February 3, 2026 • 44 mins
This week on Bo Knows Cars, Bo talks about political bias in healthcare and ICE enforcement to illegal immigration and urban crime. Bo dissects government overreach, like federal kill switches in vehicles, and shines a light on hopeful news: fentanyl deaths are finally dropping. It's a full-throttle episode where cars take the back seat to culture, politics, and personal liberty. Brought to you by Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murfreesboro.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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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Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
All right, good morning everybody. I hope everybody is making
it through this brutally cold stretch of weather. It sucks.
I just gotta tell you. I know I say it
a lot, you guys listen to the show at all.
You know, I've said it many, many times. I hate
cold weather, and uh, it just seems like, you know,
I look back the other day and sometime I got
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up here in twenty sixteen, in March of twenty sixteen,
and I started taking pictures in seventeen of when it
got snowy and cold and everything. And I went back
and looked, and it looked to me like, based on
my own anecdotal evidence in my pictures, that between January
fifteenth and January twenty fifth, there's been like six times
in the last ten years that that ten day period
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had a stretch that was cold enough to whar We
had to close down schools, I had to close down
the business for a few days. And you let me
tell you something. You can get a car dealership to
shut down, and you know something's bad because we don't
shut down for anything. It's just brutal. And hopefully this
is the only stretch we're going to get this year.
We won't get one here in February, but who knows.
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So I gotta tell you I am scared to get
sick anymore scared to. I mean, if I'm going to
do it, at least I'm in Tennessee where I have
a better shot at not having some crazy person that
is a nurse or an stesiologist, or a nurse practitioner
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or a doctor, heaven forbid, that is going to base
their healthcare, my healthcare on if they've ever listened to
my show and my political beliefs. But I can tell
you that that over the last couple of weeks, well
since Charlie Kirk was murdered, there was a doctor who
said something about Charlie Kirk being murdered and how he
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was glad It happened standing at a counter with other
nurses and stuff in a hospital in New Jersey. A
nurse assistant reported him because he was literally talking about
how a health care practitioner talking about the death of
Charlie Kirk like it was a good thing and he
deserved it. So this nurse goes in and talks to
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the admin and says something about the doctor saying it
in front of all these people, and they suspended the nurse.
I don't know if you saw it this past week
or maybe in the last two weeks, but uh, Caroline
Levitt announced that she was pregnant, and so did Oscha
Ans And in a number of posts there was one
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a young lady and that's a nurse who is a
oegyn nurse delivering babies, wished that Caroline Levitt would have
a Grade four tear and never be able to use
the bathroom again. Normally, this is a woman who's supposed
to be have some level of compassion and to do
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no harm and all of the other things that go
along with being a healthcare practitioner, and somebody's you know,
in War Israeli doctors took care of Palestinian war injuries
just as if they were they were Israelis, it didn't matter.
You take care of the patient, that's what matters. But
these people have gone so far off the rails that
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they think it's okay to talk about somebody's political beliefs
being the thing that they will wish harm on them.
For teachers out there absolutely celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk,
teachers calling for the shooting of Ice. These men or
women of ICE are doing the job that they were
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tasked to do, enforcing the law. If you don't like
the law, change the laws, but don't shoot the messenger
for enforcing the law that other people that democratically elected
officials passed laws, and those laws were what the people
out there supporting ICE or doing the job are trying
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to do. Let me read you something because I think
it would I think it would be nice because I
read something from Bill Clinton the other day, and I'm
going to read you something here. There are those those
in the immigrants rights community who have argued passionately that
we should simply provide those who are here illegally with
legal status, or at least ignore the laws on the books,
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and put an end to deportation until we have better laws,
and often this argument is framed in moral terms. Why
should we punish who are just trying to earn a living.
I recognize the sense of compassion that drives this argument,
but I believe such an indiscriminate approach would be both
unwise and unfair. It would suggest to those thinking about
coming here illegally that there should be no repercussions for
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such a decision. This could lead to a surgeon more
illegal immigration. It would also ignore the millions of people
around the world who were waiting in line to come
here legally. Ultimately, our nation, like all nations, has the
right and the obligation to control its borders and set
laws for residency and citizenship. And no matter how decent
they are, no matter their reasons, the eleven million who
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broke these laws should be held accountable. That was Barack
Hussein Obama in two thousand and eleven talking about illegal immigration.
What happened? What changed? What changed in Minneapolis? Oh? I
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know exactly what changed? Why was there no violent lets
three weeks ago, four weeks ago in Minneapolis when ICE
was already operating in Minneapolis just like they are now.
You know what the changed? Somali fraud. The Somali fraud
in the daycare centers and all of the healthcare centers,
and all of that provided the Democratic Party, the Democratic
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leadership in Minneapolis, the need to bury that and to
start all of this ruckus with ice and start all
of the posturing and all of the protesting to try
to bury what was actually happening with the fraud. Let's distract.
That's exactly what they did. Why was there no violence
all the way up until three weeks ago. As soon
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as Nick Shirley came out with his video, the violence
started and all of the crazy people started coming out.
It's like they mobilized them. We see you, We see you,
Marxist hiding out there and trying to use your signal
chats and everything else to discuss what you're going to
do to the country. Just recognize there are a lot
of us out here that are will only be pushed
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so far. We can only be pushed so far. We're
not going to back down from doing the right thing,
and the right thing is to make sure that everybody
abides by the laws. If we don't like the laws,
let's change them. I'm all for that, and whatever the
law is I'm good with I'll fight change it if
I don't like the law. But I'm not going to
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be okay with you absolutely targeting men and women who
are just doing their jobs the way they're supposed to
do them. And by the way, if you would just
hand the criminals over that have deportation letters in a
nice orderly fashion in the jails, none of this would
be this way. You can't argue with it though. You can't.
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Like Ron White said, you can't fix stupid. You just can't.
You can't argue with them. All right, this is Bonos
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Speaker 2 (08:29):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
All right, welcome back, everybody. So the people on the left.
And when I say people on left, I don't mean
the people who are lean left. I mean the people
who literally you have no way of arguing with them.
They will not listen to rationality, They will not listen
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to common sense. They will not They refuse to understand
the magnitude of the problem, and they refuse to understand
that solution has to be through laws. It cannot be
through chaos. But let's face it, chaos is how they rain.
They've now decided that they have two martyrs. Renee Good
who absolutely hit the man with her car. Whether she
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intended to or not, I don't know. It's a split
second decision. I'm not here to judge any of that.
I'm just saying she's been made a martyr, and she
was not an innocent bystander. The ICE agents at the
time were not conducting some random sweep. They were executing
targeted individuals, arrest of individuals who had criminal records, and
she was interfering with that work and it ended up
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causing her a problem. The other guy, I can't remember
his name right now, the pretty, this preddy guy that's
supposedly a nurse that had been fired. There's video out
there now of him a week prior to him being shot,
having an altercation with ICE agents where he was being
very violent with them and trying to get in their face,
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spitting at them, broke the tail light of the car. Again,
not saying he deserved to be shot, because nobody deserves that.
But none of us are in the position of having
to make split second decisions either. Well, let me just
tell you because I read this article the other day
that painted a completely different picture of ICE. And by
the way, I want to say, once again, none of
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this stuff, none of this unrest is happening. I think
I read an article the other day that said that
seventy five or eighty percent of all of the violence
and violent encounters with ICE are happening in nine counties nationwide.
Nine seventy five percent are concentrated in nine counties. Why
is that? Chicago obviously, New York obviously, Minneapolis obviously, But
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why why these nine counties? What do they all have
in common? So let me just read a different I'm
gonna read part of this article that was from a
gentleman by the name of Kevin McCullough because it just
says it better than I can say it. In recent weeks,
ICE has conducted enforcement actions in New Jersey that look
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nothing like the caricature painted by activists. Several undocumented construction
workers were encountered by federal agents. One individual, well known
in his church community, was detained and deported after acknowledging
his unlawful status. The process was orderly, respectful, and notably,
the federal government has already offered him a legal pathway
to return to the United States. Another worker from the
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same site was briefly detained, questioned, and then released back
to his family. Here's why. He has no criminal record,
not a misdemeanor, not at DUI, not even a speeding ticket.
He's paid his taxes for every year he's lived in
this country, and he has the receipts to prove it.
He has multiple children. One of his sons currently serves
in the United States Armed Forces. Two years ago, he
began the process of applying for legal status and to
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fight the fact. Despite the fact that he is technically
here unlawfully, ICE exercised discretion. He was not deported, he
was not separated from his family. He was not treated
as a threat because he isn't won. No protest marches
were organized for him, and no national headlines were written,
no elected officials held press conferences demanding ICE be dismantled
because of his case. Why because that story doesn't serve
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the outrage economy. These ICE agents are out there doing
their job and there are way more times when they
are doing it the right way. Are there going to
be mistakes? Look, these people are human. And by the way,
I want to tell you that every morning when you
wake up and you know there's been a seven thousand
percent increase in violent encounters and threats made against ICE agents,
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and there are people actively out there trying to docs you.
What do you think your stress level is the moment
you get dressed? And by the way, these people all
need jobs to put food on the tables for their
families too. And I'm going to say it one more time,
None of this is happening in places where there are
three times as many arrests going on in Texas As
there are mini app in Minnesota three times as many.
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And we don't hear any of this crap that's going
on in Minnesota. Why because they do it orderly. They
don't have these sanctuary policies where they release the criminals
back out into the wild to continue to be criminals,
and then ICE has to go find them in neighborhoods
and pull them out in order to extract them from
the to keep the people who actually are here legally safe.
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These are bad people who have done bad things. Many
of them have convicted of child assaults, have been convicted
of sexual assaults, have been convicted of murder, some of
them convicted of murder in their own countries, and they're here.
Let's do not forget that Maduro emptied his prisons when
Joe Biden opened the borders. The prison population in Venezuela
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went down seventy five percent when Joe Biden opened the borders,
seventy five percent. Where do you think all of those
criminals that they released from Venezuelan jails went. They went
straight up to the United States, and now they're embedded
in all of our neighborhoods, and that is not safe
for the women and children. I don't feel threatened. I
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don't feel like there's much gonna happen to me. But
I do feel a sense of foreboding for my daughters,
my granddaughters, my wife, all of the females out there
that are the subjects of a lot of these criminals
and all of their sick things that they want to do.
And why people, why, especially the affluent white female liberals
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or the awfuls as they call them, would want to
protect those people and try to keep them in their neighborhoods,
is beyond the pale. To me, I don't understand it.
I will never understand it. It just does. It doesn't
compute in my brain how you can be okay with
people who are willing to do bad things to you
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and leaving them out there as if they're not going
to do more bad things makes no sense to me.
And now you've got people like the attorney general. This
is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. The Attorney General
in Arizona, the top law officer in the state of Arizona,
literally put out a video saying that stand your ground
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laws might be applicable against ice agents. Let me tell
you something, lady. I'm not a lawyer, but I know
for a fact you can't shoot a federal officer or
a police officer and stand your ground laws work. That
doesn't work. You can't be in your house and a
federal officer comes in there to arrest you and has
warrant or does whatever, you shoot them and somehow that
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stand your ground. That ain't going to work, even in
the state of Florida. But for a top law officer
to be giving advice like that, some crazy person is
going to try that. Do you not realize when you
keep this rhetoric up like that, constantly talking about Gestapo
and Hitler and Nazis and over and over and over
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again and calling for the shooting of ice officers, does
it not ever dawn on you that there are crazy
people out there that will actually believe it's okay. One
of them is in jail right now for shooting Charlie
Kirk for the crime of having conversations on university campuses.
That was his crime. That's what he did. You can
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call him all the names in the world, but all
he did was talk. He never physically hurt anybody. He
never did anything to hurt anybody. And he he espoused
his beliefs and he told you about him. But he
was a Christian man that I can't find all the
racist things people say he said. I've looked, can't find it.
But just because he didn't believe the way you believe
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does not give you the right to kill him, and
it certainly doesn't give you the right to mock it
after you've killed him. Absolutely sickening to me, and I
don't understand how they can justify it and how they
can act like it's the way it's supposed to be.
And by the way, I don't know if you if
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you have observed it, but it seems to me like
most of these observers that are out or most of
these protesters that are out there, are white women. At
least it looks that way to me, And I've wondered
why you don't see a lot of people of color
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out there. You don't see a lot of Hispanics, you
don't see a lot of All you see is white
women out there, and some of them taking their babies,
eighteen month old babies to encounter law enforcement who have
guns when anything bad can happen, somebody else in the
crowd can shoot and miss and hit you and your baby.
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Why would you put your own baby in that position
because you virtue signal thinking you're doing something good. The
reality is most of them. I saw a video the
other day of a lady saying that this the ability
to go out protest ICE is allowing her to get
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her rage out against men, and I'll quote it. All
that rage I felt towards men is coming out. I've
been trained for this moment. And then she uses the
B word. Yeah, you're showing us who you are. I
believe you. You hate men, and you're using that as
your reason to go protest ICE because most of the
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ICE agents are men. It is uh, it's an illness.
There is something creeping into the heads of these people
and it's caused an illness and I don't understand it.
They these people have all this trauma. I don't know
where it came from. Anyways. All right, this is Bonos
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Here's your host, bow.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Driven all right, welcome back everybody. So I've never personally
read all of nineteen eighty four by George Orwell. I
have seen lots and lots and lots of clips from
it and excerpts, and I think I was supposed to
read it in college, but I didn't. I think I
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used the cliff notes. But he seems to have been
very prescient in his ability to predict what's happening or
going to happen in the United States of America and
around the world, at least in the Western world. And
I'm going to give you two things that I think
kind of kind of prove that. One the federal government,
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and I think it passed under the Obama administration, but
I don't think it has been as a matter of fact,
I know it hadn't because they fifty seven Republicans just
joined the Democrats in voting for it. But the federal
government has now passed a law requiring automobile manufacturers to
put a kill switch that can be controlled by the
government into every car made after tonight. I think it's
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twenty twenty seven models and on. Now here's what Ron
DeSantis tweeted about it or ext I don't know tweeted
about it. Whatever he did. The idea that the federal
government would require auto manufacturers to equip cars with a
kill swing that can be controlled by the government is
something you'd expect in Orwell's nineteen eighty four, and yet
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that's what we did. And fifty seven Republicans have now
joined with the Democrats to be okay with so much
federal overreach that they can literally shut your car down
while you're driving down the road if they chose to.
What's worse is people could hack into the system and
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actually shut down all of the cars in the United States.
What kind of chaos do you think that would allow?
Why would anybody think it's okay for the government to
have an opportunity to shut my car down? Where are
they going to take it when Democrats get back in power.
Are they going to take to the point that they say, Look,
it's Tuesday, and you've driven more than your allotted miles
for the fossil fuels you're not allowed to burn, So
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you can't go to work today, you can't go see
Aunt Betty because you drove to work this week, and
so you've used your allotted amount of mileage allowed for
the car that you're currently driving. Let me drive the
car I want to drive. Let me pay for the
fuel I want to pay for. And by the way,
I don't buy into this man made global warming. It's
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not global warming, it's climate change. Okay, the climate change
has got it. This is absolutely. First of all, I'm
not gonna get started on the climate change thing, because
if you get me started on that, I'll rip for
another thirty or forty five minutes. But the reality is
a kill switch on automobiles. You know what's gonna do.
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It's gonna make all the cars made from twenty twenty
six and before go up in value because people.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Aren't gonna want to buy them.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
It absolutely makes no sense to me. So this was
that's one that I mean, the government is and for
people to think it's okay and want that that makes
no sense to me whatsoever. I can't imagine all of
those people that are in government, they're the ones that
they actually have cars too, Their families have cars. Do
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you want the govern controlling your family's car or do
you want to just control my car? So that's one.
The other one was I read an article the other
day and these are two completely different topics. But they
seem to show what's happening in our world too completely.
I read an article the other day about a young
lady that had unfortunately been sexually assaulted in the worst
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possible way, and it was by I think four men,
and her name was in a crowdhammer and she wrote
an article about her experience in the New Republic. And
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in that article, here's what she said about not incarcerating,
not wanting to incarcerate her accuser or her assaulters. So
why didn't she report her rape? Was it the trauma
of going through the criminal justice system? Course not, It's
because she doesn't believe in criminal justice and just wants
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to deny reality. Here's what she wrote in her article quote.
The simple answer to the question of why I never
reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition
of police and prisons. The less simple, less articulate answer
is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people
is inconceivable to me, even when they've hurt me more
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than I could have ever believed possible. Because of this,
I can only vocalize what I want in 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 alien to me. To me,
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so here's where I fall on that spectrum. Bad people
are going to do bad things. The I think the
number I saw was seventy five percent of murderers have
been arrested for or questioned or detained about for assault
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in some way prior to murdering somebody. The people that
she let go, the people that she refuses to incarcerate,
because incarcerating somebody that did bad things is a foreign
idea to her, and she just can't fathom that what
happens to the next five or six women that get
the same thing happening to them because she refused to
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believe and wanted to live in some fantasy land like
it didn't happen. I get blocking trauma out. That's not
what she's saying. She's not saying she's blocking the trauma out.
She's saying she fully recognizes the trauma is there, and
she fully recognized how bad she was hurt, and she
fully recognizes how bad those people are, but she can't
fathom the idea of taking them off the streets and
incarcerating them because it goes against everything she believes in.
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So you'd rather have somebody does that same thing go
true hold true for murderers. So if somebody kills two
or three people, you don't believe in incarcerating them and
getting them off the street. They've told you who they are.
Believe them. They've shown you what they're willing to do.
And if we don't take the bad people off the
streets and separate them from society, we lose everything it.
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Society becomes a jungle, and the jungle is the law
of the fittest right, so it's a survival of the fittest.
And most of us do not have that part in
our souls, in our dna to be okay with committing
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heinous crimes against other people. But there are people who
are willing to do that. There are serial killers, there
are serial rapists. There are serial bad people out there,
and if we don't take them off the street and
separate them from society, they're going to cont they need
to do bad things, and eventually they will just terrorize
the entire world so much that nobody knows what to
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do anymore. The only thing that separates us from the jungle.
The only thing that separates us from the jungle is
laws and our willingness to follow them. The moral code,
the moral compass, doesn't exist in some human beings as
opposed to I guess animals. You know when people say,
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oh my god, those people are animals. No, animals don't
do that. Animals don't just indiscriminately kill for no reason whatsoever.
They kill to eat, but they don't just kill to kill,
or they kill because they're trying to breed and all
of their testosterone or hormones are so completely off the charts.
They don't know how to deal with whatever it is
is going on in their brain for the moment, but
that lasts for a short period of time and then
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they go back to being normal. But you're not going
to see a serial killer lion or a serial killer ape.
I don't think humans are unique like that. We have
the ability to choose between right and wrong, the ability
to discern what is right and what is wrong, and
some people do not have the moral code to say
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that's wrong. I'm not going to do it. And the
only way you can deal with those people is to
put them aside from society. I am not saying mistreat them.
I'm not saying torture them. But we have to separate
them in order for the rest of us, in order
for the other ninety nine point seven percent of us
to be able to function as a society, we have
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to take those people off. Otherwise you live in fear
every day of is that the person that's going to
do that to me? And then it does become the
survival of the fittest. I'm going to shoot because I
think you might do something to me. I'm going to
strike first because I don't want you to strike first.
That's just not the way we're supposed to be able
to live. That is.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Not normal.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
And for those people that think that that is and
think that you can somehow live in some alice in
Wonderland through the looking glass area and say, hey, you know,
bad things happen, but they're not going to happen again.
They won't do it again. I think I told you
guys this one day not too long ago, in New
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York City, it was something like seventy eight percent or
eighty percent of all of the shoplifting was done by
like three hundred and seventy five people that had over
eight thousand arrests between them. It's a very small concentrated
number of people that were actually causing all of the
havoc in New York City, a city of eight or
ten million people. In Oakland, it was the There was
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like forty guys that represented something like seventy five percent
of all of the killings or shootings in Oakland. That's
a small percentage, but they're wreaking havoc on the rest
of the city. Most of us are good, most of
us have a moral compass. Most of us are willing
to do the right thing. There are a select few
who are who don't have that ability to discern that
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and for us to not be willing to put them
in jail. That Ma'm dommie in New York is one
who doesn't believe in incarceration. He thinks you can somehow
social work your way out of it. There are bad
people willing to do bad things that have no moral
compass whatsoever. Once again, that's where we are in society.
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We've got a government that's willing to put kill switches
on our cars. We've got people out there who believe
that we shouldn't put the criminals in jail and have
anything to do with jails at all. We should just
let them continue to roam free and do whatever they
want to whomever they want. We're going to lose our
country if we continue to have too many people that
believe that way, and we continue to vote these politicians
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in that believe that way. It is It's not for
me anyways. This is Bonos Cars brought to you by
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Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
All right, welcome back everybody. So I've been hearing a
lot of people in the mainstream media continually talk about
how the economy is tanking and the tariffs are going
to do this, tariffs are gonna do that, and blah
blah blah blah, blah blah blah and we're gonna go
into a recession, and look, the jobs market's not that good.
So I read an article a gentleman by the name
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of E. J Antoni, who's a a doctor, has a
doctorate in economics, I believe, and it was very interesting
because he was talking about the jobs report in December,
and in December, the federal government announced that we only
added fifty thousand total jobs for the month of December,
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which is not enough. We need more jobs than that, right,
So typical healthy economy is going to produce somewhere around
two hundred and twenty fives or two hundred and seventy
five thousand jobs a month, that keeps US unemployment down,
keeps everybody employed good and all that. So anyways, in
this article, he says, and I agreed with him after
reading his analysis, that they're missing the point about the
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overall jobs market. So native born employment in twenty twenty five,
meaning people will hear Americans, increased by more than two
million in twenty twenty five, while the number of foreign
born workers which jobs, increased by less than four hundred thousand,
which means that more Americans are actually working and we're
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not taking those jobs. And importing people to take them.
By the way, during the Biden administration, the annual change
in native born employment was negative, meanings Americans were losing jobs,
and all of the supposed job growth under the Biden
administration was either foreign born workers or government. But also
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here's the big one. The number of multiple job holders
went down by four hundred and forty four thousand last month.
That's the second largest drop since the COVID lockdowns in December.
At the same time, in December, the number of part
time jobs declined by seven hundred and forty thousand, and
full time employment shot up by eight hundred and ninety thousand.
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I want you to remember that. Think that about that again.
Part time jobs went down by seven hundred and forty thousand,
but full time jobs in just the month of December
went up by eight hundred ninety thousand. That's almost a
million jobs full time jobs. So if you look at
that overall, how that works for the Americans or the
people in the job market. If someone say, quitched three
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of those part time jobs that they had and replaces
them with one single full time job, that's a net
deduction of two jobs in the data, But the person's
actually way better off. Right, they're not having to work
three jobs. They can make enough money on one job.
It's also completely opposite of what was happening in the
Biden administration because the inflation and the cost of living
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crisis caused people to have to go get more jobs
just to keep up. So there's also good news in
where the jobs were created. All of the net job
creation and growth in twenty twenty five, one hundred percent
of the growth. The job growth in twenty twenty five
came from the private sector, while the government jobs declined
because of federal layoffs. Right, we just took the number
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of people. By the way, the federal government is operating
right now at two hundred and seventy seven thousand less
jobs in the federal government from January of twenty twenty
five mister Trump took office or President Trump took office
to now. That means that we have the smallest federal
workforce since twenty fourteen, and a smaller government and people
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being in the private sector is much better for the
overall economy. That means that they're actually producing things versus
being a net take. Government jobs don't produce anything, they
don't produce any income. They don't produce any wealth, and
so government jobs just take from the tax fairer. So
the more we can reduce those jobs and make those
other those people go into a workforce that are actually
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producing things for our economy, the better off we are,
all right. So I don't know how many of you
paid attention to mister Trump or President Trump's World Economic
Forum in Davos speech, but he laid into some of
the Europeans, and I'm going to tell you one of
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the things I thought was the funniest I've seen was
he kept talking to them about well, let me back up.
In twenty sixteen or seventeen, he went to the World
Economic Forum and gave a speech, and they basically laughed
at him. The Germans laughed at him when he said,
you're gonna kill yourself with being hooked on Russian oil.
If you build Nordstream too and you're buying oil from
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Putin is going to eat you up, and you're going
to regret that decision. They all laughed at him. Then
they went on and tried to use all the green
energy stuff and started building wind farms and shutting down
their nuclear power plants and all of that. And now
they're in a major crisis for energy. President Trump told
the Germans. He said, look, the problem is you're buying
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all of these windmills from and from China. But the
line that got me the most was when he said,
you know, I've been to China. I don't see any
wind farms in China. All they're making is the wind
mills and doing it using the power for the power
plants to make the windmills by using coal fire power
plants that they're building two a week of while you
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guys are over here trying to use wind energy, and
all you're doing is making China rich. Just sell the
wind farms. They're not using them, they're just selling them
to you. Makes no sense, makes no sense. He They
criticized Trump and said he doesn't know what he's doing.
His foreign policy is wrong. Turns out he's right about
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most stuff. So one of the things he said in
Europe in twenty sixteen, where there were four he told him,
you're going to kill yourself with mass migration. You need
to stop. And look what's happened. Ten years later, eight
years later, they are literally killing themselves and talking about
how there won't be a Europe in another ten twelve years,
it will just be a completely different look to the
entire continent over there. He told him NATO that they
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need they got to spend more money on their own defense.
He was right about that, and they are now, thank goodness.
He told them that they they're killing themselves with their
draconian regulations. Turns out they were absolutely right about that.
And he told them don't build the nord Stream two
pipeline because it's going to be a terrible idea, depend
on Putin's oil for energy. Turns out he was right
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about all of that. So all of these people who
all think they're so smart and all think that they
know what they're talking about and laugh at him because
he was a bombastic New York real estate man and developer,
which he is. He is bombastic. There is no doubt
he has some hyperbole in him and he's willing to
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use it. And everything is the biggest and everything is
the greatest. But that's just how the man operates. He
operates from an area of positivity. He operates from an
area of there's nothing that can't be done. Speaking of that,
he I don't know what he was doing when I
think that they have not figured out his style of negotiating.
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So when Trump first started his approach on Greenland, it
was absolutely nuts to me. And I said it, I
said that, you know, him talking the way he was
talking and acting the way he was acting made no
sense to me. Even I failed to see his overall strategy.
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I don't know if you've ever read The Art of
the Deal, but one of the things that I read
that book back in the mid nineties, I think, early
to mid nineties, ninety three to ninety four, I think,
and I remember one of these stories in that book
was talking about mar Lago, which he currently owns, and
mar Lago was owned by the Post family, the you
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know Post grape nuts and the raisin brand whatever that
theirs was. It's not that was Kellogg's raisin brand, but
Post had something else. Anyways, the serial guy that turned
it into a big company. And they his negotiations, they
they don't hold me to these numbers because they aren't right.
But I'm going to give you the overall gist. They
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wanted twenty million dollars for it, and he said, I'll
give you. I'll give fifteen million dollars. They said no.
He waited them out. They came back and said, okay,
we'll take the fifteen million. He said, no, now it's
ten million, and they said, well, we're not going to
do ten million. He said, okay, waited them out. They
came back to, okay, we'll take the ten million. He said, no,
now it's seven million. They finally just settled it the
seven million. Those aren't the right numbers, but that's the
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way the negotiation went. He started in a number, and
he just kept asking for the moon over and over
and over again until they finally just caved and he
ended up buying a property that's probably now worth eight
hundred million dollars. I'm going to guess based on what
all the other properties down there are selling for. And
he goes in asking for the absolute moon, stars and
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the rest of the universe. So that when you settle
on what he really wanted and what he really needed,
you feel like you won. It's a win win for everybody.
He got what he wanted, you got what you think
you wanted. But he did it by stirring up a
whole mess of a hornet's nest. In the whole thing
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he was going to invade Greenland. Greenland has sixty thousand people,
and the fifteen or twenty soldiers that France sent over
there to theoretically protect Greenland was a joke. Same thing
with Denmark and all the others. First of all, you
saw what we did with Venezuela in about four and
a half minutes. You guys think you're gonna be able
to stop us. If we wanted to do that, you couldn't.
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That's not what we want. We want no part of that.
But we need Greenland as a strategic part of our
defense because it's really close to Russia. And if you
think that Russia and China aren't doing everything that they
can to get their hands on Greenland, they were doing
everything they could to get in the middle of Venezuela
and using it as a base of operations to try
to infest and infect the Western hemisphere. And if it
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hadn't been for Trump, they were succeeding. And Marco Rubio,
who is the best Secretary of State probably in the
history of secretary of States, blows Clinton out of the water,
and Anthony blink in the last one under Obama was
a travesty. Trump he acted like he lost it over Greenland,
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but he was doing what he does all the time, negotiating,
negotiating through pressure, negotiating through bombastic statements, negotiating through the press.
But he was negotiating the entire time, and most of
us didn't see it. So I say we back off
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and let the man do his job, because he's doing
exactly what he needs to to protect all of us.
He wants the same thing that most of us want,
law and order and a country that is safe. That's
all we ask for. We all want to get up
in the morning, eat our breakfast, take our kids to school,
go do our jobs, and have some fun with our
friends on the weekends, and enjoy our lives. That's what
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we're here to do. Everything else is virtue signaling all right, Last,
but not least, some really good news. Fentanyl deaths are dropping,
and dropping fairly dramatically. So in twenty nineteen they were
up to thirty six thousand, but by twenty twenty three
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they were up to seventy three thousand. Right, so, Pendelda's
has been killing a lot of people. But over the
last year or so, through some of the efforts of
the Trump administration to stop the precursors from coming from China,
we're making some progress, and less Americans are dying, less
of our young people are dying, and part of that
has to do with the fact that once you see
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a couple of people die, you stop trying to do
the drugs that are killing them. Just like crack, people
that saw people hooked on crack never wanted to touch crack.
That's one of the things that stopped the crack academic
epidemic was people just saw what it was doing to
everybody and decided to go a different direction. All right,
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
All right, good morning everybody. I hope everybody is making
it through this brutally cold stretch of weather. It sucks.
I just gotta tell you. I know I say it
a lot, you guys listen to the show at all.
You know, I've said it many, many times. I hate
cold weather, and uh, it just seems like, you know,
I look back the other day and sometime I got
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up here in twenty sixteen, in March of twenty sixteen,
and I started taking pictures in seventeen of when it
got snowy and cold and everything. And I went back
and looked, and it looked to me like, based on
my own anecdotal evidence in my pictures, that between January
fifteenth and January twenty fifth, there's been like six times
in the last ten years that that ten day period
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had a stretch that was cold enough to whar We
had to close down schools, I had to close down
the business for a few days. And you let me
tell you something. You can get a car dealership to
shut down, and you know something's bad because we don't
shut down for anything. It's just brutal. And hopefully this
is the only stretch we're going to get this year.
We won't get one here in February, but who knows.
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So I gotta tell you I am scared to get
sick anymore scared to. I mean, if I'm going to
do it, at least I'm in Tennessee where I have
a better shot at not having some crazy person that
is a nurse or an stesiologist, or a nurse practitioner
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or a doctor, heaven forbid, that is going to base
their healthcare, my healthcare on if they've ever listened to
my show and my political beliefs. But I can tell
you that that over the last couple of weeks, well
since Charlie Kirk was murdered, there was a doctor who
said something about Charlie Kirk being murdered and how he
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was glad It happened standing at a counter with other
nurses and stuff in a hospital in New Jersey. A
nurse assistant reported him because he was literally talking about
how a health care practitioner talking about the death of
Charlie Kirk like it was a good thing and he
deserved it. So this nurse goes in and talks to
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the admin and says something about the doctor saying it
in front of all these people, and they suspended the nurse.
I don't know if you saw it this past week
or maybe in the last two weeks, but uh, Caroline
Levitt announced that she was pregnant, and so did Oscha
Ans And in a number of posts there was one
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a young lady and that's a nurse who is a
oegyn nurse delivering babies, wished that Caroline Levitt would have
a Grade four tear and never be able to use
the bathroom again. Normally, this is a woman who's supposed
to be have some level of compassion and to do
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no harm and all of the other things that go
along with being a healthcare practitioner, and somebody's you know,
in War Israeli doctors took care of Palestinian war injuries
just as if they were they were Israelis, it didn't matter.
You take care of the patient, that's what matters. But
these people have gone so far off the rails that
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they think it's okay to talk about somebody's political beliefs
being the thing that they will wish harm on them.
For teachers out there absolutely celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk,
teachers calling for the shooting of Ice. These men or
women of ICE are doing the job that they were
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tasked to do, enforcing the law. If you don't like
the law, change the laws, but don't shoot the messenger
for enforcing the law that other people that democratically elected
officials passed laws, and those laws were what the people
out there supporting ICE or doing the job are trying
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to do. Let me read you something because I think
it would I think it would be nice because I
read something from Bill Clinton the other day, and I'm
going to read you something here. There are those those
in the immigrants rights community who have argued passionately that
we should simply provide those who are here illegally with
legal status, or at least ignore the laws on the books,
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and put an end to deportation until we have better laws,
and often this argument is framed in moral terms. Why
should we punish who are just trying to earn a living.
I recognize the sense of compassion that drives this argument,
but I believe such an indiscriminate approach would be both
unwise and unfair. It would suggest to those thinking about
coming here illegally that there should be no repercussions for
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such a decision. This could lead to a surgeon more
illegal immigration. It would also ignore the millions of people
around the world who were waiting in line to come
here legally. Ultimately, our nation, like all nations, has the
right and the obligation to control its borders and set
laws for residency and citizenship. And no matter how decent
they are, no matter their reasons, the eleven million who
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broke these laws should be held accountable. That was Barack
Hussein Obama in two thousand and eleven talking about illegal immigration.
What happened? What changed? What changed in Minneapolis? Oh? I
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know exactly what changed? Why was there no violent lets
three weeks ago, four weeks ago in Minneapolis when ICE
was already operating in Minneapolis just like they are now.
You know what the changed? Somali fraud. The Somali fraud
in the daycare centers and all of the healthcare centers,
and all of that provided the Democratic Party, the Democratic
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leadership in Minneapolis, the need to bury that and to
start all of this ruckus with ice and start all
of the posturing and all of the protesting to try
to bury what was actually happening with the fraud. Let's distract.
That's exactly what they did. Why was there no violence
all the way up until three weeks ago. As soon
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as Nick Shirley came out with his video, the violence
started and all of the crazy people started coming out.
It's like they mobilized them. We see you, We see you,
Marxist hiding out there and trying to use your signal
chats and everything else to discuss what you're going to
do to the country. Just recognize there are a lot
of us out here that are will only be pushed
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so far. We can only be pushed so far. We're
not going to back down from doing the right thing,
and the right thing is to make sure that everybody
abides by the laws. If we don't like the laws,
let's change them. I'm all for that, and whatever the
law is I'm good with I'll fight change it if
I don't like the law. But I'm not going to
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be okay with you absolutely targeting men and women who
are just doing their jobs the way they're supposed to
do them. And by the way, if you would just
hand the criminals over that have deportation letters in a
nice orderly fashion in the jails, none of this would
be this way. You can't argue with it though. You can't.
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Like Ron White said, you can't fix stupid. You just can't.
You can't argue with them. All right, this is Bonos
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Speaker 4 (08:33):
All right, welcome back, everybody. So the people on the left.
And when I say people on left, I don't mean
the people who are lean left. I mean the people
who literally you have no way of arguing with them.
They will not listen to rationality, They will not listen
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to common sense. They will not They refuse to understand
the magnitude of the problem, and they refuse to understand
that solution has to be through laws. It cannot be
through chaos. But let's face it, chaos is how they rain.
They've now decided that they have two martyrs. Renee Good
who absolutely hit the man with her car. Whether she
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intended to or not, I don't know. It's a split
second decision. I'm not here to judge any of that.
I'm just saying she's been made a martyr, and she
was not an innocent bystander. The ICE agents at the
time were not conducting some random sweep. They were executing
targeted individuals, arrest of individuals who had criminal records, and
she was interfering with that work and it ended up
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causing her a problem. The other guy, I can't remember
his name right now, the pretty, this preddy guy that's
supposedly a nurse that had been fired. There's video out
there now of him a week prior to him being shot,
having an altercation with ICE agents where he was being
very violent with them and trying to get in their face,
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spitting at them, broke the tail light of the car. Again,
not saying he deserved to be shot, because nobody deserves that.
But none of us are in the position of having
to make split second decisions either. Well, let me just
tell you because I read this article the other day
that painted a completely different picture of ICE. And by
the way, I want to say, once again, none of
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this stuff, none of this unrest is happening. I think
I read an article the other day that said that
seventy five or eighty percent of all of the violence
and violent encounters with ICE are happening in nine counties nationwide.
Nine seventy five percent are concentrated in nine counties. Why
is that? Chicago obviously, New York obviously, Minneapolis obviously, But
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why why these nine counties? What do they all have
in common? So let me just read a different I'm
gonna read part of this article that was from a
gentleman by the name of Kevin McCullough because it just
says it better than I can say it. In recent weeks,
ICE has conducted enforcement actions in New Jersey that look
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nothing like the caricature painted by activists. Several undocumented construction
workers were encountered by federal agents. One individual, well known
in his church community, was detained and deported after acknowledging
his unlawful status. The process was orderly, respectful, and notably,
the federal government has already offered him a legal pathway
to return to the United States. Another worker from the
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same site was briefly detained, questioned, and then released back
to his family. Here's why. He has no criminal record,
not a misdemeanor, not at DUI, not even a speeding ticket.
He's paid his taxes for every year he's lived in
this country, and he has the receipts to prove it.
He has multiple children. One of his sons currently serves
in the United States Armed Forces. Two years ago, he
began the process of applying for legal status and to
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fight the fact. Despite the fact that he is technically
here unlawfully, ICE exercised discretion. He was not deported, he
was not separated from his family. He was not treated
as a threat because he isn't won. No protest marches
were organized for him, and no national headlines were written,
no elected officials held press conferences demanding ICE be dismantled
because of his case. Why because that story doesn't serve
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the outrage economy. These ICE agents are out there doing
their job and there are way more times when they
are doing it the right way. Are there going to
be mistakes? Look, these people are human. And by the way,
I want to tell you that every morning when you
wake up and you know there's been a seven thousand
percent increase in violent encounters and threats made against ICE agents,
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and there are people actively out there trying to docs you.
What do you think your stress level is the moment
you get dressed? And by the way, these people all
need jobs to put food on the tables for their
families too. And I'm going to say it one more time,
None of this is happening in places where there are
three times as many arrests going on in Texas As
there are mini app in Minnesota three times as many.
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And we don't hear any of this crap that's going
on in Minnesota. Why because they do it orderly. They
don't have these sanctuary policies where they release the criminals
back out into the wild to continue to be criminals,
and then ICE has to go find them in neighborhoods
and pull them out in order to extract them from
the to keep the people who actually are here legally safe.
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These are bad people who have done bad things. Many
of them have convicted of child assaults, have been convicted
of sexual assaults, have been convicted of murder, some of
them convicted of murder in their own countries, and they're here.
Let's do not forget that Maduro emptied his prisons when
Joe Biden opened the borders. The prison population in Venezuela
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went down seventy five percent when Joe Biden opened the borders,
seventy five percent. Where do you think all of those
criminals that they released from Venezuelan jails went. They went
straight up to the United States, and now they're embedded
in all of our neighborhoods, and that is not safe
for the women and children. I don't feel threatened. I
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don't feel like there's much gonna happen to me. But
I do feel a sense of foreboding for my daughters,
my granddaughters, my wife, all of the females out there
that are the subjects of a lot of these criminals
and all of their sick things that they want to do.
And why people, why, especially the affluent white female liberals
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or the awfuls as they call them, would want to
protect those people and try to keep them in their neighborhoods,
is beyond the pale. To me, I don't understand it.
I will never understand it. It just does. It doesn't
compute in my brain how you can be okay with
people who are willing to do bad things to you
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and leaving them out there as if they're not going
to do more bad things makes no sense to me.
And now you've got people like the attorney general. This
is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. The Attorney General
in Arizona, the top law officer in the state of Arizona,
literally put out a video saying that stand your ground
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laws might be applicable against ice agents. Let me tell
you something, lady. I'm not a lawyer, but I know
for a fact you can't shoot a federal officer or
a police officer and stand your ground laws work. That
doesn't work. You can't be in your house and a
federal officer comes in there to arrest you and has
warrant or does whatever, you shoot them and somehow that
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stand your ground. That ain't going to work, even in
the state of Florida. But for a top law officer
to be giving advice like that, some crazy person is
going to try that. Do you not realize when you
keep this rhetoric up like that, constantly talking about Gestapo
and Hitler and Nazis and over and over and over
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again and calling for the shooting of ice officers, does
it not ever dawn on you that there are crazy
people out there that will actually believe it's okay. One
of them is in jail right now for shooting Charlie
Kirk for the crime of having conversations on university campuses.
That was his crime. That's what he did. You can
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call him all the names in the world, but all
he did was talk. He never physically hurt anybody. He
never did anything to hurt anybody. And he he espoused
his beliefs and he told you about him. But he
was a Christian man that I can't find all the
racist things people say he said. I've looked, can't find it.
But just because he didn't believe the way you believe
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does not give you the right to kill him, and
it certainly doesn't give you the right to mock it
after you've killed him. Absolutely sickening to me, and I
don't understand how they can justify it and how they
can act like it's the way it's supposed to be.
And by the way, I don't know if you if
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you have observed it, but it seems to me like
most of these observers that are out or most of
these protesters that are out there, are white women. At
least it looks that way to me, And I've wondered
why you don't see a lot of people of color
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out there. You don't see a lot of Hispanics, you
don't see a lot of All you see is white
women out there, and some of them taking their babies,
eighteen month old babies to encounter law enforcement who have
guns when anything bad can happen, somebody else in the
crowd can shoot and miss and hit you and your baby.
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Why would you put your own baby in that position
because you virtue signal thinking you're doing something good. The
reality is most of them. I saw a video the
other day of a lady saying that this the ability
to go out protest ICE is allowing her to get
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her rage out against men, and I'll quote it. All
that rage I felt towards men is coming out. I've
been trained for this moment. And then she uses the
B word. Yeah, you're showing us who you are. I
believe you. You hate men, and you're using that as
your reason to go protest ICE because most of the
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ICE agents are men. It is uh, it's an illness.
There is something creeping into the heads of these people
and it's caused an illness and I don't understand it.
They these people have all this trauma. I don't know
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Speaker 4 (19:31):
Driven all right, welcome back everybody. So I've never personally
read all of nineteen eighty four by George Orwell. I
have seen lots and lots and lots of clips from
it and excerpts, and I think I was supposed to
read it in college, but I didn't. I think I
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used the cliff notes. But he seems to have been
very prescient in his ability to predict what's happening or
going to happen in the United States of America and
around the world, at least in the Western world. And
I'm going to give you two things that I think
kind of kind of prove that. One the federal government,
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and I think it passed under the Obama administration, but
I don't think it has been as a matter of fact,
I know it hadn't because they fifty seven Republicans just
joined the Democrats in voting for it. But the federal
government has now passed a law requiring automobile manufacturers to
put a kill switch that can be controlled by the
government into every car made after tonight. I think it's
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twenty twenty seven models and on. Now here's what Ron
DeSantis tweeted about it or ext I don't know tweeted
about it. Whatever he did. The idea that the federal
government would require auto manufacturers to equip cars with a
kill swing that can be controlled by the government is
something you'd expect in Orwell's nineteen eighty four, and yet
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that's what we did. And fifty seven Republicans have now
joined with the Democrats to be okay with so much
federal overreach that they can literally shut your car down
while you're driving down the road if they chose to.
What's worse is people could hack into the system and
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actually shut down all of the cars in the United States.
What kind of chaos do you think that would allow?
Why would anybody think it's okay for the government to
have an opportunity to shut my car down? Where are
they going to take it when Democrats get back in power.
Are they going to take to the point that they say, Look,
it's Tuesday, and you've driven more than your allotted miles
for the fossil fuels you're not allowed to burn, So
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you can't go to work today, you can't go see
Aunt Betty because you drove to work this week, and
so you've used your allotted amount of mileage allowed for
the car that you're currently driving. Let me drive the
car I want to drive. Let me pay for the
fuel I want to pay for. And by the way,
I don't buy into this man made global warming. It's
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not global warming, it's climate change. Okay, the climate change
has got it. This is absolutely. First of all, I'm
not gonna get started on the climate change thing, because
if you get me started on that, I'll rip for
another thirty or forty five minutes. But the reality is
a kill switch on automobiles. You know what's gonna do.
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It's gonna make all the cars made from twenty twenty
six and before go up in value because people.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Aren't gonna want to buy them.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
It absolutely makes no sense to me. So this was
that's one that I mean, the government is and for
people to think it's okay and want that that makes
no sense to me whatsoever. I can't imagine all of
those people that are in government, they're the ones that
they actually have cars too, Their families have cars. Do
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you want the govern controlling your family's car or do
you want to just control my car? So that's one.
The other one was I read an article the other
day and these are two completely different topics. But they
seem to show what's happening in our world too completely.
I read an article the other day about a young
lady that had unfortunately been sexually assaulted in the worst
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possible way, and it was by I think four men,
and her name was in a crowdhammer and she wrote
an article about her experience in the New Republic. And
(23:50):
in that article, here's what she said about not incarcerating,
not wanting to incarcerate her accuser or her assaulters. So
why didn't she report her rape? Was it the trauma
of going through the criminal justice system? Course not, It's
because she doesn't believe in criminal justice and just wants
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to deny reality. Here's what she wrote in her article quote.
The simple answer to the question of why I never
reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition
of police and prisons. The less simple, less articulate answer
is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people
is inconceivable to me, even when they've hurt me more
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than I could have ever believed possible. Because of this,
I can only vocalize what I want in 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 alien to me. To me,
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so here's where I fall on that spectrum. Bad people
are going to do bad things. The I think the
number I saw was seventy five percent of murderers have
been arrested for or questioned or detained about for assault
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in some way prior to murdering somebody. The people that
she let go, the people that she refuses to incarcerate,
because incarcerating somebody that did bad things is a foreign
idea to her, and she just can't fathom that what
happens to the next five or six women that get
the same thing happening to them because she refused to
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believe and wanted to live in some fantasy land like
it didn't happen. I get blocking trauma out. That's not
what she's saying. She's not saying she's blocking the trauma out.
She's saying she fully recognizes the trauma is there, and
she fully recognized how bad she was hurt, and she
fully recognizes how bad those people are, but she can't
fathom the idea of taking them off the streets and
incarcerating them because it goes against everything she believes in.
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So you'd rather have somebody does that same thing go
true hold true for murderers. So if somebody kills two
or three people, you don't believe in incarcerating them and
getting them off the street. They've told you who they are.
Believe them. They've shown you what they're willing to do.
And if we don't take the bad people off the
streets and separate them from society, we lose everything it.
(26:24):
Society becomes a jungle, and the jungle is the law
of the fittest right, so it's a survival of the fittest.
And most of us do not have that part in
our souls, in our dna to be okay with committing
(26:44):
heinous crimes against other people. But there are people who
are willing to do that. There are serial killers, there
are serial rapists. There are serial bad people out there,
and if we don't take them off the street and
separate them from society, they're going to cont they need
to do bad things, and eventually they will just terrorize
the entire world so much that nobody knows what to
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do anymore. The only thing that separates us from the jungle.
The only thing that separates us from the jungle is
laws and our willingness to follow them. The moral code,
the moral compass, doesn't exist in some human beings as
opposed to I guess animals. You know when people say,
(27:28):
oh my god, those people are animals. No, animals don't
do that. Animals don't just indiscriminately kill for no reason whatsoever.
They kill to eat, but they don't just kill to kill,
or they kill because they're trying to breed and all
of their testosterone or hormones are so completely off the charts.
They don't know how to deal with whatever it is
is going on in their brain for the moment, but
that lasts for a short period of time and then
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they go back to being normal. But you're not going
to see a serial killer lion or a serial killer ape.
I don't think humans are unique like that. We have
the ability to choose between right and wrong, the ability
to discern what is right and what is wrong, and
some people do not have the moral code to say
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that's wrong. I'm not going to do it. And the
only way you can deal with those people is to
put them aside from society. I am not saying mistreat them.
I'm not saying torture them. But we have to separate
them in order for the rest of us, in order
for the other ninety nine point seven percent of us
to be able to function as a society, we have
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to take those people off. Otherwise you live in fear
every day of is that the person that's going to
do that to me? And then it does become the
survival of the fittest. I'm going to shoot because I
think you might do something to me. I'm going to
strike first because I don't want you to strike first.
That's just not the way we're supposed to be able
to live. That is.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Not normal.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
And for those people that think that that is and
think that you can somehow live in some alice in
Wonderland through the looking glass area and say, hey, you know,
bad things happen, but they're not going to happen again.
They won't do it again. I think I told you
guys this one day not too long ago, in New
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York City, it was something like seventy eight percent or
eighty percent of all of the shoplifting was done by
like three hundred and seventy five people that had over
eight thousand arrests between them. It's a very small concentrated
number of people that were actually causing all of the
havoc in New York City, a city of eight or
ten million people. In Oakland, it was the There was
(29:36):
like forty guys that represented something like seventy five percent
of all of the killings or shootings in Oakland. That's
a small percentage, but they're wreaking havoc on the rest
of the city. Most of us are good, most of
us have a moral compass. Most of us are willing
to do the right thing. There are a select few
who are who don't have that ability to discern that
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and for us to not be willing to put them
in jail. That Ma'm dommie in New York is one
who doesn't believe in incarceration. He thinks you can somehow
social work your way out of it. There are bad
people willing to do bad things that have no moral
compass whatsoever. Once again, that's where we are in society.
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We've got a government that's willing to put kill switches
on our cars. We've got people out there who believe
that we shouldn't put the criminals in jail and have
anything to do with jails at all. We should just
let them continue to roam free and do whatever they
want to whomever they want. We're going to lose our
country if we continue to have too many people that
believe that way, and we continue to vote these politicians
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in that believe that way. It is It's not for
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Speaker 4 (31:32):
All right, welcome back everybody. So I've been hearing a
lot of people in the mainstream media continually talk about
how the economy is tanking and the tariffs are going
to do this, tariffs are gonna do that, and blah
blah blah blah, blah blah blah and we're gonna go
into a recession, and look, the jobs market's not that good.
So I read an article a gentleman by the name
(31:54):
of E. J Antoni, who's a a doctor, has a
doctorate in economics, I believe, and it was very interesting
because he was talking about the jobs report in December,
and in December, the federal government announced that we only
added fifty thousand total jobs for the month of December,
(32:16):
which is not enough. We need more jobs than that, right,
So typical healthy economy is going to produce somewhere around
two hundred and twenty fives or two hundred and seventy
five thousand jobs a month, that keeps US unemployment down,
keeps everybody employed good and all that. So anyways, in
this article, he says, and I agreed with him after
reading his analysis, that they're missing the point about the
(32:38):
overall jobs market. So native born employment in twenty twenty five,
meaning people will hear Americans, increased by more than two
million in twenty twenty five, while the number of foreign
born workers which jobs, increased by less than four hundred thousand,
which means that more Americans are actually working and we're
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not taking those jobs. And importing people to take them.
By the way, during the Biden administration, the annual change
in native born employment was negative, meanings Americans were losing jobs,
and all of the supposed job growth under the Biden
administration was either foreign born workers or government. But also
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here's the big one. The number of multiple job holders
went down by four hundred and forty four thousand last month.
That's the second largest drop since the COVID lockdowns in December.
At the same time, in December, the number of part
time jobs declined by seven hundred and forty thousand, and
full time employment shot up by eight hundred and ninety thousand.
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I want you to remember that. Think that about that again.
Part time jobs went down by seven hundred and forty thousand,
but full time jobs in just the month of December
went up by eight hundred ninety thousand. That's almost a
million jobs full time jobs. So if you look at
that overall, how that works for the Americans or the
people in the job market. If someone say, quitched three
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of those part time jobs that they had and replaces
them with one single full time job, that's a net
deduction of two jobs in the data, But the person's
actually way better off. Right, they're not having to work
three jobs. They can make enough money on one job.
It's also completely opposite of what was happening in the
Biden administration because the inflation and the cost of living
(34:26):
crisis caused people to have to go get more jobs
just to keep up. So there's also good news in
where the jobs were created. All of the net job
creation and growth in twenty twenty five, one hundred percent
of the growth. The job growth in twenty twenty five
came from the private sector, while the government jobs declined
because of federal layoffs. Right, we just took the number
(34:48):
of people. By the way, the federal government is operating
right now at two hundred and seventy seven thousand less
jobs in the federal government from January of twenty twenty
five mister Trump took office or President Trump took office
to now. That means that we have the smallest federal
workforce since twenty fourteen, and a smaller government and people
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being in the private sector is much better for the
overall economy. That means that they're actually producing things versus
being a net take. Government jobs don't produce anything, they
don't produce any income. They don't produce any wealth, and
so government jobs just take from the tax fairer. So
the more we can reduce those jobs and make those
other those people go into a workforce that are actually
(35:32):
producing things for our economy, the better off we are,
all right. So I don't know how many of you
paid attention to mister Trump or President Trump's World Economic
Forum in Davos speech, but he laid into some of
the Europeans, and I'm going to tell you one of
(35:54):
the things I thought was the funniest I've seen was
he kept talking to them about well, let me back up.
In twenty sixteen or seventeen, he went to the World
Economic Forum and gave a speech, and they basically laughed
at him. The Germans laughed at him when he said,
you're gonna kill yourself with being hooked on Russian oil.
If you build Nordstream too and you're buying oil from
(36:16):
Putin is going to eat you up, and you're going
to regret that decision. They all laughed at him. Then
they went on and tried to use all the green
energy stuff and started building wind farms and shutting down
their nuclear power plants and all of that. And now
they're in a major crisis for energy. President Trump told
the Germans. He said, look, the problem is you're buying
(36:39):
all of these windmills from and from China. But the
line that got me the most was when he said,
you know, I've been to China. I don't see any
wind farms in China. All they're making is the wind
mills and doing it using the power for the power
plants to make the windmills by using coal fire power
plants that they're building two a week of while you
(37:00):
guys are over here trying to use wind energy, and
all you're doing is making China rich. Just sell the
wind farms. They're not using them, they're just selling them
to you. Makes no sense, makes no sense. He They
criticized Trump and said he doesn't know what he's doing.
His foreign policy is wrong. Turns out he's right about
(37:23):
most stuff. So one of the things he said in
Europe in twenty sixteen, where there were four he told him,
you're going to kill yourself with mass migration. You need
to stop. And look what's happened. Ten years later, eight
years later, they are literally killing themselves and talking about
how there won't be a Europe in another ten twelve years,
it will just be a completely different look to the
entire continent over there. He told him NATO that they
(37:47):
need they got to spend more money on their own defense.
He was right about that, and they are now, thank goodness.
He told them that they they're killing themselves with their
draconian regulations. Turns out they were absolutely right about that.
And he told them don't build the nord Stream two
pipeline because it's going to be a terrible idea, depend
on Putin's oil for energy. Turns out he was right
(38:09):
about all of that. So all of these people who
all think they're so smart and all think that they
know what they're talking about and laugh at him because
he was a bombastic New York real estate man and developer,
which he is. He is bombastic. There is no doubt
he has some hyperbole in him and he's willing to
(38:29):
use it. And everything is the biggest and everything is
the greatest. But that's just how the man operates. He
operates from an area of positivity. He operates from an
area of there's nothing that can't be done. Speaking of that,
he I don't know what he was doing when I
think that they have not figured out his style of negotiating.
(38:52):
So when Trump first started his approach on Greenland, it
was absolutely nuts to me. And I said it, I
said that, you know, him talking the way he was
talking and acting the way he was acting made no
sense to me. Even I failed to see his overall strategy.
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I don't know if you've ever read The Art of
the Deal, but one of the things that I read
that book back in the mid nineties, I think, early
to mid nineties, ninety three to ninety four, I think,
and I remember one of these stories in that book
was talking about mar Lago, which he currently owns, and
mar Lago was owned by the Post family, the you
(39:34):
know Post grape nuts and the raisin brand whatever that
theirs was. It's not that was Kellogg's raisin brand, but
Post had something else. Anyways, the serial guy that turned
it into a big company. And they his negotiations, they
they don't hold me to these numbers because they aren't right.
But I'm going to give you the overall gist. They
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wanted twenty million dollars for it, and he said, I'll
give you. I'll give fifteen million dollars. They said no.
He waited them out. They came back and said, okay,
we'll take the fifteen million. He said, no, now it's
ten million, and they said, well, we're not going to
do ten million. He said, okay, waited them out. They
came back to, okay, we'll take the ten million. He said, no,
now it's seven million. They finally just settled it the
seven million. Those aren't the right numbers, but that's the
(40:16):
way the negotiation went. He started in a number, and
he just kept asking for the moon over and over
and over again until they finally just caved and he
ended up buying a property that's probably now worth eight
hundred million dollars. I'm going to guess based on what
all the other properties down there are selling for. And
he goes in asking for the absolute moon, stars and
(40:38):
the rest of the universe. So that when you settle
on what he really wanted and what he really needed,
you feel like you won. It's a win win for everybody.
He got what he wanted, you got what you think
you wanted. But he did it by stirring up a
whole mess of a hornet's nest. In the whole thing
(40:59):
he was going to invade Greenland. Greenland has sixty thousand people,
and the fifteen or twenty soldiers that France sent over
there to theoretically protect Greenland was a joke. Same thing
with Denmark and all the others. First of all, you
saw what we did with Venezuela in about four and
a half minutes. You guys think you're gonna be able
to stop us. If we wanted to do that, you couldn't.
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That's not what we want. We want no part of that.
But we need Greenland as a strategic part of our
defense because it's really close to Russia. And if you
think that Russia and China aren't doing everything that they
can to get their hands on Greenland, they were doing
everything they could to get in the middle of Venezuela
and using it as a base of operations to try
to infest and infect the Western hemisphere. And if it
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hadn't been for Trump, they were succeeding. And Marco Rubio,
who is the best Secretary of State probably in the
history of secretary of States, blows Clinton out of the water,
and Anthony blink in the last one under Obama was
a travesty. Trump he acted like he lost it over Greenland,
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but he was doing what he does all the time, negotiating,
negotiating through pressure, negotiating through bombastic statements, negotiating through the press.
But he was negotiating the entire time, and most of
us didn't see it. So I say we back off
(42:25):
and let the man do his job, because he's doing
exactly what he needs to to protect all of us.
He wants the same thing that most of us want,
law and order and a country that is safe. That's
all we ask for. We all want to get up
in the morning, eat our breakfast, take our kids to school,
go do our jobs, and have some fun with our
friends on the weekends, and enjoy our lives. That's what
(42:47):
we're here to do. Everything else is virtue signaling all right, Last,
but not least, some really good news. Fentanyl deaths are dropping,
and dropping fairly dramatically. So in twenty nineteen they were
up to thirty six thousand, but by twenty twenty three
(43:09):
they were up to seventy three thousand. Right, so, Pendelda's
has been killing a lot of people. But over the
last year or so, through some of the efforts of
the Trump administration to stop the precursors from coming from China,
we're making some progress, and less Americans are dying, less
of our young people are dying, and part of that
has to do with the fact that once you see
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a couple of people die, you stop trying to do
the drugs that are killing them. Just like crack, people
that saw people hooked on crack never wanted to touch crack.
That's one of the things that stopped the crack academic
epidemic was people just saw what it was doing to
everybody and decided to go a different direction. All right,
that's the good news. Anyways, this is Bonos Cars Ranch
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