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And welcome back to the All-American Savage Show podcast. My name is John Burke.
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I'll be your host for the next— I don't know how long. I'm currently streaming
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streaming live on YouTube while recording this. We've got the chat going, we got everybody
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here, uh, hanging out. A lot of people have already voted. It is currently 11:24
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AM CST here in Texas. A lot of people already voted.
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Of course, I voted in the, uh, the early voting cycle because, man, I'm seeing
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on, on X all of these lines of these, these, uh,
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voting booths through just out the door. I'm trying to find this
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if I can. It's, it's somewhere on my, uh, on my timeline here, but good
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Lord. But good Lord, there is a massive turnout. And I actually saw a
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thing here in Texas— record number of voting turnout in
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early voting. Record number of voters
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have turned out for early voting. And we don't know
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which way that's going to go because, as you know, in Texas it's not,
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it's not calculated in such a manner. Um, they're just going based
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upon prior data, prior voting data. So right now,
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as we all know, we've got about 17 key races to watch, and we'll be
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going over this live tonight I don't know if I'm going to stream an audio
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podcast for this because it's going to be a long night tonight. We're going to
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see the results start trickling in probably around 6 PM CST. I could be wrong
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on that East Coast. Every state's different in terms of when the polls are closing,
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but around 6, 6:30 PM CST tonight, right here on YouTube,
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we'll be live and we will watch these results come in. And hopefully by the
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end of this evening, we will see roughly-ish close to about where
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Congress is going to stand moving into the midterms of 2026, and then potentially how
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that will influence a 2028 presidential run on both sides.
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So again, the key races that I think we're watching right now are
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basically in Texas. We have the Ken Paxton-Talarico race.
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Again, both of them have massive war chests. I don't know who's
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going to take this one. I, I think it's probably going to be Paxton.
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Paxton has a lot of outside support on this one. He's got Elon backing him,
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he's got Trump backing him. Talarico, you know, the DNC isn't as solid
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as it used to be, especially after the elections.
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Talarico's getting a lot of support as well. I don't know how this one's gonna
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go. I think it's probably gonna be Paxton. Um, but the more,
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the more important one that I'm watching is the Dan Patrick versus Vicky Goodwin.
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And on this one, I'm hoping, like, I am hoping it
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will not be Dan Patrick. But again, Dan Patrick, same position, massive war
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chest, getting help from Elon, getting help from the Trump administration. But the difference is
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though, is that I have not seen— I know social media is
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not real life, like, trust me, I totally understand this.
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But on— and I, I pitched this question to you as well If you've
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seen any of Dan Patrick's nonsense coming across your feed, um,
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I have— and you check the comments— I've yet to see anyone that
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actually supports this guy. I mean this.
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I, I have yet to see anyone that supports
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this guy. So we're gonna,
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we're gonna watch that race. Uh, we've got races in multiple other states,
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but like I said, about 17 toss-up races that are gonna determine
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the outcome tonight. In terms of the House, I think that the Republicans are going
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to lose the House. Um, I don't know about
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how much. I think the predictions are something like 230. I, I don't know.
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I have no idea. The races are so tight, and like I said, that's 17
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toss-up seats over there. There's no telling. And then we look over to the Senate.
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I think Republicans will probably squeak by with retained control,
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not by much. I think they hold the Senate, not by much. And if they
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do lose it, I don't think it's gonna be by much. But you know,
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that's the thing, like, I'm seeing polls on every side, you know.
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And that's the other thing people ask me all the time, like, what about the
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polls? I ignore the polls. I ignore the polls.
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They're irrelevant. They're, they're a microcosm.
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And I always feel like these polls are put into a, a narrative
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to either support or go against. And it feels like polls are just— I don't
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know, man. They're just metrics that I kind of feel help lean narratives. I've seen
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good polls. I've seen bad polls. I've seen, I've seen polls
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that are saying that basically Democrats are going to come in here and legit blue
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wave this bad boy. Like, they're talking like Senate loss by a multitude of seats,
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not even by a minority, like a lot.
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We're talking massive House loss. Um, and you know, I'm seeing the opposite. I'm seeing
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a lot of people saying that the House loss won't be that bad, we'll maintain
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control of the Senate. Uh, nobody seems— nobody knows. Everyone can
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politically prosify— prophesy. Nobody really knows. So, but we're
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gonna find out together tonight. That's what we're gonna do. But again, my predictions— this
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is like our version of the NFL Draft or the, uh, outcome of this.
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No, it's not the Super Bowl. We'll call this the playoffs, right? The, uh,
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I think presidential elections are our Super Bowls, but I think these will be our
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playoffs. So again, I'm thinking Republicans lose the House, Republicans maintain
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Senate by not by much. Um, and then
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in the Talarico-Ken Paxton, I think Paxton's probably gonna win. And then with the,
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uh, Vicki Goodwin and Dan Patrick, I think— oh,
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I don't even want to say it. I don't. I hope Vicki Goodwin wins.
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I'm not even saying those words. I am not even saying those words.
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Not even gonna say it. I do not want that man reelected. Just an outright
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authoritarian. Look, if you're in Texas and you can't find yourself voting
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for a Democrat like Vicki Goodwin, I understand that. I'm not defending her policies.
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I'm not defending anything about this woman. What I am saying though is do not
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vote for Dan Patrick. Do not vote for Dan Patrick. This guy is an
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absolute just worthless one. He's just authoritarian.
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The guy is not even a native Texan. He comes up here, he has made
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so much money. He is a typical corrupt politician,
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typical corrupt political boomer up here, does not represent the will of the
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people. And truth be told, and this is what I've heard, is that if Vicki
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Goodwin gets elected, they're saying that essentially the conservative legislature of
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the Texas League are going to try and abolish the a lot of the authorities
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of the lieutenant governor, which I'm fully on board for.
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I'm fully on board for that. I don't think the position of the lieutenant governor
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should even exist in the capacity that does. Essentially, they have too much hold over
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the Senate. Um, don't like it. I don't like
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it. Dan Patrick is the biggest reason why here in Texas— I have to remind
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Texans, you don't have property taxes because of Dan Patrick.
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Now, if you followed me for any period of time, if you've watched this fight
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that we've been fighting here in Texas against the hemp ban from Dan Patrick,
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is that this last session We were told we were going to get property tax
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relief. There's a lot of Texans here that are hurting. It's, it's ridiculous. We don't
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have a state tax, but we do have property tax, and the property tax is
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getting worse. So all for I don't know how many years now,
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Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, every election season, property tax relief.
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Didn't get it. Instead, what Greg Abbott— or excuse me, uh, Dan Patrick did was
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that he held that bill, he held those bills hostage to get his SB 3
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hemp bill back through the Senate. And essentially it just— it brought
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everybody out. It took Texans away from their jobs. Everybody had to travel to Austin
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numerous times. They sat and waited all day to go speak for 2
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minutes. Massive turnout, historical turnout might I add, in terms of,
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um, uh, petitions that were signed. Like,
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I think it was the largest, most signed petition in the state of— or in
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Texas history, which was really incredible. So we're gonna
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watch how this all unfolds. And like I said, man, I don't know. I don't
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know how it's gonna go. But I am not seeing any support for Dan Patrick
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anywhere but the campaign things that I've been seeing him post, all of his campaign
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stops. His audience is primarily gray-haired boomers.
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I want to say 100%, 100%, it is the elder, it is
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the, the boomer generation. Um,
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it's— and we're gonna see whether or not the outcome of this election
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is the level of control that demographic
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has over the elections, because they are the— they're the largest turnout. Now the
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other thing that I don't know is that I'm— we're going to wait and see—
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is that if we've had historical voting turnout
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in this, this midterm, I want to see what the demographics are on this one
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because it's going to be very interesting. Are the younger generations getting more involved?
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Where is Gen Z at? I want to know because it's like the millennial and
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Gen X, we kind of— we do
show, but Gen Z is
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kind of like— I feel like the younger generation is a lot more proactive in
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the political space than I think the older generations. I want to see where they're
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at. What their numbers are, um, and the whole, the whole ranking, tell the truth,
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just to see. Because I want to know what that number is going
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to be when you start to see boomer, um, influence over the
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elections decrease. And what does that mean for future elections? Is the
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Conservative Party, is the GOP, like, where is it going from here? Is it gonna
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become more conservative? Is it gonna become more populist? Like, we don't know. We can
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speculate all we want. I just— these are things that I've just been like thinking
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about. Like, where's the party gonna go from here? Is the GOP going to revert
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back? Is it going to change into something new? Will MAGA maintain control of the
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GOP until '28? Are the midterms going to be the death rattle of MAGA?
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We don't know, but we're going to find out tonight. So make sure you tune
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in. Make sure you're here. Hit that like button. If you're not following me on
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podcasts are there. You can watch the videocast, everything, every livestream. It's there.
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And by the way, these podcasts, these audio ones, I'm trying to keep them pretty
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short. If you're wanting the entirety of it, just go to the live feed,
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go to the live stream, listen into it there. You get all the good content
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there. So without any further ado, let's get into it.
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First article right off the bat.
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And mind you, I have not read these articles. I just pull them up and
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we go off the cuff. So Trump announces end to $4 billion USAID
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to Israel. This is posted November 3rd. President Trump
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announced that the United States will stop providing $4 billion in annual military aid to
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Israel by the end of this year. He made the announcement during an interview with
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Fox. News. On Tuesday, November 3rd,
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as reported by NBC News, Trump stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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had suggested the idea, noting that Israel is a successful country and does not need
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the aid. Where did
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this come from? Now,
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when you hear something like this, instantly it's okay, what's the ulterior motive here?
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What's the goal? Well, number one, Netanyahu is not
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doing good over there in Israel. I don't think he actually has enough people on
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his side in the government. Um, there is, there's a lot of scuttlebutt going
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on over there. I don't really know how it's going to play out over there,
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but this is, this has got it, this has got an intent. What's the intent
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behind this? Trump's comments came amid the midterm elections where U.S. aid to
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Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza have been, have been significant issues for voters.
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He mentioned that the decision to halt aid was partially influenced by political considerations,
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as the $4 billion payment has been a point of contention among Democrats, particularly those
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critical of US foreign policy. I got news for you. That's not just among Democrats.
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That's also amongst conservatives. A lot of people saying, you know, we need to end
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this aid to Israel. They do have one of the world's strongest economies. Why are
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we doing this? And say, well, you know, we actually get that money back because
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they're spending it on US weapons. Like, yeah, that promotes the military-industrial complex.
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Great. I guess that's money coming in in a sense. But what does this do
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for the average American? And also, if you have $4 billion to send that
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they don't need, then you don't need that $4 billion. So why are we getting
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taxed the way we are? Once again, it's just the government mismanaging the funds,
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mismanaging money. And now all of a sudden you've got Netanyahu, oh, we don't need
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it. It's like, so why did you take it, right? It's like
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no one's gonna turn down free money from America, from you, the tax— no one's
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turning this down. The announcement has sparked reactions,
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with some viewing it as a potential shift in U.S.-Israeli relations, according to
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AP News. Trump emphasized that while the aid would stop, the U.S. would still support
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Israel if needed. He described the aid as a significant expenditure for
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the U.S., suggesting that Israel no longer requires it. I'm,
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you know, good. I think this is a good thing. You're— but okay,
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so then Ukraine, let's go ahead and pull back on that, which I've seen him
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doing. But so you did this, like, you're pulling— you're throwing the brakes on this,
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like, literally right before the day of midterms. Day of
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midterms. Um, truth be
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told, it just seems too convenient at this point. It feels like it's too late
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to hit the brakes on this train. It's already been going this, this direction,
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this rate of speed. Um, for the last 2 years,
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it really feels like the Trump administration has done everything they can to throw
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the brakes on this. We're talking about the $5,000 stimulus checks. We're talking about the
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McCarthyism that we've seen from a lot of the political commentators on the right in
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terms of communists, even though we're not seeing communism— I mean, close to it.
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We're seeing socialists, right? But it's just a matter of,
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uh, which flavor of socialism is what it boils down to, because you've got
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the MAGA socialism via the $5K stimmy checks the Market Facilitation Program
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that Trump's, you know, basically created for the farmers. Just, it's again, it's just what
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flavor of socialism are we talking about, the red or the blue? That's all this
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really boils down to in terms of— so when people talk about the communists,
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we're not there yet. We're close, we're close up there in New York with McDonough.
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He's getting there but not fully. And I feel
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like that's a very important thing because you should always understand your, your, um,
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your difference in economic principles or philosophies when you're using these words,
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but it just turns into another bud word, buzzword. It's kind of like when the
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left said everything is racist or homophobic or xenophobic. It's like, yeah,
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whatever, dude. Come to find out they're all right though.
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A spokesperson for Netanyahu stated they were unaware of the details
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of Trump's announcement but would seek clarification. The decision has also been met with criticism
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from some of Netanyahu's political opponents who argue that ending the aid could harm Israel's
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security. The U.S. has provided substantial military aid to Israel over the years,
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with a memorandum of understanding set to expire in 2028. Discussions have been ongoing
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about the future of the U.S. assistance to Israel beyond that date. The announcement
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has also impacted oil prices, with Brent crude oil falling more than 3% following
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Trump's comments, also noted by Al Jazeera.
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I did notice that the price of oil— this is Election Day, let's see,
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uh, oil prices. What are people going to
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the polls and looking at in terms of oil prices right now?
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You've got WTI crude down, uh, $95.35 to
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$96 a barrel. Brent crude down 1 point,
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uh, down to $103.70 a barrel. Murban crude $102.
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Natural gas is up to $2.90. So yeah, you still have
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hovering around $100 a barrel, maybe $98 average,
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$90— well, no, probably about $99, $100 average price per
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barrel. Um, and this is brought to you by the oilprice.com
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website. That's where I go check my stuff at. And you know,
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it doesn't, it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good. I mean,
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you're sending your people to the midterms. These are the current metrics. Matter of fact,
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let's do a quick spot check on CPI. Where is CPI currently
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at?
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Um, this is the basic final report card before we're going into, uh,
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the midterms. Bureau of Labor and Statistics latest
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numbers are 0.6%. This is coming straight from the government.
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CPI for all items increases 0.6% in September.
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Gasoline rises in September. The Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers
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rose 0.6% seasonally adjusted and
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rose 3.7% over the year not seasonally adjusted. The index
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for all items less food, uh, and energy rose 0.3%
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in September, up 2.6% over the year.
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Uh, net release Consumer Price Index scheduled to be released On November 10th.
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Uh, the— okay, that's for October. Okay, so September wasn't
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very good. We're waiting on October, uh, right here.
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Energy currently— yeah,
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we're just— it's in September, it's up 0.6.
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We'll see what October's is. And keep in mind, the cost
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has been elevated this entire time on, uh, on oil. I don't
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think these numbers are going to look any better, to tell you the truth.
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It's going to continue going as it is, and it's a shame. I'm not,
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I'm not sitting here saying this, celebrating this. I'm saying that these are the metrics
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that we're going into in these midterms, and they're not good numbers. They're just not.
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When you're looking at almost average $100 a barrel, you're looking at CPI
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still going up, inflation's still up.
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Uh, you know, the only thing that I'm
seeing being ran upon on
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these political ads is the border and the trans issue. That's all I'm seeing
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from conservative commentators. I'm seeing it— honestly, it feels like a
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lot of fear-mongering and fear porn. Counting on voters not knowing how
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the system works. Look, I'll be honest with you, if Democrats take the House,
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that's not the end of the country.
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I don't care if this offends people. If Democrats take the Senate, that's not the
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end of the country. That's not the end of democracy. It's just not.
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We've had a government that has existed for 250 years almost, right?
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Systems of government, mechanisms of government that work. They're effective.
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They're not always going to go in our way. But this fear-mongering, I mean,
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I have to ask you, how many times this election
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season have you heard most important election of our lifetime?
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How many times have you heard it over
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and over again? The fear-mongering, the fear porn,
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all of it. It's just gotten— it's gotten old. It's gotten
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tiresome. Look, worst case is— oh, I've said this
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so many times— the best case is Republicans lose the House. You hit the purse
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strings on this war in Iran, you get this thing ended,
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you bring them home, you fix this economy, you let the cost of gas come
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back down, you get that Fed rate to bring that number down, and then you
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set up a chance for a 2028 run. If you don't— and this is what's
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very concerning right now— Republicans have no pathway forward
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to what's going on with Iran. This is
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the message that the GOP is putting out to the voter
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base on Election Day. We have a new war.
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It's cost us over $60 billion so far that we know of. We've got
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18 dead that we know of, thousands wounded that we know of.
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We've really put a strain on all of our alliances, even though I think most
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voters probably don't care about things like that. Now we're doing deals with Russia
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for their diesel. We're all over the place.
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We don't have an end to the war in Ukraine. It's still going.
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All you have is the border and the trans stuff, and that's great, don't get
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me wrong. Like I said, I can never gig Trump on the border stuff,
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but it's just not enough.
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I had Rob Noor on here
debating this the other day, and Rob
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Noor tried making the principal argument of, well, you know, an entire— if you look
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at different polls in terms of job creation, all these things, they're going in the
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right direction. It's like, well, that's— now you're making an argument on relevance.
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I think the most— the biggest thing that I think people are really going to
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be voting for this election season is gas prices. I think that's going to be
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the biggest, most impactful thing that has voters out there reaching
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for the wallet saying, I didn't vote for this.
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The war in Iran, I mean, a lot of people are like, I didn't vote
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for this. So we're gonna have to wait and see. So this is essentially
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the message that the GOP is putting out to the voter base going into Election
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Day and Oh, by the way, oh, by the way,
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the U.S. launches defensive strikes on Iranian
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targets as diplomatic talks continue. We're hitting Iran again.
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Watch them prices about to go back up. Military action comes amid an
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8-month conflict, ongoing negotiations, and pressure from U.S.
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allies to prevent a wider regional war. United States has conducted defensive
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strikes against Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official Monday on
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November 2nd confirmed, as tensions rise in the Middle East ahead of America's November 3rd
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midterms. This happened, uh, this is— yeah, November 3rd, this reported.
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The strikes raise fresh concerns about renewed fighting as diplomatic efforts
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continue. Well, folks, look, we have to remind ourselves that Trump even said that the
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strikes would resume after midterms. Like, that was not hidden,
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you know. You kind of put it out there plain as day. I mean,
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I can't fault him on that. At least he's being honest. But they didn't hold
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true to that. Like, literally day before Election Day, boom, you're hitting them again.
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So it's like You, you try to do this
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diesel deal with Russia to like, you know, bring the prices down a little bit.
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It's not really working too much. And now you're hitting
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Iran again. You're gonna spike the prices back up.
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Um, the official who spoke to the Associated Press on a condition of anonymity said
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the strikes targeted Iranians using surface-to-air missiles against U.S. assets.
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Iranian
state television also reported explosions on Qom Island.
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The strikes appeared limited rather than a return to full-scale hostilities.
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However, they came after President Donald Trump had indicated the United States would
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not launch new attacks on Iran before the midterm elections. Latest strikes come as the
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Trump administration faces pressure to determine its next step in a war that has lasted
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more than 8 months and distributed— or disrupted global markets. Thousands of American
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troops remain in waters off Iran as part of a naval blockade intended to
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prevent Iranian oil tankers from reaching international markets. A 3rd U.S.
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aircraft carrier and additional troops are also heading to the Middle East.
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Now again, we talked about this before, that, um,
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the 5,000 Marines— I think it was 2,000 Marines that were sailing out of California
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heading that way. It was a routine thing.
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But, but,
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but, you know, you know where I'm going with that one. You just, you don't
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know these days. You just don't know these days. So, but yeah,
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you got Trump hitting Iran again. That's gonna probably put your prices back
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up here.
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I mean, I'm not seeing really any
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good winning messages from the GOP pushing into the midterms.
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I'm seeing the ads, I'm seeing— it really feels like the GOP across
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the spectrum just does not have a winning message to voters. The message is
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kind of like the matter— the message that I'm seeing honestly is the Democrats are
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worse. Oh, but the Democrats—
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well, look, I'm gonna just be honest with you here, and people are not gonna
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like to hear this. But the Democrats didn't spike this new war in Iran.
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You did. Republicans did. Democrats didn't drive up inflation.
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Trump's administration did. This war— if Trump would have just not done this
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war in Iran, I think these midterms would be looking a lot different than what
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we're going into right now. Um,
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so, um,
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you know, I, I don't know what else to say on this one. I'm not
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trying to beat a dead horse. And it's like, I'm, I'm just calling it like
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I see it. I don't see winning messages coming from the GOP leadership.
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During this election cycle. And realistically, to be truthful,
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I think it's because there's just not a lot that they can really talk about.
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It doesn't feel like there's a lot that they can really run on outside of,
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again, the border, the Lake and Riley Act, um, the whole
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trans thing. Like, I think that's really all they've got. So, but that's
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gonna do it. I just wanted to read a few articles, and I will be
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live tonight. I want to get this uploaded for the podcast so you guys
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can understand. You guys know I'll be live tonight around 6:30 PM CST over on
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YouTube, John Burke YouTube. You can come check me out there and we will watch—
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we will watch these— we will watch these results come in together live
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and see where Congress stands. Hopefully after tonight, some, some results will probably be delayed,
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but we should get a good idea of where we're standing tonight. So anyway,
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I will see y'all tonight live at 6:30 PM CST right here on the
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All-American Savage Show at John Burke YouTube. We'll see you guys then.