Back to episode — Episode 2918 CWSA 08/05/25
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The very next story here is according to the Post Millennial, Thomas Stevenson is writing that jobs for native-born Americans have increased by nearly 2 million. So that was pretty good, right? That jobs for native-born Americans are up by 2 million. Do you know where they got that statistic? Would you be surprised to learn it comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics? It comes from the same source as the woman who just got fired for presenting employment numbers that are complete... And then the very next story is, well, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we got a lot of American jobs. I'm going to say there's nothing we can believe from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So that'll be my take.
Now, I don't know who has the cutest podcast going, but it might be me. I mean, it might be me. I do have a cat asleep in my arms here.
All right, what else we got going on? So the effort by RFK Jr. to ban food stamp use for soda and for candy. I think they're just banning it for soda. Did you know that we spend $45 million a day on SNAP? I guess that's food stamps. Is SNAP the same thing as food stamps? It's in the same story. $45 million a day. That's how far we are from people being able to feed themselves. Not very close. $400 million a day. Holy cow.
Anyway, but anyway, that looks like that change will happen.
So there's a podcast between Charlamagne tha God and Stephen A. Smith. And Stephen A. Smith is calling out Kamala Harris for saying she didn't want to be part of the broken system when in fact she was a career politician so she had plenty of chances to fix that broken system if that was going to happen. So I guess Smith said you're a career politician. You've been there practically all your life. He wasn't talking to her. He was talking about her. My god, you've been part of it and now you're saying it's broken. That means you couldn't do much to fix it when you were in it.
The system was broken long before Donald Trump got into office. Charlamagne said, "Well, how many think that's a good point that she was in the system and failed to fix it?" The system that's broken is just that anytime you have a complicated system and lots of people involved and lots of money, it's always corrupt. That's it. What exactly was she supposed to fix? Was Kamala Harris supposed to single-handedly fix the part that the world is full of corrupt people who will take any opportunity to steal? What was she supposed to do? That's not really an insightful comment. No, there's not really any chance that Kamala Harris could have fixed what was broken about the system. It's way more broken than one person could have tweaked a few things and gotten it going again.
And then separately Charlamagne was taking a phone call from a caller who was saying some good things about Trump and the caller said, "I feel like this is one of the first presidents that's actually doing what they said they was going to do." And by the way, I feel like we should just accept that the words "was" and "were" should just be used interchangeably instead of being all pedantic about it. Like this sentence, "I feel like this is one of the first presidents that's actually doing what they said they was going to do." Now you know exactly what they mean, right? So why is it wrong to say "was" and right to say "were" when you know exactly what he means? I feel like we need to loosen up on that.
Anyway, so the caller says that Trump was doing everything he said he was going to do and Charlamagne corrected him and said, "Well, no, not necessarily because Trump said on day one he was going to bring the price of groceries down." And he didn't do that. And the caller says, "Everybody know in your right mind there's no way somebody could do something instantly." And I think to myself, did somebody really have to explain that to Charlamagne that when Trump said, "I'll end the war in one day and I'll bring down egg prices in one day," do we really have to explain it that that didn't literally mean one day? And here this caller, I love the way the caller says it. "Everybody know in their right mind there's no way somebody's going to do something instantly." Right. Exactly. Everybody in their right mind knew that he just meant it was a priority. Did he treat it like a priority? Well, what are you going to do about it? I mean, he did all the things you can do something about it. He went after the eggs. He did lower the price of gas, but inflation isn't exactly the kind of thing that you can deal with instantly. So I'm not even sure exactly what the government can do in general, except not make terrible mistakes.
I've been watching some videos of Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren backing Zohran Mamdani who's running for mayor of New York City. And I'm liking, I heard Jesse Watters use it. I don't know if he came up with it, but "Kami Mandami." Kami Mandami is a pretty good nickname because it just, I just want to say it. Kami Mandami. So that's very effective. Good job, Jesse.
But Elizabeth Warren is all in on his socialist agenda. And she is wise enough to know as are most of the Democrats that he finally kind of solved the puzzle and the puzzle was is there anything that Democrats can say that will be persuasive to voters and the answer is yes the affordability approach that Mamdani is using absolutely is the right approach because it's easy to understand etc. The problem is
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that how do you actually do the affordability? Well, he's got a bunch of ideas that we know always fail or we think we know that. We think we're that smart. So he had an idea for government grocery stores. Well, that's been tried and didn't work anywhere. And then I guess something about free transportation and some other free stuff. And you can't get that stuff unless you're raising taxes on peo…
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