บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ Midterms: Texas Showdowns, Trump’s Aid Bombshell, and Rising Oil Prices

04:24.998 wave this bad boy. Like, they're talking like Senate loss by a multitude of seats, 04:25.015 --> 04:28.570 not even by a minority, like a lot. 04:29.070 --> 04:32.870 We're talking massive House loss. Um, and you know, I'm seeing the opposite. I'm seeing 04:33.370 --> 04:35.790 a lot of people saying that the House loss won't be that bad, we'll maintain 04:36.290 --> 04:39.830 control of the Senate. Uh, nobody seems— nobody knows. Everyone can 04:40.330 --> 04:43.670 politically prosify— prophesy. Nobody really knows. So, but we're 04:44.170 --> 04:47.550 gonna find out together tonight. That's what we're gonna do. But again, my predictions— this 04:48.050 --> 04:51.430 is like our version of the NFL Draft or the, uh, outcome of this. 04:51.930 --> 04:54.190 No, it's not the Super Bowl. We'll call this the playoffs, right? The, uh, 04:54.690 --> 04:57.030 I think presidential elections are our Super Bowls, but I think these will be our 04:57.530 --> 05:00.925 playoffs. So again, I'm thinking Republicans lose the House, Republicans maintain 05:00.957 --> 05:04.322 Senate by not by much. Um, and then 05:04.822 --> 05:07.944 in the Talarico-Ken Paxton, I think Paxton's probably gonna win. And then with the, 05:08.072 --> 05:11.517 uh, Vicki Goodwin and Dan Patrick, I think— oh, 05:12.559 --> 05:15.732 I don't even want to say it. I don't. I hope Vicki Goodwin wins. 05:15.796 --> 05:19.354 I'm not even saying those words. I am not even saying those words. 05:19.786 --> 05:22.847 Not even gonna say it. I do not want that man reelected. Just an outright 05:23.347 --> 05:27.158 authoritarian. Look, if you're in Texas and you can't find yourself voting 05:27.222 --> 05:30.780 for a Democrat like Vicki Goodwin, I understand that. I'm not defending her policies. 05:30.828 --> 05:34.211 I'm not defending anything about this woman. What I am saying though is do not 05:34.711 --> 05:37.930 vote for Dan Patrick. Do not vote for Dan Patrick. This guy is an 05:38.122 --> 05:41.617 absolute just worthless one. He's just authoritarian. 05:42.065 --> 05:44.662 The guy is not even a native Texan. He comes up here, he has made 05:44.710 --> 05:47.564 so much money. He is a typical corrupt politician, 05:48.237 --> 05:51.523 typical corrupt political boomer up here, does not represent the will of the 05:52.023 --> 05:55.178 people. And truth be told, and this is what I've heard, is that if Vicki 05:55.290 --> 05:58.897 Goodwin gets elected, they're saying that essentially the conservative legislature of 05:59.397 --> 06:02.401 the Texas League are going to try and abolish the a lot of the authorities 06:02.579 --> 06:05.666 of the lieutenant governor, which I'm fully on board for. 06:06.005 --> 06:08.721 I'm fully on board for that. I don't think the position of the lieutenant governor 06:09.221 --> 06:12.015 should even exist in the capacity that does. Essentially, they have too much hold over 06:12.031 --> 06:15.501 the Senate. Um, don't like it. I don't like 06:16.001 --> 06:18.246 it. Dan Patrick is the biggest reason why here in Texas— I have to remind 06:18.746 --> 06:21.964 Texans, you don't have property taxes because of Dan Patrick. 06:24.082 --> 06:27.073 Now, if you followed me for any period of time, if you've watched this fight 06:27.573 --> 06:29.808 that we've been fighting here in Texas against the hemp ban from Dan Patrick, 06:30.164 --> 06:33.468 is that this last session We were told we were going to get property tax 06:33.968 --> 06:36.904 relief. There's a lot of Texans here that are hurting. It's, it's ridiculous. We don't 06:37.404 --> 06:39.938 have a state tax, but we do have property tax, and the property tax is 06:40.034 --> 06:43.454 getting worse. So all for I don't know how many years now, 06:43.888 --> 06:47.420 Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, every election season, property tax relief. 06:48.062 --> 06:51.690 Didn't get it. Instead, what Greg Abbott— or excuse me, uh, Dan Patrick did was 06:52.190 --> 06:55.768 that he held that bill, he held those bills hostage to get his SB 3 06:56.268 --> 06:59.558 hemp bill back through the Senate. And essentially it just— it brought 06:59.638 --> 07:03.125 everybody out. It took Texans away from their jobs. Everybody had to travel to Austin 07:03.173 --> 07:06.756 numerous times. They sat and waited all day to go speak for 2 07:06.772 --> 07:10.371 minutes. Massive turnout, historical turnout might I add, in terms of, 07:10.467 --> 07:13.761 um, uh, petitions that were signed. Like, 07:13.777 --> 07:17.199 I think it was the largest, most signed petition in the state of— or in 07:17.232 --> 07:20.847 Texas history, which was really incredible. So we're gonna 07:21.347 --> 07:23.723 watch how this all unfolds. And like I said, man, I don't know. I don't 07:24.223 --> 07:27.257 know how it's gonna go. But I am not seeing any support for Dan Patrick 07:27.757 --> 07:30.936 anywhere but the campaign things that I've been seeing him post, all of his campaign 07:30.968 --> 07:34.631 stops. His audience is primarily gray-haired boomers. 07:34.727 --> 07:38.245 I want to say 100%, 100%, it is the elder, it is 07:38.262 --> 07:40.736 the, the boomer generation. Um, 07:41.892 --> 07:45.218 it's— and we're gonna see whether or not the outcome of this election 07:45.250 --> 07:48.559 is the level of control that demographic 07:48.704 --> 07:52.865 has over the elections, because they are the— they're the largest turnout. Now the 07:52.897 --> 07:55.049 other thing that I don't know is that I'm— we're going to wait and see— 07:55.146 --> 07:58.343 is that if we've had historical voting turnout 07:58.843 --> 08:01.813 in this, this midterm, I want to see what the demographics are on this one 08:02.313 --> 08:05.443 because it's going to be very interesting. Are the younger generations getting more involved? 08:05.572 --> 08:08.624 Where is Gen Z at? I want to know because it's like the millennial and 08:09.124 --> 08:12.624 Gen X, we kind of— we do

show, but Gen Z is 08:12.656 --> 08:15.467 kind of like— I feel like the younger generation is a lot more proactive in 08:15.967 --> 08:18.745 the political space than I think the older generations. I want to see where they're 08:19.245 --> 08:22.420 at. What their numbers are, um, and the whole, the whole ranking, tell the truth, 08:22.436 --> 08:26.031 just to see. Because I want to know what that number is going 08:26.047 --> 08:29.834 to be when you start to see boomer, um, influence over the 08:30.334 --> 08:34.086 elections decrease. And what does that mean for future elections? Is the 08:34.586 --> 08:37.216 Conservative Party, is the GOP, like, where is it going from here? Is it gonna 08:37.716 --> 08:40.827 become more conservative? Is it gonna become more populist? Like, we don't know. We can 08:41.327 --> 08:43.587 speculate all we want. I just— these are things that I've just been like thinking 08:43.619 --> 08:47.130 about. Like, where's the party gonna go from here? Is the GOP going to revert 08:47.630 --> 08:50.870 back? Is it going to change into something new? Will MAGA maintain control of the 08:51.370 --> 08:54.770 GOP until '28? Are the midterms going to be the death rattle of MAGA? 08:55.270 --> 08:57.670 We don't know, but we're going to find out tonight. So make sure you tune 08:58.170 --> 09:01.350 in. Make sure you're here. Hit that like button. If you're not following me on 09:01.850 --> 09:05.090 John Burke YouTube, make sure you're doing that. That's my political YouTube page. All the 09:05.590 --> 09:08.910 podcasts are there. You can watch the videocast, everything, every livestream. It's there. 09:09.410 --> 09:12.130 And by the way, these podcasts, these audio ones, I'm trying to keep them pretty 09:12.630 --> 09:15.007 short. If you're wanting the entirety of it, just go to the live feed, 09:15.168 --> 09:18.217 go to the live stream, listen into it there. You get all the good content 09:18.717 --> 09:22.460 there. So without any further ado, let's get into it. 09:22.508 --> 09:24.501 First article right off the bat. 09:25.963 --> 09:28.743 And mind you, I have not read these articles. I just pull them up and 09:29.243 --> 09:32.923 we go off the cuff. So Trump announces end to $4 billion USAID 09:33.423 --> 09:37.753 to Israel. This is posted November 3rd. President Trump 09:37.833 --> 09:41.230 announced that the United States will stop providing $4 billion in annual military aid to 09:41.730 --> 09:42.538 Israel by the end of this year. He made the announcement during an interview with 09:43.038 --> 09:46.748 Fox. News. On Tuesday, November 3rd, 09:46.780 --> 09:51.045 as reported by NBC News, Trump stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 09:51.545 --> 09:55.035 had suggested the idea, noting that Israel is a successful country and does not need 09:55.535 --> 09:59.069 the aid. Where did 09:59.569 --> 10:02.644 this come from? Now, 10:02.998 --> 10:06.227 when you hear something like this, instantly it's okay, what's the ulterior motive here? 10:06.308 --> 10:09.344 What's the goal? Well, number one, Netanyahu is not 10:09.844 --> 10:12.515 doing good over there in Israel. I don't think he actually has enough people on 10:12.547 --> 10:16.224 his side in the government. Um, there is, there's a lot of scuttlebutt going 10:16.240 --> 10:18.600 on over there. I don't really know how it's going to play out over there, 10:18.664 --> 10:22.115 but this is, this has got it, this has got an intent. What's the intent 10:22.615 --> 10:26.017 behind this? Trump's comments came amid the midterm elections where U.S. aid to 10:26.033 --> 10:29.789 Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza have been, have been significant issues for voters. 10:30.287 --> 10:34.044 He mentioned that the decision to halt aid was partially influenced by political considerations, 10:34.477 --> 10:38.330 as the $4 billion payment has been a point of contention among Democrats, particularly those 10:38.394 --> 10:42.020 critical of US foreign policy. I got news for you. That's not just among Democrats. 10:42.520 --> 10:44.780 That's also amongst conservatives. A lot of people saying, you know, we need to end 10:45.280 --> 10:48.140 this aid to Israel. They do have one of the world's strongest economies. Why are 10:48.640 --> 10:50.780 we doing this? And say, well, you know, we actually get that money back because 10:51.280 --> 10:54.420 they're spending it on US weapons. Like, yeah, that promotes the military-industrial complex. 10:54.920 --> 10:57.120 Great. I guess that's money coming in in a sense. But what does this do 10:57.620 --> 11:01.240 for the average American? And also, if you have $4 billion to send that 11:01.740 --> 11:04.100 they don't need, then you don't need that $4 billion. So why are we getting 11:04.600 --> 11:08.000 taxed the way we are? Once again, it's just the government mismanaging the funds, 11:08.500 --> 11:12.150 mismanaging money. And now all of a sudden you've got Netanyahu, oh, we don't need 11:12.650 --> 11:16.010 it. It's like, so why did you take it, right? It's like 11:16.510 --> 11:18.990 no one's gonna turn down free money from America, from you, the tax— no one's 11:19.490 --> 11:22.950 turning this down. The announcement has sparked reactions, 11:23.070 --> 11:26.310 with some viewing it as a potential shift in U.S.-Israeli relations, according to 11:26.810 --> 11:30.310 AP News. Trump emphasized that while the aid would stop, the U.S. would still support 11:30.810 --> 11:34.630 Israel if needed. He described the aid as a significant expenditure for 11:35.130 --> 11:37.823 the U.S., suggesting that Israel no longer requires it. I'm, 11:38.095 --> 11:41.526 you know, good. I think this is a good thing. You're— but okay, 11:41.542 --> 11:44.571 so then Ukraine, let's go ahead and pull back on that, which I've seen him 11:44.667 --> 11:48.082 doing. But so you did this, like, you're pulling— you're throwing the brakes on this, 11:48.114

--> 11:52.089 like, literally right before the day of midterms. Day of 11:52.105 --> 11:55.632 midterms. Um, truth be 11:56.132 --> 11:58.597 told, it just seems too convenient at this point. It feels like it's too late 11:59.097 --> 12:01.306 to hit the brakes on this train. It's already been going this, this direction, 12:01.483 --> 12:04.516 this rate of speed. Um, for the last 2 years, 12:05.030 --> 12:08.420 it really feels like the Trump administration has done everything they can to throw 12:08.920 --> 12:12.518 the brakes on this. We're talking about the $5,000 stimulus checks. We're talking about the 12:13.018 --> 12:16.277 McCarthyism that we've seen from a lot of the political commentators on the right in 12:16.777 --> 12:19.298 terms of communists, even though we're not seeing communism— I mean, close to it. 12:19.732 --> 12:22.929 We're seeing socialists, right? But it's just a matter of, 12:23.170 --> 12:26.561 uh, which flavor of socialism is what it boils down to, because you've got 12:27.061 --> 12:31.311 the MAGA socialism via the $5K stimmy checks the Market Facilitation Program 12:31.811 --> 12:35.493 that Trump's, you know, basically created for the farmers. Just, it's again, it's just what 12:35.993 --> 12:39.010 flavor of socialism are we talking about, the red or the blue? That's all this 12:39.058 --> 12:41.951 really boils down to in terms of— so when people talk about the communists, 12:42.353 --> 12:46.370 we're not there yet. We're close, we're close up there in New York with McDonough. 12:47.415 --> 12:50.922 He's getting there but not fully. And I feel 12:51.422 --> 12:54.138 like that's a very important thing because you should always understand your, your, um, 12:55.190 --> 12:58.690 your difference in economic principles or philosophies when you're using these words, 12:59.190 --> 13:01.070 but it just turns into another bud word, buzzword. It's kind of like when the 13:01.570 --> 13:04.230 left said everything is racist or homophobic or xenophobic. It's like, yeah, 13:04.730 --> 13:06.750 whatever, dude. Come to find out they're all right though. 13:08.180 --> 13:11.930 A spokesperson for Netanyahu stated they were unaware of the details 13:12.430 --> 13:16.010 of Trump's announcement but would seek clarification. The decision has also been met with criticism 13:16.510 --> 13:20.670 from some of Netanyahu's political opponents who argue that ending the aid could harm Israel's 13:21.170 --> 13:24.646 security. The U.S. has provided substantial military aid to Israel over the years, 13:25.142 --> 13:28.733 with a memorandum of understanding set to expire in 2028. Discussions have been ongoing 13:28.781 --> 13:32.516 about the future of the U.S. assistance to Israel beyond that date. The announcement 13:33.016 --> 13:36.748 has also impacted oil prices, with Brent crude oil falling more than 3% following 13:36.764 --> 13:39.746 Trump's comments, also noted by Al Jazeera. 13:40.291 --> 13:44.122 I did notice that the price of oil— this is Election Day, let's see, 13:44.154 --> 13:47.344 uh, oil prices. What are people going to 13:47.844 --> 13:50.839 the polls and looking at in terms of oil prices right now? 13:50.967 --> 13:54.760 You've got WTI crude down, uh, $95.35 to 13:55.260 --> 13:58.840 $96 a barrel. Brent crude down 1 point, 13:59.340 --> 14:03.360 uh, down to $103.70 a barrel. Murban crude $102. 14:03.560 --> 14:07.000 Natural gas is up to $2.90. So yeah, you still have 14:07.500 --> 14:11.000 hovering around $100 a barrel, maybe $98 average, 14:11.500 --> 14:14.760 $90— well, no, probably about $99, $100 average price per 14:15.260 --> 14:18.960 barrel. Um, and this is brought to you by the oilprice.com 14:19.460 --> 14:22.672 website. That's where I go check my stuff at. And you know, 14:24.860 --> 14:28.174 it doesn't, it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good. I mean, 14:28.303 --> 14:31.693 you're sending your people to the midterms. These are the current metrics. Matter of fact, 14:31.709 --> 14:35.011 let's do a quick spot check on CPI. Where is CPI currently 14:35.028 --> 14:35.255 at? 14:40.048 --> 14:42.980 Um, this is the basic final report card before we're going into, uh, 14:43.870 --> 14:47.268 the midterms. Bureau of Labor and Statistics latest 14:47.768 --> 14:52.736 numbers are 0.6%. This is coming straight from the government. 14:53.089 --> 14:55.654 CPI for all items increases 0.6% in September. 14:55.799 --> 14:59.551 Gasoline rises in September. The Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers 14:59.727 --> 15:03.238 rose 0.6% seasonally adjusted and 15:03.335 --> 15:07.183 rose 3.7% over the year not seasonally adjusted. The index 15:07.683 --> 15:11.159 for all items less food, uh, and energy rose 0.3% 15:11.271 --> 15:14.286 in September, up 2.6% over the year. 15:14.895 --> 15:19.410 Uh, net release Consumer Price Index scheduled to be released On November 10th. 15:19.910 --> 15:23.810 Uh, the— okay, that's for October. Okay, so September wasn't 15:24.310 --> 15:26.870 very good. We're waiting on October, uh, right here. 15:27.350 --> 15:30.350 Energy currently— yeah, 15:30.850 --> 15:34.590 we're just— it's in September, it's up 0.6. 15:35.090 --> 15:38.570 We'll see what October's is. And keep in mind, the cost 15:39.070 --> 15:42.470 has been elevated this entire time on, uh, on oil. I don't 15:42.970 --> 15:44.650 think these numbers are going to look any better, to tell you the truth. 15:45.150 --> 15:48.336 It's going to continue going as it is, and it's a shame. I'm not, 15:48.384 --> 15:51.994 I'm not sitting here saying this, celebrating this. I'm saying that these are the metrics 15:52.494 --> 15:55.684 that we're going into in these midterms, and they're not good numbers. They're just not. 15:55.765 --> 15:59.792 When you're looking at almost average $100 a barrel, you're looking at CPI 15:59.952 --> 16:02.343 still going up, inflation's still up. 16:03.370 --> 16:07.285 Uh, you know, the only thing that I'm

seeing being ran upon on 16:07.333 --> 16:11.296 these political ads is the border and the trans issue. That's all I'm seeing 16:11.328 --> 16:14.649 from conservative commentators. I'm seeing it— honestly, it feels like a 16:15.149 --> 16:18.349 lot of fear-mongering and fear porn. Counting on voters not knowing how 16:18.398 --> 16:21.755 the system works. Look, I'll be honest with you, if Democrats take the House, 16:22.272 --> 16:23.289 that's not the end of the country. 16:25.927 --> 16:29.236 I don't care if this offends people. If Democrats take the Senate, that's not the 16:29.736 --> 16:31.814 end of the country. That's not the end of democracy. It's just not. 16:33.383 --> 16:36.522 We've had a government that has existed for 250 years almost, right? 16:37.364 --> 16:40.714 Systems of government, mechanisms of government that work. They're effective. 16:40.827 --> 16:44.530 They're not always going to go in our way. But this fear-mongering, I mean, 16:44.788 --> 16:48.226 I have to ask you, how many times this election 16:48.275 --> 16:51.808 season have you heard most important election of our lifetime? 16:55.412 --> 16:59.242 How many times have you heard it over 16:59.742 --> 17:02.805 and over again? The fear-mongering, the fear porn, 17:03.065 --> 17:06.468 all of it. It's just gotten— it's gotten old. It's gotten 17:06.501 --> 17:10.139 tiresome. Look, worst case is— oh, I've said this 17:10.639 --> 17:11.971 so many times— the best case is Republicans lose the House. You hit the purse 17:12.471 --> 17:16.033 strings on this war in Iran, you get this thing ended, 17:16.049 --> 17:18.845 you bring them home, you fix this economy, you let the cost of gas come 17:18.861 --> 17:21.576 back down, you get that Fed rate to bring that number down, and then you 17:22.076 --> 17:25.454 set up a chance for a 2028 run. If you don't— and this is what's 17:25.954 --> 17:30.004 very concerning right now— Republicans have no pathway forward 17:30.843 --> 17:34.449 to what's going on with Iran. This is 17:34.497 --> 17:37.883 the message that the GOP is putting out to the voter 17:38.383 --> 17:41.253 base on Election Day. We have a new war. 17:42.740 --> 17:46.572 It's cost us over $60 billion so far that we know of. We've got 17:46.718 --> 17:49.968 18 dead that we know of, thousands wounded that we know of. 17:50.615 --> 17:53.447 We've really put a strain on all of our alliances, even though I think most 17:53.947 --> 17:57.725 voters probably don't care about things like that. Now we're doing deals with Russia 17:58.225 --> 18:01.351 for their diesel. We're all over the place. 18:02.189 --> 18:04.819 We don't have an end to the war in Ukraine. It's still going. 18:07.570 --> 18:11.181 All you have is the border and the trans stuff, and that's great, don't get 18:11.681 --> 18:13.917 me wrong. Like I said, I can never gig Trump on the border stuff, 18:13.965 --> 18:14.775 but it's just not enough. 18:17.144 --> 18:20.539 I had Rob Noor on here

debating this the other day, and Rob 18:21.039 --> 18:24.193 Noor tried making the principal argument of, well, you know, an entire— if you look 18:24.693 --> 18:28.026 at different polls in terms of job creation, all these things, they're going in the 18:28.059 --> 18:30.924 right direction. It's like, well, that's— now you're making an argument on relevance. 18:31.814 --> 18:35.058 I think the most— the biggest thing that I think people are really going to 18:35.558 --> 18:38.727 be voting for this election season is gas prices. I think that's going to be 18:39.227 --> 18:42.966 the biggest, most impactful thing that has voters out there reaching 18:42.998 --> 18:44.562 for the wallet saying, I didn't vote for this. 18:46.322 --> 18:49.090 The war in Iran, I mean, a lot of people are like, I didn't vote 18:49.590 --> 18:53.035 for this. So we're gonna have to wait and see. So this is essentially 18:53.051 --> 18:57.293 the message that the GOP is putting out to the voter base going into Election 18:57.325 --> 19:00.782 Day and Oh, by the way, oh, by the way, 19:00.863 --> 19:04.807 the U.S. launches defensive strikes on Iranian 19:05.307 --> 19:08.859 targets as diplomatic talks continue. We're hitting Iran again. 19:10.702 --> 19:14.536 Watch them prices about to go back up. Military action comes amid an 19:14.633 --> 19:18.193 8-month conflict, ongoing negotiations, and pressure from U.S. 19:18.257 --> 19:22.061 allies to prevent a wider regional war. United States has conducted defensive 19:22.561 --> 19:26.423 strikes against Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official Monday on 19:26.456 --> 19:28.451 November 2nd confirmed, as tensions rise in the Middle East ahead of America's November 3rd 19:30.290 --> 19:33.629 midterms. This happened, uh, this is— yeah, November 3rd, this reported. 19:34.079 --> 19:37.627 The strikes raise fresh concerns about renewed fighting as diplomatic efforts 19:38.127 --> 19:41.802 continue. Well, folks, look, we have to remind ourselves that Trump even said that the 19:42.302 --> 19:45.062 strikes would resume after midterms. Like, that was not hidden, 19:45.559 --> 19:47.631 you know. You kind of put it out there plain as day. I mean, 19:47.743 --> 19:50.537 I can't fault him on that. At least he's being honest. But they didn't hold 19:51.037 --> 19:53.331 true to that. Like, literally day before Election Day, boom, you're hitting them again. 19:53.925 --> 19:57.266 So it's like You, you try to do this 19:57.378 --> 20:00.978 diesel deal with Russia to like, you know, bring the prices down a little bit. 20:01.074 --> 20:04.416 It's not really working too much. And now you're hitting 20:04.432 --> 20:06.692 Iran again. You're gonna spike the prices back up. 20:08.260 --> 20:11.802 Um, the official who spoke to the Associated Press on a condition of anonymity said 20:12.076 --> 20:15.619 the strikes targeted Iranians using surface-to-air missiles against U.S. assets. 20:16.022 --> 20:19.201 Iranian

state television also reported explosions on Qom Island. 20:19.592 --> 20:22.514 The strikes appeared limited rather than a return to full-scale hostilities. 20:22.782 --> 20:26.556 However, they came after President Donald Trump had indicated the United States would 20:27.056 --> 20:30.715 not launch new attacks on Iran before the midterm elections. Latest strikes come as the 20:31.215 --> 20:34.746 Trump administration faces pressure to determine its next step in a war that has lasted 20:35.246 --> 20:38.680 more than 8 months and distributed— or disrupted global markets. Thousands of American 20:39.180 --> 20:42.631 troops remain in waters off Iran as part of a naval blockade intended to 20:42.679 --> 20:46.597 prevent Iranian oil tankers from reaching international markets. A 3rd U.S. 20:46.694 --> 20:49.841 aircraft carrier and additional troops are also heading to the Middle East. 20:49.970 --> 20:53.150 Now again, we talked about this before, that, um, 20:53.650 --> 20:56.650 the 5,000 Marines— I think it was 2,000 Marines that were sailing out of California 20:57.150 --> 20:58.880 heading that way. It was a routine thing. 20:59.010 --> 21:02.010 But, but, 21:02.510 --> 21:04.890 but, you know, you know where I'm going with that one. You just, you don't 21:05.390 --> 21:09.350 know these days. You just don't know these days. So, but yeah, 21:09.850 --> 21:13.030 you got Trump hitting Iran again. That's gonna probably put your prices back 21:13.530 --> 21:13.730 up here. 21:17.495 --> 21:20.958 I mean, I'm not seeing really any 21:21.039 --> 21:25.001 good winning messages from the GOP pushing into the midterms. 21:25.404 --> 21:30.074 I'm seeing the ads, I'm seeing— it really feels like the GOP across 21:30.574 --> 21:33.922 the spectrum just does not have a winning message to voters. The message is 21:34.020 --> 21:37.390 kind of like the matter— the message that I'm seeing honestly is the Democrats are 21:37.504 --> 21:40.969 worse. Oh, but the Democrats— 21:41.469 --> 21:43.246 well, look, I'm gonna just be honest with you here, and people are not gonna 21:43.746 --> 21:46.396 like to hear this. But the Democrats didn't spike this new war in Iran. 21:46.541 --> 21:49.986 You did. Republicans did. Democrats didn't drive up inflation. 21:50.421 --> 21:53.625 Trump's administration did. This war— if Trump would have just not done this 21:53.641 --> 21:56.121 war in Iran, I think these midterms would be looking a lot different than what 21:56.299 --> 21:58.634 we're going into right now. Um, 22:00.061 --> 22:01.943 so, um, 22:04.899 --> 22:07.676 you know, I, I don't know what else to say on this one. I'm not 22:08.176 --> 22:11.261 trying to beat a dead horse. And it's like, I'm, I'm just calling it like 22:11.761 --> 22:13.944 I see it. I don't see winning messages coming from the GOP leadership. 22:15.602 --> 22:18.873 During this election cycle. And realistically, to be truthful, 22:18.889 --> 22:21.262 I think it's because there's just not a lot that they can really talk about. 22:22.160 --> 22:24.902 It doesn't feel like there's a lot that they can really run on outside of, 22:24.918 --> 22:28.413 again, the border, the Lake and Riley Act, um, the whole 22:28.913 --> 22:32.822 trans thing. Like, I think that's really all they've got. So, but that's 22:33.322 --> 22:35.708 gonna do it. I just wanted to read a few articles, and I will be 22:35.724 --> 22:38.899 live tonight. I want to get this uploaded for the podcast so you guys 22:38.995 --> 22:42.667 can understand. You guys know I'll be live tonight around 6:30 PM CST over on 22:42.699 --> 22:45.966 YouTube, John Burke YouTube. You can come check me out there and we will watch— 22:45.998 --> 22:49.790 we will watch these— we will watch these results come in together live 22:50.177 --> 22:54.064 and see where Congress stands. Hopefully after tonight, some, some results will probably be delayed, 22:54.290 --> 22:57.107 but we should get a good idea of where we're standing tonight. So anyway, 22:57.204 --> 23:00.681 I will see y'all tonight live at 6:30 PM CST right here on the 23:01.181 --> 23:03.912 All-American Savage Show at John Burke YouTube. We'll see you guys then.