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Ep 930 | Kamala’s STOLEN Tip Tax Legislation a FILTHY Blow Against Trump | Guest: Steve Baker · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  He's coming up in a little bit.
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  He's got new details on the Trump assassination attempt to share,
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  but we're going to start by doing the tip tax wars,
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  and
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  every time I was saying that today,
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  I just kept thinking of Yoda
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  saying begun.
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  The tip tax wars have,
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  and it's true,
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  they have.
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  Apparently we have
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  two sides of the tip tax wars,
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  and they both
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  agree.
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  Mhm.
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  Uh,
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  Harris copies Trump's promise
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  on no tax for tips,
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  says
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  Axios,
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  and.
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  That was one of the few places that actually reported this accurately.
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  They didn't make it seem like some amazing new discovery
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  from Kamala Harris,
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  and I don't know whether she stole this.
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  What do you count this as?
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  Do you count it as a theft?
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  Do you count it as a flip flop?
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  Because remember,
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  the Biden administration hired
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  thousands of IRS agents to go after people
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  largely
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  who were hiding their money from the IRS in the form of cash tips.
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  That was one of the big reasons they.
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  Wanted to up the enforcement levels at the IRS,
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  so they go from that to now no tax on tips whatsoever.
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  So I think it's both a flip flop
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  and a theft,
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  but whatever you think it is,
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  it's,
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  it's happening right in front of our eyes.
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  And if you don't know this,
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  you can kind of get the idea of how these,
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  uh,
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  policies came to be.
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  First of all,
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  you know exactly how Kamala Harris
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  came up with it.
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  She just stole it from Donald Trump.
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  And eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.
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  Now again,
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  the hospitality worker contingency is huge.
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  OK,
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  all hospitality workers love Kamala Harris,
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  um,
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  and you'll see the number of them are 0 because it's not really a word,
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  but hospitality workers would probably
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  really like a,
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  a,
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  a,
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  an easing of the taxes that they receive on their tips,
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  and
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  that's something that I think everybody would like.
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  Everybody would like their income
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  taxed less.
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  Now Trump's story about how he came up with it is a little longer
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  than just stealing it.
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  Also,
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  it's not exactly shopped through a think tank,
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  no white paper per se on this one.
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  This is just Donald Trump
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  as 100%
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  Donald Trump.
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  Watch.
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  At the center of our plan for economic relief
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  are massive tax cuts for workers that
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  Include something else that's turned out to be very popular actually.
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  It's called no tax on tips.
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  I got that by having dinner recently.
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  In Nevada,
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  where we're leading by about 14 points.
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  hello.
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  I'll see you there very soon,
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  everybody.
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  And we're having dinner at a beautiful restaurant in
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  The Trump building on the Strip and it's
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  a great building and the waitress comes over.
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  How's everything going?
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  A really nice person.
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  How's everything?
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  Oh,
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  sir,
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  it's so tough.
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  The government's after me all the time on tips,
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  tips,
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  tips.
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  I said,
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  Well,
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  they give you cash.
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  Would they be able to find him?
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  She said,
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  actually,
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  and I didn't know this.
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  She said,
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  very little cash is given.
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  It's all put right on the
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  check,
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  and they come in and they take so much of our money,
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  it's just ridiculous,
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  and they don't believe anything we say.
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  But I said to her,
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  Let me just ask you a question.
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  Would you be happy if you had no tax and tips?
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  She said,
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  What a great idea.
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  I got my information from a very smart waitress.
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  That's better than spending millions of dollars.
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  And everybody
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  Everybody loves it,
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  waitresses and caddies and drivers and
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  everybody's a large,
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  large group of people that are being really hurt badly.
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  They make money.
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  Let them keep their money.
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  I
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  mean,
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  a little bit different than,
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  you know,
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  a Heritage Foundation paper,
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  but
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  you get the point there,
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  and you know it's very much Donald Trump being Donald Trump.
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  A very smart waitress is the one that came up with this policy.
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  the industry has changed quite a bit.
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  Now you go back years and years,
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  it was a lot of cash tips,
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  right?
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  Like before
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  the credit card payment for basically everything was in vogue,
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  you know,
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  and waitresses would get lots of cash tips,
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  and there was certainly a lot of shenanigans that went on back in the day where lots
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  of waitresses would just claim a small percentage
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  of their of their tips and enough to.
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  Not make the IRS come after them,
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  but a lot of it they wind up just keeping,
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  and it's not just waitresses,
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  as he points out,
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  it's caddies,
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  it's
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  adult
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  exotic
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  performers.
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  It's all sorts of different things,
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  anything you can get a cash tip on.
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  Now,
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  that's changed a lot because
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  now you're just writing a number.
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  In the little line and that's basically it.
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  Not to mention
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  you're tipping every single person you come in contact with on a daily basis,
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  even people that don't even look you in the eye.
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  Like they're
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  they're looking down.
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  You're you're doing self checkout and like somehow you're tipping people.
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  I don't even know how that happens anymore,
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  but
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  it would be.
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  It's an interesting thing,
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  I guess,
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  right?
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  Like I,
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  I,
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  generally speaking,
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  like
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  the idea of people paying
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  lower taxes,
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  so there's something appealing about any tax cut
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  for me,
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  but there's more to it than just that,
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  and,
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  and,
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  and you've seen this in the way
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  the coverage has gone because
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  it's simultaneously a feel-good
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  proposal,
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  which
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  must have been
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  polling incredibly well for Kamala Harris to just adopt it out
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  of nowhere when everyone knew it was Donald Trump's idea.
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  I mean it.
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  Have an 85% approval rating or something in
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  internal polling,
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  so
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  she adopts it.
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  We all know that it's
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  a policy that is
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  seemingly feeling good,
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  and it's not one of those that they can paint as
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  only for the fat cats,
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  right?
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  These are people
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  who are oftentimes below minimum wage workers without tips.
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  Them getting actual tip money that they get to keep
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  seems like a really fair idea to them.
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  So it's going to be a feel-good proposal,
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  but also maybe an economically questionable one.
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  For multiple reasons,
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  and you can see both sides of this coverage.
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  It's just interesting the way
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  the direction
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  that this is covered by the media.
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  For example,
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  everyone found out their economic chops when Donald Trump announced it,
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  like this article from CBS News.
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  Former President Donald Trump's vow to stop taxing tips would cost
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  the federal government up to $250 billion over 10 years,
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  according to a nonpartisan watchdog group.
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  Kind of a negative
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  framing,
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  but when
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  Kamala Harris
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  came out with a proposal,
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  it was covered by CBS News,
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  the same organization this way,
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  Vice President Kamala Harris is rolling out a new policy position,
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  saying she'll fight to end taxes on tips
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  for service
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  and hospitality workers.
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  They said hospitality,
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  but they got it wrong.
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  The bottom line is
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  it kind of felt a little bit more positive when Kamala Harris was rolling it out,
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  even though she was the second one,
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  to the party
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  by a,
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  a,
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  a large,
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  a large margin here,
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  so.
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  This is just the media doing what the media does,
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  right?
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  Now,
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  as far as the actual policy goes,
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  it's not really about the policy.
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  This is,
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  yeah,
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  this is politics at its best,
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  right?
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  Donald Trump knows that Nevada is a state that he really wants to win.
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  It is a state in which he's been leading the entire time,
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  it was certainly against Joe Biden,
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  but has had incredibly good polling in Nevada,
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  better than maybe you would think,
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  as he did not win it back in 2020.
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  Um,
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  it's not been one of those situations where,
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  uh,
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  Nevada's been the strongest state for Republicans over the year.
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  It's,
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  it's purple,
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  maybe leaning blue.
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  However,
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  Trump's been doing very,
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  very well there throughout this entire
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  cycle.
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  Uh,
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  he mentioned he's up 14.
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  Maybe there was a poll that had him up that high,
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  but he was up a lot and he was definitely leading
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  handily in Nevada.
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  And this is all about
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  essentially
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  going to Nevada and saying,
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  hey,
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  service workers,
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  you should come vote for me.
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  Because it's going to be very,
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  very popular in a state like that that's so dependent on that part of our economy,
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  and of course Kamala Harris sees the same thing.
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  She wants to win Nevada as well.
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  She wants to be competitive in states like Florida,
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  so she's also,
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  Arizona is another one.
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  She is just like,
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  oh well,
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  I,
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  I agree with the same topic.
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  Now,
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  is it a good policy?
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  As I said,
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  anytime you're cutting taxes,
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  I'm kind of for it.
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  I,
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  I'd like it to be more broad-based.
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  I'd like it
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  to be for everybody.
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  I'm
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  much bigger fan of tax cuts that just kind of go all across the board.
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  I think that helps the economy more,
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  but like people who are working to get tips,
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  I mean them having a little bit more of their own money or all their own money,
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  I don't fight that.
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  I don't think that's a negative
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  idea.
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  You could certainly.
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  Argue
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  that there's not really a reason to prioritize tips over other income.
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  Like if you happen to be a back of the house restaurant worker making $15 an hour,
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  why are you getting taxed on the $15 an hour when the people in the front of the house
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  are only getting taxed on a couple of dollars an hour and then making the rest in tips?
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  It doesn't really make all that much sense.
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  It's probably unfair
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  at some level,
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  but generally speaking,
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  a drop in taxes,
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  fine with me.
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  Do I really care about the funding of the situation?
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  Not really.
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  I think they should just cut spending.
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  This is not a revenue problem that we have in the United States.
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  It is a spending
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  problem.
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  But one of the things that really annoys me more than anything else
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  is the framing of this situation,
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  the framing of tips and how they're,
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  how they are framed.
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  Uh,
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  we have this from Politico,
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  Harris,
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  Trump.
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  Votes and not taxing tips.
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  Experts see trouble.
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  Uh,
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  this one as well,
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  no tax on tips.
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  Why politicians love it and economists don't.
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  And
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  look,
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  it's going to create a lot of
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  odd incentives in the economy,
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  right?
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  There's no doubt about that.
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  People are going to try to get more of their money out of tips.
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  They're going to try to avoid taxes as they typically do.
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  This is not going to be a huge surprise.
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  It is going to
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  cost the government money and.
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  And that part of it is,
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  is where I really go crazy because no tax cut
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  costs the government money.
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  It is not their money.
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  It is my money,
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  it is your money.
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  It is not
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  their money.
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  The way this all seems to work in the eyes of the media
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  is that the government allows you to have some of their money.
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  In the form of you keeping some of your
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  income,
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  what actually happens is you earn the money.
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  And they take it.
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  And what they're offering to do is take a little bit less from some of the workers.
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  Think about how insane the framing is,
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  the cost of the government.
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  Some waitress goes out
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  and works her butt off for 10 straight hours serving food
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  and
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  making small talk with idiots like me.
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  And they get the tips and then when they don't
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  give 40% or 30% of that money to the government,
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  we say that that policy is costing the government money,
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  costing the government,
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  it's not their money.
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  This is a problem.
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  This goes back to natural law and how our country was conceived.
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  The idea is your rights come not from the government
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  but from God.
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  They go from God to you
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  to the government.
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  We lend some of those rights out from a pragmatic sense
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  to the government that they can enforce
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  contractual rights and some other basic defense.
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  Things like that,
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  but in reality,
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  the most
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  fundamental part of your rights in a way,
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  certainly economically,
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  is money.
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  You earn money.
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  It comes from the employer to you,
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  and you have to give some of it to the government to pay for various services.
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  That's at least how the system is designed.
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  But how Washington sees it and how New York and LA and the rest of the media see it
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  is that
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  government just
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  has a bunch of money and they allow you to keep some of the money
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  that they deem appropriate for you,
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  when in reality they're not doing anything for it.
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  You're the one working for that money.
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  And framing it as if it costs money makes it seem like,
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  well,
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  this is your fault.
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  A tax cut is bad for the country because it takes revenue away.
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  I've got news for you.
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  Government policy and tax policy in particular,
• 13:16
  the goal of that policy should not be to maximize revenue.
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  That should not be the goal.
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  The goal should be to maximize liberty,
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  that you have your money,
• 13:27
  that you get to do what you want with your money.
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  You work hard,
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  you are the one earning it.
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  You are the one that should be able to keep it until you decide you want to spend it.
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  That's not the government's job.
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  But in reality what they think is going on here is they allow you to work.
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  They make these wonderful roads for you,
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  and they do all these wonderful things so you can go to work and they're OK with that
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  as long as you don't get too much of your own money.
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  I believe you should be able to get all of your own money.
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  I actually have a cup sitting right here that says that.
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  It says repeal
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  the 16th Amendment,
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  and what it talks about,
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  the 16th Amendment,
• 14:03
  by the way,
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  is the income tax amendment.
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  That shouldn't even exist
• 14:08
  Our goal should be to remove it completely.
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  Certainly as conservatives this should be our stated goal.
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  And yes,
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  there are some costs to the government,
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  but they are limited and can easily
• 14:18
  be collected outside of the income tax if we were spending in some rational way.
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  Instead,
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  what we do is we increase spending every single time.
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  We increase every time there's an emergency.
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  We increase the budget,
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  and then we hold those lines,
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  those budget lines strong even after the emergency goes away.
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  This is
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  just the way the government operates,
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  and
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  when they talk about this costing tips,
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  taxing,
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  no taxing on tips,
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  costing the government money,
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  what they're trying to say is that it's not your money,
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  it's ours.
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  We get it.
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  We get to do what we want with it,
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  and we'll occasionally allow you to have some to pay for necessities in life.
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  That's not right,
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  and we have to fight back against it.
• 15:00
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  so they have to do with a lot
• 15:09
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• 15:23
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• 15:25
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• 15:27
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  And of course then there's Kamala Harris,
• 15:31
  who's just,
• 15:32
  you know,
• 15:32
  still hasn't answered a question.
• 15:33
  We still don't know why she flip-flopped
• 15:35
  on the no taxes on tips,
• 15:37
  from the person
• 15:38
  who needs to enforce this so much that we have to hire
• 15:40
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• 15:50
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• 15:51
  but
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• 15:55
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• 15:57
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• 16:01
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• 16:32
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• 16:34
  on the root causes,
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• 16:37
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• 16:40
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• 16:42
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• 16:44
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• 16:48
  in a very domestic way.
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  This has been
• 16:54
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• 18:56
  He's an investigative journalist and Blaze media correspondent.
• 18:58
  He has a new piece out on The Blaze.
• 19:00
  It's called Police Saw Crooks Run Across Roof
• 19:04
  Three Minutes before he Shot President Trump.
• 19:06
  Be sure to check it out.
• 19:07
  It is,
• 19:08
  uh,
• 19:08
  really in depth,
• 19:09
  and,
• 19:10
  and Steve,
• 19:10
  for.
• 19:10
  First of all,
• 19:10
  welcome.
• 19:11
  It's good to be back.
• 19:12
  I appreciate it.
• 19:13
  I under bizarre circumstances,
• 19:15
  because I know
• 19:16
  when I
• 19:17
  watched this happen,
• 19:18
  uh,
• 19:18
  you know,
• 19:18
  I turned on the news seconds after it occurred,
• 19:22
  and I,
• 19:22
  I watched it there and then I don't know if it was a day or two later,
• 19:26
  they said
• 19:27
  that
• 19:28
  they knew he was on the roof
• 19:30
  90 seconds
• 19:32
  before he took the shot.
• 19:33
  And I remember being
• 19:35
  so outraged by this.
• 19:36
  I couldn't
• 19:38
  believe
• 19:39
  this guy was on the roof for 90 freaking seconds and people knew about it.
• 19:42
  And that time period gets longer and longer and longer and longer again.
• 19:45
  Give us,
• 19:46
  uh,
• 19:46
  give us an outline here of,
• 19:47
  of what you're reporting.
• 19:49
  We obviously have a new dump of video,
• 19:51
  body cam,
• 19:51
  police body cam videos.
• 19:53
  This was,
• 19:53
  uh,
• 19:53
  acquired by Judicial Watch through a FOIA request,
• 19:57
  and that has,
• 19:59
  of course,
• 19:59
  enlightened us even more about.
• 20:02
  The failures,
• 20:04
  the incompetencies,
• 20:05
  particularly of the United States Secret Service,
• 20:08
  uh,
• 20:09
  actually the local cops performed pretty well.
• 20:12
  They were the ones that were seeing crooks.
• 20:14
  They were the ones calling it in.
• 20:16
  They were the ones pointing.
• 20:18
  They were the ones,
• 20:18
  I mean they were,
• 20:20
  uh,
• 20:20
  we,
• 20:20
  we have body cams of them driving their vehicles.
• 20:23
  At breakneck speed through ditches and everything to run to
• 20:26
  the building as they're all hearing this in their radio comms
• 20:29
  and they're headed towards the building and then
• 20:31
  and then while they were out
• 20:32
  looking for him in the woods we see
• 20:35
  these body cams also
• 20:37
  capturing him in the distance we can see crooks
• 20:40
  walking across the top of the building
• 20:42
  fully erect
• 20:44
  over 3 minutes before he took the first shot.
• 20:48
  Now
• 20:50
  It gets more bizarre than that because.
• 20:54
  We have to examine what are the primary causes of the failures,
• 20:58
  what's going on.
• 21:00
  The
• 21:00
  actual
• 21:02
  Secret Service snipers that were on those barn rooftops behind the stage.
• 21:07
  They had,
• 21:08
  according to our sources on the ground,
• 21:10
  and we had sources that were reporting to us here at the blaze
• 21:13
  within
• 21:14
  hours.
• 21:14
  I mean,
• 21:15
  literally a couple of hours,
• 21:16
  uh,
• 21:17
  of,
• 21:17
  of the actual shooting
• 21:18
  and what we were told
• 21:20
  is that they had him cited at least 30,
• 21:23
  maybe up to 60 seconds beforehand,
• 21:26
  maybe up to 90 seconds beforehand,
• 21:29
  but they were calling in for deconfliction and essentially what that means is
• 21:34
  they saw a guy on the roof.
• 21:37
  With a gun
• 21:38
  on a rooftop that according to what they understood
• 21:41
  in their meetings and prep prior to the event
• 21:45
  was going to be covered,
• 21:46
  a roof that was going to be covered,
• 21:48
  but they also had a tree in their way,
• 21:51
  so they didn't know if this guy with a gun
• 21:54
  in a
• 21:55
  prone position.
• 21:57
  Had his spotter
• 21:58
  obscured by the
• 22:00
  the tree because they always work in pairs,
• 22:01
  these counter sniper teams always work in pairs,
• 22:03
  100% of the time they didn't know if it was a good guy or a bad guy.
• 22:06
  They didn't know,
• 22:07
  so they didn't know if this was gonna be a blue on blue and then it gets.
• 22:10
  All the more frustrating
• 22:11
  and we didn't even present this in the story,
• 22:14
  although I did on my ex account
• 22:16
  is that there was a team of counter surveillance guys armed on the ground,
• 22:21
  beards,
• 22:22
  glasses,
• 22:23
  dressed exactly like crooks
• 22:25
  wearing khaki short white,
• 22:28
  oh wow,
• 22:30
  you know,
• 22:30
  you know,
• 22:31
  uh,
• 22:31
  cargo pants with rock and roll,
• 22:33
  dark gray,
• 22:34
  black fit in shirt essentially
• 22:36
  trying to fit into the crowd on a hot summer day.
• 22:39
  But they looked,
• 22:40
  it's,
• 22:40
  uh,
• 22:40
  so once again,
• 22:41
  if you've had any kind of prep
• 22:44
  with your team in advance,
• 22:46
  and you've seen
• 22:47
  a half a dozen guys dressed just like the guy on the roof with a rifle.
• 22:52
  Is he one of us?
• 22:54
  Do we shoot him or not?
• 22:56
  That's interesting.
• 22:56
  So do you think this is,
• 22:58
  I mean,
• 22:58
  because a lot of this stuff,
• 23:00
  obviously,
• 23:00
  and I know you've covered this,
• 23:02
  has just been
• 23:03
  failures,
• 23:03
  right?
• 23:04
  Real
• 23:04
  massive,
• 23:05
  massive mistakes.
• 23:06
  But this seems in a way almost understandable at some level.
• 23:09
  Is that the right way to look at it?
• 23:10
  It,
• 23:10
  it's a It's an understandable failure if we stick to our priorities,
• 23:15
  which is to examine
• 23:17
  incompetencies first,
• 23:19
  OK?
• 23:20
  If we stay,
• 23:21
  if we stick there,
• 23:22
  then we start stacking the
• 23:23
  incompetencies upon incompetencies upon incompetencies,
• 23:26
  and you ultimately reach a point where you have to ask,
• 23:30
  OK,
• 23:30
  first of all.
• 23:31
  How did this kid get there?
• 23:33
  Why was this in
• 23:35
  a non-secure perimeter zone?
• 23:37
  Those buildings,
• 23:38
  if you ever saw the first
• 23:39
  perimeter,
• 23:40
  it looked like a Pac-Man,
• 23:41
  you know,
• 23:41
  you had to secure the perimeter,
• 23:43
  and all of a sudden
• 23:44
  there's these
• 23:45
  group of buildings 150 yards from
• 23:47
  where the stage is,
• 23:48
  and they're not in the secure zone.
• 23:51
  Very strange.
• 23:51
  And then of course.
• 23:52
  In the article we cover this and we actually show,
• 23:54
  we have a really intense video montage that,
• 23:56
  that,
• 23:56
  that our,
• 23:57
  our blaze guys put together for us
• 23:59
  about 8 minutes and I really encourage everybody
• 24:01
  to especially go look to the last minute
• 24:03
  because you have the local cops screaming
• 24:06
  bloody murder,
• 24:07
  saying
• 24:08
  with
• 24:08
  all the F-bombs they can drop,
• 24:10
  we told the Secret Service on Tuesday.
• 24:13
  That they had to cover this area
• 24:15
  and they didn't,
• 24:16
  and they didn't,
• 24:17
  which is just incomprehensible.
• 24:18
  I mean that's the first thing that popped into my mind after watching it.
• 24:21
  Wait a minute,
• 24:21
  how do they not have somebody up there?
• 24:22
  And then we learned about that very
• 24:24
  sloped roof that was a that was a big part of it was dangerously sloped,
• 24:28
  very dangerous and hot.
• 24:29
  It was hot up there.
• 24:31
  That's something we have to take into account.
• 24:32
  Um,
• 24:34
  so
• 24:35
  because I,
• 24:35
  I,
• 24:35
  I'm interested too on the,
• 24:37
  on the local police angle because I,
• 24:39
  I feel,
• 24:39
  I felt like.
• 24:40
  Some of the local police got a bad rap on some of this stuff.
• 24:43
  Like I mean they mentioned in particular the one
• 24:45
  guy who seemingly raised himself up to see him,
• 24:48
  had a gun pointed at him,
• 24:50
  dropped down,
• 24:50
  could not access his weapon.
• 24:52
  And they made it seem like,
• 24:53
  oh well,
• 24:54
  he was just incompetent.
• 24:55
  Is this the Secret Service trying to pass the buck?
• 24:57
  Is this just,
• 24:58
  you know,
• 24:58
  online speculation,
• 25:00
  or is it,
• 25:00
  is it a fair criticism of the local police?
• 25:02
  No,
• 25:03
  this is not a fair criticism in this particular instance,
• 25:05
  and I,
• 25:06
  I give this guy all the grace in the world.
• 25:08
  This is not a Uvalde situation with this guy
• 25:11
  at all.
• 25:12
  I mean,
• 25:12
  he was being hoisted up.
• 25:14
  There's no ladder.
• 25:15
  There's nothing for him to stand on.
• 25:16
  He's literally being hoisted up by another.
• 25:18
  Officer,
• 25:19
  he's got his hands on the roof,
• 25:20
  sticks his head up,
• 25:21
  looks left,
• 25:22
  and a rifle is pointed at him.
• 25:25
  He can't access his gun and he drops.
• 25:27
  He did exactly what he,
• 25:29
  but then
• 25:30
  he starts calling it out.
• 25:32
  He,
• 25:32
  he runs to his car.
• 25:33
  He gets his long gun,
• 25:35
  and,
• 25:35
  uh,
• 25:35
  we watched his whole sequence
• 25:37
  over and over.
• 25:37
  Oh really?
• 25:38
  So you have the footage of,
• 25:39
  oh yeah,
• 25:39
  yeah,
• 25:40
  we,
• 25:40
  we,
• 25:40
  we have,
• 25:40
  we have
• 25:41
  looked at,
• 25:42
  I mean,
• 25:42
  I,
• 25:43
  I've spent probably.
• 25:44
  72 hours since Friday pouring through that,
• 25:48
  that footage,
• 25:48
  uh,
• 25:49
  in every imaginable way.
• 25:50
  Um,
• 25:52
  frame by frame zooming in,
• 25:54
  stop
• 25:54
  writing down all the audio.
• 25:56
  I,
• 25:56
  I mean,
• 25:56
  really thorough analysis that Joe Hanneman and I did,
• 25:59
  uh,
• 26:00
  when,
• 26:00
  because we were assigned to this,
• 26:02
  uh,
• 26:02
  uh,
• 26:03
  January 13th story,
• 26:04
  you know,
• 26:05
  on Monday after,
• 26:06
  after the,
• 26:06
  the shooting took place,
• 26:08
  and so we've been on it ever since,
• 26:09
  and July,
• 26:10
  July 13th,
• 26:11
  right?
• 26:11
  July 13th,
• 26:12
  it was,
• 26:13
  but on the 15th was when we were assigned the story
• 26:16
  and so.
• 26:17
  We've been on it ever since we've been obsessed with it.
• 26:19
  Um,
• 26:20
  I,
• 26:20
  I,
• 26:21
  I know so many things that we have not yet even published yet.
• 26:24
  We have so many sources that have been,
• 26:26
  uh,
• 26:26
  feeding us information,
• 26:28
  a lot of consultation from experts,
• 26:30
  including,
• 26:30
  uh,
• 26:31
  one of the great things,
• 26:32
  and we're really blessed to have this is we have access to
• 26:35
  the actual individuals who train
• 26:38
  Secret Service snipers.
• 26:40
  And what they're feeding us in terms of their
• 26:42
  expert analysis is frightening.
• 26:45
  They see too many things
• 26:48
  that they can't
• 26:49
  answer for
• 26:50
  are
• 26:51
  are not even willing to categorize as
• 26:54
  failure or incompetency
• 26:57
  because it's too
• 26:58
  many
• 26:59
  things and the one thing that they
• 27:01
  that the experts are telling us
• 27:02
  is
• 27:03
  they are suspicious by.
• 27:05
  A dozen different characteristics
• 27:08
  that Crooks had preparation,
• 27:10
  had grooming
• 27:11
  from somebody who
• 27:13
  knew how to tell him
• 27:15
  how to access that point
• 27:17
  that he knew that it was going to be an unsecured point
• 27:19
  and
• 27:19
  that.
• 27:21
  His
• 27:21
  behavior even on the roof
• 27:23
  showed that he believed
• 27:25
  that he was OK.
• 27:26
  He's walking across a
• 27:28
  complex of several buildings.
• 27:31
  Upright
• 27:31
  with no fear until he gets to the rooftop
• 27:34
  where he takes his prone
• 27:35
  position.
• 27:36
  Yes,
• 27:36
  this is what's so difficult to understand because you know
• 27:39
  I tend to shy away from,
• 27:41
  you know,
• 27:41
  conspiracy theories.
• 27:42
  Like I don't go down those roads very often.
• 27:44
  And
• 27:46
  I don't know what this was.
• 27:47
  I mean,
• 27:48
  I do have a very strong belief in government incompetence,
• 27:50
  so it's possible it's related to that only,
• 27:53
  but I can understand why people are going down these
• 27:55
  roads.
• 27:56
  This is not some,
• 27:57
  I mean it seems much more believable
• 27:59
  that a guy could be up in a book depository as a car drives by.
• 28:03
  That seems like totally rational to me that one person could pull that off.
• 28:05
  This seems
• 28:06
  insane,
• 28:07
  not to mention the fact that the shooter himself does not seem.
• 28:10
  To the level that he'd be able to accomplish this,
• 28:13
  as you say,
• 28:13
  he's just walking across like a normal person.
• 28:16
  None of it makes any sense.
• 28:17
  It makes no sense whatsoever.
• 28:19
  And,
• 28:20
  and again,
• 28:21
  when you,
• 28:21
  when you,
• 28:22
  you start from the beginning of this guy's
• 28:24
  timeline,
• 28:25
  the character,
• 28:26
  he was training at a
• 28:28
  shooting range for 10.5 months before the day,
• 28:31
  but the event itself was only planned
• 28:33
  2 weeks or announced 2 weeks out
• 28:35
  and maybe planning a couple more weeks before that that may have leaked out.
• 28:40
  The guys that we consult
• 28:42
  30 years in the intelligence community and in our special forces
• 28:47
  tell me directly.
• 28:49
  That they recognize
• 28:51
  their own
• 28:52
  handiwork.
• 28:55
  This is what we do.
• 28:56
  This is,
• 28:57
  I'm quoting,
• 28:57
  this is what we do in other countries.
• 28:59
  This is what we do in Central America,
• 29:01
  Africa,
• 29:01
  the Middle East,
• 29:02
  China.
• 29:03
  We groom
• 29:05
  young
• 29:05
  disaffected
• 29:06
  young men
• 29:07
  into being ready
• 29:09
  should we need to
• 29:10
  activate them.
• 29:12
  I mean,
• 29:13
  it's a frightening thought,
• 29:15
  but that's,
• 29:15
  but that's what,
• 29:16
  that's exactly
• 29:17
  what one of these guys told me 30 years on our special forces,
• 29:21
  he said.
• 29:21
  What scares me is I recognize my own
• 29:25
  handiwork.
• 29:26
  Well,
• 29:27
  uh,
• 29:27
  something tells me there's a lot more
• 29:29
  that we're going to be learning about this story over the coming months and,
• 29:31
  and years,
• 29:32
  and I know you'll be on top of it.
• 29:33
  Steve Baker,
• 29:34
  the,
• 29:34
  the,
• 29:34
  the,
• 29:35
  uh,
• 29:35
  story is called Police Saw Crooks Run Across Roof 3 Minutes
• 29:39
  before
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  One of the strangest stories,
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  and I mean a different twist and turn every day or two.
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  it's terrifying to think about what this could mean.
• 29:49
  Uh,
• 29:49
  Steve,
• 29:49
  thanks so much for coming on,
• 29:50
  man.
• 29:50
  Thank you,
• 29:51
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  Well,
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  I think we can all come together and see Kamala Harris as the hero
• 31:01
  that she is,
• 31:02
  uh,
• 31:02
  the world's greatest
• 31:04
  human being.
• 31:05
  And that's the most negative coverage that
• 31:07
  Kamala Harris has received since she announced her
• 31:10
  candidacy.
• 31:11
  She got this from Time magazine.
• 31:12
  Her moment.
• 31:14
  Yes,
• 31:15
  her
• 31:16
  moment.
• 31:18
  Um,
• 31:19
  look,
• 31:19
  look at this cover.
• 31:20
  Look at this thing.
• 31:21
  I mean,
• 31:21
  she,
• 31:21
  it's,
• 31:22
  it's like a,
• 31:23
  uh,
• 31:23
  like an Instagram filter of what she might look like if someone who was very,
• 31:27
  very generous drew her.
• 31:29
  Uh,
• 31:29
  that is a,
• 31:30
  uh,
• 31:31
  it's an interesting.
• 31:32
  I don't think she actually looks like that in real life,
• 31:33
  but whatever.
• 31:34
  Bottom line is,
• 31:35
  uh,
• 31:36
  you see this glowing cover,
• 31:37
  cover of,
• 31:38
  uh,
• 31:39
  of with Kamala on it,
• 31:40
  a little different than the Donald Trump cover that
• 31:42
  happened after he won the presidency the first time,
• 31:44
  which made him look like he was going to beat up a little kid.
• 31:48
  I don't know if you remember that one,
• 31:49
  but it was not so,
• 31:50
  so pretty.
• 31:51
  The coverage has been absolutely ridiculous for Harris,
• 31:53
  and honestly,
• 31:54
  with this coverage,
• 31:55
  she should be up by 20 points.
• 31:56
  The fact that it's a close election is is
• 31:58
  really amazing and it kind of shows that people do
• 32:01
  sort of see through this stuff,
• 32:02
  but.
• 32:03
  Really Trump's got to do something to break up this momentum.
• 32:06
  The convention is next week.
• 32:08
  We'll be covering that,
• 32:08
  of course,
• 32:09
  as we go.
• 32:10
  The Harris campaign is continuing to do the nonsense that they've always done.
• 32:13
  In this particular case,
• 32:14
  they're
• 32:15
  posting yet again the debunked claim that
• 32:17
  Trump called Charlottesville neo-Nazis very fine people.
• 32:20
  Now Snopes.
• 32:21
  Already fact checked this,
• 32:22
  we've gone over that.
• 32:23
  We did an entire monologue of it,
• 32:24
  I don't know,
• 32:24
  a couple of years ago,
• 32:26
  going through exactly what he said,
• 32:27
  and he specifically says,
• 32:28
  of course,
• 32:29
  that it's not talking about neo-Nazis
• 32:31
  at all.
• 32:31
  In fact,
• 32:32
  he specifically exempts them
• 32:34
  from the very fine people that he is describing,
• 32:36
  but the
• 32:38
  Paris campaign doesn't care.
• 32:40
  They don't care.
• 32:40
  They don't care about lying because that's what they are,
• 32:42
  liars.
• 32:43
  You can't get a job working there if you're not one.
• 32:46
  So that is essentially what is going on.
• 32:48
  They are kind of despicable but very expected.
• 32:51
  Now the FBI is investigating after the Trump campaign has been hacked.
• 32:55
  Sensitive documents
• 32:57
  were leaked to all sorts of political
• 33:00
  reporters and news institutions.
• 33:02
  We talked about this a little bit yesterday.
• 33:04
  They believe it was Iran that did it.
• 33:06
  The reason why they think that
• 33:07
  Microsoft had reported a hack attempt by Iran
• 33:11
  in the days leading up to this particular incident.
• 33:14
  They do,
• 33:15
  you know,
• 33:15
  it was a malicious link type of situation,
• 33:18
  so they were able to get the vetting documents of JD Vance,
• 33:22
  among other things,
• 33:23
  and they started leaking that to reporters.
• 33:25
  We don't know if Iran was really behind it quite yet,
• 33:27
  but that is what the belief is at this time.
• 33:29
  Now we do not believe
• 33:30
  that Iran
• 33:32
  was responsible for this,
• 33:34
  a break-in at a Trump campaign office
• 33:37
  in Virginia.
• 33:38
  Authorities said Monday they are investigating a burglary.
• 33:41
  At a Donald Trump campaign office in suburban Virginia,
• 33:44
  circulating
• 33:45
  surveillance video of a man inside the building
• 33:48
  with what appears to be a full backpack.
• 33:50
  The break was reported on Sunday after the campaign office in Ashburn,
• 33:55
  according to
• 33:55
  the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.
• 33:58
  It is about 30 miles west of downtown Washington.
• 34:02
  Uh,
• 34:02
  they say it's rare to have the office of any political campaign
• 34:06
  broken into,
• 34:07
  said the sheriff.
• 34:09
  I mean,
• 34:09
  I guess at some points it probably was rare.
• 34:11
  Now totally expected,
• 34:13
  honestly,
• 34:14
  and,
• 34:14
  uh,
• 34:15
  you know what,
• 34:16
  probably Iran.
• 34:17
  Don't worry about it,
• 34:18
  probably.
• 34:19
  Iran and finally on the campaign front,
• 34:21
  and we're going to have probably a new episode
• 34:23
  of State of the Race coming later this week as we get ramped up for
• 34:28
  the big
• 34:29
  conventions which start next week.
• 34:32
  You're about to see even more positive coverage of Kamala Harris.
• 34:35
  I think
• 34:37
  the shine is starting to come off a little bit with voters,
• 34:39
  but not too much yet.
• 34:41
  I think it's going to take another week or two before that really starts kicking in
• 34:44
  and people start getting sick of the Tim Walsh shtick and.
• 34:47
  The Kamala Harris nonsense and
• 34:49
  eventually someone's going to force her to actually do an interview,
• 34:52
  I think.
• 34:53
  But maybe with a sprint like this a few months,
• 34:55
  she could actually avoid it completely.
• 34:57
  But one of the most important things,
• 34:58
  and one of the reasons I believe Joe Biden was elected is that
• 35:01
  he ran on a platform of something that
• 35:03
  you really can't disagree with.
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  Uh,
• 35:06
  he ran on a platform of curing cancer.
• 35:09
  And most people don't like cancer.
• 35:11
  Cancer,
• 35:11
  not very popular,
• 35:12
  has a lower approval rating than even Joe Biden,
• 35:15
  so that's
• 35:16
  notable
• 35:17
  because it's difficult to do.
• 35:19
  But Biden is now announcing a $150 million research grant.
• 35:22
  I guess he didn't care for the last 3.5 years on this one,
• 35:24
  but
• 35:25
  cares now that he's trying to,
• 35:27
  uh,
• 35:27
  win an election for his partner there.
• 35:29
  Uh,
• 35:29
  $150 million in a part of his moonshot push to fight cancer.
• 35:35
  They say that
• 35:36
  I remember this clip.
• 35:37
  I don't remember a moonshot push to fight cancer or
• 35:40
  to lower mortality rates of cancer.
• 35:43
  We were told he was going to cure cancer if he was elected.
• 35:47
  That is the clip
• 35:48
  that was very,
• 35:49
  very clear.
• 35:49
  He said it over and over again actually,
• 35:51
  but we have the.
• 35:51
  Clip,
• 35:52
  on the website,
• 35:53
  and I think if you're curious to see if he has
• 35:56
  actually cured cancer yet,
• 35:58
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  Do you ever get the feeling that
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  good things don't happen?
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  It seems like we talk about the news all the time and you think to yourself,
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  no,
• 38:12
  things just don't go our way.
• 38:13
  It's all bad outcomes and
• 38:15
  the future looks dark and,
• 38:17
  and gloomy and awful and
• 38:20
  just
• 38:20
  positive things don't happen to you.
• 38:23
  Have you ever felt that way?
• 38:24
  Well,
• 38:24
  I'm here to tell you that's not true,
• 38:26
  and I can tell you a couple of examples.
• 38:28
  Number 1,
• 38:29
  Jamal Bowman lost his primary.
• 38:31
  Number 2,
• 38:32
  Corey Bush
• 38:33
  lost her primary.
• 38:34
  And let me give you a maybe.
• 38:37
  On number 3,
• 38:38
  Omar,
• 38:40
  yes,
• 38:40
  Ilhan Omar
• 38:42
  is looking to avoid the same fate as Bowman and Bush in the latest squad primary.
• 38:46
  Now Ilhan Omar had the closest
• 38:48
  primary last time,
• 38:49
  she barely survived in her primary
• 38:51
  a couple of years ago,
• 38:53
  and now
• 38:54
  she has the same opponent in what looks to be a very close
• 38:58
  election once again.
• 39:00
  Uh,
• 39:00
  we will see if this happens,
• 39:01
  it's tomorrow,
• 39:02
  I believe,
• 39:02
  right?
• 39:03
  Tomorrow is the actual primary.
• 39:05
  So we will find out hopefully on Tuesday night and come
• 39:07
  back with you maybe on a state of the race episode
• 39:09
  and tell you the wonderful news that Elanamar is not coming back to Congress
• 39:14
  in a couple of years.
• 39:14
  Maybe she can go back to Maroon 5 videos.
• 39:17
  Maybe that's her future.
• 39:18
  But until then,
• 39:19
  we hope that she loses
• 39:21
  horribly,
• 39:21
  and I,
• 39:22
  and to tell you the truth,
• 39:23
  I have no idea if her opponent's any good.
• 39:25
  My guess is probably not,
• 39:27
  but
• 39:28
  anything other than her,
• 39:29
  frankly,
• 39:29
  um,
• 39:30
  I'm,
• 39:30
  I'm ready to.
• 39:31
  At least give it a whirl.
• 39:32
  So we'll see how that turns out.
• 39:34
  RFK Junior is not going to win New York.
• 39:36
  This is a breaking news announcement.
• 39:38
  We've called the state of New York
• 39:40
  for someone other than RFK Junior.
• 39:42
  How do I know that?
• 39:42
  Well,
• 39:43
  he's not going to be on the ballot.
• 39:43
  It's going to be really hard to win.
• 39:44
  Now,
• 39:45
  occasionally people do win write-in campaigns.
• 39:47
  Lisa Murkowski did it.
• 39:48
  It's pretty rare,
• 39:50
  but you can win a write-in campaign.
• 39:52
  I will say.
• 39:54
  Probably not going to happen in RFK Junior's case here.
• 39:58
  They've thrown him off the ballot.
• 39:59
  They've been trying to do this in every state.
• 40:01
  Now,
• 40:01
  New York,
• 40:02
  it makes no difference
• 40:03
  because it's not going to be competitive anyway,
• 40:05
  and Donald Trump is not going to be able to win New York.
• 40:07
  This is going to be
• 40:08
  a Kamala Harris or whoever the Democratic nominee
• 40:11
  is.
• 40:11
  They may switch.
• 40:12
  Kamala out 3 or 4 times before the election actually comes,
• 40:16
  but that is only a few months away,
• 40:18
  boys and girls,
• 40:19
  and I,
• 40:19
  I,
• 40:20
  we have to look this up,
• 40:21
  and I keep remembering this is one of the dates I
• 40:23
  want to write down and have in front of me,
• 40:25
  but,
• 40:26
  and Adam,
• 40:26
  write this down.
• 40:27
  When does early voting start?
• 40:28
  because I think it's mid-September in a lot of these states.
• 40:31
  Uh,
• 40:32
  and mid-September is not that far away.
• 40:34
  We're in mid,
• 40:35
  uh,
• 40:35
  August,
• 40:36
  so,
• 40:37
  you know,
• 40:37
  like,
• 40:37
  we got like a month until voting actually starts.
• 40:40
  That's how close we are to this election.
• 40:41
  So all this stuff
• 40:42
  matters.
• 40:43
  We also need to do a chalkboard show and,
• 40:45
  and line out these states for you.
• 40:47
  Maybe,
• 40:47
  maybe we'll do that this week,
• 40:48
  maybe.
• 40:48
  Thursday
• 40:49
  we'll kind of give you a uh an early picture as to where these states are falling,
• 40:53
  what the electoral map looks like right now.
• 40:57
  Soon we'll get into the Senate and the House as well,
• 40:58
  but,
• 40:59
  uh,
• 40:59
  that's where we are at this moment.
• 41:01
  Uh,
• 41:01
  Hillbilly Elegy,
• 41:02
  uh,
• 41:02
  she,
• 41:02
  the star of that is Glenn Close,
• 41:04
  and she's now mocking JD Vance.
• 41:06
  Because
• 41:07
  of the childless cat lady's remarks,
• 41:09
  which is
• 41:09
  the most innocuous thing I've ever heard.
• 41:11
  Can we stop with this,
• 41:12
  can we act,
• 41:12
  can we stop acting like this is a big deal?
• 41:15
  So what,
• 41:15
  he made a freaking sarcastic comment about a few women that he doesn't like.
• 41:19
  So what?
• 41:20
  How is this even a news story?
• 41:22
  It's not a news story,
• 41:22
  it's just the media making it into a a news story.
• 41:25
  He's just,
• 41:26
  he was being a wiseass in an interview 3 or 4 years ago in a primary.
• 41:30
  Do we hold people to their positions in primaries?
• 41:33
  At that point,
• 41:34
  looking like,
• 41:34
  you know,
• 41:34
  like kind of a wise ass was,
• 41:36
  was beneficial to JD Vance to win a conservative
• 41:38
  primary at that time.
• 41:39
  So do we also hold Kamala Harris to what she said in the primary?
• 41:43
  It doesn't seem like the media is interested in that at all.
• 41:45
  And those are actual policy pronouncements,
• 41:47
  not wise ass remarks in jokey interviews.
• 41:51
  It is unbelievable that the childless cat ladies thing is still a thing,
• 41:56
  but there it is.
• 41:56
  And all these people who love JD Vance when he's got all the venture capital,
• 42:00
  they love it when they want to star in his movies,
• 42:03
  and they're making him money by getting people to watch his movies.
• 42:06
  They love it when he's got the,
• 42:08
  the book,
• 42:08
  but now that he's taking positions on low taxes,
• 42:11
  he's a bad person.
• 42:12
  I don't like him.
• 42:14
  He said childless cat ladies.
• 42:15
  And he dressed up in drag once,
• 42:18
  which I guess at this moment is bad,
• 42:20
  even though we've been saying it's good when people are
• 42:22
  shaking their genitals in the face of children every day.
• 42:25
  That's totally fine,
• 42:26
  but the fact that when he was in college,
• 42:28
  he dressed up as a girl for Halloween,
• 42:30
  we're gonna mock him for that online.
• 42:32
  This is just nonsense.
• 42:33
  And I hope you can see through it.
• 42:34
  I bet you can.
• 42:35
  I just don't know if I have faith that half the country
• 42:38
  is able to do so.
• 42:47
  So the pandemic is in the rearview mirror,
• 42:48
  but the social and economic ramifications are still hitting us today.
• 42:52
  Are we gonna just allow them to distract us and make us forget everything they did?
• 42:56
  Well,
• 42:57
  no,
• 42:57
  is the answer to that.
• 42:58
  That's why in episode two of the cover-up,
• 43:00
  Matt Kibbe and Senator Rand Paul uncover the truth behind the origins of COVID-19,
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  the lies and crimes of Doctor Anthony Fauci,
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  and
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  work to expose who was protecting him
• 43:10
  from the contentious hearings,
• 43:12
  of course,
• 43:12
  that Fauci had with,
• 43:14
  uh,
• 43:14
  with Rand Paul.
• 43:15
  Those were,
• 43:15
  those were adventures.
• 43:17
  Um,
• 43:17
  well,
• 43:17
  we're going to look at all that information.
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• 43:23
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