Trump Tariff Impact

Hy and Christopher begin by talking about the impact of the Trump tariffs, and end the show highlighting the festivities this week celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to New Orleans.  Many of the events are free and open to the public, and Christopher will actually be playing then-Governor Henry Johnson on Thursday, April 10 at Chalmette Battlefield. More info at afl-louisiana.com

Most of today’s show, we talk about how high Democratic voter turnout gave a major defeat to Gov. Jeff Landry, and how it might negatively impact Landry’s agenda in looming legislative session, beginning April 14.  Christopher’s column in The Louisiana Weekly explains how…

La. minority voter turnout created ‘Blue Wave’

An interesting phenomenon occurred in the March 29 election. Turnout was so strong in cities, and particularly amongst African Americans, that Louisiana became a “blue state” for one election. 

Not only were the conservative-leaning state constitutional amendments all rejected, but a Democratic candidate also surged in a West Bank Jefferson Parish Council seat – enough so to edge a veteran politician out of the runoff.
     
All four constitutional amendments failed, with approximately 65 percent of the Louisiana electorate opposing. Despite Gov. Jeff Landry’s active support, opposition in GOP parishes tended to trend with the rest of the state. Republican Jefferson Parish shot down Amendment 2 with 66 percent voting against. Uber-Republican St. Tammany Parish only passed Amendment 2 by two percentage points, 51 to 49 percent.  
      
Even Donald Trump Jr.’s active campaigning for the constitutional amendments made little difference. In these two parishes where his father won with 55 percent and 71 percent respectively, and Republicans had carried more than 70 percent of the vote in the gubernatorial contest in the year before, the amendments went down to defeat.
      
However, one could blame the hesitancy of enacting a bad law, if the surge of Democrats versus Republicans had not reflected itself in other races. Anecdotally, the Jefferson Parish 1st District council race was expected to be an all-Republican runoff. The West Bank council seat regularly turns out almost 75 percent for the GOP in statewide and federal elections. However, the total Republican vote added up to 64 percent, with Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner Jr. earning 36 percent and former Parish Councilman Ricky Templet underperforming at 28 percent.
       
Put another way, Democrat Andrea Manuel had little name recognition, no money, and even less political support. Most prominent Democrats had lined up behind one of the two Republicans. She had no unusual platform ideas which would inspire crossover voters. Manuel stood as an African American and Democrat in a council district hostile to both, yet she massively over-performed.
      
This strong Democratic trend extended across the state. Small towns like Sorrento in Ascension Parish saw Democrats win 57 percent of the vote in councilmanic elections versus Republicans at 43 percent. 
      
Some might argue the state constitutional amendments failed because church groups worried about the taxing potential on nonprofit properties inherent in a provision of Amendment 2, so conservative religious voters turned against them. Still, in “GOP Louisiana’s” 64 parishes, only 11 saw majorities vote “yes” on all amendments. 
      
That does little to explain the other defeats, unless one looks at the disparities of turnout.  Between March 15 and March 22, the early voting period, 99,000 Democrats voted whereas just 66,000 Republicans showed up to the polls. More critically, over 70,000 Black voters cast their ballots ahead of the election. According to pollster John Couvillon, in

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Battles. The politicians addressed the digitators and magicians. Who's to
see the money? Then you don't, there's nothing to fill
the holes? Well, then are feeling their pockets biles, the
politicians bouncing down the road, every basition to no moth,

(00:31):
corruption and dysfunction. It's gonna take divide it avention.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
The markets crashed because of the Trump tariffs. And here
in Louisiana we have an election. What would happen if
no Republicans showed up to vote, Well, we found out
on March twenty ninth. Also, the legislative session is starting
on April fourteenth. How will the past election influence the
legislative session? After all, those particular amendments that were on

(00:58):
the ballot were heavily supported, not by Governor Jeff Landry,
by Donald Trump Junior. All this and more on this
edition of The Founder's Show.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
And God bless you all out there. You're now listening
to the founders. So the voice of the founding fathers,
You're Founding Fathers coming to you deep within the bowels
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(01:27):
Spanish moss way out on the Eagles Branch, is none
other then your Spingary Babayo, the Republic Chaplain, Hi McHenry.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
With Christopher Tidmury, Roving reporter, resident Radical, Moderate, Associate editor
of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper Louisiana Weekly dot Net and Hi.
Of course we've got to talk about local politics, but
we can't ignore the national political point in the room,
and that is the Trump tariffs and the reaction from
the markets, which was a major crash today Thursday Thursday
as we were taping the show. And the Economist magazine,

(01:59):
I mean, the coconmomst is no liberal magazine. The Economist
is a conservative magazine. You know, Trump is crashing the
international economy, so and so forth.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well we're going to say, christ well, it's the first thing, okay,
And we know that the investors. There's panic with the
investors because whenever it's something new comes into the market,
a major thing, the investors can go crazy. I have
made it's got a fleshing. It's got to be fleshed
well before before you take a few weeks.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Here's before we start off with this and why it's
not going to take a few weeks. Let me let
me it's going to take probably a few years.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well I realized there's a long term thing.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
No, no, let me explain.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean this current collapse. They always come back.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
All right, let me explain something for a second. I
have been You know, there are times when I'm really
critical of Trump because personally the man it drives me crazy.
But I'm also going to point out there are times
where and you know this, because there are times where
I've agreed with him on this program. I'm not against
cutting government departments. I don't particularly love the way the

(02:54):
bludgeon has happened, because I think some good things are going.
But I mean I've been I'm a libert I'm a
liberty and I believe in smaller government. There are deregulatory
things Trump does that I like, so and so forth.
So I'm not when it comes to the economic side,
the tax cuts. Not all of what he's proposing. His
tax cuts do I think are economically good because as
but personally I love them, like I love the idea

(03:17):
of not having a tax on tips. Do I think
it's economically stimulative. No, no, not particularly compared to a
marginal tax cut. It's not a supply side. But if
you're going to ask me, do I think it'll make
a positive impact in a lot of families? Yes, you know. So, Okay,
So I mean so when we're talking about that, when
it's come to economics. You've heard me on this show
not be like this totally condemning person on Trump, You've

(03:39):
been been pretty even. So let me let me let
me look at this. Maybe let me let me start
by saying something for a second, Trump has talked in
his first term. Trump talked about tariffs as a way
of reciprocating against what he believed was bad behavior against
the United States. And for the most part, while you

(04:00):
put tariffs on, they went against China and people who
I have said on this air, and you've heard me
say time and time again, really were making economic decisions
that were to damage American industry. Was not just that
they had low labor costs, it was they were actually
the government was coinceding to destroy industries. That that was

(04:20):
a national security And I've often said I'm an ardent
free trader, but I've often said free trade strengthens democracies.
It also strengthens dictatorships. And one of the worst decisions
we ever made was having most favored nations with the
status with China and letting them into the GATA Cords.
In general agree military and tires. So I'm not somebody
who is an absolute purist on this issue, which is

(04:41):
what makes this kind of interesting. Why was April second
Liberation Day not necessary? Why did it make the markets crash? Well,
there's a couple of reasons that are very active. First
of all, one of the things Trump is analyzing as
an unfair trade package. An unfair trade is essentially that

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other governments have sales tax systems to raise revenue. It's
a little bit more complicated, but not much. The European
nations and most nations around the world, we're one of
the only ones that doesn't use something called the value
added tax. A value added tax is really simple. It's
a sales tax at every level of production, but exports
are not taxed. Now, this is not that the United

(05:25):
States is being taken advantage of. This is just a
tax system that every country in the world uses, but US.
And in fact, to give you an idea of Paul Ryan,
when he was Speaker in Trump's first term, wanted to
adopt this tax. Here's why, because a sales tax is
a much more efficient tax. It gets a lot of
money from the economy. It gets a lot of things.
And Donald Trump, to his credit, shot it down. I

(05:48):
don't know if it's to his credit. I'm just I'm
giving him the benefit of the doubt. He shot it
down because he said, I don't want to raise prices
on poor people on food and other critical items. Now,
to be honest with you, I think Paul Ryan was
making a really good argument. However, Trump had his argument,
and it's a valid argument. You and I have talked

(06:09):
about the impact of sales taxes on the poorest part
of our sidey. You see it with your kids. It's
really negative. It costs. This is not a hypothetical issue.
So Trump deserves some credit. The problem is the ten
percent across the board tariff that he's putting on all
the nations in the world is because they have vat taxes.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
They want to.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
We put a ten percent tariff on England, on the
United Kingdom. I mean, think about that for a second.
At least it's not the twenty percent we put on
the European Union, and Nigel Ferras was coming out and saying,
this is the Brexit benefit. We only get ten, we
only get trust. But it's all based on this idea
high that you brought up earlier that the America has
not been treated well, it's been treated unfairly. And I'm

(06:49):
going to answer this question kind of this way. So
let me get this straight. The definition of being treated unfairly.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Is we've done it.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, no, no, no, we measure these are trade deficits,
but with a mathematics that's one hundred years out of date. No,
listen to me when I say this, because this is
going to be a little complicated, and I want the
audience to follow this. We say a trade deficit is
based on the manufactured goods that we sell to other
countries versus what we import. Okay, here's what it doesn't

(07:21):
calculate software, financial services, insurance, the areas where America has
a massive advantage over our world. And if you actually
calculate those industries in your trade deficit, guess what happens.
The United States is running a trade surplus with many

(07:42):
nations across the world. And now and Donald Trump has
said he doesn't count technology, financial services and all this.
He has a very nineteenth century No, that's not a criticism.
His hero is his hero. His hero is William McKinley,
and he has he uses he uses William McKinley as

(08:03):
his economic model. It's a nineteenth century view that existed
before the interplay of international finance of software technology.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I understand that's all good points you're making here, But
what you're not bringing in to this whole thing is, yeah,
that's great for the IT people. Sure they're going to
do quite well with In fact, our IT advantages are
like overwhelming for the whole world. We have the greatest inventions.
You know that, we're just at the very we have

(08:35):
the command position there for all nations. It's amazing what
we've done with the IT world. But Christopher, the IT
world doesn't doesn't support It doesn't represent all of American workers.
It doesn't represent the auto workers, the steel workers, all
these other groups that are being have been devastated by
these other foreign countries tariffs against US, and so it

(08:59):
has closed down so many factories. And Trump is saying
it should all work in America, not just to specialize group,
just for the it.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
You know, let's let's let's then let's talk about auto workers,
and let's talk about steel workers, let's talk about the
traditional industries. Trump is putting higher tariffs on countries than
what they've been leveling on us because.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
That's going to make them. It gives us a bargaining chip.
Of course, that doesn't mean it's going to stay like.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
All right, here's here's the problem with all of this.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Remember first, ready to change things, folks, I just stuck.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
On the tariff he has said has to be there forever.
That was the whole point. No, that was the whole
point of Liberation Day. He actually said those works Christopher listened?
Did he lied?

Speaker 3 (09:42):
No, he's negotiating, Christopher. No, Hi, it's hearts trading. Hi,
hearts trading. Hey, if you want to call that line, fine,
you know that's what businessmen do that all the time.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
No, I have a different normal. I think Donald Trump
believes that tariffs will help underwrite his tax cuts, and
that what's going through Congress, that this is a that
by putting a foreign tariff on that's a very nineteenth
century way of looking in it. It's not totally wrong.
But by putting a general tarifon you'll be able to
raise enough money to underwrite domestic taxes. Here's the problem

(10:16):
right now, he's put tariffs on everybody, including in many
ways Canada and Mexico. And here's the problem with that.
When you're in the auto industry, do you know, I mean,
I don't know if you've ever been to Dearborn and
looked across the river to windsor Canada, but you know
what you're looking up on either side of the river.
I've stood there two halfs of the same auto plant

(10:41):
that in Canada. The border for the most part, cross
border trade is not cross border trade. It's like crossing
the border of Mississippi to Louisiana, right it is. And
so putting a tariff on Canada. And by the way,
the same thing happens in Texas. If you go to
cituald Warrez, which is right across from a Passo, if
you go into Monterey, which is right across you know,

(11:03):
from San Antonio. The industries that are right on the border,
these are auto industries. This is one of the biggest
auto prats and the various parts that go back and
forth between the supply chains now will have a tariff going.
And I know the whole argument that people have said, well,
if it's not including the us NBC MCA, it's not included.

(11:24):
The problem is Trump's tariff is ten percent universal tariff
that he put on yesterday. This is why everybody says
it actually goes over and under and essentially eliminates the NAFTA,
the USMCA that he renegotiated. That he was one of
his successes and he did a good job on it.
I'm giving him credit. The renegotiation of the US MCA

(11:47):
is one of the great accomplishments now of his administration,
his first administration, and one of the things it did
was it was this is where good negotiation came in.
He cut a deal with Mexico and then turned to
Canada and said, okay, do you want to join in,
and a lot of sweetheart deals Canada had always had
like a milk and all this went away. It was
actually really brilliantly done. And this is Christopher Tidmore giving

(12:10):
credit to Donald Trump on trade.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Okay, negotiator, what genius.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
What he did I don't think is a gene. But
what he did with Liberation Day was not, hey, we're
putting twenty percent tariffs and everybody else. He said, we're
putting a ten percent tariff on those auto items that
are coming across a river on either side.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Of the North countries. But here's they put the same
thing on us.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Except no, they didn't. That's the problem.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
They have so many tariffs on US goods.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Chris First, Yeah, it's Canada and Mexico, you name it.
Here's his justification. Canada has what's called the Goods and
Services taxes on the federal level. It's a five percent
sales tax. And so he used a sales tax, which
almost every state in the Union has. They just happen
to have one that also is a national one Canada
as a justification to put a ten percent tariff on them.

(13:04):
Now that I'm sorry, a sales tax high is not
a teriff.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Okay, it has the same effect, Christopher, This is so
early in the games to try to micromanage this and
figure it all out right now is absurd. These are
very interesting points you're making. I'm glad you're making them. Now.
We need to see how this fleshes out. There's going
to be some short term results. Let's see what happens there.

(13:28):
And of course there's going to be long term results.
So we just need to buy our time, be patient,
watch closely, and hope and pray for the best. And
then if things aren't going right, we need to protest.
But I think if things don't go right, Trump knows
how to back out of a deal. That's why he's
such a great negotiator. So we'll just see where it goes.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Here's the thing that worries me. We have an opportunity
right now in America that most people don't really recognize.
And this goes for it if repatriating industry from overseas,
from China, particularly to the United States, and it was
already happening. It started to happen under Biden, not because
of Biden, just because the Chinese economy is getting old.

(14:08):
It had nothing to do with Biden. It was a
matter of demographics. There are more people in China over
the age of fifty than under, and so it was
starting to But it was thought because a safe place
to bring money was North America because of the USMCA,
because we have the demographics of Mexico, a young population,
the economic strength of the United States and the mineral

(14:29):
and also the intellectual strength of Canada. And what that
has done is it's put this freeze on a lot
of industries that we're going to bring them over. We're
going to bring industry from China, from Southeast Asia, from
abroad back to the United States. It has literally put
a freeze. So one of the reasons the market crashed
on April second is that there isn't any security, any

(14:52):
vision from a lot of people. And I'll give you
a good example, a very good example of this. A
there's the local LNG export that's very important here in
Louisiana called Venture Global. Venture Global fell to eight UH.
It fell to an all time low of eight point
nine four eight dollars and ninety four cents in trading

(15:13):
now LNG liquid natural gas. Trump has removed all the
regulations that Biden put on it, and the one thing
everywhere in the world they need, I mean, like, we
can't sell enough natural gas from the United States to
UH to handle the German desire for it. It's a
growth market basically anywhere in the world. This is the

(15:36):
biggest market, and I'm a support of it. I think
it's one of the worst things Biden did by trying
to slow down liquid natural gas was because it was
he was What happened was he was trying to he
actually suppressed a report that said what he'd from the
EPA that said, well, you know it's natural gas is
better than coal, and they're selling the countries that sell coal,

(15:57):
so this will produce less carbon. And so I'm saying
all that is because of the tariffs, the energy tariffs.
Trump put on a ten percent energy tariff on other countries.
They've put it on us. So the tariffs of export
liquid natural gas from Louisiana are now gonna slow down
because of the Trump tariffs. This is one of the
most important.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
It's already demanded. Okay, look you can't you look, can't
look at this the first day of the first week
or whatever and think you've got it all figured out.
Let it see how it goes. You know, when they
when they absolutely have to have the energy, they're gonna buy.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
But here's the thing, huh they're gonna buy why? Why?

Speaker 3 (16:37):
And then maybe they'll start thinking, oh, we better even
these tariffs up. I mean, it's right, America's let us
have all these advantages with US putting tariffs on them,
and now now they're putting it on us. Maybe we
better even it up, or maybe he's just trying to
get fair to maybe maybe what's all about fair trade.
What could happen also is prior to prior to the

(17:02):
late nineteen twenties, the world had a relatively low tariff
environment and international trade nineteen one. The late nineteen twentieska
something called the Harley Smoot tariff. Prior to the Harley
Smoot tariff, tariffs around the world were very low. There
was a period of time from roughly around the teens
to the nineteen thirties, and it was one of the

(17:25):
part of the reason the America exploded during the economy
explosure in the nineteen twenties is because the world economy
was exploding and there was tariff access to the British Empire,
which was one third the planet. It was all this
and when the Harley Smoot tariff came in, which are
approximately the tariffs that Trump was putting in between ten
and twenty five percent, the interesting thing that happened is

(17:45):
every country responded and trade started chilling down and slowing down.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
And you still had critical things that were traded, but
for the most part trade went really slow. And you
know what, you know how long it took us to
get rid of the target smooth tariff. You know when
they finally we actually got that those tariffs back that
we're supposed to be temporary. Herbert Hoover was making these
arguments exactly Trump, these are temporary to open up trade.

(18:12):
They reciprocal, you know when they went away nineteen ninety seven.
So that's the point. When you start down the road
of tariffs. It doesn't go away in a year. It
isn't like unilateral goes away and the other countries do.
It has a chilling effect the trade for decades to come.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, we'll see, Christopher, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Do you know any reason why we'll see can give
me any hope? I hope I'm wrong. I truly hope
I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
High because I'm just basing this on Trump's career of
one remarkable successful story after another, even against overwhelming odds,
he seems to figure things out and get the job done.
That's his life story. So let's see if many people
who are experts that this are all supporting what he's doing,

(18:59):
and it's brilliant, it's going to work out. Let's see.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I hope you're right. I truly hope you're right, but
I will tell you.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I'm not sure. And you know I'm not just saying
I hope I'm right to defend Trump at all. I'm
saying I hope we're right to defend America.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm wondering if a Liberation Day, April second will go
down as the same in the same sentence as Black Friday.
You know, it's just we'll see, you know, we'll shall see. Well, folks,
what we do have to see is we're going to
go turn our attention to Louisiana politics and an interesting
phenomena that happened. What would happen if in Louisiana, if
we suddenly became a blue state, if Republicans decided not

(19:37):
to vote, Well, guess what happened in the March eighth,
twenty ninth elections. That's basically the result a heavy Democratic
turnout and a low Republican turnout and only killed the
four constitutional amendments. It influenced races up and down the ballot,
including a major race in Jefferson Parish in the in

(19:58):
the West Bank seat where we had candidates on this
on this program, and we're going to talk about that
as so.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
The Republicans didn't show up, Christopher, they didn't show up.
Shame on you.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
We're going to say your focus, my party. Everything, A
vote counts.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
I've voted, I always do.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, well you always vote, and I was vote and I.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Always encourage other people of either side to go vote. Yeah,
we've done that on this show.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
You know we are. It's look, the only the only thing,
the only thing that matters ultimately, folks, is the exercise
of your franchise. And we'll talk about what happens when
that doesn't happen. After these important messages, stay tuned more
of the Founder Show right after this with Hi mckenry
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Speaker 2 (25:39):
Christopher Tidmore and folks, we've got to turn our little
attention to the election we had a week ago, and
some people were very surprised because all four constitutional amendments
that were heavily pushed by Governor Jeff Landry went down
to defeat with between sixty four and sixty six percent
pretty much consistently across the board. This is not common,

(26:02):
to say the least, ladies and gentlemen, Constitutional amendments do fail,
but not usually ones that are being pushed as number
two was particularly by the governor and the son of
the president. So and this was it is not despite
popular opinion. The way it was being posed, it's not
going to reverse the income tax cuts, nor is it

(26:23):
going to reverse the sales tax cuts. What it will
reverse is a lot of the other tax changes, some
to there are several protected funds that were going to
be unprotected, to turn to pay off debt, to allow
parishes that were putting money into a system to pay
teacher pay. And if that sounds complicated, so was every
other part of the amendment. It was so complicated that

(26:45):
a lot of people just throw up their hands and
said no. But what they said no to was actually
going to the polls. And this is the interesting part.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Folks.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
You would have said, well, maybe people didn't just want
to vote and you know the opposition, and you'd be
correct in that, except it was a very specific section
of the voters. They're called Republicans. That's not to say
Republicans didn't turn out, But I want to give you
a few stats high and kind of explain this interesting phenomenon.

(27:15):
On the March twenty ninth election, for example, in Jefferson Parish,
Amendment I was shot down with about the same percentage
of the state sixty six percent point above even uber
Republican Saint Tammany only passed the Amendment I by basically
two percentage points, fifty one to forty one percent. Now,

(27:36):
let me explain this. These are parishes, particularly Saint Tammany,
where Republicans usually get seventy to eighty percent of the vote.
Jefferson comes in. Well, you're saying, well, okay, that sounds good.
Let me give you a very concrete example of all this. Now,
you might remember about three four weeks ago we had
on Ricky template and the candidates for the District one

(28:00):
West Bank seat. For those that don't know, Marion Edwards,
the incumbent, after a year after getting elected to his
second term, decides he doesn't want to run. He doesn't
want to be in office. So he has some health
situations he's gonna resign. So it goes in. Ricky Templett,
who is a former councilman, decides to run and he's
running against Mayor Tim Kerner, who is the mayor of

(28:21):
Lafitte from a political dynasty that's been around well for
about sixty years. His father is the former mayor of Lafitte,
is now State senator from Lafitte. You get the idea.
So they're running in this race, and there's a third candidate.
Her name is Andrea Manuel. She's a Democrat, African American Democrat.
Sheacific activist. But let's just say she has less than

(28:42):
no money. She doesn't really have a major campaign platform
in a race where you had some pretty heavily campaign platforms.
Template was talking about having a parish run insurance plan.
Kerner was talking about major recreation investment, and there's some
big issues that were bring out. But logically, if you
look in at history, what should have happened in this

(29:05):
district where Republicans get seventy percent of the vote in
a neck and neck race, is that Kerner should have
gone in a runoff with Template and it would accept
what ultimately happens. Template gets twenty eight percent of the vote.
Kerner gets thirty six, Andrea Manuel gets thirty six. Now
why is that number interesting? She outperformed Democrats consistently in

(29:29):
that district. This is a district where Trump got well
over seventy percent of the vote. It's a district that
Jeff Landry just you know, owned. She's an African American
Democrat in a white district. And I'm sorry, race does
play a role in our politics to this day.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
And yet look at Orleans yea.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
And yet so the point being that Democrats had a
higher percentage of the electorate in this election than they
did Now, why did that happen? Was it just the
constitutional amendments? Jeff Landry better hope so, because the other
alternative is there's been a reaction against the politics here

(30:08):
in Louisiana, because if you look at races across the state,
the same phenomenon happened to where frankly, Democrats were much
more powerful than they should be given the dynamics of
the individual districts. Is it possible Louisiana we're not becoming
a democratic state. I'm not saying something ridiculous, but is
it possible that there is a segment of Republican voters

(30:31):
discontented about what's going on locally or even nationally, that
they stayed home. Because the interesting part of this election
that we had here in Louisiana is who is the
face of the election. It's not even Jeff Landry though
he was campaigning art It's Donald Trump Junior. We federalized
in election, a very state election.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Chris so he may have been the fates, but I
never saw it, so I don't think many people saw it.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Do you watch Let me ask you. Do you watch
much local television? I know you watch. Here's the thing.
You watch a lot, for example, and this is a
good example. HI watches a lot of like Fox News.
Every time I walk in your house. Fox News tend
to be honest, that's or Newsmaxer. Do you watch Oean?
I've always been curious about that. Anyway, the point being,

(31:16):
it's always on a conservative news network, And that's the
point I was kind of getting at. High The fact
is that you were watching conservative media, which they didn't
really advertise to. They didn't put any of this. If
you were actually watching the National Conservative, if you were
watching local television, you would have seen Donald Trump Junior's face,
you would have seen the governor. You would have seen

(31:38):
a lot of that. And that's actually a tactical mistake
because one of the things you always do if you're
in elections, if you're going to run television, is you
run them on conservative media for candidates. They thought they
had super you, super chronic Republican voters were going to
turn out to the polls, and they didn't in the election,
but you did.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
But just alarming me that maybe Republicans are getting over
confident we won the big election.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
There it's either over confidence or that it's either over
confidence or there's a segment of the Republican vote that
maybe even voted for Trump, you know, but who basically
feel like, you know, I'm not particularly enthusiastic about the
policy decisions that are being made nationally. We talked in
the first segment about tariffs. There is a side of

(32:23):
the Republican Party, for example, since this election was so federalized,
that hates tariffs. You know, this is the party of
Ron Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush
of free trade agreements, and so they might have just
showed their protests by not showing up the polls. All
of this I'm telling you about it is not just
why it influenced the election, but it's actually now put

(32:46):
everybody leading into the April fourteenth legislative session into an
absolute freaking panic. So what was looking to be a
rather more abund fiscal session with a pretty significant surplus
is now they're having to reevaluate the tax policy that
wasn't passed. They're having the governors come out and saying

(33:09):
I want to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in
actual operations. Well, I mean that's kind of playing in
all of all this high and I think it's a lot.
You're going to see a legislative session very different than
what we had thought we're going to have. I'll give
you an example, the live performance tax credits that we've
talked about High. They're actually supposed to sunset out in July.
These are ten million dollars. This is basically supports live

(33:33):
legitimate theater. It's something very critical to the opera of
the ballet, all this, but also a lot of our
private theatrical productions that come in. It looked like those
were going to be renewed pretty easily with the surplus.
Now should we should we not? And there's so much
uncertainty that has come into this entire situation. The legislative session,
which means the average legislature can only introduce four bills

(33:54):
that don't specifically have something to do with the budget. Well,
now everyone's running around wondering what that's going to happen.
And I got to tell you Governor Jeff Landry, who
looked like he was in a position of absolute dominance
is now looking like he's in a much weakened position.
It's amazing what a few weeks could do.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well, it's gonna be quite an interesting situation developing here, folks,
and that will be a wild time in the Louisiana legislature.
I think this is a very important lesson for Republicans.
Don't take anything for granted. Get out and vote. Yes,
we had a great victory, but that's the past.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Now.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
You can't rest on your laurels. We have to always
go vote. We have to be vigilant, eternal vigilance and
surprise to liberty. Thomas Jefferson's said so well.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
And I would point out, look, I'm going to make
it an observation about this. You know, sometimes there's just
too many elections in Louisiana. One of the reasons why
they had the constitutional amendments on the ballot and an
election where nothing else was going on was the presupposition, well,
conservatives will come out and pass it because liberals don't vote. Well,
guess what, that entire theory just completely fell apart, right,

(35:03):
I mean, I'm sorry. Democrats in the state can be
motivated if they have if they have a sense that
they can win an election.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
But I don't understand is that some of those amendments
were going to help everybody. So why would the Democrats
be against it just because it came from a no
no Republican legs.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
All four amendments were very conservative. You may agree with them,
but no, let me explain. One amendment would have taken
away juvenile status on a lot of criminals. That's not
something people on the left, particularly like large.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Corporate victims of large corporates quickly.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Well large corporate tax cuts, which was part of amendment
to even the change in the judges schedule, which would
change basically would allow the Supreme Court the first amendment
would allow the Supreme Court to have a lot more
power over creating courts. That was not something that where
parishes like Orleans or East Baton Rouge or Caddo thought

(35:56):
that they should abrogate that power to the state. So no,
they're all for of these amendments. I'm not making.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Urches on dealing with churches and whatnot. Uh ministries. Uh.
That one failed, of course, and the churches were really
against that. You mean that was amendment to right that
was the one about very much against it. That was
so I mean because it was too Well, it's an
interesting theory you produced. I mean the thing is, look,
we know that.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Was the one that governed, that was the one that
Donald Trump Junior was campaigning for.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
You, Well, that was I think we think that was
a big mistake.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
We know that like the categ Church for for for
long decades has owned huge amounts of property in you know,
Louisiana and New Orleans, especially New Orleans, big office buildings
and everything, and they don't they're not used for ministry,
they're used for profit. Well why not put a law
here that only if your building is being used for
proper profit that you have to pay a property tax? Right,

(36:49):
But like no Lean's mission, there's no profit there. It
would have wiped out Norlan's mission. So it would have
been devastating to Norman's mission since there's a huge positive
forces in the city to get helping the homeless.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
So maybe that was part of it that Honestly, changing
the property tax structure disencouraged some of the social conservative
base that Governor Landry had.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
All the all the evangelical groups on New campaign against.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
So maybe my theory is totally wrong. Hi, maybe it
wasn't the Republicans didn't turn out. Maybe it was that
social Conservatives and Democrats for a day.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
No, they just didn't think otherwise.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Otherwise they wouldn't vote voted against all four amendments. You
could say they just decided to go note all the one.
But it's not like there.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Was the way I said, Catholics. There are also some
some I think rotten businessmen out there, cuiroked businessmen, and
they create a five O one C three strictly for
the purpose of under a no property tax measure. And
that's wrong. So it should be there really should be
a law to stop that. If you have a building
and you're making a big profit because you're running at
leasting it whatever, there's nothing to do with your ministry,

(37:53):
then you should pay property tax.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Well, regardless of what happens high at the legislative session
that's coming up should be very interesting to watch, and
we're going to keep our eyes on it very closely.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Well.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
I have to do a personal note high two hundred
years in the making. Next week is the is the
is the two hundredth anniversary and the visit of the
Marquis de lad Lafayette to New Orleans. He was the
only place he stayed for five days, and we're to
have a whole series of events. The American Friends of
Lafaette are putting on the events. Many of them are
free and open to the public. You can find out

(38:23):
more about them at AFL dash Louisiana dot com. If
I'll just put an AFL Louisiana or American Friends of
Lafayette Louisiana and your search browser. And they're going to
start off, of course with the Daughters of the American
Revolution and the chapter your wife's member right is going
to be presenting a plaque that's going to be in
the Cabildo. That's on Tuesday, they have a whole event.

(38:44):
Then on Wednesday we haven't the welcoming Gala of the
Marquis de Lafayette is coming in a carriage to the
Cabildo and they're opening the new exhibit of the Marquis
de Lafayette where they're going to have the Villery bed.
So my ancestors donated the bed Jocque Philip Villarey that
he slept in we turned two hundred years ago. We
turned the cabildo into his apartment, and so we recreated

(39:04):
the apartment and there's gonna be a big galle and
I'm gonna be there and address. My favorite part is Thursday. Well, actually,
interestingly no, I'm gonna be Governor Henry Johnson, his bitter
political rival, and the reason is because they needed me
to speak and give the address. And I'm gonna be
doing that at Chalmett Battlefield on Thursday. It's open to

(39:27):
the public eleven o'clock where originally the Marquita Lafayette arrives
by the river on the river boat Natchez. We couldn't
get permission to the natches the doc, so we're gonna
go to the battle. We're actually gonna go speak to
Saint Bernard's school children that morning at St. Bernard at
the Saint Pernard Cultural Center, a civic center, and then
I'm gonna we're gonna all be on stage and then
we're going to Chowmett Battlefield. Mark Mark the the Lafayette

(39:52):
re enactor from Williamsburg is coming and he's playing Lafayette.
I'm gonna be playing Governor Johnson. Rast Roger Villary, our
own Roger Villery is gonna be playing Jacqueville Villaery and
so he's doctor Filly Hillery's gonna be there by his directors,
and so we're going to do that. Then we're all
gonna get on the bus, go and get on the
Natches because they wouldn't let his dock. We're going to
take the river cruise. I'm gonna narrate it a little

(40:13):
bit like you and I used to do on the
Creole Queen. And then that evening we've got a big,
you know, Adriannes things at one of the houses in
the French Quarter. Then on Friday, Lafayette saw two operas
when he was in New Orleans, so we're gonna have
a big event at the Opera guild House here where
we're doing the show. And on Saturday there is a

(40:34):
thing at the Spring Fiesta House. But most importantly that morning,
and this is open to everybody for free, at eleven o'clock,
our reenactor from Colonial Williamsburg will get on the stage
at Jackson Square right at the same place it did,
which happens to be the stage for French Quarterfest. And
he's going to open French Quarterfest with Lafayette talking to
the crowns and doing the two hundred wow. And that'll

(40:55):
be Saturday, a week and then that evening we were
at it, and then we're at the Spring Fiesta House
and then Sunday and this is open to the public
one o'clock here at the at the Opera guild House
on Britannia Street between third and Second Street. There is
going to be a concert called a Concert two hundred
years in the making, and the American Friends of Lafayette

(41:18):
will come here because the same time Lafayette arrived here
in New Orleans, Jefferson Parish was founded. And Jefferson Parish
was founded in its its capital, its county seat, its capital,
which was the city of Lafayette. And guess what the
city of Laffia, the original city of Lafayette was the
Garden District.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Right, and so what the name of the cemetery, the
famous cemetery Lafayete.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
And so we're gonna we're gonna have the Jefferson Parish Council.
And you can find out more about this, by the way,
by going to New Orleans Opera dot org and it
talks about this. The Jefferson Parish Council represented the Lieutenant
Governor's Office are reenactors American Friends of Lafayette, the founders
of New Orleans are having this incredible concert that Jonathan
and Katie Bryan are forming, and it's in honor of

(42:01):
Lafayette and the two hundredth birthday of Jefferson Parish and
the two hundredth birthday of the Garden District, which was
the city of Lafayette. And that's all happening all next week, folks.
It's almost all the events except for a few of
the gallows are free and open to the public. Please
go to AFL Louisiana dot com find out about this
incredible opportunity, all happening all the.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Time hundred years ago. Tell me, did they have an
opera for him?

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yes? They did?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Isn't that great?

Speaker 2 (42:28):
They didn't They had two operas He went to, attended
two operas. Did they write an opera him? No, but lags,
but he went to two one he went to two
full operas. Remember we had eight in eighteen twenty five,
New Orleans had eight opera.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Has know that we were like the Broadway of New York,
were the Broadway of that century.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
The first the first opera had been performed here in
seventeen ninety six Sylvain, and we were the center of opera.
And so he wanted to stay here long because Lafayette
was a massive opera.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Fact he was.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
He went to him and so he had the most
wonderful time doing that and it was really good. And
so what happened more about the visit of the Marquis
de Lafayette. Of these events that are free and open
to the public. At a FL Louise dash Louisiana dot
com or just put in American Friends of Lafayete or
a fl Louisiana it'll come up on your search browser.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
And final remember when he came two hundred years ago.
This is a major event for all of America. He
was a super rock star. He's a great American hero.
Was made an American citizen, honorary citizen. And wherever he
went he was so important, and it's such a big deal.
People changed the names of their cities and towns in
his name and his honor.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
And there's Louisiana, yeah, or actually, but Fayetteville, Arkansas is
a very good example. Yeah, it was one named after
him because he went up through ith Lafete. Louisiana came
a little later. In fact, they wanted they forced the
city of Lafayette to give up its name. It was
a big movie. Part of this is Moutan. Who did that?
Governor Moutan and so good Cajun boy wanted to reward it,

(43:58):
and so but all those of those cities were because
this nine month trip that it took from New York
down to New Orleans and then back up. It's his
Lafayette star.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
He just loved America so much. That's one reason. And
remember George Washington called him his son.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
No, yes, well, and he named what's what I'd like
to say this what people say the symbolic He named
his son George Washington Lafayette. And when the revolution started,
he sent his son to live with it, and George
Martha Washington raised like for nine years.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Really I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
And then he was He grew up at Mount Vermon
in Mount Vernon, essentially, and then he went to Boston,
went to Harvard University, and the Adamses were his substitute family.
And so no, I mean he was, he was. He
spent a lot of time. And so when he came
back to when Lafayette came back to America as an adult,
he was imprisoned. His incredible story, his son, George Washington

(44:52):
Lafayette goes with him, and I mean and is as
American as he is French. So it's like, it's an
incredible story. And we're gonna be telling many of these stories.
And if you miss these events this week, which is
really a missed opportunity because we got the literally the
greatest Lafayette reenactor in the world who's coming here. But
we're the exhibit about the visit of the Marquis de

(45:14):
Lafayette to New Orleans will be at the Cabildo for
the next three months, so it'll be really including the
bed he's slept in. You know, you ever see the signs,
you know, such such slept here. We literally have Lafayette
slept here in the bed itself.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
They got the Lincoln bedroom in the White House. We
got the bedroom, all right.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
But with that, folks, we're gonna go into our patriotic moment.
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Speaker 3 (47:47):
Well, folks were back and you are listening to the
Founder's show the voice of the funding Fathers. And there's
not time for us to go into our chaplain babbah
patriotic moment. We just take a brief moment to remind
you of the biblical foundations of our country, our Judeo
Christian jurisprudence. And today we want to talk about good
old Andy Jackson, the victorious general of the Battle of

(48:09):
New Orleans, one of the greatest battles ever fought in America.
And the reason we joined that this book is when Lafayette
came two hundred years ago, one of the biggest celebrations
of the whole His whole time here was to go
to the battlefield on this and shall met on the
Plans of schal Met, where the British army was beat
with a resounding victory. Even though they had overwhelming odds

(48:32):
against us. There's no chance we could win that battle.
America won a remarkable victory. And so this is what
Andrew Jackson said about his thought. Many thoughts he had
about God and the Bible and whatnot. But here's one
of them. He said, go to the scriptures. The joyful
promise is it contains will be a balsam to all
your troubles. That book is the rock on which our

(48:55):
republic rests. Folks, I think good old Andy Jackson, one
of the great his presence of American history. Certainly realize
that the foundation of America was a Bible, that we
needed God in the middle of government if we were
ever going to make it. And I keep telling people
that right now we want to make America great again,
but I guarantee you what made America great in the
beginning was God. So no matter what we do and

(49:18):
how hard we work, if we don't put God in
the middle of this, our efforts will be in vain
and it's really not going to go very far. Unfortunately,
even though we really want to make America great again,
we better go back to God to do that. Well, folks,
what about you. Are you with God? Do you have
to go back to God? Or have you never been
to God? Or whatever? It doesn't matter, because right now

(49:38):
we're going to go into our chaplain gospel moment and
just take a brief moment to show you how you
can know that you know that you know you're God's child,
You're going to Heaven when you die. It's really simple.
The scripture says for God's soul love the world. That's you,
that's everybody. For God's soul loved the world. That he
gave his only begotten son. That's the Lord, Jesus Christ,

(49:58):
perfect God, perfect man, all the way God and all
the way man. He gave his only begotten son. That
whosoever that's you again, believeth in him. Oh what does
that mean? Believeth in him? I mean just like believe
in him or you know, have a good feeling about it.
What what does that mean? Well, you gotta know what he did.
That's what you believe in. And this is what he did.

(50:18):
As we're now celebrating on the verge of celebrating Easter,
which is basically the gospel message, the death, barrel and
resurrection of Christ. That is the gospel and the scripture
says a gospel it's the power of God under salvation
to whosover believes. So you have to believe that Jesus
really did die for all your sins, that he was buried,
and that he rose from the dead to win for
you his precious free gift of resurrection, everlasting life. So

(50:43):
when it says that who'sover believed in him, that's what
you believe, but it's really kind of a twofold belief
also because the first thing you have to believe is
that you can't do it. You're hopeless and help us
without God, destined to a burning hell, there's no way
you'll ever make it. When you get to that point
in your life and you realize how hopeless and helps
you are, you have just ripped and Jesus kept saying
repent and believe repentance is actually part of your belief.

(51:05):
You first repent believing you can't save yourself. That's the
if you will the negative faith, and then the positive
faith is when you believe that he can, that he did,
and that he will save you from mcburniey hell, guarantee
you everlasting life because He did die for all your sins.
Was Barreton Rose and the dead and the split second
to do that where the scripture says that whosoever believed
in him, that's John three point sixteen, shall not perish

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but have everlasting life. Folks, if you've never done this before,
do it now. Don't wait till it's too late. It's time, folks,
to come to Jesus. It's time to know him as
your savior. You know, and he's coming back really soon,
and it's now time for us to go into our chaplain.
Bye bah, watchmen on the wall again. We just take
a brief moment to show you how things are getting close.

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Jesus is coming back soon. You know. One of the
signs is going to be economic troubles. And where there'd
be one world financial system, there would be one world bank.
If youll, everything is going to be one world, a
one world government. Everything's gonna be run by one central
financial center. Folks. We're bearing down on that right now.
It's coming quickly. And even with what Trump's doing, what

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he's going to actually may help speed this up. I
don't know. He's not doing it for that reason, but
it could play into the hands of what the Devil's
trying to do to bring this world into a one
world government where his man, the Antichrist, will rule the world. Folks,
those days are getting soon, and the only hope we
have the safest bank you can ever go to, This
safest safe house, the safest bucker you can ever gets

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the Lord Jesus Christ. Go to him now. Believe that
he is your savior, that he did die for all
your sins. Was buried and rose dead, and put your
only hope and then believe with all your heart, which
means you can't trust anything else. Only Jesus, only Jesus,
faith alone and Christ alone, and God guarantees you a
safe passage. Well, folks, it's not time for us to go.

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As we close with a mind Saint Martin singing a
creole goodbye, and God bless all out there. They call
you creo goodbye.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
They think we're just wasted our time for the medi
All three sibon say there's time for a creo goodbye