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere, Instagram, all these other Soviet style Pravda channels will censor his speech. So what's going to happen if he decides to run in twenty, twenty four? I've got some theories on that. Some good theories because there are two tracks they can take and neither one of them is a good one for the speech police. Hmmm, hang tight, I got that, got a lot more in the show today show about you express VPN for Peace of Mind online, get a VPN today, go to express VPN, dot com slash Bungeni.

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Welcome to the show. Let's get right to it. I've also got some listen, I love Friedemann videos. I love them. I love so Roxana, this liberal radical congressman gave one of the worst interviews ever about minimum wage, basically say he didn't really care about small businesses. I've got some Milton Friedman resurrecting the great Friedman from the grave to show you the real mechanics behind the disaster of minimum wage and why we do care about things like small businesses, because we're conservatives.

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All right, producer Joe, let's go. They're very excited. Yes. What happened? I hear anything you didn't hear and activate the Rush Limbaugh Bell. It'll be from where I got a backup plan. Stand.

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Yes, I saw. Thank you, Kenny Bell. But the Rush Limbaugh Bell will be the technical bell. And we will. But yeah. And sometimes it happens. Sometimes don't blame producer. Sometimes there is a technical mixer, but very rare given his excellence. All right. I'm excited about today's show because shockingly, it's a really big news there. I know it doesn't seem as much because we've got the ever boring, atrocious Joe Biden in office, but there is a lot going on.

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But first, let's get to this story. I teased it in the beginning. President Trump is going to speak at CPAC this weekend up in Orlando. I will be there giving a speech on Friday afternoon. I don't know the time, I think around 4:00 p.m. but, you know, it always depends on who speaks long and who speaks short. I've spoken at CPAC now many times, Paul, like five or six times. And there's a little clock in front of you.

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They give you eight to ten minutes. And as Joe knows from having been at CPAC with me just about every year for the past five or six years, some speakers just don't care the eight minutes things up. There's a sign at the bottom. It says like, get the hell off the stage right now or we will bring out the guy like the Apollo Theater, where they bring the hook out and grab you and write you. Some people just don't care, which would have sent your thing eight minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes.

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Who cares? They do their thing. So I don't know exactly what I may be speaking, but I'm pretty sure it will be Friday. President Trump is speaking on the weekend. Why does this matter? What does this have to do with anything? Well, folks, let me tell you something, I got a story in the show, notes about it today. So check that out. Bunshiro dot com slash newsletter to access the. Because I am now, I'm guaranteeing you I am this is my stygian, which is moment, give me the eye where you the kids are like, I don't know what you're talking about.

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Watch Clash of the Titans. Not the terrible new version. The old Harry Hamlin version, one of the best movies ever, the Stygian, which is supposedly could tell the future with the. I get me. I'm telling you to the eye right now that this will become the start of a huge censorship drive to knock out before it even starts. A Trump twenty twenty four ticket. You're like Dan. It's twenty twenty one how it is twenty, twenty one, right, fact checking, just checking.

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It's twenty twenty one. What the hell are we talking about. Twenty, twenty four. Ready for because it's on right now. No, no, it's not. No, it is, it is, I'm telling you, I'm reasonably confident President Trump is going to run in twenty twenty four, not reasonably overwhelmingly confident President Trump is going to run in twenty twenty four. This is effectively his first campaign speech this weekend at CPAC. And it will be censored.

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Mark my words, Bookit. I'd give you the time, but they tell you because we're on terrestrial radio, never to give the time and the date right now, because if it's if it airs later in the day, people I don't care. We don't follow those rules anymore. Green Book. It marked the time on your own. Watch whatever. Mark my brother Mark the time they will censor this speech. YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will block out portions of the speech this weekend at CPAC.

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None of that's unexpected, that's not breaking news, right, celling tech tyrants are going to ban the former president, a prominent American political figure, but there's no breaking news. There's Soviet's. That's what they do to their Soviet speech censors, anti civil liberties activists. That's not the breaking news. The breaking news is this is going to be a real problem, ladies and gentlemen, because we may be creating, as I said, the first black ops presidential campaign in US history.

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What do I mean by that? I'm not talking like Jason Bourne stuff here. James Bond. President Trump was most likely going to run for president in twenty twenty four, this is going to be his first campaign speech. And what they are going to do is they are going to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook by banning these speeches. They are going to teach a generation of Americans unaccustomed with breaking out of the tech tyrant's stranglehold on information. They are going to teach them how to find information through other channels.

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We'll call it the black ops presidential run. Do you like this? You like this or how are you doing with this theory so far? You know, we got a new crew here in the black ops priority that you like, that the guy lights it up. You get what I'm saying, folks. There are now us younger folks out there. By younger, I mean a little younger than me. How old am I, Paula? Forty seven.

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Forty six. You sure? I always forget. I'm forty seven about people a little younger than me. They're savvy folks. They know how to get information everywhere. Rumball. Parler, gabb, whatever it may be, cloud how they know how to find information on non tech. Tyran challenge Joe as the ombudsman. You get what I'm saying here, they get it. But a lot of older folks, understandably, who grew up on television and terrestrial radio, it's no fault of their own.

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They didn't grow up on the tech. So the text is a little less manageable for them. And it's hard to find this stuff. I'm telling you, a lot of older folks who were Trump supporters who are now not going to be able to find information on the mainstream media. CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, then I can be able to find the Trump speech or any Trump speeches from this point on, because they will censor them because they're Soviets are going to learn right quick, as they say down in the South, how to access other channels like Rumball and Parler and other outfits out there.

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And we're going to create an entire generation of speakeasy presidential campaigns with people who have to engage in shibboleths and code words to get inside the door. Think about that. People are going to be at dinner parties and stuff with the CPAC speech. Did you see the trustees, you know, and say some older folks, maybe not as tech savvy? No, I couldn't. I tried to watch it on on online and Facebook banded. You know, a lot of older folks are on Facebook right now.

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They banned it. And then someone's going to tell them, hey, hey, don't tell anyone. But there's this Rumball channel, Rumball, Dotcom, slash, whatever. And you can see this speech over there. Oh, how do I do that? They're going to pick up their phone. Right. And I'm going to go and they're going to show them right there how to do it. And it's going to create an entire generation of people.

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Who have circumvented the mainstream media blockade. Like the Chinese government, except private companies do it here, Chinese government doesn't allow open Internet China in here private in the United States, private companies do all the censoring for everyone. You are going to create a generation of people who know how to jump over the wall of censorship and figure it out. So. In the end, I know this is a terrible thing we're living through right now, the big tech tyranny, I get it.

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And we have to fight it with every single fiber of our souls and beings. I get it. I think in the end. The mainstream media is going to create an entirely parallel information ecosystem, which I've been talking about for a long time, and I think it starts this weekend as the political speech, speakeasies and codewords develop.

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What was that movie? A Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to not take the eyes wide shut. That was a dreadful movie. Remember, he wants to go to this party party, of course. And there's like there's a password. What's a Fidelio? The password? No, that's the outside password. There's an inside. But there's going to be a password. Now, you get to speak openly about the Trump speech this week, and you're going to have to give like a password.

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The password is MAGGA. Sixty seven. You're going to have to give a password to talk openly now with your friends about the Trump speech. And your friends are going to have to teach you how to access the Trump Trump speech because we live in a Soviet China model economy, information economy. That is where private companies do all the censoring, censoring an anti civil liberties activism for the government that would love to do it itself. I said to you in my tease this morning that there are two things can happen.

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Well, number one, the blackout will continue. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter will block all Trump speeches from this point on or pieces of them or. And I'm telling you, they will do that. If they do that, so that's option one, what will happen? I told you what will just happen. I don't even think this is all a net negative. I think you will teach people to bypass the mainstream media information, provide the channels and work their way around it.

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So in the long run, we're more fortified. So I don't even think their blockade is that bad of a thing. I think it's bad they're doing it, but I don't think the results will be that terrible for us or option number two can happen, what's option number two? They fold. Why would they form? Maybe say in yourself, Dan, what's the incentive for left wing? You know, fake platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will ban Trump speeches.

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We can what's the incentive? They're not really platforms. They're liberal publishers. That's what they are. That's just a fact. It's not open for argument. Liberals, if you want to argue with me, they're the show fight. You argue, scream at your radio all you want. You just don't know what you're talking about. I'm very sorry. Educate yourself a little bit. They're not platforms. They're publishers. Why would they fold, they hate Trump, they hate conservatives, we know that that's obvious.

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Because they have to. Because these left wing media outlets need clicks and Joe. Wouldn't you say that despite the liberal rage toward Donald Trump, they just can't quit the Trump stir? They just can't stop? They can't. Now, I always like to produce information to back up my assertions. You're saying, Dan, that eventually either they continue the blackout and they lose because we develop ways around the blackout and teach generations of Americans how to get around the Soviet media Pravda censorship machine.

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So that's No. One, be a good outcome. Terrible thing. But a good outcome or option number two is a completely false enough to broadcast the Trump speeches anyway, which is likely to after a while, they'll black out for a little while. Why? Here's an article by Poynter Dotcom, whatever that is. Oh, I forgot the screenshot and we'll get to the you know, let me just get to that first. I'm sorry. I don't want to go out to the CPAC, by the way, in case you don't think Trump is still a huge draw, my own notes are that I got to get a better system.

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I can't even read my own Henrich. I'm a doctor. I wish I thought like one. I'd be a quadrillion at CPAC this weekend.

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Here's a screenshot. What am I showing you this for, Joe? You noticed something on Sepak It once they announced Trump was coming in Trump. Nobody cares about Trump. That's the liberal Trump Tower. Interesting that you can't even get into CPAC. A premium silver package sold out, general tickets sold out. The older you get is a premium gold package right now. And even that's limited availability. So Trumper, you know, the liberal nobody cares about Trump.

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We're all moving on. Are you really moving on because you're all sold out everywhere at CPAC? Here's that point, the articles talking, this is from July 17th of 2015 by a Christian hair. The Huffington Post is going to cover Trump is entertainment, not politics. Remember that remember when they tried that, that they bought about a week at the Huffington Post? Why? Because they humiliated themselves and they know their liberal readers cannot possibly quit Donald Trump.

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Because why, Joe, it's revenue, it's CLECs. For all the nonsense, The New York Times and The Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, Brian Stelter to the world about how evil and awful Trump is for all that nonsense, they profited handsomely. Armacost off the Trump years. Yeah, handsomely. Using Stelter and handsomely in the same sense, by the way, is a really dreadful faux pas. But what is this? I was talking about you this weekend, by the way.

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I was at a Martin County, the Martin County Fair this weekend, which is really great. You know, my daughter, we had a blast of my daughter watching the smile on her face is amazing. And, you know, it's rough because I'm with my daughter, luckily had people there and people want to stop and take selfies and chat, which is cool, but my daughter's young and she'll run away, which is like, hey, I got to like, check out, you know, I got to keep an eye on everything.

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But they were asking me about, you know, you and how long you been in the business, Joe, and I said one of the things about Joe is he understands the business better than anyone. And one of the things on the show, we were on terrestrial radio now. So if there's more than like seven seconds of silence, a lot of these radio stations will kick to a bathtub because they assume there's a problem. So one of the things Joe does is if I want to I was telling this lady that if I'm, like, silent to make a point, Joe, be in the background.

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Hey. Yeah. Hey.

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So some of you like why does Joe always make those sound effects for a reason so we don't kick to a best of terrestrial radio?

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I just thought I'd bring that up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's a dead air and it there we can't have that. So has Joe's grunting sometimes. Now, you know, the inside baseball moving on, though, because this is important. The Trump twenty twenty four campaign, which I'm telling you is starting this weekend at CPAC, hat tip Rush Limbaugh. Don't doubt me, don't doubt me. It starts this weekend, the first black ops campaign.

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Speakeasies, codewords, everything. Nikki Haley. What does that have to do with any of this is an article was interesting, it'll be in the show notes again. Please check it out. But China.com newsletter, the newsletter business owners Nikki Haley's gift to her twenty twenty four contenders by Jeremy Beamon. This commentary, Washington Examiner. Well, now that we know President Trump is going to run in 2024, or I shouldn't say we know, I'm relatively confident he's going to be stunned candidly if he did not.

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The gist of this article is Nikki Haley, who I just don't trust folks at all I'm very sorry, Nikki. Nikki Haley is a what? A Freudian slip. I was going to say licks her finger and you know, which ways to win this book with Nikki Haley leaks every which way is the political winds. She changes her mind anytime. One day she loves Trump because someone told her there was a focus group of four Trump that said he was down in the polls the next day or up in the polls the next day.

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She sees a poll where he's a little down. She doesn't like Trump. I don't like that. I don't like that. OK. Trump makes mistakes like anyone else, fair to call everyone out, but this constant back and forth is making me sick. So the gist of this article, given that we're going to see the opening of the Trump twenty twenty four campaign this weekend and the media response to it, which is going to be fascinating. Has he done them all a favor?

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Haley took a stand against Trump, Joe, about January six, she took a stand. Well, she thought that stand back stand in a Wall Street Journal op ed, she wrote. So the point of the article is an interesting one that. Nikki Haley is kind of the. Trial balloon for other twenty twenty four candidates who are probably thinking about taking on Donald Trump in a primary. A lot of them are watching what happened with Nikki Haley's about face.

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She was all over Donald Trump a couple of weeks ago. Oh, my gosh, I don't know why we followed this guy. And she writes an op ed in The Wall Street Journal while he did a lot of good things. If you're watching on rumbly at. I wouldn't actually lick my finger because that's super gross, but you get the idea. She changed their mind overnight, so a lot of twenty twenty four candidates who may be thinking about running against Trump are probably doing the same thing.

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They're probably saying to themselves, Joe, wow, this Nikki Haley, that was a 180. That may be a six seventy two, that may have been one thousand, but that was like me. I mean, the whiplash, they must be saying this probably didn't work out for Nikki Haley. So maybe we should watch what happens to her first before we come out and decide to take a stand against Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. Interesting. We'll see.

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The response people get at CPAC this weekend could be fascinating. Is that a hint, get my. Yet my not so good hint a good thing. Sorry. What are the hence the hints, you know, when I sometimes see I again, this is one of those topics I had planned on spending five minutes on and I've fallen in love with it unexpectedly. The Black Ops campaign for the presidency in the Nikki Haley response, the Nikki Haley Lick Your Finger trial balloon.

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Everybody's watching what's going to happen when Haley if Haley goes down in flames over the next year or two, they will attribute it. To that moment, she attacked Donald Trump, the only similar situation I can think of, where a political career was thrown down the drain so fast. You remember it. And he went and he guesses and he goes were a prop, Nikki Haley was the grand dame of the Republican movement. They everybody loved her, everybody.

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All of a sudden, Nikki Haley's reputation thrown away overnight and everybody's watching as she can recover. Can you think of the other one I know in the audience, you know, some of you were screaming it out right now, Marco Rubio, she knew it.

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Paula knew it. You know why she knew it? I was living in Savannah Park when Rubio came out for the immigration plan that had a lot of liberal ideas in it. And I was actually in the bathroom. I don't know if I was brushing my teeth or whatever. And Paula came in. We heard it on what Joe WCP or Armacost used to be the morning producer. And they said Rubio supports this immigration bill. That was the end of Marco Rubio.

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That was it. You don't understand, folks, for you, younger kids out there just got an apology. Rubio was a messianic figure for Republicans. He had beaten Charlie Crist for the Senate seat. He was a messianic figure on the upper level of the Mount Olympus of Republican candidates collapsed overnight. Can he recover? We'll see. Remember that. I think this is that Nikki Haley just had her moment there, a Rubio moment and everybody's watching, if she doesn't recover, Trump will have a clean path to 2020 for no one to run against them because they realize the futility of it.

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All right, man, I really that may be the longest extension of a topic I'm not even done with. I got another partizan. Just quick, some news about the media censorship, which is really, really bad. I today show all supported by my friends at.

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A lot of you been emailing me, sending me social media messages, understandably, and I appreciate it, asking me about two things. I promise you later in the week, I will get to both parler and my health. They won't be don't worry. I'm not going to wear you out myself. I just I've been get a lot of questions. And I think it's only fair, given that you've lived through a lot of this stuff with me, both with parler and my issue that I update you.

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And I've been just quiet on it because I don't want to make this show about me. It's about stuff that's going on. But I promise later in the week I will have an update and why it's taken so long to update you on that stuff will make a world a sense. It's just better to wait. Thank you for your patience on that. OK, getting back to the show quickly, why am I bringing this up to do today and the twenty twenty four black ops campaign?

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Because, look, Trump's first interview, the Epic Times, he had a story being shown yesterday by Zachary Stieber. YouTube takes down New Trump interview. I got. I'm not just making this stuff up. President Trump went on Newsmax to speak to the great Greg Kelly, who does a terrific job over there, and they censored the speech. Here's another one, by the way, remember that clubhouse thing, there's an app out there where you can have unfettered conversations.

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Joe, what we used to call free speech before the communists took the country over. Here's Judd lagom known anti free speech advocate on his Twitter account. He's listening to this conversation. It's pretty clear to me the clubhouse is successful in part because you say dumb stuff and it's harder to be held accountable for. What he's really saying is you're not free speech is gone and I should be able to listen in on all your nonsense. That's what he's really saying.

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I'm telling you, this stuff is going to grow. This stuff is going to get worse. They are going to start banning all of his speeches and they're going to create for us an entirely parallel economy which do parler and rumball I was very proud to be a part of. All right. Moving on. So Roxana was on CNN this weekend, Roxana is a radical, far left, this borderline communist, I would argue Roxana knows nothing about economics.

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Roxana doesn't know much about much, which is perfect. That's why he got elected to Congress, where all the stupid people tend to aggregate. I've said often and I've always wondered, how is it that the dumbest people in America all managed to make their way to one spot in Washington, D.C. and get elected? It's crazy. It's really bizarre. With very few exceptions, all the dopey people who couldn't succeed in the real world wind up making their way to Capitol Hill.

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Just incredible, you would think by mistake data like the smart person once in a while. No such luck, not on the Democrat side. So one of the dopey ones Roxana was on, I think this is CNN and he was asked about this new push by Joe Biden and his anti economics anti science folks push for a fifteen dollar hour minimum wage, which would promptly bankrupt a lot of small businesses in America. But Roxana doesn't care. Rokan is like, we don't really need those small businesses.

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It's exactly what he said. And watch how he couches it in some kind of like compassionate emotion based argument. We can get them and get the Friedman of a video by Milton Friedman after that. But I want you to pay attention to a couple of things in this kind of broken sound bite here. No one Rokan, a radical leftist communist Congress person, pays nothing for small businesses and yet is commenting on what other small businesses should pay their employees.

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He pays nothing. He's imposing a cost on you that doesn't affect him one bit. Second, notice how he uses emotion again, not reason they do this, and I discussed this on Friday, how liberals do this in arguments about immigration all the time. They base their arguments on emotion, not factories. And notice how he does it here. And he says what businesses should do, not what they can't do. That's an emotional argument, what businesses should do.

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Businesses should do a lot of things, but a lot of them can't because they don't. And then third, the knowledge problem. How Roxana magically seems to understand the spreadsheets and budgets of every small business in America and what they have to spend on human capital, despite Prokhanov knowing absolutely none of that, pay attention to those three things. This cut. Check this out.

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Large businesses like Amazon and McDonalds, for example, can, can and perhaps should pay more. But I'm wondering, what is your plan for smaller businesses? How does this, in your view, affect mom and pop businesses who are just struggling to keep their doors open, keep workers on the payroll right now?

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Well, they shouldn't be doing it by paying people low wages. We don't want low wage businesses. I think most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage if you look at the minimum wage and increased with worker productivity until nineteen sixty eight and that relationship was severed and workers were actually getting paid for the value they were creating, it would be up to twenty three dollars. So I love small businesses. I'm all for it. But I don't want small businesses that are underpaying employees.

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It's fair for people to be making what they're producing and I think fifteen dollars is very reasonable in this country. You catch it.

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Did you catch all the Democrat economic fallacies? All in one segment. That's why I use this. No. One, Rokan pays nothing. Rokan is a buffoon, which is almost a but if you're a Democrat congressman, I'm like saying you don't even have to add that. Like, of course you're a buffoon. You got elected to Congress as a Democrat.

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He pays nothing zero you do in your business. But Roxana, who is an incompetent economic buffoon in Congress, apparently knows he knows about your business and he wants to impose conditions on you and your free, open association relationship with your employees because he apparently knows better. Fascinating how Rob canapé zero, you will have to pay a lot, and yet Rokan is on TV talking about conditions he wants to impose upon you. Very interesting. Call that the. Other party or problem.

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Democrats love that, imposing conditions on others. That they don't have to meet themselves. The second part noticed what he says about businesses, they should they should be paying, yeah, businesses should be doing a lot of things, but some businesses are constrained, Joe. Businesses are constrained because sometimes their sales and their expectations of what they should be doing don't meet those expectations and therefore they become constrained. That's probably a condition imposed upon ninety nine percent of small businesses who aren't unlimited in their budgets.

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Unlimited business budgets only exist in broken economic world and the real world. Businesses are constrained, sales are limited and customers stop coming in. Product lines fail all the time. In those constrained environments, businesses have to save funds. They can't pay people unlimited amounts of money. If those people aren't producing the requisite amount of sales, the numbers to provide the capital where they can pay them. But O'Connor doesn't know that he's just spouting off the mouth the knowledge problem.

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Noticiero Conover's is randomly talking about every small business in the United States, he wants to impose a blanket condition on. Yet despite Prokhanov, knowing nothing about any business are weirdo as he interviewed every business owner in the United States, does he know their economic condition? Does he know if they're struggling even worse? Does he know if they're losing money every month? And therefore, not only do they not have extra money to pay employees, they don't have enough money to pay themselves as business owners.

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As a matter of fact, they're losing money, but many of them. But Prokhanov doesn't know that. He just talks about every business in the United States like he knows. It reminds me that time, Paul, I remember we were at Politiken and we ran into that complete buffoon, Malcolm Nance. There was a shuttle going back and forth in this political van. Unfortunately, I didn't know who this guy was. He some liberal lunatic. He was sitting next to us on this van and just spouting off about how he he knew every black voter in America, what they were thinking or something like that.

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And I challenged him on his blanket statements like you've interviewed every black voter. I owe the knowledge problem liberals. They think they know what everybody's saying all the time. It's obviously ridiculous. So when in doubt, I always go to my go to the great Milton Friedman, who had a lot to say on the minimum wage. Milton Friedman explains how the minimum wage here is about a minute, 30 clip, it is worth your time.

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How the momentum, a minimum wage not only doesn't help people at the bottom wage of the wage scale, but actually harms them because if businesses don't have the money, because they don't have the sales to justify paying people a higher wage, then what are those businesses do? Here's a shocker for the liberals listening like Rohana, they wind up having to let go workers because they don't have the money to pay, and it's even worse if they don't hire new workers later.

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So now you don't have new hires and you're getting rid of the hires you have now. That sounds like what they call the old double where, Morowski, those are two really bad things. But Prokhanov doesn't know any of that because Rokan is not really that bright, unlike Milton Friedman, who is a genius, God rest his soul. Check this out.

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The fact is that the programs that are labeled as being for the poor, for the needy, almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which they're well-intentioned sponsors intend them to have as an example. But are you referring to let me give you a very simple example. Take the minimum wage. While it's well-meaning sponsors, there are always, in these cases, two groups of sponsors. There are the well-meaning sponsors and there are the special interests who are using the well-meaning sponsors as frontmen.

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You almost always, when you have bad programs, have an unholy coalition of the do gooders on the one hand and the special interests in the other. The minimum wage law is as clear as you could want. The special interests are, of course, the trade unions, the monopolistic craft trade unions in particular. The do gooders believe that by passing a law saying that nobody shall get less than two dollars an hour or two, fifty an hour or whatever the minimum wage is, you are helping poor people who need the money.

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You are doing nothing of the kind. What you are doing is to assure that people who skills are not sufficient to justify that kind of a wage will be unemployed. It is no accident that the teenage unemployment rate, the unemployment rate among teenagers in this country is over twice as high as the overall unemployment rate. It's no accident that that was not always the case until the 1950s, when the minimum wage, low wage rate was raised very drastically. Very quickly.

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You know, folks, on a very serious note, I don't mean to sound somber. This is not a one of those sad melancholy segments. When I started studying and reading Friedman's words and Thomas Soul's words and Schumpeter and other great economists like The Road to Serfdom classics, classic books. You know, it changed my life. I remember reading something somewhere I hate quotes, as you know, but once in a while they're illuminating. I read somewhere once that there were two kinds of people that see the world differently, the super rich and the super political, the super rich people, they see the world differently because nothing has value, because nothing, whatever they want, they can have.

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It doesn't they don't value it. Like you, I always wanted a Dodge Viper. And, you know, it's interesting now that I can afford one. I don't want it anymore because I don't I don't know. I just valued at more when I couldn't like I knew it was that thing. You just couldn't, you know, like the Ren and Stimpy don't push the red button and then you could push it around. You disappointed like I when I wanted it so bad because I think I couldn't have it.

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It's kind of like that girlfriend you had when you were eighteen, you know, you don't really treat her that great. Whatever she dumps you. And and all of a sudden you're like crying.

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Oh, my gosh. Oh, Tanya, take me back.

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I never dated Anthony. I'm just pulling that name out of my. Would it take me back? Right. Well, that's what happened with me, with his knowledge with this when I got super political, super rich see things differently because nothing matters in the super political do as well. Because you start to when I say super political, I mean people who are really deeply involved in the behind the scenes facts and figures about politics. Your whole world changes when I started and discovered Friedman, ladies and gentlemen, I never looked at anything the same way again.

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And I was it was interesting. I was listening to a really spectacular pie.

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One of my favorite podcasts is a guy by the name of Russ Roberts. He does a show called Econ. Talk. It's really terrific. Comes out once a week, is very good. And back in October, I heard for the because I've been delayed, I haven't been listening to this show for a while because of stuff going on in my life. But I'm finally catching up on all the episodes. And back in October, he had a one of the most fascinating podcasts I've heard in a while.

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He had a guy on I just heard it this weekend. Dwayne Betts. Dwayne Betts is an interesting story. He was a guy who at 16, was involved in a carjacking with a gun wound up spending. I think it was like six years in prison, whatever it may be. And I didn't think this podcast would be that fascinating. I really didn't. And the stories about how this guy, Dwayne Betts, he really came around through books in prison and now wants to get this library of books in prison for inmates to be able to read and educate themselves.

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And on its face, you're like, right, Joe? You like interesting but know not really like a barnburner. No, I'm telling you, I and it only clicked on because the way podcasts work, especially in some of these platforms, is the minute one of the old one stops playing a new I didn't even want to listen. It started playing because the only one I hadn't heard and I'm wired up, I'm in taking a shower after I've got that phone in the shower, like in the shower on the thing.

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It was like almost getting wet. That's how fascinating it was. And I bring it up in context of this because he said some things in there. This guy do I mean, I don't know if he's a liberal conservative or not is you know, I didn't really get into politics, but he did mention how Russ Roberts, who's a big Adam Smith free market guy, how he had started listening econ talk and how Dwayne Betts, the former prisoner, had been turned on to the works of Adam Smith, one of the great economic legends in human history.

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And you could hear in Beth's voice how his life changed when he's hearing that. Folks, you start listening to Friedman and Thomas Sowell and others watch some of their videos out there, read some of their books, and I'm telling you, you're going to see everything totally differently. You're going to realize these liberals have been lying to you. Everything they've been telling you is a lie. I know that sounds harsh, and I know some Democrats who listen to my show who are on the fence.

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I ran into a guy again at the fair this week, and he came up to me, he said, hey, can I take a selfie? Yeah, sure. We're taking a picture has moved down here from Manhattan. And I said to him, must be nice getting a true story. Must be nice. Get away from those liberals, kid. You not. You know, the guy said to me, I am one. And look, the reason why do you listen to my show, he said, I just think you're interesting.

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You know who you are, it's nice to. I said, well, you're a model, you listen to much. I meant that, yo, I'm like, I'm honored you listen to my show. Thank you. I'm talking to guys like that. How do you listen to what Friedman just said, one of the great explainers of common sense economics in the history of sentient human beings, how do you listen to that and argue with it? Change your life forever.

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All right, let me get to my next sponsor, then I want to get to another story that really should. Shock you in a way, in a bad way? You know, I'm sorry, but we still got we got to wake ourselves up out of the doldrums. Some of us are still in that we lost. Well, you know, I'm I'm I'm done. There's no done. Everybody's got to dustoff. Get up 20 four is around the corner.

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You will never see anything the same way again. Ever everything you read, everything you see on in movies, you'll catch all kinds of hidden messages and stuff, it'll change your entire life. All right, moving on, this is another article in the show, notes, I really need you to read Bundjalung. That Kamalesh newsletter, The Washington Times exclusive, just came out this morning right before we came on the air, along with the dreadful Supreme Court story that they're going to hear.

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They have allowed the New York what is it, the Manhattan Adje, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance to get Trump's taxes and another witch on. But they're not going to hear the Pennsylvania election case. You know, Priority's folks priority. Supreme Court's been a total disaster. I don't trust Kavanagh one bit, sorry, I just don't. But this story matters, Washington Times exclusive. Biden team colluded with Iran to foil Trump diplomacy by Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor, Washington Times.

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Ladies and gentlemen, none of this is surprising. What is surprising is how openly in contempt liberals and Democrats. How the contempt for our justice system, they have, we just live. Am I wrong? You do a five year witch hunt of Lieutenant General Mike Flynn under the ridiculous allegation that he contacted a Russian ambassador in violation of the Logan Act. I'll get to what the Logan Act is in a minute. But the gist of it is this is a private citizen.

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You shouldn't negotiate with foreign governments without the permission of our government. Right. You get that. Mike Flynn went through a five year disaster where the full weight and force of the United States government was thrown at him because allegedly he communicated with a foreign government. Yet what's really weird is the Democrats do it openly with enemies of the United States, and not only does nothing happen, John Kerry gets an appointment as the climate czar. Ladies and gentlemen, justice is dead in this country, burying it so there is no justice system, none.

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There's no court system is more, I have to say on that later to a case that involved me Dentyne. In time. Justice is dead, read this from The Washington Post. John Kerry meeting with enemies of the United States during the Trump administration. The attempted counter diplomacy offers a window into the deep relationships Iran's Zarif forged with us with influential US liberals over the past decade. These relationships blossom. It's like a dating game here into what high level national security intelligence sources say allowed the Iranian regime to bypass Mr.

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Trump and work directly with Obama administration veterans. That Tehran or if you want to be officials, are wrong. They always said hoped they would soon return to Tehran to write off the sounds of pretentious. One of those was former Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Zarif during the Trump years. So it's not just Kerry, Joe, not just Kerry. So did Obama. Your energy secretary, Ernest Moniz. They, along with Mr. Manley, were top U.S. negotiators of the twenty fifteen Jukwa.

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It's part of the deal Tehran promised to limit its nuclear enrichment activities in exchange for economic sanctions relief and tens of billions of dollars in frozen bank accounts.

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I thought we were just told I thought over five years we were told that the Logan Act, if you dare to negotiate with a foreign government far, that even to be an enemy of the United States like the death to America Iranians, I thought we were told, Joe, that's a federal offense. Here is the actual Logan Act, in case you think I'm making this up. Hat tip, Cornell Law, the Logan Act 18 USC nine fifty three makes it illegal for US citizens to engage in unauthorized foreign diplomacy, including to influence the measures or conduct our conduct of any foreign government or to defeat the measures of the United States.

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It sounds like exactly what John Kerry and Ernest Moniz did, yeah. Why aren't they being investigated or prosecuted? Well, number one, let's be honest, the Logan Act is probably unconstitutional. There's a 99 percent chance that would get thrown out immediately. You may say so, Dan, if you're recommending that that they investigate John Kerry and Ernest Moniz for violations of the Logan Act, you just said it be unconstitutional. Yeah, it is. It is probably thrown out, but that's not the point.

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New rules, right? You remember my new rules show the new rules are the Logan Act. It's to be used as a viable enforcement tool to keep people from doing what John Kerry did, they used it to prosecute Mike Flynn. So if justice is justice and the US Justice Department actually believes the Logan Act is real because they tried to prosecute Mike Flynn for it.

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And why aren't they interviewing at a minimum? John Kerry and Ernest Moniz? The answer is because justice is that Bériot justice is blind, justice is blind to Democrats, just not the Republicans. Then that sounds like an unprincipled decision, no, no, it's principled, all right, you're saying it's unconstitutional. Yeah, let's test that out. Justice Department just told us after the prosecution of Mike Flynn that it was necessary to enforce the Logan Act. Now, what are Democrats in office and it's no longer necessary.

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Why is that OK? Is there a Democrat the only way? Ladies and gentlemen, you know, I'm contemplating what I'm going to talk about at CPAC this weekend, but I'm strongly considering going over Alinsky rules. The dreaded Saul Alinsky, but his rules work and what's one of his rules we've been discussing, we've been discussing over the last few weeks, make your political opponents live by their own rules, folks, the Democrats rules during the Trump years where the Logan Act is real.

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OK, we're going to make you live by those rules, see how you like it. Of course, nobody will. It's just this is dead. Bury it, stick a fork in it. All right, I got a couple of things coming up, I'm going to get to my next sponsor here. Last one. But I've got a couple of things coming up. Let's see on time. We should be you know what? We're going to have to skip the blade story and go right to the video at The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, like how I walk through this on the air and then we'll do a video.

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I want to leave you with a really good. These are the. Heroes of the Day today, and it's a story it's going to put a little smile on your face, this video at the end, a lot of you are going to know what it is. It is the 41 year anniversary of one of the most special moments in my life in the lives of many others. I want to say too much. Stay tuned. Coming up, where is this Today show?

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You know, two plus two equals seventy six to them because they just don't understand things like math, arithmetic. That's not their thing, it's not their wheelhouse. So there is a spending package for one point nine trillion dollars in the hopper right now that could possibly get past folks. Wall Street Journal is a piece on it today, the non covid spending blowout. Now, there are a lot of grossly offensive things in this bill, including the price tag, one point nine trillion dollars we don't even have.

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Don't worry, we'll print it. Don't worry about inflation or anything like that. Modern monetary theorists have told us inflation is not real. You could just print money, whatever. If you did it, it'd be called counterfeiting. When the government does it, they call it quantitative easing in modern monetary theory. But what of the most offensive portions of this bill is a state bailout? You know, I'm going to read these pieces from the piece in a second.

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But you know what? I. No, no, no, no, no. We're not doing that. I moved to Florida to get away from spendthrifts in New York and Maryland. I'm not interested. I love my family in Florida excuse me, in New York. I love my friends up in Maryland. You're all great. There's a lot of great conservatives up there, but they have a government in these states that has spent their citizens money within the states that they don't have.

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They have tax them into oblivion. I'm not paying your bills. I'm not interested. The answer is a big fat no, I'm not interested in a state bailout ever. No, this is what's in the bill. Wall Street Journal, quote, Start with the three hundred and fifty billion dollars for state and local governments and cities and counties, even as state revenues have largely recovered since the spring. Democrats also changed the funding formula to insure most of the dollars go to blue states that impose strict economic lockdown's.

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No, folks, no big no. I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it. Call your congressmen and congresswomen and senators today. This bill is a big, big no. You want to work on some targeted measures for the unemployed have at it. You'll probably get some decent Republican support, bailouts for Cuomo and Newsom in their states to tax their citizens into oblivion and spent boatloads of money they don't have on crappy government programs that don't work big.

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No, I'm not paying. We're not interested. I live in Florida where there's some degree of fiscal sanity. I don't want to bail you out. I have no interest in that, there is a fundamental unfairness in that. Folks, you know, I spent my graduate years in a psychology program, neuropsychology and behavioral learning, and I loved it. And one of the things I picked up early in that program. Even animal research. What bothers animals is not their state, but their relative state.

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What do I mean by that? You can give an animal as much food in the world, so they're totally satiated, they have no more hunger left to whatever you give a rat. Sixty five pallets of food. A dog, whatever, the dog's a better example. That dog, even though it's not even hungry anymore, will get irritated and show signs of irritation, if you give another dog in another cage, you can see more food than you gave him.

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Why, why, why, why does the dog care, the dogs not hungry anymore? Because even animals are bothered by fundamental unfairness and what they'd call what inequality or inequity. Folks is a fundamental and you want to argue like liberals inequality and how is this fair? I live in a state that controls their budgets in Florida, that controls their tax base, that is a pro-business environment. And for all of our successes in Florida and Kristi Noem, South Dakota, cited in the piece, we now have to pay for your fiscal mistakes in New York and California.

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Nah, nah. Nope, no, thanks. You pull that right out of there. Even worse, here's another article from last week I didn't get to, but it's important, so Democrats not only want to make you in Florida and Texas and elsewhere pay for the profligacy of New York, California and Illinois, and they'll make it a model for the future, by the way, which will lead to inflation and another blow out for our budget.

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They also want to bring back earmarks. This was a great piece last week by Kim Strassel in The Wall Street Journal. She says, Return of the Swamp Creatures. Democrats prepare to bring back earmarks. Republicans should resist the temptation, making this article even worse. Go to this whole screenshot. Why are Democrats bringing back pork spending a congressman so and so. We'll give you a billion for that bridge to nowhere in your district. All you got to do is weaken or not vote for this budget to bail out the states.

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Well, why are they doing it? Let me read this quote, I want you to pay very, very close attention to the last sentence in this very close attention. Well, because Democrats are choosing power, according to according to reports Miss DeLauro and Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick Leahy, Democrats will announce that earmarks are welcome in the annual spending. Pork is back. Pork is back, folks. Why would Democrats risk such a move? Politico explains that Steny Hoyer, House majority leader, has reassured his Democrats that they won't suffer since the effort will be bipartisan.

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Democrats are banking on spend thirsty Republicans to provide cover. Nope, nope. No way. Thank you. Jury's in. That ain't happening. Folks on the phone today again. Number one topic for your congressman or senator. We're not doing that at one point nine trillion dollar bailout bill to bail out the profligate states. We're not doing that, number one. And the second thing you have to bring up hey, I hear you guys are bringing back earmarks because the Democrats are telling their caucus that some Republicans are down for the earmarks, too.

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No, no, no, we're not. No, we're not. No, no, that's a big no. That's a no. We're not doing that. Thank you. Doesn't surprise me that sell out GOP would support this crap, but it does surprise me that they think you're stupid enough to go along with it. But here's the second part of this. They need this as a cudgel. Why? Because they don't have a majority in the Senate.

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It's split 50 50. Yeah. With Kamala Harris vote, they could win. They could get that tie breaking vote. But they need a cudgel against Democrats who tend to be more moderate on some issues like Joe Manchin in West Virginia. So the piece goes on. They say earmarks help the leadership govern. People who don't listen to leadership don't get the earmarks.

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And people who do do. So next time West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin is the one vote standing in the way against the radical legislative proposal, Chuck Schumer will have the means to threaten or entice him into submission. They call it Mr. Schumer added the check. That's what they're doing and, of course, sell out Republicans who love to spend your money will go along OPM folks, you know RPM's. Some of you federal employees, you like the Office of Personnel Management, I don't know, OPM, you know what, OPM, other people's money, everybody loves spending OPM, don't they?

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Everyone, it's not yours. Republicans are more than happy to spend other people's money on pork in their districts. Don't want it.

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Don't want it. I'll be letting my congressman know to. All right, let's end with this video today. You know, we've been trying to say the times are down right now and everybody's a little melancholy. I've seen it candidly, folks. I've seen it in the numbers. Everybody's down across the board. Fox, Ben Shapiro, our show a little bit others. I get it. You know, people are frustrated, but it is it's time to dust off and get back in the mix.

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We have to. So I've been trying to leave you with some cool stories at the end of the show. We can all feel pretty solid about.

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Well, today is the forty one year anniversary of what? The miracle on ice, I get goose bumps is that it is my all time not favorite. It may be my all time favorite story ever. What was the miracle on ice in 1980? The US was in a similar place, folks. We were coming out of the stagflation era. People, Widjojo, you can vouch for this, right? I mean, I was young. Yeah, but yeah, you are.

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You remember 19. I mean, it was just they the malaise Malaysia. We were wondering if the country's best days were behind us. You had the growing Soviet threat. It just was a rough time, stagflation, inflation, plus high unemployment, the Phillips curve broke down, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter's disastrous presidency was ending. The United States really needed that moment. And in the 1980 Olympics, the United States hockey team provided it just to provide context, what an upset.

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This victory over the Soviet Union was in that hockey game. There were 12 teams seated and that in that 1980 U.S. Olympics, you know what the United States wound up winning? The gold medal was seated Wojo two, three and seven, seventh out of 12 for liberals. That's the bottom half. I know math is not your strong suit. They had also played the vaunted Soviet empire hockey team, which had played in the US Olympics since the 60s.

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They had played them in a scrimmage game in Madison Square Garden earlier today before the Olympic hockey tournament kicked off and got smoked 10 to three and were never even in the game ever. One more thing, the Soviet. Beast, that hockey team was just beastly good in 1980, outscored not Olympics, their opponents fifty one to 11. And a bunch of college kids took them down in 1980. Here are the final minutes and. This is just this is one of those moments that really if it doesn't give you goose bumps, nothing will probably the greatest sports upset in the history of sports in 1980 when we needed it most, showing you the U.S. will always come back once we hit the trough.

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There's always there's always a mountain peak right ahead. Check this out. I can't watch that what I mean. I just can't it is the greatest sports moment. Unquestionably, I'm sorry, I can't take questions on that unquestionably in the history of sports and is one of those moments where if you saw it. Everybody remembers where they were when it happened. Even the Olympics were a disaster before that. Even the Olympic, they had all kinds of logistics problems, but remember one thing about that victory, a lot of people who don't remember that think that was the gold medal game.

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It wasn't. Herb Brooks, the amazing coach of that team. Her Brooks was a motivator, one of the finest motivators we've ever seen in the coaching realm. There was another game for the gold medal after that and the day after that, what five hundred to win upset victory over the Soviet empire in that hockey game the day after her, Brooks had them back on the ice. Practicing intensely and vigorously because they had another game against Finland. And her Brooks said his famous line, I'm going to read it to you, it's three sentences.

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Speaks well about the United States to. Herb said to him before the gold medal game against Finland, when they could have blown it, they just defeated the Soviet empire. Imagine losing that in the gold medal game. After that, he looked them all in the eye and he said, you were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. You know what, we're at the bottom now, maybe this moment is ours, too, when we think we've been defeated.

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I think it's all over. Maybe this is the start of something great in 2022 and 2024. I don't mean to introduce politics into what was a great nonpartisan moment, but. The greatest country on earth, the history of sentient human beings, we can fix it. We can be hard, we're dealing with a lot, but we can. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate it. Please subscribe to the video show.

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