The Brilliance of the Carrier Deal
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.3 | Trump tweeted in the last week or so that he had actually won the popular vote if you deduct |
| 0:10.4 | the millions who voted illegally. Do you believe that? I don't know. I'm not really focused on |
| 0:16.8 | these things. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You have an opinion on whether millions of Americans |
| 0:20.9 | voted illegal. I have no way of backing that up. I have no knowledge of such things. You don't |
| 0:24.8 | believe that. I don't, it doesn't matter to me. He won the election. Why isn't it enough for him |
| 0:29.6 | that he won the electoral college? Why does he have to make up information that he also won |
| 0:33.7 | the popular vote which he lost? There's no such thing unfortunately more of fact. |
| 0:38.4 | There are no objective facts. I mean that is that is an absolutely outrageous assertion. Of course |
| 0:44.1 | there are facts. Is that really presidential behavior? Please the president elect. So that's |
| 0:48.8 | that's presidential behavior, yes. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. The show about the man who finds Saturday night live |
| 1:01.0 | totally unwatchable every week when he watches it. Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Boyzburg. |
| 1:07.6 | So Trump has picked his secretary of housing and urban development. It's Ben Carson who opposes |
| 1:13.8 | public housing and other programs that he says encourage dependency and our examples of social |
| 1:19.6 | engineering. This isn't so much a fox guarding the henhouse as it is a bunny rabbit running a |
| 1:24.9 | bureaucracy. It's a fish with a bicycle. Carson is a pediatric neurosurgeon with a self-help |
| 1:31.2 | message. He doesn't know the first thing about housing policy or how to manage a $47 billion |
| 1:37.0 | dollar public sector enterprise. What happens when you put somebody who doesn't support HUD or |
| 1:42.4 | understand HUD in charge of HUD? Well, we have a pretty good guess because it happened once before. |
| 1:48.6 | In 1981, Ronald Reagan, who didn't believe in public housing, appointed a lawyer named Sam |
| 1:54.5 | Pierce to run HUD. Silent Sam Pierce was the only African-American member of Reagan's cabinet. |
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