The Complicated Truth About Dick Cheney’s Legacy ｜ Guest： Stephen Moore ｜ 11⧸4⧸25
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What does it mean to be a conservative in 2025-26? What does that mean and what does it look like? Glenn Beck answers these questions and much more on this episode of The Glenn Beck Program. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and radio host who has been in the conservative movement for decades. He is a frequent contributor to conservative publications such as The Weekly Standard, National Review, and the New York Times, and is one of the most well-known conservative voices in America.
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I think today's theme of the show is really, what does it mean to be a conservative in 2025-26?
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Because I'm not sure anybody knows what it means because it is changing so rapidly.
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I also would like to address the passing of Dick Cheney, but in a different way.
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I thought there was a lot of great things that came from Dick Cheney.
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Have we learned the lessons from the life of Dick Cheney?
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You know, there was a time not long ago when America was not sure of itself, like we are now.
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We had gone through the 80s, which was a big boost to our confidence, but we had done so much damage to ourselves in the 60s and the 70s.
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It took more than one president in eight years.
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The idea of a military, a powerful military, had been almost embarrassing to say out loud since Vietnam.
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Reagan had rebuilt us, but it was peace through strength.
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But our perceived strength did all of the work for us, but we didn't know because the last time we had tanks rolling anywhere was Vietnam,
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Well, George H.W. Bush comes into office, and he brought with him a man who had five deferments in Vietnam.
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He had never served in uniform, and he picks that guy, a guy from Wyoming, not loud, not flashy, to step into the role of secretary of defense.
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He looked honestly like the accountant that balanced the books after the battle.
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He was very clear on what he believed, and he believed perhaps more deeply than almost anybody else in Washington
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that a nation that can't defend itself isn't going to remain free, and so Reagan had, you know, really built the military up,
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and Dick Cheney kind of finished that off with George H.W. Bush by restoring the faith in our military.
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Faith that America's strength was not the problem.
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America's strength was the protector of liberty.
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I'm old enough to remember the opening night of the Gulf War.
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CNN was the only news network at the time, and on my living room screen, I was living in Baltimore at the time,
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there was this eerie green grain of night vision footage, which we really hadn't seen before,
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We had never seen war like this before, not only in night vision, but not live in our living rooms.
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We had never seen anything like it, and I remember we all kind of held our breath,
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and we watched this new kind of war unfold, and it was swift, it was surgical, it was divisive.
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There was no draft, there was no chaos, there was no quagmire.
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For the first time in decades, Americans felt pride without apology when it came to our military.
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And we still wondered, is it going to be a quagmire?
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There was no oil fields, no spoils, no empire building, just a message to the world we could be proud of.
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Now, when George W. Bush ran for president, I don't think anybody was really comfortable handing the nuclear codes over to this guy who had been the governor of Texas
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and really kind of like, hey, let me tell you, yeah, right.
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He seemed like somebody who was more comfortable in the stands of a baseball stadium than even, you know, in the main offices of the baseball stadium that he owned, you know.
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And everything changed in 2000 in the election when he chose Dick Cheney as his running mate.
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And I think it was the sound of America kind of exhaling a bit.
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They were the ones that brought us the Gulf War.
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And the skies were clear and the markets were open.
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And in an instant, absolutely everything changed.
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The New York skyline was filled with smoke and fear filled the air all over the world, not just here in America.
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And our president was reading stories to children in Florida.
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And Dick Cheney became the acting president for a while until we could get the president to safety.
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He was the one that was rushed down to the emergency bunker in the White House.
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And in those hours, those first few hours, America needed that.
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But fear, once it's tasted, it's hard to let go.
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And so we started a war, and it just stretched on and on and on.
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And freedom started to take a different meaning here in America.
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None of those things had anything to do with freedom.
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We created the FISA courts and airport lines that never seemed to end.
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And for a while, we told ourselves, all of this is worth it.
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It's the price that we have to pay to live in a dangerous, dangerous world.
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But when you give more to one god, the other gods will demand payment later.
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And something in those days, a seed that was far more darker, was planted.
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Cheney, who is always the realist and the adult in the room,
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always the sentinel, told the nation's top scientists,
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And so it was Dick Cheney that urged men like Dr. Anthony Fauci
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to push research further, faster, into what we now call gain of function.
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And I'm sure it was born out of good intent to protect us.
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good intent can be dangerous as a companion to unchecked power.
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the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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And still beneath all of that calculation and control,
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When his daughter Mary came out as gay, he didn't blink.
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Long before Clinton evolved, before Obama changed his mind,
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Cheney, the hawk, Darth Vader, the architect of war,
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said plainly, my daughter deserves the same rights as everybody else.
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And as a politician, he stood almost entirely alone.
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Doctors said it would give him another decade of life.
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offers both a chance to give medals and lessons,
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the virtue of strength and the peril of excess.
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he should have learned from the first Gulf War.
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He was the iron for many years in America's spine.
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But he was also a reminder that iron rusts if it is left unexamined.
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more of his restraint from 1991 in the years that followed that.
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And so he leaves behind a really complicated legacy.
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As I try to talk to you today about what does it mean to be a conservative.
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Dick Cheney was a conservative for a man of his time.
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And that is conservatives believe in the rule of law and the constitution.
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But he also taught us how easily courage can drift into control.
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And he left us some lessons that we should learn.
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That has given our government tools to spy on its own citizens.
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But this is the biggest scandal probably in American intelligence
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A government-wide scandal of a president spying on his opponent's party,
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including senators and congressmen and donors and average citizens.
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The FISA courts, as we know, in a completely other scandal.
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Our FBI actually changed, physically changed documents to falsify testimony
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We failed to learn the right lessons from the Gulf War.
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Define the mission narrowly, execute it efficiently,
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and then get the hell out of there and come home.
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and we still refuse, as a people, to have this debate.
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And it's the people that should make the decision.
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No one in the world looks to a nation who says one thing,
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but then farms out the torture to another dictator or authoritarian someplace else.
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Enhanced interrogation is still torture, no matter what.
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No matter what you do to a man surgically, he's still a man.
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And the heaviest lesson we have not learned a bit from is gain of function.
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because there are those in the government on both sides of the aisle that think it's important.
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It has killed millions, and it has changed our world.
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In that crisis, we saw blue states give new dictatorial powers that still haven't been corrected.
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So Dick Cheney, believe it or not, I actually liked Dick Cheney, but I've changed.
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And I would like to salute his service to a nation for what he did,
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and he actually believed he was doing the right thing, and he did do the right thing in his day.
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But things have changed, and his passing marks not just the end of a man's life,
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but the close of that age, an age of secrecy and steel and certainty.
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I was thinking of, when you're thinking of Cheney, and obviously I understand why that
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But what I always remember about him is my favorite speech that he made was about energy.
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And he talked about how conservation, and at the time he's like, oh, conservation, this
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is, you know, everyone's trying to do conservation.
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He's like, conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not sufficient basis for a sound,
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People work very hard to get where they are, and the hardest working are the least likely
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to go around squandering energy or anything else that costs them money.
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Our strategy will recognize that the present crisis does not represent a failing of the
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I just think that's the way we should be looking at energy, the way we should be looking at
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this, instead of trying to, you know, to conserve our way and 1970s Jimmy Carter our way out
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It should be produce more energy and embrace the progress that we're making in that world.
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And instead, like, the left has been trying to push back against that for years.
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That's not the way that people talk about Dick Cheney.
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He doesn't get focused on that, but I thought that was a really important thing that even
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the right is sort of losing sight of at some point.
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I think Dick Cheney, I mean, I really have a hard time saying bad things about Dick Cheney.
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I mean, the policies that he enacted at the time seemed right.
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Now, we have to learn from those policies, but he was really, really strong on so many things.
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He really made a positive difference on many fronts.
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It is our job to separate the good from the bad and say, yeah, OK, those things were wrong.
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It's amazing because if the right and the left were together right now, we'd all agree on everything.
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Everything that the left was talking about Dick Cheney, a lot of those things we agree on.
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We could correct them in a heartbeat, but they won't.
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So we have hit a critical juncture, a turning point, if you will, on the closure of the government.
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And I'm going to explain it in a way that nobody else will explain it to you.
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If you're watching CNBC over the last couple of days, they were saying things like, you know, the repo market is under great stress.
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And they've they've they've loaned out banks have been getting money, you know, from the Federal Reserve at at incredible rates.
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The banks, when they close at night, they have to have a certain amount of cash in their vaults to cover everything.
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And if they don't have that, then they have to go to what's called the repo market and they borrow money overnight.
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They pay interest on it and they borrow it overnight and they give it back in the morning when they open back up.
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OK, it's only done when banks are short of cash.
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It used to be a very bad thing, but now it's kind of happening all the time, but not at these levels.
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OK, try to imagine, if you will, that America's financial system is like a living body.
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OK, the heart, as much as I hate to say it for this example, is the Federal Reserve.
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It doesn't create life, but it keeps the blood pumping.
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OK, the arteries and the veins are the banks and the institutions that carry the lifeblood of the economy.
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OK, and the capillaries are like you and me, every family, every small business, every worker trying to make a paycheck stretch from one week to the next.
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Now, in this body, there is something called the repo market.
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OK, this is a place where banks and institutions go to borrow cash overnight.
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OK, the oxygen exchange that happens in the lungs.
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And that rhythm is what keeps the entire body alive.
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Well, in the last few days, that rhythm has faltered.
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Something is clogging the arteries, the banks, the vessels.
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So they're going to the Fed's emergency oxygen tank, the standing repo facility, and they are drawing records amount, record amounts of cash out just to keep breathing.
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OK, it's like watching a marathon runner suddenly reach for an oxygen mask at mile three.
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This is the important part, because while the government is shut down and we might think, well, that's good.
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The Treasury is the fiscal liver of the body, and it's storing all of the blood in the liver.
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OK, it's storing cash in a vault now called the Treasury General Account.
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There's nearly a trillion dollars sitting in their cash, trillion dollars sitting there, not not being paid.
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Every dollar that goes into that vault is a dollar that can't circulate now through the body.
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So now it's starving everything of cash because there's a trillion dollars sitting in the Treasury.
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And even though you can't see it, every second the shutdown drags on, the system is being starved and the arteries are tightening and the heart is straining and the body is starting to shiver.
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And that's what's happening right now in the shadows of our financial system.
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It's not some obscure number on a Bloomberg terminal.
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It is about a government that is turned inward, frozen by politics, unable to pass the simplest resolution to fund itself.
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And because it's doing this, it's pulling all of that precious liquidity, a trillion dollars in cash, the oxygen, the life of our economy out of the bloodstream and into a vault.
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If you've ever had a power outage in winter, you might know the feeling.
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If it continues to drop on, the pipes begin to freeze.
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And by morning, it's no longer a cute little thing that, oh, we're just going to sit by the fireplace.
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We are not at the point of collapse, but we are at the point of freezing the pipes.
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What does that mean when I'm talking about the arteries?
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The government shutdown has locked up the Treasury's checkbook.
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That means fewer payments to contractors, less spending, less money flowing into the banking system.
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When less cash circulates, the banks can't lend freely because there's no cash.
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Repo rates, that invisible overnight interest rates, that starts to spike.
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And when that happens, it affects the capillaries.
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You and me, the smallest players, the smallest businesses, the consumers, the credit unions, we begin to feel it first, OK?
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When arteries clog at the heart, what's the first part of the body that goes cold, goes numb?
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The politicians, you know, in the Democratic Party, fighting over a principle.
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They may think it's about posturing, about leverage, about who blinks first, but it's not.
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While they're playing chicken with our nation's checkbook, it is now time to say, OK, enough is enough, because the system is starting to gasp for air.
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Not with a bang, you know, not with a crash, but with tightening, with the arteries getting clogged.
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Because it's a slow, silent squeeze that begins in the overnight funding markets.
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The kind of plumbing that nobody ever looks at, nobody ever talks about, nobody even understands.
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Do you understand how the pipes are working in your house behind your walls?
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I mean, I know they eventually go down and out, but I don't know.
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And all of a sudden, you find out when a pipe bursts.
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Make no mistake, if this continues, it won't just be the banks that are hurting.
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It will be your mortgage rate, your credit card interest, your grocery bill, because the system has to begin charging more for everything because they are paying more in interest to hoard what little cash is out there.
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The longer it goes on, the longer it goes on, the more cash goes into the government and it sits there.
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It's like watching your bloodstream start to clot.
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You're not going to feel it right away, but if it reaches the heart, reaches the brain, the damage can be fatal.
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So here's the one truth today on the economy that the media won't tell you or they fail to explain.
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Why are you only talking to the people on Wall Street?
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Why don't you tell the people who are going to be affected first?
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Why can you how can an alcoholic DJ figure out a way to explain this to the average person?
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This shutdown is not just a political stalemate, stalemate.
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We are at a point now where the government is literally draining oxygen from the economy and the Fed is in triage mode.
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Pumping emergency liquidity into the veins just to keep the patient alive.
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The question is, how long can the Fed keep doing CPR before it tires out?
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How long before they just we got to start printing money?
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It's lawmakers that understand that starving the bloodstream to win a headline is not courage.
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The shutdown has to end, not because Wall Street wants it, but because Main Street needs it.
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Stu asked me during the break, what was it, Stu?
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Yeah, you kind of talked about the systems of how all this stuff operates, but look, why, you know, why is this occurring right now?
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Okay, so let me see if I can explain this quickly.
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Do you remember in It's a Wonderful Life where the Jimmy Stewart character just, they had $2 left and they were like,
00:36:48.260
let's put this back into the vault and hope they have little babies.
00:36:52.280
They just had to have at least a dollar in the bank to close.
00:36:58.500
Well, after the crash, the government said, hey, you've got to have more than just a couple of dollars because you have all of these liabilities out there.
00:37:06.660
So in a global market, what happens if the global market starts to tank?
00:37:11.740
You better have the cash to cover everything that happens between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m.
00:37:19.140
Otherwise, you're not going to be able to open.
00:37:22.140
So they passed this law and you have to have a certain amount of money in your vault every night.
00:37:29.280
It used to be a thing of shame, but we just got so reckless with our money.
00:37:33.960
But the Federal Reserve used to have what's called a discount window.
00:37:38.460
It was like, oh, this bank might be going out of business.
00:37:40.800
It doesn't have enough money to cover all of its debts.
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And you would go there and you say, I need a loan for the cash overnight.
00:37:55.660
There's no more shame in it or anything else, unfortunately.
00:37:59.640
What's happening is the government, we look at this as a good thing as conservatives and say, good, we don't have to spend all that money.
00:38:09.960
You know, you're taking antipsychotic medication.
00:38:18.400
But the doctors always say, don't, don't, don't just stop it.
00:38:22.760
Because really bad things can happen if you just stop your SSRIs.
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The government controls over 30% of our economy.
00:38:34.740
Imagine, let's, let's say it's just 20% that's actually not being funded right now.
00:38:41.800
Imagine if 20% of everybody who spent money every day just said, you know what, I'm not leaving the house and I'm not spending money at all for the next month and a half.
00:38:52.340
Wouldn't hurt the first week, maybe the second week.
00:38:54.800
But by the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth week, you're now looking at restaurants and movie theaters and everything else starting to go out of business because they're not spending the money.
00:39:09.240
In this particular case, that money is sitting in the treasury, not the bank.
00:39:14.540
So now it also hurts the banks because they can't make loans because they don't have the cash because it's all sitting in the treasury vault.
00:39:27.660
We have to start paying people so the economy doesn't crash.
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So we don't have to print more money to keep the banks afloat.
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And so we don't put all of these other ancillary businesses, all the capillaries, all the restaurants, all the little things that you and I do every day that they don't go out of business.
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But we've just stopped serious medication keeping our economy afloat.
00:40:02.180
You have to do that carefully, slowly, calculated.
00:40:24.820
That big thing where they're asking a million people to show up and surround the White House on November 5th.
00:40:33.760
But they're pushing this one to force us to answer the question.
00:40:40.760
If the people are out of control because they say it's an authoritarian government and the White House is under siege.
00:40:50.000
Can the government respond in an authoritarian way to put that down or will that mean we go into civil war?
00:41:01.280
I mean, they keep pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and now they're pushing the financial system as well.
00:41:25.360
If we make it to Thanksgiving and they haven't done anything, this is really colossally bad.
00:41:36.320
And, you know, do they ever do anything during the Christmas vacation?
00:41:41.400
If they ever do it, they just pass something horrible while we're all just like, I got some more turkey.
00:41:47.420
And then they go and like, yeah, you know what?
00:41:49.240
We're going to build cages for the American people.
00:42:16.580
So everybody, every family has that one person who stays calm when things go sideways, sideways.
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Usually everybody else is screaming their heads off.
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It's the one who checks the flashlight batteries, keeps the extra water in the garage.
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Some always always know where the first aid kit.
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But even the most prepared among us can forget something obvious, medicine.
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That's why we back up our photos, our files, even our coffee makers.
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And when a supply chain fails or the doctor's office closes for a while or you're just in the weekend and you can't get your kid, you know, the medicine they need, you know, without going to the emergency room.
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Well, we're at a crossroads, not as just a nation, not just as a civilization, but also as conservatives.
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The New York Times wrote this outrageous piece I'm going to get into in depth tomorrow about how Nick Fuentes is the replacement for Charlie Kirk.
00:44:56.860
It is absolutely full of lies, distortions, and absolutely untrue, and they should be ashamed of themselves.
00:45:06.100
Listen to the Bravest podcast I've heard in a long time, Ben Shapiro, last night.
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But we have this going on, where we're fighting, it seems, amongst ourselves over the soul.
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He was one of the first political people ever to stand up and go,
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You know what? My daughter is gay, and I love her, so I'm for gay marriage.
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You know, I'm so tired of being against everything, saying what we are not.
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It's different to be a conservative today than it was, you know, years ago.
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And part of that has just come from hard knocks, school of hard knocks.
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We've learned a lot of lessons on things that we thought we were for.
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But conservatives, to be a conservative shouldn't be about policies.
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And that's why we've lost our way, because we've lost our principles.
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The boundaries between truth and illusion are blurred second by second.
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And nations all over the world have forgotten who they are.
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So what does it mean to be a conservative now in 2025-26?
00:47:52.420
For a lot of people, it means opposing the left.
00:48:00.480
It can't mean also worshiping the past as if the past were perfect.
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They asked that we would preserve the principles and perfect their practice.
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To make a more perfect nation is what we're supposed to be doing.
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2025-26, being a conservative, has to mean stewardship.
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The stewardship of a nation, of a civilization, of a moral inheritance that is too precious to abandon.
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To conserve something doesn't mean to stand still.
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The belief that our rights come not from kings or from Congress, but from the creator himself.
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The problem is we only teach it like it's a museum piece.
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It's a living covenant between the dead, the living, and the unborn.
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So, this chapter of conservatism must confront reality, economic reality, global reality, and moral reality.
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It's not enough just to be against something or chant tax cuts or free markets.
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We have to ask, we have to start with simple questions like freedom, yes, but freedom for what?
00:49:47.960
Freedom for economic sovereignty, your right to produce and to innovate, to build without asking Beijing's permission.
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We're spending money from generations we won't even meet.
00:50:22.120
And we're encouraging them to sit down, shut up, and don't think.
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And the conservative who can't connect with fiscal prudence and connect fiscal prudence to moral duty, you're not a conservative at all.
00:50:37.500
Being a conservative today means you have to rebuild an economy that serves liberty.
00:50:50.640
We are living through a time period, an age of dislocation, where our families are fractured, our faith is almost gone.
00:51:09.720
And why they don't have any meaning is truth itself is mocked and blurred and replaced by nothing but lies and noise.
00:51:16.720
If you want to be a conservative, then you have to become the moral compass that reminds a lost people liberty cannot survive without virtue.
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That freedom untethered from moral order is nothing but chaos and that no app, no algorithm, no ideology is ever going to fill the void where meaning used to live.
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To be a conservative moving forward, we cannot just be about policies.
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We have to defend the sacred, the unseen, the moral architecture that gives people an identity.
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We have to restore institutions that actually work.
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Listen to last hour's monologue on what we're facing now because we can't open the government.
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We have to reclaim education, not as propaganda, but as the formation of the mind and the soul.
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Conservatives have to champion innovation, not to imitate Silicon Valley's chaos, but to harness technology in defense of human dignity.
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As long as you always remember it's a tool, otherwise you will lose your humanity to it.
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To be a conservative, we have to restore local strength.
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Our families are the basic building blocks, our schools, our churches, and our charities.
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Not some big distant NGO that started by the Tides Foundation, but actual local charities where you see people actually working.
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A web of voluntary institutions that held us together at one point.
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Because when Washington fails, and it will, it already has, the neighborhood has to stand.
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Charlie Kirk was doing one thing that people on our side were not doing.
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They don't remember, they don't remember who Dick Cheney was.
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Because I was listening to Fox News this morning talking about Dick Cheney.
00:54:02.520
And there was somebody there that I know was not even born when Dick Cheney, you know, in the World Trade Center came down.
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It is the ultimate, timeless rebellion against tyranny in all of its forms.
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Yes, and even the tyranny of despair, which is eating people alive.
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The creed for a generation that will decide the fate of the republic
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A conservative in 2025-26 is somebody who protects the enduring principles of American liberty and self-government
00:55:14.240
while actively stewarding the institutions, the culture, the economy of this nation.
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We have to be a group of people that we're not anchored in the past or in rage,
00:55:31.600
but in reason and morality, realism, and hope for the future.
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And conservatives are viewed as people who just live in the past.
00:56:17.620
You can deny it all you want, but the pain's only going to get worse.
01:34:06.060
You'd think they'd have gotten that message already.
01:34:16.720
And then when was that in the nineties and the,
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Cause I know you have a lot of listeners all over the country in New York and
01:34:42.440
cause I was working at the wall street journal at the time,
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every week you could see the improvement in the city.
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And what's so sad about this election that's happening today is if Mondani wins,
01:35:08.160
they will reverse every single thing that Rudy jetted and they will be back in the
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I've talked about the years is our education system.
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They think socialism works where show me where.
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what does it mean to people who have never gone to New York city is,
01:36:06.340
$1 trillion of income from people coming in from other states,
01:36:22.500
I think New York is moving to Florida and California is moving to Texas.
01:36:37.820
I was thinking a lot about this the last couple of days,
01:36:43.500
the only way that New York even survived fiscally is with another massive
01:37:03.220
the constitution is not a suicide pack and California and New York are,
01:37:07.820
and Chicago are going to eventually need giant bailouts.
01:37:38.060
You can understand why people might leave New York for Florida.
01:37:42.660
It's beautiful weather in Florida and it rains a lot and cloudy in New York.
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California is probably one of the most idyllic places on the planet and people are leaving.
01:37:56.100
people have been more people leaving California than going to California.
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And yet the governor of California is right now the lead candidate to be,
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It's so frustrating because you try to apply logic and you're like,
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go back and listen to it if you want to understand it,
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but how the the repo market is exploding every night now because the treasury is
01:40:40.220
holding all these dollars and that's going to start choking us here soon.
01:40:45.780
How much longer can we stay closed before we start to do some real damage?
01:40:56.840
I'm probably a bad person to ask this question because I didn't think this
01:41:01.820
I thought they'd come to their side and realize how stupid this was.
01:41:23.340
and we're just going cold Turkey with cash and that's not good for the
01:41:36.660
there are a lot of flight cancellations that's happening around the country.
01:41:42.180
this havoc and mayhem and all the inconvenience,
01:41:53.180
he wouldn't even vote to pay the soldiers for God's sake.
01:41:58.820
this doesn't have anything to do with our military.
01:42:01.560
he's imperiling our national security to score political points.
01:42:24.040
I've probably lived through 20 of these government shutdowns over the last 35 years.
01:42:32.780
It's very important that Republicans not came in here.
01:42:35.760
So let me just give you a couple of numbers here.
01:42:48.120
Do you know how much the government's supposed to spend on the next 10 years?
01:42:52.640
It's a two cents out of every dollar quote cut.
01:42:56.720
it's just the cut from the increase that they want.
01:43:03.820
I was on the show the other day and this woman said,
01:43:05.600
we will kill people if we pass the Republican budget.
01:43:17.620
we're all going to die if we cut two cents out of the budget.
01:43:21.620
you've got a situation now where hires another one,
01:43:36.580
we've got 42 million people who need the government and the taxpayer to pay to
01:43:44.800
Most of them are sitting around watching TV or playing computer games and
01:43:51.940
people are saying that's because Trump has just destroyed this economy.
01:44:02.740
I think things that we've got record high stock market.
01:44:09.860
the economy over the last six months has grown by 4%.
01:44:22.320
We're the only country in the world that's growing right now.
01:44:36.020
and I feel like things are going well for the country,
01:45:17.100
I don't call them snap because the food stamps program,
01:45:22.920
they were telling people to sign up for food stamps because it,
01:45:38.560
you can get a handout from the government and still,
01:45:41.160
feel good about yourself in the morning because you're helping your local
01:45:50.200
The subprime and super prime loans are on the rise.
01:45:54.360
The last time I read something like that was like 2007 and it did not turn out
01:46:20.920
I've never seen such stark differences in my life.
01:46:27.420
And it amazes me that Virginia might actually elect somebody and a governor that are kind
01:46:37.240
let the children die in mom's arms because I believe politically different things.
01:46:50.140
Tony and I tried to sell our house and it was a disaster.
01:47:07.380
But this time we didn't have a real estate agent in my area,
01:47:14.140
can we find somebody please that can get the job done?
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And so we did our homework and we found Brad cook.
01:47:36.400
That is the kind of follow through and professionalism that you're going to get.
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I trust.com was built to take the guesswork out of finding somebody like that agents who share your values,
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and actually deliver on the promises they make to you real estate agents.
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And the last time I saw this was right before 2008 and it didn't end well.
01:48:43.820
what should we be concerned about or not concerned about?
01:48:48.900
there's no question that there is a housing shortage in the United States.
01:48:54.040
so the demand for housing is exceeding the number of housing houses that are coming on the market.
01:49:08.100
my wife and I would love to buy a place in Florida.
01:49:23.720
So that's why they're getting these subprime loans.
01:49:29.560
people oftentimes with low credit scores and so on.
01:49:55.600
a shortage of housing actually caused by the 2008 crash because everybody got
01:50:12.760
that I'm on the board of a company called light speed and we build houses.
01:50:37.200
so this revolution that's going on in robotics is going to drive prices down,
01:50:50.100
Except who's going to be able to afford that house because you don't have a job
01:50:58.020
because what's going to happen is productivity.
01:51:03.060
a hundred years ago when 30 out of a hundred Americans worked on the farm and now it's
01:51:14.940
we have 3 million truck drivers in this country and in 10,
01:51:23.040
I want to make sure your listeners aware of this,
01:51:25.060
this robotics artificial intelligence revolution is coming a lot faster than people think.
01:51:31.340
I was in LA about a month ago and one third of the Uber cars are driverless already.
01:51:41.200
I've been saying this for years and nobody believed me.
01:52:18.780
it's going to be like the internet age except even faster and more dramatic.
01:52:45.020
I wanted to leave enough space there so we can edit it out so we can play it
01:52:48.100
because people have been saying that for over a hundred years and it's
01:53:13.300
We better make sure kids can read and write and do math.
01:53:26.100
I think an even bigger disgrace is we've got kids,
01:53:31.520
we've got 15 schools in Chicago that not one single child can read or
01:53:39.140
Why do we even keep those schools open for God's sakes?
01:53:44.080
we saw a stat and Stu and I checked it over and over again.
01:53:48.080
Stu 56% of the American population cannot read above a sixth grade level.
01:53:56.640
That is the problem of the teachers unions and the education bureaucracy.
01:54:01.280
it's not like we haven't spent more money on it.
01:54:03.160
We spent more and more and more money on our education system every year
01:54:08.560
Hopefully school choice is going to address that as,
01:54:11.420
That's been a huge development over the past few years.
01:54:30.060
which I had remembered was a few years ago in my head,
01:54:35.180
kind of based on the wealth of nations and you had it about the wealth of
01:54:58.260
is that the red States like Florida and Texas and Utah and Tennessee are
01:55:10.440
did you know this statistic for the first time in 250 years,
01:55:15.600
the Northeast is no longer the dominant economic region.
01:55:28.720
that whole corridor was the financial and economic and industrial capital
01:56:10.940
so they'll eventually destroy the rest of Tennessee.
01:56:17.620
this is why it is that there's only one way out for the blue states.
01:56:26.900
that when we're talking three or four years from now,
01:56:41.180
The thing I'm really concerned about is energy.
01:56:57.740
the demand on power that is coming and the energy prices that are already
01:57:27.180
what the Democrats have been doing for the last 20 years.
01:57:33.900
does anyone except Al Gore and this whole world actually think we can run a
01:57:44.100
If you want to decapitate the American economy,
01:57:54.660
we are producing more oil and gas today in the United States than any time in
01:57:59.040
We need to build a hundred nuclear power plants in this country.
01:58:18.980
they are completely self self-contained and completely safe.
01:58:37.980
one of the most important things that's happened is to the,
01:58:40.840
to the quote climate change movement is the declaration that Bill Gates,
01:58:55.560
And he finally realized the way to deal with this is economic progress and
01:59:06.300
but we're going to change the temperature of the planet.
01:59:13.720
I think he was hoping he would have a Democrat in there and the,
01:59:22.580
he had to change because he's got to have the energy for his own,
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but it does seem like there's a conclusion here that we're all kind of
02:02:18.520
driving into the brick wall of that conclusion at 500 miles an hour.
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which is actually maybe coin flip ish between Jones and Jason.
02:02:38.100
And this is one of those situations where Maris was losing for most of this
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that seems to be taken negatively by some of the state.
02:02:58.080
but Jones has looked better in recent polling and maybe,
02:03:04.220
considering we're at a point where it does seem the other races in the state
02:03:19.940
And I have heard no media attention on whatsoever is the,
02:03:33.700
Three candidates are tied for the lead or at least close to tied for the
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he left in disgrace because he was having sex with men in the park and ride.
02:04:04.500
he was scammed out of his gubernatorial reign because of that scandal.
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We should just saw it off and just make it its own Island.
02:04:49.900
and we need a billy goat underneath the bridge.
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I've got three questions for you and we make them impossible.
02:05:12.920
I pretty much don't have any hope for anybody in New Jersey.