07 19 25 The Jonathon and Kelly Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to The Jonathan and Kelly Show.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, the US took in twenty seven billion dollars
in June in.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Customs duties, Kelly Nash.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
So far this calendar.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
Year, the Treasury has taken in eighty seven billion dollars
in customs duties.

Speaker 5 (00:16):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show WBOC where.

Speaker 6 (00:21):
There continue to be good news, not only about the
surplus for the first month ever, but other good news.
Depending on which television reporters you're listening to at the time.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, isn't that always sure? Depending on your media source,
you can get all kinds of interpretations of the news
of the day. But yeah, we got a lot of
We like to be on the good news side.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
Here we're on the fun Well, I don't have fun.
This is we thought it was funny, although it's serious.
We have attacks on our state, in particular on the
coast in Charleston.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I really am shocked at what the city of Charleston
is doing. We can break that down in segment four.

Speaker 6 (00:54):
And swamp talk is coming up in segment three. But
this week we had an opportunity to talk with our
Lieutenant Governor Pamela Good morning, Hey, do you have a
hat or did you throw it in the ring?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh, my hat is officially in the ring, and yes
it is. It was a great night Monday night.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
Well, I know there was a big announcement. We thought
it was going to come the week before here in Columbia,
but you went to the upstate, your home part of
the state, and made the big announcement. And now I
understand you're out of the gate and you're raising more
money than even you anticipated. How is that possible?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, you know, I'm a conservative and through right to
my bones. And wow, I'm so humbled when people give up,
not not just their time, but they give up their treasure.
And they went all in once the announcement officially happened.
And I'm just grateful. I think grateful is the best
word that I could say. Grateful for everybody who has

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stepped up. Some people I knew some people that just
kind of said, I like that you're a business person.
I like that you have signed the front of a paycheck,
you balanced budgets, you've created good paying jobs, and that's
what we need more of. And I didn't know them,
and they've reached out on all my platforms and said
we're all in and this is what we think the
state needs moving forward, and we think this is becomes

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the game changer for South Carolina. And so I'm incredibly humbled.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
How do you talk to people when they ask you
why don't our legislators do a better job of learning
how to write laws? Now we get another Supreme Court
case coming up with this vote on giving themselves a
pay raise, much like we went through with the education
bill where they wanted the fun private school, like we
went through with the abortion bill. Me if we always
had to take everything to the Supreme Court here, why

(02:31):
I believe we.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Need some days. We need to slow down. You know,
government was designed as frustrating as it is. I remember
coming down to Columbia basically in the infancy stages, right,
had just been lieutenant governor. And I remember Bruce Bryant,
he was the sheriff up in York and then he
was a House representative and he was just kind of

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had been around the block. Then I would say, Bruce,
oh my god, this takes so long, and he said,
government is frustrating as it is. Our fathers designed it
to take time so that we would come up with
good laws and that we weren't just will nilly passing
things that could you know, get on the books and
just drowned us, which is one of my platforms getting

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rid of useless regulations, sun setting all of our regulations
and make them be reevaluated. But his point was, we
have to do things slow so we do it right.
And I think every time we've seen things kind of
going through and going through quickly, let's slow down and
let's get it right the first time, and let's not
spend wasting time and energy in court trying to defend

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the things that we do.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Talking with the Lieutenant Governor, Pamela Evatt, and everybody knows
that you're a very successful business person. Back in twenty fifteen,
number three female entrepreneur in the United States, that was
your ranking. Grew your business to a billion dollar enterprise.
I mean, it's very impressive. Business is one thing. Government's another.

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As you sit here, you know, looking at the future
of South Carolina, is there anything that you would do
differently than what's currently happening, Like what kind of changes
would you see coming from you know, the governor's mansions.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I've sat in the executive branch in the public sector.
I've sat in the executive branch. In the private sector.
What we're seeing now is a push to take the
private sector what's working well technology and bring it into government.
I mean from the other side, you know, as a
business owner, how do we get government to work efficiently?

(04:36):
Being part of groups like the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association,
Republican State Legislative Committee, I have colleagues that have started
some of these processes with taking technology and the savings
are hundreds of millions of dollars to their state. It's like,
how do we take what's happening, how do we look
at what's happening in government, how do we make it

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more efficient? How do we leverage new technologies. That's how
you take business and you bring it into the public sector.
You know, lots of talk about DOGE, but what it
is doing is it's telling states and honestly, guys, it
needs to go down to the local level too. We
need to start leveraging technology to find out where we

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have waste, fraud, and abuse and granted at a state level,
a local level, you're never going to see things like
sending millions of dollars to another country for wokeness, right
like we're not doing that. But what we can be
doing is using technology to cut out medicaid fraud that
could be happening. That's how you start saving bottom line,

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real hard earned dollars that get this state to the
point where we can easily say we can become a
zero dating from tech state. It's not one sort of
bullet to do that. You've got to do a lot
of things in unison. But we can get there. But
it all starts with good governance.

Speaker 6 (05:56):
You know, at this point, we have an attorney general,
we have a state senator, we have possibly a US congressman,
and in your case, you are sitting in the executive office,
and as the from the executive perspective, having to do
with all the agencies under your what would be your
new domain, whether it's a Department of Commerce, Department of Education,

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South Carolina, Department of Transportation, whatever it is. Instead of
saying where can we improve, let me ask you this question.
What has been one of the biggest successes that you
were part of in the past four years and which
agency was that.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
So we've had a lot of wins in a lot
of different areas. I believe we've done great in really
pushing forward, changing kind of like the common thinking of
our technical college system. We've done a great job in
commerce selling South Carolina as a state roads or something
I don't believe anybody's ever going to be completely happy

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with because it's like such a maintenance item, like as
you get one fixed, another one has a problem. You
know what we've done in upscaling our brain so that
we're not under load restrictions like we are making dents
in that. And I think I can look at all
the things we've gone our Department of Veterans Affairs, South
Carolina proud military state, the governor creating that as a

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cabinet so that we could now leverage veteran services here
in South Carolina. What a great win, especially when you're
talking about workforce, because we're trying to attack veterans to
our state when they retire, because we know they're proven, great,
reliable employees that have already been seasoned for us. So
I could kind of go through and talk about wins

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in so many areas. I think the secret of being
in the executive branch is you can't focus on just
one thing. You have to be able to walk and
shoe gum at the same time, any executive, even in
the private sector, will tell you that when you're at
the helm, you got to be able to have great
peripheral visions so that you can figure out how all

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these things have to work hand in gloves together, because
it's an ecosystem and it all has to come together
for you.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Talking with our Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evatt, and you know,
we recently had Joe Wilson in here and he was
talking about some of the power demands that are going
to be coming in the not too distant future as
AI becomes more and more dominant. And you know, if
you look at South Carolina, we've been pretty active when
it comes to nuclear energy. Any any insights as to

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how we can actually grow this even further. Are we
going to continue with nuclear energy? Do you think that
there's going to We're going to build more dams? What
do you How do you see South Carolina becoming a
power player when it comes to AI.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I have really tried to put a big emphasis on
this for the last two years. It again was one
of those things that when you're sitting in the executive branch,
you need to say, I'm looking ten years out I'm
looking fifteen years out, because if you're saying I'm looking
three to five years out, you're already looking in the
rearview mirror. Energy was something that you know, I identified
a long time ago and jumped in because I wanted

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to learn more about it. I sat with keller At,
and I've been out to Santy Cooper, and I've been
with Jimmy and have looked at their control centers, and
I've been out to Duke Energy, and all of them
share the same thing. If we want to really make
a dent, we have to get base load up. The
resurrection of VC summer that nuclear energy becomes a base

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load enhancer, and so, you know, getting that project re energized,
making sure that we're upping our baseload on that, and
then taking one of our coal field plants and turning
it into a natural gas plant that's dispatchable energy. That's
what gets us through those peak times when it's really
cold or it's really hot. That's how we look ahead

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to continue to grow, and that's the way we have
to legislate. If we're going to keep growing. The careers
of the future are going to be energy users. We
have to make sure that we're ready for that. So
energy becomes a huge part of this.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Now, the Lieutenant Governor did spend a lot of time.
Whether it's on the phone, you can hear the complete
interview on our podcast.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, the Rash Thought podcast is on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
And if there's one thing we know about in the
state of South Carolina, it's history. Our history is being attacked.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Next The Jonathan and Kelly Show, Jonathan Rush.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
When you start to talk about whether or not Sesame Street,
this is so that there is not this warped thought
process about the Western world or about the United States,
Kelly Nash. We're talking about making sure that we don't
end up allowing people to be radicalized against us.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
The Jonathan and Kelly showboc I did not realize that
Big Bird was our first line of defense against the
radicalized persons around the world who would attack us.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, I think it's fantastic. It's working great because they've
been showing it in the Middle East for years and
you can see how those people have really warmed up
to us.

Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh, all right, we can get into some of that.
We'll get more of that coming up in SEGMA three. Hey,
this is Jonathan Russell's Kelly Nash, thanks for being here. Now.
Maybe you're doing a lot of traveling. Maybe you're going
to be going to some of the parks across South Carolina,
maybe going down to Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie. I don't
know where you're going to be visiting. We had talked
previously about the Trump administration trying to make sure that

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no one was offended.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, that's the interpretation that a now former Park Service
employee named Michael Allen, who worked at Fort Moultrie and
at Fort Sumter. He worked there for roughly forty years.
I guess he's recently retired, but he wanted to contact
the media to say he's scared, he's frightened.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
Well, it's also the interpretation of the Posting Courier after
I read the story even a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, So the reason he contacted the Posting Courier was
to talk about some signs that recently went up, and
the signs at all the national parks, not just here
in South Carolina, across the country. Say, if you see
anything that needs repair, please let us know. If there's
anything that's not hospitable about our treatment of you here,

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please let us.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Know, maybe the men's room isn't clean, let us know
ran out of towels.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
And this is the part that he says frightens him.
It's a chilling message. This will scare the pants off
you if there's anything here that fails to emphasize the beauty,
grandeur and abundance of landscapes and other natural features that
crossed the line, because that means that we can erase slavery.

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We can get rid of any national park now because
somebody would say this does not emphasize the beauty grandeur
of our country.

Speaker 6 (12:32):
If it speaks ill of our history or any person
or group of people, that's when the Trump administration jumps
in with a huge eraser and erases the history of
the state of South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Be the whole country, wouldn't it. You could literally say
we need to wipe out Delaware, proud slave state. As
Joe Biden pointed out to us.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
In the article, I did mention the number of complaints
we've had thus far that could give us a good
indication of what kind of outrage the public is feeling.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
So far. None no, three comments, all positive.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, you may get some negative comments yet, because TikTok.
There's going to be a report too soon. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
The signs went up on May twentieth from Doug Bergham
and it's got ninety days, so August eighteenth will be when.
That's when they'll take all the data that they've gotten.
Like we said, they've gotten three comments so far, all
very positive. They've not had any complaints about any of
the parks anywhere in South Carolina.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Speaking of history, and I know we make a lot
of uh we should because our tourism dollars are very
important to our state. A lot of people come to
the cities like Charleston in particular because they want to
go back in time. There a rainbow row. What a
beautiful place to be. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I mean, if you're going to say you're offended by anything,
the whole city of Charleston would be abolished, wouldn't it.
I mean, have Market Street where that's where they were
selling slaves. They have the marketplace still available to this day.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
You have descendants of slaves, I'm assuming that's what they say,
making sawgrass baskets on the same property where slaves were
once traded.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Democrats need to recognize the fact is we have moved on.
We recognize the evilness of slavery, and yet we are
still able to find the good that was happening inside there,
whether it's from some of the slaves and some of
the incredible stories they have of redemption. What happened to
South Carolina right after the Civil War when we started
electing black officials before the Democrats took over and outlawed them.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
Which brings us to an update on John C. Calhoun.
Remember they took the statue down from Marion Square. Now
we don't know exactly where he is or do we.
I know we found the Columbia fire hydrant in a
deserted lot. I don't think they just toppled over John C.
Calhoun and left him somewhere in a deserted lot just
outside of Charleston. Maybe they did, But I can tell

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you one thing, He's not going to be erected again
inside the city of Charleston, no matter what the historical
groups or the family members say.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, and this is a very sad vote that happened
back in the craziness of twenty twenty, where the city
council said, not only can you have to pull that
statue down, he can never be even privately displayed inside
the city limits of Charleston. And for those people who
don't know much about John Calhoun, sure he was a
slave owner, and he was also pro slavery. But John C.

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Calhoun also, single handedly, according to the people who were
reporting at the time in the early eighteen hundreds, almost
single handedly saved us again in the War of eighteen twelve.
He's the one who basically got one hundred thousand people
to enlist. He's the one who went up and raised
the funds to pay for these soldiers. And that's why
we're still America.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
All those things sound like important things at the time.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Kelly worthy of a statue.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
The most important thing is is that he was in
fact in favor of slavery.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
So that's why he has to come down and everybody
hears never say the name again.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Now, the question is, could John C. Calhoun go just
across the Arthur Ravenel Bridge and be resurrected in Mount
Pleasant with the historical groups insist that they raise his
right hand with a big finger, you're flipping off the
city of Charleston. I think you mentioned this earlier. Is
there any way to salvage South Carolina's history? And in
particular in these two cases, the city of Charleston, maybe

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the whole city needs to be leveled.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, if we do that, we should build it back
about fifteen to twenty feet higher so it stopped flooding.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
Try to get it above sea level this time, and
in the absence of the Rainbow Row houses, maybe we
could build a larger battery.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Can't have the battery because that also helped fight the
Civil War.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
Had called a sea wall. Would the City of Charleston's
city council attitudes sweep across the country. Can we find
Camden leveling the historical fields where they do the Civil
War re enactments.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I would say, actually, if they could do a do
over on that vote, I think that the current administration
in Charleston would actually change that vote. I think that
they got caught up in the craziness of twenty twenty.

Speaker 6 (16:52):
As I was reading the story, I couldn't help but
flashback to the motion picture of The Patriot where Mill
Gibson's character stood up and said, why would I trade
one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants
one mile away? I think the swamp Fox may actually
come back and quote Mail Gibson, quoting the swamp Fox.
But maybe you're right. Maybe the voters of the City
of Charleston will make sure that the new city council

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members have a different perspective on the history of the
state of South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Or perhaps you'd like to go all Minneapolis.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Swamp Talk is next the Jonathan and Kelly Show. Jonathan
rush Hello, Los Angeles.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
We had a major victory today after standing strong, Angelino's
were united.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
We've been notified that two thousand troops are leaving.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
They all retreated.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Kelly Nash, we stood strong and we won. The Jonathan
and Kelly Show WBOC.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
That was major Mayor or mayor major. I'm not sure
her title. She's leading the resistance. Mayor Bass announcing the victory.
Shortly after the National Guard left the premises of the
federal buildings.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Would they retreated? They did retreat, And what was the
cause of their retreat? Was it like some overwhelming force?

Speaker 6 (18:09):
I think headset gave him a call and said, Okay,
we're done out there. You can come back now.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Pete must have been cowering when he made the call.
Make Karen angry.

Speaker 6 (18:19):
Hello, this is Jonathan Rushers.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Kelly Nash, Good morning.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
One thing I wanted to make sure that we mentioned
in this particular swamp talk speaking of ice and the
detention centers. It seems like every state now wants to
get in on some of this DHS money because we
are going to be looking to build more Alligator Alcatraz facility.
Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evatts sai she would love to see
us get when she wants to have made a suggest,
and she call it the Palmetto pen.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I like it. I mean I don't love it. I
think more like you know. Alcatraz is a famous prison.
Sing Sing is such a famous prison that it's synonymous
with jail, and so the South CAx sing Sing, I
think would.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
Be a better name. That's a good one. Everybody wants
to get in on this. Governor Heimrymttmaster's office is leaving
the door open to a potential deal with the US
Department of Homeland Security to build a similar facility here.
Himrymtt Master was introduced recently by Christine nom as one
of President Donald Trump's friends.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well, he may be one of his friends, I thought,
she said, one of his best friends. And I was
going to say, Christy might be over exaggerating, because I
don't think Henry's ever gotten the golf, infight. Oh, Lindsey
Graham gets to golf all the time.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
Noam did say in a interview, I believe it is
I'll meet the press that they were already plans to
expand this model that we are seeing built in Florida.
How about the idea of actually reopening Alcatraz. That seems
like it would be unbelievably expensive.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
You know what, though, I like Doug Bergham's attitude about it.
He's like it's one of the biggest brand names out there.
He's talking about it like it's a brand. And I think,
as here's what I say about all of this stuff.
If the judges would just allow for the deportations to happen,
they've already had their due process. We already have orders

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of removal on all of these people. Just let the
process play out. But if you want to play games, okay,
we'll spend more money. And we're really trying to use
this money as a deterrent. If you are caught inside
the United States, your life is going to become very miserable.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
I don't know why the sanctuary cities like this is
an attack on America, as they described the Gestapo rolling
through the streets slowly in an a van by mask
persons who may or may not be in fact ICE agents.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Are there people who are imitating ICE agents, possibly and
doing bad things that could happen. I mean we've saw
people or at least one individual imitating a police officer
in order to attempt to murder two politicians in Minneapolis.
So I mean this is imitating law enforcement is not
a new thing. However, ICE is the actual call of
ICE is a good and just call to get rid

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of illegal aliens who shouldn't be here, draining the services
of the United States of America where we desperately need
them for our own citizens.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
You sound like Senator fetterman man how much push back
to he get? But as you pointed out, if these
police departments would simply worked with ICE as supposedly required
by law. But oh wait, no, you're in a sanctuary city.
If these city council members and the like, and mayors
like mayor Major Bass would only allow ICE to do

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their job without trying to be the sanctuary city, then
you would not have, as Tom Holman told you, you
would not have people that were being caught up as
collateral because they were involved with or closely associated with
persons that they happened to be looking for on that
particular day.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, and there's US citizens getting arrested now, not because
they're thought to be foreigners or illegals, but they're actually
committing crimes against ICE agents. And so you're going to
jail too. And then you've got like the mayor in
Rhode Island, I forget which city was, I'm guessing Providence
now where they arrested and MS thirteen gangbanger on fentanyl charges.

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And she held a press conference specifically to say she
was alarmed that it may appear as if the police
might have coordinated that arrest with ICE agents. She's very
concerned about that, and she wants an investigation. Did our
police department in bringing down a fentanyl dealer actually work

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with ICE? Because if they did, they're all fired.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
Do you think she would be so angry if they
actually found out to be true that she would want to,
in fact send them to El Salvador.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
She would send the cops to the El Salvador in prison.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
This is going to continue to play out as long
as Tom Holman continues to do his job. And by
the way, he ain't slacking up. Every time you see
an interview, he tells you, we're going to continue to
do our job. We're going to continue to protect the homeland. Now,
one of the things that, as you mentioned a minute ago,
we should be concerned about would be the actual ICE agents.
I did hear a report I ever read this confirm

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this that Tom Holman's wife is no longer with him.
They moved her to a secret location. I wonder how
many ICE agents I believe I would do the same
thing if I were an ICE agent and you have
people walking up to pull your mask off where you at.
Senators actually writing legislation to make sure that you could
not protect your identity, which would in effect protect your family.
These guys are not backing down to fight personally, but

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they're going to protect their family. I wonder how many
ICE agents have actually had to either move out of
their homes or probably move their families because they were
docksed with their home addresses listed through public records.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
I saw a liberal being interviewed about this on a
and she's like a community activist, white woman, big glasses.
I think her hair was dyed a slight shade of blue,
and she's, you know, sounds like a normal person till
you actually understand the content of what she's talking about.
And one of the people on the panel was talking

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about how they have a personal friend who has children
and not only was he docksed as an ice agent,
but his children are now. Not only are the names
out there, his wife's names out there, they are being attacked.
And the woman's position was and that's what you signed
up for, and they said, swim it. So you're okay

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with his children being attacked. Well, I don't think it's okay.
But he knew it when he took this evil job
of going against brown people. And that's her, and that's her.
She's not bending from that. That is the way the
liberals look at it. You're against brown people. And you
can look in their eyes when they're saying it, and
you know in their heart of hearts they believe every

(24:31):
word they are saying. Yeah, And I would love for
this is what I think Tom Holman should do. If
I was helping Tom Holman, or if I was helping
Christy Nome, I would say, please put out numbers, statistics
how many white people have we deported how many people
have overstayed their visas from Europe and we deported them?

(24:52):
Because I know that they're in the thousands. I would
like to see that. So it's not just a one race.
It's all about these people, it's it's about anybody who's illegal.
You're from Sweden, don't give a crap, get out, You're
from Canada, get out.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
Specifically, I would love to know how many of the
Chinese that came across the border have now been rounded
up and sent to WEIR So hopefully since somewhere does
that mean being racist against Chinese?

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Well, and you look at what's happening in Europe right now,
and you've had the recent stories developing out of Spain
where you've got towns that are basically on fire now
in Spain, because depending on which media source you look at,
some would say far right activist groups, others would just
say local townfolks are striking back after there's been a
rash of rapes, there's been a rash of beatings being

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perpetrated by and specifically, in this instance, people from North Africa.
So then you look at what's going on Germany, Poland
there's a bunch of countries throughout Europe that have now
banned anybody from coming in. You can't even apply for
a visa to come into most of Europe. If you're
from North Africa, that group of people, you're not allowed
here because you've proven yourselves to be the agitators. You're

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here to take over our country, to change our culture.
We're not changing our culture. If you're a Poland if
you're in Poland and you're a proud Polish person, be
proud of Poland. Don't let somebody change your culture. Don't
let somebody come here and change America's culture. We are Americans.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
I want in the city of New York. I wish
somebody would ask the candidates in particular Zorun how we
feel specifically about that issue. What would the city of
New York look like if we went back to the
previous policy of absolutely no restrictions at the border. Those
persons who come in, we have to recognize their heritage,
whether they want to assimilate or not. You probably would

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have the future Democrat party arguing that they don't have
to assimilate, that they should be able to run as
they did in London, their own neighborhood police department and
the London police won't even go into certain areas of
their own city.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
You go back to the eighteen nineties and eighteen eighties,
there was a Chinese infiltration of this country. They were
the first group to really actively trying to change the
culture of the United States. Got so bad that I
think it was eighteen ninety four, somewhere in the eighteen nineties,
late eighteen nineties maybe the US passed a law that
said no more people from China, because the Chinese had

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an active plan to change the United States. And that's
why even today you can go into most major American
cities and find a Chinatown. I was just at the
one in DC a couple of weeks ago. They've got
a Chinatown in San Francisco, New York, San Diego, La.
They're all over the place. Because the Chinese were trying
to change the culture in the United States. Government recognized
it and banned all of them. And here's the thing.

(27:33):
The previous to the nineteen twenties when you said, let's
go back to the old school regulations at that time,
as you said before, Ellis Island and all that sort
of stuff. Anyway, if you can get to America. You're
an American. If you want to be an American, you
can become an American. But let's go back to that. However, Comma,
you also get no rights like those people. You've got
to figure out a way to make a living here.

(27:53):
There are no safety nets, there's nothing. You just have
to come and how do you make it in America?
You got to get along with all the Americans. You're
not going to change us. We're changing you. You're either
going to fit in or you're unfortunately going to die.

Speaker 6 (28:06):
As we take a look at now, and you're hearing
more and more in particularly with the race in New
York City, with the mayor's race, Progressives continuing to take
over all the television coverage seemingly forsher May say, he's
going to be able to be the new face of
the Democrat Party. You got a long way to go.
Because I heard Mark Meadows, if I remember correctly, it
was Mark Meadows who threw out a staff that shocked me.

(28:27):
Sally actually said, what the heck did he just say?
How many members of the current elected Democrat party in Washington,
d C. House and Senate do you think now we're
aligning themselves? More closely with Zoran given his embrace of
not only the media but the people of New York City,
what do you think the percentages that would endorse him

(28:47):
or embrace him? Mark Meadow says, sixty five percent of
the current Democrats serving in DC. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
This is a very scary time for the Democrat Party
because the uniformly America is rejecting this far left movement
that they have found themselves caught up in. And it's
dangerous in the sense that that type of rhetoric gets
the most attention, and it has not only does it
get the most attention, it gets the most energy. The

(29:16):
people who hear it and like it are on fire
for it. And so it feels as if that's the
mood of the Democrat Party. The reality is the Democrat
Party is the majority of the Democrats don't like where
the Democrat Party's headed. And unfortunately it's tough because you
need the big elder statesman to step up and retake
the you know, the reins, and guide it back to

(29:38):
the center.

Speaker 6 (29:39):
Well, and one of those statesments, as he described as
he trekked across the state of South Carolina, is Andy Brush. Here,
he says, He's the Democrat who has won his past
three elections in a deep red state and has outpaced
the Trump Maga voter base by twenty percent in his
specific races. Because he is a moderate voice of the

(30:01):
Democrat Party. He's the one who recognizes we have to
put a boots back on to get a little mud
on him and talk to people in rural America. If
we want them to vote differently, we have to speak
with them differently. He is the furthest away from I
guess Tim Walls. But how does Andy Brusher, in the
current face of the Democrat celebration of the Bear's race

(30:23):
in New York, ever get any coverage on MSNBC, CNN,
the most of available media sources for him.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Well, and exactly, I mean he's going to get crushed, Yeah,
that's what's going to happen, Andybasheer. He's going to get
crushed in a primary because again, who are primary voters.
Primary voters are on fire for the party or their agitators,
like you and I were when we went in.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Yes, I had to embarrassingly admit that I broke my
own rule since I was seventeen or eighteen years old,
I wouldn't vote for Joe Biden if you put a
gun to my head. And what did I do? I
wross to lines in South Carolina's open primary and voted
for one Joseph R. Biden.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, you know a lot of us did that.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
We thought he would get his butt kicked. Well, in reality,
he probably did, but we didn't realize that the forces
working behind the scenes were going to overtake our defiance vote.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, and so, but these are primary voters, people who
are very plugged in. And so when Andy Basheer is
looking to win a you know, some sort of a primary,
and now he might win South Carolina's primary, I don't
know if he will or you won't, But I just
don't see that.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
The other thing that the Democrats have in the in
their arsenal that we don't have is they have super delegates.
So there's the opportunity for the party to write itself again.
It's very undemocratic. We saw what they did with Kamala Harris.
You saw how they screwed Bernie Sanders two elections in
a row. So if they want to make Andy Basheer
their guy, they could do it with the super delegates.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Well, he's got a long way to go. Cause, as
you noticed in the pictures that were taken from Greenville
to Columbia, all the way to Charleston, they're putting the school,
they're putting the band back together. You had Jim Hodges
who had Dick Riley for Pete's sake. I'm sorry, I
didn't even I didn't realize Dick Riley was still with us.
But Dick Riley doing well in groom On as Tenenbaum.
Not the new faces of the Democrat Party.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
This is the old turn of the century names. Nineteen
ninety nine into two thousand.

Speaker 6 (32:26):
There was a picture James Clyburn in the background and
he looked woefully disappointed. There was one African American member
currently serving in the House Representatives in the state of
South Carolina, and he looked hacked off to have to
listen to this guy speak. And remember what Roe Kanna
told you. Before he even got here in person, all
the news stories were talking about how he specifically he

(32:47):
was coming here to speak to African American voters in
the state of South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's a unique strategy. That's not
so unique, it's I mean the Democrat Party is trying
so desperately to win back black votes, specifically black mail votes,
and the men in the are leaving in droves. They
love Trump, they love being masculine, and they're tired of
being told that your natural disposition as a man is toxic.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Did you happen to see another proud South Carolinian Jamie
Harrison with the interview from Tim Walls.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I just saw the end where he said, are you
planning to run for president? He said no. Jenny Harrison
basically said, good.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
Well, they were talking about how to talk to men,
which is one of those things that they've been spending
a lot of time, an effort, a lot of money on.
Is how doing research and how can we get men
back to the Democrat Party. And right in the middle
of it, Jamie Harrison gave some kind of correlation that
the Democrat Party the donkey has become e or, referencing

(33:52):
deep in one hundred Acre Wits where Christopher Robin played
Winnie the Pooh, They'd become e or, and then he
went on to described Donald Trump as tigger, a guy
who just bounces around, screws everything up, and acts like
he had nothing to do with and everything is fine,
And I'm thinking to myself, how many guys are you
really reaching with his message when your correlation to your
conversation is Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
How about your boy Barack Obama going on his wife's
podcast last week and basically saying that if you're going
to be a good father, you need some homosexuals. That
was his message, You need some gay people in your
life to show your son how he can be gay
and be normal.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
Who's doing this research and what's that report saying? Because
we're getting some weird messages out at the Democrat Party.
Hang on a second, there's a land grab going on
in South Carolina, and Will say, well, possibly, we'll tell
you about it next.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show, Jonathan Rush.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
One thing that Wall Street, a lot of economist market
in general got wrong early on was that tariffs were
going to call a substantial price level rise, which just
hasn't happened.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Kelly.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
Now, the death of the labor market has been greatly
exaggerated based on recent data, and I think that all
in all, the inflation numbers they're pretty respectable.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Here for the Jonathan and Kelly Show, WBOC.

Speaker 6 (35:15):
You mean proud South Carolinian. Now Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett
is actually questioning the input or the foresight of the
people who told us that inflation in the Biden administration
was transitory.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
They have a.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
History of being spot on with their even from AFAR
analysis of the market and of our current economic conditions
and job reports as you've heard.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah, it's amazing when you right now to hear people
talking about inflation rates like they're not that good, They're
not that great. Hello, it's a two point seven percent.
Anything below three percent is considered good.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
Before we get out of here today, and thank you
for being here. This is Jonathan Rusher's Kelly Nash Inside
the City of Charleston. There is a tragedy going on
in housing now. That is not a surprising headline. That's
not the headline I'm going to read you in just
a second. But always knowing that the taller the skyline,
the more valuable the ground underneath the dog side collapse,

(36:18):
that of course brings fear into the city. If you're
intwhere close by could bring widespread and catastrophic failure. City
of Charleston said that in the court filings in a
lawsuit from all the homeowners.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, the homeowners are suing because one, where's your proof
that these buildings are about to collapse? So far, no
proof has really been provided. Secondly, you gave us twenty
four hours to get out. Whatever you can't move in
twenty four hours, you got to leave it behind. You're
no longer allowed in your Now. This is in the
actual high rises. Surprisingly, though, there's a bunch of town

(36:51):
homes around there that are owned by the same HOA.
Those people were told they have to leave as well. Now,
why is it if they have to leave that the
businesses don't have to leave. The businesses that are actually
closer to the high rises, they're still open.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
Could it be that the city of Charleston doesn't care
about business that if in fact it does collapse, it
could damage the business or the patrons thereof Could it
be that the City of Charleston doesn't care about people
visiting their city or even the residents.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Could it be that they're on a power grab that
Could it be that the City of Charleston recognizes they
got some very valuable property right there and that they
undersold it decades ago.

Speaker 6 (37:30):
And I do like the fact that the persons who
still own the properties but can't actually occupy the properties
are still responsible for paying their mortgage. So they signed
the loan, you're responsible for.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
That, and you're sure is paying your property taxes to
the City of Charleston.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
You're paying that.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
It's kind of like owning a burnt down house in California.
You still owe your HOA fees. Well, I wish all
those homeowners the best of luck in court, because this
just feels shady as hell, Charleston.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
I don't know how you get around one of the
arguments here. Plantt argues that the city didn't follow its
own ordinances, which require a hearing before occupants were forced
to leave an inhabitable home. Therein lies the issue. By
not following its own ordinance, the city created a maze
that has let the plainests to trudge through blindfolded. Simultaneously
arguing that the plaintiffs did not follow the right path.

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According to the city's motion.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Just grabbed your houses, kicked you out, and provided no
explanation other than we said it's dangerous. Trust the science.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
That phrase will live on forever. Trust the science. Ask
the engineers the second most credible of a new Group
in America.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Chief engineer fouci Here.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
Oh South Carolina, We hope you have a great Saturday.
Enjoy your Sunday. More rast thoughts coming up on Monday.

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