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March 7, 2024 • 44 mins
Jamie says bye bye to Nikki Haley.
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The less and good morning everybody,and happy Thursday to all of you and
yours. It's Almond in the morningand it's common Sense Radio. Jamie Alman

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here with you. Happy to beso one of four and I the patriots.
You all are in the right placeand thanks for being there. So
as expected, yesterday, Nikki Hayleysuspended her campaign and didn't endorse Donald Trump,

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and on top of that, gavehim a honeydew list. This woman
and her hubris is completely unbelievable.It's off the charts, and she has
no understanding of the level of hersupport, which is not as high as
she thinks it is, and thepeople who support her who are not the

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people who ultimately are going to beputting Donald Trump over the top in twenty
twenty four. I will explain veryeasily that Nikki Haley is not a Republican
who represents the working class. Sheis a salon Republican, as we call
them. These are Republicans who've beenaround forever, screwing us forever and not

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paying attention to people who really arethe engines of this country. These are
people who have all the luxury andtime in the world to worry about such
things as America standing in the worldand whether or not America is providing wellth

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blood and treasure to support our Europeanallies in war the war that, and
they're individuals who sit there and foultheir nails and clutch their pearls because Donald
Trump doesn't use the kind of languagethat they do, or Donald Trump tweets
in ways that they don't like.They're the kind of salon Republicans that have

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time to worry about whether someone ispresidential or not when most of us don't
even know what that means, andwe don't we assume the people who use
it take advantage of the fact thatsome of us just don't bother even to
ask, what do you mean presidential? What exactly does that mean? You're

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kind of like the people who arelike that is not who we are,
all right, who are we?I don't know? That just sounds great
whenever they want to push their agendaand make people feel guilty for not supporting
it. That tactic or a principledconservative what is that? You guys know?

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The kind of lazy language that manypeople in the so called Republican conservative
circles use to kind of make themselvesbetter than everybody else, and they use
language that doesn't actually have any kindof definition, but they use it anyway.

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These are the These are the peoplewho support Nikki Haley. Again,
there are people who like her.There are there are people who find her
pleasant enough. I actually did atone point up in Iowa. She seemed,
well, you know, we coulddo worse, but she's off the
charts, and she is totally overestimatingher appeal at her allure. She went

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up there on this podium yesterday assumingthat all of these votes that she tallied
on Super Tuesday were Republicans, whenin actuality they were not. They were
Democrats who crossed over who didn't havereally anything to do on Super Tuesday.
Biden was already going to be thenominee, so who cares. And they

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were somebody independents maybe who didn't wantTrump to be the nominee or what have
you, who wanted to hobble himsomehow whatever. So her her support was
raizor finn It was not even anythingsignificant in terms of how to define it,

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because she was just out there basicallypole dancing for anybody who would hate
Trump along with her and play thegame. Democrats saw her as a as
a useful idiot for a long longtime. So here is Nikki Haley yesterday.
You've heard it over and over again, and this is her dropping out
and giving Trump a to do list. If you can let you, I

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very much look forward to enjoin.In all likelihood, Donald Trump will be
the Republican nominee when our party conventionmeets in July. I congratulate him and
wish him well. I wish anyonewell who would be America's president. Our
country is too precious to let ourdifferences divide us. I have always been

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a conservative Republican and always supported theRepublican nominee. But on this question,
as she did on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when
she said, quote, never justfollow the crowd. Always make up your
own mind. It is now upto Donald Trump to earn the votes of

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those in our party and beyond itwho did not support him, and I
hope he does that. Yeah,So this scold gets up there, and
keep in mind she has been toutingthis idea of being a unifier and touting
this idea that somehow Trump is theone who is a divider. We need

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less division in the country. Weneed unity, is what Nikki Haley has
been saying for the past year.Trump is a chaos president. He's a
divider. And here she is,when it is time to finally be a

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uniter and not a divider, shetakes the division track. She takes the
track that says I'm not going toendorse him. How divisive can she be?
So again, it just goes toshow you there's an another example of
a Nicki Haley Conservative. They're fullof crap, they are full of themselves,

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and they also lie about really whattheir true motivations are. So when
Nicki Haley was talking about, well, I'm a divider, we need more
unity in this country. We needthis, we need But when it comes
time to really provide that unity andgive the party that unity, she withholds
it. So she's just Charlatan byany stretch of the imagination. And here

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is why I believe truly that we'regoing to be able to ultimately do without
her and even without some of hersupporters, to get President Trump over the
top. As I said before,Nicki Haley is not a representative of the
working class. She doesn't appeal tothem. She doesn't identify with them,

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she has nothing in common with them, and she doesn't care about them more
than anything else. CNN is theone that is accidentally, probably not even
intending to prove that. If youwatch them in this breakdown of the exit

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polling from Super Tuesday, they actuallymake the case that the Republican Party under
Donald Trump right now is the partyof the working class. And whether CNN
intended it or not, they providedall the proof we need that we truly

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are the movement for America, thenthe movement for the working class, and
the working class making up the truecore of this country. Here's how they
did it, John King and JakeTapper. How the map tells you what
you need to know. The delegatecount tells you what you need to know.
The percentage of it has actually jumpedup even more. It's eighty eight
percent of the delegates. So youlook at the percentage. Donald Trump cannot

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mathematically clanch tonight, but he canget within one hundred or so of what
he needs, and he could dothat next week. And so what you
have here is you know he hasremade the party in his image. There
are there are still some Republicans whoare trying to take it away, like
take it back, right, that'sover. That's what. There's no back
party. That party doesn't exist anymore. It just doesn't know, it just
doesn't. Look at the House ofRepresentatives, look at what's happening in the

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United States. Senate Mitch McConnell's steppingaside, you know, and some of
the more governing Conservatives trying to keeptheir power, even just within the Senate
Republican Conference. This is a newRepublican party. And so you have a
very formidable Republican front runner who hasremade the party in his image. And
I know a lot of people athome are asking, well, wait a
minute. We all saw January sixth, Wait a minute. In essential proven
guilty. But there's all these cases. He has convinced them he won the

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last election, never mind anything thathappened since then. A majority of these
voters are going the polls in mostof these states still saying that Donald Trump
should be president. And so thisis his party. Again, sometimes I
think you have stopped talking. Justlook, this is his this is his
party, and he is on amarch to the nomination. That does not
mean if the election if the generalelection were tomorrow, there's a lot of

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data that suggests he would win atthis moment of time. It is not
tomorrow, it's eight months from now. So you have two very strong front
runners who both have very significant weaknesses. And then you have the question of
the third party candidates, which Iraised earlier. And so the weaknesses come
in the sense of in very muchthe way you're talking about how he is

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reforming the Republican Party more working classpeople, including voters of color, African
American men primarily, but also Latinos, and also the Democrats picking up more
educated voters also, so you talkedabout the education divide, also a big
gender divide, men voting Republican,women voting Democrat, even though there is

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more women now joining the make AmericaGreat Again generation, and the educated factor
who needs them. We all knowthat being college educated doesn't make you smarter.
In some cases, it can makeyou dumber if you've seen what's happening
at the college campus level. Butthey are right there in CNN in two

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minutes they basically explained why Donald Trumpdoesn't have to take Nicky Haley's advice on
any level whatsoever and can move forwardtalking about policy because it's attractive to the
working class, it's attractive to minorities, blacks, Latinos, it's attractive to

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women. It will be attractive toindependence and anybody who truly cares about this
country, not people who care aboutthe Republican Party like Nicky Haley, but
people who care about this country likeDonald Trump. She doesn't care about this
country. It was proven yesterday whenshe went against her own claims that she's

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a uniter, when she stood thereand purposely divided that peeling off of the
Nicky Haley wing of the Republican Partyis more than welcome. And I dare
say will not be missed. Sorryto say three one, four, five,

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five, six sixty one oh fourladies said, gents, it's common
Sense Radio. Good morning everybody.Happy Thursday to all of you and yours.
It's Almond in the morning. It'scommon Sense Radio. Mike, Welcome
to the show. Good morning toyou, early bird. What's up man,

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Mic from out of space? Youthere, yeah, yeah, I'm
here, Jimmy. I just wantedto thank you for having me on again.
And I find it amazing the wordsmithingthat all these people, all these
politicians especially the Democrats and Nikki Haley. It's deceptive. It's a total sy
op. Everything's a sye op withthese folks. It's disgusting, you know.

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And what it is is it's tokeep people's attention away what's really going
on? How many people are crossingthis border. I've watched it. I
don't know if you watch for Daktaor not, but they had a gentleman
on that retired from the I thinkit's the ICE or one of the border
agents, and just tell them thetruth, what's really going on here.
And he's like every ten days,and the way he broke it down was

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like, oh my god, butthis is common sense. You could fill
up the stadium there in California,open the front door or the north gate,
let them all out and fill itback up in ten days. Every
ten days, it's happening. Theseare people that are coming in this country
that they have no loyalty, youknow, to the United States of America,
and they you know, all thisis going on while this is happening,

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and it's just getting worse and worse. There's there's some darkness ahead and
it's just scary, man. It'sjust uh. And I just hope people
wake up. You know, asan older man. Now you you know,
you start reading through this kind ofstuff. You don't pay attention,
you know, when you're younger,but as you get older, you start
saying, man, why would yousay that? And you know, you

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ever get on one of them polls, a pole thing on Yahoo? Why
would you work the question this way? It's all deception and all psyop and
it's just h And it's type ofpeople to wake up that we are in
the middle of what they call theGreat Awakening, and uh, people are
waking up this stuff. You knowthey're not, you know, it just
we need more wake up. IsDonald Trump the greatest? You know?

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Is he the savior? No?But at least the hands trying you know
what I mean. You may notlike Orange Man or his little tweet and
all this, but he's if youreally dive into it, get past the
hate of Donald Trump. Liberal Democratsare those standing on defence Republicans? What's
he's saying? Man? We needto close our border, we need to
fix our our economy, we needto stop war. I don't understand this

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whole war thing. What is upwith all these people? What's so bad?
About peace. There's other ways ofmaking money through peace and development of
the human race. We're all fightingright We're a blue ball and these people
are when we should be conquering theuniverse right on, Mike, they want
us to. So thanks for callingthe show. Good morning this morning,

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Mike Ian I appreciate you. I'lllisten to the show. To Mike's point
about Donald Trump not being our savior, donald Trump is not our savior.
We are alongside of him. That'show it works. And he's the first
Republican that has indicated that we areactually part of his team, that he's

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never going to do this alone,that we are all together in one pot.
We're used to in the Republican Party, the likes of Nikki Haley,
who think more highly of themselves thanwhat is the reality. And to Mike's
point about the Republican Party, itjust has totally lost touch with normal,

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average, every day people. DonaldTrump has brought that back into a working
class, common sense movement. Andif it has to be done without the
Republican Party, so be it.But as ce it and even admitted right
there, it is being done withthe Republican Party, but through the transformation
of the party itself into a reflectionof the image of President Trump and more

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importantly, of us. Don't forgetabout the RFK Junior factor as we head
into twenty twenty four. President Trumphas a lot in common with RFK Junior
on the common sense side, andif don't. If Junior winds up on

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these balance he will be formidable,but it won't be taking votes away from
Donald Trump. RFK Junior on theballot ultimately will further President Trump's gains and
take away from Joe Biden. VanJones was on CNN and said as much.

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Yeah, the RFK Junior factor issomething I think people are underestimate up.
I think most of us in establishmentpress kind of see him as a
you know, kind of falling star. Used to be a good environmental guy,
became like an anti vax nut,and we just kind of ignore him.
He is growing, he is building, and he's doing it online with

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all this stuff that most of usaren't really following, and I think that's
gonna be an increasingly big factor.My farm with him right now is he's
only cherry picking these swing states wherecan hurt Biden. But you can't possibly
right now put together enough folks tobecome president. So what is he doing?
And he's adding to the Make AmericaGreat Again movement. He literally RFK

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Jr. Is a satellite for theMake America Great Again movement. And so
while it looks like it is areally tight battle between Donald Trump and Joe
Biden, RFK Junior is a secretweapon that, alongside Donald Trump, is

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chipping away at the Biden core,taking votes away from him. It's why
the Liberals can't stand the guy.But they also can't stand it because he
shows them for what they are becausehe's a Democrat basically. I mean he's
an independent now, but he's aDemocrat and he holds a mirror up to

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his fellow Democrats and says, youguys are outdated. It's not unlike what
President Trump has been doing with theRepublicans for going on. You know,
six years now is eight years now? Are you guys are not? These

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are dinosaurs. You're not representative anymore. You know. Here's another example too,
and I realize even if Donald Trumpis representative of the working class,
RFK Junior is to a certain degreetoo. His appeal mostly though, is
to a lot of younger voters anda lot of them college kids and younger

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people like that. There are somepeople, though obviously I've talked to them,
who are in the trades, inthe working class and everything else,
who actually love his points of view. He's appeared a lot on Fox News.
Just last he was on Jesse WatersShow, and he's a frequent guest
on that show, exposing himself toa lot of conservatives, and so you

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know he's there, but I stilldon't think he takes votes away from Joe
Biden. Here's another example of ofRFK Junior's connectivity to more of the independent
working class. This is what happenedon MSNBC. I played this for you
yesterday. This is when Raggedy Janitorteam we're mocking the working class West Virginians

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as it relates to the immigration issue. If you look at some of these
eximpoles, I mean, I livein Virginia, Immigration was the number one
issue, of course, I meanagain, these could change in virginal Virginia
does have a border with West Virginia. These are the elites of MSNBC,

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and RFK was on Jesse Waters Showand addressed that, and it again further
solidifies why he is a very,very good ally of Donald Trump. I
wouldn't be surprised, and I knowit just kind of sounds crazy, but
if you can imagine Trump linking upwith him as a VP candidate, it'd

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be a little nuts. I don'tthink a lot of Trump's supporters or a
lot of Republicans would actually support thatnecessarily because there are some issues they might
have with him, but he isa formidable ally going into twenty twenty four.
Well, you know, I wasdismaying to see those hosts on MSNBC

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Joy Reid and Rachel Maddel and Jimsakiridiculing middle class Americans who are concerned about
what's happening at the border. What'shappening at the border would be unsustainable for
an unacceptable to any country world we'rewatching. And it's not racist to say
that the Mexican drug cartel should notbe controlling US border policy. I've been

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down there twice and it is absolutelyhorrendous. There's seven million people who've walked
across the border and gotten free planetake as many of them any destination they
want. And as you pointed outMayor Adams in New York City, I
said, this is an existential threatto New York City was not exaggerating.
Yeah. So anyway, that's thethat's the RFK vibe right there, that's

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where he stands. So again anotherexample of how well, as I began
the show at the top of thehour, how Nikki Haley is it is
useless, she is unnecessary. ByNikki, good morning everybody, and Jimmy

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care followed before we pop right inhere. I want to give you an
example of the fight that is beinghad in the trenches in communities every day
to make America great again and howthey need it. And I know Nikki
Haley's going to have a news conferencetoday about how Donald Trump needs to work

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hard from here on out to winover her voters who are eighty five percent
of them supporting Joe Biden. Ithink Donald Trump would be better off reaching
out to women like this who spokebefore the Denver City Council. She's a
retiree on a fixed speak on behalfof the poor, the elderly who are

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struggling because of the issues that youdeal with and how you deal with them.
Yep. And then she goes onto say, you know what,
we make a certain level income,fixed income, but I still have to
go to the food pantry. Igo to the food bank, and I'll
tell you what I see see immigrantscoming in, shartling and pushing us out

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as the cut line, take morefood than is they're required to do.
And our poor staff that deals withthose things are out of their ever love
in mind trying to figure out howthey're going to handle it. H Yeah,
you ask how I'm coping. ForGod's sakes, help me. Yeah,

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that's the person that President Trump needsto focus on, not a North
Carolina and Nikki Haley voter who declaredthat they think Joe Biden's doing a great
job. Anyway. Welcome the show, Jim, I thought you'd like to
hear that. Yeah, so youknow I do. I do policy,
not politics, Yes, but Ibut you know, I observe the political

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scene because that's the cauldron in whichpolicy gets made. So one is and
there's two things that there are theresome people that just they their heart's in
a good place there, maybe eventheir conservative, but they just don't understand.
One is they think it's all aboutTrump, right, it's the hair,

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it's the tweeting, it's the crazyyou know, the crazy talk.
And the reality is it's not.People forget when Romney ran for president,
they treated him just like Trump.Oh, if anybody in the Republican Party
got the nomination for president the nextday, the entire you know, Keith
Oberman and MSI, they would justbe this guy is just another dominald.

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So it doesn't matter. So itdoesn't matter if you're nice or presentable,
or you're gonna get treated the sameway. So so you have to look
past the characteristics of a candidate thatbother you, because it's not about characteristics,
it's about the underlying depth of youknow, FDR on his worst day

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as a practically as as an invalid, was a better president than Joe Biden
on his best day, Right,So you have to look past that.
That's the one thing. The otherthing is they're kind, gentle people,
and I don't I'm not dismissive orangry at them. And honestly, I

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don't know why people are or theysay mean things or whatever. That they're
people with a good heart. Theymean well, but they think it's can't
we all just get along, youknow, can't we just meet in the
middle, And the reality is no, we can't. These are two completely
different visions for this country. Youcannot put two completely different objectives. They

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just meet in the middle. That'sbecause you don't get anywhere. When you
get a fork in the road andthe road goes in two directions, you
say, meet the bill, youwalk into a forest and you're dubbed.
You have to make the hard choiceshere, And that's what's wrong with people.
That is this is the It's notabout the policies that Trump has.
It's not about his vision for thecountry. It's not about what he's going

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to do for the economy or thefact that he actually was a very good
foreign policy vice president. It's wedon't like the personality and we would much
rather compromise. Well, okay,fine, you're living in the wrong country,
because that's not the future of Americanpolitics. The future of American politics,
as we had are forking the road, and you've got to decide to
go down one or the other.And if you want to make your choice
on orange chair or whatever, youknow, that's not the smartest thing.

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You know, if they're there aretwo different roads. One might be bumpy
and buddy, but if it takesyou to the place you want to go,
dude, that's the road you wantto go down. So I don't
think being angry and mad at thesepeople is really going to change anything,
because it's just really but but youhave to tell them with love in your
heart and compassion, what you wantfor the Republican Party, what you want
for American conservatives. It just won'twork. It's like we're in the same

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juggle with cannibals, and the notionis going into the cannibals and saying,
well, just can't we compromise,and then they're like, yeah, we'll
just see your children. Yeah,yeah, well you know, And that
story told by that woman, Iwould venture to guess, and I don't
mean I don't know. She's she'sshe's her husband's a retired school teachers,
she's of this, And my guesswould be that they're probably maybe lean,

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maybe more Democrat and everything else.But the reality is circumstances have really changed
people's minds and priorities. And sothis woman, this is the illegal alien
problem is really hurting her and reallyhurting her community, and she has a

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very very detailed story about it.This isn't about hating immigrants, this is
about this is about the problem ofstresses on these communities. And I mean
I was just telling people the otherday because I'm doing some radio in San
Diego. You know that they're nowspending money on migrant transfer centers while they

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don't have adequate homeless shelters for thehomeless in San Diego. So they decided
to pass a bill allowing them topark in any parking space they want to
on the street. And this isjust not right. They like that and
this is the problem, right,which is and why I think some voters

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are are frustrated about where to gobecause what does what does the other side
present? They give you a narrative. They don't whether it's the economy or
immigration or for they don't solve aproblem. They just give you a narrative.
It's not our fault, it's Trump'sfault. If you don't like this,
you're a racist. And you knowpeople that are that are actually dealing

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with this stuff in their everyday lives. Yeah, you know at some point
that we're really think if you areliving in Martha's Vineyard and uh, you
know, you go to the reallynice supermarkets where you don't even have to
like, you just walk in andcharge your credit card when you walk out,
you know, and you don't lookat the prices on anything. You're

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fine with this, right, Ohyeah, everything's fine because Joe Biden told
me so, because MSNBC told meso. But if you're if you are
living the reality of life in Americawhen you listen to a White House press
briefing or the President or you know, Chuck Schumer, I mean it must
be I think that's that's when thingsget really tough, when you have to

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look in your heart and say,oh, but I always voted for these
guys because we always vote for theseguys because there are guys. The other
guys aren't our guys. This wasthe real challenge in the interim election because
what happened is the country was headin the wrong direction and a lot of
people were very dissatisfied. The peopleautomatically thought, well, they're gonna they're
gonna vote for the other guys,and they didn't. Because this is something

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about American politics. It's just becauseyou don't like what's going on, you
don't like your guy, doesn't meanyou're going to vote for the other guys
or girl. Right, But atsome point, right, at some point,
when you were going to the foodpantry, and you're shamed into this
because your entire life, you're takingcare of your family, You've paid your
bills, you never had any debt. And here you are is a retiree

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going to a food pantry to getfood to not starve to death, and
your and your shouldered out of theway by illegal immigrants, and you watch
your streets go to hell. Yougot to ask, am I just going
to keep voting for the same people? Really? Yeah? Yeah, it's
really interesting. I mean, let'stake for example. You know, I
know it's not really necessarily a problemin American Samoa, but did you notice

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that Joe Biden lost to this guy, Jason Palmer, who is a Gates
Foundation guy, but seems like anice enough dude. And and you know,
I think even they recognize, evenif they're not directly affected by it,
because they're way they're way out therein the ocean, dude, have
you ever been there? No?Yeah, I mean, well I haven't
been there, but they but theysee this stuff up from They see the

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China stuff there. They see thelack of leadership from the United States.
The impact on the economy ripples throughthe whole country. Doesn't matter if you're
in a territory or or you know, in New York City. So yeah,
people people are It's not like they'rewatching TV and you know there's yeah,
people are voting from life in thestreet, not from TV commercials and

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other stuff. So well, andthen to your point, Jim, that's
why I think that, you know, I realize that there's you know,
President Trump today is going to betasked with unifying the party, but in
many ways I believe that his biggerfish to fry is reaching out to these

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groups. The woman you just describedand I just played or sound by.
Are these people who really do understanduh, their problems and these are these
are problems that are that are actuallycrossing all party lines. And it this
is a this is a real time, real convergence of deep concerns among Americans.

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And it seems to me that Americans, I don't know exactly who's all
voting, it seems to be thatthey're gonna they're okay with a guy who
might tweet meanly every once in awhile and or has a spray tan or
whatever you want to whatever ways youwant to pick on him. I think
people are beyond that, yeah,you know as a with my historian had

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On and and somebody that's lived Americanpolitics for you know, now decades.
You know, I think the onlything I can really offer is is if
I take my political experience and mymilitary experience and my my work as I
stray, immersed them all together,the most consequential thing I can offer is

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leader. Leadership is about characteristics andcharacter. Really, you have to look
at the the look the characteristics ofa leader. Look at the character of
the leader. So you know,people thought, you know, he loved
MacArthur. They hated MacArthur because theythought he looked very generally. I thought

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he's a very peefish person. Andpeople thought they could be a great general
by acting like MacArthur. And that'sthe superficial stuff. You have to look
at the underlying character, you know, like I said, you know,
let's be honest. In the end, FDR was an invalid, but he
was still he still was a boldand an effective war leader. It's character,

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not characteristics. So you have tolook past that. And the other
thing I remind people is is leadershipis is rhetoric and action. You know,
the day of infamy, speech wouldhave meant nothing if we didn't go
fight World War Two. Lincoln's speecheswould have meant nothing if he didn't persevere
as a as a ward leader.The Gettysburg Address would be completely forgotten if

(35:00):
we hadn't actually won the Civil War. So the talk is, oh,
I mean, you can listen tothe talk, but what really matters is
what they do. And uh andin this you know, honestly, you
know, when I reflect back onthe Trump errors as a nonpartisan guy now

(35:22):
as a Republican and I as aDemocrat, and also but as somebody who
observed the Trump foreign policy very firstguy that was never in government, about
as close as you could get bymeeting people in the White House, talking
to foreign governments, watching things inaction, having a lot of access,
I gotta be that it was someof the most effective foreign policy that we

(35:45):
have had in modern history. Right, we didn't start any wars, China
took notice, the Russians feared us. You know, somebody tweeted the other
day, my good radio friend Iwent to who was so mankal two?
The other day goes Nikki Hilly justwon the Ukraine, which I thought was
hilarious. Right, But but butI tweeted back, because he's a good

(36:07):
friend and I love the guy,and he's a good conservative. I said,
you know what, if Ukrainians couldactually legally vote in a primary for
Republican candidate, they would overwhelmingly votefor trumph And for one simple reason,
they know that Vladimir Putin fears DonaldTrump. Oh. So you look at

(36:31):
what people do and and when youand that's how you pick up president.
You don't pick up president because they'repretty, or because you know you like
their crazy politics, or their daughter, or you think their wife's attracted.

(36:51):
You pick a president because what they'regoing to do for the country. And
we know what Joe Biden is goingto allow them whatever you want. We
know what Joe Biden's going to dofor this country. You just played it
on the radio. Yeah, youjust heard a woman tell you exactly what
Joe Biden's done for this country.Yep. And if you want more of
that, but for Joe Biden.I love about this a lot. And

(37:12):
the thing people are, well,we have dead luck and good luck,
and we hate each other and weall at each other. Can't we all
just get luck? No? Thething I love about this country is no
we have. We have two verydifferent visions for the future of this country.
Pick one. This is a realelection with real choices and real consequence.
Yeah, what what more could youask for? And that woman has

(37:35):
children and grandchildren and so whatever she'sexperiencing and and the real hardship she's experiencing.
Uh, then that trickles down intothe attitudes of the people who love
her, and so at that point, there's no way they can tolerate a
Biden future. That's just that's justthe bottom line. So well, we'll

(37:58):
see yeah in November, get out. Well American Samoa really quickly. This
is really an interesting statistic. Atleast sixty nine percent of the population had
a parent born outside of American Samoa, a meaning many these people who live
there have just moved there or something. I don't know. It's crazy interesting,
cool place. Yeah all right,man, Well I gotta tell you,

(38:22):
not a swing steak. No,I know. Well, only forty
five thousand people there, and yeah, they're all kind of yeah, they're
like one family. It's like,yeah, there were people on more people
in Safeway. Yeah all right,Jimmy, thank you, appreciate you,
buddy. Yeah, So what I'msaying is American Samoa. They were the

(38:44):
ones who decided they were they hadenough of Joe Biden and went instead for
this guy who is a Gates Foundationdude, who pushes the same kind of
nonsense about you know, you know, conscious capitalists him and all that other
stuff, normal pandemic. Believing yourparents had a better chance of getting ahead

(39:05):
than you. Somebody's got a championyou as the future of this country.
I'm Jason Palmer, and I'm enteringthe twenty twenty four presidential race because I
believe we can do better for youand future generation. I don't even know
how the American Samoans caught onto thisguy, because I had never heard of
him until last night. And youknow, and as Jim pointed out,

(39:29):
it's not a swing state. Andit's true because and they're Polynesians, you
know they and so they have areal gigantic network of family and it's almost
tribal to a certain degree because theyhave communities run by chiefs, you know,
that kind of thing, And sothey're very tight knit. And there

(39:50):
isn't a whole lot of diversity ofpolitical thought in these kinds of communities,
but they seem to be nice enoughpeople, and they're actually we do know
that they're smart because they rejected JoeBiden at least when for a guy who
seems to have a little common sense, Jason Palmer President of American Samoa,

(40:16):
they want to actually make him chiefof American second class. And basically it's
how the elites basically have spent decadesundercutting the working class American. And it's
the stuff you and I talk aboutall the time. So she's always Steve

(40:37):
Bannon, and she quintessentially defines DonaldTrump in a way that very few people
have with any kind of saliency.She happens to be a liberal, and
Bannon had her on and and thisis what she said about Donald Trump.
And when you listen to her talkabout the Make America Great Again movement,

(41:00):
and when you listen to her talkabout Donald Trump, you're like, yeah,
that's incredible. You know, asextremist as Donald Trump is, the
reality is he's not extreme at all. And in fact, if anything,
he's moderate. And if anything,you and me who support him are actually

(41:23):
nut right wing, crazy nuts.We're moderate everyday Americans with symmetry with most
other Americans, regardless of political parties. And proclivities. And it's fascinating when
you hear it this way because she'sjust right on his view on abortion sixteen

(41:45):
weeks right, that was the Democratsview until the nineties. His view on
immigration, that mass migration is classwarfare against the working class. That was
the view of the Democrats until thenineties. Ernie Sanders, Berney Sanders in
twenty fifteens. That's a Kulch brother'sproposal. Right. You remember that Trump
is pro black, He's courting blackvoters, He's pro gay. I hear

(42:07):
that from his supporters all the time, and they love that about him.
He's that is who the Democrats usedto be, and now it is who
Maga is. And I say thatwith a lot of love and respect.
So a lot of you aren't goingto really take that part of it and
say, well, I know I'mnot a Democrat, and you now you
would not describe yourself as an oldschool Democrat. But who cares really what

(42:30):
label they are there is. I'mnot ashamed or afraid of being associated with
an old Democrat. Some we're downthe line when they actually believed in America
and patriotism and things like that,and life and secure borders and things like

(42:51):
that. I don't care. Idon't care how you label it. But
the fact of the matter is weneed to be loud and proud and unafraid
to say the make America Great Againgeneration is not at all an extremist point
of view. And she puts itreally beautifully right there. And by the
way, I mentioned this earlier.I don't know whether you all caught on

(43:13):
about this because the mainstream media didn'treport it. But did you know that
there was a gay wedding at marAlago just a week ago or so.
Two guys, two gay guy gotmarried at mar Alago. It didn't really
get covered a whole lot. Imean Trump. I think they got their

(43:34):
picture taken with Trump. I mean, in speaking of that, I'll never
forget the first time I ever hearda Republican say anything about LGBTQ rights was
in Cleveland when President Trump accept thedenomination. So anyway, I mean,
all that stuff, this idea thathe is an extremist and a crazy and

(43:59):
not in step with America is absolutelya total and complete lie.
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