In today’s episode, Mike Gallagher tackles the challenging topics of blame, political division, and the role of new political movements. With the specter of a potential third party led by Elon Musk, conservatives must ponder the future of MAGA and the implications of political fragmentation. Tune in as Mike engages with listeners and fields their concerns amidst the many breaking stories.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Wow, this is going to be a day. Happy Monday. Golly, we’ve got a lot to cover here today on this Monday, July the 7th, 2025. Welcome in. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. You’re going to need it because we’ve got a lot of things to catch up on. We’ve been away for a few days. Many thanks to Carl Jackson, Joey Hudson for filling in while I got a little R&R. I always joke with Mark Davis, every time he goes on vacation, all you know what breaks loose. And it has broken loose in the last few days. Look at the list. This horrific, devastating, horrifying flooding in central Texas. Inevitably, the blame game is underway. Already there are questions being asked about the warning and the detection system. Already there are people who are trying to politicize it. Already there are people making race part of the story. This is inevitable. And I’m going to tell you something right now. I refuse to give any oxygen to some of these evil, evil people. We’re not going to do it. The team has some clips ready for me. There’s some lunatic out of Houston. She’s attacking the children who died. Oh, yeah. literally attacking the children who died. I think that, as I understand it, their crime is their parents probably voted for Trump and they were white. Now, if you think I want to give that lunatic any oxygen, think again. It’s like playing with a Ouija board. There’s some things you just stay away from. There are some things that are so evil. There are some things that are so wrong. There are some things that are so terrible. that you don’t come close to it. We can have a legitimate conversation about early warnings and whether or not there was proper notification. Of course, the left wants to blame Trump because they’re going to blame Trump for everything. But ultimately, we’re not going to go down that evil path of people who want to actually celebrate the deaths of all these babies, of all of these innocent little children, these little girls attending a Christian summer camp. The beloved camp director swept away. He died trying to save them, trying to rescue them. It’s an awful story. I keep thinking about our Angel Tree campaign because these are the kind of camps we send these kids to. And we’re working a lot right now behind the scenes, and I’ll give you some more information as it becomes available. But, you know, we’ve got all that news breaking. We’ve got, I understand, flooding in North Carolina now as well. You’ve got the Elon Musk-Donald Trump feud. You’ve got all hell breaking loose there between Elon and President Trump. And I’m mystified at Elon. I think President Trump is mystified too. He can’t believe it either. He’s disappointed. He put out a lengthy statement suggesting that Trump is just saddened by what Elon is doing. He wants to form a third party? And I’ve got people in my life saying, oh, it’s never going to get off the ground. Don’t be so sure. Don’t be so sure. Are you kidding me with just ignoring this? This is not an insignificant guy. Elon Musk puts a tweet out that gets 20 million responses. This guy’s a massively influential person. What do you do when a massively influential person appears to step off the curb? What do you do when somebody as prominent as Elon Musk takes on not just Donald Trump, But MAGA, and that’s what’s happening here. He’s taking on the whole movement. And he could try to destroy it. I don’t know that he will. I got Pete Tracy. Oh, it’s no big deal. He won’t destroy the movement. Mark Davis. Oh, there’s nothing. Ross Perot delivered Bill Clinton to this country for eight years. Ross Perot gave us Bill Clinton for eight years. Elon Musk could do a lot worse damage than Bill Clinton even did. So, you know, we’ve got to wrap our brains around that as well. We’ll tackle that when we can. We’ve got to talk about the one big beautiful bill. And back to Elon, he just posted something about the Epstein files. Riddle me this, Batman. How does Pam Bondi claim… that she has seen the Epstein list, and now the Department of Justice is telling us there isn’t an Epstein list. What? What in the world is going on there? Well, here’s 10 hours of video. See, nobody went in and out of his cell. Epstein killed himself, and there is no Epstein client file list. Wait a minute. I watched Pam Bondi on TV say she’s seen the list. What is going on here? So I’m mystified by that as well. So, look, we’ve got so much to tackle today, and it’s our mission to get it all in. 800-655-MIKE as we welcome you aboard to this Monday episode. 800-655-6453. I have a hunch there’s a whole bunch of you who want to let your voice be heard and get it off your chest. So where do you want to begin? You want to talk about the flooding, the blame game? And, again, don’t even bring up the people who are playing the race card game. And are blaming, you know, Trump supporters and all of that and blaming these little girls. Because we’re not going to do that. I’m not going to touch that. That’s evil. That’s a level of evil. Now, we’re witnessing evil. We’re seeing GoFundMes for Luigi Mangione. I saw a report today at Axios that a lot of Democrats are calling on their elected members of Congress to get shot in an effort to stop Trump. I’m not kidding you. So they are in such a dark place right now, and I don’t think we should avoid it or ignore it, but I also don’t think we need to give it oxygen. Because sometimes evil is so bad that you don’t come close to it. But feel free to join me and talk about the Elon Trump. The war. It’s not a disagreement. It’s kind of World War III here. Elon has gone DEFCON 1. Trump hasn’t. Trump is just saying, I’m disappointed in the guy. He’s mad about the EV mandates going away. But Musk is doubling down. He’s taking on Trump. He’s taking on the Republican Party. He’s taking on MAGA. And he’s threatening, promising to launch a third party, which could cause a lot of problems for us in the midterm elections. There’s also news about John Brennan and Obama and Russiagate I got to tell you about. So all of it is, you know, right here waiting for you. 800-655-6453. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they’re having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It’s a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. 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Mike Gallagher.
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Salem News Channel viewers seeing a live look of Jacksonville, Florida. We’re glad you’re tuning in. SNC.TV. Watch the show as well as listen to us on your favorite radio station. A lot of text messages on the MyPillow text line. Problem with a day like today is I don’t even know where to begin, where to start, what to focus on. Elon? The Epstein Files? A lot of people are texting about Elon. California writes, Trump needs to invite Elon to the White House for dinner. Let him hash it out. If Trump can do that with a Kennedy, he should be able to do with Elon. That sort of reflects the way I feel about Elon Musk. I want Trump and Elon to bury the hatchet here. This is not good. And I’m not trying to be an alarmist. I’m not trying to overreact, but I don’t want to underreact either. I don’t want to slough this off and say, well, nothing bad can happen. Oh, something really bad can happen. Thanks to Ross Perot and his stupid third-party effort, pardon me, we got eight years of Bill Clinton because all he did was split Republican votes. Period. No way around this. And don’t tell me it can’t happen again. Text from Austin, Texas. My thoughts on the Elon Musk thing, he reminds me of a spoiled little child. He didn’t get his way, so now he’s pouting and he’s going to do what he wants to do. Remember, he used to be a Democrat. He didn’t get his way with Democrats, so he started supporting conservatism. Now he didn’t get his way with us, so he wants to start his own party. Go ahead, Elon. Be the spoiled little rich kid that you are. Do what you want to do. Well, it’s not that easy. This is not an insignificant guy. This is not a guy who isn’t capable of winning over hearts and minds. And I can be aggravated like you are, Texas. Some people are theorizing it’s going to be a good thing for our side. Do you think Democrats are now going to be enamored with Elon? You think they’re going to go to the America Party or the American Party or whatever he’s calling it? I don’t know. Nathan’s in Columbus, Ohio. 22 past the hour. We have an open line. 800-655-MIKE. Hi, Nathan. How are you?
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Good. How are you, sir?
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I’m okay. I’m just confused about this Elon Trump feud. How do you think this thing plays out?
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Oh, I… You know… I think he’s tired of the bureaucratic mess that we have in Washington that we’ve had for a long time. I think that’s what upset him about the big, beautiful bill and not getting the cuts that he wanted with all the work that he did with Doge. And I think he draws… and especially young Democrats to his side as well, I think this might be the party we’ve been waiting for. The one that actually drains the swamp.
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Yeah, well, I love your thinking. I love your wishful thinking. It’s never going to happen. All it’s going to do… We have a two-party system. And I know that a lot of people like you, and maybe me, to some degree, wish we didn’t. I kind of wish we didn’t have the excess spending, and I get it. But what you’re suggesting is… and let’s just be real, blow up MAGA and replace it with Elon’s party. That’s what you want, right?
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Well, do you think there’s a strong contender from the Republican Party after Trump that can gather people the way that he did and help us to win in the next… Yeah, but we’ve got Trump now, though.
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We’re in the middle of now. You know what our best chance to get out of this mess is now? Trump and MAGA.
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I believe that too, sir. I’m looking to the future, and I think that another party, a strong one, that Elon is, I think, is the same thinking that we share.
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Sure, fair enough.
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Let’s get rid of all this dramatic BS.
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But now’s not the time to do that. But I agree with you. Let’s look at the future. Hey, 2026, 2028, 2030, whatever. Not now. You’re not going to blow up MAGA now. And there is a little bit of a difference between the Ross Perot spoiler role that he played and today’s MAGA. Ross Perot didn’t have the kind of machine behind him that Trump has with MAGA. And people are furious at Elon Musk. But I know there are enough people like you who are kind of enamored with the idea. Ooh, it’s kind of cool, a third party. We’ve got too much spending. You know, first of all, too much spending pretends that we don’t have hundreds of senators and congressmen who are like a bunch of cats that need to be herded. I mean, it’s unbelievable that people think in such a simple way that we can blow up the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, our entire form of government. Trump is… the answer right now to what we’re facing. And you’ve got to go with the guy we put into office. And after a few months in office, you’ve got a guy like Elon throwing a massive temper tantrum, and he wants to burn it all down. And I get from this last caller, yeah, let’s burn it all down. No, trust Trump. I’m told that our merchandise, our Trust Trump merchandise is flying off the shelves. If you want to get your own, go to MikeOnline.com and you’ll see the Trust Trump t-shirts. You’ll see the Trust Trump coffee mugs. You’ll see the Trust Trump baseball caps. Give it to the doubter in your life. Trust Trump. MikeOnline.com. Or you can just text the keyword STORE to 800-655-MIKE. That’s the MyPillow text line. I love getting your texts, incidentally. Please never text and drive. And remember, it’s a real simple thing to do. Just 800-655-MIKE. Brought to you by MyPillow.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network. Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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America is grieving over the loss of at least 82 souls in Central Texas. It was a horrific weather event. Of course, the finger pointing and the blame game commences again. I didn’t think that the lunatic left could get any lower than supporting Luigi Mangione or Hamas. I saw a headline today at Axios. The Democrats are expecting their Democrat congressman to get shot in order to oppose Donald Trump. I mean, the lows to which they’re willing to go has no bottom. And I didn’t think it would get much worse than it has, but then I read about the people who were actually celebrating the deaths of these little girls from the Christian summer camp, the mystic summer camp. And I made a decision. The normal formula for a talk show like mine would be to the righteous outrage at these demons, because that’s a demonic thing to do. There’s a woman in Houston, for example, who’s getting a lot of media attention, and she worked for some government agency. She was a mayoral appointee for a food bank or something, and she’s getting a lot of attention, and she seems to relish it. I looked at her video clips last night, and she loves it. She loves the attention. She loves disparaging the little girls who died and literally calling them a filthy name. celebrating their death. And, of course, their crime is that they’re white and that their parents, in her twisted mind, probably voted for Trump so they got what they had coming to them. Now, I don’t know about you, but I don’t go near that kind of evil. Number one, I don’t want to give anybody that kind of attention. And for me, number two, it’s like playing with a Ouija board. There’s some things you’ve got to stay away from. Some things that are so dark… So demonic, and that’s the only word, and I don’t want to touch it with a 10-foot pole. I want to talk about the legitimate issues involving the flooding, how this disaster unfolded, and I think we know pretty much by now what happened. It has certainly happened before in Central Texas. It’s not the first time that the community was devastated by flooding. There were warnings for the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service offices were overstaffed. People came in to assist. There wasn’t a staffing shortage. The narrative that Donald Trump is to blame for this flooding is nothing but typical political posturing. But we have to be able to Tackle these tough issues. And what happened in Kerrville, what happened to these beautiful little babies, these children at this Christian summer camp and the adults that tried to save them, one guy bled out. He tried to save his family, and he put his arm through a glass window, and he cut open his arm. And no one could get to him. And he bled out. in the arms of his loved ones. There’s so much grief and so much despair right now. I keep thinking about what we did in June with the Prison Fellowship Angel Tree summer camps. This Christian summer camp, I’m not sure that Angel Tree doesn’t have a relationship with them. We’re going to find out as the day progresses. And there’s stories about heroes. There was a young man who literally saved hundreds of lives. A United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer by the name of Scott, petty officer, third class, 26 years old. He saved, are you ready for this? 165 victims as the only triage coordinator at the scene of the floods. So we know that what happened there, normal people would never blame a child for an eight-year-old’s political persuasion or be gleeful over the horrific death of little sisters because they happen to be white, which is what some demons are doing. Avoid the demons. We’re not going to give them oxygen. We’re not going to give them any attention. We’re not going to give them any airtime. Not here. Let somebody else do that. I stay away from demons. I don’t want to give attention seekers what they crave. Now, I don’t know if being an attention seeker sufficiently explains Elon Musk. Of course, a lot of stuff happened while I was away. And many thanks to Carl Jackson for filling in and Joey and the team holding down the fort while I was away. And it’s great to be back to work. I’ve been dying to get back in front of a microphone. I was supposed to have a medical procedure today. And I told the doctor, no way. I can’t stay off. I’ve got to be here. And I’m so glad that you’re with us as well here in the Relief Factor Studios. Have our number ready because you’re going to need it. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. We certainly know that what happened in Central Texas was a worst-case scenario. It happened overnight on a holiday weekend in a flood-prone area. Like I said, avoid the demons, but let’s have the adult conversation about what went wrong, what could have been done, what more could have happened to prevent this from occurring. I wish we could prevent the Elon Musk-Donald Trump feud from proceeding. Somebody sent me a text as I walked into the studio today and said, Elon hasn’t been right since he had that black eye. It was a few weeks ago. Remember when he showed up in the White House and he had a mysterious black eye? There’s all kinds of buzz that, I mean, the Internet rumor is that Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, socked him in the eye. They got into a screaming match and they got physical. Elon’s Tesla stock is plummeting. Investors are worried about his new America party or America’s party, whatever it’s called. Steve Bannon and Elon are feuding as well. Here’s what Steve said on the war room about Mr. Musk.
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Elmo the MOOC, formerly known as Elon Musk, Elmo the MOOC, He’s today in another smear, and only a foreigner could do this. Think about it. He’s got up on Twitter right now a poll about starting an America party. A non-American starting an America party. No, brother, you’re not an American. You’re a South African. And if we take enough time and prove the facts of that, you should be deported because it’s a crime of what you did among many.
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Now, as you might suspect, Elon didn’t take too kindly to that, and he lashed back and got into all sort of personal attacks on Steve Bannon, and he needs to go to prison, and he’s fat. I mean, this is ugly. This is ugly. But you want to know what’s really ugly? If delusional Republicans who are upset about deficit spending don’t vote for Republicans in the midterm election, and go with Elon’s America Party, and then we lose congressional seats. You want to know what’s really ugly? If we lose control of the House or the Senate and they begin impeaching Donald Trump again because we lose the majority. Ross Perot delivered Bill Clinton on a silver platter to the American public for eight years. It’s generally accepted that if Ross Perot didn’t mount his third-party effort, which was futile and useless, as third-party efforts generally are, we have a third party now. It’s called MAGA. We have a third party. It’s here. And it was delivered by the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America. I appreciate, as I’ve said all along, being upset about a lot of spending in the big beautiful bill. There is too much spending. There’s no question about it. You know why there’s too much spending? Because of people like Thomas Massey. Because of people in the House and the Senate who you have to negotiate with in order to get anything done. When you run a big company like Elon, you can do whatever you want. When you are the President of the United States… It’s not that easy. For the United States of America. 800-655-MIKE. 16 past the hour. I hope you join us. 800-655-6453. Welcome in to a Monday episode of the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Are you talking about the big, beautiful bill? You all just try to scare America by telling millions of people are going to be cut off this thing. You’re talking about the people that are on it illegally, that are gaming the system. No, we’re not. The CBO is very clear. The bill does not do anything of what you’ve said, and all you’ve done is scare America, and you’re not doing a service to this country, ma’am.
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In the relieffactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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Congressman Tim Burchett schooling a CNN anchor for scaring the… And that’s what the left likes to do. They do a lot of things that… We’re just not the same, are we? Back to this Elon Musk thing for just a moment. Elon now is bashing Pam Bondi. He posted something on X earlier today. He wrote, what’s the time? Oh, look, it’s no one has been arrested o’clock again. And then he put a clock that says the official Jeffrey Epstein pedophile arrest counter. Zero, zero, zero, zero. You get it. I don’t know what to make about the Epstein news. Late Sunday night, the DOJ says, nothing here. No Epstein client list. Nope, nothing to see here. He killed himself. Look at the video. See, nobody comes or goes. I’m… Old enough to remember just a few months ago, Pam Bondi suggesting she was reviewing and had reviewed and was about to review the Epstein client list. Evidently, that list doesn’t exist. Huh? Now, I have to admit, I’m a little hard-pressed to know with all the, you know what, breaking loose everywhere, why it matters. But what matters is, to me, the effectiveness, the efficiency, the competence of the Attorney General. And I know many, many people are not very confident in Pam Bondi. I like her. I think she did a great job in Florida, and I want to give her the benefit of the doubt. But I don’t know how you go from telling Jesse Waters in Fox News that you’re reviewing the Epstein client list, and then late last night, Trump’s DOJ announces there’s no Epstein client list, and no evidence that he was blackmailing anybody, no evidence that he was murdered, he killed himself, and let’s move on. It’s bizarre. But, you know, back to how different the two sides are. I always get a little – I have to cringe a little bit because I’m not really accustomed to using the word turd on air. But Cat Turd is a very popular social media influencer. In fact, I think he’s even given access to the White House. I think he’s had – didn’t he meet with Caroline Levin or somebody recently? I’m pretty sure I’ve seen pictures of the guy recently. Can you imagine that press briefing? There’s Caroline Leavitt. All right, let’s call on Cat Turd in the third row. What’s your question today, Cat Turd? Mr. Turd? So here’s Cat Turd’s post today, though, that makes a lot of sense because he’s so right. When the left is mad at Elon Musk, they firebomb Teslas, vandalize Tesla dealerships, key Teslas, shoot at Teslas, call Elon a Nazi and a fascist, protest in the streets, boycott X, boycott Tesla, boycott Starlink, try to tank his stocks. When MAGA gets mad at Elon, they, one, do badass memes and tweets, and two, none of the above. How right he is. We are not the same. We’re not the movement that embraces violence the way they do. And they do. You don’t think they embrace violence? A big piece in Axios today about Democrats who are frustrated that their elected representatives aren’t doing enough to stand up to Trump. I’m reading today from Axios. At town halls, in their districts, and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists, Democrat members of Congress are facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty, and not be afraid to get hurt. For months, Democrat lawmakers have fumed that their base’s demands to fight harder misunderstand the lack of legislative and investigative power afforded to the minority party in Congress. I mean, the truth is, we have the majority. Let’s not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And Democrats are being told to literally get shot. To support the anti-Trump resistance. They want their elected representatives to get killed, I guess. They’ve got to fight harder. Go get shot. Boy, I thought they were upset about the January 6th insurrection, right? Well, now evidently, according to Axios, at town halls and one-on-one meetings, frustrated lunatic leftists want elected representatives to get violent. Get shot if you have to. because of the sense of fear and despair and anger. And boy, there is a lot of anger out there. There’s got to be a lot of anger. One House Democrat told Axios, constituents have told them, civility isn’t working. Oh, they’re civil? This is what passes for civility? Prepare for violence to fight to protect our democracy. People are angry. Wow. 800-655-MIKE. So meanwhile, back to Elon. I saw another post that I really appreciated from Brendan Dilley on X. And let me share this with you and we’ll take your calls. Dear Elon, I have no idea what the blank is going on. MAGA embraced you before you even endorsed President Trump because we appreciated your fight for freedom of speech when you purchased Twitter. We celebrated you joining the Trump train after deranged Democrats tried to kill him. We defended you when the left tried to cancel you. We rallied around you when the terrorist Democrats firebombed your vehicles and dealerships. We stepped up and bought subscriptions when advertisers abandoned your platform. We didn’t expect blind loyalty, he writes. Oftentimes, President Trump will make moves that even we don’t understand at first, but eventually make sense. We empathize with you feeling let down or betrayed over your EV mandate being canceled, your friend not getting a job to run NASA, and your distrust of the reconciliation bill. With all that being said, going scorched earth on President Trump and the millions of red-blooded Americans who stood with you in your time of need is not the path to victory. This is not how we save America, reach Mars, save the middle class, elevate those struggling at the bottom, preserve our culture and way of life. Nor is it how we come together as a nation. I humbly ask you to reconsider your current path. Give the president and MAGA a chance to show you that he’s going to save this country and allow us to support your ambitions once again away from politics. Signed, Concerned MAGA. It’s a great post from Brendan Dilley. Phil is in Arizona. 800-655-MIKE is our number. 18 before the hour. Hi, Phil. How are you?
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Doing good. I just wanted to pass on some information. Sure. That Trump and Elon Musk is knowing what’s going on, but that’s just a book I read. It’s Bob Frisco catching the ascension wave. Everything you need to know, it’s pretty much in there. That’s all I got to say.
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Okay, thank you. Art in Oregon. Hey, Art, welcome back. Hey, Mike.
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Elon’s got to quit being a crybaby, okay? He’s got to grow up and smell the roses. Here in Oregon, we have the Democrat Party, we have the Republican Party, we have the Constitution Party, we have several parties, and most of the time… When the Republicans lose, it’s because of all these other dang parties. Now, Elon wants to start another one, so we become more losers?
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Well, that’s just it, Art. I mean, that’s the problem. I mean, it sounds great initially at first blush. Oh, wow, isn’t this exciting? A fiscally responsible third party. And in the meantime, we completely eradicate the momentum that Trump now has. We completely obliterate the victories that MAGA has achieved. We completely fall on our faces while they spend years trying to prop up a third party that probably won’t work. Here’s a text from Florida. Mike, a perfect example is back in 1912. Teddy Roosevelt started the Bull Moose Party. He split the Republican Party between him and Taft, and we got Woodrow Wilson as a result. If it weren’t for the Bull Moose Party, Taft would have won the presidency. Well, we don’t have to go to 1912. Ross Perot delivered Bill Clinton to the world. Had Ross Perot not splintered votes away, you know, sheared votes away from the Republican Party, we wouldn’t have had eight years of Bill Clinton. Here’s Greg in Battle Creek, Michigan. Mike, does Elon understand the significance of literally destroying the bedrock foundation of the USA if he goes through with this third-party adventure? Surely he understands that one person’s vengeance is going to destroy a country with 340 million people. And finally to Colorado, who writes, and Colorado has the same kind of laissez-faire attitude as my buddy Mark Davis in Dallas. Mark is like, ah, nothing’s going to happen. He’s got a lot of bluster, and it’s just going to, it’ll fizzle out. And that’s what Colorado writes. Elon Musk will wind up like Liz Cheney or Jeb Bush. Totally irrelevant. Don’t worry too much about it. Well, I don’t necessarily want to worry too much about it, but I’m not going to ignore the potential for terrific damage that Elon can inflict. If voters turn away from the Republican Party and embrace this third… Look at what’s happening in New York right now. You’ve got three challengers. And I hope to talk to Curtis this week. Are we going to get him on the show? We’ve been trying for a week to get Curtis Lewa. I saw him over the weekend on Fox News. He was fantastic. Curtis is a legend in my mind. A lot of people don’t take him seriously. They don’t think he can win in running for the mayor of New York. I’ve got a theory that if he lost the beret, he’d pick up 20 points. I don’t know. He loves that beret. He’s going to join us, I guess, this Friday on the Mike Gallagher Show. So we’ll talk to the one Republican candidate for mayor in New York. But the fact is, if the three challengers to this lunatic Mamdani, there were all kinds of new news about him, too. How he claimed he was black in order to gain admittance to college. A post resurfaced of him giving the Christopher Columbus statue the middle finger. and saying, take it down, I mean, the guy’s a far-left, absolute maniac who’s going to destroy New York City if he gets elected. If the three challengers, Cuomo, Eric Adams, and Curtis, all coalesced against one person, They’d beat this guy. But the three of them will splinter all the votes. You’re going to spread it all out. You’ll have a faction supporting Curtis. You’ll have a faction supporting Eric Adams. You’ll have a faction supporting Andrew Cuomo. And Mamdani is going to sneak into the office and win. And this guy could do grave damage to New York City. All the newspapers are lining up, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe. Boston Globe calls him a fantasy designed for failure. Wall Street Journal with a very sober editorial saying how much significant damage he could do to New York City. The guy is a disaster. But when you’ve got a whole bunch of people driven by their egos saying, I’m the guy that can beat him, You’ve got a chance of making the catastrophic become a reality. Same thing could happen with Elon Musk and him with this ridiculous third-party effort. It’s dangerous. And if we don’t see right now how awful it would be to hand the keys over to today’s Democrat Party, because let me be blunt, today’s Democrat Party is a crap show. And that’s not the word I’d like to use, but I’m a professional broadcaster, so I will. Today’s Democrat Party is a crap show. They’re in complete turmoil. They don’t know whether to be far left. They don’t want to know whether they should be left of center. They don’t know whether they should be moderate. They don’t know what they are. We know what they are. We know the lunacy of propping up Luigi Mangione and Zoran Mamdani. We know what they’re capable of. We’ve seen the violence directed towards them. So many people, under the guise of Democrat policies and ideology, we know who they are. We know what they’re capable of. For God’s sake, New Yorkers, don’t let them win. For God’s sakes, America, don’t let Elon blow up and burn it all down to hand everything over to the Democrats. Scary stuff. Scary stuff. 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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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There will be an immediate declaration, a narrative emerging that Trump’s cuts with Doge and trying to improve efficiency and cut government fraud, waste, and abuse led to this. And the usual suspects lined up, Rosie O’Donnell, all the rest of them. By the way, poor Rosie. She left the country to get away from it all, and she can’t get away from it because she’s got her nose buried in social media and cutting videos denouncing Trump and Republicans and the country. Why don’t you go live your life, lady? You’re in another country now. But anyway, there was Rosie and everybody lining up. Millions will die. Millions will die. Here we go again. And the narrative out of Kerrville is just not true. They were overstaffed. There were notifications. The National Weather Service gave plenty of notice. But do you know how many times they get flood watches and warnings in Central Texas? Happens all the time. Happens all the time. And this was, unfortunately, a worst-case scenario.
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That’s what took me to the 2020 hindsight that I was talking about just before you and I spoke, is if there were a time machine possible to go back. I mean, during the… Leading into the evening hours, it was overnight, of course, July 3rd and 4th, where all this happened is in the wee hours of July 4th. Do you evacuate a camp with 800 kids in it? Because, hey, here comes another strong storm. And the short answer is no, probably not. They didn’t know if they had people said, well, it would have seemed it would have seemed like an overreaction.
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But the finger pointing is inevitable. And I get that. And there’s going to be a lot of blame game stuff going on. Right now, we need to try to help this community get through this devastation, this trauma, this terrible grief. And it’s just heartbreaking. So stay tuned. We’re going to reach out to Prison Fellowship later this morning, this afternoon, try to figure out what we can do maybe to help this community try to heal and recover.
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And look out for the scammers, because especially on places like Wild West environments like Facebook, they’ll be like, hey, if you want to help Central Texas, go fund me, go fund me. No, no, no, no. Every major newspaper, major TV stations, major radio stations have a number of valid places where you can go. And in fact, some prison legislators, Jared Patterson and a couple of other folks have set up specific, very valid places to send your charitable dollars in.
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Prison fellowship is not a scammer. Prison fellowship is very legitimate. Prison fellowship is extremely credible, and that’s why I’m hoping that maybe we can put something together. Incidentally, a quick note about identity theft, and be aware of this kind of stuff. We got a wonderful guy here, just a sidebar, here in Tampa Bay, Robert Haley, who’s our chief engineer here. And he did a big effort to build out a TV studio for us. We have new monitors and lighting and all kinds of cool stuff in our studio. And the company wanted to reward him. And they had me go out to a grocery store and get some gift cards to give him as a show of thanks. One of the cards was $500. Mm-hmm. He activates it. You know how gift cards are like sealed in a piece of cardboard? Right. He opens it up, peels it open, activates it, says $500. He and his wife go from their house to the vet to do some vet services and pay with the card. The card’s been completely wiped clean. There’s a bunch of Chinese… um transactions these are like from china for paypal and not like a chili’s gift card or a home depot gift card like a visa a credit card looking type gift sealed in a in an envelope sealed in cardboard and by from the time he activated it to the time he went to the vet which was a half hour they had they had they had uh hacked into that card and wiped it out and now we got a nightmare because you know try to deal with the visa gift card company it’s like a third party and all. So just be aware, always have your eyes wide open, head on a swivel when it comes to identity theft. All right, let’s dive in. Let’s take two minutes to talk about Elon. Let’s do it. Because we got, and you and I are coming off of what a weekend. I hope you, I know you guys had a wonderful vacation. I went back to Charleston and just loved Charleston and what a great American city and hot as blazes. Yeah, boy. But it was fun. We just had a nice relaxing, and I got to watch a lot of TV. I watched The Big Beautiful Bill. I was biting my nails down to the wire. What a long story that is when we get into the Thomas Massys of the world that is pushing back. But The Big Beautiful Bill is now reality. It has evidently set Elon off into the stratosphere like one of his rockets. He has gone ballistic. And did you see Trump’s post about how sad he is that Elon has gone off the rails?
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He didn’t come out and flame at him or make up a nickname for him or savage him or dash him against the rocks. It’s kind of like a wayward child.
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This is just sad. He’s just disappointed. And I don’t know what’s going on with this guy. MAGA has embraced Elon. We celebrated him joining the Trump train. We defended him when the left tried to cancel him. And in a sense, you know, and you know where I’m going with this, when he goes after Trump and he is brutally going after Trump, there’s no way around this. He’s coming after us. He’s coming after MAGA.
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But the child metaphor still works. Because he’s brilliant, but he’s a big, giant baby. And this is no more significant than when your 8-year-old is throwing a tantrum because he won’t eat his peas. I know it’s a bigger deal, and you are concerned about the third party.
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He is not an insignificant person, Mark. He’s a very significant guy with a lot of clout and a lot of power, and I think you minimize the ability for him to do damage at your own peril.
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I don’t want anything to throw shade at Republican and conservative unity. Here’s why the Elon third party will fail as much as almost. In 1992, there was huge dissatisfaction with both nominees, questions and dissatisfaction. People are mad at George Bush 41, and they didn’t quite know what to think about Clinton, so that’s how Perot gets 19%. None of that’s happening here. Democrats don’t know what to do, but Republicans are thrilled. We’ve rarely been happier. An Elon America Party candidate will be way too conservative for the left, and as far as conservatives go, we ain’t
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shopping we’re not looking the number of conservatives who are are disheartened is extremely small there is nowhere to go at the starting gate for this stupid third party of his that’s earth logic you’re using earth logic and you’re not appreciating the fact that this would definitely hurt the republican party it’s not my favorite thing but i don’t think it will And I and I and I look, I want you to be right. You don’t make don’t make it. But I know a lot of people said the same thing about Ross Perot and Ross Perot delivered Bill Clinton to this country. Correct. Period. And Elon Musk and Elon Musk could deliver a liberal Democrat for eight years in an extremely close election.
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Even every little bit of mischief. You’re right. I feel that’s right.
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And I’m not I’m not sure that a slam dunk is in the cards for the midterms. This could impact the midterms in a big way. And that’s apparently what he wants to do. He’s got some bizarre. He doesn’t really want to target the White House, but he wants to target two or three congressional seats.
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You’ve got to have candidates. You’ve got to have real people. You can’t beat something with nothing. This is a real person.
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You don’t fall in with Elon’s party. All right. This is the same guy who told me Biden isn’t going to step aside. So it’s true. Well, it was pretty big. I pray for them to come back together again. And I saw one report over the weekend that they were going to meet at Mar-a-Lago. I thought, please, Lord, let that be true. Because this is not good, Mark. It’s not good on any level.
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And Elon has to understand that with the rockets and the Teslas and the AI, he’s a genius and has all that proper regard. But politically, Elon’s a big deal politically for one reason, and that reason is Donald Trump. And if he burns that bridge, his political clock burns with it.
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