Thus, gaps, nor, nor.
The last minute of the election was announced. In the past, and in the full-referred, it was already announced in the early 90s, as long as the election was done. The inflation's surging in the teens year over year,
and even in fact, month over month.
“You know, how are mega-republicans dealing with this?”
How are they addressing the harsh reality that Americans are facing? Well, their plan on the one hand is just to ignore it and claim that everything is great. Or, on the other hand, as Donald Trump said,
"I don't even care how the American people, not one bit, I don't care how they're feeling." A direct quote from Donald Trump before leaving to China with his oligarchy crew hanging out with him. So, here's for example,
what mega-republican congress member, Stuttspin, said he goes, "We're thriving right now. What are you talking about?
People have never been better in Indiana than they are right now."
What do you say to your constituents who are just saying, "I can't afford the gas and the food. I've got kids to feed, I've got bills to pay it." And frankly, they're worried. Now, you know what?
I mean, in Northeast Indiana, we're very fortunate. You know, we have a strong steady economy. We're actually seeing tremendous growth.
“And a lot of that's due to manufacturing,”
you know, from the work that President Trump has done, whether it's related to tariffs or trade policy. It does create challenges. You know, I think it's a lot of us. We all look at the prices at the gas station
and that effects our pocketbook immediately. But most of my constituents say, and we just had our primary last week, and I, you know, won with 67% of the vote, saying, "Finish the job."
Then you have Doug Bergham interior secretary.
Here's what he had to say.
Let's play it. Back to the U.S. right now is the most energy secure, and most energy affordable nation in the world. And President Trump playing a geopolitical game, which includes a, you know, Venezuela stopping China
from buying cheap Venezuela and Iranian oil. The work that he's doing, you know, to build a coalition around the world, whether it's opening the straight or on critical minerals. You know, heading into the summit this week,
President Trump's in the strongest position of any U.S. leader ever going into a discussion with China. Whether it's opening up the straight, it was open before the catastrophic war in Iran. And now it's closed.
“What are you, you're bragging about that rare earths?”
China controls the rare earths. So when Donald Trump tried to tear up China, 140% China cut off the rare earths and then Donald Trump removed the tariffs. Seriously, you know, or you have a Jim Jordan to say
and Jim Jordan says, "Thank goodness we don't have Kamala. Could you imagine how bad it would be now? "Thank God we have Trump." We're watching what's happening right now. We're playing this clip.
Trump makes decisions that are in the best interests of our country. He's going to do things that benefit the United States of America and that is his focus. And thank goodness we have him on the world stage.
Thank goodness he's our president doing these negotiations. And frankly, not Kamala Harris, 'cause Lord knows what she'd be up to. If she was there, so... Well, what's Donald Trump up to?
Here's what he said. Let's play this clip. (man speaking in foreign language) All right. (man speaking in foreign language)
(man speaking in foreign language) Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters where I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
I don't think about Americans, but then to situation, I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We could not let Iran have a nuclear weapon, that's all. And we're joined by Governor Andy, but you're governor.
So I just showed you, you know, what Trump was saying, what these matter Republicans think, what's your reaction to all of that governor?
My reaction is the president finally said something
that was true. He said he does not care about the financial situation of the American people. And you know what? The way he governs shows it.
The Trump economy is a failure. And the only failure that rivals the Trump economy is the Trump foreign policy. You look at, at the imposition of tariffs, Americans have paid 90% of them.
It's been a taxed by the president that has made everything cost more. His war with Iran, which he and he alone chose to go into, has skyrocketed the price of not just gasoline, but diesel.
Making everything more expensive. Every good we ship across the country now costs more. Going to see your family, if you got to take a plane trip, costs a lot more.
He won't help to reduce the price of housing
through so many different levers he could pull.
Why?
“Because he says we're not working hard enough.”
And now he's telling us that our kids have too many toys. But hey, at least he said something true. He doesn't care about the American people. You know, we're seeing the surge in gas prices, which is part of why we see inflation surging.
You know, in a state like Kentucky, it's not just that we should be focusing on the gas prices. We got to also be focusing on the diesel. And also I think too much attention is paid to the futures market. And I think a lot of Americans know more about the futures market
than they care to actually know about before. We all have to become experts in WTI and brand. But the futures market is not the spot price because currently, the actual purchase is significantly higher than what the futures are even saying, which is often manipulated by Trump.
But right, and the diesel prices through the roof, which means all the other input costs get more expensive. Diesel being one of them. And then that hurts, you know, people are talk to us about that. - Yeah, it's absolutely right.
You know, gas prices have skyrocketed. But diesel is even more expensive in Kentucky. It is more than $2 more expensive than it was a year ago. That's the $2 Trump tax on every single gallon of diesel.
“And you think that that's what our farm machinery runs on.”
That's what so many of our trucks run on. It's part of what powers the economy. And it was all foreseeable. We've read reports that Donald Trump's own advisors, which I don't think are all that experience.
But even they were experienced enough to say Iran could close the straight of hormones. They could disrupt the flow of oil around the country. It could cause skyrocketing prices for Americans. And Donald Trump just dismissed it.
Because he thinks his gut is so incredible
that he doesn't have to listen to anyone else. He didn't even spend the time to learn how Iran is different than Venezuela. And thought somehow the same thing would happen. This is what happens when you have a president who is not fit
for office. Doesn't take foreign policy seriously. And as he says, doesn't care about the financial situation of Americans.
“You know, with so much of the ridiculous things that he says,”
it's easy sometimes to just dismiss it as crazy or look when he's doing today. I mean, when he talks about the golden ballrooms or try the reflecting pool into an actual pool and using his pool guy to paint it, some weird kind of bright
blue color or when he talks about the arches or the golf courses or club rows garden or all of this stuff. But it kind of with all of that. It's also like rubbing it in the face. People in Kentucky and people across the country
that like you really, as you say, don't care one bit. And then to see these Republicans rally around ballroom a billion dollars in East Wing modernization, they're talking about reflecting pools. It's crazy that we've even got.
Like as you actually look at it, it's crazy that even, we've even gotten here. - Amen. When the average American is struggling to pay their mortgage to stay in their house, he's been in a billion dollars
on a ballroom that nobody asks for and nobody needs. He's spending more than a billion dollars a day
in a war with a brand that he never explained
to the American people. Nor is he gone to Congress to get the appropriate approvals. He refuses to spend a federal dollars in ways that help Americans, he's cut snap, he's cutting Medicaid, he's gonna decimate rural health care.
He refused to extend the tax credits on the ACA. So people could afford health care. But man, well, he's been money on himself or his projects or his war. It is rubbing it in the face of Americans.
He's saying he's better than us and guess what? He is absolutely not. - I have a question for him. I mean, as a governor with national notoriety. What do you think it is about though, Trump,
where like last night, he posted right around 1 a.m. in the morning, 50, 60 posts, some of the most heinous things. Arrest Obama for treason, he posted QAnon stuff, which is an actual death cult. He posted weird memes about very serious issues like the war,
about a ping-bong bang and look governor. You know, just as well as I do. If you made one of those posts, just one, you'd be done. Your legislature would see you out of the,
though, no matter how good a job you did, no matter how high you're approval, you'd be gone. And you'd probably be like, yeah, I probably deserved that. I was acting pretty freaking crazy.
Why would I post that? So what is it though about this, how, you know,
To me, it's not even a political thing.
To me, it's like adult behavior, leadership competence,
like why, why does no one report on? We reported all the time here, but like, why is it to add? Just let him do it. Why, we're grown ups, we're adults damn it.
“What, what, that's what I keep on reflecting on.”
Like, why, why are we here? - Let me add a worry to that, too, is that, you know, my kids are teenagers. They've only seen a couple of presidents. And there's a lot of kids out there
that this may be the only president they've really watched. There is a concern that this is the normal to them, that they could believe they're supposed to get their entertainment, their drama
from the federal government, which I think is the exact opposite of what we should all want.
But I do think that Donald Trump and his group
intentionally flood that zone. They try to hit you with so much information and/or false information that you tune out. I think that they are relying on Americans just saying, I can't handle this for my mental health
and turning it off because that then lets them and their cronies engage in the type of action and corruption that we're seeing right now. They want us to feel powerless and we are not.
“And that's why these midterms are so important.”
We control the house as Democrats and hopefully even the Senate. There's that opportunity to really push back to say no more of this because sadly, our Republican Congressman and women,
they no longer follow that oath of office. They are not standing up for the Constitution. They are not doing their job and that's not just them violating their duty as an American to somebody who took that oath,
but a lot of them put their hand on a Bible when they did it. And I hope they go home and put their head on their pillow at night and say I promise something to both the people of America and their God
and they are not fulfilling either of those promises. - I mean, it's such a good point about your kids and if they've only seen Trump one, as Magga go after Biden the way he did and then Trump two,
they don't remember that actually in the past, a lot of these pieces of legislation that are now being gutted by this right wing Supreme Court were passed on a bipartisan basis including campaign finance report, reform.
You know, you would have McCain fine gold, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of '65. These were bipartisan pieces of legislation where Democrats and Republicans came together and said, hey, this is what's good for this country
and people don't realize that that even exists. When I teach, I'll let you have the final word before I go. When I teach at USC in my undergrad class, I ask myself, who thinks that we could pass the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act
or Title IX or any of this today? Not a single person raises their hand and I go, doesn't that worry you that your grandparents is the grandparents at this point? We're able to get that and now you go no chance.
We could barely get a funding bill through without Magga Republicans wanting to cause chaos. - That is such a good point because this administration, Donald Trump is undoing historic achievements that we all believed were good for society.
I mean, before Donald Trump, Democrats and Republicans would talk about the Voting Rights Act and its importance. I think about a year and a half ago being at Selma for the 60th anniversary,
getting to be a southern governor walking with those foot soldiers. Instead of waiting on the other side of the bridge, about how so many of those foot soldiers are still alive that put their lives on the line
that were beaten, but that awoke the inner goodness
of humanity and made incredible and important change.
But guess what, Donald Trump is now on the other side of that bridge and his Supreme Court is undoing legislation that was so important. They made sure that everyone felt seen and was represented in America
and now creating just the wild west of redistricting. But you know, tough times are gonna call for bold solutions
“and so I think it's time to start thinking about”
a fixed the American government constitutional amendment. Let's have non-partisan redistricting in every state. Let's have term limits, not just on Congress, but on the Supreme Court. Let's overturn Citizens United
and get dark money out of our campaigns. With everything they've torn down, we're gonna have to build up in a different bold but effective way that can get the United States back on track. - It's such a great point.
What I talk a lot on the show about is how, you know, our contract has great and as a head of its time as it was, it relies on good faith and fair dealing like a lot of contracts. So when you have someone like Trump
who's torn up contracts his whole life and you see where he finds the gaps and the holes on the ultimate contract, the constitution
One way is you need to do that, like a contract.
You see, gotta sometimes maybe add an addendum
“and say, actually, here are some loopholes that we never thought”
we'd get to but we gotta fix those. And so it's a great point, Governor. - I like your point in that Trump, the businessman,
never paid his bills and you know what?
Trump, the president has us the American people
“paying all those bills, tariffs, gas prices.”
You know, the portion of America that those last group of undecided voters, they elected him because he promised he'd make life easier. I hope a lot of people out there feel betrayed because they have them.
- Everybody check out serious exems, Andy, Bashir, podcast.
“So after you watch the Midas Dutch podcast,”
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You go out, Andy, Bashir, podcast, first.
- I'm pretty sure they're watching you first. - And that governor, Bashir, we appreciate you. Thanks for joining us. - Thank you.
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