00:00:54.600Overnight, a victory for progressive Democrats in Battleground Michigan.
00:00:58.580In the closely watched high stakes Democratic Senate primary, voters choosing Abdul Al-Sayed as their party's Senate nominee, defeating establishment-backed Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
00:02:20.440No. And let me start with the Republicans, because we get 55 percent, a majority of Americans saying they think Republican policies are actually hurting their costs of living.
00:02:32.280I'm going to dive a little bit in deeper into that really quick, because I want to show you this.
00:02:36.100It is the difference among Republicans on immigration for President Trump's approval and inflation for President Trump's approval.
00:02:44.900And look at this gap. 90 very, very strong on immigration to 68 on inflation.
00:02:49.460So even a lot of Republicans are feeling the pinch.
00:02:59.060And experts say that's not coming down anytime soon.
00:03:02.860Remember, a year ago, a gallon of regular was $3.15.
00:03:06.820And right before the war with Iran, gas prices were less than $3 a gallon.
00:03:11.660All this as mortgage rates are nearly 7%.
00:03:14.060percent well ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard today's edition of human events daily we're here
00:03:20.460live on real america's voice today is august 5th 2026 anno domine and of course folks have seen
00:03:29.120the news by now abdul el sayed the most anti-ice the most open borders candidate in america
00:03:40.020Just want a big upset in Michigan. This is a guy who hates ice. He hates white people. He hates Americans. I guarantee you he hates American holidays just as much as Francesca Hong. I guarantee you he wants the same type of race based policies as Zoran Mandami.
00:04:00.880by the way all of these candidates can i can i just can i just pause for a second here
00:04:06.120what is the deal with these these guys and they're constantly rug pullers right they're
00:04:11.220constant rug pullers they they promise one thing they campaign another way as soon as they win0.54
00:04:16.060you know they win the primary so just another rug puller and they have this thing that they0.98
00:04:23.900do when they talk i call it the progressive pause can we call it the progressive pause0.99
00:04:28.300they have a way of speaking. That is to pause a little bit right in the middle of their
00:04:37.540sentences. We need a politics of looking to the future. We need a politics that's not looking
00:04:45.740to the past. We need a politics for the people. We don't need a politics that's against the people.
00:04:54.340it's this weird like like barack obama impression kind of rhetoric thing that i'm sorry i just don't
00:05:02.160get they all do it they do it tal rico does it ossoff does it this progressive does this work1.00
00:05:07.540for stupid voters i i must be i guess you have to stop every once in a while so that stupid people1.00
00:05:13.140can actually keep up with what you're saying and and clearly it wins because you know it's effective1.00
00:05:18.040because he won the primary but they all do it even graham platter i know he dropped out but
00:05:22.700Even Graham Plattner was doing it up in in Maine when he was speaking.
00:05:25.860I just wish we could get money out of politics.
00:05:30.560I just I just thought we could fight the machine.
00:05:34.660And I just thought that you hear his little video.
00:09:31.020Well, it's great to see you down in Chattanooga.
00:09:32.460And, Rich, I got to say, though, we saw the win in Michigan.
00:09:37.240You've been predicting the rise of this, the anti-establishment candidates.
00:09:39.940But look, that's not what I brought you on to talk about, because we got to talk about the progressive cause, the politics of change, the politics of the future.
00:09:51.660Why do they do it? Rich, why do they all talk like this? They're like a bunch of cartoon characters.
00:09:57.780It's scripted. I mean, this is this is a mold. This is an entire tactic.
00:10:04.440And, you know, it's kind of smart to model it off of Barack Obama, but even though you were being coy a little bit, there's truth to it.
00:10:12.840So the cadence in their voice and everything, it does allow people to process what they're saying and allows for delivery.
00:10:20.400But this is all very well crafted, very well scripted, and there are going to be a bunch of them that follow this playbook because they know it works, Jack.0.55
00:10:29.200And, you know, I'm not going to say stupid, but it does allow time for people to process what they're saying before they deliver the emotional hit, which is you ever notice?
00:10:41.380That's what always comes after that delay.0.98
00:12:41.280I'm just going to throw it in there real quick.
00:12:42.740If only somebody had written a book warning about all of this, maybe we could have avoided it.
00:12:47.780But it also included, Jack, I mean, some of this scared me a little bit, and some of the different vote chairs, vote methods, right? How did they vote? By mail, in person, on election day? He did have a little bit stronger, even though the race was close. He did demographically, let's not use stronger, let's use more diverse. He did have a little bit more diverse of a coalition.
00:13:08.440And what concerned me the most is that looking at some of those counties like Macomb, he would do better in the early vote.
00:13:15.480And then she would do very well in the, especially election day vote that would come in from more conservative or working class areas.
00:13:21.720And then something happened later where it seemed like she had a very specific, and I'll tell you what I think it is.
00:13:29.580She had a very specific timing in her vote with certain vote batches that did well for her.
00:13:36.820And then even in places like McComb, where we saw that she was winning that, we thought, okay, his margin will shrink even more.
00:13:43.120And it didn't shrink as much as we thought.
00:13:45.560Even in her own home county, where she underperformed, contrary to what some people are saying, that's where she represents folks.
00:13:53.880Winning it by that margin is a humiliation.
00:13:56.500But I think there's an answer for this.0.99
00:14:05.720it buys you a lot you know it can run around and give people loosies to make sure they get their
00:14:10.800votes in it can run around and target specific neighborhoods and specific groups of voters
00:14:15.680in a way that a more organic movement like el sayed he just didn't have the the financial
00:14:20.380ability to do that so his was much more organic so if we look at places that weren't targeted and
00:14:27.740weren't high media market areas high targeted media market areas we can see the more organic
00:14:33.300elements of their coalition and in that respect where I do see that I think you know Jack in some
00:14:39.140of these areas where Bernie did really well against Hillary Clinton in 2016 but by 2020
00:14:44.600there weren't any Bernie voters there it had completely flipped he won only the urban
00:14:49.700progressive areas and why because they all went to Donald Trump well El Sayed was doing well in
00:14:55.900some of those areas in some of the later election day votes you know he lost the city early vote in
00:15:00.600detroit by 50 points and the election day was basically tied so it was it's concerning you
00:15:07.500know there are still contrary to what people think there are still some working class areas
00:15:11.480where donald trump did very well in wayne county well and so this is this is actually key by the
00:15:17.640way because it's going to be now of course it'll be incumbent upon rogers so he's running he's
00:15:23.600looking at this and he's going to have to go now to independence and yes he's going to have to go
00:15:29.600to a swath of those Democrats to say, you know something, this guy is just too radical for
00:15:36.120Michigan. That's why you got to vote for me or at the very least stay home. Do you think Rogers has
00:15:42.840a path? I mean, I think he has a path just from a probability point of view, but he is not favored
00:15:49.240here. He is not likely. You guys know me. I do not sugarcoat anything. And the fact of the matter is
00:15:55.080With the exception of Donald Trump, Jack, winning Michigan in 16 and winning it again, you know, once or maybe twice, right, in 24, definitely, and he won it fairly easily, it is little to suggest that Michigan really is a battleground state.
00:16:10.960Just to give people a little bit of history, this is why Trump's anti-war and populist platform had to be the future of the Republican Party.
00:16:17.120I can't believe after 10 years, we're still having to explain this to people.
00:16:21.200Before Donald Trump, Republicans had not won a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan since 1994.
00:16:26.840What happened in 1994 was an open seat, and it was the Republican revolution.
00:16:31.700It was an extreme, not just a pro-Republican environment, a historically pro-Republican
00:16:37.780environment that ended decades, decades of Republicans being locked out from some of
00:17:56.940It's just not, you know, I don't find it helpful to pretend like Mike Rogers can campaign the way he intends to campaign and still think that it's not going to be,
00:18:08.680it's not going to end up anything else than an utter waste of money go give that money to
00:18:12.700ken paxton and make sure that texas is shored up i mean just do that go give it to ashley hinson
00:18:17.920and make sure we don't lose iowa that's where we are right now so people need to take their
00:18:22.700heads out of the sand playing ostrich does nothing if mike rogers is going to be the
00:18:26.820neocon he was during the iraq war run on with expanding fisa without reforms and you know the
00:18:33.260iran war how popular that is then you know what gg good luck i don't know what to tell you you're0.62
00:18:37.960going to lose yeah you're probably going to lose badly of course going to be by the way we saw those
00:18:42.680real quick going on break but rich we saw those same attack lines come out with um with el sayed
00:18:48.940there in his not you know his victory speech where he was making that he's he's this is the
00:18:53.680anti-establishment candidate versus a candidate that he is going to argue is part of the
00:18:58.920establishment that insider base in washington dc and this is as you've as you've laid out
00:19:06.040This is going to be the big danger because this is how radical politicians get elected.
00:20:54.160And Rich, so this is something else I want to point out that it seems to me that there's
00:20:59.000a lot of Republicans, particularly we'll just say like old, right. Republicans who seem to think
00:21:06.120that all you have to do is say, Oh, he's a socialist, always a socialist. And that's all
00:21:09.860you have to do. And, and, and, and they're going to win and enrich. So, so last week I kind of
00:21:15.860played this, this AB test where I went up and I said, I don't think you guys understand how this
00:21:21.680works right now. Most people out there, particularly under a certain age level and particularly under
00:21:27.900a certain income level view the word socialist positively. And in addition, and this is where
00:21:35.120I had a little fun, most people out there under a certain income level and under a certain age
00:21:41.140level see the word capitalist as negative. And boy, Rich, guess what response I got when I
00:21:50.700attack the word capitalist. Yeah. I mean, I, I saw, I w I was watching and here's what,
00:21:57.440number one trend, uh, you know, yeah, it was up there for a while, Jack. Uh, but this is what
00:22:03.220your critics don't understand. Your definition of capitalism may even be skewed on how other
00:22:09.320people see it, but you're also being very dishonest about what you think we have in this
00:22:14.020country. All right. What do you think we've had in this country for big con it's everyone knows
00:22:19.620it's fake. Everyone knows that capitalism for them ends at the water's edge. It ends at the
00:22:24.180corner of Wall Street and broad. Capitalism is only for the little guy who's got to pull himself
00:22:29.060up by the bootstraps and eat ramen all through college, right? Until he can somehow scrape
00:22:35.620something for himself in this system that is totally rigged against him and rigged in favor
00:22:40.560of the privileged who get a very different form, which is this very soft, cushy form of socialism.
00:22:45.920Robert Kennedy was right about that. This is what people need to comprehend. We don't live in 1980 anymore, okay? Reagan's not coming back, and the Reagan electorate is not coming back. You will never make people more afraid of those scary words socialism than they are at not being able to pay their own bills.
00:23:06.100So you've got here and let me give you the opportunity because I know you have, you know, we have this chart up that you went through and you racked and stacked the different priorities that voters have.
00:23:17.700And right up there, number one is cost of living, which Democrats have a massive lead on.
00:23:23.360Now, this is widened out again since the peace deal fell apart.
00:23:26.720A lot of this tightened, Jack, after the president in June announced the MOU, which, you know, what are we going to call it?
00:23:34.300And the neocons attacked and pushed back and killed and made sure that it didn't continue.
00:23:38.380This had narrowed. And then this was taken again after fighting resumed.
00:23:43.980It's the optics of this entire thing, Jack, that the right doesn't seem to care at all about their priorities and that they're prioritizing whatever it may be.
00:23:52.600And now, Rich, Rich, is this in order of importance for voters?
00:24:18.680And number seven is foreign policy, national security, all the way at the bottom.
00:24:24.780And also, by the way, Democrats are winning on foreign policy and national security.
00:24:29.820So, Rich, this all sounds like I'm just going to say it.
00:24:33.440It sounds like people out there are upset and they just want to burn it down.
00:24:38.920Jack, you couldn't have said it better.
00:24:41.620Again, I wish somebody wrote a book about this.
00:24:43.620But just to point out why Democrats lead on foreign policy and national security, which is historically a very strong issue for Republicans generically in the congressional level, Senate, for president, they do because so many people are upset about how foreign policy and national security is being conducted.
00:26:10.060And to anybody who was an objective observer of that election, for somebody to say that, being the presidential ticket, being the presidential candidate, not remembering that you looked at your watch like you had other better things to do during the debate and people were worried about how they were going to deal with the economy, 7% unemployment back then, prices were rising back then.
00:28:02.040You know what it's like early mornings, late nights, long hours on the road or in the studio.
00:28:06.540I was just on the road for three weeks, but I got back to my ghost bed.
00:28:10.000Let me tell you, I'm sleeping so good on my ghost bed.
00:28:11.740Because when my schedule gets like that, when your schedule gets like that, especially with summer, people are traveling, people are going on vacation, you're visiting family, you're doing so many different things, you know that getting a good night's sleep is not a luxury.
00:29:58.600And people will call me a black pillar or doomer, but I've been saying the same stuff
00:30:02.080for like a year and a half now, which is, hey, you guys forgot what you got elected for and you're
00:30:06.980going to lose people. And are you going to lose everybody? No, you're going to keep the straight
00:30:10.180ticket Republican voters. But the things that the Republicans don't want to acknowledge is that they
00:30:14.760do not have the same coalition they had 30 or 40 years ago. They've got to get independents. They
00:30:19.580got to get socialists. Actually, some socialists voted for Trump. And so if your strategy is going
00:30:24.920to be to point the finger at the socialists and say socialists are bad, it's going to have like
00:30:29.240limited returns. Like that's just what is going to happen. And so as Rich probably said with his
00:30:34.500book, Burn It Down, there's an aspect of economic messaging that's just like completely wrong. Like
00:30:40.240they are not going to win until they show that there is a better alternative to socialism that
00:30:45.340the right can provide. And I don't think we have that right now. I think a lot of people thought
00:30:50.180economic populist parts of MAGA was that. And we can argue about whether it's being implemented or
00:30:56.000not. But what's not happening is we don't see a coherent, unified message on the economy between
00:31:01.860Republicans and Trump. And it's been hurting him for a very long time. He's said some quotes that
00:31:07.680are going to come back and bite him when they start running ads in the fall. And you can't
00:31:11.920make those go away. You needed really single-minded laser focus on this economic, I think, warfare.
00:31:19.400And I think what we're seeing is that in 2016, Trump was a little bit more of a peacetime
00:31:23.340president and what America needed after the Biden inflation, after the economic crisis and the wage
00:31:29.880suppression and all the stuff that we've been through economically, they need a wartime president
00:31:34.500and a wartime president has to signal confidence on like the main mission, which is fighting the
00:31:40.520enemy. Let me, let me, let me just, you know, I'll say when you say wartime president and, and,
00:31:44.900and, and when I say, when you say wartime president, you're talking about the war at home
00:31:50.240And the war should be the socialist revolution that is currently going on in the United States.
00:31:59.000And it is being driven because people feel that their expectations are not being met.
00:32:07.560It's really what it comes down to and specifically on the economic front.
00:32:12.420And people can throw data and charts and say, oh, well, there's this and this one and that and this is better and that one's better.
00:32:18.820and it's like, look, people want to feel that relief. They want to feel the relief that was
00:32:23.840promised after the Biden years and they're not feeling it. Then they go to the gas pump and I
00:32:28.980just posted the gas price up and I said what I said. And, you know, the people could say, oh,
00:32:34.240I'm upset about I'm upset about it. Right. I don't think it's great. But it's certainly obviously not
00:32:38.880something you want when you go into an election year. But guess what? If you're in office,
00:32:43.640You need to deal with this or, right, the Republicans are running for reelection in the Senate, running for election in the Senate.
00:32:50.740The Republicans are running for reelection in the House.
00:32:52.400They are all going to be asked this question.
00:32:54.320And you can't sit there and just say, oh, Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden.
00:32:58.100That's what's at stake in this election.
00:33:00.400And if you don't do that, we will get socialists like Abdul El-Sayed in office who are saying they want to defund the police and abolish ICE.
00:33:11.360that's exactly exactly the situation if republicans can't propose a pragmatic credible alternative
00:33:17.740which i think should be national populism to socialism then we are going to be socialists
00:33:23.060because it is winning with boy they got that by by i said that last week on a podcast man
00:33:27.760and they got the neocons got pretty upset with me for simply saying that we need to be nationalist
00:33:33.420populist which i'm like i'm sorry i thought we've been saying that since 2015 and the guy came down
00:33:37.840the escalator. Yeah, a nationalist is a dirty word now. You know what I mean? And there's like
00:33:43.720a real big fight there, obviously, to maintain an establishment status quo. We're seeing it on
00:33:48.560both sides. We're actually seeing the exact same thing over the exact same issues play out on both
00:33:53.700the Democrat and the Republican side, which again means, in my opinion, there's a huge opportunity
00:33:58.860for a political horseshoe effect, which the Republicans should be on the playing field
00:34:03.840because they captured the youth with Trump. They won this. And now they're ceding territory
00:34:09.760because they're losing this war that you're talking about, this domestic war. Now, the way
00:34:15.760that you're right, it's war against socialism. It is absolutely war against socialism. But the way
00:34:20.980you fight that war isn't by blowing up socialism. You have to fight that war by making voters be
00:34:28.000convinced that by voting for you, they get something they want more. Because people will
00:34:33.040say, well, socialism, you're going to wind up in a ditch. You're going to pull a bullet in your0.99
00:34:36.380head. Somebody is going to knock on your door. There's going to be scarcity or whatever, right?1.00
00:34:40.900And these are all very valid concerns. But people don't feel that now. They feel an inability to
00:34:45.980live in modern day America the way that they feel like they should, the American dream, right?
00:34:51.480So how do you give them an alternative? Saying the status quo is great is not going to be fighting
00:34:58.460that war. It needs to be like a believable plan. And again, like MAGA was great. I think it was
00:35:04.880like the good opening salvo of this battle, but where's the plan? Like, where is the, where are
00:35:11.540the supply lines for this fight? Where are the think tanks that are forming national populist
00:35:17.260agendas? Where's the project 2028, like 29, whatever. Like, and again, you're going to have
00:35:25.060to make a leap of faith. You're going to have to make a leap of faith, Republicans. Yes,
00:35:30.620boomer politics are pretty much still ruling the party, but the math is the math. And it's going to
00:35:37.460go the other way. And I think you're going to see it because these younger people, like Rich
00:35:41.740probably talked about, are not very idealistic. And you can try and teach them more about socialism
00:35:46.920and maybe they'll listen and maybe they won't. But at the end of the day, if they vote for the
00:35:50.360socialist, they think they're voting for somebody that's going to give them something. And you know
00:35:54.800what? They're kind of right. If a socialist gets into office, you're going to see Medicare for all
00:35:59.160you're going to see, you know, the paid for childcare plans. You're going to see that stuff.
00:36:04.040Will it destroy the treasury? Yeah, of course, but they're going to get something. And right now
00:36:08.600in the current system, they're not getting anything. And we know this because the people
00:36:14.060that voted for Trump in 2016 kind of thought he was going to blow up the Republican party and turn
00:36:19.340them into this. And I think the people that are bouncing, like you said, are people who are like,
00:36:23.620well, it never, like, what are we doing here, guys? You know what I mean? And again, like,
00:36:28.940you know, the political capital, me and Rich have been talking about this for a year,
00:36:33.220year and a half. It's gone. And it was like, hey, you're going to lose the political capital.
00:36:37.020You're losing the political capital. It's gone now. And on the gas price thing, again,
00:36:42.160can Americans stomach an increase of a dollar in gas? Sure, 100%. But it's symbolic. It's a
00:36:48.600political football that the Republicans will very transparently say, well, look, we brought gas
00:36:55.020prices down a buck. What's the problem? Well, it's like we shouldn't even be talking about gas prices.
00:36:59.880We should be talking about how wages are up 10% because we got rid of 10 million foreigners.1.00
00:37:04.120Like that's what we should be talking about. And I know that that's asking a lot, but again,1.00
00:37:08.940it comes back to a vision of the future. You don't have to deliver the golden age today.
00:37:13.860Nobody expects that, but they need to see that you're fighting that war. That's the end of the
00:37:18.200war. We defeat socialism. When you give us a golden age, the golden age means a revitalized
00:37:24.720American middle-class. So if you're going to run on something, Republicans, how are you going to
00:37:29.920rebuild the middle-class? That's, that should be everything they talk about. Every single thing
00:37:33.560they talk about. Instead it's communism. Every day. Every single day. And, and, and there's a
00:37:40.060way, and by the way, I, you know, I wrote a book two years ago that, that lays out quite a bit of
00:37:45.940how to crush communist revolutions and it may just be time to revisit the unhumans book because
00:37:54.240there's a whole chapter in there and i think i think i might need to flesh that out where we
00:37:58.280talk about specifically this that you must embrace national populism and if you do not embrace
00:38:04.340nationalist populism you don't embrace maga what the maga actually means then you are going to get
00:38:11.180Mangione. You're going to get Mondami. You're going to get Abdul L. Syed, who hates white
00:38:18.140people. Apparently, it's really mad. You don't pronounce his name. Correct. Right back.0.99
00:38:30.080We're going to call this the Jack Posobiec Appreciation Hour. I can say confidently,
00:38:34.200I believe, I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for Jack
00:38:38.260episodic and that that is i'll be honest
00:38:40.960all right folks absolutely back live human events daily real america's voice you know i watched you
00:38:49.940know that um that speech that was given by the democrat senate candidate out there in michigan
00:38:58.340and i saw him and he said he said these these republicans they're running all these they're
00:39:05.280running all these ads against me and they can't even say my name right and if you can't say my1.00
00:39:11.580name right get it out of your darn mouth get it out of my darn mouth if you can't say my name1.00
00:39:15.740right really simple see simple as that simple as that my gosh these guys absolute clown show1.00
00:39:26.320it's the star wars cantina folks it's it's literally just the star wars cantina let's get
00:39:30.980back to mark mitchell here mark so so that being said now i i do by the way one of the things that
00:39:37.380we we talk about in the book is mock these people they try to act so serious just literally mock
00:39:42.640them to their face actually because they can't take it and it drives them crazier um so so if
00:39:48.280you really want to like tweak them you know we say mockery is um is the bane of their existence when
00:39:53.460it comes to leftists but but one of the other things that we say very clearly is you have to
00:39:58.900undercut their messages, because what they're doing is they're addressing real concerns from
00:40:05.420voters. And if you're not addressing those concerns, then the voters are not going to
00:40:09.620listen. They're going to tune you out. I've been saying that for, yes, 100%. If they get one of
00:40:15.940these guys into office, we will see a $10 trillion housing bill. And you know what? The younger
00:40:20.480people will get something. They will get money for a down payment or something. And they're not
00:40:25.380really thinking long-term because, again, when people say kitchen table and economic issues,
00:40:31.080when they say affordability crisis, and right now, I mean, it's just sad the extent to which
00:40:34.980the Republicans have conflated this into a fight over whether a burrito should cost $20 or not.
00:40:40.520This is not really about inflation. It's not about Biden's inflation. That was the cherry
00:40:45.280on top of a rotten system that has suppressed wages and concentrated wealth, and both parties
00:40:51.480are in on it. That's the crazy thing is that the establishment Democrat wing that tried to keep
00:40:55.540Syed from winning is super corporatist. They, you know what I mean? Like they, it's two sides of the
00:41:01.460same coin, right? And so yes, we have this ideological problem, but it's being created
00:41:06.440by an establishment on both the right and left that should be looking out for the voter. And
00:41:12.000what my message has been is that the Republican party should be the mature side that acknowledges
00:41:17.340that and fixes it because it's the side with principles it's the side that believes in our
00:41:22.240founding principles it's the side that should be more christian and and religious it's the side
00:41:27.620that should have the moral authority here and you know it's like where are we right it's like we're
00:41:33.300just is corporatist i think in many ways and whether we are or not we do things that make
00:41:40.260that the perception and it's like don't talk exactly and that's that's why you know that's
00:41:46.380why i uh i said what i said you know last week and you know i i stand by that when when they say
00:41:52.820if this is the system of capitalism today then i'm not a capitalist how can i be a capitalist
00:41:57.800in today's system i'm a nationalist populist i'm a nationalist populist because that is the system
00:42:03.920that i'm fighting for that's the system that i've been fighting for since day one in this movement
00:42:09.880that's the system and and yeah and i've given speeches at cpac saying that we need to focus
00:42:14.960on trade and immigration. Trade and immigration. These are the two main issues that separate
00:42:19.240Donald Trump and a Donald Trump voter from the old right, from the Mitt Romneys and the George
00:42:25.080W. Bushes and the John McCain's and the Paul Ryan's. These were the people who lost with the
00:42:30.800working class. They couldn't possibly get elected in Pennsylvania or Ohio or Michigan or Wisconsin.
00:42:36.200And now a lot of those Rust Belt voters, by the way, are down in the Sun Belt. So you're going to
00:42:39.640need a lot more of them to be able to help you out to get across the board. And I just, I really
00:42:46.620wish that I would see these candidates actually start to understand that. Well, we need a nuanced
00:42:51.660understanding of capitalism and somebody has to do that work. And I don't know who is going to be
00:42:57.260the banner, the standard bearer for that, but this is not capitalism. It doesn't work for anybody
00:43:02.560anymore. The wealth concentration is off the chart, the rent seeking and all this other stuff.
00:43:07.520And the problem is, is that most people think that we have capitalism in the Republican Party and they will defend it fiercely by calling any change to the status quo socialist.
00:43:17.800Now, I'm not saying we should be socialist. I'm not saying we should stop laughing at socialists.
00:43:22.220I'm saying that we need the maturity to specifically lay out exactly what parts of our current capital system are not working.
00:43:29.040And by the way, like I'll throw this out right away, that the very first thing that we should be focusing on is is borders.
00:43:35.900And the number very second thing we should be focusing on is the Fed.
00:43:39.360If you go and look at what the Federal Reserve has been doing for all these years, then you
00:43:44.100would know right away that we have a kind of zombie capitalism as our current system.
00:43:48.880This is not actual free market enterprise.
00:43:51.640And if you're going to sit there and say, oh, everything's great about the system and
00:43:54.840just talk around the Federal Reserve, then honestly, like you're kind of just a joke.
00:43:59.620I don't even know how to explain anything to you because they have been providing quantitative
00:44:03.480easing to their buddies on wall street and their buddies in the financial institutions since 2008
00:44:08.600and that's why since 2008 as i said if anyone actually listened to my comments in uh uh that
00:44:14.780clip last week that we have had a k-shaped economy for the last 20 years yeah it's longer than that
00:44:20.900in many ways it's the asset class we have an asset class they're powerful they keep the republican
00:44:25.660Party establishment in power. Now, I would present one additional enemy, which is very useful and
00:44:33.580which the voters, I think, want to see anger, retribution taken out on. And it's a problematic
00:44:39.560area for the current Republican regime, and that is large corporations. And so we have a large
00:44:45.880corporation problem. Well, yeah, and I throw that in with kind of, you know, those are the people
00:44:51.320who are bringing in the H-1Bs, those are the people who are fighting us on the border. They're0.99
00:44:54.620the ones who are fighting us on tariffs they're the ones who have got us stuck in with china and0.96
00:44:59.060you know it was really by kind of pulling thread on china that i came up against this problem as
00:45:03.800as well in the very first place and i remember that's who was fighting donald trump all the way
00:45:08.360back in the 2015 excuse me 2016 primaries mark where can people go to follow you uh the honest
00:45:15.140poll.com come check it out it's my new outfit and also on twitter at honest pollster so new
00:45:21.400independent outlet. We're going to do basically just polling for the people, public sentiment
00:45:25.960work. And I'm not going to be beholden to anybody. We're taking checks from any political party.
00:45:31.720All right. Check them out, folks. All right. I want to go now to President Trump. It will be
00:45:36.400speaking in Red Rock Resort on the outskirts of Las Vegas very shortly to promoting working family
00:45:43.320tax cuts. So right right as we were talking about something that they can show directly to the
00:45:48.900people. That's what President Trump is going to be touting. And our own Ben Burkwam is on the
00:45:52.760scene. Ben, how are you? What's up, brother? No, you're absolutely right, man. It's all about
00:45:57.920service economy out here and no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security.
00:46:04.180So that's the message out here, getting back to the economy like you were just talking about.
00:46:10.400A hundred percent. What are you hearing from people out there, Ben?
00:46:13.060You know, I was out talking to the crowd out there, and the crowd is filling in here where,
00:46:19.580as you mentioned, in Red Rock Casino. And it's very clear the people get it, especially here
00:46:24.420in Las Vegas. They've seen a direct result. President Trump's tax cut in that first year,
00:46:30.160the largest tax cut for working class Americans in American history. When you come out here and
00:46:35.000you talk to the people that are servers, that work in the restaurants, that work in the casinos,
00:46:38.620work all over the valley here, they all get it. They've had a bump in their paycheck.
00:46:42.560One of the guys I talked to said his tax return or the amount he paid in taxes went down by 50%.
00:46:51.040And so when you talk about an impact to you directly, these guys, they love President Trump.
00:46:56.360And what's crazy is this is actually where that idea came from, no tax on tips.
00:46:59.780It was a service worker came up to President Trump, met him and said, hey, could you stop taxing tips?
00:47:54.040And again, it's one of those things when you get distracted by the other things that the left or other people want us to get distracted by,
00:48:00.940we forget all the good stuff President Trump has done.
00:48:03.160100 percent and important to make sure to remind people that in a midterm year providing relief
00:48:10.440for workers that's ben berkman we're going to go back to him of course real america's voice
00:48:14.280we'll be covering that as president trump is set to speak very soon as for me ladies and
00:48:18.300gentlemen as always you have my permission to lay ashore