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It's Wednesday in America, and Trump is giving another bonkers presser on the tarmac. The mainstream media refuses to cover how batshit and insane this man is, but we here at IHOP News will do so. Play the clip.
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Guest or Co-host
At 99% in Israel, I could run for prime minister. So maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel, run for prime Minister. At a poll this morning, I'm 99%, so that's good.
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Main Host
But do it, do it. Go to Israel and run for prime Minister. Do it, Mr. Popular, do it, Mr. Congeniality, go over to Israel and be their prime Minister. Here's what I think happened. I think Benjamin Netanyahu, like every other person on the planet, knows how do you get Trump to do what you want him to do? You pile on effusive praise. And so BB Calls him and he's like, hey, we just had a new poll drop in Israel. It looks like you're 99%. And Trump's like, oh my God, B.B. i could be prime minister. He's like, oh yes, Mr. President, you could be. You absolutely could be. And that is how easy it is to put a collar on the President of the United States, attach a leash, and then walk him off to commit war crimes.
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Co-host or Panelist
Am I crazy or the reason he's so popular in Israel is because he's Netanyahu's little bitch. I mean, he's just a little bitch for his Israeli government. And I, if it were me, I would not be bragging about that. I would not be bragging that I was so unpopular at home, yet I'm just all over the place in another country. To me, that's not something I would brag about. Right.
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Main Host
But he brags about not passing or about passing cognitive tests. You know what I mean? Like, this is. But also, I don't think that poll is true. I don't think that it's probably made up. I think it's made up as a manipulative play by Benjamin Netanyahu to play into him the same way that Putin plays into him psychologically. This stuff is manufactured to get the result that anybody wants, because the psychological profile on Trump is razor thin. Because it's not deep. It's super easy to manipulate him into doing things. And then here's just crazy that he says on a Wednesday. Play the clip.
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Guest or Co-host
If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes, I would have won California.
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Main Host
Perfect. Perfect. That's what I think we do. I think we start summoning Jesus Christ to come down and count the votes to rig the election for you. That makes perfect sense. I mean, according to Trump, he and Jesus are one of the same. And to actually now make Jesus Christ some sort of poll worker is really an interesting evolution of his fascination with poll workers that I didn't see coming. Like, you know, he got the gay governor of Colorado to let a criminal election denying, election rigging felon out of prison. So why not throw Jesus in there? Why stop now with all the blasphemy? Let's go ahead and make Jesus commit election crimes too, for MAGA Christians. Let's go. Jesus needs to have a felony record as well.
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Co-host or Panelist
Are you kidding? He wouldn't make it to the the polling place because he'd be rounded up by ICE because his skin is brown.
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Main Host
Touche. Yeah. And I don't think he would have spoken American English either. I don't think he would have spoken English with an American accent. And that too would probably cause him to picked up by ice. But I want to point out this is classic Christian signaling right here. This is Trump. You know, a lot of times I think, oh, he's just mouthing stuff off. But after talking to a lot of scholars that I've spoken with on the podcast, a lot of what he does, even though he's in complete cognitive decline, is intentional. And he uses this Christian signaling now to say even California is rigged and only Jesus could make it right. And so this is a way that he keeps his maniacal Christian base in on the upcoming rigging that he intends to do. But let me say, when I say that you guys do not let that suppress your vote. We can turn out and make it too big to rig and we must do everything in our power to do so because they are removing black voices from government. And of course the billionaires. I mean, you have billions of dollars and all you have to do is shut the upper and go live your life. Get off social media, go build your bunkers. But they can't. They cannot help themselves. And here is Jeff Bezos on the news this morning. Play the clip.
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Guest or Co-host
You could, you could double the taxes I pay. And it's not going to help that teacher in Queens, I promise you.
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Main Host
Angie.
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Co-host or Panelist
He's really gained weight, hasn't he? He does not look good. I mean, I couldn't take that.
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Main Host
Anyway, I think it's fillers. I don't know that he's saying, but I think fillers he love.
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Co-host or Panelist
He and his wife are going to the same as petition. Here's the thing. The reason it wouldn't help the teacher in Queens is because he didn't pay any taxes.
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Main Host
That's why what he said was. I'm sorry. What he said is, you could double the pack taxes I pay and that's not going to help that teacher in Queens. And evidence shows that that is false, that raising taxes on billionaires will help the teachers. It will help everybody. The fact that these guys show no sense of patriotism. And I'm not talking about the MAGA chest beater bluster kind of patriotism. You know, where they have their flags and the truck nuts and all that shit and that shirts with the eagle and the grenade and I'm a big boy, you know, all that, all that stuff I'm talking about, like, you know what? This country has been so good to me. And there was a generation of men back before Citizens United that paid up to 70% in taxes. And there was a, a culture that people wanted to be earnest in this way. The culture in America right now is Jeff Bezos is easy to hate. Elon Musk easy to hate. But the culture is that somehow these people are victims. Do you hear how he gets on there? Like, I'm not the problem here. Instead of saying tax me, Warren Buffett says, tax me. And he was a billionaire long before Jeff Bezos was. Not only is it a lie, it is intentional gaslighting. And these guys want power. They want to have power. But he will not put his name on a ballot and go run for office. The fundamental problem I see is a cultural rot where we have A large segment of the American society that allows these men to be victims. That allows these men to be on this constant loop, that somehow the billions of dollars that they have from exploiting people isn't enough. And we need to shift the focus that Jeff Bezos is a billionaire because he exploits people. Amazon workers deserve to be paid a livable wage with dignity. And I would even go as far to say as rich as Amazon is beyond a livable wage.
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Co-host or Panelist
Right.
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Main Host
A really good life wage. Amazon workers that get in their trucks and drive all over the United States dropping packages all day long. I argue they work harder than Jeff Bezos. A lot of these billionaires sit at a desk, paperclip, staple, highlight, present the manual labor that goes on to make these billionaires this rich to where they feel like they're victims. And he, he should be standing there saying, I am more than happy to pay more in taxes because it will affect my life. Zero. It will have zero impact on my life. But we have to create a culture where people are paying more in wages. But he cannot. It's all built on a house of cards. And he cannot let one card swipe out or their own all come tumbling down because he enjoys exploiting people. He enjoys demonizing the union workers that try to organize to get just a livable wage, not a decent wage where maybe you can go to Cancun or something for vacation, just being able to live above the poverty line. Jeff Bezos organized and spent millions to besmirch their efforts.
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Co-host or Panelist
Well, and when you think about. And Amazon's the example because of Jeff Bezos, but this is a. The world's largest retailer with. That's not. Doesn't have any real property stores. So you're using infrastructure, railways, air, highways, all of these things. And when you look at it, he's not paying any taxes for that. So the taxpayer is paying for the upkeep of the infrastructure that he uses. And then he's fighting to keep his employees from earnings, a decent living. And it's. It's gross is what it is. It's gross that he doesn't say, you know what? I thank you. I built this business model, but you're the ones that keep it running. Without the person that delivers the package, I couldn't have a business. But there's zero gratitude for anyone but himself. Right?
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And more than anything, there's disdain for the American public. For him to sit on television and be that dismissive about, well, you could double my taxes. And it's not going to help the teacher in Queens. How dismissive to that teacher in Queens. How dismissive to those parents in Queens. How dismissive to those parents all over the country. And you notice he chose Queens because if he would have said that teacher in rural Oklahoma. Because for the people in middle America, it's easy to demonize these crazy liberals in New York, right? But the fact of the matter is, the people who suffer the most from this stuff are the people in rural America because they have politicians who spend their lives kissing the ass of Jeff Bezos, who in turn spends his life at least the last three years, two years, kissing Donald Trump's ass. In the same interview, he was saying he thought Trump was a more mature, better version of himself in Trump 2.0, which is just complete pathological gaslighting by Jeff Bezos and also proves to me that he's not that smart.
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Right?
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This notion that we attribute all of this intelligence to billionaires is, is the biggest bunch of crap. I have met a lot of really wealthy people in my lives. Some are smart. The majority are not any smarter than anybody else. You know, they're just better at exploiting people and they're better at not feeling that exploitation. The people who don't feel when they do something immoral, who are able to bask in cognitive dissonance, that's what these billionaires are able to do. On the one hand, they think they're so benevolent and on the other hand, they don't think feel it when they're taking from other people. All right ladies, I don't know about you, but my day I come to work and then during my lunch hour I have to change clothes off with one bra on with a different bra. The constant bra situation is so exhausting, drives me bananas. But I've recently discovered something that has been the antidote for all of my bra nightmares. And this product is called Honey Love. They have a variety of different bras and what makes them so special is they are an independent female founded brand. Let me just tell you their sports bra, you guys, it's so comfortable. Sometimes I go home after working out, I forget that I even have the bra on. So listener, treat yourself to the most advanced bras and shapewear on the market. For a limited time, Honey Love is offering up to 50% off site wide 20 during their Memorial Day sale. Use our exclusive link to shop@honeylove.com ihip that's honeylove.com ihip and after you check out they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them that we sent you. Experience the new standard in comfort and support with honey love day or night,
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And here's Bezos defending Ken Griffin. You may remember Ken Griffin as the guy that Zoron like, tink, tink, tink on the camera and called out for having a 250 million dollar, like, third or fourth home in New York. And Ken Griffin goes on, you know, bedwetter City like, you know, he put my life in danger and all this instead of like being a real man and going zoron, Ken Griffin, I agree with you. That's obnoxious. The cost of my apartment, I want to donate to your child care initiative in New York, and I want to pay these taxes immediately. And I want to do it in front of cameras to set a precedent so that all billionaires start doing the same. I agree with you. There's a rot in my community. Now what does he do? He's a victim. B o o h o o. Here's Bezos defending Ken Griffin, but also saying he supports the pied a terre tax.
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Guest or Co-host
It isn't a villain. He hasn't hurt anybody. He's not hurting New York. In fact, quite the opposite. And so that piece of it isn't, isn't right. And there was no reason to do that. A peer to tear tax is a, you know, there's a very. Taxes on out of towners are very popular taxes. That's why there are hotel taxes. And you know, hotels always have very high tax rates because why not tax the tourists? And there are limits. If you raise the hotel taxes too much, tourists stop coming. Right? So you have to be judicious. But I think that the peer to tear tax is a fine thing for New York to do.
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Okay? So first of all, he has to sit there and enable Ken Griffin and being a. And a victim. And actually, it does harm New Yorkers when you have this billionaire row where all of these people that never live in these apartments drive up the comps all over the place, where the people that are the oil and the lubricant and the engine of keeping a city like this running get priced out and have to commute an hour, hour and a half, and then how do they pick up their kids? And the cascading effects of that are so massive and so far removed from any part of Jeff Bezos's life. They're so removed from any part of Ken Griffin's life. It's so removed from them to do anything other than to grandstand and get on tv. And Donald Trump's so smart, he's so mature. And you know, Zoron was wrong to call out Ken Griffin instead of. You know what? I don't blame Americans for calling us out. We are rich as, and it can be really obnoxious. And we do need to pay more and we need to contribute more to this wealth inequality. They will bend themselves and pretzel themselves to not do that.
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Self reflection and accountability are something that you just do not see in these billionaire circles. Now, I'm not in one, but when I look at like self reflection, what can I do? It's, there's never any of that. It's always, I want more. Everybody's mad at me. I'm a victim. Why isn't everybody selling, braiding me? Because I'm so great and so smart. And, you know, here's the thing. I will be the first to admit I didn't realize how ingrained it was in me as an American that rich people deserve respect, that they're smart. But when you take a step back and you take away that filter, it's stomach turning. It really is stomach turning that somebody with that much wealth, that much privilege has. No, it's so detached from what the reality of, of, you know, the majority of people, how they live and what they struggle with. It's, it's really a stunning reflection. Once I did that, and you brought that to my attention a long time
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ago, these people can afford to be bad people. They can afford it and the American public goes along with it. No other group of people would be able to be devoid of empathy and get away with it. Elon Musk goes on a tear on Twitter all the time about toxic empathy. I mean, it's just, it's, it's insane. And here Jeff Bezos, all he has to do is shut. All he had to do is shut the up. For four years, he was still going to be rich as but they can't do it. They are addicted to power and money and greed and tried to control the narrative and the narrative against the billionaires has completely flipped and nobody nobody likes them. All right, that's all we have. Please like and subscribe and we will be back later with more news.
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