07 29 25 Who is challenging Lindsey Graham?

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, the federal government's demand that states turnover SNAP
recipients data is flat.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Out illegal, Kelly Nash.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
In fact, our laws prohibit us from disclosing this SNAP
data unless it is strictly necessary for administering the program.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
The Jonathan and Kelly showboc Hey tish, this is strictly
necessary for distributing food through the program. That's why we
need the data to find out who's getting the SNAP money.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, Big Tiss makes it sound as if it's a
legal for us to actually even check who's on our programs.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's what she told you.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
How do we get them the food? Then? If we
don't know who's on the program, does somebody who works
at the program have to actually know who you are?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
How can they be trusted with that personal information? Kelly?
How could you allow that personal information to be allowed
to be given to a state or a federal employee
when you don't even trust the President of the United States.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
But if they're so poor that they can't feed themselves,
are are you? Are you fearful I'm going to rob
from them? What am I going to do with their
personal information?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Dish their bank accounts because.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm gonna drain their four oh one K, I'm gonna
take I'm gonna do a title loan steal.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Tish, I got worse news for you. The Snap program,
if it's going to be facilitated by the soon to
be installed New York City owned grocery stores, will be
as empty as the grocery stores owned by Kansas City.
Because we've seen they O don't then what the hell
is going on to Kansas? They tried this first, So

(01:52):
you have people in the parking lot complaining there was
nothing on the store shelves inside the city owned grocery
stores there to serve the most vulnerable amongst us Snap recipients.
So if you if you get your Snap recipient stamps
or transfers, don't go to the city owned grocery store.

(02:14):
There's nothing there. You actually would starve because you have
a you have a Snap program, but the city owns
all the grocery stores, so there's no food. It's this
is democrat logic.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Look, I mean it's and it's it's been I don't
know how they don't grasp history. So the only reason
the vast majority of Americans in the Western world is not.
We're not poor is because of capitalism. Capitalism allows people
to move up the rings. Like we can go from

(02:54):
dirt poor to kind of poor, to lower middle class
to middle class to up middle class to wealthy to ridiculous,
redunculous wealthy. That's an opportunity, and as you're climbing the ladder,
you're actually improving the neighborhoods that you're in because you
now have expendable income. When you make something for free,

(03:19):
you sabotage that opportunity. You then deny the opportunity for
the neighborhood to get any better. I'm looking here in Florida,
they tried this in a town called Baldwin, Florida. So
Baldwin Market was a city owned grocery store in Duval County,
which is not poor. That's like where Jacksonville is, right,
but Baldwin wanted to try to help the least amongst them.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
It was opened in twenty nineteen, and it was started
off great, like we heard the people in Kansas City.
But started was great. There was steaks, there was fresh fruits,
there was all this great stuff that the government provided.
And then as more and more people come in. It's

(04:06):
like a reversing of the tipping scale. We're getting less
food for more people. The more the word gets out
there's free food, the more people want to come. And
the more people that are coming, less people are contributing.
And so Baldwin, Florida was open for two and a
half years, and by the last year or so, they said,
there was almost nothing on the shelves. But it's like

(04:26):
snack foods. There were almost like the kind of giveaways
that we still have sitting in the back over here.
The Taki's chips. You want some Takies chips, we can
get you those. You want something.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Nutritious, Want some outdated Girl Scout cookies?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
We got those.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh you got truckloads up.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
We're loaded with outdated Girl Scout cookies.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
But they're still good. I'm sure they're still fine. I
ate two this morning. I hope they're still good.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Do you want fresh fruits vegetables?

Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's the problem with the fruits and vegetables. They go
bad quickly.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
You got about a week or two to eat them.
So no, that does doesn't work. Not it doesn't work
in a very nice krya like Baldwin Florida, and it's
certainly not going to work in New York flipping city.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Kelly gets to quote Russe Limbaugh here in just a second.
He'll love this, Kelly. Socialism has never been tried on
this con socialism has never been tried.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Well, when you really talk about socialism, I think rather
than quoting Russell Limba, I like to quote Margaret Thatcher
and who says it's it's it always goes great till
you run out of other people's money.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's right, you just fine. Because somebody, somebody mentioned that
to me last week. Well, they say socialism has never
been tried here, I said, really did they?

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Did?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
They go to history like in the third or fourth grade,
because that's when we learned about Jamestown? What did John
Smith do?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well? They made it? Was it a whole year? They
made it with the socialist behavior?

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Was it a whole year?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
And then he said, we're all going to die trying
to make it through. We try to go another year
of this socialism, it ain't gonna make it. So well,
everybody for yourselves. Whatever you can grow, grow it. And
then if you have leftovers, like you're growing squash, well
maybe I'm growing tomatoes. So I'm gonna grow as many
tomatoes as I can to feed me and my family,

(06:15):
and then if I have any leftovers, I'm gonna sell them.
I'm not giving them away. You can trade and barter
if you like it. But the squash guys raising cattle, Okay,
we got people raising tobacco, we got people raising chickens.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Suddenly we got we got a whole market. Gum. People
are getting excited at getting up early in the morning.
Instead of lying in the bed all day long waiting
for somebody to bring them a snack, they're getting up
early in the morning to go out there and feed
the chickens. Well, they know all day.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
But how did they know what to grow, Jonathan? I mean,
isn't it Did the government have to tell them, hey,
you need to grow squash, you need to grow tomatoes,
or was it more likely that they looked around and said,
what are you doing? I'm gonna plant tomatoes? Well, all right,
well I guess I'm not planting tomatoes. Then there's no
opening in the market for tomatoes, or I'm gonna have
to make a better tomato. I'd rather just grow squash.

(07:02):
I'd rather just grow onions. I'd rather just grow something else, okra,
and they if you're going.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
To grow tomatoes, people love tomato, and Ochris, I'm gonna
I'm gonna grow okra.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
And I'll be right next door to you. Get your tomatoes,
Alchris together.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, he's already got three head of cattle. He ain't
eat none of those because he's going to get him
approcreate before you know what, he's gonna have forty or
fifty you know something. By next year, we're going to
be able to have some hamburger around here. And where
we're going to put that slice of tomato.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
I believe that the rush Limbaugh telling of that. I
think that was an annual Thanksgiving tradition. That's right, And
so that's got to be on the internet. For those
of you who haven't heard the great late Rush Limbaugh
tell the story. You can find it on YouTube, I'm sure.
But yeah, no, they you can't survive. The only way
socialism works, and I use that term loosely, is if

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you have a massive country that is able to or
I guess you could be very tiny, but if you're
like talking about Columbia, South Carol or something like that.
And when we say works we means everybody's at the
same level of Crapville. It's Crapville for everybody.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
And you're willing to accept that because you know, we
talk about a lot of times when George W. Bush
got a lot of pushback because he wanted to he
wanted to put installed democracy in other countries where they
had no value for democracy, because they got no history
with democracy, because they grew up, you know, in a
bucket full of crabs where they have one crab circle
in the top, and he ran the rest of the bucket,

(08:31):
and you would knock off the crab and you get
a brand new crab, but it's the same crab, it's
the same bucket. It's a bucket of crap. You're living
in a bucket of crap. They didn't have the history
of democracy. What have we done in America? We have
totally stopped teaching the history of democracy and the capital
capital free markets. We've stopped teaching this. So now there's

(08:52):
so people have been dumbed down to the point where
they end up having to have their hand out instead
of hand up because the only thing they know is
to reach out with a hand out. Because what did
we do with it? We took. For God's sake, the
Kennedy family has made billions doing this. They took what
was supposed to be a government program is a safety
in that and, as Kelly loves to say, turn it

(09:13):
into a frigging hammock. So now you're laying around all day,
fat and stupid and waiting on somebody to bring your food.
But guess you got to You gotta be bano. You
gotta bend a need to the person who's bringing you food.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Well, and you would be lucky to be fat and
lazy in a capitalist society. More likely, excuse me, not capitalists,
but a socialist society, you're probably going to be starving.
And you're not going to be lazy because you're out
there foraging for something at the local grocery store that's
owned by the government that has nothing in it. So
you're looking under shelves. Is there anything in here I

(09:46):
can eat? You know, even look at I mean one
of the great cat when you took at you know,
Chairman Mao led a revolution in China in the early
nineteen hundreds and turned the whole thing into the this
hell hole that was China for many, many years. Richard
Nixon opens up China in the mid seventies, and beginning

(10:08):
in the eighties, China modified their economic programs and so
basically what you've had in China is a form of capitalism,
and now it's very socialist form of capitalism. But even
the Chinese who love communism, they're all about communism, that
the part the state is communist. They said, it doesn't work.

(10:33):
What we love doesn't work unless there is a way
to incentivize people to get out from under our thumbs.
They have to get out from under our thumbs. And
if there's no if there's because what that is is hope.
Without hope, why would anyone even want to live. There's
no hope. I'm going to wake up, I'm going to
go to my factory job. I will never be promoted,

(10:55):
no matter how well I do. I will never be
fired how bad I do. So what am I doing?
You're gonna spend eight hours a day doing this same
thing over and over and over and over and over again.
And that's why you'd have mass suicides and all this
other stuff, because life has no purpose. But if you
give them just a give them a dream, allow them
to dream that there's a possibility that on your millionth

(11:19):
time of doing this thing, that we might promote you
to the shop. Foreman, I could get a ten percent
increase in salary. Yes, you could imagine that you might
be able to take two days off a month. Oh
my gosh, it would be like heaven to get two
days off a month's And that's all they need is
a little carrot in front of them. The horse ain't

(11:40):
going without the carrot. You need a carrot. You can
only whip anything for so long before it says, effet,
I'm not moving.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Always brings me back to my reason why once the
government decides they're going to be your daddy. Kennedy Family's
gonna be your daddy, so we're gonna be yes, why
you don't need a daddy anymore. That's why you have
so many families with single moms. They don't need it
at it because that cuts back on the money you
got to get. So and you got to have more
children because you get more money for each child. Do

(12:08):
you feed the child, No, that's tris James's job to
feed the child. I don't have to take my money
to feed the child. So then when you get to
the point where you got your food you got your shelter,
you got your subsidies for your gas, heat and electric.
You get all these things on the government. The only
thing they can't give you is hope. And then somebody
came up with the lottery. And now you see people

(12:30):
standing in the grocery store three and four deep taking
the same money they got from the government to give
it back to the government to buy a lottery ticket
because all they want is hope.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
And we do it for the children.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
We do it for the South Carolina Educational Lottery for
the children.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
That's right. They're all getting a better education because of it. Jonathan,
look at how smart they are now. I love the
fact that on the national level, we are completely redoing
the education, says I love the fact Ellen Weaver this
week made some big headlines. I don't know if you
saw this, but she took over two more school systems
this week in South Carolina. We have to fix the

(13:09):
education in this country. It is off the rails and
we're reaping the benefits of having a indoctrinated workforce. We
have so many people in there under the age of
thirty five forty years old that believe in cap our socialism,
that believe that we are a horrible nation that believe

(13:32):
we were founded for slavery, the express purpose of slavery.
They're embarrassed to be Americans. You look at the patriotism rankings.
There is no love for this country from the younger generation.
There's no hope, there's none of these things that are required.
So what the Trump administration is attempting to do is

(13:54):
get it back to the states who should have never
lost the control, and not every state. I hate to
say this, I think that there were probably about twenty
the twenty two states that we're going to lose. And
when I say lose, I mean I don't imagine that
at some point in the next fifty years or so, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois,

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Washington State, that these places are that they're going to
want to still be part of the United States of
America because by then they'll have had three or four
more generations of kids go through their system, and they
can educate them however they want to educate them, and
they will absolutely flat out hate everything there is to
hate about the United States of America. And if that's

(14:43):
how you feel about the country, I mean we might
have a civil war to try to force you to
stay as a part of this country. But I think
unlike what you saw, well, we didn't see it. We
read about it in the original Civil War. Here in
the end United States, both sides agreed that the Constitution

(15:04):
was a fantastic, life altering document. They only they had
different opinions on who it applied to and what it
actually meant, but they both agreed in it. Now what
we have is a group of Americans who believed that
the Constitution is an evil document and they don't want
to submit to it. And so if that's how you feel,

(15:26):
how can I force you to stay under the quote
unquote thumb of the Constitution. You don't like it, you
don't like the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, you don't
you don't like these things. This is yeah, I mean,
that's that's that's how you lose a country.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
This is why the border issue was so important to
the Democrats to keep it open, because if you don't
have a sovereign nation, you don't need a constitution. So
if you really want to make sure that Barack Obama
is the Secretary General of the UN, and then in
the title of the head of the UN, I guess
Secretary General, and then you're going to have citizen of
the world that you don't need a constitution of the

(16:02):
United States of America because you know, that's just that's
just a place. It's not a country. It's just a
group of you know, geographically linked places with suppose that
borders between them, which is another problem. But nonetheless, you know,
this is why they didn't want the sovereignty. They wanted

(16:22):
the sovereignty to diminish because of no borders.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
They would love no borders. I'm assuming at some point
in the in the next fifty years or so, the
left will declare that borders are racist and evil and
all that they're They're that all countries must erase borders,
Muslim countries must erase borders, all that, and it should
all just be the war because, like you said, citizens

(16:48):
of the world, we're all in this mess together, Jonathan.
We can only solve global warming. The right has pointed
that out to us if the Americans do all of
the it doesn't matter if China is not participating, or
if Africa is not or India is not participating. So
what we need is a unified effort. This is very

(17:08):
tower of Babbel this is very We're going to be
unified as a planet in order to destroy all of ourselves.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Power is like money.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
What did I just need one more dollar?

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Just one more dollar, just one more dollar.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Think about it, though, Jonathan, if I'm selling this idea
to you, no more borders. Okay, we're unified. We have
a we have a government that looks out for all
how many billions of people are on Earth at that point,
eight nine, ten billion, we're looking out for the best
interest of all ten billion of you. That immediately fixes

(17:43):
one problem. No more war. Sure, you don't even have
to outlaw it because there is no more war. Who
are you?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
World peace?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
I got it?

Speaker 1 (17:51):
How you get it? This is what miss America has
been begging for for the past fifty years. They all
wanted world peace.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Now you get world peace. You get a sharing of
the food foods, right, so there's no like this whole
problem that we have right now in Palestine. Why is
the food not being distributed? The United States last week
distributed eight hundred and twenty two thousand meals, and yet
that's not even close to enough because you've got five
million starving people over there. Why some people would say

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the United Nations is not distributing the food. Why, there's
one of two reasons. You either believe the United Nations
who says we're very fearful that Israel's going to attack
the United Nations trucks, which seems pretty bogus. Or two,
they're the useful idiots being used by Hamas in order
to actually starve people so that they can try to

(18:41):
end the war. Well, it ends the war immediately when
you say there is no more border between Israel and Palestine.
You're all one people, and we're back.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
To the two state solution meetings again today. Oh my god,
how many times are going to go down this road.
We're going to do it, and we will continue until
we're going to think beatings will continue until Ral improves.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
And by the way, the Palestinians are starving, not because
of their they don't want, not because they don't have food.
This is a hunger strike. They were insisting on supporting
a Moss. Eighty percent of the Palestinian support a Moss.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
I don't know the most. I mean, how would you
say I'm against the Moss? Who are the twenty percent
who actually had the balls to say that?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Good point, all right. So anyway, now let's move on
to a couple of things here. We had two big
announcement wells, two things in the news jumped out at
me today. I don't even know this guy's gonna be
running against Lindsay Graham, and I'm from South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
He's not. That's part of the problem. He just moved
here last year.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
He parachuted in is going to run for the Senate,
and he was one of the architects of the Project
twenty twenty five. That was the big warning sign. It's
this morning on way too early. They fired off the
flare this morning. Lindsey Graham's got a challenger, and he's
even worse than Lindsay Graham.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
His name is Paul Dans. And remember Project twenty twenty
five is what they kept holding up on the left
as this is the most frightful piece of writing we've
ever read. This is worse than any Stephen King horror novel.
This is so horrific, and they were trying to assign
that to Donald Trump. Now, in all reality, Donald Trump

(20:26):
had never read the Project twenty twenty five thing. But
I haven't read it, but I would assume about ninety
eight percent of It's going to be exactly what Trump
was already campaigning on. We're going to close the border,
and if an illegal is in this country and refuses
to self deport, we will arrest them, make their lives
a living hell, put them in a place called Alligator

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Alcatraz where they can be eaten alive by mosquitoes, and
serve them cold food in a prison cell before we
ultimately deport them to some third world hell hole. So
that's part of the Project twenty twenty five book. You know,
we're going to make sure permanently that those tax cuts
that we gave you in twenty seventeen are in place.
You don't have to worry about them going up. We

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are going to kick illegals off of all of our
government programs in order to keep them funded. We have
to remove literally tens of millions of people who've been
illegally taking advantage of our system. That again, these are
all the scary things.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
You're going to insist that people be registered and there
be some kind of accounting of who actually voted in elections.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
He probably even referenced something along snaps line, We're not
going to serve Hostess cupcakes on snaps. If you need
nutrition assistance, We're going to give you nutrition, not Hostess cupcakes. So,
I mean we got all these things and more. And anyway,
that guy was one of the architects of that project
twenty twenty five. Thing he says that, and I like
this is I mean, he's not wrong here. Americans know

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where the swamp is. The swamp is at the epicenter
at the United States Senate. That is the swampiest part
of the swamp. And the top swamp critter currently is
Lindsey Graham. Wow, I'm not saying he's wrong, right, Lindsey
Graham's been around for how many terms now, been there
for many many years. Donald Trump likes him because Lindsey

(22:14):
Graham has sway, he's got seniority, he can get things done.
But he doesn't always see eye to eye with Donald Trump.
The whole Ukrainian thing is not the way Donald Trump
would have played it out. What's going on with Russia?
Excuse me with Israel right now? Is you see a
big break happening right now between Trump and and Yahoo.
You're not going to see that with Lindsey Graham. Lindsey

(22:36):
Graham's going to be doesn't matter. Let's just keep sending
more money. We like war, he says. Quote, this is
Dan's again. Dan's says, there is no amount of lipstick
that you can put on Lindsay Graham. Wink wink, nod nod.
He didn't say that. He didn't put the wink wink
nod nod, but he did say there's no amount of
lipstick you can put it on the door now to
make Maga actually fall in love with him. Okay, the

(22:58):
show is over, the jig is up. This is essentially
Sunset Boulevard for Lindsay at this stage, he's seventy years old.
He needs to be retired. He's not true to the magabase.
Is anybody arguing with that?

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Look, we as a South Carolinian and I know you
say he's a new South Carolinian.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, he knows.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
He thinks there's blood in the water because there's a
fifty to fifty love hate relationship with Lindsey Graham. Every
time an election comes up, depending on how the news
cycle is that it pretty much dictates the polling on
Lindsay Graham. Now, he has been able to skape by
on a couple of bad news cycles, but there have
been other cycles when he went overwhelmingly. So yeah, Lindsay
Graham has a love hate relationship with the state. Actually

(23:40):
that's vice versa. The state has a love hate relationship
with Lindsey Graham.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
I have no question Lindsey Graham loves South.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Carolina, no question. In Mama.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
He is one of the rare politicians. There's a few,
not many, who actually devote themselves to the service of
the state. Linda I believe hits that marker. He you know,
not only his National Guard service and all that other stuff.
When you look at Lindsay Graham's lifestyle, besides him not
being married, he lives a very atypical South Carolinian lifestyle.

(24:14):
He doesn't have a massive mansion. He does not take
you know, world class vacations. If he goes golfing with
Donald Trump, that's a rarity. But it's not like he's
paying for that, right, you know, that's not a rich man.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
And I think that you know, that was modeled. I
think from my two previous senators Strom Thurman and Fritz Silings.
Here are two guys who really understood that you need
to bring home to bake it, not because it's a
way for us to make sure the state stands in
a cheese line for all intents and purposes, if you
could rob analogy from an individual and put it in
the state of mind of a state. But they really

(24:50):
did bring things back to the state of South Carolina,
and they went out of the way to protect the
state of South Carolina. We would have lost two or
three military bases if it had not been for strom
Thurman and his position of the Senate Arms Committee were
the same thing with Lindsay Say.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
He was a big deal with Fort Jackson's deftly. But
that being said, Lindsey Graham is a warmongerer. Yeah, he
loves his war.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
He likes to keep the finger on the trigger.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
And he's also I think most conservatives would say he's
very soft on the left, or has been soft. Maybe
that's changing now because he was very pissed off during
the Supreme Court nominations and or you know those hearings
that they had, he was very pissed off at the
left and those He's been very pissed off at the
left on maybe three or four different issues where maybe

(25:43):
Lindsay Graham has had an awakening that the left is
like not playing by the same rules that he thought
they were playing by, which is something that we've always
known that the left is evil and will do and
say whatever they need to do in order to get
what they want. But he has like, you know, I'm
trying to remember who it was that he caves on
on one of the nominations, and it was like, because

(26:05):
he's like, I'm just here to advise and consent, I'm
just and he loves to say elections have consequences. And
the right was so pissed at him.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know, And I get it because you want to
you want to hear to the rule of law. Maybe
because your bend as an attorney, you really kind of
steeped in the law. And I get all that you
want to make sure that you are representing the state
of South Carolina and in particular in the rules of
the Senate by voting to confirm Soto Miya. But you know,
at the same time, you look at Harry Reid in
the face, Harry Reid's doing everything he can to shove

(26:36):
your head under water and turn on a garden hose
and shove it down your mouth. Why don't you realize,
as Kelly pointed out, the Democrats are playing by different rules,
and it really infuriated a lot of South Carolinians to
see that happen, and Lindsey kind of played along with
the fact that we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna abide
by the rules here because you're playing Major League baseball.
Harry Reid's playing hardball over there.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
He was the fighter from Eras or Nevada Evada. He's
been out for a while now.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
And we saw the same thing for Democrats all up
and down the line. Schumer's doing the same damn thing
whenever he gets a chance.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Of course. Yeah, the whole left is lunatic, a killer.
I did laugh when Gavin Newsom, did you see his
outburst on that podcast over the weekend where he's he
was upset about being asked about HR or whatever, and
then he says, you know, I'm tired of us not understanding.
Look the guy's on the right, and I mean this politically,

(27:30):
I don't mean this physically. Their assassins. The right is assassins.
They're not fooling around over there. I took that as
a compliment. I was like, you know, the absolutely well,
he was upset. He said, look what Donald Trump has done.
He's rolled back fifty years of progress. He's done it
in six months. Yes, yes, what you called progress, we

(27:50):
called lunacy, and thank god. I mean he hasn't rolled
them all back, but he's done a lot. But back
to our story. I mean, the problem with trying to
take on Lindsey Graham is he still pulls it about
fifty five percent with Republicans in this state. That's not high.
Tim Scott pulls it about ninety percent with Republicans in

(28:11):
the state. But you don't need more than fifty five
percent in a primary.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
And you're gonna have problems. You think you're gonna be
able to water it down. And if you water it down,
who's going to benefit from it? Well, the only person
with the state wide name recognition is going to be
Andre Bauer.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
I don't think that's a legit statewide name recognition either.
I mean in the GOP circles.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Given the three that have been announced, Mark Brian not
Mark Bryan. What's the guy from the upstate? I've seen
his commercials.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
And then we have the new candidate. He doesn't have
state wide recognition, His neighbors don't even know who he is.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
No, and we've not seen him on the campaign trail.
We don't know what kind of a speech he can give.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Now.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Tomorrow he will be unveiled tomorrow to the state of
South Carolina. There's a prayer breakfast happening, and then right
after that prayer breakfast, he's going to walk out and
he's going to announce his candidacy. So that will be
the first time on your local news channels they're all
going to have that. We will see what how he speaks.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well, then, because you got three candidates who really need
to do something to elevate their name recognition, stay wide,
and then you're going to see what probably is going
to be even more expensive campaign than we saw the
last time, which was the most expensive Senate race in
the history of American currency.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Well, the only reason that happened was because you had
the entire machine backing Jamie and Jamie Harrison raised over
one hundred million dollars to run for Senate. And that's
that's not going to be the case in a primary.
You're going to your I would put this thing in
the ten million to twenty million dollars possibly range max.

(29:45):
But again, we were talking about one of the guys
who's down to six hundred dollars, his six hundred, six
hundred dollars. What are you going to do with six
hundred dollars against anybody? Yeah, I don't think you could
run for a town council seat for six hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
By the way, speaking about of state money, did you
get a letter this week from Crenshaw No, the Texas
House member. No, I got a letter yesterday from He
wants me to give to his campaign. Why you, Because
he's saying all the money that's pouring in from out
of outside of Texas boundaries, out of state money he's
pouring in for the race against him and the Democrat
contender for his House seat. So he wants me to

(30:20):
chip in some money to help him because he needs
some out of state money. There's nobody primary him an
expensive a race so expensive we have to bring in
money from out a state. Texas doesn't have enough money
for this. You know.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, that's a great point. But nobody's primary. Dan Crenshaw,
I would think that they would be a primary.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
He didn't mention anything about a primary. As much as
he did he was talking about his Democrat challenger. Run
it again.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
He is not liked in Republican circles at all. He
has now come to the point of being hated by
most Republicans. He's a backstabber and a liar.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Maybe that's why he's reaching out to South Carolina, because
he's got to talk to outside of his own constituency group.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Let's see, I'm looking at the ballot Opedia, or maybe
it's called ballot pedia, my ballot pedia, ballot pedia. Let's
see Crenshaw did this, he did that. He's very impressive
with this, that and the other thing. General election for
the US do they not have primaries? The general election
will occur on November third, twenty twenty six. These are

(31:23):
the current candidates, and you have Dan Crenshaw Republican, You've
got John Bank Republican, Martin e Twop Republican, TC Manning Republican,
Nicholas Plumb Republican, Nick Tran Republican, Ava Zalaari Republican, and
then Sean Finney Democrat and Peter Filler Democrat. I don't

(31:48):
know how they wrote, how they run their show down
there in Texas.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I'm not sure either. Maybe that's one of the reasons
why he wants to reach out and position it as
the out of state money pouring in to support the Democrats,
when actually he's got more of a challenge inside his
own primaries, trying to get South Carolinia's to chip in.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I didn't.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I never even got a letter from UH Texas Senator
Ted Cruiz. I never even got a letter asking me
to donate. Now I heard him, don't ask him for
it all the time on Hannity. I never got a letter,
never got a letter.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
Here. I'm getting killed down here. I need help.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
He needs to send out little souvenir eye patches. That'd
be kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Get your eyepatch here with every hundred dollars donation. It's
kind of like an NPR fundraiser.