In this episode, I welcome back Dr. David Schein—professor, attorney, author, and host of the Saving America and Business Law 101 podcasts—for a fast-moving conversation on American leadership, policy, and the state of our politics. We dive into U.S. foreign policy strength and deterrence, discuss lessons from history and presidential performance (including how Dr. Schein grades presidents and why he sees the current bureaucratic state as failing), and explore term limits, congressional excess, and the power of incumbency. We also tackle domestic realities—economy, cost of living, and crime—plus 2026 midterm prospects, notable governor and mayoral races in New York, Virginia, and New Jersey, and what a smarter, leaner federal focus could look like. Dr. Schein shares the thinking behind his books Decline of America and Bad Deal for America, his forthcoming projects, and where to find his work. If you enjoy straight talk on leadership, government accountability, and practical reforms, this episode is for you. Listener Q&A and feedback are always welcome at joerooz.com—send in your thoughts, questions, and guest/topic suggestions, and we’ll feature highlights in an upcoming show.
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(00:04:11) Opening from Eagle Pass and show setup
(00:05:44) Guest intro: Dr. David Schein returns
(00:09:56) Live vs. edited podcasts and early radio career
(00:13:32) Sponsorship challenges and value-for-value model
(00:15:03) Pivot to Dr. Scheins books and U.S. leadership
(00:16:32) Foreign policy strength, Iran, and deterrence
(00:21:52) Indictments, DOJ trust, and FBI concerns
(00:26:36) DC as a Democratic stronghold and agency reform
(00:29:05) From Mossad to Decline of America thesis
(00:31:32) Industrial might, poor presidents, and Wilson
(00:33:23) Clintons luck, Gingrich revolution, welfare reform
(00:37:53) Grading presidents and plans for a sequel
(00:39:44) Bidens grade, who ran the White House, 25th talk
(00:41:42) Party realignment and independent voting
(00:46:12) Virginia and New Jersey races; rhetoric and threats
(00:52:39) Gerrymandering experiences from the 1990s
(00:57:52) Term limits case: Bad Deal for America
(01:03:46) Proposed reforms: 5-year presidency and district living
(01:06:43) Next books: The Cheap Education and Failure
(01:08:35) Bureaucratic state failures: Katrina to air traffic
(01:11:22) Lobbyists, dorms for Congress, and going home
(01:13:52) NYC politics: Mamdani, Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa
(01:17:05) NY state governor race and Democratic messaging
(01:19:31) Midterm outlook and economic conditions
(01:21:50) Prices, jobs, and mixed bag at the grocery store
(01:26:04) If 2026 disappoints: potential swings ahead
(01:26:08) Wrap-up: books, grades, and where to find Dr. Schein
(01:29:58) Host closing, support options, and sign-off
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Transmitting live from the asylum studios deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas, it's The Joe Ruse Show. The show where we talk about anything and everything. Where nothing is sacred, nothing is watered down, and nothing is PC. Alright. Hey, folks. This is Joe Roos, and it is great
[00:04:36] Unknown:
to be with you as we are transmitting live once again at the asylum studios from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass, and we we are doing the very best we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the Joe Russo. Alright. Well, it's a beautiful Thursday night here in Eagle Pass, Texas. It was 94 degrees at start time and, beautiful though. Beautiful sunny skies, blue skies above. It's great, great, great night. And I always said there's nothing in the world. I've been to, probably 30 of the 50 states, and I have never seen a place with more beautiful skies than Texas.
And I'm not just saying that because I live here. It's the honest truth. Beautiful skies here in Texas. Unbelievable. You can you can't even begin to imagine, unless you see it firsthand. So, so again, a beautiful night here, and, I hope you guys are ready for a great great show tonight. We have doctor Dave David Shine waiting for us in the wings. We're gonna be bringing him on here just momentarily. Hope you guys were able to catch the show last night with Patrick, I you know what? I just his name last name just flipped out of my head. San Gimino.
That's it. Patrick San Gimino. And, that was a great show too. We had a great conversation. Loved talking to him. It was good to talk to a paizon, you know? That was a good thing. It's a good thing. It's a good thing. And we enjoyed the conversation, had some some good laughs, and really very informative, and I'm looking forward to getting him on again at some point as well. Kinda catch up. I'm gonna make sure, like I I promised, I told him I was gonna read the book in its entirety, and then we're gonna have him on, and then we'll critique it live. I I think he liked that. So we're gonna do that when we when he comes back on again, and I'm excited to do that as well. Alright.
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Doctor David DeShine joins us again. Doctor Dave is a is a professor, an author, attorney, a frequent commentator on politics, business, ethics, leadership. He's He's the host of the Saving America and the Business Law one zero one podcasts, as well as cohosting the podcast, Unscripted Politics. He's the author of Bad Deal for America and the Decline of America, one hundred years of leadership failures. With decades of experience in both academia and private sector, doctor Dave brings a sharp, no nonsense perspective to the issues that are shaping our country today. Doctor Dave, it is great to have you back on the show. I've been looking forward to this and kinda pick up where we left off, the last time you were with us. We had such a great conversation. We didn't get a chance to even talk about your books.
[00:10:02] Unknown:
Well, thank you, Joe. And, I appreciate being invited back. You know, that's kind of an endorsement that that, I didn't screw up too bad last time.
[00:10:12] Unknown:
If there was any screw ups, sir, it was on my end. Totally.
[00:10:15] Unknown:
And No. As you know, I interview people for saving America, and I tell them the same thing. I say, you know, we we do, review we do prerecord, and I said, we we do, edit things. And sometime recently, running a couple people get excited about that. Like, oh, you're gonna do a you know? They they don't say it, but the implication is they're gonna do a CBS on us and on their interview and change the meaning of some of the sentences and stuff. And all we do is take out usually my errors in the introduction or if I fluff up a question.
[00:10:47] Unknown:
Alright. Yeah. I I know I know some some podcast host that when they do their editing, they actually, painstakingly go through every minute of the audio just to take out the breaths, and to take out the ahs, and the umms, and, and and those pregnant pauses that sometimes come up when you're in between questions. It's a lot of work. That's why I do it live. I'd rather do it live. Just get it out of the way.
[00:11:12] Unknown:
I I understand. Yeah. We we do actually, Rachel Harrison, the the producer of my shows, actually does painstakingly go through that. And, we I've since I'm doing it, of course, and I'm very conscious of it, but I got my start in live radio in the early seventies. I was actually on public radio, WHYY FM in Philadelphia, and, I covered the arts and entertainment scene. And I had a weekly one hour show that would be equivalent to entertainment this week that we see on on television that's now been airing for fifty years. The heartbreak on my end is is that I went to WHYY management, after the show had been on their station for about a year. We were doing very well. And I said, you know, guys, we need to move this to television.
And I I said, I I really think that this is where this is going. This was 1972. You know? And the management of the radio station got really upset with me and forbid me, said, you absolutely cannot do that. Do not talk to, central management or anybody higher in the latter because they didn't want, anybody competing for the limited resources that the station had available to them. And then, of course, I, eventually because I was not being paid to do the show and I had not been able to get sponsorships because of the way Station handled things. I, was accepted to graduate school in another city. I was in Philadelphia, moved down to Charlottesville University of Virginia, and I gave up the show.
And a couple years after that, entertainment this week debuted in a very similar format to what I did here. Isn't that interesting? Actors and actresses from the time, movie clips and stuff like that. So, it it was, it was kinda interesting. So, we're we're hoping to stay in the game a little little bit more. And I did light radio again in Richmond, Virginia from 02/2008, 02/2009. I did every morning for an hour, and that's that's a lot of work. And, sadly, we had the same thing happen for a different reason. We were on regular commercial AM radio, and it is extremely competitive to get advertising.
And I had to, we you know, I financed the show for about a year, and, we only were able to sell a little bit of, interim advertising. And I said, you know what? I just we just can't keep, keep funding things. So it it's, it's a challenge out there no matter who does what and how you do it is to make sure that, you know, it's fun to say it's a it's a labor of love, and I know it is in your case as it is in mine. But at the same time, labor of love sometimes takes a little bit of that folding green. Yes. It does, actually. It it it takes quite a bit of that folding green.
[00:14:16] Unknown:
It surely does. We've had some upgrades to what we've been using here. So we're using a different, streaming platform as our, as our host platform. So, you know, we're playing with graphics and stuff and still learning our way around, but it takes money to do it. And that's why we ask for donations, you know, from the audience. And and, you know, we have a couple of folks that that do help us out quite a bit, and we greatly appreciate that, you know, and like you you've heard me say, we we follow the value for value model. It's, you know, it's it's if you're getting something from us, and we're just asking if you could do it, you know, send it back, and it could be your time, your talent, your treasure, and you know, I I explain it all at the end of the show, because I don't wanna bore everybody now. So but, but last time you were here, we had we had really had a great conversation. I really really enjoyed it. We talked about your health. We talked about good health.
We talked about some of your background. But the one thing that we that we originally set out to talk about, we never got to. And like I said, that was your books. And I really wanna get into those tonight. So because your books really do take a a very hard look at US leadership over the last century. And and I and and we need some leadership right now. I think I think we're on the right track right now, but, you know, there there there are some issues there, though, we have to address. But what's what's your core concern right now about how America's being governed today?
[00:15:33] Unknown:
Well, it's difficult to be, critical of Trump today given the what appears to be an enormous success in The Middle East with Hamas Israeli situation. And that has that's an unquestioned positive, but it it's based on a very fundamental principle, which is for peace in the world, America has to be that shining star. We we've got to be the dominant force. We've got to show enough strength that nobody messes with us. And and I will say, I think, that what Trump did that cemented his position in the in the eyes and ears of the, terrorists and the other opposing forces was when he sent those, big bombers over to, Iran Mhmm. And bombed the, nuclear facilities. And while there was some controversy about how much damage they did, the bombs weighed 30,000 pounds each.
And I'm sorry, but when you and they did exactly what they were supposed to do. They dropped one, and what it does is it it does an incredible amount of damage, and then they drop another one exactly where the first one did, which mean the first one basically cut the surface, and then the next one took out the next layers below it. And I haven't heard much from Iran since then. You know? Oh, really? They've done their usual, wax stuff, but I believe that it it accomplished two things. First of all, I think it dramatically set back their nuclear program.
And two, it shook the, the terrorist operation that's running Iran to its, to its toenails. And I think that that is a very shaky administration, and I think it's more likely that they may experience a revolution there than it is, than it may have been in the past. I think that would be a positive. And I've I've been hopeful that The United States would be actively engaged in you know, for some reason, somebody decided in congress twenty five, thirty years ago that we weren't allowed to be involved in regime change, and I think that was a silly decision. If we're if we have regimes out there, especially a regime like Iran that that runs around just chanting death to Americans, we're not talking about a few wackos on the street corner. We're talking about the current government of Iran that says death to Americans.
We should be able to easily authorize, of course, not on the front page of the newspaper, but to say, if there's an opportunity to support people, who who would be, adequate representation of the of the people, because I've I've had some interesting feedback from people. I I have Iranian students, and I talked with one of my Iranian students the other day. She her family fled Iran at some point, was able to extract themselves from the country. They went to Canada, which, by the way, is a very common path. You you go to Canada, which is easier to immigrate into, and then you immigrate from Canada to The United States. Mhmm. And that's what they did. So she's actually a domestic student of mine. Okay. But it was great talking with her. And I didn't know this story, but I just recently, like, a week ago, got a chance to talk to her after class, and she told me this. She I did not ask her any questions. She volunteered the story to me, and it was very interesting. And I I have met a number of Iranians here in Houston because, you know, being an oil capital, it is and it's, it's kind of a gateway for people coming to The United States and Middle East that, I'm convinced that there is a very compatible group of humans in Iran who are ready to take over the government and would be very, very happy to be, a compadre of The United States. And I think some of the the members of the Iranian revolutionary guard would also, do that. So let's let's keep our fingers crossed, but I I I think that, Trump, in terms of asserting power, has done the right thing. He probably looked at the Ronald Reagan playbook, which is the one I think he's playing from. Mhmm. And I think that's a a real good playbook.
But, and, you know so, I I the jury's still out on Trump overall. I I would like to see things done more professionally, and I'd like him to shoot less from the hip and, be a little more thoughtful. And, in fact, I think that if I had been his speechwriter in, his first term, meaning that he actually read the script that I wrote for him Right. Not anybody can write a script for somebody. If they don't read this they don't read the speech the way you wrote it, it's not gonna help. And you can kinda tell when he goes off script too. Right. Well, he he's he's pretty far off script a lot. And, so I I think he's his own worst enemy sometimes. But in terms of international relations and being a a a hard power, I give him an an a
[00:21:04] Unknown:
rating for that at least through through today for sure. Oh, I I agree with you, especially after the last four years of of projecting absolute pure weakness across the world. Mhmm. This is this is refreshing to see, and it it and it should make your chest kinda stick out a little bit as an American to see American power being exerted, you know, for the benefit of the world, not just, you know, for yourself. But, I I think though, you know, there is still a lot of work to be done. I'm not thrilled with some of the domestic stuff that's been going on. You know, I would like to see a little bit more action with, with these indictments. Well, although we did some get some really interesting news today that Leticia James was indicted for mortgage fraud. Let's go. You know? Let's go. That's great.
[00:21:49] Unknown:
A lot of conservatives. You know, I'm active on, social media, especially LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become a a stronger conservative operation. It it it's it's it's fun to be on one. I and, I'm on a number of different social media sites, but but LinkedIn is, is kinda my favorite. Mhmm. And I can tell you that the most consistent comment that I see is when are the indictments coming? And not just the indictments. People are saying, when are the prison terms coming? When are the convictions? Right. And I saw a comment just in the last day where people are like, well, you can indict Comey, but given the liberal, juries in Washington DC, the guy's not gonna do any jail time. And people are upset about that. They're they're not like, oh, you know, hey.
He's he was head of the FBI, and, you know, it's gonna hurt the government and all that. And, Comey has been very cocky in his,
[00:22:51] Unknown:
post indictment interviews, if you will. Extremely. And I think a lot of it is fueled by the fact that the judge that was assigned to his case is a Biden appointee. So Yes. So I I think Absolutely. So I'm sure he has his confidence that he's gonna just gonna walk away from this with a slap on the wrist, which would be a huge injustice with just to say just at the least, a huge injustice. And I will be the first to admit, and I I've said it before in other shows, you know, when they first announced that that he was gonna be indicted in the coming days, I was like, yeah, okay. I'll believe it when I see it. And, you know, I I I I had to eat my hat, and I had to come out and say, well, I was wrong. Okay. Alright. He got indicted. I'm glad to see that. That was great.
But then as soon as I heard as soon as I heard it was a Biden appointed judge, and, and, you know, I don't know. I'm not I'm not hopeful for anything, long term or severe with with any kind of, sentencing that comes down as a result of the trial. Yes. It hasn't even stood trial yet. Have no idea how that's gonna turn out. I don't have a lot of confidence right now in in the DOJ, to be quite honest. I think, you know, I'm I'm I like what I'm seeing now with these indictments coming down. That's great. That's fine. But I think this should happen a lot sooner. You know, I'm torn though because, like, you know my background. I've I've done law enforcement work. I've done investigations work, and I know it takes time to build cases. You can't you can't just go, you know, charging in like a bull in a China shop and start throwing people in handcuffs and perp walking them. I I get that. You know, you gotta build a case first.
But, I don't know. I'm I'm I'm I'm concerned about things that I read about, and I see, and I hear about at at the FBI still. I I I do believe Cash Patel has the right intention, and what he's doing and trying to do. I just think he's still getting those those pockets of resistance, not openly, but subtly, you know, maybe not giving them all the information that they're looking for and and such. And I think that's why we're still finding out, oh, they just found all of this information, on on the eight Republican senators that were being, surveilled by the FBI. You You know, all that information was hidden, you know, whistleblower finally came forward and said, oh, you need to be looking here to find it.
You know, so they're still getting a lot of resistance, so things are moving slower than you'd like to see. Of course, we'd all like to see the perp walk, you know, we we all wanna see that. Patience is wearing thin, and I think the American people see that. I don't think I don't think it if you would have asked me the last time we we spoke, about the American public sentiment on what's going on with the administration right now as far as all this stuff we're talking about, that the midterms would be in jeopardy. I don't think even right now, I don't think the midterms really for are are in jeopardy, of of Republicans losing control of the House or or even the Senate. With with the Democrats polling, I think, what, 16% favorability?
[00:25:49] Unknown:
They're really far down, and they should be because they are the most anti American, Democratic party. And, I'm old enough to say, you know, I've observed a a long period of time, and I was, politically, interested. And I I wasn't politically active. I didn't run for office until I was in my, early thirties. Mhmm. I I did run a couple times in the nineteen nineties, in my early thirties. But in the meantime, I I have always been a you know, my dad was career military, so, somehow, that that makes you pay attention. And I'm a lover of history. I didn't I didn't major in history. I don't teach history, sort of, but, I'm very alert to it. I actually talked a little bit about it in this week's Saving America. I talked about how you tie history to certain events.
But it it is, it is important for all of us to to understand, you know, the historical, background. And this is a basically, there was, one of the things to appreciate is that Washington, DC is a Democrat slash government stronghold. And the problem that Trump encountered, which any incumbent Republican or non incumbent Republican faces, is that you're going into the enemy camp there. You're going into a place that is heavily populated by lifetime Democrats who will rote even if the Democrats are doing horrible stupid things like the current government shutdown, will continue to vote for the Democrat party because that is where their bread and butter is. That is where their job security comes from, and that is where these bloated agencies have operated.
So you can replace cash you know, Comey and Christopher Wray with Cash Patel, but you still got the same problem as all of the people that report to them, are not not in any way interested in being, neutral. And it's it's a great shame. I actually have friends with, several former FBI agents, and I emphasize former FBI agents who are very proud of the fact that they work for the FBI, but are very frustrated and very embarrassed about what has come out about what was happening in their agency. And if you can't trust your own law enforcement agency, I mean, you turned the darn thing into the KBJ. Let let's look at what they did and, with Comey and Ray and the even the CIA was was corrupted. Mhmm. And it it's so unfortunate, and I'm I'm hoping that these agencies will do a thorough housecleaning, and I know a lot of that has happened, and then move to be some of the best in the world, which they have the resources to do that.
And, it it's kind of interesting to me because, believe it or not, the across the world, supposedly, the most effective agency in the entire world is Mossad in the out of Israel. Mhmm. And it ought to be The United States. I mean, maybe we could be tied with Mossad, but for them to be ranked number one, and I don't know that we're number two, to be blunt about it. And, I just think we've got to do it. And and to tie it to my book, this is part of motivation that I have as a as a management, expert and an attorney is that we need to have a better government.
And my point in my first book, Decline of America, One Hundred Years of Leadership Failures, is that we have succeeded in America due to the incredible hard work and diversity of the American people. We have people from all over the world who have come here to work together to accomplish something that that cannot be imagined just two hundred and fifty years ago. Nobody could have imagined that by bringing the the Spanish and the Italians and the Africans and the people from the Far East and putting them all in one place and saying, hey. Figure it out, guys, that we we've accomplished far beyond any dream anybody you know, Leonardo da Vinci came up with machines and things like flying machines and submarines and all that. We and then as did Jules Verne. We did all that. We did all that. That's right. There's an interesting book that, unfortunately, I didn't write called Freedom Forge, which was, about how we won World War two by an incredible production of our industrial establishment.
We we were making ships every couple days. We were making airplanes every couple days. We are incredible, and yet we have had a history of poor presidents. And I can't really explain it, but in in my book, Decline of America, I started at the beginning of the American empire, which is the end of World War one. I I started with Woodrow Wilson Mhmm. Who, frankly, about the start of the American empire, he had a stroke, and his wife ran the government for the last year. Does that sound familiar? Oh, it sure does. Yeah. It should depend. Although, I I think that in in the current situate well, the the most recent situation,
[00:31:26] Unknown:
I think it was a lot longer than just a year. I think it was Yeah. Yeah. I I'd say about,
[00:31:31] Unknown:
two two and a half to four years is there. And and, of course, I don't know that Joe Biden Joe Biden, I think, personally just simply enjoyed being first lady. I I don't think she had any particular concern for the fact that, Joe was, basically a stuffed suit wandering around, and, she was enjoying what she was getting out of it. And I don't think she was concerned about his his safety because she would have pulled it. She would have certainly not let him do that first debate. Because, clearly, it was, it was a the type of thing I would hope if I am that far gone that the the lady in my life would would make sure that, I didn't have the car keys, if you know what I mean. Absolutely. You know what I mean? At a certain point, sometimes you need somebody to take charge and say, no. Yeah. This is not gonna happen tonight. But, we've had a series of underperforming presidents and flawed individuals, and sometimes the government does pretty well.
One of the worst case examples is one of the worst human beings I think we ever had in the White House was, Bill Clinton. I mean, a best I can tell, a person with no moral compass Great. And and a wife who matches him because she knew he was screwed around with anybody he'd get his hands on. And she stayed with him because she was so power hungry. Sounds a little bit like Joe Biden. Oh, yes. She was so power hungry that she hung in with this guy and didn't tell him to go take a long walk off a short pier because she wanted the power that she could get by balancing off, Bill Clinton. But Clinton, basically, if you look at the numbers, didn't have a terrible administration from a financial standpoint.
There were no major wars during that time period. So he basically cruised, but it's not credit to Clinton. Basically, what happened was is that the most unlucky person in American presidency of the recent the American empire, which again is is Woodrow Wilson to today, was George h w Bush because he he he made two critical mistakes. One is he promised no new taxes, and he let the Democrat congress talk him into it. Mhmm. That was a huge, gigantic mistake. The second one and he might have survived that, but The United States was in a recession in 1992 during the election.
And what happened was is that he had we were already on the way out of that recession. In fact, if you study the stats, HW was actually rising in the polls as people realize, hey. We're coming out of the recession. Things aren't so bad. So Clinton, who had no qualifications of any kind to to be president, wins by default because if the election was held just a couple months later, I think h w would have safely won. So Clinton comes in, mister blessed. Mhmm. And, again, I call h w the unluckiest, and I call Bill Clinton the luckiest because he comes into a rising economy, and then he he does something very interesting.
He realizes that, Newt Gingrich, who I've met I met during this time, by the way, because I was running for office and got a chance to go hang out with some people. And I I met Newt Gingrich a couple times. And when he did the contract for America in 1994, which meant those people took office in 1995 Right. Is, part of what helped me write the book was I was I was tied in with, the chairman of Ways and Means, and, she she was one of his staffers. And so what happened was is that I got a chance to see what was happening in the back rooms. I was in inaugurations in 1995.
Mhmm. And so that helped me to better understand the back rooms and how things were being done. But, basically, Gingrich put together a really good campaign. They won the campaign, but Bill Clinton was smart enough to do one thing. He he ran to the middle, and not like Biden did. Like, Clinton did it better than anybody else did. And the most interesting thing is, HIPAA, which by the way, I'm a supporter of the HIPAA legislation, the the the patient privacy legislation. I think that's good legislation that came out during, Clinton. But, especially, they put in welfare reform.
Welfare reform, to me, sounds an awful lot like the Republican dream, and yet it was made possible because Clinton realized that that was a a a key to getting reelected in 1996. So it's just interesting. So he made one really good political decision to go with the Republicans on welfare reform, and he he hit the good luck at the beginning of, the, rising economy. And then his scandals, the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the Paula Jones scandals, were came out. They had happened already, but they didn't come out until after he had clinched the ninety six election against a a guy. And I did meet Bob Dole. He was running for office in '96, by the way. My son and I, my who's very young, he, at the time, went to a reception for Bob Dole, and I got a chance to talk to him. Nice guy, but was definitely not the type of person that you needed to take on Bill Bill Clinton.
And, it was a very, very unfortunate, situation. But the the the the net net result was was awfully interesting. And so, you know, Clinton somehow managed to get through, two terms, and, I still give them still give them a t minus. And, by the way, I'm I'm I gave everybody a a letter grade and, as a college professor, that made a lot of sense. Mhmm. And, people said I was a hard grader, but, I I tend to be a hard grader. I think I I think I'm a fair grader. I think hard grader indicates that you're not a fair grader. I think I'm a fair grader. But, I think Yeah. Well, the Democrats don't like my book because I gave, so many d minuses to Democrats, but they kinda overlook the fact they like to overlook the fact that that, the only f grade is Richard Nixon, who resigned from office in disgrace. Right. And the highest grade that I gave was a b minus to Harry Truman, who, last I heard, was a democrat.
And so, it's interesting that that that unless you give all the Republicans an f and you give all the Democrats an a, the people out there are are not interested in talking to you. So it's really interesting because libertarians like to talk to me about my books. The Republicans love to talk to me about the books. And the the I've never been invited to speak to a a Democrat operation even though the book was was like I said, we we I think we were pretty fair. But I gave, Clinton, w Bush, and Obama all d minuses. What's happening is people say, well, what happened to Biden and Trump? Well, the book was published, after, Obama left office and before the Trump administration really kicked in. I am working on a sequel.
We will, replace the current book with a new book that, the tentative title is Report Card for America. Just a simpler title, and it will obviously include, Biden in both Trump terms. And, we I'll be blunt. Biden's administration is the next f grade. There's no other grade that you could assign to one of the worst administrations in the history of the world I agree. Much less United States. I mean, I I don't think you can do much with it. And, I don't I call him the alleged president because I don't know. I think that if the Comer investigation is successful, we're gonna find out who was pulling the strings because it it it wasn't, Joe Biden. And I don't think it was Joe Biden either. I think Joe had her personal agenda that interfered in getting Joe off the stage. And, ironically, if the Democrats really wanted to have a successful run-in 2024, What they should have done is twenty fifth amendment Joe Biden in middle of 2023 and put Kamala Harrison with a strong vice presidential candidate, maybe Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania.
And I think that ticket, if it had had a full year before the election, might have have won might have won reelection because the power of incumbency is so powerful and if they had made some important reforms. But Biden continued to go downhill, and I don't I think the American people are sharp enough to see. And you know that because when you look at the polling today, the the as you mentioned, the Democrats are polling at such low numbers that the American people have have realized that today's Democrat party you know, the old joke about it's not your father's Democrat party. It's not the Democrat party I grew up with. My mom was a was a lifetime Democrat, and I can tell you that I can't envision even her voting for this current crop of, crazies and losers. Yeah. And, and, again, I'm I'm not a big fan of Republican party either.
People ask me, I tell them I'm an independent. And, I I I'm I'm kinda like the independents who in the congress vote with the Democrats. I'm one of those independents who tends to vote with the Republicans because it's my best outcome, but it's not because I like what the people are doing.
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Yeah. I I I I cannot disagree with anything you just said. Honestly, I I my family, for the most part, my parents and and such were were pretty much lifelong Democrats, growing up, especially up in New York. I mean, as the you know, the Democrats always had a choke hold on New York politics. But, I know later later in life, my dad, my mom, you know, they they they're they they I think they started to see the writing on the wall, where the Democratic party was going, and it really didn't represent the working people anymore. It it was all special interest. It was all these far crazy notions and ideas, and it it just it I I think the more that they the the Democratic Party embraces that's that far left loony wing of the party, I don't I can't see them winning any major office any at at this point. I was surprised that they what they did win a special election.
Man, it just flipped out of my head where that happened.
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Oh, man. You know which one you mean. And and, unfortunately, we may have one coming up right away here in Texas because, as you know, one of the worst people ever in congress, Sheila Jackson Lee and people say don't speak what badly of the dead. I don't care. They they're not gonna come after me. They they're not here anymore. Right. I I think that, you know, as a historian, you you have a right to talk about somebody who was in congress for twenty five years, accomplished absolutely nothing. Yeah. That is the Sheila Jackson Lee legacy. And then, ironically, one of the worst mayors that ever was here in Houston was Sylvester Turner.
Turner gets elected to Congress and promptly dies. I I certainly didn't wish that on him. I didn't wish death on Sheila Jackson Lee either. Let's be clear. I'm not one of those Democrats that says terrible things like that. And, but, we've got a special election going on. And given the the the pattern that we've seen, it's awfully, awfully difficult for a democrat to get for a republican to get elected in what appears to be a a heavily democrat, operation. Now if they can rearrange the lines, maybe we'll have a better chance. As you know, there's a great deal of controversy about, you know, you and I both in Texas, great deal of controversy about the reorganization of the districts here in in the state of Texas. And, of course, California is threatening to, you know, retaliate.
But the thing is is that, I I would hope that that we could zone out, Jasmine Crockett, who I think is closer to your area than my area. I don't know how anybody in Texas elected that flake. But, Yeah. She she's Dallas, I think. Right? If I'm not mistaken. Yeah. I'm not sure where she is. Wherever she is, I I I don't have much use of the people that allegedly voted for her, but, I'm hopeful that, with the upcoming redistricting that the district that I just mentioned, which, by the way, is the district where I vote. I am in the district and suffered for twenty five years with, I won't say what I call her, but I just Sheila's district. I'll just say Sheila's district.
And, and and, we've got a a lovely, Hispanic lady running as the GOP candidate, but I would say that her present chances are not good, but she may be warming up for a rearranged district, for the, twenty twenty six election. So let's see. We'll we'll have to see what happens there. I'm tracking I'm my you I know you came from New York, and I actually have lived up in the Northeast, but, Virginia is my adopted home state, as I say. And, in I'm tracking that race, and I really like Winsome Earle Sears, the current lieutenant governor.
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Yes.
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And and I'm surprised that she's trailing a horrible candidate in Spanberger. You've got Winsome Sears is a former military officer, African American, beautifully spoken, sharp as a tag, and, against a a a crud like Spanberger. And then the the the lieutenant governor candidate for the Democrats is so weak that a there's a coalition of Democrats who are who have switched over to support Reid, who is the, republican, lieutenant governor candidate over somebody named Hamasi, and I don't know much about that person other than their whack job. And then to to to add to the coup de grace, you've got, this, this this clown.
I think his name is Jay Jones, who in 2022 now we're not talking the days of, you know, that he was in the military and he had PTSD or something. This guy in 2022 is stupid enough to send a text message to a member a GOP legislator threatening the GOP, speaker of the house, and he said he wanted to put two bullets in him. And to to add in to to to if that isn't stupid and awful and terrorist enough, said he'd like to see his children murdered in their mother's arms. Yeah. I This is the guy running for attorney general of the state of Virginia. So and then Tim Kaine, who's a who's a, you know A moron. A mental midget mental midget of of mental midgets, he's pretty close to the bottom of the list. And, Tim Kaine has, just in the last couple of days come out and and doubled down on supporting, Jones. And it's like, are you crazy? And the guy supposedly apologized.
I am sorry. You don't ever put in writing something like that unless you're a terrorist, unless you're really a crazed whack job, and sadly, you as you know from the military, we've got some people with PTSD. Yeah. That may have been the situation in the horrible thing that happened at that more Mormon church in Michigan. That that guy had some serious issues. I don't know if they were tied to his military service, but, and and we do have to admit that he was a right winger if we if people wanna focus on a lot of the terrorist attacks recently have been done by lefties.
Of course, famously, Charlie Kirk was shot by a guy who'd who'd switched from a a family of conservative people, became a lefty. And, we're not gonna the the, you know, Jimmy Kimmel aside, we know what really happened. But this guy was definitely not a lefty and and committed this this horrible act. Yeah. But you could almost understand somebody who obviously had extreme mental issues saying something like Jones is, is absolutely documented to have said, and there's no apology for that. I mean No. There's no person should never be in politics again in America, and that seems to be the prevailing wisdom. So I am hopeful.
And I believe tonight while we're talking, Winsome Sears and Spanberger are debating, and their one debate is, I think, tonight is I'm hopeful that, again, beautifully spoken, a a wonderful individual. I'm hoping that she'll have a very good debate. And with the current controversy around j Jones, I'm hoping for a Republican sweep across those three positions, and, I think that would be a good sign. I also know that there's a very tough race going on in New Jersey between, Chitarelli and, yeah. I I'm drawing a blank on his name too. It it's well, it's it's a lady, but she's got, like, a like, her name is like Davy.
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You know? Okay. Let me see if I can look it up while while you're talking.
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The the Democrat candidate for governor of New Jersey, I know Ciccarelli is the GOP candidate, and, I think is a pretty strong candidate. But last I heard, he's he's down in the race. So I'm I'm hoping that there there's a surge here at the end as people get their their head together. Remember, one of the things is is with polls in America, and and Trump, of course, beat all of the polls in 2016, and I think he did it again in in 2024, is that many of us and, again, I'm not a Republican. I'm a conservative. Many of us are not answering the phones anymore. So, in fact, so many people don't have a hard line home phone.
How do you even put a poll together that's not national?
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It's a Mickey
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There we go. Mickey Sheryl. Yeah. Mickey Sheryl. And, some of the things that she said, she is definitely, in the current WACC, Democrat operation. So I'm hoping that people, as they come down the home stretch here, get ready to pull the lever, will, will see the advantages of running that.
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Yeah. And I know you got you got you got folks out there like, Scott Pressler. I don't know. Are you familiar with Scott Pressler? I've heard his name. I'm trying to remember what what's latest on him. Yeah. Well, you know, he's he's actively out there. He's go he's basically knocking door to door, trying to get people to to to, to get out first of all, get out and vote. And, and and he's he's I I forget how many I saw a post on on his social media earlier today of how many, how many new Republican registrations he was a he was able to get. It's in the thousands, and, it's eclipsing the Democrat registrations.
Unfortunately, the Democrats still have a little bit of a lead in currently registered, but, but the gap is closing very, very quickly. And,
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go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah. I was gonna say, it it it it's tough. I walked my district when I ran for state rep in 1992. I was in the general election, and, my kids and I walked the, the district. And, one of the things we observed was gerrymandering because we would walk down a street, and I had a map and everything. Obviously, this was pre Internet 1992. And and, my we would be walking the street, and we my district was only one side of the street. It was that gerrymander. That was by the Democrats, of course, back in 1992.
So I don't wanna hear any of this stuff about, oh, it's the Republicans are screwing. And I I don't know if you've seen a chart, but I've actually seen a chart where they went through all these democrat states who have squeezed out their Republican minority to to nothing, and California is a good example of that. 40% of Californians are Republican, and they have, like, three seats. I mean, it's it's ridiculous. And and you look through state by state like, I think Massachusetts has no Republican, officials, and yet the the the makeup of the Republican Party in Massachusetts is 30%, 35%.
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So there's a lot of that. Hey. We haven't talked about Ma'am Domingo in New York City. That's most bizarre race yet. Yeah. And and but I wanna share this with you first. I'm gonna put Sure. Go ahead. Do this on the on the screen here so we could see it. Can you see that? Is that clear to you? Or is that should I enlarge it? I can see it, but, it's it's
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it's a little narrow there. Yeah. Let's see. I see the number 115000.
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So this is Scott Pressler. This is on Gettr. That's where he posts most of his stuff. And, so so this is in New Jersey. New Jersey news. Mail in ballots, Democrats are at one thirty five eight fifty six, 50,100, and I forgot the yellow is, probably independents. But they he does have the the Democrats have a raw totally, but Republicans are returning mail in ballots at a higher rate.
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Yeah. Excellent.
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And this this guy is all over Pennsylvania. He's all over the place. New Jersey, he's everywhere. And,
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The impact of Charlie Kirk, could be, a real, ringer in this election because the surge much of the surge took place. I I I I'm sure you've heard the numbers about the, amount of, interest in starting chapters of Turning Point USA following Charlie Charlie Kirk. I've heard over a 100,000 inquiries for your high school. Because the the reason it's such a large number is high school and college.
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Yeah. I've heard that too, which which is which is great. Not just college yet. Which is great. It's got that that needs to it needs to be. There needs to be more Charlie Kirks out there. The one thing Democrats always love to to to to complain and moan about is, you know, there's no dialogue. We're not talking. We need to talk about things. But yet, when you go out there and you talk to them about this, these these are the things that they they resort to. Yes. And that's the thing with the Democratic party as well. It it's become the party of violence, the party of death, the party of murder. It's it's it's it's this is like you said, this is not your parents' Democratic Party anymore. This is I don't know what you would call this.
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Well, it's, it it I I did a my piece on saving America already for this week, and I talked about the incredible problem in America, violence in America. And, again, you can't blame it on just one party, but we've we've got a societal problem of violence, and we've gotta figure out a way to calm it down. But, certainly, the the rhetoric of the, different people, including somebody like, Hillary Clinton, who who supposedly was gonna make a statement to, that we needed to settle things down. And then she said she finishes the the short statement by saying, oh, we gotta get rid of those, you know, whack right winger. It's like, hey.
You you know, you're just trying to get your name out there because nobody cares about you anymore. I mean, she's you know, talking about somebody crashed and burned, she's crashed and burned. She and Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, they're the three biggest crash and burns that I've seen in the last twelve months. I agree with you. And,
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which actually leads to something that we had talked about the last time, talking about term limits Yes. In in Congress. There needs to be term you you someone like Chuck Schumer Yes. Like I I remember Chuck Schumer from from I I think I was the the first election I was able to act to vote in was for, Ronald Reagan, I think on a second term. That that that was my first that was the first time I was able to to to actually vote. And and Schumer was in elected office then, you know. And so so it's getting to the point where didn't we have somebody here in Texas who was, actually living in a in a nursing facility?
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Yes. I I I don't recall who, but there was some thieves running for office out of the nursing home facility. And we we've gotta end that. As you know, it it's a great transition because my second book, my, Decline America was released in early twenty eighteen, on Presidents' Day on purpose, and then, Bad Deal for America was released on Presidents' Day twenty twenty two. Mhmm. And it, it examines the the Congress of the United States, and it's an open appeal for, term limits. And I featured 20 first of all, the first third of the book is how much money and resources that these people have available to them. Yeah. Because they're always poor mouthing. Oh, we don't get paid enough, and it's very expensive to have a house in DC and a house in our district and all that, and it's all malarkey. These people have tons of money and resources available to them. Mhmm. And we've been coming out with these stories. You know, like, Nancy Pelosi is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and yet has never had a real job. A bunch of these people are in congress and have have tens of millions of dollars.
What on earth is going on? They sure didn't make it out of their salary, but they've got a lot of resources available to them, and they're abusing those resources. Speaking as a former candidate, again, it's over thirty years ago, but as a former candidate, the power of the incumbency is incredible. That doesn't mean you can't pick somebody off. Betting odds are that that idiot, that true idiot, AOC, that whack job, may could possibly take out Chuckie Schumer in a in a Democrat primary in New York City in the in the state of New York, which, of course, reflects the fact that Mondami, in my opinion pardon the phrase here, but this is a real phrase of America.
In the Cold War, we always refer to people as dirty commies. Mhmm. We never commies. We said dirty commies. I'm bringing that term back on purpose because when you see a dirty commie called, Putin over there in Russia deliberately bombing civilians night after night after night. He can't win a war. That's a coward. That's a bully to send bombs over and bombing apartment complexes. He's not bombing. He's not trying to win the war. In fact, the the the battle line in Ukraine has basically been about the same for two years. The Russians jumped in there. They made a lot of progress, and they've they've stalled out. And now they're resorting on basically what we call terrorist tactics of of killing civilians.
And, you know what? I think every time they kill five civilians, it makes the people of Ukraine even more committed to making sure that they don't give their country up. I think it has exactly the opposite effect. And I'm I'm that is the one battle that, Trump hasn't solved yet. But since he appears to have solved Mas, Israel, I think, I think all of the resources will be there. And what I think is gonna happen is they're going to give more long range weapons to Ukraine to start causing more civilian casualties and more, infrastructure damage in Russia.
And I think at some point, one of the people wandering around the Kremlin is gonna put a bullet in in Putin's head. I'm and I'm I'm not trying to be violent. I'm just saying that we all know that when you have people like Putin, there are things that happen to them. And, of course, Putin, you know, famously, the the one guy that he didn't like a couple years ago, his plane crashed. Magically, his plane crashed. And so What a coincidence. People who people who act like Putin oftentimes go down like he has done to others. And so I think if enough damage is done to Russia and its infrastructure that people might decide, well, if you're if you're gonna be dictator for life, maybe we should, change leadership here. You know what that implies if you're a dictator for life. Yeah. So it'd be interesting to see what happens there. But, the book, the first third of the book, anyway, is is is about how much money and resources they have available. Believe it or not, that was the hardest part of the book because it's so hidden how much they have available to them. Like, they have, like each time they get reelected, they get $250,000 furniture allowance.
I'm using I've got a conference room table upstairs that I've owned that was used when I got it, and I've had it since 1992 or '93. Wow. Okay? Yeah. This is what I'm saying is you don't need to buy $250,000 worth of new furniture. And I've been in the Congressional Office Building. I used to have a kind of an open pass to run-in and out of the, the con the the congressional offices. That that's not easy to do today. This was, I was there for 09:11, but most of this, most of my access was prior to 09:11. Obviously, it's much better security today. Sure. And I'm not exactly your your classic security risk. You know what I mean?
I'm not I don't think I qualify as some crazy terrorist, but it but, what I did see there is that we have got to get the people out of Washington, first of all. So my advocacy is ten years in congress max, two terms in the senate, one five year term for president, one five year term for president. If you look around the world, very few people get to serve eight years as a chief executive of country unless you're a dictator.
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Right. And,
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the president spends half of his first term running for office to get reelected and then half of his second term trying to save his legacy by getting his picked successor reelect you know, elected to replace them and to find their presidential library. So I think a four or five year term for president would be imminently practical and would be a lot smarter. And people say, well, don't you think Trump's doing a better job in the second four years? Yeah. I I think he's again, it's only happened once before in history that somebody served in the presidency and then came back and did it again.
And, I'm not super worried about that situation, but, in fact, the reason that there is an open race in Virginia is because Youngkin cannot succeed himself. But I'd like to see more policies like that where we we really cracked out. I'd like to see all of the people in Washington required to live full time in their districts Mhmm. Where the the people that have elected these clowns have access to them twenty four seven, not having to write through 50 staffers to say, oh, hey. I need, you know, Chuck Schumer to put the government back open and stop screwing around. Mhmm. How How do you get that to Chuck Schumer? Well, I think if he was home in New York and people would go talk to him and tell him what a cruddy is, I think that might have a little bit more impact. And my proposal is is that we build a big dorm or buy a couple of those old hotels in Washington and turn them into dorms. And when you do have meetings, you know, every few months in Washington, you stay in a dorm room.
I'm I'm willing to pay for that. I'm not willing to keep paying for houses for people to live there. And these folks are it's it's just not a a a sustainable system, and I I hold that part of the responsibility. By the way, my next book is, is a big deviation from this. I'm running a book about my college experience. I mentioned WHYY when I was on the radio. Right. I was, visible enough that I ended up starting an arts management agency. So I'm my own business in college and was on the radio, and I got to meet a lot of celebrities as somebody doing entertainment coverage. And that book is, is called The Cheap Education, and that is hugely behind. I mean, I'm, like, you know, a year and a half behind where I was, because, everything else has kinda taken over.
But, I have outlined another book behind that, which has got one word. It's only a one word title, failure, and it's a study of the bureaucratic state in The United States. That's interesting. I like that. And, some of the examples are Katrina, and the the fires in California and some of these things like that. What is our government doing for us? $37,000,000,000,000 national debt, the incredible loss of life in Katrina. What is our government really doing for us? And so it's not just that we're spending all this money, and people keep saying, oh, but, you know, you've got this thing that you need that we didn't get because of this. But I think our our our federal government needs to do a few things and do them really well. Right now, they're trying to do everything and doing it really badly.
Even even even stuff that you would think would be axiomatic to a country that has been so successful technologically is I understand that one of the reasons that Newark Airport was having so many problems is that the controller for Newark Airport is at Philadelphia Airport. Don't ask me why. I just this is the report I heard. And we had this horrendous incident where a helicopter, a military helicopter, a low part of the United States government bureaucracy, flew up into the bottom of a landing, commercial, airliner and and killed a bunch of people.
Inexcusable. Inexcusable. A a recent blatant, ridiculous failure of the bureaucratic state in America Should never have happened. But part of the reason it happened is we are not doing a good job of running our military. There's a military helicopter that hit it. That's right. And we're not doing a good job of running our air traffic system. We can run let's run the national highway system, air traffic control, border control, national defense, currency. Other than that, I can't think of a single reason. We don't need a department of education. No. I don't even know that we need a department of interior because you know what? We got 50 states in the Washington DC.
I think they can run their cells. I mean, they can they can run street sweepers. They can decide if you're gonna have pollution in your water. I don't think we need to have this gigantic, wasteful, horrible bureaucracy. And that, of course, ties in because part of what supports the bureaucracy is the fact that we don't have term limits. So we don't have people in there asking questions. And, by the way, that's a bipartisan observation. I hold both parties responsible for the failure to put in term limits, and I hold both parties responsible for the mess that our bureaucratic state is because both sides gain from having this crazy inefficient system that we have. So I want them to go home, work from their home districts. We've already proven they can do that during COVID. And what I observed, because I was in DC and I had to run of some of the office buildings and stuff, is, Bill Archer, by the way, was the chairman of Wakes and Means from he he was elected in the 94 Suite, by Newt Gingrich, and I was tied to his staff, not member of staff, but tied to his staff in a personal way. And so when, he was sworn in as chairman of Ways and Means in January, I was at that swearing in. Okay. And it was a very elegant event. Where did all that stuff come from? Lobbyists?
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Of course. Yeah. And and all that. The people who they actually work for, not the American people.
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Right. And when he finished his term out in the the year February, he stayed in he stayed in Virginia. He didn't come home to Texas. He's a Texas he he got elected out of Texas for, you know, twenty something years, and, this is a classic example. Interestingly, I was friends with a guy, John Culberson, who replaced him in that district here in Houston. And I was about to ask Culberson, to stop running, to to to in implement term limit on himself, and he lost a he lost the election to a Democrat who is a horrible candidate. And I I'm not sure what happened there. The district swung somehow or Culberson got too divorced from his district. But I'm hopeful that, we're and, again, that's very, very rare for an incumbent to lose. Mhmm. Very, very rare.
But we I could I could see it happening with, Cuomo against Mondami in New York City. That's an aberration. That's not normal. And people keep talking about AOC, primary, Chuck Schumer. I don't think that's gonna happen because I think that Chuckie, who has obviously lost a big step, I don't think he's as far gone as, Joe Biden, but I think he's far enough gone that, and and if he sees that he might lose, I think he might do the smart thing and say and be very magnanimous. Oh, it's time for other people to take over, and I'm gonna step out. So it'll be interesting to see if,
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Chucky does what I just said. It would be interesting to see, but I don't I don't think he's gonna do that, to be quite honest. I think his I think his ego, I think his pride is just way too big, and I think he thinks way too much of himself.
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Yeah. Because there there's there's Maybe it's some family members who could, intervene a little bit. Well, we hope. And so we'll see. I mean, that didn't happen with Biden, and Biden was further farther gone. But, it sometimes it's it's tough to get these people to do the right thing. Yeah. And you we we mentioned mom Donnie earlier.
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You know, this guy really he scares me. I'll be honest with you.
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He's a violent anti semite, best I can tell, and he is a clearly a commie. This this whole term democratic socialist is offensive to me. It it's it's so silly. I mean, the people that are saying it have to be laughing behind the scenes. Oh, we can't use the term commie, so we'll just call him a democratic socialist. Jeez. That sounds really nice. And it's interesting because I heard a bit of a news piece earlier today where they were talking about the fact that Sweden, which was going heavily down the socialist track, has reversed course, and Sweden and The United States have about the same percentage of expenditure on the federal government.
Really? I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, that's interesting. They they backed it way off on their end, and, of course, we're way up on it, especially after the abomination of the four years of the Biden administration.
[01:13:52] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, I I, you know, I talked about Mamdani too. Some of the things that he's been proposing, the city run supermarkets. Well, I don't know how I don't know how anybody else feels about that, but that hello bread lines, you know, that's that's kinda what I'm thinking there. I told my sister, my sister still lives up in New York, and, I told her, I said, just keep an eye on this, because if this guy wins, I said, you need to go. You need to get out of there. Because if Texas is a winner. It it Montgomery gets elected.
[01:14:23] Unknown:
What you're gonna see is a lot of people in New York City do move to Florida, not Texas. But the industrial or not the industrial. The Wall Street operation is already booming in Dallas. Dallas is becoming the new Wall Street, and, they've got a stock exchange starting up. It it's not quite open yet is my recollection, but it's about to be there. And I think you're gonna see some really different things happening, if, if what looks like is gonna happen. Kumo Kumo is not a very good candidate, and, of course, he killed a lot of people by making the nursing homes keep the take the the COVID victims, the COVID positive COVID people and putting them into regular nursing homes.
And the accusations are nine hundred fifty or a thousand, people died nursing homes who might not have died had they not done that, had they set up isolation instead. So, he he's got such a bad track record. At the same time, the Republican candidate is way back, what I've heard, 12 or 13% or something like that, and he he is not withdrawing from the race. And I can respect that because I think even if he withdrew from the race, I don't know that the people who were supporting him would switch their vote to, Cuomo. Maybe they would,
[01:15:50] Unknown:
maybe not. I know it's Curtis Liwa is is running for Yeah. Curtis Yeah. And this isn't his first his first run either. He's done this a few times, but I think this is the closest he's actually gotten to it. And the fact that, Eric Adams withdrew from the race.
[01:16:08] Unknown:
Shocking.
[01:16:09] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, to me, it was actually. I I thought for sure he'd stick it out, and and but, what I'm really watching also is the governor's race in New York. It's very interesting because, Kathy Hochul is a horrible governor. I mean Yes. Yes. Absolutely horrible. And, Elise Stefanak is her Republican challenger, and, they're very very close. The last I saw, they were they were within, plus or minus three points of each other. And, so that's gonna be very interesting to see New York State as a as a whole flip red as as far as the governor's office goes. I think New York I think New York is way too blue at the local at the more local level.
Yes. You're not gonna see such a big rush there, but, it would be interesting to see Elise Stefanak, unseat, Kathy Hochul. That that would be very interesting to see.
[01:17:09] Unknown:
It it also the the question is is that nobody can quite believe, the the value of the democratic government. In fact, Chuckie even today was saying that, every day that goes by that their party is doing better. I don't see it that way. I don't think anybody sees it. Right? I'm biased, but, because I I think, Chuckie is a bully and a fool and and way past his, expiration date. But I just see that the world knows that the Democrats didn't take an easy deal to keep the Biden spending limits, which is what we're talking about. And this business with Obamacare is a December expiration. That's not and it's it's not expiring Obamacare. It's expiring certain supplements.
Read this billions of dollars of additional government, subsidies for that program that were set up for COVID. Hey. COVID's over. Mhmm. Yeah. Why would you continue COVID subsidies?
[01:18:18] Unknown:
Just to line pockets.
[01:18:21] Unknown:
Yeah. That's exactly right. Well, I think, literally, it's it's called buying boats. Mhmm. And and they they've got to do a better job. That's no other interpretation of that. They're they're just buying boats. And that was, of course, the whole thing about the open borders is they were thinking if they let all these folks in, that these folks would, vote for, democrats because they'd be beholden to the democrats for all the freebies that they got when they got here, staying in deluxe hotels and getting credit cards and mobile phones and all the nonsense they gave away to people. And and yet we're not doing that for our own citizens. It's crazy. And and and I think I'm hearing the term I hear most often today is an eighty twenty issue, and the Democrats are upside down on every eighty twenty issue.
So I I don't I don't see you know, Chunky'd like to see, twenty twenty six flip, of both houses. My prediction, has been for the last several weeks that, both that they're gonna approve their position in both houses. You think they'll improve? Making that prediction on your show today Okay. That they're gonna they're gonna pick up votes in both houses, the Republicans are, because the Democrats are so out of sync with the American people
[01:19:45] Unknown:
that I agree. Trump
[01:19:48] Unknown:
continues to stable. He he's stabilizing an international scene. We need a parallel stabilization. In other words, the stock market's doing fantastic, and the projections are gonna keep doing that, which I find interesting. But I think if he can get the average American back to work, you know, we're we're in a slump on hiring. And I do have some friends who are underemployed or unemployed, and, it's tough right now. But I think if this economy you know? And, again, let's look at what we mentioned earlier about H. W. Bush. If and, of course, Trump's not standing for election right now.
But if the economy will be clearly ripping and people are gonna start getting jobs, say, by April or May 2026, and that continues through the fall, I would say it could be a a an even bigger sweep than the twenty twenty four election. I I could see. Interesting. Yeah. Some statehouse is changing as you mentioned. And so it's gonna be really interesting, and I don't know that we're quite there yet.
[01:20:56] Unknown:
No. Agreed. I agree with you. I I feel like, well, I I have mixed feelings on on the economy here in, you know, at home. I I I love what he's doing abroad. I think he's doing a fantastic job with that. I love the fact the border's closed. But one thing that does kinda bother me, and I'm not the only one who says this, I've I've heard it other other people have said it, I've, you know, hear from some folks in in town and such, is that whenever, you know, they get up to the podium there and they start talking about how gas prices are down and food prices are down, and this is down, this is down, where? Because here, you know, I'm still paying about $3 a gallon for gas.
I'm not doing great as far as my grocery bills. My they're they're pretty high. My energy bills are ridiculously high. So, like, when do when are we gonna start seeing some of the benefits of these policies here at home?
[01:21:51] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, it I I agree with you, and that's why I say the the job market needs to pick up sharply before the mid midterm elections, and we need to get, things going. I will say that I'm paying $2.44 for gasoline at Costco here in Houston around that corner from my house. And, I've noticed that there have been some price drops. Eggs, which were very, very high, have have come back out of the stratosphere. Wheat, I'm, a health nut as you know from my previous appearance. So I eat all whole wheat products. Whole wheat bread has, has dropped about a dollar a loaf Mhmm.
In the in the last, year or so. And so we are seeing some relief at the same time, due to tariffs. Coffee is sky high, and most Americans like to drink coffee. Tea is high also, I guess, because coffee's high, so it makes sense. They charge more for tea also. Right. So, it it is a mixed bag, and I I am spending when I go to grocery store, I've spent some amazing amounts of money. And, and it's, you know, and it's just caring to me most of the time. I mean Yeah. And going out to eat is, is, is is pretty pricey too. A lot of the restaurants that, I eat at to, you know, just get a nice lunch or a quick dinner or something, everything on the menu's got a couple dollars added to it, and and they're not recovering all of their costs even at that point. So I agree with you. I think I here's my thought on that, though, and I I think, you know, I have an economics, background, and we are not gonna see prices go down much. Gasoline is a little bit different. It's an internationally traded commodity, and it's the barrel of oil is trading at $62 a barrel. That's been pretty consistent.
Mhmm. And I think that's a pretty competitive price for, for gasoline. But in terms of wheat, like I said, it looks like wheat has stabilized, and, you know, that's gonna affect bread. Most Americans eat bread. So we've got a few things like that. At the same time, in my lifetime, I have never seen beef prices where they are today. I mean, whether you go out to eat or you're you're, you're buying a steak to take home for your family or roast, beef is is ludicrous. And Yeah. A lot of Americans and, of course, we're in Texas here where people like a big old Texas steak. Yes, sir. And it it is, I agree with you. I think that that is a a drag on people's home home budgets and stuff.
At the same time, chicken remains fairly cheap. Pork is, fairly cheap. So, there there are some proteins out there. Seafood, it it's interesting. If it's farmed, it's it's it's become cheaper than it's ever been in my lifetime. Like, most of the shrimp that is for sale in the grocery stores today is farm raised, and it it's extremely competitive. If and you'll see the pricing difference because of its natural cut. It's it's like triple the price of of the rest of the shrimp in the in the batch there. So, I think there's been some changes in that. But, if you're looking at, you know, fillets of fish to fix at home, that's, that's pretty steep. Yeah. You know? So so we you got it like a I said a mixed bag, but some of the more important proteins like beef and and good fillets of fish and stuff are pretty dramatic as high as I I could even imagine they could be. And I I agree with you. I don't think that helps, the Republican cause.
But, you know, the the Democrats got in a little bit under Obama, and people realized that it got worse, not better. And then they elected the Republican house and then the Republican house and senate. So in other words, you might have a if the 2026 comes in and things don't get better, if the Democrats pick up some seats at that time, they may find themselves bounced out again in 2028.
[01:26:04] Unknown:
So That's possible. We want to see what happens. Yeah. We will. We absolutely will. Alright. Well, doctor Shine, doc Dave, it we have been an hour almost an hour and a half, and I gotta go feed the kids.
[01:26:18] Unknown:
So And I go I and I I don't have any kids at home anymore, but, it's it's my dinner time. Yes. I I remember. Yes. Yes. That's right. That's right. Been a been a busy day. So Yes, sir. I I am so delighted to to join you again. I think we, like last time, covered a lot of stuff. And, again, I I have two books out. They're both available on Amazon, Decline of America, one hundred years of leadership failures, which is my opinion of the presidency from the beginning of the American enterprise, you know, the the leadership in the world, which really began with the end of World War two with Woodrow Wilson. And the second book, which is basically a strong push for term limits.
And it's tongue in cheek because we we feature 26 Republicans and 26 Democrats saying the dumbest things possible, and these are the people that we're paying all this money to who are controlling the massive American government. Mhmm. And, I I it's deliberate. I mean, we didn't pick out the smart people. We picked out the high visibility stupid people. Yeah. And I get it. I think people enjoy reading it. Again, it is bipartisan, 26 Republicans. And, there are 27 Democrats and independents who vote with the Democrats. That is because we in a in a deck of cards, it's basically called bad deal for Americans based on a deck of cards.
And, each politician has a card, either a face card or a two three four, whatever. And we added one additional card because the deck came with a joker, and, the joker is Joe Biden.
[01:27:59] Unknown:
Perfect. What what else would I do with somebody I'm gonna give an f to in my next one? Of course. I agree. We I I do, I do appreciate the opportunity to chat with you, and, I I hope you have the great rest of the evening. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. And this is anytime you wanna come on, you're more than welcome to. Anytime you like, you just let me know, and, we'll get it all worked out. Ladies and gentlemen, doctor David Shine, thank you so much for being with us tonight, sir. God bless you. And,
[01:28:28] Unknown:
oh, where where can we go to find your work? I know you said Amazon. Where else can we find you? Like I said, my books are on Amazon. The one thing I always do remind people is my last name is spelled s c h e I n, Schein, because a lot of people leave the c out, and then they're not gonna find me. But if you just put in my last date put in David Schein, you're gonna find me. And, my my best known podcast is called Saving America. It runs on multiple networks on Saturdays. And so, lots of stuff, I think, come up when you put my name in there. And, I've got, Wikipedia page these days, and I'm in Who's Who in America and a few things like that. So Awesome. I'm easy to find. Alright. And get some rest.
[01:29:13] Unknown:
You you you you you're you're very stressed stretched out, not stressed, stretched
[01:29:18] Unknown:
out.
[01:29:19] Unknown:
They got me spread out. Absolutely. Yeah. So get some rest, my friend. Get some rest. God bless you. Thank you again. Thanks, doctor Dave. I'll talk to you soon. Alright, folks. Doctor David Shine. Really appreciate having doctor Dave here with us. So folks, don't forget, head over to Amazon, pick up his books, check them out, and, you know, if you have any questions or comments you wanna pass on to him, just let me know. Just drop them in the comments down below. We'll send them on over to him, and, we'll we'll we'll see what we can do. I'm definitely wanna have him back on here again. That was great. I really look forward to tonight, with doctor Dave. I I so enjoy the conversation.
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[01:32:50] Unknown:
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[00:04:36] Unknown:
to be with you as we are transmitting live once again at the asylum studios from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass, and we we are doing the very best we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the Joe Russo. Alright. Well, it's a beautiful Thursday night here in Eagle Pass, Texas. It was 94 degrees at start time and, beautiful though. Beautiful sunny skies, blue skies above. It's great, great, great night. And I always said there's nothing in the world. I've been to, probably 30 of the 50 states, and I have never seen a place with more beautiful skies than Texas.
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That's it. Patrick San Gimino. And, that was a great show too. We had a great conversation. Loved talking to him. It was good to talk to a paizon, you know? That was a good thing. It's a good thing. It's a good thing. And we enjoyed the conversation, had some some good laughs, and really very informative, and I'm looking forward to getting him on again at some point as well. Kinda catch up. I'm gonna make sure, like I I promised, I told him I was gonna read the book in its entirety, and then we're gonna have him on, and then we'll critique it live. I I think he liked that. So we're gonna do that when we when he comes back on again, and I'm excited to do that as well. Alright.
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Doctor David DeShine joins us again. Doctor Dave is a is a professor, an author, attorney, a frequent commentator on politics, business, ethics, leadership. He's He's the host of the Saving America and the Business Law one zero one podcasts, as well as cohosting the podcast, Unscripted Politics. He's the author of Bad Deal for America and the Decline of America, one hundred years of leadership failures. With decades of experience in both academia and private sector, doctor Dave brings a sharp, no nonsense perspective to the issues that are shaping our country today. Doctor Dave, it is great to have you back on the show. I've been looking forward to this and kinda pick up where we left off, the last time you were with us. We had such a great conversation. We didn't get a chance to even talk about your books.
[00:10:02] Unknown:
Well, thank you, Joe. And, I appreciate being invited back. You know, that's kind of an endorsement that that, I didn't screw up too bad last time.
[00:10:12] Unknown:
If there was any screw ups, sir, it was on my end. Totally.
[00:10:15] Unknown:
And No. As you know, I interview people for saving America, and I tell them the same thing. I say, you know, we we do, review we do prerecord, and I said, we we do, edit things. And sometime recently, running a couple people get excited about that. Like, oh, you're gonna do a you know? They they don't say it, but the implication is they're gonna do a CBS on us and on their interview and change the meaning of some of the sentences and stuff. And all we do is take out usually my errors in the introduction or if I fluff up a question.
[00:10:47] Unknown:
Alright. Yeah. I I know I know some some podcast host that when they do their editing, they actually, painstakingly go through every minute of the audio just to take out the breaths, and to take out the ahs, and the umms, and, and and those pregnant pauses that sometimes come up when you're in between questions. It's a lot of work. That's why I do it live. I'd rather do it live. Just get it out of the way.
[00:11:12] Unknown:
I I understand. Yeah. We we do actually, Rachel Harrison, the the producer of my shows, actually does painstakingly go through that. And, we I've since I'm doing it, of course, and I'm very conscious of it, but I got my start in live radio in the early seventies. I was actually on public radio, WHYY FM in Philadelphia, and, I covered the arts and entertainment scene. And I had a weekly one hour show that would be equivalent to entertainment this week that we see on on television that's now been airing for fifty years. The heartbreak on my end is is that I went to WHYY management, after the show had been on their station for about a year. We were doing very well. And I said, you know, guys, we need to move this to television.
And I I said, I I really think that this is where this is going. This was 1972. You know? And the management of the radio station got really upset with me and forbid me, said, you absolutely cannot do that. Do not talk to, central management or anybody higher in the latter because they didn't want, anybody competing for the limited resources that the station had available to them. And then, of course, I, eventually because I was not being paid to do the show and I had not been able to get sponsorships because of the way Station handled things. I, was accepted to graduate school in another city. I was in Philadelphia, moved down to Charlottesville University of Virginia, and I gave up the show.
And a couple years after that, entertainment this week debuted in a very similar format to what I did here. Isn't that interesting? Actors and actresses from the time, movie clips and stuff like that. So, it it was, it was kinda interesting. So, we're we're hoping to stay in the game a little little bit more. And I did light radio again in Richmond, Virginia from 02/2008, 02/2009. I did every morning for an hour, and that's that's a lot of work. And, sadly, we had the same thing happen for a different reason. We were on regular commercial AM radio, and it is extremely competitive to get advertising.
And I had to, we you know, I financed the show for about a year, and, we only were able to sell a little bit of, interim advertising. And I said, you know what? I just we just can't keep, keep funding things. So it it's, it's a challenge out there no matter who does what and how you do it is to make sure that, you know, it's fun to say it's a it's a labor of love, and I know it is in your case as it is in mine. But at the same time, labor of love sometimes takes a little bit of that folding green. Yes. It does, actually. It it it takes quite a bit of that folding green.
[00:14:16] Unknown:
It surely does. We've had some upgrades to what we've been using here. So we're using a different, streaming platform as our, as our host platform. So, you know, we're playing with graphics and stuff and still learning our way around, but it takes money to do it. And that's why we ask for donations, you know, from the audience. And and, you know, we have a couple of folks that that do help us out quite a bit, and we greatly appreciate that, you know, and like you you've heard me say, we we follow the value for value model. It's, you know, it's it's if you're getting something from us, and we're just asking if you could do it, you know, send it back, and it could be your time, your talent, your treasure, and you know, I I explain it all at the end of the show, because I don't wanna bore everybody now. So but, but last time you were here, we had we had really had a great conversation. I really really enjoyed it. We talked about your health. We talked about good health.
We talked about some of your background. But the one thing that we that we originally set out to talk about, we never got to. And like I said, that was your books. And I really wanna get into those tonight. So because your books really do take a a very hard look at US leadership over the last century. And and I and and we need some leadership right now. I think I think we're on the right track right now, but, you know, there there there are some issues there, though, we have to address. But what's what's your core concern right now about how America's being governed today?
[00:15:33] Unknown:
Well, it's difficult to be, critical of Trump today given the what appears to be an enormous success in The Middle East with Hamas Israeli situation. And that has that's an unquestioned positive, but it it's based on a very fundamental principle, which is for peace in the world, America has to be that shining star. We we've got to be the dominant force. We've got to show enough strength that nobody messes with us. And and I will say, I think, that what Trump did that cemented his position in the in the eyes and ears of the, terrorists and the other opposing forces was when he sent those, big bombers over to, Iran Mhmm. And bombed the, nuclear facilities. And while there was some controversy about how much damage they did, the bombs weighed 30,000 pounds each.
And I'm sorry, but when you and they did exactly what they were supposed to do. They dropped one, and what it does is it it does an incredible amount of damage, and then they drop another one exactly where the first one did, which mean the first one basically cut the surface, and then the next one took out the next layers below it. And I haven't heard much from Iran since then. You know? Oh, really? They've done their usual, wax stuff, but I believe that it it accomplished two things. First of all, I think it dramatically set back their nuclear program.
And two, it shook the, the terrorist operation that's running Iran to its, to its toenails. And I think that that is a very shaky administration, and I think it's more likely that they may experience a revolution there than it is, than it may have been in the past. I think that would be a positive. And I've I've been hopeful that The United States would be actively engaged in you know, for some reason, somebody decided in congress twenty five, thirty years ago that we weren't allowed to be involved in regime change, and I think that was a silly decision. If we're if we have regimes out there, especially a regime like Iran that that runs around just chanting death to Americans, we're not talking about a few wackos on the street corner. We're talking about the current government of Iran that says death to Americans.
We should be able to easily authorize, of course, not on the front page of the newspaper, but to say, if there's an opportunity to support people, who who would be, adequate representation of the of the people, because I've I've had some interesting feedback from people. I I have Iranian students, and I talked with one of my Iranian students the other day. She her family fled Iran at some point, was able to extract themselves from the country. They went to Canada, which, by the way, is a very common path. You you go to Canada, which is easier to immigrate into, and then you immigrate from Canada to The United States. Mhmm. And that's what they did. So she's actually a domestic student of mine. Okay. But it was great talking with her. And I didn't know this story, but I just recently, like, a week ago, got a chance to talk to her after class, and she told me this. She I did not ask her any questions. She volunteered the story to me, and it was very interesting. And I I have met a number of Iranians here in Houston because, you know, being an oil capital, it is and it's, it's kind of a gateway for people coming to The United States and Middle East that, I'm convinced that there is a very compatible group of humans in Iran who are ready to take over the government and would be very, very happy to be, a compadre of The United States. And I think some of the the members of the Iranian revolutionary guard would also, do that. So let's let's keep our fingers crossed, but I I I think that, Trump, in terms of asserting power, has done the right thing. He probably looked at the Ronald Reagan playbook, which is the one I think he's playing from. Mhmm. And I think that's a a real good playbook.
But, and, you know so, I I the jury's still out on Trump overall. I I would like to see things done more professionally, and I'd like him to shoot less from the hip and, be a little more thoughtful. And, in fact, I think that if I had been his speechwriter in, his first term, meaning that he actually read the script that I wrote for him Right. Not anybody can write a script for somebody. If they don't read this they don't read the speech the way you wrote it, it's not gonna help. And you can kinda tell when he goes off script too. Right. Well, he he's he's pretty far off script a lot. And, so I I think he's his own worst enemy sometimes. But in terms of international relations and being a a a hard power, I give him an an a
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rating for that at least through through today for sure. Oh, I I agree with you, especially after the last four years of of projecting absolute pure weakness across the world. Mhmm. This is this is refreshing to see, and it it and it should make your chest kinda stick out a little bit as an American to see American power being exerted, you know, for the benefit of the world, not just, you know, for yourself. But, I I think though, you know, there is still a lot of work to be done. I'm not thrilled with some of the domestic stuff that's been going on. You know, I would like to see a little bit more action with, with these indictments. Well, although we did some get some really interesting news today that Leticia James was indicted for mortgage fraud. Let's go. You know? Let's go. That's great.
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A lot of conservatives. You know, I'm active on, social media, especially LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become a a stronger conservative operation. It it it's it's it's fun to be on one. I and, I'm on a number of different social media sites, but but LinkedIn is, is kinda my favorite. Mhmm. And I can tell you that the most consistent comment that I see is when are the indictments coming? And not just the indictments. People are saying, when are the prison terms coming? When are the convictions? Right. And I saw a comment just in the last day where people are like, well, you can indict Comey, but given the liberal, juries in Washington DC, the guy's not gonna do any jail time. And people are upset about that. They're they're not like, oh, you know, hey.
He's he was head of the FBI, and, you know, it's gonna hurt the government and all that. And, Comey has been very cocky in his,
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post indictment interviews, if you will. Extremely. And I think a lot of it is fueled by the fact that the judge that was assigned to his case is a Biden appointee. So Yes. So I I think Absolutely. So I'm sure he has his confidence that he's gonna just gonna walk away from this with a slap on the wrist, which would be a huge injustice with just to say just at the least, a huge injustice. And I will be the first to admit, and I I've said it before in other shows, you know, when they first announced that that he was gonna be indicted in the coming days, I was like, yeah, okay. I'll believe it when I see it. And, you know, I I I I had to eat my hat, and I had to come out and say, well, I was wrong. Okay. Alright. He got indicted. I'm glad to see that. That was great.
But then as soon as I heard as soon as I heard it was a Biden appointed judge, and, and, you know, I don't know. I'm not I'm not hopeful for anything, long term or severe with with any kind of, sentencing that comes down as a result of the trial. Yes. It hasn't even stood trial yet. Have no idea how that's gonna turn out. I don't have a lot of confidence right now in in the DOJ, to be quite honest. I think, you know, I'm I'm I like what I'm seeing now with these indictments coming down. That's great. That's fine. But I think this should happen a lot sooner. You know, I'm torn though because, like, you know my background. I've I've done law enforcement work. I've done investigations work, and I know it takes time to build cases. You can't you can't just go, you know, charging in like a bull in a China shop and start throwing people in handcuffs and perp walking them. I I get that. You know, you gotta build a case first.
But, I don't know. I'm I'm I'm I'm concerned about things that I read about, and I see, and I hear about at at the FBI still. I I I do believe Cash Patel has the right intention, and what he's doing and trying to do. I just think he's still getting those those pockets of resistance, not openly, but subtly, you know, maybe not giving them all the information that they're looking for and and such. And I think that's why we're still finding out, oh, they just found all of this information, on on the eight Republican senators that were being, surveilled by the FBI. You You know, all that information was hidden, you know, whistleblower finally came forward and said, oh, you need to be looking here to find it.
You know, so they're still getting a lot of resistance, so things are moving slower than you'd like to see. Of course, we'd all like to see the perp walk, you know, we we all wanna see that. Patience is wearing thin, and I think the American people see that. I don't think I don't think it if you would have asked me the last time we we spoke, about the American public sentiment on what's going on with the administration right now as far as all this stuff we're talking about, that the midterms would be in jeopardy. I don't think even right now, I don't think the midterms really for are are in jeopardy, of of Republicans losing control of the House or or even the Senate. With with the Democrats polling, I think, what, 16% favorability?
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They're really far down, and they should be because they are the most anti American, Democratic party. And, I'm old enough to say, you know, I've observed a a long period of time, and I was, politically, interested. And I I wasn't politically active. I didn't run for office until I was in my, early thirties. Mhmm. I I did run a couple times in the nineteen nineties, in my early thirties. But in the meantime, I I have always been a you know, my dad was career military, so, somehow, that that makes you pay attention. And I'm a lover of history. I didn't I didn't major in history. I don't teach history, sort of, but, I'm very alert to it. I actually talked a little bit about it in this week's Saving America. I talked about how you tie history to certain events.
But it it is, it is important for all of us to to understand, you know, the historical, background. And this is a basically, there was, one of the things to appreciate is that Washington, DC is a Democrat slash government stronghold. And the problem that Trump encountered, which any incumbent Republican or non incumbent Republican faces, is that you're going into the enemy camp there. You're going into a place that is heavily populated by lifetime Democrats who will rote even if the Democrats are doing horrible stupid things like the current government shutdown, will continue to vote for the Democrat party because that is where their bread and butter is. That is where their job security comes from, and that is where these bloated agencies have operated.
So you can replace cash you know, Comey and Christopher Wray with Cash Patel, but you still got the same problem as all of the people that report to them, are not not in any way interested in being, neutral. And it's it's a great shame. I actually have friends with, several former FBI agents, and I emphasize former FBI agents who are very proud of the fact that they work for the FBI, but are very frustrated and very embarrassed about what has come out about what was happening in their agency. And if you can't trust your own law enforcement agency, I mean, you turned the darn thing into the KBJ. Let let's look at what they did and, with Comey and Ray and the even the CIA was was corrupted. Mhmm. And it it's so unfortunate, and I'm I'm hoping that these agencies will do a thorough housecleaning, and I know a lot of that has happened, and then move to be some of the best in the world, which they have the resources to do that.
And, it it's kind of interesting to me because, believe it or not, the across the world, supposedly, the most effective agency in the entire world is Mossad in the out of Israel. Mhmm. And it ought to be The United States. I mean, maybe we could be tied with Mossad, but for them to be ranked number one, and I don't know that we're number two, to be blunt about it. And, I just think we've got to do it. And and to tie it to my book, this is part of motivation that I have as a as a management, expert and an attorney is that we need to have a better government.
And my point in my first book, Decline of America, One Hundred Years of Leadership Failures, is that we have succeeded in America due to the incredible hard work and diversity of the American people. We have people from all over the world who have come here to work together to accomplish something that that cannot be imagined just two hundred and fifty years ago. Nobody could have imagined that by bringing the the Spanish and the Italians and the Africans and the people from the Far East and putting them all in one place and saying, hey. Figure it out, guys, that we we've accomplished far beyond any dream anybody you know, Leonardo da Vinci came up with machines and things like flying machines and submarines and all that. We and then as did Jules Verne. We did all that. We did all that. That's right. There's an interesting book that, unfortunately, I didn't write called Freedom Forge, which was, about how we won World War two by an incredible production of our industrial establishment.
We we were making ships every couple days. We were making airplanes every couple days. We are incredible, and yet we have had a history of poor presidents. And I can't really explain it, but in in my book, Decline of America, I started at the beginning of the American empire, which is the end of World War one. I I started with Woodrow Wilson Mhmm. Who, frankly, about the start of the American empire, he had a stroke, and his wife ran the government for the last year. Does that sound familiar? Oh, it sure does. Yeah. It should depend. Although, I I think that in in the current situate well, the the most recent situation,
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I think it was a lot longer than just a year. I think it was Yeah. Yeah. I I'd say about,
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two two and a half to four years is there. And and, of course, I don't know that Joe Biden Joe Biden, I think, personally just simply enjoyed being first lady. I I don't think she had any particular concern for the fact that, Joe was, basically a stuffed suit wandering around, and, she was enjoying what she was getting out of it. And I don't think she was concerned about his his safety because she would have pulled it. She would have certainly not let him do that first debate. Because, clearly, it was, it was a the type of thing I would hope if I am that far gone that the the lady in my life would would make sure that, I didn't have the car keys, if you know what I mean. Absolutely. You know what I mean? At a certain point, sometimes you need somebody to take charge and say, no. Yeah. This is not gonna happen tonight. But, we've had a series of underperforming presidents and flawed individuals, and sometimes the government does pretty well.
One of the worst case examples is one of the worst human beings I think we ever had in the White House was, Bill Clinton. I mean, a best I can tell, a person with no moral compass Great. And and a wife who matches him because she knew he was screwed around with anybody he'd get his hands on. And she stayed with him because she was so power hungry. Sounds a little bit like Joe Biden. Oh, yes. She was so power hungry that she hung in with this guy and didn't tell him to go take a long walk off a short pier because she wanted the power that she could get by balancing off, Bill Clinton. But Clinton, basically, if you look at the numbers, didn't have a terrible administration from a financial standpoint.
There were no major wars during that time period. So he basically cruised, but it's not credit to Clinton. Basically, what happened was is that the most unlucky person in American presidency of the recent the American empire, which again is is Woodrow Wilson to today, was George h w Bush because he he he made two critical mistakes. One is he promised no new taxes, and he let the Democrat congress talk him into it. Mhmm. That was a huge, gigantic mistake. The second one and he might have survived that, but The United States was in a recession in 1992 during the election.
And what happened was is that he had we were already on the way out of that recession. In fact, if you study the stats, HW was actually rising in the polls as people realize, hey. We're coming out of the recession. Things aren't so bad. So Clinton, who had no qualifications of any kind to to be president, wins by default because if the election was held just a couple months later, I think h w would have safely won. So Clinton comes in, mister blessed. Mhmm. And, again, I call h w the unluckiest, and I call Bill Clinton the luckiest because he comes into a rising economy, and then he he does something very interesting.
He realizes that, Newt Gingrich, who I've met I met during this time, by the way, because I was running for office and got a chance to go hang out with some people. And I I met Newt Gingrich a couple times. And when he did the contract for America in 1994, which meant those people took office in 1995 Right. Is, part of what helped me write the book was I was I was tied in with, the chairman of Ways and Means, and, she she was one of his staffers. And so what happened was is that I got a chance to see what was happening in the back rooms. I was in inaugurations in 1995.
Mhmm. And so that helped me to better understand the back rooms and how things were being done. But, basically, Gingrich put together a really good campaign. They won the campaign, but Bill Clinton was smart enough to do one thing. He he ran to the middle, and not like Biden did. Like, Clinton did it better than anybody else did. And the most interesting thing is, HIPAA, which by the way, I'm a supporter of the HIPAA legislation, the the the patient privacy legislation. I think that's good legislation that came out during, Clinton. But, especially, they put in welfare reform.
Welfare reform, to me, sounds an awful lot like the Republican dream, and yet it was made possible because Clinton realized that that was a a a key to getting reelected in 1996. So it's just interesting. So he made one really good political decision to go with the Republicans on welfare reform, and he he hit the good luck at the beginning of, the, rising economy. And then his scandals, the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the Paula Jones scandals, were came out. They had happened already, but they didn't come out until after he had clinched the ninety six election against a a guy. And I did meet Bob Dole. He was running for office in '96, by the way. My son and I, my who's very young, he, at the time, went to a reception for Bob Dole, and I got a chance to talk to him. Nice guy, but was definitely not the type of person that you needed to take on Bill Bill Clinton.
And, it was a very, very unfortunate, situation. But the the the the net net result was was awfully interesting. And so, you know, Clinton somehow managed to get through, two terms, and, I still give them still give them a t minus. And, by the way, I'm I'm I gave everybody a a letter grade and, as a college professor, that made a lot of sense. Mhmm. And, people said I was a hard grader, but, I I tend to be a hard grader. I think I I think I'm a fair grader. I think hard grader indicates that you're not a fair grader. I think I'm a fair grader. But, I think Yeah. Well, the Democrats don't like my book because I gave, so many d minuses to Democrats, but they kinda overlook the fact they like to overlook the fact that that, the only f grade is Richard Nixon, who resigned from office in disgrace. Right. And the highest grade that I gave was a b minus to Harry Truman, who, last I heard, was a democrat.
And so, it's interesting that that that unless you give all the Republicans an f and you give all the Democrats an a, the people out there are are not interested in talking to you. So it's really interesting because libertarians like to talk to me about my books. The Republicans love to talk to me about the books. And the the I've never been invited to speak to a a Democrat operation even though the book was was like I said, we we I think we were pretty fair. But I gave, Clinton, w Bush, and Obama all d minuses. What's happening is people say, well, what happened to Biden and Trump? Well, the book was published, after, Obama left office and before the Trump administration really kicked in. I am working on a sequel.
We will, replace the current book with a new book that, the tentative title is Report Card for America. Just a simpler title, and it will obviously include, Biden in both Trump terms. And, we I'll be blunt. Biden's administration is the next f grade. There's no other grade that you could assign to one of the worst administrations in the history of the world I agree. Much less United States. I mean, I I don't think you can do much with it. And, I don't I call him the alleged president because I don't know. I think that if the Comer investigation is successful, we're gonna find out who was pulling the strings because it it it wasn't, Joe Biden. And I don't think it was Joe Biden either. I think Joe had her personal agenda that interfered in getting Joe off the stage. And, ironically, if the Democrats really wanted to have a successful run-in 2024, What they should have done is twenty fifth amendment Joe Biden in middle of 2023 and put Kamala Harrison with a strong vice presidential candidate, maybe Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania.
And I think that ticket, if it had had a full year before the election, might have have won might have won reelection because the power of incumbency is so powerful and if they had made some important reforms. But Biden continued to go downhill, and I don't I think the American people are sharp enough to see. And you know that because when you look at the polling today, the the as you mentioned, the Democrats are polling at such low numbers that the American people have have realized that today's Democrat party you know, the old joke about it's not your father's Democrat party. It's not the Democrat party I grew up with. My mom was a was a lifetime Democrat, and I can tell you that I can't envision even her voting for this current crop of, crazies and losers. Yeah. And, and, again, I'm I'm not a big fan of Republican party either.
People ask me, I tell them I'm an independent. And, I I I'm I'm kinda like the independents who in the congress vote with the Democrats. I'm one of those independents who tends to vote with the Republicans because it's my best outcome, but it's not because I like what the people are doing.
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Yeah. I I I I cannot disagree with anything you just said. Honestly, I I my family, for the most part, my parents and and such were were pretty much lifelong Democrats, growing up, especially up in New York. I mean, as the you know, the Democrats always had a choke hold on New York politics. But, I know later later in life, my dad, my mom, you know, they they they're they they I think they started to see the writing on the wall, where the Democratic party was going, and it really didn't represent the working people anymore. It it was all special interest. It was all these far crazy notions and ideas, and it it just it I I think the more that they the the Democratic Party embraces that's that far left loony wing of the party, I don't I can't see them winning any major office any at at this point. I was surprised that they what they did win a special election.
Man, it just flipped out of my head where that happened.
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Oh, man. You know which one you mean. And and, unfortunately, we may have one coming up right away here in Texas because, as you know, one of the worst people ever in congress, Sheila Jackson Lee and people say don't speak what badly of the dead. I don't care. They they're not gonna come after me. They they're not here anymore. Right. I I think that, you know, as a historian, you you have a right to talk about somebody who was in congress for twenty five years, accomplished absolutely nothing. Yeah. That is the Sheila Jackson Lee legacy. And then, ironically, one of the worst mayors that ever was here in Houston was Sylvester Turner.
Turner gets elected to Congress and promptly dies. I I certainly didn't wish that on him. I didn't wish death on Sheila Jackson Lee either. Let's be clear. I'm not one of those Democrats that says terrible things like that. And, but, we've got a special election going on. And given the the the pattern that we've seen, it's awfully, awfully difficult for a democrat to get for a republican to get elected in what appears to be a a heavily democrat, operation. Now if they can rearrange the lines, maybe we'll have a better chance. As you know, there's a great deal of controversy about, you know, you and I both in Texas, great deal of controversy about the reorganization of the districts here in in the state of Texas. And, of course, California is threatening to, you know, retaliate.
But the thing is is that, I I would hope that that we could zone out, Jasmine Crockett, who I think is closer to your area than my area. I don't know how anybody in Texas elected that flake. But, Yeah. She she's Dallas, I think. Right? If I'm not mistaken. Yeah. I'm not sure where she is. Wherever she is, I I I don't have much use of the people that allegedly voted for her, but, I'm hopeful that, with the upcoming redistricting that the district that I just mentioned, which, by the way, is the district where I vote. I am in the district and suffered for twenty five years with, I won't say what I call her, but I just Sheila's district. I'll just say Sheila's district.
And, and and, we've got a a lovely, Hispanic lady running as the GOP candidate, but I would say that her present chances are not good, but she may be warming up for a rearranged district, for the, twenty twenty six election. So let's see. We'll we'll have to see what happens there. I'm tracking I'm my you I know you came from New York, and I actually have lived up in the Northeast, but, Virginia is my adopted home state, as I say. And, in I'm tracking that race, and I really like Winsome Earle Sears, the current lieutenant governor.
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Yes.
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And and I'm surprised that she's trailing a horrible candidate in Spanberger. You've got Winsome Sears is a former military officer, African American, beautifully spoken, sharp as a tag, and, against a a a crud like Spanberger. And then the the the lieutenant governor candidate for the Democrats is so weak that a there's a coalition of Democrats who are who have switched over to support Reid, who is the, republican, lieutenant governor candidate over somebody named Hamasi, and I don't know much about that person other than their whack job. And then to to to add to the coup de grace, you've got, this, this this clown.
I think his name is Jay Jones, who in 2022 now we're not talking the days of, you know, that he was in the military and he had PTSD or something. This guy in 2022 is stupid enough to send a text message to a member a GOP legislator threatening the GOP, speaker of the house, and he said he wanted to put two bullets in him. And to to add in to to to if that isn't stupid and awful and terrorist enough, said he'd like to see his children murdered in their mother's arms. Yeah. I This is the guy running for attorney general of the state of Virginia. So and then Tim Kaine, who's a who's a, you know A moron. A mental midget mental midget of of mental midgets, he's pretty close to the bottom of the list. And, Tim Kaine has, just in the last couple of days come out and and doubled down on supporting, Jones. And it's like, are you crazy? And the guy supposedly apologized.
I am sorry. You don't ever put in writing something like that unless you're a terrorist, unless you're really a crazed whack job, and sadly, you as you know from the military, we've got some people with PTSD. Yeah. That may have been the situation in the horrible thing that happened at that more Mormon church in Michigan. That that guy had some serious issues. I don't know if they were tied to his military service, but, and and we do have to admit that he was a right winger if we if people wanna focus on a lot of the terrorist attacks recently have been done by lefties.
Of course, famously, Charlie Kirk was shot by a guy who'd who'd switched from a a family of conservative people, became a lefty. And, we're not gonna the the, you know, Jimmy Kimmel aside, we know what really happened. But this guy was definitely not a lefty and and committed this this horrible act. Yeah. But you could almost understand somebody who obviously had extreme mental issues saying something like Jones is, is absolutely documented to have said, and there's no apology for that. I mean No. There's no person should never be in politics again in America, and that seems to be the prevailing wisdom. So I am hopeful.
And I believe tonight while we're talking, Winsome Sears and Spanberger are debating, and their one debate is, I think, tonight is I'm hopeful that, again, beautifully spoken, a a wonderful individual. I'm hoping that she'll have a very good debate. And with the current controversy around j Jones, I'm hoping for a Republican sweep across those three positions, and, I think that would be a good sign. I also know that there's a very tough race going on in New Jersey between, Chitarelli and, yeah. I I'm drawing a blank on his name too. It it's well, it's it's a lady, but she's got, like, a like, her name is like Davy.
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You know? Okay. Let me see if I can look it up while while you're talking.
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The the Democrat candidate for governor of New Jersey, I know Ciccarelli is the GOP candidate, and, I think is a pretty strong candidate. But last I heard, he's he's down in the race. So I'm I'm hoping that there there's a surge here at the end as people get their their head together. Remember, one of the things is is with polls in America, and and Trump, of course, beat all of the polls in 2016, and I think he did it again in in 2024, is that many of us and, again, I'm not a Republican. I'm a conservative. Many of us are not answering the phones anymore. So, in fact, so many people don't have a hard line home phone.
How do you even put a poll together that's not national?
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It's a Mickey
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There we go. Mickey Sheryl. Yeah. Mickey Sheryl. And, some of the things that she said, she is definitely, in the current WACC, Democrat operation. So I'm hoping that people, as they come down the home stretch here, get ready to pull the lever, will, will see the advantages of running that.
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Yeah. And I know you got you got you got folks out there like, Scott Pressler. I don't know. Are you familiar with Scott Pressler? I've heard his name. I'm trying to remember what what's latest on him. Yeah. Well, you know, he's he's actively out there. He's go he's basically knocking door to door, trying to get people to to to, to get out first of all, get out and vote. And, and and he's he's I I forget how many I saw a post on on his social media earlier today of how many, how many new Republican registrations he was a he was able to get. It's in the thousands, and, it's eclipsing the Democrat registrations.
Unfortunately, the Democrats still have a little bit of a lead in currently registered, but, but the gap is closing very, very quickly. And,
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go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah. I was gonna say, it it it it's tough. I walked my district when I ran for state rep in 1992. I was in the general election, and, my kids and I walked the, the district. And, one of the things we observed was gerrymandering because we would walk down a street, and I had a map and everything. Obviously, this was pre Internet 1992. And and, my we would be walking the street, and we my district was only one side of the street. It was that gerrymander. That was by the Democrats, of course, back in 1992.
So I don't wanna hear any of this stuff about, oh, it's the Republicans are screwing. And I I don't know if you've seen a chart, but I've actually seen a chart where they went through all these democrat states who have squeezed out their Republican minority to to nothing, and California is a good example of that. 40% of Californians are Republican, and they have, like, three seats. I mean, it's it's ridiculous. And and you look through state by state like, I think Massachusetts has no Republican, officials, and yet the the the makeup of the Republican Party in Massachusetts is 30%, 35%.
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So there's a lot of that. Hey. We haven't talked about Ma'am Domingo in New York City. That's most bizarre race yet. Yeah. And and but I wanna share this with you first. I'm gonna put Sure. Go ahead. Do this on the on the screen here so we could see it. Can you see that? Is that clear to you? Or is that should I enlarge it? I can see it, but, it's it's
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it's a little narrow there. Yeah. Let's see. I see the number 115000.
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So this is Scott Pressler. This is on Gettr. That's where he posts most of his stuff. And, so so this is in New Jersey. New Jersey news. Mail in ballots, Democrats are at one thirty five eight fifty six, 50,100, and I forgot the yellow is, probably independents. But they he does have the the Democrats have a raw totally, but Republicans are returning mail in ballots at a higher rate.
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Yeah. Excellent.
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And this this guy is all over Pennsylvania. He's all over the place. New Jersey, he's everywhere. And,
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The impact of Charlie Kirk, could be, a real, ringer in this election because the surge much of the surge took place. I I I I'm sure you've heard the numbers about the, amount of, interest in starting chapters of Turning Point USA following Charlie Charlie Kirk. I've heard over a 100,000 inquiries for your high school. Because the the reason it's such a large number is high school and college.
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Yeah. I've heard that too, which which is which is great. Not just college yet. Which is great. It's got that that needs to it needs to be. There needs to be more Charlie Kirks out there. The one thing Democrats always love to to to to complain and moan about is, you know, there's no dialogue. We're not talking. We need to talk about things. But yet, when you go out there and you talk to them about this, these these are the things that they they resort to. Yes. And that's the thing with the Democratic party as well. It it's become the party of violence, the party of death, the party of murder. It's it's it's it's this is like you said, this is not your parents' Democratic Party anymore. This is I don't know what you would call this.
[00:56:03] Unknown:
Well, it's, it it I I did a my piece on saving America already for this week, and I talked about the incredible problem in America, violence in America. And, again, you can't blame it on just one party, but we've we've got a societal problem of violence, and we've gotta figure out a way to calm it down. But, certainly, the the rhetoric of the, different people, including somebody like, Hillary Clinton, who who supposedly was gonna make a statement to, that we needed to settle things down. And then she said she finishes the the short statement by saying, oh, we gotta get rid of those, you know, whack right winger. It's like, hey.
You you know, you're just trying to get your name out there because nobody cares about you anymore. I mean, she's you know, talking about somebody crashed and burned, she's crashed and burned. She and Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, they're the three biggest crash and burns that I've seen in the last twelve months. I agree with you. And,
[00:57:10] Unknown:
which actually leads to something that we had talked about the last time, talking about term limits Yes. In in Congress. There needs to be term you you someone like Chuck Schumer Yes. Like I I remember Chuck Schumer from from I I think I was the the first election I was able to act to vote in was for, Ronald Reagan, I think on a second term. That that that was my first that was the first time I was able to to to actually vote. And and Schumer was in elected office then, you know. And so so it's getting to the point where didn't we have somebody here in Texas who was, actually living in a in a nursing facility?
[00:57:52] Unknown:
Yes. I I I don't recall who, but there was some thieves running for office out of the nursing home facility. And we we've gotta end that. As you know, it it's a great transition because my second book, my, Decline America was released in early twenty eighteen, on Presidents' Day on purpose, and then, Bad Deal for America was released on Presidents' Day twenty twenty two. Mhmm. And it, it examines the the Congress of the United States, and it's an open appeal for, term limits. And I featured 20 first of all, the first third of the book is how much money and resources that these people have available to them. Yeah. Because they're always poor mouthing. Oh, we don't get paid enough, and it's very expensive to have a house in DC and a house in our district and all that, and it's all malarkey. These people have tons of money and resources available to them. Mhmm. And we've been coming out with these stories. You know, like, Nancy Pelosi is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and yet has never had a real job. A bunch of these people are in congress and have have tens of millions of dollars.
What on earth is going on? They sure didn't make it out of their salary, but they've got a lot of resources available to them, and they're abusing those resources. Speaking as a former candidate, again, it's over thirty years ago, but as a former candidate, the power of the incumbency is incredible. That doesn't mean you can't pick somebody off. Betting odds are that that idiot, that true idiot, AOC, that whack job, may could possibly take out Chuckie Schumer in a in a Democrat primary in New York City in the in the state of New York, which, of course, reflects the fact that Mondami, in my opinion pardon the phrase here, but this is a real phrase of America.
In the Cold War, we always refer to people as dirty commies. Mhmm. We never commies. We said dirty commies. I'm bringing that term back on purpose because when you see a dirty commie called, Putin over there in Russia deliberately bombing civilians night after night after night. He can't win a war. That's a coward. That's a bully to send bombs over and bombing apartment complexes. He's not bombing. He's not trying to win the war. In fact, the the the battle line in Ukraine has basically been about the same for two years. The Russians jumped in there. They made a lot of progress, and they've they've stalled out. And now they're resorting on basically what we call terrorist tactics of of killing civilians.
And, you know what? I think every time they kill five civilians, it makes the people of Ukraine even more committed to making sure that they don't give their country up. I think it has exactly the opposite effect. And I'm I'm that is the one battle that, Trump hasn't solved yet. But since he appears to have solved Mas, Israel, I think, I think all of the resources will be there. And what I think is gonna happen is they're going to give more long range weapons to Ukraine to start causing more civilian casualties and more, infrastructure damage in Russia.
And I think at some point, one of the people wandering around the Kremlin is gonna put a bullet in in Putin's head. I'm and I'm I'm not trying to be violent. I'm just saying that we all know that when you have people like Putin, there are things that happen to them. And, of course, Putin, you know, famously, the the one guy that he didn't like a couple years ago, his plane crashed. Magically, his plane crashed. And so What a coincidence. People who people who act like Putin oftentimes go down like he has done to others. And so I think if enough damage is done to Russia and its infrastructure that people might decide, well, if you're if you're gonna be dictator for life, maybe we should, change leadership here. You know what that implies if you're a dictator for life. Yeah. So it'd be interesting to see what happens there. But, the book, the first third of the book, anyway, is is is about how much money and resources they have available. Believe it or not, that was the hardest part of the book because it's so hidden how much they have available to them. Like, they have, like each time they get reelected, they get $250,000 furniture allowance.
I'm using I've got a conference room table upstairs that I've owned that was used when I got it, and I've had it since 1992 or '93. Wow. Okay? Yeah. This is what I'm saying is you don't need to buy $250,000 worth of new furniture. And I've been in the Congressional Office Building. I used to have a kind of an open pass to run-in and out of the, the con the the congressional offices. That that's not easy to do today. This was, I was there for 09:11, but most of this, most of my access was prior to 09:11. Obviously, it's much better security today. Sure. And I'm not exactly your your classic security risk. You know what I mean?
I'm not I don't think I qualify as some crazy terrorist, but it but, what I did see there is that we have got to get the people out of Washington, first of all. So my advocacy is ten years in congress max, two terms in the senate, one five year term for president, one five year term for president. If you look around the world, very few people get to serve eight years as a chief executive of country unless you're a dictator.
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Right. And,
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the president spends half of his first term running for office to get reelected and then half of his second term trying to save his legacy by getting his picked successor reelect you know, elected to replace them and to find their presidential library. So I think a four or five year term for president would be imminently practical and would be a lot smarter. And people say, well, don't you think Trump's doing a better job in the second four years? Yeah. I I think he's again, it's only happened once before in history that somebody served in the presidency and then came back and did it again.
And, I'm not super worried about that situation, but, in fact, the reason that there is an open race in Virginia is because Youngkin cannot succeed himself. But I'd like to see more policies like that where we we really cracked out. I'd like to see all of the people in Washington required to live full time in their districts Mhmm. Where the the people that have elected these clowns have access to them twenty four seven, not having to write through 50 staffers to say, oh, hey. I need, you know, Chuck Schumer to put the government back open and stop screwing around. Mhmm. How How do you get that to Chuck Schumer? Well, I think if he was home in New York and people would go talk to him and tell him what a cruddy is, I think that might have a little bit more impact. And my proposal is is that we build a big dorm or buy a couple of those old hotels in Washington and turn them into dorms. And when you do have meetings, you know, every few months in Washington, you stay in a dorm room.
I'm I'm willing to pay for that. I'm not willing to keep paying for houses for people to live there. And these folks are it's it's just not a a a sustainable system, and I I hold that part of the responsibility. By the way, my next book is, is a big deviation from this. I'm running a book about my college experience. I mentioned WHYY when I was on the radio. Right. I was, visible enough that I ended up starting an arts management agency. So I'm my own business in college and was on the radio, and I got to meet a lot of celebrities as somebody doing entertainment coverage. And that book is, is called The Cheap Education, and that is hugely behind. I mean, I'm, like, you know, a year and a half behind where I was, because, everything else has kinda taken over.
But, I have outlined another book behind that, which has got one word. It's only a one word title, failure, and it's a study of the bureaucratic state in The United States. That's interesting. I like that. And, some of the examples are Katrina, and the the fires in California and some of these things like that. What is our government doing for us? $37,000,000,000,000 national debt, the incredible loss of life in Katrina. What is our government really doing for us? And so it's not just that we're spending all this money, and people keep saying, oh, but, you know, you've got this thing that you need that we didn't get because of this. But I think our our our federal government needs to do a few things and do them really well. Right now, they're trying to do everything and doing it really badly.
Even even even stuff that you would think would be axiomatic to a country that has been so successful technologically is I understand that one of the reasons that Newark Airport was having so many problems is that the controller for Newark Airport is at Philadelphia Airport. Don't ask me why. I just this is the report I heard. And we had this horrendous incident where a helicopter, a military helicopter, a low part of the United States government bureaucracy, flew up into the bottom of a landing, commercial, airliner and and killed a bunch of people.
Inexcusable. Inexcusable. A a recent blatant, ridiculous failure of the bureaucratic state in America Should never have happened. But part of the reason it happened is we are not doing a good job of running our military. There's a military helicopter that hit it. That's right. And we're not doing a good job of running our air traffic system. We can run let's run the national highway system, air traffic control, border control, national defense, currency. Other than that, I can't think of a single reason. We don't need a department of education. No. I don't even know that we need a department of interior because you know what? We got 50 states in the Washington DC.
I think they can run their cells. I mean, they can they can run street sweepers. They can decide if you're gonna have pollution in your water. I don't think we need to have this gigantic, wasteful, horrible bureaucracy. And that, of course, ties in because part of what supports the bureaucracy is the fact that we don't have term limits. So we don't have people in there asking questions. And, by the way, that's a bipartisan observation. I hold both parties responsible for the failure to put in term limits, and I hold both parties responsible for the mess that our bureaucratic state is because both sides gain from having this crazy inefficient system that we have. So I want them to go home, work from their home districts. We've already proven they can do that during COVID. And what I observed, because I was in DC and I had to run of some of the office buildings and stuff, is, Bill Archer, by the way, was the chairman of Wakes and Means from he he was elected in the 94 Suite, by Newt Gingrich, and I was tied to his staff, not member of staff, but tied to his staff in a personal way. And so when, he was sworn in as chairman of Ways and Means in January, I was at that swearing in. Okay. And it was a very elegant event. Where did all that stuff come from? Lobbyists?
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Of course. Yeah. And and all that. The people who they actually work for, not the American people.
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Right. And when he finished his term out in the the year February, he stayed in he stayed in Virginia. He didn't come home to Texas. He's a Texas he he got elected out of Texas for, you know, twenty something years, and, this is a classic example. Interestingly, I was friends with a guy, John Culberson, who replaced him in that district here in Houston. And I was about to ask Culberson, to stop running, to to to in implement term limit on himself, and he lost a he lost the election to a Democrat who is a horrible candidate. And I I'm not sure what happened there. The district swung somehow or Culberson got too divorced from his district. But I'm hopeful that, we're and, again, that's very, very rare for an incumbent to lose. Mhmm. Very, very rare.
But we I could I could see it happening with, Cuomo against Mondami in New York City. That's an aberration. That's not normal. And people keep talking about AOC, primary, Chuck Schumer. I don't think that's gonna happen because I think that Chuckie, who has obviously lost a big step, I don't think he's as far gone as, Joe Biden, but I think he's far enough gone that, and and if he sees that he might lose, I think he might do the smart thing and say and be very magnanimous. Oh, it's time for other people to take over, and I'm gonna step out. So it'll be interesting to see if,
[01:12:15] Unknown:
Chucky does what I just said. It would be interesting to see, but I don't I don't think he's gonna do that, to be quite honest. I think his I think his ego, I think his pride is just way too big, and I think he thinks way too much of himself.
[01:12:28] Unknown:
Yeah. Because there there's there's Maybe it's some family members who could, intervene a little bit. Well, we hope. And so we'll see. I mean, that didn't happen with Biden, and Biden was further farther gone. But, it sometimes it's it's tough to get these people to do the right thing. Yeah. And you we we mentioned mom Donnie earlier.
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You know, this guy really he scares me. I'll be honest with you.
[01:12:52] Unknown:
He's a violent anti semite, best I can tell, and he is a clearly a commie. This this whole term democratic socialist is offensive to me. It it's it's so silly. I mean, the people that are saying it have to be laughing behind the scenes. Oh, we can't use the term commie, so we'll just call him a democratic socialist. Jeez. That sounds really nice. And it's interesting because I heard a bit of a news piece earlier today where they were talking about the fact that Sweden, which was going heavily down the socialist track, has reversed course, and Sweden and The United States have about the same percentage of expenditure on the federal government.
Really? I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, that's interesting. They they backed it way off on their end, and, of course, we're way up on it, especially after the abomination of the four years of the Biden administration.
[01:13:52] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, I I, you know, I talked about Mamdani too. Some of the things that he's been proposing, the city run supermarkets. Well, I don't know how I don't know how anybody else feels about that, but that hello bread lines, you know, that's that's kinda what I'm thinking there. I told my sister, my sister still lives up in New York, and, I told her, I said, just keep an eye on this, because if this guy wins, I said, you need to go. You need to get out of there. Because if Texas is a winner. It it Montgomery gets elected.
[01:14:23] Unknown:
What you're gonna see is a lot of people in New York City do move to Florida, not Texas. But the industrial or not the industrial. The Wall Street operation is already booming in Dallas. Dallas is becoming the new Wall Street, and, they've got a stock exchange starting up. It it's not quite open yet is my recollection, but it's about to be there. And I think you're gonna see some really different things happening, if, if what looks like is gonna happen. Kumo Kumo is not a very good candidate, and, of course, he killed a lot of people by making the nursing homes keep the take the the COVID victims, the COVID positive COVID people and putting them into regular nursing homes.
And the accusations are nine hundred fifty or a thousand, people died nursing homes who might not have died had they not done that, had they set up isolation instead. So, he he's got such a bad track record. At the same time, the Republican candidate is way back, what I've heard, 12 or 13% or something like that, and he he is not withdrawing from the race. And I can respect that because I think even if he withdrew from the race, I don't know that the people who were supporting him would switch their vote to, Cuomo. Maybe they would,
[01:15:50] Unknown:
maybe not. I know it's Curtis Liwa is is running for Yeah. Curtis Yeah. And this isn't his first his first run either. He's done this a few times, but I think this is the closest he's actually gotten to it. And the fact that, Eric Adams withdrew from the race.
[01:16:08] Unknown:
Shocking.
[01:16:09] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Well, to me, it was actually. I I thought for sure he'd stick it out, and and but, what I'm really watching also is the governor's race in New York. It's very interesting because, Kathy Hochul is a horrible governor. I mean Yes. Yes. Absolutely horrible. And, Elise Stefanak is her Republican challenger, and, they're very very close. The last I saw, they were they were within, plus or minus three points of each other. And, so that's gonna be very interesting to see New York State as a as a whole flip red as as far as the governor's office goes. I think New York I think New York is way too blue at the local at the more local level.
Yes. You're not gonna see such a big rush there, but, it would be interesting to see Elise Stefanak, unseat, Kathy Hochul. That that would be very interesting to see.
[01:17:09] Unknown:
It it also the the question is is that nobody can quite believe, the the value of the democratic government. In fact, Chuckie even today was saying that, every day that goes by that their party is doing better. I don't see it that way. I don't think anybody sees it. Right? I'm biased, but, because I I think, Chuckie is a bully and a fool and and way past his, expiration date. But I just see that the world knows that the Democrats didn't take an easy deal to keep the Biden spending limits, which is what we're talking about. And this business with Obamacare is a December expiration. That's not and it's it's not expiring Obamacare. It's expiring certain supplements.
Read this billions of dollars of additional government, subsidies for that program that were set up for COVID. Hey. COVID's over. Mhmm. Yeah. Why would you continue COVID subsidies?
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Just to line pockets.
[01:18:21] Unknown:
Yeah. That's exactly right. Well, I think, literally, it's it's called buying boats. Mhmm. And and they they've got to do a better job. That's no other interpretation of that. They're they're just buying boats. And that was, of course, the whole thing about the open borders is they were thinking if they let all these folks in, that these folks would, vote for, democrats because they'd be beholden to the democrats for all the freebies that they got when they got here, staying in deluxe hotels and getting credit cards and mobile phones and all the nonsense they gave away to people. And and yet we're not doing that for our own citizens. It's crazy. And and and I think I'm hearing the term I hear most often today is an eighty twenty issue, and the Democrats are upside down on every eighty twenty issue.
So I I don't I don't see you know, Chunky'd like to see, twenty twenty six flip, of both houses. My prediction, has been for the last several weeks that, both that they're gonna approve their position in both houses. You think they'll improve? Making that prediction on your show today Okay. That they're gonna they're gonna pick up votes in both houses, the Republicans are, because the Democrats are so out of sync with the American people
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that I agree. Trump
[01:19:48] Unknown:
continues to stable. He he's stabilizing an international scene. We need a parallel stabilization. In other words, the stock market's doing fantastic, and the projections are gonna keep doing that, which I find interesting. But I think if he can get the average American back to work, you know, we're we're in a slump on hiring. And I do have some friends who are underemployed or unemployed, and, it's tough right now. But I think if this economy you know? And, again, let's look at what we mentioned earlier about H. W. Bush. If and, of course, Trump's not standing for election right now.
But if the economy will be clearly ripping and people are gonna start getting jobs, say, by April or May 2026, and that continues through the fall, I would say it could be a a an even bigger sweep than the twenty twenty four election. I I could see. Interesting. Yeah. Some statehouse is changing as you mentioned. And so it's gonna be really interesting, and I don't know that we're quite there yet.
[01:20:56] Unknown:
No. Agreed. I agree with you. I I feel like, well, I I have mixed feelings on on the economy here in, you know, at home. I I I love what he's doing abroad. I think he's doing a fantastic job with that. I love the fact the border's closed. But one thing that does kinda bother me, and I'm not the only one who says this, I've I've heard it other other people have said it, I've, you know, hear from some folks in in town and such, is that whenever, you know, they get up to the podium there and they start talking about how gas prices are down and food prices are down, and this is down, this is down, where? Because here, you know, I'm still paying about $3 a gallon for gas.
I'm not doing great as far as my grocery bills. My they're they're pretty high. My energy bills are ridiculously high. So, like, when do when are we gonna start seeing some of the benefits of these policies here at home?
[01:21:51] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, it I I agree with you, and that's why I say the the job market needs to pick up sharply before the mid midterm elections, and we need to get, things going. I will say that I'm paying $2.44 for gasoline at Costco here in Houston around that corner from my house. And, I've noticed that there have been some price drops. Eggs, which were very, very high, have have come back out of the stratosphere. Wheat, I'm, a health nut as you know from my previous appearance. So I eat all whole wheat products. Whole wheat bread has, has dropped about a dollar a loaf Mhmm.
In the in the last, year or so. And so we are seeing some relief at the same time, due to tariffs. Coffee is sky high, and most Americans like to drink coffee. Tea is high also, I guess, because coffee's high, so it makes sense. They charge more for tea also. Right. So, it it is a mixed bag, and I I am spending when I go to grocery store, I've spent some amazing amounts of money. And, and it's, you know, and it's just caring to me most of the time. I mean Yeah. And going out to eat is, is, is is pretty pricey too. A lot of the restaurants that, I eat at to, you know, just get a nice lunch or a quick dinner or something, everything on the menu's got a couple dollars added to it, and and they're not recovering all of their costs even at that point. So I agree with you. I think I here's my thought on that, though, and I I think, you know, I have an economics, background, and we are not gonna see prices go down much. Gasoline is a little bit different. It's an internationally traded commodity, and it's the barrel of oil is trading at $62 a barrel. That's been pretty consistent.
Mhmm. And I think that's a pretty competitive price for, for gasoline. But in terms of wheat, like I said, it looks like wheat has stabilized, and, you know, that's gonna affect bread. Most Americans eat bread. So we've got a few things like that. At the same time, in my lifetime, I have never seen beef prices where they are today. I mean, whether you go out to eat or you're you're, you're buying a steak to take home for your family or roast, beef is is ludicrous. And Yeah. A lot of Americans and, of course, we're in Texas here where people like a big old Texas steak. Yes, sir. And it it is, I agree with you. I think that that is a a drag on people's home home budgets and stuff.
At the same time, chicken remains fairly cheap. Pork is, fairly cheap. So, there there are some proteins out there. Seafood, it it's interesting. If it's farmed, it's it's it's become cheaper than it's ever been in my lifetime. Like, most of the shrimp that is for sale in the grocery stores today is farm raised, and it it's extremely competitive. If and you'll see the pricing difference because of its natural cut. It's it's like triple the price of of the rest of the shrimp in the in the batch there. So, I think there's been some changes in that. But, if you're looking at, you know, fillets of fish to fix at home, that's, that's pretty steep. Yeah. You know? So so we you got it like a I said a mixed bag, but some of the more important proteins like beef and and good fillets of fish and stuff are pretty dramatic as high as I I could even imagine they could be. And I I agree with you. I don't think that helps, the Republican cause.
But, you know, the the Democrats got in a little bit under Obama, and people realized that it got worse, not better. And then they elected the Republican house and then the Republican house and senate. So in other words, you might have a if the 2026 comes in and things don't get better, if the Democrats pick up some seats at that time, they may find themselves bounced out again in 2028.
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So That's possible. We want to see what happens. Yeah. We will. We absolutely will. Alright. Well, doctor Shine, doc Dave, it we have been an hour almost an hour and a half, and I gotta go feed the kids.
[01:26:18] Unknown:
So And I go I and I I don't have any kids at home anymore, but, it's it's my dinner time. Yes. I I remember. Yes. Yes. That's right. That's right. Been a been a busy day. So Yes, sir. I I am so delighted to to join you again. I think we, like last time, covered a lot of stuff. And, again, I I have two books out. They're both available on Amazon, Decline of America, one hundred years of leadership failures, which is my opinion of the presidency from the beginning of the American enterprise, you know, the the leadership in the world, which really began with the end of World War two with Woodrow Wilson. And the second book, which is basically a strong push for term limits.
And it's tongue in cheek because we we feature 26 Republicans and 26 Democrats saying the dumbest things possible, and these are the people that we're paying all this money to who are controlling the massive American government. Mhmm. And, I I it's deliberate. I mean, we didn't pick out the smart people. We picked out the high visibility stupid people. Yeah. And I get it. I think people enjoy reading it. Again, it is bipartisan, 26 Republicans. And, there are 27 Democrats and independents who vote with the Democrats. That is because we in a in a deck of cards, it's basically called bad deal for Americans based on a deck of cards.
And, each politician has a card, either a face card or a two three four, whatever. And we added one additional card because the deck came with a joker, and, the joker is Joe Biden.
[01:27:59] Unknown:
Perfect. What what else would I do with somebody I'm gonna give an f to in my next one? Of course. I agree. We I I do, I do appreciate the opportunity to chat with you, and, I I hope you have the great rest of the evening. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. And this is anytime you wanna come on, you're more than welcome to. Anytime you like, you just let me know, and, we'll get it all worked out. Ladies and gentlemen, doctor David Shine, thank you so much for being with us tonight, sir. God bless you. And,
[01:28:28] Unknown:
oh, where where can we go to find your work? I know you said Amazon. Where else can we find you? Like I said, my books are on Amazon. The one thing I always do remind people is my last name is spelled s c h e I n, Schein, because a lot of people leave the c out, and then they're not gonna find me. But if you just put in my last date put in David Schein, you're gonna find me. And, my my best known podcast is called Saving America. It runs on multiple networks on Saturdays. And so, lots of stuff, I think, come up when you put my name in there. And, I've got, Wikipedia page these days, and I'm in Who's Who in America and a few things like that. So Awesome. I'm easy to find. Alright. And get some rest.
[01:29:13] Unknown:
You you you you you're you're very stressed stretched out, not stressed, stretched
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out.
[01:29:19] Unknown:
They got me spread out. Absolutely. Yeah. So get some rest, my friend. Get some rest. God bless you. Thank you again. Thanks, doctor Dave. I'll talk to you soon. Alright, folks. Doctor David Shine. Really appreciate having doctor Dave here with us. So folks, don't forget, head over to Amazon, pick up his books, check them out, and, you know, if you have any questions or comments you wanna pass on to him, just let me know. Just drop them in the comments down below. We'll send them on over to him, and, we'll we'll we'll see what we can do. I'm definitely wanna have him back on here again. That was great. I really look forward to tonight, with doctor Dave. I I so enjoy the conversation.
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Opening from Eagle Pass and show setup
Guest intro: Dr. David Schein returns
Live vs. edited podcasts and early radio career
Sponsorship challenges and value-for-value model
Pivot to Dr. Scheins books and U.S. leadership
Foreign policy strength, Iran, and deterrence
Indictments, DOJ trust, and FBI concerns
DC as a Democratic stronghold and agency reform
From Mossad to Decline of America thesis
Industrial might, poor presidents, and Wilson
Clintons luck, Gingrich revolution, welfare reform
Grading presidents and plans for a sequel
Bidens grade, who ran the White House, 25th talk
Party realignment and independent voting
Virginia and New Jersey races; rhetoric and threats
Gerrymandering experiences from the 1990s
Term limits case: Bad Deal for America
Proposed reforms: 5-year presidency and district living
Next books: The Cheap Education and Failure
Bureaucratic state failures: Katrina to air traffic
Lobbyists, dorms for Congress, and going home
NYC politics: Mamdani, Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa
NY state governor race and Democratic messaging
Midterm outlook and economic conditions
Prices, jobs, and mixed bag at the grocery store
If 2026 disappoints: potential swings ahead
Wrap-up: books, grades, and where to find Dr. Schein
Host closing, support options, and sign-off
