and kitchen table issues. let s take a look at the facts. when i took office, this economy is in ruins. the economy is up, price inflation is down. real incomes are up, gas prices are down and need to come down for exports are also up, which means the simple thing we re making a lot of money in america because of that. you think that s crazy? biden has friends in the media, are taking things to the next level by claiming republicans made up the term inflation to help them. when the only people i ever heard here use the word inflation are journalists and economists. right. so that is not part of the normal lexicon of the way people talk. so it s interesting that republicans are doing something they don t normally do. right, which is not use the common hung right. not use just common english to sort of use do on their campaigns like they do with prime. but what they ve done is they ve taught people the word inflation right. most people who have never used that word ever in
by a wide margin in 2020 are about to swing dramatically against him and his party. a week from today, new york of all places, could have a republican governor . athn 2last time there was election in new work, biden won the state by twenty three points. whahat we re seeing is what political scientists refer t. as a realignmen and there s no mystery as to why it s happening. democrats failedively. conclusi no group in american historyorsj has done a worseob job running this country than the neo liberals currently in charge. they re viciouootbal, they e intolerant, and they are utterly corrupt. but abov liberalchare all, theye incompetent in less than two years. it is not a overn overstatement to say they have run this country into the ground, wrecking our economy. decirt, e, creating our militarytate and opening the borders of the united states to more than five million lawbreakers. the destruction they have wrought is so profound it s hard to describe. so of course
so with that in mind, it s the worth remembering that one hundred years ago, memphis a boom was one of the richest, best organized cities in the country. it ha hadd a booming economy. it had beautiful municipalhan parks, a lot of them more than a hundred. it had one of the most modern te sanitation systems in worle take something w for granted now. but when yellow fever was real, no one took it for granted. memphis was such a bigwas th deal that in fact, was the mis the informal capital of an entire american region. the mississippi deltanot an,t not anymore. in fact, by last year, i f b you went to memphis, it was hard to believe that any of that had ever been true at any point. because by that point and nowa memphis had become a husk and a highly threatening one in 2020si one , according to federal, statistics, memphis, tennessee, was the most dangerous city in the united states . talast year.w much it recorded a total of three hundred and forty two murders. no?w, how
but despite their very best efforts over many years, diversity neverr came to martha s vineyard. it was tragic. imagine an 18th century british frigate adrift on the high seas with no lyme s sailors slowly going mad , convulsing, dying,u excruciating deaths from scurvy. that was martha s vineyard, except it wasn t lime juiceonic they lacked.wi they had plenty of thatth because you can t make a ginou and tonic without what martha st vineyard lacked was diversity, which is to say strengthhi. yesa martha s vineyard was a very weak place as of yesterday. morning.white. that island was 89% white monochrome and utterly homogenous. nearly everybody there was ev a rich democrat. 80% voted for joe biden. the median home price was over a million dollars. and then in a single blessed moment, everything changed. ived relief arrived from an unlikelyl source, governor rhonda santurceysource of florida, havg made his own state of paradise, decided to help otherr states desperate in need
the relationships mean much more to you than any stupid pronouncement. nancy pelosi made over the last year from her compound in napa. but still, politics do matter. they re not irrelevant. nancy pelosi s babblings do have an effect on your life. so what defined the politics of 2020 two? well, lying. did. this was the year of lying. the people in charge tell an awful lot of lies. that s what we learned. and we know this for sure because while they are avid and committed liars, they re not very good at it. their lies are amateur ish, obvious, pathetic, sad. and there s something insulting about that. don t take a leak on my boots and tell me it s raining, goes old cowboy phrase. don t tell me something we both know isn t true and expect me to believe it. when you do that, you insult my dignity. you diminish. you treat me like a child. if you re going to tell me a lie, put some effort into it. try something clever, have pride of craftsmanship, don t pull the same old