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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Alrighty, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining me.
You didn't know you were doing it, but you are surprised.
My name is Ephie Buchanan.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
This is hopefully the first.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Of many Sunday evenings that we'll get to spend together
just talking about all the different things that have happened
over the course of the week.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I don't know if you've noticed, but we live.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
In a time where there are a lot of things
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that's what we all want. We all want to be
able to, you know, have conversations about things that interest us.
And that's why I think AM radio is so awesome.
It really does enable conversations in a way that has
never been done before by any other piece of technology.
And I think that's why it's lasted so long, right
I mean, it's no secret that this is an.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Older platform, AM radio.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So many of you may be wondering, why is a
twenty two year old on AM radio. Most twenty two
year olds don't even listen to AM radio. I guess
I'm the rare exception. I grew up listening to AM radio.
I love listening to AM radio, and I'm honored to
be on AM radio with all of you tonight. One
of my goals is I want to be able to
give you a younger perspective on the issues of the day.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And of course you might hear.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That, and rightly, I think be a little bit nervous, like, Okay,
what's going on? Here. What is this goofy kid about
to say? What liberal nonsense is about to come out
of his mouth? Don't worry, I do not have a
gender studies degree. I do not have a master's in
lesbian dance theory.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I am one of you.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I am one of the many young conservatives that are
out here trying to improve the reputation of my generation.
I'd like to, if at all possible, give you some
hope for the future, because, guess what, despite what you're
being told, all the young people are not radical leftists.
We actually have seen some progress, and I think the
Internet is probably be a factor here. I'll explain that
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in a little bit, but first I want to show
you some of the data. According to some new polling
from Atlas Intel, President Trump's approval rating among eighteen to
twenty nine year olds has climbed to fifty two point
seven percent.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's as of February. That is huge.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That is a big number. Fifty two point seven percent
in politics. That is a mountain. That is a mountain.
Normally you're looking at like one or two point margins,
and that looks like, Okay, I'm at forty nine and
they're at forty eight. So I think I'm gonna win
the election. Trump's at fifty two point seven. That's huge,
and with young people that is even huger. Eighteen to
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twenty nine year olds. Those are the people that we
usually write off as Democrats, right Those are the college kids.
Those are the goofy liberals that got their ridiculous art
degrees and now they want you to pay for them.
But believe it or not, those people love Trump and
it looks like they probably like him more than most
other people according to Real Clear Politics average.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So they basically looked at a bunch of.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Polling on Trump's approval rating and then the average is
about forty seven point six percent approve of Donald Trump's
job as president right now. Now that's pretty good for
where he is right now in his term. And remember
this is only going to get better as we see
the full results of what Donald Trump is doing come
to fruition. But right now, young people who we traditionally
write off as radical leftists, those people like Donald Trump
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more than everybody else does right now, according to the polling.
Now these may be outliers, who knows, but we have
seen a trend. Remember back in November during the election
President Trump won forty seven percent of those eighteen to
twenty nine year olds. That's not a small number. That's
done year fifty. He got really close to half. So
what's my point with all this. I think we've written
off young people and that's a mistake. Young people definitely
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can be reached. I'm living proof right There are tons
of young conservatives out there and young potential conservatives out there.
You just have to go and talk to them. You
just have to reason with them. This is one of
the reasons why Charlie.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
C work is so successful.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I think we owe a lot of those young conservatives
to Charlie Kirk because he actually goes down and he
has conversations with these young people on these college campuses,
people that we would traditionally just write off as liberals.
He actually goes and he has discussions with them, and
it works. He reasons with them and he brings them
over to our side. I want to give you an
example of this. Take a listen to him talking about
the Department of Education with a group of college students.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I don't think it's constitutional or in the role of
government to get involved in the most intimate thing, which
is education, and this is why I think our view
of education is wrong. You guys look at education probably
because you've been taught as just hey, get here so
you can get a job. In the ideal sense, education
should about the growth of the soul and she about
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the nurturing of good citizens, which is completely different.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Than just career preparation.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The view I have of education, which is what the
founders had, which only very few people have, is that
you guys should be here to read really old good books,
under stand ancient philosophy, to become a well rounded citizen,
to what is good, true, and beautiful, and then you
could do any job once you graduate. That the hyper
specialization of our education system has been dreadful. And let
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me get to the Constitution. I'd love to get your response. Constitutionally,
I think we have made too many exceptions of the
government should do this, the government should do that. When
if we look at Article one, Section eight of the
US Constitution, it enumerates seventeen things that government can do.
Education federally is not one of them, and it doesn't
even do it well. And I think it's led to
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this bloat of federal agencies that shouldn't exist.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, now, I want to point out to you what
we just heard. That's a conservative guy, a well known
conservative guy, going to college students who most well known
conservatives would just write off and saying, hey, we actually
disagree on this, but I think I can bring you over.
Here's why the constitution kind of doesn't allow for the
Department of Education. Here's why even if the Constitution and
did allow for it, it really wouldn't be a good idea.
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And he reasons with these kids, and you hear them
cheering and applauding. Here's what I think everybody needs to
understand about young people. Some of them might be dumb.
Many of them might be dumb, but none of them
want to be They all want to be smart. They
all want to look smart, they all want to sound smart.
And so if you can reason with these kids and say, look,
you can be smart and a religious conservative. Those things
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aren't mutually exclusive. They haven't been demonstrated that, so they
don't think it's possible.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And if you show them that it is, they'll enjoy it.
They'll take part in it, they'll participate in it, and
they'll get active and they'll get passionate about it. I
think we need to be taking advantage of that more,
and I hope I can help make that a reality.
That's one of my goals. All Right, stay tuned, I've
got a great show coming up for you. We'll be
right back after this break. Do not change the dial.
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All righty, hey, welcome back. Let's talk about tariffs. I
think it's a worthwhile conversation. That's what everybody else is
talking about, so let's talk about it too. I want
to preface this by saying, I'm not an economists, but
I do have the rare ability to look out at
the world and see the practical results of things.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's called common sense.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm gonna be using that to inform our discussion about
tariffs right now. So on Wednesday, Donald Trump announced a
twenty five percent tariff on all imported cars and key
auto parts. Now, a lot of cars are not made
in America anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's not a secret. Look at Detroit.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Everybody knows that that whole town, that whole city was
built on the auto manufacturing industry, and as that got
outsourced to other countries because it was cheaper, the city
of Detroit and basically caved in on itself because nobody
had a job anymore. The entire economy of that city
relied on auto manufacturing, and then auto manufacturing went overseas
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because it was cheaper to build a car in China
or wherever and then import it to the United States
than to pay Americans to build a car here.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I think we can all agree that that's a problem.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You may like paying for a cheap car, but there's
an entire city in the United States of America that's
become a borderline third world country because nobody can get
a job there anymore. So there's other things, there's other interests,
other concerns to balance here with Hey can I buy
a cheap car? And to add insult to injury, the
cars aren't even cheap anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
So what did we get out of this? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
American manufacturing was destroyed and we don't even get the
cheap goods anymore that we were promised because inflation is
so high either way. So what now what do we do?
Do we just say, oh, well, this is the way
it is, or do we do something about it? Doing
something about it is going to be difficult, right, It's
not going to be easy. Fixing problems, especially big ones,
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never is easy. But it is necessary. So that's how
we get to this tariff conversation. Donald Trump has announced
a twenty five percent tariff on imported cars and key
auto parts effective April third, and according to CNBC, about
forty seven percent of all vehicles sold in the US
are imported. So is this going to be a price
hike on cars? Yes, and the Left will lose their
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mind about that. They'll say, Donald Trump promised to lower prices,
and now he's putting a tariff. Those costs are going
to get passed down to the consumer. Everything is going
to get more expensive.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
They're not exactly wrong. Those prices are going to get
passed down to the consumer. If you're buying an imported car,
you are going to pay more for it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So what's the solution.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Don't buy an imported car, Buy an American made car.
There are American made cars out there. Tesla is the
big one, that is the most American made car. Those
are in the United States using mostly parts from the
United States. A lot of American made cars are assembled
in the United States, but they import the parts from
other countries and then put it together here in the
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United States.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So you may be sitting there wondering.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Okay, well I voted for Donald Trump to lower prices,
so why is he doing this. I want you to
do what the left won't. I want you to zoom
out a little bit and look one step forward. What
do you do if the price of a car that
was imported is way higher than a price of a
car that wasn't. You go and you buy the car
that wasn't imported. You buy the made an American car. Now,
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companies know that that's what you're going to do. Companies
know that consumers want the best product for the lowest price,
and so what they're going to do is say, Okay,
can we build our car here in the United States.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
That way, we don't have to pay a tariff.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
That way we can keep the price on our car lower,
and more consumers will buy our product and will make
more money in the long run. And as the added bonus,
we can employ more Americans. Those Americans will be able
to make money here in the United States, pay their taxes,
contribute to the American economy. This is a long term win.
That's what Donald Trump is doing here. He's focused on
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long term fixing the problems that we have been content
to paper over. It's like if your landlord came in
and say there's a hole in your wall, and your landlord,
if you're a renter, came and just put a piece
of paper over the hole and then painted over the
piece of paper so it doesn't look like there's a hole,
but there is. That's what the government has been doing
for years with our economy. We've got these major holes
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and the government just papers over with them. We're essentially
in a house made out of paper, economically speaking, because
everybody's ignored the problem. And then Donald Trump comes in
and says, hey, why don't we take this paper down
and put up drywall.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The moment he takes the paper down, there's the hole.
You see it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's obvious, and everybody blames Trump for the hole, but
nobody wants to talk about the fact that, like, hey,
he's got drywall right there, he's about to put it up.
If you'll just relax for a minute, deal with the
whole for a little bit, we can put up some
drywall and we'll have an actual, lasting solution. The great
thing is that's already happening. Companies under capitalism move incredibly
fast because they're financially motivated to do so. And we've
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already seen that companies are investing huge in American manufacturing,
specifically in Atlanta. Take a listen to this report from
Atlanta First News talking about a new Hyundai dealership that
is being built in the United States of America to
manufacture American cars. These jobs will go to Americans. People
are going to benefit long term, far more than the
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short term difficulty of Hey, if I want a Toyota,
it's going to cost me a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Here's my advice. Keep riding your Junker a little bit longer.
You will survive another two years until this manufacturing plant
comes online, and then go buy one of these cars
brand new because it'll be made in America. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
The massive electric vehicle plant is now open in South Georgia.
Hyundai just held a grand opening event for its brand metaplant.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The factory is set to produce three.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Hundred thousand vehicles every year once operations ramp up. The
facility also represents a seven and a half billion dollar
investment in our state. It's set to bring cutting edge
manufacturing technology and thousands of.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Jobs to Georgia.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Just this week, Condai's leadership announced an additional twenty billion
dollars that it's investing in the United States, including a
new steel plant in Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Now let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Do you think Hyundai does this if there's not a
tariff on their car? No, absolutely, they would not, because listen,
Hyundai knows that one of their biggest possible markets, the
way that they can reach the most people with the
most money to offer their product to, that's the United States.
It always has been and always will be. We are
an economic powerhouse. And Trump is right when he says
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people should pay to have access to that. You should
be giving something to us if you want to take
advantage of the fact that we, frankly are a rich country.
And listen, it's not just cars. You heard her mention
the new steel manufacturing plant in Louisiana. That's going to
bring good jobs to Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
This is going to be.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Happening all around the country with all sorts of industries.
So will you maybe short term pay a little bit
higher price for certain products?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Probably, And you know what, that may be a little
bit hard for a little bit, but there is no
long term gain without a little bit of short term loss.
That's just a hard fact of reality. But think of
how nice it will be to not have to rely
on other countries for all of our stuff. I want
you to think back to COVID. It's something that a
lot of people try to put out of their minds.
It was an obnoxious, annoying, authoritarian time in the United
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States of America. Most people don't want to think about it.
But I want you to think about it for just
a minute. Think back as far as you can to
where all of this price rising really started. It didn't
start under the Biden administration. It actually did start under Trump.
It wasn't his fault. Here's why it happened. COVID struck
every country all over the world shut down everything, including
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all their factories that make all of their things and
then import them to the United States. We started seeing
less supply of every single product, including toilet paper. A
major paper plant in Australia that manufactures toilet paper shut down,
and there was a run on toilet paper in the
United States because they weren't making it in Australia because
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of a virus from China, where they were also making
a bunch of our stuff, and they weren't importing it,
and so we didn't have anything, and prices rose and
that never really stopped thanks to Biden coming into office
and just making everything worse. That's a symptom of the
fact that we're not making anything in the United States anymore,
and we're not making anything in the United States anymore
because it's cheaper to make it over there and import
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it over here. How do we solve that problem? Trump
is right when he says we solve it with tariffs.
Companies will invest in the United States and they will make.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Their stuff here.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That way, next time there's a virus, God forbid, we
won't be completely sol I think that's a good thing,
and I think it's worth the short term pain of Hey,
maybe some stuff is a little bit more expensive for now.
Think long term, because that's what the left doesn't want
you to do. They want you to focus in on
the headlines. This is more expensive, This is more expensive,
This is more expensive. What's going on behind the scenes?
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Are things going to be cheaper long term? They're just
a little bit more expensive right now. No, don't think
about that. Just get worked up right now and vote
for the Democrats. People are falling for that it works.
It's a good move by the left because we don't
take the time to explain to people, Hey, look at
what's gonna happen after this and after that. Democrats and
the left are counting on you not doing that. They're
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counting on you not thinking with your brain. They're counting
on you just being emotional, freaking out and being scared
about temporary price rising and then voting for them without
any long term solution. They don't offer any long term solution.
They just say, hey, you're scared, we're gonna do something
about it.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
What.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Think long term and you'll realize this is actually a
good thing, it really is. All right, stay tuned, we'll
be right back, all right. How many of you have
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heard that cigarettes are not good for you? I've heard
that my entire life growing up. I don't really smoke cigarettes.
I will have a cigar every now and again, just
because I think it's classy and cool special occasions. It's
a nice little celebratory thing.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
According to the US Army Survival Manual or a US
Army Survival Manual, I should say FM twenty one seventy
six Department of the Army Field Manual Survival. Tobacco is
apparently a good treatment for intestinal parasites. I just learned
this for the first time. It lists tobacco eat one
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and a half cigarettes as a way to basically kill
or stun intestinal parasites long enough for you to pass them. Unbelievable, unbelievable.
It doesn't say smoke them, it says eat them. That's crazy.
American soldiers are the most unbelievable people. You have to
respect them. All right, let's get to something serious. How
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many times have you heard the ridiculous argument from the
left that listen, all we need to do is ban
guns and will be safe.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
They point to every.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Single instance of gun violence and they'll say, hey, all
we have to do is ban guns and this will
just go away overnight.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And you just want people to die. You don't care
about people dying because you refuse to ban guns.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And of course, if you're a logical person, you'd look
at that and say, okay, well, that's an emotional argument.
You're not giving me any statistical data that would show that, hey,
banning guns actually is an effective way to reduce violent crime.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And the reason they don't do that is because that
data doesn't exist. It's not out there.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Sure you might have less shootings, but you're still gonna
have violent crime, and you're still gonna have a lot
of it. And they always point to Europe as an example.
And I don't understand why they will always look and say, look,
Europe doesn't have any school shootings. Europe doesn't have massive
amounts of gun crime. Yeah, but they do have some
guy driving a truck into a crowd of people basically
every other weekend. Remember we had this big story of
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the Mageburg's Christmas Market in Germany that happened back in December.
This guy drove a car through this crowded Christmas market
in Magburg, Germany, killed eleven people, injured another eighty.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It was huge news at the time.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
But hey, I guess they don't have guns, right, I
guess at least he didn't use an AR fifteen to
kill these people. The idea that if you get rid
of the guns, the violence stops is absolutely ridiculous, but
the leftists cling to it for some reason. Remember, common
sense will tell you the gun is just a gun,
it's a tool. It's only as good or bad as
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the person who uses it. If a person is intent
on doing violence and they have a gun available, they
will do violence with the gun. If the gun is
not available, they will seek alternative options. They will use
a car, they will use a knife, they will use
a sword, they will use whatever they can get their
hands on. If they can build an ied, they'll build
an ied and they'll use that.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
This is not uncommon.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
A little bit more recently, on March third, in Mannheim, Germany,
there was another instance where a guy drove a car
into a crowd. He killed at least two people injured
another eleven. So what does this tell us? What's the
takeaway here? The guns clearly are not the problem. And
I don't need to tell y' all that, but I'm
telling you this so that next time somebody says, hey,
guns are the problem, you can say, actually, no, they're not.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Look at this.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Look at all these instances of violent crime, mass killings
that still occur in places where the average, everyday citizen
is not allowed to own a gun. We've seen this
quite a bit in the United Kingdom. They don't have guns.
It's very difficult to access a gun. Most citizens, I
don't believe can own a handgun. I think in certain situations,
if you're like a farmer, you're allowed to own a
double barrel shotgun, but most people are not allowed access
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to a gun, and certainly not a handgun that you
can can seal on your person and use for your
own protection, like we're blessed to be able to do
here in the United States and in Texas. So does
that mean that violent crime, things like juggings and robberies
and you know, all the things that leftists here want
to ban guns to prevent, have those stopped in England? No,
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they've just started using knives instead. According to data from
the British Commons Library, in the year ending in March
twenty twenty four, there are around fifty thousand, five hundred
offenses involving a sharp instrument in England and Wales. So
banning the guns didn't work because there's still a bunch
of violent crime. There's still mass killings all.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Across Europe even though you're not allowed to buy a gun.
So what's the leftist response to that?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
How do you explain that, Well, at least they're not
doing these crimes with a gun. Who cares they're still
doing the crimes? Do you care about stopping the crime,
protecting citizens, or do you care about making sure that
well the crimes aren't being done with this particular weapon.
My thought process is we should give the average, everyday
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citizen the best possible chance to make sure that, no
matter who's attacking you at any given time, you are
able to protect yourself. Let's say one hundred and ten
pound woman, god forbade, is attacked by a two hundred
pound muscular man. What gives her the best opportunity to
protect herself because she's not gonna beat that guy in
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hand to hand.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
She's just not. He's twice her size and far more muscular,
far more bone density. He's going to destroy her. And
you might say, well, we have the police for that.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, listen, when seconds count, the police are often minutes away.
By the time they get there, it's too late. Whatever
god awful thing is going to happen to that woman,
it's already happened. What's the one thing that puts this
inaty bitty lady on an equal playing field with her huge,
muscular male attacker. It's a firearm, it is. She's not
gonna be able to beat this guy with a knife.
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He's twice her sighs. Even with a little bitty knife,
he's gonna get her. He is the only thing that
levels the playing field for her is a firearm. God
created man, but cult made them equal. That's that's the
hard truth of things, and that's where logic takes you
on this issue. But the Left, like we pointed out
in the last segment, they're not concerned with logic. They
focus on on the emotions and once you open that door,
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there's really no stop to it, right, and we've seen
that in England. They've made it almost impossible for your
average everyday citizen to own and carry a firearm for
their own protection. But the violent crime didn't stop. There's
still violent crime, except now they're using things like swords
and knives. And so what's the UK's solution, Well, guess what,
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They're banning swords and knives too. That slippery slope never stops.
Take a listen to this report from skynews dot com
where they're talking about the fact that after a tragic
incident in which a young man was killed by somebody
using a ninja sword, now ninja swords are banned in
the UK.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I'm not kidding. This really happened. Take a listen. We
begin with breaking.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
The government has banned ninja swords three years after the
death of sixteen year old Ronan Canada. It will be
illegal to possess, cell, make or import the weapon from
the summer, with anyone caught with a ninja sword potentially
facing six months in prison. The ban is part of
measures known as Ronan's Law, which also requires retailers to
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report bulk or suspicious sales to police and an increase
to jail's sentences for selling weapons to children. The Home
Secretary of Vetkooper said it's part of a wider mission
to try and keep children safe.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That is unbelievable. That is unbelievable. If you have a
katana hanging in your home just as decoration. A lot
of guys we like to do that. That's a pretty
common thing amongst men. We think sorts are cool. We
think katanas are a cool type of sword. It's not
uncommon to find a guy that has a decorative katana
in his home in England.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
That will get you.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Thrown in jail and they're proud of that, believe it
or not. Keir Starmer, who is the ridiculous Prime Minister
of that ridiculous joke. Island of a country read the
United Kingdom, tweeted out all the way back in January
of twenty twenty four, knife crime is at epidemic levels
and is ruining lives across Britain. As Prime Minister, I'll
crack down on sales of these lethal weapons once and
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for all. When I announce a ban, you'll get a ban.
And then just a little while ago, just a few
days ago. He then tweeted out a reply to that,
saying confirmed ninja swords will be banned by this summer.
When we promise action, we take it. He's proud of this.
What he doesn't realize is he's the perfect example to
all of the United States why you should never give
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up your guns, because it always starts with the guns.
But it never ends with the guns. It starts with guns.
Next thing, you know, it's ninja swords. If you told
me this two years ago, I would have said you
were joking. And I can tell you right now the
next step is going to be kitchen knives. I guarantee it,
because hey, if you were doing crimes with ninjaswords and
now you can't get your hand on a ninja sword. Well,
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what can you get your hands on. I can get
my hands on a big cleaver. I can go rob
somebody with that. I can get a steak knife, and
I can rob somebody with that. We've already seen that
there again, knife crimes. What knives do you think they're using?
It's not just you know, switch blade pocket knives. Remember,
the only thing that's keeping us from being exactly like
this is the fact that we have a Second Amendment,
the fact that we recognize in the United States. Listen, Unfortunately,
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violence and evil crimes are going to happen. It's a
sad reality of the fallen world. People sin, and they
sin with weapons oftentimes. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be
done about that other than making sure that people are
as protected as possible all the time. The objectively best
way to do that is with a firearm. Because listen,
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evil people that want to do crime and violence, they
will find a way to do crime and violence. If
you ban ninja swords, they will use kitchen knives. If
you ban kitchen knives, they will start manufacturing shives. They'll
start getting pieces of glass and wrapping it up so
they can hold it, and they'll use that as a knife.
It's what we see in all the time they manufacture
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shives and weapons.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
All you're doing when you do this is you're disarming
the good people.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
The people that follow the law will say, Okay, knives
are illegal, I don't want to use a knife to
rob someone, so I won't carry one. Guess what, you
get robbed by a guy with a knife and you
can't do anything about it. You get murdered by a
guy with a knife and you can't do anything about it.
If you really want to put a stop to violent crime,
the best way to do that is you make sure
every single criminal in the back of their mind is thinking,
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no matter what target I pick to do my crime,
the moment I pull up on them, I could get shot.
That's the only way. There's still going to be crimes
that happen, but I guarantee you it'll be less. All right,
we've got a little bit more coming up. My main
point here is, you know, get a gun and be
in practice with it, be able to use it properly,
know what you're doing with it, make yourself able to
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defend to yourself. All right, stay tuned, we'll be right back. Hey,
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have you all been keeping up with the View lately.
If I want to open up this last segment with
this clip from the View.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Daily Wire actually put this out.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
The View was talking about, you know, just how mean
they think Donald Trump is, and Joy Behart made the
ridiculous case that she's never seen a president be as
mean to their predecessor as Donald Trump has been to
Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Now, this is patently ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Joe Biden was just as mean to Donald Trump as
any other president has been to anyone else. Ever, so
courtesy of the Daily Wire, they post this on their
X page. Here is Joy Behart saying this ridiculous thing,
and then an example of all the times that Joe
Biden went and said mean things about.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Donald Trump and his supporters. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
They also have a tendency to blaze blame the Biden
administration of It's like move.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
On that ship has sailed.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
I never remember in my lifetime as sitting president trashing
a previous president.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I've never heard that before.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
Donald Trump is a loser.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Donald Trump is a loser.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Mister President Trump, Former President Trump, get a life, man,
You were a senator. You're the worst president in America
has ever had to make Donald Trump sales the Trump
had you.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Class at all zero. No, Donald Trump has no character,
he's failed businessman. He's a sucker.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
You're the lass, the loser of the candidate, and more
importantly my view, and I'm just going to say straight up.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
These losers are man. The only knows that I know
is Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Doing garbage ice floating out there as his supporters. But
I'm serious, these are the kind of guys who are
like a smacking a.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, thank you Daily Wire for that.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I guess the view just completely mentally tuned out for
four years between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I mean, that seems to be the result.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I don't know how you can make that statement unless
that's what happened. She just was not paying any attention
to what Joe Biden was doing. But that's probably the case.
The left likes to ignore the disasters that they cause,
so that would not surprise me. But Joy Behar is
right that ship has sailed enough about Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Let's talk about what Donald Trump is doing.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Whoever is running the official White House ex page had
better get a raise. I will pay more taxes to
fund the raise for whoever's running this account, and I
hate paying taxes.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It's my least favorite thing to do.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
But I will do it more if it means this
person gets a raise because they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
So on March.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Eighteenth, a absolutely unbelievable looking woman was arrested by Ice.
And I say unbelievable because I mean this person, this
illegal alien. If you haven't seen the picture, there's no
other word to describe it other than unbelievable. She's a
thirty six year old citizen of the Dominican Republic. She
has a huge rap sheet that includes fentanyl trafficking. She
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was arrested by Ice. She is sizable, to say the least.
She is a woman of great stature. I don't know
how else to say that she's fat would be one word.
And she's frankly pretty ugly. So she broke down into
tears when the White House arrested her. And I mean,
I have no pity. She's trafficking fentanyl that kills over
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two hundred and fifty thousand Americans every year. This woman
is an imminent national security threat. And I almost guarantee
that there are people that are dead right now that
would be alive if she never illegally entered the United
States of America. She was arrested by ice. She broke
down into tears. They took a picture of her bawling
about being arrested, and they posted it on the White
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House Instagram page. That was on March eighteenth. Now, in
more recent days, a trend has come up online of
taking pictures and turning them into cartoons using AI. So
that's a thing that's been happening online recently. The White
House took this image of this lady crying while she's
arrested for being in the United States illegally in trafficking fentanyl,
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and they turn this into one of those memes and
they posted it and it's hilarious, it's funny, and the
Left has lost their mind over it because it's mocking
this lady, who is grotesque. This is a person who
does not take care of her own body. People, your
body is a temple. Take care of it. But if
you're not going to take care of it, at least
don't cross the border illegally and start dealing fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Right, Let's just let's not do that. And if you
do do that and we catch you, you deserve to
be mocked for that.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
You deserve to be shamed and ridiculed for entering our country,
breaking our laws, and posing a threat to our citizens.
You absolutely deserve to be made a spectacle of on
a national level. Shame is a very important tool that
can and should be used as punishment for criminals.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
This used to be common sense. We had the pillory.
If you broke the law.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
In the medieval ages, one of the tools that they
would use to punish you is shame. They would sit
you up in the town square and let people throw
things at you, broaden fruits and whatnot. You would be
publicly shamed, and that worked.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Of course, leftists and their ever bleeding hearts have gotten
offended at Donald Trump for doing that. They think it's
terrible that he would shame someone who broke our laws
and posed an active, real threat to American citizens who
we are now arresting and sending away from this country
because we don't want discussing people like this in our country.
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I mean, the leftist reaction to this, some of the
replies are using ai slop to promote your fascist garbage.
Means the person behind this account is indescribably evil. Somebody
else said the greatest and most powerful nation on earth,
and his leadership is focused on ridiculous meme trends, embarrassing
and disgraceful. And I mean I scrolled for hours reading
through leftists race against this, But something that really caught
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my mind was somebody who posted saying, when did America
become a place where people take joy in suffering, celebrating
job losses, cheering immigrant arrests, ignoring terrified school children, and
applauding when neighbors lose public assistance. What happened to basic
human decency? And this really goes along with what kind
of became the unintentional theme of this episode is the
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fact that liberals rely so heavily on emotion and not
at all on logic, Like, let's take one step further here,
which is what the left doesn't want to do.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
They point out, Oh, people are losing their job and
you're cheering.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah, because the people losing their job are irs agents
who leach off Americans in order to fund ridiculous nonsense
at the federal government. Go find a productive job that
contributes to the economy instead of taking away from it.
They'll say, oh, immigrants are being arrested and deported. These
are people that are just coming here for a better life. Yeah,
and they're going to build that better life on the
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back of selling fentanyl to American people.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Get them out of here. I have no pity for
these people. This is an.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Example of weaponized empathy. They don't want you to think
about the actual dangers of the policies that they're putting forward.
So they're saying, Hey, you don't want these people to
be sad, right, if you deport these legal immigrants, they
might cry.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
How terrible would that be.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Don't pay attention to the fact that she's a fentanyl
dealer and she's crying because she won't be able to
sell ventanel and get rich off of the deaths of Americans.
Don't pay attention to the fact that Americans are being
taxed out of house and home to pay for nonsense
at the federal government. Just look at this IRS agent
that was crying and in tears because he lost his
job at the IRS.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I'm not kidding that actually happened. We played that clip
a few weeks ago here on the show. Go listen
to it.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
On the podcast, we played this clip of a local
news station here in Houston doing an interview with an
agent at the IRS who had lost his job, and
he was in tears about it.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I'm sorry that you lost.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Your job, sir. Go get a better job somewhere else.
But this is what they do. They throw out big
blanket terms like basic que human decency. They never bother
to define that, and they just tell you to be
nice to people. What is being nice to people mean?
If being nice to somebody means that I have to
let a bunch of drug dealers into my country to
put American lives at risk by selling them ventanyl, no,
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I'm not gonna do that. I reject your definition of
being nice to people. My definition of being nice to
people is making sure the American citizens, my countrymen, are
protected and safe. And while I recognize that there may
be instances of Oh, this family from Venezuela just wants
to come here and be good citizens, I also recognize
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the fact that if we're going to let them in
without making them follow the law and get here the
right way, we have to do that to everybody. And
once we open the door to everybody without making them
go through the process and doing the paperwork, these are
the type of people that get into the country fentanyl dealers,
and I'm not willing to make that trade off. I
believe that we should close the border to every that
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comes into this country without following the laws. And if
you come into this country without following the laws and
we catch you, we are going to make a mockery
of you because you are putting Americans at risk, and
we are going to let the whole world know that
if you do that, there will be consequences. This is
an objectively good thing and I'm glad it's happening. And
the added bonuses, it's funny to us if we're American citizens,
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we get to laugh at the fact that this grotesque
person is no longer in this country and she made
a fool of herself on the way out. All right, listen,
if you came in on the back end. My name
is Ethan Buchanan. This is the Next Gen Report. You
can catch this whole episode of the show on the
iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
It'll be available shortly.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
You can find me online at Ethan Buchanan on xv dot,
Ethan Buchanan on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I'd love to hear if you like the show, if
you didn't like it, and hey, we'll be back next Sunday,
starting at seven pm, same BAT time, same BAT channel.
Thank you very much for listening, and listen you guys
have a blessed
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Night form Up ten in school