In this episode, we dive into a lively discussion about the current political climate, focusing on the rapid changes under President Trump's administration. We explore the impact of these changes on various sectors, including social security, government spending, and immigration policies. Our guest, Wayne Rankin, shares his insights on the political landscape and personal experiences with federal systems. We also touch on the topic of Texas independence, discussing the potential for Texas to become an independent nation and the steps involved in such a transition. Throughout the episode, we emphasize the importance of political accountability and the role of citizens in shaping the future of governance. Join us for a candid conversation that challenges the status quo and explores the possibilities of a new political era.
We also highlight the ongoing debate about non-citizen voting rights in New York and the implications for state and national politics. Additionally, we discuss the role of media in shaping public perception and the importance of staying informed in a rapidly changing world. With a mix of humor and serious discourse, this episode offers a comprehensive look at the current state of American politics and the potential for transformative change.
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(00:03:48) Introduction to the Podcast
(00:04:20) Meet the Hosts: Joe Rusciello and Wayne Rankin
(00:06:46) Political Landscape and Social Security Issues
(00:16:01) Supporting the Podcast: Donations and Sponsors
(00:24:42) Personal Stories and Reconnecting with Friends
(00:31:16) Current Political Climate and Changes
(00:46:02) Social Security Fraud and Government Efficiency
(00:56:53) Trump's Popularity and Media Reactions
(01:16:02) Tom Homan vs. AOC: A Continuing Feud
(01:19:36) Voting Rights and Noncitizen Voting in New York
(01:42:21) Texas Politics: Property Taxes and Independence Movement
(02:00:01) Texit: The Movement for Texas Independence
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
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Hey folks, This is Joe Rusciello. It is great to be with you once again on a beautiful Tuesday night here at Eagle Pass, and we are coming to you live tonight, of course, from the pimple on the backside of Texas. The beautiful city of Eagle Pass broadcasting from the Asylum Studios. And folks, we are gonna do the very, very best that we can tonight to bring you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the podcast. Wow. What a day. What a day. What a day. Lighting's a little different in here tonight because we changed things around just a little bit. Still haven't gotten the new desk yet. We're still working on that. It's coming, I think. Who knows?
I don't know. Screw it. If it comes, it comes. I don't I don't know. But we're gonna get it very, very soon, and, part of the reason why we, another part of the reason why I should say, why we have different lighting scheme going on here is because, we actually, believe it or not, set up a camera for, my number two seat, and I'm here with, with Wayne. Wayne Rankin has joined us once again. Yes. And it is great, brother. It is great to have you here.
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It's an honor and privilege, Joe. And you know what? The, one thing the Democratic the Democratic party is giving us is a lot of material.
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That that well, they sure have, brother. They sure have. What the heck was that? It just flashed across my screen. It wasn't boobs, so it's not,
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you know. No. Joe and company, they've left us a treasure. If there's any treasure they did leave We have. Scandal, unaccountability.
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Hey, brother. Do me a favor. On the bottom of your screen there, you can see a little microphone. Right? Can you click that for me? Thank you, sir. Thank you. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Turn it off. Okay. Very good. Very, very good then. Alright. You're you're coming through five by five as they say.
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Alright. Outstanding. Brother, how you doing today? I'm doing good. I mean, you know what? Another good day for the Trump administration. Elon Musk, man. You don't wait a second, do you? You go right into the politics. No. You know, the thing is, so much politics that it is is, this country, it is changing. I mean, a lot of a lot of the news today, a lot of people are jumping the democratic ship big time and some big names too. And so For sure. Yeah. The thing is, I think when you start really seeing things and when you uncover stuff and the facts are there, it's real hard, but there's still gonna be some that doesn't matter. You know, you they're the type of people you can show the robber on the video, and they go, that's not him, but they know it's him. It's just so it's just denial. They live in Egypt as they say, the river denial. Yeah. I I I see. But, you know, I I really I I kinda wanted to start off by asking you a question. Go right ahead.
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So it's it's your first night you spent your first night here sleeping in Eagle Pass. Yes. I wanted to ask you how you slept. You're the you're you're you're like the first person to sleep in the guest room here. So I was just wondering how it was, but you'd mad jump right into the politics. Yeah. Well, you know, thing is,
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I live in a like I say, I live in a communist state, the People's Republic Of Washington State. And number one, and here's the number one thing, no voter no voter ID. There's literally I mean, they've uncovered, and we'll get to this on the Social Security issue, countless people voting multiple times. Multiple times. I mean, it's like, uncle Elmer is dead, but he voted seven times this year. And we're never gonna see any change in that state where, in any not just Republican, but represent representation because they're gonna keep get voted in because, they're good at lies like mister Hawkins was saying, the government can.
And in Washington state, they can. Wasn't that great? Yeah. Seattle, Washington, like I said, they have about 15,000 campers there in Blue Tarp. And it's getting to be pretty pretty sad story of a wonderful great city that's no longer people us locals, us in Washington, we only go there. So, it's like I said, I'm a pilgrim in an unholy land unholy land there. So, yeah, a lot of stuff to talk about tonight.
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And you're you're all you're all business.
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Yeah. Well, you know what? The you know, we got a man that he is business, and he means business. Yeah. And as I said, new sheriff in town. Anybody that could take a bullet to the earlobe like that and not flinch hardly, this you gotta have the respect. Yeah. I mean, people all over the world are I'm sure there's third world countries going, if he gets in, we'll follow what he's saying, man, because,
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he didn't flinch. And that's the thing about it. And then there's a lot of the people he's bringing in, they're not flinching either. That's right. You know? So, So folks, just so you know, Wayne is sitting right across from me. Right over there. So it may look like he's somewhere else. It looks like he's looks like he's in Alaska or something. I don't know. But but he he he's right over there. And and hey hey, brother show us the shirt you wear. What are you wearing over there? Alex Jones is right. Yeah. Change your mind. I get that. Me me now go way back. I'm talking before the Obama deception, and And you got your info wars hat on? Yeah. Exactly. That's great. You're repping. You're repping. He was right right. A lot of stuff. So Yeah. But that's the scary thing, isn't it? Mhmm. And there's a lot of people that talk about, Alex Jones as as, like, some kind of a CIA plant or something like that, but I don't know. I just think that, I just think that he has the pulse on all this stuff, and I think he's right more than he is wrong. And you can respect this. He's from Texas. Yeah. The well, yeah. Austin. Yeah. So, I mean He's about four hours from where we are right now. But, he he is really the poster boy of grassroots.
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When they say grassroots, I mean, small he started small stations and, he he he just he stayed the ground, stayed the course no matter what they threw at him. And, you know, he's he's picked up I mean, he's picked up Trump. He interviewed Trump and and Joe Rogan, and he's got some, you know, like I said, some clientele that are solid. Mhmm. And they like facts too. You're not gonna go on Joe Rogan and blow smoke. That's all there is to it. No. Joe's gonna call you out right there, and he's gonna throw the f bombs in there, and that's his style. That's his style. But him and Alex and Tucker Carlson interviewed him, says, I never liked you, actually. No.
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Alex Jones was right. That's what he said. Tucker said it. And I I do remember that. Yeah. I I do remember that. That that was that was pivotal moment in, in in in television
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Yeah. Interviewing history. I'm being sarcastic, of course. Before we start, Joe, we are gonna be looking at some institutions that we got on paper and and you got on film. And and that's it's a sad story of so many institutions that were built to a, help, like, my my my my parents' generation, like Social Security and other, you know, things that we we we thought we could trust that we could, you know, keep and and and be honest, but it's a disaster. Yeah. I see what you did there. Yeah. Some of these really bad bad players.
And we'll start with, like I say, the Social Security itself, and there really is no security. I mean, I'm a retired middle man. And when I started or eventually back in the early eighties, I was passing out Social Security checks to people. And I go, you're pretty young for that. He goes, oh, that's my SSI check check. I didn't even know what that was. I did not want you got a check for not working. It's caught up to us. Sure. Yep. Yeah. So, it's in, taxpayer fraud. There's tax I'll let you take the show. Okay. Well I'm here for you, brother. Well, I I and I appreciate it. It is
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an honor and privilege to sit and share. Thank you for giving my show back. I I I appreciate it. I love you, brother. You know that. We're having a good time here. Alright, folks. Let's pay some bills before we get started here. Alright? So, I'm gonna ask you to do a couple of quick things things for me. First of all, would you head over to our website, joerussello.com. When you get over there, open up that contact form, send us over any questions, comments, cares, concerns that you might have, any any issues that you might be thinking of, any critiques. Although, we don't really want the critiques too much because there's too much to critique. But, but definitely head over to the website, send us over any messages you might have, use the contact form, or if you don't wanna use that, totally fine. That's why we set up the email address, that nobody really checks, and that's info at sort of that's [email protected].
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Also, your talent. Maybe you are a web designer. Maybe you are a graphic artist. Maybe you write music. Maybe you are great at, doing voice recordings. Any number of things that that you can do, you can donate that to the show and that would always be welcome and always be helpful and always used. So, if you so that's your talent. Then, of course, there's your treasure. Now your treasure, of course, is your money. Now you could donate to us. You could do a one time donation in any amount that you, feel appropriate for the amount of value that you're getting from the show, or, you could, join one of our, monthly recurring donation clubs, if I can put it that way. Now for a donation of $17.76, you can get the, associate producer credit, and that basically means that you do a monthly recurring donation of $17.76.
Your name gets listed in our show notes. You also get a shout out on every show, as as being an associate producer of the show. For a a monthly recurring donation of $18.36 a month, you get the producer's credit. So you get kind of a little promotion. Right? Right, Wayne? You get a little promotion there. And the same deal, you get the the the shout out, the, the the inclusion in the show notes, every every show that we do. And then, of course, for $25 a month or more as a recurring monthly donation, you get the executive producer's credit. And, Wayne is one of our executive producers, and we we we are very very thankful for that, Wayne. So thank you very much for your contributions in that, and, we we really do appreciate that. And the reason why we we do that, and the reason why we say that, you know, you you can claim that title, associate producer, producer, and executive producers, because, your your your donation helps us pay the bills. Your donation helps us improve our equipment, our setup, and do the things that, we need to do to to bring you the best quality talk radio we can.
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This stuff is now I I joke around about it, you know, and I and I say it's like liquid grass. That's what it looks like. It looks like liquid grass. I mean, it's it's it's it's, in in the words of, Montgomery Scott from Star Trek, it's green. So, it's a green powder. There it is. Oh, I just went up my nose. But it's a green powder. You mix that in about eight to 10 ounces of water, and it not only fills you, but it loads you up with all of the vitamins and minerals that you need, to boost your energy throughout the day. Now, another but thing that I'm taking as well that I did not bring in here with me, I forgot, is the, atomic defense, which is an which is a, a supplement you take for your overall body health, which is fantastic. I started taking it a couple of couple of days ago, and I'm already feeling a difference. So you can get all of these products on the alexjonesstore.com/joe. Now we're asking that you use that that link, the affiliate link, because every time you make a purchase, 10% of your overall purchase gets sent right back here to the podcast, and that is critical for us. We greatly depend on that. And to the folks that have been using it and have been purchasing through it, thank you so very much for it. We really, really do appreciate it. We got our first, monthly payment, of the commissions from that, and it was a blessing to receive it. And we we and and when I tell you that none of it's going in my pocket, none of it's going in Wayne's pocket, that came in. And Wayne will tell you, brother, what what came the other day? We got, more acoustic foam.
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Brother Wayne. Yes.
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I know you take some of the supplements from at the Alex Jones store. I started just started taking the CMOS, and I could feel a little bit of digestion, strength going on because I have some of those situations like that. But, I've taken some of Alex's stuff before, and, I wanna go and just get the order through slash joe because I wanna, keep up on the CMOS. Just some of the things that they they promote that what it does, and it takes a month. I'm only about, two weeks into it. You know, any type of supplement like that, you gotta really give it some time. And I know it sounds like a promo to buy more, but, really, that's what how supplements work. You know? And I'm a I'm in a, I'm a remission of cancer. So I know a little bit about what you have to do to stay healthy and continually,
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not battle things, but stay up on top of it. You know, you you forget that that you're in remission from cancer. I mean, you have so much energy. You have so much, like Oh, yeah. So much life in you that, you know, it's it's it's great, you know. And and I I joke about this, you know. And I know we're not we we haven't gotten it's we're we're almost thirty minutes into the show here. We haven't even gotten into the the politics yet. So this might be one of those twenty four hour streams that we were kidding around about. But, we lost contact for a while. Yeah. Right? The last time I heard from you or or, or your your your, your late wife was in 02/2003 or so. Yeah. And then, and then we made contact recently again. And, what was one of the first things I said to you was I thought you were dead. Yeah. I I really did. And I'm not saying I have to be cruel or mean or anything like that, brother. You know you know you know I love you, but but, it was it was shocking, you know, that that I honestly thought that we had lost you. And and it was a it was great to to reconnect with you, and I'm so glad that you're part of the show right now, and Yeah. And you're helping us out as, as one of our execs. And it's, it's it's real surreal blessing. So, you know, it's it's just wonderful to have you here. Yeah. You know, I'm I'm on a I'm on a nominally, you know, just medical and just sort of medical. And I have a I had a tumor on my heart, and they still haven't seen it. But it's not the not it's not the cancer. And I've always said it. It's it's it's
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the the witness. And a lot of people say why why does this happen? And I say how how do I respond to my friends and go I in my faith of Jesus Christ is this is how I respond. It's not why because there's a lot. My my biggest thing, Joe, when I went up to Seattle, which is world renowned their medical center cancer center, I got up to the Third Floor. And when I the elevator came in, there's probably 50 little boys and girls with bald head. I shot my big yapper. Mhmm. That's the right there from that point the rest of my life, actually. Wow. Some of those kids may not be there next year, but I'm still in. And the Lord has his plan for me, but, good friends and and and a good God, Jesus Christ. But, funny when you said you thought he was dead, it was like, isn't this a Social Security check still?
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We're gonna get to that in a second. I also wanna say something else too. This this has been this has been, like, a month of reconnecting Yes. With with a lot of people. Good. And, and just yesterday, someone that I have not spoken to in in oh, man. I wanna say over ten years, found me on Facebook. And we reconnected, and we spent some time today talking on the phone with my friend Chris Marengo, and and, it was great to hear from Chris, and, I I had asked him if he was gonna be listening in. I don't know if he is or not, but, you know, it it it was great to reconnect with him and and just kinda talk about some of the things. And I know he's going through a lot of stuff right now, in his health and his personal life. And, you know, we're we're praying for him, and we're gonna we're gonna continue to pray for his for his recovery.
And, you know, I'm looking forward to, him getting healthy again, and we're gonna have him come down here and and hang out and, and do some stuff. We'll get him here somehow, someway. But, but that was a blessing too, you know? And and, you know, unfortunately, over time, you hear about folks that you you know, and, Chris informed me of a of a number of people that, we had hung out with and spent time with that had passed away, and it just makes you think that. And a lot of them were younger than I am and younger than you, and, you know, what a blessing it is that, you know, that we have our health, we have our life, and, you know, we're we're we're in the position that we're in, and we're doing this stuff.
[00:27:52] Unknown:
And and the thing is, encouragement. Yeah. I mean, the thing about going through cancer the way I did is, I had encouragement, but I just I have this I have this drive. And, I don't know what maybe it's the old Scottish thing, but, encouragement and keep encouraging other cancer patients that I was, you know, sitting around the table and and getting injections and all the stuff like that is just, you could say, you know, you battle cancer. You don't really battle it because, it's more than that. It's more of the battle than cancer. It's your spiritual, it's emotional, it's psychological. You can go on and on. And so there's a lot of things that are a part of that. But, yeah, we we cooked we just threw a one of those Facebook message things about a year ago. But, yeah, time goes by and myself, like, in in '21, I was married for over twenty years and my wife went in for a hernia and it was pancreatic cancer. Wow. And I survived and she didn't. But she said, keep going, keep doing the work, doing the Lord's work. And my prayer was I've I had never forgotten about you. Twenty years. I tell people, yeah. I know this guy from New York. He's Brooklyn. And Joe is from the same area neighborhood as my late wife, Brooklyn area.
Yeah.
[00:29:00] Unknown:
And, you know, and and and your late wife was was an amazing woman. She really was. And, we got to spend some time with her, when she came up she came to Staten Island, and she spent some time with us at the house there, and that was that was that was that was great. And, you know, she was a good woman and, you know, and, you know, you know, I I can only imagine how you feel, but you also have a a new wife now. That goes along. Who's a who's a lovely woman. Yep. And she loves you, and I got to I got to hear some of your phone conversation earlier today. So Yeah. You know, that was that was that was a treat. And that's and that's great. And I'm glad you're I'm glad that that you've moved on and you're happy and and,
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She calls me my her her silver haired juvenile. Yeah. Well, you do look like Santa Claus. You know, the thing is, I I I told her, she said, you know, Jesus says, you must enter the gates of heaven with the heart of a child. I got that one down. Well, you do. Yeah. And that that that's that's the crazy thing too, because because Wayne is older than I am. You know? 10.
[00:29:56] Unknown:
About ten years. Right? Yeah. Almost almost to the day, really. Yeah. So so, I'm 54. He's 64. And and, honestly, he has more energy and and vim and vigor and vitality that that old, I love Lucy thing, you know, vim, vigor, and vitality than than I do. And it's it's it's Yeah. Drives me a little crazy, you know. And my new wife is four
[00:30:17] Unknown:
and she says, she goes, I didn't marry a 60 year old. I married two 30 year olds. There you go. There you go. That's awesome. But, you know, she this it she loves the Lord. Mhmm. That that's nonnegotiable with me. It's nonnegotiable. So, and she is did a promo. She's got a great voice, a good radio voice, and she's supporting us, not just me, us. And when I get back to the, you know, computer land of, Seattle area, she's got some people that know these things that I do not know. It's, like, let's say, just reach out to the people who know things. And we're gonna have a,
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like, satellite base out there to to help you out with some whatever it may be. That's great. And and and we're excited about that, and we're looking forward to it. Alright. So, as as I'm watching our numbers drop and people tuning us out because we're we're we're chit chatting a little bit, more than we normally normally would. Yeah. But, you know, gotta remember, dude, we we haven't seen each other in in in over twenty years, you know, so here we are. And this is we got a lot of stuff to talk about. But, you know, just getting into some of the news and stuff that's out there. I know we we were talking earlier about, you mentioned social security, which is one of the first things we were gonna talk about because something interesting happened today. The, the acting head of social security, actually, quit her job today, because, she got into some disagreements with with, with Doge, and, and so she decided to walk off the job.
Her name is, Michelle King, if I'm not mistaken. But, you know, the the president was very quick, to respond to that. He, he appointed, Leland Dudek to lead the agency, until they can, have somebody appointed, in that in that, specific role. So, I mean, that just goes to show, like, just the the amount of of disruption, but it's good disruption. It's not, you know, it's it's not some this this is the this is the swamp Yeah. Getting cleaned out. This is what Donald Trump promised he was going to do from the very beginning, back in 02/2016.
He wasn't able to do that, at least to the extent that it was observable. But here, I mean, he's coming in like a like a bull in a China shop. He's not slowing down. He's not he's not, taking any prisoners. He is just running right through this whole thing. And, I think that's I think that's great. The amount of, change that's taking place right now is is just unbelievably quick. You can't keep up with it. I mean, as we were putting together the show prep today, I mean, how many things changed? I mean, you had something that came up that came across your table, as you were doing some some research for yourself that we're gonna talk about, at some point. And, it it it's just everything's changing so quick. It's changing so
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quick. It's, it's like, it's it's not this change. It's it's I I understand physical change. You know, like, this person's being fired. This one's here, and this one's being, you know, moved to whatever. It's it's it's it's an attitude. It's a, a culture a culture change too of this lackadaisio, and I'm I'm a former federal employee. And I've seen it. I've I've seen it come and go. And these how does that guy still keep his job? In the private sector, gone. Mhmm. Yeah. And these people are not aware of this. They're what do you mean I'm gonna lose my job? You know? And when you do nothing and, a lot of the the scuttle that I had, there was 6% of a lot of the federal workers in office.
The rest of them were jammies and lattes. And, word on the street is some of them were doing second jobs too.
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Yeah. Yeah. There there was there were and that's I think that's what prompted a lot of the, that email that went out, in the first couple of days of the administration. You know, if you want to, if you wanna resign, just reply resign to this email, and and you're out.
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Yeah. Some of them got Zoom, and you got thirty minutes to get out. Yeah. And, from that point, I think it was what 75,000
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Mhmm. Federal employees, bought into the, the buyout. Right. And, I mean, they're getting a severance package, they're getting all their they're getting their benefits, but, for the next, I think, eight months if I'm not mistaken. So, I mean, it's there, but, it's it's just amazing how quickly all this stuff is going. Now, of course, you know, with Social Security, it it's it's a sensitive subject. It's a sensitive area, and the reason why that that the that the, the the now former, commissioner for, social security left was because, they wanted to hide the the critical information that that Doge needed to complete their audit, from them.
And, that's where the that's where the conflict came in. And, you know, look, it this is the swamp trying to protect itself.
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Another one of those nasty f words they used, fraud. Fraud. Fraud. Yes, sir. It's it's it's it's like in the landscape across DC and other you know, it's not just DC because there's federal agencies all over the country. Like, you know, I don't know. Texas, there's probably federal buildings and federal agencies there too. So it's it's nationwide,
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and it's fraud. And they're covering it up and I mean, they're it's it's being uncovered. And so, Now I'm gonna pull something up here I wanna show you. This is just just something that that, Elon Musk posted this on his Twitter account. He said, according to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bracket with the death field set to false. And then he goes on to say, maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting social security. And you might if you haven't seen this, you might be wondering what I'm talking about. Well, I'm gonna put this up. Just take a look at it, and, I want you to notice something. 350 to 359 years old, collecting social security.
That's before the founding of the country. Some old guys there. Social security started in '19 in the nineteen thirties, '19 '30 '5, I think. It was, when when president Roosevelt enacted social security. And, you just take a look at that, people for that are a 70 to a 79 years old are collecting, and, people 240 to 249 are collecting, two twenty to two twenty nine are collecting. It's it's it's ridiculous. And this is the information that the government is trying to hide from you guys. You don't wanna talk about fraud, waste, and abuse. Well, take a look. The numbers don't lie. They don't lie. They don't lie.
And, so, these are the numbers of people in each age bracket with the death field set to falls.
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Right. His,
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Fox News says that, his post features a chart, which I'm showing you right here. There there are more than 20,000,000 listed with ages 100 and higher, including more than 3,900,000 in the range of 30 a hundred and 30 nine age range, more than 3,500,000 in the one forty to one 40 nine range, and more than 1,300,000 in the one fifty to one fifty nine range. We're getting close to vampires. Yeah. I I would think so. Yeah. I would think so. And, you know, that this this is I mean, folks, this this is your money. This is our money. This is Our children's money. Children's yes. Exactly. You know, social security is gonna end up being insolvent by the time by the time I'm eligible to collect. So what what is the eligibility now at this point? 67 or is it older? 66, 60 7. Yeah. Right. It's coming up. Well, you're you're you're closer than I am. Yeah.
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I actually got it at 62. Oh, okay. I was one of the last ones to get in there at 62. Okay. I had a nice idea. But it it's it's something that it's trust me. It's not it's not it's not a pot of gold. No. I've got it it and it's not going to be because there's nothing left. No. This has been a piggy bank for the for for
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Republicans and Democrats. Mhmm. They have dipped to this thing. They have, quote, unquote, borrowed against it. But who ends up paying
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it? You do. I do. In the future. Correct.
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So, it it it's just it's, you know, all of this stuff needs to be just completely reformed or just gotten rid of. I I personally, you know, I don't how do I put this? I I don't particularly care about receiving Social Security benefits. I'm not gonna get a lot because there's nothing left. All the money that I paid into it, I'm never gonna get back. Right. I would rather have, like, a health savings account or something along those lines than than having Social Security to get rid of it. You know, whoever's in it and collecting, let them continue to collect. Right. But anybody going forward from from, say, they they pick a date. Alright. So anybody coming into the workforce starting today going forward, no more social security tax coming out of your checks and so on and so forth, and, you know, you have to find your own way. Right. So I'm I'm probably a lot better in IRAs. Of course. It would be a lot better. Yeah. You know. Of course. The government's not gonna give you any money in return. Look, there's nothing left. It's almost insolvent. They said by 2032, there's gonna be nothing left. Here's the big question I got for you, Joe. Mhmm.
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Why such the resistance from all these agencies quitting, firing?
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As one of the agencies we're gonna get to later, she literally had to be pulled out of the office practically. Well, she's it's a piggy bank for them. I mean I mean, they get they you know, all this money that disappears, and we're gonna come to that in, maybe we can kinda skip ahead to that for a moment. But, let's see where was it. Alright. Let well, yeah. Okay. So I'm gonna jump ahead on the cut sheet here. So, you know, talking about, what they're trying to protect. In, Doge discovers fraud of epic proportions 4,700,000,000,000 with a t, 4,700,000,000,000, and you ready for this?
Untraceable US treasury payments. Okay. Untraceable. I'm gonna put a I'm gonna put a thing up on the screen here. Treasury, this is from, the Doge Twitter post. The treasury access symbol TAS is an identification code linking a treasury payment to a budget line item, a standard financial process. And the highlighted section, in the federal government, the TAS field was optional for 4,700,000,000,000.0 in payments and was often left blank making traceability almost impossible. Impossible. That's $4,700,000,000,000 of your money, of of our money gone.
We don't know where it went. We don't know who received it. Well, you know what I start to think? I start to think that maybe some of these bureaucrats are getting it. Imagine that. You know, I'm sure the mob guys are going, man, when was that gig that we missed out on? On? And it's it's like it's like you and I were talking, yesterday and and and somewhat today. We were talking about how you have you have these members of congress who make a hundred and 70, hundred and 70 5 thousand dollars a year, when they come into it.
Representatives like, like, what's her name from from New York? Like, well, yeah, her. But but what about that the the one from New York, AOC. Right? AOC. She she was nearly bankrupt going into office, and now she's worth millions on a hundred and $74,000 Right. A year. Yeah. How is that well, where do you think it's coming from? Well, it's coming from things like this. Untraceable funds.
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The thing about when you say a hundred and $75,000, there are professional people in a lot of places can make, you know, 75,000 each. So you think about it, two, you know, college degrees and, you know, that's not too unattainable, hundred and 75,000. But to to get that, you have all the taxes and all regular people. Regular working people. You know, my my son said, yeah. Dad, me and my wife made a hundred and 30,000. We broke even.
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Yeah. Yeah. Listen to this. And they got millions. Listen to this. Elon Musk led, Department of Government Government Efficiency revealed over the weekend that the US Treasury Department left a critical code used to track transactions as an optional tool resulting in an alarming 4,700,000,000,000.0 in untraceable payments. The identification code, like we just said, allowed trillions of tax dollars to be spent without being tracked. Doge made the code mandatory beginning Saturday, meaning all treasury payments going forward will be traced. Well, praise the Lord. Thank you for that. The, the Kobayashi letter, which is a Twitter account, says you can't make this up. Social Security may go insolvent by 2034, and Elon Musk just called it the biggest fraud in history. According to new Doge data, twenty one million people aged 100 plus in the SSA database are listed as alive in The US.
Yeah.
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That's insane. It's it's it's it's radically insane.
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According to the Independent, which is a great site, by the way. The Independent? Mhmm. The 4,700,000,000,000.0 figure, quote, would represent almost 70% of federal spending last year. 70% That's one year. In one year. One year. Yeah. Yeah.
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Twelve months. So you start dividing how much per month. It's yeah. It's crazy. So, it's a radical change, and they got a guy that is if you wanna go against them, CNN and at the press conferences, good good luck. You know? And I use the word good luck. But, I mean, his intelligent level, he's prepared, like, four questions ahead The way it seems like when he just answered, he's already got it prepared. Okay. And then they're they they kept this ridiculous side subjects that just try to push on him and but he's got a team. Call them what they want. They're, you know, young and brilliant, but they're doing their job. It sounds like and that's a job they that, you know, there's a candy man song at the beginning. It used to be called the candy man. You know? That's what I remember it from. It's like The government. That can't yeah. And so the government right now can't, and they're having a hard time with that. Yeah. I know. And it it it's,
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I mean, people, if yeah. I mean, we need to open our eyes. We need to see what this is. This is your this is why these people are are so panicked right now at what Doge is doing. And I I wanted to upload this this this, video earlier, but, for some reason, it it it wouldn't let me load it up. But but, you know, everybody's talks about how, you know, Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Doge. But let me remind you of something that that what this wasn't founded. Doge wasn't started by Donald Trump or Lemos. It actually, Joe Biden, Barack Obama started Doge.
This was his project. So, you know, this isn't some right wing thing. This this is something that started on on on the other side. But now that it's being fully implemented and fully, and actually functioning in in the capacity that's supposed to, you're starting to see the results of this thing. And this this is not pretty brother. This is this is a disaster. This is why I always I've been saying for quite some time, and I'm not the only one, other people have been saying it too, that you need to abolish these agencies and start from scratch. Right. Get rid of it all.
Start from scratch. You know? Get rid of Social Security. We don't need it. Alright? Whoever's collecting it, whoever's on it right now eligible for it, yes. You pay them out. Right. Make sure that they get the benefits that they're entitled to. But going forward from, say, whatever date, you know, we're gonna sunset it. It's gonna end at this point, and then you're gonna you're on your own. You're on your own at that point. You you need to get your own, health savings account or retirement plan or anything like that. And maybe you could work in some kind of a tax benefit, which we're hoping that, we're hoping that, when Doge starts really looking into the IRS that, that'll disappear too.
You know?
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They'll understand what the real word audit means. Yes.
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And from what I understand, from what I what I've read and and whatnot, they were panicking when Doge walked into the building. So it there there's there's a lot of things going on. There's a lot of change taking place, and this is great. This is absolutely great. And that kinda leads me into, the next piece that I want to talk about, and that is, how, Frank Luntz says that, Biden voters who flipped to Trump are loving it. Alright? Basically, you know, can you can you get enough of winning? Yeah. Can you get enough? I mean, this is just this is great. And, you know, organizations like CNN and MSNBC and and all these left leaning organizations that, news media, propagandists, whatever you wanna call them, you know, they keep going out there. They keep trying to find someone that voted Democrat at one point that switched their vote to Trump are unhappy with that, or or an or a Trump voter that's unhappy with the performance of of, of of the president. But that's they're not finding any, you know?
And it's, it's it's gonna be harder it's gonna be harder to find someone like that than, than a six word coherent sentence from, from a Kamala Harris appearance. You know? For example, let's, let let's take a look at this here. This is, this is Dana Bash. This is cut, d one. There's a little lag on this one. So if if the screen goes dark, just give it a second, it'll get caught up. But, this is Dana Bash and or Dana Bash, whatever her name is. And, you you could tell that she is not happy. Not happy in this at all.
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So Talked to some Arizona voters who switched from voting for Joe Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024, and so far, they mostly like what they see.
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I just think he's trying to get America back on track as quickly as possible given the state that it was left in from the previous administration.
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It feels more merit and transparency,
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that I'm getting from the administration so far. I approve of a lot of the stuff that he's doing with the border and everything. He's put
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other countries on notice that were to be taken seriously.
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For the most part, I feel like he's he's on the right track by keeping transgenders out of women's sports. That's number one.
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All 11 Biden Trump voters say they approved of Donald Trump's first weeks in office. My panel is back.
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So, you see that. She doesn't look very happy. You know, and she put the fake smile on at the end, but she she didn't seem very happy. So basically what it was is is they got together these 11 people, and they asked them these questions in the survey, and, none of them had anything negative to say. Yeah. They're they're the people. It's it's,
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they are not happy if you are happy, no matter what the circumstances. You know? So are you gonna get more money on your tax break? Doggone it. You know? The the kids are gonna get better education. Get rid of the Department of Education. Doggone it. It's just there's that mentality. It's like the, what what is the deal with saying from the the war? Like, do you do you love your children more? Do you hate the the enemy? And it's like that. I will put it it's it's a Hatfield McCoy situation. Yeah. And we didn't kill the pig, I guess, is what the old story was. All we want, man, is a future for our children. That's right. It seems like you've got some ax to grind over that.
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Now I wanna I'm gonna show you this here too. This this is, this is from a Marquette poll, where and and basically what it shows is that, you know, the president has, you know, undeniable support from the American people on the agenda that he's putting forward. Just just just take a look at this. Alright? This again, the Marquette poll, among adults, government recognition among two sexes, 63%. Sixty. That is huge. Deporting illegals, 60%. Expanding oil and gas production, 60%. Health, declaring an emergency at the southern border, 59%. Not one of these polls are below 50%.
Right. None of them. That's a lot of people. That's right. And then, of course, you know, the the, the spread on his approval ratings, just they just keep ticking up. They go up and up and up. His, job approval right now is 55%. That's that's that's up 12 points.
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Fast too. How and it's there's a time situation here. How long has Trump been in in charge? It seems like six months. Right. But it's only been a month. Yeah. Is is it is it a month? Not not even a month yet. The this is the eighteenth. Yeah. Not even a month yet. Two more days. Be the twentieth. Couple of days will be the twentieth. And, he said it. He's gonna hit he learned a lot. And I I wanna I want your perspective on this. I'll make it real quick. And I I said people, I'm not glad, but I can see how good it was that Trump lost in '20. I'm looking at it and I talked to some guys. I go, we would have him leaving last month. And what would we have? Now I don't know who would have been his vice president, etcetera, etcetera.
He's in here for the right time. Yeah. Because they were exposed. Oz's curtain came open, and that's what they are. And it was perfect timing again for him to step forward. That little and he learned a lot too. He learned about the rhinos and the and all those the the deep swamp in the in the Republican Party, Mitch McConnell. And now he's learned of bringing in certain people, and he said, I've learned a lot. And he has.
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Oh, for sure. For sure. I mean, this is a different presidency. You know, some folks talk about, you know, he's a lame duck president. Right? Because he can only serve the one term and and and all that stuff. Yeah. But you see, you you could say that, yeah, of course, he can only serve one this one more term. That's his that'll be his two terms. But, you know, he's running through this thing like a bull in a China shop. Right. He's, you know, he's not taking he's just doing it. He's going. He's working hard. He's doing everything that he promised to do. Promise made, promise kept. He has not failed on any one of the promises that he's come that he's that he's made during his candidacy.
And, I I mean, we're only not even twenty day not even a month in, and, you know, it it it just he just keeps on going and going and winning and winning. Just I think today too, they they they announced that, federal judge, Chutkin, upheld that Doge can, in fact, access the data that they've been accessing, which is a huge win. You know? He's going he's just the the you know? I know people are upset. People are concerned about all the lawsuits and about all the grandstanding that Democrats are doing, but pay attention to this. I mean, this is this is there's a reason why they're acting they're acting up the way they're acting. There's a reason why they're fighting as hard as they're fighting.
You know, they're trying to protect themselves, trying to protect their power. Let them sue. Let them do this because it's not costing Donald Trump anything for them to do this. It's costing the Democrats to do it. Yeah. Money, time, you know, all that. Let them do it. Because in the end, yeah, we're not gonna win everything. You know, we're we're gonna lose one or two here or there, and that's fine. But the majority of these cases, we're gonna win because it's it because of legal press principle of it.
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Joe, I got a question for you. Sure. My last gas tank I I just do things like this. I do statistics. My last full tank of gas was in you know, when Trump was leaving within a week or so, it was a buck 70. Okay? So in four years, let's say mister CNN is there and they voted in Democratic x. No. Democratic l for loser. And he's going to the gas pump. Dang. I can't wait to go back up to $4. You know? I'm thinking the mentality. If they're gonna go four years from now and think, he's really destroyed stuff. Man, I can't wait, you know, gas, milk, etcetera. Chicken and eggs, we understand that too. Mhmm. So what is what is that deranged syndrome that you just cannot is it because you just don't want nobody else to have anything?
Is that it? I I don't I don't you know, it's it's out there, and there's many I think you said it right. It's a it's a derangement. It's it's,
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you know,
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I mean, why on that dollar 70 gas, I hate it. Yeah. Oh, I wanna pay $6 for gas like they do in California. Right. Or or is it more in California? Well, I come from watching the state. When I left, it was $4.13.
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Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Here, average is here in in in Texas, it's on Eagle Pass anyway. It's it's average is like $2.50 or something like that. Maybe a little bit less than that. I think when I came to pick you up at the airport, I think I I filled up at I think it was $2.40 something. Yeah. You know? But, you know, that's gonna start coming down. Those prices gonna start coming down once once we unleash American energy. Right. Drill. It may be drill. Drill. Yeah. Exactly. And, you know, and and I wanna I wanna finish up the story here on on on on the on the polling, but but, you know, the interesting thing is and this is something that, you know, it started off as a meme, but, you know, it's it's actually, you know, it it makes a lot of sense that Joe Biden made it, illegal to explore and drill for oil in the Gulf Of Mexico.
So what did Donald Trump do? He changed the name of the Gulf Of Mexico to the Gulf Of America, So that no longer applies.
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Right. Right?
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I'm waiting for the day where it becomes the Gulf Of Texas. Yes. Which is gonna be very very soon, and we'll we'll come to some Texas stuff in a little bit. Yeah. But, but, just to get back to the story here from from, about, you know, about these these polls in CNN here, it's, you know, the American people voted for Donald Trump. They voted for a guy that said he was gonna go after immigration. They voted for a guy that said he was gonna go after corruption. Mhmm. They voted for a guy that said he was gonna go after go go government waste and and go after woke. And and, and then all of a sudden, like we said, now he's elected. He's in office, and oh my god. Yeah. He's actually doing it.
Right. Promises made, promises in the process of being kept, and you know something else? The American people are showing that they appreciate it. They love it, and they want it to continue. You know, he came into office almost like, like the article here says on on hot air. Great great site by the way, hotair.com. You should definitely check them out. He comes into the office he comes into office like this is what they say, quote, he comes into office like an avenging god, smoting and smiting left and right with his sword and pen to accomplish those goals and get the steam the steamroller moving in record time.
Let's take a look at this.
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But then also, here's one angle of covering Trump's popularity. Let's watch.
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What a difference eight years makes. He's on the positive side of the ledger at plus four points. And, again, it's not just the CBS News poll. We're talking about the Gallup poll. We're talking about the Ipsos poll. We are talking about the Pew poll. All of these respective pollsters have Trump in a better position now than they did eight years ago. The bottom line is Americans are far more likely to say they like what they're seeing now versus what they felt during Trump's first term.
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Okay. So, Tim, we'll go to you on this. Do do you think mister Cooper was watching that segment on the network and acknowledging the fact that, hey, maybe Americans are okay with Doge?
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CNN thinks they're facts first, but this is the kind of fact they really don't like. They have to say to Harry Anton, can't you bring us polls that we like better than these? Look. It's not dramatically terrific for a new president who's less than a month in to be plus for an approval rating. That is not extraordinary, except this is Donald Trump who CNN spends their entire day calling a fascist and authoritarian and the threat to democracy. Is that despite all of the things that the media throw at him, he just seems to keep on plugging.
And so that's the problem for them, is they're trying to make a big deal that Trump and Musk are creating some sort of authoritarian threat. And then when peep the pollsters ask, what about them, cutting government? People are in support of that. You know? They're against the media position on that. Absolutely.
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When you find out millions of dollars are going to foreign countries for different DEI initiatives, guess what? The American public, from across the country, sea to sign shining sea, they're not into that. They'd rather have that money be spent here.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Mhmm. Again, promises made, promises kept, and at in lightning speed. Lightning speed. We said earlier, there there there it's you can't even keep up with the things that are going on with this administration.
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And, you know,
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do we do we have our FBI guy in yet? Not yet. No. But, he was advanced. So, it Cash Patel. So it's going for a vote. So, hopefully, we'll get that that that squared away as quickly as we can. And that's what he also promised, legitimacy and the intelligent agency. But just think just just think for a second, though, how how hard it was for CNN to admit that 70% of Americans say say Trump is doing exactly what he promised he was gonna do.
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It it's it's like taking a tooth out. Oh, I get it. Pretty much. You know? So I mean, this is just painful. But you get like I said, you gotta ask yourself, that syndrome, deranged syndrome, I I don't get it. I I mean, I get it. I get it. I got it. They they they there's that's who they're paid, who's their who's paying them. This is what they're reading.
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You know, this is not the days of objective news. It's Of course. Lawyers check this out. You know, I think one of the things that's so important for politics for them to say this. Folks to believe what they're saying and that they're keeping their campaign promises. So I think this gives you a pretty gosh darn good idea of what may be going on. 70%. Doing what he promised to do. You go back to April of twenty seventeen, it was just 46% of all Americans who said that Trump was doing what he promised to do. Compare that now to February of twenty twenty five. You know, there was a good show that was on during the nineteen nineties called A Different World. That is what's going on right now. We're living in a different world. 70% of Americans say Trump is doing what he promised to do. Again, compare that to April of twenty seventeen when it's just 46% when Americans are 24 points more likely to say that you're doing what you promised to do, it's no wonder that your net approval rating is much more likely to be on the positive side of the ledger than on the negative side. And so far, what we're seeing again is Americans twenty one days so far versus just eleven days during his entire first term that Trump has a positive net approval rating. Quite a different world.
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Exactly. Because they love him because of what he's doing. They love him because he has the promises made, promises kept. Donald Trump is not your average politician. He's a businessman first. He looks at, I I think I think it's Bongino who says, and and if you haven't checked out the Dan Bongino show, you need to, you know, I I I, you know, he he's I am no competition for Dan Bongino. Okay. I have three people watching the video right now, and I have, and and Dan Bongino has 3,500,000. Okay? I have I have 27 followers, he has 3,500,000. He gets a 85,000 people watching his show. I get three. Four. We just got somebody else. Hey, thank you for watching. Appreciate you.
So, I mean, Dan Bongino says that Donald Trump is a spreadsheets guy. He he he goes with the facts, and and he is business, he is direct, he says what he he says what he means, he means what he says, and he just gets the job done. That's why when I said earlier about the lame duck thing, he might be, you know, quote unquote, you know, a lame duck president, but he is certainly not acting like a lame duck president. You know, he's setting the stage for who's coming next, whether it be, I heard rumblings about Don Junior, and I heard JD Vance. You know, JD Vance, I mean, I I mean, he has totally impressed me. I wasn't sure about JD Vance when he first announced them. Right. I don't know how you felt about it, but you know what? Since I've since I've seen him, and I've listened to him talk, and I've listened to him he he's won me over, bud. And and he actually before all of this, he had some things he didn't agree with Trump. You know? And they go That's right. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's good. It's called dissenting views. Where I I talked to you yesterday about what is a dissenting view.
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Me and Joe can disagree on, whatever it is, but we can still shake hands, have a beer, and that's cool. They don't wanna do that. No. With and Liberal Liberals will not do that. It's name calling and all the other hateful whatever. This it's it's it's insult. That's what their strength is, is insults. Exactly. But the other thing too is is, you know, the the left, the Democrats, I mean, they
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they they coalesce around a talking point and they stay there. Right. Okay. The the DNC says this what you talk about, that's what they talk about. Debt to democracy. Debt to democracy. Debt to democracy. Debt to democracy. And it's the same thing. They they they they have they're they're lemmings. Yeah. Alright. Alright. If you know what I mean by that, they're the lemmings. They just follow their leader. Whereas, at least on the Republican side of the story, at least with the with within the con well, you know, the Republican party at least, you know, we argue. We debate with each other. That's healthy.
That's that's the the the exchange of ideas. That's how things get accomplished. When when you just blindly follow somebody because they said that without ed having any dissenting view, even though you might think you do, or you might you might think in your mind that, well, I don't know if I really agree with that, but, you know, the party says I gotta go with it, so I'm gonna go with it. I mean, I would rather have the ability to argue and debate and and convince me that I'm wrong.
[01:05:09] Unknown:
Well, you know, Joe, the the whole right or wrong is out the window. I mean, like I say, it it Well, Democrats. Yeah. Yeah. It's for Democrats and for for liberal in in general. And, oh, I just seen another poll. The most unhappiest people in America are liberal women.
[01:05:27] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I saw an article last week that that said that, that, that that liberals were that that that therapists were seeing such an uptick in in in in liberals coming in for for counseling because of of Donald Trump that, you know, I I just find that hysterical. I mean, fucking grow up, man. Excuse my language. I'm sorry, but grow up.
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Maturity, growing up, here's a tough word for them, rational. Yeah. What is rational, Joe? I mean, okay. We're at this we're at this crosswalk. Right, Joe? And it's still red. I'll wait till the white signal goes on. No. No. I'm not gonna follow that rule. I'm gonna cross it no matter what. And there the the other day, a guy he just walked slow as he could knowing that, you know, I'm gonna get this guy's guilt. And this it didn't bother me at all, but I'm just going, that's the mentality. There's there are no growth fund. That's why this country needs businessmen because they've nothing produced, but nothing but no growth funds Correct. For this for all of us, for our bank accounts, for interest rates, for having a nest egg. Right. There's no growth fund in inside.
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Right. And now now you know who Frank Luntz is. Right? Yes. The the pollster? Yeah. Alright. Well, Frank Luntz says that, that that former Biden and, Clinton voters who flipped to Trump in 2024 just absolutely love how fast
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that he's moving. I have a clip here. Can I play it for you? Yes, sir. Alright. It's a little bit long. It's about a minute and forty or so. K. Alright. My attention span. We want to have you on because you do a lot of focus groups. You really get behind the numbers, the poll numbers, to the sentiments of voters. And it's so interesting. You've been speaking with a number of voters who were Hillary Clinton twenty sixteen, Joe Biden twenty twenty, and then went for Trump in 2024.
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How are these folks seeing the early days of Trump's second term? Pretty well. Really? And they're reacting to it because they love the pace of change. They were very fed up over the last four years. They wanted action. They wanted results. They looked at prices. They looked at affordability. They looked at immigration, and they didn't see anything happening. They still don't like what he says, but they like what he does. These are Democrats now. I disagree with that. I think they like what he says too. They were not securing the board. They were doing nothing to prevent illegal immigration, that nothing was actually happening.
They wanted to see a reduction in waste for Washington spending, and they're seeing that. So So what they tell me is, I wish he'd be a little bit less rude. But at the same time, they like what he's doing. They believe he's serious about it. And for the first time, they have confidence in the future, which is why you now see some significant shifts in the polling about the expectations
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for the direction in the coming years. It's a big wake up call for Democrats.
[01:08:17] Unknown:
I'm waiting for them to get a message. I'm waiting for them to unify and to understand that to oppose and to be the resistance, which is what some of them use that phrase. That's not what Democrats in grassroots areas want from them. They may not want the approach that Trump is doing, president Trump. By the way, I now know to say president Trump, But they do want action, and they don't see action from the Democrats.
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There really isn't a lot left for the for the for the, for the left to kinda scrape up to feel better. I have a technical question. Yes, sir. Can
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viewers out there hear me? Is am I coming in clear? Because, I mean, I don't know if my grizzly voice is coming through. The grizzly face is still gonna be here, but is there perception coming in? Well, what I'm what I was concerned about,
[01:09:06] Unknown:
is that, like, when I speak, my my window lights up green, and when you're speaking, it's not. Oh, boy. So that's what I'm concerned about. So, if if you're hearing the stream clearly and you're hearing myself and Wayne, drop a comment in the, in in the live chat, or you can drop a comment in the comments below, you know, right right down there. And let us know if you hear everything clearly. Okay? Let us know. Yeah. I can't see that. So Yeah. But I know you're coming through the board clear, so I'm not sure if it's it's getting transmitted through. Alright. So just a little look, folks. This wouldn't be a a show that I'm doing if I didn't have some kind of a technical problem somewhere along the way.
But, but Frank Luntz is, you know, I don't really care for Frank Luntz. I don't like a lot of the things that that he says that comes out of his mouth. I mean, I think he's an idiot in a lot of ways. But, there really isn't much left that the left can can can scrape together that way would where they would feel better. But the truth of the matter is, like we said earlier, well, not we said earlier, but CNN said earlier, we're living in a different world. We're living in a much different world, you know? And the fact that, you know, 70% of Americans are saying that they approve of what the president of The United States is doing, Donald Trump, of all people, you know, the quote, unquote convicted felon, the quote, unquote, you know, fascist dictator, Hitleyresque kinda guy, 70% of Americans are approving of what Donald Trump is doing, and I think that's amazing.
I think that's great, and I I I I don't see I think this is gonna be an amazing period of time for for for for America, and, and I think that a lot of things that are happening right now are gonna be, turned around. Now, I have one more clip, if you don't mind, bro. This is, also CNN. He is the Donald Trump is the first and only president to have a higher net approval rating in his first month of his second term than in any point of his first term. And, I think this is amazing. CNN CNN hates it, and, we are I I let me just play the clip. Let me get to it. Hold on one second.
It is,
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I think six. Yep. One one, I would say, correction. This is not a very different Donald Trump. This is a very different Donald Trump in in as being viewed by voters in this in the way he's going about things in the wild's leading things. I think. In 2025.
[01:11:52] Unknown:
Going at things in a much less disorganized fashion, much more organized. Take me back in history. Take you back in history. So it was so interesting to me that Donald Trump's first net approval rating of his second term is higher than his entire first term. And I was interested. Has that ever happened? Has the second term net approval rating in the first month have you ever had a higher rating than any net approval rating during the entire first term? Donald Trump is the only I'm having a hard time believing this. This is a % true. I will come back. I love spreadsheet. Donald Trump's is the first guy ever whose net approval rating in the first month of his second term is higher than any rating that he had as an entire first term Kate Baldwin. This is true. I don't make stuff up. The numbers are the numbers. The numbers are the numbers. In nothing except
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It has to be burning CNN
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to report this, bro. You know what? And he even had that little Laverne. The numbers are the numbers. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. And,
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CNN actually asked president Trump, on Saturday how far the borders of America extend. And he said, this is a quote, as far as the Burger King military trucking deliver a cheeseburger.
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Well, you know.
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Oh, folks. It's like Christmas every day. This is a great make America great again, brother. Well, I'm still working my grassroots, program to run for governor of Canada. So Well you well, you know what? I I think you should. Yeah. I think you should. Hey folks, just wanna remind you that, that, although we're not getting paid by Lavazza cough coffee coffee, my Brooklyn came out. There you go. We are drinking Lavazza coffee today, and we are really thoroughly enjoying this. Although, I think I'm enjoying it a little bit more than he is because I have some, vacation. I have some Italian liqueur in here. So I'm enjoying this a little bit more than than Wayne is because he's, I don't know, kinda, like, wussied out a little bit on this one. Although although I will say this, he does have some buffalo trace bourbon in his in his glass, and he has a beer chaser right next to him. So Right. It's just you know, I'm Scottish. Last name is Rankin. It's like Jane John Johnson over there in Scotland. So Exactly. Exactly. And so,
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this is a wee bit of the ship. That's what I need right now. That's the wee bit. To to get back at missus Screech there, I cannot believe this. That's your problem. And that's a problem with all of these people who say they cannot believe something. Even though you get a number or like I said, they're gonna go to the gas pump. I can't believe it's a dollar 99 now. It's just something that, you're not gonna cure. I don't think sometimes happiness is meant for people. Some people are just is not gonna be happy, and they don't trust happiness, and they don't have it in them. And they're they're just gonna continue that way. And it's it's a sad situation because we do have an incredible country, and this is a time of our generation. You know, I'm the last baby boomer, Joe. I'm actually the, the year of '60, '60 '1, '60 '2 is considered the last baby boomers.
So so so officially, you are the the last born baby boom ever recorded anywhere in the country. January of sixty one. I think they finished your I think they've been 60. But here's the thing. A lot of my friends are going back to work. Well yeah. You know? I'm not talking, boy, they plan bad. But, man, car insurance, health insurance, all the things you wanna actually live for or, I mean, love work for and you try to have a living, it's not adding up. I mean, I like you know, like I said, a Bronco Ford Bronco is $80,000. I mean, I'm not gonna buy one, but, well, houses. I mean, in some parts of the country, my my grandson would never own a house where I live in one of the higher, higher end of of house prices in Western Washington. So us baby boomers, those guys, like I say, you're seeing more wall Walmart blue vest with gray hairs.
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Yeah. You see that here too. Yeah. You you do. Let's, let let's just kinda shift directions here because this is kinda comical too. This is the Tom Homan. I love Tom Homan. I I I really do. You know? And maybe it's because I'm, you know, New York City, Former Law Enforcement, and, you know, but he's had this this, adversarial relationship with with, with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Cortez, for since 2016, since he he was, with the Trump administration the first go around. And, I I I it it just continues on, and I have a clip here that I wanna play. It is a long clip, so I'm only gonna play a part of it, you know. But basically, Tom Homan, you know, if you if you if you followed anything with Tom Homan and and, AOC, you realize that, there there really isn't much love there between the two of them. No. Right? And, over the weekend here, Tom Homan appeared in a in a Newsmax interview where he blasted AOC as, quote, the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to congress. Alright? So what let me let me just play that for you. It I'm not gonna play the whole thing. It's like a four minute clip. It's too long.
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But, let me just play this for you really quick. The first part anyway. Look, she's she's she's the dumbest congresswoman ever enlisted to congress, and she proves that every day. And look Let's try that again. Look. She's she's she's the dumbest congresswoman ever who listens to Congress, and she proves that every day. And look. Bottom line is I can't believe any member any member of Congress, Republican, Democrat, independent, would wanna educate criminal illegal aliens who are in the country illegally, been convicted of a violent crime, and have been ordered removed by an immigration judge after due process at great taxpayer expense.
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Isn't that amazing? Yes. There's a sitting member of congress. There's a sitting member of congress. Even though she didn't appear in the video Mhmm. That that that was put out it was put out by her office. Right. You know what I'm saying? So so
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I I I don't know. I think, I think AOC might be in some trouble. You know, I look at people like that. It's like, who's got who's got the lucky fortune to be mister AOC?
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I don't think she's married. Okay. I don't think I don't think she's married. And I know there was a rumor going around at one point that she might even pregnant, but, thank God. No. She's not reproducing. But But I said rational. It's not rational. Yeah. But I I mean, I know she has a she's dating someone, or she has a a Yeah. A thing. I don't know if it's a boy or girl. I don't I don't know. But let let me not let me be careful because I don't wanna get, you know, sued by, congresswoman AOC. But at any rate, I just wanted to share that because this is an ongoing this this is, like, comical to me anyway. I I I appreciate every time these these two kinda spar off at each other. I I think it's great, and, I look forward to every, every interaction between the two of them.
But one thing I do wanna talk about though is, something that's kinda close to home. As you guys pretty much know, if you know me at all, I am born raised in Brooklyn, New York. Grew up in Sheepshead Bay. I'm a New Yorker by by birth. I'm a Texan by by, by Providence. There you go. Alright. I had to think of the right word there. I think I think it's the it's either the buffalo trace that we're about halfway through here, brother, or the, the Sambuca in the in the coffee. But, again, a New Yorker by birth, a Texan by by by Providence.
But, I am concerned about things going on in New York because my sister lives in New York. You know that, brother. Yep. And I and I I do worry about her because, you know, a lot of this illegal immigration stuff, you know, does affect her. But, this was very interesting, and and to me anyway. New York City is is New York State as a whole is doing everything they possibly can to keep letting noncitizens vote. I mean, I think that's the I'm looking at this, article from Woke Spy. Another great spy another great site to check out, wokespy.com. And, their article here says this is who wrote this? Josh Slocum.
Perhaps in five years or ten, Americans will look back on this period from 02/2020 to 02/2024 the same way we look at the Salem witch trials of the sixteen nineties. How could they have been so stupid?
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Yeah.
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And during the Biden presidency, all manner of irrational and frankly insane practices became the new normal. And and brother, we know this. We we we've seen this. You're talking about sterilizing, kids with puberty blockers. Right? Telling telling young boys that, yeah, it's okay. You could be a girl today. Telling young girls that it's okay. We can remove your breasts, and we can say you're a boy. That all became normal during the Biden predest presidency. And then you had the rioting with, with Antifa. You had the rioting with, Black Lives Matter, all of which were just money laundering schemes for the Democratic party.
And it was okay for them to torch government buildings. It was okay for them to occupy what was that in Seattle? They called it Chop. The the the CHAZ. They call it chop. Chop or whatever it was. Yeah. Causing billions of dollars in damage Right. That insurance companies have to pay or or should pay or supposed to pay.
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Well, when your mayor tells your policeman and your law enforcement to stand down. Right. I mean, it's breaking a guy's window. Stand down. Yeah. Okay. I'll let him do it. It's fine. Yep. But yet,
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people peacefully walking through the capital, the federal government under Joe Biden, under what's his name? Who's the AG? I even forgot already. Mayorkas?
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No.
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Yeah. No. It was that other idiot. Whatever. Well, I wouldn't got my brain my brain Nobody nobody my brain cleansed from all those people. No. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. He he he he was put forward. Right. He was rejected as a as a as a candidate for, Supreme Court, so he got vindictive, and he just did a little stupid shit. Yeah. But, they invested thousands of FBI agents to track down grandma for walking through the Capitol peacefully, but yet let BLM, Antifa, and all these people burn down police stations, burn down federal buildings, burn down neighborhoods, destroy, vandalize, all that stuff, and they walk away scot free.
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Yep. They did in Minneapolis,
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Seattle, Portland. Right. Portland was the poster boy out there for What was, I think the the mayor was out there eating popcorn, watching it. Didn't Tim Walz's wife during the during the, campaign say that she opened the windows to the house so they can smell the burning
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tires and Exactly. It's the freedom of speech. Fucking morons. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And it's coming to roost. It's coming to roost. Yeah. I mean, people are losing their jobs. That's right. But you know what else is becoming normal?
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Surprised this is, this is one of those questions that, you'll never get the answer to, bro. Okay. Do you do you know what else is becoming normal? Go. New York City allowing people who are not supposed to vote to vote. That's Washington. People who are not supposed to be who people who are not citizens to vote. New York City is allowing that. But if that's not crazy enough, the state is actually fighting in court fighting in court, brother. To keep it going. To keep to to keep allowing it. In 02/2022, an an, a law went into effect in New York, that would allow, undocumented or or documented noncitizens to vote in city elections.
Right.
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The same thing in Seattle area too. We we have no voter ID.
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New York doesn't either. You know, it it's it's it's crazy. New York doesn't either. They always go blue no matter what. Every is it me or do you notice that yourself? That every state, city, county that does not allow voter ID always blue?
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Oh, I think when they even start the, every presidential election, I think it's already blue when it comes on. Yeah. I'm serious. Yeah. The Left Coast, those three states, which is one big state now, it's like, well, these guys are already blue. We're not even gonna go to that point yet. If I like, my two hours are already, you know, I mean, they've called it California twenty minutes after the the polls have opened. Yeah. It's gonna go blue. Of course. And, it's it's like I said, I call it the People's Republic of Washington State. And everything that there's a guy named Bob Ferguson. He's got more anti gun bills coming this year than ever. Mhmm. Yeah. You know? So
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Just just trampling across.
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Two two two bulls in that magazine might be too much. It's ridiculous. Yeah. That's absolutely ridiculous.
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Well, well, Elon Musk highlighted, the problem with the clip from, Fox News anchor. Brian Kilmeade, had a conversation with a New York lawmaker, and, let's, let let's take a look at what, what they had to say here. This is, it's a it's a three minute clip. I don't know if I'm gonna play the whole thing, but, we'll get some of it in here.
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New York's top court set to consider noncitizen voting in New York City elections today. Get this. Noncitizen, you don't belong here. You're not registered. Blowing off court appearance doesn't matter. That would add 800,000 noncitizen voters. Why is this even a discussion?
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It shouldn't be. New York Republicans fought back against this effort, several years ago. We were victorious in the lower court and the appellate division, and now it goes to the court of appeals. Unfortunately, I'm a little, bit concerned because the New York court of appeals has been corrupted by Kathy Hochul and New York Democrats. This is why they tried to gerrymander our maps again last year. They added, people who are way too progressive for the court, to try and, move the court in a different direction. I am concerned certainly that the court of appeals will make a political decision and not follow the constitution.
It is very clear. Non citizens do not have the right to vote in our elections, period. There's a reason New York is a sanctuary state and city though. And the reason is they want illegal immigrants counted as part of the census. That gives them more congressional seats, and it gives them more electoral votes. That's what this all boils down to. They want them to be able to vote in our elections. I fundamentally believe, that it is wrong. It violates both The US and state, New York state constitutions, and needs to be, prohibited. And if the court had any courage, or any conviction at all, it will reject this outright today.
[01:28:20] Unknown:
You would think, because they wanna loosen up that. Next thing you know, noncitizens voting in general elections. They'll figure out a way to do that. You know what I think it is? Republicans getting very close in New York to winning a lot of traditional democratic seats, maybe even the Governor's Mansion, and they gotta start letting everybody know that we're gonna have to maybe bend the rules a little to stay in power. Mike Lowell, thanks so much.
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President Trump's been fighting the globalist for years, and now he's got them right by the throat. But there's a lot of traitors, a lot of cowards hiding in the shadows. That's
[01:28:58] Unknown:
Hey, Alex. Hey. There's Joe. And I'm gonna ask you a question, Joe. Yep. Everybody thought we were crazy about voter fraud in '16. You got 800,000 reasons right there. It's like, the the press secretary. The question was asked. How many of the 3,500, illegal aliens are criminals? She said all of them. A hundred you know, 3,500 because you're committing a crime in America if you hear illegally. If you're voting and you're not a citizen, maybe I'm throwing it out there. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. That's kind of a voter fraud, isn't it? You don't know what you're talking about. Legal legal citizen. No. You don't know what you're talking about. Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just forget that. Don't worry about it. It's okay. Okay. 800,000 people could that, you know, voting in the election, you know, that don't have any reason to be voting in election. Yeah. No. No. You're fine. No fraud. I just wanna apologize. I had to run out. I had to use a little boy's room, so, I thought I'd get back. I didn't you know, I listened to the clip, but for side, it wasn't expecting Alex Jones to come.
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Busted out of here. Yeah.
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Hello. Good.
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So I can't do an Alex Jones yet. But I did hear a little bit of light there. Hoping maybe they can get the, Governor's Mansion.
[01:30:12] Unknown:
Well, you know what? I I think I think that that's there's there's a possibility of that. And, if you remember last night, we talked with, Blake Fisher. Blake Fisher. Do you remember? Yeah. And he mentioned something about Kathy Hochul, removing, Eric Adams as mayor. And, you know, I saw a clip earlier today, exactly talking about that. So, you know, that that's that's kinda that's kinda scary when you think about it. You know? That's kinda scary. Alright, brother. Well, that's all the clips that I have, for today. As far as, you know, the national stuff and and and politics, I have some stuff from, local local news, as we've been trying to do, more regularly talking about local things that affected state of Texas.
So I don't know if you I don't know if you had a couple of things you wanted to bring up before we get into that or or Yes. I do. Or do you wanna take a quick break or No. One last thing before we go local Okay. To the lone star state.
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USDA inspector general was released. Oh, really? And she didn't go peacefully. They had to actually escort her with security or I don't know whatever government, police that they have. And she was released from her job and many others in in that there were there's a lot of, she declined to comment and she refused to leave because Surprise. Of her rogue partisan policies and very non transparent. And we're talking about the USDA food and we won't even get into the chicken, thing because of the chicken slaughter of what's been happening. It's not just the chickens. It's it's so much more the USDA. And our farmers have been getting creamed.
And back in the early Biden, I mean, when they were they were the the fuel, and they were saying their farm's going out of business. And they like I said, it's really like there's no sweat off of their back. They're not out there with their, you know, with their tractors and what have you. So she's gone. Phyllis Fong is no longer at the USDA. Phyllis Fong. Yep.
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Fong.
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So there's a lot of, like even if okay. Here's another one. And this actually can relate to the LA fires because I was a forest firefighter myself at The USA for way, way back in the day.
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Did you manage to interrupt you for one second, bro? I I just wanna you know, folks, I I don't think you know just exactly how much Wayne has done in the course of his life. He he he you know, the more the more you talk to Wayne, the more you understand just how involved he's been in everything. And and and I I don't mean to to distract from what you wanna talk about, but you also work with Samaritan's Purse, don't you? Yeah. And and,
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we're we're we're eyes on the ground. Like, you you military people, food boots on the ground. Right? Mhmm. And Samaritan's Purse, we were like the third responders in the hurricane. I went up to Burnsville, North Carolina, which was the worst of the worst spot of the whole hurricane healing. Right. And, we were there. Like I said, this is gonna be graphic of some of the things I'll say. They were still pulling bodies out when we got there. This North Carolina, it was very mountainous. You're talking to train, you know, like, you know, elk hunting type of situation. Because I'm from Western Washington. I know the terrain. It's something similar. But getting in there, but, FEMA, there was no FEMA to be found and all of the things that I was hearing from the people who lost everything, we didn't get any help from other than religious organizations or I say, you know, Christian organizations is for me because Samaritan's Purse, Billy Billy Graham Foundation and his son Franklin.
But we were we were boots on the ground and we we had to get things done and a big part of it was is just there was no there was no hope for some of the people. And this is the truth. If you had a Trump sign, FEMA was gonna pass your house. Then she got the who her was got fired. That's how deranged this is. Well, I guess that guy's wait. He's got a Trump sign. Okay. They lost everything. Let's move on. And that's puts on the ground feet on the ground where I was there talking to the local people said, yes. They passed my house. Right. So that's that's that whole thing of what's true. Like, I cannot blame these, statistics. Well, I can believe the people whose lives were just not destroyed, but, yeah, some of them are. One family lost all of their children, floated down the river over there and helped them out. So, there's participants and spectators.
Yeah. And no matter what you do. Now you worked with Samaritan's Purse. Yes. You, you did firefighting, volunteer firefighting? Yeah. At the, USDA Forest Service in Western, Eastern Western Washington, you know, fighting the fires. And I've known a lot of people that stuff in LA, you gotta have water in the hydrants. You got all the things that were brought up even like Mel Gibson whose house burnt. You know? Mel's got some pull, and he went to people who said, why did they clear the reservoir? And Trump said the same thing too. Right. And when you you talk to the police or the fire captain chief's, fire chief, blowhard, what happened? Well, I don't know. Oh, you have to know. I'm a fireman. I said I was a fireman. You better know there's water in there three sixty five. Mhmm. You can't have I don't know. It doesn't that's that's that's not a that's not an option as they say. So, yeah. Samaritan's Purse. I'm heading up to, Alaska here in March. It it was a Samaritan's Purse job I did in '16 with my late wife. It's Voice for Christ Ministries, Western Tundra, and it's, a radio station and a homeless shelter and some, some church work and helping at the food food, you know, center there and, meals and just, sharing Jesus' name. And a very, very dark area up there. There's a lot of hardship, a lot of alcoholism, and a lot of suicide Wow. In Western Alaska. So, yeah. Either participate as the Lord said, occupy till I come. Just occupy till I come. Just just and I just do. Like I said, I just do. And, and I said, like I said, I think of you guys that were at 09:11 and the work everybody did there. And it's amazing how quick America did it. You know, how think of other countries how long it would have took to dig out of that.
And and we did it resolve and everything. It wasn't wasn't just New York. It was the whole America. People went there from there were fire trucks coming from across the country and and helpers from across the country. And, that's what we do. And, you know, that's Trump's neighborhood also. You know, he was from that area. And he was too. So, that's that's the American spirit. And and like I said, Trump's not a he's not a politician. He's a businessman, but his business is mankind. How's that one? It really That's a good one. It is. It is. But, you know, when he looked at these people What is that from, That's from Scrooge. Yeah. Lewis Carroll. Right? Yeah. It it was actually from Dickens when Dickens. Charles Dickens. I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah. He goes yeah. Charles Dickens. Goes to Scrooge. We were men of business. He goes, mankind was our business. And Mankind should have been our business. Absolutely. And that's what I that's what Jesus says too. That's right. Yeah. Give him a drink of water and, That was Carol. Pull out their their their soaking carpet. And so I'm extremely disappointed in myself, brother, because I I I I love Charles Dickens' work, and and and,
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that is one of my favorite of Charles Dickens works, and I missed it. It's redemption. I should be I should be admonished heavily. We need to get one of those, like, Crowder has, like, those admonished
[01:37:32] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Right. Right. Right. We need to do one of those. The way I love this what I love about Scrooge's story is about redemption. Yes. Absolutely. And it's not it's it's for it's for AOC even. It's for
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Schumer. You know, I'm a I'm a Scrooge. Right? You know? Right. Right. Exactly. I hate I hate Christmas. Yeah. You know. Well, not not that I hate Christmas. I I I I The the the commercial stuff, I hate the Passover pie. Yeah. You know? So Yeah. I I actually I do a whole I did a whole show last year about how much I hate Christmas.
[01:37:58] Unknown:
Hillsdale College. It's it's one of those colleges I would send my son to if if he was gonna go to college. And then they got a new thing out about, back in the day, there was, you know, Caesar Augustus. He thought he was deity, and he thought he was a god until a baby was born. Mhmm. Yeah. And things change from that day. You know? And I've been to Israel a couple times. In Herod as well? Absolutely. And so, a baby was born, and he was a little child in a manger, and he he had to come as a man. And, like I said, they counted me out many I've had three heart attacks. How many stents?
I'm a medical, whatever, nominally, but, I still praise Jesus Christ, but I just keep I just do. Hey. We lost a listener. Hey. Get back. Okay. Log back in. Hey. So that's the one thing, though, like I said, you know, I I I've been blessed. And I I will say this. I'm a federal retiree who's still fighting for my retirement
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since February.
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You two had totally showed out that. Pictures. I showed showed the pictures of all the categories. My wife passed away in 2022. I still haven't gotten her insurance payment at three years now. And I can go on and on and on and on. I didn't get this. I've been missing twenty months. I'm missing twenty months of paychecks. I'm missing underpayments. It's it's it's it's a very large figure. And I go, that's what Elon Musk was saying. There's a lot of federal retirees whose paperwork has went down the mine shaft. That's what he's talking about. Literally down to mine shaft. Guess what? I wrote Elon Musk. Did you know? Huge letter. The biggest letter you can write in the postal service documenting all the stuff. I sent Joe the picture of all the categories, and it went to him. And so he said, well, he won't get it. I don't it doesn't need to go to him. Just one of those those guys. It's the it the but the whole point is that you have to you have to bring their attention to this thing, and that's what you did. Right. Exactly. You know? Awareness. Do you know how even the liberals, we have to bring this to awareness. Well, it's awareness. And there's my brother-in-law who's a air force guy, he's been overcharged. Like, I have oh, I've been overcharged too. Or I overpayments.
I don't remember being overpaid. And so my brother's air force brother-in-law, three detours, metal stuff in his back of his neck. He He goes, I don't know what I I don't know how I got overpaid. Sorry about that, bro. I don't know why that popped up on the screen. So there's countless and there's been hardworking federal people. I've I'll just say it myself. I used to walk six mile routes with a big huge bag, and that was in the eighties. And a lot of federal guys really did do their work, you know. And then we didn't get paid, you know, federal, representatives or senators. But, and there's a lot of military guys still fighting for their VA benefits. There's something wrong with that. That's what Trump is gonna be working on. Yeah. You know, and my dad worked for the postal service for for, over thirty years. Yeah. And, you know, it
[01:40:39] Unknown:
and when he when he passed away, it took such work to try to get the benefits that were due to my mom. It it it Why? And it it shouldn't. It it should not take place, but it did doing it. I'm still doing it. It took, I think, my mom passed away, two years after my dad. Right. And it took about a year for us to get all of my dad's benefits and everything, all that squared away. And I gotta give hats off to my sister. My sister did a fantastic job. She did most of the work, but but but, but, you know, it's it's pathetic that that you've spent your entire life working for the federal government,
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and they can't even process your retirement papers properly. I've almost spent as much time trying to collect it as I did work. Which is ridiculous. Twenty twenty. I I I had twenty two years, and I retired twenty 02/2006.
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You do the math. Yeah. No. That's ridiculous. That's absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. Alright, brother. What else you got for us?
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Let me see. Oh, I'd like to know what's going on in Texas. Okay. If we're getting close to that, I I I this I've I've been to Texas once, San Antonio for a week. And down here, I I love it. Took a walk today, a beautiful walk in your community, the fresh air. Like I said, we've had, you guys talk about you told me it was cold here at 62. We haven't had over 40 in three weeks. So it was a rough because I got shorts and doing my walking on my shoes and walking through the neighborhood and feeling the that dry air. And so
[01:42:01] Unknown:
a lot goes on in Texas, it seems like. It does. It does. Actually, Texas is quite Okay. Quite a busy place. But, we are under a, a a cold weather advisory for the next couple of days. So we have to keep that in mind. So temperatures are gonna drop. They're supposed to drop below freezing over the next few days, so we gotta take appropriate measures for that. Okay. Alright. Well, one of the big things that have been taking place around here in Texas is, is this complaint about property taxes, because property taxes are very, very steep here. And it's it's, in personally speaking, I think property taxes need to be abolished. I think it's immoral. I think it's ridiculous that you, you spend thirty years paying off a property, paying off a house You're on it. And you never really own it. You're still you're still paying off the state Yeah. Which is ridiculous. But that's another story of the time. You know, I've reached out to, representative Brian Harrison, and I've asked him to come on the show, and I'm waiting for his people to to finalize all that because, I I I truly do, I I follow, representative Harrison. He's not my representative, but, he's one of the few voices that I found in the Texas legislature that that are really truly, in in line with where I'm thinking on these things. And so I'm hoping that we'll be able to get together very very soon. But, but I was very very happy to find out that somewhere around February 13 or so, the, the the the Texas senate voted 30 to none to pass senate bill four, which is put forth put forth by, senator Paul Bettencourt, out of Houston, to provide property tax relief, under the senate's preliminary budget proposal, s b one. Now, Texas has a, 200 I'm sorry. A $24,000,000,000 surplus.
$24,000,000,000. And, so this bill basically, would raise the homestead exemption, to a 40,000 for adults and a hundred and 50,000 for seniors and those with disabilities, for and it would bring about it's it's an estimate, but about $3,000,000,000 of in relief and tax relief. I mean, that is big. That's huge. It's a step in the right direction. I I and, like I said, I'm I'm hoping that at some point, we can have an actual discussion about property taxes and getting and abolish these taxes. I mean, it's
[01:44:39] Unknown:
I don't know where you stand on property taxes, brother. I mean I got a new one in. Yeah. I know. That was a loaded question. I know I know where you stand. I got a thing last year. Your your vacant property are only weeds and tree or not even trees go barely. $700
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a year. That's ridiculous. For nothing. For nothing. Right? For nothing. They're immoral. They need to be abolished. And I'm hoping that that'll come about come about eventually. But until then, this is a this is a win for us, and I'm I'm really happy about that. Let's see. What else do I wanna talk about? Alright. Well, what we've been doing over the last couple of weeks, I mean, this is episode number 20 of the podcast, which is fantastic. I can't say it's been twenty weeks that we've been doing this because we started off doing it month doing it weekly, but now we've been doing it daily, basically.
So, episode 20 here, we started off probably week two or three, where we started talking about Texit. And we'd we'd be doing a Texit fact of the day. Now in full disclosure, I am a member of, the Texas nationalist movement. Alright? And what's that? Well, the, the TNM is basically a political action committee, if a lack of a better term. And, the T and M advocates for Texas independence. Now, Texas is not well, well, let me see what Texas is. It's a process. Alright? It's the process of Texas becoming an independent nation state of its own, like it once was. And that's done through the legislative process. It's not done through taking up arms. It's not lining up the military, you know, like in the legislative process.
And what we've been doing over the last couple of weeks, we've been talking about text it facts, FAQs. And all of these facts you can find on textitnow.org. Textitnow.org. It's a great resource. You should head over there and check it out. But, I've been pulling out one or two, you know, as we've been going along here, and I've been talking about these things. Now, the one that I picked out today had to do has to do with international relations. I mean, that's something that's that's come up quite a bit. And, the you know, basically, what I wanna what I wanna talk about today is the transition, to independence.
Alright? So, basically, the question would be, how difficult will it be for Texas to transition from a state in the American Union to an independent nation. Now independence this is from the article. Independence is not a single act embodied in a referendum. Independence is a state of being. The referendum is the first step in the process, an expression of, political will that kicks off the process of becoming independent. Does that make sense to you? Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So, it is, however, an important step. It's a very important step. An an expression of of of political will must be respected. It demands action. However, that action has to be balanced. It has to be balanced with care and with caution as Texas enters the next phase, which would be negotiation and transition.
There should be, according to the article, one single aim for relations with The United States in the immediate aftermath of Texas, minimizing disruption. While those opposed to Texas would love to think that disruption cannot be avoided or even mitigated as Texas leaves the union, they're dead wrong. In fact, the tools necessary to, to affect a speedy, efficient, and minimally disruptive tax are really already at our disposal. Before discussing what specific measures could or should be taken after the referendum, What we have to understand is it's important to take stock of these tools and examine how and this this might blow you away, Wayne. Okay.
There are a 95 independent, self governing nation states already in operation around the world. A 95. Modern, self governing, western style nation states typically use four mechanisms to to conduct the business of state. Fundamental issues of governance are addressed in a constitution, that if it's already in existence, which Texas is, already has a constitution, just like just like all states have a constitution. If it's already in existence and contains a method to do so, it can be it can be changed through amendments. In the in the case of Texas, the existing state constitution is already in the form of a republic with a form that is virtually identical to that of an independent nation state.
Nations, at least those that are republics, have legislative bodies that make laws under the authorization of the of the constitution of the state. The executive branch of the government can execute administrative actions that affect the operations of its various departments and agencies and set the rules for how the laws are executed. The final set of tools are the final the final set of tools in the arsenal are international agreements that come in either the form of bilateral agreements between two countries or standing multilateral agreements to which more than two countries have signed on. Now what's very interesting here, brother, is I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but, our governor, governor Abbott, who is the chief executive officer of the state, has been making rounds outside The United States with Great Britain and other countries.
While not officially signing agreements and and so forth, but have been laying the groundwork. Right. And it's something that I've said frequently and other people have said also is that, you know, some of the politicians might not come out directly and say that they're in favor of Texas, that they're in favor of Texas independence and Texas become standing once again among the nations as an independent nation state. They may not be able to say it directly, but their actions show otherwise. Ted Cruz is one of those. Governor Abbott is another one. You know, there are several representatives in the state legislature that are in that position as well. Right now, the Texas naturalist movement has, I think, twenty twenty legislators that have signed on to the Texas First Pledge, which is basically Texas.
Sixty six percent of the population of Texas are in favor of Texas independence. Yeah. This is something oh, I think I think we lost the light. Alright. Well, we know that two hours is too long for these, these tower lights on battery power, but okay. So we have a little more romantic lighting, brother. So, now nations at least those that are republics, like I like I already said, the tools of statecraft are important to understanding the mechanism that can be used to transition from being a member state of The United States to an independent nation state.
However, one other component is helpful in understanding how a transition will play out. This is a major shift in the mindset that follows a referendum outcome in favor of Texas. From the moment the vote is certified, Texas and The United States become, for all intents and purposes, foreign to one another. Texans must begin to view The United States and its government no differently than any other foreign government or supranational entity. Supranational entity. Negotiating with the federal government becomes like negotiating with Mexico or the United Nations. There are highly probable scenarios where the outcome of Texas leading the union is smooth with virtually no disruption.
After all, it is in the best interests of both Texas and The United States to ensure that this that disruption is kept to a minimum while respecting the decision of Texans to govern themselves. Using existing legal mechanisms, federal policies, and international norms, and institutions that currently govern the relationship between The United States and other countries point to a smooth transition. Now, again, all of this information is available to you by going to texitnow.com. Dex texitnow I'm sorry. Texitnow.org.
Okay? Very less look. Texas becoming an independent nation is is inevitable. It's going to happen. Whether it's in my lifetime or not, it's going to happen. It's important that we lay the groundwork for that smooth transition. Alright? You have to look at The United States as the American as the American Union. States voluntarily joined the union. Not too long ago, a popular radio or or podcaster made a comment that, Texas belonged to The United States. Like, Texas had ownership. I'm sorry. That The United States had ownership of Texas. The United States, the federal government of The United States, did not have ownership over any state. Each and every state, all 50 states are inherently independent countries, alright, that voluntarily joined the union.
There is no statute within the constitution of The United States that says that a member state cannot withdraw from the union. The tenth amendment makes that very clear. Now Texas can leave the union just like any other state. My question to you, and maybe, Wayne, maybe you can answer this question as as somebody, you know, as as part of a state that doesn't have a movement like this. Why is it okay for a country like Mauritania, small island country out in the Pacific? Right. Didn't really come into existence until after World War two. Why is it okay for that country, that nation state, to come into existence as an independent country?
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And I think about Hawaii. When Hawaii come to state? Nineteen fifty? Yeah. That's pretty young. Yes. Think about it and how that all happened. How they bought the state and how they just kind of took it over here. We own you now. This is our state. Here's your governor. Here's your here's our taxes, you know. And, some, you know, that's something to think about, how they acquired it. How do you get the opposite and leave it? Is it it's like a reverse process that, hey. You can have your governor back or, you know, we'll hire someone else or we will vote in someone else. And, I mean, Texas. It's just it's it it has its own rugged individuality.
I mean, it's historic. It does. I think you bought it. All of the the heroes from Texas and how they stood up for so much and, you know, it's it's a I'm just walking here and driving from the airport. There's just some there's some rough country here. That's true. And there's some people that endured, you know, crossing Texas and planning here and, you know, and the wars that were fought and the people that raised up to have cattle and all all the, you know, agricultural and industry and business. I mean, I I believe Dallas is some of the richest people in the world, the oil people. And it's it's almost like it is its own country. It really is. It takes forever to drive across. Right? Well, since you've been here, have you noticed how
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in any other state that you've been to, have you ever seen any other state fly the state flag?
[01:57:08] Unknown:
It was in the urinal at the Walmart. I didn't wanna take a picture, but I'm Wasn't expecting that. But okay. Yeah. There's a Texas flag in the urinal It's over the over the urinals. Bless their hearts. It's very proud. There's a lot of stars and and cemented on the the bridges and The lone star state, bro. Absolutely. And it's it's it's almost like that lone star mentality. We'll take this alone. We'll take the the you know, here I go again on my own, the old famous song that I love. You know, walking down the road I, you know, etcetera. And that's the kind of the attitude that Texas is taking. We can do this ourselves, ourselves as a group. That's right. One. And one people are a large group and we can, you know, whatever their national, ink or the the income is, it's gotta be incredible.
I mean, you think of what they what they produce here.
[01:57:59] Unknown:
Well, Texas is is is in a very unique position because Texas has all the natural resources that you need to to be an independent state. Okay. Alright? You have That's my question. You have the oil reserves, you have the natural gas reserves, you have the, the shale, you have plenty plenty of, farmland, you have warm water seaports, you have the Gulf Of America. The Gulf Of well, the Gulf Of Texas. You have all of these things that are the benefit to an independent nation. Yeah. Texas will if if Texas when, I should say, Texas leaves the union, it will become the eighth largest economy GDP in the world in the world. Yeah.
You know, militarily, Texas will rank twelfth in the world. Damn. You know, I mean, it it there there there's absolutely no reason. I I know somebody had I I I had made a comment on on a post in on on x one day, and so I said, I wish I knew what the taxes take care of the border by itself. Well, who do you think is taking care of the border now? Yeah. Or at least was doing it prior to the Trump administration coming in? It was Texas. The Texas military department. Texas has its own military. So Texas is more than capable of taking care of itself. Texas is more capable more than capable of of, of of taking its place among the nations of the world.
There's nothing that can stop this except politics. Yeah. And, you know, we're hoping with that simple fact that we have 20 or more Texas first, elected officials in the state house, that this might become more of a reality now than it has in the past. And, again Right. When you have six over 60% of the population that's in favor of that type of a move Mhmm. That type of, you know, an independence movement. Hey. You know what? It's more feasible now than it ever has been. And look, Texas is not alone in this. I I've told you many, many, many times, folks, and and and Wayne, we talked about this. There are 25 states right now that have secession referendums going through the legislative process.
It's not something that's unnatural. It's not something that's, that's anathema. It's not something that's that's that's that's treasonous or seditionist or or seditious, I should say. It it's none of that stuff that you guys email me and tell me that I am every time I talk about this. You know?
[02:00:36] Unknown:
If I were on the Pacific Northwest, they wanna split Oregon. Oregon wants to become part of the either the Eastern or Eastern Oregon. Which is a secession. And it looks it's it's got kind of that Texas feel. Agriculture, ranchers, and, you know, natural gas, tons of tons of, you know, and, you know, tons of environment out there that they can sustain or something. But they just want they wanna be taken up by Idaho, which is, you know, somewhat conservative state, but it would make sense because Western Oregon or oh, boy. I don't even wanna go there. Of course. I mean, it's it's it's a it's a disaster politically and then everything else. This country was founded on secession. Yeah.
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The 13 individual states, countries, that's what state is. Yeah. Right. It's a country. Right? 13 individual states separated from the greatest military power in the world at the time. Right. If you look at the treaty that was signed by the 13 states with Great Britain, each state is listed individually. It's not one common country or nation as they like to call it. It was a a treaty between Great Britain and the 13 states of America. The American Union. The federal government was designed specifically for regulation of interstate commerce and mutual defense. That was really it. It's all it was for. Right.
It has grown exponentially since then. It has become something that it is not it was never intended to be. But, you know, I'm looking at the clock here, brother. We are way over our time. We're two hours and ten minutes in already. So let's, let's wrap this up. So, you can get more information about this. If you're ready to join 632,000 Texans who are, supporting the work of the Texas Nationalist Movement, just head over to texitnow.org. Head over to our website, joeruciello.com/t and m. Scan the QR code, click the links, register your support, register your membership, make a donation to the organization, help us make Texas independent again.
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Alright. Wayne, do you have anything before we, say goodnight? That was a lot of stuff right there. Yep. It's quite a bit. Yes. Okay. It's a wonderful show, and everyone have a wonderful night out there, and God bless America. Alright. Well, folks, I think that's gonna do it for us for tonight. Wayne, thank you again for being with us here. You're welcome. Really appreciate it. Thanks, folks, for taking the time to be with us tonight. Two hours is a long haul, but that's what we're here for. Like, subscribe, and share. Don't forget to do that. Make Texas independent again. Go podcasting. Keep a steady stride. And Happy trails to you. Good night.
Goodbye. 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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Hey folks, This is Joe Rusciello. It is great to be with you once again on a beautiful Tuesday night here at Eagle Pass, and we are coming to you live tonight, of course, from the pimple on the backside of Texas. The beautiful city of Eagle Pass broadcasting from the Asylum Studios. And folks, we are gonna do the very, very best that we can tonight to bring you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the podcast. Wow. What a day. What a day. What a day. Lighting's a little different in here tonight because we changed things around just a little bit. Still haven't gotten the new desk yet. We're still working on that. It's coming, I think. Who knows?
I don't know. Screw it. If it comes, it comes. I don't I don't know. But we're gonna get it very, very soon, and, part of the reason why we, another part of the reason why I should say, why we have different lighting scheme going on here is because, we actually, believe it or not, set up a camera for, my number two seat, and I'm here with, with Wayne. Wayne Rankin has joined us once again. Yes. And it is great, brother. It is great to have you here.
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It's an honor and privilege, Joe. And you know what? The, one thing the Democratic the Democratic party is giving us is a lot of material.
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That that well, they sure have, brother. They sure have. What the heck was that? It just flashed across my screen. It wasn't boobs, so it's not,
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you know. No. Joe and company, they've left us a treasure. If there's any treasure they did leave We have. Scandal, unaccountability.
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Hey, brother. Do me a favor. On the bottom of your screen there, you can see a little microphone. Right? Can you click that for me? Thank you, sir. Thank you. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Turn it off. Okay. Very good. Very, very good then. Alright. You're you're coming through five by five as they say.
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Alright. Outstanding. Brother, how you doing today? I'm doing good. I mean, you know what? Another good day for the Trump administration. Elon Musk, man. You don't wait a second, do you? You go right into the politics. No. You know, the thing is, so much politics that it is is, this country, it is changing. I mean, a lot of a lot of the news today, a lot of people are jumping the democratic ship big time and some big names too. And so For sure. Yeah. The thing is, I think when you start really seeing things and when you uncover stuff and the facts are there, it's real hard, but there's still gonna be some that doesn't matter. You know, you they're the type of people you can show the robber on the video, and they go, that's not him, but they know it's him. It's just so it's just denial. They live in Egypt as they say, the river denial. Yeah. I I I see. But, you know, I I really I I kinda wanted to start off by asking you a question. Go right ahead.
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So it's it's your first night you spent your first night here sleeping in Eagle Pass. Yes. I wanted to ask you how you slept. You're the you're you're you're like the first person to sleep in the guest room here. So I was just wondering how it was, but you'd mad jump right into the politics. Yeah. Well, you know, thing is,
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I live in a like I say, I live in a communist state, the People's Republic Of Washington State. And number one, and here's the number one thing, no voter no voter ID. There's literally I mean, they've uncovered, and we'll get to this on the Social Security issue, countless people voting multiple times. Multiple times. I mean, it's like, uncle Elmer is dead, but he voted seven times this year. And we're never gonna see any change in that state where, in any not just Republican, but represent representation because they're gonna keep get voted in because, they're good at lies like mister Hawkins was saying, the government can.
And in Washington state, they can. Wasn't that great? Yeah. Seattle, Washington, like I said, they have about 15,000 campers there in Blue Tarp. And it's getting to be pretty pretty sad story of a wonderful great city that's no longer people us locals, us in Washington, we only go there. So, it's like I said, I'm a pilgrim in an unholy land unholy land there. So, yeah, a lot of stuff to talk about tonight.
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And you're you're all you're all business.
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Yeah. Well, you know what? The you know, we got a man that he is business, and he means business. Yeah. And as I said, new sheriff in town. Anybody that could take a bullet to the earlobe like that and not flinch hardly, this you gotta have the respect. Yeah. I mean, people all over the world are I'm sure there's third world countries going, if he gets in, we'll follow what he's saying, man, because,
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he didn't flinch. And that's the thing about it. And then there's a lot of the people he's bringing in, they're not flinching either. That's right. You know? So, So folks, just so you know, Wayne is sitting right across from me. Right over there. So it may look like he's somewhere else. It looks like he's looks like he's in Alaska or something. I don't know. But but he he he's right over there. And and hey hey, brother show us the shirt you wear. What are you wearing over there? Alex Jones is right. Yeah. Change your mind. I get that. Me me now go way back. I'm talking before the Obama deception, and And you got your info wars hat on? Yeah. Exactly. That's great. You're repping. You're repping. He was right right. A lot of stuff. So Yeah. But that's the scary thing, isn't it? Mhmm. And there's a lot of people that talk about, Alex Jones as as, like, some kind of a CIA plant or something like that, but I don't know. I just think that, I just think that he has the pulse on all this stuff, and I think he's right more than he is wrong. And you can respect this. He's from Texas. Yeah. The well, yeah. Austin. Yeah. So, I mean He's about four hours from where we are right now. But, he he is really the poster boy of grassroots.
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When they say grassroots, I mean, small he started small stations and, he he he just he stayed the ground, stayed the course no matter what they threw at him. And, you know, he's he's picked up I mean, he's picked up Trump. He interviewed Trump and and Joe Rogan, and he's got some, you know, like I said, some clientele that are solid. Mhmm. And they like facts too. You're not gonna go on Joe Rogan and blow smoke. That's all there is to it. No. Joe's gonna call you out right there, and he's gonna throw the f bombs in there, and that's his style. That's his style. But him and Alex and Tucker Carlson interviewed him, says, I never liked you, actually. No.
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Alex Jones was right. That's what he said. Tucker said it. And I I do remember that. Yeah. I I do remember that. That that was that was pivotal moment in, in in in television
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Yeah. Interviewing history. I'm being sarcastic, of course. Before we start, Joe, we are gonna be looking at some institutions that we got on paper and and you got on film. And and that's it's a sad story of so many institutions that were built to a, help, like, my my my my parents' generation, like Social Security and other, you know, things that we we we thought we could trust that we could, you know, keep and and and be honest, but it's a disaster. Yeah. I see what you did there. Yeah. Some of these really bad bad players.
And we'll start with, like I say, the Social Security itself, and there really is no security. I mean, I'm a retired middle man. And when I started or eventually back in the early eighties, I was passing out Social Security checks to people. And I go, you're pretty young for that. He goes, oh, that's my SSI check check. I didn't even know what that was. I did not want you got a check for not working. It's caught up to us. Sure. Yep. Yeah. So, it's in, taxpayer fraud. There's tax I'll let you take the show. Okay. Well I'm here for you, brother. Well, I I and I appreciate it. It is
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an honor and privilege to sit and share. Thank you for giving my show back. I I I appreciate it. I love you, brother. You know that. We're having a good time here. Alright, folks. Let's pay some bills before we get started here. Alright? So, I'm gonna ask you to do a couple of quick things things for me. First of all, would you head over to our website, joerussello.com. When you get over there, open up that contact form, send us over any questions, comments, cares, concerns that you might have, any any issues that you might be thinking of, any critiques. Although, we don't really want the critiques too much because there's too much to critique. But, but definitely head over to the website, send us over any messages you might have, use the contact form, or if you don't wanna use that, totally fine. That's why we set up the email address, that nobody really checks, and that's info at sort of that's [email protected].
I keep on using the other the other show's, email address. It's [email protected]. That's [email protected]. Now, also, while you're on our website, if you would, please look for the support button that, it's up there. And then the little right side of the page is a little pancake thing there. You can click on that and, look for the support page. So there's a number of ways you can you can help us out. We we do really depend on our listeners to help us, run things and keep things moving along here. And, we are a, what you would call, a value for value podcast.
And all that basically means is that, if you are, receiving any value at all from what we're doing here, we're asking that you return that value to us in the form of a donation. Now you can donate your time, your talent, or your treasure, your three t's. Alright? So I know I put up four fingers, but I meant three. You could you donate your three t's, your time, your talent, your treasure. Alright? I think it's pretty obvious what that means, but if you need me to explain it to you, your time could very simply and easily be, giving your time as far as doing research for us and helping us put some items together for the show, promoting the show for us, You know, across social medias, that's always a big help. We could always use that type of, that type of, of help.
Also, your talent. Maybe you are a web designer. Maybe you are a graphic artist. Maybe you write music. Maybe you are great at, doing voice recordings. Any number of things that that you can do, you can donate that to the show and that would always be welcome and always be helpful and always used. So, if you so that's your talent. Then, of course, there's your treasure. Now your treasure, of course, is your money. Now you could donate to us. You could do a one time donation in any amount that you, feel appropriate for the amount of value that you're getting from the show, or, you could, join one of our, monthly recurring donation clubs, if I can put it that way. Now for a donation of $17.76, you can get the, associate producer credit, and that basically means that you do a monthly recurring donation of $17.76.
Your name gets listed in our show notes. You also get a shout out on every show, as as being an associate producer of the show. For a a monthly recurring donation of $18.36 a month, you get the producer's credit. So you get kind of a little promotion. Right? Right, Wayne? You get a little promotion there. And the same deal, you get the the the shout out, the, the the inclusion in the show notes, every every show that we do. And then, of course, for $25 a month or more as a recurring monthly donation, you get the executive producer's credit. And, Wayne is one of our executive producers, and we we we are very very thankful for that, Wayne. So thank you very much for your contributions in that, and, we we really do appreciate that. And the reason why we we do that, and the reason why we say that, you know, you you can claim that title, associate producer, producer, and executive producers, because, your your your donation helps us pay the bills. Your donation helps us improve our equipment, our setup, and do the things that, we need to do to to bring you the best quality talk radio we can.
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So we we greatly, greatly appreciate that. So, those are those are just a couple of ways that you can help us out, your time, your talent, your treasure. And then also, we have our affiliate link with the Alex Jones store. Just head over to the alexjonesstore.com/joe, and you can get yourself, some fantastic supplements, vitamins, supplements, and patriotic apparel. I got this shirt here directly from, I wanna go go this way. Right? Yep. Unburdened by what has been, from the alexjonesstore.com. Now also, I would not tell you to take supplements if I haven't tried them myself. And of course, right here we have, the ultimate CMOS, capsules that I take on a daily basis. These things are fantastic, loaded with iodine iodine, over 30 different minerals, essential minerals for your overall health right here in this bottle. This stuff is fantastic.
You gotta get it though because it it sells really, really fast. We also have the ultimate sea moss gummies right here, and these things are pretty good. You know? They're I I didn't take my gummies today. Did you take yours? Yes. You did. Okay. So I got my gummies. I'm gonna take them right here in front of you. Great stuff. They taste good. They're delicious. And, I mean, they're not as strong or as potent as the capsules. The capsules are more concentrated, so it's definitely better for you. You get more out of it, I think, anyway. And then we also have the, the ultimate turmeric, which I take as well.
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This stuff is now I I joke around about it, you know, and I and I say it's like liquid grass. That's what it looks like. It looks like liquid grass. I mean, it's it's it's it's, in in the words of, Montgomery Scott from Star Trek, it's green. So, it's a green powder. There it is. Oh, I just went up my nose. But it's a green powder. You mix that in about eight to 10 ounces of water, and it not only fills you, but it loads you up with all of the vitamins and minerals that you need, to boost your energy throughout the day. Now, another but thing that I'm taking as well that I did not bring in here with me, I forgot, is the, atomic defense, which is an which is a, a supplement you take for your overall body health, which is fantastic. I started taking it a couple of couple of days ago, and I'm already feeling a difference. So you can get all of these products on the alexjonesstore.com/joe. Now we're asking that you use that that link, the affiliate link, because every time you make a purchase, 10% of your overall purchase gets sent right back here to the podcast, and that is critical for us. We greatly depend on that. And to the folks that have been using it and have been purchasing through it, thank you so very much for it. We really, really do appreciate it. We got our first, monthly payment, of the commissions from that, and it was a blessing to receive it. And we we and and when I tell you that none of it's going in my pocket, none of it's going in Wayne's pocket, that came in. And Wayne will tell you, brother, what what came the other day? We got, more acoustic foam.
Lights? Lights and and stickers. And work. Yeah. Exactly. So, you know, none of it goes goes in our pocket. Everything that we get in goes right back out into the podcast, and, it really really helps us out. So please, if you haven't, checked it out, head on over there and, check out the alexjonesstore.com/joe. And then one last thing I wanna mention to you is my good friend, Carl Killebrew. Carl is the owner, operator, proprietor, whatever you wanna call it, of, ArmoryOne. ArmoryOne is a, is a is a is a business that and in Carl's business that provides Texas license to carry certification and leverages over 30.
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Brother Wayne. Yes.
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I know you take some of the supplements from at the Alex Jones store. I started just started taking the CMOS, and I could feel a little bit of digestion, strength going on because I have some of those situations like that. But, I've taken some of Alex's stuff before, and, I wanna go and just get the order through slash joe because I wanna, keep up on the CMOS. Just some of the things that they they promote that what it does, and it takes a month. I'm only about, two weeks into it. You know, any type of supplement like that, you gotta really give it some time. And I know it sounds like a promo to buy more, but, really, that's what how supplements work. You know? And I'm a I'm in a, I'm a remission of cancer. So I know a little bit about what you have to do to stay healthy and continually,
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not battle things, but stay up on top of it. You know, you you forget that that you're in remission from cancer. I mean, you have so much energy. You have so much, like Oh, yeah. So much life in you that, you know, it's it's it's great, you know. And and I I joke about this, you know. And I know we're not we we haven't gotten it's we're we're almost thirty minutes into the show here. We haven't even gotten into the the politics yet. So this might be one of those twenty four hour streams that we were kidding around about. But, we lost contact for a while. Yeah. Right? The last time I heard from you or or, or your your your, your late wife was in 02/2003 or so. Yeah. And then, and then we made contact recently again. And, what was one of the first things I said to you was I thought you were dead. Yeah. I I really did. And I'm not saying I have to be cruel or mean or anything like that, brother. You know you know you know I love you, but but, it was it was shocking, you know, that that I honestly thought that we had lost you. And and it was a it was great to to reconnect with you, and I'm so glad that you're part of the show right now, and Yeah. And you're helping us out as, as one of our execs. And it's, it's it's real surreal blessing. So, you know, it's it's just wonderful to have you here. Yeah. You know, I'm I'm on a I'm on a nominally, you know, just medical and just sort of medical. And I have a I had a tumor on my heart, and they still haven't seen it. But it's not the not it's not the cancer. And I've always said it. It's it's it's
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the the witness. And a lot of people say why why does this happen? And I say how how do I respond to my friends and go I in my faith of Jesus Christ is this is how I respond. It's not why because there's a lot. My my biggest thing, Joe, when I went up to Seattle, which is world renowned their medical center cancer center, I got up to the Third Floor. And when I the elevator came in, there's probably 50 little boys and girls with bald head. I shot my big yapper. Mhmm. That's the right there from that point the rest of my life, actually. Wow. Some of those kids may not be there next year, but I'm still in. And the Lord has his plan for me, but, good friends and and and a good God, Jesus Christ. But, funny when you said you thought he was dead, it was like, isn't this a Social Security check still?
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We're gonna get to that in a second. I also wanna say something else too. This this has been this has been, like, a month of reconnecting Yes. With with a lot of people. Good. And, and just yesterday, someone that I have not spoken to in in oh, man. I wanna say over ten years, found me on Facebook. And we reconnected, and we spent some time today talking on the phone with my friend Chris Marengo, and and, it was great to hear from Chris, and, I I had asked him if he was gonna be listening in. I don't know if he is or not, but, you know, it it it was great to reconnect with him and and just kinda talk about some of the things. And I know he's going through a lot of stuff right now, in his health and his personal life. And, you know, we're we're praying for him, and we're gonna we're gonna continue to pray for his for his recovery.
And, you know, I'm looking forward to, him getting healthy again, and we're gonna have him come down here and and hang out and, and do some stuff. We'll get him here somehow, someway. But, but that was a blessing too, you know? And and, you know, unfortunately, over time, you hear about folks that you you know, and, Chris informed me of a of a number of people that, we had hung out with and spent time with that had passed away, and it just makes you think that. And a lot of them were younger than I am and younger than you, and, you know, what a blessing it is that, you know, that we have our health, we have our life, and, you know, we're we're we're in the position that we're in, and we're doing this stuff.
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And and the thing is, encouragement. Yeah. I mean, the thing about going through cancer the way I did is, I had encouragement, but I just I have this I have this drive. And, I don't know what maybe it's the old Scottish thing, but, encouragement and keep encouraging other cancer patients that I was, you know, sitting around the table and and getting injections and all the stuff like that is just, you could say, you know, you battle cancer. You don't really battle it because, it's more than that. It's more of the battle than cancer. It's your spiritual, it's emotional, it's psychological. You can go on and on. And so there's a lot of things that are a part of that. But, yeah, we we cooked we just threw a one of those Facebook message things about a year ago. But, yeah, time goes by and myself, like, in in '21, I was married for over twenty years and my wife went in for a hernia and it was pancreatic cancer. Wow. And I survived and she didn't. But she said, keep going, keep doing the work, doing the Lord's work. And my prayer was I've I had never forgotten about you. Twenty years. I tell people, yeah. I know this guy from New York. He's Brooklyn. And Joe is from the same area neighborhood as my late wife, Brooklyn area.
Yeah.
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And, you know, and and and your late wife was was an amazing woman. She really was. And, we got to spend some time with her, when she came up she came to Staten Island, and she spent some time with us at the house there, and that was that was that was that was great. And, you know, she was a good woman and, you know, and, you know, you know, I I can only imagine how you feel, but you also have a a new wife now. That goes along. Who's a who's a lovely woman. Yep. And she loves you, and I got to I got to hear some of your phone conversation earlier today. So Yeah. You know, that was that was that was a treat. And that's and that's great. And I'm glad you're I'm glad that that you've moved on and you're happy and and,
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She calls me my her her silver haired juvenile. Yeah. Well, you do look like Santa Claus. You know, the thing is, I I I told her, she said, you know, Jesus says, you must enter the gates of heaven with the heart of a child. I got that one down. Well, you do. Yeah. And that that that's that's the crazy thing too, because because Wayne is older than I am. You know? 10.
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About ten years. Right? Yeah. Almost almost to the day, really. Yeah. So so, I'm 54. He's 64. And and, honestly, he has more energy and and vim and vigor and vitality that that old, I love Lucy thing, you know, vim, vigor, and vitality than than I do. And it's it's it's Yeah. Drives me a little crazy, you know. And my new wife is four
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and she says, she goes, I didn't marry a 60 year old. I married two 30 year olds. There you go. There you go. That's awesome. But, you know, she this it she loves the Lord. Mhmm. That that's nonnegotiable with me. It's nonnegotiable. So, and she is did a promo. She's got a great voice, a good radio voice, and she's supporting us, not just me, us. And when I get back to the, you know, computer land of, Seattle area, she's got some people that know these things that I do not know. It's, like, let's say, just reach out to the people who know things. And we're gonna have a,
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like, satellite base out there to to help you out with some whatever it may be. That's great. And and and we're excited about that, and we're looking forward to it. Alright. So, as as I'm watching our numbers drop and people tuning us out because we're we're we're chit chatting a little bit, more than we normally normally would. Yeah. But, you know, gotta remember, dude, we we haven't seen each other in in in over twenty years, you know, so here we are. And this is we got a lot of stuff to talk about. But, you know, just getting into some of the news and stuff that's out there. I know we we were talking earlier about, you mentioned social security, which is one of the first things we were gonna talk about because something interesting happened today. The, the acting head of social security, actually, quit her job today, because, she got into some disagreements with with, with Doge, and, and so she decided to walk off the job.
Her name is, Michelle King, if I'm not mistaken. But, you know, the the president was very quick, to respond to that. He, he appointed, Leland Dudek to lead the agency, until they can, have somebody appointed, in that in that, specific role. So, I mean, that just goes to show, like, just the the amount of of disruption, but it's good disruption. It's not, you know, it's it's not some this this is the this is the swamp Yeah. Getting cleaned out. This is what Donald Trump promised he was going to do from the very beginning, back in 02/2016.
He wasn't able to do that, at least to the extent that it was observable. But here, I mean, he's coming in like a like a bull in a China shop. He's not slowing down. He's not he's not, taking any prisoners. He is just running right through this whole thing. And, I think that's I think that's great. The amount of, change that's taking place right now is is just unbelievably quick. You can't keep up with it. I mean, as we were putting together the show prep today, I mean, how many things changed? I mean, you had something that came up that came across your table, as you were doing some some research for yourself that we're gonna talk about, at some point. And, it it it's just everything's changing so quick. It's changing so
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quick. It's, it's like, it's it's not this change. It's it's I I understand physical change. You know, like, this person's being fired. This one's here, and this one's being, you know, moved to whatever. It's it's it's it's an attitude. It's a, a culture a culture change too of this lackadaisio, and I'm I'm a former federal employee. And I've seen it. I've I've seen it come and go. And these how does that guy still keep his job? In the private sector, gone. Mhmm. Yeah. And these people are not aware of this. They're what do you mean I'm gonna lose my job? You know? And when you do nothing and, a lot of the the scuttle that I had, there was 6% of a lot of the federal workers in office.
The rest of them were jammies and lattes. And, word on the street is some of them were doing second jobs too.
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Yeah. Yeah. There there was there were and that's I think that's what prompted a lot of the, that email that went out, in the first couple of days of the administration. You know, if you want to, if you wanna resign, just reply resign to this email, and and you're out.
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Yeah. Some of them got Zoom, and you got thirty minutes to get out. Yeah. And, from that point, I think it was what 75,000
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Mhmm. Federal employees, bought into the, the buyout. Right. And, I mean, they're getting a severance package, they're getting all their they're getting their benefits, but, for the next, I think, eight months if I'm not mistaken. So, I mean, it's there, but, it's it's just amazing how quickly all this stuff is going. Now, of course, you know, with Social Security, it it's it's a sensitive subject. It's a sensitive area, and the reason why that that the that the, the the now former, commissioner for, social security left was because, they wanted to hide the the critical information that that Doge needed to complete their audit, from them.
And, that's where the that's where the conflict came in. And, you know, look, it this is the swamp trying to protect itself.
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Another one of those nasty f words they used, fraud. Fraud. Fraud. Yes, sir. It's it's it's it's like in the landscape across DC and other you know, it's not just DC because there's federal agencies all over the country. Like, you know, I don't know. Texas, there's probably federal buildings and federal agencies there too. So it's it's nationwide,
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and it's fraud. And they're covering it up and I mean, they're it's it's being uncovered. And so, Now I'm gonna pull something up here I wanna show you. This is just just something that that, Elon Musk posted this on his Twitter account. He said, according to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bracket with the death field set to false. And then he goes on to say, maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting social security. And you might if you haven't seen this, you might be wondering what I'm talking about. Well, I'm gonna put this up. Just take a look at it, and, I want you to notice something. 350 to 359 years old, collecting social security.
That's before the founding of the country. Some old guys there. Social security started in '19 in the nineteen thirties, '19 '30 '5, I think. It was, when when president Roosevelt enacted social security. And, you just take a look at that, people for that are a 70 to a 79 years old are collecting, and, people 240 to 249 are collecting, two twenty to two twenty nine are collecting. It's it's it's ridiculous. And this is the information that the government is trying to hide from you guys. You don't wanna talk about fraud, waste, and abuse. Well, take a look. The numbers don't lie. They don't lie. They don't lie.
And, so, these are the numbers of people in each age bracket with the death field set to falls.
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Right. His,
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Fox News says that, his post features a chart, which I'm showing you right here. There there are more than 20,000,000 listed with ages 100 and higher, including more than 3,900,000 in the range of 30 a hundred and 30 nine age range, more than 3,500,000 in the one forty to one 40 nine range, and more than 1,300,000 in the one fifty to one fifty nine range. We're getting close to vampires. Yeah. I I would think so. Yeah. I would think so. And, you know, that this this is I mean, folks, this this is your money. This is our money. This is Our children's money. Children's yes. Exactly. You know, social security is gonna end up being insolvent by the time by the time I'm eligible to collect. So what what is the eligibility now at this point? 67 or is it older? 66, 60 7. Yeah. Right. It's coming up. Well, you're you're you're closer than I am. Yeah.
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I actually got it at 62. Oh, okay. I was one of the last ones to get in there at 62. Okay. I had a nice idea. But it it's it's something that it's trust me. It's not it's not it's not a pot of gold. No. I've got it it and it's not going to be because there's nothing left. No. This has been a piggy bank for the for for
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Republicans and Democrats. Mhmm. They have dipped to this thing. They have, quote, unquote, borrowed against it. But who ends up paying
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it? You do. I do. In the future. Correct.
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So, it it it's just it's, you know, all of this stuff needs to be just completely reformed or just gotten rid of. I I personally, you know, I don't how do I put this? I I don't particularly care about receiving Social Security benefits. I'm not gonna get a lot because there's nothing left. All the money that I paid into it, I'm never gonna get back. Right. I would rather have, like, a health savings account or something along those lines than than having Social Security to get rid of it. You know, whoever's in it and collecting, let them continue to collect. Right. But anybody going forward from from, say, they they pick a date. Alright. So anybody coming into the workforce starting today going forward, no more social security tax coming out of your checks and so on and so forth, and, you know, you have to find your own way. Right. So I'm I'm probably a lot better in IRAs. Of course. It would be a lot better. Yeah. You know. Of course. The government's not gonna give you any money in return. Look, there's nothing left. It's almost insolvent. They said by 2032, there's gonna be nothing left. Here's the big question I got for you, Joe. Mhmm.
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Why such the resistance from all these agencies quitting, firing?
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As one of the agencies we're gonna get to later, she literally had to be pulled out of the office practically. Well, she's it's a piggy bank for them. I mean I mean, they get they you know, all this money that disappears, and we're gonna come to that in, maybe we can kinda skip ahead to that for a moment. But, let's see where was it. Alright. Let well, yeah. Okay. So I'm gonna jump ahead on the cut sheet here. So, you know, talking about, what they're trying to protect. In, Doge discovers fraud of epic proportions 4,700,000,000,000 with a t, 4,700,000,000,000, and you ready for this?
Untraceable US treasury payments. Okay. Untraceable. I'm gonna put a I'm gonna put a thing up on the screen here. Treasury, this is from, the Doge Twitter post. The treasury access symbol TAS is an identification code linking a treasury payment to a budget line item, a standard financial process. And the highlighted section, in the federal government, the TAS field was optional for 4,700,000,000,000.0 in payments and was often left blank making traceability almost impossible. Impossible. That's $4,700,000,000,000 of your money, of of our money gone.
We don't know where it went. We don't know who received it. Well, you know what I start to think? I start to think that maybe some of these bureaucrats are getting it. Imagine that. You know, I'm sure the mob guys are going, man, when was that gig that we missed out on? On? And it's it's like it's like you and I were talking, yesterday and and and somewhat today. We were talking about how you have you have these members of congress who make a hundred and 70, hundred and 70 5 thousand dollars a year, when they come into it.
Representatives like, like, what's her name from from New York? Like, well, yeah, her. But but what about that the the one from New York, AOC. Right? AOC. She she was nearly bankrupt going into office, and now she's worth millions on a hundred and $74,000 Right. A year. Yeah. How is that well, where do you think it's coming from? Well, it's coming from things like this. Untraceable funds.
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The thing about when you say a hundred and $75,000, there are professional people in a lot of places can make, you know, 75,000 each. So you think about it, two, you know, college degrees and, you know, that's not too unattainable, hundred and 75,000. But to to get that, you have all the taxes and all regular people. Regular working people. You know, my my son said, yeah. Dad, me and my wife made a hundred and 30,000. We broke even.
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Yeah. Yeah. Listen to this. And they got millions. Listen to this. Elon Musk led, Department of Government Government Efficiency revealed over the weekend that the US Treasury Department left a critical code used to track transactions as an optional tool resulting in an alarming 4,700,000,000,000.0 in untraceable payments. The identification code, like we just said, allowed trillions of tax dollars to be spent without being tracked. Doge made the code mandatory beginning Saturday, meaning all treasury payments going forward will be traced. Well, praise the Lord. Thank you for that. The, the Kobayashi letter, which is a Twitter account, says you can't make this up. Social Security may go insolvent by 2034, and Elon Musk just called it the biggest fraud in history. According to new Doge data, twenty one million people aged 100 plus in the SSA database are listed as alive in The US.
Yeah.
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That's insane. It's it's it's it's radically insane.
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According to the Independent, which is a great site, by the way. The Independent? Mhmm. The 4,700,000,000,000.0 figure, quote, would represent almost 70% of federal spending last year. 70% That's one year. In one year. One year. Yeah. Yeah.
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Twelve months. So you start dividing how much per month. It's yeah. It's crazy. So, it's a radical change, and they got a guy that is if you wanna go against them, CNN and at the press conferences, good good luck. You know? And I use the word good luck. But, I mean, his intelligent level, he's prepared, like, four questions ahead The way it seems like when he just answered, he's already got it prepared. Okay. And then they're they they kept this ridiculous side subjects that just try to push on him and but he's got a team. Call them what they want. They're, you know, young and brilliant, but they're doing their job. It sounds like and that's a job they that, you know, there's a candy man song at the beginning. It used to be called the candy man. You know? That's what I remember it from. It's like The government. That can't yeah. And so the government right now can't, and they're having a hard time with that. Yeah. I know. And it it it's,
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I mean, people, if yeah. I mean, we need to open our eyes. We need to see what this is. This is your this is why these people are are so panicked right now at what Doge is doing. And I I wanted to upload this this this, video earlier, but, for some reason, it it it wouldn't let me load it up. But but, you know, everybody's talks about how, you know, Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Doge. But let me remind you of something that that what this wasn't founded. Doge wasn't started by Donald Trump or Lemos. It actually, Joe Biden, Barack Obama started Doge.
This was his project. So, you know, this isn't some right wing thing. This this is something that started on on on the other side. But now that it's being fully implemented and fully, and actually functioning in in the capacity that's supposed to, you're starting to see the results of this thing. And this this is not pretty brother. This is this is a disaster. This is why I always I've been saying for quite some time, and I'm not the only one, other people have been saying it too, that you need to abolish these agencies and start from scratch. Right. Get rid of it all.
Start from scratch. You know? Get rid of Social Security. We don't need it. Alright? Whoever's collecting it, whoever's on it right now eligible for it, yes. You pay them out. Right. Make sure that they get the benefits that they're entitled to. But going forward from, say, whatever date, you know, we're gonna sunset it. It's gonna end at this point, and then you're gonna you're on your own. You're on your own at that point. You you need to get your own, health savings account or retirement plan or anything like that. And maybe you could work in some kind of a tax benefit, which we're hoping that, we're hoping that, when Doge starts really looking into the IRS that, that'll disappear too.
You know?
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They'll understand what the real word audit means. Yes.
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And from what I understand, from what I what I've read and and whatnot, they were panicking when Doge walked into the building. So it there there's there's a lot of things going on. There's a lot of change taking place, and this is great. This is absolutely great. And that kinda leads me into, the next piece that I want to talk about, and that is, how, Frank Luntz says that, Biden voters who flipped to Trump are loving it. Alright? Basically, you know, can you can you get enough of winning? Yeah. Can you get enough? I mean, this is just this is great. And, you know, organizations like CNN and MSNBC and and all these left leaning organizations that, news media, propagandists, whatever you wanna call them, you know, they keep going out there. They keep trying to find someone that voted Democrat at one point that switched their vote to Trump are unhappy with that, or or an or a Trump voter that's unhappy with the performance of of, of of the president. But that's they're not finding any, you know?
And it's, it's it's gonna be harder it's gonna be harder to find someone like that than, than a six word coherent sentence from, from a Kamala Harris appearance. You know? For example, let's, let let's take a look at this here. This is, this is Dana Bash. This is cut, d one. There's a little lag on this one. So if if the screen goes dark, just give it a second, it'll get caught up. But, this is Dana Bash and or Dana Bash, whatever her name is. And, you you could tell that she is not happy. Not happy in this at all.
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So Talked to some Arizona voters who switched from voting for Joe Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024, and so far, they mostly like what they see.
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I just think he's trying to get America back on track as quickly as possible given the state that it was left in from the previous administration.
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It feels more merit and transparency,
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that I'm getting from the administration so far. I approve of a lot of the stuff that he's doing with the border and everything. He's put
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other countries on notice that were to be taken seriously.
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For the most part, I feel like he's he's on the right track by keeping transgenders out of women's sports. That's number one.
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All 11 Biden Trump voters say they approved of Donald Trump's first weeks in office. My panel is back.
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So, you see that. She doesn't look very happy. You know, and she put the fake smile on at the end, but she she didn't seem very happy. So basically what it was is is they got together these 11 people, and they asked them these questions in the survey, and, none of them had anything negative to say. Yeah. They're they're the people. It's it's,
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they are not happy if you are happy, no matter what the circumstances. You know? So are you gonna get more money on your tax break? Doggone it. You know? The the kids are gonna get better education. Get rid of the Department of Education. Doggone it. It's just there's that mentality. It's like the, what what is the deal with saying from the the war? Like, do you do you love your children more? Do you hate the the enemy? And it's like that. I will put it it's it's a Hatfield McCoy situation. Yeah. And we didn't kill the pig, I guess, is what the old story was. All we want, man, is a future for our children. That's right. It seems like you've got some ax to grind over that.
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Now I wanna I'm gonna show you this here too. This this is, this is from a Marquette poll, where and and basically what it shows is that, you know, the president has, you know, undeniable support from the American people on the agenda that he's putting forward. Just just just take a look at this. Alright? This again, the Marquette poll, among adults, government recognition among two sexes, 63%. Sixty. That is huge. Deporting illegals, 60%. Expanding oil and gas production, 60%. Health, declaring an emergency at the southern border, 59%. Not one of these polls are below 50%.
Right. None of them. That's a lot of people. That's right. And then, of course, you know, the the, the spread on his approval ratings, just they just keep ticking up. They go up and up and up. His, job approval right now is 55%. That's that's that's up 12 points.
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Fast too. How and it's there's a time situation here. How long has Trump been in in charge? It seems like six months. Right. But it's only been a month. Yeah. Is is it is it a month? Not not even a month yet. The this is the eighteenth. Yeah. Not even a month yet. Two more days. Be the twentieth. Couple of days will be the twentieth. And, he said it. He's gonna hit he learned a lot. And I I wanna I want your perspective on this. I'll make it real quick. And I I said people, I'm not glad, but I can see how good it was that Trump lost in '20. I'm looking at it and I talked to some guys. I go, we would have him leaving last month. And what would we have? Now I don't know who would have been his vice president, etcetera, etcetera.
He's in here for the right time. Yeah. Because they were exposed. Oz's curtain came open, and that's what they are. And it was perfect timing again for him to step forward. That little and he learned a lot too. He learned about the rhinos and the and all those the the deep swamp in the in the Republican Party, Mitch McConnell. And now he's learned of bringing in certain people, and he said, I've learned a lot. And he has.
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Oh, for sure. For sure. I mean, this is a different presidency. You know, some folks talk about, you know, he's a lame duck president. Right? Because he can only serve the one term and and and all that stuff. Yeah. But you see, you you could say that, yeah, of course, he can only serve one this one more term. That's his that'll be his two terms. But, you know, he's running through this thing like a bull in a China shop. Right. He's, you know, he's not taking he's just doing it. He's going. He's working hard. He's doing everything that he promised to do. Promise made, promise kept. He has not failed on any one of the promises that he's come that he's that he's made during his candidacy.
And, I I mean, we're only not even twenty day not even a month in, and, you know, it it it just he just keeps on going and going and winning and winning. Just I think today too, they they they announced that, federal judge, Chutkin, upheld that Doge can, in fact, access the data that they've been accessing, which is a huge win. You know? He's going he's just the the you know? I know people are upset. People are concerned about all the lawsuits and about all the grandstanding that Democrats are doing, but pay attention to this. I mean, this is this is there's a reason why they're acting they're acting up the way they're acting. There's a reason why they're fighting as hard as they're fighting.
You know, they're trying to protect themselves, trying to protect their power. Let them sue. Let them do this because it's not costing Donald Trump anything for them to do this. It's costing the Democrats to do it. Yeah. Money, time, you know, all that. Let them do it. Because in the end, yeah, we're not gonna win everything. You know, we're we're gonna lose one or two here or there, and that's fine. But the majority of these cases, we're gonna win because it's it because of legal press principle of it.
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Joe, I got a question for you. Sure. My last gas tank I I just do things like this. I do statistics. My last full tank of gas was in you know, when Trump was leaving within a week or so, it was a buck 70. Okay? So in four years, let's say mister CNN is there and they voted in Democratic x. No. Democratic l for loser. And he's going to the gas pump. Dang. I can't wait to go back up to $4. You know? I'm thinking the mentality. If they're gonna go four years from now and think, he's really destroyed stuff. Man, I can't wait, you know, gas, milk, etcetera. Chicken and eggs, we understand that too. Mhmm. So what is what is that deranged syndrome that you just cannot is it because you just don't want nobody else to have anything?
Is that it? I I don't I don't you know, it's it's out there, and there's many I think you said it right. It's a it's a derangement. It's it's,
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you know,
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I mean, why on that dollar 70 gas, I hate it. Yeah. Oh, I wanna pay $6 for gas like they do in California. Right. Or or is it more in California? Well, I come from watching the state. When I left, it was $4.13.
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Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Here, average is here in in in Texas, it's on Eagle Pass anyway. It's it's average is like $2.50 or something like that. Maybe a little bit less than that. I think when I came to pick you up at the airport, I think I I filled up at I think it was $2.40 something. Yeah. You know? But, you know, that's gonna start coming down. Those prices gonna start coming down once once we unleash American energy. Right. Drill. It may be drill. Drill. Yeah. Exactly. And, you know, and and I wanna I wanna finish up the story here on on on on the on the polling, but but, you know, the interesting thing is and this is something that, you know, it started off as a meme, but, you know, it's it's actually, you know, it it makes a lot of sense that Joe Biden made it, illegal to explore and drill for oil in the Gulf Of Mexico.
So what did Donald Trump do? He changed the name of the Gulf Of Mexico to the Gulf Of America, So that no longer applies.
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Right. Right?
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I'm waiting for the day where it becomes the Gulf Of Texas. Yes. Which is gonna be very very soon, and we'll we'll come to some Texas stuff in a little bit. Yeah. But, but, just to get back to the story here from from, about, you know, about these these polls in CNN here, it's, you know, the American people voted for Donald Trump. They voted for a guy that said he was gonna go after immigration. They voted for a guy that said he was gonna go after corruption. Mhmm. They voted for a guy that said he was gonna go after go go government waste and and go after woke. And and, and then all of a sudden, like we said, now he's elected. He's in office, and oh my god. Yeah. He's actually doing it.
Right. Promises made, promises in the process of being kept, and you know something else? The American people are showing that they appreciate it. They love it, and they want it to continue. You know, he came into office almost like, like the article here says on on hot air. Great great site by the way, hotair.com. You should definitely check them out. He comes into the office he comes into office like this is what they say, quote, he comes into office like an avenging god, smoting and smiting left and right with his sword and pen to accomplish those goals and get the steam the steamroller moving in record time.
Let's take a look at this.
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But then also, here's one angle of covering Trump's popularity. Let's watch.
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What a difference eight years makes. He's on the positive side of the ledger at plus four points. And, again, it's not just the CBS News poll. We're talking about the Gallup poll. We're talking about the Ipsos poll. We are talking about the Pew poll. All of these respective pollsters have Trump in a better position now than they did eight years ago. The bottom line is Americans are far more likely to say they like what they're seeing now versus what they felt during Trump's first term.
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Okay. So, Tim, we'll go to you on this. Do do you think mister Cooper was watching that segment on the network and acknowledging the fact that, hey, maybe Americans are okay with Doge?
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CNN thinks they're facts first, but this is the kind of fact they really don't like. They have to say to Harry Anton, can't you bring us polls that we like better than these? Look. It's not dramatically terrific for a new president who's less than a month in to be plus for an approval rating. That is not extraordinary, except this is Donald Trump who CNN spends their entire day calling a fascist and authoritarian and the threat to democracy. Is that despite all of the things that the media throw at him, he just seems to keep on plugging.
And so that's the problem for them, is they're trying to make a big deal that Trump and Musk are creating some sort of authoritarian threat. And then when peep the pollsters ask, what about them, cutting government? People are in support of that. You know? They're against the media position on that. Absolutely.
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When you find out millions of dollars are going to foreign countries for different DEI initiatives, guess what? The American public, from across the country, sea to sign shining sea, they're not into that. They'd rather have that money be spent here.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Mhmm. Again, promises made, promises kept, and at in lightning speed. Lightning speed. We said earlier, there there there it's you can't even keep up with the things that are going on with this administration.
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And, you know,
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do we do we have our FBI guy in yet? Not yet. No. But, he was advanced. So, it Cash Patel. So it's going for a vote. So, hopefully, we'll get that that that squared away as quickly as we can. And that's what he also promised, legitimacy and the intelligent agency. But just think just just think for a second, though, how how hard it was for CNN to admit that 70% of Americans say say Trump is doing exactly what he promised he was gonna do.
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It it's it's like taking a tooth out. Oh, I get it. Pretty much. You know? So I mean, this is just painful. But you get like I said, you gotta ask yourself, that syndrome, deranged syndrome, I I don't get it. I I mean, I get it. I get it. I got it. They they they there's that's who they're paid, who's their who's paying them. This is what they're reading.
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You know, this is not the days of objective news. It's Of course. Lawyers check this out. You know, I think one of the things that's so important for politics for them to say this. Folks to believe what they're saying and that they're keeping their campaign promises. So I think this gives you a pretty gosh darn good idea of what may be going on. 70%. Doing what he promised to do. You go back to April of twenty seventeen, it was just 46% of all Americans who said that Trump was doing what he promised to do. Compare that now to February of twenty twenty five. You know, there was a good show that was on during the nineteen nineties called A Different World. That is what's going on right now. We're living in a different world. 70% of Americans say Trump is doing what he promised to do. Again, compare that to April of twenty seventeen when it's just 46% when Americans are 24 points more likely to say that you're doing what you promised to do, it's no wonder that your net approval rating is much more likely to be on the positive side of the ledger than on the negative side. And so far, what we're seeing again is Americans twenty one days so far versus just eleven days during his entire first term that Trump has a positive net approval rating. Quite a different world.
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Exactly. Because they love him because of what he's doing. They love him because he has the promises made, promises kept. Donald Trump is not your average politician. He's a businessman first. He looks at, I I think I think it's Bongino who says, and and if you haven't checked out the Dan Bongino show, you need to, you know, I I I, you know, he he's I am no competition for Dan Bongino. Okay. I have three people watching the video right now, and I have, and and Dan Bongino has 3,500,000. Okay? I have I have 27 followers, he has 3,500,000. He gets a 85,000 people watching his show. I get three. Four. We just got somebody else. Hey, thank you for watching. Appreciate you.
So, I mean, Dan Bongino says that Donald Trump is a spreadsheets guy. He he he goes with the facts, and and he is business, he is direct, he says what he he says what he means, he means what he says, and he just gets the job done. That's why when I said earlier about the lame duck thing, he might be, you know, quote unquote, you know, a lame duck president, but he is certainly not acting like a lame duck president. You know, he's setting the stage for who's coming next, whether it be, I heard rumblings about Don Junior, and I heard JD Vance. You know, JD Vance, I mean, I I mean, he has totally impressed me. I wasn't sure about JD Vance when he first announced them. Right. I don't know how you felt about it, but you know what? Since I've since I've seen him, and I've listened to him talk, and I've listened to him he he's won me over, bud. And and he actually before all of this, he had some things he didn't agree with Trump. You know? And they go That's right. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's good. It's called dissenting views. Where I I talked to you yesterday about what is a dissenting view.
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Me and Joe can disagree on, whatever it is, but we can still shake hands, have a beer, and that's cool. They don't wanna do that. No. With and Liberal Liberals will not do that. It's name calling and all the other hateful whatever. This it's it's it's insult. That's what their strength is, is insults. Exactly. But the other thing too is is, you know, the the left, the Democrats, I mean, they
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they they coalesce around a talking point and they stay there. Right. Okay. The the DNC says this what you talk about, that's what they talk about. Debt to democracy. Debt to democracy. Debt to democracy. Debt to democracy. And it's the same thing. They they they they have they're they're lemmings. Yeah. Alright. Alright. If you know what I mean by that, they're the lemmings. They just follow their leader. Whereas, at least on the Republican side of the story, at least with the with within the con well, you know, the Republican party at least, you know, we argue. We debate with each other. That's healthy.
That's that's the the the exchange of ideas. That's how things get accomplished. When when you just blindly follow somebody because they said that without ed having any dissenting view, even though you might think you do, or you might you might think in your mind that, well, I don't know if I really agree with that, but, you know, the party says I gotta go with it, so I'm gonna go with it. I mean, I would rather have the ability to argue and debate and and convince me that I'm wrong.
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Well, you know, Joe, the the whole right or wrong is out the window. I mean, like I say, it it Well, Democrats. Yeah. Yeah. It's for Democrats and for for liberal in in general. And, oh, I just seen another poll. The most unhappiest people in America are liberal women.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I saw an article last week that that said that, that, that that liberals were that that that therapists were seeing such an uptick in in in in liberals coming in for for counseling because of of Donald Trump that, you know, I I just find that hysterical. I mean, fucking grow up, man. Excuse my language. I'm sorry, but grow up.
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Maturity, growing up, here's a tough word for them, rational. Yeah. What is rational, Joe? I mean, okay. We're at this we're at this crosswalk. Right, Joe? And it's still red. I'll wait till the white signal goes on. No. No. I'm not gonna follow that rule. I'm gonna cross it no matter what. And there the the other day, a guy he just walked slow as he could knowing that, you know, I'm gonna get this guy's guilt. And this it didn't bother me at all, but I'm just going, that's the mentality. There's there are no growth fund. That's why this country needs businessmen because they've nothing produced, but nothing but no growth funds Correct. For this for all of us, for our bank accounts, for interest rates, for having a nest egg. Right. There's no growth fund in inside.
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Right. And now now you know who Frank Luntz is. Right? Yes. The the pollster? Yeah. Alright. Well, Frank Luntz says that, that that former Biden and, Clinton voters who flipped to Trump in 2024 just absolutely love how fast
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that he's moving. I have a clip here. Can I play it for you? Yes, sir. Alright. It's a little bit long. It's about a minute and forty or so. K. Alright. My attention span. We want to have you on because you do a lot of focus groups. You really get behind the numbers, the poll numbers, to the sentiments of voters. And it's so interesting. You've been speaking with a number of voters who were Hillary Clinton twenty sixteen, Joe Biden twenty twenty, and then went for Trump in 2024.
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How are these folks seeing the early days of Trump's second term? Pretty well. Really? And they're reacting to it because they love the pace of change. They were very fed up over the last four years. They wanted action. They wanted results. They looked at prices. They looked at affordability. They looked at immigration, and they didn't see anything happening. They still don't like what he says, but they like what he does. These are Democrats now. I disagree with that. I think they like what he says too. They were not securing the board. They were doing nothing to prevent illegal immigration, that nothing was actually happening.
They wanted to see a reduction in waste for Washington spending, and they're seeing that. So So what they tell me is, I wish he'd be a little bit less rude. But at the same time, they like what he's doing. They believe he's serious about it. And for the first time, they have confidence in the future, which is why you now see some significant shifts in the polling about the expectations
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for the direction in the coming years. It's a big wake up call for Democrats.
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I'm waiting for them to get a message. I'm waiting for them to unify and to understand that to oppose and to be the resistance, which is what some of them use that phrase. That's not what Democrats in grassroots areas want from them. They may not want the approach that Trump is doing, president Trump. By the way, I now know to say president Trump, But they do want action, and they don't see action from the Democrats.
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There really isn't a lot left for the for the for the, for the left to kinda scrape up to feel better. I have a technical question. Yes, sir. Can
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viewers out there hear me? Is am I coming in clear? Because, I mean, I don't know if my grizzly voice is coming through. The grizzly face is still gonna be here, but is there perception coming in? Well, what I'm what I was concerned about,
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is that, like, when I speak, my my window lights up green, and when you're speaking, it's not. Oh, boy. So that's what I'm concerned about. So, if if you're hearing the stream clearly and you're hearing myself and Wayne, drop a comment in the, in in the live chat, or you can drop a comment in the comments below, you know, right right down there. And let us know if you hear everything clearly. Okay? Let us know. Yeah. I can't see that. So Yeah. But I know you're coming through the board clear, so I'm not sure if it's it's getting transmitted through. Alright. So just a little look, folks. This wouldn't be a a show that I'm doing if I didn't have some kind of a technical problem somewhere along the way.
But, but Frank Luntz is, you know, I don't really care for Frank Luntz. I don't like a lot of the things that that he says that comes out of his mouth. I mean, I think he's an idiot in a lot of ways. But, there really isn't much left that the left can can can scrape together that way would where they would feel better. But the truth of the matter is, like we said earlier, well, not we said earlier, but CNN said earlier, we're living in a different world. We're living in a much different world, you know? And the fact that, you know, 70% of Americans are saying that they approve of what the president of The United States is doing, Donald Trump, of all people, you know, the quote, unquote convicted felon, the quote, unquote, you know, fascist dictator, Hitleyresque kinda guy, 70% of Americans are approving of what Donald Trump is doing, and I think that's amazing.
I think that's great, and I I I I don't see I think this is gonna be an amazing period of time for for for for America, and, and I think that a lot of things that are happening right now are gonna be, turned around. Now, I have one more clip, if you don't mind, bro. This is, also CNN. He is the Donald Trump is the first and only president to have a higher net approval rating in his first month of his second term than in any point of his first term. And, I think this is amazing. CNN CNN hates it, and, we are I I let me just play the clip. Let me get to it. Hold on one second.
It is,
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I think six. Yep. One one, I would say, correction. This is not a very different Donald Trump. This is a very different Donald Trump in in as being viewed by voters in this in the way he's going about things in the wild's leading things. I think. In 2025.
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Going at things in a much less disorganized fashion, much more organized. Take me back in history. Take you back in history. So it was so interesting to me that Donald Trump's first net approval rating of his second term is higher than his entire first term. And I was interested. Has that ever happened? Has the second term net approval rating in the first month have you ever had a higher rating than any net approval rating during the entire first term? Donald Trump is the only I'm having a hard time believing this. This is a % true. I will come back. I love spreadsheet. Donald Trump's is the first guy ever whose net approval rating in the first month of his second term is higher than any rating that he had as an entire first term Kate Baldwin. This is true. I don't make stuff up. The numbers are the numbers. The numbers are the numbers. In nothing except
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It has to be burning CNN
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to report this, bro. You know what? And he even had that little Laverne. The numbers are the numbers. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. And,
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CNN actually asked president Trump, on Saturday how far the borders of America extend. And he said, this is a quote, as far as the Burger King military trucking deliver a cheeseburger.
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Well, you know.
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Oh, folks. It's like Christmas every day. This is a great make America great again, brother. Well, I'm still working my grassroots, program to run for governor of Canada. So Well you well, you know what? I I think you should. Yeah. I think you should. Hey folks, just wanna remind you that, that, although we're not getting paid by Lavazza cough coffee coffee, my Brooklyn came out. There you go. We are drinking Lavazza coffee today, and we are really thoroughly enjoying this. Although, I think I'm enjoying it a little bit more than he is because I have some, vacation. I have some Italian liqueur in here. So I'm enjoying this a little bit more than than Wayne is because he's, I don't know, kinda, like, wussied out a little bit on this one. Although although I will say this, he does have some buffalo trace bourbon in his in his glass, and he has a beer chaser right next to him. So Right. It's just you know, I'm Scottish. Last name is Rankin. It's like Jane John Johnson over there in Scotland. So Exactly. Exactly. And so,
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this is a wee bit of the ship. That's what I need right now. That's the wee bit. To to get back at missus Screech there, I cannot believe this. That's your problem. And that's a problem with all of these people who say they cannot believe something. Even though you get a number or like I said, they're gonna go to the gas pump. I can't believe it's a dollar 99 now. It's just something that, you're not gonna cure. I don't think sometimes happiness is meant for people. Some people are just is not gonna be happy, and they don't trust happiness, and they don't have it in them. And they're they're just gonna continue that way. And it's it's a sad situation because we do have an incredible country, and this is a time of our generation. You know, I'm the last baby boomer, Joe. I'm actually the, the year of '60, '60 '1, '60 '2 is considered the last baby boomers.
So so so officially, you are the the last born baby boom ever recorded anywhere in the country. January of sixty one. I think they finished your I think they've been 60. But here's the thing. A lot of my friends are going back to work. Well yeah. You know? I'm not talking, boy, they plan bad. But, man, car insurance, health insurance, all the things you wanna actually live for or, I mean, love work for and you try to have a living, it's not adding up. I mean, I like you know, like I said, a Bronco Ford Bronco is $80,000. I mean, I'm not gonna buy one, but, well, houses. I mean, in some parts of the country, my my grandson would never own a house where I live in one of the higher, higher end of of house prices in Western Washington. So us baby boomers, those guys, like I say, you're seeing more wall Walmart blue vest with gray hairs.
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Yeah. You see that here too. Yeah. You you do. Let's, let let's just kinda shift directions here because this is kinda comical too. This is the Tom Homan. I love Tom Homan. I I I really do. You know? And maybe it's because I'm, you know, New York City, Former Law Enforcement, and, you know, but he's had this this, adversarial relationship with with, with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Cortez, for since 2016, since he he was, with the Trump administration the first go around. And, I I I it it just continues on, and I have a clip here that I wanna play. It is a long clip, so I'm only gonna play a part of it, you know. But basically, Tom Homan, you know, if you if you if you followed anything with Tom Homan and and, AOC, you realize that, there there really isn't much love there between the two of them. No. Right? And, over the weekend here, Tom Homan appeared in a in a Newsmax interview where he blasted AOC as, quote, the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to congress. Alright? So what let me let me just play that for you. It I'm not gonna play the whole thing. It's like a four minute clip. It's too long.
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But, let me just play this for you really quick. The first part anyway. Look, she's she's she's the dumbest congresswoman ever enlisted to congress, and she proves that every day. And look Let's try that again. Look. She's she's she's the dumbest congresswoman ever who listens to Congress, and she proves that every day. And look. Bottom line is I can't believe any member any member of Congress, Republican, Democrat, independent, would wanna educate criminal illegal aliens who are in the country illegally, been convicted of a violent crime, and have been ordered removed by an immigration judge after due process at great taxpayer expense.
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Isn't that amazing? Yes. There's a sitting member of congress. There's a sitting member of congress. Even though she didn't appear in the video Mhmm. That that that was put out it was put out by her office. Right. You know what I'm saying? So so
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I I I don't know. I think, I think AOC might be in some trouble. You know, I look at people like that. It's like, who's got who's got the lucky fortune to be mister AOC?
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I don't think she's married. Okay. I don't think I don't think she's married. And I know there was a rumor going around at one point that she might even pregnant, but, thank God. No. She's not reproducing. But But I said rational. It's not rational. Yeah. But I I mean, I know she has a she's dating someone, or she has a a Yeah. A thing. I don't know if it's a boy or girl. I don't I don't know. But let let me not let me be careful because I don't wanna get, you know, sued by, congresswoman AOC. But at any rate, I just wanted to share that because this is an ongoing this this is, like, comical to me anyway. I I I appreciate every time these these two kinda spar off at each other. I I think it's great, and, I look forward to every, every interaction between the two of them.
But one thing I do wanna talk about though is, something that's kinda close to home. As you guys pretty much know, if you know me at all, I am born raised in Brooklyn, New York. Grew up in Sheepshead Bay. I'm a New Yorker by by birth. I'm a Texan by by, by Providence. There you go. Alright. I had to think of the right word there. I think I think it's the it's either the buffalo trace that we're about halfway through here, brother, or the, the Sambuca in the in the coffee. But, again, a New Yorker by birth, a Texan by by by Providence.
But, I am concerned about things going on in New York because my sister lives in New York. You know that, brother. Yep. And I and I I do worry about her because, you know, a lot of this illegal immigration stuff, you know, does affect her. But, this was very interesting, and and to me anyway. New York City is is New York State as a whole is doing everything they possibly can to keep letting noncitizens vote. I mean, I think that's the I'm looking at this, article from Woke Spy. Another great spy another great site to check out, wokespy.com. And, their article here says this is who wrote this? Josh Slocum.
Perhaps in five years or ten, Americans will look back on this period from 02/2020 to 02/2024 the same way we look at the Salem witch trials of the sixteen nineties. How could they have been so stupid?
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Yeah.
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And during the Biden presidency, all manner of irrational and frankly insane practices became the new normal. And and brother, we know this. We we we've seen this. You're talking about sterilizing, kids with puberty blockers. Right? Telling telling young boys that, yeah, it's okay. You could be a girl today. Telling young girls that it's okay. We can remove your breasts, and we can say you're a boy. That all became normal during the Biden predest presidency. And then you had the rioting with, with Antifa. You had the rioting with, Black Lives Matter, all of which were just money laundering schemes for the Democratic party.
And it was okay for them to torch government buildings. It was okay for them to occupy what was that in Seattle? They called it Chop. The the the CHAZ. They call it chop. Chop or whatever it was. Yeah. Causing billions of dollars in damage Right. That insurance companies have to pay or or should pay or supposed to pay.
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Well, when your mayor tells your policeman and your law enforcement to stand down. Right. I mean, it's breaking a guy's window. Stand down. Yeah. Okay. I'll let him do it. It's fine. Yep. But yet,
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people peacefully walking through the capital, the federal government under Joe Biden, under what's his name? Who's the AG? I even forgot already. Mayorkas?
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No.
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Yeah. No. It was that other idiot. Whatever. Well, I wouldn't got my brain my brain Nobody nobody my brain cleansed from all those people. No. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. He he he he was put forward. Right. He was rejected as a as a as a candidate for, Supreme Court, so he got vindictive, and he just did a little stupid shit. Yeah. But, they invested thousands of FBI agents to track down grandma for walking through the Capitol peacefully, but yet let BLM, Antifa, and all these people burn down police stations, burn down federal buildings, burn down neighborhoods, destroy, vandalize, all that stuff, and they walk away scot free.
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Yep. They did in Minneapolis,
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Seattle, Portland. Right. Portland was the poster boy out there for What was, I think the the mayor was out there eating popcorn, watching it. Didn't Tim Walz's wife during the during the, campaign say that she opened the windows to the house so they can smell the burning
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tires and Exactly. It's the freedom of speech. Fucking morons. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And it's coming to roost. It's coming to roost. Yeah. I mean, people are losing their jobs. That's right. But you know what else is becoming normal?
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Surprised this is, this is one of those questions that, you'll never get the answer to, bro. Okay. Do you do you know what else is becoming normal? Go. New York City allowing people who are not supposed to vote to vote. That's Washington. People who are not supposed to be who people who are not citizens to vote. New York City is allowing that. But if that's not crazy enough, the state is actually fighting in court fighting in court, brother. To keep it going. To keep to to keep allowing it. In 02/2022, an an, a law went into effect in New York, that would allow, undocumented or or documented noncitizens to vote in city elections.
Right.
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The same thing in Seattle area too. We we have no voter ID.
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New York doesn't either. You know, it it's it's it's crazy. New York doesn't either. They always go blue no matter what. Every is it me or do you notice that yourself? That every state, city, county that does not allow voter ID always blue?
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Oh, I think when they even start the, every presidential election, I think it's already blue when it comes on. Yeah. I'm serious. Yeah. The Left Coast, those three states, which is one big state now, it's like, well, these guys are already blue. We're not even gonna go to that point yet. If I like, my two hours are already, you know, I mean, they've called it California twenty minutes after the the polls have opened. Yeah. It's gonna go blue. Of course. And, it's it's like I said, I call it the People's Republic of Washington State. And everything that there's a guy named Bob Ferguson. He's got more anti gun bills coming this year than ever. Mhmm. Yeah. You know? So
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Just just trampling across.
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Two two two bulls in that magazine might be too much. It's ridiculous. Yeah. That's absolutely ridiculous.
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Well, well, Elon Musk highlighted, the problem with the clip from, Fox News anchor. Brian Kilmeade, had a conversation with a New York lawmaker, and, let's, let let's take a look at what, what they had to say here. This is, it's a it's a three minute clip. I don't know if I'm gonna play the whole thing, but, we'll get some of it in here.
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New York's top court set to consider noncitizen voting in New York City elections today. Get this. Noncitizen, you don't belong here. You're not registered. Blowing off court appearance doesn't matter. That would add 800,000 noncitizen voters. Why is this even a discussion?
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It shouldn't be. New York Republicans fought back against this effort, several years ago. We were victorious in the lower court and the appellate division, and now it goes to the court of appeals. Unfortunately, I'm a little, bit concerned because the New York court of appeals has been corrupted by Kathy Hochul and New York Democrats. This is why they tried to gerrymander our maps again last year. They added, people who are way too progressive for the court, to try and, move the court in a different direction. I am concerned certainly that the court of appeals will make a political decision and not follow the constitution.
It is very clear. Non citizens do not have the right to vote in our elections, period. There's a reason New York is a sanctuary state and city though. And the reason is they want illegal immigrants counted as part of the census. That gives them more congressional seats, and it gives them more electoral votes. That's what this all boils down to. They want them to be able to vote in our elections. I fundamentally believe, that it is wrong. It violates both The US and state, New York state constitutions, and needs to be, prohibited. And if the court had any courage, or any conviction at all, it will reject this outright today.
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You would think, because they wanna loosen up that. Next thing you know, noncitizens voting in general elections. They'll figure out a way to do that. You know what I think it is? Republicans getting very close in New York to winning a lot of traditional democratic seats, maybe even the Governor's Mansion, and they gotta start letting everybody know that we're gonna have to maybe bend the rules a little to stay in power. Mike Lowell, thanks so much.
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President Trump's been fighting the globalist for years, and now he's got them right by the throat. But there's a lot of traitors, a lot of cowards hiding in the shadows. That's
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Hey, Alex. Hey. There's Joe. And I'm gonna ask you a question, Joe. Yep. Everybody thought we were crazy about voter fraud in '16. You got 800,000 reasons right there. It's like, the the press secretary. The question was asked. How many of the 3,500, illegal aliens are criminals? She said all of them. A hundred you know, 3,500 because you're committing a crime in America if you hear illegally. If you're voting and you're not a citizen, maybe I'm throwing it out there. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. That's kind of a voter fraud, isn't it? You don't know what you're talking about. Legal legal citizen. No. You don't know what you're talking about. Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just forget that. Don't worry about it. It's okay. Okay. 800,000 people could that, you know, voting in the election, you know, that don't have any reason to be voting in election. Yeah. No. No. You're fine. No fraud. I just wanna apologize. I had to run out. I had to use a little boy's room, so, I thought I'd get back. I didn't you know, I listened to the clip, but for side, it wasn't expecting Alex Jones to come.
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Busted out of here. Yeah.
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Hello. Good.
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So I can't do an Alex Jones yet. But I did hear a little bit of light there. Hoping maybe they can get the, Governor's Mansion.
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Well, you know what? I I think I think that that's there's there's a possibility of that. And, if you remember last night, we talked with, Blake Fisher. Blake Fisher. Do you remember? Yeah. And he mentioned something about Kathy Hochul, removing, Eric Adams as mayor. And, you know, I saw a clip earlier today, exactly talking about that. So, you know, that that's that's kinda that's kinda scary when you think about it. You know? That's kinda scary. Alright, brother. Well, that's all the clips that I have, for today. As far as, you know, the national stuff and and and politics, I have some stuff from, local local news, as we've been trying to do, more regularly talking about local things that affected state of Texas.
So I don't know if you I don't know if you had a couple of things you wanted to bring up before we get into that or or Yes. I do. Or do you wanna take a quick break or No. One last thing before we go local Okay. To the lone star state.
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USDA inspector general was released. Oh, really? And she didn't go peacefully. They had to actually escort her with security or I don't know whatever government, police that they have. And she was released from her job and many others in in that there were there's a lot of, she declined to comment and she refused to leave because Surprise. Of her rogue partisan policies and very non transparent. And we're talking about the USDA food and we won't even get into the chicken, thing because of the chicken slaughter of what's been happening. It's not just the chickens. It's it's so much more the USDA. And our farmers have been getting creamed.
And back in the early Biden, I mean, when they were they were the the fuel, and they were saying their farm's going out of business. And they like I said, it's really like there's no sweat off of their back. They're not out there with their, you know, with their tractors and what have you. So she's gone. Phyllis Fong is no longer at the USDA. Phyllis Fong. Yep.
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Fong.
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So there's a lot of, like even if okay. Here's another one. And this actually can relate to the LA fires because I was a forest firefighter myself at The USA for way, way back in the day.
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Did you manage to interrupt you for one second, bro? I I just wanna you know, folks, I I don't think you know just exactly how much Wayne has done in the course of his life. He he he you know, the more the more you talk to Wayne, the more you understand just how involved he's been in everything. And and and I I don't mean to to distract from what you wanna talk about, but you also work with Samaritan's Purse, don't you? Yeah. And and,
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we're we're we're eyes on the ground. Like, you you military people, food boots on the ground. Right? Mhmm. And Samaritan's Purse, we were like the third responders in the hurricane. I went up to Burnsville, North Carolina, which was the worst of the worst spot of the whole hurricane healing. Right. And, we were there. Like I said, this is gonna be graphic of some of the things I'll say. They were still pulling bodies out when we got there. This North Carolina, it was very mountainous. You're talking to train, you know, like, you know, elk hunting type of situation. Because I'm from Western Washington. I know the terrain. It's something similar. But getting in there, but, FEMA, there was no FEMA to be found and all of the things that I was hearing from the people who lost everything, we didn't get any help from other than religious organizations or I say, you know, Christian organizations is for me because Samaritan's Purse, Billy Billy Graham Foundation and his son Franklin.
But we were we were boots on the ground and we we had to get things done and a big part of it was is just there was no there was no hope for some of the people. And this is the truth. If you had a Trump sign, FEMA was gonna pass your house. Then she got the who her was got fired. That's how deranged this is. Well, I guess that guy's wait. He's got a Trump sign. Okay. They lost everything. Let's move on. And that's puts on the ground feet on the ground where I was there talking to the local people said, yes. They passed my house. Right. So that's that's that whole thing of what's true. Like, I cannot blame these, statistics. Well, I can believe the people whose lives were just not destroyed, but, yeah, some of them are. One family lost all of their children, floated down the river over there and helped them out. So, there's participants and spectators.
Yeah. And no matter what you do. Now you worked with Samaritan's Purse. Yes. You, you did firefighting, volunteer firefighting? Yeah. At the, USDA Forest Service in Western, Eastern Western Washington, you know, fighting the fires. And I've known a lot of people that stuff in LA, you gotta have water in the hydrants. You got all the things that were brought up even like Mel Gibson whose house burnt. You know? Mel's got some pull, and he went to people who said, why did they clear the reservoir? And Trump said the same thing too. Right. And when you you talk to the police or the fire captain chief's, fire chief, blowhard, what happened? Well, I don't know. Oh, you have to know. I'm a fireman. I said I was a fireman. You better know there's water in there three sixty five. Mhmm. You can't have I don't know. It doesn't that's that's that's not a that's not an option as they say. So, yeah. Samaritan's Purse. I'm heading up to, Alaska here in March. It it was a Samaritan's Purse job I did in '16 with my late wife. It's Voice for Christ Ministries, Western Tundra, and it's, a radio station and a homeless shelter and some, some church work and helping at the food food, you know, center there and, meals and just, sharing Jesus' name. And a very, very dark area up there. There's a lot of hardship, a lot of alcoholism, and a lot of suicide Wow. In Western Alaska. So, yeah. Either participate as the Lord said, occupy till I come. Just occupy till I come. Just just and I just do. Like I said, I just do. And, and I said, like I said, I think of you guys that were at 09:11 and the work everybody did there. And it's amazing how quick America did it. You know, how think of other countries how long it would have took to dig out of that.
And and we did it resolve and everything. It wasn't wasn't just New York. It was the whole America. People went there from there were fire trucks coming from across the country and and helpers from across the country. And, that's what we do. And, you know, that's Trump's neighborhood also. You know, he was from that area. And he was too. So, that's that's the American spirit. And and like I said, Trump's not a he's not a politician. He's a businessman, but his business is mankind. How's that one? It really That's a good one. It is. It is. But, you know, when he looked at these people What is that from, That's from Scrooge. Yeah. Lewis Carroll. Right? Yeah. It it was actually from Dickens when Dickens. Charles Dickens. I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah. He goes yeah. Charles Dickens. Goes to Scrooge. We were men of business. He goes, mankind was our business. And Mankind should have been our business. Absolutely. And that's what I that's what Jesus says too. That's right. Yeah. Give him a drink of water and, That was Carol. Pull out their their their soaking carpet. And so I'm extremely disappointed in myself, brother, because I I I I love Charles Dickens' work, and and and,
[01:37:20] Unknown:
that is one of my favorite of Charles Dickens works, and I missed it. It's redemption. I should be I should be admonished heavily. We need to get one of those, like, Crowder has, like, those admonished
[01:37:32] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. Right. Right. Right. We need to do one of those. The way I love this what I love about Scrooge's story is about redemption. Yes. Absolutely. And it's not it's it's for it's for AOC even. It's for
[01:37:42] Unknown:
Schumer. You know, I'm a I'm a Scrooge. Right? You know? Right. Right. Exactly. I hate I hate Christmas. Yeah. You know. Well, not not that I hate Christmas. I I I I The the the commercial stuff, I hate the Passover pie. Yeah. You know? So Yeah. I I actually I do a whole I did a whole show last year about how much I hate Christmas.
[01:37:58] Unknown:
Hillsdale College. It's it's one of those colleges I would send my son to if if he was gonna go to college. And then they got a new thing out about, back in the day, there was, you know, Caesar Augustus. He thought he was deity, and he thought he was a god until a baby was born. Mhmm. Yeah. And things change from that day. You know? And I've been to Israel a couple times. In Herod as well? Absolutely. And so, a baby was born, and he was a little child in a manger, and he he had to come as a man. And, like I said, they counted me out many I've had three heart attacks. How many stents?
I'm a medical, whatever, nominally, but, I still praise Jesus Christ, but I just keep I just do. Hey. We lost a listener. Hey. Get back. Okay. Log back in. Hey. So that's the one thing, though, like I said, you know, I I I've been blessed. And I I will say this. I'm a federal retiree who's still fighting for my retirement
[01:38:54] Unknown:
since February.
[01:38:55] Unknown:
You two had totally showed out that. Pictures. I showed showed the pictures of all the categories. My wife passed away in 2022. I still haven't gotten her insurance payment at three years now. And I can go on and on and on and on. I didn't get this. I've been missing twenty months. I'm missing twenty months of paychecks. I'm missing underpayments. It's it's it's it's a very large figure. And I go, that's what Elon Musk was saying. There's a lot of federal retirees whose paperwork has went down the mine shaft. That's what he's talking about. Literally down to mine shaft. Guess what? I wrote Elon Musk. Did you know? Huge letter. The biggest letter you can write in the postal service documenting all the stuff. I sent Joe the picture of all the categories, and it went to him. And so he said, well, he won't get it. I don't it doesn't need to go to him. Just one of those those guys. It's the it the but the whole point is that you have to you have to bring their attention to this thing, and that's what you did. Right. Exactly. You know? Awareness. Do you know how even the liberals, we have to bring this to awareness. Well, it's awareness. And there's my brother-in-law who's a air force guy, he's been overcharged. Like, I have oh, I've been overcharged too. Or I overpayments.
I don't remember being overpaid. And so my brother's air force brother-in-law, three detours, metal stuff in his back of his neck. He He goes, I don't know what I I don't know how I got overpaid. Sorry about that, bro. I don't know why that popped up on the screen. So there's countless and there's been hardworking federal people. I've I'll just say it myself. I used to walk six mile routes with a big huge bag, and that was in the eighties. And a lot of federal guys really did do their work, you know. And then we didn't get paid, you know, federal, representatives or senators. But, and there's a lot of military guys still fighting for their VA benefits. There's something wrong with that. That's what Trump is gonna be working on. Yeah. You know, and my dad worked for the postal service for for, over thirty years. Yeah. And, you know, it
[01:40:39] Unknown:
and when he when he passed away, it took such work to try to get the benefits that were due to my mom. It it it Why? And it it shouldn't. It it should not take place, but it did doing it. I'm still doing it. It took, I think, my mom passed away, two years after my dad. Right. And it took about a year for us to get all of my dad's benefits and everything, all that squared away. And I gotta give hats off to my sister. My sister did a fantastic job. She did most of the work, but but but, but, you know, it's it's pathetic that that you've spent your entire life working for the federal government,
[01:41:14] Unknown:
and they can't even process your retirement papers properly. I've almost spent as much time trying to collect it as I did work. Which is ridiculous. Twenty twenty. I I I had twenty two years, and I retired twenty 02/2006.
[01:41:27] Unknown:
You do the math. Yeah. No. That's ridiculous. That's absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. Alright, brother. What else you got for us?
[01:41:34] Unknown:
Let me see. Oh, I'd like to know what's going on in Texas. Okay. If we're getting close to that, I I I this I've I've been to Texas once, San Antonio for a week. And down here, I I love it. Took a walk today, a beautiful walk in your community, the fresh air. Like I said, we've had, you guys talk about you told me it was cold here at 62. We haven't had over 40 in three weeks. So it was a rough because I got shorts and doing my walking on my shoes and walking through the neighborhood and feeling the that dry air. And so
[01:42:01] Unknown:
a lot goes on in Texas, it seems like. It does. It does. Actually, Texas is quite Okay. Quite a busy place. But, we are under a, a a cold weather advisory for the next couple of days. So we have to keep that in mind. So temperatures are gonna drop. They're supposed to drop below freezing over the next few days, so we gotta take appropriate measures for that. Okay. Alright. Well, one of the big things that have been taking place around here in Texas is, is this complaint about property taxes, because property taxes are very, very steep here. And it's it's, in personally speaking, I think property taxes need to be abolished. I think it's immoral. I think it's ridiculous that you, you spend thirty years paying off a property, paying off a house You're on it. And you never really own it. You're still you're still paying off the state Yeah. Which is ridiculous. But that's another story of the time. You know, I've reached out to, representative Brian Harrison, and I've asked him to come on the show, and I'm waiting for his people to to finalize all that because, I I I truly do, I I follow, representative Harrison. He's not my representative, but, he's one of the few voices that I found in the Texas legislature that that are really truly, in in line with where I'm thinking on these things. And so I'm hoping that we'll be able to get together very very soon. But, but I was very very happy to find out that somewhere around February 13 or so, the, the the the Texas senate voted 30 to none to pass senate bill four, which is put forth put forth by, senator Paul Bettencourt, out of Houston, to provide property tax relief, under the senate's preliminary budget proposal, s b one. Now, Texas has a, 200 I'm sorry. A $24,000,000,000 surplus.
$24,000,000,000. And, so this bill basically, would raise the homestead exemption, to a 40,000 for adults and a hundred and 50,000 for seniors and those with disabilities, for and it would bring about it's it's an estimate, but about $3,000,000,000 of in relief and tax relief. I mean, that is big. That's huge. It's a step in the right direction. I I and, like I said, I'm I'm hoping that at some point, we can have an actual discussion about property taxes and getting and abolish these taxes. I mean, it's
[01:44:39] Unknown:
I don't know where you stand on property taxes, brother. I mean I got a new one in. Yeah. I know. That was a loaded question. I know I know where you stand. I got a thing last year. Your your vacant property are only weeds and tree or not even trees go barely. $700
[01:44:53] Unknown:
a year. That's ridiculous. For nothing. For nothing. Right? For nothing. They're immoral. They need to be abolished. And I'm hoping that that'll come about come about eventually. But until then, this is a this is a win for us, and I'm I'm really happy about that. Let's see. What else do I wanna talk about? Alright. Well, what we've been doing over the last couple of weeks, I mean, this is episode number 20 of the podcast, which is fantastic. I can't say it's been twenty weeks that we've been doing this because we started off doing it month doing it weekly, but now we've been doing it daily, basically.
So, episode 20 here, we started off probably week two or three, where we started talking about Texit. And we'd we'd be doing a Texit fact of the day. Now in full disclosure, I am a member of, the Texas nationalist movement. Alright? And what's that? Well, the, the TNM is basically a political action committee, if a lack of a better term. And, the T and M advocates for Texas independence. Now, Texas is not well, well, let me see what Texas is. It's a process. Alright? It's the process of Texas becoming an independent nation state of its own, like it once was. And that's done through the legislative process. It's not done through taking up arms. It's not lining up the military, you know, like in the legislative process.
And what we've been doing over the last couple of weeks, we've been talking about text it facts, FAQs. And all of these facts you can find on textitnow.org. Textitnow.org. It's a great resource. You should head over there and check it out. But, I've been pulling out one or two, you know, as we've been going along here, and I've been talking about these things. Now, the one that I picked out today had to do has to do with international relations. I mean, that's something that's that's come up quite a bit. And, the you know, basically, what I wanna what I wanna talk about today is the transition, to independence.
Alright? So, basically, the question would be, how difficult will it be for Texas to transition from a state in the American Union to an independent nation. Now independence this is from the article. Independence is not a single act embodied in a referendum. Independence is a state of being. The referendum is the first step in the process, an expression of, political will that kicks off the process of becoming independent. Does that make sense to you? Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So, it is, however, an important step. It's a very important step. An an expression of of of political will must be respected. It demands action. However, that action has to be balanced. It has to be balanced with care and with caution as Texas enters the next phase, which would be negotiation and transition.
There should be, according to the article, one single aim for relations with The United States in the immediate aftermath of Texas, minimizing disruption. While those opposed to Texas would love to think that disruption cannot be avoided or even mitigated as Texas leaves the union, they're dead wrong. In fact, the tools necessary to, to affect a speedy, efficient, and minimally disruptive tax are really already at our disposal. Before discussing what specific measures could or should be taken after the referendum, What we have to understand is it's important to take stock of these tools and examine how and this this might blow you away, Wayne. Okay.
There are a 95 independent, self governing nation states already in operation around the world. A 95. Modern, self governing, western style nation states typically use four mechanisms to to conduct the business of state. Fundamental issues of governance are addressed in a constitution, that if it's already in existence, which Texas is, already has a constitution, just like just like all states have a constitution. If it's already in existence and contains a method to do so, it can be it can be changed through amendments. In the in the case of Texas, the existing state constitution is already in the form of a republic with a form that is virtually identical to that of an independent nation state.
Nations, at least those that are republics, have legislative bodies that make laws under the authorization of the of the constitution of the state. The executive branch of the government can execute administrative actions that affect the operations of its various departments and agencies and set the rules for how the laws are executed. The final set of tools are the final the final set of tools in the arsenal are international agreements that come in either the form of bilateral agreements between two countries or standing multilateral agreements to which more than two countries have signed on. Now what's very interesting here, brother, is I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but, our governor, governor Abbott, who is the chief executive officer of the state, has been making rounds outside The United States with Great Britain and other countries.
While not officially signing agreements and and so forth, but have been laying the groundwork. Right. And it's something that I've said frequently and other people have said also is that, you know, some of the politicians might not come out directly and say that they're in favor of Texas, that they're in favor of Texas independence and Texas become standing once again among the nations as an independent nation state. They may not be able to say it directly, but their actions show otherwise. Ted Cruz is one of those. Governor Abbott is another one. You know, there are several representatives in the state legislature that are in that position as well. Right now, the Texas naturalist movement has, I think, twenty twenty legislators that have signed on to the Texas First Pledge, which is basically Texas.
Sixty six percent of the population of Texas are in favor of Texas independence. Yeah. This is something oh, I think I think we lost the light. Alright. Well, we know that two hours is too long for these, these tower lights on battery power, but okay. So we have a little more romantic lighting, brother. So, now nations at least those that are republics, like I like I already said, the tools of statecraft are important to understanding the mechanism that can be used to transition from being a member state of The United States to an independent nation state.
However, one other component is helpful in understanding how a transition will play out. This is a major shift in the mindset that follows a referendum outcome in favor of Texas. From the moment the vote is certified, Texas and The United States become, for all intents and purposes, foreign to one another. Texans must begin to view The United States and its government no differently than any other foreign government or supranational entity. Supranational entity. Negotiating with the federal government becomes like negotiating with Mexico or the United Nations. There are highly probable scenarios where the outcome of Texas leading the union is smooth with virtually no disruption.
After all, it is in the best interests of both Texas and The United States to ensure that this that disruption is kept to a minimum while respecting the decision of Texans to govern themselves. Using existing legal mechanisms, federal policies, and international norms, and institutions that currently govern the relationship between The United States and other countries point to a smooth transition. Now, again, all of this information is available to you by going to texitnow.com. Dex texitnow I'm sorry. Texitnow.org.
Okay? Very less look. Texas becoming an independent nation is is inevitable. It's going to happen. Whether it's in my lifetime or not, it's going to happen. It's important that we lay the groundwork for that smooth transition. Alright? You have to look at The United States as the American as the American Union. States voluntarily joined the union. Not too long ago, a popular radio or or podcaster made a comment that, Texas belonged to The United States. Like, Texas had ownership. I'm sorry. That The United States had ownership of Texas. The United States, the federal government of The United States, did not have ownership over any state. Each and every state, all 50 states are inherently independent countries, alright, that voluntarily joined the union.
There is no statute within the constitution of The United States that says that a member state cannot withdraw from the union. The tenth amendment makes that very clear. Now Texas can leave the union just like any other state. My question to you, and maybe, Wayne, maybe you can answer this question as as somebody, you know, as as part of a state that doesn't have a movement like this. Why is it okay for a country like Mauritania, small island country out in the Pacific? Right. Didn't really come into existence until after World War two. Why is it okay for that country, that nation state, to come into existence as an independent country?
[01:55:43] Unknown:
And I think about Hawaii. When Hawaii come to state? Nineteen fifty? Yeah. That's pretty young. Yes. Think about it and how that all happened. How they bought the state and how they just kind of took it over here. We own you now. This is our state. Here's your governor. Here's your here's our taxes, you know. And, some, you know, that's something to think about, how they acquired it. How do you get the opposite and leave it? Is it it's like a reverse process that, hey. You can have your governor back or, you know, we'll hire someone else or we will vote in someone else. And, I mean, Texas. It's just it's it it has its own rugged individuality.
I mean, it's historic. It does. I think you bought it. All of the the heroes from Texas and how they stood up for so much and, you know, it's it's a I'm just walking here and driving from the airport. There's just some there's some rough country here. That's true. And there's some people that endured, you know, crossing Texas and planning here and, you know, and the wars that were fought and the people that raised up to have cattle and all all the, you know, agricultural and industry and business. I mean, I I believe Dallas is some of the richest people in the world, the oil people. And it's it's almost like it is its own country. It really is. It takes forever to drive across. Right? Well, since you've been here, have you noticed how
[01:57:00] Unknown:
in any other state that you've been to, have you ever seen any other state fly the state flag?
[01:57:08] Unknown:
It was in the urinal at the Walmart. I didn't wanna take a picture, but I'm Wasn't expecting that. But okay. Yeah. There's a Texas flag in the urinal It's over the over the urinals. Bless their hearts. It's very proud. There's a lot of stars and and cemented on the the bridges and The lone star state, bro. Absolutely. And it's it's it's almost like that lone star mentality. We'll take this alone. We'll take the the you know, here I go again on my own, the old famous song that I love. You know, walking down the road I, you know, etcetera. And that's the kind of the attitude that Texas is taking. We can do this ourselves, ourselves as a group. That's right. One. And one people are a large group and we can, you know, whatever their national, ink or the the income is, it's gotta be incredible.
I mean, you think of what they what they produce here.
[01:57:59] Unknown:
Well, Texas is is is in a very unique position because Texas has all the natural resources that you need to to be an independent state. Okay. Alright? You have That's my question. You have the oil reserves, you have the natural gas reserves, you have the, the shale, you have plenty plenty of, farmland, you have warm water seaports, you have the Gulf Of America. The Gulf Of well, the Gulf Of Texas. You have all of these things that are the benefit to an independent nation. Yeah. Texas will if if Texas when, I should say, Texas leaves the union, it will become the eighth largest economy GDP in the world in the world. Yeah.
You know, militarily, Texas will rank twelfth in the world. Damn. You know, I mean, it it there there there's absolutely no reason. I I know somebody had I I I had made a comment on on a post in on on x one day, and so I said, I wish I knew what the taxes take care of the border by itself. Well, who do you think is taking care of the border now? Yeah. Or at least was doing it prior to the Trump administration coming in? It was Texas. The Texas military department. Texas has its own military. So Texas is more than capable of taking care of itself. Texas is more capable more than capable of of, of of taking its place among the nations of the world.
There's nothing that can stop this except politics. Yeah. And, you know, we're hoping with that simple fact that we have 20 or more Texas first, elected officials in the state house, that this might become more of a reality now than it has in the past. And, again Right. When you have six over 60% of the population that's in favor of that type of a move Mhmm. That type of, you know, an independence movement. Hey. You know what? It's more feasible now than it ever has been. And look, Texas is not alone in this. I I've told you many, many, many times, folks, and and and Wayne, we talked about this. There are 25 states right now that have secession referendums going through the legislative process.
It's not something that's unnatural. It's not something that's, that's anathema. It's not something that's that's that's that's treasonous or seditionist or or seditious, I should say. It it's none of that stuff that you guys email me and tell me that I am every time I talk about this. You know?
[02:00:36] Unknown:
If I were on the Pacific Northwest, they wanna split Oregon. Oregon wants to become part of the either the Eastern or Eastern Oregon. Which is a secession. And it looks it's it's got kind of that Texas feel. Agriculture, ranchers, and, you know, natural gas, tons of tons of, you know, and, you know, tons of environment out there that they can sustain or something. But they just want they wanna be taken up by Idaho, which is, you know, somewhat conservative state, but it would make sense because Western Oregon or oh, boy. I don't even wanna go there. Of course. I mean, it's it's it's a it's a disaster politically and then everything else. This country was founded on secession. Yeah.
[02:01:15] Unknown:
The 13 individual states, countries, that's what state is. Yeah. Right. It's a country. Right? 13 individual states separated from the greatest military power in the world at the time. Right. If you look at the treaty that was signed by the 13 states with Great Britain, each state is listed individually. It's not one common country or nation as they like to call it. It was a a treaty between Great Britain and the 13 states of America. The American Union. The federal government was designed specifically for regulation of interstate commerce and mutual defense. That was really it. It's all it was for. Right.
It has grown exponentially since then. It has become something that it is not it was never intended to be. But, you know, I'm looking at the clock here, brother. We are way over our time. We're two hours and ten minutes in already. So let's, let's wrap this up. So, you can get more information about this. If you're ready to join 632,000 Texans who are, supporting the work of the Texas Nationalist Movement, just head over to texitnow.org. Head over to our website, joeruciello.com/t and m. Scan the QR code, click the links, register your support, register your membership, make a donation to the organization, help us make Texas independent again.
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Alright. Wayne, do you have anything before we, say goodnight? That was a lot of stuff right there. Yep. It's quite a bit. Yes. Okay. It's a wonderful show, and everyone have a wonderful night out there, and God bless America. Alright. Well, folks, I think that's gonna do it for us for tonight. Wayne, thank you again for being with us here. You're welcome. Really appreciate it. Thanks, folks, for taking the time to be with us tonight. Two hours is a long haul, but that's what we're here for. Like, subscribe, and share. Don't forget to do that. Make Texas independent again. Go podcasting. Keep a steady stride. And Happy trails to you. Good night.
Goodbye. Well, that's about it, really. The film ends mainly visually.
Introduction to the Podcast
Meet the Hosts: Joe Rusciello and Wayne Rankin
Political Landscape and Social Security Issues
Supporting the Podcast: Donations and Sponsors
Personal Stories and Reconnecting with Friends
Current Political Climate and Changes
Social Security Fraud and Government Efficiency
Trump's Popularity and Media Reactions
Tom Homan vs. AOC: A Continuing Feud
Voting Rights and Noncitizen Voting in New York
Texas Politics: Property Taxes and Independence Movement
Texit: The Movement for Texas Independence
