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August 13, 2026 | The Jon Justice Show · The Jon Justice Show: Presented by Center of the American Experiment

• 0:20
  SPEAKER_37: You know, I've had foes of the show, and they may still be saying these things on social media in a very bizarre move, one in particular foe of the show, uh blocked me, even though they constantly talk about me.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_37: So it takes away the ability for me to even see what their commentary about the show is, which makes no rational sense to me uh whatsoever.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_37: However, this particular individual has uh said many times that uh they uh firmly believe that I am shadow running the state of Minnesota as if I have that much that much power.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_37: And I think part of the narrative, too, of the of the job move was yes, you know, the individuals, the powers that be who disagree with John's commentary could no longer handle the fact that he was shadow running everything.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_37: So they had to try to do something about it.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_37: And yet a good man cannot be put down.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_37: I bring all this up because um, first off, it's a ridiculous notion, obviously, right?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_37: Like, like I've always said, because I've talked about this before, uh, I can barely control things in my own household, let alone shadow run a state or a government.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_37: Uh that being said, it, you know, some of my some of my public commentary seems to be manifesting in in various ways.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_37: I mentioned uh yesterday prior to the, and I'll go ahead and say what it was now.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_37: Uh we were all having a discussion uh after the the show, and it is the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_37: Glad you're with us this morning.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_37: Uh my name is John Justice.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_37: We have uh Devin producing the show once again uh today, and uh we'll go through all of the different ways that you can watch it and listen.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_37: But of course, you've already joined us, uh joined us this morning, so you're ahead of the uh ahead of the curve.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_37: So we were having a conversation, sort of the uh the comms group is what we call ourselves.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_37: I'm part of the part of the communications group here at American Experiment.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_37: And uh this was on primary day, and I was talking uh about how, you know, I wonder if President Donald Trump will go and toss out another social media post uh promoting individuals to go vote for Mike Lindell.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_37: And I'm I'm talking within a matter of a like like less than a minute.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_37: One of the other uh members of the comms team was like, oh, hey, look, Trump just posted on Truth Social to go out and vote for Mike Lindell.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_37: I bring this up because yesterday I played a clip from White House press secretary, uh Caroline Levitt, uh, talking about the Democrat Socialist takeover of the Democrat Party, is something we'll be talking about a lot on today's uh show.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_37: And I made the comment of just what a fantastic job she does.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_37: She's one of the best White House communications directors that, you know, in my recent, you know, memory.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_37: Um and then I get done with the show and I see the headline Caroline Levitt will leave her role as the White House press secretary at the end of the month.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_37: It's like, uh, that makes me sad.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_37: Now she's gonna go focus on being a mom.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, she recently gave birth to her second uh baby in May.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_37: Um and uh apparently she's gonna go and focus on focus on that.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_37: Uh let's see here.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_37: Trump said our wonderful White House press secretary and one of the most trusted aides, Caroline Levitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_37: A decision I totally understand and respect.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_37: If she does end up returning into the political sphere, I hope it's as a as a commentator and not running for for office.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, and it's gonna be, again, this is kind of a running theme that we'll have, we'll dive into in this first hour of the show, but that is the blatant media manipulation going on.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_37: And you've got a couple of different converging forces here.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_37: You have this contraction, for lack of a better way to describe it, of media right now.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_37: Um, whether it is what I've talked about on the show uh within terrestrial radio, the layoffs taking place.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, I mentioned, what was it?
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_37: I think it was on Monday, that in a former market that I worked at, one of the competing rock radio stations, um, when I was working in that market, where I had friends and former bosses working, uh, they unceremoniously last week fired their entire staff and went completely automated.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_37: Cumulus Radio, uh, which is another very large radio company.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_37: Um, not as large as iHeart, of course, but still a massive company.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_37: They just went through a massive round of layoffs.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_37: And there's something odd that I'm experiencing on a daily basis going through the prep for this show.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_37: And there's a Venn diagram of all of these different things that lead to what we're going to talk about today, and that is the amount of attention that these wack-a-doodle, for for lack of a better name, these wack-a-doodle um uh Democrats have been receiving by the media.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_37: And how I believe that a big reason why they've even be able to they've even been able to make gains within uh these elections is because of what I'm talking about.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_37: There's a desperation among media outlets to cover the most sensational aspects, and it inflates and creates this level of attention, and that turns into votes.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_37: So I don't want to get too far ahead of myself.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_37: But getting back to Caroline Levitt, this is where I believe that we need more voices within public commentary social media.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_37: We need those politicians out there, obviously.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_37: We need conservatives running for office, stalwart conservatives, but it's equally as important to make sure that there are good, rational, intelligent voices out there within the conservative news sphere to counter what's happening within our mainstream media, what's happening within the publications of these left-leaning outlets that, again, I believe has been contributing to the rise of this Democrat socialism across the country.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_37: Um, let me share a few thoughts, though, regarding Caroline Levitt.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_37: I have two different clips that I want to uh play for you.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_37: First off, um, from the White House, White House administration, um, Stephen Miller uh was asked about this yesterday on Fox News of Caroline Levitt stepping down from her post.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_37: Um, this was um, these are his heartfelt words uh yesterday.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_41: First of all, for me, because Caroline is not just a colleague, not just someone for whom I have endless respect and admiration, but she's the close friend, someone I've got to know well, someone that my family has gotten to know well, someone that has really been in every way a source of joy in so many of our lives professionally.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_41: Her credentials, her accolades, her achievements are second to none.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_41: Her job that she has performed as White House press secretary, the word exemplary doesn't even begin to cover it.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_41: She has served this president so well, this administration so well, this country so well, and very importantly, she's been a role model to millions and millions of young women all across this country.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_41: A mother, a family woman, a press secretary, a patriot, really in every way, an extraordinary person whose role in this movement and this country is only beginning, and I see unlimited success and possibilities ahead for her, and we're gonna continue working together every single day.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_41: Her story is just beginning.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_41: I can't wait to see what her future holds.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, and listen, it cannot be um, you know, I don't want to gloss over the fact that she's incredibly young.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, she's in her early 20s.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_37: So he's right.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, you know, it's smart for her.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, it's uh smart's not the right word.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_37: Um, I completely respect uh and agree with her desire to go and spend time with her family.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_37: I imagine that the job of being the White House press secretary is very daunting and time-consuming.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_37: So tremendous amount of respect for her for prioritizing her family and her life.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_37: But make no mistake, Stephen Miller's right.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_37: Um, if she decides to return to politics, uh, she will be a conservative voice to be reckoned with.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_37: Uh Scott Jennings on CNN yesterday also shared his uh thoughts on uh Caroline Levitt's departure.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_39: Caroline Levitt has been maybe the greatest White House press secretary in the last 30 years at least.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_39: She's been nothing short of brilliant.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_39: She's done it while raising a young family.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_39: I think it's great that she's gonna go spend time with her family, but I don't know a single Republican in the country who isn't in awe of and in appreciation of of Caroline tonight.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_39: So Godspeed on your journey back to your family.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_39: You've done a great work.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_37: Um, and just a fan, and you know, speaking of great commentators, uh, Scott Jennings certainly falls uh into that category.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_37: All right, remember, you can watch the John Justice show at MN Think Tank on X, also Facebook and uh YouTube at Center of the American Experiment and my personal Facebook and YouTube pages, John J-O-N Justice.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_37: And if you miss any portion of the show, because I know all your lives are busy and you can't listen to every single minute live.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_37: See if I had that kind of manipulation and power, that's what I would do.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_37: I would force people to listen.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_37: That's right.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_37: I'd be your talk show dictator.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_37: I'm just kidding.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, you can get uh caught up on the podcast on the Mix L R app where you can listen live.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_37: And that really is, if you're listening to just the audio feed, uh you can go to americanexperiment.org, but I encourage everybody to download the free Mix LR app where you can listen to the show live.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_37: And uh also the podcasts are available there, post to show and across all podcasting platforms.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_37: Of course, you can email the show at any point, uh, 24 hours a day, and certainly while we're live, John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_37: And we have something called the blaster line where you leave us blasts.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_37: Blasts are your comments based off what we're talking about on the show.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_37: Your opportunity to let your voice be heard by leaving us a blast at 612-584-4565.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_37: Again, that's 612-584-4565.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_37: Let's go and hear from Gary.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_19: I'm sorry.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_19: I'm just wondering uh these uh join or Kratum, are you doing them yourself?
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_19: No.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_19: Or is somebody helping you?
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_19: Because they're really, really good.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_19: Have a great show, hopefully.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_37: Uh no, so those are my the the latest rounds.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_37: So before the show starts, in the um uh at 6 a.m.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_37: Uh for those that caught on the stream early.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_37: Typically what I'm doing is I have a couple uh of uh uh groups of the AI overlords, the John Justice show uh house band.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_37: Um some older uh songs, um parodies.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_37: I'm getting my hands on some of the uh parodies from the previous show.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_37: We'll have them back on the show very, very soon.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, but also some newer ones.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_37: So the newer ones that you heard uh in the run-up to today's show, those I those are the ones that I made.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_37: Um I was uh looking for um, well, I hadn't messed with uh with the uh the song generator, the AI song generator, at much.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_37: So the other morning I sat down and as I was going through prep, I decided to try to create a few songs based off the stories that we were talking about on the show, and that was the uh result.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_37: Uh so yeah, I'll be doing more of those.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_37: They're fun.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_37: They don't have any business being as good as they are.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_37: Devin and I were talking about it before the show when they started.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_37: I go, man, these songs, these songs are really, really good.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_37: So again, it's the AI overlords, and yes, I've been the one who's been uh creating them uh as of late.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_37: All right, before we dive into the media manipulation, uh I have a story about how uh David Crowley, who ended up beating out Francesca Hong for the Democrat uh domination in the gubernatorial race in Wisconsin, as I talked about yesterday, and this is this uh story from The Daily Wire is the perfect example.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_37: Um, it's a lesser of two evils.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_37: You know, he may not be sort of the lunatic Hong hating on Thanksgiving and other holidays and lamenting her children being half white.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_37: But this dude is really no better when you get into the background in his past statements, especially regarding his belief of systemic uh racism.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_37: So we're gonna dive uh dive into that also.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_37: Um, and again, it's media manipulation and it's manipulating the media because Minneapolis man, baby, mayor, mom, jeans, Jacob Fry, he unveiled the Minneapolis budget for the coming years and he did it intentionally on the day after the primary so that the story would get buried because it is wild what the Minneapolis man-baby mayor Jacob Fry is proposing because of the difficulties that that once great city, this once great city, um, is now facing under the oppressive thumb of the Democrat Socialists on the Minneapolis City Council.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_37: So we're gonna get into this in uh in just a moment.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_37: I want to spend one uh just a few more moments though, um putting a bit of a bow on a conversation, a brief conversation that I had yesterday right around this time.
• 13:32
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• 13:37
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• 14:00
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• 14:08
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• 14:13
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• 14:52
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• 14:54
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• 14:58
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• 15:00
  SPEAKER_37: And so I bring that up because I was talking yesterday about what's been happening within Hollywood and these actresses and some actors too.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_37: Uh John Goodman showed this dramatic weight loss, although he was so overweight that he actually looks fit and healthy now.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_37: But I'm convinced he's using these GLP one shots.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_37: But there's been this um swirling concern around actress Jenna Ortega.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_37: And I brought her, I brought it up, I brought her up yesterday because she recently recently appeared in this Vanity Fair uh interview, and everybody is going, um, what's happened to Jenna Ortega?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_37: Because she looks sickly, it doesn't look healthy.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_37: I want to share this with you.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_37: It's not Caroline Lovett, excuse me.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_37: Riley Gaines, uh defender of uh women in uh sports, biological women in sports.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_37: You're familiar with Riley Gaines.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, she has her own show now, the Riley Gaines show, and she posted a quick clip talking about this very uh issue, and I wanted to share it with you this morning here on the John Justice show presented by American.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_04: Here's Jenna Ortega two years ago.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_04: Here's Jenna Ortega now.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_04: What is happening?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_04: I think this phenomena should be named the Ariana Grande effect.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_04: I generally don't like to comment on women's bodies because you don't know what someone's going through.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_04: Like Jenna Ortega, for all I know, could be battling some sort of illness.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_04: She's not said that, and I don't think that's the case, but I don't know.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_04: And I think what's healthy for some people might not be healthy for others.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_04: But here's what I do know: you should not be able to see your sternum through your skin.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_04: I say this entirely out of compassion and with concern, quite frankly, for Jinna Ortega.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_04: She doesn't look okay.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_04: She looks sick.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_04: She looks like the life has been sucked out of her.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_04: How she looks, where you can see her collarbones and like her shoulder caps, that's how elderly people look when they're sent to hospice to die.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_04: I've said it before on my show, and I'll say it again.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_04: I really think the skinny epidemic is just as harmful as the body positivity movement that was glorifying obesity.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_04: I think the health effects of malnutrition might actually be worse.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_04: It's bad for fertility, it's bad for your brain function, it's bad for your immune system.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_04: Of course, it causes muscle atrophy.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_04: And the worrying part is it's not just Jenna Ortega or Ariana Grande.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_04: Here's a picture of some celebrities at recent red carpets.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_04: It's becoming a trend.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_04: The skinny epidemic, I think, is more severe now than it was in like the early 2000s.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_04: Aren't you gonna get crap about this video because I did when I made a video about Demi Moore and how severely sickly skinny she also looks.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_04: But I don't think we can let this go unchecked, unnoticed, and untalked about.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_04: Jenna Ortega was beautiful.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_04: She's still beautiful, but I hope she recognizes, if this is something that she can control, the long-term effects that malnutrition has on you.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_04: And to the girls who watch my page, or maybe you see the videos of other celebrities who have been Arianified, um, I just want to reinforce to you that strong is cool.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, strong is healthy, strong is functional.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_04: And when I'm at my strongest, I'm also at my most confident.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_37: I don't want to read too much into this, but I want to add a little bit more to Riley Gaines uh commentary.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_37: And certainly actresses in Hollywood getting scary thin is nothing new.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_37: There was um, I don't even know how long ago.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_37: I want to say early 2000s, but it may have even been earlier than that.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_37: But there was this heroin chic look doing that thing with my fingers that was popular for a short period of time.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_37: But these were all like the supermodels that were getting, they were going to look like Jenna Ortega looks.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_37: Now, most of them were doing it because they were just basically starving themselves, and the GLP ones kind of do that to you.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_37: But there is a very specific and distinct look to individuals who are taking this type of medication.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_37: And that's not to begrudge anybody that's taking these prescriptions at all if you're using it appropriately.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_37: But clearly, the individuals like Jenna Ortega and others are abusing it.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_37: But I also think this is a further extension of just something we're seeing in society, and that is just that obsession with oneself.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_37: Right?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_37: It's tragic.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_37: It's really tragic.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_37: It's an extension of the God-sized hole that so many people are attempting to fill, right?
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_37: Where their looks become that important, they become that increasingly concerned with themselves that they feel like they have to be that thin.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_37: And it's just really sad to see.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_37: And it seems like you had Ann Hathaway, I saw her recently, Charlie's Theron, you know.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_37: Of course, Ariana Grande is probably the one who had been getting the most attention, but Jenna Ortega doesn't look all that much better uh either.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_37: It's just a very fascinating and scary phenomenon uh taking place.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_37: And again, dovetailing off of my common my commentary yesterday, um, I found uh Riley Gaines' comments there incredibly, incredibly interesting.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_37: And also another individual who has a very bright future ahead of her, much like uh Caroline Levitt.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_37: Of course, if you go and listen to the foes of the show, they have a completely uh different take on individuals like Caroline Levitt as they begin to slowly um fall into their Trump derangement syndrome nonsense.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_37: Here on the John Justice show, presented by American Experiment.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_07: Hey, good morning for Brainerd.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_07: Stephen Miller is right.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_07: Carolyn Levitt was an inspiration to women everywhere.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_07: If you're blonde enough and dumb enough, you two girls can defend a pedophile president, and F team of the biggest cover-up in American history, with him hiding the documents and the Iran war, which Trump started the most unpopular war, and uh fake places and all that good stuff, too.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_07: Like he was an absolute straight in the position, and whoever they put in next is not gonna be as good.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_07: So you're ready to defend uh your own or a little more boy, emigrated.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_37: Whoever they're gonna put in is not gonna be as good after he just spent or she just spent 40 seconds going and trashing him.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_37: Like, I don't even want to retort because it's so uh it's so ludicrous.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, it's gotta be a bit, right?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_37: It has to be a bit.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_37: I know, I know.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_37: People actually think that way.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_37: Trump derangement syndrome does that to people.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_37: I understand, but again, uh, foes of the show just can't quit me.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_37: All right, coming up.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_37: We'll get back to more of your thoughts uh from the blaster line, 612-584-4565.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_37: Democrat's moderate Wisconsin nominee has his own woke skeletons in the closet, including his past statements regarding the death of George Floyd, systemic racism in America.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_37: I'll share this with you uh coming up.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_37: Later on in the hour, too, uh more post mortem on the primary results, including the the polling and just how atrocious across the board the polling one uh was uh relating to the primary.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_37: As a matter of fact, Frank Luntz, the feigned pollster.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_37: He says that we should just stop polling altogether until we can figure out what is going wrong and why all of these polls have been so off base.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_37: I personally believe that it it's part of the commentary that I shared with you at the top of the show, this media manipulation and how they are moving towards the most sensational of candidates and in sort of inadvertently or maybe intentionally inflating their support through that extended coverage.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_37: So we'll get to that coming up in just a moment on the show.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_37: Drop us a blast.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_37: You can email John.justice at American Experiment.org.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_37: Speaking of polls, here's a few minutes of um one of the other individuals who's involved in the comms team here at American Experiment, uh, Bill Walsh, talking about uh some recent polls regarding the state of Minnesota here on the John Justice show.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_34: Is the declaration of independence worth celebrating?
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_34: 66% of Minnesotans said yes.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_34: The declaration of independence worth celebrating.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_34: Uh 4% said boycott.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_34: That's that's just 4% crank, you know, in this in this poll.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_34: Um we can we can ignore that.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_34: Positive positive.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_28: It really is.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_28: And I picture all of the protesters that I see every weekend with their upside-down American flags, the no kings, and the science cycle every few months because someone's making them for them and giving them their messages.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_28: Those people must be included somewhere in here, right?
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_28: I don't know.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_28: That's incredible.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_34: Is America generally a force for good in the world?
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_34: And again, remember this came out right before we bombed uh Iran.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_34: This these numbers might be different today, but 54% thought America was a force for good in the world, 41% not a force for good, 5% unsure.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_34: So not a horrible uh uh result there, I think.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_29: 41% say not a force for good.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_29: How do you think that?
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_12: Minnesota has always been a low crime state.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_12: But according to the most recent Bureau of Criminal Apprehension data, we are now above the national average when it comes to part one crimes, a category that includes crimes like murder, assault, rape, and carjackings.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_12: Minnesota is now a high crime state.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_12: Visit highcrime.com to learn more.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it is brought to you by Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota's think tank.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_28: Now one of Keith Ellison's campaign donors has pleaded guilty to fraud.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_28: No, so shocking, I know.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_28: For what it's worth, uh became the last of a seven-member family group to plead guilty in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scandal last week.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_28: Akram Youssef Mohammed, who once worked as a Feeding Our Future employee, but more excitingly, was present at the infamous 2021, December 2021 meeting where Keith Ellison, our own attorney general, met with some fraud-connected individuals.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_28: She was in that meeting.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_28: So a few days after that meeting took place, back in December 2021, her brother Gandhi, who just pled guilty last week, donated the maximum allowed amount to Keith Ellison's campaign.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_28: That was$2,500.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_28: So this is so interesting because Gandhi was not only being investigated for food fraud.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_28: And we've seen this with several fraudsters.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_28: Gandhi Muhammad received at least$36 million in Medicaid reimbursements, as well as the stuff that he was making off the free food fraud case.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_28: But he hasn't been charged with fraud in those programs yet.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_28: So were those ill-gotten gains?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_12: A famous politician once said, you're entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_12: But in a world full of AI and fake news, where can Minnesotans find the facts?
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_12: Center of the American Experiment is Minnesota's go-to source for fact-based analysis and common sense solutions for taxes, energy, public safety, and our kids' education.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_12: Visit AmericanExperiment.org for more information.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it is brought to you by Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota's think tank.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_19: Good morning, John.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_19: Eric, you need to take off a tinfoil hat.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_19: It's uh really messing with your brain.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_37: But the problem is they have no desire to take off their tinfoil hat.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_37: They're fully embracing their level of Trump derangement syndrome and uh conspiracy.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_37: So I'm just here for the entertainment value when it comes to the foes of the show.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_20: Good morning, John Vicker here.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_20: I have this Eric from Brainerd.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_20: You know, she always has some pretty terrible points.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_20: But I just wanted to say it's always the liberal women that come out and try to tear down some powerful, strong, you know, smart women that are in the news every day.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_20: It's always the liberal women that come after them and try to tear them down.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_37: Thank you for the comment, uh, Victor uh and uh and Brian.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_37: I appreciate it.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_37: We have more blasts to share coming up on the show, 612-584-4565.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_37: David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who pulled off the stunning uh upset over uh the summer's socialist surge, has blamed systemic racism for police shootings, opposed legislation to protect law enforcement, and declared Wisconsin the worst place in America to raise a black child.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_37: So, yeah, people are pleased that Francesca Hong was beat in that election, even though I do believe that she would be uh it would be easier for uh Tom Tiffany, the gubernatorial uh candidate, the GOP gubernatorial candidate, to beat Hong.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_37: Um, I also understand the argument that you don't want to let a radical individual like that get as close to being governor uh if you can if you can avoid it.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, look what's happened here with Governor Dim Walls.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, he's no he's no better or worse, or actually maybe even worse than than Hong in a lot of respects, with some of the ridiculousness that he said.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_37: But it's a lesser of two evils.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_37: David Crowley isn't all that much better.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_37: He's not a moderate Democrat by any stretch.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_37: So you go back to 2020 and he went all in on the BLM narrative surrounding the domestic disturbance call that ended with an officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, the then 29-year-old who had a felony warrant for his arrest, was armed with a knife, and was attempting to get in the driver's seat of an SUV when he was shot seven times, triggering widespread unrest in Kenosha.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_37: This set the stage for the later acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, of course.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_37: Make no mistake, Blake's wounds are the result of systemic racism, the policies and practices that entangle our institutions and produce racially disparate outcomes, regardless of the intentions of the people who work with them.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_37: He made similar ridiculous comments relating to the death of George Floyd, saying that it was a public health emergency.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_37: Crowley, back in 2020, also celebrated former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest, suggesting that professional sports should grind to a halt until the country achieved racial justice, when it's the Democrats who went and exacerbated intentionally the racism that exists here in the country.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_37: You're never going to get rid of racism.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_37: It's just part of sin.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_37: It's here, it's unfortunate, but it is just it's a part of sinful nature.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_37: But we had reached a really good place, the best place that I had seen since following politics, going back to when former President Barack Obama was elected, even though he was a president and a nominee that I certainly didn't support.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_37: But Obama spent the majority of his time in office making race relations worse to the Democrat's advantage.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_37: And this is the example of that.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_37: Before the so-called summer of love in 2020, the Democrat gubernatorial nominee also opposed BLM legislation that would have added law enforcement officers to the state's hate crime uh protected category, saying the proposal only further divide uh further, only furthers the divide between urban communities and the people who serve them.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_37: It's ridiculous.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_37: It's absolutely ridiculous.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_37: But all of this now, this is the this is the scary part.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_37: All of what I just laid out is no longer sensationalist enough to warrant coverage of concern.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_37: So who got more attention here?
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_37: Well, Francesca Hong did.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_37: Well, why?
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_37: Because she was saying a bunch of outrageous and stupid things.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_37: But so would David Crowley.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_37: But this has become mainstream now.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_37: Everything that he's mentioned here used to be in the category of the ridiculous commentary that Francesca Hung was able to achieve so much notoriety and left-wing coverage over.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_37: The like I mentioned, the lamenting the fact that her behalf, you're her son is half white, the hating of holidays like uh Thanksgiving, the menstrual feast that I mentioned during yesterday's show.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_37: You see, that all gets a bunch of coverage because it's crazy.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_37: And the media knows, hey, you know, this is going to get us a lot of views.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_37: These stories will get us a lot of clicks.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_37: And when it comes to David Crowley, you probably won't hear much of any of this, maybe on Fox News, but certainly not within your regular mainstream media, and certainly not in the way that they were covering Francesca Hong, because it's not sensationalist enough.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_37: And this is the point that I wanted to make on this.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_37: This is the media manipulation that I'm talking about.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_37: When we dive into the polls a little bit later on, there's all of this, well, why didn't the polls match up?
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_37: El Saeed was supposed to win by this massive sweeping margin, and he eked out a victory.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_37: Francesca Hong was supposed to beat David Crowley handily, and she ended up losing to him by just a small margin.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_37: Well, why?
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_37: Because I think there's a lot of inflated attention being given to these individuals.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_37: Yes, they're gaining support off of it, but the polls are reflective of the way that the media has been focusing on all these crazy people.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_37: Wherein if they didn't, I don't think they would have nearly as much support.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_37: If you didn't have the media covering Francesca Hong's comments the way that they did, she would have lost by a much wider margin than she did.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_37: Now, and there's a it's a double-edged sword here because on the one hand, you want this coverage, you want this exposure, you want these individuals to be called out because these are the types of people that will seek to destroy what America stands for and what's made this country great.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_37: But on the other end, you go, I don't think these people would be nearly as popular if they weren't gaining so much attention because Trump derangement syndrome has convinced that broken and brainwashed base of Democrat voters to oppose that which is most extremely the opposite to President Donald Trump and conservatism, and that's who these people represent.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_37: I posted a social media uh video yesterday, and it was me commentating on this young green-haired dyed uh goblin.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_37: This young green-haired dyed goblin who was basically going off about how she believes that we need to stop Republicans from getting elected.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_37: She's in a nice house, you can see her apartment, but she's basically saying, hey, we need to make sure that we do everything we can to stop Republicans, because she said straight up, things are great when Democrats are in office, but when Republicans are in office and everything turns to garbage and we're now a third world uh country.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_37: She's not achieving that mentality, she's not getting to that conclusion on her own.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_37: She's hearing that from somebody else.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_37: She's hearing that from the media that she is consuming on a daily basis.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_37: When you see these white liberal women out there cheering to their own demise when these radical candidates end up winning these primaries, not realizing that if they were to get into power and they had the ability, they would absolutely strip away their rights.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_37: Well, why do they do that?
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_37: They do that because they believe this is how they push back against Donald Trump to their own detriment.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_37: And they're being fed all this through the mainstream media.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_37: Now let me get back to what I mentioned before because I want to couple in the other aspect to this.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_37: So, as I mentioned, you've got this contraction, this shrinking, um, these layoffs when it comes to terrestrial radio.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_37: As I'm going through and doing my prep on a daily basis, suddenly now a bunch of the websites that I go to for content, they're now going up behind paywalls.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, the SAR Tribune did this a while ago, right?
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_37: And there are ways to kind of work around that to get the stories that you need without having to pay for it.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_37: But when you look at outlets like uh like The Blaze and Daily Wire, you know, they're throwing a bunch of their content up behind paywalls.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_37: Right?
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_37: They have to in order to, you know, maintain their business uh structure.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_37: But it's becoming increasingly more difficult to get at relevant information, truthful, fact-based information.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_37: Because these different companies are having difficulty surviving.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_37: I bring that up because not to get into the economics of it all, right?
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_37: But to show that, yeah, there are fewer and fewer conservative voices out there, and fewer and fewer means of which people can go and receive that information.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_37: So people end up funneling to those free outlets, and on the left, it's the left-wing media.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_37: It's really unfortunate, but there is this cycle right now wherein sensationalism is driving so many of the store of the stories, so many of these candidates.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_37: And in my view, it's artificially going and attributing to their popularity and sometimes bringing about electoral victories as well.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_37: John.justice and americanexperiment.org.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_37: And if you want to leave a blast to 612-584-4565.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_37: Again, that's 612-584-4565.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_19: Hey John, Brandon Cutter.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_19: So yesterday, all I saw, people being outraged all over the internet, all over every social about all the primaries for now.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_19: Everyone wrapped their heads around.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_19: This is just the first.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, I'm not um I I agree with your with your commentary, Brandon, and thank you so much uh for the uh for the blast.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_37: I'm gonna let the dust settle on all this until I you know begin to form an opinion of where the mind of the GOP voters is right now in the wake of the results of the of the primary.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_37: We kind of gotta let the uh the dust settle.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_37: And this includes, you know, some of these candidates out there that are still contesting the results of the election, and some of those voters out there that are doing uh the same thing.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_37: And I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I hope that some of those losing GOP candidates from the primaries on Tuesday actually go and take a cue of what the Democrats are doing.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_37: Angie Craig calls on her supporters to go and back a Peggy Flanagan in her concession speech.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_37: Here's what she had to say.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_31: In that spirit, I just called the lieutenant governor to congratulate her on her hog, hard-fought victory and to offer her my full and complete support going forward.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_31: I deeply admire Peggy's commitment to Minnesota and her dedication to improving the lives of everyone around her.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_31: Peggy's story is one of grit, of determination, and resolve.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_31: The election was a choice between two women.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_31: And it's a great damn day to see women running even against each other.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_37: You know, that's what needs to happen on the GOP side of things.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_37: Can you imagine that for just a moment?
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_37: Some of these losing candidates, Senate, gubernatorial, standing up there and making comments like that relating to Michelle Tafoya, relating to Lisa Damath.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_37: Going back to what Brandon was talking about, that's what needs to happen.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_37: Unfortunately, that's not the world that we live in right now.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_37: Uh 612-584-4565.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_37: Again, 612-584-4565.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_37: We have some more blasts that have rolled in to the blaster line this morning here on the John Justice show, presented by American Experiment.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_19: Oh my goodness, Eric from Brainerd.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_19: She is still living in the past.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_19: They live in the past, and they cannot get themselves motivated for the future.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_19: There's nothing you can do about the past, people.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_19: Except make it better for the future.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_19: And the left has no idea how to do that.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_37: Thank you, Richard.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_37: Always uh great to uh hear from you.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_37: Let's go to uh this comment on the blaster line this morning.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_19: This year, first time 92 years of transfer suppressors without a form 4.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_19: Uh NFA gets a kick in the arms.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_19: So yeah, if you could get the uh multiple gomers on here in case you have any commentary on it, how it might apply to people in Minnesota.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_19: That would be cool.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_19: Have great data.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_37: I am uh putting that on uh my list of things to go and uh tackle.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_37: So thank you for the uh thank you for the suggestion.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_37: I hadn't seen that, so I'll go looking forward after uh today's show.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_37: Maybe something we can talk about on a uh on a Freedom Friday.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_37: All right, let's go to uh the city of Minneapolis, going from the media manipulation to the manipulating of the media, because that's exactly what Minneapolis Man Baby Mayor Mom Jeans Jacob Fry attempted to do when he laid out his budget proposal earlier this week.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_37: So um the Man Baby Mayor proposed an 11.3 property tax levy hike to address the$60 million budget shortfall, which includes a$30 million revenue shortfall and increased costs for the police department.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_37: The proposal includes job cuts across departments, including the police department, and aims to address the city's financial challenges while maintaining essential services and uh as a city council, we'll finalize the budget at the end of December.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_37: So he threw this in right in the middle of the whole primary process to bury the story of what a disaster Minneapolis is facing right now.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_37: And on top of that, he took to social media to try to go and confuse the issue even more by bringing up a completely separate subject on top of all of this.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_37: You probably missed this story.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_37: It was part of the headlines yesterday, but it was already buried within our local media because of the primary results.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_37: And when I went to do prep today looking for this, it wasn't on any of the local media channels.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_37: And you get into the story I pulled this from Axios.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_37: Years of generous salary increases and mounting inflationary pressures are beginning to overtake City Hall.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_37: The mayor's proposal will tee off the most painful budget fight in years, with some city council members likely to go to bat for pet programs and other members likely to push as hard for deeper cuts and a smaller levy hike.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_37: And again, you probably didn't hear anything about this because he intentionally went and released it in the midst of all the primary coverage and then went and took the social media to talk about just a completely different topic altogether on exactly the same day, touting some new success within downtown Minneapolis.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_32: We are at a hotel opening.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_32: It's rolling at Century Plaza, and this is gonna be beautiful.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_32: It's long-term stays.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_32: Look at this outdoor space with downtown right over here.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_32: I mean, this is gonna be incredible.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_32: Another key investment that's happening in our city.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_32: We got council members here, we got community members here.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_32: We've even got now this USA Galaxy over here.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_32: Upgrading.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_32: So this is where it's all at.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_32: Big investments coming to Minneapolis.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_37: Big investments coming to Minneapolis, guys, while they scramble to try to figure out how to fill their budget shortfall, which is absolutely massive.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_37: After the police department overshot its overtime budget last year, Minneapolis Man Baby Mayor Mom Jeans, Jacob Fry's proposal for next year, builds an additional$13.1 million up front for MPD overtime costs.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_37: And they only have to have MPD overtime costs because of the fact that they don't have enough police officers.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_37: And individuals like the Minneapolis mayor, Thief Ellis, and Dim Walls encouraged people to take to the streets to obstruct.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_37: To lawful law enforcement during the ICE operations, with just increased the amount of money that they had to go and give to law enforcement.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_37: And it's listed here in the story.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_37: The ICE surge and other and the other crisis increased the size of MPD's overtime run, but the MPD reliance on overtime is likely to persist until its depleted officer ranks fully rebound.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_37: And that's never going to happen with them, even though they're legally obligated to go and hire more cops, you have an increase to pushback coming from those Democrat socialists on the Minneapolis City Council that's keeping that from happening.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_37: And as I demonstrated yesterday on the show in an article from the Minnesota Reformer, ICE arrested and deported more criminal illegal aliens in the month of July than since the start of all the ICE operations since Trump's uh beginning of his second term.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_37: You haven't heard about it because there hasn't been any concerted effort by Democrats to go and obstruct what they're doing.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_37: And more specifically, something I didn't mention on yesterday's show is that the argument that we heard from so many of the radical on-the-street insurrectionists was we're protecting our community.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_37: This is happening to our neighbors.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_37: You haven't heard a single story from anybody complaining in any neighborhood or any business about ICE operations and the individuals that they've been arresting and deporting at a record level for the exact same reason.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_37: It was all made-up narratives.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_37: It was all false.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_37: As we talked about during Operation Metro Surge.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_37: When law enforcement goes into a community to arrest a bad guy, the neighbors around go, good, you're arresting that bad guy.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_37: The same thing rings true when it comes to illegal aliens.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_37: But yet, if you listen to those on-the-street insurrectionists, if you listen to Dimwall's Thief Ellison, the man baby mayor, they would have you believe that ICE is going in just ripping up communities, tearing down the fabric of neighborhoods.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_37: No, they're just going in and doing their job.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_37: Like lawful law enforcement always does.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_37: And that's the prime example here is the fact that you have all of these record arrests of illegal aliens, and you haven't heard anything about it until I brought it up on the show.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_37: And it was comical because the Minnesota Reformer is a radically left-leaning organization.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_37: And I don't even think they realized what it was that they were exposing by going and covering that article.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_37: We have a further uh ICE update coming up after uh seven o'clock, by the way.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_37: Uh ICE is going to be using new shock gloves.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_37: They're pretty cool, actually.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_37: We'll give you details on it.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_37: And of course, the backlash has already begun over these.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_37: And so we'll share that with you coming up after the top of the hour.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_37: Uh Man Baby Mayor Mom Jeans Jacob Fry hopes to save money by folding the city's race and equity office into human resources, also by moving performance uh tracking and neighborhood outreach teams into other offices to curb the fire department's overtime spending.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, the city will spend$3.8 million to draw the federal grant funds to add 15 sworn officers who can cover the absences with uh out overtime.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_37: And again, he used the election to blunt the backlash and then tried to go and change the subject.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_37: They're talking about an 11% tax hike in property taxes in Minneapolis.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_37: Can you even imagine?
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, I guess you probably can if you live in Minneapolis, but an 11.3 property tax hike levy to address their$60 million budget.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_37: You know, at a bare minimum, if they were worth anything, the activist leadership, at a bare minimum, they would go and say, hey, we're gonna cut all of our salaries, we're gonna cut all of these pet things that we like.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_37: So we're gonna do our part to make the necessary changes and cuts.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_37: Unfortunately, we're gonna ask the community to do the same thing as well.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_37: But of course, they're not doing they're not doing any of that.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_37: They're too busy uh focused on uh repealing uh laws relating to dens of debaucheries that allow for Isaac's uh bathhouse emporium in downtown uh Minneapolis.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_37: 612-584-4565.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_37: That's the number if you want to leave a uh comment.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_37: John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_37: We'll spend a little bit of time talking about the polling, and I want to continue to get into this idea of why these polls were so far off.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_37: From landslides to nail biters, the great Midwest polling uh meltdown, and uh just a little more commentary regarding the primary results.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_37: I had many of you reaching out incredibly concerned over voter turnout, especially when it comes to the GOP.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_37: So I have an article from Alpha News that we'll be diving into.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_37: It addresses this, it addresses the endorsement process, and I want to talk a little bit further because it actually was a record-breaking turnout for the primary, even though there was a disparity in the number of Democrats and versus Republicans who came out to vote.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_37: I have my own thoughts of why that is the case, but I can tell you up front that I spoke with individuals who have been covering politics much longer than I have here in Minnesota, and they were unfazed by any of this.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_37: They were unfazed by the low voter turnout.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_37: This has been going on for uh years.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_37: It's not something that should be ignored.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_37: We need to increase in voter turnout.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_37: Republicans need to increase in voter uh voter turnout, but it's not a five-alarm fire at this point in time, and I'll explain coming up.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_37: But I would like to hear your thoughts and why you think there was a low uh GOP turnout in the midst of a record turnout of total uh voters.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_37: And that includes a record number of Republican voters that came out.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_37: It just wasn't nearly as many as a Democrat.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_37: So we'll get to your thoughts to 612-584-4565 coming up on the John Justice Show, presented by American Experiment.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_28: What's that thing that Keith Ellison said in the December 2021 meeting with fraudsters?
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_28: Money is freedom.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_28: Money is powers.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_28: Yeah, right.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_28: I mean, that's happening in Minnesota.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_28: And you don't just see it with public sector unions generally, but especially I mean, look at the teachers' union.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_28: It is truly, it is like cartel levels of control that they hold over the DFL here in Minnesota.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_28: So even if there were some DFL legislators who say wanted school choice and thought it was a great policy, the teachers' union is so against it, and so against any meaningful reform that they really can't come out and support it because they're being funded, their campaigns are being run by the union.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_12: Now that school's out for the summer, how are Minnesota students doing?
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_12: Not very well.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_12: Minnesota ACT scores fell again last year and are the lowest they've been in 10 years.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_12: In fact, fewer than half of Minnesota students can either read or do math at grade level.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_12: We used to brag about our schools.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_12: Now we're losing to states like Mississippi.
• 50:45
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• 50:48
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• 50:52
  SPEAKER_28: Minnesota is the second most generous state in the nation, spending$46,000 on public welfare per person in poverty in 2023.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_28: Second most generous.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_29: Just really quick, if those people in poverty had the$46,000, they wouldn't be in poverty.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_29: So I just would like to quickly out checks.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_29: Quickly point out that the government is once again like the least efficient organization in the world.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_12: Minnesota has always been a low crime state.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_12: But according to the most recent Bureau of Criminal Apprehension data, we are now above the national average when it comes to part one crimes.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_12: A category that includes crimes like murder, assault, rape, and carjackings.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_12: Think about it.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_12: Minnesota is now a high crime state.
• 51:36
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• 51:45
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• 51:51
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• 52:21
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• 52:42
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• 53:11
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• 53:13
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• 53:19
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• 53:20
  SPEAKER_37: He said it was good.
• 53:22
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• 53:23
  SPEAKER_37: He came in and immediately was like, you know, it's pretty easy to go and push aside all the wokeness in the film.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_37: He was, he knows the odd he knows the Odyssey story backwards and forwards, so he knew all the different nuances and and changes.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_37: But he he's a lot like me, where he's able to shove aside the stuff that would ruin the film for a lot of other people, including my wife, to go and uh to go and enjoy it.
• 53:46
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• 53:51
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• 53:55
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• 54:01
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• 54:04
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• 54:06
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• 54:09
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• 54:17
  SPEAKER_37: Got a comment that came into the blaster line, 612-584-4565, uh, regarding Angie Craig fully throwing her support behind uh DFL candidate Petty Flanagan.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_19: So Angie Craig getting ran on the Flanagan pretty much very machine-like.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_19: Angie knows she has a job.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_19: I think public is hard to lose because you're like you can see what you're hard to do to get back online.
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_19: Um not sure all of the work before that.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_37: Well, I pray for the best as well.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_37: And thank you for the comment.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_37: 612-584-4565.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_37: So from the Daily Wire, I actually have two stories uh here.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_37: One from Newsmax and one from Daily Wire.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_37: A pair of high uh profile Democrat primaries in the Midwest were supposed to be runaway victories for far-left candidates, including, um, excuse me, according to the bloated survey numbers.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_37: Instead, election night delivered a pair of nail-biting finishes and exposed the pollsters as being completely out to lunch.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_37: Wisconsin, Democrat Socialists, as we mentioned, Hong was supposed to waltz to the governor's nomination.
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_37: Pundits spent months hyperventilating over the double-digit dominance.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_37: Poll after poll showed Hong lapping the field.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_37: A late PPP poll shoulder her up by 18 points, while Marquette, the polling firm, had her leading by an eye-popping 22 points.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_37: Yet when voters actually showed up, the supposed landslide vanished into thin air.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_37: The Democrat um Senate primary, hard left Abdul El Said, was projected to crush rival Representative Haley Stevens.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_37: The Emerson poll had El Said ahead by 15.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_37: Mitchell Research had him up by 14, data progress up by 13.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_37: When the final tallies came in, the landslide turned out to be a mud fight.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_37: He barely managed to cross the finish line, eking out a razor-thin 1% victory over Stevens.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_37: While both the contests ended with outcomes vastly different than the promised hype, one trend is clear.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_37: If you're looking for accurate predictions, you'd probably have better luck asking a crystal ball than reading the latest poll.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_37: And here in Minnesota, the same thing rang true.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_37: When you look at the results of the polling, when it came to the um, well, the the Senate race between Flanagan and Craig, that wasn't nearly as close as they had predicted.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, when you look at the GOP side, yes, you had Michelle Tefoya up quite a bit, and that seemed to ring true.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_37: But when you looked at the numbers when it came to Adam Schwarzy and uh Royce White, Royce was supposed to be up with Adam Schwarzy's numbers.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_37: I think he came in at like 21%, made it respectable.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_37: Raw Royce came in at 11.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_37: That was completely off what the KSTP polling was supposed to show.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_37: Polster Frank Luntz believes that political poster pollsters should acknowledge their inaccuracies, especially with low voter turnout.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_37: He argues that projections are unreliable when turnout is low, as seen in the Wisconsin governor's race.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_37: Luntz, who was wrong about Hillary Clinton's 2016 victory, emphasized that polling is an art, not a science, and urges caution and conclusions.
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_37: This whole polling issue, by the way, you can go and attach to the entire social media phenomenon because people understand how this works now.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_37: They know that when they're being polled, those polling numbers are going to be impactful.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_37: It's not just information that you're giving to a media outlet.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_37: They're talking about information being given to a polling firm that they know is going to end up at a media outlet that they don't trust anymore.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_37: And they also know the power of those polls.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_37: So you're not going to be able to get an accurate assessment any longer when it comes to polling the potential voters.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_37: Because a lot of them just simply aren't being honest.
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_37: And on top of that, you remove the media attention, which drives the brainwashed, you know, hair dye brigade that I was talking about earlier, the white, angry, liberal women who don't think for themselves, right?
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_37: The self-proclaimed, proclaimed socialist communists end up winning in the end because they're being fed these individuals that they're seeing over and over again.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_37: They are being criticized by Republicans, and therefore they end up believing, oh, I need to support that person because the GOP hates them, and because the GOP hates them, I must now go and love them to their own demise and detriment.
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_37: Lunz went on to say, I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of primary polling in the Midwestern United States until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_37: Lunz told the news outlet, Newsmax, that he was among the pollsters in 2016 that went all in on Hillary Clinton winning the presidency.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_37: I believe that Hillary Clinton was going to win based on the exit polling of all the networks.
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_37: That's another problem, too.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_37: Is like, I don't think we should bring back exit polling, but we don't do exit polling anymore.
• 59:54
  SPEAKER_37: So now you have even further media manipulation within these polling within these polls because they don't have any other relevant, tangible data to go and point to.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_37: And even if you did continue to do exit polling, because of what I mentioned before, I don't trust the voters to be honest about who they went and voted for.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_37: He says, and so I put out a prediction that said what makes you not understand the words of President Hillary Clinton.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_37: I got it wrong because I believed the numbers.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_37: Lund said that people who realize political polling need to, um, who release political polling need to stand up and admit that this is not a science.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_37: It is an art.
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_37: And that you need to be much more careful about what you say and how you conclude.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_37: This happened before, and it will happen again until pollsters start talking.
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_37: You know, and then on top of this, not that I want to get into all of that.
• 1:00:46
  SPEAKER_37: Now you also have the betting markets now, which people are putting a lot of uh stock in.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_37: And why wouldn't they?
• 1:00:52
  SPEAKER_37: Because it turns out often that the betting markets end up being more accurate than the polls are.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_37: And the reason why the betting markets end up being more accurate than the polls are is because individuals who are driving those betting markets, they're paying closer attention.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_37: They are more honest in their assessment of who they think is going to win.
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_37: And when they start shifting their money around, you know this if you follow sports betting at all, when they start shifting their money around, they're looking at actual tangible data.
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_37: They're not going off of feelings, they're not going off of emotions.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_37: There is, they've got, you know, a dog in this fight.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_37: It's their money.
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_37: So it ends up that those betting, the, you know, those uh the those betting polls end up being a heck of a lot more accurate in the end than the actual polls are.
• 1:02:05
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• 1:02:31
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• 1:02:38
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• 1:02:42
  SPEAKER_19: Don't great job of covering this uh polling information.
• 1:02:44
  SPEAKER_19: It should be a good reminder to all Republicans.
• 1:02:47
  SPEAKER_19: The only thing that matters is when you get to the poll.
• 1:02:50
  SPEAKER_19: And I would say to those who are applying uh security tests to our Republican candidates, um, if you think they're not a better option than the Democrats, well, and then great words of Mr.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_20: Foreman from the 70s show, you're just a dumbass.
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_37: I had a uh email that came in from friend of the show, Raquel, asking why they stopped doing the exit polling.
• 1:03:10
  SPEAKER_37: First off, the exit polling was turning out to be wrong.
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_37: And that was certainly the case when it came to the presidential race between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_37: There was also this concern that the exit polling was influencing individuals who had not gone to the polls yet.
• 1:03:25
  SPEAKER_37: This was how the media was able to go and call races in previous elections leading up to 2016 because they were getting a gauge of the exit polling.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_37: They would get the first returns, and then based off of what they were being told from the individuals who went and voted, they were extrapolating, hey, this person is going to win, and we know this because X amount of people that we talked to leaving the polling place said, Hey, we voted for this person.
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_37: Slowly over the years, people stopped being as honest with those exit polling, and then you get to that election and the polls were completely wrong.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_37: The media outlets ended up looking like a bunch of fools, and so because of that, they ended up ditching the exit polling.
• 1:04:10
  SPEAKER_37: So that's the uh that is the short version of why uh they went and ditched the exit polling.
• 1:04:16
  SPEAKER_37: All right, we'll get back to uh more of your comments here coming up in just a moment on the show.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_37: Top takeaways as we continue our post-mortem on the uh primary, top takeaways from Minnesota state uh primary elections.
• 1:04:28
  SPEAKER_37: So over 1.1 million people voted in the state primary.
• 1:04:32
  SPEAKER_37: With those votes, Minnesotans nominated, of course, Republicans and Democrats for governor, U.S.
• 1:04:36
  SPEAKER_37: Senate, other offices, setting the stage for the fall election.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_37: So here are the uh the top takeaways from Alpha News, and I agree with these.
• 1:04:43
  SPEAKER_37: The first one was the Minnesota Republican Party endorsement is dead.
• 1:04:49
  SPEAKER_37: It's deader than dead.
• 1:04:51
  SPEAKER_37: It's dead.
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_37: For decades, the Minnesota GOP gathered before the state primary election to endorse candidates for statewide office.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_37: Those Republican endorsed candidates had gone on to win their party's nomination in election year after election year.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_37: In fact, every GOP-endorsed candidate for governor in the U.S.
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_37: Senate has ended up winning their party's nomination.
• 1:05:12
  SPEAKER_37: For more than two decades, this has been going on.
• 1:05:14
  SPEAKER_37: The last time a Republican governor or Senate candidate lost the endorsement but won the nomination was 1994.
• 1:05:21
  SPEAKER_37: In fact, uh the Minnesota DFL endorses their candidates for statewide office, but the DFL primary voters have often rejected the DFL endorsed candidates for the primary.
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_37: In 2010, Dayton lost the DFL gubernatorial endorsement, but won the primary.
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_37: Dim Walls did the same thing in 2018.
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_37: In recent years, however, the endorsement process has faced criticism for giving a small number of party delegates too much influence, and many Republicans and Democrats have expressed the desire to do away with the endorsements and simply have a primary.
• 1:05:52
  SPEAKER_37: In this year's primary, the Republican primary voters explicitly rejected the GOP endorsed candidates and may have ushered in the Ended the endorsement process.
• 1:06:02
  SPEAKER_37: Only Tad Jude, who sought the GOP nomination for Secretary of State, was endorsed by the Minnesota GOP and went on to win his primary.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_37: Ron Schutz, the GOP endorsed candidate for attorney general, also won his primary but was running unopposed.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_37: What happened here is very similar to the commentary that I've been providing in the first hour of the show.
• 1:06:22
  SPEAKER_37: So in years prior when the endorsed candidates would go on year after year to win their party's nomination, what was the difference back then compared to now?
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_37: Well, we didn't have uh in you know, in further times past, you didn't have the internet, but you certainly didn't have social media.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_37: You certainly didn't have the ability that we all have now to go and receive an abundance of information at a moment's notice instantly.
• 1:06:54
  SPEAKER_37: And to the point where this thing called fear of missing out has grabbed hold of the cultural uh zeitgeist.
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_37: And so you have more people now than ever who are able to go and find out about a candidate for themselves.
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_37: They can see their commentary.
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_37: They have more places to go and watch debates or interviews across multiple platforms, shows like this, other shows.
• 1:07:22
  SPEAKER_37: So you have a more informed electorate of individuals who can get the information where in years past they couldn't, wherein this delegate process was a little bit more relevant.
• 1:07:35
  SPEAKER_37: Ah, let me back up.
• 1:07:37
  SPEAKER_37: Not a little bit more relevant, it was a lot more relevant because these were individuals on the ground that were really paying attention.
• 1:07:44
  SPEAKER_37: These were individuals who were following these candidates, who were watching what it was they were doing and what they were saying at these various events, whereas other individuals didn't have the time to go and research these people.
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_37: So you trusted the delegates to go and make your choice for them.
• 1:07:58
  SPEAKER_37: Well, guess what?
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_37: It's not the case anymore.
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_37: I've advocated for the fact that I think that we should just go and nuke uh debates at this point in time.
• 1:08:08
  SPEAKER_37: What is the purpose of a debate anymore?
• 1:08:11
  SPEAKER_37: Why bother?
• 1:08:12
  SPEAKER_37: We know the stances of the candidates.
• 1:08:15
  SPEAKER_37: Yes, it provides the opportunity to put two candidates up on stage and compare and contrast.
• 1:08:19
  SPEAKER_37: I get that.
• 1:08:20
  SPEAKER_37: I think there is still value in that.
• 1:08:21
  SPEAKER_37: But at the end of the day, are you walking away with any new information?
• 1:08:25
  SPEAKER_37: Are you walking out of a debate suddenly going, I'm gonna go vote for that candidate, even though I came in wanting to vote for that candidate?
• 1:08:31
  SPEAKER_37: If there are people that are doing that, it's not enough to go and sway an election by any stretch.
• 1:08:38
  SPEAKER_37: So the whole purpose of the endorsement process and having these delegates, and no offense to these delegates, they do a great job.
• 1:08:45
  SPEAKER_37: But there's no reason why an average individual, there's no reason that a Devon or anybody else listening right now can't go and find out exactly the same information that that delegate is finding out, and yet that delegate is going and making the decisions.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_37: And because of that, you end up with more shenanigans taking place during the convention because there is this attempt to go and game the system because of everything that I just mentioned.
• 1:09:18
  SPEAKER_37: If you want to leave a comment on that, 612-584-4565.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_37: Again, 612-uh 584-4565.
• 1:09:27
  SPEAKER_37: We'll get back to uh more of your thoughts.
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_37: As a matter of fact, uh, let's go here because we're about to go and uh discuss the other takeaway, and that is the record turnout and the concern that you have over the fact that not nearly as many Republicans came out to vote in this primary as Democrats.
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_14: Good morning, John.
• 1:09:49
  SPEAKER_14: I'm not worried about the primary DOP among people voting because our bullpen is eight.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_14: We had three good candidates.
• 1:09:59
  SPEAKER_14: I have my preference.
• 1:10:00
  SPEAKER_14: I did vote for the primary for the first time ever, but all three can do a good job.
• 1:10:07
  SPEAKER_14: So I think that's people to trust that.
• 1:10:10
  SPEAKER_37: Again, 612-uh five eight four-four five six five is the line if you want to leave a comment on the blaster line, to the point of why there weren't as many Republican voters out during this primary.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_37: Let's go and uh hear from Friend of the Show Chad.
• 1:10:28
  SPEAKER_18: I just wanted to say I have not supported in a Republican primary since Fred Thompson.
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_18: I could what I don't even know how many years ago it was.
• 1:10:36
  SPEAKER_18: I remember how many of us showed up for Fred Thompson, how many of us wanted Fred Thompson, and how we were all told that none of our votes were gonna count, and everybody in our pre thinks everybody in the area changed the votes, and I think it was from a change of the time.
• 1:10:50
  SPEAKER_18: But I haven't done one thing will never be one.
• 1:10:53
  SPEAKER_18: I'll be both Republican, but never anything else.
• 1:10:56
  SPEAKER_37: Thank you for the uh comment, uh Chad.
• 1:10:58
  SPEAKER_37: Uh let's go and uh hear from Tom.
• 1:11:00
  SPEAKER_22: You know why there's always so many more Democrats than Republicans voting?
• 1:11:05
  SPEAKER_22: Because all the Republicans are out working, making money for the Democrats to live without having to work.
• 1:11:13
  SPEAKER_22: That's why.
• 1:11:14
  SPEAKER_37: So let me preface this by saying, as I get into some of the numbers here, I did, as I mentioned earlier, I talked with individuals who are uh who've been following uh Minnesota politics far longer than I have.
• 1:11:25
  SPEAKER_37: And I immediately said, Hey, were you listening?
• 1:11:28
  SPEAKER_37: And they said, Yeah, I was listening to the show this morning.
• 1:11:30
  SPEAKER_37: Uh the people concerned uh about uh the lack of GOP voters, and they just went, you know, it happens every single cycle.
• 1:11:36
  SPEAKER_37: There's always uh a disparity uh in the in the numbers, not putting a lot of stock in it.
• 1:11:41
  SPEAKER_37: So that was about the extent of the conversation, but let me get into some further thoughts.
• 1:11:46
  SPEAKER_37: Um, and specifically, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, more than 1.1 million votes were cast in Tuesday's primary.
• 1:11:54
  SPEAKER_37: It was the first time that more than a million votes had been cast in a primary.
• 1:11:58
  SPEAKER_37: The previous was 925,544 votes back in 2018.
• 1:12:03
  SPEAKER_37: Although Republicans saw a higher turnout this year compared to past cycles, DFLers still turned out to vote in greater numbers than Republicans during the primary.
• 1:12:12
  SPEAKER_37: Clearly, more DFLers showed up to vote than Republicans despite the competitive races on both sides.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_37: While a part of the enthusiasm gap can be explained by Minnesota's leftward lean, Republicans will need to close that gap if they want to win in November.
• 1:12:27
  SPEAKER_37: And it's funny because the next line here is polls can't be trusted.
• 1:12:30
  SPEAKER_37: That was the other takeaway uh from the primary uh election, uh, even though we spent some time talking about that already.
• 1:12:38
  SPEAKER_37: Um, I think there's a lot of different reasons why.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_37: I think the previous blaster comment was correct.
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_37: Um, at 612-584-4565, I think there is a level of individuals on the right that are outworking.
• 1:12:51
  SPEAKER_37: It's a small percentage.
• 1:12:52
  SPEAKER_37: I don't know how much it would play into this, but it's partly the reason why.
• 1:12:55
  SPEAKER_37: There's also another simple, uh simple explanation, in part why the turnout is lower for Republicans.
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_37: And I'm gonna go and attach this again to the commentary that I did last hour about media manipulation.
• 1:13:07
  SPEAKER_37: It's awareness, it's media bias, it's money, and it's and it's news consumption.
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_37: If you watched any regular TV, you saw a ton of ads.
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_37: But most of those ads was the fighting going on between, you know, Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan.
• 1:13:25
  SPEAKER_37: There was a ton of money poured into that campaign.
• 1:13:27
  SPEAKER_37: Don't misunderstand.
• 1:13:28
  SPEAKER_37: There were also ads that were running for Mike Lindell and for Lisa Damath and for Kendall Qualls.
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_37: But the majority of the focus within the Minnesota left wing media has been on the Democrat race.
• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_37: A lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives are not consuming left-wing media.
• 1:13:46
  SPEAKER_37: They're not watching those local those local news outlets.
• 1:13:49
  SPEAKER_37: They just don't trust the coverage anymore.
• 1:13:52
  SPEAKER_37: And as I've mentioned so many times, not everybody listens to shows like this, even though I wish everybody did.
• 1:13:57
  SPEAKER_37: So go and tell your friends.
• 1:14:01
  SPEAKER_37: So there's that awareness part of it.
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_37: And I think there's also a factor of what the other uh friend of the show had mentioned, and that is he doesn't even bother getting involved.
• 1:14:10
  SPEAKER_37: A lot of Republicans just wait until the primary process is over.
• 1:14:14
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, despite the, you know, the very real thing of the GOP's inability to go and coalesce around one particular candidate.
• 1:14:23
  SPEAKER_37: There are a lot of individuals out there that go, you know what, whoever the GOP candidate is, I'll just wait until the general.
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_37: And then you have that small, and I hope it's small this year, and then you have that small group of individuals who simply say, I'm not even going to take part in the process.
• 1:14:39
  SPEAKER_37: We're just going to lose anyhow.
• 1:14:40
  SPEAKER_37: So why should I bother?
• 1:14:42
  SPEAKER_37: That factors into it too.
• 1:14:45
  SPEAKER_37: Do we need to go and increase our uh uh voter turnout?
• 1:14:50
  SPEAKER_37: Absolutely.
• 1:14:50
  SPEAKER_37: It should be the focus of every single one of these candidates.
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_37: It should be a focus of all of the different uh leaders within the districts here in Minnesota, and I know that it will be.
• 1:14:59
  SPEAKER_37: There are hard-working individuals that are going to work tirelessly to go and increase the vote.
• 1:15:04
  SPEAKER_37: And the turnout for GOP, uh for the GOP more specifically.
• 1:15:08
  SPEAKER_37: All that is to say, don't get discouraged over these numbers from the primary.
• 1:15:15
  SPEAKER_37: A lot of people are.
• 1:15:16
  SPEAKER_37: I know a lot of you reached out to John.justice at americanexperiment.org, but we've got time between now and November.
• 1:15:23
  SPEAKER_37: We've got a great slate of candidates.
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_37: I pray, as I've said already multiple times, that those losing and endorsed candidates go.
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_37: And I believe Kendall Qualls did.
• 1:15:33
  SPEAKER_37: I think Kendall Qualls yesterday put out a fantastic press release throwing his support to Lisa Damath.
• 1:15:39
  SPEAKER_37: And I hope that the other losing uh candidates go and do the same thing in their respective races.
• 1:15:46
  SPEAKER_37: That would be most beneficial.
• 1:15:47
  SPEAKER_37: If you're unwilling to do that, unfortunately, I'm of the opinion it's just because you're you're being selfish.
• 1:15:52
  SPEAKER_37: It's not about you.
• 1:15:53
  SPEAKER_37: It's about your own ego, it's about your own grift, and it's not actually about what's best for the people of Minnesota.
• 1:16:00
  SPEAKER_37: If you want to do what's best for the people of Minnesota, you go and you get behind the candidate that ended up actually winning the nomination.
• 1:16:07
  SPEAKER_37: That's how you do the best thing for the people of Minnesota.
• 1:16:10
  SPEAKER_37: Speaking of manipulation and also fear, Star Tribune's got an article this morning.
• 1:16:15
  SPEAKER_37: I couldn't eye roll hard enough at this headline.
• 1:16:18
  SPEAKER_37: Minnesota Republicans put electability before Trump.
• 1:16:22
  SPEAKER_37: That headline alone exposes the flawed logic of how the left views Trump supporters.
• 1:16:30
  SPEAKER_37: I'll dive into this uh coming up.
• 1:16:32
  SPEAKER_37: I want to take down some comments from uh the DFL uh candidate, Lamie Klobishar, coming up.
• 1:16:40
  SPEAKER_37: Also, I have uh audio.
• 1:16:42
  SPEAKER_37: As a matter of fact, let me go ahead and play a bit of it here in a run-up to this, okay?
• 1:16:46
  SPEAKER_37: I want to dive into this article.
• 1:16:47
  SPEAKER_37: We're gonna get back to more of your uh comments via the blaster line at 612-584-4565.
• 1:16:53
  SPEAKER_37: But let me share with you um a bit of commentary coming from uh Nancy Mace.
• 1:17:00
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, she has her own uh her own show now.
• 1:17:04
  SPEAKER_37: She's posting up uh commentary up on uh social media.
• 1:17:07
  SPEAKER_37: And again, it's a good thing that you have individuals like Nancy Mace that are going and doing this because of what I mentioned.
• 1:17:13
  SPEAKER_37: So many of these great conservative outlets are now going up behind paywalls, which is going to limit the ability of conservative conservatives to hear great commentary, which is why they all need to come to this show.
• 1:17:23
  SPEAKER_37: But Nancy Mace yesterday was talking about how the primary was a master class in the total collapse of common sense.
• 1:17:31
  SPEAKER_37: And she focuses specifically and directly on Minnesota in her commentary, calling out Representative uh Ilhan Omar.
• 1:17:41
  SPEAKER_37: Here is a bit of Nancy Mace and her uh commentary on the primary on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 1:17:48
  SPEAKER_03: Last night was a masterclass in what the hell happened to common sense.
• 1:17:53
  SPEAKER_06: I am incredibly clear that the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota.
• 1:18:00
  SPEAKER_03: We're looking at the elections, of course, last night, the primaries across the country, and I've got to tell you, we might need to update the map.
• 1:18:07
  SPEAKER_03: At this rate, at the rate that we're going, America's only going to have 49 states.
• 1:18:12
  SPEAKER_03: Let's start with Minnesota.
• 1:18:14
  SPEAKER_03: Last night in Minnesota, it didn't just lean left, it jumped off a cliff into a socialist abyss.
• 1:18:20
  SPEAKER_03: And if we don't start building a whirlwall around Minnesota, the radical rot is going to infect the entire Republic.
• 1:18:26
  SPEAKER_03: Let's look at the wreckage.
• 1:18:27
  SPEAKER_03: Ilan Omar won her primary again, not just by a little bit, but by a lot.
• 1:18:32
  SPEAKER_03: And apparently the voters in Minnesota have a terminal case of the Stockholm syndrome.
• 1:18:36
  SPEAKER_03: They just re-elected a woman who put Somalia first.
• 1:18:40
  SPEAKER_03: The first woman to wear a hijab.
• 1:18:49
  SPEAKER_03: Watch this.
• 1:18:50
  SPEAKER_42: You guys have the ability to make an impact on where our nation is headed.
• 1:18:57
  SPEAKER_42: Not only here in the United States, but even in our nation back home.
• 1:19:03
  SPEAKER_00: In our nation back home, which of course is Somalia.
• 1:19:09
  SPEAKER_03: If you love the Ayatollah and hate the USA, Ilan is your girl.
• 1:19:12
  SPEAKER_03: It's a disgrace that she even holds a U.S.
• 1:19:14
  SPEAKER_03: passport, let alone a seat in Congress.
• 1:19:16
  SPEAKER_03: But don't forget, it was Republicans and Democrats who stopped me from subpoenaing Ilan and her brother-husband's immigration records.
• 1:19:25
  SPEAKER_02: The remark is always let the process play out, right?
• 1:19:29
  SPEAKER_02: That's what they always say, and nothing ever never happens.
• 1:19:31
  SPEAKER_02: I tried to subpoena her um immigration records, her brother-husband's immigration records, and uh I was it was Republicans that killed my motion.
• 1:19:41
  SPEAKER_03: Congress did that, both parties.
• 1:19:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I can't seem to get a vote on a bill to ban the foreign-born from serving in Congress or as federal judges.
• 1:19:49
  SPEAKER_03: Go figure.
• 1:19:50
  SPEAKER_03: And it gets worse.
• 1:19:51
  SPEAKER_03: Bernie Brough, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of looting, beat a moderate for the Senate nomination.
• 1:19:57
  SPEAKER_03: Bernie Sanders Bacter, which is the socialist version of a good housekeeping seal of approval.
• 1:20:02
  SPEAKER_03: Flanagan is a radical, I mean like absolute radical who thinks safety is a microaggression and boundaries are bigoted.
• 1:20:09
  SPEAKER_06: I just watched uh the video of Donald Trump uh attacking the uh beautiful Somali community uh that calls Minnesota home.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_03: Flanagan went to a Somali market, put on a hijab, and told the fraudulent Somali community, we've got your back.
• 1:20:28
  SPEAKER_03: And we are going to stand shoulder to shoulder with our neighbors.
• 1:20:32
  SPEAKER_03: When I first saw her culturally appropriating a hijab, I honestly thought it was AI.
• 1:20:38
  SPEAKER_03: Apparently it's not.
• 1:20:39
  SPEAKER_03: Look at this.
• 1:20:40
  SPEAKER_06: When I think of uh being part of Minnesota and growing up here, the Somali community uh has always been a part of my Minnesota.
• 1:20:48
  SPEAKER_03: But there's one hope, Michelle LaFoya.
• 1:20:50
  SPEAKER_03: Michelle is a sports broadcaster who understands what a woman is.
• 1:20:54
  SPEAKER_03: She's running to keep uh the progressive trash out of the Minnesota Senate.
• 1:20:57
  SPEAKER_03: If you want to save Minnesota for becoming a third-roll country from the new Communist Party, vote for Michelle.
• 1:21:02
  SPEAKER_03: Then there's Lisa Demuth, who took the GOP spot.
• 1:21:04
  SPEAKER_03: If elected, she'd become the first black female governor in the history of Minnesota.
• 1:21:08
  SPEAKER_03: I was wrong to assume it would be front page news instead they featured Amy Clobuchar, the liberal white woman, because of course the GOP pick is black.
• 1:21:16
  SPEAKER_03: Can't have that.
• 1:21:18
  SPEAKER_03: I guess DEI doesn't fit in the GOP.
• 1:21:21
  SPEAKER_03: Now into my home state of South Carolina where the establishment All right, we'll stop here.
• 1:21:25
  SPEAKER_37: That was the extent of Nancy Mace and her uh coverage and thoughts.
• 1:21:30
  SPEAKER_37: Uh and a lot of uh a lot of accuracies there.
• 1:21:32
  SPEAKER_37: And again, I'm the last person that should ever go and harp on anybody else for mispronouncing names.
• 1:21:38
  SPEAKER_37: But holy cow, we need to give some of our Congressional Republicans a cheat sheet.
• 1:21:45
  SPEAKER_37: She got Ilhan, she got Damuth, and she got Klobuchar wrong in terms of her pronunciation.
• 1:21:53
  SPEAKER_37: All right, I want to get to uh this article, but a lot of great comments have run into the blaster line based off of the commentary so far here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiments.
• 1:22:04
  SPEAKER_37: So we're gonna dive into these in just a moment, including several of you have pushed back on my no more debates.
• 1:22:10
  SPEAKER_37: And you're using one particular example as the reason why we need to have debates.
• 1:22:16
  SPEAKER_37: I'll share it with you just a moment.
• 1:22:18
  SPEAKER_37: I still don't think it's enough to continue to do debates.
• 1:22:21
  SPEAKER_37: And it's this is a I'm a talk show host, I'm generalizing.
• 1:22:24
  SPEAKER_37: So we'll get to this in uh in just a moment.
• 1:22:27
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• 1:24:04
  SPEAKER_37: Let's go back to the blaster line.
• 1:24:08
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, John Pat from Burnswell.
• 1:24:10
  SPEAKER_26: Hey, listen, I think you're off base on uh the no debate.
• 1:24:15
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, us people that listen to your show knew that I didn't want to fade ahead.
• 1:24:22
  SPEAKER_26: But until that's true, then the things that you're talking about today as far as uh media manipulation uh didn't come to light.
• 1:24:34
  SPEAKER_37: No, hey, listen, it's a great point, and it's a point that I've made.
• 1:24:37
  SPEAKER_37: It was a it was a um it was a frustrating thing to watch where all of us had seen, you know, just how mentally declined that uh Joe Biden had become, but it was, you're right, it wasn't until that debate to when it was completely exposed.
• 1:24:53
  SPEAKER_37: So listen, uh we're not gonna be getting rid of debates.
• 1:24:56
  SPEAKER_37: Okay.
• 1:24:57
  SPEAKER_37: I just think there's an argument to re-examine the value of debates and maybe which debates we go and do.
• 1:25:04
  SPEAKER_37: You know, is it necessary to have these primary debates with a whole bunch of people up on stage?
• 1:25:09
  SPEAKER_37: Everybody gets a little bit of time in a world where you have access to what the voters believe constantly, you know, constantly.
• 1:25:19
  SPEAKER_37: They're putting out content.
• 1:25:20
  SPEAKER_37: I just think there's less value in them.
• 1:25:22
  SPEAKER_37: Maybe you keep them at the national level, maybe you decide on a case-by-case basis.
• 1:25:26
  SPEAKER_37: So that's part of my argument.
• 1:25:28
  SPEAKER_37: And on top of that, too, I mean, if we end up in a situation again, I mean, Joe Biden was an anomaly.
• 1:25:33
  SPEAKER_37: Pray to the good Lord Almighty, we never end up in that situation again here in the country.
• 1:25:39
  SPEAKER_37: Wherein you have somebody who was in such a fragile mental state as Joe Biden, who continued to run for presidency and for re-election.
• 1:25:48
  SPEAKER_37: There's some value in debates, make no mistake.
• 1:25:52
  SPEAKER_37: That being said, I just think in the world that we live in, their value has been diminishing throughout the years.
• 1:25:58
  SPEAKER_37: And before you say it, yes, I also understand, too, that the governor Dim Walls and JD Vance debate also had a level of importance there.
• 1:26:05
  SPEAKER_37: So, all right.
• 1:26:06
  SPEAKER_37: Let's get back to some of uh your thoughts, including and specifically the election turnout numbers and why the GOP was lower than Democrats here in Minnesota.
• 1:26:16
  SPEAKER_21: Hey, good morning, John.
• 1:26:17
  SPEAKER_21: Um, regarding the primary election uh turnout numbers, my wife and I are uh a couple to blame.
• 1:26:25
  SPEAKER_21: Um we were just coming back into town very late from a long trip, couldn't make our way to the poll.
• 1:26:31
  SPEAKER_21: And I talked about even on the way into town, and we're like, do we make the effort?
• 1:26:37
  SPEAKER_21: Do we you know find some place to put the kids and swing into the election polling places?
• 1:26:42
  SPEAKER_21: We were both like well, we'll just see what happens.
• 1:26:46
  SPEAKER_21: So yeah, we're kind of part of the problem.
• 1:26:49
  SPEAKER_21: But for the midterm, we will be there to vote.
• 1:26:53
  SPEAKER_37: Well, thank you for your honesty this morning here on the John Justice show.
• 1:26:56
  SPEAKER_37: Apparently, it's all of the friends of the show's fault.
• 1:27:00
  SPEAKER_37: Stuff happens, and I'm sure that happens for a lot of people.
• 1:27:03
  SPEAKER_37: Uh let's go here.
• 1:27:04
  SPEAKER_19: Hi, John.
• 1:27:06
  SPEAKER_19: I voted in the primary for the first time in my life, and I voted for Keggy Flanagan.
• 1:27:12
  SPEAKER_19: I'm a conservative Republican, and I felt our best chance of winning was having her because she's beatable.
• 1:27:20
  SPEAKER_19: I think this is why you saw more Democrats voting in the primary because a lot of Republicans voted that way.
• 1:27:29
  SPEAKER_37: Okay, so I'm gonna run through this round of blasts from the blaster line at 612-584-uh 4565.
• 1:27:37
  SPEAKER_37: Uh I'm gonna run through this round, but if you went and voted, we'll keep you anonymous.
• 1:27:43
  SPEAKER_37: If you went and voted in the primary, but you voted on the Democrat ticket, I'm curious.
• 1:27:48
  SPEAKER_37: I'm curious how many of you did that.
• 1:27:50
  SPEAKER_37: I thought about this.
• 1:27:51
  SPEAKER_37: We didn't have an operation, a concerted, at least not that I saw, a concerted operation chaos um event going on.
• 1:27:58
  SPEAKER_37: This goes back to Rush Legends.
• 1:28:00
  SPEAKER_37: Limbaugh where he had talked about doing this very thing with Operation Chaos.
• 1:28:04
  SPEAKER_37: I was curious whether even when we went to go vote, there was a moment when I got the ballot, and I thought, you know, really would rather have, you know, Peggy Flanagan is the challenger to whomever ends up, you know, getting the uh the nomination for the for the for the GOP.
• 1:28:25
  SPEAKER_37: But I didn't.
• 1:28:25
  SPEAKER_37: So I do think it was a fleeting moment.
• 1:28:27
  SPEAKER_37: And I don't know if I've ever I've never done that, by the way.
• 1:28:32
  SPEAKER_37: Only because I feel like I'm lying and I don't want to lie.
• 1:28:36
  SPEAKER_37: Nothing against you if you did.
• 1:28:38
  SPEAKER_37: But I'd like to hear from you.
• 1:28:39
  SPEAKER_37: If you ended up voting opposite of the party because you wanted to see a more beatable Democrat challenger, drop us a uh comment at 612-584-4565 or uh email me, John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 1:28:56
  SPEAKER_37: Let's get back to some more of your thoughts from the blaster line uh this morning here on the uh on the show.
• 1:29:02
  SPEAKER_25: Hey John, good morning.
• 1:29:04
  SPEAKER_25: This is Barry.
• 1:29:05
  SPEAKER_25: So uh primary in June?
• 1:29:08
  SPEAKER_25: Yes.
• 1:29:09
  SPEAKER_25: Convention, no.
• 1:29:12
  SPEAKER_25: Uh Why do more Democrats hit the primary?
• 1:29:16
  SPEAKER_25: This is their Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving all rolled into one.
• 1:29:21
  SPEAKER_25: Telling a Democrat not to vote in the primary is like saying you can't go to math at Christmas.
• 1:29:26
  SPEAKER_25: So they do that.
• 1:29:27
  SPEAKER_25: Um yes for debate.
• 1:29:31
  SPEAKER_25: Because Joe Biden was destroyed in the debate.
• 1:29:34
  SPEAKER_25: That's what happens.
• 1:29:35
  SPEAKER_25: We see an attribute at a debate.
• 1:29:38
  SPEAKER_25: We see non-polis at a debate.
• 1:29:41
  SPEAKER_25: So keep the debate.
• 1:29:43
  SPEAKER_37: I think my uh debate uh take is going to be about as uh my no debate take is going to be about as bad as my um desire to see the uh Super Bowl run on uh Saturday instead of Sunday.
• 1:29:58
  SPEAKER_37: And even more so, having uh the Super Bowl uh run the first half with the halftime show ending on Sunday and then the second half on ending on Saturday night and the second half airing on Sunday.
• 1:30:13
  SPEAKER_37: Devin's just over there.
• 1:30:14
  SPEAKER_37: It's the first time I've actually seen him shaking his head at me.
• 1:30:17
  SPEAKER_37: That's the worst idea.
• 1:30:19
  SPEAKER_37: Okay.
• 1:30:19
  SPEAKER_37: I know.
• 1:30:20
  SPEAKER_37: That's really bad.
• 1:30:20
  SPEAKER_37: The the splitting up of the game is is is is really bad.
• 1:30:24
  SPEAKER_37: I still do say that they should run the Super Bowl on Saturday.
• 1:30:28
  SPEAKER_37: It's dumb that we run it on Sunday.
• 1:30:30
  SPEAKER_37: Give everybody the opportunity to party it up, enjoy the game, and not have to worry about going in sick on Monday morning.
• 1:30:37
  SPEAKER_35: Is there a possibility we can make it universal that that Monday is like a holiday?
• 1:30:44
  SPEAKER_35: Or everyone gets that out.
• 1:30:45
  SPEAKER_35: Or do that.
• 1:30:46
  SPEAKER_35: Or do that.
• 1:30:47
  SPEAKER_35: I see that line of thinking.
• 1:30:49
  SPEAKER_37: I would be on board with that.
• 1:30:50
  SPEAKER_37: That to me would actually be a very patriotic thing.
• 1:30:52
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, there is, it's an institution.
• 1:30:55
  SPEAKER_37: There's something incredibly patriotic about the Super Bowl.
• 1:30:57
  SPEAKER_37: It is an institution.
• 1:30:58
  SPEAKER_37: It's gotten woke over the years because the NFL has gotten woke over the years, but I do see your point.
• 1:31:03
  SPEAKER_37: So maybe I should be a bigger advocate for make the Monday after the Super Bowl a uh a holiday.
• 1:31:08
  SPEAKER_37: Now, this is completely counter to next season because they're going to be running the uh the first uh exhibition race for NASCAR on the Saturday before the Super Bowl.
• 1:31:17
  SPEAKER_37: They're going back to returning to what they used to do, so I don't want my run it on Saturday night to come to fruition, and don't worry, it never is.
• 1:31:24
  SPEAKER_37: You want to know why?
• 1:31:25
  SPEAKER_37: Because I don't shadow run anything, I don't have that much power.
• 1:31:32
  SPEAKER_36: Let's go back to the blaster line this morning.
• 1:31:37
  SPEAKER_27: The reason that there were so many more Democrat primary voters uh is because they tend to vote in a um early voting and dropping off of ballot and also um early fighting uh voters coming so they get solicited and brought in to vote on now.
• 1:32:04
  SPEAKER_37: Yep.
• 1:32:05
  SPEAKER_27: So that my opinion that's why.
• 1:32:08
  SPEAKER_37: I got an uh email, friend of the show, uh Julie, so I'll get on board with this.
• 1:32:12
  SPEAKER_37: How about presidential and uh governor's uh debates only?
• 1:32:15
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, I can do I can yeah, I can handle that.
• 1:32:18
  SPEAKER_37: That works.
• 1:32:19
  SPEAKER_37: We'll go on, we'll uh we'll split the difference there.
• 1:32:21
  SPEAKER_37: Let's hear from uh friend of the show, Wendy, on the blaster line at 612-584-4565.
• 1:32:28
  SPEAKER_11: Morning, John.
• 1:32:29
  SPEAKER_11: I was working as an election judge and had an encounter outside of the Northwest, uh, outside of the suburbs of Minneapolis from the Simpson Justice League, where some people came in dressed in Muslim attire trying to vote or vouch for somebody who didn't live in the area.
• 1:32:47
  SPEAKER_11: And I was just wondering if anybody else had been reporting those types of instances that happened at their polling.
• 1:32:53
  SPEAKER_37: Yes, I had actually heard that from several uh different uh individuals, and I saw a lot of uh anecdotal evidence of people commenting on that very uh thing on uh on primary on primary day.
• 1:33:06
  SPEAKER_37: So thank you for the uh for the blast.
• 1:33:08
  SPEAKER_15: The purpose of polls is to create a narrative for the audience, and they have nothing to do with elections.
• 1:33:18
  SPEAKER_37: Well, they have a little something to do with elections because the polls are about the election.
• 1:33:22
  SPEAKER_37: I do agree with you that they are now being used more to create narratives than they are anything else, but they are still about the about the elections.
• 1:33:31
  SPEAKER_37: And this goes back to what Frank Luntz was saying, and I tend to agree with his commentary on that.
• 1:33:35
  SPEAKER_37: And that's clear based off of uh how bad the polling has been.
• 1:33:38
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, let's get into uh to a bit of this before we switch gears this morning here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 1:33:44
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, Minnesota Republicans put electability before Trump.
• 1:33:47
  SPEAKER_37: This is an article written by Walker Orenstein and Ryan Faircloth.
• 1:33:51
  SPEAKER_37: The subheadline is after two decades without a statewide victory, voters skipped polarizing contenders for governor and the U.S.
• 1:34:01
  SPEAKER_37: Senate nominated Lisa Damath and Tefoya.
• 1:34:04
  SPEAKER_37: A couple of points they make in the article here, and I'll share with you some of my commentary.
• 1:34:08
  SPEAKER_37: Uh they say in previous elections, primary voters often tapped into establishment, uh into an establishment streak to back to uh candidates who had little chance of victory in November.
• 1:34:18
  SPEAKER_37: GOP voters instead chose their best funded candidates with Damath and Tefoya.
• 1:34:23
  SPEAKER_37: Republicans sent a message that in 20 years in the wilderness in statewide elections has grown tiring.
• 1:34:29
  SPEAKER_37: This is according to Amy Frederickson, a GOP strategist and former uh Senate majority leader.
• 1:34:35
  SPEAKER_37: Mark York, a Lake Wilson farmer, who dropped out of the U.S.
• 1:34:38
  SPEAKER_37: Senate race earlier this year, said the shift represented by Republicans are choosing pragmatism over purity.
• 1:34:45
  SPEAKER_37: We all want to push for conservative for conservatism to the max and whatever your core beliefs are, he said.
• 1:34:52
  SPEAKER_37: But these results signal a wave of the Republican Party saying we are going to do what it takes to win.
• 1:34:58
  SPEAKER_37: I push back a little bit on this.
• 1:35:00
  SPEAKER_37: It's as if to say it's like this sort of in-between of these candidates not being conservative or as conservative as other candidates.
• 1:35:08
  SPEAKER_37: And I just don't buy into that.
• 1:35:09
  SPEAKER_37: And I'll give you the example here in just a second, because the article writers at the Star Tribune kind of lean into this thought as well.
• 1:35:15
  SPEAKER_37: In the Senate race, the GOP endorsed a candidate, Adam Schwarze, an ex-Navy SEAL who lacked name ID and had a mediocre fundraising, according to uh the Star Tribune, failed to break through to primary voters.
• 1:35:30
  SPEAKER_37: He did do better than the polling suggested.
• 1:35:32
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, the polling had him way down, and he ended up, I mean, I think they maybe had him at like 9 or 10%.
• 1:35:39
  SPEAKER_37: And he ended up uh with like 21%.
• 1:35:41
  SPEAKER_37: So there was, again, that discrepancy within the polling numbers.
• 1:35:45
  SPEAKER_37: Embattled 2024 nominee Royce White, the MAGA Firebrand, who regularly unleashes homophobic invective online, finished a distant third.
• 1:35:57
  SPEAKER_37: Yes, Royce White has an opinion that the most of us uh hold regarding uh the issue of biological boys that shouldn't be allowed to play in girls' sports, but of course that's uh that's just homophobia, according to the uh writers at the Star Tribune.
• 1:36:12
  SPEAKER_37: There's no bias there, right?
• 1:36:13
  SPEAKER_37: Listen, this actually echoes what happened, what's happened on the left.
• 1:36:17
  SPEAKER_37: So it's not an anomaly in the difference between uh candidates here, except for the fact, you know, the the political divide of the individuals that got nominated versus those that didn't.
• 1:36:29
  SPEAKER_37: But you see, on the left, you've got socialist communists versus socialist sympathetic leftists.
• 1:36:38
  SPEAKER_37: They're not all that different.
• 1:36:40
  SPEAKER_37: Whereas on the on the right, you could maybe say you have conservative candidates and slightly less conservative candidates.
• 1:36:51
  SPEAKER_37: It's very similar to what's happening over on the Democrat side of things on the Republican side of things.
• 1:37:00
  SPEAKER_37: However, the extremes, there is no comparison by any stretch.
• 1:37:03
  SPEAKER_37: The Star Tribune wants to go and label, you know, MAGA extremists, but the reality is no, those views are mostly adopted by the majority of conservatives.
• 1:37:13
  SPEAKER_37: Some individuals are more vocal than others.
• 1:37:16
  SPEAKER_37: You do have some candidates like a Michelle Tefoya who has beliefs on certain issues that run counter to your traditional conservatives.
• 1:37:24
  SPEAKER_37: But again, this phenomenon has no exclusivity whatsoever to um the Republican Party, as we have seen, you know, with what's happened during this primary regarding these far-left self-avowed socialist communists.
• 1:37:41
  SPEAKER_37: And yet they ended up losing, not all of them, but some of them ended up losing, like in uh Wisconsin, to a candidate who the left wants to deem more moderate.
• 1:37:50
  SPEAKER_37: When the reality is, no, they're just as radical as the other individuals are.
• 1:37:53
  SPEAKER_37: They're just not as vocal about it.
• 1:37:56
  SPEAKER_37: All right, I threw out the question of how many of you went to vote in the primary and voted against a party.
• 1:38:01
  SPEAKER_37: Some of you responded to the blaster line.
• 1:38:03
  SPEAKER_37: Let's hear some of your uh your thoughts and why you did what you did.
• 1:38:07
  SPEAKER_19: Good morning, John.
• 1:38:08
  SPEAKER_19: Um, I did vote Democrat, my wife and I, in 2024 because we wanted Don Samuels uh to win the primary over uh the lunatic liberal, but uh it didn't work.
• 1:38:27
  SPEAKER_19: I should have did it in 2022 when you had a better chance.
• 1:38:32
  SPEAKER_37: So you didn't do that this year, though.
• 1:38:36
  SPEAKER_37: Okay.
• 1:38:36
  SPEAKER_37: Uh thank you though, uh, for the uh for the comment at 612-584-4565.
• 1:38:43
  SPEAKER_37: Again, 612-584-4565.
• 1:38:47
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, let's go and hear from uh Richard his thoughts on this uh primary election this week.
• 1:38:52
  SPEAKER_19: Good morning, John.
• 1:38:53
  SPEAKER_19: With the primary voting, I didn't do it this year, but in the past, I left two primaries.
• 1:39:00
  SPEAKER_19: I'm in the fifth district and I voted in the Democratic primary specifically to vote against Kilhand Omar because the candidate this year is a lot of like I didn't do it in the primary.
• 1:39:17
  SPEAKER_19: I did vote in the Democratic primary, just for just to vote against Omar.
• 1:39:22
  SPEAKER_37: Uh thank you for the uh comment on this morning.
• 1:39:24
  SPEAKER_37: I appreciate it.
• 1:39:30
  SPEAKER_19: Hey John, me and my wife both voted for crazy crazy.
• 1:39:35
  SPEAKER_19: We're both conservative.
• 1:39:40
  SPEAKER_19: She can be eatable.
• 1:39:41
  SPEAKER_19: That was our plan.
• 1:39:43
  SPEAKER_37: And it's a sound plan.
• 1:39:44
  SPEAKER_37: 612-584-4565.
• 1:39:47
  SPEAKER_37: All right, let me share with you a couple of audio clips before we go and uh shift at gears.
• 1:39:51
  SPEAKER_37: Uh Lamy Klobishar.
• 1:39:53
  SPEAKER_37: Okay.
• 1:39:54
  SPEAKER_37: This was uh posted by her official account on X.
• 1:39:58
  SPEAKER_37: Somebody commented yesterday, I think we played it on the air, and I agree.
• 1:40:02
  SPEAKER_37: She just doesn't look happy.
• 1:40:04
  SPEAKER_37: Or maybe it was my wife Melinda.
• 1:40:06
  SPEAKER_37: Anyway, uh Amy Klobuchar just doesn't look happy.
• 1:40:10
  SPEAKER_37: I I will continue, unless I see evidence of something different, I will continue to contend that she doesn't really want this gig.
• 1:40:16
  SPEAKER_37: She was stilted reading from her victory speech after her coronation, or as other people say, after she was crowned.
• 1:40:26
  SPEAKER_37: And even in this clip, which is being used by Democrats to promote her candidacy, I still don't hear anything genuine and authentic on top of the commentary that is utterly ridiculous.
• 1:40:38
  SPEAKER_23: Mike Lindell, as you know, is Donald Trump's guy.
• 1:40:41
  SPEAKER_23: He got Trump's complete and total endorsement.
• 1:40:46
  SPEAKER_23: Mike Lindell may be Donald Trump's choice, but I want to be Minnesota's choice.
• 1:40:52
  SPEAKER_23: And Lisa Dama, you may have seen her advertisements recently, lots of them.
• 1:40:59
  SPEAKER_23: Well, most of those ads are paid for by one person, one man, one billionaire who doesn't even live in Minnesota.
• 1:41:09
  SPEAKER_23: And who does this guy want?
• 1:41:11
  SPEAKER_23: He wants her in the governor's office.
• 1:41:14
  SPEAKER_23: And while she may be this Wisconsin billionaire's choice, I want to be Minnesota's choice for governor.
• 1:41:24
  SPEAKER_37: So a couple of things on this.
• 1:41:26
  SPEAKER_37: I want to go back to this whole ridiculous um the money versus the many phrase.
• 1:41:34
  SPEAKER_37: I will give the Democrats credit.
• 1:41:35
  SPEAKER_37: They are so good when it comes to the terminology.
• 1:41:38
  SPEAKER_37: I'm not gonna lie.
• 1:41:40
  SPEAKER_37: We eye roll.
• 1:41:42
  SPEAKER_37: I will criticize this, but it's effective.
• 1:41:45
  SPEAKER_37: It works among you know those green-haired, dyed voting goblins out there and those angry white liberal women.
• 1:41:54
  SPEAKER_37: The m you know, the the money over versus the many works, even though it's utterly ridiculous.
• 1:42:00
  SPEAKER_37: First off, though, on this clip, she doesn't refute anything that's in the claims.
• 1:42:08
  SPEAKER_37: You know, she talks about Lindell, he's not the nominee.
• 1:42:10
  SPEAKER_37: So she had to bring Lindell up because Trump endorsed Lindell even though he didn't win the nomination.
• 1:42:15
  SPEAKER_37: So she's got to get that in there just to plant the mental seed of, hey, don't forget your Trump derangement syndrome.
• 1:42:22
  SPEAKER_37: Got to get that Trump derangement syndrome gland fed.
• 1:42:26
  SPEAKER_37: So she brings that up, even though Lindell's not a part of this equation anymore.
• 1:42:29
  SPEAKER_37: And then when she goes and talks about Lisa Damuth, what does she do?
• 1:42:32
  SPEAKER_37: She says, You've probably seen all those ads.
• 1:42:34
  SPEAKER_37: Those were paid for by somebody outside of Minnesota.
• 1:42:37
  SPEAKER_37: She doesn't refute anything that was in the ads.
• 1:42:40
  SPEAKER_37: She doesn't say they were wrong, she doesn't say they were off-based.
• 1:42:44
  SPEAKER_37: No, this is gonna, they're going to attempt to go and use this, the money versus the many.
• 1:42:49
  SPEAKER_37: The truth of the matter is, Amy Clobuchar doesn't have a leg to stand on.
• 1:42:54
  SPEAKER_37: You know, she's borderline, some 40 plus percent of her donations come from outside of Minnesota.
• 1:43:01
  SPEAKER_37: So when you're talking about, you know, 5, 10, 11, you know, percent of those donations, it's not like she is exclusively taking just dollars from the people of Minnesota.
• 1:43:12
  SPEAKER_37: You don't think for a second that the DNC is going to throw an organizations that know that she is a rubber stamp on Governor Dim Walls and the radical left's agenda?
• 1:43:25
  SPEAKER_37: Lincoln's GOP candidates need to start using that terminology.
• 1:43:29
  SPEAKER_37: Lamie Klobishar is Governor Dim Walls 2.0, a rubber stamp on everything that he's done.
• 1:43:34
  SPEAKER_37: While she attempts to go and say she's going to be a transformative governor, why would you need to be a transformative governor when you already have a Democrat governor in place and your party still has a slim majority within the legislature?
• 1:43:46
  SPEAKER_37: Why do you need to transform anything?
• 1:43:48
  SPEAKER_37: You guys have been in charge.
• 1:43:52
  SPEAKER_37: But this is the type of manipulation, it's nothing new, that you will end up seeing coming from these Democrats.
• 1:43:57
  SPEAKER_37: Elizabeth Warren out there touting the same uh money versus the many line in a clip she put up on social media.
• 1:44:05
  SPEAKER_37: Um Bruce and Bailey and I will Let me let me let me back that up because she's talking about Peggy Flanagan and she's very, very happy.
• 1:44:12
  SPEAKER_30: Peggy Flanagan won.
• 1:44:14
  SPEAKER_30: Um Bruce and Bailey and I will take a celebratory walk in the morning.
• 1:44:19
  SPEAKER_30: But for right now, it's congratulations, Peggy.
• 1:44:23
  SPEAKER_30: And a reminder to all of America that money doesn't always win.
• 1:44:28
  SPEAKER_30: That sometimes what wins is getting out there and putting on the right fight for people.
• 1:44:33
  SPEAKER_30: So, so happy about this.
• 1:44:35
  SPEAKER_30: Everybody's gonna celebrate for at least a couple of hours and then it's back to work to make this um an election victory in November.
• 1:44:44
  SPEAKER_30: So anybody who wants to celebrate, uh, send your five bucks to Peggyflanagan.com.
• 1:44:50
  SPEAKER_30: She's earned it.
• 1:44:51
  SPEAKER_30: It's a good night.
• 1:44:53
  SPEAKER_37: So it's money versus the medi, but hey, send them, send them money.
• 1:45:01
  SPEAKER_37: Oh, they're all such hacks.
• 1:45:04
  SPEAKER_37: You know who's not a hack?
• 1:45:05
  SPEAKER_37: It's a friend of the show, uh Rick, who left us a uh blast at 612-584-4565.
• 1:45:13
  SPEAKER_19: Hi, John.
• 1:45:14
  SPEAKER_19: Um, I didn't vote uh in the primary because I just couldn't make a decision.
• 1:45:19
  SPEAKER_19: Um I looked at their uh records and what they stood for, and uh for the most part I thought they were a really good candidate.
• 1:45:26
  SPEAKER_19: So uh I just thought I'd leave it in the hands of God and the voters.
• 1:45:30
  SPEAKER_19: And I'm uh pretty pleased with the results.
• 1:45:35
  SPEAKER_37: Let's also go thank you, Rick.
• 1:45:36
  SPEAKER_37: It's always uh great to uh to hear from you uh here on the show.
• 1:45:40
  SPEAKER_19: The Star Trek article is just more proof of the political religion that is going on in today's society.
• 1:45:49
  SPEAKER_19: You can't have compromise, you can't have middle ground, everything has to be all or nothing.
• 1:45:58
  SPEAKER_19: And as you drive to be not, you have to be a purist in all aspects of all issues.
• 1:46:07
  SPEAKER_37: I had a uh I have a somebody uh friend of the show, Susan, on X uh posted.
• 1:46:13
  SPEAKER_37: Uh not sure if I can listen to Amy Kay's grading voice clips every morning.
• 1:46:20
  SPEAKER_37: So maybe we need to come to some sort of uh some sort of deal between the friends of the show and the show itself.
• 1:46:30
  SPEAKER_37: See, I see value now in playing Amy Klobuchar's clips.
• 1:46:33
  SPEAKER_37: Okay.
• 1:46:34
  SPEAKER_37: She is the gubernatorial candidate.
• 1:46:37
  SPEAKER_37: We're gonna have to hear from her.
• 1:46:38
  SPEAKER_37: I'm with you.
• 1:46:40
  SPEAKER_37: Okay.
• 1:46:40
  SPEAKER_37: It's nails on a chalkboard, or worse, to hear from her.
• 1:46:44
  SPEAKER_37: But I also think that you know what?
• 1:46:47
  SPEAKER_37: There may be some inspiration in that.
• 1:46:49
  SPEAKER_37: Maybe the more clips that we play of Lamy Klobuchar on the show, the better the opportunity will be for her to be beat because people will just simply go, we need to make sure she loses because the last thing I want is for her to become governor and then John Justice and his show with American Experiment having to be in a position to play her ridiculous comments all the time.
• 1:47:12
  SPEAKER_37: So maybe we go through some short-term pain now between here, today, on uh August 13th and November to play the Amy Clobichar clips in hopes that she loses so that we can ensure, at least do our part.
• 1:47:31
  SPEAKER_37: Maybe that's what you should want.
• 1:47:35
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• 1:49:30
  SPEAKER_37: So, quick update on this.
• 1:49:31
  SPEAKER_37: I haven't talked about it on the show.
• 1:49:33
  SPEAKER_37: We've been so swamped with everything else going on.
• 1:49:34
  SPEAKER_37: Todd Blanche was sworn in over the weekend, this past weekend, as U.S.
• 1:49:39
  SPEAKER_37: Attorney General, cementing Donald Trump's uh installation of his former personal attorney in charge of the Justice Department.
• 1:49:45
  SPEAKER_37: He's been serving as the acting attorney general since April, was confirmed in his new position during the ceremony at the White House that took place on Monday.
• 1:49:52
  SPEAKER_37: The Senate voted narrowly in favor of his confirmation in the role with the Republican led upper chamber voting fifty to forty nine.
• 1:50:00
  SPEAKER_37: In the early hours of Saturday morning, every Democrat rejected his nomination.
• 1:50:05
  SPEAKER_37: And local DFL hack political shill, Patrick Coolikan, has an article in the Minnesota Reformer that I want to spend some time tearing apart.
• 1:50:15
  SPEAKER_37: So we'll get to this in just a moment.
• 1:50:17
  SPEAKER_37: But yesterday there were some major moves by the attorney general, uh, Todd Blanche.
• 1:50:22
  SPEAKER_37: I got a couple of uh clips.
• 1:50:24
  SPEAKER_37: Um, first of all, uh, you got to go back to, and I'll play this in just a moment.
• 1:50:29
  SPEAKER_37: Remember, he was heavily involved.
• 1:50:30
  SPEAKER_37: He came out with the announcement of the allegations against the Southern Poverty Law Center.
• 1:50:36
  SPEAKER_37: He's actually gone so far now with the DOJ to arrest the former CFO of the Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud charges, Heidi Barrich.
• 1:50:46
  SPEAKER_37: She was in charge of secretly paying donor money to white supremacist groups and ran the SLPC's project attracting hate groups in the United States.
• 1:50:57
  SPEAKER_37: Here's a little bit of uh commentary from this individual who's now been arrested now in the wake of this DOG uh DOJ investigation.
• 1:51:06
  SPEAKER_37: Again, Heidi Berrick.
• 1:51:09
  SPEAKER_38: I think white supremacy is, you know, one of the worst things mankind has come up with.
• 1:51:13
  SPEAKER_38: Well, I can have a direct impact on these movements.
• 1:51:16
  SPEAKER_38: And in just in the first year I was there, we did some very good work, myself and my colleagues exposing anti-immigrant networks in the United States, some of who some of which are still functioning today.
• 1:51:27
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, that was Heidi uh Baric.
• 1:51:31
  SPEAKER_37: Sounds like a dude.
• 1:51:33
  SPEAKER_37: It's a female on camera.
• 1:51:37
  SPEAKER_37: Uh Todd Blanche, though, uh made the announcement of uh the arrest of the CS uh CFO in a uh press conference that took place earlier this week.
• 1:51:45
  SPEAKER_33: Uh Vice President Vance referred um the top Democratic leadership unsealed a case against the um the former Chief Financial Officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
• 1:51:57
  SPEAKER_33: Can you please speak a little bit about what you have learned as part of that investigation and if we should expect more charges?
• 1:52:04
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm not so yes, today my understanding is today there was there was an arrest made and there is a new indictment that includes the the former CFO of SPLC.
• 1:52:15
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have any comments about whether we have said from the beginning, everybody, not just me, but anybody who has talked about this case, like virtually every criminal case, the fact that an indictment um is returned doesn't end the investigation.
• 1:52:28
  SPEAKER_01: It is just part of the investigation in most cases, which is certainly true in this case.
• 1:52:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think as alleged in the indictment, um, this individual participated in the scheme as alleged, I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts and completely fictitious companies' names and make payments that to individuals for reasons that were not um that were not accurate as as described.
• 1:52:53
  SPEAKER_01: But I I don't have I think it the indictment was uh unsealed this morning.
• 1:52:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have, or I believe it was unsealed this morning.
• 1:52:59
  SPEAKER_01: I think the arrest was this morning.
• 1:53:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um I don't have anything to say beyond that, except to say that this is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that um our investigators and the U.S.
• 1:53:09
  SPEAKER_01: attorneys and the and the agents working the case will can keep on working it even after the initial indictment.
• 1:53:14
  SPEAKER_37: I wanted to share this with you to set up um some commentary surrounding this piece in the Minnesota Reformer prior to the confirmation of Todd Blanche uh as the uh acting attorney general.
• 1:53:30
  SPEAKER_37: Uh J.
• 1:53:30
  SPEAKER_37: Patrick Cooligan uh from the Minnesota Reformer, again, the hack DFL shill.
• 1:53:35
  SPEAKER_37: I've talked about him before on the show.
• 1:53:37
  SPEAKER_37: He says that Todd Blanche still thinks he's Trump's lawyer, which means he can't be our lawyer.
• 1:53:44
  SPEAKER_37: Just immediately stab establish the narrative.
• 1:53:48
  SPEAKER_37: Minnesotans should pay special attention, writes Cooligan, to Senate's to the Senate's vote to confirm Blanche's attorney general.
• 1:53:55
  SPEAKER_37: Todd Blanch, the acting attorney general and nominee to be the attorney general of the United States, uh, slipped up during his Senate confirmation hearings when asked about his relationship with President Donald Trump.
• 1:54:06
  SPEAKER_37: He said, I'm his lawyer, was his lawyer.
• 1:54:10
  SPEAKER_37: That's the basis for this entire piece.
• 1:54:13
  SPEAKER_37: Todd Blanche in the middle of the Senate confirmation hearings just misspoke.
• 1:54:20
  SPEAKER_37: He used to be Trump's lawyer, but he's not Trump's lawyer anymore, so he just corrected it.
• 1:54:25
  SPEAKER_37: To which J.
• 1:54:26
  SPEAKER_37: Patrick Cooligan just writes the entirety of this article based off of that alone.
• 1:54:29
  SPEAKER_37: He says, oopsies, the attorney general is the lawyer for the United States government.
• 1:54:34
  SPEAKER_37: We the people, and his obligation is to the law and the constitution, not his former clients' lawless whims.
• 1:54:41
  SPEAKER_37: Like no quarter given at all, no leeway.
• 1:54:44
  SPEAKER_37: You've got you've got article writers over at the Star Tribune, like Rochelle Olson, giving all the leeway in the world to their party, uh, to the alleged conduct of their elected officials, not, you know, just saying, we don't believe the allegations, even though I'm going to slam the people making the allegations.
• 1:55:06
  SPEAKER_37: You see this all the time.
• 1:55:08
  SPEAKER_37: But of course, you get an individual who's aligned it all with Trump, hated by those on the left, does one slip of the tongue and suddenly, oh my gosh, there it is.
• 1:55:16
  SPEAKER_36: It's been exposed.
• 1:55:17
  SPEAKER_36: He's not our lawyer.
• 1:55:18
  SPEAKER_36: He's Trump's lawyer.
• 1:55:19
  SPEAKER_36: He wants to destroy the country.
• 1:55:22
  SPEAKER_37: He goes on to write, we've all become too aware of his misplaced priorities and allegiance uh, excuse me, and the allegations here in Minnesota.
• 1:55:32
  SPEAKER_37: Blanche was Trump's criminal lawyer when the then ex-president was charged and convicted in the porn star payoff cover-up.
• 1:55:41
  SPEAKER_37: So we're just checking off all the, checking off all the boxes now.
• 1:55:45
  SPEAKER_37: It's like Eric from Brainerd, just hit all the points, right?
• 1:55:49
  SPEAKER_37: So you got porn star payoff coverage, the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, and charged with stealing classified documents and storing them in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom and other unsecured locations, even though we now have all the clarity needed for what happened with that event and how Trump was absolutely targeted, and Joe Biden done exactly the same thing, but it's totally fine that he had all of his documents there next to his prize corvette inside of his vacation home.
• 1:56:18
  SPEAKER_37: Everyone deserves a criminal defense, says Cooligan, but the American people deserve better than Blanche.
• 1:56:24
  SPEAKER_37: Last month, a federal judge in Florida released a scathing order over the Trump slush fund episode during which Blanche negotiated a deal between Trump, i.e.
• 1:56:35
  SPEAKER_37: his boss, and the government, i.e.
• 1:56:37
  SPEAKER_36: his client.
• 1:56:39
  SPEAKER_36: There's such pinkies up, just oozing from articles like this, right?
• 1:56:44
  SPEAKER_37: Feels like so much better than everybody else.
• 1:56:47
  SPEAKER_37: The court determines that the plaintiffs improperly employed this lawsuit to justify a particular a particular award in this matter, which was accomplished by leveraging control over defendants, she wrote.
• 1:56:58
  SPEAKER_37: In other words, a sleazy deal.
• 1:57:01
  SPEAKER_37: You know, uh for J.
• 1:57:03
  SPEAKER_37: Patrick Cooligin, he who lives in glass houses should not throw stones.
• 1:57:07
  SPEAKER_37: You know, but Cooligan loves playing on only one side of the argument.
• 1:57:12
  SPEAKER_37: As if there aren't plenty of circumstances and instances where you can go and make the exactly the same claim when it comes to Democrats over and over and over again.
• 1:57:22
  SPEAKER_37: But we'll just pay no mind to that.
• 1:57:23
  SPEAKER_37: As a matter of fact, Jay Patrick Cooligan in this piece completely ignores a whole bunch of things relating to Todd Blanche, including what I just played a moment ago with the Southern Poverty Law Center arrest and the fact that the DOJ, which I don't see any Democrats going and pushing back on, exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center for being nothing more than a scam.
• 1:57:45
  SPEAKER_37: Of course, there's no mention of that in this article.
• 1:57:47
  SPEAKER_37: What does he opt to?
• 1:57:48
  SPEAKER_37: Oh, January 6th.
• 1:57:50
  SPEAKER_37: In addition to money for cop beating January 6th insurrectionists, the deal would provide the president with immunity from the IRS closer to home.
• 1:57:59
  SPEAKER_37: Blanche has been the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice and has failed to bring charges against any of the men responsible for the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Predi and the shooting of Julio Sosis Sellis.
• 1:58:13
  SPEAKER_37: So again, we're just playing the hits, and maybe that's because there shouldn't be any charges brought against the officers relating to those different circumstances.
• 1:58:21
  SPEAKER_37: As tragic and harmful as they were, all of those could have been avoided if the individuals didn't go and take to the streets at the urging of the very politicians that J.
• 1:58:30
  SPEAKER_37: Patrick Coolikan goes and supports, putting them in harm's way.
• 1:58:34
  SPEAKER_37: And once again, as a reminder, the Minnesota reformer itself just this week ran an article about how ICE is arrested and has arrested and deported more criminal illegal aliens in the month of July than since the start of any ICE operations under Trump.
• 1:58:49
  SPEAKER_37: And we've heard no controversies whatsoever.
• 1:58:51
  SPEAKER_37: Why?
• 1:58:51
  SPEAKER_37: Because you haven't had Democrats out there urging people to go and get in their way.
• 1:58:55
  SPEAKER_37: And when you don't have Democrats out there urging on-the-street insurrectionists to block lawful law enforcement, guess what happens?
• 1:59:03
  SPEAKER_37: Lawful law enforcement is able to just go and do their job like they always do.
• 1:59:07
  SPEAKER_37: There's no destruction to neighborhoods.
• 1:59:09
  SPEAKER_37: There's no tearing down of communities.
• 1:59:11
  SPEAKER_37: None of the public is at risk.
• 1:59:13
  SPEAKER_37: The public is only at risk when you have individuals who are stupid enough to believe they're elected leftist politicians who encourage them to take to the streets and observe what's going on, which results in people not being able to control their basis set of emotions that go and put them in harm's way, which leads to sometimes incredibly tragic events.
• 1:59:37
  SPEAKER_37: But of course, none of that gets mentioned in pieces like this.
• 1:59:40
  SPEAKER_37: He goes on to say, but at least the DOJ was chasing the real criminals, like Minnesota elected officials, including Governor Tim Walls, Keith Ellison, Jacob Fry, whose offices were sent wide-ranging subpoenas in an apparent criminal inquiry, which was prompted, which prompted a leak by the feds in an obvious effort to strong arm the people we elected.
• 2:00:00
  SPEAKER_37: He has no interest whatsoever in the accountability for the fraud and corruption here in Minnesota.
• 2:00:07
  SPEAKER_37: It's totally fine for Democrats to go and launch all kinds of ridiculous investigations when it comes to Republicans, but heaven forbid Republicans ever go and do that to any Democrats at all.
• 2:00:19
  SPEAKER_37: Then he talks about the federal judge appointed by President George W.
• 2:00:22
  SPEAKER_37: Bush, who quashed the subpoena subpoenas with gusto.
• 2:00:26
  SPEAKER_37: Look, there's no surprise there.
• 2:00:28
  SPEAKER_37: This particular judge, even though they were appointed by President George W.
• 2:00:32
  SPEAKER_37: Bush, was an illegal, alien, sympathetic, TDS-suffering judge.
• 2:00:39
  SPEAKER_37: In a word, he was absolutely biased.
• 2:00:43
  SPEAKER_37: He goes on to write, the DOJ has pursued a bevy of similarly fantastical investigations that have illustrated Blanche's total lack of independence from his former client and drawn the mockery they deserve.
• 2:00:55
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, like it's a new thing that the DOJ under a particular administration is beholden to that particular administration.
• 2:01:03
  SPEAKER_37: You want to talk about fantastical, you want to talk about fantasy land.
• 2:01:06
  SPEAKER_37: It's this idea that J.
• 2:01:08
  SPEAKER_37: Patrick Coolikan puts forward in the Minnesota Reformer that suddenly Todd Blanche should be against the very individual of which is his boss, which is the same thing that rings true for any administration and their attorney general within the Department of Justice.
• 2:01:26
  SPEAKER_37: He talks about these different instances in which Vance has moved forward on particular issues.
• 2:01:31
  SPEAKER_37: The sandwich thrower, the Olympian pool vandal, the former head of the FBI in Minnesota, journalists, journalists doing that thing with my finger, covering protests, Renee Good's wife, 15 anti-ISA activists not accused of violence, but kicking a car and knocking an agent's notes out of his hand.
• 2:01:54
  SPEAKER_37: And again, let's compare this to the bevy of Minnesota DFL individuals who have been accused of inappropriate behavior.
• 2:02:06
  SPEAKER_37: Those who have received reduced or incredibly light sentences.
• 2:02:10
  SPEAKER_37: The Tesla vandal, who ended up making more money within the government under Democrat rule, even though he was out there randomly going and vandalizing people's personal property.
• 2:02:21
  SPEAKER_37: The uh DFL chairwoman, who was convicted in a hit and run, who ended up receiving an incredibly light sentence, even though she was involved in the death of an individual that she scurried away from.
• 2:02:37
  SPEAKER_37: No mention of that.
• 2:02:40
  SPEAKER_37: He wraps up with the DOJ's open hostility towards Minnesota extends to our institutions as well.
• 2:02:45
  SPEAKER_37: The feds have sued Minnesota and other states for refusing to hand over the redacted voter rolls, which would be a violation of our state law guarding the privacy of voters.
• 2:02:54
  SPEAKER_37: Again, doesn't care at all about the potential for fraud.
• 2:02:59
  SPEAKER_37: Doesn't care about the fact that other states have gone and handed over those roles.
• 2:03:03
  SPEAKER_37: And guess what?
• 2:03:03
  SPEAKER_37: It's been determined that a lot of people are voting in our elections that shouldn't be voting in our elections, which really raises the question of why is it that Secretary of State Steve Simon refuses to go and turn over our voter roles?
• 2:03:14
  SPEAKER_37: What is he trying to hide?
• 2:03:17
  SPEAKER_37: As ProPublica reported recently, federal judges across the country have called the Trump's Justice Department at various times unlawful, uh unethical, unseemingly, and otherwise dishonest.
• 2:03:31
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, so um a bunch of far-leftist, radical, communist sympathizing publications don't like Trump.
• 2:03:38
  SPEAKER_37: This is me sitting here without my shocked face.
• 2:03:42
  SPEAKER_37: I suppose it's fitting that in this admission, this common reprobate is up for a promotion.
• 2:03:49
  SPEAKER_37: And again, the most egregious thing about this entire piece is the complete omission of Blanche's most significant charges, especially, as I mentioned, against the SPLC.
• 2:04:02
  SPEAKER_37: And just as a reminder for everybody, here is a bit of Todd Blanche when he was making that announcement, of which J.
• 2:04:08
  SPEAKER_37: Patrick Coolikin, the DFL hack shill that he is, refused to even go and acknowledge.
• 2:04:14
  SPEAKER_37: So I guess he's fine with these organizations going and scamming the American public and creating false narratives that people have been injured over, quite frankly.
• 2:04:27
  SPEAKER_01: Good afternoon.
• 2:04:30
  SPEAKER_01: Today, a few minutes ago, in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11-count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
• 2:04:49
  SPEAKER_01: According to the charges in the indictment, the SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups.
• 2:05:08
  SPEAKER_01: As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups.
• 2:05:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.
• 2:05:22
  SPEAKER_01: The indictment describes his conduct in detail, but one troubling example is that the SPLC was paying a member of the leadership group that planned the Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 that resulted in the death of one person and injured dozens more.
• 2:05:44
  SPEAKER_01: This particular person being paid by the SPLC allegedly received approximately$270,000 over the course of eight years.
• 2:05:55
  SPEAKER_01: In total, according to the indictment, between 2014 and 2023, SPLC paid at least$3 million to eight individuals at least.
• 2:06:08
  SPEAKER_01: These individuals were affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Clans of America, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Soul Motorcycle Club, the Nationalist Socialist Party of America, the Nazis, and the American Front.
• 2:06:27
  SPEAKER_01: Now, as the indictment lays out, after SBLC paid members of these extremist groups, it created work product that reported on these activities that the members participated in or contributed to.
• 2:06:40
  SPEAKER_01: And to that end, it was doing the exact opposite of what it's told its donors it was doing.
• 2:06:48
  SPEAKER_37: Two things can be true at once, and this is what drives me nuts.
• 2:06:51
  SPEAKER_37: And the big reason why I wanted to share with you that article from the Minnesota Reformer and juxtapose it with these clips from Todd Blanche.
• 2:07:00
  SPEAKER_37: I don't have any expectation that these far-left radicals are going to go and appreciate or respect any member of the Trump administration.
• 2:07:09
  SPEAKER_37: But these are people that have a voice, they're well respected within the community.
• 2:07:13
  SPEAKER_37: People listen to what they have to say.
• 2:07:16
  SPEAKER_37: And it's hack journalism to not go and at least address the other aspects of what Todd Blanche has done.
• 2:07:24
  SPEAKER_37: So how does J.
• 2:07:25
  SPEAKER_37: Patrick Cooligan feel about the fact that if it wasn't for Todd Blanche and the DOJ, these individuals of the Southern Poverty Law Center would be getting away with their scam?
• 2:07:33
  SPEAKER_37: But it doesn't matter to them.
• 2:07:35
  SPEAKER_37: This is what their Trump derangement syndrome does to them.
• 2:07:38
  SPEAKER_37: It makes them bias shills and hacks that perpetuate the false narratives of the Democrat Party.
• 2:07:45
  SPEAKER_37: It's tragic.
• 2:07:47
  SPEAKER_37: It contributes to horrible outcomes in elections.
• 2:07:50
  SPEAKER_37: It contributes to the broken and the brainwashed buying into all of this.
• 2:07:54
  SPEAKER_37: And it does a grave disservice to the people of Minnesota.
• 2:08:20
  SPEAKER_37: So better late than never to kick off hour three here on the John Justice Show, presented by American Experiment and AmericanExperiment.org.
• 2:08:27
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• 2:08:34
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• 2:08:45
  SPEAKER_37: All right, I want to get back to the uh blaster line, 612-584-4565.
• 2:08:49
  SPEAKER_37: Friend of the show, Scott has left us a comment, a little bit off topic, but in in total, sort of relating to the show so far.
• 2:08:58
  SPEAKER_37: He has several things that he has to say.
• 2:09:01
  SPEAKER_37: Um, I don't want to give my prediction on the Scott Con level because I've read some of the text here.
• 2:09:06
  SPEAKER_37: So uh I'm gonna blindly go.
• 2:09:09
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, I'm gonna not share my thoughts because I feel like it will be biased, but I will ask Devin.
• 2:09:13
  SPEAKER_37: So, Devin, he's talking about how he's right of center, he's very pragmatic, but he's also very concerned with extremist Republicans.
• 2:09:22
  SPEAKER_37: What where do you think a Scott lands today on the Scott Conn uh level?
• 2:09:26
  SPEAKER_37: Four.
• 2:09:27
  SPEAKER_37: Gonna go with the four?
• 2:09:28
  SPEAKER_37: All right.
• 2:09:28
  SPEAKER_37: Devin says four on the Scott Conn level.
• 2:09:30
  SPEAKER_37: Let's go ahead and find out, and we'll hear from a friend of the show, Scott.
• 2:09:35
  SPEAKER_10: Independently dependent, it's a really pretty music, and it's everybody open and we can find to make sure that we're the truth when it comes to leaking.
• 2:09:58
  SPEAKER_10: We need to think for anybody else that easy support.
• 2:10:16
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, I you were uh you were right in a five, but I mean in a four, but he hit a five on that one.
• 2:10:21
  SPEAKER_37: He might have been at a six at one point.
• 2:10:23
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:10:24
  SPEAKER_37: So thank you as always, friend of the show, Scott.
• 2:10:27
  SPEAKER_37: Uh always uh appreciate hearing your uh your commentary.
• 2:10:30
  SPEAKER_37: And again, uh 612-584-45 uh 65.
• 2:10:35
  SPEAKER_37: 612-584-45.
• 2:10:37
  SPEAKER_37: Uh 65 if you want to leave a comment here on the John's.
• 2:10:39
  SPEAKER_17: Good morning, John.
• 2:10:42
  SPEAKER_17: I voted for the uh the candidate Mike and uh and the case.
• 2:10:55
  SPEAKER_17: What are they waiting for to fix the page?
• 2:11:02
  SPEAKER_17: What are they doing to fix the page?
• 2:11:09
  SPEAKER_17: I always wanted for people to do the job.
• 2:11:11
  SPEAKER_17: And uh this is crazy.
• 2:11:13
  SPEAKER_17: Have a good day, John.
• 2:11:14
  SPEAKER_17: Love your job.
• 2:11:15
  SPEAKER_37: Uh thank you so much for the uh for the kind words.
• 2:11:17
  SPEAKER_37: And again, if you want to leave a comment, 612-584-4565.
• 2:11:22
  SPEAKER_37: That is the uh blaster line.
• 2:11:23
  SPEAKER_37: Also, you can email john.justice at americanexperiment.org.
• 2:11:28
  SPEAKER_37: Before we get into more immigration-related items, including the ice agents, could soon be wearing shock, electric shock gloves.
• 2:11:36
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, there was a tragedy that took place yesterday.
• 2:11:39
  SPEAKER_37: I just want to get you an update on.
• 2:11:41
  SPEAKER_37: Three people, this comes from Fox 9.
• 2:11:43
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, three people, including a child, were found dead at an in home daycare in Hopkins.
• 2:11:49
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, the deaths are believed to be the result of a domestic violence incident.
• 2:11:53
  SPEAKER_37: The father uh suspected of killing the mother and daughter before taking his own life.
• 2:11:59
  SPEAKER_37: Just absolutely.
• 2:12:00
  SPEAKER_37: Tragic.
• 2:12:01
  SPEAKER_37: The daycare, licensed to care for up to 10 children, had no recent violations and was set to close due to relationship issues between the owners.
• 2:12:11
  SPEAKER_37: So the police say that three people found dead in the daycare.
• 2:12:15
  SPEAKER_37: It was a 41-year-old man, a 41-year-old woman, and the seven-year-old girl.
• 2:12:19
  SPEAKER_37: The police say the mother and daughter were stabbed to death and the father died of the self-afflicted gunshot wound.
• 2:12:24
  SPEAKER_37: Seven children total were in the daycare, one deceased.
• 2:12:28
  SPEAKER_37: The other six children weren't harmed.
• 2:12:30
  SPEAKER_37: They have been reunited with their parents.
• 2:12:32
  SPEAKER_37: The man found dead was believed to be the perpetrator.
• 2:12:34
  SPEAKER_37: The dead adults are believed to be the daycare owners.
• 2:12:38
  SPEAKER_37: The mother and their daughter were found dead in the basement, while the father was found on the upper floor of the daycare.
• 2:12:42
  SPEAKER_37: The daycare owners lived at the home.
• 2:12:44
  SPEAKER_37: However, Burnsville police say the suspect may have been living recently with the Burnsville victim.
• 2:12:51
  SPEAKER_37: The police say the killings appear to be an act of domestic uh violence.
• 2:12:56
  SPEAKER_37: Uh yesterday, when the news broke, it's just, it's one of those things here in Minnesota when you get a story like this and you get breaking news and it's just stabbing at a local daycare, your mind just runs wild.
• 2:13:09
  SPEAKER_37: Just where your head goes, especially based off of the tragedies that have taken place before.
• 2:13:14
  SPEAKER_37: This was obviously completely senseless.
• 2:13:16
  SPEAKER_37: And uh to get to further details on it, the Hopkins scene um at the Brown Daycare Center.
• 2:13:22
  SPEAKER_37: It's an in-home daycare center uh located on 2nd Street uh northeast, west of uh Blake Road North, in a quiet neighborhood across from a park.
• 2:13:32
  SPEAKER_37: Some neighbors told uh Fox Nine they didn't realize the house was even a daycare.
• 2:13:36
  SPEAKER_37: They referred to the home as the garage house because of the large decal that covers the garage.
• 2:13:41
  SPEAKER_37: Officials also now say that a homicide in Burnsville on Wednesday is also suspected to be uh connected to the deadly Hopkins attack.
• 2:13:51
  SPEAKER_37: The Burnsville victim was identified only as a 78-year-old woman, um, believed to be a close relative of the Hopkins suspect.
• 2:14:01
  SPEAKER_37: Others uh officers said in Hopkins.
• 2:14:04
  SPEAKER_37: A Burnsville police said they responded shortly before 1230 to the area uh for the report of the stabbing, and that's where they found the woman dead.
• 2:14:11
  SPEAKER_37: State records show the daycare was licensed to care for up to 10 children with no more than six under school age.
• 2:14:18
  SPEAKER_37: It had been inspected three times in recent years, found to be in compliance.
• 2:14:22
  SPEAKER_37: State records show no violations against the daycare center, no evidence of fraud.
• 2:14:26
  SPEAKER_37: The daycare had first been issued a license in February of 2019 and was registered in the name of the victim.
• 2:14:31
  SPEAKER_37: A friend of the murder daycare worker told local news that the owner was planning to close her daycare because she planned to leave her spouse who owned the home.
• 2:14:41
  SPEAKER_37: The friend said that there were issues in the relationship, including potential abuse.
• 2:14:45
  SPEAKER_37: So, um what else do you say in the wake of a tragedy like this, other than, you know, prayers go out for those personally and directly uh impacted by this uh horrible, uh horrible tragedy, which just seemed to be uh, again, because of some domestic dispute uh incident.
• 2:15:03
  SPEAKER_37: All right, let's go uh let's go here in an immigration update.
• 2:15:07
  SPEAKER_37: Journalist Georgia Fort, you might remember her from being part of the group that protested the city's church in St.
• 2:15:15
  SPEAKER_37: Paul.
• 2:15:16
  SPEAKER_37: Um, she's been indicted for, they say, covering doing that thing with my fingers, covering the protest.
• 2:15:23
  SPEAKER_37: She's seeking a dismissal of the charges.
• 2:15:26
  SPEAKER_37: Fort's attorneys argue that uh argue the prosecution violates her First Amendment rights and constitutes a vindictive prosecution.
• 2:15:35
  SPEAKER_37: Well, what was she doing there?
• 2:15:36
  SPEAKER_37: She was being pretty vindictive against the people of the church over their allegations that one of its members worked for ICE.
• 2:15:42
  SPEAKER_37: They claim the government targeted Ford for her journalism and the content of her reporting, despite video evidence contradicting the prosecution's claims.
• 2:15:50
  SPEAKER_37: She showed up there to protest.
• 2:15:52
  SPEAKER_37: She's using her covering the protest as a cover, just like Don Lemon did.
• 2:15:57
  SPEAKER_37: Now, because we live in Minnesota, because there is a double standard relating to when Republicans or conservatives go and do something that may be criminal, and when Democrats go and do something that may be criminal, I expect that more than likely some hacktivist judge is probably going to let this individual uh off the hook.
• 2:16:17
  SPEAKER_37: But again, they're using their journalism and just covering the event as cover.
• 2:16:23
  SPEAKER_37: Because if you watched any of the footage, like I did, and so many of you did, whether it was Don Lemon, whether it was Georgia Fort, whether it was that lunatic bearded guy whose name I forgot and I'm totally fine that I forgot his name, they were all there for one reason and one reason only, and that was to terrorize the people of this church because an individual was associated locally with ICE.
• 2:16:47
  SPEAKER_37: And just feel free to go back in your mind and uh and think of the commentary that I just did a moment ago regarding the Minnesota Reformer and that J.
• 2:16:56
  SPEAKER_37: Patrick Cooligin piece about how all of this would have been avoided if these people had just gone and stayed home.
• 2:17:03
  SPEAKER_37: But they need a cause to go and fight for to expand their agenda.
• 2:17:07
  SPEAKER_37: That's why they do this.
• 2:17:08
  SPEAKER_37: They're not going to be rational.
• 2:17:10
  SPEAKER_37: They're too lazy to go and just push policy, just support candidates, live their lives normally.
• 2:17:16
  SPEAKER_37: Nope.
• 2:17:17
  SPEAKER_37: They need to go and appeal to their breaking and their broken and brainwashed supporters who get a rise out of this, who donate money when they go out and act like a bunch of protesting lunatics.
• 2:17:29
  SPEAKER_37: And this here was another example of that.
• 2:17:31
  SPEAKER_37: These charges were absolutely appropriate.
• 2:17:32
  SPEAKER_37: They were there to terrorize the church.
• 2:17:34
  SPEAKER_37: That's it.
• 2:17:34
  SPEAKER_37: Whether they were reporting on it, they were reporting on their own terrorizing of the church.
• 2:17:39
  SPEAKER_37: And I hope a judge does not let these individuals off.
• 2:17:43
  SPEAKER_37: Which leads me to the whole reason why you now have immigrations and customs enforcement agents taking to the streets, potentially equipped with gloves that deliver painful electric shocks to deal with the combative arrests out on the streets.
• 2:18:00
  SPEAKER_37: And it's not just the targets, it's the individuals that go and get in these in the way of these agents.
• 2:18:07
  SPEAKER_37: The federal government plans to spend up to$20 million on thousands of conductive distraction and de-escalation devices by March, according to the Associated Press and a Monday Department of Homeland Security DHS notice.
• 2:18:25
  SPEAKER_37: The technology known as, you ready?
• 2:18:29
  SPEAKER_37: Glove generated low output voltage emitter.
• 2:18:37
  SPEAKER_37: How much did somebody get paid to come up with that title just so they can end up on Glove?
• 2:18:46
  SPEAKER_37: Did they put Shock?
• 2:18:47
  SPEAKER_37: Did they try to try to use the letters in shock?
• 2:18:50
  SPEAKER_37: Ah, shock doesn't work.
• 2:18:51
  SPEAKER_37: You know what?
• 2:18:52
  SPEAKER_37: Glove, I think we can make that one work.
• 2:18:55
  SPEAKER_37: Reminds me of Shield.
• 2:18:56
  SPEAKER_37: We've been doing a uh a Marvel rewatch as of late.
• 2:19:00
  SPEAKER_37: So um the glove generated low output voltage emitter has been used by other law enforcement agencies across the country to control violent suspects inside jails and in the field.
• 2:19:11
  SPEAKER_37: It comes as sources within ICE have described an uptick in violence by individuals they're trying to arrest.
• 2:19:18
  SPEAKER_37: One agency source told the Daily Wire the new technology could serve as a useful deterrent among um arrests.
• 2:19:25
  SPEAKER_37: It's kind of like um I'm reminded of the old school.
• 2:19:30
  SPEAKER_37: You probably don't know, probably don't remember this.
• 2:19:31
  SPEAKER_37: Probably uh before your time.
• 2:19:33
  SPEAKER_37: But there used to be this uh thing you can put in your hand, and when somebody goes and and shakes your hand and goes, it would it would buzz and shock them.
• 2:19:41
  SPEAKER_35: It's I think we had things similar to that.
• 2:19:43
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, it was like a trope in a lot of movies and all that.
• 2:19:46
  SPEAKER_35: And you put it, hey, give me how you do it, right?
• 2:19:49
  SPEAKER_35: Or like the gum box that had like a piece of gum sticking out, and then you pull it and then it shocks you.
• 2:19:54
  SPEAKER_37: Yes, there's that too.
• 2:19:55
  SPEAKER_37: What I'd be worried about when it comes to the ice agents is uh, you know, just make sure you don't high-five each other after a good arrest of an criminal illegal alien.
• 2:20:07
  SPEAKER_37: I don't think they're really doing that.
• 2:20:09
  SPEAKER_37: I don't know.
• 2:20:09
  SPEAKER_37: I would.
• 2:20:10
  SPEAKER_37: That was a good arrest.
• 2:20:12
  SPEAKER_37: He was a murderer.
• 2:20:13
  SPEAKER_37: That was good.
• 2:20:14
  SPEAKER_37: High five.
• 2:20:15
  SPEAKER_36: We locked up the rapist.
• 2:20:19
  SPEAKER_37: The company behind the product, a Kentucky-based uh compliant technologies LLC, says the gloves are not a weapon, but a device used to quickly distract with a small, uncomfortable electrical pulse when making contact with the skin.
• 2:20:33
  SPEAKER_37: Okay, so you can't do glove on glove, glove on glove, you would be fine.
• 2:20:37
  SPEAKER_37: Gotta be contact with the skin.
• 2:20:38
  SPEAKER_37: Gotcha.
• 2:20:39
  SPEAKER_37: The discomfort associated with the stimulation is usually effective in bringing down individuals into compliance in less than three seconds and leaves no burns, marks, or scars.
• 2:20:53
  SPEAKER_37: This is according to the compliant technologies uh website.
• 2:20:57
  SPEAKER_37: Uh Julie wrote in and said a joy buzzer.
• 2:21:00
  SPEAKER_37: That's what they called it.
• 2:21:01
  SPEAKER_37: Joy buzzer.
• 2:21:03
  SPEAKER_37: The one that goes in your hand, the trick one, not the not the generated low output voltage emitter.
• 2:21:10
  SPEAKER_37: Uh the technology is safe and it does not penetrate the subject's body.
• 2:21:14
  SPEAKER_37: Also, um, allowing officers to grab the individual being stimulated with no fear of feedback to their own bodies.
• 2:21:22
  SPEAKER_37: Okay, well, that's good.
• 2:21:23
  SPEAKER_37: The shocks can't pass through clothing, hair, metal, plastic, or fur, according to the company.
• 2:21:29
  SPEAKER_37: Agents must complete the training course before using the gloves and then get recertified to operate them every two years.
• 2:21:36
  SPEAKER_37: Or what they call the dim walls rule.
• 2:21:39
  SPEAKER_37: That way they can't complain that these guys are not trained.
• 2:21:41
  SPEAKER_37: Which was a bogus argument, anyways.
• 2:21:44
  SPEAKER_37: So I saw this story and I was like, all right, cue up the outrage from the anti-ICE crowd.
• 2:21:50
  SPEAKER_37: And wouldn't you know it, within a matter of like two or three clicks of web pages, I found the outrage.
• 2:21:56
  SPEAKER_37: ICE plan to give officers electric shock gloves, it draws outrage and fears of misuse.
• 2:22:01
  SPEAKER_37: Of course.
• 2:22:03
  SPEAKER_37: Of course it does.
• 2:22:04
  SPEAKER_37: Well, you know what?
• 2:22:05
  SPEAKER_37: Maybe ICE agents don't need the gloves and they should just use their firearms more often.
• 2:22:13
  SPEAKER_37: Choose your way to incapacitate the target.
• 2:22:18
  SPEAKER_37: Which one do you guys want to use?
• 2:22:20
  SPEAKER_37: Well, they don't want to use anything.
• 2:22:22
  SPEAKER_37: They want to abolish ICE for crying out loud.
• 2:22:25
  SPEAKER_37: The size of the purchase suggests that ICE does plan to give the device to most or all of its officers.
• 2:22:30
  SPEAKER_37: I'm working off an article now from uh the Associated Press.
• 2:22:34
  SPEAKER_37: You know, that stalwart of fair and balanced media.
• 2:22:39
  SPEAKER_37: We are outraged, said New York Attorney General Letitia James, of course, first out of the gate, right?
• 2:22:45
  SPEAKER_37: At a news conference on Wednesday where she was warned that ICE officers who misuse the gloves in her state could face criminal and civil consequences.
• 2:22:53
  SPEAKER_37: You mean like any law enforcement agent that misuses their uh power?
• 2:22:59
  SPEAKER_37: Like that?
• 2:23:00
  SPEAKER_37: That okay?
• 2:23:02
  unknown: Yeah.
• 2:23:02
  SPEAKER_37: All right, before I get into more details of this, let's get to some of your thoughts from the uh blaster line at 612-584-4565.
• 2:23:10
  SPEAKER_37: And we'll hear from a friend of the show, Mike, here on the John Justice Show.
• 2:23:15
  SPEAKER_19: John, of course, Mike from Coldwater.
• 2:23:17
  SPEAKER_19: Um, you're talking about how um ICE is able to do its job easier because there's no uh no Democrats uh pushing back um because we haven't concerned about to do the radical racial uh protest.
• 2:23:35
  SPEAKER_19: I'm wondering if uh maybe quietly the Justice Department has cracked down on the funding of the protesters that they fly around the country that are members of Antifa and Nation.
• 2:23:48
  SPEAKER_19: Um that would be interesting if we could do some research on that and see if that's the reason why we're not having mass protests at IP arrests anymore.
• 2:23:57
  SPEAKER_37: Well, and I know there is quite a bit of commentary, Mike, um, around like the canceling of USAID and how suddenly now the number of protests that we typically see has kind of gone the way got gone by the wayside.
• 2:24:13
  SPEAKER_37: Uh I'm not the first person to go and mention this.
• 2:24:15
  SPEAKER_37: Other conservative commentators have talked about this, and they actually have more knowledge than I do on the on the subject, but they've been keeping track of what we typically see, especially when we get into the spring and summer months here in America, of these protests that take place across the country.
• 2:24:29
  SPEAKER_37: And this year, there's been a lot fewer of these protests.
• 2:24:31
  SPEAKER_37: Now, relating to Operation Metro Surge, there's an argument to be made that if this is true, that there was government funding that's been cut off by the Trump administration in the wake of his second term, that perhaps this has led to the decrease in these protests.
• 2:24:47
  SPEAKER_37: So, why did Operation Metro Surge take place?
• 2:24:49
  SPEAKER_37: If there were individuals, and we know not all of them, but there were individuals within Operation Metro Surge that were taken to the streets that were certainly being paid.
• 2:24:57
  SPEAKER_37: As a matter of fact, there were prominent activists in Minneapolis that admitted as much that um Lavish, oh, I can't remember his last.
• 2:25:06
  SPEAKER_37: He goes by Lavish Mac, I think is his name, just this lunatic who's made a name for himself and made it's been very lucrative for him.
• 2:25:15
  SPEAKER_37: He was on a show over the course of the past couple of months talking about the amount of money that he was getting paid.
• 2:25:20
  SPEAKER_37: And as a matter of fact, the show host on the podcast was lamenting the fact that he didn't get paid as much as Lavish Mac did.
• 2:25:27
  SPEAKER_37: So when it came to those protests, it could have been there was still money left over in the coffers of the organizations that were funneling dollars to these protesters taking to the streets.
• 2:25:39
  SPEAKER_37: And that could be one of the reasons why you saw Operation Metro Surge take place, but then since then it's all calmed down.
• 2:25:46
  SPEAKER_37: I think another aspect of this too is that the Democrats have put their sights on someplace else.
• 2:25:50
  SPEAKER_37: ISIS served as a useful tool at the time, but now that we get closer to, we were getting closer to the primaries, closer to the general.
• 2:25:59
  SPEAKER_37: Even the left knows that when it comes to illegal immigration, this is an issue that crosses party lines.
• 2:26:06
  SPEAKER_37: Not with everybody, but it is.
• 2:26:08
  SPEAKER_37: Don't forget the number of individuals that you saw acting stupid, the on-the-street insurrectionists during Operation Metro surge, it still pales in comparison to the population.
• 2:26:18
  SPEAKER_37: It's a very small percentage of Democrat uh individuals.
• 2:26:22
  SPEAKER_37: Even the people that go and took to the streets in the massive rallies to push back against ICE, wherein the media pushed out, you know, the throngs of individuals flooding the downtown streets.
• 2:26:31
  SPEAKER_37: I remember doing commentary and looking at the data where that was a fraction of the population here in Minnesota.
• 2:26:37
  SPEAKER_37: It's made it seem like it's how the majority of individuals feel, but it was not reflective at all of the majority opinion.
• 2:26:44
  SPEAKER_37: So I think when it comes to Democrats, it was no longer politically expedient for them to continue to go and push for individuals to get in the way of ICE operations.
• 2:26:53
  SPEAKER_37: And again, that's been shown when it comes to the July numbers and the number of criminal illegal aliens that have been arrested by the Trump administration.
• 2:27:01
  SPEAKER_37: So there may be a funding issue, but it could just be a shift in tactics because the left isn't dumb.
• 2:27:07
  SPEAKER_37: And they end up pushing these particular false narratives at times when it is most convenient for them, politically speaking.
• 2:27:18
  SPEAKER_37: Getting back to the protests over these gloves, I had a uh email that came in from a friend of the show, uh Tammy.
• 2:27:25
  SPEAKER_37: She says, uh, I would be careful using the glove on seniors.
• 2:27:28
  SPEAKER_37: It could act as a defibrillator and it could um reactivate them.
• 2:27:33
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah.
• 2:27:34
  unknown: Okay.
• 2:27:36
  SPEAKER_37: Yeah, the seniors like to go out there and just protest with their stupid signs.
• 2:27:40
  SPEAKER_37: They just like to be bodies, the NPCs out there.
• 2:27:43
  SPEAKER_37: Most of them aren't getting involved in the on-the-street uh insurrectionist uh activity.
• 2:27:48
  SPEAKER_37: No, those are the um, you know, those are more of your antifa types.
• 2:27:54
  SPEAKER_37: All right.
• 2:27:55
  SPEAKER_37: Let's go back to the blaster line at 612-584-4565.
• 2:27:59
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, friend of the show wants to comment on friend of the show Scott and his comments at the top of the hour here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 2:28:09
  SPEAKER_16: Morning, John.
• 2:28:10
  SPEAKER_16: One of the things Republicans could do is get over the competitive or whatever that is.
• 2:28:18
  SPEAKER_16: And uh really hit the case in the contamination of everything, the manipulated packages, uh, which education leads to everything.
• 2:28:44
  SPEAKER_16: Republicans a lot of other things supporting the project.
• 2:28:54
  SPEAKER_37: All that in the education and same time is like, yeah, go after that, but start talking about the things that we need to affect in our economy and our Let me let me stop you here, because this is a similar refrain that I hear from a lot of individuals, and that is uh people that say, and there's nothing wrong with it, right?
• 2:29:13
  SPEAKER_37: You you make a lot of valid points, but saying that this is what the Republicans need to do.
• 2:29:18
  SPEAKER_37: They need to focus on A, B, C, and D while doing all these other things.
• 2:29:21
  SPEAKER_37: And I don't disagree.
• 2:29:22
  SPEAKER_37: Don't forget though, most Republicans are doing that.
• 2:29:27
  SPEAKER_37: Most of the candidates are doing that.
• 2:29:30
  SPEAKER_37: The problem is they don't get amplified by the left-wing media.
• 2:29:34
  SPEAKER_37: And this goes back to commentary regarding social media, the way in which we receive our news, how it's changed, how these uh delegates choosing uh to endorse particular candidates is not relevant any longer with the endorsement process.
• 2:29:51
  SPEAKER_37: My commentary around will say limiting debates, because debates are not nearly as consequential anymore.
• 2:29:59
  SPEAKER_37: They are consequential in some cases, but for the most part, trying to find out the issues that the candidates care about, their stances on the issues, trying to do that through through debates, it's become increasingly irrelevant because you can find out almost everything about these candidates before they even take to the stage.
• 2:30:19
  SPEAKER_37: You spend an hour going through social media, their campaign websites, what they've posted online previous interviews, and you're gonna hear and watch exactly the same thing that you will end up seeing on that debate stage.
• 2:30:29
  SPEAKER_37: Sure, you can compare and contrast with the other candidate, and there are things that are beneficial about it, and people have mentioned that, and you're right to do so regarding Joe Biden and that presidential debate that finally got him off the ticket, rightfully so.
• 2:30:42
  SPEAKER_37: But for the most part, I think these debates are somewhat are somewhat worthless.
• 2:30:46
  SPEAKER_37: Now, to your point, though, you're right.
• 2:30:48
  SPEAKER_37: Democrats, excuse me, Republicans need to focus on these things, but and I hear this a lot, Republicans are.
• 2:30:55
  SPEAKER_37: They do do that.
• 2:30:57
  SPEAKER_37: You just don't hear nearly as much about it because the mainstream media isn't covering it nearly as much.
• 2:31:01
  SPEAKER_37: Um, just one more last point on this, and we'll move over to some other issues, get to a few more of uh your thoughts from the blaster line at 612-584-4565.
• 2:31:11
  SPEAKER_37: The Department of Homeland Security, um, ICE's parent agency, issued a statement uh that did not mention the product specifically or explain why it was chosen.
• 2:31:21
  SPEAKER_37: While the devices are marked as non-lethal and safe for the heart, there is a pending lawsuit.
• 2:31:27
  SPEAKER_37: This is so funny.
• 2:31:28
  SPEAKER_37: So that the uh Associated Press tossed this in because it is a completely biased news outlet now.
• 2:31:34
  SPEAKER_37: So there is one lawsuit, and it alleges that a 43-year-old man died in 2024 after he was shocked with the gloves inside of a jail.
• 2:31:46
  SPEAKER_37: And you may go, oh my gosh, this guy was shocked by the gloves and he died.
• 2:31:50
  SPEAKER_37: And it's dangerous.
• 2:31:51
  SPEAKER_37: I thought they were non-lethal.
• 2:31:52
  SPEAKER_37: He was shocked 27 times by the gloves, and then 13 more times by a taser.
• 2:32:03
  SPEAKER_37: Not exactly the example that you should probably use if you're pushing back on the gloves.
• 2:32:08
  SPEAKER_37: I guess if you want to say IS agents are only allowed to shock individuals, let's say 25 times, and certainly only like 10 times additionally with a taser.
• 2:32:20
  SPEAKER_37: Any more than that's excessive.
• 2:32:21
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, clearly this guy couldn't be subdued if he was shocked that many times.
• 2:32:28
  SPEAKER_37: You know, this is how supervillains are born.
• 2:32:30
  SPEAKER_37: Isn't that how Electro was created?
• 2:32:35
  SPEAKER_37: Well, according to the uh Andrew Garfield, the amazing Spider-Man, he fell into a vat of electric eels.
• 2:32:43
  SPEAKER_37: So it says it was a little bit a little bit different.
• 2:32:45
  SPEAKER_37: I like Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man.
• 2:32:46
  SPEAKER_37: I don't know anybody else.
• 2:32:47
  SPEAKER_37: I mean Tom Holland's better, but I think there's an argument to be made for Andrew Garfield.
• 2:32:54
  SPEAKER_37: I don't know if I've mentioned this on the show.
• 2:32:55
  SPEAKER_37: My son Logan looks exactly like Andrew Garfield.
• 2:33:00
  SPEAKER_37: Like it is terrifying how much my son Logan looks like Andrew Garfield.
• 2:33:05
  SPEAKER_37: I'll have to do a side-by-side.
• 2:33:06
  SPEAKER_37: I'll put up a side-by-side of the two of them.
• 2:33:08
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, it's to the point wherever I see an Andrew Garfield trailer or any of the films that he was in, I just go, uh, it's just this is doppelganger.
• 2:33:17
  SPEAKER_37: Logan could go out in public and just claim he's Andrew Garfield, and people would believe him.
• 2:33:22
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, let's see.
• 2:33:23
  SPEAKER_37: Former ICE acting director John Sandweg said Wednesday in an interview with MS Now, it's too easy for this to get misused against a population that doesn't pose a threat.
• 2:33:34
  SPEAKER_37: Okay, well, what about a population that does pose a threat?
• 2:33:37
  SPEAKER_37: I'm pro-glove.
• 2:33:39
  SPEAKER_37: The maker of the Taser recently phased out its stun drive feature, a similar pain compliance tool that had been misused by some officers.
• 2:33:48
  SPEAKER_37: Michael Mannheimer, a law professor at Northern Kentucky University, who's written about the police use of force and issues federal law enforcement operations, agreed the gloves raised concerns.
• 2:34:00
  SPEAKER_37: About the officers using disproportionate force.
• 2:34:03
  SPEAKER_37: That's just a given, and we already have policies in place to go and deal with that when it comes to law enforcement officers.
• 2:34:08
  SPEAKER_37: So I'm way less concerned about that.
• 2:34:10
  SPEAKER_37: You have a law enforcement officer of any type in any field who goes and abuses their power, they need to be held accountable.
• 2:34:16
  SPEAKER_37: When it comes to emerging technologies, yeah, this is probably a good idea.
• 2:34:20
  SPEAKER_37: And maybe a better way than, I don't know, using lethal force.
• 2:34:27
  SPEAKER_37: All right, let's get back to um some of your thoughts from the blaster line here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 2:34:36
  SPEAKER_37: Another comment on this.
• 2:34:47
  SPEAKER_24: I think most people do consolidate and get behind the candidate, whoever it may be.
• 2:34:54
  SPEAKER_24: Uh the bigger problem I see is the humor being a huge voter block still in the country.
• 2:35:03
  SPEAKER_24: Being uninformed and just kind of old school, like, oh, I don't really pay attention to the news and they watch the nightmare.
• 2:35:12
  SPEAKER_24: They don't read anything, they don't know what's going on actually, and they're just like, well, I've been voting Democrat for 15 years, so why not?
• 2:35:23
  SPEAKER_24: You know, and that's an even bigger problem.
• 2:35:27
  SPEAKER_24: There are people who just have no idea what's going on, and they're just like, well, that is cool, I guess.
• 2:35:34
  SPEAKER_37: You know, you know, unfortunately, I think you uh I think you described most voters.
• 2:35:42
  SPEAKER_37: Well, bring up the Joe Biden debate again.
• 2:35:44
  SPEAKER_37: I'll never forget how stuff I was in California, I was traveling at the time, that debate was happening.
• 2:35:52
  SPEAKER_37: I did the show live from uh the living room in my father's house.
• 2:35:57
  SPEAKER_37: I'll never forget.
• 2:35:58
  SPEAKER_37: I was right there with the big TV in front of me.
• 2:36:00
  SPEAKER_37: Governor Dimwalls was one of the first individuals on screen the next morning after that disastrous debate.
• 2:36:07
  SPEAKER_37: But I remember after the debate going, why is everybody so shocked about how Joe Biden is?
• 2:36:12
  SPEAKER_37: We've been seeing this for years.
• 2:36:14
  SPEAKER_37: And I know this pushes back on my no debate stance, but again, maybe just for presidents and governors.
• 2:36:21
  SPEAKER_37: But it's because the majority of individuals don't pay attention.
• 2:36:27
  SPEAKER_37: They buy in, and even if they were paying attention to the mainstream media, the mainstream media at the time was completely ignoring Biden's blatant cognitive uh decline.
• 2:36:36
  SPEAKER_37: Let's get back to some more of uh your thoughts.
• 2:36:38
  SPEAKER_13: Good morning, John.
• 2:36:39
  SPEAKER_13: You know, I love him to left.
• 2:36:42
  SPEAKER_13: I always look forward to them.
• 2:36:44
  SPEAKER_13: Generally agree with him, and I do agree that we can't be true because then we won't get anybody on the right elected, and then we'll keep having the farther left with um the farther left they go, the more clean they claim the right is.
• 2:37:08
  SPEAKER_13: So that's my only beef with what Pat said, and even though it doesn't sound like it, I'm probably you know at a level five with my feelings about that.
• 2:37:19
  SPEAKER_13: So there we go.
• 2:37:22
  SPEAKER_37: Well, as we uh for the final segment of the show, I want to switch uh some gears here.
• 2:37:28
  SPEAKER_37: Uh the DFL's Agriculture Committee co-chair says Minnesota farmers have never had it uh so good.
• 2:37:35
  SPEAKER_37: I have been sitting on a gone-green stack that you do not want to miss, by the way.
• 2:37:40
  SPEAKER_37: Okay, I've been sitting on this gone-green stack now, I think, since we started the new show here at American Experiments.
• 2:37:47
  SPEAKER_37: So I want to get into some of this ahead of tomorrow's uh Freedom Friday.
• 2:37:52
  SPEAKER_37: Before we do that, though, I want to take just a moment and I want to peruse some of the uh blasts that have rolled into the blaster line at 612-584-4565.
• 2:38:03
  SPEAKER_37: I've made an edit of the latest to track from the house band here at the John Justice Show, the AI uh overlords.
• 2:38:11
  SPEAKER_37: And it certainly relates to everything that we've been talking about: media manipulation, the broken and the brainwashed on the left.
• 2:38:17
  SPEAKER_37: The two people out there, the the too many individuals out there who have been drinking the communism Kool-Aid, Hillary's by the phone with a careful word, reading every headline like a line she didn't book.
• 2:38:54
  SPEAKER_09: She sees the banished shift, she is the easy chip, and the whole playbook starts to fog up in the rear.
• 2:39:04
  SPEAKER_09: Now the table's turn explode with a full of straight flow.
• 2:39:09
  SPEAKER_09: Everybody in the room feels the cards start to grow.
• 2:40:56
  SPEAKER_35: It just no business being as good as As soon as that saxophone hits, it's just makes your day ten times better.
• 2:41:05
  SPEAKER_37: Right?
• 2:41:07
  SPEAKER_37: The AI overlords here on the John Justice show in communism Kool-Aid.
• 2:41:13
  SPEAKER_37: I'm so glad that I'm not a musician.
• 2:41:19
  SPEAKER_37: It was funny.
• 2:41:20
  SPEAKER_37: I played uh I played the I-35, the scooter I-35 song, uh a few days ago.
• 2:41:27
  SPEAKER_37: We had uh Josiah Padley uh in talking about the talking about the school supplies.
• 2:41:32
  SPEAKER_37: And I think we were playing it in the run-up to when she joined us on the on the couch uh here in the American Experiment studio.
• 2:41:38
  SPEAKER_36: She was like, this is artificial intelligence.
• 2:41:42
  SPEAKER_37: Like, yeah.
• 2:41:44
  SPEAKER_37: It was an absolute, absolute jam.
• 2:41:47
  SPEAKER_37: So um, you know what we ought to do with that, by the way.
• 2:41:50
  SPEAKER_37: Maybe for a Freedom Friday.
• 2:41:51
  SPEAKER_37: I was thinking about this.
• 2:41:52
  SPEAKER_37: These are fun to make.
• 2:41:53
  SPEAKER_37: It's it's tough to get the uh to get the description right.
• 2:41:57
  SPEAKER_37: I'm getting the I keep forgetting the wording you have to use, but it's a description you have to put in a prompt.
• 2:42:03
  SPEAKER_37: Thank you.
• 2:42:03
  SPEAKER_37: Thank you very much, Devin.
• 2:42:04
  SPEAKER_37: Devin comes in with the prompt.
• 2:42:06
  SPEAKER_37: You're right.
• 2:42:06
  SPEAKER_37: It's hard to get the prompt right.
• 2:42:08
  SPEAKER_37: And the artificial intelligence learns quickly.
• 2:42:10
  SPEAKER_37: Like when I was making a couple of the songs earlier in the week, um, it wouldn't you'll it would not use the word socialist at all.
• 2:42:20
  SPEAKER_37: I got a couple of versions of communism Kool-Aid.
• 2:42:24
  SPEAKER_37: That was the best one.
• 2:42:25
  SPEAKER_37: And then when I tried again, it stopped using like it learned.
• 2:42:28
  SPEAKER_37: It's like, oh, this guy.
• 2:42:30
  SPEAKER_37: He's trying to use communism.
• 2:42:31
  SPEAKER_37: And it stopped using communism as well.
• 2:42:33
  SPEAKER_37: But maybe what I need are like uh prompt requests of what to uh of what to put in to create some.
• 2:42:40
  SPEAKER_37: Because I thought it would be fun on a Freedom Friday to try to tailor some music on a Freedom Friday as the guests are rolling in.
• 2:42:46
  SPEAKER_37: So anyway, um, we play those by the way, and they'll run up to the show every single morning.
• 2:42:51
  SPEAKER_37: So usually we start about 15 minutes early and uh run some of the parody songs before the show goes live at 6 a.m.
• 2:42:58
  SPEAKER_37: So for you early risers out there that want uh to hear some more of the AI overlords, the house band here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment, just hop on uh any of the platforms early.
• 2:43:10
  SPEAKER_37: Uh so John Phelan here at Center of the American Experiment did this write-up recently.
• 2:43:14
  SPEAKER_37: The Minnesota DFL claims that farmers are struggling under Trump's administration due to tariffs, which have increased the cost of equipment, fertilizer, and other supplies.
• 2:43:23
  SPEAKER_37: However, Representative Rick Hansen, the DFL's agriculture committee co-chair, observed many new trucks at FarmFest, and he suggested that farmers are doing well.
• 2:43:35
  SPEAKER_37: They don't stand by any of their claims.
• 2:43:38
  SPEAKER_37: This is a really, really good example of how on the left, they do not stand by that which they say that they're concerned about, say that they care about.
• 2:43:48
  SPEAKER_37: Because there was, there was tons of commentary from Farmfest about how, you know, the farmers are suffering.
• 2:43:55
  SPEAKER_37: And there is, don't misunderstand, there is some difficulty going on.
• 2:44:00
  SPEAKER_37: But as somebody that does this for a living, I can tell you firsthand that there has not been an abundance of stories coming out of our agriculture divisions, our farmers here in Minnesota who have been expressing their frustration over it.
• 2:44:13
  SPEAKER_37: I know there are difficulties out there.
• 2:44:15
  SPEAKER_37: I get it.
• 2:44:16
  SPEAKER_37: I'm not saying there's not.
• 2:44:17
  SPEAKER_37: But in terms of just the major impact on our farms, there certainly has not been a major push by farmers or news media outlets to cover any of that.
• 2:44:29
  SPEAKER_37: And I just want to stress while there's some truth behind it.
• 2:44:32
  SPEAKER_37: But you had a Democrats during Farm Fest that just kept saying Trump's tariffs, Trump's tariffs, Trump's tariffs, hurting farmers, hurting farmers, hurting farmers.
• 2:44:38
  SPEAKER_37: And then you get this idiot who actually isn't the co-chair of the DFL's agriculture committee.
• 2:44:44
  SPEAKER_37: And he basically talks about, I don't know, I saw a lot of trucks in the parking lot.
• 2:44:48
  SPEAKER_37: So I guess the farmers are doing just fine.
• 2:44:51
  SPEAKER_37: Reminds me a bit of Representative Emma Greenman yesterday, uh worried about the money versus the many and the dark money, not of Republicans, but dark money going to Angie Craig's campaign in her support of the uh radical activist Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan.
• 2:45:07
  SPEAKER_37: So as John Phelan writes, one of the DFL's consistent themes this election cycle has been how badly Minnesota's farmers are apparently doing under President Donald Trump's administration.
• 2:45:21
  SPEAKER_37: He pulled a bunch of different clips here, uh, comments from the Minnesota DFL.
• 2:45:26
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, it's it's like it's like two pages worth of comments from um from the DFL.
• 2:45:32
  SPEAKER_37: Brad Finstead had a choice stand with Minnesota farm farmers or stand with Trump's taxes on them.
• 2:45:37
  SPEAKER_37: Guess which one he chose?
• 2:45:38
  SPEAKER_37: Another one, Brad Finstad's answer to farmers struggling under Trump's tariff policy, take on more debt.
• 2:45:45
  SPEAKER_37: And the list goes on and on and on.
• 2:45:47
  SPEAKER_37: Trump has pushed farmers to the brink and our state uh and our state to its limit, hammering Brad Finstad again, sided with him instead of Minnesotans, blah, blah, blah.
• 2:45:58
  SPEAKER_37: But then Feeling gets into how one DFL or disagrees, and that's Representative Rick Hansen, representing District 53B in southeastern Twin Cities metro area, which includes the cities of Newport, St.
• 2:46:09
  SPEAKER_37: Paul, Infragrove Heights, Cottage Grove, St.
• 2:46:12
  SPEAKER_37: Paul Park, and parts of Dakota and Washington counties.
• 2:46:15
  SPEAKER_37: It says much about how the DFL has abandoned its rural Minnesota and been abandoned by it, that the party has to make a representative from such a suburban area co-chair of the Agriculture and Finance Policy Committee.
• 2:46:34
  SPEAKER_37: In this capacity, Representative Hansen traveled to Farmfest and was struck by the opulence for all the farm troubles doing that things with my fingers.
• 2:46:46
  SPEAKER_37: Lots of new pickup trucks at Farmfest parking lot, lots of American flag of new pickup trucks.
• 2:46:54
  SPEAKER_37: Interesting.
• 2:46:55
  SPEAKER_37: Now you know that this is uh really important because Representative Rick Hansen used a whole bunch of emojis in his post.
• 2:47:05
  SPEAKER_37: I also understand why, because Democrats often need visual aid.
• 2:47:10
  SPEAKER_37: So in case they didn't understand what the word farm meant, he included a little tractor emoji.
• 2:47:16
  SPEAKER_37: Uh in case he didn't un in case the uh person reading it didn't understand that the new pickups represent cash, he right next to trucks, he included a little uh cash uh bag, uh bag of cash emoji.
• 2:47:29
  SPEAKER_37: And if people weren't still understanding what was going on when it comes to the new trucks, lots of new trucks in between lots and of, he put an American flag.
• 2:47:38
  SPEAKER_37: Because remember, if you're a Democrat, you cannot be pro-America and a patriot, and you cannot express your patriotism.
• 2:47:47
  SPEAKER_37: If you have an American flag on your pickup truck, you are clearly a Republican.
• 2:47:52
  SPEAKER_37: Because we are a horrible, awful, systemically racist country that does not value equity whatsoever.
• 2:48:00
  SPEAKER_37: If we want to make America great, you have to push for communism and socialism if you're on the left.
• 2:48:07
  SPEAKER_37: They don't care.
• 2:48:08
  SPEAKER_37: They don't care.
• 2:48:09
  SPEAKER_37: These people are out of touch.
• 2:48:10
  SPEAKER_37: And the larger point that John Felon makes here is is absolutely uh accurate.
• 2:48:15
  SPEAKER_37: And that is this dude is from anything but a rural area.
• 2:48:20
  SPEAKER_37: Why is he the co-chair on the agriculture committee for the DFL?
• 2:48:24
  SPEAKER_37: They don't have anybody in Rocks and Cowsland, according to Dim Walls, who can go and take care of this job.
• 2:48:31
  SPEAKER_37: All right, let's turn our attention over before we wrap things up today.
• 2:48:35
  SPEAKER_37: As I mentioned, I have a gone green update.
• 2:48:37
  SPEAKER_37: This is a good one, by the way.
• 2:48:39
  SPEAKER_37: That I've been holding on to.
• 2:48:40
  SPEAKER_37: First off, President Donald Trump has been totally vindicated.
• 2:48:46
  SPEAKER_37: CNN recently, I believe this is Harry Enton, was um forced to admit that Americans do not care about climate change.
• 2:48:55
  SPEAKER_40: They don't care.
• 2:48:56
  SPEAKER_40: They don't care.
• 2:48:56
  SPEAKER_40: I I mean, just look at look at these numbers.
• 2:48:58
  SPEAKER_40: Okay, top issue and midterm vote.
• 2:49:00
  SPEAKER_40: You can list up the three issues.
• 2:49:01
  SPEAKER_40: The economy, not surprisingly, comes in at number one at 54 percent.
• 2:49:04
  SPEAKER_40: Immigration, 28 percent.
• 2:49:06
  SPEAKER_40: Look what climate change is.
• 2:49:07
  SPEAKER_40: It's tied for 14th.
• 2:49:09
  SPEAKER_40: Tied for 14th, all the way down here at 3%.
• 2:49:13
  SPEAKER_40: Johnny, I'm not the greatest mathematician in the world, but I sure as heck know that 54% is a whole heck of a lot higher than 3%.
• 2:49:21
  SPEAKER_40: So despite the climate being so warm in the month of July, the hottest month on record here in the United States of America, the voters simply put do not say that climate change is gonna be an issue in which they vote upon in the midterm election.
• 2:49:34
  SPEAKER_35: And how much people are concerned has been changing over time.
• 2:49:36
  SPEAKER_40: Yeah.
• 2:49:36
  SPEAKER_40: I mean, this is I think the other thing, which is, you know, how much concern is there when it comes over time?
• 2:49:43
  SPEAKER_40: And you see this 3% here, and you can see these slides right here.
• 2:49:47
  SPEAKER_40: Say climate change is a very big problem.
• 2:49:49
  SPEAKER_40: In 2016, it was 40 percent.
• 2:49:52
  SPEAKER_40: It was 40 percent.
• 2:49:53
  SPEAKER_40: Look where we are in 2026.
• 2:49:55
  SPEAKER_40: It's 39 percent.
• 2:49:56
  SPEAKER_40: It's 39 percent.
• 2:49:57
  SPEAKER_40: Now, Johnny B.
• 2:49:58
  SPEAKER_40: You know, you're talking about change.
• 2:50:00
  SPEAKER_40: Where the change we have seen is partisanship, right?
• 2:50:03
  SPEAKER_40: And what we can see is Republicans, more so than anybody else, have been shifting away from the idea that climate change is a top issue for them.
• 2:50:10
  SPEAKER_40: Take a look at this.
• 2:50:11
  SPEAKER_40: The least important issue for Republicans, it's just at 14 percent in terms of saying that climate change is a very big problem.
• 2:50:17
  SPEAKER_40: So we're seeing a large partisan split.
• 2:50:19
  SPEAKER_40: But when it comes together, Democrats are going in one direction, Republicans are going in another direction.
• 2:50:24
  SPEAKER_40: But when you put those two together, the bottom line is we're only talking about two in five Americans both now and ten years ago, saying that climate change is a very big problem.
• 2:50:32
  SPEAKER_37: This is an all-Yep, which is why the Democrats have moved on to bigger and uh and and better things.
• 2:50:39
  SPEAKER_37: To this point, and this relates directly back to what I was just talking about in the John Phelan piece, and Democrats not caring about the issues that they say they care about.
• 2:50:48
  SPEAKER_37: Bill Glaun, also a policy fellow here at Center of the American Experiment.
• 2:50:53
  SPEAKER_37: Minnesota celebrated the opening of a new sustainable aviation fuel facility.
• 2:50:58
  SPEAKER_37: Let me stop here really quick.
• 2:51:00
  SPEAKER_37: Uh, sustainable aviation fuel shouldn't those three words should never be combined combined uh together.
• 2:51:06
  SPEAKER_37: Okay, it's not sustainable.
• 2:51:09
  SPEAKER_37: It's not what airplanes need to run on.
• 2:51:11
  SPEAKER_37: It'll destroy our airline industry if we were to move towards sustainable aviation fuel.
• 2:51:17
  SPEAKER_37: And make no mistake, if there were Democrat control and they pushed for a majority of the airlines to use the sustainable aviation fuel, don't think for a second that all of the Democrat electeds flying all around the world will still be using the conventional fuel because it's more cost efficient, it's more efficient, and not nearly as expensive.
• 2:51:41
  SPEAKER_37: There's nothing sustainable about sustainable aviation fuel.
• 2:51:44
  SPEAKER_37: That being said, the Democrats would even agree with me, and here's the reason why.
• 2:51:48
  SPEAKER_37: So there's a new sustainable aviation fuel facility.
• 2:51:50
  SPEAKER_37: It has support from businesses and political leaders.
• 2:51:52
  SPEAKER_37: However, the state is simultaneously suing the refinery for climate fraud, raising the questions about the effectiveness of this approach.
• 2:52:03
  SPEAKER_37: Bill Glon writes: think renewable jet fuel made from agriculture products rather than crude oil.
• 2:52:09
  SPEAKER_37: The location was the Flint Hills Pine Bend Oil Refinery in Rosemal.
• 2:52:15
  SPEAKER_37: It brought in big names, and he quotes some uh uh pieces of this article from Keralevin.
• 2:52:20
  SPEAKER_37: Delta Airlines put out a press release and sent a president to the event.
• 2:52:24
  SPEAKER_37: U.S.
• 2:52:24
  SPEAKER_37: Representative Brad Finstead was there.
• 2:52:26
  SPEAKER_37: Kara Levin report includes a quote from Amy Klobishar.
• 2:52:29
  SPEAKER_37: She and Dim Walls appear to have forgotten the fact, though, that the state of Minnesota is actually suing this same refinery by name for the alleged tort of climate fraud.
• 2:52:42
  SPEAKER_37: Notable by his apparent absence was State Attorney General Thief Ellison, who filed the lawsuit back in June of 2020 in state court in Ramsey County.
• 2:52:53
  SPEAKER_37: The document reads like an artifact from a lost age.
• 2:52:57
  SPEAKER_37: Over the past six years, the case file has accumulated 258 documents.
• 2:53:01
  SPEAKER_37: A handful of court hearings take place every year, with four lawyers from the attorney general's office actively working the case.
• 2:53:08
  SPEAKER_37: The last hearing took place on July 2nd.
• 2:53:10
  SPEAKER_37: Earlier this year, the state lawsuit generated a countersuit by the feds.
• 2:53:15
  SPEAKER_37: You, the taxpayer, pay for the state's lawyers.
• 2:53:19
  SPEAKER_37: You, the energy consumer, pay for the refinery's lawyers.
• 2:53:23
  SPEAKER_37: How are we better off, writes Bill Glon?
• 2:53:26
  SPEAKER_37: The refinery is one of the state's largest employers.
• 2:53:30
  SPEAKER_37: This pointless lawsuit must rank somewhere on the list.
• 2:53:33
  SPEAKER_37: If you really do care about climate change, it would seem that the positive reinforcement on display last month of the ribbon cutting ceremony would do more good than endless lawfare.
• 2:53:42
  SPEAKER_37: They do not care about that which they say they care about.
• 2:53:45
  SPEAKER_37: It's all about political expediency.
• 2:53:47
  SPEAKER_37: That's it.
• 2:53:49
  SPEAKER_37: Hypocrisy be damned.
• 2:53:52
  SPEAKER_37: Hypocrisy, the left doesn't even know what the word means.
• 2:53:55
  SPEAKER_37: And if they do, they simply do not care.
• 2:53:58
  SPEAKER_37: They feel they are the righteous, they are the just.
• 2:54:00
  SPEAKER_37: Everything that they do is correct.
• 2:54:02
  SPEAKER_37: Even when they're being hypocrites, it's done for the better good of the people.
• 2:54:08
  SPEAKER_37: On a lighter note, this cracked me up.
• 2:54:10
  SPEAKER_37: This was uh this goes back to uh, let's see here, August 1st.
• 2:54:15
  SPEAKER_37: So, yeah, about two weeks ago.
• 2:54:17
  SPEAKER_37: Um, Sven Sungaard, he now works over at uh Bring Me the News as a meteorologist.
• 2:54:23
  SPEAKER_37: So he has this lengthy piece here when the weather was hotter a couple of weeks ago.
• 2:54:28
  SPEAKER_37: Um he says, July was brutal in Minnesota, but the numbers show how much climate change is to blame.
• 2:54:33
  SPEAKER_37: I'm like, oh, okay.
• 2:54:36
  SPEAKER_37: Do tell.
• 2:54:38
  SPEAKER_37: And he writes for the record uh from record heat up north to the state's worst air quality ever.
• 2:54:46
  SPEAKER_37: Okay, the meteorologist breaks down the brutal month and says it has the fingerprints of climate change all over it.
• 2:54:53
  SPEAKER_37: Well, the air quality came from the lunatics in Canada, and I'll get to that in just a just a moment, because I actually have uh a little bit of um myth busting on those uh wildfires.
• 2:55:05
  SPEAKER_37: But uh Sven writes this July was a hot one.
• 2:55:07
  SPEAKER_37: Any way you slice it or dice it, in the Twin Cities, we ended up with the sixth hottest.
• 2:55:13
  SPEAKER_37: We ended up the sixth hottest on record, which goes back to 1873.
• 2:55:18
  SPEAKER_37: That puts us in the top four of our records.
• 2:55:22
  SPEAKER_37: We landed just between July 16th, July of excuse me, July of 1916 and 2011, with the average temperature of 78.9 degrees, which was plus four uh point six degrees Fahrenheit above the 1991 to 2020 modern normal average.
• 2:55:44
  SPEAKER_37: Some severe storms up to four inches of rain in the Minnesota forecast.
• 2:55:48
  SPEAKER_37: Now, the piece continues to go on, talking about temperatures across the state averaged plus uh three to plus six degrees Fahrenheit above normal, which is a huge amount.
• 2:55:58
  SPEAKER_37: Quick statistical analysis.
• 2:56:00
  SPEAKER_37: Analysis shows that July temperatures have warmed 2.1 degrees over the past 50 years.
• 2:56:04
  SPEAKER_37: It may not sound like a lot, but remember that's most of the standard deviation increase, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 2:56:12
  SPEAKER_37: He refuted his own data.
• 2:56:15
  SPEAKER_37: So we were in the top four, top six.
• 2:56:19
  SPEAKER_37: We landed between 18, excuse me, 1916 and 2011, which just goes to show that we've been this hot before.
• 2:56:31
  SPEAKER_37: But yes, climate change is to blame everybody.
• 2:56:35
  SPEAKER_37: It's been happening since 1916.
• 2:56:39
  SPEAKER_37: Oh, sure, it went down a bit, right?
• 2:56:41
  SPEAKER_37: And then it kind of came back up, and then it got hot again, then it went down again.
• 2:56:44
  SPEAKER_37: But we're back there again.
• 2:56:45
  SPEAKER_37: And it's clearly because it's climate change.
• 2:56:47
  SPEAKER_37: It's just on a really long timeline.
• 2:56:50
  SPEAKER_37: How do people write this and then not see that they actually refuted their own claims?
• 2:56:59
  SPEAKER_37: I immediately noticed if you're in the top, if you're not at number one, if it's not the hottest it's ever been, and the hottest it's ever been with a level of consistency, then how can you go and blame it on anything other than Earth cycles?
• 2:57:14
  SPEAKER_37: Especially when you go back to say, you know, we've been keeping records for, you know, what was it?
• 2:57:19
  SPEAKER_37: What did he say here?
• 2:57:20
  SPEAKER_37: 1873?
• 2:57:22
  SPEAKER_37: We've been keeping records?
• 2:57:28
  SPEAKER_37: You can't make it up.
• 2:57:29
  SPEAKER_37: You can see it for yourself.
• 2:57:31
  SPEAKER_37: Over at Bring Me The News.
• 2:57:32
  SPEAKER_37: No, it's not climate change.
• 2:57:34
  SPEAKER_37: It's just hot like it was back in 1916 and got hot again.
• 2:57:38
  SPEAKER_37: And it'll probably cool down.
• 2:57:39
  SPEAKER_37: And I'm sure there will be some other leftist in whatever form of media they're using.
• 2:57:45
  SPEAKER_37: There'll probably be those clear screens that you see in all the future, sorry, futuristic movies and whatnot, or the newspapers that actually have moving screens on it or whatever.
• 2:57:53
  SPEAKER_37: And there'll be some other hack there going, you know what?
• 2:57:55
  SPEAKER_37: Boy, climate change continues.
• 2:57:58
  SPEAKER_37: It's the warmest it's been since going back to August 1st of 2026.
• 2:58:03
  SPEAKER_37: And it's all because of global warming.
• 2:58:07
  SPEAKER_37: The Minnesota Reformer has another piece.
• 2:58:10
  SPEAKER_37: I won't go through all of it.
• 2:58:11
  SPEAKER_37: I just wanted to share with you the takeaway.
• 2:58:14
  SPEAKER_37: This is the headline.
• 2:58:15
  SPEAKER_37: We've made progress against big tobacco.
• 2:58:19
  SPEAKER_37: We can do the same with the latest batch of bad air.
• 2:58:25
  SPEAKER_37: He talks about his grandfather.
• 2:58:27
  SPEAKER_37: Grandfather always told me, I don't want to go by the lungs.
• 2:58:31
  SPEAKER_37: Those were his words for telling me he feared dying due to lung failure.
• 2:58:37
  SPEAKER_37: I spent so much time at the hospital during his treatment and recovery from a near fatal aortic aneurysm that my parents say I learned to walk there.
• 2:58:46
  SPEAKER_37: His aneurysm wasn't a fluke.
• 2:58:48
  SPEAKER_37: My grandfather, um, the oldest of 11 in a poor Irish family, started smoking at age seven to take the edge off his hunger.
• 2:58:55
  SPEAKER_37: He smoked for decades.
• 2:58:56
  SPEAKER_37: Eventually, he did go by the lungs 16 years after his aneurysm.
• 2:59:02
  SPEAKER_37: The year he died, 2008, was also the year the Minnesota Pollution Air Control Agency began issuing air quality alerts.
• 2:59:09
  SPEAKER_37: I grew up in Southern California and uh before we ended up, because these were good things.
• 2:59:15
  SPEAKER_37: These, you know, pollution control agencies when they came out, especially late 70s into the 80s, these were good things.
• 2:59:21
  SPEAKER_37: I remember growing up in Southern California, we would have smog alerts.
• 2:59:24
  SPEAKER_37: You literally had news reports, and your parents would go and tell you get inside to get fresh air.
• 2:59:29
  SPEAKER_37: You couldn't stay outside.
• 2:59:30
  SPEAKER_37: You could see the haze in the air.
• 2:59:32
  SPEAKER_37: It looks like China, essentially, if you see any images of industrial China.
• 2:59:36
  SPEAKER_37: It's the same thing, just this, just this brown haze hanging over uh everything.
• 2:59:41
  SPEAKER_37: And you could feel it in your lungs at the time.
• 2:59:43
  SPEAKER_37: So these were good efforts by the government to put in regulations to curb these things from happening.
• 2:59:49
  SPEAKER_37: Then he goes and jumps at the shark.
• 2:59:51
  SPEAKER_37: He says many Minnesotans have recently experienced the worst air quality on record, and Minnesota held the status of having the worst air quality in the world.
• 2:59:59
  SPEAKER_37: Without change, we will continue to experience poor air quality due to wildfire smoke that has linked to hotter, drier summers that turn forests into kiddling.
• 3:00:09
  SPEAKER_37: Cleaner energy mandates, lawsuits against the oil companies, and financial investments in new technologies are critical tools for mitigating climate change.
• 3:00:17
  SPEAKER_37: He's blaming this on climate change.
• 3:00:19
  SPEAKER_37: Those stopping progress, like refusing to provide federal permits on wind farm projects, are delaying this shift, driving up the hospital admission rates and costing lives.
• 3:00:34
  SPEAKER_37: And then he goes to make the comparison that tobacco companies were once seemed invincible.
• 3:00:40
  SPEAKER_37: Change didn't happen all at once.
• 3:00:42
  SPEAKER_37: Public policy shifted gradually with lawsuits, higher taxes and restrictions on smoking in public buildings while culture also changed.
• 3:00:50
  SPEAKER_37: We face the same daunting policy and cultural challenge when it comes to climate change.
• 3:00:55
  SPEAKER_37: We must accept the grim reality of climate change and choose to honor each small action we take to address it.
• 3:01:01
  SPEAKER_37: We did something similar about the scourge of tobacco when we can do something about the once inconceivable event of wildfire smoke rolling in every summer.
• 3:01:11
  SPEAKER_37: It is so incredibly arrogant to believe that we would actually be able and capable to have technology to lower the temperature of the planet.
• 3:01:22
  SPEAKER_37: This article is an example of the lengths that these climate change fear mongerers have to go through to push their narratives.
• 3:01:31
  SPEAKER_37: It's got nothing to do with climate change.
• 3:01:33
  SPEAKER_37: It has everything to do with the Canadian government and the Canadian wildfire officials not doing what is necessary to clear the brush so we don't experience this every year.
• 3:01:45
  SPEAKER_37: If there is any culprit of climate change, it's the fact that too many people believe in climate change, and it's causing us to get choked out every summer because the idiots to our north are driving their policy based off of false climate change narratives.
• 3:02:02
  SPEAKER_37: And don't just take my word for it.
• 3:02:03
  SPEAKER_37: I'm looking at an article right here from the City Journal.
• 3:02:06
  SPEAKER_37: More than 100 million Americans were under air quality alerts, smoke reaching Washington, D.C.
• 3:02:13
  SPEAKER_37: Over 100 were burning in northwestern Ontario alone of the 900 wildfires that were burning during the time when this piece was written.
• 3:02:23
  SPEAKER_37: Nearly 80 large fires, uncontained nationwide, and 3.9 million acres have burned this year.
• 3:02:29
  SPEAKER_37: When wildfire smoke blankets America's largest cities, as it has several times in recent years, people look for scapegoats.
• 3:02:36
  SPEAKER_37: Climate change is a reflective answer.
• 3:02:38
  SPEAKER_37: President Trump has a different culprit.
• 3:02:40
  SPEAKER_37: He blamed Canada's willful negligence in failing to manage its forest and threatens, threatened to add the smoke's incalculable costs to the tariffs that Canada already pays.
• 3:02:54
  SPEAKER_37: And he says, now both diagnoses are incomplete.
• 3:02:58
  SPEAKER_37: Fire needs fuel, and a century of aggressive, a century of aggressive suppression combined with too little thinning and prescribed burning has allowed a dead wood and dense undergrowth to pile up across North American forests.
• 3:03:11
  SPEAKER_37: The large negligence broadly applies to both sides of the border.
• 3:03:15
  SPEAKER_37: Governments in both countries have had to spend heavily fighting fires after they start while neglecting the work that would have made them less severe.
• 3:03:25
  SPEAKER_37: The severity of the fire ultimately depends on how the landscapes are managed.
• 3:03:30
  SPEAKER_37: Targeted fuels treatment, including forest thinning, brush clearance, prescribed burning, removes the dense vegetation that causes the wildfire to spread, and intensity.
• 3:03:41
  SPEAKER_37: These treatments don't necessarily keep fires from starting, but they reduce the intensity.
• 3:03:46
  SPEAKER_37: They restore more natural forest conditions and give firefighters a better chance to contain the blazes once they break out.
• 3:03:52
  SPEAKER_37: Canada has done far too little of this.
• 3:03:55
  SPEAKER_37: The New York Times reported that in 2023, approvals for prescribed burns were so slow and burdensome to obtain that the provinces managed to do only a handful of controlled burns every year.
• 3:04:08
  SPEAKER_37: And little has changed since 2023.
• 3:04:11
  SPEAKER_37: An area barely larger than Manhattan, according to the recent Canadian Senate report, prescribed burns treated only about 700 of these hectaacres nationwide.
• 3:04:25
  SPEAKER_37: And again, it's barely an area larger than Manhattan.
• 3:04:29
  SPEAKER_37: The United States, by contrast, treats millions of acres with prescribed fire each year.
• 3:04:35
  SPEAKER_37: Florida alone burns more than 2 million acres annually.
• 3:04:39
  SPEAKER_37: Canada has begun to recognize the problem, yet responsibility remains fragmented.
• 3:04:45
  SPEAKER_37: Provinces and territories managed fires, but Ottawa supplies funding, science, and emergency coordination.
• 3:04:52
  SPEAKER_37: The Canadian Senate report found that no single authority is responsible for the national wildfire preparedness.
• 3:04:58
  SPEAKER_37: Everyone owns a piece of the problem and no one owns the outcome.
• 3:05:02
  SPEAKER_37: And that system tends to mobilize after a disaster is already underway.
• 3:05:08
  SPEAKER_37: Countries know how to make fires smaller and less severe.
• 3:05:12
  SPEAKER_37: The question is, how many more suffocating summers will it take before governments figure out that managing forests is better and cheaper than watching them burn?
• 3:05:20
  SPEAKER_37: Now, listen, I hope you stuck you stuck around for this and are about ready to close out the show.
• 3:05:24
  SPEAKER_37: Because it's incredibly relevant to the other piece that I just read.
• 3:05:28
  SPEAKER_37: Because what was the solution presented in the Minnesota Reformer here locally to this?
• 3:05:32
  SPEAKER_37: Fighting those individuals pushing back on climate change as if climate change deniers in their eyes are the ones that are responsible for us having to get choked out every single year because of the Canadian wildfires.
• 3:05:45
  SPEAKER_37: This article from the City Journal, and if you have a chance to go and read it for yourself, I would encourage you to do so: Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke, it explains why it is a complicated process and a complicated issue of which there are multiple solutions.
• 3:06:00
  SPEAKER_37: But the one takeaway clearly is that the solution proposed in that editorial that people read and buy into because they don't bother going and searching for the truth like I did for your edification on this show.
• 3:06:13
  SPEAKER_37: People read that and they believe it.
• 3:06:15
  SPEAKER_37: It's like, well, you know what?
• 3:06:16
  SPEAKER_37: We wouldn't have these wildfires.
• 3:06:17
  SPEAKER_37: I mean, that's the takeaway.
• 3:06:19
  SPEAKER_37: For somebody on the left who is dumb enough to take that article at face value, it would be that, well, you know what?
• 3:06:26
  SPEAKER_37: Maybe we wouldn't get choked out by these wildfires in Canada every year if the evil Republicans would just hop on board with global warming and climate change and build more wind mills and solar panels, then we wouldn't have this problem.
• 3:06:39
  SPEAKER_37: That was the takeaway from that ridiculous piece.
• 3:06:42
  SPEAKER_37: And I'm sure that that person who wrote it got applauded for it.
• 3:06:45
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• 3:06:49
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• 3:07:31
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