The Jay Weber Podcast #0005 4-21-26

America haters take over the Democrat party, the untidy end to the Iran war and the overhyping of the brioche bun. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome to the j Weber Podcast, where we consider all
things great and small pretty good, living off of my
social commentary and because I'm willing to say things or
see things that others cannot. And Gregory John, my producer,
is here. I've been thinking a lot about the brioche bun.
Have you noticed how the brioche bud that came out

(00:35):
of nowhere on us?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
You are sitting in the wood shop thinking about brioche buns?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Is that what you're doing now? I am, because enough
of them have fallen apart on me now that I'm
thinking that this is just a dirty trick that is
being hold on us by the French. Oh is that
what that we were? Suddenly We're supposed to get excited
about our burgers or our chicken sandwiches coming on a
brioche bud. It's a half pound patty with bacon and
swiss onmbrioge Brioche.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, I was I was looking, I had to actually
look it up because I didn't really know what a
brioche bun is. And then I saw, oh, I get
these all the time. Now I kind of know. I
had thought it was like some special pretzel bun or
something like that, which I detest. I don't like a
pretzel bun.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
But first it's it's more I'm agnostic on the pretzel bun.
I would rather not have one than to have one.
But it's it's basically a white bun with some egg.
You know, it's an egg bakery or something. I think
they're getting They're trying to get closer to those like
kings Hawaiian buns or something. I have a stronger opinion
on this than I should have, because I think the
brio bun is just a piece of crap that has

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the sandwich falling apart in your hand before you can
eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I talked I talked to ben yaout about this earlier,
about the Brioche bun, and he goes, oh, but it
makes fabulous French toast ask for the brioche bun for
the French.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I mean, he goes, you know, he is that I
wouldn't do that. I wouldn't that I wouldn't doubt. This
to me is all marketing campaign. The next time you're
out with the family and the burger or the chicken
sandwich comes on a brioche bun. I want you to
notice how quickly the whole thing just crumble into your hand.
It's on right after the first bite.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
You're absolutely right. It's basically it just you take a
fifteen dollars hamburger and you make it seventeen because it
says brioche bun on it, right.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I think that's that's what's going on. It has no
sandwich integrity. It's not going to hold it shape long
enough for you to get three bites into this so much.
In fact, I think brioche means evil trick in French,
doesn't it all?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Right? Enough of that?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
What's coming up on the podcast? Oh you want more
on the podcast? Well, let me see. We have all
sorts of things we I think we do need protests
and congressional hearings into the brioche bun though rfk Junion
needs to take on big Brioche. We're going to be
talking about the nonlinear nature of this Iran war and
remind people that when you're dealing with evil mollahs, And

(02:42):
when you're dealing with Donald Trump, you can't expect anything
to move in a straight line here, so the overreactions
to every little move or every little update on that
is interesting to me. I've got some thoughts on the
twenty twenty eight election as it relates to the future
of the Republican Party and all sorts of things. But
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of the firm. This will make those of us who
grew up in the nineteen seventies feel old. Alan Osman,
the oldest of the Osman brothers died Monday at the
age of seventy six. He'd been diagnosed with MS way
back in nineteen eighty seven, apparently, but there's no official
cause of death. Given the older you get the younger,
seventy six years old sounds and it's sad to hear.

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By the way, Alan Osman had a fifty year marriage
and eight sons. Eight sons, so he leaves a legacy.
But for those keeping track at home, this means two
of the four Osman's dead because the second oldest, Wayne,
died last year at the age of seventy three. And
even more depressing to some of us, all of the
bee Gees are dead. I guess we gen xers really
are getting old. Oh and on a more serious note,

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who among us who grew up in the fifties, sixties,
seventies or eighties would have thought we'd see a day
when the Democratic Party of America was the party of
Islamic extremism and anti Semitic hate. I've been warning my
morning show listeners about this for some time now because
people who are paying attention could see it coming. But
when famous constitutionalist and lifelong Democrat Alan Dershowitz is leaving

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the Democrat Party over this. It signifies a milestone. This
started small, The anti semitism within the Democrat Party started
smaller with yesterday's young and extreme socialists finding a kinship
with Islamic terrorists and any group of people who claim
grievances against the United States of America. This is intersectionality.
Remember this is the intersectionality bull crap that the rabid

(04:56):
leftists of this era preach. It's basically that anyone who
was wronged or abused by America, the white man the
Western world, needs to ban together in kinship and fight
back against them. This is what links the gay agenda
to the Islamic terror agenda, to their pro abortion agenda,
to the trans agenda, etc. Intersectionality, and it has led

(05:19):
to today's Democrat Party being taken over by socialists and
anti semites. I mean no exaggeration. The loudest voices in
today's Democrat Party are the America haters and angry kooks
who used to be on the fringes of the Democrat Party.
But as I explained to my radio audience over the
last twenty years or so, when Barack Obama and Nancy
Pelosi and the Democrats managed to get back into power

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after the George Bush era. Instead of keeping the Kuk
fringe at bay, as every other Democrat leader had been
doing for decades, Obama and Pelosi in that group of
lefty leaders in the early two thousands, was worried about
continuing to win national elections because they had already driven
so much of the working class out of the Democrat Party.
And so they invited the biggest kooks, America haters, and

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grievance mongers to have a seat at the big table.
And you can now see the result. This is what
I was talking about way back in that day. The
Democrat Party is now controlled by what used to be
the extremist Kook fringe, and that includes rabbit anti Semites
and supporters of Islamist terror groups like Hamas and has Blah.
It's incredible, but this is where we are. It includes

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all sorts of leaders and activists who are rooting for
Iran's evil mulas to defeat Donald Trump's effort to finally
deal with that evil regime. And it has a man
who's been a significant and influential voice in Democrat and
American politics over the last forty years, saying that he's
leaving the Democrat Party and registering as a Republican. Former
Harvard Law professor influential constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz has

(06:45):
written an op ed to The Wall Street Journal saying
I'm done with the Democrat Party and I'm becoming a Republican.
He makes it clear he's becoming a Republican reluctantly, but
his party has abandoned and betrayed him. Among the things
Dershowitz right, he says, I first registered as a Democrat
in nineteen fifty nine. I'm a lifelong Democrat. I started
campaigning for the party's local candidates as a teenager in Brooklyn,

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New York. Have been a registered Democrat for sixty seven years.
But he says the Democrat Party has become the most
anti Israel party in US history. There's no denying that
the hard left anti Israel wing of the Democratic Party
has moved from the fringe to the mainstream. Until recently,
there was an age gap, with younger voters more strongly
opposing Israel, but recent polls suggests the trend now includes

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Democrats of all ages. He says Republicans have their own
antisemitic fringe, but for now, it remains a fringe. Dershwisz continues,
I believe the Democrat Party's hostility to Israel represents a
deeper and more dangerous shift away from the center and
toward a radical approach that's bad for America and the
free world. So, he says, I intend to work hard
to prevent the Democrats from gaining control of the House

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and Senate, and I urge those who share my concerns
about the increasing influence of radicalism in the Democrat Party
to vote, campaign and contribute for continued republic control of Congress.
He says, I will contribute money to Republican candidates, campaign
for them, make speeches at Republican events, and urge pro
Israel Americans to change party affiliation or at least vote
against Democrats until something changes. Dershowitz concludes, I will vote

(08:13):
Republican for representative, Senator, and president. This is a diehard
Democrat like Alan Dershowitz finally acknowledging that he simply cannot
support today's Democrat Party. It's simply not the party that
it was in the seventies, eighties, or nineties. It's now
clearly being run by elected officials and activists who increasingly
and openly hate this country and what it stands for,

(08:35):
what our founders and generations of Americans have stood for.
It's not hyperbole anymore to say that today's Democrat Party
leaders want to destroy this country so that they can
turn it into something that they can support and most
importantly rule over. Another ominous harbinger of things to come.
If having someone like Alan Dershowitz leave the party isn't

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enough for you, is the outrageous statement we got from
James Carville. This is an angry old trump deranged fart
who's lost all ability to edit himself. Yes, I've suggested
that someone in his family needs to really seriously pull
him out of public life because he can no longer
do anything without embarrassing himself. But Carvill also conducted a
public service the other day when he blurted out what

(09:18):
the modern day agenda of the Democrat Party really is. This, too,
is something that I've been warning listeners about for quite
some time. The true agenda of today's Democrat Party leaders,
if they ever have the opening to force it onto
the American people, is mortifying, and the opening, of course,
would be the next time they get full control back
in Washington, d C control of the House, Senate and presidency.

(09:40):
This is their agenda and it's just a precursor to
them and their party leaders moving to take permanent control
of this country and never let it go. This is
the plan. Most of the moves Carville was spouting off
about have been on the longtime wish lists of Nancy Pelosi,
Barack Obama, Eric Holder, etc. Others have been added by
today's young, angry se socialists. But if you missed it,

(10:02):
Carvill said, if Democrats win the trifecta of control in
DC in twenty twenty eight, they should simply impose their
dictatorship onto the American people. He said, if the Democrats
win the presidency in both houses of Congress, I think
on day one they should make Puerto Rico and DC estate,
and they should expand the Supreme Court to thirteen effet
eat our dust. He also called for reopening the US

(10:23):
Mexico border and granting mass amnesty to every single illegal
alien currently in the US. His advice to Democrat politicians
was don't run on it, don't talk about it, just
do it as in surprise everyone, and just ram at
home when you have the chance you know, other right
wing pundits immediately labeled carvill as unhinged over this. But people,

(10:43):
this is the intentional agenda that I've been talking about
for some time. Some of these things date back to
Teddy Kennedy in his era. They've had plans on how
we can take permanent control of Washington, DC and flooding
this country with illegal aliens and then turning them into
Democrat voters after you've put them on the welfare rolls
has been a big part of that plan. Joe Biden

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did his part in really trying to accomplish that and
make it a reality. This is the intentional agenda of
the Democrat Party, with the exception of reopening the border.
These are the moves that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama
in this era's top Democrats have been talking about forcing
onto the American people for the last twenty years. They
just haven't gotten the chance. And you know, if leaders

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like Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin only spoke about killing
off the Senate filibuster in order to ram this agenda
home in whispers over the past decade or so, they're
now saying it out loud. Two crowds. They're now promising
their voters exactly this when they speak in front of
crowds these days. Chuck Schumer now has ending the filibuster
in imposing their will onto America as an applause line

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in his speeches. No one's whispering anymore. They are certain
they'll soon have full control of Washington, DC and will
finally have their opening, and their excuse will be Trump
was so extreme, we got to be extreme. Their convenient
excuse is going to be to blame Donald Trump and
claim that he did all sorts of extreme things so
they can end the filibuster and do these really extreme

(12:09):
things to try to get America back on track. And
by the way, if you're wondering how outrageous and how
dangerous this really is for the health of America, you
have longtime Democrat Senator Joe Manchin. So certain the Democrats
are going to do this if they get the chance.
He said this week he's rooting for Republicans to keep
control of the Senate. Manchin is retired now, but he

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was one of just two Democrats who kept Schumer and
Harry Reid from ending the filibuster and forcing the dictatorship
onto America in the Biden era. Folks, Joe Manchin was
on the inside for years. He sat in all of
those Democrat Caucus meetings through the Biden and Trump eras.
And if he says the Democrats will destroy the filibuster
and impose their twisted will onto the American people the

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first chance they get, we should believe him. And that's
what he's saying. These are highly motivated America haters a
top this modern day Democrat Party and what they stand
for has every Democrat who has become before them spinning
in their graves. The cliche is, well, this isn't Jfka's
party anymore. Look, this isn't JFK's Democrat Party. It's not

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lbj's or Jimmy Carter's Democrat Party. And for those younger
listeners who didn't live through it, this isn't even close
to Bill Clinton's Democrat Party. Today's Democrat Party is being
controlled by America haters, socialists, grievance mongers, extremists. Today's Democrat
Party has become its longtime kook fringe. The kooks, the haters,

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and the extremists are no longer fringe. They're controlling the party.
And increasingly from the top down. Yeah, it's a scary
inflection point for this country. Okay, next topic, Iran. I
assume that if you listen to this podcast, you know
the latest when it comes to Iran. People want a
very linear, simple end to this conflict, and you're simply
not going to get it, and you shouldn't expect it.

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I'm annoyed by and sort of getting a kick out
of it at the same time, how everyone's living and
dying by every pronouncement and every change going on related
to the Iran War. In the best of situations, war
is unpredictable. How both sides are going to react in
the moment is unpredictable, always right. But when you've got
the duplicitous and evil Iranians on one side and Donald
Trump on the other, why would anyone believe that whatever

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we're being told in the moment is accurate. It was
great to hear the Iranian leaders claiming they were reopening
the Strait of Hormuz and their waters last week, and
it was of course very great and positive to have
President Trump announced the initial parameters of a peace deal.
But who didn't expect that to change within hours? I
know I did, folks. The best thing we can do
here is cheer any potential progress toward resolving this thing

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without getting too caught up in the details, because they're
going to change. Some on the left were rolling their
eyes and blasting Trump again when the Iranians declared their
waters open on Thursday or Friday, only to have their
military menacing ships again on Saturday, Well, it was to
be expected. The Trump haters wanted to blame this Iranian
one eighty on Trump too, obviously, because they just want
to blame everything on Trump. But what happened last week

(15:05):
is this. The more moderate factions of whatever semblance of
leadership is now leading Iran. They cleared those waters open
because they do want to move forward and at least
retain the little power that they do have in their
remaining regime. This had the hardline leaders of the Iranian
military saying bull crap, rejecting that and keeping menacing those
commercial ships on their waters. The so called Iranian Revolutionary Guard,

(15:28):
this is the Mulla's personal army. They fired on two
ships on Saturday and escalated things and they made it
clear that there will be no reopening of the waters
that they control. You have to back up and realize
that what really happened here is that the US and
Israeli militaries have wiped out several layers of Iranian leadership now,
and they've done so so effectively that no one in

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Iran really knows who's ultimately in charge. The global news
media's acting as if there's a clear government that's still
in place in Iran, with a set group of men
making these calls. Apparently it's not the case. There's far
more disagreement over who's in charge, as the military leaders
who remain in charge of that Revolutionary Guard flex their
muscle and act as if they're running things instead of

(16:10):
the Mullas who aren't dead yet. This is what happened
late last week. This was an outward display of the
sort of chaos and struggle for power that's going on
behind the scenes in Iran. There's no clear chain of
command anymore, and that's going to complicate things when it
comes to any final agreement or wrapping this thing up.
It's not going to be wrapped up cleanly. Donald Trump
and Ben Netanyahu's attacks have wiped out the first two

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or three layers of leadership in that regime, and now
their diplomats are trying to negotiate with whoever is left over,
which is under the heading of the Iranian Foreign Ministry,
but the political leaders in that ministry don't agree with
and can control what the remaining hardliners and the government
and the military are going to do, and they just
want revenge on the West for everyone who's been killed

(16:52):
over the last few months. Apparently, some longtime pragmatist and
veteran Iranian diplomat is the one who pronounced Iran's war
reopened on Friday, only to have the head of the
Revolutionary Guard order his military to ignore that order and
keep patrolling those waters. Meanwhile, President trump ceasefire expires tomorrow.
If these Iranian leftovers can't credibly agree to a deal

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and give their nuclear materials and other concessions, the West
needs to see the details changed daily with several people
insisting they're in charge on the Iranian side and President
Trump in charge on the other side. And he, of
course is playing this game of three D chess or
whatever you want to term it, where he intentionally keeps
people off balance and all of us. Trump often says

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things that are less than credible or that are only
meant to confuse the media or our global enemies even more.
And so no, there hasn't been a wealth of reliable
information day to day coming out of this conflict or
in terms of when it's going to resolve or how.
But the important bottom line is the blockade is clearly working.
Iran's economy is said to be losing about half a

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billion dollars each day, of which, by the way, way,
half of that is said to go to the Revolutionary Guard,
and so Trump's also bleeding Iran's military funding as he's
harming its larger economy. This blockade is working, and everyone
globally seems to agree. The international observers seem to agree
with this. The Iranians are really feeling the pressure. That

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much is clear. And so in short, the president and
his administration have played this brilliantly. And I have no
doubt that Trump's willing to order additional bobbing and the
resumption of air attacks if he feels necessary, and to
what extent he feels necessary. I also have no doubt
that he's quite willing to extend the naval blockade to
keep harming Iran's economy if these leaders on the other
side cannot get their act together and agree to something.

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Over the weekend, President Trump said that the economic blockade
might be working even better than the military campaign did
to force these Iranian leaders to capitulate. And he's probably right.
We talked about this on a podcast two weeks ago. Now,
how if Trump and Bbe play this right, and the
Iranian regime simply refuses regime change, then we can cripple
their economy for decades as a final step before easing

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back off of this effort and really put them back
in the stone ages, so to speak. But I'm getting
a kick out of all the naysayers and all the
yipping dogs and the media on both sides of the isle,
who have done nothing other than trash the Erronian effort
and insist Trump was losing it, etc. Only to do
a one point eighty last week. Now, if you notice,
most of them are saying Trump can't take his foot

(19:24):
off the gas. This blockade is working, he'd be stupid
to end it. But these are the very people who
are trashing Trump and offering all sorts of terrible advice
over the last two months or so. And they just
keep offering their unsolicited advice, of course, based on what
they think puts them on the right side of this
issue or harms Trump the most. It's also annoying Trump
and Netanya, who have now so clearly won this though,

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that the Trump haters and the pundits, both here and
in Europe are now pretending as if they have something
to offer. In the final days of this campaign, these
people went from Trump stupid and never should have gone
in there to He's stupid if he lets up on
our own. Now it just proves that advice from the
cheap seats here hasn't been helpful, and it proves that,

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as has been the case through two administrations of Trump, now,
the other Western leaders and influencers have been completely useless
as this president and his administrations have have gone about
their business. I'm sure you've seen here's Starmer of Britain
and French leaders, et cetera, suddenly all on board now
that it's clear Trump and bb have this thing largely won,
and now that all the hard hard work has been done.

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Now these little weenies and turds are stepping up and
A they're trying to take some credit for the wins,
and b they're talking as if they're boldly participating in
this effort and have been all along here. Starmer was
simply embarrassing on Friday as he insisted Britain and the
other leaders of the European Coalition, we're going to lead
the way in securing the Strait of horr Harmus for commerce, etc.

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I mean, what a clown. This is over and he
comes in at the end to try to grab some glory.
Columnist David Strom hit on it when he said Iran
is still giving mixed signals, but the euar Uropeans are
now talking tough and pretending they contributed to a win.
So the US must have won this. I think that's
a perfect way to put it. When all of Trump's
critics on both sides of the political aisle have shifted

(21:11):
from what a stupid thing to do? Trump started World
War three? God, this is going terribly to he'd better
not let up now and pretending that they're now ahead
of the strategic game on him. I mean, yeah, it
means Trump must have won this. There's all sorts of
misinformation over what Iran's remaining mulas might have agreed to
and how big a victory this is going to be
for Trump. But we've won this, and I'm sure you've

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seen it all over the media of the last few days,
especially on social media, these claims that Trump has agreed
to only a twenty year pause in Iran's nuclear ambitions,
and there's a claim that Trump has agreed to unfreezing
twenty billion dollars in Iranian assets in return for a deal, etc.
We have no idea whether any of this is true.
It appears that it's not. It's likely the narratives that
the lefties invented to try to trash Trump's success as

(21:56):
we go along here, but if President Trump can get
them to turn over the remaining uranium and agree to
not restart any nuclear programs, that's a major win. And
as for the money, as for the suggestion that Trump
is buying compliance or somehow capitulating if he agrees to
unfreeze Iranian assets in return for a deal, that's complete crap.
What bullplop. The left trying to make a big deal

(22:19):
out of this on social media, even going so far
as to say, well, at least Obama only gave iron
four hundred million dollars to get the hostages back, Trump's
giving them twenty billion. I have two responses to these dimwits. First,
Barack Obama literally bought the hostages back, which has been
a long time no no when it comes to Americans
being extorted by terrorists around the globe. Barack Obama literally

(22:43):
flew palate loads of cash in US currency and euros
over to Iran to buy our hostages back. Trump isn't
giving them additional money. Trump would only be giving the
Iranians some of their own money back if this is
part of any long term agreement, and by the way,
it would be rational and reason if it were. Trump
would only be giving the Iranians some of their own

(23:04):
money back if he's unfreezing funds that are irons anyway.
These are funds they haven't been able to access. Moreover,
unfreezing that money in return for the uranium in a
more peaceful Middle East is not a stupid or a
weak idea. It's actually a pretty good idea. It would
be completely reasonable. In return for the yellow cake and
you agreeing to never pursue nuclear weapons again, we will

(23:26):
unfreeze twenty billion dollars of your own assets that you
can then use to help rebuild your country. How is
that a bad or a weak deal? Sounds pretty good. Actually,
my point is, even if Trump does release some of
these funds or unfree some of these funds as a
part of a settlement here, it's not something to be criticized.
It would actually be a pretty smart and reasonable concession.

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But if you have Trump arrangement syndrome, you aren't looking
for actual reasons to criticize Trump. You're just lashing out
any way you can. I believe it was the Wall
Street Journal editors who said Trump's naval blockade was a
master stroke and a triggered more infighting and divisions within
what remains of Iran's regime. It has them unsettled on
the Mulla's side of this equation and reopened the Strait

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to most commerce, including oil tankers from those other Persian countries,
and so Iran's really struggling with its own little drama here,
as Trump can sit back and manage the larger picture.
But if the extremely useless and socialistic European leaders are
now puffing up their feathers and insisting that they're going
to get involved and secure the Strait after Trump has
already done that, well, then this conflict must be close

(24:31):
to being over and at least or at least they
perceive it that way. And now the Trump and Netanya,
who have done all the heavy lifting. Over the last
few days, our US military has been using underwater drones
to help locate and deal with the mines that the
Iranians had placed in those waterways, so we're going to
leave them better off. These are being called sea drones.
Are pretty cool. Actually, some work above the water as

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surface vessels. They're just unmanned boats of that sort. And
then the others are underwater. They're using sonar to sweep
for minds without putting American lives at risk. Pre cool,
and this is literally mop up duty on what has
been a super successful military campaign thus far. Today's rabid
leftists and Trump haters will never admit it, but the
historians will probably get it right. This has been a
brilliantly managed military and diplomatic campaign by Trump and Beebe

(25:15):
against a very difficult and duplicitous enemy. Last segment we
were talking about the pile on. Now that the president
has clearly won the Iranian conflict, no one should be
surprised at this because it's become a long time standard
across both Trump administrations. Donald Trump makes a strong move
or a strong pronouncement. The Democrats, their accomplice media, the

(25:37):
Tucker Carlson, Candice Owen's nutjob wing on the right all
freak out about it, only to have Trump's move be
successful or his claim turned out to be true a
few hours or a few days later, and so everyone
just moves on. All the critics just move on. President
Trump's never given credit for his outside the box thinking.
He's never given credit for being right or for bringing
about a win. It's a frustrating standard. Trump does something bold,

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his critics freak out and predict armageddon. It then works out.
Everyone pretends there was no freak out and refuses to
admit Trump was right or give him credit, and then
they all just go back to their crouch, ready to
spring forward with the next freakout attack on Trump. It's
just become tiring, and it has me convinced that if
we had a more honest media, we'd be seeing this

(26:22):
country pulling more fully behind Donald Trump. Yes he's bombastic,
Yes he can be annoying and irksome. Yes he has
a strong and abrasive personality that turns people off, But
in truth, he's been a very good president. Donald Trump
has this country passed Joe Biden's runaway inflation, Our economy
is stronger since he retook office for the first time
in nearly five decades. He's projecting America's global strength again

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and highlighting America's greatness, and somehow all we get is
relentless negativity. Folks. We're living through a very strong and
positive era right now, and instead of acknowledging it, the
American people in our Western allies only hear doom and negativity.
We've been told at least twice a week since January
of twenty twenty five that Donald Trump's poll numbers are down.

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Oh my god, Trump's poll numbers keep dropping. He's lost
the support of the American people. Even those who voted
for him don't support him or like him anymore, etc.
Nothing could be further from the truth, folks. President Trump's
poll numbers are actually better than the poll numbers of
any of his modern day predecessors in their second term
at this time in their presidency. Donald Trump, no one
knows us. Donald Trump is still polling higher than Barack

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Obama or George Bush were in year five, and he's
pulling far better than Joe Biden did for three out
of the four years of Biden's presidency. This is the truth. Yes,
most polls show Trump with only about forty three to
forty five percent approval, but that's still marginally better than
where Bush and Obama hung out throughout most of their presidencies.
And that's using the polls being done by left leaning

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pollsters for the networks in the university polling firms. Of course,
Rasmussen Reports, which is the only outfit that even does
a daily rolling average poll on the presidential approval anymore,
they have consistently had Trump around forty five to forty
six percent approval for a second term. It might not
sound like it to the average person, but that's actually
a very positive figure for any president since Ronald Reagan.

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We're a very divided country. This is a very divided country,
and Trump's approval ratings are actually higher than any of
the last three or four presidents going back decades. But
none of the liberal pundits are going to put it
in those terms, are they? Twice a week, Trump's poll
numbers are falling. Trump's poll numbers are falling. No one
likes this man anymore. Actually they're not. They've actually stayed

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roughly where they have been forever on this guy. If
they'd fallen nearly as much as the pundits and the
pollster's claim, Donald Trump would have a fifteen percent approval rating. Instead,
he's running ahead of where his numbers were in term one,
and he's outclassing the last three presidents at least, But
no one wants to tell you that. It's one reason
that I'm not convinced Republicans are in for a wipeout

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and fall. And it's also evidence that if Trump wasn't
such an abrasive person by the way, he'd be lauded
as bringing up and a new patriotism back to this country.
I'm also certain it's evidence of that, and I think
he is just not nearly as much as he could be,
especially with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
country falling on his watch. If Donald Trump was simply

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more reaganesque and positive in his outlook and his messaging,
I really think we'd be seeing a more obvious nationwide renaissance.
In fact, I'm sure of it. I am, because sixty
five to seventy percent of the American people are with
Trump and the Republicans on nearly every important issue and
challenge facing this country. I don't think it's a mistake
that Marco Rubio is suddenly so popular again. It's not

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just that he's been doing a great job as our
Secretary of State. It's that he's been incredibly good at
presenting a clear and forceful and optimistic message whenever he speaks.
Marco Rubio has elevated himself to being Reaganesque in this position,
being clear and forceful and optimistic. Trump's forceful, yeah, but
he's not all that clear or optimistic on most things.
It isn't a mistake that all sorts of people in

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the Republican Party in across the country are talking about
Marco Rubio being our twenty twenty eight standard bearer and
the real heir to the Trump legacy rather than JD. Vance.
And I have nothing against JD. Vance. I just like
Rubio's more consistent conservatism and overall demeanor better. But it's
his clarity, his optimism, and his rhetoric related to the
greatness of America that makes Marco Rubio appealing to so

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many Americans. That's why his twenty twenty eight stock is skyrocketing.
As Clinton Polster Mark Penn put it recently, You've got
a whole generation that came of age in an era
of doom and gloom, and they aren't seeing the reasons
for optimism right now. This is Bill Clinton's polster saying, quote,
there's ample cause for optimism about America. Last week, the
Wall Street Journal reported that more middle class Americans are

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moving toward upper middle class. We've sent astronauts to the
Moon for the first time in more than half a century,
and a daring expoint. We recovered a lost pilot behind
enemy lines, where the global leader in artificial intelligence. The
economy is growing, We're approaching our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
and we are still the envy of the world. Everyone
wants to live in America, except it seems the people
who are already here. Penn says this is an opportunity

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for President Trump. He can lead America out of the
cycle of pessimism if he can focus on what makes
America great and how we can become even greater. He says,
the biggest challenge for Trump would be to set aside
his political grievances and the most divisive parts of his message.
If he can do that, the greatest legacy he can
leave on America's anniversary is restoring America's optimism about its
future and the next generation. I agree with that completely,

(31:25):
and a positive and optimistic message is going to be
more important than anything comes summer in fall. The prevailing
left wing narrative is that Republicans are going to get
crushed in fall and will lose control of the House
and maybe even the Senate. That is the outcome that
would follow a historical pattern, But I'm not convinced of
this yet. This isn't a normal political climate, and today's

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young voters in particular aren't following the normal historical patterns.
And as for the post Trump GOP, there's something pretty
interesting happening. We've been talking a lot about this here
in Wisconsin, obviously since the terrible result in the spring
Supreme Court race. But as for the post Trump GOP,
we need today's young people to step up and help
guide the party forward. And even that is not as

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straightforward or as easy as it has been in the past.
As one recent analysis put it, the post boomer GOP
is coming in twenty twenty eight is probably the election
that will define it. This party is clearly in the
midst of a transitional period from the so called boomer
and gen X era to the younger era. It's been
particularly visible here in Wisconsin as every major player from

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the Thompson and Walker era seems to have aged out
and or is losing interest at the same time, and
it's time for the other younger people to step up.
Tommy's group gave us a good fifteen year run of
Republicanism in Wisconsin, Scott Walker's group has given us a
good twelve year run, etc. But we're aging out. So
who's next and what will the Wisconsin and National Republican

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Party look like after this period of transition. Well, one
statement I made early on and in the first Trump
term is this party is not going to be simply
returning to the past. The twenty thirty Republican Party is
not going to look anything like the Party of George W.
Bush because Trump's gone now. No, we're not going back
to that. And the fact that Donald Trump got a
second act after four years of Joe Biden ensures that

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the Republican Party is never going back to that era
of Bush style conservatism. You can bemoan that fact or
you can cheer that fact, but it's the truth. Tomorrow's
Republican Party isn't going to be driven by that brand
of conservatism, and it probably won't be driven by Trump's
brand of undisciplined populism either. It'll probably be some blend
of the two. And what makes this even more interesting

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is that today's young people are not sticking to the
historical norm. You can't just assume that they're all liberals now.
For many years, the Democrats and the so called political
experts were certain that the millennials were going to be
a permanently leftist block of voters. It hasn't turned out
that way. Instead, the millennials seem to be more disillusioned
than any other group of young voters. They seem to
have split into two factions. Those on the left are

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more socialist progressive than ever. Yes, but there are far
more millennials than there were expected to be on the
right and getting into more traditional values, getting back to religion,
intact families. They want lower taxes, less government, etc. Then
there's a huge pool, a huge pool of millennials that
don't really like either party and reject any attempt to
recruit them at all. So I think you can see

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how twenty twenty eight is going to look far different
than expected when it comes to a presidential race, and
then what these parties look like moving forward. And then
you've got the twenty thirty census, which is expected to
have Democrats losing somewhere between nine and thirteen congressional seats
due to the shift in population that we've seen to
the Red States. As a recent analysis piece puts at
gen Z voters, particularly young men, but increasing the young women.

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Are not drifting toward Conservatism by accident. They came of
age during pandemic lockdowns, historic inflation, and record housing costs.
Their political consciousness formed amid debates over free speech, meritocracy,
and the proper role of government in everyday life. For many,
the Republican message of economic growth, secure borders, and national
confidence resonates less ideology and more as practicality. The coalition

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that carried President Trump is not simply a replay of
Republican victories of the past. It's a once in a
generation alignment of working class voters across racial lines, small
business owners squeezed by inflation, parents alarmed by the direction
of the education policy, and younger Americans disillusion with elite institutions.
This author says, with millennials, the underlying drivers were economic anxiety,

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border security concerns, energy independence, and a broader frustration with
bureaucratic and cultural overreach. And so the next presidential election
will not simply be a routine succession. It'll be a
moment when the Republican Party either cements the coalition that
returned Trump to the White House or proves it was
a singular political event. Who will determine whether the GOP
can convert populist momentum into a durable generational governing majority

(35:48):
or not. Yep, this author concludes, right leaning young voters
are not asking for a diluted platform. They're asking for
clarity and competence. For millennials and gen z alike, stability
is not abstract its own, economic, social, and national I
agree with that. With the boomers and the gen xers
aging out, a new political era is on the horizon

(36:08):
and it's going to determine what the next twenty to
fifty years will look like, just like the Reagan generation did.
And it's going to be very interesting to watch. My
friend's President Trump's second term is reminding me of his
first term. In one particular way. Yet again, so much
is going on behind the scenes and or not being
reported by the leftist media that we've got the Trump

(36:30):
team racking up wins that will never be fully known
or appreciated by most Americans. I understand why Donald Trump
is perpetually frustrated that he's not getting the credit that
he deserves. At an event last week, the President highlighted
some of the wins in just year one of his
second term, and it was an impressive list. He said
that he's ended eight wars, said we had zero illegal
immigrants crossing our southern border for eleven straight months now.

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He claimed the murder rate is at its lowest level
in more than one hundred and twenty five years, and
it might be I haven't run across that stat The
president said drug trafficking by sea is down ninety seven
percent and the flow of fentanyl into the country is
down by sixty percent. Trump said he's banned child mutilation
and reconfirmed that there are only two genders. He's gotten
men out of women's sports, and he said DEI and

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critical race theory are gone, and our merit based systems
have been restored. Folks, that's a great list. It's also
an accurate list. Even if you think Trump exaggerated on
some of the items, and he did, the left will
try to pick apart each of these wins with nuance.
Of course, well, DEI isn't completely did that sort of thing.
But even if you think Trump is exaggerating on some
of these, that's a hell of a list. And it's

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unlike any list I've seen out of a president in
my lifetime. Over the past six presidencies, at least if
a president and his team managed to get one big
thing accomplished or keep one big campaign promise, that was
a successful president. Sincerely, the political classes and voters were
subject to the standard that if a president got one
or two big wins over the course of his entire presidency,

(37:57):
my god put them on Rounte Rushmore. Trump, especially in
his second term, has been stellar, just super effective by
any honest standard and by the standards of a normal presidency.
I think you've got to rank Donald Trump as the
most successful president ever in actually getting his agenda accomplished.
Whether or not you like that agenda, he has gotten
a lot of it accomplished. Looking at that list again,

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I can only see one or two items that I'd
quibble with really the generic claim that he's ended eight wars.
We never get a list on them. I don't know
what he's actually counting in that. Another he ended DEI
in critical race theory. Trump hasn't ended those and they're
two ingrained in different levels of society that one man,
even a president, can't declare that he has ended them
and just end them. Our presidents and our government can't

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by decree force their will onto private organizations and universities.
That's the problem with DEI and CRT. But Trump and
his fans can honestly say that Trump and his team
have crippled DEI and CRT and have them on the run.
Something significant happened at the end of last week. The
Trump's team got no attention and credit for. As last week,

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the Trump administration has officially killed off all efforts by
our federal agencies to bully school districts on the questions
of gender identity. If you remember, both Obama and Biden
used and abused Title nine laws in particular to try
to force the country school districts into accepting boys in
girls sports, in into girls locker rooms. Biden's regime went

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so far as to launch numerous lawsuits against school districts
whose leaders refused to comply with them. Well, Title nine
laws never included or never covered, never intended to cover
gender identity, and so this was an illegitimate abuse of
Title nine powers. But hey, the Biden team and the
leftist didn't care, you know, anything to force their extreme
and kooky agenda onto the rest of US. Right, Trump's

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team has killed off all of those lawsuits and legal
actions over the last year or so. Hazza hazza. Moreover,
in doing so, Lynda McMahon, Trump's Education secretary, made it
clear that the federal government has no authority to force
gender ideology onto schools across the country, and the average
American doesn't realize it. But amongst the bureaucratic crowd, this
move is getting some buzz. Apparently, no one can remember

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any other instance in which a top down mandate that
was forced onto the American people by the Education Department
has ever been rescinded. Isn't that something These bureaucrat drones
in DC believe that once the Education Department speaks, it
has been decided. Once the Education Department speaks, this is
how it's going to be and they're shocked that Trump

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and McMahon went so far as to revoke so called
resolution agreements forced onto these school districts. By the way,
these bullying mandates on gender by the Biden administration were
the classic sort of top down bullying that is the
hallmark of all socialist and communist regimes. It's where today's
leftists really want to take the country. It signifies a

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scary future for a country if they ever get their way,
and so it's great to see sanity and freedoms restored,
even if it's in a smaller way here. This is
an important win for President Trump and the American people.
On its face, it's an important win historically. If Trump's
move manages to end this government imposed gender bullying long term,
it could end up being a historically significant win. I

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wish we could say the same for the Trump administration's
efforts to kill off DEI. We already know generically that
all sorts of universities and government agencies that were ordered
to end their DEI programs haven't. They've simply renamed them,
shuffled around, some staffers, changed a few nameplates on doors,
and many of us on the right expected that to happen.
We knew the rabid left wingers who are ingrained at

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the top positions at these universities and government agencies were
not going to give it up easily. After Trump's presidential order,
I told my audience, now, the enforcement is up to
the smaller government groups and the people affected by DEI suing.
In order to force the actual death of DEI, there
was going to have to be an enforcement mechanism here
that came from outside of government and came into play.

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And in many instances we've seen that happen. But I said,
it's going to be word of mouth and lawsuits that
are going to be needed in order to really force
most of these universities and government agencies to give up
their DEI offices and programs, which means it's going to
take time to id the cheaters, force them into compliance,
and really kill off DEI and CRT. It's why I

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hope this story sparks some action. National Review is reporting
that diversity, equity and inclusion is still alive and well
at the University of Michigan. In particular, that school, more
than any other, had leaders who just changed the names
of their DEI programs and just kept discriminating. They aren't
the only university that's done it, obviously, but they're among

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the most blatant, apparently. National review says the University of
Michigan announced in twenty twenty five that it would shut
down various offices and programs in response to the Trump
administration's crusade against DEI, but new research shows that a
majority of its de staff remain employed while the school's
DEI initiatives have simply been rebranded. They say, of the
two hundred and forty eight paid DEI staff at the

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University of Michigan for the twenty four to twenty five
academic year, one hundred and eight of those employees, eighty
four percent are still working full time at the university,
and only forty DEI employees have left that university or retired.
They say that represents a staff turnover rate of sixteen percent,
which is consistent with their normal turnover rate at that university.

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That means this is likely more a result of natural
staff turnover and not the result of any intentional downsizing
that the University of Michigan did to its program. In
March of twenty five, they say, the u of M
announced that two offices focused on DEI would close with
the university wide DEI strategic Plan discontinued. Well, they haven't
changed a thing. Instead, this report says, it appears the

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university has actually expanded its commitment to DEI and increased
the amount that they're spending on salaries for employees in
DEI related roles and offices. They say one hundred and
fifty eight employees in the twenty four to twenty five
academic year was the level of employment. Now they have
one hundred and sixty two employees. There have been no
staff layoffs and actually a few additions related to DEI

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at the University of Michigan. The way this looks moreover,
the University of Michigan appears to have simply renamed its
DEI initiatives and kept moving. For example, the Ross School
Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is now the Ross
School Office of Community Culture and Belonging. It has also
retained five of the six employees from last year. According
to this report, the staff was simply given different job titles.

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The university administration across different schools apparently just took the
words diversity, equity and inclusion out of any work titles
and then just kept going. They didn't fire any staffers,
that didn't change any job descriptions. It's literally DEI under
different labeling at the University of Michigan. And so now
the big question is who's going to sue over it,
because that's the only way that we're going to force

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the change at that school and at others. And it's
not only DEI. Ever since Trump got back into office
and started demanding accountability and exposing fraud and extremism at
both the federal instate than the state levels of government,
I've noticed America's Democrats and leftists have been scrambling to
hide what they've been doing and have been doing for
decades in terms of abusing these programs. One example is

(45:12):
how Governor Ebers, our own governor here in Wisconsin, and
the blue state governors are refusing to turn over any
data related to their food stamp or welfare programs. These
Democrats who have been running the Blue states know that
they have been cheating and gaming federal taxpayers for decades
with these programs. Minnesota's leaders famously knew how and how
much the members of the Somali community up there were

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defrauding the federal programs, and they even help them do it.
And now Trump is demanding accountability, and these Democrats are
panicking right now. In California, state lawmakers are passing a
bill that punishes any medical provider who dares to comply
with a federal request for their data. This is a
blatantly naked move by Gavin Newsom in California officials to

(45:54):
hide all of the abuse and fraud that they've allowed
and even engineered in their health care and their welfare.
Price if you can rip off the federal taxpayers, rip
them off. The Trump administration has been issuing subpoenas to
medical providers in California, looking for information on gender affirming
care and abortions, and looking for fraud. So the Democrats
in California introduced a bill that would require the recipient

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of the federal subpoena to notify the state attorney general
within seven days of getting the request for the data.
The attorney general then has thirty days to review that
subpoena before the hospital or business can even comply with it.
They say providers must also notify the involved patients and
doctors that their records have been requested. Failure to do
so may result in a fifteen thousand dollars fine. This

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is the Trump administration finally moving to crackdown on rampant
health care fraud in California, and California's lawmakers moving to
stop the crackdown and preserve the fraud. Isn't that scummy,
But that's today's Democrats. They're genuine extremists, liars, and grifters.
This is today's Democrat Party. They're moving to stop the
enforcement of all sorts of our nation's laws because they've

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been knowingly and intentionally breaking those laws for decades now,
and that lawbreaking has just become part of their routine
over these decades. I mean, somewhere along the line with
the NGOs, the non government agencies, and with the bureaucratic
takeover a virtually all levels of government, these democrats in
the American Left, they simply started to tip the system
heavily in their favor. And part of that included the

(47:23):
routine the frauding of all sorts of government programs to
their benefit and redirect the money into their efforts and
into their campaigns.

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