Political parties changing with the times

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This is a podcast from WOORA,The Jesse Kelly Show. Let's have some
fun on a Tuesday, and thereis a turn to tackle on a Tuesday.
First, who's speaking at the convention? Are you upset about it?

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They have teamsters here, They havea scantily clad young lady here who hasn't
only fans profiled? Do these thingsmake you angry? We're gonna talk about
that. In fact, in theopening tonight, Secret Service, the head
of the Secret Service, Kim Cheetle, won't resign. We're gonna have a
bigger conversation about that, What itmeans, what it reveals about our government.

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Poll numbers that are going to makeyour jaw drop and hair fallout,
just like mine did when we talkabout the post shooting polls. All that,
so much more coming up tonight onthe world famous Jesse Kelly Show.
That and of course you know we'regonna throw in some Biden stuff. But
I didn't plan on on it.It's because when I in twenty twenty,

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when I like, when broadcasting yourvice president all that. Oh. I
should also note Michael Knowle's coming upabout a half hour from now, Kevin
Roberts with Heritage coming up later.Who knows what else will throw into and
I on the world famous Jesse KellyShow. I want to begin here though,
because my email inbox is full today. It's full of happy thoughts and

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negative thoughts about what's happening at theconvention. I realize you're not at the
convention. I get that, butyou're probably watching it. Everyone's watching it.
My wife's watching it. Everyone's watchingit. They want to watch the
Trump speeches. They want to watchthis speech, that speech. This is
especially in the wake of that assassinationattempt. This is our super Bowl.

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Is such an overused cliche, butthat's kind of what it is. If
you're a political person and you'll comehere, that's what it feels like.
Freaking security anywhere. The cops hadto murk some homeless dude today who got
in a bum knife fight and everything. It was wild. So that's what
it's like. It's crazy. Youshould know that I was fine. I
was inside eating at the time.I'm never going to find that shocking,
but I was eating anyway. Seeyesterday, the head of the Teamsters Teamsters

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union gets up gives a speech atthe convention. It wasn't a raw raw
a voting Republican now speech. Butyou know, Teamster's Union, very very
powerful union union that goes Democrat almostevery single time, and a lot of
people were very happy about it.A lot of people were very upset about
it. Jesse, the Teamster's president, seriously, I'm very concerned about this.

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He was praising Josh Holly for changinghis view on right to work,
the idea that employees should be forcedto pay dues to an organization. They're
opposed to his fascism at his finest. Who is this guy speaking at the
RNC. Just when I think theGOP has all the momentum, they shoo
themselves in the face, talk meout the ledge. I've got all kinds
of things like that, and it'snot unique. You should know. To

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the Teamsters Union. There's a younglady, and I admit, if I
try to talk about this with anyamount of depth, with any degree of
depth, you're just going to laughme off the radio, because, as
you know, I'm forty two goingon ninety two. Amber Rose. Who's
Amber Rose? I think she wasmarried to Kanye or dated Kanye something along

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those lines. She dates rappers.She has a porn an adult adult themed
page that is still active to thisday. So certainly not your normal speaker
at a Republican convention. She getsup and speaks as well, and a
lot of people are very upset aboutit. Some are thrilled about it.

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Hey, big tent. Some arevery upset about it. Hey, is
this what we stand for now?Is this what we are? Cultural values?
Okay, so I'm gonna say something. I'm just gonna lay all this
out. Maybe you'll love it,maybe you'll hate it. But here's the
reality of life. Political parties,different political parties, as you know,

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that's not an American phenomenon. That'sthe entire history of the world. When
you have nations of any size,I mean were You can read old arguments
if you're reading about sitting buwl asa sitting bowl is having arguments with his
people about there's a faction who wantsto go this route and a faction who
wants to go that route. Politicalparties are the way societies go. We

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feel the society should go more thisway, but we over here feel society
should go more this way. Andpolitical parties changing with the times is also
the entire history of the world,including the entire history of the United States

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of America. Republican Party, DemocratParty. They've both gone through gigantic changes
right left, middle otherwise throughout thehistory of this country. This is what
happens when the people of a nationchange. One of my larger points I
want to make I'm gonna make rightnow on this. The parties change with

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the people. The parties change withthe people. Here's a big one.
Here's a big one. We're gonnacome back, I believe me. I'm
gonna, I'm gonna We're gonna talkabout this in more depth. But here's
here's a big example of this.The Republican Party, for the majority of
my life, For the majority ofmy life, with the exception of the

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libertarian wing of that party, wellof which you may be I probably am
more in that wing. But withthe exception of that wing, the Republican
Party has been a global war onterror loving party. We just we have
been. We have been. Yes, let's get to Afghanistan. Yes,
let's get to Iraq, kill themall, let God sort them out,

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go everywhere. For most of mylife, that kind of neo conservative,
that's how you described that way ofthinking. That has been the history of
the Republican Party for my lifetime,but prior to my lifetime, that would
have been the antithesis of everything theRepublican Party had traditionally stood for up until

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that time. The GOP for mostof its history before that was hands off,
gloves off, mind our own business, a much more traditionally American way
of thinking. If you're my age, if you're forty two, that may
come as a shock to you becausethat's the only GOP you've ever known.
But if you're seventy eighty, yousaw a different GOP when you were younger.

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Okay, so the party's changed.The Democrat Party, we're gonna come
back to us. I'm gonna getthere. The Democrat Party, they're changing
too rapidly for the worse. Butthey're changing too as they get more and
more radical, the radicals within theirparty are getting more and more representation,

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more representation than they used to have. If you went back to you don't
even have to go to ancient history. If you went back to the year
two thousand and you went combing throughevery Democrat congressman and senator's staffers. Forget
about the senator, the senators orcongressmen themselves. You just went through their
staffers. Would you find an admittedMaoist in there somewhere? Probably you'd you'd

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find probably an admitted Maoist in there, somebody who loved Karl Marx or something
that you would have found one ortwo in the year two thousand if you
went down that list of staffers,if you went down that list of staffers
today, you went through every Democratsstaff and the Senate in the House of
Representatives, you went down that listtoday, you would find Maoist after Maoist

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after Maoist admitted. We're not talkingabout just somebody I'm accusing of being that
admitted. Yeah, I love maoLennon. You would find a long,
long list of them. Why,well, let's discuss the why, because
this is going to come back tothe Republican Party. And this is going
to come back to the changes you'reseeing now in the Republican Party. Whether

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you love those changes or hate thosechanges. Why did the Democrat Party change
in that way? Why have theygone harder left? You can go look
at video tape of Barack Obama standingagainst gay marriage right like right when he
got elected. Today, they're allabout kids getting their penises off how did
that change so fast? We're gonnatalk about how, and then we're gonna

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address the GOP changes. Okay,before we do that, let's talk about
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you should Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dotcom. Love, hate, death threats,
ask doctor Jesse questions for Thursday.And now let's go back in case
you're just now joining us, we'retalking about Okay, So the Teamster's president
spoke at the convention. A lotof people are mad about it. A
young lady who has an adult websitestill spoke at the convention, Amber Rose.

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People are upset about it. Ihaven't really addressed that part specifically yet.
I'm getting there. But we're addressingthe realignment of the parties right now.
So Democrats they went hard left andreally really fast. And how did
that happen? The how is goingto be important here before we get to
the Republican Party. How did theyturn into maoists in the last thirty years.

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Well, it's all a matter ofhow they participate in primaries. I
know, I come back to thisagain and again and again. But that's
really the truth. The truth isthe hard corese the communist wing of the
Democrat Party. They care about destroyingthe country. They care about it a

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lot. They'll do whatever they haveto do to do that. And when
primary day comes, they're not watchingthe game, they're not too busy.
They're there and they have succeeded inyanking their party to the left. They
go out, they participate in primaries, and because they participate participate in primaries,

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they have remade the party in theirimage. The image of the party
is being made into the image ofits most committed followers. Get that.
That's how it works. The mostcommitted Democrats are the ones who are remaking
the Democrat Party, which brings usto us. Are you mad that the

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teamsters spoke? Mad that this younglady amber Rose spoke? Okay, I
understand that. I'm not telling younot to be I'm really not. First,
let's address this electorally, electorally,and we're gonna get to the party
platform part of this electorally. It'sa very sharp move because even if you

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don't get the teamsters for you,you've denied them to Joe Biden that he
was banking on that endorsement. Andwe're talking about rust belt union heavy swing
states Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.Joe Biden might need to clean sweep those
states to be Donald Trump. Ifyou can do things to deny him his

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voting block, that's smart. That'sone as far as the Amber Rose they
get. So let's just talk aboutthe Republican Party. Our party is changing.
Our party. I'm an anti communist, I'm not even a Republican.
Republican Party is changing. It ischanging. It is not going to look

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like it did five years ago.It is not going to look like it
did ten years ago. The RepublicanParty is changing, and it is changing
in ways you may love, andthere's a chance it's changing in ways you
may find completely unacceptable. After thetwo parties are done playing their little political

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musical chairs, which they're playing now, you have to prepare yourself for the
possibility that you don't have a majorpolitical party that really represents you or your
values. That is a real chance, and that doesn't mean you need to
change. And I'm not saying theparties need to change. I'm talking about
the simple, brutal reality of life. Remember, it's not your mommy's show,

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sh daddy's show. Here's the truth. If you are a cultural or
cultural conservative, you're one of thepeople really hardcore on the social value stuff.
Your marriage is between a man anda woman, a hugely pro life
when it comes to that, youknow, adult lady, adult adult website

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late. I'm not even sure howI'm supposed to address it here when it
comes to things like that. Ifthat is the kind of thing you are
absolutely out on, no on,no, you don't want your kids seeing
it, You don't want it tobe part of the party. If that's
a huge deal for you, thenyou very likely may be politically homeless going

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forward. It's not an accident.They remade the Republican Party platform. They
promptly stripped out anything that had todo with abortion at all. They stripped
out anything that had to do withall the LGBTQ stuff at all. These
things were just done recently. Theyhave taken the social conservative, cultural conservative,

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however you want to put it,and they have stripped that stuff out
of the party platform. Is thata permanent stripping I don't know, but
it looks like that is, atleast for the time being, the plan
for the national GOP. I didn'tsay it was your plan. I didn't
say it should be. But ifthat is where you fall, if those

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are big, big deals for you, you might not like where we are
going from here. And I don'thave I don't really have something I can
tell you now. If that's youspeaking specifically to you, if that hurts
you, if you're sitting there saying, Jesse, I've been a pro lifer

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for a long time. I can'tsupport a party like this, Jesse.
I'm big on the nuclear family,marriage between a man and a woman.
If the Republican Party is going togo against that, I can't support it.
Okay, I'm not I'm not hereto try to turn you into Tom
or Tara Republican. I'm not hereto do that. I'm here to tell
you the truth. As far asthe Republican Party goes, they're not going

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that direction. They're just not.It's going to be more of a nationalist,
populist Republican party going forward from here. And for traditional conservatives, if
you're one of these people who callsyourself a traditional conservative, there are going
to be parts of that you willlike, and there are going to be

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parts of that you will hate you. If you're a traditional hardcore right winger,
you're probably gonna like the national populistviews on things like immigration more than
you did the old GOP. Theold GOP was always super squishy and soft
and weak and pathetic when it cameto that. A nationalist populist GOP is

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going to be better when it comesto those things. The portum, build
the wall, things like that.So those things, those things may appeal
to you. But if you're adebt conscious person, you know that's a
big thing for me. You carea lot about the debt. Look,
there's a chance you're going to behomeless. I don't know whether any of

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that or all that made you feelbetter or made you feel worse. But
times are a change in not justfor the country, for both political parties
and you me. We're just gonnahave to figure it out going forward,
where we land and all that.Maybe we'll find a soft spot to land,
maybe we will not. All right, all right, I think we

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have Michael Knowles coming on next andso that's always a good time to talk
to Michael, and then we'll talkmore about this stuff. I want to
get to the Secret Service and go. Before we do that, I want
to get to your dog. Yousee, I don't want your dog to
die. My buddy yesterday just hadto put his dog down and I'm in

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Wisconsin, so I didn't get achance to be with him, which sucks,
because that was. If there wasever a time your buddy needs a
pat on the back and a beer, it was a time. But it's
just brought it all back to mehow much it hurts when you're freaking dog
dies. Man, It just itguts you. Rough Greens the all natural
nutritional supplement for your dog. Thereason I give rough Greens to Fred is

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because I know that that day willcome. There's nothing that can stop that
Fred's gonna die. I want thatday to be as far away as humanly
possible, just honestly, thinking aboutthe look on my wife's face, my
kid's face. I want to holdoff on that. Don't you pour rough
Greens on your dog's food. Roughgreensdot com, slash Jesse or you can

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call them eight three three three three, my dog, We'll be back.
It is the Jesse Kelly Show,and I am pleased to welcome. I
was about to say here in thestudio. But it's more like on the
studio, we're performing in front ofother people, like monkeys in a zoo.
Michael Knowles, of course, ofthe Daily Wire. Only now apparently
he is a tobacco smuggler. DoI have that right? I didn't get

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all the details before him. Iwant that to go on my tombstone.
Here lies Michael Knowles, cigar salesman. Like a cigar salesman. Okay.
Now I have to ask before weget into politics. What I know you
like to smoke cigars. I knewthat's your thing, but wait, what
Jesse. The body is a templeand the temple needs incense. Okay,
and you can get your incense atMayflower Cigars dot com. I kid you

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not, that's so shameless. SinceI was a kid, you know.
I started smoking cigars kind of latefor an Italian from New York. I
started about fifteen, though I wouldnever encourage anyone twenty urine years old,
whatever the government tells you, ButI started kind of. I wrote my
college admissions essay about how much Ilove cigars. I look a bit swarthy,
but some of my family is onthe Mayflower. That's where we get

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the company name from and DW decidedto back me in it because it didn't
cost them any money and they knewwe'd sell a zillion cigars. And I
am really honored to say I wantto thank your listeners, maybe many of
whom have bought the cigars. Itbecame, I think the biggest boutique's brand
cigar launch in the history of tobacco. I'll take you which mafia family are

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you associated? We are the ColumbusAct. Okay, Yeah, that's good.
We talked about them some last night. That's good. All right,
all right, Michael I opened upthe show. I got a bunch of
emails. I'm sure you've got abunch of emails about the different speakers at
the convention, the more non traditionalspeakers at the convention. Yeah, the
teams there's on your Amber Rose isthere. And what I tried to explain

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to people is, whether you likeit or not, the Democrat Party is
being remade. Times change, partieschange. The Republican Party is also being
we made. And if you're amore socially conservative, socially right winger like
I definitely am, you may endup finding yourself homeless as we move forward.
Here, that's just the reality oflife. Love it or hey,
it's reality. Where we're going.I totally agree with you in principle.

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I am a little more hopeful,though. You look at someone like JD.
Vance who gets picked as the VP. He is a pretty socially conservative
candidate, you know, he Inmany ways, I think he and Trump
represent not a radical departure from Republicanorthodoxy. It's a change from the last
thirty years, but in many waysit's a restoration of the og Republican orthodoxy.

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You know, when the party wasfounded and Abraham Lincoln is our first
president, the GOP was pro tariff, The GOP has been in favor of
immigration restriction. The GOP has beenskeptical of foreign wars for a lot of
its existence. So I think you'reseeing some of that comeback now. Some
of the social conservatives, and againit's hard to be more socially conservative than
I am. But they said,I hate it that this woman amber Rose

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spoke. I had never heard ofamber Rose in my life. Some people
looked at some people looked at meskeptically. I said, no, I
have never heard of her. Butbut look, had she come out and
endorsed abortion or something. I wouldI would have been quite offended by that.
Had she come out and promoted pornographyor something, I would have been
very offended. What did she say? She said, Hey, I don't
look like a usual GOP voter.I was lied to by the media.
I was told he's a racist,bad guy, and he's not. He's

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a good guy. And people wholook like me, who probably have voted
for Democrats in the past, theyshould vote for Trump. And that's all
she said. And I thought,what am I supposed to complain about there?
Yeah, Look, that's what I'vebeen trying to tell, trying to
talk people off the ledge with thismight be where we're going. And because
we are in a general election,I didn't get to this point of it.

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But now that we're in a generalelection, there's going to be coalition
building that makes the hardcors like usuncomfortable. There is that you're going to
have a teamster guy. If thehead of the Teamsters wants to come speak,
I mean, you know what I'msaying. It's just the way it
is. You have to make somefriends you don't necessarily want to make in
a general action, of course,and you know, for Donald Trump to

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come out and say, we're notgoing to talk that much about abortion,
Okay, if you're I'm very prolife, and so you know, I
like talking about abortion all day.Well, when when abortion has been on
the ballot in recent years, ithasn't done that well. And so if
Donald Trump were to come out andsay I now support abortion or something,
I would be very offended. Iwould I would not support that. But

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if Trump, who is the mostpro life president in my lifetime, who
was the first sitting president to addressthe March for Life, who appointed the
judges that overruled Roe v. Wade, if that guy says, hey,
guys, play it cool until Novemberand then I'll keep appointing these good judges
and we'll keep making progress. I'mgonna give them a little grace there.
You know, if if the presidentcomes out and he says, hey,

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we're going to appeal to labor alittle bit. We're gonna I don't know,
we're going to take away taxes ontips or something, I think,
okay, that's fine. We've we'vespent many multiples, probably orders of magnitude
more money than that would cost thefederal government just sending it to Ukraine over
the past two years. So okay, if you're going to make an outreach
to labor, I think that's actuallyprobably politically a pretty good idea. And
is it ideologically pure in Milton friedmanismof you know, the GPE platform of

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nineteen eighty seven. No, maybenot. But folks, it's twenty twenty
four, and the convention exists toget elected. That's what it is for.
It's not the other way around.The candidates don't exist to have a
fun party where everyone's ideologically perfect.It exists to bring coalitions together of disparate
people who disagree on a lot towin. But conventions are also not very

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fun. I don't enjoy being atconventions very much, Michael. There are
a lot of people here and theywant to talk to me. And I'm
not talking about people who listen tothe show. That's fine, but these
dirty politicians. Every time you runinto one of these senators, he wants
to talk. Why do you likeit? You're glad handing simpering sociopaths.
I actually like them, Yes,I do geta I sort of get a

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kick out of him. Although Jesse, you're clearly despite what you're saying,
you know, you sound like Horus, who the ancient poet who said od
profanum vulgus at archeo, I hatethe common people, and I exclude them.
You don't. You're a man ofthe people, because look at you.

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You're surrounded by the hoypoloy. Youdon't have any w you haven't built
any big beautiful walls in your boothlike we have at the Daily wirebooth.
Just to let you know, youdidn't have to translate that. I speak
Mexican pretty fluently, and I haveI've been speaking that for quite some time,
as everyone who listens to the showknows. Okay, Michael, I
do I have to ask how hopefulyou in this idea of unity? Not

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on the right, not not talkingabout at the convention where we're all patting
each other on the back ah haha, Joe Biden sucks, but nationally,
especially in the wake of an assassinationattempt. Ah unity, You're not.
You're not. But just that doesn'tseem realistic to me. And the values
of each side hasn't changed at all. People were upset by a bad video,
but the values didn't change. No, I think Biden is going to

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keep calling Trump hitler and saying thathe poses an existential threat to the Republic,
and in so doing, he's goingto justify assassinating him as he's been
doing for years, and that's unfortunate. You're going to see that from entertainment,
You're going to see that from alot of Democrat politicians. However,
I think that the country was unitingbefore that disastrous debate for Biden. It

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was uniting in the sense that Biden'spoll numbers were not getting any better.
Trump was looking like he'd win thegeneral already before that debate. That's why
Biden called for the debate. Otherwisehe would have avoided. So he calls
for the debate. He sets conditionsthat he thought would be totally unacceptable to
Trump. Trump wisely just accepted them, didn't even negotiate, destroyed him at
the debate. The situation got worse. Then there was the meeting in the

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Democrat Party where people up to andincluding George Clooney ostensibly wrote a out bed
for The New York Times a famium. And maybe it was Barack Obama who
wrote the off ed, some havesuggested, but in any case, there
was a mutiny. They tried tooverthrow them. That didn't work. That
failed. Now in the wake ofthe attempted assassination, that's not going to
work anymore. And so I justthink that the uniting was already happening around

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the failures of Biden. Yeah,nothing unites us like that old culture.
All right, Michael, Before Ilet you go, I can't can't let
you go without hawking your cigars again. Please, where do people get these?
People can go if you are twentyone years or older. Some exclusions
apply. You can go to MayflowerCigars dot Com. We're trying to get

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into the retail shops, but youknow, the government makes it very tricky.
For now. Mayflower Cigars dot Comwe sell out pretty frequently, but
as of now, I think westill have a fair bit of stock.
And if you're me, you're tothe Mayflower Dusk. It's the fuller bodied
smoke and the toro size delicious.I don't know what any of those words
mean, but that sounds It's niceagain, I thought, so that sounds
fantastic, Michael, Thank you,brother, Michael Knowles. Everybody cigars sales

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You're listening to the Oracle Love JessieKelly's show, and I am pleased to
welcome right here on the set thePresident, the Big Cheese Heritage, and
the man responsible for that bastardly project. Twenty twenty five. Kevin Roberts.
Okay, Kevin, just I haveto ask how big does the smile get

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every time you hear one of thedirty comedies complaining about Project twenty twenty five
giving you all the good publicity inthe world. I've battled the radical left
my entire career. I've been theonly conservative on faculties, as you know,
Jesse. So it's a lot offun. And I'll tell you this,
I think you'll appreciate it. Theleft has spent far more millions of
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and so I think it's a greatreturn on investment. You're not kept in
flack unless you're over the target,and so we're gonna keep talking about it.
I was all here it is,I was looking for it as you
were talking. I get emails likethis all the time, Jesse. I've
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disaster? Can you tell us whatit is? And why are the Dems

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so against it? And this isfrom a Wendy and I figure, I'm
we just toss this one to theman responsible for what is this scary Project
twenty te well, thank thanks Wendyfor the question. What it is is
a corrective to fifty plus years ofthe radical left taken over the federal government.
The whole objective of Project twenty twentyfive is to dismantle the administrative state,
which I happen to think, atleast domestically, is the greatest existential

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threat to freedom and sovereignty for everydayAmericans. You talk about this on your
show every day, but when youget into the details of it, and
this is what I always want togive people some information that they can use
with conversations with friend, my unclein fact, who is a great listener
of your show, very dedicated,asked me, said, Kevin, give
me some information. Just go toProject twenty twenty five dot org. Don't
try to read the whole thing.It's nine hundred twenty pages, but find

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that issue, that policy area thatyou're interested in. For me, it
would be education, and just goread the little bit on education, and
once you're done reading it, askyourself. Is anything the Left have said
has said about this project correct?No, they have mischaracterized ninety eight percent
of what they said. The onlything that they get right is that we
do want to eliminate the Department ofEducation. Yes, that's maybe my favorite

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part of the whole thing. Okay, So tell me about this database.
This database where people can go putin their resume. What's this all about.
Well, that's actually the most importantpart of the project this time around.
Real quick history, and then I'llanswer your question directly. Heritage has
been doing this since nineteen eighty,prepping President Reagan with policies in personnel.

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This time we did something two thingsdifferently. The first thing we did is
we took the Heritage logo off theproject because we wanted it to represent the
entire conservative movement. Got one hundredand ten organizations that are part of this,
representing basically forty million voters. Buton the personnel database, to your
question, what we have done isrecruit all around the country competent professionals who

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want to come tithe to this republic. Two years, four years more than
that, we were hoping we wouldget ten thousand people to be in that
database. And then the president's transitionteam gets to decide who they hire,
right, I mean, they're thedecision makers. We have fifteen thousand,
three thousand of whom just in thelast ten days have applied because of all
the left mischaracterization about it, butit's telling as America's hungry for change,

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you obviously come from education, andsomething you talk about, it's something you're
hot on you And I've talked aboutit on the air many times before.
I say it's the most damaging thingthe Commies ever took over in this country,
that you can be a normal American, not even some hardcore far left,
and you can go K through twelveand then go to college and you
can come out a complete nutball becauseof what they've done in the education system,

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and parents are getting it more nowthan they ever have, and I
find that encouraging at least. Yeah, I cannot count, I mean literally
cannot count the hundreds of times inthe last decade people have told me,
friends of Heritage, friends of othernonprofits, I've led that their parents are
their kids or their grandkids when theywent to college, within a year,

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sometimes within a semester, had gonefrom being common sense, kind of conservative
kids to being totally radicalized. WhatProject twenty twenty five, along with all
of these other efforts at the grassroots, are focused on, is taking back
those institutions of education. I happento think that those of us who are
homeschooling, those of us who haveour kids in charter schools and private schools,

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have created an environment in which thegovernment funded schools have to respond.
But unless there is institutional policy changeat the federal level, whether it is
a total elimination of the Department ofEducation or a massive change in how we
fund universities, we're not going tostop this problem of kids and grandkids coming
home for Thanksgiving dinner and they aresounding a lot differently because professors have indoctrinated

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Can you talk about the funding ofuniversities? This is one of those things
because it kids confusing, and it'snot sexy on the campaign trail. It
doesn't get a lot of play inpolitical elections. But these universities that are
poisoning these young minds are oftentimes fundedwith at least in part our own money.
Yeah, and that's the dirty littlesecret. Although it's all about out

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there in the open actually in Projecttwenty twenty five if you want to read
about it. So at the veryleast, and praise God, President Trump
has been very explicit about this inthe last weeks. I would expect that
the next Trump administration will have aSecretary of Education, whoever that may be,
who's going to be focused on givingmore control to the states over the
funding of these universities. The reasonthis is important and I know I've gone

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to like one level of detail inthe policy. The detail is important.
You have governors like Ron DeSantis inFlorida who've taken on those universities and saying
you're no longer going to use ourmoney to indoctrinate our kids. If you're
going to get our money, whetherit's state money or federal money, you
have to reflect at the very leastthat this is a neutral platform. We

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have used a trillion dollars since nineteenseventy nine. That's so much we've spent
on the US Department of Education wellto indoctrinate two generations of Aferica. Can
you explain why that kind of thinghappens so often in Florida? Florida's not
the only red state we have inthe Union, and by the numbers,
it's not even actually the reddest statewe have in the Union. And I

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know Ronda Santis gets a lot ofcredit for that, but how is this
not more of a thing? Look, I live in Texas. I love
living in Texas. Don't get mewrong. I love the food, I
like the people. Our GOP sucks. We don't get tangible things like this
done as much as freaking Florida does. Why is this not a thing in
every red state? I'll use theTexas example. I'm an alumnus of the

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University of Texas, one of themost politically liberal universities in the country.
I somehow went in as a conservativeand left as a conservative. But it
is emblematic of the problem, notjust in Texas, but in other red
states. What happens is a largepercentage of legislators, members of the legislature
are graduates of these schools, andthey try to protect the institution, and

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they ignore. Actually, I willgive some of them the benefit of the
doubt, they ignore how bad thepolitics have become. But I'll tell you
one silver lining to these pro Hamasprotests, Jesse. Even at my alma
mater, the University of Texas,it is the president and the boards of
those schools and the governor to sayenough is enough. Oh, praise God

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for that. Kevin Roberts, wherecan people get more info on this project?
Twenty twenty five again, because Iget emails every day about it.
What is this scary thing? Andwhere do they go? Project twenty twenty
five dot org. You see thepolicies there. You can also sign up
to be part of the next administrationif the president so choose. Appreciate you
very much, Thanks brother, thankyou. You got all right? We
still have an hour and we hitwell whenever it was up two hours,

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I just lied. It's time totalk about why don't why don't these people
resign? Head a secret service comesout, She's not gonna resign. They're
not gonna resign. This general doesn'tresign, this person doesn't resign. Why
is that a problem? Now,Why don't they don't they have the honor?
Why doesn't anybody fire them? Andactually, it's gonna tie right back
into something that Kevin was just talkingabout when it comes to institutions and what

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institutions turn into over a long enoughperiod of time. This has been a
podcast from wor