This episode of Shooting the Breeze features Karen Murray as she passionately navigates through the controversial SB 3 bill, an impending piece of legislation threatening to ban semi-automatic firearms with detachable magazines. With engaging analogies and direct comparisons, Karen offers a strong case against the bill while inspiring listeners to stay informed and active in their advocacy. Whether you're a seasoned gun owner or new to the world of firearms, this episode is packed with informative content and a call to action for protecting your rights.
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This is an encore of an earlier program. We are not able to accept your calls. Welcome to Shooting the Breeze, brought to you by the team at Franktown Firearms, a family-owned, family-friendly shooting range in Franktown, Colorado. Franktown Firearms offers practical, defensive training, as well as an impressive selection of firearms at the lowest tax rate, so you can develop confidence with your firearm. The team at Franktown Firearms believes the only difference between a beginner and an expert is practice. so they equip you to keep yourself and your family safe in a welcoming atmosphere. And now, here are your hosts of Shooting the Breeze.
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Hello, hello, hello. Happy Monday, everyone. Thank you so much for shooting the breeze with me today. My name is Karen Murray, and I'm the lead instructor at Franktown Firearms. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You simply have to come in and check out all that's new at Franktown Firearms. More inventory, better selection of everything. We are now a master staccato dealer, so if you know, you know, come in and check out the selection of staccatos we have. New classes are being formed in the shoot house, and you guys are not going to want to miss out on this kind of training. You won't find this level of firearm education anywhere else in the state that's open to the public. Plain and simple. And the shoot house, the CQB training is just the beginning. And if you don't know what CQB is, that's close quarter battle. You're going to learn all about that. There is something so freaking amazing coming your way that you're going to be beating the door down to get in on it. And that's all I'm going to say about it for now because it's just I have to wait until everything is a go before I disclose this to you guys. But, oh, my gosh. Stay tuned for future announcements. That's all I got to tell you. While you're visiting Franktown Firearms, you can sign up for a concealed carry class or ask about a range membership, which also has its perks, by the way. The guys can explain all of that to you if you're curious. If private training is what you're looking for, you know, some people just don't like sitting in a classroom with a bunch of other people. And I get that. So if you want to just brush up on your skills a little bit or learn from scratch, I can help you with all of that. You can send me an email at karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com, and we can get you something scheduled. I usually run those during the weekdays. And speaking of training, now I'm going to – I want to give you some information that not many people know, or maybe they just didn't really add these little nuggets up in their head. I'm going to use my private concealed carry class for two people as the starting point for this conversation, and I'm going to compare it to something that a lot of people in this state do, and that is skiing. Now, I know a lot of you grew up on skis, like you learn to ski before you learn to walk kind of thing. And I understand that, but not everyone who isn't from Colorado skis. There's a lot of transplants here from, you know, other places, Texas and California and what we see in our politics, which I'm going to cover later. But many people who are natives to Colorado don't ski. So If you want to go into the high country and slap a pair of skis on, what do most rational people do? What do they do first? They take a lesson, right? Whether it's from their dad or from, you know, they hire somebody that actually works at the resort and they take a lesson. So currently, the price to take a private concealed carry class for two people from me at Franktown Firearms is $380. Okay? The class is four hours long. It includes a handgun rental if you don't have one. It includes eye and ear protection if you don't have that. And it includes targets. And about an hour of range time with me helping you every step of the way. So it's very hands-on. It's a very personal kind of training. Now, that price will increase dramatically after July 1st because the class will be eight hours at that point, and I won't be offering nearly as many private classes in that format just because it's not really feasible. However, I'll still run them, and I'm going to be running them up until then, you know, like I always do during the week. So, Back to the comparison to skiing and ski lessons. So I was browsing this morning at the price for a three-hour ski lesson for two people at Winter Park on a weekday. So it wasn't even a weekend. It wasn't, you know, prime time, whatever. I went to their website, and I added a three-hour lesson for two people on a Thursday to the cart. Are you ready for this number? Are you ready? Okay. $838 for a private ski lesson for two people. Now, some might say, but it's worth it. Skiing is dangerous, and you can get injured if you aren't doing it correctly. This moment could be a mic drop for me, or maybe Luke has some crickets on audio to play here. I don't know. But I will ask you, If you think skiing is dangerous and you could get injured if you don't do it the right way, don't you think the same reasoning should apply to firearms training? In my humble opinion, a private concealed carry class for two people is a bargain at $380. Plus, you don't have to sit in traffic on I-70s. You just have to come down to Franktown Firearms, conveniently located just east of the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 86 in Franktown. So if it's something you've been considering, please look into it and schedule your class before July 1st. That's all I'm going to say. Get trained. Get committed. Get immersed. and join this amazing group of American patriots who enjoy the liberty afforded to them by God and protected by the Constitution of the United States to keep and bear arms. You know, maybe somebody should suggest all of this to the commies who seem to have taken over and entrenched themselves in the Colorado legislature. As you know, there is a bill that's making its way through the Colorado Senate, SB 25-003, henceforth is going to be called SB 3. We like to shorten things around here. So remember when I mentioned this bill when it first was introduced. This is the bill that would ban any semi-automatic firearm that accepts a detachable magazine. Well, this bill was bad enough. as it was originally drafted. During the second reading of the bill, which was last, I think it was Friday, I believe, SB3 was heavily amended, and now it's even worse, you guys. It's worse. I want you to hear this audio. This is a guy that kind of quickly explains the bill as well as the amendment. Check this out.
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Breaking news out of Colorado in regards to the ridiculous anti-gun bill that would make Colorado the most gun-restricted state in the country by banning all semi-automatic pistols, rifles, and shotguns that take detachable magazines. Late last night, it went on to like 2 in the morning, they ended up passing this bill and they included a crazy amendment in it that's basically set to allow us peasants to buy back our rights. So the amendment they put in there was basically like a FOID card, which we know is unconstitutional. But essentially they want you to pass a hunter safety course along with some other firearms instructed course in order to actually be able to purchase semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and pistols that take detachable magazines. And of course, that all costs money. If you have a hunting license, you also have to take an additional four-hour course that is overseen by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife. And if you don't have a hunting license, then you would have to take an undefined 12-hour course. And we don't know what that really entails at this point. The Senate Republicans requested a fiscal note on the bill. Originally, the fiscal note was $0. But with this amendment, this fiscal note is now $1.8 million. This is significant because the legislator is currently dealing with a billion-dollar shortfall in their budget. The bill is being heard again today, Friday, and it needs another pass in the Senate to make it to the House chamber. Let's hope this doesn't pass, but this isn't looking too good. So if this passes, then it goes on to the House of Representatives, which gets further reviewed, and then if it passes that, then it goes on to Polis' desk. This is ridiculously unconstitutional and you all got to be pretty frustrated with this as I am. If there's anything else we can do at this point, it's just reaching out to the senators once again and even putting pressure on Governor Polis because if this passes, it's going to end up on his desk. I really don't think he's going to sign it, but I don't want to have to have him as our last resort here. If you want to keep up to date with this stuff, go to the website WeTheSecond. It's set up by a bunch of local firearms instructors and gun activists. It's run really nicely. It gives you great updates and it gives you direction on where to go to contact your senators. And it's going to give you more information on future bills if anything like this comes up. So check out that website, WeTheSecond.com.
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All right. So if you didn't catch the FOID, that's Firearms Owner Identification Card. And that's what you're going to be required to have if you want to own one of these restricted firearms. And I agree with him in that I don't want to rely on Polis as our last line of defense. Okay? We all know how he is. So, oh, my gosh. So SB3 is scheduled for the third reading and final Senate vote tomorrow, actually, the 18th, February 18th. And then it will move into the House. It will likely pass there. And then it's going to get laid on Polis' desk for him to sign. Now, if you're listening to this program, I know you care about this. We can't be complacent and just allow these people to run roughshod over our constitutional rights. It's as simple as that. And this one is bad. They've already been hard at work over the last few years, making the lives of law-abiding gun owners more difficult. Wouldn't you agree? These tyrants have created all kinds of laws that are an affront to the Second Amendment. The 15-round magazine capacity limit, the three-day waiting period for taking possession of a firearm that you already purchased, among several others. And now we have this piece of work, this legislative tyranny coming down the pike. So I'm going to implore you to reach out to your legislators and to polis and make your voices heard. I mean, I know that I've said it like, yeah, they just hit delete, like they don't care, right? And you can show up in person and they still don't care. It's just the way that they are. But we have to do whatever we can to keep this bill from passing. Even if you're not a gun owner, but you believe in the Constitution and the liberty that comes with it, you should still be fired up about this. I mean, it's the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. What's next? Are we going to need a free speech card? As a firearms instructor, of course, I believe in training and safety, and I always will. I always compare learning to use a gun with learning to drive. Remember how nervous you were when you first got behind the wheel of a car to drive for the first time? You were nervous. You probably drove really slow as you were learning all the controls and getting used to the whole experience, right? You didn't want to wreck the car, wreck your mom's car or your dad's car or whatever and hurt yourself or someone else. But now what do you do? You jump in and away you go. You don't even give it a second thought. You get in the driver's seat. You don't even have to look to grab the seatbelt and get it latched. You put your car in reverse or in drive without even looking to find the gear shift, and you pull out of your driveway. You look behind you. You check the safety spots and the blind spots and all that, right? When you make a left-hand turn, you look right, and then you look left, and then you look right again. You're safe, and you use your blinkers, use your mirrors, You know that if you're not driving safely that you could get hurt. Your car could be undriveable and it would cost you a lot of money overall if you crash the car. It's all second nature to you now. You're confident behind the wheel of your car, but it was a bit of a process when you first started driving, right? That's kind of common sense. Well, that's what most firearms instructors want for their students when it comes to handling a firearm. We want you to be confident. We want you to practice. and turn those deliberate movements that we teach you into muscle memory. And in my opinion, there's firearms training, and then there's draconian overreach that is nothing more than a money grab. And SB3 is just that, unconstitutional overreach. An editorial from the Colorado Springs Gazette puts this bill in the crosshairs, so to speak. And I'm going to read it for you now. The left plans to – now, you've got to listen to this carefully and think about how this guy is wording this. The left plans to ban guns among the poor and minorities. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, surrounded by the world's most sophisticated bodyguards, has a warning for the bad guys. Speaking of her semi-automatic pistol, during a 60 Minutes interview that aired in October, Harris said, quote, if someone breaks into my house, they're getting shot. She would shoot the intruder with a common handgun, many of which fall in the sights of Colorado's activist left-wing legislative Democrats with the amended version of Senate Bill 3. Senate Bill 3 set out to forbid the sale, purchase, and transfer of semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and pistols. Sponsors feared Democratic Governor Jared Polis might veto something so extreme. We would hope so, given that his oath of office began with, I do swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of Colorado. To contend with that concern, the bill's hard-left sponsors amended it and won preliminary Senate approval at 2 a.m. on Friday. I guess that would be Saturday morning, by the way. If Polis signs the new version, he will go down among history's worst gun-grabbing politicians. If Polis does anything other than veto SB3, he will lose his viability as a candidate for national office. When a politician appears to the left of Harris on guns, his future is dim. The new version attempts to preclude critics from saying it outlaws common handguns, rifles, and shotguns. Instead, it limits their acquisition to wealthy, disproportionately white male consumers. With the new amendments, Polis could buy the targeted guns net worth greater than $400 or his net worth greater than $400 million, along with most legislators who could not buy the guns or who could not buy the guns unable to meet the law's high threshold, include people who need self-protection the most. the low-income battered women, low-income members of the LGBTQIA community, and low-income minorities living in Colorado's high-crime neighborhoods. Sure, pass a bill that harms only the lower half of the socioeconomic ladder. They won't fuss because they are busy paying for overpriced food and inflated utility bills while staying off the radar of TDA gangsters and other criminals who chuckle at gun laws. The amended bill would institutionalize social injustice and inequity. Instead of screwing 100% of Coloradans out of their gun rights, it would substantially burden only the working class and poor, the people most endangered by crime. It would, until a court says otherwise, pretend the Second Amendment says gun rights shall not be infringed among the rich. Consider a single mother with two jobs and a well-armed, drunken, abusive ex-boyfriend who threatens her to obtain a typical user-friendly gun. She would have to, number one, these are all bulleted. Submit fingerprints to a sheriff to perform a lengthy background check that might clear her for an eligibility ID card that would qualify her to apply for a firearm safety course. The second one, if eligible, the prospective gun owner would need to complete an extended firearm safety course or hunter safety course combined with a firearm safety course. And the third one, after obtaining permission and completing the coursework, the prospective gun owner would have to pass a final exam with a score of at least 90%. It's like old South literacy tests that kept the wrong people from voting. It also manifests in a gun registry of questionable legality. Without disposable income, a flexible work schedule, and ample free time, forget it. Meeting the threshold would be, for average Coloradans, a pipe dream too expensive and time-consuming to pursue. Criminals will love this law. Sadly, the far left tolerates personal empowerment, freedom, and safety only for those who can pay for it. It is the latest and most extreme effort from the left's safe and cozy ivory tower to favor criminals over everyone else. And I couldn't have said it better myself, even though some of that content in there, if you know me, you know that I kind of scoff at that, but whatever. This, of course, is coming from the same government that ignored this Venezuelan gang wreaking havoc in the Aurora apartment complex, or complexes, up to and including condemning the building and allowing them to take over while kicking everyone else out. So obviously, their stance is to place their boot on the neck of everyone involved. So we can no longer afford to get armed and defend ourselves because the cost of training is going to be so high and the red tape you have to go through to buy or keep your semi-automatic firearms will be absolutely ridiculous. SB3 will make everything so much of a hassle and so expensive that even people who are proficient and trained will just stop buying and training with their guns, which I'm assuming is what their goal is, actually. Or people will just move to a state that's not so much like communist China, which is kind of what we're looking like now. I can't even say California, because if SB3 passes, we're going to be worse than California. So this bill is moving through, and at the same time, this criminal gang is being protected. And this gang is running around with all the guns that this bill seeks to ban. Not only that, but these Democrats are actually taking on the federal government and fighting ICE to keep these criminals here so they can continue to threaten and harass and rape or kill us defenseless peasants. You know this gang that's all in our imagination, right, according to Polis? If SB3 becomes a law and a protected Tren de Aragua gang busts into your house... Of course, they'll be armed with all the semi-automatic pistols that you had to give up or the ones that they bought on the black market or whatever. So they'll have all the semi-auto pistols and rifles, but you're only going to be allowed to have a revolver or perhaps a cast iron skillet to take care of business and in protecting your family. Unless, of course, you've made the time, gotten the extra training and the extra certificates, and you've acquired your firearm owner identification card, and you've paid the money and gone through all the hoops of fire that are going to be expected of you to be compliant with their draconian laws. So you better brush up on your reloading skills. And when I say reloading, I'm not talking about reloading ammunition. I'm talking about reloading your gun. Because revolvers, at the most, about six shots, unless you have a .22, it could be eight, whatever. With a decent caliber .38 Special or .357 Magnum, it's going to be five or six. Or you better get really good with that bolt-action rifle, that single-shot bolt-action or that pump-action shotgun, because that's all you're going to get. No semi-automatic firearms with the ability to quickly reload using detachable magazines because detachable magazines are the devil, right? Because those are reserved for criminal gangs. So you better get good with that wheel gun, people. I'm sorry. I get a little heated about these two subjects. SB3 and the protection of a Venezuelan criminal gang because these two things just don't jive at all. It infuriates me to no end, and it should infuriate you too. Taking this a step further to add more of an irritant to the subject, I want you to hear this piece about these gangs and how they came to live in and take over this apartment complex in Aurora. You're not going to believe this. Check this out.
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There are some claims coming out against Colorado officials when it came to that apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. Buckle up. These claims are coming from America First Legal. We're going to call them AFL. So AFL got a hold of the Aurora Police Department's records. Those records are showing that the Aurora Police Department knew for over a year that that gang, Tren de Aragua, was in Aurora in that apartment complex. But they never warned the public. They didn't do anything about it. And the only time they actually acknowledged it was when the gang took over the whole apartment complex. Oh, and it gets worse because apparently there's this organization that helps place these Venezuelan migrants and they may have actually placed them at this property. Aurora Mayor Mike Kaufman later blamed Denver Mayor Mike Johnston for using federal funds from Biden's America Rescue Plan Act to contract with these nonprofits to move migrants from Denver into housing located in Aurora apartments. So basically the Denver mayor offloaded these immigrants onto Aurora. I mean, these are some serious allegations. That would mean they knew for a whole year that these people were a threat to society and they didn't do anything about it. And they knew that they had taken over this apartment complex and instead of removing them or dealing with it, they condemned this whole apartment complex. Like pretty much gift wrapping an apartment complex. Like here, we don't want to deal with it. So you just take it. Like what? And you'll all remember we were gaslit for months about that whole situation. It was being downplayed. We were being told that that's not really what was happening. And I do have to say, these are just allegations. I am not saying any of this is a fact, but if this ends up being true.
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And to her point and what I have seen since listening to that audio is that, yes, these allegations are being made by people other than some, you know, girl on TikTok. So, you know, to compare the two, you think about this SB3 that's coming down and probably going to pass, most likely. And then you think about these gangs. that they don't care about, that they totally close their eyes, turn their cheek. They don't care. They don't want to know. And they want to disarm you from protecting yourself, but they're protecting these gangs. And it's something that should just make your blood boil. But like she said, there are only allegations. But if we find out that all this is true, this would be a pretty good cause to not just recall Mayor Mike Johnston, but maybe criminally prosecute him. Aiding and abetting, harboring, right? I mean, are there any folks in Denver who have allegiance to the rule of law and the Constitution? I think about Denver. And I get sent my lovely friend Kelly Mershon. Sorry, I said your name out loud, Kelly. Love you, and I love the stuff that she sends me. And she sends me stuff on Instagram a lot that's Do Better Denver. And a lot of these videos coming out of Denver are like the one she sent me today was all smash and grabs. It's a whole line of cars that were parallel parked on a street. All the windows in the cars were busted out. And, of course, you guys, if you've been in Denver at all, you've seen all the homeless encampments and stuff that are down there. And, you know, driving through Denver a while back when the campaign for the presidential election was going on to see Biden-Harris signs or Harris wall signs in people's yards and flags flying and stuff. Are there any people in Denver with a brain? Or is everybody so incredibly brainwashed? and just stuck in their little urban bubble that they don't even see the egregiousness and the acts of tyranny that are happening right under their noses, or do they care? It's all okay with you? I mean, how can this be okay with any of you? I mean, I know that Denver has a lot of anti-gun violence, people, anti-Constitution people who would love nothing more than for me to shut up and to shut up all gun owners. They hate guns. They just want to exist in these confines of whatever Pontius Polus tells them to do. But there has to be some people who want to maintain their liberty. Right. Where are you in all this? Do I have any listeners from Denver? If you're out there, give me a call. I would love to hear from conservatives who live in Denver and to find out what you kind of believe and what you think about this. The studio number is 303-477-5600. I would love to hear from anybody who has an opinion about this. I can't be the only one who's thinking about these protected gangs and then thinking about this SB3, among other of the many gun laws that have come into existence in Colorado over the last, you know, five, ten years. There's got to be somebody who has an opinion, who thinks it's absolute BS. But if you're out there, you need to help in this fight to keep SB3 from passing. I'm telling you. We're going to be right back. We're going to take a short break, and I'm going to come back and I'm going to rant some more, you guys. We'll be right back. And we are back, and Mama Glock is in the middle of a rant right now, and I'm going to keep ranting. I'm going to keep ranting because somebody needs to be on fire for this. You know, I was talking to the owner of Franktown Firearms today, and he was basically like, it doesn't matter what you say, this is going to pass, like it's going to pass. And sometimes I don't think people really understand the gravity of what we're dealing with here. And even when I conduct my classes on Saturdays, I do concealed carry classes mostly on Saturdays, and I talk to people about these bills and And I talk about, for example, Colorado being a shall-issue state. And I guess we can still even be considered a shall-issue state, but I preface it by saying for now. For now, we're a shall-issue state. And what does that mean? That means that if you can pass a background check and you don't have a criminal record and you can lawfully possess a handgun, you can get a permit to carry concealeds. versus a may-issue state, which means you have to provide written documentation as to why you need a firearm for protection to carry with you, and that they may or may not issue you a permit. And that's kind of what that means. But as I elaborate a little bit further, and I'm talking about Colorado and the gun laws and stuff, and I mention these laws like SB3, and a lot of people don't even know what I'm talking about. but yet they're there to get their concealed carry permit. So that doesn't jive with me either. If you're in this community and you're embarking on this new journey of, you know, buying a gun, learning how to shoot, you know, getting some training, getting confident with your firearm, the whole nine yards, everything that we embody as a company with Franktown Firearms, That should be part of your job description, so to speak. That should be part of your MO is to keep abreast of laws, new laws that are coming down that affect you and your family and your ability to protect yourself. And I think so many people just gloss over it. Like they just don't, they don't care. They don't know. It's like someday a friend will tell them, yeah, this new law means you can't have your semi-automatic, you know, your Glock system. 19 or whatever, you can't have it. It's, it's got a detachable magazine. You can't use it. Can't take it to a range, whatever. Um, yeah, it's not even, they're not taking a little bit of your freedom and, you know, every now and then, and, and you can't just sit and do nothing. They're, they're not taking it a little at a time anymore. They're, they're taking these huge chunks of the proverbial cookie and with every egregious law they pass, and we're letting them. And again, I've said a long time ago when I first started doing this show, it's like, how do we stop them? They won't stop unless they're stopped. And how do we stop them? That's the big question is how do we stop these egregious laws? It's just something's got to give because this is getting absolutely ridiculous. Granted, with SB3 and its amended version, people like me would be busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest, making a lot of money through teaching all these different types of mandatory courses. Of course, on top of the already doubled class lengths and refresher courses that we got stuck with through House Bill 1174. So it's all terrible. These legislators are terrible. Polis is terrible. The Colorado Democrat Party is terrible. You know, each time something like this comes around, I think to myself, oh, Polis wouldn't sign this. Like that guy was saying, talking about SB3 and its amendments and all that stuff. He has national aspirations, right? He wants to run for president someday. We've always heard that. He wants to take his husband to Washington, D.C., and run the country. He wouldn't alienate half the country with policies like this, would he? And the answer is absolutely yes, he would. And he has, and he will continue to. You know, I'm kind of in favor of following Eastern Oregon's lead that they've got going on right now and starting the process of seceding and joining, like, greater Wyoming or one of the conservative states to our east, like Kansas or Nebraska or Oklahoma or even Texas. I am surprised. I am so sick and tired of these urban population centers calling every shot and determining every election. I could literally throw up. Johnny, what do you got for me?
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Well, I want to let you know that we here in Denver, we do support you, even though I don't know why they're not spoken of the call. Maybe it's one of those silent majority kind of things. But I know I heard somewhere along the line that they're going to have not my president at the Capitol today. And I know they're getting their funding through what DOJA is funding up. I'm not sure how soon that's going to dry up where they're not getting paid and how dedicated will they be when they're not getting paid to act a fool.
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Yeah, exactly. And you are 100% spot on. I should put that on a shirt. How will they be funded to act a fool when all the fraud dries up?
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Yeah. And I'm thinking, like, okay, this is a holiday. Some people are taking off and stuff like that. But I don't know if they look at the calendar and say, okay, what days are we going to have off? Or some of them, because they're getting paid for this and they may be out of work, because I heard a lot of those people are either out of work, on welfare, or, you know, living off the dole. So then that is... they're more flexible than we are who have to work every day. Yeah. And so I don't know how we can put together a group using some of these newsletters that I get from the Republicans saying, okay, can we plan and get a count of how many people can be here for this event so we can oppose these other people's events because they're not slowing down.
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Yeah, and you are absolutely right with who can show up because, you know, typically the gun-owning, you know, conservative Coloradan is at work during the times that, you know, Congress is in session and stuff. So it's kind of a really tough spot. sort of juxtaposition between the two groups, the two activist groups. I'd love to be an activist, but I can't because I've got stuff to do. You know what I mean?
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Or, okay, we can take a page out of Martin Luther King's. He had the children, and like during spring break sometimes, the parents that have kids said, let's organize our kids to go down there. And I don't know, I mean, there's so many different ways that we not reinvent the wheel, but just make it part of our evolution and letting them know that we're not going to take this anymore from our children who they think they're indoctrinating to the adults.
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Yep, exactly, exactly. You've got to do something, Johnny. We have to do something because this is just going to start steamrolling. All right. I'll let you continue and I'll listen on. Thanks, Johnny. Thanks for the call. So, yeah, I think that I I don't know. I've said this before and I don't know if I've said it on here, but I've suggested this with among my friends and stuff that we should just divide the country. We're already divided. Right. We can all agree on that. We're already super divided. Let's divide into the conservative states of America and the liberal states of America. each with their own capital and their own currency and their own governing body. And I'm going to elaborate a little bit on this just to kind of give you an idea of what it would look like. So we would have all the American pro-gun, gas vehicle driving, pro-life, pro-God, pro-liberty, pro-Constitution people who live peacefully with limited government and are in a currency backed by precious metals and massive amounts of freedom. We would be allowed to move about freely. We would enjoy nature without being restricted or having to pay entrance into a national park or whatever. Or maybe we would, just so we can keep it up and keep it clean and all that stuff. So I'm okay with that. But not pay income tax, yet we would still be able to afford a strong military and all the public services that we need, including law enforcement and firefighters and all that stuff. We would have... that on our side of the country. Maybe we could place tariffs on the liberal states of America to pay for all that. That'd be fun. Although we shouldn't hold our breath that those tariffs would actually benefit us in any substantial way because the liberal states would encourage welfare and sitting on your rear end and popping out babies and continuing to get $1,500 a month for each kid that you have or whatever because that's kind of what they promote. And they won't produce anything to import to tariff. So, yeah. But we can keep the American flag because we're the ones that love it anyway. Isn't it funny how you can drive down your street and see who the conservatives are just if they have an American flag flying? Because you know that it's not a Democrat or one of these liberal... these liberal green-haired school teachers or something flying the American flag. You're not going to see that. And these teachers, same ones, probably cringe when they walk in to the classroom and see an American flag in there. But we'll keep the flag, and we'll keep the Star Spangled Banner as our anthem. And on the other side, the liberal states of America, they can have their big government and all the Hollywood idol worship and the pro-abortion movement pro-choice, whatever you want to call it, pro-trans, anti-human, anti-American, liberal lunatics who protect pedophiles and love a good pride parade and enjoy indoctrinating children with fake history and CRT and LGBTQ propaganda. They can have their own fake fiat currency, kind of like we have now, that's not worth the paper it's printed on. Maybe that paper currency can feature a portrait of their god, Barack Obama. Everyone can work for the government, and they can harbor and defend and protect all the illegal aliens that they want, all the criminals. Nobody will own a home or a business or a firearm, and they can all lock themselves in their tiny apartments after their curfew in their 15-minute city. and they can wear four masks on their faces when they go out in public. Their bloated government can steal half the citizens' paychecks in the form of income tax, yet they'll have a woke military armed with only slingshots and wearing pink camo uniforms and driving electric tanks and wondering which bathroom to use. They can have crumbling roads and bridges with no money to repair any of it, because some elected NGO or some unelected guy, some bureaucrat somewhere, is going to lose billions of dollars and not be able to explain where it went, because that's standard, right? That's standard in big government. Perhaps Guns N' Roses' Welcome to the Jungle can be their national anthem. Or maybe some demonic liberal entertainers like Beyonce or Cardi B can write a new national anthem. like a rousing tribute to George Soros and Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci and call it vaccinate or die or welcome to the toilet bowl or something. You know, those two countries side by side, we'll just see who crumbles first. Don't you think that'd be great? Come on, it'll be fun. Let's succeed. You wanna? Let's do it. Okay, sorry, I got a little carried away there, but I think you get my point. I can't stand living in a state like Colorado that's so beautiful with so many wonderful experiences to offer and have it run by insane, out-of-touch Democrats who hate normalcy. They hold nothing but disdain for the family unit. They love to tax the hell out of you and spend all your money and not let you know where they're spending it and pass stupid laws like SB3. and are never held accountable for anything. Speaking of accountability, Doge is still going strong, uncovering so much fraud, waste, and abuse that it makes one's head spin. First off, Elon Musk uncovered a list. Now, this is first off as of very recently, as of today. We all know what he's uncovered up to this point. But Elon Musk uncovered a list of active Social Security numbers ranked by age group. Okay. And now there's nothing strange about that. However, what is strange, according to this list, is there are over 12 million people over the age of 120. There are 12 million people over the age of 120. Okay. There are 1,039 people in the 220 to 249-year-old age group. And even two people, two, just two, between the ages of 240 and 369. I'm sorry. It just cracks me up. I'm going to just hold back laughy tears here because that just, it's, oh, my gosh. Do you think these active Social Security numbers might be abused in some way, somehow? I don't think that really requires further explanation. It's just hilarious. And then we have what's happening at the IRS. I want you to listen to this piece again. by Jesse Waters on TikTok. I am loving all of this and I'm so here for it. Check this out.
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There's been a break in at the IRS. Those just kicked in the door and ordered executives to put their hands where they can see them. There was an ultimatum. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
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Those workers arrived today, Gavin Kleiger and others arrived today at the IRS. Do you expect to close the IRS or what do you expect?
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No, I don't expect it. But so I think that the Internal Revenue Service will be looked at like everybody else. Just about everybody's going to be looked at. So it's they're doing a hell of a job. It's an amazing job they're doing. And, you know, that force is building these. I call it the force of super geniuses, but it's building. And, you know, they go up and they talk to some of the people about certain deals and the people get all tongue tied. They can't talk because these people get it. They're very smart people. We need smart people.
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Big Balls is making bureaucrats tongue tied. What's this contract for? Terminated. Next up is NASA. Elon's nerd armies reviewing their spending. I have a feeling we're gonna find NASA isn't all about outer space. If agencies can't justify their head count, Musk's planning on slashing every department by 30 to 40%. If Doge finds an unused federal building, they're gonna sell it and put the profits in the piggy bank. Trump has his eyes on 14,000 vacant federal buildings. So if you wanna live in an 80,000 square foot estate at the foot of the Potomac that's been collecting cobwebs for six decades, put in a bid.
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So I thought that was hilarious. And what he said about NASA, and as you guys all know, and Luke loves this about me, that I'm kind of a flat earther, and I think NASA is all a big money laundering scheme in and of itself, and no, we didn't go to the moon and all that stuff. So with NASA, their budget is $75 billion a year. So who knows where all that money is going, and I'm sure that Elon Musk will find out. On Facebook, this is kind of funny, I put up a post on why – why Democrats are so angry with all this discovery that Doge is doing. It said something like, getting angry at Doge for uncovering waste, fraud, and abuse is like getting angry with the private investigator who you hired to catch your cheating spouse. And it's kind of like that. And as I said last week, the ones who are screeching the loudest are the ones who are benefiting from all this fraud. and all the, what do they call it, the payments. Luke, help me out here. What are they called? I can't remember. Anyway, it's the payments that are going to things that should never be going to. It's just the way it is. And I didn't have time to put the list together today, but I'll compile one at some point that will showcase all the people who came into Congress with you know maybe a couple thousand bucks in their bank account or you know 40,000 bucks or whatever and that's what their net worth is even if it's 500,000 or a million that they come into Congress and years later after serving in Congress they're now multi-millionaires on a congressional salary and that right there that that should tell you all you need to know Elizabeth Warren can sit up there and she can yell and scream and talk about how we're dismantling the system and everything else. We already know that she's taken lots and lots of money from big pharma, as has Bernie Sanders. The whole Maha movement and RFK Jr. being in there, hopefully a lot of that is going to be exposed. They've already found in HHS that $2 trillion has gone to health services to countries overseas. So the math ain't mathin'. You know what I mean? This isn't rocket science. It's obvious that all this money did not go to study a bunch of dead shrimp on a treadmill. or to make sure that office chairs swivel at the same rate, or all the ridiculous things that they have found. That money did not go to that. It didn't. And anybody with a brain knows that. And if you believe that these programs or any of the hundreds like them that have been found out are legitimate, you kind of need your head examined. And in my opinion, you should be angry. You should be angry. Look at your check stub. Look at your paycheck stub and look at the federal income tax section of your pay stub and multiply that by the many years that you've been working and what you could have bought had you had that money in your pocket. to buy cars or, you know, homes or even groceries or your electric bill or your daycare or, you know, having to make the choice between paying this bill or that bill or putting food on your table or whatever. To think that the government, and yes, of course, we pay for the military. We pay for a minimal government to kind of keep things, you know, kosher on the federal level. But other than that, government is supposed to protect us. That's their number one job, is to protect us from foreign adversaries. That's what they're supposed to do. And they've been taking trillions of dollars from us over the decades, and they've been laundering it through these different programs, and they're sticking it in their pockets. And if you can hear that out of my mouth, and be okay with it, and if you want to call me a liar or say, no, you've got it all wrong, no, no, no, this dead shrimp on a treadmill program is really, really important, or whatever they said about squirrels being depressed if they're, you know, if they take cocaine or, you know, I mean, really? If you guys get a chance, and you have like Podbean or if you're on Rumble or whatever, you should go to, if you know who Sean Ryan is, go to Sean Ryan's Rumble account. I think it's S-H-A-W-N, Ryan, as the owner of Franktown Firearms would say. It's the terrible way of spelling Sean, but it's Sean Ryan. Go to his show and watch this interview that he has with Lindy, I want to say her name is Lindy Lee. It's like Lindy and then L-I. I think it's her last name. And she just brings the receipts and spills the tea. from all this stuff that went on with Biden. Now, she's a Democrat and she worked for the Biden administration, and now she's coming out spilling the tea about the Biden administration and all the cronies that know he did not run the country. He was way too cognitively impaired to do that. It was all of his chiefs of staff and all of his advisors. Those are all the people who were actually running the country. So all these rigged elections and laws that restrict your freedom and all these health mandates with COVID and all the stuff and these people that want you, the green new scam, and they want you to buy electric cars or get solar on your house or whatever, it's time to get ticked off. Absolutely time. And to support the effort. to return some of your money to you. And I have also seen videos where that might be in the works. I saw a video today, something about an $8,000 tax refund for everybody who pays taxes, not illegals and not the people on welfare and all that. But you have to think about the fact that we are paying and some of this money that we've been that's been stolen from us, I guess, is also going into the coffers to pay for their cushy retirements, when and if they ever decide to retire, you know, because they work until they're 89 years old and sit in their wheelchair, hunched over, acting like they're an active member of Congress when they're about ready to drop dead. So we're paying for their cushy retirement so their families can live good, but we're paying for it. So I don't know, folks. Definitely judging by only one phone call today, I'm going to say that you're not quite angry enough. You're not quite angry enough. So going back to Franktown Firearms, we're going to talk about this just a little bit more. And as the commercial that you heard just a little bit ago with this shoot house thing, 360 degree training that you will not find anywhere else. You guys have to come and check it out. And if you come into Franktown firearms and you ask somebody for a tour, they'll probably give you one. You got to go check it out and see what all the hype is about. And you're going to want to come and train in a real life sort of more realistic situation than just standing at the bench and and shooting rounds downrange. You're going to love it. It's just amazing. All the firearms that we have in our hands when we train with are all either simunition guns or they are BB kind of beat airsoft guns. You guys have shot those before. So you've got to come and check it out. I'm telling you, come down, listen, or go down and call Franktown Firearms and just ask about it. Ask about the shoot house training. I'm telling you, you're going to absolutely love what you see. Get a membership. Get yourself some training tools. Take a class. Get immersed. Get trained. Get practiced. And that's it. That's going to do it for me today, you guys. Thank you so much for tuning in and spending the last 58 minutes with me in the fastest hour in broadcasting. Check out all the great improvements at Franktown Firearms. You won't be sorry. Shoot me an email if you want to get some private training, karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com, or you can just ask about hourly instruction. Either way, we can hash that out over email. Until next Monday, Mama Glock is out for now. Take care, everyone. God bless.
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Join Dana Lash as she challenges the never-ending parade of absurd news. From minimum wage impacts to unusual finds claiming to be Noah’s Ark, we cover the headlines that shake up your weekly news cycle. As always, Dana brings her signature humor and insight on why the internet might just be the greatest mistake humanity ever made.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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A Florida woman was attacked. Well, she attacked a man with a Pringles can. Say deputies. That sounds like a song. Oh, my goodness. This is in Florida, WFLA. A Florida woman was accused of attacking a man with a can of Pringles. Orange County Sheriff's Office. They got called to the 7-Eleven for a reported fight. And a man told deputies that Shanika Serdal hit him in the eyes with a Pringles chip can, and then she ran off. So they said he had a significant cut on his right eyebrow and he was actually bleeding. They did find her. She did have a Pringles can in her possession and she was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. So no hitting with Pringles. Don't do that.
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She kept the Pringles though.
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Yeah, I'm sure it was probably confidence. It's probably taken into evidence. I mean, if they do all that, you know, I don't know. A Florida woman murdered her roommate and then poured Mountain Dew all over herself to prevent the police from getting DNA. That doesn't work that way. They did also find a bloody knife in the cell phones and all this other stuff. So, yeah, that Florida woman's probably going to spend decades in prison. And she wasn't able to actually hide any of the evidence either. Lame. Have you guys heard about this situation? Let me pull this story up while we have it. Have you guys heard about the story regarding the Harry Potter casting? You guys heard about all this? So I... Yes, they are redo. I mean, I don't know why they've got to redo this series or do anything like this, but they're they're shooting this series. This is from Deadline Hollywood. And then they have a thing with Forbes also. I'll write up over at Forbes and I'll I think you have some of this may have gotten some of your prep last week. So essentially, so it's an HBO series. It's the HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series. And it features younger versions of, I guess, like Harry Potter's parents and Snape and all of this other stuff, right? And it gets into the background of all of this. There's a lot of discussion as to the casting because they're saying that The casting is basically DEI. And now one of the headlines, for instance, this is GBN. They said Harry Potter fans fume at what they're calling blackwashing as HBO is closing in on an actor to play Snape. They're saying it's horrible casting. And this is because I guess John Lithgow is playing Dumbledore, which if that's true, that's a horrific cast. I like I not look. I like him, but not as that character. So apparently Snape is being played by a black actor. Now, I don't think in any realm where you don't talk about the physical attributes of a character and that doesn't play into the character. I don't think it's important. But with this, it seems odd to me. The actor, his name is Papa Esadu. He's been cast as Sephiroth Snape in this series. He was in Gangs of London. He's been in a couple of things as well. I don't know why that they would change the... I mean, again, it's like casting a blonde-haired, blue-eyed person as a samurai. It's like if you're going to... It's like imagine you do... Imagine you do a real-life casting of... Say Samurai Champloo and you have like all blonde, blue eyed white people that you have cast as the characters. It's just weird. You know what I mean? It's weird. It's like it's like I don't understand the purpose of it. When you change the character that much. And by the way, the guy that they have that they've cast, he's kind of a cool looking dude. Snape is not a cool looking dude. Snape has been described as a pale, sallow, greasy haired, you know, blonde, black, stringy hair, pale eyed, pale, pale, pale, sickly almost. I mean, he's, he's, Characterized as a weak goth, for the lack of a better way to put it. And they cast this fit-looking black actor as Snape. And I'm sorry, but it's not working. It is not working. Other than the fact that the character is very explicitly described in the series as not black. But the guy doesn't look like a dork. It's not going to work for me. You know who they said should have played it, and I agree with this casting proposal, is Adam Driver. Adam Driver would have been a great Snape. He would have been a really good Snape. Am I wrong? I mean, Cain, you see this guy. You see this actor. He looks too cool, and he's, again, Snape is a pale, sickly, sallow, blonde, or black stringy or blue-eyed dude.
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Apparently he got better.
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And he got fit. Because he's described as none of those things in the book. So I don't... The whole thing is weird. I just don't... I don't... The casting is dumb. This is just bad casting. So they said apparently it's going to get worse because the casting decisions just get... You know, they... So they cast this guy. Now everyone's saying the backlash is racist, which I think is lazy. It's super, super lazy. And I don't know. I... I don't know. I don't think that that's going to work. It's like, again, it's like casting. Oh, I don't know. Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan. Right. Exactly. It's like actually casting Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan. It makes the same amount of sense. You know what I mean? It's just dumb. It's like hiring, I'm trying to think, who's the guy who plays Thor? Chris Hemsworth. And having him play Black Panther. You see what I'm saying? It doesn't make any sense. Would you have Chris Hemsworth as Black Panther, leader of Wakanda? Would you? No. You know you wouldn't. No. So why is this casting choice okay? At some point, the character description does matter. And do you know why it matters with this case? Because the whole Death Eater lore is kind of, I mean, it intimates that it's Nazi-esque. I mean, it intimates, they use words like mudbloods, and they talk about it's like very 1930s kind of stuff, very much so. You rob it of that dark storyline, that fear, by ignoring the character's background and physical description. It was four point. We love gold. Although the URL is DanaLikesGold.com. I'm like, like isn't strong enough. It's my best friend. We're going to go get portraits at JCPenney. Do they still have those? You can get your free 2025 gold and silver kit today. Could qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver. Maybe even more gold and silver have stood the test of time. And right now, remember Trump's first term gold surge 53% silver was 51. So what does that look like 2025 and beyond now that he's back in office protect your wealth with gold and silver today you can request their free 2025 gold and silver kit, learn how to diversify and safeguard your savings with time tested. safe haven assets. Experience matters when protecting your wealth and Goldco is the company that I trust. They've secured their financial future with gold and silver. They've helped so many people do this and they've been with this program since the beginning. They know what they're doing. Visit danalikesgold.com. Join the thousands of people who've called Goldco the number one rated gold company. And you can get a free copy of their 2025 Gold and Silver Kit and also qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver or possibly even more. That's danalikesgold.com.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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I actually saw this, I think, in a documentary a while ago. But now they're saying that it looks like Noah's Ark has been found. A boat-shaped mound. I mean, it could also be like a filled-up crevasse. They said it was found in Turkey. It was underwater 5,000 years ago, the same period as the biblical flood. A team of researchers found it. They said it's 18 miles south of Mount Ararat. Yeah, 18 miles. It's the fossilized remains of a wooden vessel is what they're saying. It's called, I can't pronounce this, the Drubner Farmation. That's exactly what it's called. Sounds exactly right. 538 feet of geological structure made of iron ore called limonite. And it's so that's what they're saying. They think it could be a Noah's Ark, which is totally believable. Very fascinating looking thing. Secret Service shot an armed man in a confrontation near the White House in a classic case of F.A.F.O. The police had reported that it was a suicidal individual. It sounded like suicide by cop is what it sounded like. Possibly traveling to D.C. from Indiana. They took him to a hospital. Condition was unknown at that time. A U.S. run system alerts the world to famines and it's gone dark. They said after Trump. Slashed foreign aid. You really need a giant US run system that alerts you about famine and other foreign countries. Seriously. I mean, we kind of know where the... And it's not an issue of famine. It's an issue of dictatorial control that eliminates access to food. The book, The Myth of World Hunger, is fascinating. Wrote in college. Still relevant today. Also, the... Oh, they're trying to do measles cases. Oh, measles case jumped 35% a week. Found in 12 states. Everybody freak out because it's measles. Measles, measles. Everyone freak out. You know, just... Every single week it's something. What was it last week? It was measles last week, too.
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Bird flu.
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The week before that, bird flu. That's right. Everybody's going to die of bird flu. Now they're saying U.S. measles. It's jumped by over a third. This is kind of the same fear-mongering that we saw with Rona. However, like I've said, I don't think all vaccines are bad. I just don't like experimental government injections that are really therapeutics and they're cosplaying. They're trans vaccines. They're trans scenes, Cain.
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Oh, there it is.
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We just created something. Yeah. So I just, you know, I mean, use common sense. But I don't believe that the government knows better than you. I thought it was your body or choice. Or is that only when it has to do with not wanting to be responsible for an unplanned pregnancy? Okay. One of the, oh, this is heartbreaking. One of the last U.S. survivors of Pearl Harbor has passed away at age 102 years old. Jesse Mahaffey, one of the last survivors of the USS Oklahoma. He passed away March 1st in Alexandria, Louisiana, at age 102. He was only one of two survivors of the Oklahoma known to be living. According to the president of the California Chapter of Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor survivors, by that same tally, only 14 who survived the 1941 attack are still alive. Fourteen. Fourteen. That's just I just want to extend their lives as long as possible, because that's when that generation, that greatest generation and those veterans, when they're gone, you never obviously, you know, you never get them back. But what a piece of living history and just a. great ingredient in our uh human dna here in the u.s we got a lot more on the way stick with us we got caltech it's the pr57 which i cannot wait to get this i've i know i've not fired it but i uh have held it uh i mean i've have held it and i've taken it apart and all that fun stuff but uh It's the PR57. It's a 5.7. And it's the lightest 5.7 that's on the market. And in fact, it's 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7. Low recoil, built to perform. And the MSRP is only $399. And I think this is the first one that rolled off their Wyoming expansion facility. Everything is made in Florida, but now they got the Wyoming facility as well. And it's just a unique, it's awesome, really innovative. Rotary barrel makes it super light. The unique top loading design replaces the traditional mag with a stripper clip. I know, it's slimmer carry profile, 20 plus one capacity. It's the PR57 rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7 at Caltech. K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you. I told Kane over the week, or actually on break, and I had this realization, and this is part of it, because there are people who read this stuff or they see that soundbite and they're like, oh, that's right. It's totally right. This is Trump's economy. I'm already seeing it from people. It's like you can't even do math. And this is when I realized, you know what? I really do believe that the internet is the greatest mistake that humanity ever perpetuated against itself. I'm not kidding. I think it is the worst mistake. And I say this as someone who actually leveraged it to have the career that I have now. And I've definitely used it for a lot of good. Way more good than bad. Some bad, but more good than the bad. Very enjoyable bad, but way more good. Lots of the good. I fully recognize that. I would probably not be sitting here behind a mic hanging out with you on a Monday afternoon had I not had the internet.
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I tried arguing with you about it.
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You did. And I'm like, no, no, no. I still, even knowing that, even being fully aware that that's my origin, I still think that it's the greatest mistake that humankind's ever perpetuated against itself.
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And then I said, what would make the internet good for you?
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And I said, take the people out. No people.
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But that is the internet.
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Yeah, that's it.
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So you know, internet is bad.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Well, I think you got to look at, what am I thinking of? The sum total of it. Okay. You got to look at the sum total. Think about how they, I really feel like there are more dumber, dumb people now than there were.
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That I agree with.
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Or, or, or hear me out. It's just that with the internet, you can see it more.
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Actually, maybe that's it.
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I don't know. I mean, I know that there were dumb people back in the day, whatever the day was.
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You and I, and I would imagine most of our audience, grew up without the internet. We know what life is like without the internet.
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But then I got email in high school.
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Yeah, see?
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I used to enter chat rooms playing, like, Slayer. Like, they'd code it in there, and it'd go... So stupid. So cringed.
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But we understand that life can go on without the internet, which is why we can recognize the internet for what it is.
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Right. And it's why it aggravates us. We were a weird generation, because we were, like, right in the middle of it. We had a childhood free of it, but then when we got to be teenagers, we had it.
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What was your first computer?
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IBM something. I don't know. It was secondhand something. And I played a lot of games on it.
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I had a friend that had an Apple.
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Of course, I did homework. Yeah.
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But we got like a VIC-20 and then the Commodore 64.
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I don't even know what mine was.
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Do you remember the Commodore 64?
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I do remember that.
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Had that.
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Mine was so old. And it was like a great value version of whatever you just said. And I don't even know what it was. Don't even know. But it had a dot matrix printer and DOS and everything else. It was wild. Wild. The screen was green. But I felt so fancy because it was mine, you know, even though it was like fourth hand. I don't even care. It was mine.
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The first computer I used in school was a Kaypro. And it looked like a suitcase.
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Sounds like a K-pop band.
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The handle was actually the bottom of the keyboard. And the keyboard would attach to the face of this, like... Sounds like a caboodle. And you would take the keyboard off, and then there would be a tiny little green screen there with the floppy disks right there. Gosh, floppy disks.
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My kids don't even know what those are. They're like, what are these weird things? Remember the floppy disk and the sleeves? Gosh, those are the days. And then got into high school and Apple started being everywhere. Right. And then when I got into college, it was that the big thing in college was the different colors of the Apple computers where you could get like the orange and the blue and the green and that you could. Yeah, that's. We had some of those in college and the newspaper staff. But but yeah. So anyway, long story short, Internet, horrible, great, worst thing ever to happen to humans. Horrible, horrible. So mean to us. And we're mean to ourselves with it. But then I completely understand that there are some great things. But I think in some total, I would forego the great to get over the bad. And again, I say this as somebody who knows I am sitting behind the mic because of the Internet. I mean, that's how I got – I had the internet. We squatted literally in an old abandoned building off of Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis and did like a webzine. And it was – and then got started. I mean, that's seriously – yeah, so – Long story short, you know, ignore the squatting part that had nothing to do with the Internet. But I just I look at this stuff because I, you know, Hakeem Jeffries puts this out and there are people who are like, well, it's Hakeem Jeffries. And their reasoning is Hakeem Jeffries is a Democrat and he's a Democrat with influence in the Democrat Party and he's elected. So what he says must be true. It's like believe by association. It's the weirdest thing. You're confirming your bias just by association alone. I mean, I don't know. I the whole thing is I still maintain that the Internet is making everybody absolutely stupid. OK, so a few other things. And I think that's also extending to some of the we're going to have to do some house cleaning. We got to do some house cleaning.
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SPEAKER 15 :
What other disruption were you alluding to? Look, what I have to do is build a strong country. You can't really watch the stock market. If you look at China, they have a hundred year perspective. We have a quarter. We go by quarters. That's true. And you can't go by that. You have to do what's right. What we're doing is we're building a tremendous foundation for the future. Tremendous foundation.
SPEAKER 02 :
There's going to be a lot of talk of the economy, a lot of talk of what all these programs are going to be costing because we are in the middle of the, well, yeah, the middle of basically what is the second budget fight that's coming up. And we're going to talk about some of that today because that's, well, that's what Republicans are going to be fighting. They're going to be dealing with that all day, all the rest of this week, because you've got to have that. I mean, we've got to have some kind of budget. We've got to have something. We haven't had one. And when's the last time? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I'm like thinking out loud here like, well, yeah, I think that actually was the last time there. Yeah, I think that was it. So it's and everything that he's talking about is going to be affected by this. And. We're going to highlight some of that. We've got a lot to get into today as we get started. Welcome to the show, Dana Lash, with you. I wanted to play also, because it's been kind of a busy news week, because you've had all kinds of stuff with regard to Ukraine, everything, and then, of course, the economy as well. One of the things that I thought Trump said, this is audio somebody at seven, because he answered a lot of... Oh, no, sorry, not seven. Did we do three? Because this is the inflation aspect of it. He... I think he's starting to message. I don't know if it's too late him messaging this, but he's starting to message on inflation, especially as you know, if it gets hit as it pertains to tariffs. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 15 :
You wouldn't have had inflation. We had record setting inflation under Biden. It was a killer.
SPEAKER 10 :
And it's one of the reasons I won the election. But you may get it again with these tariffs, right? I mean, one CEO said to me, my input costs have already started to go up. I'm going to have to raise prices.
SPEAKER 15 :
In the meantime, guess what? Interest rates are down for the last three, four days at good levels. I mean, you know, when you add interest rates, you're talking about it's gone down. I've been saying, let's get interest rates down. You know, nobody ever gets rich when the interest rates are high, because people can't borrow money.
SPEAKER 02 :
He's right on that. He's right on that count. I heard some – I think he's better messaging than some of his surrogates on this stuff because I was listening to one of his surrogates this morning. I can't remember what show it was on. But I just – I thought her – the way that she spoke about this was just a little off base because she was saying, yeah, people are going to go – if there's going to be any kind of struggle, if there's going to be any problem, people are going to go along with it. I'm thinking they're not, especially if you don't message properly. Yeah. They're not going to go along with it because this is their money. Unless you message properly there, they're not going to go along with anything. So this has been this has been a huge issue. And we're going to try to figure out, you know, I don't know what they got to get it together, though, because Friday's the day because you have what is it? March 11th, I think. So also X is down. So we're not going to be able. I know a lot. I've already fielded a million things that I did not do it. It has been like this all morning. Can correct. People are like, what happened to the I didn't do it. I promise. It's not anything I did. But so there's going to be because I think a lot of people stream the show also on X and things like that.
SPEAKER 08 :
We're on Rumble today. Just Rumble at the moment. So as soon as X gets back up, we'll we'll make that happen.
SPEAKER 02 :
We'll get it all situated. So just some of the stuff that we've got coming up. We're also going to talk about the latest with Iran, all of that. Can we talk about the immigration, though? Let's kick this off, because this is where we have Tom Holman. You were just listening to him discuss this. The CPB app, this is actually pretty brilliant. And... The, of course, I can't bring this up either because this was a, this was a thread from Bill Malugin. So essentially, you guys know the CB, the CBP app, right? The CBP app, I keep having to say it very slowly. People are essentially now self-deporting. Well, you have to self-deport. So what's happening is the app is being repurposed and they are going to Use it to for people who have this app and it's already, I guess, updating this in this regard. It's already updating. So they're saying that with the app, you can self-deport. And if you choose to self-deport, then you actually. have the ability to come back into the country. And so that's the latest, that's what they're doing with this app, which I think is actually pretty brilliant. But I don't know how many people are going to actually take them up on that. I mean, I think it's pretty brilliant. So this is something that was announced, I think it was yesterday, like late yesterday when it came out. And they are retooling the app. And then you have the option. And I was pulling up the screen. It's on X. And of course, X is down. But I was pulling up the screen. And you can choose – you get an option. You have like a – not a pull-down menu, but you have this option. And they didn't launch it. I wanted a – it's not a new app. They reconfigured the Biden CB – I keep saying CBP, CBP app. So they reconfigured this app. And this is – This is the app where they can notify the government if they're self-deporting. And you heard Holman, who has been handling all of this. And I don't know whose idea it was. It's a brilliant idea. But do you think they're actually going to do it? I mean, that's the million-dollar question. Are they actually going to do it? I don't know. I don't know. I would think that if anyone wants to re-enter the country illegally, that it's something that they would want to do. But it's the existing app, so they can highlight on it if they want to self-deport or not. And they can actually, as they come in, they can make an appointment with regards to, you know, at the point of entry, et cetera, et cetera. And they can make their appointment. They can notify, I guess, like get information as to the immigration judge if they so choose. I don't. But is it going to incentivize people actually to do it? I mean, I don't I just don't know if I have a lot of faith in that stuff. Kane, do you think that people are actually going to self-deport with us?
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't believe it. I think it depends on how deeply they care about getting actual citizenship. If they really do care, if they thought by getting in illegally and then they could just finagle their way into being a citizen, now they're looking at this and saying, well, if I get caught up and don't actually self-deport, I may have ruined my chances for life of doing that. So I think it depends on their seriousness.
SPEAKER 02 :
I just think it's interesting that it updates automatically. So if you are, you know, in the country and you have this app, I just think I just like the fact that it updates automatically and that it's not anything. I mean, it's already I mean, if you already have it on your phone and it's already on your it's you know that it's there and and you have verified departure view your departure. The language is submit intent to depart and you can submit information regarding your intent to depart the United States. So those are the options that you have with that now.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I can tell you, even if some of them, whatever, don't bother self-deporting, the silver lining is still we were 40,000 to 50,000 people a month coming through via the app. And now that number has completely – so at least there's that silver lining no matter what happens from this point forward.
SPEAKER 02 :
I mean, even if you have entered the country illegally, so I'm looking at the language that's been put out about it. Forgive, there's a lot of information here. It says that even, so you, even if you have, you know, you entered illegally or if you had your parole revoked after the ending of like, I don't know if it's like the Flores, if that's what they're talking about, or if you're giving the chance, you can also get the chance to tell DHS if you're self-deporting. So it doesn't, they said that They implemented that way, that into it also, so as to incentivize not levying harsher conditions onto people like detention or the expedited removal. So they, even if they're here illegally, they have an ability to make it easier on themselves, right? By doing the self-deporting, if it's really about, as you were saying, injuring the country and, you know, becoming a citizen. So I think that's actually really good. I think it's really good. I think it's a very good approach with it. And I don't know, however many people, I mean, I don't expect coyotes and drug cartel members to do it. Anti-Musk demonstrations, which I think are entirely astroturf, are growing across the United States, apparently. So they had a bunch of people outside of stores in London, in Portugal, in Malaysia. They, why? Because he's not, they don't have a doge. Why are people like protesting? They had demonstrations there. They had some here in the U.S. They had about 250 people that showed up outside of a showroom in New York City. And they held anti-Musk place cards. And they read, block fascism now. Musk must go. Musk is not elected. Do George Soros now. Yeah. Democracy must be protected. So they think if you're cutting wasteful spending, fraud and abuse, then somehow that's. Indian democracy. I'm so confused by these people. So they said that these activists, they had them, they 250 outside of New York, they had five arrested for disorderly conduct, violation of local laws, they had a showroom in Salem, Oregon, where apparently, they this showroom in Salem was shot up by this guy named Adam Lansky 41. And he apparently is also He's being accused of causing major damage at the same store with Molotov cocktails in January. They set four cyber trucks on fire in a Seattle industrial neighborhood. Let's see. This is terrorism. That's all. This is domestic terrorism. If you're engaging in this, this is terrorism. It's exactly what it is. I love that they said that the cyber trucks that were fired, they said that they had to take precautions to limit hazard because of the lithium batteries. But they said it's too early in the investigation to determine whether or not if it was arson. Are you serious? It's, yeah. Too early? It's not too early. The folks over at My Family Pharmacy, they, this website has saved me more times than I can count. I mean, my health, my actual literal health. I've been, I was sick over a holiday. It was like Thanksgiving. I had a host. I was getting strep throat. The urgent care was like a crazy, I just, I couldn't even get into my ENT. All Family Pharmacy helped me out. I got my azithromycin. I actually, I got it overnighted. And it immediately started helping, obviously, with my symptoms and sickness, helping with the super sore throat, all of that. They have over 200 different medications. All of the antibiotics that they have, it's all made in the USA. I don't know anywhere else where you can say that, but you don't have to worry about quality and safety with All Family Pharmacy. You can always be prepared. It's simple, fast, and affordable. No insurance, no problem. They've got straightforward pricing. And their shipping is just two to four days. Overnight, also in a pinch. Your health is always within reach. So order from the comfort of home as well. I mean, they can deliver right to your door. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com and use code DANA10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's all family pharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off, but you got to use promo code Dana 10 to unlock that discount. Dana 10 all family pharmacy.com slash Dana.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 02 :
I actually saw this, I think, in a documentary a while ago. But now they're saying that it looks like Noah's Ark has been found, a boat-shaped mound. I mean, it could also be like a filled up crevasse. They said it was found in Turkey. It was underwater 5,000 years ago, the same period as the biblical flood. A team of researchers found it. They said it's 18 miles south of Mount Ararat, uh, Yeah, 18 miles. It's the fossilized remains of a wooden vessel is what they're saying. It's called, I can't pronounce this, the Drubner Farmation. That's exactly what it's called. Sounds exactly right. 538 feet of geological structure made of iron ore called limonite. And so that's what they're saying. They think it could be a Noah's Ark, which is totally believable. very fascinating looking thing uh secret service shot an armed man in a confrontation near the white house in a classic case of fafo uh the police had reported that it was a suicidal individual it sounded like suicide by cop is what it sounded like uh possibly traveling to dc from indiana they took him to a hospital condition was unknown at that time a u.s run system alerts the world to famines and it's gone dark they said after trump Slashed foreign aid. Do you really need a giant US-run system that alerts you about famine in other foreign countries? Seriously. I mean, we kind of know where the... And it's not an issue of famine. It's an issue of dictatorial control that eliminates access to food. The book, The Myth of World Hunger, is fascinating. Wrote in college. Still relevant today. Also, the... Oh, they're trying to do measles cases. Oh, measles cases jump 35% a week. Found in 12 states. Everybody freak out because it's measles. Measles, measles. Everyone freak out. You know, just... Every single week, it's something. What was it last week? It was measles last week, too. Bird flu. The week before that, bird flu. That's right. Everybody's going to die of bird flu. Now they're saying U.S. measles, it's jumped by over a third. This is kind of the same fear-mongering that we saw with Rona. However, like I've said, I don't think all vaccines are bad. I just don't like experimental government injections that are really therapeutics and they're cosplaying. They're trans vaccines. They're trans scenes, Cain.
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We have the Republicans on the run on three core issues. They are on the run in terms of the economy. In fact, Donald Trump and Republicans are crashing the economy in real time.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's Hakeem Jeffries, who's head of the Democrat Party. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. I'd say you could watch on X, but X is currently having a mental abortion right now. So I don't know what's going on. But you can find us on Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at Rumble. It's Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader, Hakeem Jeffries. I really don't think that he sounds like he believes what he just said, but I really got to applaud them for their effort to try to say, well, Trump just got into office. All of these things are his fault. Guys, guys, he literally they are literally passing a budget and I'm going to use the word literally a lot here. So bear with me because it helps me with the rage. They are literally and by they I mean Republicans actually passing a continuing resolution that literally continues funding the whole Joe Biden scheme. So basically they're taking Joe Biden's economy and they're allowing it to go for another fiscal year. That's what this continuing resolution is. Oh no, there's no cuts in it. No, there's no cuts. There's not even the permanence of the tax cuts from 2017. They're not even in here. The no tax on tips? Nope, not in it. Nope. It's the existing framework that they're just letting, they're kicking the can down the road. So Hakeem Jeffries saying this, that's like literally your, your party's spending plan. So I'm still blaming you. That's how that works. You see, I'm still blaming them for this. Just asinine. I told Kane over the week or actually on break and I had this realization and this is part of it. Because there are people who read this stuff or they see that soundbite and they're like, oh, that's right. It's totally right. This is Trump's economy. I'm already seeing it from people. You can't even do math. And this is when I realized, you know what? I really do believe that the Internet is the greatest mistake that humanity ever perpetuated against itself. I'm not kidding. I think it is the worst mistake. And I say this as someone who actually leveraged it to have the career that I have now. And I've definitely used it for a lot of good. Way more good than bad. Some bad, but more good than the bad. Very enjoyable bad, but way more good. Lots of the good. I fully recognize that. I would probably not be sitting here behind a mic hanging out with you on a Monday afternoon had I not had the internet.
SPEAKER 08 :
I tried arguing with you about it.
SPEAKER 02 :
You did. And I'm like, no, no, no. I still, even knowing that, even being fully aware that that's my origin, I still think that it's the greatest mistake that humankind's ever perpetuated against itself.
SPEAKER 08 :
And then I said, what would make the internet good for you?
SPEAKER 02 :
And I said, take the people out. No people.
SPEAKER 08 :
But that is the internet.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER 08 :
So you know, internet is bad.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. Well, I think you got to look at, what am I thinking of? The sum total of it. Okay. You got to look at the sum total. Think about how they, I really feel like there are more dumber, dumb people now than there were.
SPEAKER 08 :
That I agree with.
SPEAKER 02 :
Or, or, or hear me out. It's just that with the internet, you can see it more.
SPEAKER 08 :
Actually, maybe that's it.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don't know. I mean, I know that there were dumb people back in the day, whatever the day was.
SPEAKER 08 :
You and I, and I would imagine most of our audience, grew up without the internet. We know what life is like without the internet.
SPEAKER 02 :
But then I got email in high school.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, see?
SPEAKER 02 :
I used to enter chat rooms playing Slayer. They'd code it in there and it'd go... It was so stupid. It was so cringed.
SPEAKER 08 :
But we understand that life can go on without the internet, which is why we can recognize the internet for what it is.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right. And it's why it aggravates us. We were a weird generation because we were right in the middle of it. We had a childhood free of it, but then when we got to be teenagers, we had it.
SPEAKER 08 :
What was your first computer when you... IBM something.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don't know. It was secondhand something. And I played a lot of games on it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I had a friend that had like an Apple.
SPEAKER 02 :
Of course, I did homework. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
But we got like a VIC-20. And then the Commodore 64.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don't even know what mine was.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you remember the Commodore 64?
SPEAKER 02 :
I do remember that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Had that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Mine was so old. And it was like a great value version of whatever you just said. And I don't even know what it was. Don't even know. And it had a dot matrix printer and DOS and everything else. It was wild. Wild. The screen was green. But I felt so fancy because it was mine, you know, even though it was like fourth hand. I don't even care. It was mine.
SPEAKER 08 :
The first computer I used in school was a K-Pro. And it looked like a suitcase.
SPEAKER 02 :
Sounds like a K-pop band.
SPEAKER 08 :
The handle was actually the bottom of the keyboard. And the keyboard would attach to the face of this like... Sounds like a caboodle. And you would take the keyboard off and then there would be a tiny little green screen there with the floppy disks right there.
SPEAKER 02 :
Gosh, floppy disks. My kids don't even know what those are. They're like, what are these weird things? Remember the floppy disk and the sleeves? Gosh, those are the days. And then got into high school and Apple started being everywhere. Right. And then when I got into college, it was that the big thing in college was the different colors of the Apple computers where you could get like the orange and the blue and the green and that you could. Yeah, that's. We had some of those in college and the newspaper staff. But but yeah. So anyway, long story short, Internet, horrible, great, worst thing ever to happen to humans. Horrible, horrible. So mean to us. And we're mean to ourselves with it. But then I completely understand that there are some great things. But I think in some total, I would forego the great to get over the bad. And again, I say this as somebody who knows I am sitting behind the mic because of the Internet. I mean, that's how I got – I had the internet. We squatted literally in an old abandoned building off of Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis and did like a webzine. And it was – and then got started. I mean, that's seriously – yeah, so – Long story short, you know, ignore the squatting part that had nothing to do with the Internet. But I just I look at this stuff because I, you know, Hakeem Jeffries puts this out and there are people who are like, well, it's Hakeem Jeffries. And their reasoning is Hakeem Jeffries is a Democrat and he's a Democrat with influence in the Democrat Party and he's elected. So what he says must be true. It's like believe by association. It's the weirdest thing. You're confirming your bias just by association alone. I mean, I don't know. I the whole thing is I still maintain that the Internet is making everybody absolutely stupid. OK, so a few other things. And I think that's also extending to some of the we're going to have to do some house cleaning. We got to do some house cleaning. So I don't know how many of you were watching. I don't know. There's there were there were a couple of big debates that took place over the weekend. And one of those had to do with Syria. In 72 hours, you had 1,300 Syrians killed. And many of them were Christians. And it's the Alawite, the Syrians, the terror campaign against these Alawite families, etc. And it was a big deal. And then all of a sudden, there were some of these, I don't say conservative. One of the things that the internet... I think contributes to is it doesn't matter if it's correct. What matters is how amplified it is. And the greater the amplification, that means somehow the greater the veracity of the claim, which is so stupid, but that's apparently how we're operating nowadays. So it doesn't matter if what you're saying is true. What matters is, well, are other people saying that it's true? Or how many people have repeated what you said? And I bring this up with this Syrian story. Kane, you heard about this over the weekend. So this story, you had hundreds and hundreds of minorities, including Christians, and they're considered a minority in Syria, who were killed. And this is after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad, right? They've had pro-Assad fighters, government forces. You had jihadis. I... I think that it's fair to say that Bashir al-Assad is a bad guy. He's not the worst guy. We can allow, we are complex beings and we can allow for that thought. He's a bad guy, but he's not the worst guy. And in Syria, Christians existed in Syria. They didn't have to pay from, to my knowledge, a jizya, which is the tax on non-believers. They didn't have to pay. I don't know. Not my knowledge that they had to pay for that. And now with Assad out, you have jihadis. And we did say you're going to have jihadis rolling through Syria because you're going to create a power vacuum. You have the minority Shia Muslim sect. They hold a lot of these top positions within the government. And now the Alawites are no longer in power. There have been revenge killings. There's been a lot of highlighted or a lot of targeted killings of Christians. And they had the three main Christian churches. Apparently, they all issued a joint statement condemning the violence and massacres targeting innocent civilians. And it has been just it's been a mess. Rubio said in a statement yesterday that. that the U.S. condemned the radical Islamist terrorists, including the foreign jihadis who have been murdering people, including the Alawite, the Kurdish, the Jewish, the Christian communities, offering their condolences to their family. And interim authorities must hold all of this, you know, they must hold them responsible. I do say that you there is it's understandable that when you take out someone who wasn't punishing people for being Christian again, a bad guy, but not the worst guy that when you allow jihadis then to come in. Yeah, Christians and everybody else who aren't jihadis are probably going to end up being killed. It's almost like. you, everybody saw this coming, you know, and we were talking about it. I don't know why it was like such a great mystery or why it's people are shocked that, that, Oh, now this is happening. You know, the stuff that everybody was talking about leading up to this, but what ended up happening over, I don't know what was going on with the right. You had, uh, people going out. There's, uh, I guess trying to run defense for Iran. We're going to dive into this a little bit more and later on with, uh, Steven Yates, but the, um, Defense of Assad. I've seen this bubbling up a lot. It's either you have to believe that he is a great guy or the enemy and there's no room for what I had just laid out that he's a bad guy, but not the worst guy. And through this forced perspective, you either have to adopt that he was great or you have to think. I mean, it's either or there's no there's no middle ground. There's no I mean, there aren't any really better angels in this. But again, part of the problem of the Internet, people can read a thread on X and they think I'm fully informed about the issue. Or they'll ask AI, which AI is still getting a lot of things wrong. And then they think I'm fully informed on the issue. You're just asking. You're just regurgitating something that confirms your bias. And then you're reading it online and you're spitting it out there. We're going to talk more about this because somehow this got blamed on all the Jews. I don't know. It became a Jewish issue. How did that even happen? We're going to discuss all of this. All of this coming up. We'll get some housecleaning to do as we move. It's our friend's. Over at Preborn, this is a great organization that does so much to help moms and babies, particularly saving babies. And every life is a gift. 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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 11 :
It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. It's not a criminal. It's a crime. It's not a crime, which is why they're so frustrated, because they really want our local law enforcement to go out and round up people when they could be looking out for the murderers and the sexual abusers, as well as the robbers. They want them to go and round people up on civil accusations.
SPEAKER 02 :
and so okay i've got a number of issues here first is um why did you use the word illegal number one like it's not she's out here that's what's her face jasmine i don't like the fact that her last name is crockett how you doing davey this memory that way but she says that it's not a crime to enter illegally what are you just it's not a crime to enter criminally But you just use the phrase illegally. And it is. You can say it isn't, but it actually is. It's a statute. It's a real thing. You know that they don't believe this. They just don't want there to be penalties for it. That's the big difference with us. They just don't want there to be any kind of existing penalties. This stuff... I know we've been saying this now since Trump won, but I really feel like Democrats have no idea what to do. They have no messaging, no cohesion, no unity. They have no... I don't really think if you got all of them in a room that they would even understand what their party's purpose is. What is your purpose as a party? And it can't just be, I hate Trump. I mean, you can't... People need more than just that. They need more, a lot more. I would like for there to be multiple healthy parties because I like choices as a consumer, as a voter. I like to have choices. And I don't want one side to get so dumb that it allows the other side to get dumb because they feel like they don't have to strive for any kind of higher level because they're just measuring. You always look great if you're measuring yourself by the lowest common denominator. So I don't think Republicans should contrast themselves against Democrats all the time. How about you measure yourself against the Constitution and not Democrats? Because anybody can look good measured against them. Measure yourself against the Constitution. Is it constitutional what I'm doing? Is this vote constitutional? Is this proposal constitutional? Is this CR constitutional? Is this budget constitutional? That's the only litmus test. And I really feel like Republicans are not learning this giant lesson here. So coming up, the latest in Syria. We're also going to talk about some of there's a rot on the right. And I'm just mystified over some of this. We're going to touch on a little bit of it here coming up in the second hour. Also, they've gotten politically correct with Harry Potter. Yeah, I think I can't wait for a samurai movie. Although I think who was it that did this? It wasn't Ubisoft. Who was it that did it? It was the Assassin's Creed people that messed up. We should just take a page. Let's just do a samurai movie and just cast entirely like blonde haired, blue eyed people. You know, I mean, who cares, right? That's apparently what it is anymore. We're going to discuss that because the casting for this new Harry Potter series is just mind-numbingly stupid. So we got to have this discussion. Also, let me pull this up because we got a lot for you. We got to get into some of the, with Gaza, the latest with Gaza, lights out, on, out, off, on, kind of back and forth. We're going to get into that. The budget battle, Trump collars Doge. Mike Johnson apparently splits from Musk on some of this stuff. We're going to highlight all of this and more. Stick with us. Second hour on the way. We love gold. Although the URL is DanaLikesGold.com. I'm like, like isn't strong enough. It's my best friend. We're going to go get portraits at JCPenney. Do they still have those? You can get your free 2025 gold and silver kit today, could qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver, maybe even more. Gold and silver have stood the test of time. And right now, remember Trump's first term, gold surged 53%, silver was 51%. So what does that look like 2025 and beyond now that he's back in office? Protect your wealth with gold and silver today. You can request their free 2025 gold and silver kit today. Learn how to diversify and safeguard your savings with time-tested safe haven assets. Experience matters when protecting your wealth, and GoldCo is the company that I trust. They've secured their financial future with gold and silver. They've helped so many people do this, and they've been with this program since the beginning. They know what they're doing. Visit danalikesgold.com. Join the thousands of people who've called GoldCo the number one rated gold company. And you can get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit and also qualify for up to fifteen thousand dollars in bonus silver, possibly even more. That's Dana likes gold dot com.
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Well, right now, the House is controlled by Republicans. The Senate is controlled by the Republicans and the presidency is in the hands of the Republicans. So it is their job to make sure that the government has the resources it needs in order to continue to function. And I think the American people are well aware of that fact. And that is who they are going to blame.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I don't think that it works that way because, first off, it's very easy, and we said this last hour, to claim that Republicans are in charge of everything, so therefore everything is their fault. When everybody knows that the mechanics move a lot slower than that, number one. Number two, they're passing a continuing resolution that literally continues funding government exactly the way that Joe Biden and Democrats ordained it. It changes nothing. There are no cuts included, no tax cuts, none of the no tax on tips. You're not getting any of that. It just prolongs the existing framework of Biden's whole fiscal thing for the next fiscal year. That's so... What she's saying there, it's still what Democrat. This is why people like myself are so mad at Republicans right now, because they're continuing Democrats economic policies. And that's what the CR battle is over. And there they have this they have this resolution that they've got to move on by. I think it's what Friday. And they've I don't know whether or not they're going to actually I mean, I don't know. They're not going to they're supposed to be taking it up. Johnson unveiled the funding bill that they had pushed through. They're trying to have this stopgap measure that keeps government funding going for I think what until September. Until fall. But I don't know if that's something that because there's such a narrow majority. And again, can I just point out and I'm going to complain one more time about this. This is why some of us were very critical of POTUS picking out of house for his cabinet, because we have two seats short right now. They're not filled. You have Mike Waltz's seat and you have Gage's seat. And Florida can go as fast as Florida is going. They're trying to go as fast as possible. But you have constitutional processes that you according to each state's constitution that they have to follow to fill a seat. And so. you have two seats that are open. They could be Republican, but they're not there. Waltz is in the cabinet. Gates tried to get in the cabinet, but the reported ethics baggage that he has is going to probably prevent future political office for always. But those two seats being open, you barely have, you have the narrowest majority in the House in the past 100 years. the narrowest majority. And so whether or not Johnson can get this stopgap, and it's still trash, but whether or not he can get that through to avoid a shutdown without having to have Democrats, that's going to be really problematic. He's going to have to have Democrats to vote to get it to pass. And that means that there's going to have to be, it's going to be even dumber than what it is already. So there you go. He said he's going to bring it to a vote. It'll probably come tomorrow. It runs out Friday. And they said that they don't know. They don't know. They haven't negotiated this stopgap with Democrats. So I don't know. They have to be able to pass it. Trump said that if Johnson gets the bill to his desk, he'll sign it because he doesn't want to shut down less than two months into his term. So this is something that Republicans are they have to deal with and strategize around because, I mean, they've been handed this ticking time bomb of an economy. And everyone I heard this morning, there were a number of talking heads that were saying that, no, no, no, we're not really going to have a recession. If we don't do anything to stop the government spending and balance some of these things, then, yes, we absolutely are going to have one. That's not really up for debate. I think the debate is the severity of it, but not whether or not it actually manifests. So. They've got to get their financial house in order. And Democrats are not really in a mood to help them. They are petty and vengeful. They don't look at this as though they need to do something to get relief to the voter. They look at this as how can we make them look so bad and pinch people so that people feel the pinch and then we'll be motivated to vote for Democrats because they think that we're going to do it differently or somehow better. Which, you know, they won't. So the CR, they have an increase in spending. They slowed the rate of growth that they try to mask off as a cut. And it's just a garbage. It's a garbage CR. I mean, there's nothing good about it. Thomas Massey's already pretty much said that he's a no-go on it. And so that's one Democrat. And he's consistent on everything that he puts up, I will say. But he's saying that this is a no-go for him. So they're going to have to. I don't know what they're going to do. But I really think that missing the opportunity to include tax cuts, permanent tax cuts. And I have my own issues with the no tax on tips because I'm like, well, what about the bussers? What about the line cooks? What about, you know, all these folks? This is just servers. I mean, I say this as somebody who worked as a server for years going through college. That aside, why Republicans are missing the opportunity to say Democrats are refusing to provide relief? Why can't they turn the messaging around on them? Why do they constantly have to be on defense? This is what aggravates me so much with Republicans. They're always on defense, even when they should be on offense. They are the ones who should be out there right now saying, can you believe that Democrats do not want to get this? They don't want to have any of this done. Democrats don't care if their government shuts down. I mean, they don't care. They just think if it hurts Republicans, then it hurts Republicans. They don't care who else is hurt in the process. So they're not going to be... real amenable to working with Republicans on any of this. But why are Republicans not out there messaging this and weaponizing it themselves? Democrats don't want to give you no tax on tips. Democrats do not want to make the 2017 tax cuts. They don't want to make them permanent. They want you and then run through the list of again, they want you to fund this stuff through USAID. I mean, my gosh, they haven't even gotten some of these departments that they've suspended within EO made permanent through congressional action. All they could I mean, Democrats can come right in and reconstitute them in 28 if the if Congress doesn't act. So this is all a major it's a major issue. And I'm just not I don't know. I'm it's a mess. So we're also and yes, we are aware, by the way, of all of the what is wrong with the Internet today, Cain?
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, not knowing right now, of course, I will speculate and wear a tinfoil hat.
SPEAKER 02 :
Aliens?
SPEAKER 08 :
X has been hacked. Now Rumble's been hacked.
SPEAKER 02 :
Has Rumble been hacked?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I don't know if it's been hacked, but it did crash. And just like X crashed. So I don't know what the explanation is for that. It seems odd that everything else seems to be up and running and without interruption, but X and Rumble are somehow out.
SPEAKER 02 :
Interesting. Again, the internet is a garbage place, I'm just saying. Yeah, so we can't, because usually we stream on there and we have the chat. They've had some difficulties in Rumble today. But how, I mean, you don't think it's something like that. I mean, we did see a lot of people going after Tesla showrooms over the weekend. I know.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, that's the only reason why I think it. I mean, sure, it could be just technical malfunctions, but... Or it could not be. Or it could not be.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. Have you guys heard about this situation? Let me pull this story up while we have it. Have you guys heard about the story regarding the Harry Potter casting? You guys heard about all this? So I... Yes, they are redo. I mean, I don't know why they've got to redo this series or do anything like this, but they're they're shooting this series. This is from Deadline Hollywood. And then they have a thing with Forbes also. I'll write up over at Forbes and I'll I think you have some of this may have gotten some of your prep last week. So essentially, so it's an HBO series. It's the HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series. And it features younger versions of, I guess, like Harry Potter's parents and Snape and all of this other stuff, right? And it gets into the background of all of this. There's a lot of discussion as to the casting because they're saying that The casting is basically DEI. And now one of the headlines, for instance, this is GBN. They said Harry Potter fans fume at what they're calling blackwashing as HBO is closing in on an actor to play Snape. They're saying it's horrible casting. And this is because I guess John Lithgow is playing Dumbledore, which if that's true, that's a horrific cast. I like I not look. I like him, but not as that character. So apparently Snape is being played by a black actor. Now, I don't think in any realm where you don't talk about the physical attributes of a character and that doesn't play into the character. I don't think it's important. But with this, it seems odd to me. The actor, his name is Papa Esadu. He's been cast as Sephiroth Snape in this series. He was in Gangs of London. He's been in a couple of things as well. I don't know why that they would change the... I mean, again, it's like casting a blonde-haired, blue-eyed person as a samurai. It's like if you're going to... It's like imagine you do... Imagine you do a real-life casting of... Say Samurai Champloo and you have like all blonde, blue eyed white people that you have cast as the characters. It's just weird. You know what I mean? It's weird. It's like it's like I don't understand the purpose of it. When you change the character that much. And by the way, the guy that they have that they've cast, he's kind of a cool looking dude. Snape is not a cool looking dude. Snape has been described as a pale, sallow, greasy haired, you know, blonde, black, stringy hair, pale eyed, pale, pale, pale, sickly almost. I mean, he's he's. Characterized as a weak goth, for the lack of a better way to put it. And they cast this fit-looking black actor as Snape. And I'm sorry, but it's not working. It is not working. Other than the fact that the character is very explicitly described in the series as not black. But the guy doesn't look like a dork. It's not going to work for me. You know who they said should have played it, and I agree with this casting proposal, is Adam Driver. Adam Driver would have been a great Snape. He would have been a really good Snape. Am I wrong? I mean, Cain, you see this guy. You see this actor. He looks too cool. And he's, again, Snape is a pale, sickly, sallow, blonde or black stringy or blue eyed dude.
SPEAKER 08 :
Apparently he got better.
SPEAKER 02 :
And he got fit. Because he's described as none of those things in the book. So I don't... The whole thing is weird. I just don't... I don't... The casting is dumb. This is just bad casting. So they said apparently it's going to get worse because the casting decisions just get... You know, they... So they cast this guy. And now everyone's saying the backlash is racist, which I think is lazy. It's super, super lazy. And I don't know. I... I don't know. I don't think that that's going to work. It's like, again, it's like casting. Oh, I don't know. Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan. Right. Exactly. It's like actually casting Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan. It makes the same amount of sense. You know what I mean? It's just dumb. It's like hiring, I'm trying to think, who's the guy who plays Thor? Chris Hemsworth. And having him play Black Panther. You see what I'm saying? It doesn't make any sense. Would you have Chris Hemsworth as Black Panther, leader of Wakanda? Would you? No. You know you wouldn't. No. So why is this casting choice okay? At some point, the character description does matter. And do you know why it matters with this case? Because the whole Death Eater lore is kind of, I mean, it intimates that it's Nazi-esque. I mean, it intimates, they use words like mudbloods, and they talk about it's like very 1930s kind of stuff, very much so. You rob it of that dark storyline, that fear, by ignoring the character's background and physical description. It was for a point. Our friends over at Kel-Tec, great Florida company, although they have now a Wyoming facility too that they've opened. And I think, I'm pretty sure that this was one of the first rollouts of their new expansion facility. And it's the awesome PR-57 rotary barrel pistol. chambered in 5.7. Now, I have not fired this, but I have handled it quite a bit when I saw it all at SHOT Show. It is so light. I thought I was going to throw it through the ceiling when I picked it up. I don't know why. 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7. So I have 5.7s. There's none that I could actually realistically with my frame carry. I could carry this. It's that thin and it's that light. Now, they achieve this in two different ways. They have the innovative rotary barrel that makes it, helps to make it the lightest 5.7 on the market. But They also have eliminated magazines. So it has a very unique top loading design and it replaces the traditional mags with the stripper clips. So you have a slimmer carry profile, 20 plus one capacity. And all the people that don't know anything about guns, when they say clips instead of magazines, you know, they'll actually be accurate by accident for once. So there you have that. It's actually great for everyday carry for everyone. It's engineered for simplicity and simple reliability. And the MSRP makes it uber affordable at only $399. It's the first of its kind. Kel-Tec PR57 Rotary Barrel Pistol Chambered in 5.7. Visit Kel-TecWeapons.com to learn more. Innovation Performance Kel-Tec. K-E-L-T-E-C Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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So, what I think you're watching, do we have this on the monitor for the folks? What, what... What we're watching is this removal, I guess, of the Black Lives Matter Plaza. So it wasn't just like a crosswalk. It was looks like it was a whole city block. Was it more than that? Because they had the street signs made up, as you could see from the video. So it said the black it said Black Lives Matter on the street sign. And then it had this. I guess it looks like a whole city block. I thought it was maybe it might be bigger. Might be bigger. Yeah, I think that looks bigger. I think it's probably a couple blocks where in the road, they had painted out in the actual road, Black Lives Matter. And so DC, they started dismantling this. It's known as, checks notes, Black Lives Matter Plaza. It's near the White House. So there was, after the, I think it's what, been there for four and a half years, And now, apparently, it's being described as Mayor Muriel Bowser's decision to remove it, I guess, to ease political tensions. How much did it cost to put all this in here? Because the street sign, I didn't know about the street sign, so that cost. Do you think that Black Lives Matter paid to have that street sign made?
SPEAKER 08 :
I think taxpayers paid for all of this.
SPEAKER 02 :
Do you think that Black Lives Matter paid to write Black Lives Matter on the streets?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, they didn't.
SPEAKER 02 :
Do you think that now Black Lives Matter is paying to have this removed?
SPEAKER 08 :
No. No, they're not.
SPEAKER 02 :
So they just pocketed the money, bought all these mansions, and then that's – there you go.
SPEAKER 08 :
We're stuck with the bill.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's just – was there somewhere you could – that taxpayers can send an invoice to? So they cleared out the homeless encampments down there too, but then they're taking this. It's not a mural. It's just, I don't know what it is. But the D.C. mayor, apparently she okayed the removal to ease tensions with the administration. And I don't know what, if funding had anything to do with it. I don't know how you continue to fund this. But they said that it's just north of the White House where they're taking the paint off. So they said, I don't know what they're going to, I guess this is going to be a regular street now. Is it still going to be called Black Lives Matter Plaza? Are they renaming that as well? That's a good question.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think they've taken it all down.
SPEAKER 02 :
Even the street. What was it before Black Lives Matter Plaza? Regular street name.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I think it was.
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Trump had threatened to withhold D.C.' 's funding if they didn't stop this nonsense. And so now they're stopping the nonsense. So nature is healing, you could say. Nature is healing. There it is right there. Yeah, yeah. Someone sent this to me, this Mediaite piece. The headline is, this is disgusting. Conservative shred UFC's Dana White for warm welcome of accused traffickers, the Taters, to Vegas event. I don't even like saying that. I was blissfully unaware of these people for the longest time. I didn't know who they were. And then all of a sudden, I saw... some of the grifting kind of people on the right pushing them. And there, there is that mentality on the rights is one of the reasons why I hate the internet. I hate the idea of influencer. I hate that term. And I think that there's a difference between an influencer and then just people who are, who, who are in commentary or editorial writers, because I feel like influencers are whatever is the trendiest. They push whatever's the trendiest and they will only, It's like the trendiest talking points, the trendiest topics, the trendiest. And if you're out there trying to push the limits of discussion and the depth of discussion, you really don't engage a lot in like the forever 21 type of instant gratification throwaway thought, right? And I think for a lot of us, I mean, I don't think that fleeting influence lasts. I think that... you know, serious commentary is what lasts. So I don't know. I always, nothing makes me hate someone more than if they mistake me for an influencer. I'm like, no, it's not even remotely the same. And I know a lot of people in broadcasting that are like that. And I think with a lot of this stuff, and I'm starting to see more of it on the right, I see it on the left because it's kind of where it originated, right? Like just this vapidness, this shallow attempt to be like a pseudo-intellectual or just outright laziness when it comes to thought and people just take something that someone else has and they repackage it and they repost it and it just goes on and on and on. And you can say it's amplification and it is, but it also is misdirection and misrepresentation just as much. And so I think that plays into this story. So I saw, and I saw it because everybody was talking about it, the taters. I don't even like saying their name. It's like I don't want to say Candyman's name in the mirror three times in the bathroom, you know, because it'll pop up. I saw that movie. Or if you say Bloody Mary and when I was a kid, it was you got to say Bloody Mary in the bathroom. Yeah, three times in a dark bathroom in front of a mirror and in the dark and she'll appear. So it's like I really don't want to say the Taters names because they're two brothers and. I know that there's apparently a huge, there's a ton of accusations against them. Apparently as media reported and a million other, there's like this ongoing sex trafficking, rape accusation case. The charges in Romania haven't been dismissed. Apparently it's still being investigated. They were allowed to come to the United States for just like a little bit. And then they went back to Romania. But that's the whole situation where Florida said they're not welcome in Florida and They're they're accused of a lot of things. And the reason that they're accused of a lot of things is because they're on video literally talking about all of it. You can't say that you're innocent of certain things when you're on video talking about them yourself. No one made you do that. But anyway, from I mean, what's been reported, there's all there's they're facing like a lot of these accusations. And they got this ongoing case, not just in Romania, but in the U.K., And then one of the victims, apparently, I guess it's a trafficking victim that came forward who was like 15 at the time. And there's video of him whipping one of the taters, whipping this girl with a belt or something. A lot of it's blurred out. So it's kind of hard to tell. But like whipping somebody on camera. I have audio. The reason I bring this up is because what in the hell, conservatives, what is happening on the right that you lift up people like this? I mean, this guy talks about banging dudes. How is that? How are you upholding someone who is defending literally sodomy, like banging a dude backside? How are you defending that as some sort of representation for conservatism or as like an example on the right? Don't. Hey, if you're cringing right now, I did, too. I had to look at this stuff. Not like him doing it, but him talking about it. Play that for me. Go ahead. Just give me that little video right out there. Because I think that people need to be aware of what is being promoted as the right type of masculinity on the right. Watch this. Sorry.
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Ignore the construction. I'm rebuilding my mansion. You'll see when it's done. We'll do an episode of Chris.
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Just do an audio here, not a video.
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Yeah, he's on his rooftop of his brutalist. It looks like some kind of Eastern block building. Anyway. That's all going to be lit up in s**t with gattie logos. Broke boys don't know. Listen, I recently posted a question on Twitter asking... We have to show you the screen. Would you rather have sex with a transsexual, which is a legitimate 10, or a woman, which is a legitimate 1? And everyone's sitting there clicking woman, woman, woman, woman, because they think they're going to be gay if they do anything else. But they're not actually thinking about the question. I am so smart. I operate on so many levels higher than the average man. You people are not thinking about the question. When I say a one and a ten, I mean Megan Fox with a d***. That's the tranny. What? Or Hulk Hogan with a d***. That's the girl.
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So he's like defending the idea of banging. Megan Fox. Dude. Or Hulk Hogan. And I'm like, what in the world is happening with you?
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Like, it's a false choice. He lands on the idea of being with the Megan Fox looking dude.
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Yeah, he wants to bang the dude. This is what he's talking about. And is it what? Is it a copyright issue? Is that what it is?
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Well, at the time that we were getting all this together, X was down.
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Okay, X was down.
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So we couldn't actually download the video.
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So but there's the video that's up there. So I don't know how these dudes are being elevated as some sort of representation of healthy masculinity. First and foremost, there's nothing healthy or masculine about it from all everything that's been reported. They make their money off of like pimping out women on only is it only fans? Or like sex cams. It's like sex cam girls. And that's what a lot of the accusations against them are surround trafficking. And there are apparently a lot of people have come forward and the case apparently widened in Romania and it's ongoing in the UK. So it's not something that's like, you know, this is not like the New York time or the New York lawfare against Trump. Right. Like Trump didn't actually do anything. There's Trump isn't even on video bragging about doing stuff. I mean, come on. So I but I've seen people lift these guys up and I just don't get it. There's so much about it. A that's cringe. There's it's welfare. If you're making money off of pimping out women, you're an entitled welfare queen. You just have a penis. That's it. It doesn't make you any less of a welfare queen. You're still a welfare queen because you're living off of the work of someone else. Like you're not even going out there earning your own money. And I don't know why, you know, some on the right have taken to lifting up single dudes who have no family, who have no commitments from any women who talk about women like this. And I think they're Muslims too, aren't they? So, okay. Hi Sharia. I don't even know what, what these people are thinking. Um, I've seen a lot of people platform them and do interviews. And then when they're criticized for it, they whine about free speech. It has nothing to do with free speech. You have free speech. And then everyone else also has free speech to criticize how you use yours. So get over it. But these people, these like tater bros are not anything to be looked up to. It's glorified welfare. You're making money off of other women having sex. And it's like welfare. You're sponging off of these women and you're trying to present it as being a masculine thing and it's not. Part of being masculine and part of being a real man is the code of chivalry. And to just dumb it down, you know, chivalry means you're a badass, but you choose not to be. You know, you can go out and you can war in the field, but then you can come back and you can sit next to a lady and have a polite meal, you know, in the king's court. I mean, that's kind of what, you know, to put it in layman's terms, that's sort of, you know, the chivalry. I don't see any of that here. I don't see any kind of, you know, courteousness or any... And people... are acting like, oh, well, this is the answer to all the accusations of toxic masculinity. And I don't see any daylight in how they treat any female, by the way. I understand toxic masculinity. I'm married to a man. I'm raising young men. I get it. I grew up probably disliking feminism more than the people talking about how much they dislike feminism today. I also know that there's first wave, second wave, third wave, and fourth wave. First wave, fine. Women can vote. They can be able to actually inherit the property that they helped build up with their families so they're not left destitute if widowed. I get it. But then the whole abortion on demand and now men or women, it's kind of jumped the shark. Targeting men and acting like real masculinity is toxic. Hopefully conservatives haven't forgotten what real masculinity looks like because it's not this. It's not pimping out women and bragging about trying to glorify welfare off of sex. It's none of those things. It's not rejecting the Christian principles on which the nation was founded. It's not that. They went out to, I guess, Vegas, and they were caught shaking hands. They were photographed shaking hands with Dana White, which I think is a really bad look for UFC, by the way. I don't think anybody needs to be parading around with these fools. I mean, it's just cringe. It's like the Wayans brothers. If they did a whole skit mocking a subset of wannabe hard asses, they would dress up like this, and they would do this. It feels almost like we're getting punked in a way. But there are some people that are so burnt out from the accusations of toxic masculinity that I guess they find this empowering, which I don't find it empowering. I find it debasing. It's just debasement. To push back against toxic masculinity isn't to embrace progressive principles. I don't believe in toxic masculinity. There's no more toxicity in being masculine than there is toxicity in being feminine. I don't believe in the patriarchy any more than I believe in the matriarchy, although I could say that the matriarchy is probably a little bit more established. But this whole pushing of them as though this is some sort of like representation of masculinity in the sphere of conservatism or on the right is so misguiding. And it's it's such a debasement and it's an insult to men. Men are so much better than these boys. Men are so much better than this. And they have there are so many better examples of strong, actual men than this. So I get it that people want clicks and I get it that they want traffic. And I get it that in this oversaturated world of whatever that, you know, people are trying to carve out a niche for themselves. But engaging in this like clickbait debasement is not the way to do it. We'll have more on it. But I just I saw that piece. I'm like, oh, boy, I said one thing about it. But it's still it's cringe. And I just I we haven't talked a lot about it. It's like this cultural thing that's happening on the right right now. But I think it's maybe time that we do start talking about it because I just see some horrible representations of what some people think masculinity looks like. And that's not what masculinity is. There are so many awesome dudes out there who deserve to be like recognized and elevated and talked about and used as like the measure of what it is to be a man and not dudes, these dudes who, I mean, get a shirt that fits and, you know, stop like sponging off of like women's sex work. I just, it's like welfare, right? We got a lot more on the way as we move. Our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that's out there. They don't use your money to go against all the nonsense that you vote against every time you go to the ballot box. Patriot Mobile. I know where the founder lives. It's super helpful. You know, be like, I know where you live. No, for real, though, in a nice way. 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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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A Florida woman was attacked. Well, she attacked a man with a Pringles can. Say deputies. That sounds like a song. Oh my goodness, this is in Florida, WFLA. A Florida woman was accused of attacking a man with a can of Pringles. Orange County Sheriff's Office, they got called to the 7-Eleven for a reported fight. And a man told deputies that Shanika Serdahl hit him in the eyes with a Pringles chip can. And then she ran off. So they said he had a significant cut on his right eyebrow, and he was actually bleeding. They did find her. She did have a Pringles can in her possession, and she was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. So no hitting with Pringles. Don't do that.
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She kept the Pringles, though?
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Yeah, I'm sure it was probably confidence. It's probably taken into evidence. I mean, if they do all that, you know, I don't know. A Florida woman murdered her roommate and then poured Mountain Dew all over herself to prevent the police from getting DNA. That doesn't work that way. They did also find a bloody knife in the cell phones and all this other stuff. So, yeah, that Florida woman's probably going to spend decades in prison. And she wasn't able to actually hide any of the evidence either. Lame. All right. We got a third hour on the way. Steven Yates is going to join us. Did you hear about the three Chinese folks, CCP members in the army arrested for spying? This website has saved me more times than I can count. I mean, my health, my actual literal health. I was sick over a holiday. It was like Thanksgiving. I had a host. I was getting strep throat. The urgent care was like a crazy. I just couldn't even get into my ENT. All family pharmacy helped me out. I got my azithromycin. Actually, I got it overnighted. And it immediately started helping, obviously, with my symptoms and sickness, helping with the super sore throat, all of that. They have over 200 different medications. All of the antibiotics that they have, it's all made in the USA. I don't know anywhere else where you can say that, but you don't have to worry about quality and safety with All Family Pharmacy. You can always be prepared. It's simple, fast, and affordable. No insurance, no problem. They've got straightforward pricing. And their shipping is just two to four days. Overnight, also in a pinch. Your health is always within reach. So order from the comfort of home as well. I mean, they can deliver right to your door. Visit allfamilypharmacy.com and use code DANA10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's all family pharmacy.com slash Dana for 10% off, but you got to use promo code Dana 10 to unlock that discount. Dana 10 all family pharmacy.com slash Dana.
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is why so many people are so mad about it because they're just taking opportunity away from kids that don't have it. So billionaires, kids are billionaires. They have it. They go to private schools. Everyone else, 90%, go to public schools. Don't take away their opportunity. So let's stay on the facts. Sorry.
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No, do not apologize. I'm really angry about this. No, because this is what people need to hear.
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I taught kids in Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn, New York,
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Randy Weingarten is super mad because something's being discussed that would actually limit her power and her influence. And that has to do with the education plan from the administration, i.e. having it all go back to the states instead of being consolidated and centralized in Washington, D.C. Welcome back to the program. We're at the top of this third hour. Dana, let me share with you. This woman shut down. She was part of the reason that schools shut down for almost two years. Because Randy Weingarten pushed for it. So spare me. I don't believe that this woman at all cares. I think it's just about preserving her power. And access to power. That's it. I don't I don't think it's anything else. I don't think it's anything else. Because you can't sit here and say that what she has pushed for these have turned out to be successful for kids or that it has turned into a super successful means of education. I mean, this she's part of everything that's wrong with with education right now. all for having the states handle it. We absolutely do not need it consolidated out in D.C. That's just so asinine to me. There's no authority for the federal government to do any of what it's doing as it pertains to education. And if people feel so strongly about it, then instead of demanding that everyone else pay, you pay more, right? I mean, I got major problems with it. I have major problems with an educational system that is more about political propaganda than actual education. I just and especially what they've been, you know, you've seen these fights. I mean, good grief. We had the fight with our public school board here and the town in which I live. We were the first one to go to the ballot box over it. And just to watch the way that the system tried to weaponize everything against innocent parents was truly stunning. So after like all of that, after witnessing all of that and hearing what my friends have gone through in other parts of the United States, no. And then looking at test scores, looking at everything that happened over lockdown that she encouraged, that she pushed for, that she demanded. Hell no. It's a joke. This isn't about education. It's about propagandizing. That's all it's about. It has nothing to do with education. So she's angry. She acts like it's costing people opportunities if you let parents have more direct access in the state. All I hear is that this old broad's out there saying that she apparently knows more about your children than you do and that she has more of authority to influence them than you do. That's not how it works. So I'm glad to see that the administration is doing something about it. Again, though, executive orders only matter until he's out of office and then they're irrelevant. People know those, right? That's why it's so incredibly important to get these congressional members on the same page. Mike Johnson is dramatically split from Doge, come the reports over this weekend. He was on TV on Friday, and he was saying that the efficiency-driven approach was necessary to trim government excess. And then critics, though, were saying that the cuts are abrupt. And as a result, they're having a lot of a major negative impact on a lot of things. And they were I think they were also worried about how some of the austerity was going to affect them. That's what it sounds like at the ballot box. So he was on he was on. saying that it's going to be corrected, was the phrase that he used. Somewhat like a shift from the Musk-Doge approach. He was saying that the, talking about the abrupt cuts, people were saying it's having an effect on critical federal programs and it's costing dedicated workers their jobs. So what, the federal sector is the only place where dedicated workers are not allowed to lose their jobs? Private sector, it's okay. Federal, it's not. It may sound callous, and if someone, I guess, wants to have a weak constitution and be offended over my tone on it, then they're free to do that just as I'm free to disregard it. But if only these people had been as loud when the federal government was shutting down private sector businesses. for COVID locking people out of their workplaces, enacting economic eminent domain and making it to where people couldn't earn a living and arresting those who tried. And that actually did happen. I know people personally who were arrested for trying to simply work. Shelley Luther being the first. And now she's in elected office as a result. But the, Musk says he's being efficient. Johnson is saying, okay, well, yeah, maybe it was too fast. I just, I don't, he seems soft on it. He said it's going to be corrected. I don't know what that means. But to me, it was kind of a signal for, I just don't think that they have the spine to do what's needed. I mean, I like the stuff that POTUS is coming out with and I like the EOs, but none of that's going to matter when he's out of office in 2028 because it's all going to go away. Democrats are going to get rid of it. They're going to get rid of it. They're going to, with an EO, undo all of his EOs and then have their own implemented like Biden did with the border when he got into office back in 2020. So I don't know. I mean, Johnson, to me, was signaling some separation there. Did you read that the same way, Kane? Because that's how I got it. Johnson was trying to make it look like, OK, well, he's like way more I don't know. I don't want to say energetic. That's not the right word about it than Johnson was. And he was suggesting to like sensitive sectors, there might be a concession where people are rehired. I think this is so you're you're undermining then in your telegraphing that you're undermining what Doge is doing. What is the point of any of this? My gosh, can't you people get a damn spine? Grow a spine for once in your ever loving lives. Republicans stop being pathetic. Grow a spine. If they don't get this, if they don't make these cuts now before filing for midterm election starts, guys, they're never going to make them. The coalition will be gone, and you can say hello to Gavin Newsom for president in 2028 because they are going to rehabilitate him. It'll be him or Andy Beshear, maybe Wes Moore, but it'll probably be either Newsom or Beshear or both. Shapiro, perhaps, but there's too many people on the left that have a problem with him because he's Jewish. So I don't know. It'll be either Newsom or Bashir. And that will happen. And it'll happen just the way, just like that. It's not hidden knowledge. So to see Johnson splitting like this was incredibly unfortunate. Thomas Massey says he's still a no on this continuing resolution that Republicans are trying to pass. That's all that's going to do is kick the budget ball down the down the path until September 30th. So you're going to continue Joe Biden's economic framework. You're basically carrying on the fourth fiscal or the fifth fiscal year of the Biden administration. That's exactly what they're doing. It's just more Biden administration stuff. They're continuing it. because they think that's easier than allowing the government to shut down. Democrats would love for the government to shut down because they always use a shutdown to their advantage. And Republicans are too terrified to message any other way. And now they've been made easy in their cowardice because they just let Trump do all of it. They just let Trump do all the messaging. And they really don't come back, if you've noticed. There's not really a lot of the lawmakers that come out and they will say, yes, this is great what POTUS is doing here. They'll say like red meat platitudes, like, oh, he's great. Yeah, POTUS. But they don't actually go to bat for these reforms. When have you seen For as hard as Trump went in supporting Mike Johnson, have you seen Mike Johnson going anywhere near as hard in supporting these economic reforms that Trump wants? Not at all. Not at all. This is what people need to pay attention to. You've got these lawmakers out there that give lip service to what Trump says. And they're like, yeah, POTUS. And then they do these like miles wide, inch deep, performative like acts of fealty. We're going to propose $250 bill with your face on it or whatever. They do these performative acts of fealty. And in the meantime, we're all like, guys, you see the economic waterfall that's happening right now. We're almost over the edge. You guys see this, right? I wish Johnson would have gone again as hard for these economic reforms as Trump went for him to get him his speaker. I mean, that to me, if you want to have a discussion about loyalty, I think people don't know how to judge it. That is an example of what you would do to be loyal to the person who endorsed you and made your speakership happen. Is to not separate from Doge. To not separate. I read a story. where it was saying that Trump was trying to kind of collar Doge in a way and trying to pull them back a little bit with some things. And I don't know if he's getting some pressure from other lawmakers. Now, to be fair, it was a Daily Beast piece that first started it. But his statement was that he wanted to replace the chainsaw with a scalpel. And that's apparently what POTUS had suggested. He wrote on Truth Social that he's instructed Doge to use a scalpel rather than a hatchet to go after the federal workforce. He said, as secretaries learn about and understand, this is what he wrote on Truth Social, quote, they can be very precise as to who will remain and who will go. We say the scalpel rather than the hatchet. He goes, the combination of them, Elon Doge and other people will be able to do things at a historic level. So I don't get the sense that he's like collaring him, but scalpel as opposed to hatchet. Democrats are trying to use the newly unemployed federal workforce and they're trying to act like they're trying to misrepresent that as Trump turning his back on the working man. And now these people are out of work as a result. I'm just trying to figure out how people thought cutting spending was going to go. Everyone loves spending everybody else's money, don't they? Government loves spending all of our money. I mean, honestly, the federal workforce is too big. How did people think this was going to go? Did they think it was going to be kittens in sunshine? 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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Disney ride passengers are dumbfounded after a man jumped from a log to wander with his son, causing a 40-minute delay. People were very upset, understandably. It was on Tiana's Bayou Adventure in the Magic Kingdom. The guy jumped out and decided to like wander around with his kid. The ride was paused for 10 minutes and then it was delayed further. And they said that it was all held up for 30 to 40 minutes because they got out and were wandering around and looking at stuff. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to stay in, you absolute moron. This is also why I don't do amusement parks. I don't like going and standing in line and having to be herded like cattle for what a ride that, you know, if you want a real ride... Just saying. Go like whitewater rafting or something. I don't know. A, let's see. Oh, no, I'm not doing that one. Oh, no, not doing that. I'm going to go back because some of these are just no. Oh, oh, the Tasmanian devil. Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up. We got to go back to this. This is from last hour. We didn't have time. Tasmanian devil gives a woman who went in to use the restroom a major surprise. They're actually way cuter than I thought they would be. an Australian woman was awakened by the sound of her dogs growling. She went up, opened the door for them to go outside, and then she was going to use the restroom herself. But there was a Tasmanian devil that ran into her bathroom, chased by the dogs, to take shelter behind the commode. So she trapped him in there. They call it the devil. They trapped the devil in there. And they had to get basically a critter catcher out to come and catch it. She said that apparently it went crazy in there. Like it, you know, it was like Just kick things off of the shelves, everything. So they were able to get it out and I guess rehome it. But still, they're very aggressive little things. Cute though, super cute. Rat populations are surging as cities heat up. Like probably no greater example of that than maybe perhaps in New York. But they said scientists have published another study. Science Advances is the journal. Duh. As temperatures climb in cities, rap populations grow. No, really? You mean it's harder if it's colder? Good grief. Why is that a study that somebody spent money on? Good grief. And last but not least, this POTUS is being pressured to make Puerto Rico independent and save America $600 million. and $17 billion. That's a lot of money. He's being lobbied to make it an independent nation. Congressional offices are in possession of a seven-page draft executive order on how the U.S. could help the island territory transition to independence. And they said that this is I guess it's something that's being widely debated within the cabinet. But, you know, we'll see how this goes. Apparently, it was drawn up by congressional office and leaders of the Puerto Rican secessionist efforts, not the White House. Stick with us. Stephen Yates is going to be joining us coming up at the bottom of this hour next. the folks who help bring you the program. It is our friends over at Super Beats. The Super Beats Chews brought to you by the makers of the Super Beats Hard Chews, a great product, and of course, the only beet product that I will recommend or take myself. They also have their new Super Boreen. It supports healthy metabolism and blood sugar levels. It's one easy-to-take capsule a day. It has a higher absorption, so the clinically... researched berberine that they have in here actually is 10 times higher absorption rate than standard berberine. And that higher absorption means that you're getting healthy metabolism and healthy blood sugar benefits in just one capsule. And that's all you're going to take every day. There's no GI distress. There's If you're worried about berberine causing GI distress, the Superberine's unique formula with the grapeseed extract actually improves tolerability. And now you can get both the new Superberine and the number one best-selling Super Beats Heart Shoes at Sam's Club. Just visit Sam's Club. That's where you can get the Super Beats Heart Shoes for heart health support and the Superberine for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today. Get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. We are at the bottom of this third hour. I was looking at this crazy story of these U.S. Army soldiers who were indicted for selling secrets to China. Their names, Li Tian, Jian Zhao, and Ryu Duan were all indicted for selling secrets to China. Kane, if only there had been some signs of that this was an issue. If only there had been some signs that these individuals, maybe perhaps, because this isn't the first suspicion, I think we have him. Joining us, if I can see him on my monitor, joining us right now, Stephen Yates at Yatescoms on X. He joins us via Skype, and as you know, he's been in not one, but two conversations different administrations. And he is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. I know no one's more surprised by this than you are, my friend. These three individuals indicted for selling secrets. I mean, I would have never have guessed at all. Your thoughts?
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Well, it is sad. Now, on the one hand, I think that there's a much greater threat to our national security, homeland security by all of the advanced cyber attacks that Chinese entities engage in, whether it's salt typhoon and other kinds of massive efforts that go after our infrastructure and big data on Americans and all that. But good old fashioned spook craft is going on. And it's the Chinese- The Chinese Communist Party is the one that's ethnically profiling people, going out there and making clear that if you're of what they say their ethnicity is, that you owe something to their mothership and should compromise the country in which you may have achieved citizenship. But also, Dana, I would just say there's a systemic way that we could improve in this effort, and that's to stop wasting billions and billions of dollars on lengthy government applications for law abiding citizens when they go through and have these background checks for government jobs, but make very clear when you are in a position of responsibility, you will be surveilled. It makes clear that you are free in your ordinary life, but if you have the privilege of special access in government, you're gonna be followed, you're gonna be watched, and you're gonna, it's to keep America safe and keep America's secrets safe, because that's where security should be. But we've done it backwards for the last half century, and we have 100% record of missing things exactly like this until the stuff's already sold.
SPEAKER 02 :
You make a really good point. I know one of your colleagues at Heritage said there were over, and I'm looking at my notes here, over 1,200 cases, for instance, of intellectual property theft lawsuits brought by U.S. companies against Chinese entities. Two hundred and twenty four reported instances of Chinese espionage directed right towards the United States. Sixty nine percent after Xi Jinping assumed office in 2013. Thirty percent involved the theft of military technology. That's that's insane. That's I mean, that's definitely the actions of a nation that might think that it was in a Cold War with you for sure.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. And my friends at the Heritage Foundation have put out a long-term report saying that we are in a second Cold War. People don't like to talk about it that way. I understand. They don't want to take on those kinds of big commitments. But really, my point of view is, exactly as you were intimating, when people act this way towards our country, they have in fact declared this on us and our only choice. is whether and how we're gonna respond. And so I think it's absolutely the case that we have this massive scale attack on us already. And then it's all hands on deck. for the Chinese Communist Party. And in many cases, they don't even have to pay people. They're just manipulating them into doing stuff against the United States. And so I think it's a huge challenge for us, but we've got to be up to it. And hopefully the new administration is serious about it because we shouldn't forget the last administration said it was the weather that was going to be the greatest threat to our national security.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's the greatest geopolitical threat is the weather. And then don't forget white supremacists. You know, roving bands of white supremacists all throughout the country, talking with our friend Stephen Yates. Now, I hear about all these lawsuits that are brought by U.S. companies against Chinese entities for theft of IP. But whatever happens to those, like nothing ever happens to those suits. I mean, unless I'm missing it or they settle, you know, amicably quietly.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, this is a massive lawsuit. principal challenge that the Trump administration is grappling with right now. And there's everything on IP, but there's also lawsuits say for companies that are known and proven to have manufactured the fentanyl that's killed Americans. that there are cases with judgments. And so we have COVID that has gone through and now there's a massive judgment against the government of China and entities in China about COVID. And the huge question is how do you get that money? And one answer is if you have tariff money, are there ways that we can repurpose that to help those who have been victim or increase resources to combat these threats. In some ways, you have to have laws crafted by Congress to do that. We've gone at light speed on executive orders. Congress is not yet caught up to light speed on a lot of this stuff. But that's kind of where this argument needs to go. There's a systemic way to deal with it, at least to start and we're not there yet.
SPEAKER 02 :
Speaking of lawsuits, Missouri came out, won a $24 billion judgment against China in one of those COVID lawsuits. This was first brought on by former AG, now Senator Eric Schmidt, now current AG Andrew Bailey continued it. That's huge. So it was a federal judge that ruled in favor of this. But now what happens? China wouldn't show up in court. I mean, I guess you can say that, as you were talking about, the tariffs can pay for the 24. They're still going to do this. There's no deterrence to them at all, though, for them, rather.
SPEAKER 17 :
There's no deterrence until there is a structural change to what we're doing. Now, I think that part of the structural change has to be that we're not going to conduct normal business with countries that allow this kind of behavior to be done with real, measurable material damage to Americans. This is not a theoretical debate where we see sort of grass growing on closed out factories, which is bad. That has hurt middle America for a generation or two. But this is one where we can actually count the bodies and we can count the economic damage in the billions. And so I don't know when it's enough. It's been enough for me for a long time, but I don't know when it's enough for the rest of America to say, no mas, we're not going to have normal relations with this kind of a country. And it will cost something, but we're going to just have to manufacture elsewhere. I just spent last week in Argentina where they have rare earths that we can and should be using. They have satellite contracts that we should be getting. They have communications contracts we should be fighting for. But it's China down there trying to sell their Huawei technologies. And we've got to wake up and do some things different in this hemisphere to then make us less dependent on China.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's interesting. We're talking with Stephen Yates at Yatescoms via Skype. That's interesting because I know you were down there in Argentina. You were talking with Malai and Malai's people. Are they amenable to the United States on this? Because I realize that we see things through our very American perspective and not every other country. From, you know, our values origin, not every country shares that. So their perspectives are a little bit skewed from what ours are. Are they at least open? Are they amenable to realizing at least that the United States is a way better ally than China ever could imagine to be?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, well, they don't have the same experience we do in the sense that, I mean, they certainly felt COVID and the overreaction to COVID was very damaging everywhere. And so down in the southern tip, it was felt that way too. But they are not having as many people killed by fentanyl and other kinds of evils like the United States. And they're not suffering as many cyber attacks in a comprehensive way than we are, but it's not because they're not getting attention. And they would like to make the US their first best partner in almost all things. There's a major defense opportunities that they've been going for. They almost were in a position of buying for God's sake Chinese fighter jets to work to serve in their military. And it was only after very intense creative things that they were able to get F-16s from somewhere else to be able to try to bolster their needs. So in many ways, we need to get in the game. And that's part of what Doge and the lethality arguments that Secretary Hegseth is making. We've gotta fix our manufacturing supply chain and actually be there for those that wanna be our partners and allies. And I would just place a premium on our hemisphere.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's a really good point. If only, you know, I hope that some of these lawmakers have the spine to do what's required. So far, I am entirely, thoroughly unimpressed by everything. I can't say you're wrong. I'm right there at rage mode. Like I'm just the flip the switch. It's just so frustrating because everything that you're saying makes so much sense. And if we could just do this and if we could just be self-sufficient with manufacturing and we just stop wasting so much money on everything else. We're talking with our friend Stephen Yates. I wanted to ask you before I let you go, because it OK, Taiwan. Every time I see a headline that says China's escalating, I immediately want to ask you, because it's a gradual escalation to the point where it's like the frog in the proverbial pot of water, boiling pot of water. It feels like they're just very carefully just turning the dial bit by bit by bit by bit up until before we know it, here's a conflict right on our doorstep. I mean, they've been trolling Australia. Now the military, they're saying that they're going to tighten the quote unquote noose around Taiwan. If the independence movement escalates, I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on all of this, because I just feel like this particularly is something so incredibly important to watch, especially now with Canada's new prime minister and five eyes and all of this other. I just kind of want to get your last thoughts on this.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I lament the developments in the great white north so far. They're in their leadership change. They want to go from Tweedledee to Tweedledum as far as I'm concerned. It seems like a winner. So I just hope and pray that the Canadian right can awaken and find a way to work with the Trump administration and we'll see where we can go from there in North America. But the Taiwan situation is concerning to me. Now I'm one that said I've lived with this most of my life. The threats always been there. It's not going away because it's easy to destroy. It's not easy to build things. and to do things peacefully and amicably. And I think the United States, again, we've gotta be able to provide to our friends and allies if they're ready to buy defense articles to increase deterrence. And the United States has people who like to tell others to do more, but then we're late in providing what they wanna buy. And then we'd wanna restrict them from developing things themselves. So we've gotta break that paradigm, and I hope we do it really, really quick. But with Japan, Korea, if they can get their politics straightened out, Taiwan, the Philippines waking up a little bit, there is some hope. that the deterrence can be restored there. But we're in a dangerous couple of years, I would say. And I hope that the president can start conveying to China's leader to just knock off this really irresponsible and offensive rhetoric. Now, will they listen? Probably not. But if they don't like the first round of tariffs and the second round of tariffs, I think that they're gonna hate the third and fourth rounds too. if they don't try to change the way they're dealing with the United States.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well put. Our good friend, Steven Yates, at Yatescoms is where you can find him. He also has his website. Everything is linked up there and we'll also have it as well, our lower third and a YouTube too. It's always good to see you, my friend. Always appreciate your perspective. Feels like even though we've won in November, it just feels more dangerous now than it ever has, right? So it's good that we've got your reason analysis out there. We're grateful for you. I'm so glad that you're traveling the world talking to these people. We're grateful.
SPEAKER 17 :
Hope springs eternal. Thanks so much, Dana.
SPEAKER 02 :
Good to see you, my friend. Stephen Yates is going to save the world. He's going to save the world by going out there, being real chill, talking with everybody. You know, he's a good one to have in your deck. All right. We got to move. We got Today in Stupidity on the way. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Make sure you go sign up for the newsletter, too, over at Substack. Chapter and verse. A lot of good stuff comes out there regularly. And of course, you can find us YouTube and Facebook. Lots of good things. So it was interesting. I don't know what Democrats are going to do as they try to get their. baggage together they're they're so disorganized this is i i'm when i look at political warfare i'm always like where would i if i were leftist where would i attack the right and then that's where the right needs to shore things up you know any weak spot you don't want to make it you don't want to give them any kind of opening and democrats are in such disarray that there's no i mean good grief i wanted to this is what audio somebody 11 elise elisa slotkin was they asked her about gavin newsom running to the center on the trans stuff and she had no idea how to respond to this no idea we better learn because he might be your party leader coming up listen this is uh 11 sorry senator do you agree with governor newsom
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, look, I think you'll have to talk to Mr. Newsom and his podcast, and we're all talking about it now because it's a good controversy. For me, I mean, I grew up playing three seasons of sports. In Michigan, sports is like our religion, right? I wouldn't be here, I think, without the leadership training that I got in women's sports. But for me, it's like, let the local community figure this out, right? In Michigan, we have a process in place where if someone who's born...
SPEAKER 02 :
That's not what she asked. She was like, well, what do you think about his comments? And Slotkin did not want to answer. She's she can't answer because she doesn't want to give any ammunition to any of Newsom's camp, because if Newsom ends up ascending to power, Slotkin doesn't want to be on the outside of that. So she has no you know, I can't believe someone actually asked her that. I hesitate in giving them credit.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm not surprised at all. The media sets it up for a narrative to be delivered. And if you want to hear the other Democrats over the weekend that said the exact same thing that she said.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, it's time for your Today in Stupidity, I think.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, we can do that. Okay, let's make this Today in Stupidity. Listen to some of this.
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We want to make sure that these decisions are made by the communities, by the communities, by the schools and others that are the ones close to us.
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We've got to make sure that it's the local community. Even Adam Schiff says this.
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I'm a very young person, and I want those sports to be fair. I want those sports to be safe. And I have confidence that local schools and local communities can make those decisions.
SPEAKER 08 :
There it is. Again, it's all about...
SPEAKER 02 :
essentially just pivoting it over to the local community so they don't have to have a spine on this issue and to me that's stupid very interesting indeed folks that does it for us today again find us over in substack chapter and verse i'll be here tomorrow but then i will be out the rest of the week for spring break just i'm not i'm not doing anything spring breaky crazy just spend a time with family uh so uh tomorrow will be our last show of the week And then things return back to normal after that. So find us at Substack, Facebook, YouTube. I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
In this engaging episode, journey beyond the headlines into the heart of some of the world’s most consequential debates. Washington Watch brings together influential voices like Congresswoman Stephanie Bice and Dr. Albert Moeller, tackling issues from religious persecution in Syria to the fiscal responsibilities at home. Discover how the temporary funding measure, the Clean CR, represents both a fiscal compromise and a pragmatic step toward avoiding a government shutdown, all while slashing billions from domestic expenses. The episode also raises crucial ethical questions around U.S. foreign policy and international intervention, particularly amidst the ongoing crisis in Syria where thousands face ethnic and religious genocide. Special guest, Charmaine Heading, shares firsthand accounts from the ground, painting a vivid picture of the challenges ahead. Adding perspective to this conversation are pivotal legal victories, including Missouri’s lawsuit against China over pandemic mismanagement and its broader implications for international law and accountability. Don't miss this episode for a comprehensive understanding of how domestic policies resonate on an international stage.
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from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
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This clean CR, we need it to pass. It effectively curbs spending, freezes spending, while allowing the government to continue to function. The president supports the CR, and we're hopeful and expect Republicans to get on board so we can pass it and continue moving forward implementing President Trump's agenda.
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That was White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt on Fox & Friends weekend, discussing the temporary funding measure before Congress this week. Welcome to Washington Watch. I'm Tony Perkins. Thanks for tuning in. Well, coming up on this Monday edition, the terrorist-aligned regime in Syria, led by HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jilani, launched a horrific attack over the weekend, killing thousands of religious minorities. As...
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HTS took over Syria. Israel cautioned the world to judge Syria's new regime by their actions rather than their words. And, unfortunately, here it is. The dangerous reality and the brutality of jihadist rule and jihadi terrorism.
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That was Israeli government spokesman David Mincer earlier today. We'll talk with Charmaine Heading, president of Shay Group, a organization that protects vulnerable faith groups in the Middle East and elsewhere. Also joining me is Dr. Albert Moeller, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. We'll discuss what, if any, responsibility Christians in America have to help fellow believers who are facing persecution. And finally, the attorney general of Missouri has won a major judgment against China for its role in unleashing COVID-19. China now owes Missouri $24 billion in damages. Could this open a floodgate of lawsuits against China? And will a communist country actually pay? General Bailey of Missouri will join us later here on Washington Watch. Plus, the fourth episode of our God and Government series is out today. Is America a Christian nation? What does history actually reveal? And how did the Bible shape our founding? Well, you can find out by watching exclusively on the Stand Firm app. Don't have the app yet? Well, text COURSE to 67742 to access the God and Government course. That's 67742, the word COURSE. By the way, I want to thank Jody Heiss for filling in for me most of last week while I was in Israel. I know I was able to do a couple of days of the broadcast. But throughout the week, I'll tell you more about our trip to Israel and our meeting with the prime minister and others. A very productive trip. But again, I want to thank Jody for filling in for me. Well, House Republicans on Saturday rolled out a continuing resolution, a CR, to fund the federal government operations through the end of September. So this will be a long-term temporary funding measure. Now, Democrat leaders have already signaled that they will not support the temporary funding measure, which was quickly endorsed by President Trump as a, quote, very good funding bill that all Republicans should vote yes on. Of course, the president coming out in support of it should give it a good boost. But with the March 14th deadline fast approaching, will Democrats risk a partial government shutdown and undermine their own messaging in the process? Joining me now to discuss this, Congresswoman Stephanie Bice, a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Committee on House Administration. She represents the 5th Congressional District of Oklahoma. Congresswoman Bice, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you for having me. Thrilled to be on.
SPEAKER 05 :
So this temporary long-term funding measure gets us through to next year, in which time, according to the speaker and conversations I've had with him, this is something he's publicly expressed. I want to get back to the normal appropriations, where the appropriations committees will actually do appropriations bills, the 13 bills, and they'll move those through the process. But this buys the time to do that, does it not?
SPEAKER 10 :
It does. And I think the key here is that we're avoiding a government shutdown because really all a government shutdown is is a distraction from getting our important work done, which President Trump has said is securing our southern border, protecting our national security interests and reining in spending. And although we don't have the opportunity to make some of the cuts that we would like to in a full appropriations package, this holds spending flat and gives some flexibility to agencies to be able to move money around. And that's really important, particularly when you're talking about the Department of Defense. When you do a continuing resolution or a CR, what you're doing is you're extending the same funding from the previous year, and those amounts stay the same. And so we have flat funding, but there's no ability to have what we call new starts or start new projects. And so this CR is a clean CR, but it also gives some flexibility to agencies to be able to move those dollars around and focus on the important things that we have in front of us.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, given how the government grows every year, no matter what we do, there's always this expansion of it. By continuing this, and if I'm reading correctly through this 99-page bill, there's actually some reductions in this. So this is not growing government through this CR. It's actually reducing it by somewhere about $7 billion overall.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's correct. What we're doing is we're not funding the community project funds that we funded in 24. So you remove those dollars and it actually is a small savings overall, which is really what we're after. We haven't had a significant reduction in spending in this country in quite some time. And we are now $36 trillion in debt. We're racking up about $1.75 trillion per year currently. And this is an unsustainable path. And the president has been very clear that we've got to figure out, how do we reign in bureaucracy? How do we reign in wasteful spending that we have seen really highlighted particularly in the joint address to Congress last week. These are priorities for the president. And so although we're not able to tackle the specific programs now, we are seeing that reduction and we will continue to work on through the appropriations process, you know, writing some of these bills in a way that reduce funding, but also reduce those programs or eliminate those programs that we feel are incredibly wasteful taxpayer dollars.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, Stephanie, help walk our viewers and listeners through the varied vehicles that are out there that we've been talking about. So we're talking about budget reconciliation. That's another topic that's been out there. Now, we're talking right here because March 14th, the end of this week, government funding ceases. So this is a funding measure for the remainder of this fiscal year. Go through September of next year. But there's also discussion where the savings are going to be made and where there's program changes is going to be in the budget reconciliation. Talk about how that all fits together.
SPEAKER 10 :
Sure. So you're exactly right. Right now, we're addressing sort of the current crisis at hand, if you will, and that's making sure that we do not shut government down. Republicans are very clear. A shutdown is catastrophic for a variety of reasons, and it's a distraction from the president's agenda. We want to make sure that Democrats recognize that we can't shut government down because they don't like some of the sort of policies that are being put forward. So we're going to address the current issue at hand, which is funding government through this September. As an appropriator, we will immediately go into the FY26 appropriations process, which will begin on October the 1st of this year. And then in the meantime, we are going to be doing what we call budget reconciliation. And really, budget reconciliation is just a way for us to put together a package. It has to have an impact on spending that only requires a simple majority in the Senate. So a simple majority in the House and the Senate, essentially bypassing the filibuster in the Senate. And what President Trump has indicated he wants to focus on is certainly extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that was passed in 2017, which will help every middle-class family in America. It also helps our small businesses. There are a ton of provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that will ensure that small businesses continue to thrive. So our focus is gonna be on getting that particular bill across the finish line. it's a big bill. We're talking about four and a half trillion dollars in tax cuts. And my colleagues and I want to see offsets to that. We want to see, you know, the rein in of spending, which I mentioned. So we're going to be using this vehicle to what we call codify some of the cuts that Joj has found, that Elon Musk and his group have found some of the wasteful spending and identified it. And what we plan to do is use those cuts those offsets as part of the reconciliation package so we can pay for essentially the tax cuts that we want to continue, likely making permanent those important provisions that are helping families across the country.
SPEAKER 05 :
So if I were to describe this as a race that we're running, what we're looking at here with the CR, the low hurdles, we get to the budget reconciliation, the high hurdles. And then, of course, we have the appropriations process, which hasn't been done really in about 20 years. So that's going to be quite significant if Congress is able to move through the normal appropriations process. process. All right, Stephanie, let me ask you a couple of questions about this CR, because generally Republicans are opposed to it. A lot of Republicans, not all, but the last several CRs, we've seen quite a few Republicans opposed to it. It's required Democratic support. So, A, are all the Republicans on board because you don't have much to spare? And B, do you have any Democratic support?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, let me first start by saying I've only seen one of our Republican members come out publicly in opposition to the CR, and that's Thomas Massey. He's been pretty clear for quite some time now that he does not favor this because he believes it is just continuing to kick the can down the road. And to some extent, I understand his frustration. But I do think that for a lot of my colleagues, we recognize that this is really a cap on spending or even a slight reduction. And so being able to vote for this is not the same as the CRs of the past, where you're continuing spending in a way that really, in many minds, doesn't make sense. So I do think that you're going to have my colleagues support the CR. You also have the president coming out as you started this particular segment with Caroline Levitt, the press secretary to the president. saying that, you know, we need to pass this. The president is fully behind us. He is publicly supporting it, actively calling members that may be, you know, wavering on whether or not to support it and convincing them that this is the right strategy to move forward. On the Democrat side, I think it remains to be seen. You have seen several members of the Democratic Party come out and suggest that they are not going to support the CR, which is really confusing to me because they supported it last year. Many of them supported it in September of last year and in December of last year. So to suggest that they're not supporting it now when we're not sort of making any cuts, it's a clean CR, we're giving some flexibility to DOD, which is actually something that they've asked for, doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And I think at the end, if we don't get Democrats to support a clean CR, what are they going to support? I think that just indicates that they would prefer a government shutdown. They would prefer chaos. And that is certainly something that Republicans are not interested in seeing in the future.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, there's certainly a lift in the House because you only have one vote to spare. But in the Senate, they're going to have to have Democratic support to get this across the line.
SPEAKER 10 :
And you've already heard senators like Senator Fetterman say that he doesn't understand why you wouldn't be supporting a CR, why you would want to shut government down. So I do think that you're going to have some moderate Democrats that will get on board in the Senate and will not let this government cease to operate.
SPEAKER 05 :
Congressman Bice, I want to thank you for joining us today. Thanks for your insight on the process as it is unfolding this week.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, folks, it's going to be interesting to see. I do think that in my conversation with the speaker over the weekend that they have the votes in the House. And again, this is actually cutting back some spending overall, about 13 billion in domestic cuts, some of that being shifted to defense, but still overall a cut. All right, coming up, some extremely disturbing reports out of Syria over the weekend where thousands have been killed. We're going to discuss that after the break. Don't go away. More Washington Watch straight ahead.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us on this Monday. The website, TonyPerkins.com. Better yet, check out the Stand Firm app. Go to the App Store and get the Stand Firm app where you can take Washington Watch with you no matter where you go. You can also have access to our Washington Stand, our news and commentary from a biblical perspective. So get the Stand Firm app. All right. This weekend in the Middle East, Syria in particular, reports of more than a thousand people in northwest Syria in just two days were killed. According to extremely disturbing reports, the violence perpetrated by the terrorist group HTS that overthrew the former Assad regime was targeting former groups, minority groups aligned with Assad. Now, interestingly enough, Assad, who was a dictator, he actually protected the Christian minority population. Well, there are reports that dozens and dozens, hundreds of Christians have been killed over the weekend, and the numbers we're told, may be much higher than what the press is reporting. Here to discuss this, Charmaine Heading, the president of the Shai Fund. Charmaine has worked for 20 years in the development of this nonprofit sector, focusing on the protection of persecuted minorities in the Middle East and Africa. Charmaine, welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. So there were many that said, oh, well, this is great. We got Assad out and we got this more moderate Islamist in. The guy's a terrorist, HTS Giuliani. He is. I mean, the evidence over the weekend says this is this is al Qaeda. This is ISIS. I mean, they're just randomly killing people they consider to be opposed to them.
SPEAKER 14 :
I think that the Israeli government on their ex-feed said it really well. Just because he put on a suit doesn't change who he is. He's a jihadist. And these mass killings that have happened indiscriminately across the coastal plains of Syria prove it.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. So give us the latest. I know you are on the ground in the Middle East. You have contacts there. What are we hearing? Because some of the press reports are a bit muddled coming out.
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Yeah, we've been talking, I've been talking to people in Syria the entire weekend. And just a few hours ago, I received testimonies on family members that have survived. And basically what they have to say is absolutely horrific, that both HDS and SNA, which are are basically two Turkish proxy militias that have taken over Syria. They either walked into these towns where the Christians and Alawites and other religious minorities or components of Syria live and started shooting them from the motorbikes or going into their homes. and shooting them, and basically they're civilians, a lot of them, women and children, just because they are Alawites or Christians and they didn't cause trouble or they might have, you know, been the same religion as the Assad regime doesn't make everyone necessarily worth being killed, and that's what they're doing. They're just saying, we're going to kill you.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, Charmaine, is this driven by religion, the fact that they are not Muslims and they're not aligned with the Muslim, now Islamic, government?
SPEAKER 14 :
It's exactly that. They are not aligned with the Sunni interpretation that HDS and SNA have, which is a radical jihadist ideology. SNA is built up mostly from former ISIS terrorists, and HDS, as we know, is Jabhat al-Nusra, which is al-Qaeda. This is who we're talking about.
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Now, as you, as we mentioned, Israel has been tracking this. They've been saying from the start, don't be misled by the fact that they're talking more moderate. They might put on a suit, but these are still terrorists. And the actions of what we saw over the weekend speak very clearly to that.
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Yeah, I think Israel came out already as soon as they took over and was very clear and direct that these are jihadi groups. They are terrorists. They haven't proven by any action that they are in any way democratic. In fact, Jelani or al-Sharah, who's the head... of HDS has dissolved the constitution. He's made himself a dictator. He was supposed to put in a new interim constitution on the 1st of March. He's now saying it's delayed. There's no constitution at the moment. There's an interim government that has got jihadis from Idlib inside of it, as well as foreign fighters that are loyal to HDS. This is a scary scenario for Israel. It's a jihadi group on our border and we can't afford, Israel cannot afford to let them anywhere near our civilian population because they will do the same thing as what they've done on the coastal plains.
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Well, and this is why, from the start, IDF forces were destroying the stockpiles of weapons that Syria had in store. In fact, in my meeting last week with the prime minister, he said, look, Christians are being killed. They're being targeted in Syria. We're trying to protect them. In fact, Israel has created some buffer zone. They're protecting some of the Druze communities right there on the border. And so they understand that they're at risk, but they're also willing to protect Christians. And I think the United States can be very clear about this, that we will hold the HTS responsible for anything that happens to these minority communities there in Syria.
SPEAKER 14 :
Exactly. And I was really happy to see Rubio's statement that he made on it. He was really clear. He stated exactly that, that we should be supporting the religious minorities and protecting them, and that we shouldn't give these jihadis a pass. And this is exactly what Israel has been saying. So my hope is that we will be able to work together in order to protect them and definitely to support the areas like in the southern area close to Israel, and like in the northeast Syria, which is the democratic autonomous administration that's run by the SDF, which is where our coalition forces, American coalition forces are situated, will be able to work together to block this Turkish terrorist-backed expansion by HTS and SNA.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, we don't have time to go into it, but I think it's very important for everyone to understand that Turkey is backing this. This is this is advanced by Turkey. And I know that Turkey is smuggling weapons into even into Judea and Samaria. They're doing everything they can. And this is a NATO, quote unquote, ally. The United States needs to speak very clearly to that. But Charmaine, very quickly, 30 seconds left. How can folks find out more about your ministry and your help of the persecuted?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, we're directly involved giving assistance on the ground in Syria right now as we speak with some of these survivors. We also have ongoing projects that are working in the areas that are more democratic. And you can join us at fleshlinefund.org.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. We'll encourage folks to check that out and be supportive of what you're doing. Charmaine, thanks for being with us. All right, folks, on the other side of the break, the Missouri Attorney General joins us. Don't go away.
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All right. It feels good to be back behind the microphone sitting in my own chair here in the studio. It was a great week last week. And again, I'll talk more about that throughout the week. But good to be back in the States. All right. I was given notice of this over the weekend. This is huge. All right. A historic judgment on a lawsuit coming out of Missouri seems to affirm what we've known for a long time, that COVID-19 pandemic, that it began in China, And the information was suppressed by China. They tried to cover it up. The lawsuit was filed by the state of Missouri against Chinese entities, including the Chinese Communist Party and the Wuhan Institute. The judgment worth $24 billion says that the state proved that China caused and exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic, harming Missourians. So what does this mean for Missouri and for America? Will this open a floodgate of other lawsuits against China and will China pay? Well, here to answer those questions is the attorney general for the state of Missouri, Andrew Bailey, who filed the lawsuit. A.G. Bailey, welcome back to Washington Watch. Congratulations.
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Thank you, sir. Appreciate you having me on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you've been busy. Provide a little more detail on this court case that you've won against China for unleashing COVID on the world.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, Tony, look, Americans and certainly Missourians are still demanding justice for all the harms inflicted upon them during the COVID-19 pandemic. We know it started in China. We know that they suppressed information that was relevant to the world's reaction to unleashing that pandemic on the rest of us. And then they created and hoarded the PPE that the state of Missouri and other states needed to respond to the pandemic. We were harmed to the tune of $24 billion, and that's what the court has now found. My predecessor, Eric Schmidt, initially filed the lawsuit. It was dismissed at the trial court level. I appealed, won at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and we just had a trial in late January where we put on all the evidence, and the court agreed that Missourians are owed 24 billion with a B dollars. by the Chinese Communist Party and all the entities named as defendants because of the wrongs. And there's a method by which this is redressed. It's called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. It was a statute passed by Congress in 1976, signed into law by President Gerald Ford that specifically allows states to redress grievances against foreign entities. And I'm never going to stop fighting for justice for Missourians based on the wrongs perpetrated during COVID-19.
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I mean, there's several questions come to mind, General Bailey. One is you did this. Why didn't our federal government do it? But, of course, we know we had an administration that was favorable to China. But secondly, as I'm I think this is the first that we've seen. So you're the very first that has successfully sued and won a case against communist China. Do you think others will follow your lead?
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Yeah, certainly this is a blueprint for other states to follow. And again, it's not some crackpot legal theory. There's a federal statute on the books that allows the states to do this. I would encourage all the states to look at how their apparatus of state government performed during COVID and the wrongs that were perpetrated by the Chinese government against them and redress those grievances on behalf of the people of their states. We know that the Biden administration was complicit in the cover-up during COVID. I mean, from the start to the finish of the Biden administration, when they were censoring speech related to COVID on big tech social media platforms, thereby exacerbating the harms of the pandemic, to Biden's final hours of pardoning Dr. Anthony Fauci, who, again, many Americans look to as the poster child for all the wrongs of COVID-19. And so it is important for states to take action. It's important for Missouri to lead the way, and I'm proud to have done so in this instance.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, for China, this is an ill fortune cookie because, I mean, this is $26 billion just for the state of Missouri. Now, will they pay, or $24 billion, will they pay? And if not, how can you get this from China?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it's a great question. I remain skeptical that China will actually pay this judgment. I mean, they never participated in litigation despite the fact that they're doing business in Missouri, doing business across the United States of America, and thus are subjecting themselves to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. They declined to participate in the litigation despite the fact that they were served with notice and had an opportunity to put on any defenses. I don't think they have any mitigating evidence, and that's why they didn't participate. They know that they did wrong. They know they harmed Missourians and the United States of America and the entire world. And they're going to try to get out of paying by running and hiding. But we're going to find Chinese-owned assets in Missouri and across the United States of America, and we're going to use the legal apparatus of the state and federal government to seize and sell those assets to execute that judgment that we've now obtained to the tune of $24 billion.
SPEAKER 05 :
So let's talk about those assets. I mean, we're not talking about the products on Walmart shelves that are all made in China. We're talking about they own farmland. They own industries. I mean, they've bought up a lot of hard assets in the United States.
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China is heavily invested in real and personal property in the United States of America, and certainly they have used subterfuge to conceal the line of ownership of several of those assets. We will penetrate that subterfuge, find those responsible, hold them accountable, take those assets, and again, sell them to make Missourians whole again. Missouri is owed a debt here, and China is going to pay up on that debt one way or the other.
SPEAKER 05 :
A final question for you, General Bailey. What's the timeframe on this? When do you believe you could actually start seizing some of this property?
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Well, there's a short period of time in which the court allows that judgment to sit and any notices of appeal to be filed before the judgment becomes final. We're waiting on that clock to expire. It's a matter of a few weeks. And then we'll start identifying assets and moving to seize those assets. China needs to do the right thing and pay the people of the state of Missouri. But if they fail to do so, we will be prepared to take action. We'll do so hastily.
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Well, this could be huge, and I hope it's just the first of many dominoes to fall because I hope, as you've led in so many other areas as the Attorney General of Missouri, I hope other states will follow your lead here as well. General Bailey, thanks so much for joining us today, and again, congratulations on another win.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thanks, Tony. I appreciate you.
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All right. I tell you, he's getting it done on so many fronts. Need more AGs like that. All right, coming up next, Dr. Al Mohler joins me to discuss the state of Christian persecution around the world and whether or not we should be concerned. Don't go away.
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SPEAKER 04 :
As always, great to be with you, Tony.
SPEAKER 05 :
I want to jump into this because I want, as believers, I want them to understand our role and responsibility, number one, as believers, but number two, as American believers. But before we do that, breaking news today out of the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court announcing that it is going to take a case from Colorado to decide whether states and local governments can enforce laws that actually prohibit therapy counseling for children, LGBTQ children. So essentially this started, I think, in California, the first state. Now about half the states in the nation have these prohibitions where even if a parent wants their child to get counseling for gender dysphoria, it's against the law.
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Right. You know, this is going all the way back to the revolutionary origins of the LGBTQ movement, and in particular the idea that they want to think that any opposition is, first of all, described as something they would dismiss as homophobia, or secondly, is rooted in hate and thus needs to be expunged and can be legally limited. and so we have seen this in state after state and you know tony you set this up exactly right the you know here you have a law that says that even if parents even if the teenager herself or himself wants christian-based therapy based upon a biblical understanding that that would be forbidden And so you have the medical health industry hijacked on behalf of the LGBTQ revolution. Something that, by the way, you and I both know went back to two meetings in the early 1970s when, for instance, the American Psychiatric Association one day believed that homosexuality was a mental disorder and the next day said that it was not. That's not exactly what I would call science.
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Well, and they don't even want to talk about it. They can't defend the position, so we can't have studies, we can't debate it, and now we can't have Christian counselors or secular counselors help people work through the issues, which we know actually works. Now, I find it very interesting, Dr. Moeller, that we have half the states... that have a prohibition against counseling for gender dysphoria. And then we have another half of the states which have outlawed the experimental use of drugs and surgeries for minors that have gender dysphoria. So it's just very interesting. I think such a picture of a divided nation where ideologically you have one that won't even let you have conversational therapy about this confusion that is going on within you, but they want to be able to do irreversible surgeries and drug treatments. It's amazing.
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Well, and the red and blue America divide shows up on this very issue. I mean, you rightly mentioned the division between the states, and you can pretty much map that by color on the electoral map. And that shows you that it really does matter in a state-by-state basis Who who is representing which worldview and it shows you that clash of worldviews is there in every single issue in every single election. And so, you know, you and I both know it's not accidental that red and blue America map out this way and and by the way is leading to a very interesting phenomenon. where you have people moving from red to blue and blue to red based upon these very issues.
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Yeah, and this is where I think this is headed, Dr. Mueller. I think you're going to have tax policies that will be reflective of this. I think you're going to have states that embrace life, a biblical view of life, a biblical view of human sexuality, a biblical view of family, a biblical view of private property, i.e. taxation, and they're going to prosper. And it's going to be attractive to others, but there's going to be a temptation to modify those laws based upon the migration of those leaving those blue states. So it's something we've got to constantly be aware of.
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Yeah, you know, in Texas right now, they're bragging about, and justifiably so, the movement of companies such as Tesla and others moving vast production facilities to places like Austin, Texas. But Austin's become a deep blue dot in a very red state. And you know the way that voting patterns work. This is something you have to worry about. As one put it, put it, you know, they're moving from California and bringing their voting patterns with them. That's not good news.
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No, no. And we kind of experienced a reverse of that in my home state of Louisiana back when Katrina kind of moved a lot of New Orleans out and dispersed them across the country. They used to control every statewide election, but not now. Not anymore. And Louisiana is challenging. Oklahoma, I think, is one of the reddest states. All right. Let's get to foreign policy issues, Dr. Mueller, because I really want to get your thoughts on this, because I think Christians need to work through this because there is this isolationist. view that I think is coming into the conservative movement through the libertarian push that is coming within the conservative movement. And let me just be very clear at the out front, not for you, you know this, Christian and conservative are not the same. Libertarian and conservative are not the same. Much different worldviews. But as Christians, Number one, do we have an obligation to advocate for, speak up for our persecuted brothers and sisters? And then second to that, Dr. Moeller, as Christians living in America that have the resources to do something, should we?
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Well, you lay that out in such a way, yes, I think clearly. It's a pre-political obligation for Christians to contend for Christians and to work for the safety of Christians in other parts of the world suffering persecution. We don't have to look to a contemporary authority for that. We have the Book of Acts. We have the New Testament. So you make that first point just exceedingly well. We've got to contend for not just the freedom of religion. We have to contend for the lives and liberties of our Christian brothers and sisters. wherever they may be found all over the world. And persecution in the 21st century is as real as persecution in the first century as reflected in the New Testament. And the United States has a particular burden on this. I mean, for one thing, we're one of the few forces of good in the world that can make a difference speaking into these issues. And this is where the United States has made the issue of protecting religious liberty a criterion for its relationship with foreign nations. And we must continue to do that.
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And those are, as you pointed out, those are kind of... two related but separate things. Number one, I do believe in God. I think we saw this in the Garden of Eden. He is about people having choices. He's not forcing himself on anyone. Freedom of religion is a hallmark. It is a defining element of America, and it's something in the previous Trump administration, it was their number one foreign policy under Secretary Pompeo. But as Christians, it goes a step further. We shouldn't hesitate to advocate for Christians who, by the way, happen to be the most targeted persecuted group around the world. And so to differentiate between Christians and others should not be a hesitation coming from Christians.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, absolutely. Again, I think that's a New Testament mandate, and I think we not only pray for our brothers and sisters suffering persecution, but we're called to do whatever we can to try to prevent and alleviate that persecution. And, you know, Tony, I think we need to be honest. In the last 100 years, The main energies behind the persecution of Christians have been, number one, communism and communist regimes, which continues to be fully represented in North Korea and China, and then Islam. Islamic-dominated nations tend to be extremely, extremely dangerous for Christian witness.
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If I'm not mistaken, was it when Paul commended, I think it was the Thessalonians for actually taking up money to help the other church members that were being persecuted. So, I mean, it is actually not just praying, but it's actually giving of our means to help others who are suffering as a result of the persecution like we see right now, right happening just over this weekend in Syria. I was last week in Israel. I mentioned this early in the program. I met with the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He brought this issue up. He said the Christians are being persecuted. They're being targeted by HTS in Syria. We're doing what we can to try and protect them. We should be applauding that and we should be helping them in doing that.
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As a matter of fact, yes, absolutely. And I think we should also make it an issue of conditionality for American support and American aid. And furthermore, a matter of threat for American action in terms of holding regimes accountable for the treatment of Christians all over the world. And so, yeah, you're absolutely right. Christians shouldn't be reluctant, especially Christians in the United States, to speak out and call our government to be an agent for the protection of believers around the world.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I actually think when you look back, that has been a part of the leverage that the United States has used to protect Christians under the Assad regime. I mean, he was a bad dictator, but he pretty much left the Christians alone because he knew that was a red line for the United States. We saw this with some of the other regimes in the Middle East, the same thing. My concern, and I'm going to ask you this. I'm honestly asking you this question. I'm not making a statement here. There is this movement that I referenced earlier of this isolationism that does not see any... reason for America to be involved, that we need to protect our own treasure, we need to protect our own everything we have. And while the president has clearly articulated a concern for the persecution of Christians, I am concerned, I personally am concerned about some who are speaking into this administration about trying not to be involved internationally, even if it comes down to a red line of Christian persecution.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, Tony, you're absolutely right. And I think I would be the front line of arguing that the neoliberal interventionism that had so possessed the United States over the course of the last 40 or 50 years, it has proved itself to be unworkable. Our massive investments of blood and treasure all over the world in causes that we declared won only to have them lost again are a grave warning against believing that we can just make our will wherever we want it around the world. But you are very, very right to point to the fact that the opposite of that or the corrective of that is not total withdrawal from the world scene, as if that could happen. You know, the old Marxist statement, you may not be interested in history, but history is interested in you. There's no way for the United States to withdraw totally from intervening in situations all over the world. And, you know, even the people who say that will call for intervention in another situation the day after they make the first statement. And it's because it is impossible for the United States to fail to intervene where it wills to intervene. I think the argument is, where should we seek the U.S. to direct its attention and intervention? And the persecution of believers around the world is a place where we need to be right there in the front ranks.
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Yeah, I describe myself as a rational isolationist. I don't want to get involved in other people's business unless I absolutely have to. But there are certain red lines. And involvement does not mean military. I'm not a military veteran. I was in the Marine Corps. I don't believe we should be sending our troops everywhere. But as you pointed out, there are other means. There are sanctions. There's isolating these people from the world community by doing this. But we need to make clear. That's right. And I thought Ronald Reagan was pretty good at doing this when he was president and Donald Trump as well. But I do think that we need to have a clear set of principles that would say there are certain things we will not tolerate. And the persecution of believers is one of them. Final word.
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And we need to have a list of the good guys and the bad guys. And, you know, the U.S. State Department really has that responsibility. It even comes down to a special ambassador post. for international religious freedom and a commission that has full status in the United States government charged with that responsibility. And, you know, the list of the nice nations and the naughty nations ought to be more than just a matter of publicity. It ought to be a matter of guiding foreign policy.
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It absolutely should. And we're going to have to leave it there. Dr. Al Mohler, always great to see you. And folks, thank you for joining us as well. Until next time, just keep standing.
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Welcome in on this Monday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Mike, in jury duty today, we'll kind of keep in touch. You think he will be chosen? Is there any jury who would choose Mike Gallagher? Any lawyer, I should say, would choose Mike Gallagher to sit on his or her jury? If Mike gets a break, we're going to check in with him sometime, maybe during the show. Happy to be with you. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation today. Your comments are welcome on the MyPillow text line. You can call, and Teresa will put you in queue. We'll talk as time permits. Emails are always welcome directly, joey at joeyhudson.com. We've got a busy, busy Monday for you. Yeah. During an appearance on Sunday Morning Futures yesterday, President Trump talked about a transition period that we most likely are headed into in relationship to our economy. Not wanting to use the word recession, but saying that as tariffs take effect, and this is very fluid, this is a moving target. that we could be in a transition period. Also, we learned over the weekend that a lot of those pardons and executive orders that the Biden White House was sending out, evidently Joe Biden did not actually sign them. A machine called an auto pen signed a lot of those official documents from the Biden-Harris administration. Does that mean that maybe Joe Biden really didn't know what was coming out of his office? We're going to dig into the Heritage Foundation's report. They compared a number of documents with Joe Biden's, what they know to be his real signature, which, by the way, the letter that he sent in saying that he would be dropping out of the presidential race after the dismal performance he had last June in the debate, we know for a fact that was his handwriting. And that was compared with a lot of the other official documents, if you will. And it was very obvious that this auto pen machine had been signing a great number of those documents. Also, the Department of Government Efficiency has announced that over the weekend they did another doze dump. Contracts are being canceled. They've found hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and loans. that appear to have gone to children, in some cases younger than 11 years old. And in some cases, the names on the application did not match the Social Security numbers. Now, I understand we don't hold bureaucrats to that high of a standard, but anyone processing these applications, if the name and the Social Security number does not match, Wouldn't that be a red flag? Who in their right mind would approve that type of application? Who would send checks for $10,000, $15,000, in some cases $25,000? And we wonder why we are in the shape that we're in. We wonder why we have $30-plus trillion of debt. And this is just another example of the job that Elon Musk is doing and the necessity of having Donald Trump in the White House to make these tough decisions because we're going to have some pretty rough times, I'm afraid, in the coming months. From the standpoint of these groups, as these cuts continue and these pet projects start losing their funding – Just about everybody in the United States will be affected somehow. I mean, I already have several friends who are associated with different organizations whose funding is being threatened and probably going to be cut. And I don't want anyone to lose their job. But isn't that what this is all about? I mean... People who are on the government dole, a lot of those, their funding is going to be cut. They're going to need to go find one of these new jobs that's going to be created as manufacturing comes back to the United States as a result of the tariffs. They can find a job. Now, they're going to have to actually work. They'll actually have to go to the office because that's how most businesses operate, unlike the government who allows you to stay home. But this is part of the process that we're going to have to do if we're going to get our country turned around, if we're going to build a strong economy that can withstand anything. And that's why I am so happy that Donald Trump is in the White House. Because Trump is the only person who has the backbone to make these decisions and to reassure us it's going to be okay. Yes, there may be some tough times. But we'll get through it and we'll come out much stronger. As he was talking to Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures yesterday in cut number three, again, he talked about this transition period, hesitating to say that it's going to be a recession. Here's Donald Trump.
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There are rising worries about a slowdown. You've got the Atlanta Federal Reserve saying we're going to have a contraction in the first quarter. Look, I know that you inherited a mess. I've only been here. Are you expecting a recession this year?
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I hate to predict things like that. There is a period of transition because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth back to America. That's a big thing. And there are always periods of it takes a little time. It takes a little time, but I think it should be great for us. I mean, I think it should be great.
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Before you came into the Oval Office the first time, you were a very successful businessman, very successful real estate executive. And a lot of people said, oh, this is the business president. This is it. He's watching the stock market. He knows all about, you know, he doesn't want the market to go down. And now we've got tariffs and the market has been going down. Well, not much. I mean, in all fairness. You said, look, we're going to have a disruption, but we're okay with that. Is that what you meant, the stock market going down was the disruption?
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What other disruption were you alluding to? Look, what I have to do is build a strong country. You can't really watch the stock market. If you look at China, they have a 100-year perspective. We have a quarter. We go by quarters. That's true. And you can't go by that. You have to do what's right. What we're doing is we're building a tremendous foundation for the future, tremendous foundation. Everything's been taken away. We don't make ships anymore. We don't, you know, you just saw one of the biggest shipbuilders in the world, one of the biggest shipping people in the whole world. In the Oval Office with you. In the Oval Office. He's announcing a $20 billion investment.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, I'm Joey Hudson. In for Mike today, yeah, it's... There's going to be some tough times, and that's what we have to be prepared for. And we have to understand that we're going to stick with President Trump, knowing that he's doing what's best for a long-term solution. Look, he's only been there just over a month.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike today. Get your daily dose of Dennis Prager at PragerTopia.com. Become a PragerTopia member today and listen to full episodes of the Dennis Prager Show anytime you want. Just go to PragerTopia.com and join now. President Trump yesterday on Sunday Morning Futures, avoiding using the word recession, but it's obviously something that we think about and talk about. Because it only makes sense that if tariffs are going to be raised on goods coming in, it's not realistic to think that the manufacturers are going to absorb all of those. They're going to pass it on to the consumers. A texter on the MyPillow text line says, I really want to hear people start talking about other countries' tariffs on U.S. goods. Everybody keeps giving the horror show of what the tariffs are that we're passing to Canada and Mexico, but nobody's talking about things like the 249 percent, or should I say up to 249 percent, for poultry being shipped into Canada and other goods that we're getting sold. charge massive tariffs on for our goods going to their countries. So I want people to really start understanding it because anytime anyone says anything, people say, where's your proof? It's online and easy to find. Yeah, I mean, there are a lot of countries around the world who charge very hefty tariffs on U.S.-made goods. But I think after these four years of just horrendous inflation and the experience that we've had, and that's why Donald Trump won so easily in November, is because Americans are tired of struggling. Americans are tired of worrying about paying their rent, filling their automobile up with gasoline, paying their utilities, their electricity, their water, buying groceries. We've seen so many goods that eggs, I mean, eggs. I saw a video that's being circulated on a lot of social media sites right now of a lady getting a pedicure in a salon, and it comes time to pay, and she pulls out a carton of eggs and starts counting out eggs as her payment. That's kind of where we are. Eggs are expensive. But it's going to take a little while. to get these things done. Now, I was encouraged when I heard Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick on NBC yesterday as he was pretty confident in cut number four saying that prices of imports will be up. Yes, that's a given. But American products... are going to be cheaper once we start manufacturing things here and bringing the manufacturing back here so that Americans have those jobs and we have more access to American-made products. Here's Howard Lutnick.
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I think it's important for people to realize that we run $2 trillion deficits, and Donald Trump is going to try to balance the budget of the United States of America. And when you balance the budget of the United States of America, you drive interest rates down 150 basis points, 1.5%. You're going to have mortgages come smashing down the cost of Your home will come smashing down. We're going to drill, baby, drill and drive down the price of energy. That's coming down. So these two massive moves are going to happen. And you know who's going to pay for that? Tariffs and outside countries who just leech off of us, lean on us, earn money off of us. They've got to start to pay. I want President Trump wants the American people to start to understand the external revenue service should start to pay. Yes, some products that are made foreign might be more expensive, but American products will get cheaper, and that's the point. Buy American, made by great Americans. We're going to bring manufacturing back. That's where we're going. That's where this president is going. Bring it back. So will there be distortions? Of course. Foreign goods may get a little more expensive, but American goods are going to get cheaper, and you're going to be helping Americans by buying American.
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And this all makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, I remember many years ago, and being from upstate South Carolina, this at one time was the textile capital of the world. And a local entrepreneur who was very, very successful, Roger Millican, And his company, unfortunately, Roger is not with us anymore, but his company lives on, is very strong, makes a lot of products. They were a leader in textiles. And Mr. Milliken started this whole Buy in America thing. He's very proud of the fact. He wanted you to look at the labels. And every product that his company made had an American flag and a Made in USA label. Maybe we need to get back to be very conscious of where the products that we buy are made. Now, granted, it's hard to find sometimes. Some items... You go through the stores, the shelves, and it's just hard to find a product that's made in America because so many products, inexpensive products from Taiwan and China. But we've got to make a conscious effort to start doing that. And as these companies start building these manufacturing plants, it's going to be easier to find. Your comments are welcome on the MyPillow text line, 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. When you go to MyPillow.com, always use promo code MikeG for the very best deal, $69.98, for example, for queen-size and king-size pillows. 50% off this season when you use promo code MikeG. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike today.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studio, sitting in for Mike today, here's Joey Hudson.
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Welcome in. Glad to have you join me and spend a few minutes of your day with me. Joey Hudson in for Mike Gallagher. There's lots of ways for you to join us today. You can call. Teresa will put you in queue. We'll talk as time permits. 800-655-MIKE. 1-800-655-6453. Your emails are welcome. Just email me directly. Joey at JoeyHudson.com. Of course, your comments on the MyPillow text line are appreciated as well. 800-655-6453. Regardless of how you do it, I hope you'll join the conversation today. We've got a lot to cover. I just love what Elon Musk and his Department of Government efficiency is doing. And I really have trouble wrapping my mind around why some people are objecting to this. Maybe you can help me with that today. Why would any hardworking, taxpaying American object? object to what Elon Musk and Doge is doing. When you read about some of the absurdities, and they did another Doge dump over the weekend. These people work around the clock. They work on weekends. What government agency have you ever heard of working over the weekend? But Saturday, once again, we learned of their latest. They announced a further wave of contract terminations, noting that they had identified thousands of cases where more than $300 million in loans were granted to children. Let me repeat that. Thousands of cases, $300 million of your money, my money, loaned to children. Doe said it identified that the Small Business Administration had granted nearly 5,600 loans for $312 million to borrowers who only listed their age as 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. Now, what 11-year-old, and particularly younger, can complete an application for a loan and would deserve a loan? Now, the agency wrote on X, while it's possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans as they will also be used as a Social Security. Oh, it notes that they also had a lot of incorrect Social Security numbers with incorrect names. In other words, the application had one name and another Social Security number that didn't match. Obviously, whoever was processing these applications weren't paying a lot of attention. Now, these evidently averaged $15,000, $20,000, $30,000. Not a lot of money in the overall scheme of things, but when you add them up, when you have over 5,600 of them, then it equals millions. So what bureaucrat... in their right mind, has an application from an 11-year-old whose name doesn't match the Social Security number, and they approve it. Who does that? And does it make you a little bit angry just hearing about this, knowing that this is how they wasted your money, my money? Now it's just added to the trillions and trillions of debt that we owe and the interest that that we're paying on our debt every year, does that make you a little angry? It does me. And I try not to get angry. I try not to let things like this bother me. But this is what our federal government has been doing. This is what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris was proud of doing. This is why Joe Biden initially thought he should be reelected to do more of, and Kamala Harris certainly did. The borrowers, according to the report, not only were kids, I guess they were equal opportunity and didn't discriminate because of age, because there were also some people who were over 100 years old. You know, we've heard these horror stories over the past few weeks of people collecting Social Security who are over 100. Now, there's been some disputes of that. There's been some who've said, well, maybe the original recipient had a birth date that would put them at 100 or 110 or whatever, but their beneficiaries are the ones who are actually receiving it until their death. And that may be the case in some instances. But we're talking about COVID money. We're talking about COVID loans like the PPP program, the Paycheck Protection Program, the Economic Injury Disaster Loans. And according to Doge, they shared a post on X and revealed that in 2021 – 2020 and 2021, the Small Business Association issued 3,095 loans for $333 million combined to borrowers over 115 years old. Borrowers were still marked alive in the Social Security database. In one case, a 157-year-old individual received $36,000 in an SBA loan. Wow. In President Donald Trump's address to Congress, he bashed instances of where we've seen things like this. According to the president, at one point, a 360-year-old person had received benefits. All because some bureaucrat just didn't bother to check. Now, again, there's some people who... Elon Musk has ruffled their feathers, so to speak. They like to dig in and get down into the weeds. Well, he's not a government employee. He shouldn't be doing this. He shouldn't have access to this type of data. Why? He's an American. American citizen. He pays taxes. Why shouldn't he have access to this? And look... He's not taking a salary. He's doing this because he loves our country. Why would you be critical of a man who just wants to do the right thing and wants to save you and me some money? Well, I'll tell you, the media has tried to drive a wedge between Elon Musk and President Trump. It ain't working. Over the weekend... President Trump, in cut number two, talked about how he believes what Elon Musk is doing is valuable. And he says that Doge is going to continue to find waste and abuse.
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What Elon Musk and Doge has been able to uncover is unbelievable. Half of us did not even realize. And stop there. Because, look, stop there.
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You just said what he's done is unbelievable. Now, you could then add some, well, but what about the... He's found hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fake contracts. And I read just a tiny portion of them the other night. Transgender surgery on mice. Hundreds of I mean, the money they're spending on all of this. The whole thing's a scam. And you'll find ultimately that the money that they sent comes back to a lot of the people that made those deals. OK, you're going to find that. What he's also done is made people realize how many people should be cut. Because normally you go in and say, cut 4% of your workforce. He said cut 50%, 60%, 70%. That's a big thing. No, he's done a great job. And he's paying a price for it. He didn't do this. He's paying a price for it, I guess. I don't know. He actually is a real patriot. This is something that's really not good for him. And yet he's doing it. But he's opened a lot of eyes.
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Opened a lot of eyes for sure. Now, that doesn't sound like to me a president who is having second thoughts of recruiting Elon Musk. Is it you? And look, the only thing that I hope, as you'll recall, Doge was set up as a sunset agency. He has until, what, next fall to wrap this up? The only thing I hope that happens is that our Republicans in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate recognize the importance of the work that Elon Musk is doing, and they make it as permanent. DOES should be a permanent program, and it should always be made up of outsiders. Don't put a bunch of bureaucrats in there. Let Elon Musk and people like Elon Musk continue the work that he has started. You agree? Call your senator. Call your U.S. rep. Let them know that you support Elon Musk, you support what DOES is doing, and encourage them to make this a permanent program. a constant watchdog over the spending that takes place of our money. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Your comments are welcome on the MyPillow text line. A lot of you commenting. And by the way, when you go to MyPillow.com, always use promo code MikeG. Mike Lindell has some great... Deals for you right now. They're offering the multi-use MyPillow 2.0 and the roll and go case. It's regularly $49.94. Now for just $9.98 when you use promo code MikeG. So just go to MyPillow.com. You can call 800-928-6034. Let them know you want the best price possible because you're using promo code MikeG. They have some great deals. The 30% off of the crosses. You know the cross that Mike Lindell always wears when you see him? You can have your very own cross at 30% off when you use promo code MikeG. My favorite is the towels. They have their six-piece towel set for $29.98. And these towels are amazing, folks. I guarantee it. Now, Mike Lindell guarantees them as well, but I guarantee you, you're going to love the towels. They are absorbent, yet they are soft. Now, how many times have you paid a lot of money for a towel, and it was nice and soft, but it just didn't absorb the moisture? Not the case with the MyPillow towels. 800-928-6034 or go to MyPillow.com. Tell them you want the towel deal at $29.98 because you're using promo code MikeG. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike today.
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The Mike Gallagher Show. So they have no problem with the waste and the fraud and the abuse as long as their special interest groups are being funded and their ideology is being promoted regardless of the will of the American people. But our country can't simply survive that. We are very thankful that Donald Trump and his team are saying enough is enough. They are going to save this nation for the American people.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike. A lot of text messages coming in on the MyPillow text line. A texter says, hey, Joey, massive fraud. That's why nobody wants to work. Everything is free. And you're right. When people get stuff for free and they can stay at home, why would they work? That's why the other part of what Trump is doing is so valuable that. that we eliminate some of these government jobs that will force them to, or government programs, I should say, that will force them to get a job and be productive citizens, give back to our country. It works for all of us. Texter, you know what's happening here. Dems will get in and reinstate all these jobs and say that we created all these. Well, that's what Joe Biden did. He loved to tell you about all the jobs that he created. He failed to talk about the fact that we had gone through a pandemic and companies had closed down and a lot of people had lost their jobs. So you had nowhere to go but up. Texter says, Joey, I heard where some Republicans want to fund some of the programs that Doge has identified as fraud. Look, there's going to be some turf wars. And that's why we have to keep the pressure on our elected officials and not just the Democrats, but the Republicans, too. Because when you start cutting some of these pet projects, and right now Trump and Elon Musk and all the cabinet heads, they're choosing the low-hanging fruit, the easy ones. But as we get into this process, there's going to be programs that are probably going to affect you. But we have to start somewhere, and we have to be committed to doing this because our federal government is doing things it was never intended to do, period. Let's go to the phones. Mike is in Hammond, Indiana. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Hey, Joey. Thanks for taking my call. Sure thing. Yeah, in my opinion, there's just so much grifting going on, waste, wasteful spending. When Lee Zeldin found $2 billion that was going to Stacey Abrams, for goodness sakes, with this climate group, whatever she was with, what were they going to do for that money?
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Talk about a bunch of crooks. Yes.
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Yes. As soon as you start seeing some people go into jail for this, including some politicians, they're going to be on both sides, like you said, because some of these career politicians have been on the take for a long time, in my opinion. So if they want to win more of the American people over with this Doge, you're going to have to come up with some
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charges being being uh you know and mike we all have to recognize the fact that we're all going to have to sacrifice a little here uh there's there's going to be programs that that we have um have participated in in some form or fashion and maybe maybe some programs that you never even thought about being federally funded that are going to have to go away well look
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Within those programs, though, there's so much waste. They could cut the waste out, and the legitimate people on those programs, they don't see a thing. They won't see a thing.
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Yeah, true, very true. Hey, Mike, appreciate your phone call. Thank you for listening. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Glad to have you with me. Joey Hudson in from Mike today. Hey, I need to get your help. Mike wanted me to... appeal to you to keep the momentum running here. You guys were very gracious and generous last week as we kicked off the Food for the Poor campaign, and we've got to keep the momentum going because there are a lot of kids who are literally starving that we can help feed. And listeners like you, last week we were able to raise over $46,000. and we need to continue to help Food for the Poor. It's a great Christian relief agency, and they're feeding these children throughout Latin America who in some cases would not even get a school lunch because it's different down there. They don't have school lunch programs. Food for the Poor and other agencies help fund them with generous donations from people like you and me. I chipped in my money last week. Mike and I sort of did a little competition there. But these programs and these food programs are 100% funded by donations from people like you. So will you help us today? Will you join our campaign to help feed these kids? For $100, you can feed a child lunch for one year in El Salvador. For $300, three kids. Do the math. 15 kids, a whole school room for $1,500. Go to MikeOnline.com. There's a banner right across the top. You can't miss it. Click on the Feed Their Future button and give as generously as you can. $25, $50, $100, $1,000, $5,000, whatever you can do. If you're driving, I want you to be safe. When you get to a good point, text the keyword food to 800-655-MIKE. Just text the keyword food. We'll send you a link so that you have all the information you need when you get to a safe place and you can make your tax-deductible contribution. If you'd like to call, have your credit card ready and call 844-360-4673. I'm sorry, 844-860-4673. Give generously so that we can let Mike know that I carried the torch today in his absence and we can continue to raise money to feed these children. And thank you in advance for your generosity. 800-655-6453. As I go through this list, and the list is getting long, you can go to the website. Just go to doze.gov backslash savings, and you can see in real time. Right now we're at $105 billion estimated savings. That's $652.17 per taxpayer so far, this just over a month. But when you read numbers like the story out of New York, Columbia University, you know how some of the militants literally took over the campus at Columbia University? because they oppose, they hate Israel, they hate Jews, and anti-Semitism just runs rampant. Well, Columbia University is about to lose $400 million in federal grants because they have allowed this to happen. Finally, the Trump administration has their attention. Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and U.S. General Services announced the initiation of a comprehensive review of more than $5 billion in federal grant money that goes to Columbia University. And see, it's going to take things like this, folks, to get their attention so that these universities, they think they can just ignore us. They think that this money is an endless faucet and nobody's going to turn it off. Well, guess what? Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and these great folks that Donald Trump has in his cabinet, there's no programs immune from this. This $400 million that they've already canceled is just the tip of the iceberg, it appears, for Columbia University. The president of Columbia University wants to talk. Suddenly, they have their interest. They want to talk about this. They want to negotiate. Should Trump negotiate with them? 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I'm Joey. In for Mike.
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In this eye-opening episode of Seculo, host Logan Seculo and guests engage deeply with the global discourse surrounding nuclear weapons. Triggered by President Trump's stark message, this conversation spans the breadth of nuclear capabilities, historical contexts of anti-war movements, and the potential ramifications of current global tensions. As we navigate through the narratives of defense policies and the implications of strategic military placements in Europe, the episode ends with a compelling call to action, challenging listeners to consider the essence of peace and security in an unstable world.
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President Trump warns of an end-of-the-world scenario and how we can combat it.
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And now your host, Logan Secula. Welcome to Secula. We've got a great show lined up. Harry Hutchinson's joining us, Rick Grinnell, CeCe Heil, Packed Show, Will Haines joining us in studio. And look, when this team came to me and said, Logan, the topic of today is the end of the world, I said, you know what? I don't know if that's necessarily where we're going to go here. And then they played me a clip from President Trump that happened over the weekend. It was really the discussion on the availability and the existence of an extreme amount of of nuclear warheads and bombs and and what that looks like on a worldwide global scale and of course they showed me a clip that specifically he says those things and i said you know what we do need to talk about that we need to bring in people that know a bit more about this topic and that's precisely what we're gonna do uh should we play president trump here right off the bat i think you should hear this to set this up so we can keep this conversation going here's president trump uh from fox business this was just uh yesterday
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When I listen to these climate lunatics and they talk about global warming and they say the ocean's gonna rise 1 1⁄8 of an inch in the next 300 years and you know, And nobody ever talks about nuclear weapons or some of the other things, but the nuclear weapons in particular right now. And they talk about the climate, and they talk about the dangers of the climate, but they don't talk about the dangers of a nuclear weapon, which could happen tomorrow. They say in 300 years, I watched Biden for years say the existential threat. He loved the term existential threat. Our greatest... existential threat is from the climate and i said no the greatest is sitting in shelves in various countries called nuclear weapons that are big monsters that can blow your heads off for miles and miles and miles yeah i think even later on in that clip he specifically references it could be the end of the world
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And again, as you said, I think this has been true with conservatives in general. And there is a world where, sure, we care about our health. We care about the health of our nation and the health of our world. When you talk about an environmental crisis, a climate crisis, I don't think you would lose a lot of conservatives with a lot of the things that could be done to help that. Where you do lose them, is when you don't talk about what's actually happening today. And that's what President Trump brings up. And I think that's a very real point. It's the conversation heads to there. It doesn't head to the active wars that are happening. It doesn't head to what's going on in Ukraine, what's going on in Israel and Gaza. It goes to sort of, again, an existential threat, as he said, a more down the line thing. And it's not like that's not important. But what it isn't is as important of are your kids going to be able to survive this world over the next hundred years, let's say.
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And that's when you look at the entire issue with the war in Ukraine. We know that there's been saber rattling from President Putin of Russia regarding use of tactical nuclear weapons. We know that France right now is trying to create a nuclear umbrella for Europe. This isn't some abstract potential thing. And that's why when you look at what President Trump is doing, trying to end a war, talking about nuclear drawdowns in areas, it takes away the entire argument that he's going to try to get us into a war and going to cause nuclear mayhem, which the left has tried to say he would do. Instead, it really brings up a reality of the status of the world with all these nuclear
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arms sounds like is someone who grew up in the 60s you know what i mean like this has the feeling of someone who grew up in the 60s in an anti-war nuke movement i don't know where president trump stood in the 60s or how he was doing but he was in his early 20s i would say throughout the 60s and now you've seen sort of the converse happen where for some reason this is this should have been the democratic talking point But now, of course, it's somehow the Republican conservative Christian talking point to say, you know, we need to stop wars and maybe we can lower the amount of nukes worldwide. President Trump did warn of an end of the world scenario, but it was not done in a way of just fear. It was actually giving you reason to fight back and how you can combat it. We're going to talk about that in the next segment with Harry Hutchinson. He'll be joining us coming up. Support the work of the ACLJ. We are in the Life and Liberty Drive. We're going to discuss that a lot more coming up later in the show. And again, that's at ACLJ.org. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Seculo. Harry Hutchins joining us in studio. We're going to discuss the whole nuke situation, but I did want to play a clip right off the bat. This is, again, another clip from President Trump where he does warn of an end-of-the-world scenario. And again, when the team brought me this and they said, this is what I want to talk about. I want to talk about the end of the world. I go, okay, I don't know if this is this kind of show. Not usually what we get into. Now, off air, I'll talk about the end of the world all the time. We want to talk end times. That's a different show altogether. You wanna call me for that one, have fun. 1-800-684-3110. Just put a challenge out to our phone screener for today. That'll be fun. President Trump did warn of this, and I want you to hear from him, because again, it's not done flippantly. It's not done in a way that feels dramatic or over the top of saying it's the end of the world. It's not the end of democracy, those kind of statements that are said. This is done in a way saying we gotta be careful. because there are people and nations that have too much or are building up and we got to be really careful because it could change the world in a blink of the eye literally let's hear from president trump again i'd love to cut defense spending but not now because you have china you have russia you have a lot of problems out there no in fact what i what i have said is
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We spend a lot of money on nuclear missiles, nuclear weapons. The level of destruction is beyond anything you can even imagine. It's just bad that everybody has to spend all this money on something that if it's used, it's probably the end of the world.
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It's probably the end of the world if it's used. But of course, we feel like we have to have it because these other nations do as well. And later on, he even discusses how, yeah, in a perfect world, this would not exist, that these kind of weapons we wouldn't even have, no one would have. but we do live in a world where they do exist and we know they've been used and we've used them and, and you know, the paid the consequences I'd say for a lot of that as well. But professor Hutchinson, you, you were breaking down in the meeting we had before this, just telling about where you think they are, who has them, where do they exist? Because this is not something that's theoretical. This is something that is happening in real time and we have to be very careful. Well,
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I think you're precisely correct. We live in a world of mutual assured destruction. As we speak, Russia has nuclear submarines stationed off the coast of Great Britain and of the United States. And Russia only has to detonate a weapon in the Atlantic Ocean or the English Channel to flood 50% of Great Britain. So this is an important threat and it's much more important than so-called climate change or the end of democracy as represented by Adam Schiff. So one of the things that the American people should know is that Donald Trump is talking about something that is very, very important, number one. But number two, it is under-discussed in the United States. It's under discussed in Western Europe. Will mentioned earlier that France, for instance, is sending nuclear-capable fighter jets to Germany so that they can be closer to Russia. Meanwhile, the president of France doesn't seem to understand that Moscow could send nuclear weapons to Paris in a matter of minutes. And so I think at the end of the day, this underscores the Trump administration's willingness to focus on solving the war in Ukraine. However you look at what's going on in Ukraine, I think everyone should acknowledge that at the end of the day, there is embedded in that conflict a nuclear threat that could destroy the entire universe.
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Yeah, and I think that when you look at it from that point of view, I think for those of us that grew up, you know, born in the 80s, we think of the nuke crisis and the issues that came in and all of the things we heard of from our parents and our grandparents, and it almost feels like something in the past. It almost feels like a historical, you know, we're talking about the Civil War. It feels like there's something that's 100 years ago, 200 years. It doesn't have, for some reason, we've almost made it a parody worthy. You think about like the Indiana Jones film, not this last one, the one before that, where he gets nuked and he's in a fridge and survives. And it's this silly moment right at the beginning of the movie because we've almost cartoonified the war potentially with nukes. president Trump as what seems to be brings these things back to mind. And maybe we actually start having conversations that matter. And that's what I think you brought up too, is sure. I said this earlier, you could say whatever you want about the climate. We can, we can, if you're someone who believes we have to be really protecting our planet and doing everything, that's fine. But what about what we're doing today? What about we're dealing with what's happening in the world right now? It's when you start comparing, uh, religious beliefs and faiths to the way they were held maybe hundreds of years ago. You know, you heard about that with Islamic terror that, you know, people will say, well, the crusades, it's like, yeah, well, the crusades aren't happening today. I actually am dealing with what's happening today. And I feel like it's similar.
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When you think back to the Cuban missile crisis, the, the closest, I think the world came to nuclear war. Uh, it was because these weapons were stationed in Cuba, uh, 90 miles south of Florida. Right here. Very close to the United States. And it escalated. It fortunately did not end up in nuclear war. But when you hear President Trump talk about World War III, you're gambling with World War III, it's the same in reverse as the Cuban Missile Crisis because what now we're seeing is the moving of nuclear weapons closer and closer to Russia who's feeling threatened by this. Yes, their action to invade Ukraine was a trigger point. But you can't forget that, as France says, we're going to move fighter jets and station them in the eastern part of Germany so that they are closer to provide a nuclear umbrella. These are escalating maneuvers. And what President Trump is trying to do, Professor Hutchison, is de-escalate this. Talk to each other. Much like how the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved, was through high stakes, very close to nuclear war diplomacy. But he's trying to avoid... nuclear catastrophe around the world and those that keep pushing for more and more resources to Ukraine moving strategic weapons closer and closer to Russia that puts us in a very precarious place of getting back to a Cuban missile crisis style crisis but in 2025.
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I think you're precisely correct so if you look at the progression of NATO across Europe. It has moved closer and closer to the territory of Russia. And Russia has taken note of this. Meanwhile, NATO, for instance, has continuously promised that they would not move towards Russia. We promised in the 1990s that NATO would stop perhaps around Hungary. But now we're talking about Ukraine, which is right on the border with Russia. So that's essentially like stationing, potentially, missiles in Cuba or in Montreal or Toronto. And if a hostile power were to do that to the United States, the United States would rightly react. So I'm not going to justify what Russia has done in Ukraine, but at least I think it's imperative to understand what motivates Russia. And what Donald Trump is trying to do is to diminish the possibility that the Ukrainian conflict erupts into a nuclear Armageddon.
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We're going to keep that discussion going later in the show, and I'd love to hear from you if you have thoughts or questions about this. I know this is a big topic. This is a new topic, so it's one that maybe you're not as familiar with, or maybe you have questions as much as I do. 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. Coming up in the next segment also, CeCe Heil is going to be joining us about an ACLJ case that's happening right now. If you want to talk about what's going on right now, It's also what's going on in your schools. We're in court today, again, because the teachers union is trying to intervene in a case. And you're not going to believe this one. And you are going to believe it because there's stuff I can't say, nor would I on the air for some of the content that's being exposed to your kids right now. And I question this. I said, what is it? Let me see some of the details of what we're talking about here. and again i wish i could somewhat i wish i could show you and maybe do your own research because some incredibly disturbing stuff and that is why we have launched our life and liberty drive we have a flood of new cases pouring in right now and look if you need help you can go to aclj.org help you should do that but these cases impact not only life but your freedom and your liberty and it takes immense resources and manpower to take on these cases to put on this broadcast and And we need your support. Help keep us in the fight today. Have your gift doubled at ACLJ.org. There is so much happening right now. Like I said, we're in court today with these teachers unions. We're filing at the Supreme Court today to allow parents to opt out of teaching that conflicts with their children's religious beliefs. We believe it's very important. It's been a core issue here for a long time. We're continuing our fight at the Supreme Court to defund Planned Parenthood. And tomorrow we're filing in Federal Appeals Court to allow Doge... to help eliminate the federal DEI programs. But that's not all. Go to ACLJ.org. Have your gifts doubled during our Life and Liberty Drive. Do it right now. Scan the QR code that you see on the screen. It's incredibly important if you do that. 1-800-684-3110 to have your voice heard on the air. I'd love to hear from you. Again, CeCe Hiles joining us and Rick Ronell will be joining us in the back half of the broadcast. So get on hold right now. 1-800-684-3110. Go to ACLJ.org. Make your donation. It's double to match right now. Welcome back to Sekulow. Give us a call. 1-800-684-3110. I'd love to hear from you right now. If you're watching on YouTube, you're brand new to us, hit that subscribe button. And if you've been a supporter for a long time and maybe you haven't, hit that subscribe button. Do that. Or maybe you're watching on Salem News Channel or maybe you're watching on any of our other outlets, Facebook, Rumble. joining the conversation let me know where you're watching from if you don't know what to say but there are some phone lines open looks like we got about three lines open right now 1-800-684-3110 great time to call cc hiles joining us in studio to give you a little aclj update because the aclj never stops we are always in court and this one i was told about this morning it's a case that we've had for a while but there's some updates on it And it has to do with explicit materials in schools. And, of course, that's been a pretty hot topic over the last few years. And I've been curious. Sometimes you get these and you're like, well, show me what that material is. Are we talking about people who have a problem with classic literature because some of the language being used? And you hear a lot about that about Mark Twain and some of those. And then Will, our producer here, executive producer, he's like, OK, I got a sample of it. And I could not read it to you on the air if I even wanted to. It is so outlandishly vulgar and it's in your kids' schools. And we are not talking about, again, classic literature using some words or phrases or some adult content. You are talking about extreme content that is in the materials and even so much so that the school itself was kind of like, okay, yeah, this shouldn't be here. but when you have a teacher's union and you have uh librarians getting involved and people look i'm a free speech advocate and and i've been saying that way before it became a fun talking point i feel like for conservatives um i'm someone that believes i'm an anti-censorship advocate i have been uh most of my life however there is a line and i feel like that line for most people is exposing things to children. And here we are.
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You're a child protection advocate for sure.
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Yeah, we'll still go that way too. Yeah, exactly. If you're an adult, I don't care. But if you're showing something to your kids or to your, not just your kids, but other people's kids that you're entrusting people with, this is where it gets out of control.
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Yeah, and so I'll just give kind of a background. The New York, it's a school board in New York, and the school board actually did the right thing at first. They followed their school board policy, which requires that books be age appropriate and enrich and support the curriculum. So there were books that had obscene depictions of sexually explicit acts that the school board rightfully removed. and then a librarian and some others threatened legal action that the school board could not do that and so um then the they put them back in the school board was scared and they put those books back in so then it went to the commissioner of education the new york commissioner of education and that's when we got involved so we filed a complaint with the commissioner of education and um That ruling actually upheld the books being back in, saying that the First Amendment actually required the inclusion of sexually explicit books in school libraries. And that is absolutely wrong. So we filed then in New York. state court. And we've had a petition there. And now what's happening today, we actually have Nathan, who's there arguing in that case that the New York State United Teachers Union has filed a motion to intervene, meaning they want to come in and be part of this case. And we, of course, today are arguing that we are objecting to that motion to intervene. because the courts have repeatedly stated that they've rejected the notion that librarians or teachers possess a First Amendment right to expose students to vulgar or obscene content in public school libraries. And in fact, the absolute opposite is true, that school boards maintain authority to remove sexually explicit books from school libraries. And that's what we're arguing, and we're hopeful that we will be successful.
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Yeah, and I think that's a real thing the ACLJ is fighting for right now. So I encourage you, as we are in this life and liberty drive, to make your donation. All donations are matched because we're able to send our legal team to handle these important issues. And they are important. Again, if you could read this material, you would be shocked. And of course, look, we've all been kids. We've all been in school before. I am sure if the word got out that, hey, this kind of book is in your library, guess what becomes the most popular book in school right now? The one that has explicit content that's not made for kids. Or even if it's made for kids, it shouldn't be marketed to kids. And, you know, again, borderlining pornography, really, when you're reading it, it's...
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very very very intense and cc we know that the law is on our side we know that the supreme court has unanimously recognized that uh that school boards have the authority to remove books that are vulgar these these material in these books um they fall under the definition under new york state law of obscenity and indecent material right so we know that the law is on our side There's a really big fight today, and that's why we need people to support the ACLJ. Because it's one thing fighting in state court against a school board or a municipality, but now the big guns are coming out. It's the school board, not the school board, it's the teachers unions. They want to be a part of this. They want to be a party to the lawsuit. They want to get involved. We know the resources they have. We know how aggressive they can be. And they're trying to say, we, the teachers union, need to be a part of this. You don't get to decide this court without our input. We're fighting that today. Our attorney, Nathan, he'll be giving an oral argument virtually this afternoon. So one, be praying for our attorneys as they face this today, trying to stop the teachers union from being a party of this lawsuit. But if they do, it shows that that fight is much harder. Because the money that it's going to be going up against from the teachers union being able to pour resources in to something like this, it's another reason people need to support the ACLJ. Because we know this isn't just happening in New York. It's happening all over the country. And that's why the teachers union wants to be a part of it.
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Absolutely, that we find states and we get contacts from states all over the United States where this is happening, where this is an issue, where it's literally it is obscene and pornographic books. And, you know, we point out that when they try to argue, well, this is diversity and we have to have diversity. We argue that there are hundreds of other age appropriate books representing diverse viewpoints that do not contain pornography. And those books can certainly be included in the school library instead of the pornographic ones. And like you pointed out, there is a New York state law on obscenity that it violates. These books absolutely violate that because these obscenity laws, as they pertain to minors, these books are in violation of that. And again, it is a much broader thing when you have... teachers unit unions coming in it is their intent to force pornography and obscenity on our students and we're going to stand in between them and represent the parents rights to say i don't want my student to have access to this pornographic information that's right and this is a school library this isn't a public library this isn't a bookstore we're not saying barnes and nobles shouldn't be able to sell whatever they want to sell
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You have the choice to go shop wherever you want to shop. This is a school library where middle schoolers have access to this. This is not appropriate for these children. And when you look at the fight that we have ahead, this is a very important one. This is one where you draw a line in the sand against this teacher's union and say, you're not allowed to be a part of this. You're also, when you're fighting for this, not making the best decisions for the children of New York. I mean, the passages that Logan even saw, that I gave him a couple examples, couldn't even get through some of them. Was so shocked at what was in these books that are in the school's library.
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It's absurd. Again, if you read it, you would just be like, wow, did this ever make it in? It's not like some subtle reference that's thrown in somewhere that some parent who's just ultra conservative said, this is ridiculous. Or the opposite, an ultra-liberal parent who said, you know, this isn't inclusive enough. No, it's not that at all. That's why the ACLJ is there, and that's why we've got to fight back. So if you want to join me right now, you should join me also. I'm an ACLJ champion. You should become an ACLJ champion. That's someone that gives on a monthly basis. We've got a second half hour of this broadcast coming up. This is a great time as we take a very short break. We only take about a one-minute break coming up. One minute's enough time to make your donation, whether that's a one-time or become an ACLJ champion. Do it right now at ACLJ.org. Also taking your calls, 1-800-684-3110.
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keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Logan Secular.
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You heard about the incredible work the ACLJ is doing in the last segment. If you weren't joining us in that last segment, I encourage you to go back when we're done and go listen to the work we're doing in court right now on behalf of your kids because of the material they're being exposed to in schools right now. And usually I, again, am a free speech advocate. I am a anti-censorship advocate. I've been that way at least since I was in college where I realized there was a lot of people who are not on board with free speech. But this is different. This isn't for kids in college. This isn't for adults. This is for your middle schoolers, your high schoolers, your elementary school students, and what they're being exposed to. And when I could tell you how insane it is, I can't even say it on the air. And if I said it even online, if I read the passage of this book or one of the books, because I questioned it. I said, are we being real here? I'm not for the banning of books. I'm not for that kind of thing. But then they showed me the material. And the material is far from anything you would want your kid exposed to. Of any age, really. So we got involved, the ACLJ, and that's the kind of cases that we're getting involved in right now. So I encourage you during this Life and Liberty Drive to make a donation. We also have phone lines open for you at 1-800-684-3110 because we're going to continue the discussion. And Rick Grinnell is going to be joining us in the next segment as President Trump warns of an end of the world scenario. And I don't say that lightly. And he didn't say that lightly. Again, much like them telling me, hey, you got to have banned books. I go, I don't know. We're going to talk about the end of the world. But then you play the clips and you hear from President Trump and you go, oh, I get what he's talking about here. He is talking about the absurd nature of the new crisis that could be happening under our noses really right now around the world that could bring a scenario where not only are we in a world war, but we're in a world war that ends in a complete nightmare scenario. And how, as the American people, we can fight against that. And that's what I at least like, is that President Trump is bringing up these issues that are important. Also, this is not a new thing for a lot of the administration. Tulsi Gabbard, who you know, was a friend of ours, was a colleague, was on this show for many years. Of course, now she's gone on to become, I don't know, the Director of National Intelligence. She's been warning about this for a long time, for years, in fact. Whether that was on Joe Rogan or whoever would platform her at the time. Of course, on us. But this was her at the Make America Healthy Again, the Maha panel, back from October of this year. So you know the influence is coming from people like Tulsi Gabbard getting all the way up to the White House and making sure that these important topics are being brought up. So here you go. This is our friend Tulsi Gabbard.
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Our planet will be destroyed in a nuclear war. The idea of having clean air and clean water and healthy food to eat becomes null and void. The idea of free speech becomes null and void.
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Is that it? Okay, cool. Just making sure that was the end of the clip there. I didn't have a transcript in front of me. A lot of you want to call in. I want you to call in. 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. As we head to this break, I know this is just a short segment. We're going to continue this discussion with a former director of national intelligence, ambassador to Germany. We heard about where nukes are going well in terms of Germany, France and Germany. So we're going to have that discussion in depth coming up with Rick Grinnell. You know him from our broadcast for many years now. And of course, like I said, is those and now he's a special envoy for the Trump administration and he's doing some great things. He's also involved in the Kennedy Center, which has been making waves over the last few weeks. But I encourage you, we can't have voices like Rick Grinnell, even Professor Hutchinson and CeCe Heil and Will and me. You can't have that without support. You're not funded by major sponsors here on Secular or at the ACLJ. And that's why we have moments like this, the Life and Liberty Drive, where we're able to take on a lot of new cases. We're able to take on a lot of new issues because of you. And because of the ACLJ supporters and champions that are already locked in and are saying, we will unlock a matching gift if people donate. So right now, that match is open. And it's only open for a limited time. Your donations will be doubled during this Life and Liberty Drive. Again, you've heard all the issues we're getting involved in, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. We have so much more coming up this year. And, of course, our campaign, our Choice Begins Here campaign, is launched throughout the state of Massachusetts, doing great work in supporting our pro-life pregnancy resource centers. Make your donation right now as we're in break. Rick Grinnell coming up. Welcome back to Secular. We are going to take your phone calls at 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. We're going to line up some calls in the back half of this broadcast. We'd love to take them in the next segment. Let's go ahead and start with one of those calls. Let's go to Dorothy, who's calling in Ohio. On line one, you're on the air.
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Yes, I'd like to make a comment. JFK gave Khrushchev 72 hours to get those missiles out of Cuba. And Crew Chef got him out in 48 hours. And bullies, they recognize strength. And that's what I like about President Trump. You know, he backs up his word. It's good to negotiate and be diplomatic when possible, if possible. But bullies recognize strength. I just want to make that point.
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Dorothy, I think you're right. I think President Trump is known for saying something to the effect of, you know, if they think you're 5% crazy and could actually do the things that you're saying, that's enough to actually have some strength and respect. And I think you're seeing that on the global scale. Look, we may not be where we want to be right now in the war in Gaza and Hamas, but we're there was actually some hostages released. There was actually some movement, which there wasn't at all during the Biden administration. If anything, there was just people caving to terrorism. Same thing with Russia and Ukraine. You may not even agree with where it's going, but you can at least agree that there's some movement. There's some change. And you brought up the same thing with JFK. It's not dissimilar in that, which is you can end these if you are a strong enough leader.
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Well, and when you have that leader warning of World War III and knowing the numbers of nuclear warheads that these countries have, whether it be Russia has over 5,500, the United States over 5,000, France... France has close to 300. China, over 500. Now, a lot of these are estimates because these countries aren't giving you a specific number of what their stockpile is. And then, I mean, you have Pakistan and India, both with about 170 warheads, and they're very contentious neighbors. They aren't necessarily... the strongest of allies. They have a lot of tensions between the two of them. But when you have the president saying that, you know, this could lead to World War III, and then you hear news like France is going to be moving fighter jets that have capabilities of launching, whether it be tactical or even strategic missiles, jets that can launch those into western part of Germany. You understand why this concern of World War III from President Trump is real.
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Yes, absolutely. And Rick Grinnell's joining us right now. I think the man with too many titles for me to mention right now because of all the things he's working on, whether that is for us, whether that's with the administration, whether it's with the Kennedy Center, so much. And of course, all of his formers, we could list those off for days and days. But you know, Rick, he's been a part of our team now for multiple years. But Rick, when you hear these comments coming out of President Trump, it's another topic that I feel like he's able to bring up that none of us were really discussing. And we're going to we think we had an issue with Rick. We're going to get him back on the line right now. Again, maybe the hardest working man in Washington, D.C., as I said, or around the world. So sometimes we have little connection issues. Speaking of that, though, I'd love to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110 as we redial him. I do want to encourage you to support the work of the ACLJ. And much like that, I am in search of what some of these new topics are that you care about. What are you interested in? Tell me in the comments. You know, we've built the ACLJ on a core group of topics that have been throughout the years continuing to grow. And yes, sometimes it's easy to get stuck on those five, six topics that we always talk about. But I know there's new ones that you care about as well. There's new ones you care about as well. So we encourage you to give us suggestions. I'd love to hear from you where you'd like to see the ACLJ get involved. And not just in the world of politics, in the world of President Trump, also in the world of faith and religious liberties worldwide. Because that's really the core of what we do here. But You can't have, as Tulsi Gabbard said, you can't have a freedom of speech, you can't have a freedom of religion and all this if the world doesn't exist. When President Trump starts warning of something, the words are probably the end of the world as a scenario, and Rick Grinnell is joining us now. Rick, when you hear that, again, it's a topic that isn't necessarily being talked about, and now it's being brought back up to light because... President Trump and his team have said, you know what we're not talking about? We may be talking about a climate crisis that could happen in a million years or 100 years, 200 years, but we're not talking about the amount of nukes that exist around the world that could end us all tomorrow. And again, I'm not an end times, yelling, screaming, it's the end of the world kind of guy, but when you hear this from President Trump and you hear words like World War III being brought up in the meeting with Zelensky, it's at least enough to get all of our ears to listen.
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Look, I think the public needs to understand what's happening right now is that we have a president of the United States who is talking about peace deals and forging peace and rejecting war and trying to control the outrageous nuclear arms race. And all of Washington DC is mocking him as a Russian asset for it. I think people just need to understand what's happening. Washington, D.C. is truly outing themselves as the place where peace doesn't work for them. And and less nuclear weapons, fewer nuclear weapons doesn't work for them. They want an arms race. They want wars. This is very clear. Why else would they be mocking the guy who literally had peace agreements breaking out, handed Joe Biden and the Democrats a peaceful Middle East and a peaceful Europe, only to be handed back two wars? And then now Donald Trump is saying, can we just talk about peace? Can we talk about getting fewer nuclear weapons? Can we try to make the world a better place? And he's mocked for it. I hope the American people see this very clearly what's happening. Washington, D.C. benefits from war and they do not want someone talking about peace.
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Rick, one of the things that also comes to mind with this is you see news of France saying that they will be a nuclear umbrella for Europe. Obviously, Macron is trying to posture himself as a leader in this time with his support of Ukraine. But they're even talking about moving strategic jets to the eastern part of Germany and positioning them there to be closer to Russia. Do the warnings from President Trump about World War III being on the brink of breaking out and moving more nuclear assets closer to Russia, is Russia or is Europe not paying attention to what's happening and the potential of making these moves, what they could lead to?
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Well, certainly, as the first administration of Donald Trump proved, that the Europeans, specifically the Germans, who are the largest economy in Europe, who lead Europe in business and job creation, they do not understand that their bad policies are making Europe less safe. Certainly, we know that the German policies have made the European Union smaller and weaker with Brexit and the British saying, if you can't control the borders and immigration issues, then we're out of here. So we know that the Merkel-German policies created a smaller EU and a less powerful EU. Now what we're seeing is that Europe is scrambling. They want to increase defense spending because they're nervous about the war on their front Which they should be. But they haven't quite gotten to the point where they are convinced that their bad, weak policies are the reason that they're in this mess. And so they're struggling. And I don't see yet a European leader who's standing up to say, wait a minute, we're on the wrong track here. We were warned in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea, we were warned that we needed to have a better defense system in Europe, and we ignored it. And Donald Trump is somebody who is trying to connect the dots for Europe. I've had conversations with CEOs in Germany, very large companies I won't name, but you would know them if I said them. And I would say you're building a relationship with China much like you did with Russia. And you're not seeing that you made the mistake with Russia. We pointed them out. There's a war going on in your neighborhood. Now you're trying to build up your defense capabilities. But you're doing the exact same thing with China now. You've got to pull back these bad, weak policies and be with the West. Be part of the transatlantic alliance where you're close to the U S not Russia or China.
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Rick, thanks so much for joining us today. I know you're incredibly busy and this is a very busy time for everyone around the world, but your insights are a second to none. And we really do appreciate your work here and what you've done for this broadcast and the ACLJ always. And I look forward to continuing that on. I did want to encourage everyone. If you like what you heard from Rick and you want to know how we get these incredible people on this team, we can't do it without you. is, again, not controlled by big sponsors. If you hear sponsors on your radio station, something like that, that doesn't go to us. Or if any of them do, it's very minor. The bread and butter of the ACLJ and the way this broadcast is able to happen, the way we're able to take court cases, we're able to really support your views and values is by individual donations. And that's why we have moments like the Life and Liberty Drive. So I encourage you right now, as your donations are doubled, go to ACLJ.org. You've heard all the incredible work we're doing, and that is just a little bit of what we're working on right now. We need your support to have this kind of manpower at ACLJ.org. Taking your calls coming up. We've got a few lines open. Give me a call right now. Welcome back to Seculo. We do have some lines open for you. 1-800-684-3110. I'll be honest, maybe we've got too many lines open. Give me a call. I'd love to hear from you. There's a lot of people watching right now. I can see the numbers, so I know you're there. But what question or comment do you have as we head into this last segment? Of course, we are in the Life and Liberty Drive, and I'm not going to leave you alone about that because this is one of those really important times where our gifts are doubled. So if you make a gift to the ACLJ, if you make a donation of support, all your donations are effectively doubled. There's someone on the other end, another ACLJ supporter or champion who has pledged to unlock their donation if you are to give. And all of these things, whether it's this broadcast or the legal work we do, all take immense resources, incredible manpower. We can't do any of it without you. Again, you may hear sponsors on your radio station. That's not going to us. That's not what's funding this. You may see sponsors on the YouTube stream. Sure, that's a little help, but you know what? In the grand scheme of things, it's a drop in the bucket for what we need to have this organization thrive. And of course, you can become an ACLJ champion at that. But just on outlets like YouTube, understand you're reaching when you do this and you support and you understand that you give here. There's 468,000 people just on our YouTube channel. We're not able to just do that because we're able to turn the lights on and all of a sudden do a little vlog and put it up there and all of a sudden we got a huge audience. There isn't a mass amount of people that are working on this each and every day. All day. It costs more to put on the YouTube channel than it does in the revenue we make from YouTube. So think about it that way. This is just to get the word out so people know. So though this does feel like an infomercial, understand that it's not. Understand that it is so important. And I try to tell you as much about our media operation as I can. And I know sometimes that doesn't resonate quite as well as saying we're in court today. We're doing this today. And we are doing all those things. You heard me. I got a list in front of me. We're in court today. Again, on the teachers union intervening in that case, you heard with the vulgar material. Finally, the Supreme Court today to allow parents to opt out of teaching that conflicts with their beliefs. We're continuing to fight the Supreme Court to defend Planned Parenthood. Tomorrow, we're filing a federal appeals court. This is all happening in real time. This is all happening because there's hundreds of people. we're able to employ to do this work and you can be a part of that by going to aclj.org and having your gifts doubled right now during our life and liberty drive and of course our support of israel is something that comes into play uh and it's something we're going to discuss later on in the week more uh when we have from aclj jerusalem jeff balaban on but there was some updates in sort of our fight against anti-semitism
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I'm going to get to that in one second, but I want to piggyback off of what you just said, because another thing that our team has been doing recently is we told you about that evangelist in Chicago that was detained. We went to court. We won very quickly, had the charges against him dropped. just sharing the gospel that was his crime according to the city of chicago then a couple weeks later his two friends arrested same place held in jail for six hours for just sharing the gospel although our attorneys had advised them how to make sure they were within the law of chicago We're defending them. But we also have something much bigger coming where we are going to be trying to get at the heart of what's going on in Chicago through the courts. But we also have another evangelist in North Carolina that we'll tell you about tomorrow. So you don't want to miss that. But we're fighting also for people's First Amendment right, not just speech, But the freedom of religion, their freedom to evangelize, their freedom to share the gospel, we fight for that too. And our attorneys are all over the place right now when you look at how many things, whether it's the Supreme Court, the appeals court, the court in New York, North Carolina, Chicago, that's a lot of work. And that is why your support is so important. But yes, Logan, you did bring this up. the fight against anti-Semitism. And we are going to get to this tomorrow as well with Jeff Balaban. But one big thing that President Trump said was going to happen was that these people that are agitators on campus, if they're here on some sort of visa, and they are participating in these pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic, terroristic protests and demonstrations and riots on campuses, he's going to get rid of them. He's going to say, your visa's done. Sometimes you think... Is that just talk? Is that something that's going to actually happen? Well, when he says it, he means it because ICE has arrested a Palestinian activist who helped lead the Columbia student protests. He was a prominent Palestinian activist. He was here on a green card. And ICE has detained him over the weekend because the State Department ordered the revocation of his green card. And this follows in line that on March 9th that President Trump's executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism in coordination with the U.S. State Department, U.S. Immigration, ICE, arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student. He led activities aligned with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. And so he will no longer be in the United States to further the perpetration of anti-Semitism and support of Hamas.
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Here's the truth. I was on X as I am. And I don't post a whole lot, but I am, you know, in just the content I'm looking in. My feed is becoming much more and more. conservative-ish influencers or conservative influencers taking a stand against Israel, against the Jewish people. It is becoming anti-Semitic hate speech from both sides. And I have to be honest, someone with Jewish heritage, it is alarming and disturbing to watch this happen in real time. A lot of it happened over the weekend. Here's what I can tell you. That's not happening here. That's not going to happen here at the ACLJ. I'm not going to go attack Rick Scott because he has an Israeli flag in his office. I'm happy he has an Israeli flag in his office. We live in real weird times right now where the influences of the day, many of which have gigantic platforms, are starting to side against the Jewish people. against Israel. And look, no people group or no person. Everyone's an individual. There's good and bad everywhere. If you go to the middle East though, you tell me who's the good guys and who's not. You tell me who's fighting for your Western values and your beliefs and freedom of religion and freedom of speech and, uh, freedom of no religion, freedom of, of everything that you hold dear. And you show me where it's not. There's been a big push in this propaganda this weekend, uh, And we're going to fight up against it. Be part of that. Again, you can support. If you can support the ACLJ, that's great. If you can give financially. But I'm not just going to say that. Hit that subscribe button. Give us a thumbs up. It's free. Show your support. Because I'll be honest, sometimes it feels pretty alone. We feel pretty alone when that starts happening. When the tide starts turning on both sides and you don't know what to do. And you're part of this, you know, we've had the ACLJ has had our, at our core, we've had our support for Israel, our support for the Jewish people since the very inception of the organization. But when you have, and look, I'm leaving, I'm watching people leave right now and I'm seeing some of the comments. I know it is not easy. It's not easy to be a Jewish American. It's not easy to be an Israeli and watch all of this unfold. But I also know there's tons, especially us in the evangelical movement, who really do care and see it as a biblical homeland and see why it needs to be protected and supported. So I encourage you to join us right now at ACLJ.org. It's our Life and Liberty Drive. Do it right now. Again, Life and Liberty Drive. Just scan the QR code. Go to ACLJ.org. Download the app. Whatever you need to do. know how much I appreciate it and we're able to do this because of you. We'll be back tomorrow with more on Sekulo, but always stay tuned at ACLJ.org and all of our social media platforms for great new content all day.
In this episode, Bill Gunderson navigates through the recent market upheavals characterized by economic shifts, tariffs, and volatile indices. Drawing analogies from historical market cycles to present movements, Gunderson unpacks the impact of government policies on market health. Explore the significance of sentiment shifts and chart trends, and discover areas of emerging opportunities in a fast-evolving financial landscape.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, thestreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
SPEAKER 03 :
And welcome to the Monday. It is the Monday, March the 10th edition. Do May showers bring spring flowers? Well, we'll find out. This is Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. We are having some showers in the market again today. And I've got a few analogies to use today. And I hope you read my newsletter over the weekend. This is the Best Stocks Now show, and we are off to a cloudy start in the market here once again today, especially in the NASDAQ, especially in the tech stocks. Right now, you have the Dow down 337 to 42,463. That's 80 basis points. The NASDAQ's down 331. Another big hit to the NASDAQ. It's down 331. It's down 330 to 17,865. It now trades below its 200-day moving average, which is a very big occurrence in the charts, very bearish occurrence. And once again, I hope you read my newsletter over the weekend. If you want to read it, go to GundersenCapital.com and ask for it. The S&P is down 73 right now. That's 1.3%. It's down to 5697. So it's off now about 400 points from its high. The small cap stocks, they've got to be getting hit. Let's see, the Russell 2000 is down 1.3%. Bitcoin is down a little bit, and interest rates are down about seven basis points right now, another flight to safety to the bond market. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management, in a rainy kind of overcast, dark, gloomy day in Charleston, South Carolina. And you could say the same thing about the market. And, you know, I got to give you a little history lesson here. And I did it in my newsletter. I spent a lot of time. You know, the newsletter takes a whole lot longer. If the market's just like normal and it's going up every week, Barry, we make a few changes here and there. The newsletter's a heck of a lot easier. There's many moving parts, right? Yeah, there was a lot of moving parts this weekend, and I felt like I really didn't want to miss anything. i finally sent it out early sunday morning but i want to go back and by the way you know i gave an honest assessment of the of of the market and exactly the action that we've taken here recently in the markets and you can go to gundersoncapital.com gundersoncapital.com if you have a 401k if you have a tsp plan if they're raised whatever the case may be i just gave you my take on what is happening now let's go back to j let's Let's go back in time two years and about two months, okay? So that's what, 26 months ago. When we wrote our article, the NASDAQ has bottomed. That was on January the 6th, 2023. We were within two or three days of the bottom of the NASDAQ at that time. And if you go prior to that, what led to the NASDAQ finally bottoming, because it was down 35% in 2021, right? I went back and showed what the 200-day moving average and what the charts looked like before the NASDAQ went on that 35% correction.
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Yeah, 2022 with the pullback.
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Yeah, early 2022 when the Fed basically publicly announced we're going to start hiking interest.
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And they were going half a percent at a time, by the way.
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75%.
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We had four 75s in a row. Okay.
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And I showed what that chart, I did a frozen snapshot in time of what the NASDAQ looked like back in early 2021, four years ago, and what it looks like now. And they look eerily the same. And the reason I say that is because back then in early 2021, the NASDAQ broke down below its 200-day long-term moving average. And that occurred last Thursday, I believe, where it did the same exact thing. Okay, and then after that, obviously, it went down some 35%. It went from 14,000 down to 10,000. And it finally started putting in a bottom. It took off in early January. That's when we put the buy sign on the market. And we cashed in several big winners here recently, including NVIDIA. It was up 700% in the ultra growth. It was up 400% in the premier growth. We held on to it for over two years. It became such a huge position, and we had to actually change it along the way. Yep. Okay, now here we are, you know, from that buy signal 26 months later. Markets are cyclical. If I've learned anything in the 25 years I've been doing it, I've seen a lot of cycles. Some shorter than others, some long cycles. This cycle's been a pretty decent one in the tech stocks and in the NASDAQ, okay? I think when we look back on this, you know, the high in the NASDAQ was probably set when it cleared $20,000 earlier this year. The high for now, okay? And how much it's going to correct. I mean, if it corrects by 35% again this time, that would take it down to... Let's see, that would take it down to $13,000 from that $20,000 level. I'm not saying that's going to happen, but we've broke below the 200-day moving average, and we're dealing with something different this time. What are we dealing with this time? We're not dealing with the Fed on the warpath. They've announced that they're going on the warpath. They signaled all of that back in 2023. What we are witnessing right now and experiencing is a Band-Aid being ripped off. I remember my mother, this is going to hurt, Billy. Whack, and pretty soon, ah, what happened? Well, I would liken that to what's occurring right now with what Trump is doing, what Rubio is doing, what Besson is doing, what Musk is doing. And I think everybody knew that I think they signaled, and he continues to signal, there's going to be a little pain before things get better. And, you know, I mean, on the one hand, they hate to inflict the pain, but Barry and I were talking before the show, and doesn't it make more sense to just get it over with? Because we were in deep, deep doo-doo, man, with the debt that we had and out of control, all of these government agencies that were out of control and no accountability and You're doing the hard thing.
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You're doing the tough thing. Someone has to do it, right? Who knows how long you could... You know you can't go on that path, but maybe you could go another... You know, who knows how long it could go, but the point is you've got to make those changes, and, you know, the government overspending is a stimulus for the economy, and obviously as you pull that back or potentially pull that back, right, you know,
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these this is the reaction you have yeah yeah i mean i get through all this you want to do it quick and then and then you know move on and then rebuilt from a much firmer foundation uh is the way i look at it so you know in the meantime i would say the two hardest things for the market to deal with and that's why you know we've stepped aside quite a bit you know not not a hundred percent but We're up there in the high percentages of just stepping aside until this blows through. It's two things. It's the cutting of the government spending and getting off of the stimulus. It's kind of like cold turkey. and the shakes that the market's going through, I suppose. And the second thing is all of this tariff talk. But you know, Barry, I read something interesting. This GDP that's going to be minus 2.5% for this quarter, somewhere in there, I saw one of Trump's guys, economic advisors, he qualified that. He says that was caused by a huge trade deficit In January.
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Right.
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That plays into GDP.
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Into the formula, yes. So the ending part of the formula is exports, essentially exports minus imports. And if that imports number ends up being – is usually negative, right? So that goes to the rest of GDP and can actually make it negative even when – In reality, the economy is growing in that sense.
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And what made the huge deficit in January? Because all of these people, afraid of the tear-offs, went out and imported a bunch of stuff to get ahead of the curve. Right. All right. So it's not that the economy, although the media is going to make it sound like the economy is shrinking, that we're going into a recession because two negative quarters are a recession. We're going to have a negative quarter, it looks like. The quarter is going to end in three weeks, and we already kind of know the Atlanta Fed. I thought it was 3.8. It's 2.5 is what they're predicting. But it looks like it's going to be a one-time occurrence because of this huge trade deficit. And that's the other thing the market is dealing with, is the tariffs on again, off again, on again, off again. But look, it shows up in our GDP by having these big trade deficits. Trump is determined to narrow that gap and get a more even and balanced trading atmosphere with many countries in the world. So that's what the market's dealing with right now. The bandage has been pulled off, and there's a lot of owies out there. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show. So we're down about, the NASDAQ's down about almost 15% now from its high. And let's not forget that the market built in this huge cushion, right, after Trump was elected. that finally ended about the end of January. So you had all of this icing on the cake that probably didn't belong there. A lot of fluff in there, Barry, especially when you looked at a 35 PE on the NASDAQ. But you know what? It ain't over till it's over. That's just the way it goes in the market. Sometimes the market will add more icing on the cake. But all of a sudden, as things started to ramp up, And the activity, once he got sworn in on January 20th, I mean, it's happened fast enough to make your head spin. That bandage was ripped off on January the 21st.
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Yeah, and we were at market highs, too. You've got to remember, we hit all-time highs on February, I think, 19th, 18th, somewhere around there.
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Yeah, that was the fluff that was added in, okay? and uh since then the nasdaq's down about 15 if you count today and the ai stocks are down about 25 we're talking nvidia we're talking palantir some of them down even 25 30 okay but as always as always new opportunities will arise soon Because there's always a new bull market emerging somewhere out there. And, you know, that's why, you know, I saw this all start to show up in the charts. And I still remember the first shot across the bow was when it was Palantir, the market leader, Palantir. became the de facto market leader, and all of a sudden there was a memo leaked about the 8% defense cuts in a Hegseth memo, and that stock got walloped. And that kind of set off a chain reaction, really, as I look back on it. NVIDIA shows a blowout quarter, and the stock has traded nuts. Do you know that NVIDIA has lost $1 trillion of market cap? One trillion. I don't ever remember that happening before. It was a $3.4 trillion company. Now it's a $2.4 trillion company. The fundamentals didn't break down, but I think DeepSeek hurt them. I think the valuations on stocks overall, the NASDAQ hurt them. And I think just the sentiment in the market, which turned south in a hurry, also hurt them. A new bull market will be emerging somewhere out there. I mean, whether it's oil, I don't know where it's going to be.
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And that was kind of the combination that you mentioned. You had deep seek, and then you had kind of that Palantir news. You had some bad sentiment numbers right on Friday, and then you had a bad consumer confidence on that Monday. Yep. And then it kind of took over the earnings season, because from an earnings season, I think what you still get... It was not bad. An A-, I believe.
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Yeah, it was 18%. A- range, right. It was 18% year over year. Now, this quarter that we'll end already in three weeks, hard to believe that we're flying through... Another quarter here, but first I want to go over the overalls. There's some pretty stunning reversals here to the upside and to the downside. As of Friday, China's up 21%. Okay, so they benefited from the deep seek, and I think they benefited from money leaving the U.S. and just going elsewhere until things calmed down here in the U.S., uh... china up twenty one point five percent and uh... europe you know that's that's a difficult one you know to try to buy into europe now it all happens so quickly and those stocks went up now you've got to look at the fundamentals of these stocks but you've got europe now let's see up uh... fifteen point five percent on the year china's up twenty one point five while the nasdaq's down about uh... seven percent now on the year so you can see this big uh... difference this has not happened in in in the last decade this is a ten-year kind of a rotation that i started uh... you know monitoring and and writing about a few weeks back about the global rotation that was taking place so you know what i go through the market every day i look for new opportunities Today, kind of interesting, of the B-plus ranked stocks, which is about 230, 50 of them have a Y on the end, meaning they're overseas stocks. And I'll be looking at all of those today. So you just never know. Then, of course, you know the inverse funds. The most vulnerable areas of further downside, the small caps, they look horrible. TWM, RWM are the inverse players there. And I still think that the high beta stocks, the fabulous seven, I mean, Tesla continues to get clocked. Meta's getting clocked. Google's getting clocked. Microsoft. Today, Amazon's getting clocked. There's really no safe place to hide in the tech sector whatsoever, except in PSQ and QID, which are inverse tech, inverse the NASDAQ. So small caps look especially vulnerable. And tech still looks vulnerable for more selling on the downside. And, of course, cash is not a bad option. We are up to, I think, 70% or something. I have to count.
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Somewhere in that 65-ish to 70.
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Yeah, one of our portfolios is 80% cash. It's pretty amazing what has occurred just through natural attrition, okay, breaking those very important support levels. Okay, now, this quarter that we're currently in, I mean, it doesn't look horrible. It's not going to be 18%. It's going to be, according to the analysts, 7.3% growth quarter over quarter. And, of course, the valuations have gotten a lot more, you know, attractive. But I think there's still further downside risk because of the horrible sentiment. As I look at some of my target prices on the S&P, they're more attractive than they've been in probably a year. They're not as attractive as they were back at the beginning of 2003, but they're a heck of a lot more attractive than they were, say, a month ago before this all started to unravel. So that's the good thing, too. I haven't seen any hit to earnings yet, earnings expectations. But the sentiment has taken a kick in the gut. And that's where you're seeing, you know, that shows up in the charts. Okay, now let's take a look at some stuff. There are some earnings reports still on the docket here. for this week and there's going to be some more we've had some kind of weak economic reports i would say we had a bad week last week powell kind of soothed the market a little bit on friday and it ended up but i was not a believer in that that move because it's the tariffs stupid i mean that's what it is it's all of this stuff and all of this government spending that's being cut and everything okay we do have some m&a stuff going on uh bond traders brace for an economic slowdown lutnick dismisses recession fears USAID, RFK, CDC, new leader in Canada, NATO, and several NVIDIA losing a trillion dollars in market cap. That and more when we come back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. Now, back to the second half of the show.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show. I just looked at some charts here during the break. I'll tell you, I mean, when a chart like Walmart looks awful,
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You know the market's in trouble from a sentiment point of view. I called last week ugly sweater week. It wasn't ugly sweaters. It was ugly charts. And, you know, I haven't seen that many ugly charts in a long, long time. I gave several examples as I went through the newsletter. I said, here's ugly chart number one. I think I ended up with about seven or eight.
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The title, ugly charts, when I saw it, when it came in, I'm like, oh, yeah.
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I do not like ugly charts. I don't like to own ugly charts, and I like to sell them before they get ugly, right? And I think they're going to get uglier just because of what we're going through right now.
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And the velocity this time around. I mean, when you look at the chart, right, it's hard to – when you're looking at the chart, right, it dipped quickly, which makes it tougher to sidestep.
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Yes, very quickly. Unfortunately. But, I mean, that line in the sand, once it's breached, bang, okay? Now, good chart so far, VIX, VXX, which is volatility. You're investing in volatility. I have a friend that I taught to help teach that class the other night on charts. He was buying the VIX. calls there uvxy which is two times the vix i think or something like that he he scored a big big one on that he bought the calls for like 69 so because if you think about it what's what's the most likely thing in the market right now is continued volatility
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Yeah, it could be in both directions. I mean, you could have some news come out here in a few minutes, right? And you could have a move upwards. You could have some news come out tomorrow that goes the other way.
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It's tough. Right now, I don't see a catalyst out there. That's going to do that. You know, look, we had Zelensky come around and say, I'm ready to renegotiate. He paused the tariffs on Mexico and Canada, other things happening on the good side, and it just did not move the market. So you're just fighting a lot of bad sentiment right now. The small cap inverse, TWM, is two times inverse the Russell 2000, which is already full of junk. And junk doesn't do well when the sentiment sours on the market. And then TZA. These are just the – I'm throwing out those four because there's such a difference between those charts. Walmart looks horrible. WMT and VIX, VXX and TZA and TWM, which is two times inverse the Russell 2000. They look very, very favorable right now. Okay, bond traders brace for economic slowdown, but Lutnick dismisses recession fears. Now listen, he's a Wall Street guy. He ran Cantor Fitzgerald. He lost, what, 80% of his firm because they were based in the towers when 9-11 hit.
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I heard him speak years ago in Nashville, actually.
SPEAKER 03 :
Really?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, probably. I'd say it's been about 15 years now.
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I like him a lot.
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It's pretty moving, I mean, when he tells that part of the story. But he's a sharp guy, and so is Besant, right? They both have a... The thing is, it's hard to – I think right now everything focuses on the negative side, right? Cuts here, cutting the budget here, cutting people here, right? And tariffs. And then what's hard to see, and it's hard to calculate, and it's hard to quantify. It's easy to quantify we got rid of 45,000 workers, right? It's hard to quantify – Well, we got rid of some red tape and regulation here. We're promoting some investment there. Encouraging manufacturing here.
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Things may get more expensive on Chinese goods, but Lutnick says they'll get cheaper on U.S. goods. He says there's going to be no recession in America. He told NBC this. He says Trump plans to grow the U.S. economy in a way we've never grown before. uh he says if i were you i would not bet on a recession no chance said lutnick he insisted that while some foreign-made products may be more expensive american products will get cheaper okay that's lutnick and then of course lawrence fuller who's also a smart guy he's the one that said the sharp contraction in january in the gdp was due to a huge trade deficit at the start of the year that subtracted approximately three point five from gdp the trade deficit ok the trade deficit not a slowdown in the economy the trade deficit because businesses ramped up imports to front-run trumps tariffs u.s. cancels eighty three percent of u.s. aid programs marco rubio says well that's a band-aid being ripped off RFK plans to meet the big food leaders today about the additives and the chemicals that Europe has already removed from their foods, but we haven't. That's a band-aid being ripped off for our health. The CDC plans to study possible link between vaccines and autism. Why wouldn't you do that study? Can it hurt? I mean, it can't hurt. There's a lot of, there's something. Is it the food additives by the, you know, the chemicals in the food? What has increased our autism rate to 1 in 35? Shouldn't we get to the bottom of that? Mark Carney to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada's Prime Minister. I'm just happy it wasn't that Chrystia Freeland. who was the runner-up in that because she's pretty much way out there. Mark Carney is way out there, but not as far out there as Freeland is.
SPEAKER 04 :
Isn't it interesting, like the Canadian guy, what he's done, he's been... Trudeau's gone. Yeah, but he was also on the... He did Brexit with... He was on the... I guess the Bank of England board, right? You would likely want to avoid any tariffs in general.
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Yes, and Trump has threatened their dairy products and their lumber. So we'll see where that goes, but Trudeau is out. NATO chief urges defense contractors to ramp up production. Okay, that's another Band-Aid being torn off. All of a sudden, Europe's realizing... hey we're gonna have to pay up to defend ourselves because we can't count as much on the US as we used to and of course those European defense stocks such as BAE SY and even some of the Israeli defense stocks are flying higher the meantime Nvidia loses a trillion dollars in market caps and sitting a record high earlier this year I don't think I've ever witnessed that before we didn't have trillion dollar companies
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I was just looking at Walmart. They're down 17 from their high.
SPEAKER 1 :
17%?
SPEAKER 04 :
Down 17%. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, so if your account is down wherever you're at, don't blame the guy running it, but are they taking action? There's the question. Okay, earnings week ahead. Well, okay, Adobe, Oracle, DocuSign, Ulta Beauty, Dollar General, which I see Dollar General has a new line of dishware, the Dolly Parton line, Barry, so... Dolly, she's quite an entrepreneur. That comes with the bust of Dolly. No, I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, just her husband passed away, what, I think like a week ago or so. But I used to, living in Nashville, you would always take people, just drive by and she had a big gate out front. And you're like, oh, there's Dolly's house.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you know.
SPEAKER 04 :
Drive by on the way to work.
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Her performance at the Academy Awards, which I did not watch. Was it the Academy Awards or the Emmy? I think it was the Academy Awards. They said it was just one for the ages. So, you know, to celebrate, we're going to Dollywood for spring break and staying at the Dollywood there. It's Redneck Disneyland. That's what it is. And I like going there. It's a lot of fun. Anyways, Dollar General, pick up your dish set. The Dolly Parton dish set. Okay, what else are we going to get? T-Quantum.
SPEAKER 04 :
Your coat of many colors, too. Don't forget.
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Yes, okay. Let's see. You know, Adobe. That's a big one. Oracle. Oracle's pretty good. Lee Auto. That's a big one. DoorDash Rallies. It gets put into the S&P 500. There's a sign of the time. I mean, that's the fastest growing restaurant chain in America because it's all of them, right? Anybody who delivers food, DoorDash or Uber, basically in on that. But having said that, we were an owner of DoorDash, and we sold it because it broke below our line in the sand. That's another not pretty chart. And here it's being added to the S&P 500 today. The one that they were hoping to get added isn't getting added. And that is the number one inverse ETF. I'm creating a new sector for single stock ETFs. That's a new animal. That's a totally new animal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, but Coinbase, yeah, Coinbase down 10%. They were hoping to get in and did not make the cut.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, and the inverse of that is Kony. Coney Island, C-O-N-I, is up 10.6%. That's the number one ranked inverse fund, single stock inverse fund out there. So that's a whole other way to have fun at the market, right? Inverse ETFs on single stocks. Coinbase is the worst one right now. We'll be right back with some more. Poor Elon, he's lost some money lately.
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Thank you.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Docs Now show. Rocket Company agrees to buy Redfin. The reason I bring up Rocket, the last time that we went to Detroit, Barry, Rocket is a big, big company there headquartered in Detroit. It and Little Caesars, right? A couple of big, big ones there. And, of course, you've got some auto companies. makers back there yeah and we will be back uh in that detroit area yeah spring spring uh early late spring sometime in there uh we got to get to cleveland before we go there it's next on our schedule after sarasota i'm anxious excited to go to cleveland But I got on the little tram that takes you to the rental cars with a bunch of Orthodox Jewish guys from New York. They fly in to Detroit for the week and sell mortgages for Rocket Mortgage. I said, who do you guys work for? Rocket Mortgage. And I thought, that's interesting. But anyways, Rocket is buying Redfin for $1.75 billion dollars. Well, I guess you could say things are about as depressed as they could be right now in that real estate market. There should be some synergies there, I mean, you would think, right? Well, yeah, to get the mortgage, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the house piece, right, and put them together. I was looking at the... Because remember, they owned a bunch of houses. That was their... Remember, at one point, they bought a bunch of houses and they... Timing was a little off, and that kind of put the stock down a bit for a while.
SPEAKER 03 :
But he's a very well-known guy back there in Trump, and I can't think of his name right off the bat. But the stock's down 14%, Rocket is. It was breaking out on Friday because interest rates are headed down. We're down around 4.20 on the 10-year right now, so that puts the 30-year probably in around the 6.5 area or so. So anyways, there is some M&A going on. I see Checkpoint Therapeutics is being bought out. And then I saw one other one here. I can't find it right now. But there was one other one that was up 68%. Oh, no, it's Redfin. Redfin's up 65% on that news. We should have bought Redfin. You know, Redfin's been beaten up. big time along with zillow because of the cratering of you know home sales uh let's see what else we got going on here uh we've got uh we talked about dollar x ping okay talk about a good chart now these chinese ev stocks okay XPEV is eyeing mass production of flying cars and humanoid robots by 2026. And the stock's breaking out to hit new highs. $22 billion company. Now, I was talking to a friend over the weekend about the woes at Tesla. And the invasion of the Chinese EV car into Europe, $30 million price range for one of them BYDs. I had actually somebody that has driven one said they're pretty nice cars for the price. And of course, I'm sure China is subsidizing them to some extent.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I mean, you had the reports, I don't know, six, seven months ago or something of like, you know, basically a bunch of EV cars like in a field. Yeah, that's true. You know, almost like they were kind of like they did with their property market. Remember, basically building ghost cities. But, you know, whichever way it is, they're still rolling them off the line. They're still rolling them off the line.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, okay, so anyways, you know, if you want a Tesla alternative in the way of a stock, and then I see, I bring this up because just the horrible chart on this stock is horrible. we sold it at nine hundred and thirty nine service now today at seven it's a down a hundred and fifty points below where we sold it they're making their largest acquisition yet now they've got smart people i mean there's that's still a good company but this sentiment And the market right now is horrible. I mean, that's CEO Bill McDermott, who is a legend in the software industry. He was the CEO of SAP out of Germany. But look at that chart on ServiceNow, N-O-W. That's a nauseating chart. That goes beyond an ugly chart. and you know it's not like the fortunes there have changed that all of a sudden sales have dropped through the floor much of this is sentiment against these stocks so that's why you have to have a line of defense and I guess if you have an account somewhere else you're going to find out very quickly if who you're with has any line of defense at all I find that most most the vast majority Have no sell discipline whatsoever. They watch things go into the tank and then some. You know what, it finally takes a call from the client saying, hey, are you guys doing anything over there? That's usually what it takes to get somebody to call you back and actually do something. Okay, one last one. Franco Nevada, they report earnings. The gold and silver stocks, they're holding up well. They're doing well. They're profitable. They're growing their earnings because gold prices are up near $3,000 per ounce. That's also an alternative right now to tech. cash, some inverse funds, some tech. And then, of course, there are some stocks that are still behaving well that are non-tech, non-tech. We still own those because they're holding up well. Okay, well, you know what? The Band-Aid has been ripped off. The bleeding continues. Another ugly day in the market today. If you did not read the newsletter on Friday, I spent a lot of time on it, and I showed a lot of ugly charts. uh... charts that we sold and i mean they just continue to go down after we sold them so get the newsletter get the four week trial to the everything uh... the newsletter the live alerts during the day access to the app the app is going to show where the new bulls are arising And I've got a list of 600 to go through here. It's a totally different list than the one I was looking at in January. I don't see Palantir there anymore. I don't see NVIDIA. It's a whole different list to go through today. Go to GuntersonCapital.com to set up an appointment with us. We talk to people every day from all walks of life, from all over the country. We are diligent. We are active. And, you know, we try to do the absolute best that we possibly can for our clients. Give us a call at 855-611-BEST to set up an appointment. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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This episode deep dives into the calling of every Christian believer to live as a royal ambassador for Christ. Rick Hughes eloquently guides listeners through the responsibilities and privileges this entails, from the importance of humility and unity in faith to the role of evangelism and personal testimony. Whether you're seeking to strengthen your own faith or discover how to effectively share it with others, this episode is a treasure trove of inspiration and practical advice.
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Welcome to The Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flotline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, you have a cordial invitation to hang around, stick with me. Just a few minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education, all done without any types of manipulation. We don't try to con people. We're not trying to hustle money. We're not going to try to sell you anything, not try to get you to join up. We just want to give you some good news. The good news is that Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, redeemed you and me out of the slave market of sin. Thus, our debt to God has been paid, and we are now free from the penalty and the power of sin. If we receive Christ as our Savior, we in effect accept the offering that he made on our behalf, the free gift of compliments of the grace of God. Ephesians 2.89 says, For by grace you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast about it. It's a heck of a way to start a radio show saying all of that, but here's the main bottom line. Are you sick of living like you're living? Are you tired of being the person that you are? Would you like to start your life all over again? You can. The Bible says, if any man's in Christ, he's a new creation. Old things are passed away, and all things become new. You can have a clean slate today. By receiving Jesus Christ as your Savior, you can begin a new life, a spiritual life. a unique life that God has ordained for you in eternity past, and a wonderful way to live that you can live without worry, you can live without guilt, you can live without shame, you can live without fear. It's a wonderful life called the Christian life, but it starts with faith alone in Christ alone. That's why Titus says in 3, chapter 3, verse 5 and 7, not by works of righteousness, which we did, But according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our Lord, that being justified by his grace, freely by his grace. We would be made heirs according to the confidence that we have of eternal life. What a wonderful thing to know Christ as Savior, to begin a new life. That happened to me when I was 22 years old. I was sick of myself. I was sick of living the way that I was living. I was sick of the spotlight in my head that would show me all the goofy things I'd done. I'd try to go to bed at night and there was no peace. I didn't really know God. I didn't think about God. But finally, someone took me to a Bible study and I heard about God. And I heard the claim that Jesus Christ died for me, took my place on the cross, was judged in my place. And that if I would trust him, I could have eternal life. I didn't know all the complications or the ramifications or everything that would take place, but I did it. I prayed. I asked him to save me. And I didn't feel weird. I mean, nothing funky happened. No lights blinked. No angel showed up. But it happened just as I was told that it would happen. And my life has never been the same since then, excuse me. So what happened is I became a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you can do that also. You can be a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. Would you like to do that? Would you like to be his representative in the devil's world? Recently, while listening to my pastor teach a series on the life of Christ and It's been quite a series. It's well over a thousand hours he's been teaching on this right now. I came to consider what it means to be a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's what I'd like to share with you today. Notice some of the points that I read as I go through John 17 and read a few verses. This is where the Lord Jesus Christ is praying. He's praying for his disciples, and you're going to find out something else. He prayed for you in this passage right here. In John 17, beginning with verse 6, he said this. This is, as my pastor says, a didactic prayer or teaching prayer, but The disciples are learning. As he's praying, they're learning. And he said, I have revealed to you, Father, those whom you gave me, but gave me out of this world. They were yours. You gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word. This is the first key thing. Obedience. And you can't be obedient if you're arrogant. Arrogant people are not teachable. It takes some humility to be teachable. And these men had to learn humility the hard way because they were very competitive with one another. They were a group of fishermen, tax collectors, et cetera. And they had to learn, the Lord Jesus Christ taught them some hard lessons about humility. But if you can understand that his mindset was a mindset of humility, he humbled himself, made himself of no reputation. Philippians 2, 5, 6, 7, right there. You understand what he expected from his disciples. It wasn't about a popularity contest. It wasn't about fame. Who's the most impressive in the bunch? It's about who could be the biggest, greatest, most wonderful servant. And the Lord Jesus Christ was that servant. He came to serve us and he serves you by providing eternal life free compliments. so he says they have obeyed your word in verse 7 john 17 coming up now and they know everything you've given me comes from you verse 8 for i gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them so listen carefully anything the lord jesus christ said came from god the father He didn't conjure up words on his own. He was repeating the words of God the Father. And as he repeated the words of God the Father, they came through God the Son, and the disciples believed it. And what you're going to see in a minute is God still speaks like this, except instead of speaking through God the Son, now he speaks through the Bible, the canon of Scripture with these men recorded for us. So he said, they believed that you sent me. And he said, I pray for them, verse nine. I'm not praying for the world, but for those you've given me because they are yours, verse 10. All I have is yours and all you have is mine and glory has come to me through them. I, verse 11, will remain in the world no longer. But they are still in the world, that's you and me. And I am coming to you. So Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name. So there's power in the name of God the Father. As a believer in Jesus Christ, we are members of the royal family of God. And the Bible says, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. What do we need to be protected from? Well, the Bible says the devil goes around like a roaring lion seeking who he can devour. We need protection from the strategy of the devil. And Ephesians 6 tells you how to do that. Put on the armor of God so you can stand against the strategy of the devil. And the whole study about the armor of God is about you staying filled with the Spirit, using the faithless drill, learning the promises of God, and these are all part of the flatline in your soul. So he asks the Father to protect them by the power of his name. then he went on to say the name you gave me so they may be one as we are one and here my pastor made it clear to me that they're praying for unity while i was with them i protected them and i kept them safe by the name you gave me none has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so the scriptures could be fulfilled but i am coming to you now but i say these things verse 13 while i'm still in this world so they may have the full measure of my joy within them. Verse 14, John 17, I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, for they are not of this world any more than I am of this world. And this is true of you too. If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, your citizenship is in heaven. And how did you become a Christian? By believing the word of God. How did you hear the word? It came through the apostles who recorded it and wrote down what Jesus Christ said. Well, where did Jesus Christ get these words? From God the Father as he gave them to him. There it is. I just read it to you. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one, that's Satan and his minions. And then verse 16, they are not of the world, but even as I am not of the world. Verse 17, chapter 17, John, sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth. Verse 18, As you sent me into the world, I sent them into the world. For them I sanctified myself, or set myself apart, that they too may be truly set apart. Now listen to verse 20, John 17. My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message. How did you come to believe in Jesus Christ? Well, you heard the word of God. How did you hear the word of God? It was written down and recorded by someone and quoted to you. Who wrote it down and recorded it? The apostles. And now it became the canon of Scripture, and now you have the Bible, and this is how God speaks to you, through the recorded words of Scripture. So my prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message. You hear it? For those who will believe in me through their message. He's looking in eternity future. He's looking to see you. You're going to be saved. You're going to accept Christ as your Savior. You're going to believe in him through the message the apostles recorded and wrote down and preserved for you in the canon of scriptures. How about that? Verse 21, that all of them may be one. In other words, unity. Not scattered about, says what the devil loves to do, is he loves to cause division and create divisiveness. Father, just as you're in me, I'm in you. May they also be in us so that the world would believe. You sent me. No competition. No one-upmanship. All one. Same mind, same goal, same identity. That's the way we're supposed to be, Christians. So here's some principles. One, this prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ was a teaching prayer for the disciples because they learned what was coming and what to expect. Two, in verse 20, he said, I pray for those who will believe in me through their message. That's the fulfillment of the Great Commission given in Matthew 28, 19 and 20, where he told them, go ye therefore teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. So there's their marching orders. There they had their commission. You, as a believer in Jesus Christ, have two royal commissions. You have been commissioned twice. We are commissioned as a believer priest, and we are commissioned as ambassadors of Jesus Christ. We are his personal representatives in the devil's world. You are, think about this for a minute now, you represent Jesus Christ. The way you dress, the way you talk, the way you live, the way you do things, you are his representative. So, you gotta remember this. As a royal priest, we represent ourself before God. We are believer priests. We don't have to go to another priest. We can pray directly to God the Father. We don't need someone to intervene for us. So when you bow your head and say, Heavenly Father, I approach your throne in the name of Jesus Christ, your anointed Son, bingo, you're right there. We have a priesthood. We don't need someone to sacrifice an animal on our behalf. The Lord Jesus Christ has already been sacrificed. We represent ourself before God. But then on the other side of the coin, as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are royal ambassadors. That means that we represent God before man. One of them is us representing ourself before God, the royal priest. The other, as a royal ambassador, is us representing God before man, man who's lost in sin, man who's lost in darkness. We are the one who reaches that person. This second commission, the royal ambassador, requires us to communicate the gospel, the good news, And it must be in a language understood by the recipient. So you have to talk to people. This is why you're here. As his personal representative, he is counting on you and depending on you to represent him to a lost and a dying world. This means that all believers, me, you, your pastor, we are all in full-time Christian service. granted we didn't appoint ourselves we were appointed by God and granted we don't support ourselves we're supported by God but our instructions are in written form recorded by the Apostles straight from the mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ who sent them and it's pretty simple we don't belong to this country to which we've been sent our citizenship is in heaven That's our country. That's our home, Ouranos, heaven. We are Americans, those of us that live here, birth by birth, we're proud to be an American. This is not my home. I'm passing through. The Bible says I'm a sojourner. I'm passing through on my way to glory, on my way to the promised place. But while I'm here, I am to tolerate others, hold no grudges, have the spiritual strength to stay the course until God calls me home. And 2 Corinthians 5.20 gives me my commission. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ. That's my royal commission. Yours too. As though God were making his appeal through us, you and me. We invite you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. You and I are ministers of reconciliation. That means we give the good news of Jesus Christ to those who come into our periphery. To say that I witness through my lifestyle is a coward. I witness through my lifestyle. I don't preach to people. That's a coward. If you're not willing to give the gospel straight up, you're a coward. It doesn't mean you have to preach to everybody you meet, but you could at least give them a track or something. We'll talk more about that later. But every person you meet is an opportunity to escort them into heaven, into God's grace. So your ambassadorship is made up not only of how you live your life, but what you say. In private, you function under your priesthood, your believer priest. But in public, you function under your royal ambassadorship, the personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you say, I'm a Christian, you are the personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. Church-age believers like you and me are not only ambassadors to human creatures, but angels are keeping an eye on those things that are going on down here as well. You are a royal ambassador. You're being watched right now. Angels observed our Lord in 1 Timothy 3.16. They observe and rejoice over the conversion of just one person in Luke 15.7 and 10. And then fallen angels, who you know as demons, are organized to resist and oppose your ambassadorship and your growth in grace. This is seen in Job 1.6, in Job 2.1-3, in Ephesians 6.12. We're at war. There's a spiritual war going on. So Christian service, that's you doing something for God. Christian service related to your royal priesthood, which includes prayer, giving, the execution of the protocol plan of God by learning, thinking, and solving problems. That's the priesthood. Christian service related to your priesthood. That's you representing yourself before God. You are supposed to pray. You're supposed to give. You're supposed to live the protocol plan of God. And the only way you can do it is to learn it, think it, and Live it. But then on the other side of the coin, your royal ambassadorship. Christian service related to your royal ambassadorship includes evangelism. It includes witnessing. It includes administration in the local church with you functioning in your local church, maybe as a deacon or administration on the mission field or some function in a Christian service organization. A Christian service related to the laws of divine establishment is a wonderful way as an ambassador for Jesus Christ. If you serve in the military, if you serve in law enforcement, if you serve in government, that's a wonderful way to represent Jesus Christ, God's anointed son. It's awesome. So 2 Corinthians 5.19 says, to witness the fact that God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Have you ever thought why people go to hell? Why they spend eternity in the lake of fire? Is it because they're bad sinners, they're drunks, they're immoral, they're adulterers? What's the reason? No one goes to hell because of their sins. Their sins have been paid for. Their sins were judged on the cross. All sin was poured out on Christ. I've told you the Bible says, he that knew no sin was made sin for us. People go to hell and spend eternity in the lake of fire because they reject Christ as Savior. he that believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life and he that believeth not the wrath of god abides on him already if anyone goes to the lake of fire it's because their name is not recorded in the leon's book of life not because they're sinners but because they rejected forgiveness they rejected the opportunity to be saved they rejected christ as savior I mean, Jesus was clear. This is the will of the one that sent me that you believe in me whom he has sent. And he said, if I'm lifted up, I will draw men to myself. You must lift him up. You must proclaim his name. Not obnoxiously. You must literally. Give the Word of God as an ambassador. You stand for God. You are a personal representative of Jesus Christ. You have been sent here for a mission, and that mission is to lead someone else to Christ, to give them the information so they can have eternal life also, not for you to sit on it and say, well, I witness with my lifestyle. Again, that's a coward. Listen, anybody can be a good person. Anybody can have a moral lifestyle. Just because you live a moral lifestyle, that doesn't impress people. You know as well as I do, as soon as you open your mouth and begin to talk about Christ, that you're gonna be alienated by certain people. And that's fine. That's the way it's supposed to happen. Jesus said, I didn't come to bring peace, I came to bring a sword. Father will turn against son, son will turn against mom and daughter. I mean, it's all in the Bible. So why do you think it's supposed to be real easy if you talk about the Lord Jesus Christ? If you identify as a royal ambassador, Do you not know what's going to happen? You're going to be ostracized. You're going to be attacked. You're going to be a target. If you have a business card, what does it say? John Doe Professional Services. Put on the bottom of that card, next time you reprint it, an ambassador of Jesus Christ. Put it on your card. Give it to people. Don't be ashamed of it. It's the most unique calling in the world. You have been called to stand beside Christ. You have been called to represent him. You have been sent into the devil's world with a royal commission. Go, therefore, and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, many Christians are so self-absorbed, they never even come close to living the Christian life. They don't even get close to it. They don't even know what it means. They just go through the ritual of religion without no reality to it. Ritual without reality is totally meaningless. There has to be reality to what you do, like communion. So many churches offer communion once a month, once a quarter, two or three times a year, and it's just a ritual with no reality because people don't even understand what they're doing. They couldn't name any doctrine associated with the bread, and they couldn't name any doctrine associated with the cup. They just eat it and drink it and say, okay, I'm remembering Jesus. It's a lot more than that. It's a test. It's a test of what you can remember. Many Christians are so self-absorbed, they never take the time to learn anything. Yeah, I got my ticket to heaven. Yes, I'm saved. Yes, I'm going to go to church. Every Sunday morning, I'm always there. I always give my tithe. I'm a good Christian. I don't drink, dance, smoke, chew, or hang around with those that do. Yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. But what about the plan of God? What about growing the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? What about study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth? What about take my yoke and learn from me? My yoke is easy. My burden is light." what about if you love me you will keep my mandates and they're not grievous first john 5 3. see each individual you meet is an opportunity for you to extend the grace hand of god in fellowship he's waiting and you can invite them and introduce them to your savior the lord jesus christ if you're not confident in what you're supposed to say then give them a track I mean, my goodness, I have a little small tract called Happiness. We give them away by the hundreds. Put it in their hands and say, if you take time to read this, let me know if you have any questions. Would you please take a moment to read this? They may throw it away. I mean, that's okay. We'll print some more. But if one of them takes time to read it, you've at least given him an invitation to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ without you saying anything if you're not confident in what to say. If you're not confident in what to say, sometimes it's because you don't know how to say it. So maybe one out of 100 will eventually respond, but at least you offered the good news. Personal witnessing is one category of Christian service as part of your royal ambassadorship. The Holy Spirit will take your words, the words you say, and he will act on them But he only uses what's accurate. He doesn't use what's inaccurate. So if you tell someone if you want to be a member of the royal family of God, you got to quit drinking and quit smoking and quit cussing and quit going to R-rated movies, that's not how you get saved. It's believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved. It's John 3, 16, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that whoever believed in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. This is an opportunity for you to have a new life in Christ. an opportunity for you to be somebody, for you to actually be somebody, not just a number on your driver's license, but to be a royal ambassador of Jesus Christ, his personal representative in the devil's world. That's what you're called to be. It's an awesome responsibility. It's an awesome opportunity. It's an awesome privilege. Put it on your card. Put it on your mailbox. A royal ambassador of Jesus Christ. What a privilege to lift up the name of Christ and see people be drawn in to him. I hope you're listening. I hope you're paying attention. And I hope this is meaningful for you. If you have a question, you can always contact me through our website, rickhughesministries.org. Until next week, same time, same place, please come back.
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