August 31, 2026 • 38 mins
Medal of Honor: Rodger Wilton Young. Corporate America loves their H-1B’s because it reduces labor costs. The Trump administration needs to pivot from lecturing his voting base. The Charm Offensive. The university system is dying.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is The Jesse Kelly Show. It is The Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on
a spectacular Monday. Before we get to Medal of Honor Monday,
we have other stuff coming this hour. We are going
to touch on this Stonewall Jackson show. Stonewall Jackson story.
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One more thing on the illegals. Little bit of messaging
stuff we could probably work on. All that and so
much more is coming up this hour on the world-famous
Jesse Kelly Show, but not right now, because right now
it's time for Medal of Honor Monday. Every Medal of
Honor Monday is the same thing. At the start of
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the second hour, we take a citation and we read
about what a hero has done. Even if we forget,
we remember his name in that moment. We remember his deeds.
And I'm reading a book right now that you may
find interesting. Maybe you won't. It's totally a different kind
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of a book. But man, is it driving home a
point to me that I kind of already knew, but
it's driving it home. The name of the book, in
case you're wondering, is... Well, pause, pause. You've heard of
the book With the Old Breed. You've heard of that book.
It's one of the most famous World War II books ever.
Eugene Sledge wrote it. Eugene Sledge was a Marine fighting
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in the Pacific War, Peleliu and Okinawa. He wrote a book.
It was kind of a diary that ended up being
made into a book, With the Old Breed. All right,
so who's the old breed? It was not Eugene Sledge.
Eugene Sledge was just a puppy when he joined the Marines,
started fighting in World War II. The old breed were
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the older Marines who had been fighting and been fighting.
They'd been in for a long time. They were very
much looked up to by the new younger guys like
Eugene Sledge, right? So that was the old breed with
the old breed. All right, now fast forward to the
book I'm reading now. I forget who recommended it to me.
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It's actually one of two or three books I'm reading now.
It's a long story. But the book is called The
Last of the Old Breed. The Last of the Old Breed.
One more time so you don't email me. The name
of the book is The Last of the Old Breed.
Just leveling with you here, I do not enjoy the
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concept of the book. You may, and here's what I mean.
The concept of the book is this. They went around,
it's a cool idea, to all the World War II
veterans they could find who are still alive. They're all
100 years old, who are still alive. And they interviewed
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them asking them about the war, about the war in
the Pacific specifically. And so what you get in the book,
there's no consistency with it. You'll get this campaign, right?
It's Tarawa, it's Peleliu, it's this. And then you'll have...
four or five different little snippets, two or three paragraphs
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from a guy, and then two or three paragraphs from
another guy, and two or three paragraphs from another guy,
where they're just giving kind of their little synopsis of
what it was. It's a fascinating read, and I'm going
to read the whole thing. It's not the kind of
history book I would want to read often. That's what
I mean when I say I don't know about the
concept of it. But anyway, the last of the old
breed is the book. Let's get back to my point here.
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What is the point that kind of floored me as
I read it? How many brutal, brutal fighting campaigns there
were in the Pacific War that even some World War
II guys, like history guys, don't talk about and many
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don't think about, don't even know about. If you say
Iwo Jima, everyone knows about Iwo Jima. Everybody's heard of
Iwo Jima. Okinawa, Guadalcanal, these titanic struggles in the Pacific.
How many people know about New Georgia? Have you even
heard of New Georgia? New Georgia, the jungle in New
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Georgia was so insanely thick. It was so overrun. They estimated,
I might mess this number up because I haven't read
it in a while. They estimate that 25% of our
casualties on New Georgia are We're friendly fire. You can't
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see anything. You can't see the guy behind you, ahead
of you, but you can't see anything. The Japanese, I've
told you this before, the Japanese would do this in
places like New Georgia. They would dig a pretty wide
hole in the ground where you could fit a few guys, right?
A wide little hole in the ground. And then only
about a foot above the ground, they would put a
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roof over that hole they built in the ground, all right?
Then they would take topsoil from around the area and
put it on the roof. Well, it's so tropical, it's
nothing but rain and sun and rain and sun and
rain and sun and 100% humidity that it doesn't take
long for that topsoil to be overgrown with plants. So
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that little, that hole in the ground is invisible. Absolutely,
positively invisible. You're a Marine on patrol. You have no
idea there is a Japanese heavy machine gun aimed at
you right now, getting ready to shoot you and all
your buddies in the legs. And then when you fall down,
you'll all be shot in the face. New Georgia was
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a living hell and most people have never heard about it.
And this guy, Roger Wilton Young, U.S. Army, he fought there.
He was born in Tiffin, Ohio. How about that? Ohio boy.
Here's what he did. Honoring those who went above and beyond.
It's Medal of Honor Monday. On the 31st of July, 1943,
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the infantry company of which Private Young was a member
was ordered to make a limited withdrawal from the battle
line in order to adjust the battalion's position for the night.
At this time, Private Young's platoon was engaged with the
enemy in a dense jungle where observation was very limited.
The platoon suddenly was pinned down by intense fire from
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a Japanese machine gun concealed on higher ground only 75
yards away. The initial burst wounded Private Young. As the
platoon started to obey the order to withdraw, Private Young
called out that he could see the enemy emplacement, whereupon
he started creeping toward it. Another burst from the machine
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gun wounded him a second time. Despite the wounds, he
continued his heroic advance, attracting enemy fire and answering with
rifle fire. When he was close enough to his objective,
he began throwing hand grenades and while doing so, was
hit again and killed. Private Young's bold action in closing
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with this Japanese pillbox and thus diverting its fire permitted
his platoon to disengage itself without loss and was responsible
for several enemy casualties. I'll tell you what. In that book,
it really, really drives it home. There will be some
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campaign that, I mean, you know how much I love
World War II and the Pacific. There were a couple
in there I'm not sure that I've ever heard of before. Wait,
what island?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Where?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And then you read about some guy, Private Young. You
read about a different Private Young who just did something awesome,
something amazing. And by the way, we're obviously going to
play taps for the man. Rest in peace. You know,
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I don't... Maybe I'm getting old. So I'm not... Maybe
that's what it is. I don't know why these stories
hit me harder now. The guys... Not who die in combat.
That's the way combat goes. That's going to happen in combat.
The guys who die... in some remote area no one's
ever heard of, and no one thought about again, or
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not many people did. Think about that act of heroism
from Private Young. On his own, while being shot at,
and he's been shot twice, charges are dug in place.
He didn't have to do that. He wasn't ordered to
do that. He did that because he was a lion
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who wanted to protect his guys and fight back And
he did that on a plate. that most Americans have
never even heard of before. New Georgia. And he was
25 years old at the time. 25 years old. Whole
life ahead of him. Gone. Died in some God-forbidden jungle dump. Anyway,
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I think about that sometimes. All right. Let's set all
that stuff aside. It is kind of wild to talk
about how unbelievably evil the Democrat Party has become. And
I want to thank Senator Ed Markey for making my
point for me over the weekend. Before I get to Ed,
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You ever take a step back and look at the
modern Democrat Party and just go, oh my gosh. Senator
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Ed Markey is an idiot. He's been an idiot for
a long time, so this isn't even really about him.
But the things Democrats are now comfortable saying publicly, it's wild.
For instance, this is what he said over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
We need free public college and gun-free schools. We need
to make it.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Believe it or not, I'm not even going to address
those things, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
NRA stands for not relevant anymore in American politics. We
need universal child care. We need Medicare for all. When
I introduced the Green New Deal with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, They
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called it socialism. Well, what do you call a hundred
years of tax breaks for the oil, gas, and coal industry?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I call that socialism.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And all we're saying is give us some of that
socialism for wind and solar and all electric vehicles and
battery storage technologies and we will bury the fossil fuel industry.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It's actually the very last sentence there that I wanted
to focus on for just a minute before we do
some emails. We will bury the fossil fuel industry. I
want to drive this point home to everybody, Republican, Democrat, Independent,
whatever you are. Maybe you're a hate-listening communist. Do you
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understand how many people will die if we bury the
fossil fuel industry? what you call fossil fuels. We'll just
call it oil. I don't mean a couple people here
or there. If you could actually stop oil tomorrow, if
you had the power to do so, and very clearly
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Democrats would if they had the power to do so. Chris,
how many people live on the planet? 7 billion? Something
like that? Is it 8 billion? You know about half
those people would die, right? Do you understand that Democrats
are so sick and evil now, they will stand up
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and at a rally, they will propose things that will
be the largest genocide in the history of mankind by
a mile, and they do so to the cheer of
the crowd. Look, whatever, try to talk about your gun
bans and taxes and health care and all the stupid
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other things. That's one thing. We're going to bury the
fossil fuel industry? That's the largest genocide in human history
by a mile. The number would be, well, it would
start with a B. I'll put it that way. It
would start with a B. Jesse, I love this show.
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Don't let anyone give you crap about taking time off.
Get the best up-and-coming sub. We need more voices. The
house next to my son recently sold. It's a single-family house.
We've seen nothing but 20-something Indian men and one Indian woman.
There are as many as 10 cars parked in the
front driveway and front lawn. My question is, is this
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something we should report to ICE? It sounds like what
you've been describing as a way to abuse our generosity.
Am I thinking like a Karen? He asked me not
to say his name, and I won't say his name. Look,
you can always call ICE if you believe something illegal
is going on, but when it comes to this kind
of stuff, this stuff is probably partly legal. Now, why
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did I throw that huge qualifier in there, partly legal? Well,
most likely, those people are here, unless they've been here
for generations, right? That happens. Indian Americans have been here
for a while, some. But if those people are relatively
new arrivals, they're most likely here legally on a visa.
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On a visa. All right, that's most likely why they're here.
That's not a guarantee. There are other ways people can
come here. That's just one of the main ones we
talk about. But they're most likely here legally. Now, why
did I say partly? Partly legally. Because the companies themselves
are committing illegal acts, and several companies across the United
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States of America are being investigated and or have already
paid fines. Now, what are these illegal acts? If you
are a company, if you are Microsoft, you cannot... throw
an ad in the Indian want ads and say, we're
looking for a data programmer. If you do not make
an effort to hire an American data programmer, you're not
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allowed in this country. And you shouldn't be to go
looking for foreign workers. If you haven't made any effort
to find an American worker, that program, it should, well,
it was designed to, to be, well, we couldn't find
anyone here in America. We turned over every rock. We
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looked in every nook and cranny. There's not a single
American who wants this job or can do this job. So, hey, government,
Could we have an H-1B so we can go to
China and grab someone so we can go to India
and grab somebody? That's the idea behind the whole program.
But for reasons I've laid out a thousand times before,
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that's not why it works out that way. The companies
would rather go over there because they can pay them
less and work them like slaves because the company owns them.
The company is the owner of the H-1B. So you,
you don't get to leave. You don't get to go
to a competitor. I own you. And if you're an employer,
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evil as it may be, what looks better on the
bottom line than slave labor? Nothing like getting those labor
costs down. Anyway, let me ask you, what do you
have in the morning for breakfast? What do you consume
in the morning? I haven't told you about this in
a while, and that's just negligence on my part, but
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you really should get yourself a bag of chocolate powder. Now,
it's not chocolate. Chocolate powder. What is it? By the way,
it is delicious, but it's just packed full of vitamins
and minerals. You should start your morning off with it.
Almost every morning, Ab will make one of her big,
gross superfood smoothies, and the chocolate powder is the only
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thing that makes it even— it's the only reason I
can even gut the thing down— On the rare occasion
she doesn't, maybe she's gone, I just put a scoop
or two in a glass of milk, mix it up,
and chug it. Your day is a lot better when
you start off turbo-injecting your body with the bunch of
nutrients it needs. Try some chocolate powder. C-H-O-Q. Chuck.com slash Jesse.
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That's Chuck.com slash Jesse. All right. We're going to get
this out of the way. Talk about a couple messaging items.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Next.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Missed out? Catch up. jessikellyshow.com It is the Jesse Kelly
Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday. Remember, you can email
us jesse at jessikellyshow.com So, you know, I hate to
play me. on the Jesse Kelly show. I take that back.
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I love it. You know, it's one of my favorite
things in the world. But do you remember this was
three days ago? Three days ago? Three days ago when
we were talking about data centers. This is a little long,
but it's me. So I love it anyway. I'm going
to let it play. Do you remember when I said
the problem remains that the companies who want to build
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data centers are are not well thought of oftentimes in
the places they want to build data centers. That's the problem.
You walk into my town, And you tell them, hey,
we want to put up five data centers in this
farmer's field in town. Maybe you won't even be able
to see them from the highway. We want to put
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up five data centers. And let's say there would be
pushback and there would be in my town. Hey, not here.
Keep this place nice. Let's say there would be pushback
on that. Do you know what's not going to work?
You saying we're competing with China, even though that's true.
That is a hundred percent true. We are competing with China.
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We do need data centers. We do. We don't want
China to have 10 times as many as we do.
We do need them. That is not a good sell.
That's not a good sell. Trying to tell rural Americans
like me and the people who live around me or
small town Americans that that they must take on a
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data center from Facebook, otherwise China will win. That has
got to be, by a mile, the worst, dumbest argument
I have ever heard in my entire life. They better
come up with a different sell. That's what I said
three days ago. A few hours ago, this is what
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Trump said on social media. The only reason that communities
throughout the USA should not want data centers is if
they want to end up being backwards and poor. If
they want to be successful and rich with far lower
taxes and jobs all over the place, let data reign.
The good news is there are plenty of other places
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that want them. If we kill the golden goose, you
will only have yourselves to blame. China could not be
happier with this anti-data center movement. Actually, they can't believe
it's happening. President Donald J. Trump. Now, here's the thing
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about politics. Certainly when you're in a representative republic like us,
we get to go out every so often and we
get to vote for who's our mayor, who's our senator,
who's our president. The people of this country get to choose.
When you are in a system like that, it's really,
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it's the most basic thing in the world, but it's
something every now and then someone will struggle with. When
that is the kind of system you're in, you know
what you really, really don't want to do. You don't
want to talk down to people. And this is one
of those things that, you remember, I used to rant
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about it because Joe Biden did it all the time.
And I don't think in my life I had ever
heard an American president really do it like Joe Biden
did it. Remember when he told us his patience was
wearing thin with us? We've been patient, but our patience
is wearing thin. I couldn't believe a president would even
talk like that. Excuse me? Who do you think you are?
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You really don't want to talk down to voters if
you're the president of the United States of America when
you desperately need them to go vote for you and
or your party this November. Where are we at with
all that? Well, here.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You win independents, you win elections.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Inflation, of course, was the key reason that Donald Trump
was reelected to a second term. But independents have done
a 180 on President Trump. Look at this on inflation.
Independents on Trump and inflation. In August of 2024, look
at that, he was more trust in inflation by 12
points over Kamala Harris, a very big reason that he won.
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That was the reason he won, right? Plus 12 points.
Look at this Net Approval Rating now, though. Whoa, way
down there. We're talking about, what is that? We're talking
about a 76-point switcheroo on the president of the United States,
an issue in which he beat Kamala Harris by 12 points.
He is now 64 points underwater. You don't see changes
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like this. But the key issue, that guy I'm elected,
now he's way down there in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Now is not the time for lectures. And I'm not
even saying he's incorrect, by the way. I actually think
he is correct about a lot of this. I would
have worded it a little different if I was a president.
I think he is correct. And it's not that I'm
personally offended. But when I read it, I winced. Because,
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and look, all I have is a theory on this.
My theory is this. Trump is getting older. It's not
a theory, that's a fact. But Trump is getting older.
And at some point, After enough headache or after enough
life lived, I've seen it happen to many of the
men in my life, you're just tired of dealing with
everyone's crap. You're going to wear what you want, you're
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going to say what you want, and if anybody doesn't
like it, they can screw off. That was kind of
my dad for most of my life, but man, towards
the end of my dad's life, that was where he was.
He'll say whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Maybe that's
what's going on here. But there's been a lot more
of this from Trump 2.0 than there was Trump 1.0.
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A lot more of the, hey, shut up about the
Epstein files. What is this idiocy? Hey, quit being an idiot. Hey, America,
we don't even have the talent. Hey, do you want
to lose to China? I guess you want to be poor.
There is a lot of that right now.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
A lot.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And when you are getting buried with independence and facing,
God forbid, some kind of blue wave this November, it's
time for the charm offensive. That's all I'm saying. On
all counts. You know what I mean? This applies to
the GOP Senate and House too, so don't think I'm
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letting them off the hook here. You know what's never
been a great sell? Stop being an idiot. When you
have to get votes, that's not a great sale. I
can say that because I don't need anybody's vote. I
can say it. And people can say it to me.
But I guess you want to be poor. That's not
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how we sell them. We don't trust these data center
companies because they're untrustworthy. We think they'll hire foreigners. We
know these companies hate America, hate normal America, hate Americans.
There is a laundry list of reasons to hate the
data center companies. The data center companies have low approval too,
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just like Donald Trump does. So that doesn't mean you
just don't build them. That means you come bearing gifts.
You take that big box that has all the lectures
in it, guess you want to be poor, and you
leave that box at home. You go grab the box
that's full of goodies. Hey, a new road. a new school,
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tax breaks, whatever. You go grab the box that's full
of goodies, and that's what you walk into the community with. Hey,
I'm the big evil data center company you all already hate.
I'm not going to lecture anybody. I'm asking permission to
come into your community. I know you don't want me here.
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Who wants a big soulless data center here? So I'm
going to give you something. You know what? I've mentioned schools.
What about a new hospital? We have a new one
in my town. Brand new hospital. My friends talk about it. Man,
that place looks nice. Man, that's really nice. Makes people
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feel more safe, more secure. Wow, we have a gorgeous
looking hospital right up the road. Look at that hospital.
How about the, you know, whatever, pick the company that's
doing the data center. How about the Microsoft data center? Hospital.
What's that sound? That is the kind of thing that
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wins people over. Talking down to people doesn't. J.D., this
is better.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Again.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
JD's really doing well.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
They're an important part of the AI economy. When people
build them, they have to build the power plants along
with the data centers. I think probably 99% of the
backlash to data centers has come in areas where building
a data center means higher utility and higher electricity for
the people on the ground. So I think what these
companies have to do is take advantage of some of
the federal deregulatory efforts that we've undertaken. If you build
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a data center, you should be putting power back into
the grid.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Not taking it out. And if that is happening, I.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Don't think the data centers are that controversial. It's when
the utility bills get so much higher, that's when it's
a real problem.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Now that's a little better. You know what else you
could do? Why don't you give a big donation to
Tunnel to Towers if you're a data center? In fact,
why don't you bring the Tunnel to Towers people to
town and say, hey, we're... Where are the gold star
families in this town? Where are the fallen first responder
families in this town? We, data center company, we're going
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to give the Tunnel to Towers so Tunnel to Towers
can pay off their mortgages. It's telling you how to
buy some goodwill. Now, I'm not hopeful that Google's going
to do that, so Tunnel to Towers needs you to
do that. 11 bucks a month. That's all Tunnel to
Towers asks for. It's all they've ever asked for. 11
bucks a month from you. Help out a widow and orphan.
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as we are commanded to do. Go to t2t. org. We'll
be back. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful,
wonderful Monday. Of course, it was a Medal of Honor Monday,
and If you missed that or anything else on the show,
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you can download it. iHeart, Spotify, iTunes. Let's do some emails. Hey, Jesse,
a few shows ago, you talked about the University of
Michigan not grading classes for the first semester students. Isn't
it obvious that this is just a way to scam
more money out of student loans and grants by not
flunking anyone in the first semester? Would it not be
possible to fight this kind of thing by cutting their
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funding and refusing to offer student loans to freshmen and
Enrolling in schools that pass everyone, so on and so forth.
Says his name is Matt. He says Semper Fi. Semper Fi. Well, yeah,
it would be possible, but that would require state GOPs
to have guts, and they haven't taken near enough chalk
for that. That's one. Two, if I can make you
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feel better, I think it'll make you feel better. I
guess maybe it'll make you feel worse. Remember what communists
do to institutions. Communists look at a powerful institution, an
influential institution, because institutions are what your nation is built upon.
They look at the institution and they say to themselves,
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if I conquer that institution, I will be able to
use the power of that institution on behalf of the revolution.
And you can for a little while. for a little while.
But over a long enough period of time, what will
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happen is the institution will simply die. Why does it die? Well,
in order to look at why it dies, we have
to look at what kept it alive. What gives an
institution power? Pick your institution, the church, universities, Boy Scouts, whatever.
Pick your institution. What gives it power? The trust of
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the public. Does the public trust this institution, admire, respect
this institution? That trust, that admiration, that respect, that is
the fuel that keeps the institution alive. You see, it
flows both ways. But communists... Once they get installed there,
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once they infiltrated, they use the institution on behalf of
the revolution, and slowly but surely, the trust disappears. And
what happens from there? The institution slowly starts to die.
In the Soviet Union, by the end, the final years
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of the Soviet Union, Soviet citizens laughed. When the news
came on and said, hey, record harvest again this year.
America's going down. We are dominating. They had learned from
years and years of the lies that it was all
a joke. The media had no power, none whatsoever by
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the end. Now, the university system in the United States
of America is going to die. Now, we'll have a
university system. Don't get me wrong. All the universities aren't
going away. I read a story over the weekend at Syracuse.
I'm always positive it was Syracuse. If I got that wrong,
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screw it. I went to community college. I couldn't get
into Syracuse anyway. But Syracuse, they're not paying the bills.
Universities across the United States of America, they're starting to starve.
And the reason they're starting to starve is The universities
of the United States of America were conquered by communists.
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The communists did what they always do, use the university
system to declare war on the country, and the American
people started to take away their trust and admiration and generosity.
I'll tell you this. You know I'm uneducated and stupid.
You know that. But for most of my life, If
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I walked into your office, whoever you are, a doctor,
a financial advisor, whoever, I don't care who you are,
maybe I'm at your house, and I see a diploma
from Harvard on there, that would elevate my respect level.
At least as far as academia, brainpower goes, I would think, man,
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he probably, he had to be— these thoughts would go through
my head instantly— He had to be one heck of
a high school student to even get into Harvard. But then, wow,
to stay in that four-year grind and get a diploma?
I don't care what it's in. That's impressive. Whatever else
you can say about the guy, that's impressive for most
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of my life. That's what I would have thought if
I walked in and looked at a Harvard diploma. Now,
I'll tell you right now. I don't know that we're
even allowed to say this. I'll tell you right now.
I would never hire somebody with a Harvard diploma. Ever.
That would be, if I read that on your resume,
let's say we go shopping for a new producer, which
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we probably will at some point in time, that would
immediately disqualify you. Immediately. Why? Well, Harvard, you can't declare
a communist war on America over and over and over
again over the years because and maintain the same level
of respect. I'll simply stop. I have no interest in it.
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Now when I see a Harvard diploma, I roll my eyes.
When I see someone on social media, I went to Harvard,
I say to myself, how embarrassing. That's how it works.
The university system is dying. It won't survive. And there
are people, certainly people in older generations who are used
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to maybe a better university system who want to preserve
it Trump himself. Trump himself came out and said, hey,
we need these 600,000 Chinese students. Otherwise, a lot of
universities would go out of business. And, you know, people
who are more hardcore anti-communists said, yeah, that sounds wonderful.
But the idea of losing a bunch of universities, it
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can be jarring because they've been there. These are institutions.
They were valuable institutions. Now they're just part of the
communist revolution and they should die. And the country will
be better off when they do die. The universities should
be something you should be comfortable sending your daughter to.
And it's not right now.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
All right.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Let's move on. Somebody stole 50,000 cans of PBR. Before
we get to that story, we have to talk about
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get to that, let's get to this. I know that
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This is The Jesse Kelly Show. It is The Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on
a spectacular Monday. Before we get to Medal of Honor Monday,
we have other stuff coming this hour. We are going
to touch on this Stonewall Jackson show. Stonewall Jackson story.
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One more thing on the illegals. Little bit of messaging
stuff we could probably work on. All that and so
much more is coming up this hour on the world-famous
Jesse Kelly Show, but not right now, because right now
it's time for Medal of Honor Monday. Every Medal of
Honor Monday is the same thing. At the start of
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the second hour, we take a citation and we read
about what a hero has done. Even if we forget,
we remember his name in that moment. We remember his deeds.
And I'm reading a book right now that you may
find interesting. Maybe you won't. It's totally a different kind
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of a book. But man, is it driving home a
point to me that I kind of already knew, but
it's driving it home. The name of the book, in
case you're wondering, is... Well, pause, pause. You've heard of
the book With the Old Breed. You've heard of that book.
It's one of the most famous World War II books ever.
Eugene Sledge wrote it. Eugene Sledge was a Marine fighting
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in the Pacific War, Peleliu and Okinawa. He wrote a book.
It was kind of a diary that ended up being
made into a book, With the Old Breed. All right,
so who's the old breed? It was not Eugene Sledge.
Eugene Sledge was just a puppy when he joined the Marines,
started fighting in World War II. The old breed were
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the older Marines who had been fighting and been fighting.
They'd been in for a long time. They were very
much looked up to by the new younger guys like
Eugene Sledge, right? So that was the old breed with
the old breed. All right, now fast forward to the
book I'm reading now. I forget who recommended it to me.
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It's actually one of two or three books I'm reading now.
It's a long story. But the book is called The
Last of the Old Breed. The Last of the Old Breed.
One more time so you don't email me. The name
of the book is The Last of the Old Breed.
Just leveling with you here, I do not enjoy the
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concept of the book. You may, and here's what I mean.
The concept of the book is this. They went around,
it's a cool idea, to all the World War II
veterans they could find who are still alive. They're all
100 years old, who are still alive. And they interviewed
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them asking them about the war, about the war in
the Pacific specifically. And so what you get in the book,
there's no consistency with it. You'll get this campaign, right?
It's Tarawa, it's Peleliu, it's this. And then you'll have...
four or five different little snippets, two or three paragraphs
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from a guy, and then two or three paragraphs from
another guy, and two or three paragraphs from another guy,
where they're just giving kind of their little synopsis of
what it was. It's a fascinating read, and I'm going
to read the whole thing. It's not the kind of
history book I would want to read often. That's what
I mean when I say I don't know about the
concept of it. But anyway, the last of the old
breed is the book. Let's get back to my point here.
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What is the point that kind of floored me as
I read it? How many brutal, brutal fighting campaigns there
were in the Pacific War that even some World War
II guys, like history guys, don't talk about and many
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don't think about, don't even know about. If you say
Iwo Jima, everyone knows about Iwo Jima. Everybody's heard of
Iwo Jima. Okinawa, Guadalcanal, these titanic struggles in the Pacific.
How many people know about New Georgia? Have you even
heard of New Georgia? New Georgia, the jungle in New
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Georgia was so insanely thick. It was so overrun. They estimated,
I might mess this number up because I haven't read
it in a while. They estimate that 25% of our
casualties on New Georgia are We're friendly fire. You can't
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see anything. You can't see the guy behind you, ahead
of you, but you can't see anything. The Japanese, I've
told you this before, the Japanese would do this in
places like New Georgia. They would dig a pretty wide
hole in the ground where you could fit a few guys, right?
A wide little hole in the ground. And then only
about a foot above the ground, they would put a
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roof over that hole they built in the ground, all right?
Then they would take topsoil from around the area and
put it on the roof. Well, it's so tropical, it's
nothing but rain and sun and rain and sun and
rain and sun and 100% humidity that it doesn't take
long for that topsoil to be overgrown with plants. So
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that little, that hole in the ground is invisible. Absolutely,
positively invisible. You're a Marine on patrol. You have no
idea there is a Japanese heavy machine gun aimed at
you right now, getting ready to shoot you and all
your buddies in the legs. And then when you fall down,
you'll all be shot in the face. New Georgia was
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a living hell and most people have never heard about it.
And this guy, Roger Wilton Young, U.S. Army, he fought there.
He was born in Tiffin, Ohio. How about that? Ohio boy.
Here's what he did. Honoring those who went above and beyond.
It's Medal of Honor Monday. On the 31st of July, 1943,
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the infantry company of which Private Young was a member
was ordered to make a limited withdrawal from the battle
line in order to adjust the battalion's position for the night.
At this time, Private Young's platoon was engaged with the
enemy in a dense jungle where observation was very limited.
The platoon suddenly was pinned down by intense fire from
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a Japanese machine gun concealed on higher ground only 75
yards away. The initial burst wounded Private Young. As the
platoon started to obey the order to withdraw, Private Young
called out that he could see the enemy emplacement, whereupon
he started creeping toward it. Another burst from the machine
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gun wounded him a second time. Despite the wounds, he
continued his heroic advance, attracting enemy fire and answering with
rifle fire. When he was close enough to his objective,
he began throwing hand grenades and while doing so, was
hit again and killed. Private Young's bold action in closing
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with this Japanese pillbox and thus diverting its fire permitted
his platoon to disengage itself without loss and was responsible
for several enemy casualties. I'll tell you what. In that book,
it really, really drives it home. There will be some
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campaign that, I mean, you know how much I love
World War II and the Pacific. There were a couple
in there I'm not sure that I've ever heard of before. Wait,
what island?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Where?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And then you read about some guy, Private Young. You
read about a different Private Young who just did something awesome,
something amazing. And by the way, we're obviously going to
play taps for the man. Rest in peace. You know,
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I don't... Maybe I'm getting old. So I'm not... Maybe
that's what it is. I don't know why these stories
hit me harder now. The guys... Not who die in combat.
That's the way combat goes. That's going to happen in combat.
The guys who die... in some remote area no one's
ever heard of, and no one thought about again, or
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not many people did. Think about that act of heroism
from Private Young. On his own, while being shot at,
and he's been shot twice, charges are dug in place.
He didn't have to do that. He wasn't ordered to
do that. He did that because he was a lion
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who wanted to protect his guys and fight back And
he did that on a plate. that most Americans have
never even heard of before. New Georgia. And he was
25 years old at the time. 25 years old. Whole
life ahead of him. Gone. Died in some God-forbidden jungle dump. Anyway,
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I think about that sometimes. All right. Let's set all
that stuff aside. It is kind of wild to talk
about how unbelievably evil the Democrat Party has become. And
I want to thank Senator Ed Markey for making my
point for me over the weekend. Before I get to Ed,
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let me get to this. Let me get to you
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You ever take a step back and look at the
modern Democrat Party and just go, oh my gosh. Senator
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Ed Markey is an idiot. He's been an idiot for
a long time, so this isn't even really about him.
But the things Democrats are now comfortable saying publicly, it's wild.
For instance, this is what he said over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
We need free public college and gun-free schools. We need
to make it.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Believe it or not, I'm not even going to address
those things, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
NRA stands for not relevant anymore in American politics. We
need universal child care. We need Medicare for all. When
I introduced the Green New Deal with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, They
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called it socialism. Well, what do you call a hundred
years of tax breaks for the oil, gas, and coal industry?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I call that socialism.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And all we're saying is give us some of that
socialism for wind and solar and all electric vehicles and
battery storage technologies and we will bury the fossil fuel industry.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It's actually the very last sentence there that I wanted
to focus on for just a minute before we do
some emails. We will bury the fossil fuel industry. I
want to drive this point home to everybody, Republican, Democrat, Independent,
whatever you are. Maybe you're a hate-listening communist. Do you
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understand how many people will die if we bury the
fossil fuel industry? what you call fossil fuels. We'll just
call it oil. I don't mean a couple people here
or there. If you could actually stop oil tomorrow, if
you had the power to do so, and very clearly
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Democrats would if they had the power to do so. Chris,
how many people live on the planet? 7 billion? Something
like that? Is it 8 billion? You know about half
those people would die, right? Do you understand that Democrats
are so sick and evil now, they will stand up
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and at a rally, they will propose things that will
be the largest genocide in the history of mankind by
a mile, and they do so to the cheer of
the crowd. Look, whatever, try to talk about your gun
bans and taxes and health care and all the stupid
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other things. That's one thing. We're going to bury the
fossil fuel industry? That's the largest genocide in human history
by a mile. The number would be, well, it would
start with a B. I'll put it that way. It
would start with a B. Jesse, I love this show.
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Don't let anyone give you crap about taking time off.
Get the best up-and-coming sub. We need more voices. The
house next to my son recently sold. It's a single-family house.
We've seen nothing but 20-something Indian men and one Indian woman.
There are as many as 10 cars parked in the
front driveway and front lawn. My question is, is this
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something we should report to ICE? It sounds like what
you've been describing as a way to abuse our generosity.
Am I thinking like a Karen? He asked me not
to say his name, and I won't say his name. Look,
you can always call ICE if you believe something illegal
is going on, but when it comes to this kind
of stuff, this stuff is probably partly legal. Now, why
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did I throw that huge qualifier in there, partly legal? Well,
most likely, those people are here, unless they've been here
for generations, right? That happens. Indian Americans have been here
for a while, some. But if those people are relatively
new arrivals, they're most likely here legally on a visa.
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On a visa. All right, that's most likely why they're here.
That's not a guarantee. There are other ways people can
come here. That's just one of the main ones we
talk about. But they're most likely here legally. Now, why
did I say partly? Partly legally. Because the companies themselves
are committing illegal acts, and several companies across the United
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States of America are being investigated and or have already
paid fines. Now, what are these illegal acts? If you
are a company, if you are Microsoft, you cannot... throw
an ad in the Indian want ads and say, we're
looking for a data programmer. If you do not make
an effort to hire an American data programmer, you're not
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allowed in this country. And you shouldn't be to go
looking for foreign workers. If you haven't made any effort
to find an American worker, that program, it should, well,
it was designed to, to be, well, we couldn't find
anyone here in America. We turned over every rock. We
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looked in every nook and cranny. There's not a single
American who wants this job or can do this job. So, hey, government,
Could we have an H-1B so we can go to
China and grab someone so we can go to India
and grab somebody? That's the idea behind the whole program.
But for reasons I've laid out a thousand times before,
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that's not why it works out that way. The companies
would rather go over there because they can pay them
less and work them like slaves because the company owns them.
The company is the owner of the H-1B. So you,
you don't get to leave. You don't get to go
to a competitor. I own you. And if you're an employer,
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evil as it may be, what looks better on the
bottom line than slave labor? Nothing like getting those labor
costs down. Anyway, let me ask you, what do you
have in the morning for breakfast? What do you consume
in the morning? I haven't told you about this in
a while, and that's just negligence on my part, but
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you really should get yourself a bag of chocolate powder. Now,
it's not chocolate. Chocolate powder. What is it? By the way,
it is delicious, but it's just packed full of vitamins
and minerals. You should start your morning off with it.
Almost every morning, Ab will make one of her big,
gross superfood smoothies, and the chocolate powder is the only
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thing that makes it even— it's the only reason I
can even gut the thing down— On the rare occasion
she doesn't, maybe she's gone, I just put a scoop
or two in a glass of milk, mix it up,
and chug it. Your day is a lot better when
you start off turbo-injecting your body with the bunch of
nutrients it needs. Try some chocolate powder. C-H-O-Q. Chuck.com slash Jesse.
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That's Chuck.com slash Jesse. All right. We're going to get
this out of the way. Talk about a couple messaging items.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Next.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Missed out? Catch up. jessikellyshow.com It is the Jesse Kelly
Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday. Remember, you can email
us jesse at jessikellyshow.com So, you know, I hate to
play me. on the Jesse Kelly show. I take that back.
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I love it. You know, it's one of my favorite
things in the world. But do you remember this was
three days ago? Three days ago? Three days ago when
we were talking about data centers. This is a little long,
but it's me. So I love it anyway. I'm going
to let it play. Do you remember when I said
the problem remains that the companies who want to build
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data centers are are not well thought of oftentimes in
the places they want to build data centers. That's the problem.
You walk into my town, And you tell them, hey,
we want to put up five data centers in this
farmer's field in town. Maybe you won't even be able
to see them from the highway. We want to put
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up five data centers. And let's say there would be
pushback and there would be in my town. Hey, not here.
Keep this place nice. Let's say there would be pushback
on that. Do you know what's not going to work?
You saying we're competing with China, even though that's true.
That is a hundred percent true. We are competing with China.
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We do need data centers. We do. We don't want
China to have 10 times as many as we do.
We do need them. That is not a good sell.
That's not a good sell. Trying to tell rural Americans
like me and the people who live around me or
small town Americans that that they must take on a
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data center from Facebook, otherwise China will win. That has
got to be, by a mile, the worst, dumbest argument
I have ever heard in my entire life. They better
come up with a different sell. That's what I said
three days ago. A few hours ago, this is what
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Trump said on social media. The only reason that communities
throughout the USA should not want data centers is if
they want to end up being backwards and poor. If
they want to be successful and rich with far lower
taxes and jobs all over the place, let data reign.
The good news is there are plenty of other places
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that want them. If we kill the golden goose, you
will only have yourselves to blame. China could not be
happier with this anti-data center movement. Actually, they can't believe
it's happening. President Donald J. Trump. Now, here's the thing
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about politics. Certainly when you're in a representative republic like us,
we get to go out every so often and we
get to vote for who's our mayor, who's our senator,
who's our president. The people of this country get to choose.
When you are in a system like that, it's really,
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it's the most basic thing in the world, but it's
something every now and then someone will struggle with. When
that is the kind of system you're in, you know
what you really, really don't want to do. You don't
want to talk down to people. And this is one
of those things that, you remember, I used to rant
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about it because Joe Biden did it all the time.
And I don't think in my life I had ever
heard an American president really do it like Joe Biden
did it. Remember when he told us his patience was
wearing thin with us? We've been patient, but our patience
is wearing thin. I couldn't believe a president would even
talk like that. Excuse me? Who do you think you are?
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You really don't want to talk down to voters if
you're the president of the United States of America when
you desperately need them to go vote for you and
or your party this November. Where are we at with
all that? Well, here.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You win independents, you win elections.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Inflation, of course, was the key reason that Donald Trump
was reelected to a second term. But independents have done
a 180 on President Trump. Look at this on inflation.
Independents on Trump and inflation. In August of 2024, look
at that, he was more trust in inflation by 12
points over Kamala Harris, a very big reason that he won.
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That was the reason he won, right? Plus 12 points.
Look at this Net Approval Rating now, though. Whoa, way
down there. We're talking about, what is that? We're talking
about a 76-point switcheroo on the president of the United States,
an issue in which he beat Kamala Harris by 12 points.
He is now 64 points underwater. You don't see changes
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like this. But the key issue, that guy I'm elected,
now he's way down there in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Now is not the time for lectures. And I'm not
even saying he's incorrect, by the way. I actually think
he is correct about a lot of this. I would
have worded it a little different if I was a president.
I think he is correct. And it's not that I'm
personally offended. But when I read it, I winced. Because,
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and look, all I have is a theory on this.
My theory is this. Trump is getting older. It's not
a theory, that's a fact. But Trump is getting older.
And at some point, After enough headache or after enough
life lived, I've seen it happen to many of the
men in my life, you're just tired of dealing with
everyone's crap. You're going to wear what you want, you're
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going to say what you want, and if anybody doesn't
like it, they can screw off. That was kind of
my dad for most of my life, but man, towards
the end of my dad's life, that was where he was.
He'll say whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Maybe that's
what's going on here. But there's been a lot more
of this from Trump 2.0 than there was Trump 1.0.
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A lot more of the, hey, shut up about the
Epstein files. What is this idiocy? Hey, quit being an idiot. Hey, America,
we don't even have the talent. Hey, do you want
to lose to China? I guess you want to be poor.
There is a lot of that right now.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
A lot.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And when you are getting buried with independence and facing,
God forbid, some kind of blue wave this November, it's
time for the charm offensive. That's all I'm saying. On
all counts. You know what I mean? This applies to
the GOP Senate and House too, so don't think I'm
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letting them off the hook here. You know what's never
been a great sell? Stop being an idiot. When you
have to get votes, that's not a great sale. I
can say that because I don't need anybody's vote. I
can say it. And people can say it to me.
But I guess you want to be poor. That's not
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how we sell them. We don't trust these data center
companies because they're untrustworthy. We think they'll hire foreigners. We
know these companies hate America, hate normal America, hate Americans.
There is a laundry list of reasons to hate the
data center companies. The data center companies have low approval too,
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just like Donald Trump does. So that doesn't mean you
just don't build them. That means you come bearing gifts.
You take that big box that has all the lectures
in it, guess you want to be poor, and you
leave that box at home. You go grab the box
that's full of goodies. Hey, a new road. a new school,
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tax breaks, whatever. You go grab the box that's full
of goodies, and that's what you walk into the community with. Hey,
I'm the big evil data center company you all already hate.
I'm not going to lecture anybody. I'm asking permission to
come into your community. I know you don't want me here.
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Who wants a big soulless data center here? So I'm
going to give you something. You know what? I've mentioned schools.
What about a new hospital? We have a new one
in my town. Brand new hospital. My friends talk about it. Man,
that place looks nice. Man, that's really nice. Makes people
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feel more safe, more secure. Wow, we have a gorgeous
looking hospital right up the road. Look at that hospital.
How about the, you know, whatever, pick the company that's
doing the data center. How about the Microsoft data center? Hospital.
What's that sound? That is the kind of thing that
(28:57):
wins people over. Talking down to people doesn't. J.D., this
is better.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Again.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
JD's really doing well.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
They're an important part of the AI economy. When people
build them, they have to build the power plants along
with the data centers. I think probably 99% of the
backlash to data centers has come in areas where building
a data center means higher utility and higher electricity for
the people on the ground. So I think what these
companies have to do is take advantage of some of
the federal deregulatory efforts that we've undertaken. If you build
(29:29):
a data center, you should be putting power back into
the grid.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Not taking it out. And if that is happening, I.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Don't think the data centers are that controversial. It's when
the utility bills get so much higher, that's when it's
a real problem.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Now that's a little better. You know what else you
could do? Why don't you give a big donation to
Tunnel to Towers if you're a data center? In fact,
why don't you bring the Tunnel to Towers people to
town and say, hey, we're... Where are the gold star
families in this town? Where are the fallen first responder
families in this town? We, data center company, we're going
(30:05):
to give the Tunnel to Towers so Tunnel to Towers
can pay off their mortgages. It's telling you how to
buy some goodwill. Now, I'm not hopeful that Google's going
to do that, so Tunnel to Towers needs you to
do that. 11 bucks a month. That's all Tunnel to
Towers asks for. It's all they've ever asked for. 11
bucks a month from you. Help out a widow and orphan.
(30:28):
as we are commanded to do. Go to t2t. org. We'll
be back. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful,
wonderful Monday. Of course, it was a Medal of Honor Monday,
and If you missed that or anything else on the show,
(30:56):
you can download it. iHeart, Spotify, iTunes. Let's do some emails. Hey, Jesse,
a few shows ago, you talked about the University of
Michigan not grading classes for the first semester students. Isn't
it obvious that this is just a way to scam
more money out of student loans and grants by not
flunking anyone in the first semester? Would it not be
possible to fight this kind of thing by cutting their
(31:19):
funding and refusing to offer student loans to freshmen and
Enrolling in schools that pass everyone, so on and so forth.
Says his name is Matt. He says Semper Fi. Semper Fi. Well, yeah,
it would be possible, but that would require state GOPs
to have guts, and they haven't taken near enough chalk
for that. That's one. Two, if I can make you
(31:40):
feel better, I think it'll make you feel better. I
guess maybe it'll make you feel worse. Remember what communists
do to institutions. Communists look at a powerful institution, an
influential institution, because institutions are what your nation is built upon.
They look at the institution and they say to themselves,
(32:03):
if I conquer that institution, I will be able to
use the power of that institution on behalf of the revolution.
And you can for a little while. for a little while.
But over a long enough period of time, what will
(32:25):
happen is the institution will simply die. Why does it die? Well,
in order to look at why it dies, we have
to look at what kept it alive. What gives an
institution power? Pick your institution, the church, universities, Boy Scouts, whatever.
Pick your institution. What gives it power? The trust of
(32:48):
the public. Does the public trust this institution, admire, respect
this institution? That trust, that admiration, that respect, that is
the fuel that keeps the institution alive. You see, it
flows both ways. But communists... Once they get installed there,
(33:10):
once they infiltrated, they use the institution on behalf of
the revolution, and slowly but surely, the trust disappears. And
what happens from there? The institution slowly starts to die.
In the Soviet Union, by the end, the final years
(33:31):
of the Soviet Union, Soviet citizens laughed. When the news
came on and said, hey, record harvest again this year.
America's going down. We are dominating. They had learned from
years and years of the lies that it was all
a joke. The media had no power, none whatsoever by
(33:55):
the end. Now, the university system in the United States
of America is going to die. Now, we'll have a
university system. Don't get me wrong. All the universities aren't
going away. I read a story over the weekend at Syracuse.
I'm always positive it was Syracuse. If I got that wrong,
(34:17):
screw it. I went to community college. I couldn't get
into Syracuse anyway. But Syracuse, they're not paying the bills.
Universities across the United States of America, they're starting to starve.
And the reason they're starting to starve is The universities
of the United States of America were conquered by communists.
(34:38):
The communists did what they always do, use the university
system to declare war on the country, and the American
people started to take away their trust and admiration and generosity.
I'll tell you this. You know I'm uneducated and stupid.
You know that. But for most of my life, If
(35:02):
I walked into your office, whoever you are, a doctor,
a financial advisor, whoever, I don't care who you are,
maybe I'm at your house, and I see a diploma
from Harvard on there, that would elevate my respect level.
At least as far as academia, brainpower goes, I would think, man,
(35:24):
he probably, he had to be— these thoughts would go through
my head instantly— He had to be one heck of
a high school student to even get into Harvard. But then, wow,
to stay in that four-year grind and get a diploma?
I don't care what it's in. That's impressive. Whatever else
you can say about the guy, that's impressive for most
(35:46):
of my life. That's what I would have thought if
I walked in and looked at a Harvard diploma. Now,
I'll tell you right now. I don't know that we're
even allowed to say this. I'll tell you right now.
I would never hire somebody with a Harvard diploma. Ever.
That would be, if I read that on your resume,
let's say we go shopping for a new producer, which
(36:08):
we probably will at some point in time, that would
immediately disqualify you. Immediately. Why? Well, Harvard, you can't declare
a communist war on America over and over and over
again over the years because and maintain the same level
of respect. I'll simply stop. I have no interest in it.
(36:29):
Now when I see a Harvard diploma, I roll my eyes.
When I see someone on social media, I went to Harvard,
I say to myself, how embarrassing. That's how it works.
The university system is dying. It won't survive. And there
are people, certainly people in older generations who are used
(36:50):
to maybe a better university system who want to preserve
it Trump himself. Trump himself came out and said, hey,
we need these 600,000 Chinese students. Otherwise, a lot of
universities would go out of business. And, you know, people
who are more hardcore anti-communists said, yeah, that sounds wonderful.
But the idea of losing a bunch of universities, it
(37:14):
can be jarring because they've been there. These are institutions.
They were valuable institutions. Now they're just part of the
communist revolution and they should die. And the country will
be better off when they do die. The universities should
be something you should be comfortable sending your daughter to.
And it's not right now.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
All right.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Let's move on. Somebody stole 50,000 cans of PBR. Before
we get to that story, we have to talk about
the removal of the statue of Stonewall Jackson. Before we
get to that, let's get to this. I know that
it's hard to find good people today. I know. And
(37:55):
even if you find somebody with a resume you like,
trying to get them to call you back or email
you back has become a nightmare. It's like people don't
actually want the job. So what to do, what to
do if you're looking for somebody? You go to ZipRecruiter
is what you do. Because ZipRecruiter has this incredible technology.
And this is what it does. It's not just being qualified.
(38:17):
That's a given. It's being qualified and interested. ZipRecruiter makes
sure the people they put in front of you have
both of those qualities. So when you send that message,
you get one back. That's why four out of five
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at ZipRecruiter.com slash Jesse. That's ZipRecruiter.com slash Jesse. We'll be back.
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