Latest / Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar / 5/18/26: Thomas Massie Rips Israel Lobby, US Preps Cuba War, Trump Pumps Stocks
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- 0:33Speaker 2: Republican Congressman Thomas Massey facing a fierce and extremely well funded,
- 0:39Speaker 2: like literally this is now the most expensive congressional race
- 0:42Speaker 2: in history opponent in his primary tomorrow. He went on
- 0:46Speaker 2: the Sunday Shows yesterday to talk about the dynamics and
- 0:49Speaker 2: the importance of his race.
- 0:50Speaker 4: Let's take a listen.
- 0:51Speaker 5: We're facing a primary on Tuesday, and the wake of
- 0:54Speaker 5: Senator Bill Cassidy is lost in the primaries yesterday in Louisiana.
- 0:56Speaker 5: The President has been up posting on truth social throughout
- 0:59Speaker 5: the night and Indo Morning about you. Just a few
- 1:01Speaker 5: minutes ago he posted this. I want to show her
- 1:03Speaker 5: viewers right now. Bad Congressman Tom Massey voted against tax cuts,
- 1:07Speaker 5: the border wall, our military enforcement, actually voted against almost
- 1:11Speaker 5: everything that is good. The worst congressman in history Kentucky.
- 1:15Speaker 5: Vote the bum out on Tuesday. We can't live with
- 1:17Speaker 5: this troublemaker for another two years. He's a true negative force.
- 1:20Speaker 6: Your response, well, I think that's going to help my
- 1:25Speaker 6: fundraising at Thomasmassey dot com. Every time he tweets about me,
- 1:29Speaker 6: it's good for you some money coming in because people
- 1:33Speaker 6: don't like that. And you know how did this race
- 1:36Speaker 6: become the most expensive race in the history of Congress
- 1:39Speaker 6: for a primary. It's because three billionaires from outside of
- 1:42Speaker 6: Kentucky have funneled millions of dollars in here. They're trying
- 1:46Speaker 6: to buy a seat. And so it's not just the
- 1:48Speaker 6: president's tweets. I could sustain those without a problem. It's
- 1:52Speaker 6: because Miriam Maidlson and Paul Singer have dumped money in here.
- 1:55Speaker 6: In fact, Miriam Madelson has given so much money to
- 1:58Speaker 6: my opponent, then instead of paying for the ballroom, they're
- 2:00Speaker 6: going to need taxpayer money. For the ballroom.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Now that's a good line. Well, I mean he's completely correct.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Let's see two be up on the screen. Because I
- 2:08Speaker 2: think this lays on a very important dynamic. So if
- 2:11Speaker 2: you look at the three most expensive congressional races in history,
- 2:16Speaker 2: with Thomas Massey is now being the most expensive congressional
- 2:20Speaker 2: race in history or house race, I should say, in history,
- 2:23Speaker 2: all three of them have something in common. All three
- 2:26Speaker 2: of them. The incumbent ran a foul of the Israel lobby,
- 2:31Speaker 2: and you had million spent against them successfully in the
- 2:34Speaker 2: case of Jamal Bowman and Corey Bush, in order to
- 2:37Speaker 2: defeat them. So this person lays it out in case
- 2:39Speaker 2: people are not fully grasping the absurdity of this. The
- 2:42Speaker 2: typical house primary spends one hundred k to five hundred
- 2:45Speaker 2: k total candidates and outside groups with the entire race.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Many safe district can come and spend almost nothing in
- 2:50Speaker 2: the primary, which would normally be the case for Thomas Massey.
- 2:53Speaker 2: This one thirty five million dollars plus in total spending,
- 2:58Speaker 2: by far the most expensive you House primary in history.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Prior record was twenty five point four million. That was
- 3:05Speaker 2: Jamal Bowman versus I think George Latimer in a Democratic
- 3:09Speaker 2: primary before that, seventeen point nine to nineteen point four
- 3:12Speaker 2: million roughly for Missouri's first congressional district.
- 3:16Speaker 4: That was Corey Bush versus Bell.
- 3:18Speaker 2: There's a rematch of that going on right now. Look
- 3:20Speaker 2: into these three races and see where that money came
- 3:23Speaker 2: from and why this coordinated effort. It was successful twice already.
- 3:26Speaker 2: We will see if it's successful for a third time.
- 3:29Speaker 2: So it is not an accident who these candidates were.
- 3:32Speaker 2: These were all people who didn't fully, fully one hundred
- 3:35Speaker 2: percent toe the line on Israel, and so millions were
- 3:39Speaker 2: spent against them to defeat them. Now, in the case
- 3:41Speaker 2: of Thomas Massey, it's not just Israel, it's also him
- 3:44Speaker 2: working with Rocana to help release the Epstein files that
- 3:48Speaker 2: really drew the ire of Trump. So Trump gets involved,
- 3:51Speaker 2: starts attacking him relentlessly online. They recruit this opponent for
- 3:56Speaker 2: Thomas Massey, and then all of these this money flows
- 3:59Speaker 2: in to support this guy. Now, Thomas Massey, this is
- 4:04Speaker 2: pretty interesting reporting from Ken Klippenstein, and can put CE
- 4:08Speaker 2: seven up on the screen. His opponent is this guy
- 4:11Speaker 2: Ed Gollerin, and his whole thing is that he was
- 4:14Speaker 2: in Seal Team six. But when he talks about his background,
- 4:18Speaker 2: basically what he'll tell voters is like, oh, it's all classified,
- 4:21Speaker 2: but the president knows what I did, and the President's
- 4:23Speaker 2: behind me, so you should just trust him that I
- 4:25Speaker 2: have the experience and that I would be a good,
- 4:28Speaker 2: you know, a good representative for you, And says I
- 4:30Speaker 2: went through all of Ed Gallerin's interviews and this guy's
- 4:33Speaker 2: laughably deep state. He literally says his background is classified sites,
- 4:37Speaker 2: anonymous endorsements from unnamed national security officials, and more. The
- 4:41Speaker 2: headline on his piece is Aron war versus Epstein files.
- 4:44Speaker 2: Politician whos background a secret challenge is one who released
- 4:47Speaker 2: Epstein files. So those are the dynamics of the race, Sager.
- 4:51Speaker 2: The polling is very close. I saw one poll that
- 4:54Speaker 2: had it literally fifty to fifty.
- 4:57Speaker 4: Huge generational to find it.
- 4:58Speaker 3: It is a battle of the generations, which honestly, I'm
- 5:02Speaker 3: not that opt I want Thomas Massey to win. I
- 5:04Speaker 3: would you know, it would be something that I think
- 5:07Speaker 3: would be I think it would finally show some level
- 5:11Speaker 3: of independence within the magabase, within some you know, beloved
- 5:16Speaker 3: nature of these shitsters and these independence. But there's just
- 5:20Speaker 3: not a lot of data to back any of that up.
- 5:24Speaker 3: It would take the first time ever for a MAGA base,
- 5:29Speaker 3: like and remember when we talk about Trump's diminishing approval,
- 5:33Speaker 3: MAGA is still behind him one hundred percent. It's just
- 5:35Speaker 3: a MAGA makes up a smaller slice of the country
- 5:37Speaker 3: than ever before.
- 5:38Speaker 1: But people who are quote.
- 5:39Speaker 3: MAGA and especially You've got to think, who are the
- 5:41Speaker 3: type of people who show up to go vote in
- 5:42Speaker 3: a Republican primary. These are the diehards that always have
- 5:46Speaker 3: been those people. I mean, their mainline in Fox News
- 5:49Speaker 3: all day long. And this is part of the problem
- 5:51Speaker 3: is in that generational divide. Massy leads with every group
- 5:55Speaker 3: below age what was it forty five, it's like a blowout.
- 5:59Speaker 4: I think it's even older than that.
- 6:00Speaker 3: So then it starts to get mixed around that like
- 6:02Speaker 3: fifty to fifty nature when you get like a forty
- 6:04Speaker 3: five to sixty five, But then when it's sixty five
- 6:06Speaker 3: and above, it's a blowout for ed Gallring. So I mean,
- 6:10Speaker 3: it would have to be a zoron Mumdani like primary,
- 6:14Speaker 3: like well, and here's change the electric.
- 6:16Speaker 2: And here's the problem problem too is first of all,
- 6:18Speaker 2: most young people are not Republicans, even in Kentucky. Second
- 6:22Speaker 2: of all, it's a closed primary in Kentucky. I just
- 6:25Speaker 2: looked it up to double check, which means you have
- 6:27Speaker 2: to you know, you have to choose to vote on
- 6:30Speaker 2: the Republican line. You have to be part of the
- 6:32Speaker 2: Republican Party, and so you know that cuts off. If
- 6:35Speaker 2: you had you could imagine even in a district this
- 6:38Speaker 2: is an overwhelmingly Republican district, I think I looked it up.
- 6:40Speaker 4: Trump won by like thirty points or something like that.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Even in that district, though, you're going to have some
- 6:45Speaker 2: chunk of Democrats. You could imagine them voting for Thomas
- 6:48Speaker 2: Massey in the primary and crossing over and certainly independent.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Same deal, but in a closed primary system that really
- 6:54Speaker 2: limits the ability of that. So I think you would.
- 6:56Speaker 2: I think he would win if it was an open
- 6:58Speaker 2: primary system. As it is, it's gonna be very tough.
- 7:02Speaker 2: The thing that he has to hope for is that
- 7:05Speaker 2: his supporters are more motivated, yeah than Gallrain supporters, And
- 7:08Speaker 2: that's possible. That's certainly possible. Again, the polling shows it
- 7:11Speaker 2: very close. But like you, it seems like in the
- 7:15Speaker 2: waning days the momentum has shifted towards Golrain. And then
- 7:20Speaker 2: you also had this Cassidy race in Louisiana. Before that,
- 7:24Speaker 2: you had where Cassidy had voted for Trump's impeachment back
- 7:28Speaker 2: in the first after over January sixth, back in the.
- 7:32Speaker 4: First Trump administration.
- 7:33Speaker 2: And even though he's told the line since then, he's
- 7:36Speaker 2: been on trump shit list ever since. He didn't even
- 7:38Speaker 2: get in the top two. He placed third place. In
- 7:41Speaker 2: this race. You had these Indiana local legislators who bucked
- 7:46Speaker 2: Trump on redrawing jerrymandering their state. Every single one of
- 7:50Speaker 2: them that voted against the jerrymander was defeated, So the
- 7:54Speaker 2: man just still Look, it's still Trump's party when it
- 7:57Speaker 2: comes down to it.
- 7:58Speaker 3: The median Republican primary voter is fifty five years old,
- 8:02Speaker 3: all right, And then the largest block outside of forty
- 8:05Speaker 3: five to sixty four is the sixty five plus crowd.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Eighteen to twenty nine makes up the smallest demographic of
- 8:10Speaker 3: the people who vote in a primary, and there's a
- 8:12Speaker 3: modest share of people who vote thirty to forty four.
- 8:15Speaker 3: Now listen, with the vast amount of money, this could change,
- 8:17Speaker 3: but again, it would have to be a Zoron style situation.
- 8:20Speaker 3: I don't know a ton about the district. You were
- 8:22Speaker 3: telling me it's suburban. That's not a bad thing because
- 8:25Speaker 3: thus the demographic of the type of Republican who would
- 8:27Speaker 3: have voted for Trump but who is now disaffected, and
- 8:30Speaker 3: they may vote Thomas Massey as a fu to Donald
- 8:33Speaker 3: Trump a little unlikely generally in terms of how those
- 8:36Speaker 3: demos vote. But you know, a lot of local communities
- 8:40Speaker 3: very rarely want to feel as if they're a tool
- 8:42Speaker 3: of Washington. So if you have tens of millions of
- 8:45Speaker 3: dollars pour into your race, usually that can have a
- 8:48Speaker 3: piss off effect of the locals who are like, hey,
- 8:50Speaker 3: hold on a second, we get to decide. So I
- 8:51Speaker 3: don't want to count him out whatsoever, but I do
- 8:53Speaker 3: want to asset expectations.
- 8:54Speaker 1: I listened to him on Tucker Even he is not
- 8:56Speaker 1: certain he's going to win. He goes.
- 8:57Speaker 3: He literally says, I may lose. He's being very realistic
- 9:01Speaker 3: about how this goes. Some of that's a fundraising possibility.
- 9:05Speaker 3: There is a level of inspiration in the fundraising is
- 9:07Speaker 3: all these billionaires came in against him. The average donor
- 9:10Speaker 3: to him is a small dollar donor from either inside
- 9:13Speaker 3: the district or out the rest of the country. People
- 9:15Speaker 3: who are not connected into the system in any way.
- 9:17Speaker 3: They're not being bundled. They're like viewers of our shows
- 9:20Speaker 3: or others who've got twenty five thirty bucks and they're like, hey,
- 9:22Speaker 3: you know what, we can't allow some is pro Israel
- 9:25Speaker 3: billionaire from you know, God knows what to control our elections.
- 9:29Speaker 3: So at the very least, there is a level of
- 9:30Speaker 3: inspiration if if he does lose, for creating this ecosystem
- 9:34Speaker 3: showing what these referendums can be. But you know, we
- 9:37Speaker 3: have to be very realistic about within the Republican Party,
- 9:40Speaker 3: I just don't think that there's an appetite for this.
- 9:41Speaker 1: I just don't.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Look if you poll Republicans, there has been some movement,
- 9:45Speaker 2: especially among young Republicans on Israel, but overall still Republicans
- 9:50Speaker 2: are with Israel, are with the pro Israel consensus, just
- 9:54Speaker 2: you know, based on the polling, and they are very
- 9:57Speaker 2: much still in the maga pro Trump camp.
- 10:01Speaker 4: So it's a lot. It's a lot to go up against.
- 10:03Speaker 2: Frankly, the fact he even has a shot it's kind
- 10:05Speaker 2: of a miracle and a real testament to you know,
- 10:07Speaker 2: how much people just like personally respect him and his
- 10:10Speaker 2: independence We talked to Rocanna on Friday, who obviously has
- 10:14Speaker 2: partnered with Thomas Massey on things like war powers resolution,
- 10:17Speaker 2: and obviously Epstein and Thomas Massy has also been pretty
- 10:21Speaker 2: courageous in voting against some of these like speech codes
- 10:23Speaker 2: when it comes to Israel as well. But in any case,
- 10:26Speaker 2: we asked him what do you think is at stake here?
- 10:29Speaker 2: And he said, you know, it's not just about him,
- 10:31Speaker 2: it's about is there an ability to have any independence
- 10:33Speaker 2: in Congress? Yeah, we used to have more of these characters.
- 10:36Speaker 2: You call him like gadflies, and I think that name
- 10:38Speaker 2: is meant to be.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Sort of distiled.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Great.
- 10:39Speaker 1: I think that's a good thing. I support.
- 10:41Speaker 2: I support having gadslides because you know, I love having
- 10:44Speaker 2: that person who's willing to be the one in the
- 10:46Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty four to one. Bernie Sanders was
- 10:48Speaker 2: that guy from the vast majority of his career, and
- 10:51Speaker 2: he also though, know how to work with like minded
- 10:54Speaker 2: legislators on both sides of the aisle to get his
- 10:57Speaker 2: amendments through and get some legislation through as well. But
- 11:00Speaker 2: it really, you know, creates a much more dynamic body
- 11:03Speaker 2: when you have at least some ability for people to
- 11:05Speaker 2: be independent, and the level of control that Trump expects
- 11:08Speaker 2: and exercises over these people is truly truly extraordinary and
- 11:13Speaker 2: very very disturbing. You know, on the I mentioned Cassidy
- 11:17Speaker 2: down in Louisiana. So Bill Cassidy, he's a doctor. He
- 11:22Speaker 2: had a lot of concerns. He clearly didn't want to
- 11:25Speaker 2: vote for our RFK Junior for HHS Secretary, but he
- 11:28Speaker 2: knew it was going to be a problem for him
- 11:30Speaker 2: politically if he voted against him. So he sucked it
- 11:34Speaker 2: up and he voted for RFK Junior. And he has
- 11:37Speaker 2: been you know, he hasn't said a word against Trump.
- 11:39Speaker 2: He's he's been totally you know, on board with the program,
- 11:43Speaker 2: voting for whatever Trump wants them to vote for, blah
- 11:45Speaker 2: blah blah.
- 11:46Speaker 4: But because he had taken.
- 11:48Speaker 2: This one vote for Trump's impeagement over January sixth, he
- 11:53Speaker 2: was permanently put on the shit list. And so it
- 11:56Speaker 2: didn't matter what he did. It didn't matter that he
- 11:58Speaker 2: voted for everything. It didn't matter that he swallowed his
- 12:00Speaker 2: concerns about RFK Junior and voted for him, et cetera.
- 12:03Speaker 2: He ended up losing. He not only did he he's
- 12:07Speaker 2: like not get the top spot. He didn't even make
- 12:09Speaker 2: it into the runoff. He was the third place participant
- 12:14Speaker 2: in this Louisiana Republican Senate primary. In his concession speech,
- 12:20Speaker 2: he took some veiled shots at Trump, which I sort
- 12:23Speaker 2: of feel like, dude, at this point, your political career
- 12:26Speaker 2: is over and you're still holding back.
- 12:28Speaker 4: You still won't even say his name. I don't know.
- 12:30Speaker 4: It's kind of lame.
- 12:31Speaker 1: But wants to be a lobbyist, wants to get paid,
- 12:33Speaker 1: you know, but.
- 12:34Speaker 5: Do you look.
- 12:35Speaker 2: I mean, you could still get paid if you call
- 12:37Speaker 2: out Trump. Plenty of people out there getting paid who's
- 12:39Speaker 2: called down Trump for sure. But in any case, let's
- 12:41Speaker 2: take a listen to C three Bill Cassidy taking some
- 12:44Speaker 2: sort of veiled, passive aggressive jobs at President Trump.
- 12:47Speaker 7: I've been able to participate in democracy, and when and
- 12:51Speaker 7: when you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn't turn out
- 12:55Speaker 7: the way you wanted to. But you don't power. You
- 12:58Speaker 7: don't whine. I don't claim that election was stolen, you
- 13:02Speaker 7: don't find a reason why, you don't manufacture some excuse.
- 13:12Speaker 7: You thank the voters for the privilege. You're representing the
- 13:15Speaker 7: state or the country for as long as you've had
- 13:17Speaker 7: that privilege, and that's what I'm doing right now.
- 13:22Speaker 2: So there you go, obviously referring to Trump there, but
- 13:24Speaker 2: not saying his name. Trump is now found a new
- 13:28Speaker 2: target in the House, Lauren Bobert, who has gone to
- 13:31Speaker 2: Kentucky to campaign for Thomas Massey's She also famously was
- 13:36Speaker 2: one of four Republicans to join the Democrats in voting.
- 13:39Speaker 4: For that Epstein discharge petition. Can put C five up
- 13:42Speaker 4: on the screen.
- 13:44Speaker 2: Trump, you know, going after her, saying, is anyone interested
- 13:47Speaker 2: in running against weak minded Lauren Bobert in Colorado's fourth
- 13:50Speaker 2: congressional district. You remember, Lauren moved to the district when
- 13:53Speaker 2: it became obvious she couldn't win in her original congressional district.
- 13:56Speaker 4: A carpetbagger.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Indeed, Bobert is campaigning for the worst report publican congressman
- 14:01Speaker 2: in the history of our country, Thomas Massey the great
- 14:03Speaker 2: Commonwealth of Kentucky. Anybody who could be that dumb deserves
- 14:06Speaker 2: a good primary fight. Even though I long ago endorsed Bobert,
- 14:08Speaker 2: if the right person came along, it would be my
- 14:10Speaker 2: honor to withdraw that endorsement and endorse a good and
- 14:13Speaker 2: proper alternative. Just let me know or announce your candidacy
- 14:16Speaker 2: and I will be there for you. Let's put Marjorie
- 14:19Speaker 2: Taylor Green's tweet in response to this up on the screen.
- 14:22Speaker 2: This is C six because she lays out this dynamic.
- 14:25Speaker 2: She says, Look, there were only four of US Republicans
- 14:28Speaker 2: that signed the discharge petition to force the vote to
- 14:31Speaker 2: release the Epstein files. Thomas Massey, Nancy Mace, Lauren Bobert
- 14:34Speaker 2: and myself. Trump has come after us one by one
- 14:37Speaker 2: ever since.
- 14:38Speaker 4: Then.
- 14:39Speaker 2: President told Speaker Johnson not to allow the vote to happen,
- 14:41Speaker 2: but we courageously went against the President, refused to budge
- 14:44Speaker 2: and overrode the Speaker to force the vote on the record.
- 14:47Speaker 2: It was only when all members of Congress had to
- 14:49Speaker 2: vote on records and Republicans finally find their intestinal fortitude
- 14:53Speaker 2: to do the right thing and vote yes to release
- 14:54Speaker 2: the files. Until then, they were absurdly obedient to the
- 14:57Speaker 2: President who was doing everything in his reign of terror
- 15:00Speaker 2: to hold them back. Even now, all the files are
- 15:02Speaker 2: still not released. The Epstein class remains protected, wars are
- 15:05Speaker 2: being waged, markets are being manipulated, and the average Americans
- 15:08Speaker 2: being driven further into ruin, while the Epstein class reigns
- 15:10Speaker 2: and has yet to face any accountability. I will never
- 15:13Speaker 2: regret signing that discharge petition, refusing to back down, and
- 15:16Speaker 2: resigning as I want nothing to do with the president
- 15:18Speaker 2: and a party that bows to the Epstein class. So
- 15:22Speaker 2: you know, she's she's certainly right about the fact that
- 15:24Speaker 2: those four, in particular because of the crime of signing
- 15:28Speaker 2: onto the discharge petition, have been directly targeted by Trump
- 15:32Speaker 2: for their disobedience and Sager, we remember the pressure campaign,
- 15:35Speaker 2: which was it Nancy Mace that he brought into like
- 15:37Speaker 2: the situation.
- 15:39Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Mace just didn't answer the phone. Yes,
- 15:42Speaker 4: they were trying to call her. But Bobert dragged her in. Yeah,
- 15:44Speaker 4: he dragged her in room as much as he possible, literally.
- 15:47Speaker 3: I mean, with the full might of the government and
- 15:50Speaker 3: the highly classified setting to try and persuade her not
- 15:53Speaker 3: to vote on Epstein. There's been multiple instances. I mean,
- 15:57Speaker 3: let's just take a look at the careers of people
- 16:00Speaker 3: like Bobert and Empty That's honestly what's so disgusting I
- 16:03Speaker 3: think about it. Bobert breaks with Trump on Epstein, and
- 16:07Speaker 3: she is going to get primary. Lindsey Graham and these
- 16:09Speaker 3: people who literally ran against Trump in the primary but
- 16:12Speaker 3: kiss his ass all day long on Iran and everything else,
- 16:15Speaker 3: get total and complete endorsements from Donald Trump along with
- 16:19Speaker 3: I mean, there are multiples of people who are in
- 16:21Speaker 3: Congress right now who not only personally despise Trump but
- 16:24Speaker 3: just kiss his ass on various different things to get done,
- 16:26Speaker 3: and that's all it takes for them. But if you
- 16:28Speaker 3: buck him on one issue like Israel or Epstein or
- 16:32Speaker 3: any of that, he's willing to come out. And this
- 16:34Speaker 3: is just a prime example of what they're willing to
- 16:37Speaker 3: use his power and his culture personality to enforce.
- 16:40Speaker 1: If there were.
- 16:41Speaker 3: An effective FDR was like this, if you broke with
- 16:44Speaker 3: FDR on a few certain select things which he thought
- 16:47Speaker 3: were good, he would actually try to primary you, and
- 16:49Speaker 3: he wasn't always successful to he would try his throw,
- 16:51Speaker 3: his might, and his personal popularity and worship of himself
- 16:55Speaker 3: to actually get better Democrats elected in the people who
- 16:58Speaker 3: aligned with his policy. Trump is like, only you are
- 17:02Speaker 3: personally loyal to me, that's it, period. And if you
- 17:04Speaker 3: don't do that, if you don't glaze me constantly, then no,
- 17:07Speaker 3: I'm going to make sure that you're out. And so
- 17:10Speaker 3: that shows you like he could get Lindsay Graham out
- 17:12Speaker 3: of it. He could get Lindsay Graham out of office
- 17:13Speaker 3: in a second if he wanted to. He could get
- 17:16Speaker 3: Tom Cotton or any of these guys in any of
- 17:18Speaker 3: these hard maga red states if he wanted to primary them,
- 17:22Speaker 3: he absolutely could. But it's only Epstein and all that
- 17:25Speaker 3: that he's willing to come out and be like, Nope,
- 17:26Speaker 3: you shouldn't vote for that person.
- 17:27Speaker 1: You'll get you off.
- 17:28Speaker 2: Yeah, And FDR is more like you're a trader to
- 17:30Speaker 2: the new deal with Trump. It's like you're a trader
- 17:32Speaker 2: to me personally, and you're so right. But it takes
- 17:35Speaker 2: attention to the places where people are allowed to break,
- 17:37Speaker 2: you know. And Trump is pushing this like, okay, let's
- 17:39Speaker 2: block private equity and other perman accounty break him every
- 17:42Speaker 2: day on that, and people, i mean Republicans are Buckingham
- 17:45Speaker 2: left and right on that, and he doesn't care.
- 17:48Speaker 4: Are there any primaries to call those people? No, not
- 17:51Speaker 4: at all.
- 17:52Speaker 2: So it shows you what his priorities ultimately are. And
- 17:55Speaker 2: one last thing I'll say on this is now you've
- 17:57Speaker 2: got Tom Tellus who's retiring, who you know, can kind
- 18:01Speaker 2: of operate freely. You've got Cassidy who has is losing
- 18:05Speaker 2: his seat, so he no longer is going to be
- 18:08Speaker 2: you know, you don't have that political leverage against him.
- 18:10Speaker 2: We'll see what happens with Thomas Massey. But even if
- 18:12Speaker 2: he maintains his seed, once he gets bast has primary
- 18:16Speaker 2: and has a lock on another two years in Congress,
- 18:18Speaker 2: he'll have a little bit of a freer hand as well.
- 18:20Speaker 2: Who knows how Lauren Bobert is going to respond to
- 18:22Speaker 2: this threat of a primary challenge, et cetera.
- 18:25Speaker 3: She was already redistricted, and remember she had a problem.
- 18:28Speaker 3: She only came like two points, went very close.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think.
- 18:33Speaker 3: It could be wrong that she was either redistricted or
- 18:35Speaker 3: her you know, the map had changed for her, so
- 18:38Speaker 3: she was already I think skating on problems. She's also
- 18:41Speaker 3: become much less of a gadfly ever since the whole
- 18:43Speaker 3: Beatles incident.
- 18:44Speaker 1: So I don't know, you know, I mean, maybe she's
- 18:46Speaker 1: given up on Congress.
- 18:47Speaker 3: She doesn't even want to be there anymore, and it's
- 18:49Speaker 3: kind of just doing whatever. She's kind of just doing
- 18:51Speaker 3: whatever she wants, which would explain it.
- 18:53Speaker 4: It could, Yeah, but I.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Mean, you may have more of these people who operate
- 18:57Speaker 2: more independently because they've got nothing to lose anymore. That
- 19:00Speaker 2: could be an interesting dynamic here heading into the midterms.
- 19:03Speaker 2: But for most of these people, you know, you could
- 19:05Speaker 2: look at this from the top level and be like
- 19:07Speaker 2: Trump is so unpopular and the Republicans are going to
- 19:09Speaker 2: get destroyed, Like wouldn't any of them want to signal
- 19:12Speaker 2: their distance from him? But remember most the overwhelming majority
- 19:15Speaker 2: of these seats are not swing steep seats. The overwhelming
- 19:19Speaker 2: majority of them are like locked in ruby red, where
- 19:22Speaker 2: your bigger threat is from the primary. So that's why
- 19:25Speaker 2: for the vast majority of these people, it doesn't make
- 19:27Speaker 2: political sense. It makes moral and like you know, personal
- 19:30Speaker 2: integrity sense to actually stand.
- 19:33Speaker 4: Up on some principle.
- 19:34Speaker 2: But in terms of just cynical political calculation, for most
- 19:37Speaker 2: of these people, the path of leads, for instance, is
- 19:39Speaker 2: just to go along with whatever it is that Trump
- 19:41Speaker 2: wants them to do, and so bi and large, that's
- 19:43Speaker 2: what he is.
- 19:44Speaker 3: Even if MASSI wins, I mean taking thirty five million
- 19:46Speaker 3: dollars to have to try and win your seat byero
- 19:48Speaker 3: point one percent, just to have to do it all
- 19:50Speaker 3: again in two yeah, which.
- 19:51Speaker 2: Is a thing, which should be he just doesn't even
- 19:54Speaker 2: have to really think about reelection.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Exactly most of the time.
- 19:57Speaker 3: What he said, he spent like a million dollars most
- 19:59Speaker 3: of the time, maybe less, you know, and he's like,
- 20:00Speaker 3: I don't even have to think about racist, but this
- 20:03Speaker 3: is this is going to be his life.
- 20:04Speaker 1: Yeah, he does.
- 20:05Speaker 2: And it's vicious what they're doing to him too, like
- 20:07Speaker 2: nasty attacks and personillara lumers out there are doing all
- 20:10Speaker 2: kinds of disgusting things, so disgusting. All right, let's go
- 20:14Speaker 2: ahead and get to what is going to happen with Cuba.
- 20:19Speaker 2: So for a while now, the Trump administration has been
- 20:23Speaker 2: making noises about doing some Venezuela esque operation in Cuba. Obviously,
- 20:27Speaker 2: this is Marco Rubio's fondest wish. Trump was asked about
- 20:31Speaker 2: this in the last couple of days. Let's take a
- 20:32Speaker 2: listen to what you have to say.
- 20:34Speaker 8: It's done. It's been a virtual circle. It's the hottest
- 20:38Speaker 8: country anywhere in the world, and it is. Yeah.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Is having a different subject on Cuba. There's reporting that
- 20:44Speaker 1: Robel Castro could be indicted by the dooj I believe
- 20:48Speaker 1: what does that mean?
- 20:49Speaker 8: I don't want to comment to that. Let DOJ comment
- 20:52Speaker 8: on it. But they need help. As you know, man,
- 20:56Speaker 8: you talk about it in the landing country. They are really
- 20:59Speaker 8: a nation for a country in decline. So we're gonna
- 21:02Speaker 8: see we have a lot to talk about on you,
- 21:04Speaker 8: but not maybe for to that time.
- 21:06Speaker 2: So he's asked there about Raoul Castro, who is ninety
- 21:09Speaker 2: four years old. I think let's put D three up
- 21:12Speaker 2: on the screen. This again looks like, you know, potential
- 21:16Speaker 2: pretense to our pretext to be able to do something
- 21:19Speaker 2: akin to the Venezuela playbook. New York Times wrote this
- 21:22Speaker 2: up with possible Raoul Castro indictment USI's Venezuela playbook. Amid
- 21:26Speaker 2: steppedup surveillance flights, a visit to the CIA of the
- 21:28Speaker 2: CIA director, and an energy embargo, White House is trying
- 21:31Speaker 2: to increase pressure on Cuba.
- 21:34Speaker 4: They are threatening to.
- 21:36Speaker 2: Indict him over a plane downing from like decades ago.
- 21:40Speaker 2: And again he's ninety four years old, So that is
- 21:44Speaker 2: that's what's going on with that. But then we've got
- 21:46Speaker 2: another piece to add to the manufacturing of consent and
- 21:50Speaker 2: creating a pretext for some sort of invasion or other
- 21:52Speaker 2: illegal action offensive action against Cuba. Can put d two
- 21:57Speaker 2: up on the screen. This is from Marcaputo over at
- 22:00Speaker 2: Axios exclusive, usis attack drone threat from Cuba. Cuba, they write,
- 22:06Speaker 2: has acquired more than three hundred military drones and recently
- 22:09Speaker 2: began discussing plans to use them to attack the US
- 22:13Speaker 2: base at Guantanamo Bay, US military vessels, and possibly Key
- 22:17Speaker 2: West Sure, Florida, ninety miles north of Havana, according to
- 22:20Speaker 2: classified intelligence shared with Axios. The intelligence, which could become
- 22:25Speaker 2: a pretext for US military action.
- 22:26Speaker 4: Love how they just write that right into the peace appreciate.
- 22:29Speaker 2: That shows the degree to which the Trump administration sees
- 22:31Speaker 2: Cuba as a threat. No, they don't because of developments
- 22:35Speaker 2: in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisors
- 22:39Speaker 2: in Havana. A senior US official said, when we think
- 22:42Speaker 2: about those types of technologies being that close in a
- 22:45Speaker 2: range of bad actors, from terror groups to drug cartels,
- 22:47Speaker 2: to Iranians to the Russians, it's concerning. The official said,
- 22:50Speaker 2: it's a growing threat. And they also mentioned the fact
- 22:53Speaker 2: that CIA director John Ratcliffe openly traveled to Cuba on Thursday.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Warrened officials there against engaging in hostilities, urge them to
- 23:01Speaker 2: scrap their totalitarian government to end crippling US sanctions.
- 23:06Speaker 4: Another quote from.
- 23:07Speaker 2: The officials, Director Ratcliffe made clear Cuba can no longer
- 23:11Speaker 2: serve as a platform for adversaries to advance hostile agendas
- 23:14Speaker 2: in our hemisphere. The Western hemisphere cannot be our adversaries playground.
- 23:18Speaker 4: So there you go.
- 23:20Speaker 3: Yeah, the drone thing. Look, I like Mark, Actually he
- 23:22Speaker 3: lives in Florida. I'll say this. He works with Barakravid
- 23:25Speaker 3: over at Axios, and I do really appreciate him saying
- 23:29Speaker 3: this could be a pretext for US invasion because he's
- 23:33Speaker 3: telling you why they decided to come to him. They're like, look,
- 23:35Speaker 3: this is our pretext, and he's like, this is the
- 23:37Speaker 3: pretext for invasion. Let's actually break it down though. Three
- 23:40Speaker 3: hundred military drones. By the way, this is the reality
- 23:43Speaker 3: of what we created with Iran. With the Iran War
- 23:46Speaker 3: is we showed the world how vulnerable we are our
- 23:49Speaker 3: vast armada to drones. Now imagine actually Cuba with only
- 23:53Speaker 3: three hundred what they would be able to do even
- 23:55Speaker 3: if the US were to launch some sort of war
- 23:57Speaker 3: against them. And that's actually the problem. Now it's I
- 24:00Speaker 3: am in no way saying that we should, you know,
- 24:01Speaker 3: have some sort of preemptive war. Welcome to the world
- 24:05Speaker 3: of what defense now looks like in an asymmetric conflict.
- 24:08Speaker 3: And you can look all around from Mexico to Cuba,
- 24:12Speaker 3: to any of the US bases that were all damaged
- 24:16Speaker 3: and destroyed that are now all over the world that
- 24:19Speaker 3: we've spent billions and billions of dollars, and with three
- 24:21Speaker 3: hundred times twenty five thousand, you can significantly disrupt and
- 24:25Speaker 3: cause terror. So yeah, I mean it would be smart
- 24:29Speaker 3: actually for Cuba to get not just three hundred drones,
- 24:31Speaker 3: it should have hundreds of thousands of drones. That should
- 24:33Speaker 3: be the only thing that their entire economy is focused on,
- 24:36Speaker 3: because it would be the only thing probably that would
- 24:39Speaker 3: ever stop the United States actually from a lot of
- 24:41Speaker 3: these sanctions. But I think it also demonstrates there this
- 24:45Speaker 3: is what I've said earlier about Trump. Trump has given up,
- 24:48Speaker 3: genuinely given up on changing the country. So by not
- 24:51Speaker 3: being able to change the country, he wants to change
- 24:53Speaker 3: the world. He wants to leave his imprint on the world.
- 24:55Speaker 3: Look at all the shit that he is doing. The
- 24:58Speaker 3: reflecting pool, the ballroom. What did I just see that
- 25:01Speaker 3: the more recent project that they're doing.
- 25:03Speaker 1: Course, the golf court. There's a new golf course here
- 25:06Speaker 1: in Washington.
- 25:07Speaker 4: Statue the garden, Yeah, the.
- 25:08Speaker 3: Gardener's statue or whatever, which you previously was like a
- 25:11Speaker 3: volleyball court or something like. What he cares about is
- 25:13Speaker 3: his imprint. Oh, his face one hundred dollars bill is
- 25:16Speaker 3: face on the passport, like the Kennedy the Trump Kennedy Center, right,
- 25:20Speaker 3: Like this ultimately is what drives him, and what drives
- 25:23Speaker 3: more than anything. What is his more recent obsession. Venezuela
- 25:26Speaker 3: should become the fifty first state. He wants to become
- 25:28Speaker 3: the first president to expand the maps of the United States,
- 25:31Speaker 3: and if not expand the maps, then to fundamentally change
- 25:34Speaker 3: the globe in his image.
- 25:36Speaker 1: More recently, what was that image that we had in
- 25:38Speaker 1: the A block? Is it a two?
- 25:41Speaker 3: This is that map right that he posts of Iran
- 25:43Speaker 3: with the full flag that's on top of it and
- 25:46Speaker 3: then all of the converging arrows on top of Iran,
- 25:49Speaker 3: Like he wants to change the map entirely in his image.
- 25:52Speaker 3: And Cuba has been a Republican obsession now for decades, right,
- 25:58Speaker 3: is Cuba is not a threat to the United States
- 26:00Speaker 3: like in any way Prepostero to the extent that it
- 26:04Speaker 3: ever was, it was like sixty years.
- 26:06Speaker 2: So the idea, if you believe that they're really thinking
- 26:10Speaker 2: of like drone striking Key West Florida, like that is
- 26:14Speaker 2: just the dumbest shit.
- 26:15Speaker 3: You could poss I mean, they might if we attack them,
- 26:17Speaker 3: but you know they're outside.
- 26:18Speaker 4: Of the way they're planning on preempt.
- 26:19Speaker 2: Oh, We're just going to randomly attack Key West Florida
- 26:22Speaker 2: to draw the ire of the nuclear power superpower.
- 26:26Speaker 4: That makes no sense whatsoever.
- 26:28Speaker 2: It's just idiotic to imagine that that is anything serious
- 26:31Speaker 2: or real.
- 26:32Speaker 3: Right in reality, what they want, I mean, which would
- 26:34Speaker 3: be smart to have some sort of credible drone deterrent
- 26:36Speaker 3: and be like, hey, can you turn our oil back on?
- 26:38Speaker 3: Like can you allow Mexico to ship us some oil
- 26:41Speaker 3: because we do you know, look, we may go, but
- 26:43Speaker 3: we're not going to go quietly. That should be the
- 26:44Speaker 3: strategy now for every nation in the world actually for
- 26:48Speaker 3: some sort of deterrence, from Taiwan with China to the
- 26:51Speaker 3: United States. It's like the porcupine strategy for what they
- 26:54Speaker 3: should be pursuing. But it does demonstrate though that at
- 26:57Speaker 3: the same time they're going to use it as a pretext.
- 27:00Speaker 3: What they are with Iran is why did we have
- 27:02Speaker 3: to attack Iran? According to the administration, because Israel was
- 27:05Speaker 3: going to and because they were creating what do they say,
- 27:08Speaker 3: a conventional shield for their nuclear program, So they were
- 27:11Speaker 3: going to create enough ballistic missiles that we could never
- 27:14Speaker 3: attack them again in the future, which is why we
- 27:16Speaker 3: had to do it now. So I think this is
- 27:18Speaker 3: purely about his obsession with remaking the Western hemisphere. This
- 27:24Speaker 3: is the original like donro doctrine stuff that they were
- 27:27Speaker 3: all in for. And I mean from Ryan you tell me.
- 27:32Speaker 3: The Cubans, frankly, they seem very willing to play ball,
- 27:35Speaker 3: like they're like, look, maybe one of us will step down,
- 27:38Speaker 3: but our regime needs to stay in power, kind of
- 27:40Speaker 3: like Maduro originally, hence had shown. I just don't really
- 27:44Speaker 3: know when these people are going to learn, like that's
- 27:45Speaker 3: just not how it works. Maduro literally said, I will
- 27:48Speaker 3: happily step down as long as my guy replaces me
- 27:51Speaker 3: in a few years. And we went in and we
- 27:53Speaker 3: kidnapped him, Like when are people going to learn? Like
- 27:55Speaker 3: there's really no negotiating with this. It's just all force
- 27:58Speaker 3: and all strength. There's no other option.
- 28:00Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I agree with you on that. It's
- 28:02Speaker 4: very clear.
- 28:03Speaker 2: And I mean the other piece that I think Trump
- 28:06Speaker 2: will be looking towards is he needs to recover from
- 28:09Speaker 2: his Iran humiliation. Yes, so he needs to you know,
- 28:12Speaker 2: punch some playground weakling, which Cuba. You know, I mean,
- 28:16Speaker 2: their economy was already struggling because of our decades and
- 28:19Speaker 2: decades of sanctions, and they don't have They're not a
- 28:22Speaker 2: military power, anything approaching the level of military power that
- 28:26Speaker 2: even like in Iran has and so he feels like, oh, well,
- 28:30Speaker 2: the way I can reclaim my glory, like what I
- 28:33Speaker 2: achieved with Venezuela, is to go in and just you know,
- 28:36Speaker 2: take Cuba and do with them what I want to do.
- 28:39Speaker 4: So I think that's the other part of this.
- 28:41Speaker 2: I mean, in the sense Cuba I think is being
- 28:44Speaker 2: spared right now for the moment because we are so
- 28:47Speaker 2: occupied in Iran and so many of our military assets
- 28:52Speaker 2: there and our focus is there, and all of our
- 28:54Speaker 2: top operators and all of that sort of stuff. So
- 28:56Speaker 2: I think that has bought them some time in the end.
- 29:00Speaker 2: It also provides another justification, another reason, another piece of
- 29:04Speaker 2: logic for why Trump is determined to go in and
- 29:08Speaker 2: do something against them.
- 29:09Speaker 3: Also to shore up the one last constituency that he
- 29:12Speaker 3: will have who will be with him to his dying day,
- 29:15Speaker 3: South Floridian.
- 29:17Speaker 1: I'm serious.
- 29:17Speaker 3: We need to cut South Florida off and let it
- 29:19Speaker 3: sail into this between Venezuela and this ship.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Just go, all right, just lead who all is?
- 29:26Speaker 2: Who are the Floridians? And they obviously Rubio Yessie.
- 29:29Speaker 3: Wiles, Susie Wiles. God, it's been a while since I've
- 29:32Speaker 3: compiled all the lists. Well, Trump himself is Marlaco resident,
- 29:35Speaker 3: officially a Florida resident, and.
- 29:37Speaker 2: That's actually important because you can imagine there's all kinds
- 29:39Speaker 2: of I mean, mar a Lago is where he's been.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Marlago is a safe time.
- 29:42Speaker 3: Do you know how many Cubans are down there and
- 29:44Speaker 3: just been like, oh, mister Trump, you know, like like, oh,
- 29:46Speaker 3: you'll be the hero of Havana. I can't sleep at
- 29:49Speaker 3: night while thinking about my family's plantation.
- 29:51Speaker 2: Oh and you can imagine Trump having fantasies of opening
- 29:54Speaker 2: his like Trump Casino. And Trump is old enough to
- 29:57Speaker 2: have those sorts of visions of what it could.
- 30:00Speaker 3: You know, America cannot be great again until a rich
- 30:04Speaker 3: Palm Beach residence can take a boat to Havana to
- 30:07Speaker 3: gamble and to exploit the resourcesches.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Of this island.
- 30:12Speaker 3: We simply have just never been great ever since we
- 30:15Speaker 3: lost that and rich Spaniards living in Cuba were able
- 30:19Speaker 3: to own vast amounts of land and to exploit the
- 30:22Speaker 3: popular Now I'm not some gr Fidel Castro fanboy, but
- 30:25Speaker 3: I'm just like, let's be honest about what nineteen.
- 30:28Speaker 1: Fifties Cuba really was. Right.
- 30:30Speaker 3: The same with Venezuela. I mean, who are all these
- 30:32Speaker 3: rich Venezuelans. Tucker had that line once where he's like, ah,
- 30:34Speaker 3: these Venezuelans, I get it, you know they you know,
- 30:37Speaker 3: they had a really hard time live in pretty nice
- 30:39Speaker 3: houses though here in Florida. Come on, like that's the truth,
- 30:43Speaker 3: and you know, and then especially in the migration context,
- 30:46Speaker 3: everyone just like blows past it. The whole reason that Trump,
- 30:51Speaker 3: in my opinion, is one of the main reasons he's present,
- 30:53Speaker 3: is because of uncontrolled migration into the United States from
- 30:58Speaker 3: places like Venezuela and Cuba.
- 31:01Speaker 1: And so this was like, what, it's.
- 31:02Speaker 4: Just why are they migrating?
- 31:04Speaker 2: It's because of our sanctions primarily, right, that has made
- 31:08Speaker 2: I mean, the sanctions are designed to punish ordinary people,
- 31:12Speaker 2: and right now in Cuba, it's really dire. You know
- 31:15Speaker 2: the fact that we've instituted this like complete season embargo
- 31:18Speaker 2: and they're so dependent on you know, little trickles of
- 31:21Speaker 2: aid coming in, little amounts of fuel coming in. It
- 31:24Speaker 2: really is is absolutely devastating. You and look at the
- 31:27Speaker 2: reporting Ryan and others did on the ground while they
- 31:30Speaker 2: were there to see the impact of that. But yeah,
- 31:32Speaker 2: of course you and you have had many people who
- 31:35Speaker 2: have fled Cuba just recently because of those economic.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Inductionsunch came under Biden because I think he continued some
- 31:41Speaker 3: of the sayings he did.
- 31:42Speaker 2: He absolutely did not go back to the Obama policy.
- 31:45Speaker 2: This is another This was one of you know, the
- 31:47Speaker 2: Obama foreign policy w is where he like normalized relations
- 31:50Speaker 2: and lift sanctions and things got better, and then Trump
- 31:53Speaker 2: comes in and completely reverses that and Biden continues the
- 31:55Speaker 2: Trump course.
- 31:56Speaker 3: Right, And yeah, we had a huge number of people
- 31:58Speaker 3: came from Cuba, although of course they get to pass
- 32:00Speaker 3: and all ways, what's that policy called.
- 32:02Speaker 1: It's been a while since wet foot drive.
- 32:04Speaker 4: Don't get me.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's uh, I mean, this is one of
- 32:07Speaker 2: the areas where Trump has taken some blows in the
- 32:11Speaker 2: Cuban community in Florida because they have been they have
- 32:15Speaker 2: been like arresting and detaining Cubans. So we're used to
- 32:18Speaker 2: getting that pass, and so I think they're also to
- 32:21Speaker 2: your point about like his political constituency, this would be
- 32:24Speaker 2: a way to you know, unruffle the feathers that have
- 32:28Speaker 2: been upset that like we're not getting our special treatment anymore.
- 32:31Speaker 2: You're treating us like any of these other migrants.
- 32:33Speaker 3: Wow, the horror, right, I don't know this Florida, our
- 32:37Speaker 3: Florida occupied government.
- 32:39Speaker 1: Like it's too much.
- 32:40Speaker 3: We cannot continue to have so many of our politics
- 32:42Speaker 3: dictated by the internal politics of this one state, which
- 32:46Speaker 3: is not even a swing state anymore. I know, it's ridiculous.
- 32:49Speaker 3: Like everyone just stop and give up. All right, Okay,
- 32:52Speaker 3: let's move on.
- 32:53Speaker 2: Let's move on to Trump's more Trump corruption here, and
- 32:58Speaker 2: absolutely it's donning revelation of just how many stock trades
- 33:03Speaker 2: Trump has made while serving as president of the United States.
- 33:06Speaker 4: Let's put this up on the screen.
- 33:07Speaker 2: Trump discloses hundreds of millions of dollars in trades.
- 33:13Speaker 4: In the first quarter, the first quarter of twenty twenty six.
- 33:18Speaker 4: Do you see that chart.
- 33:19Speaker 2: This is really important because he has gone from you know,
- 33:22Speaker 2: I mean, this was never ideal, the number of stock
- 33:24Speaker 2: trades that are being made. But here in twenty twenty six,
- 33:27Speaker 2: when we have all these concerns and obvious, obvious breadcrumbs
- 33:30Speaker 2: pointing towards insider trading, that his portfolio has been insanely,
- 33:35Speaker 2: insanely active. Just look at the weekly number of transactions there.
- 33:40Speaker 2: So I'll read you a little bit of this article
- 33:42Speaker 2: from the Financial Times. They say financial disclosures for US
- 33:45Speaker 2: President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars worth
- 33:48Speaker 2: of transactions involving securities in major American companies. Oh which
- 33:52Speaker 2: companies you might ask, including Nvidia, Pallenteer, Paramount, Boeing just
- 34:00Speaker 2: in the three months first three months of twenty twenty six.
- 34:04Speaker 2: They also show transactions involving Tesla, Apple, Meta, Visa City, Qualcom.
- 34:11Speaker 4: And ge Aerospace.
- 34:13Speaker 2: Top executives of all those companies accompanied the US president
- 34:17Speaker 2: on his trip to Beijing this week to.
- 34:19Speaker 4: Meet Chinese leader Xixinping.
- 34:21Speaker 2: Trump wrote on True Social was an honor to have
- 34:23Speaker 2: the business leaders on the trip, including the Great Jensen Huang,
- 34:26Speaker 2: a reference to the chief executive of semiconductor giant Nvidia.
- 34:30Speaker 2: The filing show fifteen transactions relating to that chip maker
- 34:33Speaker 2: in the.
- 34:34Speaker 4: First three months of the year. Quote.
- 34:37Speaker 2: I will be asking President Ji, a leader of extraordinary distinction,
- 34:40Speaker 2: to open up China so these brilliant people can work
- 34:43Speaker 2: their magic, the president wrote on his social media site
- 34:46Speaker 2: on Wednesday, referring to the US company company executives. The
- 34:51Speaker 2: number of transactions to disclosed on Thursday far exceeds Trump's
- 34:54Speaker 2: training activity during the first year of his second term.
- 34:57Speaker 2: It also marks the first major sale of assets since
- 35:00Speaker 2: returning to office. Let's put the next element up on
- 35:03Speaker 2: the screen here, just so you can see. This is
- 35:05Speaker 2: from our old friend unusual Wales. Over on Twitter, they
- 35:09Speaker 2: write breaking Trump purchased up to six hundred and thirty
- 35:12Speaker 2: thousand dollars worth of Palenteer stock during the first three
- 35:16Speaker 2: months of the year. In March alone, Trump made at
- 35:17Speaker 2: least seven purchase of Volunteer totally as much as five
- 35:20Speaker 2: hundred and thirty thousand dollars. A month later, Trump literally
- 35:24Speaker 2: wrote on true social quote, Palenteer Technologies has proven to
- 35:28Speaker 2: have great war fighting capabilities and equipment.
- 35:31Speaker 4: Gee, who would that benefit whose stock portfolio would that benefit.
- 35:34Speaker 2: It is just so brazen, It is so in your
- 35:38Speaker 2: face that you cannot even you can't make it up.
- 35:41Speaker 2: I mean, Nancy Pelosi nothing compared to this, and I
- 35:44Speaker 2: got plenty of smoke for her and all of the
- 35:47Speaker 2: congressional insiders who seem to always do very well in
- 35:49Speaker 2: their stock portfolios. This is above and beyond anything anything
- 35:54Speaker 2: we have seen. And then he's out there, you know,
- 35:56Speaker 2: he's out there. The government is buying pieces of some
- 36:01Speaker 2: of these companies in some instances, certainly out there on
- 36:03Speaker 2: true social boosting these companies. His government giving contracts to
- 36:09Speaker 2: these companies absolute insanity.
- 36:11Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't allow this.
- 36:12Speaker 3: And the Trump organization says that their investment holders are
- 36:15Speaker 3: maintained exclusively through fully discretionary accounts, independently managed by third
- 36:19Speaker 3: party financial institutions with sole and exclusive authority overall investment decisions.
- 36:24Speaker 3: And this is why you know your point about Pelosi
- 36:26Speaker 3: and all that is very important. That is the loophole
- 36:28Speaker 3: which we've basically allowed all of these filthy rich government
- 36:31Speaker 3: politicians to continue to trade while they're in office. As
- 36:34Speaker 3: always with Trump, it's always dialed up to the most
- 36:37Speaker 3: ridiculous degree. But this is why we've always advocated on
- 36:40Speaker 3: this show for a total ban on trading, is because
- 36:43Speaker 3: there is no such thing, period as not being influenced
- 36:46Speaker 3: by our own personal financial and especially with Trump, but
- 36:49Speaker 3: like really with any president, right, you can't allow them
- 36:53Speaker 3: to have even independently managed blind trust and all because
- 36:56Speaker 3: it's fake.
- 36:56Speaker 1: Fundamentally.
- 36:57Speaker 3: We've loaned this now for decades, going all the way
- 36:59Speaker 3: back to LBJ used to have a secret phone line
- 37:02Speaker 3: where he would manage all of his financial decisions while
- 37:05Speaker 3: he was president in the Oval office. And this is
- 37:08Speaker 3: where you know, you buy palent your stock, maybe you
- 37:11Speaker 3: get a report about it, and then you're also.
- 37:12Speaker 1: Pumping the stock.
- 37:13Speaker 3: But at the same time, even beyond that, it's not
- 37:16Speaker 3: even just about your personal finance. You also have the
- 37:18Speaker 3: support of those very executives you know, for your administration,
- 37:21Speaker 3: and you're doing deals and then there's this general knowledge in.
- 37:24Speaker 1: The back of your head.
- 37:25Speaker 3: But it just look, what it highlights to me is
- 37:29Speaker 3: that you know these transactions, as opposed to specifying exact figures,
- 37:33Speaker 3: are worth between two hundred and six hundred and eighty
- 37:36Speaker 3: seven million dollars hundreds of millions of dollars in these
- 37:41Speaker 3: companies which are you have their exact executives on the
- 37:45Speaker 3: plane who are also pitching to you and setting up
- 37:48Speaker 3: government policy which you have immense interest and ability. Like
- 37:52Speaker 3: if you think Congress has the ability to affect a
- 37:55Speaker 3: stock the president is at times I don't even know
- 37:57Speaker 3: two hundred five hundred.
- 37:59Speaker 2: I mean like not just in terms of Okay, government contracts, Okay,
- 38:03Speaker 2: the bully pullpit, Okay, he took them to on his
- 38:05Speaker 2: trip to China.
- 38:06Speaker 4: He was pushed on.
- 38:07Speaker 2: One of the quote unquote deals that came out of
- 38:09Speaker 2: the trip to China was they're going to purchase two
- 38:11Speaker 2: hundred Boeing airplanes. Right, that was one of the things
- 38:14Speaker 2: that the deals that was struck there. But then you
- 38:16Speaker 2: also have, and especially because of the way Trump operates
- 38:19Speaker 2: the entire federal government as his own plaything, so there's
- 38:24Speaker 2: no even illusion of independence, you also have the ability
- 38:28Speaker 2: to green light or block different mergers, or take different
- 38:31Speaker 2: regulatory actions, or not take different regulatory actions. So let
- 38:35Speaker 2: me give you a couple more examples.
- 38:36Speaker 1: Here.
- 38:37Speaker 2: Six trades in the filings relate to Intel, US chip
- 38:40Speaker 2: making giant. Oh guess what happened with Intel this year?
- 38:43Speaker 2: The US government took a nearly ten percent direct ownership
- 38:46Speaker 2: stake in that company in the past year. That was
- 38:49Speaker 2: also one hundred percent Trump's decision seven transactions relating to Boeing.
- 38:55Speaker 2: I just mentioned the deal that was struck in China
- 38:57Speaker 2: with regard to Boeing. US Special Envoy Palows poll epsteam Links,
- 39:01Speaker 2: by the way, who accompanied Vice President Jadie Vance to
- 39:03Speaker 2: Hungary last month, also works to promote Boeing sales overseas.
- 39:07Speaker 2: So your special envoy is also working to promote Boeing
- 39:10Speaker 2: sales and your buying stock in Boeing. Interesting that guys
- 39:14Speaker 2: and Pollie said, whenever people see me they want something,
- 39:17Speaker 2: they want access to the President, I tell them by Boeing.
- 39:20Speaker 2: If you want to make the president happy, by Boeing.
- 39:23Speaker 2: It's the simplest thing in the world. Paramount, is anyone
- 39:27Speaker 2: anyone tell me out there whether Paramount's been in the
- 39:29Speaker 2: news recently and for what. Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery,
- 39:33Speaker 2: the two companies involved in one hundred and ten billion
- 39:35Speaker 2: dollar blockbuster takeover that's down in the hands of US regulators,
- 39:38Speaker 2: both appeared in Trump's disclosed trades.
- 39:41Speaker 4: So there you go.
- 39:42Speaker 2: I mean, it's just as brazen as it can possibly be.
- 39:45Speaker 2: It's hard to keep track of all this stuff. We're
- 39:47Speaker 2: going to cover probably tomorrow, that Trump is suing his
- 39:50Speaker 2: own government and instead of going forward with getting some
- 39:54Speaker 2: taxpayer funded settlement for himself directly, instead his compromise is
- 39:58Speaker 2: he wants to create a one point eight billion dollar
- 40:01Speaker 2: slush fund to reward his own allies that he feels
- 40:05Speaker 2: were unjustly prosecuted under the Biden administration. Then you have
- 40:09Speaker 2: the whole crypto scheme, which is probably the biggest in
- 40:13Speaker 2: terms of dollar amounts, the biggest source of corrupt dealings
- 40:16Speaker 2: in the Trump administration, and direct foreign interference, foreign influence
- 40:20Speaker 2: on his government, and just billionaire, just general whoever wants
- 40:23Speaker 2: to have influence over him, the way to do it
- 40:25Speaker 2: is just buy a bunch of his crypto prop up
- 40:27Speaker 2: the price of that, so his bulk of his wealth
- 40:32Speaker 2: now comes not from his real estate dealings but from crypto.
- 40:35Speaker 2: And then of course you've got all of the Trump
- 40:37Speaker 2: hotels and all you know, the golf tournaments that were
- 40:40Speaker 2: paid for by Live which is owned by the Saudi government,
- 40:43Speaker 2: all of this mess and so it is truly truly
- 40:47Speaker 2: world historic the amount of corruption here. And then the
- 40:50Speaker 2: cherry on top is this massive amount of insider trading
- 40:53Speaker 2: that we can see being done.
- 40:55Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, it's beyond madness. And I also
- 40:58Speaker 3: wanted to I want to give some attention to cash Ptel.
- 41:01Speaker 3: Can we put that one up there?
- 41:02Speaker 4: Oh, to get some attention.
- 41:04Speaker 3: Mister cash giving all of us a bad name snorkeling
- 41:07Speaker 3: at Pearl Harbor. Cash Betel's travels had to focus on
- 41:11Speaker 3: ethical issues. The FBI director continues to come under scrutiny
- 41:14Speaker 3: for mixing government business with dates, vacation and leisure time.
- 41:18Speaker 3: Last summer, cash Ptel capped a world wind South Pacific
- 41:21Speaker 3: trip with a snorkel trip in Hawaii. Navy seals used
- 41:24Speaker 3: two boats to transport and escort mister Patel and nine
- 41:27Speaker 3: others on what the DoD called a VIP snorkel next
- 41:30Speaker 3: to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater
- 41:34Speaker 3: tomb of the USS Arizona, which holds the remains of
- 41:37Speaker 3: more than nine hundred Navy sailors and marines who died
- 41:41Speaker 3: at Pearl Harbor. Patel swam in the vicinity of the
- 41:44Speaker 3: tomb for thirty minutes and out of respect, as I mentioned,
- 41:47Speaker 3: for the dead entombed at the wreckage.
- 41:49Speaker 1: The rule bars rules bar visitors from.
- 41:52Speaker 3: Even wearing swimwear at the memorial, with some exceptions over
- 41:55Speaker 3: the years for dignitaries. The only people allowed in the
- 41:58Speaker 3: water around the tomb are military and National Park Service
- 42:02Speaker 3: divers in turing the remains of the last survivors. Officials
- 42:06Speaker 3: from the DoD said VIP tours near the Arizona were common,
- 42:11Speaker 3: but they declined to say how often they take people snorkeling.
- 42:15Speaker 3: And you know, this is the type of stuff which
- 42:17Speaker 3: just drives people nuts. Like I can't tell you why
- 42:19Speaker 3: this bothers me almost as much as the trades. And
- 42:21Speaker 3: it's because this is, you know, this clownish official who
- 42:26Speaker 3: has bungled all of these investigations using his position to
- 42:31Speaker 3: come into office and basically just treat it as a
- 42:34Speaker 3: joy ride for all the cool stuff that he never
- 42:36Speaker 3: got to do because obviously he grew up as a loser.
- 42:39Speaker 1: And it's like going to go and chug bears with.
- 42:42Speaker 3: The hockey team and snorkeling and what using is pumping his.
- 42:47Speaker 1: Girlfriend's country music? What did he say?
- 42:51Speaker 3: He said, she's done more for the country than most
- 42:53Speaker 3: people will do in their lifetime.
- 42:54Speaker 4: It's like mm hmm.
- 42:55Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, FBI director as like maga wish no.
- 43:00Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy exactly what it is.
- 43:03Speaker 1: That's what gets under my skin. And I've seen Mike Waltson.
- 43:06Speaker 3: Oh I was offered a VIP swim tour of the Arizona.
- 43:10Speaker 3: I'm like, well, okay, maybe maybe that is the case.
- 43:13Speaker 3: But then I feel like we should just end that
- 43:14Speaker 3: because I don't know. It's the Arizona. If any have
- 43:17Speaker 3: you been there before, I mean, it's, first of all,
- 43:18Speaker 3: it's incredibly zombringe because you're looking down on this thing.
- 43:21Speaker 3: You're like, they're literally nine hundred bodies that are down there,
- 43:24Speaker 3: and if you've ever read it, like it's such a
- 43:25Speaker 3: horrific incident, like you should sit there in silence and
- 43:28Speaker 3: just be like, I can't believe that something like this happened.
- 43:31Speaker 3: It's not really like a joy ride going snorkeling type thing.
- 43:35Speaker 3: You know that you're supposed to You're not supposed to
- 43:37Speaker 3: be reveling it is some great experience, right, You're supposed
- 43:39Speaker 3: to go there and be like, Wow, what a horrific event.
- 43:42Speaker 3: Like That's how I feel the same way at Arizona
- 43:44Speaker 3: that I did when if you go to like the
- 43:45Speaker 3: nine eleven memorial.
- 43:46Speaker 2: Well, I saw somebody in this piece said like, you know,
- 43:49Speaker 2: this would be like playing kickball at the at Arlington
- 43:51Speaker 2: National Seminary.
- 43:52Speaker 1: Exact, perfect, perfect example.
- 43:54Speaker 3: Like when you go to Arlington and they even do that,
- 43:56Speaker 3: You've ever seen kids, you know, who are screaming or
- 43:58Speaker 3: something like that at the Two of the Unknown Soldier.
- 44:01Speaker 3: Those guys will even break and they'll be like, you know,
- 44:03Speaker 3: you need to show respect. I agree with that.
- 44:04Speaker 1: That's a good thing.
- 44:05Speaker 3: You know those there are certain sites like that where
- 44:08Speaker 3: you're just supposed to have some somber and level of respect.
- 44:11Speaker 3: And that's why like breaking that, like, yeah, it drives
- 44:14Speaker 3: me nuts.
- 44:14Speaker 2: Well, the other thing with Cash, I mean, just such
- 44:16Speaker 2: a hypocrite. Before he was FBI director, he would always criticize, Oh,
- 44:21Speaker 2: the PJ. Travers, right, he said this quote, I'm just saying,
- 44:25Speaker 2: Chris Ray doesn't need a government fund a gv jet
- 44:27Speaker 2: to go to vacation.
- 44:28Speaker 4: Maybe we ground that flame.
- 44:29Speaker 2: This was one of his big criticisms of the previous
- 44:33Speaker 2: FBI director. And now I mean it's not even close
- 44:35Speaker 2: like the things that I like. Whatever, I'm not a
- 44:38Speaker 2: big Chris Ray fan. I'm here to stand Chris Ray,
- 44:40Speaker 2: but it's not even close the level of clownish like
- 44:43Speaker 2: self indulgent behavior here. I still find it's so interesting
- 44:48Speaker 2: and fascinating and curious that the would be assassin at
- 44:52Speaker 2: the White House correspondence dinner and his manifesto was like
- 44:56Speaker 2: any of the administration official start targets, except for mister Patel.
- 45:00Speaker 1: What why?
- 45:02Speaker 4: That was a weird one.
- 45:04Speaker 2: I also like appreciate Za Jilani always jumps in when
- 45:07Speaker 2: one of these Cash hotel scandals r ups and is
- 45:09Speaker 2: like he is single handling destroying the mythology around Indian
- 45:13Speaker 2: Americans being like true competent and intelligent and good at
- 45:16Speaker 2: their hard working and good at their jobs. So he's
- 45:18Speaker 2: busting up some racial stereos. I've always tried to can
- 45:21Speaker 2: appreciate it. We're just like everybody else. There's just like
- 45:24Speaker 2: any white blacks.
- 45:25Speaker 3: So there's there's dumb ones, there's smart ones, all right,
- 45:28Speaker 3: and cash is living proof Actually why yeah of that?
- 45:34Speaker 1: So there you go.
- 45:35Speaker 2: Yeah, we got one more one more corrupt Trump dealing
- 45:38Speaker 2: here that we needed to get into the show, which
- 45:39Speaker 2: is Katie Miller, wife of Steven Miller, has a podcast.
- 45:42Speaker 4: She has access to basically any administration official.
- 45:45Speaker 2: But you I think Jadie Vance went on their first
- 45:48Speaker 2: guest with Jadie Van, she had Dana White on. Recently,
- 45:50Speaker 2: Nicki Minaj went on our show, et cetera.
- 45:53Speaker 1: She had cash on remember and his girlfriend.
- 45:55Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, that's right in the middle of
- 45:58Speaker 2: a Yeah. Oh that's right, that's right. I forgot about
- 46:01Speaker 2: those details. Yeah, I give a chart memory there. Anyway,
- 46:05Speaker 2: she's getting a deal. It looks like courtesy of the
- 46:07Speaker 2: MAGAZBS owners, we can put this up on the screen.
- 46:11Speaker 2: This is from The Daily Beast MAGA CBS owner's plot
- 46:13Speaker 2: suff landing for Trump Aid's wife, the wife of a
- 46:16Speaker 2: top White House advisors and talks for a podcasting deal
- 46:19Speaker 2: with a media giant currently seeking approval from the Trump
- 46:22Speaker 2: administration for one hundred and eleven billion dollar merger.
- 46:27Speaker 4: So there you go.
- 46:28Speaker 2: She's going to get going to get paid for this podcast.
- 46:30Speaker 2: Let's check in al is this podcast doing soccer? Surely
- 46:33Speaker 2: if she's going to get some you know, significant podcast deal,
- 46:36Speaker 2: she must be really excelling. She acts so many people.
- 46:39Speaker 2: Can we put E five up on the screen here?
- 46:42Speaker 2: So she's got fifty eight thousand subscribers, She's got her
- 46:46Speaker 2: latest video from five days ago has four point nine
- 46:49Speaker 2: thousand views. Dana White did Clock in It thirty seven
- 46:53Speaker 2: thousand views, Brendan Carr, FCC chair forty seven hundred views.
- 46:58Speaker 2: What is it really like being a Trump question mark?
- 47:01Speaker 2: I think that was with Lara Trump twenty two thousand views,
- 47:03Speaker 2: Byron Donald's nine thousand views. Whoever, Chris and Liz Right are,
- 47:07Speaker 2: oh yeah, Chris Right on Iran Solar Nuclear and card
- 47:11Speaker 2: county four thousand views. So in any case, you know,
- 47:14Speaker 2: the Hannity one here did a pretty decent one fifty.
- 47:16Speaker 2: I think her biggest one was this Nicki naj one
- 47:18Speaker 2: two seventy. But we're not talking about blockbuster numbers here.
- 47:22Speaker 2: In fact, we went and looked we compared to the
- 47:24Speaker 2: Free Press, because that's our benchmark for podcast performance. Kind
- 47:28Speaker 2: of roughly on par in terms of typical views. But
- 47:32Speaker 2: as you know, you guys know obviously here Breaking Boys,
- 47:34Speaker 2: we get a lot more on our videos, but this liason,
- 47:37Speaker 2: we don't have nearly access to the officials that she
- 47:41Speaker 2: is able to just you know, call in favors from
- 47:43Speaker 2: because of who her husband is.
- 47:45Speaker 4: So just complete pay to play here, no doubta.
- 47:47Speaker 3: It is totally nuts. I mean, there's so many Look,
- 47:49Speaker 3: I mean, this is the thing. It's just divorced from
- 47:51Speaker 3: the market. Like the Free Press acquisition had nothing to
- 47:54Speaker 3: do with their actual views and or influence. It was
- 47:57Speaker 3: about buying Barry and installing like a pro Israel ombudsman
- 48:01Speaker 3: and her staff over at CBS. Like that's what it was.
- 48:04Speaker 3: It's like, okay, it was an acquahire. I guess that's
- 48:06Speaker 3: what they call it. Yeah, right in Silicon Valley here
- 48:08Speaker 3: this is it's very obviously they want influence with Maga
- 48:11Speaker 3: World and she's literally the wife of steven million. Yeah.
- 48:14Speaker 2: And this is again the Ellisons who are offering up
- 48:17Speaker 2: this deal, who you know, want to make sure that
- 48:19Speaker 2: their merger goes through with no problems. So not no
- 48:21Speaker 2: big deal to throw the wife of an influential Trump
- 48:25Speaker 2: Aid and Steve Miller continues to be very influential Trump Aid.
- 48:29Speaker 4: Throw the wife some cash and see what she can do.
- 48:31Speaker 3: I just I'm always amazed at these celebs or people
- 48:34Speaker 3: with you know, people who and not to view shame,
- 48:37Speaker 3: but you know a little bit just because we are
- 48:39Speaker 3: literally in this business. I can watch people sign deals
- 48:42Speaker 3: for like ten fifteen million, which I'm like, whoa like,
- 48:46Speaker 3: I know what, you know, what's making over here, and
- 48:48Speaker 3: then what those people are getting paid in terms of checks,
- 48:51Speaker 3: and they're getting one fifth the number and sure they
- 48:53Speaker 3: read ads we don't like, I get it. There's a
- 48:56Speaker 3: bit of a golf here, but sometimes these guys get
- 48:58Speaker 3: cut checks which make no market sense whatsoever. And I
- 49:02Speaker 3: think it's the exacts either want to seem cool by
- 49:06Speaker 3: hanging out with celebrities, or in this case, they want
- 49:08Speaker 3: more influence, like with people who are in power.
- 49:11Speaker 1: And that's really what it's all about.
- 49:12Speaker 3: If it has literally nothing to do with the actual
- 49:15Speaker 3: market based reality of this business, because if it did,
- 49:18Speaker 3: it would be very, very, very different, you know, in
- 49:21Speaker 3: terms of who gets blessed by these big you know,
- 49:23Speaker 3: by these big companies for cool deals and stuff like that.
- 49:27Speaker 3: I'm always like, this is just fascinating to me, you know,
- 49:29Speaker 3: where the money goes and for whom.
- 49:31Speaker 2: So's I'm also still not over the fact that freaking
- 49:34Speaker 2: Sean Duffy, who's the you know, secretary and former Real
- 49:38Speaker 2: World star filmed took seven months off of his just
- 49:42Speaker 2: film a reality show with his wife and kids. I mean,
- 49:45Speaker 2: I remember all the smoke that came for Pete Buddha
- 49:48Speaker 2: judge for like taking paternity leave, which was fair, and
- 49:50Speaker 2: this guy just took seven months. Oh are there any
- 49:54Speaker 2: transportation issues? And I have we had any problems at
- 49:56Speaker 2: the airports?
- 49:57Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 49:57Speaker 2: You people tell me so insane to me, and because
- 50:00Speaker 2: this whole administration is so lawless and insane and starting
- 50:04Speaker 2: wars and you know, creating shit coins and trading inCider
- 50:08Speaker 2: trading every single day, it's barely a blip, like we
- 50:11Speaker 2: didn't even get a chance to cover it because so
- 50:14Speaker 2: many other insane things are going on. Whereas in any
- 50:17Speaker 2: other administration, the Biden administration.
- 50:19Speaker 4: Even if you go back to like the George W.
- 50:21Speaker 4: Bush administon, you know, a W.
- 50:23Speaker 2: Bush administration, this would have been a scandal of you
- 50:26Speaker 2: just wouldn't do it because it would be such a scandal.
- 50:28Speaker 2: And here he goes and announces it proudly on Fox News.
- 50:31Speaker 2: Oh that's great that you got to do that thing
- 50:33Speaker 2: with your kids. Disgusting.
- 50:34Speaker 3: The only thing I will back up Sean Duffy on
- 50:36Speaker 3: is his try to ban pajamas.
- 50:38Speaker 1: In the airport.
- 50:38Speaker 3: But they also do it in the most cringe worthy
- 50:40Speaker 3: way where they're starting to put pull up bars in airports,
- 50:43Speaker 3: and just crak out a few sets ahead of your
- 50:46Speaker 3: ahead of your You had.
- 50:47Speaker 2: The right take, which is like, if you don't want
- 50:49Speaker 2: us to wear comfy clothes, then make the experience better.
- 50:51Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what I'm a fan of.
- 50:53Speaker 3: It is like, look, let's turn it into a nice experience,
- 50:55Speaker 3: all right, and then then people will dress up according
- 50:58Speaker 3: well you know, maybe not, but we'll a little light
- 51:00Speaker 3: shoving in that direction. But that's how we create a
- 51:03Speaker 3: good environment. But if things are going to be so shitty,
- 51:05Speaker 3: then people are going to treat it as such.
- 51:07Speaker 1: Hence is you've got.
- 51:09Speaker 2: To be in survival mode when you go to the airport.
- 51:11Speaker 2: Man these days, Oh yes, you got to be in
- 51:12Speaker 2: survival mode.
- 51:15Speaker 1: What is costing right now?
- 51:16Speaker 3: It's just so insane, insane the fairs that I'm seeing
- 51:21Speaker 3: for summer travel, Like, unless you are genuinely rich, you
- 51:25Speaker 3: are going nowhere this summer, in my opinion, like and
- 51:28Speaker 3: even driving it, it's gonna cost you for everything. Okay,
- 51:32Speaker 3: all right, that's it, that's right, all right. So we
- 51:34Speaker 3: were about to do our AMA, so stay tuned for that.
- 51:37Speaker 3: If you're a prem subscriber, we'll see you all tomorrow.