Get informed on the latest political maneuvers and controversies. Join us as we dissect the recent turf war at USAID and delve into the social media storm surrounding TikTok’s security debate. Host Karen Murray also offers an eye-opening look at government spending inefficiencies with insights from Rand Paul’s Festivus report. A conversation that’s as compelling as it is necessary for these tumultuous times, don’t miss this episode of Shooting the Breeze.
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Hello, hello, hello, everyone. Happy Monday. You know, the chipper voice, I find it necessary because it is Monday, right? It’s Monday. Nobody likes Mondays. So I’m here for the next 58 roughly minutes to try to, I don’t know, put a smile on your face and maybe get your brain juices flowing and make you think. So thank you for tuning in to Shooting the Breeze today. My name is Karen Murray, and I am the lead instructor at Franktown Firearms. And you all need to head to Franktown Firearms and just stop in for a visit. You’ve got to take a look at the new inventory, sign up for a class, take a tour of the range. I don’t know, maybe sign up for a membership. We’re located just east of the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 86 in Franktown. We are open Monday through Saturday from 10 to 6, Sunday from noon to 6. You can reach us by phone at 720-770-7777, or you can visit franktownfirearms.com, or you can go to the KLZ radio website and visit the advertisers page. We would love to help you get into the right firearm for you, and y’all need to do this sooner than later. The Colorado gun laws are not getting any friendlier, and there are a lot of things going on in that arena. I believe the second reading of SB003, the bill that would make most semi-automatic firearms illegal, was postponed until Friday, February 7th. This is probably the worst, most egregious piece of legislation that we’ve seen in a long time. So if it’s within your capabilities to do so, you should go to the Colorado State Capitol and make your voices heard. You know, one thing I’d like to add here, is that I see a lot of people saying, and this is always the boxed, canned response when something is coming down the pike for people to say, and I’m guilty of it too, you know, write your congresspeople, write your senator, write your representatives, and let them know that if they vote yes on this bill or if they vote no on that bill or whatever, they’re going to be primaried. I am so sick of hearing that. As if these people take any of that seriously. You know that their inboxes are, and I can tell you right now that I sent so many emails to my Congress people, well, not just mine, but the people, the Congress senators and representatives in the state of Colorado. I wrote so many emails that Outlook closed, they locked me out of my account. So it doesn’t matter. You can talk until you’re blue in the face. You can show up. You can raise your fist. You can carry your signs. You can do all that stuff, and they don’t care. They’re going to do what they want to do, and they’re not going to be held accountable in any way whatsoever, including being primaried. Trying to reason with these people is like trying to talk to a grizzly bear with blood dripping out of his mouth. There’s not a lot you can say to him to make him not attack you. These liberal Democrats that are in the Colorado General Assembly are not interested in what any of us have to say or any concerns that we have about anything. And I believe that most of them are installed through our, you know, obviously rigged voting system. And so being primaried is just laughable to them. As citizens of this country, we seem to believe that our only recourse is at the ballot box. That’s it. We can’t do anything else. And when the ballot box is rigged and rife with fraud, oh, well, there’s nothing I can do about it. And this just sickens me to no end. And if I’m being honest, I’m kind of in that camp of there’s nothing I can do. Because really, what am I going to do? other than move to a red state, which is not off the table, might I add, in the future. So lots going on in the news right now, so much so that I really wasn’t even sure what to talk about today. These past two weeks of Trump’s presidency have been like drinking from a fire hose. So let’s dive into a couple of things that I find pretty interesting. So first of all, let’s talk about the tariffs that were proposed. Trump was talking about 10% on countries like China and then 25% tariff on Canada, 25% on Mexico. And at least that’s what he threatened to do. Well, it seems Mexico may be coming to the negotiating table with Trump. Trump posted on X, I just spoke with President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers on the border separating Mexico and the United States. These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl. and illegal migrants into our country. We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one-month period during which we will have negotiations headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Besant, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and high-level representatives of Mexico. I look forward to participating in those negotiations with President Scheinbaum as we attempt to achieve a deal between our two countries. And I guess we’ll see if Trudeau or whomever is going to replace him will also come to the table. I’m thinking that they probably will, but I guess we’ll see. Then we have this shakeup at the USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, or so they call it. Keep in mind that the USAID has been the recipient of over $50 billion of your money. Elon Musk of Doge wants the agency to be shut down. Marco Rubio has said as much, and he’s actually the acting director of USAID. Trump authorized 15,000 people to be put on administrative leave. Charlie Kirk, if you don’t know him, Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk refers to USAID as a deep state slush fund. Kirk says there was an entire division of USAID funding LGBTQIA, MNOP, XYZ programs in Asia, if that tells you anything about the level of their depravity and corruption. He goes on to say that this agency is designed to make foreign tin pot dictators rich, to enable Zelensky and his oligarch friends to be able to buy Chanel purses, Incidentally, Zelensky is now saying that Ukraine received less than half of all the U.S. aid money that we’ve sent them. He says he doesn’t know where all that money went. So that’s very interesting. Just print it, send it, whatever. Just keep it going, and we wonder why our prices are so high. But USAID staffers were attempting to hide classified information from Doge. So what are they trying to hide? We know for a fact that USAID funded and financed the COVID pandemic via Fauci. We know that USAID funded AOC’s miraculous rise in her political career through some bogus college program that she got in on. I say shut it down. So I don’t know if you guys have any opinions on this or anything else that I’m talking about today. You can give me a call at 303-477-5600. I’d love to talk to you about it. And then, you know, Trump is talking. He’s going full force. I mean, he’s truly leading this country like somebody who’s been put through the ringer. And I can’t say as I blame him. And I love it. Then we have Pope Francis saying that Trump isn’t a Christian if he builds a wall. Walls aren’t Christian, says the guy who lives behind a wall in a strongly fortified place known as Vatican City. And I think Kim Monson’s guest was just alluding to something like that at the end of the show there. So these deep state players are being exposed, and I am so here for it. So let’s talk for a minute, too, about these terrible things and these very coink-a-dinkle things going on with the plane and helicopter crashes and plane fires. So the incident at Reagan International Airport with the Black Hawk helicopter colliding with the passenger plane is very interesting, although tragic, obviously. There are so many unanswered questions. And, of course, the blame game is already being played. Heck, it was being played like the day after, possibly even the night of. We have the radical left blaming Trump for the incident. I’m not willing to say definitively and call it an accident. Sorry, not yet. More on that in a minute. But they’re saying it happened because of the DEI cuts that took place, as if the DEI hires were keeping the airports and the airline industry safe, which to me is hilarious. Of course, we have a lot of AI-generated stuff floating around there, videos and photos that are coming out, and many meme creators, the professional meme creators, have been working overtime dishing out fake information and about the crash. So we have to really use our discernment on this, which is difficult when these pictures and videos made with AI, they make it really hard to differentiate real from fake, right? But there is an interesting theory floating around out there that the Blackhawk helicopter might have been controlled or may not have been controlled by the pilot in the seat, but rather may have been commandeered remotely. So I know that sounds out there. You can strap on your tinfoil hat, but I’m getting ready to read from Lockheed Martin’s website, so I don’t think you need the tinfoil hat. It says on the website, command an autonomous Black Hawk helicopter from 300 miles away. This was written October 17, 2024. How do you command a Black Hawk helicopter to perform a mission autonomously from 300 miles away? Quite simply by using a tablet connected to the aircraft via data link. During the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., visitors and U.S. Army senior leaders saw how a Black Hawk helicopter integrated with Sikorsky’s Matrix autonomy system can receive remote mission commands in real time, then carry out that mission on its own using its own onboard autonomous systems without remote control or pilot inputs. The matrix system is unique because it’s not a simple flight director following a planned route. Instead, the system acts fully independently, reacting to the dynamic combat environment to avoid threats, optimize routing, and execute emergency procedures if necessary. Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems President Stephanie Hill, a non-pilot, commanded the autonomous Black Hawk helicopter to take off, hover, fly a circuit, and land in Connecticut from a tablet during the AUSA symposium in Washington, D.C. Although safety pilots are in the cockpit, the aircraft flew and navigated itself without pilot input. Following more than 10 years of co-development with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the Matrix autonomy system is operationally tested. Matrix will enable contested logistics and operational flexibility with any aircraft, any operator, and in any weather slash environment to deliver mission-critical, time-sensitive sustainment to the point of need. As part of the DARPA alias program, Sikorsky has furthered the development of the matrix autonomy system to perform missions with greater efficiency and safety with blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it goes on to talk about how these helicopters can be flown remotely. And I don’t know if you’ve seen the enhanced videos. So people, you would think that there would have been way more video available to see and to watch and to dissect than what we’re getting from, you know, I mean, this is Washington, D.C., right? There’s cameras everywhere. So you would think that, but we’re seeing this one view, right? We’re seeing the one view from the opposite side of the Potomac. But these enhanced videos, that have been produced are showing very clearly the amount of distance that that Black Hawk covered before crashing into the plane. And it was quite a ways. I’m sure it seems as if there was an ample amount of time for that helicopter to do some avoidance maneuvers or something. I understand the black box in the plane and the air traffic controllers tell two different stories as well regarding the altitude of the plane at the time of the crash. Two different things, like 100 feet difference or something. One, I think the air traffic controller said that the plane was at 300 feet and the black box said it was 200 feet or something like that. And people who know about these things said the plane appeared to have attempted to avoid the Black Hawk by doing some kind of a maneuver or something. But In my mind, there are a lot of things that don’t add up. And when you put on top of that the crash in Philadelphia and the plane that caught fire in Houston, you just have to think that something very weird is going on. Well, I think something weird is going on, but I always think that. So that’s just me. It’s kind of how I’m wired nowadays. It just seems like it’s just a huge coincidence that all this stuff relating to air travel is The FAA and the NTSB and, of course, Trump’s recent appointment of Sean Duffy as transportation secretary. All of a sudden, all these problems are happening with air travel and with, you know, and I don’t know, is it fear? I don’t know what it is, but it’s just crazy that it just happens to be happening right now to me. I don’t know. This is just a ploy to discredit Trump’s incoming cabinet, point fingers at him, and cause all of this tragedy. It’s just too coincidental, and I’m not buying any of it. You guys know me. I don’t believe anything the media says about anything, ever. So give me a call if you want to talk about that, if you want to talk about the plane crashes or anything weird that you guys have come upon. I’d be all ears. So RFK Jr., as you guys know, went into battle against the deep state cretins in the Senate starting last Wednesday. Did any of you guys watch the confirmation hearings? Boy, it’s just, I don’t know, the blood pressure. I think I need to have an IV of blood pressure medication when I watch that stuff. And I don’t have high blood pressure, but it’s insane to watch it and just grit your teeth, and I thought Elizabeth Warren’s head was going to explode all over Bernie Sanders’ head as his head exploded. I mean, it was just kind of a circus. Some of the questioning was absolutely ridiculous. And did you notice that those senators who screeched the loudest were the ones, of course, taking money from the medical industrial complex? Senators like Patty Murray, for example, I hate that she has my last name or my husband’s last name. She’s a Democrat from Washington, and her post on X is very telling. She says, to confirm a notorious anti-vaxxer like RFK Jr. as Secretary of HHS could seriously cost our country in lives, in health, and in our economy. Let’s use our common sense. We cannot let a fringe conspiracy theorist make major public health decisions. Anna Mattson, an account on TikTok, and she’s on X, and she responded in a video about her response to Patty Murray that she responded on X. And she said, what’s making you say this? Could it be the $666,970 from health professionals who bribed you? Or is it the $513,635 from pharmaceutical companies? Oh, wait, maybe it’s the $311,844 from insurance companies. If not any of those, is it possible the $198,376 from HMOs? She says you have absolutely no room to talk to the American people about health when you’re profiting off of policy that is making the American people sick. And she could not be more right. Did you know that the FDA gets 47% of its funding from the pharmaceutical industry? Can you say conflict of interest? So Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and many others got millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the health care industry. Bernie can scream all he wants that the contributions made from individuals employed by health care industry, it doesn’t really matter. I mean, I suppose it does legally, but ethically, when CEOs with companies like Pfizer are giving you hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign money, don’t you think that’s a conflict of interest when it comes time to confirm someone who’s all about actual health and not sick care to a cabinet position? Yeah, I’d say that it’s kind of a conflict of interest. It doesn’t matter how loud and obnoxious these Democrats and RINOs get, Nothing can stop the freight train that is the Trump administration right now. I think they all know it, and the rats are either lashing out because they’re like, you know, cornered rabbit animals right now, or they’re jumping ship. The writing is on the wall, and they are in a deep state of panic. Kash Patel’s hearing was just as fiery. Adam Schiff, For the love of all things, that man, why is he still there? Adam Schiff exposed himself as probably the most corrupt and dishonest member of the Senate. Remember Russiagate? Of course you guys do. Remember Adam Schiff’s role in that whole thing? Him and Vinderman and John Brennan and all, just you name it. Comey, all of his lies and deception has been documented. And he had the nerve to get in Kash Patel’s face, metaphorically speaking. Did you see that? I’m sure you did. I guess if you watch Fox News, you saw it. But in case you missed this exchange, I want you to hear this exchange between Adam Schiff and Kash Patel. Check this out.
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I want you to turn around. There are Capitol Police officers behind you. They’re guarding us. Take a look at them right now.
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Turn around. I’m looking at you. You’re talking to me. No, no, no.
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Look at them. I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage to look them in the eye, Mr. Patel, and tell them you’re proud of what you did. Tell them you’re proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues, that pepper sprayed them, that beat them with poles. Tell them you’re proud of what you did, Mr. Patel. They’re right there. They’re guarding you today. Tell them how proud you are.
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That’s an abject lie, and you know it. I’ve never, never, ever accepted violence against law enforcement. I’ve worked with these men and women, as you know, my entire life. And I did not make a single dime out of it.
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How about you ask them if I have their backs, and let’s see about that answer. Let me ask you this, Mr. Patel. Let me ask you this. If an FBI director promoted a song of people who sprayed pepper spray in the face of an FBI agent, would you say they were fit to be director? Mr. Schiff? Yes or no? Would they be fit to be director?
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I am fit to be the director of the FBI.
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If you were the FBI director and you promoted a song of someone who beat an FBI agent with a pole, would you say you were fit to be FBI director?
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Mr. Schiff, I am fit to be FBI director based on my 16 years in government service.
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And yet you did all these things, Mr. Patel. You can say, oh, I support law enforcement. I decry violence against law enforcement. You could say all that.
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I can’t. I can’t with that guy. You know, so much information has come out about January 6th. And Kash Patel worked so hard at digging into all those files. And the complete January 6th unselect committee has been discredited, and Liz Cheney is gone, and just the whole thing, and he’s still bringing that crap up. As if, you know, maybe, I mean, I’ve heard that one of the worst assaults on a D.C. police officer was where a Trump supporter said, tripped and kind of patted the guy on the back as he was kind of moving forward, and he patted the officer on the back, and the officer said that he got assaulted. So I don’t know. I think, I mean, I’m sure there’s a lot that we don’t know, obviously, but it sure seems to me like the lies that they perpetuated are just continuing on, and even though they’ve been brought out as lies, they still continue with the lies, right? And considering the role that Schiff played in the four years of Russia, Russia, Russia, for him to talk to Kash Patel like he did is a disgrace. Turn around. Look at them. I’d be like, huh? Don’t talk to me like that. Don’t you dare order me around. Kash Patel kept his cool, obviously. I’m sure many people would want to bulrush that Senate panel and shove a dirty sock in Schiff’s mouth. Yes, that was my G-rated, family-friendly version of what most people would want to do to Adam Schiff, but I think he is as corrupt as they come, and I can’t believe California continues to elect that guy. And in all fairness, they most likely haven’t been voting for him. The rigged voting system just keeps installing the same people over and over and over. I mean, do you really think that the people of California kept electing Dianne Feinstein? up until the day that she could barely sit up straight and she didn’t even know where she was sitting in there. Really? Really? They’re voting for her and Pelosi guilty of all kinds of insider trading and probably money laundering and extortion and racketeering and planning the January 6th thing and, you know, denying security for January 6th and the whole thing. She keeps getting elected. Really? It’s, it’s, I don’t know. It’s mind-blowing to me, and I think it’s a bunch of BS personally. So this leads me to another video that I found, and this is regarding TikTok and all the controversy. You guys know I have to talk about TikTok, right? And all the controversy surrounding this Chinese-owned company who’s stealing our information. Remember the hearings that took place about a month ago when they were threatening to ban TikToks? because it’s a threat to national security. Well, it turns out there were some top secret documents released, but they didn’t come from TikTok. They actually came from a 21-year-old guy. And I’ll let this guy explain it to you. And he is fired up and he’s kind of yelling. So prepare yourself. Check this out.
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I think my brain’s going to explode. That’s the only way I can react to this news right now. OK, do you remember? Do you remember during last month we all sat through that TikTok committee hearing and we just heard about how, you know, they were grilling the TikTok CEO and they were screaming at him that it was all Chinese spyware and they’re going to steal our information while that was happening last month. Documents from the Pentagon were being leaked online from January until very recently, and we had no idea where the documents were coming from. There were members of the Department of Defense thinking this was a high-level member of the bureaucracy that was being blackmailed, maybe somebody who was being paid off, all these different things. And we finally have the answer, and it’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. It was a Discord server. It was a Minecraft Discord server. Hundreds of documents putting our entire spy network at risk. And it was not TikTok. It was a Discord server where people discuss Minecraft and share racist memes called Thug Shaker Central. It was full of a bunch of teenagers. And one teenager was a 21-year-old guy named Jack Texiera, and Jack posted on there trying to get clout. Jack posted, huh, although you guys are nothing but a bunch of betas, I have high-level military clearance. And somebody replied, no you don’t, you cuck. So Jack started posting pictures of Ukrainian battle plans. Lists of spies all over the world that are helping America. Oh my God. He didn’t do this for political reasons. He didn’t do this for an ideology. He did this because he’s sad and had access because he works in IT. And everyone in our government is so old, no one thought, don’t give the 21-year-old guy who’s on Discord servers all day access to the United States worldwide Intel network. Now, we’re going to have to sit through a House committee of new congressmen and senators sitting there with their questions for the CEO of Discord. They’re going to have to say things like, I see on Discord you have a thing called Discord kittens. Tell me, does uwu mean a good thing? Yes or no. That’s what we’re going to have to sit through. This is so dumb. And it’s because our government’s run by the oldest people possible while our technology has been advancing faster than they ever have. We have members of Congress who are older than television.
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So there you have that. So I don’t know. I think all of it may have been just a big hoax, all that whole TikTok thing. So very interesting there. We’re going to take a quick break and we’ll be right back. I’m going to talk a little bit more about some government waste. We’ll be right back.
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And we’re back after that quick break from Franktown Firearms. And again, it’s a reminder for you guys to get your stuff in, get it ready before July 1st. I’m telling you, my job and the concealed carry permitting process is going to look a lot different. A lot more money and a lot more time. And yeah, so I’m going to talk a little bit about that later on here in the show. But, So according to that guy, you know, just once again, money is being wasted through these bogus hearings. And these hearings allegedly aim to expose wrongdoing through this long, arduous process and these grueling hearings, right? And the TikTok hearing was a complete waste of time and money. Our money. Our money. Let’s be clear. And these confirmation hearings are equally painful. All these hypocrites in the Senate grilling these appointees, yelling at them, posing impossible questions, demanding yes or no answers. When the question clearly requires an explanation, it is so hard to watch without getting angry, like I said. thankfully, some positions don’t require confirmations like that of the new DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, that’s already finding and eliminating wasteful spending on programs that should have never been there in the first place, and whoever put them in there should have been fired a long time ago. I want you to hear from an account on TikTok known as DogeUpdateGuy, but first, I want to read to you a list of… I don’t even want to call them programs, a list of waste, just money that’s been flushed down the proverbial congressional toilet, if you will. It’s already been allocated, already spent. It’s gone. Poof. This information comes from Rand Paul’s annual Festivus report for 2024. And I think I read the 2023 report a while back, like at the beginning of 2024, I think I did. So it’s no different. And I don’t think there’s any repeats, which is kind of scary. So $10 billion a year on maintaining empty federal office buildings. $10 billion with a B. We gave the city of Las Vegas a $12 million grant to build a pickleball complex. The State Department spent $333,000 censoring conservative media. For some reason, that number seems really low to me. It seems like they spent a lot more on censoring conservative media. The Department of Health and Human Services spent $2 million for a study to see how kids reacted to food advertisements on Facebook. And I wish that this was all a joke, but it isn’t. I continue. $8 million in stolen COVID relief funds was used by a Florida man to buy a private island. Huh. Cocaine and lonely rats. The National Institutes of Health said, spent $419,470 to see if lonely rats were more likely to use cocaine than social rats. Let that one sink in. I’m just going to assume that the lonely rats probably used more drugs than the social rats, but I’m just guessing. $15.5 billion was spent by the Department of Energy trying to convince us to buy electric cars that we don’t want nor do we need. $4.8 million for Ukrainian influencers. What is that? $365,000 to the National Endowment for the Arts promoting circuses in public parks. $3 million for girl-centered climate action in Brazil. $3 million. I’m going to take a pause right here. Johnny, what do you got for me?
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Okay. You were speaking about the National Endowment of the Arts. Well, I applied for one of those grants through Denver’s initiative, whatever. And so they awarded the grant like July the 8th, but we didn’t receive the actual cash for the check until October 25th. And I have a feeling that this national grant was probably given to them, and they were probably switching things around to dole out more money to the illegals and to whoever else, because I kept pushing them because I kept calling every week. Right. That’s great. Probably other nonprofits were doing the same thing. They had to maybe shift the money over, and it wasn’t that much. in a big scheme of things, but still it was money they promised. So it’s almost like I have a feeling that they’re shifting, like they’re shifting people around to say, well, we’re not a part of that DI, whatever that is. DI. And they’re switching money around trying to, Because they said they didn’t want him to see the classified files. That’s what it was. And I just have a feeling that they’re trying to hide something.
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Well, of course. Of course. Yeah, it’s like a shell game. You know, the shell’s got something hidden underneath there, and which shell is it under kind of thing.
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And so, I don’t know, it’s just so nice to see this stuff being exposed. And did you apply to be a part of the Washington reporter kind of thing? Because you would fit very well in there.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I did not.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, man, you’re on top of it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, they’re not ready for me, baby.
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay, that’s all I got.
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Thanks, Johnny, for the call. I appreciate it. So I’ll continue down the list here. We have $873,000 to fund films in the country of Jordan. We have $345,000 to fight terrorism with soccer. Oh, my gosh. $700 million to a failed trucking company. Now, That money could have gone to disaster relief for the people in North Carolina rather than the $750 loan that they were eligible to apply for. Possibly the victims of the Maui fires or the L.A. fires, but no. That money is gone. The trucking company is gone, so the money is gone with it. Poof, there you go. $288,563 given to the National Science Foundation for diversity in birdwatching, trying to make birdwatching groups more diverse. $892 billion paying interest on the national debt. Of course, we’re not paying into the principle of this debt at all. Of course, we’re just paying the interest, close to a trillion dollars in interest every year. $500,000 to Ethiopia so they can expand their social media presence. $7 million for magic-related projects, including a podcast about American magical beliefs. $7 million. $2.1 million for border security in the country of Paraguay. And that one should really take you off, since we’re not allowed to secure our own border, but we can spend $2.1 million for border security in Paraguay. $385,000 for a giant 16-foot pigeon statue in New York City. $20 million for fertilizer research abroad, meaning we did fertilizer research in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil. $2.2 million on COVID experiments on cats. $123,000 to teaching kids how to make viral videos in the country of Krasistan. One of those stands. I don’t know. All I know is there’s not nearly enough vowels in here for me to pronounce this. $1.5 million spinning kittens. Let me repeat that. $1.5 million spinning kittens to study motion sickness. $720,479 for Mexican duck conservation. Meanwhile, our American ducks didn’t get squat. And last but not least from the Festivus report, $20 million for a Sesame Street reboot in Iraq. So You know, I wish I was kidding. I wish all of this was fake. And most of it probably is. Most of it probably all this money went into the pockets of some legislator somewhere. But this is what Rand Paul found in his Festivus research, I guess, for the 2024 Festivus report. And if you add up all the money on that list, it comes out to nearly $903 billion in And that isn’t all of it. There’s much, much more. So listen to this other piece I’ve got here for you from Daily Doge Update from the Doge Update guy. Sadly, he has a lot of videos and a lot of programs to cover. But thankfully, these programs are going away thanks to Elon Musk. But you’ve got to hear this. Check this out.
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Hello again, fellow taxpayers and citizens. This is your daily Doge update. And I want you to understand that the Department of Government Efficiency is hard at work saving you money one cut at a time. So let’s start with today’s top 10. Number one, the Federal Bureau of Advanced Stapler Engineering. And at $1.7 million annually, their mission was to create the ultimate stapler that never jams. Elon had his engineering team step in. They’ve created a brand new stapler that will never jam, and that department has been eliminated. All right, number two, the National Institute for Memo Formatting Standards, that’s 1.2 million dollars a year we would spend to develop an official government memo format doge has done away with that funding as well we’ll just keep it simple and save some millions all right number three the bureau of desk plant placement optimization we’re spending eight hundred thousand dollars annually study whether a fern or a ficus improves workplace morale gone you’re welcome employees can now pick their own plants and make their cubicles the way they want them All right. Number four, the commission on conference room chair synchronization. I don’t know what the hell that’s all about, but it was 1.5 million a year to ensure every chair in the meeting rooms across federal government all swiveled at the same rate. The funding has just been deleted by Doge. We don’t need that anymore. Number five, the National Punctuation Integrity Project. That’s $2 million a year to enforce standardized comma usage across all internal documents. Elon says just download a piece of software. It’ll take care of your punctuations for you. That is gone as well. More useless spending down the drain. All right, number six, the Federal Grant for Binder Clip Durability Testing. $900,000 a year to determine how many papers a single clip can securely hold. That funding has been clipped for good. Hope you caught my reference to the Sopranos there. Number seven, the Office of Highlighter Color Coordination. 1.3 million annually to ensure uniform highlighter color codes in all federal agencies. Doge says you can choose your own colors. That one is gone as well. All right, number eight, the Research Initiative on Pencil Sharpening Efficiency. I don’t even know what the hell that’s all about, but it’s gone. Saving us $2.4 million. Number nine, the Strategic Paperweight Development Program, $1.6 million a year to design paperweights with the optimal weight-to-surface distribution ratio. Whoever came up with that program just needs to be fired, along with the funding, which has been cut. All right, number 10, the Office of Redundant Documentation Reduction. We were spending $3 million a year to catalog and reduce redundancy in documents by doing what? Creating more documents. Elon says this is one redundancy that is no more.
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So how do you like that? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. If you go to that guy’s page, he’s got lots more for you. The amount of money that this country wastes is truly mind-boggling. With all the absolute plight that we have in this country, the drug problem in our communities, the roads and bridges that are in desperate need of repair, the human toll from the storms in North Carolina and in Tennessee and Hawaii and L.A. and other places, and we’re spending money like drunken sailors on stupid crap like this. Doesn’t this just grind your gears? Isn’t it time for some bean steaming right now? Like I said, this isn’t even close to the end of the list. So if you’re on TikTok, go find DogeUpdateGuy, and you can learn all about the rest of the cuts as they are happening. He pulls them out, he learns about them, and then he posts a video about it, which I think is an absolute beautiful thing. And if you hear a relatively small amount of money, like the list that I gave, the one from Rand Paul’s Festivus report, You know, in the grand scheme of things, you think, oh, well, $123,000, that’s not a whole lot. Well, in terms of government spending, no, I guess it isn’t a whole lot. But $123,000 teaching kids in Kazakhstan or whatever how to make viral videos, just think about a homeless veteran and what he or she could do with $123,000 a year because this is annual spending. And so when I look at it in those terms, my head wants to explode. It’s just beyond comprehension to me. Oh, my goodness gracious. And let me see. I’m going to pull another small little amount here. $500,000 to Ethiopia so they can expand their social media presence.
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$500,000.
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Do you make $500,000 a year? Does anybody you know make $500,000 a year? $288,000 for diversity and birdwatching. Who is that guy? Who is the person who created this program for diversity and birdwatching? And how can that even be a thing? And who approved it? This is the kind of stuff I’m talking about. And like I said… You can go down this list, and you can go down the list of everything that that Doge guy, the Doge update guy has, and you can sit there and say, that can’t be real. But it is very real on paper, and monetarily, it’s very real. These programs exist, and the money goes into these programs. To what end? To what end? I mean, you have to think about it logically. Really? We’re spending that much money on these bogus programs for real? No, I think that that’s going straight into the pocket of some bureaucrat somewhere. Jim, what do you got for me?
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Hey, Karen. Hey, I’ll tell you one I’d like to see him really go after. I mean, this stuff just irks me beyond no end. You know, they need to clean up the Social Security programs. Because, you know, let me tell you, Karen, I know people that are on social security disability that really should not be on social security disability. I know this one guy, I never thought he was this kind of a person that he would do anything just so he could be lazy. And I asked him one time, I asked him one time, I said, well, if Donald Trump could find you a job sitting at a computer all day and just Enter any information into the computer. Would you take the job? He goes, no. And I says, what if Donald Trump would find you a job just basically sitting in front of the computer monitoring the computer all day? Nope, wouldn’t do it. I said, what about just sitting in front of the computer and not do nothing? Would you do it? Nope, wouldn’t do it. No, I’m serious. No, I’m serious. And I mean, after that, I stopped being friends with the guy. I just, I couldn’t take it no more. I’m like, people like you are sucking off the system. And it’s like, you know, you’re bleeding this country dry of social security, of people that literally worked hard. And one of my responses to him was, well, I said, wait a minute. I says, you’ve got people that are paraplegics, quadriplegics that have jobs.
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And I can give you a couple of examples that I know personally. I know exactly what you’re talking about. And I think that that is a government program that should be put into place is people that go out and investigate the people that are on Social Security disability that are able-bodied and can work. And kick them off of it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Well, I mean, it is more than just that. I mean, there’s a lot of other people that are on Social Security, up to and including children. I mean, I know adults that, I mean, people think I’m going to be ruthless, mean, and hard, but I’m not. It’s just the way life is. Sometimes life doesn’t always deal you a good deck of cards. And, you know, just like children, you know, if their parents end up dying or something, you know those children are going to end up in their grandparents or aunt and uncle. And those kids get Social Security, too, until they’re up until, I think, 18 or some odd age like that. And that’s not right either, Karen. Sure. No, it’s not. I mean, those grandparents or whoever, they’ve got to put roofs over their heads anyways. So, I mean, and what, you don’t care about your children or your grandchildren or whatever? I mean, come on. I mean, what in the world is wrong with society?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it’s a lot. A lot is wrong with society. And, you know, this is completely irrelevant, but I was just having a little bit of a tiff with some people online because I’ve got – we’ve had this situation going on in my neighborhood where the main secondary streets that are, you know, outside of our neighborhood, you can hear race cars and stuff. You can hear them all the way around. And the cars are just – I mean, all into the night, 1030, 11 o’clock at night, you can hear these drag races taking place on – on some of the main roads and people were on, um, threads and next door and Facebook, Parker PD was talking about it and the, and there’s people that are complaining about it, rightfully so. And then there’s people saying, you know, these kids spend their hard earned money on these street cars and this is their passion and, and they should be able to do what they know. They shouldn’t be able to do what they want. If my son’s, I don’t have a son, but if my kid’s passion was playing the drums, can he come and set up a drum kit right outside your bedroom window and, you know, practice until 1030, 11 o’clock? It’s just ridiculous. But to your point about the Social Security stuff, I have a very close friend who I’ve known for years and years and years and years. I don’t know the name of his condition, but he’s in Arthur. If you’re listening, I’m talking about you. He I don’t know the name of it, but he’s he’s got limited mobility and his hands are he’s got limited mobility in his hands and he has worked the same job for ever. And he has never taken a dime. He’s run for office before. He’s very involved in conservative politics and stuff. And he’s tried, you know, podcasting and he does videos on YouTube and anything that he can do to make some money without taking government assistance. And, you know, my hat’s off to him. And I’ve always admired him for that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, and I do, too. That’s why. That’s why I say, I mean, just the social welfare programs in this country, if you just clean up the social welfare, you know, actually, what a lot of people don’t understand, Karen, is the social welfare programs in this country, the spending on those programs are actually, they’re way more than what we spend on defense in this country for our military. Oh, of course.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Yeah, career welfare recipients need to be kicked off. Absolutely. I’m going to read this letter here from this guy on X. You’re going to love it, so stay tuned for this.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you so much for the call, Jim.
SPEAKER 04 :
I appreciate it. Bye-bye. So to close out today, I just want to read this post for you from investigative journalist Benjamin Fulford. I don’t know if you know who he is, but you can go check him out. He’s BenjaminFulford.com, and he’s also on Telegram. And I love this so much that I could kiss it. And, of course, you’re going to hear this and you’re going to get nuances of Q, okay? But sometimes you just have to hope that some of this Q stuff is real and is coming true. And sometimes, you know, I look and I’m thinking, oh, maybe this is what’s going on. So. Here’s what this post says. Attention to all deep state operatives. Your time is up. This message is for the corrupt. The judges, attorneys, district attorneys, doctors, politicians, governors, senators, mayors, city counselors, county commissioners, sheriffs, bankers, court clerks, and county clerks who have participated in the deception, exploitation, and destruction of the people you were supposed to serve. Your reign of corruption ends now. Today marks the turning of the tide. The corporation is dead. The republic is restored. President Donald J. Trump has freed us from the chains of tyranny and deceit. The power you once wielded through fraud, manipulation, and treason is gone. We, the people, are free at last. Your crimes, financial fraud, human trafficking, and theft of property, judicial misconduct, and political treachery are no longer hidden. Military oversight is active. Evidence is being gathered. Tribunals are coming. You thought your titles and positions made you untouchable, and you thought your alliances with the good old boys club would shield you. You were wrong. The very system you used to oppress and profit off of hardworking Americans will now be your downfall. To those in the banking industry who enslaved people through fraudulent debt, your fraud is exposed. To the judges and attorneys who ruled and argued in favor of corruption, justice will catch up with you. To the politicians who sold out their constituents for personal gain, your betrayal is documented. To the sheriffs, clerks, and commissioners who enabled the theft of property and ignored justice, you will be held accountable. The people are awake. The system that protected you is dismantled. There is nowhere to hide. We say to all of you, run if you must, that there is no escaping the truth. Your actions have been treasonous, your crimes unforgivable. The American people are coming for you, not with violence, but with the law, the Constitution, and the truth. This is a new era of freedom, justice, and accountability. The time of corruption is over. Every one of you will face the consequences of your actions. We are free at last. Thank God Almighty. Justice is here and there is no escaping it. So I think that’s brilliant. And I look at that and I read that and I just, I hope and I pray that because you know that with Trump doing what he’s doing right now and the monkey wrenches that he’s throwing in every single aspect of our government right now and people are getting PO’d and it’s going to get ugly. There’s no way that it’s not going to get ugly. So buckle up and get ready for a crazy ride over the next four years. That’s all I got to say. So that’s going to do it for me today, you guys. Thank you so much for spending the last 58 minutes with me in the fastest hour of broadcasting, like I always steal that line from Rush Limbaugh, the great. Thanks for tuning in to Shooting the Breeze, brought to you by Franktown Firearms. I appreciate all of you taking the time to listen. greatly, greatly appreciate it. Shoot me an email if you’d like to get some private training on your handgun. My email address is karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com. Mama Glock’s out for now. Until next Monday, everyone, take care and God bless.
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