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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, I'm not happy with Israel.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm not happy with Iron.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Either, Kelly Nash.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so
long and so hard that they don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do you understand that, Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Who As the reporter said, and I don't think there
was any double entendre in his voice. He just stumbled
into it. The President came out a little hot.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, he you know, this is I think a great
response for people who say that Trump is a total
Zionist and that Israel never does anything wrong in his sight.
He you know, he never says a bad word about Israel. Well,
he just said a very bad word and it was
directed at Israel.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yes, and it was situated with a very very bad word.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
But after that, I mean, I think that the news
has kind of been underplaying this. I feel like this
morning because he said that at whatever seven forty five
this morning or so seven thirtieth I think think it was.
And then he told the reporters, I'm getting to get
on the plane. I'm going to try to stop any
more attacks from happening. And he got on the plane
(01:09):
and he called what people are saying is a firm
phone call with Benjamin Nett Yahoo, and then thirty three
minutes after he said they don't know what the f
they're doing, he then tweeted out the Israelis are not
going to attack. They're going to simply do a plane
wave and return home.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I love the plane wave.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I've never heard that phrase. I think he just created.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's the playwaves, you know when they tip their wings
back and forth.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, but he put the hashtag plane wave and it's trending.
I've never seen plane wave trend. I've never seen it
as a hashtag. I think he created that hashtag himself
this morning. And so we've never seen a military that
was posed for. They were ready to attack, and they
were entering into the territory where they would do the attacking.
(01:58):
They got called off because the leader of another nation
called their leader, who then had to call them in
the air and say, don't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's great. I love the thought of the Iranians looking
up and seeing the plane wave and they're completely defenseless.
We can kick your ass, but we're not. We're going
to Toronto. Go home now.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Smiley face the Iranians are defenseless totally. Yeah, I mean
they it's like they if you're in a fight and
you broke both your arms, they got nothing left.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Now we'll find out. But you know, the MSNBC anchors
or the military experts and the other I guess CNN's
list of specialty speakers, they're going through some kind of
jerking motion back and forth. So we're going to have
the Democrats owned to talk about how Trump didn't have
the authorization from common Oh wait a minute, what happened?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I mean that feels like seven years ago we got
a ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, hold on, Get General McAfee back in here, tell
them put his uniform back on and talk about what
the ceasefire really means. And wait a minute, hold one
issue will just drop bombs. Okay, good. Get Mike Lawler
in here to talk about how the Republicans are out
of control and he needed Congress. What happened?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I mean, they're just going back and forth with their
switching of the narrative. I tweeted out the House shocked.
I was that morning Joe repeated their six o'clock hour
in the eight o'clock hour.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And I was sitting there list and I'm like, what
do you just say?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I know that they normally do that.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Dude just said it happened moments ago. They did that
at six am. Actually they did it at five am,
but at six am morning Joe opened it up with
breaking news. At eight am, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, it's now outdated and been replaced news. What happened
at five am this morning? You know, the ending of
the ceasefire. That was five am news, eight am, the
ceasefire has been re established, everything is and they were
just replaying that six o'clock. In seven o'clock hours.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Morning, Joe already headed out for their mimoses to celebrate
another incredible broadcast, when the executive producers didn't realize, hey,
we put a time stamp on this because we say
that this that this was breaking news.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Apparently Trump just said on the flight where he's heading
into the Netherlands that I do not want regime change there.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, I don't believe that it does. So anyway, the
what they were what Fox News was all talking about
Nobel Prieste Peace Prize moment, looks like there was a
no Nobel Peace Prize moment. And then we're back home
with a Peace Prize moment.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, you know, he dropped an F bomb to stop
real bombs.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And it worked, all right, So we got a continuation
now of the story, the biggest story. And then this
pushes the the NATO story kind of off a little bit.
But we'll get back to that later today when Trump
lands and then they're talking about the NATO issues.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now they're talking to AOC who's really pissed at the ceasefires.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Back on.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
She is so pissed, looking, yeah, me't each had.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
A chance to launch the impeachment. Come on that. Jim
Hines is upset. You know, it's seriously, these guys have
got whiplash being jerked around by what the narrative is
this hour on MSNBC. And then and oh here we go.
Now the winding's really going to begin because you got
what's his name, Jared over here from Florida, the Democrat.
(05:20):
He likes to get that tearful look in his eye,
like up.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, well look the Democrats are playing catch up, and
I think you know, Donald Trump is leading the world,
which is what we need from a president. Joe Biden
clearly could not. Barack Obama could have see where Joe
Biden was mentally unable to lead even himself. Barack Obama
(05:47):
is a smart man who could have led the world.
Barack Obama decided, if you all remember to go on
an apology tour and kiss everybody's button, bow down to everybody,
and act as if we should be apologizing for being
the world leader.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So then the tailtale sign was it that he was
actually trying to negotiate on a back room with Putin
by saying I'll have more flexibility. You know, when you
say I have more flexibility, you're really making excuses as
to why you can't help Putin rule the world right now,
which shows that Putin's ruling the world while it's your administration.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, he didn't just want Putin. He wanted India to
rule the world. He wanted I mean, you can go
through a long list of countries that he wanted to
have over the United States because again, we had stolen glory.
We should have never been we shouldn't even be a nation.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
We should still be your high horse.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We should have still been subject to the British I mean,
and probably allowed the Indians to kill us all and
then send us back in a box. That's probably the
way Obama would have looked at it. But the reality
of it is is the world needs. The world is
always going to have a leader that's not going to change,
right There's always going of the whatever how many nations
(06:56):
there are two hundred or so on the earth, there's
always going to be one at the top, or maybe two,
and then there's going to be three or four that
are kind of trying to rise into that number one slot.
Right now, it's the United States is number one, and
you've got I don't want to say the whole bricks thing,
but bricks is trying to formulate themselves into a coalition
(07:21):
that could take over the United States. Right now, Bricks
has fallen apart. Bricks is crapping bricks, and that's why
you see Putin kind of distancing himself from Iran. And
I haven't heard a whole lot of China either lately
with Iran. So the bricks thing seems to be maybe
falling apart right now. But if we were to step back,
(07:43):
bricks would be.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Right with God, Yes, they would love that because then
you wouldn't have to worry about muscling your way in
to take over your stronghold position in the middle East
without having to take your eye off of Taiwan. But
now you've got to control both fronts, and that's going
to be a little difficult to do with Donald Trump.
It's been great to do with Joe Biden because all
he's going to say is.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Don't yeah again. That is the complete capitulation, not just
of Joe Biden, but I think of all Democrats. They
capitulate to terrorists whatever because they don't like when you
heard the questions of Chuck Schumer yesterday, mister President, what
are you doing to assure that nothing happens to any
(08:23):
of our military members? I wish he could have answered, Chuck,
There's nothing I can do to assure military members that
there won't be an attack. What I can say is
if anybody attacks our military and anything happens to them,
they will rue the day or he might have dropped
some f bombs on it. If you hit one of
(08:44):
our ships, we are going to blow your entire country
off the face of the earth, and we will have
no regard for civilians. And if any country wants to
step in the way of that, we will have no
regard for your civilians. By the way, you notice he
was not talking right now, I haven't heard boo from
Egypt or Jordan, or Turkey or any of the neighbors
(09:09):
of Israel because they love what's happening. Absolutely, they want
Iran shut down because if they had a nuclear weapon,
and according to the international reports they had as many
as five ready to go in the next few weeks,
that totally would have affected the entire region. And by
the way, what about the Palestinians, the poor Palestinians, they
(09:31):
would have been nuked too. No, where's the pro Palestinian protesters.
They should have been against Iran right now. They should
be marching on Columbia and Harvard and all these campuses.
Get the nukes out of the hands of the people
trying to hurt the Palestinians.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, when you talk about the fact that you don't
hear anything out of Turkey or those neighboring countries, these
guys are right now the biggest cheerleaders. Quietly, they're throwing
parties every time they watch the news or watch CNN
to find out how Trump's going to be able to
put them in a box. The Iranians have always been
(10:06):
the joker in the deck. That means since and I
didn't even realize we say since nineteen seventy eight, certainly
that's when they started causing the majority of other problems.
I started reading the other day about how with their
first nuclear advancements goes all the way back to the
fifties under Eisenhower, and how the US thought it would
(10:29):
be a good idea if we helped these countries be
able to get their own nuclear power at the time, yes,
and how we could help them formulate a better infrastructure
for their citizens. And all that was fine as long
as it was the Shaw, because all he ranted to
do is live a fat life, and he wasn't a
Muslim terrorist. But then after the Shaw evacuated, that's when
(10:51):
everything went the hell in a ham basket. And we've
had to continue to try to downplay the fact that
we were the first ones to introduce them to the
nuclear armram begin with, although it had pretty much been
shut down because the first Muslim clerics wanted nothing to
do with Western civilization as they don't want it, as
they still don't want that people influenced by Western civilization
(11:12):
because they liked them living in caves and riding camels.
But you know, now that we see the influx of
the technology, and even so by giving them a college education,
or Anian college students and the like coming to the US,
going the MIT for God's sake, then we send them
back home so they can start doing their garage testing.
(11:33):
Before you know it, they're a couple of hundred feet
underground in a mountain with a centrifuge and hiding all
what they're supposed to be doing because Barack Obama's jcop
was going to be resurrected by Joe Biden has absolutely
no teeth, and the Europeans are finding it out the
hard way.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well. Marco Rubio said, I don't even know what the
show he was on, but on Sunday he said, you know,
if the Iranians want nuclear power, the United States is
actually help happy to help you rebuild nuclear power plants.
We'll do it in twenty twenty five. You want nuclear energy,
(12:12):
not a problem. You want a nuclear bomb, we will
wipe you off the face of the earth. But we
don't want you to live in the stone ages. We're Look,
we're still the same country that had the Marshall Plan.
We're still the same country the Japanese came and killed
thousands of Americans who had no idea that that was
(12:33):
coming for them. And what did we do? We rebuilt
their country, We rebuilt Germany, we rebuilt Italy with that fascist,
insane leader of theirs. We did.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We are.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We want world peace, and Donald Trump is a great
example of the of what basically every president since Eisenhower
has been saying. We want the world at peace. And
we feel as if we give you the tools where
you can build it yourselves, you can take care of
it yourselves. You're going to do well, and you're not
(13:05):
going to want to attack other nations because you'll be
more than self sufficient. You'll be prosperous. That blows up
in our face all the time, but I still think
it's a better plan than let's try to oppress them Mega.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm surprised he's it wasn't wearing the MEGA hat. All right.
So now here in South Carolina we got it's almost
filing season, and now we're starting to see some of
the headlines wen were coming. Alan Wilson is going to
run for governor. That's been announced on Friday, I guess
is it Friday the twenty eighth. Sometime here in the
(13:39):
next couple of days, we're going to have more people
throw in their hat in the ring to run for governor.
Oh really, okay, and then we're going to have supposedly now,
I guess it's just waiting to be announced, although andre
Bauer is zipping it for the time being. There is
a fundraising page out there under a Republican umbrella. I
(14:04):
think it's called win Red. Now his official page has
not been launched, but there's an Andre for sc excuse me,
Andre for Senate.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Andre Bauer for US Senate is that's who's paid for this.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So he's going to make a run against Lindsey Graham
in a primary. I didn't see that one coming, although
we could have seen it because we saw him pop
it up in photos with DJT all over the state
of South Carolina any time we got near.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't think that Andre Bauer running for Senate really
changes anything. And I'm not saying he shouldn't run for
the Senate against Lindsay Graham. I'm just saying it's going
to take a herculean effort in order to dethrone Lindsay Graham.
And if you and I know, there's a lot of
people in this audience who are just cursing at me
right now, because.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Fifty love hate relationship with Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
According to the latest polls, which I don't think are
that much different than a typical poll in the last
ten years in South Carolina. And again the only people
that matter are South Carolina Republicans. Andre excuse me. Lindsay
has about a fifty five forty five thing. So he's
fifty five percent positive with the Republicans forty five percent negative.
(15:19):
As long as he can hang on to really, all
he needs is fifty one. If you can get to
fifty one, he can hang on to his seat again
for another six years. Again as a figure in South
Carolina politics, not very popular, thirty four percent approval rate
amongst South Carolina voters. Again, obviously there's a bunch of
(15:41):
Democrats involved in that. If you look at him nationally,
he's almost the least popular senator in the country. And
that's saying something. Mitch McConnell is the least popular. Number
two was gold bar Bob. I didn't realize that, Yeah, Menendez,
I thought he pulled.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Great until the news broke.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, that's this is a twenty twenty four pole.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Okay, So Bob Endez, that's a hell of a headline.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, so recover from that one. Think about Mitch McConnell.
You pull worse than a guy convicted of robbing from
the United States government and from his taxpayers and everything.
You still are worse than him, according to the to
the People. Susan Collins is next, and then Lindsey Graham.
Lindsay Graham is not a very popular figure, but I
(16:31):
don't know how you beat him without somebody spectacular. And
Andre Bauer has been, i'll say, a friend to the
show in the past. We haven't really spoken to him
in gosh many years now, it feels like, but he
he is not a political juggernaut, or has not been
so far. Let's just put it that way. He would
he ran for governor and he came in fourth. Yeah,
(16:53):
the last time he ran for governor.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
He's got some baggage that is gonna certainly become another
political king campaign with some of the things he said
in the past. The only the thing that everybody gives
Andre Bauer complete credit for is that he will absolutely
walk every street in South Carolina, knock on every door.
He is all about getting out and talking to people
(17:17):
face to face and closing the deal in person, and
he will transverse the state and talk to as many
people individually and collectively as possible. But when you're looking
at Lindsey Graham's advertising budget, wow, and some of the
things that probably will be used against Andre, that may
(17:39):
be a pretty tough he'l a well.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And then you're going to have Donald Trump is going
to step in, right, Trump is going to endorse Lindsey Graham. Absolutely,
that's that still carries weight. And you know, to your
fundraising point, yes, he's already got I think like eighteen
million dollars in his account, but I mean he can
have an unlimited amount as long as Lockheed Martin is
still making donations or any of these you know what
(18:02):
I'm saying, these weapons producers, we.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Get a couple of guys here in South Carolina that
are still in the weaponry, they'll be suing chip In
as well.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm north Grunhlman. They'll all be Boeing, will probably chip In. Oh,
they all love Lindsay. But again, money doesn't buy elections.
As we saw Mike Blumenthal or whatever, he showed you
how to blow a hundred million dollars and get legit
nothing for it. I just feel like Lindsey is while
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he's not a popular figure, he's still going to have
more than when we did the thing in twenty fourteen,
and we had back in that day it was Nancy
Mace was there, Lee Bright was primarying him. I'm trying
to remember Debt Bowers was one of them. We had
like seven candidates that were trying to primary. And again,
(18:51):
if he didn't get fifty percent, it would have gone
to a runoff. But he got over fifty percent. Even
with like thirty other people running, he still got over
fifty percent. Because that fifty three to fifty four percent,
they're not budget.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, and given the way that we presume if he
can bring peace in the Middle East, the man can
walk on water. Given the way things are going to
we presume I'm going to run here for the next
couple of years. When you're looking at the campaign timeline here,
with Trump's availability and the wave that Lindsey Graham could
run with, that that'll be huge for him.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Remember Lindsay getting booed.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
In o'conny County, in Oconey County and in Seneca. He
just outside of Seneca.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
He could not overcome that, Like he couldn't talk and
then you know Trump is up there going we love Lindsay.
He helps us a lot on the left, and they
wouldn't clap for that. They just you know, they sat
on their hands. But again, I mean as many people
as that were there, I'm guessing what was like twenty
thirty thousand people were at that event. Many people there,
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But I mean you're talking about several million voters in
South Carolina. And if of the several million you're talking about,
like one point eight million are going to be Republican.
And of the one point eight million, if Lindsey Graham
has got one million of them, that's all he needs.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
We have watched it for years now. Lindsey Graham's popularity
rides nearly exclusively on the headlines and the temperament of
the day.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And he, I mean, he is who he is. It's
not like Lindsay gre Like I'm not really ever shocked
by Lindsay. I mean, he takes some positions where I'm like,
come on, man, but I'm not like, oh I can't
I didn't see that one coming. He's just who he
is and the people who love him love him. They
love that whatever that is, they love that, whatever that
(20:44):
is yeah, and we'll know what that is as we
grow grow closer to primary day, because certainly he's going
to be primary So as we grow closer to primary day,
if we had good headlines going Lindsey Graham is riding
the wave. I would like to see the what's his
name and I'm drawing a blank on his name, the
guy from the upstate who is probably going to run
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for governor.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, that's the problem. He's got five million of his
own dollars. And you know.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's the other guy, Mike Allen or something of that
guy's name I'm talking about. I'm talking about, Yeah, but
the guy who primaried Henry McMaster and he got forty
five percent of the vote, Warren, John Warren. I'd rather
see John Warren not run for governor and go after
Lindsey Graham. I think he could be a legit threat
to Lindsay Graham. I don't think he's going to win
the governorship. If I was handicapping it, i'd say Alan
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Wilson Pamela Evitt are the two front runners right now.
Nancy Mace will not even get to the primaries. I
don't think she'll probably implode sometime around March, so she
won't see that June primary. But for the rest of them,
I think that John Warren would do the state and
the nation a great service to run against Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
All Right, we will continue to watch today as msn
BC puts whiplash on their special speakers as they as
they now find them.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
We might get, we might get the trifecta going.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You gotta get Bernie talking about ice because we still
got that going on. And then we got to go
back and forth between Trump is not Trump's illegitimate in
his actions as president because of the War Powers Act,
And then we got to go back to the ceasefire,
and so on again. It's off again, and so on again.
It's off again.
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, I'm not happy with Israel.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm not happy with Iron.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Either, Kelly Nash.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so
long and so hard that they don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do you understand that, Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Who As the reporter said, and I don't think there
was any double entendre in his voice. He just stumbled
into it. The President came out a little hot.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, he you know, this is I think a great
response for people who say that Trump is a total
Zionist and that Israel never does anything wrong in his sight.
He you know, he never says a bad word about Israel. Well,
he just said a very bad word and it was
directed at Israel.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yes, and it was situated with a very very bad word.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
But after that, I mean, I think that the news
has kind of been underplaying this. I feel like this
morning because he said that at whatever seven forty five
this morning or so seven thirtieth I think think it was.
And then he told the reporters, I'm getting to get
on the plane. I'm going to try to stop any
more attacks from happening. And he got on the plane
(01:09):
and he called what people are saying is a firm
phone call with Benjamin Nett Yahoo, and then thirty three
minutes after he said they don't know what the f
they're doing, he then tweeted out the Israelis are not
going to attack. They're going to simply do a plane
wave and return home.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I love the plane wave.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I've never heard that phrase. I think he just created.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's the playwaves, you know when they tip their wings
back and forth.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, but he put the hashtag plane wave and it's trending.
I've never seen plane wave trend. I've never seen it
as a hashtag. I think he created that hashtag himself
this morning. And so we've never seen a military that
was posed for. They were ready to attack, and they
were entering into the territory where they would do the attacking.
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They got called off because the leader of another nation
called their leader, who then had to call them in
the air and say, don't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's great. I love the thought of the Iranians looking
up and seeing the plane wave and they're completely defenseless.
We can kick your ass, but we're not. We're going
to Toronto. Go home now.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Smiley face the Iranians are defenseless totally. Yeah, I mean
they it's like they if you're in a fight and
you broke both your arms, they got nothing left.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Now we'll find out. But you know, the MSNBC anchors
or the military experts and the other I guess CNN's
list of specialty speakers, they're going through some kind of
jerking motion back and forth. So we're going to have
the Democrats owned to talk about how Trump didn't have
the authorization from common Oh wait a minute, what happened?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I mean that feels like seven years ago we got
a ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, hold on, Get General McAfee back in here, tell
them put his uniform back on and talk about what
the ceasefire really means. And wait a minute, hold one
issue will just drop bombs. Okay, good. Get Mike Lawler
in here to talk about how the Republicans are out
of control and he needed Congress. What happened?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I mean, they're just going back and forth with their
switching of the narrative. I tweeted out the House shocked.
I was that morning Joe repeated their six o'clock hour
in the eight o'clock hour.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And I was sitting there list and I'm like, what
do you just say?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I know that they normally do that.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Dude just said it happened moments ago. They did that
at six am. Actually they did it at five am,
but at six am morning Joe opened it up with
breaking news. At eight am, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, it's now outdated and been replaced news. What happened
at five am this morning? You know, the ending of
the ceasefire. That was five am news, eight am, the
ceasefire has been re established, everything is and they were
just replaying that six o'clock. In seven o'clock hours.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Morning, Joe already headed out for their mimoses to celebrate
another incredible broadcast, when the executive producers didn't realize, hey,
we put a time stamp on this because we say
that this that this was breaking news.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Apparently Trump just said on the flight where he's heading
into the Netherlands that I do not want regime change there.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, I don't believe that it does. So anyway, the
what they were what Fox News was all talking about
Nobel Prieste Peace Prize moment, looks like there was a
no Nobel Peace Prize moment. And then we're back home
with a Peace Prize moment.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, you know, he dropped an F bomb to stop
real bombs.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And it worked, all right, So we got a continuation
now of the story, the biggest story. And then this
pushes the the NATO story kind of off a little bit.
But we'll get back to that later today when Trump
lands and then they're talking about the NATO issues.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now they're talking to AOC who's really pissed at the ceasefires.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Back on.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
She is so pissed, looking, yeah, me't each had.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
A chance to launch the impeachment. Come on that. Jim
Hines is upset. You know, it's seriously, these guys have
got whiplash being jerked around by what the narrative is
this hour on MSNBC. And then and oh here we go.
Now the winding's really going to begin because you got
what's his name, Jared over here from Florida, the Democrat.
(05:20):
He likes to get that tearful look in his eye,
like up.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, well look the Democrats are playing catch up, and
I think you know, Donald Trump is leading the world,
which is what we need from a president. Joe Biden
clearly could not. Barack Obama could have see where Joe
Biden was mentally unable to lead even himself. Barack Obama
(05:47):
is a smart man who could have led the world.
Barack Obama decided, if you all remember to go on
an apology tour and kiss everybody's button, bow down to everybody,
and act as if we should be apologizing for being
the world leader.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So then the tailtale sign was it that he was
actually trying to negotiate on a back room with Putin
by saying I'll have more flexibility. You know, when you
say I have more flexibility, you're really making excuses as
to why you can't help Putin rule the world right now,
which shows that Putin's ruling the world while it's your administration.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, he didn't just want Putin. He wanted India to
rule the world. He wanted I mean, you can go
through a long list of countries that he wanted to
have over the United States because again, we had stolen glory.
We should have never been we shouldn't even be a nation.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
We should still be your high horse.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We should have still been subject to the British I mean,
and probably allowed the Indians to kill us all and
then send us back in a box. That's probably the
way Obama would have looked at it. But the reality
of it is is the world needs. The world is
always going to have a leader that's not going to change,
right There's always going of the whatever how many nations
(06:56):
there are two hundred or so on the earth, there's
always going to be one at the top, or maybe two,
and then there's going to be three or four that
are kind of trying to rise into that number one slot.
Right now, it's the United States is number one, and
you've got I don't want to say the whole bricks thing,
but bricks is trying to formulate themselves into a coalition
(07:21):
that could take over the United States. Right now, Bricks
has fallen apart. Bricks is crapping bricks, and that's why
you see Putin kind of distancing himself from Iran. And
I haven't heard a whole lot of China either lately
with Iran. So the bricks thing seems to be maybe
falling apart right now. But if we were to step back,
(07:43):
bricks would be.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Right with God, Yes, they would love that because then
you wouldn't have to worry about muscling your way in
to take over your stronghold position in the middle East
without having to take your eye off of Taiwan. But
now you've got to control both fronts, and that's going
to be a little difficult to do with Donald Trump.
It's been great to do with Joe Biden because all
he's going to say is.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Don't yeah again. That is the complete capitulation, not just
of Joe Biden, but I think of all Democrats. They
capitulate to terrorists whatever because they don't like when you
heard the questions of Chuck Schumer yesterday, mister President, what
are you doing to assure that nothing happens to any
(08:23):
of our military members? I wish he could have answered, Chuck,
There's nothing I can do to assure military members that
there won't be an attack. What I can say is
if anybody attacks our military and anything happens to them,
they will rue the day or he might have dropped
some f bombs on it. If you hit one of
(08:44):
our ships, we are going to blow your entire country
off the face of the earth, and we will have
no regard for civilians. And if any country wants to
step in the way of that, we will have no
regard for your civilians. By the way, you notice he
was not talking right now, I haven't heard boo from
Egypt or Jordan, or Turkey or any of the neighbors
(09:09):
of Israel because they love what's happening. Absolutely, they want
Iran shut down because if they had a nuclear weapon,
and according to the international reports they had as many
as five ready to go in the next few weeks,
that totally would have affected the entire region. And by
the way, what about the Palestinians, the poor Palestinians, they
(09:31):
would have been nuked too. No, where's the pro Palestinian protesters.
They should have been against Iran right now. They should
be marching on Columbia and Harvard and all these campuses.
Get the nukes out of the hands of the people
trying to hurt the Palestinians.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, when you talk about the fact that you don't
hear anything out of Turkey or those neighboring countries, these
guys are right now the biggest cheerleaders. Quietly, they're throwing
parties every time they watch the news or watch CNN
to find out how Trump's going to be able to
put them in a box. The Iranians have always been
(10:06):
the joker in the deck. That means since and I
didn't even realize we say since nineteen seventy eight, certainly
that's when they started causing the majority of other problems.
I started reading the other day about how with their
first nuclear advancements goes all the way back to the
fifties under Eisenhower, and how the US thought it would
(10:29):
be a good idea if we helped these countries be
able to get their own nuclear power at the time, yes,
and how we could help them formulate a better infrastructure
for their citizens. And all that was fine as long
as it was the Shaw, because all he ranted to
do is live a fat life, and he wasn't a
Muslim terrorist. But then after the Shaw evacuated, that's when
(10:51):
everything went the hell in a ham basket. And we've
had to continue to try to downplay the fact that
we were the first ones to introduce them to the
nuclear armram begin with, although it had pretty much been
shut down because the first Muslim clerics wanted nothing to
do with Western civilization as they don't want it, as
they still don't want that people influenced by Western civilization
(11:12):
because they liked them living in caves and riding camels.
But you know, now that we see the influx of
the technology, and even so by giving them a college education,
or Anian college students and the like coming to the US,
going the MIT for God's sake, then we send them
back home so they can start doing their garage testing.
(11:33):
Before you know it, they're a couple of hundred feet
underground in a mountain with a centrifuge and hiding all
what they're supposed to be doing because Barack Obama's jcop
was going to be resurrected by Joe Biden has absolutely
no teeth, and the Europeans are finding it out the
hard way.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well. Marco Rubio said, I don't even know what the
show he was on, but on Sunday he said, you know,
if the Iranians want nuclear power, the United States is
actually help happy to help you rebuild nuclear power plants.
We'll do it in twenty twenty five. You want nuclear energy,
(12:12):
not a problem. You want a nuclear bomb, we will
wipe you off the face of the earth. But we
don't want you to live in the stone ages. We're Look,
we're still the same country that had the Marshall Plan.
We're still the same country the Japanese came and killed
thousands of Americans who had no idea that that was
(12:33):
coming for them. And what did we do? We rebuilt
their country, We rebuilt Germany, we rebuilt Italy with that fascist,
insane leader of theirs. We did.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We are.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We want world peace, and Donald Trump is a great
example of the of what basically every president since Eisenhower
has been saying. We want the world at peace. And
we feel as if we give you the tools where
you can build it yourselves, you can take care of
it yourselves. You're going to do well, and you're not
(13:05):
going to want to attack other nations because you'll be
more than self sufficient. You'll be prosperous. That blows up
in our face all the time, but I still think
it's a better plan than let's try to oppress them Mega.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm surprised he's it wasn't wearing the MEGA hat. All right.
So now here in South Carolina we got it's almost
filing season, and now we're starting to see some of
the headlines wen were coming. Alan Wilson is going to
run for governor. That's been announced on Friday, I guess
is it Friday the twenty eighth. Sometime here in the
(13:39):
next couple of days, we're going to have more people
throw in their hat in the ring to run for governor.
Oh really, okay, and then we're going to have supposedly now,
I guess it's just waiting to be announced, although andre
Bauer is zipping it for the time being. There is
a fundraising page out there under a Republican umbrella. I
(14:04):
think it's called win Red. Now his official page has
not been launched, but there's an Andre for sc excuse me,
Andre for Senate.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Andre Bauer for US Senate is that's who's paid for this.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So he's going to make a run against Lindsey Graham
in a primary. I didn't see that one coming, although
we could have seen it because we saw him pop
it up in photos with DJT all over the state
of South Carolina any time we got near.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't think that Andre Bauer running for Senate really
changes anything. And I'm not saying he shouldn't run for
the Senate against Lindsay Graham. I'm just saying it's going
to take a herculean effort in order to dethrone Lindsay Graham.
And if you and I know, there's a lot of
people in this audience who are just cursing at me
right now, because.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Fifty love hate relationship with Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
According to the latest polls, which I don't think are
that much different than a typical poll in the last
ten years in South Carolina. And again the only people
that matter are South Carolina Republicans. Andre excuse me. Lindsay
has about a fifty five forty five thing. So he's
fifty five percent positive with the Republicans forty five percent negative.
(15:19):
As long as he can hang on to really, all
he needs is fifty one. If you can get to
fifty one, he can hang on to his seat again
for another six years. Again as a figure in South
Carolina politics, not very popular, thirty four percent approval rate
amongst South Carolina voters. Again, obviously there's a bunch of
(15:41):
Democrats involved in that. If you look at him nationally,
he's almost the least popular senator in the country. And
that's saying something. Mitch McConnell is the least popular. Number
two was gold bar Bob. I didn't realize that, Yeah, Menendez,
I thought he pulled.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Great until the news broke.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, that's this is a twenty twenty four pole.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Okay, So Bob Endez, that's a hell of a headline.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, so recover from that one. Think about Mitch McConnell.
You pull worse than a guy convicted of robbing from
the United States government and from his taxpayers and everything.
You still are worse than him, according to the to
the People. Susan Collins is next, and then Lindsey Graham.
Lindsay Graham is not a very popular figure, but I
(16:31):
don't know how you beat him without somebody spectacular. And
Andre Bauer has been, i'll say, a friend to the
show in the past. We haven't really spoken to him
in gosh many years now, it feels like, but he
he is not a political juggernaut, or has not been
so far. Let's just put it that way. He would
he ran for governor and he came in fourth. Yeah,
(16:53):
the last time he ran for governor.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
He's got some baggage that is gonna certainly become another
political king campaign with some of the things he said
in the past. The only the thing that everybody gives
Andre Bauer complete credit for is that he will absolutely
walk every street in South Carolina, knock on every door.
He is all about getting out and talking to people
(17:17):
face to face and closing the deal in person, and
he will transverse the state and talk to as many
people individually and collectively as possible. But when you're looking
at Lindsey Graham's advertising budget, wow, and some of the
things that probably will be used against Andre, that may
(17:39):
be a pretty tough he'l a well.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And then you're going to have Donald Trump is going
to step in, right, Trump is going to endorse Lindsey Graham. Absolutely,
that's that still carries weight. And you know, to your
fundraising point, yes, he's already got I think like eighteen
million dollars in his account, but I mean he can
have an unlimited amount as long as Lockheed Martin is
still making donations or any of these you know what
(18:02):
I'm saying, these weapons producers, we.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Get a couple of guys here in South Carolina that
are still in the weaponry, they'll be suing chip In
as well.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm north Grunhlman. They'll all be Boeing, will probably chip In. Oh,
they all love Lindsay. But again, money doesn't buy elections.
As we saw Mike Blumenthal or whatever, he showed you
how to blow a hundred million dollars and get legit
nothing for it. I just feel like Lindsey is while
(18:30):
he's not a popular figure, he's still going to have
more than when we did the thing in twenty fourteen,
and we had back in that day it was Nancy
Mace was there, Lee Bright was primarying him. I'm trying
to remember Debt Bowers was one of them. We had
like seven candidates that were trying to primary. And again,
(18:51):
if he didn't get fifty percent, it would have gone
to a runoff. But he got over fifty percent. Even
with like thirty other people running, he still got over
fifty percent. Because that fifty three to fifty four percent,
they're not budget.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, and given the way that we presume if he
can bring peace in the Middle East, the man can
walk on water. Given the way things are going to
we presume I'm going to run here for the next
couple of years. When you're looking at the campaign timeline here,
with Trump's availability and the wave that Lindsey Graham could
run with, that that'll be huge for him.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Remember Lindsay getting booed.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
In o'conny County, in Oconey County and in Seneca. He
just outside of Seneca.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
He could not overcome that, Like he couldn't talk and
then you know Trump is up there going we love Lindsay.
He helps us a lot on the left, and they
wouldn't clap for that. They just you know, they sat
on their hands. But again, I mean as many people
as that were there, I'm guessing what was like twenty
thirty thousand people were at that event. Many people there,
(19:57):
But I mean you're talking about several million voters in
South Carolina. And if of the several million you're talking about,
like one point eight million are going to be Republican.
And of the one point eight million, if Lindsey Graham
has got one million of them, that's all he needs.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
We have watched it for years now. Lindsey Graham's popularity
rides nearly exclusively on the headlines and the temperament of
the day.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And he, I mean, he is who he is. It's
not like Lindsay gre Like I'm not really ever shocked
by Lindsay. I mean, he takes some positions where I'm like,
come on, man, but I'm not like, oh I can't
I didn't see that one coming. He's just who he
is and the people who love him love him. They
love that whatever that is, they love that, whatever that
(20:44):
is yeah, and we'll know what that is as we
grow grow closer to primary day, because certainly he's going
to be primary So as we grow closer to primary day,
if we had good headlines going Lindsey Graham is riding
the wave. I would like to see the what's his
name and I'm drawing a blank on his name, the
guy from the upstate who is probably going to run
(21:07):
for governor.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, that's the problem. He's got five million of his
own dollars. And you know.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's the other guy, Mike Allen or something of that
guy's name I'm talking about. I'm talking about, Yeah, but
the guy who primaried Henry McMaster and he got forty
five percent of the vote, Warren, John Warren. I'd rather
see John Warren not run for governor and go after
Lindsey Graham. I think he could be a legit threat
to Lindsay Graham. I don't think he's going to win
the governorship. If I was handicapping it, i'd say Alan
(21:35):
Wilson Pamela Evitt are the two front runners right now.
Nancy Mace will not even get to the primaries. I
don't think she'll probably implode sometime around March, so she
won't see that June primary. But for the rest of them,
I think that John Warren would do the state and
the nation a great service to run against Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
All Right, we will continue to watch today as msn
BC puts whiplash on their special speakers as they as
they now find them.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
We might get, we might get the trifecta going.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You gotta get Bernie talking about ice because we still
got that going on. And then we got to go
back and forth between Trump is not Trump's illegitimate in
his actions as president because of the War Powers Act,
And then we got to go back to the ceasefire,
and so on again. It's off again, and so on again.
It's off again.
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