January 27, 2025 • 25 mins
Number 47 takes the oath, a Bishop reads the new president the riot act from the pulpit, and apparently not all pardons are created equal... Change and hipocrisy are in the air aptly demonstrated by this week's "did they really just say that" moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Number forty seven takes the oath, a bishop reads the
new president the Riot Act from the pulpit, and apparently
not all pardons are created. Equal change and hypocrisy are
in the air, aptly demonstrated by this week's did they
really just say that moment? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
This is newspite.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hi, Donald John Trump, you solemnly swear.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That I will faithfully execute that.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I will faithfully execute the office of President of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
I ask you to have mercy upon the people in
our country who we're scared. Now. There are gay, lesbian,
and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some
who fear for their lives.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
He's basically saying, if I incite you to riot, if
I don't get my way, if I lose in the
democratic fashion, I'm going to send you to do things
that are anti democratic, then I am going to don't
worry about it. You're doing it in my name for
my benefit. I'm just going to party you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh, four more years of being scared out of our minds.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That was a mad, mad mad Democrat center. That was
Corey Booker from New Jersey. Why is he so mad,
you asked, why. Well, I don't think it's really what
he was having a fit about there, which is the
J six parts, which we will get to at some
point here. But I think what he's just mad about
is that Donald Trump is president. He was inaugurated this
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week at this very moment. Cut one A.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me, I,
Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hi, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That I will faithfully execute that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I will faithfully execute.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And will, to the best of my ability.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And will, to the best of my.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The Constitution of the United States. So help me, God,
So help me, God. Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Specifically, by the way, those that oath of office, with
maybe a few exceptions in the middle, either thrills the
hell out of you or scares the hell out.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, apparently absolutely. You know, let the fun begin. Basically,
it was. It was very emotional for many people on
both sides of the spectrum, Like you just said, But
I I He followed that that that moment with an
inaugural address the likes of which I've I've never seen.
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And that is with the past administrations sitting behind him.
I mean there was Hillary and Bill Clinton, there was
President Obama, never mind Kamala and Doug and Jill and Joe.
They were all behind him in force.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It was a stump speech on steroids, really what it was.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So here he is he had all these people who
were there to demonstrate the peaceful transition of power, which
has been a big deal in the past four years
that they've said that they've stood behind and rallied and
held flags for And so they all went to and
instead of saying, you know, then now is the time
to come together, he went after them with both fists
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cut three A.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
As we gathered today, our government confronts a crisis of trust.
For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted
power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of
our society lay broken and seemingly incomplete disrepair. We now
have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis
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at home, while at the same time stumbling into a
continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, so, and that wasn't he wasn't done. Cut three E.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It fails to protect our magnificent, law abiding American citizens,
but provide sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from
prisons and mental institutions, that have illegally entered our country
from all over the world. We have a government that
has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders,
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but refuses to defend American borders or more importantly, its
own people.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And then he said, well, you know, we're not going
to let that happen. Cut three D.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
But we can't let this happen. Everyone is unable to
do anything about it. That's going to change. We have
a public health system that does not deliver in times
of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than
any country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And we have an.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves,
in many cases, to hate our country despite the love
that we try so desperately to provide to them.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
All of this will.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Change starting today, and it will change very quickly.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
By the way, he couldn't have tacked that Obama.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
By the way, he couldn't have insulted the past administration
anymore if he went over and punched him square in
the nose.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I think essentially he did figuratively punch them in the way.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
By the way, and I look some of the some
of the now I listened to the whole speech. At
some points I chuckled, at other points I smiled a bit,
and other points I was like, maybe not the place
for it. But overall, he obviously was speaking to Like
I said, it was like a stump speech on steroids. Really,
But here's here's the thing. And I think this is
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pretty much where we are right now. And we've talked
about this for years. If you remember the goodbye speech
from Joe Biden, he took a few swings as well.
It wasn't a unite the country speech. Yeah, and and
and so you know people are gonna say, well and
have you know, that's not the right speech for Trump,
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but you know, and it wasn't really the right all
totally the right speech for Joe Biden because he took
some some some wild swings as well. So you know,
you can't have it both ways. You can't have Donald
Trump going out and giving a nice, kind and gentle
speech when your guy didn't and vice versa. So I
don't know, everything's got to be toned down. I think though,
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though Trump hit on every point that he campaigned on.
I'm gonna fix this and I'm gonna do this, and
this was broken when I you know, And so I
don't really I'm not offended by Trump's speech. I think
a few of them maybe it wasn't the time or
the place for it, but he he basically said everything
he said that got him elected, So what the hell?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, I think more than that, I think he a
lot of people were so everything I think you said
was correct. I think that the people behind him and
the people who voted for him are just so sick
of the people sitting behind him. They wanted to see
him say no more gloves. I'm tired of this crap,
and I'm going to fight back, and after He's fought
back so much because of law, fair, because of you know,
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unfair characterations. I think people were generally I would agree
with you. I don't think it's not necessarily the most
you know, the chorous thing to do, deckors thing to do.
But I understood why he was doing it, and it
gave a lot of people satisfaction.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
But it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Also, he also took the opportunity to warn everybody that
he was going to hit the ground running and the
kind of policies that he was in fact going to enact.
Cut seven B.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders.
With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of
America and the revolution of common sense.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's all about common sense.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, so that was number one, and he did it
within hours of being taken. He's sitting in in a theater,
a huge, massive stadium theater in DC, the Omni Center,
and signing up executive orders as they were announced on
the PA system, one of which was this one, Cut ten.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I will also end the government policy of trying to
socially engineered race and gender into every aspect.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Of public and private life.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
We will forge a society that is color blind and
merit based. As of today, it will henceforth be the
official policy of the United States government that they're there
are only two genders, male and female.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Imagine that a merit based government, I think Los Angeles
would be. You couldn't have done this sooner.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Everything should be merit based.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
To me.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We've had these discussions before too. Here's the strange thing.
You know, a lot of people talk about the Founding Fathers, right,
and the world has changed since the Founding Fathers were here.
We all know that. And there's a lot of things
that the Founding Fathers never could have imagined, right from
automobiles to airplanes to the way we fight wars, all
that stuff. Everything almost almost everything really except here's the
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funny thing. And I thought about this when he said
there'll only be two genders. Of all the things that
the Founding Fathers could never have imagined happening male and
female being an issue being an issue would be like
the furthest from their mind. I mean, they couldn't imagine
nuclear weapons and going to the moon and all the
other various stuff. Sure, but nobody would have brought up, hey,
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you know, someday they might be more than two genders. Nobody,
no Founding father would have ever thought about that. That
is the It's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Without a doubt. And he had other promises that he
was making during his inaugural Cut number twelve.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful,
most respected, nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration
of the entire world. A short time from now, we
are going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and we will
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restore the name of a great President, William McKinley to
Mount McKinley, where it should be.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And where it belongs.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So we now and he did that first day. So
we now have Mount McKinley back again instead of Mount Dinaley,
and we now have the Gulf of America.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
There's that vehicle that the name.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Lot of mat makers are going to have to do
some work now because it's now the golf. He did
it yesterday, It was the day before yesterday. It was
a signed assigned order. It is now. It is in
fact nowt McKinley Mountain. When that Gulf of America.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh, Golf of America.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, that's both of those need to be changed back.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Here's here's the thing. And we we know the Gulf
of American thing because we had heard that prior. Uh
and Mount McKinley when it was changed to Denali, a
lot of people were not happy because it's an American
mountain and I know they named it after the old name.
But so here's the thing. In our country, our country, right,
we can name things anything we want.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
We can.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I mean, Washington, d C. We at nor Maine, Mount Washington,
it doesn't matter picked up place. So so to name
Mount McKinley, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
That's that issue we can have.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
We can fight over it, like people can say, no,
it should be don should be a.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Mount, and we want mckilly done.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And it's on our quote unquote on our property. We
can name it whatever the hell we want. The Gulf
of America thing is a little more interesting, I would say,
because yeah, because it's the whole world's place, Mexico. He
stretches down into Cuba.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Well, I did. I don't agree with that, because here's
the thing. We can call it whatever we want. Mexico
doesn't have to go with the Golf of America.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
No, get that they can.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I'm just saying, like if in Germany, like we
call it Germany, it's not Germany to them. It's all
I'm on to them is the name of their country.
So anybody else can call it Golf of Mexico all
they want, but we're gonna call it the Gulf of America.
It's up to us what we call anything.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
The issue, the issue worldwide would be and whatever call it,
call it whatever you want. Because golf, we call it
the golf anyway, Like I go, I go to the
Gulf coast. Nobody says the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Mediterranean See is what we call it. Does not mean
that that's their name if you live on the Mediterranean See,
depending on the country that you live in. So it's
it's really nothing more. That's why he did it. My
guess is because it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It doesn't matter as much. But if every country, there's
what one hundred and ninety the.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
World, every country does have their own name for things.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I get that, But what do they all call the golf?
Is it the Gulf of Mexico to the whole world?
Is it the Gulf of America, Mexico to Mexico. They
should call it. Everybody should have a new name for something,
and then you wouldn't know where the hell you will go.
We're going this weekend. It could be fine, I'm going
to Albania. Well that's not what we call it. I mean,
whatever it is, doesn't I'm going.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
To put it to you on the map. You can
figure it out. But I said, but just in case
you're concerned. I mean, that's actually not the craziest thing
he did, or crazy as a fun is a bad word.
That's not the most unusual thing he did, because he
basically announced that, you know, we're taking the Panama Canal back,
which again we knew before, but he codified it.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Thirteen A President McKinley made our country very rich through
tariffs and through talent. He was a natural businessman and
gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great
things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly
been given to Panama after the United States. The United States,
I mean, think of this, spent more money than I've
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ever spent on a project before, and lost thirty eight
thousand lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We
have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that
should have never been made, and Panama's promised to us
has been broken. The purpose of our deal and the
spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships
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are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way.
Shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy
and above all, China is operating the Panama Canal, and
we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama,
and we're taking it back.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Don't know how, don't know when, but we're doing it.
I have no doubt that we're doing it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
The America Canal. Yeah, let's just rename it right off
the bat, so.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
They can call it again, you know, whatever they want.
So basically, he signed forty seven executive orders but completed
two hundred executive actions in the afternoon after he was
sworn in, so day one of his presidency, and a
lot of people are shell shocked and responding and you
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know done, not just the map makers of the world, Ben,
but you know, there was a there this morning, the
morning we're doing this, there was a church service, an
episcopal church service, for the President, the vice president, and
other members of the administration. And there was a bishop,
a female bishop, episcopal bishop that was really ticked off
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about the two genders thing we just discussed a minute ago.
And she had this to say from the pulpit to
the President and vice president. Cut one ten in the
name of our God, I ask you.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
To have mercy upon the people in our country, and
we're scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transginger children
in Democratic, Republican and independent and families, some who fear
for their lives. And the people, the people who pick
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our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in
poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after
we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals.
They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,
but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They
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pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members
of our churches and mosques, synagogues, widara and temples.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Okay, I have two things. I said that one in
regard to the gay children who are terrified for the lives.
Who did that to them? It wasn't Donald Trump. It
was the left wing hysteria calling him a homophobe when
he wasn't that have caused their hystories to look in
the mirror Bishop in regard to that. And secondly, I
was not aware that we had hordes of illegal imigrant
paying taxes. That's a new one. We haven't seen that before.
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As far as I can tell, they're getting free visa
cards and along with food and shelter and so forth.
We're not talking about immigrants. We're talking about illegal immigrants.
There's a huge difference. So and here's President Trump's response
to that. He was asked about, what did you think
about that National Parer Service cut one hundred? At?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
What did you think your life? You find an exciting
not too exciting. I didn't think it was a good service. Now,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, he was just like he's done with it. He
wasn't gonna no more for him. He's like, yeah, I know, No,
Paul's enough fish to fry.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I think paula ticking from the pulpit. I find that
well for a number of reasons. But I've heard people
from both sides of the aisle actually say this, and
I think I'm leaning more toward it, even though I
never was in favor before. If you're going to have
people from the pulpit, whatever religion, the matter denomination, wherever
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tax exemptions are gone. The whole thing is that churches
have these tax exemptions because they're churches, just because they're churches.
If you're a political arm a pack or even a
pseudo pack and you're going to preach politics from a pulpit.
I think churches need to start paying taxes. I really
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am starting to lead in that direction, even though I've
always been, Oh, I've been a separation of church and
state guy anyway, But if you're not going to listen,
we have to separate church and state at our jobs
and at everybody's jobs. Right, you can get in trouble
at work if you start preaching whatever blah blah blah
blah blah. So if that's the case and churches don't
want to separate church and state, then they got to
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be just like everybody. Preach whatever you want from the pulpit.
But we need our twenty five percent tax, and that
property is getting property taxed. And I'm really starting to
lean towards people who believe that because it's getting out
of control.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Look, I think it's a good suggestion.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I've known many pastors in my life. I am an
Internet ordained minister for some who don't know, and I
have my belief structure. But look, you can believe politically
what you want. I've always believed that the pulpit should
be used for preaching, you know, in the religion I
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grew up in, which was, you know, a Christian branch
of Christianity. You know, the pulpit is used for preaching
the Gospel, preaching the Jesus and what have you. Everybody's
religion has a different purpose. I mean obviously Jewish people
and Muslims and everybody else believes differently than I do.
But to get up and do a stump speech from
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the pulpit under the protection of not paying taxes and
being this protected agency, well you're not. You give that up.
If you want to play that game, then give up
the part that gives you all this religious freedom. I
can't say the crap about my religion at work, I'll
get deep crap. So your work is your religion. Preach
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your religion. I'm not saying you can't have an opinion,
of course you can, but.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You don't do it from the pulpit to the President
the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well frustrated, right, well and and again. And I've sat
in churches where that stuff has been done. If you
want to, if you want to preach as a politician,
run for office. If you want to preach as a pastor,
Now I'm gonna get stirred up some trouble here. But
then then you got to you got to play by
the rules, and and and they don't, they they don't.
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It's bigger, by the way, It's bigger than Bishop h
Mary and Edgar whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But this is this was, you know, right in our face,
right in President Trump's face. But even her response to
the two genders and the immigration roll up, the biggest
response we've had so far to President Trump's actions on
inauguration Day is the diversity that's been stirred up by
his pardoning of the j six prisoners. There were fifteen
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hundred of them cut twenty two, so this.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Is January sixth. These are the hostages, approximately fifteen hundred
for a pardon, full partner, full full pardon. We have
about six commutations in there where we're doing further research.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Nice to see you again.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So this is a big one. Anything you want to
explain about this. We hope they get them. We hope
they come out tonight. Frankly, they're expecting it. Approximately fifteen
hundred people, six six commutations.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
The jug dog.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Were looking at different things, but the commutations would be
the ones that will take a look and maybe it'll
say that way, or it'll go.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
To in a faux party.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
So he did that, and the Democrats were fit to
be tied. You had you heard it in the open,
Corey Booker saying that the president pardoning the j six
defendants basically is creating a pretext for more political violence.
Cut one sixty.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
He's basically saying, if I incite you to riot, if
I don't get my way, if I lose in the
democratic fashion, I'm going to send you to do things
that are anti democratic. And if you attack the capital,
if you stop the peaceful transfer of power, if you
stop the workings of Congress, if you attack violently police
officers with stun guns to the neck, with batons to
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the head, if you crush spines and skulls, then I
Am going to don't worry about it. You're doing it
in my name for my benefit. I'm just going to
pardon you. What he is doing right now is creating
a pretext for more political violence in our country in
his name, and that is terrifying. That is what extremists
in other countries do. And so this was not just
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pardoning people that attacked and inflict the injuries that led
to the death of police officers like Brian Sicknick. But
he also did it in the political context of saying,
you were fighting for Trump, and so I'm going to
use my power to pardon you.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
A couple of things there. One, the injuries he's describing
were suffered by Trump supporters, not by police. One and two,
Brian Sicknick was a Trump supporter as well as a
police officer, and his death had nothing to do with
what happened on January six He didn't die in January sixth.
He died many days later from a stroke. That's what
happened to Brian Sicknick. So that's complete god swaddle right there.
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But this is the kind of response they're giving, and
you know they're saying, this is the this is why
Trump is going to become a dictator, and he's building
an army of J six supporter.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
By the way, I heard the I forget his name
now the Capitol police chief, who's not happy about this,
And look it probably on the middle of the fence
about this. I have some okay with it, and some
maybe not. But here's here's the thing. And and and
props to the police chief. I forget who he was
talking to. A reporter. But he said, uh, he wasn't
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happy about this, and blah blah blah blah blah, and
his folks weren't happy about this. But he pointed out,
which Booker did not, that that Joe Biden pardoned a
guy who killed two FBI agents. Yeah, Pelletier, I think
was his last name. Yeah, and and so.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Again, along with every member of his family. And and
remember the JA sixth committee just pardoned about with no
charges ever being filed against any of them. Preemptive part
preemptive parton.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
He pardoned everybody he knows.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, except for himself that could that could wind up
to come back and hurt him.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Ok So, look, we're back to that point what I
made earlier. You you can't criticize one person for doing
something and not the other for doing it. If you're
okay with Biden pardoning a FBI agent killer, uh, and
he did kill two, then you gotta be okay, Okay,
the J six fine whatever. I don't agree with it,
but okay, fine again, or vice versa. If you're pissed
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off at Trump, you've gotta be pissed off at Biden.
So you got to pick a place of fairness. And
not again, we're back to that political stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, indeed. And the interesting thing for me, Ben is
that this is just the beginning. We're in day two
of the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, by the time they're hearing this, it'll be the
first week. But good.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's just like I have no I I can tell
you it's going to be an interesting year.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Head.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I'm very excited. If you guys are are interested, I
think this is going to be interesting, like I do.
You can contact Ben and I. We are on x
at newsby three or on Facebook at news Bye. We
have a new show every Monday. Is to check back
next Monday and see what new offerings we have. I'm
Nancy Shack.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.
I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
This is News Bye.
Number forty seven takes the oath, a bishop reads the
new president the Riot Act from the pulpit, and apparently
not all pardons are created. Equal change and hypocrisy are
in the air, aptly demonstrated by this week's did they
really just say that moment? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
This is newspite.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hi, Donald John Trump, you solemnly swear.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That I will faithfully execute that.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I will faithfully execute the office of President of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
I ask you to have mercy upon the people in
our country who we're scared. Now. There are gay, lesbian,
and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some
who fear for their lives.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
He's basically saying, if I incite you to riot, if
I don't get my way, if I lose in the
democratic fashion, I'm going to send you to do things
that are anti democratic, then I am going to don't
worry about it. You're doing it in my name for
my benefit. I'm just going to party you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh, four more years of being scared out of our minds.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That was a mad, mad mad Democrat center. That was
Corey Booker from New Jersey. Why is he so mad,
you asked, why. Well, I don't think it's really what
he was having a fit about there, which is the
J six parts, which we will get to at some
point here. But I think what he's just mad about
is that Donald Trump is president. He was inaugurated this
(01:44):
week at this very moment. Cut one A.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me, I,
Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hi, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That I will faithfully execute that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I will faithfully execute.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The office of President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And will, to the best of my ability.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And will, to the best of my.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Ability, preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The Constitution of the United States. So help me, God,
So help me, God. Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Specifically, by the way, those that oath of office, with
maybe a few exceptions in the middle, either thrills the
hell out of you or scares the hell out.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, apparently absolutely. You know, let the fun begin. Basically,
it was. It was very emotional for many people on
both sides of the spectrum, Like you just said, But
I I He followed that that that moment with an
inaugural address the likes of which I've I've never seen.
(02:56):
And that is with the past administrations sitting behind him.
I mean there was Hillary and Bill Clinton, there was
President Obama, never mind Kamala and Doug and Jill and Joe.
They were all behind him in force.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It was a stump speech on steroids, really what it was.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So here he is he had all these people who
were there to demonstrate the peaceful transition of power, which
has been a big deal in the past four years
that they've said that they've stood behind and rallied and
held flags for And so they all went to and
instead of saying, you know, then now is the time
to come together, he went after them with both fists
(03:37):
cut three A.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
As we gathered today, our government confronts a crisis of trust.
For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted
power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of
our society lay broken and seemingly incomplete disrepair. We now
have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis
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at home, while at the same time stumbling into a
continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, so, and that wasn't he wasn't done. Cut three E.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It fails to protect our magnificent, law abiding American citizens,
but provide sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from
prisons and mental institutions, that have illegally entered our country
from all over the world. We have a government that
has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders,
(04:33):
but refuses to defend American borders or more importantly, its
own people.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And then he said, well, you know, we're not going
to let that happen. Cut three D.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
But we can't let this happen. Everyone is unable to
do anything about it. That's going to change. We have
a public health system that does not deliver in times
of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than
any country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And we have an.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves,
in many cases, to hate our country despite the love
that we try so desperately to provide to them.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
All of this will.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Change starting today, and it will change very quickly.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
By the way, he couldn't have tacked that Obama.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
By the way, he couldn't have insulted the past administration
anymore if he went over and punched him square in
the nose.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I think essentially he did figuratively punch them in the way.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
By the way, and I look some of the some
of the now I listened to the whole speech. At
some points I chuckled, at other points I smiled a bit,
and other points I was like, maybe not the place
for it. But overall, he obviously was speaking to Like
I said, it was like a stump speech on steroids. Really,
But here's here's the thing. And I think this is
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pretty much where we are right now. And we've talked
about this for years. If you remember the goodbye speech
from Joe Biden, he took a few swings as well.
It wasn't a unite the country speech. Yeah, and and
and so you know people are gonna say, well and
have you know, that's not the right speech for Trump,
(06:14):
but you know, and it wasn't really the right all
totally the right speech for Joe Biden because he took
some some some wild swings as well. So you know,
you can't have it both ways. You can't have Donald
Trump going out and giving a nice, kind and gentle
speech when your guy didn't and vice versa. So I
don't know, everything's got to be toned down. I think though,
(06:36):
though Trump hit on every point that he campaigned on.
I'm gonna fix this and I'm gonna do this, and
this was broken when I you know, And so I
don't really I'm not offended by Trump's speech. I think
a few of them maybe it wasn't the time or
the place for it, but he he basically said everything
he said that got him elected, So what the hell?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, I think more than that, I think he a
lot of people were so everything I think you said
was correct. I think that the people behind him and
the people who voted for him are just so sick
of the people sitting behind him. They wanted to see
him say no more gloves. I'm tired of this crap,
and I'm going to fight back, and after He's fought
back so much because of law, fair, because of you know,
(07:15):
unfair characterations. I think people were generally I would agree
with you. I don't think it's not necessarily the most
you know, the chorous thing to do, deckors thing to do.
But I understood why he was doing it, and it
gave a lot of people satisfaction.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
But it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Also, he also took the opportunity to warn everybody that
he was going to hit the ground running and the
kind of policies that he was in fact going to enact.
Cut seven B.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders.
With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of
America and the revolution of common sense.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's all about common sense.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, so that was number one, and he did it
within hours of being taken. He's sitting in in a theater,
a huge, massive stadium theater in DC, the Omni Center,
and signing up executive orders as they were announced on
the PA system, one of which was this one, Cut ten.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I will also end the government policy of trying to
socially engineered race and gender into every aspect.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Of public and private life.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
We will forge a society that is color blind and
merit based. As of today, it will henceforth be the
official policy of the United States government that they're there
are only two genders, male and female.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Imagine that a merit based government, I think Los Angeles
would be. You couldn't have done this sooner.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Everything should be merit based.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
To me.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We've had these discussions before too. Here's the strange thing.
You know, a lot of people talk about the Founding Fathers, right,
and the world has changed since the Founding Fathers were here.
We all know that. And there's a lot of things
that the Founding Fathers never could have imagined, right from
automobiles to airplanes to the way we fight wars, all
that stuff. Everything almost almost everything really except here's the
(09:35):
funny thing. And I thought about this when he said
there'll only be two genders. Of all the things that
the Founding Fathers could never have imagined happening male and
female being an issue being an issue would be like
the furthest from their mind. I mean, they couldn't imagine
nuclear weapons and going to the moon and all the
other various stuff. Sure, but nobody would have brought up, hey,
(09:57):
you know, someday they might be more than two genders. Nobody,
no Founding father would have ever thought about that. That
is the It's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Without a doubt. And he had other promises that he
was making during his inaugural Cut number twelve.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful,
most respected, nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration
of the entire world. A short time from now, we
are going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and we will
(10:31):
restore the name of a great President, William McKinley to
Mount McKinley, where it should be.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And where it belongs.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So we now and he did that first day. So
we now have Mount McKinley back again instead of Mount Dinaley,
and we now have the Gulf of America.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
There's that vehicle that the name.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Lot of mat makers are going to have to do
some work now because it's now the golf. He did
it yesterday, It was the day before yesterday. It was
a signed assigned order. It is now. It is in
fact nowt McKinley Mountain. When that Gulf of America.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh, Golf of America.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, that's both of those need to be changed back.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Here's here's the thing. And we we know the Gulf
of American thing because we had heard that prior. Uh
and Mount McKinley when it was changed to Denali, a
lot of people were not happy because it's an American
mountain and I know they named it after the old name.
But so here's the thing. In our country, our country, right,
we can name things anything we want.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
We can.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I mean, Washington, d C. We at nor Maine, Mount Washington,
it doesn't matter picked up place. So so to name
Mount McKinley, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
That's that issue we can have.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
We can fight over it, like people can say, no,
it should be don should be a.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Mount, and we want mckilly done.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And it's on our quote unquote on our property. We
can name it whatever the hell we want. The Gulf
of America thing is a little more interesting, I would say,
because yeah, because it's the whole world's place, Mexico. He
stretches down into Cuba.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Well, I did. I don't agree with that, because here's
the thing. We can call it whatever we want. Mexico
doesn't have to go with the Golf of America.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
No, get that they can.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I'm just saying, like if in Germany, like we
call it Germany, it's not Germany to them. It's all
I'm on to them is the name of their country.
So anybody else can call it Golf of Mexico all
they want, but we're gonna call it the Gulf of America.
It's up to us what we call anything.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
The issue, the issue worldwide would be and whatever call it,
call it whatever you want. Because golf, we call it
the golf anyway, Like I go, I go to the
Gulf coast. Nobody says the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Mediterranean See is what we call it. Does not mean
that that's their name if you live on the Mediterranean See,
depending on the country that you live in. So it's
it's really nothing more. That's why he did it. My
guess is because it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It doesn't matter as much. But if every country, there's
what one hundred and ninety the.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
World, every country does have their own name for things.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I get that, But what do they all call the golf?
Is it the Gulf of Mexico to the whole world?
Is it the Gulf of America, Mexico to Mexico. They
should call it. Everybody should have a new name for something,
and then you wouldn't know where the hell you will go.
We're going this weekend. It could be fine, I'm going
to Albania. Well that's not what we call it. I mean,
whatever it is, doesn't I'm going.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
To put it to you on the map. You can
figure it out. But I said, but just in case
you're concerned. I mean, that's actually not the craziest thing
he did, or crazy as a fun is a bad word.
That's not the most unusual thing he did, because he
basically announced that, you know, we're taking the Panama Canal back,
which again we knew before, but he codified it.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Thirteen A President McKinley made our country very rich through
tariffs and through talent. He was a natural businessman and
gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great
things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly
been given to Panama after the United States. The United States,
I mean, think of this, spent more money than I've
(14:00):
ever spent on a project before, and lost thirty eight
thousand lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We
have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that
should have never been made, and Panama's promised to us
has been broken. The purpose of our deal and the
spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships
(14:21):
are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way.
Shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy
and above all, China is operating the Panama Canal, and
we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama,
and we're taking it back.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Don't know how, don't know when, but we're doing it.
I have no doubt that we're doing it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
The America Canal. Yeah, let's just rename it right off
the bat, so.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
They can call it again, you know, whatever they want.
So basically, he signed forty seven executive orders but completed
two hundred executive actions in the afternoon after he was
sworn in, so day one of his presidency, and a
lot of people are shell shocked and responding and you
(15:09):
know done, not just the map makers of the world, Ben,
but you know, there was a there this morning, the
morning we're doing this, there was a church service, an
episcopal church service, for the President, the vice president, and
other members of the administration. And there was a bishop,
a female bishop, episcopal bishop that was really ticked off
(15:32):
about the two genders thing we just discussed a minute ago.
And she had this to say from the pulpit to
the President and vice president. Cut one ten in the
name of our God, I ask you.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
To have mercy upon the people in our country, and
we're scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transginger children
in Democratic, Republican and independent and families, some who fear
for their lives. And the people, the people who pick
(16:08):
our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in
poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after
we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals.
They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,
but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They
(16:30):
pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members
of our churches and mosques, synagogues, widara and temples.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Okay, I have two things. I said that one in
regard to the gay children who are terrified for the lives.
Who did that to them? It wasn't Donald Trump. It
was the left wing hysteria calling him a homophobe when
he wasn't that have caused their hystories to look in
the mirror Bishop in regard to that. And secondly, I
was not aware that we had hordes of illegal imigrant
paying taxes. That's a new one. We haven't seen that before.
(17:03):
As far as I can tell, they're getting free visa
cards and along with food and shelter and so forth.
We're not talking about immigrants. We're talking about illegal immigrants.
There's a huge difference. So and here's President Trump's response
to that. He was asked about, what did you think
about that National Parer Service cut one hundred? At?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
What did you think your life? You find an exciting
not too exciting. I didn't think it was a good service. Now,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, he was just like he's done with it. He
wasn't gonna no more for him. He's like, yeah, I know, No,
Paul's enough fish to fry.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I think paula ticking from the pulpit. I find that
well for a number of reasons. But I've heard people
from both sides of the aisle actually say this, and
I think I'm leaning more toward it, even though I
never was in favor before. If you're going to have
people from the pulpit, whatever religion, the matter denomination, wherever
(18:06):
tax exemptions are gone. The whole thing is that churches
have these tax exemptions because they're churches, just because they're churches.
If you're a political arm a pack or even a
pseudo pack and you're going to preach politics from a pulpit.
I think churches need to start paying taxes. I really
(18:27):
am starting to lead in that direction, even though I've
always been, Oh, I've been a separation of church and
state guy anyway, But if you're not going to listen,
we have to separate church and state at our jobs
and at everybody's jobs. Right, you can get in trouble
at work if you start preaching whatever blah blah blah
blah blah. So if that's the case and churches don't
want to separate church and state, then they got to
(18:50):
be just like everybody. Preach whatever you want from the pulpit.
But we need our twenty five percent tax, and that
property is getting property taxed. And I'm really starting to
lean towards people who believe that because it's getting out
of control.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Look, I think it's a good suggestion.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I've known many pastors in my life. I am an
Internet ordained minister for some who don't know, and I
have my belief structure. But look, you can believe politically
what you want. I've always believed that the pulpit should
be used for preaching, you know, in the religion I
(19:25):
grew up in, which was, you know, a Christian branch
of Christianity. You know, the pulpit is used for preaching
the Gospel, preaching the Jesus and what have you. Everybody's
religion has a different purpose. I mean obviously Jewish people
and Muslims and everybody else believes differently than I do.
But to get up and do a stump speech from
(19:48):
the pulpit under the protection of not paying taxes and
being this protected agency, well you're not. You give that up.
If you want to play that game, then give up
the part that gives you all this religious freedom. I
can't say the crap about my religion at work, I'll
get deep crap. So your work is your religion. Preach
(20:11):
your religion. I'm not saying you can't have an opinion,
of course you can, but.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You don't do it from the pulpit to the President
the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well frustrated, right, well and and again. And I've sat
in churches where that stuff has been done. If you
want to, if you want to preach as a politician,
run for office. If you want to preach as a pastor,
Now I'm gonna get stirred up some trouble here. But
then then you got to you got to play by
the rules, and and and they don't, they they don't.
(20:39):
It's bigger, by the way, It's bigger than Bishop h
Mary and Edgar whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But this is this was, you know, right in our face,
right in President Trump's face. But even her response to
the two genders and the immigration roll up, the biggest
response we've had so far to President Trump's actions on
inauguration Day is the diversity that's been stirred up by
his pardoning of the j six prisoners. There were fifteen
(21:06):
hundred of them cut twenty two, so this.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Is January sixth. These are the hostages, approximately fifteen hundred
for a pardon, full partner, full full pardon. We have
about six commutations in there where we're doing further research.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Nice to see you again.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So this is a big one. Anything you want to
explain about this. We hope they get them. We hope
they come out tonight. Frankly, they're expecting it. Approximately fifteen
hundred people, six six commutations.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
The jug dog.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Were looking at different things, but the commutations would be
the ones that will take a look and maybe it'll
say that way, or it'll go.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
To in a faux party.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
So he did that, and the Democrats were fit to
be tied. You had you heard it in the open,
Corey Booker saying that the president pardoning the j six
defendants basically is creating a pretext for more political violence.
Cut one sixty.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
He's basically saying, if I incite you to riot, if
I don't get my way, if I lose in the
democratic fashion, I'm going to send you to do things
that are anti democratic. And if you attack the capital,
if you stop the peaceful transfer of power, if you
stop the workings of Congress, if you attack violently police
officers with stun guns to the neck, with batons to
(22:46):
the head, if you crush spines and skulls, then I
Am going to don't worry about it. You're doing it
in my name for my benefit. I'm just going to
pardon you. What he is doing right now is creating
a pretext for more political violence in our country in
his name, and that is terrifying. That is what extremists
in other countries do. And so this was not just
(23:09):
pardoning people that attacked and inflict the injuries that led
to the death of police officers like Brian Sicknick. But
he also did it in the political context of saying,
you were fighting for Trump, and so I'm going to
use my power to pardon you.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
A couple of things there. One, the injuries he's describing
were suffered by Trump supporters, not by police. One and two,
Brian Sicknick was a Trump supporter as well as a
police officer, and his death had nothing to do with
what happened on January six He didn't die in January sixth.
He died many days later from a stroke. That's what
happened to Brian Sicknick. So that's complete god swaddle right there.
(23:44):
But this is the kind of response they're giving, and
you know they're saying, this is the this is why
Trump is going to become a dictator, and he's building
an army of J six supporter.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
By the way, I heard the I forget his name
now the Capitol police chief, who's not happy about this,
And look it probably on the middle of the fence
about this. I have some okay with it, and some
maybe not. But here's here's the thing. And and and
props to the police chief. I forget who he was
talking to. A reporter. But he said, uh, he wasn't
(24:15):
happy about this, and blah blah blah blah blah, and
his folks weren't happy about this. But he pointed out,
which Booker did not, that that Joe Biden pardoned a
guy who killed two FBI agents. Yeah, Pelletier, I think
was his last name. Yeah, and and so.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Again, along with every member of his family. And and
remember the JA sixth committee just pardoned about with no
charges ever being filed against any of them. Preemptive part
preemptive parton.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
He pardoned everybody he knows.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, except for himself that could that could wind up
to come back and hurt him.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Ok So, look, we're back to that point what I
made earlier. You you can't criticize one person for doing
something and not the other for doing it. If you're
okay with Biden pardoning a FBI agent killer, uh, and
he did kill two, then you gotta be okay, Okay,
the J six fine whatever. I don't agree with it,
but okay, fine again, or vice versa. If you're pissed
(25:06):
off at Trump, you've gotta be pissed off at Biden.
So you got to pick a place of fairness. And
not again, we're back to that political stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, indeed. And the interesting thing for me, Ben is
that this is just the beginning. We're in day two
of the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, by the time they're hearing this, it'll be the
first week. But good.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's just like I have no I I can tell
you it's going to be an interesting year.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Head.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I'm very excited. If you guys are are interested, I
think this is going to be interesting, like I do.
You can contact Ben and I. We are on x
at newsby three or on Facebook at news Bye. We
have a new show every Monday. Is to check back
next Monday and see what new offerings we have. I'm
Nancy Shack.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.
I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
This is News Bye.
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