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7/9/26: Mitch McConnell Still Missing, Abdul Vs Stevens Debate, Senior Property Tax Breaks · Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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  Speaker 3: dot com. Turning now to Mitch McConnell.
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  Speaker 1: Is he alive? Nobody knows? Well, I guess some people.
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  Speaker 4: Now we have some great news for the audio.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well, according to Scott Jennings, he may certainly
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  Speaker 3: still be alive. And here he is on CNN where
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  Speaker 3: he claims that he spoke with Mitch McConnell for twenty
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  Speaker 3: minutes and he was totally cojin But when asked, can
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  Speaker 3: we get him on the phone right now?
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  Speaker 1: Crickets, let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think he'd be willing to call into the show,
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  Speaker 5: could we get him on the phone?
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  Speaker 6: Now, you know, I wasn't really expecting him to call
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  Speaker 6: the morning, to be honest, So when the phone rang
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  Speaker 6: and I was able to talk to him, I was
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  Speaker 6: I was frankly pretty grateful. I mean, as as I said,
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  Speaker 6: I've known him since I was a teenager. If it
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  Speaker 6: hadn't been for Mitch McConnell and the McConnell's Center at
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  Speaker 6: the University of Louisville, you know, I would never have
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  Speaker 6: been able to go to college. He's been my mentor,
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  Speaker 6: and he changed the trajectory of my life. So you know,
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  Speaker 6: when things happened to him and happened to people in
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  Speaker 6: your life that you really care about, you know, you
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  Speaker 6: just sort of naturally feel extremely worried. So when I
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  Speaker 6: heard his voice today and he was clearly keeping up
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  Speaker 6: with stuff, that made me happy to hear from him, because,
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  Speaker 6: like everybody else, I've been, you know, somewhat in the
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  Speaker 6: dark about it. But to hear him talking and that
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  Speaker 6: know that he's also talking to the Senate leadership, it
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  Speaker 6: made me pretty happy.
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  Speaker 5: The mega media ecosphere, shall we say, has been driving
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  Speaker 5: a lot of the questions about where Mitch McConnell has
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  Speaker 5: been and what has happened to him. You, of course,
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  Speaker 5: are in tune with that in the role you have
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  Speaker 5: on your radio show. Do you think they should put
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  Speaker 5: out a picture of Mitch McConnell, that he should release
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  Speaker 5: more of the public to quiet this noise?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? I think I think Al had a good point
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  Speaker 6: about McConnell's general disposition towards privacy. I sometimes wonder, like
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  Speaker 6: if I were laying in a hospital bed, but I
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  Speaker 6: want a bunch of.
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  Speaker 1: People around photographing me.
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  Speaker 6: Probably not, particularly if I were an eighty four year
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  Speaker 6: old person who's normally private about his health. Probably not.
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  Speaker 6: But I look, I take the criticism. I think it's
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  Speaker 6: a fair question about transparency. I think it's a fair
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  Speaker 6: question about whether they've done enough. But ultimately, these office holders,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they're they're in charge of their own operations,
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  Speaker 6: and and you know it may be somebody around him
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  Speaker 6: says let's put out a picture and he doesn't want
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  Speaker 6: to do it. I think I think that's a that's
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  Speaker 6: a fair observation from Al. But all I can tell
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  Speaker 6: you today is all the rumors about him being dead
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  Speaker 6: or brain dead, or you know, being his body's being
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  Speaker 6: hidden somewhere. I've seen all kinds of crazy things on
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  Speaker 6: the internet. That's obviously not true, because he picked up
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  Speaker 6: the phone and called me, and that was a that
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  Speaker 6: was a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: That was a really long way of saying, No, I
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  Speaker 3: can't get him on.
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  Speaker 1: The phone, right Yeah, for a picture or a picture
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  Speaker 1: that I could get you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to accuse you of lying, but because
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  Speaker 4: that's an extraordinary thing to lie about. But that is,
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  Speaker 4: this is so weird. So and now obviously now.
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  Speaker 3: So our producer Mac thinks that there's an AIM campaign
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  Speaker 3: going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good for I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Just floating Miss mccon's first.
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  Speaker 3: He thinks that there's like somebody using it, which I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it is possible in today's day, and who would put
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  Speaker 3: considering the track record Finestein of the guy who just
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  Speaker 3: disappeared for three and a half months empression for I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's so many of these Who was the guy walking
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  Speaker 3: around Senate with Alzheimer's and everybody knew in thing?
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  Speaker 1: No Wickers still I think he's still all there. No
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  Speaker 1: Fad Cochrane. That's sorry, but that Cochrane.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone knew that he was. Everyone knew that and nobody
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  Speaker 3: said he.
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  Speaker 4: Was walking on with a diaper.
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  Speaker 3: It was only afterwards, after I think he resign or
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  Speaker 3: something like that, that everyone was like, hey, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: all knew that he had been out to lunch for
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  Speaker 3: a long time, Like, well, it would have been nice
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  Speaker 3: if all said something, you know, and so you know,
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  Speaker 3: how could you put it above? Really like some sort
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  Speaker 3: of lying campaign. Again, I'm not alleging in it any
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  Speaker 3: way that that's what happened. I'm more just saying like,
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  Speaker 3: there are genuine questions here to be asked because the
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  Speaker 3: circumstances are so nuts, and these tweets that these guys
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  Speaker 3: have put out, let's put.
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  Speaker 1: Them up here.
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  Speaker 3: This became a meme online. Is for example, like before
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  Speaker 3: Scott went on the air, he said, I spoke to
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  Speaker 3: my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior senator
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  Speaker 3: from Kentucky, still recovering in the hospital. We talked just
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  Speaker 3: sh I have twenty minutes about Iran, Ukraine all caps
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  Speaker 3: for some reason, the unfolding situation in Maine, all caps,
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  Speaker 3: my visit to the tr Presidential Library, and even a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of Senate history. I told him we want
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  Speaker 3: to see him back at work. As soon as possible.
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  Speaker 3: And then there was also another statement that put out
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  Speaker 3: from Senator Barasso. Senator Barasso and Senator McConnell had a
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  Speaker 3: lengthy conversation early this afternoon. Their phone call lasted twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: They caught up about the latest news impacting state Senate races, etc.
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  Speaker 1: Et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: McConnell is fully engaged, as fully an eager to get
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  Speaker 3: back to the Senate, and so they claim. But now
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  Speaker 3: we have this new statement from the governor, we could
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  Speaker 3: put that one up there on the screen, guys, where
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Governor of Kentucky has now sent a letter
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  Speaker 3: to the office of Mitch McConnell requesting an update on
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  Speaker 3: his health and proof being one proof of life and
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  Speaker 3: made growing concerns around the senator's ability to serve. We
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  Speaker 3: have not yet received that statement.
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  Speaker 4: So Thomas Massey has also come in and said that
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  Speaker 4: he has spoken with McConnell. Yes, he posted, he said,
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  Speaker 4: I spoke to McConnell for about twenty minutes this morning.
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  Speaker 4: He said we should end the war with Iran, quit
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  Speaker 4: giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant,
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  Speaker 4: and he's really sorry about how my primary turned out.
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  Speaker 4: Since then, McConnell has not disputed the characterization of Massey
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  Speaker 4: of this alleged phone call. Hassan Piker twitch streamer also said,
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  Speaker 4: I can read his post. He said, just got off
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  Speaker 4: the phone with miss McConnell. We had phone sex.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so he could deny it.
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  Speaker 4: McConnell of course could deny this. It wasn't true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, McConnell's should come out and he could deny it.
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  Speaker 3: Of course we have not yet, and.
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  Speaker 4: This tweet has three million views. So if McConnell is scrolling,
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  Speaker 4: he has seen this and has yet to deny it.
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  Speaker 4: Let's pit see for what was Producer Max produser Mac
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  Speaker 4: had a good one too.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't seen his Mac.
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  Speaker 3: You could send yours and we'll read it here on
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  Speaker 3: the air. After I read this statement from Elaine Chow.
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  Speaker 3: So Elaine Choo, his wife, the daughter of a Taiwanese
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  Speaker 3: billionaire with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party, who
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  Speaker 3: recently just took a trip to China while her husband
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  Speaker 3: was languishing in the hospital at eighty four years old,
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  Speaker 3: two days after heart attack. Truly loved to see a
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  Speaker 3: good love story here at the end, It's just like
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  Speaker 3: the notebook, but she releases a statement saying the Secretary
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  Speaker 3: was on a long plan trip to China to support
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  Speaker 3: her family's philanthropic endeavors. During the trip, she met with
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  Speaker 3: a number of people, including the US ambassador. The senator's
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  Speaker 3: health did not warrant an immediate return to the United States.
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  Speaker 4: It could be read multiple ways.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they added, Chow has since returned from her trip.
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  Speaker 1: Is back in the.
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  Speaker 3: United States, not in Kentucky, that can be United States.
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  Speaker 3: Her staff did not say if she's been in contact
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  Speaker 3: with McConnell since returning home. You have to read Max, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: what is it? What does he got? He says, just
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  Speaker 3: got off the phone with Mitch McConnell. He told me, ah, shit,
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  Speaker 3: it's hot. Fuck, there's so much fire. Oh that's good,
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  Speaker 3: all right, got.
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  Speaker 4: Too soon, But it's not too soon because he's alive
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  Speaker 4: and well. The only reason this is funny as because
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  Speaker 4: we know that he's alive and well and yeah, recovery
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  Speaker 4: said joke. And he will return to work his old
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  Speaker 4: form very soon.
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  Speaker 3: Let's put the lyes Les put Ce five up here
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  Speaker 3: on this screen inside the McConnell health Rumor Mill. This
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  Speaker 3: is from axios, so they're trying to report it with
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  Speaker 3: a straight face.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I can hear what they.
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  Speaker 3: Say is Senate GOP leaders say they have spoken with McConnell.
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  Speaker 3: As speculation swirls among MAGA influencers about the Kentucky Republicans health,
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  Speaker 3: McConnell has been hospitalized for roughly three weeks no information
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  Speaker 3: about his condition. Both the Senate Majority Leader and John Barrasso,
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  Speaker 3: as well as Scott Jennings, all claimed that they had
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  Speaker 3: spoken with him. They had lengthy and substantive conversation. However,
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  Speaker 3: influential MAGA voices have fueled speculation about his health status.
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  Speaker 3: Laura Lumer has claimed, without evidence, the senator is brain
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  Speaker 3: dead and hoked up to machines.
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  Speaker 1: She is now alleging a cover up.
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  Speaker 3: Glenn Beck says we need the truth about Mitch McConnell now.
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  Speaker 1: It's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 3: The party spent four years sizing Joe Biden's health is
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  Speaker 3: now silent on mcconnald's. Under Kentucky state law, if the
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  Speaker 3: Senate vacancy were to occur before August third, the special
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  Speaker 3: election would be held quickly to fell the seat, Whereas
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: if a vacancy were to occur after August third, then
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  Speaker 3: the Senator would be elected in November as planned, And
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: so obviously that's pretty important, especially in the midst of
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  Speaker 3: the EMS call cardiac arrests audio that we played for
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  Speaker 3: all of you. By the way, Trump is either in
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  Speaker 3: on it or doesn't want to say. He was asked
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  Speaker 3: yesterday a board Air Force one, do you know anything
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  Speaker 3: about McConnell's health, and he said, I haven't spoken to him,
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  Speaker 3: and I have no idea what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: So Trump is at once the biggest liar on the planet.
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  Speaker 4: But also you can't lie.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sometimes, yeah, you can't lie.
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  Speaker 3: Right, That was the most that was In my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: that was a very revealing thing because if he actually was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, very healthy or whatever and was talking to people,
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  Speaker 3: he would assume he would call the president. Look, I
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  Speaker 3: have no idea. His wife is in China. It's weird
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  Speaker 3: cardiac arrest. You only got three people aimed to have
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  Speaker 3: spoken to him on the phone. I mean, you got
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  Speaker 3: no updates from his Health's been three weeks in the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: He's an eighty four year old man. It's all very
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  Speaker 3: very sketchy, sketchy. All right, let's get to Abdullah said.
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  Speaker 4: The two remaining Senate candidates for the Democratic primary in
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  Speaker 4: Michigan met for a debate this week. Abdul Elsaiad pressed
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  Speaker 4: his opponent, Haley Stevens on her fealty to Israel and
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  Speaker 4: her contributions from APAC.
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  Speaker 7: Let's take a listen to that the congressman needs to
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  Speaker 7: answer is why has she allowed forty million dollars of
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  Speaker 7: outside spending, the bulk of it coming from APAC, to
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  Speaker 7: come into this race. I don't think Benjamin ettinaw who
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  Speaker 7: is attacking her, to actually attack her. I think he's
• 10:42
  Speaker 7: attacking her to try and steer away the stink of
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  Speaker 7: how staunchly she stands for their policy.
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  Speaker 1: So let's take that opportunity.
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  Speaker 7: Explain what you've given away for APOC support in this race,
• 10:55
  Speaker 7: Wary COSTUPO.
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  Speaker 8: No one owns my vote and no one owns my policies.
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  Speaker 8: Anyone who is contributing to my Senate campaign is doing
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  Speaker 8: so because of my proven record of fighting for Michigan,
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  Speaker 8: what I did when I served as chief of staff
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  Speaker 8: on the US Auto Rescue saving two hundred thousand Michigan jobs,
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  Speaker 8: and what I have done to get the Chips and
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  Speaker 8: Science Act passed and signed into law. What my opponent
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  Speaker 8: needs to answer is why is the GOP spending thousands
• 11:24
  Speaker 8: of dollars to prop up his campaign saying that he
• 11:27
  Speaker 8: will make Mike Rogers the next US Senator.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Haley stevens work on the auto bailout
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  Speaker 4: is in fact her top calling card for that primary,
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  Speaker 4: because it's extremely popular. What rom Emanuel said, we should
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  Speaker 4: just let Detroit go bankrupt, and he was overruled by Obama.
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  Speaker 1: That was Romney.
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  Speaker 4: He wrote that op ed Romney Robin. It really hurt Romney.
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  Speaker 4: It's twenty twelve campaign. But internally Roma men had said
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  Speaker 4: just don't do it. There was a big fight over it,
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  Speaker 4: and Haley Stevens to her it was on the side
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  Speaker 4: of we need to implement a bailout for Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: Right, But UAW indoorspetmus u AW.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's that's a key point. So her number one
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  Speaker 4: thing is undercut by the fact that the UAW is
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  Speaker 4: behind el said. Now, if you noticed in there, abdul
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  Speaker 4: Saide is referring to Netnyaho attacking her. Something extraordinarily interesting
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: happened earlier that day, right before the debate that people
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  Speaker 4: are frustrated about and suggesting that it was coordinated. So
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: let's play this clip of net Yahoo on CNN with
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  Speaker 4: Dana Bash.
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  Speaker 9: Congresswoman Haley Stevens, she's running for Senate in Michigan, said,
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  Speaker 9: Benjamin Yetta Naho has made us less safe. He has
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  Speaker 9: frankly put Jews in an uncomfortable position across the country.
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  Speaker 10: Have you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's it's made her uncomfortable because she can't stand
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  Speaker 4: up for a the truth. She's trying to probably excuse
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  Speaker 4: anti Semitism.
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  Speaker 9: You know, he's not She's I mean, I just want
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  Speaker 9: to explain it. She's somebody who supports Israel. She supports
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  Speaker 9: funding Israel, which is diminishing big time among Democrats and
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  Speaker 9: even some Republicans in the United States Congress.
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  Speaker 8: It is very clear that mister Netnyahu has not made
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  Speaker 8: us safer, has not brought us closer to peace, and
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  Speaker 8: he's endangered Jews here in America and around the world.
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  Speaker 8: This is why he was just trashing me today on CNN.
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  Speaker 8: I am not afraid of bullies. I am not afraid
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  Speaker 8: to stand up and I continue to stand up for
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  Speaker 8: humanitarian aid, for the US to work with the countries
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  Speaker 8: in the region and get aid into Gaza.
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  Speaker 4: And so Sagar and the lead into that question, Dana
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  Speaker 4: bash had said, a lot of Jewish leaders here in
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  Speaker 4: the United States believe that your behavior is making Jews
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  Speaker 4: in America less safe. For instance, Haley Stevens has said
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  Speaker 4: x this.
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  Speaker 1: Is the new line.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, is that this raw Emmanuel Hailey Stephens
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  Speaker 3: line is it's BB's fault.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about BB. Right, Yeah, Israel is good, but
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  Speaker 1: Bbe is bad.
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  Speaker 4: But Hailey Stevens, by the way, is not Jewish. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of people have made the claim, made the claim
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  Speaker 4: that Dana bashe's talking about and frankly, I think she's
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  Speaker 4: correct about it. Uh, why did she pick Hailey Stevens,
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  Speaker 4: who is not Jewish as a stand in for Jewish
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  Speaker 4: leaders in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 4: Because she had a debate that night against Abdul al Sayad.
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  Speaker 4: Stevens repeatedly referenced net Yahou attacking her in that debate.
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  Speaker 4: It was her biggest defense against the fact that Apak
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  Speaker 4: is spending millions of dollars to support her. And so
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  Speaker 4: even if Politico reported on this in a rather straightforward
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  Speaker 4: like way, is calling out the cynicism of it. That
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  Speaker 4: of how how how direct the link seemed to be
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  Speaker 4: that this was, that this was being weaponized in her
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  Speaker 4: in her on her behalf.
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  Speaker 1: Right zoom out right.
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  Speaker 3: Is that Dana Bash asked the question about Hayley Stephens
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  Speaker 3: bbe attacks her. Stevens uses that attack as a direct
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  Speaker 3: link and as a direct retort in the debate against
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  Speaker 3: all said's most potent attack against him democratic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe Dana Bash didn't know there was a debate
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  Speaker 4: that night. Maybe it was a coincidence. In any event,
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  Speaker 4: it was a very fortunate turn of events for Haley Stevens.
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  Speaker 4: Now she also takes an enormous amount of corporate money,
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  Speaker 4: and Abdulall's side hit her on that let's roll D three.
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  Speaker 7: To get their way and now you can buy a
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: cheap TV, but you can't find a manufacturing job that
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: can actually feed your family. That is the devastation of
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: corporate bought politics. Is the only candidate who's never taken
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: a dime from a corporation. You know I'm going to
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: stand up for you. It's the reason again w nurses
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: AFT have all supported us, because when it comes to
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: the choice between working people and corporations, I will pick
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: people every time.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's the only reason you haven't released your
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  Speaker 8: tax returns and fifteen labor unions are endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: Has another sugaring respond quickly, very quickly.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I took the same extension that the congressman took
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  Speaker 7: every single year.
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  Speaker 3: Returns extend.
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  Speaker 8: There's a problem putting money in your pocketbook.
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  Speaker 4: Right, So she's hitting him on having a filthy rich
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  Speaker 4: spouse basically, and he hasn't, you know, put his tax
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  Speaker 4: returns out. Filthy rich people have very complicated turn but
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  Speaker 4: also they have very embarrassing tax returns in a country
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  Speaker 4: that purports to believe in some sort of galitarian as right.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, seeing on paper, if you ever look at a
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: super rich person's taxes like this, The first of all,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: it's like a book, but the top line where you
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: see income and then you see what they pay, You're
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: like holy shit, You're like, wait, you got to keep what?
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: What? How is that exactly?
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I thought we had a progressive tax system.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Ho. You're like, wait, your effective tax rates fifteen percent
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: and mine's like forty.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: You know, how does that work.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about me specifically, I'm saying, you know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: if if you like, if you factor in whatever the
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: what's it called, like the FIKA and everything else, compared
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: to what some of these private interesting barons are I'm assuming.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: So he keeps alluding to his wife's real estate. That
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: means they pay nothing. These real estate right, real estate
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: guys watches all constantly just doing depreciation and all this other.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: And you said so much they're paying nothing in taxes. Yeah,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: so you know he's got a low taxic that's what props.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: That's why Trump paid nothing for like twenty fours. Yeah,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: that's what they all do, everybody. That's what all of
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: them say. It's like, if you actually really want to
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: get wealthy and pay zero taxes, just buy real estate.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: So Meddi Hassan hit him on this a little bit.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Let's go to D four. Here's alside and Maddie.
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: Ailey Stevens has also attacked you and Mike Rodgers for
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: being millionaires who, she says, conveniently did not file their
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: twenty twenty six personal financial disclosures. You sought an extension
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: through August thirteenth, I believe, which is after the primary.
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: Was this to avoid transparency with your vehters? Why not
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: release them before the election?
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: No, just taxes get complicated my wife and her family
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: owned property abroad, and so getting all those tax forms
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: is a thing. And this is, by the way, the
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: same extension that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: She said, you're a millionaire and you're hiding that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: Well, if you take my assets and hur my wife's
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: assets together, then I guess they add up to something
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: like that. But my career has never been about trying
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: to maximize on money. Otherwise I would have just gone
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: and been a surgeon. But you know, my focus has
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: always been on public service. And it's interesting to try
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: and compare apples to oranges here. If you file on
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: your own, then of course your assets look like one thing,
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: which Congressman Stevens does. If you file with a partner,
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: your assets might look like something else.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: He's also he's sitting on a boatload rich.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Rich people always extend anyway, right, So they don't file
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: until October, like regular people file in April. Rich people
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: file in October.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Exactly, and you have to pay in April, right, rich
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: don't they file?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: But they don't pay, so yes, so there's nothing there's
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: nothing really to pay.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Can I give a defense here of Abdul I was
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: telling you earlier, I've been telling the group chat this
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: for days.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Rich wife populism is as old as time.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: If you look at some of the reformers throughout their
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: eighteen hundreds and others. A man of letters need needs
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: a gentried wife who's rich whose father struck it rich,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: not her specifically, it needs a gentried wife too, so
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: that he can pursue his letters in public service. This
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: is a tale as old as time. And so you've
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: got Rokanna, Mary's a filthy rich wife. You've got Abdul
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: who Mary's a filthy rich wife, both Indian American filthy
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: rich wives, which is very cool.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And then who else have you got?
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: You've got Richie Stunach, right, I mean he's not a populist,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: but you know Richie Sunach, who is the Prime Minister's
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: married some Indian billionaire Beto married a filthy rich woman
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: as well. I think that this is a tale as
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: old as time is. To pursue public service, you need
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: to marry into money. And so I have I have
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: an extraordinary amount of a leeway and defense for men
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: who marry into very very rich families. I think I
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: think it's kind of a it's a very Lindy phenomenon
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: going back all the way to the British Empire.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Cole Marx's wife is doing pretty well.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, her father, Lennon's wife, I forget. I don't think so.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: No, she was a revolutionary, right, But I mean it
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: doesn't mean you can't be rich. There was a what
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: do they call it, like the Red Duchess or something,
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: a really rich, really rich duchess in Europe who funded
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: a lot of the communists. Yeah, these newspapers and.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Stuff very common, right, And you need a gentried, rich
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: woman to be able to support your dream as a man.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: You know, I support rich.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with that?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Like Frederick Engels, Frederick Engels, you're exactly right. So yeah,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I have a total defense here of Abden of Abdul
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: of Row. You know, every time the Row of Trading
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: figures come out, it's like, bro, it's his wife.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: He's not him sitting around doing this.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: But he's like what he is he gonna do? He's
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: gonna tell her what to do. You can't be doing that.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: It's her money.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: He's literally trying to pass federal legislation right to.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Stop his So you do what you need. If it's
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: your money, keep doing what you need to do.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: You also saw him saying the clip that if he
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: really wanted to get rich, he would have become a
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: surgeon rather than a public health official. And that was
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: his He was the public health official for the state
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: of Michigan. He was widely credited as having done a
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: good job. That's been his kind of his calling card
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: in the campaign. But that means he also has never
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: been a practicing physician. Meddi. The right wing has been
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: beating him up on that. Helly Stephens consultants have been
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: beating him up on that. I don't quite think that
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: one lands Medi went back and forth him a little
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: bit on that. Let's roll D five.
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: You got attacked by your rivals for calling yourself a physician,
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: not just a doctor, even though you don't have a
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: valid state medical license in New York or Michigan, which
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: apparently is what you need legally to call yourself a physician.
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: Do you wish you'd just stuck to calling yourself a doctor,
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: which you are, to avoid all of this controversy and
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: attacks on your physicians.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: You know, at the end of the day, it's not
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: about whether or not I'm a physician or a doctor.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: The question is can you see doctor? It's not about
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: my education. It's about whether not your kid gives a
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: good education, so time.
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: But people would say it's also about did you tell
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: the truth?
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Well, I would say that I was the health director
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: for the city Detroit, and I've done more to provide
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: more people health care or eliminate their medical debt than
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: most the doctors have done in their practice career.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: So it was a Detroit, I said statewide. I thought
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: it was wide like Detroit.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Full tuition scholarship to the University of Michigan Medical School.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Did in two years there, he led the mission, then
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: went on to receive an MD. Yet did that in
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: twenty fourteen. He completed an MD at Columbia University, so
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: he has an MD, but he did not He also
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: went to Oxford. Yeah, it looks like he did. He
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: did a Rohose scholar a Rhodes scholarship, so he is
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: very highly educated.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: We'll give it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: The guy's got the credentials.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: But he is not a doctor.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Or if he's an MD, so the doctor is going
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: to get urias of me. He's an MD, but he's
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: not a board certified physician because he didn't do residency
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: or he didn't complete residency. Remember this was a controversy
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: with the Surgeon General woman who Withdrew Casey means because
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: she also never completed residency and she was going to
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: be a These are the scholar, no doubt, doctors get
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: very upset about these types of things about when I
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: get it, you all worked very very hard, you know,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: just zooming out a little bit and looking at the
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: polling before we go to the property tax stuff, Ryan, what.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Is HD in public health at Oxford? If that makes sense?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: But then the mds so many credittions.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: What is your take here about these types of attacks
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: on Alsaiet because I mean, we shouldn't we shouldn't misrepresent
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: it like they are tied virtually in the pulse right,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: it does seem to be a battle between the old
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: and the young Alsai. It's favorables with young people are astronomical.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: So he's got a lot of the activists on his side,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: and he's trying to do some more crossover appill with
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: old people, which we'll talk.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: About it for in a second.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Turns out he wants to win.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: He wants to win.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: But just before we you know, do our fun segment
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: about property tax like, what's your read on the race
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: as it stands now? Like, how do you think she
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: came out of the debate? Especially looks he got some
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: great hits on her. But these have been really boosted
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: by the Republic. That's what we're showing it to you.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: These Mandy Hassen clips, they're all over social media and
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Michigan Mahaley Stevens campaign as well. Who are really using
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: them to attack ELSI? It's credibility. So I'm curious what
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: you think.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, with enough money, everything makes something of a dent.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: And I didn't think that was a great answer. It doesn't.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: It was he had this can line, It doesn't matter
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: about my education. It matters about your kids education. It's
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: like if you went if you have a PhD in
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: an MD, and you went to your Rhodes scholar and
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: you went to Oxford and University of Michigan Medical School,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: go ahead and say that, like, because they're going to
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: imply like people are going to take away from that. Oh,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: he didn't even go to medical school, right. It's like
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: if you went to medical school and got a PhD
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: in public health and you were the City of Detroit's
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: public health director. What are we talking about. You're obviously
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: a doctor here, but it's you know, now it's a
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: head to head match, and she's going to be able
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: to outspend him through super Pac support significantly from not
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: a Democracy Project, APAC, super Pac plus, you know, the
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: entire kind of world that doesn't want to see el
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Side's politics dominate. They're trying to use Platner against him, which.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's that's very much been happening because they share
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: because he's a manology Well no, no, it's because he
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: has the same type of online supporters. And actually that's
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: the next thing I want to put up. Can we
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: put up this NBC thing? I put it assented to
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the chat. This was really fascinating. So the latest hit,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: according to this NBC News article, which is about inside
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: the you know, slugfest of the Senate primary, is Hailey Stevens'
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: campaign wants to paint el Sayad quote as a sexist
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: podcast bro because he's appeared on a show like ours.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I think with Didney campaign with Hassan Piking they did right,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: So it's things like that where they want to use
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: the podcast bro. Image of Maga from twenty twenty four
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: to basically smear him and say, oh, he's one of
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: these online bro.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: In this sphere.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: So Democrats in a year have gone from we need
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: our own Joe Rogan because we need to reach out
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: to men. Two.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: He has been on podcasts, yes, and podcasts are bad.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Podcasts are bad, all of them. Here's a podcast bro,
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: and therefore he needs to be reject.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: That is a victory that spells defeat if I've ever
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: heard of.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: It's a cynical, cynical take. Well, I don't know, because
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: it seems to me because it's a swing defeat long
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: term fair. Absolutely, it seems to me like people getably.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Going to win.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: No, I mean, Mike Rogers, like, I'm sorry, you're cooked
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: in a wave election year where Trump Trump, I mean,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Michigan is what I would say is one of his
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: least strong states that he's He won it twice first
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: time twenty sixteen is like ten thousand votes. Second time
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: around for sorry, third time around. I forget exactly how
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: much he wanted. It wasn't a lot, like in terms
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: of the margin, like he won Pennsylvania, I believe more
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: than he won by Michigan. Michigan is a tough tough
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: place for Donald Trump. And so then if you factor
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: in less than one hundred thousand votes, less one hund
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: k votes, I mean, it's just not a lot of
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: votes Michigan. So if you got and Alyssa Slackin was
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: also able to win at the same time, So the
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: split ticket already and that's in a Republican wave election.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Hoopy win behind his back. He won by with the
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: way behind his back.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: He barely wins, you know, that election.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: If Gaza doesn't happen, or if Kamala does a does
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: a better job, she potentially wins Michigan just to those
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: noble didn't come out to vote. So all those people
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: are going to come out to vote for the Democrat
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I think, no matter what.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: So then it's a big question of like, okay, so
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: where the.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Deocrats, dearborn come out for Hailey Stevens.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I don't think she'll need it as much as Kamala did,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: just because of the way that things are this time around.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: So it's a very high, very high stakes primary, it
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: really is. And the the I think the CNN stuff,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: the CNN manufacture.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Whatever you want to call it. I'm not alleging anything.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: But allowed her to blunt that the most damaging attack.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: On sure that I see lately I have and I
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: say this with like no morality or anything.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I admire the democratic establishments.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: What'spa right, because they've taken so many l's recently in
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: all of these DSA elections, They're like, Okay, we can
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: no longer run on Israel itself, so what we need
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: to do is manufacture other is like me too with
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Platner here, not manufacturer as in they're paying her or anything.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying like they they're certainly using it to
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: great effect to get him out of the race and
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: to take over the entire system. And then here they're like, oh, well,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: what we do is we get BB to attack her
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: and then they use that as evidence that she's you know,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: middle road or whatever.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: On is that that may be enough?
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: You know, if some for some boomers who are out there,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: who are largely it seems to be her constituent.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: If you're a boomer watching Abdulla l Side wants to
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: cut your.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Property, yeah, don't do it, Ryan, don't do it. We're
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: not we are not stupid to that level. All right,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: let's get to property tax, so as Ryan alluded to
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: in one of the most disappointing, disgusting, craven, repulsive statements
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: ever uttered by an American politician. Here's Abdul l said,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: who clearly wants to win, who says he wants to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: freeze senior property taxes.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: I think we need to be freezing property tax for seniors.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: If you paid off your home at some point, we
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: can't expect you to keep up with property taxes that
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: are going up.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Now, how do we pay for that?
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: Well, again, if we tax billionaires their wealth, if we
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: were to invest in the Department of Education so that
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: we're paying centrally for public schools in an equitable way,
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: there are a lot of opportunities for us to lift
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: the burden office seniors who've done their job, They've worked
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: extra hard. They deserve a dignified retirement, and we've got
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: to be thinking about how to offer them.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: That they deserve a dignified retirement. They they deserve a
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: federal bailout of Michigan Michigan schools, and we're just going
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: to pay for it with these fancy billionaire taxes. And look,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm not some guy who's anti wealth tax
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: or anything. I don't particularly care you screw ultra rich
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: people whatever. Use it as punitive care, that's all fine.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: But ultimately this is about bailing out seniors and a
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: false premise, which is, if you've paid off your home,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: you deserve to live there forever. This is a literal
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: violation of the American dream, and specifically of the housing
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: mechanics and the way that it all works, right, because
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: first of all, it presumes if you've paid off the house,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: that means you should no longer have to pay for
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: any public services whatsoever, from the roads to the police
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: to the fire department, when we actually know that old
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: people are disproportionately using them. Also, property tax, the vast
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: majority of that funding goes to local education. Now, his
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: presumption here that the federal government should bail out the
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: state of Michigan and all of their localities actually is
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: a conservative nightmare. And even if anybody who cares about localities,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: it means that the Feds will have near total control
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: over what you can and can't do in your schools.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: One of the best things about America, specifically our education system,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: if you want to say, is that if you live somewhere.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Let's say you disagree with something it's happening in your school.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Because you pay in, you actually can change it. You
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: really can. We saw this with anti woke or even woke.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: If you want whatever you want to do, COVID mass
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: parents actually got mad and in some cases they won.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: They beat the system whenever it came to a showdown.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: If it's all up to the Feds, you have no
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: power whatsoever.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: And then let's talk about the housing mechanics part, because
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: this is the part that really bugs me.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: And I'll be callous. I don't care because I'm not
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a politician.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Which is, if you are a senior and you pay
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: off your home and then you no longer have to
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: have any property tax, there is no market incentive to sell,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: you will never sell, which means that these neighborhoods will
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: not turn over.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: And you have seniors who.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Occupy the vast majority of the housing stock, who have
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: no financial pressure whatsoever, who will stay in these new homes,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: who will then not turn them over to the next generation.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: People say it's unfair because the property tax has gone up.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: The tax only goes up if the house value goes
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: up too, and So if you did not pull yourself
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: up by your bootstrap maybe and do enough saving over
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: the course of your life, and you didn't plan for
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: your property tax, why does that mean you get to
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: hold a financially appreciable asset, pay nothing to be able
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: to maintain it, receive all city services, give nothing back
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: to your community, and hold up all of the housing
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: stock that there is. This is slopulism, That's what it is.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: It's a cynical way to win. Older voters who are
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: not currently voting or supporting abdulh sayat that's what it's
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: all about, and the unfortunate, and people are like, oh,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: or why do you care so.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Much about this?
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: It would be funny if it weren't literally sweeping the nation,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: which I'll approve to you all. There is now between California, Florida,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: which is about to abolish property tax, and Texas, which
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: has just done the exemption. You will have nearly one
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: hundred million Americans by this time next year in a
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: boomer Reich system where they occupy all the housing stock.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: They don't pay as much as you or I do
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: if we own a home for a property tax, and
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: they are depleting the system meanwhile demanding social security where
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: they say they have fixed income, which is literally cost
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: you know, which literally goes up by inflation. When is
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: the last time we got an inflation adjusted race? If
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: you're under sixty five, when's the last time you got.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: An inflation adjusted race?
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: In fact, you almost certainly got a decrease because the
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: wages have not kept up with inflation since nineteen seventy
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: or whatever. So they get inflation adjusted rays. You get nothing,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: and you get less services, and you need to pay
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: more in taxes. So I'm off my soapbox.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: You though, the other thing that elderly homeowners would do
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: with this property tax abatement, and you could theoretically write in,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: write in the legislation to try to preempt this, but
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: what they would do is move out, go somewhere else,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: and then rent this property that they now don't have
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: to pay property tax on and then just collect the
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: rental income on it. So what it does is it
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: takes takes more housing stock off of the market, which
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: drives up home prices and just makes it harder for
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: people who don't own a home yet to buy one
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: because they aren't selling it. Because think about it, if
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: if you sell it to somebody younger. That younger person
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: now has to pay property taxes if they wanted to
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: rent it. The amount of profit that they would make
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: by renting it is reduced by the amount of property
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: tax they have. Corre, you don't have to pay the
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: property tax, so you're incentive then to rent it and
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: then just go somewhere else and buy another one that
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: you also don't have to pay property tax on.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Well, they'll they'll, they'll claim all kinds of nonsense, but
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: primary home and all this to get around this.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: But look, even in the primary.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Could and live there for six months because because you're
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: traveling to the Danube, right.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Because I will say what nobody else wants to, which
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: sometimes you will have to sell. If your property has
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: gone up from one hundred and seventy grand to two million,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: and you're drowning in property, then sell the home, move
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: into a million dollar house, take the profit. You can
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: keep your property tax forever. Oh and by the way,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: somebody else can buy that home and maybe the raise
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: their family in it. You know, the most heartbreaking thing
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: is in localities across this nation. The neighborhood I grew
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: up in is a good example.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Full of kids. No longer full of kids.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Why everybody still lives there, right, same people still live there,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: kids are grown and gone. Guess what kids? They all
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: live in another neighborhood. Now, it was a nice neighborhood.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I liked it there. And that's happening across the nation.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: You got elementary schools closing because the fertility rate is down,
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: and because in a lot of the traditional suburbs, nobody
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: wants to leave. All the rich people, rich boomers are
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: all staying there. And then people who are in families,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: they got nothing. They're either in the rent air class
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: or they got to go somewhere else and try and
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: do something. And look, you could say, well, oh that's
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: just the market reality. And the boomers are always you know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: coming back to me and it's like, well we had
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: fifteen percent interest rates. I'm like, and the same question
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I always ask, what was the wasting? What was the
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: price income ratio? What was the pricing income ratio? It
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: is like two or three hundred percent more than it
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: was even twenty five years ago compared to the current
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: median home price, and that's four hundred and eighty five
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: thousand today is the median home price, but that factors
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: in all of these lower cost of living areas, and
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: if you were living in a medium or high cost
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: we talked about San Francisco in our last show.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: It's one point seven million.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: That's an extreme example, I get it, But in many
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: higher cost of living areas trying to millions of dollars,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: literally millions of dollars. And that's why the average first
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: time home buyer is anywhere between thirty seven and forty five,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: and that the average buyer of a home today is
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: age fifty, right, is because they're the only people with
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: the cash to be able to do so. So that's
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: ultimately what Abdul is trying to set in. Let's put
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: E two up here on the screen. I took this
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: from his website and this is again is the worst
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: possible thing. On his website, he says we will freeze
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: follow the senior, not the property. The assessment freeze does
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: not transfer on sale or death. When the home changes hands,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: it will reassess it market value. This preserves local tax
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: based integrity over time, so as I if a senior
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: sells the property to an under sixty by person, they
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: will then be hit with a property tax reassessment to
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: current market value.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Now here's why I.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Think it's sick because this people took this the wrong way, saying, well,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: anytime somebody sells a house that they get reassessment market value.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: You're right, But the freezing of a property tax means
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: that there's no appreciation or incentive to sell. This is
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: what happened with California in proposition thirteen. It is exactly
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: why California's housing market is as messed up as it
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: is today. There is no incentive for people who bought
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: between the nineteen eighties and the nineteen nineties at very
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: very low values, who have frozen property tax or step
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: ladder increases, to sell, even though their homes have appreciated
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: in some cases by two, three, four, five hundred, even
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: one thousand percent in places like Santa Monica.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: So what do you do?
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: What you'd have to do is it means that the
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: younger buyer has to have more cash on hand and
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: budget at a much higher price than the scene who
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: gets to live there, which locks the housing stock up forever.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: It has destroyed the California housing market. Now, this would
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: be a proposition because Abdul Frankly, he's running for United
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: States Senate. So he wants to do this nationally, all right.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I mean technically he doesn't have the authority, but somebody
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: could preempt that type of behavior. And I just want
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: to show you all what happens when states start doing
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: this stuff. Let's go to the next one. This is
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: from Florida. It just happened yesterday, all right, So Tampa,
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: the city of Tampa.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: How many years.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Now you and I have been hearing? Oh, all these
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: families are moving to Florida. It's such a great place
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: to live. It's cheap, and they don't have to wear masks,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: and you have all this freedom. Well here's part of
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: the freedom they're about to have. So in Florida, counties
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: are now preparing for the total elimination of property tax
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: or a phase reduction. Hillsborough County, that's where Tampa is.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Here's what they write. A lengthy list of possible responses
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: to the elimination will include eliminating or reducing county services
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: like parks and aging services, closing underused facilities, and increasing
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: or adding new assessments such as higher fuel tax and
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: more park fees. So that means, Ryan, you got four kids,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I assume you live at that park, because right, it's
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: easy's free take them there if you let them run around,
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: burn some energy. Kids just started walking. So this is
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: we're in that phase right now. Now every time you
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: go though, pay up. You gotta pay. Say sorry, because
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: these boomers over here, they don't want to pay property tax.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: You when you take your kid to the park, you
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: gotta pay all right, fuel tax. You want to go
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: somewhere to take your kid to the park, Sorry, it's
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: gonna cost you.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: There's toll roads everywhere in Florida. So this is what happens.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: You got no income tax, you've got no property tax.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Now where's the money going to come from. It's going
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: to come from somewhere. The disney the Disney crew search
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: charge can be about to be five hundred dollars for
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: every person who comes out of state and the people
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: who live there.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: It's going to be hell.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Should the fuel tax not apply to elderly people too?
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Sure?
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Right? Oh?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: They drive less, so why oh they don't use it?
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: So this is what leads to this type of logic
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: where elder people when they were young to pay.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: To pay a different tax rate based on your age
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: is crazy. Yes, Also for the age cohort that has
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: more wealth to pay less tax, I know than the
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: age cohort that has less wealth is completely insane. Right.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: The whole idea of treating people differently based on their
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: ages on American it's maybe on constitutional like what about
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: equal protection?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: And like, of course, what you think they're gonna they're anyone?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: How can we even challenge it?
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: And this person to show you about the slopulism point,
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: you can't even conceive how popular these things are if
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: you were to tell the two areas. I get the
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: most hate on weed and this actually maybe more energy
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: about this. I've received actual death threats over weed, but
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for my real death threats that are coming
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: from just saying, hey, we shouldn't have unequal tax codes
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: based on age.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Let's put E four up here. Take a look at
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the polling. This just happened yesterday.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Two thirds a Florida vote support the property tax of course,
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: two thirds. So you got the old with this old state,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: you know, uh, And they're all like, yeah, why not?
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Why should we have to pay? Screw them? I don't
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: use the park anyways. Not my bid business, not my
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: problem schools. My kids are grown, doesn't matter. Who cares
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: about the next generation or my grandkids, doesn't matter. That's
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: how selfish they are the people who support these types
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: of things, And that's that's why Abdel is doing this,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: and that's why it's sickening, because you know, guys like
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: him there, they talks a big game about principles and
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: all that, and I'm sure you know, take a lot
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: of hits, but like, ultimately they're politicians. He looks his
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: poll numbers, he wants to win, and this is overwhelmingly popular.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: And just in preparing for this segment, I found four
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: different state and localities, actually five, another one this morning,
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: E five.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Let's put it up here. This from Boston.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, Michelle Wu, who is supposedly some lefty great person mehir.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Michelle Wu signs city order to expand property relief for
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: older homeowners. Okay, so to provide relief for these older homeowners.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Let's go to the next one. What do we find Indiana?
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Indiana Governor Brown eyes property tax breaks for seniors and
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: assessment changes. Quote, once you get to sixty five, maybe
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: you ought to have some relief from your own government
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: to not have property taxes after that, he said, So
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: I'll be looking for enterprising legislators to see if they're
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: hearing that too. The other thing I hear is, once
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: you've paid off your mortgage, why should you then have
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: a fixed cost Generally that's going to be later in life.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: With a twenty five to thirty year mortgage, you'll be
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: approaching retirement. He says he doesn't want to starve local
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: units of government, but said that those expenses shouldn't rise
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: beyond what taxpayers can afford, and we could make up
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: the revenue elsewhere. Let's go to the next one, shall we.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Pennsylvania Democrats all right, Pennsylvania House It votes to funded
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: property tax cuts for seniors by levying targeting big tech companies. Now,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: I don't care about big tech companies. That's totally fine.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Tax them, I don't give a shit. But what does
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: this mean is you have a property tax cut. They
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: will take that revenue and only make up for the
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: property tax of seniors, not for any of the other
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: younger home buyers. And that's that's you know, right now,
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: I'm just fighting for parody. But if I were really fighting,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: what would I say. Let's say the people who got
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: the money bought the property tes for the first time,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: for the first time home buyer will even means tested.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I don't care, all right, you know that's fine.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: Of the three things, by the way that I just read,
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: only one of those was means tested for lower income seniors,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: which is Boston. Even then, I'm against it just because, yeah,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: I think it's unfair. It's like, why do you what
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: lowering lower income single mom doesn't get a break, the
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: lower income senior gets a break. Which one do you
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: think needs more of a break? If it is binary?
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Ultimately because of the government. I mean, you can google
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: in even these states. Indiana, what have they done for
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: a young family in the last three months?
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Nothing?
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Pennsylvania, same thing. What find me find find me something
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: and I will read it here on the show all
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: the energy and then find eight let's put it up
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: here Republicans. So this is bipartisan Ohio law machers approved
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty million in property tax relief for seniors.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: So it's because they vote at the end of the day,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: and that's what.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: It's all about.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: It's not just that they vote. It is definitely that
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: they vote. It's also a function of the population declined absolutely.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: The number, like the number of people graduating high school
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: is now, has declined the last couple of years. And
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: this is something we can project with certainty basically with
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: immigration being the only variable, because we know who was
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: born eighteen years ago and who wasn't, and the population
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: and the birth rate are going down, and as a result,
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: the young people in the voter pool, who participate at
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: a much lower rate anyway, are much fewer to begin
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: with relative to the biggest generation. Now, the boomers are
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: not going to be here forever, but they're going to
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: be here for a long time, right.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Last one, I just I literally found this one this
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: morning because a friend of mine overnight texted me this.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Let's put it up here on the screen.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: One of the leading candidates for governor in South Dakota
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: name is Toby Dodin. He says, space, it's out property tax.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Guess what, South Dakota. They don't even have an income tax,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: just like Florida, who's gonna pay Where's the money coming from?
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: It's outa sales tax. They have a low sales tax.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Alrighty, yeah, where's it gonna.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Come from from?
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: The people who drive through the state, who go to
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Mount Rushmore. I mean, where is the money.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: Driving your soybeans on dirt roads?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Right exactly.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: It's like so you read through and you're like, oh, okay,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: so how's he gonna make up? And he said, oh,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: maybe we'll do a luxury a luxury goods tax.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm fine with me.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: But ultimately what they write, because the South Dakota papers,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: you know, went through their proposal, it's.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Not gonna make up the one point eight billion.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: So where's a lot of luxury goods being purchased in
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: South Dakota.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: It turns out no offense South Dakota, you know, no offense? What'so.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful state.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: But it's like, you know, even in these states, and
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: this is what I mean when it's sweeping the nation.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: You got Florida, Texas, California, literally three out of the
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: four most populous states.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure New York I haven't checked.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: I'm sure they have some a BS exemption that already here,
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: which is.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: On the books.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Now you've got the senator potential from Michigan who wants
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: to enact this nationally.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: We're talking about trillions.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Of dollars in bailouts, if that were to become the
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: policy of the United States or even the smaller states.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Now they're like, oh, let's hop on the bandwagon. Vivig
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Ramaswami Ohio. Guess what he picked it up. Yeah, let's
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: pay no, let's pay no sales tap everybody wants to
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Why not win win win, as in win for the boomers,
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: win for the politician.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sickening.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: And you know, last thing, last thing is I said,
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: I don't even have this one here in the show,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: but I read this Wall Street Journal story last night,
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: and it was about schools, and as you just said,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: with population decline and fertility rate, he got all these
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: schools were just rotting. Now nobody's even using them, so
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: they're now converting them into luxury senior housing.
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  Speaker 1: That's a monument. People say, don't you want them to move?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you're right, Thank you for moving and for going
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  Speaker 3: to see your housing. You're right, But is that not
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  Speaker 3: emblematic of the problem that we have.
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  Speaker 1: This is Japan.
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  Speaker 3: This is what it's all going to look like twenty
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  Speaker 3: thirty years from now. You know, the whole economy is
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  Speaker 3: going to be like this in terms of healthcare and
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: aging services. We're already getting there, but twenty thirty years
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: from now, that's what the whole thing is going to
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: look like.
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  Speaker 4: My elementary school shout out to Warton Elementary School in
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Kent County is not a luxury condo yet, but it
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: is shut down. They wouldn't be able to sell luxury
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: condos there. My middle school was called Chestertown Middle School.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: It is now called Kent County Middle School. In other words,
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: it is the only middle school in the entire county.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: My high school was called Kent County High School. It
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: still exists. It's like half the population that it was before.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: And people say, seniors will say, well, we don't use
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: the schools. You rely on the people who go to
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: school to wait on you at the restaurants, to mow
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: your lawn, you know. To as for home health aids,
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: society produced.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: We live in a society. We live in a society period.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: It's like the mean, yes, you have to pay for
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: the next generation. People are always like, oh, just because
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: you had a kid and you want money now from
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: the government, you exempt me. Put me in the legislation.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I will get nothing. I don't want anything. It's rough people,
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: you know, it's just I just checked College Hill's elementary
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: shout out in College Station.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Looks like it's still going.
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  Speaker 3: So there we go.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: All right, we got we got something.
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  Speaker 3: But Texas one of the few places you can probably
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: buy a home because it's cheap, or at least or
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: cheaper than it's overall nationally. It's sad, man, it really
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: is sad, and it's sweeping the country, and you're just
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: going to see more and more and more. This just
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: shows you five examples literally from across the political spectrum,
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: six actually, including Abdul l Sayad.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: And it's just going.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: It will continue to sweep this. I predict twenty twenty
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: eight you will see mass freezing and or elimination of
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: property tax in I'm gonna call half the states of
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: the youth, half the states in the Union, and probably
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: the two thirds of the US population in the next
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: five years.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: As a politician, as you say no to this, you're dead.
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  Speaker 4: Your opponent's gonna be like, well, I'm gonna cut your
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: property text exactly if peop were like, all right, well,
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: good sweet, You're not gonna do anything else, so at
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: least I'll take that.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: It only works if we all fight back all right,
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: thank you very much for having me, Ryan, It's been
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Bro Show. Crystal'll be back next week, and.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: We'll be back as well.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll be back everything only restored.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: Very convenient that they all traveled this week, Isn't that's right?
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Sticking us with the platinum situation. It's okay, that's fine.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: I stuck them with I'm sure if something bad happened
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: whenever I was gone as well. All right, we will
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: see you guys tomorrow Friday Show.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: See then,