If you want to get close to God you must study His Word consistently under a pastor who has the spiritual gift to teach you. Everything in the Bible is inspired by God for a reason. The Word of God is here for you to learn and apply in your life. “You shall seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jer 9:23). Biblical information that is believed by faith in your mind and applied in your heart becomes wisdom. It’s a different way of thinking, a mindset of humility and not arrogance. Humility is teachability. Learning the truth from the Scripture establishes protectors in your soul. Satan will try to discredit the Scripture. Don’t be lured by false teaching. “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
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The Importance of Scripture - Part 2
Transcript of FLOT Line Episode 613 aired on May 21, 2017
Good morning and welcome to The FLOT Line. I am your host Rick Hughes and for the next
few minutes I'd like to invite you to stay with me, a short time of motivation, some inspiration, a
whole lot of education, with no manipulation. That's right, no hidden agendas, not trying to sell
you anything, this is not an infomercial. It is simply a show about the Bible, that's all. Some
information that I'd like to give you I hope will help you verify and identify God's plan for your
life. If you're able to do this, you can orient and adjust to the plan as you please, that's up to you.
God didn't make you a little robot, an automaton. He gave you freedom, free will. He gave you a
volition. He gave you the right to choose and the Bible says in Joshua 24:15,
“Choose you this
day who you will serve, but as for me and my house
we will serve the Lord,” G
ood morning,
welcome to The FLOT Line. We started a study last Sunday when I was with you on the
importance of Scripture, the importance of knowing the Scripture, and being able to discern the
Scripture, being able to tell when someone teaches the Scripture that he gives the sense of the
verse and the meaning of the verse. That is, what the verse really means and what's the sense,
what’s it trying to say to you, not taking it out of context. You know, there are so many people
that teach the Bible, there are so many Bibles being sold, it’s amazing, the number one selling
book in the world. They’ve got a hunting Bible, a marriage Bible, a widow’s Bible, a whatever
Bible. Everybody wants to sell you a Bible but very few people want to teach the Bible
accurately from the original languages. Many pastors do have Greek and Hebrew training but
they don't use it, they put it aside when they get out of seminary and that's a mistake. It's critical
that you take a look at these verses in the original languages so you can see what the original
intent of the verse was. I always love the way my pastor did it. He did what we called the ICE
technique, I.C.E., isogogical, categorical and exegetical. This simply mean the isogogics of the
word. What did the word mean then? What does it mean now? Then he would do the category. If
you're studying a verse like John 3:16, you may have the category of God, the category of love,
the category of the world, so he would develop categorical studies. Then exegesis means that he
would go line by line, word by word, verse by verse, because every jot and every tittle in the
Bible is important.
Everything in the Bible is inspired by God for a reason.
If I were teaching
you the book of John, we would go through the book of John beginning with chapter 1 verse 1 all
the way through the end of the book through the last verse in the book. We would go line by
line, word by word, verse by verse. That's how you learn the Bible. There's nobody that can teach
the book of Romans in a week. There’s nobody that can teach the book of John in a week. We
have church services where we have the January Bible study or the February Bible study and
somebody comes in and wants to teach you the book in a week. You can't understand it that way
and sometimes they want to sell you their study guide to go with it. Then we get into marketing
and I stand firm on this.
God does not tolerate marketing His Word.
We are not allowed to
market the Word of God.
We’re not allowed to sell the Word of God.
We got it free, we give it
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away free and yet in today's modern Christianity, it's all about marketing. Whether it's accurate or
not, whether it's true or not, that's another issue but this issue is about selling the Word of God. If
God's in it, He will pay for it. You don't have to hustle the money up. I learned this a long time
ago. My pastor taught me this and I've always lived by this principle. Now, we're going to
continue our study today about how to get close to God and we’re doing this under the
importance of understanding the Scripture, the sense and the meaning of the Scripture. In
Jeremiah 9:23,
“And you shall seek Me and find Me when
[notice, when]
you search for Me
with all your heart.”
Remember that you have a mind, M.I.N.D., and you have a heart. Both of
these are inside your head up there. Your mind in the Greek New Testament is the word
nous
,
N.O.U.S. and the word for your heart is
kardia.
The mind is where you assimilate information
and the heart is where you store the information and apply the information. Information that
comes into your mind is simply comprehended.
Information that is believed in your mind and
applied into your heart becomes wisdom.
If you want to search for God, you have to search
with all your heart and that means that you have positive volition, that you're hungry for truth,
that you want to know truth, that you're not playing games, you don't have an angle, you’re not
trying to manipulate God so God can get you out of a jam. You want to know God and His Word.
I don't know if there was really a point in my life where I came to the fact that I had to study the
Word of God, but I know that after I became a Christian, many people tried to manipulate me
and coerce me into doing things that I didn't feel right doing such as raising money or such as
buttonholing people on the street. I wouldn’t beat people over the head with the Bible or
whatever, but I love to witness to people. I love to share Christ with people. But there were
things that I was not comfortable with. As I grew and as I eventually found a well-qualified
pastor that could teach me, there was nothing wrong with me, that I was thinking clearly and the
more he taught, the more I learned, the more I learned, the more I understood that I didn't know.
That's the way it is with you.
If you want to get close to God, you study His Word, you study
His Word consistently under a pastor who has the gift who can teach it to you and you will
discover, like me, the more you know about God, the more you realize you don't know.
We
know He is immanent. We know He is transcendent. We know He is omnipotent, omniscient, and
omnipresent but we don't know a whole lot about what He looks like because we have this image
in our head of what we think He looks like. We know He looks like Jesus Christ. He is God.
Christ is God that's manifested in the flesh, God in the flesh. Jesus was God, is God, and is in
heaven today in the presence of God the Father. We have God the Son, God the Father, and God
the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit that lives in you and the Holy Spirit that lives in me and we
are told to let the Holy Spirit control our life, to run our life, to run the show. That's why the
Bible says be filled with the Spirit. Don't walk in the flesh. Don’t let the flesh control you, that’s
carnality. So if you're going to get close to God, you’re going to have to learn His Word. You’re
going to have to be under a qualified pastor. You’re going to have to study it and apply it in your
life and the more you learn about God, the more you will come to understand Him. It's not an
emotional thing. It's not you going to a mountaintop. It’s not you going to a retreat somewhere
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and feeling really close to God because there was a big bonfire and you all sang,
Oh how I love
Jesus
, until nobody could sing it anymore and you felt closer to God. That's not how it happens.
Apart from accumulating divine viewpoint, apart from learning the Word of God, you’ll
never know Him and you'll never be able to please Him because you’ll go about it your
way.
You will try to make up the rules as you go along and there's protocol when you deal with
God, which means that a right thing must be done in a right way. You can do a right thing like
going to church and praying and giving money and etc., but you can do it in the wrong way.
When it's done in the wrong way, then it’s simply wood, hay, and stubble and according to 1
Corinthians 3 at the Judgment Seat of Christ it will be burned up, it won't be accepted. It was a
right thing done in the wrong way. Once you learn the mandates of Scripture, then the test is
always going to be, will you obey the mandates of Scripture? If you learn divine viewpoint, if
you learn God's Word, then the Word of God is capable of guiding your thoughts.
The Word of
God is capable of directing your thoughts.
Listen to Colossians 3:15,
“Let the peace of God
rule in your hearts,”
be in the heart, not the mind. To rule is the Greek word
brabeuo
and it
means to be an umpire, to be a judge. The Word of God is designed to judge your thoughts and to
control your habits, not only your bad habits but your good habits, your lifestyle, your destiny.
As you learn God's Word, it rules your thoughts.
Whenever there is a confusion of thought in
the soul and whenever this happens, you have to choose to decide which way you're going to go.
“Am I going to do this?” “Am I going to do that?” “What does the Bible say? Okay I know what
the Bible says. Now what am I willing to do?” If you're not willing to obey what the Bible says,
then why study the Bible? Then some people say, “Well, you know two or three people can get
two or three different meanings out of this.” Yep, they sure can sometimes, when they don't go to
the original languages, that's for sure.
Learning the truth of the Scripture, the truth of the
logos,
the Word of God, not the person
logos,
Jesus, but the Word of God, Bible doctrine on
a consistent basis, establishes protectors in your soul.
God actually has soul protectors one of
my friends said. I like that, soul protectors, which give us wisdom in time of satanic attack and it
keeps the human viewpoint from invading your soul. This is why Paul said in Colossians 1:9,
“We don't cease to pray for you and we desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His
will in all wisdom, in all spiritual understanding,”
in other words, to have responsible spiritual
intelligence. If you fail to learn God's system, if you fail to learn how the protocol plan of God
works, if you fail to execute His plan you wind up being a Christian casualty on the battlefield,
sucked into the cosmic vortex, this invisible zeitgeist in history, the invisible lure like a tornado
whirling around and sucking you into it, human viewpoint thinking, the lure of the devil, the
times of the world. The Bible says in Hosea 8:7,
“If you sow to the wind, then you’re going to
reap the whirlwind,”
this vortex.
It’s very easy for a Christian to get into the cosmic vortex.
You may know some family member that's in the cosmic vortex. They’re believers, they've
accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior, there's not a doubt about this but they let sin get into their
life. They did not confess their sin to God. They grew cold or disinterested in God's plan. They
got interested in some other human endeavor and the cosmic vortex whirled them off down the
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road and now you don't see them anymore. They will be dumped out somewhere in life just like
a tornado dumps out all the debris that it sucks up. Eventually they'll be dumped out somewhere
and this dumping place is called the sin unto death. There are three types of discipline: warning
discipline, intense discipline, and dying discipline. When you don't respond to the warning
discipline, even though God loves you, He warns you, Hebrews 12:6 tells us this. He scourges us
sometimes, that's the intense discipline, and then sometimes He just has to take us home because
we are unfit, we’re too hard-headed, we’re too arrogant. That's where it all comes from, it comes
from arrogance. The misunderstanding of who you are and what you are, this unrealistic self-
image we get when we justify the things that we do, thinking that it's okay even though the Word
of God says it's not okay, we justify it and then we become self-absorbed with it.
If you're going
to learn God's Word, it'll keep you out of this cosmic vortex. Colossians 3:25,
“For he who
does wrong receives the consequences and God is not a respecter of persons.”
I don't care
who you are, me, you, anybody else, any famous Christian celebrity, get out of the will of
God, sin, walk away from what the Scripture says and you're in for it, you’re in for
discipline.
The cosmic system is out there. It's the devil's viewpoint. It’s the devil's plan. It’s
human viewpoint where all the human viewpoint is spawned in the world, in the cosmic system.
That's what the cosmic vortex is, it’s you operating in the cosmic system. Listen to 1 John 2,
“Stop loving the kosmos or anything related to the kosmos. If anyone keeps on loving the
kosmos, then the love of the Father is not in him because all that's in the kosmos, the lust of the
flesh, the lust of the eyes, the arrogant pattern of life, is not from the Father.”
The cosmic system
has its own communion cup, did you know this? Maybe you’ve taken communion at church and
you should in remembrance of what Jesus Christ our Lord did for you. In 1 Corinthians 10:21,
“You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons.”
You cannot partake of the table
of the Lord and the table of demons. The false doctrine, the false system, the lure of the world,
it's all out there and if you going to be in fellowship with God and I would warn you about this,
if you take communion in your church, make sure there's no unconfessed sin in your life because
when you take communion with known sin in your life, you're asking for divine discipline. You
are insulting the character of God when you do this. You must be sure when you take
communion that you go to the Father before the communion elements are served and simply bow
your head and say, “Father, if there is any sin in my life, show me now. I want to confess it, I
want to purge it out,” and then God will be faithful to reveal it to you. You can't take communion
with known sin without getting discipline for it. God's protocol plan and Satan's cosmic system
are mutually exclusive. They don't work together, they're totally different. If you are a believer in
Jesus Christ, you might choose to live your life outside of God's protocol plan and you might flirt
around with the cosmic system in your frantic search for happiness, in your human viewpoint
thinking. It's so easy to do this. It's so easy as a Christian to step out of the plan of God, to quit
following the rules and then make your own rules up. It's easy in the field of love and romance
because you meet someone and you think you love this person. This happens all the time, it
happens to young girls and young men. You're a believer and they're not and you say, “Well, I
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love him and they are fantastic and we have a great time together, but I'm a Christian. He's not a
Christian.” What does the Bible say? Don't do it. The Bible says absolutely never marry an
unbeliever, but you in your arrogance say, “Oh, I'll change him,” or “I'll change her.” You go
ahead and you marry the unbeliever because you think you love this person and the end result is
you step out of the protocol plan of God and you create more misery than you can ever solve in
your life. Marriage doesn't solve problems, it compounds problems. When you put two sin
natures together, it doesn't make anything go away. It makes it twice as bad. If you continue to
live your life, just in this one episode for example, marriage, you can go to finances, you can go
to a lot of different areas. If you choose to live your life outside of the protocol plan of God, you
are flirting in the cosmic system and you are searching for happiness and you will never find it.
You know, some of the richest men in the world have said these things. I remember Elvis Presley
said, “I'm lonely, so lonely. I'm rich and I'm famous but I'm lonely.” Rockefeller said, “I've made
millions but they brought me no happiness.” The only true source of happiness according to the
Lord Jesus Christ is found in Luke 11:27-28 where He told an interruptive woman who shouted
out at one of His messages, He told her,
“Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father's
Word and who keep it.”
This means happiness is related to a clear conscience. This means
happiness is related to no guilt. This means happiness is related to living inside the protocol plan
of God,
“Hear My Father's Word and keep it.”
How do we grow? We hear, without hearing
there's no faith, so you have to hear.
What am I listening to? Am I going out in the woods and
listen to a bird chirp? No, I'm sitting in a church listening to a qualified pastor teach the Bible.
He has a spiritual gift, the gift of
poimen kai didaskalos
in the Greek New Testament, pastor and
teacher. It's his job to teach. Now, maybe you can sit in that church or maybe there's not a church
near you. You can do what I do, you can listen to DVDs. My church is not where I live so I get
the DVDs of my pastor and I study the DVDs. Each day I put on a DVD and I watch it, take
notes, open my Bible, sit down and study and learn and then on several occasions a year I will be
in that church. This is the way that I grow and it's a way you can grow as well if there's not a
church in your area. You let me know and I’ll connect you. I'll give you the name where you can
get the same information I'm getting and then you can grow sitting right there in your home until
God reveals what you're suppose to do. This cosmic system is Satan's strategy as the ruler of this
world. It's the way he can control you and manipulate you. It’s the way he can bend the rules and
you seem to think it's okay because Satan will exploit believers through their own arrogance. He
has his propaganda machine, his indoctrination, and it always promotes antagonism towards
God. What Satan appeals to is always our own arrogance. The Bible says in James 4:6,
“God
makes war with the arrogant, but He gives grace to the humble.”
That's our key, we have to
humble ourselves which means respect for authority.
Humility is teachability.
Nobody can learn
that doesn't have any humility because they think they know it already. They think they don't
need to hear it and you need to understand that Satan will target you if you’re arrogant. He will
manipulate you if you’re arrogant. He will use you to promote his scheme if you are arrogant.
You will be sucked into the cosmic vortex. You will be taken down the My Way Highway as we
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say it and you will be discredited and I tell you, it's a terrible life. Anybody who falls into this
satanic trap, you know Satan will target Scripture and he will tell you, “That's not true. You don't
really have to believe this.”
Satan will try to discredit Scripture,
just disapprove the Scripture,
and then you get sucked into his plan. There are three ways for you to get sucked into the cosmic
vortex, listen carefully. Number one is demon possession. Now, no believer can be demon
possessed. The Bible clearly says in 1 John 4:4,
“Greater is He that is in you than he that is in
the world.”
Demon possession is for unbelievers. A demon is a fallen angel, not some weird
dude, he’s a fallen angel and demon possession is real, was real in the Bible, is real today. Only
unbelievers can be indwelt by a demon and there's all sorts of neurotic and psychotic behavior
manifested as a result of this. One of the quickest ways for an unbeliever to get into demon
possession is by rejecting legitimate authority such as law and order, police, whatever. These are
found in the laws of divine establishment. Many of these mass murderers, people that kill people
indiscriminately are in fact demon possessed. The Bible tells us in John 8:44,
“Satan was a
murderer from the beginning.”
That's his M.O., it’s what he loves to do, to take people out so
they don't accept Christ as Savior. That's one way unbelievers get into the cosmic vortex, through
demon possession. Another way, and this one would be for any Christian, is by demon influence.
This is where believers have to fight the thinking of demons, the doctrine of demons. Believers
have their thoughts invaded by the thoughts of demons. Listen to 1 Timothy 4:1-2,
“But the
Spirit explicitly teaches that in the latter period of time, some believers will withdraw from sound
doctrine, giving heed to deceitful spirits and the doctrine of demons by means of hypocrisy of
liars seared in their own conscience by a branding iron.”
Satan has his own doctrine. Satan has
his own pastors and they teach the doctrine of demons and they can mislead you. They are
deceitful and they will take you into an area that you don't belong into. It will create an
emotional revolt in your soul where your soul blacks out, you'll develop scar tissue. Your heart
will get hard. You’ll no longer feel conviction about what's right and what's wrong. That's why
Paul warns you in
Ephesians 4:27,
“Do not give the devil any opportunity in your life.”
You
can get into the cosmic vortex by demon influence or you can get into the cosmic vortex by
your own personal sin.
Curating sin in your life, not confessing your sin, getting out of
fellowship with God, developing a lifestyle of human good but not divine good which essentially
is nothing but evil, misrepresenting the plan of God, mis-living the plan of God, it looks real, it
sounds real but it's counterfeit, it's evil. Anytime you're in one of these, you're in the cosmic
system. That's not where you belong. So how do you get out of the cosmic vortex? Well, if
you’re a Christian you rebound. You can escape the trap of the devil, 2 Timothy 2:25-26,
“Having been held captive by him to do his will.”
You can escape it by confessing your sin to
God, going to the Father and simply admitting your sin. Once you're in this vortex it's equal to a
lifestyle of spiritual death in time. You’re alive spiritually in eternity, that's not the problem, but
in time, you're out of fellowship. It’s like you're spiritually dead in time, you have no fellowship
with God. If that's happened to you, if you’ve lost your fellowship with God, if you don't feel
like you're advancing or growing, rebound, problem-solving device number one. Go to God,
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admit your sin, confess your sin, and get under the ministry of a qualified pastor who can teach
you who you are, what you are, and how to handle the things you do.
That's what the Word of
God is there for. It's a different way of thinking, a different way of living, a different
mindset. It's a mindset of humility not arrogance.
Boy, I hope you're listening and I hope
you're learning. I hope all of this is making sense to you. That's why we do these radio shows.
This is your host Rick Hughes saying thank you for listening
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SPEAKER 07 :
He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Deller.
SPEAKER 16 :
I try to be a happy warrior. I really do. I make it a point to come into the studio as optimistic as I possibly can be. And then it's like my team just starts to deflate me. It's like they give me stuff just to throw a wet blanket, and it's not their fault. I mean, I'm not blaming them. I'm sort of reflecting on the way of the world right now. If I told you that there was already a documentary in the works over this monster who the authorities say gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, would that surprise you? And it's a far-left filmmaker. who's already planning a documentary about Luigi Mangione's life. A documentary, which of course would be music to his ears, I'm sure. I'm sure the alleged killer loves the fact, oh, they're going to make a movie about me? Look, I have a big debate about whether or not to mention his name. I probably shouldn't. Because these twisted, sick deviants who commit these shocking acts of violence against humanity want notoriety. And now, Jigsaw Productions... and anonymous content are teaming up, according to Variety, to develop and produce a documentary about the December 4th fatal shooting that took place in Midtown Manhattan just before Brian Thompson was set to speak at an investor conference. Now, the reason I guess it's compelling material is perhaps the leftist filmmakers will explore the phenomenon of people on the left... Loving, craving violence. As long as it's violence committed against, you know, the right people. I guess they love the idea of a health care executive. being shot dead, cowering on the sidewalk while this guy walked up and assassinated him. You've seen the video, right? You want me to get graphic? Shoots him once from the back. I believe that's the shot that got him in the leg. The guy goes down, rolls over on his side, and this punk walks up and finishes him off. And they want to make a movie about it. People are cheering him at concerts. They've made a board game already about it. You know what the board game has? Faces of other CEOs of healthcare executives to be assassinated. This is today's left. This is why we're different. This is the paradigm of our time. Our friend Dennis Prager often says, everything the left touches, they destroy. Right? Not all. I would say everybody on the left. I know there's a difference between a Bill Maher or Tulsi Gabbard-style Democrat and a leftist kook who thinks it's a good idea to make a documentary about this freak. People on the left are twisted, evil creatures. They hate everything that is right in the world. Everything that is good about our country, they despise. They are anti-God. They are anti-patriotism. They are anti-law and order. They're anti-family. Everything we treasure, they tear down. And Finally, finally, we've got some normalcy coming back to the country. Did you see the press conference, Trump's press conference yesterday? My gosh, he was so good. He was as good as it gets. And he went right through the list of the things he's going to do in his first year of his presidency. He's suing more media outlets? Why wouldn't he? ABC had to give him $15 million for their defamation. Why wouldn't he sue the Des Moines Register and that Ann Seltzer character with her goofy poll? Oh, she's such a great pollster. What was she off by, 17 points? She had Kamala Harris winning Iowa? Kamala Harris didn't win a single... Every single county in America... shifted to the right. Every one. She was such an awful candidate that you know the only thing Kamala Harris is going to be good for? Governor of California. You watch and see. She'll wind up being governor of California. They deserve each other. You wait and see. That's her next chapter. This awful, this dreadful, this vapid, empty pantsuit is going to wind up replacing Gavin Newsom. You mark my words, it'll absolutely happen. And nobody's going to be surprised. But Trump talked about suing the media. Do you blame him? Here he was yesterday talking about why there's a need to sue media outlets that lie about him.
SPEAKER 13 :
I want to expand on the defamation lawsuits. Could you see moving that to other people with individual platforms, social media influencers, people that... Or newspapers, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Oh, I do. I do. I think you have to do it because they're very dishonest. We need a great media. We need a fair media. We need... It's very important.
SPEAKER 16 :
Is he wrong to expect the media to treat him fairly? Is that a big, heavy lift? What's wrong with him saying we need a fair media? And the media itself, the usual suspects, are flipping out. Check out Jake Tapper over on CNN.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't want to overstate Trump's friendliness and genial attitude at this press conference because this weekend ABC News agreed to pay $16 million, including legal fees, to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump against the network and their anchor, George Stephanopoulos. And that obviously will not be the end of this campaign against the media, legal campaign against the media. We heard him go after many other news outlets today. Take a listen.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper. We're filing one on 60 Minutes. We're involved in one which has been going on for a while and very successfully against Bob Woodward. We have one very interestingly on Pulitzer. because reporters at the New York Times, Washington Post got Pulitzer Prizes for their wonderful, accurate, and highly professional reporting on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
SPEAKER 12 :
We don't have time to go into all of that, but just to touch base on a couple, there's one of them is the people of Iowa, the Des Moines Register, that's because there was a poll that was inaccurate. Mm-hmm. The one on 60 Minutes is because they didn't like the editing that had been done to Kamala Harris. Yeah, I mean, this is wildly ridiculous.
SPEAKER 16 :
Wildly ridiculous. You know what Jake Tapper doesn't acknowledge? The reason Trump feels emboldened to go continue these lawsuits is because he won against ABC. I mean, they acknowledged you don't pay $16 million if you didn't do anything wrong. Take it to court. It's real simple. George Stephanopoulos lied like nine or ten times in one interview with Nancy Mace. Said that it was adjudicated that Trump raped that kooky E. Jean Carroll lady. And that's not true. In fact, that's literally the 180 degree opposite of what the jury determined. So he lied. That's defamation. If there's a poll that was purposefully manipulated to try to influence the outcome of the election in Iowa, they need to be sued. If 60 Minutes engaged in election interference by painting Kamala Harris in a way that was completely false, they need to be sued. Let's all be fair for a moment. Let's all do our best to be. I'm trying to be fair right now. I'm trying to be fair. Why did ABC give him $16 million if they didn't do anything wrong? They make Trump out to be the bad guy for collecting $16 million from ABC. That's what Jake Tapper is trying to do. Trump is the culprit for ABC forking over $16 million to Donald Trump. It's called defamation. You're not allowed to do it. You can't lie about people. In the media. Wantonly and recklessly and maliciously. And that's what ABC's George Stephanopoulos did. He ought to be fired. Clearly. The guy isn't fit to sit there and have a big high position of authority at ABC. It's why he deactivated his Twitter account. It's why he didn't even mention it on Sunday morning's broadcast. He is disgraced. He got his company... He was responsible for making his entire company, Disney, which owns ABC, fork over $16 million. Is that Trump's fault? Again, let's be fair. I want you and me to be fair here, and I want to open up the phone lines on this Tuesday here in the Relief Factor studios. Let's be totally and completely fair. Isn't it reasonable for Donald Trump to expect the media to treat him fairly? And if ABC felt that they had to give him $16 million for their defamation, how is that Trump's fault? Be fair with your answer. 1-800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. We have two lines open for you. Now's the time for you to jump on board and join us. Welcome into a December 17th episode of the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios. 800-655-MIKE.
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Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, this headline has thrown me into a complete frenzy. Luigi Mangione documentary in the works from Alex Gibney. Now, I wonder when the documentary is going to be made about the Nashville school shooter. Or what about the documentary in the works about the guy that nearly blew Trump's head off? There's a documentary in the works about him. Oh, no, we don't even know who he is. We know anything about him. That just got turned, that was just turned the page. They killed him, moved on. What about him? What was his motivation? Anybody interested in the guy that nearly assassinated Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, which would have completely changed the course of human history? You know, this school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin is obviously awful. The assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is obviously awful. I would think the near assassination of the man who wound up becoming the 47th president is a little bit more significant. Wouldn't you think there'd be a documentary? Oh, no, Alex Gibney isn't interested in a documentary. He's a leftist filmmaker. Why would he care? Why would he care? I've got to believe that just like leftists are celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare's Brian Thompson, they probably celebrated the near-murder of Donald Trump in Butler, PA. They are evil. No other way to describe them. Here's a text of the day already from Minnesota. On the MyPillow text line, it is beyond satisfying to finally see the media experiencing consequences for their behavior. They've destroyed countless people's lives. It's like watching the bully who beats you up and steals your lunch money getting expelled because of their vile behavior. The media is no longer trusted. They've been allowed free reign for far too long. Enough is enough. It's time to pay the piper. I am with you, Minnesota. Great point. Matt's in Louisville. Matt, welcome. Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 10 :
Merry Christmas, Mike. I'm just amazed that these people aren't grateful in the media that they're not being arrested for inciting the riot and assassination. You call somebody Hitler long enough, you're going to have some poor knucklehead out there who's a complete... I mean, they're going to try to save history.
SPEAKER 16 :
Exactly. You know what I mean? And if you call somebody Hitler and you convince your audience that somebody is Adolf Hitler, what wouldn't you do to stop Adolf Hitler?
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right. I mean, Rush used to have the caller abortion thing. I don't mean any of this literally, but I mean, I'm for getting... The media needs to just go or else reform itself.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, they're on life support. The media is dying. The mainstream media, there is now... We're having our moment, talk radio, platforms like Salem News Channel, podcasts, digital, great talk stations all over the country. And these guys are on life support. There's a revolt over at the Washington Post. They can't find a new editor. I mean, you should see the turmoil at the Washington Post. CNN's firing people left and right. And this is their own doing. Hey, I want to lighten the mood for a few minutes. I want you to meet, if you're a longtime listener of this show, you know the name Jen Kramer. She's one of the most entertaining, family-friendly magicians in America. One of the best in the business. This Las Vegas headliner is going to join us next because she's going to do a Florida swing. We'll tell you all about it and say hi to Jen next. Said goodnight.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Geller.
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Got some breaking news. I can give you the definitive explanation for the drones. It came from Bethany Frankel, who I think is one of the Real Housewives from the Real Housewives franchise over there at Bravo Network. She knows because she's got a friend of a friend who has a friend who worked for NASA and the government. Look, she's as credible as John Kirby. White House official John Kirby says after his extensive assessment of the drones... Not to worry, he says, the drones are perfectly legal, they're normal, they're lawful, which, of course, makes you think that the government is, in fact, behind the drones. So we're in great hands here. We've got a government that's lying to us about these. They're pretending that there's nothing to see here, folks. All these calls I'm getting from New Jersey. Can we get calls from people who've seen the drones? Let's do that right now, Teresa. 1-800-655-MIKE. Got a lot of people listening to us on AM 970, The Answer. Now we've got a lot of people watching us all throughout the Northeast on Salem News Channel. If you found us on Samsung Plus TV, Channel 1177, or Pluto, or... FUBU or FUBO, all the different platforms. I lose track because we've got so many. Look, if it's streaming video, you'll probably get to see the show. And we welcome you to the Mike Gallagher Show, especially if you're a new viewer. We're very excited about the growth of Salem News Channel. And we've got big things planned for you in 2025. All kinds of lineup changes coming as well. with Seb Gorka from the Salem family joining the Trump White House. Hugh Hewitt's going to move to afternoons. Chris Stegall is going to get mornings. I'm thrilled for Chris. In fact, there's a big article about Chris in Barrett Media today, which is great. Big profile on how he made his way to become a national host. You know, it's a funny thing. My whole career, I never had any aspirations to go national. I was so happy being a local host in the upstate of South Carolina. And then it's funny how there was a turn of events. There was a turn of events, and I was let go from Clemson after a few years of hosting the Tiger Tailgate show. And I said, I'm out. I got to leave. I would have been happy to be in South Carolina, I think, for the rest of my life. But... Somebody didn't like me at the – a donor, some donor at Clemson didn't like my politics. I guess they were a liberal and didn't like my views, so they sent me packing. And I was doing – I was hosting the Tiger Tailgate show. I was doing the basketball PA at Little John Coliseum. I was having a great time and a great ride. And when that happened, I thought, well, I've got time to leave. I told Denise, time to look for another market. We wound up in Albany, New York, and then New York City, and then the rest is history. So had they not let me go from Clemson, I probably wouldn't be here sitting before you today. So kind of funny how these kind of things tend to play out, how they work out. But anyway, I digress. If you've seen a drone, call me, 800-655-MIKE, because I'm not buying any of it. One of two things is true. The government knows exactly what they are, and they're not telling, or they're clueless, which means that they're incompetent. It's got to be one or the other. I mean, for them to tell us that there's nothing to see here makes a whole bunch of people who have written the show, called the show, expressed... concern about these drones irrelevant and i don't believe that for a minute i don't accept that i don't think you do either they know what these things are and everybody says that over and over again we all say they know what they are they know exactly what they are they're just not telling us why aren't they telling us bethany frankel knows where do you hear her explanation Does it shock you that one of the real housewives has more information than John Kirby? Here's Dennis in Tennessee. Dennis, have you seen a drone?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, but I know what they are.
SPEAKER 16 :
What are they, Dennis?
SPEAKER 04 :
They're discreet ED medication delivery.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's not very discreet. Goodbye. Tip your waitresses. Dennis will be here all weekend. 800-655-MIKE. Joel in Sacramento. Joel, what about the drones?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I just wanted to say why the drones are up there.
SPEAKER 16 :
Why are they up there, Joel?
SPEAKER 03 :
Because I think it's just a ruse because Trump is going to be exposed on Inauguration Day, and it might lead to something happening to him. That's what I'm worried about.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, you mean like there'll be riots? The drones? The drones? Well, a drone. A drone. Well, why are they going to fly around a month before the inauguration? Like a test run in New Jersey? He's not going to get inaugurated in New Jersey.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, I understand that. I think it's just the rules. I think it's just the rules that they're flying around. A distraction.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. I think we're all getting a little loopy over the drones. But look, I take my advice from the Real Housewives of New Jersey. Is she New Jersey? Is Bethany Frankel? She's like one of the original ones, right? I don't know. I don't know the real. I know it's a huge, huge franchise over there. They got Real Housewives. I flipped. I was channel surfing the other night and came across the Real Housewives of Utah. Awful women all shrieking at each other. And does anybody believe any of those scenarios are real? You know they're play acting. There's cameras everywhere. They're doing it for the cameras. It's insufferable. But nonetheless, one of the original Real Housewives, Bethany Frankel, knows exactly, based on her authoritative sources, what the drones are all about.
SPEAKER 01 :
You're gonna think I'm nuts, but why should today be any different than any other day? I know this guy whose father worked with the Pentagon and NASA and like secret projects. And he has been messaging me That he will never forgive himself if he doesn't tell the people that he knows that for a month he's been watching this situation. And now, several days ago before it became a discussion in the mainstream media, that these drones are ours and that they could very possibly be sniffing out something very dangerous, some missing person. dangerous W from the war and that areas that coincide with where the drones have been seen have spiked in radiation. So he said, it's time to think about where I am and that I might want to go somewhere with my daughter. So, like, for me, you know, we blow things off and we think nothing's going to happen, but things do happen. I remember sitting in my car with my driver who said to me months before I even knew what the words global pandemic meant, I think there's going to be a global pandemic. I'm like, what are you talking about? I mean, if he had bet the markets, he would have been a billionaire. So I'm just listening to this guy and watching. And now Trump, who's hanging out with a lot of billionaires who have a lot of money for research, is also finding out that these are ours. And what were the government's choices? A, tell us that that's what they're doing and widespread panic and pandemonium. Or B, do what they're doing. But something is wrong because otherwise they would eliminate them. And everyone's being very cagey. So what do you think? This guy has also been talking to... You know what I think?
SPEAKER 16 :
I'll tell you what I think. If it's between John Kirby or Kareem Jean-Pierre and Bethany Frankel, the real housewife from New Jersey, I'm going with Bethany Frankel. 800-655-MIKE. We're in the Relief Factor studios. Welcome aboard. Eight days till Christmas. Your voice, your call, your perspective at 800-655-MIKE. Coming up...
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SPEAKER 06 :
The day after Donald Trump had that crazy rally at Madison Square Garden, I rolled the dice and I called him on the phone. And he answered!
SPEAKER 05 :
Of course he did! Of course...
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What he said.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I wasn't calling to chit-chat. I said, Mr. President, this is Stephanie Ruhle. You made a lot of comments last night, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was not an on-the-record conversation. Long story, so I'm not going to get into what he said. But I called for one reason. I said, you just said a whole bunch of public things. I'd like to sit down for an interview with you. We got five days before the election. So we didn't get into anything. There's nothing for me to report. I called him and said, I want an interview with you. Obviously, he said no. But my point is... I was able to get to him by dialing his phone. Now that might be completely a and you're like, I can't believe people know this guy's phone number. But the reverse of that, if I were to want to connect with VP Harris or President Biden, there's 50 people between me and that. I could write a note that maybe could get to somebody to get somebody then through Pony Express and a pigeon, something might end up in a mailbox near them. And I called DJT to say, yo, can I have an interview with you?
SPEAKER 16 :
Now, we can relate to that. I've probably interviewed him 15 or 20 times over the phone over the years. And every single time he's called the studio, he calls in himself. He picks up the phone and he calls. I'll never forget, Eric, the first or second time this happened, Eric Hansen was so stunned. He said, Donald Trump is on the phone. It's him. It wasn't an aide. It wasn't an assistant. This is like the billionaire version of Mr. Smith goes to Washington. And they've been so wrong about him all along. And it's almost like they're suddenly coming to their senses. Now all of a sudden they get him. Here's Ben Dominich last night on Fox News describing how the media is now seemingly getting it. The Stephanie rules of the world are saying, it seems, maybe we had this guy wrong all along.
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while I think is going to be adversarial, as it was the first time around, is not going to be perhaps as lunatic as it was at certain junctures, in part because I think the press is just flabbergasted at how much they've gotten wrong over the past several years. This has been a real eye-opener, I think, for a lot of people. The idea that Jeff Bezos, for instance, would crack down on his own editorial page at the Washington Post and say, no, we're not going to deal in this insanity anymore, even in the in the direction that would result in backlash from his own writers and opinion makers. I think that's something that we didn't see the first time around, and we're going to see a lot more of it this time around.
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He's probably right. Check out the press conference yesterday. Here are some highlights, courtesy of Fox News Channel, of Trump's late morning press conference yesterday from Mar-a-Lago.
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The administration is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar, knowing that we're getting ready to put it up. And what they're doing is really an act. It's almost a criminal act. We're bringing business back, and they're all coming back. We lost them over years of stupidity. A golden age of America, I call it. It's begun.
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SPEAKER 09 :
We'll take a look at TikTok. You know, I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points. Are you entertaining the idea of preemptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities? Am I going to do preemptive strikes on Iran? Is that a serious question? I don't want to insult you. I just think it's just not something that I would ever answer.
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Do you want RFK Jr. to revoke any vaccines?
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No, I want him to come back with a report as to what he thinks. I think you're going to find... Bobby is a very rational guy. I found him to be very rational.
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So there's a little bit of the highlights of yesterday's press conference at Mar-a-Lago. Now, Gary in Erie, Pennsylvania, says he's seen the drones. And, Gary, you have a big buildup. You know, the Talk Erie X account, which is at Talk Erie. I follow them, of course, FM 103.3 and FM 105.9 and AM 1530. And they actually heard me tease that I was going to talk to you, and they just posted, Caller from Erie, Pennsylvania, coming up on the Mike Gallagher Show on 105.9 FM to talk about the drones. Mike Gallagher. How about that buildup, huh? You got a big lead-in on social media. How about Mike? Is that you, Mike? That's me, Gary. Is this Gary? Jerry. Oh, Jerry? Teresa's got Gary on the screen. How you doing, Jerry?
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm not doing too bad. Good, good. You know, I've been listening to... Hello? TV all night.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, Jerry.
SPEAKER 04 :
And on their... They explained that there is a nuclear warhead from a missile that was misplaced.
SPEAKER 16 :
Gotcha. Misplaced. They misplaced the nuclear warhead. Jerry, let me ask you a question because I'm really baffled here. Teresa said you've seen a drone, your name is Gary, and she didn't tell you to turn your radio down. So we're 0 for 3. I'm teasing you, Teresa. Jerry, did you see any drones? I seen some drones. But you did. I seen the lights. You saw the lights? The lights on drones. The lights on the drones, but not the drones themselves. What color were the lights, Jerry? They were white. They were white lights. Okay. Well, don't go to the light yet. Jerry, don't go to the light. Remember that old thing from Poltergeist? Stay away from the light. You want to go away from... Listen, tell me. Yes, sir. Yes, Jerry.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, sir. According to the information that I listened to last night... On the TV. On the TV.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
From... Yeah, Jerry. Okay. There is a nuclear warhead. Yeah, we got that. You said that already.
SPEAKER 16 :
We got that. What TV? In the United States. Yeah, we got that. You said that already.
SPEAKER 04 :
And they are looking for it.
SPEAKER 16 :
They're looking for the nuclear warhead that they misplaced. What were you listening, what were you watching on TV, Jerry?
SPEAKER 04 :
What channels? I'm listening... SNC.
SPEAKER 16 :
SNC. On Salem. Oh, us. Salem News Channel. Yeah. There you go. Well, look, that's a good source. You're getting it from the best. You're getting it from the best.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, they're looking for it. They're sniffing for it. Sniffing for it, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
With the drone. With the drones. All right. Well, look, if you see any more white lights. And if they find it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 16 :
If they find it. Yes, sir. They may use it. Use it against us. Against the. Against.
SPEAKER 04 :
Against the who? Against Trump's. Trump's what? Or what?
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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This is the most of the stories I'm starting off like that. So a guy, a Florida guy nicknamed Shroom decided – Decided to settle a $150 debt by going to an apartment to get to, I guess, to collect $150. And they call the guy the victim, I guess, the victim who owned, who supposedly owed him money. He was just there playing video games. The three dudes, including Shroom, was among them. Busted on his door. They roughed him up. The victim got pistol whipped. And then the victim recognized one of the masked men. And that was his old buddy Shroom, who's Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez. I don't know why he has two of the same name, but he does. Well, I don't get that. He kind of looks like a shroom, I guess. And yes, the victim did owe $150. But Instead of working out a payment plan, he declared that the three men destroyed $150 of his own property. So they decided that that was even. But Shroom did go to jail for assault. That's just one of the – I'm trying to get over his name. That's the biggest offense in this piece. Florida man lost a drone to an alligator after flying it too close to the water. We need to get some of these gators up in Jersey. Drone operators – I never heard of that, of where a gator got it. And this story, by the way, that's written by a website called Motor Biscuit, they don't know how to write stories because they bury the lead four graphs down. But a guy in Florida obviously flew his drone way too close to a gator. He was trying to get a good shot of it. And I guess he didn't realize that gators can actually propel themselves up out of the water with their tails. And that's exactly what happened. The gator just like jumped up like a great white shark would jump up. He jumped up out of the water and grabbed the drone and then went into a death roll. So that guy's not going to get his drone back, Kane. I don't think that guy's – I think that's a loss. Yeah, that's definitely a loss. Yeah, that's not – that ain't never coming back. It's never, ever coming back. Let's see. This guy – stole a Rolls Royce and crashed it into a checkers. Now I had to stop here because I haven't heard of that place in a long time. That's the hamburger place, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The rallies and the checkers. Because didn't checkers buy rallies or something like that? Okay. It was a Rolls Royce SUV and it was stolen from a valet at a Fort Lauderdale hotel and they crashed it into a checkers at 2.15 a.m. A Rolls Royce. I don't even know. It's an SUV. I mean, maybe he was like super hungry. By the way, the restaurant where he crashed it was barely six miles away from the hotel. Mm hmm. And the punishment in Florida for grand theft auto is actually based on the value of the property stolen. And the top tier is any vehicle over $100,000. And this is even more than that. So this guy is looking to face up to 30 years in jail. For taking a six, barely six mile joyride, stealing a Rolls Royce SUV and crashing it into a checkers. So I don't know the guy who, by the way, the Rolls Royce owner, he told CBS News Miami that he was sleeping and they valet went and knocked on his door or the hotel did. And they said it was stolen from the valet. So, yeah, it wasn't found at the checkers. It was found inside the checkers because he reined it. ran it in there uh let's see this guy i'm not reading that uh this because it's gross i'm not doing that can we just not with the stories about everybody exposing themselves what is up with that is it just because it's humid down there i don't know a florida man was arrested during a treehouse robbery yeah i don't know and there's crack cocaine involved Florida authorities arrested a guy because police said he stabbed a man to death during a robbery in a tree house. It stemmed from a crack deal. Of course it did. Monroe County Sheriff's deputies say the victim, 59-year-old Matthew Bonnet, was trying to help a neighbor who was being robbed by two mask men. The female victim lived in a treehouse in the trailer park. So she didn't have a trailer in the trailer park. She had a treehouse in the trailer park. And I guess they climbed up there and the deal went sideways and they stabbed her. The guy's being held in Monroe County Jail.
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San Francisco has a new government position. Did you hear about this? No. Yeah. It is a consultant. I'm not going to play this whole video because it's stupid. Well, maybe I will, actually. This person is supposed to be the, checks notes, weight stigma czar. What? Mm-hmm. Now, Cain, I want you to tell me if the person whose image I just placed in Slack is qualified to be the Chex Notes weight stigma czar.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, she'd... No. I almost went on a tangent there, but no. Juan's going to be putting up a quick little video of her in action.
SPEAKER 04 :
What is weight neutrality?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think that's in space, right? You're weightless?
SPEAKER 04 :
We'll play this when he gets it. It's that ridiculous. She's working with a team at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, it says here, as a consultant on weight stigma and weight neutrality. What is weight neutrality? What is that? Is that a thing?
SPEAKER 07 :
Does it have a flag? I guess if you're just neutral about the idea of weight or extra weight. Your guess is as good as mine, but Juan's ready if you're ready.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, please. Let's hear this. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hi, my name is Virgie Tovar, and I'm the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, as well as a few other books on fat positivity and body acceptance. When I think about what people might be surprised by or what you wouldn't think of when you think of eating disorders, I immediately think of being a kid. I was a kid in a larger body, a teen in a larger body, and also an adult in a larger body. And the message I always got from my doctor was, shrink your body by any means necessary. And it really felt like there was a sense of a don't ask, don't tell. So because I truly, truly, truly believed. And this is where I think the surprise comes in. I really believed that this was about my health. I really believed that my doctor was right. Because why would I believe anything?
SPEAKER 07 :
That's real.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's real. Your doctor was right. And it's not... Let's not do fat positivity. I don't believe in fat shaming people unless, you know, the calls for it. But people pointing out that your obesity is a comorbidity is a health issue. That's not people trying to be mean. And I think people need to stop being victims. Stop being a victim. I mean, come on. Seriously. It's... I... really don't understand this idea. Was this a backlash to the heroin chic of the 90s? Is that what we're living with still?
SPEAKER 07 :
What I don't get is imagine any other health concern, whether it's diabetes or whether it's just anything health-wise. Would you encourage people to continue behavior that would exasperate or make that health problem worse? Would you do that? Would you affirm them? Knowing that it would make their problem worse?
SPEAKER 04 :
Why would you do that? When she says, you know, you have a right to be fat or whatever, you don't. And here's why. You don't. Absolutely, you blink and do not. And here's why. Absolutely. After Obamacare passed and we all had to pay higher insurance premiums to pay for people who didn't or couldn't want to pay, oh, I get to have a say in all of that. So you don't get any rights because you invited my tax dollars in. And where my tax dollars go, I follow with a boot in the door. That's what happens. No, I get to be involved in it. Yeah, you don't.
SPEAKER 07 :
My body, my choice.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, no. It's not my choice to pay your damn bills, so it's not your body to make a choice of. No. If my money goes to it, I'm the boss of you. I will go and knock that zinger right the hell out your hand, and I'll put a carrot in its place, okay? Oh, you want to have a little Debbie's fudge round? Eat some cucumber or broccoli. Stop it. I have a right too. I have a right to go where my tax dollars go. And if you're sucking up more of my tax dollars because you can't get a handle on your weight, then that's a problem for me. I shouldn't have to subsidize that. No one thought of that when they were pushing for the expansion of Obamacare and jacking up everybody's premiums so that we would have to pay for everyone else's care. So no. And everyone's like, oh, Dana. Look, I work really hard. To stay in shape and I eat healthy and I do intermittent fasting. I do all of that stuff. I've always worked out. I've always been athletic. I've always maintained. And it's not because a privilege just decided to, you know, a fairy godmother apparated out of the ether and was like, I'm going to make you like this forever. It's you actually it's an effort. And I don't want to hear about anyone else's problems or excuses. I don't care. Make the effort. And don't expect me to pay your medical bills because that's the situation we're all in. And as a result, no one can say that they have a right to be this or that. Since you wanted, you asked for this. We warned you. Don't say that we didn't warn you because we did. But back to my first question. What the hell is weight neutrality? What is that? Like I'm trying to imagine. So, you know, we have a lot of truckers that listen. God love them. Is that like when do they do that for the weight on your truck? You know, like if you go in and you're a weigh station and they're like, oh, you're weight neutral to a truck and they're low. Do they say that?
SPEAKER 1 :
No.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm pretty positive. No.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm just fascinated by I've never I'm today years old. I've never heard of that phrase. The whole weight neutrality thing. Right now, I will say this. I do think that some chicks can go way too far the other way. Like I always bring up Madonna as an example. She at some point as you age, my grandmother always said at one point in her life, a woman has to choose between her face or her body. Now, I've already told you guys, maybe I haven't been public about it, what my goal is. Because everyone always thinks I've never had plastic surgery or anything like that for the love. But I do have a plan to combat wrinkles when it starts setting in. I mean, I got a little bit here and there. But I got a plan. You want to know my plan? I'm going to get fat. It's a natural filler. I'm just going to... Because I choose face... That's it. I choose face because you can't hide ugly. That's why.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do you have the right to be fat then at that point?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I'm going to do it in like a healthy way. I'm not going to be like morbidly obese. That's totally my plan. All right. My grandmother was like, and she said the age is different. What she told me was that she was like, at some point in her life, a woman has to choose between face or body. And I'm like, well, she's like, you won't know until you get there. And then she looked at me and she was like, I chose face. She was like, that's why she was like very proud. She's like, that's why I chose face. That's why I don't have hardly no wrinkles. That's what she would say. And I get it. So that's my that's my I'm kind of joking, but not really. That's my whole goal. But not like morbidly obese. Just, you know. I'm just saying. It's all natural. But there's a difference. You don't want to be like visceral and tawny like Madonna, right? I don't want to see like your... your ligaments and stuff. Like I don't, you, a woman shouldn't look like beef jerky. You know what I mean? Like you're supposed to be soft. I don't, don't, don't be brainwashed by these, you know, fourth wave fem bots into thinking that you can't have any fat on your body. Women need it. And especially as you get older, you know, you're, you're, you need that, extra especially if you get older because you know it helps you when you're an older age so anyway i still don't understand what weight neutral is i'm gonna hear from every trucker who listens to us i am gonna get treaties on it that's what's gonna happen like big essays on it i can't wait all right we got we we got a lot more to come as uh we roll towards where are we at oh my gosh are we already at headlines is this already the third hour Bye. Bye. With All Family, it's simple. You can choose the individual medications that best suit your needs or opt for one of their comprehensive treatment packages designed to give you everything that you need in one convenient order. And every order comes with a doctor's prescription included. Ivermectin. hydroxychloroquine, or any other effective medications, they have it all. And you can get fast shipping with most order shipping in two to three business days. Medications start as low as $3 per capsule, making it really easy to take charge of your health without breaking the bank. No insurance needed. You can skip the paperwork and get the treatments you need directly. Stock up with their emergency preparedness bundles and access over 200 medications online anytime. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharma.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
SPEAKER 07 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
SPEAKER 04 :
TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to block a law that could ban the app. I think it's I do think it's weird that we can't convince people because people are sheep. We can't convince people to stop using TikTok. So we're just going to have the government ban it because we can't. We apparently telling them that you're literally being a prostitute for the CCP. And having your information harvested by them, that's not enough to appeal to people's common sense, good nature or brainpower. So we're having to have the Supreme Court. We're begging them to come and block it because people are stupid and asteroids should come and obliterate this rock. Merry Christmas. That's just dumb to me that we do this. Ban everything. We're going to talk about this coming up. Friendship after 50. Apparently they I don't care about this headline. I don't really care. Moving on. Nobody cares. I don't care. I don't care. Go make friends or don't. Don't bitch about it to me. I don't care.
SPEAKER 07 :
Monday for some reason.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm just done. Start putting a startup that puts ammo. Oh, now this one. Ammo vending machines and grocery stores?
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's investigate this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, please. I need to get it. Hang on. Wait. Everybody hold up. Pause the show. I need to make a note of who this is so I can play into it. Okay. Just anyway, back to the headline. Ammo vending machines and grocery stores. There's a startup that plans to grow this and expand it. It's based in Dallas. Yay! American Rounds rolled its first automated retail ammo. It's in a grocery store, but it's in Pell City, Alabama. Why are you going to Bama? Why can't you come do that here? All kinds of ammo. That actually is amazing. And then, of course, you have people who are like, you have a social responsibility to make it possible, blah, blah, blah. Or no, you don't. Other people do.
SPEAKER 07 :
When I was younger, I had a friend that had a soda machine in his garage, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I would love an ammo machine in my garage.
SPEAKER 04 :
Why? I want one in my garage that someone can just come and they serve it. Service it. I love this. But this idea that companies have a social. No, they don't. Shut up. That's you. That's when people are too lazy. I'm too lazy and stupid to have my own responsibility about society. So I'm going to ask the companies that make products I purchase to do it for me. Shut up. Let's see here. Moving on. Because that's a good one. Species in Chernobyl of fungus is mutating to feed on nuclear radiation. That's actually kind of cool. Maybe we can send that out on the drone since we lost nuclear. I mean, great job, Biden. Great job. You literally have one job. But it's mutating to feed on nuclear radiation. I feel like this is some kid's crazy science experiment in a way, right? And they're trying to say that X has a declining user base. And that's from Mashable, which is the same. It brings you the same journalistic news and literary value as smearing feces on a dive bar bathroom wall. Same thing. I almost couldn't believe this when I saw it. I don't know who this Clarissa Ward is. People keep saying that she's an actress and I wasn't familiar with her. She's like decided to, she's a British person with CNN. I guess she was, I don't know. She started at Fox and I don't know why they say that she's like this, like an actress or something, but she's, I don't know. She's very dramatic, as you will if you've watched any of this footage when she's gone and saved this dude. So they had this segment on CNN where Clarissa Ward was over there in Syria and she's reporting on the collapse of the Assad regime and all this stuff. And She saves they save this save this guy who is apparently and it was all staged. They acted like they were rescuing him from a prison. And as it turns out, he was actually an intelligence officer in the Assad regime. And I guess he was acting like he was a prisoner. And he was acting like he had been kept prisoner. And he's really putting on this big show of being freed. And it turns out he was not only an intelligence officer with the Assad regime, but he also was one of his main torturers. Yeah. The main torturers. One of the big guys that Assad used. And They brought him out. And he's like hugging. He hugged Clarissa Ward. And he acts like he's so relieved. Like, I can't believe it. Like this poor innocent man that we've saved. We saved him from the presence. And he was just kept against his will. And he was one of the baddies. I mean, they're all baddies at this point. But he was one of the legit baddies over there. So now CNN had to admit... This was a headline that they had, quote, freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say. He was actually a literal lieutenant in the Air Force Intelligence Directorate. Oh, oh, they helped free this guy. He's known for harassment and extortion and all kinds of stuff, all kinds of stuff. You know, CNN, the guy who literally looked at this Syrian interrogator, this baddie, and they thought he was an innocent torture victim. Oh, he's leaning on her. Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 03 :
He's like, I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I can barely walk. Someone get him a chair, this poor man.
SPEAKER 04 :
CNN has a member of the Assad regime that their state. And here's the other thing. They take the guy out of the prison cell. What does she do? They sit him down and they immediately go into an interview. They weren't even even if he wasn't a torturer, they were not concerned about getting him to a hospital or anything like that. She's like, oh, no, I've got to sit you down and I have to interview you for my program. Let's do that now. And then he acts like he's shaking and he can't eat. He was jailing people. He was torturing people. He's one of the baddies. He's one of the baddie baddies.
SPEAKER 03 :
And he acts like he's, I just, I'm just yet but a simple man. I just can't, I'm just so sad. I can't believe you freed me, CNN, you bastion of reporting, the giant of international journalism.
SPEAKER 04 :
Can you imagine being her and then waking up after you think you've done like a Pulitzer level story? And this happens because, you know, that's what she was thinking. She was just like, I watched this. I watched that whole thing. She's like, let's get you sit. I mean, she was just. But at the same time, it barely masked her glee at being able to have a story like this. You know, oh, let's get you for an interview. They pull the guy right out of a cell. They're like, OK, let's sit you down in a chair. Now it's time for an interview. I mean, at least she was thinking business first, I guess. You know, that's what CNN likes.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I mean, this may not be a popular opinion, but to me, she's like the female Charles Jaco.
SPEAKER 04 :
Don't. He's going to sue the internet again, Cain.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good luck, Charles.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you guys know who Charles Jaco is? He is a sentient skin tag who has some hair on it, and he came from St.
SPEAKER 07 :
Louis. What you said is worse than what I said.
SPEAKER 04 :
No. I mean, you said that. I was like, burn. But no. So Charles Jaco is the sentient skin tag. Oh. It was the couple of stray hairs on him. And it's he it started reporting for CNN. And he like apparently faked this whole report about being in Iraq or something like that.
SPEAKER 07 :
And he was on a set shelled and bombed.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And he acted like he was getting bombed and shows the worst acting I've ever seen in my life. And then later, this was like 13, 14 years ago. He people on the Internet were making fun of him. And he legit threatened to sue the entire Internet. And I was here because when I started on radio, I started at a station in St. Louis and he used to work. It was a cluster. He used to work at one of the other stations there. And the story goes is that he would go take his coffee cup of coffee that he drank and And to warm it up, he would go, he would pour it into the coffee pot, swirl it around and then pour it back into his mug. And he got caught like a couple of different times, according to numerous people that worked. I was only told this. I didn't say this. Other people did. And, uh, that's nasty.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's illegal, isn't it?
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't know. I mean, this was like back in like the early aughts. So I don't know. I wasn't, I don't know. I think when he was there, it was like the late nineties. I was totally not there at that time. But, uh, Oh, and he was so nasty towards me, but I always felt bad for him because he was, you know, a skin tag. And, you know, I don't know what kind of future they have. So sad.
SPEAKER 07 :
But yeah, she reminds me of him. They have the same look in their eyeballs. They have the same work ethic, it appears. And people respond to them the same way. And I've seen all these videos on Miss Ward getting approached by different nationalities, different people, just scolding her over their misrepresentation and reporting.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, the guy was like, I'm a civilian. And he was like, my captors have beaten me. And you could just see the look on her face. She was trying to hide it like, this is too good to be true. And as it turned out, then there was a news outlet that published a photo of this guy. He gave her a fake name and everything. He said his name was Adel Gerbal. That dude does not even exist. They found out that he is First Lieutenant Salama Mohammed Salama of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, literally the agency that runs the prison. He runs the prison. She thought she was getting this poor victim. Instead, she got literally the guy who was running the prison. And what gets me is that they didn't even bother verifying anything. They're like, oh, let's take this man out. Let's take this man and put him in a tent and interview him immediately. Got to have the exclusive. You notice something about him in Slack. What did you say in Slack about him?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, that he was perfectly manicured and he wasn't dirty. That jacket looked pretty.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, he didn't look like he was starved or nothing either. You know, like a prisoner would want to look like a prisoner would look like. Yeah. So and people were saying that they did not trust her story. And there were apparently even some Syrians there like what CNN, what you doing? What? What? What? This is no, this is not how you do the journalism. Not. And they said it came to your point. They said he was too well groomed and did not act like someone who was locked in a dungeon for three months. And that is per number of people on Verify Sci.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's why I have to wonder, because Charles Jaco was with CNN back in the late 80s, early 90s. And so now we have Claire Sir Ward, CNN, all about faking wartime stories around times of tension. Is that intentional by CNN for decades now? That just seems weird.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a good point that you make. I don't know. I'm just saying. But I don't think she's going to get that Pulitzer, though.
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SPEAKER 05 :
Military bases have seen these drones fly over them. That's a federal offense. If there ever were justification to shoot a drone down, that would be it. Why hasn't it happened?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, because, look, first of all, Bill, the military commanders at installations have the authorities they need to defend themselves, their people, their interests, and certainly to protect our secrets and our national security. Sometimes the answer is to find a way to down a drone, and sometimes the answer is not. And a lot of it depends on the capability that the base commander has available to him or to her, but they have the authorities that they need. The sense that you have to shoot everything down just when you see it, even if you do believe that there's a malicious intent, doesn't comport with actual reality. So, I mean, it really depends on the situation at hand. But rest assured, commanders have the authorities that they need to take the action that they must to protect their facilities.
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Thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Can you comment on the drones that are flying around New Jersey ports?
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It seems like the American people have a big discipline.
SPEAKER 22 :
The government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went. And for some reason, they don't want to comment.
SPEAKER 04 :
On the way here, I was on the phone with my OEM team, and we now have guidance coming from the state. And that guidance does say two different things. First of all, if there is a downed drone in our vicinity, we are immediately to call the bomb squad of our county. And second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear hazmat suits.
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So if something falls out of the sky that people have seen, and some of these things are as big as an SUV, if that happens, you're to treat this more than a plane crash. It's treated like an attack on the homeland.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is correct, because they're not quite sure if there's a payload or not.
SPEAKER 16 :
So they're saying that what it's like a nuke. It could be like nuclear material that's been lost. And so they're they're out there trying to find it. Is that that seems to be the general gist of it. So then my question is this. God help us. How do you lose nuclear material? I mean, it's at the end of the year. We've all been through hell. Can we just, you know, have someone in the government not be such a dumbass that it makes me want to deconstruct the whole damn entirety of D.C. brick by brick? Are you sure? Jeez. I just, I was reading it because I didn't quite understand how you would be able to find nuclear material. You know, like it's, you know, doesn't light up like light bright, I guess. Maybe it does. I don't know. Well, yeah. And I was looking at some of this, reading some of the explanations for it. And it was kind of interesting. But again, none of it answered my question of, so how, because it's like a, the word is that it was like an entire thing. train car of something right this is like a x-files movie welcome to the show dana lash with you top of the first hour uh make sure you sign up at substack lots of good stuff that happens there i i but to come back to the drone thing because you guys know i've been fascinated by this from the get-go i um i really do wonder because kane what does like um railways and transporting that stuff what what department does that fall under oh
SPEAKER 09 :
transportation.
SPEAKER 16 :
The Department of Transportation. Thank you. Who is the head of the Department of Transportation? I'm sure he's an illustrious person. Yes, that is. It's a big job, I'm sure.
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Peter Booty Juice.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, Mr. Peter Booty Juice.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, yes, yes. Yes, him. Okay. New mom. Is he on maternity leave still?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I think he's recently off maternity leave.
SPEAKER 16 :
Now, I want you to... One more question, if you don't mind. I want you to tell me who is it that's in charge or was. I don't think he is anymore. But he was in charge of the nuclear waste materials. He was like a deputy nuclear guy. Had a fondness for ladies' suitcases. Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Are you talking about Sam?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes. Thank you, sir. Him. So these are the people that we've had running these two entities.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sam Brinton or Britton or what was his name?
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I don't know what the hell his name was. He was just like a... He just was a freak. I don't know who... I don't know what his name was. I don't care. He was the freak that stole ladies' luggage and their clothes and all this stuff. So I... These are the people... That our current president has put in charge of these departments. So is it shocking now that I put it like that? Answer yourself. Answer me if you think it's shocking that something like this would happen. See, now I put it in perspective. That makes it all better, doesn't it? No, it doesn't. I know. I know it doesn't. It doesn't make it all better at all. I get you. Completely understand. All right, so welcome to the show. So this is one of the things that we're watching today. The other couple of... I mean, it's just a weird... I mean, everybody's... Look, half of you are already home drunk. You guys are baking. You got a little carried away. You know, maybe you're making some... I had a family member that would make brandy Christmas truffles. Maybe you're doing one of those things and you used a little too much or had a little too much for you. Maybe you're just not at work. Maybe you're at work and it's like the Clark Griswold. It's like the scene of National Lampoon's Family Vacation where he's like the last guy there and all the presents are the same and he's stacking it up on the boss's desk. And you're in that stage. You're in that mood. Maybe it's that. But regardless... It's it's almost Christmas. And so we're all sort of, you know, and this is also to win some of the big stuff. I have to say if something was going to drop, this would be now would be the time to do it. So we've got a number of things. We have more information also about the the shooting that took place yesterday in Wisconsin and. As more, it was a 15 year old girl. I don't like saying their names because the copycat thing is a real, that's a real thing. The copycat killing is a real thing. She apparently this girl was apparently also inspired by Columbine. And this is one of the criticisms I have of the press and a lot of other people that some of the the leftist talking heads, particularly out there, because when they start talking about this stuff, they they it's wall to wall coverage of these. of the names of these killers and you know everybody ends up knowing the names and nobody ends up remembering the victims and it's just it's wall-to-wall coverage and that that kind of i will never understand it but that kind of notoriety is very attractive for these types of killers for these people i i will say i think it is a little odd that it was a 15 year old girl that's that's a little different But everything else isn't odd, especially when you look at how she, you know, apparently offed herself when cops showed up. That's typically the standard is is it's usually not, you know, the cop doesn't the cops don't really necessarily. I mean, what happened in Nashville was kind of rare. It's usually the killer's. will kill themselves. But the fact that you had a chick who wanted to be trans in Nashville or wanted to be a dude and said she was trans or however you put that in Nashville. And then now you have this female here. It is a little, it's odd. It's a little odd that it's a chick, as I said. But, you know, with that, the just, I mean, the stories that are coming out, the more information that's coming out about this. So you have a 15 year old And had a handgun. That was confirmed. It's illegal for a 15-year-old to... I know this is not news to you, but it's illegal for a 15-year-old to get a handgun and run around with a handgun. That's not something that... Just got to say, it's not something that you it's not legal. It's not legal in any state. It's not legal anywhere. The president had issued a statement on it where he called for me to pull this up because I sent out a newsletter about this last night after it happened. He issued a statement. saying that he wants to ban assault weapons. He wants to establish a universal background check. I'm looking at his letter. He wants to also have a limitation on magazine capacity, what he calls high capacity, whatever that means. Now, it's a smart move from a guy who literally just pardoned his son for a whole bunch of crimes, including falsifying information on his 4473 for a gun that was purchased, again, illegally by his son. And then his daughter-in-law slash son's girlfriend disposed of it, tossed it in a trash can, legit across the street from a school. Real smart move from a guy who did that. But I'm curious as to why he's calling for all these things, none of which would have had any impact at all whatsoever. He calls for... He reinstated his call for an assault weapons ban, a stupid made-up word, when it was a handgun that was used. It wasn't a rifle. He established for... He demanded universal background checks, which... You can't have a universal background check unless you have the establishment of a national registry. We've talked about that before. And he assumes that this 15 year old, I guess, walked into a gun store and that an FFL actually sold her a gun. That's the only way that that makes sense. I mean, he calls for stuff that makes zero sense. And I I was asking some people yesterday, well, what would you actually propose without exception? Not even one in the past. Maybe there would be like one or two, but there was not even one. Yesterday, one progressive and some of them were talking heads that I was going back and forth with. Not a single one of them had any proposals. Their only response was that Republicans wanted more death. That was it. They just wanted a name call about guns. They didn't actually want to solve anything. They had no except for ban everything. That was their only solution. As though crime began when the gun was introduced. That's how they act. I mean, that means in the entirety of human history, we've never had any murder. We never had any mass casualty, anything. I mean, that's not true, but that's apparently what these people tell themselves and believe in order to make these stupid arguments. But not a single person had an actual serious proposal. Some of them would just Google Everytown stuff. And act like they weren't copying and pasting, you know, verbatim. The left, and this has been my history and my experience with all of this, the left has never, ever had any kind of actual solution. None. And they do not want to hear you when you talk about yours. Like the big debate over hardening schools. Why is this a debate? I made mention of this in the newsletter last night. Why the hell is this a debate? They have long argued against hardening schools because they claim that having extra security is like a prison. I mean, do stadiums feel like prisons? Do jewelry stores feel like prisons? I mean, all of these places have way more security for their activities and their products that they sell than we have for our kids in schools. And are not our kids infinitely more valuable? Apparently, the left doesn't think that real good security doesn't give itself away either. You know, you may incorporate planes, clothes, plainclothes, officers, double locking doors, etc. And teachers who want to train and carry with permission of parents. But those things are all the last line of defense. All of that stuff is the last line of defense. A door lock, if it comes down to the door lock, then all of the other layers of defense have failed. We're going to talk about that coming up as we move. Going to the bottom of this first hour, our partners who help make it so ready-wise. 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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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TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to block a law that could ban the app. I think it's I do think it's weird that we can't convince people because people are sheep. We can't convince people to stop using TikTok. So we're just going to have the government ban it because we can't. We apparently telling them that you're literally being a prostitute for the CCP. and having your information harvested by them, that's not enough to appeal to people's common sense, good nature, or brain power. So we're having to have the Supreme Court. We're begging them to come and block it because people are stupid and asteroids should come and obliterate this rock. Merry Christmas. That's just dumb to me that we do this. Ban everything. We're going to talk about this coming up. Friendship after 50. Apparently they I don't care about this headline. I don't really care. Moving on. Nobody cares. I don't care. I don't care. Go make friends or don't. Don't bitch about it to me. I don't care.
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Monday for some reason.
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I'm just done. Start putting a startup that puts ammo. Oh, now this one. Ammo vending machines and grocery stores?
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Let's investigate this.
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Yes, please. I need to get it. Hang on. Wait. Everybody hold up. Pause the show. I need to make a note of who this is so I can play into it. Okay. Just anyway, back to the headline. Ammo vending machines and grocery stores. There's a startup that plans to grow this and expand it. It's based in Dallas. Yay! American Rounds rolled its first automated retail ammo. It's in a grocery store, but it's in Pell City, Alabama. Why are you going to Bama? Why can't you come do that here? All kinds of ammo. That actually is amazing. And then, of course, you have people who are like, you have a social responsibility to make it possible, blah, blah, blah. Or no, you don't. Other people do.
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When I was younger, I had a friend that had a soda machine in his garage, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I would love an ammo machine in my garage.
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Why? I want one in my garage that someone can just come and they serve it. Service it. I love this. But this idea that companies have a social... No, they don't. Shut up. That's you. That's when people are too lazy. I'm too lazy and stupid to have my own responsibility about society. So I'm going to ask the companies that make products I purchase to do it for me. Shut up. Let's see here. Moving on. Because that's a good one. Species in Chernobyl of fungus is mutating to feed on nuclear radiation. That's actually kind of cool. Maybe we can send that out on the drone since we lost nuclear. I mean, great job, Biden. Great job. You literally have one job. But it's mutating to feed on nuclear radiation. I feel like this is some kid's crazy science experiment in a way, right? And they're trying to say that X has a declining user base. And that's from Mashable, which is the same. It brings you the same journalistic news and literary value as smearing feces on a dive bar bathroom wall. Same thing. We got a lot more coming up. Drone fever and more. Stick with us. If you're looking for a convenient, affordable way to access medications and treatments you can trust, All Family Pharmacy has you covered. Whether it's the flu or parasites, cancer support, or general well-being, All Family Pharmacy's online service makes getting the medications you need hassle-free. With All Family, it's simple. You can choose the individual medications that best suit your needs or opt for one of their comprehensive treatment packages. designed to give you everything that you need in one convenient order. And every order comes with a doctor's prescription included. Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, or any other effective medications, they have it all. And you can get fast shipping with most order shipping in two to three business days. Medications start as low as $3 per capsule, making it really easy to take charge of your health without breaking the bank. No insurance needed. You can skip the paperwork and get the treatments you need directly. Stock up with their emergency preparedness bundles and access over 200 medications online anytime. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharma.com slash Dana, code Dana10.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this first hour. Of course, you know, we were talking just a little bit about the shooting that took place in Wisconsin yesterday and how you have the, uh, have the, um, more information coming out about this. And I was talking about it right before we, you know, went into headlines and went to break about the arguing and the debating over hardening schools. Right. And I don't know why the left is hell bent against it. I don't, I don't get it. I don't understand why they're so against it. I, I've made mention of this so many times before and, In that to double locking doors, to have teachers who want to carry plainclothes officers. The left thinks that they keep saying that it's like a prison. And I feel like they've never been into a prison if they think that good security is like a prison. They go to stadiums to watch sports. They go to concert venues. They'll go to jewelry stores. I mean, hell, probably even Starbucks has more. Who knows security? Who knows? But it just seems like every other place, they don't have a problem with it. It doesn't feel like a prison. And that's what you're talking about, more of that type of security. Good security isn't always noticeable. But the problem is this. That's just the last line of defense. If the safety of your child is depending upon the last thing, the last gatekeeper, whether or not that door is locked, there are a lot of other layers that have failed. That's the reality of it. And the first line of defense are the parents. I'm going to tell you something. I am not going to be blamed or have my rights up for forfeit because some parents out there were garbage. Not going to happen. They raise monsters the likes of against which we have to arm ourselves to protect ourselves and our families. So no, that's not a good justification to deprive someone of a God-given right. Oh, you got some deadbeat parents that raised a monster. No. It turned out the teenage girl was 15 years old. And had this handgun, which 15-year-olds can't go out and buy handguns. And I know the investigation, they're going to look more into it. I've seen reports that said, well, the dad gave it to her, all this stuff. I want to see more things confirmed by law enforcement before we go down that route. But the bottom line is that if you have a 15-year-old under your roof who's obsessed with Columbine and is obsessed with violence and death and is on a downward doom spiral and you don't notice it, you should be chemically castrated so that you don't procreate and plague the earth with your spawn because you're too stupid to raise children. That's God's honest truth. Every single one of these killers, especially if they were teenagers, there are warning signs that you don't need a destruction of due process in the form of silly red flag. You don't need that in order to act. Just because some people are unfamiliar with the vast number of legal options that exist to them to have someone adjudicated, unfit or declared a prohibited possessor in a court of law doesn't mean that those options don't exist. That's what the left wants you to think. The left are morons. They have no idea about gun law because they're ignorant of it. They think it doesn't exist. They have no familiarity with object permanence. They're like babies. They think that when you play peekaboo, you disappear. They're shocked. But this 15-year-old, apparently, there was this manifest going around. It's a manifesto. And apparently she was a big feminist and saying like the manifesto that was shared said, quote, women are the only hope for this wretched world. But even women have been brainwashed by my gosh, I can't even read it out loud because it makes me feel like I've drunk the worst alcohol ever. And it already gives me a hangover headache. I can't even get through it. It's so bad. She just she talks. She says the phrase Radfim Hitler. That helps. She has horrible grammar. If she just, you know, had spent more time maybe on her grammar instead of her murder fetish. Here's my my question because she's like big time into big time feminist and all this stuff. And she uses racial slurs in it as well. I'm not going to say what they are, but she uses racial slurs. You know, she's a racist leftist. I mean, you know, this is it's a day that ends in Y. Why? I was reading this. And I was because some of the pictures are floating out there. I was reading this manifesto thinking of the photos. And I thought. You stupid broad. Why can't you just read Sylvia Plath like every other dumb, brain-dead feminist out there? Why can't you just read Margaret Atwood? You don't have to go shoot up a school. You know what? Here's what you do. Go to Hot Topic and have daddy buy you some overpriced Junko jeans, right? Get you a chain that you attach your wallet that has nothing in it to, okay? Put on eyeliner badly. Use manic panic in your hair and pick up a copy of Sylvia Plath, The Gateway for Stupid Feminists, and pretend that it's mind-breaking or groundbreaking or that depression is angsty and edgy. Get into that. Get into Margaret Atwood and wear a red cape and act like you're suppressed in a country that actually gives the matriarchy more rights than they give men. Go ahead and do all of that and pat yourself on the back for being just the prototypical moron. Instead, she went and shot up a school. So, I don't, a 15-year-old that's able to do that, this is one of the things that parents, like bad parents, I guess they just allowed for her to get like this. How is that my fault? How is that your fault? You know, we had some of these lawmakers out here run in their mouths. Audio, somebody 12. Gwen Moore, she's saying all this stuff needs to be studied. Listen.
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And my thought is that we don't have a lot of information. And that's why it's really important for us to support efforts that people have made consistently to have the CDC and other private foundations really try to study what the cause of this violence is. We already know. that there are too many guns. You know, a lot of people say it's the mental health or it's video games. We don't know. Yeah, we do. We do.
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We absolutely do. You walking mental abortion. We know. We know exactly what it is. Some people, we just don't know. Last week, all you leftists were celebrating the public gunning down of a health care CEO. On CNN, on MSNBC, Washington Post reporters, they thought it was great. It fulfilled one of their narratives about CEOs and big bad insurance companies. He got gunned down in the middle of the street in front of a Hilton, no less, in Manhattan. Right there. I mean, it's just blocks away from their Christmas tree. He got murked in broad, you know, well, early morning light, but broad daylight. They actually had no problem with a gun then. Because it was somebody they didn't like, somebody they couldn't use. So they were all right about it. You think that kids aren't watching that when they're watching their adults in their lives or on TV that their parents are watching celebrate the gunning down of this guy because they just didn't like him fulfilling the stupid progressive narrative. And then they want to turn around literally the next week and then act like guns are bad because a 15 year old illegally acquired one. What? Pick a lane. This is so asinine. What Gwen Moore is talking about here is a law she's unaware of. It's called the Dickey Amendment. It was passed in the 90s because people wanted to do something to make themselves feel better. They said that we need to be able to study the causes of gun violence. Like, you know, you the brain trust that's in D.C. decided that they needed to eat taxpayer dollars to figure out why gangbangers are gangbanging. They just don't know why people are selling the drugs. And they wanted to act like there was a separate. like the school shootings or something like that, which are rare and are the exception, which is why they're not the universal rule, whereas drug and gang violence actually are the rule when it comes to homicides and mass casualty incidents and driving crime, etc. They wanted to study why this was. They needed to study it. The Dickey Amendment was drafted and passed to state that, sure, you can study You can study factors like mental health. You can study all this stuff. But what you can't do is use taxpayer dollars to either advocate for or advocate against firearms and firearm ownership. That has never been good enough for the left because the sole purpose they had of wanting to study this wasn't because they actually care about saving lives. These people don't care about saving lives. They made a business out Out of walking women into a meat grinder called Planned Parenthood, churning the baby out, making sausage for their executives. They made a whole thing of it. They launder money through it. They donate to Democrats through it. So let's stop pretending that these jackasses care about life. OK, let's stop. They don't. But when it's convenient for them, they do. But they didn't like this stipulation within the Dickey Amendment. That's been law since the 90s. You can't use taxpayer dollars to advocate for or against firearm ownership. Well, that's what they wanted to do. That's all they've ever wanted to do. They don't mourn for life loss. They mourn for opportunity loss. The moment... The moment the news of a tragedy hits the televisions, newspapers, social media, they're already thinking of ways that they can maximize this to their advantage. They were doing this after Parkland. I don't know if you guys knew this, but they had it was the Knickerbocker firm that's in D.C. Anita Dunn works there. They were down there in Parkland right after this happened. They had their high-powered Democrat PR people. Who do you think put March for Lives together? It was their people. It was Anita Dunn. It was all those people. There are photos of it all over the place. And I talked to the parents, some of them who lost their precious children in Parkland, and they were treated pretty scornfully when they couldn't be pressured into joining the anti-gun movement there in Parkland. And she was there. All that firm was there. They were all there. This isn't about saving lives. It's about how can they use this to get something that they want from their agenda. And the way that they write about this, oh, there's no, you're not allowed to study any kind of firearm prevention, you know, anything. As long as you don't politicize it, but the left can't help themselves. They got to politicize it. None of this. And what is it going to solve? You know what the biggest problem is? The policies they support. The fact that you've got a family, families, middle class families in the United States cannot live on one income anymore. You have to sacrifice. You have to struggle. Used to not be like that. But the government needed to spend everybody's money. Right. We had to go fight forever wars. We had to go nation build. We had to hand out entitlements like it was Halloween candy to every Tom, Dick and Harry that rolled through the Rio, the southern border. Oh, we had to fund a whole bunch of stuff that was completely unrelated to the federal government's original purpose. We had to make it economically impossible for families to operate in the best manner for families to operate. We had to make college super expensive while simultaneously shaming people for not going and getting four-year degrees. And then shaming them if they went to the wrong kind of college. We had to do all that. We had to start shaming women into thinking that they were just dumb bimbos who are nothing more than sex dolls that breathe for the frat progressive bros that ruin frat culture. The progressive bros out there who want to be able to have one night stands and not be responsible for any life created. And the women go right along with it while acting like it's some form of empowerment. One of the greatest tricks perpetuated upon women since the snake told Eve to eat the apple. Or was it their own free will? We have men who are browbeaten by the matriarchy so that now nobody wants to get married. Nobody wants to create more hell spawn to cover this godforsaken rock. And then Democrats are like, well, gosh, how did we get here? I guess we should ban guns. Hell, how about we ban you? That's the problem. It's just going to we're going to keep having these problems and having these tragedies because you have half the country that's not serious. I would actually say half of that half of the country, if I'm being honest. I think there are some Democrats who don't know where the hell else to go. They don't they can't really identify as Republican because Republican means a whole bunch of stuff now. They know that they're not conservative, even though that's really about conserving individual liberty. But, you know, whatever. But they know that they're not really Democrat. They don't know where else to go, so they're kind of stuck in the middle. Whose house did they go to for Christmas? Wherever it doesn't play. Maybe it's cold outside, maybe. Our partners over at Burn a Gun, the non-firearm firearm. And it's always good to diversify your self-defense arsenal because, you know, I would love to. I carry all the time and I have zero problem using lethal force. You come at me, UFA, UFO. 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What she's been saying to people over the last couple of weeks, donors, other supporters that she's been talking with, is you haven't seen the last of me. I'm not going quietly into the night. Advisors, people close to her, are debating about what that means. They do not want her final official act ever to be essentially certifying Donald Trump's win over her, especially four years after January 6th. And so they look at this governor's race in California in 2026, and it seems to them like a layup, essentially.
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Are we ever going to get rid of her? They don't really like her. They don't like her out in California. They don't really like her federal. They don't like her. You can't stop trying to make fetch happen. Stop it, Gretchen. I just. Why do we keep? Are we just never going to get rid of her? She's going to run in California. Kamala Harris considering a potential run for California governor. You know, I got to tell you, I feel like that would be blocked. Because nobody likes everybody's got grievances. They're mad because she wasted so much money. I have to tell you, too, part of that is Democrats wasting a lot of money. They made her the fall guy for it. They wouldn't get Biden out and they shoved her in there. I'm not defending her, but I'm just saying, you know, keep in perspective. We got a second hour coming up. Don't miss our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. Patriot Mobile exists online. And because they they offer the best service and it's affordable for plans for any size business, any size family. They can tailor make them to what your budget requires. And they have exceptional nationwide coverage in all three major networks for their every Friday Matters special. You can get a brand new smartphone when you make. the switch and it's super easy to do 100 us-based customer service team they're going to get you all switched up you can keep your current number if you want to get a new one but you'll get that free smartphone as part of their special every friday matters offer but to take advantage of it you got to use promo code friday and you need to do it while they still have inventory because it's a limited time offer or until supplies run out seamless switching and you're supporting the things that you vote to protect So it's a free smartphone, offers eligible only with promo code Friday, limited time or until supplies run out, terms and conditions apply. That's patriotmobile.com slash Dana 972 Patriot.
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Of course. I mean, just swamp's going to swamp, right? 1,400 pages, still haven't seen the text. Multiple subject matters. Important health care legislation. in the context of extenders piled on the back of a three-month CR with about $110 billion unpaid for, $25 billion in health care policy, half of which is fake pay for, being sold that it's paid for because they're gimmicks and shuffling around the decks. Things like E15, which we didn't even have a full debate on. This is not the way to do business, right? And so, you know... We'd do something different. Since we've been given the majority again, we're adding $330 billion in literally totally unpaid for additional deficit spending just since November 5th.
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Yeah, they want to spend more. I don't know why the speaker is allowing for like a budget. Just pass the CR and get on with it. Oh, but hey, remember the guy who's not in Congress anymore wanted a big old fight at the most inopportune time over speaker when no one else was prepared to step up. So we got an equal rhino with even less seniority as speaker. Great job. Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the second hour. And I'm saying that's not the best way to start off. Johnson needs just and he needs to stop getting cover from party leaders. That would be great, guys. Thanks. Including POTUS elect. Stop it. Don't give this guy cover. The reason that he's compromising and not just kicking over a CR, a continuing resolution for this budget stuff, is because he keeps getting justification not to do so whenever he's given cover by people who outrank him in the GOP. That's an issue. We can't be doing that. I'm not... Man, I'm done with it. I don't want more of the same. People are tired of more than the same. Honestly, a lot of Republican stuff isn't that much different from Democrats. Oh, it makes people mad when I say that. The people who have a grift to cover get mad when I say that. But it's God's honest truth. I mean, are we going to walk away from deportations? Are we going to slow at building the wall? We never got Obamacare overturned, despite every single damn Republican that sits in a seat in D.C. campaigning on it. So what do we get for our money? We get to pretend that we're actually more aligned with the Constitution than Democrats. OK, so again, welcome. You can obviously you're what you know, you're listening to the program either across the country or you're watching a 347. The chats at Rumble, if you're on it, if you're unaware, of course, over at Substack as well. Yeah, I'm aggravated over this because I'm tired of paying taxes to cover the backside of a government that can't stop spending. This story, this stuff enrages me. It absolutely enrages me. So I don't know why it is we keep doing it. This is not what we voted for. So I really think And I've I think I had like a this was part of one of the newsletters that went out for headlines. I just don't know why Johnson has got got to get with it a little bit here. They've got to cut spending. Why would you have right before you're about to see your party take over the White House and the Senate and the House and you're going to green light, the passage of an omnibus. And then we're all going to act like, oh yeah, we're really serious about spending. It's a mess. It's going to be a mess. Just do the CR and then wait. Until we have the numbers in the House and in the Senate, and then maybe we can cut a little bit. But I don't think Republicans want the austerity that comes with cutting. They're too dependent upon that government cash. They got all their special projects. They don't want to lose any of that. They don't want to lose it. A few other things I want to touch on as well, and we'll keep an eye on that. All of that stuff. I didn't get to this, but well, there's a couple of things. We're going to talk about Canada and apparently what's going on with the governor of Canada. Right, Kane? You know the governor of Canada. Yeah. Yeah. He seems like he's not bad. The governor of Canada. He's horrible. He's a little Castro. Yeah. America's hat. We're going to talk about the drama that's happening with them and calls for Trudeau to step down, which is pretty serious. Then we're going to and we'll continue following this CR fight. Yeah. Fifteen hundred page. So wait, they're supposed to vote on this tomorrow. And as of last night at eight o'clock, they did not have the bill yet. Wow. Just let it expire. Let the government shut down. They're terrified of having a government shutdown. I love government shutdowns. You think they're going to shut it down, Cain?
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I hope they do. We're getting a whole new Congress here in a month. I don't know what they're doing.
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Being stupid. Yeah, that's exactly what they're doing. They are being absolutely idiotic. Completely idiotic. But that's that's them. The Elon Musk apparently was meeting with Nigel Farage and other leaders in the UK. He met them at Mar-a-Lago and there's rumors that he gave them or there's rumors of a 100 million dollar donation going around. Farage is a is a member of parliament and he's a leader of Reform UK. And he was also at the head of the Brexit. He's a conservative over there. So he's been an MP, leader of Reform UK. And there's discussion as to what Musk can do to partner maybe with the more conservative members of British government to push back and save British culture or the British, you know, Britain period, similar to what Musk contributed here in the U.S., That might be fun. That might be fun to watch. It also gives him a lot of power. But it might be fun to watch. Although our Brits, I don't know, are Brits ready to kind of push back against the... woke scolds and the crushing wave of completely unmitigated, you know, meant much of it illegal immigration into their country. I mean, even Germany is saying enough. Austria is even saying enough. A lot of these European nations are saying enough. We don't have the resources. Their crime is because they can't vet anybody who's coming in. It's all military age men. Enough is enough. Will it? I don't know. Because I do think that the makeup of of and and sentiment and attitudes in the uk are very different from what they are in america like we live and breathe this type of stuff like other people talk about revolution we we actually we succeeded and we weren't like france and in which we failed and then we had a dictator followed by a restoration of the monarchy we didn't do any of that uh it's stuck for now but i it's they're very different sentiment and sentiments and attitude I would be interested to see if they were able to do the same over there. It's something definitely to watch. I wanted to also touch on, because we were talking about drones. We've been discussing drones. There was a couple of stories that I didn't get to, including, and I'm going to push this one. We're talking about the Wisconsin shooting and the way that Democrats are trying to seize upon it also. And So they're not going to do anything right now, but they are saber rattling. And I think that they are using a lot of the discussion surrounding the abundant life school shooting as a way to kind of regroup their side. This is one of the things I've been watching. I really do think that they're using it as a regrouping mechanism. They're trying to get everybody back on the same page because everyone was so all over the place and fighting with each other over DEI and immigration. And I think they're just happy to have. I know it sounds sick, but I think they're happy to have something around which they can rally and regroup. So they're back to gun control. That's their safe space. They always go back to gun control. They don't have any solutions, but, you know, they've they're. That's it. Speaking of this yesterday, I don't know if I want to play this whole cut, but the police chief at the time, they wouldn't release the age or gender of the killer. Why was that? Why were they hesitant to mention the gender of the killer? Because it's a girl and she's not trans. Did they think she was? I was wondering about that. Did they think that she was trans and that's why they didn't want to release it? I don't know. It's I don't know. That's just that's it was weird that they didn't. And it just fueled conspiracy theories. Why would you not release it? It doesn't make any sense. I think the police chief, well, the Madison, Wisconsin police chief, of course, is pretty left. A couple of other things here. The headline I saw was apparently it was a second grader who called 911. Now, when that headline hit, I saw a lot of the gun control activists saying, this is how sad society is. A second grader had to call 911. My first thought was that school had nothing in place. So a second grader had to call 911. That was my first thought. A second grader, they had no warning system. You have to realize we live in a sick world. society where wayward behavior is rewarded criminality is protected the boundary between right and wrong is being blurred away and in this type of environment because we have always had firearms we've always had guns in this country firearm ownership private ownership unfettered by the government predates this republic We've always had people who built guns. We've always had people that have had guns. They predate this republic. But a relatively new phenomenon are these mass casualty incidents, specifically ones that target schools. And I go back to what I was just saying about our society. It's a trash garbage society. So in a trash garbage society, you have to realize that trash garbage societies create trash garbage people who are going to do trash garbage things like target schools. And that's exactly what we saw in this situation. I do think it's interesting how a lot of the news of it has gone away, Kane, or am I overthinking it?
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No, I was actually commenting to Juan about that this morning. I noticed when we were getting set up for the show that it's like, wow, where was this?
SPEAKER 16 :
Is it because she's 15, a girl?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that's what I think.
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So we had in Nashville, it was trans Tifa. So this is femme Tifa. That's why you have to. Why schools must be protected. Because everybody wants to target schools. We have a lot more to get into, including the... We've got stuff with Doge. We've got some soundbites as well. Especially about this ABC stuff. And I have two tales of really ridiculous media, ABC and CNN. And the CNN story, I cannot get over. This chick, I didn't know she was like some Z-list actress. She thought that she was legit saving a prisoner in Syria, and they made a big deal about it. And as it turns out, she was like apparently springing one of Assad's torturers or something like that. Like, I don't like the rebels. I don't like Assad either. I don't have to like anybody. Neither do you. But I think it was funny that she thought that she was freeing some sort of like innocent dove. Black Rifle Coffee has a new roast, their Freedom Roast. It's what the founders would have drank, would have drunk, would have drank. They would have drank it totally had Black Rifle Coffee been around then. Veteran owned company. They employ veterans active duty. And their Freedom Roast, so smooth and full of flavor. And you can save 20% using code Dana. And while you're there, subscribe to the Black Rifle Coffee Club. You get free shipping, automated orders right to your doorstep of your favorite brew. So you never have to ever go out of a morning all like stressed out and caffeine free because you ran out of coffee. You never have to do that. Always convenient. And you don't have to just get the Freedom Roast. You can also check out the Silencer Smooth, the Just Black. They have many, many, many different types of roasts. And if you're good on, you know, your coffee, which they have whole bean cake cups and ready to drink, ground as well, then you can get apparel, kettles, grinders, mugs, and more. Perfect Christmas present also helps everything, you to get everything you need for the perfect brew. So the Freedom Roast, Black Rifle Coffee, taste the other top shelf roasts as well. Whatever you decide, though, you get 20% off. with Code Dana. 20% off using Code Dana at blackriflecoffee.com.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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So Argentina is making some good moves on firearms. This is interesting. So one of the things that they're doing is lowering the minimum age for authorization to carry firearms to 18. And they adopted that measure. And I think what it goes into effect pretty soon, because in the United States, it's, you know, 21 to carry it unless it's, you know, 18. the uh you know shotgun hunting rifle something like that uh but uh interesting and he's been javier malay has been just absolutely deregulating the argentinian government at a rate of speed that has never before been seen and they're getting in a lot of government revenue after doing that i hope that republicans pay attention to that not just give it lip service uh also the Some concerned shoppers are stockpiling goods because everything is stupid. Stop listening to the media on this stuff. So apparently people are stockpiling what canned foods and some things like that, dog food and paper towels. And there I get that you're I mean, having a prepper's pantry, that's not that's not a bad thing. I wouldn't even describe that as stockpiling. I would just say that that's like preparation. But I do think that certain... I have noticed like there's like a run on certain canned goods and it's because people are... Stop it. Just stop it. Don't listen to the media fear-mongering on this stuff. Let's see. Some people are wanting to swap turkey for takeout. A poll suggests that Americans are rejecting tradition and... It's not an anti-Christian thing. I think it's just people are busy and they're tired. 2,000 adults were surveyed. 31% of them apparently want to see more unusual alternatives. I don't know. I like the turkey. I usually do red meat on Christmas. I like turkey on Thanksgiving. I like that kind of stuff. I don't care. I eat cardboard for all I care. I really don't care. Cain says to not. I don't care. He cares. I don't. Just saying, you know, do whatever you want to do. And, you know, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I know people who have tamales on Christmas Eve. They do tamales every Christmas Eve. That's a big thing. Do whatever you want to do. It's all American. All right. We got a lot more on the way, including let's we got to talk about some grifters and we got to talk about CR. Stick with us.
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Look, as we hold our loved ones close this holiday season, We as a nation must renew our commitment to end the horror of gun violence, both mass shootings and everyday gun violence that touches so many communities in our nation. We must end it, and we must be committed to have the courage to know that solutions are in hand. But we need elected leaders to have the courage to step up.
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And do what? Do what? Kamala Harris, a day late and a dollar short, as always, decides to go out and speak about. What, try to try to push gun control after Wisconsin? I it's not shocking, but again, it's just a bunch of ridiculousness. Like why? Why are we for for what law do they propose that would have prevented any of this? they're all trying to rally and get back to the same square, and they're using this as the means to do so. Again, these were also the same people that did cheer the CEO's execution last week by a firearm. But hey, that was okay then. That was all right then. Welcome back. Dana Lash here with you, bottom of this second hour. I saw that, and that's brand new from her. Brand new from her. She thinks that She says that she's using this to call for more of the same that has not ever worked. I just get I get tired of it. People sit here and they've been proposing like a number of different things. Well, you know, we need to have safe storage. Who's going to enforce safe storage? Are you going to send agents to the homes of every single innocent firearm owning American in the United States? The same left that was just decrying the idea of deportation because they couldn't understand possibly how every single person who entered illegally could be found and sent back to their country of origin. So the safe storage stuff. So you want an agent of state. First off, what they're doing is they're making the argument for the left for a national registry, because in order to do checks, you're already pushing to incorporate firearm owners as federal firearms licensees. And that's what Joe Biden has proposed. He wants to make just basic gun ownership to where you have to have an FFL. Now, it doesn't matter if you're in retail, doesn't matter if you're selling anything like that. If you have an FFL just for regular firearm owners. So people who are pushing safe storage for not a single damn one of the states, including California and New York, who already have quote unquote storage laws, it's not had any kind of impact, by the way, on their homicide rate. Absolutely none. That's number one. Number two, you're inviting agents of state into your home to check and see whether or not they think that you've stored your firearms adequately. So they're going to know exactly what you have and they're going to treat you like an FFL. And I'm assuming it would be the ATF, right, Kane? The same ATF that had its own security staff pilfer tons of guns from its inventory, right? I don't know if you guys knew this. This is a pretty big story. The ATF had their own employees steal all their guns that they had in their inventory. Some of it was ATF on firearms. Some of it was confiscated, etc. And they had their security personnel, their employees, stealing from them, taking from them. And then they lost a bunch. They don't even know how. So that entity, the entity that ran guns in Mexico, according to the Fast and Furious op, that entity would be the one in charge of coming into your home and checking how you store your firearms. That's what that means. That's how you have to do safe storage. So the people out there talking about it, By the way, if they go in to your home to check safe storage and they see something else maybe that they don't like, who's to say that they're not going to pop you for that? Just saying. I mean, go ahead and open those doors if you think that that's what you want to do. Unbelievable. No, people can freely move to China if they want. I want to talk about a couple other different things here, including this thing. Can we just pause for a minute? I don't know about you. I watch. I like Taylor Sheridan. I think Landman's a little a little blue in terms of humor. Billy Bob Thornton's spectacular in that series, though. full disclosure they actually we met uh the scout uh the locations for landman because they were they they thought about using our house as a set at one point they didn't but how that would have actually been kind of cool uh they didn't do it but they they thought about it and i thought that might be kind of neat like only if it's like billy bob thornton's house because that would be It's fascinating to stand in the corner and watch a scene actually work. I have no desire to be in it at all. I just like to see how the sausage is made. So anyway, we started watching Landman and we've been watching Mayor King's Town. I like all his stuff. Yellowstone, the latest episode, the latest last season of Yellowstone wrapped up and I thought it was actually done really well. Anyone who watches it, they pick up real quick. Sheridan doesn't come out and say he's a hardcore righty, but you can pretty much tell that from the dialogue that he has. The dialogue where he talks about oil and gas and he talks about gun ownership and land and all this other stuff and bashes big government one side and off down the other in every single episode. And it's very refreshing and it's not done in a manner that is forced or... cringy. I always hate when people make a film or make a song with the desire to be political first. And then the art is the secondary consideration. I hate that stuff. And nobody's more guilty of it than people on the right. God love you, but you are. People on the left, they're a little, they've had practice with it. You know, they're used to slipping stuff in their storylines. We don't do that because we're, you know, we're not liars. So, you know, anyway, so I was I was I saw this on social media last night and some of these accounts I don't follow and I don't have anything to do with because I just don't subscribe to any of it. But I saw some dude who I guess is a conservative influencer was out there and I watched the last season of Yellowstone. I don't know who says stuff like this. He posted one of the final scenes of Yellowstone was the native Indian tribe children taking over the ranch and knocking over the gravestones of Dutton ancestors while laughing. That's how Taylor Sheridan sent off the Dutton family. Are you paying attention yet? And Kevin Sorbo, Christian Kevin Sorbo, even responded to it, saying that's incredibly disappointing. Nobody watched the episode. I watched the damn episode. And what happened was you had teenagers who were in after. And I don't care about spoiler alerts. I'm not here to do that and gatekeep for you. But in that episode, there were like three or four Native American teenagers that were knocking over the Dutton's headstones. And the elders came in there. Moe the Elder came in there and blasted them and said, how dare you? And he just I mean, he just about beat him to death. He was screaming at them. He was like, how dare you do this? He was like, they fought. and died to defend this land. And the whole episode was how they both realized the Native Americans and the Dunn family, they all realized that they had been on the same side the entire time. They didn't want to have corporations come in and overdevelop the land and kill all the wildlife and be horrible stewards of all this stuff. And I would play this for you, but we can't play it because we'll get kicked off of YouTube. It would be a strike against us. So I can't share with you the clip of it because YouTube will literally take our account off air, even though it's newsworthy. But that's the way it is in fair use. But OK. But he like blasted them for doing this. And then he very carefully and arduously pulled back every single headstone. And in the end, the head of the tribe, you know, was standing there and he had a tear down his face because he was thinking he finally realized these two men had begun as their relationship started in the series as mortal enemies. And then they realized we are actually on the same side. And they ended up selling the ranch to the Native American tribe for like, you know, a dollar, whatever, from how they purchased it back in like 1823. And I had said in the very beginning of the season, I'm like, I wonder if they're going to fulfill what they said in the first installment of this story. In 1823, they had said, well, in seven generations, you can have it back. That's what Tim McGraw's character had told. one of the elders of the tribe. And seven generations later, here it is. And it was a pretty amazing thing. They ended up both wanting to protect that land and not have it overdeveloped. None of the kids wanted it. John Dutton's kids in the series did not want the ranch. So they honored their promise to their father by not having the land overdeveloped. And they also got out from underneath the ranch. So I don't know why someone's lying about something as stupid as this. Like, I don't understand people who go out and charlatan like this. And that's exactly what it is. And double down on it. Because when this was brought up, this dude had said, oh, well, that was the trajectory. No, it wasn't. Well, they ended up losing the ranch because, as I just said, neither kid wanted it. So they ended up... It actually was the complete opposite of what was being claimed in that post on X. The absolute opposite. So... This, I mean, it's, I don't know why people make up this stuff. I thought it was a great scene. I thought it was a scene where those kids were told they were educated. And then in the very end, they were very, they're agreed upon. They dismantled the house and they promised to never develop the land. They took care of the cemetery. They promised all that stuff and they were fulfilling it. That's how Taylor Sheridan sent off the Dutton family. So I don't understand why someone's trying to manufacture a complaint and lie about a final scene that other people have seen. I really, really hope that's the case. And I don't understand, too. There was a there's a community note on it that I think that they were trying to get to go away. But I just you got to be careful with some of this stuff. There are people on the right who. Who I didn't see before 2016 that didn't really have like any sort of record of measures where you could tell where they were politically or in terms of genuineness. But there are people on the right who will purposely mislead you and try to bait you into a manufactured division. Right. And it's easy to do, has been easy to do lately because everybody's, you know, you kind of had to pick a side in this huge cultural battle and this political battle. But now that we're through that, I think that be very discerning. Because there are snakes among you. Absolutely. And there are grifters among you. And you just need to be careful with stuff. And I hope that the people, especially the Christians and the mentions of that thread, I hope that they take back some of their words and honor their faith and be a little bit more transparent and a little bit more honest with stuff. Because it's disappointing to see. And it makes people disillusioned about every political side, not just the left.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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This is the most of the stories I'm starting off like that. So a guy, a Florida guy nicknamed Shroom decided to settle a $150 debt by going to an apartment in to get to, I guess, to collect $150. And they call the guy the victim, I guess, the victim who supposedly owed him money. He was just there playing video games. The three dudes, including Shroom, was among them, busted down his door. They roughed him up. The victim got pistol whipped. And then the victim recognized one of the masked men. And that was his old buddy Shroom, who's Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez. I don't know why he has two of the same name, but he does. Well, I don't get that. He kind of looks like a shroom, I guess. And yes, the victim did owe $150. But Instead of working out a payment plan, he declared that the three men destroyed $150 of his own property. So they decided that that was even. But Shroom did go to jail for assault. That's just one of the... I'm trying to get over his name. That's the biggest offense in this piece. Florida man lost a drone to an alligator after flying it too close to the water. We need to get some of these gators up in Jersey. Drone operators... I never heard of that, of where a gator got it. But this and this story, by the way, that's written by a website called Motor Biscuit. They don't know how to write stories because they bury the lead four graphs down. But a guy in Florida obviously flew his drone way too close to a gator. He was trying to get a good shot of it. And I guess he didn't realize that gators can actually propel themselves up out of the water with their tails. And that's exactly what happened. The gator just like jumped up like a great white shark would jump up. He jumped up out of the water and grabbed the drone and then went into a death roll. So that guy's not going to get his drone back. Kane, I don't think that guy's I think that's a loss. Yeah, that's that's not that ain't never coming back. It's never, ever coming back. Let's see this guy. stole a Rolls Royce and crashed it into a checkers. Now I had to stop here because I haven't heard of that place in a long time. That's the hamburger place, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The rallies and the checkers. Because didn't checkers buy rallies or something like that? Okay. It was a Rolls Royce SUV and it was stolen from a valet at a Fort Lauderdale hotel and they crashed it into a checkers at 2.15 a.m. A Rolls Royce. I don't even know. It's an SUV. I mean, maybe he was like super hungry. By the way, the restaurant where he crashed it was barely six miles away from the hotel. Mm hmm. And the punishment in Florida for grand theft auto is actually based on the value of the property stolen. And the top tier is any vehicle over $100,000. And this is even more than that. So this guy is looking to face up to 30 years in jail for grand theft. Taking a six, barely six mile joyride, stealing a Rolls Royce SUV and crashing it into a checkers. So I don't know the guy who, by the way, the Rolls Royce owner, he told CBS News Miami that he was sleeping and they valet went and knocked on his door or the hotel did. And they said it was stolen from the valet. So, yeah, it wasn't found at the checkers. It was found inside the checkers because he reined it. Ran it in there. Let's see. This guy. I'm not reading that. This because it's gross. I'm not doing that. Can we just not with the stories about everybody exposing themselves? What is up with that? Is it just because it's humid down there? I don't know. A Florida man was arrested during a treehouse robbery. Yeah, I don't know. And there's crack cocaine involved. Florida authorities arrested a guy because police said he stabbed a man to death during a robbery in a tree house. It stemmed from a crack deal. Of course it did. Monroe County Sheriff's deputies say the victim, 59-year-old Matthew Bonnet, was trying to help a neighbor who was being robbed by two masked men. The female victim lived in a treehouse in the trailer park. So she didn't have a trailer in the trailer park. She had a treehouse in the trailer park. And I guess they climbed up there and the deal went sideways and they stabbed her. The guy's being held in Monroe County Jail. Well, there you go. Third hour next, guys. Stick with us. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the top of this third hour. It's already Tuesday. Tomorrow's Wednesday. We're almost to Christmas Eve week. It's pretty amazing. You can listen across the country. We also have the chat at Rumble. And don't forget to sign up over at Substack. Lots of good stuff up there. So where to even start? I'm going to pull. What's going on with America's hat? I know. The Canadian government is just losing it. But now I was reading something about The challenger, like some of the people who are challenging the governor or the president, the head, just call him the governor of the state of Canada, Justin Trudeau, little Castro. People, they're trying to pressure him into resigning. I mean, he should. And he's trying to save his spot. He's fighting back against it. But I did think it was kind of interesting. He's been for 11 years now the head of their liberal party. And that's quite a long time. They could elect a new leader. Whether or not they're going to do that, I guess that's where we'll see. One of his challengers is Jagmeet Singh. He's one of the guys who's called on Trudeau to resign, demand that he step down. Apparently, he wants an election in March because he wants to lock in his pension before the election in March. I don't know. Politicians are going to politician. But there's I think we have the audio of this where he was being yelled at by people. He is not a audio somebody 19. He is not. This is live television. He is not a popular person. Listen.
SPEAKER 14 :
Prime Minister, are you going to remain in office?
SPEAKER 10 :
No, what gives you the right to continue? What gives you the right to stay in office? You failed Canada. You've ruined our country.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're done. Walk away.
SPEAKER 10 :
You don't have an ounce of your father's integrity. At least he walked in the snow. You've ruined this country. Everyone around you is running from you. They're abandoning you. They've all left you. It's time for you to go. It's time for Canada to have an election. You're not the king.
SPEAKER 16 :
Dang. I mean... that is something else that's pretty amazing they're not they don't like him he um was really i thought like when he was first elected he was pretty celebrated and everybody you know the canadians seemed to like him but now they hate him they don't like him at all anymore i think there's probably i mean obviously a good reason for that but their their government is uh i think he's gonna get run out i think that the tide is turning i think it's turning i think he's Cain, say on air what you just said.
SPEAKER 09 :
I was like, imagine what it takes to make polite Canadians into these mad, rabid people. Imagine what that takes. Yeah. It's exactly what Trudeau's done.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, I think, because aren't they pretty much like, hey, sorry to offend, eh? Maple syrup, maple leaves, yay. I don't know. The finance minister resigned. That was his top lieutenant. He's out. I don't know. I can't imagine him staying on. I just can't imagine him staying on in this position. I don't. Because he's... Well, Pierre Polivere, who I love, he's this guy who, do you guys remember Pierre Polivere? He follows me on X. He was the guy who was eating an apple when a reporter was asking him questions. And he, in the most lackadaisical manner possible, just gutted this guy. But he says that Trudeau has to resign. Listen.
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Mr. Trudeau is being held in office by one man, Jagmeet Singh. A fifth of Liberal MPs have written a letter for him to resign. His Deputy Prime Minister has walked out on him. His Housing Minister has quit. That on top of numerous other female ministers who stormed out after his appalling mistreatment and abuse and dishonesty towards them. 80% of Canadians have lost confidence in this prime minister. So why is Jagmeet Singh making the entire country wait for him to get his pension? That is the question.
SPEAKER 16 :
He wants his pension. March election. So he can lock in his pension. That's why. Well, we'll watch and see what happens with the governor of Canada there. We'll watch and see. San Francisco. Has a new government position. Did you hear about this? No. Yeah. It is a consultant. I'm not going to play this whole video because it's stupid. Well, maybe I will, actually. This person is supposed to be the, checks notes, weight stigma czar. What? Mm-hmm. Now, Cain. Yeah? I want you to tell me. if the person whose image I just placed in Slack is qualified to be the Chex Notes weight stigma czar?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, she'd... No. I almost went on a tangent there, but no. Juan's going to be putting up a quick little video of her in action.
SPEAKER 16 :
What is weight neutrality?
SPEAKER 09 :
I think that's in space, right? You're weightless.
SPEAKER 16 :
We'll play this when he gets it. It's that ridiculous. She's working with a team at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, it says here, as a consultant on weight stigma and weight neutrality. What is weight neutrality? What is that? Is that a thing?
SPEAKER 09 :
When someone's neutral... Does it have a flag? I guess if you're just neutral about the idea of weight or extra weight, I... Your guess is as good as mine, but Juan's ready if you're ready.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, please. Let's hear this. I'm sorry.
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Hi, my name is Virgie Tovar, and I'm the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, as well as a few other books on fat positivity and body acceptance. When I think about what people might be surprised by or what you wouldn't think of when you think of eating disorders, I immediately think of being a kid. I was a kid in a larger body, a teen in a larger body, and also an adult in a larger body. And the message I always got from my doctor was, shrink your body by any means necessary. And it really felt like there was a sense of a don't ask, don't tell. So because I truly, truly, truly believed. And this is where I think the surprise comes in. I really believed that this was about my health. I really believed that my doctor was right. Because why would I believe anything?
SPEAKER 13 :
That's real.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's real. Your doctor was right. And it's not... Let's not do fat positivity. I don't believe in fat shaming people unless, you know, the calls for it. But people pointing out that your obesity is a comorbidity is a health issue. That's not people trying to be mean. And I think people need to stop being victims. Stop being a victim. I mean, come on. Seriously. It's... I... really don't understand this idea. Was this a backlash to the heroin chic of the 90s? Is that what we're living with still?
SPEAKER 09 :
What I don't get is imagine any other health concern, whether it's diabetes or whether it's just anything health-wise. Would you encourage people to continue behavior that would exasperate or make that health problem worse? Would you do that? Would you affirm them? Knowing that it would make their problem worse. Why would you do that?
SPEAKER 16 :
This, when she says, you know, I have a right to, you know, you have a right to be fat or whatever. You don't. And here's why. After you don't absolutely blink and do not. And here's why. Absolutely. After Obamacare passed and we all had to pay higher insurance premiums to pay for people who didn't or couldn't want to pay, oh, I get to have a say in all of that. So you don't get any rights because you invited my tax dollars in. And where my tax dollars go, I follow with a boot in the door. That's what happens. No, I get to be involved in it. Yeah, you don't.
SPEAKER 09 :
My body, my choice.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, no. It's not my choice to pay your damn bills. So it's not your body to make a choice of. No. If my money goes to it, I'm the boss of you. I will make I will go and knock that zinger right the hell out your hand. I'll put a carrot in its place. OK. Oh, you want to have a little you want to have a little Debbie's fudge round? Eat some cucumber or broccoli. Stop it. I have a right too. I have a right to go where my tax dollars go. And if you're sucking up more of my tax dollars because you can't get a handle on your weight, then that's a problem for me. I shouldn't have to subsidize that. No one thought of that when they were pushing for the expansion of Obamacare and jacking up everybody's premiums so that we would have to pay for everyone else's care. So no. And everyone's like, oh, Dana. Look, I work really hard. To stay in shape and I eat healthy and I do intermittent fasting. I do all of that stuff. I've always worked out. I've always been athletic. I've always maintained. And it's not because a privilege just decided to, you know, a fairy godmother apparated out of the ether and was like, I'm going to make you like this forever. It's you actually it's an effort. And I don't want to hear about anyone else's problems or excuses. I don't care. Make the effort. And don't expect me to pay your medical bills because that's the situation we're all in. And as a result, no one can say that they have a right to be this or that. Since you wanted, you asked for this. We warned you. Don't say that we didn't warn you because we did. But back to my first question. What the hell is weight neutrality? What is that? Like I'm trying to imagine. So, you know, we have a lot of truckers that listen. God love them. Is that like when do they do that for the weight on your truck? You know, like if you go in and you're a weigh station and like, oh, you're weight neutral to a truck and they're low. Do they say that?
SPEAKER 1 :
No.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm pretty positive. No.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm just fascinated by I've never I'm today years old. I've never heard of that phrase. The whole weight neutrality thing. Right now, I will say this. I do think that some chicks can go way too far the other way. Like I always bring up Madonna as an example. She at some point as you age, my grandmother always said at one point in her life, a woman has to choose between her face or her body. Now, I've already told you guys, maybe I haven't been public about it, what my goal is. Because everyone always thinks I've never had plastic surgery or anything like that for the love. But I do have a plan to combat wrinkles when it starts setting in. I mean, I got a little bit here and there. But I got a plan. You want to know my plan? I'm going to get fat. It's natural filler. I'm just going to... Because I choose face. That's it. I choose face. Because you can't hide ugly. That's why.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you have the right to be fat then at that point?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, I'm going to do it in like a healthy way. I'm not going to be like morbidly obese. That's totally my plan. All right. My grandmother was like, and she said the age is different. What she told me was this. She was like, at some point in her life, a woman has to choose between face or body. And I'm like, well, she's like, you won't know until you get there. And then she looked at me and she was like, I chose face. She was like, that's why she was like very proud. She's like, that's why I chose face. That's why I don't have hardly no wrinkles. That's what she would say. And I get it. So that's my that's my I'm kind of joking, but not really. That's my whole goal. But not like morbidly obese. Just, you know. I'm just saying. It's all natural. But there's a difference. You don't want to be like visceral and tawny like Madonna, right? I don't want to see like your... Your ligaments and stuff like I don't you a woman should look like beef jerky. You know what I mean? Like you're supposed to be soft. I don't don't don't be brainwashed by these, you know, fourth wave fembots into thinking that you can't have any fat on your body. Women need it. And especially as you get older, you know, you're you need that fat. extra especially if you get older because you know it helps you when you're an older age so anyway i still don't understand what weight neutral is i'm gonna hear from every trucker who listens to us i am gonna get treaties on it that's what's gonna happen like big essays on it i can't wait and now all of the news you would probably miss it's time for dana's quick five I don't even know what the, this is nuts. So this story, apparently it can't be Christmas here until the city shoots lasers at 20,000 crows. Mm-hmm. I don't know. It's over at MSN. So apparently, and by the way, whoever David Andretta is, he's a horrible journalist who should be fired because he doesn't know how to write a proper balanced story. I shouldn't have to get three quarters of the way through before I know what the hell you're talking about because you decide to talk about the birds. But anyway, it was an outbreak of West Nile virus. And I guess they're trying to do like vermin control. So it's in... a couple of different cities that they're having to deal with. This story is so stupid. Let's see here. We got a couple others. Firefighter dressed as Santa battled two-alarm blaze in Delaware County. That's pretty cool. And, well, we're running out of time. We got to get moving. Stick with us. I went long last segment. Apologies. Back in a moment.
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with my OEM team. On the way here, I was on the phone with my OEM team, and we now have guidance coming from the state. And that guidance does say two different things. First of all, if there is a downed drone in our vicinity, we are immediately to call the bomb squad of our county. And second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear hazmat suits.
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So if something falls out of the sky that people have seen, and some of these things are as big as an SUV, if that happens, you're to treat this More than a plane crash. It's treated like an attack on the homeland?
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That is correct, because they're not quite sure if there's a payload or not.
SPEAKER 16 :
So it sounds like it's the nuke stuff. That was one of the theories that was going around. And then apparently it's trying to find radioactive material. I mean, everything so far that's being said kind of makes sense. sense with that. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, bottom of this third hour. I'm looking at this Newsweek piece that dives into it a little bit more and that gets into the whole mysterious, you know, the drone fever. They said at first they thought it could maybe be a potential gas leak. Now they're thinking that maybe it's like radioactive material. And all of these aerospace and, you know, people who are experts basically in these industries, they've all said that they don't think it's nefarious, but they think that the only reason that they're flying that low is because they're basically trying to suss out something on the ground, like gas leaks, pockets of radiation. They're looking for something very important. And I just, if that's the case, what is the... harm in telling the public that? Or do you think it's bad if they tell the public, oh, by the way, we lost some radioactive stuff. We got to have these drones out there to suss it out at night. Be careful. Right? Do you think the public would go nuts if... They were told that there was like some lost nuclear or whatever radioactive material out there?
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, they're kind of being told that now. They're saying that that's part of the speculation.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, it's everybody else's speculation that the government's not putting to bed.
SPEAKER 09 :
But that's all it was, remember, on Sunday and yesterday when we talked about this on the show. And you're like, oh, that's just one guy saying that now.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, now... Now it's a lot of guys saying that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you know what I mean? So it does evolve, eventually evolve. So I'm not really certain how crazy this will evolve.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm just curious if... They lost it. Who took it? I mean, how did they lose it? Or was it stolen? And if it was stolen, what for? I got a lot of questions. Although, then you have that one lawmaker, Van Drew, who came out and said, no, it's the Iranian mothership. Which, you know, also kind of sounds like it could make sense. None of them, none of them confirm my favorite theory, though. Kane.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know what it is.
SPEAKER 16 :
Alien. Just saying. Just saying. They said that, I don't even, I looked at the Project Bluebeam thing where global elites plan to stage a fake alien invasion. That seems like a Rube Goldberg kind of operation to, I don't put a lot of, I don't know. When my government tells me to do something, I don't want to do it. And when they tell me to believe something, I don't want to believe it. I am so anti-authority that I can barely follow push down and turn directions. Because I'm like, are you trying to be the boss of me? I argue with everything in my life. Are you trying to be the boss of me, bottle? I'm so anti-authority. So bad. It's a problem, Kane. It's a real issue.
SPEAKER 09 :
Childproof caps. Huh? Anti-childproof caps.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, like push down and turn. How dare you tell me what to do, bottle? I'll do what I want. I'll open you how I want. But you know what I mean. So I don't know. I mean, I kind of wish they would stage a fake alien invasion. Give us something to do. I'm bored to tears all this, like, the same goofy Froot Loops in D.C. Yes?
SPEAKER 09 :
I was talking to Juan this morning, and you know how it is every year. We do this every year. We get to December. We're getting into the holiday season. And then what does the government do with the news cycle? They start dumping all the bad stuff during the time of the year that most people aren't paying attention to the news. So, yeah, I believe that there's going to be some sort of something. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Wait, no, you're not joking.
SPEAKER 09 :
No. I think there will be. Now, whether or not these are going to be real aliens, whether or not it won't be some sort of Project Blue beamy type thing.
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't even care.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't even know.
SPEAKER 16 :
If you guys don't know what the Project Blue Beam conspiracy theory is, which I didn't know until I dove into this, that's basically like all the superpowers of the world. They want to fake. It's like the new QAnon. They want to fake aliens. an alien invasion so they can seize power. I mean, what other power are they going to seize? I mean, everybody kind of folded over COVID and showed you how susceptible, you know. Did people learn from that? I don't know. I don't know. Because I feel like they already did that. They already did it. Just in a way. All right. I got a few other things we got to hit as well. We've got... I'm pulling up some things here. Oh, this is this story about I mentioned the CNN thing earlier. I almost couldn't believe this when I saw it. I don't know who this Clarissa Ward is. People keep saying that she's an actress and I wasn't familiar with her. She's like decided to she's a British actress. person with CNN, I guess she was, I don't know, she started at Fox. And I don't know why they say that she's like this, like an actress or something. But she's, I don't know, she's very dramatic, as you will, if you've watched any of this footage when she's gone and saved saved this dude. So they had this segment on CNN. where Clarissa Ward was over there in Syria and she's reporting on the collapse of the Assad regime and all this stuff. And she saves, they save this, save this guy who is apparently, and it was all staged. They acted like they were rescuing him from a prison. And as it turns out, He was actually an intelligence officer in the Assad regime. And I guess he was acting like he was a prisoner. And he was acting like he had been kept prisoner. And he's really putting on this big show of being freed. And it turns out he was not only an intelligence officer with the Assad regime, but he also was one of his main torturers. Yeah. The main torturers. One of the big guys that Assad used. And they brought him out. And he's like hugging. He hugged Clarissa Ward. And he acts like he's so relieved. Like I can't believe it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Like this poor innocent man that we've saved. We saved him from the presence. And he was just kept against his will.
SPEAKER 16 :
And he was one of the baddies. I mean, they're all baddies at this point, but he was one of the legit baddies over there. So now CNN had to admit, this was a headline that they had, quote, freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say. He was actually a literal lieutenant in the Air Force Intelligence Directorate. Oh! Oh, they helped free this guy. He's known for harassment and extortion and all kinds of stuff, all kinds of stuff. You know, CNN, the guy who literally looked at this Syrian interrogator. This baddie. And they thought he was an innocent torture victim. He's leaning on her. Oh, my gosh. He's like, I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I can't believe I can barely walk. Someone get him a chair. This poor man. CNN has a member of the Assad regime that they are state. And here's the other thing. They take the guy out of the prison cell. What does she do? They sit him down and they immediately go into an interview. They weren't even, even if he wasn't a torturer, they were not concerned about getting him to a hospital or anything like that. She's like, oh no, I've got to sit you down and I have to interview you for my program. Let's do that now. And then he acts like he's shaking and he can't eat. He was jailing people. He was torturing people. He's one of the baddies. He's one of the baddie baddies. And he acts like he's, I just, I'm just yet but a simple man. I just can't. I'm just so sad. I can't believe you freed me, CNN, you bastion of reporting, the giant of international journalism. Can you imagine being her and then waking up after you think you've done like a Pulitzer level story? And this happens because, you know, that's what she was thinking. She was just like, I watched this. I watched that whole thing. She's like, let's get you sit. I mean, she was just. But at the same time, it barely masked her glee at being able to have a story like this. You know, oh, let's get you for an interview. They pull the guy right out of a cell. They're like, OK, let's sit you down in a chair. Now it's time for an interview. I mean, at least she was thinking business first, I guess. You know, that's what CNN likes.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I mean, this may not be a popular opinion, but to me, she's like the female Charles Jaco.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, don't. He's going to sue the Internet again, Kane.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good luck, Charles.
SPEAKER 16 :
Do you guys know who Charles Jaco is? He is a sentient skin tag who has some hair on it. And he came from St.
SPEAKER 09 :
Louis. What you said is worse than what I said.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, I mean that you said that I was like burned. But no, I. So Charles Jaco is the sentient. He's a he's a sentient skin tag. It was the couple of stray hairs on him. And it started reporting for CNN. And he apparently faked this whole report about being in Iraq or something like that.
SPEAKER 09 :
And he was on a set. Shelled and bombed.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. And he acted like he was getting bombed and shelled. It was the worst acting I've ever seen in my life. And then later, this was like 13, 14 years ago, people on the internet were making fun of him. And he legit threatened to sue the entire internet. Right. And I was here because when I started on radio, I started at a station in St. Louis and he used to work. It was a cluster. He used to work at one of the other stations there. And the story goes is that he would go take his coffee cup of coffee that he drank and And to warm it up, he would go, he would pour it into the coffee pot, swirl it around and then pour it back into his mug. And he got caught like a couple of different times, according to numerous people that worked. I was only told this. I didn't say this. Other people did. And, uh, that's nasty.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's illegal, isn't it?
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't know. I mean, this was like back in like the early aughts. So I don't know. I wasn't, I don't know. I think when he was there, it was like the late nineties. I was totally not there at that time. But, uh, Oh, and he was so nasty towards me, but I always felt bad for him because he was, you know, a skin tag. And, you know, I don't know what kind of future they have. So sad.
SPEAKER 09 :
But yeah, she reminds me of him. They have the same look in their eyeballs. They have the same work ethic, it appears. And people respond to them the same way. And I've seen all these videos on Miss Ward getting approached by different nationalities, different people, just scolding her over their misrepresentation and reporting.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, the guy was like, I'm a civilian. And he was like, my captors have beaten me. And you could just see the look on her face. She was trying to hide it like, this is too good to be true. And as it turned out, then there was a news outlet that published a photo of this guy. He gave her a fake name and everything. He said his name was Adel Gerbal. That dude does not even exist. They found out that he is First Lieutenant Salama Mohammed Salama of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, literally the agency that runs the prison. He runs the prison. She thought she was getting this poor victim. Instead, she got literally the guy who was running the prison. And what gets me is that they didn't even bother verifying anything. They're like, oh, let's take this man out of let's take this man and put him in a chair and interview him immediately. Got to have the exclusive. You notice something about him in Slack. What did you say in Slack? About him?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, yeah, that he was perfectly manicured and he wasn't dirty. That jacket looked pretty all right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, he didn't look like he was starved or nothing either. That room?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, like what a prisoner would want to look, what a prisoner would look like. Yeah. So, and people were saying that they did not trust her story. And there were apparently even some Syrians there, like, CNN, what you doing? What? This is, no, this is not how you do the journalism. No. And they said it came to your point. They said he was too well groomed and did not act like someone who was locked in a dungeon for three months. And that is per number of people on Verify Sci.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's why I have to wonder because Charles Jaco was with CNN back in the late 80s, early 90s. And so now we have Claire Sir Ward, CNN, all about faking wartime stories around times of tension. Is that intentional by CNN for decades now? That just seems weird.
SPEAKER 16 :
it's a good point that you make. I don't know. I'm just saying, but I don't think she's going to get that Pulitzer though. No, I don't think she, cause it's too bad. It's too bad. I mean, it is really embarrassing. It's just really not great for her.
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I was reading this debrief from Kamala Harris's deputy campaign manager. I think it was Semaphore that had it. And they said that Rob Flaherty had after she became the nominee, he turned his attention to sports. They needed to introduce Harris quickly to people who aren't obsessed with politics. And they said sports is perhaps America's last remaining monoculture. And they decided to book her on all these sports shows and podcasts. But everybody began turning her down like everyone. They were very polite, but they all turned her down. And they said sports and culture have sort of merged together and they've become sort of natively associated with a Trump conservative set values. And it said it complicated. It got more complicated for athletes to come out in favor of us, he said. He goes, because they didn't want to do politics. I don't think that's fascinating in terms of the guy, Flaherty said it was fascinating that they were rejecting it. No, it's not. They were being smart about it. I mean, you're a pretty bad deputy campaign manager if you can't read the tea leaves on that one. Good heavens. All right, Cain, today in stupidity.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, it is our current vice president. Is she doing anything now that she lost the election? I mean, she's still vice president, right?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is Kamala Harris. Maybe you can understand what she's saying here. Let's hear this.
SPEAKER 17 :
And I ask you to remember. Yeah. The context in which you exist.
SPEAKER 09 :
Alright.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I did that.
SPEAKER 09 :
What?
SPEAKER 17 :
Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think she's drank every day since November 5th.
SPEAKER 16 :
Mm-hmm. I don't think that she's already drunk on eggnog. I mean, most of you all wait till Christmas Eve, but she's already there.
SPEAKER 09 :
She won't be sober till 2020.
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Venn diagram. I don't know. That does it for us today, folks. Make sure you sign up over at Substack Chapter. And first, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. Back with you tomorrow.
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Today on Sekulow, a New York judge denies immunity for President Trump.
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All right, here we go. How long can we keep these cases moving against President Trump so that they can still go into the news and say, well, there's pending charges and Judge Mershon did not buy, I guess, what, the Supreme Court's argument that the president was immune from the people who went in and testified because of executive privilege there's all these issues involved this case that might be the one that actually takes it down is that so much of the evidence was derived by evidence that the supreme court said is not proper or you'd have to at least litigate through each individual's person on whether or not but what they shared would be covered by executive privilege. But in general, in general, what the Supreme court found is that you assume it is. So it's something that the government, the prosecutors would have to prove, uh, with a pretty high bar that it isn't a protected presidential communication. But will the important part here on this case is not that judge Rashan has, uh, I think, uh, left no room for him to dismiss this case. He still has one more opportunity to do that before more appeals begin. But at the same time, this was a way for him to say, you know what, I'm bound by the U.S. Supreme Court. You guys tried to do this with these federal charges. There's immunity questions. There's privilege questions. This doesn't work anymore.
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That's right. And this decision was expected early November, around November 12th. However, Judge Mershon postponed releasing this decision on how the Supreme Court's immunity decision would affect his sentencing in the case.
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That's why there's no sentencing yet because there's more cases to come. From Mershon, there's more.
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Exactly. There's more chances to dismiss it. However, he postponed releasing this immunity ruling. which he'd been working on, they'd been briefing on since the Supreme Court released their decision on it. He postponed it from November 12th to now, it came out yesterday, last night, December 16th. And it's a little odd to me that he did push that back with this outcome and he goes through in his conclusion he goes through the exhibits that were in question and and says that many people many of them that weren't uh he said he just categorically said these communications i don't think were immune because i don't think they were official acts so he's making judgments there but then he also says lastly this court concludes that if error occurred regarding the introduction of challenged evidence, so evidence that would have been covered by the immunity ruling from the Supreme Court, such error was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt. This was evidence that was introduced that were communications once President Trump was in the White House, that under that broad interpretation of you start with the assumption it is covered by this immunity ruling and work back from there. Right. And the fact that he found nothing as is covered with this immunity ruling, I feel like opens the door for an appeal if it even gets there. But an appeal just based off of his judgment of completely shutting down what came out of that Supreme Court ruling in this state lower court judge. saying that, no, I don't have to throw this out based off that. Now, we know that the briefing and Alvin Bragg gave kind of the two to three options of keeping this alive in the motion to dismiss now that President Trump will be entering the White House. So we still don't have that ruling, but we'll have Harry Hutchison on next to get more into the details on this immunity ruling in the next segment.
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Yeah, I want to take your calls on this too. 1-800-684-3110. This idea of how long can we keep former President Trump in court and can they try to do it while he becomes President Trump? And you've got those issues there about tolling and trying to say, well, let's add a year. That's come out of the... James and all these others and say, well, we can add time to it because eventually he's not going to be president and then we can bring these charges. I mean, so they have actually changed laws in the state of New York just to be able to prosecute President Trump. They added extensions to the separation of powers. Taking your calls at 1-800-684-3110. This is why we need strong attorney generals like Pam Bondi, strong FBI directors like Kash Patel. Be right back on Secular. Welcome back to Secular. We are going to take your calls on this. And look, I know it can sound complicated when we walk through these issues. Here's what's not complicated. I want to make this clear to everybody. We are in the final two weeks of our Faith and Freedom year-end drive. The ACLJ takes on literally, you know this if you're a a supporter of the ACLJ if you've been listening to this show for a long time but if you're new to us if maybe just you know turned on through the election season or this last year you may not realize how large really our legal component which is the driving component of what the ACLJ is all about not just this broadcast The biggest component of what we do is in court and in the judiciary system, both at the federal and state level. And we've been doing it that way since 1989. But, of course, we've also increased our government affairs team presence there in Washington, D.C. and offices around the world. But when it comes right down to it, I just wanted to give you kind of a summary. of 2024 and listen there could be more of these coming between now and the end of the year but this is where we are right now we take told you about the hundreds of cases so let's break it down a little just in this past year we've handled 142 religious liberty matters this year alone that's just in 2024 142 religious liberty matters just think about that for a second that's 142 clients cases Briefs, and really on top of many of those briefs, you're talking about five, six, up to nine. So demand letters fighting back and at no charge to our clients because of our donors. So we can take on more cases. We can also broaden out the cases that we can take. I mean, they have to fit what we do, what our expertise is at the ACLJ. But you can add more and more and more complicated cases that you know are going to initially drain some real resources from the ACLJ if our donors are with us. And so we really need your support because this month alone determines kind of how we start the year and our budgeting. So, you know, how much do we we never going to turn a case down, by the way, because we think it's too expensive. We're never going to do that. But it's in a much better position to say we're never going to turn a case down because of cost, because we always have the ability not only to handle the cost. We know our donors will step up for us if we need it, and they'll even step up if we need to bring in outside firms. uh to to really swarm and and win these huge important cases not just for our generation or your generation but for your kids kids kids and your grandkids that these issues will always sometimes be challenged but we've won so big on these issues that now it's usually comes down to much you know smaller issues and that's great but then every once in a while especially during this woke movement we're starting to see an uptick in the more traditional style. I'd say 1980s, 90s, probably 70s or 80s style of cases pop back up again because of how the librarians are fighting back and not wanting to put things on poster boards. Sending FBI agents to Catholic people's houses because they happen to be at a pro-life rally and they've got SWAT teams there. The idea, again, that being pro-life, is likely means that you're part of some kind of right-wing terror group, all those things. We know we've got a lot more fight to go, but here's more numbers. So you've got the 142 religious liberty, how about 175 pro-life legal matters, 197 free speech matters, we talked about the 142 religious liberty matters, 126 legal actions battling the deep state, those FOIAs that initially are, we hope that they will produce documents but usually after months of negotiation we have to file in federal court and then of course there's lots of cases that don't necessarily fit into those categories as well and there's hundreds of those. So these next two weeks are the most critical of our year in drive. We've been saying it, but I hope those numbers together there for you really underscore the amount of legal work the ACLJ is doing just in the United States of America, just. With all the other distractions going on this past year, presidential race and the primaries and all of that, that the ACLJ in the main categories why we exist domestically has done hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cases that have huge consequences. consequences. I want to go to Harry Hutchinson because another case that will be setting us up to file more in is coming as we said out of New York in this they call you know the hush money case this is another one of those cases where Alvin Bragg was trying to bootstrap a FEC federal election law issue to a state law issue Harry and even though he had no jurisdiction to be filing or be charging Donald Trump with federal crimes so there's a lot of issues with the case then President Trump gets elected again and suddenly there's even bigger issues so it's not just the supreme court's ruling now you have to deal with the fact that he's about to be in office and yet still this judge at least this week unwilling to give it up
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I think that's correct. And one of the things that's apparent, I think, to most observers is the lawfare against Donald Trump has actually helped him politically. But if we focus on Judge Mershon's decision in this case so far, he has ruled that Trump does not have presidential immunity for his campaign finance conviction. So essentially, we have a state action brought to vindicate campaign finance law, which is a federal offense. And so what Judge Marchand has done at this particular point in time is he has ignored the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision, which holds that presidents have immunity for official acts while president. So to be clear, Judge Marchand's decision rejected one of several avenues available to him that would enable Trump to dismiss his guilty verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records. the judge did not explicitly rule on Trump's motion to dismiss on grounds that Trump has now been elected president. So I think if we focus solely on Judge Marchand's decision, we have a situation in which we have an outstanding Supreme Court decision on immunity and Judge Marchand basically saying if evidence was introduced concerning Donald Trump's official acts, First, such evidence was harmless error, but secondly, Judge Marchand has concluded that no such evidence was indeed introduced. So in some respects, Judge Marchand is A, not clear, and B, he's contradicting himself.
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Well, and Professor Hutchison, you have to look at this and think, one, these things have been drug out so long at this point. That's why a little bit it's surprising that Judge Mershon took his time, delayed releasing this, and still came up with these conclusions. But you have to think it sets up the president for an appeal, having these rulings across the board that nothing was covered under immunity on such really a subjective thought exercise, if you will. It really begs the question if Judge Mershon even was concerned about his legacy as a jurist on the court there. that he would have taken the easy off-ramp instead of setting it up for multiple layers of appeal that could be brought against this ruling.
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I think you're right, except Judge Mershon, along with many people in Manhattan, is stubbornly committed to the Trump derangement syndrome. So I think at the end of the day, he could not persuade himself to basically take the easy off ramp, if you will, Instead, he is stubbornly insisting that this case move forward. Now, there are several additional moves that the Trump lawyers have made, which will enable at least the judge to take an easier off-ramp. But right now, my guess is he is prepared to stubbornly insist that Trump face potential punishment after, for instance, he serves his term as president. So keep in mind, Judge Marchand is considering a motion from Manhattan District Attorney Bragg involving a controversial novel idea from Alabama, the so-called abatement by death approach, which would maintain the conviction as if Trump had died. So there are many routes for Judge Marchand to exercise, if you will, his stubbornness.
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Yeah, I mean, at some point, I think that though, Harry, just briefly, the stubbornness comes to a close, right? He's running out of options to keep this case up.
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I think that is true, but I think one of the things that we should keep in mind is that he may still basically try to hold the hammer over Trump's head until Trump leaves office.
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We're going to be on it, folks. If we need to file there again, yet again, as these go on appeal, we will. Support the work of the ACLJ, as you said, as we talk through. these cases 175 pro-life legal matters just this year 197 free speech matters just this year 142 religious liberty matters just this year 126 legal actions battling the deep state and then the cases that just don't hundreds that don't fit into those exact categories you know why we were able to do all those cases because of your financial support of the ACLJ. And I'd like to be doing even more, even bigger, even more complicated. We can only do that with your financial support. Double the impact your donation today. We need that support. So please, whatever donation you can make, make it today. You see the facts, you hear the numbers, you know we win. Welcome back to Secular. Remember, second half hour coming up. We'll take your phone calls too on all these matters. Maybe even some of the UFOs. 1-800-684-3010. Did you guys talk about that yesterday?
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We didn't. We haven't gotten to that yet. We were waiting for you.
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I think we do have to get to some of that just to... again get well what what we do and don't know but we know that there's democrats starting to say enough is enough we got governors saying let's pass laws to say we can shoot things out of the sky let's make sure they're not airplanes first or how do we determine what the one that is an airplane versus one that is a drone there's a lot of issues there uh but at the same time it does feel like the the truth is being hidden from us because at this point um They acknowledge just some of this activity and what people are seeing is just way too big to be said. These are not things you go buy at your local Walmart that your kids can play with or do a flyover of a house for a real estate thing that you're kind of used to seeing drones. And they use them in sporting events and things like that. Those are small. We know drones can look like airplanes. I mean, they take off like airplanes, especially when you're talking about those that carry deadly payloads. So we'll get to some of that, too, at 1-800-684-3110. I wanted to bring in a very good friend of ours, basically since we started kind of dipping our feet into not just Washington, D.C. and the legal system, but into the political world and the executive branch. And that is Tim Gageline. And Tim, we love having you on the show. I'm so glad you reached out to us. Just a little bit about you, too, for people. You were the special assistant to President George W. Bush and a deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. You were the president's principal outreach contact. So you can understand how Tim got to know us very well for conservative and faith-based groups. He also helped me, folks, kick off my political career in campaign politics, which is something, again, that led me to work on, you know, not just one, but I think it was four total presidential campaigns. So Tim, I will always appreciate you for that. You've got a new book out now. You're currently the Vice President of External and Government Relations for Focus on the Family. And your new book, Stumbling Toward Utopia, How the 1960s Turned into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream. So my first question for you is this. Tell everybody about your book and this stumbling towards utopia idea.
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You bet. I travel a lot, Jordan, and thanks for having me on for Focus on the Family. Although I live and work in Washington, I travel about a third of the time. I debate. I'm on panels. I do remarks, speeches, whether it's a left-wing audience, right-wing audience, non-ideological People say, Jordan, how in the world did we get into this mess? And in the era that we're in, people don't have to give much more information because we all know what we're speaking about. And after hearing this for three straight years, I decided to write Stumbling Toward Utopia. which is a history of the radical, moral, and social revolution of the 1960s. And Stumbling Toward Utopia, eminently readable, is about how the 60s came about. The revolution in law and legal, the revolution in politics, the revolution in popular entertainment, the revolution in education, the sexual and moral revolution. All of this imposed upon our country, Jordan, by a relatively small circle of progressive social engineers. And we are all these years later, here we are in 2024, living with the social engineering that the people who foisted this upon us, that we're all living with. And Stumbling Toward Utopia, single book that explains not only how we got into this mess, but if I may say, how to get out of this mess. And I think that all of us who care about and love this beloved country are together on not arguing the past, understanding the past, but saying, what is the way forward? And I think that's why people will really enjoy Stumbling Toward Utopia.
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I mean, we've seen what's happened in other Western parts of the world where they don't integrate new immigrants into society very well and to kind of prioritize, hey, you are first a citizen of this country and then whether it's a faith, whether it's this idea that you're not going to be in conflict with a new country, this idea of taking over and changing the morals. And also the woke world that honestly any of us with young kids are very concerned about because... you have no idea what these teachers are teaching in classes. And occasionally when the ACLJ is contacted about it, it's jaw dropping Tim. I mean, it really is. It's not even something that you would imagine would be done with people who are, you know, 14 and 15 years old. I mean, they can't go buy an R rated ticket, but they can, go through an r-rated monologue or x-rated monologue in front of their entire class so you know it has its roots in the 60s so then all these professors now at college campuses they were kind of trained in this when they were students and I think that's where we got to this woke movement you agree like it's basically they were building it up through the universities and it's also why I think the democrat party is and the left is in a mess because there's the left and And then there's the radical left. And the radical left is where the younger people who are left are because they were taught by these radicals who have become more and more mainstream.
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Absolutely. A fellow conservative, Jordan, recently wrote that those who foist Wokistan are like hyenas. He said they hunt in packs. And that is so true. The overtaking of higher education, the overtaking of high school, middle school, elementary elementary and all government and public schools. It's a very big part of the story of stumbling toward utopia. But ironically, Jordan, and I'm an inveterate optimist, I mean, I believe that the best days for America are ahead of us. Ironically, the way forward out of this mess is in part through the schools. We now have record numbers of people who are running for school boards, working to design curriculums that put the American experience at the center, the U.S. Constitution at the center, the history of religious liberty at the center. So it's a very important thing that we focus like a laser beam on the rising generation of young Americans, and we need to go tell a new generation. And what I seek to do in Stumbling Toward Utopia is to provide a roadmap of how people who share our worldview want to move forward, want to move forward toward American restoration, American renewal, American regeneration. Stumbling Toward Utopia tells the story of how we got into the mess, but it also says, here's how we can get out of it. And I think it's very important that we all realize that the American dream is a real thing and it's possible and likely for our children and grandchildren.
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And if you want to get the book, Stumbling Towards Utopia, how the 1960s turned into a national nightmare and how we can revive the American dream, you can get that at faithfultext.com. You've heard kind of the roots of the problem now. And if you're interested in that roadmap, go check that out at faithfultext.com or anywhere you get your books.
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Tim, I just want to say a big thank you to you for joining us. Keep us updated about the book. I encourage everyone out there to go to faithfultext.com. Tim, that's the best place people can go. The book is up now, but that's the place people should go to order the book, faithfultext.com.
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Faithfultext.com, Amazon, wherever you love to get books. I mentioned Faithful Text because there are people who share our worldview, but it's available widely. And I hope people will read and enjoy it, Jordan.
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Absolutely. And they're going to learn a lot. Tim, I appreciate you joining us and working with us on the time. And I know I'm going to grab a copy of that book because you see the protesters there and you say, is that a picture from the 1960s? No. Those are photos that are happening now again with communists being celebrated and terrorists being celebrated in the streets of America. So we have to get ourselves educated. And what you'll do in this book, we don't want to give away, is learn how to defeat it. So get the book so you learn how. Tim, it's always great to have you. FaithfulText.com. Search Tim Gageline, and you've got to grab this book. We'll be right back on Sekulow. Support that work with ACLJ. ACLJ.org. Donate today.
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Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Jordan Sekulow.
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All right, folks, welcome back to Sekulow. Let's get to the phones. 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. And remember, we don't talk about a lot of books on the air, and that's because we really like to know the people who are writing the books before we encourage you to spend time, one, purchasing the book and then taking their advice. But Tim Gagelin, certainly he's been in this battle before. for, especially in Washington, D.C., at the executive branch level and throughout legislators, you heard him, he's on the road most of the time, brought a lot of us into electoral politics by saying, you know, there is this role for us and carved that out to the point where, as you see, evangelical influence on the Republican Party still at an all-time high with President Trump and his incoming administration, because it's such a key voting bloc. Tim was part of kind of that movement beginning and doubling down on it in the George W. Bush years when he knew that they were coming up against a tough midterm, second term election, reelection. And I remember Tim is the one who really helped me with others uh land a spot on that team uh that to on the bush cheney re-elect team uh which i had already worked on some campaigns for people with people like uh chairman ralph reed when he was the chair of the georgia republican party so there was a lot again people there but When Tim writes a book like this, he's a very serious guy, and I think the fact that he's got a solution in there is the reason why you should definitely check it out. Will, let's go to the phones at 1-800-684-3110. We want to talk to you about even the drones. issue. You know, if you're in New Jersey, the tri-state area, I mean, it's happening all over the place, but you've got the New York governor saying, we got to get to the bottom of this. You have people trying to say, oh, these are all airplanes. That just can't be the case because you can't have this many low-flying airplanes around, you know, major airports like JFK and LaGuardia, Philadelphia, just randomly. You know, you're never supposed to be able to fly drones in in those areas, those restricted space areas, if you will. And yet the government seems like for now they're going to gaslight us. I have a feeling that if we don't get an answer now, we're certainly going to get an answer when President Trump comes into office. But that shouldn't have to be the case, Will. We should get the answer now. Let's go to the phones. John in Illinois on line two. Hey, John.
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John, you're on the air.
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We'll check with John and get back to him. There's some interesting news, too, over just the power of President Trump and diplomacy. You know, Justin Trudeau in Canada has taken a very leftist move in Canada. So in the past, we were used to actually fairly conservative governments. When I say that, they're not exactly what we would define necessarily conservative as, but they were more conservative than like the Conservative Party in the UK. Trudeau, very much a leftist. Well, he is actually considering, this is breaking news now, resigning. because he does not believe he can work with president Trump effectively to help the Canadian people now is he really going to do that I have no idea but that I it also could be his cover will for why and the leftists who are probably mad at him for why he flew down to Mar-a-Lago and took that kind of beating from president Trump he kept calling him as he still does governor Trudeau Because he said, hey, why don't we just, Canada can be our 51st state.
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When you look at also what happened in the Canadian government, it's a parliamentary style government, it's coalition governments. The finance minister went to Trudeau and basically said, hey, these policies we're doing, which she was in charge of, by the way. haven't been working and with the tariffs maybe we got to change course and Trudeau and she had a fight and he offered to demote her and instead she resigned narrowing his majority in that coalition government that he has when conservatives in Canada had made big gains earlier this year. And all the polling shows that when they do call elections, as parliamentary governments do, that Trudeau will be overwhelmed by the conservative support and lose that prime ministership anyways. So he may be trying to look for an easy off-ramp, unlike Judge Marchand, who wants to keep delaying the inevitable.
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right folks again we want to take your phone calls at 1-800-684-3110 there's a lot to talk about here and i am willing to talk about that ufo issue i think it's gone bipartisan and it's way too long we have not gotten the answer support the work of the aclj remember final two weeks of our faith and freedom drive the most important time of our year donate today double your impact we need your support donate Welcome back to Sekulow. Again, we are taking your phone calls. And this is another one that I think is going to be a really fun agency. And sometimes you say, are budget-cutting agencies fun? Well, they are when Elon Musk is running them with Vivek Ramaswamy. And as you see President Trump keeping both of them close. as well as if you saw the Army-Navy game, you saw our colleague Tulsi Gabbard there as well. You kind of see that that team is coming together. Speaker Johnson, someone we've worked with, again, so long, well, long before he was even in the House of Representatives. So you start seeing that team come together, these different coalitions, J.D. Vance included, too. And you realize when you talk about... cost-cutting and you put this group together it is kind of the opposite of how the Republican Party used to look at it and I think that will was kind of like the Paul Ryan way maybe the Boehner way just that just a different style where they really were worried that they couldn't come in and say you know or they thought it would be too extreme to say you know over time we need to dismantle Department of Education And there might still be a DOE, but those people need to be working out in the fields, providing support to the public schools. They shouldn't all be stuck in Washington, D.C. What are they doing there? Just coming up with random curriculum. Why do we have these thousands of people managing public schools who already have management at multi-levels going up to the state. And if we are going to keep some kind of a federal involvement there, obviously to make sure that everybody is getting the education they deserve and working on school choice issues. You combine school choice and really taking the Department of Education a totally different route to where these people in D.C. don't just get to sit at their and there are fancy buildings, but I actually have to go and work in the field. And I think that is the new way of looking at things. Well, it's also telling federal workers, listen, only 17% of you are showing up at all to work. If you don't show up to work, you're gone. And that's a matrix where I don't think they are protected by. Like in the past, it's very difficult to remove bureaucrats for anything but cause. And the cause has to be pretty serious or multiple times. In this case. not showing up to work after you were mandated to be in the office I think would be at the top of the list because you're literally skipping work and disobeying your director so it's insubordination and I feel like that group can be let go easily so I think they're going to call them out on say are these people going to show up do they even live in Northern Virginia anymore, because let me tell you, I know folks who are pretty high up in the bureaucracy who joke about it. They aren't still in Washington, D.C. Their position is there, their office is there, but guess what? They're living wherever they want off of your taxpayer dollars. So there's a lot to do there when it comes to Doge, but there's even an aspect on life, Will, And I think this is key too, because when people think about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, they know that they're kind of newer to the Republican Party, but they also have core beliefs. And Elon Musk is someone, as you know, he has a lot of kids. He believes this whole idea of population control is absurd. And so, because there's so many countries around the world where populations are on decline, and that's not good for the economy, because it makes it that much more difficult for the current population a generation as they retire to be taken care of by the generation that comes behind them if there are much less people in that generation who are earning so they but they didn't stop there will they went right to the heart of something we have been calling for for a long time and now that roe versus wade has been overturned it can be done it can be done without a lot of legal challenges at all and this is cutting the three to five hundred million dollars a year that Planned Parenthood receives from our taxpayer dollars. Half of their budget. They're a billion-dollar-a-year organization. They raise about half. Good for them. They can do that on their own. But why should they get another $500 million from your taxpayer dollars? And the Doge guys and the guys at Elon and Vivek want it cut.
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That's right, Jordan. And we sent this article around from Politico last night because the left's pet projects are under attack now that the Department of Government Efficiency has a mandate to eliminate waste and inefficiency in the government. And remind people, this isn't the Department of Government cuts. This is the Department of Government efficiency. It doesn't want to get rid of government per se. It wants to make sure that it's doing its mandate for the American people. And Politico put this article out and think the mandate for Doge is the two trillion dollars in cuts they want to make. They honed in on the Wall Street Journal article that Vivek and Elon Musk put out. And they mentioned Planned Parenthood. We were very excited because it's something we've championed defunding for decades here at the ACLJ.
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There's no. No law, no rule that forces the American people to have to pay for any organization's work. That is totally up to legislation. And though you can do that, and there are a lot of disaster relief organizations that will partner with the federal government as needed. But in this situation, we're just giving money to Planned Parenthood to do their thing, to expand.
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So, Jordan, this is the article headline, as they want to now discredit Doge. The Doge plan that could cost millions. And they talk about cutting the nearly $300 million, and I think that's an underestimate, going to Planned Parenthood. Right. But then it says, it points out that when they study this Congressional Budget Office, if you cut this funding, that it actually will end up costing $130 million more over 10 years of services. So you think it's like, okay, well, first of all, that's only $13 million extra a year that by cutting it that you're spending. So it's not like on the scale of cutting $2 trillion, spending $13 million a year, not that big of a deal. But their rationale is that if you cut Planned Parenthood's funding, as much as 25% of the estimated 2.6 million clients served by Planned Parenthood would face reduced access to care. particularly services that help women avert pregnancies, meaning the number of births in the Medicaid program would increase by several thousand per year. So the left's ideology is saying that if you cut Planned Parenthood, it's going to cost more money because there will be more people. And if that isn't the most sick rationale of saying we need to keep sending $500 million a year to Planned Parenthood, I don't know what is. They're admitting what we say all along. It proves the fungibility of money under Planned Parenthood. Because if they're saying by cutting their funding, more people will be born, that's kind of the goal. We want life. We are pro-life. But you even have to think about this, Jordan. In light of the assassination on the UnitedHealthcare CEO... where the left cries that the insurance company is so corrupt, it only treats people as numbers and dollars, not as human beings. That's exactly the same ideology that they're proving that they're for with government spending, because they're not looking at these several thousand number of births as lives, they're looking at as taxpayer burden. And I don't know a single pro-life person out there that would not want more spending, reusing that spending to help pregnant mothers rather than just spending it to help them end the life. And that's the complete brainwashing of the left where they only see births as numbers and a line item in the federal budget.
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Yeah, and what they forget to tell you is that eventually these children who will be born will be earners. And we need more of those earners. Why? Well, we just explained it. There's too many groups who decided not to have as many children in our country. And we are being outpaced by others because we bought into this idea of overpopulation, which there are countries in the world where, yes, overpopulation has been a huge issue, and we do work in India, certainly there, the fact that you've got just people everywhere. But there are also, if you drive through India, a lot of areas which are completely open. So there is opportunities to think uniquely and differently, like we did as an early country. We wanted the people to go into the frontier, so we made it easier for them to go into the frontier and say, start a new life. Here's your plot of land. Here's where you can build your house. And this is the kind of work and jobs we'll have out there. Take advantage of it. So we really need these resources coming in from young people. Now, I don't look at children being born just as dollar signs, but that's what they do. Realize that. They're just saying, you know what? Don't think about the fact that we're killing children. We're going to try to make this a pocket book issue for you, Will. We're going to try to make it an issue about, you know what? We don't need all these kids because that's going to cost me more in taxes. In fact, if you are someone even within 25 years of retiring and we don't get our population numbers up, it's going to be a lot tougher for the federal government to be paying for your social security, for all those different drug plans. I mean, so I mean, like think about Medicare. If you've got so many less people, who are in their working years that are paying those taxes at their employers. I mean, so if you don't do it, I mean, everybody's in serious trouble except for who, Will?
SPEAKER 03 :
The elites. And that's exactly why we're initiating that campaign in Massachusetts. It's this ideology that only sees births as government line item budget items instead of changing people's hearts and minds about what their options are. That's why we have this campaign and you can actually help fund that. We've shown the video on the show yesterday when Logan was here. But you can go to aclj.org slash savebabies, and that will take you to help push this marketing campaign in Massachusetts and around the country that shows that there are options. That's why pregnancy resource centers are so important, because they show options. They give mothers a real choice, not the choice that Politico and Planned Parenthood want you to believe you have. Go to aclj.org slash savebabies. Donate today. Your gift is doubled.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm proud of my brother, Logan, Will Haynes, our production team here, not the production even for just the show, though a lot of that team also worked on really putting together our first issue advocacy ad that will be running in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pushing back on this $8 million campaign that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has partnered with a radical pro-abortion group together to put these billboards and there's commercials, they're on the buses. They are on your television. They use primetime to demonize these pregnancy resource centers because they offer alternatives other than abortion. So they want you to avoid them, as you can see in some of this advertising. But if you're listening to the show right now, I want to make sure for those of you who just watched, you saw the ad again during our break. But remember, we got thousands and thousands, probably over a million people right now throughout the day who are going to be listening to this show instead of watching it. And so I want to make sure they hear the content because there's going to be radio components of this, the visual component of it, web ads, traditional television advertising as well. I mean, we're talking billboards and we don't want to just do this in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We know the overall cost to run a full level campaign that we want to do is about for Massachusetts is about $500,000. We're well on our way there. Big thank you to folks who have responded. Uh, We then wanted to say, if we can do it there, let's take it to more states. It's not going to be in a lot of red states, but in blue states. And maybe they're not going to be as big of a market necessarily as Boston and all the cities and states that surround that, that you have to make sure your ads get into. But I want you to see... This is just the kind of opening salvo, the first ad we've created to push back in Massachusetts. For those of you who already saw it on, you know, watching on YouTube or Rumble, just take it in. Close your eyes, kind of listen to the words if you're not driving and think about listening it that way, too, about how important the work of these PRCs are. They are not to be demonized. They're to be praised. They're on the front lines of changing and saving children. We can do all that legal work to overturn Roe versus Wade, but there have to be people ready to help women who are in tough situations make the best decisions at no cost. So just like our legal work is at no cost, these pregnancy resource centers provide all of this at no cost. Planned Parenthood doesn't like that either because they get either reimbursement money from states or people pay directly for them to have abortions. So they don't want this. They're like going up against a business. They're not just like the nonprofit world. So. Watch it. Really pay attention to the words. And this is just, again, part one of what we want to do in Massachusetts. There's going to be a lot more just to that campaign. We just have to have the resources to run it effectively. We don't want to be running a... $200,000 campaign up against 8 million. But if we can get to that 500,000-ish number, even though they spent 8 million, when you're the state, you kind of throw that money around in a lot of junk. We are going to use that money that you donate to us very specifically, very targeted, so it hits exactly the right people. So let's watch it. Let's listen.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'll never forget that day. scariest moment of my life. I had just started my business and then this. Pregnant? Really? I just thought about all of my dreams falling apart. I needed help, I needed answers. Places I heard of, they seemed to only offer one option. Then I found a pregnancy resource center and they talked to me about my options. She listened, she actually cared about me. No shame, no judgment. I'll never forget that day either. The day that I realized, maybe this wasn't the end of my dreams, but just the start of one I hadn't even imagined. He is here. To find a pregnancy resource center near you, go to choicebeginshere.org. 15th.
SPEAKER 04 :
So again, the website people go with, Choice Begins Here.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that's what the ad is doing because- Can people go there yet? Is that site ready? It is live. Yeah, but once again, if you want to support this project, you go to aclj.org slash savebabies. That link will give people resources to find pregnancy resource centers. So this isn't an ad speaking to our base, people that know about pregnancy resource centers, people that want to support that. because we're going to Massachusetts to counter the campaign by the state and this abortion group that is targeting what they call anti-abortion centers. They tell you to be on the lookout for words like hope and things of that nature because it could be a deceptive anti-abortion center.
SPEAKER 04 :
and we filed lawsuit there yeah against because the state's using state funds to support this group today so we're not just trying to run ads it is new for us but we we think it can be very effective to combat those uh this this advertising and also continue the legal battle simultaneously but we've got to have your financial support but will i know that it's important sometimes to hear from the individuals hear from the courts hear from who are up against here
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. And so we filed this lawsuit saying, hey, you're using government money to target a viewpoint. It's viewpoint discrimination. Pro-life pregnancy resource centers. And they filed their response, their motion to dismiss. So they're trying to get it thrown out of court early before it can proceed. And they are giving the factual background in this motion to dismiss. And it says on March 22nd, 2023... The Massachusetts legislator enacted fiscal year 2023 supplemental budget, signed by Governor Healey on March 29, 2023, which provided that not less than $1 million shall be expended for a public awareness campaign to educate providers and the public about crisis pregnancy centers and pregnancy resource centers and the center's lack of medical services. Provided further that this campaign shall include information on the availability of providers across the Commonwealth that provide legitimate medical and family planning services. So they're only going to consider you legitimate if you offer abortion. It later goes on in their motion to dismiss where they talk about. The fact that these medical centers, they don't offer abortion. That's literally what they're complaining about, that they may provide ultrasounds and counseling, but they advertise themselves as full-service reproductive health care clinics, yet they do not provide abortion care or abortion referral. At the end of the day, it goes back to what we talked about with this Politico article. They are so brainwashed into thinking the only way to care for an unexpected pregnancy or anything of that nature is to have the option of abortion. And they will go so far as to use the taxpayers money of Massachusetts to try and slam the the pregnancy resource centers, these centers that give options, that give pre, postnatal care, that give diapers, meals, counseling to people that find themselves in a situation where they think they have no other choice. And they don't want you to have a choice. They want you to make one choice. What our campaign will do with your help at aclj.org slash savebabies is to show that there are choices and there are people to help you with those choices. Folks,
SPEAKER 04 :
we are in the final two weeks of our faith and freedom year in drive and some of you join this show at different parts of the show so i want to make sure it's clear we do thousands hundreds sometimes cases every year just this year alone we've done 175 pro-life legal matters that's just in 2024 and we still got you know days to go here to do more 197 free speech matters 142 religious liberty matters 126 legal actions battling the deep state and hundreds of others. You're talking about FOIAs. You're talking about the election integrity cases we have done this year. So you need to support the work of the ACLJ. We want to file even more cases to defend your rights. Donate today. ACLJ.org. We need you.
As the government races against time to finalize a short-term funding bill, Congressman Robert Adderhold sheds light on the ongoing negotiations and obstacles. Shifting to heartbreaking domestic issues, we discuss the tragedy at Abundant Life Christian School, emphasizing the urgent need for community vigilance in safeguarding our youth. Finally, delve into the legal territories of abortion drug regulation with Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against out-of-state prescriptions, marking a significant moment in cross-border reproductive health legislation.
SPEAKER 08 :
from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good afternoon. Great to have you on board. Welcome to this Tuesday edition of Washington Watch. I am Jody Heiss, the Senior Vice President here at the Family Research Council and President of FRC Action. As always, an honor to be filling in for Tony when needed. All right, we've got a lot coming up on the program today. Let me start by giving some of the highlights. A deal, it looks like, between Israel and Hamas is reportedly closer than ever. But certainly we've heard that before.
SPEAKER 20 :
Based on the remaining issues, we should be able to get to an agreement. We should be able to bridge the disagreements between the two parties. But that is not to say that we will. Because again, there have been times before where we were close. differences were bridgeable and ultimately we didn't get a deal.
SPEAKER 07 :
That was U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller earlier today. So just how close are they? Well, I'll be discussing this in just a few moments when I'm joined by Dr. A.J. Nolte of Regent University. And there was a Classified briefing today for members of the House Intelligence Committee regarding the drones that have been seen in New Jersey and elsewhere. Congressman Scott Perry, who is a member of that committee, plans to call in here in just a little bit so that he can share the latest that he can share coming out of that classified briefing. And a text now for the stopgap measure to fund the government. It's expected anytime. In fact, we've been looking for it for days now. What's in this?
SPEAKER 15 :
The CR is coming together. Bipartisan work is ongoing. We're almost there. We worked really hard to achieve consensus on a bill that responsibly funds the government into March of next year. We're going to take care of these obligations and get this done, and then we're going to go to work in unified government in the 119th Congress that begins in January.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, of course, that was Speaker Mike Johnson earlier today. So do we have the text? Well, I'll get the latest from Congressman Robert Adderhold, who's a member of the House Appropriations Committee. He'll be joining us a little bit later. And the investigation continues into the motives behind yesterday's school shooting at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin.
SPEAKER 11 :
We're looking into her online activity. We're asking anyone who knew her or who may have insights into her feelings leading up to yesterday to please contact the Madison area Crime Stoppers. Again, anyone who may have known her or knew what she was feeling or going through at that time.
SPEAKER 07 :
That was Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes giving an update this afternoon. And as in the case of other shootings of this nature, many people are asking if there were signs that were missed. Was there anything that could have been done to help prevent this individual from committing such a horrific act? Well, I'll be discussing this a little bit later when I'm joined by FRC's Meg Kilgannon. And then we'll conclude today's program discussing some developments on the life issue, including abortion drugs that may or may not have been offered by Kroger. We'll also discuss the court battles that are playing out over the abortion pill. So as always, we've got a lot to bring your way. We'll get to all of it as the program unfolds. But if you happen to miss any portion of today's program, Fear not. You can always catch it by going to our website, TonyPerkins.com, where certainly you can find not only this edition of Washington Watch, but past editions as well. And also lots and lots and lots of resources there for you. So be sure. to bookmark that page, tonyperkins.com. All right, let's jump into our first topic for the day. We are expecting Congressman Scott Perry to call in after votes, which are underway right now. But while we wait, I want to bring you up to speed on the latest regarding the hostage deal negotiations between Israel and Hamas. According to some reports, Israel is closer than ever to closing a deal. But just how close is that, especially considering how past talks have gone? Well, joining me now to discuss the latest is Dr. A.J. Nolte. He's the Chairman of Government Graduate Program and Director of the International Development Master's Program at Regent University. He's also the Director of the Institute for Israel Studies at Regent University. Dr. Nolte, always great to have you on Washington Watch. Welcome back. Jody, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me. You're very welcome.
SPEAKER 19 :
So what's the latest? What are you hearing? So what we're hearing today is that it does appear as though they are close. We're hearing that from both Palestinian sources and also from the current defense minister, Israel Katz, who used to be the foreign minister, and from other figures in the Israeli government that this is very close. and that they are expecting a deal that is going to easily pass both the security cabinet and the Knesset, because of course, just proposing the deal is not enough on the Israeli side, they'll have to pass it as well. Some of the necessary preconditions that the Israelis have said they want are, for example, access to the Philadelphia corridor. And for those who remember some of Israel's past military operations, this is that corridor that stretches across the border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. So not on the Israeli side of the border, but on the Egyptian side. And then the Netzerim corridor, this is a corridor that Israel has been using in Gaza to sort of move through the Gaza Strip and kind of maintain control of some of those highways to access different parts of the Strip for security purposes. And so those are not, Israel moving out of those areas from what we're being told so far does not seem to be on the table. And that has been a non-negotiable for the Israelis. And so what we'll be talking about is a staged release of hostages, beginning with what they call these humanitarian categories. So folks that are sick, female soldiers, perhaps children and the elderly, and then eventually culminating to full release in exchange for what looks like some sort of prisoners to be released from Israeli prisons. And then also, A ceasefire, of course, from Israel and Gaza. So that appears to be, from what we're hearing, what's on the table. Although, of course, with these negotiations, we've been very close a couple of times in the past. So it's hard to say exactly how close we are right now.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, listen, that's really encouraging news, everything that you just shared. But like you just said in your final comment there, we've been close before. How confident are you personally that this is really possibly going to happen this time?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, so let me give you the optimistic case. The optimistic case is that over the past several months, Hamas has systematically seen all of its potential international backers removed as justices from the table. So, of course, you have Israel's wildly successful operations against Hezbollah. You have the absolutely shocking fall of the Assad regime. It's hard to underestimate how impactful this shift is. And particularly that will complicate things for Iran, which is one of the main backers of Hamas right now in terms of their logistics and their ability to even support Hamas. And so the board has really flipped in a lot of ways. And of course, Israel has been very successful in its operations within Hamas. It seems like if you're an optimist that perhaps Hamas is more in survival mode than they have been in the past.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's all be optimistic about this for sure. Right. Dr. Nolte, I'm sorry, I've got to go right now. But listen, I want to thank you for this update. It's extremely encouraging news. And I don't know of anybody that stays on top of what's happening in Israel any more than you. I want to thank you so much for taking time to join us today on Washington Watch.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you so much. And I hope you find out what's going on with the drones.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that's what we're going to do right now. We've just got a couple of minutes. So earlier today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence received a classified briefing about the drones that have been flying over New Jersey and several other states. Well, what came out of that? Joining me now by phone is Congressman Scott Perry. He represents the 10th Congressional District from Pennsylvania. Congressman Perry, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks in your busy schedule for joining us.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, great to be with you, Jody. And, of course, look, I wish I could say you picked the right guy. But, of course, I'm on that committee. And what happens inside that secure compartmentalized information facility must stay inside there. But let me just say this. We had a lot of different representatives from the federal government. You can imagine the three-letter agencies that were in the room. I was not satisfied in the least with the information that we received. I actually think that in some cases we had more information than they did, and that's very concerning. I would say this. Look, you can't have officials saying that we don't know who's doing it, but there's nothing to be concerned about. Both those things can't be true at the same time, and that's what they're saying, and that's just inappropriate. You know, I've asked for the results of the FBI's investigation. Now, I don't know how long it's going to take me to get them. You know, of course, me asking, I don't think that that would be anything classified. But we want to see the American people want to trust in the information they're receiving. And, you know, when you see something with your own eyes, there better be a pretty darn good explanation for it. And don't just tell us that we're seeing things and that they didn't occur and that it's the same old same old that the government has done to us. And unfortunately, they've just lost all their credibility over the course of time here, as you know. And unfortunately, I left without any answers whatsoever in my opinion.
SPEAKER 07 :
So let me ask you this, and I have tried to emphasize that this was a classified briefing. And with that, I know you're very limited on what you can say. So let me approach it from this direction. What more would you like to know? I mean, what are some questions that you would like to have answered?
SPEAKER 09 :
The questions I would like to have answered are, have you positively identified any of these vehicles? and who is operating them, for what purpose? Have you located the individuals? Are they operating within any kind of guidelines? Jody, there are a lot of reports, and some come from the state police, from county sheriffs. I hate to say it this way, but it's one thing if the general public reports something, but when a state police officer reports something, having followed up on it and tried to intercept one of these things, or more than one of these things, to me that has credibility because someone in the position of authority has had eyes on and tried to do something about it. And for the FBI to not be able to speak to that, to me, is concerning. So, you know, again, those are some of the answers to the questions that I have. And, you know, are they coming on to the shore? Are they, you know, can you verify, can you validate that the sightings that many people are claiming are real? You know, those are simple questions that you think if you were going to a briefing you would have answers to.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and it seems as though it just seems as though this is a clear cover up. I mean, these are drones. They don't have unlimited ability to fly. They take off from somewhere. They are battery operated. They can only last for so long and they go back to some place. This ought to be easy to know. And because of that, it makes you suspect. that they really do know something, they're just not telling us. And that in itself is extremely concerning. Congressman Scott Perry, always great to talk with you. I want to thank you. I know you have a ton of things happening right now on Capitol Hill, running every which way but loose. And we deeply appreciate you taking a few moments and joining us with this update.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you, Jody, and thank FRC. God bless you and your mission. And we've got to save the country, so let's get after that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Keep it up and Merry Christmas to you and your dear family. All right, friends, coming up, the latest on the continuing resolution, trying to deal with this government spending and keep it funded. Congressman Robert Adderhall will be joining me after the break to discuss the latest. So stay tuned. Much more coming your way right after the break.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Let's not be discouraged. Don't lose heart. Don't lose the faith. Stand now strong because the Lord has given us the great privilege of living in a time when our choices matter, when our lives matter, when our courage matters. So let's stand together and save this great country. God bless the United States of America.
SPEAKER 02 :
The American Republic has a freedom like no other. It has roots in the scriptures far more than any other heritage. And if we as followers of Jesus and conservatives don't defend it, who will?
SPEAKER 12 :
Neutrality is not an option. There are many Christians who believe that if we just keep our heads down, if we just don't say the wrong thing, that somehow we will come out of this unscathed. You're naive if you think that, because what they want from us is not our silence. What they want from us is our submission.
SPEAKER 01 :
Part of the dilemma of Christianity in our generation is that we've relied a little too much on human wisdom and human reasoning, human strength, human resource, and we've relied too little on the power of God and God's ability to open doors that we can't open and do things that we couldn't even hope to begin to do.
SPEAKER 13 :
This may not be an easy task, But we are living in a moment of challenge, but also a great opportunity. And we know always that we are not alone, that his spirit empowers us and protects us, and that he can do the unimaginable. Dobbs, after all, was never supposed to happen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Father, we thank you. You have entrusted us with this moment in history, and I pray that we would be found faithful, and that as a result of our faithfulness to you, that thousands, millions would come into the kingdom as they would experience the forgiveness of sin and the new life that is found only in Jesus Christ. Amen.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good afternoon. Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm your host Jody Heist sitting in today for Tony and glad to have you with us. All right. Congress has been scrambling to finalize a short term bill to keep the government open at least through March 14th. And the text of the bill was actually expected on Sunday. Then it was expected on Monday. And then it's carried over to today. So do we yet have the text for this bill? Joining me now to discuss this is Congressman Robert Adderhold. He's a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Values Action Committee representing the 4th Congressional District of Alabama. Congressman Adderhold, welcome to Washington Watch.
SPEAKER 18 :
Thanks, Jody. Good to be with you. Thanks for having me on. Hey, listen, great to be with you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I was just going to say you were literally on the Capitol steps. We just had Congressman Perry on with us. He was in votes and you obviously have made it outside.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, we literally I just walked off the floor and I wanted to come on and be with you. And so good to be with you again. Good to see you again.
SPEAKER 07 :
Likewise. So give us the latest. Where's the C.R. right now?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, as of right now, I think there's still some final negotiations that are being settled. I have not – I've just, like I said, walked off the floor. I have not heard that a final version has been adopted. When I say adopted, approved of to move forward. But I would expect it would at any time. We've got to get this done. If the government shuts down, if we don't have the funding done by Friday night, uh so uh i would expect that this is just a matter of uh just making sure that they've got all the the dot the i's dotted the t's crossed and such as that to make sure uh at least i hope that's what it is but it's always this time of year as you well know you You've been here. You've served many years up here in the U.S. House of Representatives. And you know how things can come push comes to shove right here at the end. But obviously, I'm optimistic that we will get it done. But the speaker has been given a lot of grief lately that, you know, he's going ahead and not really doing an entire thing. omnibus right now, but I really am glad the Speaker's waiting until after the first of the year, because I don't want to cram something down the throats of the American people right here at the 11th hour at Christmas, and it'd be a bad bill. So if we need to wait a little bit to get a better bill and negotiate when Trump gets in office, then I'm all for that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and like you said, I mean, we both have been through this, you longer than me, but it always seems to happen at Christmas time where this type of thing happens. And generally, when you have big bills like this at Christmas, it's not good for the American people. Do you have any idea specifically what the holdup is? has been, what kind of last minute hurdles they're trying to overcome, and what are you hearing from your colleagues? Are they anxious about this or what are you hearing?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, one of the last holdups that has been, the major holdup that has been with this CR or this continuing resolution has been the assistance to agriculture. And obviously we need to protect the farmers in this country. I do not want to see a situation where we have to depend on other countries for our food. And so I've been very supportive of making sure that we do what we can to help farmers. Some on the other side of the aisle, or do not have a constituency that really sees as ag is important, and especially to farmers. But I can tell you, and you well know, being from Georgia, that farmers are really the backbone of this country. And we've got to make sure that they stay in business. Now, again, we understand it's all the free enterprise system, but at the same time, we could get all of our food from some other place in the world and maybe get it Sometimes cheaper, sometimes a little easier. But I fear of the day that the United States of America is depending on every other country in the world to bring us food supply because that puts us in a real vulnerable position.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, absolutely. And it's a lot better position as we are to be supplying food to the world rather than depending on others for our own food. So as we kind of wind down, the clock ticks towards the deadline here for the CR. What are your expectations looking ahead?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, you know, like I said, this is a continuing resolution. So all the probes bills, by and large, will be pushed into the new year, which I think is a good thing, because if I thought we could get a good deal right now, I would say, let's go for it. But if obviously I think the way the situation is with Biden still in the White House, with the Democrats still in control of the Senate, there's no way that we're going to get a good deal right now. So Let's just wait till after the first year. Now, a lot of my appropriation colleagues would disagree with me on that, but I'd never have been in favor of a bad bill just to get a bill done. But obviously, because this is the last train that leaves the station, so to speak, this is the last piece of legislation that will get out of Congress. They're attaching some things that we have to get done. And this aid to farmers is one of the things that I was just referring to that's been attached to it. And they want to make sure that we do try to help our farmers to make sure that they're not going bankrupt. And so if it takes a little time to do that, to protect some of our interests in this country, you know, I'd like to be finished and be back in Alabama. But obviously, we need to make sure we get the work done.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, first things first. So I take it from that. I mean, Tony, what you're saying sounds like there is some encouragement for our viewers and listeners. Is that correct that you are confident? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, I am optimistic that we will get an agreement soon. done within the matter. I think they'll have the final text, I would say, probably by tonight. But of course, obviously, you never say always or never up here because you never know what the case may be. But I'm optimistic that by Friday night at midnight, when the CR or when the current CR runs out, then we will have a continued resolution in place to fund us through at least probably until March of next year.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good to hear. Congressman Robert Aderhold, always great to see you and thank you for your leadership in Washington and beyond and the Values Action Team supporting our Christian values. Just as we have 30 seconds or so, how can we be praying for you and your colleagues right now?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, well, in this new Congress, really be praying that this new Congress gets off to a good start because obviously we, as conservatives, we're in a unique position having control of the House and the Senate and also the White House. So we've got to make sure that we don't squander this opportunity. So I'm very optimistic that we can do a lot of good things for the American people. The I think that praying for the president as he leads from the White House, but also the House and the Senate as we lead as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Congressman Robert Adderhold from Alabama, and thanks for stepping off on the steps of the Capitol to talk with us. Don't go away, folks. Much more coming up, specifically the shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, right after the break.
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SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you joining us. I'm Jody Heiss. An honor to be sitting in today for Tony. All right. Yesterday, as I'm sure you are aware by now, Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, became the latest school to become a victim of the school shooting. Tragically, that's the 83rd this year. Unbelievable. And although very much also unusual, the shooter in this case was a female student of the school. So what's behind this epidemic of violence in our schools, both in secular and Christian, I might add? Well, here now to discuss this heart-wrenching story is Meg Kilgannon. She's a senior fellow for education studies here at the Family Research Council. Meg, welcome back to Washington Watch. Appreciate you joining us.
SPEAKER 17 :
Thanks for having me, Tony. I mean, Jody. Sorry.
SPEAKER 07 :
Close enough, but a far stretch from Tony. Listen, so what do we know so far, Meg, about this shooter?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, she was a 15-year-old girl. She was a student at the school. It seems that her family, she's from a broken home. Her parents are divorced and remarried, and it seems from the manifestos that have been posted that are allegedly by her, you know, it's early in the process, so what do we really know? We're, you know, not a lot, but... But like so many of these other cases, this seems to be a family in crisis. And in a way, it could be really anyone's family. She wrote about feeling very alone. And it seemed that she spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time alone. on the internet and she had come to sort of idealize other school shooters and so this is just a such a tragic situation and right here at the holidays you know I hope that that the families that are listening to this show and families everywhere will spend the holidays with their kids really engaging with them And really looking honestly at your own family and saying, is there a child of mine who's feeling left out, who's feeling alone? And how much time are they in their room behind closed doors? And Do I need to just go in that room with them and just sit with them and be with them?
SPEAKER 07 :
A great point. You know, this really is such a heart-wrenching story. And the manifesto, allegedly, as you say, it's just heartbreaking to read some of the things that she describes. But for those parents who think that a Christian school is all they need to try to make sure that their kids are going to grow up okay. What do you say to them? Hats off to them for trying to put their kids in a Christian school. Of course. But what else would you say to them right now?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I mean, I think, you know, I'm a parent, you're a parent, we're always stressed, right? We're always rushed and in a hurry. And we're always looking for help. We always want the support of the community to raise our kids, right? And so it's easy to put our children in an environment, in a school situation, and think that we have a box checked, that they'll be fine. Because, you know, we're all on the same team here. And It really doesn't remove, as Tony does say, it doesn't remove the responsibility from you even though you delegate the authority to others. That isn't enough. It's great. It's a huge advantage over other situations in a child's life, but it will never replace the relationship that we'll have with our own children and that our children will have with each other if we're blessed with more than one child. So that family life, I mean, Christ came to us into a family. He could have come as king of the universe, right? But he chose to come humbly into a family.
SPEAKER 07 :
And he adopted us into his family. Yes, exactly. So what do you make, Meg, of the fact that now we have at least two schools, Covenant School Shooter and now the Abundant Life Christian School Shooter. Both are females. I mean, what is driving that? the developing trend where even females are expressing more and more violence in ways that we certainly have not seen in the past.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I think that this is a byproduct of the culture that we're living in. You know, we are aware that we're in an overly sexualized culture and women are behaving differently now than maybe a generation ago in terms of that kind of behavior and the same is true in terms of violence. We have a pornified culture and we also have an incredible glorification of violence in our culture. Both are a function of being in a culture of death rather than a culture of life. But the result of that is going to be that it's not just going to be the boys who will take these aggressive actions, but you're going to see this behavior adopted by the girls. And that really, for me as a woman, is very, very chilling and very sad.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is. Meg, we've got less than a minute. Real quickly, you and the Pray Vote Stand Summit in 2022, you were part of a panel with an individual named Wendell that you said made a powerful statement. Real quickly, what was that statement? And just highlight it for us.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, he said that, you know, we live for 50 years. We did a great job of protecting unborn children in the womb and that we need to keep our attention on children and make sure we're protecting them outside the womb. And I think he's exactly right. We do. Our children need our full attention, regardless of their age.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's a fight for life, both in the womb and beyond, outside the womb. And this type of tragic ending just highlights that more and more. Meg Kilgannon, FRC Senior Fellow for Education Studies. Always, it is an honor to have you on the program. Thank you so much. And listen, thank you for mistaking me as Tony. I appreciate that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Merry Christmas, Jody.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that was my Christmas present from you. Thank you so much. All right, friends, don't go anywhere. Much more coming your way. Texas is going after some out-of-state doctors that are prescribing dangerous abortion drugs to Texans. Wow, what a bold step, a powerful step. This is a story absolutely you need to hear. We'll bring it your way right after the break.
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Thank you so much for joining us today on Washington Watch. Welcome back. I am your host today, Jody Heiss. An honor to be sitting in for Tony. All right, before I bring in my next guest, I want to encourage you to join us here at Family Research Council as we are shining the light of biblical truth right here in Washington, D.C., and literally across our nation. We all know this is a dangerous time in which we're living. And we are now, of course, in the midst of a leadership transition, as well as a lame duck session of Congress. And FRC is serving literally as a watchman on the wall. We're here protecting faith, family, and freedom from multiple attacks from the left. And now, catch this, underscore this in your mind. Thanks to a $1.5 million challenge match, You now have the opportunity that every gift that you give to FRC from now to the end of the year, December 31st, everything you give will be doubled. Folks, you can have twice the impact. That's a huge opportunity. And so I'm asking you to stand with us here at FRC as literally we are here as though God has given us a prophetic voice. for biblical truth, and we ask you to join us in that. You can do so by texting the word LIGHT l-i-g-h-t light to six seven seven four two and together let's have an eternal impact and thank you for helping us out all right yesterday frc's news and commentary publication the washington stand which if you are not a part of that you need to let the washington stand be a regular diet for your source of news but yesterday the washington stand reported on how sam's club and kroger had quietly started offering abortion drugs at their pharmacies. Well, the Washington Stand reported on it yesterday, and guess what? Kroger is saying otherwise now. Wow. Huge praise for that. Joining me now to discuss this is Jared Bridges, who is the editor-in-chief of the Washington Stand. Jared, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you. Glad to be here. Great work. Let me just tell you, way to go. So I kind of gave a little bit of a summary. Please elaborate further for us.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, Jody, it used to be the most shocking thing you had to worry about when you were at the grocery store was what you were going to see in the tabloid section at the checkouts. You know, was Bill Clinton going to be abducted by aliens or something like that? Something like that. The good old days. Yeah, those were the good old days. But not anymore. The question remains, do people have to worry about their grocery store, their local grocery store, selling abortion drugs? And that's what was at issue here. The pro-life group, Live Action, had reported that Sam's Club and Kroger were offering abortion drugs. We thought that's something our readers would want to know about as well. So we looked into it, verified that indeed, and we pulled up Kroger's website and they They listed mifepristone on their website, and it said it was used as – this is not a headache drug. It even said that its use was to end pregnancies. So we wrote about it and pushed out the article. Then we heard from Kroger and one of their head of communications wrote to us and said the Kroger Company family of pharmacies do not carry Mifepristone nor do we dispense it. So we're kind of scratching our heads a bit on that. So we sent them a link to their website where the drug was being offered. And then they told us that the – that it was listed on their the kroger health savings club site in error and it has since been removed and they and reiterated that they do not carry mifepristone and they requested being removed from from the article uh which which okay we we put that information in there and got that out to our our readers at that point that is incredible you know that is uh
SPEAKER 07 :
It's hard to buy that it was just an accident. I mean, how do you put something like that on your website, describing the drug in detail like that? But listen, incredible work, Jared, from you and your team there at the Washington Stand and the communication back and forth. How are you going to be following up on this story now?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I mean, we've since verified that it is indeed no longer there. So what they've told us is that they currently do not carry it, and we will keep watching to see if they will.
SPEAKER 07 :
Jared Bridges, editor-in-chief of The Washington Stand. Tell everybody real quickly how they can become a regular follower and reader of The Washington Stand.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you can go find us on any of the social platforms. You can go to WashingtonStand.com, get the email, have all the articles sent to you every day. And, you know, that's where we go.
SPEAKER 07 :
Jared Bridges, thank you so much. Great work. Keep it up. Thank you for joining us on Washington Watch. Thanks, Jerry. All right. Great news, folks. And I'm telling you, you need to be a regular reader of The Stand. It is fantastic. Publications, multiple ones come out every day and from a biblical worldview giving you the news. All right. Let's go on to my next guest. Late last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter. Now, Carpenter is a New York-based doctor. So why in the world would the state of Texas be suing an out-of-state doctor? Well, it just so happens that Dr. Carpenter is the founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, and that group prescribed abortion drugs to a pregnant Texas woman who later suffered serious complications. So here now to break down the legalese of all of this is Dr. Chris Gasek. Chris is FRC's Senior Fellow for Regulatory Studies and is also an attorney himself. Chris, welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to have you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good to see you, Jody.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so this is pretty big news. Let's just start the legal grounds for Attorney General Paxson from Texas suing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the first the basis of just keep in mind that this is a civil action. It's not a criminal action. Right. So she's in he's in court suing this doctor from New York. And there are two basic reasons for this. On a very basic level, she's just practicing medicine in the state of Texas without being licensed in the state of Texas. She has no license there and she has no telemedicine license. The second part of this and probably the more impactful is that Texas has laws against physicians providing abortifacients to women in the state. She's violating both of these provisions and both of the provisions allowed for civil penalties. So the state is going after her to get an injunction to prevent her from doing more of this. But also there's $100,000 per event fine that's possible. They're asking for that. And then they're also asking for attorney's fees and different fees related to the litigation.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow, $100,000 per incident. That could add up pretty quickly. All right, so how in the world was Dr. Carpenter caught in this interstate abortion pill scheme? How did she get caught?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it's really interesting. So there's a 20-year-old woman in Collier County. I think it's Collier County, Texas. And she got the pills from the doctor and had an abortion. The abortion didn't, you know, it went awry. And remember that one in 25 of these chemical abortions will send a woman or the patient to the emergency room so that's what happened to her and she ended up needing to go she's having a severe reaction excessive bleeding she had to go to an emergency room she told her her boyfriend she was not married to take her there and the boyfriend didn't know anything about the pregnancy and was suspicious of all this he went back and found out found the drugs the abortion drugs and then He started the process of, I guess, reported it to the police. So I'm not sure what all was going there. But she is important thing to remember here is aside from the dynamics of the couple, she was an you know, she was an extremist. Right. She was a case where the abortion went awry and was one of these, you know, one in 25 women who needed help. emergency care. So the doctor in New York prescribed pills that sent somebody to an emergency room in Texas.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow, amazing. All right, so 1 in 25, that sounds like a pretty high risk medication. So while you're on that, just take a moment to remind our audience of some of the dangers that mifepristine poses to people.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I mean, mifepristone, the regimen, there are two drugs. It essentially is inducing a miscarriage, right? So as the FDA has noted, one in 25 women have sufficient complications that they have to go and have some sort of post. After taking the pills, you have to go and seek emergency care, right? And that usually has to do with, it can be things like incomplete abortion, excessive bleeding, I mean, really excessive, horrible bleeding. And then, I mean, fever, these kinds of things. So imagine all of the issues related to having a miscarriage, except that they've been created in this artificial environment. And most of the times, for example, here's another thing that the pro-life doctors have always complained about from the FDA process from the very beginning. The APLOG doctors and all these folks have always wanted the abortionist to have admitting privileges at a hospital for their patient so that they could take them in and admit them, right? Well, this woman's in New York, this doctor. The patient's in Texas. And this is a classic example of this woman basically had no care. She's relying on her boyfriend to take her over. He doesn't know anything about the case. I mean, she could have been really, really sick, right? So this is, I mean, just in every conceivable way, suboptimal, you know, very poor medical treatment. Let's put it that way.
SPEAKER 07 :
So the part, at least, of the press release that came out of the office of Attorney General Paxton said, It seemed to indicate to me that they are serious about this $100,000 penalty for each violation. Do you think that they really are serious about this? Are they going to try to make an example, if you will, out of Dr. Carpenter?
SPEAKER 03 :
well i don't think i don't think is in a yes i think they're very serious but i wouldn't put it in terms of making example of her she committed a crime in the state of texas so they're enforcing the law of texas right you know right mean it's uh... it's more than that they did This doctor did something serious, you know, seriously wrong, and it affected a person in their state. It could have ended up very badly. And, you know, they have to protect the health and well-being of the state of Texas. That's why you have state medical licensure laws, right? So these people are just kind of blowing past these pro-abortion doctors. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, yeah, so I guess part of, if we're going to use, and it's probably a bad choice of words, making an example. Yeah, I understand. Part of the example of this would be to, number one, communicate to other potential doctors doing the same thing that Texas is going to enforce their law. But secondly, if you as a doctor out of state are not familiar with the law of Texas, you certainly are now.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're going to find out more about it, especially if – I mean if you're a doctor, one of the things that I'm pretty sure you're pretty certain about if you're conscientious is where am I licensed to practice? What are the boundaries of that? What can I do in telemedicine? So this is part of the occupational requirements of doing your job. You really need to know that. what you're all about, and this woman knows what she's all about, this medical doctor, this doctor in New York. I mean, she is part of an organization that is focused on getting abortions into the, medical and chemical abortions through the mail into these states that have laws that are restrictive. So this is not something that she, she completely was aware of what she was doing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and not only Texas, but as you just said, there are other states, too. So she may be in hot water all across the country. She could be. So, yeah, she could be. And very likely, I mean, you would think that they sent these drugs not only to individuals in Texas, but all over the country. So maybe this is going to spur other AGs to do something similar.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, remember, real quickly, the Comstock Act, the federal act, right, is in place here about mailing abortifications across state lines. Now, The Biden Justice Department, the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote an opinion that a lot of people think was very poorly done, saying that the Comstock Act doesn't apply to these medical abortion pills and everything like that. I think one of the things that's going to be important in considering – Pam Bondi and the Justice Department team that Trump puts up is, how are they going to analyze this? Because it's not just pro-lifers who realize that this was a poor analysis of the Comstock Act. So anyway, go back to you. There's also another vehicle by which this kind of thing could be addressed, but this by the federal government, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Less than a minute left, Chris. Do you anticipate more doctors could be sued by Paxson or other pro-life state attorney generals? Absolutely. Absolutely. So this is coming. Yes. Wow. Well, listen, I can't thank you enough. Chris Kasich, it is always an honor to have you on Washington Watch. It's always great to run into you in the halls of FRC. I always enjoy seeing you, too. You are one of those guys who seems to know so much about so many different issues taking place, and it's always an honor. Thanks again for coming on. It's always good to see you. FRC's Senior Fellow for Regulatory Affairs, Chris Kasich. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. All right. Have a great Christmas. All right, friends, that wraps up this edition of Washington Watch. And I feel like we've been going about 90 miles an hour from the very beginning, getting people running off the house floor and one topic after another. But that is our mission. That is our purpose, to keep you informed as to what's happening in our country, specifically as it relates to issues of biblical significance. And that's our commitment to you. Thank you for joining us today on Washington Watch. Have a fantastic evening. We'll see you tomorrow right here on Washington Watch.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, TheStreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Tuesday. It is the Tuesday, December the 17th, one week in front of Christmas Eve edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management, a fee-based only nationwide money management and financial planning firm. And I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And we are off to a slow start in the market, stumbling out of the gate. The Dow down 213, bah humbug, that's a half a percent. Then we have the NASDAQ down 96 points. It's improved a little bit. It's down half a percent also. Then we've got the Russell 2000 down 16 points, which is 70 basis points. The S&P 500 is down 26 to 40. That's a 40 basis point drop. But there's no stopping Bitcoin. Just no stopping Bitcoin. Last time I looked, it is up 2,168. 2,168. to a new all-time high of 107.824, 107.824. Meanwhile, the bond market is fast asleep today. It is totally flat, really, at 4.40%. Crude oil is pretty much stuck in the $70 area. Gold is pretty much stuck in the $26.50 area. There hasn't been much movement out of those for quite some time. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And I'm here with a second witness to what we saw over Charleston last night, Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. We were at a Christmas party, Barry, last night over at the Citadel College, Citadel. Uh-huh. And we walk out and we see a couple of things flying, zooming over our heads. I figured it's either from Santa Claus, Elon Musk, or Putin. And I'm hoping it's not from Putin, okay? I'm hoping it's from Santa Claus, actually. It ends up it was a couple of missiles, but it was after dark, so that added a little bit of intrigue. And, of course, with all of this hoopla over the drone sightings and everything, I was kind of inclined to hit the ground and get under my SUV. I didn't do that. I was wearing a nice suit. My wife was dressed up nice. But, yeah, it was SpaceX just having fun with us. Two of them.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was two of them. It was an interesting video. I mean, we videoed it. We walked out of a restaurant and looked up and just happened to see this huge vapor trail, wide thing kind of going across the sky. And eventually it goes across the sky fairly quickly and eventually just kind of goes into the moon. And we're both like... I don't know what that was, but it wasn't a drone. And then I sent the video. I sent it to you and Jeff, and I sent it to my brother-in-law.
SPEAKER 03 :
And he's like, yeah, it's probably too fast for a drone.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. And the vapor trail part was wild. And it turns out it was my brother-in-law sent me. He said this took off at 7.51 p.m., I think. And he's like, it's probably what you saw. And it turns out it was.
SPEAKER 03 :
That other vapor trail that we saw yesterday during the day was Tesla stock, which is hitting another new high today. We made a good buy there right when it broke out. That's why watching these charts every day is important. Today it's hitting $480,000. It's now $1.5 trillion, and Elon Musk net worth looks like those vapor trails last night, $480 billion. Now, billionaires is one thing, but half a trillion now he almost is worth. So look, hey, he's having a merry good holiday here so far. Now we've got a down day in the market, but I want to make a couple of comments here. The NASDAQ hit a new all-time high yesterday and it looks like that SpaceX vapor trail. The Dow on the other hand, which I called kind of a temporary top here recently and put in a little hedge in the trading portfolio. on DXD, which is two times double down on the Dow. The Dow's down for nine days in a row now. Most people don't realize that. A lot of times there's a divergence. The Dow's got a totally different makeup and chemistry from the NASDAQ. And they can diverge from time to time. NASDAQ's being carried higher by Tesla. It's being carried higher by CrowdStrike. It's being carried higher by Google. It's being carried higher by Amazon. All of those stocks are breaking out. It's not being carried higher by NVIDIA, which is actually breaking its support line today, which is kind of surprising. I'm glad we cut our exposure to it. Now, we still have about a 5%, I think 6% position overall in our premier growth. and in our dividend portfolio, but it's just really surprising to see. It's about, to me, it's about as mystifying as those drones over Jersey is the performance of an NVIDIA. I mean, it goes into the Dow, and that seems to be the deal killer. That seems to be the kiss of death. Usually it's when Cathie Woods buys the stock, it goes to heck. But this time it seems to be, you know, the Dow seems to be a bit of a curse for stocks anyways. That's where we stand today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it's been interesting because you've had Broadcom, Palantir I think is kind of pulling back today. But you've had a lot of AI names kind of push forward over the last week. And NVIDIA, which has been leading that whole group for 18 months or more, It's kind of taking a pause.
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More than a pause, a screeching halt and a downward slant. Look, I don't know if it's breaking support today. My issue is we have 400%, 500% gains in it. If I sell it now, I'm going to get some mad calls in April. You know, when people have to do their taxes and say, how come I'm stuck with this big capital gain? Well, you know, that's a good thing to have a capital gain in a stock. You're going to have it at some point in time. But you would also hate to give up that capital gain. So I have that the way we've got. I'm hoping to make it two more weeks to the 1st of January. Then I don't really have that tax issue to deal with. because, you know, if you sell it in January, you can think way ahead until 16 months later, even if most people don't pay their taxes until October these days. So that's one thing you've got to worry about. But anyways, more records for the NASDAQ as the Dow struggles with the losing streak. And, you know, just watching the charts every day, I saw that Dow topping out, and I said, you know, I think the Dow at 45,000 is going to take a little pause here. And just to protect some of the big gains in the trading portfolio, which had a huge day yesterday. I said, I'm going to put in some hedges here. And the first one I did was DXD. It's just two times short the Dow. Simple as that. If the Dow goes down 3% or 4% or 5% in a correction, it'll go down 8%, 9%, 10%. It'll go up 8%, 9%, 10%. And so far, that's been a good hedge, DXD against the Dow. We have a valuation problem. There's no question about it. The Fed is meeting today. Today is the first of a two-day meeting. come back like in March or something. I don't know how many weeks of vacation they get over there to government. But they will be done for the year. We do know that with their Fed meetings. They better give us that quarter point cut tomorrow, and he better be pretty kind in what his comments are, or you will see a Grinch stole Christmas diner reaction in the market. Yeah, January 30th and 31st, by the way, will be the next one. Oh, good. Okay. And then, you know, my wife and I are flying out later today, later this afternoon, after I get all my charts looked at and headed to New York City. We're going to be part of the closing bell ceremony at the NASDAQ tomorrow. Okay, we're not opening the... The bell on the New York Stock Exchange. We get kind of second shift, but that's okay. I'm really happy that we were invited by Granite Shares ETFs. An innovator like myself, a disruptor like myself, who would have ever thought of a single stock ETF? A family of single stock ETFs and others, which is almost an oxymoron. A single stock ETF. Crazy. But they're leveraged, obviously. That's the twist there. You can't do that in an IRA unless you're buying an ETF like the ones from... from granite chairs so anyways i'm looking forward to that new york's a beautiful city this time of year christmas time a very special place to go as long as i don't get uh you know mugged on the subway i'm not going on the subway i will not go down there on that subway for all the money in the world. Anyways, continuing high rates. We're at 4.40%. I saw one firm justifying the 22.5 times forward P, saying that's no problem at all. That was UBS. I think they were the ones saying that back in 2000, only they were under a different name then. It was Payne Weber. Oh, don't worry about the high P.E. ratios of the NASDAQ, they said. Then the NASDAQ went down 79% after that. Now they're saying don't worry about the 22.5 forward P.E. on the S&P right now. I'm worried. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show on this Tuesday, December the 17th. Quantum. Quantum. The word quantum. A discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents. Or... A required or allowed amount, especially an amount of money, legally payable in damages. The court must determine the quantum of compensation too. Okay. Two opposite ends of the spectrum right there. Yes. You know, quantum in simple terms is the smallest discrete unit of a phenomenon. For example, a quantum of light is a photon. Okay, I remember that. And a quantum of electricity is an electron. I remember that. Quantum comes from Latin, meaning an amount or how much. If something is quantifiable, then it can be measured. Okay, now, I mean, quantum physics. Again, this is a big deal. The modern use of quantum in physics was coined by Max Planck. I do remember learning about Max Planck in high school in 1901. He was trying to explain black body radiation and how objects change color after being heated. Instead of assuming that the energy was emitted in a constant wave, he posed that the energy was emitted in discrete packets or bundles. These were termed quanta of energy. This led him to discovering Planck's constant, which is a fundamental universal value. Yes, I do remember Planck's constant. Does this all bring back memories to you, Barry?
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Yeah, some of this I kind of tapped out when I got halfway through chemistry, too. I'm like, you know what, I'm... I ate it up. I'm going to stick on the finance side. Physics I remember a little bit more just because it's tied to finance to a certain extent. I think it was, wasn't it Einstein that said what the eighth wonder of the world is compound interest, right? That's right.
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Or compounding. Yes.
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Well. Physics a little more tied to the interest. tied to finance versus when you're naming off some of these new elements and things that are being mined in certain parts of China.
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Well, the reason I bring this up is because these quantum stocks that I added to my app recently... This whole craze kind of began when Amazon announced that they were investing in quantum stocks or quantum technologies.
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Yeah, they made an advancement, or they say, in quantum computing and the quantum chip.
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And they listed four quantum stocks, Seeking Alpha did. I added them all to my database, alerted all my subscribers to this. Some of them took some shares in those. I've just watched them mesmerize. Basically, quantum computing is chaos. Q-U-B-T, Q-U-B-T yesterday, oh my gosh, look at it again today. It was up like 60% yesterday, it's up another 25% today. And I have to admit to you, I miss these stocks as far as investing in them, okay? Okay, the other one, D-Wave. D-Wave is QBTS. QBTS was up like 45%, 60%. It's up 6% again today.
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Essentially anything with the name Quantum.
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You know, we're getting into a territory. The last big bubble we had, was uh 2020 2021 2021 was the covid post covid year uh when all of this uh way out there on the horizon uh you know future technology stock earnings or no earnings just went absolutely nuts and And we're seeing that again right now. And, you know, obviously the year after that was not good for the market at all. 2022, 2023 was rough. No, 2022 was rough for the market because you've also had the Fed. So I'm seeing, I'm definitely seeing bubbles. I mean, you see the bubble in Tesla. You see the bubble in Bitcoin and these quantum stocks. So anyways, I'm just bringing that to your attention. Now, are they going to be big earnings growth companies at some point in time? That's possible. But right now, they're out there in space. In the future, maybe someday, they'll have some explosive sales and earnings. But they are starting to take off a little bit here. And we're keeping our eye on it. And then another one that got caught up in all of this is when Google revealed its new quantum computing chip, dubbed Willow. which led to another spark in the quantum computing stocks and in the stock of Google, which has been breaking out here recently. And it's hitting a new all-time high. I think that, yes, 197.74. It did hit 200 this morning. And now all of a sudden, Alphabet Google is at $2.42 trillion in market capitalization. Okay, right now we have the Fed meeting that's going to begin here today. The dollar is up slightly ahead of the Fed meeting. J.P. Morgan expects 25 basis points and three rate cuts in 2025. I don't think they're going to go overboard with the rate cuts next year. I really don't. I think they're going to be pretty cautious. especially with the tariff effect. I mean, if those tariffs are placed on those imports, that's going to be inflationary, and that could really pause the Fed, and they may want to wait and see. We still have... Fairly hot inflation, believe it or not. No, we're not double digits. We're not 8%. We're not 9%. We're 3%. We're still over 3%, and the PPI is still coming in too high.
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Over their target.
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Yes.
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Over their target of 2%. And three rate cuts, right? I mean, you could probably argue that that gets us close to that quote-unquote neutral rate anyway. I would expect them, as you've mentioned, to be cautious early in the year. At some point, they may want to get back to neutral. I don't think they're going to be in any hurry necessarily to get there.
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Now it looks like shoppers are buying before the tariffs come along maybe. U.S. retail sales climbed more than expected in November. You know, if you're into French cheese or anything imported from Canada or Mexico, you know, those things are bound to get tariffs on January the 21st or January the 20th.
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I think Brown's Foreman is getting hit pretty hard today and has been because of the type... You can use that as an example of a stock that will be hurt via tariffs on both ends, actually.
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The Mexican beers, the Mexican tequilas, the Canadian whiskeys, etc. So anyways, the non-store retailer category dazzled with 1.8% month-over-month and 9.8% year-over-year growth. So... The consumer has still got either a credit card or cash or whatever. And still, yeah, Bitcoin, the Bitcoin effect, still buying. We'll be right back.
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I've been in the right place.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show. A little update here on the market. We've got the Dow down 259 right now and the NASDAQ down 150 right now.
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That's three-quarters of a percent on the NASDAQ. Don't be too worried, however. The NASDAQ hit a new all-time high yesterday. The small caps are now starting to go south. They're down 1.2%. We have a little hedge there in the trading portfolio with TWM, which is double short the small caps. And that small cap rally, which took off after Trump, was elected. It lasted about two weeks, and then it started to fall apart, and it continues to fall apart, and that's why we're picking on it a little bit on the inverse side as a hedge. And the NASDAQ right now is down 80 basis points, and the S&P is down 60. I don't really know what to point to here. I The retail sales numbers came out. So there was something in overnight trading. I don't know. But the NASDAQ hit a new all-time high yesterday. And Bitcoin also is hitting a new high here today.
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And rate expectations haven't changed either. We're still sitting kind of where we were yesterday in terms of a 95% chance or more of a Fed cut, 25 basis point cut tomorrow. My thought is retail sales would actually – be a good number. It means folks are still spending money. I don't really see that as necessarily inflationary per se. Does it mean the Fed may not need to stoke the fire of the economy? I don't think they're cutting to stoke the fire of the economy. I think they're cutting rates to make sure they're not behind the ball as they move forward.
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It just keeps it going, feeding some more coal into the engine. Now, there's a lot of turmoil around the world. How many governments have... fallen here recently. South Korea, impeachment there. Obviously, Syria fell. The French government, Macron. Germany had a no-confidence vote for him yesterday. And now Canada, you know, she's pretty well-known, that Freeland. She was one of the World Economic Forum all-stars. running the uh... can a helping run the akit canadian economy and all of a sudden they're gonna have a much bigger deficit than originally planned and her mccrone had it out no no mccrone trudeau and as she had quit and that your does in trouble himself and there's talks of him resigning he wouldn't kiss the ring of uh... trump i don't think she was happy about that so everywhere you look you know if there's some turmoil out there there's a lot of the vision I'm going to use the word division. There's a lot of division in the world right now, including here in the United States, obviously.
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Yeah, and the growth. I mean, I read an article last week. The growth, kind of that growth focus of the Labour Party in the U.K. has kind of come under fire because they haven't had any growth. You mentioned Germany's issues from a growth standpoint.
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Canada. Now, the pendulum swings, okay, every four years, every eight years. It just seems like the pendulum is swinging back pretty hard towards conservative principles than the way out left radical principles, far left principles. And that just seems to be kind of the way the world is going. Now, TikTok CEO, he kisses the ring. Trump likes TikTok. I don't know that Trump is going to ban TikTok. I think he's going to figure out something. He's talked about not banning it. Exactly. And so TikTok CEO Shu-Zi Chu met U.S. President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Boy, that Mar-a-Lago is a happening place.
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I haven't got my invitation.
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I am getting my bell rung on the NASDAQ tomorrow, but I would like to go to Miralago at some point in time. What a sightseeing event that is. People-watching event. Trump said he'll take a look at TikTok. He says, I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok. So anyways, I have a hunch that they're going to work something out. And, you know, I don't think TikTok is under China control anymore. Okay, RoboTaxi. The RoboTaxi race continues. Alphabet's Waymo picks Tokyo for its first international RoboTaxi testing. their self-driving vehicle unit. And, of course, Google's had a lot of good news recently with that Willow chip. GM dropping out of the robo-taxi race and other things over there, their advance they're making with their AI endeavors. Japan will be the first international destination to test its robo-taxis as the company moves towards expanding beyond the U.S. Waymo will partner with Tokyo's largest taxi operator, Nihon Katsu, and taxi app go to bring its fleet to the city the cars will initially be operated manually by nihon katsu drivers to map key areas of tokyo so anyways there's uh... some progress being made in the robo taxi race The race is on, and it's down to three, really. Again, it's Waymo, which is Google, and it's Tesla, obviously, which a lot of people think that will be the next big catalyst for Tesla. And then the smaller one is Aurora AUR, which has been pretty perky lately as a stock. They bought, I think, Uber's plans to make a car. Uber backed out of making a car, but they would obviously benefit from RoboTaxi. Unfortunately, Uber was teamed up with GM on the RoboTaxi race, and GM totally dropped out of the race. Okay, an interesting nuclear stock, Nano. We've talked about this, Nano, Nano. I grew up watching Robin Williams. I don't think I was a little kid. I was probably a young father or something watching Robin Williams on Nano, Nano. Nuclear Energy is the name of the company. They have made a joint submission to a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority concerning the development of advanced nuclear technologies in New York State. And I still think, I mean, you're talking about incubator stocks. This burgeoning, rebounding, once really out of favor, big time out of favor, no nukes has rebounded. And now it's kind of the darling of energy after we went off on the solar tangent, the wind tangent. And then all of a sudden AI came along and it demands much more energy than solar and wind can ever provide. and now we're talking nuclear and small nuclear so anyways uh... nano is in there and and he they've joined up with did you host d g h by uh... and putting together plans uh... for uh... you know nuclear new york on uh... smaller reactors instead of these big massive nuclear reactors would take years and years and years to to to uh... to construct Okay, MS Wealth is saying ease up on the MAG-7 Trump trade. Well, I say it depends on the stock. Tesla's going gangbusters. Google's going gangbusters. But there is an ETF called FANGD, F-N-G-D, F-N-G-D, which is three times bull. The FANG stocks, that thing's been flying lately to new highs, $695 per share. It's off a little bit today as there's a little bit of profit taking. But I use FANG. I look at that every day. Actually, it's FANGU. FANG is the inverse version of it, F-N-G-U. So it's F-N-G-UP. And FNGD is FNG down. FANG UP hit a new high yesterday. It's backing off today. It's down 4.3%, but it's leveraged 3 to 1. on those fang stocks you'd have to look up you can look up the components of it the fang index has changed over time and i think it's broadened out to include a lot more stocks than just the original four uh... private markets poised to surpass twenty trillion by twenty thirty this is another area of the market that i think is very much a bubble There's so many private equity funds buying up private companies that I don't think it's going to end well because now they're paying up for some of these private companies ridiculous prices. Kind of like, okay, we've got this money to spend. We've got to go find private companies. That's now become a $20 trillion market. Well, $20 trillion by 2030, according to BlackRock. So that's another bubble to be careful of. We're going to come back and take a look inside the market and talk about a couple other stocks here. When we come back, it's the Best Stocks Now show. And welcome back to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. I'm going to begin with the battleground stock right now. It seems to be NVIDIA. It's threatening to roll over. It has broken its support. I've had a line drawn in at about $132 a share, Barry. It's dipping below that today to 130. And I'm seeing buying coming into the stock. You know, usually when a stock breaks below those support levels, I don't panic immediately, right? Sometimes that attracts the buying. Now, if it continues downhill, tomorrow it breaks today's support, right? Then you've got another situation on your hands. But right now, I would say there's a big, big red flag waving on NVIDIA. But it's not time to panic just quite yet. It is hanging on to its support level. The valuation is very compelling on NVIDIA. The relative strength has just gone to heck. It's a 92 still on a scale of 1 to 99, but this thing's been going sideways now for about 10 weeks or so. It's just kind of unexplainable. Sometimes you can't explain things in the market. Maybe it's China. Maybe we overestimated the spending in AI. Right? uh maybe uh you know things are uh slowing down a little bit and nvidia from a scorching hot pace to just a hot pace uh but something's not right there uh now we tested i mean it's tested a hundred dollars twice this year um you know in uh earlier yeah in the year yeah i believe in august and uh and even in september most recently got down to like around 102 ish or so but uh
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But, yeah, it's just, I mean, you talk about momentum a lot, and the momentum's earning side looks great, but the momentum has come completely out of it.
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And we can't ignore the fact that it hit a new all-time high just three weeks ago and passed Apple. So, all right, that's just three weeks ago. So I'm not ready to pull the plug yet on it, but it is the biggest loser, percent loser. I'm seeing buying coming into the stock right now. Somebody probably put some limit orders right underneath the support level there. A lot of times that's how it works, and those are triggering the buying coming in.
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Yeah, and you could have some. I mean, you talked about this earlier yesterday, but you could have some mutual funds and some institutional selling just because it's mechanical rebalancing. Obviously, if you're selling a winner over the year, particularly over the last two years, that would be one that you would rebalance out of. So there naturally could be some selling there. But yeah, in terms of not much news... and the stock has been acting the way it is. It just doesn't compute very well.
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It was part of that Japanese, the carry trade, too. Maybe that's come to it. Now, here's the ugly chart in the market today in the Dow. Just ugly. United Healthcare. Oh, that's a sickening chart. We don't own United Healthcare, UNH. It's a member of the Dow. It's a big part of the reason that the Dow's been down eight days in a row. And a lot of it had to do with the killing of the CEO. And all of a sudden, the focus on the whole industry, United Healthcare's industry, of managed care. I know Trump mentioned that he wants to go after the middleman, the PBMs, the pharmacy benefit managers. That was a hot sector about 10 years ago. He wants to eliminate the middlemen, which is Express Scripts, it's CVS. A lot of those middlemen got bought out by bigger companies. And he wants to get rid of them altogether. But UnitedHealthcare, that is just, ugh, that's a horrible chart. Kick it out of the Dow. I don't know what you put really in there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it's a de-definition of headline risk. I mean, that's, if you look in terms of textbook definition, right, would be especially the event with the... With the killing of the CEO and then, of course, just the backlash against the industry.
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The spotlight on the whole industry, yes. Okay, on the upside, Pfizer. That's another one I'd kick out of the Dow. They don't have anything. They haven't had anything new in a long time. They needed a catalyst. They are year... I mean, this stock has lost half of its value since last year. They had the vaccine, you know, at the right time, and that helped them a lot. And then it's just been horrible ever since. They did reiterate their... Their numbers for this year, which aren't very good, I mean, $2.86 in earnings, well, that's down a little bit from this year. But Pfizer is up 3.9%. And I do remember, having been to New York several times, you come out of that Grand Central Station and you look up in the sky and it goes to the heavens, I think, the Pfizer building headquarters. You can't even see the CEO suite. It's in the clouds. That's how big Pfizer is, but it hasn't done much. And then Nike's going to report earnings here, I think, tonight. And that's been another big loser in the Dow. You know, maybe the Dow isn't meant to be a money-making index. It's just supposed to be representative of our landscape. but there's sure a lot of stinkers in the Dow these days. Nike is up 1% today. And of course, Cisco is another stinker in the Dow. Amgen's another stinker in the Dow. Anyways, that's just my thoughts on the Dow. And that's why I pick on the Dow from time to time. And there's three ways to pick on the Dow. There's DOG, the dogs of the Dow, D-O-G, which used to be a strategy. There's DXD, which is two times inverse the Dow, and there's SDOW, S-D-O-W, which is three times inverse the Dow. They come in handy as a hedge from time to time when the Dow gets roughed up like it's getting roughed up for nine days in a row now. Well, the NASDAQ's been hitting new highs. Over at the S&P 500, the biggest winner today, Supermicrocomputer SMCI. You know, this GraniteShares ETF, they have a SMCI ETF. They have a double, I don't know if they have a short ETF, but they definitely have a long ETF. on SMCI and it's one of their best performers today. I keep track of their ETFs here. And their SMC, that's a wild stock, though. I do not trust that stock at all. Secondary offerings, accounting issues, wow, all over the place. And then, of course, Tesla, big winner in the S&P. Again, today up 3.1%. Well, trade along with Bill. Learn from Bill. Spend the day with Bill. You get four free weeks of the live trading subscription and the newsletter and the app. GundersonCapital.com. Set up an appointment with us. 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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In this compelling episode of the Kim Munson Show, we delve into the pressing issue of balancing freedom with force in modern governance. We explore how government policies can shape our rights—from women's and gay rights to property and economic freedom. With a keen eye on history and current events, this conversation aims to dissect where the line between liberty and control should stand.
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It's the Kim Munson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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That seems to me like government is establishing a religion.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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If you give people rights, women's rights, gay rights, whatever, there can't be equal rights if there are special rights.
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Today's current opinions and ideas.
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Surveys show that people still really prefer freedom over government force.
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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 Munson 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. Thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday, Producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. Can you believe one week from today is Christmas Eve?
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It feels like I blinked.
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I know. It's that Kenny Chesney song, Don't Blink, right? Exactly. That's a good one. Hey, check out our website. That's KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. you can email me at kim kimmunson.com the text line and i do want to hear from you is 720-605-0647 and thank you to all of you who support us we are an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something's a good idea you should not have to force people to to do it And it is never compassionate to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, or lives. Force obviously can be a weapon, but there are sneakier ones. Policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agendas of the World Economic Forum, the globalist elites, the United Nations, Colorado State Legislature, the Colorado governor. World Health Organization, land use codes, zoning regulations, forest fees. We've got to work on reducing that list, Producer Joe.
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I definitely agree. So much tyranny around it.
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This is true. That is tyranny. And so, yes. Remember, if something is a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. On the show, we focus on the issues. We will mention the people pushing those issues, but we're trying to stay out of the personality, eighth grade girl fighting kind of stuff between those in the Republican Party, Republican, Democrat, left, right. We really are trying to focus on these issues uh and um stay out of the uh all i can say is eighth grade girl fighting and i didn't have much fun in eighth grade producer joe so i don't want to go back there
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, me neither. And honestly, boys fight like that too. Well, he did it, so why can't I now?
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Yes, and we have adults that say that these days. But you can hear the show on all of the KLZ 560 platforms. That's KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And then the next day we have the summaries posted on my website. And you can click on the image for that day. That will bring up a written summary as well as the podcast. And at that time, you can also listen to the podcast via Spotify and iTunes. So check it out. The America's Veterans Story Show is broadcast the initial. interview is 3 to 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoons. That is then rebroadcast the next Sunday 10 to 11 at night and the next Saturday 10 to 11 at night as well. And so in a weekend, there will be three different America's Veterans Story shows on a weekend. That's Sunday 3 to 4 p.m., Sunday 10 to 11, and Saturday 10 to 11. And we will be broadcasting part two of the interview with Vietnam veteran Carl Leppard, Joe, absolutely fascinating. We talk about three different battles. Two of them for sure were classified for many, many years and a fascinating interview. You don't want to miss that this Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m.
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He had me on the edge of my chair pretty much the entire time recording.
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Yeah, I know. And I know. So be sure and check it out. Our word of the day is illusion. It's A-L-L-U-S-I-O-N. It could be an implied or indirect reference, especially in literature, or it could be an illusion statement. I'm wondering on this whole drone thing, if there is some kind of an illusion there where we're not really seeing what is true. And so your challenge is to use the word illusion in a sentence today. Our quote of the day is from Mark Twain. He was born Samuel, this was his given name, Samuel Longhorn Clemens. He was born in 1835. He died in 1910. He was known by the pen name Mark Twain. He was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the greatest humorist the United States has produced, with William Faulkner calling him the father of American literature. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that was written in 1876, its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884, and with the latter often called The Great American Novel. And I read those books. Did you ever read those books, Producer Joe?
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There are a couple of my favorite books. I loved both of them growing up.
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Okay, I did too. Okay, good, good. And 26 years old, my friends, that gives us great hope as we look into our future. And he said this, he said, keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. And you want, my dad always said, you know, hang out with people that, you know, are positive and wanting to get things done and creative. And if you're not one of those persons, become one of those persons. So this day in history, in 1777, this was a big deal for America. France recognizes the independence of the British colonies in America. In 1788, the Russian, again, Ukraine, it always seems like it's in the news. 1788, Russian army of Grigory Potemkin assaults and captures the fortress of Okhorov in modern-day Ukraine after a five-month-long siege in one of the major events of the Russo-Turkish War. And I found this interesting. Remember, Joe, how I say that big government and big business like each other? Well, I thought this was a kind of an excellent example. In 1832, real estate developer Samuel Ruggles deeds Grammar Street Park to a board of trustees to hold as parkland. Then he is granted tax exempt status by New York City. for the park and then develops the surrounding lots, ensuring private access only to those properties. I thought that was a little interesting, Joe. He gives the land that's tax exempt, but then it creates value for all the property around that, and then he develops that property. And so I think where I struggle with that is the tax-exempt status and the park thing on that. What do you think?
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I agree. I think if you're going to be tax-exempt, you shouldn't be able to gain a profit on that as well. That's not right, and I think that's a huge overreach of government.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, and we see nonprofits all the time, such as the Center for Tech and Civic Life, which is, quote, unquote, a nonprofit. So when Mark Zuckerberg gave them over $400 million in the 2020 election, he got a tax write-off, and then they went in and helped, I'll put that in air quotes, helped some of these key battleground states with their elections. So I really think that we need to get rid of the income tax. I think that we need to then get rid of this whole writing things off for nonprofit, lower taxes across the board, and then I think that we would have less of this government cronyism, which I think that's what that was. So, again, that was back in 1832. This, I thought, was amazing. 1845, German explorer Ludwig Leinhardt arrives in Port Essington after a nearly 3,000-mile overland journey to explore Australia's northern territory. 3,000 miles, Joe? Can you imagine what that, I cannot imagine what he went through.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we don't think about it now because we can get in our cars and go really fast down a highway that's kind of efficiently towards our destination, and it takes no time at all. Those were long journeys back in that time.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, and lots of danger, lots going on. 1903, the Wright brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10.35 a.m., piloted by Orville Wright. at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. So 1903, so that was, what, 121 years ago, and now regular people can get in an airplane and fly all over the world. It's amazing. This one, 1919, the Austrian parliament approves an eight-hour working day. And I've been thinking a lot about this reduction of to an eight-hour working day. I know that the – because I come from farmers and ranchers where – You know, we work a lot. And, of course, on our show, we put a lot of hours in the day, a lot more than eight hours a day. And so I'm wondering, and again, 1919, that was Woodrow Wilson. That was the progressive era era. And so as you're reducing the workday, you're reducing productivity. And then there was kind of the force of only you can only work eight hours a day. I just thought that was interesting, 1919, that that's when that happened in Austria.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and I think there should be no restriction on how much you can work because sometimes people don't have anything better to do. Say they're just sitting at their home playing video games. Why not increase your efficiency and do some work while you have the time?
SPEAKER 02 :
You think? That is the other thing is, is an eight-hour workday, then there's more work. Idle time. And if my dad always said, if, you know, if you don't fill your time with positive things, you know, you can get into trouble. And so more idle time. What did they say? Idle time is the devil's workshop or something like that. But anyway, I just thought that the progressive era, 1919. OK, let's go on to the next one. This is in World War Two, 1941. The German troops led by Erwin Rommel begin retreating in North Africa. 1944, the U.S. Army announces the end of excluding Japanese Americans from West Coast. Detainees are released. And that was a real stain on our history of rounding up U.S. citizens of Japanese descent and putting them into camps. I think about this storm. And when I've talked to these World War II veterans... In the Pacific, some of them had gotten caught in typhoons. And just the description of what happened. So in 1944, U.S. destroyers sink in a storm off the Philippines. 790 were killed. 1947, a weather event. Again, I like to bring these up because weather is weather. The climate is always changing. Be sure and check out our documentary at climateconversation.com. You can watch the... Documentary for free there, and then amazing podcasts as well. But in 1947, New York was struck by a blizzard resulting in 27 inches of snow. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25th as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. Now, Joe, I was thinking about that. Here you fast forward to 2024, where we have this whole transgender movement, where you have adults that are encouraging young people, and we'll talk about women right now, to actually surgically and pharmaceutically, well, surgically cut off their breasts. Would you not think that in the old days, cutting off a woman's breast would be violent do you see where i'm going with that does that make sense it kind of makes me think of the indians and like scalping kind of that same idea yeah yeah so here they were going to eliminate violence against women and then in 2024 we have those that are advocating um violence against women okay just two more uh in 2020 king karl the 16th gustav says Swedish authorities have failed in their response to COVID-19, criticizing the country's controversial anti-lockdown strategy. Again, these globalist elites. And then in 2020, This is a never-give-up story. The Minnesota Vikings recover from 33-0 down at halftime to beat the Indianapolis Colts 39-36 in overtime. It's the biggest comeback in NFL history. And so take that, my friends. We never, never give up. And we get to do this because of our sponsors. The Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team carries my home and auto. We were able to bundle that together. And when you do that, many times you can save yourself some money. And so give them a call at 303-795 for a complimentary appointment. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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And this is from Ross story. It says after sifting through the reports over the past few weeks of drones over New Jersey National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Monday the truth is not out there. Foreign policy reporter Laura Rosen quoted Kirby in a briefing Monday saying that the increased use of drones isn't an invasion. Okay, I'd like them to tell us how he knows that. He says, after closely looking at the tips and collating them as best we can from concerned citizens, we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones... and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing drones, helicopters, and even stars that were mistakenly reported as drones. We have not identified anything anomalous or national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the Northeast. Okay. It says later in the briefing, he also asked reporters to stress that there are over a million legal drones in the United States and thousands of them are flying around at any given time legally and lawfully. It says Fox News has helped amp up fears about the devices with one host calling it a Pearl Harbor moment. President-elect Donald Trump has indicated he's open to allowing Americans to shoot them down. I think that that is an interesting thing because if, in fact, you've got a drone over your property, shouldn't you be able maybe to protect your property? That's a good question. But this goes on to say it is illegal to shoot at drones, but Representative James Comer, Republican Kentucky, also said Monday his constituents will use their Second Amendment capabilities and shoot down the machines, which could result in planes being mistakenly fired upon. Hmm, I don't know. It seems like most people can tell the difference between a plane and a drone. 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I really find this... an obfuscation of what's going on. And I think the American people have gotten to a point where we just really don't trust what this government has to say to us. And so we need to get back to trust is pretty, pretty important. We'll talk about this with Lauren Fix here in the next hour, or excuse me, the next two segments. Fox News reported that the Biden administration is expected to offer California waiver to ban gas-powered cars by 2035. And they said that he is doing this as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to undo a host of green energy policies next year. California set an emission standard to ban new gas cars in the state by 2035, but such a regulation requires a waiver from the EPA to proceed. So just weeks before Biden's term ends, the EPA is reportedly planning to grant that waiver to allow the state to set stricter emission standards for electric vehicles than allowed by the federal government. So we'll ask Lauren Fix about that in the next couple of segments. Then this is from the Daily Wire. Trump says that Biden's border wall sale is almost a criminal act. I do agree. And he will seek a restraining order. And it says that Trump made the statement after a Daily Wire investigation revealed that the Biden administration was selling off portions of the border wall in public auctions with the goal of unloading the border wall before Trump takes office in January. One Republican senator found that the administration was recouping just 0.2% of the original cost of the wall material to taxpayers. This this is unconscionable. This disrespect of everyday people, the American taxpayers across the board by the Biden Harris agenda administration is really mind boggling. Goes on to say the administration is trying to sell it for five cents on the dollar, knowing that we're getting ready to put it up. Trump said in a press conference, what they're doing is almost a criminal act. They know that we're going to use it. And if we don't have it, we're going to have to rebuild it. And it will cost double what it cost years ago. And that's hundreds of millions of dollars. Trump said, I spoke with the attorney general of Texas. I spoke with the senators of Texas. I spoke to a lot of people and hopefully they'll be able to stop it. going to be having a restraining order i'm asking joe biden today to please stop selling the wall and then in this uh this is again is this is from the daily caller it says that that this is by uh let's see who's the writer on this uh mary rook and she said that biden fell for legal traps set by trump appointees okay let's take a look at that It says that President Joe Biden fought a lawsuit brought by two former government officials appointed during the first Trump administration, contesting the legality of their unceremonious firings. Biden won, paving the way for President-elect Donald Trump to wield executive power that the Democrats will end up wishing he didn't have. Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and former Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vogt sought to block their removal from the U.S. Naval Academy's Board of Visitors in 2021 after Biden took office. It says the U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that the lawsuit should be dismissed, citing the U.S. code stating that executive officials are not insulated from presidential removal. So it says, well, it's possible that Spicer and Vogt enjoyed their term on the U.S. Naval Academy's Board of Visitors. Spicer said the lawsuit against Biden did have an alternative motive. He said he wanted to make it easy for Trump should he become president again to have the authority to remove Biden's presidential appointees, even ones who still had time left on their term. And so this is super interesting as well. 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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I have on the line our coach reports, Lauren Fix. Lauren, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thanks for having me back. Lots going on in the auto industry. You know, it's funny, like you, I'm always looking for the next story, you know, what's going on. This is crazy. This is like crazy time for me. I'm doing like three to five news reports a week. I'm like, it's out of control. And that's usually not the case when it comes to automotive. This is good. We're making some headway, and I think people will be happy as long as we can make it happen.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, well, let's start with everything that's happening. I guess initially I was going to ask you about this whole thing on tax credits in California. Newsom wants to give tax credit. I guess they had gotten rid of the tax credits in California for EVs. He wants to bring them back because Elon Musk is saying through Doge that they might get rid of those from a federal standpoint. So Newsom wants to bring them back, but he wants to pick winners and losers, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, yes. Actually, there's a whole interesting story that happened last night over this. So initially— Well, this sort of goes into today's story, so let me just put a bow on it for everyone. So President Trump wants to annihilate the EV mandates, and Elon Musk agrees with that. And that is today's story that I'll be posting in, oh, probably a couple hours on my Car Coach Report site. But here's the preview of it. The bottom line is, as we know, President Trump said he was going to remove the mandate so you could buy whatever car you want. Of course, that'll be interesting for the state of Colorado. It's also going to be interesting for the state of California. And the reason Elon Musk is like, absolutely get rid of it is it takes away his competition. There's no competition there. If they live off these mandates and these $7,500 tax credits and they take a loss on every vehicle, if they don't have to make them, the manufacturers won't. They'll go back to building hybrids. They'll offer plug-in hybrids. They'll offer a few electric vehicles for those that are doing well. But many brands are suffering to the point that they're not making any money. Perfect examples like Honda. They don't make an electric car. They get a platform from General Motors, which is their Blazer EV, and they put their hat on it, essentially. They make it a Honda. They call it a Prologue. I went by the dealer yesterday. Yesterday, zero down 297 a month. That's pretty desperate for a car that's brand new. The Acura version is the ZDX. But what's interesting, if you get in it, you're like, this feels like a General Motors product because it is. And they're taking a loss, but they have to comply, because if not, they will get fined. So this is their way of making it work, but they're still taking a loss. And the interesting thing with the whole factor is that if President Trump takes away that mandate, that vehicle goes away. That doesn't mean you can't get it serviced. And that doesn't mean you aren't going to find good deals in the lot. If you want an electric credit, there will be tons of great deals. But no more $7,500 tax credit, no $4,000 credit on used EVs, and basically... I liken this whole nightmare of mandates and cash for clunkers. Remember that? I do remember that. Or give us your old car, and we'll give you money to buy a new car as an incentive. And who ended up using that? Certainly not people that couldn't afford a new car, because if you could afford a new car, you would have bought a new car. Right. And what's the average age of a car on the road today? 15 years old. And the reason is, cars are expensive people have to make choices do i put food on the table with the cost of everything getting expensive like you talk about every day or do i go buy a new car you're gonna put food on the table you're gonna pay your bills the car is transportation for many people not for me personally but for many people it is so kind of puts people in in a difficult position and So this is interesting. So who did it help? Much like the tax credit, it helps people that have money. So if you're at the country club and you think, I think I'll get the newest Hummer EV so I can be the coolest person here, you know, the first person to get one, that's fine. But for the rest of the normal people in this world, we can't afford that. And it became very difficult. So here's the interesting thing. So the mandate we know is going to go away. President Trump said he was going to do it. I forgot the guy's name. I was in charge of the EPA. Scott, I forgot his last name. But also Lee Zeldin, who's going to handle the Department of Transportation and National Highway Traffic Safety, said it's going away. Great. So Gavin Newsom, and there's an interesting little twist in this that happened last night, Gavin Newsom said, well, we're going to offer EV mandates for all the brands except Tesla, which I found hysterical.
SPEAKER 02 :
Mandates or incentives?
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Both. He's going to mandate leave the mandate in place for the state of California. And I'll talk about that in just a second, because I posted something on Sunday that's been on fire. And it's probably good for people to know what the Supreme Court is up to as well. But the bottom line is, he says, I want everyone to get a tax credit. But Tesla, because we don't like them, they're part of Trump's administration. So we don't want to help them. And that's such a stupid move to pick. It's like saying you can only eat at McDonald's. You can't eat at Burger King. I mean, come on. What if I won in and out? Oh, you don't get an incentive. I mean, come on. So when you start looking at trying to choose winners and losers by using politics, it makes people very angry. So I posted a story. It went up on Newsmax on the subject of Gavin Newsom and his foolish little plan. And it also went on to The Blaze. which is Glenn Beck's site. And we got an email last night from Gavin Newsom's team saying, well, we didn't say we were going to do it. We may exclude Tesla. So we changed the wording in the article. It's already out there, you know, how they play the games. So we did the same thing. We posted it and we know what the truth is, that he's going to try and hurt Tesla for that. But here's the bottom line. If you want an electric car, there are plenty of choices. There are some brands that are selling a lot of cars. You will never get hurt with a Prius if you want a hybrid, whether it's a plug-in or otherwise. Hyundai is offering a mixture of vehicles and doing very well with all, you know, whether you want gas, hybrid. plug in or electric. All those are available. They're going to continue to offer what people want. General Motors said we're going to coexist. We're going to offer electric. We're going to offer gas. If people want gas, we're selling it. Smart. No hybrids from General Motors, though. Interesting. Ford is like, well, we're going to make what people want. We're not getting rid of anything. OK, they got the message that I've been saying for 20 years. And let me tell you, just so you know i've taken a ton of heat from brands from executives from marketing people from other journalists from media outlets saying how can you say that no one wants electric cars because i can read the tea leaves this is common sense this is common sense come on if i could afford it i would buy it i can't afford it so i don't i mean This is how clueless the government is. And this is what President Trump wants to do. He wants to get more common sense in there. And I'm hoping somebody out there listening can help me get in part of an advisory board for the transportation and the EPA because they need some guidance from people on the ground who know the industry. And I have a team of people that I work with. who know about data, the industry, not just the OE side, but the consumer side. And all of that needs to be blowing in somebody's ear to let them know we are not political, we are independent, and we're here to help get customers what they want at good prices.
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From your lips to God's ears, I tell you what, Lauren Fix. And I did try to reach out and get your name in front of some folks. And let's just keep our fingers crossed that that's going to happen because you have so much common sense. As I was looking through your website and things, The different subjects there, and we've talked about this, I'm concerned that so many of the car manufacturers are really in a very difficult financial situation because of all these stupid policies. Absolutely. And if they go out of business, this opens up the opportunity for China, I think, to step in in car manufacturing. We've talked about that. Please address that.
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Okay, that is very interesting. And I put out a bunch of different stories and I broke it down. a couple of things. I broke down the four brands that I know are in hot water and they're in big trouble. There's other brands as well. And then we just filmed a podcast on Sunday with my son, Paul. He's not a child. He's in his 30s. And he knows the industry as well and has worked in the industry. And that'll be posting up this weekend. It's a long form. It's a little over an hour and it's much more of a deeper dive. So if you're really interested, you own a dealership, you kind of want to get some insight on or you're just curious because maybe you're investing or whatever, it's good to know what's going on. So let's start off with The low-hanging fruit. The brand that's in the worst position right now is Jaguar. They came up with an extremely strange press event where they had an androgynous people dancing, but no car. Even Elon Musk is like, where's the car? Now, as someone who's owned Jaguars and I currently race a Jaguar, it is very upsetting to me to see that they took a brand that was known for racing, known for performance, known to be the big V8 roaring brand, cat essentially because it's a jaguar and made it androgynous so when they showed up I waited before I commented I said okay let me just see what's going on let me look at the The vehicle. So they showed us a concept car at Art Basel, which is a Miami event. And when you look at the vehicle, you shake your head and go, this is fine. If it's a matchbox car, this is fine. It's a toy. But the reality of it, it was basically a Chrysler 300 that married a, you know, a Maybe a Crossfire, which is an older vehicle from Chrysler, which was a bomb when Mercedes-Benz owned a piece of Chrysler. And basically they glued two air conditioning units, one at the front and one at the back. It's very blunt. It is not appealing. It is what we would call in my industry a brick in the wind. In other words, very difficult to get aerodynamics out of it. And it's a great design study. But when people started asking, hey, what about your current customers, the people that love these cars? Because I like the Jaguar F-Pace. I like the E-Pace. I had a great time with the F-Type. And they said, well, we don't want our old customers. We want new customers. Could you imagine that? Oh, my gosh. Oh, so you own a coffee shop. We're going to sell donuts. We don't want our old coffee customers. We only want new customers. Wow. Bad marketing move, new marketing moron, I will call him. You know he doesn't come from the auto industry, because he doesn't know the industry. Saying that we want all these androgynous people. The fact is, in the whole entire United States, or the world, there's a very small percentage of those people based on everybody else. And those people are expected to spend $250,000 on a new car. So they're going to price themselves out of the market, and they think they're going to compete with Rolls-Royce. And I'm like, never going to happen. I'm going to tell you right now. Let me read my crystal ball. I'm pretty accurate. Not going to happen. So I really worry because there are a lot of dealers that have invested in millions of dollars to build their beautiful dealerships and put beautiful cars together. The problem is they want to reduce their dealer base. By 80%. Why on earth? Because you own a Jaguar dealership. Why? Because the guy's not a genius. I don't know. This has happened before. We've seen stupidity happen before. They hired this girl to run Cadillac. She did the same thing. Cars are like phones. People just get rid of them every year or two. No. A phone is $1,000 at max. A car at $200,000 is a whole other animal. And this is the cluelessness of them hiring people from outside the industry who don't know cars, don't like cars, don't care. They think that they're pieces of fashion or art. They're not. And if you expect to live off of that, you will not.
SPEAKER 02 :
Where's the board of directors on this?
SPEAKER 09 :
though ah so originally uh when ford sold off jaguar and land rover they sold it to a company called tata tata is an indian car company known for doing budget-friendly cars but root on tata who is known who just passed away recently has got to be spinning in his grave super smart guy he's in the automotive hall of fame he he makes cars for markets and he he reads the market and knew it whoever is running their board of directors wants him to go out of business Because the sad part is they also own Land Rover, which is doing fabulously. New product, the Thunder's selling like crazy, the Range Rover Sport. Not all their product, they're figuring it out, but they're actually making money. So where one of their big brands is making money on a global basis. The other one, I'm really concerned. And we'll see how long this lasts. I mean, I sat in a Land Rover event in November and talked to one of the executives, just playing neutral, just kind of listening. And they think they've got a winner here. And I'm just shaking my head. There is no way. And now they know my opinion because my story is out there. But they're in trouble. So if you're thinking about a good deal on a car, I bet you there's some great deals on Jaguar F-Pace, E-Pace. There's over a year of inventory sitting at Jaguar dealerships. So if you need a vehicle and you're looking for a deal, check out the F-Pace for a sports car. Or the F-Pace is the SUV, the small SUV is the E-Pace. And they've got a bunch of the sports cars, which is the F-Type. So I would say it's a pretty good deal.
SPEAKER 02 :
Sounds like it might be a collector's item if they continue.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I don't know. There'll be parts available. You can get service. That's not the problem. And it does include Jaguar service, which is good for two years of service, which is really nice, saves you some bucks. Okay. So next brand is Nika.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.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. Do check out the Center for American Values. It is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because there's four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up in Pueblo, Colorado. And so that's why the center is so important. It was co-founded by Drew Dix. Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War. And Brad Padula, who is an Emmy Award winning documentary maker. And they said, we need to keep these stories alive, honor these Medal of Honor recipients. And so their Portraits of Valor is it's really worth a trip. to Pueblo, Colorado to take a look at that. More information, go to AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. I have Lauren Fix on the line with me. She, you know her, Car Coach Reports. One of our listeners, and the text line is 720-605-0647. One of our listeners, Sandra, said, we need our Lauren Fix to help Lee Seldon on the Transportation Board Administration, exclamation points. And... So there you go.
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God's ears. Yeah, exactly. Fabulous. I'm in. I've got people to get to them. I just haven't made it happen. But it's always good to have push from every direction. More people reaching out will help make that happen.
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And that would be really good common sense for our freedom of mobility. So the next of the four car manufacturers that's in trouble, who is that?
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That's Nissan. They're struggling. They're making vehicles that people just don't want to buy. They have some issues with their transmissions. I think the big reason that they've got some negative on them is It partly was way back. They changed their name from Datsun to Nissan, which I thought was confusing because I owned a Datsun back in the day. But Nissan has changed their brand, and they've struggled a little bit, partly their transmissions and partly the fact when Carlos Ghosn, which you and I talked about, the CEO, got arrested because they didn't like the fact that potentially a French company could own part of their cultural Japanese company. That does not fly. And they got hurt, but the big part of the hurt is when they arrested him and all that negative press, which is never good. The interesting part was the second in command was a guy named Jose Munez. Now, you may not know that name, but I actually know him. And he was second in command. And he, of course, escaped Japan before they arrested him. And there was no reason to arrest him. It was all a push to get rid of anything that wasn't Japanese as part of their culture. They thought that they were fearing that the French, which is Raynaud, who does own some of their stock, who is now divested, was thinking about putting money into the company and more money. And they were struggling. And it was just a matter of time. And they said, we need to get rid of the French. So this is obviously a cultural thing. So where is Jose Munez now? Why did I mention him? He's now the president of Hyundai Corporation. And I don't mean just North America, because you've seen what he's done with the Hyundai Kia Genesis line. Now he's president of Global Hyundai Corporation. So he is at the top. A very interesting position, because what you're seeing now is Hyundai Genesis line. and Kia, but they also own Boston Dynamics and a bunch of other companies, including their shipping company, their manufacturing. He's in charge of all of that. So they made him very powerful. He made himself powerful. He's a very smart man, not a car guy, but understands marketing. Few people have done that, like Alan Mulally did that at Ford. But when you have a genius like that, you do not let them go. Yes. And Hyundai is succeeding because of it. You're seeing great product, 10-100,000-mile warranties. You're getting maintenance included. You're getting new product. And they're very smart the way they're doing things. Everything to them is like Legos. Oh, you want electric? We can build that car in electric. You want it hybrid? You want a plug-in hybrid? You want a gas? We can do all of that. And it's just a matter of changing what they call the hat, essentially. So the undercarriage can be changed to whatever customers want and they move quickly. I've been to the factory, super impressive. And that's what you're seeing a successful company do. And in the meantime, Nissan struggles and the dealers are struggling and it got worse. I've got another story coming out. The first one was just Nissan struggling. But now just after that report came out, Infinity, which is their luxury line, said, hey, listen, let's fold all of the luxury dealerships that stand alone into the Nissan store to save money. That's a mayday. That's like throwing the white flag when you you're not selling anything. nearly as many as you need. Some stores are only selling like 240 cars a month. You can't live on that. That's not going to keep you alive. And you're looking at the full big picture for Infiniti, which makes really cool products. The QX80 does not compete with the rest of what's out there. So right now we're seeing Infiniti shutting down their U.S. dealerships. And that is a big concern. It might be a spiral to the end for the whole brand. I hope not. I hope not. They are looking for investors because Raynaud, the French company, said, fine, we're out. So they lost a big investor. Now they're looking for an insurance company. They're speaking to Honda. I don't know what Honda would gain from that, maybe other than maybe their truck division, because Honda doesn't really sell trucks other than the Ridgeline. So that's kind of interesting. But I'll move on to some of the other brands. You can go deep in the weeds on this. And if you want to, our podcast will be posting on Sunday. You can go really deep into all this, especially if you work in the industry or you're interested. Really interesting. So there's good deals at Nissan also. So whoever's struggling, there are deals. Volkswagen is another one. In Europe, they're shutting down three plants. They're telling all their workers through their union that they want them to cut their pay by 10 percent. Not to executives. Just the union workers. And I can promise you there will be pushback on that. Very interesting. And so how does that affect us? Well, here, Chattanooga, Tennessee, they are building Volkswagens. The new Taos is being built in Mexico. They're building cars here. They're still struggling a little bit, although their best-selling vehicle is the Atlas, which is the biggest Volkswagen they ever sold. And I've driven the new Taos. I'll be posting a review on that on my CarSmarts channel. So all the car reviews went to CarSmarts.com. And what's interesting is, The struggle is not because they're building bad product. It's because Germany let the Chinese come in and sell their cars. And this is what you're getting a preview of what happens to the U.S. if we allow Chinese cars to sell here in a marketplace. And the reason that they're hurting so badly is when China comes into a market, they steal the market by lowballing the price. I mean bad. Like, here's a $60,000 car. We're going to sell it at $40,000. So the consumer says... Great. Why would I want to spend 60 when I can buy 40? Done, right? Well, what happens is the U.S.-built, or in this case, the German-built cars are struggling, and that includes all of the brands. And the result is China subsidizes all of the cars that are sold. And they can't do this forever because it can't last forever, and it is hurting them financially. So every car that's sold, and it depends on the vehicle, they'll subsidize the difference in order to steal the market. and they've destroyed the German car market, and they're shutting down three plants, and they're telling at least 100,000 people they're going to lose their jobs, and the ones that are staying, you've got to cut your pay by 10%. That's not going to work. And that's why President Trump saw what was going on, or his people saw what was going on, and this is part of what I want to offer information. You can't let China in here unless it's not subsidized by the government, because we are not going to subsidize Ford, GM, and Tesla and everybody else. Because if we do, then the government owns the car companies, and we know how well they run the post office.
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And that's why the tariffs may make sense when you have the competitor has a government that is undercutting and subsidizing the product so that they can come in and... basically put that industry, steel industry, car industry, out of business. Then that $40,000 car, or that $60,000 car that was sold for $40,000, then might be $70,000. So we've got about a minute left. What's the last one, Lauren Fixx?
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Well, there's a lot. I'm not going to go into it deeply. I think if you really want to know more, the podcast will be coming out. It's an hour. It's worth listening to. It'll come out on Sunday. But in the meantime, lots of good stuff. Supreme Court is going to take up the mandate. This is fantastic news. The Supreme Court said they're going to take the electric car mandate up as soon as they get back into session. That'll be under President Trump. IF THEY TAKE AWAY THE CALIFORNIA MANDATE, WHICH IS CALLED THE CALIFORNIA WAIVER, THE MANDATE'S GONE. TRUMP'S GOING TO GET RID OF THAT MANDATE ANYHOW. THE SUPREME COURT WILL TAKE THAT UP BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HAVE ONE STATE TELLING THE OTHER 49, INCLUDING COLORADO, what to buy and what not to buy. You cannot run, that does not work. So consumers have pushed back, legal, many attorney generals have pushed back, and this is great news. Now, once we get rid of them, we need to defund and remove the California Air Resources Board. President Trump tried to do that at the end of his four-year term. This has to be done immediately. Day one, EPA, get in there and take that away because Obama gave them more powers. We need to defund them and take away their powers. You do what you want in L.A. that does not affect the rest of the country.
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Okay. So interesting. Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports, and the Car Reports are at CarSmarts. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. We will talk to you next month. Merry Christmas. Thank you for your time. Okay. And our quote for the end of the show, I went to Mark Twain. He said, life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that makes you smile. So today, be grateful. Read great books. Think good thoughts. Listen to beautiful music. Communicate and listen well. Live honestly and authentically. Strive for high ideals. And like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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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 our number two of the Kim Munson 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. Thank you to the team, Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday, and Lauren Fix was on fire again. Producer Joe.
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She absolutely was. I love when she's on.
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She just always has a fountain of knowledge. I know. Freedom of mobility, to be able to go where you want to, when you want to, everyday people. It's something that is under attack, and she always sheds light on that. You can find her car coach reports, and she would love to serve in the Trump administration and help Lee with the Department of Transportation. So if you know anybody that knows Lee Zeldin, put in a good word for Lauren Fix. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. That way you'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com. And the text line is 720-605-0647. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And you can hear the show 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. The second hour is rebroadcast 10 to 11 at night. The next day, we post the summary with the podcast embedded in that. And then once that is published, that podcast, you can listen to that on Spotify and iTunes as well. And we... Let's see here. Hooters Restaurants has been a great sponsor of both the shows for many years. They have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Their specialty, or one of their specialties, is wings. And on Wednesdays, they have a Wings Day special. You buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. And they've been sponsors of both the Kim Munson Show and America's Veterans Stories program. for many years how I got to know them. Very important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. And so you can find that story at my website at KimMunson.com under the sponsors tab. Our word of the day is illusion. And I just realized that I was thinking, I got mixed up, Joe. There is illusion, A-L-L-U-S-I-O-N, And that is an implied or indirect reference, especially in literature. But I think what I was thinking about, it could be an instance of indirect reference, I think I was thinking of I-L-L-U-S-I-O-N. I think I got mixed up. aha that's true so there's illusion a-l-l-u-s-i-o-n uh what i was trying to have as our word of the day was illusion that's i-l-l-u-s-i-o-n it could be an erroneous perception of reality an erroneous concept or belief, the condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief. So that's the word I was wanting to have as word of the day because I'm concerned about this whole drone thing, nothing to see here. Maybe it's an illusion. Well, we know that there's really drones, but is the narrative an illusion to take our minds off of something else? I'm not sure. So stay tuned on all of that. Our quote of the day is Mark Twain, and he was born in 1835. He died in 1910. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Hulker Barry Finn. He said this, keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. And yes, surround yourself with people that are creative, that are honest, that are always looking to make things better. And again, Mark Twain said, keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. And I wanted to talk with, I am blessed to work with amazing sponsors. And well, one of those is Laramie Energy. And I appreciate their goal sponsorship of this show because it's a reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy. And those sources at this time are oil, gas, and coal that they power our lives and fuel our hopes and dreams. And so we continue to shed light on a regular basis regarding everyday people being able to control our own personal climate. That would be to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And that's a great segue to step out, check out our documentary. climateconversation.com it is the project of walt johnson the documentary you can watch it for free at a climateconversation.com and we are publishing these amazing podcasts with scientists and experts as well so be sure and check all that out and as i mentioned i know all of my sponsors personally they all strive for excellence as they take care of their clients and their customers and on the line with me is john boson with boson law john welcome to the show
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Good morning, Kim. Really like that Mark Twain quote. Very appropriate and very, yeah, people should follow that.
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You really, really should. And my dad always talked about who you surround yourself with is really, really important. And I know you have a lot of dad-isms for your kids as well. I keep those up. The kids will remember those. In fact, Joe, you had given us one the other day, and I think it was, oh, I'd written it down. What was it about? Hold on just a second, John. I've got to find this because it is so good. Yeah, I want to steal it. Yeah, you want to steal it.
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Borrow it. I'll borrow it.
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You'll borrow it. Hold on, Joe. I wrote it down. Okay, here we go. You can't get through the hard stuff if you walk around it. And that was Joe's dad-ism. I love that.
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I will use that one.
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Okay. So, but there is hard stuff that happens and that's why a bosun law is, is there to help and people can reach out to you for a complimentary appointment. But one of the things we haven't talked about for a while is social security disability benefits. What should people know about that?
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Yeah, we haven't. And it is something else that we do and we help folks with because often when someone's involved in a, a bad accident or a bad situation or accident or something happens at work, it can keep them from working for some period of time. And unfortunately, sometimes it's for the rest of a career. And if someone works, they pay into the system, taxes are collected by the government and some of those taxes go for Social Security. not just retirement, but also disability benefits that folks can qualify for if, because of an accident or an injury or it can be an illness, they're going to be unable to work for 12 months, 12 consecutive months. Then they have the right to seek and have Social Security disability benefits. Because we pay in, an employer pays 50% of that, and the employee pays 50% of that, and it's something that can keep, well, it can keep food on the table for a lot of folks. And a lot of folks don't understand and realize that if they're unable to work, and it's going to be for an extended period of time, they can apply for those benefits to kind of, well, to help them out until hopefully they can get back to work.
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And so it's probably something that is difficult to navigate without some professional help, yes?
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Absolutely. We have a dedicated team, one attorney and one paralegal, that help folks from start to finish. They help them fill out the application because that is important, help them obtain the medical records and documentation that they do have a condition that prevents them from working. and then if necessary and often is necessary for folks to actually get and obtain those benefits they have to go in front of a judge an administrative law judge who listens to the testimony reviews the evidence looks at the medical records and makes a determination then if someone is qualified to obtain those benefits. And it can be, well, it's definitely something someone needs an attorney to assist with most of the time.
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So how can people reach John Boson and Boson Law?
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And that number is 303-999-9999. Now, John Boson, I cannot believe that next week is Christmas. And we have been working like crazy. We are pre-recording the whole week with special guests. And so we will be pre-recording something with you for next week. So we will talk with you in person in a couple of weeks. But I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.
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Back at you, Kim, and for all your listeners, be safe out there. And let's remember the reason that we're celebrating Christmas.
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Absolutely. So, Emmanuel. So, John Bosen, thank you so much. We'll talk soon.
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Thank you, Kim. Take care.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And there's a lot going on in the world out there, and we get to have these important discussions because of our great sponsors. And one of those is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And Roger's been in business for 48 years, taking care of his clients and his family and giving back to his community. And if you bundle your insurance together, you might be able to save yourself some money. So reach out to the Roger Mangan Team at 303-795. for more information to set up that complimentary appointment. And we're going to get Nathan Worster on the line here in just a minute. I think that I gave Joe the wrong phone number to make that happen, so hold on here just a second, and we'll get that taken care of. It always takes just a minute. And sometimes I have fumble fingers, and this may have been one of those days. So hold on here just a second, because there's something really interesting that... Okay, Joe, that number that I have on there, that is supposed to be correct. And he's written a piece in the Epoch Times regarding these. Trump is talking about freedom cities, which I find super, super interesting. So let me just check one other thing here, my friends, because there can be so many different moving parts. And I hate to be doing this when it's live radio, but we want to try to make sure all this happens here. Just a second. Yeah, that should be the right phone number there, Joe. So hopefully that's going to happen. But Nathan has written this piece. And, you know, we talk on a regular basis about 30 by 30. And that is Biden, when he got into office, he had signed an executive order that there would be additional, get us to that the land would be return to its natural habitat, at least 30% of the land to its natural habitat, which means that we would not have any human interaction whatsoever upon that land. And basically, they don't want to have humans. And I'm thinking on that land, and I'm thinking, huh. And that's why what Josh Lowenstein is doing with Our American Lands is so important is we're seeing that it's PBIs are trying to limit humans' access to public lands and also trying to do things to take away property rights on our private lands as well. And so I've always thought, why not open up some of these lands to development so people can have their own personal home if they so decide to? And so Trump apparently has talked about something called Freedom Cities, where he would use millions of acres of what is currently federal land and actually build new cities in our country again. So I want to keep that. I want to go to break early so that Joe and I can get our wires together here on Nathan. And because we really do want to get him on the show. And the show comes to you because of all of our great sponsors. And one of those is Lavaca Meat Company. And Lavaca Meat Company truly is that steakhouse experience at home, a wonderful protein source for your diet.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And check out the USMC Memorial Foundation's website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And I can't believe that Christmas is right around the corner. I guess Hanukkah is on the same day. And a great gift for that veteran in your family would be to buy a brick to be on one of their pathways of service to honor your loved one's military service. And you will receive a beautiful certificate saying, until the remodel occurs but that certificate is great to display on your wall or on your desk and you can get more information about all that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org and some of the texts coming in as this is from Sandra she said first of all I was trying to I guess um Allude to this Bible verse, and it's Proverbs 16, 27 through 29, and it says, idle hands are the devil's workshop, idle lips are his mouthpiece. And that's in my comment about an eight-hour workday. because many times the choices that people make when they're not working, maybe because they're just idle, may not be productive. I know we all need downtime, and certainly time to be with friends and family and to recreate. But I'm concerned that there's been this focus away from productivity, and that's just, as I mentioned in our discussion, uh history this day in history in 1919 austria instituted the eight uh eight hour work day so thank you sandra on that and then also she said drones and low altitude flights says unmanned aircraft known as drones are broadly available to the public and can fly at low altitudes over the property of others. And I know that Glenn Jansen with Jansen Photography, he can do photography with drones, which is pretty cool. But it says drone owners are free to fly these aircraft over private property subject to FAA rules without getting permission from the property owner. If a drone owner substantially impairs the property rights of a private party, though, They may face a civil lawsuit for compensation. So, okay. So that's good to know there as well. So let's see. Let's get over here to some of these other headlines. One that I thought was very, very important was, let me get to that, is... This is one that Pam Long had alluded to. And here in Colorado, we see this big push to take away our Second Amendment rights. And they do this under the illusion of trying to have safe neighborhoods. And so this is published by the Colorado Accountability Project. And it is CDPHEs, that's the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Let's Talk Guns campaign echoes gun control and Democrat talking points. And it says, established by a 2021 law, CDPHE's Office of Gun Violence Prevention was intended to, according to the bill summary of the law that created it, to coordinate and promote effective efforts to reduce gun violence. Part of the office's recent work has been to create a public-facing web page, Let's Talk Guns Colorado, which is sort of a clearinghouse for information on a variety of gun safety topics and state gun policy. Among the concerns of the legislators who voted against the office's creation and among the public who disagreed was that the office would be used as a dressed-up way to deliver gun control talking points and further Democrat gun control efforts in the state. I think that's probably true. And again, using a publicly funded agenda to make all of this happen. And it says, whether the office has a pattern of doing that is up for reasonable debate. But it says in their newsletter that is linked. And again, this is, let's see, Colorado Accountability Project. And they go into depth on a definite instance of the office thoughtlessly fording gun control and Democrat talking points, along with an open email to the office requesting that they either amend or remove said language. It says that they've taken a quick tour through that, and it says this website is a collection of tips, topics, and guides. For example, if you were, say, a doctor wanting to talk to your patients about safe gun storage or wanted info on filing an ERPO petition, you could find info there. And anyway, I think the point is that government dollars... setting up bureaucracies whenever you see the office or the commission of fill in the blank that typically means that there's a bureaucratic control that is occurring with that and all of these under the guise of hold on here just a second all of this is under the guise of of saying that they want to have safe communities. But let's really unpack this a little bit more. What this is about is disarming the populace. And one of the first things that dictators do is they make sure that everyday people do not have access to firearms to protect themselves and their families. And there are those who say, well, just call the police or call the sheriff. Well, it takes a little while for them to arrive. And you want to make sure that you have the right to be able to protect yourself and your families. And the idea that you would have government that would dictate how you store a firearm in your home. So let's say that the bad guys are at the door and you want to protect your children from the bad guys. And what do you say? Hey, wait just a minute. I'm going to go down to my gun safe. I'm going to get my firearm out. You just wait just a minute before you come into the house because I want to take care of that. That's one of the things that is so really crazy about government wanting to come into your home and tell you what you can and cannot do in your home. And again, it is another way to, if you cannot access your firearm, then it is an infringement upon your firearm. And so this whole Office of Gun Violence Prevention is, again, bad guys don't follow the rules. The bad guys are the ones that are going to have the firearms. And so we're going to be at the tip of the spear on this particular issue. And I continue to think about that young mom that is in a... a dangerous neighborhood where she wants to make sure that she can protect herself and her children from the bad guys. And we did just pass this excise tax in this last election here in Colorado, which is a 6.5% excise tax on firearms and ammunition. So here she is trying to put food on the table and has to make different choices. And here we swoop in and put a tax on her ability to protect herself and her children from the bad guys. And so I think that we need to be very vigilant on what is going to be happening at this Colorado State Legislature this next session. It's going to be interesting to see how... The radical activist agenda of these Colorado Democrats that are in power in the legislature and Governor Polis, nothing happens without his permission. But how he will be trying to portray himself as more libertarian is... even though his bureaucracies, his bureaucrats, this administrative state has been pushing this radical activist agenda. So it's going to be really interesting to watch what happens with that. And so this is a great time for me to say, join the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. It's only $25 per year. And we, during the legislative session, will go through all of the legislation that is scheduled for hearing. And then we will take a position on different pieces of legislation as they affect you as a taxpayer and your property rights. Colorado Union of Taxpayers has been an organization that has been... in existence since 1976. It's all volunteers who care deeply about you and Colorado to do this. And so $25, you will get the email that we send to the governor and the legislators and our members each week regarding the different legislation for that week that we're taking positions on. So you can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. That is coloradotaxpayer.org. And when you see these folks, these volunteers, say thank you to them. That is the board. Steve Dorman, Greg Galianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Carl Honecker, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Joseph O'Loughlin, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Remy Johnson, and Mary Jansen. So be sure and do that. Text line is 720-605-0647. And, oh, gosh, here, I want to hear a lot of this. Different listeners. First one, and again, I was talking about the CDPHE and their Office to Gun Violence Prevention. And this first listener says, I can put a gun on my coffee table for 50 years and it won't shoot anyone. It's humans that kill people, not guns. Excellent point. Good point. Okay, next one. Listening to this Colorado entity that wants to have safer gun laws, all you had to say was the comment about a doctor discussing gun safety with, you told me, all I need to know about this new government entity. It is not a doctor's business to know anything about the firearms that we may or may not have in our homes. If my doctor ever asked me that question, that would be the last appointment I've ever had with him. Excellent point. And then goes on to say, we also do not have to justify why we choose to have a firearm. I know that you often talk about the single mom, but we don't have to explain ourselves. It is a right as an American citizen to have a firearm to protect ourselves from government tyranny. That's absolutely correct. The reason I pull out that and I use that on a regular basis, that example, is there are those that are afraid of firearms. And they think that firearms are bad and that they are the reason that people are killed. And I think it's somewhat naive. They think that if we could have all of these things. different gun laws and get rid of guns, then we would prevent people from shooting each other. Well, that's not the case because the problem is, is if you limit law-abiding citizens the right to keep and bear a firearm and the bad guys know that, then that's only going to embolden the bad guys. But there are, I think, very well-meaning people that have this idea, it's kind of Pollyanna-ish, that just getting rid of access to firearms, that that's going to alleviate the problem. So that's why I do bring up the example on a regular basis regarding that single mom that wants to protect herself and her family against the bad guys because hopefully that gets the attention of some of these well-meaning people that are misdirected on our Second Amendment and those that want to take away our firearms. And so that is why we really – and Colorado is at the tip of the spear on this issue. The fact that they pushed that 6.5 percent excise tax and it was passed, you will now see them trying to send that out to other states as well. So we need to hold the line here, and the way to do that is to engage in this battle of ideas. Next thing, remember that you cannot give to someone, government cannot give to someone something for free that they have not first taken from someone else. And this is from the Center Square. It says 23 attorney generals oppose Biden's fourth attempt to saddle Americans with student loan debt. And this is by Bethany Blankley at the Center Square. And this was published. We have a byline on this. I don't see that. It says these attorneys led by Missouri and Kansas have put the Biden administration's Department of Education on notice about this fourth attempt. to force the American taxpayers to pay for others' student loan debt. Now let's think about this for just a minute. There are those that have decided to not go to college, that they may have decided to trade school or they needed to immediately get into the workforce. They are paying taxes. They are being productive citizens. And the idea to take their tax money to pay for somebody else's decision to go to a university or college and incur debt to do that is really unfair. But the other thing to remember is that debt that these students have incurred going to college has been used to pay administrators, professors that have pushed this indoctrination that we have seen with many colleges and universities I cannot tell you how many different families I have talked with that the parents are conservative. They've worked hard. They have put their kids through college or, again, taking on this debt I don't think is a good idea for the kids. And then the child comes home and really – is now against all of the values of the parents who put all this together. And so how dumb are we to, first of all, incur this debt, let our children incur this debt, to pay these people, to indoctrinate our kids, to hate America, and disrespect their parents? And because we've had all the student loan debt money that's gone in to the system, it's increased the cost significantly. And it is unsustainable because more and more people are looking at this college degree and all of this debt and saying it doesn't look like the cost-benefit ratio is there. so now here we are with the joe biden he says with less than three months this was recently says the department of left in his administration the department of education published a notice proposed rule making in the federal register announcing another attempt by the federal government to pay off student loan debt despite the u.s supreme court ruling it cannot do so And that proposed rule is titled Student Debt Relief for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program and the Federal Family Education Loan Program. And I remember it was in the old days when kids got a college education. What that would imply is that they were learned. and that they would be able to get a good job. And that's really, I think, what parents have wanted for everyone. But now when you are getting indoctrination and... When you're getting degrees that nobody really wants to hire you for, then that's a problem. And I do remember when I was on city council of Lone Tree is that I think that I know it was at least proposed. Now I can't remember if it was passed that all new employees had to have a college degree. and didn't say that you had to have a college degree in the field that you were applying for. It just said that you had that. This was another backdoor way to force kids into thinking they're going to have a better job if they go out and they get a college degree, and so they incur debt to make that happen, and then all of a sudden it's like, ah. So going on to this piece from the center square, it says, this is the fourth time the department has tried to shift the expense of student loans from those who willingly took them out to the American taxpayers. It says everyone from the Supreme Court to President Joe Biden to former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has publicly acknowledged that you do not have the authority to forgive debt except in the limited ways Congress clearly outlined. You must hear to these warnings and follow the law. And so the idea of getting rid of the Department of Education under the Doge project I think makes a lot of sense. And a project that I would really like to – and I'm just kicking the tires on it in my brain. So if you have ideas, you can help me with this. But as we know, at the federal level – Donald Trump and with Doge, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are going to cut government, cut these bureaucracies is really important. What I think you'll see is doubling down at the local and the county and the state level. to continue to push this agenda that is really embedded in local, county, and state government. And so I've been thinking about one of the first ways that we need to get this turned around is to have our own Doge Colorado. And where could that start? Where would be the first places to cut off the money? And that would be government, federal government grants and loans. Because we are incurring significant debt, running deficits, and this debt is going to have to be paid off by us and by our children. It's getting to a point where it seems like it's impossible. although nothing's impossible, but that trajectory is not sustainable. So we need to cut off the money that's coming from the federal government for all of these government grants and loans and programs, and that reduces the control of the federal government. That then means that we need to hold our Local, county, and state, I almost said officials, are representatives accountable. But I think one of the best ways is to start to rein this all in is to get rid of the government money. I think it was Jenny that had texted me and said that these government grants are the cocaine and very addictive for government, local governments. And I think she was absolutely spot on on all of that. Now that we're getting into the Christmas season, the Hanukkah season, and the kids are going to be off from school, do some things that are productive and informative and very educational. And one of those would be to go down to the Center for American Values and go to their Portraits of Valor of over 160 Medal of Honor recipients. And you can talk about these men and learn about these men. I've said to both Brad and Drew, her co-founders of the center, I would love it if each year every student in Colorado would choose a Medal of Honor recipient and have to write a report on them to learn about them. I think that it would change things in our education system. But I would put it on your bucket list. Take the kids down to the Center for American Values located on the beautiful Riverwalk in Pueblo. And you can make a day of it. There's great restaurants. And to get more information about that, go to AmericanValueCenter.org. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Loren Levy. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Wanted to go through this particular headline here. Oh, gosh, let me get to it now. I had two different things. Oh, gosh, this is a new law. Here we go. New law. This is from KDVR. New laws going into effect in Colorado, January of 2025. It's so interesting that they have these start after the election. And the first one is ban on holding your cell phones while driving. It says, texting while driving has already been illegal in the state for several years, while holding cell phones while driving was against the law for children under 18. Come 2025, Colorado drivers could be fined for holding a phone while driving. It's Senate Bill 24065, and the Colorado Union of Taxpayers took a no position on this. And it says the first time a driver is caught, they face a $70 fine or two license suspension points. Gosh, you know what? I think, what do you think about this, Joe?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think that's a little bit ridiculous. Yes, I understand safety and stuff, but to fine you money for that?
SPEAKER 02 :
I think we have distracted driving rules out there. I think it's all just about control. And so that's one of the new ones. Next one. If you've ever wrestled a child car seat, which it can be one of the most frustrating experiences to try to get a car seat locked into the car. In fact, I saw a comedian, he said he'd hoped that he could get the car seat in the car before the child graduated from high school. It can be so difficult. So House Bill 241055. And so when you see the designation, first of all, it'll be the year. So this was passed in the year 24. And the House Bill was 1055. And it's updating child safety seat rules in the state. It says, one of the things that it changed is that kids will now be required to use a booster seat until turning nine years old, raising the age that kids stay in booster seats by one year. So, Joe, kids can be different sizes when they're nine years old. You could have a very large nine-year-old kid that still has to sit in a booster seat. How about if the parents could make the decision on that? What do you think?
SPEAKER 10 :
I totally agree. And actually, there was a rule growing up for me in New York. It was you either had to be 10 years old or over the weight of 100 pounds to be able to not have to use a booster seat anymore.
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, my gosh. I have friends that are only 100 pounds and they're driving. So next one. And I'd written about this. This was passed back in 2020. And I'd written an essay on this. And Zach had done such a great job with the image on it. He had the gold dome of the Capitol was actually an egg. You know, and I think we probably need to, I'm going to talk to Zach about republishing this. It says, starting January 1, 2025, all eggs sold in the state of Colorado must be cage-free environments. The law was passed in 2020, but it went into effect in two stages. Starting in 2023, egg producers were required to give hens more space if they were confined in cages. Now, all eggs sold in Colorado must be cage-free starting in January. So this increases the cost of eggs. Eggs has been a great protein source for families, particularly if they're on a tight budget. And so this just increases the price of this protein source. And again, this is on top of government-induced inflation. So we'll continue on. We have Ron on the line. Ron, what is on your radar? Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, Kim. They passed that bill about wearing helmets on bikes, and then you have to wear your seatbelt, and you have to do this. This is conditioning. This is what they do to condition you for these COVID-type scenarios. This is what they use, and they try to condition the populace to follow what they do.
SPEAKER 02 :
Ron, I think you're absolutely correct. And again, when I was on city council, I was up at the big, let's see, Colorado Municipal League meeting. They have a big retreat and it's normally up in the mountains. The city pays for room and board for their city council people and their staff to go up to that meeting. And this is a room there was probably a thousand people in it. And somebody got up and said that it was two things. One of them was to force people to wear helmets. So whenever I ride my bike, I haven't ridden it in a while. I've been walking. But I would just as a just as a rebel, I would not wear a helmet. And then and actually could see that you could see that play out in COVID as well. I was a bit of a rebel on that. Yeah. And then the other was, again, this was sometime 2012 to 2016. Somebody got up and said, we need to ban plastic bags at the grocery store. And remember, Ron, in COVID, where people were so concerned about germs, they were actually Many people were disinfecting their packages that were even delivered to their door. So concerned about germs. Now, with eliminating clean plastic bags to take your groceries home in, people are bringing in bags that have been in their cars, their trunks for weeks, not washed, bringing all those germs into our food source. And I think that's crazy. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. The government doesn't care about you. They pump all these chemicals into your food. Smoking, all this other stuff, they don't care whether you live or die. What they care about is control and money. And that's what they care about.
SPEAKER 02 :
And that's why we have to push back on that because I think you've nailed it. Ron, thank you so much. It's always good to hear from you.
SPEAKER 07 :
You too. Thank you.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, that line is 303-477-5600. Jenny said this. So the leftists are concerned about our children, the safety of our children. She says, you mean the ones that they didn't abort? She always nails it. You know exactly what she's saying. Let's see here. Okay. So this is one of our listeners said, no, all of us have new cars. When I'm holding my phone, I'm following my map, which makes driving safer. Okay, that's a good point. You know what I got? I got one of those cup holders, though, so that I can just look down at that. So it's really easy to do. And I would recommend that. That makes things. But I don't think it's government's business. Well, what if you... distracted driving that's what we need to as john bosun says we need to stay focused but we don't need government getting into our homes and our cars telling us what to do let's see we've got a lot of other comments here uh let's see Okay. Oh, I'll get to this in just a second. Next one regarding new laws, gun storage requirements in vehicles. House Bill 24, 1348. Again, I'm pretty sure the Colorado Union of Taxpayers took a position on this as no. It bans anyone from leaving a handgun in an unintended vehicle unless they first secure it in a locked container placed out of view. Violators could be hit with a fine of up to $500. So let's say that you're coming back to your car and somebody is following you. You want to get into your car and you may be attacked and you might want to use your firearm to protect yourself. Hold on just a minute. I got to get my firearm out of the mandated locked thing, whatever, in my car. Do you see how this is empowering the bad guy and making it more difficult for the good guy to protect themselves, Joe?
SPEAKER 10 :
It's about as silly as requiring to have the gun disassembled across your house to be able to defend your home. It just makes no sense. You have to run around. Hold on. Wait one minute. Let me go get the top end of my pistol, the bottom end of my pistol. Hold up. The magazine's in the garage, too. Let me go get that as well.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's just uncomfortable. Is that something that they're proposing? Yeah. Or is that a law someplace?
SPEAKER 10 :
That was one that was proposed, I want to say, about three years ago. At least in Oklahoma, they tried to do that, and it did not fly very well there.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don't think that.
SPEAKER 10 :
But it's just silly.
SPEAKER 02 :
But you know what? The other thing is, is they never give up. They continue to try to limit your access to firearms in all different ways. So next one, let's see here, that's going into effect. This was in 2022. It was House Bill 22-1345 to regulate the sale and distribution of two different chemicals. I can't even say it. Better known as PFAs or forever chemicals within the state. It says the first effect went in in January 24 and banned PFAs in things like rugs, food packaging and products. Meant for kids, again, protecting kids, always protecting kids. As Jenny said, the ones they don't abort. And it also required that cookware disclose it has PFAs included in it. So, again, these are new laws. Oh, my gosh, there is a whole list of these. Let me see if there's any other thing. Okay. Agriculture and Natural Resources Public Engagement Requirement. I kind of remember that. That was Senate Bill 026. And okay, let me see if I can say this particular text here. Okay. Question. It says, why are the people of Colorado so stupid to put these people in office that continue to restrict our lives? That is a good question. And I've heard reports that Colorado is the only state that went further blue out of all 50 states in the nation. I'm not sure I buy that, but we want to find out. And that is why we have done the Colorado 2024 election project. We have our two lawsuits out there, one with United Sovereign Americans and the other was the Wisconsin for Center for Election Justice. This project is going to morph into Reclaim Colorado 2025. Joe, you have a quick comment and we're just about out of time.
SPEAKER 10 :
I just have a kind of conjecture about that question. Appointed officials. I feel like Colorado had the most appointed officials out of every state. And that might be just why we get these bad actors that we didn't want.
SPEAKER 02 :
And who is appointing all this? The libertarian Governor Polis, who wants to run for governor, and just said he was getting rid, the buzz saw on all these regulations. Well, let's find out if he's really serious. Anyway, great discussions. And our quote for the end of the show is from Mark Twain. He said this, "'Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that makes you smile.'" Today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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The Power Behind Faith
Transcript of FLOT Line Episode 1008 aired on December 15, 2024
Good morning and welcome to The FLOT Line. I’m your host Rick Hughes and for the next few
minutes stick around. It will be about 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, a whole lot of
education but no manipulation because we don’t try to con you. We’re not trying to hustle
money. We’re not trying to sell you anything. We just want to give you information that
hopefully will help you verify and identify God's plan for your life. If you can do this, then you
can orient and adjust to the plan, it’s up to you. What we’re going to study today is very
important. I think it’s something I haven’t covered before. Before we begin our study this
morning, I’d like to thank all of you who have called or written encouraging me as we move into
the 2025 broadcast year. To be honest with you, I really thought I'd never be around this long but
it's obvious the Lord has other plans. One of the verses that encourages me is found in Jeremiah
29:11,
“‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not
for calamity, to give you a future and a hope.’”
He knows His purpose and His plan for us and
the question is, do we know, understand and trust His plan? Two key words, know and trust. Do
we know His plan and do we trust His plan? If you stick with me today, I think we’re going to
understand what this means. We can take comfort in this divine provision that God has a plan for
us to prosper us, not to harm us, to give us hope in the future. We can take comfort in this
provision. However, there is one thing we must do before we can take comfort in this passage.
This one thing is found in Proverbs 3:5-6 where it says,
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will
make your paths straight.”
It's very obvious that before we can believe Jeremiah 29:11, we have
to trust what God says. Let’s take a look at the passage in Proverbs 3:5-6. It says we have to trust
Him with all of our heart and submit to Him. Listen to the words again,
“Lean not on your own
understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him
[submit to Him].” This is positive volition.
This is faith to trust and we have to have some insight and understanding. Don’t lean on your
own understanding, human viewpoint. Let's get some principles on these two verses. The fact is
that God has a plan for us and we have to trust Him to learn what the plan is. Here are the
principles. One, trust is another word for a very strong type of faith. The Hebrew word is
batah
and it’s a verb. Figuratively it means to be confident, to be sure or to be secure. This particular
Hebrew verb is what we call a qal imperative. The imperative means it is a divine command, not
a request. God is telling you through the writer of Proverbs to trust in Him with all your heart.
Two, make no mistake about this, if you fail to trust God, you are sinning. Failure to trust God is
a sin for the believer. You can see where we sin many times when we have things that happen
and we question why, are angry it happened, and we don't trust God about it. Do you think God
overlooks the small details in your life? Absolutely not, He's aware of them. This is what
Jeremiah 29:11 says,
“‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for
welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’”
You must trust Him and you must
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not fall into the sin of mistrust. Three, the passage makes it clear that we are to 100% trust and be
confident in His plan, not our own instincts. Four, the action part of trust is the word submit. Did
you hear this when I read it to you?
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on
your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him
[submit to Him].” The action part of
the word trust is the word submit. You can't trust if you don't submit. This indicates the act of
submission on our part. But before we can submit, here's another word, we've got to have
confidence in God's plan and design for our life. How can you trust God and how can you submit
to God and His plan if you don't have confidence? Where do you get this confidence? Five,
confidence is developed and strengthened by means of spiritual growth. Psalm 32:8 says,
“I will
instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon
you.”
If we are going to submit and have confidence, we have to learn something. Six, spiritual
growth requires instruction. I just read it,
“I will instruct you and teach you.”
This is why we
have a Bible and this is why we have men who have the gift of pastor-teacher, Ephesians 4:11.
Seven, it is through Scripture that God counsels us. In other words God guides us through
Scripture. If you have confidence and you trust Him, you will understand this. 2 Timothy 2:15
says,
“Be diligent
[study]
to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need
to be ashamed, accurately handling the Word of truth.”
The Lord wants you to have confidence
in His guidance, confidence in His plan and to trust Him and not try to do things in your own
free will. This means you're not stepping outside the plan of God, trying to figure it out for
yourself. God has a plan and what is His plan? Where do I get this?
“For I know the plans that I
have for you.”
God has a plan for your life, a time to live and a time to die. A time to be happy
and a time to be unhappy. He has a plan for you and He declares this in Jeremiah 29:11. It is not
to hurt you. It is to prosper you and give you confidence in a great future. Do you trust Him? Do
you have confidence to trust Him? Do you know enough of the Word of God to trust Him? Have
you grown spiritually enough to let Him counsel you? Eight, spiritual growth produces insight
and discernment. What are these two words, insight and discernment? They are a byproduct of
understanding. When you understand God's plan, you have insight into the future and
discernment about what God is doing. This type of thinking is called in Proverbs 2:1-6 wisdom.
“My son, if you will receive my words
[teaching]
and treasure my commandments within you
[learning]
, make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding; for if you cry
for discernment, lift your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver and search for her as
for hidden treasures; then you will discern the fear of the Lord and discover the knowledge of
God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.”
How
can you trust God if you don't understand God? How can you love God if you don't know God?
Nine, wisdom is necessary if you wish to be a winner believer, not just some sort of
benchwarmer. There’s a football season going on. We’ve got a lot of benchwarmers that never
get in the game. God cannot put you in the game if you don't understand His plan and if you
don't trust His decisions. Let's get to the matter of trust. What does it mean to trust God? Ten,
trust is the strength of your faith. Faith requires trust. What does trust require? That you have
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confidence that God is not going to harm you, confidence that God has a good plan for you and
this confidence gives you comfort. Listen to what Paul wrote in Philippians 1:6,
“For I am
confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of
Christ Jesus.”
Confidence is your trust in action. You can't trust God if you don't have
confidence in God. If you don't have some knowledge of God's plan, how can you have
confidence in God? How can you have faith if you don't understand God? Eleven, confidence
requires courage. The young shepherd boy David who walked out to face the Philistine giant
named Goliath was full of confidence. He demonstrated great courage when he faced that giant
with a slingshot when all of Saul's army was full of cowards, running and hiding. For 40 days
and 40 nights when the giant came out to challenge them, nobody would fight him until finally
one teenager with confidence and faith stepped up and did the job. Twelve, in Matthew 8:23-27
we find the disciples had no faith due to their lack of confidence in God's plan. They simply did
not trust the Lord’s decision to cross the Sea of Galilee with storm clouds on the horizon. Do you
hear what I'm saying? They had no confidence, no trust and no faith. Listen as I read Matthew
8:23-27,
“When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. And behold, there arose a
great storm in the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was
asleep. And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, ‘Save us, Lord; we are perishing!’
[This is
a problem, no faith and no confidence.]
He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, you men of little
faith?’ Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm. The
men were amazed, and said, ‘What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey
Him?’”
He was the God-man, undiminished diety and true humanity in one body forever. The
key to this is He never used His deity to sustain His humanity. He did use His deity to calm the
sea. Yes, He was God. He just stood up and said, “Stop” and that was the end of it. It slicked off.
But He never ever used His deity to sustain His humanity because He would have been doing
something we couldn’t do. He left us a perfect example. Thirteen, the Lord actually called them,
“Men of little faith.”
They were short-time trusters. They looked at the circumstances and not
their Savior. Fear replaced faith. Thus, in fear they quit thinking and they allowed their emotions
to take over because emotions don't think, they just react. In any situation in your life when you
have adverse circumstances like storms or whatever they may be, you can become afraid and quit
thinking. You can react with emotional sins or you can have faith, have confidence and respond
with Scripture. Fourteen, our job when we're in the storms of life is to respond with faith, not
react with fear. This faith gives us the power to overcome the fear, but listen carefully. Your faith
has to be based on something stronger than just hope. It has to be based on something that is very
important, your love for your Heavenly Father who loves you. If your faith is not based on your
love for your Heavenly Father, it won't work. In Jude 1:20-21,
“But you, beloved, building
yourselves up on your most holy faith
[faith can increase, you can build up your faith]
, praying in
the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ to eternal life.”
Building yourself up in faith and keeping yourself in God's love are
the keys to these verses. Here's a question I want to ask you now. How do you build up your faith
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and what motivates you to do this? 1 John 4:18 says,
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casts out fear.”
Remember I said, faith defeats fear and personal love for God is your faith.
When you have personal love for the Father, then your faith builds up as you learn Scripture and
you have confidence and trust in God's plan for your life. Go back to that verse in Jeremiah,
“For I know the plans that I have for you.”
Do you trust Him? Do you have confidence in Him?
Do you have the courage to let God take control and you quit trying to run the show? Here is the
secret to the power of faith. It is your personal love for God, not just some words spoken as a
token recognition like, “Oh, I love God,” but a genuine trust that you have in His plan and in His
provision. God loves you and God wants you to love Him so much so that you trust Him. 1 John
4:19 says,
“We love, because He first loved us.”
This is the problem, how can you love
somebody you don't trust? How can you love someone you don't see? How can you love
someone you don't even know? Listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 14:21,
“He who
has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me
[obedience is the proof that you
love Him]
; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father and I will love him and will disclose
Myself to him.”
Remember I just asked you, how can you love someone you can’t see? You will
see the Lord Jesus Christ manifested through the Word and in your life,
“Christ in you, the hope
of glory”
(Colossians 1:27). When you have this personal love for God the Father, the one who
has His commands and keeps them is the one who loves Him. When you have this trust and
confidence in His plan, then He reveals Himself to you. The motivation for us to obey God's
Word is our personal love for Him, more than what the world offers, more than what our family
offers, more than what money offers or circumstances offer. Do you really love God so much so
that you trust Him, have confidence in Him and have courage under intense situations in your
life? This personal love for God is the door to spiritual greatness. Personal love for God is the
power behind your faith. Personal love for God is the confidence you have to walk through the
valley of the shadow of death as the psalmist says in Psalm 23:4,
“I fear no evil, for You are with
me.”
The invisible presence of God in your life is manifested by your faith. We need to get a
couple more principles about this. When you have personal love for God, then you have extreme
confidence in God's plan for your life. What a wonderful way to live. We’re talking about taking
the monkey off your back and putting the monkey on the Lord’s back. Let Him handle the
details. Let Him handle the circumstances. When you don't get what you want in your promotion,
when you don't get what you want in your salary, when you don't get what you want in whatever
you want, do you have confidence that God is in control, that He has a plan for you? I can
remember one time my wife and I suddenly had to move from a house we were renting. We
didn’t have a choice. It was a fearful thing because we were told we had two weeks to get out
and find another place to live and at first I had no confidence in God's plan, I had no courage.
But you know what? It turned out that the Lord had a better place for us to be, a cheaper place in
a better location. I failed the test because I didn't have confidence in His plan. His plan was
manifested and we took advantage of it but I had to learn the hard way to trust Him, not look at
the details or at the circumstances, but in faith, love my Lord and know He's not trying to harm
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me. He’ll do what’s best for me, promote me and bless me. Confidence from love motivated faith
gives you a great peace that passes all understanding. Philippians 4:7,
“And the peace of God,
which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
What a wonderful thing to have the peace of God. It’s beyond the understanding of your
neighbors and your family when you have this sort of peace in God's plan. You love Him that
much that you trust Him and you will find as you get older you’re going to have to come to this
conclusion. Do you really trust Him to handle your sicknesses and your problems you are going
through? Do you have confidence that God is in control or do you want to panic? Do you want to
scream, get afraid and let fear take over. No. You want to let faith take over because you are
motivated by your love for your Heavenly Father who promises He loves you, He has a plan for
you and that He will not abandon you. The Lord Jesus Christ said,
“I will never desert you, nor
will I ever forsake you”
(Hebrews 13:5).
“And I give eternal life to them, and they will never
perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand”
(John 10:28). Galatians 2:20,
“I have been
crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I
live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”
Satan's number one objective in regard to your spiritual life is to stop you from replicating the
life of Christ. He doesn't want you to replicate the Lord Jesus Christ, to re-present Him to your
family or to your friends. This is what I just read to you in Galatians 2:20,
“Christ lives in me.”
Paul replicated Christ. He re-presented Christ. He said, “The life I now live in this body, I live by
faith, trust, confidence and courage in the plan of God. Christ lives in me.” It was no longer
Paul's life. It was the life of the Lord Jesus Christ and it’s supposed to be that way with us. We
are not living for ourselves. We are living for Him. It is no longer about you or about me. It’s
about Christ. Do you love God enough to understand this? Christ lives in you. It is no longer
your life, it’s His life as you replicate His life to your friends. He said,
“I live in the flesh I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me.”
He said, “I live by faith motivated by His love for me.”
His faith is motivated by His love for me and this is called reciprocal love motivation. We love
Him because He first loved us. Here's another principle. God requires you to love Him and to
trust Him and this is the proof of your faith. Hebrews 11:6,
“And without faith it is impossible to
please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those
who seek Him.”
If you will take a moment and read Hebrews 11, you will see the recorded
testimony of faith warriors in Scripture. Listen to their testimony. I’ll read a few verses from
Hebrews 11:33-34,
“Who by faith
[this is love motivated faith]
conquered kingdoms, performed
acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put
foreign armies to flight.”
How did they do this? By love motivated faith. What a wonderful way
to live. What a wonderful strength you have. Your faith is directly related to your love for your
Lord. In closing, let me ask you this question. It’s a fair question. How's your faith today? Do
you worry? Are you afraid? Do you understand the God you claim that you love? For many
individuals the adverse circumstances overcome their thinking and rob them of their trust and
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their confidence in the plan of God for their lives because they don't really love Him. They are
looking at the situation. The adverse circumstances short circuit their faith. The time is coming
when we are going to be called to the witness stand and we will be cross-examined by Satan. Our
faith will be tested and only our personal love for the Father will sustain us at that time so I'm
asking you, do you love God? Do you trust Him? Listen to what Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians
4:8-10,
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
persecuted but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body
the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.”
This is how we
represent Christ to our generation, revealing Christ through our own trials, through our own tests,
through the circumstances that we face in our lives. What was this lesson about? Faith. Do you
love God? Do you trust God? Do you have confidence in God's plan? Do you have courage
letting this love motivate you? This is the power of your faith. The power of your faith is your
personal love for God. If you don't have personal love for God, you're going to be a weak
believer. Personal love for God is one of the problem-solving devices that we talk about on the
FLOT line of your soul. It’s one-half of the virtue love package. The other half is impersonal
love for all mankind. We have personal love for God the Father which is our motivational virtue
and our functional virtue is impersonal love for all mankind. I hope you’re listening. I hope
you’re learning. I hope you’re figuring this out. The power of your faith is in your personal love
for God. I don’t know if anybody has ever told you this before but I hope you learned it today.
Do you love Him?
In this fascinating episode, we delve into the startling political shifts as prominent figures like Mitt Romney and Van Jones show unexpected praise for former President Donald Trump. Mike Deller discusses the implications of these endorsements and what they reveal about the current state of the Republican Party. With insight from various commentators and listeners, the episode explores the dynamics of power, media influence, and political allegiances in today's landscape.
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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 bit wild to look around and see all of these people who have hated Donald Trump now just openly sort of praise him. Do you ever think you'd see Mitt Romney praising Donald Trump? Mitt Romney's out. What's he got to gain? After trashing MAGA, and attacking you and me, and attacking Donald Trump, I mean, it's crazy. I think it was Eric Erickson out of Atlanta who posted something on X that just kind of puts it in perspective. FBI's Christopher Wray resigns. Time makes Trump the man of the year. ABC pays him $15 million. Did you hear that? Over the weekend, ABC... had a settlement with Trump because George Stephanopoulos lied about him, said that he was adjudicated to have committed a rape against that goofy writer, that E. Jean Carroll lady. The jury specifically said they did not conclude that he raped her. So Stephanopoulos was forced to apologize in a written statement to Trump. They had to give him $15 million. Tim Cook goes off to Mar-a-Lago. Yeah, that Tim Cook. The opposition to Pete Hegseth has pretty much collapsed. ProPublica was claiming that he wasn't invited to West Point, and he was. The left keeps losing, and they are losing their minds, as Eric put it. And he's right. And that brings me to somebody like Mitt Romney. Did he lose his mind when he was accusing Trump of being a fascist and a dictator and MAGA was awful? Or has he lost his mind now? Here's what he said over the weekend. This is Mitt Romney, the outgoing U.S. senator and failed presidential candidate and bitter opponent of Donald Trump and MAGA. Listen to the tune he's singing today.
SPEAKER 05 :
Do you think that there's still do you still think there's going to be a post Trump Republican Party or is MAGA now the Republican Party?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, MAGA is the Republican Party and Donald Trump is the Republican Party today. And if you were to ask me who the nominee will be in 2028, I think it'll be J.D. Vance. All right. He's smart. Well-spoken. Part of the MAGA movement. You said something pretty harsh about him a few months ago, though. You could not have less respect for somebody than long ago. I'm not going to rehash history. And we've worked together in the Senate since then. But but I you know, that that is what the Republican Party is. And will the party need to change? Look, the Republican Party has become the party of the working class, middle class voter. And you've got to give Donald Trump credit for having done that, taking that away from the Democrats. Democrats pushed him out.
SPEAKER 20 :
Wait a minute. Time out. A few months ago, you said you could have less respect for anybody than the respect you have now. For J.D. Vance. Now you're praising him as the likely 2028 nominee. Now you're praising Donald Trump for having the party become the party of the working class. Now MAGA is the party. And you seem hunky-dory with it. Mitt Romney. What the heck is going on? This scares me. This is too much. Van Jones. Did you hear what Van Jones said over the weekend? Guy on CNN. Remember him, Mr. White Lash? All right, you got Mitt Romney seemingly having a complete change of heart about Donald Trump. Now check out CNN's Van Jones.
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Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump, let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all critics. You know why we know? Because he has the White House, the Senate. The House. Totally agree. The popular vote. He has a massive media ecosystem bigger than the mainstream built around him and for him and a religious fervor in a political movement around him. And his best buddy is the richest person in the history of the world. And the most relevant Kennedy is with him. This dude is a phenomenon. He is the most powerful human on Earth and in our lifetime.
SPEAKER 20 :
All right, I want to know what's going on, and I'm going to turn to the smartest audience on the planet. 1-800-655-MIKE. All I know is it all makes me very nervous. I don't like this. I'd rather have them hammering away at us. Call us all deplorables again. I feel better. I feel more comfortable in that role. I want Hillary to call us deplorables. I don't want Van Jones praising Donald Trump as the smartest guy on the planet. I don't want Mitt Romney saying MAGA is the present and the future and we became the party of the working class. What's going on? It's like something's going to happen bad. I mean, what in the world is happening here? Can you explain it? I mean, simple question. Was Mitt Romney lying? Just a few months ago when he was condemning all of us and condemning Trump? Or is he lying now? Is Van Jones accurately portraying Donald Trump as the smartest guy in the universe? And he's smarter than any of us put together? And he did it all? I mean, these guys, that could be a campaign ad. What exactly is going on? 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Happy Monday. It's Monday, December the 16th. They're trying to crack the drone mystery. What the heck's going on with the drones? Are we under attack? Nancy Pelosi took a terrible fall. She had to have a total hip replacement. She's in her mid-80s. That's not good. We've got a lot of breaking news to cover for you. But I want to start right here, right now, with these flip-flops from people like Mitt Romney and Van Jones. Just what in the Sam heck is going on? 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us.
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Mike Gallagher.
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One of my kids sent me a Christmas playlist from, I don't even know how to pronounce it, Sufjian Stevens? Sufjian Stevens? Sufjan Stevens. It's the coolest Christmas music I've ever heard. I don't know anything about the guy. I don't know who he is, if he's British or American or who he is. Suf... It's S-U-F-J... It's got an odd first name, and the Christmas music that he has is so quirky and different and really, really cool. One of my kids really, really loves his music, so there's that. A lot of text messages on the MyPillow text line. Mike, I believe all the flip-flop talking heads right now need to understand this. I've got no trust with them. If they really believe what they say, then put words into action. Prove it. Nebraska, Mike, you're right. Something's wrong here. Weren't we just garbage? Florida, I think they're figuring out that if they can't beat them, you join them. I also think Romney was hoping the Democrats would win, but since they lost, he's got to jump ship, and now he's got to agree with the Trump MAGA country. And finally, Arkansas, they're all just kissing fanny so President Trump will have mercy on them and not send them to prison. There is a big concern about retribution. Charlie's in Minneapolis. Charlie, Merry Christmas. What's up with Mitt Romney? Merry Christmas to you.
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Thank you. I think that you can rest assured, Mitt Romney still hates Donald Trump. He just was stating the fact like the sky is blue. Donald Trump is the head of the party, and J.D. Vance is the leading contender for 2028.
SPEAKER 20 :
And he still hates them both.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yep, yep. You could be right. You could be right. Thanks. Pam's in Atlanta. Hi, Pam. Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas, Mike. I think I have the answer.
SPEAKER 20 :
I'm ready. I'm ready.
SPEAKER 08 :
All the snakes are trying to play nice and pet the tiger.
SPEAKER 20 :
But why? Why do they want to pet the tiger? The tiger might bite them.
SPEAKER 08 :
They're guilty of so many things, and they're lying low.
SPEAKER 20 :
I know. I don't know what's going on. Isn't there a part of you that's worried about it, why they're all flipping around like this?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I don't like it, but I understand it.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, I'll take it. I mean, I'll take it. Maybe it has to do with the pardons. You know, maybe they're worried that Trump's going to come after the Liz Cheney's of the world. I mean, here was what Bernie Sanders said on NBC News over the weekend, how Trump ought to excuse me, how Biden ought to seriously consider pardoning people like Liz Cheney in case Trump comes a calling.
SPEAKER 02 :
In light of what the president-elect said to me, that yes, he does think that members of the January 6th committee should go to jail, do you think that Mr. Biden should issue preemptive pardons for the entire January 6th committee?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I think he might want to consider that very seriously. Look, that is an outrageous statement. This is what authoritarianism is all about. It's what dictatorship is all about. You do not arrest elected officials who disagree with you, who undertake an investigation.
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Now, let me ask you a question. If Liz Cheney and Benny Thompson... Did things wrong, and I believe they did, with the January 6th committee? Shouldn't they be held accountable? Well, let's look at Benny Thompson for a moment. He was on MSNBC over the weekend. Listen to this clip, and you tell me if this doesn't sound like somebody who is very, very nervous. Well, let me say this. If the president...
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in his infinite wisdom, determined that the work of our committee was legitimate and that we should not be penalized for doing what we as members of Congress should do, and he offers that pardon, I will take it. Look, I know what the Trump administration say they will do. If he says it, he will try to do it.
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You want a pardon for what? What did you do wrong, Benny Thompson? I'll bet Liz Cheney's hoping for a pardon. I think these people committed egregious acts of malfeasance. That January 6th committee was a witch hunt. And bogus from day one. It was a joke. It was a sham. It was a disgrace. In fact, even people like Stephen A. Smith, who's the bombastic opinionated sports guy from over at ESPN, even he believes that January 6th was an inside job.
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My big issue is that I'm really, really sick and tired of every time I turn around finding something else. that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented along the way. I mean, I see Republicans like Megyn Kelly or Officer Tatum or Candace Owens or, you know, the Sean Hannity's of the world. You know what I'm getting tired of? You know what I'm getting to the Democratic Party? You know what I'm getting really pissed off about? I'm getting really ticked off. And every time they open their mouth about something pertaining to y'all, they seem right to make the case that the right had a monopoly on insidious, evil tendencies, corrupt tendencies, duplicitous, hypocritical, untruthful tendencies. And every time They made those accusations. We turn around and find out. I don't know about y'all, but I'm sick of all of it. I'm sick of all of it. They've actually made Donald Trump look like he was right instead of them.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Geller.
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Wow, what a weekend. Trump at the Army-Navy game. Nancy Pelosi took a spill, had to get a hip replacement over in Germany. What is she, 84, 85 years old? George Stephanopoulos and ABC ordered to spend $15 million to settle with Donald Trump after Stephanopoulos slandered Trump by saying that a jury had found him guilty of rape. That is not true. That is not correct. And ABC said, we're sorry. We got it wrong. Mitt Romney goes on TV. Oh, MAGA's the future. Oh, J.D. Vance is great. Oh, Trump's wonderful. What? Van Jones. Trump's the smartest guy on the planet over at CNN. And there was also some sports news. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this because it's only going to get us in a lot of – I'm in such a great mood. Gosh, I was in South Carolina over the weekend. News Talk 98.9 WORD had their big Christmas party over at the Montebello neighborhood. They had a beautiful spread. Steve Senecroppi hosted a big party for all the radio stations in the radio cluster there in the upstate. And I'm so proud to be back in Greenville again on that great radio station where it all started for me back in 1990. 89. Wow. Long time ago. It's where it all began, really, where I cut my teeth and talk radio. And I've been on the air there pretty continuously. Joey and Peg and I went to lunch at a place called Select in Greer. Greer, South Carolina, has turned into this small-town USA Mayberry restaurant. idyllic community, a downtown area with all kinds of great shops and restaurants. And I think Select has become like my favorite restaurant in the country. We had a chicken dish there for dinner the other night. It was one of the best things I've ever eaten. Anyway, there was a guy. The waitress came over and said, there's a guy sitting in the corner, has been listening to you since 1989, and wanted to buy your brunch. And we went over and said hi to him. His name was George. He was embarrassed because he said, I didn't want her to tell you guys until... you guys left or until I left, I said, no, no, no. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to thank you. And he was so gracious and so kind and such a terrific, terrific person. And believe me, we're the last, you didn't need to buy us lunch. That was so nice of him. But it just felt good to reconnect in the upstate. I love that place. The Christmas lights up everywhere. It was chilly. It was cold. I had a great stay at the Hotel Hartness, which is a beautiful new destination hotel for many people in the upstate. Beautiful spa, great restaurant, Patterson. I just had a great time. And it's just hard to be down right now. Our Christmastime campaign for prison fellowship, those kids that we raise money for the children of people who are incarcerated, my goodness, we soared past our goal Friday of 5,416 kids. And we've got nine days to go until Christmas. 5,831 children have been sponsored. If you go to mikeonline.com and you want to bless a child with a Christmas present from their incarcerated parent, a Bible, and a personal message from their mom and dad, please go to mikeonline.com. I don't know how interested you are in the Caitlin Clark controversy. I know that Caitlin Clark was named by Time Magazine as the Athlete of the Year. She's the female basketball star who is just a force of nature. She's a great, great player. She came from Iowa, right, guys? And she has now put a spotlight on the WNBA. in a way that nobody has in a long time. I mean, it's the WNBA. It's the female version of the NBA. And people are mad at Caitlin Clark because she made a statement about how she honors and respects white players, black players, and she doesn't want to take anything away from the black players of the WNBA because who kind of made the league what it is today, such as it is. And people are mad at her for becoming woke, for bending the knee, for, you know, exerting your white privilege. There's a guy I really like over, he's the, what they call him, the commandant or the, is he the commandant of Barstool Sports? Dave Portnoy. And he went on a rant defending Caitlin Clark. And I feel pretty much the same way he does. I mean, she's obviously... Here's what she's having to do. She's having to counter the criticism that she's getting too much attention as a white woman in the WNBA. Now, do you realize how racist that is? You want to talk real racism? Why do you care if she's white? Well, obviously, the co-owner of the Mystics in the WNBA does. I give you Sheila Johnson, the co-owner... of the Washington Mystics, one of the teams in the WNBA, reacting to the news that Kaitlyn Clark, a white player, was named Time Magazine's Athlete of the Year. Listen to this vicious and, I would say, racist response from the black co-owner of a WNBA team called the Mystics.
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I feel really bad because I've seen so many players of color that are equally as talented, and they never got the recognition that they should have. And I think right now it is time for that to happen. So last night we read Time magazine where Caitlin Clark was named Athlete of the Year. Why couldn't they have put the whole WNBA on that cover?
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That is so awful. That is so sickening. Why couldn't they put the whole league... How the heck are you going to put the whole league on the cover? How many hundreds and hundreds of players do you have? What are you talking about? What a despicable... And you know why? Because Kaitlyn Clark is white. If a black WNBA player was on the cover of Time Magazine for the Athlete of the Year... That woman wouldn't have said a word. You see, racism goes in a lot of different directions. And the days are gone where it was believed that only black people could be the victims of racism. Caitlin Clark is between a rock and a hard place. She's got to survive in this league. And as I understand it, her statement, and I don't have the statement. Was it a written statement? I don't even know what. We'll see. I'll track it down for you here in just a moment. But ultimately, don't be mad at people like Caitlin Clark for trying to go along and get along, even though our buddy Scott Jennings from CNN sort of called her out on it. And I'll play his clip for you here in just a moment. Be upset with people like Sheila Johnson, who display an egregious racism, complaining that a white woman from the WNBA is on the cover of Time magazine as Athlete of the Year. That's the real racism. There is an inherent bias. There is a bigotry. That is oozing from that lady's mouth. That's racism. She's a bigot. Sheila Johnson is a stone cold anti-white bigot. And I don't know how else to describe it. Maybe you do. Let's dive in. 800-655-MIKE. It's the Monday before Christmas week. We've got nine days to go. We've got a full week together, you and me, before we go on our Christmas vacation. I hope you join us here in the Relief Factor Studios. Give me your reaction to all of this. 800-655-MIKE. Again, we won't spend a ton of time on this, but I want to touch on it because it made a lot of headlines over the weekend, and I want to get your assessment of it. 800-655-6453. Call or text. Join us. White Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Good
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Where the treetops glisten and I choose to listen to hear praises.
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The Mike Gallagher Show. The donors are really annoyed. But I will say that the donors and the Democratic officials who are now so outraged about the conduct, as you said, the press knew all this. So did they. They stood silent when Joe Biden's operatives crushed Bobby Kennedy and Dean Phillips and rigged the rules. They stood silent as he stayed in the race and decided he was going to run for another term.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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Last year, George Stephanopoulos interviewed South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace. It was a contentious interview. We played a lot of it on the show. During the interview, Stephanopoulos repeatedly claimed that Trump was found liable for rape in a civil lawsuit that was filed by this kooky E. Jean Carroll woman. As a result, Trump sued George Stephanopoulos and ABC. Well, over the weekend, it was announced that Trump won. ABC settled with Trump for $15 million. Actually, $16. According to the settlement, ABC News is going to pay $15 million for smearing Trump, as Stephanopoulos did, as a charitable contribution. to a presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for plaintiff as presidents of the United States of America have established in the past. They're going to help build Trump's presidential library. $15 million. Additionally, the network will pay $1 million in Trump's legal fees. And I saw somewhere that Stephanopoulos is going to have to pay that out of pocket. Which, that's appropriate. If I'm Stephanopoulos' boss, and you've got the network in a lot of trouble, how about you pony up? Now, I predicted Stephanopoulos wouldn't even show up for work yesterday. He did. He was on the ABC, what's it called, This Week, right? They never mentioned the story. This was a bombshell. And they didn't even have the integrity or the guts to admit or to confirm what they did. Stephanopoulos was there, never acknowledged this massive settlement with President-elect Donald Trump. Instead of even mentioning it, Stephanopoulos, the gutless wonder, the little coward, focused on stories about drones and Syria. Stephanopoulos also promptly deleted his ex-account over the weekend. Because the little guy couldn't take the heat. I mean, it's so ludicrous that... one of Clinton's top advisors became a so-called journalist at ABC. Who could look at that guy and think he could ever have a shred of objectivity? And whatever you think of the way this has all played out, believe you me, ABC is not looking very kindly right now on Georgie Boy. Might get fired. I mean, that's the kind of thing where a company says, you know what, the juice isn't worth the squeeze. We don't need this guy. He's nothing but a headache. And what a gutless move to not even acknowledge. I mean, he should have looked into the camera and apologized on camera. Instead, he's got to get out his checkbook and write a big fat check. And then they're still doing it over on MSNBC. Another one of these screwballs, this one, Simone Sanders. Ever seen this Lulu, this Looney Tune? She's like right out of the Joy Reid category of wild-eyed lunatics over on MSNBC. So she breaks down the $15 million settlement. by lying again and repeating what got Stephanopoulos in trouble. Hey, Simone, maybe you're going to be sued next for saying this.
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I would just say, I mean, this feels like it has a real chilling effect. Like, I mean, shout out to the standards department. OK, standards is always making sure that we are keeping the bar high and substantive and accurate. But what George Stephanopoulos said in that interview, I mean, it it seems to hold up with the judge after the fact. And now he's news organization and himself. George Stephanopoulos himself is paying a million dollars of his own money to the lawyers and ABC and 15 million dollars. It's insane.
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Oh, is it insane? You know what's insane? You repeating what got Stephanopoulos sued in the first place. So maybe Simone Sanders and MSNBC, you guys will be next. And the deliciousness of Trump having his presidential library funded in part by ABC News? Holy cow. How good is that? You know, these people that were laughing at him before the election, they're not laughing now. This disgusting Greg Popovich from the San Antonio Spurs. Remember what he said before the election? This clip keeps popping up on social media. There's a clip with Popovich that keeps popping up on X of him just denigrating Trump. He's a clown. He's a liar. You wouldn't let him babysit your kids. First of all, are you a San Antonio Spurs fan? I know he's a great coach. He's got a lot of world championships. Why does he have to sit around and opine about Donald Trump?
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heck is wrong with these people what gets into their heads that anybody cares what what coach pop thinks of donald trump this this is the clip you might have seen pop up on social media check this out so he's pathetic he's small he's a whiner we all know that but you wouldn't have babysit your kids you wouldn't hire him if you had a small business you want that man in your business there's no way but we're going to vote for him for president Because he's strong? I mean, Kamala Harris whipped his ass in the debate. Just obviously. And he's running ever since. He doesn't want any part of her. Because, as she said before, she's eaten many of his type for lunch. As an attorney general, as a prosecutor. He's a small fry compared to some of the people she's going after. And he knows it, so all he can do is cut people down and do what he does. We've all seen all that kind of stuff. The ones that you can be even more angry about, because he's sick. He's a damaged man. He grew up the biggest wannabe there ever was in New York, right? We all know that. He wanted to be in the inner circle, but they laughed at him his whole life. Just like Obama made fun of him at that dinner, and he was about to melt. That angered him so bad, it was scary.
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Yeah, they laughed at him. Hey, Popovich, who's laughing now? We're laughing at you because you're a clown. You ought to stick to a basketball game because that's your area of expertise. That was before the election. Who's laughing now, Coach Pop? Because we're laughing at you. How does a guy like that show his face after such a ridiculous tirade that he did over and over and over again? Enough of these degenerate clowns. Let me talk about something happy, like the Prison Fellowship Angel Tree campaign. Look, that's not partisan. Everybody ought to lift up a child at Christmas time. We are almost at 6,000 kids. Who's going to take me over? Tell you what, I'll make a phone call to the donor who makes a $30 donation to provide a child of an incarcerated parent through the Angel Tree Ministry, the Prison Fellowship Ministry. We're at 5,973 children right now. We're 27 kids away from hitting 6,000 kids reached. Please go to MikeOnline.com. Remind these children that they're never forgotten. And whoever takes us over $6,000, we'll keep an eye on it, and I'll give you a call and thank you in person. It costs just $30 to bless a child with a Christmas present, a Bible, and a message from their incarcerated parent. Who's going to take us over $6,000? You can do it. Come on, go to MikeOnline.com and donate now. And thank you. Christmas means giving, and for my money, Christmas means MyPillow. Make it a MyPillow Christmas for somebody on your list because the Christmas extravaganza is well underway. Because a big box retailer canceled an order, Mike Lindell has thousands of MyPillows to move. Well, he wants to pass the savings on to you, so check out this offer. You can order a standard classic MyPillow, and it's normally $49.98 for just $45. $14.88 with promo code MikeG. Limit of 10. This is the pillow that started it all, the pillow that never goes flat, stays nice and cool all through the night. You can throw it in the washer and the dryer as often as you want. You can get a classic standard MyPillow for $14.88 with promo code MikeG. A queen size, normally $69.98. You'll get it for just $18.88 with promo code MikeG. Or a king size, Normally $79.98. You can order it for $19.88 apiece. Limit $10, please, during Mike's incredible Christmas extravaganza from MyPillow.com. Look, if you haven't been to the site in a while, you can get all your Christmas shopping done by going to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Specials Square. Click on that box, and then with any order you place, enter the promo code MikeG, and you'll save big. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. It's the Christmas extravaganza sale going on right now at MyPillow.
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