In this episode, we dissect the complex layers of identity, victimhood, and justice in today’s political landscape. From the polarizing rhetoric surrounding crime and society to scrutinizing Greta Thunberg’s controversial stances, our dialogue reflects the tumultuous undercurrents of current affairs. With the midterms on the horizon, we candidly critique political figures, weigh their lasting impact, and wrap up with a passionate dive into the cinematic universe of Mission Impossible, reminding us that anything is possible.
Oh, boy, I’m lucky. I’ll say I’m lucky. I can play this every day. This is my lucky day.
SPEAKER 04 :
But who is this, Mike? Who is it?
SPEAKER 01 :
I don’t know.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don’t have a clue. You’ll know when I say so because you’ll instantly… Is that Judy Garland? There you go. I was going to say if I’d done Over the Rainbow or something. But it’s Judy Garland’s birthday, born this date, 1922, and that is Lucky Day from 1956. Do you share? I hit everybody with a vibe. America’s on fire in parts. It’s crazy. There’s nonsense everywhere. But the optics are playing out. I have this peace, this confidence that this is not working out well for the crazy people and that sanity is coming down the pipeline.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m particularly intrigued by your characterization of Gavin Newsom, who has sort of made this sort of neck-snapping pivot from reasonable and reach out to Sean Hannity. And now he’s spending taxpayer dollars – suing the federal government for enforcing the law. Let that just sink in. Imagine that waste of resources. Doesn’t it feel like we’re in biblical times in a way?
SPEAKER 04 :
I feel like we’re always in biblical times.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, but even more so now.
SPEAKER 04 :
I know what you mean, like apocalyptic times.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean this good versus evil showdown. You know, remember when sending the Marines was a good thing? Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, that’s a relief. The Marines are coming.
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly. Thank goodness. The good guys are on their way. So to the left, good is bad. Bad is good. Defend people. Donald Trump isn’t lighting any cars on fire. Donald Trump isn’t throwing any bricks at anybody. I mean, he’s trying to restore peace and safety to a community that is under siege. And you’re right, they continue to pretend that what we’re seeing with our very eyes isn’t happening. They’re smashing in the windows of the Apple Store in downtown Los Angeles and walking out with goodness knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars of items.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because as we learned post-George Floyd, when you break into stores and steal stuff, society just gets better.
SPEAKER 03 :
It just heals all the wounds. That’s virtuous. That’s a virtuous thing to do. That’s a positive action. Break down the door of a CVS and go walk out with a bunch of shampoo bottles and you are honoring the memory and the legacy of George Floyd. in a way that no other politician could. I mean, it’s insane. And now it came to Dallas. It was in Tampa Bay. Let me stipulate something. I’ve been thinking a lot about all this because I’ve been thinking about how normal Americans are responding. Look, politically, and it’s starting to come out into the open, this is backfiring on them badly. Big time. There’s no way you can denounce cops and attack law enforcement and come out on the right side of this. But let’s stipulate something, and I think our side needs to do a better job of this. If you are fundamentally opposed to Trump’s mass deportation, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with you writing out a sign and standing on a street corner. Go do that all day long. We appreciate that. And, you know, good people are bothered by, I’ll say it, hardworking, you know, people from another country who haven’t gotten in trouble and they’re getting swept up in these immigration raids and they’re being deported. And I can appreciate that. I know good people who hurt for that. You know, families that are being sent back to Venezuela. Our side tends to vilify the entire segment of that population. Now, on the other hand, Ben Ferguson, I think he’s Dallas-based, right? Ben Ferguson was on CNN yesterday, and you talk about a truth bomb. He said, look, in America every day there are children who cry when their mom or dad, an American citizen, breaks the law, gets arrested, goes to jail. But there’s no rioting or looting over that because everyone understands we’re either a nation of laws or we’re not. So with the illegal immigration issue, why is it different for them? It’s not. It’s not. Breaking the law is breaking the law, and they have to come to terms with that. In fact, that’s right. Right now we’re trying to support the children of American prisoners with our food, our beautiful – campaign for prison fellowship in the Angel Tree campaign. We’re sending 657 kids to summer camp right now who have an American parent in prison. And guess what? None of these kids are looted and rioting because their parent is in jail. Nobody’s assaulting a cop because their parent got arrested. So, MikeOnline.com if you want to support our Angel Tree prison fellowship campaign. We only have a few days left. Charlie Kirk talked about, I mean, you look at the images. Mexican and Palestinian flags? I know. Mark, Palestinian flags? Now, Charlie writes, that’s not a mistake. That’s not a bug. That’s not an anomaly. They are fellow travelers. It’s a feature of modern progressivism. You know, they masquerade as compassionate. But it is, as Charlie puts it, it’s a caste system of victimhood where identity outranks truth, grievance replaces virtue, and justice no longer serves the common good but kneels to a hierarchy of oppression.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s all about the lens of oppressed and oppressor, the Israel-Palestinian thing. Israelis largely seem to be white, instant oppressors. Palestinians tend to be somewhat darker, instantly the oppressed, and thus they can do no wrong.
SPEAKER 03 :
And they avoid the truth like a cockroach avoids light. Look at Greta Thunberg. That pathetic display, the selfie yacht.
SPEAKER 04 :
I wonder if she’s been sat down to watch that video that you saw.
SPEAKER 03 :
She refused to watch it. They put her in a room as a condition of her to be, and she incidentally was lawfully deported. They stuck her butt on a plane and she’s already headed back to Sweden. Back to Sweden. Yeah, it didn’t really work out for Greta. She’s decided that her pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian position didn’t really play well with the Israeli government. So they detained her and her 12 other comrades on their stupid selfie yacht. But they said, look, let’s make sure she sees what Hamas did. And there’s a 37-minute video that I saw at the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. It’s gut-wrenching. It’s powerful. But it’s important. I wish everybody would see it. I wish every… And they thought, well, let’s let her see it, since she’s so pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas. Mark, they put her in the room. She refused to watch it. She refused to watch it. Truth… is holy water to them. It is. They cannot stand it. And she, you know, even this young woman, and incidentally, she’s not a little girl anymore. She’s 22.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Didn’t care.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, I get it. But now she’s a young woman and she’s now got to be accountable for her actions. But why wouldn’t she watch it? Because maybe the truth would seep into her. you know, misguided soul, and she would realize she’s on the wrong side of this. If you’re on the side of Hamas, you’re on the wrong side.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly. You praised it exactly right. None of this, you know, sit down and watch this video is designed to make you necessarily, you know, love Netanyahu and be instantly pro-Israel. But it’s if you are going to take the Palestinian side of that regional land dispute that’s lasted forever and probably always will, just don’t be on the side of terrorists. Don’t think that Hamas is good. Don’t think that holding hostages is tolerable. And that’s what this activist bent is saying. That is what she is saying. That’s the side she is on. So that would have been instructive for her to watch that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that’s what I mean about upside down. I mean, good is evil. Evil is good. The Riverside County Sheriff, there is some sanity, and even in Southern California. Chad Bianco is the sheriff of Riverside County, and he reacted, frankly, hilariously to Kamala Harris’ attack on Trump. Kamala Harris claimed that Trump was the one promoting chaos in calling in the National Guard. Bianco posted, President Trump didn’t start these riots. He’s not out there lighting cars on fire, hurling projectiles at law enforcement, blocking freeways. Her statement, Kamala’s statement, is an embarrassment. and does nothing to defuse the violent riots taking place across the city. The Democrats and their leaders own this, is what he said.
SPEAKER 04 :
And you know what they’re saying about Trump? Have you heard the Democrat observation, some Democrats’ observation of Trump? Oh, this sending in the National Guard, having the Marines on standby. It makes him, he is weak and he is panicky. Yeah. Is there anything about Trump’s vibe that seems to smack of panic? Is there anything that makes you look like he’s becoming unnerved and nervous?
SPEAKER 03 :
Their theories, Mark, about all of his reasons are hysterical. One of them is that he’s trying to distract the country from Elon. Uh-huh. Yeah, like he cares at all about Elon.
SPEAKER 04 :
That feud is already forgotten. You know who’s forgotten it? Elon. Did you see yesterday? There was a post of Trump saying, I wish him well. I wish him very well, actually. And Elon hearted that. I mean, they’re bros again. That having been said. When you look at what Elon can do, he may put us on Mars. He may give us robots. He is certainly giving us electric cars. He gets our astronauts to the space station. He is an absolute genius. He is also, every once in a while, stone cold crazy. So it’s probably good for him to ride this ride as a Trump ally in the private sector because this could happen again.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, let’s look at what happens next year with the midterms because all of this has to be looked at through a political lens. Yesterday, led by Hakeem Jeffries, the House passed a resolution condemning the terror attack in Boulder. Anything wrong with that? No. Anything wrong with condemning a terror attack?
SPEAKER 04 :
Terror attacks should be condemned.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, tell that to the 113 Democrats in the House who voted against it. 113 Democrats refused to condemn the terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, Mark. Now, this is today’s party. This is not an anomaly. This is not a one-off. This is what I mean. I mean, we’re seeing Gavin Newsom, who he really is. Tell me you saw Auntie Maxine get the door slammed in her face. I did.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s been an interesting week for her on video, standing in front of the National Guards guy and saying, Are you going to shoot a kid? Are you going to shoot a public official? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight.
SPEAKER 03 :
What are you doing?
SPEAKER 04 :
And then she got her door slammed. Oh, my gosh. Speaking of California officials, I have to throw you a little bit of talk show love. Because as I was showing some appreciation… for Gavin welcoming some Republicans in for his stupid podcast. I said, listen, it’s a good idea when we all talk to each other. And you kind of mocked it and said, yeah, whatever. But you also said, that’s not the real him. This attempt to redefine will fail. And sooner rather than later, the real guy will show himself again. So congrats to you, Nostradamus.
SPEAKER 03 :
But I worry about John Fetterman in that regard. I mean, John Fetterman posted a statement that was completely normal and reasonable. He said, we see the high ground as a political party when we’re on the side of looters and rioters. But I believe in Fetterman. I think Gavin Newsom is a phony.
SPEAKER 04 :
He’s a creature of hair gel. John Fetterman, who does not have a hair gel problem, obviously, I think he’s the real deal. I think he is a sane Democrat who believes in things Democrats used to believe in. And I don’t think he’s going to flip. I don’t think that he is corruptible.
SPEAKER 03 :
I appreciate his moment of clarity. There’ll be more. I’m at a point now where I don’t trust any Democrat. I just don’t trust them. I don’t believe them. You don’t think Harold Ford is being genuine and nice on the five? Nope. Good to be back with you around the table. Shut up. Stop with the table. In your face, Harold. You, in your face, Harold. But he was on yesterday, so it made a little… Hey, at least they covered the riots in L.A. for a change.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, they’re doing… It was the top news story, and the Five actually covered it. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 03 :
They actually covered it. I mean, it’s amazing. Good day. It’s a good day for all.
SPEAKER 04 :
Speaking of cable news, speaking of cable news, as soon as I’m done at 10 Central Time, 10.35, there’s a thing called National Report on Newsmax. They called, and they want to have me on against some Democrat guy on some kind of panel thing. 1035 Central, Newsmax 349 on DirecTV.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you for cutting right into the Mike Gallagher Show. Turn off the Mike Gallagher Show. And then go immediately right back to Mike, because he’ll be rocking it. Yeah, just put Mark on this. Put him on mute, but make sure you turn my show up nice and loud. Exactly right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Priorities, priorities.
SPEAKER 03 :
We haven’t even gotten to the Mission Impossible movie yet. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Exactly, because you were very kind. You came out and supported me. It’s the best thing. Do you hate that Tom Cruise is almost our age? I love him. He’s 62, so he’s right between you and me. He did a deal with the devil. He’s a little younger than both of us. He did a deal with the devil. He has done a deal with Satan. There’s no way that guy’s in his 60s. He’s hanging from helicopters and climbing buildings. And he’s not done.
SPEAKER 04 :
Final reckoning, my foot. With the money this thing’s going to make, they’re definitely… And you know what?
SPEAKER 03 :
And I’ll be there. I’ll be right in the front row. Oh, my gosh. Well, first of all, spoiler alert, this movie is terrific. Yep. Don’t believe any… Somebody posted the other day, oh, it’s stupid, it’s overrated. No, it’s not. That’s just being… That’s somebody trying to get clicks. Correct. This is a great movie. You want a great action movie, go see Mission Impossible. All right, never an impossible mission with you, my friend. Have a happy Tuesday.
SPEAKER 04 :
Have a happy Tuesday. It gets happier when Mike hits the air as soon as we’re done. 10 o’clock, right here on 660 AM, The Answer. 660 AM, The Answer.
