Lessons from Clooney, Kudlow and Gollum

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All right, what can we learn? Lessons from George Clooney, Larry Kudlow, and Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Let’s start off with George Clooney. Well, I got to give it to the Babylon Bee. This is kind of funny. Babylon Bee puts out the New Ocean’s 14. George Clooney pulls off $30 million heist by tricking people into giving him money to politician before revealing he’s demented.

So George Clooney puts out a, writes an essay for the New York Times and basically says that Joe Biden is not the Joe Biden from 2010, not even the Joe Biden from 2020. This is after George Clooney and Julia Roberts and who else was there? It was Jimmy Kimmel.

and all these Hollywood celebrities held a massive fundraiser. It was a little over three weeks ago and we all saw

We all saw what took place. We all saw that Barack Obama had to lead Joe Biden off the stage. If you watched the interview with Jimmy Kimmel, cracking jokes and Joe didn’t get any of them. We all saw it. And everyone in that room that was there, they all knew, they all knew. And they didn’t say a damn thing.

They didn’t they didn’t say word. I’m sure behind closed doors, they talked about it. But these are these brave, brave celebrities, right? Brave celebrities that we should look to. And now George Clooney is this brave guy that came out a month later. While everything is falling apart. Everything’s falling apart for Biden, all of a sudden he comes out.

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thinking of the movie Dragon Slayer, which I liked as a kid. At the end of the movie, know, the young guy actually, you know, slays a dragon and the king comes out of the dragon’s dead and then sticks a sword at it and says, I am the Dragon Slayer. George, thank you, buddy. thank you. You stepped in right now and you’re letting us know your conscience. you’re full of crap,

You’re full of crap. This is quite embarrassing. And all these celebrities, the same thing. They’re calculating. It’s about themselves. It’s about power. So I’ll bring the Gollum reference in if you’re not a familiar with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings character in the film Gollum. Again, it becomes twisted.

twisted, demented evil because of his attachment to this ring of power. And that’s that’s who we’re dealing with right now. And I’m going to be upfront and honest with everybody here. It’s on both sides of the aisle. Few and far between. Few and far between out there actually give a damn.

about you. The sooner, the sooner that you wake up as an individual and understand and how twisted like Gollum, how twisted our political climate has become, the better off you’re going to be. They don’t care about you. George Clooney doesn’t care about you. He doesn’t give a damn about

the country, cares about his position in the grand scheme of things. He got a presidential medal of freedom. He’s got the right connects. Okay. This big club that I’ve often alluded to, not again, Carlin’s idea, not my idea. Full disclosure right there. You are not a part of it. I am not a part of it. They are. They are. It was a quote

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one of the all -time great economists out there, Thomas Sowell. again, I’ve recommended his books here over the years. One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be and how dangerous it is to trust them. And I don’t.

I mean, they’re all a part of it. I see this yesterday. Chuck Todd, this guy used to host meet the press. And he had information two years ago from cabinet secretaries, ones that were high up that Joe can’t run again. He can’t do this. This he was running meet the press. if some, and again, this is direct from a cabinet secretary. They’d have no problem at all running some unnamed source.

against Donald Trump at that point in time, a cabinet secretary comes out and basically is questioning whether or not the president can handle this. Chuck Todd, NBC, now you come out with this? I mean, this is insane.

And you got James Comer coming out, trying to find out subpoenaing, trying to figure out who’s running the country at this point in time. Does it really matter? Honestly, it’d be the James Comer. Does it really matter at this point in time? All this is about power and control. Again, do you think these people in Washington care about you? We’ll get to back to Biden for a

Why do I bring Larry Kudlow into this? Well, I really don’t watch very, very, very little cable news. know, little, sometimes, you know, some of the news bits, squawk box stuff, CNBC in the background, and maybe to catch some breaking news on some things that are going on. I have mentioned that that new network out there, News Nation is pretty good, but I just have no need for it. So what am I? My sharp listeners sent me

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an email yesterday alerting me that a someone that I have, I do have a great deal of respect for somebody that I do believe is quite honorable, his entire family, his father, Ron Paul and Rand Paul. And alerts me to the fact that you got to catch this interview, Rand Paul is going to be on Larry Kudlow. And okay, I’m going to watch it again, especially, you know, going to be, I’m sure there’s going to be discussion in regards to Trump’s

point plan that we went over yesterday on the podcast. So I watched this and I gotta be honest with you, I used to have, I I guess again, we used to some pretty great deal of respect for Larry Kudlow and some of the things that he’d done in the past, just going way back to the 1990s and some of the writings and some of the things that he put forward. But make no bones about it,

Larry, Larry Kudlow, I think is a is at this point in time. He is a greater bootlicker of Donald Trump than Sean Hannity. I’m watching the show yesterday from the beginning, and I watched the show in a very long period of time. I’m like, are you kidding me? They’re talking about the Republicans and the RNC platform. It’s not a freaking platform. It’s 20 freaking bullet points. That’s not a platform.

We went over this yesterday on the program. was almost if, you know, it’s like the Republicans and Trump brought it down, like Moses brought down the 10 commandments for crying out

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And he’s got a myriad of different guests on and I’m waiting for Rand Paul to come on. Larry’s almost begging Rand Paul, I can’t understand why you could come on. Why don’t you endorse Donald Trump? And Rand’s like, wait a second, the usual thing that Rand Paul talks about regards to cutting government spending and understanding the basics. Again, he wants a little bit more meat.

on these things and he knows he’s well aware of the fact that you can’t we’re just going to eliminate some waste here and there and everything is going to be taken care of which is just stupid that’s not going to solve the problem okay but then larry larry well you know if you had a choice between a difference between the socialist biden and trump and of course you know rand’s like of course i’m going to vote for trump at least i’m not going to come out and endorse

somebody and wholeheartedly get behind somebody. And I’m paraphrasing this. Unless they’re going to be dealing with the problems at hand is basically, you know, what other choice do I have going back back to that South Park episode that I cited from years ago, back when it was Bush, they were making fun of Bush versus Kerry. And they did a parody of it at the elementary school in South Park, where they had a giant douche running against a shit sandwich.

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Again, this is what we have. This is about power, about power. Larry ends up the interview is like, ah, how many news does it grow? got to the economy out of our $34 trillion debt. I mean, honestly, seriously, Larry, I’m just freaking retired, man. You’re embarrassing yourself. Anybody with a couple of brain cells to rub together know that there’s no way we are growing ourselves out of a $34

That can be a part of the equation.

But that most certainly is not going to be enough. Again, what’s my point here with these people in Washington, D .C.? I’ll give you one here. I’ll give you another example how they don’t give a shit about you. Let’s talk about foreign policy. Again, story after story. praise and Mike Johnson in his latest speech in regards

getting our military and re -upping the military and China’s the enemy and we’ve got to spend more money in bulk parties, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. We’ve spent, can you do the numbers here, some of the math, since February of 2022, about $250 million a day. $250 million a day in Ukraine. I

listening to really, it was great interview with Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard. And she’s obviously from Hawaii talking about the fires and the devastation that took place in Maui. And the fact that people there can’t even, they haven’t got the permitting done. They haven’t been able to get their houses rebuilt. They’ve got no place to go. And again, if you go back

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what happened there and they didn’t turn the water on and they couldn’t fight the fires and the whole thing shouldn’t happen in the first place. They buried the power line. And again, it’s probably it’s looking like a land grab to me because these were, you not wealthy people who lived on very, very, very valuable pieces of property. Yeah, they all try to extend this as long as possible before someone get developers in there and all these people can’t afford to move back to the land that they used to have. Would it surprise me? No.

No. You know how much the government gave those people there in Maui that lost their homes? $700.

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$700, we’re spending close to $250 million a day in Ukraine. The people that were displaced by fires in Mount $700 help from the federal government. yeah, elephants don’t, I do this. All right, war, Russia, Russia, Russia, gotta go fight that war over there.

The sooner, the sooner, and again, it drives me nuts. drives me nuts with people that have bumper stickers on their car and rah rah, this politician and that politician, why would you?

And again, give you my Catholic back. You’re worshipping idols. You do realize that,

You do realize that your worship, these are, again, for the most part, these people could care less about you.

The overwhelming majority, and I’ve been following this stuff for decades and decades, you know, the hours that I spend, they don’t care. Most of them don’t. Yes, it’s few and far between. Some do. But it’s about power. And if you’re watching what has transpired just over the past several months with this election,

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Biden, you realize that this is pledge allegiance to the party, not to the country. That’s what it’s about. It’s fascinating too, is right now, okay, Joe Biden, and remember he was supposed to be big moderate, right? Big moderate gonna bring the country together. You know who’s rallying around Joe Biden right now?

The Squad!

The squad, Bernie Sanders, the far left members of Congress are the ones that are rallying behind Joe Biden right now. They, again, why they doing this? This, well, it’s just their politics. Get this right, say these people care about this game of thrones.

Game of Thrones, they feel that, gee whiz, know, if we happen to get Joe Biden in there because we support him, guess what? We’ll own him.

We’ll own him and he’ll have to do whatever we want. So again, it’s bit of a Hail Mary pass by the progressives, but again, I guess it’s smart politically for them.

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And again, they’ll be holding to this nonsense. watching Clooney, watching the, certain celebrities, Michael Douglas comes out. Just Michael Douglas does an interview with, who was it? Fareed Zakaria a couple months ago. Biden is sharp as a tack. He’s on The View yesterday. Well, you know, not really.

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these people brave? think they give a damn about you? You think they give a damn about the country? They don’t.

They don’t. your trust in your faith in God and your family and the people that are around you, don’t put your trust in these people. They don’t deserve

They don’t deserve your money. They don’t deserve your dollars. Okay, none of

They don’t care about you. Like I said, go back to Gollum from Lord of the Rings. The precious, it’s power.

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It’s power that they want. And the sooner you recognize that, the sooner you realize that. This is especially for you young people out there. And you’re young and bold. You got to see what you are dealing with right now. Look at our system. Look at our system, how it’s set up. Look at all these people. Look at how old they are. They never leave. That’s funny. Babylon B just did another funny

It was hilarious. It was basically a young couple talking to their father about, you know, it’s that time. We can’t really take care of you anymore. And he’s like, I’m fine. I’m fine. Like, we know you’re fine. They’re like, it’s time for you. It’s time for you to go to the US

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This, I you think about the anybody, if anybody, any value, anybody with small business, don’t talk about it all the time, crack jokes about it. You know, you know that my client list, you know, the accomplished people that I have as clients that wouldn’t touch this with a 10 foot pole, pecking order. Yeah, I gotta, you gotta work your way up. You gotta work your way through the system. Both parties.

Both parties, if you don’t do it, they’re gonna wreck you. I remember watching this in Florida when Marco Rubio was making his way up and the Republican Party didn’t want any part of him at all. They wanted Charlie Crist. They weren’t even supposed to get involved in the primary, but no, no, Charlie Crist, that was our guy, because it’s his time. It’s his time. And if they don’t like you and you can’t have the right connection, you can’t raise them, they’re gonna destroy

They’re gonna find ways to go back to, you know, something you did at a frat party back in college and they’re gonna try to ruin your life because that’s who they

We don’t have the best and brightest. Best and the brightest are the people that live in your community, are the ones that are running the businesses in and around you. Those are the best and brightest. They’re the ones that make the country work. The sooner you realize that these a -holes in Washington, DC do none of the sort, the better off you’re gonna be. Yes, do we have a ruling class here in this country? Absolutely. Have we taken what the founders wanted for this place and wrecked

We have.

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And just like you should, you see, demons hate being mocked. You should mock these people. You shouldn’t take them seriously. You shouldn’t go to their damn rallies or the Republican Party rally and this, I mean, what’s wrong with you? Go out and do something else better with your time. That was the only thing I could do. this is rally that they had down there at Doral. Come on, people, find something else better to

Find something else better to do for crying out

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Stop worshiping these people in Washington. As sooner you realize that more often than not, 99 .9 % of them don’t give a damn about you, the better off you are going to be. Watchdog on wallstreet .com.