Dave Smith

And we can't make your life a little bit better because we got fucking wars to fight.

on behalf of foreign governments against nations who pose no threat to you.

I wonder who's going to win the midterms this year, Rob.

It was, you know, so when I was on Tucker the other day, I tried to really make this case and I wanted to make sure I got this out.

You know, I had been saying this.

months back, I guess maybe, yeah, it was months back where I was kind of, maybe around December, we were talking about, and I was saying how like, you know, one of the things I want to focus on in 26, I really want to talk economics when I get on these podcasts, because it was kind of in response to these Democrats winning on economic bread and butter issues.

And

you know, then this war comes up.

And then of course, that's what ends up dominating all the conversation.

But I wanted to make sure on Tucker that I got, you know, I talked about this.

And one of the things, you know, I was saying, it's kind of like what free market, you know, people like me and you, Rob, like what's always the challenge for us is to try to argue, you know, right now when the price inflation has been the number one issue for the last few years in America, really like for the last four or five years,

Price inflation, at least since 2021, so five years, that's been the biggest issue, has been the price inflation.

It happened to come the year after we pumped $6 trillion into the economy.

That's obviously, correlation does not equal causation here, Rob.

It's a total coincidence that when we expanded the money supply by the largest amount in human history, we dealt with price inflation in the years following it.

This is the reality of the situation, right, is that the American people are underwater because nobody can afford to live these days.

You really got to be making, especially if you're in like a metropolitan area or something or near one.

I mean, you have to be making like mid six figures to like not be stressed.

like financially uh to have like a good life when i say a good life i just mean like the kind of standard like own your own house and own your own car and have decent health insurance and send your kids to a decent school and send them to college someday or something like that like a normal life you got to be doing really well or you're drowning in debt and stressed out and all of that

and so now it hands the democrats this you know we're running on unaffordability and we're gonna and and so the challenge we have is that you got these democrats here who are saying essentially and this is how you get from incremental you know socialism to kind of more full-blown socialism is that they go well look