Explore the transformative power of faith with host Rick Hughes in this enlightening episode. Discover how the disciples, despite their rough beginnings, changed the world and how you can apply the same heart-driven approach to your spiritual journey. Analyze the importance of volition, righteous judgment, and genuine spiritual growth for a fulfilling life aligned with Christ’s teachings.
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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 FLOT line. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. FLOT, F-L-O-T, stands for the Forward Line of Troops. It's a military metaphor. We're talking about designing and building in your soul an invisible forward line of troops made up of ten unique problem-solving devices found in the Bible. And if you will learn them and you will use them, then these unique problem-solving devices will stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. Adversity is always inevitable, but stress is certainly optional for the believer in Jesus Christ. So the FLOT line is designed to remind you of these biblical truths and hopefully introduce you to an in-depth way of studying and learning God's Word. It's all done without any type of manipulation, no solicitation, just some education, motivation, inspiration. That's my job. Verify and identify God's plan and with the hopes that you will orient and adjust to the plan. The plan always starts with Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, the one who redeemed us out of the slave market of sin. The Bible clearly says in Titus 3, 5, not by works of righteousness which we've done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Lord. That's how it all starts. That's how it all happens. And then as we believe in Christ and receive him as our Savior, then we have to advance forward. We have to continue to grow. I don't know how long you've been a Christian. I have no idea. But I want this to be a time of decision-making in your life. you learning and growing and committing your life to god's agenda god's plan it's always my prayer that god the holy spirit will take the messages you hear on this radio show and cause them to gel in your soul producing spiritual fruit that will glorify god to the maximum and hopefully our father will be really satisfied with what we do how we live our lives Remember in John 15, Jesus said, if you love me, you will obey my mandates. So remember that we have to learn these things ourselves. First, I do. I have to learn the word of God before I ever bring it to you. And oftentimes the Holy Spirit has to rake me over the coals before I rake you over the coals. So I have to pray and figure out how to present these things to you. And not necessarily in always the most polished way. And listen, the disciples weren't great polished professors. They were not great public speakers. Most of them were just crude, rough men who made a living the hard way. I mean, Andrew was a commercial fisherman, Peter's brother. Bartholomew, or Nathaniel we call him, may be a noble man by birth, but not much more information given on him other than what Jesus said, there's no guile in him. James was a fisherman. James the Younger, the brother of Jude, was a common laborer who was a carpenter. John, the brother of James the Elder, the sons of Zebedee, he was a fisherman. Judas, maybe a Jewish nationalist wanting freedom from Rome, I don't know, but he didn't make it, we know that. Jude, the brother of James, the younger man who had three names, and Thaddeus was one of them. He was a common carpenter. and matthew the tax collector peter the commercial fisherman philip a fisherman and simon zealot a fisherman from galilee so our lord had rough men and these men traveled with him for three years they learned how to think like he thought they learned his divine plan he told him everything the father has told me i've shown it to you because he knew that they were going to have to carry on once he left. And so rough men had rough endings, but they changed the world. So it's really not about the amount of education, nor is it about your oratory ability. It's about your heart's desire to serve your Lord in spite of what the cost may be. And certainly there may be a price to be paid. So if we're going to serve him, if we're going to hope to effectively represent him, And then we have to learn how to represent Christ as individuals. And we have to be sure that we do it correctly. Now, listen to this passage. Jesus said in Luke 6, 46, Why do you call me Lord and you don't do what I tell you to do? Everyone who comes to me and hears my word, this is verse 47 in Luke chapter 6. Everyone who comes to me and hears my word and acts on them, I'll show you whom he's like. He's like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rocks. And when the flood occurred, the torments burst against the house and could not shake it because it was well built. But the one who's heard and has not acted accordingly says, Well, he's like the man who built his house on the ground without any foundation, and the rains came, floods burst against it, and it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great. So the question is this. What do you hear when you listen to these radio shows that maybe you haven't heard before? And the second question is, what will you do with what you hear? Because these shows are designed not only to give you an objective view of your life, but also an objective view of the future of this great nation that we call America. And your volition determines your destiny. I'm going to say that one more time. Your volition determines your destiny. Volition is the decider or the chooser that God gave you. He did not make you a little automaton. He gave you a free will. And along with the mentality, along with a conscience, he gave you a volition. So you can choose. Choose you this day, Joshua said, whom you will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. So each one of us, you, me, and anyone else who is a believer in Jesus Christ, we have the potential to have a phenomenal life. But we also have the potential to destroy any chance for happiness, any chance for blessing in this life, if we fail to get with God's plan, if we have a subjective viewpoint about our spiritual life. What is a subjective viewpoint? Well, it's someone who thinks he's something that he's not. Listen to Luke 18. This is verse nine through 14. This is what Jesus gave a parable. He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves. Lord, deliver us from the self-righteous religious type. That's the worst type in the world. I don't like to be around self-righteous people, but self-righteous religious people are the worst. So he speaks this parable about people who trust in themselves. that they were righteous and they looked down their nose at other people, you know the type. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't gamble, I don't dance, I don't, so I'm better than you, I'm a good person. And so the Lord goes on to give this illustration in the means of a parable. Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, that's the self-righteous one, and the other a tax collector. And the Pharisee stood and prayed with himself and said, God, I can just hear it. I could spell it G-A-W-D, God, making that self-righteous sound. I thank you that I'm not like other men. I'm not an extortioner, he said. I'm not unjust. I don't commit adultery like this tax collector over here. I fast twice a week. I give a tenth of all that I possess. Verse 13 said the tax collector stood afar off and would not so much as lift his eyes to heaven but beat upon his breast and said God have mercy on me a sinner. Verse 14 Luke 18 I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For anyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. This Pharisee had an unrealistic self-image. He thought he was something that he was not. He qualified himself as a good church member because he did the things that good church members do. But just because you're a good church member, it doesn't mean that you're going to glorify God as a Christian. It doesn't even mean that you're saved. That's why Jesus said those words, in that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name cast out demons and in your name do many wonderful works? And he said, I will tell them I never knew you. This self-righteous religious Pharisee evaluated his spiritual life on his misguided judgment. His unrealistic self-image. And my question is, how would you grade yourself? How would you evaluate your spiritual life, if in fact you have one? I mean, would you be subjective, or would you let God do the evaluating? I mean, you've got a pastor, and you go to church. You've been a member of your church for a lot of years. How's that working out? Any doubts, frustrations, any regrets? Are you growing spiritually? Are you advancing in the plan of God? Or are you not being fed? Are you starving to death? Are you listening to this radio show because someone's giving you some information finally that you can learn and apply in your life? Well, this old Pharisee here in Luke 18 was convinced that that he was doing all the right things on his misguided judgment. He convinced himself. And what was his rationale? How did he come to that conclusion? Well, he prayed about it. It's a completely ineffective prayer. It was a prayer based on a misguided assumption. You see, without proper procedure, prayer is nothing more than an exercise in a religious ritual where you try to convince yourself that you are in God's will and in God's plan. Protocol is required in prayer. And a right thing, such as prayer, done in a wrong way, such as with misguided assumption, is wrong. It's not going to be answered. And so people constantly do this. They look into the mirror of self-righteousness and they assume that God is standing up and giving them a big round of approval because they don't, as this man said, don't extort people. I'm not unjust. I don't commit adultery like that tax collector over there. I fast twice a week. I give a tithe of all that I possess. What really makes you a good Christian? This man in this case was praying to convince himself that he was righteous before God. And the reason is he weighed his life in the scales of the law. He saw he was fulfilling his pharisaical duty Let me warn you, never assume you're impressing God because you follow certain religious rituals. Right things must be done in the right way. And God's not impressed because you tithe, God's not impressed because you come to church and don't miss Sunday school. I mean, he likes that you give to your church. He likes that you are faithful to be involved in your church's ministry. But what impresses God is the righteousness of Jesus Christ accredited to your account. You can't buy God off by being self-righteous and religious. Jesus, the Bible says, he who knew no sin was made sin for us so that we could be made the righteousness of God by means of him. The Old Testament tells us there are none that are righteous, no, not one, because all of our righteousnesses are like a filthy rag in God's eyes. So just imagine this, the best you could manufacture, the best you could do without knowing Jesus Christ is nothing but human good. It's a dirty, filthy rag. And God will not accept it. So never assume you're impressing God because you follow certain rituals. You may be saved. You may have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior. But as Jesus said, if you love me in John 15, you will obey my mandates. What kind of mandates? Well, abide in me and let my word abide in you, John 15 says. If you don't learn the word of God, if you don't apply the word of God into your life, how can you abide in Christ? How can you let his love abide in you if you don't even know what his love is? You need to read John 15. My pastor's been doing a tremendous study on this and it's really close to my heart. That's why I bring it up to you. In 2 Corinthians 10, 17, let the one who glorifies glory in this, that he glorifies the Lord For he who commends himself is approved, but who the Lord commends, not the one who commends himself. I read that again. Let he who glorifies, let him glorify in the Lord. First, excuse me, 2 Corinthians 10, 17. And this is the key, verse 18, 2 Corinthians 10. For it's not the one who recommends himself that's approved, but the one who the Lord commends. So God does the evaluating, not you. This guy was convinced that keeping the law was what gave him righteous standing before God. His mind was set in stone because he had this unrealistic self-image. How do you have a perfect righteous standing before God? Well, as I quoted, he had made him to be sin for us so that we could become the righteousness of God by means of him. The perfect righteousness of Christ is accredited to your account the moment you believe, that Jesus is the Son of God. The moment you accept his death, burial, and resurrection on your behalf, that's the moment that his righteousness is given to you. This false assumption that the Pharisee had led to a wrong conclusion, and that was that he was much better than the tax collector. because he observed the Mosaic Law. This is called relative righteousness. I mean, where you compare yourself to other people in the congregation. I want you to look at your congregation this morning if you go to church and take a look around and do you ever say to yourself, I'm better than that one, I'm better than that one, I'm better than this one? Don't do that. Don't ever compare yourself to someone else because you're going to come to the wrong conclusion. You know, the big question is, why do smart Christians do dumb things? And the answer is because they convince themselves they are in God's will. And it's easy to do. I mean, organized religion teaches us all the time in an unspoken sort of way. like pay your tithe. So if you give your tithe, then you think you're doing a good thing. And it's fine that you give to your church. That's a noble, wonderful thing. But let me remind you of something. Just because you tithe, it doesn't mean you're advancing spiritually in your life. And on top of that, tithing was an Old Testament system of taxation, and everybody in the nation gave 10% of their income to support the temple. Everybody. Everybody. What we do as New Testament believers is give as God has prospered us. But some people have this idea, and it floats around all the time, that if they tithe, then God's going to bless them. And that's not true. This is misguided judgment. It's human viewpoint thinking. There's no biblical rationale for making that kind of decision. A rationale is a set of reasons or a logical basis that forms a course of action. or a belief in your life. So if you have misguided judgment, it results in wrong conclusions. And wrong conclusions equal wasted time and self-condemnation from your guilt. Now let's make it personal. How many times have you flown the coop thinking you're making the right decision based on a misguided judgment? In other words, no biblical rationale. You just had an emotional override. and you thought you were doing the right thing, it felt like the right thing, but it wasn't because you didn't have biblical rationale to do it. I mean, for example, have you ever convinced yourself you're in God's directive will for your life? I know a lot of people that have done just that. Let me say you cannot know the will of God apart from knowing the Word of God, and you cannot do the will of God apart from the power to execute it. So what was it in the first place that convinced you that you were doing the will of God? Oh, I know, you prayed about it. That's it, you prayed about it. You convinced yourself that you had made the right decision. You convinced yourself of the false conclusion. You prayed about it. I recently heard a school board member tell me how the high school principal of that school had decided it was God's will for him to move on to another job. How could he know it was God's will if he didn't even understand the spiritual life to start with? I mean, on what rationale did he base his decisions? You know, the Bible says in Isaiah 58, 11, the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desires in scorched places and give you strength to your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. So if somebody tells you that they think it's God's plan for your life, you need to stop and consider how they came to that conclusion. I mean, there is in the Bible an operational will of God which says what he wants you to do. There is the viewpoint will of God which says what he wants you to think. And there's a geographical will of God that says where I want you to be. So the question is, did we rationalize our decisions based on seeking some sort of happiness through the people and the circumstances that I'm involved in, or did we fall for the decoy, the decoy of Satan that eventually leads to temporal death in the spiritual life? I mean, any time there's a push for you to make a decision, very quickly, Then you can bet God is not in that one. You know, the car dealer type preacher, you know, make a decision now, come forward now. Let's make this decision. You can make this decision tonight and your life will be changed forever. There's only one decision that will change your life forever, and that's believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. But as far as the Christian life goes, that's a process. Today, tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day, you must take in the Word of God. You must stay filled with the Holy Spirit. You must grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. There is no one-shot decision you can make. You may get emotional about it. You may want to surrender your life to God. You may go forward and say, I surrender all. Maybe they sang 37 stanzas of that song, and you did it. You surrendered all, but you went out the next day and had the same problems and the same desires and the same failures because you acted on your emotion. If you don't act on the protocol plan of God, doing the right thing in the right way, it's not going to work. It's a wrong assumption. So you have to determine what is God's will for your life. In the case of that Pharisee that I told you about in Luke 18, it was a matter of heaven or hell. It was a big matter because this man was going to go straight to hell because he was religious, self-righteous, and convinced himself he had no need of a savior. That's why Satan is a master, a master at getting you to waste your time, waste your energy, waste your effort in religious pursuits. He's a master at distracting you. He will use a decoy, and he will decoy you. You know, I've got friends that duck hunt. I don't. I never have duck hunted, but the dumb duck doesn't know he's falling for a decoy since the little floating ducks out there look real and sound real, and some guy's over there in the reeds quack, quack, quacking away, and the duck doesn't know it's a fake thing until he's blasted out of the sky and winds up on the dinner table. And he goes from a fast-flying beautiful duck to the sewer after dinner. That's not exactly my idea of success. It would be much better for you and for me to wait, to evaluate. Listen, God was in business before we got here. He's going to be in business when we're gone. It doesn't all depend on the decision we have to make today. It's better to wait and to evaluate and pray before you make a life-changing decision. Any decision made apart from the directive will of God for your life will lead to you having a convoluted and a confused life. And I'm talking about years and years and years of confusion. There was an old song the Kingston Trio used to sing, and I compare this to Christians sometimes who get out of the will of God. It went like this. Let me tell you the story of a man named Charlie. On a tragic day, he put 10 cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family, and went to ride on the MTA. That's the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Well, did he ever return? No, he never returned, and his fate is still unknown. He may ride forever neath the streets of Boston. He's the man who never returned. Right thing, wrong way, and you may never return. That's why I tell you that your emotions ride on the current of circumstances. Fear, regret, appreciation, anger, bitterness, loneliness, love. The current of circumstances. Has a decision you made about salvation caused things to be convoluted and confused in relationship to eternity? I mean, eternal security is not confusing. The Bible says these things are written so that you might know that you have eternal life. If you don't know that you have eternal life, maybe you made a decision based on some sort of works, some sort of membership, some sort of creed that you followed. When the Bible simply says he that believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. The Bible says God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that whoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life. We are all like unclean rags. Our righteousness is filthy before God's eyes, Isaiah 64, 6 says. we're really not worth much. It's impossible for a self-righteous unbeliever to know he's dirty since he compares himself to other people and says I'm not as dirty as they are, that's relative righteousness. And it is impossible for a misguided Christian to determine God's will since he or she does not use standard operating procedures before assuming some sort of emotional response. You know, like, this is God's will for me. I'm convinced. That's why impetuous people make permanent mistakes. That's what you have to be careful for. That's why you have to grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. That's why you must never base any decision based on emotions. rather than the word of God. Because if you do that, you're gonna fail to recognize the decoy. Because you look at the circumstances. Oh, those little ducks look real, they sound real. They're sitting down there in the pond and I can fly down and join them, bam, and he's shot down out of the sky. You justify why it's okay to go down there with all those others. And you buy into the lie and live your life on human viewpoint thinking. Because you let Satan dumb you down by distracting you from the word of God. You must grow in grace. You must learn God's plan. And it all starts with the single greatest decision you'll ever make. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved. This is your host, Rick Hughes, bringing you the Flatline every Sunday, same time, same place. Hope you'll join me next week as well.
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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 today's episode, Kim shines a spotlight on climate change policies and the economic implications of government actions, particularly in Colorado. Listen as she breaks down the strategies being deployed by the state legislature and discusses the larger global agenda. With important conversations about elections and property rights, this episode offers a comprehensive look at the ongoing battle for individual liberties and the preservation of the American way.
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The socialization of transportation, education, energy, housing, and water. What it means is that government controls it through rules and regulations.
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Under this guise of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship, it's actually tapping down the truth.
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On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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indeed let's have a conversation and welcome to 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 theresa all the people here at crawford broadcasting it is wednesday producer joe happy wednesday kim Happy Wednesday. And if it's Wednesday, that means it's Wings Day at Hooters restaurants. And for to-go or to dine-in, if you buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. And that's at all their locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. I particularly like when the girls come over the lemon pepper rub or the Texas barbecue rub. And so be sure and check that out at Hooters restaurants. Treat yourself to some great Hooters wings today and check out the website. How I got to know Hooters restaurants. It's a really important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. and overreaching government and interest of parties. And you can find that all at my website. And that website is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for a weekly email newsletter there. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. Our text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station. 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 use force on that. So, my friends, it's never compassionate to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their freedom, their livelihoods, opportunities, or lives. Via force, force can be a weapon, but policy, an unpredictable and excessive taxation can It could be fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, World Economic Forum's agenda, the globalist elite's agenda, the United Nations agenda, which you see that playing out at the Colorado State Legislature and with this Colorado governor. In fact, this Colorado governor, Polis, says he wants to continue the movement towards clean energy. Well, clean energy is this Green New Deal. The Green New Deal is the green that's going into PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, their pockets. it's making our lives more expensive and it's making it more difficult for us to warm our homes in the winter and cool them in the summer and fuel our our vehicles all those things and so this and this clean energy we're realizing is not really that clean if you will they've not really talked about everything that's why you should check out the documentary that i had the great honor to moderate Climate Conversation, which is the project of Walt Johnson. And you can watch that for free at a climate conversation dot com. It does. It's been airing regularly on Newsmax as well. So be sure and check that out. We've got a great podcast series as well. But this Colorado governor is in headlines as trying to appear more libertarian. But his policies, his agencies, his commissions, this legislature, they are radical activist extremists. So we need to realize that. And the radical activist extremists basically want to control everything. They don't believe in individual freedom. So then also we see this force in land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations. The list has gotten long, but in this Trump administration, he's starting to peel some of these things back. So that is pretty exciting. And remember, socialism is not about free stuff. The free stuff is just to get you to vote for it. And government cannot give something to somebody for free that they've not first taken from someone else, either neighbors via taxation or via all this debt that we have to pay off. Or we think that we're going to pass that or it looks we're going to change this. But when you incur debt, then the next generations have to pay that off. And so we will. We're seeing things start to change, and that is pretty darn great. I've been thinking about the show. There's so many big themes that we talk about. We do human interest stories, but a variety of things. But I want to – this year, focusing, first of all, this whole agenda around climate change, which if that would continue – if climate change, that agenda continues, it will bankrupt America. It will bankrupt Americans. And it'll throw us back into the dark ages. So we'll focus on all those issues. Elections. I've been thinking a lot about what to do about our elections here in Colorado. My understanding is, is that President Trump and his administration are going to work to do things that would clean up our elections. But I think we've got a lot of work to do here in Colorado. Our Colorado 2024 project. We have those two lawsuits out there. I did receive a text from Peter Bernager. Apparently, the lawyers back and forth with the Colorado secretary of state wanted to run our the votes that we were challenging against the voter rolls for. November 5th. And so Peter had requested that information. He just got it. And so we will be seeing what's happening with that. But we've got those legal challenges out there, my friends, which are super important. So we're going to talk a lot about elections, climate change. I will always focus on our children and property rights. So those are our big themes that we certainly will focus on today. throughout the year this year so that is super important i want to say thank you to laramie energy for their gold sponsorship of the show it is this reliable efficient affordable and abundant energy from coal and natural gas and oil that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate. Now there is something exciting down at the State House that it looks like nuclear energy, there's a bill to say that nuclear energy would be designated as clean energy. And so adding nuclear energy into that mix will be very interesting. as well. So lots of exciting things happening in our world. And when I say, my friends, that we were made for this moment, I'm not kidding. We were made for this moment in history. We must step forward into this, ask for God's guidance on this and then step into each day with courage. And so the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday on all KLZ 560 platforms. That's KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. The shows then are posted on my website with the written summary as well as the audio. I love it that we're offering both. I think that's important. Some people like to read things, some people like to listen to things, or both, but you have those options. And then once that happens, also this show can be heard on the streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify. Our word of the day, I pulled it from yesterday. And it's a word that I've never heard. And the word is cavil. And it's spelled C-A-V-I-L. It's an intransitive verb. And it's to argue or find fault over trivial matters, raise petty objections, or to quibble. And I would say that in these hearings for the confirmations for Donald Trump's cabinet, that I would say that the Democrats really cavil as they are bringing up things regarding each of these particular nominees. And yesterday, RFK Jr., And I think Tulsi Gabbard both made it out of the hearings. So they're moving towards confirmation. We'll talk with Dr. James Lyons Weiler as our featured guest here in our number one. And he's very good friends with Bobby Kennedy about what's happening with all that. So stay tuned for that. But so you should be able to use the word cavil in a sentence. Again, it could be to quibble about, point out petty flaws, to raise captious and frivolous objections, to find fault without good reason. Cavil, C-A-V-I-L. Your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. And our word of the day. I went to J.R.R. Tolkien, and I've got two here at the beginning because we do put our quotes of the day out on social media and on the website. And we'd like to keep them within a certain number of words. So the first one is from J.R.R. Tolkien was... He was born in 1892, died in 1973. He was the English writer and philologist, and I may need to use that as a word of the day. He was the author of the high fantasy works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. And he said this, first of all, he says, "...you have been chosen, and you therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have." And when we talk about you're made for this moment, we were chosen for this moment. But he also said this, and I was thinking about the Center for American Values and Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient, and their portraits of valor of all the Medal of Honor recipients. And these Medal of Honor recipients received the highest military award in America, in the United States, for actions they took to protect others. And so he said this, J.R.R. Tolkien, that war must be while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all. But I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. And that really is the warrior, the lion. I had a good conversation with some friends a few weeks ago about our men to be lions, to be lions to protect their families and our children and our country. And that lion, that warrior mentality has been so under attack through this Biden-Harris agenda, which it started much more before that. But we must uphold our warriors, our lions, our men, and teach our boys to become men, to protect those around us. And so I loved both of those quotes from J.R.R. Tolkien, and so wanted to share those with you. I think the main headline that most all of us have just been watching with such interest is this whole thing regarding U.S. aid. And the spending during the Biden administration was absolutely crazy. And White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. She is young and she is fearless and courageous. And this list of things that our tax dollars were being used through USAID and Trump, apparently they closed down the – well, they – Closed the offices. Apparently there were some Democrats, senators, and congressmen and women that wanted to try to get into the offices. They were stopped. And it looks like they're going to roll this into the State Department. And it has been an independent, I have that with air quotes, independent agency, but with all of our tax dollars. So this is from a little station, KRCR. And it says, in the past week, there's been a lot of discussion around the U.S. Agency for International Development and where billions of dollars in humanitarian aid actually goes when being sent overseas. The Trump administration has been a huge advocate in wanting to shut down USAID as an independent agency and putting it under the authority of the State Department, which I think that makes sense. President Donald Trump has said USAID is being run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and as part of his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order pausing foreign assistance for 90 days. Taxpayer funding for USAID doubled from the beginning of Trump's first term in 2017 to the end of President Joe Biden's, and that went from $20.5 billion in 2017 to $42.4 billion in 2023. And Caroline Levitt highlighted, or low-lighted, you might say, some of the things that we had been funding. $50 million to fund condoms in Gaza. And many of you have said that those weren't for the purpose you would think condoms are for, but they could actually make them into little explosive devices. I hadn't thought about that, but that's what you guys said. Sounds interesting. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces. $70,000 for the protection of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia. $32,000 for a transgender comic in Peru, $37 million to the World Health Organization, of which we no longer belong, $16 million in funding for institutional contractors in gender development offices, $4 million of funding for the Center for Climate Positive Development. And the list goes on and on and on. And these are funding things that are not in the best interest of the United States. And they're certainly pushing this radical activist agenda. So this is super interesting what is happening, my friends. And so we'll continue to stay tuned on all that. And all this happens because of our sponsors and the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team knows that you would like to feel safe and know that you're well served. And so their office is available via call or text 24 hours a day for that 24 hour peace of mind. 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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 had mentioned in the first segment the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, and they're going to have a great event at the center next Wednesday, the 12th of February. Co-founder Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient, is going to present on the real Cold War, about his time when he was in Greenland. And so give them a call if you plan on attending. That website is AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is Mary Jansen, one of my fellow board members on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And we wanted to go over some of these bills that we had in our weekly email that we sent out to our members. But it goes to legislators and the governor. And we'd love to have you join us. You'll get that email as well. There were 39 bills on there, which was hard to believe. And you can do that by going to ColoradoTaxpayer.org. Mary Jansen, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 21 :
Good morning, Kim. What an inspirational opening you gave.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, yeah. Those were great quotes, weren't they? And you were on Lakewood City Council, an amazing representative of the people, understanding the issues. We are so jazzed that you are on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is this all-volunteer group that we're working with. It's a pretty amazing group of people.
SPEAKER 21 :
It really is. And you know, when they say God opens doors or windows for you, and maybe it was a window I didn't want opened. But when I was on council, I was put on the legislative committee. And I said, I don't know if I can do that. I don't know anything about this stuff. You know, and I started reading the bills that were coming in that could affect our city. And, oh, my gosh, some of them were, well, this is really going to affect the people in our city. And some of the half of them wanted to support it. And there were two of us that were standing up next to it, you know. We can't let this zoning go to this state or to, you know, that's just wrong. What happens to our local control? And so we stood up for a couple bills that were coming down the pike back then, which ended up getting passed after I got out of office. So it shows what a minority can do if you speak up. And I think that's what people need to start doing is speaking up.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, and I feel like they're flooding the zone with all of these bills, and so it makes it difficult for people to know what's happening. And that's why what CUT is doing, and also Liberty Scorecard is doing great work, Sue Moore and her group as well. We are all volunteers, and I just want to name these people. When you see them at the grocery store, say thank you to Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson. Mary Jansen, of course, Dave Evans and Corey Onozorg. And so let's get into it. You and I talked yesterday. We selected, if we can get to them, five bills out of those 38 or 39 that we had on the email. So that first one, Senate Bill 25057, non-citizen voter registration cancellation. And the prime sponsors on that are Republican Senator Mark Baisley and Representative Chris Richardson. This is a good one, right, Mary? Yes.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, this is such a far cry from last year. It seemed like we hardly had any good bills, but this is a great bill. It's a common sense bill, and it's just going to increase confidence in our elections because we really don't know if noncitizens are voting or not, do we?
SPEAKER 22 :
We don't, and because noncitizens can get a driver's license, and when people get a driver's license, they're automatically registered to vote. Can we not see the danger, danger in that? So that's one of those things I'm going to focus on also regarding elections. How about this next one? This is a really bad boy, and that's Senate Bill 25081.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yes, this one. This is like opening up the bank vault and just letting them take the money without any kind of – security or anything. Nobody's going to know anything. We're not going to know how much money they take out. There's nothing. No transparency at all.
SPEAKER 22 :
So and what it's doing is it would allow the Treasury office to issue bonds, which really is a runaround on Tabor. So this is what we said in our email. This is a blatant and runaround Tabor, which is Colorado's taxpayers bill of rights by enabling the new unelected agency, its own bond issuing authority, thereby bypassing voters for new debt. this is a is the very opposite of transparency fiscal prudence and sound management that senate bill 25081 and obviously we are a no on that and oh i need to mention the sponsors um i think it was mark said kim be sure and mention sponsors these are democrats that senator jeff bridges senator judy emma bile and representative shannon byrd they are wanting to run around we the people
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yes. It's almost like opening up something for slavery. It is. I mean, I feel debt is slavery.
SPEAKER 22 :
Because they make a commitment, they take the money, and we have to work and pay it off, right?
SPEAKER 21 :
And we have to pay it off, yes.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. How about this next one? House Bill 251010. What do you think about that? Prohibiting price gouging.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, my goodness. So they put these in. It's kind of a slippery slope. And it seems like they put these in. It seems like, oh, yeah, we need to do that because we're having such problems with inflation. And so the government decides they're just going to, oh, we're going to go to the business and we're going to make sure that they can't go over certain prices. That's called price control. It's a socialist tactic. And it's a scary one to me.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, and Mary, it leads to shortages. So this is regarding grocery stores. And the write-up that we had on this is this bill prohibits price increases over 10% for necessities. This is the first step to price controls, as you mentioned, and mentioned slippery slope, to the state setting prices on all commodities. And the bill's use of many undefined terms will invite lawsuits who determines what a necessity is. And the bill could easily lead to product scarcity or unavailability. as with inflation, costs of business are increasing everything greatly. And so instead, as Joe and I talked about this, you may have a fixed price on something, but if you can't buy it, if it's not in the store, it doesn't matter. And that's what this will lead to. And these sponsors, let's see, I've got it in front of me, is Representative Yara Zoke, Representative Kyle Brown, Senator Mike Weissman, all Democrats.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, shame on them. Shame on them. Shame on them. This is a bill that came right out of the Soviet Union.
SPEAKER 22 :
It is, definitely. And, yeah, so that one. Okay, a couple more. I think we're going to make it. This is like so speedy, speed bills, I guess. So what's the next one? We are speedy Kabbalists. So what's the next one, Mary, that we should talk about?
SPEAKER 21 :
The next one is House Bill 25-1104. It's concerning the right of a landowner to stop the occurrence of squatting on premises. I was a huge yes on this one. It's a very common sense bill. It just helps the ownership of the property ownership by providing a legal mechanism to evict people that are squatting on their land. I mean, how common sense is that?
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, and we have one sponsor. That sponsor is Rebecca Kelty. And she's new down at the legislature. And she won her race. It was a recount. I think it was like by seven votes. So, my friends, if you wonder whether or not your vote matters, your vote matters. Because here, because of that election, we've got a common sense bill regarding property rights, House Bill 251104. And Mary, I think there was one more. Oh, the national popular vote one. That was House Bill 25-1102.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes. Yes, that's that way. We voted all. All of us voted yes on this because Colorado is one of the what do they call it? The compact, as part of, we voted to go into the compact to just have a national popular vote. Now, Donald Trump won the national popular vote. So we would have voted for that. But if it was opposite, it would be someone else. So the national popular vote is not constitutional. And this is a bill to override the Constitution. And so I agree with this.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay, well, so let's just clarify. We in Colorado, there was a ballot question to whether or not we wanted to become part of this national popular vote compact, and that was several years ago. And I think that that was pushed forward by radical activist Democrats because they never thought that Democrats would ever lose the popular vote. And so what that would mean then is it would take away the voices of each of the states. regarding their votes for president, overriding the electoral college, and all those votes would go towards the candidate that won the national popular vote. So this bill is to repeal that compact, and it's House Bill 25-1102, and the sponsor on that is Representative Ken DeGraff. He's got his name on a bunch of good stuff. I think there was one thing that we were a no on, but typically he's got pretty good common-sense votes on everything and the kinds of bills that he's bringing forward, Mary.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah, well, sometimes, you know, we disagree on some things, and that's fine as long as we can talk about it and debate, but... With the bills that they rush through at us, it's hard to do that. It's hard to do the debate, and it's hard for the people to understand what is happening. That's why cut is such a great idea, because we actually do the peeling the onion for you, so you don't have to cry as much.
SPEAKER 22 :
i love that and people can join us it's just 25 a year two dollars and eight cents a month so for two dollars and eight cents a month just look at all of the great analysis that you get and you can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org and you will then be added to the weekly email that we send to the legislators and governor and uh And I want to thank the team. It was monumental. When I opened up Bill Track 50 on Friday evening to look at the bills to select, and I saw that there was 127 bills that were scheduled for hearing for this week. Now, some of them were crossovers, but that is not governing. That is not representing the people, Mary Jansen. That is pushing an agenda. And I If legislators don't have time to read a bill, to understand the bill, to think about the consequences of what that is for we the people, they are doing us a disservice. But I am so grateful for the Republicans that are down there. They're standing in the gap, and we really do appreciate each and every one of them.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yes, and it's not just Republicans. It's the unaffiliates, too, and it's the Libertarian Party. who is, you know, they are screaming really loud. And we need more people to not be afraid to speak up. And I guess I think for people to not be afraid is they need to be armed with the truth. And so by joining CUT, you will be armed with the truth and you will be able to fight back because, you know what, the bullies can't stand it when you actually know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well done, Mary Jansen. Well done, Mary Jansen. So thank you so much. And again, you can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. That's coloradotaxpayer.org. We will talk very soon. Thanks, Barry. Thanks, Kim. Have a great day. You as well. And these important discussions happen because we have amazing sponsors, and one of those is Karen Levine.
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SPEAKER 22 :
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 so pleased to have on the line with me Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. He is the founder of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. He's a scientist, and he's a good friend of Robert Kennedy, Jr., and there's a lot happening. So, Dr. Jack, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 10 :
Tim, thank you so much, and thanks for continuing to be this beacon of reason and logic and sensibility out there.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, we certainly are trying. And you and I met during the whole COVID thing. And it's crazy as I look back on that. But here we are now to RFK Jr. Got through hearings yesterday. You really have your ear to the ground on all this. We're on pins and needles. Tell us what we should know about everything that's going on with that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I wish I could tell you everything that's going on, but I'll tell you what I can tell you. How's that? Okay. Okay. So, yeah, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was put forward by the Health Committee with the majority rule vote. It was unfortunately split down party lines, not unpredictable, to go to the Senate floor for a full Senate confirmation vote for Director of, I'm sorry, the Secretary of Health and Human Services at HHS. This is a major milestone development. It is a testament to the voice of the people saying, we know what you did last summer with COVID. The protocol of the career bureaucrats to lie incessantly, repeatedly, perennially to the public about matters of public health Failed their protocol of putting out vaccines that have risks and then telling everyone gas lighting. There are no risks whatsoever to get to to vaccinating your children or yourself. Has failed the United States public has woken up to the fact that if we're going to be healthy, we're going to need an advocate for making America healthy again. And that advocate is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the cadre of administrators and scientists that he's going to put into 5,000 appointed positions at HHS.
SPEAKER 22 :
I tried to watch the hearings, Dr. Jack, and there was so much posturing, and I felt disrespect and dishonesty by some of these senators. I really couldn't slog my way through it. What did you think about the hearings?
SPEAKER 10 :
It was rough, a bit like making sausage in public, right? I mean, if you enjoy sausage, if you've ever seen it made, it's quite a different procedure. You know, Kennedy had to hold his own against people who for a number of reasons had to say things in public that they might not actually believe. And that's because the answer to their donors, the answer to their base, and it's politics. I'm a scientist. I don't pretend very well. When I speak, I tend to speak the truth, the old truth and nothing but the truth as I understand it. And as a scientist, I feel like I am safest when I say I don't know if I don't know something. But the positioning and posturing was so grotesque because it is a caricature of what they used to be able to pull off years ago. So imagine someone yelling at an HHS nominee about what they have to say and what they're not allowed to say. Well, that conversation Probably should have been done somewhere in a hallway or in an office, but it was done on mic, on the record, dictating what this employee of the executive branch of the government can and cannot say is overreach on the basis of any senator that thinks that they're going to control him. But nevertheless, that's political posturing, but that's politics for you.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, it was certainly interesting. Now that he's headed to the full Senate, the chances are pretty good that he will be confirmed, yes?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, I think the chances are excellent, yes. It's not quite a rubber stamp, but the chances are excellent, yes.
SPEAKER 22 :
Wow. Okay. Well, you had written a piece that you'd sent out via email to your list, and it's the first 14 what RFK Jr. and his new HHS NIH FDA should be doing right away. So what are some of the first things that should happen?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, as I mentioned earlier, the public health Infrastructure in the United States is about to undergo a major brain transplant and when that brain transplant takes place, there are certain things that I feel that the public should be made aware of. For instance, prior to 2014, the number of deaths from influenza in the United States to average year to year about 5000, but after 2014, someone got this. This idea that we could just lump in all other deaths from respiratory illnesses, whether it was influenza or not as long as there was no molecular test that said it wasn't influenza and we're going to call it influenza disease. CDC went along with this FDA went along with this certain white houses went along with this to put it into play. And it's problematic. The press, when they talk about influenza, they now talk about 50,000 to 80,000 deaths per year. That's a tenfold increase in the number of deaths from influenza, but they do it by using this diagnostic substitution called influenza disease, which is not a thing in medicine. It's not a thing in medicine to say, oh, you have influenza disease and you have an influenza infection, or you have an infection or coronavirus or bacterial pneumonia. And the problem with that diagnostic substitution 2014 is they did it so that they could apply more pressure, political pressure and leverage. To fund vaccine development for influenza, but then also then to turn around and try to. Coerce the public into taking influenza vaccines. But unfortunately, it led to unnecessary deaths from untreated and undiagnosed bacterial pneumonia. When you tell someone that they have a respiratory illness and you don't know what it is, the next thing you should do in medicine is straightforward. Find out what it is if you can. And there's a whole panel of tests that can be done to do differentially diagnosed bacterial pneumonia from RSV, from influenza. But as long as they can report your hospitalization and death as influenza, Then they have more leverage. Then along came COVID. Everyone understands that influenza went away. Zero cases for months at a time. Zero hospitalizations, zero deaths. And they were all attributed now to this other virus. Well, the public needs to understand exactly how that happened, why it happened, who put it into play, and why that's a bad thing that should never happen again. Those are just the first two.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, what about some of the others of the 14 things he should do?
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. So this playing around with diagnosis continued in COVID with the use of the wrong kind of PCR test to get a diagnosis of COVID. They should have – and I told Peter Marks this at the FDA. He's the director of the division that oversaw diagnostics. The FDA should have required – manufacturers of this PCR test, not only to determine the accuracy and the ability of the test to be able to detect the virus when it is present, but also the ability of the test to not detect the virus when it's not present. And so if there's a result of a PCR test that says it's positive and you have COVID, but you don't have COVID, it's called a false positive. And just mathematically, It turns out that the number of cases skyrockets if you have a false positive rate when you do a whole population wide screen. Let me give you an example. If everybody in the United States got a CT scan, the number of false positives for cancer would just absolutely skyrocket. And then all these people would have to get biopsies. And the risk of death from infection from biopsies would dwarf the number of deaths from cancer. That's why we don't do that. Well, here we have a case where in the PCR test, they went all the way out with cycle thresholds to 35, where you have a massively high false positive rate in a screening modality of the use of the test that ends up where most of over 90% of cases of COVID are probably false positives. And that means that the person, just like before, doesn't get a proper diagnosis. Most people who died on ventilators, New York Times has reported died from bacterial pneumonia and sepsis, which is the outcome of having a prolonged untreated bacterial pneumonia, never given an IV of antibiotics while they're hospitalized. That's where most of the people who died on ventilators, they died from bacterial pneumonia and sepsis.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's common knowledge.
SPEAKER 22 :
Wow. Okay. Well, we're going to continue that discussion. But before we do that and go to break, the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, which you founded this whole educational system or project during COVID and these great classes, I think people have probably been so focused on the election and wondering what's going on that I think we kind of probably took our eye off the ball on learning. So tell us about IPAC-EDU.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, well, you know, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his cadre of scientists and administrators get into the HHS, they're going to need a really well-educated public, a public that can understand some of the technological things that are going on, some of the scientific things that are going on, so that the public can assess the difference and appreciate the difference between the lies of the past and the truths of the present. And so you can act responsibly and taking care of better, better care of yourself and your family. So our courses go very deep into topics like biology and immunology autoimmunity. We have courses on how to read it and interpret a scientific study, environmental toxicology, the whole scale changes that are going to take place at the FDA, for instance. Well, you should be. Continue to be prepared because there are maneuvers afoot like Iowa just wants to pass a new bill to indemnify pesticide makers from cancer diagnoses. So come to IPEC EDU and stay up on all these topics and be well informed so that you can understand exactly the link between toxins in the environment and poor health. And that way you can be a major player in helping make your family healthy again, helping make yourself healthy again, and therefore you're helping to make America healthy again. So I would love to see a lot of people sign up for courses. The courses start after February 15th. We delayed the start of the semester because of all the transition. We've got about 30 instructors, I think 45 courses, a lot for people to sign up for. So, yeah, if you want a discount, you can use the code AUTISM50. It's all caps, A-U-T-I-S-M-50, and you'll get a 50% discount on any course you sign up.
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Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, 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 is something that's a good idea. You shouldn't have to force people to do it. And I did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. And go to their website and purchase a brick to honor your military service or your loved one's military service. That will be on one of their pathways of service and is a great way to honor and remember. And that website is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. Pleased to have on the line with me, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. He is the founder of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, which is IPAC, and also this great educational courses at IPAC-EDU.org. And he's very good friends with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And we're watching these confirmation hearings. Bobby has been approved to go to a full vote of the Senate today. which, Dr. Jack, it looks like that that will probably occur here, what, within the next week?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that'll happen this week. The vote's going to be a celebration. You know, Robbie got his start when parents of vaccine injury approached him and said, you're concerned about mercury in the Hudson River. What about mercury in vaccines? And that was quite some time ago. It's been a long journey for him. And those moms are still on his team. They're still a driving force. So this is really a long time coming. It seems surreal to many of us. But, you know, with him at the helm of HHS, we can see families and kids with autism finally getting people now young adults finally getting the respect that they deserve better medical care to have better days. Yeah, it's really a revolutionary reform is coming. to make America healthy again, I'm really excited.
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And I think that's how you and I got to know each other was back during the whole COVID thing. I had a number of moms here in Colorado that had reached out to me and Pam Long handles the military component for Children's Health Defense, which is the group that Bobby Kennedy had founded. I think he was the founder of that. And that's how I think you and I got connected was through all that because As I looked at some of this legislation that was being proposed many years ago here in Colorado, looking at that, I'm realizing it would give the power to unelected bureaucrats to dictate what we would put into our bodies. And that was my great awakening on all of this, Dr. Jack.
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Yeah, it's very important that people realize that once Bobby's in, then we're going to see hopefully whole scale changes of how science is done and funded by the federal government so that they can't manipulate the results and hand the public sham studies just to support a particular narrative. Like, vaccines do not cause autism. You know, we have a problem with the types of studies that have been funded and used to shore up a false narrative They are manipulated and that's part of the reason why I got involved. I have 2 sons who were raised to understand that science is a valid way of knowing. And the people who are dictating our future, all of our future by lying to us about whole scale. Public health issues. Determine our fate and change our lives, especially for those who have vaccine injury or altered no development or auto immunity. These kinds of diseases are preventable by reformation of how we approach immunity and our approach to communicable diseases in America. It's not going to be easy because there are billions of dollars at stake, but nobody's those of us who have been at this and I've been at this now 10 years. We didn't go into this because we thought it was going to be easy. We went into it because I wanted to reduce human pain and suffering. And I knew that reality would one day come forward and be able to emerge through the noise and the bias and the fraud. And so I'm very proud to support Mr. Kennedy in everything that he does. And this is the next phase of his life. And maybe four years from now, we'll see him join in another phase of his life and He's a great crystallizer when it comes to this. And the man has a mind like a steel trap. He's very intelligent. He remembers everything that he reads, everything that he's told. And he's highly ethical and very concerned about kids, women, families, people. It's great.
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And so you mentioned autism, and in the hearings when I was watching that, there were a lot of questions about RFK Jr.' 's stance on autism vaccines. What should people know about that, Dr. Jack?
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People need to know that the CDC and the AAP and others have put forward partial cherry-picked studies. They're not the full representation of the scientific body of literature. that pops up their position that they want people to believe that vaccines are not involved in autism. The fact is that the deep dive research I did many years ago into the scientific literature, I read 2,000 studies, showed me that vaccines are very, very, very much one of the environmental factors that can contribute to the onset of regressive autism, where kids making their benchmarks on a regular basis their neurodevelopmental speech language and so on benchmarks and then they regress and they lose those capacities and then it can be a permanent situation in them unless they get detoxed immediately we are not allowed to talk about chelation in children because that was made a you know like like it's some kind of a woo science or made into some kind of a sham medicine you know, quack medicine. But in reality, there are families that have adults who are 23 and 24 year old because the parents went through a very difficult trial under the supervision of doctors to get the mercury and aluminum and other toxins out. But they found that when they detox their kids, arsenic came out and other things that they had no idea that their kid was accumulating. Kids with autism are sponges for environmental toxins. They can't detoxify as well as other kids. They're an identifiable minority. They're protected under the consideration of equal rights under the law to be protected from the risks of harm instead. Congress decided in nineteen eighty six to tell the people these vaccines are so risky that we have to indemnify. vaccine manufacturers from liability. So we, the government, will take it on, meaning passing the cost of it on to the taxpayers, passing the risk of the cost by destroying people's lives with autoimmunity, with autism and chronic illness. So it is a very bright day for families who are at risk of environmental toxins, not only because there's going to be questions in science on vaccines, but also how do we get the toxins out? How do we detoxify through integrated pathways to health and integrated pathways to mental health? And what can the FDA do about getting other toxins out? Like red dye numbers, whatever. The point is we're on top of it from stem to stern, and we're going to be crawling all over HHS with armed with study after study after study that we can convince our colleagues when we get into HHS that the prior administrations really missed the boat on this. The number one cause of chronic illness in America is not genetics, it's environment. And we know that. So we're going to change environment, change the lifestyle. But it's not a judgment to say that you should exercise. It's just common knowledge now in medicine, but they don't tell you. The more you move, the healthier you are, period. If you're sitting on your couch, if you're laying in bed watching TV all day or whatever, get up and move. You are accountable for your own outcomes now. Listen to what the scientists have to say, not because you should trust the science, but because we're now going to be doing objective science. And it's a big, big ask for the public to trust the CDC or the NIH or the FDA now. We're not going to ask that. We're going to earn it, right? Wow. We're not going to demand it. We're not going to expect it. If we're successful, trust us. If not, fine. We failed at our job.
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And you know what? That is the opposite of force is to have merit and provide results on that. Dr. Jack, thank you. We're out of time, but can't wait to see what else is going to happen. And check out IPAK, I-P-A-K dash E-D-U dot org. Dr. Jack, we'll talk soon.
SPEAKER 10 :
Excited to do it again. Talk soon. Thanks. Bye.
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And then once that happens, you can also listen to the shows via podcast on the streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify. So our word of the day is Cavill. And this came in from Richard. He said, congratulations, your word of the day is one I'd never heard of before. And he does have a very large vocabulary. So he said, so well done. And the word is cavil, C-A-V-I-L. It's an intransitive verb. It could be to argue or find fault over trivial matters, raise petty objections, quibble. I would say that the... many of these hearings for the confirmation of Donald Trump's cabinet nominees that the Democrats are cavilling as they are asking many of these questions. But again, the definition could be to quibble about, point out petty flaws. or to raise captious and frivolous objections to find fault without good reason. And so we're seeing CAVIL on the national stage right now. So C-A-V-I-L, good luck. Try to use that in a sentence today. You'll probably have to... give people the definition of that as well, since that's one that we hardly ever use. Our quote of the day, I chose two from J.R.R. Tolkien, and J.R.R. Tolkien was good friends with C.S. Lewis, and they were the members of an informal literary discussion group called the Inklings. Can you imagine what those discussions would have been like? And J.R.R. Tolkien was born in 1892 and he died in 1973. He was an English writer and the author of the high fantasy works of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. And so the first quote, he said, you've been chosen and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. But this other one, and again, I mentioned in the first hour, I was thinking of the Center for American Values, which honors our Medal of Honor recipients. That website's AmericanValueCenter.org. And it's in Pueblo, co-founded by Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix and Brad Padula. And the Medal of Honor is awarded for these men when they took action. I think there's one woman that is a Medal of Honor recipient. But these men that took action when the situation presented itself to protect those around them. And I thought this was just a really great quote by J.R.R. Tolkien. And it is this. He said, War must be while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all. But I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. And there had been an On Values presentation by James. David Bellavia, who's Medal of Honor recipient. And this was one of their On Values presentations. And those things are so fabulous. And in fact, next Wednesday, February 12th, Drew Dix is going to present regarding the real Cold War of his time in Greenland. But he and Brad really have put something amazing together there at the Center for American Values. If you want to go down to that On Values website, presentation, just let them know you're coming. They're getting close to capacity on that. So you need to let them know that you're coming. But David Bellavia had said that for a while he had been, and I'm paraphrasing how I remember it, that he'd been consumed really by hate of the enemy. He'd seen the enemy It killed his brothers in combat. And he had been consumed by hate. And hate can certainly motivate you. It can certainly move you forward. But it's all-consuming, and it's not good. And he said he realized that really why he was a warrior was not because of hate, but because of love, of those that he loves, his brothers, those that he loves. And so... Once consumed by love, he could still be the warrior, but it was because of love, love for family and your colleagues and your fellow soldiers. And so I thought that was really an interesting point. thing for me to learn. And so that's why I thought I wanted to share that J.R.R. Tolkien quote with you, because patriotism is not a bravado about our country. It's our love of country and our love for what that stands for, that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. That's what patriotism is. And down at the center, they focus on honor, integrity, and patriotism. So, again, check out the AmericanValuesCenter.org. That's AmericanValuesCenter.org. And I'm really blessed to work with amazing sponsors. I know each and every one of them personally. I highly recommend them. They strive for excellence and meritocracy. And one of those sponsors is on the line right now, and that is Lorne Levy, and regarding everything mortgages. So, Lorne Levy, welcome to the show. Hey, good morning, Kim. And interest rates have been basically staying about the same. And interest rates, it's really the cost of money, the cost for people to buy homes, to borrow money to build businesses. And right now, with all that's going on, they're remaining steady. They're not going up, not going down. Or what are you seeing?
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That's exactly right. We're seeing... If anything, they've crept ever so slowly down a little bit, not gone up anymore, which is kind of nice. We talk all the time about how rates are data-driven. That's what we'd like them to be. And the data has been remaining strong. The economy is strong. People aren't losing their jobs, which is why the Fed didn't lower their rates at all last time, because things seem to be going along just quite well with the economy. And it's going to take For interest rates to go down, it usually takes something to happen, something data-driven like a bad report on employment or something that would make the Fed act to lower rates. The alternative is something bad that happens, which we don't want to get into like an attack on a country or something like that, but we don't want to mess with that. So for right now, rates look like they're just going to hold in this range for a little while.
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So as people are getting used to this in the mortgage arena, there are always new creative products to help people if they want to get into a new home, right?
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Absolutely. And we've been talking about some of these for a little while now, like things like temporary buy downs for the interest rate where your rate might be, you know, 6, 8, 7, 5. But for the first year, you can get 4, 8, 7, 5, then 5, 8, 7, 5 the second year before it settles back in at the start rate. And that helps people get into a home if they think it's a little bit of a stretch for them. It can allow them to plan for a while or wait and see if rates do come down over the next couple of years. There's definitely creative things we can do to help people absorb the a little bit higher payment. But I do think you're right. I think people are starting to get used to this new normal of this. This is kind of where rates are for right now.
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And so we talk about the cost of money. If rates would happen to go down and what, even a quarter of a point could make a difference on somebody's mortgage, right? So then you're going to see more people, more demand for money. So that'd probably push rates back up. But if people want to be ready, if rates go down, does it cost them anything to be pre-qualified?
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No, it doesn't cost them to do anything and be ready and That's kind of what we do to help people. And you make a good point, Kim. For a long time, I've heard from people who say, if you can't lower your rate by at least 1%, it's not worth refinancing. Well, that's a theory back from when homes were being purchased for $200,000 or $250,000. When people are spending the money they're spending now on homes, there are plenty of people that if a rate drops by a quarter to three-eighths of a point, might save them a couple hundred dollars a month. which is real money, and that's where we take the time to do the math first. And if there's an opportunity to refinance at a low cost where it makes sense, we would call the client and say, look, this is the time to do it. Why give extra money to the bank every month? So, yeah, we help with that as well. Rather than the person having to keep their eye on the market, we do it for them.
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So what's that phone number? 303-880-8881.
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Okay, thank you so much, Kim.
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salute the ones who died and the ones that gave their lives so we don't have to sacrifice welcome back to the kim monson show be sure and check out our website that is kimmonson.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter you can email me at kim kimmonson.com as well and 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 the show comes to you because of sponsors. And thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from coal, natural gas, and oil that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. and it is Wednesday. We missed him last week, and that is sixth-generation farmer and rancher Trent Luce. Trent, welcome to the show.
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Thanks for having me back, Kim. Well, how are you feeling? Oh, I'm about 98% good to go. That's great. I got another stock show under my belt already.
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You did, and you said you got the Denver crud, that that's what that was, and so you were under the weather.
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No, since that... I've been at the Black Hill Stock Show in Rapid City this week.
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Oh, I bet that was fun.
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It was fantastic. It's very different than the National Western, but just in its own way. And last night there was a ranch rodeo, and my goodness, people came out of the woodworks, and the Charlotte show was yesterday. And I spoke on a little panel discussion about, A lot of the same things you and I talk about, and that's the erosion of the infrastructure of our food system, and in particular beef. And we talked about avian influenza, and we had a very good discussion.
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Well, so there's been a lot of headlines for a couple of weeks. So next thing is whatever you had, I think Teresa, who's on our team, has that. So she said she hardly ever gets sick, and she's really been under the weather. And so there is something kind of nasty that's going around, Trent.
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There is. In fact, I've talked to a lot of people that were at the National Western that have had the same situation, but You just keep track of your immune system, keep yourself hydrated, and get out of it. It's part of life.
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That is part of life. Okay. Well, I want to talk about all these things, but Trent, and I don't know if I can quite get through it, because you had a meme on your website that just really took my breath away regarding a father to a son. And I know you have three daughters, but Trent, Do you want to tell us what it says or I'm happy to, but why did you put that on there? I just, I'm not sure I can actually get through it because last night when I was putting it on the outline, I almost had tears in my eyes.
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Well, it's the time that I found it, which is most interesting. And this was a couple of years ago. I was assisting. I think this was before you and I started visiting and, Teresa Thibodeau was running for the governor of Nebraska. And in the last couple of months of that campaign before the primary of 2022, in February, she asked me to be her running mate as lieutenant governor. And the story probably doesn't need to be this long, Kim, but it's how it happened that matters. And part of the discussion in the gubernatorial issues and leading up in that campaign that year was our education system. And at the time, we were talking about schools where kids are designating themselves as furries and how we've gotten away from reading, writing, arithmetic, and history. And so there was a state school board meeting that was taking place in North Platte, Nebraska, And Teresa and I, as part of the campaign, we went. But also, as a parent, I wanted to be there because there were so many things going wrong with the Nebraska Association school boards that we just had to have some say. And so we were on our way, and she had to do an interview on a radio station in Omaha for the campaign. So we stopped in Arnold, Nebraska. I walked into the place called The Exchange, and there was this sign on the wall And it was so timely because I was going to this state association of school board meetings to speak in the public comment period. And it was like, I'm supposed to talk about how my father taught me about these things in life. And really what's happening in today's world is we've demonized the father. And so it was the timing of how that all came about and came into my life, and it's now actually my screensaver, and it's on my sub stack all the time. And I just have to read it and remind myself to it, but I think you should read it for us.
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Okay, I'm going to try to get through this. I said, wherever in life your journey may take you, I pray you'll always be safe. Enjoy the ride and never forget your way back home. I can't promise that I'll be there for the rest of your life, but I can promise to love you for the rest of mine. Love, Dad. I love it.
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It was just the timing of when it hit me, and so I've kept it handy every day since.
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So, Trent, it's like you must have listened to my first hour. However, I know that you are typically on the air, so I know you didn't.
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I was producing roll route for the first hour. Sorry, Kim.
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Right. And so I found this quote last night. I was going through for our quotes of the day and found J.R.R. Tolkien. And I found this and I talked about the Center for American Values, our Medal of Honor recipients. And I'd been with a number of friends recently. And in fact, Kane and Wyatt and Jenny and Yvonne and Scott, and we were talking about um, lions, uh, that men need to be lions to protect families and children and our country. And, um, and the lion, the, the man, the man has been, uh, really, uh, attacked our, our warriors and our lions. And I found this quote by J.R.R. Tolkien, uh, was, he said, this war must be while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all, uh, But I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. And I think that's the real warrior. The real lion is that they protect those around them. And that has been so demonized. through this whole woke culture. And we need to reclaim supporting our men, our lions, and young boys becoming men. That's one of the reasons I don't think that we should have girls in Boy Scouts. And it took me a while to figure that out. But we need to let boys be boys and grow into men.
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Yvonne's listening, but I also take that one step further. I believe that men should be the protectors of not only the family, but the country. And I don't believe that women should be on the front lines in war.
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And Yvonne, she and I have had these discussions as well because she's an excellent soldier. I'll just put it that way. No doubt. But what she said is that we should not be relaxing standards to have women involved. in the military, and I think she's absolutely correct regarding those that should be on the front line. Now, certainly, you and I are in agreement on that, and she might even call in. If she wants to call in and comment on that, she can do that, 303-477-5600. But I think it does, we'll just move on from that. I really think that men need to be Let me just give you a little example.
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Go ahead. Well, I had another experience this week that I don't want to be very respectful with, but it's been troubling me. You know, I lived on the Rosebud Reservation for five years in South Dakota, and I stopped to see some friends on my way to Rapid City this week and ended up doing the time-honored tradition of transporting a 25-year-old young man from the Rosebud to rapid city, which is 130 miles. He had walked from rapid city to the Rosebud for a job or two weeks ago. And so the fact that I could bring him home was very good, but I got, got the listening to him and he started getting quite chatty and it was just incredible. We know the history of the warriors of, of all the tribes. But to listen to this 25-year-old talk about his peers, the other 20-somethings and teenagers on the reservation, it is a perfect epitome of what happens when government destroys a culture. There's no skill set. There's no desire. And for those that may not know, I actually employed tribal members from 1998 to 2002 to on a pig farm on the reservation that was a joint venture with the tribe itself. And I ended up, Kim, interviewing over 120 tribal members just really because it became a sociology project. And you think about this warrior culture and what the American Plains Indians represented at one point in time. And today, to talk to these kids who don't even think about tomorrow, They live every day in the moment with no hope and a little faith. And it was just a stark reminder in a two-and-a-half-hour ride this week with a young man who I have respect for because he walked to a job and walked 120 miles to a job. And he said, all of my friends are like, what's wrong with you, man? You don't need a job. You got money. That's destroying a culture and a society that has just been so strong through the generations, and that's where we're headed. We, not just on the reservation, but in this demonization of the family unit and the lion that you're talking about in the father and the protector.
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Yeah. So, okay. And this came in from one of our listeners. She said, the piece women miss about not having women on the front lines in the military is the cohesiveness that bond the men together. When you inject women into this, the bond is not the same. Hormones play a very strong role that women simply refuse to acknowledge. She said, I want them to have that bond, whatever that is, and we don't understand that. And so women can serve many other roles in the military. I just don't think they belong in combat. And so that is from our listener, Holly. So very thoughtful. This wasn't really what we were going to start talking about, Trent Luce. I never know for sure where we're going to go. But this is so important, and we have seen it in our schools, really emasculating our young men if they – are doing things sometimes that boys do they're chastised for that uh and um we've got to get this turned around i think we're going to so i'm going to continue this discussion with trent luce you know him sixth generation farmer and rancher all of these discussions come to you because of our sponsors And the sponsor that I dearly love is Lavaca Meat Company. And Jim May has shared a recipe for sliders. And, of course, this is Super Bowl weekend that Zach actually put together. It's on the website on the very top there. You can click on that and get some of that Lavaca beef for some great sliders for the Super Bowl.
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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. I have Trent Luce on the line. He is a sixth-generation farmer and rancher. And my good friend Yvonne is on the line. And Yvonne, you and I and our friends were in this conversation about Lions, about our men protecting children in our country. And you and I have had discussions about women in combat. And so thank you for calling in, Yvonne.
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Sure. And I guess you guys have a lot to talk about. So I just wanted to chime in that the bottom line, I mean, obviously, the men being lions and everything, it is so, so important in our family structures. And I think everybody understands that. And as a matter of fact, they've been put, like Trent said, pushed into a corner through all this feminism and all this stuff where they die. say things and do things about men, but men just need to rise up and take their place and continue to be the lions that we need them to be for our society, to be what it needs to be. But on the second topic, as far as the women in combat and stuff, no doubt there are some women who can do incredible things. I have seen women that could run in circles around some men, and when I say some men, obviously not all men, but they are phenomenal. But the thing is, everything is mission first. And women in certain places on the front lines and stuff present logistical problems. There's other problems. So it's really not about their ability. It's about what Trent was saying. And I say logistical problems, there is that bond thing, like the other lady that texted in said, that bond is important. And if that bond helps contribute to mission more than those broken bonds or anything, then it's mission first. And so there are many arguments for it as far as capabilities, but the capabilities come second to the mission. So there's a lot of arguments to where it can cause things that may hinder the mission. And one of those, I'm going to say, is all on men. It's not on women. And that's that chivalry reflex, which I think is wonderful and I love. But if they truly can't keep their mind on the job because they're worried about the woman that's, you know, in the foxhole next to them or something like that, then that is detrimental to the mission. So I've said enough about that one. And so I just wanted to let you know that, yes, we need the men to be the lions. And, oh, the third point was what he was talking about, the Native women. I don't claim to have a lot of knowledge in that, just the general knowledge of the destruction of their culture through government influence. And they practiced on them. They're now doing it to the rest of society, because if you can destroy the culture and the children and all that kind of stuff, then that's it. That's all she wrote. So we need to stand up, and we also need to help stand up for our Native cultures and to try and help them restore.
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Okay.
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And Yvonne, you have authority on this subject regarding women in the military because you were in the military and a very successful career in the military when you were there. So you have the authority to be talking about this.
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Yeah, I did. I saw a lot of things. But I was just on the inception of the women going into military. The combat position, so, and I was not on any of those, what we call the combat arms, the three where they would be up there, that came later. But, of course, you're related to the people who are living that and breathing that and talking to you about it. So firsthand knowledge on some stuff, secondhand on another. But thank you.
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Well, thank you for sharing that, Yvonne. Greatly appreciate that. Trent, your comment? Amen. Okay, well, let's shift gears now because you and I always talk about the people that feed and fuel us. And regarding the people that fuel us, on my thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show, I had talked about that it is this reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams. But I just added this in, Trent, I thought you might like this, a little play on words, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. What do you think of that?
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I heard you mention that earlier, and I like that.
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Okay. I thought, I thought, thank you. Okay. Let's talk about then the people that feed us. And that is beef. Of course, I appreciate Lavaca Meat Company as a sponsor, but I saw this last week. I guess this was February 2nd. Associated Press says livestock auctions could be coming to an end at America's last big city stockyard. So what does that mean for the beef industry?
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Actually, that's not an implication for the beef industry, but it's something I'm quite passionate about. And, in fact, when this comes up, I always give the little song and dance that I'm going to go to every place in the United States that once had a stockyard and no longer exists. And you name a city, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, they all once had stockyards that are gone. Oklahoma City is the last remaining functioning stockyards, and it's for sale at this moment is what that story is alluding to. The shift in how the beef industry takes place, brought this about. And so it doesn't have really, I don't want to say a negative impact, because then we can have that discussion about, are we having less competition for our product? And if we're not selling the auction way, are we not capturing the true value? And that's not part of this discussion. What is part of this discussion is that that we have changed the infrastructure on how cattle are marketed from one sector to another. And unfortunately, those stockyards are not part of that scheme anymore.
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And probably there's a demand for that land as well for development, right?
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I was speaking in Minnesota yesterday. This was probably 10 years ago. I can look it up to be exact. But South St. Paul Stockyards was a stockyards that many people from Nebraska and the Dakotas would get on a train. They would ride on the train with their stock to the South St. Paul Stockyards. And I happened to be speaking in Minnesota the day before the last sale took place at South St. Paul Stockyards. And somebody said, Trent, are you going to go? Well, I hadn't even considered going. And then when that came up, I was like, well, yeah, I better go. It was the only time I'd ever been to that stockyard. And, Kim, I can't imagine missing it. I mean, it was just very emotional, and it was just the place to be that day. If you were to drive past that stockyard six months later – You would not recognize any part because, as you just indicated, it is always in very high-valued property area, and urbanization is taking a toll on where these stockyards once were.
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So the beef industry is not going away. Actually, somebody sent me something about the attack on the beef industry and that it really has had so many attacks on it. So what do you see future for beef?
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I did not say the beef industry wasn't going to go away. I just said that the stockyards is not going to be a contributing factor. They're two separate discussions. I'm greatly concerned, and this was our discussion yesterday here at the Black Hill Stock Show with U.S. Cattlemen, was we have a crippling inventory and infrastructure of beef production. So what does that mean? We have the same number of beef animals that we had in 1947. We've been regressing. And I'll just give you our own personal situation. We have not kept back heifers for a few years because we always need the cash at the time. And if you don't keep back heifer calves, you're going to run out of cows. That's just how it works. And right now, last week, we had a payment that's due. So we went into our replacement heifer pen. We pulled out enough to make the payment because everybody needs cash and the calves are worth a lot of money. And the demands on the cost of continuing to produce beef is very high. And so we sold those calves and they brought a big check. for a group of young calves, and that's a challenge for every single cattleman today, where you have demands on making payments, so you dip into the heifers, which would be your replacement cows, consequently, because of all these factors, and then throw in drought, maybe the most severe drought the western half of the United States has seen in anybody's lifetime. you have a concerning low number of beef inventory in the United States. And if you don't maintain that mother cow herd, you cannot maintain the beef business. I'll quickly tell you one other example. In 1884, there were 51 million head of breeding sheep in the United States. Today, There are less than 5 million head of total sheep in the United States. We have crippled the infrastructure. And back in the fall when we were getting ready for the general election and that ballot measure was on the Denver ballot that said, should we have meat processing in the city limits of Denver? And when I said, if in fact this goes into effect, 20% of the lamb harvest capacity will go down right here. It will be the end of the lamb sector because you have so few players that you're so vulnerable to any one situation. And we are fast approaching that same scenario in the beef business.
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Well, and the radical activists that do not want us to eat beef because beef is such a great protein source, or lamb, or chicken, all of these, pork. These are great protein sources.
SPEAKER 08 :
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't put chicken in the same category as lamb and beef, Kim. Oh, my goodness. That's a cardinal sin right there.
SPEAKER 22 :
I'm sorry. Okay, we'll put chickens over there. But they're under attack, too, with this whole avian bird flu thing. And that's a whole different discussion. So we'll say pork and sheep or lamb and beef. This has been, to me, and again, you mentioned that there's nature as well that makes it difficult for our farmers and ranchers. But, boy, public policy has really been pushing them around. And then high property taxes, you and I are both focused on that to try to get these property taxes lowered because property taxes is an assault upon private property. But there has been a concerted effort. I really think it's been since... Do you think it's the 70s or before? When do you think all this started?
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I actually think now it started at the end of World War II. But it's certainly 1977 is when it accelerated.
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And what happened in 77?
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There was a guy from Minnesota named Ansel Keys who started sending out misinformation about animal fats and as it related to healthy diets. And that was when the shift occurred from butter to margarine. And now we've all taken a relook at that and said, oh, wait a minute, butter is the healthy fat for us to go forward. And when we made that and when we started demonizing eggs, and now we've shifted back where people recognize that eggs are absolutely incredible in terms of the essential aspect of human health. the egg yolk will identify toxins in your gut and go neutralize those toxins. I mean, it goes beyond just the dietary protein and the density of the available nutrition. It goes to human health. But a guy named Ansel Keys at the University of Minnesota is the one that literally changed the concept of animal protein, animal fat, and we're still paying the price for that today and slowly getting that fixed.
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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, shouldn't have to force people to do it. And we're talking about our protectors. And the USMC Memorial Foundation was dedicated in 1977. They're working on a remodel. And both men and women serve our country. And we want to remember and honor all those that have served our country. and protected our freedoms and put their lives on the line or given their lives for us. And a great way to do that would be to add the USMC Memorial Foundation into your giving this year in 2025. So that website again is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Okay, several things coming in, Trent Luce, on the website. First thing, this is from Mary. She said, less beef makes us deficient and our bodies deteriorate faster. So you have to ask where... And I wanted to ask this motivation. Have you delved into this University of Minnesota professor from 1977? Was he influenced by this World Economic Forum group or whatever the precursor was to that?
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No, I don't believe he was. I believe he was influenced by poor religious choices.
SPEAKER 22 :
What do you mean by that?
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We have certain religions in the United States that profess to be Christian in nature and do not accept everything the Bible has to say about the foods that are blessed for us.
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Hmm.
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And so a little bit more on that. I'm questioning. What does that mean exactly?
SPEAKER 08 :
The Seventh-day Adventist church is the worst church. Helen White, the founder of the church, was the dietician for the Kellogg's brothers, and in the late 1800s, they wanted to know how to transition people away from bacon and eggs for breakfast to cereal, and so they were running an insane asylum, and they were practicing diets on people in their insane asylum, and that led to the Seventh-day Adventist church. I've been to Loma Linda University in California where they actively promote a vegan lifestyle. And as a result, you can find a lot of mental illness problems within the church, to be honest.
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Huh. Okay. I had no idea. Okay. Next thing, let's move over to women and men in combat. And Yvonne mentioned this, and that is chivalry. And again, this came in from Mary. She said, chivalry always ruins the mission. Why do you think the bad guys always put women and children first? on their front line. And I'm also thinking about the pictures of these illegal immigrants that the mainstream media would put out when we've had reports that primarily it's been military-age men that have crossed the border, but many of the photos have been of women and children. And I think those two things are connected.
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No doubt about that. I mean, Most of the images that we see today are to sway people in one way or another. I'll just give you an example from my world that just still wreaks havoc for us today. Back at a time when the United Kingdom was going through bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and there was one dairy cow that every time this discussion took place, no matter what the news organization, they had this same foaming at the mouth, stumbling dairy cow which was that photo was acquired by an animal rights organization that wanted to end the utilization of animals for human life, and they provided that picture because they knew that one image was going to detour people from consuming animal products. Images, and we are continually subjugated to our emotions, our hormones, all the things that lead to people with a certain opinion.
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And it's important. The work you're doing, the work I'm doing, is to be shedding light on this. So we only have a few minutes left. But, Trent, I know that you went down to the Colorado State Legislature. It was a wonderful experience. You were going to testify. And there's games that go on. I realize I may be into that game today because I'm going down to testify regarding Scott Bottoms and Mark Baisley's bill to – Concerning the protections for medical malpractice insurers relating to gender-affirming care, right now medical malpractice insurers are forced to provide insurance for those that are mutilating our children, and this bill would say that no, that can't happen. And I know what the game is. It starts at 1.30. I may be down there for a while, but I thought I'm going to go down in person to testify in favor of this particular bill. It's House Bill 25-1068 because I think that it's really important.
SPEAKER 08 :
Funny thing is I've already addressed this across the pond today, Kim. There are six state capitals that I keep track of, and I will watch testimony. In fact, as you mentioned, in the Colorado capital, I was supposed to last week on Thursday testify in Bismarck. I keep track of what's happening in my home state. I have never seen a blatant disregard for the will of the people at the state government level like I am seeing right now. No potential lawmaker, policymaker is walking into a hearing to try to learn information. They walk in, try to figure out how to blast through what their latest big money donors have wanted them to do. It is god awful this year. And I don't know what's in the water, but it's in every state, everywhere I go.
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Well, and I say that Colorado many times is at the tip of the spear on so many of these crazy activists, extreme things that are happening. With your experience watching these legislatures, would you agree with me? Or are there any that are crazier than Colorado? Or what are you seeing, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 08 :
None crazier than Colorado. I'm going to let you maintain that honor, Kim. But there are many states that are racing, trying to keep up. And to be honest, I'm going to also tell you, while most people in my camp like the outcome of what this guy who is now the president of the United States is doing through executive order, And all of these, he has become the lone wolf. He's running this country like a kingdom, not implementing the will of the people or going through congressional approval. He's just doing it. That's going to come back to bite us. It sets a precedent on what's happening in these state capitals.
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Well, and to your point, we need to have Congress actually take these executive orders and put them through Congress and put them into law so that we get back to this constitutional republic that we have. So many of these executive orders seem to me to be common sense. And I'd like to see us get back to common sense legislation. And that requires our congressmen, congresswomen, and our senators to step up and do their job. Let's balance our budget. Let's stop the spending. They need to do their job, Trent Luce. We've got a minute left. I'm glad you're back and feeling better and back in the game. Your final thought.
SPEAKER 08 :
My final thought is something I'm working on today in my own state capitol, but it's happening in many state capitals. The National Guard should not have the ability to deploy its members without a congressional declaration of war. That is basic constitutional USA. We need to get back to the Constitution, as you just said.
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Okay, stay tuned. That's going to be super interesting as well, Trent Luce. So we'll talk again next week, and so much to talk about of what's happening in our country. And we're going to work to protect our private property, and let's go to work on lowering property taxes across the board as well. Trent Luce, have a great week. We'll talk next week.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thanks, Kim. Can't wait.
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Join us in exploring the fascinating world of political maneuvering within the United States as President Trump goes head-to-head with the deep state. We discuss the potential impacts of his presidency on bureaucracy and efficiency. This episode also covers global responses to America’s changing stance on foreign aid, including notable reactions from countries like Canada and Mexico.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, here's Mike Deller.
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It's a little hard to believe that all this is happening so quickly. I mean, it's hard to believe it's happening in the first place. To watch a president go after the bureaucracy of the deep state the way Donald Trump is going after organizations like USAID, the Treasury Department. I've never seen anything like this in my life. And they're flipping out over Elon Musk. They're flipping out about the young kids, the smart young kids who are part of Doge. They're doxing them now. They want them hunted down. Young, probably nerdy kids... who are undoubtedly brilliant, the kind of people that make up the Elon Musk team. And they're posting their identity now online and in articles. The Daily Beast, oh, here are the evil villains. And they're all under 26 years of age. You've got a bunch of bright, fresh-faced young people who are discovering that the American taxpayer was on the hook for providing Iraq with Sesame Street. USAID is like a child, your kid, when they get their hands on your credit card and they go to town. And then you've got to catch them. And why are the Democrats so upset about this? Government efficiency. Why would this be a partisan issue? We're witnessing a revealing moment, not unlike when we discovered that a lot of people on the loony left are filthy, Jew-hating anti-Semites. It's like, wait a minute, they're as bad as we think they are. They're on college campuses waving flags in support of Hamas. After the October 7th massacre. Oh my gosh. Many progressives are Jew haters. And we had that revealing aha moment. Well, this is another one. They're not worried about Trump demolishing democracy. They're worried about Trump demolishing bureaucracy. They don't want the deep state dismantled. They want the slush fund from USAID. I mean, again, these are taxpayer dollars. And you've seen the list by now. The crazy things, the projects. I mean, I've got a list that's as long as my arm. It's insane what we were spending or what we've been spending. For every dollar USAID spends, only 12 cents reaches those in need. Boy, that's got to be a real... somber message to people still living in tents in western North Carolina. I'll bet the people of East Palestine, Ohio are a little surprised to find out that we put $2.3 billion of our money to Somalia. $20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq. $150,000 for Korean kids to visit D.C. $40 million of our money to build schools in Jordan. $56 million to boost Egyptian and Tunisia tourism. $11 million to tell the Vietnamese to stop burning their trash. Now, here's the best part of all. This is what's astounding to me. They're not hiding their disdain for an attempt at government efficiency at all. Look at Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer has been at the game a long time. This guy knows exactly what it's all about. Been a politician for a thousand years. Chuck Schumer, a senior Democrat official, listen to what he said yesterday. If we don't stop Trump from... expecting accountability from an entity like USAID, what could be next? The IRS? When the team played this clip for me, I said, guys, you've got to cut it out with the AI. There's no way he said that. Oh, yes, this is what Chuck Schumer said.
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If Doge attacks USAID today, then you can be sure they'll move on to another target tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe it'll be the Postal Service or the IRS. They could be next.
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Oh, no, not the Postal Service. What? The IRS? You want to cut out waste from the IRS? You mean we might stop auditing conservatives? What? No. The Postal Service? I mean, making that more efficient? No, don't do that. He actually said that. That was on the floor of the Senate. Are you relishing what we're experiencing right now, just two, two and a half weeks into the Trump administration? I saw somebody post something on social media that made a lot of sense, and I want to bounce it off you. That person, I'm paraphrasing here, but they said essentially, I'm glad they weaponized the court system against Trump. I'm glad they raided his wife's underwear drawer. I'm glad they attempted to bankrupt him because only a man who's been put through hell is capable of roaring back with a vengeance and doing the things he's doing right now to the deep state, to the establishment Republicans, and yes, to the bureaucracy that the Democrats relish. In a way, as awful as it was to experience as a country what they put him through, Maybe it was worth it because of what we're getting now. It's glorious. Glorious. Let's see what you think. We're the Relief Factor Studios for Tuesday. Our number, 800-655-MIKE. Let's put your voice front and center as we celebrate this extraordinary time in the history of the United States of America. I haven't had this much fun in my life covering this stuff. Let's see if you see it the same way. 800-655-MIKE. Are you glad we were spending millions to develop Sesame Street? For Iraq? Boy, that's a good use of taxpayer funds. Again, that's probably a tough, bitter pill to swallow for people living in pup tents in western North Carolina because Biden ignored them. Wow. We're fired up. Hope you are, too. 800-655-6453. Call or text, but join us.
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Mike Gallagher.
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So yesterday, Canada and Mexico both bent the knee. Trump wins. Huge victories for him in the so-called tariff war. Oh, the tariffs. All the smart kids were saying, oh, we're going to pay so much more for guacamole. Oh, no. Chuck Schumer waving around cans of Corona. And they're just like that. Mexico said, no, no, we'll put 10,000 troops on the border. Just like that, Trudeau said, we'll have a fentanyl czar. We'll do better at this, Mr. President. President Trump, we'll do better. We'll acquiesce. So there's a 30-day pause. 10,000 troops on the Canadian side of the border. 10,000 troops on the Mexican side of the border. Trudeau's going to list cartels as terrorists. Canada and Mexico both caved and don't believe the disgustingly corrupt mainstream media that wants you to think that Trump blinked. Trump blinked. These people are nuts. They're absolutely out of their minds. Just like the protesters along the 101 in Los Angeles. You see those doozies yesterday? We haven't even gotten to those people yet. So riddle me this, Batman. If you want to stay here and you don't want to go back to Mexico, why would you fly the Mexican flag and burn the American flag? Explain that to me like I'm two years old. Just talk slowly. You cannot make this stuff up. It is a glorious, golden, exciting, exhilarating time. We are witnessing this. The apple cart not being tipped over. It's the apple cart of the deep state apple cart is being blown up. Mike's in Lansing, Michigan. We'll start there. Hey, Mike, welcome aboard.
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Hey, Mike. How are you? I'm great.
SPEAKER 08 :
How are you?
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm good. You know, you're right. We are in a golden age. And I look at the left now, and they're entitled. They're delusional. And they think this is the way government should be. And for us to even worry about them, give them their couple seconds and then just tell them, okay, you know what, it's time. It's the golden age. Enough. This is all part of Trump delusion syndrome.
SPEAKER 08 :
I know. I mean, they're so irrational. If he cures cancer, they're going to figure out a way to complain about the way he cured cancer. Unlike Joe Biden, who always falsely claimed he'd cure cancer. It's an analogy. You know, it's a figure of speech. But it's true. If he walked on water, they'd say he's too stupid to drown. They hate him so much. This is a nonpartisan issue. How can you complain? Why would you complain about government efficiency? This is our money. This is taxpayer money for USAID. This isn't donor funds. These aren't private donors supporting an organization that gives millions of dollars to Iraq or Jordan or whatever. This is our money. And there's Chuck Schumer. Tracy loved this. And congratulations to my producer, Tracy, whose son and daughter-in-law gave birth to a beautiful little baby girl this week. Grandma is very proud. The pictures are beautiful, and the baby's beautiful. And so we're so thrilled for Tracy and her family. And welcome Tracy back. She just took one day to be with the family yesterday, and good for her. And Tracy came in just cackling at Schumer, holding up props, It's like when he put the cheese on the frozen patties of hamburger on the grill to try to pretend that he's an everyman, knows how to grill out. You don't put cheese on the frozen, unthawed patties. Patty's dummy, but he was posing. It's like Buttigieg getting out of the car and getting the bike out of the back of the SUV and then driving the last two blocks to work on a bike so that you think he likes bikes. These are all fake people. Here's Schumer. Now, Trump's great with props. Schumer, not so much.
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Let's just take Super Bowl Sunday, okay? It's going to affect beer, okay? Most of it, Corona here, comes from Mexico. It's going to affect your guac, because what is guacamole made of? Avocados, both from Mexico.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right out of Saturday Night Live. You ask anybody in America. If you're going to pay like 0.6% more for a can of Corona, or you're going to have the streets cleared of dangerous people who might rape your wife or murder your kid, I think you might pay a little bit more for guacamole or cans of Corona beer. Now that's Schumer's attempt to scare the American people. I've never seen anything like this in my life. This feels too good to be true. And often things that feel too good to be true aren't. So what am I missing here? What am I missing in witnessing what we're witnessing? Frank's in Florida, 25 past the hour. Frank, I hear you're a little less optimistic than the rest of us. Is that true? Well, no.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think this is the great... First off, I love your show. Thank you, Frank. And I think this is the greatest time in America. But I am so concerned that Trump is stepping on so many toes. I hope he has enough security to keep himself safe. Because there are a bunch of morons out there, a bunch of idiots out
SPEAKER 08 :
uh that he's that he's messing with you know what i'm saying well i mean obviously i think no no no i get your point i think a lot of us i pray for his safety every day uh there's no we do too my wife and i both yep you have to and but here's the there's the great thing about look the man's knocking on the door of one of these days before we know it he's going to be 80 yeah you know like like like the rest of us he's not going to be here forever the good thing about trump i'm at his age
SPEAKER 01 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm getting there. I'm knocking on the door. But you know what's great? He began a movement. This is way bigger than him. This is way bigger than him. And if the unthinkable happened, you know we've got the J.D. Vances and the Marco Rubios and the Elon Musks and a whole army of MAGA patriots. who will carry the torch. You know, it's not him. It's not him. It's not just him anymore. But again, it's a great point, and I appreciate your kind words. Michael's in Philadelphia. Hey, Michael, how are you?
SPEAKER 12 :
Hey, how are you? Good. Great show, by the way. Thank you. Always love your show.
SPEAKER 08 :
You're very kind.
SPEAKER 12 :
But I've got to say I'm not as optimistic, and I'm going to tell you why.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
A week ago, people I know in California that worked for the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation, things set up by George Bush, they walked in and confiscated the computers and closed them down and fired everybody. And immediately, that means 22, get ready for this, million people would not receive their AIDS medication and would very soon start dying.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, I'm having a hard time hearing you. We've got a bad connection. I'm sorry. I don't know if you're on a speakerphone, but I think that a lot, and let's address that because there have been a lot of false claims about people who won't get medication if USAID gets under the auspices of the federal government. There's a lot of misconceptions about what's actually going to happen here. I'll try to tackle that. Again, I apologize for the bad connection, but stick around. More coming up. You know, there's a cross that Mike Lindell of MyPillow wears around his neck. And for years, people have said, Mike, can we get that cross? And so I'm real proud to share with you that MyPillow is now offering the MyCross necklace. It's a beautiful sterling silver cross, onyx-styled black enamel with a protective clear coat, mother-of-pearl-styled translucent white enamel. They've got a men's size and a ladies' size. The MyCross necklace is now available for you at MyPillow.com. If you go to MyPillow.com, look for the Mike Gallagher specials and click on that box. You're going to get a huge discount. I mean, big-time discount. In fact, you're going to get, I think, $30 less of a price than what is available on the MyPillow site if you don't go to MySquare. So if you want a beautiful gift, if you want to remind yourself what matters, if you want the same cross – it's the same cross that Mike Lindell wears every day whenever you see him on TV – This cross is now available for you, and you're going to get a huge discount when you enter the promo code MikeG. So go to MyPillow.com, look for the Mike Gallagher specials, click on that box, and then find the MyCross. There's also all kinds of great items to get you the best night's sleep of your life. Just don't forget to enter the promo code MikeG so you'll save big, and you've got to go to that square. Go to MyPillow.com, look for the Mike Gallagher specials, click on that box, and then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG.
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Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know how much fun we're having? Isn't it amazing to be winning like this? I just wait. Is this ride going to end? I don't want to get off. Stop the world. I want to get on. I saw a story about the New Jersey governor this week that just exemplifies how the Democrats are in complete chaos. They're melting down. Did he really sit up on a stage and claim victory? That he's got a migrant living in his basement? I mean, you can't make this up. And I saw this online last night. I thought, well, Governor Murphy of New Jersey's got an illegal living in his home. I'm like, well, okay. That's a start. Let him take all the illegals in. Instead of paying for luxury hotels, let's just let the leftists open up their homes and adopt a migrant. We have that clip. This is unbelievable. He's up there saying he's got a migrant, I guess, in the governor's mansion. Now, later, I guess they walked it back. Apparently, he didn't really mean it. But, boy, it's fun to hear it the first time.
SPEAKER 05 :
Talking about, I don't want to get into too much detail here, But there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to. And we said, you know what, let's have her live at our house above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.
SPEAKER 08 :
What? You've got an illegal, you're harboring an illegal immigrant? I want to see that raid. I want Tom Holman to lead that raid on Governor Murphy's garage and get, you know, Gladys or Emily or Amelia or whatever her name is. What is that, his housekeeper, do you think? Yeah. Maybe that's the wife of his, who would that be? But he said, good luck coming to get the illegal that I'm harboring in my garage. Is that the best you can do, Murphy? Put her over the garage? Can't you at least give her a utility room or something in the mansion? And that's all I want.
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They can sit back and watch us protect their community. Any mayor, city councilman, their number one job is protection of the communities. We've been clear we're looking for public safety threats. If you want to help us, just get the hell out of the way, and we'll do it. But don't cross that line. Don't actually impede our operation, because that's a felony. Don't normally harbor and conceal. It will go anywhere from us. That is a felony. So there will be consequences, absolutely.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike.
SPEAKER 08 :
This Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey might wind up in an orange jumpsuit if he keeps bragging about harboring an illegal in his garage. I can't believe that clip. This one is just hard to even wrap your brain around. So the New Jersey – I've got to play that again, Christian. We've got to hear this one more time. So Phil Murphy, this goofball Democrat governor of New Jersey – is sitting down with the progressive organization Blue Wave New Jersey. And he says, Tammy and I, he's talking about his wife, my wife and I were talking about, and then he goes on to describe Juanita in the garage. Now, he's got an illegal living over the garage. I can't get enough of this. Let's play it one more time.
SPEAKER 05 :
Talking about, I don't want to get into too much detail, but there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to. And we said, you know what, let's have her live at our house above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, that seems pretty specific to me, right? That's pretty clear. Tammy and I were talking about, I don't want to get into too much detail, but there is someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they're trying to get it to. We said, you know what? Let's have her live in our house above our garage. And they denied he said it. A source close to the governor told Fox News Digital, no one ever... No one ever actually moved into his home. He was just talking about someone in his broader orbit who was on edge over the border climate and was concerned. He mentioned... I can't get through this. I can't get through it. They're living in the garage. He's got bats in the belfry and illegals in the garage. That house has got to be, that's a fun house over there. We've got to pay a visit to the governor's mansion because they've got some action going on there. Here's Tom Holman, the border czar, responding last night on Fox News to Governor Murphy bragging about Juanita in the garage.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I think the governor is pretty foolish saying what he said because I've gotten old of it. Won't let it go. We'll look into it. And if he's gnarly, gnarly, harboring, concealing an illegal alien, that's a violation of Title VIII United States Code 1324. I will seek prosecution or the secretary will seek prosecution. So maybe he's bluffing. If he's not, we'll deal with that. And as far as doing sanctuary cities, well, get in line because the Trump administration is going to do that already. Sanctuary cities are sanctuary for criminals. One example, right? sanctuary cities in new york city if they would have gave us over the the killer of lake and riley when he got arrested in new york city for endangering child he would have been in jail they would never killed lake and riley sanctuary cities are responsible for deaths of thousands thousands of of young children throughout my career and we're going to sue him we're going home and look we've got to go to supreme court that's what president trump wanted to do he will end sanctuary cities
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow. This is like music to our ears. Every time I think about Democrats' embrace of sanctuary cities, I remember that despicable mayor of Philadelphia dancing the happy dance when a judge ruled in favor of Philadelphia's Deadly sanctuary city status. Remember, what's his name, Keeney Kinney? This old man dancing like a fool. Ooh, we're a sanctuary. We ought to pull that out of the archives. Well, guess what, dummy? The jig is up. The jig is up. And hey, Governor Murphy, I don't think they allow my pillows in prison. If you're harboring an illegal... I don't think they'll let you take the MyPillow Giza Dream Sheets with you. I think you've got to use prison-issued, you know, bedding. But if you're not headed for the Huskow and you want to give yourself the best night's sleep of your life, MyPillow is thrilled to announce that they're having their first-ever mega sale on overstock clearance and brand-new products. For example, of course, the pillow that started it all, the standard classic MyPillow, the bestseller, $14.98 with promo code MikeGee. And that's the key to unlock it all. The MyCross, the same cross that Mike has worn for years, that's available as well right now. Brand new MyCrosses designed in the likeness of the one that Mike has worn every day for over 20 years since he found the Lord and became this really successful guy. And look, a controversial figure. People... are trying to cancel him, but you keep standing in the way. So make it a MyPillow Tuesday. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And to take advantage of the first ever mega sale, enter the promo code MikeG so you'll save big. And you know that $75 rule? If you get things shipped over $75 or more, shipping is free. If your order is $75 or more, it's free shipping. Gone. Every order ships absolutely free. So today's a good day to order a mattress topper or a big item, like maybe even a MyPillow mattress itself or a doggy bed. Free shipping on every order. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me.
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Promo code MikeG. I keep seeing these videos on my monitor of all these anti-deportation protests with all of these Mexican flags. Look, you want to target illegal immigrants? Start there, Tom Holman. Let's start sending ICE and let's start sending the troops to these rallies, these protests. I'll bet you're going to find a lot of illegals that you could arrest. It is against the law. Yeah, we found James Kinney, the victory dance. Check this out. If you're watching on Salem News Channel or watching us on X today, we're streaming the Salem News Channel presentation of the Mike Gallagher Show on X. Please follow me at Gallagher Show. I'll do my best to follow everybody back. I will never forget this. This clown, after hearing that a judge ruled in favor of Philadelphia being a sanctuary city, this is what he did. What a clown. We are dancing like a teenager. And Tom Holman is right. What the mayor of Philadelphia is celebrating is... has led to the deaths of thousands and thousands of Americans. Sanctuary City status has led to the deaths of thousands of people. And that's the side that the Democrats are on. That's what leads the mayor of Philadelphia to embarrass himself and do a happy dance saying we're a sanctuary city. Let that sink in. I don't know what side you're on. I'm pretty comfortable with the side I'm on. How about you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Mike Gallagher. Every day Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's Eminem experience.
SPEAKER 08 :
I saw somebody post something last night that made a lot of sense. They said, I'm kind of glad that they weaponized the justice system in the courts and they raided Melania's underwear drawer and they... came up with 34 bogus felony convictions because only a man who has been through hell and back the way Trump has is motivated to do for the American people what he's doing right now. The guardrails, as Axios put it, are gone. They're saying, look, there is no stopping this guy. And I'm here for it. All of it. Every bit of it. Inject it into my veins. Trump chelation. Mark, there's a lot of revelatory moments. Let me share with you. And I was thinking a lot about this driving in today to talk to you. Remember how it was revealed as we watched the smart kids parade around college campuses in support of Hamas after October 7th. And we realized, oh, my Lord, they are actually anti-Semites. They're actual Jew haters. Jew hating on display in our youngest generation. And it was revelatory. It was like, wow, our eyes were opened to the real, real ugliness of many of the progressive left. Didn't want to believe.
SPEAKER 09 :
I did not want to think that about people just for disagreeing with them on policy, but it was much worse.
SPEAKER 08 :
But you can't escape it. It's unavoidable. I mean, when you're out waving Palestinian flags and saying, you know, from the river to the sea, not only do we have elected representatives who are filthy anti-Semites, but we have a lot of the so-called smart progressives. Now, here we go this week. We've got Chuck Schumer and AOC and Ilhan Omar shrieking to the heavens about freezing USAID. Yeah. Now, USAID, as we have, has been revealed to us, is like a child grabbing your credit card. Like your kid got your MasterCard or your Visa. $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq? Yep. $50 million to boost tourism in Egypt. This is our money. This is our money. This is American taxpayers. $40 million to build schools in Jordan. Now, it's being revealed. But look what also is being revealed. They hate... the accounting of this accountability they don't want usaid to be held responsible or accountable they're freaking out they're flipping out and it's revealing it's revelatory you know how they kept saying that that trump was going to be the the the end of democracy It's end of bureaucracy, and I've heard that phrase a lot. That's what they fear. He's taking on the deep state establishment in a way that we have never in our lifetime witnessed ever before. No one's come close. It's two and a half weeks. This guy's two weeks into it. What's six months going to look like?
SPEAKER 09 :
What are we going to be talking about?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, let me tell you what Chuck Schumer's afraid we're going to be talking about. He said something yesterday. I had to check with the team. I said, tell me that's not, is that AI? Is that a parody? He said, if we let Trump upend USAID, he could be going after the IRS next. He actually said that like that was a bad thing. He was like, oh, please don't don't threaten me with a good time. Are you kidding me? He said and then he said he could be going after the U.S. Postal Service next. In other words, Schumer thinks he's scaring Americans by giving us what we want.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. Casting the light of accountability. And I've so enjoyed it. It's kind of glib. It's kind of a cliche, but it's often true. When the right people are upset, when the right people's hair is on fire, that's how you know good things are happening. I'm looking at this Ben Rhodes, this man-child who had some foreign policy gig during Obama's time. This will result in starvation for countless people around the world. You know, maybe we won't have drag shows in Indonesia. Maybe we won't have trans musical comedies going on in Egypt. Maybe we won't have other slush fund ridiculousness that American taxpayers have funded for too long. We've been looking at this stuff has been happening for six decades since USAID was developed under Kennedy. And it's over. That's what the whole Doge thing is, government efficiency, taking a sharp eye and a sharp scalpel and sometimes a sledgehammer to things that we just shouldn't be spending money on. And why wouldn't Democrats be on board with that, Mark? Because, A, they love it. They love grandiose expansionist collectivist government. And they also love, you know who a huge USAID beneficiary was? Our friends in Ukraine. It was another part of the slush fund to prop up that regime. So...
SPEAKER 08 :
Want to know who another beneficiary was? Somalia. USAID has spent billions for Somalia, and Ilhan Omar is flipping out. Remember, she famously said when she was elected, I'm here to protect the interests of Somalia from within the U.S. system. Which, of course, violates her oath. That violates her constitutional oath, but who cares? Who keeps track at this point? I mean, look, USAID is a mess. For every dollar it spends, it's been revealed by Doge that only 12 cents actually reaches those in need. Meanwhile, we got people still living in tents in western North Carolina. Thank you. We've got people, they don't, Biden didn't care about East Palestine, Ohio. That's a red county. He doesn't care about Carolinas. Those are Trump voters. And look, it's a whole new day. And it's crazy. I am so astounded at how they've revealed themselves to us.
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And they're revealing things that we didn't even know. A lot of people didn't know that USAID existed. That's right. Not only do we now know that it exists, but we also know what Elon Musk called it, a criminal organization.
SPEAKER 08 :
A slush fund. It's a big slush fund. Look what we're learning. Meanwhile... But now talk to me like I'm five years old. Explain to me like I'm five. Because I saw the video of the protesters yesterday that are all hysterical about the mass deportations.
SPEAKER 09 :
The one that blocked the 101 Highway in California?
SPEAKER 08 :
The 101 Highway in California. There have been some, I believe, in Dallas. I think there have been protests all over the country. Now explain this to me. Okay. I saw the protesters burning the flag of the country they don't want to leave. Right, exactly. Our flag. But they're waving the flag of the country in which they don't want to go back to.
SPEAKER 09 :
Can you explain that to me?
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm five.
SPEAKER 09 :
Guess you're the smartest five-year-old in America. Because you have figured it out exactly right there. They're burning the American flag while attempting to stay in America, while loftily holding high the flag of Mexico, the country they don't want to go back to.
SPEAKER 08 :
Does that make any sense at all?
SPEAKER 09 :
It does not. That and the Luca trade, things that make no sense. Right. I mean, they're mystifying. Burn the Mexican flag and fly the American flag. We love America. We love America.
SPEAKER 08 :
So much that we don't want to be peeled from its shores. Yeah, but that ain't the way they feel. No, no, they don't. They hate America. They just want to siphon from us. I saw this headline today. I love the tariffs. And did you notice that Eric Erickson smacked back at you yesterday on X?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, no! OK, hold on. Let me tell the story because I don't. So so Eric Erickson and a whole lot of other faux semi pseudo conservatives took a look at a hiccup in the stock market yesterday and went, there's your tariffs. That's what your tariffs. So I sometime early evening last night reposted Eric sneezing at the tariffs, sniffing at the tariffs. and said, wow, sometimes it's smart to wait for a day and see how things play out. And did that garner some attention from our buddy?
SPEAKER 08 :
He wrote, he posted back at you. I didn't even understand what his point was because when it said that Canada and Mexico bent the knee, and they did, they have agreed to focus. All Eric Erickson wrote to you was, as I said, or something. It was really weird. It's like, no, you didn't. no it didn't make it didn't make any sense at all i mean these guys are just like or i'm paraphrasing but it was like yeah like i said and then he posted something about canada and mexico caving which i don't it doesn't make it didn't make any sense at all you know i have to empathize and give latitude to people who are just who have painted themselves into such a weird corner and you know speaking of who blake and they can't get out of it how do they get out of it and
SPEAKER 09 :
It's not all Democrats, as you pointed out. The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed headline, Trump blinks on North American tariffs. He didn't blink. He paused them because the other guys blinked.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's what they did. I was curious to see how David Muir and the usual suspects would handle this. Because, of course, over on Fox and Newsmax, it's like, look, big Trump victory. Well, ABC, Trump had had to somewhat concede and he backed he backtracked. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was all about it was incredible. And and the usual suspects run. So I love this post. Rich Zioli wrote it, wrote something was so good. This is directed to you, Eric Erickson. Generations from now, we will tell our grandchildren tales of the great North American trade war, how close we came to losing it all. Guacamole, avocado toast, maple syrup, other maple-flavored things. But we endured. For 18 long hours, it appeared all hope was lost.
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Like a 10-part series, The Great American Trade War, Chapter 1, 9 to 10 a.m. Chapter 2, 10 a.m. to noon.
SPEAKER 08 :
February 3rd to February 3rd. I mean, it was one day. But they're so panicked. And look at Axios, how tariffs hit the working class. Now, this is the typical scare tactics, right? And then they write, by the numbers, in an analysis out this morning, the conference board projects the combined impact of Trump's tariff proposals could increase inflation by, are you ready? By 0.6 percentage points over a year. Now they concede sort of embarrassingly, now that's not near the sky high inflation of 2022. Oh, you think? Oh, 0.6? Tell you what, I think women will pay another 25 cents for their avocado toast so they don't get raped when they leave the store as they're walking back to their car. If things are a little safer, do the Democrats not care about the safety and security of the American people, but Chuck Schumer's waving around cans of Corona? Oh, your Corona's going to go up.
SPEAKER 09 :
I wondered if I made that up in my head, because I knew he had a guacamole and a lime in the other hand. And a beer in the other aisle.
SPEAKER 08 :
And a beer.
SPEAKER 09 :
If he keeps doing that, I'll invite him over to my house.
SPEAKER 08 :
But the point made was... Listen, if they keep going down this path, we'll be in control for the next 100 years. The Democrats won't win another election. Bring it. Bring David Hogg. Make sure those guys are running things. AOC, give us more. Chuck Schumer, better be careful. They might reform the IRS next. No, no, please don't. What are we going to do? Gosh, what a... Time to be alive. All right, I love you. Happy Tuesday. We're ready.
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Later in the episode, Dana turns her focus towards politics, particularly the involvement of technically-gifted youth reshaping USAID. Witness the intellectual prowess of a group dubbed 'The Goon Squad' as they challenge bureaucratic inefficiencies. Dana provides a playful yet insightful analysis of how this young group is disrupting the status quo, stirring emotions across the political spectrum and shining a light on the power of innovation. All this and more awaits in this episode that blends the odd and the impactful with Dana's unique style.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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Well, this is a Florida woman. A stripper was busted for battery with a banana at a 7-Eleven. This feels like a punk song. Her name... There's a lot of vowels in here. Call to A-V-I-A. Turner. Got into a verbal altercation. She's 22, looks 80. Got into a verbal altercation with a 30-year-old woman. They began exchanging derogatory comments. And then she, Turner, became irate, picked up a banana from the cashier, threw it in the victim's face. They said that the airborne fruit struck the employee on the cheekbone and left a minor abrasion. First off, if I was a cop responding to that, I would be like, it's a banana. Yeah. You know, get over yourself. Come on. But then I would also be like, listen, Castlevania Turner, this is, you know, no, this is wrong. You can't be coming up acting the fool like this. They said that she is an employer at a gentleman's club, Kane, called Baby Dolls. What? Gentleman? Yeah.
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Only gentlemen attend.
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Yeah, gentleman's club. What's that movie, that horror film about that possessed doll?
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It?
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Chucky?
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No. What did it start? Oh, shoot. I'm not going to be able to move until I do this. Horror movie doll. Oh, gosh. What is it called? Not Megan. It's an older one. Oh, Annabelle. That's what I was thinking of. Oh, Annabelle. So when you're talking about the gentleman's club called Baby Dolls, do you mean like Annabelle? Yeah. So or Chucky, you could also add that. Anyway, she was busted. She also stole a lot. She was already on probation. So she violated it because she stole a whole bunch of stuff from Walmart, almost a thousand dollars. And so she that she was charged with a felony. And then she got in trouble because she did not perform her 75 hours of community service or pay her court fines. So she was already free on a thousand dollar bomb when she got in trouble for the banana battery. She's just a mess. This chick is a mess. Also, let's see. A Florida man steals a woman's purse with a one-month-old kitten inside. The kitten was recovered safely. Everybody's fine. Why are you keeping your kitten in a purse? There's, you know, also that. And then a Florida man decided that he was going to steal a vehicle from a car lot. It was in Vero Beach. He had his loan denied. And so he said he spent his last 50 bucks on the Uber there. So he decided to steal the car. It was a 2024 Hyundai Tucson. And they said that the man, Jason Vargasco, was angry after he was turned down. He decided to leave the lot when he found the keys in the ignition. And he got in trouble because guess what? The car had a GPS locator and they were. Yeah, he did get in trouble for that. Yeah. Tomorrow, I'll tell you about the Florida woman who had a first date commemorative brick that she threw in her ex's house. We have more to come as we have headlines on the way as we move our partners to bring you the program. It's our friends over at Caltech, the PR 57. I don't know. There isn't a lighter, thinner. a 5.7 that's on the market. The Kel-Tec 5.7, this is a game changer. It really is. This thing is so cool. They changed concealed carry in 95. Now they got the PR57 rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7, redefining the game. This innovative rotary barrel makes it the lightest 5.7 pistol on the market. It's 40% lighter than the next 5.7. It has a unique top-loading design. So this is the killer detail here. This is so cool. It replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips. So you have a slimmer carry profile, 20 plus 1 capacity. So all the people who say clips instead of magazines, they made this for you. I'm joking. Built to perform when it matters most. Low recoil, engineered for simplicity and reliability. They're dedicated to making innovation and performance affordable. This thing has an MSRP of only $399. That's pretty cool. First of its kind, rotary barrel pistol, the PR57, a 5.7 from Kel-Tec. Visit Kel-TecWeapons.com to learn more. That's K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.
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As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a bowl of worms. There is no apple. You've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair. So really none of this could be done without the full support of the president. I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down. I actually checked with him a few times. Are you sure? I'm like, yes. So we're shutting it down.
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You know why I like nerds? Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this first hour. You know why I like nerds? Because they're not dumbasses. By the way, I'm in a very George Carlin mood today, so please do not mistake me for Dora the Explorer and set your child in front of the simulcast that you might be watching, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at Rumble, because they'll walk away with very rebellious tendencies and they might have a colorful vocabulary. That's my only vice in life. Hands to sky. That said, you know why I like nerds? Because nerds are just who they are. And I don't say nerd like it's a pejorative. I think it's just one of the highest compliments that you can bestow upon your fellow man. Because nerds get it done, right? If you got something that you need to figure out, ask a nerd. If something's bothering you and you can't, you know, you got to find a way around it, ask a nerd. Because the nerds know. That's what they do. They eat. They maybe sleep or wait. And then they just do stuff. That's what they do. Nerds figure it out. So Elon Musk... I should have played Beastie Boys Sound of Science, actually, coming into this. That's what we should have played. We should just start this whole segment over. Even though it's live radio. Because that would have been the right track to play. The... group of nerds that he has assembled, they are going around, this is the funniest thing, they're going around and firing everybody at USAID. They're trying to figure out, they're looking for redundancies and they are dismantling, tearing apart all of the government waste. They have six dudes that they know of And they're all ages 19 to 25. Three of them are still in college. They got one guy, for instance, who is going through, blah, blah, blah. They got an A-suite level clearance for their work. I'm like looking at some of this. They can work on the agency's top floor. They can access all physical spaces, IT systems, et cetera. And they've been going through and just slicing and dicing. One of them is a programmer. They're all basically engineers at some point. They're all nerds. And one of them wrote about it over at Substack saying, why Doge? I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America. Yeah, because he's going to have a ton of jobs after. Dude, you're like 22 years old. You're going to be able to have your pick of all the broads and cash in the world when you're done. All right, so just... You got to look at it as a stepping stone. You'll have a different girl on your arm every night. All right. And you're going to be loaded with cash. You're going to be good. So they went and started going after you. I'm dying laughing at this because God love them. They're such nerds. I think this one guy's arms. I mean, I like to think that I'm big and I want SpongeBob jerk arms. You know, like I, for my whole life, I've tried to work out to get like super cut and super giant. It's not happening for me. It's not in my DNA makeup. My metabolism is too fast. This guy has arms thinner than mine, this sweet little 19-year-old baby face, little baby boy. He's got arms thinner than mine. But you know what? He's literally a grim reaper when you get him in this stuff and let him loose. He's apparently been – he interned at Neuralink. And he's listed as an expert and he's just going through and just jettisoning people out of this department. I love it. God love them. They're all nerds. It's all so great. And they're going through and it's making the left so mad. What do their 20-year-olds do? Look at that. pencil neck that they just made the vice chair over at the DNC. What the hell does this guy do? He can't even spell words right. He doesn't know how the government works. And he just gets up there and blows hot air out of his backside. And everyone's like, oh, so great. Look, it said something. They're actually doing stuff. I don't even know what this one guy does. I was reading like his resume. He does super nerdy stuff. That's all I know. Like, I don't even know half of what the software is. I'm not even going to pretend. So anyway, they've, I mean, they're working. He's got literally at his command a bunch of a nerd army. I mean, that's America, you know, having a nerd army go through. It's revenge of the nerds, totally. So they're going through and they're just slicing and dicing everything. And it is just a beautiful thing to see. And the left is livid. Oh my gosh, they're livid. They're so mad. And they don't know what to make of the nerds. Have you seen them trying to figure this out? The best they can do is, can you believe these 20-something-year-olds have access to these sensitive things? Wait, you mean the sensitive things that you've been redirecting to communists in order to take down the U.S. from the inside? That kind of stuff? I got less of a problem with these cats. I don't have a problem with this at all. Oh, they're just mad. They can't believe. Democrats, can I just say... For all the talk about youth vote, Democrats hate the youth. And I say this as someone who was raised in a Democrat family. I did not meet a Republican, hands to sky. The first Republican I ever met in my life was in college. You're in a Democrat town, Democrat family, everybody you know is a Democrat. I literally did not meet a Republican in person until I was in college. Isn't that weird? Think about the lack of diversity there, right? So if you stray off of that ideological plantation, so to speak, the left hates you. They hate conservative youth particularly. But they don't really like any of the youth. That's when Kamala Harris was like, oh, they're horrible. That's why they're in dorms, et cetera, et cetera. They just don't like the youth. They use them as a means to an end. They know they don't vote. That's why they screwed them over when they promised everyone, oh, you're getting free college, whatever. Oh, by the way, we changed our mind after you all voted for us. Whoops. No, they're actually being put to work here. It's so great. And again, the left does not know how to deal with it because I think they're half afraid that these nerds will come after them. I mean, God love them. They got acne and everything. Just God bless America. It's amazing. I mean, they have their little suits. They have their little photos. It's so great. I mean, I don't mean to infantilize them, but I just find it... Incredibly ironic that for all the talk about the youth that the left gives lip service, you know, these nerds are working for a smaller government, not a bigger government. It's a fabulous thing. So, yes, they've been going through and just gutting everything. And, I mean, it's a great thing. I kind of want to be a nerd now. I want to grow up to be a nerd, Cain. Yeah. That's what I want to do. I think that's great. So it's a team of 20-something, these nerds. They said that with this, oh, they called them, the worst that they can do is call them the goon squad. They went into, so Office of Personnel Management, that's OPN, that's essentially HR for the federal government. So if that makes sense, it's basically – I think that's right. It's HR for the federal government, OPM, right? Yeah. And they were appearing in meetings and on calls where they made these workers go over the code they had written to justify their jobs. That's per what – That's per wired. So they said, and all these people are telling the press, can you believe that they're actually testing us to see if we can do our job? Yeah, I actually can. Why is that such a shocking thing to you? It should have been happening. Yeah, yeah, it should have been happening the entire time. That's kind of wild that you think that it shouldn't. So they said that they're an OPM expert. is how they are listed. But I love what they're doing because they're going through and they found that if you control HR and you can get into the payment system for the treasury, then you can go through, find any government program that has not been authorized, and you can just eliminate it. See, that's the problem of doing all this stuff. without any kind of actual explicit authorization. If you are some kind of third-party entity and you got a government grant and you got the goon squad, I love it, going in there saying, well, we don't understand the point of this right here, then guess what? Gone. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. It's a beautiful thing. I love that you had over 500 members Of Congress, you had the legislature, all these legislators out there that didn't do this. You know why? Because they're not just a handful of tech bros, tech bro nerds. The tech bro nerds are not beholden to anybody like these lawmakers are. They don't care. They really don't care. Now, what's going to happen is if there is something that they eliminate that has been authorized by statute, well, then there's a process that that entity that had their funding eliminated that they'll have to go through. But that just is another loophole they got to go through, and I'm fine with that. I think that there should be such overlay of all of this stuff. But I love it. I mean, the oldest is 25 years old. Parents feel proud if your kids are one of the goon squad. I don't even think that that's like a... I know that the left means that as a pejorative, but it's not. This department... And this kind of gets into one of the concerns that I had from the beginning. Because I love the idea of having this basically glorified auditor. I like that idea. But you also had to constantly think of the... process of going through Congress because if it's again Congress controls the power of the purse and you if you're going to eliminate something you got to go through Congress unless unless it's been by EO or it's one of these oh here's a government grant through whatever agency see Democrats have done that for so long they never figured out or ever realized that that could be weaponized to work against them and now it is And it's a beautiful thing. They're all sick. Like, what's some of the stuff that they're saying? Oh, Chuck Schumer's been just going crazy. But not as crazy as what's her face. Ilhan Omar, she's going after USAID. She's shrieking over all of this stuff. Listen to this. Audio soundbite five.
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It is really, really a sad day in America. We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like. When you gut the constitution and you install yourself as the sole power, that is how dictators are made.
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That's actually it's the Constitution and elections have consequences. If you don't like it, feel free to leave. Just go ahead and go. Go on. Go on now. So I'm pleased by this. I can't wait to see all the savings, Cain. All of the savings! And yes, getting rid of waste, you're not eliminating the Constitution, you moron. If it's not Article I, Section 8, it's unconstitutional anyway. They literally were looking to see, of these organizations and the grants that they were giving, which ones were actually violating executive orders, etc. And USAID became one of their main focuses. It's Musk saying that. Because the whole entire censorship ministry, for the lack of a better way to put it, like that Nina Jankowicz lady, that annoying theater broad, all of that was made possible by this entity, by USAID. I read something where it said Joni Ernst was trying to get receipts on this for six or so years, and they just refused to hand over anything documenting what they were spending their money on. And you had all of these, whether it was EcoHealth Alliance, yeah, the WuFlu people, uh-huh, all of these far-left alphabet groups, burn, loot, murder, all of it, all of these entities got funded through this agency. They were handing out taxpayer dollars like crazy. And so all of this, they had the... the audacity to think that none of this could ever be taken from them. I mean, it was USAID. So you remember all of the money that was going to Gaza that we were giving Hamas? Guess who that went through? USAID. That went through all of that. Remember the pier that was being built off of Gaza and how we were sending all these resources through that? And it ended up in the hands of Hamas and Hamas never actually distributed it to Gazans. Shocker. That was USAID. You know, the Haitian aid where people were looting all of the money that was being sent to help Haitians. That was USAID. All of it. Every single thing that you can't track or you have questions on or that seems shady is legit all USAID. And the left is mad because Doge has kicked out the leg from under that stool. They have collapsed their ability to weaponize taxpayer dollars against taxpayers. God bless America. 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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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five.
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So apparently Joe Biden, for whatever reason, is signed with CAA. He's ready to make some Hollywood deals. I mean, that's what he's been doing. He spent his whole last term acting. So I don't know what he thinks he's doing. What the hell is he going to do? He's he's he decided to go with the CAA is a huge agency. It's a creative artist agency. And their co-chairman said, quote, President Biden is one of the most. I can't even read this quote. Seriously, I can't. Are you serious? This dude was like, oh, he's loved and respected and blah, blah, blah. Says who? No, I don't feel like being nice. Bite me. I don't feel like being nice at all. Bite me and then pound curb. I don't care. Anyway, they said that he and his fellow co-chairs, they've been big backers of Biden and Harris. So I don't know who he's going to go swindle now. They're going to have to work somehow because the gravy train's up. Gravy train's done. It's passed. Scientists pour cold water on the popular ice bath health claims. I don't care. Another of I don't care. I don't like baths. It's people soup. It doesn't matter if it's hot or cold. If you're getting into a bath hot, it's hot people soup. If you're getting into a bath cold, cold people soup. But they say that it helps sleep. I don't do cold baths because why would I make myself uncomfortable like that? You know what I mean? Like we invented hot water. Why? We did. We made it hot. We can make it hot on demand. That's damn near magic, sir. Oh, let's see. Students were arrested after they staged a fake ice raid. Oh, and they said there's chaos, and I think it's hysterical. But again, don't care. And also, Super Bowl ticket prices are plummeting because nobody wants to go watch the same two teams constantly play against each other. Oh, look, sports ball. Stay with us. Now, in the meantime, immigration. Hmm. I like how Tom Homan's been going totally ham on all of this, because remember the New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy? He said, I mean, the way that he said it, he's harboring an illegal alien. Isn't that what you got out of it? This is what he said. Let me read it to you. He said, quote, oh, we have a go ahead and I was looking at the transcript. We have 11. Of course, you guys have it. Go ahead and play it.
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Tammy and I were talking about I don't want to get into too much detail, but there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to. And we said, you know what, let's have her live at our house above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.
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Challenge accepted. First off, when he says, how did he put this? How did he say that? Someone whose status isn't, how did he say it? Oh, the status is not yet at the point that they're trying to get it to. Can I just stop right there for a moment? Someone whose immigration status is not yet at the point they are trying to get it to. Yeah, that's totally not legal, yo. Now hear me out. That's like saying that you go into a store and you take something without paying for it. The status of your ownership is not at the point that you're trying to get it to. Do you think that you could use that And you could use that excuse in any way. I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so. So it sounds like they're harboring an illegal alien, and then he's challenging the feds to come and get her. So Tom Homan said, yeah, all right, we'll look into it. Why would you taunt Tom Homan? Why? Why? He's the guy who, like, I would imagine he's kind of like my grandpa. How my grandpa was. My grandpa would wake up in the morning. My grandpa was a tough old bird. And he didn't make coffee like normal people. He'd boil water and then put grounds in it. Like, when he was not even camping. When he was in the kitchen. He just didn't use it. That's tough, man. I just get the idea that Tom Holman starts his day the same way. So... Murphy's office, his staff, freaked out when he said this. They're like, wait a minute. Are you literally saying that you're violating... What are you doing? So he's been trying to backpedal this the whole time. And now they're trying to spin it as, oh, well, there's a witch hunt and they're trying to get someone now. You literally outed them as being an illegal alien and said they're living above your garage and now you're mad? So now... This is what they're saying. Hold up. Let me pull this up. This is New York Post. They're trying to say, no, no, no, no. You know, it was misinterpreted. What was? Everything he said. It was misinterpreted. There's nothing like this that actually happened. Oh, wait, we call that a lie. And even though he was literally daring the feds to come and get this person. And they said, no, no, no, no one's ever lived in the home under those circumstances. What other interpretation is there? He literally said someone who isn't here illegally is living above his garage. Pray tell, what other interpretation do we have? Well, we didn't mean like, no, we don't know. I mean, it's a felony. You're admitting to a felony. I don't know. He's I feel like he because isn't he termed out? I think Murphy's termed out after this. So he really doesn't. You know, he really doesn't GAF. He doesn't. But and they were trying to also. The other thing that he invited was the speculation as to the purpose of the person living above his garage because he clearly said it was a woman. So, Cain, if I if you hear someone saying, oh, yeah, we have an illegal alien female who's living above our garage. What does that suggest to you? Yeah, but but no. But what are they doing there? Is he is it like someone working in their house?
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She's not staying there for free, is she?
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I don't know.
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I mean... There's got to be some sort of trade of services or money.
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It's usually ass, gas, or grass, so, you know, like, I don't know.
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Really avoiding that. Were you?
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I was trying to avoid saying that. I love that for you.
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Disappointed that you just did it.
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So I... What's the reason that... What other interpretation is there? They tell on themselves, and then they're like, oops, oops. Phil Murphy. What do you expect?
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Now, President Trump ran for office saying, I'm going to review every single penny in the federal budget. Now, how are you going to review the spending in the federal budget without reviewing the spending? And that's what Mr. Musk is doing. Now, many of my Democratic colleagues and some of the... the tofu eating walkerati at the usaid are screaming like they're part of a prison riot because they don't want us reviewing the spending But that's all Mr. Musk is doing, and he's finding some pretty interesting stuff. To my friends who are upset, I would say with respect, call somebody who cares. They better get used to this. It's USAID today. It's going to be Department of Education tomorrow. And really, here's what's going on. For four years under President Biden, The people in charge ask one simple question. Who needs to pay more in taxes? Who needs to pay more in taxes? Well, that's not the question that the Republicans and President Trump are going to ask. Our question is, what the hell happened to the money? And that's all that's going on.
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All right, let's drop this soundbite. So USAID, I saw a tweet the other day. It was a joke tweet. And it said something to the effect of, oh, I just lost my job at USAID. And I thought my job was to give everyone AIDS. And it's crazy how I was. It was the joke. It was the joke. And they were saying it was crazy how long I was able to operate here under this assumption that my job was to give everyone in the USA. I thought it was funny because it was highlighting in an absurd way how no one knew what the hell was going on with this department. And I'm like, you know what? That could be true. And you don't know because of all of the nonsense that we've been funding, you know, over the years with this. And now they're, you know, they're getting to the bottom of it. And I got to tell you, I'm a little pissed off that it's taken this long to get to the bottom of it because you're telling me that there was nobody else in government who figured out how to take control of all of this and start from the center and work out. I mean, really? I'm just curious. Just, that's all? We weren't able to, they weren't able to do, to get into, which is essentially human relations for all of the U.S. government and the treasury system. It took them that long? I mean, am I being mean about this? I don't feel like I am. But it's just wild that it, That it took that long for that to happen. So welcome to the program, Dana Lash, with you. And we're at the top of this first hour. And I'm pulling up my audio list here. So a lot of stuff happening in D.C. because we have... this ongoing cabinet hearings. And in addition to that, we've got the... Because we've got RFK and then we've got Gabbard. Then you have this stuff with... The USAID, which you've been hearing about. And we're going to talk here in a moment about the army of nerds that Elon Musk has weaponized. I mean, the nerds waited their whole lives for a moment like this. And it's actually a thing of beauty. I talked a little bit about this last night on social media. And so he's weaponized this army of nerds to go after and gut all of this. The left is apoplectic still today. We'll discuss. So we've got all those things happening. Then, in addition to that, you have all of this stuff with the tariffs and the... It's not cemented, but it looks like we may be working towards some kind of deal there. And ongoing with immigration, etc. So it's... There's a lot of moving parts to cover. And I want to make sure we try to keep it as streamlined for you as possible because even when we're putting stuff together, so much is happening that it's a little over the top, Cain. I mean, it's been a little busy here. And yes, we are all still, not all of us, but me, because Cain's a robot and Juan is made of literally protein and granola. Juan is made of literally nothing but vitamins and protein and granola. For the love, don't act like that's not true. We know that's true.
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couple beers in there.
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I've never seen him drink a beer.
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What?
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I've never seen him drink a beer. Look at you besmirching wands. Okay, that's a different topic.
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He's not besmirching. The guy enjoys a beer every now and again. What's wrong with that? I don't believe you.
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Look at him.
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I think he's lying to me not to fit in. He's too healthy. He's too healthy. So a lot of stuff and we're going to drill down all of it. And then in addition to that, I've got a couple of things I need you to watch out for. One of them has to do with this foreign pot company that isn't just looking to try to take over state-by-state stuff. It is a foreign pot company that desperately wants to create for itself a monopoly in the United States. And I'm really hostile towards entities that think you're stupid and that... exist only to enrich in themselves drive out their competition and they try to sell you with on the lie that it it's really about freedom and it's not so we're gonna dive and that's truly if we're gonna dive into all of that a lot of stuff that you need to know and be aware of today So that's how we're starting out. So welcome, like I said, to the program. Dana Lash with you. Now, the hearing with RFK, he... So it's not done. He got out of... committee. And they had, I'm pulling this up, they had Bill Cassidy who was speaking a little bit earlier. And Bill Cassidy was one who was actually against it. He was against RFK. And now it looks like he's changing his mind. I'm still a little mad. I'm a little mad because I feel like there are a lot of pretenders out there when it comes to natural rights. And then they are completely eager to... you know, turn the other way. I think a lot of people would not like RFK Jr. If Trump hadn't said, I like him and that's my pick. Trump hated him. Hell, Trump didn't even like him for a long time. I'm just pointing out how things can be confusing for folks. Trump himself did not like him. I mean, I don't know if you guys remember, but he had like went railing on him. We're saying that, you know, this guy's the, he is so far left, et cetera, et cetera. And that more liberal than anybody running as a Democrat. This was just back in, you know, this was almost a year ago. It hasn't even been a full year ago where he was blasting him on Truth Social. He even blasted him on Second Amendment issues on Truth Social. So I have all of those. And that was over at Politico. The reason I bring this up is because I'm so tired of people who aren't who and I and I I'm not trying to sound like a jack wagon. But I got to tell you, I'm really tired of hearing from the drive-by class who do not pay attention to this stuff, who tell me that what I'm seeing and what we're literally dealing with isn't happening. I'm not going to be gaslit by the drive-by squad who doesn't pay half as near attention as you and I do. For so long, it has been the policy of Health and Human Services to have doctors ask patients about firearm ownership and to cite the health epidemic of drug and gang crime as the number one reason to justify gun control. And if you think that laws have not been passed in numerous states and municipalities, literally predicated upon HHS, And they're really weird manipulation of data to where they included 18 to 20 year olds as children so that they could drive up gun phobia with people. If you think that laws have not already been passed based on this, I'm sorry to say you have not been paying attention. New Mexico, California, Chicago, New York, even in places like Austin and Houston, Florida, elsewhere, lots of laws have been passed based on the claim from HHS that drug and gang crime, oh, that means that gun violence, excusing drugs and gangs, gun violence alone is an epidemic. And they have used that to pass a butt-ton of laws controlling your natural rights. That has literally been acting HHS policy for a number of years now. And so this is, it's an issue because we have no assurances. It's their current policy. RFK Jr. has made tons of comments that are absolutely worthy of being asked about. Do not be shamed, especially from some of these new cosplaying conservative influencers that are nothing but paid opposition control. That's all they are. There are a lot of people that I've not seen in the streets. You can tell the real ones from the ones who are just getting paid because the ones who are just getting paid don't ever get up off their fat asses and stop posting on X and do anything in the meat space. They never do anything. They just like moan and yell on on X. But I'm just pointing out that he has said some stuff in his past that have given me grave concern and make me think that this policy is not going to change. And not one. And you have to forgive my Portuguese, but I really hate elected officials, particularly today, because not a single one of these rat bastard Republicans had the balls to ask him about any of this. Not a single one of them. Not a single one of these senators that preen and act like they're such Second Amendment supporters and they're such due process supporters and they're such free speech supporters, not a single one of them had the temerity to ask the most basic question, do you still believe the stuff that you said when you said gun owners were terrorists? I have a major problem with that. And I would expect that anyone who even sort of supports the second amendment or sort of supports your natural rights would have a problem with that too. And I get nearly violently angry when I am told that it is unpatriotic to ask those questions, which I've been told. I've been told that it's not patriotic to ask politicians questions about their statements. I've watched people be called traitors. I've seen these dime a dozen, again, thirsty, over-inflated, over-made-up, cosplaying influencers that are going to go right back to the left in a couple of years tell other people who have literally litigated Second Amendment cases in court that it was traitorous or unpatriotic to ask questions of RFK Jr. Just get down, bend your knees, and open your mouth. That's what they've been told. I'm not joking. I have a major problem with this because you and I, you all know, we're a little rebellious. We like to ask questions of our elected officials. We don't just take things and we just don't accept things and go along to get along. And one of the things that you and I have in common that we definitely do not do is we do not just assume for the best outcome. We don't assume the best outcome is going to happen. We don't because we don't trust the government, and rightly so. So not a single question has been asked about this. But all these same people are going to act like they're such Second Amendment warriors when the time comes. They're not. They're selling you out. I find it traitorous to not ask, especially when given the opportunity. So this is a major issue. Not a single one of them have thought to ask this question yet. So we're going to follow this. Also, coming up, Elon Musk has weaponized an army of nerds. And I don't say that as an insult. I happen to think nerd is a compliment. I'm not saying geeks. Should we talk about the difference between that? But he's weaponized an army of nerds to go and just start zapping all of these programs. And all the left is mad because it's a bunch of like 20 year olds, early 20s. Not a single one of these cats are above 25. And they're just going through and they're basically demanding government officials. They're zapping these programs. And then they're saying, oh, if you're in this department, oh, you can't code. Get out. It's hysterical. 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So apparently Joe Biden, for whatever reason, is signed with CAA. He's ready to make some Hollywood deals. I mean, that's what he's been doing. He spent his whole last term acting. So I don't know what he thinks he's doing. What the hell is he going to do? He's he's he decided to go with the CAA is a huge agency. It's a creative artist agency. And their co-chairman said, quote, President Biden is one of the most. I can't even read this quote. Seriously, I can't. Are you serious? This dude was like, oh, he's loved and respected and blah, blah, blah. Says who? No, I don't feel like being nice. Bite me. I don't feel like being nice at all. Bite me and then pound curb. I don't care. But anyway, they said that he and his fellow co-chairs, they've been big backers of Biden and Harris. So I don't know who he's going to go swindle now. They're going to have to work somehow because the gravy train's up. Gravy train's done. It's passed. Scientists pour cold water on the popular ice bath health claims. I don't care. Another of I don't care. I don't like baths. It's people soup. It doesn't matter if it's hot or cold. If you're getting into a bath hot, it's hot people soup. If you're getting into a bath cold, cold people soup. But they say that it helps sleep. I don't do cold baths because why would I make myself uncomfortable like that? You know what I mean? Like we invented hot water. Why? We did. We made it hot. We can make it hot on demand. That's damn near magic, sir. Oh, let's see. Students were arrested after they staged a fake ice raid. Oh, and they said there's chaos, and I think it's hysterical. But again, don't care. And also, Super Bowl ticket prices are plummeting because nobody wants to go watch the same two teams constantly play against each other. Oh, look, sports ball. Stay with us. All family pharmacy. You just need to bookmark this website. I've never been to a website where they make it easier to get the medicines that you need. And look for like, I get it. If you want to go to a doctor, anyone I have, they have doctors that are on their staff that you can actually talk to. So, for instance, when I over Thanksgiving, I was getting super sick. I had sinusitis and it was turning into strep and I had people coming. I was hosting for Thanksgiving. I don't have time for this. So I went on all family pharmacies website, all family pharma. And I use my own code name. I'm not going to even lie about it. I dropped my own name and I got it discounted for 10% off. It's all familypharma.com slash Dana. And I was able to get my azithromycin because if I were to go to my doctor, that's the exact same thing they're going to prescribe me. This ain't my first rodeo. And then I had it overnighted. Got here at 9 a.m. 9 a.m. I ordered this stuff at like 7 o'clock last night. So it was amazing how quickly that they got it there. Anything that you need. This is a must have when you're traveling. They have everything. Ivermectin, which I take ahead of big events for the antiviral properties. But they have all kinds of reliable options for a variety of health needs. Be prepared. Skip the hassle. And here's the kicker. Big thing. Big, big, big. Their stuff is made in the USA, not China. So you hear about a lot of antibiotics being made in CCP China. Not these. It's all USA. So you do not have to worry about outsourced products. You're getting good quality, safe material. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Get 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don't wait. Make sure that you're always prepared. Protect yourself and your family. Allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Code Dana10 to save 10%.
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As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a bowl of worms. There is no apple. You've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair. So really, none of this could be done without the full support of the president. I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down. You know why I like nerds?
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Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this first hour. You know why I like nerds? Because they're not dumbasses. By the way, I'm in a very George Carlin mood today, so please do not mistake me for Dora the Explorer and set your child in front of the simulcast that you might be watching, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at Rumble, because they'll walk away with very rebellious tendencies and they might have a colorful vocabulary. That's my only vice in life. Hands to sky. That said, you know why I like nerds? Because nerds are just who they are. And I don't say nerd like it's a pejorative. I think it's just one of the highest compliments that you can bestow upon your fellow man. Because nerds get it done, right? If you got something that you need to figure out, ask a nerd. If something's bothering you and you can't, you know, you got to find a way around it, ask a nerd. Because the nerds know. That's what they do. They eat. They maybe sleep or wait. And then they just do stuff. That's what they do. Nerds figure it out. So Elon Musk. I should have played Beastie Boys Sound of Science, actually, coming into this. That's what we should have played. We should just start this whole segment over, even though it's live radio, because that would have been the right track to play. The group of nerds that he has assembled, they are going around. This is the funniest thing. They're going around and firing everybody at USAID. They're trying to figure out, they're looking for redundancies somewhere. And they are dismantling, tearing apart all of the government waste. They have six dudes that they know of. And they're all ages 19 to 25. Three of them are still in college. They got one guy, for instance... Who is going through a suite level clearance for their work. I'm looking at some of this. They can work on the agency's top floor. They can access all physical spaces, IT systems, etc. And they've been going through and just slicing and dicing. One of them is a programmer. They're all basically engineers at some point. They're all nerds. And one of them wrote about it over at Substack saying, why Doge? I gave up a seven figure salary to save America. Yeah, because he's going to have a ton of jobs after. Dude, you're like 22 years old. You're going to be able to have your pick of all the broads and cash in the world when you're done. All right. So just you got to look at it as a stepping stone. You'll have a different girl on your arm every night. All right. And you're going to be loaded with cash. You're going to be good. So they went and started going after you. I'm dying laughing at this because God love them. They're such nerds. I think this one guy's arms... I mean, I like to think that I'm big and I want Spongebob jerk arms. You know, like I... For my whole life, I've tried to work out to get like super cut and super giant. It's not happening for me. It's not in my DNA makeup. My metabolism is too fast. This guy has arms thinner than mine. This sweet little 19 year old baby face, little baby boy. He's got arms thinner than mine. But you know what? He's literally a grim reaper when you get him in this stuff and let him loose. He's apparently been he interned at Neuralink. And he's listed as an expert and he's just going through and just jettisoning people out of this department. I love it. God love them. They're all nerds. It's all so great. And they're going through and it's making the left so mad. What do their 20-year-olds do? Look at that. pencil neck that they just made the vice chair over at the DNC. What the hell does this guy do? He can't even spell words right. He doesn't know how the government works. And he just gets up there and blows hot air out of his backside. And everyone's like, oh, so great. Look, it said something. They're actually doing stuff. I don't even know what this one guy does. I was reading like his resume. He does super nerdy stuff. That's all I know. Like there's, I don't even know half of what the software is. I'm not even going to pretend. So anyway, they've, I mean, they're working. He's got literally at his command a bunch of a nerd army. I mean, that's America, you know, having a nerd army go through. It's revenge of the nerds, totally. So they're going through and they're just slicing and dicing everything. And it is just a beautiful thing to see. And the left is livid. Oh my gosh, they're livid. They're so mad. And they don't know what to make of the nerds. Have you seen them trying to figure this out? The best they can do is, can you believe these 20-something-year-olds have access to these sensitive things? Wait, you mean the sensitive things that you've been redirecting to communists in order to take down the U.S. from the inside? That kind of stuff? I got less of a problem with these cats. I don't have a problem with this at all. Oh, they're just mad. They can't believe. Democrats, can I just say... For all the talk about youth vote, Democrats hate the youth. And I say this as someone who was raised in a Democrat family. I did not meet a Republican, hands to sky. The first Republican I ever met in my life was in college. I was, you're in a Democrat town, Democrat family, everybody you know is a Democrat. I literally did not meet a Republican in person until I was in college. Isn't that weird? Think about the lack of diversity there, right? So if you stray off of that ideological plantation, so to speak, the left hates you. They hate conservative youth particularly. But they don't really like any of the youth. That's when Kamala Harris was like, oh, they're horrible. That's why they're in dorms, et cetera, et cetera. They just don't like the youth. They use them as a means to an end. They know they don't vote. That's why they screwed them over when they promised everyone, oh, you're getting free college, whatever. Oh, by the way, we changed our mind after y'all voted for us. Whoops. No, they're actually being put to work here. It's so great. And again, the left does not know how to deal with it. Because I think they're half afraid that these nerds will come after them. I mean, God love them. They got acne and everything. Just God bless America. It's amazing. I mean, they have their little suits. They have their little photos. It's so great. I mean, I don't mean to infantilize them, but I just find it... Incredibly ironic that for all the talk about the youth that the left gives lip service, you know, it's these nerds are working for a smaller government, not bigger government. It's a fabulous thing. So, yes, they they've been going through. And. Just gutting everything. And I mean, it's a it's a great thing. I kind of want to be a nerd now. I want to grow up to be a nerd, Kane. Yeah. That's what I want to do. I think that's great. So it's a team of 20-something, these nerds. They said that with this, oh, they called them, the worst that they can do is to call them the goon squad. They went into, so Office of Personnel Management, that's OPM, that's essentially HR for the federal government. So if that makes sense, it's basically, I think that's right. It's HR for the federal government, OPM, right? Yeah. And they were appearing in meetings and on calls where they made these workers go over the code they had written to justify their jobs. That's per what? That's per wired. So they said, and all these people are telling the press, can you believe that they're actually testing us to see if we can do our job? Yeah, I actually can. Why is that such a shocking thing to you? Yeah, yeah, it should have been happening the entire time. It's kind of wild that you think that it shouldn't. So they said that they're an OPM expert. is how they are listed. But I love what they're doing because they're going through and they found that if you control HR and you can get into the payment system for the treasury, then you can go through, find any government program that has not been authorized and you can just eliminate it. See, that's the problem of doing all this stuff without any kind of actual explicit authorization. If you are like some kind of third party entity and you got a government grant and you got the goon squad, I love it, going in there saying, well, we don't understand the point of this right here. Then guess what? Gone. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. It's a beautiful thing. I love that you had over 500 members Of Congress. You had all these legislators out there that didn't do this. You know why? Because they're not just a handful of tech bros. Tech bro nerds. The tech bro nerds are not beholden to anybody like these lawmakers are. They don't care. They really don't care. Now, what's going to happen is if there is something that they eliminate that has been authorized by statute, well, then there's a process that that entity that had their funding eliminated that they'll have to go through. But that just is another loophole they got to go through. And I'm fine with that. I think that there should be such overlay of all of this stuff. But I love it. I mean, the oldest is 25 years old. Parents feel proud if your kids are one of the goon squad. I don't even think that that's like a... I know that the left means that as a pejorative, but it's not. This department... And this kind of gets into one of the concerns that I had from the beginning. Because I love the idea of having this basically glorified auditor. I like that idea. But you also had to constantly think of the... process of going through congress because if it's again congress controls the power of the purse and you if you're going to eliminate something you got to go through congress unless unless it's been by eo or it's one of these oh here's a government grant through whatever agency see democrats have done that for so long they never figured out or ever realized that that could be weaponized to work against them and now it is And it's a beautiful thing. They're all saying, like, what's some of the stuff that they're saying? Oh, Chuck Schumer's been just going crazy. But not as crazy as what's her face. Ilhan Omar, she's going after USAID. She's shrieking over all of this stuff. Listen to this. Audio soundbite five.
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It is really, really a sad day in America. We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like. When you gut the constitution and you install yourself as the sole power, that is how dictators are made.
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That's actually it's the Constitution and elections have consequences. If you don't like it, feel free to leave. Just go ahead and go. Go on. Go on now. So I'm pleased by this. I can't wait to see all the savings, Cain. All of the savings! And yes, getting rid of waste, you're not eliminating the Constitution, you moron. If it's not Article I, Section 8, it's unconstitutional anyway. They literally were looking to see, of these organizations and the grants that they were giving, which ones were actually violating executive orders, etc. And USAID became one of their main focuses. It's Musk saying that. Because the whole entire censorship ministry, for the lack of a better way to put it, like that Nina Jankowicz lady, that annoying theater broad, all of that was made possible by this entity, by USAID. I read something where it said Joni Ernst was trying to get receipts on this for six or so years, and they just refused to hand over anything documenting what they were spending their money on. And you had all of these, whether it was EcoHealth Alliance, yeah, the Wu flu people, uh-huh. All of these far left alphabet groups, burn, loot, murder, all of it. All of these entities got funded through this agency. They were handing out taxpayer dollars like crazy. And so all of this, they had the... the audacity to think that none of this could ever be taken from them. I mean, it was USAID. So you remember all of the money that was going to Gaza that we were giving Hamas? Guess who that went through? USAID. That went through all of that. Remember the pier that was being built off of Gaza and how we were sending all these resources through that and it ended up in the hands of Hamas and Hamas never actually distributed it to Gazans. Shocker. That was USAID. You know, the Haitian aid where people were looting all of the money that was being sent to help Haitians. That was USAID. All of it. Every single thing that you can't track or you have questions on or that seems shady is legit all USAID. And the left is mad because Doge has kicked out the leg from under that stool. They have collapsed their ability to weaponize taxpayer dollars against taxpayers. God bless America. We have more to come. With everything going on in the world right now, the economy, conflicts, the open border, spiraling national debt, the devastating inflation, it's critical that you have a plan for diversifying and protecting your savings. And that's why so many, including myself, have turned to precious metals like gold and silver to help protect our savings. And I've partnered with the top-rated precious metals company GoldCo to make that happen. It's a great company with a great reputation, and they could not have made the process any easier. And right now, Gold Co. is offering a free gold and silver kit that will show you how precious metals can help protect and diversify your savings. And for my audience, they're offering up to a 10% instant match in bonus silver on qualified orders. All you have to do is visit danalikesgold.com to get started today. GoldCo has helped thousands of Americans place over $3 billion in gold and silver, and they can help you as well. Join thousands who trust GoldCo. Visit danalikesgold.com.
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Also know this is just the beginning. If Doge attacks USAID today, then you can be sure they'll move on to another target tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe it'll be the Postal Service or the IRS or even the Social Security Administration. They could be next. Or maybe our national security agencies.
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Horror stories with Chuck Schumer. He's like, they're really upset. You know, when I see people get this upset about cutting government agencies. I want to cut more and more and more. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Hey, sidebar. First, before I get ahead of myself, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chat's at rumble. I am not held responsible for those rowdy people. Or maybe I am. I would be in there, but then I'd forget to do the show. But the chat's over there. Find us at Substack, chapter and verse. All good things. Yes, and you guys are so nice. By the way, I have a collection of remedies that you guys have sent in terms of getting over the flu. It's like the last bit of it is like trying to hang on to my head, and it's almost gone. You can tell I'm getting on here. So we're coming back. But you guys have been very nice. And then I had one very sweet lady. Her name was Lillian, and she said, I know that you're probably self-conscious about your voice because you mention it a lot, and I just want to say that I really like it. She sent me the nicest email about that. So that was very sweet. Thank you. It was very kind. So we're recovering. We're all getting better. Honestly, hands to sky, before I dive into all of this, I think I would have had it a lot worse. I did, according per my doctor. my little regimen of ivermectin before we went to SHOT Show. And I think that's why I'm not on the floor. My husband, he went to urgent care because they were thinking he has walking pneumonia from all of this. And I didn't get that. The rest of us, those who did get it were bouncing back. And I swear to you, I think it was because I had done that. And I also eat super healthy too. But I think it was because of all of that. So I'm just saying. And that was from All Family Pharmacy. And they're not paying me to say this. But if they ever stopped advertising on my show, I would stalk them like a bunny boiler. And I would continue to buy all of their products because I had all my stuff here so fast. Cut that and send it to them. It really is like one of the best websites ever. I have no idea why I didn't invent this myself. I hate myself now. Anyway, all right. I want to get to... I'm sorry if I love this as much as I do. Because when I went to sleep last night, you know how you go to bed and you have all like, some of you, maybe you count sheep. Some of you read. I always think weird, fantastical things. And like right as my husband's going to sleep, that's when I ask him the craziest stuff. And then his eyes pop open and he's mad because I asked him a weird question. You know, like I asked him one time, like, what if I had, you know, 12 toes? Would you still love me? And then he was like, well, I'm like, no, on one foot. and like none on the other. And then he's like, what is wrong with you? Why do you do this to me at night? So last night I was thinking, Because I had been reading some stuff for the show before I went to bed. So I was reading about the Nerd Squad and Doge. And I was reading about USAID and all of the... Just the litany of things. All of the different cuts that they've been making. And I started thinking like, well, what would I cut like immediately? And then I went down... I fell asleep going down this rabbit hole of everything that probably did not have any kind of statutory authority that I would just gut. It was a really nice way to fall asleep. I really enjoyed that. So I am... I probably almost to an excessive degree have enjoyed watching them lose their minds over this stuff. Because for how long... Cain, how long have they been operating like this with USAID? I don't think people appreciate how mammoth this is.
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Yeah, it's clearly decades. Decades upon decades.
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I think longer than we've been alive.
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Yeah. Well, it was implemented in the 60s, so I guarantee you a government...
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you know program like this would have been hijacked immediately oh completely i mean if i was a leftist i would have i would have done it you know i mean so they everything that you can think of all of the activist stuff the disinformation ministry um all of it i mean everything has gone through this so to target it like that i really feel as though the left didn't think that the right was aware of it. And I love it. So they've, I mean, this is just, it's glorious. They're trying to say, and the most beautiful irony of ironies in all of this is the biggest complaint the left has is that the entity that's coming in and saving all of our taxpayer dollars, Doge, they keep going, well, they're unelected. It's an unelected retinue of these people, these unwashed masses who are coming in and making these cuts. Okay, same argument. You're talking about an unelected on, you know, no congressional authority agency that has been spending taxpayer unapproved taxpayer dollars on things that the voters don't get to choose and have no say in. So you literally just kneecapped yourself with that argument. Yeah, I'm very, very excited about all of this. They said that, and I liked how John Kennedy said, Senator Kennedy said it was tofu eating wokorati at the USAID. I don't know why he doesn't come on the show. I think he hates me and I have no idea why. I think some people think I'm just mean and they won't come on. I swear to you, I'm not. But does he sit around and just think of things to say like this or does it just happen spur of the moment? I feel like this is a discussion from like a scene from Pride and Prejudice. Are these, you know, the results of casual observation or is it something that you put in practice effort? No, it's just, you know, I just make these little observances. But this is this is great. I have no I have no problems with this. No problems at all. Oh, but the left. Oh, the left. I'm telling you. It's well. You've got audio somebody 12, for instance. This is they're saying that this is stealing the democracy. All of these moves that have been made by the administration. They have they have no actual specific complaints. They just don't like it. So thus it's stealing democracy. Play this bald man on MSNBC.
SPEAKER 12 :
Over the past two weeks, which kind of feels like it's been two years, we have learned just how fragile our democracy is and how relatively easy it is for someone who's determined and really well-funded to steal and corrupt it. If you were going to write a playbook for how to steal a democracy in less than 20 days, it would sure look a lot like this.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, would it? How is this stealing democracy? I mean, I would think that stealing democracy is using an unauthorized fashion, questionably appropriated taxpayer dollars and using it for propaganda, et cetera. I mean, that's just me, though. Now, in the meantime, immigration. Hmm. I like how Tom Homan's been going totally ham on all of this, because remember the New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy. He said, I mean, the way that he said it, he's harboring an illegal alien. Isn't that what you got out of it? This is what he said. Let me read it to you. He said, quote, oh, we have it. Go ahead and play. I was looking at the transcript. We have 11. Of course you guys have it. Go ahead and play it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Tammy and I were talking about, I don't want to get into too much detail, but there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to. And we said, you know what, let's have her live at our house above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.
SPEAKER 02 :
Challenge accepted. First off, when he says, how did he put this? How did he say that? Someone whose status isn't... how did he say it there? Oh, the status is not yet at the point that they're trying to get it to. Can I just stop right there for a moment? Someone whose immigration status is not yet at the point they are trying to get it to. Yeah, that's like, that's, that's totally not legal. Yeah. And I hear me out. That's like saying that you go into a store and you take something without paying for it. The status of your ownership is not at the point that you're trying to get it to. Do you think that you could use that? And you could use that excuse in any way? I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so. So it sounds like they have, they're harboring an illegal alien and then he's challenging the feds to come and get her. So Tom Homan said, yeah, all right, we'll look into it. Why would you taunt Tom Homan? Why? He's the guy who like, I would imagine he's kind of like my grandpa. How my grandpa was. My grandpa would wake up in the morning. My grandpa was a tough old bird. And he didn't make coffee like normal people. He'd boil water and then put grounds in it. Like when he was not even camping. When he was in the kitchen. He just didn't use it. That's tough, man. I just get the idea that Tom Holman starts his day the same way. So the Murphy's office, his staff freaked out when he said this. They're like, wait a minute. Are you literally saying that you're violating? What are you doing? So he's been trying to backpedal this the whole time. And now they're trying to spin it as, oh, well, there's a witch hunt. They're trying to get someone now. You literally outed them as being an illegal alien and said they're living above your garage and now you're mad. So now this is what they're saying. Hold up. Let me pull this up. This is New York Post. They're trying to say, no, no, no, no. You know, it was misinterpreted. what was everything he said it was misinterpreted um there's nothing like this that actually happened oh wait that we call that a lie and there and even though he was literally daring the feds to come and get this person uh and they said no no no one's ever lived in the home under those circumstances what other interpretation is there He literally said someone who isn't here illegally is living above his garage. Pray tell, what other interpretation do we have? Well, we didn't mean like, no, we don't know. I mean, it's a felony. You're admitting to a felony. I don't know. I feel like he, because isn't he termed out? I think Murphy's termed out after this. So he really doesn't, you know, he really doesn't GAF. He doesn't. But and they were trying to also the other thing that he invited was the speculation as to the purpose of the person living above his garage because he clearly said it was a woman. So, Kane, if I if you hear someone saying, oh, yeah, we have an illegal alien female who's living above our garage. What does that suggest to you? Yeah, but no, but what are they doing there? Good question. Is it like someone working in their house?
SPEAKER 06 :
She's not staying there for free, is she?
SPEAKER 02 :
I don't know.
SPEAKER 06 :
There's got to be some sort of trade of services or money.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's usually gas or grass, so I don't know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Really avoiding that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Were you? I was trying to avoid saying that. I love that for you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Disappointed that you just did it.
SPEAKER 02 :
So I what was what's the reason that that what other interpretation is there? They tell on themselves and they're like, oh, it's Phil Murphy. What do you expect? We have more to come. Also, our friend Steven Yates later on in the program. I am chomping at the bit to talk with him, not just about the Chinese, the China tariffs. He's coming up at the bottom of the hour after headlines. But also what this means, the Belt and Road. I swear we legit were talking about this. What, two weeks ago? As to whether or not Panama would remain as a Belt and Road partner, and now they're out, that's... huge. I am just, oh my gosh, I'm so excited to hear how mad China could be over that. So we're going to talk to him about that and so much more. We have a lot on the way. Headlines coming up as we move our partners. It's the non-firearm firearm. It's the Burna gun, B-Y-R-N-A. And it's always good to diversify your weapons array. And with the Burna gun, you can do that. It's a quick deployment, easy target acquisition, no background check. No permits, legal in all 50 states, and they can send it right to your door. It doesn't care about gun-free zone signs either. The Berna SD is their best-selling model. When you compare it to a stun gun, which has one or two shots, the Berna SD is five rounds. And it can stop threats from up to 50 feet away with chemical irritant projectiles. So, you know, if you got to go to a gun-free zone sign because you're a grown-up and you got to work a job and they won't allow your gun, you want to still at least be able to protect yourself in some fashion. And this is where the Burna gun comes in. B-Y-R-N-A. Burna.com slash Dana. That's where you can get 10% off your purchase and check out everything that they have. 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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All right, so first up here, a boy swallows toy magnets and becomes the X-Men's Magneto in a freak accident. It's a power. I'd take that power. Would you take that power? Yeah, I'd do it. He, an eight-year-old, swallowed a magnet. It was a toy from Amazon. And, yeah, he ended up, now he has... These are two magnetic balls. They're actually stuck. like in his system. And he thought, the story was that he, you know, thought he could pierce his tongue or something like that, ended up swallowing this thing and now there's adverse effects. Of course, you're not surprised. Also, you're eight. Stop eating things. You're eight years old. Like, you know, people should have, you should have known that from the get-go. You're eight years old. Let's see, this, oh, this is a crazy, U.S. Navy's testing a new laser weapon that never runs out of power. Oh, I know. It's an incredible new drone-destroying laser weapon. It almost looks like a fake photo. This thing is called Helios. It stands for high laser with integrated optical dazzler. I love it. And dazzler in surveillance. It was developed by Lockheed Martin, delivered to the Navy a year later. So it was in 2021 when it was developed, so it's a little bit past. But they said it was designed to disrupt intel and reconnaissance sensors on enemy vessels, and it looks like a giant laser. It's actually amazing. I want one. I feel like we should all have one. And a massage parlor accidentally set a client on fire. We'll talk more about that coming up. We've got Steven Yates on deck as we move 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 just the best coverage no matter where you go. I've been all over the world and I've never had an interruption in my service. and you have coverage you can trust they have nationwide coverage by operating on all three major networks you're connected wherever you go and you have seamless switching you have a 100 us-based customer service team so you're creating and maintaining us-based jobs you can keep your number you can keep your phone you can upgrade it's just been so it's never been easier to switch so visit PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT. Get a free month of service using promo code Dana. Make the switch today. That's a whole free month of service. And defend freedom every time you call or text. That's PatriotMobile.com slash Dana 972-PATRIOT. Oh, we're playing air drums and air guitar. Sorry, we got totally distracted with us. Steven Yates was like, you know what? Panama sounds really good right now. So we suspended his usual intro. And now it's a little bit Van Halen. It's taken everything I have to not sing the chorus. How can you not? You guys know Stephen Yates. He is an expert on all things China. He served in not one, but two presidential administrations. The CCP hates him. He is a one of the I think the most reasoned voice on all of this. And you can find him at Yates comms on X as well as the senior research fellow at the Heritage Center. He joins us now via Skype. My good friend. Welcome to the program. So we I was telling Kane about this. We were just talking about this. You and I a couple of weeks ago about Panama, the Panama Canal and the presence of China. And we discussed how as a belt and road initiative. participant, it makes it a little tricky, but it got a lot simpler over the past week because now they're out. So maybe China's pull isn't what China thought it was in that country.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, Dana, number one, thank you for the bumper music. That always puts a smile on my face anytime some 80s thumpity-thump can come on. And, you know, it's really amazing how fast The administration has moved on some of these things that were ideas in the campaign get talked about, all the best keeled experts say can't happen are gonna blow up. And this whole issue of Panama, people say, Trump doesn't understand, this isn't what it's being painted to be. Well, announcement of maybe some tariffs or other penalties or we're gonna do this and a visit by the new Secretary of State and all of a sudden things are really clear. And so I think it's a massive positive investment that Panama says they're going to be out of the Belt and Road Initiative. For those who don't know, that's just a fancy pants slogan for how about you take some commie sugar from the People's Republic of China, put human rights and democracy in the United States to the side. And I hope other countries in Central and South America will follow suit. They might also take that next leap and go back to having diplomatic relations with Taiwan, which helps to be a free and democratic and advanced state that might be able to invest in their manufacturing infrastructure. They could be a good trade partner with said United States. So I love what's been happening so far. Just want to see more of it roll out.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, that's... I mean, it's amazing that it happened, you know, honestly, as quickly as it happened, I think. And now these tariffs, I think it could go up to 25. I know 10% right now, the export tariff with China is what he was talking about. And I don't think it... We had this big deep dive as to whether or not Canada could withstand something like this. The CCP's economy definitely cannot withstand a trade war with the U.S. And I kind of wanted to get your insight into that because they talk a good game. But really, I mean, they've been kind of we've talked about this before for the past year. I mean, they've been sort of teetering on a knife's edge with us economically.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, this is where sort of reality comes clear here. that the talking heads and experts and people from academia that say they know don't. The fact of the matter is China can't possibly survive a trade war with the United States. It's not like it would be a picnic for us, but we make real things. We have real innovation. We have bounced back from terrible times. We don't wanna have them now, but America is resilient, has the capability to do a lot for itself. And the fresh breath of life that's being given by deregulation and getting waste out of our way, opening up to energy. There is more than just the idea of a revival in America and China cannot stand up with that. They have at best, basically taken what we have oh so willingly given, but dusted it off and maybe done some things on top of what they've taken from us. But they can't do this on their own. Now, I think it's really, really important for us to continue to follow through. But there's one thing I'd really like to drive home about these tariffs. President Trump has made very, very clear that this first 10% is tied to real action on the manufacturing and import of fentanyl. As you and your audience know, that is something that matters a lot to me. I've lived a long time and been around a lot of politics and heard people give lip service to things. Finally, one person and only one has been willing to step forward and put some skin in the game. There are families who have been able to identify the individuals and factories that the fatal dose came to their families. They have lawsuits that have judgments in the millions of dollars in the United States that the Chinese are not enforcing. If any of this tariff money goes to help those families, and I'd say in full disclosure, I'm not one of those families. We do not have a legal judgment. But anything that is done to use this tariff money to restore some sense of wholeness to the lives of those who've gotten these judgments and make the Chinese have to pay. All I can say is God bless President Trump for being honest about doing this and doing it right out of the blocks.
SPEAKER 02 :
We're talking to our very good friend Stephen Yates at Yatescoms on X. And that is a very I mean, it's a very personal issue to you. We've talked about this before. And I love that that that this action is being taken. I I was looking at their retaliatory moves. China announced today that they hit back. These are the headlines that are coming out from CCP friendly or aligned entities. Oh, they announced these, you know, some retaliation on select American imports. But when you compare, and which I was doing actually this morning, I mean, there is no comparison. We're looking at what I think 20 billion of, they're targeting 20 billion of the country's annual imports from the U.S. That's 12% total. And then you have the 450 billion that's being targeted by the U.S. in Chinese goods. There is no comparison here.
SPEAKER 15 :
There really is not. And so that's why I just hope people hold firm. I mean, I don't think the president is diving into a trade war. I think he's doing what people should see by now as a pattern. He is setting negotiations. He's finding a new floor. And after we achieve that new floor, he's going to push for more. And it's basically to rebalance our economic relationships, make us less dependent, especially less dependent on China. And that's a process, not an on-off switch. And it needs to be strategic. And so I think that they're moving in the right direction. We should hold strong in this. And I hope that Congress steps up and speaks up in backing this move. This used to be basically where the middle and a lot of the left was. And President Trump has kind of educated the right into recognizing you can't have free trade with totalitarian economies. And you can't be overly dependent on said totalitarian economies. And so this, I think, is an important adjustment. And we have to hold the course. I think President Trump will. I hope the American people support it. Even if we have to pay a little bit more for a season ahead, we paid a lot more under Biden and we didn't get much for it. This will net a better place for the United States and the world and at home.
SPEAKER 02 :
Do you think it'll escalate? Because I know he started at 10 percent, but he said it could go up to 60.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I do think it will escalate. So say the Chinese come and they want to play nice, nice. They make some kind of a move. They buy some time, but then it doesn't end up delivering. President Trump this time around has a sense of urgency I haven't seen in any leader ever. And he may sense that you gotta go at the beginning of your term, midterms will come, you're kind of a lame duck going through. He's pushing pedal to the metal on this stuff. And if there isn't much delivery in a reasonable period of time, I think he'll up the pressure. And I think America,
SPEAKER 02 :
has a lot more leverage than we've realized and president trump's just starting get the use of it the associator press was trying to argue that i'm looking at this piece that they have when they were looking at some of the top imports that we have from china cell phones computers accessories things like that shoes actually i didn't know that was an eight billion dollar thing shoes that's crazy but they said that oh well china's uh is much better prepared because back in 2018 You know, we had something like this that kicked off with the administration. But the Associated Press is saying, oh, China's way better prepared. They have all these measures that go beyond tariffs and they cut across different sectors. That's not what I'm seeing, though, especially when I watch the dollar perform after, you know, with Canada and Mexico. And we were told it was going to take the economy next day. Didn't happen. In fact, the dollar was outperforming. Canada, elsewhere. I wanted to kind of get your thoughts on that, because I get that the CCP wants to show that their country is in an unalterable position, and they're getting an assist from some of our American Pravda. But I don't find that they're in a better place this time. If anything, it seems more tenuous.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's definitely more tenuous and all it would do if they create hardship. Well, number one, the items that they're identifying are not ones that are vital to our survival. Whether we like it or not, Americans of my children's generation have many more pairs of shoes than say my grandfather's generation did. And if there happened to be a shortage on some knockoff Air Jordans for a time, I think that the Republic will survive. And we might be able to get them from places like Bangladesh and Indonesia and even Mexico for that matter. So all they'll do is accelerate decoupling and safe shoring if they really wanna go down that route. And I think they have a sense that they're at risk of that. So there's gonna be a lot of posturing. We have to be ready for that. uh and i don't really care if there's some trade going forward i mean for me personally i'm fine to have no trade with china there's a big world out there we can live without them but the rest of the world might not have my tolerance for that but we have got to at least move away from strategic things nothing that our nation relies upon our food supply medical supply technology supply and certainly our military supply chains can have nothing to do with this country
SPEAKER 02 :
I wanted to get talking with our friend Stephen Yates last question for you on this. You know, I when when he was senator, there were things I didn't agree with Marco Rubio on and things I would give credit and give praise for and or criticize, you know, balls and strikes. I really think that he has come into his own. As Secretary of State, and I kind of wanted to get your assessment. This is like his for I mean, he's not even been in the job for a week. And already, I mean, he was in Panama, he was meeting with officials there. And then boom, now we have this. And I kind of wanted to get your assessment of how he started already his tenure there at Department of State.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I'd have to confess that over the years, I've kind of liked Marco Rubio. And there were other people running for president when he ran for president. Many of them I liked too. But over the years, I've kind of liked a lot of the things he had to say when it came to foreign policy. I wish some of the other senators might have said some of the things he was standing for in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and otherwise. And he certainly has had a fast start. But I mean, look, every one of these cabinet officials, if they're getting confirmed, and hopefully the rest are getting confirmed ASAP, These guys are hitting the ground running. I mean, less than a couple of weeks and he's already overseas doing consequential things that people said couldn't be done. He's definitely a valuable articulator of what Trumpism means in our hemisphere and in foreign relations. And even with this AID controversy, I think he's been a valuable voice that helps explain the president's agenda in a way that That makes it stronger and better understood. So all that, I think, is pretty high marks getting out of the blocks. Now, I hope he gets good, loyal people to fill out that Christmas tree, the State Department, because that is not usually a happy home for anyone conservative, much less MAGA. So we'll see where that is going.
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There you go. Stephen Yates at Yates comms. I was still looking forward to your. your assessment in response to all of those headlines. I thought, Oh, we got to get Steven on right when the, the Panamanian thing was happening. Always so good to see you, my friend. God bless you. We appreciate your thoughts. Thank you. All family pharmacy. You just need to bookmark this website. I've never been to a website where they make it easier to get the medicines that you need. And look for like, I get it. If you want to go to a doctor and you want to have, they have doctors that are on their staff that you can actually talk to. So, for instance, when I over Thanksgiving, I was getting super sick. I had sinusitis and it was turning into strep and I had people coming. I was hosting for Thanksgiving. I don't have time for this. So I went on all family pharmacies website, all family pharma. And I use my own code name. I'm not going to even lie about it. I dropped my own name and I got it discounted for 10% off. It's all familypharma.com slash Dana. And I was able to get my azithromycin because if I were to go to my doctor, that's the exact same thing they're going to prescribe me. This ain't my first rodeo. And then I had it overnighted. Got here at 9 a.m. 9 a.m. I ordered this stuff at like seven o'clock last night. So it was amazing how quickly that they got it there. Anything that you need. This is a must have when you're traveling. They have everything. Ivermectin, which I take ahead of big events for the antiviral properties. But they have all kinds of reliable options for a variety of health needs. Be prepared. Skip the hassle. And here's the kicker. Big thing. Big, big, big. Their stuff is made in the USA, not China. So you hear about a lot of antibiotics being made in CCP China. Not these. It's all USA. So you do not have to worry about outsourced products. You're getting good quality, safe material. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Get 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don't wait. Make sure that you're always prepared. Protect yourself and your family. Allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Code Dana10 to save 10%.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, this is a Florida woman. A stripper was busted for battery with a banana at a 7-Eleven. This feels like a punk song. Her name. There's a lot of vowels in here. Kaltavia Turner. Got into a verbal altercation. She's 22, looks 80. Got into a verbal altercation with a 30-year-old woman. They began exchanging derogatory comments. And then she, Turner, became irate, picked up a banana from the cashier, threw it in the victim's face. They said that the airborne fruit struck the employee on the cheekbone and left a minor abrasion. First off, if I was a cop responding to that, I would be like, it's a banana. Yeah. you know, get over yourself. Come on. But then I would also be like, listen, Castlevania Turner, this is, you know, no, this is wrong. You can't be coming up acting the fool like this. They said that she is an employer at a gentleman's club, Kane, called Baby Dolls. What? Gentlemen? Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Only gentlemen attend.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, gentleman's club. What was that, what's that movie, that horror film about that possessed doll?
SPEAKER 06 :
Is it?
SPEAKER 02 :
No.
SPEAKER 06 :
Chucky?
SPEAKER 02 :
No. Oh, shoot. I'm not going to be able to move until I do this. Horror movie doll. Oh, gosh. What is it called? Not Megan. It's an older one. Oh, Annabelle. That's what I was thinking of. Oh, Annabelle. So when you're talking about the gentleman's club called Baby Dolls, do you mean like Annabelle? So or Chucky, you could also add that. Anyway, she was busted. She also stole a lot. She was already on probation. So she violated it because she stole a whole bunch of stuff from Walmart, almost a thousand dollars. And so she that she was charged with a felony. And then she got in trouble because she did not perform her 75 hours of community service or pay her court fines. So she was already free on a thousand dollar bomb when she got in trouble for the banana battery. She's just a mess. This chick is a mess. Also, let's see. A Florida man steals a woman's purse with a one-month-old kitten inside. The kitten was recovered safely. Everybody's fine. 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I wanted to put this on your guys' radar because it's not just specific to like a couple of states. This is something that's coming to you. You've heard me talk, especially when I've talked about Florida or rhinos at all. And Texas is kind of in the same boat. Texas has a really good activist network that is really fighting hard on all this stuff. Florida is still developing theirs. And that's not a slam on Florida or the pushback that the state has. I point that out. That's the difference between Texas and Florida in terms of dealing with rhinos. Because Florida, if you remember, literally just very recently was a swing state. And so they've they've been able to really hone their messaging and they've really pushed good limited government policy and they've been so great at it. And so they went from being a swing state where activists struggle to get a toehold to now. I don't want people to think that there's no reason to worry. Oh, because they got a super majority in the Florida legislature. But as you know, not all Republicans are the same. And so that's one of the reasons why we've been focusing on this. And also, Florida is my backup state. Like if Texas falls, you know, Florida was my backup. And then all my Florida friends are like, well, hell, Dana, Texas was our backup state. I'm like, well, we got problems. But I feel like the fight is a little bit more intense. I don't want people to get apathetic and feel like they don't have to fight. I feel like activists are in a little bit of a better position in Texas than they are in Florida right now. Because, yes, you have special interest money in Texas, but there's a lot of special interest money also in Florida. And you've got the presence of Big Sugar. And then, of course, you have this company that I'm talking about, a Canadian company called Trulieve. Now, it's important because... This is sort of like the testing ground for this company. If they can get a state like Florida to give them special accommodations, which if you're a capitalist, you're against that kind of cronyism and special treatment. If they can get Florida to do this, they're going to be able to get like any state to do this. And that's kind of the point. Trulieve is a Canadian company. It's a foreign company, which is also... Another weird thing for people who have been talking about tariffs with Canada, why would you want to empower this Canadian company? Trulieve, the last election, when they were voting on amendments and ballot initiatives, things like that, Trulieve literally spent millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase the codification of its monopoly in the Florida state constitution. Now, for those of you outside of Florida, pay attention. I promise you this is coming to your state. If it's not there yet, they're already putting the feelers out. I promise you. So in Florida, they operate under the guise of legalization of marijuana. Now, this is not a debate about the legalization of marijuana. That's what Trulieve wants you to think. It's not about that at all. It is about having a foreign company. by changes to a state constitution to benefit itself. I have read the full ballot language that they had when they were trying to amend the constitution this last time everybody went to vote. They usually have a synopsis that you read when you're at the polling place and you're voting. The full ballot language, and I'm not going to read the whole thing because it's long. I'm not going to read the whole thing on air. I've linked it before over at Substack, is really troubling for the people who say that Trulieve was not trying to purchase the monopoly. God love them. They either did not read the ballot language or they're being paid to lie to you. And there are and I would name them, but I feel like it's old news and it's kind of already public. There were a lot of cosplaying conservative influencers who were paid handsomely six figures to advocate for true, true relief. I mean, even POTUS's campaign got some true relief cash. He didn't really get involved in all of this, but I'm just telling you, they're putting their feelers out. Every state, federally, that's what they want to do. Now, Trulieve, again, a Canadian pot company, what they wanted to do is... purchase a monopoly, change the state constitution so that Trulieve could have a Trulieve owned and run network of their chosen participants to be able to conduct business in the state. They wanted to destroy their competition. They still do. That was the whole purpose of it. And they spent so much money. For instance, the guy that I had on yesterday, the Florida senator and all of his amnesty guys, Trulieve also is a big amnesty supporter. They've paid all those guys. If you would like to see the hard documentation of the publicly reported financial data on that, it's in one of the most recent posts on this that I have over at Substack. You can go and read it for yourself and you can see the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Trulieve has given to people like Ben Albritton, Alex Andrade, Wilton Simpson is a huge recipient. He's the guy who's Ag Commissioner there in Florida that they want to run immigration. Trulieve has purchased a lot of influence and access, and a lot of people have not been honest about it. And they actually got in trouble. They had a letter sent to them because they were refusing to cooperate with E-Verify. Now, you remember E-Verify, which was passed in Florida. It was passed but purposefully not funded by the traitors of the amnesty rhino wing in that state. And they got a lot of cash from Trulieve. So they passed the E-Verify, but they didn't fund it. Twice they refused to fund it. So Trulieve was sent a letter because there are people who are saying, you guys need to pay attention to the hiring practices of Trulieve and all the stuff that they're doing. Trulieve has a very long, bad history. I think the husband of the founder has gotten in a lot of trouble as a felon. They've been accused of violating all kinds of different laws in a number of different states. They... I mean, there's nothing good about it. They have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to, I mean, tons of politicians, tons of influencers. It's a very troubled company. They have a very bad history. But the point is, is that they have been trying to act like if you oppose what Trulieve wants to do, then you oppose the legalization of marijuana. And there are two separate issues. their issue is they want to create a monopoly they control and destroy all competition. It has nothing to do with the legalization of marijuana, which by the way, like all of the medical stuff and like the edibles and some of the other stuff, like they already signed DeSantis and all those other, some of the other Republicans in Florida already signed that into law. But they're trying to make the play that it's about the legalization of pot and it's not. It really isn't. Now that said, I am not like a marijuana person. I am a I hate big government person. And so I don't want anyone to think that I'm like a big pot cheerleader. I just don't care. I don't want the government to tell me or to tell anyone what they can do, what they get. If people want to be stupid and and and and heat themselves off of this mortal coil by doing things dangerous to themselves. Is that mean if I say that's not my problem? I got a lot of other issues, right? I got a lot of other things I'm dealing with right now. I don't want to be in any state kind of stuff. But and I reject because people are like, you're a libertarian on this. I reject all of that. I just don't like big government. And I don't trust a government who says that they want to measure what is best for your for things like this to consume. Because I'm against big government, I'm also against all of the other side issues that big government promotes, namely big corporatism. And that's what this is. This is exactly just more big government. with a company like Trulieve. Now, they're trying to do this in other states, and they are really trying to worm their way into the Trump administration. In fact, the lady, Kim Rivers, I think is her name. It's her husband, I think is the one that got in a lot of trouble. Oh, she's got all kinds of pictures of herself at the vice president's inaugural dinner in DC last week. She was at the candlelight dinner. She's got all kinds. I mean, they very proudly spend, Thank you. hundreds of millions of dollars to buy market control. That is not conservative. It's not free market, and it doesn't have anything to do with legalizing marijuana at all whatsoever. Furthermore, they also support all of the other side issues that complicate this further, amnesty and giving driver's licenses. They supported all of the lawmakers that were in favor of that because it best benefits their company. So this is, you know, just like I have more that I've written about them at Substack, but I want you to be aware of them because it is they have a lot of influence. There are there are influencers and people that I know that you all know. And even some talking heads on TV. have gotten a lot of money from them now how do we know this because they have to publicly report it every quarter and so you have websites including like open secrets where you can go and you can see you can just literally search trulieve and you can see and search by either Did they donate to a PAC, a group, a politician? And you can see all of the money that they have spent. A lot of these other influencers will create like third party companies or like shell companies that they accept payments through. And that's pretty easy to track down too. There are a lot of people whose names you know that did not disclose to you that they were taking money from Trulieve. It's an industry. It's one of the things that actually sickens me about politics and even about commentary because it's not just about commentary and activism and then being a lawmaker. Now, it's almost like everybody, not everybody that I know, but a lot of people I'm aware of are getting like fat cash off of this. It is a very easy grift. You can very easily become incredibly wealthy. taking money from these special interests in that manner. And so that's, I just want you to watch out for that because they've already started petitioning again in Florida. They've been sending out all kinds of mailers and stuff to people in Florida. I've been hearing from people, listeners in other states where they're like, I feel like they're, you know, they're trying to get their tendrils in here too. And this is what's been happening. They would love nothing more to be able, under the guise of legalizing marijuana, because they think that's an issue that they can get everybody on board with, to purchase literal changes in U.S. law, a foreign company, to benefit itself. So that's what Trulieve is, and that's what they're doing. And they're very, very aggressive in promoting that control of the market. So just kind of watch out. With the things that you get, political mailers, I know a lot of people kind of look at them and they toss them. Just pay kind of attention. And if you get something like this, I would love to hear about it. Because there are some very good people who I think don't get paid enough by their jobs. And they do this on the side because they care about it, who have been tracking all of this. And I just am very interested if you get stuff like this in your state, in your area. Give me a heads up about it. I'm very curious about this stuff and what kind of mailers you're receiving because they're already starting to paper everybody in Florida again with us. And voters already rejected at once because they saw through it. They're like, wait a minute, this isn't even about this. You're not allowing people to like grow their own or legalize anything. You're literally giving this company veto power as to who can participate in their select network. And then there are still fines for their... I mean, they're literally using the law to destroy their competition. That's not conservative. That's not free market. And it has nothing to do with marijuana legalization. Trulieve is an evil company. It's evil. And the people who run it are evil. That's what you need to be aware of. So just kind of keep your eyes out, your eyes open about all of this stuff. 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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 Waffle House is adding a 50 cent per egg surcharge to customers' orders, citing the impact of ongoing egg shortages and rising prices caused by bird flu. They said that they're opting for a temporary targeted surcharge. They said that they hope that the price fluctuations will be short-lived. But they can't predict, they said, how long that the shortage is going to last. But they said that from the USDA, their forecast is that the price of eggs are going to rise about 20%. And it's the average dozen. It was like, what, 415 in December. It was 365 in November, according to BLS. So... Kane's like not having it.
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Because they killed a bunch of millions of chickens too.
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There you go. I'm just saying. This is interesting. The Muskegon animal shelter will neuter your ex. For Valentine's Day. So they had their, I think it's actually funny when the animal sanctuaries or shelters do this stuff. So they have a program called Trap Neuter Return where they neuter cats and then return them to the respective colonies. You just do a $25 donation and you can name a cat after your ex and then have it snipped. Those are actually really successful. I got to say those the way that they do that stuff. Let's see this large fire at a funeral home in Easter Green, which was deemed accidental or Greenwich deemed deemed accidental. Kane says it's free cremations for all. You're so mean. Look at you. Oh, schools have been shut down because tremors have been shaking Santorini, what's called the Instagram island of Greece. Santorini has been, I mean, they've had lots of, lots, dozens and dozens of tremors. So they've closed schools. They've told people to drain their pools. And airlines have been announcing additional flights to help people leave. They've had 200 earthquakes just in the past four days. Strongest has been 4.9. Stick with us. We've got a lot more in store back after this. 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 NativePath.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 GetNativePath.com slash Dana.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. I was looking at, so randoland.us, they have like an ongoing list of all of the insane spending with USAID. And it's pretty wild. Some of the stuff that they have found, it's crazy. Like for, I mean, you guys have seen some of this stuff. Some of the things that they were finding, like in Afghanistan, how they had solar-powered streetlights in Afghanistan that we paid for that were promptly stolen. We were paying opium farmers two times the price of opium to grow corn, and then we were sending... sending it to get it inspected. So we would collect corn money. We would basically grow opium, bribing inspectors, and then selling it to the Haqqani Network. This is crazy. There was like apparently a shopping mall in Kandahar that apparently the construction contract for that was paid in full up front. When does that ever happen? And the contractor only poured a non-reinforced slab of concrete and then moved his entire family to Dubai with all the rest of the money. Yeah. I mean, that's just, there is so much that, I mean, it's just, it's unbelievable. I'm like looking at like there, that was in addition to the 35 million prophylactics that we purchased and, That's just in one part. I mean, this goes on and on and on. And I mean, there's like no end. There's literally no end. There's no end to it. All of the, I mean, I'm looking at all of our taxpayer dollars that they've, you've heard some of it. You guys wouldn't, I mean, I could, we could probably do three hours just reading. And not even get through. Like we were spending money on corporation grants in Mozambique. Excuse me. We were. I don't even understand. This is just crazy. It's a slush fund. A slush fund. Now you can see why they went in there. The other big headline. And this came from Secretary of State yesterday. El Salvador has agreed to an unprecedented and extraordinary deal regarding taking in people who have been deported. The this has all related to the threat and tariffs that were against Colombia because they were not going to accept deportation flights from the US. And then the State Department was going to suspend the consulate services in Bogota and Customs and Border Protection for inspection protocols on exports, etc. So now. Rubio, who's been traveling through Panama and Costa Rica and El Salvador and Guatemala and Dominican Republic for this foreign to advance the foreign policy of the administration. So now Rubio said this was yesterday evening that El Salvador has agreed to accept deportees, not just from other countries, but also, quote, do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence. In the U.S., even though they're U.S. citizens or legal residents. I mean, they are just El Salvador is like, no, no, it's OK. We'll take all of them. Yeah, they're not El Salvador. OK, yeah, we'll take them. That's fine. Yeah, go ahead. Give them to us. We'll have them. The president there agreed to take back all of the MS-13 gang members, all the Salvadorans who are in MS-13 and who are in the U.S. unlawfully, and even including members of the Trenda Aragua, that's Venezuelan, and any criminal, illegal immigrant from any country. That's a big change. I don't think that's ever been extended by any other country before. They had a... Yeah, I mean, what did you say? It's going to be a boon to their prison business?
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It is. That's something that they've been working on. And they don't mind taking from other countries lawless people as well because they know that whatever the U.S. is going to pay them to do that, it's going to be cheaper for us, number one. But number two, it's like just a boon for them.
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Yeah. People have been saying, oh, it's like a hell on earth. They're talking about sending people. Well, then don't do crimes anymore. It's not like difficult. It's not like you're being forced to do it. Then just don't do crimes. It's not that big of a deal. But that's a huge change. A very big change. Also, now they've advanced. I'm going to pull this up too. So this is the cabinet news. So this is just the committee news. So they haven't approved her to be director of DNI yet. But the Senate did advance her progression, 9-8, that committee to approve her nomination to be DNI. So it's going forward. So both her and... RFK Jr. are going forward with us thus far in terms of being moved out of the Senate Intelligence Committee. So that just came in. So that should all be very interesting to see how that, because again, that's not just confirming her to be in that position. It's just moving out of committee and then it has to go to the Senate and then they'll have to vote, etc., etc. And then you've got all the procedural stuff for debate, etc., etc., So keeping you updated with that. Now, switching gears again. I told you there's a lot of stuff. the wildfires in LA. I thought it was interesting. And I think Lorraine made this point too, the other day with the Grammys and they had all, they were talking about the LA, the wildfires out in Los Angeles, but they're really didn't have anything to say about the Carolinas and the devastation there. Because if it happens in Los Angeles, it's, you know, it affects Hollywood. And so Hollywood's very, you know, it affects us. So it's very important to that effect though. Newsome has issued, this is very rich news. an executive order to maximize water capture during storms. He's... Yeah, he's just now doing that, Cain. He is just now signing an executive order to maximize the capture of water during winter storms. He said it'll make it easier, like it was an idea he just came up with himself. Who would have thought, Cain? Who would have thought, everybody, that you could just capture that water? He just now thought of it. He thinks he's a genius. He said in his statement, It's more important than ever that we maximize every opportunity to recharge our groundwater supplies. As we anticipate rain and snow in Northern California, we're preparing to use every last drop, blah, blah, blah. Now, of course, you have the environmental groups that are denouncing this order. And they're saying that it's very, it's alarmingly like Trump's order. as it relates to the federal directives on water storage, etc., and that it's going to harm some dumbass fish species. You know how you protect a fish species, Cain? You make it a delicacy. You eat it. Think about it.
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I'm not against that.
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I mean, what is it? It's the Delta smelt or whatever. It's a bait fish, it looks like. I really don't care. Is the world going to... I don't care. You know, I don't care. Bite a head off it. I don't care. But they said that the environmentalist groups are very upset. It's going to harm this vulnerable fish species. I mean, screw the humans. This vulnerable fish species... and the deteriorating ecosystem of the desert-y Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, if you've seen it. You know, I would say that the loss of wildlife and human life due to the wildfires trumps the delta smelt, and that's the little fish, That's in California. They said it's a... I mean, this thing is tiny. It's five centimeters long, for crying out loud. And they can't... I was reading this article the other day. Why is this stupid fish so important? And it's... If you were to Google it, it won't tell you. It's empty. I'm not even kidding you. I don't even know. They said the delta smelt is functionally extinct. Okay, that happens sometimes. What does this do? It's a critically endangered species and we've got to protect this little smelt. You know, there's other states that have, like in Northern California, all the way down to Alaska has a smelt. I don't know. Why? But they're actually trying to fight water capture because of that. So you would rather... you know, the big environmentalists would rather all of the other animals burn. Have you seen like the dogs and the bear and all of these other animals that have been burned and singed by the wildfires because of improper land management? And they're worried about this stupid little bait fish that's five to seven centimeters long, seven at max, Cain. That's Little bit tiny. It's a bait fish.
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How do we have millions of sardines we can and tons of tuna and all these other fish and somehow the smelt is the one that's having trouble?
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Yeah.
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I don't get it.
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Great question. I have no idea. Great question. Great question. No idea. But I just think that that's like... He's like now, just now coming out to do this. I mean, you realize that they had previously, when they had done water capture, they actually had to let it... They just let it drain out. There's a video of it just being drained back out into the ocean. They just didn't keep it. They would not have been in this predicament in the first place. But they were listening to all of these enviro-nuts who don't care about the consequences of their unrealistic policies. You know, sometimes life... becomes inhospitable for a certain species, especially one that's functionally extinct, like this dumb little bait fish, you're not hating on the environment. You're just saying that this is incompatible with life. So you got to pick. Then have everyone get the hell out of California. If that fish is so important to you, everybody leave. Leave the state to the smelt if it's that important. But they won't do that. So you can't have it both ways, right? It doesn't work both ways like that. But it's just an unrealistic, completely unrealistic approach. I just can't believe that he's acting like that's a great big idea. He just thought of it, guys. Executive order on water capture. I mean, did not Trump just say that? Like when he went out there to California to view all of the wildfire damage?
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Trump said it like eight years ago.
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Yeah. Oh, but it's a brand new thing.
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And the coddling is for the white boys. That's what's happening right now. I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned. When I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don't feel a way and why you can't make me doubt who I am? It's because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. And that is the life that we have always lived.
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I think she wears more makeup than both of them put together. I mean, if you want to have that. I mean, no one would. I don't know. I don't think that anybody would think that Jasmine Crockett. member of Congress there. I don't think anybody believes that she would work hard. I think she's a grifting racist and that she's an embarrassment to Congress because everything that she gets up there, she gets up there and everything's based in race. I mean, she doesn't have any kind of, you know, any intellectual articulation of why she opposes a particular policy or issue. It's just all race, race, race. And that is what vapid, miles wide, inches deep pseudo-intellectualism gets you. on the left anymore. These people have not learned. They have not learned. And I'm fine with them not learning because it means they're going to get their asses kicked every single election. Totally fine with that. So I, you know, I just, the stuff that she says though, that's racist. And who's she talking about? White boy tears. What the hell is that even in reference to? You're a grown ass woman and you're talking like you're in a movie. Shut up. You're a member of Congress. I'm so tired of this. I'm so just tired of trash. Just absolutely tired of just garbage. So, I don't know. She's giving AOC a run for her money. I'll give her that. Who's more annoying on that party? Look, we've got our annoying people. But their annoying people, I feel like, are doubly annoying.
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Yeah. Their top ten are the top ten.
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I mean, and I think Chuck Schumer's in there somewhere. But the shrill, loud ones definitely are. I think AOC and her, Jasmine Crockett as well. So we are, I feel like we'll have the cabinet stuff, especially for DNI and HHS. I think that'll probably be. What? Solidify this week. I think they'll have that done by by week's end. So both of those are advancing through and will we're also following. I'm sure that there's going to be because I told you yesterday as it relates to the tariffs and all of that. Now you have like what a one month pause. The president also announced that they're expanding a maximum pressure campaign on Iran. This is a continuation of what he was doing his first term. So that of all biggest losers are Iran. So we'll we'll see how this works out for them. He's going to be at Super Bowl. They announced that today, too. He's going to be at the Super Bowl. Is he going to be in Taylor Swift's box? Will he just go and take it over? That upside is that we won't have every camera break and pan to Taylor Swift every single time Travis Kelsey farts, so...
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there's are you watching super bowl i don't i never pay attention i can't even tell you who played in the super bowl last year i found it interesting that ai was going to be dominating the production of most of the commercials that we see during the super bowl this year so that's to me is a curious thing i'll check it out for that all right today in stupidity king all right cut 12 let's go to joyless read when they say that trump was a threat to democracy they meant a threat to bureaucracy listen to this
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Over the past two weeks, which kind of feels like it's been two years, we have learned just how fragile our democracy is and how relatively easy it is for someone who's determined and really well-funded to steal and corrupt it. If you were going to write a playbook for how to steal a democracy in less than 20 days, it would sure look a lot like this.
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Again, she mispronounced bureaucracy. No one believes you, Reed, girl. She mispronounced bureaucracy. She meant to say that, but she said democracy instead. So sorry about your bureaucracy there, Joyless Reed.
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No wonder their ratings are in the tank and they have to cut the salaries of all their on-air talent because you have anchors like that that just drag. Folks, that does it for us tonight. I'll be on Jesse Waters' program later. And find us on Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. Substack chapter and verse. I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow.
In today's Sekulow, Logan and his team address the unfolding confirmation hearings of Tulsi Gabbard and other critical appointments under the Trump administration. We explore the implications of key endorsements and examine the strategic pressure being applied to secure these confirmations. Through insightful discourse, we highlight the role of public engagement as listeners are urged to continue their advocacy and make their voices heard in the corridors of power. On the international front, we share details of recent successful diplomatic engagements in Central America under Secretary Rubio, setting a new precedent for global diplomacy under this administration.
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With a vote coming later today, two more senators support Tulsi Gabbard's nomination.
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Welcome to Sekula. We will be taking your calls and comments at 1-800-684-3110. Harry Hutchinson is going to be joining us a little bit later. And we are talking about the breaking news where we have seen that Tulsi Gabbard is headed towards confirmation. We can at least feel that this is a positive move as we've seen multiple senators, those who were on the fence, those who have been maybe the ones that we've been praying about, the ones that you've been calling. There's still some holdouts. But right now, I can say that things are feeling better than they have been before. Same with RFK Jr. as he got voted out of committee today. Still razor thin margins, but made it through. So, Will, tell us about the breaking news item. And then what's next? Because I know a lot of people, this is the first time they've maybe paid attention to these confirmation hearings at this level. So this isn't the end, but it's a good sign of where things are going. That's right.
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So last night we got a statement out of Susan Collins from Maine. She was one of the ones that we had been concerned about. Probably the biggest one. Right. She seemed like she was going to be a no. Right. And that was a big concern that Tulsi Gabbard would not advance through committee. But she released a statement last night. And it wasn't just a statement that President Trump deserves his picks, therefore I will vote. She said, after extensive consideration of her nomination, I will support Tulsi Gabbard to be the Director of National Intelligence. As the principal author of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 that established this coordinating position, I understand the critical role DNI plays in the intelligence community. The Office of Director of National Intelligence, however, has become far larger than it was designed to be. And Ms. Gabbard shares my vision of returning the agency to its intended size. And she says she looks forward to working with Ms. Gabbard to strengthen our national security. So not just a President Trump deserves to have his picks. I will vote for that. she is endorsing Tulsi Gabbard in this position saying she actually is going to be great in this position because she will work on the things I'm concerned about.
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What's good about this also is that it starts pushing anyone else on the fence to give them that kind of cover. And honestly, to make them look a little bad if they don't vote for Tulsi Gabbard, because you have the ones who are not only on the fence, the ones that we assumed were no, now flipping. So you have still a few out there who really still... need to be pushed. So we encourage you still to sign that petition, get involved, though it is looking good, but it is only looking good because people like you have signed these petitions, called your senators, called their offices, and said that you wanted this to happen. Don't think that your voice isn't heard. they did not want to push through Tulsi Gabbard a lot of people did not but it looks like things are better than ever and maybe by the end of the day we'll have a a good idea we'll know if she had made it out of committee that's right because this morning we had Senator Todd Young who was actually another one of those very concerning votes from the Republican side he uh he
SPEAKER 08 :
put out a long message this morning, just a few minutes really before we even started this broadcast, that he has gotten some commitments on the way that Tulsi will do her job and that he will support her nomination. So of the three to four that we were looking at yesterday that we were still concerned about, two are affirmatively saying they will vote for her out of committee today. I think the main target right now to ensure confirmation is there's one holdout that we don't really know where that will land. The senator from Kansas, Jerry Moran. And that's when you see the maximum pressure that we have put on, that the Trump administration has put on, it's working. So continue to sign that petition. We can't let Jerry Moran be the only one that decides to not advance her and to really do damage to the nomination in this committee. Sign the petition at ACLJ.org. We are going to push until today at 2 p.m. Eastern time when that committee will vote. We want to see a public affirmation from Senator Moran before he goes in to vote. Let's get this done.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, sign that petition right now, as Will said, at ACLJ.org. And look, if you support Tulsi Gabbard, make sure you hit that thumbs up if you're watching on YouTube. If you're watching on Rumble, you think it's also a thumbs up or a plus sign, do that right now. Sign the petition, support the work of the ACLJ at ACLJ.org. And phone lines are open. How do you feel about the push for Tulsi Gabbard? 1-800-684-3110. Say some prayers for her today. Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open at 1-800-684-3110. I've seen some of the comments in the chat right now happening on YouTube, asking also about some of the other candidates, including Pam Bondi, because there was some news out of there. Well, looks like today will be the day.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. On Monday night, the Senate was able to invoke cloture, which would limit the legislative filibuster. That's effectively when the opposing party tries to continue to stall and delay through debate. You can invoke cloture, you get to a vote threshold, and then you can end that debate after a certain amount of time. And now Senator Thune, or should I say Majority Leader Thune of the Senate, has said that there will be a floor vote. vote today in the Senate for full confirmation of Attorney General Bondi so we should have a new Attorney General looks like today and that's a great thing for America's safety for national security as well as starting those reforms within the Department of Justice which are so desperately needed.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think you need to understand the influence the ACLJ has had over the last few years. Pam Bondi has been someone that we have been close to for decades at this point, and someone who served with my father and my brother in the impeachment trials, the first round of those. So if you just looked at the panel, there's my dad and my brother, Pam Bondi, plenty of others. But remember, these are people that we are close to. And a lot of that is because of the work that we do here. And we have such an audience who is pushing even the, the whole, the whole thing. When you look at it, Rick Grinnell, okay. You saw him on the show yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi. These are friends that are coming on board and taking some of the highest level positions in our government. It's pretty wild. And I want to thank you, the ACLJ supporter, for helping us do that because we wouldn't be able to bring on the best and the brightest. And look, I think now you know we do bring on the best and the brightest without you. So, of course, I always encourage you if you can make a donation because we are not paid for or funded by big sponsors. This is all individual donations and ACLJ champions that keep the ball rolling. That's this show. That's our legal work. So do that now if you can. This is a big moment. Today will be a big moment. We saw RFK get pushed through committee. I think, look, RFK and Tulsi were the two that were... probably the most controversial, if you will. I don't think they're controversial picks, specifically not Tulsi. I think if you look at RFK, you could at least go, okay, he's changed some of his positions. You could look at maybe some of his positions in terms of qualifications for this job. You could question those and have good conversation about it. I like a lot of the things he says. Tulsi, if you went on her pure qualifications list, this is absurd that we're even at this point where we should be celebrating that it looks like she's going to make it through with a razor thin margin. This is someone who has served our country for decades, who joined after 9-11, who has been involved in serving our country continually, including in her own charitable work. So at this point, I am hoping today gives us that closure and that answer.
SPEAKER 08 :
And one thing I want to point to as well, which is a very good sign for her nomination, which you can't take as gospel truth, but is an indicator of where people think that something is going, whether it be presidential elections or the like. And that's the betting markets that exist on political issues. And so this is from PolyMarket. which last week on January 30th, so just a few days ago, five days ago, they had people betting there was only a 43% chance Tulsi Gabbard would be the next director of national intelligence. So just a few days ago, under 50% chance that she would make it through. But what happened? The American people spoke out. You listeners and viewers of this program that have signed the petition, that have called your senators and said, get with the program, let's get her through, has made a huge difference. That's what the American people listen. The senators listen to the American people when they speak out. And that's exactly what's happened. Because right now, the betting market is at 98% chance of confirmation for Tulsi Gabbard. Wow, that's a huge swing. And it's not like, how much is really happening? How many people are doing this? $4.4 million has been traded on this nomination. And they're $1 bets. Sets 4.4 million trades on this betting market. That's a significant sample size if you want to take it in polling. That's almost how you can look at it. A very large sample of people thinking how based off the news and the way things are going. That's a really good sign.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, absolutely. Phone lines are open for you. I want to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110. Hope you like those betting odds. Not that Will spends time on those apps or anything. Well, as an American, you can't actually use it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, you can't? No, no. It has to be like outside the country, betting, all that. I don't know. I'm sure there's loopholes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Will's like, I don't know all the details. I don't participate in it. I would be not smart to do that. Okay, so when you have... Now remember, there's also thousands of positions that do have to be confirmed. It's not just... you know, the big ticket items, if you will. It's not just DNI and all of these others. There's thousands of positions now that President Trump, once the big ones are taken care of, then they'll move on to those. And those are usually a little less intensive in the confirmation process because maybe they carry a little less weight in terms of chain of command or any of these things. But there's still a lot to fill to make sure that the agenda that is put forth right now gets fulfilled.
SPEAKER 08 :
I believe there's something over 10,000 positions that actually are confirmable positions within the executive branch, whether that be ambassadors, whether it's deputies. Because remember, not just the secretary level has to be confirmed many times. Several layers of deputies also are their appointed positions, and therefore they have to be confirmed through the advice and consent of the Senate. Now, as you mentioned, it is a lot easier once you have the principal in to get those deputies in because you've already confirmed the boss, and then you're like, okay, we will go down the line. But there still are hearings. Sometimes they're just the questionnaire. Sometimes there's hearings. Sometimes it takes years. Some positions never get filled. That's just the truth of it, is that there are so many confirmable positions that some just stay vacant.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, they don't make it even through term. That's right. And we only have one term, Trump presidency guaranteed. So they got to move fast. Speaking of moving fast, I want to hear from you. 1-800-684-3110. Phone lines are open. There's a lot of you joining us online. If you're brand new to the broadcast, I'm going to encourage you to hit the thumbs up, but also subscribe because we do this show each and every day. And in the comments, if you don't have anything to comment... Let me know where you're watching from right now. I'd love to hear where you are. People are worldwide, Will, watching. So maybe they took your gambling advice in other places. Let's try to get this call screened pretty quickly because I would like to take it because I think a lot of people have questions about the cabinet picks. And of course, Tulsi Gabbard has been someone who has been a good friend of ours. now for a number of years. And I know you've said, hey, Logan, you've been talking about this now for the last week because it's important. Look, I see the reaction from you as well because this is someone who is our friend. This is someone who you've come to love also and trust. And you've seen what they've put her through. And we're hoping today is a good one. Let's go to Bob who's calling in Wisconsin on line one who's listening on Sirius XM. Bob, you're on the air. Hi, sir.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you much for taking my call. I'm just wondering, is Tulsi Gabbard getting a lot of resistance or confrontation if you will because and this is not to be derogatory because she jumped ship from the democrats and they don't know where her trust is or her loyalty really is bob i think that that's okay to talk about i think it's okay to question she has had a multiple year journey obviously she is someone who was more moderate even in her time uh especially for a democrat at that point
SPEAKER 05 :
Sure. Do you want to ask her the tough questions? But those aren't the questions they ask. They put in questions about made up stories of who is she working for? Who is she meeting with? Were you meeting with Hezbollah? What were you doing? And those are the ones where they stick on these talking points that, again, aren't those real questions. I think feel the same with RFK. Sure. Ask those questions. Lindsey Graham said he needed to hear from RFK thoughts on his thoughts on life. an abortion because he knew he was a very, very pro-choice person and he didn't feel very comfortable with that as being someone who's very pro-life individual. Okay. I think that's a valid question. The problem, Bob, is they weren't asking valid questions. They were asking gotcha questions that all it did was fuel rumor. Rumor that a lot of it had proven to be not true. And they started doing this to her, by the way, when she was a Democrat running for president of the United States. And she didn't give them the answers they want, which is maybe on life. She was a little bit more, I mean, a little bit more moderate than they were happy with. And those kind of things happen, and boom, what happens? You end up calling someone a Russian asset, because at that time, that was the worst thing you could say. And that's gotten worse over the years. Now, she has proven to be trustworthy. Again, she joined our broadcast team. She didn't need to, didn't have to. It's not like we forced anyone to do it. So she came on to talk to you, the Sekulow listener, the Sekulow viewer, the ACLJ supporter. Think about that. That is not an easy thing to say yes to even because you know that for your career, this is something that is a platform that definitely leans more Christian conservative. And you're a Democrat with a Christian upbringing, but maybe your religious beliefs are different now. And now you have a situation where you're getting to talk directly to a Christian conservative audience and you're choosing to do that. Pretty powerful. Give us a call. Some of you have 1-800-684-3110. We'll talk a little bit more about RFK as well in the next segment. So I know we got Steve stay on hold. He's watching on YouTube. He's got a question about RFK. There's a few others calling in right now. We got two lines open at 1-800-684-3110. Our final Capitol Hill to confirm Tulsi Gabbard continues on today. Could be the day. where all of your hard work has proved successful, but we can't stop now. You can make a difference by helping push this forward today. Go to ACLJ.org and ACLJ.org slash sign if you want to go directly or scan the QR code. One of 55,000 people you can be. 55,000 of our listeners and our supporters and our viewers have already signed this petition. Let's get that over the line today. ACLJ.org. Welcome back to Seculo. Some phone lines are open still. 1-800-684-3110. I always like to hear from you on these big moments, and this is a big moment. It should be a big moment for all of our supporters, all of our listeners. I encourage you to hit that thumbs up if you're watching on YouTube, because you have done a really good job in supporting our friend and colleague, Tulsi Gabbard, and her confirmation process. And it is looking like, as Will just stated, it is looking like positive movement is happening. And I will tell you, That was not necessarily the case a week ago. That was not necessarily the case three days ago. We all of a sudden have started to see a push towards confirmation. I was very concerned that Tulsi was going to be someone who they kind of sacrificed so they didn't put Trump's pit picks all the way through. But it looks like
SPEAKER 08 :
right now and again it's not a hundred percent it's certainly not locked and the vote hasn't happened it will happen today though it'll happen today it's scheduled for 2 p.m eastern time that's right so the senate intelligence committee will vote at 2 p.m eastern time today to advance tulsi gabbard's nomination we want that to be a favorable advancement So that means we want her to have the majority. Right now, the one that we're concerned about that has not publicly stated would be Senator Jerry Moran from Kansas. So there's still time to sign the petition at ACLJ.org slash sign or even call the Capitol switchboard to be able to speak directly to his office. Be polite, be respectful, but just say as an American citizen, I want to see Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as the next director of national intelligence and It helps so much. Like I said, you've seen this entire what Axios called a vibe shift on Tulsi over really the last 48 hours. We have seen this happen where it seemed more dire heading towards this vote. And now it completely has turned around and we are hopefully going to see her advanced out of committee. I will also say once that happens. Most of the people that there were concerns about not confirming her were on the committee. So we still need the full Senate to confirm her to the position, but there hasn't been as many outspoken voices against her or questionable voices that are not on the Intel committee. So if she makes it through there with the stamp of approval, that is a very, very good sign for her to be confirmed by the full Senate as soon as Senator Thune puts it forward.
SPEAKER 05 :
Some of the comments have come up about Lankford because we talked about him yesterday. Have there been any movements on Senator Lankford?
SPEAKER 08 :
So what we have not seen is any public deviation from his prior endorsement saying he would vote yes before the hearing. There was concern around Senator Lankford that maybe the way he questioned some things during the hearing and some of the reporting that he may be waffling on that. Reading the tea leaves, the fact that you've now had Cornyn, Young, and Collins, I think that it gives anyone that may have questioned the confidence to move forward and not really be the one person left standing that... sinks her nomination, I feel like the maximum pressure campaign from the American people, from J.D. Vance calling senators, President Trump calling senators, and groups like the ACLJ pushing very hard for these confirmations, that that person doesn't want to be the only one that hasn't voted yes. Because at this point, What you're looking at with these people that have put out the public statements, Susan Collins, Senator Young, John Cornyn, even if it's in that secret vote. You're going to know who's the last man standing, and that politically could be very damaging for the remainder of your career in the Senate.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, let's continue on. Let's take some calls. Let's go first to Steve in Georgia, who is watching on YouTube. And again, if you're watching on YouTube, you can always still call us. Get your comment in, but you can call us at 1-800-684-3110. Steve, welcome.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, I like the coverage on Kosti from you all this morning. It's very, very positive, man. I wanted to know if you feel as positive as JFK and Cash Patel.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, Steve from Georgia. I do, actually. I feel pretty confident in now all of them. We know RFK has gone through committee. That is a good sign. As Will said, sometimes the people that are on these committees are the ones that could be the holdouts. I thought... If RFK made it through, to be honest, I thought Cash was 100% going to make it through. And I felt pretty good about Tulsi once that happened this morning. So I do think that you will see all three of them confirmed. Again, it still doesn't mean the pressure's not on. So I encourage you still, sign that petition, get involved, call your offices, 1-800-684-3110 to get your voice heard on the air today because it's not over. I don't want you to hear our positivity and think that there's not a chance that this doesn't go the way we think it's going to go. Obviously, it's politics. It's Washington, D.C. It's dirty. It's sometimes very gross and disturbing. So sometimes, even if you feel it's going a certain way, I mean, look, J.D. Vance had to come in to be the tiebreaker vote for Pete Hexeth. We thought that if you looked at the votes first, it looked like it wasn't gonna be necessary. Last second, it was necessary. And he had to come and do that. So all bets are off in that sense, where you never know whose interests are at heart.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I would also say that that vote this morning was a good sign that both the administration and the American people and organizations like ours are having a positive effect because RFK Jr., there was a holdout that many people did not think would vote for him because Senator Bill Cassidy, who is on that finance panel that voted this morning, had actually big issues with rfk jr because senator cassidy has been a medical doctor for over 30 years before becoming a u.s senator and he put out right before the vote though i had a very intense conversations with bobby and the white house over the weekend and even this morning i want to thank vice president jd specifically for his honest counsel With the serious commitments I've received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on, like healthy foods and pro-American agenda, I will vote yes. That could have been the one holdout that could have claimed his laurels as a doctor that I don't agree with some of the things that Bobby Kennedy may agree with. that he could have sunk that nomination and may have even had, to some degree, a little bit more clout from his credentials than just a, I don't agree with a policy position. But in the end, he flipped to a yes. Bobby Kennedy will move on to a floor vote sometime in the near future after clotures invoked and those things we've talked about. But I feel very good about his chances.
SPEAKER 05 :
I do too. I think it's happening.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I think cash...
SPEAKER 05 :
he nailed that hearing and you're hearing almost no criticism from the right on how cash has handled himself i think that he will actually sail through pretty sure i mean cash patel you know honestly most of what i knew him from was the last few years sort of his rumble persona i would say right so i was like man let's see how he does in this i mean he's he can be pretty fiery let's see what this dude does and he came up there and he nailed it was very professional came off like a a balanced, level-headed guy, and I think he's going to sail through without a problem. I could see the same now happening. Now, RFK, again, sail through without a problem. What does that mean? You win by a one vote? You win by JD Vance coming and confirming you? That oddly, in this time of day, this time of Washington, D.C., that is the norm. that's almost a landslide it's real sad because these people should all be judged on their qualifications not whether you agree on them there are things that rfk says that i agree with there are things he says i do not agree with i probably put that for all of them even tulsi our friend and colleague there i'm sure there are positions that we hold differently but if i was up there voting for her and i looked at i don't know her cv and said oh do you think she's qualified for this i think so i don't even think that should be a question What do you think? 1-800-684-3110. People are asking how long now until some of these votes. We'll get to that coming up in the next half hour. We do have a full half hour coming up. So if you don't get us on your local station, join us right now live on ACLJ.org. You can sign the petition if you want to. You can make a donation if you want to. We're also streaming on YouTube live. We are on Facebook. We are on X. you find us on all those platforms of course rumble and on the salem news channel those are the live outlets and then some of you may hear us later on and if you do you can always join us live or catch the show archived on the seculo podcast or again on any of those outlets youtube rumble and if you're new i'm gonna encourage you right now to subscribe and if you've been around a while you like what we do make a donation today support the work of the aclj help us confirm tulsi gabbard aclj.org we'll be right back
SPEAKER 06 :
keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. Again, second half hour of the show right now. I want to restate what's going on. You may just be joining us and seeing that breaking news item. Tulsi Gabbard has secured more votes for confirmation, and we know that vote is going to take place today to get her out of committee. That is at 2 p.m. Eastern time. And, Will, we saw some of the ones who were the McCollins and maybe the ones who we thought were going to be a no. We are seeing a positive move. Again, I know some of you have been joining us for the whole half hour. Previous half hour, you've heard this already. But there are a lot of you just joining us right now. So I want to make sure we state what's going on. As phone lines are open, 1-800-684-3110. And of course, after Will tells you what's going on, I'm going to tell you how you can still get involved because it is not over yet.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. So as we've mentioned, Senator Collins from Maine, who was one of the holdouts, has publicly said that she will support Tulsi Gabbard and actually gave an endorsement of the way that she would run the Office of Director of National Intelligence, which was even more than just what, say, Senator Cornyn said, which was that Trump deserves to have his nominees. We've also seen Senator Young from Indiana say, who is a former Marine intelligence officer. He also put forward a statement that he has gotten, he got a letter from Tulsi Gabbard asked that he had asked for to basically put in writing what these things you're saying in this meeting of how you'll conduct a business of this office. And she did. And he said, I am feel comfortable with the way that she will run this. Therefore I will vote yes on her. Senator Moran said, from Kansas, though, is one that we haven't heard from yet. And he is one that questioned her pretty aggressively and probably some of the most unfairly in some way, because he was asking things like if Russia would get a pass from her as director of national intelligence. And she responded with Senator, I'm offended by the question. So this is someone that was tough on her. Hopefully he will see what his colleagues are doing. He will take their lead on this and will go forward and vote yes. But that's why this critical time from when you are watching to 2 p.m. Eastern time today. He's got to vote yes. So you got to sign that petition at ACLJ.org slash sign or call the Capitol switchboard as well and ask to speak to Senator Moran's office and let him know.
SPEAKER 05 :
I like this comment a lot that just came in on YouTube, but it's something we've discussed off air many times and even on air right after the election, which is I, and I told her this and I've told the others, I believe RFK and Tulsi and this whole group is largely responsible, can at least take some responsibility for Trump having the size of victory that he had. He may have won either way, but the fact that it was so overwhelming was because I believe at least in good portion to what they called with the unity coalition. And someone just commented, they said after the first assassination attempt, both RFK Jr and Tulsi endorsed Trump forming the unity coalition. You also had that happen from a Joe Rogan. You also had that happen from, uh, you know, obviously your Dana White's and those and Elon Musk. Uh, these were not your normal political names. And the person put on here, I hope the Republican senators appreciate who actually gave them the power they currently hold. That's a pretty strong statement. I don't know if they get it, I don't know if it's specifically that, but they certainly had a huge influence. I know plenty of people that probably were not going to vote or not going to vote for President Trump, who once they saw the unity coalition, once they saw that team, Elon, Tulsi, RFK, JD Vance, that this group of people, Kash Patel, that this group of people was going to bring something different to Washington, D.C., even Senator Rubio, that they had not seen before. So this is a very cool moment because, like you said, that was a moment where the American people spoke up in maybe one of the more bipartisan ways that's happened in a long time. Doesn't feel that way, but the numbers don't lie. Give us a call, 1-800-684-3110. We've got a bunch of calls. We will get to them coming up. Harry Hutchinson's going to join us in the next segment, I believe, to discuss a little bit about what Marco Rubio was doing down in El Salvador. And, of course, we know that Canada caved and had a pretty aggressive change of heart. So we'll talk about that as well. If you have a question or comment related to any of these, I encourage you to call in or comment online. And right now, if you're watching on YouTube, and a lot of you are, and you've never seen us before, you haven't done it yet, hit that subscribe button. Over 462,000 subscribers on YouTube and 10,000 of those just have come in in the last few weeks. So I encourage you to do that. The more you do that, the more other people will see this and more our message will get out there. And our message often is your message. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Seculo. Harry Hutchinson joining us in studio. But I quickly want to take Donna in Colorado's call. If you want to call in 1-800-684-3110 in the next segment, I like to take as many calls as I possibly can. And right now there's three lines open. How do you feel about the movement for Tulsi Gabbard? How do you feel about RFK? And how do you feel about the topic we're going to go to right now? We've seen the Trump administration be pretty nimble, moving around the world. Not just our own country, not just visiting where things need to be taken care of. California, the anniversary of that horrible train derailment. You had J.D. Vance there. You have seen people in Florida. You've seen them all over Western North Carolina. It has already happened, but it's also happening on the world stage. We saw our own Rick Grinnell. going to Venezuela and freeing six hostages. If you didn't hear that interview, you should go back, or that conversation I had with Rick yesterday, you should go back and listen to it because it is fascinating to hear what's happening. And a lot of the news came out yesterday that Senator Rubio, or no, no longer Senator, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was down, uh, negotiating he was one he went to panama and then he continued on to el salvador and in el salvador uh some big movements happened again and again this is just days after we've only seen a president trump administration for a couple weeks but donna go ahead with your question um thank you for taking my question and thank you for you do i did sign the um
SPEAKER 04 :
the letter for Tulsi Gabbard. I'm praying for the rest of the candidates, but I'm wondering, I haven't heard anything about Pam Bondi. Does anybody know what's going on with her?
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. Donna, we actually talked about it a little bit earlier, probably before you were joining us. Pam Bondi moving forward. They think the vote is about to happen today. So that's right.
SPEAKER 08 :
So last week, it was actually last Wednesday, the judiciary committee advanced her on a party line vote of 12 to 10 and And then it was, cloture was invoked last night, which is the vote to end the debate on the nominee. And that kicks in a 30-hour window. So that would have put it into kind of overnight, early Wednesday morning voting. for a final vote but senator thun who is a majority leader thun has said that they will hold the vote today which means they have gotten concessions from democrats probably because they don't want to be forced to go vote at two in the morning uh that they will hold that vote today i assume sometime early evening they'll probably let that clock continue to go especially since there are committee votes and things happening during the day but we should see The full Senate vote today for the next Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, and it looks very good for confirmation today.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you so much, Donna, for calling. Let's move forward the conversation that we were just having. Marco Rubio, El Salvador, big breaking news. What happened, Will? And then maybe let's get thoughts from Professor Hutchinson. That's right.
SPEAKER 08 :
What you're seeing is a big contrast when there was a border czar from the previous administration, that being Vice President Kamala Harris, who was tasked with getting to the root causes of migration from Central and South America. what you're seeing from the very active schedule of the Secretary of State, both going to Panama, getting them to start to pull back from all the deals they had made with China and to once again secure and stick with the treaty that was signed in the Carter administration. You see that big concession from Panama. Then they moved on to El Salvador. El Salvador's president, has agreed to take criminal migrants from the United States, not just those that are El Salvadorian. They also put on the table, Professor Hutchison, hey, if you want to send us American criminals, we can house them in our jails as well. What was your take on the, I would say, successful foreign policy being conducted by our new Secretary of State?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I would say that Trump is doing precisely what he promised he would do. and he is doing it expeditiously. So what we have seen is an enormous change from the Biden administration, which was distinguished by virtue of the fact that it was sclerotic, ossified, and broken down. So the Biden administration failed to secure our border while claiming to secure the border. The Biden administration failed to send American officials to Central America to secure the border. And so what we have is Secretary of State Rubio going to Costa Rica, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Panama, and El Salvador and securing extraordinary cooperation with the governments in Central America He's also helped secure cooperation, along with tariffs, with Mexico and with Canada. And so what the American public is seeing is a sea change in terms of how America can enact its own foreign policy in its own interest.
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And I think that that is something that hopefully our listenership has understood because we have been kind of preaching that for the last few years. It is something that is important to the American people. Phone lines, like I said, are open again at 1-800-684-3110 because I like to take your calls and your comments. in the last segment, because I like to make sure you get the last word. Because as Professor Hutcherson stated, that these are issues that are important when you hear what's going on in El Salvador. And look, we even heard, I heard from Tom Homan today on Fox News, he was discussing specifically how they've worked with El Salvador previously. That in 2016, this was not necessarily the norm this specific instance, but we have that. Let's listen to Tom Homan. This is from Fox News just a few hours ago.
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Under President Trump's first administration, they wouldn't take back MS-13 members. And when I told President Trump that, it took President Trump 48 hours until we were filling planes full of MS-13 members in the Senate of the South. We've got a strong president, and El Salvador's got a great president. They've pretty much knocked MS-13 off their feet in the country of El Salvador. He's put tens of thousands of them in his prisons, and he's willing to take the ones we arrest here. He's willing to take a lot of criminal aliens that we arrest here. So great partnership so far with the president of El Salvador.
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You know what drives me crazy is that they always paint conservatives as sort of the isolationists, the ones that are only serving the American interest, who are not talking to people, who are not making these. And people like the president of El Salvador, People, look, like we saw in Venezuela, when Maduro, sure, those men were completely forgotten that that was even happening. But now you have an administration willing to go around the world on behalf of america to get this done so who really is the isolationist in this the ones that are willing to sit down with the leaders of the world and get things done for the american people are those that just close themselves off and go oh no you know boogeyman well and i think that also goes to follow up on what we talked about with professor hutchison yesterday with the uh the short-lived trade war of 2025 that uh
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We saw the imposition of tariffs that were supposed to start today on both Mexico and Canada. Mexico, during the day yesterday while we were on air, we already had them agree to a one-month pause and agree to send 10,000 troops to their border and help secure that border and work towards a more permanent deal. After, later in the evening... President Trump had a phone call with the outgoing prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and they agreed to a very similar type deal. Professor Hutchison, once again, the left will criticize. Oh, he's brash. He's irrational. President Trump is going to tank the world economy. But instead, he's getting our neighbors to actually work with us instead of allowing our borders to pour over dangerous fentanyl at gunpoint. increasingly dangerous rates.
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Well, you're precisely correct. So, President Trump and his administration has worked to ensure extraordinary cooperation, not only with allies, but with neighbors. And Often these agreements are in the interest of Canada or the interest of Mexico in the long run. So cracking down on fentanyl, I think, is good for Mexico. It's good for the United States. It's good for Canada. Ultimately, the tough nut to crack will be China. And the president is working on dealing with China as well.
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All right. We will be back in just a moment with your phone calls. We have two lines open. 1-800-684-3110. I want to hear from you. You've heard a lot of topics today, whether what's happening, we said in El Salvador, what is happening in Canada and Mexico. You've obviously heard about the news with Tulsi Gabbard. If you didn't hear, I know because I can see when people join the broadcast, multiple new votes are confirmed to be going to Tulsi Gabbard. Today at 2 p.m. Eastern time will be the vote to get her out of committee. And then the process from there, it may take a little bit of time. It could take a week or two, could take more. But the signs are more positive. This is the hard vote to get out of, Will.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. So this is where it's a much smaller group. It's a razor-thin margin because it is only one vote in the Intelligence Committee. They try to keep that more bipartisan so it's not directly appropriated how many members of the committee based off of majority. So it's a one-vote margin. And the one... that needs to hear from you right now is Senator Jerry Moran from Kansas. You can sign the petition at aclj.org slash sign, or you can scan that QR code, make your voice heard, let these senators know, and beyond just the committee vote, but the entire full Senate, that we want to see Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence. You're already seeing the pressure work on Susan Collins, on Todd Young, and on Senator John Cornyn. They have now publicly said they will support and vote yes for Tulsi Gabbard.
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And that's because of you. It's because of your pressure. Sign that petition now, aclj.org slash sign. Phone lines are open 1-800-684-3110. We'll be right back with a very short break and then your calls and comments coming up. All right, welcome back. I encourage you right now. We got two lines open, and we'll do our best if you call in now to make sure you make it through. No guarantees, but we always try to answer as many calls as we can in this segment. Let's kick it off with Mark in North Carolina who's watching on YouTube. Mark, you're on the air.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, hi there, fellas. Appreciate y'all and what you're doing for our government and helping to get all of these wonderful people confirmed.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you for your support.
SPEAKER 11 :
I appreciate it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Thanks, Mark. Go ahead with your comment or question. I hear you made a call today.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, I was able to make contact with Senator Moran's office. How'd that go? I voiced my support for Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. and Kash Patel. And his aide said that he would get the message to Senator Moran directly.
SPEAKER 05 :
Look, I think, Mark, that's true. Okay, we know how these offices work. They know that this is something they will take to the senators and tell them this isn't just some empty voicemail. These kind of moments work. That's why we do the petitions because we deliver them They mean something because it's their people. And it's not like I said, not just always the people in their area. It's also sometimes people around the country saying, you know, we elected this person to make these picks. Go do it. So, Mark, I think you did a great thing by calling. Courage you also sign the petition if you haven't already. But that is. That's awesome to hear. And we encourage you, if you do that, to be like Mark. Be respectful. Be kind. Be firm. Tell them why you think it's true. Don't keep them on the phone too long. Continue on. Mark, thank you for calling. That's an encouragement to all of us. Let's continue on with some more calls. Susan in Arizona. You're on the air.
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Hi. I just wanted to encourage your listeners to listen to the Senate hearings in full. I know that they are a little long, so if they... break it up, 20-minute segments or something like that. But it was amazing. This is the first year I've ever done that. And it was amazing, the information you actually got. And I would just encourage your listeners to do the same.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's a good thought, Susan. For Tulsi's, we actually played a lot of it live while it was happening. Same with, we even did that for the inauguration. Because I think there's a lot of times people are busy. They haven't had the opportunity to do this. Or honestly, they haven't known to care. But Susan, as you said, this first time you've done it, it is important to watch them. It's important to get engaged. Because look, some of the questions, like I said, half of them are going to be actual questions you probably would like to know the answer to. Then half of them may be gotcha political questions.
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Well, and also what the news often shows is the shorter clips. The controversial ones. The back and forth, the controversial ones. But what you'll also see is the nominee and the senators having very good back and forth discussions in many cases. Now, sometimes, especially if it's from an opposing party, you don't get that. I believe it was in RFK Jr.' 's confirmation hearing in the Finance Committee. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island. Told him, I don't have really any questions for you, so you're just going to have to listen to me for my five minutes. And he gave a speech for five minutes. Felt it was a little disingenuous. They happened to have been law school roommates, so a little interesting there that he was just going to lecture him for that. But as you like to say, politics is professional wrestling, and it's all kayfabe.
SPEAKER 05 :
And they all know what's going on. I wish he would have lectured him on specifically things that annoyed him as... His roommate. Like, you couldn't wash the dishes? I mean, you just left them in the sink for three weeks? Yeah, we know you don't like single-use plastic. Right. You know, so why didn't you wash the dishes? You know, you brought in incense? Come on, man. It smells up the hallways.
SPEAKER 08 :
You had so many artificial dyes, and yet now you're talking about no artificial dyes. What is going on? Yeah, what's happening here? You love Froot Loops.
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Let's go ahead and continue on. Randy in Ohio. Go ahead, Randy.
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Yeah, I just wondered, you know, it says to advise and consent. How do they have a legal standing to even deny a nominee?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, Randy, we've answered this question before, and I think Will knows the answer. Well, it is that word consent. Yeah, that's the whole deal.
SPEAKER 08 :
If it were just advised, then that would be one thing. But they have to give the consent. for an individual to be confirmed. This has been since the beginning of the Constitution. This isn't a new thing that all of a sudden senators have this power. This has been the entire history of the United States. And you can even go back and look up historical cabinet members that did not get the vote from the Senate back in our early history. So it's not as if all of a sudden they've been given this power in the modern era. This is something, advice and consent, is in the Constitution, and therefore it is a constitutional method. It is a system of checks and balances as well. The founders put in these different mechanisms for there to be oversight over the other branches so that one didn't become more powerful than the other. They are co-equal branches of government. So that's the long and short of it.
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All right, another great call coming in. Frank in Virginia. And hey, last minute, there's three minutes left in the broadcast. If you can call in, you have a very short comment. Do it now, 1-800-684-3110 and sign that petition at aclj.org. Frank, go ahead.
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Thank you, gentlemen. I live in Virginia and I want to remind all of my fellow Virginians that even though our Senator Mark Warner has already come out on 131 and said he will vote no against Ms. Gabbard, that we need to remind him that he does represent us And there are those of us who want him to vote yes. I have called his office and expressed my concern and opinion.
SPEAKER 05 :
Great comment, Frank. It's always important, especially for your people, to know how you feel. You are still one of their voters, even if it wasn't your chosen candidate, even if it wasn't someone who is supporting your positions. You are still in their area. Let them know. Because look, Tulsa Gabbard, RFK Jr., these are not hardline Republicans. These are people who have come on board recently to this administration. So you'd hope they'd have some bipartisan push.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And to Frank's point, those individuals, he's not the senator. for the Democrats of Virginia. He is the US Senator for Virginia. Therefore, he represents all citizens of Virginia, and you still have a voice to speak out. And it may not change his vote on this, to hear from a lot of his constituents. It may not change his vote on some piece of legislation. But it's important to continue doing it. And at some time, it will matter. And they may vote the way that you want them to. They may hear from the people of their state and decide, you know what? I'm going to go forward to this. And that is important. That's the way our government works.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. All right. Let's quickly take Tim, who's calling in Tennessee. Tim, you got like 20 seconds. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
all right quick 20 seconds what do we do if kennedy is not accepted by the senate do we have a backup candidate there certainly will be other people to put in place but it doesn't feel like that's going to happen right right now it's a very good sign for his confirmation him being voted out of committee favorably is a great sign he's got momentum and it doesn't seem like this nomination is going to fail at the full floor vote so that's a very good thing tim if it were to happen then yes president trump would have to go back to the drawing board so you deal with
SPEAKER 05 :
matt gates put someone up else as the next director of health and human services all right listen we got hearings the whole deal we got one minute left i'm gonna ask our team throw up that graphic for petition uh because i think this is really important we got one minute left and i'm gonna encourage you because maybe the last time you hear from us before this vote happens sign that petition right now aclj.org sign this is it This is a big moment for our friend, our colleague, and someone who's going to put America interest in your family's interest first. Again, this is someone who has been friends with us now for many years, has been a member of this team for quite some time as well on Sekulow. So as I take this last 45 seconds, I'm just going to encourage you, aclj.org slash sign, send it to your friends, scan the QR code, do what you can. And we will be back later on. And what I'm hoping is we have good news. But we need to keep the pressure on right now. If you haven't done it, say it one more time. Do it right now. Sign this petition. Our fight on Capitol Hill to help confirm our friend Tulsi Gabbard continues on for the next few hours. And we need you. Do it right now. I know you're listening. I know you're watching. ACLJ.org. We will talk to you tomorrow, potentially later today.
Continuing the episode, Tony welcomes Senator Tommy Tuberville to discuss recent shifts in military policy, especially concerning abortion. The conversation expands into a broader discussion on religious freedom, with Hungary's State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians providing insights into international efforts to protect Christian communities under siege. The episode wraps up with a focus on a crucial prayer and repentance gathering at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., emphasizing the power of communal prayer to reshape national and global policy directions.
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The Mexican government understands this, that this is a drug war, not a trade war. This is a drug war, not a trade war. We have an unprecedented amount of Americans dying every year from fentanyl alone. What we are trying to do here is stop the killing of Americans by these deadly drugs.
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That was Peter Navarro, President Trump's senior trade counselor, explaining the tariffs placed on Mexico, Canada and China earlier today. Welcome to Washington Watch. Thank you for tuning in. President Trump is using the threat of tariffs to reshape the policies of foreign governments. It appears to be working, but is there a downside? We'll talk about it with economist Jerry Bauer, president of Bauer Research. Last night I joined about a dozen evangelical leaders in a private meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Dr. Jim Garlow, who was also in that meeting, is co-hosting tomorrow's National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance. He'll join me later here on this edition of Washington Watch. And meanwhile, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are meeting at the White House as we speak. This is President Trump's first meeting with a foreign leader as he begins his second term in office. Certain to be among the topics they are discussing is Iran.
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They cannot have a nuclear weapon. With me, it's very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. We don't want to be tough on Iran. We don't want to be tough on anybody, but they just can't have a nuclear weapon.
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That was President Trump earlier today. We'll get a readout on the meeting from Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, and we'll also discuss the reversal of the Biden administration's pro-abortion policies in the military under the Trump administration. As we mentioned on yesterday's program, the International Religious Freedom Summit is underway this week here in Washington, D.C. Its focus is precisely what the name suggests, religious freedom. One country that has prioritized defending persecuted Christians is Hungary, and the Hungarian State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians, Tristan Ásberg, will join me to talk about what his country is doing to aid Christians around the world. All of that and a bit more coming up on this edition of Washington Watch. All right, the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance will be held tomorrow morning, 7 a.m. Eastern Time at the Museum of the Bible, but it's sold out. However, not to worry, you can still participate no matter where you may live. The event will be broadcast live on the Stand Firm app, so if you don't have the app, download the Stand Firm app, or you can register, and we'll send you a link. Register at PrayDC.org. That's PrayDC.org, and we'll send you a link. As I mentioned, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to emerge pretty soon from their meeting at the White House. Among the topics that were discussed was the plan for the second phase of the hostage and ceasefire deal that Israel and Hamas agreed to last month. Other expected discussion points include Iran's nuclear ambitions and normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia. Now, with Trump back in the White House, I can share from my meeting with the prime minister that optimism for man-managed peace in the Middle East has returned. Joining me now to talk about this and much more, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. He serves on four Senate committees, including the Armed Services Committee. Coach Tuberville, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to see you.
SPEAKER 10 :
You too, Tony.
SPEAKER 05 :
So President Trump, his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu is the first with a foreign leader since his second term in office. What do you think this communicates to Israelis and to the rest of the world?
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Well, basically, at the end of the day, President Trump's trying to find out the game plan of Netanyahu and what the future holds for them, whether it's Lebanon or whether it's Gaza. He has to have the whole picture and just not part of it. And then, of course, President Trump's going to give his thoughts on the game plan and maybe give him his game plan or what he thinks the American people and President Trump in the White House should do for Israel. Israel is our greatest ally, Tony. We need to help them. But we need to have a game plan to get this thing over with because it is a – a bomb that could go off any second. And to me, that's the most volatile area in the world. Now, we've got Ukraine and Russia. We've got China and all those things. But right now, the biggest threat to world peace is the Middle East. And President Trump has got a lot of great ideas about this. Pete Hegseth, he and I talked for hours about this. I think we've got a good opportunity to help Israel. But we've got to make sure we're all on the same page. And I think that's what Netanyahu and President Trump are doing.
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Well, we'll soon find out when they emerge from their meeting. Today, the president withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council. Your reaction to that?
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Well, it's run by dictators, and we don't deal with dictators, and President Trump's exactly right here. Again, he's been putting all these things together for the last two or three years, and now they're all coming to fruition. I call it picking low-hanging fruit, and this is picking low-hanging fruit right here with the U.N., The whole entity might need to go, but at the end of the day, he's going to start picking out the areas that really don't support the American people and things that we believe in. And he's starting with this group, and it could even go other places. But I'm glad President Trump's stepping up early in this four years and getting this done.
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Are you concerned about the absence of a sane voice on the United Nations Human Rights Council with what they may do with that from a propaganda standpoint without the American representation on there?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you can say that. And, you know, it might would help to have somebody in the room, but they never listen to us. I mean, it's not our first rodeo. It's not President Trump's first rodeo on this situation. He understands the people that the voices are really heard propaganda wise, no matter whether we're in the room or not. So hopefully. Hopefully they see the writing on the wall here and they come to an agreement and say, hey, if we're going to have any kind of help from the United States, we might ought to start listening to President Trump and the Americans. But right now, we have really no voice. We might be there, but we really have no voice.
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Now, speaking of presidential actions, President Trump also signed a memorandum that restores his maximum pressure campaign on Iran and aims to deny Iran all paths to nuclear weapons. Now, this is something you and I have talked about. This is in stark contrast to what the Biden administration did. Do you think this will work?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think it will. President Trump knows how to handle it. The number one thing for Iran is to cut off their money supply with oil, and that is what will eventually happen. That's what he did last time. President Trump had them almost broke, Tony. They were down to several billion dollars for the entire country. Their people were just about to start protesting and rioting in the streets against their own government. And then Joe Biden comes in. He lets them start selling oil all over the world, and it's made them rich again. They got hundreds of billions of dollars. They've helped all their proxies with the war in Lebanon and the Houthis and, of course, in Gaza. It's a total mess. Again, President Trump's going to have to clean it up. It's great to have an adult back in the room with President Trump because what has been running this country, especially foreign relation-wise, is not been adults in the room. It has been people from some other planet, it seems like, that have made decisions that have not been for anybody, even the Middle East. So we got adults back in the room and hopefully we get some answers and we start finding ways to get Israel out of this war in Gaza and get peace back in the Middle East.
SPEAKER 05 :
Let's switch gears, Coach. I want to talk a little bit about domestic policy as it pertains to our nation's military. For the past two years, you've been sounding the alarm about the Pentagon's illegal and immoral practice of using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. Now, you've Frankly, you stood along with just a few other members of the Senate standing with you on this, but that has now paid off. It's been reversed. You mentioned Pete Hegseth. You had conversations with him about this as he was positioning, going through the process to become Secretary of Defense. What can you tell us about those conversations that led to this decision that that's no longer going to be acceptable in the military?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, first, Tony, thanks to you for standing with me during this long, almost a year. Me and you talked almost monthly on this show, fighting back against the lawless Biden administration, basically doing the work of a dictator. They were just kind of changing everything the way that they wanted it, whether it be forgiving student loans, which the Supreme Court said you can't do it, and they turned around and kept doing it. And then, of course, the abortion. When Roe Wade went down and kicked everything back to the states for abortion, they were just looking for any way possible to do abortions and pay for abortion in this country. One was the VA, in which I'm still fighting back on that one. We'd never done abortions in the VA, but this is where they were paying for abortions. for military personnel to fly anywhere they wanted to go on the taxpayer's dime for an abortion was absolutely against the Hyde Amendment. It was against anything that the American people had stood for and voted against. So fortunately, Pete Hegsteth and I, we sat down and talked about it. You know, before the confirmation, he was totally and it was totally with me even before he even thought he was going to be the sec def. So a lot of people on board with this. I want to thank President Trump for doing this very early, helping the American taxpayers really understand that this was not a law. This was just done by a dictator in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that just absolutely just told the American taxpayer, we're going to do this no matter what you want.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, Coach, I have to say this is one of those examples where, you know, a lone voice kind of crying in the wilderness can make a difference over time. I know there's a lot of people making kind of victory laps on this now, but the track was pretty, pretty empty yesterday. When it came time to stand for this, I mean, many times you're down there on the Senate floor and you actually had to go against some of your Republican colleagues. So I just first off, I want to thank you for taking a principled stand for the sanctity of human life and for the taxpayers who have historically not been forced to pay for abortion. But again, I think it's an example of when you when something is right and you believe in it, you should take a stand for it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you're exactly right. And nobody had ever had holds like that for that long. I held up every promotion in the Pentagon and I was enemy number one. Now I got, you know, I had death threats and things like that. But what got me at the end of the day, you'd think as Republicans, you come together on this issue and you stand behind and say, listen, we're going to stand beside our fellow Senator. And I had him coming after me. As you just said, I was on the Senate floor one night till two in the morning. fighting back against several of our senators that were basically after me. And at the end of the day, the reason I dropped the holds was because Schumer had enough senators on the Republican side to go around me, to change the rule in the Senate to where we couldn't have a hold on any promotion in the military. And so at the end of the day, I had to get out of it. And and give it up. I hated to do it, but they were going to do it anyway without my approval. I just hated that Republicans sided with the Democrats on an abortion issue. That is dead wrong.
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But sometimes you regroup for another day. And by bringing attention to this issue and being willing to fight on this issue, you have now seen it resolved with a new administration coming in. We just have about 45 seconds left, Senator Tuberville. What else do you hope to see coming out of the Pentagon under Pete Hexeth?
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Well, I think you've already seen all the DEI woke nonsense that's been kicked out of the military. I want to get back to training our warfighters. And I think that's one thing that Pete and I really agreed on. Me being in education, I saw what they were doing. And a lot of our bases and the training of our young people, they weren't training warfighters. They were indoctrinating them into a military that wasn't ready to fight. And so we're putting more emphasis and a more amount of time that they're learning to shoot. They're jumping out of helicopters, planes, learning how to protect themselves and learning how to protect the American people. That's what our military is about. It's not about a woke indoctrination.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and it's about time they get back to that business. Coach Tuberville, always great to see you. Thanks for joining us today.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you, Tony. God bless you.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Coach Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. All right. Hungary is doing some notable work to protect persecuted Christians around the globe. After the break, we're going to be talking about that, so don't go away.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to have you with us on this Tuesday. The website, TonyPerkins.com. Be sure and check out PrayDC.org. That's a link to tomorrow's prayer event here in our nation's capital. Well, speaking of that, the International Religious Freedom Summit is taking place this week as well here in our nation's capital. I'll be speaking on Thursday at the summit. Yesterday, we had on the program the co-chair of the summit, Sam Brownback, the FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR AT LARGE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. AND AS HE TOLD US, THEY'RE EXPECTING A RECORD ATTENDANCE THIS YEAR. A LOT OF FOCUS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. AND I WOULD SAY THAT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION THAT BACK WHEN THEY WERE HERE LAST TIME, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PUT A PRIORITY ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND THEY'RE BACK. AND WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT THAT ONCE AGAIN WILL BE A FOCUS. BUT THIS EVENT DRAWS LEADERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. And, you know, among the leaders speaking at the summit on behalf of the persecuted church is Tristan Ajbe. He is the state secretary for the aid of persecuted Christians. His government, the Hungarian government, has been at the forefront of protecting Christians around the world. And he joins me now in studio. Secretary Ajbe, thanks for joining us. Always great to see you. Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thank you. It is great to be back with your show. Now, when we spoke last, we touched on your government's focus on defending Christians around the world. Now, you make no, I mean, you don't hesitate to say that you're focused on Christians. This is not just everybody. Your government has taken it upon themselves to help Christians wherever they're persecuted.
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Well, first we met, it was seven years ago, at a religious freedom summit in D.C. And then I remember I went on the stage and introduced myself with my title, State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians. And even though it was a group of people concerned with religious freedom, what I have seen was surprise, shock, and immediately criticism. Back in the time, these religious freedom discussions weren't focusing on Christians or not even mentioning Christians. It wasn't politically correct to show the reality of Christian persecution.
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But you have, and you've actually changed the conversation somewhat about this, that even internationally there's more of a recognition of the persecution of Christians. Let's talk a little bit about the advancement that has been made in the last seven years as Hungary has continued to do this work.
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Yes, we had and have two major objectives. One is to save as many persecuted Christian lives as it is possible. One is to rebuild the Christian towns, the ancient Christian towns in the Middle East and the Holy Land that was destroyed by jihadists. One is to save Christians in northern Nigeria and I could go on. But the other one is to inspire the rest of the world, culturally or historically formerly Christian world big, more powerful governments than Hungary and international organizations stand by the Christians. So if you ask me about how we advance with that regarding the humanitarian aid, I am proud to report that we have provided aid to more than 2 million persecuted Christians or Christians in need in more than 50 countries, more than 2 million. Well, that is something for a small country to be proud of, but recent studies shows that there are more than 380 million followers of Christ who are persecuted. So if you subtract two million from that, there is still hundreds of millions who need help. So therefore, another important question is that how we, how successful we were to convince other governments. And unfortunately, not very successful. And the reason for that is that when you try to partner up, for example, with Western European governments who are governed by liberal parties, or when we try to partner up with the Biden administration, you see a hostile type of indifference or neglecting, tendency to neglect Christian persecution. Our major breakthrough was during the first Trump administration. when the US, with all the almost infinite resources compared to Hungary, signed a cooperation agreement with us, who is only a 10 million strong country, and together we rebuilt Iraqi Christian towns on the Nineveh Plains. We supported Christian communities who still pray in and speak in Aramaic. But it was Right away, it was canceled, this cooperation with the Biden administration. So that part is sometimes even more difficult than what we do through the Hungary Helps program.
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Why is this a priority for the Hungarian government?
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Two reasons, and both of those reasons have to do with who we are. We are a 1,000-year-old Christian nation, and we are proud of that. And I can say this, that we are a Christian nation as a government official, and I'm not going to be fired tomorrow because of not being politically correct. The way we look at it is that we are a small nation who somehow survived between the big empires for 1,000 years, and we achieved this to the fact that our first king, King Saint Stephen, offered Hungary to the Virgin Mary. So it has to do with our Christian heritage and understanding our moral obligation to support our Christian brothers and sisters in the Middle East and in other places where they are persecuted. We also understand as a fact, not as a theory, that the moment the last Christian will disappear from the Holy Land, that will be the end of all of the Christian civilization. And the other one is humanitarian, because Christianity tells us that we should not focus only on Christians. Christian solidarity is universal solidarity. But if we see the facts, today Christianity is the most persecuted religious group in the world. By numbers, because of their faith, Christians are persecuted in the largest numbers. So not only our Christianity, but our general humanitarian sense, our general universal solidarity dictates that the Western countries should not abandon the Christians like they did when ISIS committed genocidal attacks against them in 2014, or like they do when Boko Haram commits genocidal attacks against them in Nigeria in these days and years.
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Well we don't have time to go into it today but the Hungarian government also doing a lot of innovative policy work to encourage family development. They actually want kids born to Hungarian families and they like big families which I'm really excited about as a father of five. I should have went to Hungary because you've got all kinds of programs for those. But. We're out of time. Can't talk about that today, but we will. But let me say on behalf of the Christian community, thank you to Hungary for taking a stand for the persecuted Christians.
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Thank you for your support. Thank you for your fight for religious freedom. And thank you for your friendship and support towards us Hungarians.
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All right, folks, stick with us. We're back right after this.
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Have you ever been to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC? Well, now you have a special reason to be there on Wednesday, February 5. First, you can take part in the third annual National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance. God's ways are higher than our ways. The Lord clearly reveals in scripture any nation that genuinely worships him is a nation with leaders willing to repent and ask forgiveness for sins. The NGPR is a unique public gathering where scores of congressional leaders, including Speaker Mike Johnson, join with international leaders representing more than 50 nations for one sole purpose.
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Forgive our nations against you and you alone have we sinned.
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You can be there in the room to pray along with members of Congress, dignitaries from other nations, and Christian leaders from across the U.S. The NGPR is hosted by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and Dr. Jim Garlow, founder of Well-Versed World, along with Rabbi Jonathan Cahn and former Congresswoman Michelle Buchman. Right after the prayer and repentance gathering, participants will move to the World Stage Theater for a private update on important events happening in Israel. and watch a preview of the historic new documentary on the Megiddo Mosaic, the most remarkable archeological find in Israel since the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is truly one of a kind opportunity to learn what's going on behind the scenes in Israel and how it could affect the whole world. Both of these Bible honoring events require tickets. Go to PrayDC.org, register today to attend in person on February 5th. As a bonus, your ticket grants you a free admission to experience the rest of the Museum of the Bible. Seating is limited for both events. Go to PrayDC.org to get tickets today.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to have you with us. All right. Earlier today, President Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House for his first meeting with a foreign leader since the start of his second term. The prime minister's visit, which will reportedly be through Saturday here in the United States, comes as Israel's fragile hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas continues to hold. Well, ahead of his meeting with President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu last night met with a group of evangelicals, leaders, that included myself and my next guest. Joining me now to discuss this and more is Dr. Jim Garlow, founder and CEO of the ministry. Well-versed and together with me and him, he and I are going to do the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance tomorrow. Pastor Jim, welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to see you. Thank you. Good to be with you, Tony. All right, before we jump into tomorrow's event at the Museum of the Bible, which I can see that you are standing there and over your head is the Capitol itself. Sun is shining there. Let's talk about last night's meeting with the prime ministers. About a dozen of us met with him. What was your major takeaway from that meeting?
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I was struck more than the content, the demeanor in the room. The prime minister, he spoke very quietly, remarkably quiet, but a bold resolve. He's a man who's been tested. He's been through the fire. And he is still under fire, under enormous pressure. But he wasn't blustery. He was quiet. It was a quiet resolve. I was taken by the authority and force of his words. That really kind of captured me in the moment. But the issue is they are going forward. Israel is going to do what the Bible says to do. It is their land, and they are not backing down in any way, though the pressures on Israel right now are absolutely astounding. Seven or eight, eight front war. How many nations, tiny nations, have faced attack from eight different directions at the same time, and they're still standing, and they will.
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Why is Israel, why should it be, I should say, an issue for Christians? Why should Christians care?
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Because God cares. I guess I reframe the question a little bit. Why is Israel constantly attacked? The most consistently persecuted people group in all of history. And the answer is because they represent God. They brought us the Torah. They brought us the Tanakh. They brought us the teaching. They brought us the prophets. They brought us the teaching on the Messiah. They brought us the Messiah. And because of that, the Messiah comes through them. That is why they are so hated and persecuted by so many groups around the world. And because God has moved through them, chooses to work through them. He could have chosen some other location. He could have chosen some other people group. But he chose the Jewish people, and he chose that piece of real estate of the entire earth. All the earth belongs to him, and he loves all nations. But the fact he chose that nation be the one to bless the rest of us with the truth of himself and his own son. And that being the case, we stand with Israel because God stands with Israel and the Bible clearly commands it.
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There's no other explanation for the hatred for this small group of people other than they represent God. They're God's chosen people. And I think that is what anti-Semitism is, is a hatred for God. And we also see that kind of bleeding over to the church. You know, it's the Jews and the Christians that the world hates. People of the book, and that was actually discussed last night, is that what we share in common is that we are people of the book, the Bible. We believe that. God's Word. And that's going to be center stage tomorrow at the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance. We're going to be talking about Israel and the second part of that in particular. But we're going to be gathering to pray for the nations, pray for America, but we're going to do something that is not normally done at these prayer events like that are taking place in our nation's capital this week. We're going to repent. We're going to take ownership for what we have done in failing and falling short of what God has called us to be as a people.
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Now, this is a very sacred time that we'll be having Museum of the Bible. This is an altar of the Lord. Tony and I have been working on this and talking about this the last three years of this annual event. And we you and I share a deep connection. a deep concern for our nation. So this is an altar of the Lord, which means this is where God and humans transact, agree. And so we come before God in repentance of sins, whether they're personal sins or if they're faith leaders repenting of sin in the church. or if government leaders repenting of the national sins. And then we'll go on a roll call of nations where other nations have an opportunity to repent before holy and righteous and just God. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. But that blessing starts when we walk in his ways. We acknowledge him, who he is. And so my desire and your desire, Tony, I know, is for America to be on our knees before God, asking His ways, following His commands, and then we can expect His blessings.
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Jim, we just have about a minute left. It's sold out tomorrow, so folks can watch online, dcpray.org. But share a little bit about the program for tomorrow. Mostly prayer, but a few words of exhortation.
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Yeah, I think that site is PrayDC.org. I believe it is. PrayDC.org, I think.
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Yes, it is. I may have misstated. PrayDC.
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Part one at 7 a.m. is sold out. But part two, if you live in the area, You can still get tickets. You can go online and get tickets for part two. That's at 10 a.m. That's the focus on Israel. But what they can expect if they come, they'll be interspersed with worship. In fact, in the background, you might be able to hear the worship being rehearsed even right now as I'm with you. And in prayer by quite a few members of Congress, the most number of members of Congress we have ever had, come and pray at this. And they all know. They only have a minute to pray in their prayers of repentance. And then we go to national leaders, faith leaders, and members of government from many, many other countries. There's some prime ministers who are going to be here, all standing before a holy and righteous God.
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Well, I am looking forward to seeing what the Lord is going to do tomorrow. Jim, thanks for joining us. Folks, stick with us. We're back after this.
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As President-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration approached, a powerful prayer gathering took place in Washington, D.C., drawing Christians together to intercede for our nation.
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The church does not recapture its prophetic zeal. It will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. God help us to recapture that prophetic zeal.
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This is not an inter-religious service. We will not be praying to Allah or Buddha. We'll be praying to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We're talking to God, a holy, righteous, just God from a nation that desperately needs the touch of this God.
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We've not been a secular nation. We don't want to be a secular nation. We've been a nation built around God, and our history shows that.
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A well-versed and family research council led the inauguration praise and prayer convocation, urging attendees to pray for the incoming presidential administration and for the church to embody holiness and righteousness, champion biblical justice, and proclaim truth prophetically.
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Lord, may this not be the end, but may this be the beginning, this convocation, this gathering. And may we commit to pray and to seek you and to walk in your word and in your ways. In Jesus' name, amen. Hello, I'm Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council here in Washington, D.C. Behind me is one of the most recognizable buildings in all the world, the U.S. Capitol. What does it stand for? Well, most people say government. But you know, the Bible talks about four institutions of government. You know what they are? And do we have a republic or a democracy? Well, what do you say? Also, what about this thing, separation of church and state? Does that mean Christians shouldn't be involved in government? Guess what? We address those issues and more in our new God and Government course. I invite you to join us to see what the historical record and the Bible has to say about government. Join us for God and Government.
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This is Washington Watch. I'm Tony Perkins. Glad to have you with us. All right, let me make it very clear. The website PrayDC.org. I'm not sure what I was thinking. PrayDC.org. Now, it is the first part of tomorrow's prayer event is sold out at the Bible Museum. But if you register, you can participate online. PrayDC.org is the place to go. Our word for today comes from Jeremiah 8. How can you say we are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? Look, the false pen of the scribes certainly works falsehoods. The wise men are ashamed. They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord. So what wisdom do they have? You see, they thought they were wise, having replaced God's word with their own words of wisdom, with their own concocted and false science. Think about all the focus that is placed on education today. The key to life is more educational opportunities. Early childhood education, expanded access to post-secondary education, some call for total government funding of college tuition. With all the focus on public education and the tax dollars that flow to it, why do the scores on the national assessment test continue to decline and with them the capabilities of our workforce? Could it be what Jeremiah states in verse 9? Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom do they have? Maybe it's time to return to, embrace, and live out the word of God. To find out more about our journey through the Bible, text BIBLE to 67742. Yesterday, the leaders of Mexico and Canada struck last minute deals with President Trump that put a one month pause on the new tariffs that the U.S. plan to implement today on their respective countries exports to the United States. Now, the new tariffs on Chinese products, however, went into effect at 12.01 a.m. this morning, and China, in response, hit back with a broad package of economic measures targeting the U.S. that will take effect February the 10th. While that does give time for the U.S. and China to work out a deal, if one isn't struck, what could be the impact of that? And what could be the impact on these new tariffs? in all three countries if they happen to go into place. And is this an effective tool for helping shape policy. Joining me now to discuss this is economist Jerry Boyer president and CEO of Boyer Research. Jerry welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
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My pleasure. Thank you.
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So first, for our viewers who may not be well versed when it comes to tariffs, can you give us a kind of a brief explainer on what they are and how they work?
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Yeah, I think one of the things that's confusing about them is that they're called tariffs when they're just taxes. So let's just make it simple. Let's get rid of the word tariff. So it's a tax. Well, what is being taxed? What's being taxed is goods or services that are purchased from overseas producers. So if you buy avocados... that are coming from Mexico, when the avocados are coming into the United States, there's an extra tax put on them. There is an illusion that somehow you're taxing the avocados. Well, you're not paying the... You know, avocados don't pay taxes. They just become guacamole. So who pays the taxes? What does Mexico pay them? Well, in the end, taxes are paid by consumers. Taxes on business are really paid by consumers in the end. That's the last transaction in the production and sale of something. In the end, all the goods, all the productivity, all the costs show up in the price.
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And that's what the argument that conservatives make here in the United States domestically, is that when we add taxes, it's the consumer that ultimately ends up paying for it. Same thing here. But the penalty, I assume, that then flows to the exporting country is that people won't buy the product because it costs too much.
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Right, exactly. Because you're increasing the cost of the product, you probably get less of it. And then the idea is that maybe avocado farmers in California, who are not as efficient because California is not super business friendly, maybe they'll be able to sell more avocados because Mexico loses part of its pricing advantage. So it decreases competition. So really, that's the intent, is to decrease competition and increase the price for goods that are just produced here in the United States. I mean, but it's so odd. The argument that I just made, conservatives make that argument all the time, that taxes are paid by consumers. And somehow we think that magically, Well, no, that doesn't apply when something's from another country. If it's a computer chip or an avocado, then the laws of economics don't apply. They still do. Now, it might be worth paying that price. Let's say we have a border crisis and Mexico is not helping, and then you threaten a tariff to get them to help stop the illegal crossings for the sake of national security. Okay, great. That's not an economic argument, and that's a pretty good argument. And if that's what we're doing, if in the end this is just an attempt to get them to stop illegal border crossing and send 10,000 troops, great, sign me up. But sometimes the president also makes just the arguments from 300 years ago about how great it is to have taxes on trade, and history has shown that to not be accurate. It's not good for the economy. It's not even good for the, it isn't good for Americans because then they just counter-tariff us. So if we tax goods coming from China, there might be geopolitical reasons to do so, but then it just goes through Vietnam instead. They find a way around. What do they do? Well, they tax pork. So, you know, what are we doing? We might be helping people here in Pittsburgh who import steel, but we're hurting hog farmers. So tariffs tend to be treated as siding with us against foreigners. But in reality, historically in America, they've always been siding with one kind of American against another kind of American. Typically, tariffs support the Northeast manufacturing centers and hurt the South and the Midwest farming centers.
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So, Jerry, the scenario you laid out is my understanding of both the tariffs for Canada and Mexico are dealing with border issues, drugs coming across the illegal crossings. And he's trying to get them to step up to the table and take responsibility for what is happening at the border on their side. Now, so far, it seems to have brought them to that table of of wanting to to deal with this issue and and put off the tariffs. But let's let's talk broader economics. If we have these now China's going forward, possibly we got a couple, you know, a couple of weeks there to work that one out. But let's say these were in place. What does that do from a macro perspective? You described micro, you know, what it does to the hog farmers, what it does to the steel producers. But what about the overall economy?
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Well, it slows down the growth of the overall economy, and it causes prices to rise. Because price competition, going back to Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, is one of the things that's made capitalism so effective. So there's this idea of division of labor, that there are some things that are really good, some places, like America's not really good at growing cocoa, but Sub-Saharan Africa is really good at growing cocoa. We're really good at making microchips. Sub-Saharan Africa is not so good at that. So I look at this theologically. God has spread out his gifts among the whole human family. And a few hundred years ago, theologians started to come forward to talk about global trade and say in the providence of God, he made us need one another so that we're less likely to war with one another and it's better to trade. And I think that's right. So I think in general, it's inflationary because it cuts down on that division of labor. This idea, you even find it in the Bible that the body has different organs, right? Different minerals. Yeah, exactly. And that's actually, that works in economics too. That comes into Adam Smith. So it's really better if we trade with one another rather than war with one another and that drives prices down. So tariffs tend to be inflationary. The president ran on an anti-inflation program and that's why he got support. And I'm supporting, that's one of the reasons I supported him.
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All right. I'm not sure that Adam- I'm not sure Adam Smith had met Donald Trump, though. When you look at the he's using Trump had met Adam Smith. I mean, he's using this as a negotiating gambit. And I mean, he's he's he's unusual. And I think part of the issue here is people don't they don't know what he'll do. And so it does bring them to the table of negotiations. Right. But the reality is this is a double edged sword, is it not?
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It is, and I'm for what's been happening so far. I mean, what he did with Colombia was astonishing. Between the third hole and the 18th hole in a golf course, he got Colombia to take back its criminal element. I thought that was amazing. Yay, I'm all for that. But sometimes the president or his supporters talk as though tariffs are good in the long run and that they're good for the economy. I'm sorry, we have 300 years of experience with this. Maybe we've forgotten, but they are not good in the long run. And we need to learn the lessons of history. America moved away from tariffs for a reason. They were part of the Civil War, frankly. The South didn't want tariffs. The North did want tariffs. Yes, slavery is definitely an issue, but tariffs were an issue as well. They play Americans against one another. So if these are negotiating tactics, for international security, I'm all for it. If this is the new economic program, protectionism, we know it doesn't work. So I just hope and pray the president is just doing the first and not the second.
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I think it is the former, but let's jump to China. Okay, let's talk about that for a moment because that's still an unknown. They're now slapping some tariffs back on the United States. And there is an imbalance in trade with China. China is, I think, in a category all by itself. It is a threat to the United States. How does tariff play into that bigger relationship with China?
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Well, it's really complicated. It's a little scary. So China owns a lot of our bonds. They own a lot of dollars. They could dump them and collapse the dollar. I don't think they'll do that, but there's a lot of uncertainty in this. I think China is a grotesquely evil power. The CCP is one of the most evil things in the history of the world. Anything we can do to make sure that the U.S. remains the superpower and China doesn't replace us, I'm all for. But we need to be smart about it. Maybe the president is surrounded by people who get exactly how to do it with China to stop their rise. That's great. They're not letting us in on all their plans on exactly how they're trying to use this as a geopolitical tool. If it just comes down to, hey, China sells us goods, and they build a middle class, and we don't want them to sell goods, all I know is the last time that President Trump did this, all China did is it sent intermediate goods to Thailand, and it sent them to Vietnam, and it sent them to Cambodia, and then we bought them. So it just added a... And our trade deficit with China increased after the Trump tariffs. So if the idea is to rebalance trade, it doesn't work because they'll just find some intermediary. If the idea is to stop China from rising as a power, that's fine. I think stuff like more missiles to Taiwan might have a little more bite than importing fewer toys from China and then importing less soybeans from us. So I would focus on the geopolitical. Of course, Of course, you know, the thing that we can do more than anything else that would give us a huge financial and geopolitical advantage over China is simple. Stop running budget deficits. Our budget deficits are the greatest threat to the dollar. It's not China. It's us. We're imposing it on ourselves through overspending. Doge. If anything beats China, it won't be tariffs. It'll be doge.
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Jerry Boyer, let me let me we've got a few minutes left. I want to jump to another topic related to finance economy. The president signing an executive order this week creating the American Sovereign Wealth Fund. Explain that.
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A sovereign wealth fund is a fund that government puts money into, and then it controls how the money is spent. So it's sort of like on budget, but also a little bit off budget. It's basically a Nordic thing. Nordic countries have a history of doing that. Some American states do it. In fact, I work with some of them. Like, Texas has a sovereign wealth fund. Alaska has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the United States. The way they work in the United States is, let's say oil and gas revenues go into them, and it automatically goes to schools. or in Alaska, oil and gas revenues go into them and they automatically go to just Alaska citizens. In the Nordic countries, they're a little more used as tools of political manipulation. For instance, these Nordic sovereign wealth funds have tried to attack American oil by voting against the Chevron, excuse me, the Exxon board. I don't know what this sovereign wealth fund is going to be because the president basically did an executive order to come up with a plan. So the executive order isn't the plan. It's an executive order to come up with a plan. So there are good and bad ways to do this. And I don't know quite yet. I kind of trust the people around the president to do it smart. But until I actually see the plan, I don't know if they're going to do it the smart way.
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So we don't know exactly where the revenues from this would go. Would this go to pay down our debt? I mean, what would this... Any idea what it would do?
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Well, the press release said something about it going to pay down our debt, but that doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, the way to use revenues to pay down debt, the way to use revenues to pay down debt is to simply stop... Well, simply stop spending and do not have, just have the revenues go into the general budget, right? If you're putting them off in some side fund, I don't understand how that pays down the debt. Now, you might want to put it in there to do investment like things like infrastructure. um so don't do the infrastructure stuff or do the infrastructure stuff and then maybe over the long run that gives us more growth until we have more details i don't know it could be really smart it could be a way to take some kind of infrastructure investment outside of all those rules for federal procurement rules and privatize it more and make it smarter and more doge-like. If they do that, that's wonderful. But if they do it so that they can buy TikTok because TikTok helped elect the president and he wants to pay them back, I mean, that to me would be kind of corrupt.
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Yeah, there's got to be transparency with this, whatever it is. But there's some creative minds here in our district, in the District of Columbia here right now. Yes. Now, what are they going to create? That's the question. Right, right. But that's why the rules matter. I mean, I think some of the rules become... The thing about government, government is different. It's not business. And it was created by our founders to be slow so that people couldn't take it and corrupt it easily. Now, granted, it has been corrupted. We've got to clean it up. But it moves slow. And that is by design. Jerry, always great to see you. Thanks so much for taking time to join us today and help educate our viewers and listeners.
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My pleasure. Thank you.
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Well, more to pray about. Things are happening so fast here in Washington, moving quickly. And it's the reason we need to pray. I pray for the president every day. The Lord would guide him, and he would have that relationship with the Lord, and that he would be guided down the right path. And we need to pray and speak into this administration. Invite you to join us tomorrow morning for our national gathering for prayer and repentance. It'll be at the Bible Museum. To find out more, praydc.org. You can register and be a part of that event. And I'll tell you more about that tomorrow evening after it's over. All right, that's all we have time for today. Thanks so much for joining us. Until next time. I leave you with the encouraging words of the Apostle Paul, found in Ephesians 6, where he says, when you've done everything you can do, when you've prayed, prepared, and taken your stand, by all means, keep standing.
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And welcome to the Tuesday. It is the Tariff Tuesday fallout and all kinds of things happening here today. This is Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. We're broadcasting from downtown Charleston, Old Charleston. We're having our annual kickoff meeting here with our whole crew, having a lot of fun and watching the markets in the meantime. Right now, we have the Dow slightly down. Let's see. Let me get to my market page. There we go. The Dow right now is down a little bit. And the NASDAQ is having a very good day because the NASDAQ is being helped by a couple of stocks, namely Spotify and Palantir, which is up 25% today. The Dow's down just slightly here right now, but the NASDAQ, again, is now up almost 1%. 183 points while the Dow is down 6. The S&P is up 24. Right now that's 40 basis points. Small caps are up 20 basis points. And we're watching interest rates here with the tariff war flying back and forth across continents. Right now we have the tenure up today, three basis points to 4.56. That's only up, yeah, four basis points right now to the upside. And Bitcoin's having a good day. It's up almost 4,000. It's back above 100,000. Oh, no, it just slipped below it. It's 99,827. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And we had quite a day. Yesterday, Barry. I mean, it was during, literally. Yesterday was fun, huh? Yeah, literally during the show when the market was reeling down some 600, 700 points on the Dow and the NASDAQ was down over 2%. Mexico chimed in and agreed to deploy 10,000 troops to the border. They're rushing 10,000 troops to the border to prevent drug trafficking at the border. So President Trump took that 25% tariff off of Mexico for one month. I guess he wants to see those troops there before anything happens. The market regained probably 60% to 70% of its losses throughout the day. But then last night while we were at dinner, we heard that Canada had decided to beef up border security. And so they get, are granted, a 30-day reprieve on tariffs, which were already placed upon them. And Canada is making new commitments to its $1.3 billion border plan, Trudeau said. He's going to appoint a fentanyl czar. and launching with the U.S. a joint strike force on organized crime, fentanyl trafficking, and money laundering. Well, you know, the only thing I can say is why has it taken so long? I mean, it's ridiculous that we've just had this first border. I mean, how many people have died over the last several years? from these drugs coming through the border, and a lot of it being backed by China. So anyways, for now, Trudeau has come around. He blinked. Claudia Scheinbaum down in Mexico has blinked. Now we have to worry about China. And of course, China has a 10% tariff on them. China retaliated today with a 20% tariff on mostly its coal reserves, The imports of U.S. coal, imports of U.S. energy, which would be oil and natural gas, and they're putting restrictions on their rare earth minerals, which we badly need for chip making. But Trump seems to have a plan there, which we'll get to here in a moment. I also saw yesterday, this is interesting. So after dinner last night, Barry, several of them rode home with me or back to the hotel in my car. I took them on just a little tour of downtown Charleston, which isn't very big, the peninsula, the old town Charleston, I suppose. And I drove them by Scott Besson's house. He has a large mansion right on the water. Very large. One of the largest mansions in Charleston. And I see the news here today that Trump has ordered the creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, which I think is a great idea myself. You know, most countries have wealth funds, and they make a lot of money on those wealth funds. They invest in some very good companies. And, of course, you know, it goes into the balance sheet of our country. And it's kind of Secretary Scott Besson's idea. And Lutnick, who was with the Cantor Fitzgerald, too crazy. They've got a green light, and it sounds like the very first purchase could be 50-50 on TikTok. Yeah, Lutnick and TikTok, right? So I like the idea myself. I don't know why. You know, Bush Jr. floated the idea of, why don't we take the Social Security funds... And just invest in indexes, okay? So let's just look at the Dow. When I got in the market 25 years ago, the Dow was at $3,000, and now it's at $45,000. Imagine if we would have invested the Social Security money. We could have been living off of the gains and supporting that fund instead of depleting it every year. It makes a lot of sense to me why it hasn't been done before. I have no idea, but it sounds like now that's a possibility. I'll bet the second investment will be Trump social media, right? I don't know. Or Tesla.
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Maybe the coin, the name coin.
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Yeah, Bitcoin. I don't know. But anyways, I do think it's a good idea myself. Okay, we've had a lot of earnings here pour in last night. We're going to get to those, but we have the biggest winner in the market today. And when I was in New York, I don't know what it was, three weeks, four weeks ago when I visited the NASDAQ, I did an interview with Granite Share's CEO. And he was asking each of us that were in attendance there, that was the day we were there to ring the closing bell of the NASDAQ, what my top conviction pick for 2025 was. And while all the young kids in there that were younger than me were given their top picks, every one of them picked Bitcoin, which doesn't take a lot of imagination. And I said, no, I think Palantir is my top conviction pick. Granite Sheriffs happens to have a two-times Palantir ETF. They also have an inverse Palantir ETF. Palantir is up 25% today. It is a monster. You know, the opposite of the soggy stuff. Yes, we have two huge winners today. and uh i i almost feel like coining a new term like not monster trucks which i go to with my grandkids i go to these monster truck rallies or or whatever they call them we should have monster stocks because we've we've we've literally had so many monster stocks over the years i think palantir has turned into a monster stock i really do because they have their feet in so many fires they're in the uh crypto fire they're in the uh you know security They're in AI big time. So, I mean, what an unbelievable company that has come along here. Really, within the last few years, I don't think they went public. When did they go public? I'm going to look. It was a highly anticipated IPO, and they came public.
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It's their first annual profit, well, for Spotify today. They're talking about two companies. I guess, boy, Palantir has been...
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I guess since 2020. I didn't think it was that long.
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Yeah, I thought it was around 2020, yeah.
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But that's your stock of the day. That's your chart of the day. It's now at 27%. And, of course, it's having a big impact on our assets under management today because it's one of the 18 that we own in our premier growth portfolio, which is our biggest one. And it's a member of our ultra-growth portfolio, which isn't as big as the premier growth, but it's growing, obviously. And so being in both of those portfolios, it makes it one of our top holdings here at Gunderson Capital Management. So there you go, Palantir. I mean, you can own Kimberly-Clark if you want. We call that the soggy diaper stock. You don't want to own soggy diaper stocks. But Palantir has reported. Tonight we're going to get Google. And it looks like Google is in the crosshairs in China's retaliation. They're going to investigate Google, okay, like everybody investigates Google. Join the crowd. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show. Well, let's just take a look here at a few others that we'll be reporting here. Google obviously is a big one. AMD. Man, AMD hasn't done anything in quite some time. We'll be reporting. Pfizer has already reported. We'll get to that. Pepsi. Oh, Chipotle will report tonight. That's always kind of fun to watch. Spotify. Monster stock. Listen to me. It's become a monster stock. I couldn't believe it when I bought the stock quite a while ago. The growth in earnings. I never thought, you know, Pandora didn't really work out. And Sirius Satellite really didn't work out. And XMR, XMSR, whatever it was, satellite didn't work out. All I can say is they're doing something right at Spotify. because it's turned into a monster stock. Now, tomorrow we'll all be awaiting Ford's earnings, yes, or Ford's earnings, which they haven't done anything for a long time. hasn't done anything for a long time. Qualcomm will report. Uber will report tomorrow. And some insurance stocks. And Novo Nordisk, that will be interesting to see how they're doing with their Wigovi stock. And then on Thursday, the big one, Amazon will report. Amazon has been doing very well lately. Very, very, very well. Cloudflare will report. Roblox, Lilly will report. We'll see how they're doing with their weight loss stock. Peloton, Yum! Brands, and a few others. So that's the earnings reports for this week. By the end of Friday, we should have about 50%, I would say, of the earnings season behind us. Now, let's go back to those rare earth minerals for a minute. China has an abundance of rare earth minerals. And they're not called rare earth minerals by accident. They're rare, and they're very much needed in many things, in batteries, semiconductors, space exploration. They're very important. It's very important to have a supply of those.
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Defense industry, the defense industrial complex, you use things like tungsten a lot. Right, right.
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i think trump has a pretty good idea ukraine guess who has a lot of rare earth minerals is ukraine says okay ukraine you want money from us you know for the weapons to fight russia well we want to be able to access your rare earth minerals hey you know i it sounds like a good eye instead of just doling out money to them And, you know, millions have died. We want something in return. We're telling Ukraine they have very valuable rare earths. I've got to believe Greenland does, too. And that's why he's after Greenland. In fact, I've read that Greenland does. And they're obviously very important. Trump is looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they're going to secure what we're giving them with their rare earths and other things. We want a guarantee. I remember Trump saying many times that we should have taken the oil when we invaded Iraq and all of the Mideast conflicts. He said we should have taken the oil. Rare earths refer to 17 elements, 17 elements used to make key components in cell phones, electric vehicles, wind turbines, advanced weapons. China currently dominates rare earth production. So that's a that's a. A little bit of leverage that China has over us. They're going to make it very difficult to put big tariffs on the rare earths. So Trump indicated that the Ukraine government is willing to make a deal. He says we're giving them hundreds of billions of dollars. I want security of the rare earth minerals that they have, and they're willing to do it. I would imagine those rare earth minerals are not that important to Ukraine right now. Survival is much more important to Ukraine right now. Okay, on the nuclear front, Bank of America starts Talon Energy. With a buy center, their Bank of America initiates coverage with a buy rating at a $253 target. Talon is actually connected to Constellation Energy. It was a part of Constellation, and I think they put one part of their company into bankruptcy, and then it came out of bankruptcy, and it became Talon Energy. We own Talon Energy in our aggressive growth portfolio. Talon right now is up, no it's actually down just a hair right now. It's out of Allentown, Pennsylvania. And they're also, you know, they're very much like Vistra is in Texas. Talon operates power infrastructure in the U.S. located in the Mid-Atlantic, Montana, and New England. Okay, so they're kind of a broker of power assets, and that's a good spot to be right now. And they also have that nuclear connection also. So anyways, that's a new buy recommendation at Bank of America. Here's another one. This is a smaller one, but it's an interesting story. I put this on my watch list this morning. There's a company in Canada called Snow Lake Resources. Snow Lake Resources. They're out of Winnipeg. And they explore and produce lithium. And as you know, the lithium stocks have not done very well. They're kind of rebranding themselves. Snow Lake is the name of the company, L-I-T-M, which obviously refers to lithium in the symbol. They're in a partnership to lead North America's nuclear renaissance. Okay, so that's the buzz right now, the nuclear renaissance. It seems like if you mention that you're part of that nuclear rent. Now, I don't know if they've actually got something there, but they are rebranding themselves, and they're in some strategic partnerships. They're signing some letters of intent. We'll keep our eye on it. L-I-T-M. But that is a very hot sector. And there is an ETF now called the Nuclear Renaissance. We've talked about it a lot here. on uh on our show uh and by the way as far as that nasdaq bell ringing you're going to be doing it you and jeff webster will be there on monday yeah next monday yeah yes next monday so looking looking looking forward to it it's uh yeah it's one of those kind of it came across came across the desk and one of those you can't you can't not do it so uh
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We're making the trek.
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Yes, I said, you guys go this time. We got invited by Profunds to be there. We're going to ring the bell on, I think, the 20th anniversary of their triple, triple, TQQQ, which has tripled the NASDAQ. I think it's the number one ETF over the last 10 years or something like that. I've been involved with bond funds for over 20 years.
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Yeah, they were the first group, right, that would do some of the leverage ETFs. They're the ones that really kind of almost turned everything into an ETF at some point over the years.
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Yes, exactly. And they were the very first ones to come along with inverse funds for hedging. Okay, when we come back, I've got a hot little drone stock to talk about. And we've got to focus a little bit on Palantir in this segment. Monster, monster report they reported last night. We'll be right back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting-edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to GundersonCapital.com. To talk to us about our fee-based only money management services, call us at 855-611-BEST. Now, back to the second half of the show. Thank you.
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And welcome back to the second half of the Best Docs.
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Now, Shaw, just looking at the, you know, I send out with this live trading, you know, messages and subscription. For the people that want to just try it out, I've been offering four weeks of that. I'm going back to January the 22nd, 13 days ago, and I said I already own a 5% overall position in Palantir. It was $76.94 on that day in both days. the ultra and premier growth portfolios, buying a like-sized position, meaning 5%, for new clients. It currently meets all of my criteria. And then I put a chart. I always enclose a chart of the stocks I'm buying or selling so you can kind of see, what the charts look like at that point in time. So that was just 13 days ago. Now, if you've become a client four days ago, you don't own Palantir right now. That's not a whole lot of people, but that's the way I work. I mean, I wait for the right time. to add to these stocks that i that i already own now i'm looking also right around that same time period okay uh let's see we bought oh there it is this is same day well january 23rd was a good day to be following bill gunnarsson at 3 43 p.m i sent out a text or an email i i have documentation of all of this all right because i sent it out through email and i do it on seeking alpha to the subscribers there. I already own a 5% overall position in Spotify, and this is also a big portfolio of our holding because we own it in both the Premier and the dividend and growth portfolio because Spotify pays a dividend. Palantir does not. If it did, we would have owned it in our dividend portfolio too, right? The only stock we've ever owned.
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It meets the criteria.
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Yes. Except for the dividend. We've had Nvidia in all three portfolios from time to time. Buying a like-sized position today for new clients. This is January 23rd, 13 days ago. The stock still looks very good to me. And Spot is up, wow, look at that chart. That's beautiful. It's up $58 a share today. which works out to 10.3%. So we're having a huge day overall. Now, I haven't given out all winners, okay, but I think we've done pretty good. I'm just going to read one that comes to my mind here that I sent out fairly recently. It was the day that Deckers was going to report earnings, and Deckers has had a pretty good record of earnings. They beat way more often than not. And so it didn't faze me that they were, I really liked the chart. It met all my criteria, blah, blah, blah. And I added, for new clients, I bought Deckers for them. And I think that night, I think it was, yes, this was January 30th. Okay, I already own a 5% position in Deckers in both the ultra and emerging growth. This has been a big, big winner for us over the years, and it has. It still meets all of my criteria. buying a like-sized position today for new clients in both portfolios the stock was breaking out to new all-time highs that day then they reported earnings and they came up a little short and it was down i think 23 percent the very next day so yeah seven at one point yeah Fair and balanced here at Gunderson Capital Management. But, look, you know, you want to have more winners than losers. You're always going to have some losers come along. But if you own, you know, 15, 20 or so, you know, a loser's not going to hurt you that much. And usually a best stock now, they'll eventually come back, usually, because that's what makes them great. They have good management that knows how to figure out where they went wrong, correct it. Correct the course. They haven't been as successful, one of the greatest stocks of the last decade, by making a lot of mistakes. So anyways, you know, there's a funny dynamic going on right now. You can find opposites in every sector. So in that shoe sector, until a week ago, you had one stock hitting new all-time highs. in uh in deckers and you had nike just floundering right and here's the sign of the time today fox fox news reported earnings That stock is breaking out to a new all-time high. And conversely, Comcast, which owns CNN and the other, is hitting a new low. They own NBC, Universal, etc. it's just you know things change the pendulum swings back and forth companies come in favor they go out of favor and of course you know i guess the swing from biden to trump i mean fox is is hitting new highs and comcast is hitting new lows now another stock and i asked my wife this this morning i said why is sd lauder what went wrong at sd lauder this stock has gone from 400 down to 70 while there's been other cosmetic stocks that have done very well and she had two reasons she said uh let's see she says too much competition which i agree i mean estee lauder kind of used to have a mark a big uh share of the market. I believe Estee Lauder also owns... What's that kind of high-end brand that they own? I can't think of it right now.
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But all of these... It'll come to me in a minute.
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But she says, too many competitors, and also, she says, none of the makeup influencers use it. Isn't that interesting? I mean, here we are in 2025... And that's why they call them influencers, I guess. Nobody on TikTok is showing you how to apply Estee Lauder makeup.
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Estee Lauder, right?
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Instead, it's e.l.f., which hasn't been a very good stock recently. But, you know, it's just kind of amazing how, you know, cycles, cycles in the market, cycles in the economy, cycles in the political makeup of countries and whatnot. It swings back and forth. State Farm is crying, man. They need to raise California insurance rates by 22% for non-tenant homeowners, 15% for renters, and 38% for rental dwellings. State farm rate hikes are needed as the risk is greater in California. So anyways, they're racking up some, they're taking in way less in premiums than they're putting out in California. So there's a big problem there that they have with the insurance. Now, okay, drone stocks. This was an interesting story. This stock showed up in my A-plus momentum list. Zena. Z-E-N-A said on Tuesday it has signed a letter of intent to acquire a fifth land survey engineering company. And in southeast Florida. And you're thinking, why would a land survey engineering company be such a hot little deal? It will be their second acquisition in southeast Florida. The company intends to apply the new acquisition to build the fleet of its Xena drone, AI drones, to assist Border Patrol and law enforcement with border protection applications addressing illegal immigration. So if you think about it, land surveying these days is using drones, right? And engineering, it requires engineering. And the drones do a big part of this, and they're going to be used in guarding the border. So I put Xena on my watch list, Z-E-N-A. Let's see how it's doing today. It's up 7.8%. So anyways, that's a Canadian company, by the way. All right, Palantir is the stock of the day. The outlook keeps analysts largely bullish. B of A reiterated its high rating, raised the target price from $90 to $125. And I read here that Palantir tops $100 billion as C-suite touts untamed growth and AI platform. They're AI platforms. So... You can talk about the Magnificent Seven. Palantir is up 514% in the last 12 months and just cracked $100 billion in market cap for the first time. And that was my top pick for this year. And I think that's a pretty good pick. One of the best performing stocks out there. Looking great today. And they're also very tight with the government and defense. So they have so many irons in the fire that, hey, what can I say? It's still in their early stages. And their CEO, Alex Karp, said, hey, we've got a lot of growth left in us. So anyways, a new software juggernaut has indeed emerged here in Palantir. We'll be right back.
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Do what you want to do.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Docs Now show. There is a little news here during the break. It sounds like RFK Jr. has passed through the important committee, and it looks very likely that he will be confirmed as the new HHS. Secretary. So that'll be interesting, Barry. Never a dull moment, I'm sure, between Elon Musk and Besant and the guy from Cantor Fitzgerald and Trump himself. Plenty of drama. Plenty of news. That's why Fox's ratings have gone way up. And they're reporting record earnings and the stock hitting a new high today. My pillow guy's got to be happy, I guess. I don't know. But anyways, it's an active world that we live in, not passive by any means. Now, we've got to look very quickly at Spotify. Spotify guides for another strong quarter. They beat their earnings and the shares rally. Now, I don't know what the difference is. Is it Joe Rogan? I mean, look, Sirius satellite began this whole thing maybe 15 years ago when they took Howard Stern, took him off the airwaves, the terrestrial airwaves. and put him up in space from satellite. It was a big experiment at that time, and you could only listen to him by being a subscriber to XM or Sirius Satellite, whatever it was named back then. It wasn't a very successful experiment. Bob Dylan had his own show there for a while on Sunday evenings. It was a little crazy. But there was some good music on it, and others have had their shows that were exclusively, if you're not a subscriber, and I believe it's that way on Spotify, right? You've got to be a subscriber to listen to Rogan.
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Yeah, I think, you know, there's... there's certain premium features. Number one, right? I mean, obviously if you want to have the full music experience, you've got to be a subscriber and they've got obviously added a lot more content, not just playing, you know, other people's songs, but now, you know, having personalities where, of course, Rogan being one of the most successful ones on there. And it's also the first, I think it's the first annual profit that they've turned. I mean, so these are, you know, there's always these, You know, I remember Tesla being, you know, when they first, you know, announced, you know, earnings and positive cash flow. Yeah. Yeah. And Spotify, if you've looked over the last year, right, and you've seen them monetize the business and, you know, Basically, they've been adding new personalities over time, and now that's cranking out a profit for them. Netflix is another story over the years, right? Absolutely. At first it was spending so much money on content, and then eventually, right, now they make money.
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Well, you know, I was amazed when Spotify started showing up in my app. What really blew me away is they lost money for many years from 2017 to 2023. That's very recently. They were losing about $2 to $3 a share per year, but they were building that subscription base. And they were starting to move towards profitability. Then, like you say, this year, which this is their final report for 2024, they went from a loss of $3 per share in 2023 to a profit of earnings of $5.69. And now, wait, it gets better than that because this year, which we're now into it by a little over a month, they're expected to make $9.55 per share, which would be 68% earnings growth. And next year, they're expected to make $12.08 in earnings, which would be another 26%. You know, I remember updating my valuation on it about a year ago, maybe somewhere in there, and I was just blown away. I couldn't believe it that they were becoming so profitable. And so we went in with guns blazing in both the – I think we bought it first in the ultra-growth portfolio, and it started doing really well. And I said, you know what? This is becoming a monster portfolio. And we added it to our premier growth. It's a very select club. I mean, that's 17, 18 of the best growth stocks that we can find in the world today. And Spotify is one of those. And we're being rewarded today. Stocks do follow earnings. They came in with growth of 8% in sales, but it's the earnings. They made $1.82 versus a loss of 40 cents last year. That's 559% growth in earnings. So Spotify, big winner for us today, up 9.8% right now. And obviously we continue to own it. And we bought it as recently as January the 23rd. And it went out to all the live trading subscribers. And, of course, the clients got it in their portfolios. Okay, Fox beats by 34 cents. Revenue of $5 billion beats by $260 million. Well, that's all I can say. Election years are good. for the media, especially if you're on the right side. I mean, it hasn't been good, obviously, for CNN and MSNBC and the rest of them, but Fox is hitting a new all-time high today, which you contrast that with Comcast, which is hitting new lows. Pfizer's a dog. I don't know why Pfizer's in the Dow. Kick Pfizer out of the Dow. Replace it with Lilly. America's drug company out of Indianapolis, Indiana, with the weight loss drug, Pfizer just has come up with nothing for so long other than they were in the right place at the right time with their, I want to call it a controversial vaccine at this point in time. You can go either way on that. Now we're hearing, well, it wasn't really a vaccine. It wasn't really meant to stop. We were told that it will prevent you from getting it, right? And then who knows, you know, the after effects.
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They call it a flu shot, a flu vaccine.
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Yes, this will prevent you. Now, look, the polio vaccine prevented you from getting polio. But anyways, Pfizer has not done anything. That's why the Dow is down today. Pfizer is down 1.9%. It's in that soggy aisle of the stock market, which is about 80% to 85% of the market. You go into this big... this wall street supermarket and here's all of these aisles and uh... you know really it's twenty percent the top What is that, a decile or a quintile? A decile, I think, the top 20% of stocks. We're out of time. Wow, where did the time go? Well, you've got three more days, four more days to get the four-week trial to the live trading and the newsletter and everything else, and the app, access to the app. But if you'd like to talk to us about managing your portfolio, call us at 855-611-BEST, 855-611-BEST. 611 Best. Have a great day, everybody.
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This week, Don Crawford elevates the discourse on love, focusing on its timeless nature and pervasive influence in our lives. Explore how love not only forms the basis of our relationships with others but also connects us deeper with God. Reflect on powerful concepts such as kindness, patience, and forgiveness, and learn how embodying these virtues brings us closer to understanding God's eternal love. Tune in to explore how living a life steered by genuine love can lead to boundless joy and ultimate freedom.
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The Crawford Stand. February brings us Valentine's Day and a great opportunity to talk about all aspects of love. All this week, the president of Crawford Media Group, Don Crawford, talks about the greatest of all things, God's love.
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The greatest of all things is love. The greatest, says the Apostle Paul, agreed upon by the world's greatest thinkers, artists, and poets. Love is best. The Bible book 1 Corinthians 13 is Paul's finest expressions of love by far. To really know what love is, says Paul, can only occur as a result of a meaningful, loving relationship with God. The longer, the deeper the relationship, the more the meaning of love becomes clear. Love is good. In fact, good is defined by love. For no mere mortal can do good without love. One may intend to live right, perhaps following the Ten Commandments and other great moral precepts, but mere intention, the act of the will, is not enough, for it lacks the energy, the conviction, the power of love. There really is no definition of love. That is no simple one. Words like affection, attachment, emotion, even ultimate feelings are seemingly inadequate. So Paul says, let's begin by defining love as patient. Love is long-suffering because love is eternal. Then Paul says love is kind, love is gentle, love is easy. It avoids meaningless confrontation and struggle. Love thinks on those things which are good in gentle ways. There is no such thing as gentle or kind. without love. God's love in us does not insist on its own rights or its own way. A loving person, on the other hand, is giving, open, caring. These standards are extremely high and virtually impossible for any human being to accomplish, as Paul says, without the love of God. Love even allows us not to take account of the wrongs or evil done to us by others. Boy, that's a hard one, isn't it? Love even allows us to love an enemy rather than to seek vengeance. We can lovingly forgive even as a loving God forgave us. Love rejoices when right and truth prevail. Ah, how wonderful and joyful it is to lovingly live in truth at all times. For to know the truth of love is to be set free And it allows us to live a life rejoicing and praising. And love protects and defends. It guards the hearts and the minds of the young. It trains up children in the way in which they should go. It shows them the way of the Lord, the path of righteousness. Ah, how necessary that is today. Love is loyal, says Paul. Love is trustworthy and trusting. Real love, says Paul, always hopes for the best, especially the best in others. Love at work creates belief that all things will work together for good for those who love each other, and especially those who love God. And that, says Paul, is an absolute truth. It's absolute. For love never fails. It endures now and for all eternity. It overcomes the greatest evils in this world, which combined can never destroy love. Ah, there's so much hatred in our world. So much violence, killing, and death. So much evil at work. The remedy, the antidote, is not war. It's not guns. It's love. But the Apostle Paul in his great treatise in 1 Corinthians 13, please read that. You should read it every day. It's such a blessing. Paul tells us again in 1 Corinthians 13 what love is not. Paul tells us that love is not talk, no matter how eloquent. even the language of angels, even the words, I love you. Those words are like sounding brass and tinkling cymbal, hollow and meaningless without real love. And Paul says that even the gift of prophecy, knowing the future, discerning the divine will and purpose without love, all of that means nothing. One cannot even give to the poor. and find blessing without love. One cannot even be willing to die, or for a body to be burned, or lay down a life for another without love, for all such acts are meaningless without love. The Apostle Paul goes on to say in 1 Corinthians that love is not, not envious. Love is not jealous of others. Love desires the best for everyone. Love rejoices when the best things happen to other people. Love never craves or lusts. It is content, no matter the circumstances. And love is not controlling, says Paul. It lets go. It never holds on. Love never demands and always reasons with an open heart. Love is never possessive. Love is always ready to share, to give, and to understand. And love never boasts or brags. Love has no ego. Love wishes to be known and loved by God and not man. It is not about me, but about Him. And Paul says love does not behave unseemly. Good behavior. Love allows one to live modestly, humbly, and joyfully. Love builds and sustains character. And love is not easily angered, says Paul. Not that one never gets angry. That's not what Paul is saying. We do. And sometimes there is righteous anger, which is justified. But that anger is slow to wrath. When one is possessed, consumed by love, that loving person cannot be easily provoked. And perhaps so very importantly, Paul reminds us that love does not keep any record of wrongs. We the humans have such long memories, do we not? Especially when things go wrong, when we are wronged. But love, says Paul, keeps no record of those wrongs. Love holds no grudges, none whatsoever. No get-even factor. Don't we all have that? Love allows us to do good to those who persecute us, defame us, slander and abuse us. That All of that is real love. We are told that God is love. And the more of that love of God in our lives and in our hearts, the more we can live by love and in love. You and I, says Paul, we see things imperfectly. You know, like that image in a mirror. We see things imperfectly. We now understand imperfectly. But someday... we will know when we see the source of all love face to face. Do you believe that? Do you believe that one day you will see God face to face? And then we shall know that perfect love, which passes all understanding, to stand in the holy presence, the source of all love, is to know completely what a day that will be. Love is a process, as is learning to love here and now. But love will be fully completed in the dawn of that eternal day. Praise the Lord. And finally, Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 13. Please read it over and over again. 1 Corinthians 13, that there are three great things in life. Three. The very best of all things in this life. And they are faith and hope and love. No matter how important faith is, and it surely is, that is, the conviction and belief with respect to man's relationship to God and divine things, love is greater. Love is greater than faith. And no matter how strong the force of hope, the joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation, and as important as that is, and it is, love is even greater. The greatest of all things is love. Love. That is true affection for God and then for man. Affection growing out of God's love for and in us. Praise the Lord. The greatest of all things is love because love never fails.
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Join Mike Gallagher and Mark Davis as they unravel the intricate layers of political and social dynamics shaping America’s landscape today. From reactions to Trump’s uncompromising stance against traditional establishments, to unveiling hidden truths about the vast expenditures of USAID, we explore the various forces at play. The episode ventures into the heart of current debates, exposing how these developments are not only reshaping ideologies but also influencing the future of American governance.
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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's Eminem experience.
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I saw somebody post something last night that made a lot of sense. They said, I'm kind of glad that they weaponized the justice system in the courts, and they raided Melania's underwear drawer, and they... came up with 34 bogus felony convictions because only a man who has been through hell and back the way trump has is motivated to do for the american people what he's doing right now the guardrails as axios put it are gone yep they're they're saying look there there is no stopping this guy and i am i'm here for the i'm here for it i i all of it every bit of it put it into my injected into my veins you I mean, Mark, there's a lot of revelatory moments. Let me share with you, and I was thinking a lot about this driving in today to talk to you. Remember how it was revealed as we watched the smart kids parade around college campuses in support of Hamas after October 7th, and we realized, oh, my Lord, they are actually anti-Semites. They're actual Jew haters. Jew hating on display in our youngest generation. And it was revelatory. It was like, wow, this this our eyes were opened to the real, real ugliness of many of the progressive left.
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Didn't want to believe I did not want to think that about people just for disagreeing with them on policy. But it was much worse. But you can't escape it.
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It's unavoidable. I mean, when you're out waving Palestinian flags and saying, you know, from the river to the sea, not only do we have elected representatives who are filthy anti-Semites, but we have a lot of the so-called smart progressives. Now, here we go this week. We've got Chuck Schumer and AOC and Ilhan Omar shrieking to the heavens about freezing USAID. Yeah. Now, USAID, as we have, has been revealed to us, is like a child grabbing your credit card. Like your kid got your MasterCard or your Visa. $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq. Yep. $50 million to boost tourism in Egypt. This is our money. This is our money. This is American taxpayers. $40 million to build schools in Jordan. Now, it's being revealed. But look what also is being revealed. They hate... the accounting of this accountability they don't want usaid to be held responsible or accountable they're freaking out they're flipping out and it's revealing it's revelatory you know how they kept saying that that trump was going to be the the the end of democracy It's end of bureaucracy. And I've heard that phrase a lot. That's what they fear. He's taking on the deep state establishment in a way that we have never in our lifetime witnessed ever before. No one's come close. It's two and a half weeks. This guy's two weeks into it. What's six months going to look like?
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What are we going to be talking about it?
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Well, let me tell you what Chuck Schumer's afraid we're going to be talking about. He said something yesterday. I had to check with the team. I said, tell me that's not, is that AI? Is that a parody? He said, if we let Trump upend USAID, he could be going after the IRS next. He actually said that. Like, that was a bad thing. He was like, oh, please don't threat me with a good time. Are you kidding me? And then he said he could be going after the U.S. Postal Service next. In other words, Schumer thinks he's scaring Americans by giving us what we want.
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Exactly, casting the light of accountability. And I've so enjoyed it. It's kind of glib. It's kind of a cliche, but it's often true. When the right people are upset, when the right people's hair is on fire, that's how you know good things are happening. I'm looking at this Ben Rhodes, this man-child who had some foreign policy gig during Obama saying, this will result in stupidity. for countless people around the world. You know, maybe we won't have drag shows in Indonesia. Maybe we won't have trans musical comedies going on in Egypt. Maybe we won't have other slush fund ridiculousness that American taxpayers have funded for too long. We've been looking at this stuff. It's been happening for six decades since USAID was developed under Kennedy. And it's over. That's what the whole Doge thing is, government efficiency, taking a sharp eye and a sharp scalpel and sometimes a sledgehammer to things that we just shouldn't be spending money on. And why wouldn't Democrats be on board with that, Mark? Because, A, they love it. They love grandiose expansionist collectivist government. And they also love, you know who a huge USAID beneficiary was? Our friends in Ukraine. It was another part of the slush fund to prop up that regime. So...
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Want to know who another beneficiary was? Somalia. USAID has spent billions for Somalia, and Ilhan Omar is flipping out. Remember, she famously said when she was elected, I'm here to protect the interests of Somalia from within the U.S. system. Which, of course, violates her oath. That violates her constitutional oath, but who cares? Who keeps track at this point? I mean, look, USAID is a mess. For every dollar it spends, it's been revealed by Doge that only 12 cents actually reaches those in need. Meanwhile, we've got people still living in tents in western North Carolina. We've got people, they don't, Biden didn't care about East Palestine, Ohio. That's...
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That's a red county. He doesn't care about Carolinas. Those are Trump voters. And look, it's a whole new day. And it's crazy. I am so astounded at how they've revealed themselves to us.
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And they're revealing things that we didn't even know. A lot of people didn't know that USAID existed. That's right. Not only do we now know that it exists, but we also know what Elon Musk called it, a criminal organization.
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A slush fund. It's a big slush fund. Look what we're learning. But now talk to me like I'm five years old. Explain to me like I'm five. Because I saw the video of the protesters yesterday that are all hysterical about the mass deportations.
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The one that blocked the 101 Highway in California?
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The 101 Highway in California. There have been some, I believe, in Dallas. I think there have been protests all over the country. Now explain this to me. I saw the protesters burning the flag of the country they don't want to leave. Right, exactly. Our flag. Right. But they're waving the flag of the country in which they don't want to go back to.
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Can you explain that to me? I'm five. Guess you're the smartest five-year-old in America. Because you have figured it out exactly right there. They're burning the American flag while attempting to stay in America while loftily holding high the flag of Mexico, the country they don't want to go back to. Does that make any sense at all? It does not. That and the Luca trade, things that make no sense.
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Right. I mean, they're mystifying. Burn the Mexican flag and fly the American flag. We love America. We love America. It's so much that we don't want to be peeled from its shores. Yeah, but that ain't the way they feel. No, no, they don't. They hate America. They just want to siphon from us. I saw this headline today. I love the tariffs. And did you notice that Eric Erickson smacked back at you yesterday on X?
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Oh, no! Okay, hold on. Let me tell the story because I don't... So, Eric Erickson and a whole lot of other... Faux semi pseudo conservatives took a look at a hiccup in the stock market yesterday and went, there's your tariffs. That's what your tariffs. So I sometime early evening last night reposted Eric sneezing at the tariffs, sniffing at the tariffs. and said, wow, sometimes it's smart to wait for a day and see how things play out. And did that garner some attention from our buddy?
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He wrote, he posted back at you. I didn't even understand what his point was because when it said that Canada and Mexico bent the knee, and they did, they have agreed to focus. All Eric Erickson wrote to you was, as I said, or something. It was really weird. It's like, no, you didn't. No, it didn't make, it didn't make any sense at all. I mean, these guys are just like, or I'm paraphrasing, but it was like, yeah, like I said, and then he posted something about Canada and Mexico caving, which I don't, it doesn't make, it didn't make any sense at all.
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You know, I have to empathize and give latitude to people who are just, who have painted themselves into such a weird corner.
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And, you know, speaking of who blinked.
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And they can't get out of it. How do they get out of it? It's not all Democrats, as you pointed out. The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed headline, Trump blinks on North American tariffs. He didn't blink. He paused them because the other guys blinked.
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That's what they did. I was curious to see how David Muir and the usual suspects would handle this. Because, of course, over on Fox and Newsmax, it's like, look, big Trump victory. Well, ABC, Trump had to somewhat concede and he backed, he backtracked. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was all about, it was incredible. And the usual suspects are on. So I love this post. Rich Zioli wrote something that was so good. This is directed to you, Eric Erickson. Generations from now, we will tell our grandchildren tales of the great North American trade war, how close we came to losing it all. Guacamole, avocado toast, maple syrup, other maple-flavored things. But we endured. For 18 long hours, it appeared all hope was lost.
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Like a 10-part series, The Great American Trade War, Chapter 1, 9 to 10 a.m. Chapter 2, 10 a.m. to noon. February 3rd to February 3rd.
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I mean, it was one day. But they're so panicked. And look at Axios, how tariffs hit the working class. Now, this is the typical scare tactics, right? And then they write, by the numbers, in an analysis out this morning, the conference board projects the combined impact of Trump's tariff proposals could increase inflation by, are you ready? By 0.6 percentage points over a year. Now they concede sort of embarrassingly, now that's not near the sky high inflation of 2022. Oh, you think? Oh, 0.6? Tell you what, I think women will pay another 25 cents for their avocado toast so they don't get raped when they leave the store as they're walking back to their car. If things are a little safer, do the Democrats not care about the safety and security of the American people, but Chuck Schumer's waving around cans of Corona?
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Oh, your Corona's going to go up. I wondered if I made that up in my head, because I knew he had a guacamole and a lime in the other hand. And a Corona. And a beer. If he keeps doing that, I'll invite him over to my house.
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But the point made... Listen, if they keep going down this path, we'll be in control for the next 100 years. The Democrats won't win another election. Bring it. Bring David Hogg. Make sure those guys are running things. AOC, give us more. Chuck Schumer, better be careful. They might reform the IRS next. No, no, please don't. What are we going to do?
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Gosh, what a...
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Time to be alive.
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All right. I love you. Happy Tuesday. Mike Gallagher here for us, here for all of us. 10 o'clock. Soon as we're done on six 60 AM. The answer.
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