Feeling Comfortable to Talk About the Trump's Presidency
Show Notes
What happens when political conversations become a holiday tradition? As we edge closer to the holiday season, political discourse is taking center stage, fueled by the re-election of Donald J. Trump. This episode uncovers the surprising shift of openness in discussing Trump's presidency as Stuart experienced while attending a conference buzzing with an unusual celebration of political opinions. Prominent figures from Wall Street are now speaking openly about their support, feeling a sense of relief post-2024 election. Will this newfound boldness seep into our Thanksgiving gatherings, turning political debates into the main course?
00:00:03.045 --> 00:00:10.487 You know, for the last number of years we've been joking about as Thanksgiving comes around, as Christmas comes around, as Easter, all these things come around.
00:00:10.487 --> 00:00:35.926 We wonder how much fewer and fewer people actually come to your dinner table, because the concept of talking politics has really become beyond toxic, and the one name that drives, for some reason, the shivers up the people's back is Donald J Trump, and for some reason, if you want to bring him up, that causes unbelievable arguments and fights.
00:00:35.926 --> 00:00:50.787 However, is it possible, stuart, that people are actually feeling relief and are seeking environments in which they can express themselves about the 47th president?
00:00:50.787 --> 00:00:53.640 Good day, everybody and welcome back to the Rant Network.
00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:55.866 I am David Solomon, he is Stuart Priskell.
00:00:55.866 --> 00:01:02.231 Welcome back to the Rant Network, where we give you unedited, unfiltered, uncensored conversations on a wide range of topics.
00:01:02.231 --> 00:01:05.509 This podcast is dedicated to giving you the platform to express your opinions.
00:01:05.509 --> 00:01:13.186 Our opinions share the thoughts, ideas, experiences and hear from a variety of perspectives and honest opinions, and today Stuart will be talking about one of his experiences.
00:01:13.588 --> 00:01:14.150 Quite interesting.
00:01:14.150 --> 00:01:17.650 We generally dive into the latest news, pop culture and so much more.
00:01:17.650 --> 00:01:24.768 It's all about absurdity in modern life, people, because we're living in absurd times, because you can't get anything more absurd than what we're at.
00:01:24.768 --> 00:01:34.829 But these because we're living in absurd times, because you can't get anything more absurd than what we're at, but these are deeper issues that affect us in society.
00:01:34.829 --> 00:01:36.433 So folks sit back as we dive in today to this one topic about politics.
00:01:36.433 --> 00:01:45.052 Stuart, you know, while you were at a conference, I was at a networking event yesterday and somebody asked me what was the one thing in 2024 that really got to you?
00:01:45.052 --> 00:01:53.454 And I said you know, what's interesting is the conversation about politics really dominated 2024.
00:01:53.454 --> 00:01:57.140 This election year really dominated conversations.
00:01:57.140 --> 00:02:05.194 But if you said you even thought Donald Trump would win, you would say anything positive about Donald Trump.
00:02:05.194 --> 00:02:10.472 You could lose friends, business acquaintances, contacts, relationships, you name it.
00:02:10.472 --> 00:02:14.586 But Stuart, you seem to have gone to a conference and felt a different vibe.
00:02:14.586 --> 00:02:18.800 Post the November election, stuart, what happened?
00:02:19.402 --> 00:02:22.229 You know, I was fortunate enough I have a lot of good friends.
00:02:22.229 --> 00:02:50.526 A lot of my Wall Street guys are close with a guy named Grant Cardone, famous for his 10X programs, and so this weekend he kicked off a 10X Wealth an initial conference, the first of its kind, where he had in a local market about 1,500 people and speakers literally from around the globe, and the level of education and brains that were on the stage was mind boggling, insane, great.
00:02:50.526 --> 00:02:55.722 You know, charlie Gasparino hosted some of the most interesting topics.
00:02:55.722 --> 00:03:01.973 He's a Fox News finance guy on Fox Business who's a real reporter.
00:03:01.973 --> 00:03:04.794 You know whether he's Democrat or Republican.
00:03:04.794 --> 00:03:10.252 He doesn't really allude to which his political bias is, but he asked the questions on both sides equally as hard.
00:03:10.252 --> 00:03:30.743 But I'll tell you that every single one of the guests that took that stage and again that's a secret list for the most part basically took a lap, took a dance literally on stage, as if they were finally relieved not to hide their political opinions any longer.
00:03:30.743 --> 00:03:57.497 It seems that if you were thinking about voting for anyone other than Kamala Harris, you were very silent, unless you are a hardcore Donald Trump lover and, let's be honest, not everyone's a hardcore lover, they're just regular Republicans who really have a distaste towards a lot of the way Donald Trump conducts himself, because, let's face it, he's not exactly Uncle Buck, and that's okay.
00:03:57.497 --> 00:04:01.545 The President of the United States doesn't have to fit what you feel he has to fit.
00:04:01.545 --> 00:04:05.574 He has to be able to do the job for the country, and that's simple.
00:04:05.574 --> 00:04:12.753 But in this conference I saw more people that were just relieved that he is now president.
00:04:12.753 --> 00:04:32.791 Now this conference morphed into another conference called Market Rebellion, with two of the best options traders by far in the world, which are the Najarian brothers, far in the world, which are the Nigerian brothers, which also include another keynote person that was very interesting to have there was Mr Fisher, the gold man himself.
00:04:32.791 --> 00:04:42.201 Everyone was taking a victory lap that Donald Trump won this election, and these are hardcore New Yorkers, wall Street people alike.
00:04:42.201 --> 00:04:47.423 Now you would say, oh, but the rich are going to benefit and that's why they voted for him.
00:04:47.423 --> 00:04:51.865 Well, mark Cuban didn't like Donald Trump very much, and yet we talked about Mark Cuban.
00:04:51.865 --> 00:05:03.732 Mark Cuban, the big baby in Texas, decided to terminate his friendship with someone on Instagram because they had a post that was pro-Donald Trump.
00:05:04.413 --> 00:05:10.387 But the Democrats or the anti-Trumpers can get away doing stupid shit like this.
00:05:10.387 --> 00:05:23.285 But if you are a Republican and you supported your party, oh boy, you're going to be roasted on that dining room table still, because they still feel that they're in control.
00:05:23.285 --> 00:05:24.906 Every single pick.
00:05:24.906 --> 00:05:26.930 Now let's understand the law.
00:05:26.930 --> 00:05:29.033 You're accused of a crime.
00:05:29.033 --> 00:05:31.836 Well, I can accuse every single one of you of a crime.
00:05:31.836 --> 00:05:33.838 That means you're an accused.
00:05:33.838 --> 00:05:34.439 You're an accused.
00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:37.024 Have you been trialed?
00:05:37.024 --> 00:05:38.988 Have you been acquitted?
00:05:38.988 --> 00:05:41.853 Have a jury of your peers convicted you?
00:05:41.853 --> 00:05:50.702 I'm accusing you of being immoral, irrational and stupid, and I'm accusing you of abusing the other sex.
00:05:50.702 --> 00:05:52.867 That makes you an abuser.
00:05:53.649 --> 00:05:55.892 Now, the left is now running to think.
00:05:55.892 --> 00:06:00.351 Well, the picks that Donald Trump had have been accused of X, y and Z.
00:06:00.351 --> 00:06:08.783 Okay, I see Donald Bragg, who's trying to now hold the president of the United States hostage by not completing a sentencing.
00:06:08.783 --> 00:06:26.612 Well, I'm accusing him of doing something that's immoral, irrational and that an 82-year-old man in 2029 will be more dangerous than the criminals we're allowing on the streets every single day and providing them nothing but immense trials.
00:06:26.612 --> 00:06:32.651 Are we seeing the immigrants that are doing death and destruction in the States being accused?
00:06:32.690 --> 00:06:41.944 No, but at your dinner table this Thanksgiving, american Thanksgiving is there going to be more dialogue about Donald Trump?
00:06:41.944 --> 00:06:46.841 Are you going to feel less fearful at the person holding the knife carving the turkey going?
00:06:46.841 --> 00:06:49.185 Yes, I voted for Donald Trump.
00:06:49.185 --> 00:07:00.574 I mean, david, in your family you have some more diverse colors in politics from different sides of your extended family.
00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.872 So the question is how is that Thanksgiving dinner going to go?
00:07:04.872 --> 00:07:13.262 Is it going to be a crime or is it going to be a president's been elected duly by the will of the people and I accept them?
00:07:13.262 --> 00:07:17.692 Are they going to be denying and like the anti Trumpers from 2020?
00:07:17.692 --> 00:07:19.125 Well, he's not my president.
00:07:19.125 --> 00:07:20.309 He's not my president.
00:07:20.309 --> 00:07:22.807 Are they gonna stop temper tantrums next?
00:07:22.807 --> 00:07:24.310 Because I don't understand.
00:07:24.310 --> 00:07:26.103 I mean the majority.
00:07:26.103 --> 00:07:34.286 Now, the newest thing is that Donald Trump didn't have as many votes as Hillary Clinton and I'm like scratching my head.
00:07:34.286 --> 00:07:38.488 I heard that on CNN and I'm like I don't get it.
00:07:38.488 --> 00:07:41.165 The largest vote, dave, you can fact check that one.
00:07:41.165 --> 00:07:42.843 I couldn't believe.
00:07:42.843 --> 00:07:48.365 I heard that's their new get out of free jail card that Donald Trump didn't have.
00:07:48.365 --> 00:07:49.985 It Like, can they get over it?
00:07:50.668 --> 00:07:54.971 No, and I think what you expressed is actually, you know, refreshing.
00:07:54.971 --> 00:07:57.262 I mean, I joke about this.
00:07:57.262 --> 00:08:03.505 I mean, the old one was, you know, back in the day when Richard Nixon won his second term.
00:08:03.505 --> 00:08:04.348 It was a landslide.
00:08:04.348 --> 00:08:09.083 And after he was thrown out, you know, right, actually he stepped out.
00:08:09.083 --> 00:08:13.701 I should say, you know, they asked, you know, when you asked Americans, did you vote for Nixon?
00:08:13.701 --> 00:08:15.543 Oh, of course not, I didn't vote for him at all.
00:08:15.543 --> 00:08:27.437 And it was just funny, in the 1970s, Fast forward to the 80s, 1984 election, Ronald Reagan wins 49 out of 50 states, if I recall correctly, the greatest landslide in American political history.
00:08:27.437 --> 00:08:30.127 And yet, if you try to ask people, did you vote for Reagan?
00:08:30.127 --> 00:08:30.910 And they would say no.
00:08:30.910 --> 00:08:36.360 Well, how is it possible that he took states like New York and California if he didn't vote for a Republican?
00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:50.244 And it's just amazing, the denial and the denial and the denial, the denial In 2017, there was, you know, the feeling was that the election was stolen by Donald Trump.
00:08:50.524 --> 00:08:51.846 And I'm like in what way?
00:08:51.846 --> 00:08:53.650 I just don't understand it.
00:08:53.650 --> 00:08:58.863 Well, Hillary got more votes, and you said it yourself, the whining and the complaining has been unbelievable.
00:08:58.863 --> 00:09:01.629 Hillary got more votes and you said it yourself, the whining and the complaining has been unbelievable.
00:09:01.629 --> 00:09:03.796 This time around the left, who you know.
00:09:03.796 --> 00:09:08.976 I heard again Bill Maher, another one saying you know, the Democrats have conceded the election and it's fine.
00:09:08.976 --> 00:09:19.268 And we see what's going on in Pennsylvania, which is not, and we're hearing the whining from the left, which it's not, and you're hearing the, but that's what I'm hearing at the dinner tables.
00:09:19.268 --> 00:09:24.774 These are the comments I'm hearing in conversations there are.
00:09:24.894 --> 00:09:34.138 It's funny because in my travels and I've done a few international travels lately people are coming to me like, would you have supported Donald Trump, Stuart?
00:09:34.138 --> 00:09:40.017 Almost like in a whisper, and I said yeah, I would, because I don't believe in the other side.
00:09:40.017 --> 00:09:52.028 I'm looking, I'm taking away the personalities, I'm looking at the policies and then it's as if I said do I believe in some horrifying belief?
00:09:52.028 --> 00:09:56.703 And some people just literally lose their minds and I don't.
00:09:56.703 --> 00:09:58.572 I get what's going on here.
00:09:58.572 --> 00:10:05.212 The rhetoric that we've that's been dumped in people's heads over the last 20 years has been unbelievable.
00:10:05.212 --> 00:10:08.802 And the media, social media and other sources.
00:10:08.802 --> 00:10:17.087 We see what's happened, but the reality is, ladies and gentlemen, that over 76 million people voted for Donald Trump.
00:10:17.087 --> 00:10:21.075 Less than 76 million people voted for Kamala Harris.
00:10:21.075 --> 00:10:25.967 More states majority went to Donald Trump.
00:10:25.967 --> 00:10:29.033 The Electoral College went to Donald Trump.
00:10:29.033 --> 00:10:32.985 That means people voted for Donald Trump.
00:10:33.888 --> 00:10:50.856 If you voted for Kamala Harris and you believe that the world is coming to an end, and if you believe, like Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from, and then ran to Mar-a-Lago to go visit him and vilify them, that's where I want the vilification to be.
00:10:50.856 --> 00:11:00.958 I want the vilification of the people who've been on the left, Who've, you know, vilified the living crap out of Donald Trump, and now you're changing your tune.
00:11:00.958 --> 00:11:03.839 That's where the hate should go, Not me, Not you.
00:11:03.839 --> 00:11:12.840 We've been saying all along, as two conservatives, we believed that the Donald Trump policies were better than the Kamala Harris policies.
00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:15.211 And if you voted for, I can't vote, obviously.
00:11:15.211 --> 00:11:22.798 So if you vote for, fine, and it's refreshing to see in a conference that people are actually able to express themselves without any form of retribution.
00:11:23.179 --> 00:11:24.551 This is what I don't understand.
00:11:24.551 --> 00:11:27.476 You agree with me or you're my enemy is idiotic.
00:11:27.476 --> 00:11:36.259 Okay, that in democracy you have every right to express yourself, but where's simple common sense?
00:11:36.259 --> 00:11:43.501 You had four years of Trump, four years of Biden, and the people voted for four more years of Trump.
00:11:43.501 --> 00:11:46.856 It was a referendum, people, the majority spoke.
00:11:46.856 --> 00:11:55.881 The majority of states spoke Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, all the blue states, Wisconsin.
00:11:55.881 --> 00:12:03.097 They all said the same thing we want Donald Trump and we're not embarrassed to do so.
00:12:03.097 --> 00:12:11.344 Fema embarrassed themselves by skipping homes, allegedly, that had Donald Trump signs on it.
00:12:11.344 --> 00:12:16.101 Like you know, if you're going to play this kind of games, people, then shame on you.
00:12:16.101 --> 00:12:36.912 Then the left needs to wake up and needs to get a head shake, Because I don't have to agree with you on everything you say, but to yell at me, scream at me and demean me and degrade me, as they've done, because I don't believe in socialist politics, I don't believe in what the Democrats are providing, and yet they still didn't learn, Stuart.
00:12:36.932 --> 00:12:41.142 You know, listen, we're going to have to wrap this up soon, david.
00:12:41.142 --> 00:12:56.130 It's like when you look at the Secretary of Health, as I'm calling the new position, and you look at what's there now, and you look at RFK, you look at the defense secretary nomination how about the?
00:12:56.192 --> 00:12:57.296 transport secretary.
00:12:57.296 --> 00:12:59.878 Stuart, how about the secretary of transport?
00:12:59.878 --> 00:13:14.379 The mayor who bankrupted his own city, ruined America, and now they bring in I think was it Sean Duffy, I think it was to be the transport, maybe I'm wrong to be the transport secretary and the left goes what are you doing?
00:13:14.379 --> 00:13:16.312 How could you bring somebody like that?
00:13:16.312 --> 00:13:16.995 And you're like why?
00:13:16.995 --> 00:13:19.870 Because you know the current guy was any better.
00:13:19.870 --> 00:13:22.898 You can't have a conversation with people, stuart.
00:13:22.898 --> 00:13:30.462 It's like the left has just whined its way, and it's funny because it's the Republicans who couldn't concede the election.
00:13:30.462 --> 00:13:41.115 But if you watch what the Dems are doing and what people are saying at dinner tables and yes, you're right, I have a very colorful family in all directions, but you want to know what?
00:13:41.115 --> 00:13:47.142 When the election was over, only a couple of them called me and said are you happy?
00:13:47.142 --> 00:13:53.159 The others hid and in fact, some of them I haven't heard from since the election.
00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:57.095 So, stuart, that's just to give you an idea of what's up with this.
00:13:57.095 --> 00:13:59.662 My friend, I'll give you the last word on this one.
00:14:00.010 --> 00:14:21.549 You know, again, I got into a conversation with a good group of Mexicans, david, and they were ramping and rolling about the defense secretary pick just to give you one of many stories and about how they can pick a guy that lacks the senior position in military and that he hadn't worked up his way up his ranks.
00:14:21.549 --> 00:14:27.342 I said, oh, so he's not corrupt, crooked and clearly Biased.
00:14:29.537 --> 00:14:30.480 The word is biased.
00:14:30.541 --> 00:14:37.097 Clearly hasn't kissed enough ass to get where he's gotten the guy's more hours in military than anyone else before him.
00:14:37.097 --> 00:14:40.244 Yet he is the one who's been accused of.
00:14:40.590 --> 00:14:46.921 You know, I'm so tired of this, you know, david, 76 million people voted for a major change.
00:14:46.921 --> 00:14:49.705 You heard the comment we need change.
00:14:49.705 --> 00:14:58.105 You saw a massive one of the polls said there was a massive amount of people who hated what the government is currently doing and have mistrust towards the government.
00:14:58.105 --> 00:15:03.601 And when he puts in change, like typical humans, they flip out, especially on the left.
00:15:03.601 --> 00:15:06.139 Stuart, with that, I'm going to love you and leave you, my friend.
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