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for you on Memorial Day and we got a jam pack show. Oh, and before I do anything else Th we got a little swaparoo internally over here. So Connor, my trustee director, who is my long my longest uh employee, been with me for many, many years. He's been sitting behind that computer for years. He's the one that, as you know, loves guacamole and I'm always side talking to him over here.

He went to a wedding? He's at a wedding somewhere? I don't know where he is. Where in Colombia? He is in Colombia right now. The country of Colombia, that's where he is at a wedding? That sounds shady. Okay, we'll find out more about that.

But anyway, Phoenix, my executive producer, who normally sits over there, who helps me craft the show and everything else, he's running operations right now behind the computer. So anything could happen right now. He's uh would you say you're a trained professional? Y he's trained, I don't know about professional. We're gonna s we're gonna see. So if there's any hiccups today.

We blame Phoenix. It has nothing to do with me. I I feel very sharp this morning and I'm just had some electrolyte water. I'm feeling good. Uh okay, we got a big show today. It's all all domestic stuff really more than anything else.

Uh and we're gonna kick off with something that we talked a little bit about yesterday, but there was there was a well there were several elections yesterday, uh local elections, congressional seats mostly, uh but the big one was this situation in Kentucky. And Thomas Massey did lose, and I just want to set this up. Something that I said yesterday, which is that I've only had nice experiences with Thomas Massey. I've interviewed him probably, I don't know, six or eight times uh when his

son got married not too far from me in Florida about two years ago. He said I'm gonna be in town. I went out to dinner with him with a couple other people. We had a great time. Um so I've never had a problem with him. In i i you know, I've ev no Different than that. I've always had good experiences with him. I like a lot of the libertarian stuff. I would say in the last year, because he's gone so anti Trump,

We kinda went our separate ways, let's say, but I never attacked him or anything else. Uh but all that being said, I I did not want him to win this election and he did not. that we all care so much about little congressional elections in Kentucky, maybe as a bigger condemnation of how American politics and the culture war has gone.

But anyway, let's get you caught up here from Polymarket. Uh Polymarket predicts that Ed Gowran, who is of course the Trump endorsed candidate, defeated Thomas Massey in the Kentucky 4 Republican primary. That was at 99% chance. It is now 100%. chance. Uh Clay Travis pointed out on the Twitter machine. Ed Gallarin defeats Thomas Massey in Kentucky four. Trump goes three for three in his target primaries. Indiana State Senators, Bill Cassidy in Louisiana.

and now Thomas Massey in Kentucky. And it is worth noting, I saw this yesterday. We just threw this image in. Donald Trump's last thirty seven endorsements. He's 37 for 37. Now, some of those were locks, some of them barely had you know opponents or anything else, but the point of showing you that. Is that for all these people screaming online, there's this disconnect. Oh look, I've got my van man, I just lubed up my lips and I left it on the table there. You gotta warn me about that.

Um for all these people screaming that that MAGA's fracturing or that Donald Trump doesn't understand the bass anymore, just this, it's just this very online people stuff. It just simply is not true. Massey was wildly against Trump on many, many things, and the people of Kentucky voted the way they wanted. It's also worth noting that be that Massey, because he was because he's a libertarian.

So he never wants to use the power of the state, and I'm sympathetic to that in an intellectual sense, not in a real-world sense. But because of that, he found himself with very, very strange bedfellows. He was endorsed by care. He was invo endorsed by Code Pink, Rokana, Jack Dorsey formerly of Twitter, the Quincy Institute, Joy Behar, Jasmine Crockett, a whole bunch more. The Atlantic, New York Times, Rashida Talib.

David Hogg, like the ACLU, Hassan Paper, like like the worst of the worst on the left were endorsing this guy on the right. And that should tell you something because the r so you might say, well, why would they? Why would a bunch of progressives endorse the libertarian and want to take out the the Trump backed candidate. And of course the reason for that it has nothing to do with liking Thomas Massey or that suddenly all these big government progressives are for limited government.

but they know that he would not have voted with Trump on certain things and they want to do everything to stop Trump. So for me in a case like this, putting aside whether I agree with Massey on some things, or I agree with Ed Gallon on things, or whatever, that's kind of secondary to what we are what everything that we talk about every day on the show is leading up to, which is the midterm elections. And Trump needs as many Republican

congressional uh seats that are going to vote with him as possible and now he got one. So that's what I saw most. If you thought my a my analyzing that was okay, I think here's JD doing a really nice job on what had sort of happened with Massey as it relates to voting for Republican beliefs, especially in the face of radical Democrats.

I've agreed with him with. Thomas and I worked together during twenty twenty three where I was trying to stop the limitless flow of American money to Ukraine and Thomas was one of the the people I was working closest with it. That's one thing. Being independent, having your own opinions is one thing. Voting against the party on every single issue, you're eventually gonna make too many in.

And that is the problem that Thomas has had. It's not one issue, it's not three or four issues, it's that every time that we've needed Thomas for a vote, he has been completely unwilling to provide it. That is why the President of the United States Has trained his ire on Thomas Massey. It's because we can never count on him for some of the most difficult votes. I wish that that weren't the case.

I say that as somebody who's known Thomas well before I got into politics, but politics is politics and when you always vote against the party, you can't expect the party to actually back.

You can have your political philosophy and then there's a game that is being played and you have to figure out how to manage coalitions, you gotta figure out who your allies are and everything else. And that's why I think what Met Massey's real mistake was wa was in the last few days, as all of these progressives were coming in and supporting him.

Maybe he needed to explain to the average person of Kentucky in his district why he doesn't want their support. I'm a libertarian, that doesn't mean I want this progressive support. So I know people are trying to make huge judgments on this election, but I would fundamentally say that this is just further proof that Donald Trump has a lock.

on MAGA more than anything else. And as J D pointed out, JD doesn't I think JD's really taking the same tact that I'm taking there. He's saying I like a lot of his stuff, um, but it is what it is. Like politics is a tough freaking game. Let's not forget, Thomas Massey and I were on the same side during the Republican primary supporting DeSantis, right?

He then decided he was gonna go all in and try to break Trump and at the end of the day it's politics and Trump needs allies. J D understood that.

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All right, so there's a lot of differences between the parties these days, right? The Democrats, it's obvious they've gone full socialist if not commie, uh, and the Republicans, I would say, are basically pretty good. Closing the border, trying to expose fraud and clean up some of the mess of a four-year presidency that we still don't know who was in charge.

Uh we have a little update now on something that the government is doing, perhaps to make sure that we will not have the type of weaponization

in government that we had during the Biden administration when they were quite literally going after grandmas because of January sixth. Listen to this from MBC. The Justice Department announced Monday that it was establishing a one point seven seven six billion dollar anti-weaponization fund after President Donald Trump moved to dismiss a ten billion dollar lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns.

Justice Department officials announced that Trump and his co-plaintiffs would drop their IRS lawsuit as well as other claims of damages in connection with the twenty twenty-two search of Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home, and in connection with the Russia collusion scandal.

for creating the fund, which the Justice Department said set up a systemic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare. The massive fund would give January sixth rioters pardoned by Trump a mechanism to seek taxpayer payouts for their claims of government overreach.

The fund could even issue formal apologies to people who made claims against the government, the announcement said. The fund will stop processing claims by December 15th, 2028, about a month before Trump's second term is set to end.

The$1,776,000,000,000 available for the fund, that's a lot of money and a good number, was based upon the projected valuation of future claimants' claims, according to the Justice Department. So there's something a couple interesting things here. So you understand what happened here. Trump obviously has been trying to sue the government over what over the

what we now know was obviously a politically motivated raid at his home. Okay? He is now dropping that. He's saying, I am dropping that so we can move forward so that the average person The grandmother who showed up. on January sixth and had her life turned upside down. Or the just these people that I'm not talking about the people that broke glass and if you did something violent or s didn't somebody poop on Nancy Pelosi's desk, I'll throw in a little money for that guy.

But like the people that actually did something fundamentally wrong, if you assaulted a police officer and by the way, it's very confusing as to what really happened that day because we now know that there were feds involved. We s we've seen videos of people moving the barricades out of the way and encouraging people

to go into the Capitol. We also know that you you know, basically anyone can show up to the Capitol at any time. These l well, I mentioned Code Pink before, these wackadoodle communist leftists who supported Massey, they wander around the halls of the Capitol all the time harassing people. So There was obviously a weaponization of the Justice Department that hit back on the January 6th people.

in insane ways and put people in solitary confinement and everything else. Trump saying, I will forgo my lawsuit. I don't need a dime out of any of this. And we are gonna try to take care of the people whose lives have been turned upside down. That seems very, very just and an effective use of government. Uh here's Trump being asked uh if people who committed violence against officers on January 6th. will be eligible for compensation.

That was not ninety-nine point nine percent of those people on top of the fact that the feds are there. I also like the fact that this is not just a monetary compensation, but you also might get some sort of letter of apology. You know, that in some cases would actually be enough. Like an acknowledgement that the government did do something wrong that day if they had feds in the crowd that were encouraging the violence.

which we basically know to be true. I o you know, you may remember my interview a at the Capitol actually a couple of years back. with uh Jim Jordan and uh we were talking about how he saw my name on one of the lists of the people that big tech was working with the government to censor at the height of COVID because I said that uh mandates were coming and the vaccine wasn't working, that was in July of like twenty one, I think. So very early on.

And I said to him, well, is there any monetary uh, you know, can I get some cash on this thing? And he's like, no, no, no, of course you can't. I was like, but they violated my First Amendment rights. I was like, could I at least get a letter of apology? He's like, no, you can't even get that. So like some acknowledgement. You know, like some acknowledgement from the government we did something wrong in some of these cases, I actually think would go quite far.

Uh J D Vance, you remember about two weeks ago Marco stood in for Caroline Levitt at the White House press conference. Well J D did it yesterday. Marco did an incredible job and JD again this is where I think JD really shines. Bumper sticker Trump, JD with all the granular stuff. Uh here he is talking to uh Jonathan Carl about this DOJ compensation and who who may be able to get it.

Republicans can apply for it, Democrats can apply for it. A a as you know, the president of the United States has pardoned a number of Democrats who he felt were actually subject to this law fair. I mean if Hunter Biden wants to apply for this particular fund, he is welcome to.

Um if you were threatened in any way, you know, people unjustly went to jail. A series of other things. Like there is now a fund and there is some recourse that potentially you could have. And if if nothing else. Okay, maybe you're not gonna walk into five million dollars at the end of it, but at the end of the day, if you had a if you were someone that went there that day to exercise your First Amendment rights and you did not

uh instigate violence or act in a violent way. You know, just getting a letter from the government saying, hey, you know, we're sorry about that actually on some nice government letterhead I actually think would be pr it would be something. The government has wronged us in so many ways post COVID, January sixth, all that stuff. Like a little something would

be pretty good. Uh here's J D with a bit more on how Trump because he's dropping his lawsuit to go ahead with this, he will not see a dime of this one hundred percent, not a dime, not a nickel, not a penny, nothing.

If you believe everything that the prosecutors said about her committed misdemeanor trespassing and somebody threw the book at her this innocent grandmother was gonna spend ten years in prison completely disproportionate to any misdemeanor trespassing that I've ever seen. Was that fair? No. Is it reasonable for her to get some compensation for the fact that she was treated unfairly? I think the answer is yes.

that ended up in jail. It was because they pled guilty because the argument was if you plead innocent and fight it, you're gonna get a much worse sentencing because the Department of Justice was crashing down on these people.

so far. So in a normal situation, if you felt you didn't do anything or you just wandered into the Capitol and people were there and whatever, you might have said no, pled not guilty. But they were threatening people with such long prison sentences that people did go to jail who probably in in a normal situation uh would not have uh would not have pled guilty. It's worth also worth noting over uh 1,500 people were charged uh for crimes on January 6th.

and over a thousand of them con were convicted or pled guilty. Uh over on CNN, Anna Navarro. How this woman has one job is amazing to me, but somehow she has two. She's every day with the lunatics of the View, and then she gets on CNN and extends her lunacy. Uh she wants reparation somehow because of all of this. Scott Jennings

towards these people at this point. You know, the w we played a clip two weeks ago where he basically was like, Get this kid's effing hand out of my face. Like he's had it. Whatever they're paying him, he should have quadruple the salary. We tried to send him a box of chocolates to CNN once just to thank him. Like it's just completely ridiculous what they're do No, Anna, you don't w

Try it a different way, Anna. Let's pretend that it was the Trump Justice Department that was throwing people in jail. Let's say a bunch of Democrats. Let's try it this. A bunch of Democrats and wack-a-doodle leftists and view women showed up to the Capitol and somebody broke some glass and they wandered in and somebody sat at Mike Johnson's desk.

You would be screaming if the Trump Department of Justice was going after these people. So all Trump is trying to do is make sure that people who are otherwise not criminals, and it was a little crazy that day. uh are treated fairly and get some restitution from the government.

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Uh and trust me you'll see why I think this is important right now. Let's not forget former Attorney General Merrick Garland back in twenty twenty two saying how he personally approved The raid on Trump's house, Mar-a-Lago, the very case that Trump is now dropping so he can go ahead and help regular citizens get some restitution from the government.

from the president, right? That's the executive branch. They're not supposed to influence what the DOJ is doing because the DOJ is supposed to be able to also investigate them if they've done something wrong. However, you might remember this one Uh Joe Biden, uh well just go ahead, I don't even need to color it, go.

Do we have the picture of the pre- We don't have it, we don't have it. We're working on it. I'm pushing Phoenix's limits right here. All right, we're gonna get you the picture of the poltergeist preacher in just a second. Oh, there he is! Whoa! Ha! Jesus, this is a daytime show. All right, get get rid of that. That was that was a little jarring even for me and I knew it was coming. Okay. Um God is in his holy temple. Remember that line? Freak you out when you're eight years old.

Um, let's jump over to the Obamas now because uh Michelle you know, Barack's been around they've opened up his library. It looks like it literally looks like the thing that the Jawas were in in in Star Wars. It's just a horrific monstrosity. Um so but he's been making the rounds. Uh Michelle Obama d been doing the podcast circuit basically saying that people don't like black women or we don't listen to them or something. It's like I I I don't know. I don't listen to you, I suppose.

Um but here is Michelle Obama and she does something interesting here. She's starting to realize that calling us all racists doesn't work, so she's moved on to a new little mnemonic trick. Take a look.

But then her next argument is basically, so they'll do anything which is their the in essence they must be pretty damn stupid because they'll vote for Trump and Trump's not helping the middle class. Barack Obama, what did you do? Do you think it's possible that those two time Obama voters were like, well, look at the economy now. because of Obama and you know, he had his r Syria red line or he said Iran wasn't gonna get a b like whatever it whatever it was, he pushed Obamacare on people

He actually did do weaponization of government and they started going after Tea Party nonprofits, right? That is that is well known. Like Obama did a whole bunch of stuff under the guise of hope and change and he became the most sort of generic politician ever. So people might have

been disgusted with that and then here comes it Trump and it's it's quite refreshing and different and Trump's actually done a lot. But at the end that she thinks that it's still the Democrats, it's still the Democrats who will do something for the working folk. And it's like

No, you guys don't. I if you wanted to do something for the working folk, you would be cutting taxes for everybody, but at the very least, you would create economic conditions in places where Democrats live, often big cities.

Where people would flourish and instead, I don't feel like doing the whole thing right now, but like you guys know what's going on in big cities and we'll talk about New York in a second. Here's one more from Michelle and she explains that right now because they're not in power. Obviously everything's upside down. If they were in power everything.

That Trump RX is now working with Mark Cuban, who is one of the biggest thorns in his side and a total sufferer of Trump derangement syndrome throughout the campaign. But suddenly we're doing Trump Rx. Oh. Cuban's got already has his own marketplace to lower the cost of drugs. Let's work together.

So that the proof is in the pudding when it comes to Trump. So if you think everything's upside down, or backwards or sideways, or crossways, or whatever you think, it's because you guys have all burst. forth in your final form, which is now socialist, communist, Islamist, whatever. It's not it's not bec you're blaming the guy that's trying to right the ship and make things more normal, I don't know, have a border.

You're trying to blame him for all of the things that you guys did. And this is this is one of the things, this is why the culture war is so important. Because so many of us that are right-leaning, or it's not even right-leaning, so many of us that are just roughly sane people, we are constantly told we are racists and idiots and everything else.

and that we should be kinder, right? So they'll put the January sixth people in jail and threaten them, they'll call us all racists, very fine people on both sides, Russia they'll do all of the crazy stuff. Then we get a little annoyed, and then they tell us that we're the bad guys. This is a really interesting moment. This is a New York Times columnist.

I he used to be conservative. I I don't know exactly what he is right now, David French, but New York Times you can take it for what it's worth if he was a conservative because he's at the New York Times, so is what it is. Uh but here he is uh pointing out that we need to be kind to each other, but now Bill Marr, who has become an h not only a sane voice, which he's always been, whether you agree with him or not, a sane voice, but he points out Well, this is not a one side issue here, Bucko.

and they don't like our founding in the first place and they're not thrilled with the First Amendment and they don't want your uh right to defend yourself and everything else. Uh they're less open. He's and what he's saying is they're less open, meaning he's talking about people on the right.

Have you ever been around a bunch of progressives and tried to argue with that? Tried to have a decent conversation with them? When is the everyone think for just a second, in your own family, when you talk to someone who's a progressive? and you're trying to just explain something decently. How do they seem open to you? Do they seem open? I don't think so. And and also be kind. The implication is that people on the right are not kind.

How many progressives really are kind? What is it that I always say about the progressives? You scratch a progressive and you get something really nasty underneath, meaning they tell you how tolerant and diverse and lovely and wonderful and open and blah where all of these things were so great. and if you say anything, I don't know, d you know that boys and girls are different then you see what happens. You see what happens. And now this one is very sad to me.

This is a sad moment on the on the show today. Uh because Harrison Ford, obviously, he's he's one of the greatest actors of all time. Uh has he even ever won I know he won a lifetime achievement award not too long ago, but has he ever won an Oscar?

For anything. I don't but we're talking about Han Solo. We're talking about Indiana Jones. He's b Air Force One, The Fugitive. He's been in so many great movies. Wow, he's never won an Oscar. Never won an Oscar. He may I I don't know if we can find this out.

But if you took an actor and they're total gross of all of their movies, he's gotta be number one. Could Tom Cruise maybe probably him and Tom Cruise, something like that, maybe maybe Tom Hanks, but if you think of all the Star Wars movies, all the Indi Indiana Jones, Fugitive is freaking awesome, Air Force One He's been in so anyway.

He gave a commencement speech at Arizona State University, and this is where it's so hard unfortunately to separate the art from the artist. Now I wouldn't say he's in De Niro level. De Niro has just I I can barely watch anything that De Niro's in. Harrison at this point, he's eighty-something years old. It's not gonna stop me from showing the kids Star Wars. There's plenty of other reasons I won't want them to see certain certain episodes of Star Wars. Um however just listen to this endless

hysteria. Like this is the message that you're g the angry, dishonest message that you want to give to kids as they're about to go into the world. It's just awful.

And and do what you did at your SAG AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award speech, which I think we have an image of. We don't have to show you the whole thing again. Um but he gave this wonderful you remember this from about a month and a half ago. We showed you some of the speech. He gave this wonderful speech.

about what it was like to to like have the life that he's had because he followed his passion and did something so incredible and has brought so much unbelievable joy and creativity to quite literally millions of people.

Maybe that's what you should have got up there and done at a at a commencement speech where you're saying to these kids, guys, get out in the world and go do something. Look at me. Look, I don't even know if he went to college. It's completely irrelevant. But like look at me. I'm someone who followed my dreams.

Like, why don't you try that? And he could have given something so inspirational. Instead he's got them a fr you oh yes, let's care more about social justice. That's what they needed to hear, whatever that even means at this point. And yes, the environment and blah blah blah it's like, come on, man, why do you guys ruin absolutely

Everything even uh regarding Henry, you guys haven't seen that. That was a decent movie that he was in. The guy's just been in great movies. Let me show you one more of an actress which you know I don't love doing the oh actors said this thing we should all f oh wait, sorry, Joseph just told me.

Robert Downey Jr., you're telling me? So Harrison Ford, if you took all of the uh if I'm understanding this correctly, if you took the sum totality of the revenue that all his movies brought in, he was number one. Until now, Robert Downey Jr., because of obviously all the Avengers, Iron Man, Marvel stuff. He's been in a zillion of those. He's got another one coming out, Doomsday. I guess it's probably coming out at the end of the year or something. So he has just overtaken.

Harrison Ford. So Harrison Ford, he's running out of time here, man, and they're done with Indiana Jones. They gotta do one they can they throw him back in. They're done with Han Solo too. He he's uh can we do it? Blade Runner three? No, that's done. He yeah, sorry. Deneer um Downey Jr.'s gonna win this thing. Anyway.

Here's this actress. I I don't know her. Apparently I've been told she's in Dogman, Space Cadet. and the Tiger's Apprentice, which are all children's shows that my children are definitely not gonna watch. We're a Bluey family, that's it. Uh her name is Poppy Loo. She is from China. So she is from capitalist China.

She has come to America to be in children's movies. She is now, I'm sure, a millionaire and very successful and everything else. Uh, and here she is explaining that capitalism is the greatest evil.

Speaking of these people, uh AOC, remember, she uh did tell us the world was gonna end. basic she's done nothing. This is a woman who has become a complete media construct who has accomplished nothing other than well, Amazon did try to come to New York. It was gonna bring in I think about thirty thousand jobs. She did stop that. That's her major accomplishment as a politician.

She gave a speech at the All Roads Lead to the South Conference. And this is where the Democrats, who do not like states rights, they want to send people from the North to educate to the people of the South who obviously must be so backwards. Here's a bit of her speech.

would be in your local state. And if you didn't like it there you could go, but they're not happy with that. There's nothing happening to black people in Alabama right now. Nothing bad. But they want you to think there's something bad. They want you to be on the streets screaming about something you don't know. And then they want the

the n whatever the norms are of the north, they want to bring them to the south. Uh this is a random X account, but I thought this was quite good. Gina Milan, she wrote, The people who want open borders use bulletproof glass now that they give speeches. For those of you listening on the audio podcast, put that up again Phoenix. I mean she is behind some serious

bulletproof glass. Listen, I will not diminish the security threat that's around our politics right now and our public speakers and our influencers, especially less than a year uh since the assassination of Charlie. Um but it is kind of hilarious. You guys will let in twenty million people. We have no idea who they are, what they're doing. When they rape and maim, you actually take their side, when they

try to block kids from going to college, you'll take their side. When they're out on the streets with terrorist flags, you'll take their side. But you also don't don't understand the irony of why you might have to stand behind a bulletproof glass. Uh here is uh Joe Rogan uh criticizing AOC and the DAMS that they just simply don't understand the basics around the economy.

that no one achieves that. I think I literally heard AOC say this recently, that no one achieves uh substantial wealth without somehow or another victimizing other people.

on that one. So they make mistakes, but that's that's actually the point. That these guys they throw money at all sorts of things hoping some are gonna hit. And guess what? A very small percentage of startups, a very small percentage, a smaller percentage of of tech companies survive, right?

So you're constantly you're seeding things and seeing what works. So you often lose plenty of money. But Rogan's completely right that AOC did say that. Remember it was just what two weeks ago? She was talking about how you can't become a billionaire without you know stealing from the workers and everything else. It's like Elon Musk, we check the numbers, is currently employing one hundred and forty four thousand people. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say zero of them are pissed at Elon Mutt.

Right? I've I have two Teslas. Every time I go to the showroom or I go, you know, you go to the mall and they have a Tesla showroom. These are the happiest people ever. They they love the product. They love working there. It's so cool. Like everything he's now done with X. You know who doesn't like Elon Musk? It's his former

employees, the people that he had to fire at X because they when they fired half the staff because they weren't even doing anything or they were actively trying to undermine the company. But just this idea that if you're in the 1% And remember Bernie used to rail against millionaires, then he became a millionaire, so started railing against millionaires.

The 1% pay 47% of taxes. So what would be the fair share? So every time one of these people says fair share, you know they're a a liar and a buffoon. Simple as that, like full stop on that. What would be the fair share? 1% are paying 47%. Would 55% be the number? Would eighty percent be the number? What what would it be? Or they'll say something like

You know, if we could what was it, um, you know, if we could just t someone's worth two billion dollars, if we could just take a billion of their dollars, we could do all of these other things. It's like that's not all just sitting there in cash.

like they're diving in like Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales, that there's just this thing of cash. That would be pretty cool though if you had a you know do you remember that? Give me the picture of Scrooge McDuck diving into his pile of cash. He had a building with a giant dollar sign on it. This guy was gaudy as hell. Um but that's not what most of them have. The money is tied up in things. It's also why when they try

to tax unrealized gains. They're not real. They're not real. So then you'd have to take money out of other things to pay for money that doesn't even exist yet. Just everything is backwards. We'll work on Scrooge McDuck in just a second. But when this happens,

The same people start leaving. And of course we know that's what's happening in New York City. Here's Fox reporting that Mam Dami is he's starting to freak out because everyone's leaving. So he had a meeting on the DL with JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Diamond.

Because JP Morgan has already been signaling with their hiring moves that they are more optimistic about other markets like Texas. The firm has reduced their headcount here in New York and now has more employees in the Lone Star State than in the Big Apple.

But he has already the the stage is already set, right? Like he's already pushed out a ton of people, which means he will need more of your stuff. D think about it this way, Jamie. You know this already. But like decent people don't really want to live in New York City right now, also. So your ability to get talent there will be more difficult. The average let's put it this way, let's say you had an analyst.

Who's making like a good number, a decent number? You're in your late twenties, you're a financial analyst, I I don't know what they make. Let's say they're making about 175,000 bucks, something like that. Pretty nice salary, young person, whatever. Well first off apartment prices in New York are bananas. Oh, also there is state income tax. So they're gonna lose another eleven percent or s or twelve percent or thirteen percent that they would not lose.

in Florida, in Tennessee, in Texas, etcetera. There's also New York City Texas. There's also the fact that there are terrorists running around who could just take over the streets at any moment and some people just aren't into that sort of thing.

So that really is the problem. Don't help this guy. I would say to everyone, it is very sad to cut and run from New York City. It will come back and from the ashes a Phoenix will arise. But this guy is trying to destroy everything and those of you who are gonna play ball with a half Kami, half Islamist. Um, yeah, you might

It might be okay for a little bit, but you will be prolonging the destruction of New York City. More importantly than any of that, I believe we have a picture of Scrooge McDuck. from DuckTales diving into his money. That's right. And then those who were the who were the three kids in DuckTales that were always on their crazy adventures? Uh it was Huey, Dewey and Louie or Huey Lewis in the news or

Huey Well, you know this one with that Huey, Dewey and Louie. They were always up to a god n and then there was Tailspin and the Gummy Bears. Yeah, I watched the Disney afternoon. You think you're better than me. Uh let's jump over to Texas for just a second,'cause some interesting things are happening in some of their political races right now. This from Donald Trump on truth. The highly respected Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an American first

Patriot and someone who has always been extremely loyal to me in our amazing MAGA movement is running for the U.S. Senate to replace, uh to represent a place I love and won big three times with 6.4 million votes in 2024. The most votes are in the U.S. in the history of the state by far. So this is interesting because there has been

Two people, Ken Paxson and John Cornyn, trying to figure out who is going to be the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas. They are gonna go against the Democrat nominee, who's that guy, James Talarico, who is so left bananas. that he made uh Jasmine Crockett, who we're never gonna talk about again, which is just great. He made her look sane. They went the Democrats went with him. And the Republicans ca obviously cannot lose the freaking Senate seat in Texas to a far-left maniac.

Here's Ken Paxton saying that John Cornyn hasn't done anything in his years in office, and it's been quite a few years in office.

What one good thing has he accomplished? And asking that question in every meeting I've been in from one person to thousands, no one's ever given me an answer. And then I say, look at the take any two-week period I've been in office, John Corny can pick it.

And I will have accomplished more in two weeks than he's accomplished in forty two years. We need somebody that will deliver for Texas, somebody that will go fight. And John Corner's not that guy. He is not Ted Cruz. As a matter of fact, he cancels his vote often and he certainly doesn't fight for Texas.

One of these guys, I think, just needed to just drop out one way or another, and we had to coales coalesce around one. Trump has made his decision. We already pointed out to you that Trump's 37 for his last 37 endorsements. So Paxton is gonna have the base. Obviously Texas is red, there's weird energy around this crazy Talerico guy. Uh but it is very important that Trump made a decision here because the last thing that you would have wanted

is to have these two guys fighting, fighting, fighting, no endorsement by Trump. They hamper each other and then the unthinkable happens, which is that you end up with a senator from Texas who is blue. And by the way, Texas does get bizarrely close. Let's not forget, uh it was what, five, six years ago that Beto O'Rourke uh a furry almost beat Ted Cruz. Ted beat him by I think two point three points or something like that. So anything can happen. Now a lot of this

Uh is also connected to John Thune. John Thune obviously is the Senate majority leader from Oklahoma. And there's something weird around John Thune because every Republican wants the SAVE Act passed. Everyone, everyone wants it. And it's not just every Republican. You look at every single poll. I saw what was the CNN poll uh from yesterday? It was something like 84% of black people, regardless of political party, want the Save Act passed. People want

uh you to be able to prove who you are to vote. It's low hanging stuff. But here's Thune uh looking rather upset when asked how he felt about Trump's endorsement over uh over his buddy John Cornyn.

John Thune. John Thune, you're the head right now in the Senate for the Republicans. Get behind Trump. What are you it doesn't matter. Okay, so you you've been friends. You've been friends with Corny for a long time.

And that's real and that's a thing. What did we start this episode with? It was J.D. Vance saying he's been friends with Massey and they agree on a lot of stuff, but also calling Massey out. At some point, John Thune, it is your job to make sure that the president's agenda gets passed. So I would hope that you'll let this endorsement go. You will realize that Trump still controls MAGA and you will push.

for the freaking save act because if you don't you are just going to look ridiculous. Here's a simple edit that illustrates that perfectly. Would you reconsider it

But if you're gonna play like coy or you're just not sure what you're gonna do, you're gonna find out and Trump will endorse people that are not the people you want him to endorse. Just get on the program and I don't know what's going on with Boone. Something something seems very weird there. But but why? You might say, Dave.

So what? Trump is endorsing this guy. Soon may be fine and Cornyn's okay. Why can't we just not criticize Republicans? De w never criticize someone on the right. You might be saying that, and I would say, well, no, because the Democrats are completely insane. And if they weren't insane, perhaps we could have more of these internal debates right now. But because they've gone full socialist, communist, jihadi crazy, we have to

Form a strong alliance against them. Do I have an example of that? Yes, I do. Here's Chuck Schumer, and once again, if we pass the SAVE Act. Which just means that you'd have to have proper identification to vote in a federal election, which virtually every civilized nation on earth has, that somehow will be bringing back good old Jim Crow.

New York, LA, back to Miami, I saw black people on a plane. Why do I not get an award? Why do I not get yet I see black people on a plane, they're getting on the plane. I don't know how the hell the high hell they're doing it, but they will not stop. Even when these guys lose. They will not stop. As you know, Virginia had their vote to take their 6-5 Democrat majority congressional seat map, change it to 10-to-1, which would have been completely insane.

The Virginia Supreme Court voted that it was unconstitutional based on their own state laws. The Democrats then suddenly were like, all right, well we're gonna get rid of the judges that did it by lowering the mandatory retirement age to fifty four, which is C it's I'm gonna be fifty next month.

like that that someone would be forced to retire at fifty-four is completely crazy. But why were they doing it, right? They were fine with them all working before, but then they didn't do what they want, so they wanted to push out all of these y judges, most of whom were in their sixties and perfectly competent and blah blah blah blah blah. Here's Hakeem Jeffries Timu Obama says they are still not giving up on that 10 to 1 Virginia match.

that their representation should be somewhat close. Six five's pretty good, maybe if it was you know, I don't know, we could say seven four it would be kind of okay, whatever. But go to go to ten to one, obviously everyone knows that's not fair. And then of course subsequently what happened? Well you forced Florida

Florida, a place which has received 2.3 million voters, which has a huge, massive, massive amount, now disproportionate amount of Republicans to Democrats. Well Florida got more four more red seats. So congratulations. But it just goes to show that the radicalness of these guys never stops. Everything they do is in the quest for power. They pretend it's in the quest for fairness.

But Virginia had a fair map. It's always in the quest for power, which is also why they want to make DC a state. They wouldn't want to make D. C. a state if they s if they thought that two of the the two seats the two Senate seats were going to be Republican or even if they thought it was going to be one-to-one. But DC, because of because it is the seat of power, votes 90% Democrat, so they desperately want it to make us they would want to make it a state.

Not because it's right or just or there's any logical reason. It's completely antithetical to what DC was founded upon. DC, the whole idea was everyone would go the representatives would go to DC, do the work of the business, and then go home. You'd spend most of your time back home. We're doing it wrong now.

But the Democrats are flat out saying, we want to cheat. We need more senators. We can't seem to get them in elections, Democrat senators, so we're gonna make DC a state. Here's Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock on that.

for them to decide whether or not they want statehood. So it would be irresponsible for us not to respond. The court has been reformed before, term limit expansion of the court wouldn't be the first time. I think given the crisis we're in, Simone, all of those things have to be on the table.

And then John Doon will be like, Oh, my friend, I was so nice to John Cornyn. Oh, but we're in a communist country now. Where is John? Oh, oh, turns out he's in the gulag next to me. How nice like that how nicely that worked out. I think he misspoke their war not because he said that he wants to ban racial gerrymandering. That's literally what the Supreme Court just did in Louisiana and the Democrats are all going crazy about it.

You should not have race as a factor when you're figuring out who the district should be. So I think that was either a complete confusion by him or or total misspeaking. But then as I pointed out, he why does he want DC statehood? Does he think DC really should be a state or does he he just thinks it will give them more power? Why would he want to s pack the Supreme Court?

Is it that he suddenly thinks that the something's wrong, that there's some judicial problem that's wrong with the court, that we suddenly need more judges? Well, I suppose you could make that argument. I don't even know what that argument would be, but make that argument. No, he's saying we have to we're not getting results we like. So for example, Louis the Louisiana decision. We're gonna get racism out of gerrymandering.

He apparently he doesn't like that decision, right? Democrats don't like that decision even though he obviously just misspoke. So he wants to then pack the court and what he means by packing the court is get more of our people on it. And again, it is worth noting that ninety point three percent of DC voted for Kamala. So you don't have to be a wizard to figure out what is going on here. So to wrap this all up, this was very racehorse politics today, right? To wrap this all up.

Again, as I say almost every day, this is about the midterms right now. Trump thirty seven and oh in in endorsements. The Republicans just have to remain sane and decent and show law and order and we're gonna close the border. They gotta keep moving on deportations. Trump's gotta keep doing good things on the economy. We gotta wrap up Iran and everything else.

But the point is support candidates who will support Trump. You may not like everything that Trump's doing and you still may be a little Trump-deranged or maybe you even you still don't like the truth social post or you don't like any of that. But we I think we have fairly well illustrated what's going on on the other side.

So don't be someone that supposedly it's kinda what John Thune's doing, I'm gonna have some principles so I won't push the Save Act because I don't wanna bust the filibuster. Or what Thomas Massey did, which is I'm gonna have my libertarian principles. So I'll end up voting with the progressives against the president and it simply doesn't work. Full circle, JD Vann.

I've agreed with him with. Thomas and I worked together during twenty twenty three where I was trying to stop the limitless flow of American money to Ukraine and Thomas was one of the the people I was working closest with it. That's one thing. Being independent, having your own opinions is one thing. Voting against the party on every single issue, you're eventually gonna make too many in.

And that is the problem that Thomas has had. It's not one issue, it's not three or four issues, it's that every time that we've needed Thomas for a vote, he has been completely unwilling to provide it. That is why the President of the United States has trained his ire on Thomas Massey, it's because we can never count on him for some of the most difficult votes. I wish that that weren't the case. I say that as somebody who's known Thomas well before I got into politics.

But politics is politics and when you always vote against the party, you can't expect the party to actually back.

Two, you gotta get some wins occasionally, and occasionally when you have some power, you gotta use it. And Republicans tend to be less um enthusiastic about using government power, and I really understand that. Uh but to the backdrop of what the Democrats repeatedly are saying they will do if given power. Remember guys, just imagine if we wake up and it's November 5th or whatever the day after the election, the midterm is.

and the and the Democrats are in charge. Trump is done. Like this whole thing of the last decade It's done. And America, in her 250th year, will be hanging on by a thread. So what you want to do is what JD just said right there, and it's why he's an excellent communicator for the bumper sticker stuff that Donald Trump does. You gotta take your beliefs, you gotta take your principles, and then you also have to couch them within real politics because that's what.

That's what politics is. And you don't, I think, want to do what Massey did, which is go wildly against Trump, and then you're going to pay the price for it, and potentially you would have been on the same side as all of the radical leftists that I think you would normally be against.

I think that all made sense. I want to give a special shout out to Phoenix today, because Phoenix, you did it flawlessly. You know what? We're gonna give him a little water at lunch today. Normally I don't give them water on Wednesdays, but water for Phoenix? Well done, my man. Uh, thank you guys for watching. Postgame show 30 seconds, Rubenreport.locals.com. Chow.

If I remember c I I'm trying to remember, it was also during the high f like the fog of COVID and everything else. Yeah, what time did the riots actually start?

Michael, God bless him, I'm gonna text him right now. The day before the day before we were gonna go, Michael said to me, you know, it could get a little wacky, maybe we shouldn't go. It is very likely that had I gone, I wouldn't have been taking a dump.

on Nancy Pelosi's desk as much as I'd like to, but it is very possible I would have wandered into the Capitol, right? Like all these people were there. I would have probably had my phone in my hand and hey it's me, Dave, and look, that's Nancy Pelosi's office. And I could have ended up in jail. So I should credit Michael uh for for keeping us out. But anyway, as it happened, and that I'm sure if you look at my coverage from the next couple days,

It was like nothing really happened. It was a little wacky. And now to the backdrop of knowing that the feds 100% were instigating a lot of this stuff. It really is cra and the way the media ran with this.

and lied about what Trump said where he repeatedly said peaceful. I mean, we've just it's rinse and repeat, like we've done these things just so many times. Come fly with me says whatever happened to elevating graduates to be happy, moral, and laugh, make a great life for yourself. Right, that that's really the point. That's really the point. Like can you imagine going to uh they do this all the time. Like to you imagine you go to what school was it? Arizona State.

You go to it doesn't even matter what school it is, but you go to college and now and now Harrison freaking Ford shows up. Like to me that's one of the if you were to ask me like who are the top top ten like kind of coolest actors, he's gotta be there. All those great movies, right?

Tom Cruise shows up. Any, I don't know, whoever you like shows up and they could tell you so many cool things. You know, like t he could have told, there's a really cool story, I've seen it on YouTube, that Harrison Ford was not supposed to be Han Solo. He was working for the production company and he was actually reading the script to all of the actors that were coming in.

He was playing the other characters and they were playing Han Solo and then eventually I think it was George Lucas was like, you know what, why don't you read for Han Solo? And it's like he to say he was perfect as Han Solo is an understatement, and actually in the in the newer movies

one of the reasons that the last two sucked was he died in the in Force Awakens and h he in some sense was the glue of the whole thing'cause he was he was the cool guy, he was the swashbuckler, he was the sense of humor, right? He was the he was the He he had the other piece where ever a lot of it's very lofty, oh the force, the force and he was like the dirty part of

And without him, i i they really didn't know what to do with the characters. That's why they all came so stiff and everything. Anyway, sidebar, the point is there's so many cool things he could have talked about. Talk about what it was like to be how old was he in the in Raiders of the Lost Ark? My guess he was he was probably thirty-five.

in Ragers of the Lost Ark. So tell me about Ragers of the Lost Ark, what it was like to do that at thirty five years old, thirty-eight, and then how old was he in Dial of Destiny, the one from two years ago? Probably what? He was probably seventy-six. Eighty. Eighty. Like, how about you talk about that? What what's it like to pick up a r an iconic role forty five years later?

and have to do some of these things and m like there's so many cool things that he could have talked about and about what it's like to be successful and He married that girl that's very thin from that uh Allie McBeale show. I don't know, talk about her. What's her name? I'm working working you over there. I'm Callista Flock. Callista Flockhart. Talk about her. But no, you're gonna tell us that the environment's coming to get ya. Boo.

Uh backup never says, Oh the irony, Democrats implemented Jimmy Crow. If the Democrats only knew why the Republican Party was founded, which was to be founded as an anti slavery party and it was quite literally a fight with the Whigs and h how we were gonna do this and but think we're past the point of educating these people. We just have to inoculate ourselves from them. Thank you. Phoenix once again. Do we have a little gold star or something? Oh, you know, we've got those uh

We're gonna give Phoenix one of those little uh gold chips that we had from uh St. Paddy's Day. I've got the pot of gold from the kids. You're gonna get one of those. Thank you, thank you. More tomorrow.