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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA director talk.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Show host Michael Brown.
Speaker 4 (00:04):
Brownie, no, Brownie. You're doing a heck of a job
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you tuning in. I appreciate you you doing all of
those things. You ever seen the Blue Angels? You ever
seen them? I've had a couple of opportunities to see them. Ah,
they're They're amazing to watch. The precision flying is simply amazing.
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I've always wanted, you know, I've I've been on an
aircraft carrier when I was the Undersecretary. I've been on
the aircraft carry I've been on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
I've been, you know, all sorts of places around all
these fighter jets and things, but I've never I've never
been in one. But the thing about the Blue Angels,
you know, it's it's actually a it's quite an honor
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to be a member of the Blue Angels, because well,
you're you, You are the pr person you know for them,
and and so why would you tackle they? They inspire
awe on patriotism, but those on the left don't like them.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
A woman in.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Dumbass Seattle is suing the Blue Angels for traumatizing her cat.
You can't get the audio. Well, I'm not sure why
this audio is not playing. Let's see if I can
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flip over here and find the audio here. See if
we can get to play here. Well, sorry about that.
I was gonna play the audio for it. Let me
just tell what the story is. Lauren and Lombardi has
filed a complaint in US District court. She filed last
week seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against three Navy officers
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of their official capacities. She's suing Commander Adam Bryant, Lieutenant
Ben Beschong, and an unnamed social media administrator. According to
the lawsuit, Lombardi claims that the Blue Angels annual flight
demonstrations over Seattle in August of twenty three and twenty
four subjected her pet cat Layla. Hmmm, Eric captains Layla
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anyway subjected the cat to extreme distress. Now, Leila suffered
from congestive heart disease, which her owner blames the Blue
Angels for exacerbating. And she also blames the Blue Angels
for subjecting her, the woman, the human to oppression. You know,
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we live in a stupid world. After posting profanity laced
criticisms and sharing a petition titled we All want to
Feel Safe, No More Blue Angels over Seattle, Lombardi says
her account was blocked was blocked by at US Navy
Blue Angels. That's the official Blue Angel's Instagram page. Now,
I think she has probably more self awareness than your
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average liberal dumbass. She actually said this, I'm a very spiteful,
vengeful person. No, Feezi Sherlock aren't. Really Yeah, I think
you are now regarding actual abuse of cats. Look what
she did to poor Layla the cat. She's all upset about.
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Cats are noble creatures that should never be subjected to
humiliating outfits. But no, she dresses her cat up all
the times.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Insane, utterly insane. But let's move on.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Can't find the eye, can't get the audio to play anyway,
So we all know about Zoran Mondani. If you don't
think that Marxism and communism fascism is spreading into this country,
all we have to do is look at Zoran Mondani.
He's advocated for the abolition of private property, but he
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says he's not a communist. He calls himself a democrat socialist. Well,
then that's special out. I found an old video so
along very similar lines. The Marxist dictator who destroyed the
formerly wealthy and beautiful Cuba was not a communist. Did
you not realize that you? No, Fidel Castro was not
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a communist. All he wanted was social justice. Also, now
listen to this audio hope this one plays Fidel Castro
being interviewed and asked whether he's not a communist. What
is your political philosophy?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Are you a communist or a Marxist? There is not
communism or Marxism.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
In our ideas. Our political philosophy is representative democracy and
social justice in a well tand economy.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Social justice, representative democracy in a well planned economy.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Would you see lends of absent the owners or would
you appropriate foreign holding?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We don't think to cease land, any land to anybody.
What we will do is to buy those lengths that
the out of producsom to give them to poor countrymen.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Are you flying now to see is the power?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
We are not fighting for power. We are fighting for
finishing tyranny, and then our movement will.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Buy power by free elections.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
We don't want power by force.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Would you be president?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
We will establish a real representative and democratic government.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
I don't think in being president. I am not fighting
for that, not nor for any other charge. I cannot answer.
I cannot answer.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
You about myself because I don't think about that.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Tell me something about the flight of the ordinary Cuba.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
The first flight now is the lab of freedom and justice,
and after that a lower standard or living hundreds of sultans,
of young men without job. But Cuba is a rich
country with a wonderful future if we only have good governments,
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well matter.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Isn't that amazing? Isn't that frightening? You note that Fidel Castro,
this is just before he finally took over Cuba, actually
sounds more moderate than Mandani, even though Castro achieved power
by violence rather than by getting a bunch of white
liberals to vote for him. Nonetheless, you could take that
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that interview from Fidel Castro and apply it to everything
that Mandani says, if you don't believe that they come
disguised as oh, we just you know, we want to
social justice, and no we don't want to No, not
private property. We'll buy the property, but then we'll give
it to some poor people. We'll do all of these things.
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We'll have good government. Cuba is a very rich and
wealthy country, will be even better after this. We look
at Cuba today, they come closed in all of these
this wonderful language, all these wonderful things, truth justice, social justice,
blah blah blah blah. And then once they get power,
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they enact their communist policies, and that's precisely what Mandannie
is doing. Don't be fooled by it. I'll be right back. Hey,
welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you with me. I appreciate you tuning in. Be
here and follow me on x social media. That's the
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most active place I am formerly Twitter. It's at Michael
Brown USA. Go give me a follow right now. I
would certainly appreciate it. It's interesting to me how easy
it is to find just stupid stuff all across the
country going on, and this is just one of those
segments where it's just like, this is just a collection
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of just goofy, dumb ass stuff. I call it dumb
assery that I have found, particularly this week since I
was out so much sick that I just made a
collection of these. For example, the leftism that's infecting professional
sports has driven I think a lot of people just
to find a better use for their time. But it's
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nice to know that there's still some people in the NFL,
like Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, who just won't
put up with it anymore. A reporter presented this as
a question regarding Harball's visit to the White House, The
question was it's obviously a divisive political time in the past,
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Donald Trump has said demigrating things about Baltimore. As a
prominent representative of Baltimore, what are you what were your
thoughts on making that visit, oh.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Denigrating things about Bali market and go there as a
prominent representative of Baltimore. Might you framed that question? I
would frame the question like, you got a chance to
go visit with the president?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Man, what was that experience? Like? It was amazing?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It was awesome?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
And I promise you I root for our president. You know,
I want our president to be successful, just like I
want I want my quarterback to be successful and I
want my team to be successful. Uh and uh And
it was.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It was an amazing experience.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
You know, It's it's not often you get invited and
you get a chance to do something like that. As
a family, you know, we were there, My daughter was there,
Jim's daughters were there, My mom and dad were there,
my mom and President Trump. You know, just seeing how
he treated her was was really meaningful.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The question, remember, it's obviously a divisy political time in
the past, Donald Trump has said demigrating things about Baltimore.
As a prominent representative Baltimore, what were your thoughts on
making this visit? He had a me that was a
that was a masterclass of a response. By the way,
the question was asked by Kyle Goon of the Balti
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More Banner. Now, seriously, that's his name, Kyle Goon. Now
the Dictionary defines Goon as a quote stupid person over
an out kicked. They report that good Goon did not
ask Harbaugh a follow up, and neither did anybody else. Well,
no doubt Goon and his colleagues slunk away to go sulk,
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a true dumbass. Goon recently denounced Trump as racist for
wanting the Washington Redskins to go back to their proper name,
even though it offends clownish liberals like himself that we
need more people like Harbor. You know, I'm not a
big NFL guy, so I assume that he's the coach
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of the Baltimore Baltimore Ravens. So, you know, good for him,
and good for him for responding that way. It just
shows exactly how the press ought to be handled.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's my lesson.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I always try to teach everyone, including all of you,
each and every one of you, don't always buy into
the premise of the question. When you're asking a question,
think about the premise and and given an answer to
the to the appropriate way. Speaking of you know, making
the right answer. Sometimes you make the right answer which
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turns out to be for yourself personally, the wrong answer.
And I know the observations become cliches well because they're true.
Considering that can consider for example this with Democrats, every
accusation is a confession. Every accusation is a confession. In
other words, what's the old saying, you know, whenever you
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point your finger, you got you know, four others pointing
back at you. This achieved cliche status because it accurately
describes the tendencies of those on the left who project
their own personal flaws and misdeeds upon their opponents. Now
there the personification of the Deep States at its most nefarious.
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John Brennan actually pushes that cliche to comic levels by
accusing Tulci Gabbard of mischaracterizing, misrepresenting, and lying after she
exposed Brennan for mischaracterizing, misrepresenting, and lying in order to
prop up Obama's Russia Gate hoax.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Here's Brennan Over on MSNBC Tolcy Gabbart.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
You know, she may be impaired on the ethics front, certainly,
but she's not impaired on the intulct front. And so
I can only presume that she is doing this intentionally,
intentionally mischaracterizing, misrepresenting, and lying about what she has found.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Hmm, exactly what you did. You mischaracterized, you misrepresented, and
you lied, and then you've got others to go along
with your missrepresentations, your mischaracterizations, and you're lying to the
extent that they took falsified so called intel. The Steele
dossier written by an operative on behalf of Hillary Clinton,
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and the Democrat National Committee turned it into an Intel
report and then used bits and gio chosen selective parts
of it and went to the Fize of Courts and
got a search warts. You could go spy on the
Trump campaign. You know, if they had any virtues, self
awareness is not among their virtues. If they do have any,
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they're smugly snug in their elitist bubbles. They can't even
hear us laughing at them. They can't even hear what
they say. You know, if you could see if you
watch this video. I'm not a buddy language expert by
any stretch of the imagination, but I do get when
people are uncomfortable, they start to shift, you know, hell
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kind of shifting their chair at the inappropriate time. You
can watch them, you know, particularly if it's a man,
you can watch their adams apple move as they're listening
to the question, and they swallow and then they kind
of move because they're trying to think of the answer,
because they know they're getting ready to lie, They're getting
ready to know. They know that what the question is,
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I've got to throw the answer back. So I blame
somebody else for exactly what I did. Well, that's exactly
what he was doing there. They just precisely what he
was doing. The whole Tulsa Gabbard thing was there a
lot of new stuff in it. Maybe there wasn't a
lot of new stuff in what she disclosed, but it
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was this. It was an affirmation with the actual documentation
of what went on. The Russia Gate was a hoax.
It started at the highest levels in the Oval Office,
with Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, their National Security advisor,
all sitting there with the director of the FBI and
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the director of the CIA, all sitting there together deciding
that yes, what we're going to do is we're going
to frame Trump. We're gonna come up with no, don't,
don't use this presidential brief, go back and rewrite it
to fit our narrative, and then we'll take that brief
to Trump. We'll show him that we've got all of
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this intel about all these bad things that we did,
and then we'll leave and we'll leak it to the press,
and then that will be the foundation by which we
can start an investigation. Absolutely horrendous what they did to
Donald Trump, and not just do Donald Trump, what they
did to the country because it took away his power
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to really govern as he wanted to for those four years.
And think about the money wasted and how we become
much more rightfully so cynical about how they lie to
us more dumb assy. Coming up next, I'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of
talk show host Michael Brown.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job.
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The Weekend with Michael Brown.
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all six days of meet What more good you asked for? Well,
you could do this in a deep blue jurisdiction, in
a deep blue state like Illinois. Illinois, other people's money
is thrown at the stupid leftist education establishment so fast
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and furiously that the Democrats in charge don't even seem
to care whether the beneficiaries of those tax dollars of
that large ass are even in operation. For this comes
to us from the college fix. For yet another year,
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Illinois legislators allocated five hundred thousand dollars to a college
that no longer exists. Though Lincoln College closed in the
spring of twenty twenty two Czechs calendar, Yes, that would
be three years ago. The state budget continues to set
aside money for it. The college closed down in May
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of twenty twenty two, blaming COVID nineteen lockdowns and a
cyber attack. Now, the absurdly draconian COVID lockdowns were imposed
on Illinois by Democrats. So the party of government, the
party that loves big government, bestow's life with free money,
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then takes it away with hyperregulation. But ironically, Lincoln College
have been officiary of the party. A big government of
Democrats will live on indefinitely as just a whole in
taxpayer's buckets. Yeah, they'll just continue to get the money.
I had an old college professor whose thesis was that
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governments eventually gets too big that it becomes inoperable, inefficient,
and ineffective. I think we reached that stage a long
time ago. So do you think that anybody anywhere, I
mean in the entire state of Illinois, somebody doesn't wake
up and go, wait a minute, We've got five hundred
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thousand dollars in the budget. It gets appropriated every year
to a college that's no longer in existence. So would
they go to cut a check? Do they actually cut
a check or is that money just accumulating in an
account where Because you know what my first cynical thought was,
they know that the college.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
No longer exists.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
They know that every year they allocate or appropriate five
hundred thousand dollars to a nonexistent entity. You know what
I think. I think Illinois knows it, and Illinois is
allowing that money to accumulate. And now the Illinois legislature
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or maybe Governor Pritsker has got a little slush fund.
So if it's five hundred thousand dollars a year, it's
been three years. They got one point five million dollars.
You need some walking around money. You need some money
to you know, for you know, we're gonna we're gonna
have a big party, or we're gonna do this, or
we're gonna do that, and we really don't have a
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appropriation for that. Oh but we got one point five
million dollars over here that's been appropriated. It's a it's
lawful money that we can spend. We're just gonna spend
it on something else. I mean, it can happen. When
you think about. One of the things that Elon Musk
found when he came in with the doze the Department
of Government Efficiency was that checks were being issued by
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their treasury without any account numbers. No, there there was
nothing that just that said this is to be charged
to this account. They were just issuing the checks. So
somebody was getting a check. Now somebody here could be
getting a check, or somebody could astutely said, oh, that
money's not actually being spent. We'll just keep that money
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over here in an account. And then when the governor
comes to us or state legislator comes to us and says, hey,
we need a couple, you know, one hundred thousand dollars,
or we need twenty five thousand dollars because we're going
to go do this little pet project somewhere, or you know,
we need to you know, the government's gonna hold a
big bash, and we need to pay for the orders
and the cocktails and stuff. We get any money laying
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around anywhere for that. Oh yeah, we got this one
point five million dollars was going to league in college
that's defunct, but it's been accumulating over here. We'll just
spend that. That's how government is out of control.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
One way to distinguish the tiny minority of legitimate asylum seekers,
I've moved on from those illegal alien gimme grants is
that the legitimate asylum seekers don't behave as I'm about
to describe.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
This one comes to us from the London Sun.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Asylum Seekers staying in taxpayer funded hotels are swiping thousands
of pounds dollars pounds of designer gear from top stores,
tipped off by a security firm. Reporters for The Sun
saw it for themselves in London. They pounced its stores,
including Liberty, Polo, Ralph Lauren and John Lewis, then headed
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back to their holiday in home. A whistleblower said, seventy
seven zero percent of shoplifters in the West End, it's
a pretty nice end part of London are asylum seekers.
Remember early in the program, Nigelle Faraj said that, oh,
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we're reaching societal collapse. Here's an example of that. Seventy
percent of shoplifters in that particular area of London are
asylum seekers. So if you don't have a functional government
in the United Kingdom, at least under the ruling party
of the Labor Party, then nothing can or is going
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to be done about the perpetual looting spree going on.
LAMENTSA guy working in the private security sector quote the
police rarely attend, and the maximum we can hold them
for is four hours. After that we just have to
let them go. We see the same faces again and
again and again. So what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
These illegal aliens he's asylum seeker set off from a
holiday inn in Wembley that is home to seven hundred
of them, and they make the rounds equipped with bags
lined with tenfoil so that security tags don't go off.
I didn't know that worked. Hell's bells. I'll just give
me a garbage bag, line it with ten foil and
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I'll just go in. Who cares about the tags anymore?
Just throw them in there. And then it gets even worse.
They jump the turnstile for the tube for the underground,
their subway, and then they had the Bond Street station
before hitting fifteen nearby shops there, including Lily White's, Hollister
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and Reese. What do they do with the goods? Well,
of course they fence them. The proceeds complement all of
the taxpayer financed allowance that those asylum seekers are given,
in addition to their free room and their board. This
first generation, because there's more to come, The first generation
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of asylum seekers, enjoy the benefits of government that sides
that sides with them against the native population. So the
next generation begins to take over the government, like you
know Zorammndani and Omar Fatah, whose parents all hail from Africa. Now,
the longer that goes on on the ugly of the
situation is going to get when we as a civilized nation,
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whether it be the UK or the United States, finally
starts defending itself, unless, of course, this Marxism and fascism
prevail and civilization eventually just dies off, which wouldn't surprise
me coming back to this country. When you trust democrats
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with public money, this is what happens. I briefly talked
about this yesterday. Fewer than four hundred EV chargers were
built with more than seven and a half billion dollars
in federal infrastructure funding. Now that comes out to about
nineteen million dollars per charger according to a non partisan
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agency watchdog. This comes to us from the National Review.
To be exact, three hundred and eighty four charging ports
were built at sixty eight stations at a cost of
nineteen million, five hundred and thirty one two hundred and
fifty dollars per port. Funding for the constructions of the
chargers was drawn from the seven and a half billion
(27:38):
allocated to the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and
Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program, all approved as
part as part of Biden's one point two trillion dollars
bi partisan infrastructure law. Now, just to be fair, a
few Republican name only a few rhyos went along with
(28:01):
virtually every Democrat to pass that looting spree MANUFC, you know,
kind of masquerading as an infrastructure law. Now, the taxpayers,
you and me that financed this, we ought to have
three questions answered for us by every person that voted
for this. Where'd the money go? When did it come back?
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And when do criminals like Biden and the people that
did this start going to prison for stealing vast sums
of our money? So well, let me go ahead and
answer it for you. Where did the money go into
the ether? It just went into a black hole somewhere.
When are we going to get it back?
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Never?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And when do criminals that do fraud like this start
going to prison for stealing vast sums of money?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Not soon enough, ohae?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Shortly after taking office, Biden signed an executive order mandating
that the beneficiaries of forty percent of all federal climate
and environmental programs should come from underserved communities. So stealing
Billy is the name of climate bull crap didn't signal
enough virtue, so they had to make it about bestowing
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other people's money upon favored identity groups. Yeah, that's how
bad it's gotten. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Takes
the word Michael Michael to three three, one zero three.
Tell me anything, ask me anything. I'll be right back. Hey,
you've turned into the Weekend with Michael Brown. And as
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always I want to be sure and thank you for
doing so. I hope you enjoyed the program. Text me
you know things that you like or don't like, things
you would change or not change, or you know whatever.
I'm always open to ideas and I just always want
to say thanks to the audience, and if you a
quick story. So now this is more about the weekday program.
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But I had a text message yesterday when I was
on air from someone who was listening. I think I forget,
but it wasn't in Colorado. They were in a campground
and they were listening on the iHeart app, but they
had it playing on their phone while they sat at
the campground, and I forget, I don't even remember what
I was talking about. But somebody came over from the
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campground next to them and said, who's that you're listening to?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That's that's really interesting, that's really interesting. Who is that?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And so they told them, and so I picked up
a listener at the campground somewhere. That's how we build
the program. That's what I would ask you to do.
Not you have to play it out loud, but you know,
you go tell people about it. I appreciate that. One
quick story as we close out our dumb assy of
the week, the fires that the local authorities in Los
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Angeles is allowed to get out of control last winter.
That turned out to be an opportunity for those Marxists
to not only to replace nice neighborhoods with government slums,
but to break in the cash from the Fox ELEVENI
affiliate comes this story.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
There's one simple vision hack anyone.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Oh got to get rid of the commercial and we'll
do that right now.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Fire Aid, that star studed concert that raised one hundred
million dollars for wildfire victims, But where did all that
money go? Investigative journalist Sue Pasco has been digging for answers,
and what she's discovered might just surprise you and Sue Pasco,
she joins me, now live on set. You are the
editor of Circling the News. We can clearly see that
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thanks for the work that you're doing. So this is
personal and professional for you because you lost your home
and the Palisades fire. But that's not necessarily how this
story landed in your lap?
Speaker 4 (32:05):
How did this all come to be?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
A reader sent me a little note and said, I've
never seen any fire aid money? How do I apply
for fire aid money? And I thought, well, you know,
I've never thought about that. There's twelve thousand people, basically
twelve thousand homes gone. Those people probably want to know
where the money is it. This will be an easy
task to find out. So I contacted the Annenburg They
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never responded, and the anenburgh Is Foundation, because they are
overseeing the wildfire funds. Yes, so I emailed them several times.
They never responded. I called them several times, they never responded,
And finally it was like almost two weeks later, a
woman got back to me, and she said, oh, I'm
sorry for the delay. The person you need to speak
to is Chris Wallace. He's a media spokesperson for wildfire Funds.
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So I contacted Chris and I said, you know, victims
want to know when they can get their money. Seems
like a very simple question. He said, basically, they don't.
All this money are going to nonprofits, and then nonprofits
will take care of making sure the money's distributed.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Oh, so we're going to take the fire aid money
raised by all of these stars that did the concert,
and we're going to take that money give it to
a NGO so that they can help cover their overhead
and expenses. And then so if we give them five dollars,
(33:34):
they'll spend two or three dollars, probably overhead and program expenses,
and then they'll take a dollar or two and they
all kind of, you know, dribble that a little bit
to a victim. It's the typical Democrat money laundering scheme.
Beam used for more than twelve thousand fire victims in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
So I looked at the Initially they gave fifty million
dollars to about one hundred and twenty nonprofits, and I
looked at these nonprofits and one of them said, we
help mobile home parks. And there were two mobile home
parks in the Palisades, all the income, and so I
(34:16):
contacted the people there. They had never received any money.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
They had never heard of that.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
When you go through, I would urge everyone to just
go to the nonprofits that are listed. If you want
a good laugh, I mean one of the nonprofits cleans
preschool bathrooms.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Well after the.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Fire, who knows, maybe there is a preschool bathroom that
needs cleaning.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (34:36):
In other words, a lot of these nonprofits are ancillary,
if you will.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
That's a nice way of saying.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
And you urge people our viewers, they can go on
the fire aid website and yes, in terms of your
if your fire aid, you can say, we have listed
all the nonprofits.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
So they've given out.
Speaker 10 (34:53):
Seventy five million dollars so far, and you can see
for yourself each nonprofit that has received money. The vetting process, though,
that's an interesting angle to this story as well, because
there is there's still another round of funding that will
be given out. If you're a nonprofit, you would just
have to fill out a simple, very simple question. There
(35:14):
question six questions, So what do you make of the
vetting process.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
I think they're not helping the victims at all, let's
just say. And the other thing is should know if
you go on there. They don't say how much each
individual nonprofit gets.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
So there are two.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Nonprofits that are for the homeless people in the Palace
or not the Palisates Los Angeles and in general that
they're getting money from from LAWSA. So why are these
nonprofits also getting money from fire aid? I don't know
they're homeless nonprofits. Of course we're all homeless now.
Speaker 10 (35:49):
But and to be clear, we have reached out to
actually the Attorney General, Rob Bonta to see if this
is on his radar, because there's there's a whole lot
of money, and you are well connected in your community
and you don't know anybody who has received fire money.
That's correct, So what is your advice if you're a
(36:11):
victim and there are several who are probably watching tonight.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yeah, that's you get the idea. Can you imagine at
least this is real journalism, But again it's unfortunately real
journalism that exposes the fraud, the absolute fraud that permeates
almost our entire government. Jiminey Christmas. We got a lot
(36:34):
of work to do. Hey, thanks for tuning in. I
always appreciate you listening to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Everybody,
have a great weekend and I'll see you next weekend
To night.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Show host Michael Brown.
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you tuning in. I appreciate you you doing all of
those things. You ever seen the Blue Angels? You ever
seen them? I've had a couple of opportunities to see them. Ah,
they're They're amazing to watch. The precision flying is simply amazing.
(01:16):
I've always wanted, you know, I've I've been on an
aircraft carrier when I was the Undersecretary. I've been on
the aircraft carry I've been on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
I've been, you know, all sorts of places around all
these fighter jets and things, but I've never I've never
been in one. But the thing about the Blue Angels,
you know, it's it's actually a it's quite an honor
(01:37):
to be a member of the Blue Angels, because well,
you're you, You are the pr person you know for them,
and and so why would you tackle they? They inspire
awe on patriotism, but those on the left don't like them.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
A woman in.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Dumbass Seattle is suing the Blue Angels for traumatizing her cat.
You can't get the audio. Well, I'm not sure why
this audio is not playing. Let's see if I can
(02:23):
flip over here and find the audio here. See if
we can get to play here. Well, sorry about that.
I was gonna play the audio for it. Let me
just tell what the story is. Lauren and Lombardi has
filed a complaint in US District court. She filed last
week seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against three Navy officers
(02:43):
of their official capacities. She's suing Commander Adam Bryant, Lieutenant
Ben Beschong, and an unnamed social media administrator. According to
the lawsuit, Lombardi claims that the Blue Angels annual flight
demonstrations over Seattle in August of twenty three and twenty
four subjected her pet cat Layla. Hmmm, Eric captains Layla
(03:09):
anyway subjected the cat to extreme distress. Now, Leila suffered
from congestive heart disease, which her owner blames the Blue
Angels for exacerbating. And she also blames the Blue Angels
for subjecting her, the woman, the human to oppression. You know,
(03:30):
we live in a stupid world. After posting profanity laced
criticisms and sharing a petition titled we All want to
Feel Safe, No More Blue Angels over Seattle, Lombardi says
her account was blocked was blocked by at US Navy
Blue Angels. That's the official Blue Angel's Instagram page. Now,
I think she has probably more self awareness than your
(03:55):
average liberal dumbass. She actually said this, I'm a very spiteful,
vengeful person. No, Feezi Sherlock aren't. Really Yeah, I think
you are now regarding actual abuse of cats. Look what
she did to poor Layla the cat. She's all upset about.
(04:16):
Cats are noble creatures that should never be subjected to
humiliating outfits. But no, she dresses her cat up all
the times.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Insane, utterly insane. But let's move on.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Can't find the eye, can't get the audio to play anyway,
So we all know about Zoran Mondani. If you don't
think that Marxism and communism fascism is spreading into this country,
all we have to do is look at Zoran Mondani.
He's advocated for the abolition of private property, but he
(04:53):
says he's not a communist. He calls himself a democrat socialist. Well,
then that's special out. I found an old video so
along very similar lines. The Marxist dictator who destroyed the
formerly wealthy and beautiful Cuba was not a communist. Did
you not realize that you? No, Fidel Castro was not
(05:14):
a communist. All he wanted was social justice. Also, now
listen to this audio hope this one plays Fidel Castro
being interviewed and asked whether he's not a communist. What
is your political philosophy?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Are you a communist or a Marxist? There is not
communism or Marxism.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
In our ideas. Our political philosophy is representative democracy and
social justice in a well tand economy.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Social justice, representative democracy in a well planned economy.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Would you see lends of absent the owners or would
you appropriate foreign holding?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We don't think to cease land, any land to anybody.
What we will do is to buy those lengths that
the out of producsom to give them to poor countrymen.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Are you flying now to see is the power?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
We are not fighting for power. We are fighting for
finishing tyranny, and then our movement will.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Buy power by free elections.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
We don't want power by force.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Would you be president?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
We will establish a real representative and democratic government.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
I don't think in being president. I am not fighting
for that, not nor for any other charge. I cannot answer.
I cannot answer.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
You about myself because I don't think about that.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Tell me something about the flight of the ordinary Cuba.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
The first flight now is the lab of freedom and justice,
and after that a lower standard or living hundreds of sultans,
of young men without job. But Cuba is a rich
country with a wonderful future if we only have good governments,
(07:56):
well matter.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Isn't that amazing? Isn't that frightening? You note that Fidel Castro,
this is just before he finally took over Cuba, actually
sounds more moderate than Mandani, even though Castro achieved power
by violence rather than by getting a bunch of white
liberals to vote for him. Nonetheless, you could take that
(08:25):
that interview from Fidel Castro and apply it to everything
that Mandani says, if you don't believe that they come
disguised as oh, we just you know, we want to
social justice, and no we don't want to No, not
private property. We'll buy the property, but then we'll give
it to some poor people. We'll do all of these things.
(08:46):
We'll have good government. Cuba is a very rich and
wealthy country, will be even better after this. We look
at Cuba today, they come closed in all of these
this wonderful language, all these wonderful things, truth justice, social justice,
blah blah blah blah. And then once they get power,
(09:08):
they enact their communist policies, and that's precisely what Mandannie
is doing. Don't be fooled by it. I'll be right back. Hey,
welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you with me. I appreciate you tuning in. Be
here and follow me on x social media. That's the
(09:31):
most active place I am formerly Twitter. It's at Michael
Brown USA. Go give me a follow right now. I
would certainly appreciate it. It's interesting to me how easy
it is to find just stupid stuff all across the
country going on, and this is just one of those
segments where it's just like, this is just a collection
(09:52):
of just goofy, dumb ass stuff. I call it dumb
assery that I have found, particularly this week since I
was out so much sick that I just made a
collection of these. For example, the leftism that's infecting professional
sports has driven I think a lot of people just
to find a better use for their time. But it's
(10:16):
nice to know that there's still some people in the NFL,
like Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, who just won't
put up with it anymore. A reporter presented this as
a question regarding Harball's visit to the White House, The
question was it's obviously a divisive political time in the past,
(10:38):
Donald Trump has said demigrating things about Baltimore. As a
prominent representative of Baltimore, what are you what were your
thoughts on making that visit, oh.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Denigrating things about Bali market and go there as a
prominent representative of Baltimore. Might you framed that question? I
would frame the question like, you got a chance to
go visit with the president?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Man, what was that experience? Like? It was amazing?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It was awesome?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
And I promise you I root for our president. You know,
I want our president to be successful, just like I
want I want my quarterback to be successful and I
want my team to be successful. Uh and uh And
it was.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It was an amazing experience.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
You know, It's it's not often you get invited and
you get a chance to do something like that. As
a family, you know, we were there, My daughter was there,
Jim's daughters were there, My mom and dad were there,
my mom and President Trump. You know, just seeing how
he treated her was was really meaningful.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The question, remember, it's obviously a divisy political time in
the past, Donald Trump has said demigrating things about Baltimore.
As a prominent representative Baltimore, what were your thoughts on
making this visit? He had a me that was a
that was a masterclass of a response. By the way,
the question was asked by Kyle Goon of the Balti
(12:00):
More Banner. Now, seriously, that's his name, Kyle Goon. Now
the Dictionary defines Goon as a quote stupid person over
an out kicked. They report that good Goon did not
ask Harbaugh a follow up, and neither did anybody else. Well,
no doubt Goon and his colleagues slunk away to go sulk,
(12:23):
a true dumbass. Goon recently denounced Trump as racist for
wanting the Washington Redskins to go back to their proper name,
even though it offends clownish liberals like himself that we
need more people like Harbor. You know, I'm not a
big NFL guy, so I assume that he's the coach
(12:45):
of the Baltimore Baltimore Ravens. So, you know, good for him,
and good for him for responding that way. It just
shows exactly how the press ought to be handled.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's my lesson.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I always try to teach everyone, including all of you,
each and every one of you, don't always buy into
the premise of the question. When you're asking a question,
think about the premise and and given an answer to
the to the appropriate way. Speaking of you know, making
the right answer. Sometimes you make the right answer which
(13:18):
turns out to be for yourself personally, the wrong answer.
And I know the observations become cliches well because they're true.
Considering that can consider for example this with Democrats, every
accusation is a confession. Every accusation is a confession. In
other words, what's the old saying, you know, whenever you
(13:39):
point your finger, you got you know, four others pointing
back at you. This achieved cliche status because it accurately
describes the tendencies of those on the left who project
their own personal flaws and misdeeds upon their opponents. Now
there the personification of the Deep States at its most nefarious.
(14:04):
John Brennan actually pushes that cliche to comic levels by
accusing Tulci Gabbard of mischaracterizing, misrepresenting, and lying after she
exposed Brennan for mischaracterizing, misrepresenting, and lying in order to
prop up Obama's Russia Gate hoax.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Here's Brennan Over on MSNBC Tolcy Gabbart.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
You know, she may be impaired on the ethics front, certainly,
but she's not impaired on the intulct front. And so
I can only presume that she is doing this intentionally,
intentionally mischaracterizing, misrepresenting, and lying about what she has found.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Hmm, exactly what you did. You mischaracterized, you misrepresented, and
you lied, and then you've got others to go along
with your missrepresentations, your mischaracterizations, and you're lying to the
extent that they took falsified so called intel. The Steele
dossier written by an operative on behalf of Hillary Clinton,
(15:07):
and the Democrat National Committee turned it into an Intel
report and then used bits and gio chosen selective parts
of it and went to the Fize of Courts and
got a search warts. You could go spy on the
Trump campaign. You know, if they had any virtues, self
awareness is not among their virtues. If they do have any,
(15:29):
they're smugly snug in their elitist bubbles. They can't even
hear us laughing at them. They can't even hear what
they say. You know, if you could see if you
watch this video. I'm not a buddy language expert by
any stretch of the imagination, but I do get when
people are uncomfortable, they start to shift, you know, hell
(15:51):
kind of shifting their chair at the inappropriate time. You
can watch them, you know, particularly if it's a man,
you can watch their adams apple move as they're listening
to the question, and they swallow and then they kind
of move because they're trying to think of the answer,
because they know they're getting ready to lie, They're getting
ready to know. They know that what the question is,
(16:11):
I've got to throw the answer back. So I blame
somebody else for exactly what I did. Well, that's exactly
what he was doing there. They just precisely what he
was doing. The whole Tulsa Gabbard thing was there a
lot of new stuff in it. Maybe there wasn't a
lot of new stuff in what she disclosed, but it
(16:32):
was this. It was an affirmation with the actual documentation
of what went on. The Russia Gate was a hoax.
It started at the highest levels in the Oval Office,
with Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, their National Security advisor,
all sitting there with the director of the FBI and
(16:53):
the director of the CIA, all sitting there together deciding
that yes, what we're going to do is we're going
to frame Trump. We're gonna come up with no, don't,
don't use this presidential brief, go back and rewrite it
to fit our narrative, and then we'll take that brief
to Trump. We'll show him that we've got all of
(17:14):
this intel about all these bad things that we did,
and then we'll leave and we'll leak it to the press,
and then that will be the foundation by which we
can start an investigation. Absolutely horrendous what they did to
Donald Trump, and not just do Donald Trump, what they
did to the country because it took away his power
(17:36):
to really govern as he wanted to for those four years.
And think about the money wasted and how we become
much more rightfully so cynical about how they lie to
us more dumb assy. Coming up next, I'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of
talk show host Michael Brown.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The Weekend with Michael Brown.
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all six days of meet What more good you asked for? Well,
you could do this in a deep blue jurisdiction, in
a deep blue state like Illinois. Illinois, other people's money
is thrown at the stupid leftist education establishment so fast
(18:55):
and furiously that the Democrats in charge don't even seem
to care whether the beneficiaries of those tax dollars of
that large ass are even in operation. For this comes
to us from the college fix. For yet another year,
(19:16):
Illinois legislators allocated five hundred thousand dollars to a college
that no longer exists. Though Lincoln College closed in the
spring of twenty twenty two Czechs calendar, Yes, that would
be three years ago. The state budget continues to set
aside money for it. The college closed down in May
(19:39):
of twenty twenty two, blaming COVID nineteen lockdowns and a
cyber attack. Now, the absurdly draconian COVID lockdowns were imposed
on Illinois by Democrats. So the party of government, the
party that loves big government, bestow's life with free money,
(20:01):
then takes it away with hyperregulation. But ironically, Lincoln College
have been officiary of the party. A big government of
Democrats will live on indefinitely as just a whole in
taxpayer's buckets. Yeah, they'll just continue to get the money.
I had an old college professor whose thesis was that
(20:26):
governments eventually gets too big that it becomes inoperable, inefficient,
and ineffective. I think we reached that stage a long
time ago. So do you think that anybody anywhere, I
mean in the entire state of Illinois, somebody doesn't wake
up and go, wait a minute, We've got five hundred
(20:47):
thousand dollars in the budget. It gets appropriated every year
to a college that's no longer in existence. So would
they go to cut a check? Do they actually cut
a check or is that money just accumulating in an
account where Because you know what my first cynical thought was,
they know that the college.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
No longer exists.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
They know that every year they allocate or appropriate five
hundred thousand dollars to a nonexistent entity. You know what
I think. I think Illinois knows it, and Illinois is
allowing that money to accumulate. And now the Illinois legislature
(21:29):
or maybe Governor Pritsker has got a little slush fund.
So if it's five hundred thousand dollars a year, it's
been three years. They got one point five million dollars.
You need some walking around money. You need some money
to you know, for you know, we're gonna we're gonna
have a big party, or we're gonna do this, or
we're gonna do that, and we really don't have a
(21:50):
appropriation for that. Oh but we got one point five
million dollars over here that's been appropriated. It's a it's
lawful money that we can spend. We're just gonna spend
it on something else. I mean, it can happen. When
you think about. One of the things that Elon Musk
found when he came in with the doze the Department
of Government Efficiency was that checks were being issued by
(22:13):
their treasury without any account numbers. No, there there was
nothing that just that said this is to be charged
to this account. They were just issuing the checks. So
somebody was getting a check. Now somebody here could be
getting a check, or somebody could astutely said, oh, that
money's not actually being spent. We'll just keep that money
(22:34):
over here in an account. And then when the governor
comes to us or state legislator comes to us and says, hey,
we need a couple, you know, one hundred thousand dollars,
or we need twenty five thousand dollars because we're going
to go do this little pet project somewhere, or you know,
we need to you know, the government's gonna hold a
big bash, and we need to pay for the orders
and the cocktails and stuff. We get any money laying
(22:54):
around anywhere for that. Oh yeah, we got this one
point five million dollars was going to league in college
that's defunct, but it's been accumulating over here. We'll just
spend that. That's how government is out of control.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
One way to distinguish the tiny minority of legitimate asylum seekers,
I've moved on from those illegal alien gimme grants is
that the legitimate asylum seekers don't behave as I'm about
to describe.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
This one comes to us from the London Sun.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Asylum Seekers staying in taxpayer funded hotels are swiping thousands
of pounds dollars pounds of designer gear from top stores,
tipped off by a security firm. Reporters for The Sun
saw it for themselves in London. They pounced its stores,
including Liberty, Polo, Ralph Lauren and John Lewis, then headed
(23:55):
back to their holiday in home. A whistleblower said, seventy
seven zero percent of shoplifters in the West End, it's
a pretty nice end part of London are asylum seekers.
Remember early in the program, Nigelle Faraj said that, oh,
(24:18):
we're reaching societal collapse. Here's an example of that. Seventy
percent of shoplifters in that particular area of London are
asylum seekers. So if you don't have a functional government
in the United Kingdom, at least under the ruling party
of the Labor Party, then nothing can or is going
(24:40):
to be done about the perpetual looting spree going on.
LAMENTSA guy working in the private security sector quote the
police rarely attend, and the maximum we can hold them
for is four hours. After that we just have to
let them go. We see the same faces again and
again and again. So what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
These illegal aliens he's asylum seeker set off from a
holiday inn in Wembley that is home to seven hundred
of them, and they make the rounds equipped with bags
lined with tenfoil so that security tags don't go off.
I didn't know that worked. Hell's bells. I'll just give
me a garbage bag, line it with ten foil and
(25:22):
I'll just go in. Who cares about the tags anymore?
Just throw them in there. And then it gets even worse.
They jump the turnstile for the tube for the underground,
their subway, and then they had the Bond Street station
before hitting fifteen nearby shops there, including Lily White's, Hollister
(25:42):
and Reese. What do they do with the goods? Well,
of course they fence them. The proceeds complement all of
the taxpayer financed allowance that those asylum seekers are given,
in addition to their free room and their board. This
first generation, because there's more to come, The first generation
(26:05):
of asylum seekers, enjoy the benefits of government that sides
that sides with them against the native population. So the
next generation begins to take over the government, like you
know Zorammndani and Omar Fatah, whose parents all hail from Africa. Now,
the longer that goes on on the ugly of the
situation is going to get when we as a civilized nation,
(26:29):
whether it be the UK or the United States, finally
starts defending itself, unless, of course, this Marxism and fascism
prevail and civilization eventually just dies off, which wouldn't surprise
me coming back to this country. When you trust democrats
(26:53):
with public money, this is what happens. I briefly talked
about this yesterday. Fewer than four hundred EV chargers were
built with more than seven and a half billion dollars
in federal infrastructure funding. Now that comes out to about
nineteen million dollars per charger according to a non partisan
(27:16):
agency watchdog. This comes to us from the National Review.
To be exact, three hundred and eighty four charging ports
were built at sixty eight stations at a cost of
nineteen million, five hundred and thirty one two hundred and
fifty dollars per port. Funding for the constructions of the
chargers was drawn from the seven and a half billion
(27:38):
allocated to the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and
Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program, all approved as
part as part of Biden's one point two trillion dollars
bi partisan infrastructure law. Now, just to be fair, a
few Republican name only a few rhyos went along with
(28:01):
virtually every Democrat to pass that looting spree MANUFC, you know,
kind of masquerading as an infrastructure law. Now, the taxpayers,
you and me that financed this, we ought to have
three questions answered for us by every person that voted
for this. Where'd the money go? When did it come back?
(28:25):
And when do criminals like Biden and the people that
did this start going to prison for stealing vast sums
of our money? So well, let me go ahead and
answer it for you. Where did the money go into
the ether? It just went into a black hole somewhere.
When are we going to get it back?
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Never?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And when do criminals that do fraud like this start
going to prison for stealing vast sums of money?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Not soon enough, ohae?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Shortly after taking office, Biden signed an executive order mandating
that the beneficiaries of forty percent of all federal climate
and environmental programs should come from underserved communities. So stealing
Billy is the name of climate bull crap didn't signal
enough virtue, so they had to make it about bestowing
(29:22):
other people's money upon favored identity groups. Yeah, that's how
bad it's gotten. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Takes
the word Michael Michael to three three, one zero three.
Tell me anything, ask me anything. I'll be right back. Hey,
you've turned into the Weekend with Michael Brown. And as
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always I want to be sure and thank you for
doing so. I hope you enjoyed the program. Text me
you know things that you like or don't like, things
you would change or not change, or you know whatever.
I'm always open to ideas and I just always want
to say thanks to the audience, and if you a
quick story. So now this is more about the weekday program.
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But I had a text message yesterday when I was
on air from someone who was listening. I think I forget,
but it wasn't in Colorado. They were in a campground
and they were listening on the iHeart app, but they
had it playing on their phone while they sat at
the campground, and I forget, I don't even remember what
I was talking about. But somebody came over from the
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campground next to them and said, who's that you're listening to?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That's that's really interesting, that's really interesting. Who is that?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And so they told them, and so I picked up
a listener at the campground somewhere. That's how we build
the program. That's what I would ask you to do.
Not you have to play it out loud, but you know,
you go tell people about it. I appreciate that. One
quick story as we close out our dumb assy of
the week, the fires that the local authorities in Los
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Angeles is allowed to get out of control last winter.
That turned out to be an opportunity for those Marxists
to not only to replace nice neighborhoods with government slums,
but to break in the cash from the Fox ELEVENI
affiliate comes this story.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
There's one simple vision hack anyone.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Oh got to get rid of the commercial and we'll
do that right now.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Fire Aid, that star studed concert that raised one hundred
million dollars for wildfire victims, But where did all that
money go? Investigative journalist Sue Pasco has been digging for answers,
and what she's discovered might just surprise you and Sue Pasco,
she joins me, now live on set. You are the
editor of Circling the News. We can clearly see that
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thanks for the work that you're doing. So this is
personal and professional for you because you lost your home
and the Palisades fire. But that's not necessarily how this
story landed in your lap?
Speaker 4 (32:05):
How did this all come to be?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
A reader sent me a little note and said, I've
never seen any fire aid money? How do I apply
for fire aid money? And I thought, well, you know,
I've never thought about that. There's twelve thousand people, basically
twelve thousand homes gone. Those people probably want to know
where the money is it. This will be an easy
task to find out. So I contacted the Annenburg They
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never responded, and the anenburgh Is Foundation, because they are
overseeing the wildfire funds. Yes, so I emailed them several times.
They never responded. I called them several times, they never responded,
And finally it was like almost two weeks later, a
woman got back to me, and she said, oh, I'm
sorry for the delay. The person you need to speak
to is Chris Wallace. He's a media spokesperson for wildfire Funds.
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So I contacted Chris and I said, you know, victims
want to know when they can get their money. Seems
like a very simple question. He said, basically, they don't.
All this money are going to nonprofits, and then nonprofits
will take care of making sure the money's distributed.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Oh, so we're going to take the fire aid money
raised by all of these stars that did the concert,
and we're going to take that money give it to
a NGO so that they can help cover their overhead
and expenses. And then so if we give them five dollars,
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they'll spend two or three dollars, probably overhead and program expenses,
and then they'll take a dollar or two and they
all kind of, you know, dribble that a little bit
to a victim. It's the typical Democrat money laundering scheme.
Beam used for more than twelve thousand fire victims in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
So I looked at the Initially they gave fifty million
dollars to about one hundred and twenty nonprofits, and I
looked at these nonprofits and one of them said, we
help mobile home parks. And there were two mobile home
parks in the Palisades, all the income, and so I
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contacted the people there. They had never received any money.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
They had never heard of that.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
When you go through, I would urge everyone to just
go to the nonprofits that are listed. If you want
a good laugh, I mean one of the nonprofits cleans
preschool bathrooms.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Well after the.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Fire, who knows, maybe there is a preschool bathroom that
needs cleaning.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (34:36):
In other words, a lot of these nonprofits are ancillary,
if you will.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
That's a nice way of saying.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
And you urge people our viewers, they can go on
the fire aid website and yes, in terms of your
if your fire aid, you can say, we have listed
all the nonprofits.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
So they've given out.
Speaker 10 (34:53):
Seventy five million dollars so far, and you can see
for yourself each nonprofit that has received money. The vetting process, though,
that's an interesting angle to this story as well, because
there is there's still another round of funding that will
be given out. If you're a nonprofit, you would just
have to fill out a simple, very simple question. There
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question six questions, So what do you make of the
vetting process.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
I think they're not helping the victims at all, let's
just say. And the other thing is should know if
you go on there. They don't say how much each
individual nonprofit gets.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
So there are two.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Nonprofits that are for the homeless people in the Palace
or not the Palisates Los Angeles and in general that
they're getting money from from LAWSA. So why are these
nonprofits also getting money from fire aid? I don't know
they're homeless nonprofits. Of course we're all homeless now.
Speaker 10 (35:49):
But and to be clear, we have reached out to
actually the Attorney General, Rob Bonta to see if this
is on his radar, because there's there's a whole lot
of money, and you are well connected in your community
and you don't know anybody who has received fire money.
That's correct, So what is your advice if you're a
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victim and there are several who are probably watching tonight.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yeah, that's you get the idea. Can you imagine at
least this is real journalism, But again it's unfortunately real
journalism that exposes the fraud, the absolute fraud that permeates
almost our entire government. Jiminey Christmas. We got a lot
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of work to do. Hey, thanks for tuning in. I
always appreciate you listening to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Everybody,
have a great weekend and I'll see you next weekend
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