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This is Red Eye Radio. On across America, we are Red Eye Radio, he's early and I'm Gary McNamara. We've started about a couple of weeks ago at least just talking about the Democrats who seem to be wanting that their new debate point is we're all stupid. We don't, almost as if they're cavemen politicians to go back to the SNL bit.

We don't know your fancy ways, and one of the things we saw was Gavin News from a couple of weeks ago, where he was saying that he doesn't even know where to find his birth certificate, and then Bernie Sanders came out and said he doesn't know how to find his birth certificate, and we're like, well, they're lying, but they want to pretend that they're stupid.

The other thing we could come up with is they were getting blowback from saying over and

over again, minorities don't have the capability of getting voter ID, right? And then you see more and more conservative minorities come aboard and say, that's racist. Stop that.

“And so the only way to stop the racism of their accusation or their defense, why voter ID is,”

because that's all point, voter ID is racist because minorities don't have the capability to do so. Well, the pushback started and it's like, well, no, you're the racist, you're calling us dumb. Yeah, you're saying we don't have the capability to do it, don't insult us.

That's racist. So the only fallback position was we're all a bunch of idiots.

Yeah, we all don't know how to do basic tasks that the average American does every day.

The other thing I was thinking of is, have they cut the pie up so much when it comes to? One of the things, if you're new time, if a new listener of the show, we've talked about this for years, what liberalism has done has created the victim oppressor relationship. And we said, you cannot continue that as a political party because as they create more

victims, they create more oppressors. And what we saw that in the radical transgender movement, the example that we use, because it's a perfect example, was Martina Nevertolova, who was viewed as a hero. So the gay movement around the world, when she came out such a long time ago, now she's an oppressor because she doesn't believe men should play women's sports.

Think about that. Think about how insane that is, you're an oppressor. How dare you turn on your own people, you're not my own people, you don't do stop that. So that's the example of how, and we look at Jasmine Crackett, who on another example, they just, jettison, she's got ads her own fault.

It's her own fault. It's her own fault. It's her own fault the reason that she lost. She was a hero and all of a sudden, it's like, by your gone, she was a star and then she's not.

You're not anymore, you're gone, you're not helping us. Now that may, she may not be the oppressor level yet. But they will jettison you as soon as they look and go, okay, well, what did I see the other day? We talk about that the Democrats are the party of identity politics, which is racist and

they judge people by groups and not individuals. I mean, it's a whole thing that, well, that Tim Walls was the permission structure for people in the Midwest for white people in the Midwest to vote for Kamala Harris, that you needed a man to do so. That's how they think.

Right.

“And I saw the other day, you know what a moderate is?”

Why, James Teller equal a moderate in the Democratic Party? He's white. I was like, oh, wow, that's a good one, I like that. But it's true. No, it is absolutely true.

They're the party of identity politics, so the ones who judge people by groups. I don't care what you are, I care where you stand. You and I've said it over and over again, we don't practice political idolatry towards anybody. We don't worship any politician because politicians come and go, it's the ideas that became

the ultimate law that we honor and we honor those people who will continue to promote that. But, and we honor people that have done great things. But we don't sit there, I can vote for somebody today and criticize them tomorrow.

I never will.

“If you're full of crap, you're full of crap.”

I don't care whether I voted for you.

Yesterday, we're not children anymore. We don't need heroes as adults. You may, I don't. Well, and I don't need to create a hero in somebody who is a public servant for the sake of creating a hero and not sticking to the issues.

You think about the nature of that, it's this idolatry in creating the rock star. This is what the left did with Jasmine Crocker. She's not the only one. I go back to my gosh, Bill Clinton playing saxophone on our senior year hall for those under the age of 90.

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“I'm sorry, but I'm thinking of, though, which way in, remember, I think it was Marlin.”

Was it Marlin? Yeah. Remember the panning on his butt? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That was a great impression. What a talent. Oh, my gosh.

That was a great impression. It's just inherited naturally, isn't it? Yes. It's in the blood. But this is, but you know, in creating the idols politically.

Because you think there's, I asked myself, what is it that you think these people do? Look, I can have a good rating for somebody who's in office. You know, whatever that rating might be.

“I don't even, I don't even know why it matters, right?”

It's, it really for me, it's a passer fail. You know, but you can look at it and say, for the sake of a discussion, you can say, for the most part, this is what I, I support this person on. I think Trump has done a great job. I don't have a political tribe.

I don't need any of that. But there are some big holes. And those big holes can be the downfall. And this is, you know, this is something that I don't have a problem saying. I don't need to be a fanboy, a kingmaker.

I don't need to be part of a political tribe. I don't need any of that. What I need is somebody to do the job that I want them to do as a public servant. You know, I was lucky because dad rose me or, you know, raised me, not rose me. He rose you to talk about English.

Exactly. He, he raised me with the quote, you're going to find out in life. People really want to be BS and the bigger the BS, the more they want to eat it up. You see, accurate. Oh my God, every day he's proven, I know, right or on that on that on that one point.

Yeah. But getting back to, that's the whole, you know, the victim of pressure. You can be the hero one day. Yeah. And then in liberalism and then be the oppressor.

And I started thinking, just during the top of the hour, I went, because one of the criticisms we had about that philosophy is the more victims you create, the more pressures you create. And therefore, your whole thing is dividing your party based on identity. Based on putting everybody in a group.

And we're like, you can't run a political party long term on that. Short term maybe, but long term you can't. The idea of a political party is to unite, you know, unite on the issues or a set of issues where you can get a majority of people, like with the Republican party.

I don't agree with the entire Republican party.

With the Democrats, I agree with nothing.

“I don't know if the thing I agree with the Democrats on right now on any major issue.”

Right. Not one. Right. And so that's why I vote Republican. But I can vote Republican and criticize him.

But I, you know, the next day, but I just thought, I wonder if part of the philosophy is now because we've really seen in the last month or so, we're just stupid. We don't know. And we ignore this.

And we won't answer this question and everything else. And we just don't have the capability and we just don't know. We just don't know. We just don't know. We just don't know.

We just don't know.

And you saw that the sanctuary is sitting here.

Well, I don't know. Well, I don't know. I don't know. What's the woman? I don't know.

I don't know. Yeah. And you're just seeing it. I don't know how to get my idea. I don't know what a woman is.

I don't know how to get through my life. I just can't do it. I can't get a job on my own. I'm lost without the the the the government. And I really wonder whether somebody inside liberalism is said.

Look, look, we need to all pretend that we're idiots. Because then we can unite on us being idiots. And if we're all just a bunch of idiots, then we're all victims. And there's no oppressor except the opposition party. Yeah.

Who expects us to be functioning adults. And we can't be there. So we unite by all being stupid. Yeah. And incapable of doing normal things that normal Americans do.

And we unite and create an entire section of people. And that will become our political party. And our presser will be the people that won't take care of us. Yes. Now, then just popped into my head.

We'll see where it goes. But I just went. Mmm. Is that where they're going? Because it's so bad.

They're mocked. You know, they're being mocked. Incredibly. They're not winning the argument outside of their own group. And their own group has decided to say we're all a bunch of idiots.

Because we can't just look at one. We've realized we might have been an error by saying those groups are stupid. Because then we can be viewed as racist. So we're all stupid together. It wasn't that long ago that being mocked would correct you and put you back on the right path as a group for the left.

And now it's, it's as if the more they get mocked on certain things, the more they do it on everything. No. It is an amazing time in the political history of the United States. Unlike any other time. It really is.

The strategy that the Democrats are attempting to use right now.

Well, in, in, in, I've never seen this.

I don't know. I haven't seen this in the history books. Anything like this. I haven't. Well, and, and, you know, we are at this crossroads.

24 was, was definitely a political crossroads.

“But I think we're, we're still in that mode of deciding.”

And, and we have to make a decision as an, as a nation. And this goes back to my comments after October 7th. The day after October 7th. Our first show after October 7th, I said. On one side radicals, on the other side, everybody else.

So we have to decide on, on every issue as a nation. Going forward, if we're going to officially be radicals or not. And I hope and pray that we choose the right path here, because I don't believe we're all radicals. But the radicals are loud. And they're all on the left.

The radicals are very loud. And are exclusively in the Democratic Party. And look at the things they're fighting for. Mutilating children permanently. They're legally fighting for this.

They're fighting for that. Right now, they won't, we're, we're at war with a ran. And they won't fund DHS. That, I don't know how that is not the siren of all sirens. Knowing full was you mentioned earlier.

A ran is told all of their proxies and sleeper cells. They've sent the message to alert them. And we should be on high alert. And the Democrats are saying, nope, we're not going to fund DHS.

“You have to ask yourself what the motive is then of the party.”

You're either with them or against them. Period. Well, they know they can't win the argument, right? Which is rather saying, well, we believe we should fund TSA and Homeland Security just not ice.

No reason to do that.

They don't know where to go.

No. Right.

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Yesterday, the house in the Washington State Senate passed an income tax. For households earning more than 1 million annually.

9.9% income tax, which basically if you earn a million bucks, that's an extra $100,000 in taxes.

Yep. And so now it goes to the Senate. And on the day that that happened, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announced he's moving his family to Florida. Wow.

What a coincidence. What a coincidence. I'm sure the two aren't related at all. We don't know whether it is or not. You know, when Bezos left and decided to build his Lair and Florida, that was kind of a big deal.

Because they were like, you know, he's been here for years and everything else. And then you think about Seattle. You think about Starbucks, right? And Howard Schultz. Yeah, we got to go.

Sorry. I mean, y'all can still buy my coffee, but we got to go. But that's the nature of liberalism and what we've been saying for years. The rich can decide where they want to live and they can much more easily get up and go. But then with all of us who aren't in that class, we can look at and go.

What about the people who can't afford to stay? Again, a friend of mine who was in the media and lived in California for years. And he was about to retire and said, there's no way I can live here. I can't live here in retirement. I can't afford to live here.

And that's the nature of it.

“But no, we'll just keep taxing the rich and the rich will, hey, where did the rich go?”

What happened? Remember Cuomo? Come back. Come on, I'll cook for you. We'll have dinner.

I'll cook for you. Think about the glass of wine. Didn't you put up billboards? Yeah. Come back.

Come back. We want you back. No. You're deciding to take more and more of their wealth. They're clearly very good at building wealth.

So they're going to do everything they can to protect it after they build it.

“Well, when I love that baseball player, Maro Kelly of the, I believe of the Arizona Diamondbacks,”

rejected the San Diego Padre's lucrative contract offer because of taxes in California. Yeah. Remember now, this means every single professional athlete. I think they're, they all have to make over, maybe not maybe at the NHL. They're released, the crack.

Maybe the crack on the crack and some of the lower players don't make a million.

Yeah. But you just, anybody who's a millionaire sports athlete has just been taxed next to 10%. Yeah. And that makes them, you know, it's happening now. You've, you've seen it happening.

It was huge story. Maro Kelly said, not going to go to California.

Right.

And so you're going to see the same.

The agents aren't stupid. Right. Do the math. And that's what will change it is.

“Well, we want to tax a rich, but there's got to be an exemption for our athletes.”

We can't lose our teams. We're already paying for their stadiums. We don't care about that. Right. Give them a tax exemption.

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I did some quick figuring. All right. Okay. Some quick figuring about Arizona Diamondbacks. Picture.

Merrill Kelly. This is all talking about whether Washington state looks like. I don't know what the votes in the Senate going to be.

But the the house voted to pass the 9.9 percent.

Millionaires income tax. So if you make a million, if that's your adjusted gross income, you pay an extra 100,000 in taxes a year. We're talking about professional athletes. And how that's actually now starting to affect where professional athletes will sign.

You've been hearing the mumbling about it for a while. But then you had Arizona Diamondbacks. Picture Merrill Kelly turned down a three year offer from San Diego to resign with Arizona. Okay. He preferred the lower tax burden in Arizona.

Choosing a two year, $40 million deal, which is 20 million a year. All right. So I did it very quickly, figured it out. Two point five percent across the board income tax in Arizona. That means he will pay on that deal.

If, and I'm doing it from, you know, because it would be the same.

“I think tax break, whether it's dinner, whether you combine it into one year or whatever.”

But he would basically pay on that 20 million over two years, 500,000.

And in Arizona, yeah, all right, in state tax in California, 2.7 million. He makes 2.2 million. And since that's money, he won't pay. That's right there. That's cash.

Yeah. Right. That's cash. He makes 2.2 million by staying with Arizona. You don't think it's going to affect professional athletes.

It's going to, well, again, the left doesn't. They can do the math. They know this. The question is, how long can they do it before the threshold is it? You know, you brought up something going into the break.

What's next? They do an exemption for athletes so they can build teams. Right. Look, it's for the local economies. It's going to help us if we give them the exemption.

So let's pay for their stadium as you put it. Let's pay for their stadium and also give them a tax exemption. Well, how does that look to the average person? Even if that average, because the average person isn't making that amount of money. But they're looking at the athletes as, well, those are elite athletes that are making a ton of money.

And they get something that nobody else in that category gets. Even again, if it doesn't affect that person directly. Even if they're not paying that high tax and they're not in that earnings category doesn't matter. You know, this is, this is going to come back eventually to haunt them. I just don't know when that's going to be.

Well, they actually can't do that.

“I think under most state constitutions, you can't tax a particular individual.”

You may be able to tack a tax a specific business tax like an adult, you know, adult, the entertainment tax, whatever, marijuana tax. I don't think you can tax individuals based on their job profession differently. You mean the category. The category.

Because industry. Right. You can tax the industry, but you cannot tax the individual for what industry they're in differently than anybody else. So I would there would be a problem, but I have the solution to that. All these middle-class people every year can have go fund me accounts to give money to the professional athletes.

So it'll be more advantageous for them to. That they taxes on that.

And I do think the change is now that companies, intelligent people,

“and we believe there's intelligent people in the democratic party,”

even though they're working so hard to convince us there's not. We don't know how to get a burst of a good. I'm only the governor of California. I don't know how to get a burst of a good. I'll hold my beer.

I'm a longtime senator from Vermont. I don't know how to get a burst of a good either. We're the stupid party for stupid people. We got to come up with a better slogan than that. I got to go.

I just let think that words. We're the stupid party for stupid people. And by the way, don't say, we're insulting democrats. We're just analyzing what they're doing. They're the ones doing it.

Right. We believe you're not stupid. But we believe you wish to win elections by fraud. Yes. And so you're pretending that you're stupid.

But when you talk about the threshold, we all know. California's already lost a lot of people to pull their money out. As we know, it's going to continue to change. Well, you're seeing the exit.

“You see, was it exxon mobile pull out a new jersey?”

Yeah. And that's going to happen more and more. It's in key individuals. I think I think the shulps thing with, again, if you think about what Seattle means and Starbucks and the whole thing and the symbolism there. But also, Jeff Pesos, you know, and when he left and he again moved to Florida, those and and this mass exodus.

This is an example of everything that we have talked about. And then what happens? Well, inevitably, when you talk about someone like Pesos, it also has to do with this business model, right? And you look at the states. So if those states are attractive for mega billionaires and in the ultra rich, they're going to be attractive for anybody and everybody because it means that the jobs are also going to move there, which they are because we're seeing industry move. So when industry moves, it used to be the case that industry had to make a decision almost ahead of that.

And then put out the incentives to get people to move there, right? Hey, move to this state will will incentivize by giving you an apartment for six months and paying for your move. So now that's not the case because people are flooding individuals, the talent pool for these companies is moving naturally because again, you've got to go to where the earnings are, you also have to go to where the cost of living is better.

“And you have to go, as you said, we're not the breaking point, what did you call it?”

The threshold. The threshold. You've got to the point where companies and people now look at these states and say, well, this has been going on for 40 years now, 40, 50 years. Right. They're not going to reverse course. It's not going to reverse course.

You know, we had always hoped that, okay, yeah, there was a chance even, you know, there were Republican governors of California.

It's not going to happen anymore. And they've gone so radical. They've only moved in one direction. We thought that they might change 10 years ago and they're not going more left and more left and more left. Well, we've seen states like, you know, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina, Florida, whatever. We've seen these states Arizona, if you want to throw that in there with lower taxes. Yeah, but we've seen other states that look at this and say, okay, we're going to move in this direction and they've been moving in this direction consistently for 30, 40 years.

Well, this is where we have to go. It isn't temporary anymore. This looks like it's a permanent thing or at least permanent, nothing is permanent, but you understand what I mean. This is long, long term difference in in economics. Well, one wants to be more free market and the other, which is to be, you know, more, more socialist. But when you put it together with that, the picture there and you can set it, put it in real dollars.

Here's a guy signing a two-year deal that can basically make 1.1 million more by staying in Arizona than going to California.

And, you know, having to change his life and probably pay a lot more for other things.

New York Post dark days loom for New Yorkers, this climate law promises blackouts and coshikes.

Hocals absolutely panicking about this.

“Governor Kathy Hockel has spent much of her four and a half years in office facing a time bomb left by her predecessor,”

drastic legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets that the state has no practical means of meeting. They're panicking in New York right now. The 2019 Climate Act requires New York to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about one quarter from that year's levels by 2030. The state has made little progress towards that goal in part because officials closed New York's largest nuclear power plant in 2021. But the law remains on the books and its defenders block at a revision.

If Hockel can't persuade them to change it, all beneath green dreams will cause harsh conditions in the Empire state, steep electric bills, green energy boom doggles and rolling blackouts. They know this, the Democrats are panicking.

Hocals panicking and they're so radical they're like, we don't care.

We knew it. Look, we're falling with Obama said in 2008, electricity prices must necessarily skyrocket. That was the goal Obama set it out in 2008. Yep. And this is exactly what they're doing. They're and think about all the money set or or spent for compliance along the way.

That if you abandon this effort anywhere down the road, the cost of converting back is enormous. And by the way, the Obama administration actually talked about that. They lost a Supreme Court case after years in the making.

“And they were asked, well, are you upset that you lost a Supreme Court case?”

I think it was the it based in Michigan. And they said, no, because the money that was spent to convert in order to be compliant along the way. They're not the cost them so much. They're not about to convert back to the old way. So this is going to be permanent. We got exactly what we want it. And New York is going to do the exact same thing.

And it's going to be on the backs of the New York, the people of New York along the way. And it's going to be crushing here we go. As an November bills are up 7% over last year. A whopping 47% in since 2019 on average in the greater Syracuse area. Customer bills have more than doubled since 2019.

A state energy forecast published without fanfare last year. Following criticism, the prior forecast were unrealistic. Show that electricity prices in upstate New York could rise by at least an additional 40% over the next five years. Really at a time when we have the ability to manufacture electricity where it should be cheaper. Yeah, we're going to have an abundance of power.

And all of this is not because of things outside of New York's control. Everything was meant to be done. The goal of the Democrats in New York was what the goal of Obama was when he spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle in February of 2008. Yep. Our goal is to skyrocket electricity prices. Yep.

And here we are.

“And that's what they're doing in New York.”

Yep. That's the goal. And again, being compliant to all the new rules means you're going to spend that money for the new system.

Whatever it is, you're never going to go back and spend the money to go back to the old to the old system.

It's. It is damaged. Well, I don't know that they can be reversed. They may be forced to. If you don't do it now, you'll never be able to afford doing it because it's going to break you going back to the old system.

This is what the Obama administration celebrate. Well, no, but they could build they could build gasoline. They could build natural gas pipelines. That's, which is again, going to be costly. Costs upon costs.

These are ones of the problems that they run in here would be the problem. You could get private sector to do it. If you knew the rule was permanent because they'd invest that money, because electricity prices are so high and they could sell it lower. And we've talked to make a profit. But if they don't buy that the Democrats aren't going to change in another five years,

they're not going to do it. And it's long term the private sector is out there. Sorry. We can't trust it's going to be this way. We are right.

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“So you see what's happening in these states, whether it's climate change, whether it's taxes,”

whether it's, you know, the business environment, the initiative to go after your natural resources. And it's the red states that are doing it. It's a blue states that are rejecting it. You saw yesterday Trump announced and it's an Indian company, but they're coming in.

A $300 billion investment to build a new refinery.

Yeah, in Brownsville, Texas. Right. First refinery, first new refinery in the United States in a half century. Yeah. Big deal.

Huge deal.

“And those are, you know, those are things that, again, set the Democrats aside apart from the Republicans.”

And the states are telling the story right now.

And it's, it's really interesting because the movement, the migration is telling the story. Yeah. And that, that part is going to continue because those blue states are not going to reverse course in our lifetime. [ Music ] This is Riddai, Radio.

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