 Cool. So all right. So let's talk about the elections on Tuesday. And you know, I don't say this often enough I really should say this more often, but I Told you so I Told you that the social agenda of the Democrats doesn't sell I Told you that the extent that the Democrats run on Critical race theory on defund the police. They will lose that the American people are not interested in those things And they will vote for pretty much anybody Who is opposed To the social agenda of the left the left cannot win to the extent That it stands by the far left's actual positions And that's exactly what happened on Tuesday In Virginia It's clear that what happened was that parents Particularly, you know parents and you can see it by the age groups that there was a big increase in support for the Republican candidate from people aged 40 to 60 65 40 to 65 parents whose kids are in school Voted overwhelmingly Not overwhelmingly but or but increase the increase share that the Republicans got was overwhelmingly Of warmly higher than in previous elections. Why? because CRT was on the ballot because The the Democrat basically says I don't believe that parents should ever say into what their kids study in school that killed him That single sentence basically disqualified him and what the Republican did Pretty smartly was distanced himself from Trump without Alienating Trump supporters So he kind of did this balancing act of not alienating the core the hardcore but attracting a lot of new voters a lot of voters that typically wouldn't vote for public and haven't voted for public in since 2009 over the last 12 years and They voted Republican up because they liked him because he was not offensive and Because they disliked the position the Democrats were Advocating for they disliked the idea of their kids being Infused with guilt over the color of their skin Although it's interesting that it's not just whites Hispanics shifted more towards Republicans in Significant numbers Hispanics don't buy that typically Hispanics are typically quite conservative This is the big mistake Republicans make in giving up on the Hispanic population and handing it over to the Democrats but if Republicans had a better view of immigration and if Republicans have just a better view of of Immigrants and in Hispanics in particular. I think they could easily grab the Hispanic vote on a national scale But it wasn't just in Virginia It was in New Jersey of all places New Jersey that went to Biden double digits The Republican almost won and Republicans did gain significantly. I think significantly in the house You know in the in the in the in the New Jersey house and Senate Indeed the longtime Democratic Speaker of the house. I think was defeated in his district and again, it's it's it's a combination of we don't buy all this social stuff We don't buy We won't accept the social agenda and now add to that the fact That Biden so far on his own terms is a failure The economy while seemingly growing It's not clear the ones you take into account the inflation. It's actually growing in spite of the fact that wages are up in spite of the fact that there are more job openings than there are people People don't feel like the economy is doing well. They're going to grocery stores and they are empty shelves The shelves that are full prices are up McDonald's just announced that they'll be raising their prices across the board by up to 10% And you're seeing this company after company after company announcing price increases inflation is here Transitory probably means for the next few years. We'll talk about that when we talk about the Fed Housing prices are up. They're barely any houses to buy People don't feel Like the economy is doing particularly well and Biden the Democrats are in power the Democrats get the blame for it Whether it's their fault or not is not even the issue because much of the economy we have right now It's a consequence of what Trump did The economy we have a year for now is a consequence of what Biden did by the way, the only part of the economy that's doing fantastic Is is the stock market? I remember in the first year of the Trump administration I have to say I told you so again And I'll keep saying it because because you guys have no appreciation anyway in the first year of the Trump administration the number of people who told me what a great president he was because the stock on good was up a lot and The stock markets up a lot and they over and over and over again How high the stock market is and that is that is because of what a great president Donald Trump was in that first year Well under Biden the stock market is actually up a little bit more Than it was under Trump and under Obama it was up a little bit more than under Trump at least to this point All pretty much about the same so does that mean Biden is a great president? I said then I'll see now. I'll say it in the future because it won't change That the stock market is not a measure Of good presidents. It's not correlated with good presidency It has a lot more to do with how much money the Fed is flooding into the market that it has to do with how good the president is Anyway, the economy is not doing well and every day we're here in the press in the mainstream press How the Democrats can't get their act together And now they can't pass these bills Now nothing's getting through and our Biden's agenda is failing. It's not going anywhere that it's a losing campaign and The mainstream media has chipped away at whatever support I think the Democrats had in in Suburbia in places That Biden got a lot of votes not because anybody liked Biden. I told you this after the election Biden won because people voted against Trump and People voted against Trump in record numbers people came out to vote Last year in record numbers not because they love Biden, but because they despised Trump and when you get an even Slightly moderately better candidate than Trump the Republicans can actually win in this country But it's not just New Jersey and Virginia look at what happened in Minneapolis Where there was a proposition on the ballot to do away with the police force And to replace it with some community security some mumbo jumbo, right and that was defeated soundly wasn't close defeated soundly even in Minneapolis Where the riots began last summer Even in Minneapolis, they don't want to get rid of the police. They've learned their lesson Yeah, it sounded like a cool slogan in the heat of the moment But no, nobody really wants to get rid of the police. That's not a winning Strategy you can see that again in the city of New York where the mayor of New York who's just elected is a former police Officer and a former Republican Considered a moderate Democrat the progressives in the New York primary Against them were defeated soundly He won then he went on to To beat a non-descript Republican who nobody ever heard of and The next man of New York is going to be far far more centrist than the Blasio's people had enough of the left They don't like it and then even in the city of Buffalo, New York I don't know if you read about the story of Buffalo, New York in Buffalo, New York There was in the Democratic primary a Radical leftist who called herself a Democratic socialist one So she was running as the Democratic candidate The former mayor who is a centrist Democrat Launched a right-in campaign against her He beat her She was defeated even in Buffalo, New York where the Democrats chose a socialist The people I guess they're non-democrats were not happy with that They chose a centrist Democrat to replace instead of her the only you know the only Two elections so Taylor says Seattle had a big election to a city attorney running as a Republican one Yeah, and Then your mayor is a moderate you remember the the mayor and the police chief in Seattle You remember Kaz you remember the the anarchy in the streets of Seattle Last summer. Well, the people of Seattle didn't like that. They don't want a bunch of socialists running their city So Seattle one of the most leftist cities in the country moved a Little bit to the right. Yeah, Scott says they Scott is you know, you're so frigging negative It's unbelievable. They won the primary in the first place though. Yes in Buffalo She won the primary because the Democratic they the enthusiasts the activists in the Democratic Party are not he leftist But the rest of the country doesn't like not enough leftism, which is what I've been saying for years and years and years that that nihilism That egalitarianism Is not something the American people want That racism is not something the American people want And they showed that on Tuesday So in city after city after city you saw this they were defeated Um All right, you can continue to argue with me. It won't make you right so, um Now the question is the question is going to be What less is the republicans learned from this? uh What would they learn and Who are they nominating? Well, they run the kind of campaign that was run in virginia, which was a You know policy wise Not very good, but uh, not wacky not crazy and not embracing of trumpism Will they run kind of a moderate republican campaign? Mainly highlighting the left's social issue problems And when they'd be able to take the house back in 2022 next year I think it's likely that they will they might even take the senate back I think that'll be good. I've always said My ideal is a democratic president and a house and senate that are republican So we'll get that for at least two years and we'll see what that looks like And then the question of course is were the republicans Who are the republicans nominate for president in in two years and that up to a large extent? I think ultimately determine the future of the party and to the extent that it can actually serve As an opposition party to the democrats And and and whether it can win the presidency Let's hope let's hope it's not the santas Let's hope it's not the santas the more I hear of him the more I listen to him the more The more kooky he comes across the more Nazi is the more populist the more authoritarian He seems So I really hope it's not trump or the santas We'll see who it will be. All right I still have hope still have hope for nikki haley nikki haley Gave a talk at heritage the other day. I saw bits of the video of it. She was quite good I mean, she's not afraid to to actually say capitalism to actually say capitalism is good She doesn't have a complete understanding of what it is. She can't really defend him morally But she says the words and she she's pro So I'm I'm still a fan Um, and I think she's a fighter. I think it would be cool If there were publicans, uh, if if a if a if a woman the first woman president is a republican rather than democrat Um, and and I you know, and I you know, she said something like you know talk She says I'm like capitalist was good for South Carolina and capitalism be good for America Now again, I wish she understood what capitalism is But I'll take it I'll take somebody who uses the term positively And and means by broadly generally more free markets, which is what I think she means All right, so overall I'd say uh from my perspective as much as I hate politics and I hate both parties And I'm not a republican and I don't particularly like republicans. I would say this was a good Uh vote I think partially because it's sent a warning signal to the democrats I think this will force them to moderate. I think a lot of senators On the democratic side are thinking right now Do I really want to vote for 1.75 trillion dollars? In another big social program I I think everybody's enjoying the fact that man mentioned is um Is is taking the heat and cinema are taking the heat for this But I think there's probably half a dozen Democratic senators who'd rather just not vote on this The house of representative Tonight is probably gonna vote on 1.75 billion dollar trillion billion. I wish trillion dollar package Um, I don't yet know what's in it exactly particular. I don't know what they've what they uh, uh, using for the um For the taxes, um, so, um, so we'll see uh, we'll we'll see uh We'll see what it is one of my favorite little scenes from today was mansion uh being harassed By these demonstrators and and he gets into the car and you know what mansion The senator the democratic senator the senator of the people for the people is driving. You know what he drives Anybody know what he drives? Like he's driving the car. I want Right, I should go into politics. That's how you make money I I didn't realize if I'd known I would have not gone into finance. I would have gone into politics So so mansion is driving a maserati I love that right all these, uh All these climate change You know far left crazy leftists I go crazy of a mansion and he gets into maserati not a tesla. No god forbid A tesla they would have kissed the tires, you know, the the activists. No, this is a gas guzzling You know, uh, I don't know 450 500 horsepower. Maybe maserati, uh, the kind of car That I should be driving if I wasn't living in porto rico. I might be driving. Um, it's yeah, it's it's good. It's good. So, uh Uh DC's been the richest metropolitan area for a long time for a long time. Yeah All right Maserati's That's Your reward for being a good dedicated politician Thank you for listening or watching the iran book show If you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me You get value from listening. 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