Join our hosts as they delve into a deep analysis of Trump’s second era, contrasting past challenges with the current political scene. The episode takes you from the heights of conservative messages to the controversies surrounding Supreme Court figures, painting an illustrative picture of where media biases and sanctuary city stances collide with national ideals. A captivating listen on American politics!
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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience.
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We have a Supreme’s birthday, Mike. Was four-year-old Mike grooving to some Supremes 1964? I like him now. No? Yeah, but not back in the day. It is not Diana Ross. It is not Florence Ballard. It is Mary Wilson’s birthday. She would have been 81, passed away back in 21. You know, everybody in 1964, you think about the Beatles. But here in America, just 1964, this was their very, very first hit. And then after this, this is where did our love go. Then you had Baby Love, Come See About Me, Stop in the Name of Love, and Back in My Arms Again. All in 1964. Woo! Wow. That’s a library. That’s a library. That’s what you can call a series of successes, Mike. An amazing series of successes. An amazing parade of good things happening to them. Does this parallel to anything that might be happening in our lives, in our politics, in our country?
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I see what you did there. I got it. I see where you’re going with this. You know, I am really glad to see the real, real epic pushback, not only on the Democrats who wouldn’t stand for the little cancer survivor, but the media folks. Rachel Maddow. calling the awarding of the Secret Service honorary membership to Little DJ disgusting. Yeah. Nicole Wallace saying, I hope the little boy doesn’t wind up committing suicide someday as a cop because of Trump supporters. You know, an apology would go such a long way. Would it? Well, it would.
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But that implies self-awareness. That implies a sense of embarrassment. That implies a conscience, all of which is destroyed in the hearts of the twisted hearts and minds of these people.
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They have to be so dark. They have to be so… I mean, look, I keep thinking about what aboutism. If our side did that to them, we ought to call our side out, too. I mean, this is a little boy who’s lived with cancer for six years of his life. He already has been bullied for wearing the little cop uniform because they’ve made him an honorary police officer. His father told the New York Post of Rachel Maddow, she needs to shut her mouth if she has nothing nice to say. This lady didn’t even serve time in the military, he continued. I was on the USS Kitty Hawk. She doesn’t need to put her bad energy on us. I don’t know. I mean, I think – I kept thinking they ought to just – the right thing to do would be to apologize at this point, apologize.
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Of course it would. I mean, well, the right—guess what? As is true with many apologies, the really right—and there’s no time machine available for this, but the really right thing to do is to not do such wretched things. In the first place. Not say such horrible things. And, you know, it’s like a pendulum, and I was talking in the first segment, that— Not so many years ago, conservatives would say and do conservative things. The left and its media machine would rise up to smear it, and it would kind of work. We’d kind of have us on the ropes. We’d kind of be like, oh, wow, what do we do? It’s a total new day. They’re crazy attacks, as horrible and perverse as they are. The good news is they don’t land. They are punches that don’t land. They are met with instant derision, even from some inside Democrat land. Right. And so that leads me thinking, let me ask you the question I’ve kind of broadly put out there in the universe. Have we ever, I don’t want to say had it so good, although it’s tempting to phrase it that way, but in terms of the strength of the conservative message, the strength of a Republican president and the intellectual vacuousness and the flat out insanity of the left, we’ve never been better positioned. And I just, I’m enjoying it, but I also want to direct its energy toward really doing what we can in this amazing moment to make the most of it.
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Well, we have to sustain it. And I think you’re completely correct that to me the real glaring difference between Trump 2.0 and the first round is the Democrats were more organized and were more focused on trying to thwart his agenda. You know, at least they had – now, we look back at it, it was all nefarious, the Russian collusion hoax. That handcuffed him for practically his entire presidency. Now we’ve got the courts and even the Supreme Court that can be the obstacle to getting the Trump agenda done. Did you see the video of Trump shaking hands with the Supreme Court justices during the address and the look on Amy Comey Barrett’s face? Oh, no, no. She does. She looks at him like he is just scum.
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Okay, are we projecting something kind of?
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No, I don’t know. If you look at the video, I mean, you can see the look on her. I mean, I’m fascinated by the psychology of this. First of all, I’m intrigued. that the justices are even there. Because it has to be all kinds of awkward for them. Because if you remember during the speech, he called them out at one point and thanked them for some ruling that went his way. And I’m thinking, they can’t like sitting there having a president… Kind of prop them up.
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Well, they also really don’t like having a president insult them, as Obama did, where Alito at one point went, not true, not true. Correct. He didn’t go full Joe Wilson. You lie. I didn’t do that. But you’re right. It is weird, this supposedly apolitical robed gathering of people there at this most political event.
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Well, and I don’t know what has happened to Amy Coney Barrett. There’s something, you know, and I watched a clip this morning of Megyn Kelly when I was getting the show put together and wanted to come up with some things for you for our segment. And incidentally, part of my routine used to be going to the Drudge Report. No more. What happened to Drudge, Mark?
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I don’t think it’s him anymore. I think it’s his name. I think it’s been farmed out to somebody because I did, too. That used to be. It’s funny. It’s like talk show nostalgia. We kind of all went from having big stacks of newspapers. Remember newspapers? Did you ever own an exacto knife where you would literally go? Hence the term clippings.
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Right.
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Because we’d have big, the Rush Limbaugh stack of stuff.
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Right.
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It wasn’t off his printer. It was stuff off a newspaper. That’s right. At least in the early days. But then in the early Internet days, in the stone knives and bear skins era of the Internet, it was the Drudge Report, this compilation of all kinds of things, usually with kind of a conservative bent. Not anymore.
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Well, I can remember seeing the early TV images of Rush in his studio, and he always had the Drudge Report up on his computer screen. You know, I mean, I think Matt Drudge and Rush were friends. And look, let’s think about it. You know Rush would be all in for the Trump agenda. You know Limbaugh would be cheering him on.
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I hear his smile. I feel his.
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smile from heaven every day. I do too. So I don’t know what happened. Something broken. The last time we talked about this, you had said that. And then I got a bunch of texts and emails and say, no, no, no. He’s still running things over there. He did not divest himself of the, so of the operation.
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Listen, maybe he’s one of those folks who liked rush, liked Reagan, but did Trump break a drudge? Cause I, he re he was referred to as Trump ski. which is just a Russia, Russia, Russia smear, on the Drudge Report itself just a few days ago.
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Oh, no, every day is anti-Trump. Look at it today. Look at the headlines today. It’s anti-Trump.
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line after anti-Trump headline. There’s nothing positive. Drudge aggregates all these articles that are negative about the Trump administration and the agenda. I don’t know what happened. But anyway, so I was going through all this this morning, and I found a clip of Megyn Kelly from her podcast, and she makes a great observation. She says, what’s with the so-called conservative women justices? They’re always squishy. Sandra Day O’Connor was ostensibly a conservative. She often voted with the liberal And look, Alito is stunned at this latest ruling. The court caved to the left on U.S. aid disbursements, usurped Trump’s constitutional executive authority. They’re letting a district judge tell Trump that he can’t rightfully suspend $1.9 billion in foreign aid payments. Well, John Roberts, who’s the perennial disappointment to us. Shocker. And Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal justices. Alito couldn’t believe it. I mean, he was furious in his dissent. He said, does a single district court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the government of the United States to pay out and probably lose forever $2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic no.
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And the arguments made on the other side, which I actually… It’s a good thing to do. Read some stuff every once in a while. The arguments made before the court about maintaining these payments and freeing up these payments was the kind of argument that you usually get that appeal to the leftist judiciary, that the payments are good. The payments are nice. People like the payments. The payments do good things for people, none of which has anything to do with the way the constitutional borders are drawn for this issue.
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Correct. And see, you know, there’s a lot of theories about Amy Coney Barrett in particular. Here’s a text message right away from Todd in Denton. She was a deep state plant. Trump got bad advice on selecting her by nefarious people in the old cabinet. Now, the reason I think there’s some merit in what Todd said… You know, I’ve talked to Seb Gorka about this. There were some bad people in Trump 1.0.
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Funny you mention that, because two minutes ago you were talking about Trump 2.0 and just how smoothly things are going. Oh, no, actually, your quote was that there were people, most of the folks on the left, folks in the media, that there were folks who were trying to impede his agenda. Some of the folks who were trying to impede his agenda back in the first term were in the actual White House. He had saboteurs around him. That’s right. And he doesn’t anymore. And the difference is an amazing thing to see.
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It’s night and day. Just absolute night and day. My theory about her is that she was… thoroughly spooked by the protesters who got very close to her house and her kids. And look, these are humans.
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Who wouldn’t be?
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You’re right. You’ve got people showing up at their house with these awful, threatening protests, and she’s described as a soccer mom. She had the minivan before she became a justice of the Supreme Court, and she just does not want to tick off the angry, rabid left. And they are rabid. Did you see any of the testimony of the Sanctuary City Mayor?
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Oh, yes, I did. Tell everyone about that, Mike.
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Well, I give you Michelle Wu. Can I play a little clip for you? By all means. This one is classic.
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Mayor of Boston.
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The Boston mayor. And you saw Jim Jordan go after the mayor of Denver, which was classic. We’re going to play that whole five-minute epic rant. Mayor of Chicago. But the mayor of Boston, I just have a little 15-second clip. Sometimes all you have to do is play the Democrats in their own words and then sit back. We don’t even have to give it a lot of analysis. Here I give you the proud sanctuary city mayor, progressive Michelle Wu of Boston, Massachusetts.
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You belong here. This is your home. This is our city. We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone.
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Ah, that’s their… Everyone. Everyone? Really? Everyone? That’s their… Brandon, that goofy Brandon Johnson in Chicago tried that approach. We’re safer because of illegals.
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Ask Lake and Riley how safe it is when you’re not paying attention to immigrants.
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Ask the family of Jocelyn Nguyen. I mean, these people are out of their minds. And I have to tell you that the sanctuary city hill that they’re dying on really confounds me.
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And they are dying on it because I know you’ll play it and I will too. These mayors said these things. We’re safe for everybody. You know, we want to just being unresponsive as question after question after question, including from our own North Texas star, Brandon Gill. Do you believe in this? Do you believe in this? And they… answered by not answering. They were, these mayors were absolutely eaten alive by Republican questioning, which again, didn’t always happen back in the past. These people would sit down and sometimes Republican questioning was a little clumsy and not real skilled and wasn’t quite pointed enough. Not anymore. Didn’t mean to interrupt. Just,
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Buried. They were just buried. It was extraordinary. And finally, yesterday I had a chance to visit with our buddy Seb Gorka, who’s now involved in counterterrorism efforts in the White House. He was on the tarmac and got on the plane at Dulles when they got the mastermind behind the Abbey Gate bombing who arrived in the United States. What an extraordinary moment that was. And Seb, I mean, he even joked about it. He said a few years ago, Jesse Waters called me the scariest guy on television or radio. And he is a little imposing, I have to admit. But you know what? He is absolutely ecstatic over the success. And look, it just took a few weeks into the Trump administration.
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Who wouldn’t be happy? And the picture I have burned in my brain of Seb yesterday, he posted it, him with the biggest smile you could possibly have welcoming a guest to the White House. DJ Daniel.
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That’s right, DJ.
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Just kneeling down and putting his arm around this young man and loving on him and showing him just basic human decency, something Nicole Wallace has no concept of.
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And the moment of the Abbey Gate announcement that President Trump made, they couldn’t even stand for that. They didn’t stand for that, Mark. They had their stupid little paddles. I mean, the cringe factor is getting worse and worse. I just saw a video of like five women of Congress, including that insufferable Jasmine Crockett. Choose your fighter. And they’re like dancing up and down and bopping up and down. They got nothing. Keep it up, ladies. You’re right. This is as good as it gets right now. And I love it. I’m loving every minute of it. Happy Thursday. By the way, Quick programming note, I got jury duty Monday. I am so enraged at this. I’m walking in there.
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You’re going to throw down the talk show card?
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No, I’m going to say hang them high. I want them all executed. Exactly right. I think traffic, you run through a red light, you need to be executed. I’m going to tell them I’m a conservative talk show host and I believe in the death penalty for any infraction against the state. I’m going to, I mean, look.
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But it’s a Florida jury. They may name you foreman.
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I’ll be on like the OJ trial for 87 weeks. I’ll see you. I can’t believe it. Exactly. See you for the J.D.
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Vance inauguration.
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What happened last time you’ve been called for the J.D.?
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I was in. It happened a couple of times. Exact same thing. I’m in there for 30 minutes.
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And they dismiss you, right? I’m gone. Yeah. Well, I hope they dismiss me because I want to be – I’m going to start babbling. I’m going to show up like in a hefty bag. I’ll wear like a garbage bag. I’ll put a tinfoil hat on. I’ll start babbling. I’ll start babbling. He has a plan. He has a plan. I’ll be singing show tunes. Saw Book of Mormon last night in St. Leon Broadway. It still holds up, but very blasphemous.
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Trey Parker, Matt Stone. Love those guys.
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Funny stuff. All right. Happy Thursday, my friend.
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