Attorney General Pam Bondi Accuses 3 Tesla Vandals of ‘Domestic Terrorism’

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, Trump's gone and done it. Now we're all going
to be stupid. You see, prior to nineteen eighty when
the Department of Education was founded, we breathed out of
our mouths. We couldn't read. It was sad. And then
magically we created the Department of Education, a giant bureaucracy

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that allowed us to see our test scores explode into
a stratosphere we never thought we'd ever see or or or.
It became a giant bureaucracy, We spent a lot of money,
it became extremely political, and it was time for it

(00:55):
to go. And it's been very popular long before Project
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
We're going to be returning education very simply back to
the states where it belongs. And this is a very
popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it's a
common sense thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
And it's going to work. Absolutely, it's going to work.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
And I can tell you from dealing with the governors
and others in the state. They want it so badly,
they want to take their children back and really teach
their children individually, so badly they.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Can taste it. It's going to be amazing. Oh my Lord. Now,
I just want everybody to take a deep breath, because
he can't get rid of the Department of Education, letting
you guys die. He can't do that. What he can
do is on an executive order that starts the process.
But the actual process itself, i e. Eliminating the Department

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of Education is going to be virtually impossible to do
because of this thing called Congress. You see, Congress has
to eliminate it, created it, They must eliminate it. That's
the way agencies come and go. And rarely do they
eliminate anything. Usually they just fund it then ignore it forever.

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So while it's a start and a roadmap, the reality
of this thing going away slim to none. But it's
very popular even amongst people on the left who are
frustrated with the education system. And I continue to harp
this point, and I will if you can go back

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five six years well when COVID hit and everything was
going sideways, like four and a half years ago, and
everything shut down, and I said, parents will not forget.
And while states handle what goes on in the classroom,
so much of the marching orders come from the top,

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So much of the marching orders, and how things trickle
down into the classrooms through the money and the grants
certain things, yes, but actually through the NGOs and this
insanity and Randy Weiningart and the push to shut down schools,
and the push to use COVID in a certain way,
in particular for better contracts. And to show you the importance,

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what happened is America got a view at what was
going on with education and they weren't happy.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
So something like this is going to be enormously popular
with Donald Trump's face and with Republican voters, not just
because it's something they've been wanting to do for a while,
but because for them, it's a whole bunch of different issues.
It's government spending, it's control of the state. What President
Trump said in the middle of his statement where he
was talking about we spend more per student than any
other country, and we get terrible results for it. That

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is something that I've found in a lot of data
voters agree with. Now, what do you do to fix that?
Is department eliminating the Department of Education solution to that problem.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
They may have some questions about that.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
But at least in terms of diagnosing that there's a
problem that public education in this country is not doing
what it needs to for the amount of money we
spend on it. That is a belief that is pretty widely.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Helped because it's let me just look at the data.
Look at the data, and like I said, well, eighty
to ninety percent of what takes place in the classroom,
in the funding and everything and what gets taught comes
from the state. How certain things are taught, and how
signs are introduced and things of that comes from above.

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And the politics of what education has become is definitely
set by the Department of Education. Stephen Miller, the evil one.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
The Department of Education here in Washington, DC is overwhelmingly
staffed by radical left Marxist bureaucrats who are in every
way hostile to Western civilization, hostile sold to American interests,
and hostel to are founding documents and culture. And so
they are using their position and influence inside the Department

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of Education to try to force agendas like radical gender ideology,
like critical race theory, like diversity, equity and inclusion, and
all kinds of anti America curricula and policies on the
American people, on our students, on our children.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's hard to argue that. And remember they also have
a big play inside of colleges. This is not just
what goes on from K to twelve because they had
lots of grants and things of that nature. So this
is a this is a big deal, but it is
nowhere near done and dusted. And I saw a lot
of people yesterday this is gonna be great, This is

(05:47):
gonna be great. Here's the reality is. I've continued to
say this Congress, this again falls in your purview, which
is it is an agency. Great at it. You have
to get rid of it. That's the way. You're the
one who eliminate these things.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
So it's taking away from parents the ability to control
and direct the education of their own kids, of their
own families. So we're going to do, under President Trump's
leadership and direction, is to return that authority to the
greatest extent possible to the local level where parents can
control outcomes well at the same time making sure that

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no federal funds are used to support racism, to support
gender ideology, or support other ideas and principles that are
offensive to the American tax pairent.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, so think about this. It is a skewed one
side thing that was a political agency. That became about
the agency and that education. It became about control and politics,
not about what went on in the classroom. And what
I mean, it's a skewed ideology. If you go and
look at the giving side of things, Democrats got eighty

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five percent of the mon that people at the Department
of Education donated to eighty five percent. So is it good? Yeah?
Is it over? No? Do I think it's going anywhere?
Probably not. Now can it be reorganized that that I
think can happen. I absolutely think that can happen. Meanwhile,

(07:19):
Trump and deportations, there's some questions and I have a
question as well, and I said, they're gonna make mistakes.
They're absolutely gonna make mistakes, especially with this flight. Who
was on these flights? Who are these people? Well, they're
starting to identify a few of them, one of them
a footballer, soccer player. Uh. I don't like the explanation

(07:42):
they're giving based on his tattoo.

Speaker 7 (07:45):
Judge James Boseburg calling on the Trump administration to provide
specifics about the deportation flights after the White House ignored
his directive to turn the planes around and return the
migrants to the United States Judge Boseburg says the Trump
administration has evaded its obligations to prove they did not
defy his order by sending two planes of Venezuelan migrants

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to Al Salvador, adding the administration provided willfully insufficient information.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I want some transparency. We should all want due process.
They're going to make mistakes, but I do want some transparency.
There's no doubt there needs to be transparency in this.
And yes, mistakes will be made. Welcome to the world
of humans, but you need to fix the mistake if

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you make the mistake. And you know, as everybody comes
after this judge, as everybody comes after this, you know
it's an activist judge. Just this, that and the other.
And look the numbers comparatively to the likes of other
presidents when it comes to federal injunctions. Obama ed twelve,
Trump first term sixty four, Biden fourteen. Trump so far
like sixteen or seventeen this time. So they're definitely going

(08:59):
to fight him with everything they possibly can. Does it
mean that that's all activist judges or do. On the
other side, you could say, well, that's because he's doing
so many wacky, crazy things. I want transparency. I want
due process. We deserve it, there's no doubt about it.
And if you don't want that, you're fooling yourselves. And
that is ridiculous to think, Oh yeah, no, just round

(09:22):
him up and throw them away. Wrong.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
Judge Bosberg receiving declarations from lawyers representing at least five
of the men believed to be in that prison in
El Salvador, insisting they are not gang members at all.
An attorney claims one of them is hairsay Reyes Barrios,
a professional soccer player in Venezuela. She says he was
tortured after protesting the Maduro regime and it applied for
asylum in the US after entering the country legally. His

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family believes he was singled out because agents thought his
tattoo was a gang tattoo. His lawyer says it's actually
a tribute to his favorite soccer team, Real Madrid.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
I've looked at it. It looks like a real Madrid tattoo.
Well that's there. There are one hundred percent certain that
this is the guy, and he's he's deep inside maybe
I mean, but there's some serious questions out there, and
they've got a picture of him, you know, holding up
and doing something that tons of soccer players have done.

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So are you're gonna just go after every soccer player?
It's you're gonna make mistakes. Transparency is important. I don't
feel like we're getting it, and we deserve it. We
deserve it because of the Constitution, and you have every right.
And I do believe that that what he's doing is
gonna be held up. But do it right three two, three, five, three, eight,

(10:41):
twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show. Is
your Twitter tweet at as text the program. Love hearing
from all of you. So much stuff to get to today.
I'm excited tomorrow I'm going to a Tesla protest, a
takedown Tesla event, and I'm pretty excited about it. And
I was telling my wife the other day when we
were driving back. We had an event the other night

(11:04):
and we were driving back and I said, well, look
at the parking lot here, it's a maul And I said,
I've never seen so many Teslas and there's tons of
trucks out there. Come to find out, they've moved it
there so it's easier for them to protect because of
what's going on in the showroom, So it'll be interesting
to find out how that goes. Make sure you check
out all the social media throughout the weekend because we're
going to be posting stuff from there. See, I'm interested

(11:28):
to talk to some of these people. It's going to
be interesting. There's no doubt. People are like, you're worried.
I'm like, no, and I want to have a conversation
with people. There's nothing wrong with that. Why would you
talk to people like that? Because how can you find
out how they feel without having a conversation. So we're
going to find out how they feel why they're so angry.
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not guarantee future results. Trek two five, one three seven. Finally,
Friday sounds straight ahead. Chad bensonchaill, Chad Benson. It is Friday,
so you know what that means. That's right. We take

(13:14):
a listen back to the week that was, and boy
was it a week. A federal judge world in deporting migrants.

Speaker 9 (13:22):
Well, if i'll do process violated long standing US assignm protections.

Speaker 10 (13:26):
It's a blatantly illegal invocation of that statue to send
the people abroad.

Speaker 11 (13:31):
Very grateful to President Kelly and to El Salvador for
accepting these heinous monsters on a hundred dollars.

Speaker 12 (13:38):
Holding me my federal hole.

Speaker 13 (13:40):
I know how I say.

Speaker 12 (13:42):
Anybody is burning a hold, I through my bargeting and
do my skim. I'm on the morning, I'll be Brown Friday.
I'm a freak. I'm my motor running again.

Speaker 14 (13:58):
Find that day in Dallas, haunting the country for sixty
two years.

Speaker 15 (14:08):
They're going to be surprises in there, But I just
don't think there's going to be that many surprises about
Jaka's assassination.

Speaker 16 (14:15):
And you know what their attitude is. I made my
money all by myself. How dare your government take my
money from me? I don't want to pay taxes?

Speaker 12 (14:22):
Fine?

Speaker 5 (14:36):
What do you make of these numbers for the Democrats?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
How low can you go?

Speaker 15 (14:41):
Voter's views of Democrats in Congress the lowest ever approval
ratings on record.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
I'm waiting for these prices to lower. Like Trump said
on day one.

Speaker 17 (14:50):
There's a word for this corruption.

Speaker 12 (15:01):
Windy A thirty hours moly keunnedy Byner of fat. A
few of the.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Drone forget.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Elon was culled up in his lap like a baby.

Speaker 18 (15:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (15:25):
I mean it's really come as quite a shock to me.

Speaker 9 (15:27):
We're not mad enough yet to take to the streets
on mass and protest what is being taken from.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
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Speaker 20 (15:50):
That you know there are some nightmare You're a real
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together your what in America?

Speaker 13 (16:01):
Or you're not because you're not the food out a
put for yourself.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Give more on another satisfied customer right there. Chaos when
it comes to Tesla. Tell you what we are going
tomorrow to a Tesla takedown, Tesla Thingima Bober. It's going
to be interesting to see what's that's like excited, but
it's chaos. You know, you don't know what's going to

(16:27):
happen out there when you hear about like these some
of these people who were doing stuff now I don't
expect it at the protest. I don't expect that because
a lot of people are doing the things they're doing.
They're there, if you will, lone wolves. I mean, you know,
they've got Molotov cocktails, they've got you know, high powered rifles,
they've got manifestos, and so you're not going to get

(16:48):
that at a protest. But it's going to be interesting
to see how, you know, the takedown happens. And there
was a flyer that went out, but also instructions on
what to do, and those instructions were pretty like, Hey,
you don't damage any of the course, you stay off
the property, you stay on the public sidewalk. And we'll

(17:11):
see what that's like. I hear they're getting paid. I'd
like to get me a little bit of that action.
Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four to twenty
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US text the program coming up, our good buddy, Jim Kennedy,
Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research Joints. The program. We're
going to talk about California falling apart in the ways
you could not believe la is in so much debt.

(17:33):
Blue City is doing Blue City things talk about that
a bunch of other stuff. Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 21 (17:39):
Son, Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's that time of the week. We talked to our
good budd, Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research.
We're talking about politics and all the other wacky, chaotic,
crazy stuff in the world. Jim, want to jump right
out on this with the chaos of southern California and
Los Angeles in particular, and how ridiculously over budget they are,

(18:27):
to the point where it even surprised the city council.
And I bring this up because Ezra Cline and another
guy have a new book out called Abundance I Think,
and it's basically about how blue cities are just a
hot mess and they're getting worse and they're the reason
that the Dems fail. And when I saw this billion

(18:51):
dollars over budget, I thought to myself, my god, it's
way worse than people even thought. Yeah.

Speaker 22 (18:59):
No, LA is been a city that's been trying to
go bankrupt for about a decade. If I followed it
as I do, and it is very bad. One of
the things where they're really horrible on is on lawsuits.
They're losing far more lawsuits or paying out more.

Speaker 18 (19:15):
Losses, they should say. And I don't think necessarily losing
the suits.

Speaker 22 (19:18):
I think they're simply settling them rather than going to
court because they have so many of them against them,
and a majority of them. My understanding is against LAPD,
and I don't think LAPED is an abusive organization. I
think they're simply getting so many people that are just
filing suits and they're just caving in and paying them off.
I know that they were already something like eight or
ten million dollars over the allocated budget for the year

(19:41):
for legal settlements in the city back in January, so
that way, I mean, I know that's not going to
add up to a billion dollars.

Speaker 18 (19:47):
That's part of it.

Speaker 22 (19:48):
I'm sure that they're getting pummeled by the fire costs
and all the cleanup costs for that is probably what's
killing a lot of it. But the city's inept Karen
Bass is a horrible leader and even calling her leaders
in a to anybody who really is a leader or
is a good mayor, and lots of other cities and
it's just a mess, and I don't know where it's
going to get better because you've got a tax base

(20:08):
that has got, you know, a combination of very very
wealthy people and a combination of very very poor people,
and the poor people don't really contribute a lot of
it on the tax basis, and they basically are just
relying on the rich people to basically to put the
bill off of property taxes and other.

Speaker 18 (20:26):
User fees, I mean, anything that you get caught doing.

Speaker 22 (20:29):
Somebody was showing what it costs to cut down a
tree they were required to cut down in front of
a new building they were trying to put up for
low income housing in an area of La City, and
just to cut down the tree, it was over like
I think it was eleven or twelve thousand dollars in fees.

Speaker 18 (20:47):
That doesn't cost that doesn't include the cost of.

Speaker 22 (20:49):
The tree to replace it, or the earth and that
whole and that whole process, in addition to whatever it's
going to cost them to build the house either or
to build the multi unit low income housing.

Speaker 18 (20:59):
So you got crazy user fees.

Speaker 22 (21:01):
And I've heard lots of stories like that where you're
trying to get something done. Even Bill Maher's telling story
about trying to put up a wind meal or generate
power out in Malibu, and it's just a crazy amount
of time, the amount of money that it.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Takes, that is insane. Talk to Jim Kennedy. Kennedy's to
do public policy research. All right, let's jump to the
national side of things. Obviously Trump's had quite a week
Department of Education and the battle that's going on there,
because that's all good. All of these things were designed
to get to the Supreme Court as fast as possible.
I think even Trump today, I mean Trump listening to

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talk about the Department of Education, I feel like he
knows that this is all about Congress at this point
in time. But I'm interested in the Aliens Act because
that's one I think he'll win in the Supreme Court.
And oddly enough, which people don't really understand, is the
lower court judge hasn't ruled against it. He just wants
more information on this. But all of these things were

(21:58):
designed to get to one area. Yea, that is the
oracles themselves.

Speaker 22 (22:02):
Scotis Yeah, absolutely, because a lot of these things are
are are legal theories that have never been proven or
tried before. So they've got to do the same thing
with some of the other things. That they've been working on. Oh,
the birthright citizenship is one that they've got an interesting
legal theory on that may or may not stand when
it gets to the Supreme Court too.

Speaker 18 (22:21):
So yeah, most definitely. And questioning the law because it's.

Speaker 22 (22:24):
One hundred and eighty or two hundred years old, really
isn't a basis for basically deeming it to be, you know,
not applicable. Because you remember, right, the Democrats when Trump
first came in, we're trying to get him shut down
under the Moment's Clause, which is an which is an
act that goes back approximately two hundred years. Also, so
the Democrats can pull something out that's one hundred and eighty

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or two hundred years old, then certainly the Republicans can.

Speaker 18 (22:49):
And like you said, give it to Scotus.

Speaker 22 (22:51):
Let them start out and something that hasn't been dealt
with in one hundreds or hasn't been dealt with in
I think about seventy five years on the on.

Speaker 18 (22:57):
The Alien Act.

Speaker 22 (22:58):
And the thing that's important is to make sure because
a lot of people are claiming that the people that
they were sending back they you know, they were gang members,
but they they hadn't proved that they had committed any
crime necessarily in the US, so that needs to be
squarred away. We need to make sure that we're doing
it right again like we talked about last week, where
you know, these things are all are are all open

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the questioning and we just like we were doing with
the guy that are trying to export the student leader.
Got to get it right, don't screw it up, don't
pick the wrong person.

Speaker 18 (23:28):
And this is you're looking for.

Speaker 22 (23:30):
A test case because everybody's watching and the right needs
to do it better than the left. Is left has
done it. And you know you got all the eyes
and cross all the tea's to make sure you're doing
it right.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Talking to Jim Kennedy, Kennedy answer to Public Policy Research,
we talk about politics and all of the things. Uh,
what do you make of the insanity of the disdain
for It's It's funny, It's not even really a distain
for Doge. It's a disdain for one man. And the
fact is watching people want to burn down facilities and

(24:05):
attack people and do all of these things. Who are
driving a vehicle that is mostly driven actually by liberals
who probably didn't even vote for Donald Trump. It is fascinating,
and it's also sad because watching people want to destroy
a company that employs so many Americans because they think

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it is going to hurt somebody somewhere because he's trying
to cut fraud and waist.

Speaker 22 (24:36):
Yeah, it doesn't sound like a hill that you really
want to stand on as a winning position. I've written
about a little bit and it doesn't make I can't
figure out exactly what the logic is other than at
this point, the left is like a gambler that is
just way down on their losses and they just keep
trying to double down because they know they're eventually going to.

Speaker 18 (24:53):
Win it back.

Speaker 22 (24:54):
They probably won't because those situations you tend not to
win it back, and they think that they're just going
to go after anything Trump and now anything Elon just
because they're not getting any wins. They're not slowing Trump
down significantly. He's carrying on. He doesn't have to leave
office or anything like that. The Elon stuff, though, is,
as you mentioned, is really particularly weird for one of

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many reasons.

Speaker 18 (25:16):
The one that I find to be the most.

Speaker 22 (25:18):
Interesting are the people that are vandalizing the cars because
I don't understand if they're not very bright. They are
cameras all over those cars, and everybody who does that
shows up on six, eight, twelve different pictures that people
are then posting on Twitter or on the Internet, and
these people are within twenty four hours are getting identified

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and they're sent over to the local police station. They're
getting picked up, or they're put on a one un
list to go be arrested for this stuff. So it's ridiculous.
I can understand the you know, some of the protesting stuff,
and March twenty ninth are going to.

Speaker 18 (25:50):
Have this what is it the Tesla takedown day. I
believe Jasmin Krockett's been talking about.

Speaker 22 (25:55):
This is separate from from the Bernie tour that's going on.
I think that you're going to go attend in the
day or so.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh yeah, it's all chaos. I'm super excited about anything
I get to go to where I have a chance
to clap out of tune and sing songs that don't
go with the songs or chants they're singing.

Speaker 22 (26:14):
Sign me up, jad, Just be a little careful. These
are not stable people. These are not you know, these
are not stable geniuses. No, they are very unhinged people
that are like I said, they're dumb enough to vandalize
cars that have twelve cameras on them, so just be
a little careful out there. But yeah, they're they're they're
just been going nuts on that, and and the number

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of things, the number of people that are out there
that have been trying this, it's just crazy in LA.
In fact, you know, coming back to the insanity in LA,
there was somebody that was putting flyers on Tesla's last
weekend saying, you know, congratulations, you own a Nazi mobile. Well,
they were doing this on the west side of LA
and if you know the west side of LA enough
for liberal voters. Guess what, there's a lot of Jewish people. Yeah,

(26:56):
that fit that category. And there were multiple people that
interviewed that were jew or they were a split family
where the wife is Jewish and the husband wasn't. And
the woman was like, I'm very disturbed by this. First
of all, I don't agree with mister Musk's policies. I
bought the car four years ago because we were environmentalists
and we wanted to support a green solution to our
to our driving. And I'm very taken back by this,

(27:17):
and I'm very concerned by people that are threatening me
that have the same political ilk as I do, that
are calling me a Nazi, you know, for driving a
Nazi mobile. They it's just like, it's like the left
just just trying to eat itself right now because of
the people that are going after and in many cases
just their own voters.

Speaker 18 (27:33):
But they just see completely opposite because it's elon.

Speaker 22 (27:35):
I don't know, we need to term, you know, eds
Elon derangement syndrome now to add to the Trump derangement syndrome.
But it certainly seems like it because these people are
un hinge and there's not a lot of logic or
fact backing a lot of the emotionalism that's tied to this.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Absolutely. I mean, god, these people are lost their freaking mind.
I can't wait to meet some of them. Talking to
Jim Kennedy, Kennedy aswer to public policy research, we talk
about we can view politics and whatnot that that's out
there in the world. All right, all that being said,
it is time to talk something serious now, Jim. Major
League baseball is back, as you know, yes, and we

(28:09):
like talking a little baseball. I'm excited about baseball. Shoho
Tani is the greatest player in the history of baseball.
I don't think you can even dispute at at this
point in time.

Speaker 22 (28:26):
I would say you need a couple more years to
label him of that, but I would not necessarily, you know,
denigrate you for that or anyone for that label. It
certainly is looking like it that way. You know, he
is basically an icon or a unicorn, like like Dave
Ruth was. I don't know how long he's going to
continue to pitch, because he's blown his arm out twice
already with with and required Tommy John surgery or similar

(28:50):
surgery to Tommy John. So I'm not sure if he's
going to be able to pitch eight or ten more years.
But at this point, he is absolutely the most entertaining
person out there, and he certainly he is probably the
most important in the game in the last fifty or
seventy five years because of the fact that he comes
to Japan and he brings that factor in, and it

(29:10):
was just from what I understand, it was absolutely nuts
in Tokyo when the Dodgers were over there to open
the season earlier this week, with him and Rory Sasaki
and Yamamoto being the three big you know, Japanese players
that are over here right now that are just absolutely
that they go there.

Speaker 18 (29:26):
The Japanese had.

Speaker 22 (29:27):
Been big on baseball for a long time and this
is just exposure for them that they have not had
for a long time.

Speaker 18 (29:33):
And it's just absolutely nuts.

Speaker 22 (29:35):
And yeah, I mean I luckily got into some of
his baseball card collector and got into some of his
cards when he had that down year after he had
the Tommy John surgery coming out of the pandemic year,
I was able to pick up a bunch of his
cards for a good price, and they're worth significantly more
than they were. And I was able to pull a
Showyo Tani signature up autographed card a couple of years ago,

(29:58):
and that's probably the you know, my most prize card
of then maybe Clayton Kershaw rookie card right now. So yeah, absolutely,
I think he has an opportunity going forward. He just
needs some more history on there, and he's certainly on
the path to be certainly to be a Hall of Famer.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Also, talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute pulg Policy Research,
We've got to be a minute wrapping up with some politics.
What are you looking forward to in the next week
or so. What chaos are we going to get? What
department is going to be eliminated? What do you see happening?

Speaker 22 (30:29):
Well, I hope that we get to a point where
Elon I know he's putting it up there. In the
last number I saw was I think eighty billion dollars
that they've saved so far through DOGE. I heard that
they were canceling a lot of contract with the consulting
firm Accenture, and that's saving them lots of money because
quote unquote they were saying nobody knows what they were
doing with Accenture or what Accenture was doing for the

(30:49):
US government for large contracts. I know that those tend
to be very large contracts sometimes in the IT space,
and that can get to be very expensive at times.

Speaker 18 (30:57):
I don't think we'll see any more a department's disappear.

Speaker 22 (31:02):
I know that they've introduced a bill and we talked
about it about a month ago to the for the
congressional part of getting rid of the Department of Education.
I know Trump signed, you know, Trump signed the EO yesterday,
but we need the congressional part of it to basically
completely wipe it out. And to make it go away
and then to start dispiercing the money back either through

(31:22):
state programs or through other departments.

Speaker 18 (31:24):
Because remember we did have an education department.

Speaker 22 (31:26):
It was called HW Health, Education and Welfare before Jimmy
Carter came along and we started the Department of Education
in seventy nine. And I also want to see what
level the insanity, as we talked about earlier about Elon
goes to, does it continue to ramp up as to
get towards March twenty ninth, which will be a week
from Saturday, or do they just kind of just you know,
or does this fizzle out because some other case comes

(31:47):
along that's going to generate more interest on it.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
We're going to find out. Love talking to your brother
Jim Kennedy. Kennedy's the public policy Richard. People want to
reach out to him at Riddy. Jim, tell everybody you're.

Speaker 18 (31:56):
Substacked Gippart substack dot com right.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Down, brother could talk. We'll do it again next week.

Speaker 18 (32:01):
Thanks.

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Speaker 2 (33:25):
While the NCAA basketball madness goes on this weekend. There
are other things that are happening as well, besides me
going to a TESLA protest. Very excited about that snow
White is out, after all the controversy, after all of
the the the memes, the the the long awaited snow

(33:48):
White is out. What will it do? What won't it do?
Will it defy what critics are saying?

Speaker 20 (33:54):
What?

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Or will it crush it? How are the Dwarves? Well,
there's cgi Here's what one person thinks of all of it.

Speaker 23 (34:03):
I'm still in the movie theater because I just saw
the brand new live action Disney adaptation of Snow White.
So when it comes to everything from the original adapted
into this live action version, I thought most of that
was fine. It's everything else that they try to interject
into this film that really sort of took me out
of it and just gets convoluted and boring. For example,
there's this very diverse group of people in the film
called the Bandits, and originally they were the seven Dwarves

(34:26):
in this film, And after everyone screamed on the internet
and I was one of those people because I want
the Seven Dwarves and my snow White movie. Disney went
back and reshot some of the movie and gave us
seven creepy digitized dwarves that will haunt my dreams for
many years to come. I mean this when I say it,
Dope is one of the most terrifying creatures I've ever
seen on the big screen.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
I have to agree with him. I haven't seen the movie,
but I've seen Dope.

Speaker 21 (34:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Uncomfortable. Oh hey, little people, are you guys excited? Huh?
You weren't portrayed in any way that was bad? Right,
So you weren't portrayed in any way that was demeaning.
You were cgi. So isn't that nice that all seven

(35:13):
of you didn't have a job? My god, so crazy?
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We didn't get to this week, but I want to
make sure we try to squeeze it in. Talk a

(35:55):
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Speaker 1 (36:24):
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Speaker 2 (36:54):
The Department of Education no more, not so fast. A
lot of people got excited yesterday. Trump came out and
said bye.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
In a few moments, I will sign an executive order
to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and
for all.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Once and for all, gone, gone, gone forever. Really no,
not really, not going anywhere.

Speaker 24 (37:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
And it's pretty simple. Only Congress can do that. So
this goes straight to the courts, and as we all
know right now, Uh, he's losing a lot in court.
He expected that. We talked about that yesterday. He expects
that he will lose in the lower courts and win

(37:44):
in the highest courts. A lot of lower courts, especially
when you court, you know, you go out and you
judge shop, you're going to find what you want. Schumer
talked about the fact that there's plenty of progressive judges
on the bench and the ruling against him.

Speaker 23 (38:03):
There are those who believe that we are, in real
time living through an assault on the constitutional order. Do
you believe that we are in a constitutional crisis right now?

Speaker 25 (38:13):
Yes, our democracy is at risk because Donald Trump shows
that he wishes to violate the laws in many, many
different ways. The good news here is we did put
two hundred and thirty five judges, progressive judges, judges not
under the control of Trump last year on the bench,
and they are ruling against Trump time after time after time.

(38:36):
And we hope that the appellate courts when it gets
up there and the Supreme Court will uphold those rulings.
They restored the money to NIH. They required that eight
thousand federal employees have to come back. We're in over
one hundred lawsuits against them, and we are having a
good deal of success. It's only at the lower court
level right now.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Only at the lower court level. In the lower court,
he's losing. Now, judges look at things, especially when it
comes to constitution. That's a lot of what we're talking
about here. We're not talking about, you know, did you
steal this or steal that? And we're talking about the
stuff that's going to end up in the highest courts

(39:19):
in the land. Now, yes, some cases that are smaller
end up there. I'm go back and look at Miranda
and all that kind of stuff. But I'm just talking
about when it comes to agencies, stuff that the president
has power to do, etc. So you've got textualism. Okay,
so conservative judges, you know, it's basically the plain media

(39:41):
of the Constitution words at the time were written. That's textualism.
You've got originalism, what the Constitution's words meant. We're ratified
in the eighteenth century, stick to the original intent of
the law. You have the living constitution. Pragmatism. So kind
of the progressive liberal judges, they believe that it was
supposed to modernize itself, the constitutions as we went forth

(40:06):
as a people, and you have precedents, right, So this
is what judge look at when pass courts have ruled,
especially again the Supreme Court judge often, I mean, you know,
especially Roberts. He defers to pass decisions unless there is
an absolutely compelling reason to re look at it. Think

(40:27):
of Brown versus the Board offy, education plus versus ferguson
things of that nation. So that's the way that judges
look at it. So his progressive is that the judges
are you know, the people that believe that equal protection
included the rights for the LGBTQ plus individuals, even though

(40:48):
when the Constitution was written there was an organizations agencies,
not that there wasn't gay people, but it wasn't written
in there to protect specific groups like that. And they believe, well,
it's a living, breathing constitution and it's now meant for

(41:10):
them because our founding fathers didn't intend for it to
be as written. Stayed the same way. And again the
conservatives believe as it was intended. So there you go.
So when you hear like, well this person's that way progressive,

(41:31):
that I just want to break it down for you,
so you have a kind of an understanding of how
the courts look at certain things, and that's why they
judge shop. Both sides go and they judge shop. They
go over here, they go over here. We're looking for this,
we're looking at this person's an activist judge. This person
over here is as a judge we can count on
because it's the interpretation in the way that they look

(41:55):
at the Constitution and they look at the law and
how it was written. Is how you get what people
call activist judges. If you're on the other side, Oh,
it's because they do this, or because.

Speaker 18 (42:07):
They do that.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
It's because you hate my side or that side, which,
as we all know is maloney. Maloney, be to the loney.
But this isn't going anywhere. So I just want to
let you guys know, Congress is the only one who
can abolish, eliminate, crush, destroy. President has the opportunity to

(42:28):
reorganize and to move stuff around. But this is kind
of a roadmap. It's a starting spot. But if you
think that you're going to get sixty votes to eliminate
the Department of Education, that's a tough sell out. There
that's going to be a very tough sell for the
Republicans because you just don't have the votes. Meanwhile, yesterday

(42:50):
and going across the country, we have the new faces,
not so much new because one of them's newer and
the other one's been around for a while, but kind
of the people that are taking the torch.

Speaker 26 (43:07):
I think.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Of the Democratic Party and leading the charge AOC and
Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 17 (43:14):
We must get big money out of politics and make
clear that our country.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Is not for sale. I agree with her wholeheartedly. I mean,
they've ruled on it, which frustrates the hell out of us.
But I would love to see politics essentially have a
salary cap. Wouldn't you treat it like sports have a

(43:41):
salary cap. Because money courts power, power courts money. That's
where you get crony capitalism. That's where you get the
best for party personal but not the people lying.

Speaker 17 (43:57):
To and screwing over working people so that they can
steal from our health care and social security and veterans'
care to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest and
bailouts for their crypto billionaire friends.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Cool. There's a word for this, what's called corruption. Corruption.
Come up with something better. Here's the thing. It's the
messaging again. I always go back to this with the Democrats.
The messaging is awful. Yes, the messenger is important, but
the messaging is awful. What they forget is while you're

(44:32):
sitting there talking to the progressive group of people that
are out there and like, yeah, understand that most Democrats
don't hate billionaires or millionaires or successful people. And in
many cases, some of them are that. And it's not
even what you're saying when you talk about this, because

(44:54):
most people say, yeah, i'd like see, you know, rich
people pay their fair share. Well, then you look, can
you break it down? You're like, yeah, they pay basically
fifty percent of the taxes the top one percent. You're like, well,
that seems like it's a fair share when you break
it down to them, a logical liberal goes, Okay, I
get that. It's the other insane stuff that causes them

(45:20):
to continue to falter, and there's plenty of it out there.
It's the other wacky ideas. It's the other bizarre things
that they get behind, like boys can play in girls' sports.
And even though these things are small, it's the ideology
that is big and pushes these wackadoo ideas, and in

(45:43):
doing so, it turns a lot of people off, especially
the exhausted majority, which is most of us.

Speaker 27 (45:50):
This country faces enormous crises, and how we respond to
these crises today will impact not only our lives, but
the lives of our kids, future generations.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Bernie, so you have the old and the new.

Speaker 18 (46:12):
There.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Bernie's still going strong, and he just out there doing
his thing, but he's been saying the same thing over
and over again. And I sit there and I'm like,
they have an opportunity against the Republicans, and yet they
continue to run it stupid. And you've seen a lot
of over the last couple of days. You know, this

(46:36):
battle now of who's going to lead the party because
there are several people out there that're like, yeah, we
want them to lead it because while they can sit
there and talk about the working person. And I'll tell
you this right now, do not discount AOC. I know
a lot of people are like, yeah, she's an idiot,

(46:56):
she's more, she's not she may have been manufactured. Name
a politician at this moment in time that really isn't
always manufactured. But a lot of this stuff, like right there,
who doesn't want to get big money out of politics.

(47:18):
Who doesn't want that? I think we all do. We
want to see the middle class expand we want the
opportunity to really see this engine in the middle class
explode and for workers have the opportunity to not have
to work eight jobs. We want to see those things.

(47:40):
But then she goes off and she does whacka do things.
If you rein that in, she'd be a force. But
you can't rein it in. And that's why everybody's like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
go go on, please please do that more, do that more,
do that more. And Bernie's been saying the same thing
forever in a day. Let the battle begin with them,

(48:04):
because it's going to be funny. There's no doubt about that.
They still are rudderless and they'll still run at stupid things.
No matter how good a plan you think you have,
if you can't implement it the right way and reach
the right people, it doesn't matter. And the Democrats are

(48:25):
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Speaker 28 (49:51):
London's Heathrow with thirteen hundred takeoffs and landings per day,
suddenly shut down. Authority say a massive fire broke out
at an electrical substation supplying the airport. The cause of
the fire under investigation. The airport is closed at least
through midnight tonight.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Man chaos at the airport, chaos everywhere. What the hell's
going on with airplanes and everything else? If it's not
the airplane, it's on the ground. Speaking of that, you
remember Toronto? Do you remember the crash where the plane
went upside down? We're learning more.

Speaker 28 (50:22):
Investigators now revealing the plane was descending too fast, triggering
alerts in the cockpit and buckling the landing gear. According
to the report, the right wing then hit the ground
and broke off. Fuel spilled out of the wing and ignited.
The first officer had only fourteen hundred total flight hours,
one hundred less than the FAA requirement, but because she
had a specific aviation degree, she was eligible for a

(50:44):
certificate allowing her to serve as copilot.

Speaker 18 (50:48):
She uugh.

Speaker 29 (50:55):
All the other women. Pilots are like, oh god, this
doesn't help us. I was just going so fast when
I had to ground the wheels fell off.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
It's so weird. It's not about blame, Chad. No, they
want to find out what went wrong. Okay, I'm not
saying it's because she was a woman, so settle down.

Speaker 30 (51:15):
Blame also really is not productive here. We're trying to
find out all the things that happened, and there are
a lot of moving ports to it. So it may
well have been that the captain realized the very last second,
with two seconds left to impact, that maybe the steepness
of the approach, partially due to the wind gusts, was excessive,
but it wouldn't have been time.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Now, it wouldn't have been time because you were going
too fast and when you hit the ground the wheels
fell off.

Speaker 30 (51:37):
Well, the captain is the ultimate authority for whatever goes on,
and if there's a particularly challenging approach and they know it,
like very low weather invisibility conditions, some of the airlines
will actually require the captain to make de Lennings.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
They will next time, right, sir, Oh jeez, he throws
on fire. I like Heathrow sho's flying a Gatwit two
a little bit outside of their a little bit quieter airport,
but Heathrow is massive three two, three, five, three eight,

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the planet. When you shut down an airport and you're

(52:37):
I mean, and you shut it down, it's it's crazy
because the amount of planes that have to either not
fly that day, redirect, I mean, it's it's nuts. Tesla
What to do with Tesla?

Speaker 31 (52:53):
Attorney General Pam Bondi said those charged with destroying Tesla
property are part of a wave of domestic terrorism. Prosecutor
set a suspect arrested for throwing molotov cocktails at a
dealership in Salem Morrigan was also armed with a high
powered rifle, Prosecutor said. Another suspect who allegedly tried to
set fire to Tesla's in Loveland, Colorado, was found with
materials to produce firebombs, and Daniel Clark Pounder accused of

(53:16):
torching a Tesla charging station in South Carolina and spray
painting profane messages, allegedly found with a three page letter
voicing objections to President Trump and Elon Musk's federal layoffs, writing,
we will not stand idly by those things.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
You hear there, and when they talk about domestic terrorism,
you see some people say it's not really that. That
right there says something completely different. Now. I am going
tomorrow to a TESLA protest because I've always wanted to
go to a protest. I want them to sing and chant.
Where as they're singing and their chanting, I can be

(53:51):
off key, say the wrong words, but I don't know
what it's going to be like. And everybody's all, are
you going to be safe? Say yeah, we're gonna be safe.
I'm not not going to do anything crazy, but it's
gonna be interesting because I do want to sit down
and talk with some people, find out, Okay, what's your grievances,
and see if we can have a normal conversation. And
hope there's also some crazies, which I'm sure there will be.
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four, twenty three

(54:13):
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Speaker 1 (54:18):
Benson Show, Son Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
There's that time of the week. Were play a little
game called the Wheel of Surprise. Now, if you don't
know what that is, I played it every single week
where we have a bunch of stories that we didn't
get to during the week, and we have a little
wheel here and we spin it and whatever number it
lands on, that's the story we go to. We don't
the stories are just numbered. I don't even know what
they are. I don't know. Maybe I've read a whole

(55:05):
bunch about it, maybe I've read nothing about it. But
because we're always so busy doing all these other things,
you know, it's tough to get to everything. So let's
have a little bit of fun for maybe some of
the stories we didn't talk about this week. Let's play
the Wheel of Surprise. Number three looks like oh, the

(55:36):
State Department says.

Speaker 32 (55:37):
Sixty six year old George Glesmon was released after weeks
of negotiations led by Katari and US mediators. The husband
and father kidnapped while traveling in Afghanistan on his first
day in comble. Detained by the Taliban's intelligence service. He
says it was held in solitary underground for months, but
never charged with any crime or offense. In a statement,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanking Cutar for it's quote

(56:00):
ste fast commitment and diplomatic efforts.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
So this happened yesterday at least that's when the word
came down that this guy was being released. And if
you haven't heard the story, this guy Gleisman here, he's
an idiot. He's an idiot. Oh, Chad, he was a
political prisoner. He was over there as a contractor. No,
you're wrong. He went over there to explore the cultural
I'm telling you guys this right now, the cultural landscape

(56:27):
and the rich history of the country. You're an idiot,
is what you are. I was your wife, I would
have left you. The hell are you doing going over there?
You're an idiot. I'm sorry. And I know there's a
bunch of people out there that like to do this
adventure tourism where they want to go to Chernobyl and
things like that. You did this, and you were there

(56:51):
just a few hours before they took you into quote
unquote custody. You, sir, are Amaran Ama and you say,
chad Amad, we continue with a wheel of surprise. Number eight.

Speaker 33 (57:20):
The US is the twenty fourth happiest country according to
the World Happiness Report. That's the lowest ranking ever for
the Red, White, and Blue. The country's best performance came
back in twenty twelve, when it ranked eleventh overall. Afghanistan
was named the unhappiest country this year. Finland was the
most happy. It's eighth consecutive year topping the list.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Not a shocker. Afghanistan the most unhappy. Do you think
they go up a point because they got rid of
that guy. They released an American hostage who once again,
I want to mind, everybody is an idiot for going
over there. So it's interesting how they put this all together.
I was reading about this. So what they look at
all six particular categories GDP per cabitat, social support, healthy

(58:05):
life expectancy, freedom to make your own life choices, generosity
of general population, and the perceptions of internal and external
corruption levels. So what they do is they make up
a fake country, Christian Dystopia, filled with the world's least
happy people. Then they set Dystopia at the rock bottom
value in each of the six categories. And measure the

(58:28):
scores of real world countries against this value. So Finland,
why is Finland so happy? They rank as the world's
happiest country based on a twenty twenty four report. They
have a score, so it's out of ten they have
seven point seventy four to one. The citizens of Finland
have strong feelings of communal support mutual trusts that not

(58:49):
only help them secure the number one ranking, but also
help them through COVID nineteen. During that trying time, Finlanders
felt strongly that they were free to make their own
choices and showed minimal suspicion of government corruption. Both of
these factors were as strong contributors to overall happiness. Ooh,
how do we do on that? Not well? Not well

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at all. Now what about cities?

Speaker 26 (59:16):
If Finland tops the world, who tops the US? Well?

Speaker 30 (59:19):
Based upon depression ray, income growth rate, average leisure time,
commute times.

Speaker 26 (59:24):
Chip Lupo of personal finance company wallet hub says Fremont,
California is happiest based on its income, its low divorce rate,
at its mild climate.

Speaker 34 (59:33):
Weather it does play a factor in happiness.

Speaker 26 (59:36):
At the bottom of wallet Hub's list of one hundred
and eighty two happiest places is Cleveland, Ohio.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
Ah, Cleveland?

Speaker 24 (59:45):
What what wo?

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Although when I was in Cleveland, I didn't mind it.
I thought it was okay. It must have spent about
a week there, but I thought it was all right.
But I wasn't there at winter time. I think that
makes a big, a big difference. There. We're playing the
wheel of surprise number four.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
So let's talk about the word LATINX.

Speaker 8 (01:00:23):
Just two weeks ago.

Speaker 24 (01:00:24):
Here's what he said about it.

Speaker 35 (01:00:27):
By the way, not one person ever in my office
has ever used the word LATINX.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
So can we finally put that to bed?

Speaker 27 (01:00:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
But where did that even? Know?

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
More lax everybody?

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Well, I just didn't even know where it came from.
And like, what are people talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
But there was a person who used LATINX.

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
It was actually a really important person.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
It was him, right, that's right.

Speaker 24 (01:00:43):
And look, these aren't minor shifts. These are progressive issues
that Gavin Newsom used to champion until fairly recently. And
now he's not just walking away from them, he's sort
of acting like they were never legitimate with that clip
talking about LATINX in the first place. But let's just
let's take latin we did find somebody who used it
repeatedly in his office. Let's take a listen to this.

Speaker 35 (01:01:05):
I hope we can really paint a picture in terms
of our consciousness of how impactful this has been on
the LATINX community, LATINX community, the LATINX and black communities.
Politicians are banning not assault rifles, but the word LATINX.

Speaker 30 (01:01:20):
They're not even serious.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
So if you haven't paid attention, he's got a podcast
Old Gavin Newsom there, and Gavin is trying to rewrite
a little bit of history. But he's also doing a
little bit of studying. He's bringing on all of these
big magafolk Charlie Kirk and Bannon and doctor Savage and
all these people who are big supporters of Trump and

(01:01:44):
trying to figure out, hey, pick their brain, what's going on,
Do we have common ground, et cetera, et cetera. I
find it kind of fascinating because he's also trying to
remake himself, and that whole thing about LATINX is a
perfect example of him trying to rewrite the history I
never said that I came from. It's not working, by
the way, as you heard even on CNN, they're destroying

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him along with everybody else. And it's not that you
shouldn't have conversations with people who politically you disagree with,
because you absolutely should. It should be a must. It's
the fact that he's so transparent and what he's trying

(01:02:28):
to do and a kiss ass and all those kind
of things. But also he is trying to pretend like
none of this stuff that happened under his watch happened.
And he is a great, astute politician, a chameleon, but

(01:02:49):
he's also at times very transparent, and it comes across,
I'm gonna throw this out there, very disingenuous. You should
have conversations with people that are on the other side,
but the way that he's doing it is very transparent
in the sense that he's picking their brains to find
out how he can run for president and what he

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can learn from the other side, which is hard to
do because so much of the other side is organic.
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Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
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Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
The market it's up, it's down, it's sideways. People are panicking.
We know when everybody panics. I turned to this guy.
He is the man, the met, the legend, zach Abramgvesment Officer,
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All right, my man, people are panicking. Is the world
coming to an end?

Speaker 18 (01:05:19):
Is this is this it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
If we we've seen it bottom out or there's movement
still to be had.

Speaker 34 (01:05:24):
You know, it's so funny. We were talking about that
on our show today. The consternation and the gnashing of
teeth and the people freaking out. Let me let me
just give a little up to here, guys. The market's
down three percent on the year, right, three percent? And
the reason people are freaking out, whoever's freaking out, tells

(01:05:45):
you exactly who is irresponsibly allocated in their portfolio, right
because really, the only stuff getting hit right now is
nonsensically overpriced stuff, right, Like, that's that's really it. I mean,
we're up five on the year we're having a nice
year and collecting dividends and own and but I mean,
you know, we've been saying this for a long time, Chad,
valuations matter. They don't matter till they do, and when

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they do, they matter.

Speaker 18 (01:06:08):
In a big way.

Speaker 34 (01:06:08):
And I don't think we're anywhere close to being done
with this most recent about of issues. And the reason
why not is because usually these kinds of things. And
first of all, this isn't just a normal garden variety
sell off like we've experienced in the past. This is
the repatriation of capital for international investors, and that is different.

(01:06:30):
That makes it substantively different. The reason our markets didn't
care about valuations and kept going up into the right
was because just money flows. Money just kept pouring into
the US. When those money flows reverse, you see action
like we've seen over the last couple of weeks, which
is nothing crazy, but just kind of this endless bleed
downward on stocks. Bond's really not going anywhere, even though

(01:06:54):
growth forecasts are dropping, which means bonds should be rallying,
but they're not. And I think that I think people
are buying them, but they're being offset by international investors,
you know, liquidating and then you know, and then you'd
expect to see a bit into golden international stocks, and
that's exactly what's happening. Those other markets didn't go anywhere
for fifteen years, so that's part of it. And then

(01:07:15):
b you know, you're looking at a US market that
is in relationship to the rest of the world, is
the most overpriced market in the history of modern finance.
I keep hearing the consternation. I'm just like, hey, guys,
what you lived through the last thirteen years isn't normal.
That was the anomaly. What you are seeing is things
getting back to normal. And as crazy as this sounds,

(01:07:36):
you're starting to see assets being priced off their fundamentals
right as opposed to how popular they are on robin Hood.
So I actually like what I'm seeing. I think that
the opportunities out there are just unbelievable. But you know,
you got trouble. I was looking at Nike reported earnings today,

(01:07:58):
their stocks down five to six percent in the after hours,
and not for the kind of reasons you want to see,
I mean slowing down, but also a three hundred and
thirty three basis point reduction in their gross margins, which
tells you that they don't have pricing power, but they
also don't have margins. You know, they don't have any
leverage on the margin side of things either. And you know,

(01:08:19):
it's just it's just you look all around, you read
these earnings reports, you look at the economic data and
what it looks like, and we've got to sit there.
I don't have a crystal ball either.

Speaker 18 (01:08:29):
I do, but it's broken.

Speaker 34 (01:08:31):
But what it looks like is it's the market that's
front out of steam and a market that way overran
its fundamental valuations. And when you start compident to the
rest of the world, it's what's going on. I feel
like it's very tame and very subdued, and I feel
like this market is giving you all kinds of opportunities
to allocate yourself responsibly. So it's kind of it's weird

(01:08:54):
to hear all the gnashing of teeth and all the
excitement because I'm like, man, this this is really tame
so far.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Yeah, I'm talking to zach Abram, you've mesment officer board
Capital uh Bessie came out this week and he said, look,
you know these things are these things are healthy. It's good.
It's good to shed a few it's good to get
your sea legs back. It's good to see this thing
start to have some normal, you know, and like instead
of you know how exciting it is to own in
video or Costco or you know, Tesla and stuff you know,

(01:09:21):
at ridiculous prices. Uh so, I think that is a
healthy thing. I think you're absolutely right, and you've talked
about it for a while. Overpriced these things are U
Tesla being one of them. And of course, obviously we
know what's going on there. The insanity of which these
people are going after him, which you and I both know,
it's just freaking hilarious. But when you look at this,

(01:09:44):
what makes me laugh is all these people coming out
and they're cheering on the fact that the stock is falling,
and you and I both know the stock was way overpriced,
but they're cheering it on as it's falling. And yet
many of these plays like Tim Walls came out and
guess what, come to find out your retirement for your
state has a bunch.

Speaker 34 (01:09:59):
Of in a way to fight back against the tyranny
and the coup that is being conducted in the Trump administration,
we're going to start burning up cars are from a
car company that is more predominantly owned by Democrats than
any other car company in the entire country. As a
matter of fact, it's about eighty twenty registered Democrats Republicans

(01:10:21):
that are TESTL owners. So, in an effort to stick
it to the Orange man, we're going to burn all
the cars of the people that voted for Harris.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
It's idiocracy at its finus.

Speaker 18 (01:10:29):
It really is. It really is.

Speaker 34 (01:10:31):
I sat there and watched Mark Kelly morally bragging about
how he traded in his EV for a Tahel, and
I was just looking and going, hey, guys, I am
old enough to remember when buying an EV was moral
because it was the only way to save the climate.
Here's the real concern that I have, Chad, is that
I think Musk, I think this is a conspiracy to
steal people social security checks. He's got access to our

(01:10:54):
social security And you're looking and go like, do you
guys watch the evening news?

Speaker 14 (01:10:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 34 (01:10:59):
Do you know how times the government, the government has
had way bigger data leaks than this. So is Verizon,
so is AT and T, so have credit card companies.
But it's but facts don't matter, man.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
We live in a post factual world, right, absolutely talking
Zackie Ram, chief investment Officer Bullar Capital. People want to
reach out to you because they need to sit down
and have a serious talk, get that second opinion with you.

Speaker 18 (01:11:18):
What do they do?

Speaker 34 (01:11:19):
Yeah, I get go to the website Bororcapital Management dot com,
Know your Risk Radio dot com. And like you and
I said, it's it's not chicken little Oh you got
to call us because the sky's falling and you're gonna
get killed. I thinks will kind of dicey here in
the US.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
That's true.

Speaker 34 (01:11:34):
But like you and I have talked about, we are
just we are jazzed and we are pumped because if
you are a fundamental value based investor, you haven't seen
an opportunity like this in probably twenty to twenty five years.
It really is something else, Chad, and we're just looking
our chops non so.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Right on, Good talking to you. Wle do it again
next week, all right, man app On, Thanks for having me.
Love having tach On right there. Reach out to him
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least temporarily, and you know, people get excited about it.
We all know what's going to court. Plus, we've got
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Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
I love it when you guys call the message on
the comment line. You could do that every day three
two three five three eight twenty four twenty three three
two three five three eight. Chad, We've been talking a
lot about Tesla and the chaos over the last couple
months because Elon is, as you know, part of Doge

(01:13:57):
running Doge and out to get everybody's information, steal it
so you can come a trillionaire, et cetera, et cetera.
And so because of that, people are running wild destroying it.
And j mccalled and said, hey, you know what, these
people are loonies.

Speaker 13 (01:14:13):
They said, I'm the mulvany and terrorism thing you're talking
about with Tesla. Yeah, I mean you're you're actually right
on the money. I mean, yeah, I don't like Budweiser anyway,
but you know whatever, But yeah, they insulted the Budweiser
community at large. Whether you were you know, great fans, whatever,

(01:14:37):
doesn't matter. The point is they insulted every single person.
And you know, like you said, the Conservatives did not
go out and start, you know, burning down truck that
had Budweiser in it, or you know, shooting at stores
that had Budweisers or soul Budweiser, whereas you know, the

(01:14:58):
left here recently has done all of that, and everything
they've engaged in is technically domestic terrorism. I mean, that's
exactly what they're doing for their political and ideological agenda,
is they're terrorizing the people rather than saying, hey, we're
just going to do like the people do with Budweiser

(01:15:18):
and boycott. Okay, great, nobody cares, you.

Speaker 18 (01:15:21):
Know you do.

Speaker 13 (01:15:21):
You're saying, you make your points financially, you don't make
your point by hurting others, damaging property and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
I agree, And he was talking about mulvaney. Obviously, what
took place with Dylan mulvaney LARPing is a woman and
Budweiser or bud Light during the NCAA Championships last year.
Nobody freaked out and you know, again, I don't drink beer,
show I didn't care. But really, to me, the bigger

(01:15:53):
issue at that time was the insults from their marketing
director basically saying that everybody who drinks Budweiser because they're
trying to change the image is knuckle draggers and mouth breathers.
And that was far more damaging, I think, in the
long run.

Speaker 18 (01:16:11):
Than what.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Dylan mulvaney did for forty five seconds on a video
putting that out there, speaking of Elon Musk and the
people that are insane? Should we arrest him?

Speaker 24 (01:16:27):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
So why should we wrestling all must?

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Well, he's a bold faced criminal.

Speaker 24 (01:16:31):
If you or I had walked into the White House
and done what he'd done, or walked into the Treasury
and done that, we'd be in jail.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
He essentially organized a fascist coup of our federal government.
He spent two hundred and fifty million dollars to get
Trump into office, and now Trump is serving as his proxy, his.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Puppet, his puppet. I'm your puppet. I don't believe that
others do. He's going to do this. He's going to
do that. I mean, we can play this game of
spantics all day long. Where this ends up is where
it ends up. The courts that got involved, as you

(01:17:11):
knew they would. These battles are going to go on
for quite a while. That's why I continue to say
this over and over and over again. He's going to
get and populate Mars easier than fighting through this bureaucracy
and judicial system. And that's not all on him too.

(01:17:32):
I also go back to the fact that much of
What he's trying to do is stuff that Congress you
have to do, and as we all know, Congress, they
don't like doing much. From there, we move on to
somebody who's confused about the name of the vehicle.

Speaker 6 (01:17:50):
When it comes to Tesla, people keep correcting me, telling
me that it's cyber truck and not Tesla truck.

Speaker 12 (01:17:58):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
I don't care what it's gone.

Speaker 18 (01:18:01):
I hate them.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
I hate them. I need them off the streets.

Speaker 5 (01:18:05):
I need them off the road.

Speaker 24 (01:18:06):
I need them on the highway.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
I need them out of my town.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
I need them out of my country.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
I'm so sick of them.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
I'm so sick of Tesla trucks, trucks.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
She's unhinged. I'm going tomorrow to a takedown Tesla event,
so we'll see how this goes. I want to talk
to a bunch of people because I think it's good.
I think it's good that you engage. Yeah, what I
talked about it yesterday, People like I can't believe you're
gonna go Why would you go talk to this because
I said, first of all, don't let's not equate a

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twenty something who is standing there with a sign on
the side of the road saying, ditch your tesla with
somebody who's a nut job carrying a rifle shooting at stuff.
Let's not do that. That's that's that's let's be adults here. Okay,
they're unhinged, a lot of them, and I hear some

(01:19:00):
of them are paid. We're trying to figure out how
we get some that scratch. But that being said, I
want to have a conversation because we don't have conversations.
Everybody gets in their ideological bubble right in that tunnel
of affirmation, and they refuse to leave it, and you
need to even it's for a little while. And that's

(01:19:21):
what I do every single day. Mm hmmmm. Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
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Donald Trump dismantled, destroyed, and crushed the Department of Education.

(01:19:41):
Diddy Diddy, is it gone for good?

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
We're going to be returning education very simply back to
the States where it belongs. And this is a very
popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it's a
common sense thing to do. And it's going to work. Absolutely,
it's going to work. And I can tell you from
dealing with the governors and others in the state. They

(01:20:09):
want it so badly. They want to take their children
back and really teach their children individually.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
And they're doing a lot of that. Homeschools on the rise,
there no doubt about that. But it's going to go
back to the States, is what he's trying to say. Look,
none of the stuff's going to go away. The stuff
that you like, the grants and all that kind of stuff,
it is still going.

Speaker 18 (01:20:28):
To be here.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
It's going to be under you know, they're going to
go through different agencies. But just because he signed the
executive order, it doesn't mean it's going to happen. Congress
is the one who has to dismantle, and so good
luck with that. Now he can reorganize, he can move
certain things around, but as far as eliminating it all together,

(01:20:53):
that's going to be a tough thing for him to do,
a very tough thing for him to do, because there
is real precedent anywhere of elimination by executive order. No
court has backed an EO for a major agency, because

(01:21:15):
constitution says Congress. He can restructure, he can reassign, he
can reduce the size. He can cut the budget, but
he's gonna have to have Congressional support there. And he
can direct agencies to basically follow specific actions that he

(01:21:37):
puts out there allowed under current law, but as far
as elimination of it, just that can't happen, and getting
them Congress to do that requires new legislation. And I
don't know if you're aware of this. They don't get

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Speaker 36 (01:22:05):
Meanwhile, deportation, an ICE official earlier this week actually said
in a sworn declaration that many of these people who
had been deported actually didn't have a criminal record in
the United States, and they articulated a rather concerning argument
to still justify these deportations, saying that, well, the only
reason they didn't have a criminal record in the United
States was because they weren't here long enough to commit crimes,

(01:22:27):
and that they believe these people are terrorists and wanted
to get them out of here before they could commit
any kind of crime.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
That's a that's a tough one right there. So they didn't,
but you said they did. Now I will say this
over and over again for everybody misconstruts everything, which some
of you will, because again, it's not what you say,
it's how it's taken, and this is what you hurt.
Trump will win this case when it gets all the
way up to the Supreme Court. And while everybody screams

(01:22:58):
about this activist judge, activist judge, in reality, this judge
isn't ruled on anything. He continues to ask for information
about these people, and he also is asking for information
about the flights themselves. And no, I'm not going to
just take your word for it, no offense. I wouldn't
take anybody else's word for it. Why should I take yours.

Speaker 19 (01:23:20):
The Trump administration has been escalating their opposition to the
court this entire week. A federal judge on Monday ordered
them to provide some information about these deportation flights that
the Trump administration allegedly said had members of Venezuelan gang
on board them. All week, he has ordered the Trump
administration to provide additional information about who these people are,

(01:23:41):
and day after day they've provided the same information, basically
arguing that all of this is a national security issue
and that a federal judge has no right task for
all this information.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
Well, they are because it's due process. And he again
he's not ruled against what Trump did. He's asking for information,
particularly about what time the planes took off. So this
is this is something that is going to continue to
go on and on. I do believe Trump's gonna win
it in the highest court in the land. And that's

(01:24:13):
what this was all about, which was, like many of
these things that they're doing, it's about getting in there,
getting rulings on them, and pushing them up as fast
as possible to scotus. So we'll see how long it
takes to get there, because you've still got birthright and
a few other things that are out there, including the

(01:24:35):
USAID and all that. I mean again, this is all
about how fast can we move these things through the
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One of you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
Got a lot of stuff coming up little what's trending
as well and some finally Fridays Sounds to wrap up
the show. If you're missing the show, make sure you
grab the podcast. It is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
No, it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending.

Speaker 22 (01:26:44):
Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Sereno.

Speaker 20 (01:26:56):
What trupping.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
Let's find out what's trending on the old interwebs on
this Friday. Let's start with the Yahoo yohoooo. Jimmy Kimmel,
he throw airport fire, global travel disrupted power outage caused
by a fire, rush, Ukrane War, Department of Education, Wayne Gretzky,

(01:27:22):
alex Ovachkin, the great Russian hockey star, seven away from
passing Gretzky. It's the all time greatest goalscorer. Ever, it's amazing.
I didn't think anybody'd ever get there. I mean he's
nowhere near the points because Gretzky has I think nineteen
hundred assists, but still amazing. Crazy Obviously, NCAA bracket trending

(01:27:53):
because there's a March madness going on. You know, if
you're asking how am I doing?

Speaker 18 (01:27:58):
And not well?

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
Not well, well, not well. But the good news is
none of the noo other teams I predicted to get
to the Final four have been eliminated yet. But there's
still a lot more basketball. Do you play today? Women's
March madness somewhat training thing at Google. Bill Chisholm bought
the Celtics yesterday six point one billion dollars. A lot

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of dollars, you know. Bronnie James best game ever is
a pro look like he belong but ASIL Columbia, Canada, Mexico,
McNee state all things trending in the magical world of Google.

(01:28:41):
We head over to Twitter. Number one trending thing on Twitter.
Severn's followed by Bronnie James, Chinese Grand Prix three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three. At Chad Benson Show,
it's your Twitter tweet at US text the program. I

(01:29:04):
love hearing it from all of you right here on
the chat. Benson shre tons of NZAA because of the
madness of March, because of the madness of March. You're correct, Kansas.

Speaker 18 (01:29:18):
Out out.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
Hillary Swank Bambi Panama as they beat us in soccer.
Well done, guys, failing us again make us sad. My
bracket's not busted, but it's not great. It's a good
way to put it. Not busted but not great. Still
plenty of time. Don't worry for the brackets to turn around,
but we're going to need to figure it out one

(01:29:43):
of the teams. Because I was talking to a couple
of people yesterday, I'm where the hell is Bryant Listen
Rhode Island. I'm like, what's this high Point University? I'm like,
that doesn't that sounds like something when you're at home
and you're watching TV in the middle of the day
and they're like, do you want to be an airplane mechanic?
You're like, maybe Point University is a trip I was.
I was reading about them, and one of the interesting

(01:30:05):
things so it's a private university, the high Point Panthers.
They're out, they lost the Purdue. But this is interesting.
They have free ice cream. I have like an ice
cream truck. It's a private college and stuff. But one
of the things that's interesting is they have a steakhouse
like a Morton steakhouse kind of place where you go
and eat once a month, and it's like a class

(01:30:29):
to learn how to have a fine dining experience and
conduct business. And I thought, wow, how cool is that?
That's very cool? Probably very expensive as well to go
to that school. They're out though, high Point. I hope
you enjoyed the tournament three two three, twenty four to
twenty three at Chat Benson Show, is your Twitter tweet
at his texting program? Coming up for buddy Jim Kennedy,

(01:30:51):
We're going to talk about LA's insanity and how broke
they are. The blue cities are running themselves in the ground.
Even more Chat Benson check Son.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
Chad Benson, Joe, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
What is that time of the We talked to our buddy,
Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research, talk about
all things pop culture and politics. Want to jump into
some local politics, but with some national flair to at
La County and La City a billion dollars in the
hole and it feels like it's gonna be a lot worse.
They found out yesterday it is way uglier than they thought.

(01:31:44):
What the hell's going on? Man?

Speaker 22 (01:31:46):
Yeah, No, La has been a city that's been trying
to go bankrupt for about a decade.

Speaker 18 (01:31:50):
I followed it as I do.

Speaker 22 (01:31:54):
And it is very bad. One of the things where
they're really horrible on is on lawsuits. They're losing far
more lawsuits or paying out more losses.

Speaker 18 (01:32:03):
They should say. And I don't think necessarily losing the suits.

Speaker 22 (01:32:05):
I think they're simply settling them rather than going to
court because they have so many of them against them,
and a majority of them. My understanding is against LAPD,
and I don't think LAPD is an abusive organization. I
think they're simply getting so many people they are just
filing suits and they're just caving in and paying them off.
I know that they were already something like eight or
ten million dollars over the allocated budget for the year

(01:32:29):
for legal settlements in the city back in January, so
that way, I mean, I know that's not going to
add up to a billion dollars.

Speaker 18 (01:32:34):
That's part of it.

Speaker 22 (01:32:35):
I'm sure that they're getting pummeled by the fire costs
and all the clean up costs for that is probably
what's killing a lot of it. But the city's inept
Karen Bass is a horrible leader, and even calling her
a leader is an embarrassment to anybody who really is
a leader or is a good mayor. And lots of
other cities and it's just a mess, and I don't
know where it's going to get better, because you've got
a tax base that has got, you know, a combination

(01:32:57):
of very very wealthy people and a combination of very
very poor people, and the poor people don't really contribute
a lot of it on the tax basis, and they
basically are just relying on the rich people to basically
to put the bill off of property taxes and other user.

Speaker 18 (01:33:14):
Fees, I mean anything that you get caught doing.

Speaker 22 (01:33:17):
Somebody was showing what it costs to cut down a
tree they were required to cut down in front of
a new building they were trying to put up for
low income housing in an area of La City, and
just to cut down the tree, it was over like
I think it was eleven or twelve thousand dollars in fees.
That doesn't cost that doesn't include the cost of the
tree to replace it, or the earth and that whole

(01:33:40):
and that whole process, in addition to whatever it's going
to cost them to build the house either or to
build the multi unit low income housing, so you get
crazy user fees. And I've heard lots of stories like
that where you try to get something done. Even Bill
Maher was telling story about trying to put up a
wind meal or generate power out in Alibu and it
was just a crazy amount timed the amount of money

(01:34:00):
that it takes.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
That is insane. Talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute Public
Policy Research, all right, let's jump to the national side
of things. Obviously Trump's had quite a week Department of
Education and the battle that's going on there, because that's
all good. All of these things were designed to get
to the Supreme Court as fast as possible. I think
even Trump today, I mean Trump listening to talk about

(01:34:23):
the Department of Education, I feel like he knows that
this is all about Congress at this point in time.
But I'm interested in the Aliens Act because that's one
I think he'll win in the Supreme Court. And oddly enough,
which people don't really understand, is the lower court judge
hasn't ruled against it. He just wants more information on this.

(01:34:44):
But all of these things were designed to get to
one area, that is the Oracles themselves, scotis.

Speaker 22 (01:34:50):
Yeah, absolutely, because a lot of these things are legal
theories that have never been proven or tried before. So
they've got to do the same thing with some of
the other that they've been working on. Oh, the birthright
citizenship is one that they've got an interesting legal theory
on that may or may not stand when it gets
to the Supreme Court too. So yeah, most definitely. And
questioning the law because it's one hundred and eighty or

(01:35:12):
two hundred years old, really isn't a basis for basically
deeming it to be, you know, not applicable. Because you remember, right,
the Democrats when Trump first came in, we were trying
to get him shut down under the Moments Clause, which
is an which is an act that goes back approximately
two hundred years also, so the Democrats can pull something
out that's one hunred eighty or two hundred years old,

(01:35:34):
then certainly the Republicans can, and like you said, give
it to Scotus. Let them start out and something that
hasn't been dealt with a one hundred or has been
dealt with in I think about seventy five years on
the on the Alien Act and the thing that's important though,
is to make sure because a lot of people are
claiming that the people that they were sending back they
you know, they were gang members, but they they hadn't

(01:35:55):
proved that they had committed any crimes necessarily in the US.

Speaker 18 (01:36:00):
That needs to be squared away.

Speaker 22 (01:36:01):
We need to make sure that we're doing it right again,
like we talked about last week, where you know, these
things are all are all open the questioning, and we
just like we are doing with the guy that are
trying to export the student leader. Got to get it right,
don't screw it up, don't pick the wrong person. And
this is you're looking for a test case because everybody's
watching and the right needs.

Speaker 18 (01:36:21):
To do it better than the left left has done it.

Speaker 22 (01:36:23):
And you know you got to dot all the eyes
and cross all the t's and make sure you're doing
it right.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
Talking to Jim Kennedy, Kennedy answer to Public Policy Research,
we talk about politics and all of the things. What
do you make of the insanity of the disdain for
It's it's funny, it's not even really a distain for Doge.
It's a disdain for one man. And the fact is
watching people want to burn down facilities and attack people

(01:36:52):
and do all of these things who are driving a
vehicle that is mostly driven actually liberals who probably didn't
even vote for Donald Trump. It is fascinating and it's
also sad because watching people want to destroy a company
that employs so many Americans because they think it is

(01:37:14):
going to hurt somebody somewhere because he's trying to cut
fraud and waist.

Speaker 22 (01:37:20):
Yeah, it doesn't sound like a hill that you really
want to stand on as a winning position. I've written
about a little bit and it doesn't make I can't
figure out exactly what the logic is other than at
this point, the left is like a gambler that is
just way down on their losses and they just keep
trying to double down because they know they're eventually going to.

Speaker 18 (01:37:37):
Win it back.

Speaker 22 (01:37:38):
They probably won't because those situations you tend not to
win it back, and they think that they're just going
to go after anything Trump and now anything Elon just
because they're not getting any wins. They're not slowing Trump
down significantly. He's carrying on. He doesn't have to leave
office or anything like that. The Elon stuff is, as
you mentioned, is really particularly weird for one of the

(01:37:59):
minutes any reasons. The one that I find to be
the most interesting are the people that are vandalizing the
cars because I don't understand if they're not very bright.
They are cameras all over those cars, and everybody who
does that shows up on six, eight, twelve different pictures
that people are then posting on Twitter or on the Internet,
and these people are within twenty four hours are getting

(01:38:21):
identified and they're sent over to the local police station.
They're getting picked up, or they're put on a one
uns to to go be arrested for this stuff.

Speaker 18 (01:38:28):
So it's ridiculous.

Speaker 22 (01:38:29):
I can understand the you know, some of the protesting stuff,
and March twenty ninth are going to have this.

Speaker 18 (01:38:35):
What is it the Tesla takedown Day. I believe Jasvin
Krockett's been talking about.

Speaker 22 (01:38:39):
This is separate from from the Bernie tour that's going on.
I think that you're going to go at ten in
the day or so.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
Oh yeah, it's all chaos. I'm super excited about anything
I get to go to where I have a chance
to clap out of tune and sing songs that don't
go with the songs or chants they're singing. Sign me
Up chat.

Speaker 22 (01:38:59):
Just be a little careful. These are not stable people.
These are not you know, these are not stable geniuses. No,
they are very unhinged people that are like I said,
they're dumb enough to vandalize cars that have twelve cameras
on them. So just be a little careful out there.
But yeah, they're they're they're just been going nuts on that,
and and the number of things, the number of people

(01:39:20):
that are out there that have been trying this, it's
just crazy in La. In fact, you know, coming back
to the insanity in LA, there were somebody that was
putting flyers on Tesla's last weekend saying, you know, congratulations,
you own a Nazi mobile. Well, they were doing this
on the west side of LA and if you know
the west side of La enough for liberal voters. Guess what,
there's a lot of Jewish people that fit that category.

(01:39:41):
And there were multiple people that interviewed that were Jewish
or they were a split family where the wife is
Jewish and the husband wasn't. And the woman was like,
I'm very disturbed by this. First of all, I don't
agree with mister muss policies. I bought the car four
years ago because we were environmentalists, and we wanted to
support a.

Speaker 18 (01:39:56):
Green solution to our to our driving.

Speaker 22 (01:39:59):
And I'm I'm very taken back by this, and I'm
very concerned by people that are threatening me that have
the same political ilk as I do, that are calling
me a Nazi, you know, for driving a Nazi mobile.
They it's just like, it's like the left just just
trying to eat itself right now because of the people
that are going after and in many cases just their
own voters.

Speaker 18 (01:40:17):
But they just see completely opposite because it's elon.

Speaker 22 (01:40:19):
I don't know, we need to term, you know, eds
Elon derangement syndrome now to add to the Trump derangement syndrome.
But it certainly seemed like it because these people are
unhinge and there's not a lot of logic or fact
backing a lot of the emotionalism that's tied to this.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Absolutely. I mean, god, these people are lost their freaking mind.
I can't wait to meet some of them. Talking to
Jim Kennedy, Kennedy inser to public policy research, we talk
about we can view politics and whatnot that's out there
in the world. All right, all that being said, it
is time to talk something serious now.

Speaker 26 (01:40:49):
Jim.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
Major League baseball is back, as you know, yes, and
we like talking a little baseball. I'm excited about baseball.
Sho Hao Tani is the greatest player in the history
of baseball. I don't think you can even dispute at
at this point in time.

Speaker 22 (01:41:08):
I would say you need a couple more years to
label him of that, but I would not necessarily, you know,
denigrate you for that or anyone for that label. It
certainly is looking like it that way. You know, he
is basically an icon or a unicorn, like like Dave
Ruth was. I don't know how long he's going to
continue to pitch, because he's blown his arm out twice
already with with and required Tommy John surgery or similar

(01:41:32):
surgery to Tommy John. So I'm not sure if he's
going to be able to pitch eight or ten more years.
But at this point he is absolutely the most entertaining
person out there, and he certainly is probably the most
important in the game in the last fifty or seventy
five years because of the fact that he comes to
Japan and he brings that factor in and it was

(01:41:52):
just from what I understand, it was absolutely nuts in
Tokyo when the Dodgers were over there to open the
season earlier this week, with him and Rory's Sake and
Yamamoto being the three big you know Japanese players that
are over here right now that are just absolutely that
they go there. The Japanese have been big on baseball
for a long time and this is just exposure for

(01:42:12):
them that they have not had for a long time.

Speaker 18 (01:42:15):
And it's just absolutely nuts.

Speaker 22 (01:42:17):
And yeah, I mean I luckily got into some of
his a baseball card collector and got into some of
his cards when he had that down year after he
had the Tommy John surgery coming out of the pandemic year,
I was able to pick up a bunch of his
card for a good price, and they're worth significantly more
than they were. And I was able to pull a
Showyo Tani signature autographed card a couple of years ago,

(01:42:40):
and that's probably the you know, my most prized card
of the maybe Clayton Kershaw rookie card right now. So yeah, absolutely,
I think he has an opportunity going forward. He just
needs some more history on there, and he's certainly on
the path to be certainly to be a Hall of
Famer also.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute pulg Policy Research. We've
got a minute wrapped up with some politics. What are
you looking forward to in the next week or so,
What chaos are we going to get? What department is
going to be eliminated? What do you see happening?

Speaker 22 (01:43:11):
Well, I hope we get to a point where Elon
I know he's putting it up there. In the last
number I saw was I think eighty billion dollars that
they've saved so far through DOGE. I heard that they
were canceling a lot of contract with the consulting firm Accenture,
and that's saving them lots of money because quote unquote
they were saying nobody knows what they were doing with
Accenture or what Accenture was doing for the US government

(01:43:32):
for large contracts. I know that those tend to be
very large contracts sometimes in the IT space, and that
can get to be very expensive at times. I don't
think we'll see any more departments disappear. I know that
they've introduced a bill and we talked about it about
a month ago to for the congressional part of getting
rid of the Department of Education. I know Trump signed

(01:43:53):
you know, Trump signed the EO yesterday, but we need
the congressional part of it to basically can completely wipe
it out and to make it go away, and then
to start dispiercing the money back either through state programs
or through other departments, because remember we did have an
education depart It was called EHW, Health, Education and Welfare
before Jimmy Carter came along and we started the Department
of Education.

Speaker 18 (01:44:14):
In seventy nine.

Speaker 22 (01:44:15):
And I also want to see what level the insanity,
as we talked about earlier about ELON goes to, does
it continue to ramp up as to get towards March
twenty ninth, which will be a week from Saturday, or
do they just kind of just you know, or does
this fizzle out because some other case comes along that's
going to generate more interest on it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
We're going to find out. Love talking to your brother,
Jim Kennedy. Kennedy's the public policy Richard. People want to
reach out to him at WRITY. Jim, tell everybody you're.

Speaker 18 (01:44:38):
Substacked Gippard dot substack dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
Right down, brother, good talking to he. We'll do it
again next week.

Speaker 18 (01:44:43):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
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Joe.

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Deep States, Deep Doo Doo Eye the chat Fison Show.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
It is that time of the week when we wrap
it up. Relax and listen to all the chaos that
happened this week. Listen to this. A federal judge ruled
in deporting migrants.

Speaker 6 (01:46:23):
Well, if I'll do process violated long standing us A
sign protections.

Speaker 10 (01:46:28):
It's a blatantly illegal invocation of that statue to send
these people abroad.

Speaker 11 (01:46:33):
Very grateful to President pin Kelly and to Al Salvador
for accepting these heinous monsters on a.

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Hundred dollars walking me bold, I know how I said.

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Anybody's burning hold right through my boget in and do
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That day in Dallas. Haunting the country for sixty two years.
They're going to be surprises in there.

Speaker 15 (01:47:10):
But I just don't think there's going to be that
many surprises about Jak's assassination.

Speaker 18 (01:47:15):
You know what their attitude is.

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I made my money all by myself.

Speaker 16 (01:47:19):
How dare your government take my money from me? I
don't want to pay taxes?

Speaker 24 (01:47:27):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (01:47:28):
Again, what do you make of these numbers for the Democrats?

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
How low can you go?

Speaker 13 (01:47:40):
Voters views of Democrats in Congress aloe with kever approval
ratings on record.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
I'm waiting for these crises to lower.

Speaker 5 (01:47:47):
Like Trump said on day one.

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
There's a word for this corruption.

Speaker 5 (01:47:59):
Wait a very slowly, counity.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
I'm out of the drum forget.

Speaker 1 (01:48:20):
Elon was culled up in his lap like a baby.

Speaker 5 (01:48:23):
Yeah, I mean it's really come as quite a shock
to me.

Speaker 9 (01:48:25):
We're not mad enough yet to take to the streets
on mask and protest what is being taken from.

Speaker 1 (01:48:32):
A hand splashdown Crew nine back on Earth.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
We'll celebrate for a while.

Speaker 20 (01:48:36):
Yeah, you there some night where you're a real good
DJ on the room radio way or get draft together,
you eat your whip up in America, or you're not.

Speaker 13 (01:48:47):
If you're not, they got to food out a bit
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Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
You moron, Yet another satisfied customer right here on the
chat Benson shoe. Oh my lord, what a week of shows,
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(01:49:11):
to Venezuela, and then the next thing you know, they're
fighting in courts, and the next thing you know, Elon's
tesla's are on fire, and then they've got a cr
and then the JFK files come out, and then we
get rid of the Department of Education. Oh my god,
what will happen in the next few days. God only knows.
What I do know is it's time to get the

(01:49:31):
hell out of here. You guys have a blessed an
amazing weekend. We'll do to get on Monday. As always,
not not Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:44):
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