Kroger Merger is instantiation of corporate greed. Lizz Winstead and Keith Ellison visit PDR.

welcome to politics and right my name isber Willies good morning Houston good morning Harris County good morning to the great state of Texas and of course good morning to Northeast Texas Southeast Texas Northwest Louisiana Southwest Louisiana and every nook and cranny receiving or signals every single weekday folks first of all as well you know what we say welcome to the entire world why who receive our signals through the magic of the internet also known as orphanet created by we the people not that billionaire or that other billionaire or that other billionaire don't be fool folks you know in this next election uh we have a fight and let let me well I tell you what I'm going to do that I'm going to talk about this after we do the studio and the magic from the Geniuses back there so without further Ado let's go to our henos the geniuses in the studio good morning Howard good morning Jack I like that I like that I and to think to think that you are the guy who just likes the music side of the business you know what I mean and you're so good you're so good at it man [Laughter] well hey yes yeah let me explain it yeah let let me explain that because this is important for people to understand right uh price Rises rarely go down let me give an example let's say uh let's say inflation is to make it easy I'm going to say a high number 10% for a year for year number one inflation is 10% bacon used to cost let's say $1 a pound right uh in 2021 inflation was let's say 10% that bacon is no longer a doll10 it is now no longer a dollar it is now a dollar1 because inflation was 10% in that year now in if inflation in 2022 then goes to is at let's say 5% that new price of vacon will be 5% of 110 more so it would now let's call it about aund a115 so in those two years the first year was 10% inflation the second year was 5% inflation inflation fell between 2021 and 2022 but your prices haven't fallen in inflation has stopped the the rise in prices has stopped so therefore that price of a115 for bacon that's at 200 that in 2012 remains at a115 but it's not going any higher so at that point inflation is zero so it even though the price remains at $115 it'll never ever hardly except if it's something like oil that trades in a commodity Etc or there's a a spot Market drop in the bacon Etc that'll change so on the in aggregate what corporations always benefit from is inflation that even though the the the prices are going to stop Rising they stay where they're at if they change if they back up let's say now let's say in your 2024 bacon drops the do10 there's another thing called deflation and that is what scares Economist to Kingdom come because then def deflation mean prices are falling and what normally happens in an economy is your wages even though it hasn't happened okay I'm telling you how real capitalist economy should work they never really work that way because it has always been a fraud uh what happens then is if you go ahead now and drop the price of bacon from a15 back to a dollar let's say say back to a dollar in 2024 right that is now called deflation and it's the thing that economists and capitalists hate the most why because technically speaking what happens is as inflation goes up you notice you always talk about wages keeping up with inflation or wages growing faster than inflation and what has happened over the last two years is Wages have been growing at a faster Cliff than inflation so as prices go up your wages are supposed to come up and meet this increase in prices it has not happened over the last 40 or 50 years in the aggregate in select years it has happened but if you take a look at the curve that says how much earnings we have what what compared to what we make it's a different story what what it is brother rennolds is our economic system is a fraud for the billionaire and we just keep hearing these magical things over and over again the prices are not going to on most things are not going to fall inflation being zero just mean they're going to stop Rising that's all it means when you get to inflation of zero it means the prices will will rise no more or when you get an inflation that is 2% as opposed to 10% it simply means inflation is going up at a slower rate so yeah so I mean it it is it is not I mean technically speaking it's not complicated it's just not fair you know and it is something that um the the corporate sector takes advantage of every single time because while inflation goes up what you find in dividends and all of that that goes up but your wages don't necessarily go up so a class of people do well and a class doesn't do well anyway that's the answer it's yes yes yeah you know nobody ever said remember when I talk about business men and the capitalist Guys these guys aren't uh these guys are not smarter than anybody else they just able to take your money but they're smarter than you know they're not smarter than anybody else good morning Jack how you doing my brother okay I like that I like that Jack responsibility personal responsibility and all the good stuff you're absolutely right sir you're absolute you're absolutely right you know let me tell you Jack it's interesting because where I come from you know we used to have phrases like it's the women who get pregnant and women this and women are if they don't want to do this I mean and I came over like I said I came over here a sexist a few years later I was taught well by the right kind of folk to do things right so there you go anyhow thank you my brother uh let me see uh who's here oh okay Melissa talk to me how you doing I am doing fine talk to me my friend the custom oh yeah in other words if if if you if if a if a company sends me something H and it's a ter and and it's a it's an item that's fall under the Tariff schedule I have to pay the Tariff to receive the product yes right yes oh what kind of product are you talking about wait let me let me let me back up a second what what kind of product is this that they charging you 200 a day oh hey a drum oh a drum a drum I was it sent through you was it got it was it okay no no no let me let me just say I don't I I let's talk about that Offline that is crazy because what happens is if you ship through USPS right un United States Postal Service the only thing that you're huh okay okay great let me let me back up then that let me that we talk about this sort of stuff all of the times you are dealing now with the private sector okay when you're dealing with the private sector they that's why they do as they please there are two parts to it when you're dealing with the private sector one is a tariff that you have to pay for whatever you bring in and that is very generally speaking for most products that's very inexpensive you hear what I'm saying it is inexpensive now for the private company that you ship through right like if it's a FedEx or a UPS or a DHL they can do whatever they want to do beyond the Tariff because it's a private company now if it is sent through US mail the only thing that you're responsible for is the shipping charges and the Tariff nothing more nothing less the private companies are the extorter because they can do as they please and that is the law right no let me tell you I if if the drums are not right let me just tell you a suggestion malissa let me give you a suggestion okay if the if the drums aren't worth the 4K what I would do if you have context where you are and you really wanted those drums you buy new drums and you have it shipped but anyway thank you my f right have a great day now yeah oh wait wait wait one one more thing when things like this happen the way you get back at companies is just tell your story and put it out there and and share it to as many blogs that you can and until and what happens is these these companies usually see that their name is turning into dirt and since you're telling the truth you can't be sued so you're telling the truth but you just making people weird thank you very much Melissa you have a wonderful day all right let's go to Jacob come on in Jacob talk to me my brother right I'm America I'm sorry I'm you're absolutely right you're absolutely right sir thank you absolutely e let me just say this jacob um because I think this is important I am not looking for reper as a as a black Panamanian I'm not looking for reparations here in the United States or anywhere for that matter I don't I don't have to have reperations uh is reparations do me I think reparations is due every single descendant of a slave that really busted their butt for the uh countries that they're in what I'm saying is that the the the Adas movement is divisive when I when I did some interviews right and I uh to you know I interviewed several different sect of uh Adas both here in Houston Baltimore and other places and the the rhetoric was not a rhetoric of f first all we haven't even gotten to the point where reparation is a thing but one of the things that uh these folks that lead the reparations group were actively telling you know Caribbean folks or Latin folks or whatever is but this isn't for you it was sort of a standoffish way of saying you're not included all right it was a divisive manner in the way it was done I don't think you're going to find a whole lot of no no no it's not it is not that here's what I'm saying what I'm saying is the following there were a lot of people helping in that regards there are a lot of if I if you follow Marcus Garvey or any of these other folks there's a lot of folks that were involved in in in the in the liberation of slaves that they as well so what I'm saying is what what I'm saying my dear brother it is you you don't even need to go there you shouldn't even be going there because uh slavery was an international thing and if you really want to be technical about it it is something that should be done the the reparation s of the trade should be done on an international level because if you take a look at the interests that created it they were International interests your the the Masters in the Masters in America had International interest around the world in other words the sugar Plantation let me no no let me f j my brother could you can I finish can I finish please come on come on you know we we talk um uh what happens here if you take a look at the sugar plantations in Kuba okay the suar sugar plantations in Kuba had a beneficiary of the United States and elsewhere you look at the banana plantations throughout Central America you look at the sugar plantations and the Coca plantations Etc in Jamaica and all these other it was all an international ring okay where it where the spoils most of the spoils came directly to the United States as being the major power so if if some of the I I am not asking for it personally Jacob but I'm saying is if you follow the money if you follow the money let's let's let's be technical here and then I really want to get on the subject that we're supposed to talk about but let me just bring bring no no but brother no I I want you to see this I want you to see the picture and for the audience to see it as well because it also goes not only for black Americans but for all Americans and all people here's what I'm talking about assuming that Adas is really for reparations for just black Americans right and not people from around not not not blacks for around the world like I said I I go ahead okay okay again you now let me let me listen let me tell you Jacob stop for a while and hear me I didn't say just or or listen to me not just hear me because you're you're you're given the talk of the American Master the capitalist that's how a capitalist would think and let me explain why because all you are seeing is what concern what you think concerns you solely but remember the profit of the master that you are trying to get something from didn't only come from uh from your labor it came from the labor of slaves throughout the whole region America has its Footprints in Jamaica uh through the box side and everything else America had its footprints in the Dominican Republic America had its Footprints in Kuba America had its Footprints everywhere so let's go under your assumption that and again I don't want it for me I'm just saying think about it under your assumption the you want the profits from the spoils The Spoils of what was made from EXA I I I get it I get it I get it but your country was not solely built by you brother your country was built by the blood of all the people around these regions who and that's what I'm saying we have to stop thinking like the capitalist sir sir I sir I no no sir I I I my brother my brother I know American history very very well for I I sir no no sir brother brother please you know one of the things in becoming a US citizen okay is we have to learn the American history in fact what you'll find I'm not talking about you now but what you'll find is that foreigners that come over here and get their citizenship know much more about American history than most Americans I hate to say it but that's really the truth now here's the thing we we go I mean we know about what the Chinese did to build the country know about what the slaves did to build the country we know about the entire this country was built by a lot of the indentured servitude I mean we know about all this stuff sir and all I'm saying is if you really want that the enemy is not the people the enemy is that person on top and when we start dividing up ourself you're right right sir sir sir sir sir okay sir let me let me just say we'll we'll talk and so I since so I can get on the subject we'll talk about this continue we'll continue talking about this but I want to to tell you every black paid black people in America paid the ultimate price I'm not going to dispute that at all but let's let's give do let's give do what's do as well there are a lot of folks that actually made America what America is okay and and a lot of a lot of uses on the other side of the Border as well did it this country was built by a hella all right okay I tell you what Jacob let's talk let's continue talking another time but but we we I mean because I I think I don't want to talk past each other okay I I want because I think that's what we're doing to some extent but let's keep talking all right thank you brother thank you brother peace let's go to Harry real quickly and then I'll get to the other one hey harry talk to me e mhm mhm mhm e all right let me just say one thing uh uh you know voting is a personal choice now when it comes to um uh being in Chicago if I were in Chicago I would be out there protesting as well with the my Palestinian brothers and my Jewish brothers and I mean my Palestinian and Jewish brothers and sisters remember people get the wrong idea this protest is not a Arab protest against Jews or something like that this is a protest against War this is a protest against genocide this is a protest about the UN on di the the the mass murder of human beings that's what this protest is about and it's it it is it is it's it's around every ethnicity every religion if you went out there to Chicago as I got streams from that's what you would see and ilon Omar Omar visited uh uh a v visited virtually I mean a lot of folks visited for that and here's the thing why again I can't hold Kamala Or democrats in General on it until we win until progressives win themselves off of the apex of the world because a APAC uh is a I call APAC a clear and present danger to democracy just as bad as I do Donald Trump and the reason why the yeah the reason why is they are causing politician I mean it's an unpatriotic uh it's an unpatriotic being that has the hold on politicians and when they when they cross them I can talk to you about Balman and Corey Bush two people that should have won their elections that were derailed by APAC and that's because again and it could happen to any Democrat any actually to not any Democrat to any politician but anyway anything else Harry real quick so I can get to Greg yeah thank you brother oops uh come on in Greg sorry about that uh we went to little figure go ahead Greg good morning sir mhm e okay no no let me just say let me just say um I you're a social studies teacher and you know a lot about um uh history and and not only that your students as well you're probably a darn good social studies teach uh student but let me just say this I went out to uh I went out several times uh you know and um how should I say oh it seems like they can't hear the callers I'm want have to figure that out uh let me let me go ahead and uh oh I see what they're saying the speakers okay I think they will be able to hear him now all right I think you can hear the callers now uh that was my fault anyway um here is the here's what I what what I found and maybe you know different or whatever there are certain Basics that we learn uh that we had to learn as immigrants coming in federalism state rights uh the the separation of the the states and the you know again my stuff was 30 years ago or more so we had to learn all those things and what I find in talking to a lot of people is a lot of folks don't understand things like the separation in the governments what states can do what others can do Etc something as simple as why it is that uh uh you know let's look at when somebody says why is it that President Bush or or President Biden can't do X Y and Z not understanding how the system works things s things like that is what I'm talking about and I I will gather that you ask just about well most of the immigrants that I'm around at least and they'll be able to tell you all all these things that many people here won't be able to tell you so that's where I'm coming from as far as as deep go ahead sure scientist right you're a scientist right yes no I'm an engineer I'm an engineer scientist I think I call scientist a a higher level man I'm an engineer yeah because yeah that's true scientist you use the knowledge that scientists right create okay but you know science and with science there's social science too and we have to be careful about antidotal data personal data and stuff it's good to use it as examples and stuff like that but you can't use I stand corrected I stand corrected you are absolutely right in America you know you know hold on a second hold on a second hold on a second let me give you your cudas let me give you your kudas that was the best slapback I've gotten in a i i that you know that's I don't know that's profound uh the way that is profound remember science and remember what's the difference between empirical data remember what's the difference between I I I love that folks that is absolutely true you're absolutely right I love your show keep going on and uh and keep getting even more Progressive because hey we got Progressive love people life equality opportunity they don't love hate that's kind and you know what else you know what else I'm going to take one exception you're there's no way you could be more Progressive than I am we gonna fight I don't think you can be more Progressive than I am brother all right but anyway thank you brother uh thank you for the commentary all right right take care all right folks I am lost now you guys calling and changed the complete show we went from tariffs and Storage to uh Americans descendants of Slavery to uh history man you guys just took over my darn show anyway the show title today was supposed to be Kroger merger is the instantiation of corporate greed I also interviewed the the the woman who created The Daily Show with you know uh her name is Liz Winstead I interviewed her at in in Baltimore at or netroots Convention as well as the uh attorney G Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison you know the guy who ran the uh the case against George Floyd I have so I have an interview with him and I have an interview with uh with uh Keith winst but the interview Keith is too long I see that I'm getting another call so what I'm going to tell you guys is both of these interviews solid interviews that you're going to want to listen to one on a woman's rights and all that kind of stuff and the other one on where our democracy goes with Keith Ellison you can always find that at politics.com newsletter since there is another call coming in I will go ahead and wait for that and for those of you who are listening online I hope that uh you can actually hear the callers now so let's go ahead and go to brother Donald brother Donald come on in good morning AB Berto how are you today I am doing fine sir talk to me you always missed the forest for the trees uh okay Melissa Melissa bought some drums she's a percussionist you're you like music so you should ask are they ornamental are they actually used and then start a rapport them with them you know a nice talk uh who controls the orb that says the money is the money and that's the value cuz if you you get 3% for the cost of living and it goes 3% 3% 3% 3% right now what we have had is because we gave out all this free money right you know people got supplemented because they were Downing out for Co so they're taking 800 a grand or whatever getting supplemented on their food and they're buying all this food so therefore there was shortages because people had more money to spend now all that's done and guess what they still want to keep making the same profit they was making off the free money that people got it's just like when we have a drought the cattle man has to slaughter his herds because he can't feed them because the cost of hay and the water and everything else have you ever seen the price of beef go down no no 99 cent briskets at $349 a pound right now you might get a little discount it doesn't matter if there's a push on the market or a pull there's a shortage or a game it's always going to be the same so you got to find out who controls that orb that sets the value of the dollar and then if you devalue a Dollar by paying for like student loans or bailouts and all this other stuff okay if we bail the bank out and in a few years we bail the automotive out and now the bank's setting the price on what the automotive is going to sell for and we still need cars Ford created Ford Motor Company to create assembly line to make make the car affordable to the working person to the individual we have gotten so far off track I don't know how we're ever GNA get back but that's all I got to say no no no no you got to wait now you got to wait now because you fa now you you uh you said I missed the forest for the trees I don't know if you meant for the drums or for the economy so I'm going to assume for both let's go with the economy though which is the one that interests me the most you have fallen for the fraud that is your economic system let's let's talk about that um I believe in supply and demand because supply and demand is real if I have a shortage of something right if I have a shortage of something then I can uh to to to kind of be able to I can sell it at a higher price because if people have money they'll buy it at that higher price which is which sort of happened but it wasn't because you know people say oh you give people money here's the thing about it you fall for the capitalist trap that says the follow I will take whatever money the people without pricing power has in their pocket and charge them the commensurate price I can get for them there's this theory in economics called the uh uh not Theory a concept an economic concept that says whatever the market will bear if you know there's a drug call uh well I'm not going to use AIC because people are flocking to AIC like crazy creating a real shortage but let's look at what happened in reality in reality people got monies in their pockets a lot of people would have otherwise saved that money but when Corp the corporate structure realized that that money was there they brought the prices up commensurate with the amount of money they knew people have even though remember what I said even though there were no shortages if and here are my proofs a lot of the pricing that groceries are seeing came through the energy supply chain we never had a energy shortage we never had a oil shortage in fact smack in the middle of the pandemic we had the oil companies raising prices of gasoline as they were taking barrels of oil off the market that's a statement of fact that amount of monies charged for gasoline and Diesel Etc went straight up the chain to the farmer who was uh farming his land to the fertilizer people who depend on oil for fertilizer all of these things from this mere fact that the oil company decided that they were going to rig the market all those other prices went up not because of shortages but because the pricing power of a necessary resource and they cornered the market statement of fact secondly uh again no shortages you could not go to the store and not find things that you wanted maybe spot shortages of paper towel here and there because people crazily went and got paper towels and toilet paper I don't know why but anyway that's what they did but you could always find products but everything was inflated brother it's a fraud it's not because Biden gave them money it's because they knew Biden gave them money so they could the people with price and power listen to that video that I did on price and power they are the ones who right raise the prices and you know how we know that's a fact because when you take a look at the profits of all these corporations the profits were relative in con dirt where the price Rises which means their initial cost wasn't all that much higher Donald we have to stop falling for the crap that capitalists tell us it's a system designed to enrich a few and I can prove it mathematically and the problem that we have is we have been inculcated infiltrated indoctrinated into a system where the evidence of its failure is out there for all to see you are there to see your money go straight up to the top the billionaire never has a problem under no economy whether the economy is bad or good they do well and until we learn that we are constantly being ripped off and we take it out of our minds what's been indoctrinated into our minds we're screwed go ahead my brother before I go to Paul oh I'm just waiting for you to come up for the solution I know you got it because you smart because you know how to use an Aus and a slide rule oh thank you br I appreciate you brother appreciate you and yeah I we I wrote a book up for the with the solution it was called not it was called it's called how to make America Utopia take away the take away the the economy from those who rigged it yep I did write a book about that but thank you brother yes sir have a good one YouTube all right let's go to Paul hello hello Paul good morning good morning everybody um economics 101 artificial scarcity there is no oh I love you I if I if I saw you now I'd come and give you a big big big hug thank you for saying that well in the um late 70s early 80s um okay Nixon to Reagan they went away from the Adam Smith model of Economics to the kesian model the free market Li FR uh we're there's raw capitalism Li Fair free market if you bag up doggy dung and people are willing to buy it fine sell all that you can versus regulated capitalism which uh was torn down beginning with Reagan um go John Gorsuch or the guy on the Supreme Court named G yeah his mom was Reus Hatchet Man a hatchet woman and she got in a uh involved in Scandal had to step down but they took all the guard rails off of our Regulatory Agencies and imposed indoctrinated as you said inculcated and you know uh um basically imposed a kesian economic model you know free market and thus went away uh unions Reagan first order business T the unions the unions went away profits went up 300% wages stagnant they took away the right to deduct credit card interest off of your taxes um you cannot put a student loan and the bankruptcy filing they took away your ability to um uh well they tax Social Security payments because Republicans hated it from its very Inception and so here we are and so you know we're like frogs in the B and pot by the time we realize it's too hot it's too late to get out and people need to get out of Facebook and get their face in a book and understand you know how we got here but people other than folks like you and some others don't want to talk about causes and conditions they don't want to connect the dots you know twist the theology has led us into you know a church State the church becomes the state for example the king of England right now is also the head of the Anglican Church is also head of the Anglican Church in the then the framers of the Constitution made it crystal crystal clear that church and state shall be perfectly separate because democracy is actually a secular political tool for equality it didn't come from uh the judeo-christian values it came from the Sue and the iroy which they discovered when when the uh Europeans landed here that the Su iroy had a democratic form of societies and so they refined it they refined it and tweaked it and so here we have you know the greatest experiment of all Humanity democracy which the past 40 Years thank you Paul I'm running out of time and I have two more calls that I have to uh get but look you're absolutely right and you know it always warms my soul when I I hear somebody that doesn't buy into the this this crap here you know I like neither Adam Smith or well kyian at least the one thing with kyian is that it says government should spend to take us out of recess to make sure we don't go into recessions when they're The Last Resort but I I I want a true free enterprise system I don't even regulated capitalism is still a mover of money but we can talk about that another time but thank you so kindly Paul for your commentary all right let's go to tag come on in tag tag I only got about a minute yep yep a a a quick word for Howard this morning which I think I think he needs to hear uh inflation is based on the Consumer Price Index okay Consumer Price Index is based what you pay for something so if something if cost of something goes up at the store just don't buy it and if you continue to not buy it the price will come back down and then you're not adding to inflation inflation is based on what we buy thank you tag appreciate you my brother day thank you let's go to uh Ray real quick Ray my brother R yeah can you hear me yes sir yeah I just wanted to give a shout out to brother Clinton at the convention you know in history all of history shows if you look at a graph that he had the greatest economy uh according to uh history because he had a surplus and he was the only president to do that and while Trump you know talks all that you know lambastic BS you know it's basically Clinton who has the bragging rights but he never uses them and I just want to give him a shout out for his humility and just giving shout outs to all the Democrats throughout history that is so smart of you Ray thank you very much actually he had the highest worth 23 million jobs is what he created the next person to him was Carter with 10 million jobs in one year I mean in one term I mean a lot of people don't know this stuff they just take the propaganda that the Republicans put out there but it's generally lies I got to go to Brian Ray because um but let's talk at 3 o'cl if you're on the show at three brother all right cool thank you have a good one all right Brian come on in my brother yeah well I guess I'm totally doctrinated because um you rambled on for like two minutes and you've never answered Donald's question what I gotta say is how our economic system is uh brainwashed everybody I already told you how I told you already why no you didn't you didn't I I let me well let me tell you speically in one sentence in one sentence if your economic system overtime has transferred all the wealth to the top 10 and 1% then it's a failure that's the answer continue okay now Clinton did not have a surplus somebody needs to check their history and who there's a difference between there's a difference between debt and and actually the amount of debt we have and the budget he was the only president in the last 50 years that had a surplus when it comes to the budget that's a statement of fact continue sir we did not you need no you somebody needs to check their history Clinton did not have a surplus are somebody going to check that for me I'm look I've already checked it all I mean you guys like to change definitions depending on who's president but go ahead sir okay that's the that's the statement of the day Clinton did not have a surplus it was a proposed Surplus who worked with him to get this supposed Surplus Republicans no no wrong the Republicans all 100% of the Republicans voted against the Clinton tax increase and they stated that tax increase would blow the economy up it turns out that he after they passed this tax increase and losing Congress that the the the the fiscal responsibility that he brought took the economy through the roof I don't want to hear anything about oh it was done under Republicans no every single Republican voted against the tax increase that brought fiscal sanity then Bush came into office and tanked the economy like Republicans always do which is why 50 million of the 51 million jobs created over the last uh uh since 1989 was by democrats and also if you take a look even further over the last 80s something years 30 uh there's been 30 million jobs created under de Republican president 80 million jobs under Democratic president so I mean this is not something that's Just Happening Now Republicans simply are terrible for the economy when we talk about GDP the same thing applies the GDP under Democratic president is much much better than the GDP under Republicans these are statements of fact that can be I that we can talk about but I got to go to the studio now with Howard Reynolds Brian I'm not asking these questions you can look it up it's out there for all to see come on in Howard okay well I want us to talk about Brian here for a second it was a projected Surplus it wasn't an actual real Surplus under Clinton if you would have stayed on Clinton's taxes and Clinton's uh economic plan you would have had a projected Surplus not a real but what yeah what happened then who came into power then again there you go oh you know bush bush exactly exactly anyway folks uh Jack real quick he says nothing okay anyway folks love you all all the the entire show that we were supposed to be is at politicsand right.com newsletter politicsand right.com newsletter my name isberto Willies this is politics done right and you guys know how I end this baby I am what oh you're listening to the American democracy minute keeping your government by 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