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Not too bad.
I mean, it's one of those...
It's a weird time for weather.
You know, you get up in the morning, it's about 55, 54 degrees, something like that.
But, you know, all you have to do is wear a t-shirt and a shirt over it.
You don't need a jacket or anything like that.
It's kind of weird.
I don't remember having to dress like this before.
Days we're not gonna talk about.
All right.
We're not gonna talk about national ketchup day.
Why would we talk about it?
Yeah, I would bring that up anyway.
I do want to say something about ketchup, okay?
I'm a big fan of ketchup.
I love ketchup.
It's one of the best condiments ever.
But I tell you what, you can certainly argue with a lot of people about that.
About use of ketchup?
Yeah, yeah.
Don't put it on a
She says it tastes
just like the mustard in Germany when she was there visiting her brother, who was in the service at the time.
And she loves that stuff.
And Woodman's was out of it for like a month and she was freaking out.
Where's the coops, Dusseldorf?
Anyway, so Dusseldorf and Bratz.
Highly, highly recommended now.
I'm kind of addicted to that and no ketchup this time.
Well, did they finally get the coups?
They did.
They finally got it, and I'm sure other stores might have it, but I don't go to other stores.
I can't remember now, but they
had the burgers made for you already and in a package already sealed.
I didn't like any of that.
It was too fresh.
I mean, it just didn't work for me.
I thought maybe freeze the patties.
They last longer that way.
I can get to them without ruining the damn meat or whatever they call it.
And they're good, but I'm not a big fan of them.
How about you, Tom?
You like veggie burgers?
I
it
It's a good stuff.
It's a YouTube thing.
Absolutely.
Any birthdays of note?
Birthdays, birthdays.
We got William Upjohn.
For those who don't know who that is, he invented the dissolvable pill.
Well, it helps if they eventually dissolve.
It really is.
It was an important invention.
And then we got Mark Wahlberg, 1971.
So two completely, you know, of John and Wahlberg.
What do you
think that was one
I
agree with you on that.
But if they had just frozen the patties instead of making them fresh, because you don't always just reach out for a hamburger, right?
You know, it's a special time, you know, maybe once or twice a month, something like that.
You have a hamburger.
But beyond beef, they didn't freeze them.
They were just raw.
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A certain language over here in the studio that continually amazes
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The viewpoints are very high and it's not going to work out.
We just found out that Brittany is still under the weather.
You know, we're all under the weather, especially the weather that we're getting from Canada.
Right.
Damn.
What the heck, right?
The smoke.
I mean, what?
Smoke and the haze.
Yeah.
I don't remember a lot of forest fires in Canada previous to this last year.
We got it, but
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Thanks, Troy.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Yes.
We've got legal questions for him So that's all coming up.
Well, that's
Well, I just have a stack of stories for today.
That's all right.
You know, we're going to get into a Palantir.
As I mentioned yesterday, we're going to have it all week.
Another cut Friday, but we always feature the first story will be Palantir explaining more and more about Palantir as as we all kind of adjust to the idea that the man, big government is watching over our shoulder.
At
So
and
their software in, in order to connect all of the departments into one where they could just access all the information from other departments and compare data.
And no more about you and me or buying habits, TV shows we watch.
Well, your tax forms, all your personal information, health care.
We thought health care was kind of a personal thing.
No, not anymore.
HIPAA.
Yeah.
I think everybody kind of forgot about that.
Right out the window.
So right now, we're being surveilled.
And a lot of people are having a problem with that, including the maggots.
Yes.
Really?
So now maybe we know more about them.
And you know, kind of the funny thing that occurred to me was when we have a Democrat in the White House, right?
Maybe even Democrats in the Senate, in the House, we're going to have all of the ability.
to surveil all the megas up there and keep track of them and see what militia they're, you know, they're forming at the time.
Military militia.
I mean, just think, I hate to bring it up to the megas that this is going to be weaponized in a way you guys could not have imagined.
Yeah.
All right well okay guys you know you can just play like that if you want but uh you know we're we're we're gearing up we're getting ready to go after you and and oh yeah put you in those FEMA camps you were so afraid of oh wow back the FEMA camps yeah FEMA camps okay wow
I'm just, you know, look, I'm just warning them.
They didn't give us a warning.
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the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber,
you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the
world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
You're
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All right, Graham.
Sorry for Mount Horace.
Tell that bittersing guy to shut his the
you
Yeah.
I've been accumulating a lot of stories for him.
I know.
But we'll probably have to toss him up.
with newer stories as the administration destroys education in this country and tries to take over all our colleges with with conservative mega thought.
I can't wait for that.
All right, CNN's senior data analyst, Harry Enten, broke down Donald Trump's presidency and it's a remarkable failure.
Big surprise, surprise, surprise.
So why don't we listen to this?
This is CNN and Trump, his failures.
Yeah, you know Kate.
I'm a Buffalo Bills fan, so I know what losing feels like and
that the courts have halted Trump's admin agenda a huge number of times What are we talking about?
We're talking about at least 181 times that they have temporarily at least temporarily halted Trump's agenda That is a huge number to give you that in percentage terms in over 50% of the cases that are presented to courts the Trump administration agenda has been halted at least
temporarily.
So Donald Trump, you know, tries to do these actions with this administration, but the courts have been saying, hold on, wait a minute here.
Then they have said that at least 181 times so far in just the first few months of this administration.
Quite a number on tariffs.
Some of the latest is this moniker that Wall Street has.
We were learning that's being thrown around on Wall Street, which is taco and acronym for Trump always chickens out.
Yeah, you have numbers on that.
Yeah, OK.
So one of the things, you know, you hear these things going on, you say, okay, is this actually entering the mainstream culture?
And we can see this right here in Google searches.
The top term that was Googled with Donald Trump on Thursday was...
It was taco.
It was taco.
Indeed, get this, the terms Trump and taco Google together up through the roof.
Get this, 9,900% increase on Thursday versus Tuesday.
So if you are wondering whether or not this Trump always chickens out and the acronym taco actually has entered the mainstream.
Well, Google gives it away, 100% has, and this to me is quite troubling for Donald Trump because obviously he trades on his name, he trades on the idea that he does what he says, and if all of a sudden you're associating Trump always chickens out with Donald Trump, well that is no bueno.
One of the things that you hear from the president and his allies is what's being blocked.
What he's doing is exactly what he promised on the campaign trail and exactly he says what Americans voted for and put him in the White House again to do.
How do you relate, how does it relate and what are you seeing in terms of how Americans feel about the president and campaign promises?
Right, exactly right.
You know, if the courts are, if the injunctions are being put in by courts, if all of a sudden he's always chickening out when it comes to his, you know, tariffs, then all of a sudden Donald Trump can't
actually do what he promised to do.
And that, of course, is Donald Trump's bread and butter.
And even before the taco acronym came into effect, our CNN poll asked, good at keeping campaign promises.
Look at this.
Just 48% of Americans said that Donald Trump was good at keeping campaign promises.
Joe Biden's number in April of 2021 was actually higher than that.
Yeah,
actually higher than that at 59 percent.
Now, obviously, that Biden number would go down during his administration.
But if you compare where Donald Trump is right now in his presidency to where Joe Biden was in his presidency, Donald Trump's trademark is keeping campaign promises and less than 50 percent of Americans say he's doing a good job and north of 50 percent of Americans saying he's doing a bad job on the thing that should be a hallmark for Donald Trump.
And he is failing at that in the minds of the American public right now.
This is an interesting base.
to keep as, as you said, his, you know, ended up obviously falling.
And to see where it goes from this baseline of campaign promises is very interesting, Herring.
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That's what this program is all about.
We play a lot of voices, including, by the way, what I call web wisdoms.
Yeah.
Right?
I mean, these are people on the web saying really cool stuff, which I have checked out, by the way, just to make sure they're accurate.
Okay.
But in this case, I know...
This person is very accurate.
I don't have a name for this person.
Sometimes, you know, they're in TikTok.
They don't provide a lot of names or information.
These comments might be strong, but it's how I genuinely feel.
I don't care that you're a Christian.
I don't care what the Bible says.
Like, I feel like it's a clown show, like sitting here trying to decipher what your little mythical book has to say about these very real political issues, right?
I don't care if you're a Christian.
In fact, I will fight for you to have your religious liberty and practice your Christianity.
I believe in that.
I don't believe in Christianity, which means that you do not get to dictate the way I live my life based on your religion.
I don't care what the Bible says.
You have every right in the world, all those women who identify with your religion have every right in the world to not
get an abortion to not take birth control, but they do not have the right to dictate my life.
And what I decide to do with my body, I don't care about your goddamn religion.
I'm so tired of having nonstop conversations about what the Bible says.
You live your life.
in the way that you interpret the Bible.
Again, I don't care, but you don't get to take the Bible and tell me, well, the Bible says this in this chapter, in this verse, I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't believe in it.
And I have
based on our constitution to not believe in it.
Boy, I can tell you that I have.
Pretty much sounded like that to my mega friend in Milwaukee, who's a born again Christian.
I just don't care, you know.
He picks and chooses what he wants.
He's a cafeteria.
Catholic and and he's denounced the Pope by the way born again former Catholic and he just keeps throwing these Bible verses at me like you know, you know, maybe you know, you should just kind of follow some of what Jesus said if you care about Jesus anymore.
Does he have a Trump Bible?
You know, well, I would assume extra stuff a little bit too much money for him.
Were they 50 bucks?
Yeah.
You know, a lot of the Megas, they don't, they don't have 50 bucks rolling around in their pocket.
So, um, okay, now we have, uh, we have, uh, you know, sometimes they lie so blatantly that it's just so obvious that I had to, I have to play this.
Uh, it's White House budget director Russell vote.
Um, and he's denying that, uh, they're carrying out their agenda project 2025.
Even even though Dana Bash is saying, you know, you really you're really doing that, you know Oh, no, no, you know, it's so blatantly a lie that I just have to play it for you.
It's just jaw-dropping.
Let's go.
Let's listen to it Okay, cut 60.
It's on the list.
I think
things that you have become known for is that you were one of the architects of Project 2025.
One of the things that was noteworthy during the campaign was that President Trump really distanced himself.
He said he doesn't know anything about it It's it's not something that he had any knowledge of but obviously you did and you're now there and I just want to show our viewers just some of What was on your checklist a lot of them have been checked off from product 2025 there are others that are kind of in the pipeline including
Ending funding for PBS and PR and many other things Yeah, is it fair to say that what you are doing now is in part enacting this very Document that you and your colleagues worked very hard on project.
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We've been counting down Project 2025 here in the program for a long, long time.
And we know when...
Project 2025 is taking effect and they have executed almost the entire list.
There's just a few left that they want to take care of, you know, laggers, but they're getting to it.
They're getting to them.
But anyway, Dana Bash was grilling the guy who wrote Project 2025 and that is House Budget Director Russell Vogt.
And of course, he's going to deny it, but I just thought the denial is so obvious, so ridiculous that it's
obviously he's lying.
So let's continue the cut that we were playing in the last segment.
Let's go.
Okay.
Is it fair to say that what you are doing now is in part enacting this very...
document that you and your colleagues worked very hard on, Project 2025?
No,
of course not.
The only people that are delusional about whether the president is the architect, the visionary, the originator of his own agenda that he was very public about throughout the campaign in which you are seeing him in rapid fashion go through and accomplish are his adversaries.
And I think it's one of the reasons why you had to have the last segment with the leader of the Democrats who are in such a disarray because instead of talking about the
issues of the forgotten men and women, they're coming up with these fake news stories.
I'm not suggesting that he's not in charge.
I'm just saying that that now it's pretty clear that what he wants
to do and what
you planned are dovetailing.
Yeah, I think the president was very clear with his agenda and he is going forward with the agenda and he has been at the helm and the originator of all of these ideas.
No.
Okay, last question.
Other recommendations from project 2025, eliminating the Fed, privatizing Fannie and Freddie.
banning medication abortion, are those still on the agenda?
What's on the agenda is what the president has put on the agenda, most of which he ran on.
It's not an answer.
And you will continue to see the things that he's interested in doing, and those people like me will be executing that vision.
No.
Russ Boat, the OMB director.
Yeah.
I don't remember a lot of that at all.
And I think, you know, if this truly was his agenda, where's the agenda taken care of the heavy batteries on boats?
and the fear of sharks.
Where's that part of Project 2025 if he's written the whole damn thing?
You know, he is so devoid of any knowledge of exactly what he's signed into place, all of the agenda items that the Heritage Foundation came up with, and yet we're expected to believe that he came up with every one of those ideas, my ass.
Okay,
Okay.
I could ask a long wind up question, but I might as well just let you cook on the big, beautiful bill and what you make of it.
It has something for every part of the American political spectrum to hate.
So for conservatives, there's the fact that it explodes the deficit and the debt even more.
You know,
one thing that I take seriously from the conservative perspective is the idea that we have to be more responsible about the debt, especially as it's
you know, once you cross that 100% debt to GDP ratio and you add and add to it, especially because part of why we've been able to get away with that much debt is the rock solid reputation for political and economic stability that the US has enjoyed.
Obviously, that's got some holes in it.
So not a great time to be adding trillions to the debt.
So I think conservatives can can see how disturbing that is.
Meanwhile,
Most Americans and definitely most liberals don't love the tax cuts for the rich that are in there which is part of why there is such a big debt and deficit And then you got something that is especially disturbing the liberals, but again, I think the whole country gets at least most of the country gets which is that Kicking 8 million Americans off of health insurance on purpose is a bad idea
It's
wrong and it's gonna make America less healthy and it doesn't make any sense
Especially when we know that the reason that they're doing it is partly to fund these tax cuts for the wealthiest.
So, you know, these are, this is not, this is not incredibly complicated, even though a budget bill can fundamentally be very complicated.
The facts here are simple.
The fact is cutting taxes for the wealthy, destroying health insurance for millions of Americans and adding to the debt while you're at it is
bad policy.
And I think it's bad politics, but it's up to those of us who stand in opposition to make sure there's actually a political penalty for getting on board with this.
So
No doubt about that.
They're going to accept a few given takes and that'll be about it.
But they made their stand on.
We're going to remember all the people that they made their stand.
Yeah.
By the way, there's a late, uh, late story here that just happened about an hour ago.
20 city buses in Philly.
20 city buses are on fire in Philly.
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