Welcome to another engaging episode of The Podcast, broadcasting live from the Asylum Studios in Eagle Pass, Texas. This week, Joe Russiello is joined by his long-time friend and executive producer, Wayne Rankin, who shares his journey from Washington State and discusses the recent earthquake in West Texas. Together, they dive into a wide range of topics, including the current political climate, the role of President Trump, and the influence of figures like Elon Musk.
Wayne and Joe explore the challenges of political correctness and the refreshing change of having a president who works for the people. They discuss the importance of integrity in politics and the need for leaders who genuinely care about the American people. The conversation also touches on the influence of media and the need for diverse platforms to share different perspectives.
Later in the episode, Joe introduces Blake Fischer, host of "The Homeless Conservative" podcast. Blake shares his journey into political podcasting and his views on the current political landscape. They discuss the challenges of finding a political home in today's climate and the importance of holding politicians accountable.
Throughout the episode, Joe and Wayne emphasize the need for political reform, the importance of reducing government overreach, and the potential for states like Texas to pursue independence. They encourage listeners to engage with movements like the Texas Nationalist Movement and explore the possibilities of a more decentralized government.
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(00:03:21) Introduction and Welcome
(00:04:20) Guest Introduction: Wayne Rankin
(00:06:11) Upcoming Guest: Blake Fisher
(00:08:12) Political Platforms and Integrity
(00:09:02) Discussion on President Trump
(00:16:59) Media and Political Corruption
(00:20:20) Secession Movements in the U.S.
(00:27:14) Interview with Blake Fisher
(00:39:05) Political Climate and Voter Responsibility
(00:52:04) Executive Orders and Government Power
(01:02:03) Eric Adams and Political Deals
(01:13:14) Texas Independence Movement
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- Rosanna Rankin
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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.
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Alrighty, folks. Welcome to another week. This is Joe Rusciello, and we are broadcasting to you live tonight from the Asylum Studios, from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. Folks, hope you guys had a great weekend. Powerful weekend this weekend, a lot of things going on. And, we have a great show for you tonight. In the studio with us this evening, we have our executive producer and great friend of mine for over twenty years, Wayne Rankin.
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Wayne, how you doing tonight, brother? Well, it's an honor and a privilege to be with you, Joe. I came on down from the very, very blue People's Republic of Washington State, and I arrived here, and there's a earthquake in West Texas. Earthquake in West Texas. 30 miles north of Toyota, if I'm saying that right. That's the word I hear on the street. So it's good to be with you, Joe. There is a lot to talk about. And we got a president in charge, and that's the main thing. He's in charge, but he's not overbearing.
[00:05:02] Unknown:
He's got a great staff, and he's for the people. Isn't it refreshing though to have somebody in in the Oval Office that's actually working for the American people and not just sitting back, taking vacations, lounging on a beach?
[00:05:14] Unknown:
He doesn't have to do this. And that's what they said in his first term. Why is he doing this? He doesn't have to do this. And he's bringing on people from his staff. Does Elon Musk have to do this? But from what I've read on Musk, even from Tesla and his auto factories, they find him sleeping on the lounges in the in the employee's room. He has fruit trays. He's working with his people. And now the word is whatever government office that he's in, he's sleeping on the couch.
[00:05:39] Unknown:
He's probably not wasting a lot of government money. I don't think so. Yeah. I don't think so. And if folks, if you're wondering why you don't see, Wayne, is because we're in the process of of redesigning the studio. So we don't have cameras set up everywhere just yet. So, we're working on that, and, Lord willing by the end of this week, we'll have it all set up. And you'll see little improvements as we go along. As we go along the rest of this week, we got a week worth of shows to do. We got a lot of things to cover. Tonight, actually, not only do we have, Wayne here in the in the studio with us, but, somewhere around 08:30 or so, we're gonna have a a guy by the name of Blake Fisher, join us. Blake is the host of a, a very interesting podcast called The Homeless Conservative.
So, you can find that on all of the podcast platforms, like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. I believe he's on YouTube as well, which we'll we'll talk to him about the YouTube stuff, I think. Right, Wayne? We'll Yeah. Yeah. We'll get him to switch over to to Rumble. Yeah. You know, YouTube is, I think, for anybody that wants to put something on there, like Earl's Woodshop. It was just it was good. It has its place. We used to call it Youboob. Oh, okay. Youboob. It's good now. Because when YouTube started right? Wayne's sitting over here, by the way. Right. Just so you know, to my left, your right, so my left. You know, when YouTube first started, it really just started out as a bunch of, you know, numbnuts going around, like, smashing themselves into walls. So that's why I always called it YouBoob.
[00:07:11] Unknown:
What was that guy named, Johnny something? He would do all these crazy stunts or whatever. Super Dave. Super Dave too. And then, you know, and,
[00:07:19] Unknown:
you know, watching guys fall off a ladder. Do we just age ourselves with Super Dave? Well, I I go way back. I got I got 10 more on you, Joe, so I can go to Ed Sullivan actually in the Beatles. Yeah. But oh. Yeah. I'm not, you know. And if if you're curious as to, we got a an insect or something floating around here. The camera's picking it up. I just saw that. So if you if you're curious as to, to what Wayne looks like, he has, he looks like Santa Claus, just a slimmer version Yeah. Of Santa Claus. But, he looks like Santa Claus, and his, actually his his picture is gonna be up in the show notes once we finish the show tonight. As always, we upload all the information afterwards, and, so he and his his beautiful wife, Rosanna, are our executive producers, and they are working very, very hard to help us, get ourselves situated and, put in a position where,
[00:08:09] Unknown:
you know, we're doing the best quality talk radio that we can muster. You You know, everybody has a platform. And what type of platforms everybody has? Political, geopolitical, science, music, pop culture. It's like, what do you know? And what what do you know and what research you have and and what background? And I know, Jove, like I said, you know, here's a guy from New York, and I'm originally from Detroit. So we have that, I can use a grit that it's it's it's not given. You just you you grow up with it and you know it, and you could see an issue and go, let's let's get to the bottom of it. Let's let's let's cut down deeper to what that maybe the the the the I'll call it what it is, the mainstream media might say. So we go way past that. But there's, like, there's a certain integrity to certain parts of of people who do this platform. And going getting back to our our president, I can't talk to him enough, that, there are people that jump ship as you would say. Robert Kennedy, his the Kennedy family name is an icon. It's an icon. His father and grand I mean, grand his uncle. Excuse me. They are icons in the Democratic party. And, of course, if you go to Trump's side, they're gonna they're gonna throw you under the under the bus in Tulsa Gabbard. She was a Democrat, you know, representative.
And they took it upon themselves going, we like this message. Mhmm. It's the people. And, yes, Bobby Kennedy, he he's he's he knows what he's talking about when he comes to the medicines and vaccines. And you put her in intelligence. This woman is a lieutenant I'm not I'm colonel. I'm not sure what the the titles are, but she's a colonel twenty two years in the military. And and she she knows what she's talking about. And these people, like I said, they don't have to do this, but Trump's message is it's not just make America great again. It's make our people empowered again. I agree with you. And and the
[00:09:55] Unknown:
the the great thing about, president Trump and, again, not not to diminish my position on on Texas independence and, you know, Texas, leaving the the American Union at some point, because it it's going to happen. It's inevitable. That's another conversation for later on. The, the the thing about president Trump is that he resonates with the people. I mean, he may be wealthy, he may be a billionaire, he may be one of those persecuted classes of people, you know, on that the left loves to demonize for their successes, but, he is a man of the people. He loves legitimately loves the American people. He loves America.
He loves what America stands for. He loves the American military. He loves law enforcement. He legitimately does it. And when you listen to him interview, listen to him talk, I think that comes through. It doesn't come through as fake or phony or anything like that. I mean, to me, it just seems like, you know, this this is a man who's doing this for love of country. It's not to in it's not to promote himself or or ingrandize himself, if that's the right word. It's it's because he loves his country.
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I think one of the biggest, axes that he had to grind against president Trump was he's not a politician. Yeah. Thank you. Thank God. Yes. Thank God. You know what? And I can listen to our president and understand it. You know, I've heard him. It's almost like these guys have drama coaches and they got Arab. They're big winded and stuff. Trump would tell you, like, well, I talked to our guys today,
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and this is what they told me. Where you'd have some long drawn out message that never got to the point, Joe. Never got to the point. No. I I know I know you've been working on because you you you kinda did this for me on the way here from the airport today. You've been working on your Donald Trump impression.
[00:11:46] Unknown:
My my thought hell. You know? I tell you, Bobby Kennedy, he's doing a great job. He's gonna get down to these vaccines, and he's gonna dig, I mean, dig deep. And he's gonna get down to people who are gonna have their hands in a lot of pharmaceutical pockets. Isn't it right, Pocahontas? Woo.
[00:12:08] Unknown:
Oh, that's pretty good. I like that. So, hey. Hey, brother. Have you tried the coffee yet? Coming coming from the coffee state of Washington, this stuff is rocking. Whatever Joe's putting in this stuff. This is this is La Vazza. This is, an Italian espresso. They are not a sponsor of the show. I'm not, like, I'm just I am just loving this. I fresh grind the beans before, before we brew it. So, this stuff is just amazing. And I'm not gonna tell you what else is in there, but it's really good. And, Joe, on another, this I I know on my flight down here, Marco Rubio, which he did get 99 votes in the senate. Ninety nine. Mhmm. And he stood next to and, yes, president Trump is
[00:12:47] Unknown:
a great ally of Israel. And like I said, I've been to Israel with my church and and my my I have a deceased wife who was I call her almost like an American Israeli. She's from an Israeli or Israeli suburb, Brooklyn, New York. He he said, the peace in The Middle East No wonder I liked her so much. Absolutely. You know? She was a I'm from Brooklyn too. She's actually a pizza bagel, Italian Jew. Uh-huh. So
[00:13:13] Unknown:
What? I hate to say it to the brother that the the actual pizza bagels were an abomination, man. I know. I know. But Your wife was a was she was she was a very special person. She really was. She was. She,
[00:13:23] Unknown:
she could have probably been a neurosurgeon, and she became a special needs teacher. And that's those are the people, like she she wanted to meet Elon Musk because her father was in the, space program. But she said that was one guy she I believe she said it because she had this high IQ. She could sit with Musk, and I think he would be intrigued for an hour just listening to her. But getting back to, the prime minister of Israel sitting next to Marco Rubio, who I like his record. He he he said, I'm stand president Trump is gonna stand with Israel, but a secure Israel is a secure Middle East. And he's they're gonna let people know that Israel and America are gonna stand together. There's a lot of problems that's sort of so far under the the radar, but, president Trump, it's an intriguing idea, Joe. Gaza, what he's got going on there. It's but this guy backs down from nothing. No. That's what I like. And he's he's in student to guys like us, and we talked earlier before the show came on. I go, president Trump understands a guy's paycheck. Yeah. I agree. That's why we voted for him. The guys, like myself, I can't get into. I'm a retired government employee. I'm still fighting for my benefits twelve years later, and it's a debacle. And and as Elon Musk said, a lot of us retirees I'm an old school mailman. I used to walk five miles, six miles a day with the old satchel in the back.
Elon Musk is saying there are so much retired federal employees. Checks are like downing and that's just your checks through careers down a mine shaft. And here's Literally. Yes. And here's the Literally. One one last thing I'll say on me, Elon, Joe, and I one I want your opinion on this. You can't tongue tie the guy, the press. I call it fake news, what I call it is. They can't get nothing on them. All they take all their shots on them. And are you gonna be in conflict of interest with x? But but of course not. Well, I'm why would I want to do that? I mean, you know, the contracts are here and he's gonna stay separate. And they're they just don't understand. They they don't understand a paycheck where President Trump does. I I agree. And but the media,
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they're gonna look for any excuse whatsoever to try to discredit what what president Trump is doing, what Elon Musk is doing. They're they're just gonna do anything they can to obstruct and get in the way. Slow down the whole process. Why? Because in in in this isn't just limited to Democrats, this isn't, you know, this is Republicans too. There are a number of of Democrats and Republicans who are feeding off this trough and don't wanna see the don't wanna see the, the funds dry up. They don't wanna see everything fall apart. They don't wanna lose the money that they've been generating. And like I mentioned on one of the other shows I did, I think it was last week, you know, how do you have someone like Elizabeth Warren who makes, you know, salary at a hundred and $74,000 a year? How is she worth over $2,000,000 or or $20,000,000 rather?
And then you have, someone like AOC who was bankrupt basically before she, before she went into, into congress, And now she's worth a few million dollars herself on a, what, a hundred and 60 doll hundred and $60,000 salary or something to that effect. You know, you gotta start to one. And these are the people who are the most vocal about not losing the ability to have this this, this this funding through organizations like USAID, and, and and not, you know, and trying to prevent, the treasury department of all places, the treasury department. Trying to prevent the treasury secretary from accessing your information, through the treasury system. I mean, that's the
[00:16:57] Unknown:
you gotta you gotta follow the money. Well, you look at the probably the biggest rhino out there, mister Mitch McConnell. That guy, he has milked The turtle? Yeah. He needs to he needs to go. He has milked this political money more than a Wisconsin dairy farmer. I'm serious. And that's just not a a pun or a joke. This guy has been exposed, especially this week And when he could not even vote for incredible people that you know, there was Democrats that that said, you know, these are some good people. The most feared guy in, I think, DC right now, Ash Patel.
Kash is my man. He's gonna get in there for the Federal Bureau of Intimidation. He's gonna get in there, and he's gonna get down to go, why are they used as a political weapon against their own citizens? And, Joe, what I've been in in for my, I'm in the church ministries, and one of them was we would go down to the planned parenthood peacefully across the street. Washington State were allowed to do that, but word was some of the pastor's license plates were, you know, snapshotted or whatever and delivered to certain government agencies, and they got harassed a little bit. And Yeah. That is politically weaponizing our government against its people. And that's what you heard over and over through our president,
[00:18:14] Unknown:
through Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel. He's gonna be looking into us. I'd be scared too if I was on the other side. Well, of course. They're also they're also concerned over the fact that, you know, he's gonna have access to these, the the Epstein files. Oh my. And, you know, you can only imagine what's gonna come out of that. You can only imagine whose names are on those lists. You can only imagine what's good what the the repercussions that are gonna just reverberate through Washington DC and and beyond that. I mean, it's it's it's gonna be a very, very, interesting but the but from what I understand, though, is, Kash Patel does have the votes.
Yes. He does have the votes to to, to be appointed. And, you know, we'll see. We'll see what happens. We'll see how that, all turns out. It's gonna be very, very interesting.
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I hate to might use this word, but, like, inbred. There's almost like an inbred between the politicians, Hollywood, and the media. They seem to feed off and work with each other because you're gonna get a a political statement in the afternoon, and then you're gonna get the news in the mid evening. And these losers at night, and I'm gonna tell my age, Joe. I mean, I I grew up with a guy named Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson would come out, and this guy was the I used to watch Johnny Carson. He's a gold standard of You're not that old, bro. Yeah. I know. He's a gold standard of what was funny. He'd bring out people on both sides. You know? He had guys from you know, he he he was friends with Ronald Reagan, and Ronald Reagan was an early Democrat, and he was friends with, you know, Republican people. And but Johnny knew comedy.
I don't know what Kimmel knows. I I don't want any of these, but they're just a mouthpiece for the mainstream media and the Agreed. The leftist, liberal, Democrats, and they're all three kind of in cahoots. Now you just said something. The Epstein files. That's three categories, political, mainstream media,
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and Hollywood. I bet you there's little bit of names on all three of those groups right there. Oh, I'm sure there are. Yep. I mean, you wouldn't see I mean Birds of a feather, Joe. Birds of a feather. Well, of course. But but also, I mean, you wouldn't see the resistance that that they're getting at there. They weren't trying to hide something. Right. Right. You know? And it's it's just it's one of those things, that I I'm looking forward to it all coming out. I mean, the corruption in this government, Republican, Democrat Right. The corruption in this government needs to come to an end. Well, do I think that you're gonna stop at all? No. Of course not. I mean, it's, you know, it's the way it is. But that's why we have, you know, movements like the organization that I'm part of, the Texas Nationalist Movement, where we're advocating for its Texas independence. There are and we were talking about this on the drive back from from the airport today. 25 states 25 states have secession movements, in in going through the legislative process.
Texas is not by itself in this whole thing, you know? And I'm we're not just talking about, you know, red states like Texas, we're talking about blue states also. We're talking about California. California has Calxit in the process. Even the governor is talking about it. Where the governor in Texas isn't talking about it much, but, you know, if you watch some of the things that that he does, you could see that he's making moves towards something along those lines, and we're hoping that it actually comes about. But but, you know, states, you know, we the the the power is inherent to the states, to the people of the states, and all political power, and that's that's from the Texas constitution itself.
And, it's our responsibility to challenge government. It's our responsibility to to keep government in check. It's our responsibility to alter or abolish the government Mhmm. If it gets tyrannical, which you know something? I I honestly believe that that this government has gone the way of tyranny progressively since Abraham Lincoln. Yes. Maybe even before maybe maybe even a little bit before that, but progressively worse as the years go by to the point where you are now, where we have this bloated federal government, this federal system that taxes the bejesus out of you, that totally just manages and micromanages almost every aspect of your life, like, the EPA standards. Like, they regulate I mean, folks, I don't know I don't know if you guys realize this, how they they regulate the amount of water you can have in your toilet bowl. I mean, I I mean, is that is that really what government's all about?
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Right. And you're talking about the this Texan, and I'm I mean, like I said, I'm gonna learn more while I'm down here because I I love to learn stuff like this. But my neighborhood, the Pacific Northwest, Oregon's talking about and I know Oregon very well because I from I live in Washington state, but I have, cattle rancher friends Mhmm. From Eastern Oregon and my best best friend here. His grandparents were some of the original members, Joe, of the East of the Oregon Cattle Ranchers Association. And they're they're like would be over a hundred by now. And he's on that side of the street state, excuse me. And they're now talking about separating. Because you got Eastern Oregon, Ranchers, Agriculture, all those hardworking people that feed us. The East Side and I don't know what, pop culture says. Portland is a disaster of disasters of what I hear of everything that's wrong with the Blue City that Mhmm. They they actually are the measuring stick of the disaster.
And, I I'm only about hour and a half from Seattle. And as I call them, we have 14,000 campers with blue tarps. I call them campers. And they pretty much rule the roost there. Are they using the blue tarps to prevent DEWs? Yeah. That's that's their News? Yeah. I guess. But it it's it's become a shambles. That's a directed energy weapons if you guys don't know. Here's one thing in common. California, Oregon, Washington, go from south to north. They all have one thing in common. No voter ID. There we go.
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Well, if you if you look at the if you look at the at the electoral map, that's what you see. You see Yes. States where there are where there is no, elector where there is no, voter identification.
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Accountability.
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You see that that's where most of the discrepancies in the elect in the vote counts come through from.
[00:24:28] Unknown:
Yeah. And, like I say, this is I'm I'm a retired postman, and I'm talking to the younger guys who go, man, I didn't know Joe Joe Blow here had, you know, four wives. You know? It's just amazing. You've heard the the obscene, stories of how many times people voted. Or dead people voted too in the state of Washington. Yeah. No. For sure. For sure. And and we were talking about this earlier today too. And this is kinda I mean, it's not exactly the same thing, but it kinda goes together with it.
[00:24:57] Unknown:
Today actually, Doge came across these numbers in auditing, at, with social security. Right? And it was, they found that people who were alive during the American revolution Yeah. And prior to that, I think it was, I think it was the age, There were, like, one or two, maybe three people that were supposedly 350 years old Yeah. Were collecting Social Security benefits.
[00:25:31] Unknown:
Did you you saw that? I did. A hundred went back to at least well, at least Musk and one of his quotes was a 59.
[00:25:39] Unknown:
Yeah. I saw that. But then I saw I saw a graph. Yeah. That's civil war. But I saw a graph where it said that there were, like, there were, like, two or three, maybe four people supposedly who are over 300 years old are collecting Social Security benefits. Right. And,
[00:25:53] Unknown:
I've I've I've done my radio pass. I've did some, DJs. But I like to throw these little I call them just out of here, out of my brains. This is a fact and it's one of those weird ones. Me, Wayne, alive today, My father spoke to someone who was in the civil war. I said a trip that's my little trippies I throw out there, and I I have my son. He goes, what? Yeah. Well, I'm 64. Grandpa was born in 1926, and we're from the North Carolina Appalachia where actually a a lot of men stayed there. So at 1926, in 1936,
[00:26:28] Unknown:
there was one guy still left up in those hills up there from the civil war that he got to meet. Alright. Just I don't mean to interrupt you for a sec, but but but, I'm watching the feed right now on on Rumble. Okay. Okay? We just really started the Rumble channel Right. And started doing the live videos Right. And stuff. And we have 27 followers Sure. Overall. Okay. Why is only five people watching? I don't. Listen, folks, come on. Help a brother out here. You know? We need to hit a hundred followers, and we need to have at least 50 to a hundred people watching so we can monetize the stream.
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[00:30:39] Unknown:
greatly appreciate it. Wayne, do you wanna say something? Yeah. I I I think I know you, Joe, for twenty years, and like I say, experience is one thing. But being well rounded, you have law enforcement background. And then I I get a little dramatic and things. He came from out of the ashes of 09/11, and all of those men and women and everybody, we just looked up to and I still do. I look up to this man very much and in his life and his life's work and he's a godly man, which I I both of us, we stand for the Lord Jesus Christ. But, you know, people say religion and politics don't mix. No. Not to see an opposite. When you go through the Bible, there's a lot of politicians that were in there. Like, Daniel was a governor. Esther was a queen. She went to the parliament.
You know, different men like Paul himself. He went to the the people who were persecuting him and they said that he is falsified, persecuted. He went to the administrator mass magistrate because words were titles were different back then. So we there's a lot of politicians in the Bible and we stand up for things. John the Baptist. Mhmm. He went to the highest guy in the land at the time. Herod said, look, you're breaking some laws here. So we you can you can mix politics, religion, but let's do common sense. And that's what I think me and Joe were talking about earlier of yeah. Politicians not perfect. But the best part is we didn't vote for a politician. Right. And that's what I really do see. And we and I'm from this one part of the country here that We got Blake waiting. Okay. I will talk to this later. But there's there's someone waiting. And, Joe, I'm behind you a %. Alright. Thanks, bro. Appreciate it. I'm gonna I'm gonna Capisce. Capisce. I'm gonna I'm gonna mute you for just a moment.
[00:32:18] Unknown:
Okay. Alright. Hey, Blake. How you doing? I'm good. How are you? Oh, fantastic. Fantastic. Folks, I just wanna introduce Blake Fisher. He is, he's the host and creator of the homeless conservative podcast, and it is a great would you mind, brother? Thank you. He is the host and creator of the, the homeless conservative podcast. You can find him on YouTube, and I'm I'm sure you're on all of the podcast platforms. Right?
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It's true. All of them. Yes. Alright. Great.
[00:32:52] Unknown:
Blake, first of all, I I do wanna apologize. I know we were scheduled to do this, last week, but we ran it. I I I'm having a problem with PodMatch right now, and and it's like I'm not getting notifications, of of things, and I finally got that fixed. And so I appreciate you adjusting your schedule to come on here with us right now tonight, and, it's great to have you here. I I think the first thing I need to ask you is, how did you come up with the homeless conservative? Can you tell me about that?
[00:33:21] Unknown:
Well, so I wanted I mean, I've always been kind of a political junkie of sorts. I've I've always enjoyed having these kind of conversations with, you know, friends and family and stuff like that. I'm sort of the I sort of became the go to person that a lot of friends came to that were going, okay. I'm hearing two different things. Obviously, they both can't be true or just, what do you think about this or, you know, whatever the hot button issue was at the time. And I, so I always wanted to do a political podcast, but I just couldn't figure out how to do it. I was overthinking it, honestly. And by the time I got around to, you know, actually doing it, I had felt like, you know, it's not that I think, Donald Trump is there's no there's no overlap. But there were a lot of directions that Donald Trump took the Republican party that I did not feel were the things that I'd spent decades, you know, saying, oh, this is a this is how this works well. This is how this doesn't work well. Because I'm I'm a very practical person when it comes to, you know, I think policies have trade offs. I think that, you know, good intentions don't matter. I think that there's all sorts of things in you know, like, there's no perfect policy. It's all, you know, minutia of nuance and stuff. And, you know, but there are some things that I just think are pretty black and white. Like, I think I I as a conservative as I've always thought that, you know, federal government should be smaller than it is.
And it felt like, you know, Donald Trump sort of took the Republican Party in a way that was like, well, we don't really have a problem with big government as long as Democrats aren't in charge of it. So there's some, like, big picture things that I just felt like were getting thrown aside for the sake of Donald Trump has said, this is what we now believe, and so we're changing our mind on tariffs. We're changing our mind on Americans' foreign policy. We're changing our mind on sort of these things that I thought were, like I thought we kinda were all on the same page about for the most part. I didn't I didn't have a lot of arguments with my friends about whether free trade was good or not or if, you know, true free market capitalism was a good thing, picking winners and losers. So I felt like a lot of these sort of the basis of my conservative beliefs were no longer represented represented by anyone. And so I thought the homeless conservative had a nice kind of ring to it. Sometimes there has been some confusion where people feel like I'm actually homeless. I'm not. I live in a house. I this is my house behind me that I'm in currently. I will tell you. I'm a few messages where people thought I was actually homeless. I was like, oh, I'm not actually homeless. It's more of a metaphor than than anything. Oh, my producer thought you might have been homeless.
Yeah. I'm not. I've never been I mean, I was I did spend my twenties driving around the country touring in a band. And so I was sort of homeless in the sense that I lived in a van and on people's floors, anytime we were traveling. We did not have we were not doing well enough that we had hotels, most of the time. So that's the closest I've been to homeless, though. Oh, I gotcha. I I I can understand that.
[00:36:02] Unknown:
I don't know if you could see the the flags I have behind me here. I can. Yes. Yes. So I I am a I am a, I I guess in a way maybe a homeless conservative myself. I know we were talking, via the chat on on the pod match that, you know, conservatarian.
[00:36:18] Unknown:
Yes. I like that word quite a bit because I feel a little similar to that too. I definitely have more libertarian tendencies. Although, there's some stuff where I think the libertarian party has also kinda gone off. I feel like all three parties. Really, when you talk about Democrats, Republicans, and libertarians, if we're saying those are the the parties, which I think those are kind of the bigger ones. Mhmm. I don't feel like it I don't feel like any of them have improved over the last decade. No. No. They haven't. None of them have gotten closer to where I am. They've all gotten much further away, including some of the libertarian stuff is just kind of crazy
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land now of Yeah. No. I I agree with that. I totally agree with that. With all the kind of weird
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pseudo science stuff that a lot of them. So, yeah, it's been kind of a weird time for politics because I feel like I've not changed that much. I mean, obviously, evolving, I would like to think, and changing my mind on things I need to change my mind on. But it would be like, you're a rhino. I'm like, well, I just believe the same thing I did ten years ago. I don't feel like that's
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cause for I don't know. There's been some weird stuff going on for sure. Oh, without a doubt. Without a doubt. Now I I became
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I I came to the realization that I was a conservatarian, probably toward the end of, Trump's first term. You know, and I realized that, you know, the the I'm gonna I'm gonna get poetical for a moment. The elder IWAC. I'll meet. The elder IWACs. The, there there are certain ports portions of libertarianism that I I tend to align with more than than others. I I don't really get into the fringe stuff of libertarianism, but I do believe that government should be as have, at least the federal government should have as little impact on my everyday life as, as they do.
And Yeah. I believe that, the the power really rests in The States with the people. That's, that's that's my producer Wayne coming in. Someone who thought you were homeless. Thanks, brother. I appreciate that. Sorry. I needed some coffee. So Oh, by all means. Yeah. It's been a long day. Wayne Wayne has flown in from Washington State. I'm down here on the border in Eagle Pass. Okay. So he's been traveling since what time today?
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4AM.
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Since about 4AM. So I don't know how he's still functioning, so I put a He needs coffee too, probably. Well well, that's why I made the Italian espresso. You know, we we we made sure that we got full cups, not the little espresso cups we're using. Yeah. We're using we're using the big boys today. Yeah. We're going on the big mugs. Yeah. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We're gonna try to keep him awake for a little while.
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And He gets delirious.
[00:38:52] Unknown:
Well, I think he's close to it. I I I don't know. Yeah. I would imagine you're getting close at this point. Well, Well, yes. Truly. We call this the asylum studios. So, so he fits right in. So he he he's he's part of it definitely. But, but Blake, I just wanted to ask you. So what do you think is really wrong with the climate with the political climate here in America today?
[00:39:13] Unknown:
Oh, boy. There are so many things. I think that most of it boils down to bad citizens. I mean, that's I like, people don't like that answer because they're, oh, how dare you blame voters? And I just go, yeah. But we're the ones that keep we're like, there's a few things that we keep doing over and over again, and we keep expecting different results. We keep nominating. We we think the primary system's good. It's not. It's just frankly, it isn't. We're we're letting a tiny percentage of the country choose the two people that we get to pick from for president. Right. That and and by the way, we're doing that at every level. We're doing that congressionally. We're doing that at state levels. We're doing across the board, we are letting a small percentage of because, like, the people that show up for primaries I mean, especially if they go to a runoff in August, it's the numbers are just tiny that show up in Republican or Democratic primaries.
And then you're because, like, the last year that we had an open primary is 2016. I think the numbers are it was 27% of voters in the country selected Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And by the way, that's everyone that participated in the primaries. That's not like, when you actually get down to Donald Trump only had, like, 40% of that vote of half of that. So, I mean, he had 40% of 14,000 people, which I can't do the math on immediately, but it's less than 7,000 people. Right. Like, it's or or or sorry. Million because it's 27,000,000. So 27%. But whatever the point is, Less than 7% of the country selected Donald Trump, and less than 7% of the country selected Hillary Clinton. That doesn't feel very democratic to me. Like, people are like, well, if you get rid of how do you get rid of primaries? They're they're Democratic. And I'm like, well, not really when you look at the numbers. You're letting a very small percentage. And furthermore, it just keeps getting fringier and fringier because as the parties get more you know, as Trump sort of has changed the Republican party and Democrats are trying to figure out, I guess, what the heck they're doing. Well, he's definitely keeping them off balance. Yeah. It's it's difficult because it's hard to know what you know, today's Tuesday, but tomorrow he might have a different opinion on something. Therefore, you have to have a different opinion on something. It makes it very hard to do anything other than be just fiercely loyal to whatever he says no matter how dumb it makes you look. And there's, unfortunately, a huge chunk of the Republican base that will vote for those people over anyone that says, I wanna get stuff done. You know, I've seen in Oklahoma where I'm at examples of this is at the state legislature, but I've seen situations where the most liberal and the most crazy conservative person in the legislature will basically have a handshake agreement to sync a bill together.
It's like it's bipartisanship, but it's because they both want the issue for fundraising purposes and to be on the new like, they wanna be pundits. They don't really you know, that's crazy to me that, like, they they're gonna get together and go, we could both sync this thing together because we just want the press, essentially. That's actually kind of like what goes on here in Texas.
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Just recently we we had our our eighty ninth legislative session, kicked off. Mhmm. The the Republican party has control of the Texas house, but yet it's the it's the Democrats that are actually running the show because the current speaker of the Texas house, Burrows Mhmm. Didn't have enough Republican votes to get the speakership and had to rely on the Democrats to vote in his behalf to get him the the speakership. Right. And because of that, they passed more, more pro Democrat party legislative, agenda items than they have Republic or or or conservative.
[00:42:52] Unknown:
You know? It so it it it's pervasive. It's it's just the the swamp. And it's really weird in states like Oklahoma and Texas because they're so dominated by one party or the other. And the truth is almost every state is turning into that. So we have very few states that aren't swinging wildly to one side or the other, which I think makes for bad governance. I think you need two healthy parties in a in any form of government to actually, like, keep the other one in line. What happens in Texas and Oklahoma specifically is you have so many Republicans, it turns into this circus because they have total control essentially, except not really because those little factions within the party sort of start going weak and that we want some control. And so, you know, you need to have I think it's good to have a situation where I mean, I think the founders were smart to set up a system of government that said it's hard to do stuff. Like, you can't just you can't just say 50% plus one can dominate everyone else. Like, the the majority can just step all over the minority because we've said that, you know, a filibuster in the senate. You gotta have 60 votes to do this kind of stuff. It forces you unless you just have gigantic levels of you know, if you have that big of a you know, FDR had that level of, people in the house and senate. But for the most part, that's not been the case since. You have to work a little bit with the other party to be able to get stuff passed. Agreed. I think that's a good thing. That doesn't bother me. Like, when people get upset about congress not doing anything, I'm like, yeah. It bothers me when there's something to be done and they don't do it, but it doesn't bother me that it's hard for congress to agree on stuff. I'm I'm fine with them having to come to a thing that they can pass through that body. Like, that's fine with me. So, I mean, I think that's it really voters are the biggest problem because we're not holding those people accountable when they don't do the job right. And we're generally putting bad people up for those jobs in the first place and then just sticking with them because they're on our team in air quotes because
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I don't believe in team sport politics. I think it's a really bad way to do it. No. Yeah. It's it's not it's not what benefits the party. It has to be benefits the people. And and and we're not getting that right now. We're getting what benefits the politician himself before it benefits the party or the people. Wayne, you're nodding your head. Do you wanna have something said?
[00:45:00] Unknown:
Yeah. It's like, what was it? I used to say it was like big time wrestling. I was a fan as a kid of wrestling. The the guys the the the The Sheik comes out how he's gonna beat the bruiser. Right? And the bruiser comes out how he's gonna beat The Sheik, and they go back behind the curtain and have a beer together.
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Yes.
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Is that close?
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No. I mean, I've I've I've seen that happen. I mean, I've you know, like, you can literally watch it. What's interesting that I've noticed is that I think there's a lot of that that goes on in political media, first of all. I think that most of the time when you see two people fighting on TV, they're chumming it up in the break room. Of course. You know? And so and and and to be fair, I do a little of this too. I mean, I do a a show on someone I'm like a guest on someone on show on a regular basis on Fridays. And we get into pretty heated discussions, but it's not like we hate it. I mean, we're never, like, hateful toward each other. But, I mean, we get in heated debates, but I do that with everyone. But I can see why some people perceive that as we're always really good about being chummy on the air too. Like, even if we're gonna get a big fight, because I don't want the perception to be, oh, these guys hate each other because they're on opposite sides of things. Like, no. No. No. No. No. We can we can really disagree about stuff and kinda get heated about it. But we're not gonna call each other names. We're not gonna we're gonna leave this thing upset at each other. I might think that he's an idiot for believing what he believes because I just he's not looking at the facts. You know, that's fine. But Of Glenn, you said that. Yeah. But we're not gonna we're not gonna I think the problem is that's also happening in politics, and people think that that's not what's really going on. Like, people were shocked when, the specific thing was we had a really conservative, senator Tom Coburn Mhmm. While back. Yep. He's kind of like a budget hawk. He's really conservative.
But they he got to the senate at the same time Barack Obama with it, and they were, like, really, really good friends. They were not, you know Yeah. And people were always so weirded out by that. And it's like, not that's not that strange, guys. That you can have different opinions than people and be friendly with them. No. That's that's but that's healthy. Now you see, like, like several years ago, I did a I did, before it was called podcasting, I did a radio I did an Internet radio show with, two other guys,
[00:47:02] Unknown:
when I when I lived up. I'm originally from New York, and, so before I moved here to Texas and enjoyed freedom, I did this radio show with these two guys. One of them was a hard leftist liberal, like ultra liberal. I mean, I think he makes AOC look tame compared to, you know, anything else. And then we had the other guy was like the libertarian of the group, so we had the conservative, liberal, and the libertarian, and all we would do throughout the show is argue. And we would and we would call each other names, we would curse each other out, because the Internet already can say what you wanna say, right? So
[00:47:41] Unknown:
we would do all those things and then afterwards it was like we went to get pizza, we hung out, you know. I know so I know what you're talking about. It's like, you know, it's not you know? It's not that it's it's not that it's fake at all. It's just that I think sometimes we forget as viewers that this is not, it's, you know, it's not that they don't ever say nice things to each other. And I think that the problem is that that's we've started so now people started isolating to the groups of people that they agree with. Yeah. So whether that's, you know, they're only gonna listen to podcasts they agree with. They're only gonna read news sources that aren't gonna tell them the things that they don't wanna hear.
So the interesting thing about fake news that constantly gets talked about is that by ignoring part of the news, you're technically reading fake news too. Even if what you're reading is true. But if you're only seeing what like, if you read if you go to a news site and they never say anything negative about about Donald Trump, you are in a filter bubble. And vice versa, if you go to a news site and they only say negative things about Donald Trump, you are in a bubble. Right. And it doesn't matter what else on that side is true, although I would argue that most of the time it's not going to be because if they know they have to lie to their audience like that, they're gonna they're they're not just gonna not tell some of the truths that are unhelpful.
They are going to lie. And I just decide I was like, I don't wanna do that. There's not enough of that out there that says, hey. I'm gonna call balls and strikes, and I'm gonna obviously, I'm conservative. I'm putting it right there in the title. My bias is right there. Mhmm. But I just think I think you're right. These people work for us, not the other way around, and they should have our interest first. And if they don't, I'm going to call it out. I do not care what the letter is after your name. Obviously, I'm gonna hedge like, I'm gonna agree with Republicans more than I agree with Democrats for the most part. That's we probably have more overlap than we don't. But I'm gonna really call out the parts that I don't, especially when they are very dangerous. Like, I think a lot of this stuff is we can have friendly discussions about how do we pay for x, y, and z, or what how what should the FDA be you know, like, those are like, yeah. Let's have wonky policy conversations. I love that stuff. But there's some things that I just go no. Like like, I like, tariffs are for the like, the way Donald Trump talks about tariffs will be bad for the economy. Like like, just every economist would agree. Like, these are not negotiable things. He can't control the economy any more than Joe Biden could because no president can control that complicated of a thing.
Although, it's all their own fault for pretending that they can and campaigning on that they can. I think that's another thing that we've we've been lied to, not in the way that we normally think about politicians lying to us, but in the way that they just say things that they plainly cannot do, but they promise they will do them. But they don't have the power to do those things. And that's a really tricky thing too, because I have a lot of friends that I talk to. This happens more on the Democratic side, but some on the Republican side where, you know, Congress isn't doing anything, and they're, like, all in for the executive order stuff. They're like, well, if Congress won't do anything, someone has to. And I'm like, that is not how the constitution is set up. It's just not. It it doesn't say
[00:50:45] Unknown:
article one is if congress doesn't do it doesn't pass a law, the president can just sign an executive order to take care of that law. Now that we just we didn't set it up that way. And so Exactly. And and the thing with with, executive orders too is that, you know, the next guy comes in, he can undo everything that you just did. Right. We saw we saw that happen when when Yeah. We saw that would happen that exactly what happened when Joe Biden came in after Donald Trump's first term, and we saw that when Donald Trump came back after, Joe Biden's term. You know, everything's getting reversed, and it it leaves it leaves the country unbalanced, and in a lot of ways, insecure
[00:51:21] Unknown:
because Insecure, I think, is the absolute right word for what it is. Because it's it's because in in just a couple of years look, everybody talks about, well, you know, you have Donald Trump for four years.
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Don't get me wrong. I I I support Donald Trump, and I support what he's doing. I believe in a smaller government. I wanna see him reduce the size of government. You know, I I I do, and I'm gonna ask you about your opinions on Doge as well, but Yeah. I agree I I I love what I'm seeing so far. I'd like to know where my money's going. Wayne and I were talking earlier about, how, they uncovered that, someone who was 350 years old was receiving social security payments. Oh, seriously? I've not seen that yet. It came out today. You know, so you're talking you're going all the way back to the American Revolution here. Yeah. That would be way too. How's that even possible? Prior to the American Revolution. Right? Yeah. So so how is that even possible? But yet, you know, you you you have you have that breakdown. It's it's absolutely insane. But the whole thing with the executive orders is, again, all this stuff gets turned around every every four years. But we don't really have four years because we have two years.
We have the midterms come we have the midterms coming up. Right. Yeah. And who you don't know what's gonna happen in the midterms. I mean, you know, statistically speaking, it flips.
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Yeah. Almost every single I mean, it only hasn't happened
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twice or something. I mean, it's it's very rarely that it the president does not lose his majority in one of the house. In one or the other. Exactly. So you really only have two years to get this agenda done. So I can understand the the rapid pace of the work being done to try to get these things done before the midterm. I can understand that, but reality is this isn't permanent. These aren't permanent things that are gonna take if they're by executive order.
[00:53:05] Unknown:
Yeah. They're gonna get they can't get you around. I always wonder what the motivation is there because I would think that they're aware of that. I mean, maybe not. But I would think that they're aware of how they they saw the the whole, what's the schoolhouse rock, you know, how how we're built. I think they probably saw that, although that's not necessarily how it works now. Have you seen the updated one? Yes.
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You know, handing them the the wad of cash. Yep.
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So I'm always wondering, do they understand how it works? And if they do understand how it works, is it is it purposeful because they just want the appearance of doing something, which I think is sometimes the situation. It's like, that's why Joe Biden kept doing this new loan forgiveness stuff. It was he knew congress wasn't gonna do it. He had to appease this constituency in his base. And and so he was like, I've gotta appear to be doing something. I think there's that aspect. I also think some people I I this is where I think more of Trump's motivation is. I don't think Trump has any any motivation to work with Congress because he knows it's hard. Mhmm. I think that that, like, it actually takes work. It takes compromise even within your own party.
Not not to mention, you have to get Democrats on board right now when you have 53 seats in the senate for anything that's budget related and all those kind of things. So that's hard work. That super majority that that could just push Yeah. They don't have a super majority. They've got one seat in the house. So one Republican can throw the wrench in the gears if they want to. Right. You only need to get one Democrat to, you know, offset that if you want to. Mhmm. That until and then which is why they're delaying Elise Stefanik's
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confirmation. Well, not only that, but also Kash Patel, and they're still holding him up too. They haven't been Yeah. And so sedate.
[00:54:41] Unknown:
So it's interesting to me. But I do wonder how often now presidents are using it as an excuse to say, well, you've gotta reelect me in four years. I mean, I know Trump can't say that, but let's say JD Vance can say that or whatever Republicans say. Right. Boy, if you don't let me they it gets lets them ratchet up the danger level of and the scare tactics and the fear mongering to say, if you let the other party in, they're just gonna undo everything we did. So it's a perpetual which is so foolish because we're in a time where they just we just keep ping ponging back and forth every four years. Like, no one's even getting two terms at this point in a row. Yeah. So I the to think that you're just gonna in per in perpetuity have the White House, and be able to and and that congress is never going to supersede that, by the way, which I think right now they're they're right. I think congress has
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absolutely no balls. Yeah. Yeah. It will will never stand up to their own president. I don't I don't think Mike Johnson has what it takes to, to to to lead the Congress at this point. I I think you need somebody better, somebody stronger, somebody who's not as wishy washy.
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Yeah. But I don't know that there's anyone in Congress that can do it. That's the thing. No. There isn't. Yeah. I think the I think you So you should run for Congress. Yeah. Well, the problem is, like, why would I want that job? You know? Like, because basically, you don't the only job you have is fundraising in congress unless you're in leadership. Mhmm. Like, you are just a fundraiser for the party I agree. In perpetuity. You don't ever get a right we don't do bills. We don't create law via, the committees anymore. It's all top down leadership stuff. Yeah. Until you get a leader in the house that says, this is not how this is gonna function anymore. I don't want the responsibility of writing all the legislation. I want that to bubble up like it used to from committees. It's a natural way to get some buy in from people because, you know, it has to pass that committee, which generally only has a one seat majority. You know, it's, like, it's it's eight Republicans and seven Democrats. And so you've gotta have your entire coalition to even get it out of committee.
And even then, you wanna have, you know so we gotta get back to that. But until a leader of the house says that and until a president says, hey. Some of these things are not my job. Article one says that's your job, Congress, and I'm giving that back, because Congress isn't taking it back. They have no interest in protecting their constitutionally protected powers. They keep giving them away to the executive branch. And until parties will stand up to their own president and say, that's not your job. You can't actually do that. I I wish we impeached presidents, like, all the time. Like, I I think that every president should get impeached, like At least once. Like, 10 times while they're in office, the way they're behaving lately. I think that Democrats should have impeached Joe I think Democrats should have impeached Joe Biden at the last minute after his pardons for his family. I agree. I think they've they've drawn a line in the sand and said, that is way beyond what we say is normal, especially when you're about to hand over the reins to Donald Trump who will absolutely use it as an excuse to do the same thing for any people around him that he wants to give Right. Preemptive pardons to. It's the precedent that's set, and then that's the thing. Because now this will go on in perpetuity.
Exactly. And it's perfectly within his legal right to do so. That doesn't mean it's not impeachable though. People think that impeachment is is a crime. It's not. It's whatever congress says it is. Right. But the pardons for Hunter, I mean, I don't agree with them. But, you know, the pardons for Hunter are okay because those are those
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he was already convicted. He had been convicted. But the but the other
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that they haven't been no charges have even been brought yet. Right. I have gigantic problems with those. Oh, absolutely. Because that lets that lets everyone from now on like, and Donald Trump is already signaling this right now. He's already signaling that, basically, if you do crimes
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for me, you will I will let you get away you will get away with them. Like,
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it is for all the claims that the Biden Department of Justice was corrupt, which I think some are absolutely plausible and provable in some situations. But for all of that talk, Donald Trump's DOJ has already been more corrupt three weeks into it than there or at least smoking gun kinda style things. I mean, like, the the dropping of the charges against Eric Adams to me is so blatantly corrupt, quid pro quo. You know, that, like, I go, Joe Biden didn't do anything that obviously blatantly. And and I know that's different than that's slightly different twist. It's not prosecuting your enemy. It's not prosecuting your friend. But it's just as bad. Do you think that perhaps
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Eric Adams had some kind of cooperation
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with the federal government to get that benefit of those charges being dropped? Or No. Or perhaps It's not according to what we've seen so far, especially because his staff is now starting to resign
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Interesting. After it. I think that it's That's a good point, actually. I I didn't consider that. That's a very good point. Yeah. I I think that what happened
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pretty obviously we know that Eric Adams and Donald Trump met. We also know that Eric Adams was, like, getting very soft on Trump starting right after his charges came in. Yeah. You know, it's pretty obvious, like, he gets charged with what what I think is pretty obviously, like, he did it. You know, I don't think this like, first of all, the federal the feds do not especially SDNY, they do not bring a case unless they are absolutely sure they're gonna get a conviction for it. They just don't do it. The federal government has something like a 98%. I think something like 97% of federal trials go don't even go to trial. They just, they get they plead they plea out, and then they win 98% of those ones that do go to trial. They they literally Yeah. They have a very they have a very high, conviction rate. Yeah. High conviction rate. Now I think that some of that is an interesting constitutional discussion of, like, should any prosecutable, prosecution have a 97% guilty plea?
I I think that it probably goes we're not really we're not really utilizing our right to fair trials, I don't think, if you always plea out before you get to the trial. I think there's a lot conversation that you and I should have at another time. An interesting conversation. Yeah. For sure. Definitely do that. Yeah. But I think Eric Adams specifically realized that there's a good chance Donald Trump's gonna be the president. I don't have a way out of this bind unless I start pissing his ass. There you go. We started he started doing it. And Trump loves nothing more than someone that used to hate him and comes around. I mean, he he would rather have someone do that than someone be fiercely loyal to him for forever. Just look at how he treats all the people that used to talk shit on him. Tulsi Gabbard in the cabinet. RFK Junior in the cabinet. Eric Adams, getting basically not a pardon, but I mean, he would get a pardon if he needed one. But, you know I'm just surprised though that he hasn't made more of a,
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a fuss or a big deal over Eric Adams, and his turnaround. I I particularly enjoyed the interview he did on the five with,
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with Oh, I have not I have not seen that one. It was very interesting. Yeah. Yeah. To me, it's pretty obvious that what happened is that he met with Trump, and and I'm sure Trump just said, like, we're gonna get those you know, it's just it's political. And, honestly, the other thing is they they dismiss the charges with prejudice instead of without prejudice. Meaning, the DOJ can just pick up the case at any time again if they want to. Right. Yeah. It's so clearly a leash on Eric Adams that says, if you don't help me with my deportation plans and my enforcement of immigration law in New York, that case will be coming right back to haunt you. Interesting. Yeah. Now here's the good point. I mean That's a very good point. Yeah. Because if you really believed it was a political prosecution and you really believed that he would because this happens. I mean, we we see we've seen it with, other DOJ stuff where they're instructed to drop charges. And, normally, it's if you really believe someone was innocent or unfairly gone after for some reason, you do it without prejudice, which means the DOJ cannot pick up that case again after you're gone, essentially.
He He did not do that with the Eric Adams stuff. To me, that says you you don't really believe it was a political prosecution or you would just say also, there's all sorts of weird stuff where it was obviously Trump just told someone, hey. You're dropping those charges, and then the DOJ was trying to figure out out how to drop the charges in a legal way because they're gonna have to go before a judge and say, we wanna dismiss this case. And the judge is gonna go, why? And they're gonna have to go, and they're gonna have to give him a reason. And they the reason can't be implied, or I'm sure they don't want it to be implied, what Donald Trump's department of justice is saying, that it was a political prosecution. Because now you're going to a judge and saying, I unfairly politically prosecuted this person because I didn't like their politics. Like, that's not good for your job. Right? So to me, they've been trying to, like, work backwards on how to make this work. Yeah. And they couldn't you know? Okay. It's it's ready, fire, aim, which is generally the style of Donald Trump, which gets him in trouble sometimes. Because I think if he would have talked to Pam Bondi, she would have gone, hey. Just so you know, Eric Adams is probably not getting reelected in the fall. He's at a 26% approval rating.
Secondly, if you pardon him, the or pardon him or just drop the charges, the governor of New York can just kick him out of office. She has the absolute like, she can do that by herself. It doesn't take state legislator, it doesn't take, like, some sort of recall election. She can just fire him, essentially, if she thinks that there's corruption here. Yeah. So she might be gone next week if she did that. And so you don't get any quid for your pro quo or however that works backwards. Someone should have told him that. Someone smart would have been like, hey, this is gonna be a huge fuss, and people are gonna resign. It's gonna be a big news story, and you might get not get anything out of it. And maybe he could have talked about it. But I think he just says go, and then they have to try to figure out how to make it work. And he's kind of his own worst enemy sometimes because I think that sane people would have been like, hey. This is a bad move because x, y, and z, and it will not end up helping you like you think it will. And I think that's where we'll end up. I mean, I think that Eric Adams will either get forced out by, the governor of New York, or he won't win reelection. And then what? I mean, I'm sure he's just looking for a spot in the Trump administration because he loves dire Democrats now. Yeah. Well, I don't think he's gonna be I don't think he's gonna win reelection. I don't No. There's there's no way of it happening.
I think crazy would have to happen, which obviously crazy things happen in politics. But polling at 26% approval, generally not a good and and having a foreign bribery. This isn't, like, like, I mean, if you're getting brought local bribery is one thing. I mean, I'm not saying it's good. I'm just saying I think people understand politics sometimes and realize there's some of that that goes on sometimes. Exactly. Accepting it from a foreign government, people really don't like. Exactly.
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Alright, Blake, we are over our time, for tonight. So we're gonna have to wrap up the show. But listen, I would love to have you come on the show again sometime, so, let's, let's be in touch. I'll I'll message you through the PodMatch platform, and I'll get you my, my cell number, email address, all that stuff. And, let's be in touch. Let's I'd love to have you come back on the show if you'd like to. That would be fantastic. Alright, folks. Why don't you just let us know, how we could find you, where your podcast is located, give us all of your social information, address, phone number, you know, all that stuff so we can get you there. Geolocation.
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Basically, you can find so we can dox you, you know. You can find everything at the homelessconservative.com, that's linked to YouTube, Instagram, Apple, Spotify, all the places that it's at. That's probably the easiest way to get there. And, for the most part, the podcast is just on all those different things. It's the same stuff. YouTube has a a little some extra stuff, that the other ones don't. You need to come on Rumble.
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You know, I've looked I need to look into it more. You should. And I I probably should do it. It's probably not any harder than what I'm doing right now. I just haven't, gotten there yet. Alright. Alright, folks. Blake Fisher, thank you so much for being with us, on the podcast. And again, I look forward to talking to you again, bro. I really appreciate your time. And, I I think we have a lot to talk about. Alright. Alright. Y'all take it easy. You too. Take care now. Alright. So Blake Fisher, everybody. That was, that was a that was a blessing of a conversation. Wayne, what do you think? Well, talk about Eric Adams. He's a man walking on a time probe without any balancing,
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beam or anything. As of just a couple hours ago, they are, people of the government are asking the governor to the governor to fire him. So this is up two hours ago. Okay. So he's on a he's whatever cliches you wanna use, tightrope, walking the plank. He's on the way out. He's on the way out. For the most part. It it won't even take a vote of the people in November or whenever they have to vote here. Roger. But, getting back, and I I I always try to get a point and maybe save it. Like I say, I do that thing, like, those movies five years earlier, so I go, like, twelve minutes earlier. Dissenting views, and we don't have those. We have name calling.
And I I grew up in a a time period. Yeah. It's like I grew up in a time period where fascist. I don't agree with you, man. I got it. Here you're old fashioned. I'm more progressive. Okay. Yeah. Exactly. But there's no dissenting views, and that meant you know, I I love Wayne. I love messing with him. You know, I I think of this in the name calling, it it takes it down to a very, very low level. And that's part of the thing right now that, if you don't agree with somebody, just, you know, cuss them out, call them up that you they're really not. And so it's it's so hard actually nowadays to say, call a person, I'm gonna call you a racist. Now prove me wrong. And it's that's the part of putting the the burden on the person. Or the when did you stop beating your wife? Yeah. Exactly. And so but listening to Blake, he's got some great views. And like like I said, going back to the I use always use the pro wrestler thing. And, you know, the guy's coming out here, he's gonna beat him. He's gonna and they go back and be behind and have a a beer. And I'm I was telling you earlier, I knew a friend.
He started from nothing, very affluent. He became in in Michigan, and he was invited to it doesn't matter, the whatever party thousand dollar plate thing. I always thought it was a kid. A thousand dollar plate for food. Wow. That's a lot of money. Well, he was in there, and he's a working guy. Mhmm. He came up with my high school and everything, and he's telling me the inside stuff. Right. He goes, I was there, and these guys start taking the drinks. And this is Drinking the Kool Aid. Wayne keeps a trapper shot after a couple of brewskies. But, you know, one guy was telling him, you know, you come on with my board. He goes, oh, that guy over there on the other side, Republican, blowhard over there, me and him, we're in the same business together. Right. That's not that's not serving the people. No. It's not. And so that's why you get the Pelosi's of hundreds of millions and and everybody. But here's someone and, Joe, please help me with the the names.
And this is the okay. The rational part. The young lady who was murdered at the college, it's Trump signed the, gosh darn. I'm I'm I'm a little jet lagged on this. And the young lady from the college girl who was killed by an illegal alien. And I'm thinking to myself, this bill was clear cut. It was spelled all out, and yet a few guys voted against it. And I'm trying to think her name and I'm sorry probably people are gonna go It's not Nungari, is it? No. What was her she was a jogger and she was and and she was she was brutally killed by a guy that was a a criminal in Mexico or whatever country he's from. And I'm thinking who she was, and the the the the commentary was going, who would vote against this?
And it was like, you know, if senators, like, 98 to two, I'm thinking, what two people would vote against this this bill that would prosecute illegal aliens that murder people? You know? And I'm going some things are just not rational, and and this is why we as us guys who vote for people going, why would I you know, you get this every four years. I've always said, the guy comes in every four years. Yes. We're gonna bring jobs. We're gonna do this. Well, you didn't do that four years ago. You know, you're promising the same thing four years ago. And I think people I don't know if they get hypnotized or or brainwashed. You know, like, I think, how is Chuck Schumer still in there? How and I'm gonna say Lincoln Riley. Yeah. Lincoln Riley. Yeah. The Lincoln Riley Act.
That was clear cut, man. I I even looked into it and read it and go, this is something both sides can get behind, Joe. Yeah. It could be because you know what? If you I don't have a daughter, but if I did have a daughter, it would be something I would think of. Oh, yeah. And and and both sides, I don't have any respect for Mitch McConnell more than I have Elizabeth Warren. And so I've always told people, it is not the party line. It's the American line. And I I know I'm I'm I'm signing all, you know, fudgy, dudgy and everything, but for real, I think guys in our bracket, the baby boomers, which I'm under and the ones just under it, we're tired. We're actually tired, you know, of doing overtime and going, what did I pay out of my overtime check? And what did I pay in my taxes and my property taxes? My property taxes went up $700 last year, and this is a I have two pieces of property, and one's just a vacant piece of land. And the state of Washington, which loves during the tax they don't love, they go, well, you know, the taxes went up. I go $700 on a bunch of trees.
Right. And so we're just at a point a lot of us are in. We're the generation where guys are getting fired or laid off at twenty nine years, Joe, in ten months. Yeah. That's what Trump and I'm not gonna pass pound a Trump, drum all night, but it's anybody who'd be sitting at the old office and take a look at this and go, why was this guy let go at twenty nine years and ten months? Mhmm. He's not gonna get that pension. And it's not just the companies, it's the companies and the politicians. Yeah. And they're so in the bed together or in cahoots, whatever cliche you wanna use, that we the big word anymore now is fatigue.
There are, you know, the MCU fatigue or this fatigue. And I think we are fatigued. And we're fatigued out of, like, man, do we have anything left to give to our kids or grandkids? Yeah. Because my grandson, I look at it and go, is he ever gonna be able to own a home?
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Yeah. Well, I, you know, I I think the same thing too. I mean, I have I have my grandkids, you know, that I I worry about the direction the country's going, and I worry about, you know, the the the high cost of living that's out there right now. But, you know brother I really do think that, how do I put this without should I really care if I offend anybody? I don't think I should. You know I just look at it like you know, we can't put our faith and our trust in in in a president. Right. You know, we have to we have to just look to the Lord. We have to think about, you know, he's you know, the Lord's coming again. Whether, you know, whether you like it or not Mhmm. He's coming again. But as far as as the human level goes, we need to make sure that we are the ones that are acting on behalf of the future generation. We have to step up the game. We have to hold the government accountability. We have to keep people focused on on these concerns in order to bring all of this nonsense that we're seeing right now under control.
We need to abolish things that are unnecessary, like the IRS. We need to get rid of the income tax. We need to cut the spending down to the bare minimums. We need to reduce the size of government. The only way we're gonna be able to assure a better future for our kids and for our families, and our grandkids is to take those steps now. We can't leave it to them to do it because by the time it gets to them, they're not gonna be able to do it. They're gonna have to rely on others, the next generation to do it. It's gonna be a perpetual circle back and forth, constant turning. It's never gonna get resolved. Now is the time to do it. And before we go any further with that, that's why I wanna tell you about the Texas Nationalist Movement in Texas. You see here in Texas, we are trying to do that.
Okay? There's an organization that folks if you're listening and you don't you don't know this, there's and you should know this if you've been following the show for any in a lengthy period of time. I'm a member of the Texas nationalist movement. I'm the deputy county coordinator for Maverick County here in Texas, And, Texit, the the is the process of Texas achieving independence from the American Union. Alright? And and and before you start emailing me about sedition and treason and and you're a traitor, and all that stuff. It is perfectly normal for for for people for a people to change the direction that they're going.
It is within our right. First of all, it's in the Declaration of Independence. It's it was in the constitution, or, the the tenth amendment. And for Texas, it's in the Texas constitution that all political power resides within the people. Not the state house, not Washington, the people. So if the people wanna make a change, it has to they have to do it. They have to rise. They have to stand up, and they have to take the position where, through the legislative process, get folks into into office that are in agreement with the pro with with, with things like, Texas.
Now, I I know I'm I'm going off the cuff here, so I don't have I don't have any notes on this, so I'm I'm just shooting from from the hip here. But, right now in the state of Texas, we have the most support possible for Texas leaving the American Union. Alright? Right now I think it's 66% of those polled in Texas Texas Texas would vote for Texas leaving the union. Okay? I said earlier, 25 states have, legislative processes in place to leave the American union. So Texas is not alone in this. This is not something that that a bunch of upstarts in in in the Southwest wanna, you know, trying to do.
But, the mood but but the public sentiment is that it's it's time to make a change, and it's time for Texas to leave the union. And, you know, if I didn't agree with it, I wouldn't be a part of the organization. If I didn't think it was the natural course of events, I wouldn't be a part of the organization. It's a natural thing for people to wanna be free and independent. And would you agree with that? Absolutely. Right. So, I mean, the whole the American Revolution was a secession against King George. Well, King George. Yeah. But but but the established government of the time. The federal system has gotten so large and has overreached so much that no matter how much work goes into trying to reform it, it's not gonna be enough to save the union.
Great book I have behind me here that you're not gonna be able to see is this one. Now if you're if you're listening if you're listening on, like, Apple or Spotify or something, or one of the modern podcast apps, you're not gonna see it. But this book here is, it's called Rethinking the American Union for the twenty first Century. Alright. It's a series of essays, put out by, Donald Livingston. Amazing book. This book, when I first got it and I first read it, opened my mind and my eyes to the need for the states to separate
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and maybe even form
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I I I know this is a bad word, brother. Probably shouldn't say it, but I'm like getting for a while. Confederacies. Not so loud because, you know, people might think strange things, but this book explains it in great detail, and this is something you need to get. If you can't find it, you can get it online somewhere. I got it on Amazon, some time ago. You gotta look for it. Rink Rethinking the American unit for the twenty first century. Another great book, I have it right here, is a book that was put out by Daniel Miller, who was the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement. This is an amazing book. This is called this is Texit. Alright. So if you're not if you're not watching, you're you're you're listening on the radio.
Text it is, is well, let me read the jacket note to you. Text it is the first thoroughly researched nonfiction book to delve into the motivations, the process, and the practicality of a modern day Texas peaceful, emphasized the word peaceful, exit from The United States, channeling his twenty years of experience on the issue. Miller takes the reader through the historical and cultural foundations of Texas. You have got to get this book. If you haven't read it yet, please get this book. You'll understand exactly where I'm coming from with this. Now if, if you are, if you wanna get involved with the shaping and, the development of a future in free independent Texas, just head over to my website, joerusiello.com/tandm, and, click that QR code or check out the link that's there, and register your support, register your your, become a member, or make a donation, and help us do this. This is incredibly important. We have more elected representatives right now in the Texas house that are in favor and have signed the Texas first pledge than we have at any other time. 66% of those polled in Texas are in favor of TEx it, the process of Texas becoming independent.
Check them out. Look it up. Research it. Do exactly what I did, and get on board with Texit. Alright? Get on board with the Texas Nationalist Movement. Alright? Also, while you're on the website, just open up that, contact form and, send us over any questions, comments, cares, or concerns that you might have. Also, don't forget to visit our support page, and if you can put any kind of a donation in, we would really appreciate that. One time donation in any amount, or you can join one of our monthly recurring donation clubs, $17.76 $18.36 or $25 or more. You could also visit the alexjonesstore.com/joe, and, you could, get yourself on the road to better health by, purchasing some vitamin supplements, or even some patriotic apparel.
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[01:21:05] Unknown:
Brother, brother Wayne, before we wrap this up, do you wanna say anything before we, shut it down? Yeah. I have one of those like I said, I had those little brain blips that I I mean, I traveled down here with, and one of them was the ages of our founding fathers. We say founding fathers. Here's a couple for you, Joe. Mhmm. James Madison, twenty five years old. Alexander Hamilton Hamilton, twenty one years old. Jefferson, he was a little older. 33 years old. James Monroe, eighteen years old. You're talking about we think of founding fathers, old men that had, history behind them and all of the experiences.
Some these are teenagers practically. We look at 18 year olds, 25 year olds today who can't change a tire, most of them. But, I'm not I'm not not just throwing the fun at it, but these are young men. They I mean, there was the older ones. You know, they went up there, Alec, you know, Benjamin Franklin, etcetera. What it took and we're from different parts of the country. The moxie, the grit to go, we need to change things. This is real tyranny. It wasn't just like you said King James or King, George. It was a state run church. And you're gonna believe this.
And the things that are going actually, it was starting to reminisce what was going on in the last four years. And I I and I made a joke, I don't know if it was earlier today, but the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Intimidation. And when you start looking in what Trump's seeing, this is why Cash Patel is being held up. Right. That intimidation part, they know it. They know what they've done, and they've known what they've done to American citizens who are under this constitution that these 18, 20 five, and 30 year olds gave their life for practically. These guys ended up broke, ostracized, and they weren't the majority of the country at the time.
So we can all throw all the, you know, slave owning this and all the racist that. But when you look at it, a lot of those guys, they weren't all for that. They just wanted to go, we want to have a faith that is free. And one of the things, I don't think a lot of people know the history, was a gentleman named Haim Solomon. George Washington, he needed he needed revenue. He needed resources. He went to a Jewish man named Haim Solomon. I need your help. And at the time, it may not seem like a much in our our terms, but he I think he had $200,000. He said, mister Washington, take it all, but build a country that we can have freedom of faith.
And that's been kind of treaded on. I use that treaded because, you know, the old snake and the don't, you know, don't tread on me. Joe, we've been treaded on. When you got pastors thrown on the sidewalk for standing outside of abortion clinics Mhmm. With their constitutional rights, not throwing stuff, not throwing even their words towards anybody, but being hounded by the FBI. Because I've I've part of that you know, I'm I've been part of the church where we've stood out there and prayed silently for the young ladies Right. And prayed for the unborn.
Mhmm. And our government's been turned into literally like a mob squad, you know, a hit squad. And people's lives have been, you know, like I said, intimidated and and brutalized. And like I said, even here in this thing, I believe the word is weaponized. They weaponized the FBI and other government agencies. That's no different than what our founding fathers were seeing back in those days. And I think it's catching on where what is freedom? And that's what I'd like to finish tonight. What is freedom? And what are we looking at now of certain types of freedom? And we've actually been under a lot of stuff with our taxes, and we're starting to find some stuff uncovered.
End with this. What's gonna be really uncovered in the next few weeks? And if we do get our FBI director, oh, boy.
[01:24:55] Unknown:
Well, let's hope that happens very soon, mate. Final thought. Oh, boy. Alright, folks. Don't forget to check us out on our socials at, x or Twitter or whatever you wanna call it at, Joe Ruz. TikTok, Joe dot Ruz. Truth social, Joe Ruz. Minds, Joe Ruz. And Facebook, the podcast with Joe Rusiello. Also, download the Rumble app if you're listening on audio. Download the Rumble app. Help us out here, and, open up an account. It's absolutely free to open the account. But if you want the ad free experience, sign up for Rumble Premium. You can get it as low as $10 a month, and, it's it's it's a it's great. I love it. It's, I am a Rumble Premium member, and just in full disclosure, I am also a Rumble, shareholder.
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Well that's about it really the film ends mainly visually
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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.
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Alrighty, folks. Welcome to another week. This is Joe Rusciello, and we are broadcasting to you live tonight from the Asylum Studios, from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. Folks, hope you guys had a great weekend. Powerful weekend this weekend, a lot of things going on. And, we have a great show for you tonight. In the studio with us this evening, we have our executive producer and great friend of mine for over twenty years, Wayne Rankin.
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Wayne, how you doing tonight, brother? Well, it's an honor and a privilege to be with you, Joe. I came on down from the very, very blue People's Republic of Washington State, and I arrived here, and there's a earthquake in West Texas. Earthquake in West Texas. 30 miles north of Toyota, if I'm saying that right. That's the word I hear on the street. So it's good to be with you, Joe. There is a lot to talk about. And we got a president in charge, and that's the main thing. He's in charge, but he's not overbearing.
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He's got a great staff, and he's for the people. Isn't it refreshing though to have somebody in in the Oval Office that's actually working for the American people and not just sitting back, taking vacations, lounging on a beach?
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He doesn't have to do this. And that's what they said in his first term. Why is he doing this? He doesn't have to do this. And he's bringing on people from his staff. Does Elon Musk have to do this? But from what I've read on Musk, even from Tesla and his auto factories, they find him sleeping on the lounges in the in the employee's room. He has fruit trays. He's working with his people. And now the word is whatever government office that he's in, he's sleeping on the couch.
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He's probably not wasting a lot of government money. I don't think so. Yeah. I don't think so. And if folks, if you're wondering why you don't see, Wayne, is because we're in the process of of redesigning the studio. So we don't have cameras set up everywhere just yet. So, we're working on that, and, Lord willing by the end of this week, we'll have it all set up. And you'll see little improvements as we go along. As we go along the rest of this week, we got a week worth of shows to do. We got a lot of things to cover. Tonight, actually, not only do we have, Wayne here in the in the studio with us, but, somewhere around 08:30 or so, we're gonna have a a guy by the name of Blake Fisher, join us. Blake is the host of a, a very interesting podcast called The Homeless Conservative.
So, you can find that on all of the podcast platforms, like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. I believe he's on YouTube as well, which we'll we'll talk to him about the YouTube stuff, I think. Right, Wayne? We'll Yeah. Yeah. We'll get him to switch over to to Rumble. Yeah. You know, YouTube is, I think, for anybody that wants to put something on there, like Earl's Woodshop. It was just it was good. It has its place. We used to call it Youboob. Oh, okay. Youboob. It's good now. Because when YouTube started right? Wayne's sitting over here, by the way. Right. Just so you know, to my left, your right, so my left. You know, when YouTube first started, it really just started out as a bunch of, you know, numbnuts going around, like, smashing themselves into walls. So that's why I always called it YouBoob.
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What was that guy named, Johnny something? He would do all these crazy stunts or whatever. Super Dave. Super Dave too. And then, you know, and,
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you know, watching guys fall off a ladder. Do we just age ourselves with Super Dave? Well, I I go way back. I got I got 10 more on you, Joe, so I can go to Ed Sullivan actually in the Beatles. Yeah. But oh. Yeah. I'm not, you know. And if if you're curious as to, we got a an insect or something floating around here. The camera's picking it up. I just saw that. So if you if you're curious as to, to what Wayne looks like, he has, he looks like Santa Claus, just a slimmer version Yeah. Of Santa Claus. But, he looks like Santa Claus, and his, actually his his picture is gonna be up in the show notes once we finish the show tonight. As always, we upload all the information afterwards, and, so he and his his beautiful wife, Rosanna, are our executive producers, and they are working very, very hard to help us, get ourselves situated and, put in a position where,
[00:08:09] Unknown:
you know, we're doing the best quality talk radio that we can muster. You You know, everybody has a platform. And what type of platforms everybody has? Political, geopolitical, science, music, pop culture. It's like, what do you know? And what what do you know and what research you have and and what background? And I know, Jove, like I said, you know, here's a guy from New York, and I'm originally from Detroit. So we have that, I can use a grit that it's it's it's not given. You just you you grow up with it and you know it, and you could see an issue and go, let's let's get to the bottom of it. Let's let's let's cut down deeper to what that maybe the the the the I'll call it what it is, the mainstream media might say. So we go way past that. But there's, like, there's a certain integrity to certain parts of of people who do this platform. And going getting back to our our president, I can't talk to him enough, that, there are people that jump ship as you would say. Robert Kennedy, his the Kennedy family name is an icon. It's an icon. His father and grand I mean, grand his uncle. Excuse me. They are icons in the Democratic party. And, of course, if you go to Trump's side, they're gonna they're gonna throw you under the under the bus in Tulsa Gabbard. She was a Democrat, you know, representative.
And they took it upon themselves going, we like this message. Mhmm. It's the people. And, yes, Bobby Kennedy, he he's he's he knows what he's talking about when he comes to the medicines and vaccines. And you put her in intelligence. This woman is a lieutenant I'm not I'm colonel. I'm not sure what the the titles are, but she's a colonel twenty two years in the military. And and she she knows what she's talking about. And these people, like I said, they don't have to do this, but Trump's message is it's not just make America great again. It's make our people empowered again. I agree with you. And and the
[00:09:55] Unknown:
the the great thing about, president Trump and, again, not not to diminish my position on on Texas independence and, you know, Texas, leaving the the American Union at some point, because it it's going to happen. It's inevitable. That's another conversation for later on. The, the the thing about president Trump is that he resonates with the people. I mean, he may be wealthy, he may be a billionaire, he may be one of those persecuted classes of people, you know, on that the left loves to demonize for their successes, but, he is a man of the people. He loves legitimately loves the American people. He loves America.
He loves what America stands for. He loves the American military. He loves law enforcement. He legitimately does it. And when you listen to him interview, listen to him talk, I think that comes through. It doesn't come through as fake or phony or anything like that. I mean, to me, it just seems like, you know, this this is a man who's doing this for love of country. It's not to in it's not to promote himself or or ingrandize himself, if that's the right word. It's it's because he loves his country.
[00:11:07] Unknown:
I think one of the biggest, axes that he had to grind against president Trump was he's not a politician. Yeah. Thank you. Thank God. Yes. Thank God. You know what? And I can listen to our president and understand it. You know, I've heard him. It's almost like these guys have drama coaches and they got Arab. They're big winded and stuff. Trump would tell you, like, well, I talked to our guys today,
[00:11:30] Unknown:
and this is what they told me. Where you'd have some long drawn out message that never got to the point, Joe. Never got to the point. No. I I know I know you've been working on because you you you kinda did this for me on the way here from the airport today. You've been working on your Donald Trump impression.
[00:11:46] Unknown:
My my thought hell. You know? I tell you, Bobby Kennedy, he's doing a great job. He's gonna get down to these vaccines, and he's gonna dig, I mean, dig deep. And he's gonna get down to people who are gonna have their hands in a lot of pharmaceutical pockets. Isn't it right, Pocahontas? Woo.
[00:12:08] Unknown:
Oh, that's pretty good. I like that. So, hey. Hey, brother. Have you tried the coffee yet? Coming coming from the coffee state of Washington, this stuff is rocking. Whatever Joe's putting in this stuff. This is this is La Vazza. This is, an Italian espresso. They are not a sponsor of the show. I'm not, like, I'm just I am just loving this. I fresh grind the beans before, before we brew it. So, this stuff is just amazing. And I'm not gonna tell you what else is in there, but it's really good. And, Joe, on another, this I I know on my flight down here, Marco Rubio, which he did get 99 votes in the senate. Ninety nine. Mhmm. And he stood next to and, yes, president Trump is
[00:12:47] Unknown:
a great ally of Israel. And like I said, I've been to Israel with my church and and my my I have a deceased wife who was I call her almost like an American Israeli. She's from an Israeli or Israeli suburb, Brooklyn, New York. He he said, the peace in The Middle East No wonder I liked her so much. Absolutely. You know? She was a I'm from Brooklyn too. She's actually a pizza bagel, Italian Jew. Uh-huh. So
[00:13:13] Unknown:
What? I hate to say it to the brother that the the actual pizza bagels were an abomination, man. I know. I know. But Your wife was a was she was she was a very special person. She really was. She was. She,
[00:13:23] Unknown:
she could have probably been a neurosurgeon, and she became a special needs teacher. And that's those are the people, like she she wanted to meet Elon Musk because her father was in the, space program. But she said that was one guy she I believe she said it because she had this high IQ. She could sit with Musk, and I think he would be intrigued for an hour just listening to her. But getting back to, the prime minister of Israel sitting next to Marco Rubio, who I like his record. He he he said, I'm stand president Trump is gonna stand with Israel, but a secure Israel is a secure Middle East. And he's they're gonna let people know that Israel and America are gonna stand together. There's a lot of problems that's sort of so far under the the radar, but, president Trump, it's an intriguing idea, Joe. Gaza, what he's got going on there. It's but this guy backs down from nothing. No. That's what I like. And he's he's in student to guys like us, and we talked earlier before the show came on. I go, president Trump understands a guy's paycheck. Yeah. I agree. That's why we voted for him. The guys, like myself, I can't get into. I'm a retired government employee. I'm still fighting for my benefits twelve years later, and it's a debacle. And and as Elon Musk said, a lot of us retirees I'm an old school mailman. I used to walk five miles, six miles a day with the old satchel in the back.
Elon Musk is saying there are so much retired federal employees. Checks are like downing and that's just your checks through careers down a mine shaft. And here's Literally. Yes. And here's the Literally. One one last thing I'll say on me, Elon, Joe, and I one I want your opinion on this. You can't tongue tie the guy, the press. I call it fake news, what I call it is. They can't get nothing on them. All they take all their shots on them. And are you gonna be in conflict of interest with x? But but of course not. Well, I'm why would I want to do that? I mean, you know, the contracts are here and he's gonna stay separate. And they're they just don't understand. They they don't understand a paycheck where President Trump does. I I agree. And but the media,
[00:15:28] Unknown:
they're gonna look for any excuse whatsoever to try to discredit what what president Trump is doing, what Elon Musk is doing. They're they're just gonna do anything they can to obstruct and get in the way. Slow down the whole process. Why? Because in in in this isn't just limited to Democrats, this isn't, you know, this is Republicans too. There are a number of of Democrats and Republicans who are feeding off this trough and don't wanna see the don't wanna see the, the funds dry up. They don't wanna see everything fall apart. They don't wanna lose the money that they've been generating. And like I mentioned on one of the other shows I did, I think it was last week, you know, how do you have someone like Elizabeth Warren who makes, you know, salary at a hundred and $74,000 a year? How is she worth over $2,000,000 or or $20,000,000 rather?
And then you have, someone like AOC who was bankrupt basically before she, before she went into, into congress, And now she's worth a few million dollars herself on a, what, a hundred and 60 doll hundred and $60,000 salary or something to that effect. You know, you gotta start to one. And these are the people who are the most vocal about not losing the ability to have this this, this this funding through organizations like USAID, and, and and not, you know, and trying to prevent, the treasury department of all places, the treasury department. Trying to prevent the treasury secretary from accessing your information, through the treasury system. I mean, that's the
[00:16:57] Unknown:
you gotta you gotta follow the money. Well, you look at the probably the biggest rhino out there, mister Mitch McConnell. That guy, he has milked The turtle? Yeah. He needs to he needs to go. He has milked this political money more than a Wisconsin dairy farmer. I'm serious. And that's just not a a pun or a joke. This guy has been exposed, especially this week And when he could not even vote for incredible people that you know, there was Democrats that that said, you know, these are some good people. The most feared guy in, I think, DC right now, Ash Patel.
Kash is my man. He's gonna get in there for the Federal Bureau of Intimidation. He's gonna get in there, and he's gonna get down to go, why are they used as a political weapon against their own citizens? And, Joe, what I've been in in for my, I'm in the church ministries, and one of them was we would go down to the planned parenthood peacefully across the street. Washington State were allowed to do that, but word was some of the pastor's license plates were, you know, snapshotted or whatever and delivered to certain government agencies, and they got harassed a little bit. And Yeah. That is politically weaponizing our government against its people. And that's what you heard over and over through our president,
[00:18:14] Unknown:
through Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel. He's gonna be looking into us. I'd be scared too if I was on the other side. Well, of course. They're also they're also concerned over the fact that, you know, he's gonna have access to these, the the Epstein files. Oh my. And, you know, you can only imagine what's gonna come out of that. You can only imagine whose names are on those lists. You can only imagine what's good what the the repercussions that are gonna just reverberate through Washington DC and and beyond that. I mean, it's it's it's gonna be a very, very, interesting but the but from what I understand, though, is, Kash Patel does have the votes.
Yes. He does have the votes to to, to be appointed. And, you know, we'll see. We'll see what happens. We'll see how that, all turns out. It's gonna be very, very interesting.
[00:19:00] Unknown:
I hate to might use this word, but, like, inbred. There's almost like an inbred between the politicians, Hollywood, and the media. They seem to feed off and work with each other because you're gonna get a a political statement in the afternoon, and then you're gonna get the news in the mid evening. And these losers at night, and I'm gonna tell my age, Joe. I mean, I I grew up with a guy named Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson would come out, and this guy was the I used to watch Johnny Carson. He's a gold standard of You're not that old, bro. Yeah. I know. He's a gold standard of what was funny. He'd bring out people on both sides. You know? He had guys from you know, he he he was friends with Ronald Reagan, and Ronald Reagan was an early Democrat, and he was friends with, you know, Republican people. And but Johnny knew comedy.
I don't know what Kimmel knows. I I don't want any of these, but they're just a mouthpiece for the mainstream media and the Agreed. The leftist, liberal, Democrats, and they're all three kind of in cahoots. Now you just said something. The Epstein files. That's three categories, political, mainstream media,
[00:20:06] Unknown:
and Hollywood. I bet you there's little bit of names on all three of those groups right there. Oh, I'm sure there are. Yep. I mean, you wouldn't see I mean Birds of a feather, Joe. Birds of a feather. Well, of course. But but also, I mean, you wouldn't see the resistance that that they're getting at there. They weren't trying to hide something. Right. Right. You know? And it's it's just it's one of those things, that I I'm looking forward to it all coming out. I mean, the corruption in this government, Republican, Democrat Right. The corruption in this government needs to come to an end. Well, do I think that you're gonna stop at all? No. Of course not. I mean, it's, you know, it's the way it is. But that's why we have, you know, movements like the organization that I'm part of, the Texas Nationalist Movement, where we're advocating for its Texas independence. There are and we were talking about this on the drive back from from the airport today. 25 states 25 states have secession movements, in in going through the legislative process.
Texas is not by itself in this whole thing, you know? And I'm we're not just talking about, you know, red states like Texas, we're talking about blue states also. We're talking about California. California has Calxit in the process. Even the governor is talking about it. Where the governor in Texas isn't talking about it much, but, you know, if you watch some of the things that that he does, you could see that he's making moves towards something along those lines, and we're hoping that it actually comes about. But but, you know, states, you know, we the the the power is inherent to the states, to the people of the states, and all political power, and that's that's from the Texas constitution itself.
And, it's our responsibility to challenge government. It's our responsibility to to keep government in check. It's our responsibility to alter or abolish the government Mhmm. If it gets tyrannical, which you know something? I I honestly believe that that this government has gone the way of tyranny progressively since Abraham Lincoln. Yes. Maybe even before maybe maybe even a little bit before that, but progressively worse as the years go by to the point where you are now, where we have this bloated federal government, this federal system that taxes the bejesus out of you, that totally just manages and micromanages almost every aspect of your life, like, the EPA standards. Like, they regulate I mean, folks, I don't know I don't know if you guys realize this, how they they regulate the amount of water you can have in your toilet bowl. I mean, I I mean, is that is that really what government's all about?
[00:22:43] Unknown:
Right. And you're talking about the this Texan, and I'm I mean, like I said, I'm gonna learn more while I'm down here because I I love to learn stuff like this. But my neighborhood, the Pacific Northwest, Oregon's talking about and I know Oregon very well because I from I live in Washington state, but I have, cattle rancher friends Mhmm. From Eastern Oregon and my best best friend here. His grandparents were some of the original members, Joe, of the East of the Oregon Cattle Ranchers Association. And they're they're like would be over a hundred by now. And he's on that side of the street state, excuse me. And they're now talking about separating. Because you got Eastern Oregon, Ranchers, Agriculture, all those hardworking people that feed us. The East Side and I don't know what, pop culture says. Portland is a disaster of disasters of what I hear of everything that's wrong with the Blue City that Mhmm. They they actually are the measuring stick of the disaster.
And, I I'm only about hour and a half from Seattle. And as I call them, we have 14,000 campers with blue tarps. I call them campers. And they pretty much rule the roost there. Are they using the blue tarps to prevent DEWs? Yeah. That's that's their News? Yeah. I guess. But it it's it's become a shambles. That's a directed energy weapons if you guys don't know. Here's one thing in common. California, Oregon, Washington, go from south to north. They all have one thing in common. No voter ID. There we go.
[00:24:10] Unknown:
Well, if you if you look at the if you look at the at the electoral map, that's what you see. You see Yes. States where there are where there is no, elector where there is no, voter identification.
[00:24:20] Unknown:
Accountability.
[00:24:22] Unknown:
You see that that's where most of the discrepancies in the elect in the vote counts come through from.
[00:24:28] Unknown:
Yeah. And, like I say, this is I'm I'm a retired postman, and I'm talking to the younger guys who go, man, I didn't know Joe Joe Blow here had, you know, four wives. You know? It's just amazing. You've heard the the obscene, stories of how many times people voted. Or dead people voted too in the state of Washington. Yeah. No. For sure. For sure. And and we were talking about this earlier today too. And this is kinda I mean, it's not exactly the same thing, but it kinda goes together with it.
[00:24:57] Unknown:
Today actually, Doge came across these numbers in auditing, at, with social security. Right? And it was, they found that people who were alive during the American revolution Yeah. And prior to that, I think it was, I think it was the age, There were, like, one or two, maybe three people that were supposedly 350 years old Yeah. Were collecting Social Security benefits.
[00:25:31] Unknown:
Did you you saw that? I did. A hundred went back to at least well, at least Musk and one of his quotes was a 59.
[00:25:39] Unknown:
Yeah. I saw that. But then I saw I saw a graph. Yeah. That's civil war. But I saw a graph where it said that there were, like, there were, like, two or three, maybe four people supposedly who are over 300 years old are collecting Social Security benefits. Right. And,
[00:25:53] Unknown:
I've I've I've done my radio pass. I've did some, DJs. But I like to throw these little I call them just out of here, out of my brains. This is a fact and it's one of those weird ones. Me, Wayne, alive today, My father spoke to someone who was in the civil war. I said a trip that's my little trippies I throw out there, and I I have my son. He goes, what? Yeah. Well, I'm 64. Grandpa was born in 1926, and we're from the North Carolina Appalachia where actually a a lot of men stayed there. So at 1926, in 1936,
[00:26:28] Unknown:
there was one guy still left up in those hills up there from the civil war that he got to meet. Alright. Just I don't mean to interrupt you for a sec, but but but, I'm watching the feed right now on on Rumble. Okay. Okay? We just really started the Rumble channel Right. And started doing the live videos Right. And stuff. And we have 27 followers Sure. Overall. Okay. Why is only five people watching? I don't. Listen, folks, come on. Help a brother out here. You know? We need to hit a hundred followers, and we need to have at least 50 to a hundred people watching so we can monetize the stream.
So, let's get to it. What do you say? Alright. Look, we got, Blake Fisher is waiting for us right now in the, in our waiting room, and, we are gonna switch over to him momentarily. But before we do that, let me just do a couple of quick little plugs here. Alright? Folks, make sure that you visit the alexjonesstore.com/joe. We have an amazing an amazing supply of vitamins, supplements, and patriotic apparel that you can get. For example, we have our ultimate sea moss capsules. Alright? These things are great. Alright. I've been taking these now for over three months, and man, I'm telling you, these things work. They are they are fantastic products. You can get these on the alexjonesstore.com/joe. We also have the gummies. The gummies are back, and look at these things. They they look like candy.
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[00:30:39] Unknown:
greatly appreciate it. Wayne, do you wanna say something? Yeah. I I I think I know you, Joe, for twenty years, and like I say, experience is one thing. But being well rounded, you have law enforcement background. And then I I get a little dramatic and things. He came from out of the ashes of 09/11, and all of those men and women and everybody, we just looked up to and I still do. I look up to this man very much and in his life and his life's work and he's a godly man, which I I both of us, we stand for the Lord Jesus Christ. But, you know, people say religion and politics don't mix. No. Not to see an opposite. When you go through the Bible, there's a lot of politicians that were in there. Like, Daniel was a governor. Esther was a queen. She went to the parliament.
You know, different men like Paul himself. He went to the the people who were persecuting him and they said that he is falsified, persecuted. He went to the administrator mass magistrate because words were titles were different back then. So we there's a lot of politicians in the Bible and we stand up for things. John the Baptist. Mhmm. He went to the highest guy in the land at the time. Herod said, look, you're breaking some laws here. So we you can you can mix politics, religion, but let's do common sense. And that's what I think me and Joe were talking about earlier of yeah. Politicians not perfect. But the best part is we didn't vote for a politician. Right. And that's what I really do see. And we and I'm from this one part of the country here that We got Blake waiting. Okay. I will talk to this later. But there's there's someone waiting. And, Joe, I'm behind you a %. Alright. Thanks, bro. Appreciate it. I'm gonna I'm gonna Capisce. Capisce. I'm gonna I'm gonna mute you for just a moment.
[00:32:18] Unknown:
Okay. Alright. Hey, Blake. How you doing? I'm good. How are you? Oh, fantastic. Fantastic. Folks, I just wanna introduce Blake Fisher. He is, he's the host and creator of the homeless conservative podcast, and it is a great would you mind, brother? Thank you. He is the host and creator of the, the homeless conservative podcast. You can find him on YouTube, and I'm I'm sure you're on all of the podcast platforms. Right?
[00:32:48] Unknown:
It's true. All of them. Yes. Alright. Great.
[00:32:52] Unknown:
Blake, first of all, I I do wanna apologize. I know we were scheduled to do this, last week, but we ran it. I I I'm having a problem with PodMatch right now, and and it's like I'm not getting notifications, of of things, and I finally got that fixed. And so I appreciate you adjusting your schedule to come on here with us right now tonight, and, it's great to have you here. I I think the first thing I need to ask you is, how did you come up with the homeless conservative? Can you tell me about that?
[00:33:21] Unknown:
Well, so I wanted I mean, I've always been kind of a political junkie of sorts. I've I've always enjoyed having these kind of conversations with, you know, friends and family and stuff like that. I'm sort of the I sort of became the go to person that a lot of friends came to that were going, okay. I'm hearing two different things. Obviously, they both can't be true or just, what do you think about this or, you know, whatever the hot button issue was at the time. And I, so I always wanted to do a political podcast, but I just couldn't figure out how to do it. I was overthinking it, honestly. And by the time I got around to, you know, actually doing it, I had felt like, you know, it's not that I think, Donald Trump is there's no there's no overlap. But there were a lot of directions that Donald Trump took the Republican party that I did not feel were the things that I'd spent decades, you know, saying, oh, this is a this is how this works well. This is how this doesn't work well. Because I'm I'm a very practical person when it comes to, you know, I think policies have trade offs. I think that, you know, good intentions don't matter. I think that there's all sorts of things in you know, like, there's no perfect policy. It's all, you know, minutia of nuance and stuff. And, you know, but there are some things that I just think are pretty black and white. Like, I think I I as a conservative as I've always thought that, you know, federal government should be smaller than it is.
And it felt like, you know, Donald Trump sort of took the Republican Party in a way that was like, well, we don't really have a problem with big government as long as Democrats aren't in charge of it. So there's some, like, big picture things that I just felt like were getting thrown aside for the sake of Donald Trump has said, this is what we now believe, and so we're changing our mind on tariffs. We're changing our mind on Americans' foreign policy. We're changing our mind on sort of these things that I thought were, like I thought we kinda were all on the same page about for the most part. I didn't I didn't have a lot of arguments with my friends about whether free trade was good or not or if, you know, true free market capitalism was a good thing, picking winners and losers. So I felt like a lot of these sort of the basis of my conservative beliefs were no longer represented represented by anyone. And so I thought the homeless conservative had a nice kind of ring to it. Sometimes there has been some confusion where people feel like I'm actually homeless. I'm not. I live in a house. I this is my house behind me that I'm in currently. I will tell you. I'm a few messages where people thought I was actually homeless. I was like, oh, I'm not actually homeless. It's more of a metaphor than than anything. Oh, my producer thought you might have been homeless.
Yeah. I'm not. I've never been I mean, I was I did spend my twenties driving around the country touring in a band. And so I was sort of homeless in the sense that I lived in a van and on people's floors, anytime we were traveling. We did not have we were not doing well enough that we had hotels, most of the time. So that's the closest I've been to homeless, though. Oh, I gotcha. I I I can understand that.
[00:36:02] Unknown:
I don't know if you could see the the flags I have behind me here. I can. Yes. Yes. So I I am a I am a, I I guess in a way maybe a homeless conservative myself. I know we were talking, via the chat on on the pod match that, you know, conservatarian.
[00:36:18] Unknown:
Yes. I like that word quite a bit because I feel a little similar to that too. I definitely have more libertarian tendencies. Although, there's some stuff where I think the libertarian party has also kinda gone off. I feel like all three parties. Really, when you talk about Democrats, Republicans, and libertarians, if we're saying those are the the parties, which I think those are kind of the bigger ones. Mhmm. I don't feel like it I don't feel like any of them have improved over the last decade. No. No. They haven't. None of them have gotten closer to where I am. They've all gotten much further away, including some of the libertarian stuff is just kind of crazy
[00:36:50] Unknown:
land now of Yeah. No. I I agree with that. I totally agree with that. With all the kind of weird
[00:36:55] Unknown:
pseudo science stuff that a lot of them. So, yeah, it's been kind of a weird time for politics because I feel like I've not changed that much. I mean, obviously, evolving, I would like to think, and changing my mind on things I need to change my mind on. But it would be like, you're a rhino. I'm like, well, I just believe the same thing I did ten years ago. I don't feel like that's
[00:37:16] Unknown:
cause for I don't know. There's been some weird stuff going on for sure. Oh, without a doubt. Without a doubt. Now I I became
[00:37:22] Unknown:
I I came to the realization that I was a conservatarian, probably toward the end of, Trump's first term. You know, and I realized that, you know, the the I'm gonna I'm gonna get poetical for a moment. The elder IWAC. I'll meet. The elder IWACs. The, there there are certain ports portions of libertarianism that I I tend to align with more than than others. I I don't really get into the fringe stuff of libertarianism, but I do believe that government should be as have, at least the federal government should have as little impact on my everyday life as, as they do.
And Yeah. I believe that, the the power really rests in The States with the people. That's, that's that's my producer Wayne coming in. Someone who thought you were homeless. Thanks, brother. I appreciate that. Sorry. I needed some coffee. So Oh, by all means. Yeah. It's been a long day. Wayne Wayne has flown in from Washington State. I'm down here on the border in Eagle Pass. Okay. So he's been traveling since what time today?
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4AM.
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Since about 4AM. So I don't know how he's still functioning, so I put a He needs coffee too, probably. Well well, that's why I made the Italian espresso. You know, we we we made sure that we got full cups, not the little espresso cups we're using. Yeah. We're using we're using the big boys today. Yeah. We're going on the big mugs. Yeah. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We're gonna try to keep him awake for a little while.
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And He gets delirious.
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Well, I think he's close to it. I I I don't know. Yeah. I would imagine you're getting close at this point. Well, Well, yes. Truly. We call this the asylum studios. So, so he fits right in. So he he he's he's part of it definitely. But, but Blake, I just wanted to ask you. So what do you think is really wrong with the climate with the political climate here in America today?
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Oh, boy. There are so many things. I think that most of it boils down to bad citizens. I mean, that's I like, people don't like that answer because they're, oh, how dare you blame voters? And I just go, yeah. But we're the ones that keep we're like, there's a few things that we keep doing over and over again, and we keep expecting different results. We keep nominating. We we think the primary system's good. It's not. It's just frankly, it isn't. We're we're letting a tiny percentage of the country choose the two people that we get to pick from for president. Right. That and and by the way, we're doing that at every level. We're doing that congressionally. We're doing that at state levels. We're doing across the board, we are letting a small percentage of because, like, the people that show up for primaries I mean, especially if they go to a runoff in August, it's the numbers are just tiny that show up in Republican or Democratic primaries.
And then you're because, like, the last year that we had an open primary is 2016. I think the numbers are it was 27% of voters in the country selected Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And by the way, that's everyone that participated in the primaries. That's not like, when you actually get down to Donald Trump only had, like, 40% of that vote of half of that. So, I mean, he had 40% of 14,000 people, which I can't do the math on immediately, but it's less than 7,000 people. Right. Like, it's or or or sorry. Million because it's 27,000,000. So 27%. But whatever the point is, Less than 7% of the country selected Donald Trump, and less than 7% of the country selected Hillary Clinton. That doesn't feel very democratic to me. Like, people are like, well, if you get rid of how do you get rid of primaries? They're they're Democratic. And I'm like, well, not really when you look at the numbers. You're letting a very small percentage. And furthermore, it just keeps getting fringier and fringier because as the parties get more you know, as Trump sort of has changed the Republican party and Democrats are trying to figure out, I guess, what the heck they're doing. Well, he's definitely keeping them off balance. Yeah. It's it's difficult because it's hard to know what you know, today's Tuesday, but tomorrow he might have a different opinion on something. Therefore, you have to have a different opinion on something. It makes it very hard to do anything other than be just fiercely loyal to whatever he says no matter how dumb it makes you look. And there's, unfortunately, a huge chunk of the Republican base that will vote for those people over anyone that says, I wanna get stuff done. You know, I've seen in Oklahoma where I'm at examples of this is at the state legislature, but I've seen situations where the most liberal and the most crazy conservative person in the legislature will basically have a handshake agreement to sync a bill together.
It's like it's bipartisanship, but it's because they both want the issue for fundraising purposes and to be on the new like, they wanna be pundits. They don't really you know, that's crazy to me that, like, they they're gonna get together and go, we could both sync this thing together because we just want the press, essentially. That's actually kind of like what goes on here in Texas.
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Just recently we we had our our eighty ninth legislative session, kicked off. Mhmm. The the Republican party has control of the Texas house, but yet it's the it's the Democrats that are actually running the show because the current speaker of the Texas house, Burrows Mhmm. Didn't have enough Republican votes to get the speakership and had to rely on the Democrats to vote in his behalf to get him the the speakership. Right. And because of that, they passed more, more pro Democrat party legislative, agenda items than they have Republic or or or conservative.
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You know? It so it it it's pervasive. It's it's just the the swamp. And it's really weird in states like Oklahoma and Texas because they're so dominated by one party or the other. And the truth is almost every state is turning into that. So we have very few states that aren't swinging wildly to one side or the other, which I think makes for bad governance. I think you need two healthy parties in a in any form of government to actually, like, keep the other one in line. What happens in Texas and Oklahoma specifically is you have so many Republicans, it turns into this circus because they have total control essentially, except not really because those little factions within the party sort of start going weak and that we want some control. And so, you know, you need to have I think it's good to have a situation where I mean, I think the founders were smart to set up a system of government that said it's hard to do stuff. Like, you can't just you can't just say 50% plus one can dominate everyone else. Like, the the majority can just step all over the minority because we've said that, you know, a filibuster in the senate. You gotta have 60 votes to do this kind of stuff. It forces you unless you just have gigantic levels of you know, if you have that big of a you know, FDR had that level of, people in the house and senate. But for the most part, that's not been the case since. You have to work a little bit with the other party to be able to get stuff passed. Agreed. I think that's a good thing. That doesn't bother me. Like, when people get upset about congress not doing anything, I'm like, yeah. It bothers me when there's something to be done and they don't do it, but it doesn't bother me that it's hard for congress to agree on stuff. I'm I'm fine with them having to come to a thing that they can pass through that body. Like, that's fine with me. So, I mean, I think that's it really voters are the biggest problem because we're not holding those people accountable when they don't do the job right. And we're generally putting bad people up for those jobs in the first place and then just sticking with them because they're on our team in air quotes because
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I don't believe in team sport politics. I think it's a really bad way to do it. No. Yeah. It's it's not it's not what benefits the party. It has to be benefits the people. And and and we're not getting that right now. We're getting what benefits the politician himself before it benefits the party or the people. Wayne, you're nodding your head. Do you wanna have something said?
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Yeah. It's like, what was it? I used to say it was like big time wrestling. I was a fan as a kid of wrestling. The the guys the the the The Sheik comes out how he's gonna beat the bruiser. Right? And the bruiser comes out how he's gonna beat The Sheik, and they go back behind the curtain and have a beer together.
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Yes.
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Is that close?
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No. I mean, I've I've I've seen that happen. I mean, I've you know, like, you can literally watch it. What's interesting that I've noticed is that I think there's a lot of that that goes on in political media, first of all. I think that most of the time when you see two people fighting on TV, they're chumming it up in the break room. Of course. You know? And so and and and to be fair, I do a little of this too. I mean, I do a a show on someone I'm like a guest on someone on show on a regular basis on Fridays. And we get into pretty heated discussions, but it's not like we hate it. I mean, we're never, like, hateful toward each other. But, I mean, we get in heated debates, but I do that with everyone. But I can see why some people perceive that as we're always really good about being chummy on the air too. Like, even if we're gonna get a big fight, because I don't want the perception to be, oh, these guys hate each other because they're on opposite sides of things. Like, no. No. No. No. No. We can we can really disagree about stuff and kinda get heated about it. But we're not gonna call each other names. We're not gonna we're gonna leave this thing upset at each other. I might think that he's an idiot for believing what he believes because I just he's not looking at the facts. You know, that's fine. But Of Glenn, you said that. Yeah. But we're not gonna we're not gonna I think the problem is that's also happening in politics, and people think that that's not what's really going on. Like, people were shocked when, the specific thing was we had a really conservative, senator Tom Coburn Mhmm. While back. Yep. He's kind of like a budget hawk. He's really conservative.
But they he got to the senate at the same time Barack Obama with it, and they were, like, really, really good friends. They were not, you know Yeah. And people were always so weirded out by that. And it's like, not that's not that strange, guys. That you can have different opinions than people and be friendly with them. No. That's that's but that's healthy. Now you see, like, like several years ago, I did a I did, before it was called podcasting, I did a radio I did an Internet radio show with, two other guys,
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when I when I lived up. I'm originally from New York, and, so before I moved here to Texas and enjoyed freedom, I did this radio show with these two guys. One of them was a hard leftist liberal, like ultra liberal. I mean, I think he makes AOC look tame compared to, you know, anything else. And then we had the other guy was like the libertarian of the group, so we had the conservative, liberal, and the libertarian, and all we would do throughout the show is argue. And we would and we would call each other names, we would curse each other out, because the Internet already can say what you wanna say, right? So
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we would do all those things and then afterwards it was like we went to get pizza, we hung out, you know. I know so I know what you're talking about. It's like, you know, it's not you know? It's not that it's it's not that it's fake at all. It's just that I think sometimes we forget as viewers that this is not, it's, you know, it's not that they don't ever say nice things to each other. And I think that the problem is that that's we've started so now people started isolating to the groups of people that they agree with. Yeah. So whether that's, you know, they're only gonna listen to podcasts they agree with. They're only gonna read news sources that aren't gonna tell them the things that they don't wanna hear.
So the interesting thing about fake news that constantly gets talked about is that by ignoring part of the news, you're technically reading fake news too. Even if what you're reading is true. But if you're only seeing what like, if you read if you go to a news site and they never say anything negative about about Donald Trump, you are in a filter bubble. And vice versa, if you go to a news site and they only say negative things about Donald Trump, you are in a bubble. Right. And it doesn't matter what else on that side is true, although I would argue that most of the time it's not going to be because if they know they have to lie to their audience like that, they're gonna they're they're not just gonna not tell some of the truths that are unhelpful.
They are going to lie. And I just decide I was like, I don't wanna do that. There's not enough of that out there that says, hey. I'm gonna call balls and strikes, and I'm gonna obviously, I'm conservative. I'm putting it right there in the title. My bias is right there. Mhmm. But I just think I think you're right. These people work for us, not the other way around, and they should have our interest first. And if they don't, I'm going to call it out. I do not care what the letter is after your name. Obviously, I'm gonna hedge like, I'm gonna agree with Republicans more than I agree with Democrats for the most part. That's we probably have more overlap than we don't. But I'm gonna really call out the parts that I don't, especially when they are very dangerous. Like, I think a lot of this stuff is we can have friendly discussions about how do we pay for x, y, and z, or what how what should the FDA be you know, like, those are like, yeah. Let's have wonky policy conversations. I love that stuff. But there's some things that I just go no. Like like, I like, tariffs are for the like, the way Donald Trump talks about tariffs will be bad for the economy. Like like, just every economist would agree. Like, these are not negotiable things. He can't control the economy any more than Joe Biden could because no president can control that complicated of a thing.
Although, it's all their own fault for pretending that they can and campaigning on that they can. I think that's another thing that we've we've been lied to, not in the way that we normally think about politicians lying to us, but in the way that they just say things that they plainly cannot do, but they promise they will do them. But they don't have the power to do those things. And that's a really tricky thing too, because I have a lot of friends that I talk to. This happens more on the Democratic side, but some on the Republican side where, you know, Congress isn't doing anything, and they're, like, all in for the executive order stuff. They're like, well, if Congress won't do anything, someone has to. And I'm like, that is not how the constitution is set up. It's just not. It it doesn't say
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article one is if congress doesn't do it doesn't pass a law, the president can just sign an executive order to take care of that law. Now that we just we didn't set it up that way. And so Exactly. And and the thing with with, executive orders too is that, you know, the next guy comes in, he can undo everything that you just did. Right. We saw we saw that happen when when Yeah. We saw that would happen that exactly what happened when Joe Biden came in after Donald Trump's first term, and we saw that when Donald Trump came back after, Joe Biden's term. You know, everything's getting reversed, and it it leaves it leaves the country unbalanced, and in a lot of ways, insecure
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because Insecure, I think, is the absolute right word for what it is. Because it's it's because in in just a couple of years look, everybody talks about, well, you know, you have Donald Trump for four years.
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Don't get me wrong. I I I support Donald Trump, and I support what he's doing. I believe in a smaller government. I wanna see him reduce the size of government. You know, I I I do, and I'm gonna ask you about your opinions on Doge as well, but Yeah. I agree I I I love what I'm seeing so far. I'd like to know where my money's going. Wayne and I were talking earlier about, how, they uncovered that, someone who was 350 years old was receiving social security payments. Oh, seriously? I've not seen that yet. It came out today. You know, so you're talking you're going all the way back to the American Revolution here. Yeah. That would be way too. How's that even possible? Prior to the American Revolution. Right? Yeah. So so how is that even possible? But yet, you know, you you you have you have that breakdown. It's it's absolutely insane. But the whole thing with the executive orders is, again, all this stuff gets turned around every every four years. But we don't really have four years because we have two years.
We have the midterms come we have the midterms coming up. Right. Yeah. And who you don't know what's gonna happen in the midterms. I mean, you know, statistically speaking, it flips.
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Yeah. Almost every single I mean, it only hasn't happened
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twice or something. I mean, it's it's very rarely that it the president does not lose his majority in one of the house. In one or the other. Exactly. So you really only have two years to get this agenda done. So I can understand the the rapid pace of the work being done to try to get these things done before the midterm. I can understand that, but reality is this isn't permanent. These aren't permanent things that are gonna take if they're by executive order.
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Yeah. They're gonna get they can't get you around. I always wonder what the motivation is there because I would think that they're aware of that. I mean, maybe not. But I would think that they're aware of how they they saw the the whole, what's the schoolhouse rock, you know, how how we're built. I think they probably saw that, although that's not necessarily how it works now. Have you seen the updated one? Yes.
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You know, handing them the the wad of cash. Yep.
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So I'm always wondering, do they understand how it works? And if they do understand how it works, is it is it purposeful because they just want the appearance of doing something, which I think is sometimes the situation. It's like, that's why Joe Biden kept doing this new loan forgiveness stuff. It was he knew congress wasn't gonna do it. He had to appease this constituency in his base. And and so he was like, I've gotta appear to be doing something. I think there's that aspect. I also think some people I I this is where I think more of Trump's motivation is. I don't think Trump has any any motivation to work with Congress because he knows it's hard. Mhmm. I think that that, like, it actually takes work. It takes compromise even within your own party.
Not not to mention, you have to get Democrats on board right now when you have 53 seats in the senate for anything that's budget related and all those kind of things. So that's hard work. That super majority that that could just push Yeah. They don't have a super majority. They've got one seat in the house. So one Republican can throw the wrench in the gears if they want to. Right. You only need to get one Democrat to, you know, offset that if you want to. Mhmm. That until and then which is why they're delaying Elise Stefanik's
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confirmation. Well, not only that, but also Kash Patel, and they're still holding him up too. They haven't been Yeah. And so sedate.
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So it's interesting to me. But I do wonder how often now presidents are using it as an excuse to say, well, you've gotta reelect me in four years. I mean, I know Trump can't say that, but let's say JD Vance can say that or whatever Republicans say. Right. Boy, if you don't let me they it gets lets them ratchet up the danger level of and the scare tactics and the fear mongering to say, if you let the other party in, they're just gonna undo everything we did. So it's a perpetual which is so foolish because we're in a time where they just we just keep ping ponging back and forth every four years. Like, no one's even getting two terms at this point in a row. Yeah. So I the to think that you're just gonna in per in perpetuity have the White House, and be able to and and that congress is never going to supersede that, by the way, which I think right now they're they're right. I think congress has
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absolutely no balls. Yeah. Yeah. It will will never stand up to their own president. I don't I don't think Mike Johnson has what it takes to, to to to lead the Congress at this point. I I think you need somebody better, somebody stronger, somebody who's not as wishy washy.
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Yeah. But I don't know that there's anyone in Congress that can do it. That's the thing. No. There isn't. Yeah. I think the I think you So you should run for Congress. Yeah. Well, the problem is, like, why would I want that job? You know? Like, because basically, you don't the only job you have is fundraising in congress unless you're in leadership. Mhmm. Like, you are just a fundraiser for the party I agree. In perpetuity. You don't ever get a right we don't do bills. We don't create law via, the committees anymore. It's all top down leadership stuff. Yeah. Until you get a leader in the house that says, this is not how this is gonna function anymore. I don't want the responsibility of writing all the legislation. I want that to bubble up like it used to from committees. It's a natural way to get some buy in from people because, you know, it has to pass that committee, which generally only has a one seat majority. You know, it's, like, it's it's eight Republicans and seven Democrats. And so you've gotta have your entire coalition to even get it out of committee.
And even then, you wanna have, you know so we gotta get back to that. But until a leader of the house says that and until a president says, hey. Some of these things are not my job. Article one says that's your job, Congress, and I'm giving that back, because Congress isn't taking it back. They have no interest in protecting their constitutionally protected powers. They keep giving them away to the executive branch. And until parties will stand up to their own president and say, that's not your job. You can't actually do that. I I wish we impeached presidents, like, all the time. Like, I I think that every president should get impeached, like At least once. Like, 10 times while they're in office, the way they're behaving lately. I think that Democrats should have impeached Joe I think Democrats should have impeached Joe Biden at the last minute after his pardons for his family. I agree. I think they've they've drawn a line in the sand and said, that is way beyond what we say is normal, especially when you're about to hand over the reins to Donald Trump who will absolutely use it as an excuse to do the same thing for any people around him that he wants to give Right. Preemptive pardons to. It's the precedent that's set, and then that's the thing. Because now this will go on in perpetuity.
Exactly. And it's perfectly within his legal right to do so. That doesn't mean it's not impeachable though. People think that impeachment is is a crime. It's not. It's whatever congress says it is. Right. But the pardons for Hunter, I mean, I don't agree with them. But, you know, the pardons for Hunter are okay because those are those
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he was already convicted. He had been convicted. But the but the other
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that they haven't been no charges have even been brought yet. Right. I have gigantic problems with those. Oh, absolutely. Because that lets that lets everyone from now on like, and Donald Trump is already signaling this right now. He's already signaling that, basically, if you do crimes
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for me, you will I will let you get away you will get away with them. Like,
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it is for all the claims that the Biden Department of Justice was corrupt, which I think some are absolutely plausible and provable in some situations. But for all of that talk, Donald Trump's DOJ has already been more corrupt three weeks into it than there or at least smoking gun kinda style things. I mean, like, the the dropping of the charges against Eric Adams to me is so blatantly corrupt, quid pro quo. You know, that, like, I go, Joe Biden didn't do anything that obviously blatantly. And and I know that's different than that's slightly different twist. It's not prosecuting your enemy. It's not prosecuting your friend. But it's just as bad. Do you think that perhaps
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Eric Adams had some kind of cooperation
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with the federal government to get that benefit of those charges being dropped? Or No. Or perhaps It's not according to what we've seen so far, especially because his staff is now starting to resign
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Interesting. After it. I think that it's That's a good point, actually. I I didn't consider that. That's a very good point. Yeah. I I think that what happened
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pretty obviously we know that Eric Adams and Donald Trump met. We also know that Eric Adams was, like, getting very soft on Trump starting right after his charges came in. Yeah. You know, it's pretty obvious, like, he gets charged with what what I think is pretty obviously, like, he did it. You know, I don't think this like, first of all, the federal the feds do not especially SDNY, they do not bring a case unless they are absolutely sure they're gonna get a conviction for it. They just don't do it. The federal government has something like a 98%. I think something like 97% of federal trials go don't even go to trial. They just, they get they plead they plea out, and then they win 98% of those ones that do go to trial. They they literally Yeah. They have a very they have a very high, conviction rate. Yeah. High conviction rate. Now I think that some of that is an interesting constitutional discussion of, like, should any prosecutable, prosecution have a 97% guilty plea?
I I think that it probably goes we're not really we're not really utilizing our right to fair trials, I don't think, if you always plea out before you get to the trial. I think there's a lot conversation that you and I should have at another time. An interesting conversation. Yeah. For sure. Definitely do that. Yeah. But I think Eric Adams specifically realized that there's a good chance Donald Trump's gonna be the president. I don't have a way out of this bind unless I start pissing his ass. There you go. We started he started doing it. And Trump loves nothing more than someone that used to hate him and comes around. I mean, he he would rather have someone do that than someone be fiercely loyal to him for forever. Just look at how he treats all the people that used to talk shit on him. Tulsi Gabbard in the cabinet. RFK Junior in the cabinet. Eric Adams, getting basically not a pardon, but I mean, he would get a pardon if he needed one. But, you know I'm just surprised though that he hasn't made more of a,
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a fuss or a big deal over Eric Adams, and his turnaround. I I particularly enjoyed the interview he did on the five with,
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with Oh, I have not I have not seen that one. It was very interesting. Yeah. Yeah. To me, it's pretty obvious that what happened is that he met with Trump, and and I'm sure Trump just said, like, we're gonna get those you know, it's just it's political. And, honestly, the other thing is they they dismiss the charges with prejudice instead of without prejudice. Meaning, the DOJ can just pick up the case at any time again if they want to. Right. Yeah. It's so clearly a leash on Eric Adams that says, if you don't help me with my deportation plans and my enforcement of immigration law in New York, that case will be coming right back to haunt you. Interesting. Yeah. Now here's the good point. I mean That's a very good point. Yeah. Because if you really believed it was a political prosecution and you really believed that he would because this happens. I mean, we we see we've seen it with, other DOJ stuff where they're instructed to drop charges. And, normally, it's if you really believe someone was innocent or unfairly gone after for some reason, you do it without prejudice, which means the DOJ cannot pick up that case again after you're gone, essentially.
He He did not do that with the Eric Adams stuff. To me, that says you you don't really believe it was a political prosecution or you would just say also, there's all sorts of weird stuff where it was obviously Trump just told someone, hey. You're dropping those charges, and then the DOJ was trying to figure out out how to drop the charges in a legal way because they're gonna have to go before a judge and say, we wanna dismiss this case. And the judge is gonna go, why? And they're gonna have to go, and they're gonna have to give him a reason. And they the reason can't be implied, or I'm sure they don't want it to be implied, what Donald Trump's department of justice is saying, that it was a political prosecution. Because now you're going to a judge and saying, I unfairly politically prosecuted this person because I didn't like their politics. Like, that's not good for your job. Right? So to me, they've been trying to, like, work backwards on how to make this work. Yeah. And they couldn't you know? Okay. It's it's ready, fire, aim, which is generally the style of Donald Trump, which gets him in trouble sometimes. Because I think if he would have talked to Pam Bondi, she would have gone, hey. Just so you know, Eric Adams is probably not getting reelected in the fall. He's at a 26% approval rating.
Secondly, if you pardon him, the or pardon him or just drop the charges, the governor of New York can just kick him out of office. She has the absolute like, she can do that by herself. It doesn't take state legislator, it doesn't take, like, some sort of recall election. She can just fire him, essentially, if she thinks that there's corruption here. Yeah. So she might be gone next week if she did that. And so you don't get any quid for your pro quo or however that works backwards. Someone should have told him that. Someone smart would have been like, hey, this is gonna be a huge fuss, and people are gonna resign. It's gonna be a big news story, and you might get not get anything out of it. And maybe he could have talked about it. But I think he just says go, and then they have to try to figure out how to make it work. And he's kind of his own worst enemy sometimes because I think that sane people would have been like, hey. This is a bad move because x, y, and z, and it will not end up helping you like you think it will. And I think that's where we'll end up. I mean, I think that Eric Adams will either get forced out by, the governor of New York, or he won't win reelection. And then what? I mean, I'm sure he's just looking for a spot in the Trump administration because he loves dire Democrats now. Yeah. Well, I don't think he's gonna be I don't think he's gonna win reelection. I don't No. There's there's no way of it happening.
I think crazy would have to happen, which obviously crazy things happen in politics. But polling at 26% approval, generally not a good and and having a foreign bribery. This isn't, like, like, I mean, if you're getting brought local bribery is one thing. I mean, I'm not saying it's good. I'm just saying I think people understand politics sometimes and realize there's some of that that goes on sometimes. Exactly. Accepting it from a foreign government, people really don't like. Exactly.
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Alright, Blake, we are over our time, for tonight. So we're gonna have to wrap up the show. But listen, I would love to have you come on the show again sometime, so, let's, let's be in touch. I'll I'll message you through the PodMatch platform, and I'll get you my, my cell number, email address, all that stuff. And, let's be in touch. Let's I'd love to have you come back on the show if you'd like to. That would be fantastic. Alright, folks. Why don't you just let us know, how we could find you, where your podcast is located, give us all of your social information, address, phone number, you know, all that stuff so we can get you there. Geolocation.
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Basically, you can find so we can dox you, you know. You can find everything at the homelessconservative.com, that's linked to YouTube, Instagram, Apple, Spotify, all the places that it's at. That's probably the easiest way to get there. And, for the most part, the podcast is just on all those different things. It's the same stuff. YouTube has a a little some extra stuff, that the other ones don't. You need to come on Rumble.
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You know, I've looked I need to look into it more. You should. And I I probably should do it. It's probably not any harder than what I'm doing right now. I just haven't, gotten there yet. Alright. Alright, folks. Blake Fisher, thank you so much for being with us, on the podcast. And again, I look forward to talking to you again, bro. I really appreciate your time. And, I I think we have a lot to talk about. Alright. Alright. Y'all take it easy. You too. Take care now. Alright. So Blake Fisher, everybody. That was, that was a that was a blessing of a conversation. Wayne, what do you think? Well, talk about Eric Adams. He's a man walking on a time probe without any balancing,
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beam or anything. As of just a couple hours ago, they are, people of the government are asking the governor to the governor to fire him. So this is up two hours ago. Okay. So he's on a he's whatever cliches you wanna use, tightrope, walking the plank. He's on the way out. He's on the way out. For the most part. It it won't even take a vote of the people in November or whenever they have to vote here. Roger. But, getting back, and I I I always try to get a point and maybe save it. Like I say, I do that thing, like, those movies five years earlier, so I go, like, twelve minutes earlier. Dissenting views, and we don't have those. We have name calling.
And I I grew up in a a time period. Yeah. It's like I grew up in a time period where fascist. I don't agree with you, man. I got it. Here you're old fashioned. I'm more progressive. Okay. Yeah. Exactly. But there's no dissenting views, and that meant you know, I I love Wayne. I love messing with him. You know, I I think of this in the name calling, it it takes it down to a very, very low level. And that's part of the thing right now that, if you don't agree with somebody, just, you know, cuss them out, call them up that you they're really not. And so it's it's so hard actually nowadays to say, call a person, I'm gonna call you a racist. Now prove me wrong. And it's that's the part of putting the the burden on the person. Or the when did you stop beating your wife? Yeah. Exactly. And so but listening to Blake, he's got some great views. And like like I said, going back to the I use always use the pro wrestler thing. And, you know, the guy's coming out here, he's gonna beat him. He's gonna and they go back and be behind and have a a beer. And I'm I was telling you earlier, I knew a friend.
He started from nothing, very affluent. He became in in Michigan, and he was invited to it doesn't matter, the whatever party thousand dollar plate thing. I always thought it was a kid. A thousand dollar plate for food. Wow. That's a lot of money. Well, he was in there, and he's a working guy. Mhmm. He came up with my high school and everything, and he's telling me the inside stuff. Right. He goes, I was there, and these guys start taking the drinks. And this is Drinking the Kool Aid. Wayne keeps a trapper shot after a couple of brewskies. But, you know, one guy was telling him, you know, you come on with my board. He goes, oh, that guy over there on the other side, Republican, blowhard over there, me and him, we're in the same business together. Right. That's not that's not serving the people. No. It's not. And so that's why you get the Pelosi's of hundreds of millions and and everybody. But here's someone and, Joe, please help me with the the names.
And this is the okay. The rational part. The young lady who was murdered at the college, it's Trump signed the, gosh darn. I'm I'm I'm a little jet lagged on this. And the young lady from the college girl who was killed by an illegal alien. And I'm thinking to myself, this bill was clear cut. It was spelled all out, and yet a few guys voted against it. And I'm trying to think her name and I'm sorry probably people are gonna go It's not Nungari, is it? No. What was her she was a jogger and she was and and she was she was brutally killed by a guy that was a a criminal in Mexico or whatever country he's from. And I'm thinking who she was, and the the the the commentary was going, who would vote against this?
And it was like, you know, if senators, like, 98 to two, I'm thinking, what two people would vote against this this bill that would prosecute illegal aliens that murder people? You know? And I'm going some things are just not rational, and and this is why we as us guys who vote for people going, why would I you know, you get this every four years. I've always said, the guy comes in every four years. Yes. We're gonna bring jobs. We're gonna do this. Well, you didn't do that four years ago. You know, you're promising the same thing four years ago. And I think people I don't know if they get hypnotized or or brainwashed. You know, like, I think, how is Chuck Schumer still in there? How and I'm gonna say Lincoln Riley. Yeah. Lincoln Riley. Yeah. The Lincoln Riley Act.
That was clear cut, man. I I even looked into it and read it and go, this is something both sides can get behind, Joe. Yeah. It could be because you know what? If you I don't have a daughter, but if I did have a daughter, it would be something I would think of. Oh, yeah. And and and both sides, I don't have any respect for Mitch McConnell more than I have Elizabeth Warren. And so I've always told people, it is not the party line. It's the American line. And I I know I'm I'm I'm signing all, you know, fudgy, dudgy and everything, but for real, I think guys in our bracket, the baby boomers, which I'm under and the ones just under it, we're tired. We're actually tired, you know, of doing overtime and going, what did I pay out of my overtime check? And what did I pay in my taxes and my property taxes? My property taxes went up $700 last year, and this is a I have two pieces of property, and one's just a vacant piece of land. And the state of Washington, which loves during the tax they don't love, they go, well, you know, the taxes went up. I go $700 on a bunch of trees.
Right. And so we're just at a point a lot of us are in. We're the generation where guys are getting fired or laid off at twenty nine years, Joe, in ten months. Yeah. That's what Trump and I'm not gonna pass pound a Trump, drum all night, but it's anybody who'd be sitting at the old office and take a look at this and go, why was this guy let go at twenty nine years and ten months? Mhmm. He's not gonna get that pension. And it's not just the companies, it's the companies and the politicians. Yeah. And they're so in the bed together or in cahoots, whatever cliche you wanna use, that we the big word anymore now is fatigue.
There are, you know, the MCU fatigue or this fatigue. And I think we are fatigued. And we're fatigued out of, like, man, do we have anything left to give to our kids or grandkids? Yeah. Because my grandson, I look at it and go, is he ever gonna be able to own a home?
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Yeah. Well, I, you know, I I think the same thing too. I mean, I have I have my grandkids, you know, that I I worry about the direction the country's going, and I worry about, you know, the the the high cost of living that's out there right now. But, you know brother I really do think that, how do I put this without should I really care if I offend anybody? I don't think I should. You know I just look at it like you know, we can't put our faith and our trust in in in a president. Right. You know, we have to we have to just look to the Lord. We have to think about, you know, he's you know, the Lord's coming again. Whether, you know, whether you like it or not Mhmm. He's coming again. But as far as as the human level goes, we need to make sure that we are the ones that are acting on behalf of the future generation. We have to step up the game. We have to hold the government accountability. We have to keep people focused on on these concerns in order to bring all of this nonsense that we're seeing right now under control.
We need to abolish things that are unnecessary, like the IRS. We need to get rid of the income tax. We need to cut the spending down to the bare minimums. We need to reduce the size of government. The only way we're gonna be able to assure a better future for our kids and for our families, and our grandkids is to take those steps now. We can't leave it to them to do it because by the time it gets to them, they're not gonna be able to do it. They're gonna have to rely on others, the next generation to do it. It's gonna be a perpetual circle back and forth, constant turning. It's never gonna get resolved. Now is the time to do it. And before we go any further with that, that's why I wanna tell you about the Texas Nationalist Movement in Texas. You see here in Texas, we are trying to do that.
Okay? There's an organization that folks if you're listening and you don't you don't know this, there's and you should know this if you've been following the show for any in a lengthy period of time. I'm a member of the Texas nationalist movement. I'm the deputy county coordinator for Maverick County here in Texas, And, Texit, the the is the process of Texas achieving independence from the American Union. Alright? And and and before you start emailing me about sedition and treason and and you're a traitor, and all that stuff. It is perfectly normal for for for people for a people to change the direction that they're going.
It is within our right. First of all, it's in the Declaration of Independence. It's it was in the constitution, or, the the tenth amendment. And for Texas, it's in the Texas constitution that all political power resides within the people. Not the state house, not Washington, the people. So if the people wanna make a change, it has to they have to do it. They have to rise. They have to stand up, and they have to take the position where, through the legislative process, get folks into into office that are in agreement with the pro with with, with things like, Texas.
Now, I I know I'm I'm going off the cuff here, so I don't have I don't have any notes on this, so I'm I'm just shooting from from the hip here. But, right now in the state of Texas, we have the most support possible for Texas leaving the American Union. Alright? Right now I think it's 66% of those polled in Texas Texas Texas would vote for Texas leaving the union. Okay? I said earlier, 25 states have, legislative processes in place to leave the American union. So Texas is not alone in this. This is not something that that a bunch of upstarts in in in the Southwest wanna, you know, trying to do.
But, the mood but but the public sentiment is that it's it's time to make a change, and it's time for Texas to leave the union. And, you know, if I didn't agree with it, I wouldn't be a part of the organization. If I didn't think it was the natural course of events, I wouldn't be a part of the organization. It's a natural thing for people to wanna be free and independent. And would you agree with that? Absolutely. Right. So, I mean, the whole the American Revolution was a secession against King George. Well, King George. Yeah. But but but the established government of the time. The federal system has gotten so large and has overreached so much that no matter how much work goes into trying to reform it, it's not gonna be enough to save the union.
Great book I have behind me here that you're not gonna be able to see is this one. Now if you're if you're listening if you're listening on, like, Apple or Spotify or something, or one of the modern podcast apps, you're not gonna see it. But this book here is, it's called Rethinking the American Union for the twenty first Century. Alright. It's a series of essays, put out by, Donald Livingston. Amazing book. This book, when I first got it and I first read it, opened my mind and my eyes to the need for the states to separate
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and maybe even form
[01:18:04] Unknown:
I I I know this is a bad word, brother. Probably shouldn't say it, but I'm like getting for a while. Confederacies. Not so loud because, you know, people might think strange things, but this book explains it in great detail, and this is something you need to get. If you can't find it, you can get it online somewhere. I got it on Amazon, some time ago. You gotta look for it. Rink Rethinking the American unit for the twenty first century. Another great book, I have it right here, is a book that was put out by Daniel Miller, who was the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement. This is an amazing book. This is called this is Texit. Alright. So if you're not if you're not watching, you're you're you're listening on the radio.
Text it is, is well, let me read the jacket note to you. Text it is the first thoroughly researched nonfiction book to delve into the motivations, the process, and the practicality of a modern day Texas peaceful, emphasized the word peaceful, exit from The United States, channeling his twenty years of experience on the issue. Miller takes the reader through the historical and cultural foundations of Texas. You have got to get this book. If you haven't read it yet, please get this book. You'll understand exactly where I'm coming from with this. Now if, if you are, if you wanna get involved with the shaping and, the development of a future in free independent Texas, just head over to my website, joerusiello.com/tandm, and, click that QR code or check out the link that's there, and register your support, register your your, become a member, or make a donation, and help us do this. This is incredibly important. We have more elected representatives right now in the Texas house that are in favor and have signed the Texas first pledge than we have at any other time. 66% of those polled in Texas are in favor of TEx it, the process of Texas becoming independent.
Check them out. Look it up. Research it. Do exactly what I did, and get on board with Texit. Alright? Get on board with the Texas Nationalist Movement. Alright? Also, while you're on the website, just open up that, contact form and, send us over any questions, comments, cares, or concerns that you might have. Also, don't forget to visit our support page, and if you can put any kind of a donation in, we would really appreciate that. One time donation in any amount, or you can join one of our monthly recurring donation clubs, $17.76 $18.36 or $25 or more. You could also visit the alexjonesstore.com/joe, and, you could, get yourself on the road to better health by, purchasing some vitamin supplements, or even some patriotic apparel.
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Brother, brother Wayne, before we wrap this up, do you wanna say anything before we, shut it down? Yeah. I have one of those like I said, I had those little brain blips that I I mean, I traveled down here with, and one of them was the ages of our founding fathers. We say founding fathers. Here's a couple for you, Joe. Mhmm. James Madison, twenty five years old. Alexander Hamilton Hamilton, twenty one years old. Jefferson, he was a little older. 33 years old. James Monroe, eighteen years old. You're talking about we think of founding fathers, old men that had, history behind them and all of the experiences.
Some these are teenagers practically. We look at 18 year olds, 25 year olds today who can't change a tire, most of them. But, I'm not I'm not not just throwing the fun at it, but these are young men. They I mean, there was the older ones. You know, they went up there, Alec, you know, Benjamin Franklin, etcetera. What it took and we're from different parts of the country. The moxie, the grit to go, we need to change things. This is real tyranny. It wasn't just like you said King James or King, George. It was a state run church. And you're gonna believe this.
And the things that are going actually, it was starting to reminisce what was going on in the last four years. And I I and I made a joke, I don't know if it was earlier today, but the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Intimidation. And when you start looking in what Trump's seeing, this is why Cash Patel is being held up. Right. That intimidation part, they know it. They know what they've done, and they've known what they've done to American citizens who are under this constitution that these 18, 20 five, and 30 year olds gave their life for practically. These guys ended up broke, ostracized, and they weren't the majority of the country at the time.
So we can all throw all the, you know, slave owning this and all the racist that. But when you look at it, a lot of those guys, they weren't all for that. They just wanted to go, we want to have a faith that is free. And one of the things, I don't think a lot of people know the history, was a gentleman named Haim Solomon. George Washington, he needed he needed revenue. He needed resources. He went to a Jewish man named Haim Solomon. I need your help. And at the time, it may not seem like a much in our our terms, but he I think he had $200,000. He said, mister Washington, take it all, but build a country that we can have freedom of faith.
And that's been kind of treaded on. I use that treaded because, you know, the old snake and the don't, you know, don't tread on me. Joe, we've been treaded on. When you got pastors thrown on the sidewalk for standing outside of abortion clinics Mhmm. With their constitutional rights, not throwing stuff, not throwing even their words towards anybody, but being hounded by the FBI. Because I've I've part of that you know, I'm I've been part of the church where we've stood out there and prayed silently for the young ladies Right. And prayed for the unborn.
Mhmm. And our government's been turned into literally like a mob squad, you know, a hit squad. And people's lives have been, you know, like I said, intimidated and and brutalized. And like I said, even here in this thing, I believe the word is weaponized. They weaponized the FBI and other government agencies. That's no different than what our founding fathers were seeing back in those days. And I think it's catching on where what is freedom? And that's what I'd like to finish tonight. What is freedom? And what are we looking at now of certain types of freedom? And we've actually been under a lot of stuff with our taxes, and we're starting to find some stuff uncovered.
End with this. What's gonna be really uncovered in the next few weeks? And if we do get our FBI director, oh, boy.
[01:24:55] Unknown:
Well, let's hope that happens very soon, mate. Final thought. Oh, boy. Alright, folks. Don't forget to check us out on our socials at, x or Twitter or whatever you wanna call it at, Joe Ruz. TikTok, Joe dot Ruz. Truth social, Joe Ruz. Minds, Joe Ruz. And Facebook, the podcast with Joe Rusiello. Also, download the Rumble app if you're listening on audio. Download the Rumble app. Help us out here, and, open up an account. It's absolutely free to open the account. But if you want the ad free experience, sign up for Rumble Premium. You can get it as low as $10 a month, and, it's it's it's a it's great. I love it. It's, I am a Rumble Premium member, and just in full disclosure, I am also a Rumble, shareholder.
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Well that's about it really the film ends mainly visually
Introduction and Welcome
Guest Introduction: Wayne Rankin
Upcoming Guest: Blake Fisher
Political Platforms and Integrity
Discussion on President Trump
Media and Political Corruption
Secession Movements in the U.S.
Interview with Blake Fisher
Political Climate and Voter Responsibility
Executive Orders and Government Power
Eric Adams and Political Deals
Texas Independence Movement
