In this episode, we dive into a myriad of topics broadcasting live from Asylum Studios in Eagle Pass, Texas. Joe kicks off by expressing gratitude to listeners who tuned in for the inaugural Sunday show, highlighting the relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere of Sunday broadcasts. He shares personal anecdotes about his weekend, including culinary adventures with homemade Italian dishes and quality time with his French Bulldogs.
Joe discusses upcoming plans for the podcast, including guest appearances and technical adjustments in the studio. He humorously recounts a conversation with his mother about transitioning to video podcasts, underscoring the challenges and personal growth involved in the process.
The episode transitions into a discussion about the recent DDoS attack on X (formerly Twitter), exploring potential motivations and implications. Joe speculates on the involvement of various groups and countries, emphasizing the orchestrated nature of the attack and its ties to broader political dynamics.
Joe also covers significant political developments, such as the cancellation of 83% of USAID programs by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, highlighting the financial and national security implications. He praises the move as a necessary step towards fiscal responsibility and national interest.
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(00:42) Introduction to the Podcast
(01:18) Joe Russo's Weekend Recap
(03:35) Upcoming Guests and Show Plans
(06:08) Cooking and Family Time
(09:39) Website and Technical Issues
(13:15) Support and Sponsorship
(20:45) Cyber Attack on X and Elon Musk
(34:05) USAID Program Cuts
(46:00) Local Governance and Federal Government Role
(51:06) Immigration and Legal Issues
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
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[00:00:42] Unknown:
Welcome to the podcast where every episode promises an unfiltered dive into the eclectic, the profound, and sometimes the absurd. No topic is off limits. Nothing is sacred, and political correctness takes a back seat.
[00:01:19] Unknown:
Hey there, folks. This is Joe Russo, and, we are coming to you live tonight from the Asylum Studios, broadcasting from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. And tonight, we're going to endeavor to bring you the best quality political talk radio that we could muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the podcast.
[00:01:49] Unknown:
Alright, folks.
[00:01:53] Unknown:
Busy day. Really busy day today. But before we get any further within that, I just wanna say thank you guys for, for everybody that tuned in yesterday to our very first, Sunday show. Thank you for spending that your Sunday evening with us. We had a lot of fun with that, and, we're looking forward to, doing more Sunday shows, as time permits. But it was a a lot of fun. We had some some good feedback on the show, and it was really a a blast to do. And like I said yesterday, you know, a lot of the you know, I've done Sunday shows before with other podcasts, but, there's always a different feel about a Sunday show. Right? I mean, it's kinda relaxed. It's kinda calm.
Little bit of a slower pace. We had a few laughs, poke some fun at some, mental illness on the liberal side. It was a lot of fun. And, then, you know, today, we're back again, back at it. We got our our Monday show coming up here, and, coming up this week as well, we we're gonna have a guest on, on the thirteenth, which is Thursday. So we're looking forward, looking forward to that. And, we're in the works of, booking a few more guests. So, it's gonna be really a lot of a lot of folks coming on the show, which is which is great, helps us out, and I hope that it's something that, you guys are finding really interesting.
But, folks, it's it's it's an it's another week. It's another Monday. It's, it's a great, great, beautiful day here in Eagle Pass. It was, 82 degrees. We had beautiful blue skies, and, just an absolutely beautiful day. So many things going on around us in the world. We're gonna touch base on that. We're gonna spend some time talking about, one of the, one of the, big things that took place today. And, we're gonna try to explore that just a little bit. But, I hope you guys had a great weekend. My weekend was good for the most part. You know, it was, you know, got a lot of stuff done, around here, around the studio. We we talked a little bit about that yesterday. So I'm kinda like recapping our our our weekend activities.
We got we got our mic set set up again. Got that working, and, so we're really happy with that. Still haven't decided if I'm gonna use the the actual, you know, the the mic stand like this one or or continue using the boom. I kinda like this. It kinda, you know, it's how I I'm Italian, you know. So I, I talk with my hands a lot. So and I I'm a constantly knocking into things, and, it's a little distracting for me, for you, I'm sure. But, we, so so we haven't decided if we're gonna stick with, you know, the desktop or the boom here. But, let me know what you think. Whatever sounds better to you, whatever is better as far as visually appealing to you, you you can let us know. Not that this is also appealing to look at. I know that. That's okay. When, a couple years ago, my mom, was was was was dying, and, I was doing another podcast, and, I was just doing audio. And I I had asked her, she was in the hospital, you know, just trying to keep conversation going. So I asked her in the hospital, I said, mom, what do you think? I'm thinking about doing video, for the podcast, and, and I'm not sure if I should or I shouldn't, And, you know, I gotta love my mom. She she doesn't mince words. She she just basically said to me, she goes, Joseph, you know I love you, but stick with the audio.
You you definitely have a face for radio. So, you know, thanks mom. Appreciated that one. But, but, you know, I tried it anyway, and here we are. So, so I hope you guys had a great weekend. Like I said, I I did some stuff around around the studio, around the house. Got a few things worked out over here, did did some, some networking, trying to book some guests, and so it was a it was a productive weekend for me at least. And then, you know, just just hung out with the kids, you know, my my my two Frenchies, my my my bean and my chuck, and we had a we had a great weekend. We really, got some good quality playtime in, so it was a lot of fun. And, you know, I'd I'd look forward to that. They they they are really they they just crack me up. They're they're the best.
They truly, truly are. And then, yesterday, we we had, I cooked a nice Italian dinner, for me and them, and they had some we had we had some linguine with, with some, some good meat sauce that I made from scratch. Made some some braciole, which they love. Now I do my braciole different. I I I mean, you can make it any way you like. So what I like to do is I I take, I take, I take I take the beef and I and I pound it out nice and thin. I use some sirloin, on Sunday, on yesterday. So I, you know, I pound it out nice and thin, throw some some bread crumbs, some seasoned bread crumb on it, and then what I like to do is I I take I take some really nice thin sliced prosciut, and I layer the prosciut on top, and then I take some sauteed spinach, and I saute it with some garlic, some, salt, pepper, some Italian season like oregano, basil, and and whatnot.
And, I just I roll that baby up. I put a like my grandmother used to do, you know, take three toothpicks and you pinch that thing together, and then you always keep track how many toothpicks you put in there because you gotta tell people, give them a heads up. So, so I I did that, and, you know, you you just basically give them a good sear and and and some and some some olive oil and then throw them right there in the sauce, man. And let them finish up. You get a nice nice a nice little crisp on them, and you just throw them right there in the sauce, man. And you just let them cook and just get all that flavor in the sauce. It's it was freaking the bomb.
I am a good cook. I have to I I will say that. I'm a good amateur cook, and, it's I I enjoy cooking. It's a it's like, in some ways therapeutic for me. So it keeps my keeps my mind focused. But, but I yeah. That's what I did over the weekend. It was just it was it was pretty cool. And then, then put the show together for yesterday and, again, had a great time with that and, really enjoyed doing the Sunday show. I think we're gonna be doing it a little bit more frequently. So I hope you guys are okay with that, and I hope you'll join us, on our Sunday, Sunday evenings. Maybe I'll move it to the afternoons. I don't know. Let me know what you think. Drop a comment down below or, let me know in the live chat. You could or shoot me an email at [email protected].
Oh, and that reminds me. So the, the website. So I've been having a problem, with the website. For some reason, there's a, an SSL issue, a secure socket layer, if you wanna be technical about it. So, if if some sometimes when you try to go to the website, it it it says that you don't have a secure connection, and some browsers won't let you connect to it. So, I've been working with with my host company, and, they've been try they, you know, trying to figure out what the problem is because all of my certificates are up to date. And, so not sure what the thing is, but I do have a another website, another domain that I have attached to our website, and it's a little bit easier, I guess. So we're gonna I'm gonna start using that a little bit more frequently, and that is very simply, Joe Roos, r o o z dot com. So, you can get us at Joe rossello dot com. You can get us at Joe Roos dot com. It all takes you to the same place. So just one has a a better problem a better, a better connection than the other. So, that's where we are with that. But anyway, the email address is still right now [email protected].
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Alright. So right now the folks on Rumble are getting a splash screen that says that, the show is still live, but you wanna watch it, you gotta go over to Rumble, and they get a big screen, like a green screen that covers us. And they see me moving around, talk, but they can't hear anything, and they can't see anything because it's really just just blurred out. They just see like a silhouette behind it. So, what do you say we, get into some of these headlines here and talk about what had happened today? Alright. So I don't know if anybody had any problems today trying to get on x, but, but x was the, the victim of a, a, a a very severe, very large, DDoS attack.
It, and it lasted for a while. It was gone it was up for, like, seven hours. So it it it gave us a lot of problem. That's the reason why we're not connected to x right now, because they're still having some some issues there. So, when we tried to connect with x, we weren't able to, but, you know, well, I'm sure we'll get that all squared away and straightened out as we, as we go through this. But, but, this this is just another attack on Elon Musk and, what he's doing with, with president Trump, with Doge, and, you know, you think about it it's you have the attack on on x right now. You have the attacks, that have been taking place over at, the Tesla, showrooms where, where some very well organized, and we know why now because we talked about that yesterday.
These, these far left groups that are being funded by, by by by people like George Soros and, organizations like ActBlue, which are donating money to these these far left organizations to stage these these, These, protests across, Elon Musk's, empire, if you could say that. But, and the and the the left wants to make you think that this is all organic. This is all happening because of just outrage over over, Elon Musk and, you know you know, cutting all of these government programs. But it's really not. This is this is something that's being, funded heavily by the left.
So and the radical left for that matter. So, so don't think for a second as as, you know, the mainstream media tells you the about all of these these, pop up protests and all of these, random, you know, unplanned attacks on on Tesla charging stations. We we highlighted yesterday that there were several that were burned, and and severely damaged. And then, of course, the showrooms that are getting broken into and and, you know, being occupied. None of this is is just, you know, public outrage, just, you know, just bubbling and boiling over. This is all planned. This is orchestrated, and this is, and and this is not an organic thing. So again, now today, you had this, this DDoS attack that took place, with with x.
A lot of people had a had a hard time getting on. It took, Elon Musk, a few hours before he was actually able to get a message out saying that, you know, what was going on. And, so basically, what happened here was, x went through, three major outages in one day. Alright? And it was, on the surface, it was a group that claimed, claimed responsibility for it called, the dark storm team. And it seemed to be just a, you know, just a coordinated attack. Users worldwide encountered a barrage of technical difficulties, login failures, content loading problems, widespread access disruptions. Elon Musk addressed the attacks Monday afternoon. He said he said there was still a massive cyber attack against x. He wrote in the post, we got attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources, either a large coordinated group and or a country is involved tracing. Let me see if I think I have a I think I have an overlay for that.
Probably gonna end up having to pop through a couple of these. Nope. We we had this problem before. It's because the it's because the, the the the typeface on the overlay screen is so small, I can't read it. Yeah. There it is. So, this is Elon Musk. This is, there's still there was still is a massive cyber attack against x. We get attacked every day, but this is done with a lot of, resources, either a large coordinated effort, group, and or country is involved tracing, and then Doge Designer commented, first protest against Doge, then Tesla stores were attacked. Now x is down. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that this downtime is the result of an attack on x.
This is terrorism, folks. This this is this is nothing short of terrorism. So, again, not an organic thing, not something that, just spontaneously spontaneously popped up. This is this is a very coordinated effort by the left to shut down Elon Musk to shut down and cause as much chaos as possible to stoke up as much fear, which is what the whole goal of terrorism is, and, and distrust, and, to to get the public antagonized. Elon Musk then went on to, have a sit down with, Larry Kudlow. We got that. Let's see if we have the video.
[00:26:32] Unknown:
Here we go. There was a cyber attack on X today, which shut it down and may have been foreign sourced. Yeah. It's a big story. You wanna give us a moment on that?
[00:26:42] Unknown:
Well, we don't we're not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyber attack to try to bring down the x system, with, IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.
[00:26:54] Unknown:
Now that's interesting, isn't it? In Ukraine. Now it could be false flag stuff. It, you know, it could be very easily, you know, that you could hide I IP addresses. You could hide IP addresses with the VPN, and and I'm sure the I'm sure these organizations and countries have much more sophisticated ways of doing things other than, you know, the the desk the desktop, you know, like, like Proton VPN or or or whatever. But, if it if it was in fact coming out of Ukraine, Don't you find that interesting? How, you know, Elon Musk, this would come shortly after Elon Musk has come out not so much in favor of of of the, of Ukraine in this in this conflict. It's it's finding itself in with, with with with Russia.
Even though even though where was I? Even though he has provided Starlink access, and he has said that he's not going to discontinue Starlink access. It's he he has been supportive in that in that regard of it. Just Just find it very interesting how, all this stuff is pointing to Ukraine. Now again, it could be false flag. It could be it could be Russia pointing servers to Ukraine to stoke up some animosity there. It could be other organizations doing the same exact thing, or to provoke some kind of a response. So we have to be very careful with this. We have to be sure, of what we're, of what we're looking at. How as previously reported, social media platform x was down on Monday. This is this is from Gateway Pundit.
As previously reported, social media platform x was down on Monday morning. Thousand of users reported issues locking in and posting. According to DownDetector, there was at least four or five outages reported by users. Later Monday morning, Elon Musk provided an update and said that there's a massive cyber attack, and we just heard the clip. We get attacked every day, but they would but this was done with a lot of resources, either a large coordinated group and or a country is involved. Elon Musk is a target for supporting free speech and assembling a powerful team at Doge to cut wasteful government spending. Over the past week, liberal protesters have been arrested for mobbing a Tesla showroom in New York. Arson arsonists have destroyed Tesla charging stations in Massachusetts.
This is a developing story. Breitbart. Let's see. Breitbart says, Tom's Guide reports that x, the social media giant formerly known as Twitter, has faced multiple major outages in a single day, causing frustration and confusion among its vast user base. The first outage occurred early in the morning with reports peaking around 21,000 on the website down detector. The issue was resolved relatively quickly, and the platform appeared to be functioning normally for a few hours. However, the return to operations was short lived. The second more severe outage hit x just a few hours later. This time, the number of reports on DownDetector skyrocketed to over 40,000, indicating a much larger problem. Users from major cities across The United States, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, reported, being unable to access the platform through both the website and the mobile app. Speculation about the causes of the outage began to circulate with some users suggesting x might be the target of a series of, DDoS attacks or distributed denial of service.
These attacks involve flooding a website or service with an overwhelming amount of traffic, rendering it inaccessible to legitimate users. A group known as Dark Storm, claimed responsibility for the attacks on social media, but these claims have not been independently verified. In a post that remains hard to reach on x, Elon wrote, there was still a massive cyber attack against x. We attack we got attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. After approximately forty five minutes, the second outage appeared to be resolved and users once again able to access x. However, relief was temporary as a third outage struck the platform thirty minutes later. Once again, users found themselves unable to load the x website or access the service through the mobile app.
And, and they they also continue, third outage continues. Users return to alternative social media platforms to voice their opinions, stay connected. Some are speculating the long term impacts. Now this could also very easily be the deep state. This could also be those, those, swampy critters out there in DC, Setting this whole thing up to try to point fingers at Ukraine and Russia. And, the one thing about this group, the dark storm is, according to some of the information that I've seen is they point to a pro Palestinian organization.
I don't know. You know, it's still it's still being looked at. It's still being investigated. And, it's it's it is frustrating. It is very confusing at times, but we just have to, just let this whole thing play out until we know more information. But as it is right now, and Elon Musk said that everything is pointing to, to Ukraine IP addresses, and again, you know, it could be a false flag setup. It could be it could be the deep state, it could be Russia, it could be it could be anybody. Trying to shut down Elon Musk is just another attack, and this is what terrorism terrorism is. Like we said, this is, you know, you're they're they're they're going after everything that Elon Musk is is is working on and has been working on, because of his affiliation with Donald Trump, and his, affiliation with Doge, leading Doge.
And, that's what I find amazing also about these left wing, well, maybe not so much the left wing establishment. Maybe maybe the, Democratic voters, you know, people who are involved with the Democratic Party. You think they'd be happy that that they're uncovering all of these, talk about the individual person. You know? You you think that they would be happy about, cutting the government's waste and, and the fraud and having all this money come back so that they we can do things that government government has been legitimately commissioned to do.
But instead, these these mindless lemmings are following the talking points being put out by the Democratic party and by, by the mainstream media and, think that this is something that is so so horrendous. This is so horrible that we're actually doing this, that that we're saving billions of dollars of, of all of our money and keeping it out of the hands of these politics. Because because a lot of these things, like, for example, you take USAID. Right? One of the first stories that we talked about when we started doing this. You take you take an organization like that, and, that's gonna tie into another story that we're gonna talk about here in a second, where, Marco Rubio, announced that they're officially canceling 83% of USAID programs.
That means that that, 18% of these programs that are staying, and the reason why he gave the reason why he the reason he gave for the cancel of the 83 is that these these 83% are contracts that did not have the best interests of The United States in mind. The core national interest. So and we're gonna come back to that in just a moment. But so you're talking 5,200 contracts were canceled, saving millions, if not billions of dollars of taxpayer money that would that was going to things and programs that were not beneficial to the national security of The United States. Can you give me a logical reason why somebody wouldn't be absolutely thrilled about that? Why that wouldn't, why that wouldn't strike a chord with you to keep you to make you you think about where all that money was going, and what it was doing, what it was funding that was against the national interest or national security of The United States.
Secretary Of State Marco Rubio has announced that 83% of all aid programs at the US Agency for International Development or USAID. This comes after Elon Musk with Doge have removed have moved to have a massive amount of spending cut at the agency, moving the agency under control of the state department. Let's see if I have that, right available because, like I said, it's small print. So there it is. Look at that. Got it right the first shot. Alright. After a six week review, we are officially canceling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5,200 contracts that are now canceled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve and, in some cases, even harmed the national core interests of The United States.
And Elon responded to to, Marco Rubio's tweet saying, tough but necessary. Good working with you. The important parts of USAID should always have been with the Department of State. And then, let's see what else we have on that. We have this right here.
[00:37:16] Unknown:
83% of USAID programs have been cut according to secretary of state Marco Rubio. I'm Beau Davidson with your RAVP. Secretary Rubio announced that after a six week review, 83% of the programs of USAID are being cut, which amounts to 5,200 contracts that spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve and in some cases even harmed the core national interests of The United States. Approximately 1,000 contracts or the remaining 18% will be administered more effectively under the state department. Rubio thanked Doge and his staff for this much needed reform. Now let's consider audited this. No one even thought of auditing it. Well, until Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio came along.
Your tax dollars must be wisely spent. But if no one is looking at the books, then it will go unchecked. And yet you have people out there protesting Doge's rightful, methodical, and sensible review of these programs. Your dollar deserves better, and it just got a heck of a lot wiser. Stay fearless. Stay free.
[00:38:33] Unknown:
Pretty much sums it up. Right? It was an excellent piece. Now it's a valid point. Why are people so upset about saving money? And saving money that was going against the national interests of The United States. It's because they're, like I said, lemmings, and they just follow along. They just follow along with the mainstream media says. They follow along with the talking points are. You see the left, they they they respond emotionally where where where most conservatives respond factually. And that's what we're looking at. Donald Trump is a spreadsheets guy from I've I've heard that phrase thrown around many times, and I understand exactly what it means. He's a spreadsheets guy. You know, he's looking at the end run. He's not playing with the motions.
He's transactional. He's taking care of the business of The United States as he is supposed to do, as he was hired to do by the majority of Americans. And I think it's fantastic that that that we're saving this money. I think it's fantastic that we're looking out for the best interest of The United States for change. But I just don't understand, well, I guess I do, why the left can't see that. And these these people are being played. These are lunatics. You know, Bernie Sanders is holding a rally up in Wisconsin, and I didn't pull the clips because I found it revolting, to be very honest with you. I know a lot of other, talk shows have pulled the clips and played the clips, and so I'm I'm not gonna do it because, first of all, I am, you know, I'm a Christian. I'm a I'm a Bible believing Christian, and, but Bernie Sanders at one of his rallies here in Wisconsin, which I find hysterical that Bernie Sanders all of a sudden is this, this rock star of defense against Trump.
But, he had a transgender person, up on the stage singing a song about God having a big Well, he used the d word. I'm not gonna use it, but, about god having a big d word, and then, how, he knows that he has a big d word because he, god, you know. Yeah. So you get the idea. You know what I'm saying. So, so I'm not gonna as I said, I wanna play the clip because well, first of all, I couldn't find an edited clip, and I I haven't mastered the, you know, editing video yet. So as you can tell by looking at some of the clips that I play. But, this is the left.
These people are insane. Liberalism, like I say repeatedly, liberalism's a mental illness. But, I think it's important for us to understand that, you know, we're not just cleaning house, or Doge isn't just cleaning house. Doge is ruffling feathers among the deep state, among the globalists, and the deep state's gonna fight back, and that's what they're doing. You're seeing that. Now there's a lot of things happening, that are that are going on. You've had how many, how many flyovers at Mar A Lago by unauthorized aircraft. You've had, this this this gentleman, and I use the term loosely, who who drove from, I think it was Indiana, to the White House, Sunday morning, like midnight Sunday morning, and, ended up being shot and killed by the United States Secret Service after he started brandishing a firearm at them, just outside the White House.
Now the president wasn't there. He was in Mar A Lago at the time, but, but, but this is the mindset. And then you have the the DDoS attack on on x that that knocked it out for about eight hours today, and still giving some troubles, and all of the attacks on Elon Musk's car dealerships and showrooms and and vehicles. And, you know, you go through you scroll through social media. I could've pulled up, I don't know, probably hundreds of clips and and and screenshots to show you that of of the left just absolutely apoplectic in with anger over all of these, these moves being made because, you know, the mainstream media is telling them, well, they're they're gonna kill grandma. They're gonna come after your social security. They're gonna take your social security away. They're gonna take, your Medicare away, your Medicaid away, they're gonna take this benefit, that benefit, all these all these things away from you, and you're and you're gonna die a horrible miserable death, and when none of that's true.
None of that is true. You you you can go and onto the onto the White House, on to the government website, and you can actually look at what is being done and what Donald Trump's plan is, and, you'll see it there for yourself. They're not taking benefits away. They're eliminating the fraud, the waste, the abuse. That's what this is all about. This isn't about cutting your benefits. I mean, for for for crying out loud, we we somebody who's older than this country is or has been receiving Social Security payments. There was somebody older than George Washington still receiving Social Security payments, payments that were cashed, checks that were cashed.
Who's getting it? And that's what people are are are are up in arms about. That that type of stuff is being exposed. And what I was trying to allude to earlier, and I I just lost my my my track with it was, you know, organizations like USAID, and this is the reason why the left and and listen, the repub there are Republicans also that are that are mixed up in all this stuff. But but the most vocal that you see are the are those in the left, they're upset about this is because, you know, you know what they do is is they they set up, you know, your tax dollars get sent to an organization like USAID.
Right? Then a politician comes along and sets up an NGO, non governmental organization, or a PAC, or something like that. And, USAID, and then they apply for grants, and then USAID funds those grants with your tax dollars that's being run and and organized by a a politician. And then your tax dollars go and and pay salaries for people that the politician puts in in in positions of authority in in the organization, on staff in the organization. They do no work, and they're all upset now because that stopped. They because they've been enriching themselves off of your tax dollars for years, for years.
Just think about it. It makes sense. If you look at it through that lens, if you look at it through that that that that viewpoint, it makes sense. Am I an expert political pundit? No. I'm just Joe. I'm just an average guy, and I just look at this thing from my perspective and what I see. I don't claim to have any advanced degrees in political science or anything like that. I just have life experience, and I just have what my two eyes, my ears see and hear. I read. Well, we have a lot of stuff to get to, and we're not gonna get to any of it because I am insisting on trying to keep it to the hour tonight. Let's see. Let's so let's let's just kind of run through some of these headlines here. Okay?
Let's see. So, Donald Trump to sign disaster relief order putting states, localities in the driver's seat of catastrophe response, which is, I think, the best thing to do, keep it local. I see, I agree with that concept of government, of governance. Keep it local. The federal government should be so small that the daily operations of the federal government should have no effect on your life at all. In fact, the only thing that I want the federal government to do is what it was intended to do, and that is to protect my right to do for myself, to take care of my family.
That's all I want the federal government to do. Stay out of my bathroom. You don't need to tell me how much water I can have in my toilet. You don't need to know how much is in my bank account. You don't need to know any of that information. You don't need to know my transactions. You should have no claim whatsoever to my personal income through taxes. But I agree with this a %. That's why I agree with Donald Trump with returning things like education back to the states. The states controlled their educations their educational system, their public school systems for years before the nineteen seventies, when Jimmy Carter started the Department of Education.
And from there, education in this country just fell, just declined and declined and declined. We're at the very, very bottom. Of all the countries in the world, we're at the very, very bottom. But we're number one in in the the amount of money paid per student. So we're we pay the most per student, but we have some of the worst outcomes. And that's since the Department of Education started. Why? Because you have the teachers union, which siphons all the money. It's not about the pupil, the student. It's about paying the bloated salaries of these, of these, union officials, and it's not it has nothing to do with the kids. It has all everything has to do with the system.
So I agree with this. I agree with getting rid of organizations like FEMA. Now, he he went on to say that, you know, basically what the order does is that it restores state and local and individual empowerment and disaster preparedness and response, and injects common sense into infrastructure, prioritization, and strategic investments through risk informed decisions that make our infrastructure, communities, and economy more resilient, and the globe and to global and dynamic threats and hazards. And then Donald Trump went on to say that, that the federal government will be there to assist with funding, but the overall management direction and, control of the disasters will be on the states.
Beautiful. Love it. The less involvement we have with the federal government, the better off that we are. And, again, same thing with the education, shouldn't be involved in it whatsoever. Remember, when the country was founded, there were only 13 powers that were originally delegated to the United States Congress, to the federal government. Just 13. And now it is so big, you can't even keep track of all the agencies and and organizations that are involved. So that's a that's that's a that's a win, that's a plus, and I think it's a great move.
Alright. Let's see what else. So we already talked about Marco Rubio, Tom Holman. We're gonna save this one for tomorrow, I think. Tom Holman, unloads on representative Jasmine Crockett's claim that illegally entering The US is not a crime, which is a joke. It's under title eight. US code thirteen twenty five. Very simple. That's Jasmine Crock is supposed to be a lawyer. Correct? Yeah. Trump relaunches Biden's CBP one app. This is a great troll. I love this one. Trump relaunches Biden's CBP one app, as a self deportation tool.
So so yeah. Here it is. The Biden administration exploited the CBP one app to allow more than 1,000,000 aliens to illegally enter The United States. With the launching of the CBP home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system. CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self deport so that they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. And you can see right there, verify departure, view my departure, and and so forth at the bottom of the screenshot there. That's great.
That's perfect. That's what needs to be done. Another headline really quickly, more illegal aliens prosecuted in Trump's first two months than Biden's entire term. And we'll talk about this this tomorrow. But just the, the sub headline is the United States Attorney's Office, the Central District California, charged a 28 illegal immigrants with illegally entering the country within the first two months of President Donald Trump's team, term, more than Joe Biden did in four years. A 28 in two months more than what Joe Biden did in four years. Alright. Then we also have, an insider confirms AOC manipulated federal law to shield illegal campaign hires. That should be an interesting one to talk about tomorrow.
And then Van Jones sounds the alarm. Now now you gotta pay attention when Van Jones speaks on these things because he has the inside scoop on what the Democratic mind is thinking. And I'm not saying that to be sarcastic. I'm being serious. You know, I'm giving him a little bit of credit here. This is somebody you listen to when he when he says something. Van Jones sounds Democratic party is screwed. That's his quote. Then we have this great news. Tulsi Gabbard revokes security clearances from 51 spies who lied. The 51 spies who lied. Remember this headline?
Tony Blinken, Leticia James, deep state lawyers, and the and the daily brief is no longer being provided to Joe Biden. Something else we'll talk about tomorrow. And then this is great. This is great news. And you know what? This is about time. Crews are erasing Black Lives Matter street more mural near the White House. You know what? Good riddance. Shouldn't have been there in the first place. And then here in Texas, in Houston, ICE arrested over 500 criminal illegal aliens in one week. Great stuff. Great stuff. Alright. Well, we're coming up on the hour. So like I said, I'm trying to really keep it to the hour tonight. Alright, folks. So I think that's pretty much just about gonna do it for us. I'm gonna take the last couple of minutes that I have here just to, just do some quick cleanup.
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[00:56:32] Unknown:
Well, that's about it, really. The film ends mainly visually.
Introduction to the Podcast
Joe Russo's Weekend Recap
Upcoming Guests and Show Plans
Cooking and Family Time
Website and Technical Issues
Support and Sponsorship
Cyber Attack on X and Elon Musk
USAID Program Cuts
Local Governance and Federal Government Role
Immigration and Legal Issues