1. Gerrymandering Argument
- Gerrymandering is bipartisan, not just a Republican issue.
- Democrats dominate redistricting in “blue states”:
- Examples given: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Hawaii.
- These states have little or no Republican representation despite Republican voters existing there.
- Democrats:
- Concentrate opposing voters into fewer districts.
- Spread them thin elsewhere to minimize their political power.
- Current Republican redistricting efforts are a correction, not abuse.
2. Criticism of Democratic Messaging
- Democrats and their hypocrisy:
- Condemning Republican maps as unfair
- While benefiting from similar tactics themselves
- Democrats use:
- Media narratives
- Racial arguments
- Legal challenges to defend their political advantage.
3. Stacey Abrams Segment (Counterpoint Presented)
- Abrams’ view (as quoted/interpreted in the text):
- Redistricting could reduce representation for minority communities.
- Effects would extend beyond Congress to:
- State legislatures
- Local governments
- Education and healthcare policy
- The commentary frames her argument as:
- Fear of losing political influence
- Overemphasis on race
4. Los Angeles Mayoral Race Narrative
- A conservative/populist outsider candidate surge in a heavily Democratic city.
- Attributes this to public dissatisfaction, including:
- Homelessness
- Crime
- High cost of living
- Government response to wildfires
- The candidate’s appeal is:
- Anti-establishment messaging
- Focus on quality-of-life issues
- Use of social media and populist rhetoric
- Suggests:
- Even some Democrats are shifting support
- This could signal broader vulnerability for Democrats nationally
5. Broader Political Message
- The situation is a power struggle:
- Control of Congress
- Influence over legislation, investigations, and national policy
- Democrats are:
- Losing ground with key voter groups (working class, suburban voters, etc.)
- Increasingly reliant on structural advantages (like district maps)
6. National Security Segment (Cuba & Drones)
- Raises concern about:
- Cuba’s ties with Russia, Iran, and China
- Potential deployment of drone technology near the U.S.
- Emphasizes:
- Drones as a modern, low-cost warfare threat
- Vulnerabilities in U.S. infrastructure and defense systems
- Links issue to:
- Border security concerns
- “Gray zone warfare” (non-traditional attacks like cyber or drone strikes)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yesterday I played for you Kamala Harris and how she
wants to completely destroy the fundamentals of this country. She
wants to pack the Supreme Court, even kick justice off
the Supreme Court when they give rulings she doesn't like.
And then she wants to get rid of the electoral
College all together. Now you may be asking yourself this
question why all of this is coming because they didn't
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get their way. Donald Trump won Conservatives one and when
you hate the other side and you don't respect the
law or the wishes of the citizens of this country,
well that's exactly what you would do, especially if you're
a communist and Marxists are a socialist. Stacy Abrams is
now coming out explaining why Democrats are so distraught over
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the Scotus ruling against racially jerrymander districts. She also is
upset at the power that the Democratic Party is going
to lose. Now, before I play her comments, I just
want to go back and set the stage to how
we got to the point where we are right now.
Democrats have been acting like they're the victims of gerrymandering
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for decades, but the reality is that's not true. Democrats
have actually been masters of gerrymandering, especially in deep blue
states where Republican voters are essentially a race from congressional
representation altogether. And if Americans want proof, just look at
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the states where there are literally zero Republican members of
Congress in the US House representing the Conservatives in those
states right now. States include Connecticut zero republicans, Delaware zero republicans,
Hawaii zero republicans in Congress, Massachusetts zero republicans in Congress,
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New Hampshire another zero, Rhode Island zero, Vermont zero, and
effectively Maine has no Republican representation in Congress whatsoever. Now,
if you just think about that for a second, that
is millions of Americans that have been disenfranchised living in
those states that vote Republican and presidential elections, governor races,
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Senate races, and local elections. Yet somehow, when it comes
to congressional districts, Republicans are entirely wiped off the map
on purpose. In fact, this has been part of a
long term political strategy in blue states. Democrats perfected the
art of concentrating Republican voters into a few districts as
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possible and then spreading them so thinly that they can
never actually win representation. Meanwhile, those same Democrats are going
on television every day now pretending that they are defenders
of quote, fair maps and democracy. Yeah, the hypocrisy is
quote unquote unbelievable, but it's really not if you've been
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paying attention to what's been happening all over the country
for decades. Just take Massachusetts for example. Republicans routinely receive
hundreds of thousands of votes statewide, yet Democrats hold every
single congressional seat. The same thing happens in Rhode Island,
the same thing happens in Connecticut, the same thing happens
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in Hawaii. Republicans may as well not exist according to
the congressional representation. And this isn't just about geography. It's
also about power because congressional districts determine who controls the
House of Representatives. That determines who has the committee chairmanships,
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who is in charge of the investigations or impeachments, who's
in charge of spending, border security, taxes, regulations, literally everything.
That's why the Democratic Party has been doing this, and
that's why now Republicans are fighting over the maps so aggressively.
But Here's what Democrats never want to admit. They were
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perfectly fine with aggressive redistricting when they controlled the process,
and for decades, Democrats used urban political machines, court systems,
state legislatures, and activist groups to shape districts in their favor.
In many states, they created maps so lopsided that competitive
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congressional races effectively disappeared altogether. Now suddenly, when Republicans fight
back in states like Texas and Florida or Tennessee, Democrats
scream from the hilltops and yell racism. The media narrative
is well always as saying, if Republicans redraw maps, it's
called an attack on democracy. But when Democrats literally implement
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the same maps, it's called protecting representation and minorities. Americans
they're tired of the double standard, especially if you're a conservative.
And the numbers, by the way, they don't lie. Just
look at Illinois, one of the most aggressively jerrymandered states
in America. Republicans regularly receive forty five percent in statewide votes,
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yet Democrats dominate the congressional delegation because the maps are
perfectly engineered to maximize democratic seats. Maryland became infamous for
bizarrely shaped districts designed specifically to weaken Republican voters. New
York Democrats openly laughed and attempted aggressive mid decade redistricting
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to gain more congressional seats before the courts were forced
to step in, and California system may technically involve a commission,
but the end result is still a delegation overwhelmingly tilted
towards the left, towards Democrats. And state were millions and
that's not exaggeration. Millions of Republicans live and vote. And
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here's the broader point Americans need to understand, Harry Mannering
is not some unique Republican phenomenon, if you even want
to call it that. It is a bipartisan political weapon.
Republicans are decades late to the game. The difference is
Republicans are finally fighting back and it's about time after
years of taking it on the chin watching Democrats dominate
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the process. Even major media outlets are now forced to
admit that redistricting wars are escalating nationwide, both parties aggressively
pursuing partisan advantages ahead of the midterm elections. And let's
be honest about why this matters so much. Right now,
the margins in Congress are raizor thin. You've got a
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handful of districts that can determine who becomes Speaker of
the House, which party controls investigations, whether tax cuts survive,
whether border security legislation passes, and whether Donald Trump's agenda
that America clearly voted for moves forward or gets buried. Now,
that's why Democrats are panicking. That's why people like stave
(07:01):
Cy Abrams are coming out on TV playing the race
card and also warning about what Republicans are about to
do and how it can be so damaging because they've
been the masters of it for years. Take a listen
to Stacy Abram on MS now talking about Mike Johnson
saying redistricting brings back fairness and what she now says
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is the problem.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Stacy, could you talk a little bit about how this
ruling will affect black representation not only at the federal level,
but at the state level. I'm thinking state lawmakers, county commissions,
city councils. To what extent will this ruling affect representation
and the representation, particularly of voters of color at the
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levels below the federal level.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Absolutely and that's why I think this is such an
important conversation to have at this moment. In a competitive
authoritarian nation, which is what America is now, democracy is
about ensuring that we have shared power and shared voices.
It does not guarantee you victory, but it guarantees you access. Authoritarianism,
especially competitive authoritarianism, attempts to diminish your ability to use
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those same democratic institutions to your benefit. With these new maps,
we know that analysis by Fair Fight and Black Voters
Matters show that we could lose nineteen to twenty congressional seats,
but we could lose up to one hundred and ninety
one state legislative seats. And in the South, those state
legislators draw city council districts, county commission districts, school board districts,
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and they draw state legislative lines. And so if you
want to know if your child is going to have
fair and equitable access to education, that will be diminished
if your families can't participate in elections and elect leaders
who value your education. If you want healthcare, in the South,
it's the state legislature that decides whether you have access
all of the things that disproportionately harm communities of color
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will now be decided by people who disproportionately like and
vote against the needs of people of color. But what
we have to remember, and this is why I started
the Ten Steps campaign, this is a national fight. It
may start in the South, but as national implications, progress
that serves the most disproportionately harmed communities lifts everyone. But
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if we do not do so, if we allow the
suppression of black and brown votes, we are harming their neighbors,
and we're harming the US. And that's why we cannot
allow the South to be left behind.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
There it is the South cannot be left behind. The
same Democrats who've been jerrymannering for decades are now playing
the race card. So let's not be lectured by the
Democrats on fairness while they maintain states with zero Republican representation.
Don't pretend Parson maps are evil only when Republicans are
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the ones drawing them now, and don't act like millions
of conservative voters in blue states somehow deserve no voice
in Congress, because that's exactly what they've been doing for
the last twenty plus years. The left, they spent decades
building political fortresses in blue states and accusing Republicans of
doing precisely the same thing elsewhere, And now the country's
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waking up to it. At the end of the day,
this debate is really about political power, who has it,
who keeps it, and who controls Washington. And if Democrats
know that, if Republicans continue gaining ground with working class voters,
Hispanic voters, union households, suburban parents, and independents, then the
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only way to maintain powers in some places is through
district maps designed to protect incumbents and lock in those advantages. Well,
now that seems to be all over and Republicans are
doing exactly what they should do, fighting back. Quick break,
Ben Ferguson Show more coming up. You remember those wildfires
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that started in LA. Remember how the reservoirs were empty,
and remember the competence because of the leadership in LA,
including an incompetent fire chief, and the bickering and fighting
back and forth as houses.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Burned to the ground.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, you would think they would have learned from those
empty reservoirs. Apparently they've learned nothing at all, because some
of them are still bone dry as we speak, and
that's having a real impact on the election in LA.
The political liberal radical establishment in LA is facing a
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nightmare scenario that they never thought was even possible. A
conservative outsider is surging in one of the bluest major
cities in America, and Democrats they're openly panicking, and now
they're worried they may lose control of the narrative and
a city that they've dominated for decades and destroyed with
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crime and drugs and pretty much every other liberal idea
that's been a disaster. Now, let me also explain to
you exactly who's in this race. You have a guy
by the name of Spencer Pratt. He's a former reality
TV personality. By the way, LA makes a lot of those,
But they want you to think that that means he's
not a serious candidate. And how did he turn himself
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into a political insurgent. Well, it's pretty simple. His house
burned down in those fires and that irritated him. Because
this race has become much bigger than just Los Angeles,
it's also getting a lot of attention. It's becoming a
national warning sign for Democrats who are mismanaging cities with
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high crime and high poverty and failing schools. For years,
Democrats treated La like an untouchable political territory. It's a
city where progressive politics dominated nearly every institution, city hall,
the media, Hollywood, academia, activist organizations, and most local elections.
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Republicans weren't even expect to compete seriously there anymore. Ever,
and then suddenly, according to recent polling, Praut has surge
in second place in the mayoral race, ahead of major
establishment back candidates and within striking distance of the woman
in charge of La, Karen Bass. This could be a
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political earthquake. Democrats understand something very clearly. If a conservative
populis style candidate very much like Donald Trump could become
competitive in La, then no democratic run city in America
is truly safe anymore, especially after there's a major moment
like a wildfire or anarchy, riots or things like that.
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And that's exactly why it's happening, because voters in La, well,
they've had enough of the politics and they're furious. What
are they angry over out of control homelessness, They're angry
over crime. They're also angry over the costs of living,
and they're furious over the failed leadership that very much
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caused those wild fires to grow. They're furious over government
incompetence even after the fires happen, and they're especially furious
over the aftermath of realizing that the people that claim
they were going to be there to help them rebuild
have done.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Anything but do that.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
In fact, they've showed no effort to follow up on
rebuilding a city that's been destroyed. The Palisade fires show
just how bad the democratic machine actually is, and that
is the issue that has now changed everything.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Prout has aggressively positioned himself as the candidate of anger, frustration,
and revolt against city Hall. He's telling voters what many
residents already feel that the political class running LA has
not only failed the city, but has failed them. And
what's fascinating is how he's doing it. He's not running
like a traditional Republican either. He's running like a populist
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who said enough is enough and are you with me?
His campaign style mirrors what we've seen nationally in outsider movements,
social media dominance, viral videos, anti establishment rhetoric, blunt language,
and direct at tax on city leadership. He's also had
a constant focus on quality of life and the failures
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of the Democratic Party. He's talking about homeless encampments that
are out of control. He's talking about the federal crisis
and the dead bodies. He's talking about public safety and
how really no one feels safe in LA anymore. He's
also talking about urban decline, something Democrats don't want to admit.
And he talks about taxpayers feeling totally abandoned while the
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political elite lecture them and take their money. Remember, LA
is insanely expensive to live on top of the out
of control taxation, and Democrats they're deeply uncomfortable because there
are issues where voters increasingly believe conservatives actually have an advantage.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
That is the real story here.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Now, this race is exposing the widening disconnect between progressive activists,
you know, the Black Lives Matter movement that then turn
into abolish the police, that then turn into burn down cities. Yeah,
and ordinary working class voters, many of them that were
Democrats who simply voted for them over and over again
(16:35):
until now. And this is what really should terrify Democrats nationally.
Pratt's support is not just coming from Republicans. Even Democrats
are supporting him. As Jesse Waters put on his show,
La is Thirsty, and they still don't have the water
they need to fight the next big fire.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
As he described on his show.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You Know Who could use some water. La, nine months
after sixteen thousand homes burnt to a crisp, the reservoirs
are still drier than the Sahara.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
The reservoir's empty right now.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's literally just up on the hill and we're just
flying the drone.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Over the reservoir and it's bone dry.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Here's the best part. You can go up in my street.
This is the reservoir that they also drained when they
were fixing the other one. They said, let's drain this one.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
There's actually two.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Reservoirs they were draining, the Palaces Zebra and the Santienez.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Two reservoirs both empty during peak fire season. Why well,
the city drained them to use for drinking water, not
for fighting fires. Now the repairs cost twenty mil, and
Bass doesn't have the cash. So La finds the money
for needles, crackpipes, hotels for illegals, but not twenty mil
to keep Malibu from turning into a brisket or the
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taps from running dry prats breathing down pink pants, souoits
neck in the poles, but come up short.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, take in his trailer to Texas.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
If care Basquets reelected or Nitia gets elected, I will
be done with trying to live in LA and I'll
go find somewhere that my kids will not have to
see naked zombies and I can have the last American
dreams somewhere. But I will not rebuild if these people
are in charge. Because what would I be putting money into.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Oh glad, you asked, Bence, Because maybe a set of
government grills for every tweaker on skid row, because Bess
wants to put the tooth fairy on city payroll.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Also on homelessness. At the pantry.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Earlier this week, you were talking about comprehensive health care
for the unhoused, and you talked about how many of
the unhoused, because of their meth use, lose their teeth.
That's right, Who would pay for the dental care for
the unhoused?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
When I say comprehensive healthcare, it's actually what people can
get from medical. The problem is is that the linkage
isn't made with the people and the services in AX Well,
it's we already paid for it. It's already paid for
it's the linkage that hasn't happened.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Empty reservoirs, free teeth for methaddicts, barbecue bands, migrant breast,
i plants, no wonder, ballots are booming when we got.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Coffee and in the line, we have a ballot, get
your ballance in it. Thank you so much like.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Democrats tried to roast Pratt for crashing at the hotel
bel Air after they deep fried his house. Big mistake
because they just gave him a brand new title in.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
What's Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Palisades in my backyards were membos of my day.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
He's seeding humming.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Birds, relaxing all the wool, avoiding all the bones.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Outside of the school win.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
A couple of boats in the World of No Good
started making trouble in my neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I got in one little fire.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
My mom got scared and said, you're moving in with
Harvey Levin and bel Air.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
The Pratt Factor's red hot moms are storming the po
for the Prince.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
If you're a mom and you have been listening to
what he's been saying, you should know that he is
advocating for the safety and security of our families and
specifically for mothers to be able to walk their gifts
to school into party.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
And if you have any.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Voting power, please exercise that power, because moms should be
supporting Pratt.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Chelsea Handler didn't get an invite to the Pratt Party,
so she hopped on Insta and tried to crash it.
Speaker 11 (20:27):
Watch if you're seeing this video, this is a reminder
that a straight white male former reality star that has
no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate
political candidate.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Have we learned anything yet?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
The backlash has Spratt picking up allies by the hour
TMZ transitioned. They're telling the straight white lady to wise up?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
What the hell is Chelsea Handler?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Straight white male?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
That makes somebody disqualified?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
What this is?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Her point was privileged right, Oh, you're not supposed to
about their straight white males. It's ridiculous. I mean, it's
ridiculous to say that. It is absurd to say, well,
this is white people hate the left right now? Well,
and George Washington, a straight white male.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Bass couldn't take on the straight white male by herself.
Pratt says she cooked up a back room deal with
Ramen the Noodle.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Guys Nythia Ramen is conspiring with Karen Bass. Remember when
Nitthia shocked everyone and jumped into the mayor's race in
the last minute, inexplicably, just days after endorsing Karen. Why
would she do that? Why is it Karen upset? Why
do they never attack each other? Because Karen saw that
I was a serious threat, she made Nythia jump in
the race to block me out from the number two slot.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
M The ladies torched the city, got fleeced by fraudsters,
handed out needles to homeless chunkies, and then pointed their
fingers at Trump like the voters wouldn't notice.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Even other Democrats are like girls enough, But we can't
put everything on Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
We have the highest homelessness in the United States of America,
the highest gas prices, the highest utilities, the highest home
prices people can't afford rent.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And those happened under Democratic policies.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So now you understand why not only is LA a
major race, but also the California governor candidate's race with
Steve Hilton, a Republican at eighteen point five percent, the
billionaire Democrat liberal Tom Steyer at sixteen percent, Chad Beyonco,
a Republican, at thirteen percent. Yes, two of the three
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top leading California Gubernorro candidates are Republicans right now, because
it's not just La, it's literally the entire.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
State they have destroyed.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And that's exactly why the Democratic Party is freaking out
right now, trying to figure out how do they hold
on to a place they never thought they could possibly lose.
Growing real concern now inside the intelligence and military circles
that Cuba is once again becoming a staging ground for
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America's adversaries. And this time the concern is not Soviet
nuclear missiles. It's drones, a lot of them, Iranian drones
and Russian drones, and the possibility that hostile regimes are
quietly building a launch platform with striking distance of the
United States of America. Ninety miles for a drone is nothing,
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and let's be clear, they can also fly very low.
You could describe it as under the radar. Now, there's
no clear public evidence that Cuba has launched any attacks
on the United States of America or that an imminent
strike is about to happen or even underway. But what
is raising alarm bells is the increasing military cooperation that
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we have seen between Cuba, Iran, and Russia and even China.
Now you think about the three countries that hate the
United States the most. Iran chance death to America, Russia,
we know hates America, and China, yes, they hate America.
All of these nations openly talk about their hostility to
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American power and American influence. And if you think the
sounds far fetched, remember history. Back in nineteen sixty two.
You basically have the same type of leadership in Cuba,
and the Cuban missile crisis brought America literally to the
brink of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the
United States of America because Soviet weapons were placed on
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that island. Today, the weapons are much smaller, they're a
lot cheaper, and they're harder to detect, and they're even
easier to get into a country. Modern drones have changed
warfare entirely. We've witnessed this on the battlefield in the
Middle East and especially between Ukraine and the Russia war.
Iran has become one of the world's leading exporters of
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expensive but deadly drone technology. The Iranian drones, for example,
have been used extensively by the Russians in Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
That's how good they are.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And these drones are relatively cheap to produce, they're difficult
to intercept in large swarms, and they're capable of carrying
large explosives over long distances. Russia has used them to
terrorize civilian infrastructure, to attack power grids, and overwhelm the
air defenses in Ukraine. Now imagine that type of technology
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position in Cuba. Imagine dozens or hundreds and hundreds of
drones stored in warehouses, hidden and shipping containers, or assembled
in covert facilities just miles from the United States of
America's homeland. Suddenly, this changes everything from a military standpoint.
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Worn that drones don't need massive runways or obvious missile silos.
They can be launched from trucks, they can be launched
from fields, they can be launched from cargo ships or
improvised sites that you never detected beforehand. And a coordinated
swarm attack targets ports. It can target military bases, it
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can target our fuel depots, our airports, or even civilian
infrastructure that could create chaos for Americans. It could also
attack our power grid. And that's exactly why intelligence officials
in the US are increasingly focused on this type of warfare.
America's enemies know they cannot defeat the US military head
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to head, so instead, what they've all decided to do
is look for ways to exploit our vulnerabilities, create fear,
disrupt our economy, and undermine public confidence. And drones fit
that strategy perfectly. Over the past several years, Cuba has
dramatically deepened its ties not only with Russia. There's also
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another very interesting data point. Over the last several years,
Cuba has dramatically deepened their ties with Moscow and Tehran.
Russian naval vessels have visited Cuba ports multiple times. Cuban
officials have met openly with Iranian leadership. Economic agreements have
been agreed to and signed. They've even signed intelligence cooperation,
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and they've signed military coordination that have all expanded as
these countries aligned themselves against the United States of America. Now, Iran, meanwhile,
has aggressively expanded its influenced throughout Latin America. US officials
have repeatedly and openly worn that Iranian networks have been
operating in Venezuela, They're operating in Nicaragua and other parts
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of the region. HESBLA linked operatives have reportly used parts
of Latin America for fundraising as well as logistics and
elicit finance operations for decades. Add drone technology into this
equation and suddenly the Western hemisphere starts looking a lot
more dangerous. And that brings us to Donald Trump's whole
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promise to make sure that the Western hemisphere is safe.
And there's another layer, by the way of this story
that you need to understand as well.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
That's the border crisis. For years, critics.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Have warned that an unsecured southern border creates vulnerabilities far
beyond illegal immigration. If hostile foreign actors wanted to move equipment, operatives, electronics,
or drone components into the United States of America, an
overwhelmed border system provided that opportunity. You now combine those
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concerns of millions of people who we don't know who
they are, that are in this country right now with
aversaro regimes operating close to the US mainland, who could
even stage an attack that is coordinated from people within
the United States of America. Imagine what that could look like.
Military analysts have increasingly warned about what's known as gray
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zone warfare that's actions deliberately designed to stay below the
threshold of open war while still damaging an enemy. Cyber attacks,
infrastructure sabotage, drone incursions, GPS interference, disinformation campaigns, as well
as economic disruption all on the table. In fact, many
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of them have been used on the United States of
America by China and Russia. Now this is what has
been described to me as the battlefield of the future,
and America's enemies are watching this carefully. Russia has already
demonstrated how effective drone warfare can be in Ukraine. They've
actually really learned a lot and mastered the art. Iran
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has shown how proxy groups aren't with drones can threaten
US troops and allies across to the Middle East. China
is also rapidly expanding its own drone and AI warfare capabilities.
The terrifying reality is that a drone doesn't need to
carry a massive explosive payload to cause major disruption. A
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strike on an electrical substation, fuel pipeline, shipping port, or
crowded transportation hub could create panic as well as economic shockwaves,
which is exactly what Cuba, Russia, and China and Iran
would love to happen. So think about what happens when
small drones disrupt airports in Europe. Several years ago, all
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the fights were grounded, the security systems were overwhelmed. Now
you do that type of coordinated attack using military grade systems,
and it's on a whole other level. Now, this is
why national security experts are now increasingly calling for stronger
homeland defend systems, specifically focused on undrone threats. It's something
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the present has also agreed we need. Many American military
bases are still vulnerable to low flying drones. Ports and
civilian infrastructure often lack sophisticated counter drone systems, and local
law enforcement agencies are largely unprepared for mass drone instances
as well. Now, the Pentagon has spent billions preparing for
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traditional warfare, but the next threat may not come from
bombers or missiles, but from swarms of inexpensive unmanned aircraft
launch very close to home. And Cuba's geographic position matters enormously.
From Havana to Key West, it's roughly ninety miles. That's it,
a relatively short flight for modern drone systems. Again, this
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is all about looking at what could happen before it happens,
because history teaches us something important. Major threats are often
ignored until it's too late. The four nine to eleven
war existed before Pearl Harbor. There were warning signs as well.
Before the Cuban missile crisis exploded into public view, Soviet
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activity was already well underway, and in the modern air
the speed of warfare house accelerated dramatically. A drome swarm
launch from close proximity could give decision makers only minutes
to react, and that is why the American public should
be aware of this. We shouldn't panic, but we should
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absolutely pay attention to the growing military cooperation between Cuba,
I ran in Russia, and the present clearly as demanding
stronger border security, serious homeland security defense investments, and aggressive
intelligence monitoring. Now, the real question is, if there is
a large stockpile of drones in Cuba, is it America's
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job to make sure that we make those inoperable. I
wouldn't be surprised if that's on the table right now,
and it's something we should all be taking a look
at and make sure we understand. This is clearly an
important moment that should be on everyone's radar screen. Make
sure you share this podcast please wherever you can on
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tomorrow
Yesterday I played for you Kamala Harris and how she
wants to completely destroy the fundamentals of this country. She
wants to pack the Supreme Court, even kick justice off
the Supreme Court when they give rulings she doesn't like.
And then she wants to get rid of the electoral
College all together. Now you may be asking yourself this
question why all of this is coming because they didn't
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get their way. Donald Trump won Conservatives one and when
you hate the other side and you don't respect the
law or the wishes of the citizens of this country,
well that's exactly what you would do, especially if you're
a communist and Marxists are a socialist. Stacy Abrams is
now coming out explaining why Democrats are so distraught over
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the Scotus ruling against racially jerrymander districts. She also is
upset at the power that the Democratic Party is going
to lose. Now, before I play her comments, I just
want to go back and set the stage to how
we got to the point where we are right now.
Democrats have been acting like they're the victims of gerrymandering
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for decades, but the reality is that's not true. Democrats
have actually been masters of gerrymandering, especially in deep blue
states where Republican voters are essentially a race from congressional
representation altogether. And if Americans want proof, just look at
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the states where there are literally zero Republican members of
Congress in the US House representing the Conservatives in those
states right now. States include Connecticut zero republicans, Delaware zero republicans,
Hawaii zero republicans in Congress, Massachusetts zero republicans in Congress,
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New Hampshire another zero, Rhode Island zero, Vermont zero, and
effectively Maine has no Republican representation in Congress whatsoever. Now,
if you just think about that for a second, that
is millions of Americans that have been disenfranchised living in
those states that vote Republican and presidential elections, governor races,
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Senate races, and local elections. Yet somehow, when it comes
to congressional districts, Republicans are entirely wiped off the map
on purpose. In fact, this has been part of a
long term political strategy in blue states. Democrats perfected the
art of concentrating Republican voters into a few districts as
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possible and then spreading them so thinly that they can
never actually win representation. Meanwhile, those same Democrats are going
on television every day now pretending that they are defenders
of quote, fair maps and democracy. Yeah, the hypocrisy is
quote unquote unbelievable, but it's really not if you've been
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paying attention to what's been happening all over the country
for decades. Just take Massachusetts for example. Republicans routinely receive
hundreds of thousands of votes statewide, yet Democrats hold every
single congressional seat. The same thing happens in Rhode Island,
the same thing happens in Connecticut, the same thing happens
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in Hawaii. Republicans may as well not exist according to
the congressional representation. And this isn't just about geography. It's
also about power because congressional districts determine who controls the
House of Representatives. That determines who has the committee chairmanships,
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who is in charge of the investigations or impeachments, who's
in charge of spending, border security, taxes, regulations, literally everything.
That's why the Democratic Party has been doing this, and
that's why now Republicans are fighting over the maps so aggressively.
But Here's what Democrats never want to admit. They were
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perfectly fine with aggressive redistricting when they controlled the process,
and for decades, Democrats used urban political machines, court systems,
state legislatures, and activist groups to shape districts in their favor.
In many states, they created maps so lopsided that competitive
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congressional races effectively disappeared altogether. Now suddenly, when Republicans fight
back in states like Texas and Florida or Tennessee, Democrats
scream from the hilltops and yell racism. The media narrative
is well always as saying, if Republicans redraw maps, it's
called an attack on democracy. But when Democrats literally implement
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the same maps, it's called protecting representation and minorities. Americans
they're tired of the double standard, especially if you're a conservative.
And the numbers, by the way, they don't lie. Just
look at Illinois, one of the most aggressively jerrymandered states
in America. Republicans regularly receive forty five percent in statewide votes,
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yet Democrats dominate the congressional delegation because the maps are
perfectly engineered to maximize democratic seats. Maryland became infamous for
bizarrely shaped districts designed specifically to weaken Republican voters. New
York Democrats openly laughed and attempted aggressive mid decade redistricting
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to gain more congressional seats before the courts were forced
to step in, and California system may technically involve a commission,
but the end result is still a delegation overwhelmingly tilted
towards the left, towards Democrats. And state were millions and
that's not exaggeration. Millions of Republicans live and vote. And
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here's the broader point Americans need to understand, Harry Mannering
is not some unique Republican phenomenon, if you even want
to call it that. It is a bipartisan political weapon.
Republicans are decades late to the game. The difference is
Republicans are finally fighting back and it's about time after
years of taking it on the chin watching Democrats dominate
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the process. Even major media outlets are now forced to
admit that redistricting wars are escalating nationwide, both parties aggressively
pursuing partisan advantages ahead of the midterm elections. And let's
be honest about why this matters so much. Right now,
the margins in Congress are raizor thin. You've got a
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handful of districts that can determine who becomes Speaker of
the House, which party controls investigations, whether tax cuts survive,
whether border security legislation passes, and whether Donald Trump's agenda
that America clearly voted for moves forward or gets buried. Now,
that's why Democrats are panicking. That's why people like stave
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Cy Abrams are coming out on TV playing the race
card and also warning about what Republicans are about to
do and how it can be so damaging because they've
been the masters of it for years. Take a listen
to Stacy Abram on MS now talking about Mike Johnson
saying redistricting brings back fairness and what she now says
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is the problem.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Stacy, could you talk a little bit about how this
ruling will affect black representation not only at the federal level,
but at the state level. I'm thinking state lawmakers, county commissions,
city councils. To what extent will this ruling affect representation
and the representation, particularly of voters of color at the
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levels below the federal level.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Absolutely and that's why I think this is such an
important conversation to have at this moment. In a competitive
authoritarian nation, which is what America is now, democracy is
about ensuring that we have shared power and shared voices.
It does not guarantee you victory, but it guarantees you access. Authoritarianism,
especially competitive authoritarianism, attempts to diminish your ability to use
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those same democratic institutions to your benefit. With these new maps,
we know that analysis by Fair Fight and Black Voters
Matters show that we could lose nineteen to twenty congressional seats,
but we could lose up to one hundred and ninety
one state legislative seats. And in the South, those state
legislators draw city council districts, county commission districts, school board districts,
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and they draw state legislative lines. And so if you
want to know if your child is going to have
fair and equitable access to education, that will be diminished
if your families can't participate in elections and elect leaders
who value your education. If you want healthcare, in the South,
it's the state legislature that decides whether you have access
all of the things that disproportionately harm communities of color
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will now be decided by people who disproportionately like and
vote against the needs of people of color. But what
we have to remember, and this is why I started
the Ten Steps campaign, this is a national fight. It
may start in the South, but as national implications, progress
that serves the most disproportionately harmed communities lifts everyone. But
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if we do not do so, if we allow the
suppression of black and brown votes, we are harming their neighbors,
and we're harming the US. And that's why we cannot
allow the South to be left behind.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
There it is the South cannot be left behind. The
same Democrats who've been jerrymannering for decades are now playing
the race card. So let's not be lectured by the
Democrats on fairness while they maintain states with zero Republican representation.
Don't pretend Parson maps are evil only when Republicans are
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the ones drawing them now, and don't act like millions
of conservative voters in blue states somehow deserve no voice
in Congress, because that's exactly what they've been doing for
the last twenty plus years. The left, they spent decades
building political fortresses in blue states and accusing Republicans of
doing precisely the same thing elsewhere, And now the country's
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waking up to it. At the end of the day,
this debate is really about political power, who has it,
who keeps it, and who controls Washington. And if Democrats
know that, if Republicans continue gaining ground with working class voters,
Hispanic voters, union households, suburban parents, and independents, then the
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only way to maintain powers in some places is through
district maps designed to protect incumbents and lock in those advantages. Well,
now that seems to be all over and Republicans are
doing exactly what they should do, fighting back. Quick break,
Ben Ferguson Show more coming up. You remember those wildfires
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that started in LA. Remember how the reservoirs were empty,
and remember the competence because of the leadership in LA,
including an incompetent fire chief, and the bickering and fighting
back and forth as houses.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Burned to the ground.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, you would think they would have learned from those
empty reservoirs. Apparently they've learned nothing at all, because some
of them are still bone dry as we speak, and
that's having a real impact on the election in LA.
The political liberal radical establishment in LA is facing a
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nightmare scenario that they never thought was even possible. A
conservative outsider is surging in one of the bluest major
cities in America, and Democrats they're openly panicking, and now
they're worried they may lose control of the narrative and
a city that they've dominated for decades and destroyed with
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crime and drugs and pretty much every other liberal idea
that's been a disaster. Now, let me also explain to
you exactly who's in this race. You have a guy
by the name of Spencer Pratt. He's a former reality
TV personality. By the way, LA makes a lot of those,
But they want you to think that that means he's
not a serious candidate. And how did he turn himself
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into a political insurgent. Well, it's pretty simple. His house
burned down in those fires and that irritated him. Because
this race has become much bigger than just Los Angeles,
it's also getting a lot of attention. It's becoming a
national warning sign for Democrats who are mismanaging cities with
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high crime and high poverty and failing schools. For years,
Democrats treated La like an untouchable political territory. It's a
city where progressive politics dominated nearly every institution, city hall,
the media, Hollywood, academia, activist organizations, and most local elections.
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Republicans weren't even expect to compete seriously there anymore. Ever,
and then suddenly, according to recent polling, Praut has surge
in second place in the mayoral race, ahead of major
establishment back candidates and within striking distance of the woman
in charge of La, Karen Bass. This could be a
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political earthquake. Democrats understand something very clearly. If a conservative
populis style candidate very much like Donald Trump could become
competitive in La, then no democratic run city in America
is truly safe anymore, especially after there's a major moment
like a wildfire or anarchy, riots or things like that.
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And that's exactly why it's happening, because voters in La, well,
they've had enough of the politics and they're furious. What
are they angry over out of control homelessness, They're angry
over crime. They're also angry over the costs of living,
and they're furious over the failed leadership that very much
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caused those wild fires to grow. They're furious over government
incompetence even after the fires happen, and they're especially furious
over the aftermath of realizing that the people that claim
they were going to be there to help them rebuild
have done.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Anything but do that.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
In fact, they've showed no effort to follow up on
rebuilding a city that's been destroyed. The Palisade fires show
just how bad the democratic machine actually is, and that
is the issue that has now changed everything.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Prout has aggressively positioned himself as the candidate of anger, frustration,
and revolt against city Hall. He's telling voters what many
residents already feel that the political class running LA has
not only failed the city, but has failed them. And
what's fascinating is how he's doing it. He's not running
like a traditional Republican either. He's running like a populist
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who said enough is enough and are you with me?
His campaign style mirrors what we've seen nationally in outsider movements,
social media dominance, viral videos, anti establishment rhetoric, blunt language,
and direct at tax on city leadership. He's also had
a constant focus on quality of life and the failures
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of the Democratic Party. He's talking about homeless encampments that
are out of control. He's talking about the federal crisis
and the dead bodies. He's talking about public safety and
how really no one feels safe in LA anymore. He's
also talking about urban decline, something Democrats don't want to admit.
And he talks about taxpayers feeling totally abandoned while the
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political elite lecture them and take their money. Remember, LA
is insanely expensive to live on top of the out
of control taxation, and Democrats they're deeply uncomfortable because there
are issues where voters increasingly believe conservatives actually have an advantage.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
That is the real story here.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Now, this race is exposing the widening disconnect between progressive activists,
you know, the Black Lives Matter movement that then turn
into abolish the police, that then turn into burn down cities. Yeah,
and ordinary working class voters, many of them that were
Democrats who simply voted for them over and over again
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until now. And this is what really should terrify Democrats nationally.
Pratt's support is not just coming from Republicans. Even Democrats
are supporting him. As Jesse Waters put on his show,
La is Thirsty, and they still don't have the water
they need to fight the next big fire.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
As he described on his show.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You Know Who could use some water. La, nine months
after sixteen thousand homes burnt to a crisp, the reservoirs
are still drier than the Sahara.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
The reservoir's empty right now.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's literally just up on the hill and we're just
flying the drone.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Over the reservoir and it's bone dry.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Here's the best part. You can go up in my street.
This is the reservoir that they also drained when they
were fixing the other one. They said, let's drain this one.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
There's actually two.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Reservoirs they were draining, the Palaces Zebra and the Santienez.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Two reservoirs both empty during peak fire season. Why well,
the city drained them to use for drinking water, not
for fighting fires. Now the repairs cost twenty mil, and
Bass doesn't have the cash. So La finds the money
for needles, crackpipes, hotels for illegals, but not twenty mil
to keep Malibu from turning into a brisket or the
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taps from running dry prats breathing down pink pants, souoits
neck in the poles, but come up short.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, take in his trailer to Texas.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
If care Basquets reelected or Nitia gets elected, I will
be done with trying to live in LA and I'll
go find somewhere that my kids will not have to
see naked zombies and I can have the last American
dreams somewhere. But I will not rebuild if these people
are in charge. Because what would I be putting money into.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Oh glad, you asked, Bence, Because maybe a set of
government grills for every tweaker on skid row, because Bess
wants to put the tooth fairy on city payroll.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Also on homelessness. At the pantry.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Earlier this week, you were talking about comprehensive health care
for the unhoused, and you talked about how many of
the unhoused, because of their meth use, lose their teeth.
That's right, Who would pay for the dental care for
the unhoused?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
When I say comprehensive healthcare, it's actually what people can
get from medical. The problem is is that the linkage
isn't made with the people and the services in AX Well,
it's we already paid for it. It's already paid for
it's the linkage that hasn't happened.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Empty reservoirs, free teeth for methaddicts, barbecue bands, migrant breast,
i plants, no wonder, ballots are booming when we got.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Coffee and in the line, we have a ballot, get
your ballance in it. Thank you so much like.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Democrats tried to roast Pratt for crashing at the hotel
bel Air after they deep fried his house. Big mistake
because they just gave him a brand new title in.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
What's Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Palisades in my backyards were membos of my day.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
He's seeding humming.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Birds, relaxing all the wool, avoiding all the bones.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Outside of the school win.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
A couple of boats in the World of No Good
started making trouble in my neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I got in one little fire.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
My mom got scared and said, you're moving in with
Harvey Levin and bel Air.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
The Pratt Factor's red hot moms are storming the po
for the Prince.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
If you're a mom and you have been listening to
what he's been saying, you should know that he is
advocating for the safety and security of our families and
specifically for mothers to be able to walk their gifts
to school into party.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
And if you have any.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Voting power, please exercise that power, because moms should be
supporting Pratt.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Chelsea Handler didn't get an invite to the Pratt Party,
so she hopped on Insta and tried to crash it.
Speaker 11 (20:27):
Watch if you're seeing this video, this is a reminder
that a straight white male former reality star that has
no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate
political candidate.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Have we learned anything yet?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
The backlash has Spratt picking up allies by the hour
TMZ transitioned. They're telling the straight white lady to wise up?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
What the hell is Chelsea Handler?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Straight white male?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
That makes somebody disqualified?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
What this is?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Her point was privileged right, Oh, you're not supposed to
about their straight white males. It's ridiculous. I mean, it's
ridiculous to say that. It is absurd to say, well,
this is white people hate the left right now? Well,
and George Washington, a straight white male.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Bass couldn't take on the straight white male by herself.
Pratt says she cooked up a back room deal with
Ramen the Noodle.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Guys Nythia Ramen is conspiring with Karen Bass. Remember when
Nitthia shocked everyone and jumped into the mayor's race in
the last minute, inexplicably, just days after endorsing Karen. Why
would she do that? Why is it Karen upset? Why
do they never attack each other? Because Karen saw that
I was a serious threat, she made Nythia jump in
the race to block me out from the number two slot.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
M The ladies torched the city, got fleeced by fraudsters,
handed out needles to homeless chunkies, and then pointed their
fingers at Trump like the voters wouldn't notice.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Even other Democrats are like girls enough, But we can't
put everything on Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
We have the highest homelessness in the United States of America,
the highest gas prices, the highest utilities, the highest home
prices people can't afford rent.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And those happened under Democratic policies.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So now you understand why not only is LA a
major race, but also the California governor candidate's race with
Steve Hilton, a Republican at eighteen point five percent, the
billionaire Democrat liberal Tom Steyer at sixteen percent, Chad Beyonco,
a Republican, at thirteen percent. Yes, two of the three
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top leading California Gubernorro candidates are Republicans right now, because
it's not just La, it's literally the entire.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
State they have destroyed.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And that's exactly why the Democratic Party is freaking out
right now, trying to figure out how do they hold
on to a place they never thought they could possibly lose.
Growing real concern now inside the intelligence and military circles
that Cuba is once again becoming a staging ground for
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America's adversaries. And this time the concern is not Soviet
nuclear missiles. It's drones, a lot of them, Iranian drones
and Russian drones, and the possibility that hostile regimes are
quietly building a launch platform with striking distance of the
United States of America. Ninety miles for a drone is nothing,
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and let's be clear, they can also fly very low.
You could describe it as under the radar. Now, there's
no clear public evidence that Cuba has launched any attacks
on the United States of America or that an imminent
strike is about to happen or even underway. But what
is raising alarm bells is the increasing military cooperation that
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we have seen between Cuba, Iran, and Russia and even China.
Now you think about the three countries that hate the
United States the most. Iran chance death to America, Russia,
we know hates America, and China, yes, they hate America.
All of these nations openly talk about their hostility to
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American power and American influence. And if you think the
sounds far fetched, remember history. Back in nineteen sixty two.
You basically have the same type of leadership in Cuba,
and the Cuban missile crisis brought America literally to the
brink of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the
United States of America because Soviet weapons were placed on
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that island. Today, the weapons are much smaller, they're a
lot cheaper, and they're harder to detect, and they're even
easier to get into a country. Modern drones have changed
warfare entirely. We've witnessed this on the battlefield in the
Middle East and especially between Ukraine and the Russia war.
Iran has become one of the world's leading exporters of
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expensive but deadly drone technology. The Iranian drones, for example,
have been used extensively by the Russians in Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
That's how good they are.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And these drones are relatively cheap to produce, they're difficult
to intercept in large swarms, and they're capable of carrying
large explosives over long distances. Russia has used them to
terrorize civilian infrastructure, to attack power grids, and overwhelm the
air defenses in Ukraine. Now imagine that type of technology
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position in Cuba. Imagine dozens or hundreds and hundreds of
drones stored in warehouses, hidden and shipping containers, or assembled
in covert facilities just miles from the United States of
America's homeland. Suddenly, this changes everything from a military standpoint.
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Worn that drones don't need massive runways or obvious missile silos.
They can be launched from trucks, they can be launched
from fields, they can be launched from cargo ships or
improvised sites that you never detected beforehand. And a coordinated
swarm attack targets ports. It can target military bases, it
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can target our fuel depots, our airports, or even civilian
infrastructure that could create chaos for Americans. It could also
attack our power grid. And that's exactly why intelligence officials
in the US are increasingly focused on this type of warfare.
America's enemies know they cannot defeat the US military head
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to head, so instead, what they've all decided to do
is look for ways to exploit our vulnerabilities, create fear,
disrupt our economy, and undermine public confidence. And drones fit
that strategy perfectly. Over the past several years, Cuba has
dramatically deepened its ties not only with Russia. There's also
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another very interesting data point. Over the last several years,
Cuba has dramatically deepened their ties with Moscow and Tehran.
Russian naval vessels have visited Cuba ports multiple times. Cuban
officials have met openly with Iranian leadership. Economic agreements have
been agreed to and signed. They've even signed intelligence cooperation,
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and they've signed military coordination that have all expanded as
these countries aligned themselves against the United States of America. Now, Iran, meanwhile,
has aggressively expanded its influenced throughout Latin America. US officials
have repeatedly and openly worn that Iranian networks have been
operating in Venezuela, They're operating in Nicaragua and other parts
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of the region. HESBLA linked operatives have reportly used parts
of Latin America for fundraising as well as logistics and
elicit finance operations for decades. Add drone technology into this
equation and suddenly the Western hemisphere starts looking a lot
more dangerous. And that brings us to Donald Trump's whole
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promise to make sure that the Western hemisphere is safe.
And there's another layer, by the way of this story
that you need to understand as well.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
That's the border crisis. For years, critics.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Have warned that an unsecured southern border creates vulnerabilities far
beyond illegal immigration. If hostile foreign actors wanted to move equipment, operatives, electronics,
or drone components into the United States of America, an
overwhelmed border system provided that opportunity. You now combine those
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concerns of millions of people who we don't know who
they are, that are in this country right now with
aversaro regimes operating close to the US mainland, who could
even stage an attack that is coordinated from people within
the United States of America. Imagine what that could look like.
Military analysts have increasingly warned about what's known as gray
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zone warfare that's actions deliberately designed to stay below the
threshold of open war while still damaging an enemy. Cyber attacks,
infrastructure sabotage, drone incursions, GPS interference, disinformation campaigns, as well
as economic disruption all on the table. In fact, many
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of them have been used on the United States of
America by China and Russia. Now this is what has
been described to me as the battlefield of the future,
and America's enemies are watching this carefully. Russia has already
demonstrated how effective drone warfare can be in Ukraine. They've
actually really learned a lot and mastered the art. Iran
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has shown how proxy groups aren't with drones can threaten
US troops and allies across to the Middle East. China
is also rapidly expanding its own drone and AI warfare capabilities.
The terrifying reality is that a drone doesn't need to
carry a massive explosive payload to cause major disruption. A
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strike on an electrical substation, fuel pipeline, shipping port, or
crowded transportation hub could create panic as well as economic shockwaves,
which is exactly what Cuba, Russia, and China and Iran
would love to happen. So think about what happens when
small drones disrupt airports in Europe. Several years ago, all
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the fights were grounded, the security systems were overwhelmed. Now
you do that type of coordinated attack using military grade systems,
and it's on a whole other level. Now, this is
why national security experts are now increasingly calling for stronger
homeland defend systems, specifically focused on undrone threats. It's something
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the present has also agreed we need. Many American military
bases are still vulnerable to low flying drones. Ports and
civilian infrastructure often lack sophisticated counter drone systems, and local
law enforcement agencies are largely unprepared for mass drone instances
as well. Now, the Pentagon has spent billions preparing for
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traditional warfare, but the next threat may not come from
bombers or missiles, but from swarms of inexpensive unmanned aircraft
launch very close to home. And Cuba's geographic position matters enormously.
From Havana to Key West, it's roughly ninety miles. That's it,
a relatively short flight for modern drone systems. Again, this
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is all about looking at what could happen before it happens,
because history teaches us something important. Major threats are often
ignored until it's too late. The four nine to eleven
war existed before Pearl Harbor. There were warning signs as well.
Before the Cuban missile crisis exploded into public view, Soviet
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activity was already well underway, and in the modern air
the speed of warfare house accelerated dramatically. A drome swarm
launch from close proximity could give decision makers only minutes
to react, and that is why the American public should
be aware of this. We shouldn't panic, but we should
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absolutely pay attention to the growing military cooperation between Cuba,
I ran in Russia, and the present clearly as demanding
stronger border security, serious homeland security defense investments, and aggressive
intelligence monitoring. Now, the real question is, if there is
a large stockpile of drones in Cuba, is it America's
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job to make sure that we make those inoperable. I
wouldn't be surprised if that's on the table right now,
and it's something we should all be taking a look
at and make sure we understand. This is clearly an
important moment that should be on everyone's radar screen. Make
sure you share this podcast please wherever you can on
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