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May 23, 2025 45 mins

Jesse Kelly celebrates the resurgence of patriotism sweeping across America. Jesse unpacks how a renewed love for country is taking root—from grassroots movements to a revival of pride in American history and values. He highlights stories of everyday citizens, veterans, and young leaders who are boldly reclaiming the stars and stripes. Jesse dives into what’s fueling this patriotic comeback and why it’s a game-changer for the nation’s future. 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Love conquers all. Love will hold us together. We can
get through anything as long as we have love. You've
heard all these sayings before, biblical references, you've heard this before.
We're about to talk about patriotism here. But what does
all that love talk mean. We'll make it about a
family before we go to America. Well, the idea of

(00:30):
it is, you know, I have a why, two kids.
The idea is, if we love each other, then that
creates a foundation there that will allow us to weather
whatever comes. What if I lose my job, flat rope busted,
we're stuck in a crappy little apartment in the ghetto somewhere. Well,
if we love each other, we'll get through it. If

(00:51):
we hate each other.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
We're not.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
We're going to come apart. What if someone maybe you're
going through this or have gone through this. What if
someone in the family gets sick, even brutal time, grieving, stress, drink.
If love is there, you'll stay together, work through it together,
because that's the foundation. And if the love's not there,
you're just gonna shatter into a million pieces.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Countries work the exact same way.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Patriotism is one of those things we love to talk
about We love to discuss it, especially on the right,
because we are inherently patriotic. But what does it even mean.
Let's go a little bit deeper and why it matters.
Love of country. Love of country and patriotism isn't something
that you know, a right wing talking point if you will,

(01:41):
it is the essential element to hold a country together.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
The essential element.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
If you and I get together and we want to
discuss issues, maybe we're discussing what laws we want pass,
don't pass, What do we want banned, don't band? You
know what, we will disagree. Inevitably we're going to You're
gonna have thoughts about this. I'm gonna have thoughts about that.
We will disagree, no question about it. No two people
are alike. But if we share a love of America,

(02:11):
if we're both coming at that from that place, then
in the.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
End we're gonna be okay. We will work it out.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Because I want America to succeed and you want America
to succeed. Patriotism is the essential element for a country.
I've used this example before just to kind of dumb
it down, because it works this way no matter the
size of anything.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
The one hundred person village.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Some tiny, remote, one hundred person village in Africa.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Right, if there's eighty ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
People in that village and they love it, they feel
blessed to be there. They love the protection that everything
the village provides. Dad was here and Grandma was here,
and that I love my village. Well how's that? How's
that play out in daily life? If you're walking around
and the well, the water well everyone uses, you see

(02:59):
there's a.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Stone about to fall into it. What do you do?
You run over there, You grab it, you get it
off there, make sure the well is good. This is
best for my town.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
You walk by the cattle pen and a fence is
falling down. Cattle, we're about to get out. You don't
shrug your shoulders. You certainly don't make it worse. Oh
shoot the cattle. That's our that's our cattle. You run,
you fix the fence. But vice versa. What if you
get to a place in your little village where half
the people.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
They hate it.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
They've been taught the village is evil, its history is evil.
The village kind of sucks. Well, what happens when that
person walks by the well when the rock's about to
fall in He runs over to it and kicks it in.
What's that person do when the fence is falling apart, tear.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
It down more. Screw this village. That's how it works.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
And in the end, the village will collapse, It'll implode
on itself. We here in the United States of America
have a serious patriot to some problem. And when I
serious patriotism problem, I mean it resides entirely on the left.
America's Democrat Party today, not what your grandma voted for
today in the year twenty twenty five, hates the United

(04:11):
States of America, and they faded, and they hate it
fairly openly.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
They don't really hide it.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
I remember all the conversations I used to have with
communists who I know who you know.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
You remember after the.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Saint George Floyd thing, when they started singing the black
national anthem at football games and black Lives matter and
all that crap, and I would rant and rave about
get the politics out of it, and they would say
their response almost every time was it's always been political.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
We had the military there.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
What why would they view the military as being political
because the military defends America and for them, that's the opposition.
They don't believe in defending America.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
They believe. I think Sonny summed it up rest.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
And so yes, when I drive into a neighborhood and
it's not July fourth, and I'm not in a predominantly
military household neighborhood and there are flags American flags everywhere,
alongside Trump flags, alongside flags with the stars in a circle,
I feel threatened because the message is very clear. It's

(05:26):
a message of white supremacy. It's a message of racism,
and it's a message of their country, not my country.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
And there it is.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I ran for Congress twice, you know that. And one
of the most amazing things about it, anybody who's run
for office didn't have to be Congress, run for office,
or worked on a campaign. Anybody who's knocked on doors,
you go around town, knock on doors. Hey, I'm Jesse,
Vote for me. Anybody in politics, they'll back up what
I'm about to tell you. You see, you have homes

(06:01):
and you can tell their voter registration. It was public,
at least in Arizona at the time. You know, hey,
there's two registered Republicans who live here, there's two registered
Democrats who live there. And then there are homes that
are unregistered, independent, not registered as anything at all. When
you're running in a Republican primary, as I was, you're
trying to figure out whether I should knock on that door.

(06:22):
You don't want to knock on Democrat doors. It's a
waste of time. You know what the ultimate guarantee was.
If the home fly is an American flag, it's not
a Democrat. May not be a Republican, maybe libertarian, maybe
not affiliated. But Democrats don't fly the American flag. Everyone
knows it. Why Why does Sunny cruise through a neighborhood

(06:45):
and see American flags and feel threatened? Because for these people,
America is the enemy, the enemy. They are at war
with our own country. We are already in a soft
civil war. And you notice she brought up race, because
I'm actually glad she brought up race.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
I want to tell you something I've been talking to
you a lot about lately.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
You see race communism, dividing up a country by race.
These people are the good ones, they're the saints. These
people are inherently evil. They should pay, they sock their history.
Dividing up a country by race is the oldest and
most effective form of communism. Did you know that Mao
used it to great effect during his Cultural Revolution. Hey,

(07:32):
that tribes evil and they've oppressed you, and that it's
unbelievably effective. Have you ever wondered why it's not just
America globally leftists in every country, Canada.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
The UK, wherever it may be.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Why they're so happy to publicly trash white people at
every single turn, But of course.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
The sainctly immigrant it's always you know, it's somebody worthy
of the utmost consideration, not like you, whitey. Have you
ever wondered have you ever wondered that?

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, let me explain, because race communism is the most
effective form of communism. When you take somebody and you
tell them that person's inherently evil because of their skin color,
and you're inherently good because of your skin color.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
For evil people, stupid people.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
That's like catnum, they just eat it up. Why do
you think they responded like this after George Floyd died.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
The killing of George Floyd was really just the boiling point.
This is about centuries of systemic racism and racial inequality
that has existed in this country. And I think what
we are seeing right now is generational exhaustion and generational uprising.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
And we know that we have been fighting systemic racism
in this country for four hundred years. We know that
it has found it's a weirdest, ugly heads in law enforcement, agencies,
in housing and education, and too many other places.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Well, we need to have a systemic vision for dismantlings
systemic racism.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
America has a long history of systemic racism. Black Americans
and black men in particular, have been treated throughout the
course of our history as less than human.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now why is it so effective and why do they love.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
That term systemic racism. Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Not only is it appealing to the evil, violent, stupid people. Yeah,
I am the good guy and he is the bad guy.
It's not just that, it's also that it goes to
the very foundations of the country. They're trying to burn
down this country because it was founded.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
By white people, and white people are evil. Well, shouldn't
we burn this place to the ground.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
After all, the whole system is bad, the whole system.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Is racist, and that's their side of it.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
The other reason it's so effective is the people who
have system racism pointed at them, the enemies of these
vile little communists, they find it. Unless you're strong enough,
unless you're smart enough to see what's happening and bold
enough to stand up to it, they cave.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
They cave all the time.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
It's very easy, very easy to just shrink up and
shrivel up.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
And I mean, I guess you, I guess you're right.
I am kind of I am kind of evil.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
I mean white people, we have them, We have done
terrible things, and I'm very very sorry about that. You
saw it all the time after Floyd died.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
Could I just have the privilege I'd like to say
a word to white churches. We are better than we
used to be, but we are not as good as
we ought to be. And that is not good enough,
which means you have to take up the work of
racial justice. Racism did not start in our lifetimes, but

(10:56):
racism can end in our lifetime.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Race communism wormed its ray right into the church like that,
because the church was too weak and stupid to see
what was happening. You remember the story of my own
church that I lost. Story I've told you many times before. Actually,
during this time period, right after George Floyd died, race
communism chewed up my pastor and spit him out. Wonderful man,

(11:25):
kind man, just very very nice. You spend ten minutes
with him, and you know he's got a good heart,
a nice guy, and all that race communism all over
the news. Our pastor sends out an email to our
church telling us he's getting ready to go to a
what White People Need to Know conference, and I tried
to warn him, I said, don't do this, you don't

(11:47):
understand what you're dealing with here. Told me basically to
sit back, and he needs to go listen, and then
stood up in front of the entire congregation and talked
about white privilege. That Sunday, turned around out and never
went back. Good man as he may be, it's too
weak and stupid to stand up to.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
This, be bold in the face of it.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
And this all comes back, and this all comes back
to patriotism.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
You see.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Race communism is effective because it wrecks patriotism so easily.
If you want young people to grow up and kick
the stone into that well and tear down the fence
into that village, all you need to do is teach
them in school that America is an evil, racist place
and this place kind of deserves whatever bad happens to it,

(12:36):
those young people will grow up to be communists foot soldiers,
and they'll tear down every well in fence. Patriotism is
essential and we must get back there. All that may
have made you uncomfortable, but I am right. We're going
to talk to Sean Parnell of the Pentagon next. Is

(13:03):
there anything better than waking up in the morning and
knowing you had a good night's sleep Immediately immediately you
have set the tone for your day. Your eyes open
and you're thinking, Oh, work's gonna be good today, School's
gonna be good today, and vice versa.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
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(13:49):
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Speaker 8 (14:11):
We couldn't recruit. Now we're having the best results just
about that we've ever had. What a tremendous turnaround. It's
really a beautiful thing to see people love our country again.
It's very simple. They love our country and they love
being in our military again.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
The do you look around and you see more patriotism?

Speaker 8 (14:35):
Now?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
You do? And I think there are a variety of
reasons for this. A lot of this, honestly, you have
to give a lot of credit to Trump and his leadership.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
He embraces that all the way.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
A lot of it, I do think is a response
as well to the left's hatred of America, and people
don't want it. It's grades on them joining me now,
friend of mine, happy to see him doing what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Hold on, I need to make sure I get this right.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Chief Pentagon spokesman and Assistant sect for Public Affairs, My
buddy's Sean Parnell. Sean just it's not just in my mind, right.
I look around and it feels better now, more patriotic,
more love of country. It feels like that's acceptable. Again,
if that sounds weird, not that it ever went out
of style for you.

Speaker 9 (15:17):
Certainly didn't go out of style for either of us.
I mean it does feel to a certain extent like
it's morning in America again. And Jesse, so much of this,
I mean, you know how this is in the military.
So much of a command climate stems from the very top.
What are your priorities as a leader? If you live
those priorities and you embody those priorities, they trickle down.

(15:40):
And you know, President Trump is a guy from the
moment that he came down the Golden Escalator. It's the
guy that has that loves this country. Everything that he
does is because he loves this country. And he's got
a guy in Secretary Hegseth now here At, who is
the Secretary of Defense of the Pentagon, who loves his coin.
He makes it clear that he loves America and just

(16:03):
about everything that he does, and he spends and dedicates
a lot of his time engaging directly with the troops
and boots on the ground. And look, Jesse, I mean
people see that that that mentality is contagious, and I
think that's the reason. I mean, that's been the catalyst
I think for the recruiting spike that we've seen over

(16:23):
these last couple of months is the leadership that President
Trump has, the example that he set along with that
of Secretary Heggset.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, organizations like the Army needed a little boost in recruiting.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Seancor didn't need that, though, what do you make of that?

Speaker 9 (16:41):
You know your question was about the Army. I think
people want to know what what the mission is, and
people want to know that the task that's set before
us is to defend this country. And you know, I
think that when you talk about the mission specifically, and
Secretary Heggset has led that has made that very clear,

(17:02):
is that lethality is a core tenant of what we do,
that readiness is a core tenant of what we do,
and we're discarding things that to the ash heap of history,
like diversity, equity, and inclusion. You know this as well
as I do. It doesn't matter what God you worship,
what color your skin is, where you come from, how

(17:22):
much money you have in the bank. The only thing
that matters is that you love this country and that
you believe in the mission of the service that you
serve as part of and you unite beyond your many
differences as Americans behind that common mission and Americans on
the battlefield can accomplish extraordinary things. You did that in Iraq,
I did that in Afghanistan. And I think you're going

(17:42):
to see Americans moving forward, united in purpose, doing great
things as long as we focus on those things that
unite us instead of divide us.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
No doubt, speaking of sector of Haig Seth, here he.

Speaker 10 (17:55):
Was, we are leaving wokeness and weness behind. No more pronouns,
no more climate change obsession, no more emergency vaccine mandates,
no more dudes in dresses.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
We're done with that.

Speaker 10 (18:26):
We're focused on lethality, meritocracy, accountability, standards and readiness.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Sean, just how much filth have you guys found as
you've sifted through what they've done to our beloved military
in the past ten years.

Speaker 9 (18:44):
A lot? I mean, the answer to that question straight
up is a lot. Now I'll get to that in
a second, but I was with the Secretary as he
gave that speech, and what you didn't hear in that
clip was how the crowd reacted. That was a speech
that I believe the Secretary at Special Operations Week down
in Tampa. The crowd erupted with thunderous applause, And it

(19:06):
wasn't just uniforms in that audience, it was their family
members too. Americans period want to know that before their
son or daughter joins the military, they're going to have
the best leaders in the world. Laser focused on the mission.
And you saw in that clip from Secretary Hegseth of
him talking about that in very very clear terms, and

(19:27):
you could. I'm telling you, I go everywhere with this guy.
There is an energy on the ground in the United
States military that was not there before because of his
clear vision of what service in the military should look like.
So we talked about discarding diversity, equity, inclusion, but we're
also we've completely revamped our national defense strategy to where

(19:50):
we are focused on defending the homeland and securing our
southern border, deterring China, and making sure that our allies
are burden sharing. In other words, we've got it. We've
got to There's a massive force posture shift that I
think we're gonna be undertaking here in the next few years,
and a focus on indo pay com. It doesn't mean
we're taking troops out of Europe or things like that.

(20:12):
We're always evaluating force posture. But my point is our
allies have to step up and do their share so
we can focus on the real threats that exist around
the world in defending the Homeland and the Secretary Heseth
has changed all of that for the better here in
these last three months.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Sean, I need you to be honest.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I know you're super focused on your duties there, but
have you been able to shoot cool things and blow
things up since you've taken over this post.

Speaker 9 (20:40):
Not even a little bit. This is a big departure
for me from what I used to do as an
infeture guys. Spent most of my time in the trenches.
I don't even I don't wear suits. I have to
wear suits every day now. The first time I was
in the freaking Pentagon was three months ago and I
took this job. So yes, it's been a little bit
of a change. Haven't had the opportunity shoot or blow

(21:02):
anything up?

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Half those guys? Get you a jaydam you're with the
Pentagon now? All right?

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Setting that aside, I want to talk quickly about the
Golden Dome.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Here is Trump.

Speaker 11 (21:12):
As we make a historic announcement about the Golden Dome
missile defense shield. That's something we want, and Ronald Reagan
wanted it many years ago, but they didn't have the technology.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
But it's something we're going to have.

Speaker 12 (21:25):
We're going to have it.

Speaker 11 (21:25):
At the highest level. Today, I'm placed to announce that
we have officially selected an architecture for this state of
the art system that will deploy next generation technologies across
the land, sea, and space, including space based sensors and interceptors.
Is designed for the Golden Dome. We'll integrate with our
existing defense capabilities and should be fully operational before the

(21:49):
end of my term.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Sean, what is a Golden Dome?

Speaker 1 (21:54):
I thought somebody was making a statue of Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
H. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (22:02):
Look, I'll just tell you this without getting into too
much details because this program is super super classified. But
I'll just tell you this, Jesse, thank god for President
Trump and his thought process behind this system, and thank
god for Secretary hag Seth who really reoriented this building
to put into motion a program that that it's called

(22:24):
Golden Dome, that will be operational, as you heard the
President say, by the end of his term in twenty
twenty eight. I'll just say Democrats and Republicans should both
they both parties should support this mission in this initiative
because it is it's important, it's needed. And again thank

(22:44):
god for Secretary heg Seth and President Trump and their
vision with this program, because it's it's it's important, it's important.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
I'm reading between the lines, Sean, I got you, come
back soon, my brother as always.

Speaker 9 (22:57):
All right, see it, my friend, all.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Right, Jason Nelson has a lot to say. Used to
be United States Army Special Operations. We're going to talk
to him about patriotism, the lack of it, what's happened
in this country next. I don't know that there's a
more appropriate thing to talk about than Pure Talk as

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long as we're discussing patriotism here, because you know what
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Speaker 2 (23:39):
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They dropped them behind the lines where they fought in
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Speaker 13 (24:30):
Pride in the military strong men do that because they
want to make their citizens cower. They want to say
we are strong, I am here, I have all these weapons.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Aren't you proud of me.

Speaker 13 (24:41):
We don't need to do that. We know that our
military is, you know, multiples the size of anybody else's
military on the planet. We don't need them to bring
the missiles down Pasilia Avenue in order.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
For us to know that it's not about the size.

Speaker 14 (24:54):
In the last four years, morale military was down, recruitment
was down. There is a concertive effort going on right
now at the Pentagon, and it's already successful to enhance
recruitment and to enhance pride and the idea of joining
the military.

Speaker 12 (25:06):
I think you all are a miscounting, discounting idea.

Speaker 14 (25:10):
A national military parade for our military to show off
our military to show pride and the veterans that have
defended this country and you all are.

Speaker 13 (25:19):
He was just trying to rename Veterans Day.

Speaker 15 (25:21):
I'm not I'm not proud of our military, but I
don't think we should waste money.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Of course, we don't have to focus on all the noise.
Remember when communists are talking, communists are lying. We know
why those people don't want a military parade. They hate
the military. It's not it's not about costs or anything else.
They hate it. Why joining me now? Retired Marine United
States Special Operations Command Jason Nelson?

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Hate Jason.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Why do these people hate the militaries so much they
always have?

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Why?

Speaker 16 (25:53):
You know, Jesse, I think that to them, it represents
some sort of sole's it represents strength. It represents the
ability to be able to defend yourself as a nation.
It's what gives us the ability to self determination.

Speaker 12 (26:05):
Self sufficiency.

Speaker 16 (26:06):
Us we as a nation have been called upon to
defend the rest of the world, but in reality we
stand alone. We stand alone and have stood alone as
a republic.

Speaker 12 (26:14):
For many, many years. And that's part of the problem.

Speaker 16 (26:16):
When you're in a group that has been taught to
hate your nation, to hate your skin color, to hate
the things that you have stood for, I mean, for
goodness sake. We have extended the lifespan of people through
just for example, just preserving food in this nation, our
ability to understand supply chains, the things that Henry Ford did,
the things that we've done throughout our country that we
should be proud in, they don't want to be proud

(26:37):
of that. In particular, the strongest part of our nation
is the military. It's not just the equipment. It's the
one percent of the one percent that step up and
make a decision to serve their nation, to wear a uniform,
to sacrifice their lives, to sacrifice their futures in many instances,
in my own instance, to sacrifice your personal health to
be able to stand and serve your nation.

Speaker 12 (26:58):
That's a representation of strength.

Speaker 16 (27:00):
It's what draws pride, pride and seeing that strength and
seeing our ability, and that's everything that liberals hate about
our nation. To them, it represents I guess colonialism or
are something of that nature. It's an extension of white supremacy.

Speaker 12 (27:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (27:14):
But in the end, what I believe is that it
shows what people should be proud of. It should be
proud of the everyday Americans who stepped forward and made
the decision to serve their nation. And again, this is
the best of America, which means it's going to be
with Democrats hate because they never ever want to celebrate greatness.
They want to celebrate weakness.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Jason, our two hundred and fiftieth birthday is next year,
as most people know, and I think most people understand
that Trump is probably going to be so unbelievably over
the top and awesome about the whole thing, because it's Trump,
and that's just kind of the way he is.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I understand you had an idea about.

Speaker 16 (27:50):
It, you know, Yeah, we've been working behind the scenes.
So let me give a little background here. Thirty nine
percent of Americans at twenty twenty one, only thirty nine
percent of Americans had they said they had some pride
in our nation. Okay, only some pride in our nation
and everyone else that sixty one percent of Americans have
no pride in our nation.

Speaker 12 (28:08):
At no point do they walk around and think, I'm
proud of who we are.

Speaker 16 (28:11):
I think a lot of that stems from the fact
that we've been told for so long, you know, we're
just a compilation of flyover states and rednecks and hicks
who all hate the rest of the world, and there
really isn't any value in our culture, in our society,
and I find that to be just untrue. I think
the problem is we haven't begun to celebrate.

Speaker 12 (28:28):
We haven't.

Speaker 16 (28:28):
We've lost the nerve to celebrate all the greatness. And
funny enough is a lot of this greatness came from
immigrants who came to this country, whether you're talking about
the Transcontinental Railroad or the when you had to talk
about large families that have contributed to everything from the
westward expansion up until the Greatest generation. These were the
things that the people who put in just the day

(28:48):
after days work to be able to highlight all of
the strength that come from all the people in this
country and what they've brought to it.

Speaker 12 (28:57):
And unfortunately we've lost that. Remember, they only want.

Speaker 16 (28:59):
To talk about where we failed, all of the things
that we do that are horrible.

Speaker 12 (29:03):
You know, We've been working.

Speaker 16 (29:04):
Behind the scenes with the Committee to sit here and
find ways in which we could display what's happening, the
beautiful things around this country. We'd like to see a
state by state display done, and I can't really get
into the details, but through actually a border wall that
we're going to display within on the National Mall.

Speaker 12 (29:21):
So I think that when we look at what we've.

Speaker 16 (29:24):
Done, And I was asked if producers, Grady said, what
is it that you guys do you think very patriotic keep done?
And I could point to being at a naturalization ceremony
when I was down range and escorting a young soldier
as he became an American, and that was a massive
amount of pride in that. But I think about the
things that I do in my own life, and for us,
it's raising a large family. It's having five children and

(29:45):
sitting here and saying we're going to raise them to
be great Americans. We're going to them raise them to
have pride, pride in their nation, but pride in their
own abilities, to teach them to stand on their own
and be autonomous and that's what makes a great nation,
and show owing them the great things about this nation.
And I think that we need to start a new
initiative to show school children and on up. We need

(30:07):
a traveling some sort of display that would sit here
and give these kids a real insight into what this
nation is and not to the indoctrination that they've been
experiencing through their education right now, which is just telling
everyone the horrible things about us. Let's start to share
the great things about this nation, because if we don't
have national pride, we're never going to have people who
are seeking to make this country stronger. We're only going

(30:29):
to continue to have people who want to dismantle the
great things about this nation.

Speaker 12 (30:33):
And I think it's going to.

Speaker 16 (30:34):
Take a lot of work, but we have a great
opportunity right now with the two fifty if to sit
here and again highlight the history of this nation.

Speaker 12 (30:40):
It isn't political, it's just heritage.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
No, it's not well, at least to us, it's not
political to the left, it certainly is. Jason wrapping this
up here, where do you begin with your own children?

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Like, where should parents begin?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Because parents don't know, they don't have some blueprint laid
out two fiftieth A side and parades, independence, stay aside.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
As a parent, when do you begin? How do you begin?

Speaker 12 (31:05):
Well?

Speaker 16 (31:05):
So I wanted to look this up beforehanded, and I
wanted to find what word, keyword did people use when
they sit here and they think of national pride, and
one of the things that I found is the number
one phrase that it attached that is gratitude.

Speaker 12 (31:17):
Right, you need to have a gratitude for us.

Speaker 16 (31:18):
When we started teaching our children, we homeschool, we started
teaching them about how wonderful our nation is. We had
to start with where the settlers came from, Where those
that were fleeing religious persecution came from. Why they were
leaving what amounted was just monarchs, and they wanted to
leave that structure and have self determination and have the

(31:39):
ability to own things, to pass things down and build
up within themselves. If they were to maintain that strength
to build something up for later generations that would be
theirs and not owned by a monarch. So we started
with the persecution those who fled to the station of
why they wrote the constitution the way they did. You know,
we've passed through seventeen seventy six with our children, were
working through right now the first couple of presidential terms.

(32:02):
But that said, one of the great things that we
focused on was having to understand why you should have
gratitude the things that you couldn't have, the illegal search
and seizure, the boarding of troops, the lack of the
second Amendment in the First Amendment, having them understand the
baseline of why we needed those rights and guaranteed rights
that were given to us by God, and how we
needed to cement that in writing is probably one of

(32:23):
the key things that we've thought. This has built some
national pride, understanding what you don't have in other nations
and why our nation needed to exist in the first place.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Amen, I love it, So provide my brother come back soon.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
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into a watch guy. You know, I've never been that guy,
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I'll put it to you that way. This is a
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Wasson Watch, I not only got this cool roll up

(33:10):
leather case in it, I got a Bible verse.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
What company does that?

Speaker 1 (33:16):
What company speaks out about the Second Amendment publicly, not privately,
publicly publicly talking about the unborn and we're talking about
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Speaker 15 (33:54):
Stud It was a guest in the United States on
a student visa. No one's entitled to a student visa.

Speaker 17 (33:58):
You on based on an offense, which trump's the supreme
law of the land, which is the Constitution.

Speaker 15 (34:05):
Coming up here, problems on our campus. We're going to
revoke their She didn't do any of that.

Speaker 17 (34:09):
She wrote a not bet, she wrote a bed and
I'm talking to you about her particular case.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
You reclaimed the fact, you.

Speaker 17 (34:16):
Reclaiming my time. You revoked her student visa because you
wrote an off ed.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Would you do more I have?

Speaker 15 (34:23):
We were revoked the visa of anyone who's in this
country as a guest.

Speaker 17 (34:26):
Are you going to revoke the visa of somebody who made.

Speaker 12 (34:28):
Them the case?

Speaker 15 (34:29):
Look at it, I'm looking I'm looking crazy.

Speaker 17 (34:31):
Actually, it's not just about revoking, you revoking excuse me,
claiming my time. If these are legitimate law enforcement agents
carrying out proper arrests, why are they hiding their identities.

Speaker 15 (34:42):
Because in radical crazies, we'll try to hurt them.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
I love that we're just supporting people. I love that
we're grabbing people who are causing any trouble. And what
amazes me is that this is all a shock because
it's so different than what we've done, what suicidal immigration
policy we've had for so long. Joining me now, Mark Gregorian, wonderful,
executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies. Mark, Honestly,

(35:10):
I cheer about a lot of this stuff, but it
still makes me angry how many people illegals, leftists otherwise,
They genuinely feel that every foreigner just has the right
to come here and pillage the place at their leisure.
They really genuinely believe this in their bones.

Speaker 18 (35:27):
Yeah, they do believe that anyone, literally everybody has the
right to come here, period, and that the First Amendment
applies to every foreigner abroad and every foreigner who comes
here no matter what. It's crazy, and you know, a
visa is not an entitlement, as Secretary Rubio was saying, there,
you're a guest here and when I go to another country,

(35:48):
I'm a guest there, and if I conduct myself in
a way that is inappropriate or is considered inappropriate by
the people there, whether I think it's inappropriate or not,
I lose my permission to be there. That's the way
it is. It's the only reason we're seeing these complaints
is that we have allowed things to get so bad

(36:08):
that in changing them, in actually enforcing the rules, it
seems like some kind of you know, radical change, some
kind of appalling procedure, when in fact it's just it
should just be business as usual.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Mark, How did this get here into our country? And
I realized this is an old story. It didn't start
with Joe Biden, her Barack Obama or any of these things.
How did we get to this place as a country
where the world and half of our people just think
everyone should get to come here because America kind of sucks?
Did this start in the fifties the two thousands? When

(36:45):
did we get this mentality? Immigration wise?

Speaker 18 (36:49):
I mean, I can't point to a specific day, but
clearly the nineteen sixties and the whole cultural revolution that
happened then is what resulted is sort of blossomed into
what we're seeing now. So if I had to pick
a date, I don't know, nineteen sixty eight maybe that
was a bad year for America all around. And you

(37:10):
know it's not like that right then is when things change.
But that's kind of was the start of this, you know,
idea that America is bad, that borders are immoral, and
that everyone in the world has the right to come
here even if they bad mouth us, because we're so
bad anyway, so they should be bad mouthing us.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Obviously, nothing's universal, so you shouldn't take it that way.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Well, nobody should take it that way.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
But why is it so often the children of people
who get to come here on a visa or refugee
status turn into the most vile America haters in this country?
Obviously I'm thinking about people like ilhan Omar and others,
but this is a very very common thing. Mom, dad
came here, everything's okay, son, daughter loses his mind.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
What's happening?

Speaker 18 (37:59):
Yeah, I'm I mean, first of all, like you said,
you don't want to exaggerate that there's plenty of children
of immigrants who are normal.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Patriotic Americans.

Speaker 18 (38:05):
But you see the same phenomenon though in England, in
France and elsewhere. And I think the difference is that
the immigrant generation is coming here and comparing things to
what it was like back in the old country, and
it's obviously better. And so it's their children have gone
through our terrible education system become basically learned to hate

(38:29):
America in a way that we didn't teach the children
of immigrants or our own children, you know, one hundred
years ago. And some of them, some share of them.
You know, You're okay, that's the way it is. And
so I'm going to hate America too. That's part of
my being an American.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Maybe maybe this whole African or thing, maybe it's been
beneficial because it's been such a revealing moment, not just
for how the media covers things, but for what's happening
across the globe. Everyone remembers this moment with Trump and
the president of South Africa.

Speaker 19 (39:04):
I would say, if that was Afreakana Farma genocide, I
can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here.

Speaker 11 (39:12):
Turn the lights down and just put this on.

Speaker 20 (39:15):
It's right behind you.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Now, this is very bad.

Speaker 20 (39:28):
These are burial sites right here, burial sites over a
thousand of white farmers, and those cars are lined up
to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of
those white things you see is across those people are

(39:49):
all killed.

Speaker 19 (39:51):
Have they told you where that is, mister President. You know,
I'd like to know where that is, because this I've
never seen. Okay, I mean since South Africa.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
The response to that by the media has been pretty revealing.

Speaker 18 (40:10):
Mark Yeah, I mean, Trump is a master of this
kind of thing. I mean, you know, look, I don't
think we should be resettling refugees at all except in
a handful of real emergency cases. And these guys don't qualify.
And in fact, this program now has seventy thousand people
in South Africa who all want to move here. They're
not Africaners, They're just anybody who's racial minority. But that

(40:32):
having been said, this really does expose the hypocrisy of
the other side. And for that, you know, to that end,
I'm not that worked up about it. It's a small
number and it has generated this almost crazed response. And
in fact, one of the anti borders groups, the Episcopal

(40:55):
Churches Refugee Resettlement Group, pulled out of the program rather
than help resettle Africaner refugee. So I'd say overall, this
was a kind of psyop that Trump did, and it's
been a pretty successful one.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Is it just because they're white?

Speaker 12 (41:13):
Mark?

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Does it just come down to that because they're white?

Speaker 18 (41:16):
I think a lot of it, but even more that
they're Africaners specifically, because it's a kind of blood libel
that you know, the Afrikaners were the ones who created
apartheid which no longer, which hasn't existed for thirty plus years.
But it doesn't matter. Their descendants into the you know,
last generation have to bear the guilt, just as you know,

(41:38):
all Americans are supposed to be guilty of, you know,
everything that people did three hundred years ago.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Here, Mark, talk to me about these judges. What are
we supposed to do about this because it's going to
be four years off. You can't deport these guys. You
can't deport those guys. So are we just what are
we just sunk? You can import twenty million people during
Joe Biden's presidency and when a Republican takes over, they
allow you to deport about two Yeah.

Speaker 18 (42:06):
No, it is pretty unbelievable. And what I think though,
the administration is going to do is stick to its guns,
keep working through the courts, because in the end, I'm
pretty confident they're going to pull it off. But it's
incredibly frustrating. And that's the goal, is to make the

(42:27):
border a kind of ratchet so that a Democrat administration
can let in anybody they want. And that was the
claim of the Biden administration. They were allowed to admit
anyone they wanted in any number they wanted, by the millions,
but that each one of them has to have endless
due process before they're allowed to leave. It is ridiculous.

(42:50):
I hope the judiciary is in fact, at some point
reigned in by the Supreme Court. It's their job, because
the alternative is worse. The alternative is we essentially have
a kind of breakdown, and at some point the administration
is going to say, look, we couldn't care less.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
We're just you know, they're just gonna blow them.

Speaker 18 (43:09):
Off because you know what, if a judge says, okay,
Trump has to go around wearing a you know, a
funny hat on his head the rest of his life
and it's illegal, unconstitutional if he doesn't obey that rule, well,
at some point judges are gonna come up with rulings
that cannot be complied with. I don't want that to happen.
That's bad for the system, but it's the left wing

(43:31):
judiciary that is potentially forcing that crisis.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Sure, Mark as always, Thank you boss.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
All right, final thoughts next, patriots has and is essential.

(44:02):
And that's I mean, maybe the bad news when you
look at where we are, but.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Here's the good news. Patriotism can be taught.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
You just teach your kids about America, about its founding,
about its history.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
You can teach the good and the bad.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
You don't have to lie about anything, but you do
have to make sure they know how blessed they are
to be here. Maybe that involves showing them videos, pictures of.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
What it's like. Other places talk.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
About history and how people have lived. If you could
afford it, not everyone can. I realize that travel show
people things. We had a church in our town. This
is a few years ago. They did something I loved,
something wonderful. They spent a bunch of money, sput a
bunch of time, and they set up little shanties outside

(44:47):
of the church that were exact replicas of how people
lived in the poorest parts of the world.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
And you could go, and we brought our kids because
I wanted them to see it.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
You could go and you could look, Hey, here's a
little hut that's just sheep metal on there.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
A family of eight lives there.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
You see that child as only toy as a bucket.
That's how other people live. Now, look at how you live.
Patriotism can be taught. Teach your children to be grateful
to be here, and they will never become communists.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
All right, we'll do it again.
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