In this explosive episode, Mike Gallagher explores the apparent disintegration of the Democratic Party. From Elizabeth Warren embracing a controversial figure to Jim Acosta’s shocking AI interview with a Parkland victim, the chaos and tumult within the party are laid bare. Tune in as Mike dissects these developments and what they mean for the political landscape.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Watching the destruction of the Democrat Party in real time is something I didn’t ever anticipate. I didn’t have this on my bingo card. I don’t know about you, but everywhere you turn, you look around in every direction. Democrats are imploding. In Texas, they’ve fled the state. In New York, Elizabeth Warren is embracing communism with Mom Donnie. She’s all in. She’s all in for a communist ideology for the biggest city in America. I mean, every where you turn, the Democrats are coming apart at the seams. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Normally stuff stuff happens in fits and spurts. And, you know, there might be a little victory for the Democrats. There might be a little victory for the Republicans. Republicans stumble. The Democrats. What are the Democrats achieving right now? They’re falling completely apart. And, you know. When we talk about an enemy of the state, a lot of us think about the Democrat machine aligned with the media. Jim Acosta is a mainstream media journalist. Jim Acosta is a veteran CNN reporter who got bounced, I guess, finally from CNN. Now he’s doing his thing. And, you know, he’s in that brave new podcast world, I guess. He’s got his own site. I don’t know anything about, you know, the branding. I just know he’s still around. How do I know he’s still around? Because he pulled something yesterday that is so sick, that’s so demented, that is actually demonic. And I guess he thought it was a good idea. He’s, of course, a big gun control advocate. The Democrats want to take away Your guns. They want to absolutely eradicate the right to keep and bear arms. They would eviscerate the Second Amendment if they had any chance to do so. They were ever given the opportunity, and they try in big blue cities. It’s why so many people get killed in big blue cities, because the Democrat-run cities don’t allow… ordinary citizens, law-abiding citizens, to defend themselves by keeping and bearing arms. Try to get a gun in New York. That’s why a guy with a long gun in New York City can just stroll up to a big office building on Park Avenue and slaughter a bunch of people, including an NYPD officer, because nobody around him is armed. None of the citizenry has an opportunity. They don’t have a chance in a place like New York or L.A., There’s good luck, okay? So Jim Acosta is fully committed, naturally, to that agenda of taking away the right to keep and bear arms. So what does he do yesterday? This is one of the most horrifying things that people have seen. And in a way, it’s kind of gratifying to see both people on the right and the left equally disgusted by his stunt. What was the stunt? Jim Acosta announced he had a one-of-a-kind interview that he wanted to share with his viewers and his audience on his podcast or whatever the heck it is. The one-of-a-kind interview was with a young man. Young man, you know, got a little beanie hat on, nice-looking kid, looks like kind of your ordinary teenager. But see, he isn’t an ordinary teenager. This young man, Joaquin Oliver, was murdered at the age of 17 by that mass shooter in the Parkland area. high school massacre. So Acosta, according to Mediaite, shocked and horrified social media users after publishing his interview with an AI replica of this murdered young man. He took an AI version, brought this kid to life, and pretended to interview him. Here’s what it looked like.
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Joaquin, I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence. Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard. It’s about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think about that? I think that’s a great idea, Joaquin.
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Oh, my Lord. Oh, my Lord. He’s talking to the AI avatar. I think that’s a great idea. That was the CNN… legend, Jim Acosta. That was the guy who brags about prowling the halls of the White House for years. That’s the guy who once came up to Seb Gorka and me and looked up at Seb and me and then muttered, this room, the White House press briefing room, is reserved for real journalists only. That’s Jim Acosta. Same guy. That’s a good point, Joaquin. Hello, Joaquin. Welcome to the Jim Acosta podcast. And he’s talking to a kid who was murdered in 2018, only brought to life by his father’s creation of his son as an AI figure. And look, I don’t want to find any fault with the family of this kid. They get to grieve however they want. If bringing their dead son to life through AI to give him a voice for gun control, if that’s something they want to do to try to bring some solace and comfort to their lives, I’m not going to fault them. I can’t imagine the horror of losing your son that way. But for Jim Acosta to say, sure. I’ll interview your dead son, will pretend he’s alive through AI, and I’ll ask him about gun control? Oh, my Lord. I’m telling you, there are days when words fail me. And this is one of those days, but I’ll turn it over to you here in the Relief Factor studios. 800-655-MIKE, 13 past the hour. Give me your reaction to what you just heard and saw today. And if you’re watching on Salem News Channel, I mean, you see this kid, this young man who was murdered, brought to life through artificial intelligence. Not very well, incidentally. It’s kind of glitchy, and there’s better AI versions, but that’s beside the point. What a ghoulish, evil, awful thing. Can you imagine how broken… Jim Acosta has to be to think that was a good idea. He thought that would be a good idea. Wow. How about you? 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Join us. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I’ve got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You’ve seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don’t want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that’s centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off, like me. I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I’ve kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It’s called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas’ program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit myphdweightloss.com.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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I have to admit, there’s not a lot that shocks me anymore, but the implosion of today’s Democrat Party is truly, truly astounding. Everywhere you turn, they’re coming apart at the seams. And the tougher things get for them, the goofier they’re becoming. Have you noticed their dissension into madness and violence and communism and socialism? The Texas governor has ordered the arrest of the 51 Democrats who fled the state of Texas rather than face the music. They’ve got to take their medicine. They’re going to lose this redistricting vote, and they know it, And they’re trying to, I guess, prolong it. I don’t know what their goal is other than marching around and pretending that they’ve got the upper hand. They don’t have the upper hand, and they know it. But everywhere you turn, you’ve got prominent Democrats behaving like lunatics, carrying on like they somehow hold all the cards. in New York City, a bona fide, self-proclaimed communist, and I’m going to call Zoran Mamdani a self-proclaimed communist because when you are on record as talking about the redistribution of the wealth and all of the communist Marxist tropes, when you are part and parcel of that, That’s who he is. Everybody knows what he is. He knows what he is. He’s going to pretend that he’s not anti-police, but we know he’s anti-police. We know how devastating it would be to have this guy as mayor. So along comes Pocahontas herself, one of the most prominent Democrats in America today, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. This is their message. The Democrat message today, and there’s no way around this, the Democrat message is to proudly stand up and say that the communist message of Zoran Mamdani is the Democrat message. And the official Democrat message is something now that is being embraced as delivered by Mamdani, embraced by folks like Elizabeth Warren. Check this out yesterday, where the two of them, and in one of the classic New York Post covers of all time, one of the best front pages of the New York Post I’ve ever seen, in bold letters, there’s a picture of Zoran Mamdani next to a grinning Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren, who famously pretended to be an Indian because her Meemaw’s picture on the mantle made the family think they were all Native Americans, and of course they weren’t. And then you’ve got Zoran Mamdani, who famously pretended to be African American. Of course, he’s from Uganda, but he’s not African American, but he put that down on various applications and paperwork. So both of them faked their ethnicity. And the cover of the New York Post with the picture of the two of them says, and it’s hysterical, if you’re watching here on Salem News Channel, I’ll hold up a picture of it, African American meets Native American. good is that? African American meets Native American. Mamdani and Warren and neither one of them are either one of those things. And check out what Elizabeth Warren actually said as she embraced this communist clown named Zoran.
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When someone stands up and says, I will lead this city by making it more affordable. And here are my plans, real plans, plans to deliver on child care, plans to deliver on housing, plans to deliver. We’re going to experiment. We’re going to try things on groceries. That is the Democratic message.
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There’s Elizabeth Warren. Zoran Mamdani is today’s Democrat message. He’s the party. Communism. Defund the police. Let all the criminals and the bad guys get out of prison. In fact, ban prisons. Disarm law-abiding citizens. Property seizure. Ban ICE. Ban elite New York Police Department citizens. Agencies. That’s today’s Democrat. Look, they’re falling apart. Check out. You want more? I could do this all day long. How about the Illinois congresswoman? Check out this lady. We’re going to play it in Spanish. She’s at some far-left seminar somewhere. She’s at some gathering of a bunch of wacko leftist crazies. I give you Democrat Representative Delia Ramirez. If you speak Spanish, you know what she said. And you know what she said that led to the applause? I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American. She’s a proud Guatemalan before she’s American. That’s a U.S. congresswoman. That’s a Democrat congresswoman from Illinois. Let that sink in. Let that sink in. Red State says that her husband is a DACA recipient. In addition to claiming that she’s a proud Guatemalan before she’s an American, this U.S. congresswoman from Illinois, where the Democrats are hiding out, J.B. Pritzker has given the Democrats sanctuary, I guess, in his Hyatt hotels, and he’s bragging about shielding the Democrats from Texas because they won’t do their job and face the music because they’re losing, because they’re failing, because they’re collapsing. In addition to claiming that she’s a proud Guatemalan before she’s an American, it is reported that she denigrated the United States for being addicted to war and accused the United States, where she serves as a congresswoman, of using imperialism, militarization, conquest, control, and competition in its attempt at domination. These are despicable comments. But the truth is, today’s Democrat Party has become a despicable organization. Look around. Look at their embrace of Luigi Mangione. who the police say and the prosecutors say pumped a young husband and father full of bullets in the back as he walked down 6th Avenue in New York City. Look at the way they cheered the slaughter of those four New Yorkers last week, including an NYPD officer, because one of the victims was a Blackstone executive, a private equity executive, and she made a lot of money. So they’re cheering her murder. They are now a demented party. And I want you to tell me how you can defend any of this. I dare you to defend a Democrat who stands up, a Congresswoman, and says, I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American. I want you to justify Elizabeth Warren claiming that the party has become the party of defund the police, the party of release all criminals from prison, the party of communism and socialism. That’s today’s Democrat Party. And you’ve got to swallow that. I’m going to tell you right now, keep it coming, because they may never win another election. Normal Americans are rejecting this en masse. I don’t want them to hide it. They shouldn’t conceal it. Be who you are. Be the radical, lunatic, communist, socialist, violence, murder-loving party you’ve become. Own it. Own it. And let’s see how things play out in the United States of America. Look, if we had normal times, if we had any sense of normalcy, normalcy, normalcy. I think normalcy is my incorrect interpretation. If we were living in times of normalcy, Democrat Representative Delia Ramirez would be removed from office today. Right now. and would be offered a one-way ticket to Guatemala, where she could happily be an elected official over there. I’m not trying to be a smart aleck. She should go to Guatemala right now. She should resign. If she had any shame, if she had any dignity, if she had any pride, she’d quit. Because why would you want to be a United States? And incidentally, we’ve got listeners in Illinois. Did you vote for her? How do you feel now? Talk about feeling like a sucker. You voted for someone to represent you in Congress who would rather represent Guatemalans? She’s a proud Guatemalan before she’s a proud American. You got buyer’s remorse? Wow. Wow, wow, wow. We’re partnering with our friends at the nonprofit relief agency Food for the Poor and rushing emergency relief kits to these flood-ravaged part of the world. 128 people confirmed dead. Many, many more are still missing. As you know, President Trump and the First Lady visited the flood zone in Texas over the weekend. As you can hear, he was pretty emotional. You can hear in the sound of his voice about what he witnessed. They lost…
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The Mike Gallagher Show in the ReliefFactor.com studios.
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She’s a registered Republican? Oh, now I love her ad. Is that right? You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That’s what I wouldn’t have known, but I’m glad you told me that. If Sidney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.
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On Salem News Channel and Salem Radio Network, here’s Mike.
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Did you hear the news about American Eagle, the jeans company that the left has freaked out about because apparently young, beautiful white women aren’t supposed to be jeans models anymore? Their stock is through the roof. They can’t keep the jeans in stock. They can’t keep up. What a time to be alive, looking around and watching the Democrat Party just get annihilated day after day. What victories do they have? What achievements? What accomplishments? You’re about to see 51 Democrats evidently face arrest for fleeing the state of Texas. And even people in the culture… are getting pushback from their own audience. Look at Charlemagne Tha God. This guy went on Laura Trump’s show the other night and ripped into her father-in-law. But, okay, so be it. Charlemagne is a big-time urban host. He’s a guy that has challenged both sides of the aisle pretty regularly. And he’s a talk show host. He’s got a radio show in New York City. And he took a caller. And the caller… held his own against Charlemagne and one of Charlemagne’s sidekicks. He’s got like a crew there with him, right? Like some of these, you know, zoo programs do or some of these, like these morning zoos or some of these music shows. And I don’t know the format, forgive me, but I know Charlemagne is very successful. It’s kind of tacky that he goes on Laura Trump’s show and starts bagging on her father-in-law. But if that’s how he feels, that’s how he feels. And he took a call her. I think the call didn’t go as expected.
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You haven’t told us nothing he’s done. You said the European deal. The crazy thing about the European deal, the tariff last year was like 1.5%. Now it was 15%. So how does increased tariffs help us?
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Okay, so do you think that other countries should be able to tariff us, but we don’t tariff nobody else? Like that makes sense to you? I don’t even know what you’re talking about. I have a low IQ. Exactly. Okay. So other countries have been putting tariffs on our country, but we have been giving people no tariffs. Yes. This is the first time since the 30s that we’re actually bringing in billions of dollars from tariffs.
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Okay.
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But you know we fit the bill for that.
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That affects us. No, that’s not true either.
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I can’t have this conversation with you if you’re not going to be honest, sir.
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No, no, no, no, no. I’m being 100% honest. So if you look at the actual facts, other people are accounting for those tariffs in the sense of those businesses are, they’re not raising our price. They are taking the hit on them.
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Okay, and what else? What else has he done? Please shed the light on it.
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You think a whole bunch of prices have been going up?
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No, no, no. You keep asking us questions. No. Shed the light on what he has done. What do you rate his presidency? What is he doing for you? The border. The border.
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Got you. Okay. The border. From an immigration perspective, I actually like that you put work requirements on… certain social aid things because we all know that people sit at home, people steal their EBT funds, people like, yeah, okay, you got work requirements now that I feel like that’s a positive for everything. Everybody should go to work. You go to work, I go to work, everybody should go to work, but you know it’s people that sit at home and don’t do nothing all day, sit on their porch. Thank you for calling, brother.
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That’s your opinion. I’m not mad at you. Thank you for calling, my brother. I’m not mad at you. He was mad at him earlier when he said we’re not paying. Look, this is this narrative, the talking point that a lot of Trump haters are running with, that we’re going to pay for every penny of the tariffs that other countries are paying. With the argument being, well, companies in America are going to have to offset the costs somehow. so therefore we’re going to pay for every penny of the tariffs. It just isn’t true. That’s completely bogus. Check out what Batya Angar Sargon said last night on CNN, explaining, because most people don’t understand tariffs, so they get bamboozled by Trump haters into thinking that Trump’s success with the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of revenues that we’re generating… through tariffs, is somehow going to be born on the backs of the American people. Listen to what Batya said last night on CNN.
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Do you know who’s responsible for the dollars we’ve raised?
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The tariffs.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. No, no, no. Who is responsible for the tariffs? You just gave the statistic about the amount of money we made off. Who’s responsible for it? Who’s paying it?
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So it’s been a combination of three things. Yes, it has. It’s been a combination of foreign governments, foreign companies, a combination of the corporations.
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Almost there. Almost there. Come on. And who else? Last one. Last one.
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There have been a few companies that have… No, no, no.
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No, no, no. The American Spender. Come on. The American… The American… Who pays the tariffs?
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Who pays the tariffs? Logistically. Logistically. The lawmaker proposes a bill to give them money back. The Democrats are upset about it. We know because inflation has not risen significantly.
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But it has risen.
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Obviously, it has been paid by somebody else.
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No, no, no.
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We know that foreign governments and corporations have eaten the vast majority of the tariffs.
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And I will quote my good friend, the great liberal Eric Erickson, who goes out on a limb and simply says…
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The fact that a conservative said something doesn’t make it true, Bakari.
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I’ve been saying that in my entire life. You’ve been agreeing with me. Eric Erickson even pointed to the fact that the fact we’ve raised all this money from tariffs comes from the American individual who’s spending these dollars. That is false.
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The fact that Eric Erickson said it doesn’t make it true, Bakari, it is false. The vast majority of the tariffs have been paid by foreign governments and corporations.
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That’s really not how they still pay tariffs. Which is exactly true. And she’s right. Eric Erickson, who’s no Trump fan, repeating it doesn’t make it so. A lot of these old-time establishment Republicans hate this trade war. They hate tariffs. They don’t understand it. They want us. to pay other countries tons of revenues in tariffs, but they want to give all those other countries a free ride. Because that’s the way we’ve always done it. And of course the American consumer has borne the brunt of that. And Trump is saying, real simply, evidently something that Eric Erickson’s, the Eric Erickson’s of the world are against, put it on an even playing field. Put it on an even playing field. Now, again, I’ve said this a million times. I’m no economist. Neither is Eric. But doesn’t that make sense? If China or Japan or Brazil or any other country, if other countries, Canada, are going to slap us with tariffs, we’re not allowed to turn around and slap them with tariffs? And she’s right. The vast majority of tariffs are being paid by, what do you think the countries are doing? That’s what a tariff is. The country pays it. Now, the Eric Ericsons of the world, who again, don’t agree with the Trump agenda. A lot of people talk a good game. They’ve got to play the game. They’ve got a platform. I don’t want to look like I’m completely in the tank for the Democrats who are trying to stop Trump. So they’ve all got their own different agendas, and everybody’s entitled to an opinion. And look, Eric, I don’t want to pick a fight. He’s a smart guy. I just don’t trust a lot of these establishment Republicans. who are hell-bent on crushing Trump’s agenda when it comes to tariffs. If I got to, and I’m not trying to, again, pick any kind of fight here. I say this with respect and deference. If you’re going to ask me from a business perspective, who am I going to trust? A successful billionaire builder like Donald Trump? or a radio host out of Atlanta, I’m going to go with President Trump. And I’m not saying that Trump is never wrong. But in this area? I mean, look around right now. Look at inflation. Look at the GDP. Look at what’s happening. Look at our economy right now. Look at the stock market. And all of these people pretend that’s not happening. Well, bad stuff is going to happen. Bad things are coming. You better just wait. They’ve been saying that since January. And the guy knows what he’s doing. Trust him. Have a little bit of faith. Check out Newt Gingrich, also from Georgia, like his fellow Georgian Eric Erickson is. But let’s listen to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich last night on Fox Business.
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I think that if you take the combination of the one big beautiful bill with enormous breakthroughs in both taxes and regulations, you combine that with the relative effect for manufacturing of the tariffs, and you combine that with Trump’s going around the planet picking up sales for American goods and picking up investments for America, I think by next summer, we’re going to be in the Trump boom. It’s going to be very real. And it’s going to create a choice for the voters next year between a Trump boom on the one hand and the Democrats gloom on the other hand.
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I mean, look, we just learned that the U.S. trade deficit plummeted 10 percent, excuse me, 16 percent in one month, May to June. Trump’s plan is working, and the Never Trumpers and the Democrats are livid. They can’t believe it. The so-called smart kids don’t know why the stock market hasn’t crashed. The smart kids can’t figure out why the GDP is where it’s at or inflation is where it’s at. They don’t get it. We get it because we trust the guy and we trust his economic plan. 800-655-MIKE. They act like everything is failing and look around. Have a reality check here for a change, huh? I am so intrigued about this woman standing up and saying that she’s a proud Guatemalan before she’s an American. I’ve got to learn more about this Ramirez. This is something that I can’t get out of my head. Delia Catalina Ramirez. She represents Illinois’ third congressional district. We’re going to dive into what she’s all about here in just a moment. Because let’s be real for a moment. Let’s face it. If a member of the Congress, if a U.S. congressman stood up 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago and said, I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American, they’d be done. There’s no way they could continue in that capacity. They’d be removed from office. What is Speaker Johnson saying about a member of Congress bragging about being a proud Guatemalan before they’re an American? Look, if you’re from Guatemala and you live here and you hate America, okay. Sorry you feel that way, but you have a right to feel that way. Does a U.S. congressman have a right to feel that way? Oh, boy. Every single day it’s a joy to remind you that portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. As you know, our friend Mike Lindell, big legal victory last week. He’s been in a ton of hot water, as you know, because he believes in election integrity. Of course, due to his friendship with President Trump. Well, last week there was a $5 million vote. judgment against Mike that was overturned by the courts. Good news for MyPillow. So you keep praying for MyPillow, and you keep supporting this great American company. The premium MyPillow, limited time, great price, $18.98. If you go to MyPillow.com, this pillow is a godsend. Look, I bring the MyPillow products with me when I’m on the road. Here at the hotel in Washington State, I’ve got the MySlippers with me, those unbelievable slippers, because I pat around in the hotel room. I don’t know what’s on that rug. I bring the MyPillow with me. I roll it up into the suitcase. I’ve even got my MyPillow loungewear. Tons of great products. If you haven’t been to the site in a while, go check it out. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. You’re going to save big. The slippers, the doggy beds, and the Giza dream sheets. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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So my producer, Tracy, who always has to keep me updated on things that are going on, because we always have to stay up on breaking news. We want to know what to make of it all. There’s so much that comes at us, you know, at 100 miles an hour. And Tracy just came in and reported that President Trump is up on the roof inspecting the renovations going on at the White House. And I said, well, of course he is. Of course he’s up on the roof inspecting the renovations. That’s not unusual. The commander-in-chief up on the roof. Does he have a hard hat on? Wouldn’t surprise me. Is he swinging around on a rope? Nothing shocks me anymore. Nothing. Congresswoman Delia Ramirez? The congresswoman who would rather be in Guatemala, she’s doubling down on all the controversy that she has created by saying in a speech that she’s a proud Guatemalan before she’s an American. And now that she’s getting all the pushback, look, she’s not apologizing. Oh, no, no, no, no. Go big or go home. She’s taking it all the way. She’s doubling down. I’ve got her statement for you coming up in just a moment. But first, we’ve got to talk about Texas. The Democrats’ hypocrisy of fleeing to one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in America. No Democrat explains this either. The only reason they’re in Illinois is because that J.B. Pritzker… who’s the Hyatt heir. He’s a billionaire because of a Hyatt hotel chain. He’s probably putting them up in a bunch of Hyatt Regencies or Hyatt House or whatever brand that they’re going to promote in Chicago. Who’s paying for all this? Who’s covering their bills? The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, has announced… that all of them have warrants for their arrest issued, and now it becomes a Republican problem because you can’t promise to arrest somebody and then not fulfill that. You better arrest every one of them. Don’t even know how any of that works. Mark Davis, my dear friend in Dallas who knows all things Texas politics, said, I’ll believe it all when I see it. I hope that Governor Abbott I hope Attorney General Paxton delivers. But I noticed a sense of cynicism in Mark’s voice. We’re going to see. We’re going to find out. Mark and I had a big argument about the comedian Alex Stein. Have you seen this guy on social media? I think he’s from the Dallas area, if I’m not mistaken. Alex Stein crashed an MSNBC reporter yesterday, and Mark didn’t like it at all. He doesn’t find this funny. He doesn’t find this appropriate. The poor MSNBC guy is trying to report on the Texas Democrats, and Alex Stein jumped into the live shot. And Mark didn’t like it one little bit. I’ll play what this—and this guy’s very funny. He’s the guy that pretends to be like a woke liberal. He shows up at school board meetings and stuff, and he trolls people, and he ambushes them. And it is definitely not my friend Mark Davis’s cup of tea. So then I had fun mocking Mark for not liking this clip that I played for Mark on yesterday’s MSNBC broadcast.
SPEAKER 14 :
We just watched the speaker gavel out with a whole lot of anger, Kelly. Here’s the state of play.
SPEAKER 02 :
MSNBC sucks. MSNBC sucks. MSNBC sucks. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sometimes this happens, and we understand that that can happen. And while we love free speech, we’re going to keep control here.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, you kind of lost control. We ought to play the full clip because it’s funnier than when they go back the second time. The poor anchor is like, she’s tap dancing. Well, obviously we have a disruption at the Capitol. Oh, wait a minute. Ryan is ready to go again? Oh, wait a minute. I’m being told in my ear that Ryan, the coast is clear. Okay, Ryan, back to you. Well, he starts talking again. And there’s Alex behind the guy, and he starts it up all over again. MSNBC sucks. And Alex has this determined look with a half smile on his face. Some bodyguard that guy has. And the female anchor doesn’t know what to make of any of it. MSNBC sucks. Oh, boy. And Mark wasn’t having it. No, he didn’t like it at all. Meanwhile, we got the Democrats. I want to get this straight. 51 of them flee the state so that they break a quorum and the Texas Statehouse, they can’t hold the vote on redistricting because they’re failing to have enough members to have a quorum. And they needed just 51 Democrats to tuck tail and run. And they’re literally running scared. Leave it to Hakeem Jeffries, the speaker wannabe, who somehow watches this play out in Texas and thinks it’s the Republicans who are running scared.
SPEAKER 03 :
this moment does require, you know, an extraordinary response because this is an extraordinary act that Republicans have been ordered to undertake to try to gerrymander the Texas congressional map as part of an effort to rig the midterm elections. Wolf, that’s what this is all about, because Donald Trump, House Republicans and the Texas Republican Party, they’re all running scared because they have failed the American people.
SPEAKER 17 :
They’re running scared. 51 members of your caucus have run scared. They literally ran scared out of the state. And I kept asking Mark, what’s the end game? I said, Mark, pretend to be a Democrat. And this morning’s hit, and we do it every day, 735 in Dallas. Check it out. It’s called the M&M Experience. You can get all of them archived on our podcast. If you go to mikeonline.com, because I love, it starts my day. You know, it’s about halfway through Mark’s day, and it begins my day, and he’s become one of my dear friends, and I love the segment, and I know you do too. We always post it on X at Gallagher Show if you want to check it out, or again, go to mikeonline.com. But I said to Mark this morning, what’s their plan? And he said, well, a Democrat would say, we’re fighting. And I said, I know, I get that. They’re fighting, but what’s their plan? When you fight, you fight to win. How can they win? And the best Mark could come up with was, well, maybe they think they could run out the clock. Is that what it is? If you’re closer to this in Texas than we are in other parts of the country, can you answer my reasonable question? What’s the plan? What is the actual effort going to achieve? For 51 Democrats to flee Texas, now being threatened with arrest, now being threatened with possible, you know, forfeiting their jobs, what do they hope to gain by this? Is it really simply the optics of saying, look at what we did? We hopped on a private plane. We fled to Illinois, where J.B. Pritzker is housing us, I guess, in his hotels, and he’s bragging about it. But we can’t do anything about the redistricting vote. It’s obviously inevitable. It’s going to happen. But we want people to think we’re fighting. In other words, do they actually think this makes them look good? That’s probably the way to phrase this question. I just kind of came to my own conclusion as I was muddling through this. Do they think this makes them look good? Because Newsflash… They look terrible. They look afraid. They look weak. They look paralyzed with fear. They look befuddled, confused. They look lost. The Democrat Party of August of 2025 is falling apart at the seams. I can’t get this theme out of my head today. Let me turn it over to you. 800-655-MIKE, here in the Relief Factor studios, a busy Breaking News Tuesday. So glad you could join us, and I want to put your voice front and center. Flood my phones with your assessment of what they think they’re going to achieve. Tell me what you think the goal, and I don’t, take out the rhetoric. Take out the emotion, the drama. What is it the Democrats want to accomplish here? Do they think that the entire state government of Texas is going to dissolve? Are the Republicans going to say, oh, yeah, you won. We’re going to vote against redistricting now. I mean, what do they actually think this plan will achieve?
SPEAKER 18 :
It was either this or Bon Jovi. I need to run away songs. The Texas Democrat theme, Del Shannon, 1961. Run, run, run, run, run. But, Mike, they’re not fleeing. They’re fighting. They’re drawing a line. They’re standing up. They’re warriors.
SPEAKER 17 :
They’re warriors.
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s courage. It’s a profile in courage, Mike. We just have this wrong. We’ve just got this wrong.
SPEAKER 17 :
And we got the right characters involved. J.B. Pritzker, he’s putting them up at the Hyatt. He’s got a lot of hotels. He’s the heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, right? Great. And I guess he still owns a bunch. I don’t know how that works. I don’t care. But he’s likely going to house them. Kathy Hochul is fighting back against Texas. Look, you all have picked a fight with the most fearsome Democrats out there. Gavin Newsom is very mad at you, Texas. Oh, no. Yep, Gavin Newsom, Governor Hairgel, is not happy with the state of Texas. He thinks it’s outrageous what you’re doing. Now, look, here’s what I keep asking, and I’m listening to every word of you today because I want to find out what you’re – I get it. You’ll believe it when you see it. If Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton’s promises are just performative – That’s going to be a big problem, Mark. Then it becomes a Republican problem, not a Democrat problem. We get who they are. They’re sleazy. They’re cowardly. They’re a bunch of lily-livered, weak-kneed, spineless pieces of jello. So go hide at the Hyatt house in Chicago and play poker until the wee hours of the night and drink out of your boxes of wine and think you’re doing something big, Democrats. But Greg Abbott has a chance to do something about it. Will he? Will we? Will Texas act? Because how does this end? There’s going to be a vote at some point. It might be December. I don’t think it will play out that long.
SPEAKER 18 :
It could.
SPEAKER 17 :
When does the session come back?
SPEAKER 18 :
We’re in a special session that ends in about two weeks.
SPEAKER 17 :
In two weeks, and then when?
SPEAKER 18 :
But then he can call another one. He can call special sessions as often or as much as he wishes. Got it, got it.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, okay, so how does it play out? Seriously, let’s, you and me, let’s take all the emotion out of this. Let’s just take all of the rhetoric out. Let’s ask a heartfelt, good faith question. What’s the purpose of doing this? In other words, what is the actual, literal, technical reason you have 51 Democrats leave the state to break a quorum? What’s the goal here? What do they think is going to happen? This is going to go away? There will never be another vote on redistricting? There won’t be? What’s the goal, Mark? What are they trying to do?
SPEAKER 18 :
First, on the number, there are indeed 51 Democrats who are not in Austin. The suspicion is there are more of them lurking in Texas than you or I know, which does place them within the jurisdiction of the DPS officers, meaning they can be zip-tied and brought back to the Capitol Dome. I’ll believe that when I see it. So they may not all be in Chicago, et cetera, et cetera. You’ve asked the perfect question. Since it is futile, since this is ultimately doomed— It is the word you used. It is performative on their side. It is so that they can give it because they’ve got nothing. This is what we talked about yesterday.
SPEAKER 04 :
But they wouldn’t say that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Of course they wouldn’t say that because they’re not honest. I’m honest on their behalf. All right, lie for them.
SPEAKER 17 :
What will the lie be?
SPEAKER 18 :
We are fighting. We are doing our best to protect Texans and protect Americans from the tyranny of Donald Trump. Texas Republicans are in his thrall. They are kissing the ring. They are doing his bidding. They are kneeling at his altar, etc.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, Debbie Democrat, we get that. But I’ve got to ask you, Debbie, what is your endgame? We get what you don’t like about the Republicans, and we get what you don’t like about redistricting. You’re terrified because you’re never going to win the House again if it all goes through. What is your endgame, Debbie Democrat? What would you like to accomplish here?
SPEAKER 18 :
You know what you’re using in asking for an endgame, Mike?
SPEAKER 17 :
Earthlogic?
SPEAKER 18 :
Earthlogic. Exactly right. There’s no endgame, Mike. Come on, man. There’s no endgame. We’re just doing this for… In a childlike fashion, they’re looking no farther than the end of their own nose, looking no farther than this day of news cycle, hoping that they get just a couple of blissful days of getting some honor of being in a fighting stance against evil, tyrannical Trump and evil, tyrannical Republicans because that distracts from the total… vacancy of their policy position.
SPEAKER 17 :
Who’s your favorite Democrat caller? You’ve got a couple, right? You’ve got some regulars, right? Sure, sure, sure. I love them. So let’s call on them. In fact, right now, we’re streaming this segment as we speak at Gallagher Show on X. We stream the Eminem Experience live every day. I urge you to follow us at Gallagher Show. You’ll see, you know, Mark wearing his Texas Longhorn shirt. I’ve got my… Salem News Channel mandated blue, plain blue shirt and a solid brown coat. No, no, no plaid coats for me anymore. So you can see it. Oh, yeah. Many, many memos. So you can go to at Gallagher show on X right now and post a comment. If you’re a Democrat, if you’re a loyal opposition to everything that Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher and the state of Texas Republicans believe. Tell us what the literal goal of the Democrats is.
SPEAKER 18 :
Or to streamline it, honestly. We both have text lines. Mine is 866-660-5759. Shoot us a couple of lines of text. I’ll read them on the fly as we go.
SPEAKER 17 :
And my text line is 800, like we’re competing. My text line is bigger than yours. Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 1 :
800.
SPEAKER 17 :
What’s because it’s the MyPillow text line? Size matters.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 1 :
800.
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s what you do with it, Mike.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s right. It’s how you use it. And I’m really proud of the way we use our text line. We’re thoughtful. We’re loving. We care. We really care about our text line. We put a lot of thought into it. 800-655-MIKE. Lloyd, if you’re watching, Mark, you’re turning all kinds of shades of red right now. I am. 800. 800-655-6453 or call. So we’ve given you three ways, Democrats, to tell us what the actual, not the rhetorical. How does this work out well for you? Right. What do you think you’re going to accomplish by doing this? And we’re all ears. Meanwhile, isn’t Alex Stein from Texas? I guess.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, God, are we going to do this?
SPEAKER 17 :
Come on. Oh, you didn’t enjoy it? Did you see yesterday what he did on MSNBC?
SPEAKER 18 :
I hate it. Oh, come on.
SPEAKER 17 :
Lighten up, Gladys.
SPEAKER 18 :
I don’t hate it. I don’t hate it. It will never be. My cup of tea. For those that don’t know, this is a satirist prankster who did… Troll. Exactly. Is there an entertainment thing to it? It’s a movie I don’t like. It’s a song I don’t like. He has a fan base. I don’t quarrel with any of that. There were two things. His main thing is to show up at various hearings, city council meetings, legislative things, where people sign up to speak. And he… abuses that privilege or that right by making it his bit. And that’s part of what makes me crazy is just… You’re such a scold.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, Gladys Kravitz. Karen Davis. I guess.
SPEAKER 18 :
And the other thing, so showing up and it’s… Often stupid. It is occasionally funny. Funny is funny. But it’s not my cup of tea. And the other thing was, and I guess I’m going to catch holy you-know-what for this. MSNBC, stand up. They’re doing a thing. Got a reporter. Here I am. And he shows up and yells at them while they’re live.
SPEAKER 17 :
Let’s play it. Let’s play it. Get your reaction. Here it is. I don’t even know the name of the reporter. The funniest part, though, is the technician who tries to wrangle Alex away when Alex sticks his… big mug in front of the camera. Here’s how it sounded.
SPEAKER 14 :
We just watched the speaker dabble out with a whole lot of anger, Kelly. Here’s the state of play.
SPEAKER 02 :
MSNBC sucks. MSNBC sucks. MSNBC sucks.
SPEAKER 07 :
MSNBC sucks.
SPEAKER 18 :
Sometimes this happens and we understand that that can happen. So great. What’s wrong with you? The worst thing you can do about comedy is overanalyze it, so I’m going to do this. I don’t want to say it quote unquote makes us look bad. It doesn’t. Everybody’s an individual. They do what they want to do. And does MSNBC suck? Of course they do. So he speaks truth. There’s defense in speaking truth. Truth to power, baby. And I know it’s not apples and apples, but if a lib troll came up upon Peter Doocy on Fox. They do it all the time. I know. And what do we think? We go, wow, look at that idiot.
SPEAKER 17 :
So let the left on MSNBC, let the leftist viewers say, look at that idiot. But tell me that isn’t funny. And here’s the best part. Here’s the best part.
SPEAKER 18 :
I’m sorry, I hate it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, you’re an old, come on, you’re being an old woman today. What’s wrong with you? Put your hair up in curlers.
SPEAKER 18 :
I’m not Mr. Straight Lace.
SPEAKER 17 :
Get off my lawn!
SPEAKER 18 :
I’m going to get off my lawn, little boy. Oh, come on. Have some fun. There is conservative satire. Gutfeld is a conservative satirist who makes us look good. There is not an ounce of cleverness. This doesn’t make us look bad. There’s not an ounce of cleverness to it. Oh, come on. It is absurd. Zero value. You’re humorless. Listen, I begrudge him nothing. He’s got clicks and followers.
SPEAKER 17 :
So the best part is when they carry him out. They push him away.
SPEAKER 18 :
They go back to New York.
SPEAKER 17 :
The anchor woman says, and she’s very obviously flummoxed and she’s stumbling. And then she goes back to the reporter a second time saying, okay, we’ve got the scene cleared. It’s cleared now. Let’s go back to Bob Smith on location. They go back to whatever his name is. And then Alex is back. He’s in the background. MSNBC sucks. They do it all over again. I mean, come on, Mark.
SPEAKER 18 :
I’ll give impartial credit. The reporter was Ryan Chandler. Ryan Chandler. Okay, if you hadn’t have brought it up, I wouldn’t have because that’s how basically little I care. But if you do bring it up, this will never be my favorite thing.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right. So I got a Democrat answer. I got an answer. As my Denise used to say. Yeah. Gallagher, you are a little, little man. Maybe I’m proving it to you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Here’s a possible. Here’s Democrats are going to capitalize on the spinelessness of the Republicans. The goal for Democrats. Here’s another one to delay and run out the clock. And there’s a chance that it works if the courts get involved. How can you run out the clock? The legislature doesn’t cease to exist. No, but I guess it involves coming up against our primary date. November is when you’re deadline for primaries. Primary’s in March. I know, but your deadline for announcing you’re going to run and everything is November. I don’t think they can run out the clock. You get to a point where if the things are not redrawn, you pretty well have to have next year’s elections with the congressional seats as they stand without them having been changed.
SPEAKER 17 :
Let me bounce another thing that you might not like either. Maybe the New York Post cover won’t be your favorite thing.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, is it African American meets Indian American? African American meets Native American. So you think it’s a black guy in an Iroquois? Nope.
SPEAKER 17 :
It is. Tell them who it is. It’s Zoran Mamdani and Elizabeth Warren. The African American. Both of them who faked their ethnicity. And so that’s the New York Post. And did you see Elizabeth Warren gushing about communism? This is today’s Democrat Party, Mark.
SPEAKER 18 :
First explain the cover. Because Mamdani is Middle Eastern, but was born in Uganda. So there’s your African-American.
SPEAKER 17 :
And so he has been accused of falsely describing himself. Yes. As an African-American. On various college application forms, et cetera, as an African-American.
SPEAKER 18 :
And Elizabeth Warren famously used a droplet of her 164th or something or other from Native Americans.
SPEAKER 17 :
Because Meemaw’s portrait over the fireplace looked like it had big earlobes or something. And so Meemaw looked Indian, so we all thought we were Indians.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that was that.
SPEAKER 17 :
But that was that. And finally, one more thing. Think about the big picture right now, Mark, about the state of today’s Democrat Party. They’re really coming apart at the seams. This is remarkable. I’ve never seen anything like this. We’re watching. How about the Democrat Representative Delia Ramirez? She’s at a summit in Mexico City. She told the audience in Spanish, I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American. Mark, it’s a U.S. Congresswoman. Now, in normal times, that would be grounds for immediate dismissal. That’d be it. Hey, lady, go over to Guatemala and run for Congress. This is crazy. And then finally, Jim Acosta. Tell me you saw what Jim Acosta pulled yesterday. He put out a tweet and said, this is an interview you don’t want to miss. Tell him about that interview, Mike. It’s an interview with Joaquin Oliver. Now, Joaquin Oliver, tragically, was killed in the Parkland school shooting back in 2018. How do you interview a dead kid? AI. It’s an AI version of the kid. And there’s Jim Acosta, this unhinged ghoul, this lunatic, saying, Joaquin, what do you think about gun control? And the AI of the dead kid says… And this is bad AI.
SPEAKER 18 :
We’ve seen great AI. This is jittery, weird. Lips aren’t really mouthing the words. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 17 :
And the dead kid says, that’s a good question. We believe in fairness for all. And some gun control answer that has been programmed. It is ghoulish. It is opportunistic. It is journalistic fraud. Gross. It’s also evil. I mean, it’s a nasty… Can you imagine Jim Acosta thinking, this is a guy who was a CNN guy. You remember the Jim Acosta story when he attacked Seb Gorka and me, right? Verbally? What’s his real name? Abilio.
SPEAKER 18 :
His real name is Abilio.
SPEAKER 17 :
How dare you, Abilio! Come back here! And Jim Acosta looked up and… Abilio, come back here. Acosta walked by Seb and me standing in the White House press briefing, and Acosta said to Gorka, this room is reserved for real journalists. Well, yeah, you’re a real journalist now. You’re interviewing dead kids. That was gross. Oh, disgusting. That’s who they are. When they say who they are, believe them. And Mark today has got his hair up in curlers, and he’s got his fuzzy bathrobe on. Gladys Kravitz. I want you to get off his lawn.
SPEAKER 18 :
And I don’t like comedy. Of course, I love comedy.
SPEAKER 17 :
You know what?
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s crazy. I like comedy when it’s funny. Just silly me.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’m going to book Alex Stein today. I’m going to get him on the show. You do you, baby. I love you. Mike’s going to do him right there, 10 o’clock, soon as we’re done.
