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Ep 1128 | Democrats' Shutdown Lies Obfuscate Truth About the TRUE Cost of Obamacare | Guest: Dan Andros · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

• 0:01
  Stu does America.
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  Dan Andros is here to talk Israel and Bad Bunny,
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  two
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  completely related topics.
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  The new illegal border crossing numbers are out.
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  We'll see how President Trump is doing there.
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  We're gonna start by doing the real cost of Obamacare.
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  Ah,
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  Ash,
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  Obamacare has been way too much of a part of my life.
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  You know,
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  there for the passage,
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  you know,
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  we started on Fox News right before
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  it was really,
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  you know,
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  argued about and eventually passed.
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  I was on the air during the Supreme Court
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  ruling
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  when that came out.
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  I remember trying to explain that to
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  everybody about how it was not a good ruling,
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  even though a lot of places were recording it
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  as a good ruling for conservatives at that moment.
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  Um,
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  it was a weird time,
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  a weird time.
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  And then of course the attempts at
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  getting rid of it,
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  the John McCain thumbs down,
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  uh,
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  and then,
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  you know,
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  typical,
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  as we predicted at the very beginning,
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  Republicans now starting to jump on board and saying,
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  oh,
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  actually,
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  it's great.
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  Well,
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  you know,
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  this is what you expect out of a big program every single time.
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  Jon Stewart was talking about this whole thing,
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  and the reason why I bring up Obamacare is because of the shutdown.
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  This is a very Obamacare related.
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  Uh,
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  this is like our 19th shutdown due to some aspect of Obamacare.
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  This time it's because the Democrats want to spend more money.
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  Jon Stewart skewers Democrats for poor leadership,
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  but
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  Republican-led government shutdown.
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  I mean,
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  I don't know.
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  Did he do that?
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  Here's him skewering Democrats.
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  And while people in the country legally are not eligible
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  for Medicaid
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  or for Obamacare subsidies,
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  I got to address that
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  point taken.
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  But the Democrats aren't lily livered about this one.
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  They've got their own rhetorical arguments
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  about the popularity of extending these subsidies
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  that I think you'll find compelling.
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  Democrats
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  are
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  adamant that we must protect the healthcare of the American people.
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  Uh.
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  Good points.
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  I mean,
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  if you're not watching that show,
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  I don't know how you're missing it.
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  That's a must-watch television,
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  uh,
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  as you,
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  as you could tell right there.
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  By the way.
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  Yes,
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  there are parts of Obamacare that,
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  you know,
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  make it seem like illegals can't get any money because of it.
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  This is all because
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  if you have a big pile of money and you have to give it to your citizens in your state,
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  and,
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  uh,
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  that's what you're going to do with it,
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  and then you get a big chunk of money from Obamacare,
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  from the federal government,
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  you then can give that other money that you're
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  going to give to your citizens to illegal immigrants,
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  and that's how the money gets to illegal immigrants.
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  Anybody who looks at this has known this.
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  This is a very widely known argument,
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  but.
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  I suppose we're not going to bother addressing that.
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  Anyway,
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  uh,
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  more from Jon Stewart,
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  here he is talking
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  about the shutdown and how it began.
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  Now as you'll recall,
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  the shutdown began
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  because in order to pass a budget bill in the Senate,
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  you need 60 votes,
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  as the founders
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  never mentioned
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  and.
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  So Democrats have come forth with a laundry list of demands
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  to force the Republicans,
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  I'm just kidding,
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  they want like two things.
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  Democrats demanding that Republicans reverse cuts to Medicaid
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  and extend expiring Obamacare subsidies to prevent insurance
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  premiums from rising for some 20 million Americans.
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  Those bastards.
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  It's like they don't even want people to die of generally preventable diseases.
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  There's Jon Stewart,
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  with another incredible point.
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  By the way,
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  the two things that they want,
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  we're going to go into here in,
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  in just a moment,
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  um,
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  but
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  you're going to be surprised to hear,
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  that's not a fair way of presenting what they want.
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  Uh,
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  that's a shocking development,
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  I know.
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  Now Republicans are now facing
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  pressure to consider Democrats' healthcare demands
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  as shutdown drags on.
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  Uh,
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  Susan Collins is shopping around a folding proposal.
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  She wants to fold on this.
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  Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to fold on this.
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  So there's gonna be,
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  of course,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  some people on the right that are going to just kind of,
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  you know.
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  Do the thing that Republicans usually do in these moments,
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  which is give up and give in for whatever the Democrats want.
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  That's,
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  you know,
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  obviously a very
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  common
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  theme of these moments.
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  Now what's interesting about this
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  is what they're actually trying to get here,
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  and we've talked so much about the shutdown and the politics of the shutdown.
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  Who's responsible for it,
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  how is it going to play out,
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  all this other stuff.
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  And we haven't really gone into
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  what the Democrats are asking for.
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  Why?
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  Because we obviously know it's not real,
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  right?
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  Like they,
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  the Democrats already folded on a shutdown already.
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  They could have brought this stuff up then.
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  Uh,
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  they're asking for some stuff that hasn't even expired yet,
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  um,
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  you know,
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  but it is,
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  and they just keep referring to it as healthcare.
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  Now,
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  the only real thing that,
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  uh,
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  Republicans have said
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  about this healthcare proposal.
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  That the Democrats want is
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  they want to give a bunch of illegal immigrants healthcare,
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  and as I just explained,
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  yes,
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  that is part of it,
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  it's possible that that can happen,
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  it's probable,
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  and it has happened,
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  as we pointed out before,
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  going back to Obamacare in 2009,
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  I think it was,
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  uh,
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  was the moment where Congressman Wilson yelled,
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  you lie
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  to Barack Obama.
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  The,
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  the topic of that moment,
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  if you remember during the State of the Union,
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  was.
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  Illegals getting healthcare.
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  That was the topic of it.
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  In 2016,
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  Hillary Clinton ran for president
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  with the
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  on her website as part of her
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  campaign platform,
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  giving illegal immigrants
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  healthcare money from Obamacare.
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  It was actually on her site to make sure that everyone gets it.
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  We just saw Maxine Waters say,
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  we want everyone to get healthcare.
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  When asked,
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  Do you want illegals to get it?
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  We want everyone to get it.
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  This is quite
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  obvious what they want,
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  and this is one way of doing it.
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  If you throw a bunch of money at these
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  programs
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  at the states,
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  it frees up the states to give,
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  mostly blue states,
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  gives up the blue states the freedom to be able to
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  take the money that they already have and give that money
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  to illegal immigrants,
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  and they can say,
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  oh,
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  it's not this pile of money,
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  it's from this pile of money,
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  as if that makes one iota of difference.
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  It doesn't,
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  it doesn't matter.
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  Uh,
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  the point is we should,
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  they shouldn't be getting this money if they're illegal.
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  So,
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  the Washington Post decides to go after this,
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  and you know what this is going to be like,
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  right?
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  The Washington Post is going to write an op ed,
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  not from just some
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  liberal columnist or conservative columnist,
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  but
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  from the actual editorial board,
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  the official position of the editorial section of the Washington Post.
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  This is gonna be fun,
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  right?
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  Well,
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  kind of is.
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  The Shutdown Conversation no one wants
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  is the title of it,
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  and that doesn't sound all that wonderful,
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  but let me give you some excerpts from it because,
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  It's kind of a shocking moment in,
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  I don't know,
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  American history,
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  because they're saying things like this.
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  President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats used COVID-19
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  to justify
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  chasing the mirage of European-style welfare state without
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  raising the necessary taxes to pay for it.
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  Now,
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  prodded by the left,
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  party leaders have shut down the government
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  in a bid to permanently extend what was sold in 2021
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  as emergency subsidies to help people struggling
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  during the pandemic to afford health insurance.
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  What the hell did I just read?
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  That's the Washington Post.
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  That's shocking.
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  They're admitting.
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  The truth.
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  They've decided saying things that are true is an option.
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  When did they start with that craziness
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  again,
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  first of all,
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  presenting it as a
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  the Democrats shutting down the government,
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  which of course is what's happening here.
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  And look,
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  you know.
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  Republicans could just give in and reopen it,
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  right?
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  That's the debate,
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  but it is the Democrats taking in this particular case,
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  the action to make sure that
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  we don't just continue spending money at the,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  pathway to hell we were previously spending on,
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  which is what the Republicans want.
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  Again,
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  there's no good guys here.
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  Republicans are saying,
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  hey,
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  this unsustainable thing we have going on,
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  we should continue it.
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  That's the Republican position here.
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  They're not saying,
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  hey,
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  we should cut stuff by 80%,
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  like they probably should.
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  Now they're like,
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  we'll just continue doing all the crap that we're doing now
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  that is devastating us and throwing us into
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  debt and creating all sorts of long-term problems.
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  And Democrats are saying,
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  well,
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  what if we make it worse?
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  Those are the two sides of this.
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  Just so you know,
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  but again,
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  talking about this
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  accurately is kind of a shocking thing.
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  They go on,
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  the US national debt stands at $37.9 trillion a
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  figure that dwarfs the annual gross domestic product of every
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  other
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  country.
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  It has grown dramatically since the pandemic.
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  In the 2019 fiscal year,
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  the federal government spent $5.47 trillion but took in only $4.26 trillion.
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  Five years later,
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  spending clocked in at $6.75 trillion as revenue failed
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  to keep up with this dramatic expansion
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  of government.
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  And that's what we're in the middle of,
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  right?
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  We had
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  a growing government,
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  a government that was growing
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  pretty quickly,
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  and that's during Donald Trump's first term.
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  Also,
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  of course,
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  during Obama and Bush,
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  and it's been going on forever,
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  but Donald Trump did not reverse that.
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  He didn't run on that,
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  to be fair.
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  That was never a high priority of his.
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  You know,
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  there's been lip service at moments given to things like Doge,
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  but in general,
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  especially in 2016,
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  it really wasn't his priority.
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  He was talking about other things.
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  He got into office and he
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  lived up to what he promised during the campaign.
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  He did not go after spending,
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  he did not go after cutting things in the government generally.
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  Now cutting regulations,
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  he did do a pretty good job at that.
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  Uh,
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  he's certainly done a good job on the border and many other things over the years,
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  but it's just not his focus.
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  It's just not something he cares about.
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  I mean,
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  this is a guy that called himself the king of debt,
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  right?
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  This is just
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  who he is,
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  and,
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  and,
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  and that's been known since the beginning.
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  Um.
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  I don't like that part of him,
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  but that is,
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  that's the truth.
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  Gushers of borrowed money
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  flowed toward expanding food stamps,
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  Medicaid eligibility,
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  veterans' benefits,
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  and student debt forgiveness.
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  Rising interest rates compound the costs.
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  Ultimately,
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  the United States will need to grow its way out of this debt,
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  but fiscal irresponsibility makes that
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  harder.
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  And so.
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  You think about the expansions,
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  it was already expanding during Trump,
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  gets into Biden,
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  obviously gets much,
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  much worse.
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  He passes two massive bills,
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  among other things,
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  but the American Recovery Act,
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  I think it was.
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  And the Inflation Reduction Act.
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  I might have the Act or bill or whatever it was called messed up there,
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  but those are the two main things
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  that massively,
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  massively expanded
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  government and spending.
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  And remember it was after it was already passed.
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  They were like,
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  by the way,
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  this is actually a green bill.
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  There's lots of that stuff in there as well,
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  but there wasn't just that.
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  Yet Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend COVID era
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  insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it.
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  Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost
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  $350 billion over the next decade.
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  These temporary benefits were included in the American rescue plan,
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  plan,
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  that's right,
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  not act,
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  plan
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  of March 2021 and extended the next year into the
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  misnamed Inflation Reduction Act until the end of 2025.
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  Again,
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  note the the tone of this.
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  Like
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  the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act,
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  that's of course true.
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  It is something that Biden admitted,
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  but when do you get that
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  analysis from the Washington Post?
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  I'm shocked to hear them talking about this like this.
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  Uh,
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  maybe
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  the whole Jeff Bezos we're going to actually focus on free markets thing was real.
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  Uh,
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  I don't know.
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  I,
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  I,
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  I don't know.
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  I hope it is.
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  They did just hire Dominic Pino,
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  who's been on the show many times.
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  Excited about that.
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  That's a really good hire for them.
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  Hopefully they're going down a good road,
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  um.
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  But
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  again,
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  this is what's key here,
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  and it's not being covered all that much
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  when it comes to these bills.
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  And Republicans aren't talking about it.
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  They're like,
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  oh,
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  illegal immigration,
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  uh,
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  they could get the illegal immigrants might get some of this money.
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  And again,
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  that's,
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  that's true.
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  But like,
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  I don't think the most important thing,
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  the most important thing is this.
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  This was a
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  the thing they're talking about,
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  and they call it,
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  you'll see this phrase all over the coverage on it,
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  enhanced Obamacare subsidies,
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  enhanced ACA subsidies,
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  the uh the uh the Affordable Care Act.
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  Enhanced,
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  that's the word,
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  enhanced.
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  And of course,
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  I mean,
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  do you like enhanced things,
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  I suppose,
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  I mean maybe you put in vitamins in your food that's enhanced with vitamins.
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  Uh,
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  maybe you're,
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  uh,
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  Jeffy's selling some wonderful pills for male enhancement,
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  I'm sure
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  somewhere off the corner of a street near you,
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  you could always get those from Jeffy.
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  Enhancement generally indicated
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  is a good thing.
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  They're enhanced subsidies,
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  what does that mean
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  in this particular instance?
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  Well,
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  if you're guessing they're larger,
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  just like Jeffy's promised from his pills,
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  yes,
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  that's,
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  that's,
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  that's probably true.
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  Uh,
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  enhancement in that case,
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  much,
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  much larger,
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  but
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  also
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  important to note,
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  they were supposed to be
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  temporary.
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  They were supposed to be,
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  I keep coming up with too many jokes about Jeffy's pills.
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  I apologize.
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  If they last more than 4 hours,
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  make sure you go to the hospital.
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  But what I'm saying here
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  is when you enhance something and it's temporary,
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  it's supposed to go away.
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  It's supposed to be something that comes
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  and it goes.
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  In this case,
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  we all remember
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  COVID.
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  We all remember
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  things we were told
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  that were supposed to go away,
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  right?
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  It's 2 weeks to slow the spread,
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  it's 6 weeks to slow the spread.
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  Maybe Donald Trump was saying we'd be back in school by Easter,
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  but
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  generally speaking,
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  these closures went on.
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  You have to wear masks
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  all the time.
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  You're not allowed to be within 6 ft of other people.
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  Indoor dining is closed.
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  These were all things,
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  and you can go back and you can think about how you felt about those.
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  Some people will be like,
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  yeah,
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  I was scared in that moment.
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  Some people will say,
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  gosh,
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  that was so stupid,
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  and we should have never done any of that stuff.
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  I never did it.
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  Whatever your position is on that,
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  everyone understood that when the pandemic goes away,
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  this stuff goes away,
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  right?
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  Now,
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  of course,
• 13:59
  you can walk around town and you can see somebody in an N95 mask outdoors
• 14:04
  in 100 degree heat here in Texas,
• 14:06
  you can still see that.
• 14:08
  There are some people who will keep those things around for the end of time.
• 14:11
  Those people
• 14:13
  in the N95 masks walking around outside,
• 14:16
  those people are the Democrats in this debate.
• 14:19
  What they're asking for
• 14:21
  is a COVID and enhanced
• 14:23
  Obamacare subsidy
• 14:25
  that was put into the American rescue plan in 2021.
• 14:29
  And then what's going to expire,
• 14:31
  and then they extended it in the Inflation Reduction Act to go to 2025.
• 14:37
  These are
• 14:38
  COVID-specific
• 14:40
  subsidies that were supposed to help in the middle of a pandemic.
• 14:42
  And of course now the Democrats are saying we want to get out of that.
• 14:45
  We've got to get out of that,
• 14:47
  what we used to have and get into this new thing that we're in now.
• 14:50
  This is the only thing.
• 14:51
  Forget,
• 14:52
  forget that old thing.
• 14:53
  What is that old thing?
• 14:54
  That old thing
• 14:56
  is Obamacare.
• 14:57
  The catastrophic situation Democrats are warning about
• 15:01
  is their healthcare plan as passed.
• 15:04
  That's what it is.
• 15:05
  What we're talking about is returning
• 15:08
  to Obamacare as it existed
• 15:11
  when Obamacare was passed by Obama.
• 15:14
  That's what we're talking about now.
• 15:16
  There have been tweaks and changes here and there around the edges,
• 15:20
  but generally speaking,
• 15:21
  we're going back to the old days
• 15:23
  of the program that Democrats promised you last
• 15:26
  time was going to solve all these issues.
• 15:29
  Did it?
• 15:31
  No,
• 15:31
  of course the answer to that
• 15:33
  is no.
• 15:34
  The real problem,
• 15:35
  as the Washington Post points out,
• 15:38
  the real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never
• 15:42
  actually affordable.
• 15:44
  I'm going to read that line again
• 15:46
  because I sound like myself in 2010.
• 15:49
  But actually what I'm doing is reading the Washington Post in 2025.
• 15:54
  The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never
• 15:57
  actually affordable.
• 15:59
  President Barack Obama's signature achievement allowed people to buy
• 16:02
  insurance on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income.
• 16:05
  The architects of the program assumed
• 16:08
  that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be.
• 16:12
  As a result,
• 16:13
  policies cost more
• 16:14
  than expected,
• 16:15
  expected by
• 16:16
  whom?
• 16:18
  Not me.
• 16:19
  Not me,
• 16:19
  not Glenn Beck,
• 16:20
  not the blaze,
• 16:22
  not all of the analysis done by
• 16:24
  conservative think tanks that went over all of this stuff at the time.
• 16:29
  No,
• 16:29
  no,
• 16:30
  no,
• 16:30
  we did not get an Affordable Care Act.
• 16:32
  We got Obamacare,
• 16:33
  which expanded the government's role in healthcare,
• 16:36
  increased your prices,
• 16:37
  and made your healthcare
• 16:38
  a disaster,
• 16:39
  a disaster that is so terrible
• 16:41
  that today's Democrats are warning you that we might have to go back to it.
• 16:47
  To salvage the problem,
• 16:49
  Democrats expanded subsidies to entice more people to buy plans.
• 16:52
  Many poor families wound up getting insurance for free,
• 16:55
  and the rolls grew.
• 16:55
  24 million people now have coverage to the ACA exchanges.
• 16:58
  People earning more than 400% of the poverty line,
• 17:01
  about $129,000
• 17:04
  for a family of four would see their subsidies go away.
• 17:07
  Oh gosh,
• 17:08
  all those poor people who are making six figures
• 17:11
  might not get free money for the government for their healthcare.
• 17:15
  What a tragedy.
• 17:16
  Democrats picked this fight because they see healthcare as a winning issue.
• 17:19
  Post poll conducted in the first day of the shutdown found
• 17:21
  that 71% of Americans say federal insurance subsidies should be expended,
• 17:25
  extended,
• 17:26
  while 29% say they should
• 17:28
  end as scheduled.
• 17:29
  Just as significantly,
• 17:29
  the question divides Republicans.
• 17:31
  38% support extending the subsidies,
• 17:33
  and 62% want them to end.
• 17:34
  This of course was the massive thing that
• 17:35
  we warned about at the beginning of Obamacare,
• 17:38
  that once you start giving
• 17:39
  thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars to people,
• 17:42
  they generally don't want to stop receiving it.
• 17:45
  That's how every program lasts forever.
• 17:48
  and they don't become ideological
• 17:50
  issues after a period of time
• 17:52
  because people just like free money.
• 17:54
  You look at Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments on this.
• 17:56
  Well,
• 17:57
  you know,
• 17:57
  she's like,
• 17:57
  well,
• 17:57
  this is what the American people want.
• 17:59
  Well,
• 17:59
  of course it's what they want.
• 18:00
  Everyone wants free stuff.
• 18:03
  The question is,
• 18:04
  is it the right thing to do?
• 18:06
  I would argue no.
• 18:08
  And of course,
• 18:08
  this is why the Democrats were willing to do
• 18:10
  the thing they did when they passed Obamacare.
• 18:12
  Remember,
• 18:12
  they couldn't get the,
• 18:13
  the votes that they needed
• 18:15
  after,
• 18:15
  uh,
• 18:16
  Scott Brown won in,
• 18:17
  in,
• 18:18
  uh,
• 18:18
  Massachusetts.
• 18:19
  And you had that situation with Nancy Pelosi standing in front of America saying,
• 18:23
  well,
• 18:23
  we don't care what we'll have to do,
• 18:24
  we'll have to pole vault over the wall.
• 18:26
  Whatever we have to do to get to the other side of this,
• 18:28
  you'll find out what's in it after it's signed.
• 18:30
  Don't worry about it.
• 18:31
  Because once they get this through,
• 18:32
  it's going to last forever.
• 18:33
  They knew this,
• 18:34
  and it's now expanding and expanding and expanding again to the point
• 18:38
  that we expanded it again during COVID,
• 18:41
  and the thought of going back to their giant government program is so tragic
• 18:47
  that we must extend the program even farther.
• 18:49
  It's always the way this works.
• 18:52
  This is how entitlements programs work,
• 18:54
  as the Washington Post writes.
• 18:56
  Once you habituate people into some generous government handout,
• 18:59
  they grow dependent on it,
• 19:01
  and it becomes politically
• 19:02
  perilous,
• 19:02
  if not impossible to fully claw it back.
• 19:05
  Conservatives fought so hard to stop Obamacare
• 19:07
  15 years ago because they anticipated fights
• 19:09
  like this one.
• 19:10
  Yeah,
• 19:10
  we did.
• 19:11
  We did fight hard.
• 19:12
  And now conservatives
• 19:13
  are out there saying we need to extend this stuff,
• 19:15
  we need to keep going with it.
• 19:18
  These are the enhanced
• 19:19
  ACA subsidies you'll be hearing a lot about if we get
• 19:22
  to the policy part of this discussion at any point.
• 19:25
  But notice we're not getting the part right now
• 19:27
  about how all the people are out of work.
• 19:29
  We're hearing threats from Donald Trump about this.
• 19:31
  We're saying Donald Trump is the bad guy,
• 19:33
  but we're not getting the typical sob stories about the party out of power,
• 19:37
  keeping these people out of their jobs,
• 19:38
  because this time it's not convenient to show that.
• 19:40
  I will say,
• 19:41
  if you think about it this way.
• 19:43
  This is,
• 19:43
  if you think about,
• 19:44
  basically you have new Obamacare and Obamacare Classic,
• 19:48
  and what the left is saying right now is we have
• 19:50
  to shut the government down because we really love New Coke.
• 19:53
  We really love new Obamacare.
• 19:56
  And what the conservatives are saying,
• 19:57
  the conservatives are saying
• 19:59
  is let's go back to Obamacare classic.
• 20:03
  That's how freaking ridiculous and how far lost we are.
• 20:07
  By the way,
• 20:08
  when you ask the American people,
• 20:09
  do they want
• 20:11
  these COVID programs to still be in effect,
• 20:14
  they overwhelmingly say no.
• 20:15
  Americans want COVID-19 era policies to sunset.
• 20:18
  60.5% of Americans agree
• 20:22
  the federal government should allow programs that were designed
• 20:24
  to deliberately address the problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic
• 20:28
  to sunset and put those funds into more pressing issues facing Americans.
• 20:33
  So there you go.
• 20:35
  60%.
• 20:36
  This is a pretty popular issue
• 20:37
  and for some reason the Republicans are not talking about it like this at all.
• 20:40
  They're left to the Washington Post
• 20:42
  to make these arguments for us.
• 20:46
  Unbelievable
• 20:48
  This is so predictable
• 20:49
  and so pathetic.
• 20:50
  At the end of the day,
• 20:51
  what we're talking about are massive,
• 20:54
  massive giveaways,
• 20:55
  hundreds of billions of dollars
• 20:58
  specifically
• 20:59
  designed to be utilized
• 21:01
  only during the COVID pandemic.
• 21:04
  That now is being presented to you from everywhere in the media
• 21:09
  as this horrible
• 21:12
  takeaway by Republicans.
• 21:14
  These poor people,
• 21:15
  all they want to do is get their money
• 21:17
  from Obamacare and have healthcare that they can afford.
• 21:21
  And the only reason,
• 21:21
  of course,
• 21:22
  they can't afford it is because we passed a terrible plan years ago,
• 21:25
  and now our horror show on the left
• 21:28
  is to present to you a possible return to our own plan.
• 21:33
  This is the insanity of our world today.
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• 22:06
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  by the way,
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  um,
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  talking about the Israeli-Palestinian situation,
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  everything that's going on in the Middle East.
• 24:33
  So,
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  you know,
• 24:34
  don't leave us hanging.
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  Did you,
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  did you solve it?
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  Yes,
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  it's all solved.
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  Uh,
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  everyone loves Israel now.
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  I did,
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  I saw all of the,
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  Muslim nations around there were just like,
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  Uh,
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  so it's happening.
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  Yeah,
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  no,
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  uh,
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  interestingly,
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  not,
• 24:51
  you know what was crazy,
• 24:52
  Stu,
• 24:52
  we were going back.
• 24:53
  I went through some of the timelines of just how things unfolded,
• 24:56
  and I kind of had this,
• 24:58
  and maybe this was just wishful thinking on my part,
• 25:01
  but I had this idea that there was like a week.
• 25:04
  Where people were like,
• 25:05
  wow,
• 25:06
  that was really bad,
• 25:07
  uh,
• 25:07
  before they started yelling at the Jews.
• 25:09
  Yeah,
• 25:10
  I kind of remember that a little bit.
• 25:11
  No,
• 25:12
  that that didn't happen.
• 25:14
  Nope.
• 25:14
  Uh,
• 25:15
  I'm like,
• 25:15
  when did these campus protests start?
• 25:17
  Uh,
• 25:18
  you'll be shocked to learn they started on October 8th,
• 25:22
  uh,
• 25:23
  where they were,
• 25:23
  and I don't have the list in front of me of which one was first,
• 25:26
  but you know,
• 25:26
  they,
• 25:26
  they sent a letter saying stand in solidarity with,
• 25:29
  you know,
• 25:30
  Palestinians and.
• 25:31
  You know,
• 25:31
  they had the,
• 25:32
  the red symbol there for Hamas at some of these like a couple of days later,
• 25:37
  one day,
• 25:38
  one day,
• 25:39
  and like I think one of the things that statements that they said was
• 25:43
  that
• 25:43
  all the violence from here forward is all completely on Israel.
• 25:47
  Like they were saying this on October 8th.
• 25:49
  It's just like you people,
• 25:51
  wait,
• 25:51
  but October 7th,
• 25:53
  that was the attack from the Palestinians,
• 25:54
  the Hamas members.
• 25:56
  Why would it be on Israel?
• 25:58
  Right,
• 25:59
  well then they made a statement saying,
• 26:01
  OK.
• 26:03
  What we're gonna do here is blame Israel for everything going forward,
• 26:06
  as if,
• 26:06
  like,
• 26:07
  I mean,
• 26:07
  it'd be like walking up to somebody and shooting them or punching them or whatever
• 26:11
  and then going,
• 26:12
  anything you do back,
• 26:13
  that's your fault,
• 26:13
  buddy,
• 26:14
  right?
• 26:15
  Well,
• 26:15
  it doesn't work that way.
• 26:16
  One of the things that was most frustrating about this whole thing,
• 26:18
  we went through this on the monologue yesterday a little bit,
• 26:19
  but
• 26:20
  like.
• 26:21
  What's
• 26:22
  the worst part of all this
• 26:24
  is their plan from the beginning was to antagonize Israel
• 26:29
  and obviously do all this damage,
• 26:31
  which was somewhat of a side benefit.
• 26:33
  Their real goal was to create a conflict in which Israel would
• 26:36
  have no choice but to come in there and destroy them.
• 26:38
  And while that was going on,
• 26:39
  the world would turn against Israel because eventually
• 26:42
  they'd just hold these hostages and it would go on and on and on and on.
• 26:45
  And the world would do
• 26:47
  what the world always does with Israel and the Jews,
• 26:50
  and that's what's happened here.
• 26:52
  And
• 26:52
  you see these countries awarding Palestinian statehood,
• 26:56
  at least in some symbolic way.
• 26:58
  This is what they were going for in the
• 27:00
  first place and we're rewarding them for October 7th.
• 27:03
  Yeah,
• 27:04
  and,
• 27:04
  and all of it's based too on like this,
• 27:06
  these genocide claims.
• 27:07
  Now obviously horrible things happen in war,
• 27:10
  right?
• 27:10
  But hey,
• 27:10
  here's an idea,
• 27:11
  don't attack people.
• 27:13
  I mean,
• 27:13
  maybe you won't get attacked back.
• 27:15
  I mean,
• 27:15
  I,
• 27:16
  it's just a crazy idea I have.
• 27:18
  But then,
• 27:19
  you know,
• 27:19
  people are quoting the
• 27:21
  Gazan Health Ministry as if it's gospel,
• 27:25
  and time and time again they're just proved to be lying about this stuff and.
• 27:30
  You know,
• 27:30
  one of the barometers I always point to,
• 27:32
  Stu,
• 27:32
  is,
• 27:32
  you know,
• 27:32
  when Israel would do something wrong,
• 27:34
  like,
• 27:35
  uh,
• 27:35
  those journalists were killed in one of the attacks and it was a mistake,
• 27:39
  they like fired the generals or the officers that
• 27:42
  were in charge of that and apologize for that.
• 27:45
  Where is Hamas ever apologizing for anything?
• 27:48
  Where is Hamas going,
• 27:48
  you know what,
• 27:49
  our bad for,
• 27:50
  uh,
• 27:50
  just going in and slaughtering innocent people.
• 27:53
  And it's not just,
• 27:54
  oh,
• 27:55
  they killed some and we killed some,
• 27:57
  and this and that.
• 27:59
  Look at October 7th.
• 28:01
  They were running around
• 28:03
  with demonic glee,
• 28:06
  filming it,
• 28:08
  uh,
• 28:08
  humiliating and torturing and abusing just beyond comprehension.
• 28:13
  Not just
• 28:14
  killing people is bad enough,
• 28:16
  but they were purposely
• 28:17
  trying to humiliate and desecrate these people.
• 28:21
  And they're just not even the same.
• 28:24
  It's not even close,
• 28:25
  and,
• 28:25
  and it's just pathetic that the world can't see that.
• 28:28
  Yeah,
• 28:28
  Joe putting them,
• 28:29
  their dead corpses around in the back of trucks and
• 28:32
  just driving them around for display like it was,
• 28:35
  like,
• 28:35
  you know,
• 28:36
  some prize they'd won.
• 28:38
  That was Shan.
• 28:38
  Luke,
• 28:39
  by the way,
• 28:39
  Stu,
• 28:39
  and that's another one that I remember because I remember at
• 28:42
  the time there were all these viral posts going around.
• 28:44
  Oh,
• 28:45
  this is,
• 28:46
  uh,
• 28:46
  Hamas,
• 28:46
  they're trying to help her and take her to the hospital.
• 28:49
  Meanwhile,
• 28:50
  her body is just completely
• 28:52
  bent and she's clearly dead and had been raped.
• 28:55
  You could see this on the video and people share this stuff,
• 28:58
  like millions of views.
• 28:59
  It's just,
• 29:00
  it's just unbelievable.
• 29:01
  Yeah,
• 29:01
  and by the way,
• 29:01
  we saw that same glee,
• 29:02
  uh,
• 29:03
  out in front of a building we used to
• 29:05
  work in in Manhattan yesterday on the anniversary,
• 29:07
  uh,
• 29:08
  right out in front of the Fox News building,
• 29:11
  which is down the street from our radio building and.
• 29:13
  Right in the middle of where we used to walk every single day,
• 29:15
  there was a massive protest of people cheering on and promising future attacks
• 29:20
  against Jews and infidels
• 29:23
  right in the middle of New York City,
• 29:24
  right in the middle of Manhattan,
• 29:25
  and this is not in the Palestinian territories.
• 29:29
  We're not talking about Gaza.
• 29:30
  We're talking right in the middle of Manhattan and no reaction.
• 29:33
  In fact,
• 29:34
  it seems like,
• 29:35
  uh,
• 29:35
  if anything,
• 29:35
  they're going to reward Hamas with one of their fanboys as mayor.
• 29:40
  Uh,
• 29:41
  yeah,
• 29:41
  it's just unbelievable.
• 29:42
  I mean,
• 29:43
  the fact that they parade this stuff around
• 29:46
  and celebrate it,
• 29:47
  I mean,
• 29:47
  I just,
• 29:48
  there's really no other way to describe it other than it's demonic.
• 29:51
  Like you just have to have blinders on your eyes to see,
• 29:54
  and again,
• 29:55
  like this is not to say Israel's perfect and Israel doesn't do anything wrong.
• 29:59
  That's not the case,
• 30:00
  but there's just.
• 30:01
  Like if Mexico was doing this to us and they were just constantly shooting rockets
• 30:05
  at us and terrorists were coming over and blowing things up all the time,
• 30:09
  would we treat this at all like this?
• 30:12
  Would any sane person,
• 30:14
  and,
• 30:14
  you know,
• 30:14
  they run in and take thousands of hostages,
• 30:17
  would any sane person.
• 30:19
  Be like,
• 30:20
  you know what,
• 30:20
  we better just kind of tone it down over here.
• 30:23
  I don't know what we're doing wrong.
• 30:25
  It's just,
• 30:26
  it
• 30:26
  defies all logical explanation to me,
• 30:29
  except it's a spiritual
• 30:30
  warfare going on.
• 30:32
  Well,
• 30:32
  uh,
• 30:33
  it's not just spiritual warfare,
• 30:34
  Dan,
• 30:34
  it's also just out and out stupidity.
• 30:38
  Greta Thunberg is a great example of this.
• 30:40
  She,
• 30:40
  uh,
• 30:41
  she posted something about,
• 30:42
  uh,
• 30:43
  how Israel is starving Palestinians.
• 30:45
  I mean,
• 30:45
  and this is a serious thing and you've seen these claims of famine.
• 30:49
  Uh,
• 30:49
  for a long time,
• 30:50
  everybody on the left makes them,
• 30:51
  and she posted a few pictures.
• 30:52
  She was able to find some Palestinians who were being starved,
• 30:56
  um,
• 30:56
  except,
• 30:57
  well,
• 30:57
  at least one of them was not a
• 30:59
  Palestinian,
• 31:00
  the one with the red arrow there actually.
• 31:03
  A hostage
• 31:05
  taken by the Palestinians,
• 31:06
  but actually an Israeli.
• 31:08
  Amazing.
• 31:09
  I mean you can't make this stuff up
• 31:12
  and then she quietly deleted it later and
• 31:15
  I mean just the
• 31:17
  uh unintentional irony there
• 31:19
  to expose just how they have to make this stuff up,
• 31:23
  uh,
• 31:24
  because the whole claim by the way that they're starving them,
• 31:26
  I mean Israel time and time again has shown
• 31:28
  they're trying to get humanitarian aid in there,
• 31:30
  they go through extreme lengths
• 31:32
  to try to get people out of there before they're attacking.
• 31:35
  Uh,
• 31:36
  all of that stuff,
• 31:36
  and then she went on,
• 31:38
  you know,
• 31:38
  Greta went on,
• 31:39
  by the way,
• 31:40
  after this ridiculously,
• 31:41
  she like quietly deleted a little bit later.
• 31:43
  I think her quote was something along the lines of like.
• 31:46
  You know,
• 31:46
  uh,
• 31:47
  starving and this kind of torture or whatever has no,
• 31:49
  no borders.
• 31:50
  Well,
• 31:50
  apparently it does have a border,
• 31:52
  Greta,
• 31:53
  like these injustices you say,
• 31:55
  like they,
• 31:55
  they shouldn't have borders,
• 31:57
  uh,
• 31:57
  in your mind,
• 31:57
  apparently they do.
• 31:59
  If it happened to an Israeli,
• 32:01
  then we just cut it off right there.
• 32:02
  Well,
• 32:03
  that's apparently that's OK,
• 32:04
  and we're just gonna leave that alone,
• 32:06
  but
• 32:06
  it's just.
• 32:08
  Comical if it weren't so tragic
• 32:11
  that uh they had to use an example
• 32:13
  of an Israeli getting starved
• 32:15
  and tortured,
• 32:17
  uh,
• 32:17
  to make her point,
• 32:18
  which completely of course disproved her point,
• 32:21
  but she also went on to claim that she's being tortured.
• 32:23
  I don't know if you saw that.
• 32:25
  Oh yeah,
• 32:25
  that's right,
• 32:26
  she because
• 32:27
  which is interesting.
• 32:27
  I,
• 32:28
  I don't understand how that works because she,
• 32:30
  I mean she wasn't taken captive,
• 32:32
  she,
• 32:32
  she went.
• 32:33
  There,
• 32:33
  uh,
• 32:34
  she was actually disinvited,
• 32:35
  did not,
• 32:36
  no one wanted her there.
• 32:37
  She's been there before.
• 32:37
  They've
• 32:38
  already ejected her multiple times
• 32:40
  because they don't want her there.
• 32:41
  She came again anyway and then claims that she was tortured.
• 32:44
  There's
• 32:45
  no evidence whatsoever of this actually being true though,
• 32:47
  right?
• 32:47
  Right,
• 32:48
  because,
• 32:48
  no,
• 32:48
  well,
• 32:49
  we found out about it.
• 32:50
  She,
• 32:50
  she wouldn't say why,
• 32:51
  by the way.
• 32:51
  Number one,
• 32:51
  she said,
• 32:52
  listen,
• 32:52
  I don't want to make the story.
• 32:54
  I'm not gonna say what happened to me because I
• 32:56
  don't want the story to be Greta got tortured,
• 32:58
  uh.
• 33:00
  You can't say you got tortured by Israel,
• 33:02
  Greta and not expect that to be the story.
• 33:04
  I mean,
• 33:05
  and also,
• 33:06
  also,
• 33:06
  you're saying this
• 33:08
  in freedom
• 33:10
  looking completely fine.
• 33:12
  Uh,
• 33:13
  the person she posted,
• 33:14
  by the way,
• 33:15
  that is someone who was,
• 33:16
  was tortured before they died.
• 33:19
  Uh,
• 33:19
  they had to dig their own grave,
• 33:22
  and they're in there
• 33:24
  writing and saying,
• 33:25
  uh,
• 33:26
  gosh,
• 33:26
  this is,
• 33:27
  it's,
• 33:27
  I'm running out of time in here.
• 33:29
  Like that is a human being who actually got tortured.
• 33:31
  And for her to have the gall,
• 33:33
  not only to accidentally post that picture
• 33:36
  as an example of torture and starvation.
• 33:40
  She is claiming
• 33:42
  in at in the same time that that's what's happening to her
• 33:46
  and she's completely free and completely looks fine.
• 33:48
  The other guy's emaciated and clearly being starved for months at a time,
• 33:53
  obviously because she posted it.
• 33:54
  She thought it proved her point.
• 33:55
  It's,
• 33:56
  it's,
• 33:57
  it's enraging.
• 33:57
  It'd be comical if it wasn't so enraging.
• 33:59
  I will say just from.
• 34:00
  For the media,
• 34:02
  if someone has
• 34:04
  been,
• 34:04
  you know,
• 34:04
  they went into a place and was released immediately
• 34:07
  and is currently in a free country talking about how
• 34:10
  evil they've been,
• 34:11
  how hard they've been tortured,
• 34:13
  probably not true.
• 34:13
  Like the torture victims are hard to get in touch with.
• 34:15
  It's hard to get in touch with the
• 34:17
  hostages that Hamas is torturing,
• 34:18
  right,
• 34:19
  because they keep them in captivity.
• 34:20
  That's what makes them hostages.
• 34:22
  Um,
• 34:22
  and then also I would also point out,
• 34:24
  when you want to find famine victims in a famine,
• 34:26
  it's really easy,
• 34:27
  right?
• 34:27
  Like that's kind of a definitional part of a famine,
• 34:30
  right?
• 34:30
  When we had Ethiopia going on and We Are
• 34:32
  the World and Michael Jackson and Bono were singing,
• 34:35
  we could always find people
• 34:37
  who were very,
• 34:38
  very thin and had flies around them all the time,
• 34:41
  and it was a terrible,
• 34:42
  terrible thing.
• 34:42
  It was not hard to find footage of people suffering
• 34:45
  from the famine because it was a freaking famine.
• 34:48
  When you,
• 34:48
  when you,
• 34:48
  if you're looking for,
• 34:49
  I need to post 3 famine victims and one of them just happens to be
• 34:53
  a prisoner from the country you're criticizing,
• 34:56
  I don't know,
• 34:57
  maybe,
• 34:57
  maybe your point isn't exactly
• 34:59
  kosher.
• 35:00
  Not great.
• 35:01
  And also remember when they did this earlier,
• 35:03
  they tried to claim it that Israel's blocking all the supplies,
• 35:06
  the supplies.
• 35:06
  The pictures they posted of children
• 35:09
  who were supposedly starving were ones that had other illnesses.
• 35:12
  These were just sick kids from hospitals that
• 35:15
  had diseases and then they posted them,
• 35:17
  which is just demeaning to them,
• 35:19
  by the way.
• 35:20
  I mean,
• 35:20
  what kind of an awful person do you have to be
• 35:23
  to use the picture of a sick kid.
• 35:25
  To make your
• 35:26
  fake point about something else,
• 35:28
  I mean,
• 35:28
  that's just disgusting.
• 35:30
  My favorite part of that is like
• 35:31
  they're standing there with their parents who are totally fine.
• 35:33
  It's like,
• 35:34
  are the parents not feeding them?
• 35:36
  Like they didn't share their food.
• 35:38
  I don't understand how that is low now.
• 35:40
  Give me some extra mashed potatoes here.
• 35:43
  None for you,
• 35:44
  kid.
• 35:44
  Zip it.
• 35:45
  Uh,
• 35:46
  let me,
• 35:46
  it's the last one for you.
• 35:47
  Uh,
• 35:48
  Bad Bunny was at the,
• 35:49
  uh,
• 35:49
  Blue Jays game.
• 35:50
  Well,
• 35:50
  I'm in the middle of a
• 35:51
  mental anguish right now on the Toronto Blue Jays because I'm.
• 35:54
  Uh,
• 35:54
  you know,
• 35:54
  I,
• 35:55
  I'm a bit of a pessimist,
• 35:56
  but like,
• 35:57
  I'm just like totally sold they're gonna wind up blowing the series.
• 36:00
  They're up 2-1 or 2-0 and up 6 to 1 in game 3 and blew the game,
• 36:04
  and now I'm completely convinced they're blowing the series,
• 36:06
  but that's,
• 36:06
  that's totally separate.
• 36:07
  Bad Bunny actually won,
• 36:09
  or actually caught a foul ball while he was there.
• 36:12
  A lot of people were reminded me of this because of course
• 36:14
  I caught one of the greatest catches in the history of,
• 36:16
  uh,
• 36:17
  the Major leagues,
• 36:17
  uh,
• 36:18
  in Toronto as well.
• 36:19
  Uh,
• 36:20
  but like,
• 36:20
  here's a guy,
• 36:21
  they're putting.
• 36:22
  As the,
• 36:23
  the Super Bowl halftime show,
• 36:25
  and he doesn't even like,
• 36:27
  you know,
• 36:27
  mostly perform in English.
• 36:29
  I think he speaks some English,
• 36:30
  but he doesn't perform mainly in English.
• 36:32
  His songs are mainly in Spanish.
• 36:34
  I,
• 36:34
  I mean,
• 36:34
  I,
• 36:35
  like,
• 36:35
  what are we doing here?
• 36:38
  This is just
• 36:39
  read the room.
• 36:40
  I mean,
• 36:40
  people are,
• 36:41
  I,
• 36:41
  I think most people are sick of this.
• 36:43
  Like I don't need to see some stripper
• 36:46
  on at the halftime show.
• 36:48
  I don't need to see some
• 36:49
  non-American
• 36:51
  rapper or whatever he is that nobody's ever heard of.
• 36:54
  I,
• 36:54
  I,
• 36:55
  has anyone heard of this guy?
• 36:56
  I'm,
• 36:56
  I'm kind of out of the pop culture,
• 36:57
  but I've,
• 36:58
  I've at least heard the name.
• 37:00
  I've never heard of Bad Bunny,
• 37:01
  and I,
• 37:02
  that's what I see everyone saying it.
• 37:04
  And your name is Bad Bunny.
• 37:05
  Like it's just,
• 37:07
  what?
• 37:07
  Dan,
• 37:08
  Dan,
• 37:08
  Dan,
• 37:08
  first of all,
• 37:09
  let me,
• 37:10
  first of all,
• 37:10
  let me separate you,
• 37:11
  you and me a little bit on this.
• 37:12
  I have heard of Bad Bunny.
• 37:14
  I can't,
• 37:14
  I can't name
• 37:15
  any of his songs,
• 37:17
  but I had heard of him.
• 37:19
  Largely because,
• 37:20
  uh,
• 37:20
  he actually,
• 37:21
  and this is true.
• 37:22
  May be the most streamed artist on Spotify globally.
• 37:28
  Now ahead of Taylor Swift,
• 37:28
  which is obviously like a very popular
• 37:31
  guy,
• 37:31
  that's great that people in Saudi Arabia are streaming you.
• 37:33
  I don't globally is the key word,
• 37:35
  right?
• 37:35
  And I do think outside of the woke interests of the NFL here,
• 37:38
  a lot of this does come down to they're trying to make this a global sport.
• 37:41
  They're trying to bring in money from outside the country.
• 37:44
  And that almost makes it more frustrating than
• 37:46
  just the fact that he's anti-ice or whatever.
• 37:48
  Like,
• 37:48
  they're just,
• 37:49
  they're so money hungry that they're just like,
• 37:51
  oh,
• 37:51
  just give us a
• 37:53
  play to your audience,
• 37:53
  which happens to be largely people in the United States,
• 37:56
  please,
• 37:56
  a little bit,
• 37:56
  right?
• 37:57
  And,
• 37:57
  and
• 37:58
  I would just say on the podcast today,
• 37:59
  on the Quick Start podcast,
• 38:00
  we mentioned this,
• 38:01
  but,
• 38:01
  uh,
• 38:01
  Forrest Frank and there's another Christian artist,
• 38:03
  and I'm forgetting which one it was,
• 38:04
  but they did a video
• 38:06
  and they basically came up with the idea that they want to create an alter alternate,
• 38:10
  uh,
• 38:10
  alternate.
• 38:11
  Uh,
• 38:11
  halftime show and get a stadium and do this,
• 38:14
  and I,
• 38:16
  I am here for that.
• 38:16
  Uh,
• 38:17
  I will take Forrest Frank,
• 38:18
  other Christian artists,
• 38:19
  like
• 38:20
  people that aren't gonna do a striptease on
• 38:22
  the halftime show or have wardrobe malfunctions or
• 38:26
  rap about bad bunnies and whatever else this guy talks about.
• 38:30
  I mean,
• 38:31
  I just don't need it.
• 38:31
  I don't need it.
• 38:33
  It's,
• 38:33
  I wanna watch the game and not be assaulted,
• 38:35
  OK?
• 38:36
  Is this too much to ask?
• 38:37
  Instead,
• 38:37
  I don't think his songs are about bad bunnies.
• 38:40
  I don't.
• 38:40
  His name is Bad Bunny,
• 38:41
  and he should just be deleted because of this.
• 38:44
  Every time I say it,
• 38:45
  it gets worse.
• 38:47
  How do you,
• 38:47
  you know what I'm gonna call myself Bad Bunny.
• 38:49
  Like this is just
• 38:51
  my,
• 38:51
  my favorite thing is like you should go on a Spotify playlist.
• 38:54
  His number one hit is a song about misbehaving rabbits.
• 38:57
  Like that's actually what you believe is
• 39:00
  Someone needs to create his AI rival,
• 39:02
  which is Good Bunny,
• 39:04
  and then,
• 39:04
  and
• 39:05
  it's just like an AI rival that just,
• 39:07
  you know,
• 39:07
  is better than they can come perform at the forest.
• 39:09
  Frank show,
• 39:10
  uh,
• 39:11
  so there you go.
• 39:11
  Alright,
• 39:12
  Dan Andrews,
• 39:12
  managing editor,
• 39:13
  CBN News,
• 39:14
  source of all music information,
• 39:16
  uh,
• 39:16
  with CBN's Quick Start.
• 39:18
  I'm here for.
• 39:18
  I'm here for everybody,
• 39:19
  for the people,
• 39:20
  for the people.
• 39:21
  Head over and subscribe to the podcast today.
• 39:22
  Dan,
• 39:23
  you,
• 39:23
  uh,
• 39:23
  thank you so much for,
• 39:24
  uh,
• 39:24
  coming on,
• 39:25
  and I,
• 39:25
  I hope you'll give us a review of Bad Bunny next time you come on the program.
• 39:28
  Oh,
• 39:29
  yes,
• 39:30
  I will do it,
• 39:31
  even though I won't watch.
• 39:41
  A lot of,
• 39:41
  uh,
• 39:41
  Trump supporters on Twitter will tweet things like,
• 39:43
  uh,
• 39:44
  you know,
• 39:44
  this is what I voted for and this is the best in my lifetime.
• 39:48
  And like,
• 39:49
  you know,
• 39:50
  it just,
• 39:50
  it is an indication,
• 39:51
  it's things are going well,
• 39:52
  right?
• 39:52
  Like it's not necessarily a,
• 39:54
  a,
• 39:54
  a literal,
• 39:55
  it's,
• 39:55
  you know,
• 39:55
  as Salena Zito would say,
• 39:56
  it's not to be taken seriously,
• 39:58
  but not literally,
• 40:00
  um,
• 40:00
  and that's usually the case,
• 40:02
  you're kind of just saying,
• 40:02
  hey,
• 40:02
  this is really,
• 40:03
  really positive.
• 40:04
  Um,
• 40:04
  however,
• 40:05
  let me give you something that actually is literally
• 40:08
  the best
• 40:09
  in my lifetime.
• 40:11
  US illegal immigration
• 40:13
  border crossings fall to a 55 year
• 40:16
  low.
• 40:17
  This is,
• 40:18
  uh,
• 40:19
  they have dropped massively.
• 40:21
  In fact,
• 40:22
  they are as low
• 40:23
  as they have been since 1970.
• 40:27
  1970.
• 40:28
  I was born in 1976.
• 40:29
  1970 was the last time these rates were this low,
• 40:32
  and of course you have to,
• 40:33
  there's population growth and all these other things as well,
• 40:35
  so,
• 40:36
  uh,
• 40:36
  a massive,
• 40:37
  massive change.
• 40:37
  And while we're kind of on the.
• 40:40
  Um,
• 40:41
  uh,
• 40:42
  the,
• 40:43
  I don't know,
• 40:44
  the topic of things
• 40:45
  that are in freefall,
• 40:47
  border crossings.
• 40:48
  Let's also talk about Jimmy Kimmel and his ratings.
• 40:51
  Jimmy Kimmel is now,
• 40:52
  uh,
• 40:53
  nearing pre-suspension viewership.
• 40:55
  He's shedding 85% of key viewers since his hyped comeback show.
• 40:59
  This was never a surprise,
• 41:01
  right?
• 41:01
  This has always been expected.
• 41:03
  I don't even think,
• 41:04
  honestly,
• 41:04
  Jimmy Kimmel
• 41:05
  thought he was going to keep
• 41:07
  the audience that he got.
• 41:08
  Even close to half of the audience,
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  but 85% down is pretty bad.
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  He's almost all the way back to his catastrophic
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  pre-scandal or pre-controversy ratings,
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  down to
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  let's see,
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  1.7 million.
• 41:24
  Uh,
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  that tuned in on September 23rd for his big show,
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  85% of them already gone,
• 41:29
  and more and more
• 41:31
  shedding by the day.
• 41:32
  So congratulations to Jimmy Kimmel,
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  who,
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  you know,
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  it's,
• 41:35
  sometimes it's good to just be back in your comfort zone.
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  You know,
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  like you go to a,
• 41:37
  a diner,
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  you get some comfort food.
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  Low rated shows are Jimmy Kimmel's comfort food.
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