April 17, 2025 • 36 mins
We don’t treat our political war with the proper mindset like The Left does. A focused effort to destroy America. Why do Democrats introduce violent criminals into the country? Is tipping culture getting out of hand?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Thursday. I
know what day it is. Day, what a miracle it is.
It's a Thursday. We are almost towards the end of
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the week. I have an itchy nose. We'll get to
that in a little while. We are going to discuss
the strategy, what's at play here. I realize that there
are two big stories that are governing everything in the
media right now, the illegal that was sent to El
Salvador and this horrible case of the young man who
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got stabbed in Frisco, Texas. I'm here to tell you,
I believe I'm going to a dress both in kind
of a different way tonight, a very different way. And
then I don't know if we will return to the
actual headlines of the day. We're gonna bounce around a lot.
We're gonna talk a little bit about things like sneaking
a turtle through tsa Bernie Sanders flying on private jets,
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Trump saying he wants a lot of these illegals to
come back after they self deport. All that and a
lot more is coming up tonight on the world famous
Jesse Kelly Show, I want to I want to begin
with this one though it's actually an email, because other
people are being frustrated as well. The subject to this
one is being too nice, Jesse, Why are we spending
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so much time talking about this gang member in Maryland
and trying to justify his existence. If we were a
real nation, he'd be executed on public TV. Sending the
animals back home does nothing? What's wrong with us? So on? Okay,
so this guy's very very upset about it, and Jeffries,
actually minority leader, talked a little bit about not necessarily
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this specifically, but in a roundabout way, talked about what's
happening right now.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Part of our early strategy had to be to sue
them as often as we could, and that's democratic attorney
generals like Tis James, who's doing a great job on
our behalf right. And so we're going to continue to
work with Tiss James and the democratic attorney generals and
the civil rights groups and the democracy reform groups in
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the ACLU, all of whom I'm in regular.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it, we got it, we
got it. So I don't want to rehash a bunch
of the things we've been talking about already. I want
to do this in this way, set aside your biases.
I'll try to set aside my biases right now. It's
a very very good thing to be mission focused in life.
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Mission focused, right, that's a good thing. I've had in
my life many times where I was mission focused, laser
focused on something whatever, that's something. Maybe maybe it's a
health thing. I want to get my cholester all down.
Maybe it's at work, I want to get promoted to
sales manager, whatever, whatever it may. Maybe it's in my
personal life. I'm going to be closer with my sons
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or my wife. Mission focused. And I've had plenty of
periods of my life where I kind of didn't lost,
little listless, didn't really have something to sink my teeth into.
And those are the periods of time in my life
where I go sideways. I end up drinking too much
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or getting fat, or just just I'm just not without
a mission. I'm not where I should be in life. Okay.
People are like that, You're like that. I'm like that.
Companies are like that, countries are like that. Political parties
are like that. The Communists, to their credit, to their credit,
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our mission focused at all times. And this is important
for us to discuss because we are not. So here's
how it works for them. For them, when they have power,
they simply destroy everything they possibly can because they have
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a mission, and that mission is to destroy everything they can.
So they will like a hungry wolf. They will look
out at all the sheep and they don't picture one. Well,
maybe I'll eat a sheep if I come across one.
They look at all them and they say that one. Hey,
let's go. That's Hollywood. Let's go. Let's make sure we
trash every TV show. Do we have enough gay peopoint?
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Let's get that one in there. Oh. The military, Yeah,
let's get in there. Let's wear my way in the military.
Barack Obama completely remade the FBI mission focused. Well, we
have a federal law enforcement arm. It'd sure be nice
if that became the sword and shield of the Democrat Party.
Boom FBIAT mission focus. They attack everything with a mission
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because they have a goal in mind. You see, they
want to go somewhere. Now. The goal is horrible, but
that's not what we're talking about right now. We're not
talking about the final goal. The point is they have
one and because they have a mission. Then from there
everything becomes easier, everything becomes more tangible. If you will
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in this way, if you are if your goal is
to lose weight, you have a mission. Right, Well, you
know what? Actually, how make it about me? How bragg
I enjoyed doing that. I after my dad died six
months ago, I was as unhealthy as I've ever been
in my entire life. If it was bad food, I
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ate it, I was drinking too much. I was just
just just really let myself go. And so I pulled
a bad cholesterol number of one thirty two. It doesn't
matter what that is, but it's bad. Okay, it's not good.
My bag Clesterral went through the roof, I got my
blood work done, saw that number one, thought, okay, gosh,
that's not gonna work, especially for a family with a
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history of heart problems. I made that my mission. I'm
gonna get that down. Just found out my results today.
The new ones are seventy seven, from one thirty two
to seventy seven. Now I'm actually not bragging. I'm making
a point. How did that happen? While I get I
had a goal in mind. Oh go, okay, you got fat,
you got unhealthy? You got this. So Hey, I'm gonna
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go home tonight. I think I'll stop and grab a beer. Nope,
violates the mission. I think I'm gonna have my fourth
pizza of the day. Nope, violates the mission. I think
I'm feeling lazy, don't want to work out? Nope. Get
your button the gym, get your pack on, get whatever,
Get up. You have a mission. The communists in this
country have a mission. When they have the power, they'll
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destroy everything can't. They can, but they don't that aside
their mission or ignore their mission when they lose power.
The mission still the mission. Whether you have the House,
the Senate, the Presidency or not. The mission remains. And
because the mission remains, they will always find a new
way to attempt to accomplish that mission. Why are we
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still handwringing for three weeks about a Maryland man about
the illegal Why because they understand now that we don't
have power. Because the mission remains. The destruction of America
remains the mission. What we must do at every turn,
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whether it's with the courts, whether it's in the House
and the Senate, whether it's in the media, whether it's
in Hollywood, whatever we do, because the mission remains we
have to stop them from stopping us. That is the mission.
The mission is stop them from stopping us, and so
everything becomes about that.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Out of our early strategy had to be to sue
them as often as we could. And that's democratic attorney
generals like Tis James, who's doing a.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Great Now that's bad, okay, but applaud them for being
mission focused. The real bad of it, though, is that
we are not because we don't think in terms of
it being a competition the way they do. When I'm
not talking about you, I'm talking about most of the
right in general. Yes, we're patriotic and we want this
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or we want that, but we don't treat our political war.
We don't treat it as an ongoing competition where there
will be only one winner. We don't. And so, whether
we're in power, whether we're out of part how many
times did you hear me scream? How many times did
you scream? When the Biden administration was doing some of
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the most evil things in the kist of this country.
They had the Federal Bureau of Investigation walking through parking
lots of school board meetings, jotting down the license plates
of moms who didn't want their kids learning to be
gay in school and putting these moms on the domestic
terrorists lists. That's how evil democrats are. How many times
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did we scream at the GOP in the House because
remember we took back the house. Why aren't you doing anything?
Why why are you defunding it? The GOP not only
refused to defund any of that stuff, some of them
actually would loudly brag about it. Guys like Senator John
Cornyn would still defend the FBI to their dying breath.
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Ken Buck, as he was retiring, I love the FBI.
I think you guys do great work. Not mission focused,
and if we were more mission focused, we would have
fewer traders on our side. We spray out and spread
in all different direction actions, or we get complacent. They
are never complacent because the revolution is all the time,
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all the time. Chris, is that the did it just
get here? Is that what I saw? Oh? Something just
arrived During the segment, I have quite an exciting announcement
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Show on a Thursday, and I forgot to remind you
that tomorrow tomorrow is an ask doctor Jesse Friday. Get
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to you and your questions. Now, something arrived during my
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last segment to the studio. Drum roll please, that's me
doing my hand thing. I note it sounds professional, but
that's actually my hands on the desk. We got our
Pambondi Media appearance counter. Actually it's just a whiteboard with
some erasable marker, but it's already it's already been placed
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behind me. And there are two two different sides. On
one side, media appearances. On the other side, government arrests,
arrests of government employees. Now that's the good news. The
good news is the board is here. The bad news
is there are two notches on the media appearance side
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and still no notches on the government arrests side. But hey, anyway,
here's she was on Fox News.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Ice declared him as a member of MS thirteen. The
police officers the gang Unit declared him as a member
of MS thirteen, and also they independently went to a
reliable confidential informant who said, not only is he a
member of MS thirteen, he gave them the click the
Westerns and he was called a Chico, which is one
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of the higher ranking MS thirteen members.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So they wow, Thanks Pam, that's pretty great. That's pretty great.
I feel safe for now. I feel safe for now,
and everyone watching Fox News last night they feel safe
for too. Anyway where the government arrests. All right, we'll
set that aside. Let's do some emails. Dear Jesse, what
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is Jerome Pal's problem? The guy is an idiot? Okay,
so why hasn't Trump fired him yet? The guy's mat
So there was a little there's been a dust up
with Jerome Powell and Donald Trump. You know who Jerome
Pale is. He's the head of the Federal Reserve. So
without getting too deep in the economic weeds, let's just
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talk about this. The Federal res is something that shouldn't exist,
but we'll get that. Let's set that aside. The Federal
Reserve does exist. The Federal Reserve sets interest rates. The
Federal Reserve handles really monetary policy in the United States
of America. All right, Jerome Pow is supposed to be nonpartisan,
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but I think you understand how this works, but let's
talk about it. Jerome Pow exists to protect the big shots,
and you can argue, as horrible as this is going
to sound, that he better protect the big shots, because
this is what I mean. We have this very crooked
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system here in America, this gangster capitalist system. It's not capitalism,
it's not free markets, it's gangster capitalism. When we have,
over time slowly but shifted the American economy into the
hands of just the major, major, major fortune five hundred companies,
and our politicians on both sides are our policy is
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all aimed at them. We want to protect and reward
the big banks. So if this bank, for instance, gets
a little over leveraged screws everything up, the federal government
will step in, gut it and hand all their business
to Morgan Stanley or something like that. That's how the United
States economy runs now. And so the big, the major companies,
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they really are huge portions of the economy. It shouldn't
be this way, by the way, but that's how it operates.
And Jerome Powe operates as their protector as the Federal
Reserve chairman. He comes from that world and he wants
to protect that world. And what that world wants, that
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world is a huge part of the system. What that
world wants is everything to stay as it is because
this horribly corrupt, crooked system we have, this global economic system,
it's been built by them and for them. They built
a financial system that is for them. Now, it doesn't
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matter that it's bad for the country and bad for
a lot of Americans. It works really well for them.
And let's remember what we're talking about here. Let's make
this you know personal. What does that mean it works
well for them? Well, you know the kind of money
these guys make and the kind of lives these guys live.
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They live lives that are far greater than the lives
of an Egyptian pharaoh, a Roman caesar. Their lives are
all private jets and mansions and five star hotels. And look,
you make inhuman amounts of money when you work in
that sector, and then you get these huge bonuses at
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the end of the end. Look, their life is luxurious
and wonderful. And making sure the apple cart doesn't get upset, well,
that's critically important to them. Donald Trump, what he's trying
to do by shaking up global trade, whether you agree
with it or not, all the tariff stuff, the protectionist stuff.
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What it threatens is the way things have been. I
didn't say that guarantees the way we're going is good,
but it very much threatens the way things have been.
And so Jerome Powell comes out and he makes some
comments about this is dangerous. Maybe we shouldn't do this,
maybe we shouldn't do that. Well, Donald Trump has a
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role to play here too. Obviously as president, he doesn't
want confidence to go down. He doesn't want these negative terms.
So now Trump drops this little statement in the White
House today Oval office. I could get rid of this
is a few hours ago. I could get rid of
him if I wanted to that kind of a thing.
I don't know how much longer Jerome Powell will be there.
I'll put it to you that way. Anyway, Do you
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let's talk about the system of lies. Next the Jesse
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Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful,
wonderful Thursday, about to get to some mebia I'll talk
about to talk about some lies really quickly though, because
there are lies that get ingrained in us, and we
have to be careful of ever accepting them. One of
them that we're going to dig into here really quickly
is the concept of power energy, I mean affordable energy,
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talking about the light switches, talking about your car, I'm
talking about energy. First. Let's remember access to mass quantities
of affordable energy. That is the reason technology has advanced
so fast in the last couple hundred years. That is
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the main difference. Like when you look at when you
look at all of human history, if you're stepping way
back from it and you look at this timeline and
then you look at just the past, you know, one
hundred years, two hundred years, it's like there's this unbelievable acceleration.
Unbelievable acceleration when you look at how much technology changed
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from the year fifteen hundred to the year seventeen hundred.
In advanced it changed, There's no question about that. But
is it that much? Go look at a ship from
the year fifteen hundred, then look at a ship from
the year seventeen hundred. That's a great place to start.
Will you see differences? Sure, not that many. Then go
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look at the difference between eighteen fifty in nineteen fifty.
Look at the difference. Why what's the explanation for that?
There was a book out there I read a long
time ago, very short book. Who knows. I hope it
doesn't suck. I thought it was interesting at the time.
What was it called? Five thousand year Leap? Chris, make
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sure that's a book. I read it a long time ago,
five thousand yearly But it's kind of about this concept, right,
How did that happen? What energy? Energy? The fact that
we can power things. Well, there's a headline here, power outages.
This is about Michigan. Power outages are so bad in
Whitmer's Michigan. US Rep. Haley Stevens wants to create government
loan program for sufferers the United States of America. Here
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inside the borders of the United States of America, no
matter where you are, whether you're in the Continental forty eight,
listening in Hawaii, listening in Alaska, we not only have
the technology, we have the resources to produce unending amounts
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of energy, and it should be dirt cheap. Maybe you're
happy with your power bill, maybe you're upset with your
power bill. But I'm here to tell you, no matter
which state you live in, your power bill is two
to three times, if not more, more expensive than it
actually should be. Because we have all the resources here too, Cole.
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We got it. Natural gas, we got it, gas or
oil got we have everything, all of it. The ability
to produce nuclear we have it. So I just wanted
to bring this up to explain this lie that the
Left tells you, and they're already saying it you're here
in California all the time, that brownouts and blackouts, that
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that's just kind of how things are, that what we
need is a government subsidy. What we didn't know what
has happened is there has been an ongoing, focused effort
to destroy progress, to destroy prosperity by America's communists, by
America's Democrat Party. The GOP has been too weak to
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fight back against it, and it has been a multi
decade long effort to artify officially decrease your access to
affordable energy. And now we live in a place where
states like California, the fifth largest economy in the world
if it was its own country, now have brownouts and blackouts.
My state Texas. I'm not just picking on poor California.
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My state in Texas has had multiple famous power outages
in recent years. People lost power here, we lost power there.
We sit on an ocean of oil and we are
running out of power. And what politicians really on every
side we'll try to tell you now is that this
is the way things are, or that maybe we just
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need a subsidy here, or what we need is there.
This is part of the system of lies that get
cemented into people's minds and hearts in this country. Anywhere
you are. If there was ever a moment where you
turn on the lights and they don't come on, it
better be because a tree fell on a power line.
If it's for any other reason, it's because there has
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been a focused effort to destroy America's prosperity. That is
a fact. So Michigan, Texas, California, New York, Montana, Florida,
wherever you happen to be, you pay too much for
your power and you should never, ever ever run out
of it. Ever, that should not be a thing that happens.
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Speaking of the system of lies, let's talk about this poll.
Americans don't want illegal aliens voting in elections. Huh headline.
Several Democrats can't answer why they want non citizens to
vote in elections. This is one of the huge lies
that is happening right now in this country. Democrats, they
know exactly why they want non citizens voting in the election.
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They know exactly why they want the MS thirteen gang
member brought back to the country. The point is they
can't be honest with you about that. Democrats want illegals
in the country for two gigantic reasons. Both of them
equally important. Reason number one is they want illegals brought
into their districts. The illegals will be counted in the
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census because this country is suicidal and insane. Therefore, the
Democrats in that district will not be redistrict out of
their districts. So it's about power. Bring in the illegals,
I get to count them as voters. It's about power.
That's the first reason they want them voting. They want
them in the districts, they want them counted in the census.
The second benefit to the mass importation of foreigners is
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you not only water down the patriotic citizens who currently
exist in this country. That's one, but two, you get
an increase in crime. And this is something that people
get confused because, yes, I am finally going to address
I swear for the final time this awful stabbing that
nobody will shut up about in Frisco, Texas. Why do
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the communists love violent crime? Well, I've used this example before.
If let's say you have a good solid family, dad, mom, kids,
whatever your role happens to be in that. Even if
you don't, just imagine that you do dad, mom, kids,
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loving home, good home, Let's say I'm a very very
evil person who wants that family broken up. I want
dad fighting with mom, mom fighting with the kids, the
kids rebelling, disaster. Let's say I want that. Well, that's difficult.
It's very difficult to break up a cohesive unit in
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that way. But introducing some form of chaos or violence
can really really move me along in my goal for
breaking that family up. If I take that wonderful family
home and I introduce into that home a very very
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violent pit bull. Hey, here's a new dog for you,
a fully grown, violent pit bull. He eats the furniture,
He bites the kids, he bites the dad, he bites
the mom, he bites the neighbor. He's a disaster. Now.
Will that pitbull alone break up the family? Of course not.
Will that family stay as unified and cohesive with a
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violent pitbull tearing through everything? Or will that cause angst?
Will that cause fractures in friction inside of the home.
Of course it's going to cause friction. That's why communists
love street violence. It creates fractions and cracks in society.
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That's how I want to put it. Cracks. Cracks. If
you picture society as a big boulder. I wrote about
this in the book. If you picture society as a
big boulder the size of a semi truck, and you
think to yourself, nothing could ever break it, you'd pretty
much be right. Except one day you'll walk through the
mountains and you'll see that boulder has been shattered very neatly.
What happened. Cracks formed, water got into those cracks. It
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froze pow boulder, no matter how big it is, shattered.
That's why they introduce violent criminals into your society. That's
why they love them in your society. All right, all right,
let's do some emails. Hey, Professor Jesse, I agree with
you percent on the plural of attorney general is far
more sensible to be attorney generals. Anyway. I'm far more
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confident and assertive since I've been taking chock. I'm pumped.
I'm all pumped over your pending history lesson on Alexander
the Great says his name is John. Yes, I don't
know when that's coming. Hey, don't get your hopes up
and think that's coming on Monday. I have a lot
of work to do, and I don't know if I'm
not going to do it. T I can do it right. Okay,
The next one, as I promised I let you choose,
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Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show. On a wonderful,
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Jesse kellyshow dot com and get him in now. They're
already starting to stack up. Master shed Builder producer Chris
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is railing on Twitter about the tipping business tonight. His
people are cheap, but they have a valid point on
this issue. Where do you draw the line on tipping?
Every business has their handout for a tip? Now if
I buy a cookie from a teenager, am I a
bad person for not wanting to give a tip? Even though? Okay, okay,
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So I don't know that I'm about to give a
good answer on this because it's going to sound like
I'm all over the place, which I kind of am
all over the place. I'm just going to pour out
my heart to you in the most honest way, and
here it is. Okay. I am aware of two things
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right now. Two there are two things when it comes
to all this tipping stuff. One, working people, normal people.
Maybe this is you are having a really hard time
making ends meet right now. That has not changed. We
talked about it all the time during Biden. It hasn't changed. Now.
Savings are being drained, credit cards people were maxing them out.
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It's bad. These are indications that normal people are struggling
to get by. Combine that with this. I am not
I have struggled to get by a bunch in my life,
but now that I'm blessed to have a radio show,
I don't deserve, and it got gigantic and blew up everywhere,
and now it's national and everything. I am not struggling
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financially anymore. I will not say that it makes me
feel guilty or something like that, because it doesn't. But
it does make me feel obligated to help in whatever
tiny ways I can help. I was always a good
tipper restaurants. I was always twenty five percent guy, twenty
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twenty five percent guy. I have tried to make a
focused effort to be even better than that when the
circumstances arise, not because I'm a good person, just because
I feel obligated to help when I'm doing well and
other people are not. Right now now, I do combine
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that with this. I do not like, as you are
well aware, I do not like to be forced to
do things. And maybe you're rolling your eyes and saying, yeah,
nobody does. That's not true at all. Lots of people
love to be forced people. About half the people out
there love to be told what to do, told what
to say. That half of the people on this planet
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are born slaves. They are, and then there's people like
you who are not. I do not like to be
told what to do. In fact, I just did it
to someone the other day. The quickest way you can
guarantee that I will never talk about what you want
to talk about is to demand I talk about it.
Somebody had asked me something about Florida or something, Jess,
you won't even talk about it on your show, and
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I just told him immediately, yep. Well now I never
will ever. Now you could pull my fingernails out and
I won't ever bring it up. I don't like to
be controlled this new system where you force me to tip.
If you force me to tip, where the restaurant automatically
puts it in. Hey, there's an automatic fifteen percent chart,
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whatever the number is. If there is an automatic charge
and automatic tip, you will not get a single penny
more from me, period, end the story. I don't care
if the number is five percent. If you force me
to tip, I'm out. I will not tip a dime more.
Stop forcing me to do things. Stop forcing me to
do that stuff. That's one. Two. There is a rule
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that I do not follow outright, but I'm warming up
to it. And the rule that's not mine some it's
other people's. You've probably heard it before. If I order
and receive my food standing up, you're not getting a tip.
Meaning if I walk up to the counter and I
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order my food and then you turn around and you
grab my food and you hand it to me at
the counter, well, I'm not tipping anymore now. I don't
do that. I'll be honest with you. If it's like
a to go situation, if we're stopping buy Applebee's for
some chicken faheta roll ups or something like that, I
know those to go people do work hard because they
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have to package stuff up. They do do things, so
I do tip them. Here is the problem, as I
brought it up before. Everyone is being squeezed and so
everyone is grabbing more. The we're making about waiters. Waitresses
are being squeezed. They're trying to make ends meet too.
Because people aren't doing as well, people are tipping less,
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so they're not making as much money, which is why
they actually support the force tipping. But the customer's in
the exact same boat. You want to go out to
dinner with your husband, with your wife, with your kids
or something like that. You want to go out to dinner,
but you don't have as much money as you used
to have. It doesn't go as far, so you can't
tip as much, and so you don't want to tip
as much, and so you're being squeezed. The customer's squeezed,
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the waitress is squeezed, the business owner is squeezed. You
remember these restaurants, they have to pay for the food
before they charge you for the food. They have to
pay for it. They bring it in, they have to
pay someone to prepare it. Then they have to deliver
it to your table. And after paying all that and
paying for the food, they have to figure out a
way to charge you enough for it where they can
keep the lights on, pay everybody, pay for more food,
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and then Lord willing to take home some profits so
they can go out to dinner one day. They're being squeezed.
Food costs are going up. They don't want to charge
you a dollar a chicken wing. Now chicken prices have
gone up. So now you order a dozen chicken wings
and you get a bill for it, and it's twenty
two dollars, and you lose your mind. You know exactly
what I'm talking about, don't you. I do the same thing, Well,
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twenty two dollars per dozen chicken wings. You know what
I'm talking about everyone's being squeezed. I can't guide you
on where to tip or want to where not to tip.
I will say, if you can't afford to tip something
to the waitress, don't go out to eat. She deserves
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to be tipped something. He deserves to be tipped something.
They work really hard. That doesn't mean you have to
throw on a five dollars tip every single place you go.
When you walk up and order some nachos at a
baseball game and they turn around and squirt some of
that delicious Rico's cheese in a plastic tray and hand
you the chips, No you're not obligated to float that
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guy a couple bucks. No you're not. Just be whether
you are the waitress or the customer or the restaurant owner,
just be mindful of the fact everyone, top to bottom,
everyone is being squeezed right now, and everyone feels squeezed
right now. All right, all right now, I am going
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to for the last time in a long time, maybe forever,
I'm finally going to seriously address this situation of the
stabbing in Frisco, Texas, where the black kids stab the
white kid. The white kid's dead, and now it's this
whole race war thing. Let's talk about it and offend everyone. Next,
This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Thursday. I
know what day it is. Day, what a miracle it is.
It's a Thursday. We are almost towards the end of
(00:31):
the week. I have an itchy nose. We'll get to
that in a little while. We are going to discuss
the strategy, what's at play here. I realize that there
are two big stories that are governing everything in the
media right now, the illegal that was sent to El
Salvador and this horrible case of the young man who
(00:54):
got stabbed in Frisco, Texas. I'm here to tell you,
I believe I'm going to a dress both in kind
of a different way tonight, a very different way. And
then I don't know if we will return to the
actual headlines of the day. We're gonna bounce around a lot.
We're gonna talk a little bit about things like sneaking
a turtle through tsa Bernie Sanders flying on private jets,
(01:19):
Trump saying he wants a lot of these illegals to
come back after they self deport. All that and a
lot more is coming up tonight on the world famous
Jesse Kelly Show, I want to I want to begin
with this one though it's actually an email, because other
people are being frustrated as well. The subject to this
one is being too nice, Jesse, Why are we spending
(01:42):
so much time talking about this gang member in Maryland
and trying to justify his existence. If we were a
real nation, he'd be executed on public TV. Sending the
animals back home does nothing? What's wrong with us? So on? Okay,
so this guy's very very upset about it, and Jeffries,
actually minority leader, talked a little bit about not necessarily
(02:04):
this specifically, but in a roundabout way, talked about what's
happening right now.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Part of our early strategy had to be to sue
them as often as we could, and that's democratic attorney
generals like Tis James, who's doing a great job on
our behalf right. And so we're going to continue to
work with Tiss James and the democratic attorney generals and
the civil rights groups and the democracy reform groups in
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the ACLU, all of whom I'm in regular.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it, we got it, we
got it. So I don't want to rehash a bunch
of the things we've been talking about already. I want
to do this in this way, set aside your biases.
I'll try to set aside my biases right now. It's
a very very good thing to be mission focused in life.
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Mission focused, right, that's a good thing. I've had in
my life many times where I was mission focused, laser
focused on something whatever, that's something. Maybe maybe it's a
health thing. I want to get my cholester all down.
Maybe it's at work, I want to get promoted to
sales manager, whatever, whatever it may. Maybe it's in my
personal life. I'm going to be closer with my sons
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or my wife. Mission focused. And I've had plenty of
periods of my life where I kind of didn't lost,
little listless, didn't really have something to sink my teeth into.
And those are the periods of time in my life
where I go sideways. I end up drinking too much
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or getting fat, or just just I'm just not without
a mission. I'm not where I should be in life. Okay.
People are like that, You're like that. I'm like that.
Companies are like that, countries are like that. Political parties
are like that. The Communists, to their credit, to their credit,
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our mission focused at all times. And this is important
for us to discuss because we are not. So here's
how it works for them. For them, when they have power,
they simply destroy everything they possibly can because they have
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a mission, and that mission is to destroy everything they can.
So they will like a hungry wolf. They will look
out at all the sheep and they don't picture one. Well,
maybe I'll eat a sheep if I come across one.
They look at all them and they say that one. Hey,
let's go. That's Hollywood. Let's go. Let's make sure we
trash every TV show. Do we have enough gay peopoint?
(04:45):
Let's get that one in there. Oh. The military, Yeah,
let's get in there. Let's wear my way in the military.
Barack Obama completely remade the FBI mission focused. Well, we
have a federal law enforcement arm. It'd sure be nice
if that became the sword and shield of the Democrat Party.
Boom FBIAT mission focus. They attack everything with a mission
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because they have a goal in mind. You see, they
want to go somewhere. Now. The goal is horrible, but
that's not what we're talking about right now. We're not
talking about the final goal. The point is they have
one and because they have a mission. Then from there
everything becomes easier, everything becomes more tangible. If you will
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in this way, if you are if your goal is
to lose weight, you have a mission. Right, Well, you
know what? Actually, how make it about me? How bragg
I enjoyed doing that. I after my dad died six
months ago, I was as unhealthy as I've ever been
in my entire life. If it was bad food, I
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ate it, I was drinking too much. I was just
just just really let myself go. And so I pulled
a bad cholesterol number of one thirty two. It doesn't
matter what that is, but it's bad. Okay, it's not good.
My bag Clesterral went through the roof, I got my
blood work done, saw that number one, thought, okay, gosh,
that's not gonna work, especially for a family with a
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history of heart problems. I made that my mission. I'm
gonna get that down. Just found out my results today.
The new ones are seventy seven, from one thirty two
to seventy seven. Now I'm actually not bragging. I'm making
a point. How did that happen? While I get I
had a goal in mind. Oh go, okay, you got fat,
you got unhealthy? You got this. So Hey, I'm gonna
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go home tonight. I think I'll stop and grab a beer. Nope,
violates the mission. I think I'm gonna have my fourth
pizza of the day. Nope, violates the mission. I think
I'm feeling lazy, don't want to work out? Nope. Get
your button the gym, get your pack on, get whatever,
Get up. You have a mission. The communists in this
country have a mission. When they have the power, they'll
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destroy everything can't. They can, but they don't that aside
their mission or ignore their mission when they lose power.
The mission still the mission. Whether you have the House,
the Senate, the Presidency or not. The mission remains. And
because the mission remains, they will always find a new
way to attempt to accomplish that mission. Why are we
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still handwringing for three weeks about a Maryland man about
the illegal Why because they understand now that we don't
have power. Because the mission remains. The destruction of America
remains the mission. What we must do at every turn,
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whether it's with the courts, whether it's in the House
and the Senate, whether it's in the media, whether it's
in Hollywood, whatever we do, because the mission remains we
have to stop them from stopping us. That is the mission.
The mission is stop them from stopping us, and so
everything becomes about that.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Out of our early strategy had to be to sue
them as often as we could. And that's democratic attorney
generals like Tis James, who's doing a.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Great Now that's bad, okay, but applaud them for being
mission focused. The real bad of it, though, is that
we are not because we don't think in terms of
it being a competition the way they do. When I'm
not talking about you, I'm talking about most of the
right in general. Yes, we're patriotic and we want this
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or we want that, but we don't treat our political war.
We don't treat it as an ongoing competition where there
will be only one winner. We don't. And so, whether
we're in power, whether we're out of part how many
times did you hear me scream? How many times did
you scream? When the Biden administration was doing some of
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the most evil things in the kist of this country.
They had the Federal Bureau of Investigation walking through parking
lots of school board meetings, jotting down the license plates
of moms who didn't want their kids learning to be
gay in school and putting these moms on the domestic
terrorists lists. That's how evil democrats are. How many times
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did we scream at the GOP in the House because
remember we took back the house. Why aren't you doing anything?
Why why are you defunding it? The GOP not only
refused to defund any of that stuff, some of them
actually would loudly brag about it. Guys like Senator John
Cornyn would still defend the FBI to their dying breath.
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Ken Buck, as he was retiring, I love the FBI.
I think you guys do great work. Not mission focused,
and if we were more mission focused, we would have
fewer traders on our side. We spray out and spread
in all different direction actions, or we get complacent. They
are never complacent because the revolution is all the time,
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all the time. Chris, is that the did it just
get here? Is that what I saw? Oh? Something just
arrived During the segment, I have quite an exciting announcement
to make for the Jesse Kelly Show and I will
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Show on a Thursday, and I forgot to remind you
that tomorrow tomorrow is an ask doctor Jesse Friday. Get
all your questions emailed in right now to Jesse at
jesse kellyshow dot com all three hours on Friday dedicated
to you and your questions. Now, something arrived during my
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last segment to the studio. Drum roll please, that's me
doing my hand thing. I note it sounds professional, but
that's actually my hands on the desk. We got our
Pambondi Media appearance counter. Actually it's just a whiteboard with
some erasable marker, but it's already it's already been placed
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behind me. And there are two two different sides. On
one side, media appearances. On the other side, government arrests,
arrests of government employees. Now that's the good news. The
good news is the board is here. The bad news
is there are two notches on the media appearance side
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and still no notches on the government arrests side. But hey, anyway,
here's she was on Fox News.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Ice declared him as a member of MS thirteen. The
police officers the gang Unit declared him as a member
of MS thirteen, and also they independently went to a
reliable confidential informant who said, not only is he a
member of MS thirteen, he gave them the click the
Westerns and he was called a Chico, which is one
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of the higher ranking MS thirteen members.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So they wow, Thanks Pam, that's pretty great. That's pretty great.
I feel safe for now. I feel safe for now,
and everyone watching Fox News last night they feel safe
for too. Anyway where the government arrests. All right, we'll
set that aside. Let's do some emails. Dear Jesse, what
(12:36):
is Jerome Pal's problem? The guy is an idiot? Okay,
so why hasn't Trump fired him yet? The guy's mat
So there was a little there's been a dust up
with Jerome Powell and Donald Trump. You know who Jerome
Pale is. He's the head of the Federal Reserve. So
without getting too deep in the economic weeds, let's just
(12:57):
talk about this. The Federal res is something that shouldn't exist,
but we'll get that. Let's set that aside. The Federal
Reserve does exist. The Federal Reserve sets interest rates. The
Federal Reserve handles really monetary policy in the United States
of America. All right, Jerome Pow is supposed to be nonpartisan,
(13:22):
but I think you understand how this works, but let's
talk about it. Jerome Pow exists to protect the big shots,
and you can argue, as horrible as this is going
to sound, that he better protect the big shots, because
this is what I mean. We have this very crooked
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system here in America, this gangster capitalist system. It's not capitalism,
it's not free markets, it's gangster capitalism. When we have,
over time slowly but shifted the American economy into the
hands of just the major, major, major fortune five hundred companies,
and our politicians on both sides are our policy is
(14:04):
all aimed at them. We want to protect and reward
the big banks. So if this bank, for instance, gets
a little over leveraged screws everything up, the federal government
will step in, gut it and hand all their business
to Morgan Stanley or something like that. That's how the United
States economy runs now. And so the big, the major companies,
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they really are huge portions of the economy. It shouldn't
be this way, by the way, but that's how it operates.
And Jerome Powe operates as their protector as the Federal
Reserve chairman. He comes from that world and he wants
to protect that world. And what that world wants, that
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world is a huge part of the system. What that
world wants is everything to stay as it is because
this horribly corrupt, crooked system we have, this global economic system,
it's been built by them and for them. They built
a financial system that is for them. Now, it doesn't
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matter that it's bad for the country and bad for
a lot of Americans. It works really well for them.
And let's remember what we're talking about here. Let's make
this you know personal. What does that mean it works
well for them? Well, you know the kind of money
these guys make and the kind of lives these guys live.
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They live lives that are far greater than the lives
of an Egyptian pharaoh, a Roman caesar. Their lives are
all private jets and mansions and five star hotels. And look,
you make inhuman amounts of money when you work in
that sector, and then you get these huge bonuses at
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the end of the end. Look, their life is luxurious
and wonderful. And making sure the apple cart doesn't get upset, well,
that's critically important to them. Donald Trump, what he's trying
to do by shaking up global trade, whether you agree
with it or not, all the tariff stuff, the protectionist stuff.
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What it threatens is the way things have been. I
didn't say that guarantees the way we're going is good,
but it very much threatens the way things have been.
And so Jerome Powell comes out and he makes some
comments about this is dangerous. Maybe we shouldn't do this,
maybe we shouldn't do that. Well, Donald Trump has a
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role to play here too. Obviously as president, he doesn't
want confidence to go down. He doesn't want these negative terms.
So now Trump drops this little statement in the White
House today Oval office. I could get rid of this
is a few hours ago. I could get rid of
him if I wanted to that kind of a thing.
I don't know how much longer Jerome Powell will be there.
I'll put it to you that way. Anyway, Do you
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It's something great to do for the weekend. All right, now,
let's talk about the system of lies. Next the Jesse
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Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful,
wonderful Thursday, about to get to some mebia I'll talk
about to talk about some lies really quickly though, because
there are lies that get ingrained in us, and we
have to be careful of ever accepting them. One of
them that we're going to dig into here really quickly
is the concept of power energy, I mean affordable energy,
(18:32):
talking about the light switches, talking about your car, I'm
talking about energy. First. Let's remember access to mass quantities
of affordable energy. That is the reason technology has advanced
so fast in the last couple hundred years. That is
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the main difference. Like when you look at when you
look at all of human history, if you're stepping way
back from it and you look at this timeline and
then you look at just the past, you know, one
hundred years, two hundred years, it's like there's this unbelievable acceleration.
Unbelievable acceleration when you look at how much technology changed
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from the year fifteen hundred to the year seventeen hundred.
In advanced it changed, There's no question about that. But
is it that much? Go look at a ship from
the year fifteen hundred, then look at a ship from
the year seventeen hundred. That's a great place to start.
Will you see differences? Sure, not that many. Then go
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look at the difference between eighteen fifty in nineteen fifty.
Look at the difference. Why what's the explanation for that?
There was a book out there I read a long
time ago, very short book. Who knows. I hope it
doesn't suck. I thought it was interesting at the time.
What was it called? Five thousand year Leap? Chris, make
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sure that's a book. I read it a long time ago,
five thousand yearly But it's kind of about this concept, right,
How did that happen? What energy? Energy? The fact that
we can power things. Well, there's a headline here, power outages.
This is about Michigan. Power outages are so bad in
Whitmer's Michigan. US Rep. Haley Stevens wants to create government
loan program for sufferers the United States of America. Here
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inside the borders of the United States of America, no
matter where you are, whether you're in the Continental forty eight,
listening in Hawaii, listening in Alaska, we not only have
the technology, we have the resources to produce unending amounts
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of energy, and it should be dirt cheap. Maybe you're
happy with your power bill, maybe you're upset with your
power bill. But I'm here to tell you, no matter
which state you live in, your power bill is two
to three times, if not more, more expensive than it
actually should be. Because we have all the resources here too, Cole.
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We got it. Natural gas, we got it, gas or
oil got we have everything, all of it. The ability
to produce nuclear we have it. So I just wanted
to bring this up to explain this lie that the
Left tells you, and they're already saying it you're here
in California all the time, that brownouts and blackouts, that
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that's just kind of how things are, that what we
need is a government subsidy. What we didn't know what
has happened is there has been an ongoing, focused effort
to destroy progress, to destroy prosperity by America's communists, by
America's Democrat Party. The GOP has been too weak to
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fight back against it, and it has been a multi
decade long effort to artify officially decrease your access to
affordable energy. And now we live in a place where
states like California, the fifth largest economy in the world
if it was its own country, now have brownouts and blackouts.
My state Texas. I'm not just picking on poor California.
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My state in Texas has had multiple famous power outages
in recent years. People lost power here, we lost power there.
We sit on an ocean of oil and we are
running out of power. And what politicians really on every
side we'll try to tell you now is that this
is the way things are, or that maybe we just
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need a subsidy here, or what we need is there.
This is part of the system of lies that get
cemented into people's minds and hearts in this country. Anywhere
you are. If there was ever a moment where you
turn on the lights and they don't come on, it
better be because a tree fell on a power line.
If it's for any other reason, it's because there has
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been a focused effort to destroy America's prosperity. That is
a fact. So Michigan, Texas, California, New York, Montana, Florida,
wherever you happen to be, you pay too much for
your power and you should never, ever ever run out
of it. Ever, that should not be a thing that happens.
(23:23):
Speaking of the system of lies, let's talk about this poll.
Americans don't want illegal aliens voting in elections. Huh headline.
Several Democrats can't answer why they want non citizens to
vote in elections. This is one of the huge lies
that is happening right now in this country. Democrats, they
know exactly why they want non citizens voting in the election.
(23:46):
They know exactly why they want the MS thirteen gang
member brought back to the country. The point is they
can't be honest with you about that. Democrats want illegals
in the country for two gigantic reasons. Both of them
equally important. Reason number one is they want illegals brought
into their districts. The illegals will be counted in the
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census because this country is suicidal and insane. Therefore, the
Democrats in that district will not be redistrict out of
their districts. So it's about power. Bring in the illegals,
I get to count them as voters. It's about power.
That's the first reason they want them voting. They want
them in the districts, they want them counted in the census.
The second benefit to the mass importation of foreigners is
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you not only water down the patriotic citizens who currently
exist in this country. That's one, but two, you get
an increase in crime. And this is something that people
get confused because, yes, I am finally going to address
I swear for the final time this awful stabbing that
nobody will shut up about in Frisco, Texas. Why do
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the communists love violent crime? Well, I've used this example before.
If let's say you have a good solid family, dad, mom, kids,
whatever your role happens to be in that. Even if
you don't, just imagine that you do dad, mom, kids,
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loving home, good home, Let's say I'm a very very
evil person who wants that family broken up. I want
dad fighting with mom, mom fighting with the kids, the
kids rebelling, disaster. Let's say I want that. Well, that's difficult.
It's very difficult to break up a cohesive unit in
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that way. But introducing some form of chaos or violence
can really really move me along in my goal for
breaking that family up. If I take that wonderful family
home and I introduce into that home a very very
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violent pit bull. Hey, here's a new dog for you,
a fully grown, violent pit bull. He eats the furniture,
He bites the kids, he bites the dad, he bites
the mom, he bites the neighbor. He's a disaster. Now.
Will that pitbull alone break up the family? Of course not.
Will that family stay as unified and cohesive with a
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violent pitbull tearing through everything? Or will that cause angst?
Will that cause fractures in friction inside of the home.
Of course it's going to cause friction. That's why communists
love street violence. It creates fractions and cracks in society.
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That's how I want to put it. Cracks. Cracks. If
you picture society as a big boulder. I wrote about
this in the book. If you picture society as a
big boulder the size of a semi truck, and you
think to yourself, nothing could ever break it, you'd pretty
much be right. Except one day you'll walk through the
mountains and you'll see that boulder has been shattered very neatly.
What happened. Cracks formed, water got into those cracks. It
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froze pow boulder, no matter how big it is, shattered.
That's why they introduce violent criminals into your society. That's
why they love them in your society. All right, all right,
let's do some emails. Hey, Professor Jesse, I agree with
you percent on the plural of attorney general is far
more sensible to be attorney generals. Anyway. I'm far more
(27:33):
confident and assertive since I've been taking chock. I'm pumped.
I'm all pumped over your pending history lesson on Alexander
the Great says his name is John. Yes, I don't
know when that's coming. Hey, don't get your hopes up
and think that's coming on Monday. I have a lot
of work to do, and I don't know if I'm
not going to do it. T I can do it right. Okay,
The next one, as I promised I let you choose,
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Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show. On a wonderful,
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Jesse kellyshow dot com and get him in now. They're
already starting to stack up. Master shed Builder producer Chris
(29:04):
is railing on Twitter about the tipping business tonight. His
people are cheap, but they have a valid point on
this issue. Where do you draw the line on tipping?
Every business has their handout for a tip? Now if
I buy a cookie from a teenager, am I a
bad person for not wanting to give a tip? Even though? Okay, okay,
(29:25):
So I don't know that I'm about to give a
good answer on this because it's going to sound like
I'm all over the place, which I kind of am
all over the place. I'm just going to pour out
my heart to you in the most honest way, and
here it is. Okay. I am aware of two things
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right now. Two there are two things when it comes
to all this tipping stuff. One, working people, normal people.
Maybe this is you are having a really hard time
making ends meet right now. That has not changed. We
talked about it all the time during Biden. It hasn't changed. Now.
Savings are being drained, credit cards people were maxing them out.
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It's bad. These are indications that normal people are struggling
to get by. Combine that with this. I am not
I have struggled to get by a bunch in my life,
but now that I'm blessed to have a radio show,
I don't deserve, and it got gigantic and blew up everywhere,
and now it's national and everything. I am not struggling
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financially anymore. I will not say that it makes me
feel guilty or something like that, because it doesn't. But
it does make me feel obligated to help in whatever
tiny ways I can help. I was always a good
tipper restaurants. I was always twenty five percent guy, twenty
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twenty five percent guy. I have tried to make a
focused effort to be even better than that when the
circumstances arise, not because I'm a good person, just because
I feel obligated to help when I'm doing well and
other people are not. Right now now, I do combine
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that with this. I do not like, as you are
well aware, I do not like to be forced to
do things. And maybe you're rolling your eyes and saying, yeah,
nobody does. That's not true at all. Lots of people
love to be forced people. About half the people out
there love to be told what to do, told what
to say. That half of the people on this planet
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are born slaves. They are, and then there's people like
you who are not. I do not like to be
told what to do. In fact, I just did it
to someone the other day. The quickest way you can
guarantee that I will never talk about what you want
to talk about is to demand I talk about it.
Somebody had asked me something about Florida or something, Jess,
you won't even talk about it on your show, and
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I just told him immediately, yep. Well now I never
will ever. Now you could pull my fingernails out and
I won't ever bring it up. I don't like to
be controlled this new system where you force me to tip.
If you force me to tip, where the restaurant automatically
puts it in. Hey, there's an automatic fifteen percent chart,
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whatever the number is. If there is an automatic charge
and automatic tip, you will not get a single penny
more from me, period, end the story. I don't care
if the number is five percent. If you force me
to tip, I'm out. I will not tip a dime more.
Stop forcing me to do things. Stop forcing me to
do that stuff. That's one. Two. There is a rule
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that I do not follow outright, but I'm warming up
to it. And the rule that's not mine some it's
other people's. You've probably heard it before. If I order
and receive my food standing up, you're not getting a tip.
Meaning if I walk up to the counter and I
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order my food and then you turn around and you
grab my food and you hand it to me at
the counter, well, I'm not tipping anymore now. I don't
do that. I'll be honest with you. If it's like
a to go situation, if we're stopping buy Applebee's for
some chicken faheta roll ups or something like that, I
know those to go people do work hard because they
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have to package stuff up. They do do things, so
I do tip them. Here is the problem, as I
brought it up before. Everyone is being squeezed and so
everyone is grabbing more. The we're making about waiters. Waitresses
are being squeezed. They're trying to make ends meet too.
Because people aren't doing as well, people are tipping less,
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so they're not making as much money, which is why
they actually support the force tipping. But the customer's in
the exact same boat. You want to go out to
dinner with your husband, with your wife, with your kids
or something like that. You want to go out to dinner,
but you don't have as much money as you used
to have. It doesn't go as far, so you can't
tip as much, and so you don't want to tip
as much, and so you're being squeezed. The customer's squeezed,
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the waitress is squeezed, the business owner is squeezed. You
remember these restaurants, they have to pay for the food
before they charge you for the food. They have to
pay for it. They bring it in, they have to
pay someone to prepare it. Then they have to deliver
it to your table. And after paying all that and
paying for the food, they have to figure out a
way to charge you enough for it where they can
keep the lights on, pay everybody, pay for more food,
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and then Lord willing to take home some profits so
they can go out to dinner one day. They're being squeezed.
Food costs are going up. They don't want to charge
you a dollar a chicken wing. Now chicken prices have
gone up. So now you order a dozen chicken wings
and you get a bill for it, and it's twenty
two dollars, and you lose your mind. You know exactly
what I'm talking about, don't you. I do the same thing, Well,
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twenty two dollars per dozen chicken wings. You know what
I'm talking about everyone's being squeezed. I can't guide you
on where to tip or want to where not to tip.
I will say, if you can't afford to tip something
to the waitress, don't go out to eat. She deserves
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to be tipped something. He deserves to be tipped something.
They work really hard. That doesn't mean you have to
throw on a five dollars tip every single place you go.
When you walk up and order some nachos at a
baseball game and they turn around and squirt some of
that delicious Rico's cheese in a plastic tray and hand
you the chips, No you're not obligated to float that
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guy a couple bucks. No you're not. Just be whether
you are the waitress or the customer or the restaurant owner,
just be mindful of the fact everyone, top to bottom,
everyone is being squeezed right now, and everyone feels squeezed
right now. All right, all right now, I am going
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to for the last time in a long time, maybe forever,
I'm finally going to seriously address this situation of the
stabbing in Frisco, Texas, where the black kids stab the
white kid. The white kid's dead, and now it's this
whole race war thing. Let's talk about it and offend everyone. Next,
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