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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I sit here as a American citizen, it has grave
concerns for the future of our nation. Could you imagine
being a radio host and feeling that way, just like
constantly being afraid of what the future holds and like
trying to instill fear in all of your listeners. It
just feels like not a fun show. Could imagine doom
and gloom? Yeah? Yeah, a lot of gloom? Four straight
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hours of doom and gloom? Doom and gloom? Should we
do that on one day? Like just like be as
like negative and Debbie Downers as possible. I feel like
that's so not in our nature. What would we do?
Would what would be the first thing we did to
do that? I don't know, reenact more of the worlds. Oh,
I heard that got some guys in trouble and they
did that the first time. Yeah, I don't. I don't
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think that would. I don't think we'd last long after
that if we tried that stunt. H. I don't know.
We could just make some stuff up. I mean that
always usually works. It's like, can you believe that the
current the Curtain regime in Canada is attempting to take
back the southernmost part of Alaska. Oh yeah, so it's
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to block the access to the Keystone pipeline. Did you
know that? Maybe that's why justin Trudeau's leaving. Now see
I made that up. But like if you were able
to like somehow get a little bit like of traction
and make up some facts and just like bullet point
it even though it's not true, you could probably like
have people really worried about something like that, right? I
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think so?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Or would people just know that we're lying. This is
why it's important our government talks to us directly before
we have our analysis, which is why I found three
minutes of audio of Marko Rubio, who's the current Secretary
of State, who was answering questions about this us AID
or us AID. This is an agency which essentially is
dedicated to giving billions of dollars a year in development
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for countries around the world that are trying to like
get themselves on their feet. Is this something that we
should be investing that much money in? Well, Elon Musk
says it is beyond repair. Now Marco Rubio has something
to say about this because he actually is the de
facto leader of that agency at this point, and he
had something to say when he was being questioned about
that today, what's.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Not to another question the tripper? Well, look, I mean
my frustration with the USA goes back to my time
in Congress. It's a completely unresponsive agency. It's supposed to
respond to policy directors of the State Department, and it
refuses to do so. So the functions of the USAID,
there are a lot of functions of the USAID that
are going to continue, that are going to be part
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of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned
with American foreign policy. I said very clearly when we
when during my confirmation hearing that every dollar we spend
in every program we fund that will be aligned with
the national interest of the United States, and USAID has
a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that
there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interestees
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of taxpayer dollars. And so I'm very troubled by these
reports that they've been unwilling to cooperate with people who
are asking simple questions about what is this program do,
who gets the money, who are our contractors, who's funded
And that sort of level of insubordination makes it impossible
to conduct a sort of mature and serious review that
I think foreign a rid large should have. We're spending
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taxpayer money here. These are not donor dollars. These are
taxpayer dollars, and we owe the American people sure the
assurances that every dollar we are spending abroad is being
spent on something that furthers our national interests. And so
far a lot of the people that work at USAID
have just simply refused to cooperate. Are you currently in
charge of USAID? I'm the acting director of USAID. I've
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delegated that authority to someone, but I stay in touch
with him. And again, our goal was to go in
and align our foreign aid to the national interest. But
if you go to mission after mission and embassy after
embassy around the world, you will often find that in
many cases USAADID is involved in programs that run counter
to what we're trying to do in our national strategy
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with that country or with that region.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That cannot continue.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Said is not an independent, non governmental entity. It is
an entity that spends taxpayer dollars and it needs to spend it,
as the statute says, in alignment with the policy directives
that they get from the Secretary of State, the National
Security Council, and the President, and it's been twenty or
thirty years where people have tried to reform it, and
it refused us to reform it, refused us to cooperate.
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When we were in Congress, we couldn't even get answers
the basic questions about programs that will not continue.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's not going to continue. You know. I'm not all right.
So that's Marco Rubio speaking on usaid, sorry about the noise.
He's in like a factory there, and he's answering questions
from in a factory. Somebody tell him to go outside
before you start asking him questions. For goodness sake, Come on,
think about the audio quality here. I mean, we can't
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exactly edit that out. No I could try, but it
would sound really weird, be it would be really warped
to not great. What he's saying, essentially is this agency
has gone unchecked spending taxpayer dollars around the world for years,
and now we finally have a president and we finally
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have a administration and administration who's willing to look into
all of this stuff and try to understand where all
this spending is going. I'm not opposed to helping certain
countries develop if it's a worthy cause or if they're
trying to uphold the exact agendas that make sense from
a United States perspective. You're taking our money to help
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develop your nation, well you better be developing it in
a way that makes you an upstanding democratic nation that
we're not gonna have to worry about becoming an enemy
or aligning with enemies in the future. It makes sense
to me. Why would we send tax payer money to
places that don't align with our values. It doesn't make
any sense. And you're telling us we can save billions
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of dollars if we're a little bit more picky about
this stuff. I don't understand what the problem is. But
as with anything, change is scary, and people are messed
up about the change that's coming from the Trump administration,
and USAID is just one additional thing that people are
going to gripe about because it's like, oh no, don't
change this thing. It's helping so many people explain how
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and explain why American taxpayer should be on the hook
to help all of these random nations around the count
or around the world. This goes back to what Donald
Trump said when he was trying to become president for
the second time. We are getting owned by so many
other places, the European Union, Canada, and Mexico, China, The
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United States is being taken for a ride by so
many different entities, so many different countries. And it's about
time we finally start to turn that tie. And we
have still enough power, we wield enough power to be
able to flip the script if we're on the same page,
and we have a unique opportunity with Congress the way
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that it is, with the administration as it is currently constructed,
and with the American people ready for a change, that
right now is a time to strike while the iron
is give a couple of months to see kind of
how things start shaking out, and I think you're going
to see a lot of positivity in the way that
people eventually see what our government is doing. Look at
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the success the Red States have had in starting to
be able to balance their budget, not all of them,
but Iowa is a good example. Florida is a better
example of you know, obviously Florida has the ability to
not have state income tax because they have an incredible
tourism sector. But to be completely frank with you being
able to capitalize on that and make a bunch of money.
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I mean, look at much money Iowa makes every year
on gambling. Now, it's crazy how these states are able
to kind of harness their dollars in a way that
the government isn't just soaking them all up and then
spending them frivolously. We're now getting to a point where
I think people are really starting to notice, Hey, you
know what, we actually like it when our state balance
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is a budget. It's helpful for the citizens, helpful for
the tax payers. It makes us a healthier economy. We'll
see how it goes. And it's four eighteen. Thanks for
listening to our show today. If you've got thoughts on
this or the tariff situation, you can call us at
four h two five five eight eleven ten. We'll talk
about that coming up as well on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. Emrie Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
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It's come out that Nebraska as a whole is kind
of fearful that there are other teams that are watching
their spring game and then wanting to poach their players
in the summer transfer a portal if they like what
they see, and they may not have a spot, you know,
kind of solidified for the Huskers. You know, other teams
come in and swipe. This isn't unlike other programs. There's
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a lot of other programs that haven't really done a
spring game, if you will, on many many years. But
you know, you mentioned, Wow, that's kind of like an
important development because Nebraska has done pretty big business traditionally
for what the spring game is.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'm under the impression one to be able to go
and watch this last practice, but it just won't be
simulating like a real football game, is what is my understanding? Gotcha? Okay? Well,
and I suppose it's kind of been trending that way
recently under Matt rule. I mean, we're not too far
removed from when Scott Frost came back and it was
his first year here and that spring game sold out.
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It was a sellout for a spring game. I mean, historically,
the spring game has been a bigger deal here in
Nebraska than it generally is most other places. And so
that just jumped out to me when I heard that.
It's pretty noteworthy as a lifelong Nebraska fan, just thinking, wow,
you know, the spring game is kind of an establishment.
It has been canceled before there was I was actually
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under Scott Frost. There was a year where it was
canceled because of weather concerns because there was bad weather
on the day and they didn't actually reschedule it. So
I don't know. I mean, all things considered, maybe this
is not as big of a deal as it initially felt.
But just the reason of canceling it because he's worried
his players are going to be poached. Man, is that
the most twenty twenty five thing you've ever heard? Well,
apparently there were six guys that went into the summer
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transfer portal after the spring game. They so basically guys
are thinking, Hey, you know what, I got this game,
and I don't really like the school I'm at, but
I'm going to get some run at this game, and
I'm gonna show off, and then I'm going to enter
the portal because I because there's some fresh tape to
see what I can do. I don't think that that's
what they're thinking. I just think that, you know, in
the NIL era, if let's say Wake Forest, I'm gonna
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throw Wake Forest under the bus. Here, let's say Wake Forest.
They're eyeball in some big ten spring games and looking
for like second string guys that might be kind of
in a log jam for time, you know, or let's
just use last year's roster for you know this. How
about Daniel Kayln, Like Daniel Klen gets some run in
the spring game, which obviously he's already transferred, but I'm
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talking about if he's not transferring, you got a four
star guy that's behind basically a firm starter, right, there's
no way Daniel Kalyn's going to start over Delanroyola following. Yeah,
so Kaylin goes out there and actually looks really solid
throwing the ball around if we do a you know,
a regular spring game, right, and looks good against the
Nebraska defense, even if it is a lot of second
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third string guys. Right. Wake Forrest is watching this on
the Big ten network or whatever you watch this or
maybe to have somebody there watching it, which I'm sure
you know, what are the rules on that? And they
call up some of their boosters of nil collectives and
stuff and say, Hey, they got this quarterback that really
has no hope of playing. Do you think we could
like try to get him and have him compete for
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our starting job. Can we get innil in the tank,
so he can transfer. We can call him, let him know, hey,
we got nil for you. You can transfer and come play
for us. Now, he wasn't thinking about leaving there, but
all of a sudden, now an opportunity exists where he
can take a bigger nil money and have a chance
to potentially play at another school. I think that's more
of what the fear is. Like in the NBA or
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NFL or something, this would be called tampering and the
offending school would be fined. I don't think there's such
a rule like that in NCAA football. And that's a
lot of the beef, right, It's just like all of
these Like Ioways States quarterback Rock Obect, there was a
lot of rumors after the Big twelve championship game and
before their ballgame that Rock Obeckck was getting wooed by
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multiple SEC and ACC schools with nil deals to leave
Iowa State and come play for them, even though he's
firmly at Iowa State right now and there is no
rule if he wanted to try to, like at the
last minute, decide, oh never mind, I'm going to leave
and I'm going to go transfer to one of these
other schools and take their nil money and go play
for them. He's not under any contract, right, I mean,
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he could leave whenever he wants and as many times
as he wants. Now with the transfer portal, you know,
he used to be you could only really transfer once
and then you had to sit out a year. Right now,
none of that exists. Like you could just like be
a mercenary and play at three or four different schools
during your college career if you want. I did that
in the video game once, and if it's in the
video game, it must be real. It's the lamest way
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to spend your college years if you ask me. For
guys like us, Yeah, but for the player empowerment era
where these guys basically act like they're pros anyway, and
there's millions of dollars that they can make through in IL.
Who are we to tell them what to do?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Man?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I know, but certainly not the first person to suggest this,
not the last. But you wonder how long or far
off away we are from there being some sort of
contract you have to sign, So when you signed with
the team next year to be there for two years.
Next year, yeah, next year, it should be even year
to year, and we need to move that transfer portal
in some way to avoid the postseason, because it's insane
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that there were guys from the teams in the playoff
that had to get in the portal if they were
planning on transferring and they couldn't still participate with that
team during the playoff. Well, you know, there's a yin
and yang between player empowerment and sporting success. Now, what's
the NBA going through right now? People are saying what
the ratings are doing, and there's different reasons for why
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the ratings are down, but generally you could say that
the NBA is the most empowered player league that you
can find out there easily. So do they walk that back? Well,
this Luka Doncic thing isn't going to help because it's like, well,
look what the teams can do. They could just do
whatever the heck they want, whenever they want. And Luka
Doncic is now going to miss out on at least
one hundred and twenty million dollars of that extension that
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he's about to sign because he's not with the team
that drafted him. And then by the NBA's rules, he's
not on the team that drafted him, he's not eligible
to sign that contract. So that means just because the
Mavericks traded him to somebody else, he lost out one
hundred and twenty million dollars in a contract. The players
are like, look, this is what the team's are doing
to us. Why should we care about the teams? And
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of course, you know, the biggest losers are the fans.
Once again, that seems to be the one thing that
is consistent throughout all of this. The fans lose and
again with the NIL. And I'm not telling you not
to spend money on the NIL collectives and help recruit
better players to your school. But the idea that oh
I have to pay for tickets, Oh I have to
pay for merch Oh you want me to buy you know,
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concessions at the games. Oh you want me to spend
my money on stuff that you're doing. Oh, and I
have to donate into this fund to try to recruit
players to our team while the school's making tens of
millions of dollars a year on just media rights. Get
out of my face with that. Not interested, I'm already
paying too much. I'm sorry if that sounds apathetic to
what the program is doing. But Why does this have
to fall on my shoulders. The ESPN isn't paying me
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ten million dollars a year to watch these games. No,
they're paying all of the schools in the Big ten
or you know whatever conference you know, one hundred million
dollars a year to air their games. You'd think some
of that money could go to the kids, and starting
next year it is. But still it's a mess. Four
point thirty more on the way coming up on news
radio eleven ten KFAB and raise Songer on news radio
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eleven ten kfab. He comes right into my inbox and
you can enjoy that and what it looks like. I
have no problem chatting with people. Had a few different
things that we've been talking about today, and one of
those are tariffs. And Amber sent in an email and said,
I favorite tariffs on food from countries that don't have
any rules. And the chemicals used on food imported to
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the US. They use chemicals banned by the US government,
So we consume cancer, which drives up health insurance costs.
The most. The people in America need to buy food
produced in the USA, and so food from other countries
should be more costly. Plus, look at all the recalls
from these countries due to salmonilla and E. Coli and
then people end up sick. Well, Amber, I don't disagree
with the sentiment there, and I think we need to
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do the best that we can to try to understand
what this food looks like. I do think trade is healthy,
but as far as you know, talking about food that's
coming from Mexico and other South American, Central American countries,
South American countries, any of the above, I do think
that we need, especially if we're worrying about what is
happening in our country and the rules about the food
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that we're growing in our country, we have to also
use the same type of benchmarks and standards for the
food that we would be importing. So you'd like people
to buy USA, but I'll be honest with you, it's
difficult to get to say, coffee, for instance, from the USA.
We import it from over seventy countries. That's just one example.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Avaca, Oh yeah, we grow some here, but there are
some really good avocados that we trade in from other places. Bananas,
you know, we go on and on and on. It depends,
but it is worth looking into. That's no, there's no
doubt about that. Phone line is open four two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Glenn's there. Hello, Glenn, what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Hey, emer I have to I couldn't agree with you more.
We need to be a society who accepts everybody. We're
North America. We're not another country. We are North America.
We get our maple syrup from Canada, we get her
avocados from Mexico. Can't we all just get along?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I really yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And when Trump comes in and puts these tariffs.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
In there, he's not trying to you know, little double
die song on a crap table. He's trying to make
people come to the table to play, to talk and
see what's going on. That's why he's a bit Yeah,
that's why he's the mobile that he is. And if
people give him just.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
A little bit more credit and just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
More time, and don't freak out, I'll guarantee what.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
We're all shooting Seven's brother, we're all shooting seven.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well. I will say this, Glenn. Just today, the learning
yesterday about the Panama Canal basically doing everything that the
administration wanted it to do. And now you're hearing Mexico
has come to a temporary agreement for the time being,
but it's looking like they're going to have a month
to resolve this. It sounds like positive direction between Mexico
and the US. This is why he does what he does,
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because more often than not, it works out in his favor.
He knows how to make these deals happen, and he's
got a team of people that are willing to work
with him to make it happen. Marco Rubio is an
excellent addition and Secretary of State, and he helped get
that deal done down there with Panama, and he's certainly
is going to be in the mix with these deals
talking with Mexico and hopefully Canada comes around as well.
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I'm with you one hundred percent. We can get along.
But it's not just the United States that has to
worry about that. It takes two dictango, not at all, Emory.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And I'm a firm believer. I don't need you know everything,
but if I have enough of people around me who
know live out of everything, together, we can all get
stuff done.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
One hundred percent. Buddy, Hey, I appreciate you calling in Glenn.
Thanks for listening to us.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Hey, love to listen to you. Guys, man love you.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I love you too, but I really appreciate that good guy. Patience?
Is it a virtue? How long is too long? I'm
not a very patient person, but I've learned with my
politics sometimes we overreact to something before we even really
know what the implications are. Like these tariffs, Matt, guess
how long the tariffs have been in place? How long
they haven't been yet? But we've been freaking out about
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them for months now, haven't we? And I say we,
not necessarily me or you or anybody specifically listening to us,
but society, you know, the political left, that kind of thing. Right.
Oh no, they're gonna cost more money for everybody. Oh no,
these are just like taxis.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But we don't know what the real scenario is, right,
like what are the implications or like this Mexico thing,
Maybe they'll never happen, and it was just a ploy
to get them to negotiate and have an incentive to
come to the table and be willing to help the
United States out. It looks like we're getting there and
we haven't even laid the teriff on them yet. So patients, patience,
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it's a virtue. I want to talk about this, so
showing it on TV right now, and I want to
talk about this anti deportation protesters, what they're doing, and
the irony behind their actions. This is why it's very
interesting to live in a country that has freedom of protest.
We'll talk about it next on news Radio eleven ten
kf abe crime, getting them detained and getting them out
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of our country, detaining them in a way that they
are not going to be peril or a nuisance to
our society, and that for a lot of different reasons.
Let's be real, when you enter our country illegally, much
like Caroline Levitt said in our first day as the
Press secretary, Hey, you're a criminal immediately because you did
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something illegal. We know who it was, and we're going
to find people of the millions of them that are
in the United States. It makes sense for us to
try to resolve this problem because it is negatively impacting
our economy, it's negatively impacting the safety of our communities.
And when we are able to get a handle on this,
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hopefully we're able to make an adjustment so this doesn't
become a problem at any point in the future. This
is not unlike a lot of other countries around the
world in the way that they handle immigration. We're just
we got a big target on our back, and of
course people want to dislike whoever's doing this, especially because
it's Republicans, so easy to hit Republicans. I saw so
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many videos this weekend from anti deportation protests, including people
waving Mexican flags, waving other flags, including the Palestinian flag,
which what does that have to do with any of
this stuff. But they're blocking the road. They're going with
the Hey, we're blocking the road to let everybody know
that we're anti deportation, and they're burning the American flag.
Do you know where they're doing this at? Do you
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know where specifically?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I mean I would broadly mostly just all over the
United States. In the United States, Yeah, in the country.
They don't want to leave. They are burning our flag
and waving their own country's flag because they want to
stay here and not go back there. Explain that to me,
Explain that how does that work. You came to the
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United States illegally for whatever reason, Okay, and anybody who's
not an illegal immigrant that's protesting, that's fine. You have
the right to do that. Okay, You're not going to
change my mind, but maybe somebody out there is going
to be like, Okay, I actually reason with these people.
I don't know who that would be. But you have
the right as an American citizen as long as you're
not destroying or damaging property to do that. It's part
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of the United States, in our First Amendment, to protect
your rights. I get it. But you're protesting against the
country that all these people want to live in, while
saying bad things about the country you want to live
in and are living in, in a lot of cases illegally,
while at the same time waving the flag of the
country you came from but don't want to go back.
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To make it make sense, how does that make sense.
It's like USA, stakes don't deport people, you're losers and racists.
And then they come like you're illegal, go back home,
don't take me away. I want to stay in the
United States. That's what that message is. It makes no sense.
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And again it just tells me that most of these
people who are these active protesters, there are probably a
lot of the same people that are marching around for
Palestine and anti Israel stuff. You know eight months ago,
these the same people they just need something to be
mad about, and they're going in these metropolitan areas and
blue states, mostly Blue states mostly. You know, it's crazy.
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You're seeing a lot of this happening in California, not
seeing too much of this happening in Florida or Texas.
Is fish still touring? There used to be people follow
them around a lot. Maybe maybe we just get a
fish tour going again and they can just have somebody
to follow around, just like, get Woodstock ninety nine, fire
that thing back up, get some van traffic towards some
of the jam bands again. And it's just crazy to me, dude, Like,
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I'm not trying to tell people you can't have an
opinion on stuff, but it's just make your opinion make
some sense. You're arguing that you have this pride for
where you come from, and the United States government right
now is apparently racist in some kind, so you're burning
the American flag or saying pooh on the United States.
Yet the only reason you're saying that is because you
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don't want to forcibly be told to leave the United States.
And it feels like we're here because generations of politicians
have been doing nothing about an issue that has been
the can has continued to be kicked down the road
over and over and over again. Yeah. Yeah, I don't
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know what the right answer is. I'm just saying, is
I sit here and watch these protests. First of all,
again I'm going to reiterate this. If you are blocking
the roadway anywhere in the country and you think that
you're gonna get me or a lot of other people
to like change our minds and say, oh, yeah, no,
these people that are making my life harder today, Yeah,
I'm going to side with them all of a sudden.
(25:33):
It never works, so good luck with that. Secondly, if
you're going to protest against the United States, maybe the
one thing that doesn't make sense to do that is
when you are begging to not have to leave the
United States. You hate the United States so much that
you just refuse to leave. That's what you're basically saying,
doesn't make any sense. All I asked for is stuff
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to make sense. You guys need to read a book
or something, find something else better to do, get a
hob jay wits
I sit here as a American citizen, it has grave
concerns for the future of our nation. Could you imagine
being a radio host and feeling that way, just like
constantly being afraid of what the future holds and like
trying to instill fear in all of your listeners. It
just feels like not a fun show. Could imagine doom
and gloom? Yeah? Yeah, a lot of gloom? Four straight
(00:22):
hours of doom and gloom? Doom and gloom? Should we
do that on one day? Like just like be as
like negative and Debbie Downers as possible. I feel like
that's so not in our nature. What would we do?
Would what would be the first thing we did to
do that? I don't know, reenact more of the worlds. Oh,
I heard that got some guys in trouble and they
did that the first time. Yeah, I don't. I don't
(00:43):
think that would. I don't think we'd last long after
that if we tried that stunt. H. I don't know.
We could just make some stuff up. I mean that
always usually works. It's like, can you believe that the
current the Curtain regime in Canada is attempting to take
back the southernmost part of Alaska. Oh yeah, so it's
(01:05):
to block the access to the Keystone pipeline. Did you
know that? Maybe that's why justin Trudeau's leaving. Now see
I made that up. But like if you were able
to like somehow get a little bit like of traction
and make up some facts and just like bullet point
it even though it's not true, you could probably like
have people really worried about something like that, right? I
(01:25):
think so?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Or would people just know that we're lying. This is
why it's important our government talks to us directly before
we have our analysis, which is why I found three
minutes of audio of Marko Rubio, who's the current Secretary
of State, who was answering questions about this us AID
or us AID. This is an agency which essentially is
dedicated to giving billions of dollars a year in development
(01:48):
for countries around the world that are trying to like
get themselves on their feet. Is this something that we
should be investing that much money in? Well, Elon Musk
says it is beyond repair. Now Marco Rubio has something
to say about this because he actually is the de
facto leader of that agency at this point, and he
had something to say when he was being questioned about
that today, what's.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Not to another question the tripper? Well, look, I mean
my frustration with the USA goes back to my time
in Congress. It's a completely unresponsive agency. It's supposed to
respond to policy directors of the State Department, and it
refuses to do so. So the functions of the USAID,
there are a lot of functions of the USAID that
are going to continue, that are going to be part
(02:30):
of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned
with American foreign policy. I said very clearly when we
when during my confirmation hearing that every dollar we spend
in every program we fund that will be aligned with
the national interest of the United States, and USAID has
a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that
there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interestees
(02:51):
of taxpayer dollars. And so I'm very troubled by these
reports that they've been unwilling to cooperate with people who
are asking simple questions about what is this program do,
who gets the money, who are our contractors, who's funded
And that sort of level of insubordination makes it impossible
to conduct a sort of mature and serious review that
I think foreign a rid large should have. We're spending
(03:14):
taxpayer money here. These are not donor dollars. These are
taxpayer dollars, and we owe the American people sure the
assurances that every dollar we are spending abroad is being
spent on something that furthers our national interests. And so
far a lot of the people that work at USAID
have just simply refused to cooperate. Are you currently in
charge of USAID? I'm the acting director of USAID. I've
(03:36):
delegated that authority to someone, but I stay in touch
with him. And again, our goal was to go in
and align our foreign aid to the national interest. But
if you go to mission after mission and embassy after
embassy around the world, you will often find that in
many cases USAADID is involved in programs that run counter
to what we're trying to do in our national strategy
(03:57):
with that country or with that region.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That cannot continue.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Said is not an independent, non governmental entity. It is
an entity that spends taxpayer dollars and it needs to spend it,
as the statute says, in alignment with the policy directives
that they get from the Secretary of State, the National
Security Council, and the President, and it's been twenty or
thirty years where people have tried to reform it, and
it refused us to reform it, refused us to cooperate.
(04:20):
When we were in Congress, we couldn't even get answers
the basic questions about programs that will not continue.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's not going to continue. You know. I'm not all right.
So that's Marco Rubio speaking on usaid, sorry about the noise.
He's in like a factory there, and he's answering questions
from in a factory. Somebody tell him to go outside
before you start asking him questions. For goodness sake, Come on,
think about the audio quality here. I mean, we can't
(04:45):
exactly edit that out. No I could try, but it
would sound really weird, be it would be really warped
to not great. What he's saying, essentially is this agency
has gone unchecked spending taxpayer dollars around the world for years,
and now we finally have a president and we finally
(05:05):
have a administration and administration who's willing to look into
all of this stuff and try to understand where all
this spending is going. I'm not opposed to helping certain
countries develop if it's a worthy cause or if they're
trying to uphold the exact agendas that make sense from
a United States perspective. You're taking our money to help
(05:26):
develop your nation, well you better be developing it in
a way that makes you an upstanding democratic nation that
we're not gonna have to worry about becoming an enemy
or aligning with enemies in the future. It makes sense
to me. Why would we send tax payer money to
places that don't align with our values. It doesn't make
any sense. And you're telling us we can save billions
(05:47):
of dollars if we're a little bit more picky about
this stuff. I don't understand what the problem is. But
as with anything, change is scary, and people are messed
up about the change that's coming from the Trump administration,
and USAID is just one additional thing that people are
going to gripe about because it's like, oh no, don't
change this thing. It's helping so many people explain how
(06:07):
and explain why American taxpayer should be on the hook
to help all of these random nations around the count
or around the world. This goes back to what Donald
Trump said when he was trying to become president for
the second time. We are getting owned by so many
other places, the European Union, Canada, and Mexico, China, The
(06:28):
United States is being taken for a ride by so
many different entities, so many different countries. And it's about
time we finally start to turn that tie. And we
have still enough power, we wield enough power to be
able to flip the script if we're on the same page,
and we have a unique opportunity with Congress the way
(06:49):
that it is, with the administration as it is currently constructed,
and with the American people ready for a change, that
right now is a time to strike while the iron
is give a couple of months to see kind of
how things start shaking out, and I think you're going
to see a lot of positivity in the way that
people eventually see what our government is doing. Look at
(07:10):
the success the Red States have had in starting to
be able to balance their budget, not all of them,
but Iowa is a good example. Florida is a better
example of you know, obviously Florida has the ability to
not have state income tax because they have an incredible
tourism sector. But to be completely frank with you being
able to capitalize on that and make a bunch of money.
(07:30):
I mean, look at much money Iowa makes every year
on gambling. Now, it's crazy how these states are able
to kind of harness their dollars in a way that
the government isn't just soaking them all up and then
spending them frivolously. We're now getting to a point where
I think people are really starting to notice, Hey, you
know what, we actually like it when our state balance
(07:51):
is a budget. It's helpful for the citizens, helpful for
the tax payers. It makes us a healthier economy. We'll
see how it goes. And it's four eighteen. Thanks for
listening to our show today. If you've got thoughts on
this or the tariff situation, you can call us at
four h two five five eight eleven ten. We'll talk
about that coming up as well on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. Emrie Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
(08:13):
It's come out that Nebraska as a whole is kind
of fearful that there are other teams that are watching
their spring game and then wanting to poach their players
in the summer transfer a portal if they like what
they see, and they may not have a spot, you know,
kind of solidified for the Huskers. You know, other teams
come in and swipe. This isn't unlike other programs. There's
(08:34):
a lot of other programs that haven't really done a
spring game, if you will, on many many years. But
you know, you mentioned, Wow, that's kind of like an
important development because Nebraska has done pretty big business traditionally
for what the spring game is.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'm under the impression one to be able to go
and watch this last practice, but it just won't be
simulating like a real football game, is what is my understanding? Gotcha? Okay? Well,
and I suppose it's kind of been trending that way
recently under Matt rule. I mean, we're not too far
removed from when Scott Frost came back and it was
his first year here and that spring game sold out.
(09:10):
It was a sellout for a spring game. I mean, historically,
the spring game has been a bigger deal here in
Nebraska than it generally is most other places. And so
that just jumped out to me when I heard that.
It's pretty noteworthy as a lifelong Nebraska fan, just thinking, wow,
you know, the spring game is kind of an establishment.
It has been canceled before there was I was actually
(09:33):
under Scott Frost. There was a year where it was
canceled because of weather concerns because there was bad weather
on the day and they didn't actually reschedule it. So
I don't know. I mean, all things considered, maybe this
is not as big of a deal as it initially felt.
But just the reason of canceling it because he's worried
his players are going to be poached. Man, is that
the most twenty twenty five thing you've ever heard? Well,
apparently there were six guys that went into the summer
(09:55):
transfer portal after the spring game. They so basically guys
are thinking, Hey, you know what, I got this game,
and I don't really like the school I'm at, but
I'm going to get some run at this game, and
I'm gonna show off, and then I'm going to enter
the portal because I because there's some fresh tape to
see what I can do. I don't think that that's
what they're thinking. I just think that, you know, in
the NIL era, if let's say Wake Forest, I'm gonna
(10:16):
throw Wake Forest under the bus. Here, let's say Wake Forest.
They're eyeball in some big ten spring games and looking
for like second string guys that might be kind of
in a log jam for time, you know, or let's
just use last year's roster for you know this. How
about Daniel Kayln, Like Daniel Klen gets some run in
the spring game, which obviously he's already transferred, but I'm
(10:37):
talking about if he's not transferring, you got a four
star guy that's behind basically a firm starter, right, there's
no way Daniel Kalyn's going to start over Delanroyola following. Yeah,
so Kaylin goes out there and actually looks really solid
throwing the ball around if we do a you know,
a regular spring game, right, and looks good against the
Nebraska defense, even if it is a lot of second
(10:58):
third string guys. Right. Wake Forrest is watching this on
the Big ten network or whatever you watch this or
maybe to have somebody there watching it, which I'm sure
you know, what are the rules on that? And they
call up some of their boosters of nil collectives and
stuff and say, Hey, they got this quarterback that really
has no hope of playing. Do you think we could
like try to get him and have him compete for
(11:20):
our starting job. Can we get innil in the tank,
so he can transfer. We can call him, let him know, hey,
we got nil for you. You can transfer and come play
for us. Now, he wasn't thinking about leaving there, but
all of a sudden, now an opportunity exists where he
can take a bigger nil money and have a chance
to potentially play at another school. I think that's more
of what the fear is. Like in the NBA or
(11:41):
NFL or something, this would be called tampering and the
offending school would be fined. I don't think there's such
a rule like that in NCAA football. And that's a
lot of the beef, right, It's just like all of
these Like Ioways States quarterback Rock Obect, there was a
lot of rumors after the Big twelve championship game and
before their ballgame that Rock Obeckck was getting wooed by
(12:02):
multiple SEC and ACC schools with nil deals to leave
Iowa State and come play for them, even though he's
firmly at Iowa State right now and there is no
rule if he wanted to try to, like at the
last minute, decide, oh never mind, I'm going to leave
and I'm going to go transfer to one of these
other schools and take their nil money and go play
for them. He's not under any contract, right, I mean,
(12:24):
he could leave whenever he wants and as many times
as he wants. Now with the transfer portal, you know,
he used to be you could only really transfer once
and then you had to sit out a year. Right now,
none of that exists. Like you could just like be
a mercenary and play at three or four different schools
during your college career if you want. I did that
in the video game once, and if it's in the
video game, it must be real. It's the lamest way
(12:46):
to spend your college years if you ask me. For
guys like us, Yeah, but for the player empowerment era
where these guys basically act like they're pros anyway, and
there's millions of dollars that they can make through in IL.
Who are we to tell them what to do?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Man?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I know, but certainly not the first person to suggest this,
not the last. But you wonder how long or far
off away we are from there being some sort of
contract you have to sign, So when you signed with
the team next year to be there for two years.
Next year, yeah, next year, it should be even year
to year, and we need to move that transfer portal
in some way to avoid the postseason, because it's insane
(13:21):
that there were guys from the teams in the playoff
that had to get in the portal if they were
planning on transferring and they couldn't still participate with that
team during the playoff. Well, you know, there's a yin
and yang between player empowerment and sporting success. Now, what's
the NBA going through right now? People are saying what
the ratings are doing, and there's different reasons for why
(13:44):
the ratings are down, but generally you could say that
the NBA is the most empowered player league that you
can find out there easily. So do they walk that back? Well,
this Luka Doncic thing isn't going to help because it's like, well,
look what the teams can do. They could just do
whatever the heck they want, whenever they want. And Luka
Doncic is now going to miss out on at least
one hundred and twenty million dollars of that extension that
(14:06):
he's about to sign because he's not with the team
that drafted him. And then by the NBA's rules, he's
not on the team that drafted him, he's not eligible
to sign that contract. So that means just because the
Mavericks traded him to somebody else, he lost out one
hundred and twenty million dollars in a contract. The players
are like, look, this is what the team's are doing
to us. Why should we care about the teams? And
(14:27):
of course, you know, the biggest losers are the fans.
Once again, that seems to be the one thing that
is consistent throughout all of this. The fans lose and
again with the NIL. And I'm not telling you not
to spend money on the NIL collectives and help recruit
better players to your school. But the idea that oh
I have to pay for tickets, Oh I have to
pay for merch Oh you want me to buy you know,
(14:47):
concessions at the games. Oh you want me to spend
my money on stuff that you're doing. Oh, and I
have to donate into this fund to try to recruit
players to our team while the school's making tens of
millions of dollars a year on just media rights. Get
out of my face with that. Not interested, I'm already
paying too much. I'm sorry if that sounds apathetic to
what the program is doing. But Why does this have
to fall on my shoulders. The ESPN isn't paying me
(15:10):
ten million dollars a year to watch these games. No,
they're paying all of the schools in the Big ten
or you know whatever conference you know, one hundred million
dollars a year to air their games. You'd think some
of that money could go to the kids, and starting
next year it is. But still it's a mess. Four
point thirty more on the way coming up on news
radio eleven ten KFAB and raise Songer on news radio
(15:31):
eleven ten kfab. He comes right into my inbox and
you can enjoy that and what it looks like. I
have no problem chatting with people. Had a few different
things that we've been talking about today, and one of
those are tariffs. And Amber sent in an email and said,
I favorite tariffs on food from countries that don't have
any rules. And the chemicals used on food imported to
(15:54):
the US. They use chemicals banned by the US government,
So we consume cancer, which drives up health insurance costs.
The most. The people in America need to buy food
produced in the USA, and so food from other countries
should be more costly. Plus, look at all the recalls
from these countries due to salmonilla and E. Coli and
then people end up sick. Well, Amber, I don't disagree
with the sentiment there, and I think we need to
(16:17):
do the best that we can to try to understand
what this food looks like. I do think trade is healthy,
but as far as you know, talking about food that's
coming from Mexico and other South American, Central American countries,
South American countries, any of the above, I do think
that we need, especially if we're worrying about what is
happening in our country and the rules about the food
(16:38):
that we're growing in our country, we have to also
use the same type of benchmarks and standards for the
food that we would be importing. So you'd like people
to buy USA, but I'll be honest with you, it's
difficult to get to say, coffee, for instance, from the USA.
We import it from over seventy countries. That's just one example.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Avaca, Oh yeah, we grow some here, but there are
some really good avocados that we trade in from other places. Bananas,
you know, we go on and on and on. It depends,
but it is worth looking into. That's no, there's no
doubt about that. Phone line is open four two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Glenn's there. Hello, Glenn, what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Hey, emer I have to I couldn't agree with you more.
We need to be a society who accepts everybody. We're
North America. We're not another country. We are North America.
We get our maple syrup from Canada, we get her
avocados from Mexico. Can't we all just get along?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I really yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And when Trump comes in and puts these tariffs.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
In there, he's not trying to you know, little double
die song on a crap table. He's trying to make
people come to the table to play, to talk and
see what's going on. That's why he's a bit Yeah,
that's why he's the mobile that he is. And if
people give him just.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
A little bit more credit and just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
More time, and don't freak out, I'll guarantee what.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
We're all shooting Seven's brother, we're all shooting seven.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well. I will say this, Glenn. Just today, the learning
yesterday about the Panama Canal basically doing everything that the
administration wanted it to do. And now you're hearing Mexico
has come to a temporary agreement for the time being,
but it's looking like they're going to have a month
to resolve this. It sounds like positive direction between Mexico
and the US. This is why he does what he does,
(18:36):
because more often than not, it works out in his favor.
He knows how to make these deals happen, and he's
got a team of people that are willing to work
with him to make it happen. Marco Rubio is an
excellent addition and Secretary of State, and he helped get
that deal done down there with Panama, and he's certainly
is going to be in the mix with these deals
talking with Mexico and hopefully Canada comes around as well.
(18:56):
I'm with you one hundred percent. We can get along.
But it's not just the United States that has to
worry about that. It takes two dictango, not at all, Emory.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And I'm a firm believer. I don't need you know everything,
but if I have enough of people around me who
know live out of everything, together, we can all get
stuff done.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
One hundred percent. Buddy, Hey, I appreciate you calling in Glenn.
Thanks for listening to us.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Hey, love to listen to you. Guys, man love you.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I love you too, but I really appreciate that good guy. Patience?
Is it a virtue? How long is too long? I'm
not a very patient person, but I've learned with my
politics sometimes we overreact to something before we even really
know what the implications are. Like these tariffs, Matt, guess
how long the tariffs have been in place? How long
they haven't been yet? But we've been freaking out about
(19:42):
them for months now, haven't we? And I say we,
not necessarily me or you or anybody specifically listening to us,
but society, you know, the political left, that kind of thing. Right.
Oh no, they're gonna cost more money for everybody. Oh no,
these are just like taxis.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But we don't know what the real scenario is, right,
like what are the implications or like this Mexico thing,
Maybe they'll never happen, and it was just a ploy
to get them to negotiate and have an incentive to
come to the table and be willing to help the
United States out. It looks like we're getting there and
we haven't even laid the teriff on them yet. So patients, patience,
(20:24):
it's a virtue. I want to talk about this, so
showing it on TV right now, and I want to
talk about this anti deportation protesters, what they're doing, and
the irony behind their actions. This is why it's very
interesting to live in a country that has freedom of protest.
We'll talk about it next on news Radio eleven ten
kf abe crime, getting them detained and getting them out
(20:51):
of our country, detaining them in a way that they
are not going to be peril or a nuisance to
our society, and that for a lot of different reasons.
Let's be real, when you enter our country illegally, much
like Caroline Levitt said in our first day as the
Press secretary, Hey, you're a criminal immediately because you did
(21:13):
something illegal. We know who it was, and we're going
to find people of the millions of them that are
in the United States. It makes sense for us to
try to resolve this problem because it is negatively impacting
our economy, it's negatively impacting the safety of our communities.
And when we are able to get a handle on this,
(21:34):
hopefully we're able to make an adjustment so this doesn't
become a problem at any point in the future. This
is not unlike a lot of other countries around the
world in the way that they handle immigration. We're just
we got a big target on our back, and of
course people want to dislike whoever's doing this, especially because
it's Republicans, so easy to hit Republicans. I saw so
(21:56):
many videos this weekend from anti deportation protests, including people
waving Mexican flags, waving other flags, including the Palestinian flag,
which what does that have to do with any of
this stuff. But they're blocking the road. They're going with
the Hey, we're blocking the road to let everybody know
that we're anti deportation, and they're burning the American flag.
Do you know where they're doing this at? Do you
(22:17):
know where specifically?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I mean I would broadly mostly just all over the
United States. In the United States, Yeah, in the country.
They don't want to leave. They are burning our flag
and waving their own country's flag because they want to
stay here and not go back there. Explain that to me,
Explain that how does that work. You came to the
(22:42):
United States illegally for whatever reason, Okay, and anybody who's
not an illegal immigrant that's protesting, that's fine. You have
the right to do that. Okay, You're not going to
change my mind, but maybe somebody out there is going
to be like, Okay, I actually reason with these people.
I don't know who that would be. But you have
the right as an American citizen as long as you're
not destroying or damaging property to do that. It's part
(23:03):
of the United States, in our First Amendment, to protect
your rights. I get it. But you're protesting against the
country that all these people want to live in, while
saying bad things about the country you want to live
in and are living in, in a lot of cases illegally,
while at the same time waving the flag of the
country you came from but don't want to go back.
(23:25):
To make it make sense, how does that make sense.
It's like USA, stakes don't deport people, you're losers and racists.
And then they come like you're illegal, go back home,
don't take me away. I want to stay in the
United States. That's what that message is. It makes no sense.
(23:46):
And again it just tells me that most of these
people who are these active protesters, there are probably a
lot of the same people that are marching around for
Palestine and anti Israel stuff. You know eight months ago,
these the same people they just need something to be
mad about, and they're going in these metropolitan areas and
blue states, mostly Blue states mostly. You know, it's crazy.
(24:08):
You're seeing a lot of this happening in California, not
seeing too much of this happening in Florida or Texas.
Is fish still touring? There used to be people follow
them around a lot. Maybe maybe we just get a
fish tour going again and they can just have somebody
to follow around, just like, get Woodstock ninety nine, fire
that thing back up, get some van traffic towards some
of the jam bands again. And it's just crazy to me, dude, Like,
(24:31):
I'm not trying to tell people you can't have an
opinion on stuff, but it's just make your opinion make
some sense. You're arguing that you have this pride for
where you come from, and the United States government right
now is apparently racist in some kind, so you're burning
the American flag or saying pooh on the United States.
Yet the only reason you're saying that is because you
(24:53):
don't want to forcibly be told to leave the United States.
And it feels like we're here because generations of politicians
have been doing nothing about an issue that has been
the can has continued to be kicked down the road
over and over and over again. Yeah. Yeah, I don't
(25:13):
know what the right answer is. I'm just saying, is
I sit here and watch these protests. First of all,
again I'm going to reiterate this. If you are blocking
the roadway anywhere in the country and you think that
you're gonna get me or a lot of other people
to like change our minds and say, oh, yeah, no,
these people that are making my life harder today, Yeah,
I'm going to side with them all of a sudden.
(25:33):
It never works, so good luck with that. Secondly, if
you're going to protest against the United States, maybe the
one thing that doesn't make sense to do that is
when you are begging to not have to leave the
United States. You hate the United States so much that
you just refuse to leave. That's what you're basically saying,
doesn't make any sense. All I asked for is stuff
(25:54):
to make sense. You guys need to read a book
or something, find something else better to do, get a
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