Self defense, Self determination, Satire

On Thursday, Rich breaks down self-defense and why cops shoot people who are trying to kill them by running them over with SUVs. Then, Venezuelans have a right to self-determination; a look at how Venezuelans really feel about being rescued by Trump and the Americans. Later, a satirical look at current events, compliments of AI videos on social media.

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America with your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an
s at Rich Valdez on all of the social media,
your liberty loving Latino amigo. Seventeen miles, seventeen blocks away
from Madison Square Garden, right here in New York City,
and I want to get into the news of the
day and today my least favorite congresswoman from the Bronx
and Queens, Alexandriro Cacio Cortez, also known as aoc or
as I like to say, all out crazy. She took

(00:49):
to the stage today to make a lot of comments.
I got all the clips, I got the receipts, and
we're bringing the facts. I want to go straight to
that because she says that ICE has become the official
police force of no accountability. Now, of course, she's referencing
what exactly took place yesterday when a agitator became a

(01:09):
domestic terrorist and pointed their car, hit the gas, and
tried to run over a cop. Guess what, I correct myself.
This person hit the cop with their car, at which
time the cop moved to the side and started blasting.
And this woman's now dead as a result. Yet you've
got people all over in the streets in many parts
of the country protesting saying this is an unaccountable police

(01:32):
force that the regular citizenry is not accountable to. I
got news for you, my friends. There is not a
branch of federal law enforcement that loses their ability to
do anything just because you are a citizen. Right. I
doesn't stop being a federal branch of law enforcement just
because you're a citizen. If you are attacking a federal

(01:53):
law enforcement officer with your vehicle, they are going to
attack you with their gun. Right, It's called self defense.
But good old I want to start with her because
we got the clips, and you know what better than
playing all crazy herself? Check this out.

Speaker 6 (02:07):
So this is now turned into what our greatest fear
is and has been for a long time. ROPI so
this will be used as an anti civilian force that
has no accountabilities. At the end of the day, what
we saw today as a murder, and murders in cold
blood need to be prosecuted.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Hi Vandeta really aoc A murder. I don't know the
circumstance around this woman and why she tried to use
her car as a battering ramp to take on the police.
I could only suspect it had a lot to do
with her violent protesting getting in the way of the police,
obstructing their investigations in Minneapolis, etc. Bottom line here is,
I don't think the cop was intending to murder her.

(02:49):
I think the cop was intending to stop her from
inflicting harm upon him. She pointed a car at him
and voil I And we learned today that this cop
this is not his first rodeo. And getting run over,
now that's a big deal, right, because if you've been
run over before, the last thing you're gonna do is
let somebody run you over again.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Right.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
You might get caught off guard the first time, You're
not going to get caught off guard the second time.
I got Vice President jd Vance here explaining exactly when
went down Kara Castronova. She is a reporter now with
Lynneveel TV, but she's a Golden Glove boxer and I've
done plenty of TV shows with her over the years.
Kara's a New Yorker. She's out in DC right now
holding it down on the swamp. But she was in
the White House today and got to ask President, excuse me,

(03:30):
Vice President jd Vance a question. He gave an amazing response.
Listen to this.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
It seems like local violence is ratching up and riots
could be around the corner. What steps does the administration
have plans to try to unite America? Average people on
both political sides are so tired of fighting with each other.
And I think all the journalists in this room could
agree with me that we don't want to be part
of the problem. Don do you have any words to
unite America?

Speaker 8 (03:53):
You know, I know you don't want to be a
part of the problem. And I think that's true of
a lot of you. I'm not sure it's true for everybody,
because the reporting over this is been one of the
biggest scandals I've ever seen in media. I've never seen
a case so misrepresented and misreported. When you have a
guy who is defending himself and is now being treated
by as some sort of federal assassin by so many
of the people in this room. What I first of all,

(04:15):
let me say about crime. You mentioned violence. One of
the things we're proudest about is that you saw violent
crime over the last year dropped by twenty percent. Why
is that dropped by twenty percent. Is it because we're
attacking our law enforcement officers, or is it because we
in the administration are empowering our law enforcement officers to
enforce the law. I think that's one of the ways
you take down the temperature is you make people feel

(04:36):
more secure and safe in their person and property. That's
why we care so much about protecting our law enforcement,
because it accrues to the benefit of the entire national community.
I think that we can absolutely talk about the ways
in which you know, we can try to we can
lower the temperature by discussing differences in a reasonable and
rational way. Again, I'm happy to talk with any Congressional

(04:59):
Democrat or any of you about our immigration policy, about
why I think it's necessary, about why I think it's
in the best interest in the country, About why the
President of the United States was elected to actually enforce
the border for the first time in at least four years.
So here's the problem. That's not the debate so many
people are having. They are actively covering for people who

(05:19):
are committing acts of violence against federal law enforcement. It
is preposterous. The way to take down the temperature is
to stop it. Have your debates about policy, Attack me,
attack the president the United States. Don't attack our law
enforcement officers. They are trying to do the job the
American people demanded that they do that. They are not
policy actors. They are enforcing the law. They should be

(05:41):
treated with a modicum of dignity and respect to the
fact that they're not. Is why incidents like yesterday happen.
The one final point I'll make about this is, Look,
there's a part of me that feels very, very sad
for this woman, not just because she lost her life,
but because I think she is a victim of left
wing ideology. What young mother shows up and decides they're

(06:03):
going to throw their car in front of ice officers
who are enforcing legitimate law. You've got to be a
little brainwashed to get to that point to where you're willing,
not not just to protest. That's fine, not peacefully protests,
but throw your vehicle in front of legitimate law enforcement
officers and drive your car into them. To get to
that point, you have to be I think, radicalized in

(06:25):
a very, very sad way. I certainly wish that she
hadn't got there. I know there's an ice officer right
now who very much wishes he was not put in
the position where he had to fire a gun to
defend his own life.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Now that's one hundred percent true, And what a shame,
What an absolute shame. I think this whole thing is unfortunate,
and I love the last part. I let that whole
clip play for that reason, because I think it's incredibly
important that we realize. I don't care what your beliefs are.
I really don't. I hope that you agree with me,
but hey, if you don't, that's fine, right. Like I said,
some people gotta eat steaks, some people gotta eat chicken,
some people gotta like the Yankee, some people gotta like

(06:56):
the Mets. All good, all gravy to me. However, when
you start doing things that are going to infringe upon
my ability to eat steak, or my kid's ability right
or my ability to earn the money I need to
buy my stake. Now, we've got a problem, Houston. That's
the issue that we have here. You could sit there
on the sidelines all you want and be like, you know,

(07:17):
F twelve and whatever else these anti police protesters do,
but to get in their face, to start throwing things
in front of them, to actively interfere with these investigations
or these enforcement operations. That's a legit crime. And we've
got so little enforcement of the laws that are on
the books that people are becoming emboldened or as the

(07:37):
Vice President just said, radicalized. When you whip yourself into
a frenzy. I've seen this my whole life. I've seen
people do it a bunch of times. People have predetermined outcomes.
Oftentimes people know they'll say things like, man, I got
a short fuse, I got a bad temper. That's really

(07:58):
just them telling themselves. I'm going to pretend to try.
I'm going to pretend to try, and then I'm going
to blow up. I'm just really going to allow my
anger to build up until it feels like it's right
to let it out on somebody that isn't some sort
of uncontrollable thing. We create the uncontrollable feeling within us.

(08:20):
And I noticed, because I've been on both sides of this,
I've done a lot of biting my tongue and deep
breathing and biting my knuckle because I'm thinking that these
things are going to curtail the inevitable. Truly, controlling yourself
is a decision you make way ahead of time, right,

(08:42):
kind of like you not to get to philosophical here,
but like Jesus, Jesus was real clear with his controlling himself.
He knew, real good, really well what he was doing
and how he was going to respond, and taught that
to the disciples. And it's got to be that way.

Speaker 9 (08:56):
Now.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm not saying that I'm some sort of enlightened guru
and that man you can't mess with You can't mess
with me. Sure you can mess with me, absolutely you can.
I'm not saying that at all. And I am saying
that you know you can try and fail, Yes you can.
But by and large, most people know. These people didn't
go there to say I'm going to do my best
to be tolerant today and when things don't go my way,
well then I'm just gonna lose it. And run this

(09:17):
cop over. No, these are people that are so emotionally
invested in things. Kenny lain Porta right, they don't care.
This doesn't even concern them. This is literally someone else's fight,
and he's right this. I like that to use the
term radicalization because I joke around a lot and I

(09:38):
say I am a radical patriot, and it is tongue
in cheek, right. I've never even been to a protest
in my life. Yes, I share my opinions. Sometimes they're
very forceful, I doubt it. Usually they're they're kind of funny,
and they're pretty mainstream, common sense, but mainstream to conservatives, right,
mainstream to people who like to go to church and

(09:59):
are profan family and support the country and that type
of thing. If you believe that America is, you know,
guilty as sin forever and ever a man because of
stolen land and the indigenous people, then guess what again?
You were unwilling to move forward, unwilling to have a
peaceful future. You're looking for the fight, or like my

(10:19):
mommy used to say, band plato and you're gonna find
one because you're you're looking for it. And that's my point.
These are predetermined outcomes this woman, I can guarantee you.
In her ranting on the way there, or when she
saw something she didn't like, I'm sure she was saying, oh,
I just man one of these guys to one of
these days, I'm gonna end up running one of these over.

(10:41):
I'm sure she said that because she was already planning this.
People don't just lose it. And even if you did,
then you're a psycho. When you lose it and you
just start running cops over because they're doing their job,
whether you agree with their job or not. I mean,
you are just a crazy woman, period the end.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
I don't know what else to say or how else
to explain it. Again, those are my opinions. Maybe you
don't agree with them. Maybe you want to sit here
and be a bleeding heart, And that's okay, you're entitled to.
I don't mind that. And I'll still go out and
buy you a glass of wine and dance with you.
We'll have a good time, right, we'll go out and
we'll really enjoy ourselves.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
But I.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
Can't support or sit here and condone you're crazy and
say that you're crazy. He's okay, Now I'm gonna say
that you're crazy and that maybe I won't alienate you
now if you're too crazy like that lady, I'm not
buying her anything, right, We're not hanging out. But I
realize that there are people like I said the other day,
I saw a friend of mine, a very levelheaded friend
of mine, a guy who is a big supporter of

(11:45):
the Second Amendment. But when I say that, don't interpret
that as in his closet he has a maga hat.
He does not. He's a big supporter of the Second Amendment.
He's a union guy, he's a property owner, he's got
several investment properties. It's an intelligent guy by my standard.

(12:05):
I think he's a smart guy. But at the same time,
he believes that Ice is kidnapping people off the streets. Right.
He's bought into some of the rhetoric. You know why,
because my business is this one and his business is
doing electrical conduits, and God bless him, we need lots
of big, strong men to do those things that you're

(12:28):
not going to find me going into forty forty story
buildings and putting in electrical conduits. Right. So I could
try to reason with the guy, but ultimately it's not
my job to do your thinking right. If you're interested
in hearing what I have to say, listen to the show.
Call the show if you want to debate eight seven
seven Valds one, that's Valdesta with an S. I'm not
going to sit here and teach you how to think.

(12:49):
If you want to learn from me and my opinions
and my commentary, then you're welcome to. But that's not
my job. I'm not here to teach grown men how
to think. He's got his own life, he's making his
own money, he's got his own kids, just like me.
So when I see him, his birthday, my birthday, that's
my boy. We get into a problem. I got his back,

(13:11):
and I know full well he thinks that Trump is
a dictator that's kidnapping immigrants and hates us. And he
looks at me like, oh, the poor guy thinks I've
been duped, all right. He thinks I've been duped, that
I'm a sucker, and that I somehow think that Trump
cares about me, and I don't. I don't think any
politician cares about me. I don't think it's a politician's

(13:31):
a job to care. And that's a cynical view. I
know you're thinking, what's their job. Their job is to
make policy, debate policy, and do the work of the people.
You should care about your job, and maybe Visa v
care about humanity at large. But me personally, I know
they don't care about me because they don't know me.
And that's why peoples, Ah, these people don't care about you.

(13:53):
I know they don't care about me, and I don't
care that they care about me. I care that they
do their job conscientiously, that they don't act like this woman,
go off the deep end and ram their car into
people they disagree with. That's what I expect of my politicians,
that they're not going to be like AOC and start
crying doing this whole lot of crazy stuff that she does,
making up all these guentos, right, and that's what she does.

(14:15):
It's one emotional guilt trip after the next, with never
ever offering a solution, never ever offering anything of benefit,
pointing out problems that don't exist, creating problems. I mean,
let me see if I could just encapsulate what AOC
talks about. Right, Let's go back to twenty eighteen. She
was screaming about smog in the Bronx, the industrial buildings

(14:36):
and the smoke stacks in Hunt's point, causing asthma in
the bronx. It was a huge deal. She hasn't fixed
it yet. What else then she was screaming about, of
course the Green New Deal. We only have twelve years
left that she she herself is not having children because
she doesn't want to bring a child into this world
where there's only twelve years left. That was two thousand

(14:59):
and eight, right, so the clock is ticking AOC. What
else then she was screaming about. She's always screaming. She's
screaming at the border. She was screaming about you. She's
always screaming. Now she's screaming about Ice and and how
we are the unaccountable people, right? Ice? Is this evil

(15:19):
this evil thing? And listen, I'm not trying to defend Ice.
I'm trying to defend sanity. I'm trying to poke holes
in this weak argument that that she tries to make
that it's just like it's bad. It's not. You're not
just inherently bad because of because of Ice doesn't work

(15:43):
that way. I have another one from AOC. Let me
see if I find it. Let me see. Let me
check my sheet. I didn't print the sheet, so I
got to check on the computer. Stam By, how do
we do this like this boom looking at it? Easiest
by anti civilian force and no accountability. We just did
that one. What's the next one here? I mean, got
another one to bear with me. Come on, folks Live radio.
All right, here we go AOC on Capitol Hill with

(16:05):
protesters Trump is taking over and as well as economy
when ours is floundering. All right, we'll do that one
in the next segment, maybe because I want to do
some venezuela on the next segment. But bottom line here,
everybody's freaking out about the immigration police doing what they do.
You're entitled to whatever opinion you want to have, but
you're never entitled to run a cop over any cop,

(16:26):
not the FBI, not the Department of Homeland Security, not
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nobody. You're not allowed to
run people over, period, let alone the police that can
defend themselves with firepower. That's some crazy stuff right there. Anyway, amigos,
we're going to continue. The conversation is a lot more
I want to discuss. I wanted to keep it kind
of light and fluffy, but I'll leave that for later.

(16:47):
There was this funny video that I saw. It's an
AI cartoon and it opens up like the setup to
a joke with Nico Las Maduro and Sean Puff Daddy
Comb's Diddy, and they're in a jail cell. It's very funny.
I don't think i'll be able to play the clip
for you, but if you're interested. I did include it
in the video that I put on Instagram, only on Instagram,
so it might be on Facebook too, but I didn't

(17:07):
post it to the other social media because I had
to get into the studio. So if you want to
see that, go there and check it out. My handle
there is at rich Valdez, like it is on all
of the social media at rich Valdez. And of course
if you want to chat with me, you know the
number eight seven seven Valdez one. Keep it locked right here,
don't go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
This is America.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
This is America, all right, I goes, Welcome back, Rich Valdez,
keeping your company here, and I want to keep going.
I want to talk about the latest with Venezuela, and
there's plenty on the Venezuela front to talk about it.

(18:00):
Because every day. There's a new story, right. I think
I was sharing it the other night. Not sure if
I got too in depth with it, but I had
lunch today with a friend of mine who's from that
part of the world. It was his birthday the other day,
so I took him and his neighbor, who happens to
be the cousin of my friend Rubin, the Cuban who
came on the jet Ski twenty some one years ago.
And she's from Cuba as well and is very familiar

(18:21):
with the communism, and we were having this conversation, so
she was saying, look, you know, what's the good of
getting rid of Maludu if you're going to leave all
the rest of the Chaves regime that was there with
Madudo in place. And of course we already heard Marco
Rubio explain that it took precision and firepower and tons

(18:41):
of intelligence to be able to get Maludu. But I
think that's bureaucrats speak. My true belief. Here is what
I think, and i'll today he's lying, per se. I
do think all that was true, but I think there's
more to the story. And the more to the story
that I think exists here is this I believe that
this likely went something like this, and I mentioned this yesterday,

(19:05):
but I really do. I think that Hello, President Trump
on the phone with the drug dealer from Honduras, I
have some information for you, right, we did this whole
little thing, and he cuts a deal to get information.
He gives him the deal and he says, look, you
got to talk to Delsi Rodriguez, the vice president to Madudo.
She will set him up. She's thirsty for power and

(19:25):
she's happy to make money with you profiting from the
country's oil legitimately then trying to get a piece of
the cartel money from Maduro. I think she buys this
and he says, let's make a deal, and she's like, yeah, yeah,
whatever you need and it will cut you in. But
you guys got to go and there's some sort of

(19:48):
transition coming and you can run, right, So I think
it's kind of like, hey, look you run, you have
a clean election, and let's see what happens. Again, I'm
making all of this up, but this is how I
think it goes down. And she sets it up with
her people, right because her brother's like the head of
the Assembly and the guy that's you know, her left
hand man is the leader of the federal security forces

(20:11):
in Venezuela. So they set up Maluro so that he
could get locked up, him and his wife. They take
them out, nice, big figure head catch and they slide
into you know, the next position, and legitimately, now right,
with a pass, we don't have to do all the
bad things we were doing and whatever. Now the question is,

(20:31):
does their ideology run deep that they hate capitalists so
much that they're not willing to make a deal. I
think the answers know they're insomuch as I've seen China, right,
The Chinese love communism, but you know what else they love.
They love capitalism that props up their communism. Win win

(20:52):
for them, and I think Venezuela is going to do
the same thing. They're going to allow the Americans to
come and invest billions of dollars in infrastructure and refineries
and the ability to distribute all of that oil away
from our enemies, and they're going to just oversee the
production of it and get their peace. And I'm sure

(21:16):
if Trump has his way, which I hope he does,
the Venezuelan people are going to get a piece of
the pie. And that's a wonderful thing. But I have
some audio that I wanted to play for you because
a lot of people are talking about the issue of
Trump is stealing their oil and blah blah blah, and
all the Venezuelan people that I'm seeing, all of them,
they're all saying, who do you think's been stealing the

(21:38):
oil the last twenty seven years? It was the regime
giving it away to Cuba, giving it away to Russia,
and giving it away to Iran. And they've all seen
this and they're like, man, we've been tired of getting
robbed by these people. At least with the Americans, we're
going to make some money. And I thought that is
a profound of a statement. And after I'd seen it,
like the thirteenth fourteenth time from all these different people
from all over the world and including from Venezuela, I said,

(21:59):
you know what people need to hear. Let's check this out.

Speaker 9 (22:01):
We don't have electricity lie in your area Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. You are not going to have electricity in
your house from six am to three pm and on
Wednesday for three pm to nine pm. And we live
with that. For sol On Simes, with the water, the
water is coming in just one hour, twelve to one.
You need to take all the water that you need

(22:22):
at the time to drink, to clean the shower, to
do everything. In one hour, we won't need to say
goodbye anymore to our families in the airport. Tell them
see you soon, knowing that it's a lie, because you
don't know all Lord, it will happen until you see
them again. We celebrat them because we grow up normalizing
things that could never be normal, like going to the

(22:45):
supermarket and don't find.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Nothing on it.

Speaker 9 (22:47):
They have all the money that you have in your pocket,
but you want to buy food and it's no food
in there, knowing that you need to go and do
lines at four am in the morning, huge lines to
get a back with food, knowing that there's no medicines
in the pharmacy and you need to find antibiotics. In Facebook,

(23:08):
Narco terrorism, corruption, he's thought billions of dollars. He killed
out a bunch of innocent peoples in protests, he put
on jail. He torture.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Venezuela have one.

Speaker 9 (23:19):
Of the biggest torture places recruitments in the world. Yeah,
that very old wise, he's still doing that. He destroyed
every democratic institution on the chandistates in Venezuela, we vot,
we vot. We have presidential election and he'll lose and
he don't want to leave the power, So what's the
other way to take a note. I am more than

(23:41):
happy because we try everything. This was like our last hope.
This is what we was wearing for and finally happened.
And I am more happy because I feel was a
smooth intervention. I thought was going to be more chaotic
like with Kanamage years ago. But no, they'll reach two

(24:02):
an in the morning, by three am. They tell them
an old they don't kill nobody. They don't. It's not
even a sea filled person dead. So yeah, I am
love of Pegopole asking about the all the Venezuelans know
that Truant is doing this because the oil. We know this.
We know that True is not doing this because I

(24:23):
love Venezuelans and I care so much about them. We know,
we know that it's about the oil. But we are
right now giving oil to China and Russia and we
don't see benefits from it. The country is destroyed. We
have nothing. We need to live and run away and
live somewhere else because there's no opportunities there. If the
United States want to go back and do it, but

(24:45):
it's China or Russia whatever doing right now, go back
because when the United States was there and was Haliburton
and all these American companies in Venezuela, we were rich.
We have money, we have opportunity, this, we have everything.
All the Venezuelans that leave the country because this man
and this man regiment can go back home. You don't

(25:08):
have idea of all the Venezuelans that when I go
back home, you think like we love that. In Trinida,
they tell us Venice go back home. Oh, they treat
us back. It's not just in Trinida. Sorry, this is
like across the war. Because I understand.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
We are everywhere.

Speaker 9 (25:26):
We are everywhere because we was forced to be everywhere
except home. I had more comments to answer, but a
lot of the questions are about the ways. So I
want to tell you this. Put yourself on the shoes
of an actual Venezuelan person. Put yourself and my dad
shoes that works two years to build something, that study

(25:48):
hard and work hard, and then one day for the
other loose everything, have no job and have no option
because at his age, he cannot leave the country and
start to work somewhere else because is an old person, right.
He don't lose just his job. He don't lose just
the money. He lose his family because he can see
his daughter just one time per year, because his doesna

(26:10):
need to leave the country to look for a better future.
And this is not I am not talking about my dad.
I am talking about the reality of every single Venezuelan person,
like that of the person that clean your house, the
judior types driver that probably is an engineer, a lawyer,
a doctor. That's that reality was.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
So there you have it. Now this girl, her name
is Heroni Hernandez. She is exiled from Venezuela living in Trinidad.
You could probably tell by her accent. And I found
this to be fascinating. And again I could have played
a shorter clip, but I wanted you to hear everything
she was talking about. And she's got all these people
asking her because they know that she knows because she

(26:52):
recently left. And I thought to myself, my goodness, there's
not enough of an emphasis on hearing their stories, the
Venezuelans stories. It seems like you turn on the news
or even social media, and what you see is a
bunch of people that I don't know, four or five
months ago were wearing the Free Palestine stuff and the

(27:14):
Kafia around their neck, and a little bit before that
they were wearing all black and saying that no kings
and Trump is a fascist. And it's the same malcontent
Americans many times white liberals, and nothing wrong with white people.
But I'm just saying, as a fair description, it wasn't
large amounts of people of color as they like to say.

(27:35):
But you get some of that right, some of the
anti Ice protests, and it came from people from Mexico
that were going in right, going in, the guys waving
the Mexican flags, and they were big time hating on
the United States. Say they want to take back California
right to become part of Mexico again. Bottom line though,

(27:56):
is these people, none of them, like she said, they're
not Venice. And I think it's a worthy exercise to
listen to what the Venezuelans have to say so that
we can actually understand their plight, so we can understand
their position. Because what she said, I've heard a dozen
videos saying the same thing. People are saying, you know what.

(28:17):
There's a girl I just saw a little while ago.
This girl is an influencer in the fitness space. She's
in great shape. She I had never seen her before,
but I guess you know, the algorithm fed me her video,
and I saw all her other videos, and she had
hundreds of other videos. None of them were about social
commentary or culture or anything like that. They were all
about if you want to grow your this muscle, you

(28:39):
do this exercise right, all about fitness. And she was
fed up and wanted to make a video saying, you know,
everybody's commenting about Venezuela, please stop. You have no idea.
You're saying that this is all about as if it's
some secret that Trump is after the oil. He said
it the day he did it, that he was after
the oil. They know it because they know that's their

(29:01):
number one commodity, the number one resource in the world.
Right they produce more of it than anybody. And you
heard it right here from her. The Venezuelans aren't interested
in doing business with China, Russia and Iran because they're
getting ripped off by them. They would much rather deal
with the United States. And in this particular case, she

(29:22):
said Halliburton. She said she misses the American companies. This
is why I say, look, you got to listen to
these people. Clearly, the people, at least the majority from
what I can see, is interested in a democratized society
that thrives on capitalism. Now it's a nationalized industry, so
there's going to be a lot of changes there. And

(29:42):
they don't really have any real hardcore fiscal conservatives or
a free market conservatives. They have some social conservatives. I
would say Maluu as we've heard lately, is one of those.
But the opposition Maria Corina Machado, she's not right. She's
a big, a big liberal when it comes to those things.
So they've got to figure out what direction they want

(30:04):
to go in and who their candidate is going to
be and go in that direction. There was also the
interim president who won, Juan Guaydoon, who I think he
was a little less a little less than a Machado.
But point being, the point that I'm trying to make
here is we've got to listen to the people. Right,
we have a government of the people, for the people,

(30:24):
by the people, and they deserve nothing different than that. Now,
Secretary Rubio he made some comments today and I grabbed them.
Hopefully we can I see them on my sheet. Can
we play those with Secretary Rubio having a plan, because
I think that's an important one. Listen to this, No,
not playing Okay, so we don't have that. All right,

(30:46):
Then let's go to Carlos Jimenez, the congressman from Florida,
who's commenting on Cuba, because I think that's an interesting take,
because that's the next logical question for a lot of
people is what's going on with Cuba? Will Cuba rise,
will Cuba fall? What is going to be the next
step here? Congressman Carlos Heiman is go ahead.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
How close is Cuba to collapse?

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Pretty close. They can't keep the power on, they can't
feed their people, they don't have any medicine. Venezuela is
one of the leading sources of income. Venezuela was gifting
Cuba billions of dollars in oil. They would then sell
it on the market for currency. Now that's being negated. Unfortunately,
Mexico is trying to make that up. So Mexico is

(31:32):
now trying to prop up the Cuban regime. Look, Cuba
has been under a communist dictatorship for over sixty years.
It's time for the people of Cuba will be free too.
Cuba is going to be a tougher nut though than Venezuela.
Cuba doesn't have the natural resources that Venezuela does. Venezuela
can lift itself up fairly quickly with the resources that

(31:53):
it has, the riches that it has. Cuba doesn't have
that advantage, but it does have Cubans that live outside
of you that are willing to go back, reinvest in
the country and the infrastructure, and bring that country back off.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Now, in theory, the Russians and the Cubans and the
Iranians and the Chinese are not getting their cheap oil anymore. However,
with a caveat, I'm going to say they've been using
these ghost ships, putting different labels on the hulls of
these ships to obscure their true identity to sneak the
oil out, like saying, you know, yeah, we're an oil tanker,

(32:27):
but we're actually going to Norway, or we're going here,
We're going somewhere we're supposed to go, but they're actually
going to China. They're actually going somewhere else. These ghost
ships have been faking out the US military, and they
caught a few of them in the last couple of days,
especially last night overnight. Vice President jd Vance was talking
about that on Fox Business Channel. Check this out.

Speaker 8 (32:47):
It was a fake Russian oil tanker. They basically tried
to pretend to be a Russian oil taker in an
effort to avoid the sanctions regime. Way that we control
Venezuela is we control the purse strings, we control the
energy resources, and we tell the regime you're allowed to
sell the oil so long as you serve America's national interest.
You're not allowed to sell it if you can't serve
America's national interest. And that's how we exert incredible pressure

(33:08):
on that country without wasting a single American live.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
It's what they're calling the don Roe doctrine, right, the
Monroe doctrine by Donald Trump, no forever wars in and out,
massive military strength, hopefully you don't need to use it,
and when you use it, you use it quick and fast.
It's been working for him so far where we have
not been embroiled in any forever wars. Things are looking

(33:34):
on the up and up with the economy straight ahead.
We're going to talk about the economy and a few
other things. But I also want to give you a
clip that I've got. This is a great one. We
talked about Cuba, we're talking about Venezuela, but what about Colombia. Right, Well,
the President of Columbia, Gustavo Petro, he was bragging about
a phone call that he had with El Trompito. Donaldis magnus,

(33:57):
the forty fifth and forty seventh President of these United
States and Presidente and man, you would have thought he
was a big fan of Trumps. More on that straight ahead.
I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
This is America, the forty fifth President. Donald Trump thinks

(34:33):
it's an honor to speak with Rich Valdez. Oh, very good.
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez, all.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Right, and he goes. We continue the conversation, and I
want to get into this this evening, because well, this
was a very interesting thing that went down. Right the
President of Colombia, he's talking about how great it was
that he got a call from the President of these
United States and he got invited to the White House.

(35:14):
Now this plays in Spanish, I'll translate a little bit
of it, but I want you to hear the energy,
the enthusiasm. He's trying to be cynical and snide, because again,
a couple of days ago, he gave the same exact
speech that Nicolas Maduro gave right which is where he said,
bang gun for me. Who remembers that? I remember? And
he basically said, come and get me, Come and get me, cowards,

(35:35):
I'm right here. Their white house in Venezuela is called
the Meta Florida's Palace, and he said, I can tell
you Mina Florida. I'm here in Meta Florida's. It was
so funny. And the next thing, you know, in all
the videos, you know, they showed the troops coming in
and taking them out in handcuffs, YadA, YadA, YadA, and
it's just poetic justice there. But this guy said the

(35:58):
same thing, and now he's changing his tune. Listen to
Columbian President Gustavo Petro.

Speaker 10 (36:05):
Those Corsas Venezuela tema Laco Traffico let s la si
Fras podcast on Mosque Repettio Ki.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
He says two things that we talked about Venezuela and
narco terrorism, and he says, I'm here because I'm being
accused for esse.

Speaker 10 (36:28):
Be sindicasi jo jo anti milda.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Why why would I be lying or involved in any
of this when I've spent the last twenty years risking
my life against these drug cartels and these powers.

Speaker 10 (36:45):
In politico sios.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
And the politicians that are allied with them.

Speaker 10 (36:53):
And I told Trump mosquill alestado La Florida was int Dia.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
And he said, I told Trump, listen, a lot of
the politicians that show up at Columbia, they're from Florida
and from Washington. He's basically saying that these guys have
a relationship with narco terrorists, American politicians from Florida and
from DCS. And those are the two things that he

(37:32):
spoke about with President Trump. And he went on later
to say that he was invited to the White House
and that he's happily going to show up there. And
he's saying all of this because he's trying to make
it seem like, look, look, look, you guys think we're
getting invaded. I just got invited to the White House.
But my new boy, as far as my new homie,

(37:54):
El Trompito, now President Trump went on to say it
was an on to speak with you, or tweeted something
like I just got off the phone with whatever President Petro,
it was an honor to speak with him. And he
opens with that saying President Trump said it wasn'n honor
to speak with me. And I know President Trump is

(38:16):
a being polite, but b he knows exactly what he's saying,
and this stuff isn't writing. He's being respectful, just like
when he says that these are intelligent people, they're strong leaders,
all the things he says about about Chi Jinping and
Vladimir Putin. You've got to appeal to that sense of

(38:37):
self that they have, where you know, people want to
hear good things about themselves. You got to make them
feel good. It's like telling people, oh my gosh, your
kids are so handsome, your kids are so beautiful, What
a great family you have. Who's not going to take
that the right way? Everybody takes it the right way
because people love that stuff. So he's going on and
on and about that, and it makes me think, how
big is this web? Right? So, did Trump have a

(38:58):
less public conversation with him and say listen, or maybe
it was he's out there. Maybe it's somebody else, Maybe
it was Marco Rubio indicating that listen, if you don't
help us, you're next. And of course he takes his
posture very aggressively in front of his people. You know, bangang,

(39:20):
poor me, geto. You know that I'm right here, Come
and get me. But when he gets a little bit
of a accolades from the President for you know, just
saying it was an honor to speak with the guy,
now he's all honky dory with the President and he's
got the people clapping. So I wonder what information did
he give. What did he tell Trump he would help
him do? And why didn't he tell him go to hell? Right?

(39:43):
Or is he playing the game? Is he going to
go there and say, look, I'm with you man, I'm
here to fight drug trafficking. I'm not a crazy lefty socialist.
Oh wait, yes i am. So you can never really
trust a crazy lefty socialist, right, You've got to say,
hold on a second, let me let me see what
they have to say. And like you know, Trump's always saying,
he's look, can't we get alone? I think it's great?
Is this something wrong with getting along? And I agree

(40:05):
it's a good idea to get along with your adversaries.
It's a better idea to get along with them and
try and kind of deal with them than it is
to fight them. I get that. It seems to be
working pretty well. And the evidence, well, we've got a report.
Not only is our GDP up and our stock market
up and so many different things are up, but now

(40:26):
we've got a pretty positive economic report. I've got this
report from CNBC, and this is enlightening and also encouraging.
Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Ritsav of the US economy what green Span called with
special sauce. Well, this is the third quarter preliminary. There
will be changes.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
Four point nine.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Percent, extremely close to estimates.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
And a really solid number.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
In the rear view mirror.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Three point three becomes four point one for the last
quarter's final So four point nine wow, you have to
go a long way back to find a higher number.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
We have to go all the way back to the
third quarter of twenty twenty. Productivity is great, and now
he's talking about economic productivity going up to four point
nine percent, and that is again that hasn't happened in
six years, or just about six years, just under six
years that's the entire Biden administration. Literally, the last time

(41:25):
Trump was in office was the last time we saw
this type of economic productivity. Not a bad thing, not
a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
And if we look at unit labor costs, unit labor
costs come in well one point nine down one point nine.
That's a minus sign. They are lower. Unit labor costs
are lower. That's always good news. And in the rear
view mirror, the one percent to the upside becomes minus
two point nine to the downside is costs drop. And finally,

(41:54):
on the trade balance, which we know is going to
be a deficit, we're expecting a number a round fifty.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
So that's it. Things are going better in the economy, slowly,
but surely, I'm going to say, and who are gonna
blame that on Biden? No, of course not. So things
are looking up now. I want to continue our conversation.
There's still so many things I want to get to,
but I feel like this theme, this larger theme that
we have here of the events from yesterday seem to

(42:25):
be overshadowing things. But there's still a lot that went
on today. Because this anti ice agenda needs to stop.
This woman's dead, and people need to look. I don't
want to sound harsh or mean. What she did was
wrong and she paid the price with her life. What
Tim Walls did is wrong, and he's paying the price
with not running again for governor. I think some people

(42:46):
think that's not enough. We need to get a grip
on things as a society. I think we need to
be a little bit more like Ronald Reagan called us
to be informed patriots. We have to be informed. We
have to know what's going on, and not just for
the point of arguing. Right, some people just like to
argue for the sake of arguing. And listen, you're allowed

(43:07):
to write. I have to stand by allowing people. You know,
the Voltaire I'm not a big Voltaire fan, but his
famous saying I will defend what you have to saving
if I don't agree with you, because he would lose
some free speech, and so do I. And I have
to say, I was looking at a comment before on
one of my Facebook posts here and let me see

(43:29):
if I can pull it up real quick, because I
thought it was interesting. Let me see here.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Here it is.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
So I posted a video of the car the rear
view right where the car goes after the cop and
then somebody for the sake, I'm going to say of
propaganda response to somebody else that's on here. A woman
named Jody Henman. Shout out to Jody. She says, leaving
the car in park would have prevented the shooting. And
she's right. Had this woman when they said stop the

(44:00):
car and get out, she would have put that car
and park and gotten out, she'd be okay, right, she
would have gotten locked up and had her day in
court and whatever. But guess what, and likely nothing would
have happened. If we're being frank right, They probably would
have put handcuffs on her, called the local police department
saying there she's obstructing, and they might have given her

(44:22):
some sort of federal charge. But I'm pretty sure she
would have probably just gotten like a disorderly person's charge
from the locals. And guess what the locals were not
going to do and give her any charges. They were
going to cut her loose, say right, lady, just stay
out of their way if if they even say that.
But no, she decided to point the car right at
the cop, turned the wheel toward the cop, hit the gas.

(44:43):
He decided to pull out his gun and lick off
three shots. And then another gentleman here comments on miss
Hinman's comment, mister Marquez, Todd Marquez, and he says, so
would properly trained agents. There are several law enforcement officer
sitting in prison for doing this exact same thing. Under

(45:03):
no circumstances does an officer have the right to claim
self defense when he placed himself in harm's way. Now,
this is clearly wrong. And I don't care if Todd
is a cop or not. I can tell you at
least by the laws in the state of New York,
in the state in New Jersey, cops put themselves in
danger all the time. It's literally what they're trained to do.
And you do so, you do dangerous things as carefully

(45:26):
as possible. And this cop was standing in the right place.
She positioned her vehicle to go after him. He got
out of the way and defended himself, and he did
get hit. You've seen the video. He gets hit, he
slides to the side. If he had not slid to
the side, he would have been hit and he would
have flown instead. He kind of got hit on the

(45:48):
side because he was already shifting out of the way,
and anyway, he goes on, mister Marquez, before I get
it to that, and he says, under no circumstances does
an officer have the right to claim self defense when
he placed himself in harms way, that's a lie. Then
he says, next, it's clear the agent reached into the
vehicle in an aggressive manner. Now that is the other

(46:09):
agent that was trying to get her to stop aggressive manner. Yeah,
cops get aggressive, they use force. It's called the use
of force. It's literally guidelines on it. What's going on here,
mister Marcus, you missed that day in the police academy. Anyway,
let's continue and if you're around, sir, give me a call.
Eight seven seven Valdez won. But it's got to be soon.

(46:30):
I'm not going to talk about this forever. Then he
goes on says, truth be told. This lady was acting
in self defense. Defense. So now we call resisting arrest
acting in self defense. Imagine if every single person that
was ever arrested by the police, when the police decide
to use force, and they say, no, I was just

(46:50):
defending myself. Ah no, it's not assault on it off,
I'm just defending myself. No, I was a resisting arrest,
its defending myself. No, it's not felony, evading an evading capture.
I was running away. I was scared. Are you for real,
mister Marcus? I mean, really, what type of cush are
you smoking? Then he goes on, Uh, this agent is

(47:15):
a murderer who deserves the death penalty for his crimes
and stupidity. Two exclamation points. Then he goes on, two
of the three shots were fired when the agent was
standing beside the car. Yes, that's right. Just so you know,
mister Marcus, you do not unholster your weapon in any
of these fifty states with the intention of issuing a

(47:41):
less than lethal dose of force. All right, did you
get that? Cop takes out their gun, they're going to
kill you. Cop takes out a taser, they're using less
than lethal force. Cop takes out a baton, same thing.
Cop takes out oh see, or pepper spray. Same thing.

(48:04):
Cop takes out the gun. Now, I know there are
some guidelines in some departments that say if you're a
smaller officer, and some females have done this, if they're
on a stop alone, they may pull out their gun
as a precaution, but typically they're you know, they can
hold you at gunpoint. But again the intention is I'm
going to kill you if you threaten, and they do

(48:25):
that because they're in fear of their life. Right. You're
a five foot three cop, one hundred and ten pounds,
you're waiting for backup doing a stop on a highway,
and the person in the front seat six foot seven bodybuilder,
just making an example. You know what, do you start
sit in the car? I don't want to sit in
the car. All right, Well, guess what I'm gonna pull
my gun on. You see the only line of defense

(48:45):
I have. What am I gonna do? Wrestle? You use
my Brazilian jiu jitsu? Maybe maybe not. I mean Brazilian
jiu jitsu is great, but come on. So now he
goes on. Though he goes on to see last night
vehicle last I checked vehicles don't move sideways. Sir, you
are in the land of make belief. He had already

(49:08):
given a shot. You're not gonna stop there, and all
of this happened in about four seconds. She's lucky she
didn't get the rest of his clip. Unbelievable. Thus, he
was not in immediate danger when he fired the next
two shots. Let me tell you, man, this is a
guy who I can guarantee you I would bet anything

(49:29):
that I'm willing to lose, which I don't like losing.
But I would say this guy voted for Bernie Sanders.
I'd also say he likely wears funny, funny looking socks
and shows them off as often as he can. And
I would also venture to say that I'll stop there.
I think you know where I'm going anyway, mister Marquez.

(49:53):
Let's see, let's just call it what it is, a
poorly trained agent who's a danger to his coworkers and
the public. Now you know what's interesting here is it
seems like he was only a danger to the woman
trying to kill him. So again, oxymoronic point, agents and
officers like this man who used his training to save
his life as he was trained to. I'm adding that

(50:15):
he says, agents and officers like this man get their
fellow agents and officers killed. Now what's interesting is again, no,
the only thing that was going to kill that man
was a woman that likely shares the same ideology as
you and your funny socks. That was what was going
to get him killed. Then he finishes off with I
would never work next to someone so stupid. I'm surprised

(50:36):
he's lived this long and again missing the point here, Todd.
This guy is alive today, that woman is not. I
think it's a point well received. I couldn't write all
that out anyway. This is a very long comment he made,
but I will. Maybe later I will say, hey, Todd,
I responded to your thoughts on the show. Check it
out if you want. I doubt he'll listen. It's going
to be difficult for him, but anyway, I just wanted

(50:58):
to share that, and again, whenever I see interest comments,
I will share those. If you want to join us,
you know the phone number, and that's a text line
as well, which I just found out yesterday. The technology
has been activated. If you want to text the show,
just text us at eight seven seven VALDESK one and voila,
it comes in as a text. Just put it in
your text and you can text and I will see
it and I will read it on the show. Anyway,

(51:20):
there is more to come. Straight ahead, we're going to
continue the conversation, wrapping it up shortly. Tomorrow's Friday. We're
gonna have Jill Robin Payne on the show. We're going
to talk about families that are estranged, and again that
stemmed from I think at the beginning of the year
I mentioned that or earlier this week, I should say,
because that was really the real beginning of the year
that over the Christmas break, I was watching YouTube and

(51:43):
I saw Oprah Winfrey's show, and I'd never watched a
full oprand which you take two. I'd never watched a
full Oprah Winfree show until that day, and it was
a fascinating, fascinating episode of Maybe I'll share it on Facebook,
so you guys can click on the link if you
want to watch it. But it was very fascinating to
me because I didn't know there were so many people
that took so much pride in cutting off their family.

(52:04):
They call it going no contact. So we're gonna get
into that with our one of our favorite, one of
my favorite shrinks on the radio, Joe Robin Paine, shall
be joining me, and of course, well you know your thoughts,
comments and opinions as well. All right, don't go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
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Speaker 5 (52:47):
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Speaker 4 (53:10):
That's up, Familia check this one out. So take it
a quick commercial break, shall we we shall? And I'm
watching this video. This thing is hysterical. It sounds like
the setup for a joke, but it is actually that funny.
You've got Nico, that's my budo in a jail cell
with p Diddy and then guess what incomes? And trumpeto
to all this magnus and he talks to guess who. Okay,

(53:32):
my li it is. You can't make it up?

Speaker 11 (53:35):
Yo?

Speaker 4 (53:35):
Would you get arrested for because I have too much oil?

Speaker 9 (53:38):
Me too?

Speaker 4 (53:38):
Brok, you want to know what my favorite food is?

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Once my duros cabron? What are you talking about?

Speaker 8 (53:44):
Diddy?

Speaker 9 (53:44):
Hey? Senor Trump?

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Let me out?

Speaker 4 (53:47):
Yes, let him go.

Speaker 11 (53:48):
You can't do that, so you upset because Venezuelans might
put up pictures of me on their fridge every year
in honor of their freedom.

Speaker 7 (53:56):
No, you can't just start military operations without con and
you definitely can't arrest another country's president.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Look.

Speaker 11 (54:04):
Obama killed Osama, no congressional approval. Obama invaded Libya, the
operation killed Kadafi, no approval. Biden killed the al Qaeda
leader in twenty twenty two, no congressional approval, and I
swoop in and brings the man alive back to the US.
Democrats go crazy. You guys need to stop being absolute hypocrites.

Speaker 7 (54:25):
Whatever you are, a dictator, freemduro, freemduro.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
Let's be honest.

Speaker 11 (54:31):
Before the arrest, most liberals didn't even know who Nicolas
Maduro was.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
Arresting a sitting president violates international law.

Speaker 11 (54:40):
Yeah, only if that person is recognized as head of state.
And US doesn't recognize Maduro as a legitimate president because
he's not. He's a dictator. Head of immunity is an automatic.
It depends on recognition, not self declaration.

Speaker 4 (54:54):
Oh, I don't care, Free Maduro.

Speaker 11 (54:58):
Sin signor Tom Freemi. By the way, where's your Venezuelan
flag though? Nine months ago, Ukraine flags eight months ago,
Palestine flags six months ago, Iranian flags, and now Venezuela
flags everywhere? So you liberals stand for every country except
the United States?

Speaker 3 (55:16):
What else?

Speaker 8 (55:17):
Ah?

Speaker 4 (55:20):
That was so funny, listen. I live for a good laugh.
But that's actually what's going on here. We're making all
sorts of nonsensical arguments to try and defend the indefensible,
and we can't do that, right, That's not how real
life works, so I, for one, I'm happy I found
that video. Shout out to old gen x one. I

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think that's the handle on that. And if you want
to see the video again, it's on my Instagram. Feel
free to take a look at it. I would enjoy that,
and I only put it there. It may be on
my Facebook because sometimes they cross posts. Otherwise I have
to go and put it on every one of them,
and it's just a painting about Sometimes the Instagram really
is user friendly, at least for me. I wanted to
play for you because I feel like we've entered the

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twilight zone right. We truly are in a place where
we're like, hey, what's going on here? Since when did
bad become good and good become bad and up become
down and down become up. It's because of all of
this craziness that we've started to embrace this relativism, moral relativism,
the idea that we can create whatever truth we want,
that men can be women and women can be men. Personally,

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I think that's not only a sin, but it's become
quite normal in our society to try and normalize sin. Ultimately,
that's what it really comes down to. This has always
been about good versus evil. This is not about some
sort of taking the moral high ground. And this is
why I'm always talking about staying away from emotions and
focusing on logic, because they will emotionally hijack you. And

(56:45):
when I say they, I mean the left, the aocs
of the world, the Bernie Sanders of the world. Right,
Bernie Sanders, if he's losing an argument, he'll just come
out and say, do you think it's okay that one percent,
one percent of all the people in this world, that
one percent make all the money the billionaire And right
away people start going, hey, man, I don't know, maybe
that makes sense. You might be right. I don't think
that's good. It's very bad. Why is it? Why do

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we have poverty? And then people like Bill Gates? Why
do we have such disparity? Everybody should be able to eat?
These are fake ideas. There's never been a society on
this planet. I don't even think the aliens have that
type of egalitarian life. Maybe in heaven we'll have that,
but that doesn't exist here, not even amongst the ants,
not even amongst insects and the animals. In the animal kingdom,

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there's always a pecking order. That's just how life works,
and we as humans are the most sophisticated out there.
So don't take the bait, don't believe the hype, don't
fall for it. Stand for something, because if you stand
for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And remember, you got
to be an informed patriot. You gotta do something because
the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for

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good people like you to do nothing. That's all I've
got for it today. Asta a broksima, take care, good night,
and God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez, and this
is America.

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