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So legends even you. So legends, are you there? Are you wondering like why I'm here and what happened? Let me tell you, have you guys traveled lately? Has anybody flown lately? Every almost every single experience that I've had since I think like January or so. There's been a delay. It's been weather. It's been mechanical. And then they had the thing here with the court with the plane, the cargo plane the other day. And so I got on the plane from the airport this morning. I got on the plane. It was a little, it was already late. They announced while I was on the show that it was late. And by the time I finished, they were boarding. I got on the plane. Everybody got on the plane. They closed the door. And then they said, whoa, guess what? There's an issue because of something. I don't know. I think we're we're going to have to leave like an hour and a half later. So we have everybody had to get off of the plane. And then it was supposed to be two hours ended up being like an hour and an hour and a half.
And they put us back on the plane and then we sat there and then we circled when we got here. So I didn't have a chance to go to it and I said, I can't leave my legends. I can't leave anybody in an alert. So here I am. So how are you doing? Somebody else said that they were in an airport. Who's in an airport? Me, Susan. Susan, you're in an airport traveling to and from you. I'm trying to get out of New York. I'm in I'm stuck in the party for the next three hours. This is terrible. But yeah, I'm trying to get the Dallas for a wedding. And then I'm going to New Orleans. And I want you to please do me a favor and read the emails that I sent you because I would like to talk to you about New Year's Eve. Oh, I am so bad at emails. So I will I will figure it out. And the two. So and you read them to yes. Because I used to be an artist in the Frenchman alley. And so I would like to try to get some really cool people in the alley this year.
I mean, they're all there yet for ask you to, but I will talk. Let's talk offline. Let's talk offline. Let's get some news in. Thank you very much, Susan. Thank you, legends. Okay, legends. I want you to know as we start here. Did you hear this last night from Donald Trump? United States said it. Both of them because of our economic tremendous economic success like in history, we've never had anything like what's happening. But because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000. Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to a shareholders or like last year when I gave our great members of the military.
1776 remember. I gave it to our military. 1776 dollars. Okay, now you guys know where that money is coming from, right? You he's basically giving you an advance or maybe just paying you back some of the money from the high taxes that he installed since he's been office the first time and the second time. So this is not like it's for free. It's not like he found a whole pile of money somewhere. It's like, oh my gosh, we didn't know we had this extra surplus of money. And so I'm just going to give it to folks. That is not what happened. I want to bring my legends back in to hear what they had to say about it. Legends, let me ask you this. I know that let's see. I want to go to Monique first because I know she has something to say about it because I saw her in the chat this morning. What you know this is first of all, it's a scam. Second of all, it reads bribe to me. And third of all, nothing is free because we're paying for it. It's coming out of our taxes.
Exactly. It's like how first of all, it's the lie. We're never going to get it. But how am I supposed to be happy about you giving me my money back? There's my money that you're taking for me. And now you're saying that you're going to give it back because we're doing also well. I just paid a $400 electricity bill. It's ridiculous. It is absolutely ridiculous. But they don't even put prices on meat anymore in my grocery store because the prices are changing all the time. You know what? No, I didn't realize that because I kept asking what is going on. I said, how much is this? I was in the grocery store. I don't know if you saw yesterday. I didn't get meat. I was by bought sushi. I was like, wow, this is really expensive. I love, but when I the other day, I was in the grocery store, in the meat section, and tell me in the chat, if you guys have this same experience, what on Earth is going on? Yes. They don't, you know, in the front, they have the the package has a price on it, but they no longer put the little price like propound what it is. And you actually I saw two packs of meat.
the same type of meat, but one was packaged one day and one was packaged another day. And the second day was $2 more a pound. Wow. Then the other pack, the same exact meat, it's ridiculous, it is ridiculous. Now, I know we're talking about this, but can I just say one thing? We want to get not on, is it on something else? It is on something else. I need to raise my hand again. Yeah, you have to raise your hand again. We'll get you back in. I want you to respond to this. Okay. All right. So let's move on and I'll get other folks. Because what I said is that Donald Trump, his dose check, well, it's not a dose check, it's another check, but the dose check was another thing. His $5,000 check started shrinking before he even had time to cash it. Because people started, really, pulling it apart, tearing it apart because they knew that it was fake. But by the time JD Vance, and I played this for you this morning, that he got in the Fox News, it was already changing. Maybe wealthy Americans would not get it.
Maybe a tariffs would pay for it. They said, maybe Congress would pass something after the election. I mean, this is JD Vance. We have JD Vance from this morning. What the President's talking about is fundamentally a dividend for American workers. We're taking in an extraordinary amount of revenue because the President of the United States is actually standing up to both foreign companies, but also foreign countries who've been taking advantage of America's workers for pretty much my entire life. All of these tariffs, what is a tariff Brett? A tariff is when the President of the United States says, if you want to undercut the wages of American workers, if you want to ship American jobs overseas, you're going to pay a big fat penalty when you try to bring that stuff back into the United States of America. Those penalties have generated a lot of revenues. They've helped us pay down debt. What the President's just saying is, if you keep it going to the American people, if you keep us in power and allow us to continue to do these things, then you're going to share in some of the benefit of this incredible wealth that we're creating in the United States of America. I don't think it's a controversial idea. It's actually the President of the United States saying,
we're all working together. We're all on the same team. And if we continue to create wealth, that wealth is going to go back to the American people. I think it's going to be great. All of this great wealth, and that discussion. Thank you. All of this great wealth that he says that they are creating here in the United States. Has anybody, can anybody tell me, do they agree with that? Is this great wealth, Kav, you have your hand up. Have you been the beneficiary of some great wealth in this country since Donald Trump took over? I'm going to bring it right now. Let's stick with her. Hey, oh no. We know as the lies one thing that has grift. Like, let me understand why people were there listening to that bullshit last night, because that's all it is. We ain't getting no money. You know, those chick coming in, you know, chick, chick coming in, no. You just want you out of get out there and vote for his people by any means necessary. But oh no, like the fact that people even showed up to that event last night, that shit doesn't bother me. There is no great wealth. What oil is back up to $100 a barrel?
The diesel is up, energy is up. But we win it, y'all. Is this what winning looks like? Y'all tell how to win it yet. How much are you paying for meat? Do you know in your grocery store? Two jam much. It was like the meat is too damn high. It was maybe like two steaks in the pack for $20. Right. And this wasn't like brass fit or nothing fancy. They weren't even big. It was literally two normal sized steaks, $20. And that was with the Crobe code. Yeah. Got no money. Stand by, Kev, stand by legend. So within an hour last night, Donald Trump, the Trump dividend, right? That's what he's calling it. Had terms and conditions. Trump never mentioned any of those conditions. And today, members of his own party started asking the same question that everybody else was asking. Like they were saying, well, what the hell is he talking about? There is no bill. There's no agreement in Congress.
Republican leaders apparently did not know that this was coming at all. And the White House has not provided the details on any of this Trump-announcing appaiment that could cost around $1.2 trillion tied to this, tied it directly to Republicans winning the election and he gave his name, and then he moved on $5,000 in real money. That's what he is saying. Now, when you're Donald Trump and you're the president of the United States, and you rely on Fox News to carry your water and carry your message out, like a megaphone out there, when you rely on that, and you have lost Fox News or Fox Business News or whichever one of the Fox News it is, when you have lost them, you're in really, really bad shape, Roland Andy. I don't like the $5,000, obviously, because we don't have the money. If we were running a $1 trillion budget surplus and had negligible debt, I would say definitely do the dividend. But they're... Hey, it's Kelly Roland. You may not know this, but I have Exema.
So I get how it can steal your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Epglyce? Epglyce, lubricism ab, LBKZ, a 250 milligram per two milliliter injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe Exema. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. Epglyce can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to Epglyce. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. I problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have newer, worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with Epglyce. Before starting Epglyce, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Paid partnership with Lili. Respect your time. Ask your doctor about Epglyce and visit Epglyce.com or call 1-800-LiliRX or 1-800-545-5979. To me, there's an educational component here. And I think it's important for younger Americans to understand like America was set up
so that the blessings of liberty, the dividends, come from the private sphere. The public sphere helps to create the safety around which, within which that happens, okay? But the problem we have right now, I think is too many young Americans say, the place I get what's owed to me is from the government. I want the government to give me the money. I want them to cancel my debt. And I do feel like talking up like this feeds into that idea. And maybe the most important thing that can happen right now is for a renaissance in Americans, especially younger Americans, understanding, you're not going to get any kind of dividend in life from the public sphere. They're always going to take more than they give from you. Wow. They're always going to take more than they give from you. That is the conservative, that is the conservative, I guess, value that we have heard about for so long. We have worked, small government,
except this is the biggest government that we have ever had. Donald Trump is the biggest, and he is part of the biggest and most abusive and depressive government that we have ever had. When you've lost Fox News, legends, when you have lost Fox News, and you're out there, Donald Trump is out there talking about folks, and he's lost Fox News, I don't know what else to say. Let's see who has their hand up. They're improving our overall quality of lives. Ms. Parker, he's lost Fox News. Is he in trouble? I'm Ms. Palmer, sorry, Barbara Palmer. Barbara Palmer. I didn't even know Mia right away, because I was like, who? I know. My eyes aren't that good, Ms. Palmer. I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket with that statement necessarily that he's lost Fox News, maybe on this one thing, without trying to be too insulting, I think maybe some of the dummies have woken up,
like they realize, especially if they have, you know, experienced in finances and government finances and stuff like that, they can put the dots together enough to see that logically, $5,000 checks don't make sense. We are national, that is at the highest that it's ever been, and it's continuing to get in deeper. Trump is only in the presidency for himself to stuff his pockets. Millionaires don't become millionaires by being generous. They really don't. They become millionaires by being greedy and what's in it for them. So I mean, for anybody to believe that, first of all, we were supposed to have those checks coming and then tariff checks coming, and there's already been proof that the tariff checks went to the CEOs in the company heads. So why would anybody think for a half a second that they're gonna get a $5,000 check out of this guy, if the Republicans stay and control past November,
it's not gonna happen. You're muted, Doug. Thank you, Barbara Palmer. I think Barbara is right. On this particular issue that maybe they lost Fox News on this issue, but not overall. And because usually they just don't like people handing out money usually, now I think the mega folks are gonna love it because $5,000, that is real money. Here's what it could do. It could catch you up on your rent. It could pay down, help you pay down a credit card. It could fix a car. It can cover a medical bill. As high as medical bills are. I mean, this is probably like one doctor's visit. It's ridiculous right now. Trump knows exactly that number. He knows exactly what he's doing and what he's hearing. That number does to somebody. What that does to somebody out there, right? Who has been staring at bills and deciding which bill can wait and which bill they have to pay right now. And if you're in business, if you're in a business, so here's the thing that people don't realize about small business.
That folks don't realize if anybody has a small business out there, anybody, is ever, you know, it's tax season coming up. For small businesses, tax season is every quarter and it's serious. And so not only do you pay employees, not only do you do the medical things, but you pay, most people pay taxes once a year. Small businesses, every quarter. And they want it in advance. And right? And so that's what folks don't understand when they're small businesses, money, and paid whatever. It's like, okay, you guys have no idea. This morning though, the promise was running into reality and some of the loudest objections were coming from Republicans as we've seen. Some of them there, Arizona Republican Congressman, David Sheeward, Sheikert, the Shweeker, said that he would put everything he had into stopping it because he believes that dumping that much borrowed money into the economy. Keyword is borrowed here, into the economy would raise interest rates and it would hurt working people,
conservative economists who I know, and I've worked with, Stephen Moore, who his advice Trump said that he could not tell whether the president really minute or whether it was just something that he said, but Donald Trump minute. He means it because check this out. He's on Laura Ingram. Why don't you just give the money now? If you have the money, why don't you give it now? Of course they can't, I'll tell you what, because the Democrats can't do it. Because with them, it's negative growth. With us, it's so positive. So we're taking in $21 trillion. Nobody, no country's ever taken in anywhere near that. It's four, five times higher than the next one. All because of that beautiful word that you and I love more than most others, tariffs. Do you like, do you? Teriffs, another tax on the consumer, another tax on Americans. So when you've lost conservative economists, like Stephen Moore, if you guys have ever seen him, he is a real conservative economic advisor,
hawk, if you want to call it that, Marine Marthell. And he is saying that this is borrowed money. First of all, I want to say that we all know why Trump is doing this because he's trying to... Are you tired of the confusing bait and switch pricing on GLP ones? Then visit happyglp.com where it's always $99 a month. At happyglp, whether you're brand new or renewing, it's $99 every time. No teaser price, no switch up. Getting started is fast, convenient, and happens virtually with a licensed provider. Check it out, happyglp.com. Compounded medications are not FDA approved. Eligibility required and determined via a licensed provider. Individual results may vary. See website for details. We will get people to vote for him and people he wants in office. So that really annoys me because I find that highly illegal.
But I also know that I will use an example of my family and my sister helps get food on the table for my nephews and their families and takes them to Costco shopping. And I will give kudos to Costco. It's not that it's cheap, but they treat their employees well. And not only that, they care about what's happening right now and make sure that they don't get food that comes from another country, meat and what have you. I may be off the subject for you, Dawn, but I just need to, or how I feel about all this. I'm getting so tired of him only thinking about himself and all those people out there with a food on the table or medical insurance.
Yeah, that's, yeah. Did I leave? Yeah, that's all, that's really tough. Thank you, Maureen. You're right about all of that. And Maureen at the beginning of what she said, she says that it was illegal. Look, I think that there is, there's a loophole and he made try to do it. He says he's gonna try to do it. There are other Republicans who are jumping on board. I talked to you to, I talked to you about them in a moment, but I wanna play this. This is from the view when you're talking about what's legal and what's not sunny, hostile. For the next, a check being cut one time. But the bottom line is if you can't win, you try to cheat. And that's what they're doing. It's just trying to cheat. They've redrawn maps, they're, they're gerrymandering, they're attacking mail-in ballots. This is the first president that is trying, in history that's tried to overturn an election. That's what's happening. The federal law prohibits vote buying. And if you listen to him very carefully, he said, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, I will give you one point in a $5,000 $1.3 trillion.
The law against the law. Vote, vote, buying, purchasing, trying to purchase votes is federally, it's a federal crime. And so I think that the bottom line here is, if you have a platform, if you can help the American people, Republicans tell us what you plan to do to write this ship rather than trying to cheat. That's the ship. They got the ship. The ship. Well, sorry, yeah. So, ship. So, too big for our eyes. Pause it there, she was right. So, Sunny said, ship by accident. And then, I don't know if you guys caught that. And then, what we said, ship. And they all jumped on. I think she said, ship by accident. I'll call her after this to see if she said it. But legends are illegal. Now, to you, as I was looking it up, I was like, I looked up today, what is the actual definition of election rigging? What is the actual definition of vote, buying? This doesn't fall under that. But in reality, where people know what's happening, Lizzie,
this seems, not seems, this is actual vote, buying. That's what he's saying. He's going to buy the votes and he's going to give it to them if Republicans win. So, people are going to go and they're going to vote for Republicans. They may not win. They may be mad or they may win and then end up getting nothing. But again, do you see this as buying votes, trying to purchase votes? Absolutely. 100% and it's not even actually buying votes because he's not going to give them money. Like he already said, he was giving us search test. I'm still, this will be $2,000 today when the O's are spilling. So, I don't buy it. And what are you going to get with $5,000 these days? Like it'll cover maybe your election rigs filled for part of the year at this point with all these data centers. So, I don't know. It's just wild what we're living with right now. 100% more from our legends and we're going to play more Republican reactions
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It seems to me like election rigging, but that's in my humble opinion. I mean, they're acting like the trapped animals they are. Honestly, they're coming out lashing out, trying to cheat, trying to rig that they know that when they lose, they're gonna be in trouble. So they're acting that way. But I was just thinking like, where did this $5,000 come from? Because it's right at the time that I don't know, part D subsidies just got cut and medical things just got cut. And we have money to pay people to vote, but we're letting people start and go without medication. So I don't understand it, honestly, but they are acting like trapped animals, cornered animals. Thank you for that, Jamie. It's better. Yeah, look, every time Donald Trump does something, it's versus, oh, it's shocking. And then he does another thing that's even more shocking than the last, right?
And as Jamie just said, trapped animals. Back to the ladies of the view now, because Wippy Goldberg and Joy, they had a few things to say about it. Okay. Well, what, what, what, what, what, what, is a liar? Well, I mean, he did already promise checks before for the tariff and the doge dividends. Remember, we were all going to get those as well. I don't recall getting a check. No, I didn't get one. You know, so I'm a little annoyed about that. But, you know, February 2025, Musk floated the idea of $5,000 dividend checks from doge savings, and he, you know, who backed it. So what is, what is this? We know there, a lot of money's being spent. But why play this particular card now? When you know you ain't given anybody, you know what I mean. Because that was so desperate not to lose. Even Mike Johnson said that they are going to go after them
if the Democrats are in power, about the $2 billion that he and his family made while he was president about the Epstein files. They keep blocking the exposure of those. I understand that European countries are trying to find out about the Epstein, see what's in them. And the Justice Department in this country is blocking it about the investigation, about the abuses of, about ICE and what they're doing to immigrants and the way they're behaving towards these people, about the Iran war and the fact that Hegset purged top military officers and how they're putting this country on the world at risk. That is what's going to happen if the Democrats did you not get in? Well, they can't tout that. Well, get in, I'm sorry. If they get in, it's all going to be exposed. They got it. I mean, it's dangerous. She's right. It's all going to be exposed. Laura, Laura King, would you agree with that? I actually do.
He's trying his best to make sure that, you know, the Republicans win again. He goes to a state that is very Republican, which is Texas and, you know, in Dallas, which is kind of funny because Dallas tends to be, you know, I've lived there for 10 years and Dallas tends to be more left-leaning, but they're in Dallas and he's promising things that, you know, he's never going to live up to our national debt is so high. He's just going to add it to that, even though you promised he wouldn't do that. But now you look at it, it's like, we haven't got the tariffs refunded. We haven't got that doge check and that he's trying to buy votes with another 5,000, you know, and, you know, after that, I mean, like, you know, three strikes you're out just like a baseball. I wish that was true. Well, I don't, are you saying that you wanted to have a third strike at the bat and run for a third time? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, that's a fourth strike and you're not going to get that because you know you're in now. Oh, yeah.
You know, you know, I'm just messing with you. So here's what Donald Trump said last night. He talked about how much credibility he has. He thinks that he can do this. He's get away with it that he deserves possibly to have a third term. I think that's who he's thinking. He said, I don't think he said that out loud last night. Maybe he did, who knows? I couldn't stand to watch a lot of it or any of it. I just watched the clips. But he says that he is, well, I want you to, I want the legends to react to what he says about his credibility versus the credibility of the government. But today we have the strongest or most secure border in our country's history. Yeah. And you saw the numbers. They came out just last week. We have the lowest level of illegal immigration ever recorded in our country. And as I said in the past, exactly 16 months, these are government stats.
This is not Donald Trump. This is government. Well, though, I think I have more credibility than government. I'm just wondering, Kelly, if Donald Trump has more credibility than government. We all know the answer to that question, don't we? No, not nobody else know. What we are is, what's happening is, is that we are Americans are in a trauma bond relationship with the narcissist president. This is what's happened. What are narcissists? I've dated a few, was married to one, so I can spot one of them all the way. They're massively insecure. Right, they don't take accountability for anything. They gaslight and deflect. And they also are pathological liars. Check, check, check, check, check. This is what the sky is. And this is somebody said it. This is yet another thing.
We've become desensitized. This man is a con man. So what this is is you dangle the carrot. This is what narcissists do, right? They dangle the carrot with women and bread from you. Well, he's dangling this $5,000 check. Well, he's got his whole damn hand in the government till robin us blind. But he has said that he has said that he delivered on every promise. Is that the one? That's the one we just ran, right? That he said he delivered every promise. That's the pathological liar part. There's another one. Let's hear that one. Let's hear the delivered on every promise. I've never backed down. I never will. And every single promise I made to you is a candidate I've delivered on. I've delivered on everything. We've delivered on many more things than I even talked about. Somebody said he's actually delivered the only publication they say this is about. But that I've delivered many more things than I even talked about. And he's such a moron. He didn't even build the wall. He didn't even build the wall in his own campaign. Started back way back was on that.
All he did was build detention centers, modern day concentration camps. And absolutely. He did not build the wall. He built the border. No. But it doesn't connect, right? I mean, it really can connect along the border when you think about it, just how the border it is. How poorest the border is. But he didn't do that. He didn't deliver on the dojo. He didn't deliver on the tariff tax. And Mexico did not pay for it. Exactly. I've heard though that I've heard though that this part of this money was coming from what he deemed as overcharged Americans being overcharged for Obamacare. So as he does this, he's also trying to disparage, continue to disparage President Obama's legacy. So, you know, two for one. I think Obama's legacy is a tie. I don't think that is not very much. Shana, do you think that's going to work? I'm sorry. What did you say?
I said, do you think it's going to work? The spirit of Obama's legacy? And has he delivered on every promise? He hasn't delivered on any of his promises. We all know that except getting it except getting the immigrants out. But he said the violent ones, but he's getting rid of everybody. Yeah. Obama lives right free in his head. He wants to be Obama. He wants to be more. He wants to be more loved than Obama, which will never happen. He can't disparage Obama. We love Obama. That's the only. Yeah, we love Obama. That's not going to work. No, that's right. Shana and other legends, you know, Republicans immediately climbed boards. Some Republicans, other ones, you know, you heard what the economist said, some media, a client of board, though, hire Senator Bernie Moreno, said that he would prepare legislation after the November election. A Republican attending the convention told Reuters that she heard the announcement and thought that Trump was buying votes.
And another attendee supported the idea and said that $5,000, if $5,000 would be great, especially if it helped Republicans win the midterms. Okay. And this is some of the other Republicans who have, who have responded if we can put them up, because we have them in here, but there are no names on it. Oh, wait a minute. Here they are. Rokana, what it Rokana said, or you could get behind Bernie Sanders and my 5% tax on 999, $9,989 billion, now, which gives $12,000 to American families of four, Ted Lu. Said if Democrats flipped the House and sent it, everybody will get a $10,000 dividend and a pony and free ice cream for life. Yeah. And then there. So, but there are some Republicans who are, who are on board and most of them are not on board.
More, I want to come, you know what I want to talk to you guys, put the legends back up. Legends, I want to talk to you about this. Okay. Can we talk about Tim Scott? Oh, first of word for response. Can we talk about better men? You know, we check numbers all day, all day long. I'm sure you do. How many steps did I take? What's my heart rate? How much did I sleep? Some of us check our bank accounts more often than we probably should. And I talk about polling numbers a lot. All kinds of things, things, statistics, everything. But when was the last time you checked your blood pressure? Because here is the problem with that. High blood pressure often doesn't make you feel any different. You can feel perfectly fine and have no idea what your numbers are. And that's why 120 light, this caught my attention. They have a simple 14 day experiment. Check your blood pressure, drink 120 life once a day, keep checking your numbers and see what happens for yourself. I like that.
You don't have to guess. You don't have to anything. You just measure, right? Go to 120life.com. That's 120 LIFE.com and use my code, which is done. D-O-N for 20% off. Try it risk-free for two weeks. And if your blood pressure doesn't come down, you get a full refund. That's 120life.com and the code is done, women. These statements have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always check with your doctor. Yes, always check with your doctor. And we're back now with our legends. Aluminum legends, the highest here of our membership. Many of them have been with us in the very beginning. And we listen to them. And so since Mo or Monique mentioned John Federman, roll it. A big, remove Republicans in Dallas. Yes, I'm Senator John Federman, Pennsylvania. Yes, I'm a Democrat. Why am I here talking to you today? Because, well, I'm a common sense Democrat.
I'm always going to stand with America. I'm always going to reject the extremes and socialism in that anti-American way of life. Dave McCormick is the kind of senator that gets the job done. And he's going to fight for Pennsylvania. I'm proud to count him as my friend. Right back over my shoulder, that's the iconic US steel mill. And that's exactly the kind of thing that will work together and will work with President Trump to fight and defend the steel way of life right here in the steel valley. So that was John Federman last night supporting, endorsing the Republican candidate in Pennsylvania instead of the Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania. But he says he's a Democrat. He says he always votes or caucuses with the Democrats. He votes with this party most of the time. Mo, Monique, you wanted to talk about it. The floor is yours.
Obviously, it did something to his brain. I don't understand why he was there. I believe the man that he was introducing is he even up for election? Was he there? He and Federman are both up for election in 2028. They're both the sitting rip up. They're the both the sitting senators of Pennsylvania. Okay. So why did why was he even bothering in 26th at a midterm? Exactly. That was the thing. I was like, what is the point of you being here? Except that to for you to show that you are supporting the GOP. You are supporting their policies. And he doesn't always vote the right way. Because he's bought and paid for. But. I just don't understand it. And I know you want to talk about Tim Scott too. That man. Federman isn't off. I thought he was having a nervous breakdown last night. I really did. Is it something is not right? I don't know. I have a nervous breakdown.
It's a serious breakdown last night. I really did. Is it something is not right with him? Yeah. I'm almost I'm almost. It's crazy. What we're living through right now. Don. It's. It's scary. It's an in raging. And to watch these people are supposed to be our leaders. and most of them seem like they need some mental health care. It's ridiculous. Well, since you mentioned him as well, and I did, now this is, in case you guys didn't go to church last Sunday or you're not going to go this Sunday, here is Reverend Tim Scott. James is terrible. James, to all of rick old claims there are six genders. He believes God is non-binary.
He thinks God needs special world pronouns. But Texas, we know who God is. We're talking about Jesus. I said King of kings and Lord of lords, Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. That's our God. Baby, he tapped dance and heart for now. I'm going to need to stop. He tapped dance. Kevin, your mic was open, sir. But it's for me. There's all the white needs to do a tour together. And here comes the light. You know, we really need the God of the Old Testament right now. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Hi, Katie. Hi, Katie. Hi, Don.
Yeah, when you're talking about that, did you see that? Go ahead, better man. He's just such a disgrace. And even, I believe recently, somebody asked Shapiro about him. Because he was, I believe Shapiro's lieutenant governor or something high up. And even he is just like, no comment. So I just feel like he's such a sell out to our state. Because Pennsylvania is a great state of between him and McCormick. I feel like we're never heard properly at all. But you're there. And that's in his state. You know his, you know his, his approval rating has sunk, sunk tremendously. It's in the, it's sunk so bad. Yeah, it has tanked. So I just saw a little recently that more people in Pennsylvania choose an unnamed opponent over him. Like for the then John Fetterman. Yeah, yeah.
It's over. It's over 50%. So that's just how much the state is just so pissed at him with this vote. Anybody else want to talk about Tim Scott of Fetterman? I just want to say he's blasphemous. Yeah, that was that was just a ridiculous spectacle. I remember telling him. It's a farce. I'm saying, it was completely embarrassing. How so? Because that's still not even the truth. Like what, what, what Christians think and feel like we understand, we understand the message of praise. Like I don't know. The star is not a platform and he's talking like that. And that is written. That is written. And this is disgusting that, you know, he's a person of color. And it's embarrassing to the rest of us. And to Christians that they talk like that because that's so not true. That's not who we are.
That's not what it's about. And, you know, it's been said over and over again. But it's very, it's disappointing. And I thought that we will pass that. But for me, he's want to say something. I'm done. Formative. Oh, that's right. Thank you. What were you saying? It's performative. Yeah, it's pure. It's sincere. I just wanted to do one last thing. Live. Happy birthday, Mickey. Nicole. Happy birthday. And the father and the first birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Nicole. Happy birthday. Coat is saying. Happy birthday. Birthday. Nobody's saying the same thing. Let's just say it's wrong. Donald get monetized. Do not do that. And do not sing happy birthday. Maya. Thank you. Thank you. Maya, how are you feeling about the spectacle coming out of Dallas? First of all, let me show you this. And did you have the video of the seats?
Now, this was the there were seats there that were empty, right before the president started. There are, you don't have to show, but if you have it, fine. No, there it is. So this is their big convention. Now, it said it did fill up somewhat. However, the flags, I think there were more seats with flags there than there were actual people there. Now, just so you know, this is to sort of rally the base, rally the troops, because they know that they're going to lose. Right? Coming up. Yeah. What's a you? What do you think? I think we need to be careful when at the animals corner. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? I can hear you. Yes, I can. Okay. Okay, perfect. I think we need to be treated like the Republicans are acting like hurt animals cornered in a corner right now that we need to be aware that they're willing to do anything right now. So each empty seat I see is another is another piece of evidence
that they're failing and that they know that they're failing. The fact that they can't fill those seats, you know, and it's not hard to get people, you know, to get butts and seats is not hard at all. So the fact that they can't fill up is very telling of where they are currently, where mentally they probably are, and where they're going to be because we all know we're going to show up and it's going to be a blue wave. They know it too. So as much as we rally together and promote each other to vote, we need to make sure we're paying attention to what they're doing too because they see what we see. No, thank you, Maya. I hate to do this to you guys again, but this is Tim Scott was apparently feeling the spirit last night. And this is how he ended his speech. Oh, I don't have that one ready. Oh, okay. It's a second sound like. Let me know what you get it. But he ended his speech basically saying, we can do this and we can do that.
And we've got the spirit of this and we've got the spirit of that. Oh, I have it. I guess, okay. We will not back down. We will not grow weary. Are you with me? I said, are you with me? We will keep the majority. Because, because, have a seat. Have a seat. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. Because we are one nation. Always under God. We are always on the side of truth, family, and freedom. Now, Republicans, let's go to work.
Thank you. Thank God. God bless you. Oh, our United States. Of America. God, if I go into that fire, if you want to. I mean, you guys know, ladies tell me that tell me that's not sexy. Liz. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You can go and pull him into the fire. If I want to. Pugnant. Repost. Don't blame your mama. Like your way of fluff and wear. Oh, my God. I don't care who you are. That's not sexy. At all. Liz, you have your hand up. What do you want to say, my dad? I was reminded watching watching Tim there. It acted like he acted like he was making fun of every black preacher that I've ever, that I've seen in different situations, particularly on television.
And he to me, he was making fun of his own. He reminds me of of Scotas Thomas who doesn't know he's black. And Tim Scott's the same way. He was funneling something. I mean, it gave me the creeps. That's a good one. It gave me the creeps. I can't. Yes. I mean, come on. You said what I what I said. He was what? He's ugly. Legends. Yeah, I'm sorry. Legends. I will always love you. That's all I'll say. Thank you. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I love you. I'm sorry. I love you. Thank you. You guys know. I love you guys. If I had to do this from the airplane, I was going to do it. I want you know, I need to do the show from an airplane one day.
I may have to do it sitting on a tarmac one day. So, um, but anyway, I'm running all over the country this fall. It's going to be crazy trying to inform people, right? Trying to inform people and trying to keep the show on the road. And I appreciate you guys helping us to build this community and being such great loyal, uh, lemon heads in part of the elimination Don forced one. Someone said Don forced one in the chat. So thank you all. Okay, Legends. I will see you next week. Enjoy. Bye legends. Bye legends. We'll see them later. Uh, now you're informed everybody. So if you want to know anything about the Dalaiman show, you have to just go to Dalaiman.com, Dalaiman.com. And then when you're there, you can click on one of the reasons that I'm here in this airport today. And that is DL and DL, DL plus DL. We start tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And then we go to Orlando and then we go to, we're going to go to Iowa. And then we're going to go to Ohio. We go to Pennsylvania. Woo. If you guys know about that, let me know in the chat. If you guys remember who that is, okay?
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