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>> yeah, im so glad you showed that because that was one of the stories i was watching. hes a gen z. he is an example of what we love most about america, so. >> this young man who can pull himself up by his boot straps, i think he was driving uber, right? and out of nowhere can put together this campaign and this movement and hes probably got -- and hes probably going to end up sitting in congress. you know, we got a lot of oproblems with our democracy. weve got people trying to overthrow our de...

To having and the addition of other roles, you know, the loss of our ability to go to funerals and hug people. weve had so much collective loss, you know, mass shootings, political divisiveness, the grief is real right now. >> and a lot of people compare grief to fighting a battle. you compare it to of all things crabs. why are crabs a better metaphor? >> yes. i always ask people to bear with me for the first like four seconds of that explanation because i think that in our culture we really lov...

Wallstreetbets, whats the story to you? marie >> i think the story is about a group of idiots. a very large group of idiots. who just got fed up with the world. got fed up with being told go to college, get a job, make a living. frankly, thats not just realistic for our generation. it is really frustrating, the rumors. i think were lazy. you know the term, pull up your boot straps and work hard? you get the same life as they had? no! the world is very, very different he stays. next pandemic in 2...

You who want debt forgiveness, a way to do that, serve in the united states military. what do you tell the people who have gone off and sacrificed one of the reasons to do it to forgive the debt, and now for everybody else too, its not fair. >> john: and we had a person on the program, she grew up in north carolina penniless, her name was on the christmas wish tree, she went into the military to pay for college, and then banned on facebook because she said im not going to do that. i pulled mysel...

President said he is not considering 50,000, and he has not given a dollar amount. >> i think theres an argument to talk about the age of people currently in congress and in the white house. when they were going to college, there was much less money and you could work your way through college. going to college now, i get the idea that you have to work your way through and pull yourself up by your boot straps, and college now is insanely expensive, and the debt from that is crushing and the job m...

Able to nurture that. whatever it is, whatever you are doing, whatever you earn, you know, its so much more appreciated. >> john: we know you picked yourself up by your boot straps and made a life for yourself and the life for other veterans down on their luck is quite admirable. gretchen, great to talk to you. hope to talk to you at some point. code of vets. >> gillian: texas governor greg abbott is keeping his word as a bus carrying migrants gets dropped off on the presidents doorstep right he...

More than willing to take this entire country off a financial cliff, environmental cliff, civil rights cliff, you name it and its not, its not individual anymore. people have to sort of put on their own boot straps and talk to their own family members. >> invite me over for dinner. >> and not one of these legislators will be accused of being racist unless they openly kill a civil rights activist in broad daylight. i want to bring this back to the concerns that legislators that brought forward. t...

Table. all of the elites, the hollywood elite, the media elite, hes a billionaire, joy. pull him up by the boot straps. they see them as an atm machine to keep funding their domestic terrorist activities. >> whats interesting, one of the candidates that peter thiel is backing is david vance a multi-millionaire hedge fund guy. the messaging thats going out. its all about, you know, standing up to what they see as the man, right? standing up against vaccines

Ahead. listen, we came into 2021. we came into this year in amazing shape. household balance sheets stronger than ever been. we sent out trillions of dollars. people paid off debt, bought stuff and put some in the bank. household balance sheets. the ability to spend money after you have paid your bills never, never been better. same thing with corporate balance sheets and we had a vaccine. i think we are going to be slower next year. im concerned, im to be quite frank with you im happy that this...

Less owns, rebound his benefit, just politically, just to become the republican nominee in 2024? >> well, its clear that the republican party has become the party of grievance, right? of white grievance. grievance in general. i was a republican for 27 years partially because i didnt think that being a victim was a way to run your life and republicans were supposed to be about bringing yourself up from your boot straps and individual empowerment and x, y, and z. i dont know where in the hell that...