U.S. Job Growth Blows Past Expectations

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1:02from ever getting a nuclear weapon. Michigan Democrat candidate Abdul El Sayed says, I'm quoting him, we need to push back on the cult of hard work. Plus quoting. So, a working hard has now become a cult. The left stands we spend way too much on bombs and munitions and not enough on improving the welfare of people. Most people on the left have no blooming idea how much we already spend on welfare, on social programs and on education. We will discuss this. The number of jobs created last month was double the number so-called experts expected. If Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Israel needs to go back to genocide school. Treasury Secretary Scott Besit says economic security is national security. A guest on CNN says capitalism is oppressive and quote, bound up in white supremacy. All of this and more again the number is AAA 9-7-1-S-A-G-A-TRIPLE-8-9-7-1-7-2-4-3.

2:04Please join in. The water is fine. I want to begin with this poll, associated press poll, 60% of people believe government spends, quote, two little close quote, on assistance for poor people, 60% of Americans, 80% of Democrats feel that way. Speaking of Democrats, let me give you a couple of them. The New York Mayor Zoran Mambami, told Cotari State Media that the United States was quote, spending tens of billions of dollars on killing people, close quote, when that money quote, could have been used to make light easier for the public end of quote. Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Talleriko says quote, we are always told we don't have enough money for schools or for healthcare for our veterans, but there's always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world end of quote. Let's analyze this, shall we?

3:05I've told you over the years many times about the party I was at where friend of mine was celebrating his 60th birthday Vietnam vet, conservative guy, and I'm sitting next to a woman named Irene, and she's complaining about how quote unquote, rich people don't pay anything in Texas. I'll cut the story short, because I've told it so many times. And I said, you know, I'm part of the so-called rich based upon what we define as rich. If you'd like to see my 1040, she said no. And I ask her, what percentage of the federal income taxes do you think it's paid by the top 1% of the so-called rich? First, she said she didn't know. I ask her to just give me a guess. She said, I think 1%, maybe 2%. As you think the top 1% of all income earners pay only one or 2% of the federal income taxes, she said yes. And I kept waiting for her to ask me what the answer was because she could tell by my expression that I thought her answer was absurd.

4:06She never asked, and I realized she didn't care. So I didn't volunteer it. The number, the time was 40%, and now it's even over that, while making around 20% of the nation's income. By any fair standard, the so-called rich are overtaxed. Even the Washington Post recently, in an editorial, not op-ed piece, editorials are the same thing, Washington Post. So this is the level of ignorance of a lot of people who are complaining about the gap between the rich and the poor and how little, which people pay in taxes, which brings us to this assertion that we're not spending enough money for schools and for healthcare. We have a lot of money for bombing people on the other side of the world. We don't have enough money for our own people. It's at Mom Dami and Taloriko, which is basically standard operating lines for people on the left. So let's talk about the numbers. Not that people on the left will ever know about this or even care. We spend roughly $700 billion a year

5:06on defense and national security. Roughly 13% of the federal budget. That is way less than we spend on social security and Medicare. In fact, we spend less than the military than we spend on paying down the interest on the $40 trillion national debt. $700 billion on national defense. $1.3 trillion every year on means tested welfare and so-called anti-poverty program. So twice as much. There are something like 80 individual federal programs providing aid to the poor and that does not include state programs. Over 36 million people in America receive food stamps. That's 11% of the population. 100 million receive some form of government assistance by the third of the population.

6:08And virtually none of them pay a dime and federal income taxes. And again, this excludes local programs. 23% of the average states spending goes to welfare. Which is not only more than they spend on public schools but more than they spend on police, hospitals, and roads combined. Are you feeling me here? Let me say it again. 23% of the average state budget goes to welfare. Which is more than they spend on public schools and way more than they spend on police, hospitals, and roads combined. And that does not include city programs. New York City, for example.

7:08The city led by Mayor Zoran Mamdami. You claim we don't spend enough on welfare. A record $2.71 billion in direct welfare cash assistance payment went out in 2025. An increase from 70% from 2022. City spent over $14 billion on social programs for the poor. That does not include the $2.7 billion I just not mentioned in direct cash benefits. That means the average family in New York contributes around $11,000 each year to government programs to help those living below the poverty line. Regarding bombs. Baseline spending on munitions is around $30 billion. Because of a random numbers over twice that. Not saying that it isn't a lot.

8:12But you look at the money spent on federal and state funding of Medicaid last year. More than all the money we spent on munitions over the last 15 years. Let's talk about what we spend on K through 12. Every year. A little less than a trillion dollars. $9.95 billion. Each year K through 12. Last year a historic high of $17,619 per pupil. Which by the way is more. On K through 12 spending than any other country in the country in the world. I repeat. More per K through 12 student than any other country in the world. And what are you getting for it? New York spends about $42,000 per student K through 12.

9:17That's doubled by the way the taxes paid by the average city household. And nearly half of the students cannot read our new basic math. And that's just federal and state money on welfare. What about individuals? 70% of people in the country give charity each year. That amounts to $617 billion in 2025. More than the next six countries combined. I mentioned it because we often hear that we spend more money on welfare. And that's just federal and state money on welfare. What about individuals? I mentioned that because we often hear that we spend more money on the military than the next six countries combined. We're also super power. They're not. We give more money on charity than the next six countries combined. 100 million people receive some sort of welfare assistance.

10:20In 1959 when we first started recording the poverty rate, roughly 12% of people lived in poverty. Today's 11%. Meanwhile, federal welfare spending has increased 760% since then. Yet the last 50 years, the poverty rate has remained consistent. But even that number doesn't tell you the full truth. Because the poverty rate does not include non-cash federal state and local benefits. The average parent with an $11,000 part time job is eligible for non-cash benefit worth over $53,000. Not saying it's easy, but not exactly throwing people down the dungeon and saying, fin for yourself is it. Now, Medicare keeps squeezing you. Whether you've been on it for years or you've just turned 65, the premium's climb and the prime and plans shift. And nobody tells you when your stop's fitting.

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13:24It's on me. Go to sagewireless by going to sagewireless.com and use code sage100 at checkout. sagewireless.com sagewireless.com. I've told you a little bit about my father. Never knew his biological father. He thought the woman who raised him until he was four or five years old was his mother. It turned out it was his grandmother because his mother dropped him off with the grandparent. And my father left home at the age of 13. When I say left, he got kicked out of the house at the age of 13. Never to return. And my father ended up a series of difficult, the kinsy and type jobs. Ultimately became a Pullman Porter in the train, which how he ended up in California. This teenage black boy from Athens, Georgia was able to go all over the country.

14:24He always had packages of crackers and 10 cans of tuna with him because in the south you never knew if you'd be able to get a meal by going to a restaurant. Could you go and walk in the front door or the back door. So my father came to California on a run once and he was blown away that you could walk through the front door of a restaurant and sit down and get served. He was shocked. He made a middle note, maybe someday I relocate to California. So Pearl Harbor, my dad joined the Marines. He became one of the 40,000 so-called Monford Point Marines, even the first black Marine Station on the island of Guam. He became a staff sergeant. And when he came back, he was in charge of cooking for the colored soldiers because of course the military was segregated in those days. And my dad went to Chattanooga, Tennessee where he admitted my mom to getting a job as a cook. He goes through a four restaurant, he told to his face, we don't hire inwards. Except they didn't say inward. Went to an unemployment office.

15:26Lacey said, you went to the wrong door. My dad goes out and sees colored only, go through that door to the very same lady who sent him out. She was just down the cabinet down the counter a little bit. Just letting him know what the rules were. You walk through that door, boy. So my father came out to a Los Angeles where he had been right before the war to get him a job as a cook. He goes three or four restaurants and they tell him he doesn't have any references which is their way of saying, we're not going to hire you because you're black. Unemployment office this time, just one door. He waited a day and a half, finally, she calls him up, I have something. I don't know if you're going to want it, of course I'm going to want it, I'm starting a family, what is it? It's job cleaning toilets at the Biscoe brand bread. My dad did that for 10 years, took a second full time job with another bread company cleaning toilets. Cooked for a family on the weekend and went to night school three or four nights a week to get his GED because he left school when he was in the eighth grade. When I'm 10 years old, my dad starts a little cafe near the Pico Union area where we used to live.

16:31He runs it until his 80s. When my dad retired, he owned that building plus the house next to it plus the house still in our family. Plus the money he'd saved, my dad was worth over a million dollars when he died. And my dad always told my brothers to me the following and it's a point to this, so stick around. Hard work wins. You get out of life what you put into it. You cannot control the outcome but you are, he would always say 100% in control of the effort. Before you complain about what someone did to you, he said, do you go to the nearest mirror, look at it and say, what could I have done to change the outcome? And finally my father said this, no matter how hard you work, no matter how good you are sooner or later bad things are going to happen to you, how you deal with those bad things will tell your mother and me if we raised a man.

17:33He told my brothers to me this over and over and over again. But according to Abdul El-Sahid, my dad was full of it. Number 54. And we've got this culture in our society that we've allowed to fester where we think that when people don't have means it's because they have failed. Poverty is not a failure that when people live in persistent poverty it is a failure on our society and not on those people and that we should be driving that conversation and have the courage to have that conversation against this cult of hard work like everybody's got bootstrapped to be pulling up. We need to push back on this cult of hard work. Let me hear that one more time. And we've got this culture in our society that we've allowed to fester where we think that when people don't have means it's because they have failed.

18:39Poverty is not a failure that when people live in persistent poverty it is a failure on our society and not on those people and that we should be driving that conversation and have the courage to have that conversation against this cult of hard work like everybody's got bootstrapped to be pulling up. Amen for her. We need to push back against the cult of hard work. Close quote. I don't know where to start with this. Like Abdul El Sayah, he has something in common by the way. We both ran for state office. I ran for governor of California. He's running for senator in Michigan. And I will tell you, if you want to win, there's only one way for you to do that. And that just to work really, really, really hard. I averaged four hours of sleep a night when I ran. Every day, I was here on the phone asking for money, which is the most unpleasant part of running for office, or having fun razors, or having an interview,

19:47radio TV or print, or giving a speech every single day. Sometimes they didn't know what day it was, sometimes they didn't know what city I was in. So here he is. I'm presuming he's running that hard. He's everywhere. So here he is engaging in the cult of hard work, which he says we need to push back against. How dare you tell people this? There's no relationship between how hard you work, and the results of your efforts. Would you tell that to a basketball player who's having difficulty with his free throws? He has three point shot. You tell that to a spreader? What kind of a thing is that to say to all the millions of Americans who busted their tail and somehow, someway lived a much better life than the life that they began when they were born? How dare you tell people this?

20:58What a sense of entitlement, which is why so many of the DSA members are college or above that. We didn't think about getting their hands dirty. I'm Larry over. I'm Larry over. Triple 8971. S8GE Triple 8971. 7243. Larry over there, Salem News Channel. Never do you call it away in, killing William from St. Paul, Minnesota, William, don't go away. I'll talk to you just a second. A few more things first. My father loved what he did. He just loved it. He loved being his own boss. Took pride in what he did for a little cafe that opened up at 630 and closed at 230. There was a massive, massive menu. He baked his own pies. He baked his own cakes. German chocolate cake. Cherry cake. Sleeper tail pie.

21:59Walnut pie. My mother used to try to get him to reduce the size of the menu because roughly 20% of the items generated 80% of the sales. My dad didn't want to do that. He liked cooking other things. My dad thought of himself as an artist. He never said that, but I did. You can almost hear classical music as my dad was working the grill. Certain parts of the grill were devoted to this, certain parts of this, certain parts of this, certain parts of that. He was always, always, always improving the restaurant making it more efficient, trying to increase profits. One time this customer said something to the effect to me. I hear that you're a really good student. You don't want to be like your dad working behind a hot stove for your life, do you?

23:00And I could tell my dad did not like what he said. Because my dad didn't think of himself as suffering by standing behind a hot stove. My dad thought of himself as a conductor with a baton in his hand. One time one customer came in and said to my father, did you hear what your leader said last night referring to Jesse Jackson who had given some speech? My dad said, my leader, yeah, you know, your leader, Jesse Jackson. My dad, the guy with white, my dad said, who's your leader? Well, I don't have one. My dad said, I work for myself. You work for somebody else, but I have a leader and you don't. By the way, the third of the clientele was white, the third was Hispanic and third was black. They're all basically working class people. Proud, hard working.

24:00Neighborhood I grew up in, the man who lived next door, Mr. Lusk. He worked for the railroad. He wasn't an engineer, but he, I know what the job was, but something you do with the job. He was with maintaining the railroads. Man across the street, Mr. McDowell, he was a hotel valet for one of the hotels downtown, carried bags for people. Mr. Swinney down the road, whose son Greg and I remain friends and Greg is retired from working for a municipality for about 30, 35 years. Mr. Swinney was a construction worker. Mr. Coleman drove a truck. Now, Mr. Coleman ultimately started his own trucking firm. Mr. Swinney, who worked construction ultimately, moved to Althadena, which was a major leap up, kept the house and rented it out.

25:00When I was a kid, virtually everybody cut their own lawns. My job was to cut their front lawn and Kirch's job, I'm sorry, my job was to cut the back lawn, Kirch's job was to cut the front lawn. I hated cutting lawns, hated it. We had a pushmore at first, and we had a gasoline powered more. And then ultimately my mother hired a gardener. And virtually everybody in the neighborhood went through that evolution. The kids in the house first moved along with the push lawn, then they got a parallel and now last I checked, virtually everybody up and down that neighborhood had somebody who does the lawn. My point is people got more affluent, made money. My father never bought a new car until I bought one for him. He always bought a car that was a year or two old. But many of the people in the neighborhood after four or five years, six years, seven years, what kind of new car?

26:01Not uncommon, operating mobile. Mr. McCall, across his street was a mailman. His wife was a librarian. And they bought the apartment building near the top of our hill, which had about six or eight units and stayed in the family, still on it. I guess I didn't hear what Abdual said that we need to quote push back against the coat of hard work. Who knew? Triple 8971-S-H-G-E-Triple 89717243, coming up William from St. Paul. I am Larry Older. Triple 8971-S-H-E-Triple 89717243, we are Salem News Channel.

27:07So much to get to between now and the close of the program. The jobs created last month, double the number so-called experts expected, more nonsense from the DSA, update on what Marco Rubio said about Venezuela and oil, all of this and more Triple 8971-S-H-G-E. William is in St. Paul, Minnesota. William, you're on the Larry Older Show. Thank you so much for calling. Thank you. First of all, you have the best bumper music and all of radio. I just want to say that. Thank you. Second of all, to the specific reference to the story you told about your father going through the one door, seeing the secretary, she putting him say you didn't come to the color door, coming to the different door, only to see the same lady at the same desk in the same room. I would say 99% of us, you know, black, white, Democrat, Republican, I would like to think that is this absolutely absurd, you know, absolutely absurd.

28:08But I feel like today, we are seeing the same absurdities being held in belief, like, you know, you have men who can become women, and then you have this clancy case where obvious three comments of first degree premeditated murder and it's a mistrial. I mean, are we just cursed as primordial beef of this planet to be, you know, falling into these absolute absurdities? Is there a way as a collective to like grow out of this nonsense, like, I mean, it's just, you know what I'm saying? For nearly 3,000 years, Homer's the idiot has shaped the Western imagination. As one of the foundational works of Western literature, it explores permanent questions about honor, courage, leadership, friendship, justice, and what it means to live a noble life. In one of the epic defining moments Achilles returns to battle after the death of his beloved friend Patroclus, setting aside his wounded pride to confront the responsibilities that come with greatness. His decision reveals one of the central themes of the Iliad that true greatness requires more than strength.

29:10It demands character, sacrifice, and the pursuit of what is right. That's why Hillsdale College has released its newest free online course, The Iliad, taught by Professor Steven Smith. The course reveals why Homer's masterpiece remains one of the greatest works of Western literature. Hillsdale.edu slash start now, read the classics, study the West, Hillsdale.edu slash start now. I know exactly what you're saying. Well, you might get that question a lot, phrase different ways. By the way, I wrote a book about my relationship with my father growing up in the neighborhood I just now mentioned. It's called Dear Father, Dear Son, two lives, eight hours about an eight hour conversation he and I have when I was 25 years old, not having really spoken to him seriously for about 10 years before that. Dear Father, Dear Son, two lives, eight hours. If you go on I go on Amazon and just read the reviews, there are hundreds of them. People are saying one of the best books I've ever written reminds me of my dad. I grew up like that.

30:12But your question really is what can we do to deal with some of these brain dead ill informed, undereducated ill educated angry for no reason, rebbled without a cause. What can we do about that? How do we turn that around? In the answer volume is if I knew the answer to that, I would be talking to you from the governor's mansion as opposed to from my studio in Glendale here in California. I tried my best to deal with people like this. I've told this story before, but I think it bears retreat repeating. When my race was over, went to a restaurant, West Side of LA, LA of course is liberal, West Side is even more liberal than the rest of LA. And my friend was late, so I sat at a table by myself for about 15-20 minutes. A table next to me, there were two ladies there, I think they felt sorry for me, so I started talking to me.

31:15Within a few minutes, I learned that they were 85 years old. One was celebrating her 85th birthday, they known each other since the second grade. They're both Jewish. Once she was a human rights advocate, once she was a psychotherapist, and then after about 10 minutes, one of them says, wait a minute, I know who you are. You're that guy that ran for governor, you're that Larry Elder, and they both smiled. And once it gets who we voted for, I said you didn't vote for me. How do you know that? We're both at a restaurant in the West Side of LA, you're both Jewish. One of you says you're a human rights advocate, it doesn't take come on board to put this together. You voted for Gavin Newsom. And they said yes, we did. Let me ask you a few questions. You have kids? Yes. Do you live in LA? Yes. Did you put your kids in the public schools here? Well, no, not beyond elementary school.

32:16Why? Well, we didn't think they were very good. How did you feel about the way Gavin Newsom shut down the state in a more severe way because of COVID than any other governor? Outrages. Had friends who had restaurants, lost their restaurants. Had people who had to leave California? What do you think about the homelessness problem we have in LA, LA County? It is outrageous, they said. We have a homeless encampment near our house. It is ridiculous. It's been all this money. We can't deal with this problem. I said, what do you think about the cost of living? Your kids, did they stay in LA? Not didn't stay in LA. Couldn't not afford the price of a home, which as you know, I said, is twice that of the national average, largely because of the environmental rules and regulations, because by Gavin Newsom, who even to a greater degree than Joe Biden considers a climate change to be an existential threat? I said, so here we are completing each other sentences.

33:21Yet you didn't vote for me. Have you ever had a conversation with a Republican like the one we just now had? Look at each other. And they said no. And one of them said, what are you drinking? I said, double vodka, splash of cranberry, and orange juice. And the other one said, what are you eating? I said, well, we're going to have steak, but if you're going to pay for it, I'm going to have lobster. They start laughing. They pay for my drinks. They pay for my meal. We had a wonderful time. They had never had a conversation with someone like me. Around the same time, I have some back issues as you know, which is why I take relief factor. And I went to a masseuse massage therapist that one of my friends recommended. I have some sort of building, commercial building, but with the street residential house. Knock on the door. Lady opens up the door. She's about 35, 40 years old. I could hit the face with the big plume of marijuana smoke, not that I would know what that is.

34:23I've read books. And she's working on my back, and she's playing Motown music. And I knew a lot about the Motown music. I got to tell her who the artist was, who the singer was, what the backstory of the song was. Virtually every song I knew the backstory. After about half hour, she said, I know who you are. When you made your appointment, I knew who you were, but I didn't say anything. I didn't vote for you. Had I known you were this funny and this personable, I would have voted for you. I said, do you know any Republicans? She said, no. I said, you have no Republican friends at all. She said, no. I said, what about people living in the neighborhood? I don't know anybody in the neighborhood who's a Republican. I said, news bulletin. We have sensitive humor. We have personalities. She started laughing. Had never had a conversation with a Republican. My long way of saying, well, you know, a lot of people are just completely ill informed. They hear me wrong with the same people. They look at the same news. They completely turn their sentences. They have nobody else to challenge their assumptions. Triple 8971-S-A-G-E. No, no, no, no. You understand me. You understand me.

35:27Triple 8971-S-A-G-E. Triple 8971-7243-I-M Larry Older. We are still in news channel. Coming up President Trump set 25 years after 9-11. We are blocking Iran from every getting a nuclear weapon. The Kinectokit Senator. Chris Murphy says we are losing the war against Iran. Now, you don't determine whether you're winning or losing by the number of deaths and casualties, but let's see, 400,000 Americans died World War II, over 100,000 World War I, 58,000 Vietnam, 10,000 Iraq, Afghanistan combined. The last count was 18 service members killed in the military effort against Iran.

36:2818. Their navy destroyed, their air force destroyed, their radar pretty much destroyed. Two levels of leadership destroyed. The oil going through the straight of her moose is now 50% of what it was pre-war. Just did a deal with Venezuela that will more than double the amount of proven oil reserves under the government. The control of our country, Iran's economy is running close to 100% inflation annually. The IRGC soldiers cannot be paid, but according to the Connecticut Senator, Democrat Chris Murphy, we are losing the war. You see, this is exactly what keeps the Iranians confident they can hold on.

37:37The way the media is covering this war is really less than negative. You turn on CNN and BS now, which I watched that you don't have to. It's like two different versions of how the war is going. The job report just came out. Top of the era, I'll play you the reaction from CNN. We described it as a quote, desperately needed rebound, close quote for Donald Trump. Not that Americans are doing what better now. Not that salaries are going up. The economy created jobs last month to give Donald Trump a quote, desperately needed rebound. So the news was interpreted as to how it benefited or hurt Donald Trump. We're going to talk also later on the show about the agenda the Democrats have, which is what?

38:37It's a plan to me. You're going to tackle affordability by what? By impeaching Donald Trump? You're in a tackling affordability by passing Medicare for all? Raising taxes on virtually everybody including the middle class that you claim that you are protecting? One unifying theme is the hate Donald Trump's guts. I'm Larry Yolder. So let's get her teed up! Do you want to play rock? Sell off to my new friend! What the hell is going on here? That's a big ol' You can't succeed without teeth! Tribal 8971 SAGE, Tribal 8971, 7243, I am Larry Yolder. Salem News Channel. We've been talking about this over the last several months. What's it like to be cheering for the economy not to do well?

39:45Because if it did, it might benefit the Republicans in the midterm. What does that feel like? What does it feel like to cheer for inflation to be high? And for wages not to exceed inflation because if it did it would help Donald Trump making the argument that his economic policy is a work. What does that feel like to be rooting against that? What does it feel like to interpret whatever news that is arguably negative about the effort against Iran as gospel and downplaying the news that maybe just maybe we are squeezing these SOBs? And creating a condition so that the people rise up and take control of their government. What does it feel like to be cheering against that outcome? You know it's true. Because after the first assassination attempt one poll found that about 25-30% of Democrats wish the would be a session.

40:45A session, a session had not been a would be a session, but an actual assassin. That's how sick this is. And why? Because Trump has insulted people. Because Trump is referred to the media as fake news. Because you don't like the way Trump has spoken about Jasmine Crockett. And I like the way Trump is referred to some people having low IQ. Man it Trump because of the ballroom as if you had given a damn if Barack Obama had done it. Every single president we had to deal with Iran before President Trump had said a nuclear armed Iran is unacceptable. Krips from Trump does something about it. And whenever I hear or watch somebody like Chris Murphy go on CNN and proclaim that we're losing the war.

41:50I keep waiting for the host to say, well Mr. Murphy Senator Murphy, do you believe that Donald Trump lied when he said that Iran was close to getting a nuclear weapon? Do you believe that Mark Rutta? The Secretary General of NATO lied when he said that Iran was close to getting a nuclear weapon? Hmm. But nothing. In your legal war, did you say that Barack Obama engaged in the legal war when he joined the British and the French and bombing Libya for some seven months? Even he later on regretted doing it. Claiming that there was no plan for the aftermath of the civil war that took place. Did you accuse Obama of engaging in an unlawful war back then? Senator? Nothing? No push back. Not even a mile push back. And you're shocked that President Trump's rule rings are so low. When you get your news off your phone, do your feed on Facebook, off TikTok, where as we've discussed, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, TikTok, the algorithms, the news source it from which they choose to post the news on your phone.

42:51Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, TikTok, the algorithms, the news source it from which they choose to post the news on your phone. Overwhelmingly, left wing. So you won't get a news feed from Newsmax, from Jess the news, from Blaze, from Fox. It'll be from the Associated Press, which is left wing, New York Times, LA Times, left wing. And so you are unaware of how much the so-called rich already paying federal income tax. You are unaware how much we already spend on social programs. So when somebody like Talleriko or Zoran, mom, dummy or Abdul El Sayed goes to BMW about how much money we're spending on bombs. And as opposed to one social program for people, you have no idea how much we already spend, which dwarfs the amount of money we spend on bombs.

43:56You don't know. Clueless, which means you're capable of being manipulated. Do you think it's by design that there are 13 public high schools in Baltimore where 0% of the kids can do math at grade level? Think it's by design? That a substantial percentage of New York students, K through 12, are neither reading nor math proficient. Do you think it makes some better citizens capable of navigating through life? capable of discerning when a politician is giving them BS or not? Or does it make them more gullible? More capable of being manipulated? More capable of being indoctrinated? This is CNBC, Rick Santelli, number 36. Hold on to your seats, folks. Non-farm payrolls for the month of August, up 162K, 162,000. That's basically three times what expectations are.

45:10The so-called experts were off by a factor of three. CNBC. CNBC is not right-wing. Now notice how CNN's Abby Phillips interpreted the news, number 37. All right, two months from the midterms, Donald Trump got a desperately needed rebound. But is he throwing away the win? The US labor market added 162,000 jobs in August. That's the strongest number of jobs. But is he throwing away the win? The US labor market added 162,000 jobs in August, up 162K, 162,000. That's the strongest number of jobs. The US labor market added 162,000 jobs in August. That's the strongest number of jobs. And that's the strongest number of jobs. Now the report wasn't all good news as wage growth slowed again, landing at a five-year low. It's also the fourth month in a row that Americans pay gains were outpaced by inflation. And to make matters worse, just minutes after this report was released, the president threatened to stop the US from trading with top partners unless the federal reserve lowers interest rates at its upcoming meeting.

46:18Quote, lower the rate, or I'll stop trading with countries with which we have a trade deficit. Trump said in a post on Truth Social, it's better than tariffs. The Fed board with its new great leader must get smart. Okay, you get the point. How can I form this in a way that is negative? I know what I'll do. I'll say it has to do with Trump getting a desperately needed rebound. Not that Americans have jobs. Three times in many Americans found jobs as so-called experts predicted. Let's not talk about how that's benefiting the country. Let's talk about how this is giving Donald Trump a rebound. This is the Chairman of the Economic Advisers, Kevin Hasse, at number 34. Yeah, we definitely got the proof. And recall the last month what happened was that there was a kind of strange seasonal adjustment problem. So there was a big reduction in employment for teachers. And we knew that was going to come back once school started up and that we'd have a strong number.

47:23But this number skyrocketed so much more than we expected to put it in perspective. Bloomberg surveyed 77 economists and said, what do you think the job's number is going to be? And this blew past every single one of them. All 77 got the number wrong and by a lot. This numbers four standard deviations above the average of their forecast. This is one of the best numbers relative to expectation that I've ever seen. And the reason to be dig into it is that the policies are working. And so for example, President Trump's terror policy and his big beautiful bill have made it so people should be building factories. Well, the number of people building factories has gone from about almost nothing other Joe Biden to about 90 something thousand people who are now building factories because they're ensuring production and they're expecting the factories. Also, we saw big surge in utility employment because while people are anxious that data centers might raise their utility bills, the utilities are working overtime to hire people to expand their capacity so that data centers can go wherever they want without making people's electric bills go up.

48:25And so there's so much good news in this report that it's consistent with everything else we've seen, which wasn't true last time. And again, final thing that if you look at the current Atlanta Fed estimate of what GDP is going to be, it's a number that is going to be released right before the election. It's a number about 5%, which would be one of the best GDP quarters ever. And so I think that the economic news is really putting wind to the sales of Republicans right now. Now here's the question. Why did all of these 70-70 economists get the number wrong? Not just wrong, but dramatically wrong. Because they're humans like everybody else on the left and they cannot stand Donald Trump. I was surprised when I found out how so many professors of economics are left-wing and colleges and universities, not as bad as other areas, but overwhelmingly left-wing. How do you get it that wrong?

49:30Under appreciating what the Big Beautiful Bill did in terms of tax refunds and no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, breaks on Social Security, AAA 971SHE do not leave town. AAA 971SHE AAA 971 7243 I am Larry Elder. We are Salem News Channel. My name is Mark from L.A. joins us, Mark. How was your weekend? Good, how was yours Larry? It was excellent, very relaxing. I didn't have you on my back for three or four days, so it was very nice. Oh, good. So, the thing that you just said a few minutes before you went to commercial that the left-wing media is biased and doesn't report the truth. I can just use, I mean, I love it when you work into what I want to talk to. And the thing you said at the beginning of your show, you've dragged out how the S&P broke another record and how oil went down.

50:39I don't recall having said one word about the S&P when I started the show today, not one word. Oh, well. I'm not sure he or he listening to what you weren't listening to me. And you mentioned that oil went down. I didn't say anything about oil going down. Mark, what show did you hear? Mr. McConnell, did I say one thing about oil today? My producer shakes his head, no. I said nothing about oil today. And so... Okay, so wrong on those two. So, what are you going to get me on now? You didn't brag about how good everything was. Good job numbers and everything, huh? I did say there were good job numbers. There were three times the number that so-called experts expect it. So, very good job numbers. Also, the previous two months, the job numbers were revised upward. I didn't mention that until just now. Thank you for reminding me. Okay. Yes. You're welcome. I also didn't mention that the stock market has been going down every day for the last few days. And you didn't mention the stock market when down 600 points today.

51:41And you didn't admit, I announced that all the economists would, by the way, are not all left wing literally. Why you tell your people that is the reason why they're all left wing? I didn't say they were all left wing. I said they dislike Donald Trump. No, you're using exactly what you said. Okay, let's get back to the stock market. Since Donald Trump has been in office, have the stock market been up, down flat wood? Oh, it's been up. Okay. Since Donald Trump has been in office, have wages outpaced inflation. Not for most people, no. You can always find a number where some people are above it, some people are under it. That's why you use average. So on average, since Donald Trump, 2.0 has been in office, have wages outpaced inflation on average. For higher scale people, yes. Lower scale people, no. So will you break it down? Okay, let's play your same game then. When Joe Biden was president in the four years, I did wages outpaced inflation.

52:45No, but by the way, the economy is better now than it was. Certainly, the economy is better in the last two years in the Biden administration than it is now. Biden average, I know you hate averages, but by the average 5% inflation for the four years he was in office, including one year, where he hit 9%. Gas prices are still lower than they were under Joe Biden, and even under the highest time under Barack Obama adjusted for inflation. So by any measure, Mark, I know you don't like it. By any measure, we are better off now than we were when Joe Biden was president. Okay, Larry. Yes. If that were really true, and the economy is, as you always keep saying, is doing good, affordability as a fax by the Democrats, then let me ask you a question. Why are all restaurants and stores having huge sales, or if you can afford to go out all the time, by the way, I'm one who can, because I'm single, go out a lot.

53:53You can get really super good deals. That is not how, if there were a good economy, you would not be getting sales left and right. Obviously, business is our suffering because nobody's spending money. Certainly, more things could be better, and in my opinion, will be better. Already, the benefit... Do you think... Okay, let's assume, let's assume, common hair has been elected president. She wanted to raise taxes, wanted to raise taxes, more regulations. Do you think we'd be better off or worse off, or about the same? Probably the same or worse, but I don't use Kamala Harris. No chance, I would have... No way would have I voted for her. Who did you vote for? I didn't vote for her president, by the way. I voted for my senators in Congress. So you just sat it out, you had two bad choices, you just sat it out. Exactly.

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55:53The Kindle Edition is just $2.99. That's carbon zero, pre-order it now. What do you think would have happened, Bernie Sanders, been president? Well, I think he would do a lot of things that nobody else would. I'm sure he would have, which is why I don't want him to be president. Medicare for all, how much of that gonna cost? Do you have any idea how much Medicare for all is gonna cost, which has been his whole thing for decades? Oh, well not, Larry, but often you forgot to mention that the deficit is up way too much. It is up very, very high. And you know why it's so high? Well, besides the fact of the war, besides the tariffs, besides that were alienating our number two customer, I don't know. Let me offer an alternative theory. The primary reason the deficit is up is because of the social spending. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and now Obamacare.

56:53They're on automatic pilot. And as our population ages, those numbers are gonna go up, no matter who's president. And regarding the spending you just now mentioned, recall what Larry Summers said that was Clinton's former Secretary of Treasury, said that Biden spending was gonna be inflationary. And guess what, it was. Well, let's use Larry Summers because anybody who had anything to do with Google and the implosion of the economy during the Bush administration, I don't trust. No, he was Clinton administration, my friend. No, no, no, no, no, no, Larry Summers. But Larry Summers also, back then, before that, was working for Google before the... Oh, okay, all right, Mark, I'm gonna move on this conversation that I'll jump the shark, which brings us to this... The real serious question about the midterms. The agenda on the part of the left is affordability, affordability, affordability.

57:56Explain to me what their plan is to bring down the cost of anything other than race taxes on rich people. Gavin Newsom is now proposing a national wealth tax, even though it claims that he opposes the wealth tax, that's on the ballot here in California. What is their agenda? Their agenda is Medicare for all. Have you seen the price tag for Medicare for all? Tax will have to be substantially increased on everybody, including the middle class because that's where the money is. That's your agenda, Medicare for all, and calling Donald Trump an SOB, calling Donald Trump a racist, and opposing the war in Iran. Without any question, ask about whether or not you believe Iran was close to getting a nuclear weapon, and if so, what would you have done about it if anything? Bottom line is, what is their agenda on affordability? I live in a state where Democrats have run this place for the last 20 years, not a single Republican elected statewide in over 20 years. Super majorities of Democrats in this state, simply in the state, senate.

58:59And what's the result? Home prices twice as a national average, highest gas prices in the nation, highest electricity prices in any state in the lower 48. What is their agenda? Other than Donald Trump and SOB, I'm Larry Odo. Triple 8971, SAGE, Triple 8971, 7243, I am Larry Odo. We are Salem News Channel. Who knew that capitalism would be on trial in the midterms? Country that's founded on capitalism. Even during the so-called Robert Barron period of time, John D. Rockefeller kept making fuel cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, Andrew Carnegie kept making steel cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, Cognitive Vanderbilt, made rail travel cheaper and cheaper and cheaper,

1:00:03because of competition. This is 1997. In essence, Stephen Jobs tried to explain to this gentleman how he doesn't get wealthy without pleasing other people, without trying to deal with the needs and desires of other people. Number 48. Yes. Mr. Jobs, you're a bright and influential man. Here it comes. When you say, I'm a very serious person, I'm not really saying you're a good person. I don't know what you're talking about. I would like, for example, for you to express in clear terms, how, say, Java in any of its incarnations addresses the idea of someone to open duck, and when you're finished with that, perhaps you can tell us what you personally have been doing for the last seven years.

1:01:03You know, you can please some of the people some of the time. But one of the hardest things when you're trying to affect change is that people like this gentleman are right in some areas. I'm sure that there are some things open doctors, probably even more that I'm not familiar with, that nothing else out there does. And I'm sure that you can make some demos, maybe a small commercial app that demonstrates those things. The hardest thing is, how does that fit in to a cohesive, larger vision that's going to allow you to sell $8 billion, $10 billion a product a year?

1:02:08And one of the things I've always found is that you've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it. And I've made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room. And I've got the scar tissue to prove it. And I know that it's the case. And as we have tried to come up with a strategy and a vision for Apple, it started with what incredible benefits can we give to the customer? Where can we take the customer? Not starting with, let's sit down with the engineers and figure out what awesome technology we have and then how are we going to market that.

1:03:09And I think that's the right path to take. I remember with the laser writer, we built the world's first small laser printers, you know. And there was awesome technology in that box. We had the first Canon laser printing, cheap laser printing engine in the world in the United States here at Apple. We had a very wonderful printer controller that we designed. We had Adobe's post-script software in there. We had Apple talk in there. Just awesome technology in the box. And I remember seeing the first printout come out of it. And just picking it up and looking at it and thinking, you know, we can sell this. Because you don't have to know anything about what's in that box. All we have to do is hold this up and go, do you want this? And if you can remember back to 1984 before laser printers, it was pretty startling to see that. People went, whoa. Yes. And that's where Apple's got to get back to.

1:04:12And I'm sorry that OpenDoc's a casualty along the way. And I readily admit there are many things in life that I don't have the faintest idea what I'm talking about. So I apologize for that too. But there's a whole lot of people working super, super hard right now at Apple. Avi, John, Garino, Fred. I mean, the whole team is working, burning the midnight oil, trying to, and people, you know, hundreds of people below them to execute on some of these things. And they're doing their best. And I think that what we need to do, and some mistakes we made, by the way, some mistakes will be made along. Meanwhile on CNN, capitalism is oppressive and bound up in white supremacy. And I think that what we need to do, and some mistakes will be made by the way. Some mistakes will be made along the way.

1:05:13That's good, because at least some decisions are being made along the way. And we'll find the mistakes, we'll fix them. And I think what we need to do is support that team, going through this very important stage as they work their butts off. They're all getting calls being offered three times as much money to go do this, without the valleys hot, and none of them are leaving. And I think we need to support them and see them through this and write some damn good applications to support Apple out in the market. That's my own point of view. Mistakes we made, some people will be f***ed off. Some people will not know what they're talking about, but it's, I think it is so much better than where things were not very long ago. And I think we're going to get there. 8971, S-H-E, 8971, 7243, I am Larry Elder, Salem News Channel. Essentially he was saying that you become profitable by making things that people want.

1:06:13But don't tell that to Jamil Hill, who is on CNN. Here's what she said, capitalism is and does. Number 69. There's one thing to not think capitalism is working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy. I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty, the idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use, those private property, and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. Capitalism is not white supremacy. It's not white supremacy.

1:07:14I've just described the actual, I've actually just described the basic facts of the event. That is how it always works. slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism and intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable that it barely needs to be defended. What do you mean it barely needs to be defended? You actually have to articulate what the connection is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell it with whoever you lack. What does that have to do with white supremacy? It's not working. It's not working. It's not working. It's not working right now today. What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property? It's not working. That's the problem. I think the problem is... What do you start with this kind of nonsense? As he pointed out, slavery has been part of human history in the very beginning. It predates writing.

1:08:14Capitalism essentially is a concept that started in the 1500s. So how is capitalism bound up in white supremacy and slavery? We're talking about gas prices a moment ago. This is Energy Secretary Chris Wright on CNN with Dana Bash, number 43. Ukrainian destruction of Russian refineries. Russia was a meaningful exporter of diesel throughout the last several decades. Today they banned any exports of diesel. China has also dramatically throttled back exports of diesel. And in fact, Russia is importing gasoline where they have historically been a net exporter of that. So the refining market has become very tight. The Biden administration closed over a dozen refineries in the United States. Gavin Newsom in California closed two significant refineries just in the last 12 months. We of course are rowing in the opposite direction. The Trump administration is working with our refineries to expand their capacity.

1:09:17In fact, our efforts in Venezuela will also bring on not just oil production, but ultimately a rise in refinery capacity in Venezuela to supply the world. So the world's had a lot of things rowing against the diesel market and democratic policies for the last 15 years to crimp the production of hydrocarbons in the United States is certainly taken a toll. But we're rowing in the other direction and we'll see that expanded. And on Venezuela, the administration speaking of Venezuela. The deal that we just signed with Venezuela increases the amount of proven reserves in control of our country by 100% it doubles it. Here's Marco Rubio, number 61. The U.S. government interested in extracting resources or sending troops. What I would say to anyone who's concerned that the U.S. is doing something negative towards the Western hemispheres, regards to energy, is those oil fields, oil once dominated by

1:10:20China and Russia and Iran. By the way, Iran also had some concessions and they're no longer there. So I think they're much better off partnering with the United States. They will benefit greatly from it. These fields were in many cases non-productive. In essence, the Chinese and Russian companies held these fields but never turned them into anything. These fields are going to be productive and they're going to generate royalties and revenues for the Venezuelan people. Eventually, through a democratically elected government, hopefully sooner rather than later and directly benefit the people of Venezuela as opposed to going into the pocket of some corrupt government official or in the hands of American and Venezuelan adversaries. So, China, Russia, Iran were controlling the oil fields of Venezuela. Nobody had a problem with that. Steve and more, Trump's economic advisor and Trump 1.0, number 35. So, this is wild, guys. 162,000 non-farm jobs were created for the month of August. Wow. Well, I know, Steve, I know.

1:11:21I'm feeling how you're throwing those arms around right now. I'm right there with you. The expectation was 56, became it at 162,000. The unemployment rate did stay the same, 4.1%. Manufacturing jobs came in better than expected. They came in at 16,000. I'm looking for data center jobs. That's just me. We were looking for 5,000 there. Private payroll is 127,000. So, a releasing strength in the private payroll story here. The expectation was 45. And then average earnings, which is a bit of an inflation story. A gate of 3, 10, so for percent. Steve, I mean, these, again, I know that we beat up on these numbers. We beat up on the data collection. I know you're looking at your phone. But Steve, more first year reaction on this. I mean, what a surprise. Yeah, sorry. I was just, I'm just looking at the numbers myself that just came across the Internet. So yeah, it's blue collar jobs, construction, manufacturing, and rebuilding things, again, in America. This is a reversal of the last three months, which were pretty poor reports.

1:12:21So I'm ecstatic about this. I love that. Now, I know, you know, people say, oh, the sidewalk is going to fall because we created more jobs. A good solid economy with a lot of jobs is good for everyone, good for investors, good for businesses, good for workers. And the fact that now you're seeing more jobs created is an indication that employers are going to have to start paying more. Now, I haven't seen that. For everyone, good for investors, good for businesses, good for workers. But the fact that now you're seeing more jobs created is an indication that employers are going to have to start paying more. Now, I haven't seen that wage number yet, Cheryl, but I anticipated it's going to be a pretty good number. One last thing. 3.1%. That's what I wanted. 3.1%. I'm sorry. 3.1%. That's a very good number. Yeah, that's a very good number.

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1:14:24Carbon Zero. We tripled 89717243. I am Larry Elder. We are Salem News Channel. A lot to get to between now and the close of the program. President Trump said 25 years after 9-11, we are blocking Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon. I want to say something about the assertion that Israel's committing genocide. How many big-name Democrats have pushed back on this nonsense? With Chuck Schumer, strongly said Israel is not committing genocide. Has he said anything? What about how came Jeffries? Have you guys said anything? It's an article of faith that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Never mind it's civilian versus combatant death ratio is better than ours. We went after ISIS. Never mind Israel's providing food. Water electricity to the people it allegedly is committing genocide against.

1:15:26Never mind Israel drops leaflets telling gozzans to leave so they don't get killed by bomb to going to drop. If you are committing genocide, you tell your people that you want to wipe out where the bombs are coming and when they are coming so you can relocate out of the way. I mean it's just as a night. We are going to talk about that. Secretary Scott Bessent says economic security is national security. All of this and more. This is Scott Jennings on CNN on the job report. Number 38. I do think the jobs report for him today I agree with your assessment. It's a great report for him. 162,000 jobs blew away the forecasters estimates and they revised the last two months upward by 55,000 jobs. There was also a bounce in manufacturing activity and we have seen a several months long increase in the manufacturing index. So there is some evidence that this economy is resilient, that it has momentum and it

1:16:30is tied to the policies of this president and that is something if they choose to focus on it and the Republicans choose to focus on it can work in the midterm. Hassan Piker, multi-million dollar house in West LA makes $2 million a year supposedly net worth between $6 and $9 million. Not too shabby for somebody who hates capitalism. Number 62. This is Luigi Mangione, wander all around the world really without getting a real job. Was it his family? Were hypercapitalists? Yes. And so how does Rokana give lectures and live in this house on a congressman's salary? Was it his father-in-law capitalism? Yes. How was it Hassan Piker? We'll pick this up on the other side. Tribal 8971 SAG. Down with capitalism. Live like capitalist. Don't go away. So let's get her teed up.

1:17:34Do you want to play rock? Say hello to my new friend. What the hell is going on? You can't succeed without me. Tribal 8971 SAG. Tribal 8971 SAG. 7243 I am Larry Elder. We are Salem News Channel. So much to pack into this last hour of our three hour live show. Richard Davidson was making the case about these Democrats socialists who live well because of the money generated by capitalism, which they of course claimed to despise. How many homes does Bernie Sanders have? I think it's three. When he was asked how he became multi-millionaire, he said, well, I wrote a bestselling book. A bestselling book published by a private company that used the free market system to sell

1:18:36your bestselling book so you could buy houses. I think Elizabeth Warren has two or three homes, which you was able to purchase because of our free enterprise system, which they claim is not working. And Hassan Piker, home estimated to be worth between $2 and $3 million a year in West Hollywood, estimated annual income from his podcasting and speeches and various other activities, $2 million a year. Richard net worth between $6 and $9 million a year. Victor Davis Hansen, number 62. His Luigi Mangione wander all around the world, really, without getting a real job. Was it his family? Were hypercapitalists? Yes.

1:19:37So how does Rokana give lectures and live in this house on a congressman's salary? Was it his father-in-law capitalism? Yes. How is it Hassan Piker can drive at $200,000 Porsche? Because he was a nipple baby? Yes. How can Mr. Mondami lecture everybody and have a beautiful, came from Uganda and have a beautiful, comfortable, materialistic existence in the United States if it's not for capitalism? So all of these people, it's all a big show. So they go out and they trash people and they destroy lives and then they pose that they're anti-capitalists and then you start to examine them and they're all privileged. I don't know. So how many Palestinian filmmakers, how many Palestinian activists, how many Palestinian professors, students have two things in common, three things in common.

1:20:39They all criticize the United States and they hate the United States and they want to change the United States but they want to leave the United States. They want to leave their beautiful Palestine even though they say that they love the West Bank or they were living in Lebanon, they were living in Jordan or Egypt. They want to leave and they want to come over here. But once they come over here, they come over here because it's safe. It's free market capitalism prosperity. It's the rule of law, safety. It's the first amendment, freedom of speech. Then they come over and the left welcomes them as a new ally and the army destroy America's we know it and then they attack their host and the third thing they have in common, they're usually quite spoiled, affluent. That's Mondami, that's Ilyan Omar, that's Hassan Piker, all of them. They're very vocana. They're all wealthy, first and second generation immigrants.

1:21:42AOC says she was poor, she's living in what, upper middle class, Connecticut, on New York suburb when she came, when she grew up for the most part. I think people are getting really tired of them. I always say that phrase and people say Victor, they're not tired. I think they are. I think people are getting really, really tired of them. Meanwhile we hosted the FIFA World Cup and all these people came over here blown away by the variety of goods in Walmart and grocery stores blown away by how most people have air conditioning, blown away by the size of people's homes, size of their bedrooms blown away by how friendly Americans are. This is President Trump, number 25. In the last three months, travelers logged 290 billion miles on American highways, our

1:22:44national parks welcomed 78 million visitors, all records. And on 11 separate days, more than 3 million travelers through the American flies. The American skies were loaded up with planes and loaded up with a lot of happy people, going to various destinations. And June, America welcomed visitors from all over the globe for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and Andrew Giuliani did a fantastic job, Andrews with us also. Match day spending at local restaurants rose 80 percent and across 11 host cities, determined added more than 18 billion dollars to our economy and supported more than 160,000 jobs. It really wasn't a riot or a fight or any problem at all. It was amazing from the standpoint of law enforcement. What law enforcement did work it along with the National Guard in certain cases and others.

1:23:46We had a summer of real freedom and great entertainment and great soccer, but they sent a record. And I believe it was five times greater than any Olympics or any FIFA World Cup that they've ever had. And we have the Olympics coming in and the Olympics are going to be, I think, equal. This summer we also celebrated the 250th anniversary of American independence from the historic UFC fight that we had right outside, where there is now, we just completed it essentially today. One of the most beautiful heliports you've ever seen and say something that they've wanted to have at the White House for many years where the helicopter was landing on grass, which is not good and very unsafe. We have a beautiful new helipad that just, if you want to take a trip outside, you'll see it. It's beautiful. Incredible the job that they've done. Carved granite with the seal of the president of the United States, beautiful eagle. And it's something very special.

1:24:49And we built it a little ahead of schedule and it came out even better. Okay. Okay. You get the point. Welcome people from all over the world to this racist hellhole, this capitalistic, abysmal country. Let's turn to the assertion that Israel is engaging in genocide. This is the host of young Turk. Number 51. How could you say something I guess Israel? Israel is the Jewish state. The greatest state of all, right? I don't care that they're Jewish. I wish they had a safe haven for Jews that didn't constantly attack their neighbors. It's called the name of the country. That didn't occupy their neighbors. I want a safe haven, but they don't want a safe haven. They want more land. It's called greater Israel. It's a map that hangs in their cabinet. It's not like they're hiding it.

1:25:49Why do you report it? Because no, it's a medic. That's an excuse they use to drive hatred towards Muslims so that Israel can accomplish their objectives. Goodness. This is an urban warfare scholar named John Spencer about what Hamas has been doing. Number 42. Although Hamas is a very unique version of a human sacrifice, as their goal is to actually get the people killed according to them, and they need to be indebted to achieve their political goals. Can you say according to them, just spell that out from your mouth? How come according to them? The Hamas leadership, whether it was Hania, Sinmoir, or others, the ones are giving the orders, have many public statements. And actually, even recently, saying they need the blood of their women, children, and elderly to achieve their goals. They said they not only want it, they need it to achieve this goal of theirs in the afterlife,

1:26:53by martyrdom and everything. So it's a really sick political strategy. We haven't seen it. Even the Japanese, the Nazis, nobody, while they accepted civilian casualties, that wasn't their strategy, was to get their own population killed in order to achieve this political goal in the afterlife. So that's why I say in their words, because it's their public statements that anybody can reference that they have this human sacrifice strategy. And of course, there are actions, right? There's 600 miles of tunnels in Gaza. As one example, there's a 2.2 million people there, all of them could fit in their tunnels with ease and escape the surface, what's going on in the surface. The Hamas actually makes written and public statements saying these are not for the civilians and civilians are not allowed, and you don't see civilians trying to get in the underground. Where if I go to Ukraine where I've been many times, as in while we're talking, the civilians go into the subways to seek refugees from the bombings that are happening on the surface.

1:27:54That's a very unique thing. Why do people keep using human shields strategy? It is because there are those that follow the law of armed conflict. There's a history of this post-war too. The conventions, things that even the all nations said, we won't do this anymore. We won't target civilians, which is one of the fundamentals of the law of war. But actually built this thing that we call law fair, which is when a non-state actor or a state actor actually says, not only do I not care about the laws of war, I'm going to use them against that Western democracy that is following the laws. And that's where you get Hamas occupying hospitals, schools, Hamas, all of it, because they know that those are protective sites. In order to strike them, you have to, there are special things that have to be done. That's a war, a war crime in them itself. But it's this reverse engineering of the rules of war. Tribulate 971, this 8G8, Tribulate 971, 7243, I am Larry Oda, we are still in New

1:28:58Town. There's a piece in the New York Sun by a really smart commentator named David Harzani. He also by the way supplied much of the data on how much we're spending on welfare that I talked about earlier in the program. This is a piece for the Sun. It talks about this allegation that Israel is engaging in genocide because of the war against Hamas. He mentions that after the UN Secretary General claimed that famine in Gaza was, quote, a failure of humanity itself, close quote. The UNICEF charity found not only that there was, there was no widespread acute malnutrition in Gaza, but at 0.5%, the Gaza Strip had one of the lowest rates of malnutrition of malnutrition in the region.

1:30:00There were some clarification stories that ran by then. The lies had taken hold. There was more humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip than any army probably ever gave to an enemy population during wartime in history. Food, clean water, electricity, medical aids for decades since Israel gave Gaza back to them in 2005. Warn civilians with flyers, phone calls, and other mitigation techniques to make sure that the civilian casualties are as low as possible, moves populations of entire cities out of the way, and the lowest combat to civilian death ratios in the history of modern warfare. All these, the city they built underneath the ground, the tunnels, the hospitals, the tunnels,

1:31:05the under-hospitals under schools under mosques. As Spencer just now pointed out, they prevent their own people from going down into this area. When bombs are falling, civilians cannot use the underground. And if Israel is practicing genocide against Palestinians, two million Arabs live in Israel that's 20% of the country. Full legal rights, full voting rights, serving the Kineset, practice law of medicine, attend universities. There's one obligation they don't have which is to serve in the IDF. They can't if they want to. But unlike Jewish's release, there is no obligation to do so. If this is genocide, Israel need to go back to genocide school.

1:32:09This is Bill Maher number 39. I know you have your problems, John, but I live here in Hollywood. I have to live amongst people, most of whom, who think it's cool to wear the caffaya to the Oscars and to say, you know, free Palestine. As if Palestine would be liberated by living under Hamas. By the way, Israel, geniuses educated on TikTok, was liberated in 2005 by Israel. Israel gave it back and said, here, you have your land again, you do something with it. And this is what they did with it. I mean, I made it into a fortress, didn't spend it on the people or turning it into any sort of, it could have been Dubai. I agree. I sat with Bill Clinton. We were campaigning in Harris. And I was like, hey, thanks for your work. And Clinton, he reminds us.

1:33:09It's like, yeah, we offered them 96% of the West Bank. And East Jerusalem was the capital. You know, here you go. For 25 years, they could have rebuilding that into Dubai or whatever that they want. They did not want a two-state solution. They're one-state solution, you know, as you always point out, like from the river. See what's in there. Exactly. Yeah. Just look at a map. We know where the river is. Yeah. Look at the map. Yeah. As if these kids know what a map is or would not have a look at it. Yeah. They don't, again, it's especially frustrating out here because people out here, they're actors. So they just want to cause. Yeah. And then they do something about free Palestine. Identify it. But that's as far as they've looked into it. They don't look past the buzzwords. They're talented. They're not great. Name the one pro-Israel band that played at Coachella. You know, they started, they started, they're, they're, they're said, you know, Israel

1:34:11or whatever. It does not exist. But there's constant kinds of. Right. Yeah. There's an Irish. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they even went to Cuba as if Cuba has a, oh, yeah, yeah. It's if Cuba hasn't suffered enough. Yeah. And the Irish rock broke. Yeah. And 13. As Bill Maher speaking with John Federman. By the way, this is in 2014, Hakeem Jeffries, giving a speech, strongly supporting Israel during a period of conflict. July 2014, Hakeem Jeffries, number 58. Israel faced aggression in 1948 and Israel prevailed. And then you faced aggression in 1967 and Israel prevailed. And then you faced aggression in 1973 and Israel prevailed. And so I'm confident that when it's all set and done, we're going to stand together.

1:35:13Israel today. Israel tomorrow. Israel. Forever. God bless you. That was at a stand to Israel rally. Can you imagine Hakeem Jeffries saying that two day? This has been Shapiro debating a student at Oxford about Israel and Hamas. This is in 2023. What do they come in back? I want you to hear the whole thing. Can you imagine somebody like Hakeem Jeffries giving a speech like that now? Would you order Democrats side with Palestinians over Israel? Majority. Majority of young Democrats believe that Israel is committing genocide. Do you have any idea what the definition of genocide is? How quickly Israel could in fact engage in a genocide if Israel wanted to?

1:36:19It's Astonine. Biden Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken said the assertion that Israel is engaged in genocide is meritless. By the way, has he said anything since then? Has he reiterated that since then? Where has he been? April 8, 971, S-8 GE do not lead down. Tribal 8, 971, S-8 GE, Tribal 8, 971, 7243, Larry O. We still have him this time. We're talking about whether Israel has committed genocide and its war against Hamas and Gaza. This is November 2023. This is a month after the October 7 massacre. Number 60. Hi. Israel is justified in killing civilians because of the acts of terror committed by Hamas.

1:37:19Why isn't Hamas justified in doing what it did? Because Israel is keeping 13,000 children, has tried them in military courts since the establishment of Israel, 55,000 Palestinian homes have been bulldozed. So why isn't Hamas justified in doing what it did if we use your logic? Well, so I'm going to answer a question that I'm going to ask a question if you don't mind, is that right? So my answer is that Israel would not be justified in killing Palestinians because of the actions of terrorists. Israel would be justified in attempting to kill terrorists and civilian casualties are a cost of war. That is just a reality of life. During World War II there were 70,000 Brits who died during the Blitz bombing and there were 2 million Germans who died. Civilians who died during World War II. And I don't see a lot of monuments in Britain because of the 2 million civilians who died in Germany. The cost of war are brutal, they're terrible, they're horrifying. There's a vast difference in moral scope between deliberately going into a civilian area and murdering everyone you can find and trying to kill a terrorist who is deliberately hiding

1:38:21beneath a civilian area, hiding the rockets in civilian areas, starving their own people, there's a vast difference. Okay, so let me, now I get to ask my question if you don't mind. So my question is do you believe that there is a moral difference between Hamas going into, for example, Qafar Aza and murdering entire families and Israel attempting to target terrorists and accidentally hitting civilians? Israel is effectively doing the same because Gaza is the most densely populated region in the world. There are 15,000 people per square mile. So does Hamas get a community because they're there? So Hamas gets a community. Israel is killed 3,500 children in the past 3 weeks. So your children, that's more children than have died in conflicts around the world in each of the last 4 years. So just to be clear, your logic is that if you're a terrorist group located in a densely populated community, you hide behind civilians, you're now immune. Where are the children meant to go? So you're immune. Okay. Where are the children? That's violation of the human conventions, but okay, you're in your name too. You're logic is that you're Hamas. Sorry, sorry, since 2005, 23 out of every 24 conflict deaths have been Palestinian.

1:39:24I don't see any moral equivalency there. It's clearly unjust what the IDF has been doing to the Palestinians because there's a vast disparity between the number of Palestinians being killed and the number of Israelis. I mean, I would certainly hope that Israel is going more humbly. This isn't a conflict. This isn't a conflict. This is one side of ethnic ten-room. Again, I'm just asking you, if based on the numbers, more Germans died than Brits in World War II. Did that mean that British were wrong in World War II? Because they did. Many more Germans died than Brits. Based on the numbers, that mean that Britain was wrong in World War II. Britain wasn't bombing civilian civilians. There's a clear difference. You should talk to the people who are in dragistan, but you can't because they're dead. There's a clear difference. I agree that war is horrible, but this is not a just war. What Israel is doing is not a just war. There's a difference between fighting the Nazis. So there's not a just war to it? The difference between fighting the Nazis. It is not a just war. When you fight a war against people who murder 1,500 civilians and take 233 of them at

1:40:25last count, capped it into tunnels, it is not a just war to obliterate them. Please name a just war. Israel has been killing civilians for the past 75 years, and there was no headlines about it, and nobody said that the Palestinians would justify it. Israel does not purposefully kill civilians. Palestinians terrorists do. Israel has put police in their place. If Israel put down a gun, they'll be a second holocaust. If the Palestinians put down their guns tomorrow, there'll be a Palestinian state. That is the reality. And let me ask you this. No, not be a Palestinian. I'm going to ask you the last question. I'm going to ask you the last question. The same question I asked her. Which part of Palestine is occupied? The entirety of Palestine. Eric, I'm not going to put in the destruction of the Jews on the day. I appreciate you expressing your full genocidal intent for the Jewish people living between the river. Why is it genocidal to pay for a state that is not apartheid? You can have a state where all citizens have equal rights. Jews and Muslims. I'm sure that's going to go amazingly. That's a genocidal intent. I know the same people who are governing the Gaza Strip, who are currently zero Jews live. What's the time can we move on to the next question, please?

1:41:28I say again, if Israel is committing a genocide, they need to go back to genocide school. They have the means. They have the resources to kill every single civilian in Gaza without much effort. We've chosen not to do that. Fighting an enemy that is, Vensha Perl just said, puts its munitions underneath schools, underneath mosques, underneath hospitals, underneath the care centers in order to exact civilian deaths so they can then accuse Israel of engaging in a genocide. And then take BB Noughtin Yarrow to court, claiming he is a quote unquote war criminal. It's insane. I'm Larry Yolder. Oh, what do you want? I look bad.

1:42:31Triple 8971, S-H-G-E, Triple 8971, 7243, I'm Larry Yolder. We are still on news channel. We're talking about whether Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Thomas Sol was once talking about the origin of Jew hatred. Let's revisit number 56. I have a chapter, that's the first chapter's black red necks and white liberals. The second chapter's Arduous Generic. Why the jump from black red necks and white liberals to Arduous Generic? What's the point? Well, this is a book that's really about ethnic and cultural issues in general. So there's a chapter on the Jews, the chapter on the Germans, and then the chapter on history in general. So they are lumped together because they are all cultural ethnic issues. Fascinating story because among the middle man minorities, which the Jews are the most prominent, the hostility to these people in countries around the world is out of all proportion of that.

1:43:34So any other kind of group I can think of. In terms of violence, the number of Chinese killed, let's say, in one year. And by mob action, it sees all the blacks lynched in the entire history of the United States. And the number of Armenians killed in Turkey during the First World War is greater than that. Of course, the number of Jews slaughtered a number of occasions in history, even before the Holocaust is greater than that. So the question is why are these particular kind of people or the targets of so much us, venomous hatred? And I think the answer is that they always succeed in a way which is the threat to the egos of other people. But the guy who comes here, let's say from Vietnam or Korea and arrives here with a little more than the clothes in his back. And if you were broken, words are broken English. And a decade later, he has his own little business. And you see his son a few years after that getting ready to go off the harbiter in my tea.

1:44:35You've got to ask yourself, you either got to, you know, you've got to hate yourself and say, my God, I've been stagnating this guy. It was nothing. And now he's worse than I. Or you're going to have to hate him. A year ago, one official of one of the Jewish organizations in New York asked me, what can Jews themselves do in order to minimize the hostility they face? I gave him a one word answer, fail. Of course, as long as you succeed, you're going to be hated. So both Kastinbaum is a member of Prager University. He was at Harvard when, after October 7, Harvard failed to protect its Jewish students, he found a lawsuit against them. This is exchanged with a progressive open borders pro-Islam progressive number 70. Let me ask you a specific question based on that claim. There is a tremendous problem. We spoke about this in the last prompt in the Middle East when it comes to pedophilia.

1:45:37A really, really big problem. There are very loose or simply nonexistent laws when it comes to child marriage. The rates of rape and sexual assault in predominantly Muslim-Mital Eastern countries are far higher than any Western country. We had in the United States in the last 10 years. It stopped under Donald Trump. But who knows what it will be in the future. We had in the last 10, 15 years massive rates of migrants coming from Middle Eastern countries into the United States. I'm just asking a hypothetical or a theoretical. If you're an immigration officer and you have an individual from Iraq and he's coming from that culture. He tells you during his swearing in or whatever. If I find the right nine-year-old, I will get married with her. I will impregnate her as soon as she's ready. That's their culture. Migration is just a history of humanity. It's just what we do. Would you find that in any ways objectionable? Number one, and number two, would you reject his application to come to the United States? Personally, I find it objectionable but I wouldn't reject the application. I wouldn't reject the application just based on that because we believe that wouldn't be able to happen.

1:46:40I just want to understand. I have anti-child marriage laws across the US so that wouldn't happen. Some places in the US, the marriage laws are pretty young. I just want to understand your position. I'm not going to attack. I just want to understand it. If I tell you definitively, I am going to find a nine-year-old because in my culture, it's totally normal. I'll even invite you to the wedding. I'm going to find this nine-year-old and I will impregnate her. You're telling me it's illegal. I'm going to do it anyway. You're saying that you would still... Hang on, you're saying that just based on what I tell you alone, that would not be grounds for rejecting my application. Is that correct? Yeah, that is what I'm saying. I think that is a profound disagreement between my ideology, conservatism, and the ideology that you report to represent. There's one thing... I don't even say a lot. Let me just put this out. There's one thing about saying this person coming from a certain culture and I'm not even going to necessarily agree that that is a cultural phenomenon. But for the sake of this argument, this person is saying that this is what they're going to do versus what they actually will be able to do or two different things.

1:47:44So I'm not going to deny an application based on someone's ideology and what they desire to do versus what they actually can do and the constraints around what they can do, like that just wouldn't do. So if I said I'm not going to deny it, just based on that, like that's not. So if I said I'm going to blow up a building full of Catholics, you would still accept my application because... Yeah, he's probably not going to do it. No, I wouldn't say that. But you just said you would accept the nine-year-old. But that's... I would say that's different. Those are two different realms. How? They're both crimes. But that's advocating or saying that I'm going to do this particularly violent thing. And I'm not saying it's... Both examples are. But it's part of my culture. Both examples are. But there's something different between marriage. Marriage, marriage customs is different than killing. No, it is not. And that thing... And that thing... And those are nine-year-old. It's a different, horribly wrong, and evil. It is extremely detrimental to children, to their psychology. I agree, I agree. So just... What have I been saying? But you were assuming that this is a culture and that culture is coming here. I'm not saying that culture is coming here. I'm not saying that culture. I'm not saying that culture.

1:48:44In this example, I literally said... It's not a hypothetical. But even though for this case it's a hypothetical, it happens to not be a hypothetical. As I said, there really is a tremendous problem with pedophilia in the Muslim world, particularly in the Middle East. So the example... I brought this out as, you know, a hypothetical exercise, but it does have practical consequences. And I do have to say I find it a little worrying how you're so nonchalant about someone who's like openly expressing pedophilia. And you're simply saying, well, he probably won't do it. But I guess what I'm sort of stuck on is not just the excuse for pedophilia, but like what are we as Americans gaining from having him in this country? But I'm not saying that there's... I'm not trying to make an excuse for pedophilia in any way of the same. And I'm saying because you're assuming that this is like... This is a cultural phenomenon and I don't think... And absolutely, yes. And absolutely, yes. You know, he is. And I think that there's more to someone's application versus this mission here. Well, you're saying pedophilia would not enough... Would not be enough. Pedophilia would not be enough to reject someone's visa application. I think that's one... I think that is definitely... Definitely, I don't think. I don't think it's all of it. I also find it brilliant. But I think you're putting words in my mouth. I'm saying that. Sorry, so let me...

1:49:44So tell me why I'm wrong. Because I think the premise of how you're coming at this isn't bad faith. Like you're saying that all... That muscle majority country is that there is a problem pedophilia and people who are coming from these muscle majority countries are going to come here and bring that here already saying. But I know that I'm coming from a Catholic country. That's not what he's saying. But back Trump says he wants to force states to run their own welfare system in order to cut down on fraud on Larry Elder. Trump's security is national security and that Iran is being squeezed. Number 41.

1:50:44You have said that you think in two years the straight of Hormuz will be worthless to the oil industry. So I'd love to get you to expand on that a little bit. But I'm also wondering from perspective of Treasury Secretary, what your message is to the American people. Obviously this war is being felt here at home and a lot of people are looking to the administration for solutions. The oil producing nations of the Gulf are actually building alternative pipeline routes that will no longer entail oil going through the straight of Hormuz. And the Iranian chokehold to the extent they have one and I can tell you they do not have one. We are in control of the straight but to the extent that they can threaten their neighbors once we leave that will not exist anymore. Fortability has two components. It is inflation and wages. The bottom 25% of wage earners over the past year. I got a 4.7% wage increase and the median has been about 3.7.

1:51:48Now because of the elevated energy prices, we are at about a headline inflation rate of about 3.5. So Americans on average are breaking even working class Americans at the bottom of the spectrum are doing a little better than inflation. But we don't believe that that is acceptable. But what is the good news is that these wage increases are going to keep going. We have a manufacturing rate of thought, a construction rate of thought. So the wages will keep going. This war will end and those will turn into real wage gains. Just to stay with the straight of Hormuz for a moment. You have also noted that you say the U.S. in China actually have more in common than we disagree on when it comes to safely navigating the straight of Hormuz. I think the question for a lot of Americans is really how much can we trust China? They are still taking oil from Iran. So how do you navigate that situation?

1:52:49One of the things we have done and what the President has done is fantastic sequencing. So we are running Operation Economic Outcast right now. And this is the greatest economic isolation operation in the history of the world. We are going to fixate this regime. Now we have the blockade. And because of the blockade, the oil is not getting out. So there's probably only about 30 million barrels of Iranian crude oil left. The China hasn't bought. So that will run out soon. And there will be no problem with China buying because they have no product. And now some of our allies are actually joining Operation Outcast. God forbid Trump should win this thing. I'm Larry Yolder. What can I say? Mumbai. The Mike has been brought.

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