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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome in, Dennis. A ranious start to the day, but
looks like we're gonna have some of this guys clearing
up a little later this afternoon. We'll have the details
on that. We got news for you. Let's drink him
from a fire hose each and every day. The latest
Israel and Iran. A massive explosion this time not from
(00:42):
an Iranian rocket, but one from Elon that. That story and
more all coming up. James Dixon joins us today and
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the story is coming out this morning. I ran launching
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in massive miss o mirage into Israel, dozens of Iranian
missiles striking major Israeli hospital there in presidential buildings. Israel
hitting nuclear sites in retaliation those cities in Israel, Tel Aviv, Beersheva,
quoting two hundred people now injured patients and staff at
(02:21):
Soroka Medical Center in the swift retaliation, Israel deploying two
hundred fighter jets hitting more than one hundred Iranian targets,
including nuclear and missile sites at Eric Busher and the
Natans Israeli leaders now openly threatening you in Supreme Leader
calling him a modern hitler, the US moving assets closer
(02:44):
to the region. The question is will President Trump join
in with these strikes? And but way, we have audio
from him coming up in just a little bit. You're
gonna want to hear. He's asked about this multiple times
yesterday from reporters and he's giving a very very similar
answer both times. And I think it's smart some of
these reporters expecting him to give details about when he
(03:09):
might strike or what that might look like, etc. And
I got to tell you he's just not going to
do that. That's not smart at all. Anyway, you get
the latest coming up standby just to scratch, that's what
Elon says, doesn't to scratch, folks. Massive explosion of that
(03:32):
rocket that they just launched, the latest mission for SpaceX
ship thirty six, the fireball exploding late last night during
a routine static fire testics the Star based facility of Texas,
just before what was said to be its tenth test flight.
The upper stage vehicle suffered a major anomaly they called
(03:55):
him while fueled, igniting a dramatic blast triggered smaller explosions
and lingering blaze. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. SpaceX emphasizing safety
parimeter kept personnel in nearby community safety incidents marked another
high profile setback. But as you see Moss saying, that's
(04:18):
a little scratched, that's going. That's all all that is.
By the way, when these guys do stuff like this,
it's not like you know, a NASA has explosions. It's
it's a big deal. It's it that's taxpayer money blown.
Blow it up. And these guys don't care. They can
blow up rockets, they can take more risks, particularly without
people on them, because they just look at it as feedback.
(04:41):
Every time they try something. They never really fail, they
just learn. And that's that's a completely different mindset way
of thinking. Yesterday, big news. She's been vindicated, Karen Reid
and her attorneys saying as the verdict came in a
Massachusetts jury clearing her of second degree murder, manslaughter and
(05:04):
related charges in the January twenty twenty two deaths of
her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe. Now I didn't
pay particular attention to this story but I know a
lot of you did. It's just so much going on
in the world in my wheel house, like I gotta
watch what I'm taking in, right, But this was a
big story and for a number of different reasons. We
(05:26):
may talk more about this coming up next week. But
there were things as the story unfolded for the public
deview that were discovered on social media and other places
where people were watching and very just very just I
guess pulled to it like moths to a flame, right
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that the stuff that these people discovered, the defense ended
up using and that may have led to her being free.
What a story. Like I said, it's another big one.
I didn't have a lot of time to really watch it,
but now as I'm learning more and more about it,
the verdict has come out. It really is a fascinating case.
So they have it beck after it. Like I said,
(06:17):
a whole barrage of stories today and clips. I got
to get through to some of the best clips I've
seen in a long time. Do you see Arnold Schwarzenegger
on the view? That's a good one. We got to
do that before I get out of here. President Trump yesterday,
as we played for a lot of folks in the
behind the scenes live stream of the after show with
(06:39):
that flag installation that was taking place. It was working
the crowd there, and he had he had strong words
for some of those reporters asking him questions again about
whether or not he was going to strike, do you
have plans to strike Iraq? And more all of that.
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Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think I just said Iraq, I bet I ran. Uh.
But when there's a lot of that going on, do
you see the meme? There is this meme out there
that shows like the word Iraq and the queue and
the you know, like the little letters the Q is
like turning to end. Lots of folks on the Uh.
(07:34):
The libertarian side, I think is very anti war side
of things, saying hey, let's not get drug indo something
else now, uh, And you know, I'd be I'd be
completely honestly. I think the President has really handled this
very well. The entire time. He wants a negotiation, Like,
what this guy wants is peace. It's exactly what he
ran on. He wants a negotiation. He wants them to say,
(07:58):
I ran anyway, we're going to stop this nuclear testing.
We're not going to try and do this nuclear stuff.
That's we don't want a weapon. That's what he wants.
And now I don't know if he's ever going to
get that, but that's essentially what he's asking for. And
in fact, here's one of the one of the best
clipses that we're doing the flag raising yesterday, one of
(08:20):
the reporters asking him, and I think he handled this well,
but really they want to nail him down on what
you gotta do. And he reserves the right to sort
of be vague on this and also say, well, we
may do it, we may not do it. That's sort
of a it's a negotiation tactic.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Have you even answered questions about whether you are moving
closer you believe the US is moving closer.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
To striking Iranian nuclear facilities?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Where's your mindset on that.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You're going to say that?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Right?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
You don't seriously think I'm going to answer that way?
Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And what time?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Would you strike it? Would you please inform us can
be there and watch. I mean, you don't know that
I'm going to even do it. You don't know. I
may do it, I may not do it. And nobody
knows what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I can tell you this that.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oram's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate.
And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before
all this death and destruction? Why didn't you nego? I
said to the people, why didn't you negotiate with me
two weeks ago? You could have done fine, You would
have had a country.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's really I think it's pretty obvious. And you watch
what he's saying that these are these are negotiation tactics.
In what you're watching is the president trying to reserve
that so he can really sort of nudge them into
commanding that getting rid of the nuclear and all of that. Now, again,
the question is do you believe it? After that's what
(09:50):
they said. We've got lots to cover, James Dixon joins us,
coming up in just moments, folks, you want to jump
into the phone call and the conversation, you can do it.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Now Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or This Thursday,
(11:16):
June nineteenth, I'm Robin Paffman.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
We begin with a Midwesterner dot News original story.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
We must give our black neighbors the reparations that they
were promised.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You're listening to Michigan Congresswoman Racheta to leave of Detroit
talking about reparations on the house floor. She posts on
her ex page our black neighbors in Michigan. No reparations
are long overdue, and she says Juneteenth is the day too.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
This Juneteenth, I ask you all in this chamber and
honoring black neighbors by fighting for what's long overdue reparations.
Black maternal health equity investments in HBCUs are real protections
for voting rights.
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In other news, a Michigan manufacturer, Kentwood based Autocam Medical,
is investing seventy million dollars in a new factory to
create three hundred jobs in Indiana. This is the latest
and a growing list of companies expanding or relocating to
Indiana instead of here in Michigan. And President Trump weighing
his options in terms of the next move involving the
(12:13):
Iran Israel escalation. He's been meeting with his national security team,
and he says he's open to talks with the Iranians
to end their nuclear ambitions. Here's Florida Senator Republican Rick
Scott reacting.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
I trust's President Trumble do the right thing.
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We know that the rank cannot have a newclear weapon.
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For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner at the
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big news in fact that it's titled the Show Today.
We were talking about this and noticed the other day
illegals zero. Let's do the count zero illegals released into
the US in May. That's a big story. Lots of
(13:19):
big Trump news coming out. In fact, uh, you know
your thought on this? I thought was even more interesting.
James's you know the fact that Trump has really made
an impact in a splash in just a little less
than six months here. We've seen it with GM, We've
seen it with other manufacturers as well. We saw the
blue collar jobs, the wage growth report come in yesterday,
(13:41):
that was big one. Lots of things happening here America
right now morning.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Justin so good to hear your voice. But yeah, I mean,
it's just it's incredible. The man has not even been
in office six months and in that short time America
has become a favored nation again.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Isn't that something? I mean, it's so quick too, the turnaround.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah. And people say, oh, we need all these different
law No, we just needed a different president. The border situation, Trump,
there's no law that's been passed that fixed the border.
The big beautiful Bill isn't even the law yet. They
literally just enforced the existing laws on the land. You
can't have a country with ten thousand laws on the
(14:23):
books and argue with the straight face that you need
another one. That's typically not the problem in America. And
Trump just showed a lot of this stuff just comes
down to choice and leadership and character and willingness to
make a little bit of a sacrifice. But you look
at these Trump tariffs that GM facility. You know that
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they're bringing four billion dollars back from Mexico to America.
That did not happen because GM loves America. That happened
because Trump raised the cost of doing business in Mexico
and made it cheaper. He made it makes sense to
do business in Michigan. That turns out they're pretty good
at maths over at GM.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So let's let's talk about that, because you know, particularly, yeah,
this really does align with this this story today that
we've got that apparently there's this there's this group in
Kentwood here that wants to build a seventy million dollar plant,
but they don't want to do it here now. And
(15:27):
that's partially the problem because Governor Whitmer and the rest
of the Democrats here have really made things so insufferable
in Michigan. In fact, the Wolverine Queen has gone down under.
She's she's more concerned now what's happening down putting a
shrimp on a barbie or two down there in Australia
than she is in the state of Michigan. And I
(15:49):
think I can't help but think about all the manufacturing,
all the the things that we're going to miss out
on here. The prosperity in the state of Michigan's because
we don't have our ducks in a by the way,
that's what makes twenty twenty six so important.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, I'm glad you said that, because what I need
people to understand is that, yes, this GM news is
good news. Orient Assembly, Oakland County, they're going to get
more jobs. Factory zero and ham Trammick they're going to
get more jobs. I'm just making Detroit build again. The
bad news is that these jobs are being created despite
(16:27):
the policy landscape in Michigan where we are not a
right to work state any longer. So the reason it's
an existing company like GM growing in Michigan and not
a new one to Michigan like a Honda something like
that where they're making a big build down in Indiana
is because we're not a right to work state. So
(16:49):
our workers are tied at the hip with a UAW
boss Sean Fain. This guy wants to do a global
general strike in twenty twenty eight. The rest of us
are just trying to put food on the table today.
This guy's trying to picture himself as a global labor leader.
It's not remotely serious. And yet that's who we're in
bed with. And so just know that as good as
(17:11):
the news is, it could have been better with different leadership,
which is to say it could be better in twenty
twenty seven. Imagine if Washington and Lansing ever on the
same page for once.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Imagine if they just got the heck out of the
way and let folks.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And even the job thing. So it's not just that
the government created those jobs. It's that government actions NAFTA
thirty years ago, Bill Clinton thing, we're going to de
industrialize America and send jobs down to Mexico. George W.
Bush admitting China into the World Trade Organization. We're going
to send our manufacturing to China. These things were public
(17:56):
policy choices, they were government actions, and they were a
government created incentives to the industrialized. The bottom line is
the government made it cheaper to do business elsewhere. Think
about how cheap something has to be to handle a tariffs.
You have to still pay the workers in these other places,
(18:17):
and see you have to ship the product from there
to here. If someone's doing business in China, it's because
it's artificially cheap to do so, not because it makes
real sense.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
We're going to talk more about that here in Michigan
and what can be done. Obviously, that getting out of
the way part is the biggest piece. Speaker Matt Hall
will be joining us a little bit later on in
the program about nine thirty five. At the meantime, The
Enjoyer Podcast one of my favorite places to following down
I seventy five over on X James, what are you
working on? People can keep in touch with you and
(18:51):
look forward.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
To for absolutely just had a great podcast the other
day with this guy, Jason Sulery. He's an outdoorsman. He's
one of these you know, you think about Michigan and
you picture hunting, the fishing, You almost picture Theodore Roosevelt
type guy, right, And he's that guy. He's that guy
who loves the great outdoors of Michigan. And you know,
(19:13):
last year I shot a gun for the first time.
Good chance if I go hunting it'll be for the
first time with Jason. So I'm blessed enjoy our podcasts.
It connects me to people I never would have met otherwise.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I love to hear it. James Dixon always a pleasure,
my friend. Keep up the good word.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Thank you, justin you got it.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
God blest folks back with more. We'll check our bottle
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(21:00):
here with us today and share what you guys all learn.
You know I got. I just gotta start you with this.
We just had a fantastic conversation with James Dixon from
the Enjoyer about how President Trump has really moved the needle,
moved us back into most favorite nation status again the
economy's flag. We saw blue collar job wage growth just exploding.
(21:22):
Yesterday we had that story of these stories about the
four million dollars in the Ford manufacturing here in America again,
and at the same time, we had a story today.
I think it's a Midwesterner that brought up there's a
manufacturer here in Kentwood that has decided to build a
seventy million dollar plant not here but in Indiana. And so
(21:45):
my continued focus is as we see the resurgence right
making America great again and making manufacturing in America great again,
what do we do to make sure as we see
the Wolverine Queen down under again in Australia, she's jet
setting every other day, more concerned about other places than
she is with Michigan. What do we do to get
(22:05):
Michigan back on track. I know that's a big focus
for you all. Welcome in.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Well, thanks for having me again.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So you're right.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
You know, this was a point of emphasis when we
were at the White House a couple of days ago
and had the opportunity to talk with Howard Lutnick, who's
President Trump's Secretary of Commerce, who's doing a great job.
And you know, one of the things that we talked
about is how President Trump's tariff policy is working. And
(22:34):
you mentioned, you know, the large investment from General Motors
in Michigan and across the country, and they're going to
be building big trucks and SUVs in Lake Orient at
the plant there. And interestingly enough, that plant was one
that Gretchen Whitmer gave hundreds of millions of dollars to
convert from a traditional auto plant into an EV plant.
(23:00):
Well that was money wasted because now you see they're
going back to internal combustion engines there. They never built
TVs there. Pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
But but the challenge we have is is you you know,
when you talk to Secretary of Leutnik, I mean he
is landing big deals. Uh. You know with President Trump,
you know, you know you read about him every day.
But in Michigan, you know, we we have to have
policies uh that that helped them, you know, and and
(23:32):
you you you're correct. I mean the regulatory policies, the
tax policies, the education system, you know, all these things
are adding up and it's making it more challenging. So
it really is remarkable, uh that President Trump is able
to land these deals to bring GM back into Michigan, uh,
(23:53):
to build a big trucks and big SUVs again. So uh,
you know, but I will say there there is you know,
the silver lining here in that. You know, when I've
been talking up at the Detroit Chamber conference with the pliers,
you know, they're saying that because of President Trump's tariff policies,
(24:13):
they're getting opportunities and inquiries to do expanded manufacturing in
Michigan coming from other countries. So the tariff policies are working.
But if we could get our regulatory and tax policies
right in Michigan. You know, we could really take advantage
of this opportunity, this resurgence in American manufacturing that President
(24:37):
Trump is leading.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, you just hate to see Michigan miss out on
all of that. And that's that's my major concern, because
things are shifting, and they're shifting rapidly here. That's again
I made this point with James, and I know it's
not lost on you either, but you know, the same
sort of significance that the twenty twenty four election had
on the nation, I believe the twenty twenty six election
(25:01):
here in Michigan will have on the state. We have
a chance to turn the state around. You're already in
the process of putting the groundwork downland of the groundwork
to make that happen.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Well, that's right. You know, we're in the last two
years of Governor Whitmer, the last two years with Winnie
Brinks and the Democrats so fully in control of the Senate.
We have a Republican House. We took that back this
year and and you know, I'm really proud of our
House Republican Caucus because we've we've been unified, and I
(25:36):
think we've been principled and you know, what we've tried
to do is is we're trying to develop you know,
what is the next energy policy for Michigan, What is
what are the regulatory policies that will turn our state around.
Bill g Shooty just issued a report, you know, on
(25:56):
on you know, over one hundred regulations that that are
that are causing difficulty in creating jobs in Michigan. You know,
we can go to work on repealing those. You know,
what should the next tax policy be for Michigan? Our
education policy. So what we're doing is we're developing those policies.
(26:16):
We're moving them through the House and you've seen a
lot of them move already, and we may not get
them all through the Senate and all through the governor
this time, but our goal is to vet them to
get them ready to you know, iron out anything that
we weren't thinking about that causes problems so that when
the next governor comes in, we can just hit the
(26:38):
ground running to turn this state around.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
There's been a lot of work behind the scenes, oversight
and things of that nature. Already we saw the big
significance of consequences. I call it the find out era.
We are in the find out early full around now
we're finding out and as Republicans took back controlling an answers,
a lot of that's been able to to happen with
oversight and some of these other issues where you had
(27:03):
been able to come in and make decais. What else
would you like to see happen? We only have a
little bit of time left here with you, but what
else would you like to see happen in the days ahead?
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Well, you know when we talked to a secretary, Robert F. Kennedy,
you know, we had a great conversation with him. There's
a lot of bills that we're working on in the
Michigan House. Is aligned with the MAHA agenda to ban
die to ban soft drinks in the food stamp program.
You know, we're very aligned on work requirements for medicaid.
(27:37):
You know, our medicaid system is being overwhelmed by able
bodied adults. I think the cost has expanded, you know,
like like you know, almost fifty percent in recent years.
I mean, the Medicaid program is twenty five billion dollars
of an eighty four billion dollars state budget. I mean,
(27:57):
that's what it is. And so this thing is ballooning,
and so you know, it's hard for people on Medicaid
to get the services they need because it's exploding with
able behind men in their you know, twenties and thirties
that are on this program. So I appreciate what President
Trump's doing too in the Big Beautiful Bill to rein
(28:20):
in the fraud. There's a lot of fraud Whitmer's administration
is paying out in these systems. They're going to get
fined for it under the Big Beautiful Bill in the
food Stamps program. And we're going to see improvements with
work work requirements for Medicaid. So there's some really good
things going on in a lot of alignment between US
and President Trump's administration.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Speaker of the House here in Michigan, Matt Hall, always
a pleasure. Republicans have taken back control and now things
back on track and continued push. Please join us again,
give us another update when you have them one to
talk about. Would love to have you back on anytime.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Thank you, I will you got to thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Speaking mister Speaker. Appreciate it. Speaker of Matnn Hall. God
bless more coming up, folks. I want to give you
the truth. That's part of what my focus is here
daily right, truth, logic and common sense and the details,
you know, the truth, the story they're not really telling
you about Juneteenth. That's today. That's why folks have the
(29:21):
day off, whether it's you know, federal employees, you know
the post Office, no mail today, no banks, that type
of thing. But what's the truth about this day that's
seen this sort of Marxist revolution put in place. I
want to explain it because it's important for you to
know so that you can explain this to other people
when they're asking about what does Juneteenth mean and why
(29:45):
is it all because of Republicans? Well, explain it.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
After this juggling the hot button issues with style, It's
West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on Youth Radio Wood
thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a f M.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Thursday,
June nineteenth. I'm Robin Hoffman. We begin with a Midwesterner
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Speaker 8 (30:08):
Detroiters understand the reparations are not just the past. This
is important. They are about addressing the present day impacts
of institutional racism.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Mister speaker, Detroit Congresswoman Rashida Talib taking to her ex
page saying are black neighbors in Michigan No reparations are
long overdue? She speaks on the House floor and posts
her comments relating to junenteenth.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
This June teen to ask you all in this chamber
and honoring black neighbors by fighting for what's long overdue reparations.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
It's not a good look for Governor Whitmer's economy here
in Michigan. Another Michigan manufacturer, Autocam Medical, opting out of
expanding here and instead building a state of the art
manufacturing facility in Warsaw, Indiana, creating jobs there instead. And
President Trump continues to weigh his options in terms of
the next move in the Iran Israel conflict. For these
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Speaker 2 (31:06):
Truth about Juneteenth coming up in just a moment, folks. Look, look,
there's more to the story than what you're hearing in
the news, and I want to make sure that you
hear that coming up. But first, this weekend, that's Sunday,
with three surfaces, I got a message for you. I'll
be at Newchapel, the church on the basically it's four
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mile just off of Alpine there eight thirty ten at
eleven thirty. May even have some books for you there
as well. But come on by and hear the message.
I guess it's just all my heart to give you
this message of freedom. In fact you get, you're gonna get.
I think that's what's part of their sizzling summer festivities.
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And I think you're gonna just really low. You're gonna
get a kick out of it. Whether you are someone
who has seasoned in the faith or just fresh. This
is you want to talk about the good news, this,
this is it again Newchapel dot com. If you want
to find out more, it's this Sunday, June twenty second,
eight thirty ten at eleven thirty. And like I said,
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I would love to see I get a chance to
shake your hand. If we've never got a chance to meet,
that would be fantastic. Or if we get a chance
to see once again and we have man before, please do,
by all means come out and enjoy all the fun
and the festivities at Newchapel this weekend. I'm looking I'm
really looking forward to that. I think you're going to
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enjoy it too, all right. The truth are you ready
for the truth. You can't handle it to I think
you can. In fact, that's why I'm going to give
it to you. And I think this is important with
this is important so that you can share this with
other people, because it's just something that they're they're just
not gonna they're not going to hear it anywhere else.
(32:52):
The truth about June teenth, Now, why is why is
this important? Because you a lot about it, and in fact,
previous year is probably even more so than today. But
today is June teenth, It is June nineteenth. Now what's
the significance of that day? You asked, Well, I'm glad
(33:14):
you did. It is a day that most of the
media and most of the Democrats are going to try
and play up as a day that we should all
be excited for the wrong reasons, you know, racism and everything.
But that just doesn't tell the full and complete story,
the big picture. It is a day we should celebrate.
(33:35):
It's a day of freedom, but not for the reasons
that they want to tell you. See, June teenth, June
nineteenth actually commemorates the first time the time the news
finally reached Texas, the last of the states that slavery
had been abolished. You know this story. President Lincoln, Republican,
(34:01):
issues the Emancipation Proclamation January first, eighteen sixty three. Lots
that happens in between. Obviously the Civil War, right, The
largest battle happens in Gettysburg, right, eighteen sixty three. Then
on April ninth, eighteen sixty five, this is two months
before Juneteenth, the leader of the Confederacy, General Lee, surrenders
(34:28):
in Virginia appomatics courthouse. Right. That marks the end of
the Civil War. But it takes two months for that
news really to reach the state of Texas. Two months later,
federal troops, at the direction of the President Abraham Lincoln,
a Republican. Remember it was the Republicans that were opposed
(34:49):
to slavery. This is all part of the misinformation in
the re education of the Marxist and really what they're
attempting to do with Juneteenth. This is why you need
to know the truth about it. Federal trups then began
their arduous task of working their way through the devastated South,
making it eventually the Galveston where they secured this state
(35:12):
and insured those who were enslaved gained their freedom. Six
months later, December eighteen sixty five to thirteenth Amendment gets ratified,
abolishing slavery. That's June tenth, first celebrated in Texas eighteen
sixty six June nineteenth, but under a different name. It
(35:35):
wasn't June tenth. They called it Jubilee Day General Granger's arrival,
signaling freedom for the two hundred and fifty thousand enslaved
Americans there. Well, all slaves weren't freed necessarily on that date.
It was a start of the end of slavery there
and the cause of celebration. And don't forget it was Republican.
(36:00):
It was the President Abraham Lincoln, by the way, who
was responsible for all of that. And the most important
piece that they're just they'll attempt, i'm sure today and
every other year to triangalize over In fact, it's become
a Marxist signal. It was an attempt really to get
(36:20):
you to forget about and overtake July fourth Independence Day.
And you notice when you see the celebration and the
colors that they'll use for this day has nothing to
do with America. In fact, that's an attempt. That's a
deliberate attempt as well. They don't want you feeling patriotic,
and I'm telling you that that in fact is wrong.
You should because this same country that they say is
(36:42):
so flawed also quite often gets it right well when
we're listening to the higher call, right to the right voice.
Today and every day, it's our goal to do that.
So whether you're off today or not, make sure that
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you are on with a truth, logic and common sense
and more of it. Wishing you the best. In folks,
we'll say, make it a great day. God bless
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to the region. The question is will President Trump join
in with these strikes? And but way, we have audio
from him coming up in just a little bit. You're
gonna want to hear. He's asked about this multiple times
yesterday from reporters and he's giving a very very similar
answer both times. And I think it's smart some of
these reporters expecting him to give details about when he
(03:09):
might strike or what that might look like, etc. And
I got to tell you he's just not going to
do that. That's not smart at all. Anyway, you get
the latest coming up standby just to scratch, that's what
Elon says, doesn't to scratch, folks. Massive explosion of that
(03:32):
rocket that they just launched, the latest mission for SpaceX
ship thirty six, the fireball exploding late last night during
a routine static fire testics the Star based facility of Texas,
just before what was said to be its tenth test flight.
The upper stage vehicle suffered a major anomaly they called
(03:55):
him while fueled, igniting a dramatic blast triggered smaller explosions
and lingering blaze. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. SpaceX emphasizing safety
parimeter kept personnel in nearby community safety incidents marked another
high profile setback. But as you see Moss saying, that's
(04:18):
a little scratched, that's going. That's all all that is.
By the way, when these guys do stuff like this,
it's not like you know, a NASA has explosions. It's
it's a big deal. It's it that's taxpayer money blown.
Blow it up. And these guys don't care. They can
blow up rockets, they can take more risks, particularly without
people on them, because they just look at it as feedback.
(04:41):
Every time they try something. They never really fail, they
just learn. And that's that's a completely different mindset way
of thinking. Yesterday, big news. She's been vindicated, Karen Reid
and her attorneys saying as the verdict came in a
Massachusetts jury clearing her of second degree murder, manslaughter and
(05:04):
related charges in the January twenty twenty two deaths of
her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe. Now I didn't
pay particular attention to this story but I know a
lot of you did. It's just so much going on
in the world in my wheel house, like I gotta
watch what I'm taking in, right, But this was a
big story and for a number of different reasons. We
(05:26):
may talk more about this coming up next week. But
there were things as the story unfolded for the public
deview that were discovered on social media and other places
where people were watching and very just very just I
guess pulled to it like moths to a flame, right
(05:50):
that the stuff that these people discovered, the defense ended
up using and that may have led to her being free.
What a story. Like I said, it's another big one.
I didn't have a lot of time to really watch it,
but now as I'm learning more and more about it,
the verdict has come out. It really is a fascinating case.
So they have it beck after it. Like I said,
(06:17):
a whole barrage of stories today and clips. I got
to get through to some of the best clips I've
seen in a long time. Do you see Arnold Schwarzenegger
on the view? That's a good one. We got to
do that before I get out of here. President Trump yesterday,
as we played for a lot of folks in the
behind the scenes live stream of the after show with
(06:39):
that flag installation that was taking place. It was working
the crowd there, and he had he had strong words
for some of those reporters asking him questions again about
whether or not he was going to strike, do you
have plans to strike Iraq? And more all of that.
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Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think I just said Iraq, I bet I ran. Uh.
But when there's a lot of that going on, do
you see the meme? There is this meme out there
that shows like the word Iraq and the queue and
the you know, like the little letters the Q is
like turning to end. Lots of folks on the Uh.
(07:34):
The libertarian side, I think is very anti war side
of things, saying hey, let's not get drug indo something
else now, uh, And you know, I'd be I'd be
completely honestly. I think the President has really handled this
very well. The entire time. He wants a negotiation, Like,
what this guy wants is peace. It's exactly what he
ran on. He wants a negotiation. He wants them to say,
(07:58):
I ran anyway, we're going to stop this nuclear testing.
We're not going to try and do this nuclear stuff.
That's we don't want a weapon. That's what he wants.
And now I don't know if he's ever going to
get that, but that's essentially what he's asking for. And
in fact, here's one of the one of the best
clipses that we're doing the flag raising yesterday, one of
(08:20):
the reporters asking him, and I think he handled this well,
but really they want to nail him down on what
you gotta do. And he reserves the right to sort
of be vague on this and also say, well, we
may do it, we may not do it. That's sort
of a it's a negotiation tactic.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Have you even answered questions about whether you are moving
closer you believe the US is moving closer.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
To striking Iranian nuclear facilities?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Where's your mindset on that.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You're going to say that?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Right?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
You don't seriously think I'm going to answer that way?
Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And what time?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Would you strike it? Would you please inform us can
be there and watch. I mean, you don't know that
I'm going to even do it. You don't know. I
may do it, I may not do it. And nobody
knows what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I can tell you this that.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oram's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate.
And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before
all this death and destruction? Why didn't you nego? I
said to the people, why didn't you negotiate with me
two weeks ago? You could have done fine, You would
have had a country.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's really I think it's pretty obvious. And you watch
what he's saying that these are these are negotiation tactics.
In what you're watching is the president trying to reserve
that so he can really sort of nudge them into
commanding that getting rid of the nuclear and all of that. Now, again,
the question is do you believe it? After that's what
(09:50):
they said. We've got lots to cover, James Dixon joins us,
coming up in just moments, folks, you want to jump
into the phone call and the conversation, you can do it.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Now Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or This Thursday,
(11:16):
June nineteenth, I'm Robin Paffman.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
We begin with a Midwesterner dot News original story.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
We must give our black neighbors the reparations that they
were promised.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You're listening to Michigan Congresswoman Racheta to leave of Detroit
talking about reparations on the house floor. She posts on
her ex page our black neighbors in Michigan. No reparations
are long overdue, and she says Juneteenth is the day too.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
This Juneteenth, I ask you all in this chamber and
honoring black neighbors by fighting for what's long overdue reparations.
Black maternal health equity investments in HBCUs are real protections
for voting rights.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
In other news, a Michigan manufacturer, Kentwood based Autocam Medical,
is investing seventy million dollars in a new factory to
create three hundred jobs in Indiana. This is the latest
and a growing list of companies expanding or relocating to
Indiana instead of here in Michigan. And President Trump weighing
his options in terms of the next move involving the
(12:13):
Iran Israel escalation. He's been meeting with his national security team,
and he says he's open to talks with the Iranians
to end their nuclear ambitions. Here's Florida Senator Republican Rick
Scott reacting.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
I trust's President Trumble do the right thing.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
We know that the rank cannot have a newclear weapon.
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For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner at the
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big news in fact that it's titled the Show Today.
We were talking about this and noticed the other day
illegals zero. Let's do the count zero illegals released into
the US in May. That's a big story. Lots of
(13:19):
big Trump news coming out. In fact, uh, you know
your thought on this? I thought was even more interesting.
James's you know the fact that Trump has really made
an impact in a splash in just a little less
than six months here. We've seen it with GM, We've
seen it with other manufacturers as well. We saw the
blue collar jobs, the wage growth report come in yesterday,
(13:41):
that was big one. Lots of things happening here America
right now morning.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Justin so good to hear your voice. But yeah, I mean,
it's just it's incredible. The man has not even been
in office six months and in that short time America
has become a favored nation again.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Isn't that something? I mean, it's so quick too, the turnaround.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah. And people say, oh, we need all these different
law No, we just needed a different president. The border situation, Trump,
there's no law that's been passed that fixed the border.
The big beautiful Bill isn't even the law yet. They
literally just enforced the existing laws on the land. You
can't have a country with ten thousand laws on the
(14:23):
books and argue with the straight face that you need
another one. That's typically not the problem in America. And
Trump just showed a lot of this stuff just comes
down to choice and leadership and character and willingness to
make a little bit of a sacrifice. But you look
at these Trump tariffs that GM facility. You know that
(14:45):
they're bringing four billion dollars back from Mexico to America.
That did not happen because GM loves America. That happened
because Trump raised the cost of doing business in Mexico
and made it cheaper. He made it makes sense to
do business in Michigan. That turns out they're pretty good
at maths over at GM.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So let's let's talk about that, because you know, particularly, yeah,
this really does align with this this story today that
we've got that apparently there's this there's this group in
Kentwood here that wants to build a seventy million dollar plant,
but they don't want to do it here now. And
(15:27):
that's partially the problem because Governor Whitmer and the rest
of the Democrats here have really made things so insufferable
in Michigan. In fact, the Wolverine Queen has gone down under.
She's she's more concerned now what's happening down putting a
shrimp on a barbie or two down there in Australia
than she is in the state of Michigan. And I
(15:49):
think I can't help but think about all the manufacturing,
all the the things that we're going to miss out
on here. The prosperity in the state of Michigan's because
we don't have our ducks in a by the way,
that's what makes twenty twenty six so important.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, I'm glad you said that, because what I need
people to understand is that, yes, this GM news is
good news. Orient Assembly, Oakland County, they're going to get
more jobs. Factory zero and ham Trammick they're going to
get more jobs. I'm just making Detroit build again. The
bad news is that these jobs are being created despite
(16:27):
the policy landscape in Michigan where we are not a
right to work state any longer. So the reason it's
an existing company like GM growing in Michigan and not
a new one to Michigan like a Honda something like
that where they're making a big build down in Indiana
is because we're not a right to work state. So
(16:49):
our workers are tied at the hip with a UAW
boss Sean Fain. This guy wants to do a global
general strike in twenty twenty eight. The rest of us
are just trying to put food on the table today.
This guy's trying to picture himself as a global labor leader.
It's not remotely serious. And yet that's who we're in
bed with. And so just know that as good as
(17:11):
the news is, it could have been better with different leadership,
which is to say it could be better in twenty
twenty seven. Imagine if Washington and Lansing ever on the
same page for once.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Imagine if they just got the heck out of the
way and let folks.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And even the job thing. So it's not just that
the government created those jobs. It's that government actions NAFTA
thirty years ago, Bill Clinton thing, we're going to de
industrialize America and send jobs down to Mexico. George W.
Bush admitting China into the World Trade Organization. We're going
to send our manufacturing to China. These things were public
(17:56):
policy choices, they were government actions, and they were a
government created incentives to the industrialized. The bottom line is
the government made it cheaper to do business elsewhere. Think
about how cheap something has to be to handle a tariffs.
You have to still pay the workers in these other places,
(18:17):
and see you have to ship the product from there
to here. If someone's doing business in China, it's because
it's artificially cheap to do so, not because it makes
real sense.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
We're going to talk more about that here in Michigan
and what can be done. Obviously, that getting out of
the way part is the biggest piece. Speaker Matt Hall
will be joining us a little bit later on in
the program about nine thirty five. At the meantime, The
Enjoyer Podcast one of my favorite places to following down
I seventy five over on X James, what are you
working on? People can keep in touch with you and
(18:51):
look forward.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
To for absolutely just had a great podcast the other
day with this guy, Jason Sulery. He's an outdoorsman. He's
one of these you know, you think about Michigan and
you picture hunting, the fishing, You almost picture Theodore Roosevelt
type guy, right, And he's that guy. He's that guy
who loves the great outdoors of Michigan. And you know,
(19:13):
last year I shot a gun for the first time.
Good chance if I go hunting it'll be for the
first time with Jason. So I'm blessed enjoy our podcasts.
It connects me to people I never would have met otherwise.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I love to hear it. James Dixon always a pleasure,
my friend. Keep up the good word.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Thank you, justin you got it.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
God blest folks back with more. We'll check our bottle
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here with us today and share what you guys all learn.
You know I got. I just gotta start you with this.
We just had a fantastic conversation with James Dixon from
the Enjoyer about how President Trump has really moved the needle,
moved us back into most favorite nation status again the
economy's flag. We saw blue collar job wage growth just exploding.
(21:22):
Yesterday we had that story of these stories about the
four million dollars in the Ford manufacturing here in America again,
and at the same time, we had a story today.
I think it's a Midwesterner that brought up there's a
manufacturer here in Kentwood that has decided to build a
seventy million dollar plant not here but in Indiana. And so
(21:45):
my continued focus is as we see the resurgence right
making America great again and making manufacturing in America great again,
what do we do to make sure as we see
the Wolverine Queen down under again in Australia, she's jet
setting every other day, more concerned about other places than
she is with Michigan. What do we do to get
(22:05):
Michigan back on track. I know that's a big focus
for you all. Welcome in.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Well, thanks for having me again.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So you're right.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
You know, this was a point of emphasis when we
were at the White House a couple of days ago
and had the opportunity to talk with Howard Lutnick, who's
President Trump's Secretary of Commerce, who's doing a great job.
And you know, one of the things that we talked
about is how President Trump's tariff policy is working. And
(22:34):
you mentioned, you know, the large investment from General Motors
in Michigan and across the country, and they're going to
be building big trucks and SUVs in Lake Orient at
the plant there. And interestingly enough, that plant was one
that Gretchen Whitmer gave hundreds of millions of dollars to
convert from a traditional auto plant into an EV plant.
(23:00):
Well that was money wasted because now you see they're
going back to internal combustion engines there. They never built
TVs there. Pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
But but the challenge we have is is you you know,
when you talk to Secretary of Leutnik, I mean he
is landing big deals. Uh. You know with President Trump,
you know, you know you read about him every day.
But in Michigan, you know, we we have to have
policies uh that that helped them, you know, and and
(23:32):
you you you're correct. I mean the regulatory policies, the
tax policies, the education system, you know, all these things
are adding up and it's making it more challenging. So
it really is remarkable, uh that President Trump is able
to land these deals to bring GM back into Michigan, uh,
(23:53):
to build a big trucks and big SUVs again. So uh,
you know, but I will say there there is you know,
the silver lining here in that. You know, when I've
been talking up at the Detroit Chamber conference with the pliers,
you know, they're saying that because of President Trump's tariff policies,
(24:13):
they're getting opportunities and inquiries to do expanded manufacturing in
Michigan coming from other countries. So the tariff policies are working.
But if we could get our regulatory and tax policies
right in Michigan. You know, we could really take advantage
of this opportunity, this resurgence in American manufacturing that President
(24:37):
Trump is leading.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, you just hate to see Michigan miss out on
all of that. And that's that's my major concern, because
things are shifting, and they're shifting rapidly here. That's again
I made this point with James, and I know it's
not lost on you either, but you know, the same
sort of significance that the twenty twenty four election had
on the nation, I believe the twenty twenty six election
(25:01):
here in Michigan will have on the state. We have
a chance to turn the state around. You're already in
the process of putting the groundwork downland of the groundwork
to make that happen.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Well, that's right. You know, we're in the last two
years of Governor Whitmer, the last two years with Winnie
Brinks and the Democrats so fully in control of the Senate.
We have a Republican House. We took that back this
year and and you know, I'm really proud of our
House Republican Caucus because we've we've been unified, and I
(25:36):
think we've been principled and you know, what we've tried
to do is is we're trying to develop you know,
what is the next energy policy for Michigan, What is
what are the regulatory policies that will turn our state around.
Bill g Shooty just issued a report, you know, on
(25:56):
on you know, over one hundred regulations that that are
that are causing difficulty in creating jobs in Michigan. You know,
we can go to work on repealing those. You know,
what should the next tax policy be for Michigan? Our
education policy. So what we're doing is we're developing those policies.
(26:16):
We're moving them through the House and you've seen a
lot of them move already, and we may not get
them all through the Senate and all through the governor
this time, but our goal is to vet them to
get them ready to you know, iron out anything that
we weren't thinking about that causes problems so that when
the next governor comes in, we can just hit the
(26:38):
ground running to turn this state around.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
There's been a lot of work behind the scenes, oversight
and things of that nature. Already we saw the big
significance of consequences. I call it the find out era.
We are in the find out early full around now
we're finding out and as Republicans took back controlling an answers,
a lot of that's been able to to happen with
oversight and some of these other issues where you had
(27:03):
been able to come in and make decais. What else
would you like to see happen? We only have a
little bit of time left here with you, but what
else would you like to see happen in the days ahead?
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Well, you know when we talked to a secretary, Robert F. Kennedy,
you know, we had a great conversation with him. There's
a lot of bills that we're working on in the
Michigan House. Is aligned with the MAHA agenda to ban
die to ban soft drinks in the food stamp program.
You know, we're very aligned on work requirements for medicaid.
(27:37):
You know, our medicaid system is being overwhelmed by able
bodied adults. I think the cost has expanded, you know,
like like you know, almost fifty percent in recent years.
I mean, the Medicaid program is twenty five billion dollars
of an eighty four billion dollars state budget. I mean,
(27:57):
that's what it is. And so this thing is ballooning,
and so you know, it's hard for people on Medicaid
to get the services they need because it's exploding with
able behind men in their you know, twenties and thirties
that are on this program. So I appreciate what President
Trump's doing too in the Big Beautiful Bill to rein
(28:20):
in the fraud. There's a lot of fraud Whitmer's administration
is paying out in these systems. They're going to get
fined for it under the Big Beautiful Bill in the
food Stamps program. And we're going to see improvements with
work work requirements for Medicaid. So there's some really good
things going on in a lot of alignment between US
and President Trump's administration.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Speaker of the House here in Michigan, Matt Hall, always
a pleasure. Republicans have taken back control and now things
back on track and continued push. Please join us again,
give us another update when you have them one to
talk about. Would love to have you back on anytime.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Thank you, I will you got to thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Speaking mister Speaker. Appreciate it. Speaker of Matnn Hall. God
bless more coming up, folks. I want to give you
the truth. That's part of what my focus is here
daily right, truth, logic and common sense and the details,
you know, the truth, the story they're not really telling
you about Juneteenth. That's today. That's why folks have the
(29:21):
day off, whether it's you know, federal employees, you know
the post Office, no mail today, no banks, that type
of thing. But what's the truth about this day that's
seen this sort of Marxist revolution put in place. I
want to explain it because it's important for you to
know so that you can explain this to other people
when they're asking about what does Juneteenth mean and why
(29:45):
is it all because of Republicans? Well, explain it.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
After this juggling the hot button issues with style, It's
West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on Youth Radio Wood
thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a f M.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Thursday,
June nineteenth. I'm Robin Hoffman. We begin with a Midwesterner
Dot News original story.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Detroiters understand the reparations are not just the past. This
is important. They are about addressing the present day impacts
of institutional racism.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Mister speaker, Detroit Congresswoman Rashida Talib taking to her ex
page saying are black neighbors in Michigan No reparations are
long overdue? She speaks on the House floor and posts
her comments relating to junenteenth.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
This June teen to ask you all in this chamber
and honoring black neighbors by fighting for what's long overdue reparations.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
It's not a good look for Governor Whitmer's economy here
in Michigan. Another Michigan manufacturer, Autocam Medical, opting out of
expanding here and instead building a state of the art
manufacturing facility in Warsaw, Indiana, creating jobs there instead. And
President Trump continues to weigh his options in terms of
the next move in the Iran Israel conflict. For these
(31:02):
stories and more, visit the Midwesterner at the Midwesterner dot news.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Truth about Juneteenth coming up in just a moment, folks. Look, look,
there's more to the story than what you're hearing in
the news, and I want to make sure that you
hear that coming up. But first, this weekend, that's Sunday,
with three surfaces, I got a message for you. I'll
be at Newchapel, the church on the basically it's four
(31:26):
mile just off of Alpine there eight thirty ten at
eleven thirty. May even have some books for you there
as well. But come on by and hear the message.
I guess it's just all my heart to give you
this message of freedom. In fact you get, you're gonna get.
I think that's what's part of their sizzling summer festivities.
(31:49):
And I think you're gonna just really low. You're gonna
get a kick out of it. Whether you are someone
who has seasoned in the faith or just fresh. This
is you want to talk about the good news, this,
this is it again Newchapel dot com. If you want
to find out more, it's this Sunday, June twenty second,
eight thirty ten at eleven thirty. And like I said,
(32:10):
I would love to see I get a chance to
shake your hand. If we've never got a chance to meet,
that would be fantastic. Or if we get a chance
to see once again and we have man before, please do,
by all means come out and enjoy all the fun
and the festivities at Newchapel this weekend. I'm looking I'm
really looking forward to that. I think you're going to
(32:31):
enjoy it too, all right. The truth are you ready
for the truth. You can't handle it to I think
you can. In fact, that's why I'm going to give
it to you. And I think this is important with
this is important so that you can share this with
other people, because it's just something that they're they're just
not gonna they're not going to hear it anywhere else.
(32:52):
The truth about June teenth, Now, why is why is
this important? Because you a lot about it, and in fact,
previous year is probably even more so than today. But
today is June teenth, It is June nineteenth. Now what's
the significance of that day? You asked, Well, I'm glad
(33:14):
you did. It is a day that most of the
media and most of the Democrats are going to try
and play up as a day that we should all
be excited for the wrong reasons, you know, racism and everything.
But that just doesn't tell the full and complete story,
the big picture. It is a day we should celebrate.
(33:35):
It's a day of freedom, but not for the reasons
that they want to tell you. See, June teenth, June
nineteenth actually commemorates the first time the time the news
finally reached Texas, the last of the states that slavery
had been abolished. You know this story. President Lincoln, Republican,
(34:01):
issues the Emancipation Proclamation January first, eighteen sixty three. Lots
that happens in between. Obviously the Civil War, right, The
largest battle happens in Gettysburg, right, eighteen sixty three. Then
on April ninth, eighteen sixty five, this is two months
before Juneteenth, the leader of the Confederacy, General Lee, surrenders
(34:28):
in Virginia appomatics courthouse. Right. That marks the end of
the Civil War. But it takes two months for that
news really to reach the state of Texas. Two months later,
federal troops, at the direction of the President Abraham Lincoln,
a Republican. Remember it was the Republicans that were opposed
(34:49):
to slavery. This is all part of the misinformation in
the re education of the Marxist and really what they're
attempting to do with Juneteenth. This is why you need
to know the truth about it. Federal trups then began
their arduous task of working their way through the devastated South,
making it eventually the Galveston where they secured this state
(35:12):
and insured those who were enslaved gained their freedom. Six
months later, December eighteen sixty five to thirteenth Amendment gets ratified,
abolishing slavery. That's June tenth, first celebrated in Texas eighteen
sixty six June nineteenth, but under a different name. It
(35:35):
wasn't June tenth. They called it Jubilee Day General Granger's arrival,
signaling freedom for the two hundred and fifty thousand enslaved
Americans there. Well, all slaves weren't freed necessarily on that date.
It was a start of the end of slavery there
and the cause of celebration. And don't forget it was Republican.
(36:00):
It was the President Abraham Lincoln, by the way, who
was responsible for all of that. And the most important
piece that they're just they'll attempt, i'm sure today and
every other year to triangalize over In fact, it's become
a Marxist signal. It was an attempt really to get
(36:20):
you to forget about and overtake July fourth Independence Day.
And you notice when you see the celebration and the
colors that they'll use for this day has nothing to
do with America. In fact, that's an attempt. That's a
deliberate attempt as well. They don't want you feeling patriotic,
and I'm telling you that that in fact is wrong.
You should because this same country that they say is
(36:42):
so flawed also quite often gets it right well when
we're listening to the higher call, right to the right voice.
Today and every day, it's our goal to do that.
So whether you're off today or not, make sure that
(37:03):
you are on with a truth, logic and common sense
and more of it. Wishing you the best. In folks,
we'll say, make it a great day. God bless
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