America’s Economy: Strong Or Struggling? On The Brett Winterble Show

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The Fed sees on paper and the one that you feel in your wallet. But here's the thing. And this is a very important thing. The economy is what is going to drive the midterms. And then obviously as you get into the election in, what, 28, right? So what are we doing here? What are we looking at? Well, stability on paper strain in real life. But I really believe that this economy is not that bad. Like if you look at the macro numbers, and I'm not trying to be Mr. Economy guy, but here's the thing. The macro numbers look solid. You have GDP that is steady, unemployment that is low, markets are strong, and productivity is rising. How do you know that this is a good economy? Very easy to see. You're seeing all of these people who want to jawbone and who want to come out and who want to come out and say things like, the economy is not that good. No, the economy is pretty good. It is pretty good. It's hard to hire help in this day and age. A lot of people don't want to go to work. Where are they getting their money from? But household reality is strained. A lot of people feeling this. Prices didn't go back down as fast as you thought. The gas spikes hit instantly because we're fighting with the Iranians. Borrowing costs, they're high, but they're not crazy high. And on top of that, wage gains, they're flattened, and sentiment is at historic lows. People are looking at this and they're saying one thing, right? And here's what it is. Holding the rates means caution. No. No, that's not the case. You see, we did have a crazy economy under the Biden administration because the Biden administration decided that they were going to throw. 10 bazillion dollars out around the plane. And that's what they were doing. They were bailing out people's loans. They were giving goodies to different sort of constituencies, all this sort of stuff. But right now, the economy. From my perspective, and I'm not, I'm not Mr. Moneybox, but I'll tell you this right now, I think that this is a stable economy and you're able to do certain things. Go walk on a car lot. Like a new car lot, go walk around there. Go over there and see. People are buying cars. They are buying stuff. They're betting on the come as opposed to what you would otherwise be doing. And I think this is an interesting time to look at this. Here, let me just give you a couple of things here, all right?

Holding rates, that equals caution. Inflation is still sticky. And global uncertainty is rising. Also, by the way, three Fed members wanted higher rates. They're feeling like it's hot. And that we got to cool it down. But that's not the truth. The reality is the disconnect becomes the story. And that's what you should be thinking about. Politicians say great economy. Households say, I'm drowning. Media fights over which is true. And people are stopped trusting of any of it. Why is that? When you think about this, Why is that? Do you have food on your shelves? Do you have the ability to go out and do some shopping? Have you gone out there into Wally World or any of these other places where you've got people who are getting ready for this next period of time as we get back into school? Are you able to weather this storm? Because I'm telling you right now, I think this economy. is strong. It may not be, you know, great gang busters, all that sort of stuff. But you tell me, you tell me what tells you that this is not a good economy. And we can surf this entire period across this number of segments. And we can have this conversation because I do think this is the most important thing above anything else. Can you afford your stuff? And do you feel like you're not going to get fired? Do you feel like you're not going to have to take on another job? You tell me, when it comes to gasoline, gasoline is gasoline. But the reality is everybody's got to get somewhere and everybody's got to do what they got to do.

So I got a message. I got a message from a guy by the name of Severe, S-A-V-I-R. And he said to me in this last period of time, talking about the economy, he says he is doing great business. He is doing great business. And for just... $27, he'll tell me the secret. No, we're not doing anything like that. That's crazy. Look, I understand it's very exciting to talk about Anthony Fauci. It's very exciting to talk about Rand Paul and his sexy haircut. But the reality is when the push comes to shove and boy, I hope there's a big shove coming for Anthony Fauci. I got to tell you this and I got to say it. The economy is what everybody wants to see. Failing or winning. I'm serious about this. Go back to the Biden administration. Go back to the Obama administration. Go back to the Trump administration. You can go all the way back as far as you want to go. What is the most important issue that... goes higher and faster than anything else, the economy, the wages, all that sort of stuff. Are you seeing inflation right now other than on gasoline? And I'm not trying to, you know, make you get upset about the gasoline situation, but let's be honest here, okay? Like, if you think about this, right? Hold isn't a celebration. Here's why. You have holding rates that are actually signals. What does that mean? It means you can emphasize, you can get uncertainty, and you cannot triumph. But at the same time, quick contrast, if... Things were just great. They'd be cutting. No. If you're cutting your rates, it means your economy is slowing. Our economy is not slowing. They'd be cutting that. Holding means we don't trust you just this yet. But when you think about these things, you've got the ability to do a number of things right now, especially coming out of the bad old days where we're throwing around, what was it, $7 trillion, $10 trillion, all that sort of stuff. At least if you're looking at what's going on with the president of the United States, he's just trying to get a cool...

trillion dollars so that he can get these guys back into into a corner where they will stop their nonsense trying to kill people trying to murder people trying to do all this stuff that's going on out there in the middle in the middle east or the far east now when you think about all that kind of stuff you got it pretty good here I said this last week, the beginning of last week, I said, look at the economy. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on RAV-4, Grand Highlander, Camry, and Corolla, with the features and style you deserve. It means driving for less, with hybrid and plug-in hybrid options across the lineup, delivering great MPGs. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your car will hold its value for years to come. Shop Toyota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places. Here in Charlotte. Now, we live in Charlotte and environs, right? So we have a good economy going on here. People are coming into town. You've got all this stuff happening. It's absolutely gangbangers and all that sort of stuff. It's really good. You go to some of these other places? Holy cow. You want to hear about a putrid place. I'll take you to a putrid place. Give me cut number two. Harry Enten. Everybody's saying that we're going to get blown out. The conservatives are going to get blown out. All of these people are going to get blown out. It's not true. The things that are showing up right now. Easy to understand. Cut number two, Harry Enton on terrible polling. Go. Okay, the Democratic Party net favorability. Back in 2018, back in 2018, when Democrats were able to take control the House, they were actually on the plus side of the ledger. They were actually in positive territory at plus one point. Look now in 2026. We're not just talking down there underneath the Potomac. We're talking down there with the Titanic. We're talking 24 points underwater. And this is just the party overall. This isn't the congressional leadership. This is the party. The party. It's just a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Terrible. I want to almost get my Charles Brock. Terrible. Terrible. I can't even do it Charles Barkley. But the bottom line is it's absolutely... Terrible. Now, what is the reasons? Why is the Democratic brand so terrible? Well, one reason why the Democratic brand is so terrible at this point in the voter's mind says, take a look at this trend line. Voters saying that Democrats are too liberal. In 1996, it was 42%. In 2013, it was 58%. Now...

The clear majority of Americans believe and the clear majority of voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal. 57% they think that the Democratic Party is out of the mainstream, out of the frame, I dare say. My God, this is a massive, massive problem. The Democrats are scaring the American people. And what you're having to deal with now is, I mean, just think about it. You've got this huge matchup between Roy Cooper and, of course, Michael Whatley. Roy Cooper has a terrible track record. a putrid track record, I would say. And they're scaring all of the regular people who want to have the economy, strong, stout, all that sort of stuff. And the left is scaring the bejesus out of everybody. Why is that? You're not supposed to scare your constituencies. And you got all these commies, you know, sitting with their mommies, not making any sense. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading at this stage of the game. This is going to be a route. I'm calling it now. The economy is strong. You've got people looking for increased energy supplies. This is going to be something that is going to be phenomenal. And you want to know why? Because you have people fleeing from the blue states coming into Charlotte, coming into this area. Great medical, great job opportunities, great places to live. I mean, sure, you got some crime. Okay, maybe you have a lot of crime. But you have the ability to just walk away from it and go to a better place.

Welcome back. Brett Waterball Show. Good to be with you. All right. I've got, I'm getting challenged by some people. And these people are, I think they're wrong. I'm serious about this. I think these people are wrong. It doesn't mean that I don't like you. I love my audience. I'll love you till the world turns to ice. But listen to this. I got this from Kevin. And Kevin says, Brett, I believe you're wrong. Here's why if you strip out AI-related spending, a recession would have started in 2024. When the SAM rule was triggered, the only reason why things still don't look good on paper is because of the trillions of dollars spent on AI. These statistics don't represent the true consumer economy. Reality is on its way, though. Don't worry. Okay. So this is a guy who is betting against the American economy, which is fine. There's a lot of people that do that. Kevin is giving us that sort of take. So he's sitting there and he comes back and he says, I'm talking about AI spending build out. and related cascade spending, you're just about direct big tech spending, and it is artificially propping up the economy. That's not the case. It really is not the case. Because if you go in there and you look at the economy, such as it is, let's look at this. 514. billion dollars right that's that's the economy of the market size that we're talking about here except if you go in there and look at the size of the economies that are out there right now you're talking about trillion dollar economies And yes, I know that there was a whole bunch of people really excited and, you know, seduced by the long-term projections and all this sort of stuff. But if you go in there, the economy such as it is right now today, you're, it's incredible. You're talking about trillions of dollars. And I don't want to go off the deep end, but I mean, I can understand that. And I can understand that, like, you're scared about this sort of stuff. And this is, this is the challenge that we're looking at here. Now, I have somebody else who's coming on my way as well. This guy is trying to make the case that the economy is not good here in Charlotte.

The economy is strong. You notice the affordability issues out there. Housing costs. Sure, everything is great. Now, that's a, that's a, Eric is being a little bit sarcastic on that. Because the reality is, let's say you want to go live in Quail Hollow. It's going to be expensive. But let's say you go to Gastonia. Might be more. more available for you right stuff like that i have places where i can't go and rent a place or buy a place or do anything like that so why would that be the issue of this particular fight the economy i'm just telling you the economy is is not bad And I know, I know, because Kevin and Eric want to try to jaw bone the economy down. Go start a business. Go do other things. Go find your dream. That's what this is really all about when you think about all of this sort of thing. It's about choices. You pick up choices. You decide on these different things. Now, I'm getting challenged by people saying to me, oh, the economy isn't that big. No, the economy's huge. The economy is massive here in this country. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and, of course, leasing generates $6.8 trillion. Nick, that's a big number. Professional and business services contributes to $4.1 trillion. You can go to manufacturing, $3.0 trillion. Education services, health care and social assistance, $2.8 trillion. Government spending, $3.5 trillion. Wholesale, retail, all of that for... $1.0 trillion and information services, $1.8 trillion. So if you're looking at that, that's a big economy in the United States of America. And if you look at those numbers, the way this is being laid out, guess what you get? Oh, wait, let me go back to the AI spend. The AI spend is... 240 million billion dollars is that what that is that's not even in the running that this is this is why people get scared from these folks it's it's just one of these things that are that are happening out there and unfortunately you know you get these people who are afraid but come on If Joe Biden was the president of the United States today and vice president Harris was the vice president today, you guys would be dancing in the streets. You'd be dancing in the streets. You'd be like, hey, guess what? This is a great economy. It's affordability. The affordability is so great. How great was the affordability back in that other period of time? I mean, for goodness sakes, you've got to play it.

And you got to say it. And if you don't want to say it, then you can't play it. That was pretty good. That was pretty good, Nick, right out of the box. All right. Welcome back. Great to be with you. Brett Waterbull Show, 704-570107. 9. Let me run out and say hello to Tony. Tony, welcome to the show. What's on your mind? Hey, it's Tommy, Bruce. Oh, Tommy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Tommy. That's okay. I wanted to challenge you on this thing about the economy. I hope I'm wrong, and you're right, but I don't believe you're right. And I'll give you my reasons why. The numbers are throwing out don't equate to pay in people's pockets. I'm at the gas pump right now, and I'm pushing about $80 a gas in my truck. Okay, before this Iran war, I remember filling up for gas for 244 over here in Concord. I'm right here at $3.99 now, okay? That's the first point I have to say. Those numbers don't reflect what you see in the grocery store at Food Line. Me and my wife see it. We've still been talking about it. Price is on groceries continue to go up. Rejected colas for this coming fall for Social Security are 3.5 and 3.7%. Those are high colos, Brett. Those reflect the inflation that this economy has. And those are my points that I wanted to bring out to you. Okay. Okay. So let me ask you a question. What can you? I hope you're right, Brett. I hope I'm wrong. But I'm just telling you midterms, the fitting president usually loses. And the economy doesn't feel good. If we're going to win, Michael Wiley's not running on the issues I feel like he needs to be running on because the economy is not what he's going to win on. He needs to get and start hitting Cooper on social issues on the things that he did while he was governor. And right now I'm not seeing those ads in the media from Michael Wiley. Well, it's early. I mean, it's still early. It's still early. It's still early. You're right. But I'm seeing all the wrong messages. from the Wiley's campaign. The economy, I don't think Wally's going to win. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I want to ask you a question. So who do you really want to be the guy who's going to get that seat? Like, obviously, you don't, you don't sound like you're a fan of Michael Whatley. So who are you looking for? I'm definitely looking for Wally, okay? But I don't see him running the campaign. He needs to run to win at this point, honestly. Well, what's, okay, okay. Okay. Okay, so let me do this. Can I go back to the economy thing really quick and then I'll come back to the Michael Whatley thing? Can I just do that for, are we good with that? Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, so here's a question for you.

So you talked about the cost of gasoline, and you talked about your cola or what you're spending, you're spend at the food lion and all that sort of stuff. Okay. And I'm a middle class person. I get it. I'm not, I love you. I'm not, I'm not at all trying to trick you up or anything like that. I'm just, I'm just affirming what you just said. So. With all things being equal, what, in the case of this economy, what would you do to get gasoline down? What would you do to get the food prices down? How would that work? How would that magically? change? What would that look like? I can't say I have a magic wand. I think that Trump has got us into a very unpopular war, which is driven gas prices back up. Gas prices back in the spring or late winter were really low and they were tumbling in the economy. or I should say the stock market, and I pretty much look at my brokerage account from my retirement every couple of days. And I'm not feeling that in the last two months with my retirement account looking at it. There's just not the consistency I saw before that. And I wish it were back where it was prior to April when all of this started with Iran. I'm not saying we shouldn't have done what we've done. I believe that there are other ways. We have massive super air power. And I think that that would have been a better way to have handled this than to get in some long, drawn-out campaign. I don't see a way out, honestly, Brett. I don't see a way out. Okay, I can give you, I can I give you a way out? Okay, this is this is going to be good. And I'm not, again, I love that we're having this conversation because this is the sort of conversation that we should be having all the time. Nick, can you give me cut number? What? Cut eight. Now listen to this. This is from this morning. Cut eight, go. He's about to hit go. After Iran launched a surprise attack on American troops, so there had been a pause for several nights. Now it's on. U.S. Central Command says the regime fired multiple missiles at U.S. forces in Jim Jordan last night. Those missiles were shot down. The president, again, had paused strikes. five days before to give space for diplomatic talks. Iran doesn't want to talk, apparently. Chief Foreign correspondent, Trey Yinks, and the Middle East, Trey.

Harris, good morning. President Trump reacting to that surprise attack launched by Iran against U.S. forces in Jim Jordan. The president told Fox News, quote, we are going to beat the Fing S out of them. He went on to say, we'll be hitting them hard, and he finished saying they're going to get a beating. We know at least five missiles were fired by Iran breaking the lull and attacks over the past several days. Now, the United States has not yet responded to that attack, but overnight U.S. and Saudi planes conducted a series of airstrikes. against Iran-backed Shia militias in Iraq, who were responsible for 30 drone attacks. Okay, so he's going to beat him. It's beating time now, right? So we might be able to get back to where we were at the terminus that we had back in February, back in April, right? Number one, number two, let me ask you a question. Let's say, hypothetically, I just want to warn you because I've only got like a minute and a half left. What would your grocery choices look like if the Democrats end up winning the Senate? What would that look like? Well, obviously it will be a lot worse, but people are looking at what they have now, not what they're going to get. Okay. People are looking for this. I'm not going that route. I believe you. I'm definitely not going that route, but I'm saying times were better in February and March. Yep. I agree with you. I agree with you. I can't say that I disagree. So here's what I'm going to do. And I've never really done this before. But I want to invite you over the course of the... you know, number of weeks and stuff like that to call in and talk to me about this because I think this is really cool. This is sort of like a, you know, we're taking a thermometer and we're trying to figure out too hot, too cold, how's it going to go? So you have got carte Todd Blanche. You want to call in any day? I'd love to continue the conversation with you because you're a really smart guy and I really appreciate you spending time with me. Well, thank you, Brett, for him to call. Again, I hope you're right and I'm wrong. We'll find out. I mean, that's the magic of the politics, right? We'll either win or we'll lose, and we'll see what happens. Great stuff. I appreciate you so. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready Tacoma, rugged, full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner. Each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all, from the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. ShopToyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details.

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And God help you, man. God help you. That something like this ever comes by again. I don't think, maybe you have an opinion on this, but I don't think that these folks, if God forbid, this thing comes by again, right? With some sort of a thing that we've got to handle and all that sort of stuff. I think people are just going to ignore it. I think that was a one-time, one-deal kind of deal. And when you go back there and you look at the fawning of Anthony Fauci and all of these people who sucked up and everybody's saying, oh, he's a genius, he's brilliant, he's incredible. He's one of these guys. Oh, my gosh, how great, how wonderful, how awesome, how terrible, whatever you want to say. I mean, you get there. And it's kind of a... It's kind of a mess. In fact, I'll play one clip. I only have one clip from Anthony Fauci. And it's when they got the lawyer bounced. Cut number five, please. Yeah, the Anthony Fauci lawyer got bounced. Go for it. But the attorneys are not recognized. In fact, the attorney was told not to sit at the table, and he's not obeying that recommendation. There's a row behind you, sir. That's where you were told to sit, and you're not. And now you're disrupting the proceedings. And so, look, this is the way Anthony Fauci wants to be remembered. For a lawyer not listening to the rules, that's the way you want to be remembered, and that's where you're going to do. You are not recognized, sir. Security, please remove in from the room.

The walk of shame. The walk of shame is happening right there, right now. And what's next? Let the record state that Dr. Anthony Fauci will still have the advice of the other half a dozen attorneys that he brought wrong today. So you got one guy that got thrown out. Nick, you're out of here, get out of here. But you got like, 11 different lawyers who are going to be saying the same thing at the exact same time. Is Anthony Fauci like that? Like, is he that rich that you can have like 10 lawyers that are advising you redundantly for this kind of thing? I don't know. But I mean, when I was watching all this and all the stuff that was going through here, you know, it was one of these things where, okay, so did you do this? I, you know, I can't, I can't say what I want to say, blah, blah, blah, blah, all the way around. And at that stage of the game, They're going to have to find other means. And unfortunately, what I said yesterday with that wonderful woman who lost her mother in a horrible set of circumstances, she was somebody who was not able to say a final goodbye with her daughter. And I bleed for that for so many ways. But when you think about how this came to pass, Isn't it interesting that the medical communities, that the folks that are out there are not necessarily saying to the people out there, we're going to try to do better. If you have a terrible thing coming upon us, if it's going to be one of these things, we're going to put into the important line of how we're going to be able to take care of these people. You don't hear a lot about that. You get all the Sturm and Drong, right? You get all these people yelling and screaming and cheering and et cetera, but we don't know how we're going to fix this. And by the way, by the way, This is something that both sides, and I'm sorry to say it, but there are people on both sides who are going to say, yeah, well, that was a once in a one time and it's never going to happen again, so don't worry about it. You know what? We need to have that conversation to say, what does this look like? Moving forward. And if we don't have that conversation, then it's only going to be something that's a passing sort of a thing. Are we really trying to get the best outcome for people who may be sick, people who get infected, people doing all this sort of stuff? And that's a tough thing to figure out. I'm not a doctor. I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to medical stuff. But I would love to know.

If there are things that can be fixed moving forward. Coming up, I think I know who's going to be the nominee in 28. I know you won't believe it. But I think and I'm seeing and I believe that it's going to be this particular person and his name. Welcome back. Welcome back. Brett Waterbull Show. Good to be with you. All right. Let's take a look at some of the drama that's happening out there. Let's go to cut number three and attack in Troy. What? Go for it. Mayor calls this an act of violence that was done by an unhinged individual. The vandal struck at three separate locations in the Collar City, automated license plate reading cameras, ALPRs, also referred to as flock cameras, were destroyed sometime overnight at a time when these cameras have stirred up a great deal of controversy in the city. There has been a nationwide concern about flock cameras. Some people... feel like they need to take matters into their own hands when their government is not. It's unfortunate. Deirdre Shea is with the organization Deflock Troy, a group that has been involved in a concerted effort for there to be reasonable guidelines and oversight for the data collected by the cameras. If these cameras help police solve crimes, if they help them take bad people off the streets. You could argue that that's a good thing. Absolutely. But there has to be balanced, right? And right now that this technology is totally unrestricted and can be used without a warrant, right? Do you want somebody to be following you around town without a warrant? You want there to be probable cause. You want there to be a due process, right? And there aren't any rules around that right now. In a joint statement from Mayor Carmilla Mantello and police chief Dan DeWolf, they point out these acts do nothing to improve our community. Enough. Troy deserves better than this, and together we will continue working to preserve and protect the community we all love. Deirdre She stresses she condemns the vandalism. It is not our organization's method of activism. Also from the mayor's office, we refuse to allow the acts of a few individuals define our community. This act, they say, will be thoroughly investigated. All right. So I don't think we should have like people destroying things. I'm a builder. I'm not a destroyer. I'm not a destroyer of worlds. Oh, wait, no, hold on. Stop that. No, don't even talk about that. What if, and I'm just throwing this out here, I'm just spitballing this idea, you can tell me if you like it, you can tell me if you don't. Wouldn't it be easier? Because what's happening is you've got these people around the country who are now cutting down the flock of the flock trees. Are they flock trees? Are they flocks of eagles? What are they? I don't even know what these are. What do we call these things? Do you know what it is? It's a Troy flock?

You get the Troy flocks doing that thing. So there's an easier way to do this that's not going to be. I can't believe I'm going to put this advice out. I'm only saying this for the effect. All right. So Nick, flag this with what I'm about to say. What is better than having these flock things go away? What is more protective than that? Do you know what it would be, Nick? Nick doesn't want to answer me because he doesn't want to go on some kind of a government record. But here's the thing. What if everybody showed up with their own flocks? not flocks of eagles, whatever it is, and you just stand there with the thing pointing at like the police station or wherever the thing is happening. Like that's not illegal, right? I mean, you can put some kind of a contraption on you, you know, put it on your forehead, you know, and you just stand there outside. And you go, look, look who's coming and going. You guys are looking at us. We're looking at you. And everybody now knows who's looking at who. I mean, once upon a time, that was a good plan. It's sort of like, you know. Turnabout is fair play. Isn't that what that is? You're not destroying any problem. You do not destroy. You don't touch any property at all. You just put up your thing on your top of your head. And you just walk around. Just walk around. You just put the tape up there, tape it on your forehead and say, hey, since everybody's getting checked, everybody's getting checked. I think that's probably. Justifiable. You're not doing anything dangerous. No, I don't think you should drive around in your car with it on your forehead. That's not good. You don't need to do that. But I mean, I think you just get in the position and you say, okay. I mean, not the position, but you get that particular position happens, then you can see who's looking at you. You're looking at me. I'm looking at you. I mean, it's. It's the 27th century at this stage of the game. Welcome back. Brett Wooderbill Show. Great to be with you. I want to reach out to Steve on line one. Steve, welcome to your show. To my show, what's going on? Brett, how you doing? I'm doing great. Good. Calling you from the Buckeye State. Love it. So I have a question for you, and maybe you can shed some light on this. Sure. I watched that garden gnome today invoke his constitutional right by taking the Fifth Amendment during the entire hearing today. Yes.

Is it, is it, am I missing something relative to his right to have a constitutional right when the tens of thousands of people who had their constitutional rights violated because they did not either want to take said experimental, experimental shot and or express themselves under their First Amendment saying that they thought that this was. nothing more than a ruse for the government to take control of whatever they wanted to take control of. Where does the garden gnomes, um, uh, right supersede the rights of every other American? Is it because he is a garden gnome? And having the same lineage that, that, that, that, that day go has, um, I, you know, I find him to be completely repugnant. But does he have, does he have, does he, that, do his constitutional rights supersede ours? No. am i missing something no okay number one as a fellow uh half italian half uh half irish okay uh i i i i resemble some of that uh conversation but here's the thing here's the thing everybody gets the same stuff and you got to remember this okay and i i've talked about this in the past um Some people are more available than others. So Anthony Fauci gets to do this a hundred and eleven times. A hundred and eleven times over the course of this thing. He doesn't have to answer any questions. He doesn't have to do anything like that at all. Now. We go back to the issue of people who lost their jobs, people who may have committed suing. What is Toyota affordability? It all starts with buying smart. And your Toyota dealer has great deals available to qualified customers on reliable cars and SUVs, including the redesigned RAV4, spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys, and Corolla's. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid and plug-in hybrid options available throughout the lineup. extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, saving you money at the pump. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles. And as the best resale value brand, according to Kelly Blue Book, your Toyota can be worth thousands more than average when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly Blue Books KB.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. aside because they didn't have any money. They were going to just do terrible things. Remember the military getting thrown out by Joe Biden? Remember he was sending them away. People were getting sent away. The only way you fix this is to go back and repair. And I would argue that we ought to have a great, big, beautiful bill.

in the style of what we just had and restore everybody's rights and take the money from, you know, the pharmaceutical companies, whoever it's going to be, and make those people whole again. That's the only thing you can do. And that will never happen. And it will never happen. No, but here's the other part that I think, and I apologize. I think maybe also missed those of us that took that. experimental jazz. Yep. And I am, and, and allocuting to, to something that I probably shouldn't, but I took it so that my kids would have fake, so I had fake vaccination cards made for them so that they would be able to continue on with their lives, right? Right. And I have received irreparable coronary problems because of that situation. Oh my gosh. Well, yeah. And, you know, it is what it is. And I'm not, you know, I'm not bleeding all over the place. I'm just saying that there are, you know, that there are people that have had physical harm have died because of the, because of that, that experimental garbage that, that, that, that's, that's the, that's the power of government. It's so, it's, look.

We had it bad in the United States. But can you imagine if you were in Europe or any of those other places? They would have put you in a camp. They would have said, listen, if you're not going to take it, we're just going to put you on the side of a mountain and good luck. I mean, there are gradations of this sort of stuff. But what we have to have... happen is we it's got to be fixed and the only way you fix it is legislation all this sort of stuff and unfortunately the government runs very slowly and i don't know i don't know what we do look i'll tell i'll tell a story really quickly um when we were told to go and get the shot Right? My wife got the shot and I got the shot. Okay? I went because I was told about a booster. Okay, about a booster. And when I went for the booster shot, the guy who I'm not going to say where he was from or who he was or any of that sort of stuff, that guy happened to go to give me the shot. But I got a flu shot before the COVID shot. And when he jabbed me, I had a reaction from the flu shot. And the guy knew what my job was. The guy knew who I was. I didn't know him before I got into the room with him. And he says to me, you know what? You're having a reaction to the flu shot. I don't trust the other shot that that's going to hit you. And I don't want you to be on your back not able to be on the air. And but for that issue. I would have had the double blast. And so you just never know. And it was all experimental. That's the thing that's so crazy. It was all experimental. And you just, it's catches, catch can. And I think that's a terrible way to go about running the railroad. It's awful. I will largely agree. And you got lucky from that end of at least you got a guy that had a conscience. If I might. Go ahead. To your listening audience. There was a BBC documentary that they did on Anthony Fauci relative to AZT and the orphans in New York and the orphans that had AIDS in Africa. And if you go up on Rumble and you look up guinea pig kids, it's about 36 minutes long, it's kind of dry because it's the Brits and, you know, what can you do? But it identifies. What a complete sociopath. What Anthony Fauci is in what he did and the number of children that he killed using them as an experimental base. That's horrible. Well worth the 36 minutes that does because they don't have, obviously, they don't have. Now, I've not seen that. I'll have to go out and see what that's all about. But remember what. Your Twitter, check your Twitter. I'll post it on to your time. But remember, but hold on a second. Here's the thing that's important.

The whole reason why Anthony Fauci had the good graces was because he was part of that effort to stop AIDS and things like that. And that was sort of his... his kind of reasoning to go and go do that kind of stuff and experimenting and things and there were there were people who were you know animals and people and i mean it was it was a really crazy time and i don't ever want to see that happen again i appreciate that call thank you so much Welcome back, Brett Waterbull's show. Gosh, the show is flying, and I'm really happy for that. It's great to be with you. Let's check in with... Somebody that I think is kind of interesting. Let's do a comparing contrast. We've got a comparing contrast with Zohran Mamdani and Ron DeSantis. This is cut number six. Let a rip. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. People have voted with their feet. We can confidently say that Americans prefer the warmth of Florida freedom to the frigidity of New York collectivism.

I'm in with that. I don't want collectivism. Collectivism is just, it's terrible. Nobody should have to go and do that. Hey, look, Mayor Johnson, Mayor Johnson from Chicago. There's no way we can possibly make people safe. Cut number seven. We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already tried that. And we've ended up with the largest prison population in the world without solving the problems of crime and violence. The addiction, jails, and incarceration in this country, we have moved past that. It is racist, it is immoral, it is unholy, and it is not the way to drive violence down. Okay, so if you were to remove the word racist, okay, if you said, okay, we're going to get rid of racism. All right, so we're getting rid of racism. Now, how are we going to get people to... Behave themselves when it comes to, you know, trying to put their lives back together, doing really good things, you know, helping people out. How do we do this? How do we do? Because obviously the code word there is what he's talking about. And he's saying, listen, this is not working. Now, do you know who was able to actually find a way to do that? Buckelly. Bukeli. Buceli, the guy from El Salvador. They took these guys and put them in recidivism at a high point. And now you've got people who are getting rehabbed. That's what's important. If you're just going to say, well, we can't do anything because it's impossible. Well, it'll always be impossible. I want to see people rehabilitated, and I want to see them come out and become the best people they can possibly be. And if they can't be somebody who can be around a number of people, well, we'll just have to try it again. I don't know. Coming up next, Ron Emmanuel, stick her out.

Welcome back. It's the Brett Wooderbill Show. Hour number three underway. Everything is fair game. If you wish to opine, absolutely feel free to pick up the phone, smile and dial. Our telephone number, as always is 704-5701079. And everything is fair game in this hour. So happy to see you and happy to hear from you as well. One of the things that I think is interesting is... The notion of politics having to deal with voids, right? So what's a void? It's something that's out there that has to be filled. And so how do we do this? I'm very curious about this sort of thing. Insurrection Barbie. is a poster out on X. And she said, I'm not trying to scare people about the DSA, but I would like to alert them to the seriousness of the problem. So we're talking about the DSA. All the DSAers. These are not just communists, she says. They are revolutionaries. And not surprisingly, their escalation happened after 2019. They were trained by Cuban revolutionaries and funded by Sir Neville Singham and the CCP. Granted, money is fungible, so you don't have to constantly move it around. But, but, in between 185 different NGOs, it becomes harder to trace, which is the whole entire point. For our purposes, all we need to know is that this is the most radical, communist ideology that exists as embedded within a group. And so there's a number of different things that we can do with this. Because when you sit back and you look at the things that are happening out there, you've got people not going in the streets necessarily at this stage of the game to... getting fights or hurt people or do things like that. Right now, this is part of the love fest. Oh, look at the socialism. It's so wonderful. The beautiful lie. The new romance with socialism. So we now know that socialism is in some ways being taken up by the Utes.

But when it gets to hard-fought money, getting people to come out and try to do what they want to do, that is something completely different. Like, I can stand there. In fact, let me go back in time. There was once a time before. We had the horrifying attack on 9-11. And you guys probably remember if you're of a particular age, you might remember that you could go into the airport, go all the way to the gate. And you could go and do what you wanted to do. You could go and meet grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, whoever that was. It was like a wonderful free-for-all. And then you had those people, you might remember, if you're of the appropriate age, and I know I am. And I know Nick probably is. You would have these people walking around and you would have the Moonies. You would have the folks that were trying to get you to be a LaRushi, all that kind of stuff. You had the freedom of all these conversations and all these sorts of things. And it was really wonderful. And it was exciting. It was all this sort of stuff. And you would just try to get the heck out of the airport as quickly as you could. Well, what do we have here now? What do we have here now? We have sort of a new kind of situation where we're going to sell you socialism. You don't have to work. It's going to be a 10 day week. All you got to do is just work 10 days. It's going to be wonderful. It's going to be incredible. You don't have to worry. The beautiful lie. It's absolutely wonderful. You don't have to do any of this sort of stuff. It's really incredible. The DSA, the communist, the socialist, all that group of... What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on RAV-4, Grand Highlander, Camry, and Corolla, with the features and style you deserve. It means driving for less with hybrid and plug-in hybrid options across the lineup, delivering great MPGs. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your car will hold its value for years to come. Shop Toyota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places. Those people, we... cannot allow radical socialists to take over the American government. And what's interesting about this, you ever hear a phrase that goes like this, strange bedfellows. Strange bedfellows. If you're driving, don't take your hand off the wheel.

But I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, wait a minute, what the heck is this? Well, the adults might be trying to turn this in a totally different direction. Because as we talked yesterday, this guy who's running the Ken Martin, that's his name Ken Martin, the guy who is running the folks with the DSA. He is in no good trouble. He has got a problem. And what do you know? Is it entirely possible that the hammer's going to come in? What's the hammer? The hammer? The guy who's the heavy. The guy who gets together with a common cause, but only by measure. I'll tell you about that coming up next. This, I think, is going to be a long and winding road with apologies to the Beatles. All right. Welcome back, Brett Wooderable Show. Great to be with you with you. So let's get into this, okay, because I'm, I am absolutely without a moment stopping. This is something that's going to happen. I'm telling you that this is going to happen. So give me, Mr. Man, give me Rahm Emanuel. This is going to be a fairly lengthy thing, but I want you to hear this. Rahm Emanuel is matching challenges. Cut number four go. 2006 match up perfectly as referendums. There was an unpopular war in 2006, unpopular war today. There was corruption everywhere from the House of Tom DeLayville to what the Trump family, Steve Witkoff family and Howard Lutnick family are doing in the sense they're just literally in broad daylight taking money out of the bank, out of the treasury. You also had spiking gas prices, spiking gas prices. This election is set up, Casey, to be a referendum on Donald Trump's corruption and his inability to manage the economy to make people's lives better. Anything that distracts from that means you're helping Donald Trump. The DSA and that agenda is laid out does not play anywhere except for maybe on the upper west side of Manhattan. And anytime a Democrat anywhere in a red to blue district has to either distinguish themselves rather than prosecute that the Republican would be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump is a dollar wasted, allowing us to not only get a majority, but more importantly, to then pass finally after 20 years a minimum wage increase. And I said in the piece, and I said this, you have a battleground Senate race in North Carolina. and one in Georgia. You have very significant Senate in gubernatorial races in both Arizona and Nevada. Do you think anybody in those states wants a member of the DSA to come campaign or any many of the Progressive Caucus? And second,

Since 2018, the Progressive Caucus hasn't flipped a single red to blue district. And to me, this is a consequential election where we could put a checkmate on Donald Trump, and we cannot risk it with diversions from the Democratic Socialists of America, who are giving them nothing but talking about. Because outside of that, It will be a total referendum on Donald Trump's corruption and his total mismanagement and malpractice on the economy and making life more easy for American people. So you've clearly delineated what you view as a problem for Democrats or clearly a problem for Democrats. I gave this example. I was in Omaha a week ago for Denise Jerome Powell. Great candidate. Three times in a row, we had a very progressive candidate that lost that district. Kamala Harris won the district, had a Republican congressman, open seat. Denise is above 50%. They're calling her DSA Denise. Her opponent, last week in city council, voted against an increase in the minimum wage. Now she does she have to spend resources saying I'm not part of that agenda you just ran or prosecute that I want to go past a minimum wage increase after 20 years, the last time 2007 when Nancy Pelosi got the gavel and we took the majority. But my opponent would vote no. You're going to have to pick. And not everybody has all this money. You have to make real life decisions. And if you're not flipping a red district blue, you're not part of stopping Donald Trump. And it's a waste of time. So a very clearly delineated potential problem. Now, Bernie Sanders, on the flip side. says, and there's considerable anger in the base, right? He says that the establishment of the problem. In fact, he named you. He said, people are sick and tired of the Rama manuals and the democratic establishment. Are you the problem? Yeah. So look, you know, here's the point. I do believe the system's rigged. It is rigged against him. McClest. You've heard me talk about this all over the country. Now, when I was mayor of Chicago, We got 20,000 kids, free community college. You've got to be average. About 40,000 kids got both universal full-day kindergarten, universal full-day pre-K, and hundreds of thousands of families got to raise a minimum wage. Those are all progressive policies. They moved our city forward. We were also the only city, seven years in a row, number one for corporate relocations. Now, I don't talk about it. I don't talk about free college. I got 20,000 kids free college and relieve their families of any financial burden. Hundreds of thousands, 11 years in a row, got to raise a minimum wage. You can either talk about it.

dangerous, very dangerous, and very radical. And that is not any sort of a thing that you want to go near. But I just wanted to bring this to you so you'll remember in two and a half years. What are you in a New York group? Red Water Bowl show. Good to be with you as we soldier on. Okay. Let me give you this. It's kind of an interesting take. And it goes just like this. In just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier. And as we speak, it is now on fire. So what happened? Earlier today, earlier in the hours, we had something that was really remarkable. And what was remarkable in this regard was very easy to understand. You know what it was? It was. I mean, I love this. I love the way the president has framed this. So let's go into the framing and let's check this out. And let's go to, I had it a minute ago. Okay, cut number eight. Cut number eight, please, go. He's about to hit go. After Iran launched a surprise attack on American troops, so there had been a pause for several nights. Now it's on. U.S. Central Command says the regime fired multiple missiles at U.S. forces in Jim Jordan last night. Those missiles were shot down. The president, again, had paused strikes five days before to give space for diplomatic talks. Iran doesn't want to talk, apparently. Chief Foreign correspondent Trey Yinks and the Middle East, Trey. Harris, good morning. President Trump reacting to that surprise attack launched by Iran against U.S. forces in Jim Jordan. The president told Fox News, quote, we are going to beat the Fing S out of them. He went on to say, we'll be hitting them hard. And he finished saying they're going to get a beating. We know at least five missiles were fired by Iran breaking the lull and attacks over the past several days. Now, the United States has not yet responded to that attack, but overnight U.S. and Saudi planes conducted a series of airstrikes against Iran-backed Shia militias in Iraq, who were responsible for 30 drone attacks. Now that's 30 drone attacks that came in. And so now we're pushing back. Now, I don't know what this is going to be in terms of the end game, because the end game is fluid at this stage of the game. But you do have the Saudis involved in this. You've got the Omani's. What is Toyota affordability? It all starts with buying smart. And your Toyota dealer has great deals available to qualified customers on reliable cars and SUVs, including the redesigned RAV-4, spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys and Corolla's. It means driving for less.

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There's a reason why you hear constantly, okay, there better not be any casualties, there better not be any problems, there better not be any of that. So now what we have to do is have a perfect record when it comes to taking these guys down. And if it's not a perfect record, if it's something that is less than a perfect record, suddenly ABC, NBC, CBS, all the channels go out there and they say, oh, they hit something that they shouldn't have hit. They can't do this. It's really bad. It's all that sort of stuff. We are being held to a standard, and I'm not complaining about it, but we're handling, we're dealing with a standard. That nobody else has to. None of them do it. And the Europeans aren't even part of this in any way stage or anything. It's crazy. It's nuts. Coming up, Harry Anton, I like what he's talking about. And maybe, just maybe, something going on at a San Diego.

Ready, ladies and gentlemen, here we go. Harry Enten, he knows what's going on. Harry Enten is absolutely, totally spot on. Listen to this. Cut number two, let a rip. Okay, the Democratic Party net favorability. Back in 2018, back in 2018, when Democrats were able to take control the House, they were actually on the plus side of the ledger. They were actually in positive territory at plus one point. Look now in 2026. We're not just talking down there underneath the Potomac. We're talking down there with the Titanic. We're talking 24 points underwater. And this is just the party overall. This isn't the congressional leadership. This is the party. The party. It's just a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible brand. Terrible. I want to almost get my Charles Brock. Terrible. Terrible. I can't even do it, Charles Barkley. But the bottom line is it's absolutely terrible. Now, what is the reasons? Why is the Democratic brand so terrible? Well, one reason why the Democratic brand is so terrible at this point in the voter's mind says, take a look at this trend line. Voters saying that Democrats are too liberal. In 1996, it was 42%. In 2013, it was 58%. Now, the clear majority of Americans believe and the clear majority of voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal. 57% they think that the Democratic Party is out of the mainstream, out of the frame, I dare say. My God, this is a massive, massive problem. That's the Rahm Emanuel issue that's happening here. That's why they have turned their back on labor. And I don't mean like nobody wants to go get a job. I'm talking about labor. Nobody cares about labor anymore. All of these people. You guys have seen this. You've seen the reports. You've seen all the analysis, right? You are going further, further blue and further, further, high-end people who are just like college professors. There aren't, there's nobody for the working person, the working man, the working woman, the nurses, the doctors, those sorts of people. These are folks. that are being left, absolutely left behind. And it doesn't make any sense. So they can try to tell you that, oh, DSA. DSA is nothing for you. There's nothing there for you. It's your Zohran Mamdani. You're your Zohran Mamdani. That's, I mean, that's all you're getting right now. And unfortunately, I mean, so what do you get? When you get into that position, when you get into all this other stuff, like, what are you bringing back? Oh, okay, I want a minimum wage. Okay, what minimum wage do you want? Uh, $26 an hour to make a hamburger. Well, that's, you're pricing yourself out. You're going to end up with all the sort of accoutrements, but you're not going to have the job.

I mean, you look at what's going on in California. You look at what's going on in New York. You look at what's going on in Chicago. You go to all these places that are wonderful and they're so phenomenal and all this sort of stuff. And what's happening now? You've got people who own property who are now getting the notices where they've lived there for 50 years and these people are now having to pay extra money because... Zohran Mamdani commands it. I mean, I don't know about you, but maybe Zohran Mamdani is living high on the hog there because what does he got? He's got $250,000 for the next four months, for the next four years. I mean, that's what he's got. He's never had a real job. He hasn't had a real job job. He had a job in the assembly. And so when you look at this kind of stuff, This is a big challenge. I mean, this is bad. And that's what Rahm Emanuel is trying to sell. I don't think it's going to work. I look at all this sort of stuff. And again, these are people who are high-end, high-maintenance people, trust fund people, all that sort of stuff. And unfortunately, you don't have people that come in for the labor. And if they do, They're immigrating, emigrating, I should say. They're emigrating down to where we are. I mean, if you think about it, it makes sense, doesn't it? There is a terrible crisis that is happening. And I want to shut it down in this regard. This is cut number one. I can't believe how ugly the situation is in San Diego. Cut number one go. Have you seen the horrifying footage of the beaches in San Diego?

Now, people were obviously shocked by this side of San Diego, but this story is much more disgusting than you think. This is not a freak event. This is reality for people who live here, who can't even touch this water without getting sick. I'm a surfer, and... I haven't been able to surf Imperial Beef since September 2021. There's traces of feces in the water. Everything that goes through one's body and comes out the back end. Raw human waste. Poop. It's the worst stuff you can possibly imagine. This is all coming from Mexico. It's a Mexican infrastructure sewage problem. Well, this is the river that I call Kaka River. Pure raw sewage. Sometimes the smell is so terrible that your stomach churns. Mixed probably with chemicals and toxic waste. It's as bad as it gets. And it comes from here and goes directly to the Pacific Ocean. And the part that makes absolutely no sense, this isn't some third world country. This is happening in San Diego. An affluent county that has a GDP of $266 billion. And here's the solution they've come up with for this problem. The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District is distributing 200 air purifiers to South Bay residents today. It does help out for the kids. You know, I have kids at home, so, you know, at least so we can have the air clean. I'm just getting it to get it. It's not going to, I'm, but I have 1,800 square foot home, and where am I going to put it? County supervisor and former Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre expects federal money to improve the international wastewater treatment plant and says the air purifiers will help residents in the meantime. Give me a break. The reality is the President of the United States needs to take action on this because it's a menace. We've got to stop this. Hey, thanks so much for spending time with me here today. I can't wait to get back together with you tomorrow. It's the Brett Wooderbill Show. Breaking with Brett Jensen Huang is next. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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