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app John Cobelt's Show on Demand, and we're going to
talk about Karen Bass's speech. I picked out a few
things that happened while I was gone that really irritated me.
That was one of them. Last half hour he went
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through her cutting half the shelters. She's not funding the
animal shelters, and so lots of dogs are going to
get euthanized. So Bass has gone from burning down certain
community he's in Los Angeles to the killing dogs and
I guess cats too, right, We got our.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Cat there, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Right, So she's gonna kill cats, dogs, guinea pigs, and
possibly burn down your neighborhood. That's the mayor. We have.
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I don't know if that's quite true.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
John. You know, you get fair and balanced news here.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
That's John Cobel saying that's the not me, the newsperson.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I could always tell when you start giggling though. Vancouver,
a terrible thing happened Saturday letting people got killed dozens
more injured when a crazy guy plowed into the crowd
at a street fair. The thing is that police were
well aware that he was a crazy guy. Of course
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he was loose, and of course he was driving a car, right,
which is a pretty good sized weapon. Let's get Alex
Stone for Maybec News to explain what happened and why
this happened. Alex, John, welcome back, miss thank you. Good
to have you back. I missed you too well. Thank you. Yeah.
So police in Vancouver they believe that the number of
dead may go up. There. There were dozens who were injured,
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some are still critically injured right now, but they say
at last tup date, eleven victims were killed. Five to
sixty five years old. That this Filipino street festival was
underway Saturday night. Around eight o'clock, blackouty suv comes racing
through the crowd down the closed street. There wasn't a
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lot closing off the street, you know, not dump trucks
that sort of thing that you see in a lot
of cities now where somebody can't get through them because
they're weighting their size. But this black gouty was able
to get in and victims were flying being rammed by
the suv. This guy telling our team he was working
in a food truck cleaning up at the end of
this Filipino festival when it all unfolded, and he couldn't
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believe what was going on. At the beginning of it.
I was cleaning up too many es up the day
I hear them, yeah, bang, I mean I see through
the window. I saw the bunch. Oh my right, go
and see these guys. It's so bad. And he could
see the bodies everywhere, so we know today John, one
of the victims killed, was a teacher who was also
a school counselor. The school district confirmed that today. The
youngest victim was five year old Katie Lee, who died
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with her father Richard and mother Lynn, her sixteen year
old brother, and their son. Is now left without a mom,
a dad, or a sister. He decided not to go
to the event, and now his entire family is gone
and the BLACKOUTI this was a food truck line street,
just like any festival that would be going on now.
A thirty year old guy, kai Ji Adam Lowe is
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his name underrest. Police say he does not have political
or ideological motives. They don't know what the motive actually was,
but it was not something that would be under the
category of terrorism. Evidence in this case does not lead
us to believe this was an act of terrorism. So
he's been known, as you mentioned, John to police that
he has a long history of run ins with the law,
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but a lot of it has to do with mental
health issues that he's had over the years, and they
think that that may have played a role. He's been
charged right now with second degree murder the way it's
done in Canada. Then it may be upgraded at some
point as they go through his phone and look at
his social media if they decide to go at first degree,
so the charges could get even more serious. But police
saying the actions of a single person shattered our collective
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sense of safety and he was detained by bystanders who
held him until police could get to him and there's
a guy on social media video that is said to
be low looks like Low wearing a hoodie being held
down after all of this, saying I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
So that may come into play with the mental health.
But we've seen it in New Orleans on New Year's Day,
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We've seen it in Wisconsin at a Christmas festival a
while back, Germany. All over the world there have been
these ramming attacks and that is a big concern for
law enforcement here in the US and around the world.
So easy with just a vehicle that and we saw
the LAPD ramp things up over the weekend at a
festival that was going on. But if you leave any
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way for somebody to drive, either accidentally or on purpose
a vehicle into a large crowd, that threat is going
to be there. So it's more and more of putting
cement trucks and dump trucks and bullards the metal or
concrete poles in the way of where people would be.
And in this case, just like in New Orleans where
the bullets were down in New Orleans, in this case
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it was just a street not completely blocked off, and
a vehicle is able to get in. Do you know
if he was Filipino too, seems like his name. I
don't know, Yeah, I don't know his ig Adam Low. Yeah,
I don't think he was targeting Filipinos. No, they don't think.
They don't see it as a hate crime right now.
But they say that they have not figured out what
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caused him to do it in the moment. They do
think mental illness comes into play. But but why then
and then his whole I'm sorry, I'm sorry. They don't
know no details on the extent of his mental illness,
and how many times they tried to know. Yeah, I
mean it's everything's done a little differently in Canada of
releasing information, and right now they're not putting a lot
of that out. All right, Alex, thank you for coming on.
You got it. Sounds good, Alex Stone, when we come back.
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Karen Bass actually gave a state of the City speech
when she was announcing these massive budget cuts in including
the potential murdering of God. It could be hundreds of
dogs and cats because they're closing half the animal shelters
in LA. What else did they have at the animal
shelter any other You said, guinea pigs?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The guinea pigs probably rabbits.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh, she's gonna be killing rabbits. I wonder if she
does this herself. Is she in charge of me?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I don't think she. Uh, you know what, this is
really kind of a terrible thing. But I have not
done the research because I probably don't really want to know.
But I'm really now kind of curious how they euthanize
animals these days, and if they do it humanly.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I have a friend if she's worked as a veterinary
assistant for a long time, and it's a type of
gas chamber.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They just throw them all in one.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
They just put them in a No, I think they
have a machine. I'd have to ask years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's not humane.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
No, Because when I've taken my dogs to the vet
and I've had to put them down right because they
were really ill and it was time. Well, it's an injection, right,
and they I don't know, maybe I made that up. Well,
that's what I'm really curious about that I.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Remember her telling me this, that they had kinds some
It sounded to me it's an old memory, so it
sounded to me like it was.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I kind of remember something like that. I don't know
if I ever if I don't know if that's really true.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Uh, that could be from a time where they were
less sensitive about it. But but I think an injection
would be is.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's much more humane.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Well, you know death is death in the end.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, but we don't want not people, but we don't
want animals. There's no reason that they have to suffer.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
No, they shouldn't. But look, I wouldn't cut the budget.
I double the number of shelters.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Absolutely, there's other things that you can cut.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I am sure I'd.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Be cutting that homeless budget. You know, those people have
to figure things out on their own. After after we
we've given them like ten years and enough, let's start
saving the dogs and cats when we come back. Well,
there's lastly a lot to do. Oh oh, and today
Trump celebrated its first hundred days in office by lining
the White House lawn with the month shots of illegal
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alien criminals. It's quite a photo. If you've seen this,
you should go look for it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
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Speaker 1 (08:43):
Karen Bass last week gave a State of the City
of speech, talked about this new budget, which, by the way,
she's entirely responsible for because she gave huge raises to
most of the unions. She did exactly what idiot Antonio
Viragosa did about fifteen seventeen years ago, exactly the same thing,
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gave huge raises. Yeah, it was probably was two thousand
and eight, because then we had the big mortgage meltdown
and the economy ground to a halt. Tax revenues went
in the pooper and bassid Via Grosse had just given
that huge raises and so the city went broke. Now
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the city's going broke again because this time Karen Bass
gave huge raises. And so you know, she shouldn't show
her face after she allowed the Palisades to burn, after
she defunded the La Fire Department by half. God, I mean,
how do you get up in the morning and like
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address the city after you've destroyed thousands of homes. They're
still still they wouldn't explain what started the fire. Still
we've got no information on how bad the response was
and why it was bad. Still this is now, uh
will be four full months next week. She's saying that
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the speed of the recovery efforts record breaking because they
restored you, they restored utilities, far faster than other California fires. Yeah,
your electricity is back. You just don't have a house. Idiot,
Now get this. She called on the city council to
make rebuilding easier by waiving fees for permits and for
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checking building plans. They haven't done that yet. It's four months.
What do you mean, she called on the city council.
This should have been done on January the tenth. The
hell they doing, Tracy Park, the West Side City council woman. Mind,
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she made a proposal in January and they haven't done
it yet because the council says that we're waiting for
a report on its feasibility. You don't need a report.
Just wave the fees, stop collecting the money, stop charging people,
because it's your response, your fault, that the place burned
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down so badly. What should have been a small park
problem was a large problem because you defunded the fire department,
and now you're charging people for the paperwork to rebuild
their homes, and four months later, you still haven't waived
the fee. Wow. Stuart Waldman's president of the Valley Industry
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and Commerce Association, and he says they, meaning the city management,
did it to themselves. They entered into a bad deal
with city employees to give them massive raises, and now
it's coming back to bite us. That's why they don't
want to waive the thieves for the permit, because they
need the money to pay the city employees who snuckered
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Karen Bass. Because she's not very bright. Bass actually said
that confronting homeless is expensive, but leaving people on the
street comes at an enormous human cost. But it's their fault,
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it's their choices. They've been given enough money and enough chances.
Why do we have to pay anymore? Why do the
people whose homes burned down because she defunded the fire department,
why do they have to pay more homeless tax? The
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homeless start the fires. If a homeless guy started the
Palisades fire, do you think Karen Bass would ever admit that?
Is that why it's been cut up for four months.
They know what started it, and they've been floating this
alternate story that, wow, you know, we think it was
a fire from a week before. You know, kid's playing fireworks,
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you know kids these days, What if it wasn't. I'm
really suspicious. They had four months. They kind of have
a half baked story that they have not fleshed out
with detail. They just kind of floated it as a
trial balloon. Well by now they would know for sure.
What if it's a homeless guy. They defunded the fire
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department to blow a billion and a half dollars on homelessness.
Then a homeless guy starts the fire, destroys the palisades,
and now they want more money. She says. The cost
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of doing nothing is not just inhumane, it's also financially unsustainable. Oh,
it's financially unsustainable to blow a billion and a half
every year and get no result for it. Boy, is
she bad at this again? I mentioned this in the
first hour. I spent the week in Sarasota, Florida. Spent
the week a weekend a few weeks ago in Charlotte,
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North Carolina. They don't have these problems. You can walk
the streets, The places open till two in the morning.
Nobody's afraid to walk the streets and stay out late
on a Friday and Saturday night and have a good time.
There are no homeless people dying in the streets. We're
not responsible for these people. Why do we have to
live with this birden that no other city is living
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with unless it's run by an idiot progressive. It's the
progressive religion that brought you all this suffering. The progressive religion.
Karen Bass is a high priestess in that religion. No,
I don't have that in Sarasota. I don't have that
in Charlotte, North Carolina. There aren't homeless people dying in
the streets, and people get to enjoy life. You mentioned
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walking downtown two in the morning to go to a restaurant. No,
but nobody can go to downtown LA and enjoy what
they have down there. They've got a lot of theaters
and arenas and restaurants. Nobody can go. I can't remember
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the last time any of our friends suggested, Hey, let's
go drive downtown. There's this really cool restaurant, there's a
there's a cool play happening, there's a you know, the game.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I went to the Flower Mart. My husband took me.
I don't know how many months ago it was.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
It was terrifying to get there, and we couldn't park
on the street. We had to park in a lot
because I'm not going to be walking around those streets.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
No, and that was daytime.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That was yes, ye, yes, that was late morning.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
We had to go to something that we were invited
to and it was at night and we came out
of the venue and our life, our car was parked
in a lot across the street, and there's all kinds
of sicko mental patients in our way, and my wife
and I are trying to plot a strategy. It's like, well,
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you run this way, I'll distract the guy by running
this way. Then you screwed over right, and then I'll
double back like we were planning an invasion.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh, we did.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
We went to a show in downtown LA because a
friend of ours was in a play. And I'm not
kidding John. We were hopscotching over poop. Human the poop
hopscotch not dog poop.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, it's not poop, it's needles. And again,
this doesn't go on in most other cities. It doesn't
go on when we come back. After all we've said
about the Palisades fire, the reservoir being empty, no water
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for the fire department that Karen Bass defunded, Oh mentioned
in this segment that she's killing dogs and cats because
they're closing half of the animal shelters in La Half
the fire department was not funded. Half the animal shelters
are not going to be funded, so they're going to
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close them, right, so there's gonna be a lot of
dead dogs and dead cats. Would you believe they have
to drain the Palsage reservoir again? Again? Tell you that story.
We come back.
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All right, we've got details. We've been wondering for days.
What was the brand of purse that illegal aliens stole
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from the Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome. Gucci? Yeah, a
Gucci purse.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's way way less than a Burkin.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You look down on the Gucci person, I do not.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I'm just telling you that It'sci stoughing. Gucci is a
very nice, expensive brand, but Burkin is way up there.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I mean those are for the millionaire.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Billionaires, right right, So Christy Noman's riff raft here, Well,
she's South Dakota.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You know, I didn't say Gucci is not for riff
raft tough craft, just comparing it to Burke.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Uh huh. They have a lot of detail about the
guy who stole it. This was an illegal alien stealing
a purse from the Department of Homeland Security secretary. Maybe
the stupidest man in the Northern Hemisphere. Mario Busta monte Leva,
two names, forty nine years old. Oh, I guess he
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was just coming here for work. Probably defeed his family. Well,
it turns out they got a lot of detail on camera.
He took her American Express card to an Italian restaurant
and spent two hundred and five dollars and eighty seven
cents on food and Booze went out to Angelo Restaurante
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Italiano in Washington, DC minutes after stealing the person. Now,
when he laid down the Christi Nome credit card, the waiter,
the waitress, the manager didn't notice that that wasn't Christy Nome.
I mean, she's quite famous in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Especially obviously they didn't even look at a name.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
This seems to be a nice restaurant, right, two hundred
and five dollars for one guy that's I don't know
what he was drinking. So it was a shoulder bag
and it had her credit cards, three thousand dollars of cash,
and her passport and it was two guys involved. They
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also have photos of him snatching the bag from under
her feet at Capitol Burger at eight o'clock at night.
She was having Easter dinner at Capitol Burger. That's my
that's my kind of woman. I always have to go
to these you know, frilly sissy restaurants, a Burger place
for Easter. Yeah. Uh. He stayed at the restaurant until
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about midnight, drinking until he left and fell asleep outside
at a table. And he remained there till seven thirty
in the morning. And he also spent money at other places.
He bought Josh Cabernet Sauvignon wine. This guy had expensive tastes. Well,
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they got him and they got his accomplice, and they
have him on they have mon video and they have photos.
In fact, they even have a close up of her purse.
He's wearing a mask. He's at well, I guess.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I guess people still do that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, I had a taxi driver last night coming up
from the airport and he gets out of the car
to take my bag and he's got a mask, and
I'm thinking, no, I mean that does people with masks
are such weirdos. My Uber driver this morning from the
Mechanic was wearing a mask. They've made a comeback. And
I don't know if these people are wearing masks for
health reasons or they're terrorists. You know, you don't know
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why they do this. And he's wearing it only around
his mouth, not around his nose.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, then it doesn't work exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I mentioned the Santa Inez Reservoir in the Palisades, right,
that's the reservoir that was left empty by Karen Bass
and Genie Qunoniez, who still has her job. One hundred
and seventeen million gallons was empty for the fire. It
didn't have a cover on the reservoir, you know, like
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a pool cover. There was some kind of tear. So
they drained the reservoir over a year ago and they
never refilled it. Well, they got a new cover, but
the new cover has a tear, and so they drained
the reservoir again.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
How can the new cover have a tear already?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's this is the DWB. It has tears and pinhole
sized leaks in the floating cover. Leaks things don't leak upwards,
so they have to drain it again to fix the cover.
It's going to take another month. While this development is
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a frustrating setback, we're working as quickly as possible to
return the reservoir to service, said on Selmo Collins, the
senior assistant general manager who oversees the water system. And
Selmo Collins should have been fired or been forced to
resign by now. He's I remember this guy. This is
the same name that couldn't explain why wasn't repaired last year.
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If he's the assistant general manager and he's overseeing the
water system, then he knows the whole story from minute
one while the reservoir was empty.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Why do we need assistant managers anyway? We need that
money to go to this shelters.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They oh to the animal shelters. Yes, that's good, that's
a good way. You campaigned by pointing out every waste
of money. Yes, and this guy in Selmo Collins, that
is a waste of money. He says that the water
supply of the neighborhood is safe and strong, not if
there was another fire, but of course there's nothing left
to burn there on Selmo. It's just it's relentless, and
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you could tell they don't care. They absolutely don't care.
Now it's going to be the middle of June. I
need a vacation.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You just had one. You're not going anywhere. You're not
leaving us Jen for at least a while.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I have a headache. Everything I came back to gave
me a headache. I know, all right, what do I want?
You know? I wanted to get something on the I've
got too much stuff today, all right? The illegal alien
mug shots lining the White House lawn. That's next.
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If you missed any of the show today, the podcast
is getting posted after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on
demand on the iHeart app. And today was one hundred
days the Trump was celebrating in office, and they lined
the White House lawn with one hundred posters, one hundred
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mug shots of illegal aliens that were arrested. Placards had
in very large type rested at the very top and
then you could see their faces. And that was that
was the celebration. They had Tom Holman come out and
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speak to celebrate a ninety six percent drop in illegal
immigration since Trump took over ninety six percent. And here's
what Holman had to say about it.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Look, I started a border show in nineteen eighty four.
I've been at this for over forty years, and I
worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. Every president
ever worked for it. Took border security seriously because you
can't have national security if you don't have strong border security.
We got to know who's coming in, what's coming in,
where's coming in, why it's coming in. Right, Even President
Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the
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border because they understood national security. It was important. Joe
Biden was the first president in the history of this
nation who came in office and unsecured a border on purpose.
That's just a fact. We handed the Biden Ministry after
President Trump's first administration. We handed Biden administration the most
secure border in my lifetime, and he unsecured it on purpose. Now,
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President Trump and this administration here at the success is unprecedented.
We beat Trump's first administration on border success. Border numbers
are historic law today as I'm standing here. We are
the most secure border in the history of this nation,
and then numbers prove it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I had one of these garbage polls in one of
the news channels. I was really paying attention as to
what channel was on, and I hate these polls, but
it said that sixty percent of Americans had confidence in
Trump dealing with the border. And I looked at that,
I go, what do you mean sixty percent? It should
be one hundred percent. Who doesn't have confidence? If anybody
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succeeds that anything ninety six percent of the time, you
must have confidence. It shows you about these die hard
progressive church members. Well, I don't have confidence in what
he's doing. Ninety six percent? Drop? What's the point of
the poll? Not a credible poll. It's not credible. People
being pulled one of the two because, as Holman said,
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with ninety six percent, fewer people are coming across the border.
How many women aren't aren't being sexually assaulted by the cartels,
how many children aren't dying making that journey. How many
women and children aren't being sex trafficked into this country.
And that is one of the problems is so much
good has come from shutting the border down. But it's
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not something you can prove. It's a lot of suffering
that did not happen. It's crimes that didn't happen. Rapes, murders,
child slave trade crimes, it didn't happen. You can't quantify
it except to point out what the numbers you used
to be a year ago or three years ago. And
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what he said about the other presidents. He's been doing
this since nineteen eighty four, and Ronald Reagan, he's now
the Ice chief and the borders are but he started
out as a border patrol officer in nineteen eighty four.
And he said every president, and he worked for all
of them, took it seriously because it wasn't a part
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is an issue. You can go from Reagan to Obama
and everybody in between. Everyone knew you had to have
a border to have a secure country, only Biden, and
Biden never had an open border stance before because he
was senile. When he got into office, his brain had
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turned to warm oatmeal, and the members of the progressive
cult took over the process. He didn't know what was
going on, and they were into no borders. US is
an illegitimate nation. It's racist, It stole the Indians land.
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Another thing I saw the other day, I was, I
was somewhere and there was that there was a sign right,
and it was one of those land acknowledgment signs that's
like some kind of public preserve, and we acknowledged that
the land underneath us used to belong to whatever Indian tribe.
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They open up like council meetings in some towns with
the land acknowledgment that the land below us. Why don't
you give the land back? Why are you opening up
the land acknowledgment? Why don't you give the land back?
Give it back to the Indian tribe that used to
be here. They never do. They just go through this
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pretentious virtue signaling, this ritualistic theater. Oh, we have to
do a land acknowledgment to the tribe that you don't
have to stay here. You can go bulldoze the homes.
Let's get to it. In fact, bulldoze the city building
that you have. You're having the meeting in, sacrifice your
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job in offices and give that back. Phonies, All right,
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