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but meanwhile, on the republican side. The great problem with President Trump has been that he cannot contain himself. He just does not have the capacity to contain himself if the man had one iota of self control. He would be nearly unstoppable as a politician, but it turns out that with the good comes, the bad and with the good part of the sandwich comes the boob, and the fact is, the president of the United States cannot contain himself, and this is going to be a continuing problem for him, and while there are republicans around the country are celebrating the quote, unquote purifying of the party there celebrating the fact that those rhino cucks are going away. You need. Those able to vote for you in two thousand and twenty. If you wish the president to retain the presidency, you need some of these Congress people in swing districts to remain, and in fact, some of the best Politic in the Republican Party are from some of these swing districts, exactly the sort of districts that Republicans need. So here's the piece of news representative will HURD was the lone black Republican in the house, and the rare

the lawmaker too. At times criticize president Trump will not seek reelection according to the Washington Post. Now the left is taking this as heard is resigning because he can't get along with Trump. That is not the case. The reason that heard is resigning is because he is looking at the tea leaves for two thousand and twenty, and he does not like what he sees his He raised it is pretty clear that he was going to run. He read something like seven hundred thousand dollars already for the twenty twenty race. And I was going to be used in a knock down. Drag out battle will hurt, has been representing the Texas 23rd district since January of twenty fifteen, since the twenty fourteen election, which is a wave election for Republicans. This has been a very, very back and forth district, so from nineteen ninety two to two thousand and six, when there is a democratic wave, it was represented by Henry Bonilla. Who is a republican and then from two thousand six to two thousand ten is represented by Democrat and there was a republican wave and for two years was presented by republican then into

Twelve during Obama's reelection campaign is represented by a Democrat again and then will hurt came back in and he won two consecutive terms, the last term that he, he wanted an insanely narrow election. He won that can buy something like a thousand votes total. It was extraordinarily close like a hundred and three thousand votes. Two hundred and two thousand out and will hurt, was probably looking at the tea leaves in his district is a district that Hillary Clinton won and he ends up winning the district. That's exactly the kind of place that Republicans need to win, the place is that Hillary Clinton won, but you need a republican Congress person. Those are the district and will hurt is stepping down now. What is fascinating about this district is that this district is nearly seventy percent hispanic. So this it's also a district where republicans are showing their mettle. When it comes to the ability to get people of racial minority status and ethnic minority status. But Republican. One of the great differences between California and Texas is the way that Hispanics vote in Texas versus California in California

Hispanics vote, something like seven thousand and thirty Democrat in Texas Hispanics build something like five thousand five hundred and forty five Democrat. Well. That gap explains the dominance of Republicans in Texas for the last twenty years, even with the rising tide of hispanic immigration into Texas in the growing hispanic population in Texas. But what will HURD's resignation shows, but he's not resigning. What his unwillingness to run for reelection shows is that there's a feeling that Texas is beginning to turn blue So this is very bad news for Trump come two thousand and twenty, if it's seen as sort of a bellwether immediately cook political reports took this district from toss up to leans Democrat, because heard is unique. Candidate heard's retirement is the third by a Texas Republican in the past week alone. Now the other two Texas, Republicans retiring, are retiring in heavy red district. But the fact is that a lot of folks don't want to be in Congress right now. Lot of folks,

a bad wave coming in twenty twenty. Why not? Because of the economy, which continues to be good? Another economic report today that puts the US unemployment rate at three point: seven percent, a record number of people in America are now employed some one hundred and fifty seven million people in the United States currently have jobs. That is a great economic record for the President of the United States. All this, despite the fact that there are significant headwinds in terms of trade, barriers and tariffs that the president is putting in place with regard to China, some justified some unjustified we'll get to that in just a little while. So why exactly isn't trump riding at five thousand two hundred and fifty three percent and the answer as always comes back to the fact that the president cannot access self control- and you can tell by the way the right is reacting to- will herds retirement. So many people on the right are reacting to will hers retirement with good riddance that guy wasn't standing up for Trump when Trump said stuff he's in a swing district that is filled with hispanic people on the border? Of course he should be calling out that not just not just morally.

Listen, you know my views on this. I believe the president does something when Trump does something wrong. You also be called out the same as any. Human being? Who does something wrong? Even if you like what he's doing politically and even if you like the fact that he slaps the left on a frequent basis. When people do stuff that is morally bad. You should point out that it is morally bad. This is, in fact your job is moral. Human being is to point out things that are morally bad, are morally bad, doesn't mean you should vote for him doesn't mean you shouldn't support him. It does mean that when you exercise your as to whether something is morally bad or not. It is your moral judgment that is being called into question, not Trump's moral judgment that is being called into question. People judge you, based on the way that you deal with things that you see, that are immoral in your life, and so always recommend it to everybody left right and center. It's my great you're tatian with the left is that the left stands on. There. They sit on their high horse and they pretend that they are the arbiters of morality, the police of morality, and then they won't out. Immorality when it's on their own side and then they look at Republicans, doing the same thing and they say how,

and, in the same people will rip on trump constantly on the left and Rippon Republicans, who won't rippon from constantly those are the same people who cheer when the New York Times today, reports Chappaquiddick as they can as a Kennedy family tragedy. I kid you not the New York Times today. It's ok guys, you can stop defending the Kennedys. Had he's been dead for ten years. It's ok! You can stop it. You don't have to do it that led to the rise of trump. The odd graceless ness of the left, the fact that the left constantly suggested that the right was morally bereft well touting its own. Immoral actors is somehow morally superior that led the right to embrace a lot of the stuff, but will herd calling out from twenty thought Trump was wrong. It wasn't just, I think, the right thing to do in many cases. I think that it was the politically smart thing to do in his district obviously heard barely held his seat last year from LOS the

rational district covers more fifty eight thousand square miles between San Antonio and El Paso along the mexican mexican border by four percentage points in twenty sixteen in an interview last Thursday, with the post heard had criticized Trump's, and this is just Washington Post coverage from assisted tweets last month again. It is amazing how the Washington Post will take tweets that I think we're xenophobic, but not racist and then call them racist as though that is a fact judgment, as opposed to an opinion judgment. The Washington Post has heard criticize Trump's racist tweets last month in which the president said for democratic minority. Congresswoman should go back in fix the totally broken in crime infested places from which they came through the women are from the United States, etc. Heard said when you imply that, because someone doesn't Look like you and telling them to go back to Africa or whatever you're implying that they're. Not I reckon you're implying they have less worth than you is what hurt had to say about this. Also repeated his earlier pledge to vote for Trump. If he's the republican nominee in twenty twenty, he said Hispanics african.

In other groups would be receptive to conservative themes if they weren't drowned in racially charged rhetoric bird said number one. You need to show up to communities that haven't seen Republicans show up and listen. Then the message that you take is how we have solved problems in our community. When you look at African american Unemployment, latino unemployment, it said in all time low it hurt, is the kind of republican that you do need his forty one years old, He said he plans to run again for elected office. You would imagine that he's probably gonna run for Senate at some point- or maybe governor of the State of Texas, is a former CIA officer. Is that I think I can help the country in a different way. I'm interested in pursuing my life, long passions at that intersection of technology, national security. I think I have an opportunity to help make their make sure the Republican Party looks like America. He opposed to trump national emergency that duration, but does favor a border barrier. For example, Joe heard has been a lot more moderate in his approach to Trump that a lot of the other Republicans and that has led a lot of Republicans to distance themselves. From heard in the same way, they did from, for example, Jeff like but

heard, never virtue signals in the same way that Jeff liked it and more than that heard, is the kind of person that you need in that district. I just like, could lose his seat and end up being filled by Democrats. Democrat Republicans had a shot at the seat. Without will hurt in that district is a problem for Republicans. So why this so important. It's important because again, every swing district is now bellwether for Trump. If he's losing swing, districts in Texas, he's going to be in trouble, come two thousand and twenty and again it goes more to Trump as a character that it does go to Trump Trump policy, so How is Trump going to win over the districts that he needs to win over now? There's this prevailing. Theory, it's a very sanguine, optimistic theory on the republican side. That Trump is a mystical connection with voters, and then he will pull a rabbit They had a second time at twenty. Sixteen was, not about Hillary Clinton being unable to pull votes. It was about Donald Trump, having a magical

ability to bring out voters who had never voted before and also to suppress the democratic vote in twenty eighteen trump drove out the republican vote and the democratic vote, an the Republicans got blown out and here's the thing. If Trump stuck to his actual political pitch, he would win, and this is the thing What got you here is not necessarily what keeps you here. What gets you to the major leagues, maybe or ninety amount per hour fastball, but at some point you have to develop a secondary patch ninety eight miles per hour to get you through double life. Once you have Tripoli start to struggle once you get to the majors, everybody has. Ninety eight, the president of the United States, is expected to be the president of the United States, and that means that he is expected to provide solutions which he has done on the economy. For example, it means that he is expected to provide solutions for for groups of Americans who didn't vote for him, and the president suggested some of those solutions. Last night in his rally and anyone on Twitter this morning and

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didn't land in area. Fifty one is not news. Aliens did land in area. Fifty one is news to CNN was desperately hoping that the crowd was going to chance, send her back again, so they could call Trump and his supporters racist, and so they were desperately desperately wanting, but that didn't happen. So instead they just reverted to a headline. That said, it didn't happen. In any case, President Trump's rally last night was quite good in a lot of ways. He pointed out the radicalism of the Democrats. He did a long extended riff on the fact that Democrats are wrecking major cities around the country, did an extended riff on LOS Angeles, that's exactly correct. He talked about the living conditions in LOS Angeles, have been steadily declining, that was Sandra, California's half the nation's homeless, population and they're heavily located in LA and San Francisco. You talk about ten cities. In a like, I live in LA I've, experienced the quality of life Eric. I said he has done a garbage job, and so is the governor of the morning, Jerry Brown to the garbage shop, Gavin Newsom, is doing the garbage job when Trump points out that the ability of America's major cities is being dramatic.

Really undermine by the ACLU Light governance of Democrats in places like Seattle and LA and New York and Baltimore and Detroit. He is not wrong at all and that's a strong pitch, particularly strong pitch for suburban women. So back in two thousand four George W Bush Bush, one reelection on the basis of the so called security moms. This was the great meme, two thousand and four with security. Mom's Bush was talking to suburban women who want to protect their kids, and he was the man who had stood up to terrorism and that's what his pitch was and it worked Trump can make the exact same law and order pitch today, particularly bottom, his major cities? He can say: look at the homeless product that are open. Those on the streets in LA you can't Herbert Hoover promised a chicken in every pot rats delivered in major cities, a homeless person on every bench and anybody who lives in LA can attest to this. You cannot walk down the street without running in

folks are living on the street, often times in filth. Many times they open nearby with open with open alcohol, open feces, I mean it really is egregious. This is a a good political point, Trump and it's something that he hammered last night. That was good and Trump let off his rally by by suggesting that he wants to just do a normal rally said we don't want any controversies, which is a somewhat smart thing to say in the quiet part out loud but sure he said we don't want any controversy for decades. These communities have been run exclusively by Democrat politicians and it's been totaled one party control of the inner cities for one hundred years. There's been one party control and look at him. We can name one after another, but I won't do that because

don't want to be controversial, We want no controversy, okay, that is fine. That is fine. Every knows that he's implying Baltimore there that if you say the Baltimore, is a poorly run city, then you are going to get into trouble that that is from you know, obviously getting under the skin Democrats. All that is fine, and then President Trump goes on the warpath against the socialism in the Democratic Party says: listen. Americans are not interested in doing the socialist he's right about this. This was evident on the debate stage the other night, when the moderates, like John Delaney, really took it toll Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. This is definitely Joe Biden was defending himself from socialists to his left. On that stage, people like Bill the Blasio and Kirsten Gilibrand. Here's trump saying we don't want to do the socialist thing, no matter what label they use a

vote for any Democrat in twenty. Twenty is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of our great our beautiful. Our wonderful american dream would not going to let our country ever go down the route of socialism, yeah and then he went back to the cities issue, he said the Democrats called deliver poverty for their constituents and privilege for themselves great line. True he said for These communities have been run exclusively by democratic politicians. It's been total one party control of the inner cities he's in the federal funding center. These areas was quote, unquote, stolen money and it's wasted money and it's a shame. There's no question that there is serious corruption in a lot of these cities and he avoided mentioning lawmakers. My name's, he didn't mention Elijah Cummings, that which is the smart thing to do again. You can make this point without jumping onto the land mine of blowing it, and

President Trump went on to the rest of the radical democratic agenda he's he suggested Democrats support late term abortion, which, of course, they do they're incredibly radical on this issue. Every top Democrat also now supports late term abortion and then you'll have like a governor of Virginia it's not only late term abortion. It's killing the baby after the baby is born. How about that. Think of that. Think of that, that's why, I've asked Congress to prohibit extreme late term abortion because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God. In all of this is good. Stuff and Democrats are nervous about this approach by Trump. They are nervous that their own party is running off the rails and left so public. All of, for example, he was talking and democratic adviser, Clint advised

He was talking about how the Democrats are running too. Far to the left I mean they're, abandoning even the legacy of Barack Obama, who is a very far left president and they're running even further to the left. Here's bagala talking about how Democrats are setting themselves up for failure, so Trump Trump's picture is correct. When Builder Blasio said this about deportations, vice president should have said some people need to be deported by comma. Her should have said some people need to be incarcerated should have turned Tulsa game. Yes, I raised on people create gun. Violence has gone by since the this is not from the hole to the debate. Is I'm leave many of these candidates. Seeking to win the nomination are setting themselves up to lose the presidency to Donald Trump. Of course, I run into Jack the Ripper college. Exactly right, says Jim Messina former adviser to Barack about me is why they attack no bomb. Are they nuts? What the hell is this approval rating with Democrats is ninety six percent Donald Trump's approval rating with Democrats, four percent so the fact that we spent more time talking about a wildly popular president and not

I'm talking about. Donald Trump is just ceases to amaze me, but just the we are better off. Staying on the offense on purpose on President Trump on health care, an on economic issues that make sense to voters, and I just Don't fundamentally get the strategy of going after the most popular democratic. President in modern memory. Ok, an he is not wrong about this. Even the editorial board over at the Washington Post is ripping on Democrats for doing this, and then they understand what's happening over the Washington Post Editorial Board quote this kit is that rogue? What I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for said, Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night, so Bernie Sanders. The other major candidate on the fields left wing piles on this got us thinking about big ideas in US history like say: amending the constitution. And outlaw liquor or sending half a million true, in Vietnam, or passing a one point: five trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy in a time of massive

deficits ambition is essential. In other words, says the says the Washington Post, but not sufficient. The country faces big challenges, such as economic inequality and climate change. The call for creative solution they also called for wisdom, honesty and even a bit of modesty about the government's limitations having embraced Barack Obama's no drama approach to governing often defined by the philosophy. Don't do stupid bleep. It would be odd if Democrats suddenly- raced ideological grandiosity as a prerequisite for service in the oval office. That means first, Rosalita baseline degree of factual plausibility, a bar that, for example, the Medicare for all plan standards in this war in favor? Does not clear the Senator cannot deliver a system that provides far more benefits than other single payer systems, claim as their model, while preserving the full Karen access. Then insured Americans currently enjoy. If you make the government case for make the case for government monopoly on health care if they want, but they should be honest about the tradeoffs candidates who promise big ideas should be, on how they will realize them. The next president

should have a vision of progress for the nation that is expensive and inspiring. It should also be grounded mathematical and political reality. That's the Washington Post Editorial Board, recognizing that what Trump is saying is true that the Democrats have skewed way too far left so Trump has got. A pitch. Trump has got a pitch It is obvious that Trump's pitch is scaring a lot of the Democrats as well. It should mean left flank of the Democratic Party continues to get more radical. Bernie Sanders came out yesterday. He said I'm not going to attack Elizabeth Warren in the future, we're basically a unified front on behalf of socialism in the debate the other night. Appeared to have a kind of a non aggression pact with Elizabeth Warren. Do you too, I have a deal to not to attack each other, at least at this stage. Elizabeth and I have been friends for over twenty years who is running hard campaign and I'm running my campaign today at different campaigns? What do you do? I think the most I think the most effective way to campaign, to be honest with you, is to talk to the american people about the wide the middle class

is disappearing. Why we have massive income and wealth inequality? You talk, about those issues you do well. You try to beat up on somebody else. Frankly, I don't think it's good politics mean so again the left flank of the Democratic Party is unified. And this should be scaring a lot of folks who are in the Democratic Party we Nancy He was pandering, Dale Hunter again yesterday. This is not a smart tactic. Annual him r tweet it out a put out on Instagram a picture of herself holding hands with Nancy Pelow see. I guess they took a trip to Africa for some reason: and Nancy Pelosi looking supremely awkward while holding hands with Ilhan Omar, and I know how to I put out there that they said to send us back, so we all went back together. This is the democratic strategy. It's not going to work out well for them and meanwhile, the best advocate for the democratic moderate campaign is Joe Biden and he's got a lot of holes in his record too. More importantly, he

look at old he's, looking slow, the sleepy Joe Biden thing that Trump was pushing is really true. It really is, and here's a montage go Biden, screwing things up in the debate royally over and over and over again the man survived, but not by much. I mean he's going to be. Seventy eight by that. Of the next presidential inauguration, go to JO thirty thousand three hundred and thirty, and help me in this fight. If you notice There's no talk about the fact that the plant in ten years will cost three trillion dollars. My plans cost seven hundred and fifty billion dollars. That's what it costs. Not thirty trillion present eight more years of Donald Trump will change America in a fundamental way. The fact is that the bills that the President, that the excuse me the future present here, that That's that's! The center is talking about well, first of all, I'm grateful that he endorsed my presidency already. We should put some of these insurance executives, who totally opposed my plant in jail for the nine billion

opioids? They sell out there one of the things we were responsible for percent of all the pollution in the country. The important number in President Biden's remarks just now is that the United States is only fifteen percent of global emissions. Would you Would you not rejoin the t? P p s are now. I would not rejoin the ttp as it was initially put forward screw up after screw up there for for Joe Biden. People are are getting nervous about Joe Biden, so as the moderate in the field and and even biting has to make overtures toward the flank so Biden was asked whether he's married. No, no I'm not moderate, I'm I'm I'm a progressive, I'm not moderate dude. Why are you? Why are you running against the one thing that makes you appealing. Your plan is more moderate and how do you know if somebody into government health care for my entire career in the center that was listed, never below one of one to twenty five, most liberal people in United States, tennis? Ok, I wish you guys had called me at modern. When I was running for reelection back in Delaware. You know it would have been. I would have won by eighty percent, but here's the deal there's not.

Moderate about where the rock in a Obama care, nothing, no president had come close and to tried and tried- and I tried seven presidents- this guy did an incredible thing, and that is true Brock. Obama was not a moderate. He was a progressive, but the people who are in his party. Now see him as insufficiently far to the left. It is pretty amazing. Trump, of course, has the naturally best bullying taken He is a sleepy Jolin through this one. He limped through those debates, it is a hole in Joe Bidens Persona that the guy is he looks tired. He does. I did ok,

through he came limping through as they say about Clippy Joe? He lived right through it, but he got through it. He really did. I think he was ok. I think to Marla had a bad night last night I would say, but it's really boiling down to four hundred or five hundred am need. Soap again. I think that analysis is great. So what does all of this stack up to what all of the stacks up to will heard retiring Joe Biden, having weaknesses trump running on the failures of Democrats that are obvious to anyone who has eyeballs in a lot of the major cities in the United States? Here's what this boils down to if Trump could simply run on his policy. If you could simply run on his record, he can still colorful, you can still make jokes Donald Trump at eight turn down that dial from eleven to eight he's still going be entertaining guy in the field. You can still do the stuff he wants to do. He can still make crowds left. He he did it last night at his rally he didn't make any. Headlines because he didn't go over the top

He goes out of his way to say we're not going to do controversy and he rips on democratic governance of cities without going after Elijah Cummings by name and suggesting that he Jim Cummings is is the worst an ever in all this, I get that that is a perfectly fair head in a perfectly valid hit in a perfectly useful it, and then president from goes on for this morning- and this is it Trump at rallies- is a lot better than from underwater at Trump goes on twitter this morning, as we talked about yesterday, Elijah Cummings House, was robbed over the weekend and there is great irony to the fact that the media proclaiming that ball or is indeed a wonderful, safe, hi median income, american City, a wonderful, wonderful place, beautifully governed. That the same weekend when they were talking about all this Elijah Cummings House was robbed. His house was robbed before Trump even talked about Cummings or Baltimore as broken into. On Friday night early Saturday morning, Trump started tweeting after that on Saturday mornings. The initial pick up from the media was that

It somehow incited this against Cummings, which is not true. It's just plainly untrue and again there is something ironic and something busy: about the fact that Elijah Cummings is is about how about was wonderful laws house being broken into? However, is it a good thing? Elijah Cummings House was broken into No, it's not a good thing that his house was broken into. Crime is bad, ok and just 'cause. You don't like Elijah Cummings in your mad at him 'cause. He runs the Oversight Committee I mean that you should probably be happy when his house is broken into that's silly. And not more than silly it's immoral. So here's what the presence which out this morning again after spending the entire night last night saying we don't want countries, you know countries he so trump just use like you know what controversy change, which others this morning. What really bad news about to my house? We Leduc Cummings, was wrapped to back exclamation point now here. Come the defenders to say

What he's really saying is you that he's actually sincere yeah sure, I'm sure or, alternatively, he's laughing at the fact Elijah how it Cummings House was robbed. They come on line, do like really you're making the case for, safety and security you're, making the case that you need to make suburban women feel comfortable with your candidacy, you need to throw the focus on the democratic radicalism and you do it rally where you do all these things. You do them effectively and your next move is to that has got robbed lips legal, but the the the whole point here is that the defense, the house, getting rob things that he had nothing to do with it. Your own everything you have to step a giant from t right on Elijah Cummings is House getting robbed what What what just? What? Why? Why? God? Why it's? Not just it's not just a more it is politically idiotic. Obviously, and is any of this

going to have any lasting impact on from the reason these things blow over is because everything is baked into the cake for trump people know. This is who Trump is they've made their judgments on Trump? Why do I lament it because, just like you have that annoying? uncle, who you don't really want to invite to family parties and he's really annoying, he may be little. Racist he's. Really grew, he says nasty things to your wife You don't really want him coming to the family party, but it will If your mom is feeling, if you don't invite your uncle, and so you don't think about it all the time, wake up in the morning, thinking about your drunk uncle ned, you don't you wake up in the morning. Thinking about that, but then, when he's coming over- like, oh god now, I'm thinking about him now, I'm thinking about him and just makes your day worse the more days were you thinking about uncle led the worse it is for uncle. Ned, in fact fact is the more days you think about the economy being good. The more days that you are thinking about the Democrats being radical the more days you are thinking about Joe,

and being too old and too sleepy to be president of the United States, the better it is for Donald Trump, the more you're thinking about. Oh God, did he tweet again the worse. It is for Donald Trump. As I say, I have a very simple two thousand and twenty election theory it applied to twenty in two and so why everybody got including making two thousand and sixteen wrong. Whoever is the subject of the referendum in two thousand and twenty will lose. Americans are sick and tired of the politicians. They think all of them are garbage all of them, which is why Trump is president in twenty sixteen media me included everybody who's watching the data thought the twenty. Sixteen was going to be a referendum on Trump, which is why every time some piece of bad news came out for Trump. Anything from the p word tape to to trump saying ridiculous things about mexican drug. Whenever that happened, we all went. Ok, it's going to be a referendum on Trump and that's going to be bad for Trump, and it turned out that two thousand and sixteen was not a referendum on Trump

It was a referendum on Hillary Clinton turns out that, after twenty years, people did not want to show up to vote for Hillary Clinton, Republicans just by somebody Clinton. I thought that she was corrupt, which she is. They thought that she had engaged in criminal activity which she did. They thought all of those things, and so the referendum on Hillary went poorly for Hillary Clinton in twenty twenty. If it's a referendum on Trump and his personality, he will lose. If it is a referendum on Democrats, he will win. So how can you get it to be a referendum on Democrats? You can point it. You can do exactly what Trump did. It is Raleigh last night, wanna make it a referendum on Trump keep tweeting the way the President Trump tweeted right there. It is not going to workout to his benefit. It is just it is not smart in any. Besides which it is immoral, and it gives it again another news cycle: that's a year and a half out, it's not too late for President Trump to stop doing but does anyone really have a lot of faith? The present is going to stop being who he is that Trump is going to stop being grumpy. I don't think so, which is why that

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spending and eliminate the threat of a debt default until after the twenty twenty election, Justin Justin Amash from Michigan? The former Republican Congress person points out correctly today that one of the things I should note is that when it says that we are racking up, these giant budget builds these giant. One point: three: trillion dollar budget deficit, that those are measured on a yearly basis. When you talk about the one point, five trillion dollar tax bill that is measured over the course of a decade in terms of its economic impact. When you a trillion dollars a year above what you are taking in that is measured yearly. It's uh spending bills are valued over a one year period. Tax bills are valued over a ten year period, in other words, one point three trillion spending bill is ten times larger than one point. Three trillion dollar tax bill. The spending bill has ten times the deficit impact fact check True Republicans just signed off on it, because no one is actually fiscally responsible. Much easier to pass

spending into law than to curb that spending, which is one of the reasons why a in and just the fact split government tends to actually generate in many cases, lower budgets, because the fighting leads to lowering of the budget. People don't want to sign off on as many things together. Single party control these to blow out budgets for Democrats in The Republicans split government, sometimes particularly in the Clinton era, actually lead to more budget balance. Trump wrote on Twitter quote: budget deal is phenomenal thread, great military, our vets and jobs, jobs, jobs two year deal gets us past. The election go for it Republicans, there's always plenty of time to cut again saying the quiet part out loud right there, which is a bad budget deal, but it does get us past the election and there. The president: cheering on a massive budget deal that betrays fundamental fiscal principles of conservatism, but honestly, that's not a trump only problem. That is a republican problem generally. That is bad news for the republic, but probably

political news for the president. Meanwhile, as I said earlier, their record one hundred and fifty seven million people employed in the United States in July. The unemployment rate did hold steady in July at three point: seven percent According to the employment report, the civilian Noninstitutional population in the United States is two hundred and fifty nine thousand two hundred and fifty nine million, or that's civilian noninstitutional population, one hundred and sixty three million when the Labor Force meeting, they they had a job or actively seeking one. During the last month and uh, those people, one hundred and fifty seven million have jobs. Those are some pretty fantastic jobs numbers the president. There is some worry about the economy slowing. This has been exacerbated by the president, announcing yesterday that he will impose new terra. Three hundred billion dollars on imports from China starting next month there is sort of a cease fire in the trade war and now the cease fire has gone the way of the Dodo bird? This is leading people to speculate that the FED is going to raise

Some of the rates again is going too rather lower. Some of the rates again try to drag the economy. There's a worry that there will be a deflationary cycle where people are buying less and less that consumers are going to buy less and less than that. The only thing basically holding up the economy right now is consumption, not investment, that that is one of the the concerns anyway. Trump said, until such time as there is a deal, we will be taxing them that will raise the prices on products like cellphones television, toilet seats and pillows. It could raise the price much as ten to twenty five percent, so you would imagine at this late in the market is basically suggested. They think that this trade war will come to an end prior to the election. To strum doesn't want a trade war going all the way through the election. With that said, is it good for the president that

the economy is going to take a hit because of the trade war, probably not there's some good security reasons why tariffs might be useful. The Chinese do cheat on a lot of these trade deals and they steal America's intellectual technology case to be made that we should go to the WTO, the World Trade Organization and prosecute those cases, but regardless of what you think, if the president is thinking about election, two thousand and twenty, so the point is willing to blow out budget, then raising tariffs on chinese goods in the in the lead up to the election is probably not a smart strategy. Something everybody acknowledges at this point is that the upon, if the economy takes a dump anytime in here, the president does not get reelected. Ok, let's jump into the mail Mitchell says Ben. My first child is ready to be live. Any day. Now, what is your advice for a first time, father, I'm excited and terrified all at the same time ready to meet him, but I have to keep him alive in that scary. Thanks Mitch. Well, the Good NEWS, people been keeping their children alive for literally hundreds of thousands of years. So I think it'll be fine. My advice for a first time dad is

especially in the early going understand that kids don't really get cute until about five months at the very beginning, you may not feel the sort of connection that you thought that you would feel the everyone I talk to. You pick up the kid and you feel like immediate connection. Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but it gets better. The kids get so interesting and so much fun and so fantastic. As I always say when it comes to the date when it comes to sort of the life cycle of happiness and sadness. When you are single, your happiness range goes up to about a seven and your sadness range goes down to about a one, and then you get married and your happiness range goes up to about a ten, and it goes down to about a negative ten when things are really really bad. It's worse than anything that happened when you're single and when it's really really good, it's much better than anything that ever happened when you're single and then you have kids and your happiness range goes to infinity on the decide an negative infinity on the negative side, because the worst things that will What happened you have to do with your kids, the best things that ever happened? You will have to do with your kids. It is spectacular, it's right to be exciting terrified and in fact, I think the fact that you're terrified metric is

good news, because the things that we are worried about the things we are terrified. That means we take great care with them. I will tell you the hardest part of being a parent in today's society is saying no now the left says you're never supposed to say no to children, literally you're, never supposed to say no to them. But the mark of good parents is, is saying no inappropriate amounts setting rules and sticking to them. Kids, like rules, kids it need I know that we live in a society that says that any boundaries on children are oppressive. That's because our society is dumb, boundaries are necessary for children, children seek them and they thrive. When, given the proper boundaries doesn't mean that you have to be author, Atarian there's a difference between they call, authoritative, parenting, authoritarian parenting, authoritative parenting is you have rules and you hold by those rules, because those rules are rationally and correctly based, authoritarian parenting is because I said so. You should be able to explain the rules that you use for your kids, but you should have rules and you shouldn't force those rules, Teresa this high Ben, I'm a cradle catholic. Sometimes when I discuss religion with my peers, they accused me of being brainwashed from birth to believe what I believe. I have a very different

time convincing them otherwise, and once they have idea in their head. They simply refuse to listen to me and wonder If you have had similar experiences as an orthodox Jew and how you overcome this, I'm talking with people yeah? Of course, I think that everybody who is born into a religious household has that experience of the only reason you believe this is because you were brought up this way and the way so with this argument is to say, there may be truth to this right. We are all subject to the biases of how we were raised. Obviously like, for example, you second I miss you raised in a society that values secular, humane ideals. Do you value those? is the rationally based or do you all of those because you're brought up in a society that values those things. Because rationality can take you in any direction and if you think that religious people don't doubt their beliefs and examine those beliefs over the course of over the course of decades, then you've got us all wrong.

I'll grant you their respective thinking that you thought, through the positions that you hold, that you need to grant me the respective thinking. I've also thought, through the positions that I hold, because the problem with that attack is: it's really in essence, a character attack and it's a character attack. That applies to everybody. Everybody's belief systems are, of course, rooted in the environment in which they grew up. The question is: have you thought through your own beliefs? Do you have good answers to the questions that are being asked of you, or do you really just believe things, because people told them to you when you were three becoming more is to get it over. Time means asking those questions and answering those questions, and you can reverse the question and say the same thing to anybody who is an atheist or secular humanist and if they say well, I used to be religious and now I'm an atheist, because I thought things through and say: ok! Well, I'm glad you thought things through. I've also thought things through and I came to a different conclusion. And it is dismissive and derisive in derogatory interrogatory in in a way that is inappropriate. For normal conversation to suggest that I've not considered my ideas. Well, you magical, human being have Sean says, greetings. Mister Shapiro, I want to say thank you had a question and if I should stay at my job and suck it up, you help

take the plunge into something new and making more money, and more than that, I feel so much better, not be under bad management at a press vestry w policies. I am now I'm second annual subscription, eager to help you and others fight back. Thank you for your voice. Well, number one you're welcome! You know the fact that you move jobs and took a risk, as I've said calculated risk. Taking is a very good thing. I switched jobs many times in my career. I graduated from law school in two thousand and seven since two thousand and seven I have held before I started daily wire, I had held something like seven jobs and then quit every one of the jobs. For my own reasons, I quit a job at a law. Firm 'cause, I couldn't stand it. I quit a job working at a radio network because it

not moving in the direction that I wanted to move. I quit a job, a bright bar, because I had significant editorial disagreements with the leadership over there. I've quit I've put a bunch of jobs in order to make more opportunity for myself or because I had moral disagreements. You have to make calculated risks and you have to be smart about those risks. Do the risks open windows? Do they open doors or did they closed doors? Very often, people will quit a job and unintentionally close the door. What you want to do throughout your life and Urca rear is to open doors not close you and even if you leave, you should try to leave on good terms as much as possible. Angeles Haben media like to show that illegal immigration is a lot worse under trump compared to Obama. Housing. Your Bush compared to Obama thanks well

legal immigration has been increasing significantly over the years, Barack Obama. I don't know where they're coming up with metric, that illegal immigration is a lot worse under trump compared to Obama. That's not actually true. There's been a pretty tremendous escalation in family, illegal immigration across the border, and that's why you're getting all these child separations at the border? Barack Obama deported something like three million people over the course of his presidency, and it was much higher than Bush. I think Bush was at like two million zero Obama was dealing with a border crisis in two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen. So I'm not sure what statistics are being cited there Daniel says: hi Ben. Ever since Nancy Poulos, he has been very publicly warming up to the members of the squad. There's a visible absence of controversy, stirred up by AOC,

what do you think is a play here? My wife and I both love the show appreciate the insight best damn well. I mean, I think, that, right now, everything was put on back order to attack from it's one of the reasons why I was pretty upset a president trump when, when the squad and close your going directly at each other- and I thought man- this is fantastic. This is great. This is w w e fisticuffs between two characters, who I do not like what let them fight yeah I was, I was totally into it and then from companies like, I won the fight with everyone. That's do it man flight time what do and then they were like. Okay, let's team up we're gonna team up now and, of course, that that's what's papering over all this now we'll break out into the opening- and you bet well I'll trump- has to shut up for five minutes, and the Democrats will break back into what they have been doing, which is tearing each other apart. This is why I keep saying to the president. Mister president: it's shark week go watch shark week. Stop it go watch shark week now there, sharks on tv, you like sharks on tv, we know go, do that Ashley says Ben!

given all we know on the link between social media and teenage depression and suicide, do you think the government ought to have forcible laws on minimum ages of social media. Use thanks I'd love to hear your thoughts, given the weaponization of media by sexual predators, to ground minors or to target minors it's an interesting question. I really do think that this is more of a parental question. Then it is a governmental question, but there are addictive aspects to social media and the notion that a kid who is twelve or thirteen should be on social media if the parents are not doing what they're supposed to be doing the it really interesting, I honestly haven't considered enough. I want to consider that more it's something that I'm open to, because again, protection of children is one of the roles of government, because kids can't take care of themselves and if parents are simply plopping their kids in front of the tv

the twelve hours a day and it and not sending them to school. We do a truancy laws and if parents are allowing kids to take advantage of social media in such a way that it is endangering to them, then I can see an argument I can see. I mean, as you know, I'm loathe to embrace government regulation nearly any area of american life, but I can see the argument. I could see the argument here: He says how he been from your future home in the great state of Texas, by the way, on a personal level, quick note on that one. On a personal level, my kids are not going to be allowed on social media until they probably sixteen or seventeen minimum, and even then I would for that? If they have a social media profile, they're not actually posting on, I'm not sure they should have social media until they're. Eighteen like they. They need to be old enough to understand that everything they put on social media is then permanent bill. This is how the man from the future home of the great state of Texas yeah. I appreciate it. Two questions one: how do you, let's get back to the gold standard. How, in your opinion, would that affect the economy to as I'm getting married to my fiance next year. Could you give me some device that helps help. You be a good father and husband. I'm about Catholic

can we add my understanding of what makes a good husband and father any and all advice is helpful. Please do not hold the fact Michael Mills, and I share the same religion. I don't. I love many Catholics. Michael Mills is not among them, so when it comes to how the US would get back to the gold standard, it's difficult to reverse the fact that so many people in the United States and in the federal government, believe that manipulation of the currency is a positive good. I mean there are even many folks who are conservative, who believe that the best policy of the FED would be to basically set a low interest rate. This is sort of Milton Friedman's policy with two percent interest rate an then it would just be that on here. I don't like to give a central government being able to manipulate currency. It's a way of robbing savings from people. It is a way of the government manipular dating policy in order to cover for its own shortcomings, the way that you would do this is you would pick the dollar to the current value of gold. Whatever is the current value of gold? You would peg the dollar to a current value of gold OZ, for example, and then that would be the price of

our forever? It would never change, and that would provide an insane amount of stability, and you want to keep the United States is the world's global currency. This would be the way to do it because then there'd be inherent value in the currency. In fact, yeah I used to be more skeptical of bit coin. Big coin is basically trying to do this bit. Coin is setting an actual value to a currency that is based on scarcity and is not controllable from above by some sort of manipulative entity. It's all fun and games for the government to play with the currency until you create a bubble and then that bubble into bursting, for example, I, as far as the second question yeah how to be a good father and husband, I would say, as a father, the rule that my dad used, I think, is a good rule was always take. Your kids seriously always take their concerns

usually treat them as though there's their concerns are serious. Don't talk down to them. The authoritative, not authoritarian, set rules, understand your own rules and always treat them as though there are rational and have good reasons for what they're doing, even if they don't always and that that is a good mark of a good parent. As far as being a good husband, I would say that the same thing holds true. Try to put yourself in your spouse's place when you are thinking about what you're the killer of marriage is is is faulty expectations they, the best marriages, are reliant on two spouses who believe that it is my job, not it's my wife's job and I met her for not doing her job. It is my job and I don't have the expectation that she's going to do that. It's one of the things that made my marriage, my wife, so fantastic- is that they're a lot of situations in which my wife has not been present because she was doing medical residency. For example, might I wasn't angry at her for that I was

the single. Well, you know I wish that you would do x, Y and Z was not listen. This is a marriage. Is a partnership I'm picking up the slack because that's my job, my job is to do acts because you can't do x today and now just finished with residency, she's doing the reverse, I'm very busy she's, not quite as busy. That means she's picking up the slack an awful lot of ways if you think first, this is my job. Not this is my spouse's job you're going to be better at everything, you're to be a better business partner, you're, going to be a better, a better spouse. Now again, this arrangement only works with people. You trust this is true for politics too, with people, you trust, saying it's my job, not your job is the best politics, but that only works when people aren't free riders and taking advantage if you married somebody who is a free rider and is taking advantage, that's just a bad miracle decision, but that doesn't change the underlying fact. That being a good husband, is you saying? Yes, it's on and not doing it out of a sense of virtue, nothing out of a sense of virtue. Signaling words like I'll. Look at me the suffering sacrificial man taking on all these burdens, but as

a l as a part of making your life better being more responsible. The best people, you know are the people who take on more responsibility, taking on more responsibility makes you a better human being. I think, let's see I'm Jordan said hey Ben, if the Democrats nominate Joe Biden and they lose what happens to their party, will that kill any hopes of moderation within the party yeah, those skewed to the left? If Joe Biden is the nominee and they lose, they will skew dramatically to the left. They will suggest that he lost for the same. It will be basically the reverse of Republican. Two thousand and twelve to two thousand and sixteen now, I think it may have more to do with persona than it has to do with policy, but Democrats really conflate persona in policy in a pretty incredible way. Susanna says hey my wife and I are big fans from socialist soil and British Columbia, Canada, it's good times up there, where everybody is being told the wax each others genitals, are you times, I'm wondering how Elizabeth Warren is being taken seriously as a candidate, despite being proven to have abused, left religion of identity, politics or personal gain by claiming native american ancestry. How is that not grounds for

a dismissal from the Democratic Party best look well number one. She acknowledged my privilege read to the this is the what is the get out of jail free card for identity? Politics acknowledge white privilege, acknowledge it. You must not own, so she had found and also she's a socialist. So If anything, the media Love Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren is not a great candidate, they love her. They did the two candidates that have gotten there. There really three candidates get in this sort of love from the media. Right now, Elizabeth Warren Kamala Harris P booty judge. None of them are particularly appealing, but they make the left feel smart and thus Elizabeth Warren continues to ride high Jeffrey as long time listener. In Van after rewatching the Daniel Day, Lewis from Lincoln, I thought to ask: what is your favorite historical film? Also, if you have opportunity. Are there any amendments you'd like to put forth for vote, so my favorite historical film is was

shall always remain seventeen. Seventy six, I love them and the musical theater fan and seventeen. Seventy six, which is a fantastic take on the origins of the declaration of the of independence, is dramatic. It's brilliantly written widely underrated because people, while the Right Hamilton and it's it's terrific, it's it's really great, but they're. A bunch of of historical films that are are really terrific is a fantastic film. That is also historical, obviously, with it with George C Scott. That is that that is a terrific movie there really two men most my favorite films are probably historically oriented in some way, but seventeen. Seventy six is the one closest to my heart. I, as far as a man inside put forth for about I've, always said that I would love a constitutional amendment that suggests that every bill has to be no longer than three pages and on a single topic, the death of democracy is omnibus bills, because all that is is here's a bunch of crap either vote for the entire bucket of crap vote for nothing,

how about this? How we get everybody on record, how they feel about this specific proposal, and then we can all vote based on how they feel about this specific proposal is yeah. Otherwise, you end up with this idiotic demagoguery where you have a bill, It's called the state, make America awesome ACT and you didn't Make America Ossining like right because it blew out the same. I don't know I also had funding for first responders, so you think the first responders or no, I just don't- want to blow out the spending. No, we didn't vote for it. It's stupid! How bout this, how bout we have funding for first responders, and that is a separate bill, and then we have all the other stuff and those are all separate bills. That was the way the legislation was supposed to work. A final question Michael said: Ben, I recently read Bill Clinton autobiography Graffiti was surprised to learn that he was rather right, leaning at least compared to today, I was wondering how you would read his presidency, not counting the scandals. Thanks, Michael well, I'm foreign policy. I would give Bill Clinton a D. I think it's foreign policy was quite bad. I think it led to the rise of Al Qaeda. I think it was weak on foreign policy. You were traded from the world on domestic policy. I think that is how she was quite good,

I mean he it at least he started off moving to the radical left and got blown out ninety four elections in being a smart politician. He then moved to the moderate center and started cutting deals with Newt Gingrich to lower the budget deficit, to reform welfare, to lower the capital gains tax. So that the fat that Bill Clinton governed as a moderate Republican on economics and under masterpiece and the nineteen ninety four crime bill. These were all good pieces of legislation on domestic legislation. Bill Clinton was like a bee plus President. It a lot of good things on the mystic legislation on foreign policy he sucked and then, of course there is the scandals nature of his of his presidency. Bill Clinton could not when a single primary, the Democratic Party today, not not a single at least not running his one thousand nine hundred and ninety six Bill Clinton already. Well, we will be back here. Today with two more hours of additional comments, get things I like and things. I hate, 'cause we're running a bit long, but we'll see here next week. If not, if we don't see it here little bit later, if you don't subscribe and have yourself a wonderful weekend, will see here back here.

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