Back to episode — Episode 2407 CWSA 03/08/24
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normal for locals. How many of you watched the State of the Union? I saw somebody describe it this morning as "old man yells at the teleprompter." Old man yells at the teleprompter. I wish I'd thought of that. That was pretty good. All right, well here are some things we know. Look at this fake news. Ask yourself if this sounds like fake news: that Haley voters, 63% of them, say they're going to…
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So I think the anti-IVF thing is probably the dumbest thing that the Republicans have ever done. It might be the number one dumbest thing they've ever done, because the entire Republican thing is more babies, right? Help you bring a child into the world. Yeah. Now being opposed to IVF has no logical, religious, or moral backing. It's just ridiculous, and it's really bad for your own politics. So you pick the least important thing, but it's the least important thing because you don't care about somebody else's IVF, do you? If it's not your own, why do you care that someone else is doing it? Why is that even your business?
You got really quiet when I said why are you opposed to it, right? So that proves my point. There isn't a reason for it. I think it must be some reflex kind of thing. But yeah, I mean money is not the problem. The people who are doing it are not complaining. They're still doing it. Yeah, interesting. Well, but yeah, buying a baby is a different situation. Is that why? Is it an anti-gay thing? Are they opposed to IVF because it's an anti-gay thing? Is that why they're opposed? I'm not even aware of any reason. I've never heard a reason. So basically that's just handing the Democrats a victory.
I think Democrats would literally vote a corpse into office if it looked like they could protect abortion rights, and the IVF stuff looks like a slippery slope to them. So basically it's just giving the election away. I don't know why. I have no idea why Republicans would do such a thing.
Anyway, did you see all the fact checking? You know, you turn on the network, CNN, MSNBC, and they got the fact checker there, and the fact checker is just like, oh that's right. There weren't any fact checkers. Did anybody see one? Did anybody see a fact checker? I didn't see one. Now I didn't look at everything all the time, but they were usually pretty prominent. How many things did Biden say that were literally not true in a pretty easily demonstrated way? A lot. There was a lot that wasn't true, or at least was in a context. I think he said a lot of things that are true but you know the context is all whacked.
All right, so let's see what else. Biden had a good little line there. He said you can't love the country only when you win. Now of course yeah, that's propaganda and narrative and it's horrible, but in terms of politics it's a pretty good line. I would say the speech was pretty well written. Well, would you say? Well, separately we'll talk about how he performed, but I thought the speech was pretty well written for his base in a political year. And he had some actually good sounding little economic things, you know, where he could say that he negotiated lower drug prices. I didn't know anything about that. And there was something about insulin, capping insulin. And I saw on social media somebody said that Trump tried capping it and Biden reversed it. Is there something to that story?
So basically everything has a but. What would Trump have done? That's always left out. Is there any reason that Trump would not have negotiated better drug prices? Who stood in his way? Was it the Republicans that were stopping Trump from negotiating better drug prices? I don't think so. I don't think any Republicans were stopping Trump from doing it, so it must have been the Democrats, right? I mean I sort of missed that story. Yeah, so all these things are in a context. If the only thing you heard was he reduced your insulin costs, but at the same time he's recommending more snacks so you're going to need more insulin. Kind of a break even situation. The good news is I'm going to lower your insulin costs. The bad news is I'm going to make sure there's a lot more snacks in your bag so you get more diabetes.
Anyway, so he made, so Biden started with that really scary Hitler-like reference, and at first I thought he was entirely talking about Trump, but then he made it something about Putin, but then he said foreign and domestic. So it was like he tried to have it both ways. Well I'm really just talking about Putin but it's foreign and domestic problem. So Hitler. Yeah, it did sound like he went full Hitler right away. As others have pointed out, he seemed to be quite hard on Russia but soft on China. Hmm, I wonder if he's got any lost diamonds. That would explain that.
All right, he proposed a minimum tax for billionaires of 25%. Do you think there's something missing in that? A minimum tax for billionaires of 25%. 25% of what? Of what? Do you know why the billionaires are not paying as high a tax rate? It's because it's not income. What are they going to be taxing? In other words they get their gains and capital gains and take out loans and do clever things, but it still has to be income. You can't tax somebody's assets. What is he even talking about? I think we need a little, yeah I think we, well unearned income. Well can't tax their worth. Well you know that was not Elizabeth Warren's plan. She was actually going to tax their worth like 2% of their net worth. That's crazy. Oh my God that's crazy.
So it looks like he wants to raise taxes on everybody w
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ho makes over 400,000 a year as well. So he's running for president on raising taxes. He's not good at explaining how economies work, because if you raise taxes on the billionaires, well they're going to find some other country probably. They should. All right, he says no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker, or a nurse. What if I told you when people use the…
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