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This is Red Eye Radio. All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is here in Cardi and I'm carrying McNamara. Hello. Well, this came out last night.

“It was looking at the near post and you and I were just chatting”

about it briefly here in our pre-show meeting. And it's the entire thing of New York City with taxing second homes worth over $5 million over. Right, second homes. And the amount of people that might leave because of it or excuse me,

the amount of money that may leave because of it. Now you got Democrats in the state legislature up in arms. His local has released what she is going to do because the trigger point for the new tax on luxury second homes in New York City could be lowered from $5 million now to one million of the properties assessed value.

Potentially squeeze even more homeowners. They finally spilled the details yesterday revealing the convoluted two phase plan that could ultimately lead to drastic changes to the city's property tax system. The so called the the tax would apply to second homes in condos and co-ops

with the ses values exceeding one million and one two and three and one to three family homes assessed it over $5 million. So now they're going after condos and co-ops exceeding one million. Yeah, the proposal first reported by the New York Times now. Also blindsided democratic state lawmakers with whom

the local has been engaged with never ending budget negotiations and his approval

is necessary for the tax plan. The budget processes broken. It needs to be fixed and exasperated state Senator Leroy. A Democrat from Queen said griping that lawmakers learned the proposal from the media instead of the governor.

We should know these things. It shows a level of disrespect. Locals proposed was the latest concession to democratic socialist mayor and his lefty followers engaged on the tax like crusade going after the rich. So yeah, that's I mean, we're not surprised by any of it.

It's like the whole thing with Seattle's, you know, 9.9 percent, you know, million, you know, a million dollar tax on millionaires. It always comes down. You know, you and I were, we just mentioned it briefly yesterday, but there was a story out there.

“Remember how the left always used to talk about Sweden?”

Yeah. They don't talk, and it's like, why don't they do it? We should be more like Sweden. Yeah, it's like, what happened to that? Does it remember?

Well, Sweden does it right? Sweden does it right? Sweden does it right?

And what we always said was way back when, when the left was talking about it,

which they're not anymore. No. It's because the middle class was paying a ton more taxes than the middle class pays here in the United States. You can't get it all done by taxing the rich.

You have to go after the middle class, which is why they always go after corporate taxes. That's a way to tax the poor and the middle class. Yeah. That's how you do it. Yep.

It was funny because I saw Stosso reporting on the, you know, on the, on the soda tax in Philadelphia, like, seven years after, you went into effect. Yeah. And he said, you know, people are still furious about it. But only about half the money goes for what it was originally intended to do.

Of course. It, the rest is just thrown into the general fund. Right. Rob in the conference. But they, but they made the point that it, it hits the poor, the hardest.

Yeah. That, you know, when it comes to soft drinks and things like that, it's a tax on the poor.

It affects the poor much more. Right. But that's why they loved it.

“I think that's, to me, you've got to, you've got to look at the genius of Democrats.”

Because, and you may say, Gary, stop at the genius. Look, they've been able to for a half a century. And I say a half a century that, you know, because that's when I started, you know, really, you know, 17, 18 years old started paying attention to what's going on in the world. Yeah.

And they've been selling corporate taxes to punish the companies for the longest time. Yeah. And they keep doing it.

And they got, and as I've said before, and I know I've repeated this a billion times,

but I have to keep repeating it because it is mind boggling that the Democrat politicians look at it and go, the people that vote for us are complete and total idiots. Well, think about what they've done with their campaigns. After he promised to raise electricity prices under my plan of cap and trade, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

And ran on a campaign called Hope and Change. They voted for him. Yeah. Look, the West Virginia coal miners association endorsed him in the same year that he said. We're going to forget about what I say in that same conversation with the San Francisco

Chronicle, forget what I say about coal, whether it's good or bad. I'll force them to retrofit their operations and they'll pass that onto the consumer and that will bankrupt them. Yeah. And it did.

And they voted and they endorsed him. And it's just, it is just an in corporate taxes. And we know they pass it out of the consumer. And they're doing the same thing again with gasoline. Or when falls profit tax, it went fine.

But if there's any example, if there's any pure example of how raising the cost of doing business is immediately impacting the consumer, it's gasoline prices.

“If they go up, that's why they go up and down and up and down.”

Yeah.

I was thinking the other day when I went to Philip with gas that the pump is never what the LED sign

says now. Gas prices are changing so quickly that can't even keep up. And I thought to myself, remember how they used to have somebody go up in a ladder and do that, that my gosh, those people would be working overtime all the time because it doesn't because the gas prices are changing so much based on what the fluctuation is.

I think it's a daily, I don't know what the law is, but I think it's a daily change. And people always ask, well, why is it that it doesn't come down as fast as it goes up? It's because that daily change, if it's limited to daily and I believe it is. If it's limited to a daily change, that means they're going to have, they may be losing money on gasoline for a minute and then they're going to have to recoup that long term.

The retailer at the retailer. Right. Yeah. But not once in the last two weeks has what the sign says matched what's on the pump. Now, the pump is always cheaper, it's always been cheaper, so I don't have any complaints.

Yeah, because if it's the other way around, you have a valid complaint. Right. So every time I, now it might be different for other people. Yeah. But I, and I only feel, you know, probably once a week, each, I got two vehicles.

So once a week with each one. Right. But that's just my experience, but I thought there was, interesting. But on corporate taxes, they pass it on to the consumer. It hits the poor the most.

It affects the poor and hurts the poor the most.

The Democrats love it because they put basically a hidden tax, a stealth tax on the poor.

And then they tell the poor, we're punishing these corporations in the poor go. Yeah. Yeah. Do it. Do it.

Do it. It's like you can't figure this out. Right. What is so hard to figure out? Why do you keep?

And then they keep. They'll keep doubling down. You're wrong. You're wrong.

“I remember when the Democrats were saying, no, no, no.”

If we put a windfalls profit tax on that they won't pass on the cost. Right. And you and I said, wait a minute, your argument is they're greedy. Yeah. I mean, none of it may on a basic level anybody in kindergarten would understand it.

No. Because like they're going out of their way to be stupid. Yeah. And it's just. Yeah.

They're saying they're greedy. And if we put a tax on them and increase their costs, they'll no longer be greedy. Right. They're greedy. So we need to tax them.

Yeah. Yeah. But if they're greedy and you're going to tax them, they're going to continue to be greedy. They're not going to not be greedy because you've increased the cost of doing business. Because history shows that if they're greedy, whenever there's an increase in the cost of business,

Right. And it's just, I mean, that's the stuff that you just sit back and we go back to Obama in Houston. Back when he was campaigning back in 2008. And it was that it's the same thing. Our gas prices too high.

Yeah. But the Houston's built on oil for those that don't know if they're not familiar.

That that was the most amazing thing.

Yeah. Our gas prices too high. Yeah. Do you want me to lower them because I'll lower them. Yeah.

Because if I become president, I'll put a windfall profit tax on these oil companies. Hey, so he asked him. Do you want the gas prices lower? And they all scream yes. He says all lower them by raising them.

Yeah. Yeah. What the hell do you do? You know, I just thought of Houston's old football team was the oilers. Yeah.

I was going to say you can't get away with this. That these days, but Edmonton still is the oil is right.

“And Canada, yeah, but they I think they just fired their coach and everything.”

So it's yeah, maybe they're going to change the things working out. I'll be it's all because of oil. It's all because of their name. The sand oil. Hey, if the dirty oil.

If nobody else has to be launched. I'll look next. If nobody has to be logical and connect any dots. We can do the same thing. That's right.

We can. We can. They're going to be the Edmonton windmills. It's. The Edmonton solar panels.

Oh, my gosh.

They never play at night.

Yeah. Only day outdoor games. All right. Oh, man. Oh, my gosh.

Just to know, everybody on the left. We can be as stupid as you are. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

Speaking of teams. You and T right up the road. Uh, mean grain. Go mean green. Well, mean green.

These days to me is a pretty much the. Green New Deal.

“There's, there's your, there's your mean green.”

They, the entire promotion of everything they do is backwards. And they still win elections. Yeah. This is our frustration with the Republican Party. For the love of crap.

How do you not put a single message together? That is just plain and simple. You have to do is point. That's all you got to do. And keep doing it.

I mean, it's insane. Uh, the trumpeting gets back. It's going to have to go meet with the other communist leader in New York City. Sit down and see what they're doing. You know, they've got to be friendly.

Uh, just like him and President G is there a thing with communists. He's just trying to get in on the inside. Maybe I don't know. But if you look at the way mom Donnie is pulling this off with hope. By the way.

And then there. State legislators. Whoa. There needs to be more. We can't be doing.

Yeah, well, you did it.

“There can be no excuses from any Democrats in office in New York state.”

Period. You're not going to write in your governor and you know it. And some of those legislators are actual friends with mom Donnie. He knows them. That's why he knew he could do this.

This is why he knew he and we set it then. We set it. I think we set it before he won. It was evident. He was going to win.

But he's got a lot of friends. There at the state level lawmakers. Hockel you're you're not in control. Well, you know, when when we we look at it because it's very you and I for years. How many how many liberals used to communicate with us and tells.

But Sweden, but Sweden. You have a Sweden pays a lot more than middle class. It doesn't matter.

Remember how they're always happy.

They're always happy. They're always happy. They're always happy. Right. Yeah.

Remember that the happy index. Which by the way is a dumbest index. Yeah. Right. Because what is what does it mean to be happy?

Right. I don't expect. Anybody who expects that the state is going to make them happy. I don't know what to say to you. Right.

Well, all I expect from the state is to protect my rights. I want freedom. Right. Because if there's freedom, we live in a free society. If we live in a democratic constitutional republic.

Capitalist free market country, then opportunity will be there for me.

I've never expected a handout.

I don't want to hand out. No. I want freedom. And I want opportunity. I'll take care of my own happiness.

But the entire thing about being happy.

“Apparently they weren't in Sweden because everything has changed over the last decade.”

Mm-hmm. Today, remember? Well, they provide all the healthcare and everything is great and wonderful. Oh, yeah.

Today, nearly half of primary healthcare clinics are privately owned.

Many now buy private equity firms in Sweden. Wow. Sweden. I didn't even know they had private equity firms in Sweden. One in three public high schools is now privately run up from 20% in 2011.

That's more than in the United States. Yeah. Yep. School operators are now listed on the stock exchange in Sweden. Wow.

Additional Sweden's market-oriented reforms have transferred it into an investment hub. Sweden's economy is expected to grow around 2% a year through 2030. Much greater than its industrialized European neighbors like France and Germany. Even more impressive is what Sweden is doing with its newfound wealth. Shrinking the size of the state.

Sweden has lowered its overall tax burden, reduced its healthcare and welfare expenditures, and created incentives for private sector actors and charities to take on once, what were once government mandates. Wow.

“So now, if anybody in the left calls, we're going to say, why can't we can use it now?”

Why can't we be more like Sweden? Get Schumer in there. Somebody ask him, Schumer, why can't we be more like Sweden? Why can't we be more like Sweden? Right.

There it is. But again, you're talking about a party who's rules change all the time every day. Talk about changes at the gas pump. The rule book for the liberals changes by the minute. It changes by, and they don't have to make sense, and they still win elections. We are Red Eye Radio.

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It's the most bizarre audio yesterday. The perfect example of why it is impossible to communicate with somebody on the left. And this was the hearing yesterday before the the house. And you had the Fairfax County attorney that was on. And wait to hear and what they hit him on was in his his website, which is his campaign website.

It's been up for six years where he said, you know, we take if we take immigration, our office will take immigration consequences into account when making prosecuting decisions. If two people commit the same crime, but once punishment includes deportation, that's a perversion of justice. And not a reflection of the values of Fairfax County. That's what he had in his website. He took it off.

Wait to you hear what he, how he attempts to justify it. And it's just Jim Jordan is doing the the questioning. It's the most, it's the most bizarre thing. And we'll have it coming up following the bottom of the hour. Also we'll get to, you know, a Trump's trip to China.

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You had Fairfax Commonwealth attorney Steve de Scano who. Well, I don't have to put any adjectives forward or anything here. I did see one headline. He had a tough time defending the things that he believes. And this is all about, you know, the lack's treatment of illegal immigrants.

Yeah, you know, that, you know, and the whole sanctuary city thing. And one of the things that came down to, and this was, this probably was the one that destroyed him the most. There were a ton of different things. And they had, you know, they had a mother who was a, they had a mother who was, again,

the mother of a victim who was murdered by an illegal immigrant on his watch. And this was house judiciary committee chairman Jim Jordan. Confronting to Scano about a now deleted statement on the prosecutor's website. That said, our office will take immigration consequences into account when making prosecuting decisions. Quote.

That's, that's a quote, all right. That's the, I want to make sure that these are, these are quotes here. Our office will take immigration consequences into account when making prosecuting decisions. If two people commit the same crime, but only one's punishment includes deportation. That's a perversion of justice and not a reflection of the values of Fairfax County.

“And of quote, that's what his website read.”

It was on his website for six years when after he was notified that he was going to be brought before Congress, he deleted that from his website. So the next question would be, the question would be, why did you delete that? Right. If that's what you believe, uh, defend it.

Here we go. All right. Okay. Get ready for this. Sit back grab your popcorn. Don't yell too loud. Right. Oh, I get for even my friends was that they're going listen to your podcast. I'm screaming. It may they go. No, the idiots that you play. Yeah, and if you're listening to our podcast, by the way, I grab your popcorn your cigar and your booze. Yeah, yes. Well, it is daytime. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, we're not on on on on on on on because that again, that's that's that's the the the the the soft bigotry of the first the real first ship, which is

And it was, but here, it's beautiful, big snowflakes coming down a button and she was perfect out. And the lighting and everything else was still dark out. And I think it's probably about 530 in the morning. Yeah, so I grabbed a lawn chair, a glass of wine and there I am sitting in my driveway. And my neighbor comes out to take out his garbage. And there I am and he says, what are you doing? Yeah, sit here drinking a glass of wine and he just thought for morning goes, well, this is your evening isn't it? And I went, yeah, there he goes. Okay. It's justified. Yeah, what's one of the questions. What are you on a copy? What do you copy drinking straight from the bottle? Oh, yeah, box is the case. Maybe did I say it in a glass? Yeah, I was straight from the bottle.

It was a glass. It was a Mason jar filled with wine. Is Eric said, he doesn't drink at all. I'm Ed McMan. I'm kidding. But here's a change back and forth. We're just playing it and enjoy here.

“Okay. I just got murdered somebody and I'm asking you, why did you change your website?”

Well, do not want me to talk to you about the actual question. I want you to answer the first question I said, which was about the case. Well, sir, because the website is not my policy. My policy.

You're the one who can't paint the voters. I'm interested in that. This is your campaign website where you said, our office will take immigration consequences into account when making charging and plea decisions. Immigration consequences were certainly part of the game here. Part of the issue here with Mr. Morales Ortiz. No, they won't. You decide absolutely or not. You are assuming something that is not that is in fact untrue because you are misrepresenting my policies. My policies do not say that we do not prosecute people.

How do your policies? Why did you change your website? Because that's not my policy. As I told you, sir, that we can't paint statements that I made. The scour I was coming up for six years a week after we send you a letter saying, we want you to come testify.

“She's am. You change it because I couldn't. Is that coincidental?”

Because I could not believe that somebody that people were so obtuse that they could not realize what the difference between a campaign statement and an actual office policy.

When you make campaign statements, that's not there's aren't true. You're not being honest with your voters. That's not what I'm saying and also. Or something like saying. Sir, sounded like it. That's absolutely not what I'm saying is that when you still haven't told me why you still haven't told me why you took it down. Because I was hoping to come here to talk about my office policies not be distracted by a campaign statement that would be distracted. You were distracted by that year before I was actually coming up with a turning day and had any cases that were mine. This is almost laughable. This is your policy. You said it right here.

You told the voters if you would like to me, I will take into account immigration consequences when making charging and pleading. This is my policy. Not where you have in your hand. Okay, so what you said to the voters is not not real, doesn't count. No, sir, what I'm saying is that. That's that's exactly why you can't argue with the liberal.

Right. For six years, he had it up. And again, our office, the policy, our office will take immigration consequences into account when making prosecuting decisions. Quote. If two people and that's a quote, then this is another quote. If two people commit the same crime, but only once punishment includes deportation. That's a perversion of justice and not a reflection of the values of Fairfax County and his argument is that's a campaign statement that I've kept up during my entire run. As the prosecuting attorney, a Fairfax County, when you called me in, I took it off because I couldn't believe, as he said, quote, that anybody would be so obtuse to not understand the difference between a campaign promise and the reality of what I'm doing now.

“And as we have the judge in the original madhouse thing, remember that the judge saying, yeah, well, nobody thinks anything that happens on her show is true.”

That was a, if people don't remember it, it was a defamation lawsuit against Rachel Madhouse.

And it was an Obama judge. Yeah, it was an Obama, Obama appointed judge that said, basically, nobody in their right mind would ever believe that anything that Rachel Madhouse says is the truth.

It's just opinion, no, no, not the truth. Yeah, it's not based in fact. Right. Nobody would ever be under the impression that it's fact at all.

Right. Those are campaign promise. Nobody means a campaign promise. Come on.

Because the question, the answer should be, I used to think that, but I don't anymore, right? That didn't even say that. Right. The point was he's trying to make is, and he used the word obtuse to Jordan. Right. Nobody would be so obtuse to think that a campaign promise that I have kept on my website for six years is any indication of what I would actually do. And what I promised I would do, and I kept on my campaign website for the last six years, and I took it off because I couldn't believe that anybody would be so obtuse to not understand the difference between what I promised to do and what I'm actually doing.

“Yeah. That's how I described him Jordan obtuse.”

Oh God. And that's why you want the example of why you can't argue with the liberal. That's it. It just goes in circles. That's it. No. That is, it's there, and they're constantly chasing their tail. This is what they do. The whole Fauci exchange between Rand Paul and Fauci. We talked about this with everything this week about it. Look, it's, they know. They're just going to be squirrely that all they do is play bop a mole. That's it. That's it. They run around in circles. They're not going to answer the question. Now Jim Jordan's a great guy to be asking questions.

We had an issue, and I think we mentioned this yesterday. When Rand Paul was questioning Fauci, we said, well, forget about it. Forget about what you call it, whether it's gain of function or gardening. We don't care what you call it.

“Was there any effort to enhance this virus to make it more dangerous to humans using taxpayer money? Yes or no?”

Now, that's the issue we had with Rand Paul that he essentially didn't get to that point. I think he smart enough to what he didn't do it.

Not in that setting. The problem that you that you're always going to have is that, you know, well, he's got a Nazi tattoo, but that was a long time ago when he got it.

Well, no, he was angry. And that's where we came to the realization that if you're angry, if you're an angry Nazi, the Democrats will accept you, which then we had to assume if you're a happy Nazi, even though we don't know many instances of happy Nazis. By the way, I think it might be an interesting band name and also the world's worst band name, the happy Nazis. But in for the sex pistols on their 2026 to I saw this sex pistols are going to do a tour. Yeah, but Johnny.

“He's not there. Johnny Rotten's not there. And he's the other guy was it, said vicious.”

Yeah, he dead, but I mean, it's like, with Johnny Rotten's not singing. Well, Johnny Rotten also changed his name to Johnny for a past his expiration date. Oh, no, he's Johnny conservative. That's the problem. You can't be up. Well, but no, no, no, didn't we find out the punk bands were conservatives, you know, one of the removals. Yeah, I was your most supported bush. Well, but again, it's the whole point. Rage against the machine is rage with the machine. Yes, the revolutionaries of today, want to be a part of the machine that controls society.

To me, and this is one thing that we've not talked about before, to me, rock and roll was always about the individual. Yeah rock and roll to me. Well, free bird.

Yeah, it wasn't consensus bird. Well, won't you consensus bird Paul watches banned named him named the band after it free free. Exactly. I will tell you this, though, listening to Baskano trying to argue with Jim Jordan there, I didn't think there would be anything worse than represent of huffman yesterday. When we played that audio, when he was talking to Secretary of Interior. Yeah, and Barry's was trying to make the point that if solar panels don't work, you could run a city on batteries.

And then in his ignorant arrogance, it's the only label I can have for that is we requested to enter into the record, the amazing new technology that the apparently the Secretary is unaware of and it's a battery.

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“But I think it's important to play all the audio.”

You know, notice I was reading somebody who said really the mainstream media didn't cover that hearing at all. It's because you can't defend it. It's like why wasn't why didn't the Democrats show up for the whistleblower for going after Fauci because they can't argue with him. Right. If the Democrats believe they can demonize, even if they don't have a point, a lot of times they'll show up if they can just, you know, attempt to destroy you.

Yeah. But in those cases when the mainstream media doesn't cover something, there's a reason they don't cover it. And if Democrats don't show up, it's because they don't believe that they can demonize the witness. Yeah, exactly. Right.

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Good morning. You know, I love on both sides. The influence was out there and when you get to social media, the cheer leaders. Listen, this is from this Instagram Republican Army ready for this. Okay.

Holy with exclamation marks. Yeah. Chinese president G has agreed to the following wins for Trump on Iran. Give the US anything Trump needs. Buy more soy beans.

Buy more USA oil. Buy more LNG. Buy 200 Boeing jets.

Trump never stops fighting for us.

Maybe a 10 up domestic. Well, yeah. I mean, I look. No, because let me, all right. Let me play this first.

Okay. All right. Go ahead.

“And then there's this which Sean handed.”

Okay. All right. All right. Because there's that. Here we go.

All right. I would assume I'm in Beijing if I wanted to buy property near one of their military installations. I don't think president Xi would imagine. Look, it's not that I love it. You want to see foreign prices drop.

You want to see farmers lose a lot of money. Just take that out of the market. But they've had a lot of land for a long time. Obama did nothing about it. They bought a lot of it during the Obama administration.

He did nothing about it. As far as the students, it's 500,000 students they come. Good students. I could tell them, I don't want any students. It's a very insulting thing to say to a country.

And the Republican posted that going, "What in holy hell?" Now Trump's saying it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in the U.S. And for the China to purchase U.S. farmland, otherwise colleges and prices will collapse. It's like, wow, and he's afraid of insulting a country. The one I saw yesterday was, and by the way, growing up on the border.

The Trump can act up towards China and then act friendly towards China. And can do things like this. We should have done this with Canada a long time ago. And I'll say this about Trump. One of Trump's worst mistakes.

Was when he went after Canada. And when he went after Canada and said Canada is un-fair-envolved in unfair trading practices and the deal that we have sucks. He is the one that created that sucky deal. Trump and Trump alone.

He is the one.

He is the only one that was involved in approving U.S. M.C.A.

which then went to Congress and was approved. It's excuse me. He's the one that created it and initially approved it, which then went to Congress. If there's a problem with trade with Canada, Trump created it. And if you're making the allegation that Canada isn't following that trade agreement.

Yeah. Now we'll make the case. And that wasn't the case. That's not the case. Trump is solely responsible for any bad trade deal we have with Canada.

So the right move should have said, "Okay, there are some things that we might not. We should have done. We need to have negotiations with them." And to sit there and I understand the problems that Canada has. I don't like where Canada is going on free speech.

Oh, no.

“And I think, in fact, I think when the president and vice president advance,”

basically told other nations in these are friendly nations, hold on a second.

Because again, the idea is we've given countless lives to defend free speech. You're putting people away for practicing free speech. We've got a problem. And that's where you have negotiations. But to do what he did when he created what he says is a problem with Canada.

I don't necessarily believe it is. But I'm going by what he said. He demonized Canada for a trade deal that Trump only created himself. It was Trump and Trump's people that did the deal. He should be, if he thinks it sucks, he should say, "I created a sucky deal."

That what we did isn't working. Yeah, what we did. Well, no use the same language you're using against Canada, what I did sucked. I think that's one of the worst things that Trump has done is in the relationship with Canada. I know they're liberal, but the liberals in the United States are just as whacked as liberals in Canada.

It's something that you deal with. You see what's going on with Alberta wanting to succeed. They've got the signatures to succeed. There's a great debate going on, and I know I still have relatives in Canada. So many of them are as conservative as conservatives in the United States.

Is that mean we get the Edmonton Oilers? But I mean, no, but there was no reason. You know, you could have had a change. You could have had a change in Canada and polio could have won. And you could have had the conservatives won.

It was Trump's demonization of Canada that turned that tide in that election. And the relationship between polio and then Trump and Trump. Yeah.

“But if you listen to polio, I think if you're a conservative, like go ahead, that's what I want in Canada.”

And he demonized them for what he did. He alone did it. It's one of the worst things that Trump has done, which is destroy our relationship with Canada. And we're okay with 500,000 Chinese students. Yeah. And so it's, you know, and trying to buying farmland.

Yeah. And so like I said, and but everything else, I mean, I have no idea what's going on. I mean, the big thing is, you know, whether you get these deals. I mean, it was, we've looked at all the, you know, the investment. And it was really interesting because when the analysis was done with Trump's at all,

this investment's coming.

There's really been no more investment, but there's always investment in the United States.

Why? Because of our trade imbalance. Yeah. There's huge investment. The money has to come back here.

Right. There's a huge investment in the United States from all other countries, including China, because they got American dollars. I got to do something with them. So they invest them back.

They invest them back here. But there has been no, you know, massive increase in investment. And when you talk about investment, because that's one thing was, they're going to, they're going to invest mil. So you're going to bring, with all, and the thing is, it's the timing, too, with all that the Chinese spies.

“And you know, how many conservative the former mayor that was found out to be a spy?”

How many conservative articles I've read just in the last 10 days saying, we've got, we've got a, we've got a China spy problem here in the United States and there's a president going, no, they need to, one of the biggest things conservatives have gone crazy about is, buying all the farmland. And Trump's like, well, they got to buy the farmland.

Otherwise, everything would crash. And we need to have the 500,000 students. Because that's another thing you made. Otherwise, colleges would go out of business if we didn't have the 500,000 Chinese.

There is no consistency at times to his message as we know. Well, and I don't like the tone to change to justified China's activity

Yeah.

Now, the one thing is that now this may be a positive though.

He had the, you know, the CEO's over there as we said, just this could be a huge positive. This could be a total positive of what Trump is doing, which is your building a relationship. If you're going to be doing business because he says they're here to make deals

and we said this yesterday, if they're here to make deals, you can't be terrifying everything from China. So has the president given up on tariffs? These are the questions that I would ask him. All right.

If they've promised all this investment, what do they want in return? Now, you can make the case in on anything in return because they're going to invest anyway because there's a huge trade imbalance still with China. And so they're going to be investing in the United States to begin with.

They're still going to be doing it. Everybody we have a trade imbalance with invest in the United States.

Every single country does.

But are they offering anything in return? Yeah.

“If you're going to make that case, are you still going to stand on your tariffs?”

Maybe the answer may be yes. I don't know. We don't know. I mean, there's a lot of questions on it. And so much of this is just, as we all know,

when you go over there, it's a performative. Yeah, right. And he's invited G, G to be, he's going to host him in September. Yeah.

And I'm from the States. I'm from the, I don't trust China at all. No, I don't trust China at all. For a second. Not at all.

And again, I don't know where the plus is except for in China.

I don't know where the political plus is. Where the political win is for you. When you say things like it's only 500,000 students. No, it's okay that they get by far away. Let's forget about any type of economic winner.

Let's go strictly to political win. Yeah. Because that's the best. There is no political win. Not by saying.

“I think it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in here.”

Especially with everything with, you know, with the whole Swallow thing coming back up again and more Chinese spies as we know. And conservative media out there saying we've got a Chinese spy problem here in the United States. Yes. And he's like, well, you know, if I told him they can't have 500,000 foreign Chinese students over here, you know, that's an insult. We hurt their feelings.

What? Are you kidding me? I mean, from Trump, what the hell is that about? Yeah, right. He's worried about feelings.

Yeah. Now, he may reverse it tomorrow as we know. Maybe he completely reversed tomorrow when conservatives go, what the hell you're doing? Yeah. Well, what do you say they should be buying our,

if they didn't buy our foreign land, it happened to, so are you saying Obama did a good thing? Well, I'm telling you right now that Chinese balloon doesn't float over Montana. I mean, it's just, but it's just, it's bizarre. Well, it's, no, I mean, it's like, it's honestly with a balloon thing. I was part of a Chinese balloon festival.

Huh? Well, it's the kind of answer I expect from Joe Biden. That's the difference. I don't want to insult China. You know, the thing.

Who cares about insulting China? Yeah. Yeah. Where, where? Tell me where the, well, domestic, where political wins is.

What came, no, that's not good politically. But the other thing that came out of it was, you know, is any of this going to happen unless we allowed China to take over Taiwan? Hmm. Are any of these great things that China promised all contingent on?

You need to stay out of it if we go into Taiwan? No, because that, really, because that, that gauntlet that G put on the tape. And he put on the exactly. So that was it. We thought it was related to CBS news, but apparently.

And, and we're about them taking over. And Rubio said, well, that's not going to happen. No, that's, there would be a problem if you, if you did that. So if that's still there, is everything else just window dressing would be. Right.

Question. Right. And there's a great chance that it's all window dressing. It's all 100% window dressing. It's all performative.

Yeah. Yeah.

“Because do I really believe that Trump's advisors set down with them?”

You think it's a good idea to 500,000 to be promoting his, his people? You think it's, the Republicans with the election coming up here? Well, you think it's really a good thing to be talking about the fact that we need to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students over with all the news of Chinese spies and what you know already about what China is doing over here.

And with all the outrage about Chinese buying farmland that you can justify it now.

“Because the trade imbalance, they've got to invest.”

Yeah. Right. They've got to invest, you know, in something relating to America. They've got no choice to do that. Because they get the dollars.

We get, you know, we get, we get the product now. The trade imbalance with China trade is down between China and the United States. But the trade imbalance overall hasn't changed really at all in the last year. Mm-hmm. Trade imbalance still the same.

The tariffs haven't changed. Mm-hmm. As we know, we've gone through the figures already. Right. On, on the shows.

So I don't, the thing with it, I don't know what Trump's umbrella goal is with China. Well, I don't either, especially on the Western Hemisphere front. Right. If you think about what's going on with Cuba. If you think about Trump's talk about Greenland and everything else.

And, you know, well, the mission is to make sure that we can secure have a secure Western Hemisphere. Well, okay.

“So the question is, does that include more investment in land in the US by Communist China?”

What I get though, because this is a one-miss calculation.

But I think it's always been there from China from every single one of their premieres since I've been alive and probably going back.

They're under the impression the delusion that the United States is a failing country is on a country going downhill and China is still going uphill. They believe they have the entire advantage over the United States. Yeah. That is accurate. That is a delusion that she has.

That is not true. I agree. Do we have problems? Yeah. But do they have problems?

Yeah. Oh. I got a lot of credit problems. Yeah. Yep.

They're much more dependent on exports than we are. Right. Not that experts aren't important. If we lost our exports, you know, this is why we don't like the trade representatives saying, Well, you know, we need to have tariffs because every company should just produce what's needed in their own country.

Right. Well, you're just, and I was left because now they just said, well, they're going to buy from Boeing. You know, probably going to buy from them in any way. Thanks to a budget. It wasn't talked about during the meeting, but thanks to a budget shortfall.

President G of China is asking hopeful for $8 billion.

But yeah, that's part of the delusion that they had the Chinese have that were a failing, you know, economic state and we are not. No. No. We are Red Eye Radio.

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“Well when Trump gets back and next week a lot of it's going to be okay, what are we going to do with a ran?”

You know, I want to play this audio. I don't know when this was. I don't know if this was in the last couple of days or a month ago or whatever, but this was Sencon commander Admiral Brad Cooper talking about a ran. You know, we've talked about how many times a ran has actually attacked the United States and that we have been at war with it. Yeah, it's been a work going on for 49 years. Yeah, but how has it accelerated? Listen to this because I think this is fascinating testimony.

How long have you been familiar with Iran and its leadership and its attacks against the United States? I've studied or been a part of it for the better part of three decades, particularly acutely in the last five years.

I think it's important to note just in the 30 months before Epic Fury commenced Iran and its proxies had been attacking US service members in diplomats about 350 times. Can you repeat that? Can you repeat that?

About every third day, Iran and its proxies attacked American service members 350 times in the Middle East.

I don't think that Americans were aware of that, and in the 30 months that they had attacked Americans or their service members 350 times. Is that surprised you that I would say that? And I don't believe that every day American going to work knew that? It's disappointing, but between the actions of proxies in Iraq and Syria, as well as the Houthis, that's simply the fact of what happened. There you go.

“And that's why they've got to resolve this.”

Yeah, yes.

The delay just can't keep going on week after week after week after week after week after week.

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I don't buy the numbers.

“Boxed business at this. How much do you need to retire a state-by-state breakdown?”

American abolages are facing an affordability concern with retirees on fixed incomes.

In particular, feeling strain, a study by money line, analyze the monthly savings needed to retire comfortably across states. After accounting for the national average expenses for retired households, as well as whether the retiree would have Social Security income when the retiree began saving for retirement. The report found with the state with the highest annual cost of living for retirees was Hawaii with an annual cost of 90,752 for necessities. And 181,000 for a comfortable cost of living based on the analysis.

Define comfortable. You know, I mean, are we talking vacations? Are we talking, you know, what are you talking about? Because this would be -- they have -- the list I have just has the necessities, okay, Florida, was 44,000 for necessities, 88,000 for the comfortable cost of living. All right. Okay, and then, okay, they say, okay, declining to 63,000 was Social Security income in the mix.

Okay, so this is just -- okay, they're not -- they're just counting -- well, you're just counting the cost. You don't add Social Security in, because if you work part-time, just give me what the cost is for necessities. Yeah, right. You're making it sound like Social Security is -- well, it's -- yeah. I mean, it is -- I mean, it does happen. People will move the retire and they'll move to an area that's less expensive. My neighbor Tim, very liberal neighbor. But an ice guy, great guy. The directly across the street from me, and he worked from home.

He was a tech guy, worked from home, and his wife worked for Southwest Airlines for years. And she got to the point where she was going to retire, and he could continue working from home anywhere, of course. And they decided to move to New Mexico, just outside of Albuquerque, and they said, "Cost of living, beautiful area, much lower cost of living,

“and with Tim still working and her retirement, they were going to be very, very comfortable." And they said, you know, that's why we did it.”

You and I know a person who -- or a time actually moved down to Mexico, some Americans will do that because it's a much lower cost of living.

You know, the story really is about, okay. And what would you need, if you're at the point that you're no longer earning it, you're no longer going to a job to earn. Right. And so, you know, people move to small towns all the time in their retirement age. I got cost. Tennessee and Texas were each slightly above the 38,300 mark for their necessities cost of living, with the comfortable cost of living just over 76,000 dollars. Now, that's just actually the expenses. They throw in the Social Security if you get Social Security, which would bring it down, and that would be what extra you would need to survive.

“To me, I don't care about that. You get the entire cost. Yeah, just tell me the necessity. And, but you brought up, you know, what is it to live comfortably, and it's like, well, what's the definition of that?”

I have the definition of that. For me personally, for me. And I was in the conversation yesterday, I went in, you know, I went in, or two days ago, I went in to get my car service. And, and I know one of the salespeople, and I, you know, I walk into the showroom to see if she's there and somebody else comes up. And I want to say this first off. That I realize how I have changed in my life.

Because unless I was going to go in and buy a vehicle and do exactly what I was going to spend, I would never walk into a showroom.

I don't want to be hassled. Right. And now I outlock the salesperson. I have money. You say that. I have no fear of walking into a showroom anymore. I have no fear of any salesman, you know, talking to any salesperson at all, because I know what I want. And I have no, I have no problem going, nah, I don't think so. And I, I walked out yesterday, just laughing, and I just went, my God, I've become my father.

“Yeah, because my father would talk to everybody. I remember going, my dad buying a truck, because my dad loves the by vehicles, all my life, my dad would buy, and he'd make sure that we had a dependable family vehicle.”

Occasionally, he bought it when we were living in San Antonio, bought a carming carming gear, little, the little carming gear. For just a few minutes, I mean, it's fun to drive. He didn't, we didn't keep it long. But he would always have a, you know, he always wanted to have a dependable vehicle, a newer vehicle. He didn't let it age long, lifelong Ford guy. But I still love him. And, but I'm just joking. But he would go through the entire, you know, thing every single time. And I negotiated a deal.

He was going to buy a truck, but it was down here. It was, it was where I lived a couple hours away. And I said, dad, here's what I told the guy, because, well, I'm proud of you.

But I, because I was disappointed, because we didn't reach an agreement. And I said, you know, I was frustrated. He goes, don't be.

“He said, you did the right thing, because there was no way I was going to pay what they were asking.”

And, and I told you where my line was, and let you do your negotiating, and you did a good job, because we weren't going to pay that, even if we don't get the truck. There's, they make new trucks every day. And you did a good job. And, and I thought to myself, that's, you know, when I bought my truck a couple of years ago. Now, having said that, I have a family member who works for the corporate office that owns the dealership where I bought my truck. So, I had that level of comfort in knowing that she can see all the numbers on the books and everything else.

And, and tell me what the value is and what I should be paying for the vehicle. So, so I had some, you know, great information going in, but I always have that anyway.

And I never really had, you know, an issue in negotiating. I didn't care if the people on the other side of the table ended up hating me at the end of the day or not. You know, it's only going to spend so much. But, that's the thing about, again, going back to this article here, defining comfortable. What do you, you know, well, we'll first stop, and that's the point I wanted to get to. I didn't complete. Yeah, I went out into the dealership. We started talking and we just talked about finances. And I said, he said, you bring your car in regular and I go, oh, yeah, all the time.

And I said, and in fact, that's my definition of rich. My definition of rich is being able to bring my car in and get everything service. And if they tell me, well, you really should get this done in the next month. I do it now. And I remember those days where I couldn't afford to bring my car in.

Yeah, well, I look at a car now. Well, number one, the tools, you might have tools you would have to get in need in order to fix any car today. It would be impossible. And it just, yeah, you know, it's impossible to do it. And so that's actually for anybody know that's my definition of being rich. So if anybody says you rich, I can say yes. What's your definition of rich. And to me, that's comfortable comfortable is rich, you know, and I'd say the same comfortable of not having to worry, right, but even though there's the back in the back of the mind, it's like, well, a catastrophic illness or something like this, and it's, and but

But you work to prepare. But I would have to do that. You've prepared where any emergency you can take care of and therefore it's not a bother anymore. It doesn't work. You don't, you don't worry on your mind. You know, that's these security, which means the only security there really is is not the government. It's in how you manage your finances yourself if you're talking to my economics security.

And it's living beneath your means for a significant period of time. Right. Really, it's probably living beneath your means your entire life. Right. And in today's world, everybody has a cell phone.

You know, you think about, okay, what is, what are the necessities? That's the other thing when you said necessities. All right, necessities are what, yeah, what are the necessities. Right. So comfortable is one thing. That has got to have a new cell phone. All right, communication is important. Right. And my beer, you know, right. I got to have my TV. I got to have my Netflix. I got to have whatever it is. My shrimps, my animals.

“Exactly. You know, whatever it is. And, and so all right, what are necessities and I think if they're, if they're doing this properly necessities, of course, would be food housing medical care clothing.”

You know, necessities. And, and then pair it down to there because I had a friend. I still have a friend. He's still alive. And I remember back in the day, and we were in radio together, he would not buy a landline. And it was only a landline back then. But he wouldn't buy a phone for home. It was 11 bucks. You had to pay, of course, if you made a long distance call, but it was like 11 bucks a month. He would not pay it. Now, this guy already had a mast pretty good amount of money even working in radio.

He worked really, really hard though. He had a second job. I was, in fact, he was a wedding and party DJ and had a great business. The top business in town for that. And so did really great.

“And, but he wouldn't spend, I just remember that about him. He wouldn't, he would come up to the station to make phone calls.”

And, you know, so there are people that can be very frugal. And you can say, well, all right. And you kind of maybe need to get a phone if there's an emergency. Screamings not going to do much for you, you know, but it's beyond that.

And today's world, it can balloon out into, well, I got to have a dependable car. I got to have, you know, this and that. And, you know, so I would love to break down the numbers there.

There's no doubt that geographically, of course, it matters. The states that have policies in terms of low taxes. It's going to benefit all that live in that state, whether you're on a fixed income or not. And in our state, in fact, when you talk about retirement age, they're looking at lowering the property tax more and more and more.

“Well, that's what they look at here because I'm like, if you're going to do an article like this, this is one of the things about the media.”

Because the first thing, the first question that we had was, okay, here's the list of how much it costs to have the basic necessities in life. And here's what it's, you know, after you retire and here's what it cost to have a comfortable life. Well, the first question you and I have is to find that. And they don't, they don't define it. The only thing they talk about is that state income taxes and property taxes are the biggest part of the, the biggest expenses that retirees will have. Most retirees will have at that point unless they still have a mortgage or whatever, but still those would be the greatest to the state income tax.

Yeah. And, and, and, and, and the property tax. Right. Right. And, but it's like defined it for me because it doesn't mean anything unless you define it. Well, and, and that's another thing. You mentioned something. If you, if you still have a mortgage or let's say you never bought a home and your retirement age and you rent is that is that built into the necessities cost is housing overall built into it.

And, you know, again, that's, those, that's why the numbers matter. That's why the, you know, the details matter on, on something like this.

Well, cost to living does matter. We'll give you an example coming up next. We'll read our radio. We'll be right back with more. We'll read our radio with every currently and Gary McNamara.

“So, this retirement thing, this about what you would need in every state, just to have the necessities or live a comfortable life is more than just retirement.”

It shows you the difference in the cost of living between the states.

I did a little figure in here. California, for example, Calif, let's use the California taxes model.

Yeah. In California, you need, if you're retired, 35,000 more dollars per year to live with the basic necessities. You need 35,000 more than you do in Texas. And to live a comfortable life, you need to make 45,000 dollars more in California than you do in Texas for a household. That's real world right there.

“And then extrapolates more than just because that's across the board. That's why everyone.”

And when you think about it, because they talk about the biggest thing is state income tax for retirees, there is no state income tax.

The other thing is property tax in which we know in the state of Texas, I know this. My property taxes in the last five years every year has gone down, but my property taxes are down over 33%. The actual cost of what I pay for property, that's not happening in California. Right. And they're living to bring it down even further for those 65 and older in our state. Yeah.

You know, when in California is going the opposite direction, that's those are real world numbers. Yes. Those are numbers you look at.

“No, exactly. Well, you've got to move. You have to.”

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