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Trump is Conquering a Foreign Land and It’s Not Greenland (Ep.133) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report, early edition. Trump
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  Speaker 1: announces the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: swarm the U.S. Treasury Department building in protest. FBI agents
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  Speaker 1: sue Trump's DOJ. 1,000 EPA employees warned that they could
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  Speaker 1: be fired immediately by President Trump. Trump promises to abolish
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Education. CBS accidentally proves the border crisis
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  Speaker 1: is actually a human trafficking crisis. And the NFL removes
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  Speaker 1: the end racism, end zone message ahead of the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongino Report, early edition.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we
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  Speaker 2: will do a job with it, too. We'll own it.
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  Speaker 2: and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded
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  Speaker 2: bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site
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  Speaker 2: and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out.
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  Speaker 2: Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of
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  Speaker 2: jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do
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  Speaker 2: a real job. Do something different. Just can't go back.
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  Speaker 2: If you go back, it's going to end up the
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  Speaker 2: same way it has for 100 years.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump announced yesterday evening that the U.S. will take
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  Speaker 1: over the Gaza Strip, level the site, and rebuild it
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  Speaker 1: during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 1: Before that soundbite, Trump also said that, quote, we should
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  Speaker 1: go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and
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  Speaker 1: there are many of them that want to do this
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  Speaker 1: and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by
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  Speaker 1: the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza and ending the
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  Speaker 1: death and destruction, and frankly, bad luck. So presumably this
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  Speaker 1: means that the Gazans are going to live in neighboring
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  Speaker 1: Muslim countries. Pretty much the entire world has responded to
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  Speaker 1: this plan of Trump's very negatively. They all have reiterated
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  Speaker 1: that they want a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
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  Speaker 1: But Trump said that he envisions the world people living
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza. That's the quote. And that some Palestinians might
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  Speaker 1: live there one day too, but presumably the land will
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  Speaker 1: not be theirs. Now, I have some questions. What exactly
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  Speaker 1: does Trump mean when he says take over? Kind of
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  Speaker 1: a vague term. The Israelis have flattened Gaza. It is
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  Speaker 1: rubble now. There is no infrastructure left. So what does
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  Speaker 1: Trump mean by take over? Are the Americans going to
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  Speaker 1: rebuild Gaza and then hand it back over to the Israelis?
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  Speaker 1: We send them bombs. The Israelis drop the bombs and
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  Speaker 1: then we clean up their mess. That doesn't seem very
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  Speaker 1: America first to me. And I can't imagine that Trump
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  Speaker 1: would ever make a deal like that being the businessman
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  Speaker 1: that he is. So there has to be something in
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  Speaker 1: it for the United States. Does that mean then that
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  Speaker 1: Gaza is going to become a US territory? And do
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  Speaker 1: we really want to colonize Gaza in some way? Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: I would much rather we invest in a place like Greenland,
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  Speaker 1: which is strategically important to mainland USA. Owning or occupying
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  Speaker 1: Gaza is nothing but trouble. That part of the world
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  Speaker 1: is a disaster. Not worth investing more time, more money,
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  Speaker 1: more violence in. If Israel gets into a conflict with Iran, say,
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  Speaker 1: in the future, does that mean that the U.S.-owned Gaza
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  Speaker 1: has to get involved as well? Is the U.S. then
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  Speaker 1: ultimately involved in whatever conflict occurs in the Middle East?
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  Speaker 1: We have no way of removing ourselves from the conflict.
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  Speaker 1: We have to get involved too. That's We need clarification
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  Speaker 1: on what exactly takeover means. But if it means what
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  Speaker 1: I think it means, I don't think this is a
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  Speaker 1: good idea. I think we can all agree that U.S.
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  Speaker 1: meddling in the Middle East has been disastrous for this country,
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  Speaker 1: for the entire world. We shouldn't make the same mistake twice.
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  Speaker 1: But beyond that, is rebuilding Gaza even worth the money?
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  Speaker 1: Peachy Keenan tweeted this yesterday. Instead of Gaza, first do
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And she's right. I get that we're saving
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  Speaker 1: money with Doge, but That doesn't mean that we should
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  Speaker 1: just spend whatever we save on rebuilding random countries across
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  Speaker 1: the globe when you have Los Angeles and North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: in need of American aid. So those should be the
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  Speaker 1: priority in my opinion. That's my two cents. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to see. Some people say that Trump is playing a
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  Speaker 1: 4D chess game, that maybe this is just a preliminary statement.
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  Speaker 1: That will lead to a better deal in the future
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  Speaker 1: as he kind of puts the world on edge. Who
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  Speaker 1: knows what the game plan is? I trust President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I'm laying out what I see here. And there doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to be a lot of America first options if
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  Speaker 1: we take Trump at his word with this takeover of Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: I have some hilarious sound bites to share with you
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  Speaker 1: all from the protest at the U.S. Treasury Building yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. I'm reading your comments. Michael and I
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  Speaker 1: were going over them. I'm like, is there any that
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  Speaker 1: we should put up? Is there anything we should talk
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  Speaker 1: about more? Because you guys are pretty 50-50. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you are like, no, Trump's playing 4-D chess. This is
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  Speaker 1: a great idea. Others are saying that Israel's committed genocide
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  Speaker 1: and this is terrible of the Palestinian people. And I
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  Speaker 1: get that this is a really contentious issue. The way
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  Speaker 1: that I come at this topic with you guys is
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  Speaker 1: always from an America First perspective. I am thinking about
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  Speaker 1: the American people. What is in our best interest? There
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  Speaker 1: are moral arguments to make about what's happening between Israel
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  Speaker 1: and Palestine. I think that those are fine conversations to have.
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  Speaker 1: On this show, however, my focus is this country. And
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  Speaker 1: I am laying it out as I see it. What
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  Speaker 1: is in the best interest of the American people? Either way,
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  Speaker 1: whether Trump is going to hand Gaza back to the
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  Speaker 1: Israelis after we inevitably rebuild it, or whether America occupies it,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see how that is America first. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see how either of those options are in our best interest.
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  Speaker 1: So we will see what happens. But that is where
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming from when I talk about this issue. Just
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  Speaker 1: so you guys have some context, you know where I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming from.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: There was a protest at the U.S. Treasury Building yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Here was Chuck Schumer. And we will win. We will win.
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  Speaker 4: We will win.
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  Speaker 2: We will win.
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  Speaker 1: We will win.
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  Speaker 5: We won't rest.
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  Speaker 3: We won't rest.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing has made me more sure that this man is
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  Speaker 1: a loser than then that soundbite right there, we will win.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like this old man, and nobody's joining in.
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  Speaker 1: And this is, of course, after they lost. They lost
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  Speaker 1: the presidential election. That's why Democrats are outside the building
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  Speaker 1: protesting instead of running the executive branch. Now, what are
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  Speaker 1: they protesting, you might ask? This is a really important question. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, he has broken into the U.S. Department of
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  Speaker 1: Treasury building, and he is stealing people's Social Security checks. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk has broken in and he is stealing Social
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  Speaker 1: Security checks. That is the allegation currently being brought by
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  Speaker 1: Democrat lawmakers. Serious Democrat lawmakers are alleging that Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: is stealing money from the U.S. Treasury building. In reality,
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  Speaker 1: Doge has been given read-only access to Treasury payment systems.
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  Speaker 1: To the Treasury's payment system, that is it. Now, in response... Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: to this really unhinged fear-mongering and false fear-mongering from the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic officials, protesters swarmed the Department of Treasury building yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and they were chanting this. They're saying, let us in, which,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, we're good with that, Mikey. It's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit insurrection-y, isn't it? They're going to take over
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Treasury building. They're going to storm the building.
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  Speaker 1: Seems a little bit like an insurrection to me. Here
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  Speaker 1: was Representative LaMonica McIver speaking outside of the Treasury building.
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  Speaker 1: She had a pretty insightful take here. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Republicans, that we will not take this. We will fight back.
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  Speaker 1: Fight back.
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  Speaker 6: Fight back.
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  Speaker 4: And as I close out, because I know we've been
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  Speaker 4: out here for a long time, and God damn it,
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  Speaker 4: shut down the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Yes! We are at war.
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  Speaker 4: Anytime a person can pay $ 250 million into a campaign
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  Speaker 4: and they be given access, full access to the Department
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  Speaker 4: of Treasury of the United States of America, we are
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  Speaker 4: at war.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Someone comments. How do you steal from a
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  Speaker 1: treasury with $ 35 trillion in debt? It's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think that's what Elon Musk is
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  Speaker 1: trying to fix right now. But listen to that rhetoric.
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  Speaker 1: We are at war. It's pretty violent, isn't it? If
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  Speaker 1: you ask me, it's pretty unhinged. Asking for chaos in
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  Speaker 1: the streets. And I'm going to tell you what this
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  Speaker 1: is really about. The left does not believe that the
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  Speaker 1: right has a right to take political power. It's inconceivable
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  Speaker 1: to them. Here was Elizabeth Warren, aka Pocahontas. Oh, we
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  Speaker 1: don't have Elizabeth Warren? All right, that's all right. So
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  Speaker 1: she's screaming about Elon Musk. All of these Democrat senators,
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  Speaker 1: representatives are screeching about Elon Musk. And The Atlantic decided
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  Speaker 1: to run an article yesterday. It was titled, Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: is president. The world's richest man has declared war on
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  Speaker 1: the federal government and his influence appears unchecked. So you
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  Speaker 1: just the actual Democrat politicians, but the corporate media has
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  Speaker 1: come out. They've fallen in rhetorical line and they are
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  Speaker 1: also fear mongering wildly about Elon Musk. And the deal
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  Speaker 1: is Trump tasked Elon with tackling government waste and we
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  Speaker 1: voted for Trump. All this anger is really rooted in
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  Speaker 1: the left's insistence that the right has no right to
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  Speaker 1: govern the country after winning an election. Even after we
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  Speaker 1: won the popular vote, we still don't have a right
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  Speaker 1: to run the country. And by the way, if we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about unelected people running the country, I
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  Speaker 1: never voted for USAID, never voted for the ATF or
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  Speaker 1: the FBI or the TSA or CISA or any of
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  Speaker 1: these tyrannical agencies that Democrats love. I never voted for
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  Speaker 1: any of them. So I really don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: The allegations, the anger, the fear, it falls on deaf ears.
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  Speaker 1: Because Democrats love unelected tyrants running the country. They love it.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're going to fearmonger about Elon Musk because
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  Speaker 1: he's tackling government waste and all their pet projects? Give
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  Speaker 1: me a break. As an aside, AOC, with all of
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  Speaker 1: her insights, she's come in attacking Elon Musk as well
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  Speaker 1: in the most.
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  Speaker 1: Hilarious way AOC could possibly attack Elon Musk. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires
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  Speaker 7: I have ever met or.
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  Speaker 1: Seen or witnessed, which, you know, you can probably even.
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  Speaker 7: Glean that from watching these people on TV. Anyways, all
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  Speaker 7: of that is to say is that they don't do
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  Speaker 7: their homework. Clearly, like, They're putting 19-year-olds in at the Treasury.
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  Speaker 7: This dude is not smart.
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  Speaker 1: And the danger is not the lack of intelligence and
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  Speaker 1: the lack of expertise that Elon has.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, this guy is one of the most morally vacant,
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  Speaker 7: but also just least knowledgeable about the systems that we
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  Speaker 7: really know of. But the point is, is that what
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  Speaker 7: that means is that they're going to hit a button. Inevitably,
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  Speaker 7: they are going to hit a button and things can
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  Speaker 7: go sideways.
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  Speaker 1: Does AOC really want to have a conversation about IQ
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  Speaker 1: right now? Does she really want to have that conversation?
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  Speaker 1: She sounds so inarticulate, slamming Elon Musk, of all people,
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  Speaker 1: for being allegedly unintelligent. The irony is completely lost on
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  Speaker 1: her because she is indeed an idiot herself. Charlie Kirk wrote,
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  Speaker 1: AOC calling Elon Musk unintelligent might actually be the dumbest
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  Speaker 1: thing she has ever said, which is really saying something. Look,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are the mouthpieces for the regime. They are the
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  Speaker 1: party of the state. Washington, D.C. is over 90% Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason for that. And Elon, with the blessing
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  Speaker 1: of Trump, has gone to war with the federal bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 1: Elon revealed on X yesterday that the fraud in the
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  Speaker 1: federal government is closer to 10% of government expenditures, which
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  Speaker 1: is approximately $ 700 billion per year. And he says that
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  Speaker 1: outright waste is at least 15%, so another trillion plus dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And let's talk about USAID, USAID for a moment, because
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  Speaker 1: all of the worst people are furious that Trump has
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  Speaker 1: shut down. It down. Here is Bill Gates on The
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  Speaker 1: View yesterday saying that millions will die somehow without USAID.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you could have literally millions of deaths. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, with aid, people think, you know, wow, how
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  Speaker 5: much do we give these countries? As you said, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's less than a percent. People think it's five percent
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  Speaker 5: and it should be two percent. But it's actually under
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  Speaker 5: one percent.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: And still saving lives.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 1: OK, Sonny. First of all, that's a lie. Millions are
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  Speaker 1: not going to die. USAID is not an aid program.
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  Speaker 1: It's a CIA slush fund used to manipulate foreign governments.
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  Speaker 1: The issue with USAID is not the cost, although the
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  Speaker 1: cost is insane. Why are we spending millions on Sesame
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Street in Iraq, promoting atheism in Nepal, creating transgender operas
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  Speaker 1: in Peru? Those items I just listed are exactly why
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  Speaker 1: USAID needs to go. As John Daniel Davidson writes, cutting
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  Speaker 1: USAID is not about reducing the deficit or controlling the debt.
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  Speaker 1: It's about defunding left-wing NGOs that use USAID grants to
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  Speaker 1: spread toxic anti-Western ideologies and run psyops that undermine Western
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  Speaker 1: values all over the world. That's the key. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Pam Bondi was confirmed yesterday as Attorney General, and her
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  Speaker 1: agency is also, as of yesterday, being sued by FBI agents. First,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: some backstory. Per a CNN report, we learned yesterday that 5,000
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  Speaker 1: of the FBI's 13,000 agents worked on January 6th investigation,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: so nearly 40% of the FBI agents. was tasked with
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  Speaker 1: shutting down January 6ers, putting them on no-fly lists, throwing
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: them in solitary confinement, overall destroying the lives of countless
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: innocent Americans who protested on January 6, 2021, under this
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: allegation that the day was a violent insurrection. We all
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: know that it was not. Trump's Justice Department has demanded
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  Speaker 1: details on all these employees who worked on January 6
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  Speaker 1: cases by noon of yesterday. More than 5,000 employee details
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  Speaker 1: were submitted in including employee ID numbers, job titles, their
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: role in the January 6th investigations, but not their names.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI withheld their names. The agents know that Trump
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  Speaker 1: is going to probably terminate those involved in the January
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  Speaker 1: 6th witch hunt, so they are actively defying the president,
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  Speaker 1: actively defying Trump's DOJ by withholding these names. Nowhere in
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution does By the way, does it grant authority
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  Speaker 1: for a federal police force with the FBI? So at
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: this point, I would just shut down the FBI. You
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: guys are all fired. If you're not going to comply
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  Speaker 1: and give me just the names, you're done. More likely,
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  Speaker 1: Trump is going to get the name, get those names,
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  Speaker 1: and Kash Patel is about to fire thousands of agents
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  Speaker 1: once Kash is confirmed. Now, at the same time, FBI
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  Speaker 1: agents who worked on J6 cases or the criminal investigations
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  Speaker 1: into President Trump have filed a class action lawsuit to
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  Speaker 1: block the Justice Department from assembling the lists of names
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  Speaker 1: because the agents say that they're going to be part
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  Speaker 1: of a retaliation campaign. So this is the best part.
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  Speaker 1: This is a quote from the lawsuit. Plaintiffs assert that
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  Speaker 1: even if they are not targeted for termination, they may
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  Speaker 1: face other retaliatory acts such as demotion, denial of job opportunities,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: or denial of promotions in the future. And this is
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  Speaker 1: incredibly rich information. Because these agents had no problem ruining
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  Speaker 1: the lives of thousands of innocent J6ers, some of whom
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: were even driven to suicide. No problem with that. Natalie
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  Speaker 1: Winters reported yesterday that the lawyer suing Trump's DOJ on
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: behalf of these J6 FBI agents during political retribution called
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: to remove MAGA from government and fire them all. She
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: also tweeted that Biden must, must, must remove MAGA from
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: our institutions. And she called for industrial strength disinfectant of
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: MAGA bacteria in our institutions. And that's just to give
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: you some context about where this lawsuit is coming from.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: This is a left-wing deep state rage machine. lashing out
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  Speaker 1: at Trump because they're about to get exactly what they deserve.
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  Speaker 1: And what a waste of those 5,000 jobs that the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: American people had to pay for. Julie Kelly actually thinks
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: that the number of FBI agents involved in J6 is
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: probably higher than 5,000, given the scope and the length
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: of the investigation. She thinks that nearly every agent at
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: some point touched a J6 case. And I think if
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Trump fired everyone involved in targeting J6ers, targeting pro-lifers, traditional Catholics,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: parents at school board meetings, and President Trump himself, the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: FBI would no longer exist. They're a fully weaponized agency
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: doing really evil things in this country. Molly Hemingway writes,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: did the FBI do anything from 2021 to 2024 other
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: than run a cartoonish over-prosecution of the J6 protesters after
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: spending 2016 and 2019 running the republic-threatening Russia collusion hoax?
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  Speaker 1: What's the justification for this agency's existence? And to that
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  Speaker 1: I say, nothing, Molly. There's zero justification for the FBI
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: to continue on. Speaking of federal terminations, the EPA. Mission
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: support official Kimberly Patrick emailed more than 1,000 EPA employees
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  Speaker 1: to inform them that they are likely on a probationary
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: trial period and that as a probationary trial period employee,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the agency has the right to immediately terminate you. Here's
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: how the New York Times framed this story, quote, The
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Trump administration has warned more than 1,000 Environmental Protection Agency
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  Speaker 1: employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, and
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  Speaker 1: forcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be
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  Speaker 1: fired at any time. So yes, if we fire EPA employees,
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  Speaker 1: the Earth is about to be destroyed. Humanity will die off.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Is it these government workers at the EPA are single-handedly
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  Speaker 1: saving the planet? Give me a break. We aren't sure
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  Speaker 1: exactly why these specific employees are likely to be fired,
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  Speaker 1: but the suspicion is that these 1,000 are defying Trump's
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  Speaker 1: return to work orders. Last week, EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin
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  Speaker 1: said he's been told that the EPA building is often
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: at 20% capacity on any given day, and that once
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: he's in the building and confirmed, he will find out.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So this could be related to that. Either way, this
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: is amazing. We are actually cutting the fat. EPA is
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: another agency full of unelected bureaucrats who boss Americans around
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: under the banner of the climate scam. Be gone. At
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the same time, Trump has announced that he is serious
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: about annihilating the Department of Education. Take a listen.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: And on the Education Department, why nominate Linda McMahon to
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: be the Education Department secretary if you're going to get
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: rid of the Education Department?
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Because I told Linda, Linda, I hope you do a
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: great job and put yourself out of a job. I
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: want her to put herself out of a job.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Education Department.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: So we're ranked number 40 out of 40 schools, right?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: We're ranked number one in cost per pupil. So we
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: spend more per pupil than any other country in the world.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: And we're ranked at the bottom of the list. We're
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: ranked very badly. And what I want to do is
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: let the states run schools. I believe strongly in school choice.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: But in addition to that, I want the states to
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: run schools. And I want Linda to put herself out
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: of a job.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: This is really promising. This was something that Trump had
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: said he would do on the campaign trail. He is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: apparently going to follow through. And again, like the FBI...
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: The Constitution does not grant the federal government authority over education.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Nowhere does it. It's a power that should be reserved
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: for the states and local communities. Since the DOE's establishment
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: in 1979, like Trump said, national test scores and educational
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: standards have plummeted, despite the DOE spending billions of taxpayer
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: dollars on various administrative costs and diversity programs. And it's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: no surprise that under the Department of Education, left-wing dogma
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: has poisoned American public schools. Wokeism has infected reading, math, writing, music,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: literally every subject. So this is great news. All right,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: let's go to immigration. CBS News is running clips currently
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: of interviews with migrants who were deported in recent days
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: by the Trump admin. One example is a 21-year-old woman
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: who broke down in tears after she was deported back
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to Guatemala from the US. Now, per CBS, the woman
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: is devastated, quote, largely because of what it would mean
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: for her and her parents, who had pulled together more
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: than $ 25, 000 in loans to pay her smuggler. So CBS
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: just showed us that the immigration crisis is also a
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: human trafficking crisis, which is not something that the left
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: likes to admit. the cartels have made more money on
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: trafficking than drugs. They charge outrageous amounts, in this case,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: tens of thousands of dollars to smuggle people into the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: United States, holding families hostages until they get paid off
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: over time. As John Daniel Davidson writes, this woman and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: her family are essentially part of a tax base were
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: cartel-affiliated smugglers. The $ 25K they paid was the beginning of
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: what are almost certainly ongoing payments. The trafficking of illegal
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: migrants doesn't end once they get into the U.S. And
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: this is why I can't stand the left's moralizing on
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the immigration question.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: J.D.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Vance is a Catholic. We've talked about this before. He
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: is in a public spat right now with the U.S.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Catholic Conference of Bishops, who are critical of Trump's deportation agenda.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: As a Catholic myself, I've had similar encounters with the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Catholic Church, where at Mass last Sunday, Michael and I
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: had to listen to the lectern say an offertory prayer
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: for all the undocumented immigrants. But no prayers were said
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: for Lake and Riley or the families like my own
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: impacted by fentanyl. Nothing. The reality is that Trump's border
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: security and deportation agenda is good and it is moral.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: He is cutting off the life source of satanic cartels.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Why the Catholic Church doesn't understand this is beyond me.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Why Catholic Charities, Catholic organization, is funding the border crisis,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: fueling it, is beyond me. It is, in fact, immoral
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to permit a human trafficking crisis at our border, and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I have to say that to fellow Catholics.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: In some sports news, yes, we are going to cover
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: sports news, which I don't usually talk about, but Per
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: OutKick founder Clay Travis, after four years, the NFL is
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: removing the end racism end zone message for the Super Bowl,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: which President Trump is actually scheduled to attend. Remember that
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: end racism slogan was put on during 2020 during the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: BLM riots. But it's not all sunshine. It's sunshine and rainbows.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: We also learned that the supposed black national anthem will
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: still be performed ahead of this weekend's game. in New Orleans,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and the black national anthem is a fine song. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: don't have any problem with it, but I do think
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: it's inappropriate for the Super Bowl. There's only one national
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: anthem that is needed for the Super Bowl, and that
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: is the national anthem. It's entirely bizarre, and I think
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: it appropriate to sing a separate anthem for a racial
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: group at an all-American cultural event meant to bring people together.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: But I think just the fact that people on social
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: media are pointing this out It's such a radical change
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: from 2020. People have concurred with what I've just said
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to you, wanting to have one national anthem instead of
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: our national anthem and then a black national anthem. And
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: this is, again, a radical shift from 2020. Do you
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: guys remember what it was like after George Floyd died?
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Absolute chaos. Buildings burned. Monuments torn down. I was there
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: with Michael in Kenosha. I witnessed it. It was horrifying.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: our heritage and our history smeared as racist, DEI programs
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: installed all across government, academia, the workplace. But the race
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: politics has worn on people. Trump's destruction of government DEI
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: has been widely well-received by the public. And Democrats, who
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: have tied their party intrinsically to identity politics, have a
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: huge problem on their hands. And on that note, do
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: you guys remember transgender Dylan Mulvaney's Bud Light ad and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the massive controversy around it, Bud Light ever since has
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: been intensely trying to recoup its losses and bring back
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: customers who were really soured on the company ever since
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that Bud Light-Dylan Mulvaney collaboration. Here is Bud Light's latest
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: ad set to air at the Super Bowl. I need
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: your thoughts.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: You want to go fishing tomorrow?
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: I got a colonoscopy tomorrow.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Fellas, I accidentally threw a lame party.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, Ted.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: They're on their way.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: They're here.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: You call this a party?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Cul-de-sac party!
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: Launch!
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Launch! And beers are a metaphor for an invitation.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Is that our leaf blower?
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Party at the sack!
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: You are cordially invited to the end of the cul-de-sac.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: This is incredible.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Your mower smokes meat?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: No, a smoker cuts grass.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah. I spent most of my money on this.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You rigged?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Fully custom. How many Bud Lights can you fit in
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that puppy?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: As many Bud Lights as it takes.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: A lot of Bud Lights.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: This cul-de-sac's poppin'..
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Bill, get off the boat. The HOA's already breathing down
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: my neck.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: So if you're listening, you got, like, there's a cookout,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: there's a lawnmower, you got these guys with shorts and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: polo shirts with the baseball caps on. You have Post
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Malone and Shane Gillis featured. Drop a comment, tell me
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: what you think of this. Michael likes the ad. To me,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: it looks like what someone who doesn't know any straight
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: white males might think straight white males are like. Jack
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Posobiec described it as a white male minstrel. Some people
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: said that they aren't forgetting the Bud Light scandal, that
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: this doesn't change anything. Another person said, I felt like
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: it should be funny, but didn't quite make it. It
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: feels like they're trying too hard. Another person said, this
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: is in the vein of TV shows depicting white men
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and dads as bumbling fools. Here's what I'll say. Companies
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: have been jumping to drop their DEI in the wake
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of Trump's executive orders for a reason. Because after Bud Light,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: corporate America realized that they had a problem. They may
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: hate normal Americans, but we also have power as a collective.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And they can't just force feed them left-wing slop like
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: they have been for the last few years without creating
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: massive outrage and hurting their own bottom line. And so
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: even if Bud Light is missing the mark with this ad,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: there are mixed perspectives. Some people like it, some people
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: hate it. I would rather Bud Light be trying to
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: appease their customers than force-feeding them transgender propaganda. You know
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: how I know political correctness is dead? This was Trump
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: last night at his press conference with Netanyahu. Take a listen.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: The Press I have a little hard time understanding you.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Where are you from?
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Actually, it's a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: The only problem is I can't understand a word you're saying.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: But I just say this. Good luck. Live in peace.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, please.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Good luck. Live in peace. I can't even believe this happened.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I can't even believe it happened. I did think that
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Trump was going to say beautiful country, but then he
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: stopped himself. He said, oh, beautiful accent. Because Afghanistan is
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: not a great place to be. Hilarious. And can you
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: imagine if somebody said that, a politician saying, said those
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: exact words pre-Trump, career-ending. It'd be over. And also notice
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: how in the room, the journalists laugh instead of gasp
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: or get all upset. He has dismantled the political correctness.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: And frankly, I mean, he's right. I mean, why should
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Trump answer a question if he genuinely can't understand this woman?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I would rather him say, I'm sorry, I can't understand,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: than try to answer a question that he never actually heard.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: And there's an honesty- And a truthfulness that has come
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: back with the dismantling of DEI that I think is
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a really wonderful thing. Something that America has been desiring
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: for way too long. And this is what Trump has done.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: He has spearheaded an entire cultural shift. And we really
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: did dodge a bullet. I want you to just think
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: about what's happening in the UK. The UK just locked
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: up a man named Martin Frost. He's a 47-year-old guy.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: who burned pages of the Quran publicly in Manchester. Frost
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: was charged with racially and religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and distress. Meanwhile, Pakistani Muslims, who have organized grooming gangs
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: across the UK, have actually been protected by the government
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and eventually were given lenient punishments, if at all. Per
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: The Telegraph, The UK government is planning to introduce an
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: official definition of Islamophobia, which would criminalize criticisms of Muslim
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: migration and even grooming gangs. The rest of the world
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: is living in post-World War II liberalism, globalism hell. But
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: it seems like America has actually escaped it. Here's Mike
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Benz on what President Trump prevented with his election.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: All it took was Donald Trump getting elected for arguably
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: 200 years of a First Amendment principle to be entirely
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: discarded because it was leading to the wrong kinds of
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: people being elected. Free speech on the Internet was blamed
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: for the loss of the Philippines election by the State
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Department in 2016. It was blamed for the events of Brexit.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: It was blamed for the rise of Trump in 2016.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: It was blamed for the rise of Bolsonaro. It was
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: blamed for the rise of Modi in India. In country
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: after country, the free... and open internet, unfiltered alternative news,
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: the rise of citizen journalists, the rise of citizens in
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: those countries who have larger voices than CIA-backed media has
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: meant that the State Department has lost control of those countries.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: And what happened was, after 2016, the technology and the
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: networks were established to be able to add a new
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: toolkit to American diplomacy, which is diplomacy by censorship. So
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: you have truckers in America whose income tax is going
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: to pay foreign governments to censor their citizens.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: We're becoming the Soviet Union.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Had Trump not been elected, all that would have continued.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: All of the massive violation of the First Amendment in
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: this country and the importation of zero free speech despotism
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: to the rest of the world as well. As Daryl
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Cooper writes, it is impossible to understand actions like this
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: until you accept that the U.S. is not a proper
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: nation state, but a revolutionary empire like the USSR. I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: think one thing is clear. America cannot afford to be distracted.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Every single day, the left, the bureaucrats, the unseen globalists,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: they're out for blood. And they aren't hiding it anymore.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: They were literally out in the streets yesterday, calling for violence,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: proudly and openly. That's why we need to stay focused.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: America First is the guide. We've spent decades making disastrous
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: foreign entanglements our problem, pouring trillions into wars and reconstruction
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: efforts that do nothing to strengthen our nation. Trillions that
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: should have gone to securing our border, rebuilding our economy,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: making life better for our own people. And instead, those
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: resources were spent on nation building halfway across the world.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Enough.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: If we're talking about taking over and rebuilding it should
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: be our own cities, our own industries, our own future.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: This administration has already done incredible things. For the first
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: time in decades, we have a government that is actively
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: dismantling the corruption, but we can't forget the past. We
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: have to learn from previous mistakes so that good things
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: we're doing now, like cutting USAID, firing partisan FBI agents,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: destroying DEI, but they don't get lost in another wasteful
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: foreign venture. The establishment will always try to pull us
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: back into their games, to bait us into losing sight
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: of the mission. They want us distracted. They want us exhausted.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: And that's how they win. But not this time. Not again.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: America First is not a slogan. It is a roadmap.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: It is a commitment to never again sacrificing our country
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: for the sake of globalist schemes or pointless foreign conflicts.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: It is a promise to fight every single day for
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: what truly matters, which is the survival of and the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: strength of the American people. That's all I have for
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: you guys today. Thank you so much for tuning in,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and I'll see you all tomorrow. The U.S. Soccer Podcast.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Megan Klingenberg, and I am super stoked
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: to be joined by Daryl Dike.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Arguably, your most impressive quality cannot be measured. You're a
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: guy who is the definition of grit. Injuries have ended
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: plenty of careers, but instead you decided yours would only
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: be a chapter instead of the ending. Welcome to the show, Daryl.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: That's a good intro right there.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 36:34
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