In this dynamic episode, we explore the contours of Inauguration Day and the whirlwind of emotions that flow from it. From Biden’s exit speech filled with sarcasm to conspiracy theories that abound, there’s no shortage of heated discussions. We delve into the recent chaos in the political arena, touching on alleged conspiracies and the drama surrounding political transitions, while Karen and her guests weigh in with their distinctive views. As the conversation unfolds, we examine the state of American pride amidst political turbulence, with a particular focus on the inaugural address. Hear impassioned debates on historical and current political
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Hello, hello, everyone. Happy Inauguration Day. Oh my gosh, it’s finally here. The day that nobody ever thought, well, I can’t say nobody ever thought, but I was questioning whether this day would even come. And here we are. Thank you so much for tuning in to Shooting the Breeze today, brought to you by Franktown Firearms. You guys have to stop in and see what’s new at Franktown Firearms. You will not be disappointed. And if you’re not in the southern Denver metro area, I will tell you that it’s worth the drive to come and see it. If you haven’t been in a while, if it’s been a hot minute, you need to come and see us. One piece of significant news is that Franktown Firearms is now an authorized Staccato dealer. If you know, you know. So come in and take a look at the selection of staccatos that we have, as well as all the other favorites like Glock. You know that’s me. I’m Mama Glock, right? Smith & Wesson, Ruger, CZ, FN, Taurus, Springfield Canik, Beretta, all your favorites. Hunting rifles, shotguns, it’s all there. And all the accessories you need to improve your shooting experience. We offer lots of training courses. New ones are coming in February in the Shoehouse, and we’re so excited about that. We offer concealed carry training, and I have a class coming up this weekend on Saturday. I offer private training as well, and if that’s something you’re interested in, you can email me directly at karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com, and we can get you on the schedule. Call the shop anytime if you have questions about anything that I talk about. or anything you just want to know about inventory or whatever, you can call them at 720-770-7777, and they’ll be more than happy to answer your questions. You can visit the website. We’re going to soon have a new, improved, beautiful-looking new website, so you can check that out at franktownfirearms.com for now, and then franktownfirearms.co is going to be the next one, so you can check that out as well. So, you know, not much going on today. So I’m just going to talk about TikTok. I’m kidding. I’m just kidding. I’m still going to talk about TikTok and the ban and all that stuff. But it’s Inauguration Day. So my social media feeds are just on fire today. And I’m so happy that I follow TikTok. all the right people or at least all the interesting people. So I can sort of project and inject all kinds of cool different sort of, I don’t know, different thoughts, different feelings, different stuff into the conversation. If you would like to talk about anything about the inauguration and all the ancillary stuff that went down with it, You can call me at 303-477-5600, and Luke will be happy to patch you through. Luke, how are you doing today?
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Cold.
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Cold, yeah. Yeah, it’s cold. And, yeah, I’m going to talk about these temperatures. It’s just crazy here in Colorado, and D.C. is not much better. Bitter cold temperatures in D.C. forced the ceremony into the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol. And, you know, my conspiracy-minded brain thinks, are the cold temperatures the only reason to hold the ceremony indoors? Maybe, maybe not. My conspiracy theorist self says no, but my self that hates wind and cold that cuts through you like a knife says yes. So I don’t know. But Biden and his cronies have been busy doing what they do best, which is doing as much damage and destruction as they can possibly do on the way out the door. First of all, did you guys see Biden’s exit speech? I’m sure you did. All full of joy and hope for the future, right? Good grief. Of course, I’m being sarcastic here. A president should be portraying a, I don’t know, a grateful heart, for being able to serve the American people and go out with a little humility and a little dignity and looking forward to the next term and whatever. And, God, this guy, it’s just so different. It’s so different from everything that we’ve experienced up until this point. He’d rather warn the American people that the incoming administration is basically going to you know, put a boot on your neck and he’s going to take away all your rights and he’s only going to serve the richest people in the country and act as an oligarchical, oligarchical, how do you, I don’t know how you say that, whatever, a dictatorship. And, you know, all of our liberty is dead. It’s dead. Just so dramatic and just, just, oh, I just, I can’t with this guy. This is the same guy who – and I’m sorry if you disagree and just – you look at a lot of stuff online and you see that when people say this kind of stuff, you’re deemed as a crazy person. It’s not even conspiracy theory anymore. He blatantly stole the 2020 election, and if you don’t believe that or if you don’t think that or if you don’t think there’s enough proof or whatever, I think that you’re about to be proved wrong during this next four years. But – Biden enriched himself with shady business dealings through 22 different shell companies and money from China and Ukraine. And let’s not forget the censorship charge that he led through COVIDCon that Mark Zuckerberg recently admitted that Facebook was guilty of participating in because they were pressured by the U.S. government. And we can’t forget all the lies about January 6th and the events that took place on that day and the 26 human assets from the FBI instigating an otherwise peaceful crowd. MAGA supporters trying to keep the peace, and those same MAGA supporters are still rotting in jail with no trial and no due process. So we’re going to be talking a little bit more about that. But we also have AOC warning yesterday. of 21st century fascism. And she called this the eve of an authoritarian administration. So do you think there might be a little panic going on in D.C. right now? There’s rumors swirling around that Vivek Ramaswamy allegedly stepped down from his co-leadership role in Doge. Department of Government Efficiency. And I guess he said that American workers are lazy compared to their foreign counterparts. And that caused all kinds of controversy and stirred all the hornet’s nest of epic proportions. I don’t know. But Trump did debunk that. CBS News and their unnamed sources are the ones that put that out. And they said that there’s no truth to it. And Ramaswamy is still part of Doge. I don’t know. But tensions have been building between Musk and Ramaswamy, I guess, and Vivek disappeared from X for like 10 days after the controversy surrounding the H-1B visas came out. So I don’t know. Stay tuned for that information as we kind of move forward through this. And to put the icing on this – You know, I want to say a swear word right now, but I know I can’t. So to put the icing on this crap cake that has been the last four years, Biden decides to preemptively pardon several people that might suffer injury when Trump decides to seek revenge. Well, if we’re being honest, the pardons really only reflect their guilt. Fauci said, I mean, come on. He’s guilty of all kinds of crimes against humanity for the COVID scandemic. And, of course, all the things he did with AIDS and animal testing prior to his illustrious career as the face of the coronavirus. Adam Schiff also preemptively pardoned, I’m assuming, for his role in Russiagate, which all turned out to be fake news. And Liz Cheney and her fake January 6th unselect committee touting lie after lie after lie about police officers that were killed by MAGA insurrectionists. All turned out to be provenly false. And the only people who actually died were Trump supporters like Ashley Babbitt. And we’ve talked about that at length. And her murderer, Michael Babbitt. whatever the hell his name is, I don’t even know, don’t even care, the D.C. cop, never even glanced at, let alone charged with anything. And Biden pardoned his entire family minutes before Trump took his oath. So tell me they’re guilty without telling me they’re guilty. Really, Joe? It’s funny how these pardons go right back to 2014 when that Ukraine money started flowing and accidentally wound up in all those Biden family bank accounts. It’s just disgusting. And I have to ask, do pardons cover treason? So that’s the question of the day. Do pardons cover acts of treason? So I guess we’ll find out what that’s all about here going forward. From the AP, quote, the decision by Biden comes after Donald Trump warned of an enemy’s list filled with those who have crossed him politically or sought to hold him accountable for his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and his role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump has selected cabinet nominees who backed his election lies and who have pledged to punish those involved in efforts to investigate him. It goes on, the issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as acknowledgement that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense. Oh, okay. Whatever. It ends with our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country. What a bunch of crap. I’m sorry. It’s a bunch of crap. And I actually pulled that off of KDVR, our local Fox affiliate. And the fact that it says Trump has selected cabinet nominees who backed his election lies right there. That just tells you all you need to know. So it doesn’t matter if there is legitimate cause to believe that the 2020 election was blatantly stolen. They’re lies. It’s lies, and that’s how everybody should look at it. It’s just lies. It’s kind of becoming the narrative of the – I don’t know, the government and their stance, it’s sickening. It’s absolutely sickening. Jim, what do you got for me?
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Hey, yeah, you know, Karen, yeah. I watched that inauguration, and let me tell you something. After the inauguration was over, I’ll tell you, I stood up, and I was, like, yelling inside my living room, like, Yes, it’s great to be an American again. I love being an American again. I’ll tell you what. I’ve been so ashamed of being an American for such a long time, Karen. I mean, really, you can’t imagine how long it’s been since I’ve been proud to be an American. You know what I’m saying?
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It’s just – not just – Well, Jim, I have to push back on that just for a second, okay? I have never lost my pride in being an American. I was deeply disgusted and, and just, you know, embarrassed by the Biden administration. And there’s some things.
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Go ahead. Well, no, it goes far. It goes way, way back further than that. I mean, George Bush, Bill Clinton, the whole lot of them, they’ve been either globalist or they’ve been straight up out and out right Marxist. Agreed. And I’m not one of these people that – I didn’t vote for Clinton. I didn’t vote for George Bush Sr., You know, I guess I’m just one of few that was awake of what was going on. And George Bush Jr., I mean, that guy is straight up. He’s a globalist. He was a criminal. He was letting more people into this country illegally than Obama. I mean, the guy was just a shameful person. And I’m just totally ashamed. And nobody takes pride in this country for a long time, Karen. I’m sure it is. You know, I understand. I understand. You know, being a native, I’ve seen people move to Colorado. I remember when people used to take pride in this state. Nobody takes pride in this state anymore. Everybody opens up their windows, throws their trash out the window. No, it’s been a long time. And I’m hoping things change in this country because, really, Americans have to take pride. You know, and until our government gets itself straight, the rest of America is not going to get on board with this, Karen.
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Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. And, you know, my show today is going to be chock full of all kinds of stuff. And some of it is very sad. And I don’t know. We’re all still a big freaking question mark, in my opinion.
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Well, you know, if you’re watching this on TV, I mean, you can see the people to the left of Donald Trump when he was up there speaking yesterday. And you could see all the people that were sitting there just going, Oh, I saw it.
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Trust me, I saw it.
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And George Bush was right in there with them.
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Yeah, he was. And let me go back to just when I say that I’m just embarrassed for the last four years. I love America as… the foundational ideal on which we were founded, on the republic that we were founded. And anything that goes against that and goes against the Constitution, that’s what I’m embarrassed of. So any of this stuff, whether it’s RINOs or Democrats or the radical leftist, Marxist, Leninist, whatever, that’s obviously the scar. That’s the cancer. That’s what needs to be eradicated. And will it ever be? I don’t know. But I know what you’re saying, and I know what you’re saying about how, you know, you haven’t been proud to be an American. I’m proud of the American ideal.
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Right, right, right. Well, you know, I will say one disappointment about Donald Trump, though. I don’t think Donald Trump has ever sat down or never really read our history book very well because – You know, all these pardons, all these pardons that went down, especially for all those people that was involved with that January 6th committee thing. You know, I mean, I’m sorry. I love to sit there and stand there in front of Donald Trump and say, hey, Donald. You know, do you think George Washington would have went out there and announced to the British, hey, we’re going to take this route, come after you guys? I mean, do you think Abraham Lincoln would have announced to the world, hey, this is what we’re going to do to capture and take over or do this to the Confederates? I mean, Donald Trump, I love the guy, and I think he’s going to do good, but that man has got to learn how to control his mouth. And he really does.
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Yep, understood. Absolutely.
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You know what I’m saying?
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Go ahead. You’ve got to hear the rest of my information that I have today, and we’re going to kind of tie all this stuff up because there’s still a lot of questions. A lot of questions that came out, for me anyway, came out of the inauguration and the oath. And everything I’ve got to say. I mean, for one, I’ve got to say that Trump’s family looked absolutely horrified when they were standing behind him. And lots of stuff that I’m going to talk about with that. And because, you know, me, I’m going to pull out the comms. I’m going to pull out all kinds of crazy stuff that maybe the other people didn’t didn’t recognize or pick up on. So.
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Right. OK. All right. Thanks, Karen.
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Thanks, Jim. Thanks for the call.
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You bet. Bye.
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Bye. So they’re still portraying Trump as this next – all I can say is this next four years is going to be absolutely wild. I mean how do you flush the toilet on literally thousands of swamp creatures and get rid of every corrupt individual in government and the media and academia and Hollywood and the list goes on and on? So Trump issued a response to the pardons, and he said only this. It is disgraceful. Many are guilty of major crimes. And then he signed a DJT. So that’s the text message that went out to all kinds of media people and whatever shortly after the pardons. But the first swing that Trump took out of the gate today is that he’s going to be signing an executive order declaring there’s only two sexes recognized in the U.S., And that was on X, and I’m not sure why he didn’t use the word gender, but we’ll talk more about that in just a little bit. The actual order is going to elaborate a little bit more. And the village people performing at Trump’s pre-inauguration rally, how priceless was that? Trump doing his little Trump dance was a sight to behold. Very fun. And I got to be honest, as I was typing my show notes today, I couldn’t help but think that so much was going to happen before today, before now, before the show starts. And I’m researching as I’m typing, and I’m trying to put everything in the right context, and it was very tough. But in terms of the people showing up to the inauguration today, Everyone’s in their finest clothing, showing up to the inauguration, and John Fetterman shows up in his standard hoodie and cargo shorts. So what is wrong with that guy? I got to ask, what’s wrong with him? Don’t the people of Pennsylvania and the U.S. government pay the guy enough to buy a freaking suit? Good grief. I mean, whatever. When he shows up to an interview with his sweatpants and or his you know shorts and his sweatshirt and whatever whatever okay i get it but you know you’re going to a presidential inauguration can’t you buy a pair of chinos and a and a button down is it that hard and then we saw george w bush arriving he looked terrified And to Jim’s point earlier, he’s a criminal beyond all criminals, and we all know that. Well, you should know that. So I don’t know if you saw him as he was proceeding into the rotunda to sit down for the inauguration, but he did not look happy at all. Bill and Hillary Clinton were booed as they entered the Capitol building, so that’s kind of funny. Amy Klobuchar arrives, all smiles, like she was smiling from ear to ear, and Chuck Schumer looked like someone just punched him in the gut. So looking at all these people and their facial expressions, I was really trying to focus on that, although I didn’t get to see like every single person enter the rotunda. It was just very interesting for me to see all the faces. All the different expressions and of, yeah, kind of crazy. Melania Trump looked stunning, had a very Michael Jackson vibe going on in her black and white fitted dress and her black hat with the white band around it. That was very cool. And their son, Barron Trump, looking, as he’s standing there, he’s kind of looking like a secret service agent, like looking up into the rotunda area, you know, very suspiciously. It was kind of weird. I don’t know if you guys caught that or not, but Melania, you know, she’s not a shrimp, and Barron just towers over her. So I’m watching the opening ceremony to the inauguration, and I’m noticing that everybody who spoke before Kavanaugh, you know, took the stand to swear Vance and Trump in, Everybody was saying our democracy. I haven’t heard the word republic at all, except from Trump. And boy, does that feel good to say again, President Trump. So, and yeah, I’m going to apologize here for the way some of this is being put out there, some past tense and some current and looking forward and I was watching the inauguration events on television as I was doing my notes, and so a lot of this is being typed as it was happening. Carrie Underwood, did you guys see that? After a few minutes of very awkward silence, after I guess they had some technical problems or whatever, and she ended up singing America the Beautiful a cappella. And she knocked it out of the park. Just absolutely amazing. So some notable no-shows include Michelle Obama. and Karen Pence, and Nancy Pelosi, and the aforementioned AOC. So what a bunch of scumbags, all of them. I mean, there’s got to be a reason. Well, we know the reason, just, you know, for them not to show, and it’s not aforementioned AOC. I think I have that coming up here in a second, but AOC put out this – no, I told you about it, the AOC saying that we’re in a fascist whatever. We’re going to look forward to four years of fascism, whatever. Anyway, I got to admit that when I watched Vance and then particularly when I watched Trump take his oath and the Navy choir singing the battle hymn of the republic, I got misty. I’m not going to lie. It’s been such a grueling four years. And that moment was kind of surreal because if you listen to this show, you know, that I was, I was kind of apprehensive to even think that this day was going to happen. But looking at Trump’s face in the closeups that were shown during the Navy choir song, I wasn’t sure if he looked angry. He did look angry. He looked angry and upset. And then you could also determine or kind of view that as focused and determined I don’t know. But his speech, I think, makes it seem that he was focused and determined. And I love when he opened it up and said that January 20th, 2025 is Liberation Day. So if you missed Trump’s inaugural speech, I’ve got you. It’s all kind of exciting. It seems almost too good to be true, a lot of the content of his speech. So We’re going to talk about it. So today he’s going to declare an emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will be immediately halted. And I’ve also heard reports that the entry point in El Paso is already shut down. He will reinstate the remain in Mexico policy, ending the practice of catch and release. He will send troops to the southern border to repel the invasion. And it is an invasion. You guys know that. He will designate the cartels as a foreign terrorist organization. I love that. Invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which is kind of a huge deal, and I love how he kind of pulls these things out of the past. He will direct power of all federal and state law enforcement agencies to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks. He’s going to direct his cabinet to use their full power to tackle inflation and bring down prices on everything. He’s also going to declare an energy emergency and says that he’s going to drill, baby, drill, which I love. He’s going to make America a manufacturing country again and says we’ll use the liquid gold under our feet to power it. He’ll also revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving the auto industry and keeping his pledge to American autoworkers. We will be making cars in this country again. He’s also going to sign an executive order eliminating government censorship and bring back free speech to America. He said never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents. Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. He says he’s going to bring back law and order to our cities. He said this week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based. which, I mean, can I get an amen on that? So when we come back from break, I’m going to talk about some other stuff that he said in his speech, and we’re going to go into a little deep dive rabbit hole. We’ll be right back.
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And we’re back after that short break. I just wanted to I’m continuing on with with Trump’s inaugural speech and wanted to touch on some high points here. Trump said on day one he’s going to end all diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government, which I cannot cheer loud enough for that. He says, as of today, it will be the policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. And you know what? I can just hear the LGBTQ, the T part specifically, just melting down, melting down right now. Because, you know, I want to interrupt this just for one second. I want to talk about a commercial that I keep seeing on – I watch Investigation Discovery a lot, and they are pretty much every commercial break is filled with just pharmaceutical everything, like every drug that you can buy for every condition and the list of side effects and whatever, and they have catchy jingles and whatever. You guys have heard me talk about it before. But there’s one, Descovy, I think is what it’s called, and it is for AIDS prevention, okay? And One of the side effects, or as they start to introduce the side effects, they say something to the effect of Descovy is not for people assigned female at birth. Why? Why not? You guys seem to think that, you know, men can get pregnant and men can breastfeed and all this other stuff. Why, why is it only assigned for, you know, people who aren’t assigned female at birth? So anyway, I digress. It’s all just a jacked up system that I, you’ve heard me talk about it before. I can’t say enough terrible things about the trans community in, in terms of what they’ve pushed and the grooming and the whole thing. It just makes me want to throw up. So that’s just my little injection there. So, He also said, this week, I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pay, and I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty. It’s going to end immediately. Then he goes on, our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission, defeating America’s enemies. Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen. We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but by also the wars that we end, and perhaps more importantly, the wars we never get into, which love that. He says, my proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and a unifier. I’m pleased to say that yesterday was One day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families. And of course, Biden took credit for that. He goes on, America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world. A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. So I guess that wasn’t just a something that he threw out there, I guess it’s going to happen. And we will restore the name of the great President William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. And if you’ll recall, Obama is the one that renamed Mount McKinley to Denali because global warming. I wish I was joking, but that was the reason for the name change. Look it up. I guess William McKinley must have been an energy-consuming madman. And yeah, so we’re going to go ahead and rename it back to Mount McKinley the way it should be. He goes on to talk about the Panama Canal and how we foolishly gave the canal to Panama after losing 38,000 lives in the building of it. And how the treaty we signed with Panama has been violated. American ships are being overcharged, including our Navy ships. and that China is running the Panama Canal, not Panama, and that we’re taking it back. So all good stuff. Very, very ambitious. He’s talking in this whole what he’s going to say that are basically going to happen in the first couple of days. He goes on to say, above all, my message to Americans today is that it’s time for us to once again act with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization. So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred. Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy, and disease-free. The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory. So that kind of buys into the whole like getting Greenland and Canada perhaps I digress, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And then he goes on to something that I find unbelievable, I guess. So let me read this next part to you. He says, and we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on planet Mars. And if you know me, you know I kind of scoffed at that because that’s just how I am. You know me. He says, ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and now our nation is more ambitious than any other. There’s no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls. Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on earth. No one comes close. Americans push thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They cross deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers. won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. Again, that last part, not my way of thinking, but you know, we can’t expect Trump to be a flat earther now, can we? That just wouldn’t kind of jive with most of the the world population. And then he ended by saying in recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before. We will be a nation like no other. And then he finally says the golden age has just begun. So if you have any thoughts on the president’s inaugural address, please give me a call at 303-477-5600. And I’d love to talk to you about it. So Trump on his first day will also suspend the security clearances for the 51 national security officials who lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election. So that’s a big yay for me. One thing Trump didn’t mention is the blanket pardon of all the January 6th prisoners of war is what I call them that are still locked up in a D.C. gulag somewhere. I really wish he would have mentioned them and talked in depth about their – because those guys have been in prison for four years. And most of them – and I’m not going to say all because I don’t know the story of every single person that’s in the D.C. gulag. And there’s other prisons that they were sent to. They’re not all in D.C. But that’s an issue. And, you know, if he did mention that whole thing in the inaugural address, then I missed it. My morning was kind of filled with trying to type with one side of my brain and trying to listen with the other. So sometimes that doesn’t work out very well. But President Trump did say during an appearance on the Dan Bongino show earlier that he will fully investigate January 6th. So that’s a bonus. Trump stated that he will figure out the identity of the pipe bomber. He will identify the scaffold man. He’s the guy who shot the revolver up in the air. And a lot of people say that he’s the one that instigated the rioting. And he’s going to determine whether Ray Epps is a federal informant. So, yeah, Ray Epps kind of disappeared into the obscurity after the J6 and the committee and all that stuff. So maybe we’ll find out some more about him. But although I’m still kind of cautious about pretty much everything, I’m going to revel in this win. And I’m going to pray that the next four years bring great things to the American people. Now, I’m going to go into some darker things here. And it’s just darker just based on what I’ve seen on some of my Telegram accounts and some of the comments that I’ve seen on Facebook and as kind of a middle-of-the-road sort of stance, I guess. So some people are saying that Trump was installed and is a puppet and things are only going to get worse. He’s a Freemason. He will enact the Noahide laws. He’s a Jesuit. He’s all in for big banks and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Can’t you people just take a moment to breathe and enjoy the win? I guess if you don’t view this as a win, then – I don’t know what you can say other than, you know, say what you feel. People are also saying, and I verified this, that Trump’s hand was not on the Bible when he took his oath. And I don’t know if that bothers me or if we can throw the Q stuff in here. And so I’m going to read a little bit about that. But he did not have his hand on the Bible when he took his oath. And if you didn’t just look it up. Gary, what do you got for me before I move on?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, thanks for taking the call. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I, you know, I voted against Biden or Harris for Trump. I agree with a lot of his policies. But, you know, some of the things that I have a problem with him is invoking God. I don’t believe he’s God bearing at all. Also, I don’t know if he’s ignorant or if he’s just trying to talk to people who don’t understand tariffs, but he said he was going to create this external revenue service who are going to collect tariffs from foreign countries where anybody with room temperature IQ can knows that importers pay tariffs, not foreign countries.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. And I did pick up on that and his use of the term external revenue service. So, yeah, I’m not real sure what that’s all about.
SPEAKER 04 :
But do you think he doesn’t understand that foreign countries don’t pay tariffs? Or is he just talking to folks who don’t understand tariffs is he trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes or is he just ignorant well who does pay tariffs importers okay that’s that’s what i mean it’s not the countries it’s the manufacturers that that import countries into our country right yeah i i’m an importer i’m going to import some uh some computer parts from China. I paid import tax to the customs service. And Trump said foreign countries like China pays tariffs. They absolutely do not.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, the tariffs placed on the exporter, I guess. So, yeah, I get that. I don’t know. Maybe, yeah, maybe he’s just dumbing it down to where, you know, like textiles that come from Pakistan or, you know, electronics that come from China or, you know, furniture that comes from Sweden or whatever. Maybe that’s what he’s talking about, but he just puts it in a way that the American people can digest. I don’t know. And I’m not defending his, you know, his speech and what he said about that, but maybe he’s just dumbing it down for normies to hear. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think what he’s trying to do is create the impression that you and I, pay ultimately pay tariffs and and the price we pay for these goods because the importers pass it on to us so by saying so by him saying these foreign countries pay the tariffs he’s trying to cover that up and for people who don’t choose to understand how tariffs work it sounds good and they’re a rah-rah and he does that with so many different things it’s irritating right
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah, I hear you. Yep. Yeah, I hear you. And all this stuff’s going to come out the way. You bet, Gary. Thanks so much for calling. So Trump not having his hand on the Bible, it does bother me. It bothers me a lot. But, however, someone on Telegram kind of put this in a QCOM kind of basket, and he said this. He didn’t place his hand on the Bible because he did not concede the 2020 election because A new oath was not needed, and if he did, that could be used in court. So that’s very interesting, right? And then someone else said it’s because there is no office of the president of the United States of America, Inc., to be filled. The corporation no longer exists as of January 1st. The military is responsible for this deception and will continue to fool the American people until we all wake up. Now, this is from this post. This is not me saying this. This is from this post. It goes on. It says the military has been used as a private commercial mercenary force for the last 160 years. And Serco, that’s a British crown thing, is the paymaster for the military. And Donald Trump is their puppet. You have all just witnessed the rebranding of the old cabal. The only legitimate government in the United States is your national land and soil jurisdiction government. And until all U.S. citizens wake up and take the necessary steps to correct your political status and return home to the land and soil jurisdiction and declare yourself as an American, nothing will change. So that kind of goes back. If you guys have been listening for any length of time, you know who Bobby Lawrence is. And he was on the show a couple of times talking about, you know, he doesn’t like the word sovereign citizens, but to claim your status as an American, as a human being living on the land. So that’s kind of what that all means. So I do think that things are going to get crazy. And Jim, we got you back again. What do you got for me?
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so… Man, people do not pay attention to what’s going on. I mean, this stuff has been explained and nobody listens to any of this stuff when it’s being explained. Oh, and by the way, within the first 10 minutes of his speech this morning, he said he was breaking open the doors. Everybody was going to be released from that January 6th thing. He did mention that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, good. Good. Okay, good. I’m glad I didn’t hear it. And so thank you. Thank you for offering that clarification because I didn’t hear that part. And, yeah, okay, go on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so on the tariff thing, okay, he did this the last time when he was president. Why everybody thinks this is going to be across-the-board tariff? This is not an across-the-board tariff for everybody and their little service industry thing. He is targeting certain corporations. Like the last time he was in office, he went after Ford. He went after Chevy. He went after them and said, hey, you’re going to Mexico, building this stuff dirt cheap down and then bringing it back up here and making billions of dollars profit off the American people for your cheap labor. He’s targeting the companies that have left America behind. Karen, and that’s the companies. And so what it does, it forces them to sit there and bring their, their manufacturing back into this country because the tariffs are going to be so heavy on companies like Ford, even the pharmaceutical companies that have taken their pharmaceuticals out of this country. It’s going to force them because the tariffs are going to be so high that Americans aren’t going to be able to afford it. And if Americans can’t afford to buy their junk, then it forces them to bring it back into the country. Okay. Great explanation. Well, I mean, it’s been explained to people, Karen. Nobody has ever heard him say this isn’t across the board 100% on everything being brought into this country.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Yeah. And that makes sense. And, you know, I was talking about the, you know, and so was Gary talking about it’s the manufacturers, not the countries themselves that are going to be tariffed, obviously. Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that’s right. Okay, we know we have a pharmaceutical problem in this nation, and so much of it is being made over in Asia. He wants all that stuff, pharmaceuticals, to be brought back. What about the computer chips? He wants the computer chip industry brought back into this country.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Yep.
SPEAKER 05 :
Those are the things why this last guy don’t understand that. I just don’t get it. Listen, people. Open your ears and listen.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. Well put, Jim. Well put.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thanks so much. In my next section, you’re going to probably want to call back in. So just for a forewarning. I think two calls is the limit, though. I don’t know. But I do think that things are going to get crazy. They always do. And since this is Trump’s last shot at doing big things, and he has nothing to lose at this point, I think we’re going to see some fireworks. And speaking of fireworks, I was on Nextdoor today. If you guys have that Nextdoor app, and people were reporting gunshots in Parker, and it turns out that they were fireworks, just as Trump was reciting his oaths. A neighbor commented fireworks to celebrate the orange Mussolini. So, okay. Wow. Anyway. So that’s enough about that. All I can do is, is just pray. God is in control. We’re going to go through this next four years and we’re going to hope for big, great things. Yeah. We’re, we’re just going to see what happens. I’m very hopeful and, but very cautious and, Ready, ready to, I don’t know, ready to take on whatever comes, I guess. That’s all I can say. And I want to talk really quick. We got about five minutes left. And I want to talk about this TikTok ban. And I know that many of you probably don’t give a crap about this subject. at all, but I want to talk about it anyway. So the ban was supposed to happen yesterday, Sunday the 19th. And if you’re on TikTok, you know that your app started to go dark and act very weird on Saturday night, so the 18th. So I normally don’t kill the app. It’s on my phone all the time. I just never kill it. I just close it and go to another app, whatever. I don’t kill it. But when things started looking and acting weird and all the people that I follow, their profile pictures were grayed out and just things started to get really weird, I decided to kill it. I killed the app and then I brought it back up. And as soon as I did, I got a notification on the main screen that said, sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now. A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned. Okay. Now, that was Saturday night. And oddly, a while ago, when the ban was first mentioned, TikTok came out with an alternative called Lemon 8, just in case the ban was instated. So I downloaded Lemon 8. It acts and looks very much like TikTok, just with a bunch of yellow kind of fonts and stuff. So when the TikTok app first started acting weird, I opened my Lemon 8 app and got that same notification. So I actually think Lemon 8 went down first. There was another app that people were talking about called Red Note, and people were downloading and using that app, and I’ve seen all kinds of people talking about it. But the app, that app, Red Note, is owned by China. And all the language is in Mandarin, okay? And people were still using it, trying to navigate through it and, you know, trying to learn Mandarin and all this. So I think people were just desperate. They’re trying to keep whatever online presence they had intact. And like I said in last week’s show, there are a lot of people who make a living on TikTok, either by affiliate marketing or creator collaborations. on the TikTok shop or simply by being in the creator fund and monetizing their videos. And I’m not kidding when I say that many people are making six-figure incomes just from the TikTok shop. I’m not one of them. I just like the app for news and information because I think it’s fun. But fast forward from Saturday night, about 12 hours, and TikTok is back up and running. Everything was restored, and other notification came up thanking Donald Trump for that. Of course, the left is losing their minds about it, but the 170 million Americans who do use TikTok are very happy about this. If you recall, last week I read a transcript from a press conference where a lawyer for TikTok was explaining its ownership and and its origins, and I told you that the CEO of ByteDance Ltd is Chinese, but he is based in the Cayman Islands, and that TikTok’s servers are in Virginia, and that TikTok is owned by a cadre of global investors and by their employees. But in the eyes of the TikTok haters, I’m not sure how you can hate something without ever seeing it or using it. The TikTok ban was awesome. I commented on a Facebook post that asked if we agreed on the band. I explained why I didn’t agree with it, and some guy commented that he was just hateful and vitriolic beyond belief. He said the Chinese government uses TikTok to spy on, gather information from the people and, you know, all the stuff that we’ve already heard. It’s a danger to national security, blah, blah, blah, blah. What he failed to mention is that the app had already been banned on government devices. So he was talking about, you know, national security and it can suck the information off the device and whatever. So to stir the pot a little bit, I just said wrong. And then he came back at me and called me a two-year-old and said I was a commie. And, I mean, it’s pretty unbelievable. So, I don’t know. Once again, I’m going to go back and tell you, get on TikTok. And especially now, go get on it. Go get on TikTok right now. Okay? There’s a reason why I’m asking you to do this. It’s not because I want your devices, you know, compromised. It’s something you need to do for success. all the reasons that I always explain, okay? That’s going to do it for me today. Thanks so much for spending the last 58 minutes with me, shooting the breeze. Stop by Franktown Firearms and check out all that’s new and exciting. Shoot me an email if you’d like to schedule some private training on this historic Inauguration Day. I want to pray to God for our country and for each and every one of you for a blessed 2025 and beyond. Mama Glock is out for now. Take care, everyone. God bless.
SPEAKER 02 :
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