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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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iHeart app. All right, this is a really peculiar rabbit
hole that I went down over the weekend regarding Gavin Newsom.
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One of the stories we brought to you on Friday
afternoon was that City Journal. One of their writers, Christopher Rufo,
and this is also with Charles Layman. They had written
a piece that on the rights broke out on Friday,
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June the sixth. In the afternoon Saturday June seventh, the
writing intensified, and by that evening Trump announced he's bringing
in the National Guard. Part of the justification was Newsom
and Karen Bass weren't doing any thing about the riots.
And the question it has been is like, why does
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Newsom and Bass let these things get out of hand?
And then Rufo and Layman discovered that the Saturday after
the riots broke out, just a few hours before Trump
sat in the National Guard, Newsom was hosting a wine
tasting party in Napa Valley. It was a fundraiser for
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the pump Jack Foundation. And there's a picture of him
talking to a blonde holding on to a goblet of wine,
a red wine, wearing a T shirt and a baseball cap,
and it looks like the completion of the trilogy. First
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we had him drinking at the French laundry while he
had locked down the rest of the state, ruined all
those businesses, locked children out of their schools, ruining their childhoods.
And he was busy, busy drinking and eating at one
of the most expensive restaurants in California. Part two of
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the trilogy was carried baths told by the National Weather
Service many many times, Hey major firestorm risk. She goes
off to Ghana in Africa, new president's being inaugurated, and
while the fire was raging in the palisades, she was
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drinking at the cocktail party honoring the President of Ghana. So,
when we were all locked down and people were diving
of dying of COVID, Newsom was drinking and attending a
private party, violating all the COVID rules. The palisades were
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burning and people were dying, was drinking at a private
party in Africa and now Flora. Now Los Angeles is rioting.
Cars are burning, police are getting stoned, their cars are
getting hit with concrete blocks. Fires are breaking out, way
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mods ablaze areas again enjoying the good life. And it's
it's how they live because they don't care. You may want,
You may have this childish fantasy that they care. You
may be emotionally invested in them. You really, I would
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tell you to seek help, but I don't. I don't
think there is any help for that. You know, if
you're a grown adult and you have an emotional investment
and you think a politician cares about you, Okay, that's
what you.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Want to believe.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's a nice little fairy tale. Well Newsom's Newsom's press
office went berserk, writing to Christopher Rufo, the journalist who
broke this, you have no shame disgusting this live filled
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report about an annual cancer research fundraiser hosted in honor
of the governor's dead mother, who died of breast cancer.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well I went back to the original story and it said.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Spokesperson for the governor said Newsom had proudly attended the event,
which was intended to raise funds for the UCSF Cancer
Center in honor of his mother, who died of breast cancer,
so it was mentioned. They quoted the governor's spokesperson. The
point was whether it was a cancer fundraiser or not.
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Newsom was nowhere near Los Angeles when the riots happened
and did not gather the National Guard to try to
stop them, to help out LAPD, which was getting attacked.
LAPD said they were overwhelmed. And again he's caught drinking
expensive wine. So I start went on the internet. This
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is how I fell into this rub at home learn
some things. Either I didn't know or I'm getting Biden dimension.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I started, you know, just typing in Gavin Newsom, his mother,
breast cancer, wine, all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And it turns out.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
On October twenty ninth of twenty eighteen in the New Yorker,
Newsom was just days away from getting elected governor for
the first time, and they did a peace on him,
which was somewhat unflattering. And this came out just days
before the election. Of course, the election was pretty much
a done deal. I don't know if there's got a
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lot of publicity. I just simply don't remember this, and
I doubt local media picked up on this, but the
story was that that Newsom helped out his mother to
what's the phrase, if we can't dieide to die by suicide.
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And I'm seeing this headline because the National Review that
week had picked up on the New Yorker story and
wrote that Gavin Newsom helped mother's assisted suicide, and they
excerpted this piece. Newsom's sister Hillary said that when their
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mother had breast cancer in her fifties, he Newsom was
difficult to reach. This is Newsom's sister I quote, Gavin
had trouble explaining to me how hard for him it
was to be with her when she was dying. And
I had trouble explaining to him how much I needed
him back then. Back then, he seemed like the kind
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of guy who had never change a diaper. You know what,
that's code for incredibly selfish and narcissistic. In May twenty two.
In May of two thousand and two, his mother decided
to end her life through assisted suicide. Newsom recalled, she
left me a message because I was too busy. This
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is the voicemail message, hope you're well. Next Wednesday will
be the last day for me. Hope you can make it.
This is how isolated he was from his mother. I
saved the cassette with the message on it. That's how
sick I am, said Newsom. He crossed his arms and
jammed his hands into his armpits. This is out of
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the New Yorker. I have PTSD and this is bringing
it all back. The night before we gave her the drugs,
I cooked her dinner hard boiled eggs, and she told
me get out of politics. She was worried about the
stress on me. And in California at the times, that
suicide was a felony in two thousand and two, and
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k Newson was a member of the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors, and as Wesley Smith writes in The National Review,
he was sworn to uphold the law. But she died
in San Francisco, and he assisted with the suicide at
a time when that was a felony, and she had
to shame him to come back and.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Be there.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And I only found this because his press office got
so snarky about being called out on attending the party
and then getting angry with reporters who started publicizing it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's a weird story, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Sorry, we have breaking news that I've been following while
you've been talking.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
So go ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Breaking news is that President Trump's Israel andy Ron have
agreed to a complete and total ceasefire to be phased
in over twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Just happened.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Now, all right, that's great news. It's amazing what those
bunker buster bombs will do to change people's minds. Right,
we'll see if it holds.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
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Speaker 2 (09:25):
All right, let's take a moment review Donald Trump's public statement. Now,
this I think kind of settles the question as to
whether if you show strength and take action, things will
turn out better than spending years and years trying to
appease religious lunatics. Trump writes on social media, congratulations to everyone.
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It has been fully agreed by by and between Israel
and Iran that there will be a complete and total
cease fire and approximately six hours from now, when Israel
and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress
final missions. Oh, a final round of bombs for everyone. Hey,
let's call who wants to drop some bombs? And there's
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going to be uh at which point the war will
be considered ended. Officially, Iran will start the ceasefire, and
after twelve hours, Israel will start the ceasefire. So they
got an extra bonus twelve hours, okay, and upon the
twenty fourth hour, all right, So so Iran has to
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go first and stop, and then Israel goes twelve hours
and stops, and then that's it. During each cease fire,
the other side will remain peaceful and respectful.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What is this.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
On the assumption that everything works as it should, which
it will, I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel
and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, intelligence to end
what should be called the twelve Day War. This is
like when he would congratulate people at the end of
The Apprentice. This is a war that could have gone
on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but
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it didn't and never will. God bless Israel, God bless Aran,
God bless the Middle East. God blessed the United States
of American, God bless the world.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Donald J.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Trump, President of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Pretty dramatic, but this is what you do.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You have a lunatic, a religious lunatic, which is the
worst kind, whose ideology committed them to wiping out the
nation of Israel and killing all the Jews. And they
hired all these militias Hamas Hezbalah, the Hooties and other
countries as well, Yemen, Syria. I mean, they were all
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kinds of bad guys who worked for the Ietolia and
the nuclear the nuclear arsenal was the coup of ra
for Ran. If they had that, then they're in charge
of the entire Middle East and god knows what else.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And so all you can do is crush it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And the mistake that was made for many years, you know,
from Bush and Obama and Biden, is let's negotiate. You
can't negotiate with the insane. You have to kill the insane.
You have to crush them. You do it early, you
do it decisively, you do it completely. And that's what
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was done here. And you know, they might try to
come back down the road, they might try to rebuild,
they'll probably violate all the agreements that they're going to sign,
but for now they're defeated. And that's what you do.
And I hear there's some Democrats in Congress who are
carping that they didn't get advanced notice. Why should you
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get vance notice, you would have leaked it. That's why
you have to do battles in secret. You think these
guys would help Trump pull off this kind of coup.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Of course not, they'd leak it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
They wouldn't do it personally, but you know, they'd give
it to a chief of staff, who'd give it to
an assistant, who'd give it to an intern, or give
it to the intern's brother, and it would it would,
it would leak out, and of course the news media
would publish it because you know they don't care what happens.
Most of them are progressives who hate Israel and the
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Jewish people, so of course they'd like to help Bran
and Palestine and Hamas and the hoodies and Hesba Lah.
Of course they would. So you keep it a secret.
Let the military do its thing. This is the first
time they ever dropped these buck er buster bombs in battle.
Never happened before, and they dropped a lot of them,
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and I guess they really did destroy everything. And that's
how you that's how you run the world, overwhelming force,
when you deal with evil. That's how we should deal
on a smaller level here in California, with all the
bad guys. Put all the bad guys in prison, leave
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them there, kill the murderers, put the mental patients in
mental institutions, put the lock the vagrants up, everybody, lock
them up overwhelming force, and suddenly everything gets cleaned up.
Suddenly the people in Israel waking up and they don't
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have to worry that a nuclear missile is going to
come and destroy them and their nation. It's amazing how
easy it is. It's like shutting the border. Right, We're
down to ninety five people a day. Just shut the border.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You just send you, just send bombers to drop bunker busters.
Here you go. It's done in a day. Just take action.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
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Speaker 2 (15:14):
You know how many decades Iran has spent trying to
build a nuclear weapons program and how many I don't know,
hundreds of billions of dollars and it all got all
got blown up in seconds, literally, And as soon as
it happened, and over the next twenty four hours, everything
in the media was, oh, we might be getting dragged
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into World War three. Here, Oh this is the beginning
of getting mired in the Middle East. Oh, this is
another one of those forever wars. Oh, you never know
what the retaliation is going to be. And everybody's wrong apparently,
I mean, you know, stuff can change on a dime.
But it looks like everybody was wrong. Iran is basically surrendered.
They've agreed to a cease fire with Israel. So there
you go, game over. Because once they've lost their nuclear
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arsenal and they lost ten of their top twelve military
and scientific leaders, and Israel has destroyed I read about
two thirds of their long range launchers. Then you know
they're getting out of ammunition, they're out of leadership, they're
at their nuclear program is gone.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
What are you gonna do? Hesbo has been.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Neutered, a MOS has been crushed, the hoodies have been
shut up all their satellite and all I heard is well,
you can't do this, you can't do it? You know,
Well yeah you can. It's like, yeah, you can close
the border. Yes, yes, you can deport hundreds of illegal
aliens and send them to another country's prison.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Look at that. Just do it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Hey, go on the plane out of here. Hey, borders closed,
go back home. Hey, you don't surrender, we're destroying your
nuclear arsenal. Oh look at that, we did just do stuff.
Stop talking, Stop predicting. By the way, you've noticed all
the things that haven't happened, Like the stock market didn't crash.
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How many people are panicking stock market was going to crush.
How many people were panicking that the tariffs are going
to lead to this huge inflation. Again, things can change
in the future, but right now, just about all the
media panics or political panics since the beginning of the year,
since Trump got elected, none of them happened.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
All these people are just filling time.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
They're filling writing space on their internet sites or in
their newspapers. They're just filling TV time with words. That's
all just filling time. Nobody knows what the hell they're
talking about, and nobody wants to wait to see what happens,
and nobody wants to use common sense. Jay, If you
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crush their entire nuclear operation, what are they going to
do the next day? Nothing they can do send a
few pop gun missiles.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
We're in a stupid time.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Uh there's a story in uh s f gate dot
com and it hit me today because the pharmacy in
my neighborhood is so degraded. I got I my my
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my wife sent me to go to the local pharmacy
because she knew that they carried a certain detergent and
she wanted four jugs of this detergent and I'd forgotten
to get it from the grocery store, so.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You got to go back.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I was punished, and I went to this this drug
store because the grocery store wasn't open yet, and I,
you know, it was kind of mildly irritated, but.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It was forgot it.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It was your it was it was my fault. I
know myself.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You weren't irritated or you were meditated it yourself.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You girls don't make it easy when guys.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Screw up, okay, and you make it easy when we
screw up.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yes, okay, I'm glad, JASPDA, thank you. So anyway, I
go in there and it was it was gain detergent, right,
ordinary product, like to get the extra large jugs so
they last a while.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Please don't tell me it was locked up.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It was locked up. Detergent detergent was locked up and
they had that little red button.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh no, you're supposed to call the assistant I pressed
it ding nothing, ding, third time, ding, fourth time ding, fifth.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Time ding nothing. What'd you do now?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Now I'm legitimately really pissed hit it a sixth time.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I decided, you know, I was gonna become like a
little kid.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Did you smash the window?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I would have loved to have seen that. I did not,
but i'd be lying of I said it didn't occur to me.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
The glass. I should say, it's a plastic panels, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah. The guy finally shows up and he goes I
heard it the first five times.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Did you say, well, then, what took you so long?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I would have said, I know, but you're a girl,
and guys when we hit girls, guys will hit other guys.
You never know these I'm not taking a chance, you know.
I know he was just a drugstore clerk, but he
could have a knife on him or something. I did
say this it is getting something like, it's just it's
just this shopping in this store is a pain in
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the ass.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's what I said. You didn't care. I didn't care.
It is a pain in the ass, but he doesn't care.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
That's another that's paid the same, whether you're irritated or not.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Right, he could show up after six dings, twelve dings,
twenty two dings. His paycheck is the same and it
did today because I saw this story in SFGate dot com.
There's so many pharmacies closing in San Francisco that people
are really been greatly inconvenienced. To put it mildly, over
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the last ten years, sixty four five pharmacies have closed
across the city, and this really affects older people who
have trouble getting around or people without cars. They opened
with a guy named Mark, a San Francisco resident. He's
gone to the same Walgreens for thirty five years. He
knew the pharmacist, they knew him, they knew his prescriptions,
they knew his doctor. Then he closed and now he's
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going to get on multiple buses to get to the
nearest Walgreens. They had fifty three stores. Walgreens did in
San Francisco four years ago, fifty three stores. Now they're
down to twenty nine. CBS has eleven left, they've closed,
they've closed half right, AID is closing all it's California
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locations and bankruptcy.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It says driven by a range of factors in.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
San Francisco it's driven by all the homeless people and
the shoplifting and the crime. That's what it's driven by.
But sf Gate I kept going through the article. Look
at this here, it's about six pages in a print out,
and I kept saying, well, they are gonna they're going
to talk about it, and then I get two and
a half.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Pages in.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
And uh, he said they quote some experts saying he
believes a mix mix of economic issues, let's.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Foot traffic and public safety concerns.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Do you think, uh, it's at Walgreens blamed organized retail crime.
The guy Mark who's got to take two three buses says, yeah,
the crime was maddening to see. Shoplifting a big problem,
no question about it. It was disturbing to watch people
walk out with arms full of paper towels and toilet
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paper and then go sit at the corner and sell
the stuff. But it took them two and a half
pages one, two, three, four, five sixty seven. I'm going
to count the paragraphs because this stuff makes me crazy.
Eight nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty,
twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,
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twenty six, twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It was not page four the twenty eighth paragraph.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
The shoplifting is what drives people out, the general sense
of crime that keeps you from going to the store.
I am not going to my drug store ever again
to buy detergent.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Which it turns out we didn't even need. I found
a full one.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Oh no, So where are you going to go to
buy it?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Then? Not that?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Go to the grocery store, yeah, where they haven't locked
everything up yet yet. But you know I and I
bet you the drug store in my neighborhood's going to
close because I can't be the only one that's sick
of everything being like tooth page. One of my sons
lived in San Francisco for a couple of years. We
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stopped he needed he had some kind of injury, something
he strained. He needed like advill or something. Twenty minutes
to get the advil, same thing, ding ding ding, And
then some troll comes out, pissed off, glaring, sorry to
wake you. I really would have gotten it myself. I'd
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love to have been back to the car fifteen minutes ago.
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Speaker 1 (24:47):
Trump one another round.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Supreme Court today is allowing the Trump administration to deport
illegal aliens to countries even if the illegals didn't come
from those countries. The lower court had said, well, you've
got to give the illegals time to challenge their deportations
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if you're not sending them to the home country. This
was a trick. I know Venezuela was doing this for
a while. Is they just wouldn't accept that, they wouldn't
accept the deportees. And of course under the Biden administration,
it was oh, well, you know, if they don't take
them back, what are you going to do? And Trump said, well,
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we'll send them anywhere. How about that El Salvador in Megaprison. See,
this is what you're looking for in all leaders, somebody
who just takes action. I don't know, they said we're
going to take them. Well, the Supreme Court lifted a
lower court order that had temporarily prevented the Trump administration
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from deporting the migrants to countries that are not their
places of origin. You know, first they were supposed to
get a chance to go to court and make their
case that they're afraid of getting tortured, they're afraid of
getting persecuted, they're afraid they're going to die. Well, of
course they're all going to say that, why go through
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the charade, So don't go back to the home country.
Give us your second choice. We'll take you there. Really,
we're paying for the ticket. The whole purpose is to
slow down and clog up the system. You know, when
you allowed like eight ten million illegal aliens in you
can't give them all due process. That's impossible. See, that's
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the trick from these progressives to bust the system, to
break it. Well, we're going to have no If you
didn't use due process to get in here, you're not
going to get due process to get out of there.
And the Biden administration made up a lot of phony
do process that never existed before.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So this is a big win.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Now the Trump crowd could resume deportations to third party
countries while all the legal proceedings continue.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
One of the.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Justices, uh Sonya Sonomayor, said she was in dissent. She
said the Court is now rewarding lawlessness. Oh yeah, the
Supreme Court is rewarding lawlessness. Right, the Supreme Court, they're
the lawless ones. We had an entire administration that created
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a massive machine of lawlessness. This whole state in California
has government sanctioned lawlessness. I mean, how many laws has
the California legislature written that toured down our justice system
just eviscerated it. So people can't be put in jail,
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or if somehow they accidentally end up in jail, they
get out pretty quickly. Everyone from shoplifters to the Menendez brothers,
for God's sakes, even mens and followers. Everybody gets out.
And then they rigged it so it's almost impossible to
get in. Said the majorc said. Not only is the
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court rewarding lawlessness, but apparently the court finds the idea
that thousands will suffer violence in far flung locals.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
To be palatable.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You know, I don't know why it became our business
to solve everybody else's problems.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
We can't control the world. We we can't. We can't
make the whole world.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What we can do is we can occasionally, you know,
bomb in nuclear facility to save lots of lives. Right,
we probably saved every single Jewish life in Israel. No
applause for that. But you know, millions of illegal aliens
who broke the law. Most of them claim asylum. Most
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of them lie about asylum because ninety percent of the
asylum seekers are denied asylum. So once you have are
people who break in the law, they make up a phony,
baloney excuse as to why they had to break the
law and then try to use due process to stay here. Well,
Trump administration is saying no, no, no more due process because
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your stories are almost all fake to begin with, and
we have a legal means to immigrate.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Try that.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
In fact, since now we've shut the border and there's
only ninety five people a day coming over, what's been
the big loss? Really, what's been the negative consequence? Nobody's
followed up up on that. Okay, all these people that
wanted to come here can't come here, So what terrible
things have happened?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All Right?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
We got more coming up. Conway is next. We've got
Michael Krozer showing up for work.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Look at that. Somebody's got to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Conway will follow. Deborah Mark is gone, she's on her
way home already. So there we're all accounted for, and
Krozer's got the news live in the KFI twenty for
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