04-17-26 Part One - The Race for Governor in California

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All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. I'm Gary McNamara, Eric has the morning off, so it's me and you. For this Friday, and just looking at the latest governor's poll from California. And you've got Steve Hilton, still on the lead,

the Republican with the 17% in second place.

You have a Republican Chad Bianco as a sheriff, with 14% Tom Styer, also with 14%. So I don't know, I was looking for the breakdown of the poll, whether because they say that two Republicans have the top spot. Well, Styer is tied for second.

“Now, if you do the rounding, are they rounding it off?”

They mean that Bianco is, is, I had maybe by a tenth of a point, and they're both rounding down to 14%. Or they're 13% or, you know, one has 13.9. The other was 14.1, but that's really interesting,

because with swallowing out, whoo.

Uh, all right, who has to drop out now? I don't have a scratch, I don't have to keep dropping. So let me see, you've got 15 and a 17 and 14%. So that means that you have 31%. Of the polling population.

I don't know if that's, you know, that's polling. It's not, there was Emerson Poll. It's not, you know, people actually going to the polls, but it's not, so it's not a, it's not voting. It's simply polling.

Think about this with all the insanity. Think of all the insanity in California. Think about how the rest of the country looks at it. One of the reasons that that new some can't get any traction is because it's very easy for any Republican to say,

"Do you want to be like California?" But you think about it, as we said a long time ago, that the Democrats are desperate. They're, they're desperate not to change the philosophy of what they believe in, but somebody who can sell it.

“And that's why you hear all this talk from Democrats circles.”

We need to get a white man who can sell all of this. And by the way, they're talking about to get a white man to win their primaries. And then if you look at it, what they're also saying is that in a general election that you independence out there,

you're all a bunch of races. Now, remember, when Kamala Harris dropped out, and when Kamala Harris lost last year when she dropped out of the back in 2020 when she dropped out. She was the first one to drop out of the, you know,

before you even got to the primaries, she stood no chance with Democrats. And she said the problem was sexism and racism.

We're like, well, then the media never picks it up.

Or if they do, they're just like, shut up. You're accusing Democrats of sexism and racism. Well, hey, that's what we've said.

“Who are the ones that are promoting the radical transgender movement?”

Who are the ones that believe that men should be in women's locker rooms? Who are the ones that have threatened women and don't give a damn about women being able to place sports without male competition? Democrats are an upset about this. The rank and file, the voter is an upset about it.

They're fine with it. And an identity politics, that's all they're talking about. Identity politics in California look what happened a couple of weeks ago.

We did it by the polls.

“And the polls show in a massively huge Democrats state.”

Because when you look at it, 31%.

Voting for Republicans. That means the other 69% are voting for Democrats. And so you look at it and they're like, we can't, we cannot hold this debate. They're all white people. Well, what do we do?

Well, we can't put anybody, we can't put a minority in there. Because we Democrats don't believe we can win with the minority. They're talking. I mean, it's, we're, we're wasn't. It was the, I, I was thought it was, was it, I got to find it.

I got to make sure I, I'm not going, I'm going to have to preview it. But it was, what's her name? A Kathy Griffin.

Yes, the, the, the, the, the.

Kathy Griffin the not case. Sally on sign fell. Was she, was she Sally? Yeah, that was her name. Sally on sign fell.

“You know, there, she's, there was a couple of all the Hollywood people.”

And they're like, well, yeah, we need a white man. We need a white man. We need a white man. We need a white man. I mean, they're all about identity politics.

They're all about gender and identity politics. They're like, wow. But they're trying to find. And yesterday was another day where I went, nope, they don't plan on changing it all. They don't plan on changing it all.

When you had the illegal immigration. Um. Uh, a testimony yesterday. Uh, from the, the angel families. I was just, just, listen, because I, I watched.

Um, oh, uh, what's his name? Uh, uh, uh, uh, mr. Uh, are we, are we sure that if we don't, uh, uh, uh, put. If we have too much of a navy on Guam that Guam won't tip over. People think we're making that up.

We're not. Uh, that's a Democrat representative, Hank Johnson, who just blasted. The angel families and a lot of people get killed. Just, just think, listen to this. Here's Brandon Gill.

Uh, yesterday represented Brandon Gill. Just going, what's, what's, what's going on? Here we go. Listen to this. That was one of the most disgusting testimonies I have ever heard.

They have Hank come in here and lecture angel families about how they shouldn't be here, how we shouldn't be holding this hearing. What the hell is wrong with you guys? The reason they're here is because of open borders that you guys perpetrated for four years. What's an accurate about that statement?

Nothing. But yeah, it was, uh, it was just, it was just brutal yesterday.

And, and we always know the excuse we hear about protecting illegal immigrants.

“Because that's what sanctuary cities do.”

And by the way, Democrat, the voter is fine with it. They're fine with it. You don't see them getting upset. They're not upset. They're fine with it.

We're not talking here. When we talk about sanctuary cities, we're not talking about the Democrats try to make it sound like what we're talking about. The people that have been here for years and built up roots in the community. And, uh, love the community that they're, they're in.

And we're caught in an unfortunate situation. We're talking about illegal immigrants that have committed crimes besides illegally being in this country. And many of those crimes are violent. And the excuse says, well, there's not a lot. And well, you know, when it comes to the actual, uh, percentage.

And by the way, this has been debated back and forth. But the actual percentage American citizens actually commit more than the, uh, the immigrants into this country. And it's like, that doesn't matter. They're here illegally if they commit a crime. City should not be attempting to keep them in the country and releasing them back into the public.

But the Democrat voter is fine with it. And many independents are fine with it. Otherwise Democrats wouldn't be winning elections at all. So still, when you see it, when people go, well, it's a great, you know,

You've got two Democrats or actually me two Republicans that are one and two here.

It's really not a big deal. You're talking 31% of the population. That means seven, except 69% almost 70. Are still saying, no, we need insane Democrat leadership. That is absolutely insane on the issues that want open borders.

That believe that men should be able to expose themselves to women in locker rooms. You know, when you think about it, when you think about it, as, as we're finding out, we're going to be more, and Democrats are saying, well, yeah, we sort of knew what was going on with Swallwell. Well, for God's sake, of course, unless he gets caught and unless the rape charges are in there,

they think men should be exposing themselves to women in locker rooms.

“Why the hell would they care if Swallwell is sexually harassing someone?”

And so, yeah, I mean, it would be interesting if there were two Republicans and the Republican became governor. But still, it's only 31% of the voter in that particular poll. This isn't even a 5545 state or even a 6040 at the moment. So, no, the voter, the voter that is still in California, is all for the policies,

the insane policies of the Democratic Party. They're for open borders. They're for massive debt. Therefore, the radical transgender movement of men in women's locker rooms and men playing women's sports.

They haven't changed at all. Republicans need to understand this. They haven't changed at all.

“I think it was really an article yesterday about how it had to Michigan.”

They haven't changed the DEI policies. They've just changed the name of it. They've practiced identity politics. Think about it. As we've said, over and over again.

In 2020, when, and we hear Democrats say, well, this country still races and still the biggest problem, it is. And, you know, why? Because it's been institutionalized and it's since been systemic inside the Democratic Party through identity politics, where they judge people by groups and not individuals.

And the thing is, it's all over the place. It's plain to see. And this is why we look at Republicans and, you know, Republicans should be out there every day, every single day talking about identity politics. Every single day should be talking about the racism of the Democratic Party and the misogyny

and the sexism of the Democratic Party. They should be saying it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And for some reason, they just don't. They seem to be lost. And yeah, it's, it's frustrating.

But the marketing for Republicans, we've said this now for years. For a decade, I mean, identity politics has been around since, you know, modern identity politics really since the, probably late 70s or excuse me, late 70s. We're really came into the forefront, late 80s early 90s when the attacks were on, when really modern talk radio came in and there were black conservatives and a number of them

in what I call modern talk radio, which came in the late 80s, you know, very opinionated and mass across the board talk radio. That's where it started. In my opinion, it's where it started.

That's where I saw it first and they were able to get away and they still today.

You know, well, if you're a cop, you're not really black because you can't be black and be a cop. You cannot protect, you know, you cannot protect society. You can't protect your community. And I don't mean your community is being a black community. I mean a community with all people because skin color shouldn't matter at all.

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I'm here with you for this Friday show coming up on the bottom of the hour. We did it a little bit yesterday. I want to do it again today because I've just gotten a lot of email on it. For some reason, there's a lot of interest in it. People just wanting to know what this all means. This is where Virginia came out.

The Governor Spamberg signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

A lot of people said, "What is this about? We'll explain it again coming up following the bottom of the hour."

“And get into why I believe it's unconstitutional. Why it is unconstitutional?”

To begin with, this is where, for example, and I did find out that I forgot which election it was. I saw yesterday that Virginia, if the voters voted one way, if they would have had the compact in for, was it the last election? Were they voted for the Democrat that all their votes would have gone to Trump? And this is where they wish to tie their electors from the Electoral College to whatever the popular vote is in the United States.

I'll tell you why that is unconstitutional. The other thing that I thought was really interesting because this shows you the population shift. Two things that I saw yesterday. One was, and this is why we have an Electoral College. There was a map out there. I don't know what I thought I put it on my phone and I can't find where I put it.

I know I saved it, but I don't know where it is, but it showed basically a map because I wanted to post it on X. It showed a map of the United States and then it showed just, you know, it showed Texas. And there was a little dot in the middle or dot in the northern part of it. And it said DFW, this is why they have the Electoral College DFW, where I'm broadcasting from. Right in the middle of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex.

That's about eight and a half million people, the vast majority of the states in the United States. Just our little community here in North Texas has more population than every one of those states.

And I just, I never counted how many there were, but it was just amazing.

“You look at it and you're like, whoa, okay, that's why we have the Electoral College.”

When I saw this other map, the projected Electoral College after the 2030 census. The potential outcome right now, by the way, things are moving. The GOP will pick up seven districts. Seven congressional districts, the GOP will pick up the Democrats will lose seven. Texas will pick up three.

Utah will pick up one. Idaho will pick up one. Florida will pick up two. California will lose three. Illinois will lose two. And New York will lose one.

Right at this particular point. And there's one other Democrats state that will lose, that I can't read it. The map is too small. So, but yeah, plus seven for Republicans, minus seven for Democrats. All because of the population shift.

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I don't. Welcome to a Friday. All right, I found the audio. And I had to listen to the entire thing. Make sure there was no profanity in it.

But this is, again, more evidence of the identity politics of the Democratic Party. And this goes back to the Governor's Racing California.

And you remember a couple of weeks ago, the Outrage.

Everybody was fine with having it. And all of a sudden, uh oh, everybody in the debate is white. Because it was done by the polling. You know, you had to reach a certain percentage. It was like, we can't have it.

If everybody's white.

“It's like, well, but that's what, and remember,”

you're talking about in a race right now where the Republicans of 31% and 70% goes to the Democrats. Now it could still be where, and I don't think it will happen. But it could still be where you would have the runoff would be to Republicans. But still, 70%, 69% in the latest poll for Emerson is going to the Democrat candidates, even though Republicans are one and tied for, for two.

But as we have stated, the Democrats believe, you know, a Talereco winning the the primary against Jasmine Crockett here. Nobody. Nobody was viewed as more popular than Jasmine Crockett. Texas Democrats don't believe they believe only a white man can win in California.

Democrats believe that only a white man can win. How do we know? Because they tell us like this. We're going to talk Eric Slawwell because unless you've been living under a rock,

“he was running for governor of California and he got caught with many, many,”

our word allegations and even our word under the influence, meaning the survivor was. It's, there's a chance that her drink was spiked. We're not going to go into those details, but I'm going to be honest and say that until this, I was actually supporting Slawwell because I thought we're in this era of only freaking white straight guys can win.

There you go. And I know it doesn't sound. You, you may be, I know Democrats are first saying wait a minute. That's not Kathy Griffin. She's not screeching.

That is Kathy Griffin. Just so you know, I would understand though why you would doubt the credibility and say that might be AI, but even if it's AI, it's pretty bad because that sounded like a calm Kathy Griffin. That didn't sound normal for her.

No, that actually was, was Kathy Griffin. So, you know, we know that and we know that Democrat, we look.

The entire thing with, we, we, this is the, again, it's so really incredible

the society that we live in. That the party that claims that the other party is racist consistently is open about their racism is open about their misogyny as open as you can possibly get and they project it over and over again to the other side and Republicans are like, Who the, what's so, what are we going to do today?

Okay. What are we going to argue about today? Between each other. It, it just, for me, it's just, it's, it's been the most frustrating thing because of how blatant they are with it.

You go back to 2024. We all know it. Well, set it. The analysis was there. I was the permission structure.

As he said, Tim walls. The white. So many rabbit holes here. The white macho Tim walls.

And remember this, remember it was a different kind of masculinity. It was the permission structure for people to vote for Kamala Harris.

“Now remember, a lot of that is Democrats because it was Kamala Harris”

in 2020 when she dropped out first.

She never made it to the first primary.

She got pounded in the bowls and she said, it is the racism and the sexism of the voter was the reason that she was out. That was the primary. The primary consists of overwhelming. There are some states where you can, you know, vote a different primary.

But overwhelmingly, it was Democrats.

“I mean, probably 95% Democrats, so she was saying Democrats are sexist and racist.”

We know they are because they tell us that they are. But then walls was the permission structure. You needed a white, not only did you need a white male. You needed a white male with a new modern masculinity of jazz hands flying in the air. And that's to me is what's frustrating is they're so blatant with their racism.

Sexism, the misogyny of the radical transgender movement.

I've never seen anything in a modern political party, so blatantly misogynist.

Since I really, since I've been around, I haven't seen anything like that.

“You need to get used to male genitals in the locker room.”

As the Charlotte Observer wrote, what was that? 10, 12 years ago. Maybe they wrote that. All right, other stuff on the, the, the docked because I've got a lot of questions about it this this week. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

Boy, I mean, this is just, again, this is just a microcosm of where the Democrats are going. Now, this is where Virginia, Spamberger signed the bill that would admit Virginia into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. All right, and this is where, and it, it wouldn't go into effect. I don't believe it's ever going to go into effect, but it wouldn't go into effect until they got 270. So they reached 270 total electoral votes right now, they have 222 with Virginia being in it.

And this is where it doesn't matter how the people of your state vote, whatever the popular vote is in the state. Whatever the popular vote is in the country, for example, if your state votes, for your swing state, you vote for Republicans, but the entire country, or excuse me, the popular vote votes for a Democrat, well, then your electors would ignore the will of the people and go with the other states. And again, we can sit there from the very beginning and say, all right, that's obvious. Obviously, the Democrats moving away as they claim no kings, as they claim they're the party of democracy, that they're not the party of democracy.

Now, the problem with it is of course is the Constitution. You know, it's the same thing, you know, the media, the mainstream media, the last couple of weeks.

The Democrats are now the first step of the 25th Amendment, the Democrats and Congress of introduced blah, blah, blah, it means nothing.

Congress doesn't get to do anything until the presidents. Oh, I got my black hair until his, until all his secretaries, until they all say he needs to go out and then the vice president says, yeah, that's not going to happen. This is to me symbolic because the Constitution isn't going to let it happen. Why Constitution article one section 10, the compact clause prohibits states from entering into agreements or compacts with each other without the consent of Congress over right there. The other thing is when because the Democrats are saying, well, the historical precedent is that the Supreme Court upheld the states right to allocate electoral votes.

By district rather than winter take all reinforcing broad state discretion and article two section one, which grant state legislators, the power, the absolute authority to appoint electors in any manner that they choose.

Because you don't have to, there is, there is no right for an individual to vote for president, the legislature could do it.

“But what this bill does, it's different is it puts all presidential elections on automatic pilot.”

It's not that, okay, we've decided that we're going to vote this way and the intent of the Constitution was never to ignore.

You can ignore completely what the legislature or the people of that state would want in an individual election. Because you may pass it now and say, we're going to go whatever way the country goes. And then you have a legislature in one year that says, well, no, we don't agree with it or the people don't agree with it.

But the biggest part of it is there is no, you, there cannot be a workaround around the electoral college.

It's that simple, the electoral college is the system that has been set up and it's been set up for a reason. It's set up so every state is represented in some kind of way. It's the same reason, the electoral college is the same reason that the Senate exists, which, of course, Democrats wish to get rid of the Senate.

Because Democrats say there should be no equal representation in the legislature, even though we have got bicameral legislature, the House and the Senate.

And the House, of course, is appropriated by the number of people. And the Senate, everybody gets to senators. And that was done for a specific reason.

“And that's why we went to war with great Britain representation, taxation without representation. In the Senate, the Senate gives smaller states representation in the legislature.”

It's why it exists. I don't even know if the majority of Democrats, I would say from the ignorance that I have seen from Democrats, especially constitutionally speaking, that they would have no idea that that's why it exists. Because we have no idea what the Senate exists, just get rid of it. Because the founding fathers knew, if you don't have representation, that's what causes a civil war, a country will be torn apart if that happens. We are Red Eye Radio. You know what it comes to supplements. There are two things that matter the most, that it works and you can trust it. I'm very choosey about which supplements I will endorse on this program and when it comes to relief factor, I believe in it wholeheartedly it is working for me.

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“So, yeah, so that's what the National Popular Vote Interstate compact is about.”

But if it ever, if they ever got to 271 and to enacted, there would be massive loss. That would, again, it would, you know, in elections every four years to begin with.

You know, the country's founding is built on the Electoral College is built on the Senate, is built on the separation of powers, is built on the representation of each state.

“And, you know, and it's built that way for a reason, but it's built on the Electoral College.”

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And I have in front of me here, you know, the hockey playoffs are starting this weekend, and the secondary market prices are out for hockey.

“All right, this is the secondary market. You ready for this?”

All right, just, it's one of the reasons I don't go into many sporting events anymore. At this point of my life, I can afford it. It's like, "Mah, not enough return on the investment." Okay, I've got my 500-inch, if I want to watch it, my 500-inch, 970,000 KHD TV. Maybe I'm exaggerating, just a little bit there. With the surround sound system with 427 speakers, you know, I do have a good surround sound system.

It's got the wireless speakers in the back, and I have a very open floor plan in my house. So the TV room is open in the kitchen, you know, has like a counter, and I have the two back speakers, actually on the kitchen counter, that go into that other room. And it's just, it's a wonderful setup. I can't tell you how much, especially if you're watching a baseball game, or, you know, sometimes especially indoor arenas, but baseball games were micrquired for a little bit, and somebody screams. And I'll be sitting there, and the cat will be sitting there, and we both turn around and look who the hell's in the kitchen.

But when somebody curses, hey, you're like, I was saying, and we're getting ready for the next pitch. You turn around, you think somebody's in your house, and the technology's great, and there's only, you know, one payment for that one, you pay for it, you're done. But let's take a look at some of the, I'm trying to look at the, the cheapest ticket on the secondary market for the national hockey league playoffs.

“Remember, not a major sport in most of America, and I say most of America, because I'm from Buffalo, where it is a picture sport.”

But, but the Vegas, Vegas Golden Knights, the cheapest playoff ticket on the secondary market, $76, the most expensive, $1,767. All right, let's look at some other places, Dallas Stars, 83 bucks on the secondary market. People are able to find it. Most expensive, $2,204. L.A., cheapest ticket, $102, most expensive, $1,072. All right, you look at it, some might call it the Nirvana of hockey, right, Montréal, right, Canadians.

So, let me just see here, the Ottawa Senators, cheapest, 115 bucks, most expensive, 507. They're at the low end of the most expensive ticket, the Ottawa Senators.

The most expensive tickets for the first round of the NHL playoffs, Buffalo Sabers, the cheapest ticket, $464 on the secondary market.

The most expensive, are you ready for this? The most expensive, $7,062.

“All right, it was going to go to the Sabers game with me, huh?”

Well, no, unfortunately, just like whenever the bills are in the playoffs, you know, are they going to do a two o'clock game, or I could watch it on Saturday, or I couldn't watch it anyway tomorrow. The independent Bob golf tournaments coming up. We'll talk about that in a second here. Not golf, just I can't wait to see what independent Bob's going to bring up on politics.

But, yeah, they placed Sunday night at 730 or 630, so obviously, so like normal, I miss, I miss everything because of this show.

Maybe I'll retire so I can watch sports and kidding, this is kidding. So there you go. So there is the reason I have been, I'm trying to think, the last NFL game I went to, I think, was 2006.

“The last hockey game, I think I went to an NHL game, I think, in like 2017.”

Last NBA game, 2004, maybe, yeah, in high school games, yeah, I mean, I went to see my great nephew. And I haven't got charged yet. The day he's playing in an adult league and they charge and the place was five bucks, so five bucks was okay. Watch my great nephew play ball. But there you go, and you wonder why? All right, a bunch of different topics. Oh, yeah, let's, let's talk about, let's get this out of the way. Yes, it's the, I call it the independent Bob golf tournament, but it's actually his brother's tournament time, who's a great guy.

And it's for make a wish and we do it every year. And I love it because for those of you that maybe knew to the show, independent Bob, I talked about a long long time ago.

When I first started doing the show and I met independent Bob, I think our like 2006, when I was building my house and he lived near me.

And for probably over a decade, we golf together became really, you know, became great friends. And then I got to know his brother and everything else. But in, I call him independent Bob because he's actually more conservative Bob now. You could call him conservative Bob. In fact, a friend of mine said, oh, you're going to see conservative Bob and I went, no, he's still got to call him independent Bob. He went, what? He's still an independent. Well, he's more conservative. I don't know how exactly, I don't know exactly how he voted.

He loves lives up in Arkansas now. But I said, he's as much more conservative bent. I said, we really don't argue anymore, where we used to argue all the time. And there's a story that goes back, this goes back 20 years ago.

“And I'll never forget, we were at the the marina club. It was like a Friday night.”

And probably it was, and there's hardly anybody in there. But I know about it. I still know most people there, even though I hardly ever go, I go once a year. I don't get out much anymore. But it was, I don't know, 11, 11, 30 at night. Maybe close to midnight, they're getting ready to close. Some Bob and I were going at it once. I can't remember what it was about.

So I said, go, well, I'm done with you. I'm out of here. I just, I'm done. And I go walking out. There's a bunch of young people probably 20 feet away. And I want flying the guy said, cheers me, he said, you're Gary McNamara. And I said, how do you know, and he goes, I could hear you yelling. He goes, is that independent Bob? And I went, yeah. And then this goes back maybe 15 years ago.

And I just wanted to warn you, there's somebody here and I don't know what their intent is. And I said, you see them and they go, yeah, right, it was a guy in a cowboy hat. And I said, well, he looks harmless. And so I went down and introduced myself to him. I said, hey, I hear you're looking for me. He turned it. He was like, couldn't believe it. It's just like, it's so funny.

As everybody will tell you in my life, I never think of myself as a talk show host until somebody calls me on.

“It's like, oh, yeah, that's what I do. That's right. I forgot about that.”

I just don't think of it. It's just come in and you do it. You just never think, you know, you know, people are listening, but when you, they actually tell you they're listening and want to meet you and want to discuss stuff with you. It's always still surreal and I love that it's still surreal. But real nice guy, a truck driver and heard me talking about the place that I used to go to all the time. So we had a great conversation. Think about him a beer and it was just, it was a real real fun time.

But independent Bob, we go way, way back. And, and so I'll get to see him tomorrow.

We, he did call me yesterday. He was on his way. He moved up to our Arkansas. So this is where we really hang out. I don't know if I'm playing in his force on Saturday. But it's just interesting to hear with everything going on.

“And I think he's almost gotten to the point where things are so crazy every day that he doesn't call me as much as he used to”

because I think at times like for a lot of people it is. It becomes overwhelming. For me, it doesn't. I love it. I, I don't get caught up in the what people say anymore and how outraged I am. I'm outraged by this because it's like, well, nothing that the left does surprises me. And nothing that happens on the right surprises me and people would think that the stuff. I mean, I, I get passionate as I did last hour because of the insanity on the left.

And yeah, we criticize Republicans when we believe they should be criticized. But the, it's more frustration than it is shock that I can't believe this is going on.

“A lot of times, it's more frustration because you just can't believe that the society or people.”

Well, for me, it's wondering how people have gotten to that point of actually believing pure bull the, the next word beginning with an S. I think that's what surprises me. I just have always thought that there were more critical thinking people and that some people were at least more knowledgeable of what was going on. And I just am amazed, you know, and again, dad told me decades ago that people want to be BS. But when you, when you see it and every single day and you live with it, it is not shocking to me anymore.

I guess what shocking is to the level that it's gone.

I never thought, for example, a major political party would basically endorse and then create open borders and accept it.

I never thought we would get to that point. I never thought that you would have a major political party promote men in women's locker room. And say women just have to get used to male genitalia. And then at the same time be outraged sexual harassment. I just never thought we'd get to the point where people would passionately, passionately endorse men competing against women and then say there's no difference between the physicality of men and women.

Just never thought we'd get to that point because it's it's so delusional. And so to get tens, maybe hundreds of millions of people to agree to that. Yeah, that may be that may be a little, that may be a little just over the top. And so within dependent Bob, maybe that's why I don't hear as much of him because he used to call me probably a couple times a week.

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He is our curly. He has a morning off. I'm Gary McNamara. I hear for this Friday coming up on the bottom of the hour. Some of Mimdani's plans in New York City.

Just fascinating because the whole supermarket this thing this week was a huge news that we covered. And again, it's, I know what New York City doesn't affect what happens to you. But it is the microcosm for socialism today that we're looking at. It's a way to look at, okay, what are the plans of the true communist socialist out there?

What do they want to do and can they actually do it?

“And so that's what makes it fascinating because it's like it's only a little lab economic lab there.”

And who said it? I think it was George Will who said, well, every couple of decades, the American people need to understand and go through the failure of socialism. And it's just what happens. It's he up and flow of things.

And we are in that app right now. I thought one of the best things I saw yesterday was the headline and the battle on beat. Ready for this? Mimdani says city runs supermarket will be ready in three years. But recommends getting in line for bread now.

But the supermarket. I mean, it's just. And I wonder when he puts out the figures and numbers whether he understands himself. Whether he has any clue that it's not going to work.

“I think that there might have been maybe just a little inkling that he does when they came out when he came out and they said,”

well, everything isn't going to be low priced. Only a basket full of things that are, you know, necessary. And the one thing I asked Eric the other day I said, you know, you look at the growth of supermarkets. I think it's supermarkets when I was, you know, in the 70s, the 60s and 70s when I grew up. And you think of what supermarkets have become depending on where you live across the country.

Whether it's see, you know, the the the the the monster, you know, you know, make a supermarkets, the wet, you know, the up where I come from up in the Northeast, the wagons, the tops down here, the H.E.B.s, even, you know, a croaker, you know, the huge bakery sections that they have and everything else. And it's really going to be fascinating to see what they come up with here. But it's just it's amazing when you think because the story that came out this week in case you just tuning in was that.

The five they're going to open up, they budgeted 70 million, you know, for the, you know, basically what they need the capital to get them open.

And the first door is already a 30 million. And it's another three years from opening and apparently what they're saying is already spent 30 million on it. It's going to cost, well, it's going to cost in 30 million to get it open now. But it's got not going to be open for three years and that cost to skyrocketed where the average supermarket, the average large supermarket that's twice as large as we went through the other day.

And you're like, do they know it's not going to work, do they actually know it and still going ahead with it anyway?

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So we've got to clean off the, the desk so much going on that there are stuff that we didn't get a chance to get to that we want to make sure we get to get to the internet.

We want to make sure we get to.

This is Mitt Romney this week Mitt Romney this week on Republicans and more.

“I'm you know, I can remember who I think was Bill Clinton who said it's the economy, stupid.”

I think today it's the culture, stupid. I think I think my only was Democrats have steaked out some positions or a number of Democrats have that don't make a lot of sense to everyday Americans. Defund the police it's like are you kidding you think that's going to sell in cities. Defund the police biological males competing in girl sports like that doesn't make any sense at all. Open borders people flooding into the country people saying what in the world are you doing Democrats we're doing some absolutely in my opinion just crazy stuff.

And that cost a lot of everyday Americans to say, you know, I used to be a Democrat, but I can't put up with that stuff and they became they became Republicans. And I think the Democratic Party's in a world of hurt in part because of their posture on so many of these social issues. And we're about their problems party, do you feel like they're where where they are, I mean, do you feel like on immigration on there's a lot of policies where people would say, you know, they are extreme in their own way and does that.

Well, we're both parties are creating their own problems. I think what the president did to secure a border is wisely done and very popular. I think some of the ice actions throughout Minnesota and other places is seen by people as being unnecessarily brutal. And it's hurt the president's popularity. So some things I think the president's done that make a lot of sense that are politically attractive are the things I think are are more harmful.

But I have a list of things where I agree with President Trump and it's a good long list that I've a list of things where I disagree with him, but I understand it's logic. There you go. Mitt Romney. And if Eric was here, Eric would say, well, he didn't seem as robotic.

“He sort of lays out the midterms there and it's what we've talked about is how important will the economic issues be?”

Now, it was two things that defeated bite open borders and inflation. You look at, oh, was it, oh, was Harriet and yesterday was talking about how of all the presidents in the 21st century, all of them. Trump has the best numbers of older people. And they're the ones that vote. Let me just see here.

Here it is from Sienna over here over the, I think it was yesterday. It's because President Trump is more than holding his own amongst a very large portion of the electorate, a very reliable voting block. And that is senior citizens. Take a look here. Okay, Trump's approval rating age 65 plus and March of 2025, 46%. Look at where it is now. It's basically the same.

Seniors have not moved. He's at 44% now. And the key nugget here is for all this talk about young people in the electorate, such as myself, or at least I like to include myself in that block. It turns out that older voters, senior citizens vote in far larger numbers. So Republicans look at this number and they say, hey, you know what, we can actually potentially do some real damage or at least hold around in the midterms because President Trump is holding his own with this very important voting block.

“So how does that number 44% compare historically to other presidents?”

Okay, this is where it gets even more interesting.

It turns out if you look at all the 21st century second term presidents and you look at senior citizens, Trump actually is the best approval rating at this point in the second term of all of them.

So Donald Trump is beating other presidents this century at this point in their second term, beating all of them.

And therefore, as I said, holding his own amongst a very key voting block that President United States in the White House should like this number, especially compared to Obama who Trump, of course, always likes to be. [ Laughter ] Oh, you threw that in there. And that's, I was said, the hope for Republicans is the Democrats.

“I think that's the best hope that they have.”

We brought this up yesterday with the inflation numbers and we didn't hear a lot of commentary on it because of gas prices. But the other numbers, again, it's just one month and we don't make a judgment on anything based on a month. You give us six months. You know, then there starts to be a, you know, a pattern. But inflation, there were some, there were some things that were below the two percent, you know, fed goal.

What really brought that number up for inflation was gas prices. But you get some kind of, you know, cease fire here. And excuse me, not cease fire, you get some sort of agreement here with the, with the Iranians. And you get the nuclear material out. I know right now that the public doesn't like the war, you get the victory.

Everything changes at that moment. Everything changes. Because historians people will have to admit, I'm not Democrats, but there will be, you'll see it. It'll be publicized. You know, if he does that, he has brought security and a much more likely chance of peace in the Middle East.

Over the next couple of decades, which no other president has been able to do. And that will be good.

“The only thing that I see right now that is that hurt the president is, is prices.”

That's it. But the good thing for the president there is all the polls are showing. People don't believe the Democrats will do any better. And then when you see what's going on in all these different states, because it is being publicized. When you see, hoaxle, when you see, you know, okay, we need to raise more taxes.

When you see Madonna, the things that he's coming up with, these things make the news. When you see the situation in California, you know, with their deficit that they're having. When you see the number of states that are liberal and the taxes that they are initiating.

“I've just seen in the last week, you know, when you look at, for example, the state income tax.”

We talked about it yesterday, the state income tax and the difference to tens of thousands of dollars that the middle class are being taxed for it.

And finally, you're seeing news outlets come out and talk about the fact that, well, you know, all the great socialist programs that they talk about in Europe.

The middle class pays a lot more in federal taxes than we do here in the United States. And then when you break it down, over and over again, as we did. You know, that 40% in the latest tax analysis that 40% of the population pays nothing, or excuse me, 40% of income earners pay nothing or get money back from the IRS. And the public is saying, well, we've got the taxes are too high right now. Taxes are too high after every think about this after all the tax cuts that Trump has put in.

And the Democrats are complaining about. The public still believes the taxes are too high as we continue to increase spending really interesting article that I was reading yesterday.

It breaks down the numbers that we brought you before Jim Garrett is why your taxes are never enough for the federal government need talks about how tax revenue we have more tax revenue coming in now.

I don't know what that will be when all the rebates and the interests are paid back on the tariffs when they have to go back. But in fiscal 2024, the U.S. government collected $79.1 billion in let me see that that's in tariffs in fiscal 2025, which included the first year Trump's second term that jumped to almost $195 billion in fiscal 2026 U.S. government has collected $144 billion still tariffs in custom duties represent a small slice of the money.

But as they say, if the U.S. government's revenue buy itself with a gross domestic product, it would be the third largest in the world with record tax revenues.

“You think we might have a manageable deficit this year because even besides tariffs revenues are going up.”

You'd be wrong. The U.S. government does not have a problem with revenue. It is a problem without a control spending. We are on pace for a 1.6 trillion federal deficit this fiscal year.

The U.S. government has spent about 3.6 trillion so far this year that some is 84 billion higher than the same time period last year.

We spent $7 trillion last year and they congressional budget office projects that the U.S. government will spend about 7.4 trillion this year. So we'll spend and it will spend another $400 billion this year. And they talk about the interest. The interest went from $391 billion to now a trillion, which is $600 billion right there.

“We said it already. They're going to have to skyrocket the budget or they're going to have to make cuts because of interest.”

Just the interest is being paid and it keeps getting greater and greater and greater and greater and there is no consensus in Congress because there's no consensus in the country to do anything about the debt. None. The poll that came out showed that the majority of the country is completely ignorant about the debt problem in this country. They know that's bad. But when it comes to how do we solve the problem completely ignorant, they have no idea what the hell they're talking about?

Zero because the majority of the country says if we get rid of waste and inefficiency, which it'll never do, because you don't in a monopoly.

“And that's what the federal government is. They're a monopoly. It's impossible to do that. You can try. You're not going to do it.”

And foreign aid. And every other item, a majority of Americans, majority of Americans believe more money should be spent on it, that the only thing that should be cut is foreign aid and even President Trump. If you're not going to get it out of President Trump and Trump said it, when he ran, we're going to get rid of foreign aid. And he was question, why are you giving off this foreign aid? Well, we're giving out foreign aid the right way.

Look, I'm not saying the foreign aid isn't necessary.

I'm just telling you what the public is saying and the fact that, yeah, we use foreign aid to influence countries. And it's an extremely small part of the actual federal budget that's not going to solve any of the problems. And everything else we're like, nope, it's fine. And we're going to spend more money on it. We're going to borrow it and we don't care. So there is no consensus in Congress. People go, why is in Congress doing anything? The people aren't complaining. What kind of protests we have in this country that we are an imaginary monarchy. We have delusional protests now. Let's get rid of the monarchy.

We're a constitutional republic that specifically has the three branches of government. So power cannot accumulate in one branch. We are the complete opposite of any type of monarchy. Well, we're going to delusional. Let's do delusional protest. Let's take our delusions. Let's smoke pot that's 10 times stronger than in the 60s. And they were delusional on the concept that there's actually something called free love, nothing is free not even love. We're smoking stuff that's 10 times more potent. Let's pretend we're in a monarchy and protest on that.

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I have to say it because of Kathy Griffin.

“We have to win until we have to support white men.”

All these white men apparently have sugar brothers. But the New York Post story that Biden Hunter Biden is not out of the country hiding somewhere.

Hunter Biden hiding out from $20 million debts at luxury California estate, not South Africa.

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