March 12, 2025 • 39 mins
President Trump has been racking up victories on the foreign policy front. It looks like Canada and Mexico are beginning to cave, and we appear to be rapidly approaching a ceasefire in Ukraine.
The House of Representatives has once again passed another continuing resolution, rather than cutting government spending in a brand-new budget. That's causing tension between Trump and Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
All right, we have got to figure out what is
going on with Trump's security. Here's why I say this.
We had another I don't know what to call this really,
I guess we'll say it's an incident. I think that's accurate,
an incident. This was at the White House, or not
necessarily at the White House, but right next to the
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White House. On Sunday, we had this incident of a
shooting right near by the White House, just blocks away.
This was by the Secret Service. Here's the Breitbart report
about it. US Secret Service shoots armed man near White
House after confrontation. An adult male brandishing a firearm was
shot by the USA Secret Service near the White House
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in Washington, DC shortly after midnight on Sunday. The agency
said the encounter happened near the intersection of seventeenth and
F Streets and PR reports the local police had earlier
reported a suicidal individual possibly traveling to DC from Indiana.
So essentially what happened is police, I guess this is
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the Secret Service spotted this guy's car, this suicidal guy's car,
and then nearby the car, they of course spotted him,
and then he started brandishing a firearm at them and
at that point, the Secret Service returned fire and shot
this guy. The Secret Service says the guy was taken
to the hospital. At the time of the report, his
condition was unknown. I still don't know what his condition is.
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I've been looking online and I can't find anything on
whether or not this guy passed away. But the real
point here is this guy was blocks away from the
White House with a gun and God only knows what
he was going to try to do with it. Apparently
he was suicidal. As we know, suicide by cop is
not an uncommon thing. Somebody that wants to kill himself will,
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I don't know, try to go out in a blaze
of glory and instigate a situation in which he gets
killed by police officers. That's not uncommon, that has happened.
There's a good chance, in my opinion, that that may
have been what happened here. He figured, Hey, if I
show up near the White House with a gun and,
you know, try to kill the president, God forbid, I
can get some attention from the media. I'll be remembered.
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I'll go out in a blaze of glory. The leftists
will love me. Who knows, And there's enough sick people
in the world for that to actually be a real possibility. Thankfully,
Donald Trump was safe in mar A Lago at the time.
He wasn't even in the White House, so there was
never any real risk to the President of the United States.
But still it's worth pointing out that this happened. This
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is noteworthy. One of the things that make it so
noteworthy is I mentioned just a second ago. You know,
this guy may very well be thinking, I can get
a bunch of positive attention from crazy radical leftist Democrats
and they'll love me forever and remember me, and I'll
be a hero to them, like that goober who set
himself on fire outside of uh I guess it was
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the Israeli embassy and God only knows really why he
did that. But the leftists still treat this guy like
he's a hero just because he set himself on fire.
And I mean, if God forbid, somebody does manage to
take a whack at Trump, and God forbid they actually
get him, it's gonna be exactly the same. You really
think that the radical crazies on the internet are not
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going to treat somebody like a hero for killing Donald Trump.
I mean, they're very open about the fact that they
would love to see that happen. They don't even try
to hide it. I mean literally minutes after I first
read that headline on Sunday morning, I was, you know,
scrolling through the internet as I do, and one of
the first things I see was the video of some
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crazy leftist chick talking about how now, yes, this is
exactly what we need. We need this energy, more of this,
more people will try to do this. I'm not kidding.
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I heard about the incident in front of the White House,
rest in peace, all the things, but this is the energy.
Let's flood the system and see what happens. Like, okay,
I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I mean, just listen to what she's saying. Here, let's
flood the system and see what happens. That's this lady
going online and saying, hey, look, this guy who like
may have been depressed and suicidal just went to the
White House with a gun and got himself shot by
Secret Service. What if more people did that, Let's see
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what happens, then more people should try this. They're openly
saying this. I mean, you really think that there's nobody
that's going to act on that, really, be honest, you
really think there's no depressed leftist out there, because statistically speaking,
a lot of leftists seem to have depression. I don't
know what that's about. We should probably look into that
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there's something going on there, maybe there's a connection. You
really don't think there's a single suicidally depressed leftist that
will think, you know, right now, my life doesn't have meaning,
but I could kill myself and if I take Donald
Trump with me, I'll be a hero and that'll make
it all worth it. You really think the percentage of
people that think like that is zero, and all it
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takes is one. Remember one crazy kid in Butler, Pennsylvania
nearly got him. And it's weird. You really only see
this from leftists. I mean, Republicans and Conservatives were very
open about how much we didn't like Joe Biden, but
you never really saw the mainstreaming of calls for Joe
Biden's assassination, which is what we've seen with Donald Trump.
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Why is that? Why is all of a sudden we
think that's okay? Why are we treating that like it's okay?
And listen, I'm all for jokes and comedy, and you know,
even irreverence. I don't think there's necessarily anything particularly wrong
with that. You know, jokes are important. Comedy is a
very important part of our society and our culture, So
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have at it, why not. But there comes a point
where you have to sit back and say, Okay, are
these people joking? Because I really don't think she's joking.
That doesn't strike me as somebody who's just kidding. And
I mean if it was one crazy person, that would
be one thing, right, I mean, one crazy person, that's
who cares. Right, there's people that are crazy. You can't
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do anything about that. They'll say things online. Who cares?
This is a common thing for the left. It's it's regular.
I mean there's countless examples. I just did a Twitter
search just to see what would happen. I just searched
crazy leftist calls for violence against Trump just to see
how many different videos I got. And there's hundreds of them,
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hundreds of them. And it's not just random people too.
I mean, there's that old video of Johnny Depp comparing
himself to John Wilkes booth. There's that time Madonna was
going on and on about how much she thought about
blowing up the White House. This is common, and there's
prominent figures on the left pushing it. That doesn't strike
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me as something that a healthy society does. We should
be able to have political discourse. The right should be
able to win an election without the opposing political side
of the aisle mainstreaming the idea that political assassinations are
fine and good. This didn't used to be the norm,
but it is now. All right, stay tuned. We got
a great show coming up. A lot happened in just
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a few days, and we're going to dig right into
it after this quick break, So stay tuned. All right,
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We've gotten some foreign policy wins in the last couple
of days, foreign policy slash economic wins. I want to
start with Canada because that's kind of the most immediate pressing.
They're right next door to us. There are neighbors, so
you know, what goes on between us two is very important.
Just for no other reason. Then they're very very close proximity.
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They're one of our best trading partners. Now, when I
say they're one of our best trading partners, what I
don't mean is we have a bunch of fair good
deals that we make with each other. We have some
decent deals, but we end up giving them a lot
more money than they give us. That's something that Donald
Trump has recognized and pointed out. He's made it his
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mission to kind of solve that problem. Obviously, they don't
like that, right, because if somebody starts trying to extract
more money out of you, you're you're just not gonna
enjoy it. So, to make a very long story short,
for a very long time, the nation of Canada has
had a lot of different tariffs here and there on
the United States, and we just have not had as
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many tariffs on them, which means their economy makes more
money off of our economy. Trump's position here is we
want that to be balanced, right because, for example, we
don't want people going and manufacturing stuff in Canada than
just importing it to the US because that costs us jobs, right,
that hurts our economy. This is all common sense. So
the way you balance that out right is in theory
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with tariffs, you say, okay, you can go make your
stuff over there, but it's going to cost you the
same amount because you're gonna have to pay a tariff. Now,
of course, the consumer ends up footing the bill for that.
We know that. So the hope is in that situation,
the consumer will go say, Okay, well, I could buy
this brand of this product and it's made in CA
or I could buy this brand of this product and
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it's made in America, and I don't have to pay
a tariff on that, so that'll be cheaper, and so
more people will go buy the US made product, and
that will encourage businesses to you know, build their factories
and manufacture their products here in the United States. That's
the goal, right, and I think that's a noble goal,
and I think it's working frankly. So we start putting
these tariffs on Canada, they don't like it. They start
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putting their own tariffs back on us, and this becomes
just an economic game of chicken, right, who's going to
break first. Obviously they're hoping they can throw the weight
of their economy at US, so it hurts us more
to not do business there, then it hurts them to
not do business here. One of the ways that they
tried to throw their economic weight around was they put
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a twenty five percent tariff on electricity that they were
sending into the United States. So basically they supply a
lot of electricity to Uh, let me see, what three
states are Minnesota, Michigan, and New York the U I
guess it's a province of Ontario. I don't know what
they call their equivalent of states over there, but Ontario
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supplied a lot of electricity to Minnesota, Michigan, and New York.
So the Premiere of Ontario, which I can only assume
is like a governor. I'm not familiar with how the
government system in Canada works, so you'll have to forgive me.
I just know they have a parliament and a prime minister,
but as far as more localized politics, I really don't
know how all this works. But the Premiere of Ontario
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essentially started charging these three American states twenty five percent
more for the electricity that they were supplying to us.
Trump raised a good question here. He came out and
he said, Okay, why are we relying on another country
to give us electricity? We really shouldn't have any problem
with that at all, right, I mean, we have plenty
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of oil here, so we can run our own power generators.
That's not really a problem. There should be no need
for us to rely on other countries for our electricity.
That's energy independence. You've heard him talk about this. So
this guy, Doug Ford, the premiere of Ontario, actually went
out and he started bragging about this, that he did this,
and he says that what he's essentially done is added
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one hundred dollars a month to the average energy bill
of Americans in Minnesota, Michigan, and New York, those three
states that get a bunch of electricity from Ontario Canada.
What he's hoping that we'll do is all of those
people will get really mad at Trump because their bills
go up, and then trumpel cave to Canada. What he
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forgot is that the American economy is just insanely bigger
than Canada's. I mean, Texas has a far bigger economy
than Canada does. So remember this is essentially an economic
game of chicken. Right, we're gonna raise your prices, You're
gonna raise our prices, and back and forth and back
and forth, and who breaks first. Well, obviously Canada is
gonna break first because America just has more wiggle room
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and we frankly have a bigger stick than they do.
So what Trump did was he got out on truth
social and he said, hey, you guys jacked up our
energy prices. If you don't stop doing that right now,
we're going to place another twenty five percent tariff on
all your steel and aluminum because Canada exports a lot
of steel and aluminum to the United States. Now, remember
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we already had something like a twenty five percent tariff
on Canada, like all the goods from Canada, so this
would basically bump that up to fifty percent if they
don't calm down and behave. Obviously they calm down and behave.
So Canada cave pretty much within a day to Donald Trump.
Basically Howard Lutnik, who's our commerce secretary. I guess he
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got on the phone with Ford and smoothed everything over.
Ford called the phone call productive. And this is all
via KTRH reporting. By the way, you can go read
that it's online. You might have to dig because that
went up yesterday. But all that happened and now, of
course we have this tariff battle going on, right and
obviously the stock market doesn't like that, because the stock
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market they want every thing to be kind of the same,
keep going, maintain the status quo, because then you know
what's happening. You can make business decisions based off of that.
So if you start, you know, changing how the cogs
in the economy are turning. The business people that are
trying to make predictions and investments based on that, obviously
that makes their job more difficult. They don't appreciate it.
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So that always causes the stock market to dip a
little bit. And so what basically happened over the course
of yesterday was the stock market opened and then it
crashed really hard because of all the tariffs, and then
as things kind of smoothed out throughout the course of
the day, it kind of just bumped back up until
it kind of evened out a little bit. I mean,
it was still down a little bit in some areas,
other areas were a little bit up, but it was
just kind of just meh, you know, nothing really happened.
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Some investors lost some money, some investors gained some money.
It just kind of dependent on what you were invested
in and what you were doing during the training day.
Now here's why that's important. The left is acting like
this is some unpredictable disaster that's happening because Donald Trump
is going in and screwing with stuff. That's not what's happening.
We all knew this was going to happen, or at
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least you should have. This is I think kind of
little short term losses that are in the service of
a far bigger gain. Right, maybe the stock market tumbles
for a day or a week, or a couple months
or even a year, and it comes down a little
bit long term, I think that's worth it. Like, hey,
maybe we take a stock market hit in the service
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of long term having a self sustaining, strong economy that
doesn't rely on foreign goods, foreign imports, and foreign electricity.
I think that's worth it. Let the Dow Jones tumble
a few points, it'll be fine. If our economy evens
back out and we're less reliant on foreign countries, I
guarantee you we'll make those gains back. But the attitude
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of the left is that that's not allowed. You can't
take one step back in service of taking two steps forward.
Somebody posted this on Twitter, essentially saying the stocks are
tanking to remove all the tariffs, go back to money
printing and funding forever wars. It was a fun week though.
That's literally the attitude of the left, and so they'll
go on and on and on about how the stock
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market took a tumble yesterday, but they're at no point
going to mention the fact that Canada gave us what
we want. Mexico gave us what we want whenever we
threaten them with tariffs. So I mean, is this a
pretty process. No, not necessarily, but does it work? Yeah?
I think so. Here's how Lutnik saying that this is
on a CBS I believe tike A Lisen.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
You know, I don't care about German car companies making
cars in Germany, good for them, and Korea good for them.
In Japan, good for them. Their prime ministers can take
care of them. Thank god, we have finally a president who.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Takes care of us.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
He's not the president of the world. He's the president
of the United States of America, and he cares about
American workers and that's who he's here to protect. And
all this nonsense has got to go because the fact
is the stock market is going to be much much higher,
much much higher. And you know what, if they're worried
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about this change, they're foolishly betting against Donald Trump. Because
if I were you, I bet for.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So there he is basically saying, look, I know this
isn't a pretty process. But it's a process that does
indeed work, and we're going to end up reaping the
long term benefits of this. Nobody thought fixing America was
going to be easy. If you did, you're foolish. I'm sorry,
But listen, We've got fifty years here of status quo
that we have got to overturn because America is way
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too reliant on foreign companies and foreign goods. We should
be reliant on our own workers, our own economy, and
nobody else. Making that switch is going to be hard,
but stick with it. I guarantee you long term, it'll
be fine. All right, stay tuned, we're gonna be right back.
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All right. Some other big foreign policy wins. We could
very well be coming up on the end of the
Ukraine War, which is fantastic. That's good for everybody, literally
for everyone. Nobody loses by that war ending, unless, of course,
it ends in nuclear fallout. That in that situation, everybody
loses from the war ending. But it looks like we're
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going to have a somewhat peaceful resolution to that what
three year long conflict. Now, I'll be honest here, Trump
said he was going to do it on day one,
and he didn't do it on day one. Forgive him.
It took him a little bit longer. It took him
about two months to end a major global conflict that
had been going on for what three years? So remember
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that for last time. Ending a global conflict is a
lot harder than you might think it is. You know,
there's a lot of different parties you have to pacify there.
So did he oversell himself maybe, But he ended a
global conflict, or hopefully, fingers crossed, will be ending it
in like less than three months. I think that's a win.
A win is a win. Let's be honest here, So
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let's dial back a little bit, and let's remember where
we were. We had had a minerals deal with Ukraine
that was basically aimed at saying, hey, we've given you
all this taxpayer money, give us a little bit of
your mineral rights so we can make some of that
money back, and in the meantime, we'll work on negotiating
a ceasefire with Russia. And they agreed to all the
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and then Zelenski came in to sign the deal, and
he thought that he could then negotiate the deal again
on camera in front of the world, and Trump and
vance slapped him down and sent him packing and then
immediately cut off all his military aid. Now here's the
reason this war has gone on for as long as
it has. Russia can basically throw bodies at the wall
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as long as they have to. They have no shortage
of people, they have no shortage of old military equipment
that they can just keep using. Throw the bodies into
the meek grinder. We can do this all day. That's
Russia's perspective. That was their perspective in World War II.
By the way, their strategy has not changed. Ukraine, on
the other hand, relies very heavily on all the military
equipment that they are getting from the United States and
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from some of their other European allies. And basically what's
been going on is for the last three years or
however long it's been since this war has started, the
West has been giving Ukraine just enough to stay afloat,
but not enough to actually, you know, invade Russia and
put a full end to this war, because if you
do that, there's a good chance that Russia just says,
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screw it, we don't want to lose tactical nuke And
next thing, you know, we do have nuclear fallout. Nobody
wants that, so we give Ukraine just enough to keep going,
but not enough to actually, like full scale win the war,
and then we don't really define our terms. What does
victory look like. Is it just keeping Russia out of Kiev?
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Is that Ukraine going into Russia? None of these things
were ever determined, So we're basically funding this endless war
that neither side can win because Russia can't overpower all
the Western assets that have been sent to Ukraine, and
Ukraine has not been sent enough Western assets to overpower Russia.
So it's a stalemate. And that just means bodies going
into the meat grinder on both sides forever, which is
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bad because human life has value. We don't want this
to happen. So Trump came in and he said, I
want both sides to negotiate and come to an agreement
so we can end this war. Ukraine said, I don't
want to negotiate because they came into my land, and
is that necessarily an unfair stance to take. No, I
get that you got invaded. You want to punish them,
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I get it, here's the fact of the matter. That's
not realistic. We need to be practical here, and so
Ukraine wasn't negotiating. Trump cut the money off. He cut
off the money, he cut off the military aid, basically saying,
I can force you to negotiate, and that's half the battle.
So that's what I'm going to do. And it worked
because then Marko Rubio went to Saudi Arabia, met with
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Ukrainians and they cut a deal. Ukraine realized, we can't
fight this war at all without American equipment. We're about
to lose our American equipment, so we need to make
a ceasefire or something right now, and that's what they did.
Here is Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia making that announcement.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Today.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
We've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which
is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations
to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and
sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability
to prosper as a nation. I want to personally think
we both want to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's
majesty for hosting us, for making this possible. They've been
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instrumental in this process and we're very grateful to them
for hosting US here today, and hopefully we'll take this
offer and out of the Russians and we hope that
they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to piece. The
ball is now in their court. But again, the President's
objective here is number one above everything else.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
He wants the war to end.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
And I think today Ukraine has taken a concrete step
in that regard. We hope the Russians will reciprocate.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
So, yeah, this is very good. Basically, what this means
is the US came to Ukraine and said, look, here
are the terms for a ceasefire. So both sides are
just going to stop shooting at each other. The war's
not over, we're just you know, time out. Basically, in
that time out, then they go to Russia and say, okay,
here's what an official end to the war looks like.
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You guys can have this. We're going to keep this.
You guys are going to stay on that side of
whatever line we end up drawing, and we'll call it
a day. Now. What we have to do is go
to Russian and say, okay, look, here's the terms of
the ceasefire. Can you guys pause now? So that we
can start negotiating.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Vladimir Putin has at least said that he's ready to negotiate.
He's been very vocal about this since I think Trump
came into office. He started saying, Okay, we're ready to talk,
We're ready to negotiate. Now. Again, leftists have been saying
that this is a bad thing because Ukraine is not
going to win the war outright, and they live in
this fantasy world where the people that you think are
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the good guys win every single fight. At the end
of the day, that's not reality. There is no such
thing as just the good guys in most wars. Every
war is a little bit of you know, gray, not
black and white. And even if it was just black
and white, the good guys don't always win. All Right,
We've got to be realistic here. How do we make
this stop and more importantly, how do we stop it
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from escalating? How do we stop this war from getting
bigger and turning into a Third World War? And the
tough answer to that question is you have to negotiate.
And the liberals will say, no, we have to stand
with Ukraine, And to that, I say, why what is
it that we owe Ukraine? And they'll always say, well,
Russia might keep going. Yeah, they might, they also might not.
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How about we just negotiate and see what happens. If
they break any terms that we agree to, we'll cross
that bridge when we come to it. But unless you
can clearly articulate to me what winning this war looks
like and why we as Americans should keep funding that
particular goal, then honestly, my vote is I don't care
who wins. I just wanted to stop because it really
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doesn't make any difference to me as an American. So
where do we stand now. Ukraine has agreed to the
terms of the ceasefire proposed by the United States, so
that's about halfway there. There's another party here that we
need to get to sign on to this, and that's Russia.
So that's going to look like Trump having some detailed
discussions with Vladimir Putin and probably his people talking with
Putin's people. The good news is that should be happening soon,
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like this week. We may very well have an update
for the Saturday episode. Take a listen to Trump making
that announcement. I'm planning on talking to Putin soon this week,
and that'll be seventy five percent there. This is him
at the White House. This is right after he was
looking at Tesla's with Elon Musk. That was pretty funny.
But take a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
I'll talk to Vladimir pun Yeah, to get Look, that's
the other It takes true to tango, as they say, right,
So hopefully he'll also agree. And I really think that
would be seventy five percent of the way. The rest
is getting it documented and you know, negotiating land positions
because I think so.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah. Now, when all these leftists inevitably get outraged about
this and use this as an excuse to call Trump
a Russian asset, just ask them what alternative do you have?
Do you have another option that doesn't lead to tactical
nuclear war? Now I can tell you already bookmark this.
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Now the left is going to act like this is
some unheard of thing that has never been done before
that you know, it's insane that Trump would negotiate with
an enemy of democracy or whatever it is they call putin.
This is how wars end you negotiate. This has been
true forever. There are very very few wars that have
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just been ended by you outright annihilation of the other country.
There are some We kind of did that to Japan.
We nuked them twice and then basically set up shop
on that island or as a guest series of islands.
I don't know. But most wars end by both sides
fighting for a while and then saying, Okay, we're done fighting,
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let's negotiate something. Let's come to some sort of agreement here.
And I think this kind of goes back to what
we talked about in the last segment. You may not
like how Donald Trump goes about getting results, but the
undeniable fact here is Donald Trump is going out and
he's getting results. We're making things happen. Again. This is
not a pretty process. We all knew that was going
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to be the case, but at least there are results.
Here's Mike Waltz saying that he pointed out the fact that, hey, look,
when we got here, nobody knew if this war was
going to end ever, and now what we're doing is
talking about how it ends. Take a listen, just think
about it.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
We've gone from if the war's going to end to
now how the war's going to end? And this was
an important first step, and that was under President Trump's leadership.
He has literally moved the entire global conversation to where
we had a very senior Ukrainian delegation with US. Today
we've had engagements with our Russian counterparts, and now it's
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how the war's going to end. And that's under President
Trump's leadership.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean, honestly, if I had to liken the Democrats
right now to anything, it would be like a starving
person on the side of the road where you give
them a piece of sausage and they immediately start complaining
about how the sausage gets made because it's not a
pretty process. We know it's not pretty, but it's necessary.
All right, this has all been good Trump. We're gonna
dig into some bad Trump here in just a minute,
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because I do think something important happened that we need
to talk about that is not great for Trump. And
I'm saying this is a for Trump supporter. Stay tuned.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
We're gonna be right back after the break to talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
All right, we've had some good Trump. Now it's time
for some bad Trump. Unfortunately, there is some bad Trump.
I hate to break it to you, but Trump is
not right on everything. He's right on a lot of stuff,
but not every single thing, And I think it's important
that we kind of say that and be okay with
saying that, because that is the difference between, you know,
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a political party and a cult. I can agree with
Trump on ninety eight percent of things, but that two
percent I should be able to say, Hey, I still
like the guy, I still like his policies. I'm still
glad he's president, but I think he's wrong here. And
you know, we shouldn't all just mindlessly fall in line.
I don't see the problem with us saying, hey, he's
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wrong on this one thing. Oh well, you take the
good with the bad, because nobody's perfect, especially not in politics.
And if you don't take the good with the bad
and you just sit and wait for eternity basically for
a perfect politician to come along and do everything you
want and nothing you don't, you'll be waiting forever. So
welcome to the real world, folks. There's good stuff and
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there's bad stuff with every president. Thankfully, Trump's goods far
outwigh the bads. But I wouldn't be doing my job
if I didn't call him on some of the bad stuff.
And what ended up happening with this whole budget fight
that's one of the bad things, all right. So let's
give you some background here. So obviously, as we all know,
the House of Representatives is in charge of creating a
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budget every year for the federal government, and this is
a can that they have been kicking down the road
for a while. The last budget that was created, I think,
was created in like twenty twenty three, and that provided
funding for up to the end of fiscal year twenty
twenty four, and then we started, i believe, just kind
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of kicking the can down the road from there. We
should have passed another budget bill in September, but that
didn't happen. Instead, what happened is we passed what's called
a continuing resolution, which is you just say, Okay, whatever
we were spending, whatever we were doing the last time,
we're just going to keep doing that until whatever date.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
If you don't pass one of those or a new budget.
If you don't pass either a new budget or a
continuing resolution, what happens is the government has not been funded,
so it just shuts down. Right. That actually really doesn't
matter at all. They always act like this is a terrible,
terrible thing. The media acts like this is a disaster.
It's happened multiple times, some of those within the last
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ten years, and it's really never actually done anything. It
doesn't actually matter because the fact of the matter is
all of the stuff in government that actually is important
and critical and we need for daily life will operate
anyway even if the government is shut down. So they
always act like this is going to be a big disaster,
and so we have to pass a continuing resolution, and
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it never actually is really that big of a disaster.
This is something that Thomas Massey, he's a Republican congressman
out of Kentucky. He has been very consistent on this
for a long time. He's been one of the guys
that saying, look, we have an insanely high national debt.
More money than exists in the universe is owed by
the United States to everybody else. This cannot continue. We
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have to cut our spending quite a bit. And he's
been very uncompromising in that. That's what he was elected
to do. Is it particularly realistic? No? But am I
gonna fault him for doing what he was elected to do.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
He's a fiscal conservative. His constituents want a fiscal conservative.
That's what they've sent him to Washington, d C. To do,
and that's how they want him to vote. And that's
what he's been doing. I respect the hell out of
that man for doing that. All that to say, they've
been and by that I mean Congress have been kicking
this can down the road for a while. We were
supposed to do this back in September, right before the election,
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because remember the last budget that was passed was signed
into law by Joe Biden. Okay, so that's where we're
at right now. And since that point, we've just been
doing continuing resolutions. Every time it comes up where we
need a new one, we just kick the can down
the road and we'll say we'll do it later. Thomas
Massey has called this out, saying, hey, we shouldn't be
doing this. We should do our jobs and create a
new budget. He pointed out the argument for doing a
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continuing resolution instead of a new budget in September twenty
twenty four was to fight the Democrats in December after
the election. That makes sense. Do it continuing resolution now
so that later, when you have a majority in Congress,
you can get a better budget. Okay, I hear you.
And we're only extending it for you know, a couple
of months. Sure, why not fair enough? Then? The argument
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for continuing resolution in December was to fight again in
March twenty twenty five after the inauguration. Okay, I hear
you there too. Okay, we'll do a continuing resolution. That
way we can get a budget that the president will
actually sign because Donald Trump will be in office and
he will hopefully be more fiscally conservative than Joe Biden. Right,
that makes sense. Now it's March of twenty twenty five.
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What are we doing again another continuing resolution? Why why
are we doing that? Why are we continuing the spending
from Joe Biden, which, as we all recall, has been
a massive problem. Right, this is a huge issue. This
is a major driver of inflation because we've got too
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much money going out the door. So why are we
going to keep doing that. We have a Republican majority
in both the House and the Senate, we have a
Republican president. What is the hold up here? Why are
we not passing a new, better budget? Why are we
not looking at the You know, we've saved all this
money from Doze. Let's go ahead and pass a new
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budg so we can actually cut that money out permanently
of these federal agencies budgets, Like, Hey, USAID was wasting
one hundred billion dollars a year, we've stopped those checks
going out. How about next year for their next budget?
Since we know that money was being wasted anyway, we
just don't give it to them. Or we could just say, hey,
we're going to give it to him anyway, because we
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gave it to him last time, and we'll keep doing
that until September, when at this point I can only
imagine we'll have another continuing resolution. It doesn't make sense.
Thomas Massey has been very vocally opposed to this the
entire time. And I say that the entire time, I
mean the entire time he's been in Congress. He's been
in Congress for a while, and he's been consistent on
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this issue. Let's be fiscally conservative, let's not waste money,
let's not spend money we don't have. Here's why that's
a problem for Thomas Massey. Donald Trump has endorsed this
continuing resolution. I don't know why. I don't know what
game he's playing at. I don't understand it. Maybe there's
some like political three D chess that he playing that
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I'm not seeing. But until I hear a good explanation
of what that is, I cannot support a continuing resolution
and I cannot argue against Thomas Massy for not supporting one.
I mean, I imagine his logic here is this. I
believe would get rid of the debt ceiling. And that's
something Trump wants because he doesn't want the Democrats to
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be able to use that as a negotiating tool. So
take that away from them. So that way, when you
do have the budget fight later, they can't you use
that as a tool. I don't know how they would
use it, but they wouldn't be able to use it.
That really doesn't hold water to me. I think the
debt ceiling is a good idea and concept. We should
have a limit on how much debt we have. That
makes sense to me. Trump, on the other hand, does
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not want the debt ceiling. He wants that to be gone,
and I assume this continuing resolution would do that. So
Thomas Massey is in effect when he voted no against this,
because he did vote no against it, he's in effect
voting against Donald Trump. So Trump came out swinging on
truth social and said Congress when Thomas Massey voted to
delay the debt ceiling bill from the Biden administration to
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the Trump administration without getting anything for this horrendously stupid
move when Republicans could have gotten everything they wanted. He
additionally voted to delay the current budget disaster from the
Biden administration to the Trump administration. I was running for
office at the time, doing my thing, and when I
heard about this, it was quite simple. Hard to believe
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a catastrophic mistake. Now, and virtually on every other vote,
he is a very simple no. He can't even approve
a continuing resolution when he has approved them many times
during his career as a congressman. Thomas Massey is a grandstander,
and the great people of Kentucky are going to be
watching a very interesting primary in the not too distant future.
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So he's basically been going all out on Thomas Massey
talking about how he's going to primary Thomas Massey. He's
going to put his weight behind somebody else to take
Thomas Massey's seat. I'm gonna be honest, that's not gonna work.
The people in Kentucky like Thomas Massy. They like what
he's doing, probably because he's right we need to get
a handle on our budget. And I'm saying this is
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someone who really likes Donald Trump and all the things
he's been doing so far, except this. Going after Thomas
Massey is a mistake because Thomas Massey is right, and honestly,
it's a waste of Trump's political resources. There's no reason
for him to do that. Thomas Massey is not going
to lose a primary even if Trump endorses an opponent
of Thomas Massey. All of this is just a fantastic
waste of time that kind of makes the Republicans look bad.
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Is it the end of the world. No? But is
it necessary? Also?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
But hey, at the end of the day, Thomas Massey's
vote didn't actually end up mattering because the continuing Resolution
got passed anyway. So all that to say, I think
Trump was wrong here. I think he's wrong to go
after Thomas Massey. That being said, I still love the guy.
I'm still happy he's president. We're allowed to disagree on things.
That's okay. All right, That's all I've got for you.
We'll be back on Saturday. Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
One of Grim and Ston
All right, we have got to figure out what is
going on with Trump's security. Here's why I say this.
We had another I don't know what to call this really,
I guess we'll say it's an incident. I think that's accurate,
an incident. This was at the White House, or not
necessarily at the White House, but right next to the
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White House. On Sunday, we had this incident of a
shooting right near by the White House, just blocks away.
This was by the Secret Service. Here's the Breitbart report
about it. US Secret Service shoots armed man near White
House after confrontation. An adult male brandishing a firearm was
shot by the USA Secret Service near the White House
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in Washington, DC shortly after midnight on Sunday. The agency
said the encounter happened near the intersection of seventeenth and
F Streets and PR reports the local police had earlier
reported a suicidal individual possibly traveling to DC from Indiana.
So essentially what happened is police, I guess this is
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the Secret Service spotted this guy's car, this suicidal guy's car,
and then nearby the car, they of course spotted him,
and then he started brandishing a firearm at them and
at that point, the Secret Service returned fire and shot
this guy. The Secret Service says the guy was taken
to the hospital. At the time of the report, his
condition was unknown. I still don't know what his condition is.
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I've been looking online and I can't find anything on
whether or not this guy passed away. But the real
point here is this guy was blocks away from the
White House with a gun and God only knows what
he was going to try to do with it. Apparently
he was suicidal. As we know, suicide by cop is
not an uncommon thing. Somebody that wants to kill himself will,
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I don't know, try to go out in a blaze
of glory and instigate a situation in which he gets
killed by police officers. That's not uncommon, that has happened.
There's a good chance, in my opinion, that that may
have been what happened here. He figured, Hey, if I
show up near the White House with a gun and,
you know, try to kill the president, God forbid, I
can get some attention from the media. I'll be remembered.
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I'll go out in a blaze of glory. The leftists
will love me. Who knows, And there's enough sick people
in the world for that to actually be a real possibility. Thankfully,
Donald Trump was safe in mar A Lago at the time.
He wasn't even in the White House, so there was
never any real risk to the President of the United States.
But still it's worth pointing out that this happened. This
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is noteworthy. One of the things that make it so
noteworthy is I mentioned just a second ago. You know,
this guy may very well be thinking, I can get
a bunch of positive attention from crazy radical leftist Democrats
and they'll love me forever and remember me, and I'll
be a hero to them, like that goober who set
himself on fire outside of uh I guess it was
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the Israeli embassy and God only knows really why he
did that. But the leftists still treat this guy like
he's a hero just because he set himself on fire.
And I mean, if God forbid, somebody does manage to
take a whack at Trump, and God forbid they actually
get him, it's gonna be exactly the same. You really
think that the radical crazies on the internet are not
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going to treat somebody like a hero for killing Donald Trump.
I mean, they're very open about the fact that they
would love to see that happen. They don't even try
to hide it. I mean literally minutes after I first
read that headline on Sunday morning, I was, you know,
scrolling through the internet as I do, and one of
the first things I see was the video of some
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crazy leftist chick talking about how now, yes, this is
exactly what we need. We need this energy, more of this,
more people will try to do this. I'm not kidding.
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I heard about the incident in front of the White House,
rest in peace, all the things, but this is the energy.
Let's flood the system and see what happens. Like, okay,
I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I mean, just listen to what she's saying. Here, let's
flood the system and see what happens. That's this lady
going online and saying, hey, look, this guy who like
may have been depressed and suicidal just went to the
White House with a gun and got himself shot by
Secret Service. What if more people did that, Let's see
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what happens, then more people should try this. They're openly
saying this. I mean, you really think that there's nobody
that's going to act on that, really, be honest, you
really think there's no depressed leftist out there, because statistically speaking,
a lot of leftists seem to have depression. I don't
know what that's about. We should probably look into that
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there's something going on there, maybe there's a connection. You
really don't think there's a single suicidally depressed leftist that
will think, you know, right now, my life doesn't have meaning,
but I could kill myself and if I take Donald
Trump with me, I'll be a hero and that'll make
it all worth it. You really think the percentage of
people that think like that is zero, and all it
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takes is one. Remember one crazy kid in Butler, Pennsylvania
nearly got him. And it's weird. You really only see
this from leftists. I mean, Republicans and Conservatives were very
open about how much we didn't like Joe Biden, but
you never really saw the mainstreaming of calls for Joe
Biden's assassination, which is what we've seen with Donald Trump.
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Why is that? Why is all of a sudden we
think that's okay? Why are we treating that like it's okay?
And listen, I'm all for jokes and comedy, and you know,
even irreverence. I don't think there's necessarily anything particularly wrong
with that. You know, jokes are important. Comedy is a
very important part of our society and our culture, So
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have at it, why not. But there comes a point
where you have to sit back and say, Okay, are
these people joking? Because I really don't think she's joking.
That doesn't strike me as somebody who's just kidding. And
I mean if it was one crazy person, that would
be one thing, right, I mean, one crazy person, that's
who cares. Right, there's people that are crazy. You can't
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do anything about that. They'll say things online. Who cares?
This is a common thing for the left. It's it's regular.
I mean there's countless examples. I just did a Twitter
search just to see what would happen. I just searched
crazy leftist calls for violence against Trump just to see
how many different videos I got. And there's hundreds of them,
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hundreds of them. And it's not just random people too.
I mean, there's that old video of Johnny Depp comparing
himself to John Wilkes booth. There's that time Madonna was
going on and on about how much she thought about
blowing up the White House. This is common, and there's
prominent figures on the left pushing it. That doesn't strike
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me as something that a healthy society does. We should
be able to have political discourse. The right should be
able to win an election without the opposing political side
of the aisle mainstreaming the idea that political assassinations are
fine and good. This didn't used to be the norm,
but it is now. All right, stay tuned. We got
a great show coming up. A lot happened in just
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a few days, and we're going to dig right into
it after this quick break, So stay tuned. All right,
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We've gotten some foreign policy wins in the last couple
of days, foreign policy slash economic wins. I want to
start with Canada because that's kind of the most immediate pressing.
They're right next door to us. There are neighbors, so
you know, what goes on between us two is very important.
Just for no other reason. Then they're very very close proximity.
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They're one of our best trading partners. Now, when I
say they're one of our best trading partners, what I
don't mean is we have a bunch of fair good
deals that we make with each other. We have some
decent deals, but we end up giving them a lot
more money than they give us. That's something that Donald
Trump has recognized and pointed out. He's made it his
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mission to kind of solve that problem. Obviously, they don't
like that, right, because if somebody starts trying to extract
more money out of you, you're you're just not gonna
enjoy it. So, to make a very long story short,
for a very long time, the nation of Canada has
had a lot of different tariffs here and there on
the United States, and we just have not had as
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many tariffs on them, which means their economy makes more
money off of our economy. Trump's position here is we
want that to be balanced, right because, for example, we
don't want people going and manufacturing stuff in Canada than
just importing it to the US because that costs us jobs, right,
that hurts our economy. This is all common sense. So
the way you balance that out right is in theory
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with tariffs, you say, okay, you can go make your
stuff over there, but it's going to cost you the
same amount because you're gonna have to pay a tariff. Now,
of course, the consumer ends up footing the bill for that.
We know that. So the hope is in that situation,
the consumer will go say, Okay, well, I could buy
this brand of this product and it's made in CA
or I could buy this brand of this product and
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it's made in America, and I don't have to pay
a tariff on that, so that'll be cheaper, and so
more people will go buy the US made product, and
that will encourage businesses to you know, build their factories
and manufacture their products here in the United States. That's
the goal, right, and I think that's a noble goal,
and I think it's working frankly. So we start putting
these tariffs on Canada, they don't like it. They start
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putting their own tariffs back on us, and this becomes
just an economic game of chicken, right, who's going to
break first. Obviously they're hoping they can throw the weight
of their economy at US, so it hurts us more
to not do business there, then it hurts them to
not do business here. One of the ways that they
tried to throw their economic weight around was they put
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a twenty five percent tariff on electricity that they were
sending into the United States. So basically they supply a
lot of electricity to Uh, let me see, what three
states are Minnesota, Michigan, and New York the U I
guess it's a province of Ontario. I don't know what
they call their equivalent of states over there, but Ontario
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supplied a lot of electricity to Minnesota, Michigan, and New York.
So the Premiere of Ontario, which I can only assume
is like a governor. I'm not familiar with how the
government system in Canada works, so you'll have to forgive me.
I just know they have a parliament and a prime minister,
but as far as more localized politics, I really don't
know how all this works. But the Premiere of Ontario
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essentially started charging these three American states twenty five percent
more for the electricity that they were supplying to us.
Trump raised a good question here. He came out and
he said, Okay, why are we relying on another country
to give us electricity? We really shouldn't have any problem
with that at all, right, I mean, we have plenty
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of oil here, so we can run our own power generators.
That's not really a problem. There should be no need
for us to rely on other countries for our electricity.
That's energy independence. You've heard him talk about this. So
this guy, Doug Ford, the premiere of Ontario, actually went
out and he started bragging about this, that he did this,
and he says that what he's essentially done is added
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one hundred dollars a month to the average energy bill
of Americans in Minnesota, Michigan, and New York, those three
states that get a bunch of electricity from Ontario Canada.
What he's hoping that we'll do is all of those
people will get really mad at Trump because their bills
go up, and then trumpel cave to Canada. What he
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forgot is that the American economy is just insanely bigger
than Canada's. I mean, Texas has a far bigger economy
than Canada does. So remember this is essentially an economic
game of chicken. Right, we're gonna raise your prices, You're
gonna raise our prices, and back and forth and back
and forth, and who breaks first. Well, obviously Canada is
gonna break first because America just has more wiggle room
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and we frankly have a bigger stick than they do.
So what Trump did was he got out on truth
social and he said, hey, you guys jacked up our
energy prices. If you don't stop doing that right now,
we're going to place another twenty five percent tariff on
all your steel and aluminum because Canada exports a lot
of steel and aluminum to the United States. Now, remember
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we already had something like a twenty five percent tariff
on Canada, like all the goods from Canada, so this
would basically bump that up to fifty percent if they
don't calm down and behave. Obviously they calm down and behave.
So Canada cave pretty much within a day to Donald Trump.
Basically Howard Lutnik, who's our commerce secretary. I guess he
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got on the phone with Ford and smoothed everything over.
Ford called the phone call productive. And this is all
via KTRH reporting. By the way, you can go read
that it's online. You might have to dig because that
went up yesterday. But all that happened and now, of
course we have this tariff battle going on, right and
obviously the stock market doesn't like that, because the stock
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market they want every thing to be kind of the same,
keep going, maintain the status quo, because then you know
what's happening. You can make business decisions based off of that.
So if you start, you know, changing how the cogs
in the economy are turning. The business people that are
trying to make predictions and investments based on that, obviously
that makes their job more difficult. They don't appreciate it.
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So that always causes the stock market to dip a
little bit. And so what basically happened over the course
of yesterday was the stock market opened and then it
crashed really hard because of all the tariffs, and then
as things kind of smoothed out throughout the course of
the day, it kind of just bumped back up until
it kind of evened out a little bit. I mean,
it was still down a little bit in some areas,
other areas were a little bit up, but it was
just kind of just meh, you know, nothing really happened.
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Some investors lost some money, some investors gained some money.
It just kind of dependent on what you were invested
in and what you were doing during the training day.
Now here's why that's important. The left is acting like
this is some unpredictable disaster that's happening because Donald Trump
is going in and screwing with stuff. That's not what's happening.
We all knew this was going to happen, or at
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least you should have. This is I think kind of
little short term losses that are in the service of
a far bigger gain. Right, maybe the stock market tumbles
for a day or a week, or a couple months
or even a year, and it comes down a little
bit long term, I think that's worth it. Like, hey,
maybe we take a stock market hit in the service
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of long term having a self sustaining, strong economy that
doesn't rely on foreign goods, foreign imports, and foreign electricity.
I think that's worth it. Let the Dow Jones tumble
a few points, it'll be fine. If our economy evens
back out and we're less reliant on foreign countries, I
guarantee you we'll make those gains back. But the attitude
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of the left is that that's not allowed. You can't
take one step back in service of taking two steps forward.
Somebody posted this on Twitter, essentially saying the stocks are
tanking to remove all the tariffs, go back to money
printing and funding forever wars. It was a fun week though.
That's literally the attitude of the left, and so they'll
go on and on and on about how the stock
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market took a tumble yesterday, but they're at no point
going to mention the fact that Canada gave us what
we want. Mexico gave us what we want whenever we
threaten them with tariffs. So I mean, is this a
pretty process. No, not necessarily, but does it work? Yeah?
I think so. Here's how Lutnik saying that this is
on a CBS I believe tike A Lisen.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
You know, I don't care about German car companies making
cars in Germany, good for them, and Korea good for them.
In Japan, good for them. Their prime ministers can take
care of them. Thank god, we have finally a president who.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Takes care of us.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
He's not the president of the world. He's the president
of the United States of America, and he cares about
American workers and that's who he's here to protect. And
all this nonsense has got to go because the fact
is the stock market is going to be much much higher,
much much higher. And you know what, if they're worried
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about this change, they're foolishly betting against Donald Trump. Because
if I were you, I bet for.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So there he is basically saying, look, I know this
isn't a pretty process. But it's a process that does
indeed work, and we're going to end up reaping the
long term benefits of this. Nobody thought fixing America was
going to be easy. If you did, you're foolish. I'm sorry,
But listen, We've got fifty years here of status quo
that we have got to overturn because America is way
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too reliant on foreign companies and foreign goods. We should
be reliant on our own workers, our own economy, and
nobody else. Making that switch is going to be hard,
but stick with it. I guarantee you long term, it'll
be fine. All right, stay tuned, we're gonna be right back.
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All right. Some other big foreign policy wins. We could
very well be coming up on the end of the
Ukraine War, which is fantastic. That's good for everybody, literally
for everyone. Nobody loses by that war ending, unless, of course,
it ends in nuclear fallout. That in that situation, everybody
loses from the war ending. But it looks like we're
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going to have a somewhat peaceful resolution to that what
three year long conflict. Now, I'll be honest here, Trump
said he was going to do it on day one,
and he didn't do it on day one. Forgive him.
It took him a little bit longer. It took him
about two months to end a major global conflict that
had been going on for what three years? So remember
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that for last time. Ending a global conflict is a
lot harder than you might think it is. You know,
there's a lot of different parties you have to pacify there.
So did he oversell himself maybe, But he ended a
global conflict, or hopefully, fingers crossed, will be ending it
in like less than three months. I think that's a win.
A win is a win. Let's be honest here, So
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let's dial back a little bit, and let's remember where
we were. We had had a minerals deal with Ukraine
that was basically aimed at saying, hey, we've given you
all this taxpayer money, give us a little bit of
your mineral rights so we can make some of that
money back, and in the meantime, we'll work on negotiating
a ceasefire with Russia. And they agreed to all the
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and then Zelenski came in to sign the deal, and
he thought that he could then negotiate the deal again
on camera in front of the world, and Trump and
vance slapped him down and sent him packing and then
immediately cut off all his military aid. Now here's the
reason this war has gone on for as long as
it has. Russia can basically throw bodies at the wall
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as long as they have to. They have no shortage
of people, they have no shortage of old military equipment
that they can just keep using. Throw the bodies into
the meek grinder. We can do this all day. That's
Russia's perspective. That was their perspective in World War II.
By the way, their strategy has not changed. Ukraine, on
the other hand, relies very heavily on all the military
equipment that they are getting from the United States and
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from some of their other European allies. And basically what's
been going on is for the last three years or
however long it's been since this war has started, the
West has been giving Ukraine just enough to stay afloat,
but not enough to actually, you know, invade Russia and
put a full end to this war, because if you
do that, there's a good chance that Russia just says,
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screw it, we don't want to lose tactical nuke And
next thing, you know, we do have nuclear fallout. Nobody
wants that, so we give Ukraine just enough to keep going,
but not enough to actually, like full scale win the war,
and then we don't really define our terms. What does
victory look like. Is it just keeping Russia out of Kiev?
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Is that Ukraine going into Russia? None of these things
were ever determined, So we're basically funding this endless war
that neither side can win because Russia can't overpower all
the Western assets that have been sent to Ukraine, and
Ukraine has not been sent enough Western assets to overpower Russia.
So it's a stalemate. And that just means bodies going
into the meat grinder on both sides forever, which is
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bad because human life has value. We don't want this
to happen. So Trump came in and he said, I
want both sides to negotiate and come to an agreement
so we can end this war. Ukraine said, I don't
want to negotiate because they came into my land, and
is that necessarily an unfair stance to take. No, I
get that you got invaded. You want to punish them,
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I get it, here's the fact of the matter. That's
not realistic. We need to be practical here, and so
Ukraine wasn't negotiating. Trump cut the money off. He cut
off the money, he cut off the military aid, basically saying,
I can force you to negotiate, and that's half the battle.
So that's what I'm going to do. And it worked
because then Marko Rubio went to Saudi Arabia, met with
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Ukrainians and they cut a deal. Ukraine realized, we can't
fight this war at all without American equipment. We're about
to lose our American equipment, so we need to make
a ceasefire or something right now, and that's what they did.
Here is Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia making that announcement.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Today.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
We've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which
is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations
to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and
sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability
to prosper as a nation. I want to personally think
we both want to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's
majesty for hosting us, for making this possible. They've been
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instrumental in this process and we're very grateful to them
for hosting US here today, and hopefully we'll take this
offer and out of the Russians and we hope that
they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to piece. The
ball is now in their court. But again, the President's
objective here is number one above everything else.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
He wants the war to end.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
And I think today Ukraine has taken a concrete step
in that regard. We hope the Russians will reciprocate.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
So, yeah, this is very good. Basically, what this means
is the US came to Ukraine and said, look, here
are the terms for a ceasefire. So both sides are
just going to stop shooting at each other. The war's
not over, we're just you know, time out. Basically, in
that time out, then they go to Russia and say, okay,
here's what an official end to the war looks like.
(23:37):
You guys can have this. We're going to keep this.
You guys are going to stay on that side of
whatever line we end up drawing, and we'll call it
a day. Now. What we have to do is go
to Russian and say, okay, look, here's the terms of
the ceasefire. Can you guys pause now? So that we
can start negotiating.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Vladimir Putin has at least said that he's ready to negotiate.
He's been very vocal about this since I think Trump
came into office. He started saying, Okay, we're ready to talk,
We're ready to negotiate. Now. Again, leftists have been saying
that this is a bad thing because Ukraine is not
going to win the war outright, and they live in
this fantasy world where the people that you think are
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the good guys win every single fight. At the end
of the day, that's not reality. There is no such
thing as just the good guys in most wars. Every
war is a little bit of you know, gray, not
black and white. And even if it was just black
and white, the good guys don't always win. All Right,
We've got to be realistic here. How do we make
this stop and more importantly, how do we stop it
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from escalating? How do we stop this war from getting
bigger and turning into a Third World War? And the
tough answer to that question is you have to negotiate.
And the liberals will say, no, we have to stand
with Ukraine, And to that, I say, why what is
it that we owe Ukraine? And they'll always say, well,
Russia might keep going. Yeah, they might, they also might not.
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How about we just negotiate and see what happens. If
they break any terms that we agree to, we'll cross
that bridge when we come to it. But unless you
can clearly articulate to me what winning this war looks
like and why we as Americans should keep funding that
particular goal, then honestly, my vote is I don't care
who wins. I just wanted to stop because it really
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doesn't make any difference to me as an American. So
where do we stand now. Ukraine has agreed to the
terms of the ceasefire proposed by the United States, so
that's about halfway there. There's another party here that we
need to get to sign on to this, and that's Russia.
So that's going to look like Trump having some detailed
discussions with Vladimir Putin and probably his people talking with
Putin's people. The good news is that should be happening soon,
(25:39):
like this week. We may very well have an update
for the Saturday episode. Take a listen to Trump making
that announcement. I'm planning on talking to Putin soon this week,
and that'll be seventy five percent there. This is him
at the White House. This is right after he was
looking at Tesla's with Elon Musk. That was pretty funny.
But take a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
I'll talk to Vladimir pun Yeah, to get Look, that's
the other It takes true to tango, as they say, right,
So hopefully he'll also agree. And I really think that
would be seventy five percent of the way. The rest
is getting it documented and you know, negotiating land positions
because I think so.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah. Now, when all these leftists inevitably get outraged about
this and use this as an excuse to call Trump
a Russian asset, just ask them what alternative do you have?
Do you have another option that doesn't lead to tactical
nuclear war? Now I can tell you already bookmark this.
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Now the left is going to act like this is
some unheard of thing that has never been done before
that you know, it's insane that Trump would negotiate with
an enemy of democracy or whatever it is they call putin.
This is how wars end you negotiate. This has been
true forever. There are very very few wars that have
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just been ended by you outright annihilation of the other country.
There are some We kind of did that to Japan.
We nuked them twice and then basically set up shop
on that island or as a guest series of islands.
I don't know. But most wars end by both sides
fighting for a while and then saying, Okay, we're done fighting,
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let's negotiate something. Let's come to some sort of agreement here.
And I think this kind of goes back to what
we talked about in the last segment. You may not
like how Donald Trump goes about getting results, but the
undeniable fact here is Donald Trump is going out and
he's getting results. We're making things happen. Again. This is
not a pretty process. We all knew that was going
(27:43):
to be the case, but at least there are results.
Here's Mike Waltz saying that he pointed out the fact that, hey, look,
when we got here, nobody knew if this war was
going to end ever, and now what we're doing is
talking about how it ends. Take a listen, just think
about it.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
We've gone from if the war's going to end to
now how the war's going to end? And this was
an important first step, and that was under President Trump's leadership.
He has literally moved the entire global conversation to where
we had a very senior Ukrainian delegation with US. Today
we've had engagements with our Russian counterparts, and now it's
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how the war's going to end. And that's under President
Trump's leadership.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean, honestly, if I had to liken the Democrats
right now to anything, it would be like a starving
person on the side of the road where you give
them a piece of sausage and they immediately start complaining
about how the sausage gets made because it's not a
pretty process. We know it's not pretty, but it's necessary.
All right, this has all been good Trump. We're gonna
dig into some bad Trump here in just a minute,
(28:43):
because I do think something important happened that we need
to talk about that is not great for Trump. And
I'm saying this is a for Trump supporter. Stay tuned.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
We're gonna be right back after the break to talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
All right, we've had some good Trump. Now it's time
for some bad Trump. Unfortunately, there is some bad Trump.
I hate to break it to you, but Trump is
not right on everything. He's right on a lot of stuff,
but not every single thing, And I think it's important
that we kind of say that and be okay with
saying that, because that is the difference between, you know,
(29:43):
a political party and a cult. I can agree with
Trump on ninety eight percent of things, but that two
percent I should be able to say, Hey, I still
like the guy, I still like his policies. I'm still
glad he's president, but I think he's wrong here. And
you know, we shouldn't all just mindlessly fall in line.
I don't see the problem with us saying, hey, he's
(30:04):
wrong on this one thing. Oh well, you take the
good with the bad, because nobody's perfect, especially not in politics.
And if you don't take the good with the bad
and you just sit and wait for eternity basically for
a perfect politician to come along and do everything you
want and nothing you don't, you'll be waiting forever. So
welcome to the real world, folks. There's good stuff and
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there's bad stuff with every president. Thankfully, Trump's goods far
outwigh the bads. But I wouldn't be doing my job
if I didn't call him on some of the bad stuff.
And what ended up happening with this whole budget fight
that's one of the bad things, all right. So let's
give you some background here. So obviously, as we all know,
the House of Representatives is in charge of creating a
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budget every year for the federal government, and this is
a can that they have been kicking down the road
for a while. The last budget that was created, I think,
was created in like twenty twenty three, and that provided
funding for up to the end of fiscal year twenty
twenty four, and then we started, i believe, just kind
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of kicking the can down the road from there. We
should have passed another budget bill in September, but that
didn't happen. Instead, what happened is we passed what's called
a continuing resolution, which is you just say, Okay, whatever
we were spending, whatever we were doing the last time,
we're just going to keep doing that until whatever date.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
If you don't pass one of those or a new budget.
If you don't pass either a new budget or a
continuing resolution, what happens is the government has not been funded,
so it just shuts down. Right. That actually really doesn't
matter at all. They always act like this is a terrible,
terrible thing. The media acts like this is a disaster.
It's happened multiple times, some of those within the last
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ten years, and it's really never actually done anything. It
doesn't actually matter because the fact of the matter is
all of the stuff in government that actually is important
and critical and we need for daily life will operate
anyway even if the government is shut down. So they
always act like this is going to be a big disaster,
and so we have to pass a continuing resolution, and
(32:13):
it never actually is really that big of a disaster.
This is something that Thomas Massey, he's a Republican congressman
out of Kentucky. He has been very consistent on this
for a long time. He's been one of the guys
that saying, look, we have an insanely high national debt.
More money than exists in the universe is owed by
the United States to everybody else. This cannot continue. We
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have to cut our spending quite a bit. And he's
been very uncompromising in that. That's what he was elected
to do. Is it particularly realistic? No? But am I
gonna fault him for doing what he was elected to do.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
He's a fiscal conservative. His constituents want a fiscal conservative.
That's what they've sent him to Washington, d C. To do,
and that's how they want him to vote. And that's
what he's been doing. I respect the hell out of
that man for doing that. All that to say, they've
been and by that I mean Congress have been kicking
this can down the road for a while. We were
supposed to do this back in September, right before the election,
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because remember the last budget that was passed was signed
into law by Joe Biden. Okay, so that's where we're
at right now. And since that point, we've just been
doing continuing resolutions. Every time it comes up where we
need a new one, we just kick the can down
the road and we'll say we'll do it later. Thomas
Massey has called this out, saying, hey, we shouldn't be
doing this. We should do our jobs and create a
new budget. He pointed out the argument for doing a
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continuing resolution instead of a new budget in September twenty
twenty four was to fight the Democrats in December after
the election. That makes sense. Do it continuing resolution now
so that later, when you have a majority in Congress,
you can get a better budget. Okay, I hear you.
And we're only extending it for you know, a couple
of months. Sure, why not fair enough? Then? The argument
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for continuing resolution in December was to fight again in
March twenty twenty five after the inauguration. Okay, I hear
you there too. Okay, we'll do a continuing resolution. That
way we can get a budget that the president will
actually sign because Donald Trump will be in office and
he will hopefully be more fiscally conservative than Joe Biden. Right,
that makes sense. Now it's March of twenty twenty five.
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What are we doing again another continuing resolution? Why why
are we doing that? Why are we continuing the spending
from Joe Biden, which, as we all recall, has been
a massive problem. Right, this is a huge issue. This
is a major driver of inflation because we've got too
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much money going out the door. So why are we
going to keep doing that. We have a Republican majority
in both the House and the Senate, we have a
Republican president. What is the hold up here? Why are
we not passing a new, better budget? Why are we
not looking at the You know, we've saved all this
money from Doze. Let's go ahead and pass a new
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budg so we can actually cut that money out permanently
of these federal agencies budgets, Like, Hey, USAID was wasting
one hundred billion dollars a year, we've stopped those checks
going out. How about next year for their next budget?
Since we know that money was being wasted anyway, we
just don't give it to them. Or we could just say, hey,
we're going to give it to him anyway, because we
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gave it to him last time, and we'll keep doing
that until September, when at this point I can only
imagine we'll have another continuing resolution. It doesn't make sense.
Thomas Massey has been very vocally opposed to this the
entire time. And I say that the entire time, I
mean the entire time he's been in Congress. He's been
in Congress for a while, and he's been consistent on
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this issue. Let's be fiscally conservative, let's not waste money,
let's not spend money we don't have. Here's why that's
a problem for Thomas Massey. Donald Trump has endorsed this
continuing resolution. I don't know why. I don't know what
game he's playing at. I don't understand it. Maybe there's
some like political three D chess that he playing that
(36:01):
I'm not seeing. But until I hear a good explanation
of what that is, I cannot support a continuing resolution
and I cannot argue against Thomas Massy for not supporting one.
I mean, I imagine his logic here is this. I
believe would get rid of the debt ceiling. And that's
something Trump wants because he doesn't want the Democrats to
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be able to use that as a negotiating tool. So
take that away from them. So that way, when you
do have the budget fight later, they can't you use
that as a tool. I don't know how they would
use it, but they wouldn't be able to use it.
That really doesn't hold water to me. I think the
debt ceiling is a good idea and concept. We should
have a limit on how much debt we have. That
makes sense to me. Trump, on the other hand, does
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not want the debt ceiling. He wants that to be gone,
and I assume this continuing resolution would do that. So
Thomas Massey is in effect when he voted no against this,
because he did vote no against it, he's in effect
voting against Donald Trump. So Trump came out swinging on
truth social and said Congress when Thomas Massey voted to
delay the debt ceiling bill from the Biden administration to
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the Trump administration without getting anything for this horrendously stupid
move when Republicans could have gotten everything they wanted. He
additionally voted to delay the current budget disaster from the
Biden administration to the Trump administration. I was running for
office at the time, doing my thing, and when I
heard about this, it was quite simple. Hard to believe
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a catastrophic mistake. Now, and virtually on every other vote,
he is a very simple no. He can't even approve
a continuing resolution when he has approved them many times
during his career as a congressman. Thomas Massey is a grandstander,
and the great people of Kentucky are going to be
watching a very interesting primary in the not too distant future.
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So he's basically been going all out on Thomas Massey
talking about how he's going to primary Thomas Massey. He's
going to put his weight behind somebody else to take
Thomas Massey's seat. I'm gonna be honest, that's not gonna work.
The people in Kentucky like Thomas Massy. They like what
he's doing, probably because he's right we need to get
a handle on our budget. And I'm saying this is
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someone who really likes Donald Trump and all the things
he's been doing so far, except this. Going after Thomas
Massey is a mistake because Thomas Massey is right, and honestly,
it's a waste of Trump's political resources. There's no reason
for him to do that. Thomas Massey is not going
to lose a primary even if Trump endorses an opponent
of Thomas Massey. All of this is just a fantastic
waste of time that kind of makes the Republicans look bad.
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Is it the end of the world. No? But is
it necessary? Also?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
But hey, at the end of the day, Thomas Massey's
vote didn't actually end up mattering because the continuing Resolution
got passed anyway. So all that to say, I think
Trump was wrong here. I think he's wrong to go
after Thomas Massey. That being said, I still love the guy.
I'm still happy he's president. We're allowed to disagree on things.
That's okay. All right, That's all I've got for you.
We'll be back on Saturday. Stay tuned.
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