January 9, 2025 • 53 mins
This episode explores the intersection of politics, tragedy, and social responsibility by examining California's wildfires, President Carter's legacy, and pressing legislative actions like the Lakin-Riley Act. Engaging with themes such as domestic terrorism, media portrayal, and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights in sports, the hosts emphasize the importance of dialogue and proactive measures in addressing societal challenges.
• Reflections on the California wildfires and community impact
• Tribute to the legacy of President Jimmy Carter
• Explorations of recent tragic incidents and mental health
• Overview of the Lakin-Riley Act and its political implications
• Discussion of Trudeau's resignation and its significance
• Media’s portrayal of Biden and its impact on public perception
• Advocacy for women's sports rights amid cultural conflict
In depth analysis of what’s happening in Israel—and why it matters everywhere.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Elsa Kurtz Show with Clay Novak
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And now it's time for the show.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hey folks, clay Novak here for the Elsa Kurtz Show
with Clay Novak.
Elsa lucky enough for her inour first show of the season got
a bonus trip to Florida to seethose beautiful grandbabies of
hers.
So she is down there andescaping this bitter cold that
we both enjoy in the North.
But we got a lot of stuff totalk about for show of the
season and we will start rightafter this.
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Okay, folks, like I said,you've got me flying solo this
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week.
Elsa will be back next week.
She's down in Florida enjoyingthe sun and her grandbabies Just
a few things off the top.
Normally we dive right into whatis, on average, our biggest
topic of the show, but I want tosay a few things up front.
One Happy New Year to everybody.
I hope you enjoyed Christmasand the New Year's holiday and I
hope everything is going wellfor all of you.
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But there's a couple thingsthat happened that I just want
to hit up front and ongoing.
One of them is the Californiawildfires.
I'm not a thoughts and prayersguy normally, but in this case,
if you haven't seen the footageof the California wildfires,
thoughts and prayers are wherewe all need to be for those
folks.
It is pretty horrific.
Right now it's beingexacerbated by a few things some
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struggles with FEMA, somestruggles within the state of
California and then locally inand around Los Angeles, los
Angeles County, withfirefighters and water
availability and some otherthings.
But for everyone in that area,please be safe.
Again, I saw some footage oftwo guys and a dog in a house
beautiful California style housein the hills glass all the way
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around and literally surroundedby flames that you can't walk
through, you can't see through,you can't see over.
I mean, they were huge, sopretty scary stuff out there.
I just hope everybody stayssafe.
Don't wait, get out if youhaven't yet.
If it's coming your direction,even if you think it's coming
your direction, get out, becausethe fire moves very, very
quickly.
Even if you think it's comingyour direction, get out, because
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the fire moves very, veryquickly.
And, unfortunately for thepeople of California, if you've
never been there or you've neverspent any time there, this is
only really the first step.
These wildfires are going tocontinue until they either burn
out or get themselves undercontrol and, unfortunately, what
those folks in SouthernCalifornia are going to have to
hope for is a relatively dryspring.
Uh, because with the wildfiresand the underbrush all being
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burned away and a lot of the newgrowth being burned away.
Um, if they get a lot of uhprecipitation, uh, the rest of
this spring, that will triggermudslides.
Um, so this has the potential,as bad as these fires are, to
just get perpetually worse forthe those folks in the state of
California for the rest of thespring and into the summer.
Unfortunately, if they get alight, you know, a spring with a
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light precipitation, then thatjust facilitates droughts and
other things.
It's a very nasty circle thatthey endure in Southern
California, but these fires aresome of the worst that I've ever
seen and again, thoughts andprayers go out to those folks.
Second is President Carter.
You know, it's not often thatwe lose a president, especially
one that crested the centurymark.
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You know, president Carter,there's a lot of mixed opinions
about President Carter.
I think, in light of PresidentBiden, president Carter and his
four year stint as presidentlooks pretty amazing.
President Carter and hisfour-year stint as president
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looks pretty amazing when, infact, for decades he's been
considered as one of the leasteffective and least popular
presidents of all time.
But I will say, presidentCarter, the man, no matter those
four years before becoming apolitician.
Obviously he's got thereputation as a peanut farmer,
but he was a naval officer, didsome pretty heroic stuff.
If you haven't looked into hispast and his service, that's
something to look into.
President Carter was a prettyadmirable guy.
And then post White House, postadministration, he has, in my
opinion and I'm old enough toremember President Carter's
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administration very little, butI do remember President Reagan
very, very well and everythingbeyond.
But President Carterpost-administration is probably,
in my opinion, the mosteffective and the most admirable
former president that we have.
He's been completely active andhas stayed not necessarily,
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although when caused, when asked, has stepped in to do some
diplomacy stuff.
I know that he stepped in acouple of times in and around
the Caribbean, I think, katieand some other locales.
He asked, he was asked to stepin.
But also, you know, habitat forHumanity is a huge thing.
He has been a massive proponentof that.
And oh, by the way, if you'venever participated in Habitat
for Humanity, it's.
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I think it's a worthwhile thing.
I've done it.
Go hang some drywall, go put upsome studs, you know, roof a
house, all those kinds of things.
It's a great program andPresident Carter has been an
advocate and a builder ofHabitat for Humanity for decades
.
So we lost a president and he'sgoing to lie, you know, in state
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or is currently lying in stateand capital.
Oh, by the way, I'm recordingthis Wednesday afternoon, 4.30
Eastern time, on the 8th.
So yesterday they loaded him upout of Georgia and were taking
him to Washington DC.
I don't know if he has been putinto lying in state in the
rotunda yet.
I know that is the plan and Iknow that the.
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You know, unfortunately, there'sa little bit of controversy
about or it was some controversyabout the flag flying at half
mast.
You know, during PresidentTrump's inauguration, listen,
respect and honor that we pay toa former president.
President Carter deserves itand I don't think that that's
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one of those things that anybodyand I think president Trump
actually, for a very briefperiod of time, politicized that
a little bit, um, but I thinkthat that's an honor that we
give to president Carter, uh,for the duly appropriate amount
of time, uh, no matter what elseis going on.
So, um, you know it's a loss tothe nation Anytime we lose.
It's a very small club, youknow.
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Right now there's, you know, ahandful I think we're down to
you know what three or fourliving and you know President
Carter was one of them lived tobe 100 and lived a long life.
So while his presidency wasn'tthe greatest, he was a good man
and did a lot for the nationboth before and after his
administration.
So you know some people, youknow they want to criticize him.
I'm not going to do that atthis point.
So again, you know, justsomething I think, that need to
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be addressed, or at least spokenabout at the beginning of the
beginning of the show.
So kudos to President Carterfor his service to the nation
and may he rest in peace.
But that doesn't stop thepolitics of the day, which is
obviously what we always talkabout and what everybody tunes
in for.
You know I could, I could startthis show and go backwards.
You know, elsa and I have beenoff for a couple of weeks since
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before Christmas and a lot ofthings have happened.
You know I could go and I couldtalk about new Orleans, I could
talk about Las Vegas, I couldtalk about those things, but I'm
not gonna.
They've been drug out, they'vebeen evaluated.
We had a domestic terror that'swhat it was domestic terror
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incident in New Orleans.
And then we had I don't thinkit's been classified as a
domestic terror incident, but wehad an incident in Las Vegas,
both of those with formerservice members.
You know New Orleans wasobviously tragic.
You know we lost over a dozenpeople I think the final count
was 15, or at least as it standsright now and then, obviously,
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the only casualty in Las Vegaswas Master Sergeant I'm going to
say his name wrong Livensberger, but it's a shame.
I understand that there's someskepticism about why he did it
and potentially self-driving andwhen he killed himself, and all
kinds of things that you know.
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If you want to dig into thatand you want to follow it, you
know, go ahead.
I think that with both of thesegentlemen, there are some
significant mental health issuesthat need to be examined,
probably one so more than theother.
I think.
Obviously, if you do either actlike this, you have some mental
health issues, but I thinktheir motivations were very,
very different.
What I will say about NewOrleans, though, was that and
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I've heard some feelings withthis I've had some, you know,
some FBI agents, former FBIagents, who basically told me to
shut up.
I don't know what I'm talkingabout.
Ok, fine, I mean they can saythat, but that's part of the
problem.
The performance by the specialagent in charge, sac, was
atrocious in the in the hoursafter New Orleans.
You know it's not a terroristevent Now.
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It is a terrorist event.
Oh, by the way, the FBIwouldn't have been there in the
first place.
If it wasn't a terrorist event,it would have been handled by
local law enforcement like itwas in Las Vegas.
But you know, her performanceis indicative, in my opinion, of
the performance of the FBI overthe last probably half a dozen
years, at least four years forsure, but you take little
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indicators.
I spent my entire militarycareer in leadership positions
and she stood up in front of thecamera and a lot of people
think that this isn't a big deal.
But I'll tell you, she stood upthere out of uniform.
She had a nose piercing.
It was a stud.
I refer to it as a nose ring.
Somebody got in my case aboutthat.
Whatever, she had a nosepiercing, it was a stud.
I refer to it as a nose ring.
Somebody got in my case aboutthat.
Whatever, she had a nosepiercing on camera.
That is out of uniform for theFBI.
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Why does that matter?
Because she's the special agentin charge.
And why does that matter?
Because she's supposed tofollow regulations.
That's how these things aredone.
Now, what does that indicateabout her and her leadership and
her leadership climate?
So you have to assume that herteam saw her with that nose
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piercing in before she steppedin front of the camera.
So that tells me that they onelet her walk on camera because
they were.
Either she had formed a cultureor an environment where they
were either afraid to saysomething to her, which is not
great leadership, or theydisliked her enough that they
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looked at it and they said I'mnot saying anything, she can
burn, she can look bad on camera, she can be out of uniform, I
don't care.
Or the other option is that she, either through ignorance,
arrogance or lack of preparation, had the nose piercing in and
didn't care, which is possible.
Or she had it in and didn'trealize she had it in and wasn't
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aware enough to even prepherself before she went on
camera, which is also a littleshocking.
So you know.
But again, I know some peoplethink that that's not a big deal
, but it is indicative ofleadership.
That person was in charge of aterrorist crime scene.
Okay, if she can't get thedetails right in her own
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appearance and follow the FBIregulations about her own
appearance.
Why should anybody any of us,the taxpayers, or any of her
team have any faith that she'sgoing to execute these things?
You know, execute theprocessing of that crime scene
and determine, you know, what'strue and not true, what is
evidence and not evidence.
You know there's a lot of backand forth.
It was a terrorist event, itwasn't a terrorist event.
Then it was a terrorist event.
Then there were collaborators.
They were, you know, other IEDs.
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They were set by other people,et cetera, et cetera, and it all
ended up, you know, basicallybeing a solo operation by one
guy.
You know they still.
You know the processing of theISIS flag in his truck.
It was all handled pretty poorlyby the FBI publicly.
Now there's some agents, I'msure, that were on the scene
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busting their behind, processingevidence and going through all
that stuff and doing the dirtywork to get all that stuff
together.
It's the leadership that I havea problem with.
There's great agents out therein every town, every city and
they're working.
The leadership of the FBI Ithink that special agent in
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charge was an indicator ofeverything that's going wrong in
the upper echelons of the FBIright now.
So that's my little soapboxabout New Orleans and Las Vegas.
I'm not going to go intoanything else about the two
former service members otherthan mental health issues.
And again, if you need help, ifyou need to talk to someone,
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there's plenty of hotlines outthere.
All of us veterans, I don'tcare who you are veteran or not.
If you need to talk to somebody, talk to somebody.
Please, don't be afraid.
Pick up the hotline, call asuicide hotline and talk to
someone.
But especially if you havemental health issues, please,
please don't be, don't hesitateto reach out.
Okay, moving on with politics.
The House of Representativespassed the Lakin-Riley Act
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through the House.
It still has to go to theSenate, which the anticipation
right now is that it is going topass the Senate, where last
time that this went through itdid not.
But the Lakin-Riley Act, webelieve, is going to make it
through Congress and make it tothe president's desk.
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So Lakin Riley, just for a quickreminder, lakin was the young
university nursing student downin Augusta, georgia, who went
out for a job one morning andwas attacked and murdered by an
illegal immigrant.
Now that illegal immigrant wasin the United States illegally
was a catch and release, right.
So he got caught coming acrossthe border, got released into
the United States down around ElPaso, texas.
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He ended up in New York Citywith his brother, where they
committed a couple of crimesthere and then got on a plane to
Atlanta.
Think about that for a minute.
We've all been through securityin an airport, right?
So he's an illegal alien, whichmeans he probably doesn't have
appropriate ID, or maybe he does.
In the state of New York, he isa criminal and he was
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completely allowed to get on anairplane, um, probably with
minimal documentation or none,um, and fly to Georgia.
And then he was hired by, uh, Ibelieve, uga, um, yes, hired by
university, uh, uh, publicuniversity, taxpayer funded
university, uh, and then, um, inFebruary, uh, I think it was
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February 24th, um, you know hegot up early in the morning, uh,
this young lady was murdered,um, you know, 9am, I think it
was, uh, between nine and nine,30, um, by an illegal immigrant
who, oh, by the way, committedmore crimes in Georgia, um,
receiving stolen goods, sellingstolen goods, uh, et cetera
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receiving stolen goods, sellingstolen goods, et cetera.
Never should have been loose,never should have been in the
public.
Should have been deported,should have been in jail, should
have been a lot of places, butshouldn't have been out on the
trail that morning to attack andmurder Lake and Riley.
So what does the Lake and RileyAct do?
It mandates that ICE detainsand potentially deports not
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mandated Deportation is notmandated, but detention is
mandated.
So if a local law enforcementagency chooses not to, or takes
into custody a criminal, anillegal alien who commits a
crime, down to nonviolent crimesof theft OK, these are not just
violent criminals, but this isshoplifting, this is petty theft
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kind of stuff.
This is even low level,nonviolent crimes.
If they get arrested, ice ismandated to detain them and then
determine their status fordeportation.
So it is getting criminals offthe street, and I say criminals
in the sense of they're alreadycriminals because they're here
illegally, they have no legaldocumentation, they are not on a
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green card, they're notapplying for their citizenship
or have no documentation of thatand are, you know, commit a
crime.
So ICE has to detain them andthen determine if they're going
to be deported or not.
This seems very, seems verycommon sense, I think, to most
of us.
Um, but the reality is, is that, as it went to vote in the
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house of representatives.
Um, it passed.
Um it passed.
But the Democratic division.
There were 159 no votes to theLake and Riley Act, 159 House of
Representatives.
Every single one of those 159nays was a Democrat.
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159, 159 nays to this bill andevery single one of them was
Democrat.
Now there were 48 Democrats whovoted yay, in favor, helped it
pass.
God bless them all.
Um, including John Fetterman,interestingly enough.
Um, but 159 of America'selected Democrat leaders voted
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against passing the Lake andRiley Act.
Now, I'm sure they will give youplenty of analysis and
anticipation and excuses of allkinds of crap of why they voted
against this.
I can't justify any of it.
I can't, you know.
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They're going to tell you that,well, if somebody's you know
petty theft or somebody's lowlevel larceny, if so they
shouldn't be deported.
Well, that's not what it says.
What it says is they have to bedetained by ICE and then
determined whether or notthey're deported.
Okay, Deportate.
Deportation is not mandated inthe Lake and Riley Act.
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There's also some stipulationsin there about responsibilities
for state attorneys general Ithink that's how you say that
State attorneys general orstate's attorney general,
whatever they are, on theirresponsibility for mandating
detention, prosecution, etcetera.
So this is one of thosecontentious things, whether it's
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Governor Newsom or Pritzker orHochul or any of the rest of
these Whitmer walls who say,well, I'm not going to abide by
anything that you know, any ofthese.
You know immigrant laws,sanctuary cities and sanctuary
states and all this other crap.
Their state's attorneys can beheld for lack of a better term
liable culpable.
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For lack of a better termliable culpable.
It's illegal for them to not dothese things and from what I
read and I am far from a lawyer,but my understanding is that
they can be held accountable fornot prosecuting these
individuals and not at leastdetaining them and handing them
over to ICE.
They don't even have to keepthem in their state system.
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Ice will take control of themand that's ICE's responsibility.
So the 159 Democrats may tellyou it's that.
They may tell you oh well, ourstate doesn't abide by that, or
our state doesn't want to dothat, or our state's attorney
this and that.
Blah, blah, blah.
I don't care, I don't care.
This is protecting Americans.
This is not a mandateddeportation.
That that's not in there that Isaw or anything that I read.
Detention is mandatory,deportation is not mandatory, so
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there's no excuse.
There's no excuse for this.
I don't buy it.
Look up who those 159 Democratelected officials are
representatives and let's makesure that we keep track of them
in a couple of years when itcomes time for them.
You know the next round ofelections, but it's pretty
shameful that even I mean Lakeand Riley's name is on the bill
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for crying out loud Like theyknow why this is there.
They know why this has been puton their desk.
They know what the intentbehind this is.
They know what it's trying toprevent.
It's trying to preventrepeating of what happened in
February of 2024.
And they voted against it 159.
159 elected officials, all witha D behind their name, all
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voted against this.
Every Republican voted for and48 Democrats voted for.
I think that says something.
I think it, you know it'scontinues to be indicative of
why the Democrats lost everyfacet of the last election.
I think that you can't denythat their ideology is skewed uh
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against, uh.
Protecting the average citizen,um, and I would say the average
person, because there's a lot ofcrime that's going on, even
immigrant to immigrant, illegalimmigrant to illegal immigrant
or illegal immigrant to legalimmigrant.
There's no controlling thesefolks because they're not being
detained, they're not beingprocessed and they're not being
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potentially deported, if that'swhat's required.
So, 159 Democrats, look them up.
If they're in your district,make sure they hear from you and
let them know that you're nothappy, because I don't think any
of us should be happy with that159 of them.
They can make whatever excusesthey want.
I don't buy it.
But we got some presidential-ishpolitics going on, as always,
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right?
So, incoming President Trump,you know he loves, loves to stir
the pot November 30th, justinTrudeau made a visit down to
Mar-a-Lago.
You guys remember that was abig deal, right, because there
was this else and I talked aboutit.
Right, it was.
We were calling it the Trumpeffect.
Everybody was coming to kissthe ring.
We kept using that term.
They were coming to kiss thering.
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They were coming to kiss hisass is what they were doing.
There's a lot of sucking up andthere's a lot of that still
going on.
But Justin Trudeau, on the 30thof November, met with President
Trump and then just Monday,just two days ago, he resigned
as the prime minister of Canada.
So the question is now if youremember, after November 30th,
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there was some pretty harshjoking going on from President
Trump.
Joking or not doesn't matter,it's President Trump.
He's stirring the pot.
I would tell you that most ofthe time he is joking but he
loves to see the reaction andwhen he gets the reaction he
likes, he just keeps stirringthe pot, and I think this is
definitely one of those cases.
Keeps stirring the pot and Ithink this is definitely one of
those cases.
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Um, you know, he he joked aboutannexing Canada and making it
the 51st state.
Um, because things have gone sohorribly wrong under under uh
Trudeau in Canada over the lastfew years.
Um and uh and it's taken, it'staken on a life of its own.
Um, there are some Canadianswho are very much in favor of
this Um, even before uh Trudeauuh resigned, there's a lot of
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Canadians that were in favor ofthem becoming I don't think it'd
be the 51st state.
I know that's kind of whateverybody joked about.
I'm sure that if there was anannexation of sorts or a, you
know, a joining of uh, of theUnited States and Canada, all
the provinces would becomestates or something like that.
But regardless, if brought on,there's a lot of Canadians who
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are in favor of this.
They know that their rightshave been stripped away slowly
but surely, through thesocialist mindset and government
under Trudeau.
They've lost essentially, atthis point, all what we would
refer to as second amendmentrights.
Um, you're talking about acountry with a culture of, you
know, survivalism, especiallyout west, um, hunting and those
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kinds of things.
Uh, that's really in the fabricof western canada.
There's, there's definitely acowboy feel to that part of
their country.
Um, and, and you know, a veryfree kind of mentality, right
Libertarian almost, um, and andit's all being taken away from
them, uh, slowly but surely, andthey're not happy about it.
So, um, with president Trumpgetting reelected, put him back
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in office, and then the visit onthe 30th of November, and then
the joking about the 51st state.
You know this is brought on alife of its own, and then, and
then Trudeau resigns on Mondayand, and you know it just brings
back the joke and it's and it'sgaining some momentum again.
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I don't think, honestly, thatPresident Trump has any
intention of bringing on Canada,annexing Canada, bringing him
on as part of the United States.
I think he's just sitting bylaughing as the media are
spinning over this and at thesame time, he's stirring the pot
on a couple of other things.
There's this thing aboutGreenland.
So he talked about buyingGreenland, which, if you go back
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, I think all the way back to2016,.
He was joking about Greenland,about bringing in Greenland
because of their naturalresources, like it's a, that's a
huge economic bolster to theUnited States because of what
they have.
Well, you know that it cameback up again and it's gaining
some momentum and to the pointwhere there's some Greenlanders
I think that's what you callthem.
Greenland, by the way, is a.
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I think it's a territory ofDenmark and there's some,
there's some Greenlanders thatare running around in MAGA hats
who again, are voicing theiropinion to be, you know, for the
United States to buy annex,take on, take over whatever
Greenland and make it part ofthe United States.
Denmark has come out and saidnot just no, but hell no.
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But the pushback from theGreenlanders is that they want
to get out from underneath theDanish rule.
For those of you that haven'tspent any time in that part of
Europe, scandinavia is a very,very interesting place.
I've spent not much time therea couple of weeks.
I will say a couple of thingsabout Scandinavia in general.
One extremely clean, extremelyclean.
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It is inside, outside, everyplace that I've been extremely
clean.
Taxes are ridiculously high andthey justify it through
socialized medicine, which iscrap, and they'll tell you that
their care is garbage it is notgreat care, but they pay massive
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taxes for it, et cetera, etcetera.
So there's a lot ofGreenlanders that want to get
out from under Denmark.
They want to.
They would love to become partof the United States or at least
be free.
Denmark has said no.
You know, donald Trump Jr justgot on a plane and flew there
and he's not meeting withanybody.
He's just going up there towalk around and he's stirring a
pot, and that's what he likes todo.
His dad likes to do it.
That's what he likes to do.
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His dad likes to do it.
And why are they doing it?
Just because they can and towatch the media and the public
reaction.
There's no intent to do this.
If you believe that the UnitedStates is going to try and annex
Greenland, I think you're crazy, but that's how people are
reacting.
And then we've got the newestone, and this is just in the
last, I think, 36 hours.
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President Trump claimed thathe's going to rename the gulf of
mexico.
Really like you?
Really believe that he's goingto do that.
He's not going to do that.
He has no intent intention ofdoing that.
He's doing that solely to get arise out of people.
Um, and and and it's working.
It is working.
You know people used to whenthere was.
You know, in the aftermath ofthe failed you know Biden
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campaign turned into the Harriscampaign that both failed.
You know there's someintrospection from some sources
the Democratic Party, but fromsome sources in the media about
what did they do wrong?
How did this go wrong?
What should they have donebetter?
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What should we have done better?
You know the Democrats weresaying and it's all over the
place.
There's some introspectiongoing on and there seemed to be
less of what is commonly knownas TDS Trump derangement
syndrome.
And honestly, I think presidentTrump might've got a little
bored and he decided to spin upthe TDS bus a little bit and
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started throwing out this stuffabout Canada and Greenland and
now the Gulf of Mexico, and he'sgetting exactly the reaction
that he wants.
Uh, there's people melting downon social media.
There's people in the mediathat are freaking out.
There's people like, oh, Ican't believe he's focused.
There's so many other thingsthat need to be fixed?
How can he be focused onchanging the name of the Gulf of
Mexico?
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Well, first things.
First, he's not in office rightnow.
There's still a couple of weeksleft of feeble President Biden,
so he can focus on whatever hewants, because he has no power
to do anything.
But that's what he's doing.
He's throwing that out therejust to get a rise out of people
.
That's what he does and peoplefall for it all the time.
Right, the whole.
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You know, um, you could go backand you could say when, when he
said, I'm gonna, I'm gonna makemexico pay for the wall, right,
people took that literally.
Like Mexico was going to writeus a check, or they were going
to buy all the buildingmaterials, or they were going to
pay for the labor.
That's not what he meant,that's what he said.
But people took it literallybecause they don't know context,
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they don't know how tointerpret him, they don't know
how he communicates, and Trumpderangement syndrome kicks in.
And then this is what you gethe's not changing the name of
the Gulf of frigging Mexico,he's not going to do it, but he
got the rise that he wanted outof people.
There are people melting downover this right now, as we speak
, go to social media.
They're all over the place Bluehaired, crazy ladies with 52
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piercings, you know, like therethere's people, I'm sure the
views melting down.
Like there there's people, I'msure, the views melting down.
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I don't even think anybodywatches that crap now.
But that's what's happening.
He we're going to do a betterjob of reporting on President
Trump.
We're going to be more honest.
We're going to do this, we'regoing to do that.
No, they're not.
This is proof positive.
He's proven it to the UnitedStates.
Everybody that watches itbecause that's the reaction from
the media Keep watching it.
That's what he's doing for thenext two weeks.
He's just and watching whatpeople do and with that, right.
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So you've got president Biden,who stood up in front of America
just yesterday and when askeduh about does he think if he had
gotten reelected, does he thinkhe would have made it through
four years as the president?
And he said hell, I don't know.
The man said it himself.
Hell, I don't know, cause he'sgoing to be 86 by the time it's
over, right, and he knew, and,and the media knew, we all knew,
(30:29):
right.
But now there's some admittingthat's going on.
Uh, in fact, um, you know JamesCarville, who I've talked about
on this program a number oftimes, has talked about you know
that the Democratic Party needsto be more honest.
They need to be able to connectwith the people.
They need to stop with their.
You know vernacular.
And again, president Biden madea speech I think it was on
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Monday where he used all ofthose fancy terms that most of
average America doesn'tunderstand, don't care to listen
to.
But it's the Democratvocabulary.
It's the stuff they've got toget away from Um.
But yet the media is stilllapping it up.
They love it, Um.
And then you've got people likeJames Carville and Bill Maher.
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Um, we're calling them outbecause this is the failure,
this is their failure.
This is why the the electionfailed um is because of that,
because they're not connectedwith the American people.
And you know Maher's callinghim out.
He had you know he had one ofthe two stars, not Charlie Sheen
, but the other guy.
It tells you how famous he isfrom Two and a Half Men was on
(31:33):
the Bill Maher show just theother day last week and they
were talking, started dippedinto politics a little bit and
you know they're talking aboutthe failed election.
And you know, the other guysaid, that celebrity guy said
well, people, you know Trumpsupporters are, they hate, you
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know, black people and they hatewomen and they hate trans
people, trans people and that'swhy, you know, the Democrats
failed the election.
And Maher looked at him andbasically called him out and
said you're an idiot.
Like, that's not what it is.
And and oh, by the way, you'rethe prime example of of being
disconnected from the Americanpublic.
Um, so that that all that iscoming around, right, you know,
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there's, it's not the mainstreammedia, because we keep again,
as president Trump keepsthrowing these pebbles in the
water and watching the ripples.
You know he's watching thepress react in such a crazy
negative way that it just provesthat they're not over this,
that they are going to continueto do what they do and what they
have done for the last eightyears.
You know, through hisadministration, through the
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Biden administration, they'regoing to continue to treat him
the same.
You can count it, he's provenit.
Right now.
He hasn't even taken office yet.
Um, and, and really, you know,you can tell things are bad
because Brian Williams y'allremember Brian Williams, right?
Uh, nighttime newscaster whohad a series of.
(32:55):
I've been there.
I was there, I got shot at, Iwas in Afghanistan and this, my
helicopter crash, all kinds ofstuff.
The guy was just, he lies asmuch as President Biden lies.
He, of all people, has come outand said it was really really
tough to watch the mediastruggle to accurately reflect
the mental decline of PresidentBiden.
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Brian Williams said that abouthis peers.
Right, that's an indicator thatthings have gone upside down.
Right, that guy is sounreliable, or has been so
unreliable for so long for him,because he is a.
He's a blatant liar.
You know he's a stolen valorkind of guy, but he, he called
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it out.
He called him out and he saidlisten, this isn't it.
You guys.
It was terrible to watch mypeers struggle to be honest
about President Biden.
Brian Williams said that.
So, again, as President Trumpcontinues to watch for something
new though I bet there'sprobably one more before the
election, before inaugurationday I bet there's one more crazy
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thing that comes out.
It might not be.
I know he's kind of going afterPresident Biden about the
California wildfires right now.
I don't think that's it.
I know that he's talking aboutbanning wind power, building any
more wind power.
I don't think that's it either.
But I think there's going to beone more thing.
I think it'll be one moreoutlandish declaration from
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president Trump, uh, in the nexttwo weeks before the
inauguration, and all he's doingis trying to get a reaction.
And he'll get the reaction, um,that he's looking for, uh, and
again it's just proving the factthat the media is has been
biased, is biased, will bebiased, probably for his four
years, uh, next four years, asthe president, and nothing's
changed.
Um, you know, know and listen,our media outlets as a whole,
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you know, are suspect.
We know that, and listen, I'mnot, I'm not blind.
Fox is suspect too.
They're biased, a hundredpercent biased.
They do a better job ofadmitting that they're biased,
okay, but all of the networkshave lost the editorial tag
because that is the biased, okay, uh, but all of the networks
have lost the um editorial tagbecause that is the norm.
And again, we've talked aboutthis multiple times.
(35:07):
But, you know, old Don Lemon,Don Lamond, uh, you know was and
Rachel Maddow are two primeexamples of people who were
given the keys.
They were given the keys.
They are paid an exorbitantamount of money to talk, uh, and
and to provide the news, andwhat they provided was their
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opinion and, uh, that is whatfailed those outlets CNN, msnbc.
That's what's killing it.
And Fox needs to be carefulbecause, listen, jesse Waters,
I'm not a huge Jesse Waters fan.
Listen, everybody watchesGutfeld.
That knows.
Gutfeld is entertainment,that's not news.
Okay, they cover news topics,but you watch Gutfeld for like
(35:51):
10 minutes and you'll know thatthere's nothing serious about
that show other than providingcomplete comedy commentary on
politics of the day.
They're not hiding anything.
Jesse Waters is a magazine show,again, providing opinion based
on a few facts.
That is an editorial show andthey need to be careful how that
(36:14):
is couched.
And because he could easilyfall into the same trap,
although their fan base isbigger.
But he could fall into the sametrap of Rachel Maddow and old
Don Lamond as being mistaken forbroadcasting news, which is not
what he's doing.
He is broadcasting his opinionand I'm not a Jesse Waters fan,
(36:36):
particularly he does come upwith some good stuff on occasion
, but I'm not, I'm not a fan ofwhat he normally produces,
because he does kind of puthimself out there, as you know.
Hey, what I'm stating is is fact, elsa and I have said this a
number of times we're we'repundits.
We are not newscasters.
We are doing exactly what I'mtalking about, which is we are
talking about topics of the dayand providing our opinion.
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That's what we do.
Okay, whether you agree with usor not, I encourage you to form
your own opinion, butunfortunately, we have a lot of
people on both sides of theaisle both parties and both
extremes who are spoon fed.
Uh, they don't do any analysisof their own and, uh, and that's
how we end up where we are, um,so you know, um, president
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Trump's going to continue tochum the waters a little bit.
See what kind of a reaction hecan get out of, out of all the
folks out there.
And, uh, and I can promise youthat before inauguration day in
a couple of weeks, he will comeup with something else
completely outlandish, um.
And so, speaking of theinauguration, um, there's a
(37:43):
number of folks out there, uh,who have given a ridiculous
amount of money, uh, for theinauguration, and it's coming
from weird places.
Um, zuckerberg, does anybodyunderstand?
Does anybody?
Do we know what this guy's upto?
I don't trust him.
He's a skinny little dude and Idon't trust him as far as I can
(38:06):
throw, but he has all of asudden flipped.
I'm sure all of you arewatching this.
He's flipped.
He gave a million dollars tothe Trump inauguration.
He has flipped.
He gave a million dollars tothe Trump inauguration.
He is flipping over everythingin meta, specifically Facebook,
getting rid of the fact checkers.
Who's been suspended?
(38:27):
I never have, actually, whichis even surprising to me.
Who's been suspended fromFacebook?
Right for violation ofcommunity standards?
For you know, and that it wasthe big umbrella, they could
basically suspend you foranything.
But you know, there were a lotof people got suspended from
Facebook for being fact-checkedand and oh, by the way,
(38:47):
erroneously, because thefact-checkers were opinionated
and they weren't checking facts,they were checking beliefs and
they were suspending people.
So they've gotten rid ofsupposedly, meta's, gotten rid
of fact checkers and, if youhaven't been on any of the Meta
platforms Facebook, instagram,et cetera lately people are
testing the system.
I've seen straight up attacks onZuckerberg.
I've seen some straight uppostings about the validity of
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COVID, which would have gottenyou suspended.
Drop of a hat.
Not all that long ago.
Covid, which would have gottenyou suspended?
Drop of a hat.
Um, not all that long ago, butum, you know, covid shots the
vaccine, the vaccines, callingout that crap um, violations of
what was community standards notall that long ago, um, and what
would have been fact-checked,and people are testing the
system.
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Uh, because of what Zuckerbergsaid, I am highly skeptical.
Listen, I understand, you know.
Zuckerberg is not a type A male.
There's nothing type A aboutthat guy.
He's smart, you know.
I know there's some speculationwhether or not he's on the
autism spectrum.
I don't know.
Never met the guy, never seen amedical diagnosis.
Maybe he is, I don't know.
But what he's not is a strongpersonality in the sense of, you
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know, being able to stand upand defend what he's doing or
what he's done.
I know when he testified infront of Congress and he was
sitting on a pillow, it didn'tgo well for him, but he's turned
around and he is kissingPresident Trump's ass.
Like Facebook is going straightup MAGA, which is really really
crazy, and straight up MAGA,which is really really crazy.
But the million dollars to theTrump inauguration, the banning
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or getting rid of the factcheckers, and then they're using
whatever it is that X uses Idon't remember the name of it
community monitors or somethinglike that.
I don't know which Elon saysworks.
I don't know.
But yeah, zuckerberg ischanging his tune.
My speculation is that he is orwill either bail himself out,
(40:42):
dump out of meta, sell itcompletely, get out of it within
the next 18 months, or he'sstuck and he's stuck in meta
forever and he's just going tobend with the breeze and he's
going to go.
You know, whatever direction.
Whoever's in office, maybe he'sjust going to bend with the
breeze and he's going to go.
You know, whatever direction.
Whoever's in office, maybe he'sjust going to tolerate this for
two years and then hope thatCongress flips over, uh, and
then he can just go back tobeing the weak, spineless little
(41:05):
you know, um spy for the fedsthat he is, um.
So we'll, we'll see whathappens with him.
But again, I, I don't, I don, Idon't trust him, but it's
sideways, he's doing it.
There's some other folks Bezos,I think, gave a million dollars
.
They're all kissing the ring.
They're all kissing PresidentTrump's ass.
We're going to see some changeson some stuff immediately, but
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that one I'm very weary for allof you out there, for all of us
out there that use the metaplatforms.
I don't know how this is goingto go.
I wouldn't make any drasticchanges to what you're doing on
meta, because we just can't seeall the things that Zuckerberg
is doing.
So take that for what it'sworth.
Hey, just one more topic I wrotea blog today about.
(41:54):
I read an article aboutJennifer Sayennifer say.
Uh, if you don't know, jennifersay is uh, she used to be, uh,
the ceo of levi's.
Uh, she was a former elitelevel gymnast, and when I say
elite level, she didn't competein the olympics.
She had an injury.
She missed, uh, olympic trialsand didn't compete and never
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made the olymp.
But she did compete for theUnited States at national level.
She competed on the nationalteam at the Goodwill Games, I
think you know she competed atsome other elite levels.
She's an elite level athlete.
Okay, happy with or wasn't happyeven when she worked at Levi's
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which she no longer works atLevi's about the direction of
the discussion or the directionof the transgender women or
transgender athletes competingagainst women, and she spoke out
about it and she got canceledand really lost her job as a
result.
She got attacked.
I don't think Levi's would eversay out loud that that's why
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she lost her job.
But that's why she lost her job, I mean, let's be honest.
So she lost her job and thenshe stepped away.
She's been vocal aboutprotecting women's sports.
She's not anti-trans.
I'm going to say that again.
She's not anti-trans, she isfor protecting women's sports.
Anti-trans, she is forprotecting women's sports.
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Okay, she sees the writing onthe wall.
She sees what the San DiegoState University volleyball team
, what happened in and aroundthat team this past season, and
for those of you that aren'ttracking that San Diego State
had a transgender player.
A number of teams forfeited,refused to compete because that
transgender player smashed aball and injured another player.
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On another team, thattransgender player threatened to
attack and injure one of theteammates on the San Diego I'm
not going to say her becauseit's not her, sorry.
On the San Diego Statevolleyball team, the team
captain, one of the coaches, gotfired over this and at the end
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of the season for those youngladies that did endure all of
this.
Now that transgender athletehas since graduated or not
graduated, but used up alleligibility to continue to
compete in collegiate sports socan't come back to the team the
following year.
But I am confident in thenumbers that I have seen so far.
The entire San Diego StateUniversity women's volleyball
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team is either out ofeligibility slash, graduating or
transferring to another school,another school, the whole team
over this, because that coach,that university brought on,
protected and allowed thistransgender athlete to play,
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which essentially brought somuch negativity to their season.
Again, there were teams thatforfeited, refused to play
against them.
Their run into the nationalchampionship tournament was
paved, it was carpeted, becauseteams just refused to play them.
They had victories that theydidn't earn, they were
overmatched and eventually lostin the national championship
playoffs.
And those young ladies don'twant to be a part of it.
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They want to go get theirscholarship or their opportunity
to play somewhere else.
They don't want to be wrappedup in all the drama.
They don't want to beassociated with a program like
that that put that transgenderathlete ahead of everyone else
on that team.
And that's exactly what JenniferSay is talking about in
protecting women's sports,protecting women playing women's
sports.
Right, we're talking, we've allheard this but it's talking
(45:42):
about the loss of, you know,accolades, the loss of wins, the
loss of records, the loss offinancial gain, potentially the
loss of scholarships.
Now her position is to protectwomen's sports.
She's not anti-trans, she's not.
She's protecting women's sports.
She's been branded asanti-trans, she's been attacked,
she's been called a bigot she'sbeen because she disagrees with
the beliefs of someone else.
She doesn't hate them, butbecause of that she's been
slandered, she's been attackedonline, she's gotten physical
threats all kinds of things thatshe's endured because her
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beliefs are different.
And this is where we have lostour way as the United States and
, truthfully, as the globe isgoing this direction.
We can't hardline every singlediscussion.
Remember, before Christmas,mainstream media was talking
about it's okay to cut off yourfamily members that voted for
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Trump and not invite them toChristmas.
That was the advice that wasbeing given to the American
public by our own mainstreammedia.
You should hate your familymembers enough over political
views to cut them out of yourlife for the holidays.
Are you freaking, kidding me?
And people listen to that?
People believe that.
Oh well, if you don't supporttrans athletes, you clearly hate
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all trans people.
No, I don't.
I want to protect young ladies.
I want to protect themphysically.
I want to protect theiropportunities.
I want to protect their sport,trans athletes.
Tell the NCAA to generate anentirely new league of
classification.
We have men's sports, we havewomen's sports.
Make trans sports Simple, very,very easy, right, or have them
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all compete on the men's side.
Has anybody seen?
I can't.
I haven't seen a single one.
I haven't seen a singletransgender athlete say I want
to play on the men's team.
I don't think there's atransgender athlete playing
collegiate football, femaletransitioning to a male Not one
that I can think of or that I'veheard of, or any other sport
(47:34):
for that matter.
Okay, this is all formally maleat birth, transitioning to
female, wanting to play femalesports.
All of them.
Okay, again, I'm not hating onthem, but they're taking away
from women's sports.
This is the entire reason wehad title nine in the first
place was to protect women'sopportunities.
Right, reach down, talk, youknow.
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Listen to Martina Navratilova.
Read some of the things thatshe said.
She's horribly opposed to this.
Oh, by the way, a member of theLGBTQ community horribly
opposed to this.
But Jennifer Say is an exampleof where we have lost our way.
She's not anti-trans, she'spro-w sports, right.
She started a, a um clothingcompany, xxyy or XXXY, right,
(48:22):
and basically what she's sayingis chromosomes matter.
Xx chromosome is not the sameas an XY chromosome.
They're not the same, right,and that's the purpose of it.
It's not anti-trans.
Oh, by the way, it's beingcalled the new MAGA hat that
clothing brand, but we've lostour way because she's been
villainized for protectingwomen's sports and not buying
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into and abiding by a beliefsystem that she doesn't agree
with.
She doesn't hate them, she justdoesn't agree with it.
But again, physically, it'sphysically threatened, right
Attacked, lost her job as a CEOover a difference in beliefs.
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And and we as a nation areperpetuating this, our media is
doing it, we're doing it, we'reall you know there's, there's a
lot of.
If you don't agree with me,then clearly you hate me.
No, or if you don't agree withme, I have to hate you.
No, my mom says it all the timeAgree to disagree.
End of discussion.
Right, that's it.
Move on to something else.
(49:26):
I remember there's a couple ofthings when I was a kid.
One children should be seen andnot heard.
I'm a big fan of Okay, right,get out of the adult discussion.
You're not a grownup.
Children should be seen and notheard Should hold true today.
Also, you don't discussreligion and politics with
family.
It's like not working withfamily and not loaned family
(49:46):
money.
But religion and politics youdon't talk about it in public.
Why?
Because it's just going to turninto an argument.
Okay, and even back then, rightand I'm talking like this is
when I was a kid, but it waseven before that People couldn't
have.
A lot of times they couldn'thave a rational discussion.
So, until we can have arational discussion, don't talk
about it.
I would love, I would love forus to be grownups.
(50:08):
I wish we could.
I would love for us to begrownups, have rational
discussions about issues of theday that matter, this being one
of them.
Discussions about issues of theday that matter, this being one
of them.
Have two level-headed people,or groups of people,
level-headed sit in a room, hashit out, have a discussion.
At the end of the day, if theycan't come to some sort of
agreement, agree to disagree andgo in different directions.
(50:29):
There doesn't have to be hateover every single thing that we
talk about.
It's not required, but that'swhat we do.
That's our default now and it'sbeing perpetuated by those in
the public eye.
It's crazy, right?
If you don't agree with me,you're racist, you're a bigot,
you are anti-religion, you'repro-religion, you're
pro-abortion, you'reanti-abortion, you're pro-gun,
you're anti-gun, whatever it isright, and a lot of those
(50:50):
organizations out there are likethat.
We have to do better.
Collectively, we have to dobetter.
That's where progress comes inand this nation is stalling out
because we have very littleprogress going on and it's
because we can't have adult,rational discussions about
topics of the day.
That's where we're stuck, folks.
(51:11):
I'm probably not telling youanything.
You don't know, but I'm sayingit out loud.
We need to do better.
Just because you don't know,but I'm saying it out loud we
need to do better.
Okay, just because you don'tagree with something doesn't
mean you hate somebody who does,who believes something
different than you do.
Okay, you don't even have toagree with them.
You certainly don't have tohate them, right?
And you don't have to believethat somebody hates you because
they don't agree with you.
You can have discussion anddisagreement, civil disagreement
(51:40):
, and move on.
It's okay.
So listen, folks, elsa is goingto be back next week.
You don't have to sit andlisten to me run my head for an
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I can't wait to have her.
I always have a lot more funwhen she's here, but you know
she's down doing what she lovesand it's a great opportunity.
I don't falter, and neithershould you, about going and
seeing those grandbabies onemore time.
Uh, you know, in this early inthis new year.
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Elsa will be back next week.
She's down in Florida enjoyingthe sun and her grandbabies Just
a few things off the top.
Normally we dive right into whatis, on average, our biggest
topic of the show, but I want tosay a few things up front.
One Happy New Year to everybody.
I hope you enjoyed Christmasand the New Year's holiday and I
hope everything is going wellfor all of you.
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But there's a couple thingsthat happened that I just want
to hit up front and ongoing.
One of them is the Californiawildfires.
I'm not a thoughts and prayersguy normally, but in this case,
if you haven't seen the footageof the California wildfires,
thoughts and prayers are wherewe all need to be for those
folks.
It is pretty horrific.
Right now it's beingexacerbated by a few things some
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struggles with FEMA, somestruggles within the state of
California and then locally inand around Los Angeles, los
Angeles County, withfirefighters and water
availability and some otherthings.
But for everyone in that area,please be safe.
Again, I saw some footage oftwo guys and a dog in a house
beautiful California style housein the hills glass all the way
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around and literally surroundedby flames that you can't walk
through, you can't see through,you can't see over.
I mean, they were huge, sopretty scary stuff out there.
I just hope everybody stayssafe.
Don't wait, get out if youhaven't yet.
If it's coming your direction,even if you think it's coming
your direction, get out, becausethe fire moves very, very
quickly.
Even if you think it's comingyour direction, get out, because
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the fire moves very, veryquickly.
And, unfortunately for thepeople of California, if you've
never been there or you've neverspent any time there, this is
only really the first step.
These wildfires are going tocontinue until they either burn
out or get themselves undercontrol and, unfortunately, what
those folks in SouthernCalifornia are going to have to
hope for is a relatively dryspring.
Uh, because with the wildfiresand the underbrush all being
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burned away and a lot of the newgrowth being burned away.
Um, if they get a lot of uhprecipitation, uh, the rest of
this spring, that will triggermudslides.
Um, so this has the potential,as bad as these fires are, to
just get perpetually worse forthe those folks in the state of
California for the rest of thespring and into the summer.
Unfortunately, if they get alight, you know, a spring with a
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light precipitation, then thatjust facilitates droughts and
other things.
It's a very nasty circle thatthey endure in Southern
California, but these fires aresome of the worst that I've ever
seen and again, thoughts andprayers go out to those folks.
Second is President Carter.
You know, it's not often thatwe lose a president, especially
one that crested the centurymark.
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You know, president Carter,there's a lot of mixed opinions
about President Carter.
I think, in light of PresidentBiden, president Carter and his
four year stint as presidentlooks pretty amazing.
President Carter and hisfour-year stint as president
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looks pretty amazing when, infact, for decades he's been
considered as one of the leasteffective and least popular
presidents of all time.
But I will say, presidentCarter, the man, no matter those
four years before becoming apolitician.
Obviously he's got thereputation as a peanut farmer,
but he was a naval officer, didsome pretty heroic stuff.
If you haven't looked into hispast and his service, that's
something to look into.
President Carter was a prettyadmirable guy.
And then post White House, postadministration, he has, in my
opinion and I'm old enough toremember President Carter's
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administration very little, butI do remember President Reagan
very, very well and everythingbeyond.
But President Carterpost-administration is probably,
in my opinion, the mosteffective and the most admirable
former president that we have.
He's been completely active andhas stayed not necessarily,
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although when caused, when asked, has stepped in to do some
diplomacy stuff.
I know that he stepped in acouple of times in and around
the Caribbean, I think, katieand some other locales.
He asked, he was asked to stepin.
But also, you know, habitat forHumanity is a huge thing.
He has been a massive proponentof that.
And oh, by the way, if you'venever participated in Habitat
for Humanity, it's.
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I think it's a worthwhile thing.
I've done it.
Go hang some drywall, go put upsome studs, you know, roof a
house, all those kinds of things.
It's a great program andPresident Carter has been an
advocate and a builder ofHabitat for Humanity for decades
.
So we lost a president and he'sgoing to lie, you know, in state
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or is currently lying in stateand capital.
Oh, by the way, I'm recordingthis Wednesday afternoon, 4.30
Eastern time, on the 8th.
So yesterday they loaded him upout of Georgia and were taking
him to Washington DC.
I don't know if he has been putinto lying in state in the
rotunda yet.
I know that is the plan and Iknow that the.
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You know, unfortunately, there'sa little bit of controversy
about or it was some controversyabout the flag flying at half
mast.
You know, during PresidentTrump's inauguration, listen,
respect and honor that we pay toa former president.
President Carter deserves itand I don't think that that's
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one of those things that anybodyand I think president Trump
actually, for a very briefperiod of time, politicized that
a little bit, um, but I thinkthat that's an honor that we
give to president Carter, uh,for the duly appropriate amount
of time, uh, no matter what elseis going on.
So, um, you know it's a loss tothe nation Anytime we lose.
It's a very small club, youknow.
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Right now there's, you know, ahandful I think we're down to
you know what three or fourliving and you know President
Carter was one of them lived tobe 100 and lived a long life.
So while his presidency wasn'tthe greatest, he was a good man
and did a lot for the nationboth before and after his
administration.
So you know some people, youknow they want to criticize him.
I'm not going to do that atthis point.
So again, you know, justsomething I think, that need to
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be addressed, or at least spokenabout at the beginning of the
beginning of the show.
So kudos to President Carterfor his service to the nation
and may he rest in peace.
But that doesn't stop thepolitics of the day, which is
obviously what we always talkabout and what everybody tunes
in for.
You know I could, I could startthis show and go backwards.
You know, elsa and I have beenoff for a couple of weeks since
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before Christmas and a lot ofthings have happened.
You know I could go and I couldtalk about new Orleans, I could
talk about Las Vegas, I couldtalk about those things, but I'm
not gonna.
They've been drug out, they'vebeen evaluated.
We had a domestic terror that'swhat it was domestic terror
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incident in New Orleans.
And then we had I don't thinkit's been classified as a
domestic terror incident, but wehad an incident in Las Vegas,
both of those with formerservice members.
You know New Orleans wasobviously tragic.
You know we lost over a dozenpeople I think the final count
was 15, or at least as it standsright now and then, obviously,
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the only casualty in Las Vegaswas Master Sergeant I'm going to
say his name wrong Livensberger, but it's a shame.
I understand that there's someskepticism about why he did it
and potentially self-driving andwhen he killed himself, and all
kinds of things that you know.
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If you want to dig into thatand you want to follow it, you
know, go ahead.
I think that with both of thesegentlemen, there are some
significant mental health issuesthat need to be examined,
probably one so more than theother.
I think.
Obviously, if you do either actlike this, you have some mental
health issues, but I thinktheir motivations were very,
very different.
What I will say about NewOrleans, though, was that and
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I've heard some feelings withthis I've had some, you know,
some FBI agents, former FBIagents, who basically told me to
shut up.
I don't know what I'm talkingabout.
Ok, fine, I mean they can saythat, but that's part of the
problem.
The performance by the specialagent in charge, sac, was
atrocious in the in the hoursafter New Orleans.
You know it's not a terroristevent Now.
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It is a terrorist event.
Oh, by the way, the FBIwouldn't have been there in the
first place.
If it wasn't a terrorist event,it would have been handled by
local law enforcement like itwas in Las Vegas.
But you know, her performanceis indicative, in my opinion, of
the performance of the FBI overthe last probably half a dozen
years, at least four years forsure, but you take little
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indicators.
I spent my entire militarycareer in leadership positions
and she stood up in front of thecamera and a lot of people
think that this isn't a big deal.
But I'll tell you, she stood upthere out of uniform.
She had a nose piercing.
It was a stud.
I refer to it as a nose ring.
Somebody got in my case aboutthat.
Whatever, she had a nosepiercing, it was a stud.
I refer to it as a nose ring.
Somebody got in my case aboutthat.
Whatever, she had a nosepiercing on camera.
That is out of uniform for theFBI.
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Why does that matter?
Because she's the special agentin charge.
And why does that matter?
Because she's supposed tofollow regulations.
That's how these things aredone.
Now, what does that indicateabout her and her leadership and
her leadership climate?
So you have to assume that herteam saw her with that nose
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piercing in before she steppedin front of the camera.
So that tells me that they onelet her walk on camera because
they were.
Either she had formed a cultureor an environment where they
were either afraid to saysomething to her, which is not
great leadership, or theydisliked her enough that they
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looked at it and they said I'mnot saying anything, she can
burn, she can look bad on camera, she can be out of uniform, I
don't care.
Or the other option is that she, either through ignorance,
arrogance or lack of preparation, had the nose piercing in and
didn't care, which is possible.
Or she had it in and didn'trealize she had it in and wasn't
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aware enough to even prepherself before she went on
camera, which is also a littleshocking.
So you know.
But again, I know some peoplethink that that's not a big deal
, but it is indicative ofleadership.
That person was in charge of aterrorist crime scene.
Okay, if she can't get thedetails right in her own
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appearance and follow the FBIregulations about her own
appearance.
Why should anybody any of us,the taxpayers, or any of her
team have any faith that she'sgoing to execute these things?
You know, execute theprocessing of that crime scene
and determine, you know, what'strue and not true, what is
evidence and not evidence.
You know there's a lot of backand forth.
It was a terrorist event, itwasn't a terrorist event.
Then it was a terrorist event.
Then there were collaborators.
They were, you know, other IEDs.
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They were set by other people,et cetera, et cetera, and it all
ended up, you know, basicallybeing a solo operation by one
guy.
You know they still.
You know the processing of theISIS flag in his truck.
It was all handled pretty poorlyby the FBI publicly.
Now there's some agents, I'msure, that were on the scene
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busting their behind, processingevidence and going through all
that stuff and doing the dirtywork to get all that stuff
together.
It's the leadership that I havea problem with.
There's great agents out therein every town, every city and
they're working.
The leadership of the FBI Ithink that special agent in
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charge was an indicator ofeverything that's going wrong in
the upper echelons of the FBIright now.
So that's my little soapboxabout New Orleans and Las Vegas.
I'm not going to go intoanything else about the two
former service members otherthan mental health issues.
And again, if you need help, ifyou need to talk to someone,
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there's plenty of hotlines outthere.
All of us veterans, I don'tcare who you are veteran or not.
If you need to talk to somebody, talk to somebody.
Please, don't be afraid.
Pick up the hotline, call asuicide hotline and talk to
someone.
But especially if you havemental health issues, please,
please don't be, don't hesitateto reach out.
Okay, moving on with politics.
The House of Representativespassed the Lakin-Riley Act
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through the House.
It still has to go to theSenate, which the anticipation
right now is that it is going topass the Senate, where last
time that this went through itdid not.
But the Lakin-Riley Act, webelieve, is going to make it
through Congress and make it tothe president's desk.
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So Lakin Riley, just for a quickreminder, lakin was the young
university nursing student downin Augusta, georgia, who went
out for a job one morning andwas attacked and murdered by an
illegal immigrant.
Now that illegal immigrant wasin the United States illegally
was a catch and release, right.
So he got caught coming acrossthe border, got released into
the United States down around ElPaso, texas.
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He ended up in New York Citywith his brother, where they
committed a couple of crimesthere and then got on a plane to
Atlanta.
Think about that for a minute.
We've all been through securityin an airport, right?
So he's an illegal alien, whichmeans he probably doesn't have
appropriate ID, or maybe he does.
In the state of New York, he isa criminal and he was
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completely allowed to get on anairplane, um, probably with
minimal documentation or none,um, and fly to Georgia.
And then he was hired by, uh, Ibelieve, uga, um, yes, hired by
university, uh, uh, publicuniversity, taxpayer funded
university, uh, and then, um, inFebruary, uh, I think it was
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February 24th, um, you know hegot up early in the morning, uh,
this young lady was murdered,um, you know, 9am, I think it
was, uh, between nine and nine,30, um, by an illegal immigrant
who, oh, by the way, committedmore crimes in Georgia, um,
receiving stolen goods, sellingstolen goods, uh, et cetera
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receiving stolen goods, sellingstolen goods, et cetera.
Never should have been loose,never should have been in the
public.
Should have been deported,should have been in jail, should
have been a lot of places, butshouldn't have been out on the
trail that morning to attack andmurder Lake and Riley.
So what does the Lake and RileyAct do?
It mandates that ICE detainsand potentially deports not
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mandated Deportation is notmandated, but detention is
mandated.
So if a local law enforcementagency chooses not to, or takes
into custody a criminal, anillegal alien who commits a
crime, down to nonviolent crimesof theft OK, these are not just
violent criminals, but this isshoplifting, this is petty theft
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kind of stuff.
This is even low level,nonviolent crimes.
If they get arrested, ice ismandated to detain them and then
determine their status fordeportation.
So it is getting criminals offthe street, and I say criminals
in the sense of they're alreadycriminals because they're here
illegally, they have no legaldocumentation, they are not on a
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green card, they're notapplying for their citizenship
or have no documentation of thatand are, you know, commit a
crime.
So ICE has to detain them andthen determine if they're going
to be deported or not.
This seems very, seems verycommon sense, I think, to most
of us.
Um, but the reality is, is that, as it went to vote in the
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house of representatives.
Um, it passed.
Um it passed.
But the Democratic division.
There were 159 no votes to theLake and Riley Act, 159 House of
Representatives.
Every single one of those 159nays was a Democrat.
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159, 159 nays to this bill andevery single one of them was
Democrat.
Now there were 48 Democrats whovoted yay, in favor, helped it
pass.
God bless them all.
Um, including John Fetterman,interestingly enough.
Um, but 159 of America'selected Democrat leaders voted
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against passing the Lake andRiley Act.
Now, I'm sure they will give youplenty of analysis and
anticipation and excuses of allkinds of crap of why they voted
against this.
I can't justify any of it.
I can't, you know.
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They're going to tell you that,well, if somebody's you know
petty theft or somebody's lowlevel larceny, if so they
shouldn't be deported.
Well, that's not what it says.
What it says is they have to bedetained by ICE and then
determined whether or notthey're deported.
Okay, Deportate.
Deportation is not mandated inthe Lake and Riley Act.
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There's also some stipulationsin there about responsibilities
for state attorneys general Ithink that's how you say that
State attorneys general orstate's attorney general,
whatever they are, on theirresponsibility for mandating
detention, prosecution, etcetera.
So this is one of thosecontentious things, whether it's
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Governor Newsom or Pritzker orHochul or any of the rest of
these Whitmer walls who say,well, I'm not going to abide by
anything that you know, any ofthese.
You know immigrant laws,sanctuary cities and sanctuary
states and all this other crap.
Their state's attorneys can beheld for lack of a better term
liable culpable.
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For lack of a better termliable culpable.
It's illegal for them to not dothese things and from what I
read and I am far from a lawyer,but my understanding is that
they can be held accountable fornot prosecuting these
individuals and not at leastdetaining them and handing them
over to ICE.
They don't even have to keepthem in their state system.
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Ice will take control of themand that's ICE's responsibility.
So the 159 Democrats may tellyou it's that.
They may tell you oh well, ourstate doesn't abide by that, or
our state doesn't want to dothat, or our state's attorney
this and that.
Blah, blah, blah.
I don't care, I don't care.
This is protecting Americans.
This is not a mandateddeportation.
That that's not in there that Isaw or anything that I read.
Detention is mandatory,deportation is not mandatory, so
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there's no excuse.
There's no excuse for this.
I don't buy it.
Look up who those 159 Democratelected officials are
representatives and let's makesure that we keep track of them
in a couple of years when itcomes time for them.
You know the next round ofelections, but it's pretty
shameful that even I mean Lakeand Riley's name is on the bill
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for crying out loud Like theyknow why this is there.
They know why this has been puton their desk.
They know what the intentbehind this is.
They know what it's trying toprevent.
It's trying to preventrepeating of what happened in
February of 2024.
And they voted against it 159.
159 elected officials, all witha D behind their name, all
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voted against this.
Every Republican voted for and48 Democrats voted for.
I think that says something.
I think it, you know it'scontinues to be indicative of
why the Democrats lost everyfacet of the last election.
I think that you can't denythat their ideology is skewed uh
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against, uh.
Protecting the average citizen,um, and I would say the average
person, because there's a lot ofcrime that's going on, even
immigrant to immigrant, illegalimmigrant to illegal immigrant
or illegal immigrant to legalimmigrant.
There's no controlling thesefolks because they're not being
detained, they're not beingprocessed and they're not being
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potentially deported, if that'swhat's required.
So, 159 Democrats, look them up.
If they're in your district,make sure they hear from you and
let them know that you're nothappy, because I don't think any
of us should be happy with that159 of them.
They can make whatever excusesthey want.
I don't buy it.
But we got some presidential-ishpolitics going on, as always,
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right?
So, incoming President Trump,you know he loves, loves to stir
the pot November 30th, justinTrudeau made a visit down to
Mar-a-Lago.
You guys remember that was abig deal, right, because there
was this else and I talked aboutit.
Right, it was.
We were calling it the Trumpeffect.
Everybody was coming to kissthe ring.
We kept using that term.
They were coming to kiss thering.
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They were coming to kiss hisass is what they were doing.
There's a lot of sucking up andthere's a lot of that still
going on.
But Justin Trudeau, on the 30thof November, met with President
Trump and then just Monday,just two days ago, he resigned
as the prime minister of Canada.
So the question is now if youremember, after November 30th,
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there was some pretty harshjoking going on from President
Trump.
Joking or not doesn't matter,it's President Trump.
He's stirring the pot.
I would tell you that most ofthe time he is joking but he
loves to see the reaction andwhen he gets the reaction he
likes, he just keeps stirringthe pot, and I think this is
definitely one of those cases.
Keeps stirring the pot and Ithink this is definitely one of
those cases.
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Um, you know, he he joked aboutannexing Canada and making it
the 51st state.
Um, because things have gone sohorribly wrong under under uh
Trudeau in Canada over the lastfew years.
Um and uh and it's taken, it'staken on a life of its own.
Um, there are some Canadianswho are very much in favor of
this Um, even before uh Trudeauuh resigned, there's a lot of
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Canadians that were in favor ofthem becoming I don't think it'd
be the 51st state.
I know that's kind of whateverybody joked about.
I'm sure that if there was anannexation of sorts or a, you
know, a joining of uh, of theUnited States and Canada, all
the provinces would becomestates or something like that.
But regardless, if brought on,there's a lot of Canadians who
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are in favor of this.
They know that their rightshave been stripped away slowly
but surely, through thesocialist mindset and government
under Trudeau.
They've lost essentially, atthis point, all what we would
refer to as second amendmentrights.
Um, you're talking about acountry with a culture of, you
know, survivalism, especiallyout west, um, hunting and those
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kinds of things.
Uh, that's really in the fabricof western canada.
There's, there's definitely acowboy feel to that part of
their country.
Um, and, and you know, a veryfree kind of mentality, right
Libertarian almost, um, and andit's all being taken away from
them, uh, slowly but surely, andthey're not happy about it.
So, um, with president Trumpgetting reelected, put him back
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in office, and then the visit onthe 30th of November, and then
the joking about the 51st state.
You know this is brought on alife of its own, and then, and
then Trudeau resigns on Mondayand, and you know it just brings
back the joke and it's and it'sgaining some momentum again.
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I don't think, honestly, thatPresident Trump has any
intention of bringing on Canada,annexing Canada, bringing him
on as part of the United States.
I think he's just sitting bylaughing as the media are
spinning over this and at thesame time, he's stirring the pot
on a couple of other things.
There's this thing aboutGreenland.
So he talked about buyingGreenland, which, if you go back
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, I think all the way back to2016,.
He was joking about Greenland,about bringing in Greenland
because of their naturalresources, like it's a, that's a
huge economic bolster to theUnited States because of what
they have.
Well, you know that it cameback up again and it's gaining
some momentum and to the pointwhere there's some Greenlanders
I think that's what you callthem.
Greenland, by the way, is a.
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I think it's a territory ofDenmark and there's some,
there's some Greenlanders thatare running around in MAGA hats
who again, are voicing theiropinion to be, you know, for the
United States to buy annex,take on, take over whatever
Greenland and make it part ofthe United States.
Denmark has come out and saidnot just no, but hell no.
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But the pushback from theGreenlanders is that they want
to get out from underneath theDanish rule.
For those of you that haven'tspent any time in that part of
Europe, scandinavia is a very,very interesting place.
I've spent not much time therea couple of weeks.
I will say a couple of thingsabout Scandinavia in general.
One extremely clean, extremelyclean.
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It is inside, outside, everyplace that I've been extremely
clean.
Taxes are ridiculously high andthey justify it through
socialized medicine, which iscrap, and they'll tell you that
their care is garbage it is notgreat care, but they pay massive
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taxes for it, et cetera, etcetera.
So there's a lot ofGreenlanders that want to get
out from under Denmark.
They want to.
They would love to become partof the United States or at least
be free.
Denmark has said no.
You know, donald Trump Jr justgot on a plane and flew there
and he's not meeting withanybody.
He's just going up there towalk around and he's stirring a
pot, and that's what he likes todo.
His dad likes to do it.
That's what he likes to do.
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His dad likes to do it.
And why are they doing it?
Just because they can and towatch the media and the public
reaction.
There's no intent to do this.
If you believe that the UnitedStates is going to try and annex
Greenland, I think you're crazy, but that's how people are
reacting.
And then we've got the newestone, and this is just in the
last, I think, 36 hours.
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President Trump claimed thathe's going to rename the gulf of
mexico.
Really like you?
Really believe that he's goingto do that.
He's not going to do that.
He has no intent intention ofdoing that.
He's doing that solely to get arise out of people.
Um, and and and it's working.
It is working.
You know people used to whenthere was.
You know, in the aftermath ofthe failed you know Biden
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campaign turned into the Harriscampaign that both failed.
You know there's someintrospection from some sources
the Democratic Party, but fromsome sources in the media about
what did they do wrong?
How did this go wrong?
What should they have donebetter?
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What should we have done better?
You know the Democrats weresaying and it's all over the
place.
There's some introspectiongoing on and there seemed to be
less of what is commonly knownas TDS Trump derangement
syndrome.
And honestly, I think presidentTrump might've got a little
bored and he decided to spin upthe TDS bus a little bit and
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started throwing out this stuffabout Canada and Greenland and
now the Gulf of Mexico, and he'sgetting exactly the reaction
that he wants.
Uh, there's people melting downon social media.
There's people in the mediathat are freaking out.
There's people like, oh, Ican't believe he's focused.
There's so many other thingsthat need to be fixed?
How can he be focused onchanging the name of the Gulf of
Mexico?
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Well, first things.
First, he's not in office rightnow.
There's still a couple of weeksleft of feeble President Biden,
so he can focus on whatever hewants, because he has no power
to do anything.
But that's what he's doing.
He's throwing that out therejust to get a rise out of people
.
That's what he does and peoplefall for it all the time.
Right, the whole.
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You know, um, you could go backand you could say when, when he
said, I'm gonna, I'm gonna makemexico pay for the wall, right,
people took that literally.
Like Mexico was going to writeus a check, or they were going
to buy all the buildingmaterials, or they were going to
pay for the labor.
That's not what he meant,that's what he said.
But people took it literallybecause they don't know context,
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they don't know how tointerpret him, they don't know
how he communicates, and Trumpderangement syndrome kicks in.
And then this is what you gethe's not changing the name of
the Gulf of frigging Mexico,he's not going to do it, but he
got the rise that he wanted outof people.
There are people melting downover this right now, as we speak
, go to social media.
They're all over the place Bluehaired, crazy ladies with 52
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piercings, you know, like therethere's people, I'm sure the
views melting down.
Like there there's people, I'msure, the views melting down.
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I don't even think anybodywatches that crap now.
But that's what's happening.
He we're going to do a betterjob of reporting on President
Trump.
We're going to be more honest.
We're going to do this, we'regoing to do that.
No, they're not.
This is proof positive.
He's proven it to the UnitedStates.
Everybody that watches itbecause that's the reaction from
the media Keep watching it.
That's what he's doing for thenext two weeks.
He's just and watching whatpeople do and with that, right.
(30:04):
So you've got president Biden,who stood up in front of America
just yesterday and when askeduh about does he think if he had
gotten reelected, does he thinkhe would have made it through
four years as the president?
And he said hell, I don't know.
The man said it himself.
Hell, I don't know, cause he'sgoing to be 86 by the time it's
over, right, and he knew, and,and the media knew, we all knew,
(30:29):
right.
But now there's some admittingthat's going on.
Uh, in fact, um, you know JamesCarville, who I've talked about
on this program a number oftimes, has talked about you know
that the Democratic Party needsto be more honest.
They need to be able to connectwith the people.
They need to stop with their.
You know vernacular.
And again, president Biden madea speech I think it was on
(30:50):
Monday where he used all ofthose fancy terms that most of
average America doesn'tunderstand, don't care to listen
to.
But it's the Democratvocabulary.
It's the stuff they've got toget away from Um.
But yet the media is stilllapping it up.
They love it, Um.
And then you've got people likeJames Carville and Bill Maher.
(31:11):
Um, we're calling them outbecause this is the failure,
this is their failure.
This is why the the electionfailed um is because of that,
because they're not connectedwith the American people.
And you know Maher's callinghim out.
He had you know he had one ofthe two stars, not Charlie Sheen
, but the other guy.
It tells you how famous he isfrom Two and a Half Men was on
(31:33):
the Bill Maher show just theother day last week and they
were talking, started dippedinto politics a little bit and
you know they're talking aboutthe failed election.
And you know, the other guysaid, that celebrity guy said
well, people, you know Trumpsupporters are, they hate, you
(31:53):
know, black people and they hatewomen and they hate trans
people, trans people and that'swhy, you know, the Democrats
failed the election.
And Maher looked at him andbasically called him out and
said you're an idiot.
Like, that's not what it is.
And and oh, by the way, you'rethe prime example of of being
disconnected from the Americanpublic.
Um, so that that all that iscoming around, right, you know,
(32:13):
there's, it's not the mainstreammedia, because we keep again,
as president Trump keepsthrowing these pebbles in the
water and watching the ripples.
You know he's watching thepress react in such a crazy
negative way that it just provesthat they're not over this,
that they are going to continueto do what they do and what they
have done for the last eightyears.
You know, through hisadministration, through the
(32:34):
Biden administration, they'regoing to continue to treat him
the same.
You can count it, he's provenit.
Right now.
He hasn't even taken office yet.
Um, and, and really, you know,you can tell things are bad
because Brian Williams y'allremember Brian Williams, right?
Uh, nighttime newscaster whohad a series of.
(32:55):
I've been there.
I was there, I got shot at, Iwas in Afghanistan and this, my
helicopter crash, all kinds ofstuff.
The guy was just, he lies asmuch as President Biden lies.
He, of all people, has come outand said it was really really
tough to watch the mediastruggle to accurately reflect
the mental decline of PresidentBiden.
(33:16):
Brian Williams said that abouthis peers.
Right, that's an indicator thatthings have gone upside down.
Right, that guy is sounreliable, or has been so
unreliable for so long for him,because he is a.
He's a blatant liar.
You know he's a stolen valorkind of guy, but he, he called
(33:36):
it out.
He called him out and he saidlisten, this isn't it.
You guys.
It was terrible to watch mypeers struggle to be honest
about President Biden.
Brian Williams said that.
So, again, as President Trumpcontinues to watch for something
new though I bet there'sprobably one more before the
election, before inaugurationday I bet there's one more crazy
(33:57):
thing that comes out.
It might not be.
I know he's kind of going afterPresident Biden about the
California wildfires right now.
I don't think that's it.
I know that he's talking aboutbanning wind power, building any
more wind power.
I don't think that's it either.
But I think there's going to beone more thing.
I think it'll be one moreoutlandish declaration from
(34:20):
president Trump, uh, in the nexttwo weeks before the
inauguration, and all he's doingis trying to get a reaction.
And he'll get the reaction, um,that he's looking for, uh, and
again it's just proving the factthat the media is has been
biased, is biased, will bebiased, probably for his four
years, uh, next four years, asthe president, and nothing's
changed.
Um, you know, know and listen,our media outlets as a whole,
(34:45):
you know, are suspect.
We know that, and listen, I'mnot, I'm not blind.
Fox is suspect too.
They're biased, a hundredpercent biased.
They do a better job ofadmitting that they're biased,
okay, but all of the networkshave lost the editorial tag
because that is the biased, okay, uh, but all of the networks
have lost the um editorial tagbecause that is the norm.
And again, we've talked aboutthis multiple times.
(35:07):
But, you know, old Don Lemon,Don Lamond, uh, you know was and
Rachel Maddow are two primeexamples of people who were
given the keys.
They were given the keys.
They are paid an exorbitantamount of money to talk, uh, and
and to provide the news, andwhat they provided was their
(35:28):
opinion and, uh, that is whatfailed those outlets CNN, msnbc.
That's what's killing it.
And Fox needs to be carefulbecause, listen, jesse Waters,
I'm not a huge Jesse Waters fan.
Listen, everybody watchesGutfeld.
That knows.
Gutfeld is entertainment,that's not news.
Okay, they cover news topics,but you watch Gutfeld for like
(35:51):
10 minutes and you'll know thatthere's nothing serious about
that show other than providingcomplete comedy commentary on
politics of the day.
They're not hiding anything.
Jesse Waters is a magazine show,again, providing opinion based
on a few facts.
That is an editorial show andthey need to be careful how that
(36:14):
is couched.
And because he could easilyfall into the same trap,
although their fan base isbigger.
But he could fall into the sametrap of Rachel Maddow and old
Don Lamond as being mistaken forbroadcasting news, which is not
what he's doing.
He is broadcasting his opinionand I'm not a Jesse Waters fan,
(36:36):
particularly he does come upwith some good stuff on occasion
, but I'm not, I'm not a fan ofwhat he normally produces,
because he does kind of puthimself out there, as you know.
Hey, what I'm stating is is fact, elsa and I have said this a
number of times we're we'repundits.
We are not newscasters.
We are doing exactly what I'mtalking about, which is we are
talking about topics of the dayand providing our opinion.
(36:58):
That's what we do.
Okay, whether you agree with usor not, I encourage you to form
your own opinion, butunfortunately, we have a lot of
people on both sides of theaisle both parties and both
extremes who are spoon fed.
Uh, they don't do any analysisof their own and, uh, and that's
how we end up where we are, um,so you know, um, president
(37:21):
Trump's going to continue tochum the waters a little bit.
See what kind of a reaction hecan get out of, out of all the
folks out there.
And, uh, and I can promise youthat before inauguration day in
a couple of weeks, he will comeup with something else
completely outlandish, um.
And so, speaking of theinauguration, um, there's a
(37:43):
number of folks out there, uh,who have given a ridiculous
amount of money, uh, for theinauguration, and it's coming
from weird places.
Um, zuckerberg, does anybodyunderstand?
Does anybody?
Do we know what this guy's upto?
I don't trust him.
He's a skinny little dude and Idon't trust him as far as I can
(38:06):
throw, but he has all of asudden flipped.
I'm sure all of you arewatching this.
He's flipped.
He gave a million dollars tothe Trump inauguration.
He has flipped.
He gave a million dollars tothe Trump inauguration.
He is flipping over everythingin meta, specifically Facebook,
getting rid of the fact checkers.
Who's been suspended?
(38:27):
I never have, actually, whichis even surprising to me.
Who's been suspended fromFacebook?
Right for violation ofcommunity standards?
For you know, and that it wasthe big umbrella, they could
basically suspend you foranything.
But you know, there were a lotof people got suspended from
Facebook for being fact-checkedand and oh, by the way,
(38:47):
erroneously, because thefact-checkers were opinionated
and they weren't checking facts,they were checking beliefs and
they were suspending people.
So they've gotten rid ofsupposedly, meta's, gotten rid
of fact checkers and, if youhaven't been on any of the Meta
platforms Facebook, instagram,et cetera lately people are
testing the system.
I've seen straight up attacks onZuckerberg.
I've seen some straight uppostings about the validity of
(39:11):
COVID, which would have gottenyou suspended.
Drop of a hat.
Not all that long ago.
Covid, which would have gottenyou suspended?
Drop of a hat.
Um, not all that long ago, butum, you know, covid shots the
vaccine, the vaccines, callingout that crap um, violations of
what was community standards notall that long ago, um, and what
would have been fact-checked,and people are testing the
system.
(39:31):
Uh, because of what Zuckerbergsaid, I am highly skeptical.
Listen, I understand, you know.
Zuckerberg is not a type A male.
There's nothing type A aboutthat guy.
He's smart, you know.
I know there's some speculationwhether or not he's on the
autism spectrum.
I don't know.
Never met the guy, never seen amedical diagnosis.
Maybe he is, I don't know.
But what he's not is a strongpersonality in the sense of, you
(39:58):
know, being able to stand upand defend what he's doing or
what he's done.
I know when he testified infront of Congress and he was
sitting on a pillow, it didn'tgo well for him, but he's turned
around and he is kissingPresident Trump's ass.
Like Facebook is going straightup MAGA, which is really really
crazy, and straight up MAGA,which is really really crazy.
But the million dollars to theTrump inauguration, the banning
(40:21):
or getting rid of the factcheckers, and then they're using
whatever it is that X uses Idon't remember the name of it
community monitors or somethinglike that.
I don't know which Elon saysworks.
I don't know.
But yeah, zuckerberg ischanging his tune.
My speculation is that he is orwill either bail himself out,
(40:42):
dump out of meta, sell itcompletely, get out of it within
the next 18 months, or he'sstuck and he's stuck in meta
forever and he's just going tobend with the breeze and he's
going to go.
You know, whatever direction.
Whoever's in office, maybe he'sjust going to bend with the
breeze and he's going to go.
You know, whatever direction.
Whoever's in office, maybe he'sjust going to tolerate this for
two years and then hope thatCongress flips over, uh, and
then he can just go back tobeing the weak, spineless little
(41:05):
you know, um spy for the fedsthat he is, um.
So we'll, we'll see whathappens with him.
But again, I, I don't, I don, Idon't trust him, but it's
sideways, he's doing it.
There's some other folks Bezos,I think, gave a million dollars
.
They're all kissing the ring.
They're all kissing PresidentTrump's ass.
We're going to see some changeson some stuff immediately, but
(41:33):
that one I'm very weary for allof you out there, for all of us
out there that use the metaplatforms.
I don't know how this is goingto go.
I wouldn't make any drasticchanges to what you're doing on
meta, because we just can't seeall the things that Zuckerberg
is doing.
So take that for what it'sworth.
Hey, just one more topic I wrotea blog today about.
(41:54):
I read an article aboutJennifer Sayennifer say.
Uh, if you don't know, jennifersay is uh, she used to be, uh,
the ceo of levi's.
Uh, she was a former elitelevel gymnast, and when I say
elite level, she didn't competein the olympics.
She had an injury.
She missed, uh, olympic trialsand didn't compete and never
(42:14):
made the olymp.
But she did compete for theUnited States at national level.
She competed on the nationalteam at the Goodwill Games, I
think you know she competed atsome other elite levels.
She's an elite level athlete.
Okay, happy with or wasn't happyeven when she worked at Levi's
(42:35):
which she no longer works atLevi's about the direction of
the discussion or the directionof the transgender women or
transgender athletes competingagainst women, and she spoke out
about it and she got canceledand really lost her job as a
result.
She got attacked.
I don't think Levi's would eversay out loud that that's why
(42:56):
she lost her job.
But that's why she lost her job, I mean, let's be honest.
So she lost her job and thenshe stepped away.
She's been vocal aboutprotecting women's sports.
She's not anti-trans.
I'm going to say that again.
She's not anti-trans, she isfor protecting women's sports.
Anti-trans, she is forprotecting women's sports.
(43:20):
Okay, she sees the writing onthe wall.
She sees what the San DiegoState University volleyball team
, what happened in and aroundthat team this past season, and
for those of you that aren'ttracking that San Diego State
had a transgender player.
A number of teams forfeited,refused to compete because that
transgender player smashed aball and injured another player.
(43:40):
On another team, thattransgender player threatened to
attack and injure one of theteammates on the San Diego I'm
not going to say her becauseit's not her, sorry.
On the San Diego Statevolleyball team, the team
captain, one of the coaches, gotfired over this and at the end
(44:05):
of the season for those youngladies that did endure all of
this.
Now that transgender athletehas since graduated or not
graduated, but used up alleligibility to continue to
compete in collegiate sports socan't come back to the team the
following year.
But I am confident in thenumbers that I have seen so far.
The entire San Diego StateUniversity women's volleyball
(44:27):
team is either out ofeligibility slash, graduating or
transferring to another school,another school, the whole team
over this, because that coach,that university brought on,
protected and allowed thistransgender athlete to play,
(44:48):
which essentially brought somuch negativity to their season.
Again, there were teams thatforfeited, refused to play
against them.
Their run into the nationalchampionship tournament was
paved, it was carpeted, becauseteams just refused to play them.
They had victories that theydidn't earn, they were
overmatched and eventually lostin the national championship
playoffs.
And those young ladies don'twant to be a part of it.
(45:11):
They want to go get theirscholarship or their opportunity
to play somewhere else.
They don't want to be wrappedup in all the drama.
They don't want to beassociated with a program like
that that put that transgenderathlete ahead of everyone else
on that team.
And that's exactly what JenniferSay is talking about in
protecting women's sports,protecting women playing women's
sports.
Right, we're talking, we've allheard this but it's talking
(45:42):
about the loss of, you know,accolades, the loss of wins, the
loss of records, the loss offinancial gain, potentially the
loss of scholarships.
Now her position is to protectwomen's sports.
She's not anti-trans, she's not.
She's protecting women's sports.
She's been branded asanti-trans, she's been attacked,
she's been called a bigot she'sbeen because she disagrees with
the beliefs of someone else.
She doesn't hate them, butbecause of that she's been
slandered, she's been attackedonline, she's gotten physical
threats all kinds of things thatshe's endured because her
(46:04):
beliefs are different.
And this is where we have lostour way as the United States and
, truthfully, as the globe isgoing this direction.
We can't hardline every singlediscussion.
Remember, before Christmas,mainstream media was talking
about it's okay to cut off yourfamily members that voted for
(46:25):
Trump and not invite them toChristmas.
That was the advice that wasbeing given to the American
public by our own mainstreammedia.
You should hate your familymembers enough over political
views to cut them out of yourlife for the holidays.
Are you freaking, kidding me?
And people listen to that?
People believe that.
Oh well, if you don't supporttrans athletes, you clearly hate
(46:48):
all trans people.
No, I don't.
I want to protect young ladies.
I want to protect themphysically.
I want to protect theiropportunities.
I want to protect their sport,trans athletes.
Tell the NCAA to generate anentirely new league of
classification.
We have men's sports, we havewomen's sports.
Make trans sports Simple, very,very easy, right, or have them
(47:12):
all compete on the men's side.
Has anybody seen?
I can't.
I haven't seen a single one.
I haven't seen a singletransgender athlete say I want
to play on the men's team.
I don't think there's atransgender athlete playing
collegiate football, femaletransitioning to a male Not one
that I can think of or that I'veheard of, or any other sport
(47:34):
for that matter.
Okay, this is all formally maleat birth, transitioning to
female, wanting to play femalesports.
All of them.
Okay, again, I'm not hating onthem, but they're taking away
from women's sports.
This is the entire reason wehad title nine in the first
place was to protect women'sopportunities.
Right, reach down, talk, youknow.
(47:55):
Listen to Martina Navratilova.
Read some of the things thatshe said.
She's horribly opposed to this.
Oh, by the way, a member of theLGBTQ community horribly
opposed to this.
But Jennifer Say is an exampleof where we have lost our way.
She's not anti-trans, she'spro-w sports, right.
She started a, a um clothingcompany, xxyy or XXXY, right,
(48:22):
and basically what she's sayingis chromosomes matter.
Xx chromosome is not the sameas an XY chromosome.
They're not the same, right,and that's the purpose of it.
It's not anti-trans.
Oh, by the way, it's beingcalled the new MAGA hat that
clothing brand, but we've lostour way because she's been
villainized for protectingwomen's sports and not buying
(48:44):
into and abiding by a beliefsystem that she doesn't agree
with.
She doesn't hate them, she justdoesn't agree with it.
But again, physically, it'sphysically threatened, right
Attacked, lost her job as a CEOover a difference in beliefs.
(49:05):
And and we as a nation areperpetuating this, our media is
doing it, we're doing it, we'reall you know there's, there's a
lot of.
If you don't agree with me,then clearly you hate me.
No, or if you don't agree withme, I have to hate you.
No, my mom says it all the timeAgree to disagree.
End of discussion.
Right, that's it.
Move on to something else.
(49:26):
I remember there's a couple ofthings when I was a kid.
One children should be seen andnot heard.
I'm a big fan of Okay, right,get out of the adult discussion.
You're not a grownup.
Children should be seen and notheard Should hold true today.
Also, you don't discussreligion and politics with
family.
It's like not working withfamily and not loaned family
(49:46):
money.
But religion and politics youdon't talk about it in public.
Why?
Because it's just going to turninto an argument.
Okay, and even back then, rightand I'm talking like this is
when I was a kid, but it waseven before that People couldn't
have.
A lot of times they couldn'thave a rational discussion.
So, until we can have arational discussion, don't talk
about it.
I would love, I would love forus to be grownups.
(50:08):
I wish we could.
I would love for us to begrownups, have rational
discussions about issues of theday that matter, this being one
of them.
Discussions about issues of theday that matter, this being one
of them.
Have two level-headed people,or groups of people,
level-headed sit in a room, hashit out, have a discussion.
At the end of the day, if theycan't come to some sort of
agreement, agree to disagree andgo in different directions.
(50:29):
There doesn't have to be hateover every single thing that we
talk about.
It's not required, but that'swhat we do.
That's our default now and it'sbeing perpetuated by those in
the public eye.
It's crazy, right?
If you don't agree with me,you're racist, you're a bigot,
you are anti-religion, you'repro-religion, you're
pro-abortion, you'reanti-abortion, you're pro-gun,
you're anti-gun, whatever it isright, and a lot of those
(50:50):
organizations out there are likethat.
We have to do better.
Collectively, we have to dobetter.
That's where progress comes inand this nation is stalling out
because we have very littleprogress going on and it's
because we can't have adult,rational discussions about
topics of the day.
That's where we're stuck, folks.
(51:11):
I'm probably not telling youanything.
You don't know, but I'm sayingit out loud.
We need to do better.
Just because you don't know,but I'm saying it out loud we
need to do better.
Okay, just because you don'tagree with something doesn't
mean you hate somebody who does,who believes something
different than you do.
Okay, you don't even have toagree with them.
You certainly don't have tohate them, right?
And you don't have to believethat somebody hates you because
they don't agree with you.
You can have discussion anddisagreement, civil disagreement
(51:40):
, and move on.
It's okay.
So listen, folks, elsa is goingto be back next week.
You don't have to sit andlisten to me run my head for an
hour and we welcome her back.
I can't wait to have her.
I always have a lot more funwhen she's here, but you know
she's down doing what she lovesand it's a great opportunity.
I don't falter, and neithershould you, about going and
seeing those grandbabies onemore time.
Uh, you know, in this early inthis new year.
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