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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Monday Cities, The Jesse Kelly Show, Another hour of The
Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Monday. Now, we have
all kinds of political stuff we're going to talk about
this hour, but we have to put a pause on
those things because you know what time it is. It's
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Medal of Honor Monday Time. We'll get back to the
institution and the lies and everything else, but for right now,
it's Medal of Honor Monday Time. Every single Monday started
the second hour, we do the exact same thing. We
pick a hero, we honor his sacrifice, we honor his service.
Today we're going to honor it. David Richard Kingsley. He
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was born in Portland, Oregon, nineteen eighteen. Remember this, Being
in an airplane in World War Two of any kind
was a very very dangerous affair. We hadel die flying
back home on hospital planes, getting shot at. There's just
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there's no armor. It was unbelievably dangerous. The Eighth Air Force,
those were the ones doing the bombing runs over Germany,
had more men die than the Marines did fighting the
Japanese in the Pacific. Did you know that? That's how
insanely dangerous it was? These guys died at such an
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alarming rate that they would get sent back home after
they reached a certain number of missions. After a certain
number of missions, they just said, man, you're on borrowed time.
Go home, because you ain't making it very much longer,
very dangerous, frightening for many people taking off and landing
in an airplane, maybe just flying in it itself is scary. Yeah,
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let's drop the temperatures to like twenty below. Let's have
what essentially amounts to grenade explosions that would be flack
grenade explosions all around you, other fighter jets firing machine
guns into you. It's horrific. And if your plane becomes
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disabled and begins to collapse, you have a long time
to sit and dwell on your end. It's not going
to come in ten seconds. You are going to slowly
descend to the earth. Ugly, ugly, ugly stuff. And they
all knew it. So let's read about David Richard Kingsley
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honoring those who went above and beyond. It's Medal of
Honor Monday for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity and action at
the risk of life, above and beyond the color duty
on the twenty third of June nineteen forty four near Plost, Rumania,
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while flying as a bombadier of a B seventeen type
aircraft that would be the B seventeen Flying Fortress by
the way, our heavy bomber. On the bomb run, Second
Lieutenant Kingsley's aircraft was severely damaged by intense flack and
forced to drop out of formation, but the pilot proceeded
over the target and Second Lieutenant Kingsley successfully dropped his bombs,
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causing severe damage to vital installations. The damaged aircraft, forced
to lose altitude and lag behind the formation, was aggressively
attacked by three ME one zero nine aircraft, causing more
damage to the aircraft and severely wounding the tailgunner in
the upper arm. The radio operator an engineer, notified Second
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Lieutenant Kingsley that the tailgunner had been wounded and that
assistance was needed to check the bleak. Second Lieutenant Kingsley
made his way back to the radio radio room, skillfully
applied first aid to the wound and succeeded in checking
the bleeding. The tailgunner's parachute harness and heavy clothes were
removed and he was covered with blankets making him as
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comfortable as possible. Eight ME one zero nine aircraft again
aggressively attacked Second Lieutenant Kingsley's aircraft, and the balterate gunner
was wounded by twenty millimeters shell fragments. The bal turret
gunner is the guy who was in the ball underneath
the plane. Very dangerous job. He went forward to the
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radio room to have Second Lieutenant Kingsley administer first aid.
A few minutes later, when the pilot gave the order
to prepare to bail out, Second Lieutenant Kingsley immediately began
to assist the wounded gunners in putting on their parachute harness.
In the confusion, the tailgunner's harness, believed to have been damaged,
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could not be located in the bundle of blankets and
flying clothes which had been removed from the wounded men.
With utter disregard for his own means of escape, Second
Lieutenant Kingsley unhesitatingly removed his parachute harness and adjusted it
to the wounded tail gunner. Due to the extensive damage
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caused by the accurate and concentrated twenty millimeter fire by
the enemy aircraft, the pilot gave the order to bail out,
as it appeared the aircraft would disintegrate any moment. Second
Lieutenant Kingsley aided the wounded men and bailing out, and
when last seen by his crew members, he was standing
on the bombay catwalk the aircraft by the way the
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bombays the doors that open under obviously where the bombs
drop out, and there there's a there's a divider you
can stand on that. That would be if you could,
where you would bail out. You'd drop out of the
bottom of that in your parachute, all right. The aircraft
continued to fly on automatic pilot for a short distance,
then crashed and burned. His body was later found in
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the wreckage. Second Lieutenant Kingsley, by his gallant and heroic action,
was directly responsible for saving the life of the wounded gunner.
Imagine that kind of bravery in the middle of that
kind of combat airplane possibly about to come apart in
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the sky, and you take off your one chance at
survival and strap it to your buddy. You then help
him out of the plane and say good luck, boys,
you have no chance, zero, done none. You give your
life for your friend. That's amazing, and the man deserves tabs,
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doesn't he. In case you are wondering, just a little
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tidbit on logistics and why these planes would find themselves
in these situations. Remember that this is a different era
for airplanes, different era when it came to communication, radar,
things like that airplanes of any kind Pacific Europe fighters, bombers,
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if they were wounded or even just got confused or something,
they would lose the other airplanes and you're on your own.
If there's an airplane that's too badly wounded, you have
to leave them behind for the good of every other
aircraft you and you would know all your fellow flyers.
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You would have to say, hey man, we gotta go goodbye.
I'm sorry, and good luck. That's one. Now, what is
that moment like when you're in the plane that has
been wounded and you know there are enemy planes still
out there, and the rest of the formation takes off
and now you're alone. You're alone, surrounded by enemies and
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maybe you're wondering where were our fighter planes? That was
a never ending challenge during World War Two. It always
has been, always will be a challenge finding a plane,
especially a fighter plane that had the fuel range to
stay with the bombers. The bombers, like a B seventeen,
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has four big engines, can hold all kinds of fuel.
You can't have a fighter plane like that, or it
wouldn't be able to move and fight like a fighter plane.
It can't hold that much fuel. We couldn't send our
fighters to escort our bombers as far as the bombers went,
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so you would have a fighter escort for a while,
but eventually your fighter escort has to go back home
because they're out of gas. And now you're a big
fat cow in the sky and you have a bunch
of wolves surrounding you. And those friggin Germans they knew
what they were doing. It was just those guys are
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absurdly brave. If it's a subject that interests you, please
pick up books on it, or watch a documentary or
listen to something. Jewish producer Chris does audiobooks. As you know,
the air war over Europe absurd, crazy cool. All right,
we're gonna talk about lies because a member of the
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media is complaining right now about our lack of trust,
so we're gonna touch on institutional trust again. It is
the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, fantastic Monday. Don't forget.
You can email the show Jesse Jesse kellyshow dot com
and we will get to a bunch of those. Now,
one of our oldest triest triest I don't think that's
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the word. Truest things we have. That's what I was
trying to say, truest things we have on the soundboard.
It's this little tibbitt you've heard many times before. Now, kiss,
you're wondering who this is. Her name is Catherine Mayer.
She's actually the head of NPR, which is a whole
other set of problems. But she got a little too honest.
Give it a speech one day and she said this,
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You know how I say communists lie about everything all
the time? She kind of tells you why.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I think our reverence for the truth might become might
have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing
us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Let me play it for you again. Why do you
lie about everything about everything all the time? How could you?
How could you justify that in your mind? When you
just tell these lies about huge lies, How could you
justify it?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I think our reverence for the truth might become might
have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing
us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, no, there's a cost to lie. In fact, I'll
play you another good one. Do you remember Jasmine Crockett,
the race communist in Texas? Always, always, always I'm blaming
black this and black dad, And she's this person.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know, there are those that have their own motivations
for critiquing and you know, I think that the people.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Is just racism and sexism. Like what do you think
it is?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I I mean, I think there's a lot of things.
I think it depends on who's coming from. But I've
been a black woman my whole life. So this idea
that I'm gonna go and be like, oh, well, they're
being racist or misogynistic towards me, Like you think I
didn't know I was a black woman when I woke up,
and the side of it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
We got it. She's just a race communist. That's how
she is very useful for the cause for the revolution.
Remember when Jasmine Crockett got up on the house floor
after the Jeffrey Epstein stuff came out and she blamed
Lee Zelden said, Lee Zelden was part of it. Remember
that we played the audio of it back in the day.
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She said, well, Lee Selden, Jeffrey Epstein. Only oops, it
wasn't It wasn't the right Jeffrey Eppsteed. There are many
Jeffrey Epstein's. I mean, I'm assuming it's a fairly common name.
It's not that uncommon. But she just got up and
told a lie. This This was her being asked about it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
But we know when I see the moment on the
house where you seem to accuse Republican Lezelle that I'm
taking money from Jeffrey Epstein. But it seemed like if
it was not the same person. I wonder like, is
there times in which the rhetoric goes too far? There
are times in which you should say, you know, maybe
I messed that one up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
No, not in this environment. I don't I think that.
You know, we are really in uncharted territory.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I told an outright lie. Do you regret that she
did not have done that? Well, no, I'm an uncharted territory.
The revolution is too important. They justified in their minds
because they're fighting a revolution they believe is bigger and
more important than things like the truth. They believe the
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communist revolution they are fighting is bigger and more important
than anything. So we got all that, But here is
the problem the communist always runs into. That's why there
is always a shelf life on communist revolutions, on communist regimes,
there is always a shelf life, always has been, always
will be because the communist fundamentally misunderstands something. He understands
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a lot of things about human nature, but he does
not understand this part. Institutional trust is the power the
institution has. He gets that much. The institutions that are
out there, the only power they have is the trust
people give them. If people stop trusting them, the institutional
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power completely disappears. Gone over done. Harvard Harvard's actually a
perfect example of this. My entire life. Harvard was the
elite of the elite, that's where only the best and
the brightest win and whatnot. But Harvard pretended convinced itself
that that would always be the case. Then they started
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kicking all the Asians off of campus, started bringing in
people who weren't qualified to be there. Slowly but surely,
Harvard is becoming something people scoff at. That trust was
the power of Harvard being able to say, you had
your degree behind you, I graduated Harvard. That was its power,
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the reverence, the trust people gave it. What the communist
doesn't understand is that's not permanent. The communist thinks institutional
trust is permanent, and he treats institutional trust as if
it is permanent, when it is anything but permanent. The
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institution only ever gained its trust because it was honest,
because it was good, because it did things that were
good and right and better for society. Harvard only ever
became Harvard because Harvard not only took in the best
and brightest. Harvard was graduating the best and brightest, and
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they would go on and do wonderful things in society,
and they would lead this, and they'd be this, and
they would do that. And therefore Harvard's brand only increase
the better it did. But Harvard made the same mistake
every single communist makes forever. Harvard thought it could last
no matter what Harvard did, and that's simply not true.
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Once Harvard kicked all the Asians out and started bringing
in all the dei hires who can't do basic math,
whoa the brand started to fade. It's fading. Now there's
a great lesson for Peggy Noonan. Talk about that lesson
next Jesse Kelly's show on a Magnificent Monday. Don't forget.
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If you miss any part of the show, you can
download at iHeart, Spotify iTunes. So Peggy Noonan is one
of these journalist types. She has a quote out there
and I just don't think she understands. Here's the quote.
I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism,
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but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen,
something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we'll
need most literally to survive is information, reliable information, a
way to get it and then to get it to
the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information. No, Peggy,
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that's what journalism was, and more specifically, let's be honest.
That's how Peggy and all the mainstream journalism types, that's
how they want you to view journalism. But journalism isn't
trusted anymore because of the conduct of journalists. You communists
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thought you could take over the journalism schools, you could
take over all the media, all the major corporate press,
from television to newspapers. You thought you could conquer all
these revered institutions and then use them for the communist revolution,
and the trust people gave that institution wouldn't go anywhere.
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You thought you could lie about everything all the time
and the institutional trust would be etched in stone. But
that's not how human beings work. Institutional trust can disappear
way faster than it is earned, way faster. It takes
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years and years and years of trust to actually give
that institution true power, and that trust can disappear like that.
Remember Catherine Herridge, she was a wonderful journalist for CBS.
She's an investigative journalist. I want you to listen to
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what she said about CBS. Now, keep in mind, we
know from the numbers that came out after if you
set aside all the election cheating, Joe Biden doesn't quote
win the twenty twenty election. If the society of American
society knows about Hunter Biden's laptop, Joe Biden's son, all
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kinds of felonies, ugly pictures on there, Joe Biden never
walks into the White House. We get eight straight years
of Donald Trump. We never get twenty million new foreigners.
We don't get all these things we would have missed out.
Hold on why didn't the American public? No, hey, Catherine,
why didn't.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
We know when we did the story? We did it
after the midterms. I argued against that because it was
ready before the midterms, and my training is that you
should always do the story when it's ready to go.
You should not be dictated by the political cycle. I
spent a lot of my time at CBS following the
Hunter Biden story, and one of the things that really
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struck me is is this kind of disconnect. I didn't
understand how a senior executive like George Chiefs could tell
me that this was a high priority for the network
and for his boss, and yet the executives at CBS News,
show producers, anchors could refuse that. I came to the
conclusion that they must have felt that they were more
powerful than George Cheeks, which was astonishing to me. I'd
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never worked at a place where a directive from the
top would be so defied.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Catherine tells us more.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Once we got the laptop story on the Morning News,
I felt that there was so much there that we
could still do. For example, in the text messages, there's
unfortunately the use of the word, the liberal use of
the N word, and I thought this was worthy of
a story, but I was told that it was not
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something that interested CBS News. Then I asked for a
forensic review of the laptop and we found that there
were more than half a dozen emails that were likely
used by Joe Biden. I thought that was a story,
but the answer that came back was, well, we need
to know what the content is of the emails, but
that was going to be a year's long process, so
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there was no way. So there were just there were
a lot of reasons I was told not to do it,
not to pursue it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
The communists who run the American media, they thought they
could take it over and use that institution however they wanted,
including lying about everything all the time, and that will
work for a period of time, but eventually the lies
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will come get you. The people will remove their trust
from the institution. And the institution only has the power
if the people trust it. What is CBS? What is
CBS if the American public? If enough people in the
American public think they're a bunch of dirty commie liars,
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what does CBS become? Nothing becomes nothing? What is the
New York Times, ABC, NBCCNN, MSNBC, anybody, what does it become?
How much power do they have? If people change the
channel and assume they're lying about everything all the time,
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they become nothing nothing? Uh? This show? You listen? Maybe
you listen every day all three hours. Maybe not. Maybe
it's a fifteen minute thing for you. I'm on the
way home from work. How long do you keep listening?
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If I start lying? You listen, I'm sure for a
variety of reasons. But you also don't think I lie
to you? Do you? We've never had that accusation. I
have people tell me I'm rude and offensive and everything else.
I got all that. I don't care, But we don't
never have somebody tell me I'm lying. What if I
started lying? How long would you stick around? I can't
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start lying because your trust is temporary, always temporary. If violated,
you will remove your trust, and therefore the power of
the show goes Bye bye. But the communist has never
gotten as much as he understands human nature, certainly the
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most horrible parts of human nature, he always he understands it,
he recognizes it, He uses it to his advantage. The
communist understands so much about people, but he has never
gotten that that institutional trust is the power, and that
institutional trust can be taken away. So they just stand
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in front of people and say this stuff I.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Think are reverence for the truth might become might have
become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us
from finding consensus and getting important things done.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Jasmine Crockett, you told an out and out lie on
the house floor, on the house floor about Leezelden, a
totally different Jeffrey Epstein supported leiz Elden, not even the
right guy. You lied about it, black and white line.
Do you regret it?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
But we know when I see the moment on the
house where you seem to accuse Republic of Lezelden of
taking money from Jeffrey Epstein, But it seemed like if
it was not the same person. I wonder like, is
there times in which the rhetoric goes to there are
times in which you should say, you know, maybe I
messed that one up.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, not in this environment, I don't I think that,
you know, we are really in uncharted territory.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's why they lie. They lie because it moves the
revolution forward. But the good news is it will always
hold them back. It will always put a cap on
their revolution. Now, they can do a lot of damage
with all those lies before that cap comes, but there's
always a short shelf life on it because the trust
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gets taken away eventually. The people in the Soviet Union,
they knew the nightly news was mockworthy early on, when
you're getting the newspaper, you're getting the news and they're
telling you about, uh oh, we have a record crop
again this year. Yeah, that that'll work for year one,
year five of starvation rations. You mock what you see
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on the news. It's not just that all power had
been taken away. It had been completely flipped on them.
It was beyond powerless. There were nothing they were. They
were the court jesters. All right, we'll get to some emails.
I'm behind on those. Next. Jesse Kelly returns next. It
is the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent, magnificent Monday.
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If you miss any part of the show, you can
download it. Iheard spotify iTunes. All right, let's deal with
the heavy one here. Jesse Trump needs to needs to
be a part of this election like he's campaigning for president,
because that's the only time norm votes and then he
goes on to talk about how Donald Trump needs to
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get involved in the midterms and and things like that. Okay,
so that's true and it's not true. Let me explain.
Donald Trump motivates GOP voters in a way other people
simply do not. In camp, He's a political phenom. He
gets people fired up. The maga hats and the big
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rallies to everything that gets people fired up. There's no
question about that. Donald Trump will get people out there.
Donald Trump has already begun midterm campaigning. I'm telling you
right now. I'm sure you've probably already heard. There's going
to be a midterm Republican convention. That's very abnormal. They
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save those for the presidential election years. They're going to
fire one up before the midterms. All of this is
in an effort to get people out, to get people
voting into midterms, to try to avoid Republican losses in
the House of Representatives, or maybe at least mitigate Republican
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losses in the House of Representatives. That that's what there's
an effort to do. Donald Trump's presence will help, But
we can't lose sight of this. You and I always
have to remember this horrible fact that I wish wasn't true.
You do not decide elections, and I do not decide elections.
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Hyper informed political people do not decide elections. You knew
who you were going to vote for in the midterms
two years ago, right, you know who you're going to
vote for in twenty twenty eight for president? How do
you know that? What you already know both sides? You
know the issues that you already know. The people who
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vote and actually decide these things if, of course, if
you eliminate cheating and all that, they're the uninformed among
us who go out and vote on how they feel
about things. And this is why I have warned the
Trump administration before about the kind of rhetoric Trump uses
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when it comes to the economy. What am I saying?
With Donald Trump? In his way, it's who he is.
He's not going to change, but in his way, he's
always going to say everything he's invest he's involved in
is the best ever. It's really frankly endearing because everyone
gets it by now, well, well, this is the best
people have ever said. People are saying, I'm the best ever.
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This is the best ever. It's the most beautiful ever
it's the greatest ever. It's how he is, it's it's everything,
is the best thing ever in the best that you
get it. Because that's his way. He will talk about
the economy like that.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
You said you inherited a mess from President Biden when
it comes to the economy.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
But at what point is it on you?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
At what point are we in the Trump economy?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I say we're there now. I'm very proud of it.
Five point six percent and I'm getting starting to get
great balls on the economy.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Which I think is also on the economy.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Are they're not great? They should be great?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
They should be So why aren't they if you believe that,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I don't know. They should be great. I'm doing great.
I've played you all kinds of audio before of him
saying this, it's great, it's going great. We should be
bragging about the economy's great. It's going great. You don't
tell people who are hurting. We used to say this
about Joe Biden. You don't tell people who are not
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making ends meet that things are going wonderfully for them. So,
in case you're wondering how is this landing with normal people,
here's how it's landing to this.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Okay, so you know, if you know anything about Donald Trump,
you know that he built his two presidential victories on
winning voters without a college degree. Well, Donald Trump's base
with non college voters is absolutely collapsing. What are we
talking about here, Well, why don't we just take a
look voters without a college degree on Donald Trump? Look
at this back in twenty twenty four, he won those
voters over Kamala Harris by fourteen points. You come over
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to this side of the screen. What's his net approval
rating with him? He is underwater by nine points. That's
a twenty three point switcheroo with his base of non
college voters. He is absolutely collapsing with a group of
voters that helped put him into the White House.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Okay, that's bad when it comes to elections. It's catastrophic. Now,
let me pause for a moment on what you might
be doing. Maybe you're yelling at me or yelling at
the radio, or what you're probably doing. You're yelling at
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those voters. Oh are they stupid? It was Joe Biden.
Don't they realize it takes time? But no, no, no,
I got it. I got it. But they can't hear
from the president that everything's great when everything's not. Scott Persent,
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to his credit, actually brought it up when they talked
about our growth, Well we have over four percent growth.
Scott Persent came out and admitted, Yeah, that was really
just the wealthy who kind of got that growth. Working people,
the norms and normous out there working paycheck to paycheck.
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That's how Maybe that's how you live. It probably is.
That's how most people live. Working people, they do not
feel like the economy is great, and they don't want
to be told the economy is great. They don't want
to be told how great the overseas accomplishments are. They
have to feel it in their wallet, they have to
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see it in their lives. And you and I can
scream at them until we're blue in the face. No,
don't you understand. That's why this trade agreement matters. And
you're right, and I'm right, that's not going to move them.
That's a very good point, Chris. When was the last
time he was able to go out and order a steak?
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When was the last time? Well, that's not Trump's fault,
I know, arguing with the wrong person. I'm telling you
how people vote. That's how they vote. Why has there
been a twenty three point swing with non college educated
voters because the economy has not improved for them. I
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know big companies have gotten better. I know it's better
for the wealthy. I understand about the trade agreements, and
I understand venis way that's super exciting, and the movers
are angry and iran and that's all. These other things
don't put steak on the table for norm And that's
how people vote. And because of that, you gotta stop
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bragging about how great things are. It doesn't land well
when things aren't great, just doesn't. All right, we're moving
off this. We still have an hour hang on
Monday Cities, The Jesse Kelly Show, Another hour of The
Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Monday. Now, we have
all kinds of political stuff we're going to talk about
this hour, but we have to put a pause on
those things because you know what time it is. It's
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Medal of Honor Monday Time. We'll get back to the
institution and the lies and everything else, but for right now,
it's Medal of Honor Monday Time. Every single Monday started
the second hour, we do the exact same thing. We
pick a hero, we honor his sacrifice, we honor his service.
Today we're going to honor it. David Richard Kingsley. He
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was born in Portland, Oregon, nineteen eighteen. Remember this, Being
in an airplane in World War Two of any kind
was a very very dangerous affair. We hadel die flying
back home on hospital planes, getting shot at. There's just
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there's no armor. It was unbelievably dangerous. The Eighth Air Force,
those were the ones doing the bombing runs over Germany,
had more men die than the Marines did fighting the
Japanese in the Pacific. Did you know that? That's how
insanely dangerous it was? These guys died at such an
(01:30):
alarming rate that they would get sent back home after
they reached a certain number of missions. After a certain
number of missions, they just said, man, you're on borrowed time.
Go home, because you ain't making it very much longer,
very dangerous, frightening for many people taking off and landing
in an airplane, maybe just flying in it itself is scary. Yeah,
(01:55):
let's drop the temperatures to like twenty below. Let's have
what essentially amounts to grenade explosions that would be flack
grenade explosions all around you, other fighter jets firing machine
guns into you. It's horrific. And if your plane becomes
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disabled and begins to collapse, you have a long time
to sit and dwell on your end. It's not going
to come in ten seconds. You are going to slowly
descend to the earth. Ugly, ugly, ugly stuff. And they
all knew it. So let's read about David Richard Kingsley
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honoring those who went above and beyond. It's Medal of
Honor Monday for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity and action at
the risk of life, above and beyond the color duty
on the twenty third of June nineteen forty four near Plost, Rumania,
(03:06):
while flying as a bombadier of a B seventeen type
aircraft that would be the B seventeen Flying Fortress by
the way, our heavy bomber. On the bomb run, Second
Lieutenant Kingsley's aircraft was severely damaged by intense flack and
forced to drop out of formation, but the pilot proceeded
over the target and Second Lieutenant Kingsley successfully dropped his bombs,
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causing severe damage to vital installations. The damaged aircraft, forced
to lose altitude and lag behind the formation, was aggressively
attacked by three ME one zero nine aircraft, causing more
damage to the aircraft and severely wounding the tailgunner in
the upper arm. The radio operator an engineer, notified Second
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Lieutenant Kingsley that the tailgunner had been wounded and that
assistance was needed to check the bleak. Second Lieutenant Kingsley
made his way back to the radio radio room, skillfully
applied first aid to the wound and succeeded in checking
the bleeding. The tailgunner's parachute harness and heavy clothes were
removed and he was covered with blankets making him as
(04:16):
comfortable as possible. Eight ME one zero nine aircraft again
aggressively attacked Second Lieutenant Kingsley's aircraft, and the balterate gunner
was wounded by twenty millimeters shell fragments. The bal turret
gunner is the guy who was in the ball underneath
the plane. Very dangerous job. He went forward to the
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radio room to have Second Lieutenant Kingsley administer first aid.
A few minutes later, when the pilot gave the order
to prepare to bail out, Second Lieutenant Kingsley immediately began
to assist the wounded gunners in putting on their parachute harness.
In the confusion, the tailgunner's harness, believed to have been damaged,
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could not be located in the bundle of blankets and
flying clothes which had been removed from the wounded men.
With utter disregard for his own means of escape, Second
Lieutenant Kingsley unhesitatingly removed his parachute harness and adjusted it
to the wounded tail gunner. Due to the extensive damage
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caused by the accurate and concentrated twenty millimeter fire by
the enemy aircraft, the pilot gave the order to bail out,
as it appeared the aircraft would disintegrate any moment. Second
Lieutenant Kingsley aided the wounded men and bailing out, and
when last seen by his crew members, he was standing
on the bombay catwalk the aircraft by the way the
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bombays the doors that open under obviously where the bombs
drop out, and there there's a there's a divider you
can stand on that. That would be if you could,
where you would bail out. You'd drop out of the
bottom of that in your parachute, all right. The aircraft
continued to fly on automatic pilot for a short distance,
then crashed and burned. His body was later found in
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the wreckage. Second Lieutenant Kingsley, by his gallant and heroic action,
was directly responsible for saving the life of the wounded gunner.
Imagine that kind of bravery in the middle of that
kind of combat airplane possibly about to come apart in
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the sky, and you take off your one chance at
survival and strap it to your buddy. You then help
him out of the plane and say good luck, boys,
you have no chance, zero, done none. You give your
life for your friend. That's amazing, and the man deserves tabs,
(06:51):
doesn't he. In case you are wondering, just a little
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tidbit on logistics and why these planes would find themselves
in these situations. Remember that this is a different era
for airplanes, different era when it came to communication, radar,
things like that airplanes of any kind Pacific Europe fighters, bombers,
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if they were wounded or even just got confused or something,
they would lose the other airplanes and you're on your own.
If there's an airplane that's too badly wounded, you have
to leave them behind for the good of every other
aircraft you and you would know all your fellow flyers.
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You would have to say, hey man, we gotta go goodbye.
I'm sorry, and good luck. That's one. Now, what is
that moment like when you're in the plane that has
been wounded and you know there are enemy planes still
out there, and the rest of the formation takes off
and now you're alone. You're alone, surrounded by enemies and
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maybe you're wondering where were our fighter planes? That was
a never ending challenge during World War Two. It always
has been, always will be a challenge finding a plane,
especially a fighter plane that had the fuel range to
stay with the bombers. The bombers, like a B seventeen,
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has four big engines, can hold all kinds of fuel.
You can't have a fighter plane like that, or it
wouldn't be able to move and fight like a fighter plane.
It can't hold that much fuel. We couldn't send our
fighters to escort our bombers as far as the bombers went,
(09:38):
so you would have a fighter escort for a while,
but eventually your fighter escort has to go back home
because they're out of gas. And now you're a big
fat cow in the sky and you have a bunch
of wolves surrounding you. And those friggin Germans they knew
what they were doing. It was just those guys are
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absurdly brave. If it's a subject that interests you, please
pick up books on it, or watch a documentary or
listen to something. Jewish producer Chris does audiobooks. As you know,
the air war over Europe absurd, crazy cool. All right,
we're gonna talk about lies because a member of the
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media is complaining right now about our lack of trust,
so we're gonna touch on institutional trust again. It is
the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, fantastic Monday. Don't forget.
You can email the show Jesse Jesse kellyshow dot com
and we will get to a bunch of those. Now,
one of our oldest triest triest I don't think that's
(10:44):
the word. Truest things we have. That's what I was
trying to say, truest things we have on the soundboard.
It's this little tibbitt you've heard many times before. Now, kiss,
you're wondering who this is. Her name is Catherine Mayer.
She's actually the head of NPR, which is a whole
other set of problems. But she got a little too honest.
Give it a speech one day and she said this,
(11:05):
You know how I say communists lie about everything all
the time? She kind of tells you why.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I think our reverence for the truth might become might
have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing
us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Let me play it for you again. Why do you
lie about everything about everything all the time? How could you?
How could you justify that in your mind? When you
just tell these lies about huge lies, How could you
justify it?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I think our reverence for the truth might become might
have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing
us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, no, there's a cost to lie. In fact, I'll
play you another good one. Do you remember Jasmine Crockett,
the race communist in Texas? Always, always, always I'm blaming
black this and black dad, And she's this person.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know, there are those that have their own motivations
for critiquing and you know, I think that the people.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Is just racism and sexism. Like what do you think
it is?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I I mean, I think there's a lot of things.
I think it depends on who's coming from. But I've
been a black woman my whole life. So this idea
that I'm gonna go and be like, oh, well, they're
being racist or misogynistic towards me, Like you think I
didn't know I was a black woman when I woke up,
and the side of it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
We got it. She's just a race communist. That's how
she is very useful for the cause for the revolution.
Remember when Jasmine Crockett got up on the house floor
after the Jeffrey Epstein stuff came out and she blamed
Lee Zelden said, Lee Zelden was part of it. Remember
that we played the audio of it back in the day.
(12:50):
She said, well, Lee Selden, Jeffrey Epstein. Only oops, it
wasn't It wasn't the right Jeffrey Eppsteed. There are many
Jeffrey Epstein's. I mean, I'm assuming it's a fairly common name.
It's not that uncommon. But she just got up and
told a lie. This This was her being asked about it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
But we know when I see the moment on the
house where you seem to accuse Republican Lezelle that I'm
taking money from Jeffrey Epstein. But it seemed like if
it was not the same person. I wonder like, is
there times in which the rhetoric goes too far? There
are times in which you should say, you know, maybe
I messed that one up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
No, not in this environment. I don't I think that.
You know, we are really in uncharted territory.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I told an outright lie. Do you regret that she
did not have done that? Well, no, I'm an uncharted territory.
The revolution is too important. They justified in their minds
because they're fighting a revolution they believe is bigger and
more important than things like the truth. They believe the
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communist revolution they are fighting is bigger and more important
than anything. So we got all that, But here is
the problem the communist always runs into. That's why there
is always a shelf life on communist revolutions, on communist regimes,
there is always a shelf life, always has been, always
will be because the communist fundamentally misunderstands something. He understands
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a lot of things about human nature, but he does
not understand this part. Institutional trust is the power the
institution has. He gets that much. The institutions that are
out there, the only power they have is the trust
people give them. If people stop trusting them, the institutional
(14:47):
power completely disappears. Gone over done. Harvard Harvard's actually a
perfect example of this. My entire life. Harvard was the
elite of the elite, that's where only the best and
the brightest win and whatnot. But Harvard pretended convinced itself
that that would always be the case. Then they started
(15:10):
kicking all the Asians off of campus, started bringing in
people who weren't qualified to be there. Slowly but surely,
Harvard is becoming something people scoff at. That trust was
the power of Harvard being able to say, you had
your degree behind you, I graduated Harvard. That was its power,
(15:32):
the reverence, the trust people gave it. What the communist
doesn't understand is that's not permanent. The communist thinks institutional
trust is permanent, and he treats institutional trust as if
it is permanent, when it is anything but permanent. The
(15:55):
institution only ever gained its trust because it was honest,
because it was good, because it did things that were
good and right and better for society. Harvard only ever
became Harvard because Harvard not only took in the best
and brightest. Harvard was graduating the best and brightest, and
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they would go on and do wonderful things in society,
and they would lead this, and they'd be this, and
they would do that. And therefore Harvard's brand only increase
the better it did. But Harvard made the same mistake
every single communist makes forever. Harvard thought it could last
no matter what Harvard did, and that's simply not true.
(16:41):
Once Harvard kicked all the Asians out and started bringing
in all the dei hires who can't do basic math,
whoa the brand started to fade. It's fading. Now there's
a great lesson for Peggy Noonan. Talk about that lesson
next Jesse Kelly's show on a Magnificent Monday. Don't forget.
(17:03):
If you miss any part of the show, you can
download at iHeart, Spotify iTunes. So Peggy Noonan is one
of these journalist types. She has a quote out there
and I just don't think she understands. Here's the quote.
I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism,
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but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen,
something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we'll
need most literally to survive is information, reliable information, a
way to get it and then to get it to
the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information. No, Peggy,
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that's what journalism was, and more specifically, let's be honest.
That's how Peggy and all the mainstream journalism types, that's
how they want you to view journalism. But journalism isn't
trusted anymore because of the conduct of journalists. You communists
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thought you could take over the journalism schools, you could
take over all the media, all the major corporate press,
from television to newspapers. You thought you could conquer all
these revered institutions and then use them for the communist revolution,
and the trust people gave that institution wouldn't go anywhere.
(18:42):
You thought you could lie about everything all the time
and the institutional trust would be etched in stone. But
that's not how human beings work. Institutional trust can disappear
way faster than it is earned, way faster. It takes
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years and years and years of trust to actually give
that institution true power, and that trust can disappear like that.
Remember Catherine Herridge, she was a wonderful journalist for CBS.
She's an investigative journalist. I want you to listen to
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what she said about CBS. Now, keep in mind, we
know from the numbers that came out after if you
set aside all the election cheating, Joe Biden doesn't quote
win the twenty twenty election. If the society of American
society knows about Hunter Biden's laptop, Joe Biden's son, all
(19:45):
kinds of felonies, ugly pictures on there, Joe Biden never
walks into the White House. We get eight straight years
of Donald Trump. We never get twenty million new foreigners.
We don't get all these things we would have missed out.
Hold on why didn't the American public? No, hey, Catherine,
why didn't.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
We know when we did the story? We did it
after the midterms. I argued against that because it was
ready before the midterms, and my training is that you
should always do the story when it's ready to go.
You should not be dictated by the political cycle. I
spent a lot of my time at CBS following the
Hunter Biden story, and one of the things that really
(20:25):
struck me is is this kind of disconnect. I didn't
understand how a senior executive like George Chiefs could tell
me that this was a high priority for the network
and for his boss, and yet the executives at CBS News,
show producers, anchors could refuse that. I came to the
conclusion that they must have felt that they were more
powerful than George Cheeks, which was astonishing to me. I'd
(20:47):
never worked at a place where a directive from the
top would be so defied.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Catherine tells us more.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Once we got the laptop story on the Morning News,
I felt that there was so much there that we
could still do. For example, in the text messages, there's
unfortunately the use of the word, the liberal use of
the N word, and I thought this was worthy of
a story, but I was told that it was not
(21:17):
something that interested CBS News. Then I asked for a
forensic review of the laptop and we found that there
were more than half a dozen emails that were likely
used by Joe Biden. I thought that was a story,
but the answer that came back was, well, we need
to know what the content is of the emails, but
that was going to be a year's long process, so
(21:39):
there was no way. So there were just there were
a lot of reasons I was told not to do it,
not to pursue it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
The communists who run the American media, they thought they
could take it over and use that institution however they wanted,
including lying about everything all the time, and that will
work for a period of time, but eventually the lies
(22:08):
will come get you. The people will remove their trust
from the institution. And the institution only has the power
if the people trust it. What is CBS? What is
CBS if the American public? If enough people in the
American public think they're a bunch of dirty commie liars,
(22:31):
what does CBS become? Nothing becomes nothing? What is the
New York Times, ABC, NBCCNN, MSNBC, anybody, what does it become?
How much power do they have? If people change the
channel and assume they're lying about everything all the time,
(22:51):
they become nothing nothing? Uh? This show? You listen? Maybe
you listen every day all three hours. Maybe not. Maybe
it's a fifteen minute thing for you. I'm on the
way home from work. How long do you keep listening?
(23:12):
If I start lying? You listen, I'm sure for a
variety of reasons. But you also don't think I lie
to you? Do you? We've never had that accusation. I
have people tell me I'm rude and offensive and everything else.
I got all that. I don't care, But we don't
never have somebody tell me I'm lying. What if I
started lying? How long would you stick around? I can't
(23:36):
start lying because your trust is temporary, always temporary. If violated,
you will remove your trust, and therefore the power of
the show goes Bye bye. But the communist has never
gotten as much as he understands human nature, certainly the
(23:59):
most horrible parts of human nature, he always he understands it,
he recognizes it, He uses it to his advantage. The
communist understands so much about people, but he has never
gotten that that institutional trust is the power, and that
institutional trust can be taken away. So they just stand
(24:21):
in front of people and say this stuff I.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Think are reverence for the truth might become might have
become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us
from finding consensus and getting important things done.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Jasmine Crockett, you told an out and out lie on
the house floor, on the house floor about Leezelden, a
totally different Jeffrey Epstein supported leiz Elden, not even the
right guy. You lied about it, black and white line.
Do you regret it?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
But we know when I see the moment on the
house where you seem to accuse Republic of Lezelden of
taking money from Jeffrey Epstein, But it seemed like if
it was not the same person. I wonder like, is
there times in which the rhetoric goes to there are
times in which you should say, you know, maybe I
messed that one up.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, not in this environment, I don't I think that,
you know, we are really in uncharted territory.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's why they lie. They lie because it moves the
revolution forward. But the good news is it will always
hold them back. It will always put a cap on
their revolution. Now, they can do a lot of damage
with all those lies before that cap comes, but there's
always a short shelf life on it because the trust
(25:35):
gets taken away eventually. The people in the Soviet Union,
they knew the nightly news was mockworthy early on, when
you're getting the newspaper, you're getting the news and they're
telling you about, uh oh, we have a record crop
again this year. Yeah, that that'll work for year one,
year five of starvation rations. You mock what you see
(25:58):
on the news. It's not just that all power had
been taken away. It had been completely flipped on them.
It was beyond powerless. There were nothing they were. They
were the court jesters. All right, we'll get to some emails.
I'm behind on those. Next. Jesse Kelly returns next. It
is the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent, magnificent Monday.
(26:22):
If you miss any part of the show, you can
download it. Iheard spotify iTunes. All right, let's deal with
the heavy one here. Jesse Trump needs to needs to
be a part of this election like he's campaigning for president,
because that's the only time norm votes and then he
goes on to talk about how Donald Trump needs to
(26:43):
get involved in the midterms and and things like that. Okay,
so that's true and it's not true. Let me explain.
Donald Trump motivates GOP voters in a way other people
simply do not. In camp, He's a political phenom. He
gets people fired up. The maga hats and the big
(27:06):
rallies to everything that gets people fired up. There's no
question about that. Donald Trump will get people out there.
Donald Trump has already begun midterm campaigning. I'm telling you
right now. I'm sure you've probably already heard. There's going
to be a midterm Republican convention. That's very abnormal. They
(27:28):
save those for the presidential election years. They're going to
fire one up before the midterms. All of this is
in an effort to get people out, to get people
voting into midterms, to try to avoid Republican losses in
the House of Representatives, or maybe at least mitigate Republican
(27:50):
losses in the House of Representatives. That that's what there's
an effort to do. Donald Trump's presence will help, But
we can't lose sight of this. You and I always
have to remember this horrible fact that I wish wasn't true.
You do not decide elections, and I do not decide elections.
(28:13):
Hyper informed political people do not decide elections. You knew
who you were going to vote for in the midterms
two years ago, right, you know who you're going to
vote for in twenty twenty eight for president? How do
you know that? What you already know both sides? You
know the issues that you already know. The people who
(28:33):
vote and actually decide these things if, of course, if
you eliminate cheating and all that, they're the uninformed among
us who go out and vote on how they feel
about things. And this is why I have warned the
Trump administration before about the kind of rhetoric Trump uses
(28:54):
when it comes to the economy. What am I saying?
With Donald Trump? In his way, it's who he is.
He's not going to change, but in his way, he's
always going to say everything he's invest he's involved in
is the best ever. It's really frankly endearing because everyone
gets it by now, well, well, this is the best
people have ever said. People are saying, I'm the best ever.
(29:16):
This is the best ever. It's the most beautiful ever
it's the greatest ever. It's how he is, it's it's everything,
is the best thing ever in the best that you
get it. Because that's his way. He will talk about
the economy like that.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
You said you inherited a mess from President Biden when
it comes to the economy.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
But at what point is it on you?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
At what point are we in the Trump economy?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I say we're there now. I'm very proud of it.
Five point six percent and I'm getting starting to get
great balls on the economy.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Which I think is also on the economy.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Are they're not great? They should be great?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
They should be So why aren't they if you believe that,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I don't know. They should be great. I'm doing great.
I've played you all kinds of audio before of him
saying this, it's great, it's going great. We should be
bragging about the economy's great. It's going great. You don't
tell people who are hurting. We used to say this
about Joe Biden. You don't tell people who are not
(30:15):
making ends meet that things are going wonderfully for them. So,
in case you're wondering how is this landing with normal people,
here's how it's landing to this.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Okay, so you know, if you know anything about Donald Trump,
you know that he built his two presidential victories on
winning voters without a college degree. Well, Donald Trump's base
with non college voters is absolutely collapsing. What are we
talking about here, Well, why don't we just take a
look voters without a college degree on Donald Trump? Look
at this back in twenty twenty four, he won those
voters over Kamala Harris by fourteen points. You come over
(30:49):
to this side of the screen. What's his net approval
rating with him? He is underwater by nine points. That's
a twenty three point switcheroo with his base of non
college voters. He is absolutely collapsing with a group of
voters that helped put him into the White House.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Okay, that's bad when it comes to elections. It's catastrophic. Now,
let me pause for a moment on what you might
be doing. Maybe you're yelling at me or yelling at
the radio, or what you're probably doing. You're yelling at
(31:24):
those voters. Oh are they stupid? It was Joe Biden.
Don't they realize it takes time? But no, no, no,
I got it. I got it. But they can't hear
from the president that everything's great when everything's not. Scott Persent,
(31:46):
to his credit, actually brought it up when they talked
about our growth, Well we have over four percent growth.
Scott Persent came out and admitted, Yeah, that was really
just the wealthy who kind of got that growth. Working people,
the norms and normous out there working paycheck to paycheck.
(32:08):
That's how Maybe that's how you live. It probably is.
That's how most people live. Working people, they do not
feel like the economy is great, and they don't want
to be told the economy is great. They don't want
to be told how great the overseas accomplishments are. They
have to feel it in their wallet, they have to
(32:31):
see it in their lives. And you and I can
scream at them until we're blue in the face. No,
don't you understand. That's why this trade agreement matters. And
you're right, and I'm right, that's not going to move them.
That's a very good point, Chris. When was the last
time he was able to go out and order a steak?
(32:54):
When was the last time? Well, that's not Trump's fault,
I know, arguing with the wrong person. I'm telling you
how people vote. That's how they vote. Why has there
been a twenty three point swing with non college educated
voters because the economy has not improved for them. I
(33:16):
know big companies have gotten better. I know it's better
for the wealthy. I understand about the trade agreements, and
I understand venis way that's super exciting, and the movers
are angry and iran and that's all. These other things
don't put steak on the table for norm And that's
how people vote. And because of that, you gotta stop
(33:39):
bragging about how great things are. It doesn't land well
when things aren't great, just doesn't. All right, we're moving
off this. We still have an hour hang on
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