Joe Biden has a new count on the number of states in the union, and he thinks he might be smarter than his own president, Barack Obama. Joe Biden has pushed through $6 trillion in federal spending in two years, and that's more than $5 trillion more than the entire economy, and it's the reason we're living through a period of outrageously high prices for food, for gasoline, for heating, and for almost everything.
00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show. Great to have you with us today.
00:00:06.780We're getting closer and closer to Election Day, and believe it or not, our countdown is down to single digits.
00:00:14.140How about that? We'll be talking about that, and I think I should mention that President Biden has a new count on the number of states in the Union.
00:00:22.920We'll take that up, and I think we have to at least lightly examine, mention at the very least, that Pelosi hammer attack episode in the Speaker's home.
00:00:33.360She wasn't there, but unfortunately for her husband, he was.
00:00:37.520One week till the election, as I said, the most important midterm election of our lives.
00:00:42.740It's an existential election, and if that sounds like hyperbole, let's examine the facts.
00:00:48.760Biden has pushed through $6 trillion in federal spending.
00:00:52.980Think about that, $6 trillion, and he hasn't been president for even two years yet.
00:00:58.620The national debt has grown to more than $31 trillion.
00:01:02.680Yes, that's $5 trillion more than our entire economy, and that's part of the reason for high inflation.
00:01:10.180The reason we're living through this period of outrageously high prices for food, for gasoline, heating, oil, clothing, for almost everything.
00:01:19.640But in the midst of all the angst and despair, the stock market is looking up.
00:01:25.620The Dow Jones Industrial is up more than 14% just this month.
00:01:30.420It's the best track in almost 50 years, and depending on what happens on this final day of trading in October, this could be the best October on the Dow in history.
00:01:44.200But what a mess all around these markets, because the Fed this week is expected to raise interest rates up 75 basis points again, and that could set off another sell-off in the market.
00:01:58.640Not even two years in office and 6 million illegal immigrants as well entering the country.
00:02:04.540That's an invasion by any standard, and Biden and Harris say our border's secure.
00:05:06.840And speaking of arguments, a doozy has been unleashed out in the People's Republic of California.
00:05:13.540Or to quote the new owner of Twitter, replying to Hillary Clinton, quote,
00:05:18.400there is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye, end quote.
00:05:24.680And the story to which Elon Musk was referring is this.
00:05:29.600A man clad only in his underwear attacked Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer at 2.30 in the morning in the Pelosi's San Francisco home.
00:05:42.100Paul Pelosi is now in a hospital recovering after surgery for injuries including a fractured skull and injuries to his hands and arms.
00:05:51.460And, by the way, you should note, all those injuries came as the man attacked him in front of the police that had responded to a call for help.
00:06:00.280Police have given conflicting accounts of what actually transpired.
00:06:04.840And some news outlets, liberal news outlets, of course, tried initially to label the assailant, 42-year-old David DePaype, as a MAGA extremist.
00:06:14.780The truth, obviously, is more complicated.
00:06:17.440DePaype is, it turns out, a nudist activist who lived in and near a hippie collective and homeless encampment.
00:06:26.360Most recently, living in a bus in front of the house of his ex-partner.
00:06:31.060Also a nudist activist with, according to Breitbart, a Black Lives flag and a window in her home,
00:06:38.080an LGBT rainbow with pot symbol hanging from a tree in her front yard.
00:15:36.040But it can be resolved with transparency and people, you know, boots on the ground.
00:15:40.100Yeah, boots on the ground are important.
00:15:42.600Voters everywhere are important because they're not only voting.
00:15:47.280They need to be participating in the process itself, whether it's just simply watching that poll,
00:15:52.720making sure that there is no skullduggery afoot as Oliver Wendell, excuse me, Sherlock Holmes once said, Oliver Wendell Holmes said something else.
00:16:06.040But I've just, I marvel right now at where we are in this country.
00:16:11.320In your state, you have the same problem.
00:16:14.400We have so many of the same problems in every state in the union.
00:16:18.820Teachers, the two major teachers unions have declared war on the children that are going to school.
00:16:27.500In our public schools, the great equalizer, and they're treating it like the children are theirs to do as they wish,
00:16:33.360not as their parents would have them and as the community would demand.
00:16:53.420Your thoughts about what is happening to schools and how Doug Mastriano would fix it?
00:17:00.420We had a hearing in the state senate a week and a half ago, and we brought in moms from across the state,
00:17:05.940especially the southeast part of the state, and it was horrific.
00:17:08.580We know the stories, but they hear it out of the mouths of moms who are confronting this and being pushed out and told to be quiet from a bureaucrat.
00:17:19.020I mean, the indoctrination for first and second graders with pronoun games, and the kids are told, you know, pick your pronoun today and don't tell your parents, by the way, that we're doing this at school.
00:17:28.880So, gender transition surgeries are being offered to minors without parental consent, or they say that they'll have the parents catch up to it later on.
00:17:44.060So, in the southeast, there's a hard push, and Shapiro is part of this, together, of course, with Dr. Levine, who sets the standard for this as our health secretary.
00:17:54.880There's being offered and paid for now by the Philadelphia Children's Hospital, gender transition surgeries.
00:18:02.380And the schools are playing a key role in that because they're playing pronoun games, you know, some of the schools are, where they have radical educators there.
00:18:11.260And the kids, the moms testified under oath that the kids that are being indoctrinated with pronoun games and confusion to set the standard, you know, the conditions for gender transition surgeries later, they're told not to tell their parents what's going on in the classroom.
00:20:13.940So on day one, boys are not allowed in the girls' bathrooms or the girls' locker rooms, for that matter.
00:20:18.820And this ridiculous encroachment on women's rights end on day one of my menstruation as far as the female athletes will no longer have to compete against male athletes.
00:20:29.920What have we descended to, Doug, when we have to tell the boys, you only go in the boys' room, and girls, you only go in the girls' room?
00:20:40.180I mean, that's sort of elemental, isn't it?
00:20:42.980Yet that is how far the left is pushing, how hard they're pushing in this country to destroy the identities of children, to confuse them further, and to go well beyond anything like education, reading, writing, and arithmetic, which used to be this.
00:21:58.200I mean, there's just a pause, Lou, at how low it's gotten.
00:22:00.720You're exactly right that I had your list of things that I just did that I'm going to have to, that I'm going to reverse on day one when I'm sworn in on 17 January.
00:22:08.680Shows you how low the leftists have gone.
00:22:15.240And our test scores in Pennsylvania are tanking.
00:22:18.060This far-left school union and my opponent are waging war on every parent and student.
00:22:23.140I mean, they sued to keep kids in mass.
00:22:25.320They sued to get boys and girls' bathroom.
00:22:27.100And instead of focusing on getting our kids opportunity and educating them so they can break out of poverty in Philadelphia, you know, Lou, many of these young men and women, girls and boys, left school in Philadelphia during the shutdown because they're not being educated.
00:22:41.040And now they're finding themselves, you know, caught up in the middle of a crossfire or in gangs because they make some bad choices.
00:22:47.680The grave diggers in the southeast say they can't keep up with what the dead teens are burying.
00:22:52.420You know, that could have been, and this is not hyperbolic, that could have been my dad in the 50s.
00:22:57.220My dad dropped out of school and, you know, and he was getting in trouble with the law.
00:23:00.940And a judge said basically either join the Navy or go to jail.
00:23:04.500And my dad went to, he used to say, Doug, I was a punk until I joined the Navy.
00:23:16.520And I think some of those kids in Philadelphia who've lost their way are finding that they've lost opportunities because they're caught up in a cycle of crime and even being killed on the streets.
00:23:25.860And that's as a result of these failed policies of the far-left Democrats in Pennsylvania.
00:23:31.100Well, it seems to me that they would be begging Doug Mastriano to be governor.
00:23:39.260I know that you're running a very tight race.
00:23:42.140But, I mean, here you are with all of your life experience talking about what is important, coming at it from a perspective of patriotism, a commitment to self-improvement, a commitment to decency and honor.
00:24:00.640And Shapiro is trying to strip children of their identities.
00:25:30.640We want to change the course of the state here and save it from the direction it's going in.
00:25:34.920But we can't do it without the people of Pennsylvania.
00:25:37.120So, you know, churches and pastors, church leaders out there, you have 11 days to make a choice to take a stand.
00:25:43.300And if you choose poorly in a safe way, you know, and wring your hands, oh, we can't do this in our congregations while the Democrats do all the time.
00:25:51.140I even had a pastor last night tell me, you know, Doug, we'll pray over you if you come.
00:25:55.160But, you know, we try to keep politics out of the pulpit.
00:25:57.840But, you know, the Democrats come in all the time, and I get no pushback for that.
00:26:01.060I'm like thinking, you know, we need a little courage here.
00:26:03.140It's time to stand up and do the right thing.
00:26:05.500And we're going to lose our country if we blow it in Pennsylvania on November 8th.
00:26:11.660Yeah, I don't know that, you know, I can't say that that's hyperbole.
00:26:16.640I think I agree with you on that issue.
00:26:20.060But it is a fulcrum, a pivot point, certainly, to have a state the size of Pennsylvania with your immense resources,
00:26:28.440which I know you talk about, and freeing up those resources and your economy.
00:26:33.140To restore prosperity to the state, the state has been led by left-wing hacks.
00:26:39.220And I just don't see what the discussion is here.
00:26:42.800When you look at a president like Joe Biden, impaired, most 60% of those surveyed say that this president is unfit to be in the Oval Office.
00:26:53.800We watch John Fetterman in a debate with Dr. Oz.
00:26:58.340And we've got Chuck Schumer saying, well, we've got a little problem in Pennsylvania.
00:27:02.900The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania should be held to account for every step that he takes from the moment they put him forward after he had that stroke.
00:27:13.900They're trying to run a fraud game, and it is irresponsible, and the national media and the state media, to not talk about his health.
00:27:24.340If his health, if that of the president of the United States isn't appropriate for scrutiny by the American press and people, where have we come as a nation?
00:27:35.620The left has seized control of minds and frozen the very idea of free speech.
00:28:37.440I mean, we're in a situation where the guy who is an absentee, by the way, I think you're very fortunate he didn't show up from what I've seen.
00:30:53.740We're sitting on a gold mine of energy resources, which under Shapiro will be crushed and destroyed.
00:30:59.100We'll see inflation and gas prices even go up higher in Pennsylvania.
00:31:02.460Or under Mastriano, where we're going to have an economic renaissance.
00:31:05.720I'm going to open up our energy sector like we've never done before.
00:31:09.740We're going to drill and dig and export to our allies over in Europe and bring all those billions of euros over to Pennsylvania.
00:31:15.840And it'll be a place of energy and prosperity and hope and opportunity and a place where people can walk as free men and women and not be looking over their shoulder, whether, you know, there's a criminal coming or there's a government bureaucrat out of Harrisburg coming after them.
00:31:28.000Because Ronald Reagan is right, you know, the most terrifying words are, I'm from the government, I'm here to help.
00:31:32.300Under Mastriano, we're going to roll back the bureaucracy massively and put the power back in the hands of the people.
00:31:38.560Well, Doug Mastriano, we appreciate you being with us.