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May 17, 2025 44 mins
*Trump's successes will lead to America's success.  When our President wins, we win.  
*Are Democrats the party of hate?
*Why do the Dems not want to deport criminals who are in our country illegally?
*A good leader surrounds themselves with great people
*Is it smart to allow China to manufacture and control the supply of prescription drugs that Americans need to live?
*How Trump is lowering the price of prescription drugs
*GM makes many cars in America
*Italy: Seven in Ten women fear walking home at night as sex crimes surge
*Problems continue for Democratic-ran cities (Detroit, LA....).  Meanwhile Florida is cutting taxes and letting their citizens keep more of their money...they're able to due to their economic efficiency.
*Paul Harvey 'If I were the Devil'
*71% of Democrats want Elon Musk in jail
*Washington State recently enacted a law modifying the Covenant Homeownership Program which offers $120,000 in forgivable loans to eligible Black first-time homebuyers.  
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Here's your host, bow Driven.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
All right, good morning, everybody.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
I hope everybody's having a wonderful day here in Middle Tennessee,
one of the uh greatest states in what for sure
is the greatest nation on earth, and we continue to
prove it day after day after day. And uh, for
all the screeching and wailing and howling that you hear

(00:56):
from one side of the aisle, there's a lot of
good things happening in the country, whether they want him
downplayer or not. You know, I went back and listened
to the show that I did right after Joe Biden
was elected in November of twenty twenty. And I did
it for a reason because I wanted to make sure

(01:17):
that what I said then was what I remembered saying,
and it was, and I remembered saying that while I
didn't agree with the election, meaning Joe Biden wanter he
didn't win.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
I'm not talking about the votes. I'm talking about the outcome.
I didn't agree with what apparently the majority of the
United States electorate decided. I didn't vote for Joe Biden,
but I wanted him to be successful. I hoped, and
I literally prayed that he was successful. That I was wrong,

(01:51):
that the policies that he was espousing and the things
that he was trying to do in this utopia that
he and Obama and Clinton and all of the other
Dems before them have tried to create that we all
know doesn't exist. Anybody lives in the real world. Utopia
doesn't exist. But I wanted him to be successful. I
wanted it to work because the success that he of

(02:14):
him his policies meant the success for the United States
of America and all of us in it, not a
small portion, all of us as Americans benefit when the
President of the United States or Congress does their job
and enact laws and does the things that keep us safe, healthy, strong,

(02:35):
and happy, and then stay out.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Of the way let the rest of us go do
our jobs. Let us live our lives.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
So I think that's the huge difference between one side
of the political aisle and the other.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I want them to be successful.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
I don't necessarily believe they will, but I'm certainly not
rooting against them.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
And everything Trump.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Does, everything he does, they root against him. They literally
do not want the man to succeed. His successes are
the United States of America's successes. And continuing to say
over and over and over again that you want him
to fail no matter what he does.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
You guys have decided he needs to fail.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
There is something wrong with that mentality, and I don't
understand it. The failure of the president is the failure
of the United States of America. And unless you are
openly rooting for the failure of the United States of America,
which I know a bunch of people out there are,
and it irritates me to no end. I saw a
meme the other day and it was Peter Griffin from

(03:46):
Family Guy, and he was sitting on a bench contemplating
why are they burning the flag of the country they
came to while carrying the flag of the country they fled.
I thought, that's true, they'll burn the American flag they
came here as an immigrant, and they'll burn the American

(04:06):
flag while carrying the Palestinian flag or something like. This
is not Palestine, this is the United States of America.
You came here for a reason, and unless it was
to just literally disrupt everything in the United States, stop
doing the things you're doing.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know, I don't know. Why is there nothing we
got to hear about this plane from Qatar? Great, it's
not the news.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
The news is that the last American hostage that Hamas
was holding has been released, at least the last living one.
The news is that there have been forty or fifty
other people that none of us ever heard of, the
media never covered it, that have been wrongfully detained in
countries around the world, many of them apparently. I think

(04:53):
the last number I saw was like forty five or
forty six that Marco Rubio in the first three months
of this administration has gotten released from all of those
countries released.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
These are people who have families. These are people who
have children.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
They have mothers and fathers, and aunts and uncles and
sisters and brothers that love them, and friends, and they
have been wrongfully detained for whatever reason in other countries.
And Joe Biden didn't do in his administration, didn't do
anything to get these people released. And you know how
I know they didn't because if they had done anything,
it wouldn't have taken only one hundred days to get
them released by the Trump administration.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Strength. Strength, people recognize strength. The Chinese delegation when and
I'm going to talk about it a little while, but.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
The Chinese delegation told Scott Bessent when they were negotiating
on the new trade deal that just came forward, and
you'd think that would be something to celebrate, but now
gotta be bad Trump did it.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Got to be bad.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
The Chinese delegation literally told them, because we had an
agreement with China in the first Trump administration, we had
a trade agreement, a good trade agreement. Apparently every was
happy with it. They ignored it. They literally as soon
as Biden got in, they ignored it. And they told
Scott Bissent, yeah, we figured he wasn't going to do
anything about it, so we just ignored it. They literally

(06:13):
just said the said in a news conference, he said,
and this is a quote, the Chinese delegation basically told
us that once President Biden came into office. They just
ignored their obligation. So we already have a large framework.
This wasn't that hard of a deal to put together.
We had a deal.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
We have gotten hostages released. They talked Pakistan and India
from down from an.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
All out could have been a nuclear war. Two nuclear
powers that hate each other started firing missiles at each
other about ten or fifteen days ago, and it looked
like it was going to continue to escalate.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Over the weekend. JD.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Vance got on the phone with the Prime Minister from
India and Marco Rubio got on the phone with the
Pakistani delegation and they negotiated an off ramp for these
people to not have nuclear war.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
But do you hear anything about it?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Nah?

Speaker 4 (07:10):
No, no, that Oh my god, Well what could have
happened if Trump did it?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Shut up?

Speaker 4 (07:17):
I'm can you just be happy that they're doing things
that matter and make a difference for the United States
of America. And by the way, to all of you
crazy people out there who keep screaming it, egg prices
are down, those are down too. I didn't hear everybody
screaming they tariffs are going to raise the price of everything. Well,
what was happening when inflation was ten percent. Nobody was

(07:39):
yelling about that on that side of the aisle. Anyways,
I got a lot more to rant about it. It's
one of those days, so I will be unleashing the beast.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
All right.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
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Speaker 3 (07:56):
Come on back. After the break.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he is
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really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (08:32):
Here's your host, bow Triven.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
All right, welcome back everybody. I don't know why I
say that, all right, thing.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Jimmy from.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Good Times back in the seventies of the show that
was on Jimmy Walker, I think his name was, but uh,
funny guy. Anyways, that's my thing. I guess I just
start every I don't know what else to say.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's my bad, all right, let's move on. How in
the world.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Can you possibly deny all of the successes that have
happened in the first hundred days with the Trumpet administration.
Forget what you think about ice, forget what you think
about the deportations that everybody can have their debate about that.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I get it. I get that there are.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Two sides to that, to that argument, I don't necessarily
understand the the argument where you're going to back a
domestic abuser or somebody who's committed crimes. I don't understand
why you don't want to deport people who are here illegally,
that have committed crimes or killed people or.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Cause to mayhem.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
That that to me sounds like just a normal We
need to put them in jail, and we might as
well put them in the jail that in the country
that they belong instead of our jail. And if we
put them in the country, in the jail that they
belong in, they can pay for it much cheaper than
us having to pay for it. But I don't understand
how you can you can continually bash all of the

(10:14):
other successes, the economic successes, and for all of these
people out here who have master's degrees or doctorate degrees
in economics from Wharton. Oh wait, that's just Trump. Trump's
the only one that's got the economics degree I remember now.
But for all of you people out there that have
all this great education and know so much about what

(10:36):
tariffs are going to do, quit listening to the media
that doesn't have a clue what they're talking about.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
The man has been in business.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
For decades and has put some of the biggest deals
together and has run a company that is massive. Yes,
he started off with a small fortune when he inherited it,
but that doesn't mean anything. He grew it himself. He
did it with a lot of good people around him.
But that's what being a good leader is is surrounding
yourself with good people and letting them go do their jobs,

(11:04):
but understanding that.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
You have to be you have to be organized.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
You cannot run an organization the size of the Trump
organization without having a level of control, an organization that
makes it work. And he's running it the country that way.
But he does know what he's talking about when it
comes to economics. You know how he knew China was
going to come to the table because he knew that
China had already come.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
To the table.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
If we just enforced the rules of the original agreement,
we were going to be fine. But they knew they
didn't have to do that, or thought they didn't, and
the terroriffs were just his way of spanking them a
little bit and saying, wake up, We're not going to
do this anymore.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
There's a new sheriff in town.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
But that's a success getting everything kind of back in
order where it reregulates the entire world order of trade,
where the United States is not the one constantly being
dumped on. And are you okay with all of our
medications being made in China?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Because I'm not. I've said this before and I'll say
it again. I have a high blood pressure.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
A little excitable, but I have high blood pressure, and
my blood pressure medications were made in China during COVID
when there was some question about whether they were going
to be able to keep shipping that stuff or not.
I was a little concerned about my blood pressure Without
those medications, something bad is going to happen. So when
do you get behind the successes to the degree that

(12:26):
you say, hey, it's good for the United States, let
me just give you one. Because I know people have
to have heard about it. But well, before I get
into that, let me say this. I got this other pole,
and I know that a number of people are thinking
that we are on the right track because there was
a new ras muse and poll out the other day
and in the twenty years that this guy named Mark Mitchell,

(12:49):
who's with Rasmussen, says that in the twenty years that
he's been doing this pole, he's never seen numbers this high.
So the one question that they have asked for the
last twenty years is do you think the country is
going in the right direction of the wrong direction? And
by nature that is a negative question because fifty percent
of the country don't like the president that's in there anyways.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
The other fifty percent do You got some in the middle.
But right now.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
In the United States, the people that say that we're
going in the right direction is forty nine percent. To
people that say we're going on the wrong track, that's
forty six percent. I have a feeling that the forty
six percent who think we're on the wrong track are
watching MSNBC and CNN.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's where they're getting their news.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
And for all of you out there who constantly talk
about Trump being on the take or somehow crooked and
doing all these things. Let me tell you something. I've
said this before and I'll say it again, with the
exception of some trumped up charges for overinflating the values
of real estate, that nothing, nobody ever lost a dime

(13:59):
on the banks were all happy with it.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Or some woman saying that he.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Sexually assaulted her thirty years ago, which she can't remember
the day of the year or any of that.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
She just knows it was Bergdorf Goodman in the middle
of the.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Day, and that Trump just walked in one day and
did something, and she never said a word to anybody,
and nobody had any cameras and she had never said
anything to anybody for thirty years, with the exception of
those kind of trumped up charges, the man has had
everybody go through his entire life like soup the nuts.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
They have done everything they can to try.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
To find something on him and his family and have
still as of yet, found nothing. So he signed an
executive order the other day, and I'm just going to
read to you what he wrote when he did the
truth social For many years, the world has wondered why
prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals in the United States of America
were so much higher in price than they are in

(14:51):
any other nation, sometimes being five to ten times more
expensive than the same drug manufactured in the exact same
laboratory or plant by the same company. It was always
different culture explain, and very embarrassing because in fact there
was no.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Correct or rightful answer.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
The pharmaceutical drug company would say for years that it
was research and development costs, and that all of these
costs would were and would be for no reason whatsoever
born by the suckers of America alone. Campaign contributions can
do wonders, but not with me and not with the
Republican Party. We're going to do the right thing, something
that the Democrats have fought for from fought for many years,

(15:25):
not fought four but fought for many years. Therefore, I'm
please to announce it tomorrow morning in the White House
at nine am, I will be signing one of the
most consequential executive orders in the country's history. So basically,
he signed an executive order.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
That's all it took. For years.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
How many times have you heard politicians say, we're going
to bring the cost of prescription drugs down, We're going
to bring down the cost of prescription drugs. Obama got
in there, campaigned on it, got Obama Care, drove everything
up three hundred percent, four hundred percent, didn't do anything
at help. Everybody's talked about it, nobody's ever done it.
You know why, because the pharmaceutical industry has a lobbying

(16:01):
arm faction that spends three to four times more than
the next closest lobbying arm, big money pharmaceuticals.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
And when most of the Senators and.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
House members get money from the pharmaceutical companies, they don't
want they don't have an incentive to go against them.
It's scary because they'll cut off their campaign contributions. Well,
President Trump doesn't need any campaign contributions.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
From any of them. He said, I'm not doing that anymore.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Here's the deal.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
I'm going to sign an executive order that gives the
United States of America and the taxpayers of the United
States of America favored nation status, which essentially says we
will always pay the same amount as the lowest amount
on them in the marketplace. So if there's a country
over there paying four dollars for a pill, United States,
and that's the lowest price in the in the world.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
The United States pays that price. With the swoop of
a pin.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
The Man cut a trillion dollars off off of our
healthcare bills. Money that's not going into those pharmaceutical companies anymore.
Now they're going to say that it has to do
with research and development. I'm going to tell you, bunk,
all they have to do is if there's a country
over there that's paying four dollars and we're paying ten dollars,
now they pay seven dollars and we pay seven dollars,

(17:19):
Still the same fourteen dollars. We're just not paying all
of the research and development costs for us. That's the
way it's supposed to be. Why is the United States
of America the inventor of almost everything in the world
and the developer of most of those drugs. Why are
we the ones that have to bear the costs of
it just because we can. I don't see that as
the rule. That's not the way it's supposed to be.

(17:43):
And the Man signed an executive order that did it
right off the bat, within the first hundred days in office.
And yet how much do you hear about it in
the mainstream media.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Nothing?

Speaker 4 (17:53):
They're even trying to say it may not be a
good thing. I don't even understand that you're saying that.
I saw an article the other day that said the
car prices are not going higher even with the tariffs,
and that may not be a good thing.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
What in the world are you talking about.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
You're trying to spin the fact that prices haven't skyrocketed
because of the terriffs as a bad thing.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
You cannot hate the media enough. You can't.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
No matter how much you hate them, you cannot hate
them enough. He is doing everything he said he would
do everything, Unlike most politicians there have been I don't know,
from Reagan to now, how many different presidents that have
all promised to lower prescription drug costs, not one of

(18:42):
them did anything about it. With this swoop of a
pen in three seconds, the man changed the game. He
deserves credit for that. I don't care what side of
the political aisle you're on. You'll probably need medications now
they're going to be cheaper. All right, This is boonos
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Speaker 3 (19:02):
Come on back after the break.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
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 Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (19:38):
Here's your host, bow Driven.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
All right, welcome back, everybody. Sincerely, appreciate you tuning in it.
It is my honor and pleasure to be able to
espouse some of my viewpoints. I had we sent an
email or an e blast out to our database the
other day, one that I sort of wrote and co

(20:06):
wrote with somebody, and it was basically explaining what the
tariffs the impact of the tariffs on the General Motors cars,
And the purpose of the email was to basically explain
to people that, you know, General Motors makes a lot
of cars right here in the United States, and we're
not going to have a lot of impact in the
tariff may not impact us that much, and we've kind

(20:30):
of worked out the tariffs since that all happened anyways,
and so it really isn't going to change a lot.
I mean, look, we got a lot of cars made
right here in spring Hill, Tennessee. And to all of
the people that work in the factory, thank you. You
build a hell of a car. Anyways, we sent out
this e blast, and as we always do, we get
a few back that people will comment, yeah, just don't

(20:51):
own the car anymore, blah blah blah whatever. I had
this one gentleman that emailed me back that said, uh,
trying to make sure I say it exactly the way
he said it. Since you were obviously spouting left wing ideology,
you're not the store for me. Please remove my name

(21:12):
from your or I'm sorry, left wing liberal ideology. Please
remove me from your database and take my email address out.
So I typically don't respond because it's just normally a
doesn't require response, but when I saw that one, I
had to respond, and I said, I don't know what
you saw about that, And I'm really nervous now because

(21:34):
if you saw something in there that looked like it
was had a liberal bias to it, maybe other people do.
And that certainly was not the intent of the email.
It was simply to explain what the tariffs do and
basically to say, hey, I don't think it's going to
impact us because General Motors builds a lot of cars
here in the United States, and the whole purpose of
the tariffs was to drive manufacturing back to the United States.

(21:56):
So I thought it was funny. I did send him
a link to the Bonos Cars and podcasts and said, hey,
you might want to listen to this, because if you
think I'm saying something that falls on that side, I
missed something. But if you still want me after reading
a little bit more about it and listening to me,

(22:17):
if you really want to take your name off the list,
I certainly.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Will do that for you.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
I thought it was funny.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
So I read an article the other day that was
sad to me, really really sad.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
In twenty twelve, my wife and I visited Italy.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
I had sold a business and we were trying to
decide what the next chapter of our lives are going
to be like, and so we decided to take a
two week trip to Italy and it was kind of fun.
We drove around and rented a car and drove around
the country. It was back before roaming, when you still
had roaming charges and that kind of stuff, and there
were no international plans and she was my navigator and
we were using an app for navigation that happened to

(22:54):
be in English and left the app on didn't think
anything about it. We got back from Italy and the
bill was like twenty two hundred dollars for roaming charges.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
The Holy cow, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Anyways.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
I read an article about Italy the other day. Beautiful country.
The food's the Italian food's better here to.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Me than is there.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
But neither here nor there.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
A survey of one thousand Italian adults from University Sensus
has found that sixty seven point three percent of women
feel afraid while walking.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Home at night.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
There's a general sense among Italians that their country has
become more dangerous over the last five years, with seventy
five point eight percent overall agreeing with the statement, and
it rises to eighty one point eight percent among women.
Nearly four and ten people reported that they have given
up on going out at night at all for fear
of being victimized by criminals.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
That's sad, it's sad and base because they have.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
They have let them their country be invaded by people
who do not have the same values as Italians. When
I remember when I was over there. We got in
a cab from the plane to the hotel, the original
when we got off the plane in Rome, and we
had a taxi driver and he was telling us how
much he loved his mama, and he always he lived
at home with his mama, and his mama was the

(24:25):
best cook, and and it it it gave you that
sense of connection, that sense of unity, that sense of
family and the values, and that's they've been invaded and
now most of the h In January, police arrested dozens
of men of North African extraction in Milan after a

(24:46):
group of young female tourists were subjected to gang sexual
assaults on New Year's Eve. According to the authorities, the
attacks were believed to be part of an Islamic ritual
known as taborush.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'm probably saying that.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Wrong to bor rush gammia or the collective sexual harassment
in crowds. That's a quote that generally target insolent women
guilty of showing up in public. Guilty of showing up
in public, that's their value. We're allowed to sexually assault
you because you're guilty of being out in public. That
is not the way Italians lived, And just because your

(25:23):
Islamic laws may espouse. That doesn't mean you're allowed to
take over our country and allow that to be the rule.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
And yet that's what's happening.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
You think there's not a reason why Georgia Maloney, who
is definitely on the right side of the spectrum when
it comes to her political beliefs, was elected the Prime minister.
It's because people are getting fed up with it. People
are getting fed up with having their own values pushed
aside because somebody else decided to take over a country

(25:56):
that wasn't built by you. You're just in inheriting the
stuff that is innately good in our country and now
you're trying to change it and trying to change our culture.
Instead of assimilating into our culture, you're trying to change
our culture. And it's because our politicians have said it
was okay to do so. It's not okay. It's not okay.
And I've said this on this show and I will

(26:17):
continue to say it. All you people moving from California
or New York or wherever you're moving from the Chicago
that's been destroyed because of the policies that you voted for,
do not bring that stuff here. We don't want it.
It's been proven to fail, and it will continue to
fail because it doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I read an article the other day that talked about
how La is on its road to becoming Detroit.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Detroit sixty years ago was an absolute incredible city. It's
like the fourth or fifth largest city in the United States.
It had construction hubs for it had the automobile industry.
It had advertising industries that fed the automobile industry. It
had all kinds of industry. Look at Detroit now. It
has lost two thirds of its population. There are dilapidated houses,

(27:04):
there are rundown neighborhoods all over the place. It's not
even close to the same. Well, La is threatened to
become just like that if the movie industry or the
entertainment industry leaves la and they're fleeing because of the
policies in the Meanwhile, Florida, there's a feud going on

(27:26):
between Ron DeSantis and the House speaker in Florida, who's
also a Republican.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
You know what the feuds.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
About where they're going to cut taxes. They just gave
back the federal government a billion dollars in the state
of Florida that they didn't need close to it was
eight hundred and ninety one million. And now they're having
an argument because the state sales tax in Florida is
currently six percent and they have some not real high
property taxes, but they're not low. So Ron DeSantis, because

(27:52):
they have a budget surplus, because they've managed the state
so well, wants to cut property taxes for the homeowners
in the state of Florida. Speaker wants to cut sales
tax from six percent down to five and a quarter percent.
How many other states are out there cutting taxes right now.
California is looking to raise taxes everywhere they can, Washington
State raise taxes everywhere you can. New York is facing

(28:14):
a budget deficit and trying to raise taxes on everything
they can. Why do you think the difference between Florida
and Tennessee and Texas, which have balanced budgets and surpluses
versus the other Blue states are that? And by the way, Florida, Tennessee,
and Texas three of the seven states, it maybe eight
three of the seven or eight states that don't have
a state income tax and yet still have balanced budgets,

(28:36):
great way of life. What do you think the difference
is can you not see it or do you just
willfully decide not to see it? Speaking of that, in Washington,
another liberal bastion, they've decided to They just signed a

(28:58):
law that it changes. It's a reparations program. It now
gifts down payments averaging one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
to black first time home buyers without any proof of
direct housing discrimination. So they're giving them one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars for a down payment and zero percent loans.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
To buy houses. Two things.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
One that obviously goes against the Constitution and equal rights,
But number two, what do you think is going to
happen to the housing market when you put all those
people into it that before couldn't afford the houses and
now can and are all competing for the houses that
are for sale. It's going to drive the price of
the houses up, and it's going to cause more problems

(29:44):
than you think. This is not the way to do it.
And by the way, they're doing that while trying I
saw a list of new taxes in the state of
Washington's trying to enact and it was like thirty seven
new taxes. If you've go how to enact thirty seven
new taxes in an effort to make sure that you

(30:04):
can give one hundred and twenty thousand dollars forgivable loans,
for down payments for houses, and zero percent interest loans.
Something's wrong. That is a redistribution of wealth. You are
taking from one section and trying to give to the other,
and it will fail, just like all the other policies
and the liberal these liberal states have failed, which is
why people are leaving and there's an exodus of people

(30:26):
from those states into states like Tennessee, Florida, and Texas.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I don't understand how they just don't know, how they.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Just can't see it, and how they just refuse and
are willing to look the other way at all of
the negative impacts that happen in those states consistently. It
it's odd to me. I don't understand it, and maybe

(30:57):
somebody can explain it to me. All right, come on
back after the break, We got one more to go.
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Speaker 2 (31:42):
Here's your host, Bow Triven.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
All right, welcome back everybody. So if you've listened to
the show for any length of time, probably heard me
quote Paul Harvey a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
I really like.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
I guess it's a poem is I'm not sure exactly
what it's called, but the and God made So God
made a farmer.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
I really like that one, and I think.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
It really illustrates how well and how much how well
revered farmers are, and how much they are necessary, and
how incredible the things that they do are.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
And so my hat goes out to all the farmers.
So I really mean that.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
I've got a number of farmers in my family, and
I know.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
How hard you guys work.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
But I saw one the other day that he wrote
in nineteen sixty five, so it was one year after
I was born, so it's either sixty years old. I
don't know if he wrote at the beginning of the
year or the end of the year, so it's either
fifty nine almost sixty, or it's sixty years old. It's
called If I Were the Devil, and I'm going to
read it to you, and I want you to think

(32:50):
about how much it connects with today. I've given you
the forty five State of Goals of Communism, which we're
in nineteen sixty three, and told you that they had
a long term game that they were playing to try
to indoctrinate all of our children. But I want you
to listen to this transcript that he wrote called If
I Were the Devil from nineteen sixty five. If I

(33:12):
were the Devil, if I were the Prince of Darkness,
I'd want to engulf the whole world in darkness, and
i'd have a third of its real estate and four
fifths of its population. But I wouldn't be happy until
I had seized the ripest apple on the tree the
So I'd set about, however necessary to take over the
United States. I'd subvert the churches first. I'd begin with

(33:32):
the campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent,
I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve,
Do as you please, to the young, I would whisper
that the Bible is a myth. I would convince them
that man created God instead of the other way around.
I would confide that what's bad is good, and what's
good is square, and the old I would teach to

(33:55):
pray after me, our father, which arn't in Washington. And
then I'd get organized. I'd educate authors in how to
make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear
dull and uninteresting. I'd threaten TV with dirtier movies and
vice versa. I'd pedal narcotics to whom I could. I'd
sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I'd tranquilize

(34:16):
the rest with pills. If I were the Devil, I'd
soon have families that war with themselves, churches at war
with themselves, and nations at war with themselves until each
in its turn was consumed, and with promises of higher ratings.
I'd have mesmerizing media, mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If
I were the Devil, I would encourage schools to refine

(34:37):
young intellects, but to neglect discipline emotions. But neglect to
discipline emotions, just let those run wild until before you
knew it, you'd have You'd have to have drug sniffing
dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door. Within a decade,
i'd have prisons overflowing. I'd have judges promoting pornography. Soon

(34:57):
I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse,
and then from the houses of Congress, and in his
own churches. I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science.
I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and
girls in church money. If I were the devil, I'd
make the symbols of Eastern egg and the symbol of
Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd take

(35:19):
from those who have and give to those who want,
until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And
what do you bet, I could get the whole States
to promote gambling as the way to get rich. I
would caution against extremes and hard work in patriotism. In
moral conduct, I would convince the young that marriage is
old fashioned, that swinging is more fun, and that what

(35:40):
you see on the TV is the way to be.
And thus I could undress you in public, and could
lure you into bed with the diseases for which there
is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil,
I'd just keep right on doing what he's doing. He
signed off with Paul Harvey, good day. That was sixty
years ago. Things were a lot different six years ago.

(36:04):
I mean, families were still growing, the United States population
was still growing. Pornography was behind closed doors and came
in brown paper wrapped packages to at least try to
hide it. Yeah, things were different back then. But if

(36:24):
you listen to it and hear what he's saying, you
recognize what's happened and that we have gotten away from
the things that made this country great, or we're at
least they're doing everything they can to get us away
from doing everything that made this country great. It is

(36:45):
seventy one percent of Democrats, seventy one percent of Democrats
who say that Trump and Elon Musk are threats to democracy.
Seventy one percent want Elon Musk in prison. Not that
they think he's broken any laws, they'd be okay with

(37:10):
creating a law that would put Elon Musk in prison.
A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and
the Heartland Survey. Heartland Institute finds that fifty four percent
of likely voters would support a hypothetical law that would
imprison Musk for his role in the Doge, including thirty

(37:30):
nine percent who would strongly support such a law. Thirty
six percent would oppose a law that would send Musk
to prison, including twenty six percent who strongly oppose it
well ten percent are not sure. Seventy one percent of
Democrats would favor a hypothetical law to put Musk behind bars,
as would eighty percent of self identified liberal voters. They

(37:53):
would be okay with a hypothetical law to put him
in jail, not that he's broken any laws, but we
eate one for him.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
What in the world are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (38:06):
You do realize that when you do that, that's a
slope that can come back to bite you when you
start making They wanted to get rid of the filibuster.
Thank god they didn't, because it would be crushing them
right now if they didn't. When the pendulum swings the
other way, you don't want to be on the receiving
end of those thought processes. And I don't think people
will really understand what they're saying. They are calling for assassinations. Assassinations,

(38:30):
they said. Fifty five point two percent of Americans on
the left reported that if someone murdered Donald Trump, they
would at least be somewhat justified. Fifty five point two
percent of people on the left said that if someone
killed Donald Trump, they would at least be somewhat justified.
Are you out of your mind? You can justify murder

(38:51):
for what he lowered your prescription drug costs, if nothing else,
Thank him for that. But these are the same people
who celebrate Luigi Mangoni for murdering a man in broad
day allegedly murdering a man in broad daylight because he
ran a company. Let me give you some quotes here

(39:13):
and once you see if you can recognize a trend.
Robert de Niro wanted Trump punch Trump in the face.
Wish they could take him behind the gym and beat
the hell out of him. That was Joe Biden wondered,
when was the last time an actor assassinated a president?

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Johnny Depp asked, where.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Is John Wilkes booth when you need him? That was
some actress named Carol Cook said, the donor class is
still going to have to go out and put a
bullet in Donald Trump. That was Rick Wilson, the head
of the Lincoln Project, thought an awful lot about blowing
up the White House. Madonna felt inspired to go to
quote go and take out Trump tonight. That's Maxine Waters

(39:58):
wished republicly that quote. Somebody would kill Donald Trump. That's
John McWhorter, who is a New York Times columnist, hope
that maybe Donald Trump will go away, maybe he'll go
to jail, maybe he will die. That's Jensaki, former press
secretary for Biden. Those are all people on the left
that are are calling violence, calling for violence, constantly calling

(40:22):
for violence, saying that they want to beat people up,
saying that somebody should put a bullet in them. You know,
there are crazy people out there that have already tried that.
How do you get that much hate in one party consistently?
Where is it coming from? How it's got to be
the devil is at work. It is absolutely insane to

(40:47):
me when you have fifty fifty five percent saying that
they really truly think it's okay to assassinate the president
of the United States of America. With the exception of
John Fetterman, who has called out the anti Semitic violence
that's on all the college campuses. I can't name a

(41:07):
single prominent Democrat, not one who has come out and
denounced any of the political violence.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Not one.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
I hear him say it for a split second when
something happens to one of theirs, but then it just
goes away. You got a guy named Nicholas Decker who
is a PhD student that wrote a tweet the other day.
It's probably three weeks ago. Now.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
He's an economics PhD student at.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
George Mason University, and I'm going to read parts of
his quote. The ultimate source of political power is and
always will be violence. If the President administration should continue
on its course, there is no choice but war. I
say this out of sorrow. When must we kill them?
If the President administration chooses this course, and the questions

(41:56):
of the day can be settled with, not with legislation,
but with blood and iron. In short, we must decide
when we must kill them. He goes on and says,
for let us make no mistake, the problem is not
one man, but a whole class of people. If one
head is cut off, another would take its place. He

(42:19):
goes on and encourages people to protest even though it's
not effectual.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
It doesn't do anything. Protests don't really do anything, but
it gave them.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
He wants them to keep protesting so they can organize
and make more connections, so that they can get to
meet each other and figure out when it's going to
be the time to rise up and literally try to
start a civil war. I got some news for you, Champ.
You're on the wrong side of that one guaranteed. I

(42:47):
have absolutely zero, zero doubt which side would prevail. But
I also have zero interest in any of that. And
I heard somebody say the other day on CNN, a
more complete and total moron said that all of the
violence is coming from the right and there's really no
equivalent on the left. I'm thinking, have you lost your mind?

(43:11):
With the exception of January sixth, which was not an insurrection,
it was simply it was bad and it should have
never happened, and absolutely people should have had consequences for
that action. But the exception of January sixth, how many
how many protests do you see from the right? What
kind of violence do you see from the right? You

(43:33):
certainly don't see any posts like that moron. The PhD
student calling for win. Must we kill them?

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Have you lost your mind?

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Paul Harvey was right sixty years ago. The devil's been
at play, and they've been at play for a while,
and he's coming in the form of the media. He's
coming in the form of the people, stoking this violence
and stoking this uprising that should never.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Have to happen. We are winning.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
We just need to keep winning. Everybody gets happy when
there's a lot of winning going on. And right now,
if you're paying any attention whatsoever, you'd know we're winning.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
All right.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
That's the end of the show.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
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