July 25, 2024 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Her voice still needs to be heard, her service still acknowledged.
A Lieutenant colonel, an Iraqi veteran, an eight year member
of the United States House of Representatives, a former Democrat
Party candidate for president, and author of the book For
Love of Country, Leave the Democrat Party Behind On Simon
and Schuster. Telsea Gabbard, Great to meet you by phone.
It's a thrill for me.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you so much. It's great to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What'd you make of that speech last night?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I mean, first, we have Bibi Netanyah, who half the
Democrats won't show up for the speech. They can't figure
out what side they're on, even though Hamas doesn't acknowledge
Israel's right to exist. And then we have the president
who doesn't seem to acknowledge Republican's right to exist in
a farewell speech.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We live in interesting times, don't we.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's pretty troubling times. It's interesting, to say the least.
It was heartbreaking to see those pro Hamas demonstrators, protesters,
rioters burning the American flag. And I saw one video
of a guy who came up and he tried to
grab the flag and stop it from burning and take
(01:05):
it away, take it off the ground and he was
chased down by a mob of these pro Hamas pro
terrorist protesters. And you know, I just I thought as
I was looking at that we have the First Amendment,
every person.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Has the right to peacefully protest. But here we have
a group of people.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Who are advocating and acting as apologists and allies for
an Islamist terrorist group of the ilk of terrorists that
I and so many of my brothers and sisters in
uniform went overseas to fight against and defeat the same
kind of Islamus territy attacked us on nine to eleven.
(01:48):
And as I as I saw this going down yesterday,
I just thought, well, what about the eighty year old
grandmother who's a peaceful pro life protester who was hauled
away in handcuffed as she peacefully protested for the right
to like liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And what
a dichotomy and a statement is of this administration and
(02:12):
what they care about and who they care about, who
they are targeting, and who they are standing a sideline.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So if Kamala is the new choice, she a misses
the low hanging fruit of firing a secret service director
or calling for the firing of a Secret Service director
remains silent. Then as Vice President, she doesn't preside over
an Allies speech at a time of war. Protesters are
bust in and paid for. But this is a former
(02:40):
speaker who said calling for a cease fire and calling
for hostages to be returned home as if it's Israel
holding the hostages. I mean, boy, the Democrat Party has
an eye problem Israel, don't they.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yes, they do, you know, and and the it's tough
on this one. There are some Democrat act who have
been calling out for Israel's right to self defense. But
the thing that they really have a problem with that
is bigger than just Israel is the fact that not
a single one of them that I have heard, at
least certainly not the President, certainly not Vice President Harris,
(03:17):
not a single one of them has called out this
radical Islamist terrorist group that attacked Israel on October seventh
and the ideology that's driving them, what's their goal and
what their objective is. This wasn't just a criminal act.
In quite frankly, it wasn't just an act of barbarism.
Yes it was, it was that, but it was done
in the as an act towards their objective, which is
(03:43):
the extermination of all Jewish people. And like every other
Islamus terrorist group in the world, they want to establish
an is Amith's caliphate.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Around the world.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
We need leaders with courage to call them out and
to take action to defeat them militarily when and where necessary.
But ideologically, we have to defeat this isn't this ideology
with the ideology of freedom.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Telsey Gabbert joining us. We had a shadow campaign to
save democracy from Trump in twenty twenty. Are we in
the midst of a shadow campaign to save the Democrat
Party from Democrat voters?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What do you make of this?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Joe's out, Kamala is in and apparently all the money's here,
all the delegates are hers, and doesn't win a single election,
but she's the heir apparent.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What do you make of this that's happening exactly?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I mean, it's interesting, as you mentioned Bobby Kennedy in
your intro, when you look back, they didn't have a
Democratic primary to nominate Joe Biden either, So what they're
doing with Kamala Harris now shouldn't surprise us. The fact
that they blocked other Democratic candidates who were running for
president from even showing up on the ballot in some states,
(04:53):
they canceled primary elections outright in other states like yeah, no,
we're just not going to let people vote, and essentially
then just settled Joe Biden's a president so that no
one is allowed to challenge him. That doesn't sound much
like a democracy to me, really. And then now, of
course they're doing it with Kamala Harris, so this is
par for the course for them.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Why did it seem like such a no brainer to me?
And were you ever approached by RFK or Donald Trump?
Because I think you were a no brainer for both.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I was approached by RFK and was told I was
under top consideration by President Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Obviously, ultimately he selected JD. Vance.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
And with those those final names that were in contention
there towards those last days, I think JD was the
best of that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Group and I think the right pick.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And one of the reasons why I think that that
pick was affirmed was how much the neo cons and
warmongers in Washington immediately started freaking out at JD.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Vance's selection because he's.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Shown in his short time in the Senate, he's only
been there for you know, a little over a year,
he has the courage and the backbone to stand up
to the deep state and the military industrial complex when
many Republicans and Democrats don't.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I will say it wasn't you. I was disappointed, But
because it was JD. Vance, my presumption was you were pleased.
He's saying a lot of things you've been saying for years.
Telsey Gabber joining us. All right, Telsey, we have such
a short period of time. Let me get right to
this question. We have this with education. It's failing to
educate our kids. It's socializing them, it's indoctrinating, but it's failing.
(06:30):
The scores prove it. It's not preparing him for higher education, citizenry,
or the workforce.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So the question for parents is do.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
We stay and fight and change public education and its outcome,
or is it time to abandon. You could say the
same thing for the Democrat Party, and the title of
the book gives us your choice, for the love of country,
leave the Democrat Party behind. Is it really that far gone?
Leaving is the only solution for true Democrats?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yes, at this point it is. And it's unfortunate to
say that. But I titled my book that for a reason.
I suck around the Democratic Party for a long time.
I was vice served the DNC. I ran for president
in twenty twenty, all with the hopes of trying to
change that party from within. It is, as you know
very well, and has been now for quite some time,
(07:22):
under the complete control of its elitist cabal of warmongers,
led by the ills of the Queen of warmongers, yourself,
Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat elite have no interest in
becoming once again the party of JFK, becoming that big,
open tent party that celebrates free speech and defensive liberties,
that celebrates the vision of and wants to make the
(07:44):
dream of Martin Luther chain of reality. Instead, they're doing
exact opposite. They're racializing everything, They're dividing us in every
way possible. They're defying our constitution, undermining our freedom, and
have pushed us to the brink of war with multiple
countries and closer to nuclear war than ever before. I
see no option at this point but to leave the
(08:06):
Democratic Party behind.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It were country first, we could.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Do the pendulum from FDR to LBJ to Barack Obama
to I guess Kamala Harris. Now, how about the pendulum
from JFK to Ted Kennedy And that's the same womb.
All right, So this party has shifted left and taken
America with it. We've now got Joe out because he
can't win, not because apparently he's not capable of the
(08:31):
race or service. Otherwise he should leave immediately as president.
You got Kamala in. We had an assassination attempt. I'll
give you a jfquick question. How does all this play out?
And what's next? And what do you fear as next?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Well, anyone who cherishes peace and freedom and who really
loves our country must commit to, first of all, defeating
Kamala Harris. There's a clear choice in this election, assuming
she is the nominee, as all signs in that direction,
There's a choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and
(09:05):
whoever she chooses as her running mate. If you vote
for Kamala Harris, you're voting for more tyranny, a government
that will take away more of our liberties, a government
that believe they know what's best for us more than
we do, so we shouldn't have the right to make
our own choices for ourselves. And a government that is
filled with war bongers who make our country less safe
(09:27):
versus a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for freedom,
It is a vote for peace, and it is a
vote for a leader who is unafraid of wrestling back
control from the deep state and the military industrial complex
and putting it back, putting the power back into the
hands of the people, respecting our right to life, liberty,
and if presuated, happiness.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Lieutenant Colonel and former presidential candidate Telsea Gabbert in Nashville
for two book signings today. Do you know quickly where
they're at, because I don't have that in front of me.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
One is that a private residence and the other is
at the Brentwood Cunt Club tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Tomorrow morning Brentwood Country Club signing of her book For
the Love of Country, Lead the Democrat Party behind Lieutenant
Colonel Telsea Gabbard. So great to meet you by phone,
and I know there's a future we'll hear your voice,
and we must hear your voice in the future.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Thanks for sharing it today.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You got it
Her voice still needs to be heard, her service still acknowledged.
A Lieutenant colonel, an Iraqi veteran, an eight year member
of the United States House of Representatives, a former Democrat
Party candidate for president, and author of the book For
Love of Country, Leave the Democrat Party Behind On Simon
and Schuster. Telsea Gabbard, Great to meet you by phone.
It's a thrill for me.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you so much. It's great to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What'd you make of that speech last night?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I mean, first, we have Bibi Netanyah, who half the
Democrats won't show up for the speech. They can't figure
out what side they're on, even though Hamas doesn't acknowledge
Israel's right to exist. And then we have the president
who doesn't seem to acknowledge Republican's right to exist in
a farewell speech.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We live in interesting times, don't we.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's pretty troubling times. It's interesting, to say the least.
It was heartbreaking to see those pro Hamas demonstrators, protesters,
rioters burning the American flag. And I saw one video
of a guy who came up and he tried to
grab the flag and stop it from burning and take
(01:05):
it away, take it off the ground and he was
chased down by a mob of these pro Hamas pro
terrorist protesters. And you know, I just I thought as
I was looking at that we have the First Amendment,
every person.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Has the right to peacefully protest. But here we have
a group of people.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Who are advocating and acting as apologists and allies for
an Islamist terrorist group of the ilk of terrorists that
I and so many of my brothers and sisters in
uniform went overseas to fight against and defeat the same
kind of Islamus territy attacked us on nine to eleven.
(01:48):
And as I as I saw this going down yesterday,
I just thought, well, what about the eighty year old
grandmother who's a peaceful pro life protester who was hauled
away in handcuffed as she peacefully protested for the right
to like liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And what
a dichotomy and a statement is of this administration and
(02:12):
what they care about and who they care about, who
they are targeting, and who they are standing a sideline.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So if Kamala is the new choice, she a misses
the low hanging fruit of firing a secret service director
or calling for the firing of a Secret Service director
remains silent. Then as Vice President, she doesn't preside over
an Allies speech at a time of war. Protesters are
bust in and paid for. But this is a former
(02:40):
speaker who said calling for a cease fire and calling
for hostages to be returned home as if it's Israel
holding the hostages. I mean, boy, the Democrat Party has
an eye problem Israel, don't they.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yes, they do, you know, and and the it's tough
on this one. There are some Democrat act who have
been calling out for Israel's right to self defense. But
the thing that they really have a problem with that
is bigger than just Israel is the fact that not
a single one of them that I have heard, at
least certainly not the President, certainly not Vice President Harris,
(03:17):
not a single one of them has called out this
radical Islamist terrorist group that attacked Israel on October seventh
and the ideology that's driving them, what's their goal and
what their objective is. This wasn't just a criminal act.
In quite frankly, it wasn't just an act of barbarism.
Yes it was, it was that, but it was done
in the as an act towards their objective, which is
(03:43):
the extermination of all Jewish people. And like every other
Islamus terrorist group in the world, they want to establish
an is Amith's caliphate.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Around the world.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
We need leaders with courage to call them out and
to take action to defeat them militarily when and where necessary.
But ideologically, we have to defeat this isn't this ideology
with the ideology of freedom.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Telsey Gabbert joining us. We had a shadow campaign to
save democracy from Trump in twenty twenty. Are we in
the midst of a shadow campaign to save the Democrat
Party from Democrat voters?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What do you make of this?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Joe's out, Kamala is in and apparently all the money's here,
all the delegates are hers, and doesn't win a single election,
but she's the heir apparent.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What do you make of this that's happening exactly?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I mean, it's interesting, as you mentioned Bobby Kennedy in
your intro, when you look back, they didn't have a
Democratic primary to nominate Joe Biden either, So what they're
doing with Kamala Harris now shouldn't surprise us. The fact
that they blocked other Democratic candidates who were running for
president from even showing up on the ballot in some states,
(04:53):
they canceled primary elections outright in other states like yeah, no,
we're just not going to let people vote, and essentially
then just settled Joe Biden's a president so that no
one is allowed to challenge him. That doesn't sound much
like a democracy to me, really. And then now, of
course they're doing it with Kamala Harris, so this is
par for the course for them.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Why did it seem like such a no brainer to me?
And were you ever approached by RFK or Donald Trump?
Because I think you were a no brainer for both.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I was approached by RFK and was told I was
under top consideration by President Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Obviously, ultimately he selected JD. Vance.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
And with those those final names that were in contention
there towards those last days, I think JD was the
best of that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Group and I think the right pick.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And one of the reasons why I think that that
pick was affirmed was how much the neo cons and
warmongers in Washington immediately started freaking out at JD.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Vance's selection because he's.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Shown in his short time in the Senate, he's only
been there for you know, a little over a year,
he has the courage and the backbone to stand up
to the deep state and the military industrial complex when
many Republicans and Democrats don't.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I will say it wasn't you. I was disappointed, But
because it was JD. Vance, my presumption was you were pleased.
He's saying a lot of things you've been saying for years.
Telsey Gabber joining us. All right, Telsey, we have such
a short period of time. Let me get right to
this question. We have this with education. It's failing to
educate our kids. It's socializing them, it's indoctrinating, but it's failing.
(06:30):
The scores prove it. It's not preparing him for higher education, citizenry,
or the workforce.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So the question for parents is do.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
We stay and fight and change public education and its outcome,
or is it time to abandon. You could say the
same thing for the Democrat Party, and the title of
the book gives us your choice, for the love of country,
leave the Democrat Party behind. Is it really that far gone?
Leaving is the only solution for true Democrats?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yes, at this point it is. And it's unfortunate to
say that. But I titled my book that for a reason.
I suck around the Democratic Party for a long time.
I was vice served the DNC. I ran for president
in twenty twenty, all with the hopes of trying to
change that party from within. It is, as you know
very well, and has been now for quite some time,
(07:22):
under the complete control of its elitist cabal of warmongers,
led by the ills of the Queen of warmongers, yourself,
Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat elite have no interest in
becoming once again the party of JFK, becoming that big,
open tent party that celebrates free speech and defensive liberties,
that celebrates the vision of and wants to make the
(07:44):
dream of Martin Luther chain of reality. Instead, they're doing
exact opposite. They're racializing everything, They're dividing us in every
way possible. They're defying our constitution, undermining our freedom, and
have pushed us to the brink of war with multiple
countries and closer to nuclear war than ever before. I
see no option at this point but to leave the
(08:06):
Democratic Party behind.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It were country first, we could.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Do the pendulum from FDR to LBJ to Barack Obama
to I guess Kamala Harris. Now, how about the pendulum
from JFK to Ted Kennedy And that's the same womb.
All right, So this party has shifted left and taken
America with it. We've now got Joe out because he
can't win, not because apparently he's not capable of the
(08:31):
race or service. Otherwise he should leave immediately as president.
You got Kamala in. We had an assassination attempt. I'll
give you a jfquick question. How does all this play out?
And what's next? And what do you fear as next?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Well, anyone who cherishes peace and freedom and who really
loves our country must commit to, first of all, defeating
Kamala Harris. There's a clear choice in this election, assuming
she is the nominee, as all signs in that direction,
There's a choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and
(09:05):
whoever she chooses as her running mate. If you vote
for Kamala Harris, you're voting for more tyranny, a government
that will take away more of our liberties, a government
that believe they know what's best for us more than
we do, so we shouldn't have the right to make
our own choices for ourselves. And a government that is
filled with war bongers who make our country less safe
(09:27):
versus a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for freedom,
It is a vote for peace, and it is a
vote for a leader who is unafraid of wrestling back
control from the deep state and the military industrial complex
and putting it back, putting the power back into the
hands of the people, respecting our right to life, liberty,
and if presuated, happiness.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Lieutenant Colonel and former presidential candidate Telsea Gabbert in Nashville
for two book signings today. Do you know quickly where
they're at, because I don't have that in front of me.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
One is that a private residence and the other is
at the Brentwood Cunt Club tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Tomorrow morning Brentwood Country Club signing of her book For
the Love of Country, Lead the Democrat Party behind Lieutenant
Colonel Telsea Gabbard. So great to meet you by phone,
and I know there's a future we'll hear your voice,
and we must hear your voice in the future.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Thanks for sharing it today.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You got it
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