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All right, hour number two, Rush To Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Klz560. scott Angel joining us now. Founder of USA Energy Worker, scott, welcome back.
How are you, sir?
I’m doing fine. Thank you, John, so much. It’s great to be talking to the folks in the mile-high city.
Today, I’m in the Permian Basin in Carlsbad, New mexico, so I’m not that far from you. If you can’t hear me, you probably can smell me.
Nice. Good to have you as always. All right.
As a country, we are always facing significant challenges, which, by the way, I don’t feel like we should be facing challenges when it comes to our energy industry and the backbone of our country. What do we do moving forward? And there’s a big election, as you know, coming up in about, what, 47 or so days.
What are some of these challenges we’re facing, and what’s the next president have to do to fix this?
Well, I think it starts with the recognition, John, that there are no wealthy, low-energy consuming nations on the planet. That’s an incredible observation. Energy consumption has become a leading indicator of economic prosperity.
And I think our country has kind of fallen into this trap. That energy, you can just pluck it from the trees, that it’s all about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees. It’s not so…
Energy ain’t easy. We gotta work at it. We gotta have policies that embrace it, that incentivize it.
And again, when you kind of just think, John, that we’ve had six recessions from 1973 to 2019, and they’ve all been preceded by a spike in energy prices, even I know that six times in a row, you might want to predict that it’s gonna happen again, right? So look, we cannot have a modern economy without access to affordable energy.
True.
And again, I realize that, you know, it’s not the proper grammar, but I’ve never been accused of having proper grammar.
You and I both. No, we get along really well along those lines, scott, because I’m exactly like you in that area. And the reality is, no, you’re right.
We have got to have inexpensive, you know, maybe cheap isn’t the right word, but we need inexpensive energy to continue to push our economy forward. And by the way, scott, we are, my son and I both were looking at this today. North America, we can throw Canada into this as well.
But North America, you know, Canada, United States, I’m not even throwing mexico in this. I’m just talking North America as far as, you know, United States and Canada, throw those together. We are literally, if we combine forces, the richest as far as natural resources go of anywhere in the world.
Well, you know, the good Lord has blessed us immensely here in America. There’s no doubt about it. And in your state is one of those blessed states with abundant natural resources.
And we would just simply say to listeners that unless we can get a handle on understanding that we cannot have a robust economy and have energy security and have reasonable prices here, without a strong domestic energy production, if we don’t really… And look, it’s not just all in gas. Certainly, I’m from all over the country.
No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, no, scott. I’m talking about across the board.
Everything from… We have an abundance of gold and silver. We have abundance of precious metals.
We have an abundance of, of course, coal, natural gas, oil. I mean, scott, combined, again, we are one of the richest continents on the planet.
And in the meantime, what we’ve done is had some, some misguided public policy.
Yep.
And as I say often, energy ain’t easy, right? But it seems like we’re making it a lot harder than it has to be, right? We have to have it.
We know a modern economy demands it. America is not going back to living, to folks chopping wood.
Well, I don’t want to, scott. I mean, I think that’s what you just said, by the way. I think that’s part of the real core of some of the issues.
We’ve got some environmental groups and some folks out there, scott, that frankly would love to go back to what you just said a moment ago. It’s not practical. It’s not going to happen.
The reality is we have tons of resources at our fingertips. And to your point, we’ve got to tap into those. And I don’t want to go back in time.
I want to move forward.
None of us are going back in time, brother. And I can tell you right now that those that believe that excessive litigation or overregulation is the key. They are basically leading us to strangulation.
They don’t either understand. They don’t understand our basic energy needs. Or they prefer.
Maybe they prefer to limit our energy choices.
See, I think it’s the latter. I think they do prefer to limit us. I think, yes, there’s a lot of politics involved in this, but I think there’s also a lot of, how do I want to say this, scott, very misguided individuals that think if we go back in time and live in more quote unquote simpler times, that it’s all better for the earth.
And the reality, scott, is number one, that’s a pipe dream. That’s not going to happen. Number two, that’s not really good for the earth when it’s all said and done.
And what we do as a United States of America, and the more prosperous we are, you know what I’m going to say next, we lift up the entire world.
No doubt. I mean, when America rocks, the rest of the world rolls. That’s right.
So it means no doubt about it. And look, one of those misguided policies we will share with you and you’ll listen to it. In 2016 under the Obama-Biden administration, there was a report that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued that said that if we did not have production from the Gulf of mexico, if we did not have leases in the Gulf of mexico, we would actually have an increase in greenhouse gas emissions because we have to backfill our demand from other countries.
Well, that’s exactly what we did. The report wasn’t put together by right-wing group. It was again issued by your government in the Obama-Biden administration.
And soon thereafter in this administration, they paused and canceled lease sales in the Gulf of mexico. And even though they did that, they embraced production from OPEC and they canceled and paused those lease sales in the name of the environment. Yet the statistics show that about 75% of the oil that we import into this country has a higher carbon intensity ratio than the production in our backyard in the Gulf of mexico.
So again, some of those things are misguided, misdirected, and unfortunately, the consumer ends up getting ill. Then we saw what happened. Yeah, prices are starting to retract a little bit now because of some of the Chinese demand issues.
I get that, I understand that. But at the end of the day, when we have high inflation, high inflation, the experts tell us about 40% of inflation is through energy inflation. It shows up in milk, it shows up in eggs, and everything else.
Yeah, absolutely.
scott, a question for you. And this is something where, this is my belief, and I’m not an expert, although I’m an old car guy, so I understand a little bit about oil refineries, the types of oils that we have that come into this country. I also know that we import some oil because of some of the refineries we’ve had online for so long.
So here’s my question for you. If we, instead of investing all of this money into green energy, windmills, solar, etc. And by the way, I’m not against any of those, but I’m against the way we’re doing it currently.
But if we were to invest as much money into building other refineries that would take the nice sweet crude that we get out of our own ground and we upped our own production, we would not be importing and would not have to import as much from other countries. Am I right or wrong in what I just said?
You’re absolutely right. I mean, the reality of it all is that if we embraced the opportunity for domestic energy, we would not have to look in other places. I mean, just think about it from our farming standpoint.
You know, American farmers are the best in the world. We certainly have embraced farming in this country. We do a good job with it on the strength of our farmers.
We need to take a page out of the farmer’s playbook and we need to do the same thing. Instead of just absolutely feeding the world, we have an opportunity to fuel the world. We can do more here in America.
And we ought to do more in America. And it starts with, again, recognizing, number one, energy ain’t easy, but it doesn’t have to be this hard.
All right, USA Energy Workers, you’re the founder of, how do folks find you, scott?
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Amen. scott, as always, enjoy having you, man. Appreciate you very much.
Thank you, brother.
Have a great night. Appreciate you very much. And again, that is usaenergyworkers.com.
And scott’s a great guy. Have him on a regular basis, and we appreciate him. Love his accent, by the way.
There’s no way I could imitate scott ever, but I love him. I love his accent. And by the way, for those of you that maybe don’t know, he was the longest-serving director of the US.
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in the United States of America. So he’s got a long history in this world on that end of things and knowing exactly how things work internally. So a very smart man.
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Alright, we are back. Rush To Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Klz560. Okay, unless you’ve been living somewhere where you haven’t heard the news today.
There were pagers that detonated yesterday over, well, many places, but mostly over in Lebanon for the Hezbollah group. These I want to make sure everybody understands too, because the press doesn’t tell you this. These are terrorists.
I want to make sure we’re clear on this. These are terrorists. Okay, don’t let the news media or the left candy coat this any way, shape or form.
These are terrorists. These are people that will die for their leader, for their country, for their cause, and they don’t care who they take out at the same time. In fact, in some cases, that’s the way it’s designed.
They’re suicide bombers, et cetera. All Aukbar, that kind of thing. Nutjobs, terrorists.
Sorry, I have no other way to say it. So what happened, in case those of you out there didn’t know, yesterday about 3,000 pagers went off simultaneously, and there was some explosives that had been hidden inside of each pager through the manufacturing process. How did all of that happen?
We may never know. I have my own theories, but how, we don’t know. And then somehow, the right signal gets sent.
There’s all sorts of memes rolling around today, which some of them are actually pretty funny. Like one of them said the text message was 27 virgins. If you know anything about Paul Aukbar and all that, you’ll understand the meaning behind somebody’s meme doing that.
I don’t know what the text was, I have no idea. But something was sent. Simultaneously, and blew up 3000 pagers.
Now, with those pagers, I don’t, there might have been one death, but there wasn’t too many people killed, but lots of injuries. You know, cause think about a pager. Now I did say, you know, I was talking yesterday to one of my boys, and I was like, are we back in 1990?
You know, using pagers is, this is the antiquated way of communicating that they do. I guess so. Yeah, thank you, Charlie.
They don’t trust any other communication. They don’t trust cell phones. They can be tracked.
So yeah, they don’t trust anything other than. I learned something new yesterday. I didn’t know they were still made.
I honestly did not know pagers were still made. I figured that they’re all relics in museums at some point now. And I didn’t know anybody still made them.
But I’m wrong because they picked up 3,000 new ones here. Not that long ago, and yesterday, they detonated them. Now today, to add a little fuel to the fire, they also, because they don’t like communication with cell phones, they use two-way radios like walkie-talkies.
Well, today those blew up as well. Same situation, picked up at the same time, same location. A lot of these terrorists, would-be terrorists, picked up new walkie-talkies, I guess, and pagers.
About the same time, only in this particular attack, it left 12 dead and thousands injured, because your size of explosives now just went up from, you know, less than a playing card size, you know, baseball card size, half that is what a pager is, to the size of your cell phone, or probably larger. Because walkie-talkies are fairly large, as most of you know. Even small walkie-talkies are fairly large.
For all sorts of reasons that I will not get into. And again, had to have been done in a way where they had some sort of explosive put inside of them, and evidently some sort of signal sent simultaneously to each one of these, you know, wireless communication devices. They’re not necessarily calling them walkie-talkies, but think of them as walkie-talkies.
And these are communication devices that these guys, and it is guys, that’s how that works in that part of the world, by the way. These folks were out shopping for groceries, sitting in cafes, driving cars, and so on. And their walkie-talkie that in some cases was probably strapped to their belt, goes off.
These handheld radios and pagers, by the way, were purchased and picked up by Hezbollah five months ago. About the same time, not exactly the same day, but around the same time. So, I want to remind everybody, because you’re not going to read this in mainstream media, these are terrorists.
In some cases could very well be some of the same terrorists that launched the attack on Israel October 7th, a year ago, which we’re coming up on the anniversary of. Which by the way, you’re going to see some sort of protest and so on from knucklehead Palestinian supporters here in the US on that day, because they’re dumb. I mean that sincerely.
These are stupid people that have no idea what they’re doing. Or what they’re for, by the way. And if you want to call in and argue with me on that one, lines are open.
Feel free. Anybody inside of one of these protests is an idiot, complete, utter idiot. So but this is an all out war.
Keep in mind, this is warfare right now. People are saying, well, people got killed. Yeah, that’s what happens in war.
Sorry, that’s what happens in war, folks. For those of you that are Palestinian sympathizers, some way, somehow, this is war. This is what happens.
You started it, by the way. That side started it. Hamas started this, which you could add, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran.
I mean, you know what? You could put them all into one bucket, if as far as I’m concerned, it’s all one in the same. They’re all supporting one another.
Prove I’m wrong, someone, some Palestinian supporter, prove I’m wrong. They’re all one in the same. The money flows all around each one of them in the same way.
Am I right, Charlie? The money flows through, in a lot of cases, Iran, from the US even, all the way right back through these organizations that go around terrorizing the world. And in this particular case, Jews, Israel.
And we all know what happened on October 7th in the bloodshed there by innocent Jews. These were kids that were partying, basically. Now, I don’t know how many innocent people were injured or killed with the walkie-talkie blow up.
But keep in mind, these are known terrorists because they wouldn’t have the communication devices if they weren’t. So, again, something the news media is not going to tell you, you wouldn’t have one of these if you weren’t a Hezbollah fighter or someone in command with Hezbollah. You wouldn’t have these.
It’s just how the system works. And again, these are things that you’re not going to hear from mainstream media. You’re going to hear in the next few days, trust me when I say this, sympathizers on that side, the Palestinian sympathizers saying, oh, this shouldn’t have happened, whoever did this went too far, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, I don’t want to hear it. You guys started it. And you picked the wrong guys to pick on, by the way.
Now, has the Israelis come out and said that they did this? No, they have not. Is this the work of someone like Mossad?
Probably. If you don’t know who Mossad is, go look it up. But again, the other side started it, and now all that’s happening is Israel is responding to what got started in the first place.
And they’re very methodical in the way they approach things. Andy, I’ll tell you what, hang tight. Let me take you right after the break.
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Hey John, a couple quick questions here. First of all, AOC is worried about civilian casualties which blows my mind. I got a couple of quick questions.
First of all, why is anyone still there? Israel dropped leaflets. They said leave or die.
People have to remember when they launched their terror attack on Israel on October 7th, Hezbollah, they were not worrying about civilian death. They were attacking civilians. They slaughtered civilians.
They raped civilians. They killed them left and right, front and back, everywhere. They didn’t care at all.
And then they were told get out of the area so we can fully sweep it. By staying there, they have only made the sweep that much more difficult and deadly for Israel. So why are we concerned about civilian deaths at this point?
Was she talking about civilian deaths in the Hamas area or in Lebanon like some of these explosions were?
Oh, I think anywhere.
Anywhere, got it. Well, and here’s my feeling on that. And I get it.
You know, there could be an innocent bystander where there’s a… I don’t want to say this, Andy. Where there would be a terrorist that you don’t know is a terrorist near you or this thing blows up and you’re injured.
Although, Andy, I have a hard time believing in those areas as tight knit as most of them are. Some guy walks in with a walkie-talkie, chances are you know who that is and why are you hanging around them? Exactly.
I mean, that’s my thought process. I mean, it’d be no different than here. If you know there’s a gangster that floats around and you know their background and some of the henchmen that are around that guy and all of a sudden you’re in a coffee shop, wouldn’t you just leave, Andy?
I would.
Yes.
And here’s the big thing, John. Like I said, why are most of these people even in those areas?
Well, my feeling is, Andy, and you know this is, you know, I think you feel the same way, because they support the cause.
Right. They support the cause. Okay.
They support the cause. And secondly, let’s keep in mind, John, that the people who are near somebody who, you know, had an explosion. Yeah, there can be the innocent one who was next to somebody near somebody at a coffee shop.
That can happen.
Okay. But John, most of them are near them because they’re with them.
Right. They’re a family member. They’re this.
They’re that. They’re a friend. They’re working with them.
They’re a part of the organization, whatever the case may be.
Right. And here’s my last question for anybody like AOC or anybody who is in any way, shape or form supportive of them. Why are you so worried about Israel being surgical, surgical, surgical, surgical, having to find only the combatants in the midst of a sea of people who largely support those combatants?
Why were you this concerned that they be surgical and only going against Israeli combatants on October 7th?
Right. And like I said earlier, too, to remind everybody, and this is something that the left will not remind people of, Andy, as you just said, these are terrorists. These are people that will all AOC bar, give up their lives to make sure you and I are dead at the end of the day.
They don’t care about us.
Right. And when we were going, and when Israel, sorry, we, when Israel was going through and clearing out all the tunnels over the last several months, where were these tunnels leading to, John? They were leading to hospitals.
They were leading to places where innocence was human shield.
That’s right.
Everywhere they went. And so you’ve got people like both Hezbollah and, what was the previous one? Hamas.
Hamas and Hezbollah hide behind innocence on purpose. And here AOC is coming out and complaining about Israel defending itself and having to go through some innocence. It’s disgusting, John.
That’s all I wanted to say.
No, Andy, you’re spot on. I appreciate you calling in, by the way, very much. And yeah, he’s spot on.
I mean, I cannot argue with anything Andy just said. We’ll talk more about that most likely next Tuesday. But yeah, folks, again, at the end of the day, these are terrorists.
As Andy said, they are being surgically removed by, and I understand, Israel has not taken the blame or the responsibility for what’s gone on. Although, how do I want to say this? There’s probably only but one to two countries, maybe three, but really probably only a couple of countries that even have the ability and the expertise to even do what just happened.
And I mean that in all sincerity. Very few countries have the ability to pull this off. We’re one of them, and Israel would be number two.
Now, are there other countries with technology and the ability to do some things and so on? Yeah, I’m not saying that. What I’m saying is, is there anybody else that has the cahunas worldwide to do what either we or Israel would do?
And by the way, we don’t even have the cahunas. We’ve got the technology, but we don’t have anybody in charge right now that has the cahunas to pull that off. Only Israel, by the way, would most likely do this.
So they haven’t taken credit for this yet. They may never take credit for it. You can rest assured that Hezbollah will most likely respond.
They always do. In Israel’s case, though, it’s sort of like taking the fly swatter and whacking that fly off of your arm or off of the table because it’s just a nuisance. At the end of the day, is it really going to change your life?
Probably not. And I mean that sincerely. Israel doesn’t really look at them as much of a threat, but they’re going to take care of them when they’re a nuisance, and they are.
Hezbollah is a nuisance. Hamas is a nuisance. You’ve heard my answers on what Israel should have done with Hamas in the Gaza Strip all along.
If I were in charge, that place would already have been demolished. It would have been flattened. Carpet bombed, flattened, done, dozed over by now, and we would already be in the process of rebuilding.
In our way, not theirs. And I’d take it back over.
It’d be done.
It wouldn’t exist. That’s me. I’m pretty harsh.
I don’t think, I don’t believe in a two-state system, by the way. Sorry. Go back where you came from.
Call it good. I don’t believe in a two-state system. That’s me.
I know I go against the grain of a lot of people, not mostly my listeners, but others that would listen and say, oh no, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Yeah, actually I do. I’m not a fan of a two-state system.
It’s never going to work. It hasn’t worked. It hasn’t worked, I should say, in thousands of years.
Why would it now? The intricacy of the belief system doesn’t allow it, folks. If you don’t believe me and don’t understand what I just said, go look it up.
Their belief systems do not allow that to happen. What they do, who they worship, how they view life, doesn’t allow a two-state system. So, any politician that says they’re in favor of a two-state system is either A lying or B has no understanding of what I just said.
It’s one of the two. They’re either totally clueless or they get it and they’re lying. Most likely they get it and they’re lying, but I will say there are some politicians, AOC, that are totally clueless.
She left her brain at the door a long time ago. She really is one of the dumbest members of Congress there is, and I mean that sincerely. Not the brightest bulb at all.
So for anybody like AOC to say she’s worried about the civilians, just tells you how stupid she really is. She’s just not that intelligent. So I thought it was interesting.
We’ll make you wonder, will Hezbollah rethink their communications and how they do things? The problem is, other than sending smoke signals, what other choice do they have? Two-way radios, pagers, I mean, what other ways do they have to communicate if they’re not doing something old and antiquated because anything else is going to get tapped into, and that’s what they’re worried about mostly.
John, go ahead.
Hey John, you know, people got to talk about this though. Every dime of Palestinian relief money that went to Gaza and to Lebanon was taken by the terrorists and spent on weapons.
Yep.
And, you know, none of it went to help these people.
Nope.
So when people say the poor people of Palestine, well, why did we allow that to happen? And this goes all the way back to probably, well, I think Israel gave up Gaza in 05 or 06. This goes all the way back to Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden now, all of them allowed it to happen.
So, when all of a sudden we’re shocked that somebody said enough is enough and struck back with technology, I don’t know why people are upset about it.
I don’t either. I don’t either, John. I really don’t.
So, I want to know how the Mossad, who I 100% think they did it, hired the Q branch from James Bond, because this is right out of a Bond movie.
Right.
Blowing up the pagers and the phones.
This is high-tech stuff, John. Somebody texted in really quick too and said that they heard on another radio program today that we should be really cautious here of our own cell phones, that the similar things could happen to our phones. And I would disagree with that, John, just because of how tightly our cell phones are packed in.
I don’t really know. I mean, again, I’m not an expert in explosives by any means, but I know that, you know, on average that a cell phone is packed so tightly, that other than maybe the glue that is being used to glue everything together, I don’t know how you’d fit anything in there.
I don’t either, but the other thing I’m saying is, yeah, maybe somebody could hack the phones and cause the lithium batteries to overheat and catch fire.
That could be the only way. That would be the only way, I think. Yes, I agree with you there.
But other than that, our cell phones, what you really have to worry about with the cell phones is somebody hacking in and taking over the cell network. And if they could do it with pagers and walkie talkies, what’s to say they can’t do it with a cell network?
Oh, they can. That one, John, that is totally possible. Absolutely, totally possible.
We talked about that on a Friday, too.
Exactly, totally possible.
Oh yeah, it’s just one of those things that as we get more technologically advanced, can happen. Yep, yep. It was on 9-11, it was the infancy of cellular on 2001.
People had cell phones, but maybe, and texting, but that was no…
Yeah, we didn’t have smartphones. They didn’t come around till 08, as you know. Right.
But what happened is when those towers went down, some of the main cell towers in New York went down, and all of a sudden, everybody’s cell phone was just unable to connect. And that’s the other thing we have to worry about, is if some bad actor takes out the cell towers. There’s too many people that are too dependent on their cell phones.
Right.
And don’t realize that they can get to… We could lose the cell network quicker than you think.
Oh, absolutely, including, you know, let’s not talk about the grid, cause that’s a whole nother conversation in of itself. Yeah.
Yeah, that’s just… It’s so weak right now, it’s scary.
But…
but these guys got exactly what they asked for.
Yep.
Their problem is, and why everybody’s complaining, is it’s been a long time since somebody struck back at these terrorists with such… such force. And that’s what they’re all upset about.
They’re not upset about, you know, our politicians here, like the AOC and, you know, the squad. What’s her name? the…
Tlaib.
Illinois.
Tlaib? Rashid Tlaib?
Tlaib.
Yeah, that’s her.
She’s having a meltdown right now.
Right.
Well, you know what? You didn’t care when they killed all those Israeli students at a concert.
That’s right.
I mean, they didn’t care. So, you know…
Yeah, I have, as you can tell, John, I have literally no sympathy whatsoever. None.
Oh, I have none either. I was… You know what?
The one thing I got to say is for 3,000 years, there’s been fighting over there. And for some reason, I think some of them like it.
It’s in their DNA.
I don’t know how to do anything else.
It’s in their DNA.
Yeah, because, you know, and they feel like they’re over the world. And prior to Israel, there was no such thing as Palestine. Those people that lived in that area got either Jordanian, or I think it was Transjordan at the time, or Egyptian-Burjistans, the kids of Tapsinport.
Got you, got you.
There’s never been a Palestine.
Got you.
And when, so, John, you have a great day, buddy.
You too, John. Appreciate you very much. Let’s take a break.
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All right, there’s actually video Charlie just sent me or told me how to find it. And it shows a Lebanon supermarket where this particular, in this particular case, it was a pager that blows up. This guy’s, it looks like he’s picking fruit from what I can see.
He’s at the table picking fruit. And what’s really amazing, I always, you know, you don’t want to laugh, but it’s a terrorist. I don’t care.
Honestly, I don’t care. It’s a terrorist. So I’m going to laugh.
Nobody’s helping the guy. Which tells you that they probably know what’s going on and who this guy is and nobody’s coming to his aid. Literally, his side kind of blows up.
You can see the page. He’s not dead. He’s on the ground kind of moving around.
Yeah, he’s not dead. He is knocked over because this thing blew up on his side. I’m sure it’s very painful.
And he’s on the ground kind of, you know, maneuvering around, I guess you could say. Probably I can’t hear the sound because we’re on air now. Moaning and groaning.
And literally, I can count right now, all men, I can count, I don’t know, half a dozen or more guys in the store just sort of looking at him. Like one guy’s actually got a cell phone out videoing. And I’m thinking, I don’t think I’d be on the camera doing that because you’re liable to not wake up tomorrow, but that’s a whole other conversation.
Point being, these people in this store didn’t care this guy got blown up. Meaning they probably know who the dude is. So do I have any sympathy?
No, folks, I’m sorry, I don’t. These are terrorists. These are people that either have or will kill someone else in the name of their God.
Allah. Okay? Let’s not forget any of this.
Again, news media is not going to tell you what I just said. This is their belief system. We are the infidel.
The Israelis definitely are the infidel, and they are out to destroy them. It’s that simple. If you don’t believe me, go look it up for yourself.
And they are out in an all-out war to literally take over the world in the name of Allah. That’s how it works. We haven’t talked about that on this program in quite some time.
We used to talk about it quite a bit back when things were really hectic after 9-11, of course, and terrorism was even much higher than it is right now. It hasn’t gone anywhere. Trump kept it under better check than this particular administration, of course.
And as he even said, what happened in Israel, I do firmly believe wouldn’t have happened under Trump’s watch. Hamas wouldn’t have done that. Number one, they wouldn’t have had the money to do it because Trump wouldn’t have funded Iran the way the Biden administration has.
Let’s not forget that. The Biden administration has funneled billions upon billions of dollars back into Iran, okay? If nothing else, just lifting sanctions, allowing them to trade oil, even if they’re not doing it above board, they’re still trading oil and making millions upon millions of dollars per day.
In that end of it alone. Don’t forget, Russia helps them out greatly as well, and we have funneled a lot of money into Russia by having higher oil prices. That’s also what’s helped Russia fund the Ukraine War.
Us, we have. We have through higher oil prices, which Joe Biden did the day he arrived in office. By even though the Keystone pipeline wasn’t up and running, just saying he was killing it overnight raised prices.
You guys, let’s go back in time. Those of you that are on the left, go back in time. You all want to blame all sorts of things.
The current administration wants to blame Donald Trump for inflation because they’re a bunch of lunatic cowards. Inflation was caused by them, not Donald Trump. They’ll blame it on Trump.
Kamala Harris is. It’s not Donald Trump’s fault. It’s their fault.
And they created inflation, again, as I’ve said numerous times, only one entity creates inflation, government. Either through monetary policy, the printing of money, or in this energy policy I just mentioned a moment ago, whereby they can literally overnight raise the price of oil. Both of those cause inflation, all done by government.
Not by private industry, by government. And that’s something that, by the way, we should be teaching everyone, our kids included, as to how inflation works. Because a lot of people, the left especially, want to blame big companies, big business, greed, corporate greed for inflation.
No folks, no, no, no, no, no. That’s not where it comes from. Inflation comes from one place, one place only, government.
Out of control spending. Policies, as I mentioned a moment ago, on energy. That’s what causes inflation.
So Joe Biden immediately raised oil prices the minute he got into office by saying the things that he did and doing the things that he did. Just his position alone in conversation, and I was talking about this back then, just his conversation about oil and exploration and leasing and so on, and the Keystone Pipeline was enough to raise the price of oil. I mean, that side will blame it on everything, but what it actually is.
So speaking of all of that, Andy sent me an article I had not had a chance to read, comes out of Town Hall. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is the last major labor union to issue a 2024 endorsement, and they’re not going to endorse for cowardly reasons, which we’ll get into in a second. This is their article, not mine.
That UAW, United Auto Workers Union, front office endorsed Kamala Harris, though even its president, Sean Fein, admitted to its members that he would likely vote for Donald Trump, or that its members would vote for Donald Trump. Not he, but the members. Teamster Sean O’Brien did something historic this year.
He was the first Teamsters president to address the Republican National Convention. The Democrats ignored his request to speak at their convention, but O’Brien’s speech could be seen as a soft endorsement with its members voting on who they prefer. It’s a shock that the rank-and-file overwhelmingly favored Donald Trump.
Maybe this is why the Union opted not to endorse. So the reality is, the Teamsters rank-and-file, 59 percent Trump to Harris, 34 percent. That’s in an electronic poll they did internally in the Teamsters.
I don’t know that I can ever remember a time where that was the way it was. For almost as long as I can remember, the Teamsters voted Democrat. By and large.
Unions, by and large, vote Democrat. Even they know now what a Harris presidency would look like. So I’ll go to break.
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Hey, I got a good question from the text line a moment ago. Whatever happened to the Drudge Report? They are trash now and hate Trump and Republicans.
Yeah, the Drudge Report went off the deep end. Oh gosh, Charlie, six, seven years ago? Am I thinking, is that about right?
Four years ago? So the last election is when they went off the deep end. They were headed that way even prior to that, because they were not big on Trump, even at the end of his presidency.
So yeah, I would say four or five years ago, they really started going off the deep end. They literally tipped the scales in the last election, though. So roughly four years ago is when they really went off the deep end, went over the cliff, if you would.
Dan and I used to talk about this back when he was hosting with me. They were working their way towards that prior to that. In fact, I would say six years ago even, you could start seeing some of their reporting started to be a little bit questioning Trump on this, questioning Trump on that.
They were starting ahead in that direction then. Yeah, they don’t write. They copy articles.
They take things from what other people write. They aggregate things. They’re basically an aggregate site, The Drudge Report is.
Similar to, I’m trying to think of what other sites are, Charlie, that are like, thank you, Complete Colorado. Here in Colorado is very much that way. They just take other sites, throw things out, aggregate it so you can find articles a little easier.
But literally, you know, five, six years ago, Drudge started finding more of those anti-Trump or questionable, you know, Trump comments and so on. And Drudge himself, did he not do some writing, though? Charlie didn’t Drudge himself write some?
Charlie said maybe a book or so. I thought he would do some columns here and there at times. But again, I didn’t follow them much even back in the day when it was Drudge and they were actually fairly consistent on the conservative side.
I was never a huge follower of Drudge. But yes, to your point as a texter, that is 100% correct. Yes, you are right.
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