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10/28/26 | Natural Beauty, Scott Jensen Joins · The Jon Justice Show: Presented by Center of the American Experiment

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_42: It's Wednesday, and it's the John Justice Show presented by American Experiment.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_42: I'm glad you're with us once again, as always.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_42: If you want to watch the show, you can do so on uh Facebook.
• 0:11
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• 0:15
  SPEAKER_42: You can listen to the audio only feed on the Mix LR app and also at AmericaneExperiment.org.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_42: Joining us in studio this morning, State Auditor uh candidate uh Scott Jensen.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_42: He'll be with us right around uh seven o'clock this morning.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_42: We have more Ilhan Omar information, new details to share with you, including how uh Ilhan Omar apparently believes uh that it is um how she looks as a natural woman as to the reason why there is so much controversy around her and why the federal government is investigating her.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_42: It kind of sounds a little bit like she's throwing shade against uh her members of her own uh party when you consider the number of individuals who are uh dealing with Ozempic uh face and have gotten uh work done on their own.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_42: So uh a lot of ground to cover.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_42: We'll talk some crime this hour as well, but we are less than a week away from this all-important, most important election ever, right?
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_42: Every single election is the most important election uh ever.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_42: I want to share with you a story as we kick things off today from uh from Caroline.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_42: They had a piece that came out uh about a week ago.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_42: Why isn't Election Day a uh federal holiday?
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_42: A lot of people may not even realize this.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_42: And I'm convinced that neither political party wants to have Election Day be a holiday.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_42: I'll talk about this in a moment.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_42: First, I do want to share this piece of audio to set the stage for this opening uh conversation.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_42: As always, if you want to leave a comment at any point throughout the show, the blaster line is 651-964-0294.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_42: You can also email me john.justice at AmericanExperiment uh.org.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_42: So uh Kathy uh Griffin, C list actress, B list actress?
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_42: I don't know what you know, what category would you put her in?
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_42: She's pretty much irrelevant now.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_42: I think, you know, her biggest in my in my world, in the world of pop culture relating to John Justice, uh Seinfeld is probably her, you know, what I know her the most for was the appearances, the couple of episodes, I think it was actually in the final season.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_42: And this is probably some of the weaker episodes where she plays a fellow comedian and uh her whole shtick is to trash Jerry Seinfeld.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_42: That's what I know her best by.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_42: But since uh that time and sort of falling out of favor with Hollywood, she's become most notable for her anti-President Donald Trump antics.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_42: Probably one of the most famously known Trump derangement syndrome sufferers.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_42: Of course, famously the severed head, the bloody severed head of Trump that uh caused so much controversy.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_42: She posted a video uh on uh X Overnight I wanted to uh share with you.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_42: Let me mention this is like 32 seconds.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_42: There are nine edits in this video.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_42: 32 seconds long, and Kathy Griffin needed uh, again, needed some nine edits in order to just put this video together.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_42: Here's what she had to say.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_58: This really is it.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_58: This is the big one that decides whether we are fully a fascist country or we uh are not.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_58: It's essential that we win not only the House of Representatives, if they win or even retain the Senate, then uh we're really screwed.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_58: Can any of you guys not sleep because of fascism?
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_58: Me too.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_58: I'm I'm obsessed with it.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_58: I'm having a little bit of an in-person um live anxiety attack, and when I get those, I just flop sweat.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_42: I can't look I I believe that this is what she believes.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_42: I I believe this is how she genuinely feels.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_42: And it's really it's sad before it's anything else.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_42: What a pathetic existence.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_42: We go through this every single election cycle.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_42: You know, one party grabs power, sometimes the power structure is split, but ultimately, despite whichever party is in power, we end up surviving through all of this.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_42: Now, the stakes are raised higher and higher every single election cycle, right?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_42: Every election is the most important election.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_42: I don't deny that at all.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_42: And there's a specific reason why.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_42: And I don't think that was always true, by the way.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_42: I don't I I I think that there were times past when other elections were more important than elections that took place before or after.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_42: We're now in a realm where every election moving forward becomes the most important election because of just how far.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_42: And let's be real here, how far the left has been swinging left.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_42: On top of that, you have generations indoctrinated by the public education system.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_42: And those individuals who are now old enough to vote, they are not equipped with the information to even make it a common sense, rational choice.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_42: This is not in any way, shape, or form an excuse for the ignorance of young people.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_42: This is a failure of parents to properly go and teach their kids.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_42: It is ultimately a massive failure of our public education system, which has become a success for the leftists who have used our education system to go and indoctrinate as many young people as possible.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_42: But even when you get into the minutiae of issues and you want to debate issues, you can't with Gen Z for the most part because they're not even equipped to make an informed decision because they've only been told one side of the story.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_42: Kathy Griffin is a completely different ballgame.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_42: This is where the evil of the older liberals, leftists, comes into play because those individuals were raised and heard both sides of the argument.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_42: They heard actual history.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_42: Factual history, not the indoctrination.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_42: People like Kathy Griffin know better.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_42: And yet she still, in her abundance of ignorance, thinks that Republicans are fascists and that fascism is on the line and the country will be taken over by fascists if we don't win this election cycle.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_42: It's pathetic and sad.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_42: Certainly not the way that I want to go and live life.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_42: Now, that being said, I am curious to hear from you this morning as we kick the show off.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_42: So Tuesday, Americans are going to cast ballots in the midterms, determining the balance of power in Congress.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_42: And really, depending on who you are talking to, it can go either way.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_42: Like I said, I am of the opinion it's going to be decisive one way or the other.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_42: I don't anticipate that this is going to be a blowout by either side of the political spectrum.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_42: And I'm remaining positive, right?
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_42: That the outcome will be one that I'll be happy with at the end of the night, heading into the early morning hours on Tuesday into Wednesday as I get ready to do Wednesday show to recap whatever the outcome is, if we even know definitively what that outcome is.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_42: But I'm curious where you're at this morning.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_42: Democrats trying to take control of the U.S.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_42: Senate in the midterms, obviously.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_42: Current the Senate has 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, two independents, who caucus on the latter.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_42: You've got some five races that'll end up making up essentially the Senate race.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_42: The House of Representatives is a different ballgame.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_42: For many Americans, according to the Care 11 article, voting means early mornings, longer lunch breaks, or even rush to drives to the polls after work.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_42: And Americans often wonder every year whether Election Day is a federal holiday or why it's not.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_42: Now, the United States recognizes 11 federal holidays.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_42: Election Day is, of course, not one of them.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_42: I've been for an election day holiday, by the way.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_42: I have a text that rolled in.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_42: Making Election Day a national holiday is a bad idea.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_42: People would just turn it into a four-day weekend and less people would end up voting.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_42: Maybe.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_42: But this is part of the reason why you don't see either side pushing to make an election day, because both Democrats and Republicans have their opinions of how it's going to benefit the other party to make an election holiday.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_42: Like I would take that text that rolled into the blaster line at 651-964-0294, and I would say, well, okay, four-day weekend and less people would end up voting.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_42: Well, what people are not voting.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, if we're looking at this in terms of war games, right, politically speaking, nobody getting injured here.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_42: I'm talking theoretical.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_42: But um, if that's the proper terminology.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_42: But if you're talking about less people end up voting, well, you know, are those are those going to be Democrats or Republicans?
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_42: I'm going to argue probably Democrats, it's going to be the case.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_42: So if Election Day were to be recognized as a federal holiday, Congress would have to approve it through legislation, and the president would have to go and sign it into law.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_42: So they ask, why isn't Election Day a holiday?
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_42: And they write, busy conflicting schedules on Election Day are one reason some voters don't head to the polls.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, yeah, too bad, so too bad, so sad.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_42: Well, then don't make it a federal holiday.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_42: Just make election day on a Saturday instead.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_42: I like that.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_42: Make it one day.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_42: That's that's my big thing.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_42: My big thing has always been get rid of the mail-in balloting, except in the most specific of cases where an individual cannot get to the polls to vote, make one day to vote, and that's the day everybody goes and votes.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_42: Case closed.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_42: You can make it a holiday, I'm fine with that too.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_42: But like I said, there is a there's a direct link to politicians on both sides of the aisle who want to avoid any um benefit to the other party, and they make arguments, much like that text, of, well, I don't want to do this because I feel like it's gonna benefit Democrats this way, and then Democrats would say, well, I feel like it's gonna benefit Republicans this way, and so neither of them ever push for this.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_42: At the same time, we're still debating on whether or not to get rid of daylight saving time.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_42: So to make an uh, you know, an election a federal holiday seems like a bit of a stretch if we can't even figure out how to get all of our clocks lined up.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_42: Now, those against the efforts argue it could cause longer lines at the polls, bring about issues with child care, and even hurt workers who do not have holiday pay.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_42: Well, child care uh child care is not an issue here in Minnesota.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_42: There's plenty of uh places where people can go and get child care.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_42: Just want to point that out.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_42: Or maybe there isn't.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_42: Rather than a paid holiday, those that are against the efforts to create a holiday, they say they'd rather focus on expanding early voting.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_42: Of course they would.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_42: And therein comes the argument of okay, well, that's gonna end up benefiting, you know, Republicans will say benefiting Democrats because Republicans typically vote on election day, and then you see my point being made in this piece.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_42: In more recent years, some companies have shown a surge of interest in guaranteeing voting time off.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_42: More than 2,000 companies have pledged with time to vote to provide the time off for employees to vote or distribute voter information from 2016 to 2022.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_42: Patagonia gave its workers the day off on election day.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_42: In 2024, the company used uh company closed stores to give employees time off to vote as well.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_42: So again, uh the question I want to ask this morning to you as we kick off the first hour of Wednesday's show, I'm gonna bring you details on uh the feds raiding the mansion of a billionaire who bankrolled Eric uh Swalwell.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_42: Funny you don't see any Democrats coming out and saying that this is a weaponization of uh of the Department of Justice when it comes to Swalwell.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_42: But I'll give you details on that.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_42: But where is your head at this morning?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_42: Like, how are you feeling a week out from Election Day?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_42: What's your approach to all this?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_42: It's a nuanced question.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_42: I'm I'm asking a sort of a very general question, but with less than a week to go, I'm curious how you are.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_42: I was inspired by Kathy Griffin and how stressed out uh she was about election day looming.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_58: This really is it.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_58: This is the big one that decides whether we are fully a fascist country or we uh are not.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_58: It's essential.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_42: Okay, Kathy Griffin.
• 12:41
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• 12:45
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• 12:46
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• 12:48
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• 14:37
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  SPEAKER_35: Kathy Griffin doesn't believe any of the things she's saying.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_35: She's clinging on to relevance.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_35: I got her marching orders from from Hollywood industry telling her, You keep doing this, and maybe you'll get a bigger role, and maybe we'll put you in a footcom or we'll do something for you.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_35: And then all of a sudden you'll see them hosting some kind of show on the evening TV, or you'll see them getting in a new sitcom role or in a new movie.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_35: Always the way it's been.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_35: She doesn't believe any of it.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_42: So I disagree, but it's specific to Kathy Griffin.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_42: I think you have a point regarding celebrities in general.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_42: Not all, but some.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_42: And Kathy Griffin's place, in her case, she's been acting this way, and I don't want to wipe out and spend too much time on Kathy Griffin of all people.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_42: But when it comes to Kathy Griffin, no, she's been doing this shtick for a while and hasn't done anything in terms of entertainment.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_42: She is, she hasn't been ostracized, but she is just aged and uh basically looked out.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, she'd always was a weird-looking person, but she looks even more creepy now.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_42: So for her, no, I truly believe that she sits around and worries about these things the way that she says.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_42: I think she's being absolutely honest and true in her assessment.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_42: I do agree that there's some other celebrities that take advantage of being political and trying to go and get gigs in Hollywood, but I don't think that's the case when it comes to uh Kathy, uh Kathy Griffin.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_19: Yeah, good morning, John.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_19: Dennis for Southwest Minnesota.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_19: I'm feeling good.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_19: I think the midterms are both good.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_19: I think uh conservatives will win, the Republicans will win.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_19: I don't think uh all these DSA and combinations uh will win.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_19: They will not win.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_19: Um feeling good.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_19: Ray the vote on November 3rd.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_19: You have a you have a glorious, great day.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_42: Thank you so much.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_42: I really do appreciate the uh I really do appreciate the comments.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_42: I had a text that rolled in.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_42: Um let's see.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_42: Uh here we go.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_42: I'm fighting the indoctrination of my kids in school.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_42: My elementary kids came home from school last week saying Trump is mean and I don't like him.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_42: This is what I'm talking about.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_42: This is not an excuse for the younger generation, but the left has been incredibly effective in going and indoctrinating an entire generation to where they're not even equipped to know the difference between left versus right.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_42: They only know one side of the argument and their version of the right, which is not anything new, by the way.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_42: This phenomenon happened and has always happened.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_42: It's amplified now because the indoctrination has spread like a cancer through our schools and continues to do so.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_42: Catherine Wigfall, Josiah Padley here at American Experiment are education policy fellows, they've been on top of this issue, and rightfully so, because it's distressing, because it's going to impact future generations.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_42: Unless you are a kid that's been raised in a household that is taught the entirety of history factually, the majority of students who aren't getting any supplemental education or walking away from the public education system the same way that generations did post-9-11 in the, you know, Bush's bad.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_42: But back then you didn't have social media and the internet like we do now, where you could have those ideas perpetuate even further that bolster the indoctrination taking place within our schools.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_42: All right, the feds raided the mansion of a billionaire who bankrolled Eric Swalwell.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_42: We're going to get to that in just a moment.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_42: More of your thoughts on where your head is at with less than a week to go in this election.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_42: Speaking of education, though, on the John Justice show presented by American Considering.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_04: Hello, this is Joe Scott, and I'm still the only conservative on the Eastern Carver County Schools Board.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_04: I've told you about the sub optimal reading, math, and science.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_04: Proficiency of students in our school district.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_04: Here's the solution.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_04: Let teachers teach.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_04: They were hired because of their expertise.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_04: Let them run their classrooms and get them immediate help when a student acts up.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_04: Minimize learning interruptions.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_04: Let parents parent your child, your values.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_04: Make sure your children are ready to go to school, learn, and respect their teachers and classmates.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_04: Also make sure that your children understand the consequences if they don't.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_04: Let students learn, stick to the basics, teach them how to think critically and have civil discussions with those who don't agree with them.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_04: Hold our superintendent contractually accountable for our students' academic proficiency and our district's enrollment growth.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_04: That's how we get our district back on the right track.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_04: If you want to learn more about where I stand on the issues facing our school district, go to reelectjoeescott.com.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_51: Our kids deserve a school board focused on what matters most: academic excellence.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_51: That's why Rick Storley, Lisa Atkinson, and Amy Witt are stepping up for Prior Lake Savage Area Schools.
• 23:06
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• 23:17
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• 23:20
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• 23:21
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• 23:23
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• 23:26
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• 23:29
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• 23:36
  SPEAKER_21: Morning, John.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_21: Tommy the Elder.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_21: I think the election is going to be extremely close.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_21: There will be fraud.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_21: There's no way around that.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_21: It's a banner of how bad it's going to be.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_21: And on Kathy Griffin, if anybody can tell her or have her explain what a fascist is, that would be wonderful.
• 23:58
  unknown: Thank you.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, whatever she thinks a fascist is, is certainly not what a fascist is.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_42: You know what Kathy uh Griffin needs?
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_42: I bet you can guess.
• 24:07
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• 24:13
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• 24:21
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• 24:28
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• 24:29
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• 24:30
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• 24:35
  SPEAKER_42: Gotta be 21 or older, of course, right?
• 24:37
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• 24:38
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• 24:50
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• 24:53
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• 24:59
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• 25:01
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• 25:10
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• 25:11
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• 25:12
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• 25:13
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• 25:16
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• 25:19
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• 25:21
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• 25:24
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• 25:26
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• 25:31
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• 25:35
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• 25:37
  SPEAKER_24: Good morning.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_24: I'm feeling relieved that all the ads and cats for election is gonna be finished pretty soon.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_24: But then the Medicaid enrollment plan commercials are gonna double.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_42: So can I wipe out for I'm gonna wipe out for just a second?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_42: I planned on doing this later in the show, and I still will.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_42: But if you're not paying attention, like I don't I how close are people even paying attention to any of these political ads anymore?
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_42: I don't think the creators of these ads are paying any attention.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_42: I don't think the viewers of these ads are paying any attention.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_42: So yesterday I did, and throughout the show on X, because I schedule posts every morning to promote the show on the social media platform.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_42: And of course, you can watch the show on my X feed as well.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_42: But uh on my feed this morning promoting the show, I went and uh included a couple of different campaign clips from different candidates.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_42: Because I I went and took the time to go and actually listen to what it was that they were saying, and it turns out they're like saying next to nothing.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_42: Like here's an example for you, but I'm gonna get back to your I am gonna play the Swalwell stuff.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_42: I know.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_42: I'm all over the place this morning, but it's kind of where my head is at today, right?
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_42: It's all election related.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_42: Right.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_42: So I'll get to the Swalwell raid here in just a moment.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_42: But here's uh here's the one of the more recent um campaign ads that Peggy Flanagan has up on X.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_42: This is the one that really sparked my my line of thinking on this, okay?
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_42: So uh the text for the ad, and I have a great Pete Butichic one that I'll share with you later on.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_42: But the text for the ad says, Life shouldn't be this hard.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_42: It's not by accident.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_42: It's because Donald Trump and his billionaire bunnies benefit from it being this way.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_42: So this is Pecky Flanagan in the ad at some sort of campaign stop.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_42: Uh, you got a bunch of old people in the audience, she's standing there and she's talking about the campaign and what concerns her.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_61: Somehow there's always enough for you know his gilded ballrooms or for bombs, but there's never enough money for you.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_61: Right?
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_61: And it's time that that changed.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_61: Uh the question that I always want to ask is who benefits from it being this way?
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_61: Because right now, it's not you, and it's certainly not me.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_61: And so I am ready to go to Washington, D.C.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_61: to make sure that real folks have a voice.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_42: What the hell is she talking about?
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_42: If you actually pay attention to that video, uh so first off, she's not running against Trump.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_42: I understand.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_42: I I get the rationale as to why she angled it towards Trump because they can't argue the issues here in Minnesota without falling flat on their face, having to talk about the fact that it's Democrats who have caused all the problems that we're faced with and what Republicans are running on to go and get things back on track.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_42: So she has to go and focus on Trump.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_42: But then you get to there's never enough money for you, but there's enough for Trump to go and spend money on the ballroom.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_42: So is the line of thinking that if Trump didn't build the ballroom, suddenly everybody in that audience is going to go and get extra money?
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_42: It doesn't, it make it these don't none of the none of them do.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_42: Like it doesn't, there's no logic there.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_42: This one, and I'll go ahead and go here now, since I'm since I'm here.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_42: So Democrat wins media posted this um up on their X feed.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_42: And this was this is how they labeled it.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_42: Breaking.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_42: In a powerful moment, Pete Buttigieg just made clear that Donald Trump and his family are the most corrupt first family in American history.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_42: The hashtag blue wave in seven days is going to end that corruption once and for all.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_42: Let's go.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_42: Here is the clip they posted.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_10: Not to mention the first family.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_10: Remember, for them, things are going along just fine.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_10: As far as they're concerned, we're in a golden age.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_10: And it is a golden age for them.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_10: They would keep this going on forever if they could.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_10: And they would, except they got this one little problem, which is uh there's an election going on right now, and that's when we get to decide what happens now.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_42: Did he do anything of what they said in that clip?
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_42: Pete Buttigieg breaking in the clip.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_42: In a powerful moment, Pete Buttigieg just made clear that Donald Trump and his family are the most corrupt first family in American history.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_42: He's like, oh my gosh, what did he expose?
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_42: Not to mention the first family.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_10: Remember, for them, things are going along just fine.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_10: As far as they're concerned, we're in a golden age.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_10: And it is a golden age.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_10: For them, they would keep this going on forever if they could.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_10: And they would, except they got this one little problem, which is uh there's an election going on right now, and that's when we get to decide what happens now.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_42: There's nothing, there was none of that was in there.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_42: I do, I I am encouraged.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_42: I am absolutely encouraged, however, because often I want to go and respond to a video like that, and I almost did yesterday, and I have more examples that I'll share later on in the uh in the show.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_42: But you know, I want to go, I want to go and comment because I'm just like I'm pulling like the great the gray hairs on my head.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_42: I'm just like there is no you first off, you labeled it and that didn't happen in the video.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_42: Even I was curious, even though I don't support Pete Mutajic.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_42: Pete Buttigieg, apparently Dim Walls does.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_42: He was asked about this.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_42: We'll talk about it next hour.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_42: He was at an event in DC, was on C-SPAN, and he was asked about winning in the election or winning in 2028, and he said, pick Pete Buttigieg.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, poor Kabala.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_42: I guess he's angling to Pete's VP nominee.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_42: But I am encouraged because I go in to actually comment on a video like that, and I don't like to go and comment on things completely unprovoked for the most part.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_42: Um, but thankfully other people have gone in there and done the job for me.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_42: So I go, all right, that makes me feel better.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_42: I'm not the only one that's realizing just how ludicrous these ads are because they're not saying there's nothing of substance in them.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_42: We had a whole discussion during the staff meeting earlier this week, here at American Experiment.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_42: And this is kind of where the impetus, you know, sort of the the the little spark of inspiration came from initially that fed into yesterday and seeing these ads.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_42: But you know, the comments that you typically hear in these ads, especially from the leftists, is you know, listen, um uh, you know, blah blah blah blah really uh supports uh lower prices.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_42: It's just he he they they they support having having goods cost less.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, everybody does.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_42: We really support lowering your health care costs.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_42: I'm for not paying a lot for your health care.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, okay.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_42: And I just think people just they just blanketly accept it.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_42: How many people saw that?
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_42: And I'm really wiping out on this, but how many people saw that?
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_42: Breaking Pete Buttigieg just called out Trump and his family being the most corrupt in history, but didn't bother to watch the clip to realize they didn't even get an answer to their question.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_42: Because that's what should happen.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_42: What should happen is people should be thinking critically enough and deep enough to watch a video like that, regardless of political party, and go, you didn't say what it is that you said that they were going to do.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_42: Because that's the only way that you end up getting change and you get better quality ads that have substance to them.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_42: This is me sitting here talking to you, not holding my breath, because once again I don't want to pass out live on the show and on the video.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_30: All it says is, why is Trump selling out to Putin?
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_30: With no context, no facts, no basis.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_30: They might as well have been saying Trump strangles baby kittens for buck.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_30: It's ridiculous.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_55: Don't understand it.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_55: I'm actually tired of people talking about the ballroom.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_55: The ballroom, I don't even know if Trump will benefit from it.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_55: I don't think it will be finished by the time he leaves office.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_55: The ballroom is for future presidents and future people who come to the business for their safety.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_55: Um, I really don't think that if that um the ballroom will benefit Trump very much at all.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_55: Thank you.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_39: Good morning, John Victor.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_39: Um, you had it right when you said, Is this the thought process here?
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_39: They don't build the so now you have money.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_39: That is what they're trying to make the thought process.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_39: It's a hundred percent the victim mentality.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_39: Oh, because they have money, that's why I can't pay off the student loans that I chose to take out for my pottery classes.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_39: Because they have money, that's why I can't afford a house because I don't want to work more than 20 hours a week.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_39: Because they have money, that's why my car's brakes went out, because I knew they were grinding for three months and I did nothing about it.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_46: Yeah.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_39: It's the victim mentality.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_39: It's always, well, but it's their fault.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_39: I can't be blamed.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_42: Or it's Operation Metro Surge's fault, or we're gonna have an Operation Metro Surge update coming up uh later on in the show because the efforts, again, calm before the storm, the effort to keep Operation Metro Surge has reached new heights.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_42: You have the the mother and father, and we'll talk about this of Alex Predi.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_42: They dominated the headlines yesterday because they held the press conference.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_42: It couldn't have been more politically staged if you tried.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_42: If you tried.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_42: Now I get it from their perspective.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_42: Strike while the iron is hot to go and move forward on an issue that obviously they're devastated by, the loss of their son.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_42: I have to say the required yes, that would be horrible for any, for every everybody.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_42: But that's about where my sympathy starts starts and stops on that.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_42: And we'll get into this next hour.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_42: But they were at the height of it, and that's not the only way that the media is trying to keep Operation Metro Surge in play.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_42: You know, hey, if fascism returns, you can blame Operation Metro Surge, Kathy Griffin.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_35: Here's the John Justice smear ad when you're running for governor.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_35: All right.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_35: John Justice is a creep.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_35: One time at the gym, he got caught looking at a girl's bug.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_35: And he smells John Justice makes money, and we need to take that money because he makes more money than you do.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_35: John Justice says things that we don't like.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_35: We need to silence him.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_35: Paid for by useful idiots.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, the uh the trolls are coming out in mass on X, by the way.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_42: I had a dude yesterday, he ended up calling me, what did he call me, a disingenuous grifter?
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_42: I'm like, and I this is what I I responded to because I just thought it was funny.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_42: I was like, you know what?
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_42: I've been called a lot of things, and some of those names are warranted, nerd being one of them, right?
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_42: Okay, because I had another person that was trying to give me a hard time for being a conservative, but also being a Star Wars fan and trying to make a political point.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_42: It's like the Empire is literally the Trump administration.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_42: It's like if you're having to use Star Wars to make a political point, you've kind of already lost.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_42: The person got really, really triggered, though.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_42: You got to go to my feed to uh to check it out.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_42: But the but the disingenuous grifter one made me laugh.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_42: I'm like, do you uh you don't know me at all?
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_42: Like you can call me all kinds of things.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_42: Most of it is unwarranted, right?
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_42: And based off of lies and assumptions.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_42: But to go and refer to me as a disingenuous grifter, that's just a weird one.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_42: By the way, disingenuous grifter, rock band or a racehorse?
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_42: Rock band.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_42: Really?
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_42: See, I was gonna say racehorse.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_42: But, you know, the grifter does sound a little bit like drifters.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_42: It could be like, ooh, that's good.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_42: Uh uh, disingenuous uh grifter and the drifters.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_42: Ooh, I like that one quite a bit.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_42: All right, we'll get to more of your thoughts here in just a moment.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_42: From the blaster line, 651-964-0294.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_42: Let's go here.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_42: FBI raids the mansion of a billionaire who bankrolled Eric Swalwell.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_42: Here's a bit of the reporting when the uh news broke.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_42: Jesse Waters on Fox News.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_11: Fox News Alert, the news is tightening on Eric Swalwell.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_11: The FBI just raided a mansion in Beverly Hills.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_11: It's where he used to shack up with a sugar daddy.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_11: This is part of the criminal investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_11: Remember, Sleazy Swalwell was the front runner for governor until multiple women accused him of misconduct.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_11: One of rape.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_11: He dropped out of the governor's race and quit Congress the very next day.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_11: But the feds don't quit.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_11: They seized his devices at the San Francisco airport, then hit his D.C.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_11: home, where he was spotted looking awfully nervous.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_11: Nobody's getting a free pass, especially not James Comey.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_11: The DOJ's back after him.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_11: They say he leaks national security secrets to a reporter just weeks before the 2016 election.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_11: And he released another hostage video.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_11: The hot seat's getting crowded.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_11: Ilhan's been hogging it for weeks, and she's not scooting over.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_11: She's actually milking it.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_11: I'd hold off on the calls, Omar.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_11: The feds are already digging into her love life and her husband's money as well.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_42: Remember, we're going to get further into uh Ilhan Omar a little bit later on in the show with the more recent updates, including uh what I missed from the Hassan Piker uh podcast and how she said that a part of the reason why she was being investigated and then criticized by the right was because of her natural beauty.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_42: I uh you can't just you can't make this stuff up.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_42: So Klobeck, Klubeck, Klobeck, founder of Diamond Resorts International, he was among Swalwell's most prominent donors during his failed campaign as California governor, contributed directly to his campaign, spent more than one million supporting Swalwell's candidacy, and allowed the former congressman to stay at his Beverly Hills mansion.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_42: He initially stood behind uh Swalwell, but that support collapsed after the allegations emerged.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_42: In April, uh the billionaire said he no longer allowed the Swalwell to stay in his home.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_42: He previously had pursued his own campaign for governor before stepping aside and backing Swalwell.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_42: His financial support included a maximum direct contribution of$39,200, a private trip to France, because everybody has to go to France if you're going to be running for governor in California, apparently.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_42: That was valued at$31,000, according to the post.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_42: I'm sure there was no like uh money laundering or anything going on uh whatsoever in that in that whole situation.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_42: Um The billionaire is also facing a separate legal case.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_42: Swalwell faced a renewed scrutiny in August after the White House released the declassified FBI records detailing his past relationship with Christine Feng, also known as Fang Fang.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_42: No relation to Jar Jar.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_42: Suspected Chinese intelligence operative.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_42: Intelligence being a questionable word.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_42: The documents showed that Swalwell told investigators that he had physical relations with Fang Fang on several occasions.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_42: They bang banged.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_42: Sorry.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_42: Again, I'm a nerd.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_42: Uh FBI previously examined Fang's activities and potential uh illegal campaign uh contributions.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_42: Uh so again, this is not a weaponization of the Justice Department, apparently.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_42: Even though the same laws, right, the same laws and procedures were followed when it comes to the investigation into Eric Swalwell, right?
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_42: No different in terms of the way that the the process works in lawful law enforcement, but with Eric Swalwell, not a weaponization of the federal government, but certainly with uh President with uh excuse me, Ilhan Omar being investigated by President Donald Trump, that is a weaponization of the Justice Department.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_42: All right, let's get back to a few of your thoughts.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_42: How are you feeling heading into less than a week away of this midterm election?
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_28: This is what I predict happening.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_28: Amy Clover loses by 10,000 or 8,000, whatever.
• 42:13
  unknown: Okay.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_28: And recall very immediately one for eating over.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_42: You know, I I I want to I wanna I I wanna dismiss that, okay?
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_42: I I wanna dismiss that because it's just it's a it's a fun little story, and go, ah, it's just silly.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_42: I've learned my lesson on that though.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_42: I ri I ha especially here in Minnesota.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_42: You just you can't you can make you can make the most you make up the most ridiculous situation whatsoever, and yet it still somehow ends up paling uh in in the face of reality of stories when they pop up.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, listen, what other you know, state or set of of cities, you know, can have the St.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_42: Paul mayor be embroiled, of which suddenly now has disappeared, right?
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_42: Embroiled in this investigation and lawsuit over her making you know unwanted advances to the police chief moaning as if she was having an orgasm in front of women and and all of that in in St.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_42: Paul, where in the Twin Cities you have city council members that are worried about cats have been killed.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_12: And cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_12: And I have a cat.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_12: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_12: So those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats, and that's unfair.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_12: I just watched a video sitting here from the Deus, and it was really hard to watch.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_12: Literally cats being murdered by these vehicles.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_42: So, I mean, and then you get the the Hennepin County attorney who makes ridiculous statements like this.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_62: There are no roving gangs of Somali people in this community harassing, threatening, doing anything to any of our community members.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_42: So again, while I would like to go and take that comment that rolled in and go, oh, that's just silly.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, we've seen a heck of a lot worse.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_42: All right.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_42: Uh let's go here to the blaster line.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_33: Omar's natural beauty.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_33: Oh my god.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_33: She's like a two or three at best with a lot of makeup and uh hundred thousand dollars worth of clothes and jewelry.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_33: Oh my god.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_42: It seemed like a bit of like I said, it seemed like she was throwing uh a bit of shade towards her own party by making that uh making that comment.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_42: So uh and like I said, we'll uh we'll talk more about that a little bit later on in the show.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_42: Uh moving forward.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_42: This made me laugh.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_42: This is from Fox9, just keeping with the election theme.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_42: We'll continue to take your thoughts.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_42: How are you feeling?
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_42: How are how are you?
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_42: Share, let's, let's, let's uh take some cues from the leftists.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_42: Like, you know, share how that makes you feel, right?
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_42: How are you feeling with less than a week to go before uh these midterm elections?
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_42: Uh 651-964-0294.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_42: I'm not looking for predictions, by the way.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, if that ends up being included in your commentary, that's fine.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_42: I just want to know personally how you were doing.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_42: Like maybe nobody in your life has asked you.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_42: How are you doing right now, friend?
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_42: So, friend, info.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_42: How are you doing right now?
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_42: 651-964-0294.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_42: Fox9 put together a rather interesting piece.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_42: And I had every intention of sort of mocking this, because it's kind of what I do.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_42: Um, however, there actually is some good advice in here.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_42: How to talk our politics with family.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_42: A Minnesota debate coach shares tips.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_42: Okay.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_42: And again, I wanted to mock this, and then I got into the details and I went, no, that's actually some pretty decent advice.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_42: University of Minnesota debate coach, David, Dr.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_42: David Cram Hellwich, sharing personal advice on navigating political disagreements with his family, emphasizes the importance of persuasion through identification and active listening.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_42: Is he asking people to show ID?
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_42: Can't do that.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_42: He's encouraging viewers to form their own opinions rather than relying on social media.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_42: That's good.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_42: Hellwich also highlights the risk, the high-risk nature of political debates and the need for uh candidates to advocate for their positions.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_42: So uh this uh Dr.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_42: Hellwich, he coached the U of M forensic team for nearly two decades.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_42: They've qualified for the last 18 debate equivalents of March Madness.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_42: Pinkies up.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_42: It's so funny when you think well, like I you watch a you watch a movie or a TV show and they have like a debate club.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_42: Like when I think debate, I think Twitter.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_42: I think X.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_42: I don't think about young people that are actually having like a very civilized sort of uh sort of debate.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_42: Anyway, here's a few of the pieces of advice.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_42: He has two.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_42: One, he says, it'd be the same advice I would give political candidates.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_42: Persuasion about uh is persuasion is about identification.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_42: And so if you want to persuade somebody to at least consider your perspective on a particular issue, you need to establish a common basis of which um of what is that you think is important that aligns with whomever you're talking to, right?
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_42: So essentially what he's saying is can you get on the same page of what your goal is through policy?
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_42: Like if you're talking with somebody, if you genuinely believe you want to better society or people, that should be your baseline standard, and then you can start having discussions off of that.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_42: Okay, it makes sense.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_42: He said the second piece of advice, and this would maybe surprise some people coming from a debate person, is you need to listen.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_42: And what I mean by that is uh people have, I think in most cases, we should assume that people have good faith reasons for their particular policy position or political commitments, and it helps us to understand why they think the way that they do.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_42: That's a great point, but unfortunately, when you're arguing with the opposition, especially right to left, it's hard to get anybody who actually wants to listen because they already have their own preconceived notions and ideas embedded into their head.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_42: Or you're talking about the problem, especially as I mentioned, with younger generations, where they simply are not equipped with the knowledge to debate the issues at all because they've only been told one side of the issue.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_42: He says Hellwich said candidates are advocates for their own side, not necessarily for the viewer.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_42: They're advocates, right?
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_42: They're advocating for their candidate, but they aren't necessarily advocating for your interests.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_42: And so I think approaching debates with an open mind and looking for people who say things that resonate with you, either about what it is that we need to be concerned about as a country or what types of policies we should pursue, I think it's really important.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_42: I personally believe that the one of the biggest reasons why we have such a divide in this country, there is so much division, is because of the fact that it's there's a lot of tribalism going on for one, but people just simply haven't educated themselves on the issue, especially those younger generations.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_42: And there's varying degrees to that, right?
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_42: You have the young people that only know one side of the argument, and then you move on up to adults who either weren't taught the truth in school or simply haven't bothered to do any research.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_42: And so, therefore, to debate any of these particular issues is almost completely impossible to do because of those preconceived notions, and they've bought into so much of what they've seen simply online being peddled by the candidates, like we mentioned in that Peggy Flanagan video.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_42: She didn't say anything of substance there.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_42: It was just Trump is bad.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_42: He built a ballroom, and he you probably could have gotten more money if he hadn't gone and built that ballroom.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_42: All right, 651-964-0294.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_42: Let's get back to a few more of your thoughts from the blaster line this morning.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_31: Good morning, John.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_31: Alex, friend of the show.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_31: How am I feeling about this election?
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_31: Yes.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_31: Four years ago, during the government during the election in the mid-term neighborhood.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_31: Unfortunately, I live in a very democratic neighborhood.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_31: Optimism.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_42: Thank you, uh Alex, uh, for the uh for the comment.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_42: I appreciate it.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_42: I don't play the yard side game.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_42: I I just I know a lot of people do, and that's fine.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_42: And you handle things how you want to handle things.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_42: If those things, you know, are important to you, are important to you, they're important to you.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_42: I'll tell you, listen, for this year, I don't have any signs in my yard.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, typically we have a few.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_42: There are some where they're just like walls of signs, but I don't have any signs in my yard.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_57: Hi, John.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_57: This is Julie from Excel here.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_57: Hi, Julie.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_57: I just want to say I think this election is the most important since the last presidential election.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_57: And I keep picturing David Fade saying bye-bye to Yvonne and Omar.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_57: Have a good day.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_42: Thank you, Julie.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_42: Let's go uh here to the blaster line.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_03: So uh with the debate thing, the technique that I try to use is obviously listening to the person because I want to understand them.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_03: But then whatever you were talking about, I say I don't say you're not saying this, or I don't say I believe something, but I think so the people that are saying this or that or whatever, are you so those people don't have any validity to that, or do you think maybe there might be something to it?
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_42: Okay.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_42: All right.
• 52:16
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• 52:44
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• 54:39
  SPEAKER_42: Had a comment that rolled into the uh blaster line at 651-964-0294 asking, you know, how are you feeling with less than a week to go in this election?
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_42: We'll ask that question to uh Dr.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_42: Scott Jensen.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_42: I'm looking at him on the comfy sofa and we'll talk to him in just a minute, uh, live in the uh American Experiment Studios.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_42: Uh this comment, though, although I'm very hopeful, I feel like the election is going to turn out like the Minnesota Vikings.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_42: Well, I mean, we're we are we are 6-0 right now.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_42: I do still believe that there is a massive loss just waiting out there to happen, even though it hasn't occurred yet, but we'll see how that shakes out.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_42: This is a reason.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_42: So as I was talking about those campaign ads earlier and how so many of so many of them just don't make any sense at all.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_42: Uh, this is why this is probably one of my favorite parodies of at least this is over over 10 years old at this point in time, might be 15 years old, but one of my favorite election parodies ever, uh, done by the team that's no longer together over at cracked uh.com, the most electable candidate here on the John Justice Show presented by American Experiment.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_43: Does anyone else miss the time when we used to work this land?
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_43: The time politicians serve the people.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_43: Does anyone else miss America?
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_43: I'm Ronald Montgomery Taylor.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_43: I don't want to be your president.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_43: You can call me Ron, or you can call me Dr.
• 56:01
  SPEAKER_43: Taylor.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_43: It's your choice.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_43: I am pro-choice, but not in the way you're thinking.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_43: Just generally.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_43: No, I'm not some fast-talking politician.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_43: I grew up on a farm right in the middle of Boston.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_43: My father was a simple farmer.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_43: My mother was a simple dean of admissions at Harvard.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_43: Everything is too expensive today.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_43: That's fine.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_43: Immigration.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_43: Well, I'm not interested in addressing that.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_43: I want to get us back to a simpler time.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_43: A time when women knew their place, the workforce.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_43: A time when kids respected their elders and grew up to start internet companies, and said their prayers before bed.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_43: If they wanted to.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_43: And when those planes hit those two towers, I thought, man.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_43: America.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_43: Okay.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_43: Conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_43: In the end, do these words really mean anything?
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_43: Yes.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_43: Yes, they do.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_43: That's their job as words.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_43: I know what you're thinking.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_43: Healthcare, abortion, Congress, banks.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_43: Well, I want you to know.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_43: I feel the exact same way as you.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_43: Sometimes you just need to stop, slow down, take a look around, and say, okay, let's make Ron president.
• 57:17
  SPEAKER_43: I'm Ron, or Dr.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_43: Taylor, and frankly, I'm a little ambivalent about this message.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_42: You know what I need to do?
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_42: I need to take that throwing into AI and just change the voice to Amy Klobuchar's voice, and I think it'd be like just perfect.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_42: The most recent one, which is like, I don't want to move left, I don't want to move right, I want to move the state forward.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_42: I just okay.
• 57:59
  SPEAKER_42: Somebody texted into the blaster line last time.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_42: The Vikings were 6-0, they missed the playoffs.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_42: You can kind of say that about most of the season.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_42: Anyway, it is the John Justice show presented by American Experiment, that blaster line, where you can leave us a voice or text message.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_42: 651-964-0294.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_42: And I can think of no better individual to have a uh conversation with based off of, well, you know, how are you feeling with less than a week to go and talk in a little rational and common sense election?
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_42: Uh, Scott Jensen, running for state auditor, joins me on the comfy chair in the American Experiment Studio.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_42: Good morning, Scott.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_42: How are you doing this morning?
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_08: Real good, John.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_08: Thank you for having me on your show.
• 58:37
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, so how are you feeling with uh less than uh less than a week to go and uh another campaign almost behind you, but maybe a lot more ahead of you depending on how things shake out next Tuesday.
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_42: How are you feeling?
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_08: I'd be lying if I said every day I feel the same way and I'm feeling super optimistic.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_08: I think I vacillate between being guardedly optimistic and pessimistic as well.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_08: I I sometimes get frustrated with the hard left message that just doesn't seem to make any sense, and yet it gets so much airtime.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_08: I get frustrated with uh Star Tribune.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_08: I think they're playing games with trying to get gotcha moments with candidates.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_08: Recently we had Hassan Piker come into Minnesota.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_08: And I mean, this is a person who clearly profits and builds his brand off of making ludicrous comments.
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_08: And he did it again.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_08: He he called basically 40, 50 percent of Minnesotans terrorists if they happen to attribute them uh the Republican Party to some of the values that they hold dear and near.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_08: He said at one time America deserved 9-11.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_08: And yet, even my opponent is sitting there celebrating the endorsement that he received from the organization that brought Hassan Piker to Minnesota.
• 59:54
  SPEAKER_08: I mean, my opponent is running around with Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison, celebrating being endorsed by Baddies for Progress, who are the ones who brought Hassan Piker into our state.
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_08: And my opponent won't disavow or in any way seem to condemn that kind of rhetoric.
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_08: And I think Minnesota, we're better than this.
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_08: We're we're thoughtful people, and this hard-left agenda just it's frustrating to me that we're not waking up to it.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_08: 75% plus, I think, of Minnesotans are reasonable people that want good governance, fiscal integrity, and they want to they want to stop the polarized politics and they want fraud to stop.
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_08: And I think they felt good that Walls finally came out and acknowledged openly, yep, he blew it.
• 1:00:41
  SPEAKER_08: He should have been on it sooner.
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_08: And even Amy Klobuchar got on the bandwagon and started to sure hit on Walls and say, Yep, Tim Walls blew it.
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_08: I wouldn't have responded that way, I would have done differently.
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_08: But I just it it it frightens me to think that Minnesota is willing to travel this path and give four more years to the people who are responsible for the last eight years.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_42: Well, and it's it's difficult because I do believe that let's take Hassan Piker coming to town for instance, right?
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_42: Um there's been a lot of talk.
• 1:01:12
  SPEAKER_42: Let me kind of set the stage on this as we talk with Scott Jensen this morning here on the show.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_42: But um there's been a lot of talk about this, uh, these meetings that have been unearthed.
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_42: Data Republican has been on top of this, talking about these radical leftist plans post-midterm election, uh, this desire to cause chaos in order to perhaps trigger President Donald Trump to issue the Insurrection Act and take advantage of this, right?
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_42: It sounds wild, this sounds outlantish, uh outlandish, but there are individuals out there that want to do that.
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_42: That being said, they also acknowledge within those conversations that the tactic is they want to get a very small portion of people, you know, on board with their plan and that they can get at least a portion on board, and that's the portion that you see online, it's gonna look like this is being widely accepted by the majority of individuals.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_42: They make it look like a Hassan Piker is widely accepted.
• 1:02:01
  SPEAKER_42: His mentality and this view of the world in America is widely accepted by a large majority of people.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_42: I think you and I can both agree it's it's not.
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_42: And if you had the public armed with the totality of the facts and truth, I think the outcome of these elections would be a lot more decisive.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, we wouldn't even be having the discussion that we have that we're having now about the concerns moving forward.
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_42: But it's simply not the case.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_42: People don't know the truth.
• 1:02:25
  SPEAKER_42: They're not aware of it.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_42: And one of the things I'm glad you brought it up that I'll be talking about once we conclude our conversation this morning is that blatant media manipulation that's taking place right now, that's skewing things.
• 1:02:36
  SPEAKER_42: So it's tough because, you know, if the election doesn't go the way that many people want it to go, you know, it it's hard to point at one single thing to say this is the culprit or this is the culprit, because I don't, I wouldn't necessarily see that as a mandate by the voters that they want the country to head this direction, because there is a lot of nuance in here.
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_42: A lot of people are just ignorant to what is actually taking place in the country right now.
• 1:03:01
  SPEAKER_42: And so it makes it really difficult with that mentality to even predict how things are going to turn out because you don't know how much of the facts and the truth are actually resonating with people, Scott.
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_08: I think that's well said.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_08: In the past, I think most folks were willing to see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears.
• 1:03:21
  SPEAKER_08: And today it's difficult.
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_08: Uh AI, AI-generated ads, uh a brand, uh a gathering, uh, a video going viral, uh it can all of a sudden give an impression that's terribly misleading, and that's what I think you're getting at.
• 1:03:39
  SPEAKER_08: But again, Minnesota as a state, we're accustomed to reasonable, good governance.
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_08: I think we recognize the value of divided government, that government probably should move slowly, that there should be back and forth.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_08: I think the 2023 trifecta showed many people that when one party has complete domination, the things that come out of it clearly don't represent the majority views.
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_08: And we can look at many of the issues of the day where arguably Minnesota is not positioned where most Minnesotans are.
• 1:04:14
  SPEAKER_08: So in the last five days before the election, I continue to talk with lots and lots of people, and I'm struck by the the singular message without question in my mind, is that Minnesotans are embarrassed and disgusted with the level of fraud.
• 1:04:31
  SPEAKER_08: Because I think many Minnesotans recognize it.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_08: Fraud is like a poison.
• 1:04:36
  SPEAKER_08: It doesn't just do one thing, it causes many malfunctions, and it undermines our commitment and our compassion to one another.
• 1:04:44
  SPEAKER_08: And I think it also is a huge contributor to the lack of affordability.
• 1:04:49
  SPEAKER_08: And people recognize that gas, groceries, apartment rents, property taxes, all these things are frequently built on this basis of fraud.
• 1:04:58
  SPEAKER_08: Because when fraud happens, it's not as if the programs go away.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_08: Typically, politicians just go get more money to continue the fraudulent programs that are not meeting their missions.
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_08: And that means that Minnesotan and taxpayers, auto-tab purchasers, all of these folks get hit harder and harder and harder, and it never stops.
• 1:05:19
  SPEAKER_42: Talking with a Scott Jensen, and since we're here, so when it comes to the state auditor position, what authority, if you were elected, what authority would you have to go and tackle these issues?
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_42: And what are you most concerned about regarding like this position?
• 1:05:39
  SPEAKER_42: You're obviously running for state auditor, but let's just say, for the sake of argument, let's say you win your state auditor, but at the same time, you've got a, you know, you have the DFL grabbing the majority of power.
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_42: Like, what are you most concerned about?
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_42: Well, what power would you have in that position to go and do something about it?
• 1:05:55
  SPEAKER_42: And you know, and feel free to take any any angle you want on that.
• 1:05:58
  SPEAKER_42: But I think it'd be, you know, great for the Audience to know exactly what it is you would be able to do if you were in that position.
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_08: There are five executive offices in Minnesota, and the state auditor is one.
• 1:06:08
  SPEAKER_08: Arguably the state auditor position should be the most neutral.
• 1:06:12
  SPEAKER_08: I don't think that we should make the audit auditors role as as partisan as some might make it.
• 1:06:20
  SPEAKER_08: It has less to do with authority, I think, and more to do with information gathering.
• 1:06:24
  SPEAKER_08: And that would be where I would land.
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_08: The statutes provide the state auditor the opportunity to do best practice reviews, to utilize subpoena power in their investigations.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_08: But in the end, funneling information to city attorneys, county attorneys, even the attorney general is one of the most powerful pieces that the state auditor has.
• 1:06:49
  SPEAKER_08: A lot of folks don't realize, John, that in 2020, Keith Ellison was fully aware that Feeding Our Future program had lost its federal tax exempt status for lack of turning in various IRS required documents.
• 1:07:04
  SPEAKER_08: This was even pointed out in the single statewide federal audit that uh came out of the State Auditor's Office in 22.
• 1:07:12
  SPEAKER_08: Nobody said anything.
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_08: Nobody raised the flag.
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_08: Nobody put the spotlight on it.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_08: So here we are letting feeding our future push our government around, threatening lawsuits, and they have been noncompliant regarding turning in documents.
• 1:07:26
  SPEAKER_08: Keith Ellison knew it, did nothing about it.
• 1:07:28
  SPEAKER_08: The State Auditor's Office voices was quiet about this.
• 1:07:32
  SPEAKER_08: So for me, what I can do is not just be the watchdog for taxpayer dollars.
• 1:07:38
  SPEAKER_08: I can spotlight the issues.
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_08: I can raise my hand.
• 1:07:41
  SPEAKER_08: I can do that which many whistleblowers tried to do, but got squashed by many of our state agencies.
• 1:07:48
  SPEAKER_08: But clearly the focus of the state auditor's role is on cities and towns and counties and school districts.
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_08: But even there, there's plenty of fraud to go around.
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_08: The Minneapolis public schools have been guilty of it.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_08: Hennepin County has been guilty of it.
• 1:08:01
  SPEAKER_08: The Minneapolis uh city has been guilty of it.
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_08: We're seeing recently, actually just within the last 48 hours, the Minneapolis City Council, one of the committees, forwarded a proposal to drop their office of community safety.
• 1:08:14
  SPEAKER_08: And the reason they're doing it is it's failed.
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_08: This was something that bubbled up because Minneapolis decided to vote on getting rid of the police department.
• 1:08:23
  SPEAKER_08: Well, that was voted down.
• 1:08:24
  SPEAKER_08: So there was this virtue signaling that went on.
• 1:08:28
  SPEAKER_08: And now nine out of twelve people on this committee said, you know what, we need to drop this.
• 1:08:32
  SPEAKER_08: Uh we've had bad audits, there's fraud accusations coming forward.
• 1:08:36
  SPEAKER_08: We're we're not cutting it.
• 1:08:38
  SPEAKER_08: The budget's out of line.
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_08: And so now we're gonna have another small squabble because I think on the city council they're actually gonna go ahead and just dump this program.
• 1:08:46
  SPEAKER_08: But this is what happens when you sometimes feel a need to virtue signal.
• 1:08:52
  SPEAKER_08: I think most Minnesotans don't want to be guilty of virtue signaling.
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_08: Most Minnesotans want practical, good government that maintains fiscal integrity.
• 1:09:01
  SPEAKER_08: And that's why I'm running.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_08: I'm not running for a power play.
• 1:09:05
  SPEAKER_08: I think that I have demonstrated over the last ten years during my political involvement that I am a fighter and I'm a skeptical person and that I'm willing to put out there a contrarian narrative.
• 1:09:17
  SPEAKER_08: Um and and the attacks be damned.
• 1:09:22
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna continue to do that.
• 1:09:24
  SPEAKER_08: And I think that's what makes me an intriguing and and different kind of candidate for state auditor.
• 1:09:30
  SPEAKER_42: Well, and what we need, you know, and this I mean this rings true when it comes here to Minnesota, but it's across the country.
• 1:09:36
  SPEAKER_42: We need individuals who are willing to go and simply, and it it it sounds so easy, but it's not happening, who are simply willing to go and do the right thing.
• 1:09:45
  SPEAKER_42: The will and desire to look at things factually, to strip away any sort of possibility that this could be perceived a certain way, and or you could be called a particular name because somebody might say that you're doing this for identity purposes.
• 1:09:59
  SPEAKER_42: No, we just need individuals that are going to move forward, identify the problems, and fix them.
• 1:10:04
  SPEAKER_42: People underestimate, and it doesn't, I don't it doesn't I don't think it gets talked about nearly enough, but just the power of money, you know, and how and how corrupting money is.
• 1:10:13
  SPEAKER_42: And when people start to make a bad decision, and this applies across the board when it comes to bad decisions, you make a bad decision and you end up finding ways to go and justify that bad decision.
• 1:10:25
  SPEAKER_42: You have a party that wants to turn everybody into a victim because it gives them the opportunity to shrug off the responsibility of what is taking place.
• 1:10:32
  SPEAKER_42: And so unfortunately, here in Minnesota, you have too many individuals and too many politicians who have turned a blind eye.
• 1:10:38
  SPEAKER_42: That in and of itself is corrupt in doing so because of the politics involved in it.
• 1:10:44
  SPEAKER_42: And what we need are people that are simply going to have the will and desire to look at the situation, to call things out regardless of any controversy, and to go and do the right thing.
• 1:10:53
  SPEAKER_42: It's almost as if here in Minnesota it it is it is this process of uprooting all of these different um sort of narratives and the way that we've conducted things over the course of a decade.
• 1:11:05
  SPEAKER_42: And it's a difficult task, and the first day of the starting that task would hopefully be, you know, next Tuesday.
• 1:11:10
  SPEAKER_42: Not a question, but just sort of, you know, riffing off of our of our conversation because it's complicated.
• 1:11:16
  SPEAKER_42: You know, human nature is complicated.
• 1:11:18
  SPEAKER_42: And, you know, we're evil above all things.
• 1:11:19
  SPEAKER_42: And if you don't have a baseline standard of right or wrong and you're using yourself as you know, your baseline standard of right or wrong, it makes it really easy for you to fall into, you know, corruption and breaking the law as a as well.
• 1:11:31
  SPEAKER_42: So my my apologies for my for my rant there, Scott Jensen.
• 1:11:34
  SPEAKER_08: Well, I think it's a good one because if you actually look at fraud or cheating, a study was done some time ago, and I'm just gonna roughly approximate the results, but they asked people and queried them about their willingness or inclination to commit fraud.
• 1:11:52
  SPEAKER_08: And what was found was that 10% of the population would never commit fraud, regardless of how easy it was, even if they had a guarantee that they'd get away with it.
• 1:12:01
  SPEAKER_08: And there was another 10% at the other end that regardless of even any lack of need on their part to do fraud, and there's no reason to do it, and they might well get caught.
• 1:12:11
  SPEAKER_08: They would attempt to commit fraud.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_08: But the 80% in the middle would be disinclined to behave in a fraudulent or cheating manner.
• 1:12:20
  SPEAKER_08: But they might be tempted if it was easy, if it seemed like everybody was doing it, if they thought they could get away with it.
• 1:12:29
  SPEAKER_08: So then on top of that, take what you just said.
• 1:12:32
  SPEAKER_08: We have this permissive culture that if you get into public service, it's okay to line your pockets and become wealthy and go down to perhaps the legislature or Congress without a pot to pee in, and you come out worth thirty million dollars or six million dollars, depending upon what accountant you use, I guess.
• 1:12:50
  SPEAKER_08: The bottom line is that in amidst this, we now have fraud uh heaping it on.
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_08: So this uncomfortable sense on the part of Minnesotans that our politicians are indeed profiting from both a dollar and a power perspective, this has now been put on steroids with the fraud that's gone on.
• 1:13:13
  SPEAKER_08: Because we have groups that have shown a tremendous inclination to defraud Minnesota taxpayers at every level.
• 1:13:21
  SPEAKER_08: If they get caught in this program, they're over here trying to do it through another program.
• 1:13:25
  SPEAKER_08: And what Minnesotans are really screaming about right now is hold it.
• 1:13:29
  SPEAKER_08: Now you've caught many people red-handed, you've caught them.
• 1:13:34
  SPEAKER_08: Where's the prosecution?
• 1:13:35
  SPEAKER_08: People are screaming and hollering, saying, nobody's being punished.
• 1:13:39
  SPEAKER_08: And I think part of that is that that tragic combination of Mary Moriarty and Keith Ellison at the same time being so willing to say, Wow, you know, uh no harm, no follow.
• 1:13:53
  SPEAKER_08: Well, there was harm.
• 1:13:54
  SPEAKER_08: Uh there was a total loss of trust, there was a fracturing of relationships.
• 1:13:59
  SPEAKER_08: And so when we see that lack of consequences on top of this decades and decades uh understanding that uh uh public service isn't what it once was, it's really made it very, very difficult.
• 1:14:13
  SPEAKER_08: And and I'm hoping that people understand that I'm not asking to be elected the state auditor so that I can be the best Republican state auditor ever.
• 1:14:23
  SPEAKER_08: I'm I'm interested in being the best and most neutral and nonpartisan state auditor in Minnesota scene.
• 1:14:30
  SPEAKER_08: And I'm interested in restoring a culture of competence, get rid of the chaos, and if you break the law, you're gonna be prosecuted.
• 1:14:38
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, it should be an issue that concerns everybody.
• 1:14:40
  SPEAKER_42: It shouldn't matter what party you you belong to.
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_42: When I was working in uh in Tucson, Arizona, and covering the the city council there, and that's where the whole city council thing came from, right?
• 1:14:51
  SPEAKER_42: Um, you get down to that, you know, a much smaller city, okay?
• 1:14:56
  SPEAKER_42: Dealing with a lot of the similar issues that we deal with here, especially considering that that region and that county at the time was the bluest in the state of of Minnesota of Arizona.
• 1:15:06
  SPEAKER_42: The rest of the state was for the most part red, and it's the dynamics have changed quite a bit since since I've left.
• 1:15:11
  SPEAKER_42: But there was this mentality that when you get down to the local level, the the party dynamics should fall away because you're talking tangibly, one-on-one, directly.
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_42: You're as close to the ground level with the people in your community as possible at that city council council level.
• 1:15:26
  SPEAKER_42: And therefore, it should just be a matter of let's deal with things right or wrong, fiscally, right?
• 1:15:30
  SPEAKER_42: You're gonna have both Republicans and Democrats on the council, but we need to do what's just best for the for the people, and the party dynamic should fall away.
• 1:15:38
  SPEAKER_42: Well, that's not the case anymore.
• 1:15:39
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, you can't find that anywhere in the in the in in the country whatsoever.
• 1:15:42
  SPEAKER_42: But in a position like state auditor, this should be something that everybody cares about, just like everybody should care about voter ID and making sure that we shore up our election integrity.
• 1:15:51
  SPEAKER_42: But it's been turned into a political, you know, a political football and a hot button, and there are individuals that argue against the right over issues like that.
• 1:15:59
  SPEAKER_42: So you make a great point, and I want to use that and ask about your opponent.
• 1:16:03
  SPEAKER_42: How is your opponent addressing the issue of how they would go and conduct their office?
• 1:16:07
  SPEAKER_42: And what does their record say over how they might go and serve in the position of state auditor were your opponent to win next Tuesday?
• 1:16:17
  SPEAKER_08: Well, I don't want to be hypercritical regarding my opponent, but I would say this.
• 1:16:20
  SPEAKER_08: I've been reading basically everything he does, and I'm sure he's doing the same with me for the last uh several months.
• 1:16:28
  SPEAKER_08: But he's literally, when he was on the city council in Duluth, he was a one-man wrecking crew regarding affordability.
• 1:16:36
  SPEAKER_08: I mean, in the last five years he was on the city council, um, he helped lead the charge to raise the property tax levy more than 60 percent in five years.
• 1:16:44
  SPEAKER_08: They increased the water and sewer charges five percent every year for six years.
• 1:16:48
  SPEAKER_08: He worked in an accountant's office where his boss and his colleague, they were the only two accountants in the office, he was found guilty of embezzling almost a quarter of a million dollars from the Duluth Chamber of Commerce, and at the time he did it, uh.
• 1:17:19
  SPEAKER_08: I would say you're not a CPA.
• 1:17:21
  SPEAKER_08: When you were an accountant in an accountant's firm, you totally didn't pick up on the fact that substantial fraud was taking place.
• 1:17:29
  SPEAKER_08: And oftentimes my opponent will say, we have a potential shortage of accountants in the world.
• 1:17:34
  SPEAKER_08: Well, we have a potential shortage of nurses too, and we have a potential shortage of family practice doctors.
• 1:17:39
  SPEAKER_08: That seems a little empty.
• 1:17:41
  SPEAKER_08: And in 2018, for the state auditor's office, the Republicans ran an accountant.
• 1:17:47
  SPEAKER_08: And my opponent didn't support that person, nor did the DFL.
• 1:17:51
  SPEAKER_08: So that's why I think we have not had an accountant in that office for more than half a century.
• 1:17:56
  SPEAKER_08: Because what really matters is having a leader, a leader who's willing to build a team of highly motivated leaders coming from all walks of life, saying, by George, we're gonna roll up our sleeves, we're gonna stop this fraud, we're gonna attack it from every angle we can.
• 1:18:11
  SPEAKER_08: We need lawyers and engineers and nurses and teachers to be represented in the state auditor's office so that we can go to these various arenas where the fraud takes place in the cities and counties and towns and schools, and we need to stop it.
• 1:18:24
  SPEAKER_08: And when we do it at that level, I think it will bubble up to helping the state agencies become more filled with integrity as well.
• 1:18:34
  SPEAKER_42: Talking with uh Dr.
• 1:18:35
  SPEAKER_42: Scott Jensen, running for state auditor here on the John Justice Show, presented by American Experiment.
• 1:18:40
  SPEAKER_42: If you have a question or comment, the blaster line is 651-964-0294.
• 1:18:45
  SPEAKER_42: You can leave a voice or text message.
• 1:18:46
  SPEAKER_42: Uh, this came in for you, uh Scott.
• 1:18:48
  SPEAKER_59: Hey, Scott, I'm a member of Para, the Public Employees Retirement Association.
• 1:18:52
  SPEAKER_59: And um, there's a$15 million discrepancy between what Paris says they have and what the state says they have.
• 1:18:59
  SPEAKER_59: If you win as auditor, you also will mandatorily be on the board.
• 1:19:04
  SPEAKER_59: I would hope that you would look into some of those discrepancies.
• 1:19:07
  SPEAKER_59: Thank you, and I hope you win.
• 1:19:09
  SPEAKER_42: Not sure if you're aware of uh any of what he mentioned, but I am very aware of that.
• 1:19:12
  SPEAKER_08: I had the for the good fortune when I was in the state senate to work with Senator Julie Rosen, who was a powerfully motivated and extremely well informed on the pension funds and retirement funds for public employees and some of the teachers in the state, depending upon where they were teaching.
• 1:19:30
  SPEAKER_08: And the gentleman raises a very good point.
• 1:19:32
  SPEAKER_08: This has got to be reconciled.
• 1:19:34
  SPEAKER_08: But even more than that, my opponent has signed a pledge that has indicated that he will try to make certain that the investments that are made on behalf of PERA and on behalf of public employees and teachers, that those investments will pass the muster of his political correctness.
• 1:19:52
  SPEAKER_08: So he has indicated that he wants to introduce a DEI requirement, making certain that no investments would be made that didn't pass the muster of being DEI friendly, and he signed this on a trans pledge of some sort.
• 1:20:08
  SPEAKER_08: I would submit that the responsibility of the state auditor in participating on the investment board is to enhance and optimize financial performance for public employees and for teachers.
• 1:20:20
  SPEAKER_08: This is not about someone being elected a state auditor and saying, Oh, goody, now I get to roll up my sleeves and make sure that all the investments pass my own personal political correctness muster test.
• 1:20:32
  SPEAKER_08: This is total but totally wrong, and I'm so grateful that this gentleman called in and raised the issue because a lot of people don't realize the state auditor has a powerful role on the investment board.
• 1:20:42
  SPEAKER_08: And if we've got people in there that are willing to just, in an unadulterated fashion, say, you're gonna pass the test that I put in front of you as terms of political correctness, or we're not gonna invest in your companies, wrong, wrong, wrong.
• 1:20:56
  SPEAKER_08: Make certain that the financial performance of the retirement funds is first and foremost the highest priority.
• 1:21:03
  SPEAKER_42: You're a former state senator.
• 1:21:04
  SPEAKER_42: Of course, you ran in 2022 as the GOP nominee for for governor.
• 1:21:08
  SPEAKER_42: I know we've talked about this before, but haven't had enough of politics yet, right?
• 1:21:11
  SPEAKER_42: So what and just to just to remind me, what what drives you?
• 1:21:15
  SPEAKER_42: What drives you to go and serve?
• 1:21:16
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, you have your your medical practice, you're a longtime physician, it's it's successful.
• 1:21:20
  SPEAKER_42: What drives you to continue to want to serve in in politics?
• 1:21:24
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, you certainly had your your fair share already.
• 1:21:27
  SPEAKER_08: Well, I'm certainly not looking for a new uh career, but I really like solving problems.
• 1:21:33
  SPEAKER_08: And I think a lot of folks don't realize that my educational pathway involved being in dental school and being president of the dental school class and learning that I really wasn't in love with teeth or the mouth.
• 1:21:45
  SPEAKER_08: And so I took a year off and went to the seminary, and during that year I made the decision to not only ask my girlfriend to marry me, and we've now been together 50 years almost.
• 1:21:54
  SPEAKER_08: I also made the decision to go into medicine.
• 1:21:56
  SPEAKER_08: And being a family practice doctor and listening to people's stories and trying to supplement their stories and their information with physical exam findings and laboratory findings and imaging tests and things like that, it really is what I just thrive on.
• 1:22:10
  SPEAKER_08: And like I say, I told my wife I'd be willing to think about retiring when I turn 80.
• 1:22:15
  SPEAKER_08: But before then, it just doesn't seem to make any sense to me.
• 1:22:19
  SPEAKER_08: I find that if I can sleep four hours at night, I'm ready to go the next day.
• 1:22:23
  SPEAKER_08: I have a lot of energy, and I like to solve problems.
• 1:22:26
  SPEAKER_08: And I like people, and it's fun for me to talk to people, and I don't care where they sit on the political spectrum.
• 1:22:32
  SPEAKER_08: I find people fascinating, and I oftentimes resonate with the words of C.S.
• 1:22:36
  SPEAKER_08: Lewis, who said, you'll never meet an ordinary person because at some level we are all extraordinary.
• 1:22:42
  SPEAKER_08: We have moms and dads, we have siblings, we have stories, we have journeys, we have adventures, we have heartache, we have celebrations in our lives, and each one of us has that.
• 1:22:51
  SPEAKER_08: So I want to solve problems.
• 1:22:53
  SPEAKER_08: And the state auditor, I think, is in a perfect position to get information to the people that need it and to get information to the public.
• 1:23:00
  SPEAKER_08: Be that bully pulpit, be that screaming spotlight person saying, This is wrong, this is wrong, it has to be fixed.
• 1:23:08
  SPEAKER_08: That's what I want to do.
• 1:23:10
  SPEAKER_42: It uh it warms my heart to uh to hear you talk about meeting people.
• 1:23:14
  SPEAKER_42: It reminds me of my dad because I rem I can recall growing up watching my father talk with people and how he gravitated towards uh individuals uh when I was in grade school as I got older, that a lot of people wouldn't gravitate towards because he loved people and he liked people who he's still he's still here.
• 1:23:33
  SPEAKER_42: I'm talking like he's not here.
• 1:23:34
  SPEAKER_42: Of course he is.
• 1:23:35
  SPEAKER_42: He's gonna listen to this later on today, and I'm sure he'll drop me a call, he'll call me and talk about how he was crying on his walk when he's listening to the show, be that as it may.
• 1:23:42
  SPEAKER_42: But he, you know, he really probably is unaware.
• 1:23:46
  SPEAKER_42: I owe a lot of if anybody enjoys my interview skills.
• 1:23:49
  SPEAKER_42: I tend to think I'm that's the worst thing that I'm that I'm good at.
• 1:23:52
  SPEAKER_42: But um, it's because of him, because he was so interested in people and loved to talk and get to know people, especially people who are kind of off the off the beaten path.
• 1:24:01
  SPEAKER_42: So it reminded me, uh it reminded me of that.
• 1:24:04
  SPEAKER_42: Um John, I need to jump in there.
• 1:24:06
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 1:24:06
  SPEAKER_08: I would disagree with you regarding your interviewing skills.
• 1:24:10
  SPEAKER_08: I think you're an excellent interviewer, and part of the reason is I didn't say that as a setup, by the way.
• 1:24:13
  SPEAKER_42: I just want to let you know.
• 1:24:15
  SPEAKER_08: No, he didn't.
• 1:24:16
  SPEAKER_08: But I think that so many journalists today set the table by trying to get a gotcha moment.
• 1:24:22
  SPEAKER_08: You're willing to sort of put the lay of the land out there so that the responder understands where you're coming from, and then you genuinely ask them what their impression is.
• 1:24:31
  SPEAKER_08: That's different than sort of being set up, where instead of really sharing from the heart or what your your true thoughts are, your your responder is trying to avoid a trap or avoiding.
• 1:24:44
  SPEAKER_08: So I I think that you you do a very nice job of not trying to surprise your responder and just laying it out there.
• 1:24:51
  SPEAKER_08: Trevor Burrus, Jr.
• 1:24:52
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, thank you for that, Scott.
• 1:24:53
  SPEAKER_42: I appreciate it.
• 1:24:53
  SPEAKER_42: Let's um let's wrap on this.
• 1:24:55
  SPEAKER_42: Little a little off of politics, but I'm gonna add one element to this.
• 1:24:59
  SPEAKER_42: Because I was thinking in the course of our conversation that I I would think that your role as a physician would suit uh uh the role of state auditor very well because you have to look at things from a uh, you know, uh a factual basis.
• 1:25:13
  SPEAKER_42: There's not a lot of room for room for speculation and examination, but not a lot of room for bias when it comes to the medical practice.
• 1:25:20
  SPEAKER_42: And so do you see a do you see a correlation there from what you do in your, you know, in your in your daily practice to potentially serving a state auditor?
• 1:25:28
  SPEAKER_08: I think one of the things that's missing in public service is a willingness to do that self-appraisal.
• 1:25:34
  SPEAKER_08: Uh the fourth step of Alcoholics Anonymous talks about the need to do a fearless inventory.
• 1:25:39
  SPEAKER_08: What did we do right?
• 1:25:40
  SPEAKER_08: What did we do wrong?
• 1:25:41
  SPEAKER_08: And I think in medicine we're doing that all the time.
• 1:25:43
  SPEAKER_08: Did I make that diagnosis as quickly as I could have, or was I a month late?
• 1:25:47
  SPEAKER_08: Could I have gotten more information from the patient that might have gotten us over in this direction rather than this direction?
• 1:25:53
  SPEAKER_08: And I think being a family doc really helps in that regard.
• 1:25:56
  SPEAKER_08: But I think another thing that as a family physician that equips me to be an effective state auditor is that the state auditor really does focus on local municipalities, as I mentioned before, counties and cities and towns and school districts.
• 1:26:10
  SPEAKER_08: And arguably that's people's last line of defense for those in need and who are suffering from developmental challenges, disabilities that most folks couldn't possibly relate to.
• 1:26:23
  SPEAKER_08: So when you can't solve the problem of fraud, what we've seen over the last few months is in several situations, just throwing up the hands and saying, we're just gonna stop the program, we're just gonna do this.
• 1:26:34
  SPEAKER_08: Well, when you do that, those people that are dependent on that program, whether it's a personal care attendant, uh, whether it's someone who isn't able to effectively uh eliminate uh and clean, clear out a bowel and bladder, those people really can't afford to see their support structure severed.
• 1:26:53
  SPEAKER_08: And that happens.
• 1:26:54
  SPEAKER_08: And so as a family physician, I think I'm pretty dialed into the fact that I need cities and counties and towns and school districts to be able to continue that that funneling of services that your local people, like you mentioned before, they're the closest to the people, they're the last line of defense.
• 1:27:13
  SPEAKER_08: And for that person who cannot get out of their apartment without help, and all of a sudden they're stuck.
• 1:27:19
  SPEAKER_08: That's a problem.
• 1:27:20
  SPEAKER_42: Uh I didn't ask you in terms of time, are you okay for a few more minutes?
• 1:27:24
  SPEAKER_42: Okay.
• 1:27:24
  SPEAKER_42: Let's go uh let's go here.
• 1:27:26
  SPEAKER_42: I do have uh uh a physician-related question outside of politics that I want to uh wrap our conversation up with, but a couple of comments have rolled in for you to the blaster line at 651-964-0294 as we continue here on the John Justin Show presented by American Experiment, my conversation with state auditor candidate Dr.
• 1:27:44
  SPEAKER_42: Scott Jensen.
• 1:27:45
  SPEAKER_37: Morning, John, and it's a pleasure to hear your voice on the radio, Dr.
• 1:27:51
  SPEAKER_37: Question for you.
• 1:27:52
  SPEAKER_37: My observation is the auditor's office has been a weak position in the state for some time.
• 1:27:59
  SPEAKER_37: I think it's actually.
• 1:28:13
  SPEAKER_37: Is there going to be any last minute ad or any uh uh additional money put at getting you elected?
• 1:28:19
  SPEAKER_37: Because I think it's uh essential that you take on that role.
• 1:28:24
  SPEAKER_08: Well, thank you.
• 1:28:26
  SPEAKER_08: And I appreciate your your comments very much.
• 1:28:28
  SPEAKER_08: In regards to the state auditor and the breadth of our campaign, I think when we priced out doing a 30-second ad airing one time uh during the Vikings game, it was$40,000.
• 1:28:41
  SPEAKER_08: And we just don't have those kinds of uh funds.
• 1:28:44
  SPEAKER_08: I did agree to abide by the public subsidy program so that Minnesotans could donate and receive PCR returns of their dollars.
• 1:28:53
  SPEAKER_08: The limit for the state auditor is about 10% of the governor's uh race.
• 1:28:59
  SPEAKER_08: So if the governor's race allows up to five million, the limit for the state auditor's race is about five hundred thousand.
• 1:29:07
  SPEAKER_08: So we've raised close to that, we're getting close to that, but we've decided to put our money more into radio stations that uh people listen to.
• 1:29:17
  SPEAKER_08: Uh, we've done billboards, we've done a lot of social media ads and boosting because we really feel like state auditor position is a little bit of a mystery to lots of folks.
• 1:29:29
  SPEAKER_08: And so one of our tasks is not just to promote why we'd like to have you vote for Scott Jensen, but it's also to let you know what the state auditor does.
• 1:29:37
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 1:29:38
  SPEAKER_08: And that's part of our challenge.
• 1:29:40
  SPEAKER_08: But honestly, the the role of the television ad really is the up ballot races with the U.S.
• 1:29:47
  SPEAKER_08: Senate, then governor.
• 1:29:48
  SPEAKER_08: It's very, very difficult.
• 1:29:51
  SPEAKER_08: The the candidates that are not in those two races that are able to do TV frequently have access to tremendous numbers of dollars that our campaign does not.
• 1:30:03
  SPEAKER_42: There's a, you know, and I have no data to base this off of.
• 1:30:06
  SPEAKER_42: It's just my own, my own experience, you know, covering elections and and there's a comparison when it comes to promoting um, you know, shows like I like I've done.
• 1:30:15
  SPEAKER_42: You know, those campaign ads, in my opinion, again, I don't have the data, I think they become white noise a lot faster than a lot of people realize.
• 1:30:23
  SPEAKER_42: And, you know, billboards, I know people they see them and they go, oh, I'm seeing a billboard here, I'm seeing a billboard there, I'm seeing signs, and you know, they have an instinctive reaction to that one way or another.
• 1:30:34
  SPEAKER_42: I'm still very much convinced that it's it's the ground game.
• 1:30:37
  SPEAKER_42: It's meeting people one-to-one, it's knocking on doors and making that connection that makes the difference because that's on a personal level and it spins off from those individuals to other individuals.
• 1:30:47
  SPEAKER_42: Not to say there's not an importance in campaign ads or billboards, but I still think it's that personal connection, which makes it why one of the reasons why I'll never run for office because I don't ever want to do the legwork.
• 1:30:55
  SPEAKER_42: So because it needs a lot of legwork.
• 1:30:57
  SPEAKER_08: And you're right, John.
• 1:30:58
  SPEAKER_08: And I think one of the advantages that I have is name recognition.
• 1:31:01
  SPEAKER_08: A lot of folks know me.
• 1:31:02
  SPEAKER_08: They don't have to hear me say that I'm a fighter.
• 1:31:04
  SPEAKER_08: They most most people know that during uh the COVID pandemic, I literally went from the most celebrated family physician of the year in 2016, and it was a tremendously um humbling award to be named that for the state of Minnesota, and within five years I was the most investigated physician.
• 1:31:22
  SPEAKER_08: So I think most people know that I'm willing to say the hard thing out loud.
• 1:31:27
  SPEAKER_08: But I think what we've done on our billboards and things is we're saying three words because we think they are so important.
• 1:31:33
  SPEAKER_08: We're saying protecting your paycheck.
• 1:31:35
  SPEAKER_08: Because I think at the end of the day, many people recognize that fraud does have a downstream effect on affordability, and people are nervous.
• 1:31:44
  SPEAKER_08: Gas and groceries, housing, property taxes, health care, these things are real issues.
• 1:31:49
  SPEAKER_08: And people are struggling.
• 1:31:51
  SPEAKER_08: There are more people going without health insurance than ever before.
• 1:31:54
  SPEAKER_08: And our health care system in many ways is broken.
• 1:31:57
  SPEAKER_08: Some of the costs related with fairly straightforward services are unconscionable.
• 1:32:02
  SPEAKER_08: There's just no way.
• 1:32:03
  SPEAKER_08: And those are things that it's possible that a state auditor could impact on, particularly if the cost at a county or a city level of health care uh provision is enormously inflated unnecessarily with additional charges that don't need to take place.
• 1:32:21
  SPEAKER_08: That's an area where we could hopefully save some money for these local municipalities, allowing them to do other things.
• 1:32:28
  SPEAKER_08: I'm powerfully committed to making certain that enforcement and eligibility of the rules takes place.
• 1:32:34
  SPEAKER_08: And again, I I think one of the reasons why the state auditor's office has been less effective than it could have been, and this gets back to an earlier comment that someone made, is the voice of the state auditor has been squashed, I think, because the state auditor thinks, or seems to have been thinking, that they work for the governor.
• 1:32:53
  SPEAKER_08: And people need to recognize the governor has his or her own commissioner of MMB, and the legislature has their own legislative auditor.
• 1:33:02
  SPEAKER_08: The people have one spot, one place where they can expect to get information transparently, and that's the state auditor.
• 1:33:10
  SPEAKER_08: So the state auditor should be the people's voice, and yet we haven't heard that voice.
• 1:33:15
  SPEAKER_08: Whether it be fraud at the public school level in Minneapolis, whether it be Hennepin County, whether it be other uh cities or communities that have found that fraud has found its way into their everyday workings.
• 1:33:30
  SPEAKER_08: The state auditor has to stand strong and stand for the people.
• 1:33:34
  SPEAKER_08: And that's why I'm so powerfully motivated to run for this office because I've already demonstrated that I will stand for people.
• 1:33:41
  SPEAKER_08: I have been very clear on the issue of health freedom.
• 1:33:45
  SPEAKER_08: I think every person gets to be their own best champion of their health care.
• 1:33:50
  SPEAKER_08: Frequently there will be two or three options to choose from uh in addressing a medical issue.
• 1:33:57
  SPEAKER_08: And it has to be that people get to choose.
• 1:33:59
  SPEAKER_08: We cannot let government or insurance companies dictate to patients that they only get this one pathway and the other two pathways have been eliminated.
• 1:34:10
  SPEAKER_08: We cannot let that happen.
• 1:34:12
  SPEAKER_42: Let's wrap on this.
• 1:34:14
  SPEAKER_42: Um, you know, you mentioned health care, uh, you you being uh a doctor and and having a successful practice.
• 1:34:20
  SPEAKER_42: One thing, and I haven't heard a lot about this, I'm just curious to get your perspective since I uh since I got you.
• 1:34:25
  SPEAKER_42: Um one thing I haven't heard much of in a while was there was a lot of conversation about the bias and sort of the woke ideologies creeping into um into the medical industry.
• 1:34:36
  SPEAKER_42: And it's something that definitely concerned me as an individual who spent far too much time inside of uh inside of hospitals.
• 1:34:42
  SPEAKER_42: But we haven't heard much of uh about that, a lot of policies, equity policies that may be entering into our healthcare system.
• 1:34:48
  SPEAKER_42: Can you provide any sort of um perspective uh from your angle of whether or not this is still a growing concern?
• 1:34:55
  SPEAKER_42: Or with, you know, say Trump's second term, if there's been an effort to quell that bias, see, because that's the one place as we've talked about, we don't want to see this, is within our medical industry.
• 1:35:07
  SPEAKER_42: We don't want to see that bias in in uh get coming into that.
• 1:35:09
  SPEAKER_42: So what can you tell us about where that currently is?
• 1:35:11
  SPEAKER_42: Because you don't hear about it much anymore.
• 1:35:13
  SPEAKER_08: That bias that's been creeping into healthcare is not dwindling or going away.
• 1:35:18
  SPEAKER_08: It's actually on steroids.
• 1:35:20
  SPEAKER_08: I'd l and I appreciate that question so much because it's it's so near and dear to me.
• 1:35:24
  SPEAKER_08: Um let me just be a little bit uh humorous here.
• 1:35:29
  SPEAKER_08: We all know that when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments, the tablets did not include what a normal potassium should be in a human being.
• 1:35:39
  SPEAKER_08: That didn't come down.
• 1:35:41
  SPEAKER_08: So, how did we find out what a normal potassium level should be?
• 1:35:44
  SPEAKER_08: Here's how we do it.
• 1:35:46
  SPEAKER_08: We take 10,000 people, all of them well, none of them with any issues regarding their potassium, and we measure their potassium.
• 1:35:55
  SPEAKER_08: And we arbitrarily state that the average plus or minus two standard deviations will be the normals, and anybody outside of that will be abnormal.
• 1:36:05
  SPEAKER_08: What does that mean in non-statistical language?
• 1:36:08
  SPEAKER_08: It means that we're going to take the middle 95% of those 10,000 people and declare them to have a normal potassium.
• 1:36:15
  SPEAKER_08: And on that basis, we say, depending upon the lab, that a normal potassium might be 3.5 to 5.5.
• 1:36:22
  SPEAKER_08: But we're arbitrarily also declaring that the 2.5% of people who are beneath that range are abnormally low, even though they're normal.
• 1:36:31
  SPEAKER_08: And we take the 2.5% above that range and we say that they're abnormally high.
• 1:36:36
  SPEAKER_08: And that's where we have it.
• 1:36:38
  SPEAKER_08: So what do doctors do with that information?
• 1:36:40
  SPEAKER_08: Well, if you have a low potassium, not a 3.5, but you have a 3.2, we're inclined to treat it, even though it may be your normal, your normal set point.
• 1:36:49
  SPEAKER_08: So we do this all the time.
• 1:36:50
  SPEAKER_08: Well, now we have big pharma encroaching on the practice of medicine to the point where we're told that almost 50% of American adults have high blood pressure.
• 1:37:02
  SPEAKER_08: Well, think about that for a moment.
• 1:37:04
  SPEAKER_08: We're not we're not saying 2.5% are low blood pressure and 2.5% are high and the middle 95% are okay.
• 1:37:10
  SPEAKER_08: We're literally letting big pharma tell us that 50% of Americans have high blood pressure.
• 1:37:15
  SPEAKER_08: What does that mean?
• 1:37:15
  SPEAKER_08: That means that we're gonna take those 50% and we're going to put you on medicines, and some of those medicines will make you lightheaded when you stand up.
• 1:37:23
  SPEAKER_08: Some of them will knock the socks out of your erections in the bedroom.
• 1:37:26
  SPEAKER_08: Some of them will cause a plethora of other problems.
• 1:37:29
  SPEAKER_08: But we will put you on those medicines.
• 1:37:31
  SPEAKER_08: And along with that, we'll tell you, well, now that you've been diagnosed with hypertension, we're going to put you on this blood pressure pill, and never mind that that may raise your blood sugar.
• 1:37:39
  SPEAKER_08: If we end up diagnosing you with diabetes, we'll treat that as well.
• 1:37:42
  SPEAKER_08: But when we do treat your diabetes, once you have diabetes, your blood pressure needs to be even lower.
• 1:37:47
  SPEAKER_08: So we're going to put you on more pills.
• 1:37:48
  SPEAKER_08: So now you're going to be on three or four blood pressure pills, you're going to get lightheaded, you're going to have many side effects.
• 1:37:53
  SPEAKER_08: And by the way, when it comes to your cholesterol, because you have high blood pressure, we need to do this.
• 1:37:58
  SPEAKER_08: So you're going to have to be on this statin drug.
• 1:38:01
  SPEAKER_08: And never mind that if you look at some data, the number of people that need to be treated with a statin drug in order to prevent a heart attack is 50 people have to be treated for 10 years in order for one blood, for one heart attack to be spared.
• 1:38:14
  SPEAKER_08: Nobody's going to tell you that in the middle of the Vikings football game.
• 1:38:17
  SPEAKER_08: Instead, they're going to use that same statistical raw data and they're going to say, get on this medicine, and we can lower your heart attack risk by 40%.
• 1:38:25
  SPEAKER_08: And people are sitting there watching the game, and the guy says, Boy, I got to have a piece of that action.
• 1:38:29
  SPEAKER_08: I better go get on a statin drug.
• 1:38:31
  SPEAKER_08: We have lost our minds.
• 1:38:33
  SPEAKER_42: You uh, that was probably the best PSA I've ever heard of uh never taking to heart or doing your own uh sort of research when it comes to test results that you get before you talk to your doctor.
• 1:38:44
  SPEAKER_42: I've been through this too many times.
• 1:38:46
  SPEAKER_42: To that point, by the way, I have to reach out to my cardiologist and we're talking about Stantons and blood pressure medication because I'm on several, obviously.
• 1:38:53
  SPEAKER_42: But, you know, I lost 35 pounds through this program on Nutrowave and I kept the weight, kept the weight off.
• 1:38:58
  SPEAKER_42: I got to reach back out to my cardiologist because my blood pressure's been fantastic, but it's almost maybe teetering a little bit too low, and it's all because I've gone in and and lost the and lost the weight.
• 1:39:08
  SPEAKER_08: So and we know that weight loss lowers blood pressure.
• 1:39:11
  SPEAKER_08: So why aren't physicians more aggressive about congratulating their patient on their weight loss, identifying that their blood pressure is now 105 over 65, and we really don't need to have it that low.
• 1:39:21
  SPEAKER_08: I have patients that come in with low blood pressures and their cholesterol on maximum doses of statins.
• 1:39:27
  SPEAKER_08: Their cholesterol comes in at a total cholesterol of 120 with an HDL of 50 and an LDL of 45.
• 1:39:34
  SPEAKER_08: And I'm sitting there saying, we don't need to be doing this to you.
• 1:39:38
  SPEAKER_08: But this is one of the problems in healthcare today is it's so algorithmically driven that we're checking boxes.
• 1:39:45
  SPEAKER_08: So if a person has, I mean, I get these information sheets from insurance companies all the time saying patient XYZ isn't on a statin drug and yet has the diagnosis of diabetes.
• 1:39:55
  SPEAKER_08: Where there's this subtle implication that I'm not doing my job because I don't have them going in every three months to get a prescription filled at the local pharmacy or whatever.
• 1:40:04
  SPEAKER_08: And I'm sitting there saying, you nut cases?
• 1:40:07
  SPEAKER_08: I mean, this patient is 87 years old.
• 1:40:09
  SPEAKER_08: He got there now without my help.
• 1:40:12
  SPEAKER_08: What I need to do is keep my hands off him, and he'll live to be 97.
• 1:40:15
  SPEAKER_08: And if I do what I'm supposed to do, he'll probably be dead in two years.
• 1:40:20
  SPEAKER_08: We have doctors all the time not realizing that they contributed to a patient's death.
• 1:40:24
  SPEAKER_08: Statistic.
• 1:40:25
  SPEAKER_08: Somewhere around 40 to 50 percent of people over the age of 80 that fall and break their hip, 40 to 50 percent of them will be dead within 24 months.
• 1:40:36
  SPEAKER_08: That's a proven data point.
• 1:40:37
  SPEAKER_08: So say that again.
• 1:40:39
  SPEAKER_08: 40 to 50 percent of people who break their hip over the age of 80 will be dead in 24 months.
• 1:40:44
  SPEAKER_08: Why do they break their hip?
• 1:40:46
  SPEAKER_08: Many times it's because they stand up quickly, maybe they want to watch their grandchild play basketball, or maybe they want to applaud a basket that just went in or a goal that was just made by a skater.
• 1:40:55
  SPEAKER_08: They stand up quickly, boom, they get lightheaded, boom, they go down, they break their hip, and they're almost dead man walking for the next 24 months.
• 1:41:05
  SPEAKER_08: And doctors never take the blame for that.
• 1:41:07
  SPEAKER_08: They say, gee, that's really too bad.
• 1:41:10
  SPEAKER_08: You know, I did my part, I lowered their blood pressure.
• 1:41:13
  SPEAKER_08: In fact, I did my part so well, I lowered their blood pressure down to 90 over 60, and I'm sure that that could not have had anything to do with why they fell and broke their hip.
• 1:41:22
  SPEAKER_42: Dr.
• 1:41:22
  SPEAKER_42: Scott Jensen, in these closing days, uh, where can people find your campaign?
• 1:41:26
  SPEAKER_42: And is there, you know, any uh any appeal to uh to those uh to those listening this morning if we don't have a chance to talk between now and next Tuesday?
• 1:41:34
  SPEAKER_08: I'm with the middle 75 percent of Minnesotans.
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  SPEAKER_08: I want good governance and fiscal integrity restored.
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  SPEAKER_08: I think my opponent is extreme.
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  SPEAKER_08: I think he's a one-man wrecking crew when it comes to affordability, and I think he's walking with the wrong people.
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  SPEAKER_08: He wasn't willing to condemn the rhetoric of his um co-sponsored or the um Hassan Piker coming into town who's been endorsed by an organization that has also endorsed my opponent.
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  SPEAKER_08: My opponent wasn't willing to condemn uh the fellow he was out campaigning with, even though this fellow was sending unwanted pictures of his genitals to unmarried to married women.
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  SPEAKER_08: I mean, I want I stand with the 75% of people.
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  SPEAKER_08: Let's replace the chaos.
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  SPEAKER_08: You can go to dr Scott Jensen.com to learn more about me.
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  SPEAKER_08: But at the end of the day, I am not interested in joining the polarized rhetoric.
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  SPEAKER_08: I want people to know that the state auditor is going to get the information in as neutral a fashion as possible, and I'm gonna put it out there.
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  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna say the quiet thing out loud, which is what I've done for the last ten years, and it's the only way I rock.
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  SPEAKER_42: Thank you so much for joining the show this morning.
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  SPEAKER_42: I really uh enjoyed uh the discussion.
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  SPEAKER_42: I hope you have a uh fantastic final few days before everybody officially heads to the polls.
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  SPEAKER_42: Uh, but it was great talking with you once again, and thank you for the time this morning.
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  SPEAKER_42: Thank you, John.
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  SPEAKER_42: All right, coming up, that was a fantastic interview.
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  SPEAKER_42: I don't know where I go from here.
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  SPEAKER_42: Well, we're gonna talk about media bias, and I have a lot of examples uh to dive into uh coming up on the show, including some new revelations regarding the investigation into uh Ilhan Omar.
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  SPEAKER_42: Thank you for the uh comment there, Lou, always appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_38: You're a fantastic interviewer.
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  SPEAKER_38: And as long as you don't ask like that guy from MS Now who's answering questions.
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  SPEAKER_38: And he asked Elon Omar and answering for her and giving her the answers and leaving the question with answers.
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  SPEAKER_42: I didn't I didn't say that because I was looking for accolades.
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  SPEAKER_42: I just want to make sure that I uh and I pointed that out.
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  SPEAKER_42: All right.
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  SPEAKER_42: Um they gotta keep Operation Metro Surge in the news.
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  SPEAKER_42: We are expecting, by the way, I need to bring this up, I haven't brought this up.
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  SPEAKER_42: I gotta thank a friend of the show, Julie, for emailing me yesterday at John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
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  SPEAKER_42: We should have the results of that ridiculous, completely biased uh truth council that Governor Dim Walls put together with the hack um former judge who was in charge of the Derek Chauvin case.
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  SPEAKER_42: We should get that Friday.
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  SPEAKER_42: Now, I believe October 31st, so it was Saturday, was the official sort of drop dead date on that.
• 1:48:57
  SPEAKER_42: So Friday and Monday, like I said, I'm waiting for this.
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  SPEAKER_42: My prediction was that one, we're we're we know they're gonna say that Operation Metro Surge was horrible, awful, and evil, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  SPEAKER_42: The big one, though, is that they're gonna come up with a figure of how much Operation Metro Surge cost the state of Minnesota.
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  SPEAKER_42: That figure will be more than what the mainstream media here in Minnesota has been claiming the fraud ended up stealing from you.
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  SPEAKER_42: You know, this claim by local media outlets that they're only going and tabulating the fraud based off of the individuals that have actually been convicted.
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  SPEAKER_42: My expectation is that with this truth council or clownsel, they're gonna come out and give you a number of how much Operation Metro Surge costs, just so in the final few days of the campaign, those leftist Democrat candidates can go and say, Look, Operation Metro Surge was worse than the fraud.
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  SPEAKER_42: At least that's my uh expectation.
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  SPEAKER_42: So we'll see what uh what uh what shakes out over the course of the next uh few days.
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  SPEAKER_18: Hey John, all of this current crap of lying, nonsensical Democrats do in Minnesota and the other states is to refuse multiple, genuine debates in order to vociferously put forth insane explanations for why things are the way they are, in order to desperately try to make themselves look good and put themselves in a positive light, in order to gain power and control through their false narratives, in order to implement communism, Sharia law, and Islamism and carry on the United States of America and the Constitution.
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  SPEAKER_29: Hey John Jefferson Stillwater.
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  SPEAKER_29: What a great interview with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_29: Jansen.
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  SPEAKER_29: Boy, can we lose alluding to him as the governor?
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  SPEAKER_29: Imagine the last four years have you gotten him in there?
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  SPEAKER_29: I wonder how much fraud would have been committed.
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  SPEAKER_29: Well, I'm gonna make sure I I'm I was gonna vote for him anyway, so I'm gonna make sure to vote for him and I feel good about the election.
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  SPEAKER_29: It doesn't matter to me.
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  SPEAKER_29: I want I want my side to win, but if they don't, I'm still gonna persevere.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_29: It's not the end of the world, whatever happens.
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  SPEAKER_29: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_29: Hopefully we can straighten the state up.
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  SPEAKER_29: It's re it's ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_42: I'm having a great Halloween season.
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  SPEAKER_42: Devin, are you having a good Halloween season?
• 1:51:37
  SPEAKER_42: I don't think I've talked to you all morning long.
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  SPEAKER_14: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_42: Hi.
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  SPEAKER_14: I'm not a big fan of Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_42: No, huh?
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  SPEAKER_14: No.
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  SPEAKER_42: You a big fan of holidays in general?
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  SPEAKER_42: It's just not Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, I like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, all the good ones.
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  SPEAKER_14: Just not a fan of Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_42: Bigger fan of Halloween than I am Thanksgiving.
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  SPEAKER_42: Thanksgiving is just in my mind the speed bump to Christmas.
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  SPEAKER_42: So that's just that's just me.
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  SPEAKER_42: I mean, we enjoy that time and all that.
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  SPEAKER_14: They're too close together.
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  SPEAKER_42: Melinda made this meal the other night that I told her was very much on the Thanksgiving tip.
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  SPEAKER_42: And I told her maybe you just maybe you took care of Thanksgiving already, perhaps.
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  SPEAKER_42: I have a really interesting uh comment that rolled into the blaster line that we'll get to, and then we'll dive into the media bias.
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  SPEAKER_42: Uh the timing on this is clearly meant to manipulate the election.
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• 2:00:17
  SPEAKER_42: We put the podcast on the app as well.
• 2:00:19
  SPEAKER_42: Also, if you just head on over to americanexperiment.org while you're listening to the show, you can read all the fantastic articles written by the policy fellows here at Center of the American Experiment.
• 2:00:30
  SPEAKER_40: Hey John, TJ from North Minneapolis here commenting about that Truth Council or whatever they call it.
• 2:00:37
  SPEAKER_40: It's gonna be BS Council, is what we should call it.
• 2:00:40
  SPEAKER_40: Because here's why.
• 2:00:41
  SPEAKER_40: You're correct.
• 2:00:42
  SPEAKER_40: They're gonna come up with this huge number, but it's still not gonna be almost$9 billion.
• 2:00:48
  SPEAKER_40: But they're gonna use that number and say it's so big and so large when we talk about this.
• 2:00:56
  SPEAKER_40: They'll say, oh, well, it's not that much.
• 2:00:58
  SPEAKER_40: And it's just ridiculous how they operate.
• 2:01:00
  SPEAKER_40: Sickle liberals.
• 2:01:02
  SPEAKER_42: Well, and it's funny because the uh the commentary around the Truth Council uh disappeared.
• 2:01:08
  SPEAKER_42: And it it's understandable why it disappeared.
• 2:01:10
  SPEAKER_42: They wrapped up their work, oh, I don't know, like a week and a half ago.
• 2:01:14
  SPEAKER_42: Uh and we knew that it was it was stated before that this this truth council to examine Operation Metro Surge, which is well, before I go there, let me just make my comment.
• 2:01:27
  SPEAKER_42: Right?
• 2:01:27
  SPEAKER_42: We knew that they were supposed to wrap up by October 30.
• 2:01:30
  SPEAKER_42: Well, they were gonna wrap up and have a report by October 31st, just in time to influence the election.
• 2:01:35
  SPEAKER_42: I had completely forgotten about the Truth Council.
• 2:01:37
  SPEAKER_42: It wasn't until uh yesterday, as I mentioned, where a friend of the show, Julia, emailed me asking about when we were gonna get those results that I was reminded of it.
• 2:01:44
  SPEAKER_42: And it starts to make now more sense why you had the Alex Predi family come out with this press conference yesterday.
• 2:01:50
  SPEAKER_42: This is all a setup to the release of that report as well.
• 2:01:54
  SPEAKER_42: It's designed to go and influence the election, but it also is the precursor to when the report on Operation Metro Surge comes out, which I'm sure is gonna have all kinds of horrible, awful information about how horrible and awful ICE and Trump are because of the deaths of the individuals who got in the way of lawful law enforcement from doing their job.
• 2:02:16
  SPEAKER_42: They put themselves in that position.
• 2:02:18
  SPEAKER_42: So, with that, let's go ahead and get to this.
• 2:02:20
  SPEAKER_42: We'll give you an update on Ilhan Omar coming up.
• 2:02:22
  SPEAKER_42: You definitely want to make sure that you stick around for the update.
• 2:02:26
  SPEAKER_42: But um, this story was in the Star Tribune yesterday early.
• 2:02:32
  SPEAKER_42: In diverse Wilmer, fallout from ICE operation lingers ahead of the midterm.
• 2:02:41
  SPEAKER_42: This is a completely unnecessary story.
• 2:02:44
  SPEAKER_42: And it's unnecessary when you get into the first opening lines of the piece.
• 2:02:49
  SPEAKER_42: Some in the meat packing town say the crackdown could bring a blue wave, while others see the area's conservatism enduring in a challenging cycle for the GOP.
• 2:03:00
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, okay.
• 2:03:02
  SPEAKER_42: And water's wet.
• 2:03:03
  SPEAKER_42: Don't give me don't get into the argument of uh Yeah.
• 2:03:08
  SPEAKER_42: It's like that everywhere.
• 2:03:10
  SPEAKER_42: No, this story was designed and put up in the Star Tribune specifically to just keep it in the headlines and then also as a precursor to the press conference that took place yesterday with Alex Predi's family.
• 2:03:23
  SPEAKER_42: Let's do a headline roundup for you.
• 2:03:26
  SPEAKER_42: Only Ker Eleven, when I did my um look at all the local news outlets, only Kerale did not have this as either their lead story or one of their sidebar front page stories.
• 2:03:42
  SPEAKER_42: So from the Star Tribune, after that Wilmer article that I just mentioned, they had their big headline.
• 2:03:49
  SPEAKER_42: Alex Pready's parents say Justice Department is protecting agents who killed him.
• 2:03:54
  SPEAKER_42: Michael and Susan Pready detailed what they called the cruelty of federal government in the wake of their son's killing.
• 2:04:01
  SPEAKER_42: KSTP, Alex Predy's parents, call on DOJ to release findings nine months after their son's death.
• 2:04:08
  SPEAKER_42: Pioneer Press, parents of Alex Predy and say feds are ignoring them and shielding Alex's killers.
• 2:04:14
  SPEAKER_42: Fox Nine, what to Alex Pready's parents found at Minneapolis Memorial as Justice Remains out of reach.
• 2:04:21
  SPEAKER_42: Also on Fox Nine, that was the lead story.
• 2:04:24
  SPEAKER_42: And then subsequently, underneath that, they had another story.
• 2:04:27
  SPEAKER_42: Alex Pready's parents call on Feds to share evidence in Son's fatal shooting.
• 2:04:32
  SPEAKER_42: Minnesota Reformer, not a huge surprise here, being a left-leaning outlet, but I wanted to include them into the mix anyways.
• 2:04:38
  SPEAKER_42: They wrote Pretty Family, doing that thing with my fingers.
• 2:04:41
  SPEAKER_42: We have not heard anything from the federal government.
• 2:04:45
  SPEAKER_42: And again, Carol Evan was the only one that didn't have it as a headline.
• 2:04:51
  SPEAKER_42: First off, this is almost 100% political to do this a week before the election.
• 2:04:57
  SPEAKER_42: I understand the tactic, but it's gross in my opinion.
• 2:05:01
  SPEAKER_42: I don't know the Pretty family.
• 2:05:04
  SPEAKER_42: I have no connection to the Pretty family.
• 2:05:06
  SPEAKER_42: It is hard for any parents to go and lose children.
• 2:05:10
  SPEAKER_42: That required commentary aside.
• 2:05:13
  SPEAKER_42: Because we are we still need to be humans after all.
• 2:05:16
  SPEAKER_42: I can certainly understand how the Pretty family would be devastated by this.
• 2:05:21
  SPEAKER_42: But it also goes to show a bit of their mentality in what they probably believe was justified actions by their son.
• 2:05:29
  SPEAKER_42: I'll tell you, if my son's acted this way, I'm not going to be sitting back holding press conferences going and blaming the Department of Justice.
• 2:05:36
  SPEAKER_42: I'm going to put the onus and the responsibility on the individuals who put themselves in that position, and that would have been my sons.
• 2:05:44
  SPEAKER_42: Now, I'm confident that I've raised, and my wife and I have raised, sons that have better common sense than Alex Predy did.
• 2:05:52
  SPEAKER_42: But as far as I'm concerned, Pretty was attempting to stop law enforcement from doing their job.
• 2:05:58
  SPEAKER_42: So I'd rather be speaking for the families of the U.S.
• 2:06:04
  SPEAKER_42: citizens who would be alive today if not for an illegal alien who murdered them.
• 2:06:13
  SPEAKER_42: Because what people don't want to talk about is that, you know, Alex Brady's mom gets up and, you know, at a press conference, demands that the agents who ended up shooting her son be held accountable.
• 2:06:26
  SPEAKER_42: Okay.
• 2:06:27
  SPEAKER_42: But of course they didn't mention.
• 2:06:28
  SPEAKER_42: And I'm not, and then again, I'm not surprised by this.
• 2:06:31
  SPEAKER_42: Don't, you know, make sure to not misunderstand what I'm saying.
• 2:06:35
  SPEAKER_42: I understand why the parents would say this.
• 2:06:38
  SPEAKER_42: I I can only fathom what it must be like to lose a to lose a child.
• 2:06:43
  SPEAKER_42: As I mentioned, I told you how I would handle it if my sons acted this way.
• 2:06:48
  SPEAKER_42: But it wasn't like this was just a dude walking down the street who happened to go and yell at law enforcement, and then suddenly law enforcement just shot him cold right there in the street.
• 2:06:59
  SPEAKER_42: That's not how this whole thing played out.
• 2:07:00
  SPEAKER_42: The dude came armed to the event.
• 2:07:03
  SPEAKER_42: And what she didn't mention was that on January 13th, Alex was filmed screaming at federal agents, spitting on an SUV, kicking out a tail light.
• 2:07:11
  SPEAKER_42: He had a gun in his waistband.
• 2:07:13
  SPEAKER_42: They tackled him, let him go, and never charged him.
• 2:07:16
  SPEAKER_42: So you can make an argument if you want to push back on ICE at all.
• 2:07:19
  SPEAKER_42: I think the criticism should be why did they let him go and not charge him?
• 2:07:23
  SPEAKER_42: We know why.
• 2:07:24
  SPEAKER_42: It's because they didn't have the ability and the resources to go and charge every single one of these on the street insurrectionists that were encouraged to do so by the leftist leadership here in the state.
• 2:07:36
  SPEAKER_42: Be that as it may, it emboldened the guy to end up putting himself again in a position where he ended up losing his life.
• 2:07:44
  SPEAKER_42: Eleven days later, he was back at another ICE operation, armed again.
• 2:07:48
  SPEAKER_42: He knew exactly what he was getting himself into, and I'm pulling this from where from online, this commentary.
• 2:07:57
  SPEAKER_42: He thought that it was good to go and try to fight the agents.
• 2:08:01
  SPEAKER_42: Unfortunately, he thought they would go and let him go again, and it didn't happen.
• 2:08:05
  SPEAKER_42: And I want to give you specific examples of exactly the types of individuals who are agents were on the streets attempting to arrest and would have been able to in a more effective fashion if it hadn't been for a bunch of morons going out there, either armed with their cell phones or in this case armed with an actual firearm to go and block lawful law enforcement from doing their jobs.
• 2:08:31
  SPEAKER_38: Operation Metro Surge is to blame for Operation Metro Surge.
• 2:08:36
  SPEAKER_42: Yes, it's true.
• 2:08:37
  SPEAKER_42: I actually had posted that on online at one point in time.
• 2:08:40
  SPEAKER_42: And if Operation Metro Surge has anything to say about Operation Metro Surge, blaming Operation Metro Surge, then they can go and take it up with Operation Metro Surge.
• 2:08:49
  SPEAKER_60: John, they failed to mention that Wilmer just had a gang shootout between the Hispanics and the Somalis.
• 2:08:54
  SPEAKER_60: Funny how that works.
• 2:08:56
  SPEAKER_60: That town is kind of like my hometown, about 3,000, 3,500 people.
• 2:09:01
  SPEAKER_60: And now the school is just over 50% Hispanic children.
• 2:09:06
  SPEAKER_60: The town has been taken over because of the genial plant, the meat packing plants, all of these small towns are in the same boat.
• 2:09:17
  SPEAKER_60: It's really bad.
• 2:09:21
  SPEAKER_20: John, my wife and I lost a 13-year-old son.
• 2:09:25
  SPEAKER_20: For these cruddies to come out and use the death of their son in a political ad, they're just a bunch of ass on whores.
• 2:09:33
  SPEAKER_20: The people using these people are nothing but pimps.
• 2:09:38
  SPEAKER_20: And that's the best terminology I got, because you sure as hell couldn't broadcast this if I use the true words that I truly feel.
• 2:09:47
  SPEAKER_42: Listen, i i I I'll tell you what, if I was still on terrestrial radio, I probably would have been hesitant to put that over a broadcast signal.
• 2:09:54
  SPEAKER_42: That being said, the fact that you you're speaking from a a place of where, if I'm taking what you're saying at face value and I am, because you sound genuine to me, I can certainly understand your outrage if you've lost an in uh a uh a child of your own.
• 2:10:08
  SPEAKER_42: So prayers to you and your and your wife.
• 2:10:10
  SPEAKER_42: Because it's got to be a difficult situation when you see this playing out on TV, and it is so blatantly political.
• 2:10:18
  SPEAKER_42: Somebody asked, did the pretties even discuss Alex bringing a loaded gun to a protest and kicking out a tail light?
• 2:10:22
  SPEAKER_42: Not that I'm aware of.
• 2:10:26
  SPEAKER_42: But let me get into just I want to give you some examples because you don't hear this nearly enough.
• 2:10:32
  SPEAKER_42: Because the individuals that were out there getting in the way of lawful law enforcement, and this is not new commentary, but it's worth repeating.
• 2:10:41
  SPEAKER_42: They were blocking lawful law enforcement from getting rid of individuals who were here in the country illegally, many of whom, the majority of whom had massive criminal backgrounds.
• 2:10:52
  SPEAKER_42: And unfortunately, tragically, because Joe Biden, in the time when he was in office, just left our border wide open, how many people have died because of the actions of Joe Biden and having a completely open border?
• 2:11:07
  SPEAKER_42: So I went to the Federation for American Immigration Reform and they have it broken down by year.
• 2:11:12
  SPEAKER_42: Like I had to stop pulling information to share with you because they do it month by month on the website.
• 2:11:21
  SPEAKER_42: So I'll just give you a handful from August of this year.
• 2:11:26
  SPEAKER_42: An illegal alien, Cristano Pablo Hernandez, allegedly caused a fatal hit and run accident, fled the scene in Lawrence, Indiana, responding to the call, police arrived to find two destroyed vehicles, one abandoned and one with a deceased victim, a 50 year old Daniel Matthias.
• 2:11:41
  SPEAKER_42: During their investigation, officers were able to locate Hernandez, who had multiple injuries walking less than a mile from the crash.
• 2:11:48
  SPEAKER_42: He was taken into custody, charged with driving under the influence and causing death while driving.
• 2:11:52
  SPEAKER_42: An immigration detainer was lodged against him, though the details of the country of origin are still unknown.
• 2:11:58
  SPEAKER_42: An illegal alien who have had And been in the country, there'd be people still alive today.
• 2:12:02
  SPEAKER_42: August 2nd, a Nicaraguan, a Nicaraguan national, was arrested in Florida.
• 2:12:08
  SPEAKER_42: For the sake of time, I'm going to get rid of some of the specifics and the names and whatnot.
• 2:12:12
  SPEAKER_42: He allegedly murdered his roommate by a machete.
• 2:12:15
  SPEAKER_42: According to the witnesses, the security camera footage, this Eddie Rivas Rizzo chased down his roommate, fatally struck him with a machete.
• 2:12:23
  SPEAKER_42: The victim then collapsed in front of a witness who restrained Rizzo.
• 2:12:27
  SPEAKER_42: When police arrived, Rizzo was covered in blood, and both he and the victim were taken to a local hospital.
• 2:12:33
  SPEAKER_42: The victim later died.
• 2:12:35
  SPEAKER_42: Rizzo was taken into custody after being treated.
• 2:12:37
  SPEAKER_42: He initially tried to claim that he was acting in self-defense, but after being shown the security camera footage, he admitted to the crime.
• 2:12:43
  SPEAKER_42: It's unclear when or where he entered the country illegally.
• 2:12:49
  SPEAKER_42: August 2nd, a Salvadoran national.
• 2:12:53
  SPEAKER_42: Angel Israel Darius Revas arrested for allegedly letting a toddler drown in a bathtub in Garner, North Carolina.
• 2:13:03
  SPEAKER_42: Darius Rivas was caring for his 14-month-old stepdaughter when he left her unattended in a bathtub full of water.
• 2:13:11
  SPEAKER_42: The child drowned.
• 2:13:13
  SPEAKER_42: After being taken into custody, Ice lodged a detainer against him and revealed that he had illegally entered the country in October of 2023.
• 2:13:21
  SPEAKER_42: Shall I can I mean I've got three, I've got pages upon pages and pages of this.
• 2:13:26
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, should I should I, you know, go and go on?
• 2:13:29
  SPEAKER_42: August 2nd, a Guatemalan national, Thomas Raimondo Brito was arrested for an alleged hit and run in Miami-Dade, Florida.
• 2:13:38
  SPEAKER_42: The victim, a 74-year-old Geraldine Byrd, stopped her car to open her garage gate when Brito struck her car from behind and knocked her to the ground.
• 2:13:49
  SPEAKER_42: He then hit her car again and trapped the victim underneath it.
• 2:13:54
  SPEAKER_42: Britto then fled the scene, but was later located hiding in a shed and taken into custody.
• 2:13:59
  SPEAKER_42: He admitted to officers that he was driving under the influence.
• 2:14:01
  SPEAKER_42: Later that day, Ice lodged a detainer against him.
• 2:14:04
  SPEAKER_42: It's unknown when or where he entered the country.
• 2:14:07
  SPEAKER_42: I could spend the whole rest of the show going through.
• 2:14:11
  SPEAKER_42: This is just from August.
• 2:14:14
  SPEAKER_42: So yeah, you can spare me.
• 2:14:17
  SPEAKER_42: You can spare me.
• 2:14:18
  SPEAKER_42: Again, must be horribly tragic to lose a child.
• 2:14:23
  SPEAKER_42: I can't even fathom.
• 2:14:26
  SPEAKER_42: But maybe just maybe show a little intellectual honesty of the number of individuals that have murdered U.S.
• 2:14:34
  SPEAKER_42: citizens who should never should have been here in the first place.
• 2:14:37
  SPEAKER_42: That's what ICE has been trying to do.
• 2:14:40
  SPEAKER_42: Alex Pretty, Renee Good, you want to point to anybody being responsible for their deaths other than themselves?
• 2:14:48
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, you can go and point to all of the leftists here in the state who encourage people to go and get in their way.
• 2:14:53
  SPEAKER_42: And there is no better example than I can give you because we all said this, who were using common sense, who were being rational in terms of our commentary when Operation Metro Surge was going on, because we were all watching the irrational behavior taking place in the streets.
• 2:15:08
  SPEAKER_42: That the left right now wants to continue to exploit in the closing days of this election because they feel like this is how they're going to be able to drive individuals out to vote.
• 2:15:20
  SPEAKER_42: But we all saw and knew how ridiculous it was that if those individuals had not been on the streets getting in the way of law enforcement, ICE would have come in, did their job, and been out, done.
• 2:15:30
  SPEAKER_42: Because it happened during July and August of this year when more individuals were arrested via actions from ICE, illegal aliens, criminal backgrounds, and some who were just here illegally.
• 2:15:41
  SPEAKER_42: More individuals arrested during July and August in the entirety of Operation Metro Surge, and you didn't hear a damn thing about it until I told you here on this show.
• 2:15:54
  SPEAKER_42: Why?
• 2:15:55
  SPEAKER_42: Because the left didn't go and encourage individuals to get out and get in the way of lawful law enforcement from conducting their actions.
• 2:16:03
  SPEAKER_42: There was no fear running through the community.
• 2:16:06
  SPEAKER_42: There was no lives that were upended.
• 2:16:08
  SPEAKER_42: There wasn't all this alleged job loss that they want to tout when it comes to pointing to how bad Operation Metro Surge are, all the schools losing funding because all the kids are too afraid to go back to class, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 2:16:21
  SPEAKER_42: Even if all of that happened in the way that they said that it did, it was completely avoidable if it hadn't been for a bunch of loudmouth leftists out there saying, get in the way of ICE and what they're doing.
• 2:16:31
  SPEAKER_42: Observe what's going on.
• 2:16:32
  SPEAKER_42: You still have Attorney General Thief Ellison running ads.
• 2:16:35
  SPEAKER_42: You stepped up.
• 2:16:37
  SPEAKER_42: You stepped up and you showed what Minnesota people are really like.
• 2:16:41
  SPEAKER_42: You showed the fortitude to push back against ICE.
• 2:16:43
  SPEAKER_42: It's the individuals that I was just mentioning that ICE was out there arresting.
• 2:16:51
  SPEAKER_42: August 2nd, ICE lodged a detainer against a Haitian national, Moisey Saint-Taran, who allegedly raped two women in Salt Lake City.
• 2:17:00
  SPEAKER_42: First attack on July 18th.
• 2:17:02
  SPEAKER_42: Sexually assaulted an intoxicated female in his apartment.
• 2:17:06
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, I suppose that's all her fault because she was drunk, right?
• 2:17:08
  SPEAKER_42: Is that the excuse we're going to hear?
• 2:17:10
  SPEAKER_42: His second attack took place on August 1st when a second victim fell asleep in his apartment and woke up to find him sexually abusing her.
• 2:17:17
  SPEAKER_42: She called the police.
• 2:17:19
  SPEAKER_42: He was taken into custody.
• 2:17:20
  SPEAKER_42: I lodged a detainer on August 2nd and revealed that he had been paroled in the United States in 2023 under the Biden administration and was authorized to stay until June of 2025.
• 2:17:31
  SPEAKER_42: The parole program was terminated by the Trump administration in April of 25, and he remained in the country illegally.
• 2:17:38
  SPEAKER_42: Again, I could go on and on and on.
• 2:17:44
  SPEAKER_42: 651-964-0294.
• 2:17:48
  SPEAKER_42: We'll get back to more of your thoughts here in just a moment on the John Justice Show.
• 2:17:52
  SPEAKER_42: So Governor Dim Walls apparently love lost between he and Kamala Harris.
• 2:18:00
  SPEAKER_42: Asked about who should run in 2028 if they want to win.
• 2:18:03
  SPEAKER_42: And Walls said Pete Buttigieg.
• 2:18:06
  SPEAKER_42: And Ilhan Omar says she's only a target because of her natural beauty as new major developments have emerged overnight.
• 2:18:14
  SPEAKER_42: And I'm going to give you the details, coming up in just a moment here on the John Justice Show.
• 2:18:19
  SPEAKER_42: Do not go anywhere.
• 2:19:32
  SPEAKER_27: Or put your body on the line.
• 2:19:34
  SPEAKER_27: I mean, how many of them said that?
• 2:19:36
  SPEAKER_27: I mean, that's what ca caused a lot of this.
• 2:19:38
  SPEAKER_27: And that guy made pretty made a horrible decision in the morning when he got uh when a gun on him.
• 2:19:45
  SPEAKER_27: He should have never took a gun.
• 2:19:49
  SPEAKER_41: Morning.
• 2:19:50
  SPEAKER_41: I wish we would compare areas that uh didn't support ice to other areas that did support the efforts and uh bring to the attention the fact that because they didn't uh because the officials here, the elected officials, the police department did not support the ICE efforts, we lost people, and other places they did and didn't have these problems.
• 2:20:16
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:20:17
  SPEAKER_41: They're they're illegal.
• 2:20:19
  SPEAKER_41: And this is one of the make the comparison, please.
• 2:20:22
  SPEAKER_41: Thank you.
• 2:20:22
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, well, listen, I you know, that comparison is this is very similar to the one that I gave a moment ago regarding how, you know, during the summer months, you didn't hear anything about ICE and the arrests that were taking place, even though they were hitting uh record numbers across the country and surpassing that of what had happened during Operation Metro Surge.
• 2:20:44
  SPEAKER_42: And I should probably add in the reason why that didn't happen.
• 2:20:47
  SPEAKER_42: It didn't happen because the left even was aware that to go and potentially start grabbing headlines by encouraging individuals to act like a bunch of would-be on-the-street insurrectionists was a bad idea getting that close to the election because you don't know which way it's going to go.
• 2:21:03
  SPEAKER_42: Because typically, illegal immigration is and used to be an issue that crossed party lines.
• 2:21:09
  SPEAKER_42: I still believe that it is a bipartisan issue.
• 2:21:13
  SPEAKER_42: We don't see a lot of it because of the commentary that we see online, but that's only representative of a fraction of individuals.
• 2:21:19
  SPEAKER_42: Which is also why you're not seeing immigration, apart from Operation Metro Surge here in Minnesota being a focus when it comes to Democrat campaigns across the country.
• 2:21:29
  SPEAKER_42: Here in Minnesota, it's different because the leftists believe that they can go and capitalize on this by removing and dismissing with any of the specific information like what we were laying out this morning on the show.
• 2:21:41
  SPEAKER_42: And I'm going to provide you these examples of just how fake and designed to just be political theater all of this is right now.
• 2:21:49
  SPEAKER_42: I shared this with you earlier, and we'll do it again, this clip of Pete Buttigieg, and I have more audio to get to here on the show as well.
• 2:21:57
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• 2:22:00
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• 2:23:18
  SPEAKER_42: But you might be hosting a house party this weekend.
• 2:23:20
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• 2:23:27
  SPEAKER_42: There's no booze, which is why they're spooky, right?
• 2:23:29
  SPEAKER_42: They also have these ghost koozies that are available for a limited time.
• 2:23:32
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  SPEAKER_42: After he went and threw his support behind an unlikely fellow rather than his former running mate.
• 2:25:18
  SPEAKER_42: This was an October 15th discussion at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he was interviewed by C-SPAN.
• 2:25:26
  SPEAKER_42: It's a little hard to hear, but the interviewer asked him about the upcoming elections, and then he gives his choice on who people should pick.
• 2:25:35
  SPEAKER_54: So give some advice to the National Party now.
• 2:25:39
  SPEAKER_53: We um look, we you can see a Pete Buttigieg.
• 2:25:44
  SPEAKER_53: So that would be about it.
• 2:25:48
  SPEAKER_42: So when asked about the party's future, he goes with pick Pete Buttigieg, which I find rather interesting.
• 2:25:56
  SPEAKER_42: What's the because I don't think this happened without intention.
• 2:26:00
  SPEAKER_42: I don't think that Walls just, you know, thinks he's the best.
• 2:26:04
  SPEAKER_42: Maybe he does.
• 2:26:05
  SPEAKER_42: Who knows?
• 2:26:05
  SPEAKER_42: I do find it odd that he didn't go with Kamala Harris through some shade Harris's way.
• 2:26:12
  SPEAKER_42: Interesting.
• 2:26:13
  SPEAKER_42: Also interesting, too, just how absent Governor Dimwalls has been from all of this.
• 2:26:18
  SPEAKER_42: I find it comical.
• 2:26:20
  SPEAKER_42: I'm not gonna lie.
• 2:26:22
  SPEAKER_42: You would think that the governor of the state of Minnesota would be out, you know, alongside all of the Democrat candidates and just spin, you know, worse.
• 2:26:31
  SPEAKER_42: You've seen Hopewalls more than you have seen Governor Dimwalls.
• 2:26:36
  SPEAKER_42: Speaking of hopewalls, and just why do they all sound this way?
• 2:26:42
  SPEAKER_42: So what am I talking about?
• 2:26:43
  SPEAKER_42: I'm talking about uh Alyssa Slotkin, the senator.
• 2:26:47
  SPEAKER_42: She was at a campaign event.
• 2:26:49
  SPEAKER_42: Okay.
• 2:26:51
  SPEAKER_42: She is being urged.
• 2:26:53
  SPEAKER_42: Okay, let me set the stage on this.
• 2:26:56
  SPEAKER_42: So, Senator Alyssa Slotkin is looking to face an ethics investigation after she made comments at the University of Chicago.
• 2:27:04
  SPEAKER_42: We talked about this on the show.
• 2:27:06
  SPEAKER_42: Slotkin suggested that young conservatives interested in serving in the Trump administration should reconsider due to the potential legal repercussions.
• 2:27:14
  SPEAKER_42: Critics argued that her remarks were intended to intimidate and deter political participation, setting a dangerous precedent.
• 2:27:22
  SPEAKER_42: And yet, it's because they were meant to intimidate and deter political participation.
• 2:27:28
  SPEAKER_42: That's what she said.
• 2:27:29
  SPEAKER_42: But just in typical leftist fashion, they don't own it.
• 2:27:33
  SPEAKER_42: I'll keep saying it.
• 2:27:34
  SPEAKER_42: They could own it, and the majority of their base wouldn't care.
• 2:27:38
  SPEAKER_42: They've done that good of a job when it comes to the broken and the and the brainwashed.
• 2:27:43
  SPEAKER_42: Instead, she goes out and talking at a campaign stop and makes this comment.
• 2:27:48
  SPEAKER_42: So speaking of hopewalls, why do they all sound the same all of a sudden with this uptick inflection?
• 2:27:57
  SPEAKER_49: It's been an interesting week.
• 2:27:58
  SPEAKER_49: I am clearly triggering the President of the United States.
• 2:28:07
  SPEAKER_49: This week he said again that I should be put on trial from the Oval Office for one very specific reason, because I deign to say that if you break the law and abuse taxpayer doublers, you should be held accountable for that.
• 2:28:27
  SPEAKER_42: No, you got criticized because you were trying to intimidate and wanted to intimidate and deter political participation because you were aligned, because individuals were aligned with Trump.
• 2:28:38
  SPEAKER_42: I'm just wondering why do they talk this way when they are speaking?
• 2:28:42
  SPEAKER_42: Where is this coming from?
• 2:28:44
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, I'd rather hear Valley Girls speak than this nonsense.
• 2:28:49
  SPEAKER_42: I do, and just one last point on Slotkin, by the way.
• 2:28:53
  SPEAKER_42: Uh it makes me laugh when they have this, and it's not just Slotkin.
• 2:28:59
  SPEAKER_42: Foes of the show do this all the time as well.
• 2:29:02
  SPEAKER_42: Like they, oh, gosh darn it, I did a I did a hope ism.
• 2:29:07
  SPEAKER_42: I did like my apologies.
• 2:29:09
  SPEAKER_42: I try to do better than that.
• 2:29:11
  SPEAKER_42: But they they derive this amount of joy when they believe that they're getting under Trump's skin.
• 2:29:18
  SPEAKER_42: Like, has that like has anybody has Trump ever demonstrated like truly being annoyed at somebody?
• 2:29:24
  SPEAKER_42: He's certainly gone after people, called people names, sometimes it's been over the top.
• 2:29:27
  SPEAKER_42: I admit that.
• 2:29:28
  SPEAKER_42: I do think his second term he's been much more measured than he was in his first term.
• 2:29:33
  SPEAKER_42: And I know there are individuals that liked him more in his first term.
• 2:29:36
  SPEAKER_42: But that being said, this idea that, oh, we're getting under his skin, oh, we're making him so angry.
• 2:29:41
  SPEAKER_42: It's just it speaks to just how evil these individuals are.
• 2:29:44
  SPEAKER_49: It's been an interesting week.
• 2:29:45
  SPEAKER_49: I am clearly triggering the president of the United States.
• 2:29:52
  SPEAKER_42: Okay.
• 2:29:53
  SPEAKER_42: Let ever float your boat, lady.
• 2:29:56
  SPEAKER_42: But it's also fake.
• 2:29:58
  SPEAKER_42: She's completely lying as to why she has been put under the spotlight over her ridiculous comments and refused to own it.
• 2:30:06
  SPEAKER_42: But all of these ads that are being run are nonsensical.
• 2:30:10
  SPEAKER_42: I talked about this earlier in the show.
• 2:30:12
  SPEAKER_42: I want to revisit the Pete Buttigieg clip because we were talking about how Dim Walls said that he apparently is the future of the Democrat Party.
• 2:30:21
  SPEAKER_42: But again, so this was posted by Democrat wins media.
• 2:30:26
  SPEAKER_42: This was the commentary on the clip breaking in a powerful moment.
• 2:30:32
  SPEAKER_42: Pete Buttigieg just made clear that Donald Trump and his family are the most corrupt first family in American history.
• 2:30:41
  SPEAKER_42: Here is the clip attached to that description.
• 2:30:45
  SPEAKER_42: You tell me, did you hear what they described in the description being said by Pete Buttigieg?
• 2:30:53
  SPEAKER_10: Not to mention the first family.
• 2:30:55
  SPEAKER_10: Remember, for them, things are going along just fine.
• 2:30:59
  SPEAKER_10: As far as they're concerned, we're in a golden age.
• 2:31:02
  SPEAKER_10: And it is a golden age for them.
• 2:31:05
  SPEAKER_10: They would keep this going on forever if they could.
• 2:31:08
  SPEAKER_10: And they would, except they got this one little problem, which is uh there's an election going on right now.
• 2:31:14
  SPEAKER_10: And that's when we get to decide what happens now.
• 2:31:17
  SPEAKER_42: I I don't know what was breaking about what he said.
• 2:31:20
  SPEAKER_42: Did he even say anything?
• 2:31:22
  SPEAKER_42: It's a golden age, and they think it's a great age.
• 2:31:26
  SPEAKER_42: We're gonna do something different.
• 2:31:29
  SPEAKER_42: Was that a powerful moment where Buddhic made clear that Donald Trump and his family are the most corrupt first family in American history?
• 2:31:36
  SPEAKER_42: No.
• 2:31:37
  SPEAKER_42: Did anybody who is supporting Pete Buttigieg or Democrats even bother to watch the clip or watch the clip and go, he didn't say what they thought, what I thought they were gonna say.
• 2:31:46
  SPEAKER_42: Probably not.
• 2:31:49
  SPEAKER_42: Because too many individuals are just acting like NPCs at this point in time.
• 2:31:54
  SPEAKER_42: John.
• 2:31:55
  SPEAKER_26: I can remember the Kavanaugh hearings when Christy Blaze Ford would exactly talk like this.
• 2:32:05
  SPEAKER_26: It's Up Talk.
• 2:32:06
  SPEAKER_26: That's the Valley Girls, and that's the Democrats.
• 2:32:10
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, but even Valley Girls spoke better than that.
• 2:32:13
  SPEAKER_42: I did a rewatch this year of Valley Girl.
• 2:32:16
  SPEAKER_42: Seminal film when I was growing up as a child, by the way.
• 2:32:19
  SPEAKER_42: Although my father went and edited all the naughty stuff out of the movie, like he did with so many films, which made um watching a lot of movies as an adult really interesting because suddenly I'm watching special editions.
• 2:32:30
  SPEAKER_42: I'm watching Caddyshack.
• 2:32:31
  SPEAKER_42: That scene wasn't in it.
• 2:32:32
  SPEAKER_42: That scene wasn't in it.
• 2:32:33
  SPEAKER_42: I'm watching Animal House.
• 2:32:35
  SPEAKER_42: Where did that scene come from?
• 2:32:36
  SPEAKER_42: That scene wasn't in Valley Girl, same thing.
• 2:32:40
  SPEAKER_32: The funniest part about her using the word triggering for the president or anyone on the right is that no one on the right ever gets triggered.
• 2:32:48
  SPEAKER_32: We only use that word to uh mock people on the left who are triggered by everything.
• 2:32:53
  SPEAKER_42: Oh man, there was a funny moment.
• 2:32:54
  SPEAKER_42: Let me see if I can get to my feed and find it uh on uh on X on X.
• 2:32:59
  SPEAKER_42: Uh there was a dude from out of nowhere.
• 2:33:01
  SPEAKER_42: Let me scroll through here.
• 2:33:02
  SPEAKER_42: My apologies.
• 2:33:03
  SPEAKER_42: I know this makes for fantastic radio.
• 2:33:06
  SPEAKER_42: Somebody was trying to uh go and give me grief because I had posted a picture.
• 2:33:12
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, so there's a trend, there was a trend going around online the other day.
• 2:33:17
  SPEAKER_42: I actually saw AK did it, and uh I think Kelly Proctor had done it in Friend of the Show, where it was um this is who runs this account, and then you have like a photo of yourself.
• 2:33:28
  SPEAKER_42: And so I went into my phone and I found a photo of me at Galaxy uh Galaxy's Edge, and I'm standing underneath the full-scale Millennium Falcon in front of the ride there, and I got my hands up, like, oh look at me, I'm happy, I'm a Star Wars fan, right?
• 2:33:41
  SPEAKER_42: So uh this this uh Sidney Anderson on X responded to that.
• 2:33:47
  SPEAKER_42: So that was the post.
• 2:33:49
  SPEAKER_42: It was this account is run by this person, and a picture of me underneath the Millennium Falcon.
• 2:33:53
  SPEAKER_42: And they wrote Um, It is so funny that you can sit and watch Star Wars and completely not understand any of it.
• 2:33:59
  SPEAKER_42: You Realize you work for the Empire, correct?
• 2:34:02
  SPEAKER_42: And then they wrote uh Jesus with G-E-E-Z-U-S.
• 2:34:06
  SPEAKER_42: It always makes me laugh when people try to use Star Wars and make a political point.
• 2:34:10
  SPEAKER_42: There are a group of individuals out there that believe that if you are a conservative, you can't, you cannot like Star Wars.
• 2:34:16
  SPEAKER_42: You are not allowed to like Star Wars if you're a conservative.
• 2:34:19
  SPEAKER_42: Because you just don't understand what it means.
• 2:34:21
  SPEAKER_42: And yeah, I know George Lucas was a liberal, but we're also talking about a galaxy far, far away.
• 2:34:26
  SPEAKER_42: This was my response when we get back to triggering for a moment.
• 2:34:29
  SPEAKER_42: I love to do this, by the way.
• 2:34:31
  SPEAKER_42: When you take somebody's words and you just turn it back around against them, I wrote, uh, it is so funny that you try and use Star Wars to make a political point and completely not understand that it's irrelevant to the real world.
• 2:34:41
  SPEAKER_42: You realize there are no such thing as Jedi Sith and lightsaber uh lightsabers and Wookies, correct?
• 2:34:46
  SPEAKER_42: And then I wrote, geez.
• 2:34:47
  SPEAKER_42: So speaking of tri of triggering, this is how they responded.
• 2:34:51
  SPEAKER_42: I'm not the dude with a podcast about it.
• 2:34:53
  SPEAKER_42: Toys on my shelf, and effing paying thousands of dollars to go to make-believe land.
• 2:34:58
  SPEAKER_42: Seems pretty real to you, dude.
• 2:35:00
  SPEAKER_42: Exclamation point.
• 2:35:01
  SPEAKER_42: They're called stormtroopers for a reason.
• 2:35:03
  SPEAKER_42: Uh dipstick, although he didn't use uh dipstick.
• 2:35:07
  SPEAKER_42: So, case in point to the previous uh comment.
• 2:35:10
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, that was an individual who was uh definitely triggered.
• 2:35:15
  SPEAKER_35: Yeah, like the epic talkers drive you crazy.
• 2:35:20
  SPEAKER_49: It's been an interesting week.
• 2:35:22
  SPEAKER_49: I am clearly triggering the president of the United States.
• 2:35:28
  SPEAKER_48: He was a little triggered.
• 2:35:31
  SPEAKER_49: This week he said again that I should be put on trial from the Oval Office for one very specific reason, because I deign to say that if you break the law and abuse taxpayer dollars, you should be held accountable for that.
• 2:35:50
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, okay.
• 2:35:51
  SPEAKER_42: So she should be completely and 100% in support of the investigation into Ilhan Omar, then maybe that's what the next uh news media outlet should go ask Miss Alyssa Slockin.
• 2:36:03
  SPEAKER_42: To that point, Ilhan Omar uh says that it's only her natural beauty as to why she's being targeted.
• 2:36:11
  SPEAKER_42: I'm not even joking.
• 2:36:14
  SPEAKER_42: Also, along the same lines of political theater, I will give you uh the comments from Attorney General Thief Ellison, worried about the Ilhan Omar case, talking with CNN.
• 2:36:24
  SPEAKER_42: But as uh an example, it's a really perfect moment of an individual who's saying a lot of words, but none of them really make any sense.
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  SPEAKER_36: Good morning, John.
• 2:37:27
  SPEAKER_36: Chris from Brooklyn Center.
• 2:37:28
  SPEAKER_36: When people turn their tone of voice up at the end of a statement, it's because they're asking a question.
• 2:37:33
  SPEAKER_36: They have used a lie in their statement, and they're asking you, do you believe?
• 2:37:40
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, this one makes me laugh, by the way.
• 2:37:43
  SPEAKER_52: Hello, John.
• 2:37:44
  SPEAKER_52: Um, you're like gonna give me a nervous twin if you keep playing that clip of Hope Wall.
• 2:37:53
  SPEAKER_42: Well, the good news is I'm not playing Hope Walls.
• 2:37:56
  SPEAKER_42: This is Senator Alyssa Lockin'.
• 2:37:57
  SPEAKER_49: It's been an interesting week.
• 2:37:58
  SPEAKER_49: I am clearly triggering the president of the United States.
• 2:38:04
  SPEAKER_48: He feels a little triggered.
• 2:38:09
  SPEAKER_42: Keith Ellison talking with CNN, worried about Ilhan Omar's case.
• 2:38:15
  SPEAKER_42: Uh and again, we have a huge problem when it comes to just language.
• 2:38:22
  SPEAKER_42: You get into an election cycle and everybody just gets dumb, and the majority of what you hear is nonsense.
• 2:38:29
  SPEAKER_42: And that certainly rings true in this clip from Keith Ellison.
• 2:38:34
  SPEAKER_56: She is being investigated for alleged immigration fraud, something that she vehemently denies.
• 2:38:39
  SPEAKER_56: Are you though concerned about the case against her?
• 2:38:42
  SPEAKER_34: I am concerned anytime the executive weaponizes the instrumentality of the law against a political opponent.
• 2:38:50
  SPEAKER_34: I'm worried about it because Ilhan is a friend of mine and a great uh congresswoman, but I'm worried about it when it comes to James Comey.
• 2:38:57
  SPEAKER_34: I'm worried about it when it comes to Tish James.
• 2:38:59
  SPEAKER_34: I'm worried about it when it comes to Jack Smith.
• 2:39:02
  SPEAKER_34: He actually uh issued subpoenas against me and the governor.
• 2:39:05
  SPEAKER_34: We had to have them quashed in a court of law where the judge dismissed their uh subpoenas because they were blatantly political and motivated by political animus and politics.
• 2:39:15
  SPEAKER_34: So, yeah, I am very concerned about it, but not because of the behavior of Ms.
• 2:39:20
  SPEAKER_34: Omar, but because of the abuse of our justice system.
• 2:39:25
  SPEAKER_34: It shouldn't be this way.
• 2:39:26
  SPEAKER_34: This is not how democracies operate.
• 2:39:29
  SPEAKER_34: And uh I am quite concerned.
• 2:39:32
  SPEAKER_42: Democracies don't opt this way.
• 2:39:34
  SPEAKER_42: The instrumentality of the weaponization of the Justice Department, blah, blah, blah.
• 2:39:38
  SPEAKER_42: Are rules being followed?
• 2:39:40
  SPEAKER_42: Yeah, just like they were with Swalwell.
• 2:39:42
  SPEAKER_42: But how what does uh Ellison have to say about that?
• 2:39:44
  SPEAKER_42: Nothing.
• 2:39:46
  SPEAKER_42: The weaponization of the Justice Department, the right doesn't do that.
• 2:39:51
  SPEAKER_42: The left does that.
• 2:39:52
  SPEAKER_42: I and I and I'll I'll keep stressing this point because it's important.
• 2:39:56
  SPEAKER_42: And if you learn anything from storytelling, you have to say the crucial points at least three times before it reaches the audience.
• 2:40:01
  SPEAKER_42: Watch any film and you'll know exactly what I'm what I'm talking about.
• 2:40:04
  SPEAKER_42: But this whole weaponization of the Justice Department, it's a moving target.
• 2:40:08
  SPEAKER_42: If the left doesn't like the fact that an investigation is launched against one of their own, it doesn't matter how legitimate it is.
• 2:40:14
  SPEAKER_42: They just default to it's being weaponized, when that's exactly what they did during the entire time when Biden was in office and Trump decided he was going to run for a second term.
• 2:40:24
  SPEAKER_42: So just give me a break already.
• 2:40:28
  SPEAKER_42: Speaking of giving me a break, Ilhan Omar, whose real name is Ilhan Noor Sayed Elmi, according to the DOJ, claimed that conservative media was only focused on her because she is naturally pretty.
• 2:40:44
  SPEAKER_42: I'm not even gonna do a commentary on Ilhan Omar's looks.
• 2:40:48
  SPEAKER_42: I just okay.
• 2:40:51
  SPEAKER_42: But to say that that's the reason why, out of everything?
• 2:40:54
  SPEAKER_42: I mean, come on.
• 2:40:56
  SPEAKER_42: The Minnesota Congresswoman to uh uh told the avowed socialist commie super fan, Hassan Piker, she believed the media was uh the media attention wasn't solely the result of investigations into questions about her age, her father's background, and ultimately the potential legality of her United States citizenship uh citizenship.
• 2:41:22
  SPEAKER_42: Rather, she argued that outlets wanted a natural alternative to the Botox faces of the women on the right.
• 2:41:30
  SPEAKER_42: Excuse me?
• 2:41:33
  SPEAKER_42: Uh okay, listen, I I don't like to go down the road of sort of disparaging the looks of individuals, but unfortunately, it's almost unavoidable when it comes to Ozempic face as of late and the Botox of individuals.
• 2:41:45
  SPEAKER_42: And there is no party exclusivity on this.
• 2:41:48
  SPEAKER_42: I would argue that women on the right, for the most part, do a better job when it comes to these enhancements.
• 2:41:55
  SPEAKER_42: I would prefer if women didn't do this at all.
• 2:41:58
  SPEAKER_42: Age gracefully like the sirens of the past, but we're not living in that world anymore.
• 2:42:03
  SPEAKER_42: But to say, first off, a ridiculous notion that they're targeting her because of her natural beauty over the Botox faces of the women on the right, you can't make that comment without inadvertently throwing shade against your own party.
• 2:42:18
  SPEAKER_42: Peggy Flanagan for crying out loud, it looks like she has those sandwich bag clips attached to the back of her neck, pulling her face tight.
• 2:42:27
  SPEAKER_42: Like you can see the reflection of the camera in her forehead in almost every single interview that she does.
• 2:42:34
  SPEAKER_42: Like I can only imagine the headache she must be putting the lighting crew in due to the fact of all of just the reflective features of her just pulled stretched face.
• 2:42:50
  SPEAKER_42: She says, I think you really just need uh to look good on their screen, and that's why they're having you, said Piker.
• 2:42:56
  SPEAKER_42: The pair were kicking back on the sofa, clearly relaxed and comfortable, as they discussed the state of American politics, where she made this comment.
• 2:43:04
  SPEAKER_42: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 2:43:06
  SPEAKER_42: That's that's one take on how Ilhan Omar was during that moment because I watched the clip.
• 2:43:11
  SPEAKER_42: If you've seen any of the footage, photographs, video, it doesn't matter.
• 2:43:15
  SPEAKER_42: This is not the Ilhan Omar of old.
• 2:43:19
  SPEAKER_42: No, this is an Ilhan Omar that suddenly is acting like she's the victim in all of this.
• 2:43:24
  SPEAKER_42: It's all this hardship that she's dealing with now.
• 2:43:27
  SPEAKER_42: Oh, how difficult it all is.
• 2:43:30
  SPEAKER_42: Right?
• 2:43:30
  SPEAKER_42: She's cowering, she's kind of slumped in her seat.
• 2:43:33
  SPEAKER_42: This is not that firebrand progressive.
• 2:43:36
  SPEAKER_42: Who, let us remind you right now of what she did the moment that she was in Congress.
• 2:43:43
  SPEAKER_42: If Ilhan Omar is getting a lot of attention, it's not because of any natural beauty doing that thing with my fingers.
• 2:43:49
  SPEAKER_42: No, it's how she has conducted herself since the moment she got into office, whether it's in the legislature or in Congress as an activist rather than a good representative citizen of the voters, including this.
• 2:44:02
  SPEAKER_42: This was back um Fox 9 when Omar was elected to Congress, and she begged a judge to not sentence nine Somalis who were trying to join ISIS as they were being looked at to have to receive prison time.
• 2:44:20
  SPEAKER_42: This is one of the first actions that Ilhan Omar did when she got into office.
• 2:44:23
  SPEAKER_09: Sentencing for nine Somali American men is set for next week in Minneapolis, but a newly elected official is asking for leniency.
• 2:44:30
  SPEAKER_47: Minnesota Representative elect Ilhan Omar wrote a letter to the judge asking for compassion instead of decades of prison time.
• 2:44:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, defense attorneys are asking for leniency, but so are several others who filed letters to the judge on behalf of the defendants.
• 2:44:50
  SPEAKER_00: But U.S.
• 2:44:51
  SPEAKER_00: prosecutors responded tonight with strong arguments why all of them should, in fact, receive the recommended sentence.
• 2:45:19
  SPEAKER_00: She says the best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion.
• 2:45:28
  SPEAKER_00: We should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation.
• 2:45:33
  SPEAKER_00: Thirteen letters, including one from the Dean of Students at Minneapolis Public Schools, were also sent to the judge asking for leniency.
• 2:46:43
  SPEAKER_42: Because the moment she got into office, she begged the judge to not sentence nine Somalis who were trying to own uh to uh join ISIS.
• 2:46:51
  SPEAKER_42: By the way, can I remind you of the ramifications of what happens when you don't hold people accountable?
• 2:46:55
  SPEAKER_42: Did we not just have a story that got memory hold as quickly as it popped up of an individual who was pan uh planning a mass slaughter of another immigrant community at the Mall of America?
• 2:47:06
  SPEAKER_42: Who called Somali his home?
• 2:47:09
  SPEAKER_42: Okay.
• 2:47:23
  SPEAKER_42: Well, it's interesting to me that Ilhan Omar is talking about everything except the allegations against her.
• 2:47:29
  SPEAKER_42: She's not bringing up any of her passport questioning, her uh, you know, the changing of dates, how her memoir doesn't align with her own statements regarding her age.
• 2:47:41
  SPEAKER_42: The major developments that broke overnight, so federal authorities explicitly are raising the prospect of civil denaturalization of Ilhan Omar.
• 2:47:51
  SPEAKER_42: I still contend that there will be an indictment before the weekend.
• 2:47:55
  SPEAKER_42: That's still my guess.
• 2:47:55
  SPEAKER_42: I could be wrong, but we'll see.
• 2:47:57
  SPEAKER_42: She's being pursued for potential federal violations, including, including passport fraud and false claims of U.S.
• 2:48:04
  SPEAKER_42: citizenship.
• 2:48:05
  SPEAKER_42: The warrant was for her complete unredacted passport history.
• 2:48:10
  SPEAKER_42: And the big one, the U.S.
• 2:48:12
  SPEAKER_42: federal agents have spent the past eight months building a case on Ilhan Omar, and they did this before they went and knocked on her door.
• 2:48:21
  SPEAKER_42: This would be also somewhat uh cooperated by my conversation and what he's mentioned online of Scott Johnson, who's been one of the foremost individuals, along with a handful of others, investigating and documenting the history of Ilhan Omar, who talked about how he spoke with ICE agents earlier this year regarding fraud, the Somali community, and more specifically, Ilhan Omar.
• 2:48:46
  SPEAKER_17: Ilhan Omar saying about herself that she's very pretty.
• 2:48:51
  SPEAKER_17: Is that hints of narcissism leaking through that I hear?
• 2:48:57
  SPEAKER_42: It's just excuses.
• 2:48:58
  SPEAKER_42: It's all that it is.
• 2:48:59
  SPEAKER_42: It's just excuses.
• 2:49:02
  SPEAKER_42: You know, maybe just maybe people are upset about Ilhan Omar because she made a bunch of statements like this.
• 2:49:13
  SPEAKER_06: The one place where we thought we would never experience this is the US goddamn states of white men across our country because they are actually um causing uh most of the deaths within this country.
• 2:49:41
  SPEAKER_06: And you should be ashamed of you should be so we live in a society, we live in a society and govern in a body that might value the life of a dog more than they value the life of a child who might not look like theirs.
• 2:50:01
  SPEAKER_06: And that is completely sad to be a dictator on day one, and here we are.
• 2:50:08
  SPEAKER_06: This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like when you got the constitution and you install yourself as the sole power that is how dictators are made.
• 2:50:23
  SPEAKER_06: I am glad to announce that the Congressional Progressive Caucus has adopted an official position to hold ICE accountable.
• 2:50:32
  SPEAKER_06: Our caucus members will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices.
• 2:50:55
  SPEAKER_06: We are citizens, we are productive part of this nation, and we will continue to be.
• 2:51:03
  SPEAKER_06: Somalis are not terrorizing this nation, we are helping it thrive.
• 2:51:08
  SPEAKER_06: Somalis have always seen as a fabric, have seen themselves as a fabric of this nation.
• 2:51:15
  SPEAKER_06: So not only are we not going anywhere, not only are we not going anywhere, we are not going to allow anybody to make us feel less Minnesota or less American.
• 2:51:30
  SPEAKER_42: Isn't it interesting?
• 2:51:31
  SPEAKER_42: Uh, I have one more clip relating to Ilhan Omar, some great commentary from Jonathan Churley on Fox News uh yesterday uh regarding what he believes are layers of alleged corruption.
• 2:51:41
  SPEAKER_42: And we've talked about this on the show.
• 2:51:43
  SPEAKER_42: But isn't it interesting how you don't hear any discussion or pushback anymore about people mentioning the Somali community when it comes to the Somali gang issue that's taking place on our streets and the fraud?
• 2:52:00
  SPEAKER_42: Like it's almost as if those arguments weren't flying anymore because it was bringing more attention to the issue, and more and more people were learning the truth about what actually has been taking place here.
• 2:52:13
  SPEAKER_42: More and more people were being were feeling more confident to go and talk about the specifics regarding the Somali community and the issues that we're faced with here in Minnesota that are specifically because of the Somali community.
• 2:52:29
  SPEAKER_42: And suddenly now all those arguments of don't like the whole reason why I had the parody in the first place of don't dare say they're Somali.
• 2:52:36
  SPEAKER_42: Like it's almost irrelevant now because nobody's arguing that anymore.
• 2:52:39
  SPEAKER_42: Because I think the leftists realize, oh, this is backfiring on us because people are being too level-headed and deploying too much common sense about how appropriate it is to get to the specificity of the problems we're talking about.
• 2:52:54
  SPEAKER_42: I'm reminded, going back to Operation Metro Surge, when I believe it was the Learing Center itself, had that break-in doing that thing with my fingers, and you had this whole press conference with a group of individuals from the community, and that dude who was there with his brand new, I don't know what the fancy, what the fancy hats are, what the brand is, or whatever.
• 2:53:16
  SPEAKER_42: But he, you know, he had his fancy hat on and his outfit, and he's there talking about how we don't know who broke in and stole these documents and they came in through the wall.
• 2:53:23
  SPEAKER_42: And then suddenly after that, everybody goes, uh, we think that might have been staged.
• 2:53:28
  SPEAKER_42: Um, I can't imagine that anybody would have done that in the middle of what is going on right now, and suddenly that whole thing just disappeared.
• 2:53:35
  SPEAKER_42: Nobody talked about it anymore.
• 2:53:37
  SPEAKER_42: Just gone.
• 2:53:39
  SPEAKER_42: Did they ever catch the perpetrator?
• 2:53:41
  SPEAKER_42: Are they pulling an O.J.
• 2:53:42
  SPEAKER_42: Simpson?
• 2:53:43
  SPEAKER_42: Eventually they'll find the individual who did this, or maybe it was all made up in the first place.
• 2:53:48
  SPEAKER_13: Arthur, there are layers here of alleged deception.
• 2:53:51
  SPEAKER_13: You know, we we actually didn't uh uh rush to make uh citizens of people uh who are parts of brutal regimes.
• 2:54:00
  SPEAKER_13: And he's being accused, or her late father is being accused, of being a colonel in one of the most abusive regimes in the world.
• 2:54:08
  SPEAKER_13: And there's a question as to whether he revealed that.
• 2:54:11
  SPEAKER_13: It's hard to believe that the State Department would say, great, you're exactly what we're looking for.
• 2:54:16
  SPEAKER_13: Uh but on top of that, he then said that he had this minor daughter who could effectively piggyback on his application.
• 2:54:23
  SPEAKER_13: And then you've got this question about her marriage.
• 2:54:26
  SPEAKER_13: And what's fascinating about all of these is that Omar has chosen not to really answer any of the specific questions for years.
• 2:54:35
  SPEAKER_13: And she is in fact the main witness against herself.
• 2:54:38
  SPEAKER_13: It's not just her book.
• 2:54:40
  SPEAKER_13: You know, for example, we we found out recently that she had a social uh media posting uh that wished her father happy birthday under the very name that's being alleged as the true name of Representative Omar.
• 2:54:54
  SPEAKER_13: She deleted that posting.
• 2:54:57
  SPEAKER_13: Uh now she hasn't been even asked by most media why would you delete a happy birthday posting to your father?
• 2:55:03
  SPEAKER_13: Uh why would you ask your staff to change your birth uh year in official documents?
• 2:55:11
  SPEAKER_13: None of those things have been answered.
• 2:55:13
  SPEAKER_42: You would Nope.
• 2:55:16
  SPEAKER_42: I believe we're gonna get answers before the end of the week.
• 2:55:19
  SPEAKER_42: I could be wrong, though.
• 2:55:21
  SPEAKER_42: Head on over to AmericanExperiment.org.
• 2:55:24
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• 2:55:27
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• 2:55:36
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• 2:55:40
  SPEAKER_42: One fighting an investigation, both running for uh election.
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• 2:57:05
  SPEAKER_42: Alright, tomorrow on the show, we should be joined by the Batman of or Batwoman of Minneapolis, Rebecca Thompson.
• 2:57:13
  SPEAKER_42: Got a couple of different issues that we didn't get a chance to dive into today that we'll save for her tomorrow.
• 2:57:17
  SPEAKER_42: Minneapolis City Council could end the Office of Community Safety.
• 2:57:21
  SPEAKER_42: That could happen today today or tomorrow, actually.
• 2:57:24
  SPEAKER_42: So we'll give you an update on this latest proposal.
• 2:57:27
  SPEAKER_42: Plus, the violence interrupter program, the founder, uh their pay tripled in the is this supposed to be a job that ends up being that lucrative?
• 2:57:37
  SPEAKER_42: I I don't I I don't know whether or not that's supposed to be the case.
• 2:57:41
  SPEAKER_42: But apparently it was.
• 2:57:42
  SPEAKER_42: We'll give you details on that, all in the wake of violent crime has actually plummeted after Trump's nationwide crackdown.
• 2:57:48
  SPEAKER_42: You don't hear about this, of course.
• 2:57:50
  SPEAKER_42: Here in Minneapolis, we're dealing with our uh in Minnesota, we deal with our own problems regarding crime, but you probably haven't heard this, and we'll give you details.
• 2:57:57
  SPEAKER_42: Plus, all the news that might break from uh overnight.
• 2:58:00
  SPEAKER_42: Thank you to uh Devin for producing uh the show this morning uh as always.
• 2:58:06
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• 2:58:44
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• 2:58:47
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• 2:58:53
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• 2:59:26
  SPEAKER_42: Have yourself a uh fantastic rest of your Wednesday.
• 2:59:29
  SPEAKER_42: God bless, and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.
• 2:59:31
  SPEAKER_42: And since we were talking Ilhan Omar, we'll go out with a little uh Ilhan uh Omar and the Ilhan Blues here on the John Justice show, presented by American Experiment.
• 2:59:42
  SPEAKER_23: That's hilarious.
• 2:59:43
  SPEAKER_23: That one is the funniest.
• 3:00:02
  SPEAKER_44: I like them both.
• 3:00:06
  SPEAKER_44: Hi everyone, Ilhan here.
• 3:00:08
  SPEAKER_44: I just wanted to say thank you so much for the support to everyone who sent five, ten, and twenty dollars that goes a long way as we fight Trump and his administration.
• 3:00:26
  SPEAKER_44: I hope I can stay She's got the Line Blues and bags to be packed.
• 3:00:38
  SPEAKER_44: If she fade to citizenship, she may never come back.
• 3:00:57
  SPEAKER_44: She's 17 or 18.
• 3:01:00
  SPEAKER_44: There remains to be seen.
• 3:01:04
  SPEAKER_44: She quickly rose, the ranks in the Capitol, and the overseeing of committees with a rise set on Congress.
• 3:01:13
  SPEAKER_44: She capitalized on her identity.
• 3:01:16
  SPEAKER_44: A representative of Minnesota with a husband and a winery, but with the barrels on time.
• 3:01:26
  SPEAKER_44: Now the investigation is on the way, and it's a combination.
• 3:02:04
  SPEAKER_44: And an end to her activism is close at hand.
• 3:02:09
  SPEAKER_44: Did she marry her brother?
• 3:02:11
  SPEAKER_44: That remains to be seen.
• 3:02:14
  SPEAKER_44: But as wine runs dry, it's time to come clean.
• 3:02:19
  SPEAKER_44: She's got the ill hand blues and bags to be packed.
• 3:02:25
  SPEAKER_44: If she faked her citizenship, she may never come back.
• 3:02:32
  SPEAKER_44: Hi everyone Ilan here.
• 3:02:35
  SPEAKER_44: I just wanted to say For everyone who sent five, ten, and twenty dollars, that goes a long way.
• 3:02:43
  SPEAKER_44: As we fight Trump and his administration.