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In this thought-provoking episode of The Flatline, Rick Hughes delves into the concept of 'chaos coming out of opportunity.' Drawing inspiration from a recent NFL game, Rick explains how, in the Christian life, adversity can often lead to triumph. He discusses how individuals become victims of their own decisions rather than their circumstances, emphasizing the importance of making sound, prayerful choices to navigate the chaos. This episode unveils the secret to maintaining peace and stability through the filling of the Holy Spirit and spiritual discipline, as outlined in biblical doctrines. Listen in as Rick breaks down teachings from scripture, like pieces from Thessalonians and Philippians, to offer practical steps for managing life's difficulties without falling into self-pity or bitterness. By aligning one's mindset with the divine promises, followers can discover an unparalleled tranquility, even amidst trials. Through diligent faith and problem-solving strategies sourced from scripture, believers can learn to find joy and purpose, transforming hardships into opportunities for spiritual growth and maturity.
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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 Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please stick around. 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, a whole lot of education, and always done without any manipulation. That means there's no solicitations. We're not asking for money. We're not trying to sell you anything. We're not trying to ask you to join anything. We just want you to listen. Listen as I try my best to verify and identify the plan of God for your life. And if I can do that, and you're free to orient and adjust to the plan, that's really up to you. But wherever you may be, in your automobile or at your home or maybe listening on a podcast, thank you for giving me a few minutes of your time. And to remind you of our website, rickhughesministries.org. That's rickhughesministries.org. And you can order any of our books there free of charge. You can listen to many of our books there as they're read to you over the website. Some people have asked me do we have donate online giving and the answer is no we don't. If you wish to contribute to this ministry you'll have to mail it to P.O. Box 100 in the city of Cropwell, Alabama since we don't have online giving. Now today we want to talk about chaos coming out of opportunity. Chaos coming out of opportunity. I recently heard that statement while watching an NFL football game. I liked it. Chaos comes from opportunity. This certainly is true in the Christian's life also, because all believers who are going to advance in the plan of God will have a target on their back. In other words, Satan certainly is going to do everything possible to discourage you and to confuse you, but the truth is simply this, we are our own worst enemy, aren't we? How you would orient to the chaos in your life will determine the effect you'll have on other people, as well as the impact you'll have in the devil's world. So keep this in mind. You are a victim of your own decisions, not your circumstances. You are a victim of your own decisions, not your circumstances. And remember, bad decisions limit future options. So keep that in mind and listen to 2 Thessalonians 3.16. Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with you all. The Lord of peace give you peace always in every way. You may notice that he is called the Lord of Peace, and he can give you that same peace. That peace is available to you through the filling of the Holy Spirit, problem-solving device number two in the flatline of your soul, identified in Galatians 5.22, where it says the fruit of the Spirit is love and joy and peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, et cetera. Peace is part of of the filling of the holy spirit you've heard me say in previous messages that the original greek word for peace is the greek word irene meaning a situation that results from cessation of hostilities or state of law and order but for the christian it means an internal attitude Even in the midst of violence, it's a state of being that lacks nothing and has no fear from being troubled. So I'd like to suggest to you this thought. You might not agree what I'm about to tell you, but listen carefully. I suggest that it is entirely possible to never have a bad day in spite of your circumstances. It's entirely possible to never have a bad day in spite of your circumstances. Why can I say that? Because Isaiah wrote about it in Isaiah 26.3 in his song about the millennium where he said, you will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you. You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you. Principle one, this verse indicates that it's entirely possible to have peace or can I call it a inner tranquility, a relaxed mental attitude under all adverse circumstances? Two, I use the term mental attitude, relaxed mental attitude, to describe that inner tranquility. I use that term since the verse indicates that the thoughts of the believer are what produces the peace, not the removal of the circumstances. Where did I get that? Well, three, did you hear the part whose mind has stayed on you? This is the power of the spiritual life. It's amazing. The spiritual life can give you this peace. And when you think about it regarding the divine assets that you have, thinking the Bible, thinking the scripture, thinking what we call Bible doctrine, rather than focusing on the adversity that you're facing. So you're either gonna think about the adversity or you're gonna think about the plan of God and the Bible doctrine in your soul. That's the difference. You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you. If you're not thinking about the word of God, then you're gonna think about the adverse circumstances and you're not gonna have any peace. And did you notice this? Did you notice because he trusts in you. This act of trust is what we call the faith rest drill. And that's also problem solving device number three. in the flat line of your soul. Remember, there are 10 problem-solving devices, and you should know them by now. If you don't, call or write for the book, Christian Problem Solving, and we'll send you a book that lists all 10 of them. This was taught to me by my pastor many years ago. This is not something I discovered. This is something he taught me, and I'm sure he does not mind me passing it on because it's the scripture, and all scripture is free of charge. So do you trust in him? That's the faith rest drill. Do you know what that is? Do you understand how to operate the faith rest drill, standing on the promises of God? So point five, getting mad, getting depressed is simply your mind on the circumstances or on the people that produce the adversity, not on God's perfect will and provision for you. So point six, this type of attitude is actually what we call, buckle up now, here it comes, a little self-pity party. They'll have a little self-pity party because you think you've been treated unfairly. Point seven, when you have self-pity, you react with emotions rather than responding with scripture, which is where the strength of the faith restoration comes from. And this little pity party is a mental attitude sin. So when you get to feeling sorry for yourself or you get to feeling you got gypped or you get to feeling you got a raw deal and you cop an attitude about that and you say, don't mess with me, I'm having a bad day. Well, that's a mental attitude sin. Why can I say that? Because Ephesians 4.31 tells you that. Let all bitterness, let all wrath, let all anger, let all clamor and evil speaking be put away from you along with all your malice. Don't do it. The victory over anxiety and frustration in your life is found in the words of the Apostle Paul. He wrote about it in Philippians 4, 6, and 7. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, along with thanksgiving, Let your requests be made known to God. Here it comes, listen carefully. And the peace of God, there it is, which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus. The heart is the cardia, the mind is the noose, Remember in the Greek New Testament, these are two different things. We're not talking about the organ that pumps blood. We're talking about the heart, which is where we store information. When you learn the Bible, you get it in your noose in your mind. It's called the noose. And then you, by faith, transfer it to your heart or into the cardia where you can now use it in the memory center and use it to recall it when you have to. So the heart and the mind are two different things. A lot of people get it in the noose and understand it, but they never cycle it over to the heart where they obey it and live by it. So I read to you Philippians 4, 6, and 7. It will guard your heart and your mind. Both of those are in your head as part of your soul. Through or because of Christ Jesus our Lord. So what can I have? The peace of God will surpass all understanding. People want to understand how can you be so calm after what happened to you? How can you not be angry? How come you're not upset? How come you're not foaming at the mouth? because you have the peace of God through the filling of the Holy Spirit. That verse indicates you can overcome mental attitude sins by prayer and supplication. Did you hear that? Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. What does that mean? It means asking for insight concerning how to deal with your tests that you're going through, which probably you may be failing. And thanksgiving. Why thanksgiving? Well, because of Romans 8, 28, and we know that all things work together to good for those who love God to those who are called according to his predetermined plan. All things. So it doesn't make any difference whatever you're facing. It's his plan. And you can thank him for it. So you don't have to get mad. You don't have to get angry. You don't have to pout. You just have to say, Father, thank you for giving me this opportunity to glorify you through these adverse circumstances. Forgive my bad attitude about it. I didn't trust you. And recover your spiritual life and move on. Now here's what you need to remember. All things do not, and I repeat, do not work together for good to the non-Christian. When that verse says all things work together for good to those who love God. So the non-Christian, that doesn't work for him. Even the Christian who may be out of fellowship with God due to unconfessed sin in his life. All things do work together for good to those who are in fellowship and those who have personal love for God. That's problem-solving device number seven, personal love for God. That's one of the problem-solving devices. That's your virtue love. It's an amazing thing to have love for God, not for yourself, but for God, because that's your motivational virtue. If you love God, you'll obey God, the Bible tells us. So, one, all things do not work together for good to the non-Christians. Two, personal love for God is your motivation to obey God. In 1 John 4, 19, we love him Why do you love God? Because he first loved us. That's reciprocal love motivation. You love him because he first loved you. And then, of course, in 1 John 5, 3, the verse we've heard before, this is the love of God that we keep his mandates, and his mandates are not a burden. That's a demonstration that you love God. What? That you are obedient to God. Years ago, while playing college football at the University of Alabama as a freshman, I watched the coaches pick out certain players whom they would put under a test to see if they could handle pressure. I kind of watched that. I said, you know, they're going to try me one day too. I knew my time was coming, and sure enough, it did. It started with a blocking assignment that developed into an argument on the practice field and eventually a fight. That means I was fighting with the other guy, and the coaches used that situation to test me to see if they could determine whether or not I could handle the pressure. So I got in a fight, and they took that guy out and put two men in. I said, okay, now two of you get on him. And I was still mad, still trying to fight. So they took those two out and put three on me, three on one. And I eventually went to a place I didn't realize I could go to, sort of a super stamina. And when the coach stopped the drill and got me in the eye, he said, that's what I'm looking for. That's never quit attitude is what I want. So the coaches used that situation to test me and determine if I could handle it. Always put forth the same effort that I did that day. That's what they wanted me to do. So don't be alarmed. Don't be discouraged if God tests you. It's simply part of the growing process. No big deal. People testing and system testing are two of the tests that we will fail often. I used to do a lot of teachers in service meetings when I was traveling speaking in schools, and I would talk about tests that teachers often failed. Not the students, but teachers failed. People testing and system testing are two of those tests. For example, if you were a teacher and you had a a weird kid in your room and you couldn't handle him or her, then you'd get all vibrate and get out of shape. When they came in, you were failing the people test. Or if they said, okay, we want you to stay after school for a meeting or want you to come to the ball game tonight and support your team, you didn't want to do that. So you work where a system of authority gets you to make a decision you don't like. So how do you handle it? People testing, system testing. These are tests we often fail. It can be true in your job, too. When you have to do something you really don't want to do, you want to spend your time doing something else. Let's get some principles. When it comes to testing, no test, no test has ever come your way apart from the will of God. And you know he will never give you more than you're able to bear because he will always provide a way out. And that's the use of the problem-solving devices to resolve the problem that you're having. Two, God's problem-solving devices are infinitely greater than any counselor or counseling you could ever get from a psychiatrist or a psychotherapist. Sorry about that, Dr. Bob, but God's problem-solving devices are infinitely greater. Dr. Bob knows that, and he may tell you that someday. You don't know who Dr. Bob is, but he's a dear and precious friend. In 1 Corinthians 10, 13, the Bible says, there is no testing overtaken you, but such as is common to man. but God is faithful who will not permit you to be tested beyond your capability, but with the testing will provide the solution also so that you may be able to endure it. So no testing has come your way apart from the will of God, and no testing has come your way that he doesn't give you the ability to overcome. So every believer goes through testing. Every believer. What did it say? It's common to man. This testing is common to man. No testing has overtaken you that is not common to man, 1 Corinthians 10, 13. Every believer goes through testing. Two, God is aware of our circumstances. When we go into these tests, he knows what we're facing. And three, he knows our limit of endurance, how much of it we can handle. what we can handle, what we can't handle. And number four, he always provides a way of escape. That is, if you choose to use it. That way of escape is very simply the faithless drill, standing on the promises of God and using rebound when you get mad, get angry, and lose your temper and you start having a bad day. You know, you can think differently if your mind is stayed on him. The Bible said we saw that. So the strength in your soul that stabilizes you in times of testing is the word of God that you have retained and the use of the filling of the Holy Spirit that helps you to recall it. It's supposed to be in your memory center in your heart, not just in your mind, but in your heart. The launching pad of the memory center in your heart is where when you hit a situation in your life where you have difficulty You can go pull up that scripture that you've learned and fire off that rocket right up. Man, now I got it under control. I don't have to be afraid. I don't have to worry. I don't have to be angry. That was all me. That was all my emotion. That was all me having a self-pity party. That's right. That's what it was. So you can always recover from your loss of spiritual activity by rebounding. Or you can just stay bitter, stay angry. If you want to do that, you can do that. But remember this, Proverbs 14, 10, the heart knows its own bitterness and a stranger does not share its joy. So bitter people are no fun to be around, I promise you. They are no fun to be around. Why? Because they infect you with their own brand of sickness. How do they do that? Well, they want to talk about it. They want to tell you what a raw deal they got in their life, and they want you to side up with them and believe that they're being mistreated and it's not fair what they're having to go through. And so that's what they're going to talk about. In Psalm 3, verse 8, the Bible says this concerning bitter people. Cease from being angry and forsake your wrath. Do not fret. It only causes harm. Again, the Bible says in Proverbs 14, 30, a sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones. The word envy and bitterness are synonymous words, two of the same things. A bitter person is normally very envious of another individual or jealous of another person. A sound heart is a person who's thinking on solid ground, a person who's not living on a crack, chaos, chaotic world. You're living on the word of God, you're believing the word of God, you're staying filled with the Holy Spirit, Rebounding when you sin and you're claiming those promises of 7,000 promises in the Bible. By the way, we have a book called The Promises of God. If you don't have it, you need to order it. It's a great little book. It doesn't list them all, but it lists a lot of promises that you can claim under adverse circumstances. Okay, Hebrews 12, 15. Looking carefully, the Bible warns us, lest anyone fall short of the grace of God. And lest any root of bitterness, picria, bitterness, springs up and cause trouble, and by this many become defiled. Two words there, bitterness and defiled, are what we want to look at before we wrap it up today. You cannot afford to be bitter. That's your mental attitude sin. That's your self-pity party when you're mad or you're angry or you're having a bad day because of something someone did to you or someone said to you or something. some circumstances that you don't like and now you're all frustrated and mad about it. Your bitterness will cause you to be defiled, the Bible says. I read it to you, looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God and a root of bitterness spring up causing trouble and by this many are defiled, Hebrews 12, 15. Now, don't get all upset when I tell you this. But when you allow yourself to get angry or you allow yourself to get upset due to circumstances beyond your control, in essence, you stink up the room. It's like a baby with an unchanged diaper. You stink. The word defiled is the Greek word meino. And it was often used to mean to stain or to soil or to pollute. I heard a friend of mine once say that the Jews did not have indoor plumbing, so they had a bedpan at night. They'd use a bedpan. And in the morning, the woman of the house would go out and throw it in the street and say, me I know. Men don't step in it. Stay away from it. It's human waste. This is what the Bible says. You become defiled. You become bitter. You become defiled. You're stained. You're polluted. You're soiled. So don't allow yourself to get angry or upset due to any circumstances beyond your control because you will stink up the room like the baby with the unchanged diaper, as I said. No one wants to be in a room with a stinker. Others can sense your hatred. Others can sense your attitude of self-pity because you did not get your way or you did not agree with a decision. So remember, you're not allowed to have a bad day. You are not allowed to have a bad day. Remember that. Psalm 118 verse 24. This is the day the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day the Lord made. Not your day, the day the Lord made. So I'm gonna sit around and feel sorry for myself. No, we will rejoice and be glad in it. That's a relaxed mental attitude. That sort of attitude is appreciation and trust in the plan of God. This is his day. He brought these circumstances about and I will be happy with it because I know it's a test for me. It's something I need to learn from it. It's something I need to pass. Or you can sit there and mope about it. But if God allows it, it's for your blessing. So why, why, listen to this, why then do you feel you have the right to gritch about it? Gritch. I know you never heard that word before. It's not in the dictionary, but it's a combination of two words and you're gritching about it. You don't like what happened to you. You don't like the circumstances you're in. You don't like the test you went through. You don't like the person that did it to you. And so you go say, I don't want to talk about it. And you go sit in the corner and feel sorry for yourself. That's just plain pitiful. Remember what we talked about? Chaos creates opportunity. This is when you get to use your spiritual life to relax. This is when you get to use your spiritual life to forgive the individual that did something to you that made you upset. But you're always to rejoice and count it all blessing. Did you hear that? This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad. I'm going to count it a blessing and I will be happy about it because this is the day God gave me. This is what God wants me to go through today. This is what God is allowing me to endure today. Chaos creates opportunity. Here's a principle. The mature believer, and I hope that's you, is never allowed to have a bad day. So get over your frustrations, get over your disappointment, and count it all joy. James 1, 2 through 3. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various tests or trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. Hey, this is what God is doing. He's trying to teach you to be patient. So he lets these things come into your life to give you instruction, to teach you. And again, this is how you glorify God. When you pass these tests, you glorify God to the maximum. When you fail the test, then your focus is all on yourself and your little pity party you're having because somebody treated you wrong or you're not happy and you're having a bad day. You're not supposed to have a bad day. As a Christian, you don't have to worry. You don't have to be afraid. You don't have to be angry. You don't have to be bitter. That's all sins of the flesh and you don't have to go through that. So I hope you're listening. I hope you're learning. This was a tough lesson to teach, but it's been my pleasure to give you this information. Thank you for listening to me on the radio station this morning. We are on close to 100 stations. We've made some cutbacks recently, but we'll be adding more stations in the future. We're working on some new books as well. We're replacing the book called Understanding Your Soul with a new book on the spiritual life. It's not ready yet, but when you call and ask for Understanding Your Soul, we don't have that book anymore. So keep that in mind, okay? And I hope you'll come back next week, same time, same place, and a different message. Until then, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
In this engaging episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush talks with real estate expert Kurt Rogers about the nuances of today's buyer's market. Tune in to learn why now might be the right time to buy as mortgage rates begin to shift, offering potential advantages for first-time buyers and seasoned investors alike.
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And we are back. Hour number three here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560. It's time for our Monday Mortgage Minute with Kurt Rogers, Affordable Interest Mortgage. Kurt, how are you today? I'm fine, Andy. How are you? I'm doing well, sir. I'm doing well. Hey, I wanted to ask you, are we still in a buyer's market?
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I firmly believe we're actually in the beginning of a buyer's market. I think it's going to last probably for 12 to 18 months. Really? Yeah, I really do. I think as you see rates go down, it's going to put the buyers more in control. Wow.
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Okay, because I have had times where, all right, just a second. I've had times where I have bought homes. I bought a couple of homes. And in both times, I bought them during buyer's markets, right? And the rates were a little higher at the time. But what I did is I bought when the – because the rates were a little higher, the prices were lower. I bought then. And then within the next two years, the rates went down. And so I was able to renegotiate and refinance. And basically, I got a twofer.
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A lot of people miss that point. They think if they buy when the rates are up above normal, that that's a bad thing to do. But the advantage is you get a better price on that, and then you can turn around in a year or two, especially with these 2-1 buy-downs, and refinance it and have the seller from the initial loan pay for your cost to refinance it to get a better rate. Yeah. Now, what about first-time buyers? Do they still have some stuff going for them? They have some great programs out there. We're going to be talking a lot about that tomorrow. I'm going to give an example that people say, I can't buy a home with rates to where they are now as cheap as I can rent. I can show you where you can get a two-bedroom, two-bath for less than $2,000 a month. See, that's awesome. We're going to be talking about that tomorrow.
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And I would look at them and say, the prices are down because of that. Now's the time to get in. You get it. And then you refinance later. Because I believe, Kurt, that the rates are going to go down over the next two years.
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Oh, I think they'll go down a little bit this year. Then they'll go down more. That's why I think now's a good buyer's market as you're going on. So, yeah, I agree with you.
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All right. Well, let's see here. Haystack help tomorrow. You host. And what again is the topic?
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We're going to be talking about first-time homebuyers. First-time homebuyers right now are 35% of the buyer's market. So there's a lot of them out there trying to take advantage, and we're going to kind of go over different loan programs that can help more younger folks and more first-time homebuyers buy a home.
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Okay, folks, if you want to know anything about that, tomorrow from noon to 1, be listening to Haystack Help with Kurt Rogers. Kurt, as always, we appreciate the advice. Take care. You have a great night. That's Kurt Rogers from Affordable Interest Mortgage. You can give him a call at 720-895-0500.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush online right now. We got Jersey Joe. Joe, how you doing? Andy, I'm doing good. How are you doing? How's my gumba? I'm doing all right. I'm doing all right. All right. Hey, Joe, I know you got some clips. You got some topics. But as I warned you in advance, there's something I want to talk about first.
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All right. I was going to do the fun stuff first, but if you want to do the heavy stuff first, we can do the heavy stuff.
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I want to get heavy and philosophical. This is really going to grind your brain. Is favoritism killing the favorites? And here's what I mean. The last four years, especially of Biden, which was so unbelievably hardcore DEI throughout our entire society. Right. And what you had was an entire culture. And I think this is going to start turning with Trump in place. And it's not because Trump, you know, is pro white heterosexual men. It's that Trump doesn't care. You know, you could be anything and you're fine with Trump. He simply does not care. But there was a hierarchy and it was definitely for the last four years it was put into overdrive. But it's been there now for a couple of decades. Yeah. And here's what I mean. The more check marks by your name, the higher up the ladder you were, okay, socially. And I think you saw this the most when you would watch commercials on TV, all right? Now, think about this for a second, Joe. Every commercial, almost every commercial, what do you got? You got a bad or dumb person, and you got a good or smart person, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the dumb person is always a minority, right? That's always the dumb person?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, no, I don't think so.
SPEAKER 11 :
There's never been a dumb minority in an ad ever?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, there is, but you have to have somebody else who's higher up the ladder than you. And by the way, for instance, let's say it's one of those home protection companies. What kind of person do they always show robbing your house? A white person. A white man. It's never a white woman. It is always a white man. So here's what I mean. The more check marks by your name, okay, the more check marks for the right demographics by your name, the higher up the ladder you are. It's very simple. So straight white male has zero. OK, straight white female has one check. OK, black, straight black male has one check. Right. Gay black male has two checks or gay white female has two checks. And then if you want three checks, if you want to go all the way, you get gay black female checks. All right. And obviously now that now they're excuse me, they're also mixing in trans. But here's the thing. You could have a black male be the dumb one in the in the commercial. If his wife, who is, say, a black female, was the smart one because she has two checks. She has two checks by her name. He only has one check by his name. Do you see how that works?
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. You're spot on, Andy.
SPEAKER 18 :
No matter what, in almost every commercial, and I did this one time, I went through, golly, it was 20-some commercials. And out of all of them, there was like one where there was an inverse of this. If you have, say, a black and white, I'm sorry, a two black, a black woman and a black man. The black man almost invariably has to be either the bad or the dumb person. And obviously, you have never seen a gay black female be the bad or dumb person in any ad ever.
SPEAKER 11 :
Never, ever.
SPEAKER 18 :
Not once. Now, when you compare that to the real world, because in the real world, all people are just people. It doesn't matter what you are. It's all by merit. At least it's supposed to be. Compare what we had with our previous White House press secretary. To what we have now.
SPEAKER 11 :
Karine Jean-Pierre, was that her name?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, Karine Jean-Pierre compared to Carolyn Leavitt, who is, Carolyn Leavitt looks like she's about eight years old. Okay, she's like 20. She's the youngest one ever. I think she's like 25 or something.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, 25, 26, and she just had a baby.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, she is a miracle. I mean, she's incredible. The jump from KJP to her has been astronomical. I'm going to give one more example of the Super Bowl. In the playoffs, it was pretty well known the Chiefs were carried by the refs. They were given favoritism. More check marks, if you know what I mean. They got the Taylor Swift check mark. What did that do? It elevated them into a game where they didn't belong. against a team that was so superior to them. They didn't belong in the field. They shouldn't have been there. They had nowhere near the talent of the Eagles, but the Eagles weren't carried there by the refs. Am I making sense?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, and you called that the Friday before the Super Bowl when you and John and I'm drawing a blank on John's son, Richard, when you were discussing it, they were, you know, Richard was all in for the Chiefs and John was kind of on the fence and you were All in for the Eagles. You were the only one who had it. You were clearly correct. And by the way, you know I put a $100 bet on the Eagles back in December. I know. Paid me $550. Yes! I was with you all the way.
SPEAKER 18 :
By the way, John actually picked the Chiefs by 10 or more. No fooling. And I don't think – I think they both understood. I think we all understood the Eagles were the better team. I think that they were basically looking at it and saying, well, geez, the refs carried them this far. And I can't blame them for that because the refs had been so nice to them. But what I'm saying is look at America today. America – When you are favored that much by society, it kills a lot of your motivation. And I don't care. You can go back 100 years. It was reversed, right? Straight white men had every advantage in the book. Right. They had every advantage in the book. And so when they had to go up against some young black guy who was learning, you know, how to do law, he would crush them in the court. Why? He's better. He had to work for it. It doesn't make any difference. But do you see that today coming into this Trump administration, which is totally new, do you see that this cultural and this cultural preference could be switching?
SPEAKER 11 :
I think it started with the Supreme Court decision, was it two years ago, when you had some Asian students up in Harvard filed suit that they were head and shoulders in terms of their grades, their test scores, their student activities. And when Harvard was doing their affirmative action admissions, they were admitting minority students who hadn't scored nearly as well. They had lower GPAs, much lower test scores, much lower student activities. And they were clear it was reverse discrimination, and the Asian students filed suits and, hey, we're being discriminated against because they're showing race preference, and race preference is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. And Supreme Court agreed with them. That was the end of that.
SPEAKER 18 :
And we had a listener in the last hour who said that air traffic controllers, there are now like 2,500 of them, white men, who are now claiming discrimination and they've signed on to a suit. to sue because they weren't given jobs because they were white men and they were basically just kept out. But here's my other question. That favoritism, does it just hurt the people who are cheated against or does it also hurt the people who are the favorites?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, it hurts the people who are shown the favoritism because they're just like the chiefs. They're put into a situation where, you know, they're destined to fail. In fact, I don't know if you had a chance to read it, but, uh, About an hour before the show, I sent you a couple of articles. And one of the ones that we could spend an hour discussing this, it said affirmative action is a failure machine. It is. It just sets people up to fail. And I sent you two other studies and research that showed that when minority students are admitted into very high-level institutions... despite their lower scores, their lower academic achievement, their failure rate is almost double than their white counterparts who admitted on the basis of their credentials. So my question is this. So you're a minority student. You get admitted despite your grades, which are, they talk about standard deviations, and I won't talk about what a standard, but it's a mathematical deviation. distinction between, you know, kind of the average and where you are, that minority students who had more than one standard deviation were twice as likely to fail out than students who are with plus or minus that one standard deviation. Now, here's my question. So if you're a minority student and you get admitted into an MIT or a Harvard, and after a year or two years, you fail out. Now, not only have you lost two years of your life, I don't know how much, no, it unless you've got a full ride in a scholarship, you've probably lost tens of thousands of dollars. And you can say, well, you can always transfer to another school. You cannot transfer. If you get an F in a course, you have no transferable credits. You don't get any credits. You can't transfer. If you fail the course, there are no credits to transfer for that failed course.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, yeah, but don't forget, a lot of these colleges were also apparently, at least from what I heard, boosting scores, boosting grades. for people of color in various classes. And look, people hear this and they think, oh, you're two white guys saying that people of color are dumb. No, all people are exactly the same. They're missing the point. If you take any group, any group, okay, it can be white people with red hair. It makes no difference. And you pile on all kinds of advantages and favoritism, you're gonna make them weaker. They don't have to climb up as high a ladder every day. which means they don't get as good at climbing ladders.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. If you took a bunch of white applicants with much, much lower test scored, much lower grade point averages, they would fail at the same rate that those minorities with those same test scores. So this is not unique to skin color. You know, it's, again, the white students, had they been admitted for those same lowered standards, would have had the same exact failure rate as those minority students. Now, There are minority students who, in fact, do qualify and did get admitted based on merit, and they excelled.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
God bless them. But the ones who were, they lowered the bar, if you will. They stand they stood a greater than 20 percent chance of failing out in year one.
SPEAKER 18 :
But here's what still angers me, though. This also puts a stigma on the people of color who are excellent at what they do, who bring the excellence at what they do. Let me give an example. The greatest man I ever the greatest person I ever worked with in the military. while I was in the air force was my supervisor. His name was, we called him big Mike. Okay. I won't give his last name. I don't like to embarrass people, but big Mike turned my life around. Big Mike was magnificent. He was a leader. And not only was he a leader, he was a transformer. He transformed me from just a stupid young hothead into somebody who is, you know, somewhat functional in this world. OK. And he meant everything to me. OK. Now, this was at a time when the Air Force didn't care about your color or anything like that. Big Mike came in like all of us and just kicked ass. He was just better. OK. And in today's military, Big Mike would still be Big Mike. Right. But a lot of people would probably look at him, especially after the last four years of what the Biden administration did, look at him and say, what advantages were you given? And have that look at him of that stigma, right? You've been given a leg up. You have that, but you're a tech sergeant because you've been given that leg up. No, he hasn't. He's that good.
SPEAKER 11 :
But people won't know that they'll always have that doubt or suspicion. Well, he got to where he is because of the color of his skin.
SPEAKER 18 :
Exactly. Anyway, that's that's all the seriousness I want to do, because I am kind of wondering going forward now, now that our new wonderful defense leader is going to get rid of all that stuff and he is getting rid of all that stuff. Could excellence be back? Could people learn to love each other again? And could we go forward and just be awesome? And I'm pretty excited about it. I think it's going to be better for everybody.
SPEAKER 11 :
Andy, I hope you're right, and I'm praying that you are. And let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that he continues on the path that he's on, despite all of the resistance that he's running up against. By the way, I think he planned on that resistance. You push the boundaries, and you know you're going to get pushback But you just keep plowing ahead. It's like when you plow snow, you're throwing snow off to the left and the right, and some is going to get thrown back in the road, but you just keep moving ahead. And I think he's going to continue to make progress. Even if he loses a few of these skirmishes, it's not going to stop the freight trains.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, I'll tell you what, our Secretary of Defense is going to help ride that train. He's incredible. Okay, I'll tell you what, when we get back, Jersey, Joe, you're going to help us have some fun, okay?
SPEAKER 01 :
I will try, Andy.
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SPEAKER 18 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Jersey. Joe is on the line. Joe, what do you got for us?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, John, before I, give me, Andy, before I get into a couple of my clips, I think I heard you talk about this in the prior hour, but I just, for those who are just joining the show, astounding statistic. Now, during the Biden administration, right up through the end of the year, the average number of what they call encounters, people coming across, you know, the southern border, was around 7,000 a day. And the statistic I heard from, is that yesterday, that number had fallen from 7,000 a day to 229. Unreal. Not 2,000 a day, 229. Now, this is with no new congressional, Biden kept saying, well, I can't do anything without congressional action. I can't do anything without more money. What a liar. Because Trump hadn't, there's been no change in our immigration laws No new money. And he hasn't hired and deployed any new border agents in three weeks. It takes more than three weeks to go through basic training to become a border agent. So with the same budget, the same rules, same laws, same number of border agents, he has cut, Trump has cut illegal crossings into this country by 98.5% in three weeks. From 7,000 a day to 229 a day.
SPEAKER 18 :
And all Americans should be really angry right now at the Democrats who spent the last four years lying their tails off and telling us all, oh, you know, you can't do this. You can't do that. Oh, it won't make any difference. Oh, walls don't work. Like barriers don't work.
SPEAKER 11 :
Can't be done. Can't be done.
SPEAKER 18 :
Can't be done. Can't be done. Can't be done. You kidding? It hasn't been a month. He did it in three weeks. They lied. They lied. And I'm telling you what, Joe, Americans more and more every month are going to see how much they lied. And I'm telling you, everybody thinks 2026 is going to be so great for the Democrats. I would not be so sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. Oh, and by the way, I did a little check of the media. You know, I went on, I Googled that story. No coverage by CBS, NBC, or ABC. CNN had a little bit. Fox had it. But the mainstream media, if you watch the evening news tonight on any of the network shows other than Fox, you're not going to hear a peep about the only 229 border encounters yesterday. Not one peep. It's going to be one of the best kept secrets in this country.
SPEAKER 18 :
And it was the number one issue of the entire election. And you're not going to have any coverage of it by the people who are being proven wrong because, by the way, it wasn't just the Democrat Party and their candidates who were saying that. It was the media backing them up.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. And I think they're embarrassed and that's why they're not going to talk about it because it doesn't reflect well on them. I mean, it's, you know, because they're because they were with Biden. Yeah, well, Biden has his hands tied. Biden can't do anything about it. No, he didn't have his hands tied. And Trump has proven that.
SPEAKER 18 :
So no, he tied our hands. So all right. What else you got for us, sir?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I want to go back to last week or two weeks ago with the tariffs. And, you know, Chuck Schumer, I don't know if you saw Chuck Schumer in his press conference. He comes out with a bottle of Corona beer in one hand, which is a Mexican beer and an avocado in the other. And this is how he's you know, going up against Trump. It's going to cost you, your guacamole is going to cost you more, and your beer is going to cost you more. Now, Jon Stewart, the talk show host, is a flaming liberal. Yeah. But Jon Stewart, you know, it was so ridiculous. Even Jon Stewart came out and just put a harpoon through Chuck Schumer. So if we have that clip, Charlie, can you play, and this is talk show host Jon Stewart taking a shot, and you'll hear some silence. It's Jon Stewart just shaking his head after Schumer does this little play on his little press conference, there's a little pause by Schumer. Stuart's just shaking his head, so go ahead, please.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. Most of it, Corona here, comes from Mexico. It's going to affect your guac, because what is guacamole made of? Avocados.
SPEAKER 12 :
Your response to the trade war is to tell us guacamole is made of avocados? Democrats, can you please stop trotting Schumer out there? Every time Trump traverses into the unreal, he's not good at this. What is the decision-making process here? Hey, who should we get out there to effectively battle one of the most savvy presidential media manipulators in history? I don't know. How about Schumer? He's uninteresting, but at least he's monotone.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and this is funny because, let's face it, he doesn't go after his side all the time like Bill Maher does. No, no.
SPEAKER 10 :
So you got to know he was really furious. When you lose Jon Stewart, you know you're in trouble. Yes, that's like losing Whoopi. Losing Whoopi. You're at the end.
SPEAKER 11 :
And then I've got a DEI clip. This is a stage satire. A young boy, maybe age 12, is at a spelling bee, and he's asked to spell the word woman. And again, this is staged. It's satire. And there's two judges, a male and a black woman. judge number one and two, and he asks for the definition. So can we play this clip of this young boy asking for the definition of woman?
SPEAKER 15 :
The word is woman.
SPEAKER 26 :
Woman, can I have the country of origin, please?
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't... Probably England or Germany or something. Woman.
SPEAKER 26 :
Can I have the definition, please?
SPEAKER 16 :
Uh... Why don't you ask Judge One that question?
SPEAKER 26 :
Can I have the definition of woman, please?
SPEAKER 25 :
No.
SPEAKER 26 :
Why not? I'm allowed to ask for definitions, right?
SPEAKER 25 :
The thing is, a woman is... A woman is... What she's trying to say is that each person gets to define...
SPEAKER 16 :
for themselves what a woman is.
SPEAKER 26 :
So can you define it?
SPEAKER 15 :
No. Word is woman.
SPEAKER 18 :
So I do know their country of origin. It was stupidest Stan.
SPEAKER 11 :
But I think that encapsulates the whole ridiculousness of DEI. It does. And gender and gender pronouns. You know, you know, because if you're a liberal, you can't define woman. Remember, we had the Supreme Court. Was it Kazenji Jackson Brown, whatever her name is? Katonji. Katonji Brown was asked to define woman. And, you know, what she should have said is there, you know, there's several definitions. There's the biological definition. But no, she said. No, she just tap danced around and refused to define what a woman was.
SPEAKER 18 :
She should have been barred from the court right there. That should have been the end. It is a come on. It's a female human, adult female human. That's what it is. You want to get into chromosomes? What do you want next? It's this is ridiculous. People, it really blows my mind. It's one thing for us to come to this point in history. where we talk so idiotically, and if somebody were transported forward from 200 years ago, they couldn't believe how stupid we sound. It's one thing to get that dumb. It's another thing to put it on the Supreme Court.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it's just, you know, I shake my head, and I'm so happy to see us going back the other way. You know, this happens when the pendulum goes too far in the other way, one direction. You know, it's going to swing back, and it has swung back. I don't think it would have swung this far back. If it hadn't gone so far the other direction to begin with, you know, this is clearly a reaction to how far I mean, when so far the vast majority of Americans, even those who don't like Trump, said we can't take any more of this. So I got to vote for the guy I'm not thrilled about. But I can't we can't take any more of the direction we're going is not a path we want to stay on.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, we're talking more about the cultural shift. This is what I was leading leading with earlier. How many check marks do you have? It moves you up the ladder. OK, and anybody who is dumb and stupid in an ad or is evil in a movie or whatever has to be one checkmark below you or on the same level. And, you know, I just think that we have lost. Let me ask you this, Joe. This cultural shift that we are seeing, which is unbelievable, this is the most stark, quick cultural shift I've ever seen in my life. Okay? Do you think it goes international? Do you think it's going to go beyond our borders?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, but not to the extent that, well, you know, you saw France. almost elected, Marie Penn, she didn't get elected, but the movement moving in her direction is growing. So I think they didn't go as far as we did, so I don't think the rebound is going to be as strong as it was here. But I think they're starting to come back, and I think when they watch what's happening here, they may say, you know, we want to be more like the U.S. And what's his name, Justin Trudeau in Canada, you know, he's on really shaky ground too.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, he's gone. Well, what about, okay. Okay. What about, what about a country totally turning itself around like Argentina? What does that do to the countries? Are the countries around there just so gone and corrupt? It doesn't make any difference.
SPEAKER 11 :
Uh, well, you know, you got two things at play. You've got no Brazil just, you know, they went through there. It was a bowl of sorrow. Uh, you know, he was there, he was there.
SPEAKER 18 :
Trump, right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Uh, And now he's out. And they flip back? I'm sorry?
SPEAKER 18 :
And they flip back?
SPEAKER 11 :
And they flip back. But the fact that he got in to begin with, I think, is an indication. But I think down there it was more an issue of economics and inflation than it was, you know, anything to have to do with DEI.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I think in the rest, like Argentina, I think the same thing. It's more of an economic and inflation issue than a DEI. I don't think DEI went as far left in South America as it did here. Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
Although their leader did make a heck of a speech at the UN about men and women, which was pretty incredible. Yeah, it was pretty incredible. I won't bore you with it right now. Tell you what, can we take a break? Absolutely. Okay, let's take a break. We'll come back with more from Jersey Joe. Up next is Flesh Law, Kevin Flesh. That's F-L-E-S-H. He represented me and my wife in a traffic accident, and we won easily. No one's better than Kevin, so call Flesh Law at 303-806-8886 or go to FleshLawFirm.com.
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SPEAKER 18 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Jersey Joe on the line right now. Joe, really quick before we go on, I want you to think back to Corrine Jean-Pierre, who was always, let's face it, always looking down at these endless notes and having to read off what other people wrote for her. Remember that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Her three-ring binder, as contrast to our new press secretary. So Corrine would be up on her podium with her three-ring binder and somebody would ask her a question. And she would have to start furiously flipping through her four-inch-thick three-ring binder looking for something that might remotely be relevant to the question that was asked. And half the time it wasn't. And she would read something from her three-ring binder that usually didn't even – was not responsive to the question. And here we got our new press secretary. She's out in the – outside the portico. She's standing out in the roadway. And a gaggle of reporters were asking her questions. She has one piece of paper in her hand, and here she is freelancing it. You know, she's got one piece of paper in her hand, taking on all questions and knocking them out of the park. She's 25. 25 years old, no three-ring binder in front of her. Just, you know, they're throwing the fastballs and she's knocking them back out of the park.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, it's incredible. Karine Jean-Pierre, I swear, her hair always looked windblown from the flipping the pages. OK, she was so OK. Here is Carolyn Leavitt just being asked a question. And by the way, I didn't I just picked one out of millions. They all sound the same. Here she is handling the question. I forget what it even is.
SPEAKER 20 :
Are any officials here preparing to fight Democratic lawmakers in the streets?
SPEAKER 23 :
Absolutely not. And thanks for the question.
SPEAKER 20 :
Some elected Democrats are so esteemed about Doge, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver says we are at war. Ilhan Omar says we might actually see somebody get killed. And Chris Van Hollen says we have to fight this in the Congress, we have to fight this in the streets. So what now?
SPEAKER 23 :
And may I just point out, if you heard that type of violent, enticing rhetoric from our side of the aisle, from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, I think there would be a lot more outrage in this room today. It's unacceptable, the comments that have been made by these Democrat leaders. And frankly, they don't even know what they're talking about. Because President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to make this government more efficient. He campaigned across this country with Elon Musk, vowing that Elon was going to head up the Department of Government Efficiency, and the two of them, with a great team around them, were going to look at the receipts of this federal government and ensure it's accountable to American taxpayers. That's all that is happening here, and for Democrat officials to incite violence and encourage Americans to take to the streets is incredibly alarming, and they should be held accountable for that rhetoric.
SPEAKER 20 :
It sounds like something that they're most concerned about is Doge engineers with access to treasury systems. Can you clarify, do the Doge engineers have read-only access in these systems? So they are not allowed to write new code.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, and here's the thing. Notice how she immediately adds perspective and context here. to her question, okay, what if somebody on our side did that? How would this be treated? And this is, that's a debate technique that is totally different. KJP could never do anything like that. And also the entire time, Corrine never looked down. This is just her talking. And I can do that with every single answer she does. I'm telling you what, between these two, Corrine Jean-Pierre is the chiefs.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep, he was a Kansas City Chiefs.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, she didn't belong there. And people say, oh, you're saying that because she was a gay black female. Couldn't care less. Couldn't possibly care less. It means absolutely nothing. I mean, Condoleezza Rice is one of the most incredibly brilliant people in our nation's history. It's just like it makes absolutely no difference. She sucked at her job. She got there because of quotas, and it showed. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes. But and Dr. Condoleezza Rice and let me add Colin Powell is another very brilliant gentleman.
SPEAKER 18 :
How about Ben Carson?
SPEAKER 11 :
Dr. Ben Carson.
SPEAKER 18 :
Dr. Ben Carson rebuilds brains.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. Just saying. And tiny brains and children. Yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Incredible.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go ahead, Joe. All right. So all this commotion about, you know, well, the Trump six man Doge team has access to your taxes. They can see your social security number. Well, I did a little list of who else can see my social security number. My employer, the Department of Motor Vehicle, my bank. You know when you go in to cash a check or make a deposit and those 23-year-old kids behind the counter? Every one of those 23-year-old kids in your bank can look at your social security number. My hospital, my school has my university, my college university has my social security number. When I apply for a hunting and fishing license, they have my social security number. The car dealership where I finance my car has my social security number. I have three credit cards, and every one of those credit card companies has my social security number. My insurance company has my social security number. My mortgage company has my social security company. So with all these other people that have my social security number, including every 22-year-old kid behind the counter at my bank, why should I be concerned about Elon Musk's six Doge team members? You know, they're There are six on top of, what, 400 people that already have it?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, let me ask you this, Joe. Joe, let me ask you this, Joe. Who is more likely to misuse that information to scam or rob you? One of those kids that you're talking in all those lists or the richest man in the world?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, obviously, Elon Musk needs your money. He does. He does. He's got to find a way to pay for his next boat, and he can't do it without your money. By the way, I'm more worried about the finance guy at the car dealership or the salesman. By the way, I've got a good friend in the car business, and he's telling me about the turnover in some of the car dealerships in terms of how long some of these salespeople list. So if you're willing to give your social security number to the guy who's selling you a used car, Why are you worried about the Doge team seeing your Social Security number?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and Joe, wouldn't you say, I mean, my goodness, when they have to use that as an attack, does that mean they have no attack? I mean, seriously, that's embarrassing.
SPEAKER 11 :
It really is.
SPEAKER 18 :
Privacy concerns.
SPEAKER 11 :
By the way, I think I sent you a copy of the greatest political cartoon ever. It showed a bunch of people with donkey heads, you know, Democrats around the table, and one guy's up at the whiteboard saying, what are we going to do to combat Trump? And you see the other donkeys start to chat among themselves, and then he goes... besides calling everybody a Nazi. That's the only thing they got.
SPEAKER 18 :
It is all they got. I mean, do you think that this next four years is going to be as tough for them as I do? Because here's the big problem, okay? It was the first time around, it was all them against Trump's personality. Honestly, that was a winning argument for them with the independents, with the political middle of the country. Now it's them up against Team Trump. And Trump has unleashed not only him with his incredible personality and his way of rallying the troops, but you've got brilliant J.D. Vance. You've got Elon Musk, who's going to spend the next 15 months throwing out evidence of malfeasance by the Democrats. How do they compete with this?
SPEAKER 11 :
They can't. And the more that comes out, and by the way, some of this stuff is not only what Doge is uncovering, but for instance, some of this stuff is making news. This $2 billion fiasco in the Mojave Desert, for those not aware of it, the U.S. government underwrote and became the loan guarantor. There was this massive solar project that started about eight years ago where instead of solar panels, this company was going to array 350,000 mirrors. It was like something out of a James Bond movie in a circle. And this circle was like six miles across. Hey, Joe. Yeah, go ahead.
SPEAKER 18 :
Sorry. Oh, we have a caller who has a comment on Social Security numbers real quick here. Eric, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. So just a few years ago, the Chinese government hacked the security background investigation. No, they wouldn't do that. And so they've got everybody's Social Security number that's ever had a security clearance.
SPEAKER 18 :
And we're worrying about Elon. Eric, I just want to ask you before you go, do you wake up every morning just worried about Elon having your information?
SPEAKER 09 :
No. Didn't he start PayPal and have it anyways?
SPEAKER 18 :
I know. Great call. Thank you, Eric.
SPEAKER 09 :
Take care.
SPEAKER 18 :
We have the greatest callers. Go ahead, Joe.
SPEAKER 11 :
Anyway, for those who are not familiar, it was called the Ivanpah Solar Plant. And it was a bunch of mirrors, 350,000 mirrors in a big circle. And in the center, there was this tower. On top of the tower, there was a boiler that used molten salt. And the mirrors would collect the sun's rays and shoot them up at this tower. They all focal point. And if a bird flew through that area where the solar were, it would incinerate the bird. Like in midair, the bird would catch fire and fall to the ground. They estimated that 6,000 birds were burned to a crisp just flying through this circle of mirrors. I mean, that's how powerful it was. Oh, yeah. Anyway, had you heard about this, by the way? Yes. Yeah. That I've heard of. Anyway, so California Power & Light, PG&E, initially had a contract to buy this power. And last month they said, you know, we can't afford the prices you want anymore, so we're not going to renew our contract. So now they're shutting it down. It's going belly up. They had a total of $2.6 million. They got a $600,000 grant from the Treasury Department, from the Obama White House. And then there's a $2 million federal loan guarantee, which they're going to default on. So the taxpayers are going to be on the hook for $2.6 billion for a failed solar project in the Mojave Desert. that has killed 6,000 birds.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, yeah. This stuff is just going to be coming out one thing after the other thing. You know, the big thing that we're going to be talking about, and by the way, Joe, you're calling in again tomorrow at 5. We can go into this more, is simply the fact that the Democrat Party has been using the federal government as its piggy bank.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, it comes down to that. They've been robbing us blind.
SPEAKER 11 :
Because every one of these projects, by the way, this gets back to the high-speed fire. There's been $2.2 billion spent, and not one home has been connected to this high-speed internet fiber optic network that Biden approved. But there's been a billion spent for consultants to do studies and environmental studies. So here it is, two and a half years later, $2 billion spent. Not a single home has been connected to a high-speed Internet line under the Green New Deal. Just money down the drain, but a lot of people are making money even though no homes are being connected.
SPEAKER 18 :
We're going to talk about this a lot tomorrow, Joe. Do come back at 5 because I think the Democrats have set themselves up for a long-term PR disaster. That's what I think. Thanks a lot, Joe. All right, talk to you tomorrow, Randy.
SPEAKER 11 :
You take care.
SPEAKER 18 :
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Oh, guys, I can't wait for tomorrow. I'm already psyched about tomorrow's show. It's going to be a lot of Doge. It's going to be Tanner and Luke. We're going to have a lot of fun. That's it for today, though. Our one replay is next. Until then, until tomorrow, drive safe, God bless, and thanks for joining us at Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
In this episode of Rush to Reason, host Andy Pate fills in for John Rush to tackle some pressing issues with the help of guests Luke Cash and Tanner Cole. The discussion kicks off with a light-hearted banter about movies and the unusual health claims circulating on social security, pulling listeners into a comedic and insightful journey. Soon, the conversation turns to serious topics, with an analysis of Elon Musk's discoveries about the social security administration. Andy and his guests dive into the repercussions of these revelations and the potential impacts on society. Meanwhile, various advertisers share their unique offerings ranging from regenerative healthcare practices to innovative roofing solutions.
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SPEAKER 24 :
Man.
SPEAKER 09 :
And Tanner Cole. Man. You're only half men today. Okay? Only half men today. First of all, Luke, you've been under the weather for a couple weeks. Yeah. So you're only like half a man. Right. Been coughing, been hacking. Exactly.
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Suffering.
SPEAKER 09 :
Did you know, Tanner, that they found out that COVID did not come from a lab in China? It came from Luke.
SPEAKER 20 :
It came from me. I made it. Yes. You're part of Trendy Aragua?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Trendy Aragua. Luke actually did not have COVID, but I like saying that about him. And Tanner, you are only half a man. And you know why? Because you still have not seen Guardians of the Galaxy.
SPEAKER 20 :
Ah, it's a long time coming. Maybe tonight.
SPEAKER 09 :
You've got to watch. Can you believe he hasn't seen Guardians? I can't believe it. How can you not watch it? Look, look, I just want you to know, Tanner, until you see Guardians, here in America, we offer many genders that you can, you know, claim.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, I like a lot of them, but my buddies turned on one of those Falcon movies this weekend, and I was like, this sucks. So maybe Guardians of the Galaxy is the next Marvel I have to watch.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, the Falcon movies, pretty bad. The latest one, though, where he becomes Captain America that just came out last week, not that bad.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, that's good to know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Not great. You know, kind of average, you know. It had the great flying scenes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Marvel out of 10?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you know. It's a Marvel movie. It's a Marvel movie. Yeah, but, you know, here's what it was really missing, and I don't want to go into my whole review that I did for it. I gave it, I think, two and a half. it just wasn't as funny as the old ones you know you got to have a tony stark to be that funny oh yeah i mean them kicking out all those actors makes it way harder for me to watch and i like anthony mackie but i like him too he's very likable but he's not a comedian okay he's not that really funny guy uh they tried to insert humor here and there for the most part it didn't fly but Did you have a lot of fun? Is he very likable? Do you have a mystery? Do you have fights? Yeah, so that's okay. Okay, speaking of fights, a lot of people right now are fighting over what's going on with the Social Security Administration and Elon Musk. Hey, Tanner, bring us up to speed really quick here. What has Elon Musk discovered?
SPEAKER 20 :
So there's... At least 10 – let's go 20 million people apparently that are over 110 in this country.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sweet.
SPEAKER 20 :
Some of them are all the way up to 200 years old, which – Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Doing good. This – and I counted it up. It looked like about 11.5 million over the age of 120, which you know what that tells me? That tells me that the Make America Healthy Again movement with RFK is working. It worked 30 years ago. We are already living longer. My gosh, we've got 11.5 million people over 120 years old. RFK is a miracle worker. I am very impressed with Maha. I'm all down for Maha. Elon Musk actually is going to eliminate 11.5 million names over 120 years old from the registry. In related news, Democrat registration has fallen by 11.5 million. Is that amazing or what? I don't know if there's a connection there.
SPEAKER 20 :
We were all saying, how did Biden get all those votes and Kamala didn't? Yes. At least she was coherent. I mean, maybe coherent.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think the funny thing is, like those 20 million, whatever, that are over 100, over 110, I think it was over 120 million, the date of death field was set to false. So for date of death, false, which ironically is the answer my wife gives when asked her age. So go ahead.
SPEAKER 20 :
Non-applicable. Yes, non-applicable. Did you see Elon? I can't remember what it's called, but all these social security, what they've stored over the years, only 10,000 Americans can retire every year. And they send it down this vault that was built in, like, 1950. And he went there. He's like, well, what happens if the elevators stop working? They're like, well, unless people retire. And it's like, what world do we live in? It sounds like a cartoon.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, we're... Dude, when you look at the federal government, they are so behind the times. They need Doge so bad, don't they, Luke? I mean, it's not just saving a ton of money. It's bringing them not just, you know, up to the 20th century, 21st century. It's bringing them past the 19th century. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
It feels like we've been pretty ancient for a while.
SPEAKER 09 :
It does. Okay, well, tell you what. After the break, we're going to be talking some about what Doge has found, and it's been a lot of fun. I've been really enjoying it. And basically, we're going to attack the government. Sound good? Sounds good. Sounds great. All right, until then, somebody who doesn't attack you at all, he's very nice, Dr. Scott Faulkner. Now, he doesn't serve big pharma. He only serves you. For a total approach to your total health, call Dr. Scott at 303-663-6990.
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SPEAKER 05 :
Man.
SPEAKER 09 :
And Tanner Cole. Man. That's right. You are real men. Real men. The women, once again, yes, once again, are climbing up the side of the building just to get in here. You know, they really should just take the elevator. It's easier.
SPEAKER 05 :
They should. But, you know, we're providing a service to the people. This is cardio. This is exercise. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think when you are driven by absolute lust, as, of course, all women are when just knowing that you two exist, you forget about things like elevators. You don't think rationally. You just think. fall apart.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's all primal instinct.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's all primal. It's very primal. Okay. Tanner.
SPEAKER 15 :
Poor Tanner.
SPEAKER 09 :
He's not up to this. Okay. USAID and Doge. It has been fun. I want you to listen to a quote, a little talk for a couple of minutes here from one of my favorite people. His name is Stephen Miller. He's on Trump's team and he's kind of everywhere. He does a little bit of everything. He's big into Trump's economic policy and so many other portions of what Trump does. And he's on Hannity here, and he's talking about some of what Doge has discovered. Here we go.
SPEAKER 04 :
USAID has been exposed as the funding mechanism for the radical left here and around the world. The reason why the Democrats are up in arms is that Donald Trump exposed their scheme. They've been using USAID to line their pockets, to line the pockets of radical left Marxist organizations to fund gender studies in Albania, diversity, equity, and inclusion all over the world. to fund radical left illegal immigration open borders groups that support the dissolution of national borders. They're even funding left-wing media organizations here in the United States. The radical left in this country are federal employees. In other words, they are sponsored and paid by the federal government. These non-governmental organizations are all subsidized by American taxpayer dollars. So if you ever wonder, where's the radical left coming from? Who's paying for all this BS? How is it possible there's so much insanity in our corporations, in our schools? It's because your tax dollars have been funding it and Donald Trump is shutting it down.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, I don't think there's one American that would ever support any of this money being spent. How were they able to hide it? And thank God Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the president, are exposing this and informing the American people with their money. Why isn't this money going to people in North Carolina? Why isn't it going to people in California? Why isn't it going to people in Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina? Why isn't it going to poor people in America?
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly, Sean. We have in America veterans. Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is crazy. Okay. And you've both seen a lot of the lists. I don't want to reel off everything because there are so many lists of so many things that the money is going to. Here's one that just came across the thing. $27 million to teach people in Morocco to do pottery, to make pottery. They could care less. Well, people in Morocco, first of all, are experts at making pottery. This is like sending $27 million to Saquon Barkley to learn to be a running back. Okay, this is like sending $27 million to Hunter Biden to learn how to do crack. Right, these are professionals. Yeah, these are professionals. They really don't need the help. This is incredible. I mean, look at this. Two million to strengthen trans led groups delivering gender affirming care in Guatemala. In other words, we're going to cut up Guatemalan kids and change their genders. And you're going to spend two million dollars on that. LGBTQ people in Western the Balkans, the Balkans. You know how many? First of all, how many people are in the Balkans? OK, virtually none. And then the trans number there has got to be incredibly small. Here's what I just don't understand. Meanwhile, all the Democrats are screaming the sky is falling and you've seen them singing. Oh, gosh, they can't sing. All right. Just wow. You know, chanting, saying, why do why do they always chant and sing? But I want to I want to give a little bit of a message to the Democrats right now. When you scream the sky is falling, it had better fall. OK, it had better fall. You're telling people that everything is going to collapse around us because of the cuts that Trump is making in these things. And yet. Nothing is happening. OK, when you look at it, first of all, these the programs being cut, they almost entirely benefit overseas groups or less than five percent of Americans. Did you see this? Tons of it. We're spending tens and tens of billions of dollars trying to gay the world, basically. You know, if people want to be gay, live your life. Go for it. But I don't think we should be, the American taxpayer should be paying tens of billions of dollars trying to help make the world more gay. 100%. All right. This is crazy. It's absolutely crazy. But here's the big part. They're also pushing a lot of trans stuff. You're talking about 5%, less than 5% of the population and most of it overseas. So if Trump removes that, Luke, how many Americans are going to feel that? None.
SPEAKER 05 :
None.
SPEAKER 09 :
None. Yes. So you're the Democrat Party. You're setting yourself up for incredible failure here because you are basically saying he's taking something away from you. He's taking something away from you. We were right to spend all this and this is going to crush your life. And then he takes it away and you don't feel a thing. You're going to look like an idiot. What do you think? Sure.
SPEAKER 20 :
No wonder they could never get inflation back down because they keep spending money on trans stuff in countries that probably don't even believe in that or believe in gayness.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, here's a deeper question, Tanner, and I'll throw it to you first, then Luke. Why are we spending one dime on pushing any agenda, left, right, middle, any agenda? Why is public money being used to push agenda? Now, I understand there are political, you could say closing the border is an agenda. I guess you could say that, right? It isn't. It's called national security. You can say that. But why are we taking all this money and telling people LGBTQ, LGBTQ, LGBTQ, and also, by the way, all kinds of other things on race and diversity, biodiversity, whatever that is, and all these things when we are spending all this money to push agendas? And that gets exposed. How is that going to look for Democrats? Is it even debatable that we shouldn't be spending money? I mean, I'm a born-again right-wing evangelical Christian. Should we be spending public money to try to make more people like me?
SPEAKER 05 :
No.
SPEAKER 09 :
Why not? I'm adorable. I'm an incredible guy. I mean, how can you say that? No! Of course not, right? Go ahead, Tanner.
SPEAKER 20 :
They've given, you know, America's land of the free, but pushing these... demonic i mean in my opinion demonic ideologies on the not just our citizens but across the world is i mean it was going to set up to fail unless we didn't win this last election but i mean you should be focusing on the american education system some of these kids graduate high school with like a fifth grade uh reading average And we're going to end up pushing gender and race ideologies instead of focusing on maybe our own children, instead of sending money to transgender choirs in Honduras or wherever it may have been.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. I mean, it's incredible. Transgendered plays. Yeah. This is incredible. We're pushing an agenda all over the world at great expense. Right. I just don't understand it. I don't understand how we can justify this, and I don't understand how the Democrats can think the jig won't be up at some point. Go ahead, Luke.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out how did we allow this to happen to begin with? Because it's a good thing to be cutting all this spending. It's another thing entirely to try and get to the root of the issue. How did we allow this spending to happen in the first place? I don't remember voting on any of this. I've been working at this station for the past five, six years, and I didn't know any of these things existed. I never voted on it. How many failures had to happen in the line for this to have been approved to begin with?
SPEAKER 09 :
I think a big problem was this. that the left for so long owned the media and big tech. They owned really the big four, right? The big four movers of public thought. Media, academia, Right. Entertainment, the entertainment industry, including sports and big tech, which means that they totally ran the public square. As a result, they could little by little keep growing their spending in all these areas on agenda behind the scenes. And anybody who would call it out was basically called a crackpot. They were basically called a conspiracy theorist. They were basically told that they were exaggerating and it would get shut down or it simply wouldn't get out there. It would only go through the conservative press or conservative intelligentsia. Nobody would know, Luke. Let's put it this way. Evil really thrives in darkness.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm talking more on a legal policy side of things. If this is U.S. tax dollars, U.S. money, my money coming out of my paycheck,
SPEAKER 09 :
But it's not illegal. They can spend it in this way if they want.
SPEAKER 05 :
But I'm saying that shouldn't be allowed. I agree. We should vote on how our money is spent. I'm saying that the failure happened at a very foundational level to allow this kind of spending to happen without our input to begin with.
SPEAKER 09 :
But if that were true, then we would have Tabor for the whole country.
SPEAKER 05 :
That'd be nice.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, I agree. I'd like the whole country to have Tabor, right? Yeah. The fact is, there were two big things that happened in Washington that allowed this. First of all, you have the Democrat Party, which wanted all of this. And secondly, you had the Republican Party that in the face of the big four, wilted. OK, and I think people get a little too tough on Republicans for not fighting at times. They don't understand a lot of Republicans were in purple districts. It's kind of hard to take this big stand, that big stand and just get voted out the next election. Right. It's very difficult. It took a wave of discontent. And I think the biggest thing that has brought this wave of discontent hasn't even been Trump, but it was Biden. And don't get me wrong, Trump did a great job in the way he called it all out and he's been leading fantastically well. I've been loving it. But it was Biden who allowed our entire country to be invaded, fully invaded for four years. And Americans had never seen that before. It was Biden who championed having men and women's sports, biological men in women's sports. You know, guys, for the first time ever, we watched guys in the ring beating the hell out of women in the Olympics. OK, and Americans were horrified. They were horrified that that issue. Actually, you know, there were a lot more moms and dads who were finding out that their daughters were changing in the locker room or showering in the locker room with biological men who were in there. I think that the Democrats so horrified. American citizens, with their actions, especially over the last four years, and let's face it, they went crazy, that they created a setting we've never seen before. They created a setting that now, instead of having a skeptical public that looks at Donald Trump and says, gee, he's kind of a mean guy, I'm not sure I really like him, now you've got an entire public where everybody except the hard left, I'm not just talking about the right, but the independents as well, so basically two-thirds of the country, they're walking down the streets with torches and pitchforks. and they don't care. What Doge does to the government and what Doge takes from Democrats. But we haven't had that until now. Does that make sense? Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, it's really crazy. I believe Joe Biden and it wasn't really Biden. Obviously, he was mentally gone. But I mean, the people running Joe Biden who were I believe that this was caused by the hard left taking over the Democrat Party and driving the agenda and using the U.S. government to go crazy. And now they've unleashed hell on themselves. Tanner, what do you think?
SPEAKER 20 :
I think they went just too far left too quickly, and it backfired entirely. I mean, now Trump's up to like 70% nationwide in the polls, which I don't know if that's ever happened with the president, or at least in a long time.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's approval on some of what he's doing. His personal approval has peaked at about, well, actually one poll had it all the way up to 55%. which is unreal okay another 153 another 151 but you see that first number is a five right okay that that wasn't happening in his first presidency people they wanted a real president first of all but they wanted normalcy and this whole idea that you know remember when the democrats threw trump out in 2020 and we can all debate them you know all the legality of that whatever set that aside when they did that what did they say the adults are back in charge OK, so they went back into the White House. They said the adults are back in charge. And look what they brought us. You know, this this biological guy with biological parts is in the locker room undressing in front of your daughter who just came out of the shower. OK, this guy, this biological guy here is beating up a woman in the Olympics.
SPEAKER 20 :
OK, you've got they tried so hard to say, no, she just has some hormonal things that are off. Sure enough, the Olympics. And they say, yeah, just a dude.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it's a dude, okay? I could tell. Yeah, and then, of course, we got totally invaded on the southern border. It was an all-out invasion. I think that right now what we're seeing is a lashback by the American public. It's not just a lashback by Doge and Trump and all them. It's the entire American public outside of the hard left. Because, Luke, have you ever seen a setting like this where America is willing to look at the government and say, we don't care how many of you are fired?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a while. I think this is the first time, at least in my memory.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Well, let me ask you guys this, and tell you what, we're going to take a break, but first I want to put this question to you, and then we'll come back and talk about it. Sound good?
SPEAKER 05 :
Sounds good.
SPEAKER 09 :
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SPEAKER 09 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLC 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole and Luke Cash. And on the line right now, we've got Jim in Denver. Jim, what's happening?
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, guys, how you doing? Hey, I see the people in the streets. Now, I am a Trump voter, but I see the people in the streets, and I am already concerned about the midterms. People in the streets. Yeah, I guess it's like Denver's got people down there protesting. A lot of different states. I mean, other than just the District of Columbia, there's people out there with signs.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. It's been actually surprising. I thought that these protests would be much larger. Their turnout has been rather surprisingly low. I expected a lot bigger. But go ahead, Jim.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it's only been three weeks, and I'm just wondering if it's going to build. as these actions pile up and Donald Trump straightens out our nation. But I'm rather concerned about his safety.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, Jim, that's a good concern, always, because there are people, let's face it, we're talking about a guy who two people have already tried to kill him. And he is also, this is not a president who hides himself away in a bunker like Joe Biden. He's out there constantly. And I know he has the best protection in the world. But he leaves himself so open. But let me ask you this, Jim. First of all, I just want to agree. You're right. It could happen. I do hope he is careful. Okay. But going back to these protests in the street. Do you really think they're hurting him or helping him? Because they have been laughable. They sing off key. They they do these ridiculous chants. They are protesting against things that are basically 60 40 issues in favor of Trump. You know, things that people really want. Right now, over 60% of the nation favors what Doge is doing. Right now, it's 60-40 on immigration. Right now, it's about 65-35 on men and women's sports, just one after the other. Are they hurting him, or are they helping him?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you can make fun of how they're dressed and how they sound, but I mean, I think at some point... Um, they need to be taken seriously, especially if they get, they've just started now. It's only been three weeks. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
But here's the thing, Jim, like you said, well, don't worry, I'm going to, I'm going to give you more time, but I got to jump in for a second. Um, you said I can make fun of how they look and stuff. That's the point. They look ridiculous. And here's the big thing. We just came through four years of the biggest kook show. This country has ever seen, didn't we? We came through four years of a president who was mentally gone. We came through four years of an administration pushing every wacko, far kooky left thing that you possibly could. They shocked America. We just came through four years of an administration allowing America to be overrun. at the southern border to where Americans all over the country were seeing just a staggering rise in illegal immigrants. We have seen the kook left take over. So right now, if I were on the left right now and I were one of their leaders, in fact, I do have a clip in the next hour that I'm going to be playing from one of their people basically saying we need these people to be silent. We need them to go away. They're killing us. Because what these people are doing is they were reminding people of the worst aspects of what we just escaped over the last four years. Does that sound fair?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep, I agree. I just called in to agree with you. So have a great afternoon.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. I hate to have him go, though. He was making so much sense. Tanner, what do you think of what Jim's saying there? Because I think he's making a heck of a lot of sense.
SPEAKER 20 :
I mean, I saw some girl I knew from college was at the Capitol in Denver the other day, and they were all there waving their Mexican flags, Honduran flags, whatever. I think I only saw 200 people. So it's not like there's in L.A. there was quite a bit of people like on the freeway, which was scary. But other than that, I think the movement slowly dying, even in Aurora, when I saw a military truck out there arresting people of those apartment complexes. There was like 20 people on the street recording and some news, but that was about it. It wasn't these giant droves of people that I think they are used to. I'm sure in D.C. it's worse, but it doesn't seem as popular anymore. I think some of them have given up and some of them are kind of seeing the light.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Luke, Jim did have one good concern, though. I mean, he had a lot of good concerns, actually, but here's one. This is just starting. Could those groups grow? Could this become popular? Could this take on? Could people become actually really worried about Trump's actions and Dozier's actions? Or do you see the bulldozer just keeping going?
SPEAKER 05 :
I think... Like any sort of significant change, you need to be tactful about it. There is a very real concern and a real probability of overreach. All Doge has to do is mess up once, and they'll have everyone chomping at the bit. Good point. Something I've experienced from the immigration side, I have a decent amount of Hispanic friends out in Texas. They're living in Houston. They've personally experienced – they're all here legally, but they've experienced some stuff being thrown their way because they're caught in the crossfire of what is this huge movement.
SPEAKER 09 :
What do you mean stuff being – I agree with you, but I want to know what you mean.
SPEAKER 05 :
They've had people screaming at them outside of the truck, go back to your own country. It's like they've been here living legally since they've been born. They're us. Right. There is a wave of movement that's happening. So I think – While I agree with a lot of what Doge is doing and I agree that the border should be secured, I think there also needs to be a tact and grace moving forward. Because if you just bulldoze everything, you're going to hurt a lot of people in that crossfire if you're not very careful.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, well, bottom line is you've got to be thinking about PR, right? You've got to be thinking about how is the market going to take this? And I don't think that Doge and Trump are creating what you just said. I think, once again, Biden created it. I'm not trying to excuse everything Trump has ever done. You know me. I've called him out at times where I thought he was ineloquent. But... When you let us be invaded for four years to the degree we were, and it comes through what? Our southern border, which is run by what? Mexico. Okay. People, I think you're going to have people, idiots, I'm just going to call them idiots, who are going to look at that and suddenly equate the race. Uh-huh. And say, oh, yeah, you people who are from down there, you have no loyalty to America. Go back to your home country and you got some guy sitting here going, I've lived here my whole life. My parents were born here. What are you doing? I think that there are people on our side who can, I'll say on our side, because these people probably voted for Trump, who can be idiots and hurt the movement. And I think you're right on that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Just like how there are certain people on the left who will hurt the less movement, and you have the leaders on the left going, hey, you're making us look bad, the same thing can happen on the right. I don't want to say everyone's job, but I think it's important to keep that in mind to ensure you're not hurting the movement when you're pushing for something that is objectively good.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think you're right. Basically, what you want to do is you don't want to replicate what the left did with defund the cops.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's where they overreached and angered an entire nation.
SPEAKER 05 :
You don't want to be those people.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Because what happens? Oh, OK. Now, every every time that crime surges in a city, who's going to get blamed? You are. Right. Because you said defund the cops. So if you say cut, cut, cut everything in sight, which, by the way, I'm loving. Yeah, so far, so good. So far, I think they've been very surgical about it, right? But you better be careful not to cut something that's going to be seen as a crucial service and then have that service taken away.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Like I said, there are people chomping at the bit. They are waiting for an opportunity to, you know, jump down your throat. So don't give it to them.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, don't give it to them. OK, on the line right now, we got John from Cheyenne who would never make any of these mistakes. John, how you doing?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I make more. My initials are J.C. and I make mistakes all the time.
SPEAKER 09 :
Your wife texted me and said, John never makes mistakes. Boy, you've got her under your thumb, I tell you what.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, okay. Was it Tanner or Luke that asked the question about 15 minutes ago, how did this happen where we're funding all this crap? It was me, Luke. Okay, I'm going to explain to you. How did we get here? The last time the United States Congress did its job And passed a budget. Balanced. 12 appropriation bill budget was 1996. That was about a minute.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but John, we don't need balanced budgets. What are you talking about?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, no. Any budget. So all we have passed since 1996 is continuing resolutions. Resolutions. and omnibus spending bills. That's true. So when they send a 3,000-page omnibus spending bill and say you have 24 hours to vote and you have to pass the bill to know what's in the bill, that's how these things happen. That's why it's so important that Trump insists that they go back to regular order and they pass the proper budget. in the right time and no more continuing resolutions.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you favor one bill or two?
SPEAKER 11 :
What do you mean when you say one bill or two?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, there's two different ways it's being looked at for the budget bill. Are they going to do it all in one? One big beautiful bill, as Trump says, or are you going to break it down in two? I've seen good arguments both ways.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's for the rest of this year. I'm not talking about this year. I'm talking about for fiscal 26. We need to go back to regular order and pass 12 appropriation bills by September 30th, 25. That is the proper way the government is supposed to do it. No more continuing resolutions and stuff. Right now, we're stuck in that quandary that Biden left us that we have to do that to get to September 30th.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, basically, you're saying that we need to be like Rand Paul. And I would agree.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, no, actually, he's been calling for it. It was Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton that signed the last actual budget. So, I mean, you got to give Clinton credit. At least he signed some budgets and didn't just say no, no, no.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you know, maybe, John, maybe because you just hit on something here. Maybe we have a chance to get it again because the last time we had a revolution on the right that just overran the country like we're seeing right now was the Gingrich— Yeah, it was the Gingrich Revolution in 94, and that's where Bill Clinton, of all people, had to say the era of big government is over. Why? Why? Because of Newt. And this idea that Clinton was actually running the country and balancing budgets, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 11 :
It was Newt. The Congress was doing their job. For the last almost 30 years, our Congress has just abdicated all their power and responsibility to let the president act like a a king or a dictator with executive orders and everything. And it's both sides. And you could go all the way through back to, you know, Bush W. I mean, with all his war spending bills and continuing resolutions and Obama and Paul Ryan doing it and Trump won and not giving Trump an out, you know, it goes all the way back both sides. they're both equally guilty. And this is where I wouldn't say equally, but yeah, both guilty. I love X because right now, every one of us can get on X, contact their local congressman, their senators. Now I have one congresswoman and two senators, and I've contacted all three of them. And I've told them that they got to go back to the regular order and stop this continuing resolution stuff. And I've gotten responses. But if all of our conservatives start contacting their congressperson and their senators and say, we've got to go back to work, all this extra spending for, you know, condoms in Gaza or whatever you want to find will go away because then it has to go through the appropriations committees. All right. Make it sense, Andy. You're making total sense.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well done, John.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's why it won't happen.
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SPEAKER 09 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush. Hey, really quick here before we go to Dave. Luke just brought something up. Luke just mentioned something because I thought Jim made one really good point. These little protests going on, they could suddenly grow if something goes wrong. Luke gave a good example of what?
SPEAKER 05 :
We were just saying, you know, if Doge cuts a project or, you know, cuts funding to a project that had been voted on. People wanted this thing and then they cut funding. Or something that's like a universal public good. Anything that everyone can sit around and go, yeah, I think hosting classes to prevent scams on senior citizens is a good thing. And then they cut something like that. Anything that could hurt the community or hurt something that we voted on.
SPEAKER 09 :
So far, they're going after stuff that everybody hates anyway, so it doesn't matter. But what if they mess up? That's a good point. Okay, on the line right now, we've got Dave in Woodland Park. Dave, how are you, sir?
SPEAKER 21 :
I'm doing all right, Andy. It's good to hear your voice, man. Hopefully we'll see each other at one of these Republican summits again. I would love that.
SPEAKER 22 :
I think that that's a straw man argument. Because... Things just need to be cut. Now, there are things that are going to be cut and that are going to come back as they go through the list. Like they had to make the correction with the Ghana condoms and stuff like that. There will be some corrections, but the majority of people, the majority of American citizens, they're loving these cuts. They're loving what Trump is having Elon Musk doing. We're for it. If we make some mistakes, oh well. I think of the $59 million, I think of the trillions of dollars that could have housed homeless vets, that could have built high schools, that could have paid for lunches, that could have put clothing on children's backs. And so when I hear Democrats squawking about Elon Musk doing this, Elon Musk cutting that, it's water off a duck's back. Let's get this done and make the correction afterwards. those programs that get cut but are legitimate, they will get that money back, and they'll take better care of that money also.
SPEAKER 09 :
Dave, do you think there's a thing to be what I've been saying? Basically, America right now, outside of the left, America is so angry at the Democrats and government, they don't care what Trump and Musk do to them. They really... I mean, they're mad.
SPEAKER 22 :
That's a great point. We're mad. We are angry because we see where this money has gone. People's covers are about to get pulled, especially when they dig deep into, when they get into the Department of Education, when they get into the SEC, when they get into the military, and they see... the kickbacks, and they see where the money has gone, and they see what the unions have done with that money. Instead of putting it into teachers, instead of putting it into students, instead of putting it into schools, they've lined their pockets, they've paid for their politicians, they've paid to get their agendas driven and our kids uneducated. Baltimore's got 13 schools where children couldn't pass reading and writing efficiency tests.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 22 :
We are number 40. We are number 40. We are the greatest nation on this planet. and can't educate our children, and are making our children deathly sick. So people are seeing that this is our golden age. And I'll share something with you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Dave, really quick here. I'm not sure you... Yeah, but haven't you heard we've got millions living past 120? And you say we're so sick. I think we're doing well. I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Just with the social security.
SPEAKER 22 :
Go ahead. We look at... This is our golden age. This is where America is going to be. That lighthouse. Not just the shining light. We're going to be a lighthouse to the world. And, you know, I call God Daddy. Daddy told me this in 2020. And when it didn't happen in 2020, I was shaken to the core. Because, Daddy, what's going on? But... We had to go through the next four years. We had to experience that. It's like when David got kicked out of the kingdom of Israel by his son, they had to experience Absalom. And then when David came back, I mean, they were, it was incredible. It was absolutely incredible. So America needed to experience Biden.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think you're right. Well, and by the way, Dave, I mean, Dave, if Israel could handle 40 years in the wilderness, we can handle four years of Biden.
SPEAKER 22 :
Man, so I'm celebrating. I'm not, I don't, I'm, you know, Elon's going to make mistakes. Trump is going to make mistakes. I don't care. I really don't care. They are going to get it done.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I think the biggest thing here, Dave, is that I don't think America cares. Now, if they make big mistakes, right, then it could come back to haunt them. But I think it's going to take some big mistakes. Dave, I think you're right. I think the future is looking bright. And in fact, in the next hour, we're going to be talking about education. We're going to be talking about Doge. We're going to be talking about how the fact is that Democrats have set themselves up for a bad time. Sound good? yes it does man great show amen Dave thanks so much oh He always lifts me up. Dave is one of the most uplifting people, literally, in the entire state of Colorado. That's very sweet. If you ever meet him, you just feel lifted up after talking to him. Okay, folks, that's it for our number one. In our number two, we're going to be talking about education reform. We're going to talk some more because I never get that answer from you guys. What is facing the Democrats in the next 16 months? Because it's going to be something. and basically we're going to have a lot of fun. Can we get our kids learning again? Can the Democrats ever come back? I hope not. Until then, keep it right here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
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It's Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush.
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Actually, it's Andy Pate, party of choice.
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And welcome to Hour 2 here on Rush to Reason. I am Andy Pate, your lovable host, filling in for John Rush while he's gone for a couple weeks. This is going to be a lot of fun. On the line right now, we've got Todd Watkins. Todd, how are you, sir? I'm well, thanks. You're doing well. Okay, well, Todd, we're going to be talking about immigration because every day, I wake up not being invaded. And this is a new feeling for me after the last four years. I'm very excited. I'm kind of enjoying not being invaded. You know, it's kind of a neat feeling. I'm going to say this. Americans right now are so relieved to not be invaded anymore. They are looking at President Trump and they're looking at Doge and they're looking at Elon Musk. And all these people on the left are complaining about Musk and Doge and everything. I think Americans are looking at them and saying, you let us be invaded for four years, fully invaded. We don't care what you say and we don't care what they do to you. What do you think?
SPEAKER 14 :
I tend to agree to agree.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's that big an issue.
SPEAKER 14 :
I've never seen numbers this low. Even during Trump's first administration, the numbers weren't as low as they are right now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, really quick here, before we go on, give us a little of your experience with Border Patrol. Why do you know this so well?
SPEAKER 14 :
Sure. So I was a Border Patrol agent from 1997 until the last day of May in 2021. So I went from boots on the ground, Border Patrol agent, Retired as an assistant chief out of our national headquarters. Been in several different duty stations, several different sectors, including Buffalo sector up in the Canadian border for four years. Special operations as watch commander, emergency manager. I did everything in the Border Patrol just about except for ride horses.
SPEAKER 03 :
When people come across illegally from Canada, are they all riding a moose cart?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I'll tell you, it's not Canadian hockey players coming across the northern border.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I don't think so. They were not real pleased with us the other day, were they?
SPEAKER 14 :
No, no, no, no. They got the what for from the Kachuk brothers, huh?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I guess so. Okay, well, Todd, I want you to imagine for a moment. I'm going to keep you here for a couple segments. Imagine I am an illegal immigrant, and it's on the southern border. And I wanted to come through a couple months ago. Now I want to come through again. A couple months ago, I could have gone to any port of entry. They would basically just escort me through, give me paperwork. I could have gone to, you know, come in with their app, you know, into any of our, you know, through our airlines. It didn't make any difference. What is it like right now for somebody to try to come through illegally on the southern border?
SPEAKER 14 :
So, first of all, I'd like to circle back to the CBP One app when we get a moment a little bit later on, and I can describe how all that worked. Okay. But illegally entering, and there's a difference between the port of entry and between ports of entry. So, first of all, Customs and Border Protection, CBP, that's what it stands for, has two components of it. Well, three if you add in the planes and the boats and all that for air marines. But you got the guys in green. That was me. We had between the ports of entry. So anything that entered between the ports of entry was an illegal entry, period, end of sentence. No question. Then you got the ports of entry where you're asking to come in. You're knocking on the door, as it were. And there are different legal processes that apply to that. But between the ports of entry, never in my 24 years had I ever seen people come through a hole in the fence and stack up in queue and wait for the guys in green to – drive them up to the station to fingerprint them, but it was because we were releasing them on the other end. That's not happening anymore.
SPEAKER 03 :
So they were literally coming through, and they weren't just, like in the old days, coming through and hiding from the cops and then blending into our society. They were looking to get found so they could get processed, and then they'd simply be let in.
SPEAKER 14 :
Correct. Yeah, you can find lots of... you know, newsreel from, you know, during the Biden administration. Bill Malusian was one of them. There was another, Allie Bradley, I think. They filmed, you know, these illegal alien camps right there up against the fence, you know, with Catholic charities, blankets, and, you know, tents provided by other organizations. And they were camped out there waiting for the Border Patrol to to kind of, you know, to clear the stalls.
SPEAKER 03 :
By the way, really quick here, and Sarah Carter did some great work on that too. Let me just say this, as a believer in Christ, what Catholic Charities did down there makes me sick to my stomach.
SPEAKER 14 :
It should. They facilitated human trafficking.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they facilitated human trafficking. And let's keep in mind that there was also a real financial benefit for them. Not only were they probably getting money up front, right? But let's say that they brought a bunch of people in and now Catholic Charities has these, you know, a number of people who are here illegally in their pews throughout the country. Those people are working at jobs and donating a percentage of that. Where? To their church.
SPEAKER 14 :
So there's a whole other couple of segments that we could do on HHS, Health and Human Services, who has a role in this on the back end because of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. And that has to do with something that I'm going to call the pull factor. We talked about this, I think, earlier, some of you and I in a phone conversation, that when it comes to irregular migration, so speaking from an academic perspective, there's two things that we consider to make someone leave his home country and go to another country. There's the push factor, which is how bad it's gotten there. There's a volcano erupting, murder hornets or whatever. That's what makes you say, I've got to get out of this place. But the pull factor is, well, where do I go? Why do I go to this place over that place? What the Biden administration did effectively, intentionally, is make the pull factor stronger than the push factor. So everybody, they essentially opened up the United States to let the entire rest of the world displace into the U.S.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so what is it like right now when they try coming to our border? What's happened?
SPEAKER 14 :
So... To illustrate, to prove a point that this was a completely self-inflicted, manufactured crisis, from the moment Trump took office, he did what I kept saying throughout on different radio shows during the Biden administration. How do we end this? What's the problem? The problem isn't manpower. It's not resources. It's not bandwidth. It's policy. all you have to do, you want this to end tomorrow, you tell the chief of the United States Border Patrol three words, do your job. Trump did that, and it was turning a faucet off. Anybody who'd worn the uniform knew that once you tell the Border Patrol, do your job, this faucet gets turned off, and it did. 95% decrease. Yesterday, total apprehensions along the southwest border were 226. That's next to nothing. I mean, we used to get, during the Bush administration, it wasn't We hit some high water marks during the Bush administration, too. But, I mean, one station could have that many apprehensions in a night. You know, 226. That's 2,000 miles of southwest border with Mexico.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, Todd, what do people expect? I mean, for crying out loud, let's say that you tell all the cops in Aurora. You know, don't stop violent crime, okay? Don't stop violent crime. What would happen to violent crime? What would happen to violent criminals? Violent criminals would realize, hey, man, I don't have to worry about getting caught, prosecuted, shot by a cop because, you know, I tried to shoot them, whatever. I don't have to worry about that. They would run rampant. We would churn Aurora into downtown Baltimore, okay, overnight. And by the way, sometimes Aurora feels that way, but it's not nearly that bad. This is what happened. Biden said, don't do your job. And basically he turned our border patrol into an escort service.
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't want to say that we were we were more of a concierge.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Escorting. I didn't mean you know what I mean. Well, actually, wait. There was a lot of the sex trade going on there, too, though. I didn't mean that when I said it, but that's pretty horrible. When I think of all the young girls who have been shipped across during the Biden years, who are now in sex slavery of one sort or another, and they're probably hooked on drugs. I mean, they've destroyed these wonderful young people's lives. They don't care. They don't care at all.
SPEAKER 14 :
I doubt that we'll ever really know. And that goes into that whole other conversation of the HHS, ORR, and all the NGOs and other nonprofits that got brought in to handle this groundswell of humanity on the back end, right? So Border Patrol was, we're the front line, right? We're right up there, literally on the front line, and we're the intake. So when you break that everything downstream from it breaks also. And I would argue, and I did this in my master's thesis in grad school a handful of years ago, they were testing this during the Obama administration from about 2012 to 2014 with all these unaccompanied minors, juveniles that were getting deposited on the border. Then again during Trump's administration, circa 2018 to 2019 with the caravans and all these family units, they were seeing where you could break this process and you just overload the border patrol stations. They did it again, except it was, you know, in concert with the Biden administration, vis-a-vis Alejandro Mayorkas to just come in, get your picture taken, get your fingers rolled. And, and we're kicking them out the door. I'd never heard of border patrol street releases my whole 24 years. I heard about, I mean, we were doing that in San Diego and a couple other places and, We just there was no place to send them. So we were just handing them a piece of paper and dropping them off, you know, near a trolley station in San Diego.
SPEAKER 03 :
Ridiculous. OK, hey, tell you what, let's take a break, because after the break, I want to talk about all the troops that have been sent down to the border. I want you to tell me what they're good for, what they're what we shouldn't do with them. Just what's happening. Sound good.
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Sure, absolutely.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush. On the line, we've got Todd Watkins. Todd, we've been sending a lot of troops down there. What are they doing with them?
SPEAKER 14 :
So you've got two different types of troops. Okay. I don't know how many in the audience know. You've got your National Guard and then Active Duty or Title X forces. So throughout my career, I saw lots of different iterations of various National Guards. units come down to the border. It's mostly a lot of, uh, engineer work or army engineers, you know, uh, fixing roads, repairing the fence, installing more fencing, that sort of thing. The, uh, support infrastructure support type stuff. Uh, we actually, we saw them, uh, plus us up in the world of, uh, ISR intelligence, uh, surveillance and reconnaissance where they would operate some of our towers and, night cameras and all that sort of thing. Well, that's really helpful. Yeah, it frees up a lot of agents. What I'm seeing now, and we are deploying Title X forces, some from 4th Infantry, some from 10th Mountain, and I thought I saw something about some 82nd troops going down. Looks like a lot of, again, engineers and military police. So this would be new. And part of my Border Patrol career, I was a military liaison out here, actually, in Colorado to Special Operations Command North in Colorado Springs. And this is one of the discussions that was had quite a bit when we had the caravans coming up, was what exactly can active duty military do? And they were loathe to get into the business of handling, transporting, securing anybody that gets arrested because of posse comitatus. I'm speculating now that the fear of that has been somewhat abated in that a lot of these units going down to the southern border are, in fact, military police. So I've got to think they're going to use them to manage some of our detention facilities and transportation, so, you know, secure custody type stuff. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
No. And that, by the way, if they take care of, you know, transport and these kinds of things, it totally frees up the border patrol. And that's phenomenal and really helps. Let me ask you this, though. What about simply having a big military presence on the border like we are now having in dealing with the cartels? I mean, it's just it's just kind of helpful just knowing they're there, because if you're the cartels, I'd be a lot slower to do anything.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, there's the whole notion of projecting force, right? Right. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, having them present, there's some psychological deterrence there. You don't want to tangle. with the best trained, best equipped, you know, military on planet Earth.
SPEAKER 03 :
What about the fact that you've got a lot of places where the cartels have more or less run over small towns in America and have really made some intrusions here on the southern, you know, down in the southern end of America? Could the military be helpful in backing up our cops?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes, I would. This this gets into like operational and tactical deployment type stuff. All right. That probably isn't a good topic here.
SPEAKER 03 :
But well, I mean, because, you know, Trump has declared the cartels to be terrorists.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I would. So in that type of engagement, I would push the military forward. You would not so much backing up the cops as much as you would want them to lead in. Yeah. And certainly declaring. uh... those cartels is uh... you know uh... fto's foreign terrorist organizations it puts a lot of things on the table uh... not only just direct action but you know intelligence support uh... the tide the type of detention now are these are they amenable to u.s. criminal charges in a u.s. criminal court or uh... i heard were were expanding gitmo so uh... that's what we did with uh... isis and al qaeda They're kind of on the table for spending an indefinite amount of time in Guantanamo Bay as potential foreign fighters. And since, you know, it's a bit of a rabbit trail, but since you brought up the whole terrorist designation.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
Now, a lot of these other ancillary organizations and even people in the United States who are transporting, moving, handling anything from them, drugs, people, whatever, money. This is now material support to a terrorist organization. Right. You're not just, you know, aiding and abetting smuggling. You're aiding and abetting a terrorist organization. It's a whole other set of criminal charges against you. And if we, you know, fentanyl is a really big deal, right? Right. So 100% of fentanyl comes across drugs. the u.s mexico border all of it every little bit of it comes across the u.s mexico border at one way shape or form all of the the cartels are the ones who are pressing the pills you know mixing the drugs but all the ingredients for the fentanyl a hundred percent of that comes from chinese pharmaceutical companies right i see china getting sanctioned in this for support to a terrorist organization how do you think this is going to financially hamper the cartels in china I'm probably not qualified to speak as to how it would hamper China. It would have to be a hit if you start actually doing financial sanctions. You could hurt them very badly. I mean, Trump's pretty good at figuring that one out. The cartels, just shutting down the flow of human trafficking has cost them I don't know how many billions of dollars. I'm not good with math, but a good number to use. Lots. a $6,000 per head. Now multiply that. However many came through under Biden, 10 million, 12 million, 15 million. Well, that's how much money they're, they're fixing to lose right now.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, Todd, I'm kind of wondering how Catholic charities is being, uh, impacted by this.
SPEAKER 14 :
Uh, I, I hope like hell that, uh, doge and the newly branded fbi are looking into all of the funding streams that went to the these uh ngos catholic charities among them right that are probably the most eminent among them but all the others where did the money go how much did they get what did they do with it and where are all the people that you had where did they go no one kept track of them 385 000 uh juveniles are are missing unaccounted for does that mean that they're You know, they're lost in some indentured servitude or sex slavery.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, it's horrible. Well, okay, Todd, we've got about a minute left here. Let's talk about the wall. What is happening with the wall? I mean, all the pieces that were sold, from what I've heard, the new Bronco Stadium will be constructed of those. So at least we're going to get something out of it. It's going to be really, really nice. Anyway, what is happening with the wall?
SPEAKER 14 :
they're going to complete it. Trump said he was going to build it. He listened to us, us being the Border Patrol, as to what we wanted it to look like, what we actually needed. He answered. It's not just going to be barriers. There's going to be more infrastructure, surveillance along it. It'll get finished. But the most critical piece of all this, I really want to hammer this, was the policy change. All you had to do was say, you're not getting released. You're going to get thrown back to your country. And that, man, that shut it down. 226 arrests along the southwest border in a day. I don't know how to express how confounding that is.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, but you know what, Todd? Policy changes, the problem with those, I'm all for it, obviously, but the problem is that changes right back if you get a Democrat in office because they want us invaded. And I don't know if the Democrats are going to bounce back anytime soon. I think America's mad. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
I would hope so. You still have to improve all of the barriers, the static barriers, the infrastructure that allows enforcement of laws. But, man, that policy, he let off with the right punch.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush online right now. It's time for sports with Richard Rush. Richard, how you doing, sir?
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I'm alive and well. Andy, how about yourself?
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm doing well. Were you in that hockey game where, you know, America beat Canada?
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I was sort of following it from afar. I didn't tune in, you know, just kids, lots of other stuff going on. But I was excited, especially considering, you know, their disdain for the anthem and all the other nonsense that they've got going on. And then overall, I'll just say it. I don't care what U.S. is going on. I don't care who the president is, anything of that sort. I just enjoy us beating any other country that we can beat at any point in time.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. I mean, I just like the red, white and blue, baby. But you know what? It really gets me, though. I understand they're really mad because of tariffs. Right. But Richard, we have had every country on this earth. And I think a few countries that aren't even on this earth put tariffs on us in every way, shape and form. Massive tariffs against America. Did you ever see us throwing fits like this?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, and that's part of the issue, is you've never seen anyone react this way, right, Andy? Right. And I get it. They're probably more upset about the 51st state deal, which sometimes these people just have to look at it and say, this is just a dude getting everyone riled up. It's like what Trump did for, I don't know if you saw that, basically Europe has come out and essentially they've said today that They're basically going to have to increase their spending on defense, which is everything that Trump's been saying kind of from the start is, hey, we just need to – you guys need to come on par with us to increase your spending because we're not going to be policing everything anymore, at least on our own. We'll still help. But we need people to come. And so he just says some outlandish stuff sometimes to get people moving. And sometimes I think he just says outlandish stuff, Andy, to get people riled up, like the 51st State thing. And I think that's more of a dig at Trudeau.
SPEAKER 03 :
Look, Trump is an international troll. He is. He is?
SPEAKER 05 :
He is, Andy. I enjoy it. He's the Kansas City fans on the message boards before the big game, telling the Eagles that they're going to fail in the dire of moments, or the worst of moments once more. And then he comes back when they lose. Oh, I knew that was going to happen. We've already won back-to-back. Three of four. It was meant to be. It's okay. That's who Trump is.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's who he is. Well, here was something that I knew was going to happen. I've got to bring it up real quick. Because remember, I think it was a couple months ago, we talked about Aaron Rodgers, and you asked me if he was coming back next year with the Jets. What did I say? You said no, he would not. I said no, he's done. Stick a fork in him.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think we both said that, and I think to this point, you and I also talked about maybe a decent landing spot would be Minnesota because I think Sam Darnold is going to be too expensive for them. I think Sam Darnold is probably not a guy I would pay $30 million to, which I think you're going to have to pay. And I think that the Vikings with J.J. McCarthy, you don't know how he's going to come back from this ACL and everything else. There may be worse things. I think it's a good idea. Go ahead. That's the thing. To me, depending on the money, it's kind of like Russ with the Steelers. I actually didn't think it was a bad deal for the Steelers. He was on the vet minimum, basically. It didn't cost them a stinking thing to do it. The Broncos were picking up the rest of the tab. If you're the Vikings or potentially the Titans or maybe even Vegas, Any one of these teams that either got a young quarterback or are going to be drafting a young quarterback, why not take Rodgers for another year? Now, you could argue his play diminished and all sorts of things, and it did. I'm not discounting those things. And I don't think he's got much left, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Although he did look pretty good over the second half of the season.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and the further away it happens, the further away these older players get from Achilles. That's the biggest thing. I think even Kirk Cousins probably would have, he actually started to play a little bit better as the season wore on. Again, the Falcons have got a young guy in Pennix that they wanted to see how he would do. I think Rodgers can probably come back. He can have a serviceable season. I think he wants to keep playing, whether it be for this year, another year, whatever it might be. I know he's got kind of some milestones coming up that he probably would like to get in terms of touchdowns, yards, things of that nature. But, yeah, Andy, I'm with you, and you called it. And, honestly, the Jets are probably better for it because they're really not in a win-now position. And, honestly, I don't even know if Aaron is a win-now quarterback, to be honest with you, which begs the question maybe he should have stayed with the Jets.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, no, no, no. I mean, look at it this way, though. The Vikings are loaded. OK, the Vikings are one of the probably one of the top five or six talented teams in the NFL. They really are. And I think if there's a team to go to, he's never had a set of receivers like that. Yeah, he had Devante, but he never had a set of receivers like the Vikings had. He's never had an offensive line like they have. He has never had a team around him. I don't know if he ever in Green Bay had a defense like that. The Vikings have a really good team. And if I'm Aaron Rodgers, look, because of his big payout from the Jets, he can play for next to nothing just like Russell did.
SPEAKER 05 :
And you're correct. I just don't... Again, to me, Andy, I think... Well, here's another one for you. The Steelers, they're likely moving on from Russ. They're likely moving on from Justin Fields. Yeah, but they're not as talented.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're not as talented, though, as Minnesota.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, but Andy.
SPEAKER 03 :
And also another thing, Aaron's old and Minnesota's indoors, which is kind of nice. But go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, you're not wrong, but Mike Tomlin's teams, Andy, we've talked about this for years, right? His teams, just because of his coaching and the character of his guys in that locker room and the culture that he's established, they are always, always in the mix for the playoff spot, whether they should be or not. And it's just, it makes you think, you know, if you're the Steelers, and honestly, Andy, the Steelers, since Big Ben has retired, they've been trying to find a quarterback, right? You know, they went after Kenny Pickett, and that didn't work out. And they really should be, you know, trying to find a guy, you know, honestly, maybe the Steelers should be going to get Zach Wilson from the Broncos. You know, see how well that, see if he was able to rehab... From Sean Payton, I just think it's an interesting thing because you are correct. Outdoors, cold weather, northeast, all those things. But again, Andy, Aaron, and I know he doesn't get around, but he made his living in Green Bay.
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Yeah. Well, yeah, but he was younger. You know, when you're younger, you can do that. Remember when Brett Favre got toward the end? He looked awful in the cold. It's hard for old quarterbacks to function in the cold unless they got a great team around them, like Peyton Manning did at the end here in Denver. I just don't know. If I were him, I'm going to Minnesota. It's ideal. But wherever he goes. You see, Minnesota, it's perfect because, like you said, they've got a rookie second-year quarterback, but he's coming off a serious injury. They don't have to rush him back. He can spend a year behind, learn behind Aaron, then he's ready to go. I mean, it's an ideal situation. I don't think Aaron Rodgers, because Aaron Rodgers is not one of these guys who wants to play forever. He's made it very clear, okay, he is not Joe Montana. He is not Tom Brady, right? But one more year on a really good team, I think he'd love it. And he wouldn't have any resentment for the young guy because he doesn't care. You know, I will say, but one thing we have to agree on, Mike Tomlin is the man.
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Mike Tomlin, it's interesting, Eddie. Mike Tomlin, to me, is your prototypical... Yeah. Basically, the phrase, right, grass isn't always greener, right? You don't know what you have until it's gone. All of these phrases of, he's the steady Eddie. No, does he wow you? And do I think he's slightly overrated because he's in Pittsburgh? Yes, Eddie, the same way that I think Bill Cowher was overrated because he was in Pittsburgh. However, you cannot argue with the results. And regardless of your feelings on him and being overrated or whatever, that dude just knows how to win, and he knows how to get the most, the absolute most, out of his team no matter what. And, again, you saw what he did with the quarterback for all those years, and I think if you can replicate that, Andy, it would not surprise me if he was able to do more. That's all I would say.
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Yeah, and like I said, with Pittsburgh, there's a team that's probably got to use their top pick on a quarterback, right?
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Do they go, which Andy, obviously, you're switching because this is becoming years and years, and you have Walt's favorite time of the year, right?
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Right, the draft.
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The draft is about 10 days or so. So obviously they're late in the first round, right? They're next to the Broncos. Which is going to have to be a Jackson Dart, a Quinn Ewers. Right. Or is one of those guys – because I think – we always know this, Andy. You always talk about it. Quarterbacks get overdrafted. And so you're going to have to take one of those guys in your draft position now. And the last guy they took in the same position didn't work out, Andy.
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No, I agree. But one thing I think that's going to help them is there have been a flood of quarterbacks taken in the first round over the last three years. And what that means is a lot of these teams that are up above them already have their guy. And so you're going to have, you know, we know about the top two quarterbacks. We know they're going to go in the top five picks, most likely. And that's fine, right? But then what you got are you got a bunch of teams in the draft who already got their guy. They're just young. And I don't see a lot of these teams really wanting to jump ahead of Pittsburgh or grab that quarterback. I see them needing other things. I could see, I don't know about the third, but I could see the fourth quarterback possibly dropping to Pittsburgh. And wouldn't that be ideal for them if they got an Aaron Rodgers for one year? Aaron says, yeah, I'll do a year there and go off into the sunset. And then they have the next guy ready to go. The only thing is, though, once again, they're outdoors and a northern team. Yikes for an old guy. And secondly, Minnesota's just a better team. I mean, all hats off to Mike Tomlin, but Tomlin doesn't have Minnesota's talent.
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No, I agree with you, and you're not wrong. I mean, I do think that Tomlin would do well with a guy like Rodgers. He would. Again, he just gets the most out of it. The Steelers, again, they're in the enviable position for a lot of teams. I mean, look at any of these teams that would love to just make the playoffs year after year. Heck, the Broncos up to this last year were that team. They wanted to just make the playoffs. But now they're in a state, in a situation in which, well, obviously not the case for the Broncos, but for the Steelers, they've got to sort of either move up or you've got to take that second-round guy, maybe catch lightning in a bottle, like the other team there in Pennsylvania did in the Eagles with Jalen Hurts in the second round. And maybe that is a guy like Jackson Dart. Maybe that is a Quinn Ewers, a guy that can sort of manage the game for you. And I'm still a believer that that's basically all Jalen Hurts does for the Eagles, but he does it tremendously well. And obviously it's gotten him to two Super Bowls, 1-1. I think that they've got to make some moves, Andy. And I think in this draft, I know we can talk more about it when we come back from break here, I think in this draft... Some teams are going to have to make moves, and it's going to help teams like your team and my team because I think it's actually going to allow better players to fall to us at different points in the draft, and I think that's a positive.
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Yeah, we're both in the early 20s, and those picks are going to look like mid-teens. I really think so. Hey, tell you what, after the break, I'm going to put a challenge to you, Richard. Not with names, but with positions. Finish off, finish building the Broncos with the draft when we come back. Sound good? Sounds great. All right, up next is Ridgeline Auto Brokers. When you're looking at used cars, you want good selection and best inspections. Ridgeline has both, and you'll find both locations at klzradio.com.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560 on the line right now. We got Richard Rush. Richard, there are a lot of Bronco fans out there right now who are pretty excited because not only did you guys make the playoffs, but you are a young, talented team. I believe you've got at least as much talent as the Chiefs right now. So fill in the roster. What do they need? Tight end? I mean, what are you looking at?
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Yeah, so the biggest phrase that Broncos fans are going to hear over the next few months, Andy, is going to be the Joker position, right? Which, no, that's not the best player in basketball right now that resides in our city, who has been for a number of years. Who, by the way, side note, Andy should probably win his third straight title. MVP, but the guy from Oklahoma City.
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I'm going to be mean here for just a moment. I think the Joker is absolutely phenomenal. But when you look at both ends of the court, I think Giannis has been pretty incredible, but I would give it to the kid from OKC. So I think he plays both ends of the court right now better than anybody in the league.
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And I'm going to be the Denver Homer here, Andy, and say that you're just not looking at – yes, you're correct. Could he be better on the defensive end? Yeah, but that's not his game. He's not a shot blocker. He's not a rim protector. He's none of those things.
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Look, he's not the athlete that you generally have as a defender. And that's the thing. He's a poor defender. It doesn't matter. I mean, don't get me wrong. He's awesome. He could be the best center who's ever played, okay? We're talking Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, guys like that. I put him in that list, so don't get me wrong. I think the guy's freaking phenomenal. But for both ends of the court, I would go in a couple other directions.
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Well, and you're near the one seed, and as good as Oklahoma City is, SCA probably should. But nevertheless, you're going to hear lots about this Joker position, right? Which for Sean Payton is essentially a do-it-all type, either at running back or tight end. So if it's a running back, it's a guy who can catch passes out of the backfield, who can block. He's your true three-down back, but not super heavy in the run game, right? Or if it's a tight end, it's like... Jimmy Graham or Taysom Hill, right? None of those guys are in the same class. But this tight end who can basically create matchups, he can either pull defenders away or he can really maximize one-on-one matchups.
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Well, I think you've already got some pretty good young running backs, so they've just got to get healthy.
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Yeah, well, the problem is, Andy, but there's not really a guy that can really excel. You've got Jaleel McLaughlin, who's really, I think he's an explosive guy, but he's not an every-down guy. That's fair. Maybe six, seven carries, maybe some catches out of the backfield. I think Audrick Estime. I think there's a chance that Waltz guy, and you and I and Waltz are going to debate this on draft night, that Ashton Gentry could follow them at pick 20, and maybe he's the pick. To me, the biggest need in...
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Do you really think he'll fall that far? I mean, he's awfully good. I know it's running back, but he's awfully good, Richard. I mean, look, I'm just going to say right now, I think you guys should get a tight end, but if Gentry's there, no, you take him. Forget it. Best player available, you take the halfback.
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I will say, Andy, to me, honestly, tight end, Andy, I'm not as much as I really like that Tyler Warren kid out of Penn State. Oh, he's good. He's not going to be there either. I just think that the draft is actually really deep at tight end. It is. And it's really deep at defensive tackle. So you can get one in the second round. You can get a guy in the second, even a third round, that in some other drafts may be a first-round pick, right? Just because of how deep it is and then the value that teams potentially or don't potentially put on that position.
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Okay, well, what about this? Looking at the Eagles and how they won. They won with the offensive and defensive line. Are you looking at a big ugly? And maybe you get a tight end in the second or third round because it's so deep? Yeah.
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Something like that. I could see them even going potentially an edge rusher. I think the Broncos have done a really good job. Another one? You guys are good. We talked about this. You can never have too many edge or interior defensive linemen that can get after the quarterback. If a guy falls, like we were talking about, if teams move up to get a quarterback... Maybe they, again, Gentee gets picked. Maybe both of these tight ends, Tyler Warren, Colston Loveland, get picked in the first round before the Broncos. That just pushes other guys back that should probably be drafted higher. And so, yeah, if that gives me the other defensive tackle out of Michigan, not Mason Graham, but the other guy, then, yeah, absolutely I want to take that guy in the first round. I don't want to reach and grab one.
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Don't you love it? It's kind of nice drafting in the low 20s like both our teams are, but we both already have our quarterbacks, so we don't have to reach for players that other teams ahead of us will reach for pushing good players to us.
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Correct. It's a position, Andy, that Broncos fans for the past several years have been in where we're like, man, we've got to take a quarterback. Let's study the quarterback. And we're finally, finally at a place where we can actually study every other position in the draft except for quarterback. We can say, hey, we don't need to take that guy. We can take literally the best position that falls to us, which is what the Eagles have done for a number of years, Andy, until they got into the position that they were in. They literally just –
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stacked up on the big uglies and or stocked up i should say and just took the best guy that they possibly could if i were the broncos here is what i wish would drop to me okay and i know it's not sexy but look you just got your quarterback get yet another killer offensive lineman that's what i did and i and i already like a lot of your offensive i already like some of your offensive linemen a lot but get another
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Well, and you're not wrong. And honestly, for the offensive line, you've got several good guys. You could argue you could upgrade the center position, although I think our guy there was serviceable. You could argue that they could upgrade the other guard position that we did a few years ago in free agency. But for the most part, they actually came together. They played really well together. And I don't know if it's something that you need to mess with. But as we've always known, Andy, you looked at it with the Eagles. We just talked about the defensive side. The offensive side, you can never have enough good offensive linemen. Right. There's no way about it.
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Well, and also, let's face it, with the QB you guys have now, and by the way, what a great draft pick. When he's got time, he's lethal.
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Yeah, well, and he's lethal, Andy, and here's the other thing. You saw it with Jalen. When teams, you know, you get a good running game, you get all these pieces together, and then they sit back and they let stuff happen, well, then you can take what they give you, right? You can run up the middle, as Jalen did, several of those third downs, and Bo can take advantage of that. So, Andy, this draft season, I want playmakers.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's what I want. Okay, you've got 20 seconds left. How do you put you guys against the Chiefs next year? What do you think? I think you are right on their level or better next year.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'll be a little bit more cynical. I think we're still a step low, but the Chiefs have got some work to do. They've got several key free agents. The Broncos don't have that many key free agents. We've got some guys we need to extend, but we've got the money to. We don't have to worry about a $70 million cap hit with theirs. So I think we're still a step below Andy, but let's check in in May after the draft and see how close we are.
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All right, Richard, I'll talk to you next Monday. Sound good? Sounds good, man. See you. You take care. Folks, that's it for our number two and our three. I'm going to be talking to Jersey Joe as we watch the left going crazy nationwide. Until then, keep it right here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
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Welcome in to this Washington's birthday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike today. Glad to have you. There's lots of ways for you to join the conversation, and I hope you will today. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453 is how you can join the conversation. You can call, you can text, and I love your emails as well, joey at joeyhudson.com. We've got a lot to cover today, a lot happening over the weekend. Of course, today is Washington's birthday. Some people call it President's Day. It is a federal holiday. In most states, there's one exception to that, and that is former President, and I love saying that, former President Joe Biden. I like the former part of that. Delaware is the only state that does not recognize Washington's birthday or President's Day. They have floating holidays, and so state employees can decide when they would take that. So this is not an official holiday for those in Delaware, but Delaware. A lot to cover today. Did you happen to catch the Daytona 500 yesterday? President Trump was just having way too much fun, wasn't he? As NASCAR drivers hit the speedway yesterday, 200 mile per hour plus speeds, and it's known as the great American race for a good reason. President Trump there, of course, ahead of the start of the race, he had a chance to catch up with Fox Sports' Jamie Little. And he talked about how courageous and just how demanding these races are and talked about the drivers and how brave they are to be in those cars at such high speeds. And cut number two, President Trump talks with Jamie Little.
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What brings you back to the great American race?
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Well, I think it's fantastic. It's great for the country. Our country is doing well again, and we have spirit all over the world, this spirit again. We brought it back, and it's been less than four weeks. So you'll see what we do in a little period of time. It's going to only get better, but this is very exciting.
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You brought your granddaughter. I know some of your other family members are here. You get to take a ride around in the Beast. What is that like?
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I'll let you know in about two minutes because they're going to be going quite quickly, I understand.
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You just got to meet some of the drivers. Are you going to get on the radio again and talk to them before the start of this?
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I say they have a lot of courage doing this. I see it, and I've been here, and they have a lot of guts, as they would say. Mr. President, enjoy your time. Thank you very much.
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President Trump speaking with Fox News' Jamie Little just prior to the start of the race. And he did get in the beast and took a lap around the track. And he's right. I don't know if you've ever been in a NASCAR. I had the opportunity several years ago at the Charlotte Motor Speedway to do a ride-along. And I got to tell you, those walls come up very quickly. You look like you're just about to drive straight into one when you hit that bank. And, you know, we got up to—we didn't quite make it to 200 miles per hour. It was like 193 or so, I think, was our fastest one. As mentioned there, the president did have a message to the drivers in cut number one just prior to the race beginning, and as the beast was getting ready to head back in and let the race begin, the president had this to say to the drivers.
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And, you know, the great American race, as it's referred to, is all about America. It's...
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symbolizes the good about America. Just prior to the race, President Trump issued a statement. He said, this iconic race showcases the fastest, most fearless drivers in motorsports who represent our nation's love of tradition, competition, and automotive innovation. The Daytona 500 brings together people from all walks of life, from lifelong racing fans to first-time spectators. They all join in celebrating a shared passion for speed, adrenaline, and the thrill of the race. He said, from the roar of the engines on the track to the echo of the star-spangled banner soaring through the stands, the Daytona 500 is a timeless tribute to the speed, strength, and unyielding spirit that make America great. That spirit is what will fuel America's golden age, and if we harness it, the future is truly ours. As he was arriving in Daytona, typical of how President Trump likes to do, he did a flyover in Air Force One. I've been at several rallies in the past. where the president would do a flyover knowing that the crowd's there waiting on him. And it's just a special thing as you see the president flying over. They do the little tail, the wing wag there, waving at you, knowing that he is on his way. And, you know, the other thing, too, that I've noticed, and not only with President Trump, but just this past week with Elon Musk having his young son in the Oval Office with him, the president saying, If you're watching us on the Salem News Channel, you're seeing the president with his young granddaughter. And it just sort of signifies this new Trump administration, how family friendly they are. You see a lot of these in the president's case, grandkids and Elon Musk's case, his young kids, they're with them. They're part of what's going on, and that's just good to see that, again, it symbolizes the family-friendly presidency of Donald Trump. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453 is how you join us on this Washington's birthday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. One of the headlines that got my attention over the weekend is out of San Diego. And it's the story of a migrant shelter that has literally closed down. Why? Because no one is coming to it anymore. Because President Trump is securing our border. And there's no need for it. Now, of course, the officials in San Diego are whining because 100 people are losing their jobs. And I hate that. I hate for anyone to lose their job. But what I hate worse is for my federal tax dollars to be wasted on something that's not needed. And we're probably going to see more and more of this type of thing happening. We're going to talk a little about that coming up next on this special edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. I'm Joey Hudson. In for Mike. Your text messages are welcome on the MyPillow text line, 800-655-6453. You can email me, joey, at joeyhudson.com. Lots of ways for you to join the conversation today, and I hope you will. as we celebrate Washington's birthday here on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hope you're enjoying the conversation. Glad to have you in on this Monday.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike today. Mike wanted me to remind you about the Patriots Alaska cruise coming up this summer. It's a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Peg and I were able to do this this past year. with Mike and Dr. Sebastian Gorka. This year, Larry Elder will be on the ship, along with Jennifer Horn, Joe Piscopo. And, you know, it's just a great time. You're going to see the beauty of Alaska. But it's so fun, too, to be able to meet people from all around the country, like-minded conservatives who share our support of President Donald Trump. We're going to sail August 16th. It's the 16th through the 23rd. On board, you'll enjoy thought-provoking talks, exclusive events, really some unforgettable moments on this beautiful ship. And it is a beautiful ship as well. Text the keyword TRAVEL to 94878. Just text the word TRAVEL to 94878 to reserve your cabin today. This is more than just a cruise. It's a chance to engage with some of the most respected voices in conservative America while exploring some of the most beautiful places you've ever seen. I've got to tell you, Alaska, it exceeded my expectations by 1,000%. It is just gorgeous to see the whales and to see the glaciers. It was just a wonderful, wonderful trip, and I'm looking forward to going back this summer as well. Space is limited, so don't wait. Text TRAVEL to 94878. That's TRAVEL, 94878. And I'll see you on board where patriotism, adventure, and luxury all comes together. It's going to be a great time for sure. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation. You can text me your comments. You can call. Teresa will put you in queue. We'll talk as time permits. A lot of you are guessing. How many days Joe Biden took for vacation? A texter says, hey, Joey, thanks for filling in for the happy warrior. And just a guess, Biden took 250 days of vacation. Another texter says 583 days. Another texter says Joe took off, let's see, I'm going to guess 365 days that Joe Biden took off for vacation. Another texter says 200. Another texter, 1,459 days. Well, not quite that many. The New York Post reporting over the weekend that Joe Biden took 577 days during his four-year term. Now, I realize Biden, he's a thing of the past. We have moved on. But I just couldn't resist. I mean, think about this. Five hundred and seventy seven days over a four year period. Basically. He was out over a year of his presidency. Now, you could look at that as as good news. Because that was a year we didn't have Joe doing something he probably shouldn't have been doing. The other way to look at it, though, is that's over a year where he was absent just letting whoever was pulling the strings in the White House run loose. But think about it this way. How many days of vacation do you get every year? I looked it up. On average, Americans get 11 paid vacation days per year. You'd have to work 52 years to rack up as much time as Joe Biden took off. 52 years you'd have to work to earn the 577 days. I mean, it's just staggering when you think about it. Compared to other presidents. George H.W. Bush, for example, spent 37 percent of his presidency, 543 of the 1,461 days away from the White House. So he was close. He Trump in his first term. took 26% of his first term away. That was 381 days. Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, vacationed for just 11% of their first two-term presidencies. George W. Bush spent 1,020 days out of, now he served two terms, remember, out of 2,922 days. So that was 35% versus Joe Biden's 39%. Look. It's a lot of days any way you look at it. A lot of vacation time. Of course, you know, what I always look back on is that photo that is used quite often when Joe Biden was at the beach of him just clearly out of it, just asleep on the beach when the world was falling apart. No wonder Joe Biden didn't get much done. 800-655-6453. Let's go to the phones. Hank is in Virginia. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show, Hank. Thank you for taking my call. Sure. Do you get as much vacation time as Joe Biden did? No. None of us do.
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And that's part of the point I'm getting ready to make. I watch all this wasteful spending, and while the average American knew it was a lot of waste, we had no concept. But the thing that I'm taking away, and this applies to many women, obviously, because we all did it. We are all doing it. But especially for men, how many men out there worked, took extra jobs, took side jobs, got all the overtime they could get to pay their taxes, thereby then allowing what was left to feed their family. When I'm watching, my children are grown, they're adults now, but there was a lot of things I missed as a father. And I missed it because I was working. How many of us men lost, you know, I don't care, you can't pay us back, you can't pay a man back. That's what he will never see. And we paid all that to be honest, taxpaying citizens, and then we're sitting back here today in our 60s, and we're looking back thinking, my God, this is the sacrifice. This is what I was being, a good patriot and sacrificing time from my wife, from my family, time I will never get back, moments I can never have. You know, that in and of itself, I mean, the monetary part of it, is bad enough. But it's almost like a certain amount of grief, a death. You're grieving a life that you should have had that you didn't get because of all this wasteful spending.
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Yep. It kind of makes me angry to think about it, and I don't like to be angry, but I look at the list of things that we're learning from the work that Elon Musk and Doge is doing, and as you said, the waste, knowing that I had to work hard to earn money to pay taxes for it just to be thrown away like that. Exactly.
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And even if we were solving, you could print money. Hand me money now. What's it going to get me? I can't get those moments back.
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I never will.
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And you're right. It's very hard to not stay angry.
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Yep. Hey, Hank, appreciate your phone call. Appreciate you listening as well. 800-655-6453. One line open. We'll go to Greg, who is in Charlotte. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello, sir. How are you? I'm wonderful.
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Hope you are. Well, I was four years ago. In following what the previous caller had said, sir, frankly, I'm a combat vet, and the Biden administration, frankly, ruined my career. And, you know, I'm still angry. And I imagine a lot of people are. If we do the things they did, I'm not going to be happy until I see these people have the same situation as Bannon and Navarro. I want to see them in orange jumpsuits. I want to see them in shackles in a court of law answering for these where they can't lie or deceive anybody anymore.
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Yeah. And it's hard not to be angry, isn't it, Greg? And thank you for your service, because they did. They did things to us. They took time away from us. And when you talk about inflation and some of the prices that we're having to pay for products right now, I know that President Trump, his economic policies are going to improve things. But let's just face it. Let's be honest, Greg. There are some things that the prices are never going to come back to what they were pre-Biden. And, you know, we're going to have to continue paying that for sure. Hey, Greg, appreciate your phone call. Again, appreciate your service. 800-655-6453. You know, every day there's a new revelation of just wasteful spending. And you read some of these and you think somebody's making this up. This can't be real. The Department of Government Efficiency, Doge's ex-account, posted over the weekend, and President Trump reposted some of the latest examples. Ten million dollars. These have all been canceled, by the way. This is a list of some of the government contracts that Doge canceled last week. So $10 million for Mozambique. I don't even know where that is. Voluntary medical male circumcision. $9.7 million for UC Berkeley to develop a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise-driven skills. I don't even know what that means. $2.3 million for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia. Do you care about strengthening independent voices in Cambodia? I mean, who comes up with this stuff? $32 million to the Prague Civil Society Center. I have no idea what that is. $32 million of our money sent to Prague. $40 million for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Hub. $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia. Again, it's hard not... to be angry when you read this type of thing. $486 million to the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening, including $22 million for Inclusive and Participatory Political Process in Moldova and $21 million for voter turnout in India. Now, look, I don't care about voter turnout in India. Do you? Does anyone listening to my voice today care about voter turnout in India? If you do, Teresa will put you at the front of the list. I'd love to hear about this. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453. Does this make you a little bit angry? $29 million to strengthening the political landscape in Bangladesh. $20 million for fiscal federalism in Nepal. Another $19 million for biodiversity conversation in Nepal. All right, I'm going to take a deep breath. Let's do a breathing exercise together here. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike on Washington's birthday.
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Happy Washington's birthday to you. Joey Hudson in for Mike today. Mike will be back tomorrow. I'll be back on Wednesday because Mike is going to be on special assignment on Wednesday. I can't tell you exactly what. If I did, I'd have to shoot you or something. We've got a great week. for you here on the Mike Gallagher Show, and I'm happy to be with you today. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation. You can call. Teresa will put you in queue. We'll talk as time permits. You can also text me. Same number, 800-655-6453 on the Mike's Fellow text line. I always use promo code MIKEG when you go online and place your order. to get the absolute very best savings that you can get. And, of course, I love your emails, too, directly, joey at joeyhudson.com. We've got a lot to cover. President Trump at the Daytona 500 yesterday. We'll talk with you a little about that. It was just a special day, and that's just Donald Trump for you, isn't it? You never would have seen Joe Biden going to a NASCAR race, having the beast out on the track, leading the cars just prior to the race beginning. That's just something Joe Biden would have never done if he had been working on enough. We've been talking this weekend about the fact that we saw in black and white the number of days that Joe Biden took for vacation. Some of you have been emailing, texting me. I'd love for you to guess. Tell me how many days Joe Biden took for vacation during his four years. You can text it to me on the MyPillow text line, 800-655-6453. And a San Diego migrant center is out of business. They're closing down. The Democrats are whining because 100 people are losing their jobs, and I hate that too. But this migrant center, illegal migrant center, is closing because there's no more business. Because Donald Trump is closing the border. We'll talk a little about that as well. Democrats and the mainstream media, they're still kind of in shock that Donald Trump is actually in the White House. They're still trying to analyze this. their failure in 2024 of putting Kamala Harris in place of Joe Biden. It's pretty obvious to us why Kamala Harris failed miserably. Not so much yet for the Democrats and the mainstream media. They're still scratching their heads as if they don't quite understand it. It was a clear message. As they continue their post-mortem, if you will, there's literally some absolute gold material coming out of the Democrat Party's post-election meltdown. And when I say meltdown, it is a full-blown meltdown. Over the weekend, Jen Psaki, the former White House – Joe Biden's White House press secretary – she's now on MSNBC – She came out and slammed Kamala Harris. They're starting to eat their own now, okay? She slammed Kamala Harris for the way she ended her disastrous presidential campaign. What's Jen Psaki's biggest complaint? That Harris campaigned alongside Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney, of course, was once a Republican, or at least she said she was. She was obsessed with with the January 6th sham committee that she served on. She thought that she could be a queenmaker and anoint Kamala Harris. Now, this is the same Liz Cheney who lost her own congressional seat in a historic loss. She wasn't even close. That didn't quite give her the message that she was out of tune with the American people. Psaki told Jon Stewart, who, by the way, has finally started admitting that his party is completely out of touch. It's finally occurred to Jon Stewart, maybe he's on the wrong side of the track here. Psaki told Jon Stewart that Harris and the Democrats were using elite academic language that didn't connect with real Americans. She admitted that they were speaking from an ivory tower, lecturing people, pushing a message that voters just didn't care about. In cut number eight, Jen Psaki kind of explains her analysis of why the Democrats lost so badly in November.
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I also think Liz Cheney is very heroic. Wait, what? How did that? Wait, where did that come from? Here we are. But I don't think closing the campaign with a message about fighting democracy with a former Republican member of Congress was the right strategy.
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You think? You think having someone like... Liz Cheney? I mean, think about that for a minute, all right? So the Republican Party, we had already booted Liz Cheney out. She lost her congressional seat. The Democrats didn't like her to begin with. So why did they think that Liz Cheney could help Kamala Harris? Jen Psaki's right on this one. And this has to be painful for the Democrats. And look, I hope that they don't get it. I hope that they continue to just double down and try to convince themselves that they're still on the right track, that they just need to continue what Joe Biden had started. Liz Cheney, the so-called savior of democracy, according to liberal media, was accused of witness tampering, you may recall. by House Republicans. And Joe Biden, on his way out, gave her a pardon, gave her a preemptive pardon, just so, in Biden's words, so in case Donald Trump wanted to go after her. Now, here's the big takeaway, I guess. Democrats lost because they became the party of the swamp. They are the real swamp. Democrats lost because they are so out of tune with America, and they're still out of tune. They still hadn't quite admitted why they failed so miserably. The American people are tired of the same-o, same-o. And that's why there's so much excitement and so much hope in the air, because we're seeing Elon Musk and so many others in the Trump administration doing things differently. actually canceling contracts, million-dollar contracts for things that are just absurd anyway, saying that, hey, we can start with closing down the CBP app, for example, which now means that those illegals aren't making an appointment to get into our country free of charge. And it's causing... These centers like San Diego to close because there's no business. By the way, that center in San Diego, they received $22 million last year to operate from FEMA. FEMA money that was supposed to be for natural disasters, supposed to be going to people, helping people like near my home of South Carolina up in western North Carolina. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I'm Joey Hudson. In for Mike on Washington's birthday.
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When I tell you she was cool, she was red hot. I mean, she was steaming. And that time over at Johnny's place. Well, this chick got up and she slapped Johnny's face. Man, we just fell about the place. If that chick don't want to know, forget her. The boys are back in town.
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President Trump is moving at lightning speed.
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And after that, all hell is going to break out.
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The Mike Gallagher Show. You're seeing a politician, a president, who's coming in who can't get reelected. So he's just going ham. And he's just cleaning out everything. And people are freaking out. The same people that say we need radical change. We need radical change. We've got corruption. We need radical change. Okay, well, here's your radical change. We don't need this. But you do. The government does. They need oversight.
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In the relieffactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike. You know, many of you, I shared with you some of the comments that Jen Psaki and Jon Stewart were talking about because they're still trying to figure out what happened on November the 5th. They're still in shock. They just can't believe they're sitting back every day and they're watching this Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the whole Trump 2-0 operate at a breakneck speed. And they haven't had time to process this. And Psaki, of course, blaming Kamala Harris for just making some stupid choices, like having Liz Cheney out on the campaign trail with her and other things. I would say that the reason Kamala Harris failed so miserably is because she's Kamala Harris. You can't blame it on somebody else. There's not one single thing that caused Kamala Harris to lose. The fact that Kamala Harris just isn't a good politician. She's just not a good speaker. And evidence of this, you know, we all joked a lot about her word salads. She was famous for speaking for two, three, four, five minutes and not saying anything. Here's another example of Kamala Harris. She was trying to inspire some Broadway actors, and this is what came out.
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When we think about, like, these moments where we see things that are being taken, but also let's see it as, you know, nature pours a vacuum. So where there's a vacancy, then let's fill it. Right? And let's know that the reality is that the progress of our nation has always been about the expansion of rights, not the restriction of rights. We're seeing a U-turn right now for those rights to be maintained, which means we have to be vigilant. And it's just the nature of it. But he knew, and he took those risks. But we have to be clear-eyed. And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty in everything. Right? These things all coexist. But I believe we fight for something, not against something.
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And that's our optimism, right?
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Now, for those of you watching on the Salem News Channel and you're seeing this group of people on this Broadway stage, obviously in a Broadway theater there, you see them just kind of, yeah, mm, yeah, mm-hmm. They don't quite know what she's saying either. It's kind of like we all need an interpreter. If you understood what Kamala Harris just said, if you're a Democrat – or Kamala Harris interpreter, I'm going to put you to the front of the line. Call 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. And, Teresa, I want to talk to them because I want to know what she said. Talk about a word salad. That's why Kamala Harris lost. Now, yes, some of the other dumb decisions that they made, like having various people play such a major role in the campaign, That had something to do with it, too. But the American people saw right through Kamala Harris. The American people see her for what she is. People who are close to her, they probably like her. She's probably a nice lady. I don't know. Never met her. Don't care to. But she's just not smart enough to be on that level. How she became a United States senator is a mystery to me. Maybe she was a good lawyer, a good prosecutor. I don't know. But that example that I just shared with you, that's why Kamala Harris lost. Let me take a minute to talk with you about one of my favorite topics, and that's MyPillow. They're excited to announce that they're having the first mega sale of 2025 with some of their overstock clearance, some brand new products as well. When you use promo code MikeG at MyPillow.com, you're going to save over 50%. on this season's flannel sheets. Queen size, for example, $59.98. King size, $69.98. They sell out fast, so let me encourage you to go to MyPillow.com right now or call 800-928-6034 and get the most comfortable sheets you'll ever sleep on. And you're going to save money on them at the same time when you use promo code MikeG. Save 30% on the brand new MyCrosses. This is the cross. When you see Mike Lindell, you always see that he's wearing a cross. You can have your very own. It's something he's worn for over 20 years. They come in men's and women's. They're made right here in the U.S., and you can get a 30% discount on a cross today when you go to MyPillow.com and use promo code MikeG. Get the 2025 six-piece towel set, and I promise you, the towels are the best towels. They're soft, but they're absorbent. One of the biggest issues with towels and towels that you can spend a lot of money on, they just aren't absorbent. Well, Mike Lindell, I asked him about this one time, and he explained to me how he had some chemists come up with the right process of treating the fabric so that they'd be soft but they'd be absorbent as well. $29.98 when you use promo code MikeG. Go to MyPillow.com or call 800-928-6034 to place your order right now. Have your credit card ready. You remember the $75 free shipping rule? We're going to throw that out right now because right now every order ships absolutely free. So take advantage of this, MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. Back to the phones in Philadelphia. Stephen is patiently waiting. Stephen, welcome.
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Hey, good morning. How are you today?
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I'm wonderful. Hope you are.
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Well, yeah. I just wanted to talk about this, of course, this corruption, theft, fraud that's going on in the government and has been going on in the government for years, of course. What you can see here is essentially it is just simply the redistribution of wealth. They're handing the money out to and fro. They don't really care what it goes to. First off, because they know the insiders, the elites that are in on the theft, they are getting kickbacks everywhere, of course. So, you know, the Washington class, which, as the numbers have shown us, about 93 percent Democrat, meaning that they're protecting their little fiefdom where all of them are getting insanely wealthy. But the other point is, and it's really the big point, not the big point, but it's But what this shows is they have total contempt for the U.S. citizens. So really, as I say, they don't really care where the money goes. The big thing for them, really, is that they're taking it from us. And because that, what that does, you know, with the taxation, the IRS, they are able to control the U.S. citizens, the one that they hold in contempt. Because, really, it affects their standard of living. You know, it affects everything about our life. It affects every decision we make, how many children we have, because of how insanely we're taxed and how insane our education now costs at the university level and other places.
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The bottom line here, Stephen, is they just don't think we're smart enough to spend our own money. So they're going to take it from us and spend it on things that they think are more suitable. than what we might spend it on. Appreciate your phone call. 800-655-MIKE. One line open. Ricky is in Jacksonville. Welcome, Ricky. You're on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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How's it going? Hey, so I'm more so calling in for a bit of advice, actually. Okay. So I'm a bit behind enemy lines. I'm a black man in America, but I'm also a veteran. But a lot of the people that I'm friends with, I consider myself friends with, a lot of the circles that I'm involved with, like I'm also an artist. I do 3D printing. A lot of these spaces seem to be super anti-Trump and super anti the movement that we're going towards right now. And I'm more so curious of how – what advice would you give to someone who's literally behind enemy lines and they have very few – Trump supporter friends. Because I didn't even realize all this until the recent election, and that's when people started getting kind of radical, saying crazy off-wall stuff, and started making weird requests. So I'm just trying to figure out, even with my family, man, they might assassinate me. I don't know. I don't want reparations or something like that. So I'm just trying to figure out, do I just separate myself? Some of these people are family. But at the end of the day, some of them are very radical right now. They're calling for assassinations. They're calling for murders. They're calling for all kinds of crazy stuff. And it's like, I don't know if I want to be around that or if I just want to kind of sit and speak my voice.
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Yeah, well, Ricky, first off, thank you for your service. Thank you for serving our country. And I think it's simple, but yet maybe not quite as easy as I'm going to make it sound. But I think we have to educate them. And we have to do it in a non-confrontational way. I mean, let's just look at some of the expenditures, some of the contracts that just in the last week that Doge has exposed and are canceling. I dare say that any of the friends that you're talking about or any of the families you're talking about believes that 486 million of their tax dollars should go to the, quote, consortium for elections and political process strengthening in India. Do you think any of them believe that we should be sending millions of dollars to India for their elections?
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They most certainly do. They want to defend all the funds that we've been putting in foreign countries. It just doesn't make any sense to me personally. I don't like the way it sounds, which is why I'm aligning with how I'm aligning. It just doesn't make any sense with how we're – throwing money to other countries.
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But would they send their money there? No, they would not. Put it on a personal basis, Ricky, and ask them, you know, would you write a check for $1,000, send it to Bangladesh to strengthen their political landscape? You know, try to make it personal, Ricky, and try to... take it away from Trump. You know, a lot of these people, they just hear what the mainstream media and the left, what they're talking about Trump, and they're trying to demonize Trump. Personalize it and ask them, would you write a check for $500 to send to Moldova to help strengthen their election process? Would you send $100 to Nepal for biodiversity conversations? I don't even know what that means. It sounds like a program that Kamala Harris might have made up. Personalize it so that they understand that this is their money. This is their money. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Appreciate your phone calls. Yours is welcome, as are your comments on the MyFellow text line. Email is joey at joeyhudson.com. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike Goddard.
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In today's episode, Kim Monson analyzes the bizarre stats coming out of the Social Security system, with millions listed at implausibly high ages. Together with guest Kevin Lundberg, they explore the nature of government inefficiencies and discuss the ongoing legislative session where a staggering number of bills have been introduced. Furthermore, the show touches upon contemporary cultural shifts regarding educational priorities and the impact of these on everyday life skills.
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That seems to me like government is establishing a religion.
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Surveys show that people still really prefer freedom over government force.
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We think independently and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Socialism is not about free stuff. The free stuff is just to try to get you to vote for it. But it's such a bad idea that ultimately socialism has to come down to force. And it's never compassionate to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, their childhoods, or their lives via force. And force could be a weapon, but policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the World Economic Forum agenda. It plays out with the globalist elites agenda through the United Nations. We're seeing it play out at the Colorado State Legislature with this Colorado governor. Land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, all those things control property. Even though you think you might own it, you don't, because if you can't control your property, you don't own your property. Remember, if something's a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. We focus on the issues and the people regarding those issues, but we work really diligently to stay out of all the personality eighth grade fighting. And so we want to stay disciplined to looking at those issues. And the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. On all KLZ platforms, those are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. So our word of the day is muster. It's an intransitive verb, and thank you to my friend Yvonne. She is a linguist, and she is really great on... And things about language. So yesterday I said, cut the mustard and regarding I was referring to something. And I, as I was saying, and I was wondering, is that the right word? And so I did some more research on all this and she called and she said, it's, it could be past the muster. And muster is to call troops together for inspection, to cause to come together or gather, or to bring it into existence or readiness, a summon up. So as I looked at this more, pass the muster, but there is actually, has been, cut the mustard has been a term that has been used as well. And so this is from dictionary.com. And it says, where does the phrase cut the mustard come from? So that is a phrase as well. And this says from dictionary.com, as with many slang and idiomatic phrases, the origin of cut the mustard isn't so clear cut. It says to cut the mustard is to reach or surpass the desired standard or performance or more generally to succeed to have the ability to do something. Most often the phrase is used in negative constructions for when something doesn't live up to expectations or can't do the job. So, for example, the quarterback couldn't cut the mustard. So it cuts the mustard appears to be an American original. Evidence for the phrase can be found in Galveston, Texas, a newspaper in 1891 and 1892. The author, O. Henry, who spent many years in Texas, where he may have picked up the expression used to cut the mustard in his 1907 collection of short stories, The Heart of the West. I looked around and found a proposition that exactly cut the mustard. And it says the word mustard itself goes back via French to the Latin mustoom, which was an altogether different substance. It was the juice squeezed from grapes before it was made into wine. Mustard is so named because the condiment was originally made by making mustard seeds into a paste with must. And it says it's not exactly clear what cut the mustard does has to do with excellence. But then it goes on to say others have suggested connections to the phrase pass muster when a soldier gets approval after troops are assembled together for inspection. So Yvonne, thank you for that because I was questioning myself. And so there's pass the muster, cut the mustard. And so our word for today is muster. And that is to pass inspection. It is spelled M-U-S-T-E-R. Your challenge is to use that in a sentence today so that you can impress your friends and family with your expanded vocabulary. Our quote of the day is from George Washington, and he was born February 22nd, 1732. He died December 14, 1799. And this was a quote, a letter to Edmund Randolph in 1795 regarding truth. He says, there is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and to pursue it steadily. And that is what we are doing here on the show. Today, the bill of the day is Senate Bill 113. Prime sponsors on this are Democrat Senator Jeff Bridges, Republican Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer, and then Democrat Representative Shannon Byrd. and Republican Representative Rick Taggart. It's the Mid-Year Adjustments to School Funding Cut. The Colorado Union of Taxpayers is recommending a no vote on this, and this is our commentary on it. It said, this bill from the Joint Budget Committee increases the state share of school districts total program funding by a little over 64 million for the 2024-2025 budget year due to increased total enrollment. Although lower at risk students and lower than expected local property tax supportive schools. I find that hard to believe, but continue on. Cut the Colorado Union taxpayer opposes this due to poor initial forecasting. The total budget shortfall that already exists in the low school performance. How much of this, we asked, how much of this increased enrollment is due to undocumented immigrants, and should taxpayers pay for this additional burden? So that is Senate Bill 113, and we are recommending a no vote on that. today there will be a continued debate on the Senate bill zero zero three which is the magazine bill it is a real assault upon our Colorado here in Colorado our Second Amendment rights and so stay tuned on that apparently there has been Uh, amendments that have been proposed, and thank you for amendments to try to make a bad bill. Uh, better, but it's just a bad bill. It just needs to go down. Uh, and this is the semi automatic, semi automatic firearms and rapid fire device. Senate Bill 25003. The prime sponsors on this are Senator Tom Sullivan and Senator Julie Gonzalez and Representative Andrew Boesenecker and Representative Meg Froelich. They're all Democrats, and this is really an assault upon our Second Amendment rights, the right for us to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. And so we'll stay tuned on what is happening with that. Our first, let's see, our first headline that I wanted to go through, I found this really interesting. I hadn't really been paying attention to this. And this is the U.S., or this is the Invictus Games. And I was talking with some people the other night and it was pretty huge that the U.S. team beat the Canadian team. And within the first nine seconds, there were three fights. Apparently, the American anthem was booed. And apparently the record for the Canadian, I think the goalie has been, he's been almost undefeated. So this was one of his first defeats in this game. So I was trying to find more information about this yesterday, and it was difficult to find. I thought, huh, that is so interesting. So this morning I did find more news reports that the U.S. had beat the Canadian team. But trying to find then the finals on it, I think the U.S. won. Text me and let me know. 720-605-0647. And then I also saw, going through headlines on these Invictus Games, that Ukraine had a record number of medals that they received. Okay, that's cool. But then if you read further down into the story, the U.S. led the medal count there. I thought... That is really curious that these headlines are focusing on other countries and not talking about what a big deal this was that the U.S. won. And so that was one of the first things that I wanted to mention. Next thing, Colonel Rutledge, you all know him. He's a consistent contributor to the show. He's 96 years young, and he's traveled the world, visited with many different people, and he brought up something super interesting. And Joanne Fabric's retailer is going to close many of their stores due to bankruptcy. And Colonel Rutledge said, I wonder if this is again, it's a fabric store, a craft store. I wonder if it's that the curriculum is no longer teaching sewing and home economics apprenticeships. And I think that he's absolutely right. There is a lot of young people that don't know how to sew a button on. may not even own a thread and needle. And these are basic things to take care of oneself. And also home economics, how to run a household. And a lot of this comes out of, I think, the radical activist feminist movement where girls were taught that this was beneath them to do these chores, to run a household and to have children and to learn to sew. and make your own clothes, all those things. And Colonel Rutledge said after his wife, Virginia, had passed on, they had purchased a sewing machine for her when they were, I think in Japan, a really great sewing machine. And he offered it to many different schools and hardly any of the schools would take it. And so one has to ask, here we are with this curriculum that's being pushed on the LGBTQ plus agenda and the transgender agenda and having kids question whether or not they're a boy or a girl or whether or not they're a human being or an animal. That that is happening, and again, we're putting more money with this particular Senate bill that I highlighted here, the Senate Bill 113. We're putting more money towards that, but our kids don't know the basic things on how to take care of themselves. And so I thought that was a really interesting point by Colonel Rutledge. Lastly, I think we all saw the headlines regarding this Delta flight in Toronto that flipped upside down. Some people were injured. All 80 aboard survived. But I realize now when you're flying, when the flight attendants are going through and asking you to make sure that your seatbelt is secure and that you have everything stowed, there really is a reason why. And so I'm very grateful that all of those people survived. But you get on an airplane. You think that you take it for granted. You're going to arrive at your destination. Of course, we've seen these the flights. in Washington, D.C., from Wichita, Kansas, that collided with a military helicopter and everyone perished. And so life is precious. And we're called every day to get up and do the very best that we can in serving our good Lord. And so we need to make sure that we do that every day. Last thing Colonel Rutledge mentioned as this yesterday was President's Day honoring George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Washington survived five times, five different times being shot at. And Colonel Rutledge said he felt that there was a direct correlation between Washington and Donald Trump when Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt back in the summer. And the divine provider really did have his hand on Donald Trump as well. So he seems like he is a man on a mission to get government back in the proper roles that it belongs in. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. It is Tuesday and very pleased to have on the line with me former State Senator Kevin Lundberg. He's also the author of the Lundberg Report, which you can find at Kevin Lundberg. That's L-U-N-D-B-E-R-G dot com. Kevin Lundberg, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thanks, Kim. It's great being with you each and every week. We can get this done.
SPEAKER 17 :
This is and we're doing this throughout the legislative session. And Kevin, it is pretty well out of control down there at the statehouse. As of this morning from Bill Track 50 shows that there's been 458 bills that have been introduced. And it is a bill mill down there. And it's there's a lot of the special interests that are pushing this legislation. They're getting a legislator to carry that bill with specific agendas. We also have some some great Republicans that are working to try to roll back some of these bills that are some of this legislation there as well. But it's crazy bill down there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it is. It is. Now, that number that Bill tracked, they're probably including resolutions in that number because my account is more like 425 or so of actual bills that are proposed right now. And that's kind of on track with how many will be there this time of the process because every legislator gets five bills that they can introduce. And so with some others, it adds up pretty quick. Forgive me, your initial question.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, well, I think I wanted to get over here to actually we were talking about the Lumber report. And first thing I wanted to mention is you included a link to an ex post regarding a little film track of Elon Musk as Sherlock Holmes. And I found that super creative and super interesting.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah, that was just kind of a fun thing I dropped in. Occasionally, I mean, I try to scour all the, you know, contacts and news sources I have, and sometimes you run across something that's refreshing, and it's just a little short video clip where with creative AI video, they drop Musk's face and actually – Watson is Tucker Carlson. And they're just kind of making this interesting parallel to the sleuth work that Musk is doing right now, digging through the vast, vast systems in the federal government, trying to find where the real fraud and waste and areas of efficiency exist. And it's a tough job, but he seems to be up to the task, too. So I thought that little clip kind of said it in a lighthearted way.
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And so people can access that by going to your website, kevinlundberg.com, click on the Lundberg Report. And, yes, it's somewhat – it's very refreshing. So be sure and check that out. So, Kevin, earlier this – Oh, go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Go ahead. Well, I might mention this one thing is that it is an ex-account that you have to have as well when you click on that. But most people do, and I think – there's another place that Musk has done a real good job of cleaning things up. So you're safe back on X rather than, you know, the old Twitter systems they had. Anyway, move on.
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So, Kevin, we've seen reports both nationally and locally of protests against Trump, Musk, Doge, which I was talking with some friends last night. I said these people that are protesting this I think are starting to look kind of dumb because I texted this over to you early this morning from the Epoch Times. that database, the Social Security database, apparently has lists over 12 million people older than the age of 120 as eligible for Social Security. There's even one person that's older than 240. How on earth has this been going on? Why hasn't Social Security been checking this out? This is unconscionable.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, it does show you some of the, shall we say, irregularities in government systems. Now, I did read a follow-up on that. If you read very carefully what Musk said about that, because he's quoted in there, he didn't say we've found fraud. He said we've found these weird age... listings of people on Social Security. I did read a follow-up comment from somebody who said, well, yeah, but within the Social Security system, that doesn't mean they're getting the dollars. As a matter of fact, this person said that they automatically cut off payments for anything that's listed more than 115 years. And the guy went on to say that Social Security, their data system is on an old literally 60-year-old, what do we say, machine language that really didn't accommodate the listing of the ages of individual people. And instead, there's sort of this default that drops in. But yeah, it shows you how easy it is for things to get just completely convoluted. And I'm certain, absolutely certain, especially after I've looked at how voter registration records are kept, that the Social Security system has some real weak links. And I'm sure there are a lot of folks that are picking up a check that maybe they shouldn't be. You know, they've got to dig deep and they're finding some interesting things in there. And this is kind of a stark example of how you can't just trust the government to have everything in order and in good shape.
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Well, another thing in the Epoch Times article, it says that the Social Security data reflects the number of eligible Social Security recipients in the system at more than 398 million. Yet the Census Bureau estimates the national population to be roughly 341 million. That seems like that's a problem.
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Well, I'd say that seems like another pretty significant dilemma that they've got there, especially since for most Social Security recipients, you have to be in your 60s or older. And so, yeah, yeah. I mean, it points out just how complicated things have become. You know, when I was in the legislature, and particularly on the Joint Budget Committee for the last two years of my time there, you get statistics thrown at you all the time, and also the immense use of databases. And... The state of Colorado spends tens of millions of dollars just keeping their databases up and running every year. And then oftentimes, you know, they'll spend three or four years putting something like that together. And like I remember when I got into the legislature, they were working on a system. I think they called it CBMS, if I recall. And it was for all the people receiving Medicaid payments. And it took them several years. I think it was like $180 million to develop the system. And by the time it was rolled out, it was essentially two things. One, it didn't work. And number two, it was really behind the times because they started working on it so long ago. It's... Yeah, you can't surprise me with any weird number that comes out of the government's lists of who's where and who's what. But you do have to dig deeper and say, okay, does that mean that Social Security is actually cutting checks for these people, or is this buried in their vast data system that they'll never get rid of any tidbit of information that they collect, whether accurately or not?
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So, Kevin, I want to drill down a little bit more on that when we come back from break to talk about that. And then also you had mentioned our voter rolls here in Colorado and and the fact that they're bloated, that that they're not taking care of them. What can that mean exactly? So I'm talking with Kevin Lundberg. He is the author of the Lundberg Report, a former state senator as well, and really informed about that. things that are happening here in our state it's so important that we drill down on all of these things and these different issues and we get to because of sponsors like karen levine for everything residential real estate
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. The text line is 720-605-0647. And be sure and check out the USMC Memorial Foundation, their website. And make sure that you have them in your giving this year in 2025. It'd be great to do something on a regular basis because honoring those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom is so important. And we can do something right here in Colorado to honor them. So that website, again, is USMC Memorial Foundation. usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Kevin Lundberg is on the line. You can find him at kevinlundberg.com. And be sure and check out his Lundberg Report. It goes up every Saturday. And he also has a call every Monday morning with a number of people throughout Colorado. And so you can check all that out. It's all in the Lundberg Report. But Kevin, we're talking about Elon Musk, that apparently there's this number, a significant number of people, what we say 12 million people over the age of 120 that are listed as eligible for Social Security. And then apparently a commentator said, well, they may be in there as eligible, but that doesn't mean that they're getting the money. Right. And then we see over here in Colorado, our voter rolls are so bloated and we've got mail-in ballots flying out all over the state at great expense. And there are those that say, well, not all those people vote. We have signature verification, although I will interject that there's no signature audits at all. But I find it interesting that instead of saying, hey, this is a problem, let's clean it up, people make excuses. What's your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 05 :
You're absolutely correct. And Judicial Watch, which is a big national watchdog group on a lot of different issues, actually sued the Colorado Secretary of State. I think they filed the suit a few years ago, and it finally got settled, and it was over the issue of the accuracy of our voter registration records. And they've been doing this all over the country. They sued the city of Los Angeles or the county of Los Angeles, I should say, for their voter records. And they, what was it? It was, I believe that they had identified like a million or a half a million registrations that weren't valid. And they said, you need to take these away, you know, And in states where they mail out ballots, and I think they do that in California, they certainly do it here in Colorado, if you're on the list, a ballot goes out. And if there isn't a valid voter on the other end, well, what happened to that ballot? Yeah, and they talk about signature verification. Well, that's a bit of a joke. A friend of mine who actually lives in Boulder County said, He said he intentionally signs his ballot with his left hand and he's right-handed just to test their system. And he said, well, they go through, you know, even though his signature doesn't look anything like his signature. That's a very arbitrary mechanism there. And it's a false assurance that's given to people. There's only one real answer to that part of the voting process, which is it's so dangerous when you have you know, literally hundreds of thousands of, of invalid voter registration records. And here's why I say that back in 2013, when they established the all mail ballot system in Colorado, that was house bill 13 dash 1303. Um, one of the things they did is they intentionally removed 300,000 names from the inactive list, uh, of voter registration. That means somebody who hasn't voted for at least two election cycles, and they're most probably not there. They remove them from that list and put them in the active voter registration list, intentionally throwing 300,000 additional registrations in the we're going to mail out a ballot list. And yeah, I mean, I could go on and on and on for hours on how sloppy. Our system is in Colorado. And this automatic voter registration system means that all the departments in the state of Colorado are instructed to send names and addresses and ages for anybody they collect, and they are to be automatically put on the voter registration list. I don't know if... I've read that not everybody does that. But if the Secretary of State gets that name, address, and age. And the age is to verify they're over 18. I don't know if they get anybody over 120 or not. But over the age of 18, they are to be automatically registered. And then the next thing that happens is the Secretary of State sends out a card, or maybe the county, Clorica, I'm not sure which, sends out a card to that address saying, you've been registered to vote. If you can think of a reason why it shouldn't be, tell us. But if they don't get any response, the next thing they do is they mail a ballot out at the next election. This is irresponsible. And there's very little check as to whether this person is a U.S. citizen and a citizen of the state of Colorado or not. If it's the Department of Revenue, and they handle driver's licenses, they are to verify that this is not an alien-listed person, that they are a citizen to their knowledge. But all other departments are not given that instruction, and so it's very obvious this is an ugly, ugly system.
SPEAKER 17 :
It is an ugly system. And a couple of points is last year there was a I can't remember the bill number, but a Senate bill, I think it was, which was modifications to our elections. And the I actually think it might have had bipartisan support on it as well. It's like, oh, come on, guys, got to keep your names off those bills. But the prime sponsor was Finberg out of Senator Finberg out of Boulder. And I did testify against it. But he said, we're just going to be tweaking elections just a little bit. But it was 42 pages long. And I'm thinking, this is a little bit of a problem. So they've been building on that House Bill 13-1303 really almost every year. But in that bill last year, it changed the preregistration date to preregister voters from the age of 16 to the age of 15. And so how is it that we've got this bill here this year? I can't remember the number, but it's a bill that says that you have to be 21 years of age to purchase ammunition. But yet now it's saying that you can be 15 years old and pre-register to vote. It's pretty inconsistent here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, absolutely. And on top of that, the Colorado Constitution was passed. adjusted to state that you must be 18 to be registered to vote or to vote, I should say. But then to back that up and say, but years before that, you can register to vote is upside down. And also there's another law that says if you're going to be 18 by the general election date and you're pre-registered to vote, you can vote in the primary when you're 17. I have yet to figure out how in the world they've coordinated those things because it just doesn't make sense. But it's quite obvious why they do this. And I've been watching them do this for my entire time when I was down there. In 2013, that was kind of the capstone that they put in place. And then, yes, they've been adding to it every year and carving away, creating more little little spots where they can dig in and find a few more voters that aren't really voters or ballots that aren't really headed towards any voter. And then what happens to them is a good question. It's so easy to register. You know, the identification you're required is actually nothing because it goes through a long list of when you register to vote, you have to provide your driver's license number. But if you don't have it, you can provide a utility bill with your address on it. But if you don't have that, you can just put down your social security number. But if you don't have that, you can just check a little box or sign something that says, I am a U.S. citizen and this is where I live. It's just designed to allow... the bad actor an easy path to do what they do during elections. And I guarantee you that every election has bad actors in there that want to twist the actual outcome. And what we need is a system that's as airtight as possible. Hey, let me give you a little bit of good news, though. I haven't seen it yet, but I fully expect something to happen at the federal level that will say for federal elections, these are the rules you have to play by. Because Congress can dictate particulars for elections if there's a federal office being determined in that election, like a member of Congress, U.S. Senate, president. All those general elections, which is every general election, may have to provide a more robust system for voters. If that's the case, then we're going to have to do some reconfiguring because Colorado is one of the worst states for allowing anything to happen during our elections.
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So, Kevin, that is interesting that you would say that. My ear to the ground has also said that there may be something regarding federal elections. So it's going to be super interesting then to watch what happens regarding the state elections, county, municipal, which I really think that that's where the real battle is. I had Peter Berneger on earlier. A few weeks ago, who is with Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, which we did get that lawsuit filed right in November 1st, I think it was challenging our mail in ballots that mail in ballots have been going to people that have moved. And so that is in the legal wrangling right now. So it's basically that our voter rolls are not cleaned up. The other lawsuit that we raised the money for, and when I say we, all of you out there, was the lawsuit with United Sovereign Americans, which we filed that on September 10th of last year. And it was based on this, that plaintiffs revealed that there were 1.4 million facially ineligible or uncertain registrations. in Colorado in 2022, resulting in a little over 100,000 improperly counted votes and 34,000, almost 35,000 more votes counted than votes reported. And that's right here in Colorado. So we've got those lawsuits out there. What I'm learning about lawsuits is that it takes a while there's legal wrangling back and forth. So that is going on with both of those lawsuits that Colorado and step forward to fund. And so, um, uh, we're going to be working on, uh, moving our elections 2024 project into reclaiming Colorado 2025. So stay tuned. I'm working on trying to figure out what to do on that. Exactly. Kevin.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and I am so glad that you're in the battle on that, uh, For my part, I'm the chairman of the lawsuit committee for the Colorado GOP challenging the open primary system we have here in Colorado. And there, too, we filed back in, what was it, July of 2023. And it's still kind of grinding through the process. We're going through depositions at this point in preparation for an actual trial later this year. and it's sort of an open and closed case in the sense that the Supreme Court already ruled that you can't force a political party to accept the primary votes from non-party members, but Colorado's got a system that claims they can get around it, and we're trying to press on that. It takes a lot of effort, and And you do have to drill down to the specifics. You know, you mentioned very particular. I remember, you know, the big mail-in ballots started in 2013. In 2014, the first election where this applied, my sister received four ballots in the mail. Four. She had moved a couple of months before, and so she got a ballot from her old address and her new address, and then she got two ballots that showed up in somebody's name at her new address that hadn't lived there for 10 years. You know, talk about a mess. And those were some of those inactive voters that hadn't been removed from the rolls, but they'd been declared inactive. And the legislature just said, well, let's send them a ballot anyway.
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There's real problems with that. And we're going to continue the discussion with Kevin Lundberg, but did want to mention the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, Colorado, nonprofit that I dearly love. And they do a variety of things. They honor our Medal of Honor recipients, keeping those stories alive with their portraits of valor. great educational programs, and they're focused on these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism. It needs to be on your bucket list to get down to the center. They're going to have a couple of online, excuse me, on value presentations coming up in March and April, which are going to be just awesome. So stay tuned for that. But more information on all that, you can go to AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. And I really appreciate all of our sponsors. And one of those is Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Talking with Kevin Lundberg, the author of the Lundberg Report. You can find that at KevinLundberg.com. And he's a former state senator, served down at the legislature for many years. So he really understands what's happening down there. Kevin, we normally talk about legislation, however. I think this is such an important discussion regarding the bloated Social Security roles that Elon Musk and Doge just uncovered. It's like, how were they able to uncover that in just a little under, what, two weeks, and that the Social Security Administration couldn't uncover that at all? I find that an important question.
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Yeah, well... Elon Musk is bringing a new work ethic to the federal government, and the private sector side, he gets things done, and he demands that people that work for him get things done as well. And, you know, that's the exact opposite of your typical impression of a federal employee. And there are many, many federal employees who are doing a tremendous job and working as hard as they possibly can. But there's sort of this attitude of, yeah, we'll take care of it later because it's such a big system and it's so overwhelming. But Musk's coming in here with a new a new value, which is we're here to get it done now. Production, not process. We want the results. And so, you know, he's showing it's possible. You can do this, but you've got to work at it.
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Well, and yeah, there's a new sheriff in town on all of this. So next thing, this came in from one of our listeners. First of all, good point. These lawsuits that you have that we've raised the money for with United Sovereign Americans and Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, And thank you to everybody that has contributed is that the government has unlimited resources for their attorneys because they're using our tax dollars. So it says they use our tax dollars for the lawsuits. So maybe we can sue the secretary of state that she would do her job. Also said that get out the vote can be used to. For fraudulent voters in Colorado. I think that that's another thing that happens. They do the get out the vote. They get people registered that generates that that ballot. And just think about kids that get out the vote on a university or college campus. They move away. What happens to those ballots? That's a question. But then she said this. She said Governor Hickenlooper, well, Senator Hickenlooper just came out and said that illegals can't be arrested at the polls. She said, wait a minute. I thought illegals are not voting. That's a good question. I'm trying to source that and see where Hickenlooper said that. But pretty, pretty good to catch that, I think, from our listener.
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Oh, yeah, yeah. And it shows how upside down the logic or at least the rhetoric that they use is because there's a whole lot being hidden here. And let me go back to you. You talked about you can influence an election in a very legal fashion by getting out and aggressively encouraging people to vote. Right. And I believe the Democrats, they perfected that grassroots effort in a great way. But then I've just seen too many places where there's, to put it generously, fudging the legal lines on things. And it goes on and on. Here's a fascinating thing. There's a bill right now in the legislature – that deals with voting. What's the name of it? Oh, I'll have to look. I've got too many bills on my list anymore. But it's talking about having a safe environment for voting. And what it really is, is a gun control that says if you're involved in encouraging anybody to vote, you cannot have a firearm on you. And you can't exercise your constitutional rights to carry a firearm. You know, they're always putting in additional rules that make it more and more difficult for the law-abiding citizen to go out and participate in the process. And they're creating these avenues where, as I said before, the bad actors can step up to the plate and and continue to put their thumb on the scale when it comes to the elections.
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Yeah, and we have to ask why. They may say, oh, there's no bad actors doing any bad things, but then why would we even have these bloated roles where there would be the opportunity? We want to button that up so that doesn't happen. Kevin, I know we normally talk about legislation, and there's a whole bunch out there. We did get our cut email out to legislators and our members yesterday. It goes to the governor as well. We'd recommend that people join us at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, and it's just $25 a year, and you will be very informed when you get that particular email. email. So there's a lot of bills out there, but I wanted to ask you regarding your ear to the ground on this Senate Bill 003, which is the magazine bill making it very difficult for people, law-abiding citizens, to keep and bear firearms. And I guess they have been making amendments to that. What do you hear about Senate Bill 003?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, right now it's passed the Senate second hearing. which is the time that they really amended, and there were heavy, heavy amendments made. But everything I've heard, and I've reviewed some of it, but it's a pretty complicated bill. Usually when you have a big, bad gun bill like that, when the amendments come in, it's to satisfy some of the concerns of some pressures so that maybe they can get this across the finish line. Well, I understand this time that they made it worse. And I mean, this is a ban on the ability to buy or manufacture or sell most semi-automatic weapons. And they even added, I saw this one thing, one of the amendments added this long list of specific guns that are very common firearms used in hunting and and self-defense, and they're saying, but you can't get any of these here in Colorado. It's making it worse. They're showing their hand. I think they've touched a third rail in politics, too, because people need to know that the people passing this bill, and it's the Democrat Party and I'm going to lay the president of the Senate's name, who I have a high respect for him in a lot of ways. But the fact that he called this Senate Bill 3 means it's a high priority for him. And that's a bad mark in my mind for what he's trying to do to the people of Colorado and illegally, too. You go back and look at not only the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but in the Bill of Rights for the Colorado Constitution, it basically says the right to own and bear rights.
SPEAKER 17 :
arms shall not be questioned and they're doing more than questioning it they're banning it in many respects and so two things we're just about out of time the president of the colorado senate is who uh let's see senator coleman okay and then last thing and i'll just leave this hanging out there would uh would you consider a run for u.s senate against hickenlooper
SPEAKER 05 :
Boy, that comes out of left field there.
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So just ruminate on that, Kevin. You can let us know what you come up with next week.
SPEAKER 05 :
I've learned to never say never, but on the other hand, I haven't considered that seriously. Okay. Kevin, thanks so much.
SPEAKER 17 :
We'll talk to you next Tuesday. It's always so informative, so thank you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Well, thank you. Looking forward to seeing you next week, too, here on the air.
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Okay, and George Washington said this, truth will ultimately prevail where there are pains taken to bring it to light. So, my friends, stay tuned. We'll be back for hour number two.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation, and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday, Producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. Great first hour. And you can hear that today, one to two in the afternoon, if you didn't catch it. And our featured guest on that was Kevin Lundberg. Check out our Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our Monson dot com. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. And we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. 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Good morning, Kim. Thank you for having me.
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Well, I wanted to get your take on President's Day and our great presidents, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. I think Ronald Reagan gets into that mix. And, of course, what's happening right now, I think we've got a great president as well. But what's your thoughts on Washington and Lincoln?
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Oh, two incredible Americans that stepped up when we needed the most. I mean, Washington, the father of the country. I mean, leading the troops against the greatest fighting force at that time, the British Army, and just coming through, leading by example. When the troops were down, when they were cold, when they were underfed, when they were tired, he was able to rally folks and get them to get behind him, and he led. He led with courage and boldness and wisdom. something that every great leader should have, and he had it in spades.
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Well, and he called it, John, he called this American idea, this Revolutionary War, the glorious cause, which I get just inspiration from that, John.
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It does. He did. Great leader. I mean, we would very likely not be what we are today had he not been the leader at the time when we needed him.
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And then that segues to Lincoln.
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Yeah. I mean, talk about leading during a chaotic, divisive period in time. I mean, nothing compares to what Lincoln faced, uh, when he took office and, and, uh, again, the cause, a great cause, um, that was dividing, well, the slavery that was dividing the country. And, and he took up that mantle and, um, led with, again, courage and wisdom. What's fascinating to me, you look back in history of our country, and we've had people like Washington, we've had people like Lincoln, and then Reagan, great men, great leaders, great Americans that came to the forefront, that did what needed to be done when it needed to be done at a time when the country was struggling and and needed that great leadership, and we've been so fortunate. We can say that right now again. But Lincoln, he's one of my favorites, read a book, Team of Rivals, that talked about his leadership and how he was able to take his rivals and have them help him lead the country at that time. Fascinating book.
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Well, and it does bring up the discussion with Donald Trump. The fact that he has two Democrats in his cabinet, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., is really fascinating. I guess they've come to, well, I think both RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard love America, but they could have been considered rivals. So it's so fascinating watching what's happening now, John. And when I say that we were made for this moment in history, we are in a historical time right now. And I think God has put us here for this.
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Completely agree with you, Kim. You look at what has transpired the previous four years and the deterioration and and just every aspect of the American dream. And now we've got a leader who is committed. He is not going to stop. He's not going to back off. He is bold, doing what needs to be done, and exposing the corruption, the fraud, the waste, getting rid of the deep state. It's a Herculean task, and I can't think of too many other men. I can't think of any right now. that would be up for that task.
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I know. And so we're in historic times. Let's move over to Boson and John, well, Boson Law. And I'd mentioned in the first hour that Elon Musk, it was reported in the Epoch Times that there's over 12 million people that are over the age of 120, I think it is, that are considered eligible for Social Security. That doesn't really seem possible. But you can help people that are not 120 that really are eligible for some Social Security disability. And when we... See what's happening regarding all that Elon Musk is uncovering. People should not be reticent if they have become disabled to reach out to Bosun Law for Social Security Disability.
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No, and that's a great tie in there. And I had not heard that whole story. I heard just a little tiny blip about it, you know, fraud that was being found in the Social Security Administration with regard to people getting benefits. So that's the tie. How many people? Over 120 getting benefits?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, let me give this to you. This was from the Epoch Times. It says database lists 12 million people older than 120 as eligible for Social Security. Oh, my goodness.
SPEAKER 09 :
So that money is going out and we don't know where.
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Right. Okay.
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And, again, this is people that legitimately are eligible for this, and they won't know unless they reach out to you at 303-999-9999. And it's important that they do so because it does take a little bit of time to get through that process. Right, John?
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I do thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show because we are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity on these issues. Very pleased to have on the line with me, Dr. Sina McCullough. She is the health and nutrition expert with the Epic Times. Dr. McCullough, welcome to the show. Well, thank you for having me. Well, and I'm excited to talk with you about the bird flu. Apparently, I just wanted to get your take on this because this has been in the headlines. They've been killing a number of flocks because of bird flu. What's your thoughts on it?
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Yes, so... Let me go ahead and start with some statistics to bring everybody up to speed, if that's okay. This recent outbreak started in 2022, and they've estimated that they killed about 157 million birds already. In Iowa, Ohio, and Indiana, those are our nation's top three egg-producing states, they have lost more than 55 million birds. And I want to point out from the top, that doesn't mean that all these millions of birds have tested positive for the bird flu. That could mean in an entire flock, one bird tested positive and then they culled or killed the entire flock. Okay, so I think that's one thing. There's a little bit of, in my opinion, fear-mongering that's going around, that this is some rampant thing, that all these millions of birds have been infected, and that's actually not true. Again, they'll kill the whole flock if they have one positive test. Now, according to the CDC stats, the numbers are rising. In November, they said that there were 7 million birds affected. By December of 2024, there were 18 million. By January, there were 23 million. Just in the last 30 days alone, they're saying there's around 20 million. And about 70 humans have tested positive. One person has died. That person did have underlying health conditions. And most of the people who have been infected or tested positive They were around sick poultry or sick cattle, and these were mostly mild cases. And the CDC is saying that now it's also affected a duck farm in California, and it's spread to dairy cows, roughly 950 herds across 16 states, and that there's a new variant that's also affected cows and a veterinarian. So we're getting a lot of information, in my opinion, that has drummed up a lot of fear. You couple that with the high prices in AIDS, that it's just skyrocketing. And people are starting to get really concerned. And so now what's happening, the latest I've heard, is that now the administration is coming out and saying, well, maybe we stop killing all the birds. Maybe we start isolating them and using a medication approach. And this is a little concerning to me personally. I mean, I don't want all these birds to be killed either. That's not the solution. But what they've just done is just this month, the USDA issued a conditional license to Zoetis, a pharmaceutical company, so they can produce the avian flu vaccine for chickens. So that one's happening with the avian flu vaccine for chickens simultaneously. We have Healthy Human Services giving $590 million to Moderna for another mRNA vaccine for humans for bird flu, and another $11 million to the NIH for more research in this area. So for me, this is, like personally, this is very concerning. There's a lot of similarities that we see. saw that happened in COVID. For instance, they're using the PCR testing method once again, and I'm seeing different reports of different cycle thresholds that they're using. And some experts are coming out and saying that once again, they're using too high of cycle thresholds. So you're going to have positives when there weren't really positive test positive cases. You have isolation happening. So not only with these flocks that are testing positive, how they're obviously isolating and killing those birds, but the New York governor recently ordered that all live bird markets in New York City and some surrounding areas to shut down for a week to try to stem the spread. And now you have the emergency use authorization that was declared by Healthy Human Services. That was declared back in July of 2024. which has paved the way for the PCR testing and emergency treatments to be used like the vaccine exploration. And I was doing a lot of digging on this issue this weekend. And it does seem like that there is some credence to people who are coming out and saying that there's a potential lab leak for this bird flu as well. So in my own personal opinion, I see a lot of similarities here. And I think that just as a nation and worldwide, we're going about this in the wrong direction.
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Well, and it seems like it's a real assault upon our food source. Out here in Colorado, there's reports that some grocers are rationing eggs. And we've got on top of the bird flu, we've got laws as some of the different states have regulating that you have to have cage-free hens, which I think is making eggs more expensive as well. But Dr. McCullough, so culling all of these birds, and yet you're reporting that some of these statistics that there's testing more and more positive for birds, it seems like it hasn't been very successful of killing all these birds. All that it's done is maybe really made eggs more expensive and making chicken meat less available. What do you think on that?
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I think you are spot on in that analysis. Just between January of last year and January of this year, the price of eggs has risen about 53%. And that's according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And in my area, grocery stores are rationing the eggs. And a dozen eggs here is about $12. I mean, who can afford that, you know? And the prices are expected to increase by about 20% in 2025, and that's according to the USDA. The message that they've been using has not been working. What they're saying is that – what the government and other reporters are saying is that the reason why cooling all these flocks is not working this time as opposed to in the past is because this virus is mutating more rapidly than previous viruses. But I was – I would actually argue that it's because the strategy is incorrect what they're doing is as I mentioned if you go in and you kill the whole flock even if only one chicken is infected you're missing the opportunity because you're exterminating all these chickens without regard to immunity, without researching why some birds are flourishing while others are dying. And this is the most fundamental principle in animal husbandry and breeding is that the farmers would select for those animals that have the healthy immune system. So part of the answer, in my opinion, is, is that you need to be saving those birds that are surviving from the infection, and you need to be breeding those birds. And those future generations will then have that natural immunity that is passed on from the birds that survive. But instead, they're killing the survivors. I mean, that to me, you know, as a researcher and a scientist, that makes no sense to me at all, because those surviving birds have developed that natural immunity. We should be harnessing that natural muting, rather than instead of like working out of fear and just trying to kill everything that has potentially been exposed to it. And we know it's not a good strategy because reports now have been coming out that they're saying that this is more fear-mongering, that the virus has been spreading, and that now the latest CDC report shows that it's been present in more veterinarians than we previously thought. Like the CDC's recent report said that three veterinarians tested positive for the H5N1 antibodies, and this was out of 150 different veterinarians that were tested across 46 states. And one of those veterinarians was in a state where there wasn't even the H5N1 infection reported in dairy cows, and this veterinarian worked in dairy cows. So they're saying that all this is really rampant and all these veterinarians are unknowingly being exposed to it. Well, they're not showing any symptoms. None of them had any symptoms, but they produced antibodies. So that, to me, indicates that's a good sign that the body's doing what it's supposed to do. And even if they were exposed to it, the body handled it, right? The antibodies, we have in science said for generations now that antibodies are determined that you have natural immunity. And now all of a sudden we're using it as this fear-mongering that, oh my goodness, it's spreading, it's like ubiquitous out there, so let's all be afraid. And one of the retired USDA scientists commented on this finding, and he said that this means that humans are susceptible to subclinical infections and possibly reassortment risks. So this is one thing that I think we're also misinterpreting this reassortment risk. So what that means is that they're saying that these viruses can mutate, but also if you get infected with the bird flu at the same time that you're getting infected by our seasonal flu, that they have different genetic material that makes them up and that they can recombine into a different order and could potentially recombine into a new virus that could pass from person to person. Right, so that's really the fear of what they're talking about. But the problem is then if you're killing all the survivors, you're increasing the likelihood that that scenario is going to happen.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I do thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. It is because of these great sponsors that we're on the air. And you can text me, 720-605-0647. And a nonprofit that I dearly love and support is the USMC Memorial Foundation. And just within the last week, two gentlemen that I have gotten to know through Cooper's Troopers, which is a group of combat veterans that meets on a regular basis up in northern Colorado, or excuse me, the northern metro area. He was almost 100 years old, Iwo Jima veteran Jack Thurman, and then also just found out that Vietnam veteran C.R. Cusack just passed on as well, both amazing men. And so a great way to honor them is to contribute to the USMC Memorial Foundation. You can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. So such a fascinating conversation with Dr. Sina McCullough, and she is the health and nutrition expert with the Epoch Times. We're talking about the bird flu. And first, it makes so much sense that you would only call out the sick birds, not the complete bird. because those with natural immunity, you would want to continue that on. And so this is crazy to me that we would be killing all of these chickens, and it's really affecting our food prices, our food source, and it just really doesn't make any sense to me, Dr. McCullough.
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Yeah, it really doesn't make much sense to me either. This is a longstanding practice, actually, that we've had in the U.S. But as we see, the bird flu continues, right? Like this is not the first time that we have had bird flu. This one particular strain, this H5N1, has been around since 1996. So the strategies so far have not worked. So one of the strategies has been culling the birds. That hasn't worked. Another strategy has been mass vaccinations. which has not occurred here yet in the United States, but it has occurred in other countries. For instance, like China has done this. And that's actually, in my opinion, leading to a perpetuation of the bird flu. So one reason is because they are, this is probably going to sound very familiar. They are generally leaky vaccines. So one thing that we're having happen is that these vaccinated birds, they're still getting infected. They're still shedding the virus, you know, albeit probably at lower levels, but without showing symptoms. And so it's harder to not only detect when they do have this virus, but they're more likely to spread it. These leaky vaccines have been shown to cause like more rampant viral mutations. In fact, There was just a study that came out recently in Science Advances, and it concluded that vaccinating against this highly pathogenic H5 subtype of the avian influenza virus, which is what we're having right now, they concluded that vaccinating against it may actually be driving the viral evolution of it. And so when that happens, it becomes even more of a moving target. They will vaccinate, and then it's It's a leaky vaccine, so the virus will mutate, and then they're trying to keep up with it to figure out, okay, what's the next strain that it's mutating into, and then you have to vaccinate again. So it starts this kind of snowball effect. We saw this happen in actually Merrick disease in chickens. where they decided to combat it with leaky vaccines. And that ended up with a more virulent strain that emerged and persists today. And now it's more deadly to chickens if they do actually get that disease. In terms of bird flu specifically, China and Egypt have already been mass vaccinating for quite some time now. And they have now developed vaccine-resistant strains to the bird flu. So I don't think that's a good solution either. Again, we see these eerie parallels to COVID. And so, again, I think that we need to work with nature here and not against nature.
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I could not agree more. Dr. Sina McCullough with the epic times. So next thing you mentioned earlier in the interview that, um, a lot of money has been, um, dedicated to some of the vaccine makers to do an MRNA vaccine in chickens. I don't really want that in my food supply.
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I don't want that either. And we already know that, um, You know, COVID was really eye-opening, even to us who, like myself, study the food supply and have studied it for a long time. I've written two books about it, one alongside Joel Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Farms. He and I have a podcast and we banter about food politics and health all the time. And it wasn't until COVID happened and we learned about these mRNA vaccines that Joel and I uncovered that some livestock were already receiving mRNA vaccines. So that was new to us, even though we study this subject all the time. So so it's already a concern. And now the the the further concern is that it's going to become more rampant and now it's going to become in the chickens. And this also poses a concern about trade, how we're trading chickens. So that could also disrupt the food supply and cause price changes in our food. But I certainly don't want to eat anything that has been injected with mRNA. I actually source all of my meats And, you know, my chicken, the eggs, I source them all locally and from Polyface Farm, from places that don't vaccinate whatsoever. That instead, they focus on good animal husbandry, like, you know, rotating the birds across the field. Like, you know, Joel is famous for that. You know, truly pasture chickens, how you move them across the pasture instead of keeping them in one close area. You know, as of right now, we're not really seeing that the organic prices are, the birds are being affected as much. The prices certainly have been affected, but I wouldn't be surprised if more organic birds do eventually become affected by this? Because as you are probably well aware, a lot of times organic birds are actually raised in the confined animal feeding operations. They're just not in little cages in those buildings, but they're still in the buildings on dirt. And, you know, chickens like to scratch. And so they scratch the dirt and they are routinely inhaling the bird feces that's on the ground, which can actually cause, you know, leaky gut and potentially leaky brain and and can actually affect the egg production as well if those are egg layers. So, yeah, this is a much bigger problem than I think a lot of people are realizing, and just killing the birds that are in these affected flocks and mass vaccinating is really just kicking the cow down the road while it's sabotaging our food supply.
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And it's putting more money in the pockets of pharmaceuticals.
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Exactly. More of our tax dollars going to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Yes. So hopefully we'll get this turned around. It does seem like they're trying to get people ramped up regarding the reactions to COVID. And you mentioned that possibly this was a lab leak. That's like deja vu all over again, Dr. McCullough.
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It really is. And, you know, like I said, I did a deep dive into this this weekend. There is no real smoking gun at this point. But if you'd like, I can tell you just a couple quick pieces of evidence that are leading toward, you know, supporting this notion. Yes. Okay. So the first one, as I mentioned, 1996. was the first time this h5n1 virus was detected and that was in a domestic goose in china the next year in 1997 was the first known human infection it's important to note that before 1997 scientists believed that the bird flu could not infect humans so this was a really big surprise for people i mean it was the same h5n1 virus that first known human infection occurred in hong kong Well, it just so happened that there were a couple of scientists working in Hong Kong who were working with the bird flu, this H5N1 bird flu. There was the H5N1 virus that actually infected humans in Pennsylvania, and that was back in 1983. And the H5N1 that was studied in this lab that came out of the Hong Kong area that was the first known human infection, it contained genetic traces of that Pennsylvania virus, the one that was found in 1983. That one is the closest known relative of the 1997 H5N1 virus. And it just so happens that these researchers were studying it in that lab in Hong Kong, the same place where it came out. Now, after that happened, Fauci and the NIH gave a lot of funding to gain-of-function research, right? So the thought is that these scientists were already doing this gain-of-function research in their lab, and then Fauci and NIH boosted the amount of funding for them to study it And basically, they said that they're trying to study it to try to develop a vaccine and, you know, prevent this from becoming a pandemic. There were, later on, there were some additional, or I said the first one was a suspected lab leak. You know, we can't prove that. Later on, there were some reported and documented and confirmed leaks. So, in 2013... This was the first actually reported documented incident. And this was one of those scientists. He was working out at University of Wisconsin. And one of the workers, one of the researchers accidentally pierced their finger with a needle that contained an engineered H5N1 strain. They quarantined that researcher at home for seven days, which wasn't an approved quarantine facility. The government said later they didn't know that there wasn't an approved quarantine facility, that there was supposed to be one, and they treated that worker with Tamiflu. But the university, again, lacked the quarantine facility, and that prompted the NIH to say, okay, you have to have stricter protocols. Then there was another leak in 2014 the next year. And this was when, at the Center for Disease Control in January 2014, there was a benign H9N2 bird flu, like avian influenza sample. It was cross-contaminated with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. That contaminated sample was sent to a USDA lab, and the issue was only discovered after some chickens died during testing unexpectedly. So the CDC then investigated, and they revealed the contamination likely occurred to, like, people were rushing and mishandling the samples, and they were tired, so basically poor lab practices. But it was acknowledged that this actually happened. And this came on the heels of two more what I think are just unacceptable incidents that happened. There was a mishandling of anthrax. that ended up getting people sick. And then there's forgotten smallpox vials that they were left in some storage room, and they supposedly had live smallpox virus in them. And so this is what led to the moratorium on the federal funding for Game of Function research until, as you know, October of 2014. So we do know that there were some leaks already. We also know that in 2019 that there was, in one of those original scientists' labs who was working on the gain-of-function research, that there was an air-purifying respirator hose that was actually detached in one of their trainees. And this potentially exposed them to the engineered H5N1 strain that we're talking about today. And they're saying that strain in particular was possibly capable of airborne transmission between mammals. So, again, while there's no smoking gun and we cannot say definitively, it looks highly suspicious, to say the least, that the same lab that they were working on, you know, these viruses in, it happened to have an outbreak there. It happened to be very similar to the Pennsylvania outbreak, which is a strain they were working on. And we have subsequently had several possible leaks that have been confirmed by the government.
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So did any of those people die, Dr. McCullough?
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So to my knowledge, none of those people died. They treated them like the first one, the one that had the needle prick, they treated them very quickly with the antivirals. And so that one didn't die. I could not find the report on the exposure to the anthrax, but I don't think that anybody became ill because they were given antibiotics and vaccines as a precaution there. Okay. Yeah. So nobody in those had, as far as I know, from the data that I was able to uncover, nobody from those had died. Okay.
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Dr. Sina McCullough, we're out of time, but just your final thought, this has been fascinating.
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My final thought is, you know, Joel and I always say, let's have faith over fear. you know, be informed, be educated, and make those informed decisions that, you know, that are led by God and that resonate with you. And so for us, it is encouraging people to either grow their, like raise their own chickens or, because at this point, I think that it's been highly proven that our food supply is not, it's not very flexible, right? It's not very forgiving. It's it could be very unstable and fragile. So our solution has become self-sufficient. And if you don't want to raise your own flock, then try to find a local farmer and support your local farmers.
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Okay. Dr. Sina McCullough with the Epoch Times. Thank you so much. Absolutely fascinating. And all of these discussions happen because of our sponsors. One of those is Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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So be sure and check out all the great work that they're doing at the center. The center is nonpolitical. It's nonpartisan, focusing on honoring our Medal of Honor recipients. These instilling these values of honor, integrity and patriotism and great educational programs as well. So check that out. At the center at well, the website is American value center dot org coming in on the text line. Thank you, Richard. I was asking about the hockey final for the Invictus games with the US team. He said he thinks that's Thursday night. And then he also said, Kim, don't say that the airliner. from Wichita collided with a helicopter. When an airplane is on final, they have almost zero maneuverability. If the pilot had enough time, the only thing he could do is pull up and go around for another attempt. So what happened in Washington, D.C., was that the helicopter slammed into the aircraft that was on a final approach. Best guess right now is that the altimeter in the helicopter was malfunctioning and they were a lot higher off the ground than they should have been according to regulation. Those Blackhawks that are flying on the Potomac River are nothing more than water taxis picking up VIPs from Capitol Hill and flying them around. Their maximum altitude is supposed to be 50 feet. It says, secondarily, the three persons on the helicopter were wearing night vision goggles, so they were unable to distinguish one airplane from another. The tower asked them if they had a certain airplane in sight. They replied, yes, but it was the wrong airplane. Why they would need to be wearing night vision goggles is unimaginable. My best guess is that this was a training flight and the instructor was the third person on board in the back seat. So thank you for that clarification on that, Richard. And then let's see here. One of my friends, Lucy, said she's going to bring some eggs from one of our local producers, said that my eggs will be coming this week. Thank you, Lucy. And then Holly said this whole vaccinating of chickens would be a big bonanza for big pharma. Look at the number of poultry and livestock animals that only live a few years compared to humans. So big pharma could make a lot more money vaccinating animals than vaccinating humans. And again, I'm very concerned about the mRNA vaccine that would be. used as the quote-unquote vaccination. And I meant to ask Dr. Sina McCullough this, but is this mRNA vaccine that they're talking about, is that an emergency vaccine, just like the COVID vaccine, or has it been tested and FDA approved? So that's probably a question that I need to ask Pam Long on that. So good questions on that. Let's see here. Other things. Oh, gosh, a lot coming in. This is really a lot of concern regarding what has happened with this potential gain of function research on that. And let's see. Let's see here. I think that's oh, this is from Sandra. She said, I really appreciate Kevin Lumberg's Truth Tuesdays. Thank you. And that Elon Musk is our watchman on the wall. So prayers are being answered daily and we're strapped in. We the people need to participate and join in this battle. Absolutely. Sandra, we need to do that. And here in Colorado, we are at the tip of the spear. The work that my colleagues and I are doing at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers is so important. And so be sure and join us. You can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. It's just 25 bucks. And we will get you the email that we send out to legislators and the governor on Mondays. Everybody spends a lot of time on that. But and we've taken positions already on 119 bills. And so that's really important to join us on that. And then also, again, thank you to all of you who have supported the Colorado 2024 election project. We've got those lawsuits out there in that legal ping pong back and forth now. And stay tuned because we need to do what we can here in Colorado. So our quote for the end of the show, I went to George Washington since his birthday is this week on the 22nd. And also we honored President's Day. And he said this, truth will ultimately prevail where there are pains taken to bring it to light. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand firm. for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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A drunk Florida man hit a pole and then sat outside of a 7-Eleven with no pants.
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Jeez.
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This is probably the time to reevaluate where you are in life and why you got to where you are outside of a 7-Eleven pantsless. So he crashed into a pole outside of a 7-Eleven. Didn't remember doing it because drunk. He's got too many names. 24-year-old Bonifacio Manuel left a party, went to a gas station to get more alcohol, woke up in jail. Police officers responded to a scene. He ran right into the concrete pole, right in front of a 7-Eleven. And then as they got, as police arrived on the scene and they approached his car, blue Ford sedan they noticed that he was sitting in the driver's seat literally with no pants on and then they noticed his wet pants so he did have some pants but they were wet and they were in the passenger seat beside two empty beer cans they asked for his license he gave them a Mexican ID he had never been given a driver's license That wasn't even his license, his Mexican license. It was somebody else's Mexican driver's license, and apparently he's not here legally. He couldn't stand. He admitted to drinking, but he couldn't remember how much. Didn't know what happened to his car. Like, I didn't remember wrecking that. He refused to perform field sobriety. His breast samples were .260. Oh.
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That's more than three times.
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My favorite is to read off the blood alcohol content and then look at Kane for like a real measure of how bad it is. So, yeah, he's in trouble. He was taken into the pokey, driven to Lake County Jail. He posted $1,500 bond. I just, yeah, I don't know about that one. Let's see. This, ooh, a Florida man. He has a boxer, a dog. His boxer helped scare off two coyotes during a walk. This was in Altamonte Springs in Florida. They encountered two wild coyotes while he was out walking his dog. Credits his dog for helping to scare them away. And he said that my dog bulldozed them back into the woods here. And thankfully he had his dog on a lead, but his, his dog like pulled him so hard. He like scraped his face on the ground. Florida fish and wildlife said they were aware of the reported incident. And there are coyotes there. I just, yeah. So just be safe and be aware. And that was a good dog. But yeah, that dude totally, that dog dragged his dude. He dragged his owner. He's like, yeah, I'm going to go get these. This, um, Oh, no, no. Well, there was a shirtless man that stole a police, a police cruiser and then carjacked another SUV, all shirtless in a very wild chase, some of which was caught on video dash cam footage and then body cam, which you can't play because apparently the guy only knows. Four words, and it's all the S word, the F word, and another word I can't say. But the suspect, 52 years old, Armando Lopez, the officer's body came. He was chasing this shirtless Lopez guy and tried to use a taser on him. The dude was unfazed. After he got tased, he jumped into the patrol car. took it, sped away. After he was tased, shirtless and tased, he fell on the concrete and got up and then got tased and still got in the cop car. Dang, he's going to scratch his man nipples right off on the pavement. And the dash cam recorded the guy's actions inside the vehicle. And yeah, he, man, he was... So, yeah, he got taken into custody, as you can imagine. That's kind of wild. And then a man was detained because he tossed an explosive device outside of a Florida restaurant. Don't know why. Well, there's reasons. He's mad at somebody. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. No one was hurt. There was no damage to the building or significant damage anyway. The authorities have not released the suspect's name or motive, but he has been detained. History shows gold and silver thrive under strong leadership. During President Trump's first term, gold surged 53 percent and silver soared 51 percent. With him back, could precious metals break new records in 2025 and beyond? In times of economic uncertainty, smart investors turn to assets that have proven their worth. Gold and silver have historically outperformed in volatile markets, making them a for preserving and growing wealth. And that's why I trust the partners at GoldCo. Secure your financial future today and don't wait until the next economic crisis happens. GoldCo is a trusted leader in precious metals and with over $3 billion in gold and silver secured for hardworking Americans, they've been a top-rated company from the start. Take action and partner with a company that puts your security first. Visit DanaLikesGold.com right now and get a free copy of their 2025 Gold and Silver Kit. On top of that, you could also qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver, possibly even more. That's DanaLikesGold.com.
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Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. And he met with the head of a political party that has far right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.
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No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that's not an accurate reflection of history.
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I... I'm just rarely... I'm left as speechless as I am by such a demonstration of ignorance as seen with Margaret Brennan in that soundbite, that exchange that she had with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And this all has to do with J.D. Vance going over to Munich and speaking to European leaders telling them that they're not doing enough in the name of liberty and then also criticizing them for their very real actual free speech infringements. And Margaret Brennan trying to rewrite history. First off, does she not know that they literally banned free speech? That the Nazis, when the Nazis ascended to power in the early 30s, one of the first things they did, in addition to going out and banning guns, was they wanted to ban free speech. That actually happened. They had a number of different laws and edicts that did precisely this. They it it was the first an attack on civil rights. And then you want to talk about a war on democracy. Well, there you go. I mean, there's reams of material that talk about the suppression of free speech under the Nazis and the explosion of propaganda. It is one of the most amazing L's I've ever seen anyone take in a broadcast forum. That is an embarrassing indictment of American education that a grown person who hosts a television show sits there and through that perspective begs the question and asking Rubio about free speech. Like, do you realize also the other offense that was woven into that is that she's essentially equating J.D. Vance with Nazis? Because J.D. Vance was criticizing Europe for not having free speech. And she's acting like, oh, well, if you're a free speech warden, I guess that makes you a Nazi. Oh, my gosh. That's. I don't know. I mean, maybe Kane, the reason that they burn books was so that people could breathe in the smoke. And it was like the next best thing to reading them. Yeah. Says Margaret Brennan. Wink. People are all up in arms over JD Vance speaking at that security conference. But you know what? Where was the lie? There was not a damn thing that he said. Was it harsh? Yes. And it was harsh, just perfectly harsh. And it was about 50 years to 50 years after when it first needed to be told. I mean, he wasn't subtle about all of this. One of the things he noted was that the threat, you know, talking about Europe and Russia is not really China or anything else. It's from within. And he's right. I mean, and they just had difficulty in processing that because no one has looked them in the face in recent time and said, knock it off. You're acting like a statist. I mean, they need to be blunt about this stuff. I'm like, why are we, you know, good. Why are we, why are we babying these people? So I don't know. The, I mean, to try to act as though those infringements weren't happening is Have you guys seen some of the stuff that's been taking place over in Germany, for instance? Where is this? So this is audio soundbite 14. German prosecutors say that you're committing a criminal act if you insult someone. Listen, 14.
SPEAKER 08 :
Is it a crime to insult somebody in public?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And it's a crime to insult them online as well? Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
the fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet.
SPEAKER 08 :
Why?
SPEAKER 05 :
Because in internet, it stays there. If we are talking here face to face, you insult me, I insult you, okay, finish. But if you're in the internet, if I insult you or a politician... That sticks around forever. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
The prosecutors explain German law also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip, violent threats and fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true and then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they committing a crime?
SPEAKER 04 :
In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well because the reader can't distinguish whether you just invented this or just reposted it. That's the same for us.
SPEAKER 08 :
The punishment for breaking hate speech laws can include jail time for repeat offenders.
SPEAKER 01 :
This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. This is what they do in Germany. She's salivating over all of this. Do you see her? Oh, so you can. Yes, because we don't know if the quote is not real or not. What? Do you see the absolute lack of respect they have for the individual? People are too stupid to make determinations about whether something they're looking at online is real or not. And as a result, you need the government to come in and make that distinction for you. You know, I think it's going to be a lot easier for the robot overlords to take over now since we've had status that conditioned us to just taking over daily aspects of our lives for the past 50 years. I mean, quite frankly, is it going to be that much of a difference? Maybe without the political zeal? Who knows? But that I thought that was so telling. Did you see the German lady's face? She's like, oh, yes, you know, because then they don't know of what they're reading. They don't know. Oh, the people are too stupid to make that distinction. And you can see what Brennan's doing here. She's trying to set up this argument that, well, this couldn't happen over here now because the government controls all of it. Do you see the government? That only makes sense if there is an agreed upon definition as to what is true and what is false. Because here in the United States, the powers that be were trying to tell you that, yes, you know, your immune system, if you get something and then you're inoculated because you've had it already, that, yes, that's how science works. And you've developed an immunity because you've had then that changed. And they changed it to be whatever they needed it to be to justify mandates for injections and everything else. Oh, well, all of a sudden, you don't get natural immunity anymore. That doesn't exist, or at least with Rona, it doesn't exist anymore. This is what these people did. It amazes me that they think that this is the answer to prevent... the sorts of mass hysteria that we saw during the rise of the Nazis in the 30s. But that was the government property. I mean, they controlled every aspect of it. They act like they're fighting some grand cause of we're fighting against hate. But think of it. These are the people that have codified hate. You get in trouble if you don't allow someone to hijack your language for cosplay. Oh, but there's more. Did you see that they raided a home? Someone posted a meme. So you guys share images right on Facebook. So imagine you share a meme. And remember, someone could say, oh, that was a racist image or that was the sexist image or the left's definition. They've obliterated the meme. The realities of what is or isn't with all the isms because they've abused the word ad nauseum. So keep in mind that all of this is on a sliding scale of someone else's standards that changes conveniently when they need it to be advantageous to them. So imagine you share an image on Facebook, like a meme that you find, and then the authorities determine that it's offensive. Maybe you joked about a fat chick. Maybe you joked about, I don't know, like, you know, somebody being a DEI hire. I don't know. And then the police raid your home and arrest you. This is what's happening in Germany. Audio Sunbite 15. Listen.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning, and we were with state police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany. Inside, six armed officers searched the suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime. The crime? Posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time across Germany, more than 50 similar raids played out. Part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.
SPEAKER 01 :
Now, what's interesting, they don't show you actually what they're jailing people for. They just want you to take their word for it. Oh, they posted a racist cartoon. What? Do you know that even... So in Europe, people who are coming from Sharia-dominated countries, like Islamic jurisprudence countries, they're referred to as Asians. And there are – I mean there's like stories, whether it's like on Daily Mail or Guardian or wherever – where someone can literally post criticism about people coming from Islamic countries illegally or trying to establish Sharia outside of Islamic jurisprudence in England or in France or wherever. And they get cited for posting hate or if they even note hate. The fact that these people are coming from Islamic countries that practice Sharia, which is literally the legal system and that it's incompatible with Western values on which like the French judicial judicial system or English, et cetera, is founded upon. If they talk about the conflict with that's considered racist. So it's weird that they're not showing you what they're arresting people for, because I think if they did, you would probably object and be like, wait a minute, explain the explain this. But that's I mean, for crying out loud, some of the offenses, I don't know if you've seen like some of the stuff that I remember even before the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, they were called racist and all kinds of stuff. And they were posting, you know, parody of that. The Islamic jurisprudence that guided these countries and then also the extremism of some of the people who immigrated into these countries and the extremism that they brought with them. These are all very real things. Fundamentalism. And it's called racism to criticize. You can't even criticize it. You can't say anything over there. There's no free speech. This is exactly what J.D. Vance is talking about. You are killing yourself for your opponent. You are priming yourself for takeover. That's what this is. You're not allowing free speech. So her whole piece is discussing how you need to give the government entire control over discourse in your nation in order to keep things, what, peaceful? In order to buy this veneer of peace? I mean, they're actively advocating against free speech. I mean, Germany's crazy. As we move our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends over at Kel-Tec. This is a great Florida-based company, and they make awesome firearms, and their brand-new one is the PR-57 rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7. They are just continuing to redefine the game, redefining the game, cutting-edge design and performance. You guys know that they have been making innovation and performance affordable. They've pioneered the compact gun, pistol category. They've done a lot. So this five seven the PR 57 MSRP of only 399 super affordable. This is why you need it. It's 40% lighter than the next lightest five seven legitimately I've handled it. I haven't shot it but I've I've handled it super light. It's like the latest five seven I've ever handled in my life. And it's because of the innovative rotary barrel that makes it super light as well as the unique top loading design that replaced the traditional magazine with a stripper clip. So you have two stripper clips, 20 plus one capacity. So the left when they always say clips instead of mags, they're actually correct with this one. It's a great, you can actually, this is a realistic everyday carry for literally everybody. And again, $399 MSRP, you can afford to get it. It's from Kel-Tec, the first of its kind. It's the PR-57 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.
SPEAKER 09 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 01 :
So, apparently, a five-point magnitude earthquake sent tremors across western Texas. Ooh, I don't want none of that here. Okay, we got tornadoes. We don't get both of them. That's not fair. So they said it had a depth of roughly four miles. The epicenter was northwest of Toya, Texas, about 160 miles east of El Paso. They were detecting aftershocks within five minutes near the same location. And they said that they also felt tremors all the way out far west, just like Roswell and Carlsbad and out in New Mexico. Crazy. So... I don't know. Cannabis cocktails are on the rise. I don't understand this concept. Now, I'm not a weed person, but my first, I feel like this is like a whole side topic. My first introduction to weed was sitting behind old people at a Willie Nelson concert, hands to sky. It was the greatest generation, y'all. They were the greatest bad influence at a Willie Nelson concert. And they had it smelled like somebody cracked open a kegger of Heineken. It smelled like a dirty raccoon fart. It was horrible. And I'm like, why would you want that in a cocktail? Right. Because when your cocktail smell like that. I just don't want like a stinky drink. That's nasty.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's like the gummies where you just... Don't they smell like that?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, my dog CBD treats don't really.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do the gummies smell like that? I don't think so.
SPEAKER 01 :
I didn't really smell his CBD gummies, but I don't think that they have the TCH or TH... THC, yeah. TLC in there. I don't know. Whatever the hell. Thank you. THC. Is that what you said? Is that right?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, it's THC.
SPEAKER 01 :
That's the band, isn't it? So they said cannabis cocktails, they are... So they're using cannabidiol... Okay. And then Tetris. Those things in there. And that apparently they're on the rise because people are getting away from alcohol. I just think that people don't like hangovers. That's like, honestly, that's what it seems like to me. Is that? Yeah. Apparently. I'm not reading this headline. Candles, according to one Danish study, they say burning candles is the main indoor source of pollution particles. Your mom is the main source of indoor air pollution particles. Thank you. I'm going to burn my candles. My kids say that it's like a cult in our house. I don't care. I don't care because when we had the great ice storm of whenever that was, we had light. Thank you. But now they're saying that, okay, don't burn too many scented candles. Can I also just say stop buying the scented oil trash from Bath and Body Works? That stuff is, I think, toxic. The little stuff that you put in the walls there, one of my friends, it totally discolored her whole fireplace. She had a stone and it totally changed the color of her fireplace. So I'm just saying some of the stuff I think some of it's better than others. But, you know, don't like burn your house down. No, I think that the Trump administration has been making really, really good moves. The only thing that I don't like right now, and I saw this earlier today and I'm going to just dive right into it, is this story that came. I think this is from Financial Times. I don't know how real it is. But it says the Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on the Tate brothers. I call them the Tate brothers. I don't care. I have never minced my words. I don't have to. I think that these two cucks have set humankind back by several generations. I don't think it's manly to be middle-aged, balding, drooping shoulders, single, no children. There are these Muslim guys that have bragged about selling women for sex online. I mean, they have sex camps. That's what they do. That's where they made all their money. And I don't know how some, you know, hard up fetishized people on the right decided to make these guys like some sort of icon of right-leaning freedom. I don't know. I don't know much about these dudes except I think they're gross. And the videos that I've seen of them talking about themselves are so cringe. I have no idea how they get laid unless they just pay for it. I mean, we have an example I think that we can play. This is what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER 07 :
They didn't teach you in self-defense? Here's a little move. When I grab you by your neck and you start annoying me trying to resist, and I just... And then I grab you by your neck again. Then what the f*** are you going to do when your face is collapsed and your f***ing cheekbone's broken? You're not going to do s*** but cry. I guarantee I change the way you look at sex forever. You're going to be s*** crying. I won't cry. I bet you cried. His head looks like a job. I bet you f***ing cry. You're saying I wouldn't cry? You're challenging me to a fight. You're saying I can't hurt you? You're out of your fucking mind? I don't even have to fuck you. Forget the sex part. That's a distraction. My bitch can stay in my pants. I'll just start beating the shit out of you. How about that? We walk in the bedroom. I start kicking your ass. No sex. No sex involved.
SPEAKER 01 :
But you cry then. So this is one of the taint brothers that they're talking about. And I don't know why, because there are people on the right that have elevated this guy for some reason. I'm just going to – first off, I don't even know where these two came from. They, I guess, were born in the United States but, like, have lived overseas for most of their lives now, I guess. So I don't even know why any – we don't need to use this administration to settle political grievances or any other grievances for anyone else. So I don't know who's – because I guarantee you Trump doesn't know who these guys are. I don't know who's advising him to do this, but they need to be jettisoned out of Trump's orbit immediately. I mean, these two dudes are a cancer on the discourse of enlightened politics. They really are. And I don't know how anyone can hold up that thing as an alpha male, especially someone that has like a really sketchily claimed MMA record. Like you like what fought one time in a league no one's ever heard of, please. I just I don't know why everyone's like sucking up to these two. No pun intended. I really don't. And I especially dislike it when I see cucks in the United States defend them. Yes, I am using that language because that's what I think of them. If you're defending this stuff as a measure of alpha, you're a cuck. At least as your wife let you watch. I have to ask that because those are the only type of males that actually defend this type of stuff. This stuff sets back humankind. And I've had some of their defenders say, oh, Dana, be quiet. You're setting women back. First off, I know you're emasculated because I make more money than you and I'm more successful than you are. And your wife is not as attractive as me. That's no excuse to get nasty online, number one. Number two, don't call yourself a man if you defend Males who sell women online in sex cam work and brag about it repeatedly in video online and sex cam work and then threaten to sue the Internet every single time someone criticizes them. That's not manly. That's being a female copulatory organ. And we have enough of those in this country on the left. So please, dear God, don't start importing it from the like not even the right from elsewhere into this country and claim that it's on the right. End of.
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SPEAKER 08 :
Donald Trump's favorability rating is actually higher than it ever was the first time around. Let me ask you, a recent poll by Marquette looked at several of the things that he has done or says that he is going to do. And 63% favor federal government's recognition of only two sexes. 60% favor deporting immigrants who entered the United States illegally. 60% favor expanding oil and gas protections. production, 59% favor declaring an emergency at the southern border. Is there anything you are seeing that Trump is doing that you are in favor of, that you think is the right thing?
SPEAKER 25 :
Let me say, as it relates to all of those issues, we're just at the beginning.
SPEAKER 23 :
Donald Trump's favorite bill. My other favorite part of this was Hakeem Jeffries trying to argue, as like all the other Democrats do, Well, Donald Trump took office and he like didn't immediately bring down the prices. So I guess it was all a lie. That's. What I've heard all weekend to the point where I kind of wanted to bury my head in my couch cushions. It was done already. I was already... I'm like, this is where you got started. You guys are already in with this stuff. This is so dumb. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. Top of this first hour. A lot to get into. The chat's at Rumble. And then you also have... Well, you know, you're watching this from somewhere. Channel 347 Direct TV. The... The whole argument over when the money saving should start and when the inflation should go away, you know, you kind of have to undo some of the stuff that Biden did in order to get to have the economy restored. Right, Kane? I mean, it's not like. The economy isn't this separate from the rest of the system entity that moves completely unanchored from everything else.
SPEAKER 19 :
You're absolutely right. And we also only get reporting on the previous quarter, not the quarter that we're in. So all the data that they're going by as far as prices and everything is based on Biden's last quarter.
SPEAKER 23 :
So why is Hakeem Jeffries out there? Him. Who else was it over the weekend? There were a couple of other students. Amy Klobuchar. The lady who eats her salad with a comb. They've been livid over this. Why didn't it immediately cut? Inflation is supposed to go away the second Donald Trump is in office. Oh, my gosh. And then when it doesn't, then they're saying it's a lie. It's a how did someone put it? It is a mega lie. I don't know what that means. Again, this is, as Cain noted, it's it's all and that's just that's not just conveniently right now. That's how the economy is always measured. You always go by the most recently tabulated quarter and that's what this is. And so here in a couple of months, we'll have some new information. But as it stands right now, this is the reality of the situation. You have inflation because of the economic policies of the previous administration. Trump's not even been in office for a month. And I think they're already doing quite a lot, honestly. And that's the left has to find some kind of way to blunt all of the activity that everybody sees on television, because you think this this makes the left really angry. Because Joe Biden, where's my story on this? Joe Biden officially has more vacation days. He took more vacation days than any other president in the history of this nation. If you had to guess how many days Joe Biden had been on vacation, how many would you guess?
SPEAKER 19 :
I would say it's close to 50% of the total of four years.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, I mean, think about it. For a singular year, how many days of vacation do normal people get for a singular year? Two to four weeks, depending on your... Okay, Joe Biden, over four years, had 577 days off. Good Lord. He took more time off. It was over 39%, right almost at 40% of his presidency, on vacation.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's a year and a half plus of vacation in four years.
SPEAKER 23 :
The average American gets 11 paid vacation days a year, would have to work 52 years to rack up as much time as Joe Biden took off. Bill Clinton, in comparison, had 345 days off. 12% of his presidency. Joe Biden, 39% of his presidency. Barack Obama had 320 days off, 11% of his presidency. Ronald Reagan was the same thing, give or take by a couple of days, like 330-something days off, 11%. George W. Bush had over 1,000 days off, 35% of his presidency. He had a lot. These are eight years of presidents. I will say this about W and the reason I'm bringing this up is I'm going to bring this back to the larger topic with Akeem Jeffries. But can I just make a side note about W? Because I have my criticisms with him. But can I just say to put it in perspective, a lot of the time that that. It was said that he was on vacation. He was actually at his ranch in Texas that he treated as kind of like, you know, how Mar-a-Lago sort of, you know, the second White House. That's like the Western White House, like Reagan had Rancho Del Cielo. So he did a lot of work there. I mean, Colin Powell talked about how. He and Condoleezza Rice were there and they were having cabinet meetings and they did everything possible. He went back and he actually did land work and stuff. So but that is not noted in that tabulation. So I think if you did, it would be a lot fewer days than that. And each of the president's perspective.
SPEAKER 19 :
Each of the presidents you mentioned in comparison to Joe Biden were two term presidents. Joe Biden was one term.
SPEAKER 23 :
Did you almost call him Joe Biden?
SPEAKER 19 :
Because that should have stayed. It's a verbal typo. It stays.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, it really should have. It stays.
SPEAKER 19 :
But he's four years. The others that you mentioned are eight years. Those are the amount of days they took in eight years. Biden took 500 and something days in four years.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah. True. So he's been out of office this whole time. His ratio, I mean, George H.W. Bush was 37%. He had the most until Joe Biden. And it kind of makes you wonder, well, who is sort of running stuff? Who is running things? Who is actually the president of the United States if the president of the United States was on vacation? That's like the million dollar question, right? And all of the screaming by Democrats as to, you know, oh, well, I can't believe you're auditing this or I can't believe you're cutting this. And why has an inflation gone? I mean, I honestly the POTUS has done a really good job when it comes to. getting started and getting things done. By the way, he only took 380 days off. So that was like barely almost 26% of his presidency. So he was one of the, he's, he's right after, uh, Clinton, uh, So of all the Republican presidents, he had the least time off. And that was his first term. So just put that all in perspective. Here is a headline that I have been looking into. And I kind of want to wait and see a little bit of what's discovered. I was unaware of this. Now, well, I wasn't unaware of Texas having gold, right? Because Texas has its own gold reserves. Did you know... that Fort Knox, apparently also has gold in its reserves stored at Fort Knox. The last time it was fully audited was in 1953. I will say, someone said, oh no, it was audited in 73 too. That's erroneous. It was only a less than 6% examination of what they had. And they were black and white photos. It was really weird. So I don't know. So they had... And I think that they had... Didn't they have like Steve Mnuchin and McConnell go down there at one point? Again, black and white photos. I don't know why it had to be black and white photos. It's really weird to me. But... So now Senator Rand Paul is demanding that the reserves at Fort Knox be audited. And I think Doge is, I think that they're going to do it when they finish going through the IRS. Because Musk had asked online, surely it's reviewed at least every year, but it actually isn't. So Fort Knox in Kentucky, this was... So 36, they last fully audited it in 53. A full audit. Full audit. The last time anyone went there, less than 6% is what they saw. They had... There was a conspiracy that has been going around for some time that the gold reserves at Fort Knox are empty. Makes me now wonder about the gold reserves in Texas. Do they got gold in there? I'm just kind of wondering. U.S. Mint Police. Did you know that we have a Mint Police? I totally did not know that either. The U.S. Mint Police. They're responsible for protecting the reserve and its actual gold bricks or gold bars. So, yeah, they said that it was in 2017 when it was McConnell and Mnuchin. They went to the vault at Fort Knox and they had some grainy black and white images of Mnuchin and that was it. And it's in front of what the public is told online. Our golden bars. Now, he was the first. Here's what's crazy. Steve Mnuchin was the first head of the Treasury to visit Fort Knox and look at the depository there since 1948. Again, the first head of the Treasury since 1948. That was back in 2017. They saw less than 6%. of everything that was there. They didn't like really get a walkthrough. They didn't get to actually see everything. The last full audit was in 53. And then I don't know if you've seen the photos that are so grainy and you can't hardly, I mean, honestly, by today's standards, you can't even tell what you're looking at. And this is in 2017. So there's no reason for them to be like this, but it's just really weird to me that they were released like that. I mean, that's, You know, if you're trying to hide, I guess, what it is then. But they released these back. I think CNN had them. And the image is so grainy. I mean, you could easily fake somebody out. I mean, Cain, you've seen this image, and I think Juan's going to show it to you. He saw the he didn't see the largest stockpile of gold. And that's what was incorrectly said. He just saw like a little bit of it. And they made him put on white gloves and he supposedly held a gold bar. But it's a photo that looks like it was done back in the 60s. And this was in 2017. I just don't trust it. I don't trust it. I mean, it's weird to me. This is literally the last. That's Steve Mnuchin. If you're watching the simulcast on Channel 347, DirecTV or on Rumble or YouTuber X, that's Steve Mnuchin at the gold depository in Fort Knox. And again, that was the first time the head of Treasury has ever visited it since 1948. There hasn't been a full accounting, a full audit since 1953. Why was that picture taken in 2017? And it looks like it's from the 60s. Why did it have to be a grainy black and white photo? Is there like some unspecified rule that you can't use like modern cameras to actually capture what's in there? Or are they afraid that if you do that, then you're going to see that the gold's fake? I don't know. I mean, this doesn't help the conspiracy theory stuff. Is that not weird? It's weird. So I think we need a full audit of this. We need a full audit of a lot of things. I've got more very depressing things, of course, as to where your money has gone. Not just through USAID, but all of these other agencies now. We're going to dive into that. And some of the media malpractice over the weekend was stunning, you guys. Stunning. We're going to dive into this thing with 60 Minutes. And also how apparently... You know, after JD Vance went over and was lecturing Europeans, Germany decided to have a phallus measuring contest. And it's a little nuts. And they were actually trying to blame free speech for the rise of Nazism. It's one of the weirdest things ever. 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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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So apparently, a five-point magnitude earthquake sent tremors across western Texas. Ooh, I don't want none of that here. Okay, we got tornadoes. We don't get both of them. That's not fair. So they said it had a depth of roughly four miles. The epicenter was northwest of Toya, Texas, about 160 miles east of El Paso. They were detecting aftershocks within five minutes near the same location. And they said that they also felt tremors all the way out far west, just like Roswell and Carlsbad and out in New Mexico. Crazy. So... I don't know. Cannabis cocktails are on the rise. I don't understand this concept. Now, I'm not a weed person, but my first I feel like this is like a whole side topic. My first introduction to weed was sitting behind old people at a Willie Nelson concert, hands to sky. It was the greatest generation, y'all. They were the greatest bad influence at a Willie Nelson concert. And they had it smelled like somebody cracked open a kegger of Heineken. It smelled like a dirty raccoon fart. It was horrible. And I'm like, why would you want that in a cocktail? Right. Because when your cocktail smell like that. I just don't want a stinky drink. That's nasty.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's like the gummies. Don't they smell like that?
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, my dog's CBD treats don't really.
SPEAKER 19 :
Do the gummies smell like that? I don't think so.
SPEAKER 23 :
I didn't really smell his CBD gummies, but I don't think that they have the TCH or TH.
SPEAKER 18 :
THC, yeah.
SPEAKER 23 :
TLC in there. I don't know. Whatever the hell. Thank you. THC. Is that what you said? Is that right?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, it's THC.
SPEAKER 23 :
That's the band, isn't it? So they said cannabis cocktails. So they're using cannabidiol? Okay. And then Tetris. Those things in there. And that apparently they're on the rise because people are getting away from alcohol. I just think that people don't like hangovers. That's like, honestly, that's what it seems like to me. Is that? Yeah. Apparently. I'm not reading this headline. Candles, according to one Danish study, they say burning candles is the main indoor source of pollution particles. Your mom is the main source of indoor air pollution particles. Thank you. I'm going to burn my candles. My kids say that it's like a cult in our house. I don't care. I don't care because when we had the great ice storm of whenever that was, we had light. Thank you. But now they're saying that, okay, don't burn too many scented candles. Can I also just say stop buying the scented oil trash from Bath and Body Works? That stuff is, I think, toxic. The little stuff that you put in the walls there, one of my friends, it totally discolored her whole fireplace. And it totally changed the color of her fireplace. So I'm just saying some of the stuff, I think some of it's better than others. But, you know, don't like burn your house down. We've got a whole bunch of other stuff on the way, including auditing the gold at Fort Knox. Media malpractice and some weekend drama. Don't miss. What does living better mean to you? Is it more money, a bigger house? Now think about this. What about how you feel physically every day? Life is so much better when you feel good. When you wake up feeling great, you can do more of the things that you love and you're ready to take on the day. If pain is affecting your life, see how Relief Factor can help change that. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain naturally. Developed by doctors, Relief Factor supports your body's response to inflammation. And it doesn't just mask pain for a short time. It helps to reduce or even eliminate it. And it's safe to take daily. In fact, the longer you take Relief Factor, the more effective it is. Over 1 million people have turned to Relief Factor. Feel better every day and you'll live better every day. Trying Relief Factor is easy. Get their three-week quick start for only $19.95. That's less than a dollar a day. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That's 1-800-4-RELIEF. Or visit relieffactor.com.
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Do you believe you have a sense of what Doge is doing?
SPEAKER 06 :
No. I think Doge is an unelected, unofficial, small group of young tech bros who are charging into different federal agencies, getting into their core computer systems, doing things with them that at least I don't know the full details of, copying and downloading reams of data. That's a lie.
SPEAKER 16 :
What does it matter that Doge has access to U.S. government computer systems?
SPEAKER 06 :
What matters is that the U.S. government has information about you, about me, our Social Security information, our Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Benefit payments, things that matter to us. Obviously, our tax file.
SPEAKER 23 :
So wait a minute. So this is Chris Coons talking to whoever this turd is, 60 Minutes, whatever. It's Monday. Cain and everybody out there listening, everybody out there in the chat, maybe y'all can answer this question for me. Who – Who are the elected group of people all in those departments that take our information? Are they elected?
SPEAKER 19 :
No, they're not at all.
SPEAKER 23 :
So wait a minute. There's a group of people in there right now that take our information that are not elected? Yes. Oh. Well, what's the difference between those unelected people and the Doge people?
SPEAKER 19 :
Scientifically and logically, nothing.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh. Oh. So they just don't like this group of people? Unelected people.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, it's just political bias.
SPEAKER 23 :
Oh, so he's just being a turd. Yep. That's what it is. That's Chris Coons. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. I mean, technically, though, I voted for this. Nothing makes me happier than when you're like, Dana, guess what? So with the purchase of one Trump administration, you get a doge. And I'm like, what? And they're like, yeah, a doge. And what's going to happen is doge is going to rip war through all of these departments. And they're going to slice and dice and cut, waste, fraud, and abuse. They're going to save you the taxpayer money. Now, see, that's my love language. When you talk about saving me my money, that's my love language. I'm like, wait, what? That sounds amazing. I totally voted for that. I, you know, I couldn't vote for it enough because it probably would have been illegal. But at this point, I'm like, I feel like because of the taxes I paid, I should be able to vote as much as I want to. For however, if I wanted to vote for Trump five times, I should be able to vote for Trump five times because I pay that much in tax. I think after a certain percentage, you should get extra votes. Oh, yeah. I'm going to roll with that until that's in fact, Republicans, you want to know the quickest way to end withholding and like maybe have more of an accountable taxation system is you start saying stuff like that and proposing it a serious policy. The left will lose their minds. And the next thing you know, you've moved them to the center. But I'm very serious. I feel like I should get more votes. I'm special. Because I stress out more and I get robbed by the IRS. You all do too. I think if you are over, I think most of you would at least get two votes, right? Yeah. I would make that an executive order. This is why you can't have me as president. You can't do that, Dana. I just did. Look, EO. Hold it up like Trump does. Show everybody. Make a meme template. There you go. So the media. Can we talk about the media here? I didn't watch these things live because I have some self-respect and I don't like to just, you know, defecate all over my weekend. I'm just kidding. I did like pay attention to some of those. This was a 60 minutes thing. So 60 minutes. Can we this is the I want to make sure I'm getting this. This is audio soundbite 10. Now, I want you to just spare a tear for the poor big government people that were getting paid off of your tax dollars. As you listen to this, it's cut 10.
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People are really scared. I think that, you know, 12 days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills, and then all gone overnight.
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all gone overnight for Christina Dry and Adam Dubard, fired this month in the chaotic shutdown of foreign aid distributed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. More than 8,000 USAID employees were sent home by the administration.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're not looking for competency. They're not looking for if you're good at your job. They're looking for pure loyalty tests. And if you don't give it, you will be punished.
SPEAKER 27 :
And they had to leave the building. And these are folks who had decades and decades of public service serving USAID across administrations from, you know, George Bush to Obama to the first Trump administration. And they were never able to walk back in the building again.
SPEAKER 23 :
The lady who's here, the lady that you're listening to, they were actually never employees of USAID, although they were presented as such by 60 Minutes. They were longtime employees, though. Christina Dry and Adam Dubard, they weren't with USAID, but they got the money spigot turned off from USAID. He is... Worked with Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs. She was a speechwriter and a communications analyst. She worked through this group called Jefferson Partners to partner with USAID. But the way that they had it presented was that these poor, sweet, big government people were with USAID. And this is who it is. I don't feel bad for these people at all. Do you? I don't feel bad for them at all. I don't feel bad for them at all because they're, if you chose to have a career in government, if you chose to have a career sponging off the taxpayer, I don't feel bad at all for your sob story. That is karma coming back, slapping you in the face for sponging off of the taxpayer. Make better decisions. Just like if you become a webcam girl and you go work for the Taint Bros, don't be surprised if your videos are sold and then these slack-jawed, bald, you know, Sharia-loving Muslims over in Britain decide that they're going to pretend to be gatekeepers of cultural values. No. Make better choices in life. Make better choices in life than working for the government. Make better choices in life. I mean, I don't... I get that they're trying to put out these as like sob stories, but I don't feel bad for it. I feel bad for the families that can't afford to take a vacation or can't even afford to get a second car or can't afford to get their water heater fixed or can't afford to buy everything on their grocery list because they're being taxed to death. And then on top of it, property taxes. All so that the government can go and spend their money for these two people to sit there in nice suits and bitch on camera. They didn't know how they were... I mean, have you seen some of these government workers? I just... This is not playing the way that they think it's going to play with the general public. If you look at, and I think we had this conversation, what came last year, we were looking at the benefits and the salaries of government workers and comparing those to private sector and there's no competition. I mean, government workers, they love voting themselves, big pay increases, all these benefits, et cetera, et cetera. If you really want to have sympathy for someone, have sympathy for the common man and common woman that are having to work two and three jobs to make ends meet for their families, that see eggs quadruple in price. That's those are the people that you should really feel bad about. The people who who did their civic duty and they voted a certain way and they voted to save themselves money and they voted to not be involved in all these international entanglements. And they you know, they voted for in their municipal and their local elections. And maybe they even canvassed and did everything that they were supposed to do. And they still end up getting screwed up by their government. Those are the people that I feel bad for. So Cain also has a theory, and we're going to talk more about the 60-minute stuff, including the Margaret Brennan, the whole free speech thing with Holocaust next hour. Share it with me because we were talking about the audit of Fort Knox. I get the sense, and I think Cain speaks for probably a good number of people who listen out there. I get the sense. that you think there's no gold in Fort Knox. Or just enough for Steven Mnuchin to take a picture with in 2017.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right. And the fact that it was black and white, were they foil-covered bricks of chocolate? Like, we don't know. Why wasn't it in color, that photo from 2017 with the gold, number one? But number two, I've been seeing stories of gold being flown in, thousands, like 8,000 bricks of gold.
SPEAKER 20 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 19 :
And from London into New York. And so if this reporting is true, why is it happening all of a sudden? They're trying to say that it's, you know, they think the incoming tariffs, their businesses and others want to be prepared for that. When what if they know this audit is coming and they want to get as many gold bricks as they can so it doesn't look like Fort Knox is empty?
SPEAKER 23 :
So so that we had some come in from the Bank of England. There was one guy who says he was theorizing that every commercial flight from London had like two to four tons of gold on it. And then that we're trying to have our gold holdings valued at a certain monetary at a certain value. And it may not be the case because we don't let anyone. It is really actually odd.
SPEAKER 19 :
So everything, by the way, just saying is speculation. It's only because there isn't enough clear information. That's what we're left with is speculation.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, yeah, when you have a government that's not transparent, people are going to speculate in absence of information. We saw this with coronavirus. I mean, it's, you know, it is... I mean, that's a very real thing. We saw we saw this happen. I don't I just I want to see Musk had proposed having like a walkthrough and live streaming a walkthrough. Although I probably wouldn't be able to see it because X doesn't work half the time. If I click on something, it just goes to who knows where. Just so just things just need to work and we need to not deal. It's so like drama over the weekend. Did you guys see this quote? Let me pull this up. So Trump had quote, he quoted Napoleon saying, And he posted it on his Truth Social network. Sidebar, isn't it kind of weird that Trump has Truth Social and Musk has X and they're in the White House together? Like, I can't believe the media in all of their attempts to pit them against each other have not tried to do more through Truth Social and X. And pit the companies against each other more. Isn't that weird? Like they missed that opportunity. They haven't done that. I mean, I'm not saying I want them to do it, but that seems like the most effective way. If they were going to do it, why don't, you know, because they're not the smartest. So he posted, he who saves his country does not violate any law. And that's attributed to Napoleon, right? And there were a lot of conservatives. Schiff said, spoken like a true dictator, Adam Schiff. They had Tim Kaine, who, why is he still talking? He says he has authority, but he has to follow the law. Oh my gosh, that's rich coming from the guy who was the VP pick for Hillary Clinton. And They keep saying that it's a sign that he's a tyrant or it's a sign that he's an authoritarian. I think he just posted a quote from Napoleon because he was over there in France looking at Napoleon's tomb. I guess people missed that part when he was over there visiting the tomb and there were photos of that. Did they not put two and two together? This is so stupid. And all of the people who ran the... Last administration, like a committee, you guys don't really have any authority to lecture any of us about any of this. A lot of drama over that this weekend. Now, Trump and Musk, I think they sat down with my friend Sean and they did a joint interview and they were asked about, you know, the media's attempts to try to pit them one against the other. And like I said, they've been trying to do that for quite some time. And Trump had said, you know, it's so obvious that they're bad. They're just so bad. He goes, I used to actually think they were good at it. They're actually really bad about it, is what he had said. He said that they're not very good at doing this. And I do think it is weird that they haven't tried the truth social versus X thing. But I think that Trump likes the truth social thing. Like what if Musk sells X someday? Then he's got, I don't know. I think that's like an insurance plan. But that was a big downfall for the media. That was a losing moment for them. The fact that those two did an interview together over the weekend and they were unsuccessful in trying to get them to argue with each other. That's what it's about. People have to stay focused. We need to talk about conservative focus here coming up as well as we move our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Kel-Tec. This is a great Florida-based company, and they make awesome firearms. And their brand new one is the PR-57 Rotary Barrel Pistol Chambered in 5.7. They are just continuing to redefine the game, cutting-edge design and performance. You guys know that they have been making innovation and performance affordable. They've pioneered the compact pistol category. They've done a lot. So this 5.7, the PR-57, MSRP of only $399. Super affordable. This is why you need it. It's 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7. Legitimately, I've handled it. I haven't shot it, but I've handled it. It's like the lightest 5.7 I've ever handled in my life. And it's because of the innovative rotary barrel that makes it super light as well as the unique top loading design that replaced the traditional magazine with a stripper clip. So you have two stripper clips, 20 plus one capacity. So the left when they always say clips instead of mags, they're actually correct with this one. It's a great you can actually this is a realistic everyday carry for literally everybody. And again, $399 MSRP, you can afford to get it. It's from Kel-Tec, the first of its kind. It's the PR-57 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.
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SPEAKER 23 :
Nothing is possible when we work together. Now, is that the chick who spelled Eagles wrong? Yes. I think Kamala Harris just met her match, everybody. Steve, remind everybody how she spelled Eagles. E-L-G-L-E-S. Elgles. Elgles. Go Elgles. Go Elgles. Yay. That's that lady. So nothing is possible when we work together. Inspiring. Much inspiration. Okay. That needs to be a poster, like the kitten on the tree branch, but like her. Just like, you know, just her there and all her green, misspelling Elgles and Elgles. Nothing is possible. Good heavens. I can't. I can't with this. Oh, all right. So that some of the stuff that we got coming up for you in the second hour, we have to discuss. This insane soundbite. Margaret Brennan blaming free speech. Blaming the Holocaust on free speech. This is what statists do as a way to try to argue against any dissent. So we're going to dive into that. We're also going to look at... Well, we've got the left freaking out. But also after J.D. Vance went off on European leaders, Germany tried to clap back. And now all of these videos showing them raiding people's homes because they shared memes that the German authorities didn't like. Wait until you see this. We got that coming up as well. Second hour next. Achieving vibrant, youthful skin doesn't have to be complicated. With the power of Native Path Collagen, you can nourish your body from within and enhance not just your skin, but also your hair, your nails. By incorporating Native Path Collagen into your daily routine, you can promote a plump, radiant complexion, reduce signs of aging, and boost your overall vitality, all without any unnecessary fillers or additives. Native Path Collagen has only type 1 and 3 collagen, the most important types, making up 90% of your body's collagen, no artificial sweeteners, just pure third party tested goodness. It's completely flavorless. So you can just add it to about anything, your coffee or smoothies, oatmeal or whatever you want. And the best part is that Native Path's peptides formula makes it more bioavailable. So it means your body will absorb it easily. Start your journey to healthier skin today. Get native path.com slash Dana and stock up on native path collagen and save up to an incredible 45% off plus free shipping. Every order includes a 365 day money back guarantee. Don't miss out. Head to get native path.com slash Dana.
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Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. And he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that's not an accurate reflection of history.
SPEAKER 23 :
I'm just rarely... I'm left as speechless as I am by such a demonstration of ignorance as seen with Margaret Brennan in that soundbite, that exchange that she had with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And this all has to do with J.D. Vance going over to Munich and speaking to European leaders telling them that they're not doing enough in the name of liberty and then also criticizing them for their very real actual free speech infringements. And Margaret Brennan trying to rewrite history. First off, does she not know that they literally banned free speech? That the Nazis, when the Nazis ascended to power in the early 30s, one of the first things they did, in addition to going out and banning guns, was they wanted to ban free speech. That actually happened. They had a number of different laws and edicts that did precisely this. They it it was the first an attack on civil rights. And then you want to talk about a war on democracy. Well, there you go. I mean, there's reams of material that talk about the suppression of free speech under the Nazis and the explosion of propaganda. It is one of the most amazing L's I've ever seen anyone take in a broadcast forum. That is an embarrassing indictment of American education that a grown person who hosts a television show sits there and through that perspective begs the question and asking Rubio about free speech. Like, do you realize also the other offense that was woven into that is that she's essentially equating J.D. Vance with Nazis? Because J.D. Vance was criticizing Europe for not having free speech. And she's acting like, oh, well, if you're a free speech warden, I guess that makes you a Nazi. Oh, my gosh. That's. I don't know. I mean, maybe Kane, the reason that they burn books was so that people could breathe in the smoke. And it was like the next best thing to reading them. Yeah. Says Margaret Brennan. Wink. People are all up in arms over JD Vance speaking at that security conference. But you know what? Where was the lie? There was not a damn thing that he said. Was it harsh? Yes. And it was harsh, just perfectly harsh. And it was about 50 years to 50 years after when it first needed to be told. I mean, he wasn't subtle about all of this. One of the things he noted was that the threat, you know, talking about Europe and Russia is not really China or anything else. It's from within. And he's right. I mean, and they just had difficulty in processing that because no one has looked them in the face in recent time and said, knock it off. You're acting like a statist. I mean, they need to be blunt about this stuff. I'm like, why are we, you know, good. Why are we, why are we babying these people? So I don't know. The, I mean, to try to act as though those infringements weren't happening is Have you guys seen some of the stuff that's been taking place over in Germany, for instance? Where is this? So this is audio soundbite 14. German prosecutors say that you're committing a criminal act if you insult someone. Listen, 14.
SPEAKER 15 :
Is it a crime to insult somebody in public?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 15 :
And it's a crime to insult them online as well? Yes.
SPEAKER 01 :
The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet.
SPEAKER 15 :
Why?
SPEAKER 01 :
Because in internet, it stays there. If we are talking here face to face, you insult me, I insult you, okay, finish. But if you're in the internet, if I insult you or a politician... That sticks around forever. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
The prosecutors explain German law also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip, violent threats and fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true and then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they committing a crime?
SPEAKER 20 :
In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well because the reader can't distinguish whether you just invented this or just reposted it. That's the same for us.
SPEAKER 15 :
The punishment for breaking hate speech laws can include jail time for repeat offenders.
SPEAKER 23 :
This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. This is what they do in Germany. She's salivating over all of this. Do you see her? Oh, so you can. Yes, because we don't know if the quote is not real or not. What? Do you see the absolute lack of respect they have for the individual? People are too stupid to make determinations about whether something they're looking at online is real or not. And as a result, you need the government to come in and make that distinction for you. You know, I think it's going to be a lot easier for the robot overlords to take over now since we've had status that conditioned us to just taking over daily aspects of our lives for the past 50 years. I mean, quite frankly, is it going to be that much of a difference? Maybe without the political zeal? Who knows? But that I thought that was so telling. Did you see the German lady's face? She's like, oh, yes, you know, because then they don't know of what they're reading. They don't know. Oh, the people are too stupid to make that distinction. And you can see what Brennan's doing here. She's trying to set up this argument that, well, this couldn't happen over here now because the government controls all of it. Do you see the government? That only makes sense if there is an agreed upon definition as to what is true and what is false. Because here in the United States, the powers that be, we're trying to tell you that, yes, you know, your immune system, if you get something and then you're inoculated because you've had it already, that yes, that's how science works. And you've developed an immunity because you've had, then that changed, right? And they changed it to be whatever they needed it to be to justify mandates for injections and everything else. Oh, well, all of a sudden, you don't get natural immunity anymore. That doesn't exist, or at least with Rona, it doesn't exist anymore. This is what these people did. It amazes me that they think that this is the answer to prevent... the sorts of mass hysteria that we saw during the rise of the Nazis in the 30s. But that was the government property. I mean, they controlled every aspect of it. They act like they're fighting some grand cause of we're fighting against hate. But think of it. These are the people that have codified hate. You get in trouble if you don't allow someone to hijack your language for cosplay. Oh, but there's more. Did you see that they raided a home? Someone posted a meme. So you guys share images right on Facebook. So imagine you share a meme. And remember, someone could say, oh, that was a racist image or that was the sexist image or the left's definition. They've obliterated the meme. The realities of what is or isn't with all the isms because they've abused the word ad nauseum. So keep in mind that all of this is on a sliding scale of someone else's standards that changes conveniently when they need it to be advantageous to them. So imagine you share an image on Facebook, like a meme that you find, and then the authorities determine that it's offensive. Maybe you joked about a fat chick. Maybe you joked about, I don't know, like, you know, somebody being a DEI hire. I don't know. And then the police raid your home and arrest you. This is what's happening in Germany. Audio Sunbite 15. Listen.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning, and we were with state police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany. Inside, six armed officers searched a suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime. The crime? Posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time across Germany, more than 50 similar raids played out. Part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.
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Now, what's interesting, they don't show you actually what they're jailing people for. They just want you to take their word for it. Oh, they posted a racist cartoon. What? Do you know that even... So in Europe, people who are coming from Sharia dominated countries like Islamic jurisprudence countries, they're referred to as Asians. And there are there. I mean, there's like stories, whether it's like on Daily Mail or Guardian or wherever. where someone can literally post criticism about people coming from Islamic countries illegally or trying to establish Sharia outside of Islamic jurisprudence in England or in France or wherever. And there they get cited for posting hate or if they even note hate. The fact that these people are coming from Islamic countries that practice Sharia, which is literally the legal system and that it's incompatible with Western values on which like the French judicial judicial system or English, et cetera, is founded upon. If they talk about the conflict with that's considered racist. So it's weird that they're not showing you what they're arresting people for, because I think if they did, you would probably object and be like, wait a minute, explain the explain this. But that's I mean, for crying out loud, some of the offenses, I don't know if you've seen like some of the stuff that I remember even before the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, they were called racist and all kinds of stuff. And they were posting, you know, parody of that. The Islamic jurisprudence that guided these countries and then also the extremism of some of the people who immigrated into these countries and the extremism that they brought with them. These are all very real things. Fundamentalism. And it's called racism to criticize. You can't even criticize it. You can't say anything over there. There's no free speech. This is exactly what J.D. Vance is talking about. You are killing yourself for your opponent. You are priming yourself for takeover. That's what this is. You're not allowing free speech. You're actually, so her whole piece is discussing how you need to give the government entire control over discourse in your nation in order to keep things, what, peaceful? In order to buy this veneer of peace? I mean, they're actively advocating against free speech. I mean, Germany's crazy. And we got more on this, because I have another audio soundbite to play, because this is what they're trying to push here as it relates to speech. I think that this last election killed it in the crib, so to speak. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, it's the non-firearm, firearm, the burner gun. I always tell people, and I will always carry, I have zero problem carrying, I have zero problem pumping a bad guy full of lead. to save my life or the life of a loved one. That's not my fault. That's a consequence of you trying to do something criminal to an innocent person is that that innocent person may carry and you may catch the lead end of that stick. So, burn a gun is a great way to diversify your weapons collection, for the lack of a better way to put it. Now, I have friends who live in D.C. and New York and they're not always allowed to carry anywhere despite whatever licenses they have or whatever. And one of my friends is a female. And she has to work long hours. This is just be big kids is where she works and she's got to live there. And she doesn't want to go out to her car and become a statistic. So she got a Berna SD. That's their most popular model. When you compare it to regular stun guns, those have one or two rounds, one or two shots. The Berna SD has five rounds. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles. that can stop threats from up to 50 feet away. So this is what a lot of my friends who live in these unfortunate areas have used to make sure they're still protected because Burna Gun doesn't care about gun-free zone signs, no waiting period, no background check, and it's legal in all 50 states. Visit Burna.com slash Dana, and that's where you can get 10% off your purchase. B-Y-R-N-A. It's the Burna Gun. Burna.com slash Dana for 10% off.
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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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So a match between the U.S. and Canada. Chaos. Total chaos. Three fights in nine seconds. That sounds like my family reunion. Players exchange punches at Montreal's Bell Centre. But you know what? You know what happens when you boo our anthem? You get your A-double sneaks beat 3-1. That's what happens. That's what happens. Sorry, Canada. No, we're still friends with Canada. Canada, you're our friend. Y'all don't need to be salty. There's all the other flavors out there to choose. You don't have to be all settling on salty, so let's not do that. Let's see here. Ooh, there's now a pitch to lower housing costs. And that pitch is to sell federal land, which the government owns way too much of it in the first place. Thank you. So this is something that they're looking at in a number of different Western states, like, for instance, Nevada. They have housing needs. So they're looking at different developments there. and different approaches to go about boosting the market by allowing for more. Why does the federal government have this much land? Like, have you seen the size of Nevada that's actually privately owned? There's no comparison. So that's an interesting approach. It's something to keep an eye on. I'm going to pull this other stuff up here. So in addition to this, hang on, hang on, hang on. Okay, finally. apparently there's no relief ahead for high used car prices. This is another thing that has been, I didn't realize it was as bad as it is because I like to keep my car so the wheels fall off. But they said factory disruptions three years ago are coming back and that used vehicle shoppers are finding really stubbornly high prices. And so they're trying to kind of get a hand. I mean, that's been happening for like quite some time. high vehicle prices. Australia is banning foreigners, like people who are not Australians. They're banning them from buying property and buying homes. This is kind of similar I think into how Hawaii does some of the how they do some of the land acquisition and things like that. For whatever reason, this is taking forever to pull out. Finally, here we go. It's taken a long time to pull up. But this is something that they've been trying to get trying to protect, I guess, like what land that they have. Kindergarten is supposed to be the readiness camp for elementary school. I thought, wait. Isn't it? Oh, there's kindergarten. It's like pre-K. A school in Pensbury introduces pre-K. Why is that a headline? That's stupid. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. It's our friends over at Super Beats. The Super Boreen product. It's a new product from the folks over at Super Beats. And you can now just like straight up, you know, walk into a Sam's Club and get it right there with the heart shoes. The Super Boreen. is a plant-based supplement. It's formulated with an ingredient that helps to support your metabolism and your blood sugar levels. It's three times more effective than diet and exercise alone. Real results, super convenient. It's one easy-to-swallow capsule a day that helps you to do more to help support the metabolic health and blood sugar levels used by doctors from the makers of Super Beets Heart Chews. So head to your New York Sam's Club, save on the Super Beets Heart Chews and the new Super Boreen from Human. You'll love the way it makes you feel.
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Free speech needs boundaries. And in the case of Germany, these boundaries are part of our constitution. Without boundaries, a very small group of people can rely on endless freedom to say anything that they want, while everyone else is scared and intimidated.
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And your fear is that if people are freely attacked online, that they'll withdraw from the discussion.
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This is not only a fear, it's already taking place. Already half of the Internet users in Germany are afraid to express their political opinion, and they rarely participate in public debates online anymore.
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So this is the... I mean, it's literally called hate aid. And it's the CEO... What's her name? Is this the CEO, Josephine Ballon? I, um... This is this is all fallout from Vance's speech in Munich where he went off on all these European leaders and they all recoiled in horror because they couldn't believe someone was calling them out on their double standards. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. Bottom of this second hour. My only disagreement with J.D. Vance on this. is kind of a structural one because I agree with him, except I don't think that Europeans and it's not that I don't think I know when you look at the history of speech laws in Europe, they don't view free speech the way that Americans view free speech. We are so uniquely wild. And we are. We really are. God love us. I love us. I love America and I love Americans. We are so uniquely wild. When we say free speech, we really mean it. Over there, it's not the same. They don't have those laws. They don't have a culture of those laws. And so now we're going back to this like Weimar fallacy. Of speech and Nazism for the purpose of defending the Germans after they got scolded by J.D. Vance. And it's just asinine. I mean, you have to think you have to go back in order to actually see how anti free speech laws and restrictions contributed to the rise of Nazism. You have to go back a decade earlier. like to 1920, 1921, where there were a number of laws that were passed at that time that they wanted a total censorship of any kind of criticism of the press or any kind of government leaders. And there were tons of, there were a lot of publications, including Nazi publications, that were shut down. And When the Nazis assumed power, they immediately shut down speech. They were shutting down publications. They were shutting down, I mean, literally everything that wasn't in line with Nazi ideology. And before them, the Weimar Republic, they were shutting down all kinds of stuff as well. They did even ban Hitler from speaking in a number of German states. But the problem is that it was used as a... Like a public relations tool by the Nazis. And they had, I think, like some of the stuff that they created. There's like an image of the fire.org has a collection of some of the propaganda that was created during this time. And so what the Nazis were doing was saying, oh, the Weimar Republic is silencing Hitler because they're afraid of what he's saying, etc. They're afraid to be challenged. And they used this. It was not an impediment. They used it as a PR tool for themselves. And then when they seized power, they just expanded on all of the anti-speech moves that had been made prior and really shut everything down even more. But This, it never had the effect. Censorship never has the effect that a government thinks it's going to. That is one thing that is not unique to any other nation, but free speech is unique to the United States. And This was this idea that free speech contributed to their rise is actually it's antithetical to history. It helped this censorship is what actually helped fuel it because they use it as a whole PR tool. I mean, for crying out loud, they had a thing where he's supposed to have tape over his mouth. And they're like, oh, the the you know, the republic is silencing him because they're afraid of his truth. And they made it they they did a number on people making it think that he was sharing some information that they really deserve to hear. But the government was preventing and it worked. It was a side that worked. There are a lot of people who I think are really ignorant of history. And I don't know why we always have to go back to Nazis with literally everything. But one of the things, like I said, the only thing I don't entirely agree with Vance on is the presumption that Europeans both support and understand free speech the way that we do here in the United States. It is, again, a very uniquely American thing. They clearly don't, and they have not had it As part of their governing doctrine, it has not been ensconced at the level that it is in the United States in any governing doctrine or document in European nations. It just it has. And I mean, there's the semblance of. free speech, but it's not like free speech, free speech here. Free speech is protected speech, speech that you can say without threat or fear of litigation. They don't have that. That is not an attribute that they have over in Europe. Everything can be litigated. Absolutely everything is litigated. It's wild, in fact. The way that they go and it's obviously most often used as a tool against more conservative either members of culture or lawmakers over there. But This it was it was a speech and a message that needed to be stated. And I think one of the reasons that the other reason that it seems so shocking to some of them is that the moment Trump got into office, he just immediately started started in on him. I guess that they thought there was going to be a honeymoon period or something. I don't know. But we don't have time for that. We do not have time for that. I mean, you've the it's not free speech. to state that, yes, you can say whatever you want to say so long as the governing authority approves. Well, that's not free speech. We don't need to be managed as a people informationally. But the people who want to control speech believe that you do because they don't believe that you are up to the task to manage your information yourself. And that's ultimately what a lot of this comes down to. Never before was it so much more apparent than during COVID and COVID lockdowns. If you want to have a measure of whose speech was the freest and in the United States under the Biden administration, it wasn't great, clearly. But you ought to see what some of the penalties were for people in Europe if they were questioning, you know, vaccines or if they were asking about adverse effects. or natural immunity or anything like that. I mean, they were way more harshly treated, even though I thought our treatment here was pretty damn harsh. Over there, it was even crazier. So when Vance is saying that the threat really isn't going to be Russia or China, it's going to come within, I mean, you already have these European nations that have adopted a kind of quasi-Chinese democratic model on speech particularly. And that's not wrong, it's true, it's absolutely accurate. And so he's warning them, look, you are rotting from within and that is the biggest threat and it's not wrong. But I also think that you can't establish a metric of freedom. For to determine whether a nation can match us in terms of freeness, especially when these nations that's not part of their culture and hasn't been part of their culture since their inception, since the beginning. So that's that is something to kind of keep in mind. They're very it is a very different thing. Even the more conservative, some of the most conservative Europeans I've ever met are still conservative. Different on speech and I've talked to a number of you know conservative MPs and the European Union and elsewhere and they're very It's very different the Levels of freedom that one considers to be acceptable freedom in speech It's very different. So I don't know maybe we'll see but this informational management. No, that's that's got to stop a couple of other Bits of audio to get into. Where do we want to go from here? Because we've got 30,000 cuts. Ooh, you know what? Let's do, do, do, do. Let's go into some of the, I know we're going to talk about this with Stephen Yates, but audio soundbite 19. So Zelensky reportedly is a little miffed. He has kind of been sidelined by some of this. He apparently was not happy that POTUS spoke with Putin. I didn't realize that we had to go ask this comedian for permission. And that's not to say, and this is one of the things that I can see the left winding up already, is that it's an either or. That, oh, well, if you're sidelining Zelensky, you're doing that because your preference is Putin. No, I think that... POTUS just believes that there is a quicker and more efficient way to get everything tied up. And this is the most direct route to do it. Audio Soundbite 19. This is Zelensky talking about priorities. Listen.
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Let me ask you about your phone call with President Trump earlier this week. It came on the heels of his call with President Putin. Does Mr. Trump's direct communication with Vladimir Putin before speaking to you unnerve you?
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No, no, we spoke about it, by the way, with President Trump. And I said that I know that we had already phone calls, yes, both of us. It's okay that he phoned him. Of course, I wanted very much that Ukraine is in priority for Trump.
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Wants to be a priority. I think we've had they've been kind of our priority. They've taken billions and billions of dollars and we haven't gotten a return on the investment for that, which, by the way, that's something we're going to discuss is the taxation issue coming up. What's the what did you get out of all your support of Ukraine? You know, we've got to get this tied up. The quickest way to do it, I think, is the way that they're approaching it right now. We'll talk more about this with Stephen Yates coming up. Also, I didn't watch the SNL 50 thing because I just... I'm not into old fart humor. I'm just not into it. I'm really not. I'm just like, hmm. If you just put Bill Murray on for an hour, I'd watch it. But otherwise, I just don't. I don't care. Or Bill Hader because he's hysterical. We're going to talk about some of the other stuff that happened over the weekend, cultural aspect stuff. And then we're going to get into some of the latest with Doge. and the weeping and gnashing of progressive teeth. They're going to fight like hell every little bit to save money. They're going to fight us on every little bit of it. History shows gold and silver thrive under strong leadership. During President Trump's first term, gold surged 53% and silver soared 51%. With him back, could precious metals break new records in 2025 and beyond? In times of economic uncertainty, smart investors turn to assets that have proven their worth. Thank you so much for having me. Visit danalikesgold.com right now and get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit. On top of that, you could also qualify for up to $15,000 in bonus silver, possibly even more. That's danalikesgold.com.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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A drunk Florida man hit a pole and then sat outside of a 7-Eleven with no pants. Jeez. This is probably the time to reevaluate where you are in life and why you got to where you are outside of a 7-Eleven pantsless. So he crashed into a pole outside of a 7-Eleven. Didn't remember doing it because drunk. He's got too many names. 24-year-old Bonifacio Manuel left a party, went to a gas station to get more alcohol, woke up in jail. Police officers responded to a scene. He ran right into the concrete pole right in front of a 7-Eleven. And then as they got, as police arrived on the scene and they approached his car, blue Ford sedan they noticed that he was sitting in the driver's seat literally with no pants on and then they noticed his wet pants so he did have some pants but they were wet and they were in the passenger seat beside two empty beer cans they asked for his license he gave them a Mexican ID he had never been given a driver's license That wasn't even his license, his Mexican license. It was somebody else's Mexican driver's license, and apparently he's not here legally. He couldn't stand. He admitted to drinking, but he couldn't remember how much. Didn't know what happened to his car. Like, I didn't remember wrecking that. He refused to perform field sobriety. His breast samples were .260.
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That's more than three times.
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My favorite is to read off the blood alcohol content and then look at Kane for like a real measure of how bad it is. So, yeah, he's in trouble. He was taken into the pokey, driven to Lake County Jail. He posted $1,500 bond. I just, yeah, I don't know about that one. Let's see. This, ooh, a Florida man. He has a boxer, a dog. His boxer helped scare off two coyotes during a walk. This was in Altamonte Springs in Florida. They encountered two wild coyotes while he was out walking his dog. Credits his dog for helping to scare them away. And he said that my dog bulldozed them back into the woods here. And thankfully he had his dog on a lead, but his, his dog like pulled him so hard. He like scraped his face on the ground. Florida fish and wildlife said they were aware of the reported incident. And there are coyotes there. I just, yeah. So just be safe and be aware. And that was a good dog. But yeah, that dude totally, that dog dragged his dude. He dragged his owner. He's like, yeah, I'm going to go get these. This, um, Oh, no, no. Well, there was a shirtless man that stole a police cruiser and then carjacked another SUV, all shirtless in a very wild chase, some of which was caught on video, dash cam footage and then body cam, which you can't play because apparently the guy only knows... Four words, and it's all the S word, the F word, and another word I can't say. But the suspect, 52 years old, Armando Lopez, the officer's body came. He was chasing this shirtless Lopez guy and tried to use a taser on him. The dude was unfazed. After he got tased, he jumped into the patrol car. took it, sped away. After he was tased, shirtless and tased, he fell on the concrete and got up and then got tased and still got in the cop car. Dang, he's going to scratch his man nipples right off on the pavement. And the dash cam recorded the guy's actions inside the vehicle. And yeah, he, man, he was... So, yeah, he got taken into custody, as you can imagine. That's kind of wild. And then a man was detained because he tossed an explosive device outside of a Florida restaurant. Don't know why. Well, there's reasons. He's mad at somebody. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. No one was hurt. There was no damage to the building or significant damage anyway. The authorities have not released the suspect's name or motive, but he has been detained. We have more on the way. Third hour coming up. Stevie Nates will join us to stick with us. Achieving vibrant youthful skin doesn't have to be complicated. With the power of Native Path Collagen, you can nourish your body from within and enhance not just your skin, but also your hair, your nails. By incorporating Native Path Collagen into your daily routine, you can promote a plump, radiant complexion, reduce signs of aging, and boost your overall vitality. all without any unnecessary fillers or additives. Native Path Collagen has only type 1 and 3 collagen, the most important types, making up 90% of your body's collagen. No artificial sweeteners, just pure third-party tested goodness. It's completely flavorless, so you can just add it to about anything, your coffee, your smoothies, oatmeal, or whatever you want. And the best part is that Native Path's peptides formula makes it more bioavailable so it means your body will absorb it easily start your journey to healthier skin today get native path.com slash dana and stock up on native path collagen and save up to an incredible 45 off plus free shipping every order includes a 365 day money back guarantee don't miss out head to get native path.com slash dana
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What I'm thinking about and talking to my friends at Democracy Defenders and other lawyers about is, could there be a nationwide class action lawsuit to follow up on last week's victory against Musk, against the Trump administration for this breach in computer security and the data? of all American taxpayers. It could be a class action suit on behalf of all Americans. If the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers want to opt out and they don't want their part of the money for the contamination of their data, fine, they can opt out. But really, it's a suit on behalf of everybody because that's our information.
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So where was this concern when it was our information, you know, prior to all of this, when Social Security numbers were leaking out and when the IRS was weaponizing their authority to repeatedly target conservatives every single year there was a Democrat in office because that's happened. And some of us can literally attest to that personally. Where was the concern then, you rat bastard traitor? And that's exactly what Jamie Raskin is. I have zero empathy. I have zero courtesy. I have zero kindness. I have zero civility for these big government idiots that sit here and defend this stuff. Now he wants a class action suit because everything that Doge is doing up until this point is about limiting the slush fund of our dollars that they have access to. Jamie Raskin wasn't concerned when the IRS was going after your Venmo or anything else. They weren't concerned. The IRS, you know, historically weaponizes under Democrats. They love going after conservatives and they love using the full authority of the IRS to persecute and harass conservatives. conservatives here in the united states they've done this repeatedly jamie raskin was never interested in any of that then just fascinating to me so yeah i don't uh i don't have any i don't i i don't have any empathy sympathy and i think that this is asinine and i hope it gets laughed out of court This is they're so upset over all of this. I love it. And this is Doge is supposed to end in July of 26. I mean, they're just supposed to go there, look at what needs to be cut, present their findings. These are our recommendations. And that's it. I mean, this isn't even we're not even discussing keeping them around in perpetuity, which is exactly what Democrats would do if it was something that they came up with. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. We're at the top of this third hour. And I can we play this audio? Somebody seven from Al Sharpton real quick, because this is this. Geez, I was actually surprised that even knew these two founders names. I got to be honest. Yeah. Yeah.
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Go ahead. One day our children's children will read American history. And can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they can stay in power? That's what we're looking at. We're looking at American history.
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How is Trump overthrowing the government to stay in power? What part of we're going to audit waste, fraud and abuse with the government? is equal to the hysteria of, he's overthrowing the government. Where's that at? Where's... But that's how sharp them. You know, my favorite is Chipotle. Signore Weaver. I almost didn't recognize him, you know, not fat and not in a juicy couture tracksuit. I almost didn't recognize him. Took me a second. But that's... People who think that, I think they were dropped on their heads as infants. I have no, I don't know. I don't know what this says. I don't know. I don't know why. It's just total hysteria. This is not going to make anybody, you're not convincing people that that's what's happening. People love the idea that government can be held accountable because they've been held accountable and sometimes by an unaccountable government. This is you're never going to convince people that this is bad. This is the thing that independents and moderates and even people on the left are loving. The only concern that I've seen expressed are people act like these nerds that are going through this information that they like the one guy who's who was it? We played this in our first hour. The guy who said that they're printing things out. That's an absolute flat out lie. They can't print anything out. They only have read-only access and they're under NDAs. So that's already been made public by both sides, in fact. So I don't know where they're getting this lie that, oh, well, they're printing out information. They have only read-only access in secure areas. So what are they even talking about? They're lying to you to try to make, just so that you rise up and stop the audit and that you won't hold government accountable. It's all just trying, they're trying to emotionally manipulate you. People who don't care about your savings because they've spent it already. I just get enraged over this stuff. This is this is it. It's insane. Audio soundbite. Two other soundbites. Well, let's did we do we play for already the Hakeem Jeffries? OK, let's play for and then we're going to play Trump's kind of response to this. So he came. Jeffries is repeating the stupid talking point that I guess all Democrats have been trained to say like parrots over the weekend. Listen to him. Deliver it here.
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Let me say, as it relates to all of those issues, we're just at the beginning. And the core promise that Donald Trump made is that he's going to lower costs for everyday Americans. In fact, we were told that grocery prices would go down on day one on January 20th. Costs aren't lower. In fact, costs are increasing.
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When did January, February come out? That's going to be in like a month or so, right?
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In April.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you'll be able to see the moment that he enacted different economic policies and the effect that that has on inflation. Right now, the only information that we have to go through, as Kay noted, are its last quarter's report. And that's based on Biden's administration. So Hakeem Jeffries is complaining going off of Biden's the report during the Biden administration. That's how that works. And he knows better, but he's just, he knows better. He's just trying to, I guess, trying to appeal to people who don't, that he thinks don't know, doesn't know how this works. It doesn't make any sense. No, I think that the Trump administration has been making really, really good moves. The only thing that I don't like right now, and I saw this earlier today, and I'm going to just dive right into it, Is this story that came? I think this is from Financial Times. I don't know how real it is, but it says the Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on the Tate brothers. I call them the Tate brothers. I don't care. I have never minced my words. I don't I don't have to. I think that these two cucks have set humankind back by several generations. I don't think it's manly to be middle-aged, balding, drooping shoulders, single, no children. There are these Muslim guys that have bragged about selling women for sex online. I mean, they have sex camps. That's what they do. That's where they made all their money. And I don't know how some, you know, hard up fetishized people on the right decided to make these guys like some sort of icon of right-leaning freedom. I don't know. I don't know much about these dudes except I think they're gross. And the videos that I've seen of them talking about themselves are so cringe. I have no idea how they get laid unless they just pay for it. I mean, we have an example I think that we can play. This is what I'm talking about.
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They didn't teach you in self-defense? Here's a little move. When I grab you by your neck and you start annoying me, trying to resist, and I just... And then I grab you by your neck again. Then what the f*** are you going to do when your face is collapsed and your f***ing cheekbone's broken? You're not going to do s*** but cry. I guarantee I change the way you look at sex forever. You're going to be s*** crying. I won't cry. I bet you cry, b***h. His head looks like a jug. I bet you f***ing cry. You're saying I wouldn't cry? You're challenging me to a fight. You're saying I can't hurt you? You're out of your fucking mind? I don't even have to fuck you. Forget the sex part. That's a distraction. My dick can stay in my pants. I'll just start beating the shit out of you. How about that? We walk in the bedroom. I start kicking your ass. No sex. No sex involved.
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But you cry then. So this is one of the taint brothers that they're talking about. And I don't know why, because there are people on the right that have elevated this guy for some reason. I'm just going to – first off, I don't even know where these two came from. They, I guess, were born in the United States but, like, have lived overseas for most of their lives now, I guess. So I don't even know why any – we don't need to use this administration to settle political grievances or any other grievances for anyone else. So I don't know who's – because I guarantee you Trump doesn't know who these guys are. I don't know who's advising him to do this, but they need to be jettisoned out of Trump's orbit immediately. I mean, these two dudes are a cancer on the discourse of enlightened politics. They really are. And I don't know how anyone can hold up that thing as an alpha male, especially someone that has like a really sketchily claimed MMA record. Like you like what fought one time in a league no one's ever heard of, please. I just I don't know why everyone's like sucking up to these two. No pun intended. I really don't. And I especially dislike it when I see cucks in the United States defend them. Yes, I am using that language because that's what I think of them. If you're defending this stuff as a measure of alpha, you're a cuck. At least as your wife let you watch. i have to ask that because those are the only type of males that actually defend this type of stuff this stuff sets back humankind and i've had some of like their defenders say oh dana be quiet you're setting women back first off i know you're emasculated because i make more money than you and i'm more successful than you are and your wife is not as attractive as me that's no that's no excuse to get nasty online number one number two don't call yourself a man if you defend Males who sell women online in sex cam work and brag about it repeatedly in video online and sex cam work and then threaten to sue the Internet every single time someone criticizes them. That's not manly. That's being a female copulatory organ. And we have enough of those in this country on the left. So please, dear God, don't start importing it from the like, not even the right from elsewhere into this country and claim that it's on the right. End of. We have a lot more on the way. We got headlines coming up. All Family Pharmacy, I've been recommending them to everybody because I think what they do makes it so easy and it's so important and they cut out the middleman. They have a doctor that reviews their prescriptions and does all this stuff. And so basically with All Family Pharmacy, What this is is it's a one-stop shop where you can go and you can get the medications you need. You can also get things like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. And it's insane that there are still doctors who don't recognize the medicinal benefits of these medications. It's like living in the dark ages, for crying out loud. All Family Pharmacy specializes in being a reliable option for a variety of health needs. You can always be prepared. You can bulk order. Be prepared for emergencies. You don't have to wait until you're sick. You can plan ahead and you can stay ready. It's simple, it's fast, and it's affordable. If you don't have insurance, that's not an issue. They have very straightforward pricing, online ordering, shipping in just two to four days. Or if you're in a pinch, you can have things overnighted. Your health is always within reach. And I think this is actually the most important. All of their stuff is made in the USA. So you can rest easy knowing that the medications that you receive and are taking from All Family Pharmacy are made right here in America. Manufactured, all the inputs, everything right here in the US of A. Ensuring high standards of quality and safety. So visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. That's where you can get 10% off with promo code Dana10. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Dana10 is the code for 10% off.
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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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Quick note, I get it that there are dudes out there that are like, we're so tired of hearing about toxic. I agree with you because I don't think masculinity is toxic. I think that the matriarchy can be just as toxic. But the reaction to that isn't to hold up a jug-eared, buck-toothed, Sharia-loving, you know, cuck who literally sells webcam porn. That's not the option. I said what I said. All right, moving on. This headline... This headline, I tell you, a snowmobiler fell through ice on a pond. I don't. OK, I would not. That's not never. No, never. Why would you go across that? This was in Michigan. First responders rescued two guys who fell through the ice while snowmobiles. They were on their snowmobiles and it was at night. They had to take him to the hospital to be treated for hypothermia. Thankfully, they're both alive. But my gosh, one of the guys was an amputee who is struggling to stay up. He lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. So thankfully, they're OK. But golly, like, be careful with this. There's no way I would take unless I was like way up, maybe in the Arctic Circle. Maybe. Where I knew the ice would be a couple feet thick. There's no way. Let's see. Why is the U.S. Coast Guard delivering cocaine to San Diego? And by cocaine, I mean 17 tons of it. Yeah. December through February. They said that the Coast Guard cutter of this boat offloaded like 17 tons of cocaine to appear in San Diego. It's about $275 million wholesale in the U.S. And that they were operating in drug trafficking zones around southern Mexico and Central America. uh what trafficking makes money i'm telling you that's this is sick uh let's see a uh This is a weird bucket list wish. A New York woman spent her 104th birthday in jail as a bucket list request. Yeah, she had a lifelong wish of going to jail. I don't know. And they made it happen. They let her sit in the jail, Livingston County Jail, on Monday in New York, Western New York woman. She was even offered a private tour of the facility. She got to see the surveillance system and the booking chambers and all of that stuff. 104 years old. That was really nice that they made that happen for her. There's the photo. Look how sweet they are. I mean, you know that they had to be like, she wants what? For her birthday? What? What is that? Apple and Google are restoring TikTok to their app stores. And a new move. This is per a couple of different, including NBC and CBS. They said that in a response to a new law that requires TikTok to divest from the CCP, they would return them both to the Apple and Google Play stores so they're restoring the app. Now, does this mean that because people who deleted it? Couldn't redownload it. Is that still in effect? The article doesn't say it doesn't actually get into that. So, you know, but interesting. Very interesting. And use of a. Oh, this is disgusting. Hey, it's like a thing for the Taint Brothers. Use of AI leads to a jump in sex doll sales. This is so gross. Let's just not. Let's not say we did talk about it. All right. So coming up, we're going to have Stephen Yates on because we have to talk about the new 10 percent tariffs taking place against China. Plus, Taiwan's detected an increase in maritime tariffs. activity in military aircraft even. We'll talk about that as well and get his reaction to Europe's reaction to the not really harsh words from Vance. They were very real. We'll touch on all of that so that he's coming up next. Stick with us. Our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. Patriot Mobile has been leading the charge for many years now, it's not just providing about providing great cell phone service. It's, you know, about defending your rights and freedoms and not empowering companies who work against you or who spend your money against your values, you're supporting what you believe in. And then you get exceptional nationwide coverage by operating on all three major networks. So you're, you're connected wherever you go here in the US internationally, I have never had an issue with my service. Seamless Switching with a 100% US-based customer service team. They're going to make your switch easy. If you want to get a different number or keep your number, keep or upgrade your phone, it doesn't matter. It's so easy to switch. Visit patriotmobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT and get a free month of service using promo code Dana. Switch today. patriotmobile.com slash Dana 972-PATRIOT.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour. It's a very weird news day. And of course, you can listen around the country and Channel 347 is how you can watch it on DirecTV, YouTube and Facebook as well. Kind of a lot to talk about. with our guest, Stephen Yates, because we've had the whole European reaction to Vance's remarks. And then Taiwan is seeing aircraft in its skies. And we got tariffs with China, the 10% kicking in. So it's it's kind of a busy time as you all know Stephen Yates at Yates comes on X he's a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation he joins us now he had served in two presidential administrations he knows everything about foreign policy and we're going to get into all the latest with China but while we have him Stephen always good to see you I've got to get your reaction to the European freakout over Vance's remarks when he was in Munich. It's been a little long time coming, I think, for some of those leaders to hear some of the harsh truths about the state of their unions, so to speak. What was your take on this?
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Well, a couple of things came immediately to mind. I mean, number one, he literally made a grown man cry. So I was waiting for Tom Hanks not to do his bad SNL thing, but to just start yelling out, there's no crying in baseball, there's no crying in baseball. And it's just really kind of astonishing how fragile these Fabergé eggs are that we have so covered them in love and support over the years that they basically need to be coddled. with our money our promise to protect while they go make their deals and if we ever say anything about you know what are we really what are these shared values you say we have and we speak up for them then apparently it's fetal position and weepy eyes uh but i i thought it was delicious to watch I thought that, I mean, really, Vice President Vance is frankly historic at this point. I mean, we're only a month in, and he's basically been put at bat 10 times and hit 10 home runs as far as I'm concerned, getting out there and preaching the word to those who need to hear it, whether it's CBS or the Eurotrash.
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Yeah, that's a CBS thing. That was a whole... I noted this earlier when we because he had said at one point, you know, in his address that the threat wasn't so much, you know, Russia and China right at this moment. He was saying that it wasn't that those nations would would not ever be a threat. But he's saying right at this moment, you know, the threats are. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
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The American experiment was unique. We were the first to define ourselves by geography and principles.
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How do you bring them to that table? Because we were showing videos of German police raiding people for posting memes and things like this. They don't have to adopt and be like us 100%. But it almost seems like if you are not built on a structure of like real protected speech, then really, I mean, are you protected from, you know, the from extremists like what we're seeing in Germany right now? I mean, it does kind of, you know, answer pose a good question.
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it does and it should hammer home yeah you don't have to be like us and you're not like us i mean if ever there was a great demonstration of that it was that hockey exhibit where if our national anthem gets booed you get slobber knocked uh in the score and maybe some literal punches in the face That's the real America is back moment. And you don't have to like it. You don't even have to like us. Right. But we are who we are. And darn it, the world is better off for it. And so you can cry all you want when you wipe away those tears. Just like Jack Nicholson said, you're going to want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. And so you're going to listen.
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That's right. I see. I like that. Yeah. I mean, you don't F.A. with the anthem UFO. That's kind of like, you know, kind of the rule. What we saw nine fights and three fights in nine seconds. We saw that hockey game that we were that we were talking. I mean, it was so Steve was actually texting us over the weekend because he was he was watching the game about how different and weird it was. Going from this and kind of switching to... Because you were talking about the CBS stuff. And it seems like CBS has been, this entire weekend, trying to push back on Vance's remarks about the threat from within and free speech by claiming... Margaret Brennan, we played this audio earlier, that the Holocaust really was allowed to occur because speech was weaponized, because it was too free in Germany. And I just... I mean, I don't consider myself a historian, but I know enough about history to know that even, you know, back in the 20s, whether it was the Weimar Republic or even the Nazis in 1933 passing, you know, serious anti-speech laws that that were really shutting down, holding anybody accountable that they obviously were using to their advantage. I just don't know how people in the news, Stephen, say this kind of stuff with with no check on history. They're defending this as a way to attack the vice president for his remarks. mind blown.
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Yeah. Well, I think it really just comes down to cult-like behavior and mentality. If you are so seized by the cult way of thinking that shall not be challenged and you have just convinced yourself that you hate your opponent so much that you actually have blurred lines and blurred vision with regard to what genocide actually is, what authoritarianism actually is, what censorship really is. It's just out of pure vitriol toward anyone who is your opponent and anyone who might support your opponent gets the same treatment. They're just so blind that now it's just like when they got too fever pitched about the Me Too movement and they lost sight of real abuse that people need to respect when it occurs. And if you call everything racism, then nothing is racism. And they've done that with Nazism and the Holocaust now to a fairly well. I don't know when they finally touched that electrified third rail enough that they'll recoil and maybe reboot. But frankly, I don't know why CBS isn't fighting for its license at this point. I mean, this was some pretty bad blatant stuff and this is not the first swing and a miss.
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Yeah. I wanted to switch gears and ask you about Trump, Zelensky and Putin, because it looks like there's more groundwork being made or more ground being gained by the administration now than ever under the Biden administration previously. Zelensky seems a little miffed that it seems like he's being sidelined. What is the approach on this? And does he actually have to be involved every step of it? I mean, it seems like Trump is going after the most direct path to
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We haven't seen this active and multifaceted approach to diplomacy in a very long time. It really puts to lie the idea that President Trump and the Make America Great Again movement was isolationist. I mean, look where all these people are in the world right now. And so it's really about putting everything on the table, put your best athletes on the field to reset relationships and try to work for peace. And so, you know, look, Keith Kellogg, a friend of mine, someone who served President Trump's first term and is a special envoy, he's practically been living in Ukraine for the last little bit, hearing from Ukrainians and their leadership and feeding things back into the President Trump team. And so there might be other members of the team in some of the meetings and some of the geographies, but no one in Ukraine with a straight face can say that they've been ignored. And yeah, you're gonna have to have the power players at the table. I think it's great that Saudi Arabia is hosting this one. It really reminds Iran that they are not the boss of the block, that we're gonna be in this geography and we're gonna deal with geopolitics here out of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They're not a kingdom of saints, but they're our ally. And after we deal with this European thing, I bet some maximum pressure is gonna be on the table, talked about there too, aimed at Iran and their proxies. And so I think that there's, I don't like the multidimensional chess. I'm not even good at one dimensional, two dimensional chess. I don't believe that. Some of this is going on here and it's not isolationism. And I think that some of the starting points in this are looking pretty good. Now halting the Ukraine war, hard deal. No one should like where we are, but we are where we are because of three years of Biden Harris policies. Our defense supply chain is where it is because of four years of Biden-Harris priorities. And so we are where we are. And I think we're getting our head around to where it needs to be. And I think more of our allies are starting to say, you know what, we can work with this.
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Is it true that China, we're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yatescoms on X. Is it true that China legitimately actually offered to host Trump and Putin talking? Oh, they did. That is a real, because I'm like, is this fake news?
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They always try. They always tried. And so they basically, they forum shop and they try to act like they are the Middle Kingdom. That's literally what the words Zhongguo that's the name of China literally means, Middle Kingdom. And so they always try to make themselves the middle, the convener, they're the reasonable arbiters. Everyone else is fighting, we're just all about peace. We might have a little free speech problem, freedom of association problem, maybe a viral disease problems, little things. But otherwise we're here for you guys to talk. So they've tried to do this. They did it on the cheap on the Ukraine thing before. I don't think frankly anyone takes them serious on that anymore. That's another reason why it's good that this is being held in Saudi Arabia, because China doesn't think it's a lesser power than Saudi. And yet that's where the world's powers are getting together to sort out where they're going to deal with each other.
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Wow. I mean, that that's I saw that headline. I thought that was very, very interesting. Also interesting U.S. dropping Web site wording. on not supporting Taiwan's independence. So this is from Reuters. They're saying that the department removed a statement on its website that it does not support Taiwan independence. So they were obviously, you know, Taiwan was very happy about this. That's a huge, that seems like that's a bigger story than just like a B-side from Reuters. And this is not, it doesn't seem like it's getting enough traction here, but obviously the CCP is watching it.
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They are watching and they've already given their official reaction about America Tsk Tsk better return to 50 to 70 year old communiques and word salads. Now, I am deeply, deeply jaded with regard to departmental fact sheets and sort of the press talkers. These things come and go sort of like a seasonal allergy as far as I'm concerned. Now, if the change was motivated by maybe the simple principle of our friends and reliable partners, let's talk about what we're for with them as opposed to what we're against. And with people that are adversaries, maybe those fact sheets should emphasize what we're against, so they might wake up and do some of the things we're for. If it was that kind of editing, then I'm cool with it. But I don't think for a minute that US policy has dramatically changed From what was there to what is now up there. I mean, you still have President Trump engaging the world leaders. I have faith in where he's trying to go with these deals. But can I know where all the deals are going to go? And is a 1970s communique going to hold him back from what he thinks the deal needs to be today? I don't think so. And neither do I think a State Department fact sheet will hold him back. If that's where people think that policy is coming through. I do think this topic needs to get digested a bit because I've heard all the August experts say, oh no, we don't support independence. We don't support independence. Well, look, I come from Irish and other descendants where we supported independence for almost everybody. And so why wouldn't we support people being independent from the CCP? Right. That that sort of breaks my American brain. But I guess smarter people have said we have to reassure the commies. We're not for that.
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Reassuring the commies. Last quick question for you on this. Is this is this the changing on the website? And this might be a stretch that I'm trying to like thread this needle because Taiwan had detected an increase in Chinese military aircraft near the island. That wouldn't be related, right? Like, oh, well, the United States said that they changed the wording on their website. Well, as a show of our displeasure, we're just going to have 24 extra aircraft up in Taiwan's airspace. What's your take on this?
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Well, I can promise the State Department has never acted so quickly as to change part of their fact sheets online with regard to sort of real-time stuff happening in theater. I would be just joyfully impressed if they were snapping to at this point. on that stuff. But I do think that it is caught with this notion. I mean, the Chinese have really pushed up what we call this gray zone pressure. It's been unrelenting. That is not peaceful. That is not stabilizing. That's not good neighborly. And we've already had the Prime Minister of India and the Prime Minister of Japan come through Washington. And we've had really strong statements about against not just the classical military stuff, but also this coercion. And so I think China's not listening. I think it's a good signal for the president to pick on. Maybe the State Department fact sheet on China would note that they are currently destabilizing the status quo and this non-status quo power needs to stop being non-status quo.
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I'm a third. I like that. Non-status quo power needs to stop being non-status quo. Our very good friend, Stephen Yates at Yates Comms on X. He has all kinds of good stuff up on his timeline regularly. And we're grateful that you join us as often as you do because we love your expertise. There's nobody better. Stephen, always a pleasure. Thank you. Have a great week, my friend.
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Thank you, Dana. Take care.
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Of course. You too.
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I saw the New York Post. They just had a headline that said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Biden's IRS also targeted him for an audit. This is what Democrats do without fail. The IRS is always weaponized and they use it to go after conservatives sometimes. multiple years, sometimes every year that that Democrat is in office. If you knew, if people felt empowered enough to actually speak honestly about it without fear of being targeted by the IRS, you all, your jaws would hit the floor when you realize the abusive tactics that agency uses and the way that they target Americans. It is stunning, stunning. Maybe we'll have more on that in the future. All right, today in Stupidity, Cain.
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Juan, this is Cut 27.
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it's our uh vice president from last term oh oh no kamala harris she has word salad she's still eating word salad listen for those rights to be maintained which means we have to be vigilant and it's just the nature of it i mean it's this beautiful play and everything that we know he ended that he was suppressed he had to suppress so much And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty in everything.
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I don't know. Wow. Wow. That does it for us today, folks. Sign up at Substack Chapter Inverse, the newsletter, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. Back with you tomorrow.
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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 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 as 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, right? 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 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? $838.00. 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-70. 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. Okay, 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 zero dollars. But with this amendment, this fiscal note is now one point eight million dollars. This is significant because the legislator is currently dealing with a billion dollar shortfall in their budget. So I don't know how an additional one point eight million dollars is going to affect that. 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 and it goes on to the House of Representatives, which gets further reviewed, and then if it passes that, then it goes on to Polis's desk. So 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.
SPEAKER 05 :
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 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, is to place their boot on the neck of everyone 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 in 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 in protecting your family. Unless, of course, you've made the time, gotten the extra training and the extra certificates and And you've gotten, 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.
SPEAKER 04 :
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, Trend 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...
SPEAKER 05 :
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 in 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 just – 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 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, 5, 10 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.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
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 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 concealed 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 freedom, 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, 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 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. Yeah. It's not even, they're not taking it. a little bit of your freedom and, you know, every now and then. And you can't just sit and do nothing. They're not taking it a little at a time anymore. They're taking these huge chunks of the proverbial cookie 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 ever. 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 and or one of the conservative states to our east, like Kansas or Nebraska or Oklahoma or even Texas. 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?
SPEAKER 07 :
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 protests. 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.
SPEAKER 05 :
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?
SPEAKER 07 :
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 dough. So 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.
SPEAKER 05 :
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 sort of juxtaposition between the two groups, the two activist groups. I'd love to be an activist, but I can't because I got stuff to do. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 07 :
Or, okay, we can take a page out of Martin Luther King's. He had the children, like they're on 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.
SPEAKER 05 :
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 now. Listen on. Thanks, Johnny. Thanks for the call. So, yeah, I think that – 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 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 happen 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, you know, 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 and 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 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 employees 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. OK, 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. 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 by Jesse Waters on TikTok. I am loving all of this, and I'm so here for it. Check this out.
SPEAKER 02 :
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.
SPEAKER 03 :
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?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I don't expect it. But but I think 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.
SPEAKER 02 :
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 going to find NASA isn't all about outer space. If agencies can't justify their headcount, Musk's planning on slashing every department by 30 to 40%. If Doge finds an unused federal building, they're going to sell it and put the profits in the piggy bank. Trump has his eyes on 14,000 vacant federal buildings. So if you want to 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.
SPEAKER 05 :
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, um, getting angry at Doge for uncovering waste fraud and abuse is like getting angry with the private investigator who, 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, and, All the – what do they call it? The payments. Luke, help me out here. What are they called? I can't remember. Anyway, they're just – 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 – maybe a couple thousand bucks in their bank account or $40,000 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 multimillionaires on a congressional salary. And that right there, that should tell you all you need to know. And Elizabeth Warren can sit up there and she can yell and scream and talk about how we're dismantling the system and everything else. She's probably – well, we already know that she's taken lots and lots of money from big pharma, as has Bernie Sanders. And so 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, I think it is, $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 paycheck 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 and To buy cars or homes or even groceries or your electric bill or your daycare or 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 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 if you want to call me a liar or say no you've got it all wrong no no no this uh this dead shrimp on a treadmill program is really really important or whatever they said about uh squirrels being depressed if 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 and 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, 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. 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This week on Sekula, we address the evolving media landscape, particularly how historical events like the Holocaust are being discussed in modern media. Secretary Rubio's candid interaction with CBS brings the debate on free speech to the forefront. We'll also uncover alarming findings about military spending misallocations that are affecting soldiers' welfare in the U.S. All this and more, with expert insights from our panel.
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With free speech under attack, Secretary Rubio blasts CBS in live interview.
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Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever, this is Seculo. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Sekula.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome to Sekula. We've got a great show lined up for you today. Hope you had a good Monday so far. Will Haines is joining me in studio. Jeff Balaban from ACLJ Jerusalem and actually former CBS News executive. We don't talk about that that much. But we're bringing him on today to talk about the news that came out over the weekend. I guess it was just yesterday. Secretary Rubio was on CBS News. And an incredible moment happened with Margaret Brennan. Another moment. I know you may say, hey, is this a replay? Is this what we're talking about back from the Vance days? No, no, no. This is brand new. And this was a conversation between Marco Rubio, again, and Margaret Brennan. She's talking about, if you hear it well, they can give some context before we actually play the clip. She's talking about JD Vance making an appearance in Germany at a conference.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's right. He was at the Munich security conference and he had strong words actually for European leaders in attendance, blasting them for censorship, limiting of free speech, and really saying that there was a threat from within, not external actors, but a threat from within against the shared values that America has with Europe and And that got a lot of pushback from more of the progressives within European society. And then Margaret Brennan was asking Secretary Rubio his thoughts on this yesterday morning. Let's go ahead and play the fight.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, sorry. I got to jump the gun. You got to build up to this. Because... This again is Margaret Brennan saying, okay, here are some thoughts before, and she gives sort of a leading question, a question to try to, almost a gotcha moment to try to get some sort of stumbling. But the problem with the press right now is they really don't know the facts. They really don't know what they're talking about. And I think it's very, very clear that Margaret Brennan from Face the Nation maybe didn't spend a whole lot of time in social studies, didn't spend a whole lot of time in history class because we're talking about things that are under 100 years old. This was happening in many people that are still alive's generation. So let's hear her thoughts on Germany. And then you get to hear Secretary Rubio's response.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. And he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that's not an accurate reflection of history.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, not an accurate reflection of history, as again, she claims that free speech is what was weaponized will to conduct the genocide of Jews during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. The foundation of it, not exactly accurate. The free speech is where things land. And of course, again, trying to tie whatever the conservatives are doing in America. I feel like the Nazi term had finally calmed down and now we clearly see it being rigged back up.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's right. They're trying to find any way they can to use this as slander against the administration. But you also start to think, why is someone who enjoys the freedom of the press under our constitution going after the freedom of speech that's in the very same amendment
SPEAKER 05 :
under the bill of rights that protects her job allegedly when you start looking at this it doesn't make sense but we're going to dig more into it in the next segment yeah absolutely give us a call if you have thoughts on this as well 1-800-684-3110 1-800-684-3110 make sure you're sharing this with your friends hit that subscribe button because we got a packed show as i said jeff balaban's gonna be joining us a member of our team from aclj jerusalem but also a former cbs news executive You also may have seen President Trump yesterday taking laps in the Beast at the Daytona 500. Maybe they'll go after him for that. They're like, historically, NASCAR has been known for not great things. You know, of course, now the great American race. What'd you think about it? 1-800-684-3110. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Sekulow. Again, we're going to take your calls at 1-800-684-3110. Of course, the top topic we are discussing is Margaret Brennan from Face the Nation really leading in. I mean, if you look at the quote, she even says to Marco Rubio, she's like, you know that. You know that he met with extremist groups. You know this. And again, trying to get him to go, yeah, you know, you're right. But of course, he was able to call out face the nation because that's the kind of, um, administration we have right now with this kind of strong leadership we have right now. It's not willing to take anything given from the mainstream media, make you admit to something you don't feel comfortable with or something that's blatantly false. Of course, we all know the history of Nazi Germany, where it came from, how it started. That's pretty well documented. Uh, on this but of course they're saying it was the weaponization of free speech is what caused a genocide of the Jewish people and other minority groups and orientations and everything that was happening in Nazi Germany during that time but of course they have to figure out a way to tie it in to whatever's happening in modern day America because how could you not how could you not tie those things together and of course you have Margaret Brennan probably the most times she's been said on any of one's broadcasts Just due to just a few weeks ago, of course, we all remember the moment with J.D. Vance that happened where J.D. Vance kind of schooled her on what was going on in terms of the vetting process.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's right. And so she is getting a lot of eyeballs. I don't know how many people watch Face the Nation when it's on on the Sunday shows anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's on in a lot of hospitals.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's on in a lot of waiting rooms. I feel like it's just there. But she is getting this attention because it clearly seems like she has some sort of resentment against J.D. Vance, probably back to the comment where he said, I don't really care, Margaret. And what we see here, though, is a rewriting of history, a elitist, liberal-minded media that is no longer curious about truth, They are only concerned about pushing an agenda. And that's where it gets very dangerous, in my opinion, because under the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. Typically, in a freedom-minded world, the freedom of speech of the citizens and the freedom of the press, you can't separate. They're in the same clause under the First Amendment. However... Our media, the mainstream media, the corporate media, is not acting like a free press. They are only parroting narratives that make progressives in this country happy. And so when it gets to things like a narrative about Nazism that they've come up with ever since the election, they're not going to let that go. So it should seem counterproductive, right? for her to try to make claims like free speech gave rise to the Holocaust. When in reality that she should be saying, we need more speech to counteract hateful, dangerous speech as those of us that are freedom loving and first amendment loving Americans and organizations like the ACLJ that fight to protect the freedom of speech in the first amendment. That's what we believe, but clearly not the media. Yeah, we should play these clips here in a second.
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We'll hear both of them. I also, you know, this is not the rhetoric. Honestly, if you're a Democrat, you want people to be hearing right now. I actually saw a very interesting interview with Jon Stewart interviewing Jen Psaki this weekend. I know that's not exactly who you think I'll be listening to, but I'm always curious what everyone from all sides are saying. And Jen Psaki actually made a pretty good statement specifically saying that the Democrats in the last election were kind of speaking from an ivory tower or speaking down to a lot of people. uh she said that getting connected with uh liz cheney was a mistake that of course she was happy that she endorsed her but having her out there having a leading republican plus leading republican with ties to the uh you know george w bush administration and with dick cheney wasn't going to win over anyone and uh you know some critical mistakes that are happening he said we kind of got to get it down now look i think you see that with president trump appearing uh Like I said, even on the Daytona 500 yesterday, you know, leading, doing what a lot of us would love to do if you were the president. That's, I think, the fun part about this presidency. It's a lot of the fun that you kind of like dream up when you're a kid. Like when I'm president, I'm going to take a lapse around the, I'm going to be the pace car at the Daytona 500 in my beast, in the big car. And, you know, I'm going to have my granddaughter out there and waving to the crowd. And it's going to be a great moment. Of course, then the race was delayed for like, you know, seven hours but that that was beside the point it happens the crowd went nuts it does it rains in daytona i mean which is a great song we need to write that country song it rains in daytona someone make that while we're sitting here yeah exactly it's just a sad song about nascar yeah it always rains in daytona it's a heartbreaking song really uh let's go ahead though quickly we'll take a call and then i want to play these clips so for those of you just joining us we can reset uh let's go to phil who's calling in florida online to phil you're on the air
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Oh, yes, the point that they make is great, that it is censorship that brought about the Nazis. It was not free speech. My great-uncle, who was awarded an Iron Cross in the First World War, he went back there with his wife, which is my great-aunt, and they were talking, and he was almost... If Hitler would have won that particular election, race, he would have been thrown in jail because of one of those brown shirts who was a friend of my
SPEAKER 05 :
of his sister came and warned him uh that if that happened get out of town and leave the country immediately i mean one of the phil one of the the people that we talk about a lot and you hear now news a lot there was a movie about him was uh bonhoeffer just this year i mean that's what that story is someone that spoke out against the nazi regime publicly and was ended up killed for it was end up uh hanged
SPEAKER 09 :
What's so bizarre is that free speech has almost now become a euphemism for conservative speech. They don't like the fact that people can have a different opinion than them. So they think the true free speech is only if you fit within their ideology. And they call everything else free speech. free speech that they don't like because they see it as dangerous harmful to their ideology when instead of having robust discussion about differences and moving forward you have them just blasting it and then try to spin up a weird tale that Free speech, which they mean hateful speech, is what caused genocide in the Holocaust. But in reality, there was no free speech. There was no free press in Nazi Germany.
SPEAKER 05 :
Let's run it back. Let's play the clip again. This is just from yesterday. This is with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation talking to Secretary Marco Rubio about J.D. Vance's trip to... to Germany. I want to make sure we have some context when you lead into this. I know some of you have seen this already, but a lot are just joining us right now. We can tell with the numbers. So I want to make sure you're properly set up. So let's do this by two.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. And he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that's not an accurate reflection of history.
SPEAKER 05 :
So yeah, he definitely schools her on what happened there. I want to now play JD Vance at that conference. You have a bit of a context, Will.
SPEAKER 09 :
What was this conference, just so people know? This was the Munich Security Conference. So it's a frequent event. World leaders come around and they get there and they talk about the big global threats. And what JD Vance's different take was, was that it's not just Russia, it's not just China that we need to be concerned about. It's actually the threat to our shared values that we're seeing being eroded in what were being eroded in America under the previous administration, but what he sees being eroded in Europe. So let's go ahead and play bite five from Vice President Vance.
SPEAKER 08 :
The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think when you hear those clips and you hear what Margaret Brennan was saying, that's why we have to be here. ACLJ still got to be strong in these moments because there's a lot of people who want to undo everything that's happening right now. All the positive that's happening right now, whether that's defending life, whether that's defending Israel, because that's really what we're talking about. When you look at what the topics are that are at hand, these are the topic points of today. whether it is the support for the unborn, whether it is the support for the state of Israel. We saw a lot of movement happening over the weekend, and we'll talk to Jeff Balaban a little bit about that as well. But look, we are now midway through the month of February, and we could really use your support. So I'm going to encourage you right now as we head to break here in just a moment before we move on into our next segment to give to the ACLJ. There's a lot of ways you can do it, but the easiest way is just go to ACLJ.org, click that donate button. If you want to, you can become an ACLJ champion. That's someone that gives on a monthly basis. And that's a great thing to do because that gives us a baseline. For everyone who joins and becomes a membership, we have an idea of what kind of donations could be coming in so we can set our budgets correctly. If you want to be a champion of life, liberty, and freedom, and everything that we hold dear here, all of our ACLJ values, around the world, by the way, represented around the world, we have ACLJ offices here, in Europe, in Israel, I'm going to encourage you to go to ACLJ.org and do that right now. Become an ACLJ champion. Join the over 20,000 people that have done that. It really, really helps us out. So do it again at ACLJ.org. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Sekulow. Before we move on to another topic, and we'll come back to this one as well, I wanted to take the calls that are coming in about it. Of course, we were talking about that moment with Margaret Brenner and Secretary Rubio, where she claimed that the Holocaust and the invasion of Nazi Germany was due to too much free speech. Let's go to Jean in Nevada on line one. Jean, Eugene, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, I just wanted to, you know, I was observational in watching that interview. One thing that was clear that Margaret Brennan, you can see her body language is just seething whenever she interviews anyone from the Trump administration or any Republican officeholder. But it was amazing the way she segued into the Nazi analogy there. when interviewing Secretary Rubio. And this is their stock and trade now. They pull out the Nazi analogy. They've done it the entire presidential campaign and everything else. It's just a sad state of affairs for CBS News. It's now a basket case, journalistically. And we got a former...
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cbs news uh executive joining us in the next few segments and gene i feel that way too because honestly after the landslide election is what you could say the victory for president trump they quickly backed off of the nazi rhetoric we actually saw that i can't believe i'm saying this out loud but they you know even kamala harris was like there will be the smooth transition of power we're going to sit down and meet with the trump administration of course this was the person she was calling hitler days before So if you really believe these people were Nazis, you wouldn't go, OK, we're just going to sit back and meet with them. That's how we're going to do it. But you have members of the press that are still going to stick to this talking point because they know it tickles the ears of their favorite viewers. And then, of course, get some attention. But I don't think when you have someone as skilled as Marco Rubio on who's who's been doing this for decades now on the air.
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not going to get away with it with the leading of course you know this you know that it is uh the rhetoric that they're saying you know this marco rubio just admit it admit that what they're saying is nazi propaganda that is not the way it's going to run and what happens as soon as marco rubio does a master class of showing how to handle this type of hostile interview politico just sent out a push notification right before we went on air It says it's becoming clear that Secretary Rubio is secretary in name only. And then it goes on to say that he's reversed a lot of positions. So clearly he's just a puppet of what he used to be when he was senator. So here's the game plan for everybody watching at home. Someone in the administration shows how strong and smart they are on the puppet media of the left.
SPEAKER 05 :
and all the other attack dogs have to go out and discredit them and say look they aren't a free thinker they aren't they aren't really as smart as they look they're just a puppet of trump it's disgusting i also hate the idea that armed legacy media pretends like they don't understand how an administration works and that you are serving at the pleasure of the president you are making decisions based on the agenda set forth by the president sure you have your own thoughts you're there to advise and to give your own opinions and all of that But I saw that one of my friends, family friends was talking about how they were disappointed with some of RFK's changes in his opinions. It's like, no, you don't understand how any of this works. You don't understand that. Sure. He picked RFK to come in to be the HHS secretary. That doesn't mean he has no oversight of it anymore. It doesn't mean the president who was the one elected doesn't have oversight anymore.
SPEAKER 09 :
But you know what? Here's the actual truth about it, Logan, is that that's the way the left wants it to be. The left wants it to be what they had under Biden for the last four years. I'm surprised we didn't see articles that said when you saw the decline of President Biden, Look, we don't even really need a president because the cabinet members and the bureaucrats are doing such a great job without having a president as an overseer, as someone who gives direction and gives advice and gives agenda items. That is actually what they want. They want it to be the cabinet members, the undersecretaries and the bureaucrats that we're trying to root out. with the doge programs that are going on and the cutting and slashing of wasteful spending that's what we want the left and the media they want what Biden did yeah that was the perfect presidency for them we're going to move on to that topic here in just a minute because I see some questions coming in specifically about that let's first go to Terry in Pennsylvania who's watching on rumble kind of wrap up this portion of the conversation about that CBS news moment go ahead Terry
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Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my call. I think an important thing to keep in mind in this free speech debate or discussion is that if you think about it, Joseph Goebbels really got so many Jews killed during World War II and the Holocaust. Can you imagine if he had unfettered free speech with Twitter?
SPEAKER 05 :
He could have killed every Jew, right? I'm not sure where you're going with this, Terry, but I do understand the thoughts of saying, you know, this is the free speech is not what caused this.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Yeah. It's he's basically pointing out the absurdity of Brennan's comment.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
That if it was that the free speech is reality because we didn't have more free speech in Nazi Germany. They were limited in their capacity. That's the absurdity of it is that it wouldn't reality. It was authoritarian authority.
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dictatorship that controlled media controlled speech and had a genocidal hateful ideology that wanted to do nothing but kill juice and i gotta say terry i appreciate you watching i appreciate you watching on rumble that's why it's important look i'm i have no interest in rumble i mean i love rumble they're great they've been awesome to us we've worked with the movies but you know i'm not an owner of rumble maybe a little bit stuck uh they provided a free speech platform when free speech was really under attack. Now we've seen big tech have to back off of that, be a little bit more open to these conversations. We even saw YouTube putting out statements saying, hey, you guys can talk about abortion now, positive, negative. You can actually have those discussions again. because we saw such a clamp down on free speech for so many years. So I want to give a shout out to our friends at Rumble, to Chris and Claudio and that whole team, because they took a risk and have had some consequences based on that risk to make sure there is a free speech platform that's available to thousands and thousands of people. So if you watch on Rumble, I wanted to say thank you, because it is important. I do see some comments coming in, Will, people saying, please, Logan, never do your Margaret Brenner oppression again. So I will never do that again. I take feedback. Unlike some people, I take feedback. That feedback said, don't do it again.
SPEAKER 09 :
But don't let that commenter limit your free speech. If you want to do the Margaret Brennan impression, Logan, you are free to do it. Now, there could be consequences of your speech of people not watching.
SPEAKER 05 :
anymore. I'm not that familiar with her work, though, so that's sort of the problem. Maybe my impression is just not quite there yet. We're going to move on and talk, Will, about what's going on with spending. We've got a second half hour coming up, and I think you're going to want to stay tuned. It's a very short break that's about to happen. Let's go quickly take Ida. And Ida, you're going to set up our next segment for us. Ida, go ahead. Yes.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, I'm just curious. We were talking about Doge going to IRS and making some changes and What about those 87,000 IRS agents that were just hired by Biden? Yes, well, well, well.
SPEAKER 09 :
There is some interesting news on that, Ida. And one is that there's as many as 15,000 IRS employees that were on a provisional basis that they will be terminating. So there's 15,000 out of your 87,000. There's also news that Homeland Security, so Secretary Noem, has requested IRS agents be deputized to use in the crackdown on illegal immigration. So some of them may keep their job, but instead of auditing American taxpayers, they're going to be auditing the border.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, we are going to continue on that conversation because there's also some pretty alarming facts coming out. We're finding out how we are treating our own, not just veterans, but how we are treating our active duty military. You may remember a few years ago, we discussed the fact that they were sending our active duty military on food stamps. We said, you know what? If government spending is going anywhere, maybe it should be funding, you know, I don't know, the health and wellness of our troops. Maybe that's when we could all get behind. Well, there's some kind of more news that has come out of that type of subject. You're not going to want to miss this. prepare to be outraged. We're back for the second half hour of Sekulow. Make sure you get us on your, whether you're watching on ACLJ.org or on YouTube or Rumble. We are there broadcasting live every day from 12 to 1 p.m. And of course, archived later on on the ACLJ podcast. We'll be right back.
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Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow.
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and now your host logan secular lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110 again 1-800-684-3110 will i know we wanted to discuss some people are joining us about the situation with secretary rubio we've discussed that for the last half hour we're going to get back to that with jeff balaban coming up in the next segment he was a former cbs news executive he can give you exactly how things run there and what happened will i wanted to briefly pivot because You were blown up with text messages because of some news that came out. And again, it's sort of the egregious nature of what's happening and when the dollars and cents are getting exposed.
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That's right. This is a story that came out of Military.com. They cover basically everything that goes on in the armed forces. It's a news site. There was a story that came out. And here's the headline. Over $151 million taken from soldiers' paychecks for food costs spent elsewhere by the Army. Basically, when you break it down, if you live in barracks or on base, they automatically deduct basic allowance for subsistence payments. $460 a month automatically taken out of enlisted soldiers' paychecks. They only make about $30,000 a year. So when you break it down after taxes and this... a separate tax on the soldiers, they're only walking away with less than half of their paycheck. But here's the real egregious problem. One, it's egregious that we're only paying enlisted soldiers $30,000 a year and then we're charging them for their food. Yeah, taking back. That's already absurd that the United States of America is doing that when we have an $800 billion defense budget. But you go down and it shows that they weren't spending all this money that when you look at the bases that were analyzed, Fort Stewart in Georgia, they collected $17 million from their soldiers and only spent $2.1 million on food. Fort Drum in New York, $18.2 million collected. Money spent on food, $3.9 million. And it goes down the list. Fort Carson in Colorado took $22 million from soldiers, only spent $5 million on food. And they even had food shortage problems at Fort Carson. We're going to put up on screen for you watching. Here's what they served some soldiers. That's lima beans and toast because they were having food shortage problems. You wonder why there's a recruitment problem with our United States military? It's because we are stealing food. from enlisted soldiers. And what did they do with the surplus? So let's see, at Fort Carson, when they were just feeding them lima beans and toast and only spent 5 million of the 22 million collected, they return it to a general fund to be spent elsewhere by the Department of Defense. So not only are we only paying our enlisted soldiers $30,000 a year, not only are we taxing them for the food that they eat instead of providing the food for them at that point, but then they're taking what they don't spend on the food and they're spending it on other things in the military. That should be criminal. It is definitely waste, fraud, and abuse. And if you think that the Department of Defense is the only executive branch or only branch of the government that is operating this way, then you're wrong. This type of shenanigans are taking place across the board. But how can we as a country look ourselves in the mirror and be okay with this going on?
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We can't. We got to figure out a way to help in these situations and what we can do and how we can pressure the government. Because when you have our most valuable players, if you will, most valuable Americans, our American military out there and given lima beans and toast like they're in the wartime from 100 years ago, as it looks like. I mean, it looks absolutely ridiculous as this is what we've done. When we know where wasteful spending is happening, we know where costs are being cut. It seems like the American military is always the one who takes the hit in this. And as you said, they only get paid $30,000 a year, then they're deducting hundreds of dollars for their food. This is not, look, we're not for government waste or government spending, but if you're going to do it, how about we do it for them first? the people that need it the most, the people that are out there on the front lines for you and for all of us to stay safe. It doesn't feel like that big of a stretch. We're going to continue on the conversation about that topic. I'm sure a lot of you have a lot of points of view. We've got a lot of military who listen. 1-800-684-3110. Get in line right now because after Jeff Balabon in the next segment, I want to take as many calls as we can. We've got four lines open. 1-800-684-3110. I'm also going to encourage you right now to become an ACLJ champion. That's a monthly recurring donor to the ACLJ. Really helps us out. Helps us start a baseline. ACLJ.org. Help us protect your values. ACLJ.org slash champions. Welcome back to Secula. We have Jeff Balaban joining us, a member of the team, and heads up ACLJ Jerusalem. But we're having Jeff on, though it definitely ties in to what is happening in Israel. Because, Jeff, a lot of people don't know your history in the world of business news and of of what's going on and you are really a high level executive here at cbs at cbs news where this moment happened let's before we get to you jeff i think we got to reset it for people who are just joining us right now let's play that clip one more time this is the clip again from face the nation just yesterday take a listen
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Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. And he met with the head of a political party that has far right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.
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No, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that's not an accurate reflection of history.
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And you have those kind of moments that happen. And again, Jeff Balaban's joining us. You know him on this broadcast, the head of ACLJ Jerusalem, but Jeff was the senior vice president at CBS and head of communications of CBS News. So someone who knows the insides of what happens in these kind of news bureaus and how this is all taken. Jeff, I'd love to get your thoughts.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, it's not as though CBS News was ever a right-wing news organization. Even when I was there, CBS News leaned left. And I would say leaned profoundly left. But what's happened since then, I know that they really, like many places in corporate America, they imported a DEI mentality. And a colleague of mine who was... Also at CBS at the time I was there has written about this because he was there after I left that things went from bad to much, much worse. And on this specific issue, let me be very clear. It's not only that it wasn't free speech. It was worse than that. What Brendan's really showing is the danger of a media that aligns too closely to a political agenda, because that's what we really had. In Hitler's Germany, what you had was a media that was not free at all. It was a media that just was lockstep and under the thumb of a totalitarian regime. And they used the media to demonize different peoples, including the Jews, to the point where it became acceptable to exterminate those people. And so it's not free speech. It is a media that is used by a totalitarian regime. And unfortunately, Margaret Brennan gets it exactly reversed. And it's very unfortunate. I'm actually ashamed for CBS News. And I'm not sure if there's been a sufficient response from CBS News directly for this statement. It goes against everything that any journalism organization should stand for in the United States of America.
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Well, and Jeff, as I like to point out here at the ACLJ, we do stand for true free speech and true freedom of the press, the First Amendment. These things are very important to our republic. But when you look deeper at what Margaret Brennan is saying there, it almost becomes clear that this Orwellian wordplay that's been taking place with progressives for decades, but even more recently with the rise of combating misinformation and things of that nature, that she's using free speech as a euphemism for either conservative speech that she likes to equate with nazism because that's what we saw during the last election cycle or just a euphemism of all hateful speech that even using free speech isn't true what she's talking about she is talking about speech she doesn't like which in reality that is the point of the first amendment is that people are going to say things you don't like and what is your best weapon against that more speech but they should be concerned about cracking down on free speech because their very liberty as a free press should be determinative about protecting that first amendment am i wrong on this
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No, you're entirely right. And not only is my background in media, my background is as a lawyer. And obviously at ACLJ, we work in this space very much. And so the liberties, you know, you can't segment out one of the Bill of Rights and take it out of its context. The Bill of Rights is the DNA for a free America. It's a DNA for the greatness of America. And what they've done is, yes, they've subverted the meanings of words. That's why they say speech is violence. And now free speech is becoming a tagline. And it's not just the media who are doing the opposite of their jobs. They're becoming lackeys of a political agenda. You look at the judges that the left has appointed, Democrats have appointed. Judges are also talking about the Constitution. The way Democrats in Congress talk about the Constitution as though it's getting in the way of America being great, as opposed to it's the last line of defense for our society against the ravages of totalitarianism. So this is the exact opposite. You're right, William. They're using words to mean the opposite. And they're trying to take everything that's good and turn it into evil. And it's extremely dangerous.
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Yeah, absolutely. Phone lines are open also for you. If you feel inspired after hearing this from Jeff, I want you to call in at 1-800-684-3110 and the next segment we'll take some more calls. But Jeff, I think that's why it's also important that there is alternative media options like what we do here at the ACLJ. It's what we do on the secular broadcast because we can get worldwide. with our shows we can go anywhere in the world if you have an internet connection as long as the government allows it in the area which you know most areas they do uh you know there's certain specific countries that don't of course we need to fight against that but in areas where they have some form of free speech we're able to be there because you hear this kind of rhetoric coming out of uh you'd say that the mainstream media the legacy media uh And now we're finally having an opportunity as those of us have been creating alternative media for years and years and years to make a big impact in the work of the ACLJ. That has been a huge arm of it. That's why we have people like you, Jeff, who are not only legal experts and can run things like ACLJ Jerusalem, but also have a background that's incredible in terms of media. When I'm looking into our control room right now, there are people who have worked on Fox news, who've worked on CNN, who've worked on some of the biggest shows on the planet and
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we're able to recruit this incredible team to put together these shows because we know how important it is to have a media outlet you can trust 100 you know the the part of the the when the world went nuts about you know the left went nuts when elon musk uh bought twitter is because twitter is being used just to promote a certain kind of speech and tamp down other speech now while it's true that more free speech means more obnoxious ideas you can't have a government deciding which ideas or beliefs That's the heart of freedom, is that you should be allowed to have your ideas and speech. And the only way to get to a free society is to allow for people to have a marketplace of ideas. That's the big concept. And instead of shutting me down and saying, we're incredibly tolerant of every idea that's exactly our own, which is really what the left does. We are, you know, you're intolerant if you disagree with us. We are tolerant because we allow everyone to agree with us. And so the advent of these kinds of media and the democratization of media outlets like ACLJ, and of course, the show is an essential part, just like the legal activity, just like the diplomacy that we do. The show is an essential part of communicating the truth to Americans.
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And if you're one of the thousands of people watching right now live or then the hundreds of thousands that watch later on, whether on the podcast feed or on YouTube or on Rumble or ACLJ.org, I encourage you right now, when you're considering making a donation, know that it goes to fund this show as well. It's a hard thing to fundraise on. I'll be honest when we tell people about this, because I don't think you understand the scope of what we're doing here. I always say, I wish I could turn the camera on. You could see this incredible team because we put together a top notch team that could put on an incredible show for you each and every day. And this show is obviously to, as we say in the beginning, to inform and engage, to get you activated, to give you the tools to be able to go and defend yourself as well, or to be there for you when you need us. So I encourage you when you're considering, oh, well, maybe I don't care that much as much about the legal side of the ACLJ. Maybe I just like the show because it keeps me updated. I like them as my news source. That's a great way to support the work as well, because we are not funded by major sponsors. We are only funded by individual donors who give. So people like you who are listening right now. Go to ACLJ.org, make that donation today, and it's great because you know that you're supporting an incredible team here. You heard Jeff Balaban. We're able to talk about the hypocrisy going on at CBS. We have a former CBS executive on our team that you get to hear on the show each week. You hear Rick Grinnell. You heard, until just last week, Tulsi Gabbard. an incredible amount of people and then you go behind the scenes and there's incredible people working behind the scenes uh people that came from some of your favorite shows uh on legacy media if you will um and some of the ones that are our friends and it's really been amazing to put together this team and to see the impact we'll be able to make and Jeff I did want to give a quick update on Israel what's going on obviously over the weekend there was some movement we were unsure what was going to happen but how are things looking
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Well, I mean, everything remains in a very tense state right now because obviously the president, President Trump, threw down the gauntlet to the bad guys. And now the question is, what will Israel do? Israel obviously has the military power to devastate its enemies. But Israel is always very, very ginger about it. It's hard to say that because the world keeps on saying the opposite. And so Israel is now really confronted with it's time to call an end to this nonsense, get all the hostages back and finish this up. So we're watching real time as decisions are being made in terms of ramping up military activity.
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Fantastic. Thank you so much for joining us, Jeff, today. We really appreciate it. As I said earlier, phone lines are open for your calls. Looks like we have about two lines open right now, 1-800-684-3110. We'll get to your calls coming up in the next segment, whether that is what's going on in Israel, whether that's what's happening with that CBS story, or again, how we are treating our own military as Will brought up, the fact that they are having their pay deducted to feed them and feed them poorly of course these people that only make about thirty thousand dollars a year to protect us as a nation so what can we do to help we're going to work on that here at the aclj and again i encourage you we got to have the resources to protect all the agendas and all of the plans that you want to see this country have so i encourage you go to aclj.org right now become an aclj champion if you can Welcome back to Secular. We're going to take your phone calls now, and we got two lines still open at 1-800-684-3110. Let's go to a caller that we take quite a bit, Bill in Wyoming. Bill, let's see. You're on the air. Go ahead.
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Hi. Thanks for taking my call. You're talking to a very angry veteran. Now, it's been some time since I've been stationed abroad, but I'm talking about this business about the payments. Now, Bill, My memory is that we did pay for our food when I was in the service at the different facilities. And if we had to be compensated, it would be because of the fact that they had to, like, upgrade the facilities, the service better, or get our pop machines in, if you know what I mean. Something like that. But the thing of it is, is that if they had no capability of doing that, they would give us a payment for so we can eat elsewhere, or if we were married, we were paid to compensate for that. This is ridiculous. I don't see why they should have to take that kind of money out of all paychecks.
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Yeah, Bill, I think we felt that way as well. Will was sending me a lot of texts over the weekend about the way that we're treating our troops has always been questionable at best. But when these kind of moments get exposed, we got to be able to act quickly and fix any problems we see. If you have a Department of Government Efficiency, get in there and say, you know what? We know we want to cut spending, but there are some places where spending is OK. And maybe we should be we can allocate enough funds to feed our military to Instead of all of the craziness that's happening all around the world that we're funding.
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Well, and reality is, if you're our age, you know, many of your peers that have gone overseas and fought in a war of very bloody. violent war in Afghanistan or Iraq. I have close friends of mine, family members that chose to serve, a very close family member that had a very thriving career and decided to drop that to go serve our country. And you see the horrors that they endured in this war, fighting sacrificially for our country to protect Americans. And knowing the baggage that many veterans bring home and struggle with, and we've had the discussions about the appropriate mental health care that our veterans are receiving or the lack thereof. And just to see that it's not even the veterans that they're leaving behind. They're forcing the low-level enlistees to pay automatically deducted $460 per month out of their paycheck that is then gone to allegedly feed them. But the bulk of that is going back to the Pentagon to spend elsewhere. That is a tax, an extra tax that we don't have to pay. The soldiers themselves are paying. That's devastating to me.
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If you maybe have a student in a private school, a lot of times there's meal plans that you can sign up for. And those meal plans are, yes, they can be $400, $500, $1,000 for the semester. to feed five days a week real food, not lima beans and toast. So you know that those funds are being misused because you could be able to do a similar situation. By the way, I think we should just be able to cover it. I think we should financially say as taxpayers, there are things taxes should go to. That's one of them. Easy. I don't think you have a lot of pushback on that. And if you did, then maybe you need to question some of your elected officials. Because if we're going to have any government spending, which of course you're going to, That's one of the top ones we should be doing. Phone lines are open. This is kind of your last chance to call in 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. If you're watching online right now, thousands of you are. I'm gonna encourage you, if you're brand new to YouTube or Rumble, hit that subscribe button. It really does help us out a lot. Over 465,000 of you join us on YouTube alone. So know that you're making a huge impact and difference. If you're brand new and you're not really feeling like donating yet, you wanna get to know us, It's a great way to support the work, support what we do here, support these kind of messages, help it get into the algorithm for other people. Subscribe now on either YouTube or Rumble. Let's go ahead and take another phone call. Chuck's calling in Virginia on line one, listening on ACLJ.org or watching on ACLJ.org. Great place you can do it or get the new ACLJ app. I see some people in the comments talking about the app. It's available right now in the app store. Chuck, you're on the air.
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I'm a Cold War vet. I did 11 years in the Army. I was a dining facility officer twice, both CONUS in the United States and in Germany. And what you see on that plate is a failure, an absolute failure of the chain of command. The only way that should ever have occurred is if... They're in a wartime, constrained environment.
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Yeah, exactly. If you thought this was in a tent somewhere, in a situation where they had limited rations and everything like that. But no, you could see this is like on a tray in a cafeteria.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's right. And Chuck, that's in the United States. That's on Fort Carson in Colorado. It's not even overseas where maybe they had some disrupted supply chain.
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Go to the grocery store.
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That is... year in the united states and it makes it even worse not that they were over budget it's the fact that that base itself collected in in the last fiscal year 22 million dollars from soldiers and only spent five million of it specifically for this Specifically from that paycheck system, they collected $22 million and only spent on food $5 million of it for the soldiers. And when you take the top line number across the bases that were analyzed, it's not every base, $151 million that were taken from soldiers were spent elsewhere. That is unfathomable. That is a huge failure. And once again, it's why such change has been called for from the Trump administration, from Secretary Pete Hegseth, and from agencies like Doge, is to get this fixed. The priorities are misplaced and have been for a long time by bureaucrats, leadership in these agencies that are too focused on where they can spend money
SPEAKER 05 :
instead of focusing on the mission yeah so when you see your friends posting on social media how dare they cut USAID and USAID and look they're going to stop feeding children in other countries they're going to stop feeding look I'm we all know that's just liberal propaganda talking point so that's not actually what's happening at all but how about you have that as your counter-argument immediately how about we start feeding our own nation's military our young people who decide to serve our nation voluntarily to put their life on the line should we start there Maybe that's where the funds could go. See what they say back. And we got to figure out how we can help support this and get this help push through because we need this to be fixed. And we have to bring it to light because it may not be the number one story you're going to hear. That is why there's great options like us here at the ACLJ and on the secular broadcast, because we're able to bring these to your attention. And then the ACLJ team is able to get into action. So we get our legal team involved. We get everyone involved, media, legal, all sides to really represent your point of view, your wants, your needs. And of course, we can represent you as well. So if you ever need legal help and it's within our scope, all you have to do is go to ACLJ.org slash help. Fill out a quick form. And again, if it's within the scope of the work that we do here, you get attached to a lawyer immediately at absolutely no cost. But it's only at no cost because people like you who are watching and enjoying this show... give and support we're not funded by big sponsors even if you're hearing those sponsors on the radio if you're listening on radio not much if any of that goes to us that goes to your local station or to your network and it certainly is not enough money to fund the entire operation that we have here that all comes from you our listeners our viewers our supporters our aclj champions You've got to protect the unborn. You've got to uphold liberty. You've got to defend Israel. All of these things need your support urgently. Make your tax-deductible donation right now. And if you can, I encourage you, kick off February, become an ACLJ champion, and say, hey, I'm going to give monthly on a recurring basis. Of course, you can cancel at any time. But do that on ACLJ.org or scan the QR code, and we'll talk to you tomorrow.
