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Ep. 1694 - Trump Invokes ＂Alien Enemies Act＂ for MASS DEPORTATIONS


Summary

It s Day 56 of Trump s second term, and the hits just keep on coming. President Trump just vaporized a top ISIS leader, invoked a law from 1798 to deport hundreds of Venezuelan gangsters, over the impotent protestations of an Obama-appointed federal judge, and he announced his probable plans to annex Greenland.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 It is day 56 of Trump's second term, and the hits just keep on coming.
00:00:05.040 President Trump just vaporized a top ISIS leader, invoked a law from 1798 to deport
00:00:11.560 hundreds of Venezuelan gangsters over the impotent protestations of an Obama-appointed
00:00:16.720 federal judge, and he announced his probable plans to annex Greenland.
00:00:21.680 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:02:03.340 The Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Man, you know, people say that we conservatives, we just want to
00:02:10.320 go back in time. You know, oh, you just want to relive the Reagan era. Oh, you guys just want to go
00:02:15.180 back to the 1950s. With the Trump administration, you sometimes hear, oh, you want to go back to
00:02:21.020 the McKinley era. President Trump himself has invoked President McKinley in a curious way that
00:02:27.360 actually helps us understand the Trump administration. We'll get to that story a
00:02:30.040 little bit later. But no, no, forget about even the McKinley era. We're going back to 1798, baby,
00:02:34.540 because the libs have tried to stymie Trump from deporting illegal aliens. And not just the nice
00:02:43.400 abuela who makes street tacos in your neighborhood who you like, not just the guy that mows your lawn
00:02:50.260 that's an illegal alien, but he's a generally amiable fellow. We're talking about face tattooed,
00:02:56.740 human smuggling, fentanyl dealing, absolute animals. Even those people, the liberal bureaucrats
00:03:06.980 and judges will not let Trump deport. So Trump has invoked a law from the 18th century to make it
00:03:16.780 easier to get these animals out of our country. Trump's order reads, here's just a little bit.
00:03:22.380 It's obviously a long order. Here's just a little bit of it. Trendy Aragua, TDA, is a designated foreign
00:03:27.260 terrorist organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United
00:03:32.560 States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United
00:03:37.800 States. But a pause here. How could you say they're conducting warfare? Well, they're killing
00:03:42.720 people. They're breaking our basic laws. They're invading the country. They're poisoning people,
00:03:49.140 even the ones they don't kill. They poison with fentanyl. They're smuggling human beings. They're
00:03:53.920 running brothels. They're doing all sorts of harmful stuff. But would you call that warfare?
00:03:59.040 Isn't warfare the kind of thing that occurs between two nations or at the very least between
00:04:05.420 a terrorist organization and a national government, not just street crime, not just prostitution,
00:04:11.000 not just murder? Well, Trump explains, TDA has engaged in and continues to engage in mass illegal
00:04:16.820 migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming US citizens, undermining public
00:04:21.180 safety, and supporting the Maduro regime's goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas,
00:04:28.160 including the United States. So what Trump is saying here is these cartels are not just operating
00:04:34.280 as ordinary street criminals or even as ordinary organized crime. They are working with foreign
00:04:41.700 governments. So they're working with the Maduro regime in Venezuela. They're working with hostile
00:04:49.660 governments to undermine the United States. They're not working against those governments that the
00:04:54.100 governments are merely helpless to deal with them. They're actually working in concert with them.
00:04:58.160 TDA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the
00:05:03.300 territory of the United States. No one could deny that. So the White House said they had 300 people
00:05:08.600 who were in custody, who were identified as members of the gang, who could be deported soon.
00:05:15.580 An Obama-appointed judge comes out, this guy James Bozberg, and he says that Trump has to stop the
00:05:23.380 deportations. He issues an emergency order. He says any plane containing these folks, I love the folksy
00:05:30.480 talk, these folks, you know, face tattooed, child smuggling folks, that is going to take off or is
00:05:37.740 in the air needs to be returned to the United States, however that is accomplished. So even if
00:05:42.900 the plane is about to land in Latin America, it's got to go back up, turn around, go back to the United
00:05:48.200 States. We will not allow you to deport these Venezuelan gangsters. The judge concludes, make
00:05:54.100 sure it's complied with immediately. And then one of the greatest tweets ever posted on the internet
00:06:01.220 comes out. This by way of the leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who posts that headline and then just
00:06:09.280 says, oopsie, too late, with a laughing face emoji. Because, as you might recall, us discussing on this
00:06:18.340 show months ago, weeks ago, it feels like months in the Trump administration because so much is
00:06:23.200 happening every day. President Trump has a deal with El Salvador. Nayib Bukele, the greatest strongman
00:06:30.460 in Latin America, said, we will take your prisoners. You don't know where to bring your prisoners. He even
00:06:34.860 offered to take American citizen prisoners that we don't want to deal with. But the Trump administration
00:06:38.580 said, okay, just the illegal aliens from Latin America, if we don't know how to deal with them, if our
00:06:44.680 prisons are really light and easy and kind of a joke in the minds of these gangsters, and if we don't
00:06:51.860 know exactly where to put these guys when we deport them, we're going to send them to El Salvador. We'll pay
00:06:55.500 a small fee for that because El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, if he knows one thing, it is how to deal with
00:07:01.880 gangsters because he locked up. He undertook a mass incarceration program for face-tattooed gangsters who
00:07:08.480 had made El Salvador the most dangerous country on earth. And when he locked them all up and
00:07:12.600 humiliated them, then went to their cemeteries and destroyed their gravestones. This guy is not
00:07:18.440 joking around, okay? When he did that, El Salvador went from being the most dangerous country in the
00:07:23.260 world to the safest country in the Western Hemisphere. Pretty amazing. So just the message this
00:07:31.460 sends, first of all, that Trump can say, oh yeah, oh judge, you sent out that order. Oh, too bad.
00:07:37.060 Actually, the plane's already in El Salvador and Bukele's dealing with them. We'll get to the
00:07:40.240 constitutionality of that, the legality of that in one second. But even just imagine you're one of
00:07:45.500 these gangsters. You're just any illegal alien, but certainly if you're one of these gangsters,
00:07:50.500 your view is that the United States is a joke, that you can just go right up to the border.
00:07:55.460 This is the Biden administration. They're inviting you in. You go to the border. You present yourself to
00:07:59.080 Border Patrol. Border Patrol has to process you, and then Border Patrol lets you go. You don't even
00:08:04.460 really have to sneak into the country anymore. You can just walk up, say, hey, all right, I'm here.
00:08:07.940 Cuff me. You're going to uncuff me in five minutes. Then I'm going to go into the country. I'm going
00:08:11.020 to get lost. I'm not going to show up for my court appearance. And now I'm just, I'm on the path to
00:08:14.740 being an American citizen. I can do whatever I want. Your country is a joke. And by the way,
00:08:18.480 even if I get arrested, you guys are going to go really easy on me in prison. It's no big deal.
00:08:23.860 The Democrats want to abolish prisons in the first place. But even if I go to prison,
00:08:26.960 those prisons are a joke. No big deal. Why wouldn't I break the law?
00:08:30.420 That's what the gangsters are thinking. Then Trump comes out and he says, yeah, I just struck a deal
00:08:36.340 with the strongman leader of El Salvador. And so what's going to happen, I think we have B-roll
00:08:42.780 footage of it. When you land in El Salvador, you're going to be ferried into one of Bukele's prisons
00:08:49.320 by Salvadoran military. And then you're going to be paraded around like the absolute animals that you
00:08:57.360 are. You're not going to have any privacy. And you're not going to have the cushy luxuries that
00:09:02.900 people in the United States demand as rights. You're going to be treated the way you deserve
00:09:08.260 to be treated. That sends a message to anyone who wants to consider crossing our border illegally,
00:09:17.280 which is illegal. It's a misdemeanor the first time. It's a felony if you do it multiple times.
00:09:21.660 And it's greatly offensive to the American people who, if they don't have the right to control their
00:09:26.820 border, they don't really have any right of self-government. They don't have really any
00:09:30.780 political liberty. So the big question here is, can Trump violate this court order? Is this illegal?
00:09:40.280 Is this unconstitutional for the plane to land in defiance of the court order? And you're going to
00:09:46.700 hear a lot of prattling on MSNBC and CNN and all the liberal news channels about the separation of
00:09:52.080 powers. Checks and balances and the separation of powers. Ironically enough, those arguments
00:10:00.420 favor Trump. The arguments from checks and balances and the separation of powers,
00:10:06.180 they justify what Trump is doing. They do not justify what the judge is doing.
00:10:10.040 The judge is overstepping his boundaries. The judge has no right to stop the president of the United
00:10:16.820 States from executing the most basic aspects of his job. Protecting our border, the sovereignty of
00:10:23.680 our nation. He has no right to do that. Checks and balances and separation of powers mean nothing
00:10:30.040 if the Supreme Court just has the final say over everything.
00:10:34.660 The liberals have been arguing in recent years that the Supreme Court just gets to do whatever it wants.
00:10:40.580 With some exceptions. When the Supreme Court observes that there's no right to abortion in the
00:10:45.220 Constitution, then we need to take away all the Supreme Court's power. When the Supreme Court
00:10:50.560 rules that Democrats don't just get to throw the former president and current leader of the opposition
00:10:54.920 in prison, then the Supreme Court should have no power. But when it comes to stopping the enforcement
00:11:00.360 of basic immigration law, then what the liberals are arguing for is not separation of powers and checks
00:11:05.560 and balances. It's judicial supremacy. But we don't have a system of judicial supremacy. That's not in
00:11:10.820 the Constitution. That's not in the Federalist. It's not what the founders and framers gave us.
00:11:14.480 Judicial review is what they'll say. They'll say, well, the Supreme Court has the right of judicial
00:11:20.040 review. And this comes from Marbury versus Madison, longstanding precedent that the court has the right
00:11:25.680 to interpret the Constitution. First of all, all three branches have an obligation to interpret and
00:11:30.760 be faithful to the Constitution. But furthermore, judicial review in Marbury v. Madison is a self-asserted
00:11:37.020 right. It's the court saying, hey, we have a lot of power. So obviously there are some limits to that
00:11:42.640 power. The court just can't say, hey, by the way, we have decided, we on the Supreme Court,
00:11:47.580 that we're the most important branch of government. We can do whatever we want. They don't get to do
00:11:50.360 that. Okay. And this is what gives you a little clue into Trump's view of the second term.
00:12:00.200 Great American presidents, great in the historic sense, really significant American presidents,
00:12:05.140 have ignored the Supreme Court on much shakier, more dubious grounds than Trump is doing.
00:12:14.100 Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, men who are considered among the great presidents of the
00:12:20.160 United States, have ignored the Supreme Court with far less justification than Trump is ignoring the
00:12:25.960 court. This federal judge, this random district judge, James Bosberg, when it comes to the deportations.
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00:14:53.160 tattooed gangsters, sent them over to Bukele for Bukele to do whatever he wants with him.
00:14:57.880 Then Trump turns across the Atlantic on the other side of the world to take out a top ISIS leader.
00:15:05.700 This is Abdallah Maki Muzli al-Rifa, also known as Abu Khadija, and a second ISIS operative.
00:15:16.380 He takes him out. Khadija was the chief of global operations and the delegated committee
00:15:23.860 amir for ISIS. So officially the second in command for the Islamic terror group. And Trump just vaporized
00:15:31.560 these guys from the sky. He tweeted out, or he truth socialed out, today the fugitive leader of
00:15:38.680 ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life
00:15:44.140 was terminated along with another member of ISIS and coordinated with the Iraqi government and the
00:15:50.300 Kurdish regional government. And then this is the key for understanding the deeper level of politics
00:15:56.760 here. He goes, peace through strength, all caps. So this reminds us, of course, of when Trump took
00:16:01.960 out the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, during the first term. And he came out, he said,
00:16:06.760 instead of doing the diplomatic thing, saying, you know, well, the United States government has
00:16:11.320 conducted an operation that has neutralized and eliminated, you know, kind of that Obama thing.
00:16:16.460 Trump comes in and goes, he died like a dog. He was begging for his life, that disgusting,
00:16:21.120 sweaty animal. And, you know, so he does another iteration of that here with this other leader of
00:16:28.340 ISIS. But then he concludes, peace through strength. Two takeaways to understand about Trump here. One,
00:16:38.040 Trump is good at multitasking. It sounds a little bit trite, but it's an important reminder.
00:16:44.060 Presidents sometimes get tunnel vision and they only focus on one or two at most, three things in
00:16:48.920 their administration. There's so much to do. Trump seems pretty good at multitasking. He's moving the
00:16:54.380 ball down the field on a lot of fronts. On tariffs, on immigration, on resolving the war in
00:17:02.320 Ukraine, on resolving the war in Gaza, on annexing Greenland. We'll get to that later. On taking over
00:17:08.400 Canada, on maybe taking back the Panama Canal, on this, on that. He's pretty good on deporting the 300
00:17:15.740 gangsters, on killing the leader of ISIS. He's, the machine is moving very efficiently right now,
00:17:23.200 and it's covering a lot of bases at the same time. But, and the second takeaway, from the peace
00:17:28.520 through strength line. Peace through strength, which is a slogan that Republicans have repeated
00:17:34.120 for decades now. Virtually every Republican repeats it. It harkens back to the Reagan administration,
00:17:40.120 goes back to Barry Goldwater. Peace through strength. Peace through strength does not work
00:17:48.400 if you always fight every battle everywhere. Okay? Peace through strength does not work if you're
00:17:55.200 constantly invading every country on earth for whatever reason. Then you're not going to remain
00:17:59.680 strong. You're going to be overextended. This is, this is what happened by the end of the second Bush
00:18:05.440 term, is said, oh, look, we're fighting every war. We're trying to bring Madisonian democracy to the
00:18:11.240 Middle East, and we're just overextended, and it's not working. The center's not going to hold.
00:18:15.960 On the flip side, peace through strength doesn't work if you never fight any battle.
00:18:20.840 If you just say, we're going to come get you someday, but you never actually make good on your
00:18:24.640 threats, then your adversaries are going to know that you're just always bluffing, and they're going
00:18:29.480 to take advantage of you. This is the special Trump genius. Trump is more of a dove probably than any
00:18:38.760 president in my lifetime. I was going to say maybe George H.W. Bush, but no, George H.W. Bush launched
00:18:43.280 Operation Desert Storm. So Trump is the Republican least inclined to war of my lifetime in the presidency,
00:18:55.580 democracy. And yet, every so often, he drops the Moab. Every so often, he kills the top Iranian
00:19:03.020 general. Every so often, he goes in and vaporizes an ISIS leader. And so you never know. Is he going
00:19:11.300 to do it? When Trump goes to Putin and says, if you invade Ukraine, I'll blow up Moscow. If you're
00:19:17.360 Putin, you have some reason to think that there's some chance that the guy might just be crazy enough
00:19:21.880 to do it. That's how peace through strength works. And it's a reminder that politics is not an abstract
00:19:27.500 philosophical endeavor. It is a practical science. It is, in the words of the political philosopher John
00:19:33.960 Gray, less an argument, more a conversation. I think it's a really helpful way to understand
00:19:40.940 politics, practical politics. It's not just some argument that you make from a lectern with absolutely
00:19:46.860 precise, rigorous logic that totally wins the battle, totally vanquishes one's opponents,
00:19:52.640 and gives one absolute power. That's not how politics works. Politics is always a negotiation.
00:19:57.480 It's always a compromise. It's always trying to find out what really people want, what's really
00:20:02.320 making them tick, what they really mean when they say a phrase, what the true meaning of what they're
00:20:07.640 trying to convey. It's a conversation. And that's what Trump is doing here. Is he a dove? Is he a hawk?
00:20:14.160 He's having a conversation. And really, when he does things like this, he's not only having a
00:20:18.820 conversation with terrorists in Iraq and Syria, he's having a conversation with Xi Jinping in China.
00:20:25.460 He's having a conversation with Vladimir Putin in Russia. FAFO, may you guys proceed at your own risk.
00:20:33.080 Now, speaking of Trump's aggression and expansionism, Trump has come out,
00:20:38.820 and he's asked about one of the more eccentric projects of his second term. He's asked if he's
00:20:47.640 serious about taking over Greenland.
00:20:50.480 What is your vision for the potential annexation of Greenland and getting the potential?
00:20:56.540 Yeah, well, I think it'll happen. And I'm just thinking, I didn't give it much thought before,
00:21:02.940 but I'm sitting with a man that could be very instrumental. You know, Mark, we need that for
00:21:07.200 international security, not just security, international. We have a lot of our favorite
00:21:12.740 players cruising around the coast, and we have to be careful. And we'll be talking to you. It's a
00:21:20.140 very appropriate, really a very appropriate question. Thank you very much.
00:21:22.900 And there's an issue in the high north, so the Arctic. So what you did, so when it comes to Greenland,
00:21:27.120 yes, we're not joining the U.S. I would leave that outside for me, this discussion, because I don't want
00:21:32.320 to direct NATO in that. But when it comes to the high north and the Arctic, you are totally right.
00:21:37.440 The Chinese are now using these routes. We know that the Russians are rearming. We know we have
00:21:41.660 a lack of icebreakers. So the fact that the seven outside Russia, seven Arctic countries working
00:21:49.140 together on this under U.S. leadership is very important to make sure that that region, that that
00:21:53.900 part of the world stays safe. And we know things are changing there, and we have to be there.
00:21:58.820 Have to be there, simple as. Trump says, yeah, I think we will annex Greenland. We need it. We need it
00:22:04.300 for national security. And this really opened up my eyes. I already had an intuition of this,
00:22:10.780 but this really opened up my eyes. Trump has been comparing himself to McKinley on the campaign trail
00:22:16.560 for the second term, into the second term. People made all sorts of comparisons for Trump in the first
00:22:22.560 term. Oh, he's like Reagan. Oh, he's like Nixon. Oh, he's like Teddy Roosevelt. Oh, he's like
00:22:29.100 Andrew Jackson. Trump himself has focused on this McKinley comparison. And a lot of people have just
00:22:35.860 observed that McKinley was very pro-tariff. And McKinley made us really rich with tariffs. And Trump
00:22:41.640 is talking about tariffs, so it's all about tariffs. You know what else William McKinley did?
00:22:46.400 McKinley got us Puerto Rico and the Philippines and Cuba, sort of, and Hawaii. And he set the stage for
00:22:54.260 the Panama Canal, which Trump also now wants to take back. I think that's the vision.
00:23:02.060 Trump wants to be a great president. He wants to make America great. He wants to have a great legacy.
00:23:07.020 And presidents don't go down as great. History does not consider presidents great
00:23:12.240 if they give up territory, if they give up influence, if they give up power.
00:23:18.700 Name me the great presidents who just gave things away and made the country
00:23:23.960 smaller, maybe a little bit weaker, maybe less influential at least. There aren't any.
00:23:31.580 So there are a lot of people who voted for Trump because Trump was going to forget about the American
00:23:36.160 empire and make us into just a normal nation again, maybe even a yeoman republic like some of
00:23:40.120 the founders envisioned. That was always a pipe dream. That is not Trump's vision.
00:23:43.540 The guy who puts his name in gold letters on every big building he can get his hands on,
00:23:48.160 that's not the guy who wants to go back to a yeoman republic.
00:23:52.120 Trump has a great vision of himself, of the country, and I think he wants to go down in history
00:24:00.120 as expanding America's influence, America's power, and probably America's territory.
00:24:06.300 Get ready for a second golden age. Get ready for that second McKinley term.
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00:26:00.100 and pick the very best stuff. Speaking of power in the presidency, President Trump has just asserted
00:26:09.400 a power that might be unprecedented, but it's to undo an abuse of power that also might be
00:26:17.680 unprecedented from the previous president. Trump is rescinding all of the executive orders
00:26:25.240 under Joe Biden that were signed by an auto pen. And that includes Joe Biden's pardons,
00:26:33.340 his many, many pardons in the last moments of his presidency, including the pardons of his family.
00:26:39.260 Now, wait, what are we talking about with the auto pen? The Heritage Foundation conducted a marvelous
00:26:45.900 analysis of the Biden executive orders. As the Heritage Foundation said, we gathered every document we
00:26:52.460 could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency. What they discovered was,
00:26:58.040 in Heritage's words, all used the same auto pen signature, except for the announcement that the
00:27:05.460 former president was dropping out of the race last year. And it shows the auto pen signature.
00:27:11.120 So according to reporting, Heritage examined more than 20 Biden-era executive orders documented on the
00:27:18.280 Federal Register's office between 2021 and 2024, found each had the same signature.
00:27:26.620 So what does this mean? Just anecdotally, I'll tell you I've heard, and it's just scuttlebutt,
00:27:33.220 it's not real. One hears stories in Washington of Joe Biden having been surprised when told of certain
00:27:41.560 things in executive orders that he supposedly signed. At the very least, no one seriously believes that
00:27:49.220 Biden was fully cognizant for his presidency. That's why the Democrats had to swap out their presidential
00:27:53.900 nominee after that disastrous debate when the man was drooling on stage. So Trump's argument here is,
00:28:01.880 Biden had the power to issue these executive orders. Biden has the pardon power in particular,
00:28:07.520 but he didn't really do it. It was whoever was running the country while Joe Biden was drooling and not aware of
00:28:15.240 what his name was. That's who did it. And the evidence is he didn't even sign them. He used an auto pen. An auto pen
00:28:20.320 is just a machine that uses a pen to copy the user's signature. Trump in his own words.
00:28:27.420 The pardons, quote unquote, that sleepy Joe Biden gave to the unselect committee of political thugs and many others
00:28:33.520 are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further effect because of the fact that they were done by auto pen.
00:28:41.740 In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, but more importantly, he did not know anything about them.
00:28:46.860 The necessary pardoning documents were not explained to or approved by Biden.
00:28:50.460 He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime.
00:28:54.240 Mm, love this.
00:28:59.520 This is Trump usurping unprecedented power, is it? I don't know. The kinds of pardons that Joe Biden
00:29:07.980 issued, forget here about just the unselect committee, you know, the House committee that
00:29:12.420 went after Trump and the J6ers and all the rest of it. What is implicit here is that these pardons,
00:29:18.620 including the pardons of Biden's family, including especially the Hunter Biden pardon,
00:29:23.220 those were also a major usurpation of power.
00:29:26.580 Never before in American history, before Joe Biden pardoned his son,
00:29:30.620 had a president pardoned anyone, much less a family member,
00:29:34.740 for a 10-year period
00:29:37.120 for crimes that the person may or may not have committed,
00:29:42.000 crimes that were never brought up in a court
00:29:44.260 for anything.
00:29:46.580 For a 10-year period, the guy could have
00:29:48.600 been guilty of federal murder charges.
00:29:51.260 He would have been pardoned for that.
00:29:54.000 That is a major usurpation of power.
00:29:56.300 And so,
00:29:56.980 what you're seeing here shift from Trump is
00:29:59.700 for many, many years,
00:30:01.440 for most of my childhood and
00:30:03.260 young adult life, I heard
00:30:05.260 from Republicans, listen,
00:30:07.460 when we come into office,
00:30:09.160 we need to give up
00:30:10.900 as much power as we can.
00:30:12.220 Because if we ever exercise power,
00:30:15.660 then that will set the precedent
00:30:17.120 for the Democrats to abuse power in the future.
00:30:20.480 No, no, sir,
00:30:21.620 we can't wield the government
00:30:23.040 because if we do that,
00:30:24.500 imagine what the Democrats will do next time.
00:30:26.200 Well, they already did it last time.
00:30:27.920 And they already do it every time they're in office.
00:30:29.620 I don't need to worry about some hypothetical
00:30:31.000 abuse of power by the Democrats in the future.
00:30:33.080 They already abuse it all the time.
00:30:34.620 So you need to use the power
00:30:36.420 that we the people have given you
00:30:37.500 to rectify that situation,
00:30:39.700 to make sure that they won't be able to abuse
00:30:41.500 their power in the future.
00:30:44.140 That's the lesson Trump got.
00:30:45.840 That's the lesson that Trump got
00:30:47.160 that pretty much every Republican in my lifetime
00:30:49.360 until Trump
00:30:50.260 had not gotten.
00:30:53.420 Now,
00:30:54.260 we turn to
00:30:56.200 a major
00:30:58.300 news story,
00:30:59.540 at least according to social media,
00:31:01.060 probably not according to
00:31:02.280 law or political philosophy,
00:31:05.180 but there are important
00:31:06.560 political lessons here.
00:31:07.560 An Amazon driver
00:31:09.280 just
00:31:11.380 screamed at
00:31:13.220 a homeowner
00:31:14.300 through
00:31:15.060 a doorbell camera.
00:31:16.960 Alex Stein 99
00:31:17.740 posted this video.
00:31:19.040 It's an Amazon
00:31:20.000 delivery person
00:31:21.300 dumping packages.
00:31:23.760 Well,
00:31:24.000 I'll give it to you
00:31:25.380 in the driver's own words.
00:31:26.520 I've been waiting on this day
00:31:32.800 to tell you
00:31:33.620 how much
00:31:34.460 I hate
00:31:35.120 this
00:31:35.620 house.
00:31:36.840 The waters,
00:31:37.600 all the
00:31:37.780 you order,
00:31:38.760 all of this.
00:31:39.420 I hate it.
00:31:40.400 I hate this house.
00:31:41.680 I hate that you order
00:31:42.640 you are
00:31:43.240 the
00:31:43.540 laziest
00:31:44.580 house
00:31:45.660 in this whole
00:31:46.720 neighborhood.
00:31:47.660 You're inconsiderate.
00:31:48.980 You're
00:31:49.140 full of
00:31:49.960 I hate everything
00:31:51.780 about y'all.
00:31:52.960 I hate it.
00:31:53.760 All you have to do
00:31:54.480 is order the store
00:31:55.600 from Walmart pickup
00:31:56.660 or central pickup
00:31:57.780 or whatever
00:31:58.220 and go put the
00:31:58.900 in your own truck
00:31:59.700 and go do it
00:32:00.480 yourself.
00:32:01.480 You are
00:32:01.920 the laziest
00:32:03.060 sons of
00:32:03.640 ever.
00:32:04.500 And if people
00:32:05.040 bring this
00:32:05.580 back,
00:32:06.120 our backs,
00:32:06.680 we break our
00:32:07.060 necks,
00:32:07.380 we break our
00:32:07.780 nails,
00:32:08.160 we break everything
00:32:09.120 to bring you this
00:32:10.200 if you're
00:32:10.980 ungrateful as
00:32:11.860 I hope you know
00:32:13.080 that.
00:32:23.760 Rough day at the
00:32:36.380 office.
00:32:36.800 Well,
00:32:36.920 actually,
00:32:37.200 you can see from
00:32:37.680 the video,
00:32:38.060 it's multiple
00:32:38.480 days on a rough
00:32:39.400 week,
00:32:39.780 rough,
00:32:40.040 rough job,
00:32:40.540 I guess.
00:32:41.380 First off the
00:32:42.040 bet,
00:32:42.240 this could be
00:32:42.720 fake.
00:32:43.880 There's no real
00:32:44.860 way of knowing
00:32:45.500 if this is
00:32:46.080 an actual
00:32:48.240 delivery driver.
00:32:49.440 I don't see any
00:32:50.040 Amazon insignia,
00:32:51.200 so there's no way
00:32:51.740 of knowing that
00:32:52.180 it's an Amazon
00:32:52.700 delivery.
00:32:53.000 We just assume
00:32:53.580 it's Amazon
00:32:54.040 because Amazon
00:32:54.520 delivers most of
00:32:55.160 the packages.
00:32:56.360 Even if it is
00:32:57.180 real,
00:32:58.620 this could just
00:32:59.080 be a total
00:32:59.560 lunatic.
00:33:00.600 It could just
00:33:01.140 be a woman
00:33:01.580 who is not
00:33:02.160 well adjusted.
00:33:03.260 However,
00:33:03.860 regardless,
00:33:05.280 there is some
00:33:06.180 political reality
00:33:07.300 to this.
00:33:09.880 Most conservatives
00:33:11.040 are going to
00:33:11.300 watch this and
00:33:11.780 say,
00:33:12.060 well,
00:33:12.260 this lady,
00:33:12.760 she's awful,
00:33:13.280 she's off a rocker,
00:33:14.100 she's ungrateful,
00:33:14.840 she's entitled,
00:33:15.480 she's this,
00:33:15.900 she's that.
00:33:16.140 And it's like,
00:33:16.480 all of that's
00:33:17.040 probably true.
00:33:18.480 However,
00:33:19.120 there is a
00:33:19.740 political reality
00:33:20.760 to people
00:33:23.000 complaining about
00:33:23.840 the state of
00:33:24.240 the economy
00:33:24.900 and the state
00:33:25.440 of the political
00:33:25.840 order.
00:33:26.440 Okay.
00:33:28.020 Prices have
00:33:28.860 risen a lot
00:33:29.900 in recent decades.
00:33:32.980 Wages have
00:33:33.780 barely risen.
00:33:35.520 Real wages
00:33:36.260 have pretty much
00:33:37.900 never risen.
00:33:38.980 You saw,
00:33:39.520 you actually did
00:33:40.140 see a little bit
00:33:40.620 of a rise during
00:33:41.140 the first Trump
00:33:41.640 administration,
00:33:42.460 but pretty much
00:33:43.720 the rest of the
00:33:44.160 time for the last
00:33:44.720 50 years,
00:33:45.220 you haven't seen
00:33:46.020 real wages rise.
00:33:48.140 Then COVID
00:33:48.840 happened.
00:33:50.220 COVID,
00:33:50.680 which represented
00:33:51.460 the largest
00:33:52.900 transfer of
00:33:53.760 wealth from
00:33:54.280 the lower
00:33:55.000 economic classes
00:33:55.940 to the higher
00:33:56.580 economic classes
00:33:57.500 ever recorded.
00:34:00.120 In large part
00:34:01.100 because of
00:34:01.640 deliveries.
00:34:03.000 In large part
00:34:04.000 because people
00:34:04.580 stopped shopping
00:34:05.200 at stores
00:34:06.100 and started
00:34:06.880 just shopping
00:34:07.480 at Amazon
00:34:07.980 or maybe
00:34:08.540 Walmart
00:34:08.880 or whatever
00:34:09.360 and just
00:34:09.880 having it
00:34:10.140 all delivered
00:34:10.500 to the house.
00:34:11.980 And so
00:34:12.220 the delivery
00:34:12.960 driver actually
00:34:13.740 is at the
00:34:14.320 crux of
00:34:14.900 this major
00:34:15.480 transfer.
00:34:16.200 I remember
00:34:17.560 just a little
00:34:17.960 story.
00:34:18.440 I remember
00:34:18.780 I was down
00:34:19.100 in Cuba,
00:34:20.260 visiting Cuba
00:34:21.100 right when it
00:34:21.540 was sort of
00:34:21.860 opening up,
00:34:22.420 got to get a
00:34:22.980 feel for the
00:34:23.320 place,
00:34:23.580 see how it
00:34:23.820 is.
00:34:24.180 And I went
00:34:24.640 into a
00:34:25.220 cigar shop
00:34:25.860 there and
00:34:27.180 got a bunch
00:34:28.500 of cigars.
00:34:30.420 And the
00:34:31.200 thing that
00:34:31.700 struck me
00:34:32.140 most about
00:34:32.580 going and
00:34:33.020 buying a
00:34:33.440 bunch of
00:34:33.700 cigars is
00:34:34.180 in America
00:34:35.140 generally,
00:34:35.860 if you go
00:34:36.580 and you buy
00:34:36.980 a bunch of
00:34:37.360 stuff at a
00:34:37.760 shop,
00:34:38.520 the clerk
00:34:39.000 is really
00:34:39.500 grateful to
00:34:40.120 you.
00:34:40.360 It's really
00:34:40.660 happy.
00:34:41.120 It's really
00:34:41.320 nice to
00:34:41.800 you.
00:34:42.180 In Cuba,
00:34:43.480 the clerk
00:34:43.920 resents you
00:34:44.520 as a
00:34:45.680 general
00:34:45.980 rule.
00:34:47.100 Because the
00:34:48.580 clerk has no
00:34:49.200 incentive,
00:34:49.800 no upside
00:34:50.340 whatsoever to
00:34:50.940 sell you the
00:34:51.340 goods.
00:34:51.580 It's not like
00:34:51.980 the clerk
00:34:52.240 is getting
00:34:52.540 commission.
00:34:52.980 The clerk
00:34:53.200 is being
00:34:53.520 paid a
00:34:54.080 very low
00:34:54.740 government-set
00:34:55.500 wage.
00:34:56.320 And then
00:34:56.620 you come
00:34:56.940 in there
00:34:57.160 with all
00:34:57.380 this money
00:34:57.800 and you're
00:34:58.080 spending
00:34:58.440 six months
00:34:59.320 of that
00:35:00.440 person's
00:35:00.880 salary
00:35:01.300 on cigars.
00:35:02.860 That person
00:35:03.300 is going
00:35:03.620 to resent
00:35:04.020 you.
00:35:05.180 These are
00:35:05.640 natural
00:35:07.320 political
00:35:07.880 dynamics.
00:35:08.380 and when
00:35:09.220 governments
00:35:09.780 become
00:35:10.120 corrupt
00:35:10.640 and when
00:35:11.280 economies
00:35:11.880 become
00:35:12.400 incoherent
00:35:13.940 and unreasonable
00:35:14.980 this
00:35:17.120 generates
00:35:17.900 passions.
00:35:19.080 This
00:35:19.640 contradicts
00:35:20.800 the
00:35:21.420 liberal
00:35:22.060 ideological
00:35:22.700 view
00:35:23.180 on the
00:35:23.580 left
00:35:23.820 and the
00:35:24.220 right.
00:35:25.000 No,
00:35:25.540 hold on,
00:35:25.960 there are
00:35:26.140 just these
00:35:26.440 eternal
00:35:26.740 principles
00:35:27.180 of the
00:35:27.480 economy
00:35:27.820 and there
00:35:28.160 are these
00:35:28.360 rules and
00:35:28.840 no one
00:35:29.040 can ever
00:35:29.300 complain
00:35:29.600 about
00:35:29.900 them
00:35:30.240 and we
00:35:31.160 just all
00:35:31.480 have to
00:35:31.700 operate
00:35:31.980 like
00:35:32.180 automatons.
00:35:32.620 That's not
00:35:32.960 how polities
00:35:33.840 actually work.
00:35:35.700 And when
00:35:35.940 you have
00:35:36.420 major
00:35:36.980 transfers
00:35:37.440 of wealth
00:35:37.880 from the
00:35:38.200 lower
00:35:38.360 to the
00:35:38.640 upper
00:35:38.800 classes,
00:35:39.500 when you
00:35:39.920 have
00:35:40.120 real wages
00:35:40.920 stagnating
00:35:41.560 for years
00:35:42.160 and decades,
00:35:43.300 when you
00:35:43.680 have
00:35:44.020 great
00:35:45.320 corruption
00:35:45.820 from the
00:35:46.700 elite
00:35:47.040 of a
00:35:47.320 country,
00:35:48.640 sometimes
00:35:48.980 people are
00:35:49.420 going to
00:35:49.580 yell at
00:35:49.840 you at
00:35:49.980 a
00:35:50.060 doorbell
00:35:50.320 camera.
00:35:51.740 I'm not
00:35:52.420 saying that
00:35:52.720 woman was
00:35:53.060 justified.
00:35:53.840 I'm almost
00:35:54.440 certain she
00:35:54.780 was not
00:35:55.160 justified.
00:35:56.020 I hate
00:35:56.420 that kind
00:35:56.740 of behavior
00:35:57.140 and people
00:35:57.580 need to be
00:35:57.940 educated
00:35:58.280 better at
00:35:58.660 home and
00:35:58.880 all the
00:35:59.160 rest of
00:35:59.520 it.
00:36:00.540 But
00:36:00.920 we
00:36:02.460 ignore
00:36:03.020 political
00:36:04.460 dangers
00:36:05.120 at our
00:36:06.040 own
00:36:06.240 risk.
00:36:06.640 When the
00:36:08.120 left says
00:36:08.520 we need
00:36:08.820 to pay
00:36:09.480 attention
00:36:09.840 to wealth
00:36:10.800 disparities
00:36:11.320 or whatever,
00:36:13.020 there is a
00:36:13.820 political lesson
00:36:14.580 in that
00:36:14.900 from the
00:36:15.220 matter of
00:36:15.580 prudence.
00:36:16.140 You don't
00:36:16.820 want the
00:36:17.400 society to
00:36:17.980 spin out
00:36:18.300 of control.
00:36:18.920 We don't
00:36:19.200 want
00:36:19.560 revolution.
00:36:20.600 Okay,
00:36:22.040 America's
00:36:22.660 on the
00:36:22.880 comeback,
00:36:23.420 but the
00:36:23.620 culture war,
00:36:24.300 it's not
00:36:24.620 over.
00:36:25.580 That's
00:36:25.880 why we
00:36:26.260 are releasing
00:36:26.780 episode one
00:36:27.360 of our
00:36:27.600 series,
00:36:27.960 The Case
00:36:28.180 for Derek
00:36:28.500 Chauvin,
00:36:28.860 tomorrow.
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00:36:51.820 My favorite
00:36:52.680 comment yesterday,
00:36:54.280 or on Friday,
00:36:54.900 I suppose,
00:36:55.360 is from
00:36:55.640 Carolyn Moore,
00:36:56.520 796,
00:36:57.120 who says,
00:36:57.380 I live in
00:36:58.060 Phoenix,
00:36:58.400 Arizona,
00:36:58.700 and I'm a
00:36:59.460 71-year-old
00:37:00.300 native of
00:37:00.680 Arizonan.
00:37:01.440 I'm angry
00:37:02.180 that I heard
00:37:02.840 this news
00:37:03.500 about a
00:37:04.640 major 200-plus
00:37:05.900 person sex ring
00:37:07.600 bust,
00:37:08.200 which involved
00:37:09.520 even child
00:37:11.700 material and
00:37:12.820 child trafficking.
00:37:14.200 I heard this
00:37:15.080 news about
00:37:15.440 Scottsdale from
00:37:16.120 you and not
00:37:17.040 the mainstream
00:37:17.900 media.
00:37:18.660 Shows how
00:37:19.100 pathetic they
00:37:19.540 become.
00:37:19.880 Yeah,
00:37:20.000 it is weird.
00:37:21.400 I talked about
00:37:22.000 this story,
00:37:22.520 if you missed
00:37:22.860 the episode on
00:37:23.340 Friday,
00:37:23.660 maybe go back
00:37:24.040 and listen
00:37:24.280 to it.
00:37:25.280 Over 200
00:37:25.920 people,
00:37:26.820 over 200
00:37:28.180 people arrested
00:37:29.240 in a sting
00:37:30.820 for weird sex
00:37:32.260 stuff,
00:37:32.780 sex rings
00:37:33.240 involving
00:37:33.580 children in
00:37:35.020 Scottsdale,
00:37:35.880 which is a
00:37:36.240 very wealthy
00:37:36.940 town in
00:37:37.520 America.
00:37:38.640 And the
00:37:40.020 media are
00:37:40.540 basically totally
00:37:41.220 silent on it.
00:37:41.900 That's very
00:37:42.300 odd.
00:37:43.800 There's something
00:37:44.300 very strange
00:37:45.380 about that.
00:37:46.760 Okay,
00:37:47.480 speaking of
00:37:48.680 exactly what
00:37:50.420 we were just
00:37:50.780 talking about
00:37:51.360 in the
00:37:52.800 Amazon
00:37:53.680 delivery
00:37:54.060 driver,
00:37:54.540 whatever,
00:37:54.900 whoever,
00:37:55.400 the delivery
00:37:56.820 person's
00:37:57.720 ring
00:37:58.600 invective.
00:38:00.660 Scott Besson,
00:38:01.420 the Treasury
00:38:01.760 Secretary,
00:38:02.580 has just
00:38:02.960 come out
00:38:03.380 and addressed
00:38:04.880 the major
00:38:06.440 complaint about
00:38:07.420 Trump's economic
00:38:08.020 policy and
00:38:08.620 tariffs,
00:38:09.080 namely that it
00:38:10.020 could raise
00:38:10.500 consumer prices.
00:38:11.980 Scott Besson
00:38:12.660 gets to the
00:38:13.700 heart of the
00:38:14.280 matter and I
00:38:14.820 think knocks
00:38:15.640 down the
00:38:16.340 liberal
00:38:16.540 objections.
00:38:18.320 I asked you
00:38:19.160 about something
00:38:19.540 that you
00:38:19.940 actually said
00:38:20.800 last week and
00:38:21.980 we'll discuss
00:38:22.460 it on the
00:38:22.820 other side.
00:38:23.220 Take a look.
00:38:25.120 Access to cheap
00:38:26.100 goods is not
00:38:27.260 the asset,
00:38:28.260 is not the
00:38:28.860 essence of the
00:38:29.980 American dream.
00:38:31.340 The American dream
00:38:32.400 is rooted in the
00:38:33.500 concept that any
00:38:34.720 citizen can achieve
00:38:35.940 prosperity, upward
00:38:37.580 mobility, and
00:38:38.580 economic security.
00:38:40.140 Mr. Secretary,
00:38:40.920 are you there
00:38:41.480 essentially saying
00:38:42.320 that the Trump
00:38:43.320 administration is
00:38:44.340 comfortable to have
00:38:45.180 consumers pay more
00:38:46.400 for goods in
00:38:47.000 America?
00:38:47.840 Not at all,
00:38:48.740 Christian.
00:38:49.000 What I'm saying is
00:38:50.060 the American dream
00:38:51.040 is not let
00:38:52.020 them eat flat
00:38:52.620 screens.
00:38:53.820 That if
00:38:55.260 American families
00:38:57.260 aren't able to
00:38:57.940 afford a home,
00:38:59.100 don't believe that
00:39:00.440 their children will
00:39:01.180 do better than
00:39:01.880 they are, the
00:39:02.480 American dream is
00:39:03.720 not contingent on
00:39:04.780 cheap baubles from
00:39:06.440 China.
00:39:07.320 That it is more
00:39:08.220 than that and we
00:39:09.020 are focused on
00:39:09.720 affordability, but
00:39:11.040 it's mortgages,
00:39:12.340 it's cars, it's real
00:39:13.720 wage gain.
00:39:14.300 Hear, hear, that
00:39:16.320 is so beautifully
00:39:17.980 put from Treasury
00:39:19.820 Secretary Scott
00:39:20.560 Besson.
00:39:22.700 Our policy is not
00:39:24.420 let them eat
00:39:25.080 flat screens.
00:39:26.540 The American dream
00:39:27.580 is not contingent on
00:39:28.960 cheap baubles from
00:39:30.460 China.
00:39:32.660 Notice here, the
00:39:33.900 NBC is trying to
00:39:35.860 get Besson into a
00:39:36.700 corner, say, so
00:39:37.260 you're okay with
00:39:37.900 rising prices if you
00:39:39.060 institute these
00:39:39.620 tariffs, especially
00:39:40.420 tariffs on China,
00:39:41.360 then the cost of
00:39:42.100 some consumer goods
00:39:42.960 is going to go up.
00:39:43.640 And you think
00:39:44.440 that's fine?
00:39:46.240 And Besson says,
00:39:46.780 no, I'm not saying
00:39:47.460 that's fine.
00:39:48.160 I'm not saying we
00:39:48.560 want the price of
00:39:49.240 consumer goods to
00:39:49.880 go up.
00:39:50.660 I'm saying that we
00:39:52.760 have sold our
00:39:55.040 society out.
00:39:56.360 We have sold out
00:39:57.420 the American family.
00:39:58.500 We have sold out
00:39:59.220 the American worker.
00:40:00.300 We have sold out
00:40:01.000 the integrity of
00:40:01.720 our communities.
00:40:02.640 We have sold out
00:40:03.580 social solidarity so
00:40:05.360 that we can get
00:40:05.920 some cheap trash
00:40:06.800 from China.
00:40:08.600 And look, I've
00:40:09.380 enjoyed cheap trash
00:40:10.280 from China, okay?
00:40:11.020 I like that my
00:40:11.540 flat screen TV, I
00:40:12.240 don't even watch my
00:40:12.680 flat screen TV that
00:40:13.400 much.
00:40:13.640 But I like that I
00:40:14.700 could get it at a
00:40:15.300 cheaper price or
00:40:15.840 whatever.
00:40:16.840 But at what cost?
00:40:18.200 That is not what the
00:40:19.060 American dream is.
00:40:20.700 That has become the
00:40:22.000 American nightmare, I
00:40:23.820 guess, is that we all
00:40:24.640 just sort of sit, we're
00:40:25.900 all depressed, we're
00:40:27.100 sitting alone, families
00:40:29.000 have collapsed, our
00:40:30.460 economy is in great
00:40:31.600 disorder, but we watch
00:40:32.780 whatever slop comes up
00:40:33.980 on Netflix and we do
00:40:35.700 it on our cheap TVs
00:40:36.480 from China.
00:40:36.980 But the American dream
00:40:38.060 is about more than
00:40:38.760 that.
00:40:38.980 And so we have to
00:40:40.500 consider other
00:40:41.660 metrics beyond
00:40:42.500 merely GDP, beyond
00:40:44.760 merely the cost of
00:40:45.680 certain imported
00:40:46.220 consumer goods.
00:40:47.380 There are other
00:40:48.360 goods in the
00:40:48.980 economy.
00:40:50.480 That is a political
00:40:52.160 way of thinking
00:40:53.000 about things.
00:40:53.720 Not the way of
00:40:55.500 economists,
00:40:56.140 officers, and
00:40:56.860 calculators, to use
00:40:58.020 a phrase from
00:40:58.400 Edmund Burke.
00:40:59.180 Not the way of
00:41:00.060 technocrats, not the
00:41:01.380 way of robots, not
00:41:02.960 the way of
00:41:03.420 ideological liberals.
00:41:04.260 That's how
00:41:04.760 conservatives think
00:41:07.120 about it.
00:41:07.520 It's a political
00:41:08.180 question.
00:41:09.920 And that's always a
00:41:10.680 conversation, and
00:41:11.540 that's always balancing
00:41:12.600 various goods, and
00:41:14.140 that's always highlighting
00:41:15.500 the chief political
00:41:16.320 virtue, which is
00:41:17.540 prudence.
00:41:19.020 Chief political virtue
00:41:20.200 is not spreadsheets,
00:41:22.360 okay?
00:41:22.560 The chief political
00:41:23.180 virtue is not some
00:41:25.040 single algorithm that
00:41:26.340 determines exactly what
00:41:27.680 we're going to have in
00:41:28.380 society.
00:41:29.020 It's prudence.
00:41:30.260 It's balancing
00:41:30.780 different interests and
00:41:32.120 using our judgment as
00:41:33.320 human beings.
00:41:33.940 Now, speaking of
00:41:35.140 NBC News, great story
00:41:38.020 here that's going to
00:41:38.560 confound a lot of
00:41:39.340 liberals and squish
00:41:40.020 Republicans.
00:41:42.700 We're told constantly
00:41:44.600 that the Constitution is
00:41:47.140 being shredded, and
00:41:48.140 we're on the brink of
00:41:49.220 war, and Trump is
00:41:50.340 selling us out to
00:41:51.200 Russia, and even if you
00:41:52.060 don't believe that
00:41:52.580 nonsense, we're being
00:41:53.700 told that the economy
00:41:55.600 is about to go to pot,
00:41:57.020 and consumer goods are
00:41:58.480 going to increase, and
00:41:59.700 we've got tariffs that
00:42:00.580 are going to create
00:42:01.000 trade wars that are
00:42:01.800 going to bankrupt all
00:42:02.480 of us, and yet,
00:42:03.940 NBC News, one of the
00:42:07.100 most left-wing news
00:42:08.100 outlets, finds that
00:42:11.340 more Americans today
00:42:13.400 believe the country is
00:42:14.540 on the right track.
00:42:16.340 A greater percentage of
00:42:17.620 Americans think the
00:42:18.920 country is on the right
00:42:19.480 track than at any time
00:42:20.940 in over 20 years.
00:42:22.760 First of all, the mood of
00:42:24.880 the country, this really
00:42:26.260 jumped out.
00:42:26.840 We ask folks, is it on
00:42:27.680 the right direction or the
00:42:29.040 wrong direction?
00:42:29.660 That 44 percent, you say
00:42:30.980 right direction, that's up
00:42:32.640 since November, and if that
00:42:33.960 doesn't seem like a lot,
00:42:35.320 the last time it cracked
00:42:36.440 40 percent, you've got to
00:42:37.720 go back to 2012.
00:42:38.860 The last time it actually
00:42:39.860 hit 44 or higher, January
00:42:41.920 of 2004.
00:42:44.340 So a lot of this is
00:42:45.320 Republicans, but
00:42:46.100 independents, that number
00:42:47.440 is also up since the
00:42:48.760 election on the direction of
00:42:50.020 the country.
00:42:51.020 So at the time of the
00:42:52.720 election, 27 percent, this
00:42:55.520 is peak Joe Biden, 27
00:42:57.980 percent say the country is
00:42:58.820 on the right track.
00:42:59.840 Now we hit records that we
00:43:01.340 have not seen since 2004,
00:43:04.780 coinciding with a Republican
00:43:07.700 winning the popular vote for
00:43:09.020 the first time since 2004.
00:43:12.700 Why do people think that
00:43:15.120 things are going well when we
00:43:17.220 have the threat of tariffs,
00:43:18.540 when we have the threat of
00:43:19.880 rising prices on certain
00:43:21.000 consumer goods, when we
00:43:22.500 have mass deportations, when
00:43:24.880 we have the president
00:43:26.200 talking about securing our
00:43:27.620 interests in Greenland and
00:43:29.020 elsewhere?
00:43:29.560 How on earth?
00:43:30.580 Why are people saying the
00:43:31.920 country is on the right track?
00:43:34.440 Because this is what they
00:43:35.560 voted for.
00:43:37.580 People voted for this.
00:43:39.500 They voted for tariffs.
00:43:42.220 Most voters, the majority of
00:43:44.460 voters voted for tariffs,
00:43:47.520 voted for prioritizing other
00:43:49.620 political and economic goods
00:43:50.820 above merely cheap baubles from
00:43:52.920 China.
00:43:53.620 The majority of voters voted
00:43:55.100 for mass deportations.
00:43:57.560 The majority of voters voted
00:43:58.880 for things like Trump telling
00:44:01.060 an Obama-era district judge to
00:44:03.280 stuff it while he ships hundreds
00:44:05.340 of gangsters down to Naibu Kale
00:44:07.840 to be dealt with the right way.
00:44:10.080 That's what most voters voted for.
00:44:12.180 And you're going to see think
00:44:13.080 pieces from the liberal media and
00:44:15.680 from the squishes, swampy, fake
00:44:18.820 Republicans who say this is not
00:44:21.120 what people voted for.
00:44:21.940 People voted for Trump because
00:44:23.640 they were upset about inflation
00:44:25.240 and it was really nothing to do
00:44:26.600 with Trump or any of his agenda.
00:44:28.040 And they didn't really, they
00:44:28.780 don't want mass deportations.
00:44:30.060 They don't want tariffs.
00:44:30.980 They don't want trade wars.
00:44:31.720 They don't want.
00:44:33.060 They do.
00:44:34.380 They do.
00:44:36.300 Nobody responding to that poll is
00:44:38.120 unaware of what Trump has been
00:44:39.560 doing over the past 56 days.
00:44:41.580 OK, Trump is pretty good
00:44:44.440 at being in the news.
00:44:45.400 All right.
00:44:46.820 This is what people voted for.
00:44:50.100 Meanwhile, the Democratic Party,
00:44:53.380 which is should be rising in strength,
00:44:57.440 the Democrat Party, which should be
00:44:58.820 taking advantage of Trump's
00:45:00.200 supposed missteps.
00:45:02.200 They're in shambles.
00:45:03.740 AOC, one of the most prominent
00:45:05.060 members of the House,
00:45:06.280 attacking the Democrat leader
00:45:08.120 in the Senate.
00:45:08.660 I think there is a deep sense
00:45:11.540 of outrage and betrayal.
00:45:13.680 And this is not just about
00:45:14.960 progressive Democrats.
00:45:16.180 This is across the board,
00:45:17.540 the entire party.
00:45:18.620 I think it is a huge slap in the face.
00:45:21.840 Not just AOC, Nancy Pelosi,
00:45:24.720 a more establishment Democrat
00:45:26.400 in the House,
00:45:26.880 as Democrat senators should listen
00:45:28.280 to the women.
00:45:29.720 Appropriation leaders Rosa DeLauro
00:45:31.260 and Patty Murphy have eloquently
00:45:32.620 presented the case that we must
00:45:34.320 have a better choice.
00:45:35.800 They're all attacking Chuck Schumer
00:45:37.120 because Chuck Schumer made a deal
00:45:38.340 with Trump and the Republicans
00:45:40.300 not to shut down the government.
00:45:41.900 And Schumer did that,
00:45:42.780 not because he likes Trump
00:45:43.580 and the Republicans,
00:45:44.280 but because he knew
00:45:44.800 he was going to get clobbered
00:45:45.880 if he, as the Democrat leader
00:45:48.080 in the Senate,
00:45:48.740 were responsible for
00:45:49.700 a government shutdown.
00:45:50.720 Because the Democrats
00:45:51.460 had no options,
00:45:52.280 so now they're at each other's throats.
00:45:54.120 Why are they at each other's throats?
00:45:55.360 Because they have no leadership.
00:45:56.760 Who's the leader
00:45:57.220 of the Democrat Party right now?
00:45:59.800 Kamala Harris?
00:46:00.520 No.
00:46:01.580 Joe Biden?
00:46:02.280 No, he hasn't been the leader
00:46:03.040 of the Democrat Party
00:46:03.720 since before he got elected president.
00:46:06.080 Who?
00:46:06.460 Barack Obama?
00:46:07.140 Maybe you could have said Barack Obama.
00:46:08.480 I don't think after this election
00:46:09.380 you could.
00:46:10.460 Who's the leader?
00:46:11.260 Schumer?
00:46:11.680 No.
00:46:12.100 Pelosi?
00:46:12.600 No.
00:46:13.420 AOC?
00:46:13.960 No.
00:46:14.160 Hakeem Jeffries?
00:46:14.880 No.
00:46:15.080 Who's the leader?
00:46:17.060 You go down the whole list.
00:46:18.120 Gavin Newsom?
00:46:18.740 There's no leader.
00:46:19.580 And there's no leader
00:46:20.360 because there's no leadership.
00:46:21.500 And there's no leadership.
00:46:22.400 There's no vision.
00:46:23.980 They have no idea what they want.
00:46:27.580 Despite the constant negative press,
00:46:29.760 Covfefe,
00:46:30.420 despite the constant negative press
00:46:32.100 about how the Trump admin
00:46:34.320 is in shambles,
00:46:35.060 the country's going to pot
00:46:36.080 and the Democrats
00:46:36.920 can't wait to pounce,
00:46:38.160 the Republican Party
00:46:39.020 has not been stronger
00:46:40.140 in my lifetime
00:46:40.920 than it is right now.
00:46:42.080 And the Democrat Party
00:46:42.960 has not been weaker
00:46:43.720 in my lifetime
00:46:44.360 than it is right now.
00:46:46.100 And it's only day what?
00:46:46.940 Day 56?
00:46:47.680 Pretty good.
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