8-13-25 - 8am - Building a Police State and Catch & Release Numbers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, it seems to me that an establishment of a
Palestinian state recognized by all these countries around the world
would simply embolden them to be even more anti Israel.
It wouldn't actually solve anything. It would just create this
monolithic anti Israel state that would be worse than what

(00:22):
we have now.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
And not that on any sort of soothsayer, but simply
because of my travels to Israel. I specifically, remember when
when Sharon gave the Gaza strip over, when he relinquished it,
I remember thinking to myself that this is going to lead.

(00:47):
This will become an operating base for whether it was
Hesbealah or her Moss or the PLA or anybody else.
It was going to become an operating bought base for
those terrorists who are dead set on the utter destruction
of Israel. And here we are some you know, twenty

(01:10):
plus years later, actually watching that occur. So to your point,
that's exactly what it would do. And dour favorite Juguer's point,
who are Palestinians define that? For me? I've you know,
I've never I have a whole folder that's just on

(01:36):
articles and clippings and stuff about this made up idea
of this Palestinian state and these Palestinian people, and I've
never taken and condensed it down to a radio segment.
Maybe I'll do that sometime, but it raises a great point.
But before I move on to I'm gonna talk about

(01:57):
Trump for a minute. But before I move on to that,
I want to go to a text message that also
goes back. So we're kind of going back and forth here,
which if you've listened to this program anything at all,
you know that we we we do something in depth,
and we kind of come back and forth to it. Well,
Gouber seventy four hundred writes something that now I've got

(02:17):
to go watch this. I did watch an interesting episode
of Frontline on PBS season twenty twenty five, episode fourteen,
name the Battle for Tibet. Now, often, often, i'd say
almost always PBS shows go way off the rails, but
this one did not. The citizens of Tibet are not free.
They're being crushed by China. Let me just stop. Yes,

(02:42):
but it's interesting to me that they do Tibet but
they haven't done Mongolia because the same thing is going
on in Mongolia. They don't get they don't go to
any of their temples to worship because they fear being
arrested or being disappeared. Getting citizens in Tibet to talk
about this issue is nearly in possible. You have to
find citizens, citizens living in exile to hear the horrors

(03:05):
of the oppression from China. If we can't make Tibet
a free state or recognize Taijuana as a country, then
there should be no support for a Palestinian state. Israel
isn't opposing and killing off a Palestinian so Israel can
control the population. Again, the Europeans are way off on
this one. No fec Sherlock absolutely correct if to watch

(03:29):
that now, this isn't exactly related to what I want
to talk about with regard to Trump. But if you
go to Drudge, I often I pick up this horrible
habit of going to Drudge when I come in here
in the morning and pulling it up over here on

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this extra monitor. We were not doing taxpayer relief shots
or something, obviously, because I want to see just how
over the top it is. So the photo on Drudge,
if you haven't seen it yourself, the center photo above
the fold, in newspaper speak, is of black armed fully

(04:14):
outfitted riot cops, helmets, visors, black gloves, black body armor,
black jackets, everything black black, black, black black, and the
headlines in gigantic font Trump building police state, watching monitor citizens,

(04:35):
Pentagon plans, reaction force. Oh. I think they're trying to
convince me that Trump is building a police state. M. Yeah. Uh.
So you you decide that crime in DC is bad,

(05:00):
which it is, and because it's the nation's capital, and
because under our constitution it is the federal district, it's
where the federal government is to be housed, that you decide,
under your statutory authority to call out the National Guard

(05:23):
on a thirty day mission to try to tap down
the crime. And even the mayor and the police chief
refer to the National Guard as their federal partners and
want to welcome it and figure out a way to,
you know, give us a breather so we can and

(05:47):
to give Mayor Bowser some credit, which I really hate
to do, but I try to be fair. Mayor Bowser
will use that thirty days to lobby Congress for whatever
additional resources they need. I mean, for example, the jail
where the j six defendants were held is worthy of

(06:09):
a third world country. It needs it doesn't need renovating,
it needs to be demolished and rebuilt. They need additional cops,
they need additional patrol cars, the need they need a
lot of stuff in DC, and the mayor knows that. Now.

(06:31):
She's still don't get me wrong, she's still a staunch socialist,
Marxist communist, but she recognizes that her city's out of
control and that her city is subject to the whims
of Congress. So she's politically astute understanding that it is
the federal district and that they have a right to
do what they're doing. And I would say she's politically

(06:55):
smart because while other Democrats, like the Drudge Report, are
talking about building a police state, she's actually welcoming it
and saying, yeah, let's figure out a way to to
kind of let's get this crime, you know, slowed down.
You'll you won't eliminate it, but let's at least get it,
you know, back under control. Paul, all the other Democrats

(07:16):
are out there screaming about how bad Trump is and
he's building a police state and he's gonna monitor all
of us, and the Pentagon's gonna have these quick reaction forces,
these QRFs. They're gonna, you know, they're gonna parachute into
Denver and they're gonna, you know, take over Denver. They're
gonna take over Highlands Ranch, and they're gonna take over
Sterling and they're gonna take over They're gonna they're gonna

(07:37):
run in and take over Campo Colorado. No, no, shut up,
and sit down. Compare and contrast that to the good news,
if not great news, that keeps coming related to Trump's
battle with the drange, demented, and demonic Democrats. They're out

(07:57):
there saying the things about building a police state. So
maybe we ought a catalog some of the ways in
which Trump is winning. Everything from energy policy to reform
of the intel community and everything in between. Trump seems
to be winning on just about all the fronts. And
nowhere is that winning more obvious than in the subject

(08:21):
matter jurisdiction of illegal immigration. This story is probably unimaginable.
Just a mere eight months ago, the headline is Trump
tallies third straight month of no catch and release at

(08:45):
the border. No catching release, three consecutive months of zero
illegal aliens being caught and released at the border with Mexico.
Here's an excerpt from that story at the Washington Times
Homeland Security it's third month in a row where it
did not catch and release a single illegal immigrant at
the border, the department said Tuesday, celebrating new record breaking achievements.

(09:10):
The Border Patrol recorded just four thousand, six hundred arrests
along the Southern Land border in July, breaking the previous
record said in June of about sixty one hundred one
year ago. At this time that figure was more than
fifty six thousand. I'll just insert a footnote. Yeah, we

(09:33):
didn't need any new laws. We didn't need comprehensive immigration reform.
We just needed a new president. Now I still think
we need some immigration reform. But in terms of stopping
the water from spilling out of the bathtub, you got
to turn the water off, and that's exactly what he'd done.
The Washington Times continues. Across all borders, including airports and waterways,

(09:56):
Customs and Border Protection recorded just twenty four th unauthorized
entries in July of last year. That figure was more
than one hundred and seventy one thousand. Homeland Security Secretary
Christinome quote, history made again. The numbers don't lie. This
is the most secure the border has ever been. No

(10:19):
more excuses, no more releases. We've put the cartels on
defense and taken our border back. And of course she's
really good, and as she should as a member of
the Cabinet of crediting Trump's changes, including the border emergency,
stiffer interior enforcement, changing calculus of would be migrants in
the smuggling cartels that help shover them in according to

(10:41):
The Times, The Washington Times then says, of the forty
six hundred migrants nab jumping the southern border, about half
were put into speedy deportations known as known as expedited removal.
Another twelve hundred already had previous deportation orders that were revived,

(11:03):
also allowing speedy ousters. Let me interpret that for you.
If you get caught coming in again at the border,
one that's a felony, But two, if you already have
a previous deportation order, don't waste your time charging them
with the felony just to port them. There's already an
existing removal order. Of the twelve hundred out of the

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forty six hundred that you arrested or you nabbed jumping
the Southern border, well, put them on a bus, put
them on a plane and send them as far south
as you can, or I don't care, as far you
send them to Yemin. I don't care. Time says some
three hundred and eighty were allowed voluntary return or going

(11:46):
back without a formal deportation on their record, and five
hundred and twenty six reserved immigration court summonson's and detained
into the Washington Time story. Now, I think those numbers
are nearly unbelievable, as is the speed at which they've
been achieved. Now, remember, Biden's open border policy was the
Democrat party's last, last gas desperation plan to sam out

(12:10):
somehow kind of try to remain a viable national party,
and they were going to do that by importing an
entire new voter base made up of these millions of
illegal aliens from all over the world that they believed
could be easily controlled and turned into loyal Democrat voters. Well,
that bathtub spigot's been turned off. It's been literally turned off,

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not slowed down, not turned down to address, it's been stopped.
But that's not the best news. The best news is
is that the full of illegals hasn't just been halted,
it's actually been reversed, and not by just a little,
but by a lot. This is the headline from the
Center for Immigration Studies. Overall foreign born population down two

(12:59):
point two million January to July. Illegal population estimated to
have fallen one point six million this year. The stories
over at the Center for Immigration Studies had stated yesterday
August twelfth, Now that's not just a significant reduction in

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America's foreign born population, that's the largest six month reduction
ever recorded. From the Center for Immigration Studies. Analysis of
the raw data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Household
Survey officially called the Current Population Survey, shows an unprecedented

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two point two million decline in the total foreign boring,
foreign born or immigrant population, both legal and the illegal,
between January and July of this year. We preliminarily estimate
that the number of illegal immigrants has fallen by one
point six million in just the last six months. This

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is likely due to increase out migration in response to
stepped up enforcement. However, analysis based on the CPS comes
with some caveats. Here are the caveats. Analysis of the
CPS data shows the total form born population of all ages,

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both in and out of the labor force declined an
unprecedented two point two million from January to July, the
largest six month decline ever. Within the same year, non
citizens accounted for all of the falloff in the total
form born. The naturalized US citizen population has actually increased
since January. Now that one stuck me or struck me,

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because that means that, oh, we're actually getting people that
are doing it the right way to increase That population
has actually increased since January, once again just enforcing the
existing statutes and then providing the necessary personnel to process

(15:12):
those who want to immigrate to immigrate legally. They have
a couple of others. They preliminary estimate that the illegal
immigrant population decline in astonishing one point six million, ten
percent to fourteen point two million from January July this year,
and that confirmation of the decline in illegal immigrant population

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can be seen in the ten percent decrease in the
number of non citizens from Latin America who indicated they
arrived in US in nineteen eighty or later. It is
well established that this population overlaps significantly with illegal immigrants,
although some have voice concern based on the Bureau of
Labor statistics, Other employment focused survey that Joe, you know

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that job growth was underreported. The CPS actually shows significant
job growth among US born population. Further, to the extent
employment growth may have slowed overall, it is likely due
to illegal aliens leaving the country. Remember, the most important

(16:21):
point there is that there's been significant job growth among
US born people in the labor market. They also cite,
based on the CPS the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report
Table A seven of the Employment Situation Report that the
number of employed foreign born individuals declined by one million

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from January to July. Table A seven also shows in
the increase of two point five million workers among US
born individuals. Now, given the recent stepped up enforcement efforts,
it is possible that the observed decline in the foreign

(17:03):
born was dueing at least in part to a greater
reluctance by these illegal aliens to actually participate in that
survey or to I even identify as foreign born. And
some of the administrative data necessary to estimate illegal immigrants
not available, so it's all preliminary data. But given the
way that their surveys design employment gains among the US

(17:29):
US born, at least in part represents a statistical artifact
rather than a real trend. I kind of doubt that.
I kind of maybe just because I wanted to believe,
So maybe confirmation bias that employment among US born actually
is increasing significantly. Hey, let's go talk to Josh over

(17:50):
the retirement planning some of the Rockies. Josh, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (17:54):
You know, I'm doing great, Michael. I'm preparing for a
hot one today.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, I know, scorture as we'd like to call deial
there in CLIMATEG scorch or scorture. So explain to my audience,
what's the retirement planning some of the rockies? What's your
investment philosophy?

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, this is a really great question, Michael, and one
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We come across the situation a lot where we run
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(18:34):
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risk tolerance. Okay, And honestly, that's not a philosophy. That's

(18:56):
just letting a questionnaire dictate investment decisions and certainly is
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It's super simple and definitely one that folks can remember,
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(19:17):
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The point of this portion of your money is really
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(19:40):
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And the last bucket. These are things that are going
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(20:23):
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(20:44):
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Speaker 2 (21:00):
Your philosophy is actually more of a plan, and that
plan is part of the overall mix that you have
for some for someone's overall retirement plan.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Absolutely, and to that exact point, Michael, that plan really
takes so much stress off for tire's minds in that
you know the market's not going to dictate whether you
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your whole life is going to be the way that
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Speaker 2 (21:29):
I think relying on the stock market for your retirement's
kind of like going to Vegas. Relying on your.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Retirement, no question. You know, if we're leaving it to chance,
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our advisors, and we're at fault for not planning properly.
And most folks just don't know how to do it.
So that's why they need someone like us, and that's why.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
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So let's go back to these results, because this is
these are great examples of winning. I think the results
shown thus far by ICBP deportation operations. You think that's

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been disappointing, well, then you ought to think again. A
ten reduction in the illegal alien population in just half
a year, I think is astonishing. Now I'm not sure
that you you know well, particularly in Colorado, but maybe
in your state you have maybe the freeways are not

(23:17):
quite as crowded, or the hospital emergency rooms aren't quite
as crowded. Well, even if that's a deminimous less amount
of crowding, it's because you have your people relying on
all those public services. And remember this, this estimated reduction
in illegal population that happened during a time when both

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NCBP were without doubt underfunded, understaffed, and when their efforts
were just beginning to start. Now they've been beefed up
with bigger budgets thanks to the you know, ob cubed
and an incredibly successful recruiting effort. I find that recruiting

(24:01):
effort amazing because I keep hearing from the cabal that
they can't find people. Yet then I read directly from
ICE and CBP that they are overwhelmed with applications, absolutely overwhelmed.
That's leadership, that's people that you know, imagine being a
street cop somewhere where you are having to deal with

(24:25):
a district attorney or a prosecutor that is not prosecuting
people or they're letting them out, you know, on no bail,
that alone, minor bail. Well, if you really want to
be a law enforcement officer, if you want to be
a LEO, you don't want to work under those conditions.
You want to work under the conditions where you're actually

(24:45):
engaged in law enforcement and that law enforcement has an effect.
And I think that's why the recruitment efforts being so successful,
because a lot of retired cops cop that are working
for really lousy jurisdictions are like, hey, I can go
there and I can really make a difference. Most people

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go into law enforcement because they actually do the standard
phrase about you know, to serve and to protect. That's
what they really want to do. It's idealistic in a
practical world. So the results of all of these stats,
the Democrat Party's great replacement therapy, They're great replacement project

(25:31):
using the Cloward and pivot tactics is dying. It's truly dying.
All because the November election went the right way. All
we needed, as I've said, is a new president. That
is far from the only way that they're demolishing the

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foundations of the viability of the Democrat Party. Think about
the demolition of the fifty billion dollars Democrat NGO money
laundering scheme that coste constituted almost all of the USAID project.
That flow of money, that input is gone. Seem's true

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with the tens of billions of dollars of money laundering
through NGO grants that were handled out during the Biden
administration's final weeks that came out of the Environmental Protection Agency,
the Department of Energy, other department budgets gone or at
least in the process of getting eliminated. No more gold
bars being tossed off the Democrat titanic. But then I think,

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and this goes mostly unreported, and that's the Trump administration's
assault on the most massive election fraud machine that's ever
been concocted by the Democrats, and that's Act Blue. That's
their gigantic, overall umbrella fundraising oppribus that poured well over

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a billions, well over a billion dollars in fraudulent contributions
into the Harris campaign and most Democratic congressional campaigns during
last year's election cycle. Right now, the Department of Justice
reportedly has multiple investigations of that group's activities underway. You know,

(27:24):
using the old gift card fraud thing here, we'll you know,
give you a bunch of gift cards and use those
to make contributions. And what did that do? That allowed
big donors, That allowed all donors to circumvent the limits
on giving, which parenthetically I still think are unconstitutional, But
as long as that's the law, that's the law. And

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then you've got the Attorney General in Texas, Ken Paxton.
He's apparently investigating Act Blue and fraudulent donations collected from
Texas citizens and poured into the Democrat campaigns, including that
of Jazzman Jasmine D. Crockett. Maybe some other state gillpags

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will take notice and start their own investigations. That may
or may not happen, but I think what you do
see happening is a slow cultural and political shift.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Now.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was startling at first because it's like, Bam, we
just turned the water off, and we saw that at
the border. But these other things are going to be
a little slower in taking effect. But nonetheless they're starting
to take effect because they see others doing it and
they see them standing up to the cabal. And that's

(28:44):
why I think people are being embolded by the actions
of Trump. This is a war for survival in Trump's winning.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Michael, this is my last talk back before I go
to work.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I promise I.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Think the previous administration with regard to illegal immigration, and
maybe especially that guy in Mayorcis, was the worst ever.
Completely embarrassing bunch adults.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
I agree with that, but I would posit that it's
actually worse than what you think. I think what I mean,
idiot and adult, yeah, but also an absolute soldier doing
precisely what his boss had asked him to do, and
that was go out and lie, lie about the numbers.

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Tell everybody the border is secure, just like tell everybody
how great the economy is doing. Lie, lie, lie, Because
we've got this massive cabal running cover for us and whatever.
You know, they're basically our scenographers. They're like court reporters.
So whatever we say, they're just going to write down
and then they'll put on their newscasts, they'll put on

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their opinion shows, and they'll just repeat the same bull crap.
And that's what they did. And I think that, I really,
I don't know how you live with yourself being someone
like Alendro may Orcus who knowingly just says, hey, you know,
everything's fine, the border's under control, when you know, Bill
Mlusian from Fox News was down there actually showing us,

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you know, the thousands of people crossing the border every
single day. It was a deliberate, misleading, outright line to
the American public about what was going on in order
to support their attempt to get as many people in
here in this country as possible to solidify the power
of the Democrat Party now real quickly. Because I don't

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want to spend a lot of time on this, I
just will give you the top the top line on it.
The TLR, the tld R, whatever it is. There's an
organization called the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It
is a committee made up of some Rhinos, some Republicans,
and a lot of Democrats. In fact, the chairman is

(31:09):
Mitch Daniels, the former director of the Office of Management
and Budget under my old boss, George W. Bush. Mitch
was known as the Knife because he was really good
at cutting budgets. Leon Panetta, Clinton's former chief of staff
and director of the CIA, and Tim Penny, former congressman
and I think governor of Minnesota. Then a lot of

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the directors are people like Mitt Romney obviously, you know Rhino,
Joe Manchin, you know, truly a conservative Democrat, John Casey.
Let's see, I'm just trying to pick us some names here.
You might recognize David Stockman from the Reagan era, James Jones,
Kent Conrad Erskine Bowles. So you see, it's a real

(31:55):
mishmash of Republicans, Democrats, real Democrats, and real republ wigionds,
fake Democrats and fake Republicans. But here's their headline report
tariffs are generating meaningful new revenue. This is a report
they released yesterday and it talks about monthly tariff revenue

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has more than tripled from seven billion late last year
to about twenty five billion dollars in July and has
on course rise substantially in the coming months. And then
you scroll on through it and you get to all
they talk about a bunch of different stuff, but they
get to this, scrolled over it, where did it go?

(32:37):
Tariffs are producing meaningful deficit reduction if made permanent. Tariff's
enacted since the beginning of Trump's second term will produce
significant revenue through FY twenty thirty four, somewhere between eight
hundred billion to two point eight trillion dollars. That is,

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anywhere from zero point two percent to zero point eight
percent of GDP. Now they say that's not as large
as a three point three trillion primary deficit increase from
the reconciliation bill, nor the four point seven trillion dollar
increase if the bill's made permanent, but it is quote

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meaningful relative to many other sources of revenue or savings.
To put the tariff in context, they are larger than
what would be collected from a new one percent payroll
tax or a twenty five dollars carbon tax, or an
elimination of Medicare advantage over payments, or even a seventeen
percent reduction in military personnel. In other words, this group

(33:43):
from across the political spectrum is admitting that, oh, we
were wrong. This is actually having a positive revenue effect
and having a positive effect on the overall reduction of
the deaths. That's quite an emission coming from this group.

(34:07):
Quite an emission. I mean you consider that tariffs today
are completely different circumstances than smooth Holly. Trump may be
onto something here. Of course, the cabal will never admit
that