Battleground LIVE: The Golden Age of America Is Upon Us w/Savage Rich Baris

Tonight, on Battleground LIVE, Rich Baris and I look at Joe Biden’s pardon extravaganza, the historic Trump inauguration, and what the first 100 days of a Trump Presidency will look like!

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
America with your host Sean Parnell.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good evening, America. This is Battleground Live. This is the
show that kicks ass and takes names in lockhorns with
the radical left. We never could, We never surrender. From
sea to shining Sea and everybody in between. Welcome Patriots
on this Monday and a glorious Monday. It is President

(00:36):
Trump has a nice ring to it. President Trump is
now the commander in chief of the United States of America,
and it feels really good because the world just feels
like it's healing. You ever see people say that, oh,
the world is healing, Well it is, you know, not
before Biden did some crazy, insane things before he left office.

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But the point is President Trump is is president. And
the funny thing about it about all of this is
at this journey. I'm looking back on this journey not
just for President Trump, but for the entire nation or
anybody that was a part of this America First movement

(01:24):
from the moment that this guy came down the Golden
escalator and I mean it, it was. It was something special,
and it took me a little bit to realize what
was going on. And back then I was I was
involved in politics, but never involved in presidential politics. I

(01:44):
would volunteer local, state, federal level. I'd advise members of
the House and Senate, but not you know, I was
never in the game per se, if that makes sense.
But I watched President Trump's campaign in sixteen, and of

(02:05):
course this was in fifteen, but his campaign in sixteen,
I realized very clearly that President Trump had created something special.
And really this America First movement existed before President Trump,
but he really just personified it. And I wrote this
article in The Hill way back then, and I didn't

(02:27):
even know it was still out there. You can go,
you know, throw it in an Internet search engine somewhere
and find it. But I wrote an article when I
was ridicule wo of course, because again I was a
young novice in politics way back then. But I said
that Trump was going to win Pennsylvania in twenty sixteen,
and people laughed at me, which whatever. I don't care
about that. But the remarkable thing is that the establishment

(02:52):
in the UNI Party, both establishment Republicans and Democrats, many
in the media, they did a lot of laughing at
isn't it Trump? And then he won in sixteen. He
defied everybody, big middle finger to everybody that defied him.
Then he gets in office, and the Uniparty and these
Democrats and everybody else just ratcheted up their attacks to

(03:15):
where they're sort of doing these bogus impeachment things. The
Hunter Biden laptop, fifty one intelligence agents, the January sixth Committee,
all of this just fake bullshit, the Mueller probe. And
then he gets out of office. His popularity really doesn't wane,
but the attacks continued, and then they ratcheted things up

(03:37):
even more. And of course we talked about this in
the show with the law fair going after his businesses,
trying to detroy his name, his legacy, smear him with
false accusations, try to throw him in jail for the
rest of his life. This stuff was very, very serious
what they were doing to President Trump, yet he ignored it,

(04:00):
somehow ignored it and drove on I this is I
don't know how anyone could ignore what was being thrown
at them the way Trump does. I mean, I'm serious.
I don't think that there's a single person on the
face of the planet that could have withstood what President
Trump has withstood. Since he's come down that escalator, and

(04:21):
by the way, somehow managed to look younger. I'm serious
watching him speak today at his inauguration, the guy looks
twenty thirty pounds later, looks more energy, like he has
more energy than ever looks younger despite having been an
I mean, no president has gone through what this man
has been through. And I'm sitting here telling you that
sometimes God puts us in crazy places for a reason,

(04:43):
and that maybe when Trump came down the escalator, maybe
on some level he didn't even truly know what he represented,
But I think that he does now. And if you
watched his inauguration speech today, I'm telling you it was special.
He was serious, especially the beginning half of his speech.

(05:04):
He was laser focused. He was serious. And to watch him,
you know, we've all heard him talk like this on
the campaign trail, but to watch him talk about all
the things that he was going to do essentially make
good in his campaign promises, but dismantle the radical left,
this deep state agenda that has been entrenched in this

(05:26):
country for ten years definitely longer, but really appeared ten
years ago when Trump came on and arrived in the
political scene. But to see him do that in front
of the very people who built it was just something
to behold. It was unbelievable, It was gratifying. No other

(05:47):
person on the face of the planet could have put
up with it, not just the lawfair. They tried to
kill this guy twice. Now, I gotta tell you leading
up to this, I told Savage Rich this earlier on
a show, and we've got him here on deck. Yes,
I know it's a Monday, but it's a very special Monday,
and we like to bring Rich on for historic days
because nobody has better perspectives than Rich. So we'll get
to Rich here in just a second. And yes, it's

(06:10):
a departure. Wednesdays are usually reserved for Rich, but today's
a special day. But I had anxiety for this inauguration,
it being outside, and then oh, they moved in the
Capitol rotunda, and then I heard that maybe they were
moving it to the White House. And I'm like watching
Trump march through like the rotunda, and I'm seeing soldiers
on each side of him with a bayonet and I'm thinking, like,

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all I just had anxiety, caught the old soldier in me.
They tried to kill the guy twice, right, somebody. These
people were trying to kill this man twice. The threats
were very real. These aren't conspiracy theories. These are somebody.
I'm somebody who is who served in combat and understands
the threat. And I don't get complacent about this stuff,
but I was worried. But the man's president now, and

(06:57):
I'm so proud of not just what President Trump and JD.
Vance have been able to accomplish, but really his entire team,
his entire staff, but this movement, the America First Movement,
the tens of millions of patriots that made up Trump's
base from the very beginning, never once wavered, never once

(07:20):
batted an eye, never once surrendered, never once abandoned him.
And the hour of his greatest need when they the
mug shot and all this other crazy stuff that they
tried to do to this guy, I'm telling you, you
all are what make this country exceptional. And the media
goes after you just as viciously as they go after Trump. Wow,

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I mean you know what I mean. They they hate
you all just like they hate Trump. But you never
once wavered. And so this is a day to celebrate
you all. It's a day to celebrate your accomplishments. What
you've all been able to do is nothing short of extraordinary.
Uh okay, so smash that like button. As we get

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into the show, I got Rich here on deck and Regina,
holy smokes, thank you. Just congrats to us all. She
gave one hundred dollars and in the rumble rant tip.
That's that's amazing. I think, thank you, Regina. Congrats to
us all. You all did it. You all did this.
You deserve all the accolades here, folks. Okay, So, without

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further ado, got my man, the man Savage, Rich Barris,
the People's pundit, Inside the Numbers, the director of Big
Data poll, the number one poster, the most accurate poster
in twenty twenty four were a three piece look without
the tie.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
The Sultan of Swat, the Kingdom Crush. I'll tell you what, man,
I take the tie off, and some dudes like, did
you like convert to Mormonism? Or you're like You're like,
I look like freaking bring them young over.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Do you see the movie Over the Top where when
I turned my head around like this, when you take
the tie off, would you take would you take the
tie off? You turn into a Mormon I'm telling you, man,
I never thought a very savage Mormon.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
At least in the top up because the shoes don't
look more Mormon. I gotta tie, Okay, but I didn't.
I'm like, man, this does kind of look that way
over the top. Great movie. Great movie. Also, of course,
the actor is one of the ambassadors to Hollywood and
the new Trumpet Ministry.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
I know people are staying in the live chat Amish.
You just need a straw hat Nobish.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'm like that guy. If anything, I'm like that guy
Levi from the Amish Mafia.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
I wonder if that's real. Man.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
I know that they have some gangster stuff over there.
I remember that from my mom before she passed away.
She used to live out in Pennsylvania and there was
like some some funny stuff going on out there, bro,
some funny stuff. The goat fell off the wagon yesterday?
How much you want for it?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Wait? What?

Speaker 4 (10:13):
The goat fell off the wagon yesterday? How much you
want for it?

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Okay? So before we get into the Trump inauguration, god bid, Yeah,
I mean, Biden's amazing that the homage, Oh yeah, Trump,
Trump is amazing. Biden is also is also shameless. So
fifteen minutes before uh Biden leaves office, he grants a

(10:43):
pardon to James Biden, Sarah Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John
t Owens, and Francis W. Biden full and unconditional pardon.
And I said this on your show, but I'll say
it again because I think it's that important. I believe
that the Biden administration, in the twenty five five year
old staffers who are actually doing this stuff, they did
it so that Trump wouldn't know because he gets there,

(11:07):
he's walking through the rotunda, he doesn't actually know about
it until after his speech. I think that was deliberate.
And the other thing here why this is just so insulting,
because I got all these sound bites of these hack
losers in the media talking about preemptive partons when Trump
was in office. The hypocrisy knows no bounds but to
do this and the way that he did on his

(11:29):
way out and not explain it at all to the
American people rich is just un It's just horrible on
so many levels because at least because the media is
freaking out, now, oh Trump's gonna part in January six ers, which,
by the way, every single one of them who gives

(11:50):
its shit like every single one of them needs this
unconditional pardon, every single one, and no one should even
bat an eye look at what Biden's doing. But I
don't even care or not listen to this man. I listen.
It is like Trump campaigned on that. Trump said at
every campaign stop, I'm going to pardon January six ers. This.

(12:15):
The American people when they made the decision decision to
elect him in an historic landslide, took that into consideration,
of course, But for Biden, he lied non stop about
pardoning him, parting his family, and the guy's pardoned like
eight thousand people now. It is, honestly, this is the

(12:36):
most they really were, the Biden crime family all along.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yeah, And actually I don't know if anyone saw what
I tweeted just a little bit ago. I decided to
go through these pardons as you and I were talking,
because we didn't. I didn't, we didn't have time earlier today,
none of us really had time to take a look
at all.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Breaking so fast.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
It just happened so quickly, and I suspected that I
was going to look and see that they have something
in common with the other ones for a son, and
right and I just want to say this, they absolutely
did it at last minute so Trump would not know,
I mean ceremony, ceremony. Uh, you're waiting in a whole
way for for forty five minutes, let alone getting the

(13:15):
news from your staffers and figuring out what Biden's doing
on the way. That had to be planned. That was
that was set up weeks ago, weeks ago, folks, And
it was dropped, you know, in that timeframe on intentionally,
and it was pre planned to do so there's no
other way. It's just how the White House works. It's

(13:35):
how you know, government works. We're having our ceremonies, they
love their ceremonies. All that needed to be done way
ahead of time. But if you take a second to
go and look, you start to realize. And again, I
think this is something that the American people took into
consideration too when they voted for Donald Trump. They did
it all. What do you mean by that they did it?

(13:58):
They did it all everything. You may notice if you
look at those pardons and you're looking whether at Hunter's
or Fauci's or Millie's, any of them, go look at
the dates they all start before alleged allegations that these
people did certain things right, which at some point the

(14:20):
media called conspiracy theories. If you're talking about if you're coaching,
true it is man, doctor Fauci has a pardon that
just predates his involvement with the start of gain a
function research in Wuhan. All right, what does that tell you?
They created the f and virus folks, they did it

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everything Ran Paul accused him of, which the media said
was a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
And it's true. Obviously.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
That's why the date on the pardon goes back to
just before. If you look at Hunter Biden's pardon, it's
a month before they laundered that two billion dollars, which
ten percent of it then came back when in a
Biden's friends, his son got a job on Barisma. All right,
he went to Kiev in spring of that, he twenty fourteen,
and he gave a speech and he said, we're gonna

(15:11):
give you money, but you are absolutely going to have
to make investments in your energy sector. He leaves, his
son ends up on the board of Barisma. A month later. Okay,
they get control of the shell deposits. Where's all this
money going?

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Right?

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Ten percent back to the big guy. The pardon is
one month before, one month before in twenty fourteen. So
and by the way, again the media said that was
a conspiracy theory. That's crazy. There's no connection between Hunter
Biden having a job he's not qualified for at a
company that's gonna financially benefit that by you know the well,

(15:49):
the oligarchs who run the company are gonna financially benefit
from the two billion dollars that Joe Biden had sent
from the US to Ukraine. So understand what the Biden
crime families is, all right? And by the way, we
don't know what role, if any, they played with that
gain of function. All we know is that the deal
that Hunter was making with the Chinese had military application.

(16:12):
We only know that because the Peter Sweitzer's work. We
don't know whether that includes gain of function or some
kind of crazy weapons system.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
We don't know.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
All we know is that he did something. He used
his son, even though he was in charge of US
Chinese relations. He used his son to take a trip
with him that he is supposed to do on his
own in his role as vice president in the Envoid
of China. I mean, it's very, very very.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
They paid him in a bag full of diamonds.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
I mean, Sean, god knows, but it is the Chinese
model to enricher family, not you. That's how bribes work
in China. It's long been the way that they work.
And then you know, I mean, look, that could have
involved something like that. And the truth is, we really
just don't know, and I don't know how we would.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, there are ways.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Of course to find out what I'm saying. We all
we know is that the Pardons every time the right
or independent media said, wait a minute, look at this
over here, this looks bad. This could be criminal activity.
Oh my god, did doctor Faucci actually fun gain us
function research in the institute, the virology institute where COVID

(17:23):
leaked from? Right, did the actually because Sean, I gotta
tell you everything that we have all seen and we
have all heard, is it at all out of the
realm of possibility that they had this virus which they
created and they paid for, which just so happened to
look like it was engineered to kill old white Trump voters?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
All right?

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Like I'm serious, I mean, And then all of a
sudden it gets out and he gets a pardon for it.
Then he runs to Jonathan Carl, and he tells Jonathan
Carl that I didn't really do anything wrong, although I'm
grateful for the party. Who the hell sean people only
get pardons who lobby for pardons. It's a business in
the White House. It's like a whole side hustle. There

(18:04):
are people who start maneuvering at the end of an administration,
you know, making promises to people, Hey, you know what,
you look out for me with something in the future.
I'll see if I can't get your boy of pardon.
It becomes a whole industry. People just don't get pardons
because they're not lobbying for pardons. There's no way, no way.
He just MILLI came out to pardon brother, and MILLI

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came out.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
And by the way, all these CNN people and like
all these journalists just all they're doing. They have no
opinions on any of this, right, like, they know it's wrong,
and in their heart of hearts, they know that it's sickening,
it's wrong. It's a mission. These pardons are an admission
of wrongdoing, especially at the eleventh hour, the way that
they are. But they they they these CNN and all
these like correspondence for all these like liberal networks, they

(18:49):
got opinions about everything else, especially when it pertains to Trump.
But now they're just putting out the statement General Millie
said this, and he basically says, well, I didn't want
my impact the last remain years that I have on
this earth, and I'm paraphrasing to be, you know, fighting
hundreds of all these spending money on these legal fees.
My family doesn't deserve this, blah blah blah know what,
Not him, not anybody else gave a shit about what

(19:12):
happened to Flynn or Juliani or any one of these
other you know, Trump supporters that didn't have the the
financialwith yeah, the financial yeah, the financial means to defend
themselves with all these January six ers that have been
languishing in prison, Like it's insane to me. And what's creazy.
What's even worse is that the media's narrative about preemptive

(19:35):
pardons when Trump was still in office, Like, I I
cobbled together some stuff. I want to show you this.
I want to show you this stuff and give you
a sense of what I'm thinking. But this is like
just some of the like you know, Anderson Cooper Chris Pomo,
Rachel Maddow, and Don Lemon. Check this out.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Had a thing preemptive preemptive blanket pardons. I mean, I
haven't heard about this since like monopoly with aget get
out of jail free card.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Trump has discussed with advisors whether to grant preemptive pardons.
What does that say that he wants to excuse them
for things before anybody's even saying there's an investigation.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
President Trump, as he winds down his last few weeks
in office, is considering preemptive pardons.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
What a mess?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
More as we know, so we're saying that some of
the presidents in a circle or they're telling him that
it would be perfectly fine to pardon his family and
other associates preemptively even though they haven't been charged with
any crimes. How much damage could be done to this country?
Can he do to this country on.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
His way out?

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Okay? So there's that, and then there's this look.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
At this and he getting a preemptive pardon?

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Who was innocent of all?

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Shift?

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Who's just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of
a blanket pardon committee?

Speaker 3 (20:53):
But you know it's the president's own family, it's people
that have been covering up for the president in addition
to his own family.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Is there an innocent explanation for someone to seek preemptive margins?

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, Weisman on the right, one of the architects of Lawfair.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
The biggest federal prosecutor, scumbag probably in the country.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
All right, architects of lawfair against Trump? Yeah, listen, listen,
family members, would you do that if you knew you were.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
Innocent and just worried about outside forces?

Speaker 8 (21:33):
The answer to that is going to be no, If
you haven't done anything wrong, you sit there and go,
what do you need a preemptive pardon for?

Speaker 7 (21:41):
If he pardons people preemptively, he's essentially telling the public
that these people have committed crimes, and we may not
be aware of what they are, but the pardon is
clear evidence that crimes have been committed.

Speaker 9 (21:54):
I imagine if he decides to issue these preemptive pardons,
it will be cast in a way that he is
protecting his family and protecting their reputations from, you know,
villainous exterior forces that are against him.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
First off, we should just take a deep breath and
acknowledge the audacity of a president who's so clearly concerned
about his own criminal pulpability and that of his family members.
That pardons are a major obsession with him.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
The idea of a kind of prospective pardon, this sort
of permanent federal get out of jail free card, that
that seems to be what we're talking about in the
case of this right with Juliani and his three eldest
children who will kill We know don't have not being
convicted of a crime, Rachel mad Maybe they've committed.

Speaker 8 (22:39):
A lot and they don't want.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
To face Actually, I don't know. It's weird.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
I wouldn't ask for a pardon. I don't think I
deserve one because I don't think I've done anything criminal.
But like, where does that come from? That concept you
can just kind of wave your magic pardon one.

Speaker 10 (22:53):
We have to James, we have Xavier p Zera, Mimi
Roca is literally my day in my town. There will
be opportunities to prosecute these people, regardless if they if
they abuse the pardon power as they are thinking.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Hopefully Ellie, there will be a skyfall on this entire
crime family.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Uh, and there will be another day for them to die.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
For president, does indeed say Rudy Giuliani or any members
of his family.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Would you see that?

Speaker 6 (23:20):
And I asked pet Ferrara, this question as essentially an
admission of guilt another losing.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
I certainly would view it that way. I think millions
of Americans would view it that way.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
If there was no belief in criminality, why would he
think a pardon was necessary?

Speaker 3 (23:35):
See in his.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
Learned President Biden will pardon his son Hunter.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Okay, so there's that, and then one more, I promise,
just this one's only eight seconds. One.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah. The only reason I know to ask for a
pardon is because you think you've committed a crime.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
I'm sorry, this is these people, your vaping off camp.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I thought I had more time. Eight seconds is a
lot quicker than I counted in my head.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Well, I mean, like, so the pattern here is is
that And I'm alluding to something that you and I
talked about earlier on your show, is that the media
they are disgusting liars. And what's more, maybe the American
people didn't fully realize it back then, but they realize

(24:27):
it now. And that is part of the reason why
I say Trump is at the peak the apex of
his political power. And it's not just because of its
historic victory. Yeah, of course, I mean when the House
wins the Senate, when state houses all across the country's
got a majority on the US Supreme Court, when's the
popular vote electoral college landslide. But also the media destroyed

(24:51):
themselves with that type of bullshit, right.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I'm telling you there are many many sins that the
media committed. But this is like, you know, the kind
of stuff that just really piled on after they got
caught with the big reveal, which I'm telling you is
the debate that but they you know, everyone goes back
and looks at these things now and sees it. And

(25:15):
because they realized the media was even lying to them,
people that they that trusted them still, even though they
were still such a of course a minority, there were
still enough of them that thought they had some modi
credibility left over. I'll also say this, there were crimes
committed in those clips, all right, Chris hayes Man should
never be as feminine as you, all right, Adam Kinzinger.

(25:36):
No person should have ears that big and that blonde
woman I thought a seven thirty seven was going to
land on her nose there for a second.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
These people have.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
These people honestly are they have no Uh, they just
don't care. I mean, they'll do this hypocritical stuff forever,
Sean because they just don't care, right, Adam Shift, there's
no lie you could catch that.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
You really think, you really.

Speaker 10 (26:08):
Do?

Speaker 3 (26:08):
I think what you think? They're gonna keep doing this?

Speaker 4 (26:11):
Of course. I look, I'm gonna play something tomorrow. But
I give you guys a little sneak peek, right if
you watched and I tried to get into this with
you today earlier. They don't really understand that Americans have
now kind of seen through what they do in their

(26:31):
hysterical tactics and being hypocritical. They don't really understand that yet.
They think that they don't really need any major change
to how they act, talk, how they conduct themselves. They
think that if they can just change the shiny ball, right,
like maybe they're waving a shiny ball that is silver
and it wasn't you know, it wasn't distracting enough, So

(26:54):
they're going to try to wait, they're going to try
to like look at this, you know, new gold ball.
Like they're not really changing their approach at all or
trying to better themselves or hold themselves accountable. It's really
what I'm looking for, Like that's what They're not really
trying to hold themselves accountable at all. Look at at
that entire montage. The only one of them that has

(27:15):
any kind of audience at all anymore right now is
actually chrome Chromo Chromo do Before he went on News Nation,
what did he do? He had a major miakopa now.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Insight.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
I don't think it was enough, but it was something.
I mean, at least it was enough where someone like
me could say, it's not as big of a man
as you should be in this world, but like, at
least he's big enough to do that. He's had conversations
with the Trumps, you know, like look even to go

(27:51):
so far as like to offer somewhat of an apology
like look, I know this was all bes, you know,
and News Nation. He goes to the Democratic National Convention,
what does he say, this is a show nobody's hype
for this woman. He said, look at the box of
the skybox seats. Those are all for the donors who
put Kamala here. Like he's had some level of uh it,

(28:14):
try to anyway show that he's willing to hold himself accountable,
and then to change course radically radically change course. They're
not willing to do that, bro, I'm telling you they're not,
and they're going to keep it up. I mean today,
for instance, Elon must went you know, and threw his
heart out to the crowd. They said it was a

(28:34):
Nazi select.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Oh, I know, I have that down too. It's ridiculous, CNN.
You think, after like being found liable for defaming, you're
just right back into it saying and here Elon Musk
throw my heart out to you, you know, like he's
got to throw my heart out to you. It's clear
as day. And they are. They are legitimately insinuating that

(28:55):
he did a Nazi state. Oh, by the way, attacking
the people in the out ah, this is just part
of the part of the course is just normal.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
And we all know Donald Trump has a germ thing, okay,
And you know he was hovering his hands slightly over
the Bible. There was a CNN segment before about how
he did not put his hand on the Bible when
he swore an oath.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
I mean, John Roberts started early before his family.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
You and Laura, You and Laura absolutely was like, you're there,
have the Bible. It was really what Malania did not
have the Bible. He started early. But they don't care.
It doesn't matter, and they know that how many of
these have they seen? You know, like how many of
these ceremonies have they seen? They don't care. This is

(29:44):
what they're gonna do. And honestly, I think I already
have their number. So they and you could see the
Saturday Night Live skit that they did on Saturday making
fun of from that. But you know, they all talk
and you know, they all kicked like the same high mind,
you know, talking points around. So they do that skit
and you can see that they have drawn the same

(30:06):
kind of conclusions the media has where it's like they
spend too much time letting Trump distract them with things
he says and harping on things that he says. Now,
if we just try to not paint things that he
says is crazy but things that he does is crazy,
then we'll have a better time, will be more successful.
The problem is, what did they spend today doing talking
about how the deportations is nuts, ending birthright citizenship is nuts? Well,

(30:29):
guess what American support all of this? This is their
main They didn't always at this level, Sean, but this
last four years changed the national consciousness.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
It did.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
It changed it. It caused an entire, you know, paradigm
shift on where the country is. The spectrum leaped all
the way to the right. We're gonna be talking about
this more in the future, but let me just read
you a number real quick. I have been I had
brought this up to you several times. I told my
audience several times, the country is getting more moderate. It's

(31:03):
not getting more conservative. Something's going on. Conservatism continues to
trick down. It did tick down.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
It did.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
Leading up to the election. It was the most moderate
electorate we have seen in modern history, by the way,
nobody's talking about this. And for the last two months
conducting polling, it has done nothing but continued to slide
from thirty six to thirty four, to thirty three, to
thirty two to now twenty nine thirty and yet and

(31:29):
yet the country is moving to what we would recognize
the rights on issues. So it almost end Trump won
the election with a heavily moderate electorate, and he won
it pretty comfortably.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
How do you measure that? How do you measure how
do you know that it was heavily moderate?

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Well, we asked them simply you know, and I'll give
you exactly how we phrase it.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
How an exit I mean is it's a fascinating question.
I've not seen anybody ask. I've never seen I haven't
seen anybody do an ideology test of the overall electorate.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
That's interesting, It's yeah, it's actually something everybody should do,
and we don't see every polster do it. We very
much try to stay consistent with exit polls like what
people recognize, right, so, what people know and what they're
used to during elections this, why would we change it up?
Same thing with age groups? Why would we do all

(32:22):
of these crazy tricks with age groups we see other
pollsters do, right, eighteen to thirty five? What the hell
are you talking about? The age brackets are eighteen to
twenty four or eighteen to twenty nine, and then you
can have you know, different age detail groups, but they're
usually all you know, they conform with each other all
throughout the years. The exit polling never changes. Since this

(32:42):
never changes, and yet we see polsters doing this crazy stuff.
We simply ask, and this is the way everybody asks,
from Gallup to Edison to now even ap vote cast,
which would you say best describes your political views, and
then it's simple liberal, moderate or conservative. We're even doing
a populism in now, which that is new, and I'm
gonna need some time to like, I just don't think

(33:05):
people understand fully yet what I'm asking and I don't
want to prompt too hard. So you know, but that
the ideology test is time h testing and true, you know. So, uh,
it's it hasn't changed over the years. We know that
the country used to be about forty forty two percent
conservative now it is continuously tricked down for trickle down

(33:27):
now for a while and has ticked down even after
the election, little by little by little. And yet that's rich.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
We got break the news man hag Seth was just
voted out of Committee on Armed Services. He's a go,
He's he's on the Senate. Yeah, he's just voted out
of committee fourteen thirteen party line vote. But yeah, yeah,
it is so what the Senate will do now go
through to what two or three days maybe of open
Senate debate on the floor, you'll probably see a vote

(33:56):
for Pete on Thursday night or Thursday or Friday, depends
on how long the debate goes. And yeah, the other
will be like whether or not Thune wants to keep
them over the weekend, which he might. I think I
think he might. It seems like Fune means business. But
I'm sorry, go ahead, go yeah, I may.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
I gotta be honest, and I just don't really want
to just tell people this Dune so far is not
acting like Mitch McConnell.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I agree, I r you know anymore, you would know too,
He's not he is he is doing. He is, he
is doing, and apparently apparently Trump really likes him. They
talk on the phone a lot. Yeah, doing what I
mean this, I I'm very cautiously optimistic. Rich just does
not feel like sixteen or twenty at all at all.

(34:46):
Oh what I wanted to ask you? You're talking about
like little silver balls and golden balls. Let's talk about
crystal balls for a second. Larry Sabado. Do you see
the news come out about Larry Sabado about how he
was made aware of buy Iden's cognitive decline in like
April or something of this year, knew about it, was
concerned about it, and then covered it up. He covered up,

(35:08):
he covered up. Now everyone's attacking. I'm like, you're supposed
to be a bolster, What the hell is going on here?

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yeah? This is there also apparently, And I don't know
if I should like speak too much about this, but
Larry may find himself in some real trouble.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
You did mention this a couple of shots ago.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Larry is not a credible election pundin, prognosticator, or poll reader,
whatever you want to call it. He is not a
credible person. He had been put across to everybody for years,
whether he was on uh CBS, whether he was on
Fox News by the way, they used to have him
on a lot, and he was always a partisan hack.

(35:48):
I could prove it panthematically. Senator's office actually called me
because there are people who are looking into what are
probably not probably I'm they're an appropriate You cannot use
and especially if you're in a public institution, you cannot
use your what has the how could I give this?

(36:10):
So you can't be involved with committees, political committees and
then help those political committees with other things that you
do or positions you hold, such as the so called
head of politics at the University of Virginia pretending you
have an impartial, unbiased election forecast. Okay, so if you
have an election that you want one, and then you

(36:33):
have a committee that you're involved in that's helping a candidate,
all right, then you also cannot provide them any kind
of service for free or you know, without being declared.
And what it looks like Larry was doing was using
the crystal bowl as propaganda, you know, to like pump
out narratives and exits. In politics is an expectations game.

(36:55):
Nobody can argue it's not so when you have all
of these so called experts that people trust and have
credibility saying that you know, so and so is the
favorite in the selection, and that so and so happens
to be the one your committee is pushing. And then
but they're not, they're not really you're gas lighting. Then
you're letting, you're engaging in basically a conspiracy, and you're

(37:19):
providing services for free that aren't allowed. That's called an
in kind campaign contribution. But there are many other violations
that it looks like people are looking into. And it's
not mathematically difficult for me to show people who asked
that his ratings don't jive. They're not fair, they're not impartial,

(37:40):
they're not so like for instance, and this goes back
many many many years, like the Arkansas Senate race, let's
call it okay, when Tom Cotton was facing Mark Pryor.
You know a PPP poll which is apparently somebody knows
too a pp people Public policy polling. I know, it's
incredible the connections between these people. Comes out with a

(38:00):
poll nobody believes is wildly out of the out of
the consensus, which shows Mark Pryor is actually ahead. Right,
but most everybody knows that Tom Cotton is going to
stomp Mark Pryor. They'll immediately move that rating from what
was like a lean Republican late rating to now it's
hoss up. But if the roles were reversed in Fox

(38:21):
News came out with a poll that in that same
election show Journey Earnst ahead of Bruce Bradley right in Iowa,
they would not move that rating. They would keep that
rating Lean's Democrat for two weeks, three weeks, four weeks
after the polls turned on them. Not so with Democratic ratings,
they would immediately move it even before the aggregates even

(38:42):
showed that the Democrat was beginning to be the favorite
or was beginning to, you know, get competitive in a
certain race. And you can actually measure it and show
people that there is a disparity in how their election,
how their election forecast model works. Now you measure or
you couple that with these other things, right, I mean,
he's giving a forecast on the presidential race. He's on

(39:05):
Twitter telling everybody that this these allegations about Biden's tonality
are false, and he's showing the election is competitive when
it's really not. And he knows Biden is senile like
you folks, Yeah, ye do that. You cannot do that.
He was never credible, And I'm glad that the whole
world is starting to figure it out.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
What do you think about Trump's inauguration speech? We were
texting back and forth. I mean, I, first of all,
I liked the swearing in and the rotunda. I thought
it was I just thought it looked awesome. I just
I thought I was just blown away by everything that

(39:47):
that man has endured from the very beginning, and then
still having an election stolen from him in twenty twenty.
I don't give a shit when anyone says they totally
stole the election from that guy. He should be on
his way out right now, but he's not. They left
around and now they're about to find out. But like
he's saying all of this in front of Bill Clinton

(40:08):
and Barack Obama and Joe Biden and George W. Bush
and Hillary and Hillary and just Tamala and not batting
an eye, and the demand was all business. And I'm
telling you, rich, I uh, I was blown away by
the whole ordeal. I just I couldn't be more excited

(40:30):
for the next four years and what President Trump is
gonna do because he just he's in the apex of
his power, and he got a shitload done in his
first term, right, and now this guy's the limit now.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Trying to play nice too. This is a different Donald Trump.
This is a different Donald Trump, and he's thinking so
much bigger. So when Elon Musk earlier today goes out,
he's stomping around, he's hilarious, talks about putting Americans on Mars,
and like Trump thinks big, and he has other people

(41:03):
now around him who are also thinking big about.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Number appreciates that that you're one hundred percent right.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
In the first administration, it's sean, he had people around
him saying, you don't know how this town works. Take
it easy, exactly, this dude and he thought, Okay, well,
you know, I'm a business guy. I want to get
along with everybody. Okay, let me let let me hear
him out. He had a Paul Ryan bullshitting him over here,
He had a Mitchell McConnell bullshit in him over here,
he had Kevin McCarthy waiting in the winds to bullshit him.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
And now it's totally totally different. And you could hear
it in the difference between the inauguration speeches between twenty
seventeen and this one today.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
I agree he I mean, look in us.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
First them speech great was for the ages and the
forgotten man and woman is not going to be forgotten
any longer. I heard your voice, all that great, all wonderful,
typical but wonderful. Right, this was not that today. This
man called what happened in twenty twenty, what you just
talked about, a betrayal. And the last four years have

(42:05):
been a betrayal of the American public because they did
rob them, because they did, and look at all the
damage they did in between, and in order to cover
it up and save their own asses, they tipped the
scales of justice. They turned them up. Stay down, they
broke that. They broke forget about tip, they broke the
scales of justice. They turned this country inside out. And

(42:28):
God knows what other sins they committed leading up to that, John,
I'm serious. I mean, think about what we were talking
about before the gain of function and the pardon. I mean, God,
God knows the grievous sins these people have committed. And
he gets up there. I don't know if people saw.
I don't know what channel you guys were watching. If
you were watching my show, you may have caught some

(42:48):
of it. Obama's ass stormed out of there.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I didn't see it, was pissed.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
You got to see him getting in the car, try
to find a clip. His shoulders are forward, you know,
on turage with him hardly, you know, like a few people,
but not the big man he once was, with the
spotlights all on him. Even when Joe was the president,
he would come to the White House. He was treated
like the man like he was the president. Still not today.

(43:15):
Hillary Clinton looked like she was going to have a
culinary embolism, bro like she was about to break it.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
I love Bill, though.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
I'm not gonna lie he's a sexual predator, but I
like I like what he stands for and like from
the nineties.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
He's funny, you know, it's funny. Take him back in
a heartbeat. What I were saying, Melanie and I were saying,
we have we have more respect for Bill Clinton. And
this is gonna sound terrible, because yeah, he has a secondly,
the sexual predator stuff aside.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
But I know that you can't side about a statesman, you.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Know, I get that you can't put it aside. But
I think I kind of like I like with him
as president more than George W.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Bush. Just absolutely, my god, me and Laura said the
same exact thing.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
I mean, like the exact same thing. I know that
might be sacrilege, but like it's not.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I mean like we got us in all these wars
that change people's lives. Like I can't want hard for
me to look hard for me to look back on
that with any with any anything other than just I mean,
they lied, they lied to people, and they lied to people,
and they in Afghanistan like Okay, we killed Bin Laden them,
we stayed there for another ten years, Like what the

(44:25):
hell's going on here? You know, in Iraq lied about
weapons of mass destruction, tens of thousands of Americans dead
on both sides. I mean, like, it's just hard to
forgive that. It's it's he.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Both have friends who would be here right now, and
I'm not even talking about in combat. We have friends
who would be here right now if they weren't dealing
with the aftermath of their lives. And that's what it
comes down to, because it's hard. As you know, I
actually recently lost somebody who was close to me. And

(44:55):
if you're a VET, you have friends who unfortunately have
taken their own lives. The lie is difficult to live with, Okay.
I don't think people appreciate this. Of course, you're proud
of your own service, but you may have things that
you are dealing with emotionally, Images that you just can't

(45:15):
get out of your head, Memories you cannot keep, you
cannot stop reliving, and it compounds it and makes it
all much much worse when you're grappling with the idea
that all of this transpired over a lie. All right,
So that's and I'm not going to blow them up here,
but you and I have talked about it, like that
was something he really had a problem with, Like, not

(45:38):
only did I do these things. I did them for bullshit,
like they were unjust. It was not just like so, uh,
the word itself is one thing. The aftermath has been
haunting us. Well, that's a great part in the aftermath.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
It drives you crazy, right because that's part that you
can't war without talking about the aftermath. And Trump, honestly
the away Trump that stage today addressed even that as well,
with regards to service members being kicked out of the
military because they refuse to take the COVID job, He's
gonna bring him back with bat bay. But he also
said our measure of success will be how we keep

(46:15):
america sons and daughters out.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
Of out of the wars. I was just looking for
the quote right now.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
When he said that, I looked at Melanie and I
about lost it because like, that is that is what
American leadership is all about. Like, yeah, we kick ass
when we take names when we have to, but we
don't send our people into the fire for nothing. And
when he said that, it's just, it's just I haven't
heard an American president say that, certainly in my ever ever.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
He said, we have a political establishment that is obsessed
with protecting the borders of other countries while not giving
you know, about the one here at home. And it's like, uh,
you know, I I You're never I said this today. Uh,
and I'm gonna here in case anybody didn't watch earlier

(47:01):
and missed it, You're never gonna hear a speech like
that from an American president. Again, it's not especially not
an inauguration day speech, like an inaugural address, you won't
hear it. If you thought Trump's was unconventional in seventeen,
this one was even more so. And I was actually
trying to find that quote because we've had presidents certainly

(47:22):
get up there and give anti war speeches or time
to wind down war speeches. Right, we did not ever
have a president get up there and basically accuse the
ruling class of exploiting, you know, and abusing you know,
lack of appreciation for the armed services. And it's like

(47:43):
misusing them. You know, we have never had them say
that before. There were many many things in that speech
today that for lack of a better phrase, folks, not
to be crude. No one else is going to ever
have the boss to say those things again. Ever. I mean,
and you're gonna have your cookie cutter stuff even when
they may end up being good presidents, they're never going

(48:05):
to be the president like that who understands the true
nature of their abuse. And that's something we should all cherish.
I mean literally to the point where there are six
hours and ten minutes left in this day, cherish every
damn minute of it, because as horrible as some of

(48:25):
the things are that we have dealt with in the
last four years, six years longer because it has been
longer for people like you and I. I mean, it's
like in the post nine to eleven era. These people
have been doing nothing but abusing us and enriching themselves.
And for the next six the next six hours and
ten minutes, we at least get to enjoy the simple

(48:47):
fact that at least this day, we live through crazy times.
But we witness something like this, and it's remarkable. These
calling out the Justice Department who are trying to put
him in jail. All I never feet away from the
guy who directed them.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
To do it.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
I know, the balls on this guy, not tiny crystal
balls like Larry's Sabado. All right, brass, big sons of bitches,
this big all right Trump. Those guys aren't following him
because they're.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Following the amish, the craziest amish guy I've ever met.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
I'll tell you what the Lord's speaking through me. They're
not following him to protect him.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
It takes four guys to carry that guy's balls. Okay,
holy crap. And you'll never see it again, and you
will never see it again.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
You'll go right from that, right back into the series.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
Because it's funny and we can laugh at it, but
it is historic. It was absolutely remarkable. And I don't
know about you, but that's I I mean, we had uh.
Of course, I'm sure your kids are on from school
today too. Yeah, you know, I had work and I
told my kids, which didn't take me pushing them to

(50:09):
do it. They know what I do for a living.
They know how how serious of a day this is.
They wanted to partake in it. They wanted to watch,
they wanted to learn, and I mean, I told them,
you know you were you will remember this day. You know,
My daughter's thirteen, my son is fifteen. You will be
adults and you will remember this day because you will

(50:31):
never see another one like it, not not in our lifetimes,
not in our father and our mother's lifetimes. They can't
point to our grandparents. They can't point too. Like an
inauguration like today, sean not to mention it all is
the end, not well not the end. Actually Trump's just
starting to get to work. But I mean it is

(50:53):
his inauguration after what is the greatest political comeback of
all time. I mean, so what what else should we
have expected from that speech? I mean, Laura had me
in the corner as the speech was going on the show,
and I'm like signaling or to get me off the
screen because my face. Man, when some of this stuff
was coming out, I was like, oh, you were texting.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
You were all caps texting me, so it must have
been holy crap. He's not holding anything back.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
I'm like, this guy is, this is what he was doing. Wow,
drag out. He was fragging out like crazy. And I
knew he would go. I knew he would be bold.
But wow, you know your Green New Deal is gone.

(51:41):
But again, let me just this and then we can
move on if you want. I just want to say
this so people like, remember these words. Come on, I
had it. I had it there.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
It is.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Our sovereignty will be reclaimed, safety will be restored, the
scales of justice will be read balance. The vicious, violent,
and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government
will end. I mean that sentence, that last sentence, that's
going in the history books. It's going in history books.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Everything about this guy is historic. And you know, of course, yeah,
I'm a Trump guy, but like, I cannot believe what
we have lived through just through the last year, but
really going back since he made his entrance in politics,
I can't believe that now he's the most powerful man

(52:37):
in the free world right now, the President of the
United States. And now what's what's amazing to me is
he is not wasting any time. He's already he's mobilizing
the American military to secure our southern borders. He's issuing
wave after wave of executive orders disabling the CBP one

(52:57):
app which allowed millions of people come into our country,
immediately reinstitute, reinstituted remain in Mexico, and catch and release
to ending catch.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
And release one too, that other order that's gone that's
in there.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
You already see law enforcement agencies and sheriffs at the
podium with more energy than I've ever seen in the
last four years about like basically finally we get to
enforce the law. Now you're seeing this what what leadership,
good leadership at the at the top means to people.
It trickles down instantaneously where you have local sheriffs saying

(53:33):
we are going to lead the way on this, and
now passo you have riot police with riot shields standing
and holding the line on the border to turn people away.
I mean, this is They've been chomping at the bit
to do this for four years. And the treason is
Biden administration. And I know that they're treason is because
he had to pardon his whole damn family, bro for
what taking grimes. God, It's like unbelievable, It's unbelievable. And finally, finally,

(53:59):
you know, I don't know rich I am. I'm very optimistic.
I'm very optimistic, and I think the Dems have never
been in more trouble than they're in right now. They
are completely lost. If they had a shred of common sense.
I don't believe the things that Fetterman is saying, but
if they had a shred shred of common sense, they

(54:22):
would immediately adopt everything that he says. But they are leaderless.
I showed a poll last week on the show the
vast majority of America, when asked to the leader of
the Democrat Party said I don't know. Twenty nine percent
of the people said I don't know. Despite the fact
that Kamala just ran a billion dollar presidential race, nobody
thinks she's the leader of the party. I mean, they
are in big trouble and Trump should put the nail

(54:45):
in the political coffin here over these next four years.
And like part of this whole like preemptive pardon thing.
And I forgot to make this point, but I'll make
it now. There they are like almost creating this narrative.
We know how the media operates. You're trying to gaslight
the America people into being a po oh. He's going
to pardon his family, He's going to pardon all of
his allies. Well Trump one didn't believe that any of

(55:07):
his allies, and he was right about this, committed any crime.
So therefore a pardon not necessary. But they also want
the media also wanted to create a narrative that these
types of pardons just in case are not acceptable, are
not acceptable, are not acceptable. But had Trump pardoned people
like Rudy Giuliani and people like that, the DEM's lawfair
would have been minimally effective. So I think part of

(55:31):
what the Dems were trying to do with that preemptive
pardon narrative is that they knew they were going to
wage lawfair against Trump and go after him and all
his allies forever, as evidenced by the setup on January sixth.
I'm sorry, January sixth was a totally complete and total
set up to destroy his legacy, and everything that happened
to Donald Trump thereafter was part and parcel with that.

(55:52):
And I know, just like I know how the Dems
rolled out this bullshit insurrection narrative. They started using the
word insurrection two days after January sixth, because they already
knew in that moment they were gonna make them bullshit
fourteenth Amendment argument to try to kick him off the ballot. Well, likewise,
you go back to these dabs and the preemptive part
and stuff. They didn't want Trump actually doing that so

(56:14):
that they could wage law fair against him later, I'm
telling you. And look what they did to Rudy Giuliani. Yeah,
look what they did to all of Trump's acause mayor
America's mayor.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
For those of us and we talked about the post
nine eleven world and our decisions after nine to eleven.
But no matter what I mean, nothing will, uh, nothing
will will will erase my memory for how Rudy Giuliani
conducted himself as a man and as a leader that
day and in the aftermath of that day. And yet

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they take an American hero like that and destroy him,
which is why, or try to. And this is why
I say, uh, I don't think this is why, like JD.
Vance is a pick so much when he did because
it told me that he understood the moment in time
we're in. And you have this argument. I think it's
settled now. But this argument in the Republican Party that

(57:05):
was saying, you know, but when we get power, we
don't use it too. And then you add people like
Mike Davis and others who represented the New Right, I
would say I'd like to call them that, you know,
definitely Maga who would say the opposite is true. The
only way to stop it is to fight fire with fire.
And this is all I would say is that because
JD as somebody who understands that you have to use

(57:26):
it when you have it, right, But I would say
this too, use it and then dismantle the power, so
instead of the tit for tat and the back and forth.
Obviously it needs to be met because it's not retribution
much of this stuff we're talking about it, that's called justice.
They misuse their power and they need to be able
to accountable for it. But then after dismantle it so

(57:49):
nobody can abuse it anymore, you know. I mean, I
really don't feel like a lot of these things are
is even reformable a word, but they're.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
Not cannot be, Yeah, they can't. So rich. So just
a Governor DeSantis and a new executive order recognizes the
Golf of Mexico's.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
The somebody texted me that I didn't know if it
was true, so I didn't want to say anything that
is as move.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Like instantly and like already renamed the Gulf of America.
I mean, I'm sorry. You know, this is what I
love about Trump. He's not messing around with the Greenland stuff.
But he said in his speech today we're taking back
the Panama Canals. And I'm like, hell, yes, I'm sorry.
I like I like how unapologetic he is about America.
We're the biggest battest nation on the face of the planet.

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Other countries out there take us for granted.

Speaker 8 (58:40):
And.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
It's over.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
It's over.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
They take advantage of us. That this spirit of the
deal that led to Carter giving back the Panama Canal
has been violated over and over and nobody cares. The
police established, they just don't care. And you know, I
mean we can. It's like evident by like listening to
CNN talk about this issue about how some great accomplishment

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to give something away for the snake of giving it away.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Now now the CCP controls it, take that shit.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
Back, take it back. Unbelievable and enough for nothing. But
the act of doing that anyway back then was incredibly unpopular.
Ronald Reagan beat Carter over the head with it in
nineteen eighty. It's weak, it's weak. It's weak, it's weak.
We should not give them the Panama Canal. He beats.
He was even for numerous years before arguing that they

(59:38):
should not give back to Panama Canal. And Americans, I mean,
they obviously agreed with him. It's such as the poll,
they obviously agreed with him. He won, and he one
overwhelmingly because he had what Donald Trump has, this incredible
gift to understand not only that that's the right decision
as a matter of policy, it's just dumb to have
that canal in the hands of an enemy. It's so stupid.

(59:59):
But in any then he understands something else, which is
the president needs to be a cheerleader for American exceptionalism.
The president jack is to make America feel good about
themselves and to ignite the American spirit, because all you
have to do is create this little spark when you're

(01:00:21):
in a malaise whatever you know, in the Reagan days,
it was the Carter malayse and now whatever the hell
you want to call the Biden nightmare, like Megan Kelly
called it, right, which I really think that's actually a
good a good description for I think a lot of
people have felt like they are in a nightmare, including,
by the way, many Democrats who woke up from it

(01:00:41):
the day they realized that they were being lied to
and about the president being senile. But all you have
to do is create this little spark and America will
do incredible things, extraordinary things. And Trump, Reagan, hell, even
Bill Clinton, we're just talented with this ability to cheerlead

(01:01:01):
for America and and to like be there their biggest
fan and their best mascot, right, the biggest fan of
the worker, the biggest fan for the innovator, right. And
then America does amazing things. And that is something I think,
I mean all three men, but definitely Reagan and Trump get.
They got that. They like inherently understand that. And that's

(01:01:25):
one of the that's one of the beauties of of
of you know, his administration or him asn't president, as
a leader by the way today, as he did those
things and as he said those things, he.

Speaker 8 (01:01:36):
Was like a picture of Roman stoicism sitting there with
this face like you know, uh, Steve, he always says, man,
he's a Cincinnatus, He's a modern day Cincinnati.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
Steve always says that, Steve Bennett, And I'm like, I
don't know, Steve, Like, you know, in Cincinnatus's day, you
can just raise an army and make a comeback. You know,
it was like totally different. You could get political support,
raise an army if you were, you know, a military tactician,
and you could obtain political power like that. Trump is
dealing with the world where there are all these constructs

(01:02:08):
that bind you in and handicap the game against you.
Are rigid against you, flat out rigg it. And yet
he did the miraculous here and what he achieved today
Just to see him up there, and I mean, he's
achieved it already, but today is like the solidification of
this journey, as he called it over and over again,
this journey, this journey, kept saying. And then just to

(01:02:30):
see him sitting there like he so deserved that. And
you know what he got. He deserved what to say,
whatever the hell he wanted to say, and the hell
with their feelings. You know, you got to see Obama
stomping out of there. I will find you a clip
and show you because I saw it actually watching it
on right side, and I could see him stomping away,

(01:02:52):
pouting away, and it was like alone, you know, like
I said, no big entrage. It was a very symbolic
moment sewn like look at the miss the big shot
to no drama Obama, you know, too cool Obama and
just walking.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Out of the.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Back Yeah, into irrelevancet, out of town. Go back to
Matha's vignad, you know, and I enjoy the rest of
your life, your Bomba. And by the way, tell Michael
you're sorry. He couldn't attend the services today. Joan Rivers,
I love you, I miss you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
God.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Could you imagine if Joan was around today?

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
God, you're you're crazy. You know that she was.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
A blessing to humanity, that woman. Yeah, I could only
imagine if she was still around today. I wonder what
you would have to say about Mike Big Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
Well, tell us all where we can find you rich
best places always is on Locals, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
And the new pole is going to be up there soon.
I'm making it look pretty now, it's done making it
look pretty Locals. We'll get it first. People's pundit at
locals dot com. People's pundit that locals dot com. When
you do see it, Sean, it's not just how many
people approve of this man or have a favorable image.
Look at the amount of people who strongly disapprove or

(01:04:13):
have a very unfavorable rating of him, or tell us
that they don't expect. I have no confidence things are
gonna get better. It's so small. It's just, yeah, it's unbelievable. Again,
I'm not sure they understand what they're up against. He's
much more formidable this time than he ever was before.
I think you're right. He is at the zenith of

(01:04:35):
his power right now, and I think he intends to
use it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
All right, brother, Well, well maybe i'll see I don't
know if we're gonna do. Are we gonna do Wednesday
this week?

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
I mean yeah, why not? I mean, you know what
happened in forty eight hours. If you're gonna do the show,
why not? I'm telling you, in the next forty eight hours,
this man's gonna fill our schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
You are. That's actually true. There's like there's gonna be
a shitload to talk about Greenland.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Greenland will be America's by borrow evening, the Panama will
be back by brunch.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
The American Canal. Rename it the American.

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
Uh, DeSantis, Actually that's true. Santis just signed an executive
word to rename in Golf of Mexico to the Golf
of America. That's Laura.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Well, give Laura my best and maybe I'll see you in
a couple of days.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
Lots of time, all right, best see you and yours
see you soon.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Take care of my friend, see Laura secrets. Take care.
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