February 23, 2026 • 44 mins
*2025 is projected to be the first time in over 50 years that the United States experienced negative net migration. After a record surge of over 11 million immigrants arriving between 2020 and 2025, the trend reversed in 2025.
*Causes of the last extinctions
*Is fossil fuel really this issue?
*California leads the nation in net out-migration for 6 consecutive years...with Arizona, Nevada and Texas attracting most residents. Taxes and government policies leading the exodus.
*Critical thinking is needed for real solutions to deficit....$38 trillion dollars! We need elected officials who understand economics. We can't keep printing money and raising taxes to solve our deficit problem. We can help other counties until we help ourselves.
*What's really causing the housing crisis
*Fresh water conservation
*Find your happiness! Why do Democrats always look sad and angry? Enjoy the gift of life!
*Canadian courts actually set sentences based on a person's race...taking into account "colonization"
*Causes of the last extinctions
*Is fossil fuel really this issue?
*California leads the nation in net out-migration for 6 consecutive years...with Arizona, Nevada and Texas attracting most residents. Taxes and government policies leading the exodus.
*Critical thinking is needed for real solutions to deficit....$38 trillion dollars! We need elected officials who understand economics. We can't keep printing money and raising taxes to solve our deficit problem. We can help other counties until we help ourselves.
*What's really causing the housing crisis
*Fresh water conservation
*Find your happiness! Why do Democrats always look sad and angry? Enjoy the gift of life!
*Canadian courts actually set sentences based on a person's race...taking into account "colonization"
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Boweno's Cars, brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysborough. For all of your automotive
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
All right, good morning everybody. As always, I hope everybody's
having a great weekend, starting off good, getting into the
middle of February. Here gonna be uh turning warmers pretty soon.
That's awesome. There's lots of good things going on, and
one of them is for the first time in over
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fifty years, net migration into the United States was negative.
So there was a new Brookings Institute research out there
and it said net migration to the United States fell
between by between ten thousand and two hundred and ninety
five thousand in twenty twenty five, according to an update
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of the first estimates of the estimates first release in
the summer by economists yep so, the Brookings Institute is
saying that between all of the deportations self deportations and
deportations and a closed southern border that we had net
migration that was negative. That's awesome because we allow us
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to catch our breath before we have to take care
of the rest of the world. So if you listen
to the show at all, you know at some point
I've this many times. I am not a believer. I
am a believer in climate change. I believe that believe
climate changes every day, it's warm, gets cold, whatever. I
am not a believer in man made climate change. I
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think that is just a scare tactic that has been
invented by people who want to consolidate power and it's
a way to control us, and I am all against that.
But there's a new report out in the Royal Society
in the UK that has finally had to admit that
mass extinctions are not being fueled by climate change. So
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sky Ward Clark that I read a lot of his articles,
did a good job with it, and it's probably easier
if I read what he wrote, because it's good research. Anyways,
he says, there have been throughout Earth's history five major
mass extinctions. I like to learn this kind of stuff.
They're horrible events and we as humans are lucky to
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not have been around to witness them. These were the
or or Ordovician Silurian, which was four hundred and forty
five million years ago, during which eighty five percent of
marine species died. Then there was the Late Devonian, which
was three hundred and seventy two to three hundred and
fifty nine million years ago, in which seventy to eighty
percent of marine species died and there were no land
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species at the time for those two. Then there was
the Permian extinction two hundred and fifty two million years ago,
which is sometimes called the Great Dying, in which ninety
six percent of all marine species and seventy percent of
land vertebrates died. Then the Triassic Jurassic, which was two
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hundred and one million years ago, which saw dying out
of seventy five percent of all species. And last the
Cretaceous Paleogene, which was sixty six million years ago, which
cost the planet seventy five percent of all species. Now
think about that, four different times in our Earth history
and last five hundred million years we've had extinction events,
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or five times the last five or million years we've
had extinction events where some of them wiped out almost
ninety five percent of everything that lived caused by asteroids,
caused by volcano activity. It was caused by many things
that were going on in the environment that had nothing
to do with climate change. I'm pretty sure we didn't
have an industrial revolution back then. So in November of
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twenty four though, The Guardian reported that as the planet
warms up, scientists predict a series of extinction cliffs. We're
in danger of forgetting what the climate crisis means. Extinction
was the cheer, That's what the article started off with.
But a recent bombshell report from the UK Royal Society
has knocked seven bells out of all this nonsense by
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showing this was Ward Clark also saying this, But a
recent bombshell report from the UK Royal Society has knocked
seven bells out of all this nonsense by showing that
species level extinctions related to climate change have not seenignificantly
increased over the last approximately two hundred years. It was
further found that the decadal extinction rates over the last
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one hundred years had significantly declined for arthropods and plants,
the two groups of organisms encompassing most known global biodiversity. Overall,
it was found that extinction rates have increased over the
last five hundred years, but generally declined in the last
one hundred years. Past extinctions are said to strongly suggest
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that climate change is not an important threat to biodiversity.
And by the way, oddly enough, we continue to find
new species constantly. I read the other day where they
found a new species on Will Smith's show. They found
a new species of anaconda, that is the northern green
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anaconda and the southern green anticonda that are five point
five percent away in DNA from each other. And to
put that in perspective, we're only like two percent away
or one and a half percent away from apes in DNA.
And so if to have two snakes that almost look
alike but have that far apart in DNA in between them,
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that's amazing, both of them in the Amazon. But we're
still finding new species every day. Climate change, climate Schmange,
I'm buying it. Every time you tell us something it
turned out not to be true. So speaking of that,
the Blue States once again are the top. They top
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the annual list of people leaving their states. You Hall
just released its annual growth index for all fifty states
and for the sixth straight year, California is ranked fiftieth.
You're gonna hear Newsem out there talking about that anymore, right,
Number one and this number one of that. Yeah, you
were that way before you became governor. You didn't have
anything to do with it. Right now, for the six years,
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four of which you've been governor, at least, I think
it's in six years, you have lost more people than
any other state in the entire Union. He's turned the
most popular state to leave. That's what he's turned California
into being in Pennsylvania ranks forty fourth in U HAUL
Growth Index, and the leading states getting people Texas and Florida.
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The biggest losers were California, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey.
Why do you think that is? That's policies. So I'm
gonna say this. I've said it many times before. I'm
going to say it one more time. Please, if you're
moving to Tennessee, Florida, Texas, or any of the other
states to get away from all that crap that's up
there in all the other blue states, please don't do
the same thing and bring it here. Recognize it's the
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way you voted. That's what caused it wasn't bad luck.
All right. This is Bonos Cars brought you by Chevrolet
Buick GMC of Murphysboro, where we sell gas powered cars too.
Come on back. After the break.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he is
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Boono's Cars, brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysborough. For all of your automotive
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Speaker 2 (08:46):
Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
All right, Welcome back everybody. So obviously, I feel like
one of the differences between the right and the left
is the critical thinking. And I don't mean that they
the people on left don't think critically. They do well.
I mean make a joke about it. They're critical of everything.
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But critical thinking requires that you really understand the problem
and design a way to fix it. You can't just
feel your way out of it. We have to have cold,
hard facts and fix the problem. One of the problems
we have is national debt at thirty eight trillion dollars,
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and the reason we get it. You guys ought to
be thankful that we have somebody who understands economics very
well in the White House and is trying to solve
the problem, because if we don't solve it, we're going
to be in a world of hurt. And the problem
is that DC feels like if they just keep printing money,
we can print our way out of it. We can
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inflate our way out of the debt. That doesn't really work.
In the last since it was nineteen seventy one when
we went off of the gold standard, that value of
the dollar has decreased by eighty seven percent. That's a
big number. So there was a guy that wrote a blog.
He's Wall Street portfolio manager, and he wrote a blog
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called My Life is a Lie, and his name is
Michael Green, and it shows that the way that he
went on to talk about the way that they calculate
poverty from the US right. So I'm just going to
read it to you because the blog was really important.
The poverty formula was developed by Molly Orshansky, an economist
at the Social Security Administration, in nineteen sixty three. She
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observed the family spent roughly one third of their income
on groceries, since pricing data was hard to come by
for many items like housing, If you could calculate a
minimum adequate food budget at the grocery store, you could
multiply by three and establish a poverty line. She was
drawing a floor right, a line below which families were
clearly in crisis, but everything between sixty three and twenty
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twenty four. In twenty and twenty four, food at home
is no longer thirty three percent of household spending for
most families, just between five and seven percent. Housing now
consumes thirty five to forty five percent, healthcare takes up
fifteen to twenty five percent, and childcare for families with
young children can eat twenty to forty percent, which means
if you measured income inadequacy today that way Orshansky measured
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it in nineteen sixty three, the threshold for a family
of four wouldn't be thirty one thousand, two hundred dollars,
which is what the government says the threshold for poverty is.
It would be somewhere between one hundred and thirty thousand
and one hundred and fifty thousand, and remember, Orshansky was
only trying to define too little she was identifying crisis,
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not sufficiency. If the crisis threshold, the floor below which
families cannot function, is honestly updated to current spending pattern,
it lands somewhere one hundred close to one hundred and
forty thousand dollars. What does that tell you about the
thirty one thousand, tw hundred dollars line that we still use.
It tells you we're measuring starvation. So just one line
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item in a normal budget today is larger than the
official DC poverty line, the single largest item for most
households right now, anybody with children isn't housing, it's childcare,
and it averages thirty two thousand dollars a year. That's
almost three thousand dollars a month for childcare. That's ridiculous.
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Oh wait, we have childcare fraud all over the place.
The federal government keeps trying to solve the problem, but
the people keep stealing the money. Using conservative national average data,
you'd arrive at a require gross income of one hundred
and thirty six five hundred dollars. That's the Orsansky's too
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little threshold updated honestly, that's the floor. So let's look
at the actual number of poor people in twenty twenty three,
the government measured it at twelve and a half percent
because they were using that thirty one, two hundred dollars number.
But and that's almost forty one million Americans were designated
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as poor. But the real ratio, if you used Orshansky's number,
which was thirty one two in what that green guy
was using one hundred and thirty sixty five. Roughly speaking,
it means it's four point thirty seven, five times higher
than what Orshansky or what the government is saying, which
means that we have about based on real world data
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in today's society, if we were using her formula in
real numbers, not just about food, but in real numbers
what the line items were, we'd have about one hundred
and seventy five million, or fifty percent of our people
would be considered poverty level or below. People are struggling
to make it. They are struggling to make it because
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of bad policies, and they continue to vote people in
that think taxing and taxing and taxing is the way
to fix it. But if you're just taxing the peace
people who can afford to pay those taxes and getting
it stolen out the door. On the other side, we're
solving nothing. We're causing more problems. When we have redemptions
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going to Somalia that total the entire GDP of the country.
We are sending that much money out of our country
to another country that's stealing it from us. It's unsustainable.
But policies matter, and the people you vote for matter,
and the people that you're trying to We have to
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be able to solve the problem without it being about feelings.
There's a problem. We are going broke, and if we
don't stop the madness now, there's not going to be
a way to stop it. And then what we'll all
feel for each other, but we'll be broke. That doesn't
do anybody any good. I told you about Abigail Spanburger
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last week when I was talking about all the taxes
she ran as a moderate, and then she came in
and absolutely has this laundry list of taxes she wants
to raise that are going to do nothing more than
feed more money into a government that doesn't need more money.
We need more money in our pockets, not in the government.
The government does it inefficiently and screws it up dang
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near every time, and so why are we continuing to
fund a government with more taxes? The entire state of
Florida has a lower budget than just New York City.
They run everything in the state of Florida with less
money than just New York City. Now, think about that.
Florida's got way more people than New York City does.
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But Abigail Spanberger ran on being a moderate. As soon
as she got into office. She started all of these
really really really left wing policies that she's fighting for.
But one of them literally should be titled making fraud legal.
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There's a bill that they are introducing to try and
it will get passed because it's Democrat controlled that prohibits
the state from verifying eligibility for federal public benefits when
nonprofits distribute them. Think about that. It prohibits the state
from verifying eligibility for federal public benefits when nonprofits distribute them.
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We're not allowed to Look, we're literally going to pass
a bill what says we're not allowed to make sure
you're eligible for all of these federal funds. We're just
going to give them to you that How does that
make any sense to anybody? And you guys voted for
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it after You've had four good, solid years of Glen Youngkin.
It may have been Eate, I don't remember how long
he was there. But you had four solid, good years
at least of Glen Youngkin and win some earl sears
running the state of Virginia in a way that was
fiscally respect and did lots of lots of good for
the state. And you go out and you elect a
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woman who is absolutely going to do everything she can
to drive the poverty level up. Elections do have consequences,
as Barack Obama so famelessly said, and the consequences of
the last elections in some of these states is the
states are broke and you can't just tax your way
out of it. California's coming up with some wealth tax
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in the meantime, since they've even started talking about putting
it on the ballot, and it'll pass because it's fifty
five percent of the people want to steal the money
from the rich. Right. Let me take those two hundred
people over there, it's only two hundred of them, that's
kind of Factlet's go get their money. Yeah, you know
what happened, Twenty or thirty of them already left like, yeah,
we left before the first of the year. So even
if you make it retroactive back to January first, to
twenty twenty six. I moved to Florida in December thirty
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first of January twenty twenty five, I mean December thirty first,
twenty twenty five. I get worked up because it irritates
me so bad that people can't see what they're doing constantly.
If you're broke and you're in a hole, stop digging.
You can't gamble your way out of a hole. It
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typically you may get lucky, but as a whole, it's
not going to continue to work. So if you are
deep in the hole, stop digging. That's the first rule. Now,
let's figure out how to get out of the hole.
We can't do it based on feelings. We can't. I
can want to take care of everybody, but it's not possible.
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I saw a lady the other day that was bundling
our kid up to go out and protest ice because
her child was not more important than any other child.
And I'm thinking, my kids are more important to me
than anybody else's kids. And if your kids aren't more
important to you than anybody else's kids, there's something wrong
with you shouldn't be a parent. I will save my
children above all else. I want to save everybody. But
if the choice that has to be made between somebody,
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I'm saving my kids first. We can't we can't do
this based on feelings. We've got to get real about
the problem. The problem, and we've driven a lot of
people into poverty by trying to overinflate the money. All right,
this is Bonos Cars brought to you by Chevrolet Buick
GMC of Murphysboro. Come on back. After the break.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he is
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Boono's Cars, brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysborough. For all of your automotive
needs call six one five six four five one zero
seven five or online Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysboro dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Here's your host, bow driven.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
All right, Welcome back, everybody. So before I came up
to Tennessee and got back in the car business, I
had a construction company. I had been in the cell
phone business and had thirty six AT and T stores
and sold them and then started a construction company building houses,
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and it was horrible. Hated everything about it. Hated the
fact that customers couldn't make their minds up, Hated the
fact that I had to fight bureaucracy constantly. Hated the
fact that in Florida, because of Hurricane Andrew in nineteen
ninety two, twenty to twenty five thousand dollars of a small,
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typical rant style house in Florida I was building in
Palm Coast, Florida, just north of Daytona Beach, and to
twenty five thousand dollars of the construction cost of building
a house back then was in strapping and bracing and
all of that for the trusses on the roof. And
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it required it because you had to rate it for
two hundred mile an hour hurricane wins. And that's a
lot of money. And the truth of the matter is
is none of those hurricanes the entire state of Florida
has to do it. Even if you're in Okalla, which
is in the dead center of the state, which wouldn't
get two hundred mile an hour wins, It's just not
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going to happen. That's an example of how government can
just overregulate and drive the cost of things up. So
right now we have a housing crisis. Right but and
President Trump has proposed an executive order to stop any
of the big Wall Street firms and investment firms from
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buying homes and competing with homeowners. And the truth of
the matter is that Elizabeth Warren was trying to say
the same thing Gavin Newsom's saying, it's a big I
can't believe that these big corporations are competing with single
families to try to buy houses. The truth of the
matter is that's not what's causing the problem. The problem
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is we have too few supply and we have too
little supply because of regulations that continue to drive not
only the cost up, but the time it takes to
get projects to work. You could typically wait if you
want to pull a permit in Florida. In Tennessee, it's
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completely different. It was much easier here, at least in
Rutherford Counting, But in Florida, if you wanted to pull
a permit, it could take sixty ninety one hundred and
twenty days. And if you're building anywhere near the ocean,
that's going to turn into a year to a year
and a half to go through all the processes. That's
just more regulations on top of regulations on top of
regulations that just drive the cost of everything up. It
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is not these big corporations trying to compete that's driving
the cost up. But since most people don't know much
about economics, the they can keep spouting this crap about
it being these big corporations that are causing the run
up in prices. And the truth of the matter is
the American ex Institute for Economic Research found that houses fell.
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House prices fell and went down in markets that had
more institutional ownership. So in one project, John Stossel had
written an article about it. In one California project, it
took twenty two years just to get the approvals. I
don't know how you're supposed to meet any kind of
demand when it takes you twenty two years to get
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a community to the market. That makes no sense. And
the builder said it was ninety three thousand dollars per
house just for the privilege of building. Doles in regulations
and fees that the state takes. You want to make
things more affordable. Get rid of all the regulations, get
rid of the crap that's causing the price to just
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be skyrocketing for normal American people. And I don't know
how this is so hard in Rutherford County when when
I built my house nine years ago now, it literally
took the day to get the permits walked in. Here's
the plans for the house. Great, have a nice day,
here's your permit. Having to go through all of this
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other rigmarole and costs, it's just absolutely insane to me,
and why people can't see it and why people keep
voting for all the people that put more regulations in place.
Regulations over regulation is what's driving the market up. And
I'll give you another example. In the Obama years, they
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came up with this great way of saving water, right,
We've got to save water, and so they limited the
amount of water that you could have in your toilet,
the amount of gallons per flush that a toilet could
could run with, and then it limited your shower heads
and it only so much water flow that can be
coming through the shower head. But then when Obama, i
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mean when Biden came in, they made it even worse.
They absolutely let's see, yeah, the one point six gallon
designs they did improve over time, but the reality is
most people would flush twice. It was causing more water
usage because it didn't get Your dishes don't get clean,
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and your dishwasher it the whatever you're trying to flush
down your toilet doesn't flush down the toilet the first time,
so you got to flush it again. So all of
these regulations that they put in place to try to
save something actually had the opposite effect. But recently there
were some good news. So eleven Democrats cross party lines
to support Republicans and overturning the Biden era regulations that
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restricted waterflow. The problem with that is, yeah, the resolution
targeted rule that cap gallons permitted regardless of how many
spray nozzles or settings that sowerhead used. Bad news is
they repealed the Biden area rule, but that left the
Obama era rule still in place. So government wants to
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save water, right, that's their point. Nope, let me just
read this to you. Residential water use, including indoor and
outdoor needs like drinking, bathing, laundry, toilets, and keeping those
lawns watered, accounts for about eight to twelve percent, depending
on where you are in the United States and the
weather condition. So figure it's ten percent ten percent of
all water in the United States that's used is used
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for household use, Agriculture, industry and power generation use almost
all of the rest. And by the way, golf courses
take up point five percent of all of the fresh
water usage in the United States, and a lot of
that seeps back in and goes back into the aquafers
and gets reused again. So per capital water use has
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declined since nineteen ninety two, but the overall residential part
of that, the contribution to that's tiniest, two to three
percent at best. So dishwashers there's part of the other problem.
Dishwashers and washing machines were never they never required computer chips.
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Now they do right to regulate everything. And by the way,
the typical semiconductor fabrication unit that produces the chips burns
five to ten million gatherons a day of water, and
most of it ultra pure. So we're having to manufacture
these chips to go into the dishwashers to save money
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or save water. And the reason we're doing it, or
while we're doing it, we're spending more water to build
the chips. It's sort of like Gavin Newsom shutting down
doing everything he could to demonize the oil industry in
the state of California to the point where most of
the refineries left, and so now that they've left, you're
literally having to bring up the gasoline that is California
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Blend because that's the only place it's made is in California.
You're having to literally bring up California blend gasoline from
Venezuela and some of the other South American countries on
tankers that burn more fuel than it would have taken
if you'd have just left the things online and hadn't
demonized the overall industry. You didn't reduce the use of oil.
You made more of it, or you caused more to
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be used simply because of your stupid policies. You're not
saving water, You're causing more water to be used because
we have to manufacture things. It's just like I said
about the EVS. Government regulations stink. EVS. Great, we're not
burning fuel, but you know what, we are burning all
of the diesel fuel to mine the rare earth minerals.
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We're destroying the earth. We're causing these major scrapes across
the entire Earth's or landscape to get these rare earth
minerals out to build the batteries, have no way of
disposing of the batteries. And yet that's how we're going
to save energy. That's how we're going to save the
world is by destroying the forest and all of the
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other places where the rare earth minerals are so that
we can make electric cars and burn a very small
portion less of fuel. Actually we're burning more because we're
having to run more heavy equipment to mine the other materials.
Every time I turn around, it is more stupid tacked
on top of stupid that's causing the problem. And it's
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people voting for the stupid, people who have no actual
common sense and no real solutions to fix the problems.
I read one day with this lady. This lady said,
the point wasn't to save water. Let me see if
I can get the things got quote here. Yeah, she said.
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The point isn't to save water, electricity. It's to make
people get used to everything always getting a little bit
worse instead of better. They're conditioning us for socialism, and
I cannot tell you that I do. I don't think
that's true. I do think it's true. I think they
are absolutely we know that the Democratic Socialists of America
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are doing everything they can to implement socialism nationwide, even
though it is the single largest driver of poverty and
death in the entire history of the earth. They're still
fighting to have this warmth of collectivism that is not
going to do anything. That rugged individualism, that frigidity of
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rugged individualism, as ma'am Donney called it, is what drove
all of the greatest innovations in the history of the
Earth that give us the modern lifestyle we have today.
That rugged individualism, that will, unwillingness to relent, that unwillingness
to give up, and all of the things that these
great pioneers of all of these industries have done is
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because of the ruggedness of individual or rugged individualism, not
the warmth of collectivism. That crap never works, and it's
not going to work this time. Uh. It's frustrating, all right.
I appreciate you guys tuning in though this is Bonos Cars,
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Speaker 1 (31:33):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he is
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Boono's Cars, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (31:54):
Here's your host, Bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
All right, we'll come back everybody. So, I know that
I took a lot of politics on the show and
some of the other stuff I talk about. It's not
really political. It's like it, but it could be considered
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in the political realm, I guess. But I assure you
politics does not take up most of my life by
any stretch of the imagination. I have a wonderful life.
I have an absolutely incredible wife. I have three beautiful
kids that I love with all my heart. I have
four grandchildren that I think are the cats me out
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and I try to spend as much time as I
can with them, especially during the summers. And I am
surrounded by people that I love to work with every
day that bring me joy and happiness. I believe in
my creator, and I believe there is a heaven that
is going to take me in at some point when
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whatever is here on Earth is done, and I Am
going to live it with gratitude and happiness and energy
and enthusiasm and all of those things, because I believe
that's what God meant for us to be, was happy.
There are going to be moments in all of our
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lives where that happiness is going to take a back seat,
because there are going to be events that cause us sadness,
profound sadness, and cause us to be angry sometimes cause
us to be all of those things. But when it
causes you to be sad and angry all of the time,
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that is just sad to me. And there seems to
be And I don't know if it's because of it's
out there because of social media, or a social media
caused it. I don't know if social media is just
exposing it or causing it, if that makes sense, But
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it seems to me that there is a void a
emptiness that goes along with leftism. I cannot find you
know that. Sadly enough, The happiest videos of leftist when
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they video themselves when they were happiest, was after Charlie
Kirk got murdered. They they showed genuine happiness to the
fact that a young man, a father, a son, a husband,
all of those things, was murdered in front of millions
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of people from video. But that's how do you How
can that be the only thing that brings you happiness?
I have? There was a video the other day of
a lady that I think just epitomizes what the look
on the left is right now. And she said, and
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I'm quoting here, this was what it said. If you
want to argue with me, I'll argue. But I got
to let you know something. I'm willing to burn my
whole effing life to the ground. I don't care. I
got nothing to lose. I don't want to be here,
and I don't believe in heaven, so f with somebody else.
That is sad for someone to believe that their life
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is completely devoid of any meaning that you're just you have.
I'm genuinely sad for that person that they're going through life.
They've been given the gift of life. They've been given
the gift of life as a human being who has
a soul, who has the ability to think and discern
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and enjoy and be happy, and yet you're choosing to
go through this life miserable. I read a lady the
other day that was her name's Amy Curtis, shot in
an article and she was talking about how back in
the past she had been when she was in college,
she had been a leftist and then she switched over.
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But she says, going back twenty six years, I remember
being told that Republicans like George Bush were going to
make my life miserable, my existence oppressive like that of
the Handmaid's Tale. And years before that was even a
thing true happiness, I was told lateen becoming a leftist,
vote Democrat, don't get married, don't have kids, don't believe
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in God, Spend your every waking moment mired in politics,
and make sure to politicize everything from the food I eat,
to the clothes I wear, and to the shows I watch.
All of that I was told would make my life good.
I'd be free, enlightened, and tolerant and morally superior to
those ichy, oppressed conservative women. And she goes on and says,
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it's funny how I've yet to see any video of
a leftist actually being happy about anything in their lives.
They hate their jobs, they hate their new family, their
few family members that they haven't managed to alienate, They
hate their neighbors, and they hate their country, and above
all else, they hate themselves. That is a sad, sad
existence that I think is going to make God angry.
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I've given you all of this, given you were born
in the greatest country on earth, with freedoms that women
in other countries would kill to have, would literally do
everything they could and have sacrificed everything in their lives
to try to get out of and come to the
country where freedom, where they can just be free, free
to do whatever they want. And you were born there.
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You hit the lottery just being born in the greatest
country on earth, the one that provides you with the
opportunity to get out there and actually spew your hatred
without there being any repercussions for it. I have seen
so many ice officers and so many other officers of
the law recently that literally have been assaulted, that don't
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do anything. I don't know how they have the patience
to deal with these women, but they do, and God
bless them for having the patients to deal with the vile,
hateful stuff they're saying. I saw the other day there
were some of these leftist women in Minneapolis that were
screaming at an ICE agent who happened to be black
and saying you can't read past the eighth grade education,
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and you're a race trader, and some of the most racist,
vile things you could say to somebody. And you're supposed
to be the people who care. You're the virtuous ones.
You're the ones who think that you're above everybody else
and that everybody on the other side is morally wrong
and pressed. And maybe I got some tell you I'm
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happy every day. Are there victims, yes, are there people
who are oppressed, Yes? Are there things that we can
do to try to help their lives, yes, But what
you're doing is not going to help. Screaming and yelling
at people and being vile, that doesn't change anybody's mind.
It does nothing to help the actual people you're trying
to help. And by the way, I want to remind
you that that toxic empathy you have that you're displaying
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is for some of the worst of the worst. Seventy
to seventy five percent of all of the people that
are being arrested by ICE have criminal records. The other
twenty five to thirty percent were with somebody who had
a criminal record, and they got picked up in the aftermath. Sorry,
you're still broke the law. You're here illegally, But we
weren't after you. We just kind of got you as
an aside. But we were after that one over there,
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because that one over there committed murder, that one over
there committed some sort of child molestation. That one over
there did something they weren't supposed to do, and so
they have criminal records. That's what we're trying to deport.
You were in the car with him, We figured out
you were illegal. Sorry, you got caught up in it.
But this toxic empathy that we continue to display like
we're trying to these are our neighbors. No, that man
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killed somebody, and he might more than likely we'll do
it again if we don't remove him from our society.
That one over there has sexual charges against children, and
you're okay with him being near your children. What is
wrong with you? I told you the other day, last week,
a couple weeks ago, about the lady that was raped
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by four different guys and refused to put them in
jail or refused to testify against them because and I'll
just read it to you. Because of this, I can
only vocalize what I want, negative and inherently impossible terms,
that all I want is for it to have never happened.
The prospect of being a participant in other people's incarceration
is as alien to me as anything could be, to
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the point that I can only conceive of it in
childish terms. How silly and strange it would be to
have a group of people incarcerated at my expence, when
doing so would do nothing to fix the damage they've
already done, so have already so thoroughly done. Yeah, but
it might prevent them from doing it to somebody else.
And so everybody that's assaulted by any of those men
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from this day forward is on you, lady, because you
have toxic empathy and you think you're doing the right
thing by not putting people who are bad people in prison.
We're not talking about a case of Hey, I thought
she said yes, and she thinks she didn't say yes.
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That's completely different than four guys in Canada. Canada's got
it worse than us. In Canada, they have race based
sentencing guidelines. Native American people in the state or in Canada,
native criminals get shorter sentences because judges are get this
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required to take colonialism into consideration in sentencing Native Canadians.
Those being reservations I'm talking about, like Native Americans, Native Canadians.
Native men also kill Native women at extremely high rates,
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and this has created an ideological paradox for the Canadian libs,
who are permanently confused as to why the killers of
Native women get disproportionately lenient sentences. Their explanation was racism.
The court simply didn't care about punishing the killers of
Native women. Huh. You guys made a law up where
I have to take colonialism into account when I'm sentencing
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that guy. He happens to be Native, he killed that
woman who happens to be Native. I don't have a
choice but to give him a leniar or more lenient
sentence because that's what the guidelines say. And so you
think I'm doing that because I don't care about that woman. No,
I care about the woman. You guys forced me to
sentence him to a shorter period of time. The actual
reason it's not racism. The actual reason the anti racist
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policies that they push forward which guarantee Native men shorter
sentences for killing Native women. But the academics, the journalists,
the activists that tend not to know the actual reason
why they take in millions of dollars every year to
get to research this phenomena. It doesn't have to You
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don't have to research it. We can tell you why.
Any normal thinking person tells you if you don't punish
the people who are committing the crimes, they will continue
to commit the crimes. It is. It's not woke. It's
the feminization of a lot of the things that are
going on in the Western world, where women who think
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that you can feel your way into fixing the problem
is going to solve the problem. It doesn't. It just
creates more problems. We have to figure out a way
to get rid of this toxic empathy. It is absolutely
want to destroy our country. Between that and China, I'm
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not sure which one's the bigger threat. It really uh
may be a toss up. All right, Thanks for tuning in.
I'll be on vacation next week, so this will be
running again if you didn't hear it this week, and
tune in next week again. But everybody, have a great
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
All right, good morning everybody. As always, I hope everybody's
having a great weekend, starting off good, getting into the
middle of February. Here gonna be uh turning warmers pretty soon.
That's awesome. There's lots of good things going on, and
one of them is for the first time in over
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fifty years, net migration into the United States was negative.
So there was a new Brookings Institute research out there
and it said net migration to the United States fell
between by between ten thousand and two hundred and ninety
five thousand in twenty twenty five, according to an update
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of the first estimates of the estimates first release in
the summer by economists yep so, the Brookings Institute is
saying that between all of the deportations self deportations and
deportations and a closed southern border that we had net
migration that was negative. That's awesome because we allow us
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to catch our breath before we have to take care
of the rest of the world. So if you listen
to the show at all, you know at some point
I've this many times. I am not a believer. I
am a believer in climate change. I believe that believe
climate changes every day, it's warm, gets cold, whatever. I
am not a believer in man made climate change. I
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think that is just a scare tactic that has been
invented by people who want to consolidate power and it's
a way to control us, and I am all against that.
But there's a new report out in the Royal Society
in the UK that has finally had to admit that
mass extinctions are not being fueled by climate change. So
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sky Ward Clark that I read a lot of his articles,
did a good job with it, and it's probably easier
if I read what he wrote, because it's good research. Anyways,
he says, there have been throughout Earth's history five major
mass extinctions. I like to learn this kind of stuff.
They're horrible events and we as humans are lucky to
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not have been around to witness them. These were the
or or Ordovician Silurian, which was four hundred and forty
five million years ago, during which eighty five percent of
marine species died. Then there was the Late Devonian, which
was three hundred and seventy two to three hundred and
fifty nine million years ago, in which seventy to eighty
percent of marine species died and there were no land
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species at the time for those two. Then there was
the Permian extinction two hundred and fifty two million years ago,
which is sometimes called the Great Dying, in which ninety
six percent of all marine species and seventy percent of
land vertebrates died. Then the Triassic Jurassic, which was two
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hundred and one million years ago, which saw dying out
of seventy five percent of all species. And last the
Cretaceous Paleogene, which was sixty six million years ago, which
cost the planet seventy five percent of all species. Now
think about that, four different times in our Earth history
and last five hundred million years we've had extinction events,
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or five times the last five or million years we've
had extinction events where some of them wiped out almost
ninety five percent of everything that lived caused by asteroids,
caused by volcano activity. It was caused by many things
that were going on in the environment that had nothing
to do with climate change. I'm pretty sure we didn't
have an industrial revolution back then. So in November of
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twenty four though, The Guardian reported that as the planet
warms up, scientists predict a series of extinction cliffs. We're
in danger of forgetting what the climate crisis means. Extinction
was the cheer, That's what the article started off with.
But a recent bombshell report from the UK Royal Society
has knocked seven bells out of all this nonsense by
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showing this was Ward Clark also saying this, But a
recent bombshell report from the UK Royal Society has knocked
seven bells out of all this nonsense by showing that
species level extinctions related to climate change have not seenignificantly
increased over the last approximately two hundred years. It was
further found that the decadal extinction rates over the last
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one hundred years had significantly declined for arthropods and plants,
the two groups of organisms encompassing most known global biodiversity. Overall,
it was found that extinction rates have increased over the
last five hundred years, but generally declined in the last
one hundred years. Past extinctions are said to strongly suggest
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that climate change is not an important threat to biodiversity.
And by the way, oddly enough, we continue to find
new species constantly. I read the other day where they
found a new species on Will Smith's show. They found
a new species of anaconda, that is the northern green
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anaconda and the southern green anticonda that are five point
five percent away in DNA from each other. And to
put that in perspective, we're only like two percent away
or one and a half percent away from apes in DNA.
And so if to have two snakes that almost look
alike but have that far apart in DNA in between them,
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that's amazing, both of them in the Amazon. But we're
still finding new species every day. Climate change, climate Schmange,
I'm buying it. Every time you tell us something it
turned out not to be true. So speaking of that,
the Blue States once again are the top. They top
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the annual list of people leaving their states. You Hall
just released its annual growth index for all fifty states
and for the sixth straight year, California is ranked fiftieth.
You're gonna hear Newsem out there talking about that anymore, right,
Number one and this number one of that. Yeah, you
were that way before you became governor. You didn't have
anything to do with it. Right now, for the six years,
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four of which you've been governor, at least, I think
it's in six years, you have lost more people than
any other state in the entire Union. He's turned the
most popular state to leave. That's what he's turned California
into being in Pennsylvania ranks forty fourth in U HAUL
Growth Index, and the leading states getting people Texas and Florida.
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The biggest losers were California, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey.
Why do you think that is? That's policies. So I'm
gonna say this. I've said it many times before. I'm
going to say it one more time. Please, if you're
moving to Tennessee, Florida, Texas, or any of the other
states to get away from all that crap that's up
there in all the other blue states, please don't do
the same thing and bring it here. Recognize it's the
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way you voted. That's what caused it wasn't bad luck.
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Speaker 2 (08:46):
Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
All right, Welcome back everybody. So obviously, I feel like
one of the differences between the right and the left
is the critical thinking. And I don't mean that they
the people on left don't think critically. They do well.
I mean make a joke about it. They're critical of everything.
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But critical thinking requires that you really understand the problem
and design a way to fix it. You can't just
feel your way out of it. We have to have cold,
hard facts and fix the problem. One of the problems
we have is national debt at thirty eight trillion dollars,
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and the reason we get it. You guys ought to
be thankful that we have somebody who understands economics very
well in the White House and is trying to solve
the problem, because if we don't solve it, we're going
to be in a world of hurt. And the problem
is that DC feels like if they just keep printing money,
we can print our way out of it. We can
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inflate our way out of the debt. That doesn't really work.
In the last since it was nineteen seventy one when
we went off of the gold standard, that value of
the dollar has decreased by eighty seven percent. That's a
big number. So there was a guy that wrote a blog.
He's Wall Street portfolio manager, and he wrote a blog
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called My Life is a Lie, and his name is
Michael Green, and it shows that the way that he
went on to talk about the way that they calculate
poverty from the US right. So I'm just going to
read it to you because the blog was really important.
The poverty formula was developed by Molly Orshansky, an economist
at the Social Security Administration, in nineteen sixty three. She
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observed the family spent roughly one third of their income
on groceries, since pricing data was hard to come by
for many items like housing, If you could calculate a
minimum adequate food budget at the grocery store, you could
multiply by three and establish a poverty line. She was
drawing a floor right, a line below which families were
clearly in crisis, but everything between sixty three and twenty
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twenty four. In twenty and twenty four, food at home
is no longer thirty three percent of household spending for
most families, just between five and seven percent. Housing now
consumes thirty five to forty five percent, healthcare takes up
fifteen to twenty five percent, and childcare for families with
young children can eat twenty to forty percent, which means
if you measured income inadequacy today that way Orshansky measured
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it in nineteen sixty three, the threshold for a family
of four wouldn't be thirty one thousand, two hundred dollars,
which is what the government says the threshold for poverty is.
It would be somewhere between one hundred and thirty thousand
and one hundred and fifty thousand, and remember, Orshansky was
only trying to define too little she was identifying crisis,
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not sufficiency. If the crisis threshold, the floor below which
families cannot function, is honestly updated to current spending pattern,
it lands somewhere one hundred close to one hundred and
forty thousand dollars. What does that tell you about the
thirty one thousand, tw hundred dollars line that we still use.
It tells you we're measuring starvation. So just one line
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item in a normal budget today is larger than the
official DC poverty line, the single largest item for most
households right now, anybody with children isn't housing, it's childcare,
and it averages thirty two thousand dollars a year. That's
almost three thousand dollars a month for childcare. That's ridiculous.
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Oh wait, we have childcare fraud all over the place.
The federal government keeps trying to solve the problem, but
the people keep stealing the money. Using conservative national average data,
you'd arrive at a require gross income of one hundred
and thirty six five hundred dollars. That's the Orsansky's too
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little threshold updated honestly, that's the floor. So let's look
at the actual number of poor people in twenty twenty three,
the government measured it at twelve and a half percent
because they were using that thirty one, two hundred dollars number.
But and that's almost forty one million Americans were designated
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as poor. But the real ratio, if you used Orshansky's number,
which was thirty one two in what that green guy
was using one hundred and thirty sixty five. Roughly speaking,
it means it's four point thirty seven, five times higher
than what Orshansky or what the government is saying, which
means that we have about based on real world data
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in today's society, if we were using her formula in
real numbers, not just about food, but in real numbers
what the line items were, we'd have about one hundred
and seventy five million, or fifty percent of our people
would be considered poverty level or below. People are struggling
to make it. They are struggling to make it because
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of bad policies, and they continue to vote people in
that think taxing and taxing and taxing is the way
to fix it. But if you're just taxing the peace
people who can afford to pay those taxes and getting
it stolen out the door. On the other side, we're
solving nothing. We're causing more problems. When we have redemptions
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going to Somalia that total the entire GDP of the country.
We are sending that much money out of our country
to another country that's stealing it from us. It's unsustainable.
But policies matter, and the people you vote for matter,
and the people that you're trying to We have to
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be able to solve the problem without it being about feelings.
There's a problem. We are going broke, and if we
don't stop the madness now, there's not going to be
a way to stop it. And then what we'll all
feel for each other, but we'll be broke. That doesn't
do anybody any good. I told you about Abigail Spanburger
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last week when I was talking about all the taxes
she ran as a moderate, and then she came in
and absolutely has this laundry list of taxes she wants
to raise that are going to do nothing more than
feed more money into a government that doesn't need more money.
We need more money in our pockets, not in the government.
The government does it inefficiently and screws it up dang
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near every time, and so why are we continuing to
fund a government with more taxes? The entire state of
Florida has a lower budget than just New York City.
They run everything in the state of Florida with less
money than just New York City. Now, think about that.
Florida's got way more people than New York City does.
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But Abigail Spanberger ran on being a moderate. As soon
as she got into office. She started all of these
really really really left wing policies that she's fighting for.
But one of them literally should be titled making fraud legal.
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There's a bill that they are introducing to try and
it will get passed because it's Democrat controlled that prohibits
the state from verifying eligibility for federal public benefits when
nonprofits distribute them. Think about that. It prohibits the state
from verifying eligibility for federal public benefits when nonprofits distribute them.
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We're not allowed to Look, we're literally going to pass
a bill what says we're not allowed to make sure
you're eligible for all of these federal funds. We're just
going to give them to you that How does that
make any sense to anybody? And you guys voted for
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it after You've had four good, solid years of Glen Youngkin.
It may have been Eate, I don't remember how long
he was there. But you had four solid, good years
at least of Glen Youngkin and win some earl sears
running the state of Virginia in a way that was
fiscally respect and did lots of lots of good for
the state. And you go out and you elect a
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woman who is absolutely going to do everything she can
to drive the poverty level up. Elections do have consequences,
as Barack Obama so famelessly said, and the consequences of
the last elections in some of these states is the
states are broke and you can't just tax your way
out of it. California's coming up with some wealth tax
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in the meantime, since they've even started talking about putting
it on the ballot, and it'll pass because it's fifty
five percent of the people want to steal the money
from the rich. Right. Let me take those two hundred
people over there, it's only two hundred of them, that's
kind of Factlet's go get their money. Yeah, you know
what happened, Twenty or thirty of them already left like, yeah,
we left before the first of the year. So even
if you make it retroactive back to January first, to
twenty twenty six. I moved to Florida in December thirty
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first of January twenty twenty five, I mean December thirty first,
twenty twenty five. I get worked up because it irritates
me so bad that people can't see what they're doing constantly.
If you're broke and you're in a hole, stop digging.
You can't gamble your way out of a hole. It
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typically you may get lucky, but as a whole, it's
not going to continue to work. So if you are
deep in the hole, stop digging. That's the first rule. Now,
let's figure out how to get out of the hole.
We can't do it based on feelings. We can't. I
can want to take care of everybody, but it's not possible.
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I saw a lady the other day that was bundling
our kid up to go out and protest ice because
her child was not more important than any other child.
And I'm thinking, my kids are more important to me
than anybody else's kids. And if your kids aren't more
important to you than anybody else's kids, there's something wrong
with you shouldn't be a parent. I will save my
children above all else. I want to save everybody. But
if the choice that has to be made between somebody,
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I'm saving my kids first. We can't we can't do
this based on feelings. We've got to get real about
the problem. The problem, and we've driven a lot of
people into poverty by trying to overinflate the money. All right,
this is Bonos Cars brought to you by Chevrolet Buick
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Speaker 2 (19:51):
Here's your host, bow driven.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
All right, Welcome back, everybody. So before I came up
to Tennessee and got back in the car business, I
had a construction company. I had been in the cell
phone business and had thirty six AT and T stores
and sold them and then started a construction company building houses,
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and it was horrible. Hated everything about it. Hated the
fact that customers couldn't make their minds up, Hated the
fact that I had to fight bureaucracy constantly. Hated the
fact that in Florida, because of Hurricane Andrew in nineteen
ninety two, twenty to twenty five thousand dollars of a small,
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typical rant style house in Florida I was building in
Palm Coast, Florida, just north of Daytona Beach, and to
twenty five thousand dollars of the construction cost of building
a house back then was in strapping and bracing and
all of that for the trusses on the roof. And
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it required it because you had to rate it for
two hundred mile an hour hurricane wins. And that's a
lot of money. And the truth of the matter is
is none of those hurricanes the entire state of Florida
has to do it. Even if you're in Okalla, which
is in the dead center of the state, which wouldn't
get two hundred mile an hour wins, It's just not
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going to happen. That's an example of how government can
just overregulate and drive the cost of things up. So
right now we have a housing crisis. Right but and
President Trump has proposed an executive order to stop any
of the big Wall Street firms and investment firms from
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buying homes and competing with homeowners. And the truth of
the matter is that Elizabeth Warren was trying to say
the same thing Gavin Newsom's saying, it's a big I
can't believe that these big corporations are competing with single
families to try to buy houses. The truth of the
matter is that's not what's causing the problem. The problem
(22:09):
is we have too few supply and we have too
little supply because of regulations that continue to drive not
only the cost up, but the time it takes to
get projects to work. You could typically wait if you
want to pull a permit in Florida. In Tennessee, it's
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completely different. It was much easier here, at least in
Rutherford Counting, But in Florida, if you wanted to pull
a permit, it could take sixty ninety one hundred and
twenty days. And if you're building anywhere near the ocean,
that's going to turn into a year to a year
and a half to go through all the processes. That's
just more regulations on top of regulations on top of
regulations that just drive the cost of everything up. It
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is not these big corporations trying to compete that's driving
the cost up. But since most people don't know much
about economics, the they can keep spouting this crap about
it being these big corporations that are causing the run
up in prices. And the truth of the matter is
the American ex Institute for Economic Research found that houses fell.
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House prices fell and went down in markets that had
more institutional ownership. So in one project, John Stossel had
written an article about it. In one California project, it
took twenty two years just to get the approvals. I
don't know how you're supposed to meet any kind of
demand when it takes you twenty two years to get
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a community to the market. That makes no sense. And
the builder said it was ninety three thousand dollars per
house just for the privilege of building. Doles in regulations
and fees that the state takes. You want to make
things more affordable. Get rid of all the regulations, get
rid of the crap that's causing the price to just
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be skyrocketing for normal American people. And I don't know
how this is so hard in Rutherford County when when
I built my house nine years ago now, it literally
took the day to get the permits walked in. Here's
the plans for the house. Great, have a nice day,
here's your permit. Having to go through all of this
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other rigmarole and costs, it's just absolutely insane to me,
and why people can't see it and why people keep
voting for all the people that put more regulations in place.
Regulations over regulation is what's driving the market up. And
I'll give you another example. In the Obama years, they
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came up with this great way of saving water, right,
We've got to save water, and so they limited the
amount of water that you could have in your toilet,
the amount of gallons per flush that a toilet could
could run with, and then it limited your shower heads
and it only so much water flow that can be
coming through the shower head. But then when Obama, i
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mean when Biden came in, they made it even worse.
They absolutely let's see, yeah, the one point six gallon
designs they did improve over time, but the reality is
most people would flush twice. It was causing more water
usage because it didn't get Your dishes don't get clean,
(25:21):
and your dishwasher it the whatever you're trying to flush
down your toilet doesn't flush down the toilet the first time,
so you got to flush it again. So all of
these regulations that they put in place to try to
save something actually had the opposite effect. But recently there
were some good news. So eleven Democrats cross party lines
to support Republicans and overturning the Biden era regulations that
(25:44):
restricted waterflow. The problem with that is, yeah, the resolution
targeted rule that cap gallons permitted regardless of how many
spray nozzles or settings that sowerhead used. Bad news is
they repealed the Biden area rule, but that left the
Obama era rule still in place. So government wants to
(26:04):
save water, right, that's their point. Nope, let me just
read this to you. Residential water use, including indoor and
outdoor needs like drinking, bathing, laundry, toilets, and keeping those
lawns watered, accounts for about eight to twelve percent, depending
on where you are in the United States and the
weather condition. So figure it's ten percent ten percent of
all water in the United States that's used is used
(26:27):
for household use, Agriculture, industry and power generation use almost
all of the rest. And by the way, golf courses
take up point five percent of all of the fresh
water usage in the United States, and a lot of
that seeps back in and goes back into the aquafers
and gets reused again. So per capital water use has
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declined since nineteen ninety two, but the overall residential part
of that, the contribution to that's tiniest, two to three
percent at best. So dishwashers there's part of the other problem.
Dishwashers and washing machines were never they never required computer chips.
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Now they do right to regulate everything. And by the way,
the typical semiconductor fabrication unit that produces the chips burns
five to ten million gatherons a day of water, and
most of it ultra pure. So we're having to manufacture
these chips to go into the dishwashers to save money
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or save water. And the reason we're doing it, or
while we're doing it, we're spending more water to build
the chips. It's sort of like Gavin Newsom shutting down
doing everything he could to demonize the oil industry in
the state of California to the point where most of
the refineries left, and so now that they've left, you're
literally having to bring up the gasoline that is California
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Blend because that's the only place it's made is in California.
You're having to literally bring up California blend gasoline from
Venezuela and some of the other South American countries on
tankers that burn more fuel than it would have taken
if you'd have just left the things online and hadn't
demonized the overall industry. You didn't reduce the use of oil.
You made more of it, or you caused more to
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be used simply because of your stupid policies. You're not
saving water, You're causing more water to be used because
we have to manufacture things. It's just like I said
about the EVS. Government regulations stink. EVS. Great, we're not
burning fuel, but you know what, we are burning all
of the diesel fuel to mine the rare earth minerals.
(28:41):
We're destroying the earth. We're causing these major scrapes across
the entire Earth's or landscape to get these rare earth
minerals out to build the batteries, have no way of
disposing of the batteries. And yet that's how we're going
to save energy. That's how we're going to save the
world is by destroying the forest and all of the
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other places where the rare earth minerals are so that
we can make electric cars and burn a very small
portion less of fuel. Actually we're burning more because we're
having to run more heavy equipment to mine the other materials.
Every time I turn around, it is more stupid tacked
on top of stupid that's causing the problem. And it's
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people voting for the stupid, people who have no actual
common sense and no real solutions to fix the problems.
I read one day with this lady. This lady said,
the point wasn't to save water. Let me see if
I can get the things got quote here. Yeah, she said.
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The point isn't to save water, electricity. It's to make
people get used to everything always getting a little bit
worse instead of better. They're conditioning us for socialism, and
I cannot tell you that I do. I don't think
that's true. I do think it's true. I think they
are absolutely we know that the Democratic Socialists of America
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are doing everything they can to implement socialism nationwide, even
though it is the single largest driver of poverty and
death in the entire history of the earth. They're still
fighting to have this warmth of collectivism that is not
going to do anything. That rugged individualism, that frigidity of
(30:28):
rugged individualism, as ma'am Donney called it, is what drove
all of the greatest innovations in the history of the
Earth that give us the modern lifestyle we have today.
That rugged individualism, that will, unwillingness to relent, that unwillingness
to give up, and all of the things that these
great pioneers of all of these industries have done is
(30:51):
because of the ruggedness of individual or rugged individualism, not
the warmth of collectivism. That crap never works, and it's
not going to work this time. Uh. It's frustrating, all right.
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All right, we'll come back everybody. So, I know that
I took a lot of politics on the show and
some of the other stuff I talk about. It's not
really political. It's like it, but it could be considered
(32:18):
in the political realm, I guess. But I assure you
politics does not take up most of my life by
any stretch of the imagination. I have a wonderful life.
I have an absolutely incredible wife. I have three beautiful
kids that I love with all my heart. I have
four grandchildren that I think are the cats me out
(32:43):
and I try to spend as much time as I
can with them, especially during the summers. And I am
surrounded by people that I love to work with every
day that bring me joy and happiness. I believe in
my creator, and I believe there is a heaven that
is going to take me in at some point when
(33:08):
whatever is here on Earth is done, and I Am
going to live it with gratitude and happiness and energy
and enthusiasm and all of those things, because I believe
that's what God meant for us to be, was happy.
There are going to be moments in all of our
(33:28):
lives where that happiness is going to take a back seat,
because there are going to be events that cause us sadness,
profound sadness, and cause us to be angry sometimes cause
us to be all of those things. But when it
causes you to be sad and angry all of the time,
(33:49):
that is just sad to me. And there seems to
be And I don't know if it's because of it's
out there because of social media, or a social media
caused it. I don't know if social media is just
exposing it or causing it, if that makes sense, But
(34:10):
it seems to me that there is a void a
emptiness that goes along with leftism. I cannot find you
know that. Sadly enough, The happiest videos of leftist when
(34:31):
they video themselves when they were happiest, was after Charlie
Kirk got murdered. They they showed genuine happiness to the
fact that a young man, a father, a son, a husband,
all of those things, was murdered in front of millions
(34:53):
of people from video. But that's how do you How
can that be the only thing that brings you happiness?
I have? There was a video the other day of
a lady that I think just epitomizes what the look
on the left is right now. And she said, and
(35:16):
I'm quoting here, this was what it said. If you
want to argue with me, I'll argue. But I got
to let you know something. I'm willing to burn my
whole effing life to the ground. I don't care. I
got nothing to lose. I don't want to be here,
and I don't believe in heaven, so f with somebody else.
That is sad for someone to believe that their life
(35:39):
is completely devoid of any meaning that you're just you have.
I'm genuinely sad for that person that they're going through life.
They've been given the gift of life. They've been given
the gift of life as a human being who has
a soul, who has the ability to think and discern
(36:00):
and enjoy and be happy, and yet you're choosing to
go through this life miserable. I read a lady the
other day that was her name's Amy Curtis, shot in
an article and she was talking about how back in
the past she had been when she was in college,
she had been a leftist and then she switched over.
(36:26):
But she says, going back twenty six years, I remember
being told that Republicans like George Bush were going to
make my life miserable, my existence oppressive like that of
the Handmaid's Tale. And years before that was even a
thing true happiness, I was told lateen becoming a leftist,
vote Democrat, don't get married, don't have kids, don't believe
(36:47):
in God, Spend your every waking moment mired in politics,
and make sure to politicize everything from the food I eat,
to the clothes I wear, and to the shows I watch.
All of that I was told would make my life good.
I'd be free, enlightened, and tolerant and morally superior to
those ichy, oppressed conservative women. And she goes on and says,
(37:09):
it's funny how I've yet to see any video of
a leftist actually being happy about anything in their lives.
They hate their jobs, they hate their new family, their
few family members that they haven't managed to alienate, They
hate their neighbors, and they hate their country, and above
all else, they hate themselves. That is a sad, sad
existence that I think is going to make God angry.
(37:35):
I've given you all of this, given you were born
in the greatest country on earth, with freedoms that women
in other countries would kill to have, would literally do
everything they could and have sacrificed everything in their lives
to try to get out of and come to the
country where freedom, where they can just be free, free
to do whatever they want. And you were born there.
(37:57):
You hit the lottery just being born in the greatest
country on earth, the one that provides you with the
opportunity to get out there and actually spew your hatred
without there being any repercussions for it. I have seen
so many ice officers and so many other officers of
the law recently that literally have been assaulted, that don't
(38:19):
do anything. I don't know how they have the patience
to deal with these women, but they do, and God
bless them for having the patients to deal with the vile,
hateful stuff they're saying. I saw the other day there
were some of these leftist women in Minneapolis that were
screaming at an ICE agent who happened to be black
and saying you can't read past the eighth grade education,
(38:42):
and you're a race trader, and some of the most racist,
vile things you could say to somebody. And you're supposed
to be the people who care. You're the virtuous ones.
You're the ones who think that you're above everybody else
and that everybody on the other side is morally wrong
and pressed. And maybe I got some tell you I'm
(39:02):
happy every day. Are there victims, yes, are there people
who are oppressed, Yes? Are there things that we can
do to try to help their lives, yes, But what
you're doing is not going to help. Screaming and yelling
at people and being vile, that doesn't change anybody's mind.
It does nothing to help the actual people you're trying
to help. And by the way, I want to remind
you that that toxic empathy you have that you're displaying
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is for some of the worst of the worst. Seventy
to seventy five percent of all of the people that
are being arrested by ICE have criminal records. The other
twenty five to thirty percent were with somebody who had
a criminal record, and they got picked up in the aftermath. Sorry,
you're still broke the law. You're here illegally, But we
weren't after you. We just kind of got you as
an aside. But we were after that one over there,
(39:47):
because that one over there committed murder, that one over
there committed some sort of child molestation. That one over
there did something they weren't supposed to do, and so
they have criminal records. That's what we're trying to deport.
You were in the car with him, We figured out
you were illegal. Sorry, you got caught up in it.
But this toxic empathy that we continue to display like
we're trying to these are our neighbors. No, that man
(40:09):
killed somebody, and he might more than likely we'll do
it again if we don't remove him from our society.
That one over there has sexual charges against children, and
you're okay with him being near your children. What is
wrong with you? I told you the other day, last week,
a couple weeks ago, about the lady that was raped
(40:31):
by four different guys and refused to put them in
jail or refused to testify against them because and I'll
just read it to you. Because of this, I can
only vocalize what I want, negative and inherently impossible terms,
that all I want is for it to have never happened.
The prospect of being a participant in other people's incarceration
is as alien to me as anything could be, to
(40:52):
the point that I can only conceive of it in
childish terms. How silly and strange it would be to
have a group of people incarcerated at my expence, when
doing so would do nothing to fix the damage they've
already done, so have already so thoroughly done. Yeah, but
it might prevent them from doing it to somebody else.
And so everybody that's assaulted by any of those men
(41:13):
from this day forward is on you, lady, because you
have toxic empathy and you think you're doing the right
thing by not putting people who are bad people in prison.
We're not talking about a case of Hey, I thought
she said yes, and she thinks she didn't say yes.
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That's completely different than four guys in Canada. Canada's got
it worse than us. In Canada, they have race based
sentencing guidelines. Native American people in the state or in Canada,
native criminals get shorter sentences because judges are get this
(41:56):
required to take colonialism into consideration in sentencing Native Canadians.
Those being reservations I'm talking about, like Native Americans, Native Canadians.
Native men also kill Native women at extremely high rates,
(42:19):
and this has created an ideological paradox for the Canadian libs,
who are permanently confused as to why the killers of
Native women get disproportionately lenient sentences. Their explanation was racism.
The court simply didn't care about punishing the killers of
Native women. Huh. You guys made a law up where
I have to take colonialism into account when I'm sentencing
(42:40):
that guy. He happens to be Native, he killed that
woman who happens to be Native. I don't have a
choice but to give him a leniar or more lenient
sentence because that's what the guidelines say. And so you
think I'm doing that because I don't care about that woman. No,
I care about the woman. You guys forced me to
sentence him to a shorter period of time. The actual
reason it's not racism. The actual reason the anti racist
(43:00):
policies that they push forward which guarantee Native men shorter
sentences for killing Native women. But the academics, the journalists,
the activists that tend not to know the actual reason
why they take in millions of dollars every year to
get to research this phenomena. It doesn't have to You
(43:21):
don't have to research it. We can tell you why.
Any normal thinking person tells you if you don't punish
the people who are committing the crimes, they will continue
to commit the crimes. It is. It's not woke. It's
the feminization of a lot of the things that are
going on in the Western world, where women who think
(43:44):
that you can feel your way into fixing the problem
is going to solve the problem. It doesn't. It just
creates more problems. We have to figure out a way
to get rid of this toxic empathy. It is absolutely
want to destroy our country. Between that and China, I'm
(44:05):
not sure which one's the bigger threat. It really uh
may be a toss up. All right, Thanks for tuning in.
I'll be on vacation next week, so this will be
running again if you didn't hear it this week, and
tune in next week again. But everybody, have a great
weekend and we'll be back in two weeks. Brought you
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