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The Trump Factor. He is still the most dominant politician in the world. Putin would be second. Trump is first. And the media has not been able to take him out after eight years. They had not been able to take him out, and the Democratic Party has not been able to take him out. The Justice Department of the United States, using all its power, to try to eliminate Donald Trump. So we have a very interesting situation on our hands, and he could win re-election next November, joining Grover Cleveland as the only president to serve two non-conference.

executive terms. It is possible, and that is a subject of this evening's talking points memo. So, new polling, morning consul, 300,000 potential Republican primary voters across all 26 states that have the primaries. First up, Iowa, Trump 50, DeSantis 18, Ramoswamy 13, Haley, 11. Florida, Trump 60. Santa's 23, Haley 8, Ramoswamy 5. Nevada, Trump's 67, DeSantis 10, Ramoswami, 10, Haley, 9. South Carolina, Trump 57, Haley, home state, 19, DeSantis 13, Ramoswamy 6, California, Trump's 71, DeSantis 10, Haley 8, Ramoswamy 7. So you can see it's insurmountable, not going to change.

That Trump, if the primary convention was held tomorrow, would get the nomination. Now, there's all kinds of other things in play, and we're going to get to that, all right? But as far as the preference of Republican voters in America, it is Donald Trump a wide margin. Now, there's a left-wing poll out today, Reuters, if so, that is historically a liberal poll, and it asked the hypothetical matchup. It's got Trump 38, Biden, 36, don't know 26. I don't know how you could not know at this point in history. And then with RFK Jr. in, it's Trump's 36, Biden 31, RFK 16th.

The Iowa primary, January 15th. You know, we get the holidays coming up, so it's really right on us. New Hampshire, June 1st, January 23rd, South Carolina, February 24th, California, March 5th, Florida, March 19th, Nevada, June 11th. Now, the reason this is happening for Trump is a very simple. Trump promises revenge slash retribution, you pick your word, on the progressive movement, and the Democrats who have directly hurt him. That is what the Trump campaign is about. I'm going to get them.

That resonates. That is emotional far more than any other issue. And then Trump has his record on his side is much better than Biden's record. And anybody who says it wasn't is lying to you or just too stupid to have a conversation with. It was one of the two. Now, summing up, and I've said this before, and I don't want to be repetitive, If Trump would just moderate his rhetoric a little, he'd win by 10 points. Because Nikki Haley would beat Biden by a lot more than Trump would beat Biden.

Because independents who don't like Trump are put off by his rhetoric in chaos. If you just come back and run on his record, it wouldn't even be close. And that's a number. Okay. Now, you've heard about the Supreme Court thing. This is an interesting story. It's a little bit complicated, and I'm going to be the simple man here and explain it. Okay.

So the special counsel sitting in D.C., Jack Smith, appointed by Merrick Garland, wants to destroy Donald Trump. He doesn't, it's not looking for justice. He wants to destroy, take Trump out. He knows that the Supreme Court sooner or later will become involved in the charges against Trump. Smith knows that. So he wants it sooner. So he's petitioned to court to see if it is legal under the Constitution to charge a president with crimes where he's already been adjudicated in the impeachment process. So you remember, Trump was impeached twice, he's acquitted twice in a sentence.

Trump lawyers say, look, this is a double jeopardy. It's already been acquitted in a legal way by the impeachment. Can't bring the same charge. Supreme Court is going to hear that. Okay, as they accepted the case. Because the trial on all this stuff with Jack Smith is supposed to start in March, right before Super Tuesday. And Smith wants a clear playing field.

The problem of the Supreme Court is off again. They're always off. They come back to January 5th. But even though they're not sitting, they read stuff, and they've told Trump's lawyers, give us your brief by December 20th. Okay, next week. By today, a week from today, right?

Isn't it the 13th today? I think it's the 13th. Let me check my or a shirt. No, it's the 12th today. I just said it wasn't. See how old I am? Anyway, it's next Wednesday. Trump lawyers got to go in and say, here's what we believe is unconstitutional by Jack Smith, and the Supreme Court will rule. Now, ironically, Trump appointed two of the justices, and it's a conservative Supreme Court. But I don't know how it's going to come out. I have no idea.

Huge story. If the Supreme say, can't do it, then Trump, boy, does he take on momentum? It's a huge story. They'd have to rule, I would say February 1st to give the Trump lawyers enough time. Well, that's what that's all about. Now, this story has not been explained properly. I hope I just did it for our television radio audience all over the world. You have questions about it? Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, name and town. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver. Thoreau, the only dealer I trust. American, Hartford.

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President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all size, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Let's go to the border. So the state of Arizona, Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat,

has sent the Biden administration a bill for $512 million, saying, you've got to pay us this money because it's your fault. We're flooded with migrants, and it is. Only one man responsible for this border madness, Joe Biden. It's not Congress's fault, not the media's fault, not my fault. Biden's fault alone, won't stop it. Doesn't want to stop it, doesn't care about it. And how about Kamala root causes Harris?

How does root causes going down there, Mr. Vice President? Hey, a bunch of crap. Sorry, just, well, look, Biden's not going to enforce immigration law. Could he be impeached for that? Absolutely. Could be. Not going to be convicted, but he could be. ACLU and NRA way have banned together.

Talk about strange bedfellows. All right, again, this story has not been reported accurately. I will now do that. It's my job to do it. It's why you're here watching and listening. NRA has sued a woman named Maria V-V-as-in-victor-U-L-L-O. She's a former superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, a state worker. Okay.

She allegedly used her position to try to hurt NRA's business, private business, because she hates the NRA. And she did that while she was serving the state of New York. So the NRA sues her. Why is the ACLU involved? Because the ACLU, as part of the lawsuit, says that a government official, anybody, state, federal, local, anybody working in the government, can't target a private concern, business, nonprofit, whatever, because they disagree. with what they're doing. So because Maria Loew didn't like or doesn't like the NRA, she can't try to hurt it.

That's against the First Amendment. That's what the NRA is saying, and the ACLU is on board with that. They are helping the NRA. So of course, the far left, including the New York State ACLU, totally repudiated the national ACLU, which is a far left movement.

I mean, it is. But it's an interesting story, and we'll see how it plays out. I thought you would be interested in that. No idea how that will go, by the way. Joining us now in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is journalist Isaac Saul. He is the founder of Tangle News.

So I get lots of mail saying, where do I go outside of my own operation, and I go to the Wall Street journal, but we have recently taken on Tangle. Semaphore, we looking at them. All right, these are independent agencies like mine, and they deliver good information, and Mr. Saul is the head of that. So I read somewhere where you're going to Transylvania University in Kentucky, and that's a real college. I actually know it, and I can't believe you would enroll there because then you'd have to wear a black cape and all that. But anyway, you're going

there to discuss why the profession of journalism has sunk so low in the Court of Public opinion, correct? Yeah, I mean, if you look at any of the recent polling we have about how people feel about the media, you'll see pretty unbelievably bad numbers. I think a recent Gallup poll showed about 16% of Americans said they had a great deal of trust in television news and the numbers even lower for newspapers now. pretty much the only thing that polls worse than the media these days is Congress, which is loathed by pretty much everybody currently.

So it is not a good time to be a reporter, at least in the sense that it's, you know, it's really hard to earn people's trust. And I think a lot of that is the media's own fault. I think we've done it to ourselves in a lot of ways. And it doesn't surprise me at all that that's the current state of things. Well, how did it happen, though? I mean, what do you think? There was a time when I was in grad school at Boston U, getting a broadcast journalism master's degree,

which the media was trusted. They were involved with the Watergate at that point. They had aggressively covered the Vietnam War, and they were, you know, credible. That's the word, Cronkite, Chancellor, all those people. So what happened? Yeah, so I talk about three main issues, which is transatlantician. transparency, hiring, and a general balance that we see in the media. So in terms of transparency, you know, the biggest issue for me is that most news organizations

are not transparent about how the mistakes they make happen. So when the New York Times gets a story wrong, like the bombing of a hospital in Gaza, they might issue a correction. But we're not totally clear on how that mistake actually happened, why it happened, which leaves a lot of room for suspicion. We saw this during the Trump era. A lot of mistakes tended to go the wrong way, at least against Trump. So if you were somebody reading a lot of mainstream media,

anytime you saw a major error, it was typically the kind of error that made Trump look worse than what the actual correction ended up looking like. And we didn't often get explanations about that. So that's one. Two is hiring, which is just that, you know, most news organizations are dominated by people with moderate center or left-of-center politics.

There are very few conservatives or Republicans who are working in the industry. That's not some conspiracy theory. There's polls of journalists and media outfits all across the country all the time, and they always show the same results, which is that a vast majority of people who work in the profession of journalism

are people with center or left-of-center politics, and there are very few people on the right side of the political spectrum, which impacts the coverage that you see And that brings me to balance, which is just, you know, if you read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal covering the exact same event, you'll see them cover it in drastically different ways, which is a problem for both media outlets. Their coverage with, you know, presumably some of the best reporters in the world should be a lot more similar, but it's not. And that is just a reflection of the fact that a lot of media organizations are using their reporting to sort of espouse a worldview rather than tell honestly what's happening. How badly did the voting machine fiasco hurt Fox News?

I think it hurt them a lot. I mean, that's actually, it's funny you mention that because that's one of the examples I use in my talk, which is that, you know, for Fox News, they were in a position where they were feeding their viewers what they wanted to hear, which is a really dangerous place to be as a news organization. You know, I know your politics, Bill, and I'm listening to you at the top, tell your audience that, hey, there's some evidence that Biden needs to be investigated, but there isn't smoking gun evidence that he should be impeached. And I think that's the right thing to tell your viewers.

But a lot of conservative columnists are telling their audience that the evidence is smoking gun and Biden should be impeached. And that's the wrong thing to tell your audience because it's not there. It's just trying to tell them what they want to hear to make sure that they like you and keep them happy. And Fox News is trying to tell its audience what they wanted to hear. Yeah, that's what they're all doing now, because that's what it comes down to money.

They can make money preaching to the choir. And if you look, I'll just give you a really good example. And you may run into this as a young journalist. So when the election happened 2000, 2020, when it happened, about 10 days, two weeks after I told my audience, that there wasn't enough evidence to present to the federal judges because I was watching Supreme Court Justice Alito, who had sway over Pennsylvania. And I was watching what was going to be submitted to Alito, who was sympathetic to this. He was sympathetic that there might have been fraud in Pennsylvania, all right? Well, the Trump people didn't submit anything to him at

all. And I said, you know what? At this point, you got to just go with what, what the election returns are because you don't have any hard evidence, you know, individuals running around saying that's one thing, but you got to present it to the court of law. I must have lost a thousand premium members to Bill O'Reilly.com by saying that, all right? Then we're an independent as you are at Tangle. We're independent here. We depend on our viewers and listeners on the radio to support us and our sponsors. When you lose a thousand in two days, but I had to do it because that's me. If I had been in that chair at Fox News at 8 o'clock with the O'Reilly Factor,

none of that would have happened. None of it would have happened because I would have come out, boom. I would have put Britt Hume on because he was of like mind, and I would have just wiped it out, but I'm not there anymore. So Fox News, I don't know if it's ever going to recover its trust image among just regular folks. The staunch conservatives, that's where they go still, but not to the numbers that they did. All right, last question for you, as an independent kind of guy, and the website is retangle.com, very easy, retangle at a guy. Do you believe that Americans really want to know the truth, Isaac?

Or are they just comfortable in their ideological slot? They just want to hear what they believe. What do you believe? I'll tell you what. When I started this, I did not believe that Americans wanted to always hear the truth, even when it was hard for them. My instinct was that would be really hard to build a media company like this, that shared views from across the political spectrum.

But as I've gone on building Tangle out, I'm starting to see that there are a ton of Americans who want that because even if people disagree with the other side of their own political positions, they want to understand them. And more than that, I think a lot of Americans are just exhausted. They're tired of the really nonstop stream of extremism on both sides of the media and both sides of the political spectrum.

And they're interested in more nuanced. they're interested in a better understanding of their neighbors. And I personally do feel like we have hit rock bottom in terms of how much people want to be in their own bubbles. So on that note, I am definitely optimistic. And I've seen it firsthand. I mean, we're a young media organization, but we've got 80,000 people on our mailing list. We've got a podcast, a YouTube channel.

We have a huge audience that comes in every month to view our content, hundreds of thousands of people. And that to me is a signal that we're doing something. there's a really big appetite for the country right now. Well, keep it up. Retangle.com. Thank you, Isaac. Really appreciate it.

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I'm going to give you four or five segments in a row here, and they're all very important for you. All right, so we leave in a policy. politics aside, we're going to you. All right. Consumer spending, USA, broke a record in October. Okay? We do you hear this. Consumers spent $2 trillion just in October in America. This is according to Wallet Hub, and they did the research on it. Now, what that means is we, the people, are keeping this country out of a reset. session because we're spending, continuing to spend an enormous amount of money. Many of us don't have that money.

Keep that in mind. We're spending on credit, which is never a good thing. But consumers spent 81% of all take-home pay in October. That means they only had 19% left over for emergencies, for savings, for investments, getting up there. Okay, because consumers continue to spend so much, about 4%, a little less, 3% of retired Americans have to take money now out of their IRAs and other 401ks, their retirement funds. Okay, not only them, but younger people who are investing in retirement funds, take the money out they can't pay their bills the insurance bill is killing everybody i'm getting

letters every day okay you do have in every state all 50 states an insurance commission in your state you should know what that is because these insurance companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise with the nfl and all this how many state farm commercials are going to see okay they're doubling premiums for no reason. That's got to get under control. You have to have insurance on your home and your car. That is way out of whack. And that happened on the bike. Okay. So we are not in a good place, but if we cut back on our spending, then the odds of a recession go up. The progressive movement is on the skids. It reached its highest point under jurisdiction.

Biden about three months ago in September. Progressives rolling, had the media, had the president, had the Justice Department. Now, with all this anti-Semitic stuff, it's going down. Same thing happened to Black Lives Matter. You will remember, they got $100 million from corporations and individuals after the George Floyd thing. Once they spent it on lavish homes, for the people who run the Black Lives Matter movement in Los Angeles, over. Lost all credibility. And, you know, lefties will still go Black Lives Matter. But that organization is through.

Same thing is going to happen to progressives because of this anti-Semitism. There are some progressive people who are bailing, and we have one of them on right now. Her name is Kara Dansky. She used to be a progressive. She has a new book out called A Reckoning, How the Democrats on the Left Betrayed Women and Girls. So you, Ms. Dansky, were a very committed left-wing individual, right? And now you're not? Is that what I'm understanding?

I would actually reframe that. Thanks so much for having me, first of all. So speaking solely as myself, I registered as a Democrat in 1990 when I turned 18. I'm still a registered Democrat, and what I argue in the book is that so-called gender identity or trans is actually incredibly regressive. So currently, I'm the president of an organization called Women's Declaration International U.S. chapter, and we bring what we think is a leftist feminist critique of so-called gender identity or trans. And part of the reason I wrote the book is because I'm gravely concerned. because we know from polling that Americans across the political spectrum are gravely concerned about men and boys being able to be in women's spaces, male prisoners being able to be

women-only prisons, male athletes invading women's sports. We know this from polling that has been done, and viewers would never know this from looking at most media outlets, but most Democrats and most people who identify as liberal or very liberal, are completely with us lefty radical feminists on this issue. But we don't get a platform in most mainstream media outlets, which is part of why I'm so to you for having. That's 100% accurate, but I really want to walk through your thinking. Okay, so in chapter one of your book, and I do read the whole book, but when I do an interview

with anybody, I know pretty much what their point of view is. You say, people are being forced legally and socially. to accept the lies of gender identity. What are the lies of gender identity, very specifically? Thanks for asking. So every single human being on the face of the planet is either female or male. And it doesn't matter if any individual people have an identity that they claim makes them somehow the opposite sex or no sex or some sort of material, some sort of third sex that simply, doesn't exist and so when i talk about the lie of gender identity i'm talking about a political

movement that is very well funded and extremely powerful okay let me stop you there so you believe in biology as millions of people do you're born either a male or a female now in your mind if you want to change your gender you can do that now because of medical advances and if you just want to identify as a woman, even though you're not going to get to surgery, you have the freedom to do that under a constitution. But you're saying that the progressive left is taking this further and disturbing, right, women by allowing men, biological men, into their facilities. They're forcing the women to accept biological men in their facilities. That's the primary beef, right? right? That's definitely one of them. We do need to clarify, though, that no matter how many

hormones a person takes or how many surgeries a person has, no one ever changes sex. It just doesn't happen. So there are some people who have been lied to and persuaded to undergo invasive, damaging, and harmful hormonal treatments and surgeries who now gravely regret it. They were told and promised by the medical professionals that they could change sex and they can't. No one can ever change sex. Well, you know, a trans man, man going,

a woman can't bear a child. You're correct to that. Here's the most important question that I have for you. Why? Why does the progressive left want to create gender chaos, which is what I call it,

among children and then support, all of this pronoun garbage, all of this kind of stuff. Why? What is what is driving that? So there's a tremendous amount of money behind this movement, which I talk about in chapter six of the book. I talk about big pharma and what I refer to as the ghouls in the medical establishment who actually are very actively promoting the idea that people can change sex, even though they know it's not true. Okay, that's economic-based, but I'm talking philosophically. You are absolutely correct.

You cannot be a liberal American in this country anymore if you don't accept the fact that people can change their gender and then should have full rights of whatever gender they go to. You can't operate within the liberal precincts if you don't believe that anymore. Why? What ignited this? Well, part of what I'm trying to do with my book is established that you actually can. You actually can be a liberal or a progressive, if you like, and push back against the homophobic, sexist, lying. One person who has done that in this country with any visibility.

Just what? With any visibility, no. And that's, you know, I make. You're not going to do it. So you can do it, but nobody is going to do it. because they'll be hammered by the media that is sympathetic to the trans situation. You know that's true. Of course.

And I say in the book, if even one member of the Democratic Party in Congress, and I would love it if it were a woman, but I'll take it if it's a man, if one member of one Democrat in the United States Congress stood up and said, no men are women, then the whole thing would crumble because it's all built on a house of cards. I don't think the press is ever going to, the media is ever going to admit that of what you're saying, and I think that person would be torn pieces and as an example to other people who may dare. So I'm going to ask you one more question.

A book is the reckoning. You might be right. And if you're right, maybe it will be. Let me give you a plug, Kara. Let me plug your book. All right. That's why you're here. The book is the reckoning, how the Democrats and left betrayed women and girls.

All right. Now, you, you are a very devoted progressive leftist. Are you still apart from this issue? Well, absolutely. But I will say, and I speak in the book, yes, I have absolutely no intention of voting in the 2024 presidential election unless the Democrats change course. You might be right that they won't. I am fully prepared to accept, totally right.

I'm fully prepared to accept that. But what I'm saying is that if they don't, then Democratic women need to speak up with our voices and with our votes. All right. Kara Dansky, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Have a great holiday season. All right, smart life. This is a fascinating thing.

All right, so we're all dependent on money. It's a capitalist society. The progressives don't want that. socialism. They want the government to tell you and me what we can have and can't have. That's what they want. That's the goal of the progressive movement. But we do live in a capitalist society now and have ever since 1776. It's not deviated out of that. So how much money do you need in your life? Some people say, two million dollars. That is what the average American earns across all education levels, okay, averaging in everybody, two million for your

work lifetime. Okay, that's number one stat. It's a smart life segment. Let me run down some of the expenses that you have in your lifetime. So if you have a home, the average cost of maintaining buying that home is about $800,000 in this country now for the lifespan of the home, about $800,000. If you have a college education, it is about $50,000 out of your pocket. A pet. You got a pet? Lifetime of the pet. Ready? $67,000. Hey, Holly, $67,000 for the pet. if you get a goldfish no all right if you have a kid two children two the nuclear family all right from birth to 18 years old 600,000 dollars all right to raise the urchins two of them 600,000 thousand so all and all and then you got uh wedding costs you got a car a series of cars uh health

insurance is almost a million dollars in your lifetime for health insurance almost a million okay retirement all of that so you need according to investopedia that's where this come from you need three and a half million dollars to break even if you want to have just a regular life average american as i said makes two so you're a million and a half light this is why this segment is so important so how do you make up the million and a half you make it up by a number understanding what you're going to need a lot of people don't understand how much a pet is going to cost the kids are going to cost the house is going to cost, the health insurance is going to cost, they don't figure it out. And they just get deeper

and deeper and deeper. You got to have a plan. Now, I'm talking to grandparents and parents here because you have to pass this down to the kids. And the plan is, I'm going to need $3.5 million. Probably going to be more than that in 10 years. Okay, let's see, it's $4 million. I got to make that kind of money. Well, you've got to train yourself to be able to make it. Now, with that sometimes requires an academic degree from a college, but if you get a skill, if you can fix stuff, AI, all of that, you can make some money. But you're going to have to figure it out and apply yourself and work hard. Final thing in the smart life segment. It is expensive to live in America. If you want not to pay this kind of money, you could go to Costa Rica. Now, I wouldn't. Not safe.

you go to Uruguay, South America, very reasonable to live there. You want to live here, it's expensive. You've got to understand that, all right? You can't waste any money. Can't be a drug addict. You can't be smoking cigarettes every day, getting drunk every day. I drum this into my kids.

I mean, I drum it into them. commit into them. Got to earn. Or are you going to be one miserable SOP? I'm sorry. Smart life. Okay, here's the final thought of the day. As you know, I'm a little royal, a little riled up about the incredible jump in pricing for food on Long Island where I live. And it is brutal. Now, in my town, there is a luncheonette. We used to call it a luncheonette. Yeah, but now they call it, I don't know, a diner. It's not a diner.

It's a little different than that. But it used to be, you go in there for breakfast or whatever, always a little pricey because this is an affluent part of Long Island. But now it's... Full rack of ribs, $45. Now they give you two sides, $45. I don't know. Anyway, very high, very high.

So I'm watching, and I like the folks in there. I mean, I get the delis are the same problem in this town. Everything's doubled, doubled. So I'm watching who's buying this stuff in this, luncheonette, all right, restaurant. It's kids. Kids. And they all have the debit card. So these stuff are a little bit old, but I think they're accurate for today. 40% of American teenagers, ages 13 to 17, have a debit card. Okay, 45% of those make a charge on a regular the basis. These kids are in there with their debit cards and they buy whatever they want to

buy. It doesn't matter with the price. They don't even know the price. Their kids. They want a burger fries. They want an ice cream. They want whatever they want. Mom and dad are paying for it. They're not. They got the debit card. Now I'm going, it's clicking into me. Okay? Because this place is full of urchins, and they're ordering big. They're getting the ribs. They're ordering big. And I'm going, okay. So that's what this is about.

There's no spending control on this demographic. If you have a debit card and you're 17 and a high school, junior, or senior, you're going, and you're getting whatever you want. Okay, you're not saying, well, maybe I should get this or we'll get that. right? No. And the merchants are taking advantage of that. They don't need old fogies like me in there going, what's this? You know, what do you mean? $14 for a tuna sandwich. Come on. They don't need that. What they want are the kids who go, I want the tuna sandwich. Would you like lettuce and tomato on that? We'll jack in another couple of bucks. Yo, yeah, yeah. How about

some fries? That's seven bucks? Yeah, fries. And they give them the, and they're they give them the debit card and the kid just goes right out the door right home and then mom and dad there they are they're paying it that's what's happening that's what's happening now these urchins are going to have a really really rude awakening when they get out of there and have to pay their own debit card final thing on the final thought i want to make my kids had the debit card they almost have to today okay but i'm on the card and I look and see what everything is. So at the end of the month, there's a little chat.

And also, my kids have to work. They work. Not in this, my daughter's working in the school year. She's a really hard worker. My son works in the summer, but he works. This is not some easy job. He goes and he earns very good job. money out on Eastern Long Island.

But, and then their account is tied into their debit account. Okay? So they have restraints. That's the way I've set it up. So you're okay, you want to be, treat all your friends to ice cream sodas. You've got four friends. You're all buying ice cream sodas. That's going to come out to about 50 bucks.

All right. All said and done. So you want to do it. okay but you're paying for it and then you know how hard you got to work for the money that's the way to do this now in the presidential election i am i am convinced the main issue will not be abortion or any of this other stuff we're not going to be hamas israel it's not going to be putin ukraine it's going to be the grocery store it's going to be the local restaurant because it's shocking in the space of three years, how much all of that has gone up.

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