We Break Down What The Headlines Leave Out

The headlines feel like they’re moving faster than the truth, so we slow them down and try to make them make sense. We start with the Iran story and the swirling claims around nuclear inspections, then pull that thread into the real-world consequences people notice first: energy markets, oil prices, and why gas prices seem to rocket up overnight but drift down at a crawl. When you’re trying to budget groceries, commuting, and everything else, that gap between “the price of oil” and “the price at the pump” stops being theory and starts feeling personal.

Next, we turn to the New York Democratic primaries and what looks like a serious internal power shift. We talk through why incumbents losing matters, how endorsements can reshape local politics, and how debates over Israel and political identity are increasingly driving coalition changes. We also ask the uncomfortable question: is this just New York City politics, or a preview of what other states may see as the ideological middle gets thinner on both sides?

To keep it grounded, we use a policy case study from Seattle’s gig economy regulation and the market blowback that followed: higher fees, fewer orders, and ripple effects that hit workers and customers. Then we cover a massive Medicaid fraud crackdown tied to billions in alleged false claims, including the human toll when fraud isn’t just paperwork. We wrap with Trump rally clips on tariffs, manufacturing, supply chains, and nuclear energy financing, tying economic security to the ability to build and power what we need at home.

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Transcript

Morning Banter And Peasant Mindset

SPEAKER_31 0:07

And then they went for the queen! The zero! Do you know what's we said?

SPEAKER_17 0:20

We're getting screwed, man. Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. Well, the revolution's gonna be tricky for sure. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the money every day. It's gonna be peasants, man. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. So glad to have you guys here today with us. We've got Pony Boy already in the chat. Good morning. Just me underscore PNW, Pacific Northwest. Oh, happy day. So glad to have you. Of course, there's Ron there chiming in with his good mornings. Varasier, it's a good morning. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Glad you guys have made it. What a great day. Like those positive statements. Love it, love it. And my phone's ringing. Oh, Billy's calling me. Billy, I can't answer. I am streaming. Sorry, Billy. I'm gonna listen to it right now. It's uh 6 30 a.m. I guarantee you, if I answered that phone call, he would just start talking. No, no, hey, are you awake? I don't know that he knows that I'm doing this at 6 30 a.m. He just called me for a social call. That John Attackis on YouTube says, Getting ready for my granddaughter's wedding in Seattle. Hey, I know that granddaughter. My job is simple. Smile for pictures, stay out of the way, and pretend to know everyone's. I'm not even gonna pretend to know their names. No. Oh man, what a what a good time. Last night, you know, came outside. My family was out there having a little fireplace, cooking s'mores, and I thought, good thing the burn band's not on. I don't even know. But I came out and was like, that's my family. Like you know, together because my daughter's getting married. How fun is that?

SPEAKER_22 2:20

The burn band is on, but not for recreational fires. You're okay.

SPEAKER_17 2:23

Oh that I was super worried, but you know, you always gotta be a little concerned. All right, you guys, I know why you show up bright and early. You show up for the simultaneous sip, and that time is now. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker to chalice a stein, a canteen, jug, or flask of vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better is the simultaneous sip, and it starts right now.

Iran Claims And Inspection Confusion

SPEAKER_07 2:54

We are at war right now with Iran, we've won four times already.

SPEAKER_15 2:59

I'm gonna oh no, we're good, we're good, we're good.

SPEAKER_07 3:02

Yeah, we are at war right now with Iran, we've won four times already. And when the FC was dropped, everyone in a third world country was like, oh no, they're gonna need a distraction. And the Jews are like, okay, they're gonna need a distraction. A lot of people call Trump a Nazi. What kind of Nazi goes to war for the Jews? Maybe gas would be five dollars a gallon right now.

SPEAKER_17 3:20

Alright, that's my time, they guess I went. I feel like that was sped up. That like fast. I think it was. It was on two times speed.

SPEAKER_06 3:30

It should have sounded like this. I ran. We've won four times already. You know, when the Epstein list dropped, everyone in a third world country was like, oh no, they're gonna need a distraction. And the Jews were like, oh good, they're gonna need a distraction. A lot of people call Trump a Nazi. What kind of Nazi goes to war for the Jews? I wish she was a Nazi. Maybe gas would be five dollars a gallon right now.

SPEAKER_17 4:08

Oh, sorry to have to play that like three times for you guys. I listen to things on two times speeds because I'm just a maniac. There's just not enough time of the day. There's just not enough time in the day. Not enough time. All right, so Trump was asked about this Iran deal. This is so frustrating. The Iran topic, you can't get a straight answer out of the news. I have no idea. The the strait is open, the strait is closed, we're bringing out oil, we're not bringing out oil. Like, I have no idea. But the Iranians are like, yeah, no, we're still definitely, definitely gonna get a nuke. And no inspectors, by the way. And Trump's like, uh, yeah, there's inspectors.

SPEAKER_31 4:46

No capital pendant for the IA inspectors, but that's part of your email.

SPEAKER_11 4:50

They're wrong. They're wrong, they're wrong. They know they're wrong. They told us inside, and we have it down 100% inspections. And if they were right, I'd cancel the meetings right now.

SPEAKER_17 5:03

So Ron's like, no, that there's going to be inspectors. They're wrong. But they said that there's no inspectors, they're wrong. I have no idea, man. I have no idea who's right on this one. I don't know. Who freaking knows? Trump apparently is gonna have a busy day today in DC. It's got a whole bunch of stuff going on.

SPEAKER_34 5:20

The president's got another packed day on his agenda. Um, he is heading to Capitol Hill, reportedly to discuss with Republican senators the Stalled Save Act, um, bracing they are, according to reports, for a heated uh discussion, potentially. And that while he's there, the press secretary says he's going to be signing uh the 21st century Road to Housing Act, one of the most significant pieces of housing affordability affordability legislation in American history. Carolyn Levitt says President Trump promised to lower housing costs and he is delivering, making it easier for every family to achieve the American dream of home ownership. Conversations about Iran will be a backdrop throughout the day today. Although the White House says the War Powers resolution that was approved by Congress holds no significance. It will be the first time that he faces some members of Congress after they voted to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. The president is also dismissing Iran's denial that they've agreed to nuclear inspections, saying they're wrong and they know they're wrong, and inspectors will be deployed at the appropriate time.

SPEAKER_11 6:22

Remember, this wasn't easy. We had 47 years worth of par presidents and other people, other countries too. We're not the only one that never did anything. They were the bully of the Middle East. And now we're leaving Iran with no Navy, no Air Force, no anti-aircraft, no missile capability, no nuclear program. We're leaving them without any nuclear capacity, and they've agreed to that.

SPEAKER_34 6:50

Speaking from Pennsylvania last night, the president also touted falling oil prices with oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. Later on today, he'll be at the White House meeting with Secretary General of NATO Mark Ruta. Um he's going to be pushing the president to stay fully engaged in NATO. President's Day today is going to end with a rally, um, kicking off the great American state fair on the national mall. So lots to do today for the president.

SPEAKER_17 7:45

So NATO. Uh NATO very much support you now that you've won. Uh, we we would like freedom of navigation too. We are sure NATO was really there for us. All

Gas Prices And Alleged Pump Gouging

SPEAKER_17 7:56

right. So another big thing today, this morning, Donald Trump posted, and I knew this was coming. I knew that he was gonna do this. We have talked about how when oil prices go up, gas prices go up instantaneously, long before the expensive oil and its gasoline cut makes it through the market, right? Well, now that oil is down. I mean, we're talking like pre-Iran conflict prices. Like we should be plummeting. Trump says the big oil companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for oil. These prices are dropping like a rock. In other words, customers are being gouged. I instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I'm seeing. President Donald J. Trump. I was hoping to uh thank you for your attention to this matter, which is like executive order inbound. You know, I mean, Trump's giving the gas companies a little uh little tug there. I mean, it's kind of deflection. This is we know this is how they do it. You know, prices go up fast, they come down slow. Uh yeah, I was gonna say we've been so programmed that I don't know if this is gonna do anything. Yeah, I don't know if it's gonna do anything, but hopefully it will. Now, we did have another big thing happen yesterday.

New York Primaries And Party Upheaval

SPEAKER_17 9:05

Guess what? One of the Trump haters got ejected from Congress. What? He lost his primary. It was Dan Goldman. I did not see this one coming. Neither did CNN, apparently. Carlitz says, Howdy, y'all, and pray the rosary daily. Happy Wednesday. Glad you guys made it. So Dan Goldman, and where did he come from? He was a, I don't remember if he was a Hillary Clinton staffer specifically, but he was part of the Russiagate narrative. And he ended up being one of the attorneys that the Democrats hired to do the impeachment for Rushagate. So he wasn't a House of Representative members yet. He was an attorney. Well, he then ran for Congress right after that, won a seat, and he's been one of these ding-dongs that's constantly out there. Trump's a Russian spy. Well, yeah, you took the paycheck to go pretend like he was as one of the attorneys. Well, he lost his primary last night.

SPEAKER_05 9:55

Margins that tell you about the strength of the progressive movement right now, the strength of Mamdani, the strength of his organizations. Uh, let's start here. This is the first one we called. This is the 10th district. Uh, Brad Lander was a mayoral rival back in the early days, then a Mamdani supporter, had his endorsement in this race. And look at this versus a Democratic incumbent member of Congress. Incumbents rarely lose primaries. They do it's not by margins like that. That tells you, wow, now Brad Lander has been a statewide, citywide official, excuse me. He has a big following in the area. So he has his own strengths in addition to the progressive of strength of the moment and the mayor's endorsement, but that is a thumping of an incumbent. Then you have margins.

SPEAKER_17 10:33

Well, that is a thumping. Trump posted weak and pathetic Congressman Dan Goldman just lost big. I guess people didn't like him illegally targeting President Trump. In any event, this jerk is finally gone. President Donald J. Trump. I can't wait to read to my great-grandkids the book of quotes from Donald Trump. When he speaks about himself in the third person. Yeah, exactly. It's gonna be great. So this is the Fox News reaction.

SPEAKER_22 10:57

I didn't say it. He said it.

SPEAKER_17 11:02

This is the Fox News reaction to Dan Goldman winning.

SPEAKER_21 11:05

Uh that race now has been called uh Brad Lander. This is John Fetterman as well. That surprised me.

SPEAKER_15 11:14

No, that doesn't say it doesn't surprise me. I fully expect that. And I think you're gonna see. I I can almost guarantee, you know, the the the one the one that that calls to abolish police, abolish the border. There are no reasons to ever to deport anybody and and abolishing prisons. I mean, she said all of this. She's someone she actually said F Kamala Harris. I I mean, these are the people who we are electing, and then they're gonna send them here to Congress. Someone who wants to abolish our border and abolish prison. You know, that's not a Democrat. That's that's a full-on lunatic. I I can't imagine, you know, this is the kind of model that we're going to win real elections. Yeah, you can elect some someone like that in a district in New York, but when you you're in a state like Pennsylvania, that's gonna keep you honest. Oh, and my views now have put me out an outlier, but that is beyond absurd. Now, as we continue to witness it, what's happening, whether in again in Maine or Michigan.

SPEAKER_17 12:18

How is this guy still a Democrat? At some point, he's gonna be like, okay, apparently the Republicans are the new Democrat Party. Like, I'm out. Stephen Miller called it best. This was a couple months ago, but he called it best. The Democrat Party has morphed, right? It is no longer mostly Democrats with a couple far-left extremists. It's now a far-left extreme party with a couple Federman still hanging around that have no idea how their party has broken so far left.

SPEAKER_26 12:44

But we used to have a country, you could pick what time period, maybe say the 1980s with O'Neill and Ronald Reagan. We used to have a country where you had a center-left Democrat Party, really a center, I would say a centric to center left, with many members who were actually center right. These were called Reagan Democrats or Blue Dog Democrats. So that was the spectrum the Democrat Party lived in. From center left to center right, then you had a then you had a Republican Party, right? A conservative party. And over time, the Democrat Party has abandoned all of that, and they have instead adopted this radical, revolutionary, and in many cases violent ideology that wants to tear America down and destroy everything that we know and love from top to bottom, right? Living in a state of total anarchy without police, without law enforcement, where criminals can rape and maim and murder with impunity, where your kids are taught from the age of two to hate America, to hate their God, to hate their parents, to hate their family, to even hate their own gender. That's their agenda. And no, you cannot have a middle ground with that. Ultimately, what President Trump is doing and what he is leading is an America-first movement that says we need Democrats to come vote for us, to leave that insanity, because ultimately that's just a death knell for America.

SPEAKER_17 13:59

And it's just a matter of time until sane Democrats realize they don't want to be Democrats anymore and they need to come over to the side of sanity, which is the conservative party, the Republican Party, which isn't even that conservative.

SPEAKER_22 14:10

I think that that was pretty smart what he said that you just can't have a moderate take from that position.

SPEAKER_17 14:16

You can't. You can't really negotiate with these people in that regard. Yeah. So the it continues on here, right? This this situation with Goldman losing. I mean, this is another one of those, like, whoa, whoa, hold on. This was like TDS patient number one. He should have had all of the deep state acolytes. He's been doing the deep state bidding for a while. Where were they on this election? Now, I I have this inclination, right? This inclination that in certain areas the election cheating is being significantly tamped down, right? There's just a lot of eyes on it. Even what happened in out of California, it sounds based on what Trump was saying, that they stopped the cheating once they got Spencer Pratt out and they didn't go all the way for Steve Hilton. You know, there was like a little too many, you know, the the U.S. attorney was getting involved. You know what I'm saying? And so there's a there's a suspicion that all eyes on, they're gonna cheat, but they're also going to pull back at the last moment. So with this Goldman one, it's like I would have assumed the deep state would have cheated for him. Like I would assume the deep state doesn't want these hardcore socialists in there. They would rather just stick with a Dan Goldman who's like, hey, we're just gonna do business as usual. Oh, and by the way, I'm going to oppose everything Trump does. That to me smells like a deep state candidate. So, how did we end up in this spot where all of Mandami's endorsements up in up in New York ended up winning their primaries, and not by a little, like significantly. This tells you that the Democrat base has, in fact, moved really far to the left.

SPEAKER_14 15:49

I don't agree with much of anything he's done in Congress, but I'm surprised you sort of glossed over the main issue in this race, which is Israel. I mean, Dan Goldman is a congressman and he's Jewish, and he went into a coffee shop this weekend in Brooklyn, and they said, You're not welcome here anymore. Brad Lander is out speaking in mosques, telling uh uh those people that he's like to go uh align himself with Ilhan Omar and the rest of the squad. Dan Goldman's only sin, I guess, is that he thinks Israel has a right to exist. And for that, he's that that has been the principal issue in this. And you've got the mayor of New York City, Mam Dani, out saying about AIPAC and Jewish Americans who have participated in our politics that they are, quote, monsters. What is happening right now in New York City, the Democrat Socialist takeover of the Democratic Party should frighten not just Jewish Americans, but all Americans everywhere, because this is the direction the Democrats are headed nationally. Look what's happening in Michigan, and it is frightening. Throwing Democrat Jewish congressmen out of coffee shops in Brooklyn, New York. It's not 1930s Germany. This is the United States of America.

SPEAKER_17 16:51

And this is really fascinating because obviously New York is the site of 9-11, right? You'd think that there would be at least, if not being pro-Israel, they would be anti-Islam and anti-extremism. But that's not what we're seeing. We've seen the zeitgeist in New York completely shift. Mandami appointed, or not appointed, but endorsed a bunch of people. And one of the people he endorsed is this woman right here. Her name is Amber Kwas, and she won her Democrat primary to uh tonight for a state senate seat. This is her talking about the cause of 9-11.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Um, and so like, and finding that like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism, um, and white supremacy, etc., have all and Islamophobia have all been used um, you know, to uh colonize lands, right, to take resources from other people. And so this is like a long trajectory, and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right, with 9-11.

SPEAKER_17 17:50

Um, and so a lot she just tied in that 9-11 was like an obvious result of capitalism and white supremacy and Islamophobia, of course, systemic racism. And of course, that led to 9-11 because the victim, it's the victim's fault for all these horrible things you've done. Somebody in a cave somewhere decided to send his minions to fly planes into one of your buildings, right? I mean, that's literally what she's saying here because you guys are capitalists. I mean, this is the natural outflow of a free market, is terror attacks.

SPEAKER_22 18:22

The other thing that's weird is like 9-11 Mandami, are we embracing our, you know, abuser?

SPEAKER_17 18:29

This is absolutely, was it the nightingale effect or whatever it is? Problem syndrome. You're starting to identify with your captors, right? The oppressors are starting, we're starting to feel bad for the oppressors. Well, right, you took us out.

SPEAKER_22 18:41

Look how successful we let's give them power and let them abuse us.

SPEAKER_17 18:45

If we weren't this successful, you wouldn't be that angry.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

Right, when if we look back like historically, right? Um, you know, a lot of us come from lands that were colonized, lands where wars are being waged, right? A lot of times because of US policy or or the policies in Europe. And so um I find that we can connect over that, but then also that um the idea that we have to apologize for like a terror attack that like a couple of people did, and then there is no apologies or reparations for genocides and for slavery, um, etc., is something that I kind of find like reprehensible.

SPEAKER_17 19:23

She just won a primary for a state senate see in New

Israel Politics And Post 9-11 Narratives

SPEAKER_17 19:28

York. Wow. Oh, 9-11. No, that's definitely our fault. The people of New York, not Islam, not some Muslims. A couple people decided in attempt, but it was natural, you could expect it. That's what she's saying. You know, but don't blame all of us, but we're gonna blame all of you. Do you see what she just did there? Like uh, that was a Mundami endorsement. Even Hakeem Jeffries is a little bit worried about this. He was asking, what is that?

SPEAKER_27 19:57

That must be watching closely. What the yes, not a no, not too clear.

SPEAKER_22 20:16

Is that your phone?

SPEAKER_17 20:18

No, I don't know where that was coming from, but apparently we got a little heavy metal. I don't know where that's coming from. All right, we've been Hakeem. Well, well, this is a uh live broadcast show, 6 30 a.m., Monday through Friday. I kind of like that riff. Well, I think I think the CIA just injected a stream. Let's get some music. All right, Hakeem Jeffries was being asked about these races up in New York, and you know, he he's he expressed a little bit of concern. He's keeping a close eye on the incumbent races because obviously that's kind of where he supports the incumbents, but even Hakeem Jeffries has some problems. Are you worried at all about the incumbents of the democratic socialists in primaries there and across the country?

SPEAKER_03 21:02

Well, there are four races in New York City, and I'm standing behind every single one of those races that involve an incumbent. Of course, and that's Adriano Espayat, Dan Goldman, Yvette Clark, and Grace Mang. And then we're watching closely two open seat races that House Democratic leadership hasn't gotten involved in by custom. That of course is in the 7th Congressional District. With DSA on the other. We'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_17 22:00

So all the kind of moderate lefties and the DSA on the other. We'll see what happens. Okay. Here's the problem. Up in New York, it really has become the situation where the Democrat Socialists of America are taking over. This was the crowd at the clear the valve.

SPEAKER_27 22:18

The mayor of New York City is a Muslim. The mayor candidate of Minneapolis is a Muslim. The mayor of St. Louis Park is a Muslim. You have to wake up, or else your country will be Islamized. A Muslim Imamo is listening to him.

SPEAKER_17 22:33

I found where the noise was coming from. I apologize. I don't know. That's not a clip we're going to be playing. Here, however, was at the at the Cape, the uh Claire Valdez victory party, and this was when the news had Hakeem Jeffries on it. This is what was being chanted, and this is why I think Hakeem Jeffries should be a little bit worried. Oh boy. They're shouting your next at Hakeem Jeffries. That is pretty devastating. Dope. So this is Fox News' kind of take. Again, you go, you know, right left, right left, see what CNN has to say about it, see what Fox News has to say about it. And they're saying, hey, these New York primaries results are scary. The socialists are legitimately gaining grounds. And this is concerning, right? I've said the premise of the future is the buses will be free. Okay. Either they will be paid for by our abundance or they will be mandated free by someone like Mandami. And New York is clearly breaking socialists. Again, I have to step back and I have to wonder: is this what we're dealing with with the Democrat Party? Has it truly become a full-on socialist party with a few fringe, moderate Democrats still kind of hanging on to the vote blue no matter who brand, you know, just intolerable to co-join those country club Republicans. But the reality is a fair assessment of our society, is it's maybe 65, 70% conservative Republican-oriented MAGA, and then 35% Democrat socialists. And that's what we're starting to see come through in these elections. Why? Because all those middle of the ground deep state uniparty voters are getting, you know, taken off of the ballots and taken off of the voter rolls in Oregon. It's being highly scrutinized everywhere. There's a really strong possibility that we're down to the core real living voters left in the party. And it is far left.

SPEAKER_32 24:23

These Democratic socialists are knocking out Democratic establishment candidates. People, you know, that have been doing this for quite some time. And Bill and Dana, that's why they say they want to take them out. They say they're part of the problem. They need to move the Democratic Party in a new direction. And in this race here in New York City, an endorsement from the mayor meant more than an endorsement from the party's top leaders.

SPEAKER_31 24:46

And last June, a year ago tomorrow, was not an anomaly. It was not the end. It was the beginning.

SPEAKER_32 25:02

Mamdani went three for three last night with fellow Democratic Socialist Daria Lisa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez, and progressive Brad Lander winning. And Brad Lander won fast. We were watching those results come in. They all want to do a few things, all right? Abolish ICE, defund the police, cut ties with Israel, and take the party in a new direction. And one of the night's biggest upsets, Chevalier knocking off five-term congressman Adriano Espliot. He's a newcomer, she's a newcomer, rather. He's not. And she is strongly anti-Israel. I keep thinking back. Did I see her out of Columbia because she went to school there and she was also leading those campus protests? Israel also the defining issue in this race. One of the main reasons that Congressman Dan Goldman lost to Brad Lander was because of Israel. They're both Jewish, but boy, do they have different takes.

SPEAKER_27 25:51

But it's not just the Jews who will lose, it will be everybody else.

SPEAKER_32 25:55

How do you balance that with being anti-APAC, anti-Israel, and a lot of things? But you're Jewish.

SPEAKER_04 26:01

Yeah, I mean, look, I'm a proud Jewish New Yorker. I wear it on my sleeve, raising my Jewish kids in this city, like the proudest thing in my life. Incredible city for Jews for a century. I'm gonna fight to keep it that way.

SPEAKER_32 26:15

But a lot of Jewish voters don't feel safe in New York or across the country, so we'll keep an eye on that. The so-called red wave, though, is not just in the Big Apple. Democratic socialists won nearly every key race across New York State yesterday. And some voters tell me the reason I came to the United States wasn't to deal with this. I came to escape socialist policies.

SPEAKER_33 26:35

Do you want to bring socialism out? No, no, no, no. Why? No. Why? Because I'm from Latin America. We have it. Venezuela, we have it, Cuba. We know uh Hispanic speaker, uh Latin America. We know whether it means socialists. What did it mean? We know one DC New York.

SPEAKER_32 26:54

And the DSA is calling New York City the Kami Corridor. That's a new one. So I don't know if I should toss it back to you and say live from the Kami Corridor or live from the Gap. But one more thing here is we're gonna have to see. The question is, is Zorn Mondani's playbook gonna work uh in November? That's a big question that I think those Democratic leaders are watching too, Bill.

SPEAKER_17 27:12

That's a big question for America. Is the vote blue no matter who gonna carry these Democrats, socialists across the commie corridor and get them that little extra extra bump? But that is you know, it it does kind of beg belief because a lot of these immigrants, the ones that came here, I think legitimately reject socialism. But the ones that just came for the ride, you know, this is just part of the program. Like you came here, you got socialist benefits, you know. I I don't know. Like how many of those fake immigrants, those illegal immigrants that we shouldn't otherwise be here, are on the voter rolls. But who knows? What do we got going on? We got a rumble wallet ad? Yes, let's do it. Let's do it. Pew 39 cents, here we go. Oh, 39 cents.

SPEAKER_22 27:54

But only if I read it

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SPEAKER_17 28:59

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Can New York Politics Go National

SPEAKER_17 29:01

All right, so his CNN running down through all the elections in New York yesterday, and it was a socialist problem.

SPEAKER_05 29:09

And that projection, Abby, means that the mayor, Mamdani, does get a sweep of the three races in which he endorsed the Democratic primaries tonight. The Democratic Socialist candidate, uh Daniel Avila Chevalier beating a powerful Democratic, long-standing Democratic incumbent, Adriano Espayot. A more much more narrow race than the other two districts here. But this is again a democratic, this is a mayor making a statement, this is a candidate making a statement. You're having a conversation with your panel about we want new, we want different, and yes, we want in this particular case, Espayat is certainly a Democrat and a progressive, uh, but this is part of the generational divide. We've also seen the Democratic Party. We want new, we want younger, but there's one for the mayor, there's two for the mayor, and there's three tonight. So the conversation is going to be, Abby, number one, uh, how much power does Duran Mamdani have in New York City politics? Number two, he's also making some enemies tonight, let's be honest. He's been mayor six months and he's gone against two Democratic incumbents and the wishes of the retiring Democratic incumbent in the third district there. But he's making a statement for the city, for the state, and he's also making a statement of where he thinks the Democratic Party should go nationally, both for the next five months and into 2028. So as you're discussing with your panel, of can you export this? Can you sell what he wants to do in New York City, where his candidates clearly are winning tonight, where he won clearly, convincingly, can you sell it? Well, he wants to be part of that debate, and tonight he's proving he gets a big role in it.

SPEAKER_17 30:30

You know, now even MS Now and our good friends Joe Scarborough and Mika Prozinski, even them over on MS Now are having kind of a freak out because they're starting to come to the realization after all these years of criticizing even moderate Rhino Republicans, saying that they're extremists and that they're buying into the big lie, and that anything and everything the Republicans do is bad and everything Joe Biden does is good. The fact that these guys, at the end of the day, are just uniparty establishment shills becomes super obvious when their policies, even just a moderate blue dog Democrat's policies, start to become on the outs. Just basic support for Israel's right to exist, can get a Jew run out of a coffee shop in Jewish New York, right? And even they're starting to realize what's happening in New York, this isn't America. Too much.

SPEAKER_23 31:28

Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, the bottom line is New York City is not America. And that's what we're seeing play out across the country because to your point, Joe, yeah, this has been fomented by you guys.

SPEAKER_17 31:42

You guys have run off all the middle of the ground Democrats. You guys have made anything the Uniparty does look ridiculous, which is going to run somebody who's in that left side of the camp, either into the arms of their extreme wing or out of the party like Fetterman completely.

SPEAKER_23 31:57

Last night in New York, three Democratic socialists did prevail in some of these very heavily contested primaries. But at the end of the day, that is not America. Let's not forget, you just mentioned the Mike Lawler race. Kate Conley uh won the Democratic primary in that seat. That's New York 17. Um, that is in the state of New York, not the city of New York City. Uh, but we are seeing some really strong national security candidates with some really strong backgrounds that in other places where you know you're not seeing the super progressive wing of the party take over the Democratic party in that respective area. You're seeing those candidates prevail. So Johnny's exactly right. Republicans are gonna try to brand us as the Democratic Socialist Party. They're already doing that. They're gonna say we're the party of Mundani, we're the party of anti-Semitism. Those things are not true. You are seeing a very strong Mundani coalition being built and endorsed and win in New York City, but that is New York City is a tiny part of America. That is not what you're seeing Democrats do across the country in other primaries.

SPEAKER_19 33:01

It's a pretty big part of America, if I may.

SPEAKER_17 33:03

Well, it's a big thing. Do you see what they're doing there? They're trying to tell other Democrats around the country. Don't worry. I know those guys, what they're doing, it's not gonna work. But that's not America. That's not the rest of us. The rest of us, we can get a national security candidate, a capitalist, we can get them across the line in Indiana.

SPEAKER_22 33:20

I got two thoughts, and you're probably gonna like both of them. One of them is we've gone full Vermin Supreme.

SPEAKER_24 33:26

Yeah, we have.

SPEAKER_22 33:27

And it's I'd really like to hear what he thought on this because I don't think he ever thought that it was gonna go this far. I know. And then the other thing was that yeah, it is a takeover, and the Democrat Party really has lost New York City because you know, the the candidates or the the Democrats that have been incumbents have all been kicked out for worse people that support this Mondami nonsense that's gonna get exported nowhere.

SPEAKER_17 33:57

And that's the thing. If you're a Democrat in Indiana or you're a Democrat in Detroit, you just really want some union jobs to come back to town, right? You're looking at what's happening in New York and you're like, that's not gonna get the result I want. Exactly. That's not gonna get dignity for work or anything like that. That's just a that's just a payday. That that's a terror break the system down politically and redo it in our own image. It's not really the Democrat Party anymore. Yes. So when MS now is like basically trying to placate their their national audience, oh don't worry, this is just the commie corridor. I mean, that's just New York, that's not the rest of the country. Like, don't worry, the Democrat policies won't bring all the problems that the Democrat socialists will. Like, you know, it's like, what are you guys talking about? No, it's one in the same, man.

SPEAKER_22 34:42

This is a fracture that's gonna get a stroke them.

SPEAKER_17 34:44

Yeah, because you're gonna have because we've seen it. We've seen socialists, hardcore Democrats, socialists of America running for town councils in Texas, and we see them popping up all over the place. Obviously, here in Seattle. Right.

SPEAKER_22 34:56

For this thing to be a normal, natural thing, Vermin Supreme would have to run as a Democrat.

SPEAKER_17 35:02

John Stossel had a piece about what happens when socialists get in charge. Uh they start to band-aid policies. They try to fix things like gig workers and their quote unquote low wages, and they try to, you know, manipulate these markets that obviously have their own brain. And every time you change one of the variables, the overall price of things increases. And Democrats just can't seem to figure this out, especially these retarded Democrat socialists, right? So John Stasel runs this piece highlighting what happened in Seattle when the socialists came after the gig economy to try to fix a problem. And what they did was they compounded the problem and made the whole thing even worse. God's Army Bratt 9444 on YouTube says, Did everyone catch that they called it Democrat win a wet wave? So having a middle ground Democrat is like, oh, the conservatives must have showed up in the primary. That's a good catch. That's a good catch. Exactly. So let me show you what it is that on MS now

Seattle Gig Worker Pay Law Fallout

SPEAKER_17 35:56

they were concerned about. This isn't America. They're concerned about legitimate socialism taking hole. And they know, they know that their policies suck because over and over again it looks like this.

SPEAKER_21 36:09

Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared. App-based gig work, dog walkers, task rabbit, DoorDash, and most common, Uber and Lyft drivers. Gig work is paid by the job. And some say not paid enough.

SPEAKER_30 36:26

I'm just basically working part-time to pay my bills and survive.

SPEAKER_21 36:32

Leftist media say gig workers are exploited. We're paid as little as $2 a job. So activists demand politicians do something.

SPEAKER_30 36:41

We have a well-crafted solution.

SPEAKER_21 36:44

Seattle politicians, a well-crafted solution was to guarantee delivery drivers a $26 minimum wage. You get the dignity, you get the benefits of what's coming to you. What could go wrong? After all, companies like Uber, DoorDash make so much money, they can eat the cost without raising prices.

SPEAKER_29 37:03

Annual revenues of billions of dollars a year. So I wouldn't assume that prices are going to go up. But they did.

SPEAKER_23 37:10

Getting whipped with new charges on food delivery apps.

SPEAKER_09 37:14

Oops. It was three items of, you know, Thai takeout food for $122. So I just deleted the app.

SPEAKER_20 37:20

Obviously, when you're increasing cost to businesses, you're going to increase cost to customers. These are very, almost unimaginably complicated markets where the company's main job is actually interfacing between restaurants and delivery workers and customers. And then you have, frankly, usually an economically illiterate city council or mayor who comes in and thinks basically by looking at an industry through reading the daily news, they can appropriately regulate the exact wage.

SPEAKER_29 37:48

We want an economy in our city that works for everybody.

SPEAKER_21 37:50

Two years later, the data is in. Why? Supply and demand. To pay drivers more, apps raise prices. So customers order less. Doordash says it got 1.7 million fewer orders. Why do you think it's slow in Seattle right now? Well, has it become a slow because uh was a new law? Business is plummeted because of Seattle's new food delivery ordinance.

SPEAKER_20 38:16

That's what happens when politicians micromanage. We have a system in America that decides fairness by what the market will bear. But the politicians don't get it. They they say we can fix it, we just have to tinker with it. The market is actually deciding what someone's job is worth. Seattle, then city council president, realized they'd made a mistake.

SPEAKER_02 38:36

I believe that we created a problem and it's our responsibility to fix it.

SPEAKER_21 38:40

Good. So they repeal their harmful law? No. She said we just have to tinker with the numbers. Give me a pick the conceit of politicians.

SPEAKER_24 38:58

Yep, that's it. I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_21 38:59

Free enterprise requires businesses to constantly adjust pay and prices to attract both workers and customers. It's Seattle politicians confidently say the price we pick is the right one.

SPEAKER_20 39:14

When you think about it, it's actually just patently absurd on its face. Dumb as these rules are, the regulators have the power and they can force us. You're not going to have any improved well-being for people, and you're not going to have increased wages for those workers.

SPEAKER_21 39:31

The same thing happened in New York City.

SPEAKER_12 39:34

At-based food delivery workers are getting $19.56 an hour. But with the bump in pay came a reduction in tips.

SPEAKER_20 39:42

The decrease in tips and increased competition for jobs offset all of the gains, basically, from that imposed minimum wage. That upsets New York's new mayor. Make no mistake, we will have those workers' backs each and every time. It's this continual whack-a-mole tendency where, yes, the market responds. We need a new regulation to try to prevent that response. They think that the next regulation is somehow going to squelch the greed out of the system, but there's simply no way to do that. Right.

SPEAKER_21 40:11

Competition's the only good way to handle that. We asked my mayor and Seattle City Council members, how do you know better than the push and pull of the market?

SPEAKER_20 40:20

Yeah. They didn't respond. A lot of politicians want to believe there's a free lunch or just a fixed pot of money that they can give out to the neediest people in America. The actual effect was not to improve the well-being of any workers, but it was to increase costs for customers and to sabotage one of the most successful businesses in the city. One that pays people for something they like to do.

SPEAKER_17 41:00

But that's what's coming, ladies and gentlemen. That's what's coming. If the Democrats win, you're basically conceding over to the Democrat Socialists of America. There's a fracture in that party, and as voters become real people and not just paper ballots, we might be surprised how many hardcore lefties, socialists, communists, even there are in our country. And why? Because in the marketplace of ideas, the conservatives' ideas, the capitalist ideas, usually don't make it into the algorithm. You know, it's like common sense, it's kind of boring. Yeah, but it requires people to work, so people don't like it. Natural consequence will be the price will go up. And all those working families that are using Uber Eats are going to stop using Uber Eats. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_22 41:46

I think it's really uh I think it's really sad how all of the entire population of Seattle understood what would happen when the prices went up and the council couldn't figure it out. I just don't make it.

SPEAKER_17 41:58

It makes no sense. It's a short-term problem solution. It's a short-term problem solution. It's it's literally you get 12 months. Let's raise the minimum wage. And by the time all the menus around the count the city raise their prices, we'll have had 12 months of people thinking, I have an extra $8 in my paycheck. You know, it's just it is ridiculous. And it and it repeats itself over and over again. And it's honestly, when you go through history, it's like they do this time and time again. You know, there's something that happens in these big cities where you have useless eaters who feel like the only way they can be useful is to try to play the Robin Hood in their neighborhood and take from the rich and give to the poor. The problem is they don't recognize that it's the rich themselves that are currently sustaining the poor.

SPEAKER_22 42:45

And the real solution is just work, get a job.

Civil War Satire And Stream Switch

SPEAKER_17 42:49

Now, some people say we are on the verge of a civil war. I sure hope we're not. But the good folks over at the hard-hitting journalists, uh journalism of the Babylon B, they asked AI to simulate what would happen if the US had a second civil war.

SPEAKER_19 43:14

It was late 2026, and political conflict was coming to a head. The right was not giving any ground, and the left decided it was time to take action. We had to do something. The Republicans were using every trick in the book, mainly voting to take over our country. It was finally time for war. The left began to quickly make preparations to take the country by force. It's not easy to start a war. It involves a lot of talking on the phone, which gives many of us anxiety. An initial target was settled on a lazy suburb that served as a symbol of the bourgeoisie and capitalism. But this small neighborhood was not caught by surprise.

SPEAKER_18 43:58

Doreen's son. Goes to one of those fruity colleges on the west coast. We got word from him war was coming.

SPEAKER_19 44:05

The invading army descended on the small neighborhood, but the attack did not go as planned.

SPEAKER_10 44:11

In the city, we're used to being able to burn down a target and no one does anything.

SPEAKER_19 44:16

I guess it's different in the suburbs, though. The suburbanites had an ace up their sleeves, firearms.

SPEAKER_09 44:23

One of the big issues is how we hate guns, but the right loves them. I guess none of us considered how big a disadvantage that would put us in a civil war.

SPEAKER_19 44:31

A single warning shot was fired, causing half the invading force to have a panic attack. The rest fled for their lives. The second American Civil War was over.

SPEAKER_18 44:42

Everyone said I was crazy owning six AR-15s. And I guess they had a point. Since we had a full civil war and I barely needed to won.

SPEAKER_19 44:52

The left signed a statement of unconditional surrender. The right was now fully in control of the country.

SPEAKER_08 44:59

As part of the surrender, we technically own California. We're seeing if it's possible to just push it off into the sea.

SPEAKER_19 45:07

Many of the losing combatants fled to the far north. Starvation was rampant among them from lack of access to DoorDash. Still, not everyone saw what happened as a total loss for the left. I think we won by showing we will stand up to Republicans. But haven't you been exiled to Canada?

SPEAKER_17 45:26

It's great! I love it here. Kevin Newsom was soon eaten by a moose. Jeez. Oh, bad. All right, we're gonna jump over into private stream now. We're running way ahead of schedule on the show today. This is great. We're actually gonna have a really long private stream. Gotta make up the time. It's just the way it works. We're gonna be hearing from Trump, a couple different clips from him at his rally in Pennsylvania. He's got some good ones. Ron heard a few earlier. He said it sounds like he's doing a bit. Does it kind of seem that way? So we're gonna be hearing from Donald Trump. We're gonna be talking about some nuclear energy. We've got some nuclear energy loans. Ron, you can go get a 30-year fix on a power plant right now. What? Yeah, yeah. And we're gonna also be talking about a horrendous Medicaid fraud scandal that uh yesterday they arrested 400 and I think 30, 455 defendants across 45 states in a 6.5 billion Medicaid fraud scandal.

SPEAKER_22 46:28

Oh, I thought you were gonna say 437 across 50 states.

SPEAKER_17 46:33

455 across 50 states. So never mind. Bad joke. Okay. Some pretty pretty bad stuff there. So, all right, we're gonna jump over into private, and then we are also, once we get done with private, we are going to launch into the take back my county stream. Oh, and I've got a couple uh news reports that I'm gonna read. I'm gonna talk about the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, and I'm also gonna talk about I'm gonna I'm gonna read a little um blurb about snatching victory from the jaws of victory. Okay, and how one of our local county commissioners, a Republican, set up the Democrats for a win and he didn't have to do that. So at Take Back My County, we have a promise to be unbiased in our opinions. Actually, just kidding, we are totally biased in our opinions, but unbiased in the fact that, hey, when someone on our side does something that we don't like, we are gonna call it out, right? Because we want to bring attention to this stuff. So we're gonna be streaming there. We are gonna be updating that channel. We're going to be changing the branding and stuff like that. But for the time being, we'll go ahead and use it since we got it. So if you're not subscribed to Take Back My County, you can go into the show channels and you can subscribe there and you can take a listen to that. It's gonna be really good. So, all right, we're jumping over to private. We will talk to you guys tomorrow and the rest of you on Rumble. If you're a sub premium subscriber, you can find us starting now. Phew! All right, all

$6.5B Medicaid Fraud Bust Details

SPEAKER_17 47:59

right.

SPEAKER_16 47:59

So, yesterday, Todd Blanche announced today we are announcing federal and state charges, all of which were charged or unsealed at some point over the past two weeks, the past 14 days. Coordinated nationwide action. Since June 8th, we've charged 455 defendants across 56, like I said a minute ago, U.S. attorney's offices and 45 U.S. states and territories. As alleged in the various indictments, these individuals participated in healthcare fraud schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare programs. That is an incredible roundup.

SPEAKER_17 48:44

Oh, wow. So here's kind of some of the details on that.

SPEAKER_25 48:46

He said he wanted a whole of government approach to combating health care fraud and fraud across all our benefits programs, and this is the result. Every major leader in this space from the federal government is standing up here, and all have contributed in critically important ways to this effort. Investigators, prosecutors, healthcare specialists, the leadership at HHS and at CMS have made today possible. I also want to thank Jake Foster and his team, uh Justin Woodward and Rebecca Uya at uh DOJ for the at the health care fraud unit that has broken records with today's effort, not just in their own prosecutions, but in harnessing the power of the U.S. attorneys and state attorneys general to make today possible. The vice president has always said we have to take a two-pronged approach to this. We have to stop the money from getting out of the agencies. Uh, Administrator Oz and Secretary Kennedy have talked about that. And then we have to impose consequences on people that have defrauded the American government. And we've been saying that we're doing this to save these programs from the fraud that is bleeding them dry, that will make them unavailable in the future for future generations, to protect the investment, the trillions of dollars of investment that every American taxpayer makes every single year to help their friends, their neighbors, and strangers in times of need. But I also want, like Dr. Oz, I want to talk about the real human toll of this for a minute. I want to talk about skin substitutes or allographs. Five years ago, Medicare was paying out less than a billion dollars every year.

SPEAKER_17 50:14

We're gonna pause on this real quick. What he's about to describe here is a medical procedure that they actually did in order to take the payments, and it was an unnecessary procedure, and it's an incredibly painful procedure. You know, sometimes we listen to this stuff, and you have to understand there is a human cost to a lot of it, right? These aren't just billing errors, these are real world things that happen that cause pain and suffering. It's not just purely a financial grift, right? There's like real world stuff that's going on here. When you sink to the level that you're willing to steal taxpayer money, it opens the door, in my opinion, to so many other depraved things that you can start doing in allographs and skin substitutes.

SPEAKER_25 50:56

By 2025, almost $15 billion. These programs were riddled with fraud. And yes, that's a problem because it takes money out of all of our pockets and puts it into the hands of the worst people on the planet. But this doesn't just affect all of us. These frauds affect individual American citizens in horrifying ways. We saw this, for example, in Minnesota, where a program designed to protect veterans from homelessness was so attacked by frauds they had to shut the thing down because they couldn't afford it anymore. I want to talk about a particular case that the department is indicted today out of the District of Nevada, where a nurse practitioner is accused of having bilked Medicaid for almost a billion dollars in skin substitute allographs. But this isn't just filing fake claims and trying to take money out of our pockets. She was performing these skin substitute procedures on vulnerable elderly Americans in hospices and in nursing homes, and then submitting those claims. She was using human beings, American citizens as living piggy banks. And then she took the money she got from those living piggy banks and she bought $865,000 necklaces that the department seized. She bought a almost half million dollar Ferrari that the department also sees. We've heard a lot about the numbers today. We've heard how many records have been broken by the Department of Justices and HHS's incredible efforts today. But the numbers shouldn't be treated as an abstraction. This doesn't just affect the whole country as taxpayers. Real human beings, American citizens, are physically maimed because of this fraud. So shutting down this fraud, killing these incentives for people to commit fraud, putting people in jail to commit these frauds, aren't just about protecting the FISC. They're not just about protecting the program. They are about protecting our fellow American citizens from the worst of us. That is why this is so important. That's why the vice president assembled this task force at the president's direction. And this is the result the entire federal government deploying all of its resources at home and abroad to end the fraud and to protect American citizens.

SPEAKER_17 53:02

That is scary. Wow. Veterans getting skin grafts that were unnecessary so she could bill Medicaid. So sick. So sick. I know. It's incredible.

Trump Rally Clips Tariffs And Energy

SPEAKER_17 53:14

All right. This is Donald Trump at the rally. He's a funny, funny man. So for a decade, the left has been calling him a Nazi. He doesn't fly anymore.

SPEAKER_11 53:23

He's got he's got the Nazi stickers. He's got the whole deal under trying to say that's a so for eight years, ten years, they said Trump is a Nazi. Now they can't say that anymore because they have a guy with a tattoo on his chest. It's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_17 53:43

It's unbelievable. For eight years they called me a Nazi, and now they're running a Nazi. He's got the stickers. I love that. He's got the stickers. Here's another one. Donald Trump first day back in office. He stopped the cheaters from taking advantage of our country. Obviously, not all the cheaters, but he took out a big swipe of them.

SPEAKER_11 54:03

And starting on my first day back in office, and this goes all the way back to 2016, too, but right from a year and a half ago, nobody's ever seen anything like this. We're the hottest country anywhere in the world by a lot. But I stood up to the trade cheaters. They're cheaters and abusers and violators of the world like no president has ever stood up before. And now I'm standing up again because Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon if that's okay. And we're doing quite well. I placed 50% tariffs on foreign copper, aluminum, and steel, so they couldn't come in and steal your jobs, and sometimes even more than 100% tariffs. They weren't gonna come in from foreign lands and steal your jobs. If they wanted to come in, they pay 100%, they pay 200%, they pay I don't care what it is, they're not gonna steal your jobs, okay? And they stop. And right now we have more factories being built, and I mean car factories, AI factories, factories of every type that we've ever had in the history of our country by three times. That's because that's because they didn't want to pay the tariff. How don't you pay a tariff? You build your factory here and you hire American workers. It's quite simple, actually. But as you know, I placed a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles, and very importantly, I posed a 25% tariff on medium and heavy-duty trucks so that Mack Truck could do very well with this factory in Pennsylvania. But all American roads will be filled with American trucks very shortly. Very few people are able to compete with us anymore. They used to rip us off. It was like we were a bunch of babies. American labor worked with us too. I just met the head of your unions, and uh they've been terrific. They work with us and they're fair. They treated us good. Maybe we could negotiate a little bit tougher. Where the hell are the union guys? Those guys are great. They're great. There they are.

SPEAKER_17 56:17

So he's touting at the event, right, his tariffs and how it creates job protection. Scott Bessant gave a speech where he expressed this: that this was the desire of our founding fathers. Stretching back all the way to Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They talked about a strength of the nation lies in its ability to be sovereign with its critical supply chains.

SPEAKER_13 56:42

We have rediscovered at great cost what Alexander Hamilton taught us around the time of our founding, that every nation ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply. But our strength, in other words, is derived from what we can build. But the nation that cannot produce what it needs is not truly secure. The nation that depends on its adversaries for critical impulse impulse is not truly sovereign. And the nation that reduces its economics to consumption is not truly prosperous. Economic security begins with national capacity.

SPEAKER_17 57:24

Right. And Trump Trump is really pulling that off. One of the other things, too, with economic capacity comes electricity. These are intricately tied. Obviously, as people who are big fans of Bitcoin, we understand how electricity is tied to everything. Well, as I drove across the country last week, I saw an ungodly amount of uh windmills, which have a limited amount of production because they only work when the wind's blowing, which apparently in Kansas it never stops. But nonetheless, right? They only work when the wind's blowing. And I can't imagine as I drove across the country and saw thousands upon thousands, not dozens, not hundreds, not a couple spots. There was nearly a thousand miles of the journey that I wasn't within eyesight of a windmill somewhere. There was always one off on the horizon at a minimum. If I wasn't looking at hundreds, if not thousands, across the horizon. It was a ton of stuff. And I can't imagine that if you gathered up hundreds of those windmills, that they would produce more electricity collectively than a single nuclear power plant. Well, Donald Trump wants to change the blight that is spreading across the country, in my opinion, the cancer of windmills. And the Trump administration is now offering $17.5 billion in low-cost loans to help finance the construction of 10 new Westinghouse AP 1000 nuclear reactors across the country. Really? Yeah. So, you know, getting getting the mortgage industry in on the business. They got so if we find a site, can we do one of those? I think we should try. I don't think we could squeeze one in on this lot here. Let's do it. I'm ready. Let's do it. So that's pretty good news there. The other thing that you already heard Donald Trump mention was part of the war for energy. I wouldn't say it's a war on energy, it's a war for energy to control energy around the world, including sources like Iran. If you want to control their oil, one of the key functions is you've got to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. Because what goes along with a nuclear weapon? Nuclear energy. They go hand in hand.

SPEAKER_11 59:26

As you know, we just achieved a historic peace agreement with Iran to end the conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. And by the way, yesterday, 19 million barrels of oil flowed out of the Strait of Hormuz, a very beautiful place. That's the most, that's the most oil in the history of the strait. It's never been any, you've never seen anything like that. It's called an oil gusher. And most importantly, we are ensuring one thing very importantly, because this is why I did it. I did it for this reason. 99% for this. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.

SPEAKER_31 1:00:07

And they've agreed to that. But remember, this wasn't easy.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:15

We had 47 years worth of per presidents, and other people, other countries too. We're not the only one that never did anything. They were the bully of the Middle East. And now we're leaving Iran with no Navy, no Air Force, no anti-aircraft, no missile capability, no nuclear program. We're leaving them without any nuclear capacity, and they've agreed to that. And we're getting along quite well. Although if you read the fake news, you never know. Think of it. The fake news, they have no army, they have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft. We can fly over to Rentis at will. Nobody's gonna do anything to us. And then I read the fake news that they're doing quite well. They're not doing quite well. These people right now, look at all of them. Oh whoa! Whoa! That's a lot of press. That's almost as much press as Bo had at the White House last week when he knocked out his opponent in the first round. You had more. Bo had more press. But the Iran economy has been crushed, and their defense industrial base has been damaged so severely that it'll take them many years to rebuild, many, many years. And now we're trying to work out a deal that's fair.

SPEAKER_17 1:01:37

As you know, we just achieved a historic peace agreement. I mean, his ability to talk to a crowd is just something incredible. One last tidbit before we head out to take back my county and uh uh cover some local stories there. Donald Trump offered his way in on the election in California. Hey, did they screw the kid, Pratt?

SPEAKER_11 1:01:57

Boy, he's leading, and all of a sudden he's lost. And it was sort of interesting. The election, you ever see an election where they're two and a half weeks in? An election that takes weeks to count the votes. But after the evening, it looked like he was going to win or certainly be in the runoff. And then I started hearing rumors as the days went by, days and days went by that Pratt is fading. He's fading. I said they rigged the election. And then lo and behold, he didn't qualify, even though he was so far up in the third place person that it was almost impossible, and he didn't qualify. And then it started happening with the next candidate, Steve Hilton, who's running for governor. He was up in front, just about leading, no problem. And all of a sudden, about four or five days after, this is after the election's over, they said, Steve Hilton is starting to lose votes. I said, Here we go again. And I called up the U.S. attorney in California. They said, We're gonna have a number in the next week. Next week. I called up the very powerful, very good U.S. attorney in California, and I said, Do me a favor, take a look. They're trying to seal that election too. I guess they called up. They said, This is the U.S. attorney call. We have your great U.S. attorney here today, by the way, and your assistant U.S. attorney. They're doing great, David. Thank you. But so over the next week, he was definitely going to lose, but the U.S. attorney called, we want to check your votes about an hour after the call, ladies and gentlemen. Mr. Hilton has won. So had I not made that call, Steve Hilton would right now be looking, watching the election from home.

SPEAKER_17 1:03:42

That is a curious point. Did the attorney making a phone call saying, hey, I just want to, you know, look over your shoulder? Oh, yeah, we were just about to call it for Steve Hilton. No need to look over our shoulder. Expected results. You know, you got you got it. You got what you wanted. He's in the he's in the general election. That is an interesting thing there. If that is the case, why not make the call earlier before Spencer Brandt take?

SPEAKER_22 1:04:05

What the heck?

SPEAKER_17 1:04:06

You know, this kind of leads into the 5D theor chess theory. You gotta let him lose one so people can see it.

SPEAKER_22 1:04:11

Oh man. Maybe it's 6D, 70. You gotta get deep.

Monty Python On Power And Authority

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All right.

SPEAKER_17 1:04:15

All right, guys, that's it for us today. We are going to take a very quick break, just long enough to get the screen switched over, and we are gonna start streaming on Take Back My County. So join us over there, Mike.

SPEAKER_28 1:04:59

Well, I can't just call him man, you could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. I did say something about the old woman, but from behind, you're not getting the automatically treat me like an imperialist. Did you get that, eh? Hanging on to a stated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. Is there ever going to be any progress? How do you do, good lady? Um king of the Britons. Whose castle is that? The Britons. We all are we are all Britons. I am your king. You're yourself. We're living in a dictator. Stop perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is. That's what it's all about. Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco syndicalist commune. We take it in turn to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. In fact, by a simple majority in the case of pure internal affairs. I order you to be quiet. I'm your king. The lady of the lake. Signifying by divine province. I want to carry excaliber. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women, not an importance, distributive sword, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the message, not from some pharmacal aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to world supreme executive power just because some water retrofort is around saying I was an emperor. Just because some moisture beast loves the symmetry at me.