February 20, 2025 • 60 mins
This episode emphasizes the critical need for accountability in government spending and the implications that arise from the mismanagement of Social Security records. The hosts dive into alarming findings about individuals listed in Social Security who may be well over 120 years old, urging reforms and audits to address potential fraud and inefficiencies in the government system.
• Discussing the implications of having living individuals listed in reports
• Exploring the accountability failures in Social Security and federal spending
• Highlighting the staggering $4.7 trillion in untraceable payments
• Delving into the tension surrounding federal worker layoffs
• Urging for collective action towards financial transparency
Call to action: Visit our website to learn more about fiscal accountability and how you can get involved!
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Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well then, my goodness.
So one of my favorite things tokeep watching on a daily basis
for daily updates is doge.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It keeps on doging making their full heads explode
on dogging, making liberal headsexplode?
Yeah.
And the hate and vitriol that'scoming out of this by people
who just they don't like who'sdoing it.
They don't care that it'sbenefiting the country, they
don't care that it's longoverdue, they don't care, they
just hate that it's being doneby President Trump and by Elon
(02:40):
Musk.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, that's literally all it is.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, they keep digging, they keep finding stuff
, though I mean let's talksocial security.
Yeah, I mean, like you know,you're talking people 300 years
old.
Some of the age ranges arecrazy.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's insane.
I've got a little graphic whilewe're talking.
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, I mean look at this.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
This is insane.
Now, for anyone who doesn'tknow what they're looking at
here, these are people.
Let's start right here.
Basically, I mean, we'll gocrazy and say there's somebody
out there as 119.
I don't really know, but people120 plus are still on these
rules.
Now I don't think and youcorrect me if I'm wrong, I don't
(03:24):
know if it's necessarilyconfirmed that these people are
still receiving checks, right, Imean, they're looking into this
to find out if that's the case,but they're still in the
records.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, they're still in the records and and so you
know, people say oh well,there's no way, there's no way
they're they're receiving checks.
There's no way, listen people.
Well, there's no way, there'sno way they're receiving checks.
No wait, listen people, if youare receiving, checks for
someone you know, who is olderand you know you live like
you're a child, or maybe even ayou know disabled person who's
(03:58):
receiving social security foryou know, on behalf of someone,
whatever it is, if they're stillon the rolls, there is still
the eligibility for a check tobe cut.
So is there, you know, millionsof dollars being spent and
checks being sent out to thesepeople?
Probably not.
Are some of them probably stillgetting checks sent?
Yeah, and are people cashingthem?
(04:19):
Yes, by the way, folks, that'sa felony.
That is a federal law that youare breaking and it's a felony.
So if you're receiving a SocialSecurity check for somebody who
is deceased and you're cashingit, that's a felony.
You're a felon.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That's a pretty big racket too.
I mean, I hear about that.
I think I hear about it all thetime, but I have heard of that
plenty of times, people gettingcaught up in that and, you know,
spending some prison time forit.
I mean it's no joke.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, for sure, but it you know, all it does is it
opens things up to say this iswe need to look at what's going
on at social security, right?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And you know, obviously more suspicion added
to the mix when you have the.
What's her name?
Michelle King, who spent 30years at social security offices
there and resigned from herposition as the acting
commissioner of the SocialSecurity Administration because
she didn't want to turn over thedata, she didn't want to open
(05:14):
up the data for them to view.
So you mean to tell me thatthat's not suspicious?
That that doesn't say you knowI've done something wrong here.
You know she can paint it.
She's trying to paint it as she, she, uh, she resigned in
protest, essentially onprinciple yeah, Okay, yeah, you
resigned because you don't wantto take the heat for your 30
(05:35):
years of you know, actions orleadership, failed leadership to
get this under control.
It's a bad look all around.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, that table you showed is.
What makes that sketchy is thefact that all of those people
are designated as active right.
What that tells me is somewherealong the way as people were
transitioned from the old papersystem to a new digital system,
somewhere somebody didn't wantto go through and vet every one
(06:06):
of these accounts, they didn'twant to do the due diligence,
they didn't want to do themanual labor and say is this
person alive, are they not?
And what they did was they hitthe default active and they left
it and nobody else ever wentback and cleaned it up.
And the fact that it's thatlackadaisical is, again, that's
reason enough to go in and startdigging.
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know.
So what you're looking at, orwhat we're all looking at, is,
you know, on the least of all,laziness, negligence, disregard
and, at the other end of thatspectrum, flat out criminal
behavior.
You know, if there are checksgoing out to 179 year olds, you
know we have a problem, bigproblem.
(06:48):
So I would say this you knowyet another very warranted audit
for sure.
Yeah, it's like 12 millionpeople over the age of 120.
This note says we're receivingsocial security benefits.
So we don't know that at thispoint and I'm guilty of
automatically making thatassumption too that those checks
(07:11):
were going out because theywere still on the roster, and I
know that's the assumption madeby a lot of people and that's
not really accurate.
It could be, but we don't knowyet.
So we'll find out.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But again, it gives reason.
It gives reason for Doge to dowhat they're doing Right.
This is, you know, and it's notjust social security, so that's
part of it.
And then you know they found so.
When you, whenever departmentof treasury, um, you know, sends
out a payment, it's like youknow when you fill out your
(07:41):
check and you fill it out toright.
I know a lot of young people, alot of you're like what are you
talking about?
I tap my phone and you sign itout as to.
Well, in every disbursementthat the Department of Treasury,
treasury Department does, thereis a two that has to be filled
out.
It is supposed to be filled out.
(08:02):
I think the number was eitheryou know or 7.4, I think it's
4.7 trillion dollars in payments.
Yes 4.7, you're right, 4.7 outof treasury, where that two line
was never filled out Right.
So we have 4.7 trillion dollarsUntraceable, billion dollars
(08:26):
Untraceable.
It is untraceable.
There's no evidence of where itwent to.
I'm sure if they dig they canprobably pull bank numbers,
routing numbers and all of thosethings, assuming that they
didn't just do a disbursementcheck right, or a cash
disbursement.
Oh, by the way, those of usthat were in the global war on
terror, especially in the earlydays, and saw literally pallets
of cash being moved around theMiddle East Money, especially
(08:51):
cash.
Cash, gets lost and used,consumed, very, very quickly
with not a lot of accountability.
So the fact that that two linefrom the Treasury Department was
not filled out is also suspect,and it begs the question where
is the money going?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, when is it going?
And we all have some prettygood guesses, but we need to
have it confirmed, we need proofand we need to see the
proverbial heads roll for it.
And that is again and I've saidthis before, in similar
circumstances, similarconversation.
That's the biggest thing for me.
I want to see the heads roll.
You know they have to.
(09:29):
There's no.
You know the left will call ittargeting and all of these crazy
things.
And and you know they're,they're reverse thing of calling
this weaponization Right.
That's what they're they wantto call this now.
Yeah, this is calledaccountability.
This is called, you know,transparency, accountability and
, um, you know they're, they'reputting the receipts out there.
(09:49):
I think Trump just uh, spentlike a uh, just a four minute
monologue listing every singlething that they had at that
point or at this point of um,you know questionable money,
where it was going, you know thequestionable things that it was
going to.
So, come on and you got toquestion the people who are mad
about this, that don't want itto happen.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And.
And so you know again, like wesaid at the beginning, there are
people who are angry about whois doing this right, whether
it's doge, going in,recommendation or even shutter
you know, recommendation to firepeople, reduce the workforce,
shutter entire organizations,track down spent money, whatever
(10:30):
.
You've got people who are madabout this when in reality, you
know, president Clinton didsomething similar, right?
377,000 federal workers weretransitioned from federal
workers to contractors.
And everybody says, oh well,people didn't lose their jobs.
You know what happens they losttheir federal benefits, which
(10:50):
were probably picked up by thecontractor, but then the
contractor upcharges thegovernment oh, by the way,
that's another way to laundersome money.
So while he fired 400,000, theytransitioned to contractors.
So there was a workforcereduction there.
And then you've got all of thisstuff going on, with people
defending USAID and all thehires there.
Listen, if you were agovernment worker and you were
(11:11):
overseas and you just assumedthat you were going to have a
job for the rest of your lifeand now you're mad because you
got fired, that's on you, thatis, you made a horrible life
assumption that you were justgoing to be employed forever.
Right, there's no such thing.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, and they like to scream about, you know,
scream and cry and rant and ravethat you know.
All these poor federal workers.
They were just fired just likethat.
No, they were given eightmonths severance pay, eight
months of their bills being paid, carrying a paycheck, you know,
and being able to afford all oftheir, their life things and
(11:46):
look for a job and do somethingelse eight months, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, and the overseas workers are going to
get brought home.
You know they're going to live.
They're going to live in thesame conditions they've been
living in and they're going toget brought home within 30 days.
And you know, I nobody toldthem.
If they're complaining because,oh well, I sold my house and I
sold my car and I don't havethis, and nobody told you to
sell that stuff, right, if youchose to do that to save
yourself some money, that's onyou, okay.
(12:11):
But you know it's just likeanything else.
If you get fired from a job,that job is not responsible for
making sure that you have aplace to live or a car to drive
or anything else.
Those are choices that you made.
But there's folks that believethat, for some reason, if they
work for USAID or a federalagency, that they were
guaranteed a job forever, whichis unbelievably false.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, To make that assumption, to have that
expectation that you are set forlife because you're a federal
worker, I mean, you know,there's, there's tapes and and
not tapes.
While I just dated myself there, there's recordings of, uh, you
know there's a there was a USAID worker, I think she was, or
somebody in that lane.
Did you see that video?
And she was talking about allthe things that you know, that
(12:57):
they said and that they knew toto be the case, and that was
like the general message Onceyou're in, you're all set, you
know you're good, You're golden,Don't worry about a thing.
And yeah, yeah, I don't.
I, you know, I don't really havesympathy.
I'm trying to find some.
I mean, I honestly am.
I'm trying to find some.
You know, I acknowledge thefact that now your life is
completely different than whatyou thought it was going to be,
(13:18):
but you had no right to thinkthat and it was on all of our
dimes, you know.
So you're robbing us blind andnow you're mad and want sympathy
that you're getting cut.
I don't have it, I just don't.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No again.
It's like the discussion we hadlast week about the DOE right
Department of if you were, ifyour organization was that
terrible, you go business andthen you're out of a job and you
know, sorry, but if you werepart of that, the only person to
blame is you.
If you didn't sock away somemoney and you weren't, you know,
saving and you weren't doingall, that's not anybody's fault
but your own, you know and andso there's a lot of complaining
(13:53):
going on out there.
Again, I don't have a lot ofsympathy.
You know you can go back to thearmy downsizing post Gulf war
in the early nineties where youknow thousands and thousands and
thousands of people in the armywere not retained.
A bunch of officers were, youknow, given a check and said go
away.
You know this has happenedbefore.
It's just the fact that it'sbeing done now, in the day of
(14:16):
social media, and under thisadministration.
But I've been saying it thosepeople that have been voting for
big gov since, you know,president Clinton in 1992.
If you've been supporting thatwhole thing and large the
government, make it bigger,you've supported the bloat.
You're responsible for this.
This is right sizing, it'sdownsizing and all these people
(14:36):
who have lost their jobs.
I hate it for them, but youknow you're crying about it, but
you voted for it.
I got nothing for you, right.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
This is all part of, you know, just, this whole irony
of everything.
You know, these same peoplethat are screaming about, you
know, crying about all of thethings we just talked about, and
more are also are also claimingthat this federal government is
trying to, you know, take overeverything.
They're trying to beauthoritarians and they're, you
(15:04):
know, trying to rule the world,and everything they're doing is
to give power back to the statesand have accountability and
transparency in government Allof the things that we should be
expecting from our government,our federal government.
It just blows my mind everysingle day to read these
(15:24):
comments from people or seetheir idiotic posts that just
reek of hypocrisy and, frankly,stupidity.
It blows my mind every day andit shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
They are convinced that this is all a conspiracy,
that this is.
You know, it's all of thosethings.
These are the new conspiracytheorists.
You know, it's all of thosethings.
This is.
These are the new conspiracytheorists.
You know, the ones who alllaughed at the bulk of us, who
said listen, covid's from a lab?
No, it's not, it's wet market,it's bats.
You know, those are the samepeople who are saying oh, you
know, trump and Elon, they'regoing to take over the country,
(15:57):
they're going to take over theworld.
Let me tell you something therichest man in the world doesn't
care about your social securitynumber.
He really doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, that's probably the most laughable part.
Elon Musk is going to take ourmoney.
No, he doesn't need your money.
He's got more money in hispocket than you have in your
whole life savings, which, ofcourse, really angers them too,
you know, because they thinkcapitalism is so bad.
Did you watch the interview?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
on Hannity last night .
I caught clips of it.
Did you watch the interview onHannity last night?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I got clips of it.
Did you watch the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I watched almost all of it.
It was very, you know, I thinkthere was no surprises in there,
except for the fact when bothHannity and Elon Musk were
talking about how they'resupport of President Trump has
changed their life in a negativeway as far as their social
circles, their socialinteractions, you know, and that
kind of thing.
You know, hannity Hannity'salways been a Trump supporter,
(16:48):
you know he, so for him it'skind of like a renewal of
something that happened eightyears ago.
But Elon Musk, not that longago, was a Democrat.
They loved him.
You know, mr Green green vehicleguy, like they were all about
you know SpaceX and all thisuntil he started supporting
president Trump.
He actually talked about, ifyou didn't see it, um, he, he
RSVP for an event sponsored by,you know, a democratic
(17:09):
organization.
Um, before he endorsedpresident Trump and then
attended after he endorsedpresident Trump.
So he was invited in, rsvpbefore and then attended after
and he's like it was like it washorrible.
You know, um, just that, thatone thing, and it was.
It wasn't even like grownupsacting like grownups, like hey,
(17:29):
man, that was a you know like Idon't know why you're over there
, but you know, um, it was, itwas the opposite.
I mean, it was less, not evenclose to cordial.
It was, you know, very, youknow he felt very defensive, he
felt, you know, like he was alone man standing there.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I mean so oh, I'm sure it had to be awful and, and
you know many of us, myselfincluded, had experienced it.
You know when they know whereyour support lies.
It's not like you said, it'snot just a hey I really disagree
with you about you know, we'restill cool, I still love you, I
still like you.
It's you know you are a monster, you're a terrible person.
(18:04):
I cannot even be in yourpresence.
I'm, you know, unfriending you,all all of the things.
And you know these are all, forthe most part, people who will
never apologize either, evenwhen facts are right in their
face.
But that's, you know, whatever.
But for someone like him, whowas so publicly, you know,
admired and liked and all ofthose things to be turned on
(18:29):
that viciously had to be prettyshocking and so publicly, you
know it's one thing it's nevernice.
Obviously it never feels goodwhen people that you know and
love and believe know you, yourheart, and love you and all of
those things when they turn onyou.
But it's such a smaller scalewhen you compare to when you
have the entire world, you know,or half of it, just being vile,
(18:52):
like vicious and vile, and Imean I see it almost on a daily
basis.
Somebody is literally callinghim the antichrist and they
believe this.
They are absolutely confidentthat Elon Musk is the antichrist
.
You know it's.
I listen.
None of us actually know who itis, so, and we won't until we
do.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But yeah, it's, you know he's, he's.
He's called a racist every day,every day you know and all you
know.
So, amazingly enough, you stillhave the people you know.
(19:31):
Netanyahu just deemed thatpresident.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Trump was the greatest.
Every day, matter what you do,there's no appeasing that group.
There is nothing you canpossibly say or do, nothing that
Trump could do again.
You know, we see the memes allthe time.
You know, if Trump cured cancerand ended you know poverty and
did all of this, they wouldstill say, yeah, but he this,
(19:55):
you know it is, it is what it is.
I mean it's, it's truly mentalillness.
As far as I'm concerned, it is100% Trump derangement syndrome.
Now we have Elon derangementsyndrome and that is what it is.
They are so poisoned by, youknow, in my opinion, by
primarily the media.
You know, the mainstream mediais pure toxic poison.
(20:15):
I went off on this, I think,like last week on Facebook, kind
of went on a little rant, alittle foot, a little rant, a
little foot stomping rant andyeah, cause it, just it.
It infuriates me because thesepeople are man, they believe
what they're saying and theybelieve what they're hearing,
which is even worse.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
And it's, and it's the, the, the hypocrisy, the
lack of self-awareness.
I mean I I saw somebodyyesterday ranting and raving
about how, oh well, the, youknow, the Republicans claim to
be, the conservatives claim tobe the party of family and this
and that, and now we find outthat Elon Musk has got his 14th
child with his 13th woman andyou know that's not very
wholesome and family-like.
And I'm like, really Like withwith what just left the white
(20:56):
house.
You're going to.
We brought, brought, we didn'tbring Elon in for his morals and
ethics, Sorry, folks, he'sthere because he's friggin smart
and he's really, really good atfinding stuff and he's great
with computers and and all that.
We don't care.
Truthfully, Right, no Like.
But.
But you know you're going topoint that out when you just had
President Biden that left andhis son, who's a friggin
crackhead, who married hisdeceased sons or had an affair
(21:19):
or relationship with hisdeceased son's wife, and you
know you've got the Bible or thediary entries with his daughter
and like, like, really, you'regoing to point out that level of
, you know, hatred towards Elonwhen you support just what just
left the White House.
Just show me, I'm so tired ofit.
This is very much the same asdid you see that the Cardinal,
(21:41):
what is it?
The Congress of US Cardinalsfrom the Catholic Church are
suing the president because hestopped payments for refugee
support.
One he's not obligated to dothat, Right.
Two, Congress of Cardinals,just know, Congress, a carnal,
just stop Like you're a charityorganization Just stop.
(22:04):
You're the great, you're thelargest landowner, you know free
landowner in the free world.
You have more money than youknow what to do with.
Please stop.
Oh, by the way, the people thatare saying oh yeah, I grew the
Congress of Cardinals support.
They're the same Catholics thatare pro-choice Right.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
When that argument comes up yeah, and that alone.
That's the clincher for me.
As soon as I hear that, I'mlike you've just invalidated
yourself.
You've invalidated everythingyou could possibly say or
contribute to the conversation.
That alone invalidates you.
So just shh.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And listen, folks.
All things being equal, I grewup Catholic.
I grew up, I went to eightyears of Catholic school.
I'm a failed Catholic.
I have a great relationshipwith God, but that is an
organization that I do notassociate with anymore.
The last time that I associatedwith that it was printed on my
dog tag.
So that tells you something,right there.
Yeah, that's not where it's at,so it's not a.
It's not a complaint about theCatholic Church, although
(22:59):
whatever they're going to do,they're going to do.
I don't care.
It's the people who arehypocritical in the fact that
they'll support the church aslong as it opposes the president
and then they'll go against thechurch for their own viewpoint.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, it's so typical they bend everything to fit
what they want it to, and whenthis doesn't fit anymore, well,
we're just going to bend overthis way a little bit.
And yeah, yeah, uh, I'm in thesame same boat.
I ha, I have zero tolerance forany of it, for any of it, as
soon as I see it.
I don't.
I never and I've said thisbefore, but I, I reiterate it, I
(23:36):
never respond to those types ofcomments in my comment sections
, because they're always there.
I could post a picture of ablade of grass and somebody will
will say something hostile,hostile about Trump in the
comment section, like it'sunrelated, I don't even say
anything, it just pretty bladeof grass, I don't know, and it's
(23:59):
like yeah, well, trump is blah,blah, blah, blah blah and it's
like he's ruining theenvironment.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Like stop the new green deal.
We won't have grass because ofTrump.
That's exactly what you'll get.
You're a hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It's so true.
So you know I don't, I don'tentertain it at all.
I you know personally I say goahead, comment away, have have a
blast there, sp your opinionsas long as you're not insulting
or being threatening to any ofthe other commenters in there.
Like I really care what you sayto or about me, but you're not
going to harass people in mycomments section, people who
come over here because they'relike-minded and they feel the
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same way and they just want tohave a conversation in there.
If you attack them, then thegloves are off.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
So the latest from the latest from Doge is the
potential right.
So this was brought up and youknow it was brought up for a
potential refund right.
And what did you know Elon say?
I'll talk to the president.
So now there's a discussion ofa check right, a rebate.
But what you're starting to see, you can see the, you know the
(24:57):
new banner at the bottom States,at the state level.
This is happening in all placesin Illinois, which is very blue
because of Chicago, butRepublicans in the state
legislature are.
They're trying to get a bill tothe floor and get it voted on
to establish an in-state doge.
Yes, which is exactly what ElonMusk is doing at the state level
(25:18):
to get rid of the you know theexcess, get rid of the
corruption, provide someoversight, you know those kinds
of things.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, and there's a lot of traction for that too.
You've got Illinois, of course.
You said Michigan, texas, northCarolina, kentucky.
All these state legislators arecalling for a state doge.
I mean it's it's feels likesuch a like a well duh moment,
like of course that's whatshould be happening and this was
a great incentive.
(25:46):
And whoever was first?
I don't know who was first.
I don't know who was first, butgive that man or woman a medal
for starting that rolling.
I actually I'm really curiousnow who the first one was.
I don't even know how we couldfind out Illinois was the first
one I heard.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Illinois was the first one I heard.
I don't know about the rest andI don't know who came first,
but you know, internally here'smy only thought on this that's
challenging is that thepresident has Elon Musk and the
hundred geniuses in t-shirts andflip flops doing all the work.
States don't necessarily, theydon't necessarily have the
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capacity, and that you know whatI mean.
For those, that type of team,they certainly are not going to
get it for free, like thepresident is getting it out of
Elon Musk and his team.
So while it's a great idea atthe state level and I think that
they should or at least theyshould, you know, propose it
find a way to get it done.
I don't think it's going to beas fruitful at the state level
as it is at the federal level,but if they can get it done,
(26:46):
good on them.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, absolutely yeah , and it's.
You know, you're right.
It does open up some challengesand questions.
You know of well, who.
Who's going to be doing that,you know, and what are your.
It has a lot of questions.
Where are your ties?
Are you?
You ideally want somebodythat's entirely independent.
Good, I don't.
How do you even find that?
Who does not have any partyaffiliation?
(27:08):
I don't know.
Maybe Elon will catch well, I'msure he's caught wind of all
this.
But maybe they can lend outtheir.
Well, they're not gonna lendthem out, we know that.
But maybe they can create likea task force that goes and does
that Right and with all themoney they'll be saving, you
know they'll be able to pay them.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I mean it's, it's an exceptional idea.
I, you know, in my head I waslike, well, I wonder if they
could do an exchange programwhere, like you know, new York
does Texas, texas does New York,florida does Illinois, illinois
.
You know what I mean.
So you have a truly, you know,reciprocal, you know, inspector
(27:48):
general type, you know systemwhere states review each other's
books, they keep each otherhonest.
And you know, I don't, there'sprobably not, there's about a
zero chance, percent chance ofthat happening.
But I think, you know, in allhonesty, um, that's probably one
of the better ways to do things.
I know, when I was in the armywe did have inspector generals,
but it was all very, very oftenWould you have one unit evaluate
(28:10):
another unit, right Sisterunits, and you were only there
because you wanted to make sure,you know, that unit was trained
before they deployed, or youwanted to help them get better,
or something to that effect.
It was never, you know, it wasnever about I gotcha, or it was
never intended to be an I gotcha.
It was always to make thingsbetter.
So I think if we could get, youknow, that kind of spirit going
back and forth one, it wouldgalvanize the nation a little
(28:32):
bit.
But two, you know, I think itwould clean up a lot of books at
the state level.
And oh, by the way, again, youknow, you do me, I do you, we
pay for it, and it's really notthat big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, and you know again, just just as in the
federal level, we all should bekeeping an eye on the people who
resist this idea the most youknow.
If you're fighting it, I got aproblem with you.
What are you trying to hide?
And the the rapidness at whichthese people are resigning is
crazy.
(29:02):
Right, yeah, immediate, likewhat?
You're coming in here, you'regoing to come here and clean,
okay, I'm out.
Bye, and I can't imagine thatthat protects them from criminal
charges.
Right, like I don't know whatthey're thinking.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
No, and you know.
To go back to the federal level, um, they are about to go.
Everybody thinks that, like youknow, trump's team is going to
be protected, and all this.
They're getting ready to walkdepartment of defense right,
like they're going into DOD herein a minute, Um, and and
they're next on the list.
And you know, there's, there'sall these.
You know I saw outcries theother day of, you know well,
they thousand, they fired athousand workers at the VA and
(29:41):
now that's cutting care fromveterans.
You know, I haven't heard of it.
Oh, by the way, I was at the VAtoday.
Like there's no panic at the VA, there's no one freaking out at
the VA, there's no lack of care, there's no nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So that's, that's exactly like them saying, you
know, blaming these planecrashes that have been like the
plane crashes, blaming it on theTrump administration and
blaming it on the, the firingsof all these FAA workers.
Well, guess what?
It was like 450 people out ofthousands of workers and none of
(30:17):
them were essential workers,that none of them were um air
traffic controllers or you knownon-essential people who operate
in the most important areas.
It was 400 people, 450 peoplewho were not critical workers.
So shut up you know, shut up andjust get your facts like, get
your facts, like, stop trusting.
You know, that's always thething where you ask them.
(30:39):
You're like, well, where didyou hear that?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Oh, the news oh okay, yeah, I mean, the best example
ever is the Rachel Maddow Teslacyber truck, right?
She?
You know she came out and wasblazing guns, that Trump gave
Elon this contract.
You know, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah.
You know all these armoredcyber trucks, and you know Trump
(31:03):
just gave it to Elon, and youknow, and it's favoritism and
nepotism, whatever.
And the reality is is thatcontract was signed on the 1st
of October of last year, whenPresident Biden was still in
office.
Oh, by the way, for those thatunderstand how budgeting works,
the 1st of October is the firstday of the fiscal year for the
federal government.
So all of that contractpaperwork was all pre-done,
waiting for the new budget tocome in so they could sign it on
(31:25):
the first.
That was all last year, but shedidn't do anything.
She didn't do any back-checking, she didn't do any research,
but that's what you got out ofthe mainstream media.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
This stuff is absolutely ridiculous.
The blaming of the plane crashin Canada, the fact that they
were, like you know, presidentTrump's been in office.
You know, if you look at whatwas it?
One of the one of the facts inJanuary, one of the economic
figures, I don't remember if itwas unemployed, it was inflation
.
I think inflation in Januarywent up.
He was president for 11 days inJanuary Exactly 11 days of the
(32:01):
month.
Like get a grip people.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, look at the whole egg thing.
You know the egg prices thing.
Oh, I thought Trump was goingto bring down the price of eggs.
That didn't happen.
Hope you guys are happy.
Biden killed millions ofchickens Like.
This has to do with the factthat they killed so many
chickens for something that istransported by ducks more than
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chickens like.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
But okay, blame trump listen, it's you know we're a
little off the doge's contagion.
But the reality is is that atthe state level, if they start
doing this, if, if they do,you're going to get the same
reaction.
You're going to get the samereaction out of the blue city
mayors right, you know, mayorChicago, probably not Mayor
Adams, right, mayor Adams is,you know he's doing pretty good,
(32:52):
holding himself.
You know, very squarely in themiddle, I think he's doing a
pretty good job.
You know you're going to get itout of the mayor of LA and
Detroit and Minneapolis andplaces like that, and you're
going to get it.
The blue governors are going tobe the same way Pritzker and
Opal and all the rest of these.
They're going to fight toothand nail against this kind of
stuff from inside of their ownstate because they're trying to
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hide and protect the corruptionthat they're a part of.
And that's what all of this isabout.
And people, you know,conspiracy theorists and all
that they refuse to believe thatthere's an honest effort behind
any of this.
They think it's all corrupt.
And the one I'm waiting for.
Everybody keeps talking aboutFort Knox.
I don't even think they'regoing to go to Fort Knox.
I think that's all a ruse.
(33:35):
They're never going to walk inthere.
I hope they do, I in there.
I hope they do, I really do.
I think it'd be great.
But you know the fact thatElon's going to go to Fort Knox
and count gold bars.
We're not even on the goldstandard anymore.
People like just get a grip.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, Is that the one he was going to?
What was the one he's?
He's talking about livestreaming going in.
Where is he talking about?
That was the one, Okay.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I saw people like make sure that they cut every
bar open because there's thistungsten or something like that
that you can paint and it's thesame weight as gold and you'd
never know the difference.
But like you people are, you'reoff.
Yeah you're way out there, butyeah, it's.
This is all a reaction to thepot stirring that's going on.
I mean the shake up thatPresident Trump and Elon are
(34:19):
doing to the government.
I mean the shakeup thatPresident Trump and Elon are
doing to the whole government,and I know that we're going to
do this as an add-on.
But the next big shakeup iscoming, because Kosh is going to
get confirmed tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yes, which will be today for you guys watching
right Thursday.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yes, Thursday is the day, and you know he's going to
come in.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
They stalled it as much as they could.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yep and Mitch McConnell said today so Kosh is
out of committee, he's, and theydid the the early vote and
McConnell said he's going tovote for him and that's plenty
and he's going to get.
He's going to get confirmed andyou can expect on.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Friday he's going to start breaking some stuff.
Yes, yes, so excited, Like I'mgiddy.
I'm so excited for all of this.
You know, the only thing thatto me is a bummer, as a mild
statement.
Um, the bummer is is that thereI feel like, like the States,
for example, and and a lot ofthese federal workers now who
have not yet experienced theaudit experience there Um, I
(35:17):
feel like they're just gettingthis extra time to hide things
and destroy things and, like youknow what I mean Like this is
what they've been doing up untilthis point.
You know, burning it, shreddingit, moving it, doing all of the
things.
So, to me, that's such adisappointment.
I mean, there's nothing you cando about it, it is what it is,
but it just sucks to know thatthat's what they're doing, you
(35:41):
know.
So, whatever we do catch themwith, we like I'm part of this,
whatever they do get caught with, it's not even all of it.
You know what I mean.
It's not even.
I don't even know if it'll behalf of it, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
I Kash Patel, like on .
Literally the first four hoursshould be like I want to see
every dime that was spent on apaper shredder or shredding
services in the last four months.
I want to know every and then Iwant to know the three years
before that because I canguarantee you it went like this
and then it went like this youknow, and that's all they've
been doing is, you know, gettingrid of stuff, cleaning house,
(36:12):
covering tracks.
all of those things are beingdone, I can promise you.
Maybe not on a grand scale, butthere's definitely some of it
going on and it's probably goingon.
It happened in the intelligencecommunity and then it's going
to happen at the FBI as well,Guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah, yeah.
No matter what all of thethings that are coming to light,
it's just it is rocking thecountry.
I don't care what side you'reon, everybody is rocked by it
and all of us who, you know inour hearts, knew to a degree
that this stuff was going on.
I don't think anyone on on thecommon people level, which I
(36:48):
include myself in had any ideaof the scope of how truly bad it
is.
It's shocking.
I think I saw something theother day.
I don't remember whatdepartment it was, but you know,
in the list of crazy spendingit was like there was like
$6,000 for a chair, you know.
And it's like what?
And you know, if the chairwasn't $6,000, the chair was
(37:09):
maybe I'll go crazy and say thechair was $600.
Where the rest of that money go?
Well, we'll probably never know.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, it's the old military spent, you know, $3,000
on a toilet seat kind of thing,and you know, really you know
there's an explanation for allof it.
We just need to know what it is, you know.
And if it's, you know this very, very you know, if it's the
toilet seat that goes on thestealth bomber, that specific
R&D to develop, and if theybreak it it costs $3,000 to
(37:39):
replace because it's got to becustom made.
Oh, by the way, they've neverbroken one before.
You know what I mean.
Like there's a lot of stuff outthere.
The problem is is there's notransparency and there's no
explanation, and that's we'regetting out of all this and
that's all the rest of us canhope for.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I tell you, I think for a moment, about the actual
job, like the actual work ofdoing this work of doing this,
like being the people doing this.
It is so huge.
Like how do you not get alittle bit overwhelmed when you
see how huge this is and howmuch you have to go through?
I mean, I give you know so manykudos to um Elon and all of the
(38:16):
people doing this that you knowwhat are the.
Were you the one that said thatlike sleeping on the floor in
the office and like just workingbasically 24 hours and without
taking a paycheck?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, they're super smart.
They're a bunch of kids.
This is probably the coolestthing they've ever done.
Honestly, they're probably mostof them are going to have to be
under some sort of protectivecustody for probably a
significant portion of theirlife because of the things that
they are going to know and thehatred that's going to come
their way, which is horrible.
It's not their fault, but whatmost of these kids are doing is
they're running algorithmsthey're not really looking at,
(38:49):
they're just looking for theanomalies and then they hand it
off.
It's like numbers.
It's like, okay, well, this onesticks out and they hand it to
somebody more important thanthem and that person figures out
what that is.
This is data analysis andthey're doing a fantastic job
and God love them for doing it.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, my goodness, we have somany places we could go.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Next, let's talk about this one chief in London
threatened American citizensthat if they posted things that
you know that they weren't safe.
If they posted things and itwas found to be on the social
(39:29):
media in England that the policefrom London were going to come
after Americans, the response tothat was hilarious Like hey man
, you said the same thing backin 1775 and we decided otherwise
.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, he set himself up for that big time.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
But the reality is is that in England, and now we're
seeing in Germany, people are infact being arrested for social
media posts.
There's been raids in Germanyon people's houses.
Yeah Right, Kick your door inkind of stuff because of things
that are being posted on theInternet.
Right, and listen.
This is not somebody posting aswastika.
(40:03):
This is.
This is lower level stuff andall like a meme or a joke or
sharing a meme.
Yeah, Literally raiding housesand arresting people.
Freedom of speech in Europe isdying, and it's dying very, very
quickly, and it's somethingthat we all need to be very,
very conscious of.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, very quickly, and it's something that we all
need to be very, very consciousof.
Yeah, yeah, I tell you it's.
It's scary.
Like how is history repeatingitself in such a bold way?
And I don't make those Hitlertype comments, I'm not a leftist
, I don't make those Hitlercomments lightly.
And this is showing knocking onyou where are your papers?
Basically, you know, I mean,this is, this is where they're
(40:43):
headed.
And you know, I am and I've saidit before, I am the daughter
and granddaughter of legalimmigrants from Germany and Cuba
.
But obviously we're talkingabout Germany right now.
To hear that it's crazy and Iknow my grandparents' stories, I
know what my grandfather wentthrough, I know what my
grandmother went through and tosee this happening all over
(41:06):
again and people to be On thatside, not on this side, to just
say, oh well, that's good,that's, show them, you show them
.
Never mind the the illegalmigrants that have overrun your
country and raised your crime toastronomical levels, and women
getting raped and killed in thestreets, and never mind all that
, but make sure you go bang onthat door of the guy that posted
(41:28):
some stupid meme.
You know that means nothingcrazy to me.
It breaks my heart.
Actually it makes me angry.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah, it's uh.
Things are.
You know, perspectives arechanging.
I think you know there's a lotof European leadership that are
looking across the ocean at us.
Um, and I, I want to say it wasthe president of Romania, or
maybe Hungary, who was likepresident Trump.
Do you see what he's doing overthere?
That's what we need to do.
This stuff's got to stop.
(41:58):
So you've got some pendulumswing.
I think it's capping out.
I hope it's capping out andit's going to swing its way back
right and we're going to get alittle bit more common sense and
a little bit more you know.
I guess common sense is the onlyway to really describe it, and
a little bit more you know.
I guess common sense is theonly way to really describe it.
Like all this is you know, likewhen you prioritize in any, any
(42:21):
single asset I don't care whatit is If you're a law
enforcement organization and youprioritize anything over rape
and or murder, but especiallywhen you prioritize police
officers to raid houses becauseof internet postings over
assault, rapes and murders, youare upside down and backwards.
Like that is just completely.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Yeah, it's just shocking.
It's shocking what's going onover there, and you know, I hope
you're right, I hope thependulum swings as hard and as
fast as it did here, and I agreewith you.
I think they are watching and,and that is going to be the only
way I mean they essentiallyhave to revolt, basically, and
take back their, their country,just as as we did.
So I hope that's, I hope theyhave the same.
(43:01):
It's so insane to me that it'sgotten to this point when
history is still readable,watchable learnable.
Speaker 6 (43:15):
Actually in memory like there are still people.
Yes, yes, great point, yeahthat can tell you.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah, yes, yeah, oh, yeah, it's um, it's just wow,
and we do have that, the videotoo of of those people put up
there.
Speaker 6 (43:27):
But, yeah, to watch those videos, and it's so
literal of them banging on thedoor, you know, know, and then
you have, oh, and I have thistoo, country where free speech
was weaponized to conduct agenocide, and he met with the
head of a political party thathas far right views and some
historic ties to extreme groups.
(43:49):
The context of that waschanging the tone of it, and you
know that.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
That the censorship was specifically about the right
.
No, I have to disagree with you.
Free speech was not used toconduct a genocide.
The genocide was conducted byan authoritarian Nazi regime
that happened to also begenocidal because they hated
Jews and they hated minoritiesand they hated those that they
had a list of people they hated,but primarily the Jews.
There was no free speech inNazi Germany.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Margaret Brennan continues to show she's an idiot
.
She continues to show that, youknow, the mainstream media
bends history to their, to whatfits their narrative, but you
know, it's, it's that.
And now you've got that in inrelation to what we're talking
about, which is free speech isbeing taken away under the guise
(44:32):
of protecting people.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Right and her premise is free speech was weaponized
and should essentially besilenced.
Like I do, even hear whatyou're saying, and kudos to
Marco Rubio.
Great response.
I love his calm.
He's really good.
He's really good.
I like him a lot for what he'sdoing.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Probably the best sex state since Condi Rice.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yeah, I think you're right.
He's got the capability.
I think so, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
My opinion Unflappable.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
Yeah let's stick to Eastern Europe though, right?
Yes, let's.
So we've got some peace talkshappening in and around Russia,
ukraine, yeah, specificallyhappening in and around you know
, russia, Ukraine, yeah,specifically.
You've got a US delegationtalking to a Russian delegation,
excluding the Ukrainians andlisten, before everybody gets
worked up.
They're going to get worked up,all the people who support
(45:23):
Ukraine.
Let me do just a real, realquick history lesson for folks.
The reason that this ishappening is because the US and
NATO violated an agreement thatthey made with the Russians,
right?
The agreement was that therewould never be NATO nations
bordering Russia.
That was agreed upon rightduring the Clinton
administration.
Now, what has happened sincethen?
Nato has expanded and they'veexpanded into countries that
(45:46):
touch Russia.
So we violated an agreementthat we set up that the Russians
agreed to hey, listen, as longas NATO doesn't touch our
borders, everything's fine,right.
And then we violated it, natoviolated it.
We had countries like Romaniaand some others, and now they're
touching Russia's borders.
And oh, by the way, that's thesingular biggest point of
contention right now over all ofthis.
But there is, you know, andZelensky's been firing back
(46:09):
because he knows his days arenumbered.
Oh, by the way, he's beenfiring back because he knows his
days are numbered.
Oh, by the way, he suspendedelections again in his
democratic nation, you know, tokeep himself in power, because
he's you know.
He says well, you know, I keepthings under martial law because
if I don't, then people aregoing to leave and we're going
to lose our army.
Well, listen, man, suspend partof it, make sure there's an
(46:30):
election, don't you know like?
We had elections, listen, I wasa part of it.
Make sure there's an election.
We had elections, listen, I wasa part of elections in both
Iraq and Afghanistan, while afrigging war was going on.
It can be done, but Zelensky isthe one who likes to portray
himself and he had four years offree press to do it with the
previous administration.
And now President Trump and histeam are bypassing all that and
(46:50):
they're talking to Putin.
And listen, secdef said it.
You know, ukraine is not goingto be part of NATO, right, it's
not going to happen.
They're not going to get,they're probably not going to
get their original borders back,right?
And?
And the U?
S is going to have to back awayfrom Russia, and it's just the
way it's going to have to work.
The new point today was theRussian bargaining chip is they
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want all US troops out of everynation that has joined NATO
since 1990.
That's not NATO troops, that'sUS troops.
Nato can still be there andI've said this from the
beginning.
This entire thing is a NATOproblem.
It's not a US problem.
So NATO can pony up, they canput as many troops in those
countries as they feel they needto, but US problem.
(47:33):
So NATO can pony up, they canput as many troops in those
countries as they feel they needto, but US troops have got to
be out of there.
You know what?
I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Let them do it.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Absolutely.
You know, we spent four yearssupporting the Ukrainians and
supporting this war truthfully,because of funding, bunch of
funding.
It basically Right, I mean comeon because of a bunch of
warmongers, war hawks, Um, andpresident Trump's been in office
for four and a half weeks nowand we've already got peace
(48:05):
talks going on.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Yeah, yeah, new day dawning here.
Definitely a new day.
Did Trump just call him adictator today?
I feel like I just read that hecalled him a dictator.
Well, again like I just readthat he called him a dictator,
yeah, he did Well again.
I mean clearly, you're denyingyour people the right to
elections free and fairelections.
Dictator.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Yeah, when you're the man in power and you get three
elections to keep yourself inpower, even if you say it's for
the good of the country, that isevery dictator's playbook
Listen, I'm the guy.
If it's for the good of thecountry, that is every
dictator's playbook Listen, I'mthe guy.
If it's not me, then this placeis going to be anarchy.
So I'm just for your own good.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Yeah, it's right up there with you.
Know, this hurts me more thanit hurts you.
Like I don't really want this,you know, but I got to do it for
you.
Speaker 3 (48:49):
Yeah, exactly right, but yeah, he did.
He called him a dictator today.
And listen, the argument couldbe made.
I personally believe that he is.
I think that you know Zelenskyhas done this and he keeps this
war going, has wanted to keepthis war going to keep himself
in power.
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
Wasn't this guy's original role an actor?
Yeah, I mean, like this is astage for him.
He's just got a bigger stagefor his performance.
That's all it is.
He's got little man syndrome,all of the things.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah, they need to aim doge at all the money that
went to Ukraine, all of it.
And oh, by the way, we alreadyknow that, like $100 million or
$100 billion was a B right, yeah, $107 billion, and they've lost
track of $100 billion of it.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Yeah, Like where is it?
Speaker 3 (49:34):
I don't know yeah it's in Zelensky's Swiss bank
account.
That's where that's at, yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yep, exactly.
Well, it may have a dictator,but we have presidents.
And you know what else we havePresident's Day.
It's not going anywhere.
Suckers Cry more, cry more.
Yes, I feel like this is goingto have to be said every single
week from now on, because youknow they're always crying about
something.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
You might cancel President's Day.
Ok, not happening, Nothappening, Just shut up.
This is the lead I think she'sthe lead historian at the
Washington Library, Like really,yeah, she's the one who said,
listen, we, you know she'sclearly a Democrat.
Yeah, she's the one who said,listen we, you know she's
(50:34):
clearly a Democrat.
She, you know we've had some.
This is what did she say?
She likened this to celebratingthe birthday of a king, or we
used to have Washington'sbirthday and Lincoln's birthday,
yes, Right.
And then they were like and then, and then they added Martin
Luther King, Right.
So we had like a rapid fire ofa bunch of of uh, you know,
school days off it was greatback in the day, right.
And then they were like, okay,well, we can't have Washington
and Lincoln both.
So then they combined them andthey had President's Day to
celebrate both.
(50:54):
And they just said now we'recelebrating all presidents, and
now this lady wants to get ridof it because there's a
president that she doesn't likeyeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
So that's our response to that and I think
that's the collective responseto that.
You know, are you going tobring it back?
And you know, hopefully notfour years, hopefully not eight
years, hopefully, you know, notever.
But yeah, when it's a presidentyou like, that's when you want
to bring it back.
Oh, what a surprise.
What a surprise.
Yeah, I, you know.
Just another great example ofthe just the cry baby stupidity,
(51:25):
like the petty stupidness thatthey regularly throw out there.
It's what else can you do butlaugh?
I mean, that one makes me laugh.
I got another one that makes melaugh.
We got time.
Yeah, we're gonna squeeze thisreal quick.
So let me go on record andpeople who follow my page
already know this and we'll havealready seen the little clip
I'm going to show you in just amoment.
(51:45):
So I apologize if you've seenit already, but I don't watch
SNL.
I haven't since the old dayswe're going back many, many
years.
I catch whatever I catch fromSNL.
I catch like little clips of iton.
You know whatever, tiktok orReels or this or that, and
there's, you know, occasionallythere's something funny.
Definitely I'll give them that,but it's few and far between
(52:09):
man, and that's the consensus Iheard about this one.
You have a little more.
You watched a little morebefore we get to Tom Hanks.
You watch parts of it.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
You said I've watched half of the special right.
I think it's withoutcommercials.
It's two and a half hours ormaybe with two and a half hours.
I've watched an hour and a halfof it.
Um, I would give it like a twoand a half out of five stars
overall.
Um, and but I didn't know aboutthis skit going in and I will
(52:37):
tell you this it started outvery funny and he was on playing
.
Actually he was playing, um, ohgod, what's?
He was playing another snlcomedian who was standing right
next to him, so he was imitatinga guy standing next to him who
was playing a character, andthis shit was going well and I
was watching.
I was like this is it's blackjeopardy.
It was very, very funny, right.
And and then all of a sudden,eddie murphy was gone and tom
hanks is there and he's in aMAGA hat and he's this like old
white guy with a beard and youknow, and I guess, I guess I
(52:59):
didn't know this he's that's areoccurring character on.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
Is it Okay?
Oh yeah, I think somebody didsay that commented on the video.
Like you do know that it's areoccurring character and it's
very funny and you just took afew seconds of it.
Yeah, well it took the secondsthat counted, so they weren't
funny, like there was nothing.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
There's nothing funny about what he said, about what
he did?
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (53:18):
And if you haven't seen it, I'm going to show you
right now, begging your pardon,guys, it's me in the video as
well.
It's me reacting to the video.
It is what it is.
Here you go.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
Church.
Can I say something?
If more folks went to church,we wouldn't be in this mess
we're in now.
You know what?
Speaker 1 (53:31):
I agree with you, doug, I'd like to shake your
hand.
Sir, here we go.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,it's just a handshake.
It's just a handshake.
Yeah, all right, you're welcometo back All right.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
Well, thank you no-transcript.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
So for anybody to get mad about it, like I'm not mad
about it, I find it disgusting.
Obviously Not funny evenremotely.
But for anyone to be caringwhat they say and do at this
point you're just wasting,you're wasting your time.
There's so much more and betterprogramming you can watch that
you know isn't going to insultyour existence the way that they
(54:42):
have.
Speaker 3 (54:43):
So as long as it doesn't escalate, right.
And and this you know, and BillBurr, I wrote a blog about this
, right Bill Burr is, I wrote ablog about this, right, bill
Burr has escalated beyond comedy.
He decided the other day in oneof his rants and if you're not
familiar with Bill Burr, that'shis style of comedy he's angry
at everybody about he's not,he's bipartisan Like he hates
(55:04):
everybody.
He's angry at everybody all thetime, although he is very much
a liberal, he, you know.
He decided that allbillionaires these are his words
, and I'll cut out the F-bombsbecause there was a lot of them
that all billionaires are thecause of all economic distress
for families and people in thiscountry and that they should all
be put down like rabid dogs.
(55:25):
He's talking about killingpeople.
This is not comedy, folks.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
That's not comedy, that's pure rage.
That's pure rage and hysteria.
Speaker 3 (55:33):
There's nothing funny about it.
We just had, you know, luigiMangione killed, you know, a
former executive on the streetin New York, like this is not
out of the realm people, andhe's making jokes about it, or
he thinks he is, and really, youknow, the thing that you also
need to know about Bill Burr isas much as he's, you know,
railing on billionaires.
The guy's worth $20 millionhimself.
Yeah Right, so kill thebillionaires, but the
(55:56):
multimillionaires they're cool,they're, okay, they're okay,
don't be mad at me.
I have a helicopter pilot'slicense that I don't have
helicopter business, I just havethe license.
I'm cool.
It's it's them that they're theproblem, like you know again.
So he's off the rails.
It's not comedy.
Very much like this Tom Hanksthing.
You know it's not comedy.
Oh, by the way, when theEpstein list comes out, you may
(56:16):
or may not see Tom Hanks again.
That's a different discussion.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Yes exactly.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
But regardless, like is you know, as stupid as that
was, you know it is mostlyharmless.
The Bill Burr thing is not.
Speaker 2 (56:27):
No, that's that is a, that's a, basically a call to
violence.
And you know, the alreadyunhinged people out there, yep,
it just basically it's like adog whistle right For them.
That like, oh, he said, youknow this is what we're dealing
with and um, it's.
I just I can't believe thatthis is the world we live in but
(56:49):
it is, and these are the peoplethat we're dealing with right
now, but that this is the worldwe live in.
But it is, and these are thepeople that we're dealing with
right now.
But the pushback now on all ofit is epic.
It is just epic and it bringsme tremendous joy.
We're back to the joy, guys.
We're back to joy.
Nevermind these guys Listen,they, they, like I said, they've
told us for many years now whatthey think of us and that
(57:10):
should not have come as a as asurprise not worth getting angry
about.
Like you said, there's a listthat's going to be coming out
and I think we'll be able to sitback with our popcorn and enjoy
that and probably not a lot ofsurprises I don't think it's not
for anybody who's been payingattention.
I don't think there's going tobe a lot of, but there's going
to be a lot of people who aresurprised, shocked to the core,
(57:33):
but many of us are just going tosit there and go.
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me,you know right.
We did it, we got through all ofour topics today.
Hey us Yay.
Speaker 3 (57:43):
All right, there'll be more next week.
Speaker 2 (57:44):
I know, I know.
What are we going to talk aboutnext week.
I can't even imagine.
Speaker 3 (57:49):
There'll be plenty.
There'll be plenty.
They're always it.
Speaker 2 (57:52):
Yeah, absolutely Well , guys, we thank you, as always,
for joining us and hanging outwith us and, uh, and joining in
on the conversation.
As we like to remind you, clayis always better about it.
This time, I remember to remindyou that, for us, we're
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hopefully, while you are, youand I and we are watching this,
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Right, that's the plan, thehope, the expectations.
So looking forward to it andlooking forward to chat with you
, guys.
You know the drill, clay.
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Usually I'm bouncing betweenFacebook and YouTube.
Right, I pop into X every nowand again, but we're always out
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Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well then, my goodness.
So one of my favorite things tokeep watching on a daily basis
for daily updates is doge.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It keeps on doging making their full heads explode
on dogging, making liberal headsexplode?
Yeah.
And the hate and vitriol that'scoming out of this by people
who just they don't like who'sdoing it.
They don't care that it'sbenefiting the country, they
don't care that it's longoverdue, they don't care, they
just hate that it's being doneby President Trump and by Elon
(02:40):
Musk.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, that's literally all it is.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, they keep digging, they keep finding stuff
, though I mean let's talksocial security.
Yeah, I mean, like you know,you're talking people 300 years
old.
Some of the age ranges arecrazy.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's insane.
I've got a little graphic whilewe're talking.
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, I mean look at this.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
This is insane.
Now, for anyone who doesn'tknow what they're looking at
here, these are people.
Let's start right here.
Basically, I mean, we'll gocrazy and say there's somebody
out there as 119.
I don't really know, but people120 plus are still on these
rules.
Now I don't think and youcorrect me if I'm wrong, I don't
(03:24):
know if it's necessarilyconfirmed that these people are
still receiving checks, right, Imean, they're looking into this
to find out if that's the case,but they're still in the
records.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, they're still in the records and and so you
know, people say oh well,there's no way, there's no way
they're they're receiving checks.
There's no way, listen people.
Well, there's no way, there'sno way they're receiving checks.
No wait, listen people, if youare receiving, checks for
someone you know, who is olderand you know you live like
you're a child, or maybe even ayou know disabled person who's
(03:58):
receiving social security foryou know, on behalf of someone,
whatever it is, if they're stillon the rolls, there is still
the eligibility for a check tobe cut.
So is there, you know, millionsof dollars being spent and
checks being sent out to thesepeople?
Probably not.
Are some of them probably stillgetting checks sent?
Yeah, and are people cashingthem?
(04:19):
Yes, by the way, folks, that'sa felony.
That is a federal law that youare breaking and it's a felony.
So if you're receiving a SocialSecurity check for somebody who
is deceased and you're cashingit, that's a felony.
You're a felon.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That's a pretty big racket too.
I mean, I hear about that.
I think I hear about it all thetime, but I have heard of that
plenty of times, people gettingcaught up in that and, you know,
spending some prison time forit.
I mean it's no joke.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, for sure, but it you know, all it does is it
opens things up to say this iswe need to look at what's going
on at social security, right?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And you know, obviously more suspicion added
to the mix when you have the.
What's her name?
Michelle King, who spent 30years at social security offices
there and resigned from herposition as the acting
commissioner of the SocialSecurity Administration because
she didn't want to turn over thedata, she didn't want to open
(05:14):
up the data for them to view.
So you mean to tell me thatthat's not suspicious?
That that doesn't say you knowI've done something wrong here.
You know she can paint it.
She's trying to paint it as she, she, uh, she resigned in
protest, essentially onprinciple yeah, Okay, yeah, you
resigned because you don't wantto take the heat for your 30
(05:35):
years of you know, actions orleadership, failed leadership to
get this under control.
It's a bad look all around.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, that table you showed is.
What makes that sketchy is thefact that all of those people
are designated as active right.
What that tells me is somewherealong the way as people were
transitioned from the old papersystem to a new digital system,
somewhere somebody didn't wantto go through and vet every one
(06:06):
of these accounts, they didn'twant to do the due diligence,
they didn't want to do themanual labor and say is this
person alive, are they not?
And what they did was they hitthe default active and they left
it and nobody else ever wentback and cleaned it up.
And the fact that it's thatlackadaisical is, again, that's
reason enough to go in and startdigging.
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know.
So what you're looking at, orwhat we're all looking at, is,
you know, on the least of all,laziness, negligence, disregard
and, at the other end of thatspectrum, flat out criminal
behavior.
You know, if there are checksgoing out to 179 year olds, you
know we have a problem, bigproblem.
(06:48):
So I would say this you knowyet another very warranted audit
for sure.
Yeah, it's like 12 millionpeople over the age of 120.
This note says we're receivingsocial security benefits.
So we don't know that at thispoint and I'm guilty of
automatically making thatassumption too that those checks
(07:11):
were going out because theywere still on the roster, and I
know that's the assumption madeby a lot of people and that's
not really accurate.
It could be, but we don't knowyet.
So we'll find out.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But again, it gives reason.
It gives reason for Doge to dowhat they're doing Right.
This is, you know, and it's notjust social security, so that's
part of it.
And then you know they found so.
When you, whenever departmentof treasury, um, you know, sends
out a payment, it's like youknow when you fill out your
(07:41):
check and you fill it out toright.
I know a lot of young people, alot of you're like what are you
talking about?
I tap my phone and you sign itout as to.
Well, in every disbursementthat the Department of Treasury,
treasury Department does, thereis a two that has to be filled
out.
It is supposed to be filled out.
(08:02):
I think the number was eitheryou know or 7.4, I think it's
4.7 trillion dollars in payments.
Yes 4.7, you're right, 4.7 outof treasury, where that two line
was never filled out Right.
So we have 4.7 trillion dollarsUntraceable, billion dollars
(08:26):
Untraceable.
It is untraceable.
There's no evidence of where itwent to.
I'm sure if they dig they canprobably pull bank numbers,
routing numbers and all of thosethings, assuming that they
didn't just do a disbursementcheck right, or a cash
disbursement.
Oh, by the way, those of usthat were in the global war on
terror, especially in the earlydays, and saw literally pallets
of cash being moved around theMiddle East Money, especially
(08:51):
cash.
Cash, gets lost and used,consumed, very, very quickly
with not a lot of accountability.
So the fact that that two linefrom the Treasury Department was
not filled out is also suspect,and it begs the question where
is the money going?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, when is it going?
And we all have some prettygood guesses, but we need to
have it confirmed, we need proofand we need to see the
proverbial heads roll for it.
And that is again and I've saidthis before, in similar
circumstances, similarconversation.
That's the biggest thing for me.
I want to see the heads roll.
You know they have to.
(09:29):
There's no.
You know the left will call ittargeting and all of these crazy
things.
And and you know they're,they're reverse thing of calling
this weaponization Right.
That's what they're they wantto call this now.
Yeah, this is calledaccountability.
This is called, you know,transparency, accountability and
, um, you know they're, they'reputting the receipts out there.
(09:49):
I think Trump just uh, spentlike a uh, just a four minute
monologue listing every singlething that they had at that
point or at this point of um,you know questionable money,
where it was going, you know thequestionable things that it was
going to.
So, come on and you got toquestion the people who are mad
about this, that don't want itto happen.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And.
And so you know again, like wesaid at the beginning, there are
people who are angry about whois doing this right, whether
it's doge, going in,recommendation or even shutter
you know, recommendation to firepeople, reduce the workforce,
shutter entire organizations,track down spent money, whatever
(10:30):
.
You've got people who are madabout this when in reality, you
know, president Clinton didsomething similar, right?
377,000 federal workers weretransitioned from federal
workers to contractors.
And everybody says, oh well,people didn't lose their jobs.
You know what happens they losttheir federal benefits, which
(10:50):
were probably picked up by thecontractor, but then the
contractor upcharges thegovernment oh, by the way,
that's another way to laundersome money.
So while he fired 400,000, theytransitioned to contractors.
So there was a workforcereduction there.
And then you've got all of thisstuff going on, with people
defending USAID and all thehires there.
Listen, if you were agovernment worker and you were
(11:11):
overseas and you just assumedthat you were going to have a
job for the rest of your lifeand now you're mad because you
got fired, that's on you, thatis, you made a horrible life
assumption that you were justgoing to be employed forever.
Right, there's no such thing.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, and they like to scream about, you know,
scream and cry and rant and ravethat you know.
All these poor federal workers.
They were just fired just likethat.
No, they were given eightmonths severance pay, eight
months of their bills being paid, carrying a paycheck, you know,
and being able to afford all oftheir, their life things and
(11:46):
look for a job and do somethingelse eight months, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, and the overseas workers are going to
get brought home.
You know they're going to live.
They're going to live in thesame conditions they've been
living in and they're going toget brought home within 30 days.
And you know, I nobody toldthem.
If they're complaining because,oh well, I sold my house and I
sold my car and I don't havethis, and nobody told you to
sell that stuff, right, if youchose to do that to save
yourself some money, that's onyou, okay.
(12:11):
But you know it's just likeanything else.
If you get fired from a job,that job is not responsible for
making sure that you have aplace to live or a car to drive
or anything else.
Those are choices that you made.
But there's folks that believethat, for some reason, if they
work for USAID or a federalagency, that they were
guaranteed a job forever, whichis unbelievably false.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, To make that assumption, to have that
expectation that you are set forlife because you're a federal
worker, I mean, you know,there's, there's tapes and and
not tapes.
While I just dated myself there, there's recordings of, uh, you
know there's a there was a USAID worker, I think she was, or
somebody in that lane.
Did you see that video?
And she was talking about allthe things that you know, that
(12:57):
they said and that they knew toto be the case, and that was
like the general message Onceyou're in, you're all set, you
know you're good, You're golden,Don't worry about a thing.
And yeah, yeah, I don't.
I, you know, I don't really havesympathy.
I'm trying to find some.
I mean, I honestly am.
I'm trying to find some.
You know, I acknowledge thefact that now your life is
completely different than whatyou thought it was going to be,
(13:18):
but you had no right to thinkthat and it was on all of our
dimes, you know.
So you're robbing us blind andnow you're mad and want sympathy
that you're getting cut.
I don't have it, I just don't.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No again.
It's like the discussion we hadlast week about the DOE right
Department of if you were, ifyour organization was that
terrible, you go business andthen you're out of a job and you
know, sorry, but if you werepart of that, the only person to
blame is you.
If you didn't sock away somemoney and you weren't, you know,
saving and you weren't doingall, that's not anybody's fault
but your own, you know and andso there's a lot of complaining
(13:53):
going on out there.
Again, I don't have a lot ofsympathy.
You know you can go back to thearmy downsizing post Gulf war
in the early nineties where youknow thousands and thousands and
thousands of people in the armywere not retained.
A bunch of officers were, youknow, given a check and said go
away.
You know this has happenedbefore.
It's just the fact that it'sbeing done now, in the day of
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social media, and under thisadministration.
But I've been saying it thosepeople that have been voting for
big gov since, you know,president Clinton in 1992.
If you've been supporting thatwhole thing and large the
government, make it bigger,you've supported the bloat.
You're responsible for this.
This is right sizing, it'sdownsizing and all these people
(14:36):
who have lost their jobs.
I hate it for them, but youknow you're crying about it, but
you voted for it.
I got nothing for you, right.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
This is all part of, you know, just, this whole irony
of everything.
You know, these same peoplethat are screaming about, you
know, crying about all of thethings we just talked about, and
more are also are also claimingthat this federal government is
trying to, you know, take overeverything.
They're trying to beauthoritarians and they're, you
(15:04):
know, trying to rule the world,and everything they're doing is
to give power back to the statesand have accountability and
transparency in government Allof the things that we should be
expecting from our government,our federal government.
It just blows my mind everysingle day to read these
(15:24):
comments from people or seetheir idiotic posts that just
reek of hypocrisy and, frankly,stupidity.
It blows my mind every day andit shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
They are convinced that this is all a conspiracy,
that this is.
You know, it's all of thosethings.
These are the new conspiracytheorists.
You know, it's all of thosethings.
This is.
These are the new conspiracytheorists.
You know, the ones who alllaughed at the bulk of us, who
said listen, covid's from a lab?
No, it's not, it's wet market,it's bats.
You know, those are the samepeople who are saying oh, you
know, trump and Elon, they'regoing to take over the country,
(15:57):
they're going to take over theworld.
Let me tell you something therichest man in the world doesn't
care about your social securitynumber.
He really doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, that's probably the most laughable part.
Elon Musk is going to take ourmoney.
No, he doesn't need your money.
He's got more money in hispocket than you have in your
whole life savings, which, ofcourse, really angers them too,
you know, because they thinkcapitalism is so bad.
Did you watch the interview?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
on Hannity last night .
I caught clips of it.
Did you watch the interview onHannity last night?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I got clips of it.
Did you watch the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I watched almost all of it.
It was very, you know, I thinkthere was no surprises in there,
except for the fact when bothHannity and Elon Musk were
talking about how they'resupport of President Trump has
changed their life in a negativeway as far as their social
circles, their socialinteractions, you know, and that
kind of thing.
You know, hannity Hannity'salways been a Trump supporter,
(16:48):
you know he, so for him it'skind of like a renewal of
something that happened eightyears ago.
But Elon Musk, not that longago, was a Democrat.
They loved him.
You know, mr Green green vehicleguy, like they were all about
you know SpaceX and all thisuntil he started supporting
president Trump.
He actually talked about, ifyou didn't see it, um, he, he
RSVP for an event sponsored by,you know, a democratic
(17:09):
organization.
Um, before he endorsedpresident Trump and then
attended after he endorsedpresident Trump.
So he was invited in, rsvpbefore and then attended after
and he's like it was like it washorrible.
You know, um, just that, thatone thing, and it was.
It wasn't even like grownupsacting like grownups, like hey,
(17:29):
man, that was a you know like Idon't know why you're over there
, but you know, um, it was, itwas the opposite.
I mean, it was less, not evenclose to cordial.
It was, you know, very, youknow he felt very defensive, he
felt, you know, like he was alone man standing there.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I mean so oh, I'm sure it had to be awful and, and
you know many of us, myselfincluded, had experienced it.
You know when they know whereyour support lies.
It's not like you said, it'snot just a hey I really disagree
with you about you know, we'restill cool, I still love you, I
still like you.
It's you know you are a monster, you're a terrible person.
(18:04):
I cannot even be in yourpresence.
I'm, you know, unfriending you,all all of the things.
And you know these are all, forthe most part, people who will
never apologize either, evenwhen facts are right in their
face.
But that's, you know, whatever.
But for someone like him, whowas so publicly, you know,
admired and liked and all ofthose things to be turned on
(18:29):
that viciously had to be prettyshocking and so publicly, you
know it's one thing it's nevernice.
Obviously it never feels goodwhen people that you know and
love and believe know you, yourheart, and love you and all of
those things when they turn onyou.
But it's such a smaller scalewhen you compare to when you
have the entire world, you know,or half of it, just being vile,
(18:52):
like vicious and vile, and Imean I see it almost on a daily
basis.
Somebody is literally callinghim the antichrist and they
believe this.
They are absolutely confidentthat Elon Musk is the antichrist
.
You know it's.
I listen.
None of us actually know who itis, so, and we won't until we
do.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But yeah, it's, you know he's, he's.
He's called a racist every day,every day you know and all you
know.
So, amazingly enough, you stillhave the people you know.
(19:31):
Netanyahu just deemed thatpresident.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Trump was the greatest.
Every day, matter what you do,there's no appeasing that group.
There is nothing you canpossibly say or do, nothing that
Trump could do again.
You know, we see the memes allthe time.
You know, if Trump cured cancerand ended you know poverty and
did all of this, they wouldstill say, yeah, but he this,
(19:55):
you know it is, it is what it is.
I mean it's, it's truly mentalillness.
As far as I'm concerned, it is100% Trump derangement syndrome.
Now we have Elon derangementsyndrome and that is what it is.
They are so poisoned by, youknow, in my opinion, by
primarily the media.
You know, the mainstream mediais pure toxic poison.
(20:15):
I went off on this, I think,like last week on Facebook, kind
of went on a little rant, alittle foot, a little rant, a
little foot stomping rant andyeah, cause it, just it.
It infuriates me because thesepeople are man, they believe
what they're saying and theybelieve what they're hearing,
which is even worse.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
And it's, and it's the, the, the hypocrisy, the
lack of self-awareness.
I mean I I saw somebodyyesterday ranting and raving
about how, oh well, the, youknow, the Republicans claim to
be, the conservatives claim tobe the party of family and this
and that, and now we find outthat Elon Musk has got his 14th
child with his 13th woman andyou know that's not very
wholesome and family-like.
And I'm like, really Like withwith what just left the white
(20:56):
house.
You're going to.
We brought, brought, we didn'tbring Elon in for his morals and
ethics, Sorry, folks, he'sthere because he's friggin smart
and he's really, really good atfinding stuff and he's great
with computers and and all that.
We don't care.
Truthfully, Right, no Like.
But.
But you know you're going topoint that out when you just had
President Biden that left andhis son, who's a friggin
crackhead, who married hisdeceased sons or had an affair
(21:19):
or relationship with hisdeceased son's wife, and you
know you've got the Bible or thediary entries with his daughter
and like, like, really, you'regoing to point out that level of
, you know, hatred towards Elonwhen you support just what just
left the White House.
Just show me, I'm so tired ofit.
This is very much the same asdid you see that the Cardinal,
(21:41):
what is it?
The Congress of US Cardinalsfrom the Catholic Church are
suing the president because hestopped payments for refugee
support.
One he's not obligated to dothat, Right.
Two, Congress of Cardinals,just know, Congress, a carnal,
just stop Like you're a charityorganization Just stop.
(22:04):
You're the great, you're thelargest landowner, you know free
landowner in the free world.
You have more money than youknow what to do with.
Please stop.
Oh, by the way, the people thatare saying oh yeah, I grew the
Congress of Cardinals support.
They're the same Catholics thatare pro-choice Right.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
When that argument comes up yeah, and that alone.
That's the clincher for me.
As soon as I hear that, I'mlike you've just invalidated
yourself.
You've invalidated everythingyou could possibly say or
contribute to the conversation.
That alone invalidates you.
So just shh.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And listen, folks.
All things being equal, I grewup Catholic.
I grew up, I went to eightyears of Catholic school.
I'm a failed Catholic.
I have a great relationshipwith God, but that is an
organization that I do notassociate with anymore.
The last time that I associatedwith that it was printed on my
dog tag.
So that tells you something,right there.
Yeah, that's not where it's at,so it's not a.
It's not a complaint about theCatholic Church, although
(22:59):
whatever they're going to do,they're going to do.
I don't care.
It's the people who arehypocritical in the fact that
they'll support the church aslong as it opposes the president
and then they'll go against thechurch for their own viewpoint.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, it's so typical they bend everything to fit
what they want it to, and whenthis doesn't fit anymore, well,
we're just going to bend overthis way a little bit.
And yeah, yeah, uh, I'm in thesame same boat.
I ha, I have zero tolerance forany of it, for any of it, as
soon as I see it.
I don't.
I never and I've said thisbefore, but I, I reiterate it, I
(23:36):
never respond to those types ofcomments in my comment sections
, because they're always there.
I could post a picture of ablade of grass and somebody will
will say something hostile,hostile about Trump in the
comment section, like it'sunrelated, I don't even say
anything, it just pretty bladeof grass, I don't know, and it's
(23:59):
like yeah, well, trump is blah,blah, blah, blah blah and it's
like he's ruining theenvironment.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Like stop the new green deal.
We won't have grass because ofTrump.
That's exactly what you'll get.
You're a hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It's so true.
So you know I don't, I don'tentertain it at all.
I you know personally I say goahead, comment away, have have a
blast there, sp your opinionsas long as you're not insulting
or being threatening to any ofthe other commenters in there.
Like I really care what you sayto or about me, but you're not
going to harass people in mycomments section, people who
come over here because they'relike-minded and they feel the
(24:29):
same way and they just want tohave a conversation in there.
If you attack them, then thegloves are off.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
So the latest from the latest from Doge is the
potential right.
So this was brought up and youknow it was brought up for a
potential refund right.
And what did you know Elon say?
I'll talk to the president.
So now there's a discussion ofa check right, a rebate.
But what you're starting to see, you can see the, you know the
(24:57):
new banner at the bottom States,at the state level.
This is happening in all placesin Illinois, which is very blue
because of Chicago, butRepublicans in the state
legislature are.
They're trying to get a bill tothe floor and get it voted on
to establish an in-state doge.
Yes, which is exactly what ElonMusk is doing at the state level
(25:18):
to get rid of the you know theexcess, get rid of the
corruption, provide someoversight, you know those kinds
of things.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, and there's a lot of traction for that too.
You've got Illinois, of course.
You said Michigan, texas, northCarolina, kentucky.
All these state legislators arecalling for a state doge.
I mean it's it's feels likesuch a like a well duh moment,
like of course that's whatshould be happening and this was
a great incentive.
(25:46):
And whoever was first?
I don't know who was first.
I don't know who was first, butgive that man or woman a medal
for starting that rolling.
I actually I'm really curiousnow who the first one was.
I don't even know how we couldfind out Illinois was the first
one I heard.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Illinois was the first one I heard.
I don't know about the rest andI don't know who came first,
but you know, internally here'smy only thought on this that's
challenging is that thepresident has Elon Musk and the
hundred geniuses in t-shirts andflip flops doing all the work.
States don't necessarily, theydon't necessarily have the
(26:24):
capacity, and that you know whatI mean.
For those, that type of team,they certainly are not going to
get it for free, like thepresident is getting it out of
Elon Musk and his team.
So while it's a great idea atthe state level and I think that
they should or at least theyshould, you know, propose it
find a way to get it done.
I don't think it's going to beas fruitful at the state level
as it is at the federal level,but if they can get it done,
(26:46):
good on them.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, absolutely yeah , and it's.
You know, you're right.
It does open up some challengesand questions.
You know of well, who.
Who's going to be doing that,you know, and what are your.
It has a lot of questions.
Where are your ties?
Are you?
You ideally want somebodythat's entirely independent.
Good, I don't.
How do you even find that?
Who does not have any partyaffiliation?
(27:08):
I don't know.
Maybe Elon will catch well, I'msure he's caught wind of all
this.
But maybe they can lend outtheir.
Well, they're not gonna lendthem out, we know that.
But maybe they can create likea task force that goes and does
that Right and with all themoney they'll be saving, you
know they'll be able to pay them.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I mean it's, it's an exceptional idea.
I, you know, in my head I waslike, well, I wonder if they
could do an exchange programwhere, like you know, new York
does Texas, texas does New York,florida does Illinois, illinois
.
You know what I mean.
So you have a truly, you know,reciprocal, you know, inspector
(27:48):
general type, you know systemwhere states review each other's
books, they keep each otherhonest.
And you know, I don't, there'sprobably not, there's about a
zero chance, percent chance ofthat happening.
But I think, you know, in allhonesty, um, that's probably one
of the better ways to do things.
I know, when I was in the armywe did have inspector generals,
but it was all very, very oftenWould you have one unit evaluate
(28:10):
another unit, right Sisterunits, and you were only there
because you wanted to make sure,you know, that unit was trained
before they deployed, or youwanted to help them get better,
or something to that effect.
It was never, you know, it wasnever about I gotcha, or it was
never intended to be an I gotcha.
It was always to make thingsbetter.
So I think if we could get, youknow, that kind of spirit going
back and forth one, it wouldgalvanize the nation a little
(28:32):
bit.
But two, you know, I think itwould clean up a lot of books at
the state level.
And oh, by the way, again, youknow, you do me, I do you, we
pay for it, and it's really notthat big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, and you know again, just just as in the
federal level, we all should bekeeping an eye on the people who
resist this idea the most youknow.
If you're fighting it, I got aproblem with you.
What are you trying to hide?
And the the rapidness at whichthese people are resigning is
crazy.
(29:02):
Right, yeah, immediate, likewhat?
You're coming in here, you'regoing to come here and clean,
okay, I'm out.
Bye, and I can't imagine thatthat protects them from criminal
charges.
Right, like I don't know whatthey're thinking.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
No, and you know.
To go back to the federal level, um, they are about to go.
Everybody thinks that, like youknow, trump's team is going to
be protected, and all this.
They're getting ready to walkdepartment of defense right,
like they're going into DOD herein a minute, Um, and and
they're next on the list.
And you know, there's, there'sall these.
You know I saw outcries theother day of, you know well,
they thousand, they fired athousand workers at the VA and
(29:41):
now that's cutting care fromveterans.
You know, I haven't heard of it.
Oh, by the way, I was at the VAtoday.
Like there's no panic at the VA, there's no one freaking out at
the VA, there's no lack of care, there's no nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So that's, that's exactly like them saying, you
know, blaming these planecrashes that have been like the
plane crashes, blaming it on theTrump administration and
blaming it on the, the firingsof all these FAA workers.
Well, guess what?
It was like 450 people out ofthousands of workers and none of
(30:17):
them were essential workers,that none of them were um air
traffic controllers or you knownon-essential people who operate
in the most important areas.
It was 400 people, 450 peoplewho were not critical workers.
So shut up you know, shut up andjust get your facts like, get
your facts, like, stop trusting.
You know, that's always thething where you ask them.
(30:39):
You're like, well, where didyou hear that?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Oh, the news oh okay, yeah, I mean, the best example
ever is the Rachel Maddow Teslacyber truck, right?
She?
You know she came out and wasblazing guns, that Trump gave
Elon this contract.
You know, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah.
You know all these armoredcyber trucks, and you know Trump
(31:03):
just gave it to Elon, and youknow, and it's favoritism and
nepotism, whatever.
And the reality is is thatcontract was signed on the 1st
of October of last year, whenPresident Biden was still in
office.
Oh, by the way, for those thatunderstand how budgeting works,
the 1st of October is the firstday of the fiscal year for the
federal government.
So all of that contractpaperwork was all pre-done,
waiting for the new budget tocome in so they could sign it on
(31:25):
the first.
That was all last year, but shedidn't do anything.
She didn't do any back-checking, she didn't do any research,
but that's what you got out ofthe mainstream media.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
This stuff is absolutely ridiculous.
The blaming of the plane crashin Canada, the fact that they
were, like you know, presidentTrump's been in office.
You know, if you look at whatwas it?
One of the one of the facts inJanuary, one of the economic
figures, I don't remember if itwas unemployed, it was inflation
.
I think inflation in Januarywent up.
He was president for 11 days inJanuary Exactly 11 days of the
(32:01):
month.
Like get a grip people.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Well, look at the whole egg thing.
You know the egg prices thing.
Oh, I thought Trump was goingto bring down the price of eggs.
That didn't happen.
Hope you guys are happy.
Biden killed millions ofchickens Like.
This has to do with the factthat they killed so many
chickens for something that istransported by ducks more than
(32:26):
chickens like.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
But okay, blame trump listen, it's you know we're a
little off the doge's contagion.
But the reality is is that atthe state level, if they start
doing this, if, if they do,you're going to get the same
reaction.
You're going to get the samereaction out of the blue city
mayors right, you know, mayorChicago, probably not Mayor
Adams, right, mayor Adams is,you know he's doing pretty good,
(32:52):
holding himself.
You know, very squarely in themiddle, I think he's doing a
pretty good job.
You know you're going to get itout of the mayor of LA and
Detroit and Minneapolis andplaces like that, and you're
going to get it.
The blue governors are going tobe the same way Pritzker and
Opal and all the rest of these.
They're going to fight toothand nail against this kind of
stuff from inside of their ownstate because they're trying to
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hide and protect the corruptionthat they're a part of.
And that's what all of this isabout.
And people, you know,conspiracy theorists and all
that they refuse to believe thatthere's an honest effort behind
any of this.
They think it's all corrupt.
And the one I'm waiting for.
Everybody keeps talking aboutFort Knox.
I don't even think they'regoing to go to Fort Knox.
I think that's all a ruse.
(33:35):
They're never going to walk inthere.
I hope they do, I in there.
I hope they do, I really do.
I think it'd be great.
But you know the fact thatElon's going to go to Fort Knox
and count gold bars.
We're not even on the goldstandard anymore.
People like just get a grip.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, Is that the one he was going to?
What was the one he's?
He's talking about livestreaming going in.
Where is he talking about?
That was the one, Okay.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I saw people like make sure that they cut every
bar open because there's thistungsten or something like that
that you can paint and it's thesame weight as gold and you'd
never know the difference.
But like you people are, you'reoff.
Yeah you're way out there, butyeah, it's.
This is all a reaction to thepot stirring that's going on.
I mean the shake up thatPresident Trump and Elon are
(34:19):
doing to the government.
I mean the shakeup thatPresident Trump and Elon are
doing to the whole government,and I know that we're going to
do this as an add-on.
But the next big shakeup iscoming, because Kosh is going to
get confirmed tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yes, which will be today for you guys watching
right Thursday.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yes, Thursday is the day, and you know he's going to
come in.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
They stalled it as much as they could.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yep and Mitch McConnell said today so Kosh is
out of committee, he's, and theydid the the early vote and
McConnell said he's going tovote for him and that's plenty
and he's going to get.
He's going to get confirmed andyou can expect on.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Friday he's going to start breaking some stuff.
Yes, yes, so excited, Like I'mgiddy.
I'm so excited for all of this.
You know, the only thing thatto me is a bummer, as a mild
statement.
Um, the bummer is is that thereI feel like, like the States,
for example, and and a lot ofthese federal workers now who
have not yet experienced theaudit experience there Um, I
(35:17):
feel like they're just gettingthis extra time to hide things
and destroy things and, like youknow what I mean Like this is
what they've been doing up untilthis point.
You know, burning it, shreddingit, moving it, doing all of the
things.
So, to me, that's such adisappointment.
I mean, there's nothing you cando about it, it is what it is,
but it just sucks to know thatthat's what they're doing, you
(35:41):
know.
So, whatever we do catch themwith, we like I'm part of this,
whatever they do get caught with, it's not even all of it.
You know what I mean.
It's not even.
I don't even know if it'll behalf of it, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
I Kash Patel, like on .
Literally the first four hoursshould be like I want to see
every dime that was spent on apaper shredder or shredding
services in the last four months.
I want to know every and then Iwant to know the three years
before that because I canguarantee you it went like this
and then it went like this youknow, and that's all they've
been doing is, you know, gettingrid of stuff, cleaning house,
(36:12):
covering tracks.
all of those things are beingdone, I can promise you.
Maybe not on a grand scale, butthere's definitely some of it
going on and it's probably goingon.
It happened in the intelligencecommunity and then it's going
to happen at the FBI as well,Guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah, yeah.
No matter what all of thethings that are coming to light,
it's just it is rocking thecountry.
I don't care what side you'reon, everybody is rocked by it
and all of us who, you know inour hearts, knew to a degree
that this stuff was going on.
I don't think anyone on on thecommon people level, which I
(36:48):
include myself in had any ideaof the scope of how truly bad it
is.
It's shocking.
I think I saw something theother day.
I don't remember whatdepartment it was, but you know,
in the list of crazy spendingit was like there was like
$6,000 for a chair, you know.
And it's like what?
And you know, if the chairwasn't $6,000, the chair was
(37:09):
maybe I'll go crazy and say thechair was $600.
Where the rest of that money go?
Well, we'll probably never know.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, it's the old military spent, you know, $3,000
on a toilet seat kind of thing,and you know, really you know
there's an explanation for allof it.
We just need to know what it is, you know.
And if it's, you know this very, very you know, if it's the
toilet seat that goes on thestealth bomber, that specific
R&D to develop, and if theybreak it it costs $3,000 to
(37:39):
replace because it's got to becustom made.
Oh, by the way, they've neverbroken one before.
You know what I mean.
Like there's a lot of stuff outthere.
The problem is is there's notransparency and there's no
explanation, and that's we'regetting out of all this and
that's all the rest of us canhope for.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I tell you, I think for a moment, about the actual
job, like the actual work ofdoing this work of doing this,
like being the people doing this.
It is so huge.
Like how do you not get alittle bit overwhelmed when you
see how huge this is and howmuch you have to go through?
I mean, I give you know so manykudos to um Elon and all of the
(38:16):
people doing this that you knowwhat are the.
Were you the one that said thatlike sleeping on the floor in
the office and like just workingbasically 24 hours and without
taking a paycheck?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, they're super smart.
They're a bunch of kids.
This is probably the coolestthing they've ever done.
Honestly, they're probably mostof them are going to have to be
under some sort of protectivecustody for probably a
significant portion of theirlife because of the things that
they are going to know and thehatred that's going to come
their way, which is horrible.
It's not their fault, but whatmost of these kids are doing is
they're running algorithmsthey're not really looking at,
(38:49):
they're just looking for theanomalies and then they hand it
off.
It's like numbers.
It's like, okay, well, this onesticks out and they hand it to
somebody more important thanthem and that person figures out
what that is.
This is data analysis andthey're doing a fantastic job
and God love them for doing it.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, my goodness, we have somany places we could go.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Next, let's talk about this one chief in London
threatened American citizensthat if they posted things that
you know that they weren't safe.
If they posted things and itwas found to be on the social
(39:29):
media in England that the policefrom London were going to come
after Americans, the response tothat was hilarious Like hey man
, you said the same thing backin 1775 and we decided otherwise
.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, he set himself up for that big time.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
But the reality is is that in England, and now we're
seeing in Germany, people are infact being arrested for social
media posts.
There's been raids in Germanyon people's houses.
Yeah Right, Kick your door inkind of stuff because of things
that are being posted on theInternet.
Right, and listen.
This is not somebody posting aswastika.
(40:03):
This is.
This is lower level stuff andall like a meme or a joke or
sharing a meme.
Yeah, Literally raiding housesand arresting people.
Freedom of speech in Europe isdying, and it's dying very, very
quickly, and it's somethingthat we all need to be very,
very conscious of.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, very quickly, and it's something that we all
need to be very, very consciousof.
Yeah, yeah, I tell you it's.
It's scary.
Like how is history repeatingitself in such a bold way?
And I don't make those Hitlertype comments, I'm not a leftist
, I don't make those Hitlercomments lightly.
And this is showing knocking onyou where are your papers?
Basically, you know, I mean,this is, this is where they're
(40:43):
headed.
And you know, I am and I've saidit before, I am the daughter
and granddaughter of legalimmigrants from Germany and Cuba
.
But obviously we're talkingabout Germany right now.
To hear that it's crazy and Iknow my grandparents' stories, I
know what my grandfather wentthrough, I know what my
grandmother went through and tosee this happening all over
(41:06):
again and people to be On thatside, not on this side, to just
say, oh well, that's good,that's, show them, you show them
.
Never mind the the illegalmigrants that have overrun your
country and raised your crime toastronomical levels, and women
getting raped and killed in thestreets, and never mind all that
, but make sure you go bang onthat door of the guy that posted
(41:28):
some stupid meme.
You know that means nothingcrazy to me.
It breaks my heart.
Actually it makes me angry.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah, it's uh.
Things are.
You know, perspectives arechanging.
I think you know there's a lotof European leadership that are
looking across the ocean at us.
Um, and I, I want to say it wasthe president of Romania, or
maybe Hungary, who was likepresident Trump.
Do you see what he's doing overthere?
That's what we need to do.
This stuff's got to stop.
(41:58):
So you've got some pendulumswing.
I think it's capping out.
I hope it's capping out andit's going to swing its way back
right and we're going to get alittle bit more common sense and
a little bit more you know.
I guess common sense is the onlyway to really describe it, and
a little bit more you know.
I guess common sense is theonly way to really describe it.
Like all this is you know, likewhen you prioritize in any, any
(42:21):
single asset I don't care whatit is If you're a law
enforcement organization and youprioritize anything over rape
and or murder, but especiallywhen you prioritize police
officers to raid houses becauseof internet postings over
assault, rapes and murders, youare upside down and backwards.
Like that is just completely.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Yeah, it's just shocking.
It's shocking what's going onover there, and you know, I hope
you're right, I hope thependulum swings as hard and as
fast as it did here, and I agreewith you.
I think they are watching and,and that is going to be the only
way I mean they essentiallyhave to revolt, basically, and
take back their, their country,just as as we did.
So I hope that's, I hope theyhave the same.
(43:01):
It's so insane to me that it'sgotten to this point when
history is still readable,watchable learnable.
Speaker 6 (43:15):
Actually in memory like there are still people.
Yes, yes, great point, yeahthat can tell you.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah, yes, yeah, oh, yeah, it's um, it's just wow,
and we do have that, the videotoo of of those people put up
there.
Speaker 6 (43:27):
But, yeah, to watch those videos, and it's so
literal of them banging on thedoor, you know, know, and then
you have, oh, and I have thistoo, country where free speech
was weaponized to conduct agenocide, and he met with the
head of a political party thathas far right views and some
historic ties to extreme groups.
(43:49):
The context of that waschanging the tone of it, and you
know that.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
That the censorship was specifically about the right
.
No, I have to disagree with you.
Free speech was not used toconduct a genocide.
The genocide was conducted byan authoritarian Nazi regime
that happened to also begenocidal because they hated
Jews and they hated minoritiesand they hated those that they
had a list of people they hated,but primarily the Jews.
There was no free speech inNazi Germany.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Margaret Brennan continues to show she's an idiot
.
She continues to show that, youknow, the mainstream media
bends history to their, to whatfits their narrative, but you
know, it's, it's that.
And now you've got that in inrelation to what we're talking
about, which is free speech isbeing taken away under the guise
(44:32):
of protecting people.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Right and her premise is free speech was weaponized
and should essentially besilenced.
Like I do, even hear whatyou're saying, and kudos to
Marco Rubio.
Great response.
I love his calm.
He's really good.
He's really good.
I like him a lot for what he'sdoing.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Probably the best sex state since Condi Rice.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yeah, I think you're right.
He's got the capability.
I think so, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
My opinion Unflappable.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
Yeah let's stick to Eastern Europe though, right?
Yes, let's.
So we've got some peace talkshappening in and around Russia,
ukraine, yeah, specificallyhappening in and around you know
, russia, Ukraine, yeah,specifically.
You've got a US delegationtalking to a Russian delegation,
excluding the Ukrainians andlisten, before everybody gets
worked up.
They're going to get worked up,all the people who support
(45:23):
Ukraine.
Let me do just a real, realquick history lesson for folks.
The reason that this ishappening is because the US and
NATO violated an agreement thatthey made with the Russians,
right?
The agreement was that therewould never be NATO nations
bordering Russia.
That was agreed upon rightduring the Clinton
administration.
Now, what has happened sincethen?
Nato has expanded and they'veexpanded into countries that
(45:46):
touch Russia.
So we violated an agreementthat we set up that the Russians
agreed to hey, listen, as longas NATO doesn't touch our
borders, everything's fine,right.
And then we violated it, natoviolated it.
We had countries like Romaniaand some others, and now they're
touching Russia's borders.
And oh, by the way, that's thesingular biggest point of
contention right now over all ofthis.
But there is, you know, andZelensky's been firing back
(46:09):
because he knows his days arenumbered.
Oh, by the way, he's beenfiring back because he knows his
days are numbered.
Oh, by the way, he suspendedelections again in his
democratic nation, you know, tokeep himself in power, because
he's you know.
He says well, you know, I keepthings under martial law because
if I don't, then people aregoing to leave and we're going
to lose our army.
Well, listen, man, suspend partof it, make sure there's an
(46:30):
election, don't you know like?
We had elections, listen, I wasa part of it.
Make sure there's an election.
We had elections, listen, I wasa part of elections in both
Iraq and Afghanistan, while afrigging war was going on.
It can be done, but Zelensky isthe one who likes to portray
himself and he had four years offree press to do it with the
previous administration.
And now President Trump and histeam are bypassing all that and
(46:50):
they're talking to Putin.
And listen, secdef said it.
You know, ukraine is not goingto be part of NATO, right, it's
not going to happen.
They're not going to get,they're probably not going to
get their original borders back,right?
And?
And the U?
S is going to have to back awayfrom Russia, and it's just the
way it's going to have to work.
The new point today was theRussian bargaining chip is they
(47:12):
want all US troops out of everynation that has joined NATO
since 1990.
That's not NATO troops, that'sUS troops.
Nato can still be there andI've said this from the
beginning.
This entire thing is a NATOproblem.
It's not a US problem.
So NATO can pony up, they canput as many troops in those
countries as they feel they needto, but US problem.
(47:33):
So NATO can pony up, they canput as many troops in those
countries as they feel they needto, but US troops have got to
be out of there.
You know what?
I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Let them do it.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Absolutely.
You know, we spent four yearssupporting the Ukrainians and
supporting this war truthfully,because of funding, bunch of
funding.
It basically Right, I mean comeon because of a bunch of
warmongers, war hawks, Um, andpresident Trump's been in office
for four and a half weeks nowand we've already got peace
(48:05):
talks going on.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Yeah, yeah, new day dawning here.
Definitely a new day.
Did Trump just call him adictator today?
I feel like I just read that hecalled him a dictator.
Well, again like I just readthat he called him a dictator,
yeah, he did Well again.
I mean clearly, you're denyingyour people the right to
elections free and fairelections.
Dictator.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Yeah, when you're the man in power and you get three
elections to keep yourself inpower, even if you say it's for
the good of the country, that isevery dictator's playbook
Listen, I'm the guy.
If it's for the good of thecountry, that is every
dictator's playbook Listen, I'mthe guy.
If it's not me, then this placeis going to be anarchy.
So I'm just for your own good.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Yeah, it's right up there with you.
Know, this hurts me more thanit hurts you.
Like I don't really want this,you know, but I got to do it for
you.
Speaker 3 (48:49):
Yeah, exactly right, but yeah, he did.
He called him a dictator today.
And listen, the argument couldbe made.
I personally believe that he is.
I think that you know Zelenskyhas done this and he keeps this
war going, has wanted to keepthis war going to keep himself
in power.
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
Wasn't this guy's original role an actor?
Yeah, I mean, like this is astage for him.
He's just got a bigger stagefor his performance.
That's all it is.
He's got little man syndrome,all of the things.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah, they need to aim doge at all the money that
went to Ukraine, all of it.
And oh, by the way, we alreadyknow that, like $100 million or
$100 billion was a B right, yeah, $107 billion, and they've lost
track of $100 billion of it.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Yeah, Like where is it?
Speaker 3 (49:34):
I don't know yeah it's in Zelensky's Swiss bank
account.
That's where that's at, yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yep, exactly.
Well, it may have a dictator,but we have presidents.
And you know what else we havePresident's Day.
It's not going anywhere.
Suckers Cry more, cry more.
Yes, I feel like this is goingto have to be said every single
week from now on, because youknow they're always crying about
something.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
You might cancel President's Day.
Ok, not happening, Nothappening, Just shut up.
This is the lead I think she'sthe lead historian at the
Washington Library, Like really,yeah, she's the one who said,
listen, we, you know she'sclearly a Democrat.
Yeah, she's the one who said,listen we, you know she's
(50:34):
clearly a Democrat.
She, you know we've had some.
This is what did she say?
She likened this to celebratingthe birthday of a king, or we
used to have Washington'sbirthday and Lincoln's birthday,
yes, Right.
And then they were like and then, and then they added Martin
Luther King, Right.
So we had like a rapid fire ofa bunch of of uh, you know,
school days off it was greatback in the day, right.
And then they were like, okay,well, we can't have Washington
and Lincoln both.
So then they combined them andthey had President's Day to
celebrate both.
(50:54):
And they just said now we'recelebrating all presidents, and
now this lady wants to get ridof it because there's a
president that she doesn't likeyeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
So that's our response to that and I think
that's the collective responseto that.
You know, are you going tobring it back?
And you know, hopefully notfour years, hopefully not eight
years, hopefully, you know, notever.
But yeah, when it's a presidentyou like, that's when you want
to bring it back.
Oh, what a surprise.
What a surprise.
Yeah, I, you know.
Just another great example ofthe just the cry baby stupidity,
(51:25):
like the petty stupidness thatthey regularly throw out there.
It's what else can you do butlaugh?
I mean, that one makes me laugh.
I got another one that makes melaugh.
We got time.
Yeah, we're gonna squeeze thisreal quick.
So let me go on record andpeople who follow my page
already know this and we'll havealready seen the little clip
I'm going to show you in just amoment.
(51:45):
So I apologize if you've seenit already, but I don't watch
SNL.
I haven't since the old dayswe're going back many, many
years.
I catch whatever I catch fromSNL.
I catch like little clips of iton.
You know whatever, tiktok orReels or this or that, and
there's, you know, occasionallythere's something funny.
Definitely I'll give them that,but it's few and far between
(52:09):
man, and that's the consensus Iheard about this one.
You have a little more.
You watched a little morebefore we get to Tom Hanks.
You watch parts of it.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
You said I've watched half of the special right.
I think it's withoutcommercials.
It's two and a half hours ormaybe with two and a half hours.
I've watched an hour and a halfof it.
Um, I would give it like a twoand a half out of five stars
overall.
Um, and but I didn't know aboutthis skit going in and I will
(52:37):
tell you this it started outvery funny and he was on playing
.
Actually he was playing, um, ohgod, what's?
He was playing another snlcomedian who was standing right
next to him, so he was imitatinga guy standing next to him who
was playing a character, andthis shit was going well and I
was watching.
I was like this is it's blackjeopardy.
It was very, very funny, right.
And and then all of a sudden,eddie murphy was gone and tom
hanks is there and he's in aMAGA hat and he's this like old
white guy with a beard and youknow, and I guess, I guess I
(52:59):
didn't know this he's that's areoccurring character on.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
Is it Okay?
Oh yeah, I think somebody didsay that commented on the video.
Like you do know that it's areoccurring character and it's
very funny and you just took afew seconds of it.
Yeah, well it took the secondsthat counted, so they weren't
funny, like there was nothing.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
There's nothing funny about what he said, about what
he did?
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (53:18):
And if you haven't seen it, I'm going to show you
right now, begging your pardon,guys, it's me in the video as
well.
It's me reacting to the video.
It is what it is.
Here you go.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
Church.
Can I say something?
If more folks went to church,we wouldn't be in this mess
we're in now.
You know what?
Speaker 1 (53:31):
I agree with you, doug, I'd like to shake your
hand.
Sir, here we go.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,it's just a handshake.
It's just a handshake.
Yeah, all right, you're welcometo back All right.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
Well, thank you no-transcript.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
So for anybody to get mad about it, like I'm not mad
about it, I find it disgusting.
Obviously Not funny evenremotely.
But for anyone to be caringwhat they say and do at this
point you're just wasting,you're wasting your time.
There's so much more and betterprogramming you can watch that
you know isn't going to insultyour existence the way that they
(54:42):
have.
Speaker 3 (54:43):
So as long as it doesn't escalate, right.
And and this you know, and BillBurr, I wrote a blog about this
, right Bill Burr is, I wrote ablog about this, right, bill
Burr has escalated beyond comedy.
He decided the other day in oneof his rants and if you're not
familiar with Bill Burr, that'shis style of comedy he's angry
at everybody about he's not,he's bipartisan Like he hates
(55:04):
everybody.
He's angry at everybody all thetime, although he is very much
a liberal, he, you know.
He decided that allbillionaires these are his words
, and I'll cut out the F-bombsbecause there was a lot of them
that all billionaires are thecause of all economic distress
for families and people in thiscountry and that they should all
be put down like rabid dogs.
(55:25):
He's talking about killingpeople.
This is not comedy, folks.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
That's not comedy, that's pure rage.
That's pure rage and hysteria.
Speaker 3 (55:33):
There's nothing funny about it.
We just had, you know, luigiMangione killed, you know, a
former executive on the streetin New York, like this is not
out of the realm people, andhe's making jokes about it, or
he thinks he is, and really, youknow, the thing that you also
need to know about Bill Burr isas much as he's, you know,
railing on billionaires.
The guy's worth $20 millionhimself.
Yeah Right, so kill thebillionaires, but the
(55:56):
multimillionaires they're cool,they're, okay, they're okay,
don't be mad at me.
I have a helicopter pilot'slicense that I don't have
helicopter business, I just havethe license.
I'm cool.
It's it's them that they're theproblem, like you know again.
So he's off the rails.
It's not comedy.
Very much like this Tom Hanksthing.
You know it's not comedy.
Oh, by the way, when theEpstein list comes out, you may
(56:16):
or may not see Tom Hanks again.
That's a different discussion.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Yes exactly.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
But regardless, like is you know, as stupid as that
was, you know it is mostlyharmless.
The Bill Burr thing is not.
Speaker 2 (56:27):
No, that's that is a, that's a, basically a call to
violence.
And you know, the alreadyunhinged people out there, yep,
it just basically it's like adog whistle right For them.
That like, oh, he said, youknow this is what we're dealing
with and um, it's.
I just I can't believe thatthis is the world we live in but
(56:49):
it is, and these are the peoplethat we're dealing with right
now, but that this is the worldwe live in.
But it is, and these are thepeople that we're dealing with
right now.
But the pushback now on all ofit is epic.
It is just epic and it bringsme tremendous joy.
We're back to the joy, guys.
We're back to joy.
Nevermind these guys Listen,they, they, like I said, they've
told us for many years now whatthey think of us and that
(57:10):
should not have come as a as asurprise not worth getting angry
about.
Like you said, there's a listthat's going to be coming out
and I think we'll be able to sitback with our popcorn and enjoy
that and probably not a lot ofsurprises I don't think it's not
for anybody who's been payingattention.
I don't think there's going tobe a lot of, but there's going
to be a lot of people who aresurprised, shocked to the core,
(57:33):
but many of us are just going tosit there and go.
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me,you know right.
We did it, we got through all ofour topics today.
Hey us Yay.
Speaker 3 (57:43):
All right, there'll be more next week.
Speaker 2 (57:44):
I know, I know.
What are we going to talk aboutnext week.
I can't even imagine.
Speaker 3 (57:49):
There'll be plenty.
There'll be plenty.
They're always it.
Speaker 2 (57:52):
Yeah, absolutely Well , guys, we thank you, as always,
for joining us and hanging outwith us and, uh, and joining in
on the conversation.
As we like to remind you, clayis always better about it.
This time, I remember to remindyou that, for us, we're
recording on Wednesday, you arewatching this on Thursday and
hopefully, while you are, youand I and we are watching this,
(58:12):
we'll be celebrating Kasha'sconfirmation.
Right, that's the plan, thehope, the expectations.
So looking forward to it andlooking forward to chat with you
, guys.
You know the drill, clay.
Speaker 3 (58:24):
We're always in the comment section.
Usually I'm bouncing betweenFacebook and YouTube.
Right, I pop into X every nowand again, but we're always out
there.
We're there every week.
We love watching with you guysand we appreciate your support.
And, as always from me keepmoving, keep shooting.
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