The Jay Weber Podcast #0009 5-5-26

Young people are leading a return to church.  Trump approves 'Keystone XL Junior'. The communist nightmare in Cuba seems to be in its end-stages.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good day and welcome to the j Weber Podcast. Today,
I want to talk about Cuba being in the end
stages of communism and it always ends the same way,
living in starvation and misery with no voice or control
over your own future. We'll talk about that. We'll talk
about the President of proving a different version of the
Keystone XL pipeline as part of his robust energy policy.
We have an update on the scramble to redistrict in

(00:37):
the southern Red States, young people finding church is a
way to find where they fit in in this world.
And all sorts of great stuff to talk about today.
Gregory John, my producer, is here. Greg we're getting some
lovely compliments about the podcast, and we're about a month
in or so, and it has become clear to me
that in podcast land there is no higher compliment than
saying I'm listening to you at normal speed. Are you

(00:59):
aware of this? This is the first I've heard of it.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Now see I listen to podcasts like you know, the
Joe Rogans before this podcast, and I would listen in
normal time, but I understand it's a quicker way.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
To get through these things.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, for those of you new to the podcast who
are unfamiliar with unfamiliar with me, I did a conservative
current current events talk show on WISN and Milwaukee for
decades and I'm new to the podcast world as well,
and based on my emails, one of the highest compliments
you can get, apparently in podcast world is I listen
at normal speed, because so many people listen at one
and a half speed. They've just found that's the way

(01:34):
they can save time and literally absorb as much content
as quickly as they can. And I guess it also
shortens kind of the nonsense between the segments that you're
not interested in. And I tried it. I find it
too annoying to listen to chipmunks. But here's this you
could do. Greg. You're the ultimate consumer of information. You
could try this and tell me if you like it.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
All right, I'll try to later today. I've been beginning
of compliments about having you and I conversing back and
forth and each actually hearing the voice of Scott Dolphin,
who used to do sports on your old radio show.

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They say, it's it's like the radio again.

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Can can can Scott do some sports for us?

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No, that's just too involved. You just too many people
would just listen to double speed through that. Yeah, okay,
but I do. I do find that appreciate that compliment.
If you're listening to me at normal speed, I appreciate it.
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are not an endorsement of the firm. President Trump recently

(03:21):
said something in a speech that the media members seem
to miss entirely. Trump said that after the Iran conflict
has concluded, Cuba's next What he means is Cuba's communism
is starting to collapse under its own weight. Now that
the Castro brothers are dead or nearly so. Fidel is
long dead and Raoul is ninety two. Cuba has a
younger quote president in place, but the condition of that

(03:43):
country after fifty years of communism, is dire, and Trump
and his Secretary of State Marc Rubio know that this
is a particularly good time to squeeze another communist country
in this hemisphere, as they did in Venezuela, and hope
to bring about regime change and ultimately capitalism. And so
as the Cuban people become increasingly desperate over the last
several years, Trump and his team found it to be

(04:04):
a good time to put some additional sanctions onto the
communists running that country. And squeeze them further. On Friday,
the President signed a new executive order that allows the
US to expand the current sanctions. It imposes new sanctions
on people and affiliates of the Cuban regime based on
government corruption and human rights violations of that country's leaders.
This builds on something Trump and Rubio did in January

(04:26):
when they declared Cuba to be a quote unusual and
extraordinary threat to our country due to its close ties
to Russia, China, Iran, and even has Belah in Hamas. Yeah,
the Cuban regime has ties that linked to Iran and
Iran's terror proxies, Hamas and has Belah, So why would
we want this communist regime in our backyard? These are

(04:46):
moves being made by Trump and Rubio to simply put
even more economic pressure on an already crumbling Cuban economy.
But on Friday, Marco Rubio told Fox News that Cuba's
regime only has two options at this point. Quote. The
first is total collapse because Marxism in general doesn't work,
and it really doesn't work when the people trying to
conduct Marxism also happen to be incompetent and don't know

(05:07):
anything about economics.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
He said.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
The second option very serious economic reforms, which can't happen
with the current people in charge because they're incompetent. Either way,
it will lead to the end of the nearly seventy
years of Castro rule. This is Marco Rubio, but he
emphasized it isn't just about the regime being economically incompetent.
He said, they've rolled out the welcome matt to adversaries
of the United States. We're not going to have a

(05:31):
foreign military or intelligence or security apparatus operating with impunity
ninety miles off the shores of the United States. That's
not going to happen under President Trump. That suggests a
presidential regime that's being smart and moving to act against
several communist regimes while they're especially weak and vulnerable. Trump
has already had our military sweep in and nabbed Nicholas

(05:51):
Maduro and remove him from power in Venezuela. And even
though there's been zero talk of putting US troops in
Cuba or running a similar operation there, we know that
with Trump, nothing's off the table. He likes to keep
our enemies guessing. And by the way, it's a rare
day that you hear me giving props to Ran Paul
and or Susan Collins, but mad props to Rand Paul
and Susan Collins for stepping up and blocking a bill

(06:13):
that the Democrats tried to ram through the Senate, preemptively
barring President Trump from using any military action against Cuba
if he should choose to, as he did in Venezuela.
Those two stepped up to defeat that measure, and it
helped keep the President's options open. But I'll emphasize again,
no one inside or outside the Trump administration has mentioned
using troops in Cuba, and yes, that is different than Venezuela.

(06:37):
There were rumblings ahead of time related to Trump and
his Pentagon potentially putting boots on the ground in Venezuela
as a way to deal with the narco terrorist Nicholas Maduro,
than he did, there have been no such rumblings about
using the US military in Cuba. Meanwhile, the general ignorance
of most Americans that comes along with their disinterest in
following current events, and a so called news media who's

(07:00):
members refuse to actually inform the public on most of
these matters means that the average American has no idea
what's going on in Cuba and how bad it really is,
and I'm not pretending that I do. So I found
this article from Politico quite interesting on Sunday. Politico is
a left wing website that covers political news. Obviously, so
one flaw with this article on Cuba is that they
pretend that at some point Cuba's communism was working and

(07:23):
that the regime was adequately feeding the Cuban people and
providing abundance in its government run grocery stores. Well, it
never really was. One failing of the news stories that
it doesn't really make it clear that what the Cuban
people are calling the good times are actually still really
lean and miserable times for the rest of us by
any Western or capitalist standard. And so it's a failing

(07:44):
of the left wing reporters here that they don't do that,
because the reality here is that after seventy years of
stifling communism, the vast majority of the people who are
currently alive and living on that island have only ever
known scarcity and poverty. Correct, So what some of these
Cubans being interviewed are describing to Politico as the good
times would still be seen by any of us as

(08:05):
the miserable times. The good times to these Cubans in
the story are when the government run grocery stores actually
had a full stockpile of the essentials like bread and
eggs and milk. And they're talking about a time when
if they stood in line for their daily ration of bread,
they'd actually get everything that was coming to them and
their family. So I feel like this needs to be
made clear before you even get into the specifics of

(08:26):
the story. To use an analogy, if all you've ever
known is beatings every day, well when the beating stop,
that's a really good day, right, same principle here. The
good days were when the communist regime was largely living
up to its promises of at least providing enough food,
and that's not the case anymore. The political story is revealing,
though it admits right off the bat the Cubans are

(08:48):
increasingly finding it difficult to feed their families. They report
the government ration books that once provided for healthy diet
and kept families fully fed for a month, they're now shrinking.
And again, what was fully fed? You have to ask yourself.
But they say, as the economy collapses in prices sore,
a growing number of Cubans find themselves unable to afford
alternatives to state run grocery stores and struggle to subsist

(09:10):
on meager salaries in a socialist country of nearly ten million,
where basic goods increasingly are sold in US dollars. Mate
Lopez said, no Cuban can truly survive on the products
from the ration book anymore. This ration book dates back
to Fidel Castro when he established that new communist regime
in the early sixties. It offers heavily subsidized goods that

(09:33):
are ranged from milk, to fish to even cigarettes. They
say Cubans knew their assigned bodega would at least be
stocked by the first of the month when it came
to these items, but now even bread, milk, eggs, and
chicken are in scarce quantities. The story describes how the
bodega is now an empty room with dusty old posters
detailing the prices and amounts of nearly dozen goods that

(09:54):
are no longer available, including yogurt, pasta, and bars of soalp.
Two industrial freezers that were one packed with meat and
chicken are now empty. In April, the only items that
are available at this bodega were rice, sugar, and split chickpeas.
The story goes on to detail that you get this
thirty eggs. A carton of thirty eggs that you might

(10:16):
pay probably six dollars for here now costs one hundred
and twenty five dollars in Cuba. I did a double
take on the number. Yeah, I had to check the
cost again. Politico says, a carton of thirty eggs in
Cuba now costs one hundred and twenty five dollars. That
is a stunting price. Am I wrong to assume that
most Cubans can keep their own chickens? I might be

(10:37):
wrong in that assumption, but if the government allows it,
I'm guessing every Cuban who can raises chickens for eggs.
The cost of two pounds of quote meat hash is
about thirty seven dollars. They say. Now, I assume that's
similar to ground beef, but they don't specify the meat,
and you know it's not certified angus. Only the Lord
knows what the meat in any bag of quote meat

(10:58):
hash is. One Cuban being interviewed said, there's hardly anything
in the ration book we're practically living off of air.
This woman's lunches and dinners are a rotation of rice,
seasoned ground meat, and corn meal, or sometimes nothing at all.
She recalled once upon a time being able to eat pork, lamb,
fried plantain slices and red beans and rice. See, those

(11:21):
were the good times, jesuys. Now we have to cut back.
We have one meal a day and live on memories.
Virtually anyone alive in Cuba right now has only ever
lived under a communist regime. Virtually anyone alive in Cuba
right now has only ever lived with scarcity and government rationeting.
And so virtually everyone alive in Cuba right now considers

(11:41):
the good times to be when they had a chance
to eat lamb, pork and red beans. Imagine that now.
According to a Cuban man that's quoted in the story,
now it's a good day if he stands in line
for his daily bread and he actually gets a bun
for both himself and his wife. This is an elderly
couple in Cuba, and on a good day, if they
both get their daily ration of bread, it's a good day.

(12:04):
This is communism, young people. Communism is just two steps
away from socialism, which a lot of you are pushing.
Socialism is what had Venezuela in a similar state of
affairs over the last twenty or twenty five years under
Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro. Before Chavez and the socialists
took over Venezuela, it was literally the most prosperous country
in South America. All sorts of wealthy people in a

(12:26):
vibrant middle class, and privately owned businesses were the hallmark
of Venezuela. Now it's poverty. Moreover, Venezuela had and has
all sorts of natural resources that it could be profiting
off of, but the country's been so incredibly mismanaged by
the socialists that they can't. This is socialism. Socialism and
communism take prosperity and turn it into poverty every time.

(12:49):
Every time, the only variable is how many years it
takes before the regime crumbles seriously. Sometimes the miseries felt immediately,
Sometimes it takes a little longer, but it always comes
with decades and decades of the people in those countries
living in misery, poverty, starvation, and voiceless. Those regimes keep

(13:09):
such an iron grip on any dissent or anyone wanting
to do things differently. That an added feature of the
misery and poverty is also being able to complain about
it or risk having your voice heard by those who
are keeping you so miserable. This is the truth about
socialism and communism, and it's a pattern that has held
every time. There are no exceptions. The current state of

(13:29):
affairs in Cuba right now, according to an elderly Cuban
is quote, if you buy beans, then you can't buy sugar,
and if I retire, I die. It doesn't sound as
fun as the false promises that AOC and Bernie and
Francesca Hong are making, does it. So it's good to
hear the President to say, after Iran, we deal with Cuba.

(13:49):
As for Iran, we've now hit the sixty day mark
in that action, and the President and the US and
Israeli military forces and diplomatic strategists have completely wonted. It
is incredible, impressive, and historically unprecedented to see how quickly
and thoroughly Israel and America have dealt with this fifty
year global terror threat. Contrary to the whining and spinning

(14:10):
from the left, the President and Benjamin netanya who have
done a stellar job eliminating the larger nuclear and terror
threats from Iran, and now just sixty days later, it's
a matter of simply squeezing Iran's remaining leaders until they pop,
until they totally capitulate to the terms that President Trump
and Netanyah who want to get out of them. On
Friday or Saturday, the President was telling reporters that he

(14:30):
rejected the latest offer from Iran's remaining leaders to settle
this because he didn't like the offer. But ignore the
negative media. All evidence points to Iran's economy and Iran's
leaders really hurting now and being in a dire, unwinnable situation.
As Victor Davis Hansen correctly sums it up, this US
blockade means Iran is losing about half a billion dollars

(14:51):
a day. It's running out of storage space for its oil,
at which point they either have to stop pumping or
find a way to sell more of it on the market.
They're the brink economically, they have no military ability, and
so the course of the war and how it ends
is entirely in the hands of the United States. Victor
Davis Hansen points out that this isn't a military problem
either like Afghanistan and Helman Province or the Marines having

(15:14):
to go into Falluja in Iraq. This is entirely a
political problem. Now the military problem has been solved. This
is just a question of how much political price does
President Trump risk before he gets an unconditional surrender or
gets what he wants out of the Iranian people. But
important point, as Davis Hansen points out, Trump doesn't need

(15:34):
to get total surrender or remove the regime. That wasn't
one of his pre war agendas. The pre war agenda
was to neutralize the nuclear proliferation of Iran, neutralize the
missile and drone force, and make sure their military wasn't
capable of conducting a war. That's been done. Israel's primary
mission also included taking care of Iran's terror proxies, especially

(15:57):
Hamas and has Belah, and that has been done. These
terror groups are motivated by religious zealotry and hatred, and
they're not going to go away, of course, but it's
going to be difficult for their leaders to fund, plan,
and launch major attacks on Israel or the West for
any time soon. The smaller lone wolf style attacks will
probably continue, Yes, but another October seventh or nine to
eleven style event is going to be much harder to

(16:19):
pull off now. And I'll emphasize again how impressive Donald
Trump has been in contrast to our last four presidents.
Trump didn't hit an aspirin factory and pretend that he
dealt with the terrorists like Clinton did. He didn't send
a planeload of cash to the terrorists in an attempt
to buy their cooperation like Obama did. Nor did he
start a war and then back off and turn it

(16:39):
into a quagmire like Bush did. Donald Trump went in
heavy and dealt with the Iranian war machine immediately and
in a very impressive manner. And now he has them
in a state of siege to see if he'll get
everything he wants out of them and total victory.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Here.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's not a quagmire. It's not an irocker in Afghanistan.
It's a matter of trying to leave with one hundred
percent victory rather than considering the eighty percent win that
he already has. This is what we're really talking about here.
Even the Wall Street Journal editors who are not Trump
fans are giving him credit for how he has played this.
They say the president's under pressure to give up on
his war aims and give them give him credit for

(17:15):
standing firm. He's also right to reject Iran's demands for
US concessions. Trump said on Wednesday, Iran's regime is choking
like a stuffed pig when it comes to this blockade effect.
Operation Economic fury is squeezing Iran's financing, and the regime
is scrambling for any junk storage it can fined for
their surplus oil. They say, when Iran runs out of
oil storage, it's going to have to stop production and

(17:37):
cause permanent damage. While Trump's critics say Iran can hold
out forever because it withstood sanctions in the past, the
situations aren't comparable. These editors note Iran has already lost
some forty percent of its GDP in two months now.
The US Navy is blocking Around's oil exports really just now.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
They say.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
The downside of the blockade is that it takes time
to work, and that's where a resumption of military strikes
may be to shorten the timeline. They go on to
say that so far Trump has spared Iran's oil infrastructure,
but he could start to bomb that in stages as
one way to further squeeze them.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Ever, since the President announced a ceasefire, I've assumed that
more military action against Iran is going to be necessary
because all the Iranians do is lie and go back
on their promises. You can't expect the Mulls to really
give up unless they are forced to, forced to forced
to You need to make their situation untenable, and we
aren't quite there yet, so I've been assuming at least

(18:31):
a few more rounds of military strikes are necessary. But
I assume the President and his team are waiting for
Iran's military to break the ceasefire first. I don't doubt
that our strategists have a whole list of next targets
to bomb, but I'm going to assume that they're waiting
for some sort of really stupid move by the Iranians
to restart the fighting. So Netan Yahoo and Trump have
the high ground when they go after the next round

(18:52):
of targets, which are going to be oil wells, roads, bridges, railroads, folks.
Right now, Iranian oil can't be moved by ship. Obviously,
they can't get a single tanker out past the US blockade.
But they can and are still moving oil by rail,
So I'd expect that the next bombing targets for the
US and Israel are the railways and rail yards in

(19:13):
order to block any movement of oil by rail. Two.
Trump deserves credit for taking this seriously and staying the course,
but I do wish that he and his team members
would get out there and message their strategy and tell
the American people what they're doing. Explain the high gas prices.
President Trump should literally do a primetime speech to kick
off this effort and explain where we are and how

(19:35):
he's dealing decisively with Iran. He should make it clear
the higher gas prices are unfortunate, yes, but they're the
one sacrifice that I, as your president, am asking you
to make as we deal with Iran, and it's going
to be temporary. He should say, there's a very good
reason I'm asking you to make this small sacrifice. Please
trust us and do your part to help us deal

(19:55):
with this fifty year terror threat coming out of the
Middle East. I think if the and his cabinet members
and surrogates were out there explaining this to the American people,
the voters actually would appreciate it and see these high
gas prices in a different and necessary light. They could
make it clear. During World War Two, average Americans were
asked to make numerous sacrifices, including collecting metal and rubber,

(20:17):
putting up with energy shortages and nighttime blackouts, etc. All
we are asking from today's generation is please put up
with higher gas prices between now and Thanksgiving or Christmas.
I honest to God, think that the Trump team would
win the approval of the American people if they took
that approach, And if not, the approval of the American people,
at least the patience of the American people spell it

(20:39):
out for them like that. The so called news media won't.
And it's foolish that Trump and his team and all
Republicans aren't already doing this. And by the way, a
sense of shared sacrifice also tends to unify a group
of people and unify a country. So this plays a
dual role, not only as a president of the people
talking directly to the people and asking them for Helpublicans

(21:00):
have a tool to unify the country here that they
aren't using. It's a missed opportunity. This is much ignored news.
The Trump administration approved another Canada US pipeline project. It's
basically Keystone Light, which, by the way, is a terrible beer.
But Trump granted a presidential permit that allows the pipeline

(21:22):
to cross the US Canada border that would stretch roughly
six hundred and fifty miles from Canada through Montana and Wyoming.
They say it will carry up to five hundred and
fifty thousand barrels of crude oil per day, about two
thirds of the capacity of the original Keystone XL project.
The pipeline would transport crude oil from Canada's oil sands
region for refining in the US or export to global markets.

(21:43):
It would also be expected to carry other petroleum products,
including gas and diesel. The story says the approval follows
months of discussions between the US and Canadian officials about
reviving parts of Keystone XL or pursuing alternative routes. Canada's
leaders have pushed this project to strengthen energy ties and
boost exports to the US, and hey, the eCos ELTs
are on it. There are still major hurdles to cross

(22:04):
here at both the state and the local levels. And
that's in addition to the lawsuits and the moaning and
the winding and the hysteria and the drum circles that
the activist left will engage in. Yes, this is far
from a done deal, but it's great to see both
the Trump administration and the Canadian government put a premium
on future energy production. This is another instance in which
I say, at least Donald Trump has three more years

(22:27):
in office, and if we as voters can manage to
put another Republican in the White House after him, and
so they can be in charge of these executive agencies
for another four years after Trump, Pro America projects like
this will actually have a chance of getting done. The
Canadian company hoping to build this pipeline wants construction to
start in twenty twenty seven, while Trump is still in office,

(22:47):
and that's intentional. That date is chosen based on the
consideration of how quickly can we get this started and
built under a cooperative Republican president, because they know there's
nearly a one hundred percent chance that the next Democrat
president's going to stop it in its tracks. In the
last podcast, I talked about how the climate zealots and
their bogus movement are currently on the ropes. The global

(23:09):
warming nuts have gone into hiding, and the overall climate
change movement appears to be dying on the vine. I'd say,
more correctly, the movement isn't dying so much as it's withering.
The climate bullies are currently being denied the sun and
the water that they need to thrive anymore. But the
longer there's a Republican in the White House and the
GOP is in control of at least one of two
congressional chambers, the closer we will be to actually killing

(23:31):
off this decade long nonsense. There was a congressional hearing
last week, though, that should remind us again these eco
zelots are just laying in the weeds for now, and
the elected Democrats who get power from them are champing
at the bit to turn things back around the minute
they have the chance. This hearing feature testimony from Trump's
Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and the Democrats on the panel

(23:52):
just lamb basted him for making it clear that he
and Trump were restoring America's energy greatness and energy independence
by rejecting all of their wind and nonsense. And hey,
Trump and Wright aren't against wind and solar as contributing
fuels or boutique fuels. Trump and Republicans have always said
there's room for all sorts of alternative energies so long
as they can stand on their own. One way to

(24:13):
make this country energy independent is by embracing all alternative energies,
but intelligently. So we have to view these alternative fuels
honestly and sanely, and admit that their supporters hugely, hugely
oversell them. What Trump and Republicans want is energy alternatives
that the US government and taxpayers don't need to heavily
and stupidly subsidize. Let free market forces determine which alternatives

(24:36):
to fossil fuels pan out, instead of having the eco
zelots and the Democrats both playing favorites and in their
extreme stupidity, working to take fossil fuels off of the board. Cheap, reliable,
lovely fossil fuels are the backbone of all industry in
twenty first century human comforts. You can't just take them
away and pretend that we have other alternatives to fossil fuels.

(24:58):
Aside from nuclear, none exist. Aside from nuclear, none of
the other alternative fuels are a legitimate answer to how
do we live without fossil fuels? But the Democrat Congressman
at this hearing made it clear that the minute they're
back in charge, this quote backsliding on green energy is
going to end. This is actually Trump and Republicans restoring

(25:18):
sanity to our energy policy. But the Democrats and their
activist bullies see it as backsliding on their bullying effort
to force wind and solar on us. And by God,
they're going to resume that war on fossil fuels and
on common sense the minute they win back control. Gary
Abernathy is with a group that's called Empowerment Alliance, which
advocates for common sense energy policy, and he says in

(25:40):
a recent piece, no matter how aggressively the Trump administration
has rolled back Biden era efforts to expand energy alternatives,
billions of taxpayer dollars for that cause could be restored
in the blink of an eye if Democrats retake power
in Washington, he says. The Democrats are making no secret
of their desire to return to their previous policy of
propping up wind and solar. He says, Chuck Schumer is

(26:01):
making it clear this is a priority. He just told
The New York Times. Democrats believe the higher gas prices
related to the Iran war are an opening. They're opening
the door to making their push for alternatives more palatable
to voters. Chucki said, we can bring new voters and
allies into the fight for a cleaner environment by showing
how clean energy is affordable energy. But it's not. It

(26:21):
still is an affordable energy, and from a national security perspective,
it leaves us incredibly vulnerable to the Chi cooms and
other foreign adversaries. China controls ninety percent of all of
our solar manufacturing capacity and eighty three percent of all
electric battery production. How stupid would we be to allow
America to be heavily reliant on our largest global adversary.

(26:43):
The next item in the stack is an update on
the redistricting battle. Now that we're several days away from
the fantastic Supreme Court decision that tossed out racial jerrymandering
as unconstitutional. As expected, it didn't take long for Republican
strategists than the Trump White House to hop on any
red state that has racially ported districts and encourage them
to redraw their maps immediately. These are nearly all of

(27:04):
the Southern states. By the nature of the country's history
and the failures of reconstruction after the Civil War. Then sadly,
nearly one hundred years of Southern Democrats still working to
keep Black Americans from voting. This has left Southern states
with all sorts of government mandated majority minority districts. It
isn't as if there wasn't a good reason to pass
the Voter Rights Act in the nineteen sixties, after all,

(27:27):
I mean, this is an act that Congressional Republicans led
on and help put in place. By the way, it's
just that a times have changed and greatly when it
comes to protecting the minority vote, and b the Democrats
then took the language of that Voter Rights Act and
bastardized it to mean racially protected districts, etc. The Supreme
Court is writing a sixty year wrong here. It's one
that led to past liberal courts demanding that, by God,

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certain Southern districts have to have nearly all black districts. Well,
if you want to divide the country by race, as
the Democrats have always wanted to do, is there a
better way than that make all black and all brown districts.
This hasn't insured more black and brown representation in Washington
or in state houses so much as it is ensured
that black and brown voters are never fully integrated into

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a larger colorblind society. But if we start with the
baseline redistricting war that's been going on, Wow, the Democrats
were certain they were winning this just a week ago,
weren't they? Now they're clearly losing. Even before any new
Scotus ordered redistricting is mentioned. The Republicans have an advantage
in Florida passing a new map that looks as if
it's going to survive and give Republicans four new seats,

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even as Virginia's new map looks destined for defeat in
court due to the bullying and sloppy way that the
Virginia Democrats tried to ram that into place. But then
there's the additional four or five seats that the Supreme
Court decision might mean for the Republicans almost immediately, with
that number potentially being as many as twelve to twenty
over time. The decision that set it's unconstitutional to create

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quote race conscious congressional maps immediately meant maps in Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi were immediately illegal. The only question was how quickly
will the leaders of those states make a move to
make them legal. Some could decide to wait until after
the twenty thirty census, which would lessen the effect, lessen
the overall punch in the face that's coming here for

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the Democrats, or the leaders of those states could scramble
to change them immediately. So just a few days later
after this ruling, Louisiana officials, whose state was the actual
subject of the lawsuit that made it all the way
to the Serine Court, the Louisiana officials immediately suspended their
current racist map and put their fall primaries on hold
to get a new one in place. So Louisiana's Republicans

(29:37):
are already scrambling to get a new map. We also
saw leaders in Alabama and Tennessee move almost immediately to
create new maps, and so just out of those states
we could see three or four more Republican control diristics
for fall or at least by twenty twenty eight. Alabama's
governor is Kivy. She immediately called lawmakers into a special
session because she wants to get a new map done

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before their late summer primary. Tennessee's governor Bill Lee said
much the same thing as it is. Tennessee only has
one Democrat district, but a new map could make Tennessee
completely red. And by the way, the wailing and the
gnashing of teeth that I see on social media from
leftists insisting it's going to be terrible if those southern
states just shut out Democrats from any House seats and

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go all red is nonsense. I think most of you
in this audience know by now that there are nine
nine New England states that don't allow for any Republican
representation in Congress. There are nine Democrat states that are
completely blue, even though each of them has about forty
three to forty five percent of their overall electric voting Republican.
So when you hear Democrats winding over this move to

(30:42):
turn more states to deeper red, just ignore them. Their
party has been doing that for decades. Their putty has
been engaged in those sorts of extremes for decades and
doing it anywhere they can. It doesn't look like South
Carolina is going to wait for twenty thirty on a
new map either. It's not clear as to whether the governor,
Henry McMaster is going to be able to get a
new map in place by fall probably not, but he'd

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like to try. Sadly, Mississippi has already had its primary,
and so any new map is going to have to
wait until twenty twenty eight. There there's only one Democrat
district in Mississippi as it is, and that's the horrid
Benny Thompson, one of the co leaders of the Second
Trump of Peachman Farrest. Remember this clown. He represents Mississippi,
but hopefully not for much longer. Then there's Georgia, whose

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primary date is simply too close. Early voting is already
underway in Georgia, but on Friday, the Georgia Governor, Brian
Kemp said he's not going to delay this year's primary
day in order to try to get a new map
in place for fall, but he said one is coming.
And get this, the most secure and gerrymandered black district
in Georgia is the one that belongs to Jim Clyburn,

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the old turd who delivered that state and the larger
twenty twenty primary to Joe Biden. If the Georgia map changes,
that old fossil is probably out on his rear end.
It also brought me a little joy to see that
longtime hag and liar Debbie Wasserman Schultz will lose her
seat if the new map in Florida sticks. You might
remember this is the woman who drove the Democrat Party

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so far into the mud that she had to agree
to turn over its operations to Hillary Clinton and her
campaign in twenty sixteen so it didn't go bankrupt. But
even if the changes in those states that I mentioned
gets delayed in court, this ruling will trigger a small
avalanche of new maps for twenty twenty eight, which is
great and given that most Democrat run states have already
been so gerrymandered that they can't really cheat to any

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new extremes in most of their states, it means the
Republicans are going to win the redistricting wars of twenty
twenty six and that is before the new twenty thirty census,
which will finally restore some fairness and balance to the
overall electoral map. Florida, Texas, and a few other states
are being underrepresented currently, even as several blue states like
California and New York are being overrepresented in Congress for

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the rest of the decade due to the major population
shifts that we've seen in this country. Millions of Americans
have migrated out of blue states and into red states
since the twenty twenty census. The strategists and experts are
predicting a stronger advantage in Congress looking ahead into the
next decade as a result based on the new census figures,
and the big lie that the Democrats and black activists

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want to put over all of this is will black
votes in black voter turnout as in jeopardy black representations
in jeopardy? Here, No, it's not. There is something like
sixty five black members of Congress, many of whom represent
majority white districts, by the way, and the overall level
of black participation in elections just keeps rising. In the
most recent presidential elections, somewhere between forty five and fifty

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two percent of black voters voted. That might sound pathetic,
but the overall level of voter participation in this country
is pathetic. You have to remember that in the two
thousand and two and two thousand and six elections only
about forty two percent of Blacks voted. The last two
it was forty five and fifty three percent, respectively. So
even as those quote attacks on democracy have been occurring,

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like demanding voter idea, etc. The number and percentage of
black and brown voters only keeps going up. And so
when your friends and neighbors insist that Republicans are making
these moves to suppress the black vote or suppress the
minority vote, point out to them that then the Republicans
are doing a really bad job of it, because black
and brown voter participation is up in both the states
that have implemented voter ID and up nationally. Yes, Hispanic

(34:19):
and Asian voting has also steadily risen over the last
two decades. As all of this arguing has been going on.
In short, Republican suggestions and changes have been part of
an effort to make our elections far more fair, secure,
and color blind, and when they are, more people want
to participate. The Democrats' efforts to stop these reforms have
been because they on their side, don't want fair elections.

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They've benefited for decades by keeping voters ignorant and away
from the ballot box. That's the truth of the matter here.
If there are any modern efforts similar to Jim Crow,
it's on the Democrat side of the aisle, the same
as it was way back in the day, during the
reconstruction and right through the nineteen sixties, the Democrats have
always been the biggest obstacle so called black and brown

(35:01):
people fully participating in American society, and they still are.
I love to see this, what a wonderful and unexpected twist.
Young people are flocking back to churches, including the Catholic Church.
I hope the same sort of phenomenons being seen in Europe,
because the overall state of faith in Europe is terrible.

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As the older generations die out, the younger generations are
simply rejecting it. And while the decline here in the
US has been less dramatic, it's only by degrees, to
the point that volumes of ink has been spilt on
the question what is the future of church and religion
in this more modern world? So how wonderful it is
to see generations z members moving back toward faith family

(35:43):
in the church. The Wall Street Journal had a profile
piece on this topic on Sunday and explained how suddenly
masses at various Catholic churches in New York are sold
out events and it's mostly young adults. They use one church,
Saint Joseph's and Greenwich Village As an example, I say
a recent six o'clock Sunday Mass evening mass was like

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a sold out event. Every inch of u space, they say,
was filled mostly by young adults. Late comers squeezed into
makeshift rows of plastic folding chairs, or stood shoulder to
shoulder in the foyer. When eucharistic ministers moved through the
aisles to distribute communion, they had to tiptoe around knees
and handbags. In an hour earlier, many of those same
worshippers were eating pizza at a nearby pizza place. Apparently

(36:25):
this is it's called Pizza to Pews, and more than
one hundred young adults showed up on the first week
for this event. By the third week they were over
two hundred, and with some people driving in from Long Island,
others taking the train from Boston. It's kind of like
a field trip. They have pizza and they walked to
church together. And they quote a kid from Wisconsin in
this piece who started this pizza pregame Anthony Gross, aged

(36:46):
twenty two. He moved to New York from Wisconsin last
summer and found Saint Joe's and said it's better than
going to a bar. And spending four hundred dollars, and
no one wants to go to mass alone. But it's
more than that. Most of these young adults are alone.
And it's especially in large urban areas like New York
City that the average young person can feel alone even
though there are so many people around them. So today's

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young people are looking for a sense of community and
finding it at church, which is fantastic. The story cites
a Gallup pole that shows young men in particular are
more interested in faith. Gallup poll showed forty two percent
of young men said religion is very important to them.
That's up shortly from twenty eight percent in twenty twenty three.
And young women are seeing the same sort of phenomenon,
but it's more pronounced among young men. They say worshippers

(37:31):
and churches give a variety of reasons for the rise,
from the social to the spiritual. Many young people began
searching for community after the pandemic, while some parishes saw
a surge after the killing of Charlie Kirk, part of
a wave of high profile incidents of political violence nationwide. Yeah,
I'd consider the pandemic, But if you're a young person
reacting to the murder of Charlie Kirk in a large city.

(37:53):
I can see the reaction being, well, where do I
find my people in this city? Where do I feel comfortable?
Where do I find people that I actually like me
and want to hang around? Someone like me and people
I want to hang around. It does make sense, and
the story goes on to say these kids are loving
the sense of community and the new connections they're making.
Attendance is up at numerous parishes in New York, with

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young people coming early and then hanging out on the
church steps afterward, swapping numbers, making connections, making coffee dates,
dinner plans. I find that to be fantastic, and yeah,
these are meetup centers too. There's also a romantic element
for a lot of these young people. According to the priests,
they say they're looking for young, available partners who think
like them, etc. It's just wonderful. Another bonus. Young people

(38:36):
have the energy to run the church events and help
out at the masses, just as we in the older
generations are sick of it or ready to opt out.
I think all sorts of listeners in this audience, regardless
of whatever denomination you are, will find this familiar it's
just a few people that have the burden of running
the entire church. You have a church that is basically
four or five people doing everything to keep it running

(38:56):
and serving on communities they don't really want to, etc.
Because no one else is interested nor has the time
or energy. I think a lot of Catholic churches are
that way now, and so an infusion of younger people
with their energy and their newly found commitment to faith.
It's a wonderful thing. This is all great news. It's
great news that allows me to be optimistic for the
future of the country and mankind. And I happened to

(39:17):
run across this story right after I'd run across a
story about the baby boomers and how their exit from
the US and global stages are going to be felt
more acutely over the next twenty years. This is also
true most demographers are viewing this as a crisis for
the country rather than as a good thing at a
new beginning. It says quote, over the next twenty years,
most boomers will exit the stage of history. What should

(39:37):
concern all of us is the coming crisis when what's
left of the seventy six million Americans born between nineteen
forty six and nineteen sixty four, retires, sickens, and dies.
They say, think of the nineties when we said goodbye
to the Greatest Generation. They'd fought a world war and
vanquished two of the most powerful armies that ever existed.
They'd created modern industrialized America and created an economic power

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that dominated the world, and they were at the four
of a technological revolution. When they exited the stage, it
was with gratitude of most Americans. They say, the boomer
farewell might be different. This is a free press piece,
and it's interesting for the stats alone. They say Boomers
are wealthier and healthier than any generation before them. They're
deeply embedded in political, economic, and cultural power, and often

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understandably reluctant to step aside. Boomers control fifty two percent
of US household wealth, forty percent of real estate value,
and the majority of top political offices social security and
medicare are primarily to benefit them, and they're consuming forty
percent of the federal budget. More fundamentally, they say, the
greatest generations departure unfolded in a still confident, still cohesive America,

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with solid institutions and younger leaders waiting in the wings.
This farewell is happening inside a more fractured society, simultaneously
grappling with an AI revolution, geopolitical disorder, and a fiscal
structure built for the nineteen thirties demographics. There may not
even be a shared narrative to write about the boomers.
They say, that's true. What there will be is enormous, grinding,

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multi decades stress. Here's another stat Within five years, America
will have more people over sixty five than under eighteen,
and nearly seventy percent of the people over sixty five
they believe will need long term care. Either will have
to warehouse these people or hire millions of in home workers.
Is it a wonder that so many quote experts on
the left want to talk about assisted suicides and implement

(41:25):
death panels to decide which patients at any given hospital
warrant the care in which should be left to die.
This is what we're facing, and my friends, much harder
pushes for these things like death panels are going to
be coming from today's left, and especially from today's young socialists,
as the boomer's age and as this condition grows. Today's
democrats already have us running on more than a seven

(41:46):
trillion dollar federal budget, a budget that includes two trillion
dollars of structural deficit. As in our treasury is taking
in five trillion, but we're spending seven every year. The
national debt sits around forty forty trillion dollars, and we're
now just moving into an era in which the boomern
generation gets old and dies. You can't imagine the strains
on our healthcare and our social services systems that we

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are entering into. And as this story notes, there will
be no serious effort to address this, and there will
be no serious effort at social security, Medicare, or social
services reform so long as the current batch of boomers
controls things, so long as the current batch of boomers
controls the government, and so long as their lobbyists influence
the outcomes. That's true. We also have a Democrat party

(42:28):
full of leaders who've never been serious about tackling these
reforms because they'd rather rattle sabers and scare old people
and use the wedge issues. Anytime someone mentions reforming any
of these programs, they just want to use it to
play games as a wedge issue. So yeah, that's a
real challenge for generations X and Z and millennials. Yes,
this country's going to need far more serious adults on

(42:49):
both sides of the aisle. Consider how expansive the Trump,
Musk and Doge effort has been to finally finally identify,
reform and remake the federal government. Now consider how little
they've actually been able to accomplish. Most of the Doge
and Trump reform efforts have been blocked in court, They've
been stopped by government sector unions. They simply haven't panned out.

(43:10):
They've made some progress, but it's been grinding progress. It's
why I love to hear any news when it comes
to rooting out fraud and or downsizing government out of
this administration, because the Trump administration is really the first
that has made a serious attempt to do this. I
know that everyone from the Bush and Clinton administrations through
the Obama administration have given this lip service yew, we
have to reform government and the reduced spending. None of

(43:33):
them have been serious about it. Trump is, and as
it is, we have seen about a ten to twelve
percent reduction in the overall size of our federal government employee.
The rough estimate is that so far about three hundred
thousand federal workers have been fired or downsized since Trump
retook office. That's keeping a campaign promise, by the way,
but we all know how serious audits and buy in
from both parties could easily have us cutting further and

(43:55):
making smarter reforms and upgrades. And on these podcasts, I've
been trying to bring news of the sorts of wins
and changes that you aren't going to hear in the
leftist news media. I've got a few more today. For example,
President Trump saying is saying that so far his team
has kicked at least three hundred thousand illegal aliens off
of our social security roles. Illegals are not eligible for
Social Security, obviously, and there's no way any of them

(44:17):
should have been sucking money away from the America, from
America's retirees. But three hundred thousand illegals have been removed
from our social security roles since Trump took office. This
is a win. Ditto for Medicare, where the presidents said
at least one hundred thousand illegals have been removed from
that program. This is all either fraud or it's something
that the Obama and Biden administrations have been allowing the

(44:38):
Biden in administration, in particular, as Trump had said, the
Republicans are saving Social Security because it's so rife with fraud.
The Democrats didn't care, They couldn't care less. All they
care about is Trump derangement syndrome. They're sick. We're dealing
with lunatics. That sounds about right. Last week we were
talking about how so far about three million people have
been kicked off of the food stamp programs since Donald

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Trump got back into office. Well, we have an updated
number four point three million now. And this is an
effort to write size that program after the Biden administration
used COVID as an excuse to balloon it up and
get as many Americans dependent on the government for their
groceries as the Democrats possibly could. Trump and his team
have the integrity to actually save that program for the

(45:21):
people who really need it and stop some of the
abuse of taxpayers that this represents. Brook Rollins is Trump's
egg secretary, and she said this week the updated figure
is four point three million people who never should have
been on food stamps have now been kicked off, And
she says the biggest shift here is from recipients who
willingly gave up the benefit because they didn't want to
actually find work or contribute in any way to get

(45:45):
that freebie. Is that something It proves that we have
at least a sliver of people in America who simply
refuse to work. It's not most people, it's not even
a big chunk of people, but it has always been
true that we here in America have had some sliver
of people who simply refused to work, even if it
means they can qualify for eight to ten grand per
year in grocery money from the federal government, and of

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course that would be an addition to any paycheck that
to actually collect from having a job. Right the food
stamp program means about eight grand and free groceries for
the average person who is on it per year. So
imagine the deadbeats who'd refuse to work even ten or
twenty hours a week or train for a career in
order to get that handout. And if they're not willing

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to do that, it's a good indication that they don't
really need it. And of course this is another government
program in which illegal aliens are supposed to be ineligible,
but that didn't keep the Biden regime from allowing a
couple of million illegal aliens from piling onto our snap
program two during those lawless Biden years, and so now
the benefits have ended. One story points to Arizona as

(46:50):
the best test case for how motivated the average food
stamp recipient is to work. State leaders in Arizona took
the fraud seriously and immediately implemented new work requirements. After
buy And left office and Trump said they could do it, folks,
the food stamp roles in Arizona quickly dropped by a
full fifty percent. Fully half of Arizona's illegals and dead

(47:10):
beats dropped off of the government doll fantastic, but that
should at least suggest how much fraud and abuse is
related to the foodstamp program. When the government implements a
simple twenty hour a week work requirement and half of
the people drop out, that's a strong hint that a
a huge number of people on food stamps don't really
need them, and b we have a sliver of society

(47:31):
who are just dead beats, and c the rest of
us as taxpayers shouldn't be forced to provide for them.
Oh and by the way, the Biden air grift is
just ending in Illinois. Officials in that state have played
this out as far as they can into this second
Trump administration, so as of May first, that state is
bound to see a significant drop in the number of
people on food stamps. It was January thirty first that

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the new work requirement kicked in, and the rule is
anyone who hasn't complied within ninety days loses their benefits. Well,
the dead beats in Illinois who now refuse to work
even a small number of hours in order to keep
their benefits will lose them. So you can expect the
do gooders and the government union organizers whose cushy jobs
rely on having as many people as possible dependent on
our social services and their office to start moaning and

(48:16):
whining loudly across the border about people starving in Illinois.
But remember, the people losing their snap benefits will be
maybe a small slivery of illegals, but mostly people of
working age, without children or elderly people to take care
of who could be and should be working and simply
refuse they refuse to work even a part time job.

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I don't know about you, but I find no need
to feel sorry for those types of people. Not as
someone who worked hard to create a comfortable life for himself,
which should always be the promise of this nation, not
government handouts for half of society paid for by the
other half of society. And one more quick thing related
to President Trump's important reforms, it's another thing that the

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average American never heard about or had fully explained to them.
You might have seen a headline in passing that said
President Trump has fired every member of the National Science Board.
This too is a great reform. It caused hair on
fire reactions from the Democrats and the longtime DC establishment. Obviously,
their members are certain they're the best and brightest and
the most learned among us, and they need to control

(49:18):
all of Washington, DC and make every important decision. And
I know the average American doesn't care about this, but
it's at least worth explaining. Trump fired every single member
of that National Sciences Board because this was yet another
government panel and institution that had been completely taken over
and polluted by the activist left over the years. The
board members that Trump fired had four years been steering

(49:40):
the National Science Board away from its stated mission, away
from science and scientific discovery, and toward lefty causes this
was another deeply left wing board that is ignoring science
and the actual mission, and was instead using its power
to implement DEI and critical race theory and other leftist dogma,
taking out of the culture wherever they could. As a

(50:03):
great piece a National Review put it, over the past
several years, the woke mindset fueled agency growth that reached
far beyond the bounds of science. More DEI mandates meant
more administrative jobs, more workshops, more equity offices, and a
larger grant making apparatus that funneled money back into the
same academic political network. Trump's dismissal of the entire board
breaks that cycle in one decisive stroke. They say moreover,

(50:26):
this National Sciences Board is not a job since its
members are volunteers, they're appointed, and they receive no salary
except incidental travel expenses. Because the positions are largely compensated
by automatic grants and the opportunity to distribute large amounts
of money to their allies and institutions, roughly half of
its members are not practicing scientists at all. Their university administrators,

(50:46):
grant officers, and career bureaucrats whose expertise lies in expanding
the DEI initiatives. So even National Review editors, who by
the way, are not big Trump fans, say targeting the
National Science Board is the perfect lever to defund Woke's
side science. The NSB doesn't just advise. It has spent
decades and vast amounts of money approving DEI programs that
turn scientific merit into a secondary consideration. A clean slate

(51:10):
lets new presidential appointees chosen for scientific excellence rather than
bureaucratic longevity, reimpose merit based standards without the old guard
protecting pet projects. The career bureaucrats lose cover to keep
funding low merit, highdeology work. They conclude the move doesn't
dictate specific research outcomes, it restores the agency's statutory charter

(51:31):
to fund the best ideas on scientific merit alone. Decades
of gradual mission creep are reversed in a single action,
exactly the kind of high leverage reform that is needed.
This is another significant win that the average American doesn't
understand or we'll never hear about. The National Science Foundation
has incredible sway when it comes to the careers of
young scientists and which universities will get government grants, etc.

(51:54):
And Trump is taking control of it out of the
hands of screaming radical leftists. Another great win for the
country and another significant loss for the America hating leftists
who have slowly invaded and taken over these government institutions
over decades. One stat in this article says the National
Science Foundation has wasted over four hundred and eighty million
dollars in government DEI grants over the last decade. That's

(52:18):
half a billion dollars that could have gone to funding
legitimate scientific efforts and discoveries. And by the way, it's
taxpayer money. It was pissed away by leftists sitting atop
this government agency. We the people shouldn't have to put
up with that nonsense, and we shouldn't have to worry
about whether it's going on as we taxpayers aren't looking.
I tell you, the amount of fraud and corruption that

(52:38):
Trump and Musk and Doge have uncovered that's been going
on just below the surface of the DC swamp for
decades has been staggering even to someone like me who's
been watching all of this stuff for forty years. This
is hundreds of billions of dollars every year that was
being siphoned away from the American taxpayers, and a lot
of it still is as we send larger and larger
chunks of our paycheck to these corrupts and Washington d

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C worse yet, you know that the Trump era effort
is just scratching the surface on the overall level of corruption.
And you know what will continue long after Trump is gone.
It's infuriated.

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