1-21-25 - 9am - Drill, Baby, Drill and TikTok

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Michael, it seems, with the weather as it is
right now, that Trump solved climate change on his first
day in office. Yeah. Maybe, so.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Praying for our forty seventh president, Heavenly Father, we're so
grateful that you gave our forty fifth and now our
forty seventh president a millimeter miracle. We are grateful that
you are the one that have called him for such
a time as this, that America would begin to dream again.

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We pray that we would fulfill the true meaning of
our creed, that we hold these truths to be self
evidence that all men are created equal. Now we pray
that you use our president that we will live in
a nation well we will not be judged by the

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color of our skin, by the content of our character.
Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we are so
grateful today that you will use our forty seventh president
so we would sing with new meaning.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
My country tisathe.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Sweet land of liberty of the US.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Sen.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Land where my father's die.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Land of the pilgrim's pride. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And because America is called to be a great nation,
we believe that you will make this come true. So
let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

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Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening deleghatties of Pennsylvania. Let
freedom ring from the snowcap rockies of Colorado. Let freedom
ring from the curvaceous hilltops of California. But God, we're

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asking you not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Let freedom ring from the couton Mountain of Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Let freedom ring from every hill and every mole hill
in Mississippi, from every state, every city, every village.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
And every hamlets.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
And when we let freedom ring, we will be able
to speed up that day all of your children, black
men and white men, Protestant and Catholic, you and gentile
will be able to sing in.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
The meaning of that old Negro.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Spiritual free, elast, free, elast, Thank you God Almighty, we
are free, alass.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
If you believe where the spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Come on, put your hands sick.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
God hey't give you a great God, great glory.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Amen. Amen.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Even Baron Trump smiled at that point. Mister Stoick himself
even had to smile at that point let freedom ring.
So as excited as I am about the executive orders
on the invasion and illegal immigration, I'm exceptionally excited about

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those On energy. I can't speak like mister Sewell does,
but it was a glorious day when it comes to energy.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Donald Trump took.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Decisive action to roll back biden erab policies, and not
just roll those back, but to implement reforms to affect
what he calls his drill baby Drill agenda. So I'm
gonna give you a little bit of an analysis of
some of the major action that he took on day one.

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These are just highlights. Let's just go to the inaugural
dress itself.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating
energy prices, and that is why today I will also
declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby drill.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Now I'll let this continue, Bag. I have to interrupt
at that point. It's almost like a State of the
Union speech.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Because because the mass even inflation caused by this massive
overspending and the attacks on energy, and Harris and Biden
have to just sit there and then when he announces
that we're going to do all of these things to drill,
baby drill, And everybody erupts an applause and stands up,

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and all of those just sipped. They just sent a
complete and total rebuke of all of these edicts.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
America will be a manufacturing nation once again.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
And we have something that no.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Other manufacturing nation will ever have the largest amount of
oil and gas of any country on Earth, and.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
We are going to use it. Yes, let me use it.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right there, you go, dragon oh.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
To the top, and export American energy all over the world.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
We will be a rich nation again.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
And it is that liquid gold under our feet that
will help to do it. With my actions today, we
will end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke
the electric vehicle mandate.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh oh oh hey, pol us loosen whitmer, are you
paying attention.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to
our great American auto workers.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
In other words, you'll be able to buy.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
The car of your choice. Imagine that concept.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Imagine the concept automakers responding to demands of the marketplace
and producing the types, size, models, whatever of vehicles that
you actually want and are willing to PLoP down your
hard earned money.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
For we will build automobiles in America again at a
rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few
years ago. And thank you to the auto workers of
our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence. We did
tremendously with their vote.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Oooh, that had to steam. So he also addressed energy
in speeches later in the day at the at the
Capital One Center and a bunch of other functions. So
obviously this is a top that is top of mind
to him, and he views I think correctly that the

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energy industry can be, should be, and probably always has
been the key driver of the entire economy. And that
is a simple but fundamental reality that Biden and Obama
refused to grasp. Now in the case of well Obama,

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I think he knows it. But again, when you're a
member of the cult of the Church of the climate activists,
you're sucked in and no dissension is allowed. So they
somehow think they can replace the amount of BT used,

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the amount of actually just raw energy that oil and
gas can produce with windmills and solar panels, you just
simply can't. Maybe someday in the future. When have you
know an incredible, you know, I mean, truly earth shattering change,
a complete shift in battery production and storage capacity. It

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simply can't do that. So after signed that executive order,
he then signed a sweeping energy related executive order demanding
fast action on rolling back much of the rest of
the BID energy agenda, including the effort to ban gas stoves,
mandate the electric vehicles, speed permitting for wind installations, both

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onshore and offshore, and Biden's attempt to hamstring federal oil
and gas leasing, and then a bunch of other stuff too.
But they know, but that's just the beginning. But here's
some things that kind of got lost in the in
the details of this particular executive order because it's just
in the in the hubris of just you know, drill, baby, drill.

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It disbands You ever heard of the US Climate Corp.
That's a brainwashing operation. It disbands all of its programs
and all the activities have been created since it was
started back in just twenty twenty three. The US Climate
Core true just propagandizing Americans about climate. Wouldn't it be

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nice just to start having real, let's like, some real
debates about climate some honest science about climate. It also
established Trump's promised National Energy Council Interagency working Group, led by,
assuming he's confirmed, Doug Burgham, the Interior Secretary and Chris Wright,
the Energy Secretary.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Now, why is that important?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
These inner agency working groups sound like a bunch of
bureaucratic mumbo jumbo, But if they have the right leadership,
inner agency working groups are really good at making certain
that all of the executive branch is singing from the
same hymnal, they know which stanzas you know, to seeing

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and not seeing, and that they actually have metrics to
hold each other accountable. It's almost like an AA group,
except they're going to be overseen by the President, and
the President's going to be asking are you doing what
I ask you to do? He also formed an interagency
working group chaired by the White House Counsel for Environmental Quality,

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so they can come up with plans to expedite permitting
without the need for Congressional action. And I actually think
they can do that because permitting is something that's already
in the law.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
It's just now, how.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Do we speed that up and not have to go
back to Congress to speed it up? You see, This
is where as much as I deride Congress for not
engaging in the rule making activity, this is where you
can take advantage of it for our political for our
particular political views. And then he takes it a step further.

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He disbands the Biden Interagency Working Group on the Social
Cost of greenhouse gases. That's all you need to know,
the social costs of greenhouse gases, the social cost of exhaling,
the social cost of fumes, the social cost of a

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naturally occurring something called greenhouse gas.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
So that's just gone now.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Related to the disbanding of that interagency working group, it
also withdraws all of the ideological and motivated processes that
it implemented, including quote any guidance, instruction, recommendation, or document
issued by that interagency working group. So that's just been
a that's just been newt. I was gonna say obliterated,

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but nuked. It's just been newt. Now that step will
eliminate this whole social cost of carbon bull crap that's
been used to justify all matter of permitting delays and
denials for not just the past three or four years,
but for more than twenty years.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
This whole idea that somehow carbon has to has to
be the one thing that we have to focus on
when it comes to energy. Nope, just gone Section six,
paragraph f of this particular order instructs the Administrator of
the EPA, presumed elite le Zelden, to reassess quote the

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Administrator's findings that are entitled endangerment and cause or contribute
findings for greenhouse gases under section two two A of
the Clean Air Act, Final Rule seventy four Federal Register
sixty sixty four ninety six day, December fifteenth, two thousand
and nine. That's the Obama era of finding that since

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that date enabled the EPA to regulate plant food carbon
dioxide as a pollutant. Now that's the first step toward
eliminating that practice from federal law. I remember, I mean,
I don't remember specifically that date, but I remember that

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the I remember when Obama did that, and I thought
to myself, that's like the federal government taking over healthcare.
You want to regulate something that naturally occurs from both
plants and animals that exist on this earth, and something
that I'm producing right now as I speak to you,

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and that you're producing right now, and that these trees, Well,
the ones that are that are alive right now that
are producing a need carbon dioxide.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Holy crapola.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I think now, if you're into energy, probably as much
as I am, you probably don't comprehend what a massive
realignment that is. No longer do we look at carbon
dioxide as a pollutant?

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Do I think that carbon dioxide might have some deminimous
and I do mean deminimous in every sense of the
word effect, or somehow affects what the sun does in
terms of the climate. Yeah, it might. It might reflect
some of the Sun's rays, It might do a little

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bit of this or that. But do I think it's
the cause of everything. No, I don't think that we
can control the cause of climate change, the root cause
of climate change, which happens to be that or ab
out there that's going to warm us up a little
bit today. And then go to section seven of the
same executive order. It orders all agencies, not just EPA,

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all agencies in the federal government to immediately stop the
disbursement of funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act of
twenty twenty two or the Infrastructure Investment in Jobs Act
pending review by the Director of OMB and the Assistant
to the President for Economic Policy, so they can determine

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whether such disbursements are consistent with any review recommendations that
they have chosen to adopt. In other words, stop the spending.
Stop it now. That one will probably be challenged, but
I think that again, in a unified executive, the president
has the authority to either pause that spending or to

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completely eliminate that spending. Congress Appropriations says, here's the law,
we give you a certain amount of money to spend,
and I think the court will eventually rule in this.
But I think the court, I think the court would
rule the president has, under our theory of the unified executive,
the authority to rescind that spending and say it's not necessary,

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we don't need it, or just sit on it, don't
disperse it. Then we'll get to Section eight and nine.
Milk with it before we move on.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I got the best sleep I've had in the last
four years. I wonder why that is just saying I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Ambient tequila. I don't know, because I can't think of
anything that's changed in the past twenty four hours or so,
so I you know, I don't know. Maybe just know
luck of the draw. You just happened to have a
good night, I say, yeah, the weather, you know. Congratulations.
So let's go back to this Energy Executive Order because

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it believe it does excite me. Uh So, then Section
eight of the Executive Order reverses the uh truly insane
Biden pause on the permitting of look with natural gas infrastructure.
That's the one where the Speaker of the House said
that he met with Biden last January and Biden, you
know when when Mike Johnston asked him about it, he said, well,

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you know, I I talked to the people that you know,
these LNG facilities are in my state. They're they're right
there on the Gulf of Mexico, slash the Golf of America,
and they've been ordered shut down. They can't export any LNG.
And you mean, have your secretary printed out force me
and read it together. Oh you're talking about natural gas.

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Oh I ordered a study on that. No, sir, you
didn't wow. Section nine orders the heads of all agencies
to identify any current policy or agency actions that impose
an undue burden on the nation's producers of mineral energy,

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including oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium, among others, and
to take action to rescind those policies. Now that seems
like enough, right, No, there's another one that It's called
the temporary withdrawal of all areas on the Outer Continental

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Shelf from offshore wind leasing and review of the Federal
Government's leasing and permitting practices for wind projects.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
And that's exactly what it does.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
It withdraws from disposition for wind energy leasing all areas
within the Offshore Continental Shelf as defined blah blah, bah blah,
and as with the LNG permitting pause. The fourth paragraph
of the first section of this particular executive order states
that nothing in this withdrawal affects rights under existing leases

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in the withdrawn areas, So any other existing leases, Yeah,
that's fine, But the same paragraph goes on to subject
those existing leases to review by stating this, the Secretary
of the Interior, in consultation with the Attorney General, has
needed shall conduct a comprehensive review of the ecological, economic,

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and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind
energy leases, identifying in any legal basis for such removal,
and then submit a report with recommendations to the President
through the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. Now,
the offshore aspects of that order are pretty much identical

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to orders that have been suggested in the past by
a bunch of energy experts, and I think that they
sat down look. I think since November five they had
been actively consulting with energy experts about exactly what do
you need for us to unleash the capital to flow

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into your companies so that you can start exploring, drilling,
doing whatever you need to do to increase whatever kind
of production you're producing. And I love the use of
your word uranium being included in that. But they're still
even more. Section two orders a temporary cessation and immediate

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review of federal wind leasing and permitting practices, both offshore
and onshore. Now, before you get too excited, it's important
that you keep in mind that fat order applies only
to win projects that would be on federal lands federal waters.
It does not directly impact onshore wind projects that are

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on private or state lands or offshore in state waters.
Though a permanent federal restriction that targets onshore wind sites
would certainly have an impact, probably directly and indirectly of
those projects on other types of land or water. Why

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Because if you're cutting off the capital flow to those projects,
that's a signal, just like the signal that when he
stops the flow of liquid natural gas, that's a signal
to oil and gas producers. Uh, oh, we're losing We're
losing market. We're no longer able to compete in the

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international and global market for oil.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
And natural gas.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
So why would we say to our shareholders we're going
to continue to invest in these you know, we're gonna
go out and continue to buy leases and you know,
do geological surveys and see what we can come up
with and try to decide whether where to sink some
holes or not seek some holes. Why would we do that? Well,
this is a signal for just the opposite. This is

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a signal that says, hey, we're going to stop these
wind projects, in these solar projects, and we're going to
open up all these other lands for permitting. So we've
completely reversed the energy policy of this country. So all
in all, it was actually a much better day than

(23:38):
I think anybody should have expected. I think this is
probably why you're sleeping better. The whole TikTok thing. I think, well,
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
I know.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
The whole TikTok thing confuses me. The Biden administration go
back to them for a moment. Their ban, they're pushed
to band TikTok, which at one time really started back
in the Trump administration, has sparked support and criticism. The

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reasoning seems sound to me, and the court's decision, which
I've actually gone through ways. You know, I talk about
being a free speech absolutist, but I know that there
are certain kinds of speech. If you're going to incite violence,
that you cannot do that, and I think that you're
going to engage in speech that aids our enemies, that

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your speech is a national security threat, then that can
be limited if you know you do the proper test.
Does the government's interest outweigh the First Amendments protection free speech?
And within the government's interest to limit that free speech.

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There are subsets of tests that you have to pass
to show that it the exercise of free speech or
it would would cause these dangers, these harms, and in
order to protect national security interests, if you can meet
all these tests and still allow speech over here, then

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you can limit this particular kind of speech. And I
think that TikTok does that I'm not on TikTok. I
occasionally get, you know, TikTok videos either on my Facebook
feed or on my x feed or in emails or
texts from you, and I look at them, but I

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don't have an account, and I don't have an account
because I know that the Chinese Communist Party controls that app.
They controlled by edance, and so I just you know,
it's one thing for my government to have all of
my info and to probably be spying on me, which
I don't like but kind of limited what I can

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do about it, But to allow the Chinese Communist Party
to do it just doesn't. I just don't get it.
But here's what really I find Bizarro more than a
million US based, US based users when TikTok went temporarily
down downloaded Red Note. Yet they will probably find themselves

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looking for yet another TikTok alternative soon because Chinese officials
have already raised the issue, with Red Notes government relations
team warning that the company must ensure China based users
cannot see posts from American users and red Note, which
by the way, is based on mals red Book employees

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not just data tracking, but advanced facial and object detection.
They analyzed users and their surroundings for further scrutiny. What
all that information is then collected, stored, and ultimately accessible
to the Chinese government. Now that weird exodus from TikTok

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to red note underscores I think the futility of banning
TikTok in a free and open society and then raises
critical questions about government overreach, user autonomy, and the principles
of liberty in a digital age.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
So while the.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Court decision may be absolutely on solid ground, the court
decision just related to the temporary ban on TikTok while
they tried to sell it, So they didn't necessarily, I mean,
they upheld the terms of that particular law. And remember

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court cases are very supreme. Court cases are very particular
in making sure that anyone who reads it understands that
we're talking about this piece of legislation and we don't
intend to go any further than that. Now, people always
do because people look at the dicktor, they look at
the reasoning, they look at the logic, they look at

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the precedent, they look at the cases that are cided,
they look at everything to understand the court's reasoning. How
did it get to that conclusion, And they'll do that
in the TikTok case, in the bike Dance case, Bike
Dance case. So now Trump has temporarily suspended the closing

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down a TikTok, He's granted a waiver. I'm going to
assume he has the power to do it. I think
that itself may be challenged, not quite sure who, but
somebody might challenge that. But then people flock to something that's,
in my opinion, almost even worse than TikTok. Red Note

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is a classic case study in irony. Left leaning the
left leaning influencers, the same ones who decry government overreach,
who espouse digital freedom. Ironically, the same voices who cheered
government pressure of censorship with conservative voices during the pandemic

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and you know, cheered the censorship of anybody that talked
about election controversies, are then migrating in moss to Red Note.
Now they what I read, and again I'm not even
looked at it, but they tell me it's got a
really clean UI, a clean user interface, that it has

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a really kind of focused niche on lifestyle content, and
unlike TikTok, openly and unabashedly subject to CCP control. Do
we have that many useful idiots in this kind of
Do we have so many useful idiots that, oh, you
espouse all of this digital freedom and you're more than

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willing to jump over to another platform that is even
worse than TikTok and is openly and as I said,
unabashedly subject to Chinese Communist Party control.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
I just don't get it. Ronnie.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
You got that beautiful East Basin window in that studio.
Did you notice this morning that sunrise just.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Looked a little bit oranger?

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Orange Man Bad, Orange Man back, Orange Man going wild,
which is a great segue into Halloween to conclude today's program.
So we've covered only a smidge of what was done
in the past twenty four hours, and tomorrow we'll cover
some more in depth. I've got to study more about
the Jay six parts. I need this. There's I got

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a lot of work to do. But there's no denying
based on the past twenty four hours that Trump is
in a hurry, and I'm fine with that. But there's
a difference between you know, pushing, pushing, pushing, and all
that pushing turning into chaos. So five things that I

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want Trump to focus on. Broad things. Pre Eminent world
leadership in the simplest terms, keeping the world in order
and keeping our world leadership. Rebuilding an American capability in
our military second to none, and are willing to show it,

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willings to use that military and enforce peace too. Is
border security our security. Our safety requires a total complete
reversal of the previous administration's policies that left the southern
border open and for that maut of the northern border.
And he's promised the most massive deal por deportation in history.

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He wants to outdo Dwight Eisenhower's Operation Wetback, and I
say go for it, absolutely, go for it, and be
ready for the blowback. So do it methodically, and all
of us have to be patient. We can't get rid
of thirty million people who are here illegally, but we
can start with the worst and start working our way

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down some sort of logical list. Three Balanced economic and
energy policy. They're separately, they're separate, but clearly interconnected. Stop
the spending, but we know there's going to have to
be increased spending in other areas.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
I just gave you one.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
We've got to completely change and maybe maybe those can
figure out a way that we can do it at
current levels or reduced current reduced levels. But we've got
to enhance the military. We've got to do that. We've
got to solve the insolvency of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
We've got.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
To do that.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
And we've got to preserve the tax cuts otherwise we're
going to face, you know, a trillion dollar tax increase.
And on energy, we've got to recognize that they're going
to be those who are going to push back, and
we're gonna have to just push, push, push, because a
nation that has cheap, abundant energy will be the most

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powerful country on Earth. Why do you think China's building
a cold plant what every fifteen seconds or something. I
think we've got to focus on true American justice. We're
not a banana republic, We're not some third world country.
We need to restore an American justice system worthy of
our nation's core principles. The weaponization has got to stop,

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and we should not. You know, our revenge is already
We've already got our revenge and that's winning.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Now. The revenge has to be our policies.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
I think too. We've got to restore public trust. That's
the fifth one, and that's gonna be the most difficult one.
It's simple to address. You just get you gotta you know,
promises made, promises kept. Forget this one hundred day thing.
You know, FDR started the first one hundred days. Let's
talk about the next eighteen months and let's you know,

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be healthy again. Let's focus on freedom, individual liberty's let's
unleash the American dream, the American idea that will be
our revenge.