1-28-25 - 8am - Promise Made & Promise Kept

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, Michael, I feel your stress level of rising.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Buddy.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Deep breath, buddy. I heard it said once, and you
cannot enlighten the unconscious. Sometimes the frustration is just not
worth the effort because people just.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Go get it have a good day, buddy, do you
I have a horrible habit, as you obviously point out,
I can't let it go. I know that I'm tilting

(00:43):
at windmills in many cases because there are something you know.
It's interesting because I know this, I just don't take
my own advice. But I know that there are some
things that some people just and I'm not picking on
six seven ninety one here, I'm just saying in general,
there's some things, probably myself included, that I just refuse

(01:06):
to accept. But I'm the product of a small town
public school system where the majority and I had a
couple of teachers that were like I think one reason
why I'm pretty bad in math was because in I
think seventh or eighth grade, I had a horrible math teacher.

(01:31):
And I can remember many, at least a couple of
times that my parents literally had to request meetings with
this math teacher because she was just a horrible I
could not comprehend what she was doing at all, and
she didn't have the patience to work with me, and

(01:54):
so I really developed pretty much of a hatred for mathematics.
On the other hand, we were actually taught economics, and
we were taught government and things like federalism, and you know,
our entire system great history teachers. And so I feel

(02:15):
this compulsion when someone and having been trained as a lawyer,
I see many of you, oftentimes as the jury, and
I'm trying to convince you to look at things differently,
or I'm trying to convince you, persuade you to vote
for my way of thinking. And I and because I'm

(02:36):
not I don't have a judge here other than Dragon,
who will occasionally pound the gavel and say we're going
to take a break, And so I've got to take
a break. I could just I could keep going on
some of these subjects forever. But if I can convince
one person, if I can convince one person to think differently,
then that one person's going to go convince a few

(02:58):
other people. And that's how we're gonna end up change.
And I just I sincerely believe that and what and
where we are today in this Republic has taken us,
you know, fifty eighty years, one hundred years when you
think back to Woodrow Wilson to get to where we
are today. And so it's not going to turn around tomorrow.

(03:20):
Which is kind of a way to lead into something.
It's not a topic I almost spend a lot of
time on, but I do want to caution us about
something there is. There was this discussion yesterday and again
I don't remember whether I was watching something on television

(03:40):
or something I'm hearing on the radios. I'm driving around,
but some congressman has introduced legislation, and there were two
topics being bounced around at the same time. You see,
I'm as guilty as you are sometimes of not particularly
if I'm driving. I know that I'm more concerned about

(04:01):
my safety than I'm about what's being said on the radio.
But two things are going on in DC that I think,
really these two things caused me to go, WHOA, we're
out of control. Somebody, some member of Congress wants to

(04:27):
literally not like you know, there's all this discussion about
you know, oh, Joe Biden was so wonderful that ought
to be on Mount Rushmore. Well, somebody actually does want
to introduce legislation to put Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore,
and I'm like, stop it, for the love of God,

(04:50):
stop it. First of all, we're not even We're barely
two weeks into the second term. Now, I hope things
don't go to THECES, but things could go to THECES.
I've got a story that I've got most of my
notes prepared on that this whole ai thing about deep

(05:12):
seek could really damage Trump's attempts at really turning things
around in terms of the economy. Could really be I mean,
it couldn't. It's gonna be disastrous, but it could be
a huge bump in the road, a huge speed bump.
We still have the war in Ukraine going on, we

(05:33):
still have the situation with Taiwan going on. We've got
the cartel started shooting back yesterday. So there's a lot
of stuff that could go south really fast. And I'm
not saying or hoping or wishing that they will, and
I think the Trump will rise to the occasion. But
for someone to look for someone to start already talking

(05:55):
two weeks, less than two weeks into this term, that
we ought to put Donald Trump on Mount r Moore
tells me that All you're trying to do is you're
trying to kiss his ass. Some member of Congress is
trying to kiss Donald Trump's ass, and you know, introduce legislation,
hoping you'll get some news time that he'll hear it
on Fox News or somewhere and he'll now remember that

(06:16):
congressman's name and he'll think, oh, that's a really good person.
I think I to you know, I got to get
you know, I got to go say something about them.
It's just it is the patheticness of people inside the Beltway,
absolute patheticness. Then I heard that they also want to

(06:36):
rename Dulles International Airport Trump International Airport instead of IAD.
I guess we'll have i AT. I don't know, but
it's like, come on. In Their argument was, well, we
named you know, we named uh Washington National Airport Reagan

(06:57):
National Airport. So let's say, you know, listen, let's let's
do dullest name. Just stop it, stop it. All you're
doing is you're trying to kiss ass. You're trying to get,
you know, media attention. And we've got three years and
fifty weeks to go, so settle down. And by the way,

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speaking of things that can go south. If the cartels
are starting to shoot at CBP and we have the
United States military on the border, what do you think?
And I'm not saying I don't want this to happen.
I'm just saying that it can very easily happened. If

(07:46):
you know I Maybe you haven't heard the story before,
but let me tell you again. So during Katrina, you
know may Or Naghan, that dip Wood who only got
out of jail because of COVID, is using the New

(08:06):
Orleans Superdome whatever they call it now, as a shelter
of last resort. And I'm fury sating about it because
we we know that the engineering report say that a
can't withstand you know, a Cat three, and we got
a Cat five coming toward it. It's below ground. If
you've ever been to New Orleans, you will see that

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the Superdome is actually below sea level like most of
New Orleans is. But it's surrounded by some retaining walls,
and you know, the highways kind of go around it.
And I'm thinking, you dumbass, you're going to use this
place as a shelter of last resort. That's just stupid.
But then what happened People started breaking into the New

(08:52):
Orleans Convention Center. And when they started breaking into the
New Orleans Convention Center, there was nothing there because it
was locked, it was sealed, no one had ever planned
to use it. And then I get lambasted because people
are there and there are no supplies there, and it too,

(09:13):
of course, is below sea level. So all of this
is going on, and and I'm saying here, thinking, you know,
you stupid congressman, you're you're you're coming at me for
something that you know, we told the mayor not to
do this. Uh. And I can't help but that people
broke into the New Orleans Superdome. Uh, we we can

(09:35):
do anything about that. So what do I do? I
take General Honore, who has been sent down to help
me with logistics, and I tell the General, Hey, I
need you to do me a favor. I need you
to send some of your guys into the convention center

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and find out what the hell's going on because we've
had reports that, you know, people and murder, people have
been raped. I mean, the rumors are just running rampant.
And I'm asking, look, you're the guys that have the
guns and the body armor and everything else. So I
had the New Orleans police departments falling apart, would you
please send some troops in to find out what's going on?

(10:16):
And honore A looked at me with these eyes like,
are you really that stupid? And I guess I was
that stupid. So he says, come here, and we walk
into an office and he shuts the door and he goes,
let me explain something to you. I can't send my
guys in there to find out what's going on because

(10:37):
my guys are trained to shoot to kill, and if
they walk in there and a gangbanger takes a pot
shot at them, or there really are guys in there
with guns and they start shooting at my guys, my
guys are going to kill them. My guys are going
to start shooting back, and they're gonna win. And I

(10:58):
thought about it for a second and I thought, oh, yeah,
they really puts you in a really bad position. So no, well,
you know what, here's what I'll do. In hindsight, it's
kind of funny, I said, I'll talk to Bob Muller,
the director of the FBI. We'll send some undercover FBI

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people in. Of course, I'm thinking, too, they get shot.
It's not like I've got the US military killing civilians.
That was That was my honest to God thought. I
can't have the United States Army shooting American citizens on
American soil in the middle of this freaking disaster. I've
already got all these problems. What does that have to

(11:41):
do with what's going on? Now? We've got the United
States military armed at the southern border, and the cartels
are starting to shoot. In fact, they were shooting trying
to protect a boat or a group of people that
they were trying to get across the real grand which

(12:02):
the Customs and Border Patrol and ice started firing back.
So we had a little skirmish on the border, and
of course the cartel backed off and there and that
particular group was not able to cross. So yes, throw
up your referees, throw your hands up, touch down. We

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got that one all right. Now let's take it to
the second third level. The cartels now know that they're
going to get shot at. Do you think the cartels
are now just going to give up? No, the cartels
are now regrouping and thinking to us, Okay, what are
we gonna do now? Well, I guess what we ought

(12:44):
to do now is instead of just having our glocks
with us. We need some you know, fifty caliber uh,
you know, automatic weapons, and we need to start really
blasting those stupid CB people away. And now the military
is going to get involved. And what's the military gonna do.
They're gonna shoot back, and they're gonna start killing cartel members.

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Now I don't have a problem with that whatsoever. In fact,
the more cartel members that we can kill during a skirmish,
during a firefight, guys have at it, brow their asses away,
I'm all for it. Does that sound harsh? I don't
really care. The cartels are at war with US on
American soil already. But what are you gonna do when

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American troops start firing on the cartels or they actually
cross the border. Now I don't know whether the rules
of engagement will allow them to do that or not,
but I can't imagine that they're not operating under rules
of engagement that have fired upon you are permitted to
fire back. This isn't Afghanistan, this isn't Iraq, and this

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isn't George W. Bush. This certainly isn't Barack Obama. So
the rules of engagement are probably significantly different. And if
you get fired upon fireback, kill the bastards. So I'm
just saying that we were all excited about this stuff,
including me. I'm excited about all these removals and all

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the By the way, we might talk about the word
deportation versus repatriation, because you may remember yesterday Agent jed
A said in a text or in a talk back, Oh,
there's a difference between deportation and repatriation, and that sent
me down a rabbit hole yesterday because I love words,
and it's these two words are very, very similar, and

(14:39):
there are a little distinguishments, distinguishing characteristics that may make
a difference between the use of the word deportation repatriation.
But I digress. I guess the point of this segment
is is let's take a deep breath. It's it's uh.
I'm broadcasting live right now on Tuesday, January twenty eighth,

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So seven and a half days. Trump was inaugurated at
noon on the twentieth in today's the twenty yeth so
wen we got seven and a half days that Trump's
been president. It's not time to change the names of airports.
It's not time to start. Remember the Democrats were Remember
how we laughed at Democrats about putting you know, Biden
up on Mount Rushmore or Obama on Mount Rushmore. Well,

(15:25):
imagine how the Democrats are laughing at us, and I,
frank quite frankly, I am laughing at us as a
guy that voted for Donald Trump. Seriously, you want to
put Trump up on Mount Rushmore. First of all, I
don't think it's feasible. In fact, I think the whoever
would be the Force Service or the Army Corps of Engineer,
the engineers would probably tell you it's not feasible to
do that right now. And besides, it's just stupid. It's

(15:49):
just stupid. Let's let Trump continue to win, win, and
then after he leaves office in four years, then we'll
rename an airport or something. But I just it shows
to me the stupidity. You know, these Congress critters are
so self indulgent and they're so desperate for attention that

(16:13):
now that we're actually winning and getting some stuff done,
they all want to go sing the Hallelujah chorus and
they all want Donald Trump's attention. Well, here's how you
can get his attention. Continue the current tax rates that
were implemented in his first term. Uh, maybe just you know,

(16:35):
completely get rid of the income tax system altogether. He's
already talking about sending those instead of having eighty nine
thousand or eighty seven thousand, whatever the number is of
IRS agents. Instead, maybe we'll hire more border patrol people
or just send those, you know, let's just deputize those
agents and send them down to the border. Well, as
long as we're attacking the IRS, why don't we just

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eliminate it and just go to it. We'll still need
some sort of collecting agency, but why don't we just
go to the national sales tax? Why don't we just
do that or just do flat tax. I mean, as
long as we're going to play big, let's play big
in a serious way. Let's not fundamentally transform America, but
let's fundamentally get us back to the republic that we're

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supposed to be. How about that. I spent probably almost
an hour last night on KFI with Tim Conway Junior,
who's the afternoon drive host in LA, talking about FEMA,
and I was just astonished at the controversy that Trump
has stirred up by mentioning that, you know, maybe we

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ought to just completely reform or maybe even abolish FEMA. Well, okay,
I can tell you ways that you can make that happen.
And I can tell you ways that you can reform
FEMA too, But somebody's gonna listen to me anyway. We'll
accept you, guys, which I do appreciate.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, putting Trump's space on Bresk Force about his Domino ideas,
giving President Obama a Pulitzer Prize for being on the president,
wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
They did that and it was dumb. I just look,
I think it makes us look a little and I assume,
which is dangerous. But I assume that guber Nurmer eighty
four ninety nine because I don't know who eighty four
ninety nine is. Michael Donald Trump is my god exclamation point.

(18:38):
Don't get me wrong, I think Trump. In fact, what
I want to talk about this segment is promises made,
promises kept, but this whole adulation. Look, I have strong
admiration for Trump's personance, his strength of personality, his ability

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to really relate to people. I admire all of that stuff,
but remember, he's just a president. And while he won
in one big time, one big lely, let's let's don't.

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Let's don't uh, you know, deify that he's he's a
human and he's going to push you off at some point,
because no politician, no president, pleases everyone. And I I
just worry about this adulation because I think it's a
little it's a little unseemly, I guess, is the way

(19:48):
I would put it. But having said that, here we are,
as I said, seven and a half days. Well, it's
almost skinning close to new time. And in DC he's
were almost eight days in and it really is a
week of promises made and promises kept and so far
and it's only Tuesday. But here we are with promises kept,

(20:12):
on spending and on the bureaucracy. So Trump fired prosecutors
at the Department judg Well, actually he didn't do it,
but his acting Attorney General did because they were viewed
as being active in police sized targeting. They went after

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some of Jack Smith's prosecutors and said, look, you have
shown that you can't be fair, so you're out of here.
And I think that's completely legitimate. Then you had this
suspension of staffers at the US Agency for International Development USAID.

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That's a big money laundering operation that's a part of
the State Department and what it is. It's where they
you know, you know when we hear stories about NGOs
that are are in foreign countries and they get money
to study the transsexual activities of caterpillars or something, well
you normally USA Idea is the organization that does that.

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And they're always giving money to our enemies. I mean,
it's mind bogging what they do. So they fired or
suspended a bunch of them. They haven't fired them, they've
suspended them, and they've suspended foreign aid payments. The takeaway
of the CEQ authority that's been around since the Carter administration,

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the Council and Environmental Quality, and most of all, the
freezing of all the grants, loans in federal aid out
flows until February ten. Now, if you listen to the
news yesterday, it was like, oh my gosh, what are
we going to do. We don't know how to we
don't know how to handle this. Wait a minute, your
money's just been frozen until February ten, when ostensibly the

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new director of the Office of Management and Budget, who's
going to be a real and he's going to make
Mitch Daniel, who was whose nickname was the Knife. It's
going to put Mitch Daniels to shame. I think so
when they get new management, then they'll start reviewing all
of these outflows, these grant programs and load loan programs,

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and they'll make a decision, are we going to really
allow this one, We're going to cut this one, We're
going to rescind this one. That's when the real stuff,
the real feces, will start to get the fann And
I think it's wonderful these doing this. Politico of course
can't avoid commenting on it, and they even acknowledge that, yes,

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these are all things that Trump can do. So at
least they acknowledge that the swamp was just hoping that
he wouldn't get the chance again or that his team
would botch it, just like they kind of did last time.
Political Rights. Last Night's memos just one part of a
much broader White House power play, unprecedented in its breadth

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to remote the entire US government apparatus. A key focus
has been the Department of Justice, where as Fox News
has scooped Trump yesterday fired more than a dozen prosecutors
who had worked under Special Counsel Jack Smith on the
January sixth and classified document cases back when the president
was a mere mortal who could be held accountable for

(23:37):
crimes committed. Get that little editorial dig in. Prosecutors who
worked on the January sixth cases are also being investigated,
according to a Wall Street Journal scoop yesterday, while several
senior DOJ staffers are either being reassigned or have felt
compelled to quit. Who cares. Either way, it's a victory

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and Reuters in the New York Times have those stories too.
And I love this paragraph under siege quote. It feels
like a nonviolent war, one Department of Justice career employee
tells my colleague Josh Gerstein in a must read piece,
except I generally read it on the fear now gripping

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The Department people, this person says, are just in a
state of shocked and devastated. Well, guess what. Welcome to
how it works in the private sector. Welcome to how
it works in almost every business. We started the entire

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program out with the past year, more than two hundred
restaurants closed because they could not afford to do business
in Colorado. So what the owner do? The owner shut
the door, locked the door all the employees, or emailed
them and said, hey, I've shot. Make sure I've got

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your current address. You'll get your final paycheck in a week.
You don't think they weren't devastated. Of course they were,
But Washington's not accustomed to that. Washington doesn't know how
to deal with that, a former DOJ official ads. According
to Politico, it is a flat out purge of individuals
who this administration must view either of suspect loyalty or

(25:28):
have worked no matters. They just did not like we
are in the early phases of what to me is
just looking like a wholesale, politically inspired demolition of the
Department of Justice in key places. Yeah, we won the
election and we're going to purge the government of those
who weaponized the government. So sucks to be you. Also

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under siege. According to Politico, the US Agency for International Development,
where some sixty sixty they emphtsized sixty senior staff have
just been placed on leave. My colleagues Nahal Tuscy, Daniel Lippman,
and Robbie Gramer scoot just last night. This is a

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huge morale hit, a former senior Trump administration official tells them.
Tells them, because this is the leadership of the agency.
This is like taking out all the generals, which wait
a minute, hey, Pete, maybe we ought to do that too,
Political continues. Acting Usaight Administrator Jason Gray sent an email

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to all staff Monday, saying the decision was related to
the apparent effort of some staffers to quote circumvent the
president's executive orders. Yes, if you don't do what the
Boss tells you to do, even if you disagree with it,
at some point the Boss gets to make a decision.

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And if you're unwilling to go along with that decision
or to implement that decision, then boom, you're done. Political
continues that the United States entire foreign aid program was
halted last Friday, pending review. I'll give political credit at
least they say. Oh even yes. Now, if you listen

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to the cabal last night, Oh my god, foreign countries
are now without aid. They're going to starve to death
in the No. First of all, humanitarian aid continued, but
all the other foreign aid stopped. Now it's like turning off.
You got your hose connected to your outdoor faucet and

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you turn the water off. There's still water in the hose,
and that water is still going to get to that
foreign country. That water's still going to get to the
garden or wherever you got the end of the hose lane,
but there's no more water coming in. That's all. That's
all that was done. But this is the kind of
gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands that you're going

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to hear from the cabal and from all of the
bureaucrafts who are not accustomed to somebody coming in and
just saying, you know what, pause everything, just stop because
we're new new sheriff in town, and I'm going to
find out what's going on, and I want to decide
whether we're going to continue with these things or not
continue with these things, and I need my people in

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place to do that, which, by the way, parenthetically is
a good signal to the Senate. You don't like what
we're doing, then maybe you ought to get busy and
confirm the rest of these cabinet appointments so that they
can get in there and they can actually start running
the department. Now most of them are being run by

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acting secretaries because Trump has the authority to do that.
Let's see, this allows political rights. This all follows the
abrupt and potentially illegal sacking him more than a dozen
inspectors general from key government agencies and departments, which one

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described to The New York Times yesterday as an existential
threat to government oversight. Let me just pause for a moment.
I think Trump did mess up here. The law regarding
inspectors general requires a thirty day notice to Congress with
an explanation of why you're terminating an inspector general. They

(29:33):
get like seven year appointments. So he just failed to
comply with the procedural requirements. But nonetheless, that's a violation
of the statute. You want to fire an IG, then
give Congress thirty days notice and tell Congress while you're
firing the IG. Now there's nothing in there. I suppose
Congress could attempt to block it, but as long as

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the President has complied with that procedural requirement. But there's
not a lot Congress can do except bitch and moan. Now,
what it does, though, is it will tie up some
of these firings if some of these igs want to
claim in a lawsuit that you were wrongfully terminated because
you didn't follow the right process. So it's a procedural

(30:20):
process issue. But nonetheless it's the kind of thing that
could get wrapped up in litigation and it could delay
Now he could still suspend them. He could still you know,
suspend them with pay until the lawsuits get you know, completed,
and he could still put his own people in there.
So but anyway, this is the kind of stuff we wanted, right,

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So why is everybody bitching and moaning about it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (30:45):
I could see him more as a scrooge mcnick vault
saving kind of guy instead of the pillowcase.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Guys, if we're going to keep talking about Elon Musk,
which I don't have a problem with that, Uh, let
me go to we had to do do do do
Do Do do do? Uh? Who sent me? Somebody sent
me a text message about Elon is building a house

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and they have a friend who I can't put that.
Too many text messages coming in this morning. I lot's
got a lot of reading to do. But somebody sent
me a text message says they have a friend who's
working on a compound that Musk is building in Texas,
somewhere outside Austin, I suppose, and it is numerous houses,
and there's all this custom wood and everything coming in,

(31:39):
and that the contractors are making a boatload of money
on it. And now think about those contractors and all
those worker bees, all the carpenters, and all the the
the finish guys and the cabinet makers. And I mean again,
his money going to work in the economy. But you know,
I talked about how congressman all wanting attention, and they're

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beside themselves because now that Trump's won and he's doing
all these things, and the American public's so happy about Oh,
let's put him on Mount Rushmore, let's rename airports, let's
name streets and roads and highways and bridges and everything else.
At the same time, they're all wanting attention. Hollywood wants
attention to and being a pop star, well, that's all
about getting attention, and they'll do anything for it. Now

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imagine that, you know, Trump's going after CBP and I
are going after murderers, rapists, people that are engaged in
child sexual trafficking, human trafficking, slavery. I mean, it's drugs, everything.
Selena Gomez is so upset that she's crying over.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
It, just sorting to say that I'm so sorry, getting.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
We're getting it.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
She's a pretty good actor.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
I'm so sorry. I wish she could do something that
he can. I don't know what to do. True.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Oh thirty two seconds of oh being really sorry about
these people being kicked out of the country. Now, let's
think about the kind of people that are be you know. Uh,
so Tom Holman is, by the way, he's in New
York today. So uh, Eric Adams, are you turning? Maga?
Have you seen the light? Did you have a jail

(33:43):
house conversion? Did you have an election day conversion? An
inauguration day conversion? Because suddenly you're like, oh, come on in,
come on in. Now. I don't know how your governor
Kathy Hockle, who makes New York State a sanctuary state,
is going to deal with this, But I want you
to think about who Tom Holman and CBP and ICE
are ejecting from our country. That Selena Gomez is is

(34:05):
crying over. She's so sorry for people. By the way,
she had a Mexican flag flying behind her. Two that's special. Yeah.
M S thirteen cartel members, people who have been convicted
of murder, rape, people who have been charged with murder
and rape, but you know they're out on the cash bond.
You know the person that got that was that stabbed

(34:28):
somebody in downtown Denver. Yes, uh, they were only charged
with attempted assault. Wait wait a minute, they stabbed somebody,
but attempted assault a five hundred dollars cash bond. Yeah,
I Denver's dead, totally dead. But think about just picture that,
you know, the tattooed m S thirteen gang members or

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the cartel members. You know, they got tattoos, they got
the tear drops, you know, tattoos on their eyes because
they've murdered so many people and stuff. That's who she's
crying over. I feel so so sorry for Selena so
far so I felt so sorry, and she was probably
so upset because guess what she did. Yes, she took
it down. Yeah, she took it down. Probably too much

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