Ep 1093 ｜ Trump’s Tariff Plan & How He’ll Lower Inflation ｜ Guest： Ron Simmons
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On today's episode of Relatable, my dad joins me to talk about how he's feeling about the election and why he thinks it's going to be a good one. We also talk about the importance of early voting and why you should vote early in order to make sure your vote counts.
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What are Trump's economic policies versus Kamala Harris's? We've got people like Mark Cuban saying
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that Trump is going to kill small businesses. Well, my dad is here to make the case that it
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will be the exact opposite, that you are going to have more money in your pocket if Trump takes
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office. We will also be contrasting the two sets of foreign policy. How is this going to affect
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our lives? And also, how is my dad feeling about the election? Is it going to go our way? We've got
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Dad, welcome back to the program. Thank you. I'm glad to be back. You know,
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I got my pink shirt on today because it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Okay. And, uh, you know,
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with mom, what mom went through and she's doing great, but we don't ever want to ever want to
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forget that. Yes. That is so true. Um, okay. We also have an election coming up. Oh yes, we do.
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I know next Tuesday. I've already voted. So you have, I know I have too. Okay. This is going to come
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out on Thursday. And so people can still early vote. Would you recommend if people haven't voted
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yet that they go out and vote right now? Oh, absolutely. Cause you just don't know what's
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going to happen on election day. You know, you may have an emergency or, you know, something could,
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you know, there could be a weather issue. You just never know. So please, yeah, go ahead and vote.
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If people want to find out information about how they can vote in early voting in their state,
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do you know where they can go? Well, the best place is just to Google or just to search for that and
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just say, um, early voting in Smith County, Ohio. It'll, it'll tell you that. It'll usually send you
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to the, most counties have an election administrator's office that takes care of all that. It'll send you
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to that. What about people who are, they just don't think their vote's going to count. They live in a
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blue state and they're thinking, what does it matter if I vote? Oh, I'll tell you what matters. It
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matters, especially in the down ballot races. And those are the ones that the government is the closest
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to you. So you need to make sure that you, I really encourage people to vote ballot from the
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bottom up, because if you don't, I know that on our ballot, several of the races were uncontested,
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but the very last one, the constable was a contested race. And if people just had all these
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look uncontested, they wouldn't have voted on that. So yeah, it makes a big difference locally. So
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please vote all the way down the ballot and make sure you vote to start with. And some people get
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really confused, understandably, by the language of these amendments and measures that they're voting
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on. And we did an episode just going through some of the biggest amendments that we see across the
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country and how I would vote on them and why. But where is a good place to get real accurate
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information about, for example, Amendment 4 in Florida? Of course, the first thing that comes up
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when you search is, oh, this is just protecting miscarriage care, which is not really true. It's
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allowing abortion through all nine months. Do you know where people could go to get the truth?
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Well, virtually every state has a conservative think tank, you know, just a policy oriented
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organization. And they're different names. In Texas, it's the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
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But if they will just search on the internet for a conservative think tank in Wisconsin,
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there will be one there. In Michigan, it's the Mackinac Institute. So just search for that,
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and they will have an analysis of those. An explanation. Yeah. I'd encourage you not to
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go to your local newspaper's analysis because sometimes those carry bias. Also, the Heritage
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Foundation themselves probably have an analysis of some of the largest ones like you talked about
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the other day. And if you are in a Republican-led state, usually your government, your governor,
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will probably have some information. Like Ron and Casey DeSantis have been traveling their state
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so persistently telling people that Amendment 4, Amendment 2, they're bad news, vote against
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them. So that could be some information too. That's true. Today, I want to focus on economic
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policy. It's not something that we've focused on a ton on this show. And I've heard mixed things,
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as you can imagine, about Trump's economic policy, even from some conservatives saying, for example,
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that his tariff policy is actually just going to cost Americans a lot of money. It's going to
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exacerbate inflation. Can you explain that for us? Sure. I can be happy to. Well, first of all,
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let's talk about what a tariff is. Yes. A tariff is when you are bringing in goods from another country
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that you add a percentage cost to that. Let's say it's a good that costs a dollar and you want to add a
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10% tariff. It'll cost a dollar 10. And you're charging that back to the country or the company
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that put that in here. All right. And that's called an import tariff when you're importing it.
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Now, export tariffs really happen on the other end, on things that we export to say China, Canada,
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Mexico, wherever they are, they add a tariff. Now, the funny thing is what people don't want to talk
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about is that China adds a tariff on virtually every product that we've been sending them for decades
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and other countries do too. Like if we want to send a bourbon whiskey to Scotland, they charge a
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tariff on that because they're trying to protect their Scotch industry, right? Their own whiskey
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industry. Okay. So that tariff makes the product more expensive in Scotland. Yep. And so people would
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be incentivized because of the price difference between American whiskey and Scottish whiskey to
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keep buying Scottish whiskey. So they're trying to protect their own industry. That's right. And
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protect the jobs that go along with that. Now, the interesting thing about what happened when Trump
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imposed the tariffs on goods from China, and this can happen, is that because that had a negative
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effect on the Chinese economy, all right, is that the Chinese dollar, I think they call it the Yan
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Yan went down in value and the U S dollar went up in value. That means that if, if before those
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tariffs, if a, if a U S dollar could buy a 10 Yan. Okay. In other words, convert to 10 Yan that after
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that, a U S dollar converted to 15 Yan. So therefore the interesting thing is because our dollar was worth
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more, the price impact of us putting the tariff on those Chinese goods had no effect on the ending
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price here. Cause our dollar bought more of those. We could buy a hundred thousand hats. Okay. At
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actually a much cheaper price than we could before the tariff. So it's really an interesting,
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uh, very interesting scenario. Now I get it in that, that the theory would be that, uh, okay, well,
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if you, if things are going to be higher, that's like a tax on people and all that type of stuff.
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But what Trump has said is because China has done so many tariffs against us and they still are
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intellectual property. This is all a negotiating trade technique by him, right? And that's what he
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does. And he started having some of those tariffs on Mexico. Remember when he was in there and he lifted
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those tariffs once they closed the border. Now, of course, uh, Biden removed those tariffs. Now,
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interestingly enough, Biden kept all the tariffs on China. Now, why did he do that if they were so
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bad? Yeah. He kept all the, because he knows that they actually did work in that scenario.
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So do we currently have, we currently have tariffs that were implemented by Trump that were maintained
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by Biden that now Democrats are saying are so terrible. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. That's
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exactly what happened. And of course, uh, Kamala Kamala, I can't remember her name. She
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doesn't even mention those. She doesn't talk about that. And of course, nobody asked her about it
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either. Well, she, and she has also kind of put herself in a pickle there because she simultaneously
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says on the view, there's nothing that I would change that Biden did, including Afghanistan,
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including, you know, forcing companies to force people to take the vaccine. She said she wouldn't
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change any of that. And I guess that would include the tariff policy. If she says she disagrees with it,
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well, then she's going against Biden. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They're not going
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to move that. No matter who wins, they're not going to move that tariff policy.
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What else is Trump proposing that is different than what's happening right now economically?
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Well, he's proposing a couple of things. One, he's proposing that we actually reduce the tax on
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corporations from 21% to 15%. And the reason that's important to you and I, even though we're not a
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corporation, is because corporations pass their costs down to the end consumer. So when Kamala talks
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about raising the corporate tax to 28%, which would be a 40% increase, do you think the corporation is
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just going to say, oh, I'm just going to reduce my profits for that? No. They're going to pass that
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on down to you and I as the end consumer. All right. That's exactly what's going to happen. And so
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Trump is talking about reducing that. She's talking about increasing it. Currently, of the 2017
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tax rate reductions, okay, which put our income taxes between 12% and 35%, depending on the income
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that you make, she wants to move to let the 2017 ones expire, which they're said to expire at the
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end of 25. And then she wants to raise the top rate back up to 39.6%. So essentially 40% over a
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certain amount of money. So, uh, and again, uh, and if you and I are small business owners, cause you,
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you know, you and Timothy are small business owners, I'm a small business owner that the way small
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business works is your bit, your income that flows from your business down to you is taxed at whatever
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your rate is. So if, if you have a successful business, you could definitely have some of that
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tax at the 40% rate. Well, isn't she just making sure that the rich are paying their fair share and
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helping the most vulnerable? Well, the top 1%, as you know, already pay almost 70% of all the taxes that
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are paid in the United States. So I think they've probably done their fair share as far as that
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concerned. What we really need to go to is a more simplified tax bracket to where maybe there's two
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rates. You pay say 15 to 20% up to a certain amount. And over that you might pay 25 to 30%. That would be
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the simplest thing to do. And that everybody pays taxes. Everybody that makes a dollar of income
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pays tax on that dollar of income. And that way you could have lower tax rates for everybody.
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Yeah. Mark Cuban says that Trump's economic policy is going to be terrible for small businesses. Here's
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thought 16. I don't think he pays attention to the details and he can't be pressing United States.
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Unless you pay attention to the details. Yeah, that's fine. If he wants to, you know,
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just give speeches in random places for random reasons. But to talk about such significant policy
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like tariffs, much less foreign policy. He doesn't realize the impact, but literally he is going to put
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who knows how many small businesses out of business. He is applying a machete when a scalpel
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is what's necessary. Okay. So again, she's not pointing out that those tariffs currently exist
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under her administration. Is it true that tariffs are going to put small businesses out of business?
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Well, let's just look at her overall economic plan versus his. And this is by the tax policy foundation,
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okay. Dot org, which we can go and see. And there's a printout, which I printed out and that her,
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her plan by this bipartisan group is going to call 786,000 jobs, 786,000, her economic plan,
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which would include whatever she's going to do on tariffs and everything. Trump's plan would
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increase it by 600,000 jobs. So, I mean, what they're both saying and Mark Cuban in this scenario
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is just a sycophant. He just is trying to say whatever agrees with her.
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And it seems like to me, I wonder if it has to do with China for him.
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Well, it may, it may have something to do. That's part of the NBA's outreach, as you know.
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Remember LeBron James and his China thing? And you can't, you know, you can't say anything
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about China. That's a big market over there. And believe me, Mark is more concerned, which he,
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he talks about Trump being more concerned about his own fortune and fame than he is about anything
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else. No question. No question about, you know, he also called Trump a fascist, right? Yeah. Yeah.
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And you know what a fascist really is? A fascist really is someone that wants state control of
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everything. That's what they want. Okay. And not the individual. And actually Trump is just the
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opposite of that. Okay. He, he, he said that, you know, he talked about being the enemy within is
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what Cuban use that number. Of course, Trump's simply talking about the deep state, like the,
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like the weaponization of the FBI and the department of justice.
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And he talked about military, right? Going to put the military, uh, Cuban says he's going to send
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the military to your house. Well, no, it was talking about using the military when there are riots and
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they are, they are killing people and, and vandalizing property. That's all. And that's what
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he should do. And then finally, mass deportations. And the only mass deportations really that have
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been specifically talked about are of criminals. Now we've got other issues in addition to criminals
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because everyone that's crossed the border has, has technically broken the law. In fact, I don't know
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if you heard this or not, but after the hurricane that went through St. Petersburg, Florida,
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they arrested 45 people for looting. 41 of those were illegal aliens.
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Wow. And you know, we played the montage of Kamala Harris on yesterday's episode of saying
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over and over again, that crossing the border itself is not a crime, which would mean if that's
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the case, then that person's not illegal and you can't deport them and you can't prevent them
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from committing that crime. And that's the thing about every crime committed by an illegal alien
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is that it's preventable. Absolutely. Yeah. They weren't here. It wouldn't happen.
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Yep. So that's who Kamala Harris is. What else about Trump's economic policy do you think people
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should know? Most people are just thinking, how does this affect my groceries? I know you already
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talked about, you know, lowering the corporate tax rate, some of the other things that he's going
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to try to do to help make it easier for people to live. What else do you see?
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Well, he's going to increase the child tax care credit. Okay. Which I think is a, which is a good
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thing to do. And a credit is different than a deduction. Okay. A credit means that if you have
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a thousand dollar credit and your taxes were $2,000 before the credit, they're only a thousand
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dollars after it's a direct write-off. A deduction is being, if you're, if your income is 400,000 and
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you have a deduction of a hundred thousand, that means you're only paying tax on 300,000, but it's not
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a true credit. Okay. So credits are more impactful. Okay. That he's proposing that, which actually his
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daughter came up with in this last first administration, the idea about that. He's also proposing that we
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allow a deduction for interest paid on auto loans. For a lot of people, especially renters, their biggest
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debt is their car. And you know how much cars cost these days are very expensive. And right now, the
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interest that you pay on that loan, you can't deduct that from the income on your taxes. So in the future,
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let's say that you had a car loan and that $2,000 a year of the loan was interest. So if that person
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made $50,000 a year, they would only have to pay tax on 48,000 of that, which would therefore lower
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their tax bill. The other thing is no taxes on tips. Yes. Which for the restaurant industry, that's a big
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deal. You know, the restaurant industry pays their waiters and waitresses less of the minimum wage.
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They're allowed to do that because they consider tips in that calculation. And so right now the tips,
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they have to assume how many tips they got, and then they have to pay tax on that, including
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social security. And he would help those restaurant workers by not charging tax, not allowing tax to be
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paid, not having tax paid on that. Of course, Kamala has adopted that already. We've got this
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clip. So let's play this. This was on June 9th. Trump saying no tax on tips. So this is the first time
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I've said this. And for those hotel workers and people that get tips, you're going to be very happy
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because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips, people making tips.
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Okay, here is Kamala Harris on August 10th. Saw 18.
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and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.
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Yeah, because she adopted that policy. Good for her.
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Good for her. Raising the minimum wage, is that something that's smart economic policy?
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Well, I think there's been some tests of that done in California and Oregon and Seattle,
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Because what happens is, is that two or three things can happen. One is you have to raise the
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prices of your goods. So therefore you don't sell as much. People don't buy as much. And the other
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thing is that you're, you end up reducing the hours of your workers because you only have certain
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amount of money that you can pay wages for labor. And so therefore you start, people don't get as
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many hours. So they really don't make any more money doing that. It just is not a failed system.
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It can definitely lead to increased unemployment. All right. Anything else about the economy before
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Yes, there is one thing. So, and this is really important because you'll, you'll hear this is that
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Harris's economic plan will increase the deficit over 10 years of 3.4 trillion, which incidentally
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is less than what her and Biden have done over the last four years. Now, Trump's will also increase
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the deficit by 2.5 trillion. However, let's look at what that means. Her 3.4 trillion is happening all
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because she's increasing taxes and spending more money, right? It's all on spending. The reason
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Trump's increases the deficit is because he is cutting taxes. Well, if he's decreasing taxes,
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where do you think that money's staying? Yeah. It's staying in mine and your pockets to make a
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decision on what we want to do, whether we want to give it to charity, whether we want to set some
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money aside for our kids in school, whether we want to get a new car. So there's a whole big difference
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between increasing the deficit through reducing taxes or increasing spending. Believe me, as
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individuals, you want it to be in decreasing taxes. And that is a huge difference that I haven't heard
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anybody talk about. Yeah. I didn't know that. That is really important because usually you just hear,
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well, they're both going to be big spenders because the deficit is going to go up.
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And they probably will. But here's, here's the other secret weapon. If he follows through on it,
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I believe Elon Musk, if he, if he sets him up on the department of government efficiency,
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I absolutely believe that he'll find a lot of inefficiencies and cuts.
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I am so grateful for Elon Musk. I mean, I was happy when he took over X, that was a game changer.
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I didn't expect him to be as outspoken for Trump and for conservative ideas as he has been,
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especially over the past few weeks. I think that's, I mean, that's amazing.
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It is amazing. And I think what the reason is, is that he probably socially more progressive,
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obviously, but the Democrat party has just driven him away. They've just demonized him. Right. And
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he realizes that the key to innovation and success is allowing people to be able to do that without
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overburdening them. You know, the work that he's done with SpaceX and other things where he has to
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kind of get into that regulatory environment. I think he's learned at what a diminishing effect
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it can have on innovation. Yeah, I think so too.
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Okay. On foreign policy, you know, Harris is in an interesting position. She's lost some Muslim
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support. They're traditionally Democrat, but with the Israel-Hamas conflict going on and she has kind
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of towed the line and she has at least outwardly said that she supports the state of Israel and its
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right to defend itself. But at the same time, Trump has an unprecedented amount of Jewish support
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because we talked about this yesterday, but many Jewish Americans do not trust Kamala to seek the
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interests of Israel at all. But also Muslims don't trust her because they think that she's on the side
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of Israel. So she's kind of in this a little bit of a tough position. What do you think she will
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actually do though, if she were in office? Well, I think she'll do very little. I think she will
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try to pressure Israel to do a ceasefire, you know, and then hopefully Hamas will release the
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hostages. But the chances are the hostages, I hope they're all alive, but the chances are it could be
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like the other ones they released and those, you know, they released the bodies. And she's going to
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try, she's going to probably try to do that. But what that's going to do, it's going, if it follows
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through, it will weaken Israel. And she already has a bad relationship with, you know, Netanyahu and
00:24:55.540
what have you, in my opinion, because they've tried to, you know, they held up a bunch of weapons that
00:25:00.960
we were going to sell them because they didn't want them to do an attack, like 3,800 missiles or
00:25:07.080
something like that. And that, I mean, that's just, that's not, I mean, there's only one group
00:25:12.080
at fault in this, only one group. And it's Hamas that attacked them on October 7th. Israel didn't
00:25:18.880
provoke that. Right. Okay. And the fact that they killed 1,200 Israeli civilians, right? Yeah. The
00:25:26.980
reason that any Palestinians have been killed that are not military are because the military hides
00:25:33.480
behind them. Yeah. All right. So quit hiding behind them, you coward. It's nothing but cowards. It's
00:25:39.120
all that they are. Yeah. And, you know, I'll tell you one thing. My money is almost always on the
00:25:45.760
IDF, the Israeli defense fighters. I mean, they, they know what they're doing to come up with a deal
00:25:52.580
on the pagers and those drones that went in there and found that one guy. And they somehow programmed
00:25:58.960
5,000 pages to go off. I have no idea how they do that. They detonated and killed nine people.
00:26:04.460
Now, what I will tell you though, is that when I went to, mom and I went to Israel a few years ago,
00:26:08.780
and we were there on a legislative mission and they, they took us behind the scenes at some of
00:26:14.200
their cybersecurity stuff that they do. And you can just see that the technology and the things that
00:26:20.260
they innovate are just out there. I mean, they, a lot of the, when they leave the military, a lot of
00:26:27.600
those people end up setting up companies that use technology that for, that was developed for
00:26:33.000
military reasons for civilian reasons. Yeah. Good ones. And what is America's role? Because we do
00:26:38.560
see that Israel, as you said, is, is pretty strong itself, has a lot of capabilities. And there's been
00:26:45.620
some debate. I even think good faith debate between conservatives about America's role in defending
00:26:52.900
Israel. Like how far do we go? What does that look like? What do you think? It's the only true
00:26:58.360
democracy in the Middle East. Yeah. So we, I think we are not only are we bound morally, you and I would
00:27:05.180
agree morally that we're bound with that, but I think for stabilization, we're bound as well. We need
00:27:10.720
the Middle East to be stabilized and we need a democracy over there to do that. And, you know, a lot of
00:27:17.460
countries, as you notice in the Middle East are not having much to say about this war. You don't hear
00:27:22.800
much out of UAE, Saudi Arabia, even Jordan. You don't hear much out of them because at the end of
00:27:29.780
the day, they know that's a good thing as well. Would it be fair to say that under Trump, we did have
00:27:36.240
unprecedented stability, not perfect stability, but with the Abraham Accords, didn't it look like
00:27:42.420
things were trending in a good direction? Well, that's what I was going to talk about really.
00:27:45.380
And of course, you know, Trump was at the top, so he gets the credit or the blame, but Jared Kushner
00:27:50.700
was key. His son-in-law. Yeah. A lot of conservatives don't like Jared Kushner. You know, I know. I don't
00:27:56.640
really know, but. Well, he negotiated those Abraham Accords. Yeah. Now Trump was involved in it too,
00:28:01.820
but he was the one that got the people together and that's unprecedented. Nobody's ever been able to
00:28:08.000
do that before. And I think we were on our way to do more. That's something Biden and Harris should
00:28:12.880
have continued. That wouldn't have hurt anything. And they didn't do it. Now, I also think Trump was
00:28:18.140
smart to pull out of the Iran deal. Yeah. Because the Iran deal did all we did. We flew over all this
00:28:25.640
money to them. And then we also opened up a bunch of bank accounts that we had frozen for them.
00:28:30.700
And we said, you can't use that for, you know, any weapons or military. Of course.
00:28:36.340
That's what Obama did. That's what Obama did. That was the Iran nuclear deal. And then Biden went back
00:28:39.740
into it as well. That's right. And then when people talk about pallets of cash, that's what
00:28:43.380
they're talking about. That Biden or Obama, this was apparently a peace deal to try to appease them
00:28:49.600
and say, okay, we'll send you a bunch of money. Just don't use it on your nuclear weapons, please.
00:28:53.440
But it's the same thing as when Planned Parenthood takes, you know, 500 million tax dollars a year
00:28:57.740
and it's not used on abortion. Well, money is fungible. That's exactly right.
00:29:02.380
I mean, there's no way to track it. There's no way to track that. That's exactly what happened
00:29:05.940
there. If I hold up two $1 bills, they look the same. Yeah. If I do like this, they're still the
00:29:10.900
same. You know what I mean? So that's exactly what happened. And so they are most experts in
00:29:16.860
the world will say they're closer to a nuclear weapon than they've ever been. And it's not because
00:29:22.020
Trump backing out. It's because the money and the lack of sanctions that Obama and Biden did.
00:29:28.680
And how did the whole Afghanistan debacle affect the Middle East or the stabilization efforts that,
00:29:35.980
you know, Trump put in place in the Middle East?
00:29:37.640
I think the Afghanistan thing made us look weak and that we pulled out our troops. We abandoned
00:29:45.440
people over there that helped us. And that lets us know that we were not there to have a long-term
00:29:55.860
stability. And in any time that you leave, even, you know, it was, it was 13 or 30, I forget exactly
00:30:03.100
the number, but it doesn't matter how small that number is. You don't, you don't do that to your
00:30:07.180
troops. You just don't do that. We pulled out in weakness. I mean, did not we learn anything from
00:30:12.180
the evacuation of Saigon in Vietnam? I know most of your listeners won't remember that, but if you
00:30:17.760
remember those pictures where they were hanging on the helicopter, you know, stabilization things and all
00:30:24.300
that, it was just awful. And that's exactly what it looked like in Afghanistan. It was embarrassing.
00:30:33.120
And as far as we know, they have not been honored in any way by the Biden-Harris administration.
00:30:38.360
Yeah, as far as I know. And I don't think they ever, I don't know if they talked to their parents or
00:30:43.220
Well, those families, they ended up making this montage video in support of Donald Trump because
00:30:48.260
Donald Trump, I think, came to a service honoring them and Biden was invited to that and didn't show
00:30:58.600
He and Kamala both are not good people. And it's a little bit like your, some of your episodes
00:31:04.980
this week in that, you know, and I, there are demonic forces at work. There just are. Okay. If
00:31:11.920
people don't believe that, then they're just being fooled. All right. And that is, that's the way it
00:31:18.480
What else do we need to know about these candidates, this election? What's at stake?
00:31:22.660
Well, I think what, I think what we need to know is this is a true, a turning point. If, if,
00:31:29.040
if Kamala is elected, we're going to head down an even more ultra progressive role than we head
00:31:36.360
down. Abortion up until the end. That's her number one issue, as you know. She has no limits on
00:31:41.900
abortion whatsoever at the federal level, which would make it impossible for Texas or Tennessee
00:31:46.020
or to, you know, Kentucky to restrict abortion. They'll do as much as they can. And that there's
00:31:50.780
no question about that. You got to plan on her. If she's in there, if she gets elected,
00:31:55.000
it's for eight years, not for four. Yeah. Okay. That's the way things generally work. All right.
00:31:59.440
You had to plan on that. So you give her eight years at least some point in that time, she's
00:32:04.320
going to have control of the both the house and the Senate way those go back and forth. The other
00:32:08.400
thing is the sexualization of our children and being able to take the parents out. There will be,
00:32:14.160
you know, there will be no parental control over abortion, no parental control or consent over
00:32:20.540
gender, gender type care. And then the other thing I think that we'll see is a huge increase in the
00:32:27.760
entitlement state where they will continue to give away more and more to, to advise votes, including
00:32:36.200
amnesty for the 14 million illegals that they've let in in the last four years. That's what you're
00:32:42.520
going to get under Kamala. All right. In my opinion. And I just want to add on, I just want to add on
00:32:46.900
to that before we move on to Trump, because just to double down on some things that you've said,
00:32:52.320
the Equality Act, for example, that has been sitting and floating around in Congress for a long
00:32:56.840
time. That is Democrats like pet legislation, Colin Allred, the guy who's running for Senate in Texas
00:33:03.180
is a big supporter of the Equality Act. There are lots of things that it does. Like, for example,
00:33:08.200
it could make it a crime to so-called misgender a person in a workplace. It could force religious
00:33:13.960
organizations to have to assent to this new definition of marriage and gender. It also takes
00:33:22.480
away any religious exemptions for an OBGYN who say, does it want to perform an abortion or even Catholic
00:33:29.380
hospitals who don't perform abortions? They would actually be forced to, or they would be forced to
00:33:34.320
close down or no longer be an OBGYN. So that's Kamala Harris. When they say that they care about your
00:33:40.140
constitutional freedoms, they don't. They care about abortion. They care about sexual degeneracy.
00:33:45.580
They care about taking away parental rights. In Kamala's home state of California, Gavin Newsom,
00:33:51.080
passed the law that says, if you do not affirm your child's new stated identity, you will lose custody.
00:33:57.540
That's what she believes. She is part of the administration who is putting pro-life
00:34:01.680
protesters like Bevelyn Williams and Joan Bell, who's a 74-year-old grandmother with diabetes,
00:34:06.500
in prison. So this is rewarding evil and punishing good. That's what you'll get from Kamala Harris.
00:34:12.820
And they're also going to try to pass legislation or certainly executive orders on hate speech.
00:34:17.800
And so most of the things that you say on here would consider to be hate speech because you disagree,
00:34:22.040
agree. Yeah. Which is totally irrational under our constitutional system. Yep. Hate speech is free
00:34:29.900
speech. And you can't depend on the Supreme Court to fix everything for you. Yeah. Well, they want to
00:34:34.620
pack the Supreme Court. They want to expand it. Yeah, of course they want to. And pack it because they
00:34:38.660
don't like that the Supreme Court does check on power. I just saw the news that came out that the
00:34:43.720
Supreme Court ruled, I think it was 6-3, that Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, does have a
00:34:49.860
right to purge its voter rolls of non-citizens. They were sued by the Harris-Biden DOJ over that.
00:34:56.780
And I wonder which six versus which three it was that were against that. Yeah. Hmm.
00:34:59.740
Yeah. I bet I could guess. Yeah. Because they're always predictable. Yeah. So under, yeah,
00:35:04.300
unfortunately the conservatives are not. Yeah. That's because they actually go by principle.
00:35:08.640
But under Donald Trump, I think what you see, you see a return to what happened between 2017
00:35:12.200
and 2021 from an economic standpoint, which was some of the best economic times in history. You know,
00:35:18.800
he left there with a little over 1% inflation. Real wages were up for every classification,
00:35:24.260
including black men, black women, Hispanic men, Hispanic men, white men, white men, all of those
00:35:29.040
categories, real wages were up. I think you'll see a much more stable energy market. You know,
00:35:35.660
he is the, he's what I believe in the drill, baby drill. We have a lot of, of, of that type of
00:35:41.740
energy that's available. And a lot of that energy is actually clean energy, right? Natural gas is clean
00:35:46.940
energy. And I think you'll see the removal of some of the credits for solar and wind, which
00:35:52.600
wind can be a real problem. You know, I don't know if you've read about the, the whales that have
00:35:57.800
washed up on the New Jersey beach and they really believe that the vibrations has essentially driven
00:36:03.960
them insane. You know, just like, did you hear Donald Trump on 18 different whales? And I read it
00:36:08.480
somewhere else. Did you hear what he said about it? He said on Joe Rogan, he was talking about that
00:36:12.760
exact thing. And he said, he wants to become a whale psychiatrist because the whales are being
00:36:18.000
driven crazy. He was like, yeah, it'd be a good market. Something probably messes up their internal
00:36:21.360
system because they go by, you know, sound waves. Yeah. It's cool. Who knows? And I also think what
00:36:26.540
you're, I think what you're going to have is you're just going to have more independent freedom. It's
00:36:30.740
going to be a one term. Uh, but he will, he will, I think he will, uh, make sure that we have good
00:36:37.960
arrangements with our allies as well as our enemies. All right, y'all. I am so excited about
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election night. Go to blaze election.com slash alley. Okay. How are you feeling about the result of the
00:37:21.600
election? This is Thursday. Hopefully we'll know something by next Wednesday, right? Hopefully.
00:37:27.940
Yeah. Are you going to call me at midnight like you did in 2000 and say, have mom call me and say,
00:37:32.820
tell me who's one. Yeah. So she'll go to sleep. And you had to, you had to lie to me. You might
00:37:36.840
have to lie to me this year too. Maybe your daughter will be a part of that. But next time she probably
00:37:40.880
will be. Yeah. Uh, you know, I feel good about it. I really do. I feel, uh, you know, you never know,
00:37:46.980
uh, you can never know what Trump's going to say or do in the next, uh, next week or what's going to,
00:37:51.560
you know, I don't think there's going to be an October surprise. I think we've already been there.
00:37:55.240
Uh, but I real, I feel really good. Here's what I think will happen. Yeah. Either Harris will win
00:38:00.500
by a very small margin. Okay. Or Trump will win by a big margin. I don't think he'll win by a small
00:38:06.860
margin. I think it'll be, and there's something to momentum in campaigns. Yeah. Right now he has
00:38:12.420
the momentum and he's generally under polled by three or 4%. Yeah. And so I'd say all of those
00:38:20.060
things are good for him. And I'm not a big, I'm certainly not an election denier, but I do believe
00:38:25.880
that there can be some tricky things that go on in some of these big cities. So I'm so glad
00:38:31.420
that heritage foundation and the Republican national committee, they have a host. I mean,
00:38:37.580
a huge number of people that are on the election integrity side. They're going to be at all of these
00:38:42.400
voting sites. They're going to make sure things are counted properly. You know, it's much more ready
00:38:48.300
this time than last time. The other thing I think Trump's going to do, Ali, as we finish up
00:38:52.080
is I think he'll be smarter about who he selects. And he's talked about that. He actually admitted
00:38:57.920
making mistakes on people. Yeah. I saw that. Which I've never heard Kamala Harris admit one mistake.
00:39:03.940
She wouldn't even want to apologize to the parents of the people that were killed by illegal aliens.
00:39:09.720
No. Well, we were just talking about that yesterday about the Washington times came out with this
00:39:14.480
expose, talked to her family members and former staffers. And we know that, you know, you can only
00:39:19.260
take those kinds of testimonies with a grain of salt. That's true when it comes with, uh, to Trump
00:39:24.380
too, but person after person and the parents of the interns that she had when she was in state office
00:39:29.860
in California to say that their children, I mean, their kids, adult children, you know,
00:39:34.160
were just emotionally abused. She just berates her staff. She's not a nice person. We never hear stories
00:39:39.680
of her kindness or friendship or hospitality over the years. Like we hear about Donald Trump.
00:39:44.080
I think that she is probably personally very cruel and vindictive. That's not the kind of person
00:39:50.240
that you want in office. I saw the other day, let's see if I ended up taking a picture of it
00:39:55.340
because I just hear Trump so much. And I never hear Kamala saying this. I hear Trump so much talk about,
00:40:02.260
um, his love for the country and just his desire to see the country do well. And when I was at Liberty,
00:40:11.320
they have all of these old books in a house where I was staying. And one of them, um, were maxims by
00:40:17.860
George Washington. And so here's what he said. And I think we have to think about this. Maybe not every
00:40:23.900
candidate will fit perfectly into this, but this is what you ideally want in a president. He said,
00:40:28.480
in every act of my administration, I have sought the happiness of my fellow citizens. My system for
00:40:34.180
the attainment of this object has uniformly been to overlook all personal, local, and partial
00:40:38.940
considerations to contemplate the United States as one great whole to confide that sudden impressions
00:40:44.680
when erroneous would yield to candid reflection and to consult only the substantial and permanent
00:40:51.480
interests of our country. Now we don't talk like that anymore, but basically it is a kind of just
00:40:57.020
genuine love of country and love for your fellow citizens. Whereas we have Biden right now who is
00:41:02.740
calling Trump supporters garbage. It's, it's unbelievable. I mean, it really is unbelievable.
00:41:09.440
Yep. So I'm hoping and praying for the best. That's right. And God is in charge. He is totally
00:41:16.360
in charge. We're the workers. Yeah. Harvest it's his. Yeah. And you're doing good work. And a lot of
00:41:23.760
your listeners I know are out there. They are talking to their friends, getting them to just
00:41:27.640
make sure that you get your family and friends out to vote. That's the number one thing you can do.
00:41:32.800
Drive them there if you have to. We're kind of beyond the argument stage. Get them out to,
00:41:36.840
get them out to vote. Yes. But on the way, maybe try to make sure that they're voting the right way.
00:41:43.100
That's true. If not, take them to McDonald's. Yeah, there you go. Okay. Thanks so much, Dad.
00:41:48.460
Fred, we'll have you back on after the election for all of the post-election analysis. Well,
00:41:52.960
thank you for having me. I've never sat down with a New York Times bestseller before.
00:41:56.540
Well, there you go. It's the first time for everything. Very proud of you. Thank you.