December 5, 2025 • 29 mins
In this hour of "The Sean Hannity Show", Sean dives deep into the pressing issues facing homeowners in California, shedding light on Governor Gavin Newsom's controversial handling of the aftermath of devastating fires in the Pacific Palisades. He highlights the frustrations residents face with permits, taxes, and insurance all while government leaders make grand promises that often go unfulfilled. As Sean explores the broader implications of government dependency and the future political landscape, he raises critical questions about trust in policy-making and the very foundation of American life. Join us for an insightful discussion on these pressing realities and what they mean for our future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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We've got a lot of news we're going to get
to in the course of the program today, not the
least of which this might be my favorite cut of
the day. And for all of you in the United
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Socialist Utopia of California. I mean, it's obvious that Gavin
Newsom has been to Texas, and Gavin Newsom who's been
to Brazil, and Gavin Newsom has been traveling the world.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You know, last night we did a.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Report that in the Pacific Palisades, and we actually had
a caller on this program talk about this. You know,
they lost their home, people lost their lives, thousands of
people lost their homes, and well, they tried to celebrate,
at least the Mayor of Los Angeles did, Karen Bass
tried to celebrate the fact that our first home has
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been built in the Pacific Palisades and most people that
had their homes burned to the ground have been unable
to get a permit to rebuild. And according to this
caller that owned a house in the Pacific Palisades. I
asked the guy, I said, well, are you still paying
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taxes property taxes on your home that no longer exists. Yes,
And one other thing, I have to ensure the property
even though there's nothing on the property, and nobody should
be walking on the property considering it's private property. So
you know, the cost for these homeowners is astronomical. Then
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you have the insurance problem, which is, you know a
lot of times these insurance companies play games and you
deal with one adjuster until they hand you off to
the next adjuster and then you start the process all
over again. And it's just so frustrating. But there are
way too many people in this country, and I think
this is going to be a big part of the
political debate heading into the midterms in twenty six and
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then of course the presidential election in twenty eight, And
that is what is it that you want from government?
And there are people in this country that they find
it appealing. You saw this in New York City. You've
seen this, you know in other West Coast liberal states
as well. That those politicians that promise, you know, womb
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to the tomb crave to the you know, cradle to
the grave, utopia and socialism, and the popularity amongst some
of the radical green new deal that's womb to the tomb,
cradle to grave, having very little if nothing to do
with the environment. That can be appealing to people that
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think and want to believe that their government is going
to provide for their every need. And there's a certain
amount of pressure that life puts on all of us
that causes us to become our best selves. Pressure is
not in and of itself a bad thing. Pressure and
stress is not a bad thing. It's how you respond
to it that can be a deadly thing. But for
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most people, pushing yourself to advance yourself. You know, I
don't believe that all of us were created for the
purpose of being served all day and not having a purpose.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You know, I know people in life. I know friends
of mine that.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Have retired and I'll ask them six months later, a
year later, how's retirement. And in more cases than not,
most of the people that retired that had dreamed about
going fishing and playing golf and having nothing to do
and no stress and no pressure was going to make
them happy, And they realize it's just the opposite. It
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didn't make them happy. You know, there have been studies
that show that people retire, and you know, to retire
as expire as a kind of famous term, because you retire,
you don't have a purpose, you're bored to and you
pick up bad habits. The next thing you know is
now you're dealing with health issues. But I really believe
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that every human being was born, created by the same God,
and inside of every individual is talent and ability, and
that none of us will put on this earth to
be served, but to serve others. And it's something that
in my life working has probably been one of the
best things that I've ever done in my life. And
it doesn't matter what job I was working at, you know.
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I mean, I actually put on the owner of the
restaurant that I worked in when I was twelve years
old washing dishes, and then later being a cook and
a bus boy, and then later I went to another
restaurant and became a bus boy, and then became a
bartender when I was seventeen, and I've gone through all
these jobs, and then I got into construction. I did that,
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and I'm grateful that I did all of those things
because it gave me a work ethic, and for the
people in my life that know me best, my work
week are full and to hear like my family describe
me in real life is actually humorous because they're funny
about it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Sure, I finished my TV show at ten o'clock at night,
and then the people closest to me, he will say yeah,
And then you're on the phone with this person for
twenty five minutes, and that person for twenty five minutes,
and the next person for thirty five minutes. And usually
I think maybe one of the reasons I became friends
with Donald Trump over the years is I was always
the last person standing. There was nobody left for him
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to call that he knew would be awake at two
in the morning, three in the morning. And you know,
this idea of this notion, this idiocy of the New
York Times that he's slowing down, is insane. And I
know it for a fact because I'm talking to him
at all hours of the day and night, and he's
always available if he can, he picks up the phone
off he's busy, he doesn't pick up the phone, but
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it'll usually call me back. And we're not always talking
shop we talk about everything. I mean, the thing that
he's he's most interested in doing, like we all have.
Just one of my latest distractions is chess dot com
and by the way, it's driving me nuts. I've only
played chess with sweet Baby James twice and he beat
me both times. I don't like it. I don't like losing.
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That's not going to last very long. I will be
beating sweet Baby James at chess at some point soon,
but I'm still in the infancy stages of it. But anyway,
I digress a little bit. But everything that the government
has promised all of you in your life, you know,
tell me what they manage well. Because Social Security money
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that you paid into your entire working life, they told
you would be put in a lock box and that
the people in Washington would never touch it and it
would be there for you, growing with interest for when
you retire. And that's your money. And yet we now
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know that they rated that lock box and they squandered
that money, and now we have to worry about the
insolvency problem and the future of Social Security. The same
with Medicaid and medicare. You know, states and the federal
government they're headed towards insolvency. You know, again promises made
by government officials to take away all of your stress,
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all of your fear and life, and it doesn't work.
How are your government schools working out for you? Because
in many towns and cities, then I'm doing very well.
What about the big promise of Obamacare, keep your doctor,
keep your plan, and the average family will save twenty
five hundred dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, I say it often.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Millions lost their doctors, millions lost their plans, the average
Americans paying over three hundred percent more. That is about
to go higher, which is ironic because Democrats are the
ones that supported this, and they pass that through reconciliation.
And yet if it's so affordable, the Affordable Care Act,
it's not so affordable if they want, you know, imperpetuity
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subsidies because people can't afford it. At millions lost their
doctor and plans, and on average, again we're paying three
hundred plus percent more. And for many of you, many
people across the country, over forty percent, you have one
Obamacare exchange option and some have two options. And that's
bad and worse and it's not great. So all these
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promises and then I asked the question, well, why would
you then put your hope, your faith, your trust in
government considering this is how they have squandered your money.
And on top of it, they didn't just squander your money,
they have stolen from future generations, that being our children
and our grandchildren. But again, people put their faith, hope, trust,
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belief in government. You know, that's what brings me to
you know, Gavin Newsom. I would argue that as of today,
Gavin Newsom probably is the front runner to get the
Democratic nomination. I don't believe for a second he's not run,
but he'd be the front runner of my mind, to
get the Democratic nomination to be their candidate for president
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of the United States. I don't think that there's one
thing he is not factored in, and that is he
has a track record of failure. Now he's in Brazil
at this climate conference, and this is what he said,
blaming climate change for the Pacific Palisades disaster. It's not
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climate change the cause that I'll explain on the other side,
what really caused it.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Listen, home values will start to decline.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
You're seeing it across the spectrum right now. In my
state included, which is one of the most blessed.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And cursed states.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
As it relates to climate, We're on the tip of
the sphere of climate change, simultaneous droughts and simultaneous floods.
The hats are getting a lot hotter, the dryes dryer.
You saw one of the most devastating wildfires in American
history in the middle of winter in Los Angeles in January.
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One hundred mile hour winds attached to fire. And as
we rebuild, the number one concerned people have it, how
do I get my home insured? And how do you
get a developer to develop a home that can't get
a mortgage which requires home insurance. So from across the spectrum,
from financial risk to the issue of cost of living,
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which is universal to global competitiveness, this is a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Now he sounds slick and saying everything. Here's what he
didn't mention. When I lived in southern California, I lived
in Santa Barbara in the eighties. Guess what wildfires took
place in California. It's been happening for decades and decades
and decades and decades and decades, and Santa Ana winds
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have also Similarly, these are predictable environmental events, and for decades,
the state of California has steadfastly rejected remember followed the science,
That's what they told you during COVID. They have rejected
the science of forestry, which would be to cut down
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the kindling for wildfires, which is the brush and the
dead trees, and clear out areas and build firewall areas
to prevent what happened in the Pacific Palisades. He didn't
mention that in his little speech. It's not climate change
that caused the Pacific Palisades. And also, had they practiced forestry,
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in the science of forestry, a lot of this could
have been prevented if they had fire hydrants that had
actual water in them. Many of these homes, if not
most of these homes, could have been you know, saved,
if they had reservoirs that had water in them. A
lot of these homes, if not most of them, could
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have been saved if they had. If they'd done all
of these things and prepared for these predictable events, well
the disaster of the Pacific Palisades wouldn't have happened. And
now here we are eleven months later and only one
home has been rebuilt. If you want to say it
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was rebuilt, because it really wasn't rebuilt. This was built
by a developer that apparently had a license ahead of time,
and people that are trying to get licenses to rebuild
their homes have been unable to do so, and they're
acting as though this is a big deal one home rebuilt.
Had they given people permits to rebuild their homes, then
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they would have been entire neighborhoods that have been rebuilt
by now, and it would have been a boom for
the building industry in California. And so many other people
now have just moved away and they're losing a fortune.
And if they having problems with the insurance company, that
means the state hasn't stepped in to stand up for
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their tax base, their consumers, their population and insisted that
the insurance companies, if they had insurance, you know, pay
out the claims against them and if they didn't want
to pay them out, take them to court.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
They didn't do any of these things.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But yet the Democrats, the left, they now want to
lecture you on affordability. Well, California has the highest income taxes,
the highest gas taxes. Now the price of an average
gallon of gasoline around the country is under three dollars
a gallon. In California it's about five dollars a gallon
if you look at you know, the highest sales taxes
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in the country. And then of course there's sanctuary state
policies and medical they're running you know what, ten billion
dollar annual deficits. And all Gavin wants to talk about
is California being the fourth largest economy in the world.
Doesn't want to talk about mass migration out of there,
doesn't want to talk about the fact that it has
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the number one poverty rate, doesn't want to talk about
that they're like forty ninth in terms of the worst
public schools in the country. Doesn't want to talk about
quality of life issues or why people are migrating the
hell out of there. And it's because of government policies
that has pushed people out and oppression against business. Otherwise,
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California is perfectly fine, unbelievable. But I'm just telling you
this is now the philosophical divide that will define twenty
six and twenty eight elections, and it's you affordability. We're
going to take care of everything for you. Really, are
you going to buy into that lie. How have their
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previous promises played out, defund dismantled, nobail reimagine the police.
Is your city safe and secure? I doubt it most
places aren't. The left the media are acting as they
always do, insane. They cannot help themselves. You know, they've
been all over this freakout over this double tap strike
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against these narco terrorists that more identified as trende Iragua,
that we're bringing drugs into the country. Look when you
see speed boats, and I know some of you out
there may like boating. I don't love boating. Some people
really love boating. I tried owning a boat. I just
gave the boat away. Then I got a smaller boat
for my daughter, and I gave that boat away because
there's nothing but a pain in the neck and nobody
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ever ends up using it anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
The cliche is is that the two happiest days and
most boat owners' lives is the day you buy it
and the day you sell it and get rid of it.
In my case, I just gave both of them away
to a good friend of mine who happens to really
love them and is a great fisherman. And nothing makes
me happier than to be able to give it to
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somebody that's going to use it. I mean, because I'd
end up putting it in the water, you know, in
the spring, wouldn't use it all summer long, take it
out of the water in the fall, pay a fortune
to get it painted and repaired, put it back in
the next year again. If I'm lucky, I'd use it
once because I don't have time to go boating, And
plus I don't I just I just feel like it's
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a colossal waste of my time being on a boat.
I can't relax on a boat. I don't know other
people can relax on a boat. I don't understand the
idea of laying out. I don't get laying out. Does
anyone in there get lad? I don't you know what?
And get sunburn and it's not my cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And about if you are doing some ice fishing.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Ice fishing, you mean where you like, drill a major
hole in the freezing cold ice and you drop a
line in, and you build this little hut that has
a fire that may melt the ice and and it collapses.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Arctic fishing on a boat, I.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Don't want to do Arctic fishing. Why would I want
to be out in below zero temperatures fishing now that stuff?
Aren't you into watching it? But I'm not into doing it.
I mean, Deadliest Catch is one of my favorite shows
of all time. I admire those guys so much. They
go on the Bering Sea and they get all these
crabs and you know, they they dumped their their crab
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traps out there, and you know then they're hauling them
back in a day or however many hours later, and
when they don't have any crab in him, it breaks
my heart. It's like they put all that work in
with no reward. You're telling them when they wouldn't be
doing a hanity challenge on TV of you trying to
do that stuff. Do you know how many people on
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the show Deadliest Catch have died doing their jobs. I
mean it is really really dangerous work.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I love paying crab, colossal crab legs, I love all
of that, but seeing how hard their jobs are and
it's all a crap shoot. I mean, some years are
better than others, and then they have limits on how
much you can catch. Then you have a limited window
and when you're allowed to actually go out there, and
do the fishing, and then you're fighting the Russians because
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a lot of this is right on the border in
international waterways, and you're fighting them, you know, to get
the most kravits. I admire. I admire fishermen. I think
they're all the Apostles were fishermen. How can you not
like fishermen. I mean, I'm not the biggest fish eater.
I have certain things that I like. I like shrimp,
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I like I like lobster. I like crab, crab legs,
crab meat about it, that's the extent of it. Tuna fish.
I'll eat a little tuna fish about.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Crab cakes.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I like crab cakes, you know, good nice Maryland crabcake
day of and not reheated, right, it has to be
day of. You can't reheating is awful. Everything's got to
be made fresh. You got to make stuff fresh. So
here it is, we have these narco terrorists. What are
they doing now? If you're in a boat and it's
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a speedboat and you have four to three hundred horse
power outboard engines, the odds of you out there fishing,
are out there boating in the middle of the night,
are very very low. And this has been a main
means of transportation for these Narco terrorists to bring their poison.
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They're deadly poison into our country. And Donald Trump is
sick and tired of it. I'm sick and tired of it.
It's probably not a person that's listening to this program
that doesn't know, at least on the periphery, somebody someone
who had a family member that died of some type
of overdose or addiction, opioid addiction, or opioid's laced with
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fetanyl and people die, or fetanyl addiction and fetanyl death.
I mean, it's amazing that, you know. And the worst
part is about these drug dealers. They're just horrible people.
I mean, for like a ten dollars drug bag, you know,
they'll make it more potent by putting in fentanol and
it's a hot shot and people die and they don't
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care for ten dollars. They know they're killing somebody, they
don't care. They have no heart, no soul, no conscience.
And you would think that Donald Trump taken on the
Narco terrorists. And by the way, they've been labeled and
designated a terrorist organization Trende Rague, etc. But they've had
open access to our American shores for the longest time.
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Now the border has closed, and now the President has
taken him out, and he's warning Maduro and any other
country that's peddling drugs into our country, you better stop
profiting off the death of American citizens, and especially the
death of a lot of young people in this country.
And I've met too many families and talked to too
many families that lost loved ones over addiction and over
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drug and it's it. It really is like, like here's uh,
poor liberal Joe. Here's Mika mocking you know this claim, like,
for example, that the media just can never just give
Donald Trump credit.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
They just can't.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Henry Quaar gets a right, rightful part, and Steven Ah
Smith was like the only person that's a Democrat that said, hey,
you know you're getting schooled by Donald Trump. He invites
mam Donni to the White House. Even I was a
little surprised. He's like, he doesn't have to pick a
fight with me, mum Donnie now. But when Mamdanni wants
stuff and Donald Trump doesn't like the way he's going
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to spend our money, he's not gonna get it. And
Kathy Hochele can do all the bidding for mom Donnie's
she wants. It's not gonna matter. But here's Mika on
Liberal Joe mocking the admiral's claim. Remember they had the
double tap strike, that the drug runners could continue their mission.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Listen to what she said.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I mean, if we look at the initial strike, we
do have the video of that, right and we've all
seen it right here. It is so we're talking about
potential war crimes here. And I'm not trying to be silly,
but I have to ask you where exactly was this?
How far away from land was this? What was the
possibility that these two survivors could paddle away and continue
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their drug operation?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I mean, are we kidding me?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Is this guy serious talking about the potential that these
two survivors could continue the operation. I mean, we're not stupid,
but I have to ask could they have paddled to
shore with the rest of the drugs.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
And essentially, this is what we heard from the Democrats
who viewed this the boat heads. The Republicans can't see this.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
This is our partisan divide.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
What are the chances they were Olympians and they can
swim to shore with the drugs on their backs.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Very few that right.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Let's stay with the liberal media for a minute, shall we.
Martha Radits ABC, Remember she cried when Donald Trump got
elected the first time she cried on air.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Here's her report tonight.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
New information. According to a source familiar with the incident,
the two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the
initial strike. They were believed to be potentially in communication
with others and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that,
it was determined they were still in the fight and
valid targets. A JAG officer was also giving legal advice,
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so again, David, that video will be key.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
A JAG legal attorney made the call that they were
still engaged. They were trying to retrieve the drugs, in
communication with their drug dealer friends and getting back in
the boat with the hopes of being able to salvage
what they could and maybe continue the run. I don't
know the extent of the damage, but they weren't hopeless,
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you know, paddling away, as Mika Brazinski described here.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And here's Tom Cotton sparring on fake news CNN over
the legality of all of this. You know, and this
is where the Democrats, you know, lose the plot. You know,
they want to protect the right of men to play
women's sports and being women's locker rooms. They want to
they want wide open borders. They lied to us for
four consecutive years. And we have known terrorists, murderers, rapists,
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other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members in the country,
drug dealers in the country. And they they're wrong on
every single issue. Defund dismantled, no bail laws. They voted
against the largest tax cut in history and simultaneously voted
for the largest tax increase in history. They've lost the plot.
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They're out of touch with hard working men and women.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
His cotton.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
If they are terrorists, when did Congress pass the authorized
use of force to attack them?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
The reason why your question is not well founded. It's
like saying, would Barack Obama be okay droning an American
citizen when he was president like he did to anwar
Ali LOCKI over in the Middle East. These are totally
different categories.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
That's why.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
That's why Christian is why I asked when Congress passed
the authorized use the military force? There was an authorized
use of military force against terrorists. I'm not saying what
he was legal or not, but that's what they base
it on. In this case, one with the authorized use
of military force to attract to attack suspected drug dealers
off the coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
John the President has inherent authorities the commander in Chief
under the Constitution to protect America using our armed forces
against a foreign terrorist organization. Congress has passed laws that
allows the President to designate foreign terrorist organizations. That's what
he's done with these cartels in Venezuela who are deeply
intertwined with the illegitimate Maduro regime. The president is called
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the non state.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Acts excuse me, designated terrorist organization. Bush did it, Obama
did it, Biden did it. Every modern president has done it.
So they didn't really care then. But it's only because
Donald Trump did it. You know, I'll give you another example.
So we learned from Pam Bondy that and Cash Bettel
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and we had Dan Bongino on last night, and you know,
I love the corrupt media that tried to, you know,
distort my interview with Dan Bongino. Dan Bongino said in
a in a post on x that yet they're hiding
this from US. Now they all admitted, you know, the
the both Cash and Dan and Pam, they all admitted
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they got no new information that was that didn't already
exist the prior four years of the Biden administration, the
Biden dj and But if you listen to fake Jake Tapper,
you know the guy that they have ribed as the
RNC DNC pipe bomb suspect, this is him saying, even
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though we now have a picture of him as an
African American, he's a white man.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Brian Cole Junior, a thirty year old white man from
the DC suburbs, is charted with transporting an explosive device
in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosions.
Seeing an observed local and federal law enforcement outside his
home in Woodbridge, Virginia this morning.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You know this pipe bomber in court today. Democrats media
try to spin when you know when Biden's FBI didn't
catch the guy, they didn't even try, you know, Dan Goldman,
Biden's FBI didn't mess up by not getting the pipe
on suspect that that dreadful Trump FBI did dreadful They
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got the pipe bomb suspect and apparently had parts that
they discovered that he was looking to build other bombs.
You know, this other guy, what's the named Meddi Hassan?
Even know this guy? Why does he show up in
the news all the time as if he's authoritative in anyway?
You know, you know, he made the claim that the
January sixth pipe bomb bomber has not been caught because
the person is white.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Well, that's not the suspect that they have in custody,
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Then said if the bomber had been black or Muslim,
he would have already been caught. Well, it took eight
months of of great policing to get this guy, and
I'm pretty certain they wouldn't have arrested him if they
didn't have a lot of evidence to back up that.
It's right, the left hates Donald Trump so much it's
almost like they have sympathy for narco terrorists, and yet
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every small town in big city has experienced the loss
of young people because of opioid addiction and fentanyl that's
being trafficked into our country. It's pretty remarkable to me.
You have what Jack Reid, Senator Democrat New Jersey, most
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arcro traffickers are not in those boats. They pay people
to do it. It's how they make money. Oh, they're
drug traffickers. They're being paid to kill Americans. What do
you think it is? Democratic Representative Adam Smith thinks it's
okay for narco terrorists to smuggle drugs and in the US,
but it's only cocaine. Well, we're only talking about cocaine here. Okay,
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do you want your kids snorting cocaine? Your dumbass. These
people are so dumb.
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Right down our toll free telephone number if you want
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We've got a lot of news we're going to get
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least of which this might be my favorite cut of
the day. And for all of you in the United
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Socialist Utopia of California. I mean, it's obvious that Gavin
Newsom has been to Texas, and Gavin Newsom who's been
to Brazil, and Gavin Newsom has been traveling the world.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You know, last night we did a.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Report that in the Pacific Palisades, and we actually had
a caller on this program talk about this. You know,
they lost their home, people lost their lives, thousands of
people lost their homes, and well, they tried to celebrate,
at least the Mayor of Los Angeles did, Karen Bass
tried to celebrate the fact that our first home has
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been built in the Pacific Palisades and most people that
had their homes burned to the ground have been unable
to get a permit to rebuild. And according to this
caller that owned a house in the Pacific Palisades. I
asked the guy, I said, well, are you still paying
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taxes property taxes on your home that no longer exists. Yes,
And one other thing, I have to ensure the property
even though there's nothing on the property, and nobody should
be walking on the property considering it's private property. So
you know, the cost for these homeowners is astronomical. Then
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you have the insurance problem, which is, you know a
lot of times these insurance companies play games and you
deal with one adjuster until they hand you off to
the next adjuster and then you start the process all
over again. And it's just so frustrating. But there are
way too many people in this country, and I think
this is going to be a big part of the
political debate heading into the midterms in twenty six and
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then of course the presidential election in twenty eight, And
that is what is it that you want from government?
And there are people in this country that they find
it appealing. You saw this in New York City. You've
seen this, you know in other West Coast liberal states
as well. That those politicians that promise, you know, womb
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to the tomb crave to the you know, cradle to
the grave, utopia and socialism, and the popularity amongst some
of the radical green new deal that's womb to the tomb,
cradle to grave, having very little if nothing to do
with the environment. That can be appealing to people that
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think and want to believe that their government is going
to provide for their every need. And there's a certain
amount of pressure that life puts on all of us
that causes us to become our best selves. Pressure is
not in and of itself a bad thing. Pressure and
stress is not a bad thing. It's how you respond
to it that can be a deadly thing. But for
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most people, pushing yourself to advance yourself. You know, I
don't believe that all of us were created for the
purpose of being served all day and not having a purpose.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You know, I know people in life. I know friends
of mine that.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Have retired and I'll ask them six months later, a
year later, how's retirement. And in more cases than not,
most of the people that retired that had dreamed about
going fishing and playing golf and having nothing to do
and no stress and no pressure was going to make
them happy, And they realize it's just the opposite. It
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didn't make them happy. You know, there have been studies
that show that people retire, and you know, to retire
as expire as a kind of famous term, because you retire,
you don't have a purpose, you're bored to and you
pick up bad habits. The next thing you know is
now you're dealing with health issues. But I really believe
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that every human being was born, created by the same God,
and inside of every individual is talent and ability, and
that none of us will put on this earth to
be served, but to serve others. And it's something that
in my life working has probably been one of the
best things that I've ever done in my life. And
it doesn't matter what job I was working at, you know.
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I mean, I actually put on the owner of the
restaurant that I worked in when I was twelve years
old washing dishes, and then later being a cook and
a bus boy, and then later I went to another
restaurant and became a bus boy, and then became a
bartender when I was seventeen, and I've gone through all
these jobs, and then I got into construction. I did that,
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and I'm grateful that I did all of those things
because it gave me a work ethic, and for the
people in my life that know me best, my work
week are full and to hear like my family describe
me in real life is actually humorous because they're funny
about it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Sure, I finished my TV show at ten o'clock at night,
and then the people closest to me, he will say yeah,
And then you're on the phone with this person for
twenty five minutes, and that person for twenty five minutes,
and the next person for thirty five minutes. And usually
I think maybe one of the reasons I became friends
with Donald Trump over the years is I was always
the last person standing. There was nobody left for him
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to call that he knew would be awake at two
in the morning, three in the morning. And you know,
this idea of this notion, this idiocy of the New
York Times that he's slowing down, is insane. And I
know it for a fact because I'm talking to him
at all hours of the day and night, and he's
always available if he can, he picks up the phone
off he's busy, he doesn't pick up the phone, but
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it'll usually call me back. And we're not always talking
shop we talk about everything. I mean, the thing that
he's he's most interested in doing, like we all have.
Just one of my latest distractions is chess dot com
and by the way, it's driving me nuts. I've only
played chess with sweet Baby James twice and he beat
me both times. I don't like it. I don't like losing.
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That's not going to last very long. I will be
beating sweet Baby James at chess at some point soon,
but I'm still in the infancy stages of it. But anyway,
I digress a little bit. But everything that the government
has promised all of you in your life, you know,
tell me what they manage well. Because Social Security money
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that you paid into your entire working life, they told
you would be put in a lock box and that
the people in Washington would never touch it and it
would be there for you, growing with interest for when
you retire. And that's your money. And yet we now
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know that they rated that lock box and they squandered
that money, and now we have to worry about the
insolvency problem and the future of Social Security. The same
with Medicaid and medicare. You know, states and the federal
government they're headed towards insolvency. You know, again promises made
by government officials to take away all of your stress,
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all of your fear and life, and it doesn't work.
How are your government schools working out for you? Because
in many towns and cities, then I'm doing very well.
What about the big promise of Obamacare, keep your doctor,
keep your plan, and the average family will save twenty
five hundred dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, I say it often.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Millions lost their doctors, millions lost their plans, the average
Americans paying over three hundred percent more. That is about
to go higher, which is ironic because Democrats are the
ones that supported this, and they pass that through reconciliation.
And yet if it's so affordable, the Affordable Care Act,
it's not so affordable if they want, you know, imperpetuity
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subsidies because people can't afford it. At millions lost their
doctor and plans, and on average, again we're paying three
hundred plus percent more. And for many of you, many
people across the country, over forty percent, you have one
Obamacare exchange option and some have two options. And that's
bad and worse and it's not great. So all these
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promises and then I asked the question, well, why would
you then put your hope, your faith, your trust in
government considering this is how they have squandered your money.
And on top of it, they didn't just squander your money,
they have stolen from future generations, that being our children
and our grandchildren. But again, people put their faith, hope, trust,
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belief in government. You know, that's what brings me to
you know, Gavin Newsom. I would argue that as of today,
Gavin Newsom probably is the front runner to get the
Democratic nomination. I don't believe for a second he's not run,
but he'd be the front runner of my mind, to
get the Democratic nomination to be their candidate for president
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of the United States. I don't think that there's one
thing he is not factored in, and that is he
has a track record of failure. Now he's in Brazil
at this climate conference, and this is what he said,
blaming climate change for the Pacific Palisades disaster. It's not
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climate change the cause that I'll explain on the other side,
what really caused it.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Listen, home values will start to decline.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
You're seeing it across the spectrum right now. In my
state included, which is one of the most blessed.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And cursed states.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
As it relates to climate, We're on the tip of
the sphere of climate change, simultaneous droughts and simultaneous floods.
The hats are getting a lot hotter, the dryes dryer.
You saw one of the most devastating wildfires in American
history in the middle of winter in Los Angeles in January.
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One hundred mile hour winds attached to fire. And as
we rebuild, the number one concerned people have it, how
do I get my home insured? And how do you
get a developer to develop a home that can't get
a mortgage which requires home insurance. So from across the spectrum,
from financial risk to the issue of cost of living,
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which is universal to global competitiveness, this is a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Now he sounds slick and saying everything. Here's what he
didn't mention. When I lived in southern California, I lived
in Santa Barbara in the eighties. Guess what wildfires took
place in California. It's been happening for decades and decades
and decades and decades and decades, and Santa Ana winds
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have also Similarly, these are predictable environmental events, and for decades,
the state of California has steadfastly rejected remember followed the science,
That's what they told you during COVID. They have rejected
the science of forestry, which would be to cut down
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the kindling for wildfires, which is the brush and the
dead trees, and clear out areas and build firewall areas
to prevent what happened in the Pacific Palisades. He didn't
mention that in his little speech. It's not climate change
that caused the Pacific Palisades. And also, had they practiced forestry,
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in the science of forestry, a lot of this could
have been prevented if they had fire hydrants that had
actual water in them. Many of these homes, if not
most of these homes, could have been you know, saved,
if they had reservoirs that had water in them. A
lot of these homes, if not most of them, could
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have been saved if they had. If they'd done all
of these things and prepared for these predictable events, well
the disaster of the Pacific Palisades wouldn't have happened. And
now here we are eleven months later and only one
home has been rebuilt. If you want to say it
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was rebuilt, because it really wasn't rebuilt. This was built
by a developer that apparently had a license ahead of time,
and people that are trying to get licenses to rebuild
their homes have been unable to do so, and they're
acting as though this is a big deal one home rebuilt.
Had they given people permits to rebuild their homes, then
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they would have been entire neighborhoods that have been rebuilt
by now, and it would have been a boom for
the building industry in California. And so many other people
now have just moved away and they're losing a fortune.
And if they having problems with the insurance company, that
means the state hasn't stepped in to stand up for
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their tax base, their consumers, their population and insisted that
the insurance companies, if they had insurance, you know, pay
out the claims against them and if they didn't want
to pay them out, take them to court.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
They didn't do any of these things.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But yet the Democrats, the left, they now want to
lecture you on affordability. Well, California has the highest income taxes,
the highest gas taxes. Now the price of an average
gallon of gasoline around the country is under three dollars
a gallon. In California it's about five dollars a gallon
if you look at you know, the highest sales taxes
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in the country. And then of course there's sanctuary state
policies and medical they're running you know what, ten billion
dollar annual deficits. And all Gavin wants to talk about
is California being the fourth largest economy in the world.
Doesn't want to talk about mass migration out of there,
doesn't want to talk about the fact that it has
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the number one poverty rate, doesn't want to talk about
that they're like forty ninth in terms of the worst
public schools in the country. Doesn't want to talk about
quality of life issues or why people are migrating the
hell out of there. And it's because of government policies
that has pushed people out and oppression against business. Otherwise,
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California is perfectly fine, unbelievable. But I'm just telling you
this is now the philosophical divide that will define twenty
six and twenty eight elections, and it's you affordability. We're
going to take care of everything for you. Really, are
you going to buy into that lie. How have their
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previous promises played out, defund dismantled, nobail reimagine the police.
Is your city safe and secure? I doubt it most
places aren't. The left the media are acting as they
always do, insane. They cannot help themselves. You know, they've
been all over this freakout over this double tap strike
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against these narco terrorists that more identified as trende Iragua,
that we're bringing drugs into the country. Look when you
see speed boats, and I know some of you out
there may like boating. I don't love boating. Some people
really love boating. I tried owning a boat. I just
gave the boat away. Then I got a smaller boat
for my daughter, and I gave that boat away because
there's nothing but a pain in the neck and nobody
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ever ends up using it anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
The cliche is is that the two happiest days and
most boat owners' lives is the day you buy it
and the day you sell it and get rid of it.
In my case, I just gave both of them away
to a good friend of mine who happens to really
love them and is a great fisherman. And nothing makes
me happier than to be able to give it to
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somebody that's going to use it. I mean, because I'd
end up putting it in the water, you know, in
the spring, wouldn't use it all summer long, take it
out of the water in the fall, pay a fortune
to get it painted and repaired, put it back in
the next year again. If I'm lucky, I'd use it
once because I don't have time to go boating, And
plus I don't I just I just feel like it's
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a colossal waste of my time being on a boat.
I can't relax on a boat. I don't know other
people can relax on a boat. I don't understand the
idea of laying out. I don't get laying out. Does
anyone in there get lad? I don't you know what?
And get sunburn and it's not my cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And about if you are doing some ice fishing.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Ice fishing, you mean where you like, drill a major
hole in the freezing cold ice and you drop a
line in, and you build this little hut that has
a fire that may melt the ice and and it collapses.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Arctic fishing on a boat, I.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Don't want to do Arctic fishing. Why would I want
to be out in below zero temperatures fishing now that stuff?
Aren't you into watching it? But I'm not into doing it.
I mean, Deadliest Catch is one of my favorite shows
of all time. I admire those guys so much. They
go on the Bering Sea and they get all these
crabs and you know, they they dumped their their crab
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traps out there, and you know then they're hauling them
back in a day or however many hours later, and
when they don't have any crab in him, it breaks
my heart. It's like they put all that work in
with no reward. You're telling them when they wouldn't be
doing a hanity challenge on TV of you trying to
do that stuff. Do you know how many people on
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the show Deadliest Catch have died doing their jobs. I
mean it is really really dangerous work.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I love paying crab, colossal crab legs, I love all
of that, but seeing how hard their jobs are and
it's all a crap shoot. I mean, some years are
better than others, and then they have limits on how
much you can catch. Then you have a limited window
and when you're allowed to actually go out there, and
do the fishing, and then you're fighting the Russians because
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a lot of this is right on the border in
international waterways, and you're fighting them, you know, to get
the most kravits. I admire. I admire fishermen. I think
they're all the Apostles were fishermen. How can you not
like fishermen. I mean, I'm not the biggest fish eater.
I have certain things that I like. I like shrimp,
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I like I like lobster. I like crab, crab legs,
crab meat about it, that's the extent of it. Tuna fish.
I'll eat a little tuna fish about.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Crab cakes.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I like crab cakes, you know, good nice Maryland crabcake
day of and not reheated, right, it has to be
day of. You can't reheating is awful. Everything's got to
be made fresh. You got to make stuff fresh. So
here it is, we have these narco terrorists. What are
they doing now? If you're in a boat and it's
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a speedboat and you have four to three hundred horse
power outboard engines, the odds of you out there fishing,
are out there boating in the middle of the night,
are very very low. And this has been a main
means of transportation for these Narco terrorists to bring their poison.
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They're deadly poison into our country. And Donald Trump is
sick and tired of it. I'm sick and tired of it.
It's probably not a person that's listening to this program
that doesn't know, at least on the periphery, somebody someone
who had a family member that died of some type
of overdose or addiction, opioid addiction, or opioid's laced with
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fetanyl and people die, or fetanyl addiction and fetanyl death.
I mean, it's amazing that, you know. And the worst
part is about these drug dealers. They're just horrible people.
I mean, for like a ten dollars drug bag, you know,
they'll make it more potent by putting in fentanol and
it's a hot shot and people die and they don't
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care for ten dollars. They know they're killing somebody, they
don't care. They have no heart, no soul, no conscience.
And you would think that Donald Trump taken on the
Narco terrorists. And by the way, they've been labeled and
designated a terrorist organization Trende Rague, etc. But they've had
open access to our American shores for the longest time.
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Now the border has closed, and now the President has
taken him out, and he's warning Maduro and any other
country that's peddling drugs into our country, you better stop
profiting off the death of American citizens, and especially the
death of a lot of young people in this country.
And I've met too many families and talked to too
many families that lost loved ones over addiction and over
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drug and it's it. It really is like, like here's uh,
poor liberal Joe. Here's Mika mocking you know this claim, like,
for example, that the media just can never just give
Donald Trump credit.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
They just can't.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Henry Quaar gets a right, rightful part, and Steven Ah
Smith was like the only person that's a Democrat that said, hey,
you know you're getting schooled by Donald Trump. He invites
mam Donni to the White House. Even I was a
little surprised. He's like, he doesn't have to pick a
fight with me, mum Donnie now. But when Mamdanni wants
stuff and Donald Trump doesn't like the way he's going
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to spend our money, he's not gonna get it. And
Kathy Hochele can do all the bidding for mom Donnie's
she wants. It's not gonna matter. But here's Mika on
Liberal Joe mocking the admiral's claim. Remember they had the
double tap strike, that the drug runners could continue their mission.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Listen to what she said.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I mean, if we look at the initial strike, we
do have the video of that, right and we've all
seen it right here. It is so we're talking about
potential war crimes here. And I'm not trying to be silly,
but I have to ask you where exactly was this?
How far away from land was this? What was the
possibility that these two survivors could paddle away and continue
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their drug operation?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I mean, are we kidding me?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Is this guy serious talking about the potential that these
two survivors could continue the operation. I mean, we're not stupid,
but I have to ask could they have paddled to
shore with the rest of the drugs.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
And essentially, this is what we heard from the Democrats
who viewed this the boat heads. The Republicans can't see this.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
This is our partisan divide.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
What are the chances they were Olympians and they can
swim to shore with the drugs on their backs.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Very few that right.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Let's stay with the liberal media for a minute, shall we.
Martha Radits ABC, Remember she cried when Donald Trump got
elected the first time she cried on air.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Here's her report tonight.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
New information. According to a source familiar with the incident,
the two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the
initial strike. They were believed to be potentially in communication
with others and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that,
it was determined they were still in the fight and
valid targets. A JAG officer was also giving legal advice,
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so again, David, that video will be key.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
A JAG legal attorney made the call that they were
still engaged. They were trying to retrieve the drugs, in
communication with their drug dealer friends and getting back in
the boat with the hopes of being able to salvage
what they could and maybe continue the run. I don't
know the extent of the damage, but they weren't hopeless,
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you know, paddling away, as Mika Brazinski described here.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And here's Tom Cotton sparring on fake news CNN over
the legality of all of this. You know, and this
is where the Democrats, you know, lose the plot. You know,
they want to protect the right of men to play
women's sports and being women's locker rooms. They want to
they want wide open borders. They lied to us for
four consecutive years. And we have known terrorists, murderers, rapists,
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other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members in the country,
drug dealers in the country. And they they're wrong on
every single issue. Defund dismantled, no bail laws. They voted
against the largest tax cut in history and simultaneously voted
for the largest tax increase in history. They've lost the plot.
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They're out of touch with hard working men and women.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
His cotton.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
If they are terrorists, when did Congress pass the authorized
use of force to attack them?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
The reason why your question is not well founded. It's
like saying, would Barack Obama be okay droning an American
citizen when he was president like he did to anwar
Ali LOCKI over in the Middle East. These are totally
different categories.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
That's why.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
That's why Christian is why I asked when Congress passed
the authorized use the military force? There was an authorized
use of military force against terrorists. I'm not saying what
he was legal or not, but that's what they base
it on. In this case, one with the authorized use
of military force to attract to attack suspected drug dealers
off the coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
John the President has inherent authorities the commander in Chief
under the Constitution to protect America using our armed forces
against a foreign terrorist organization. Congress has passed laws that
allows the President to designate foreign terrorist organizations. That's what
he's done with these cartels in Venezuela who are deeply
intertwined with the illegitimate Maduro regime. The president is called
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the non state.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Acts excuse me, designated terrorist organization. Bush did it, Obama
did it, Biden did it. Every modern president has done it.
So they didn't really care then. But it's only because
Donald Trump did it. You know, I'll give you another example.
So we learned from Pam Bondy that and Cash Bettel
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and we had Dan Bongino on last night, and you know,
I love the corrupt media that tried to, you know,
distort my interview with Dan Bongino. Dan Bongino said in
a in a post on x that yet they're hiding
this from US. Now they all admitted, you know, the
the both Cash and Dan and Pam, they all admitted
(26:43):
they got no new information that was that didn't already
exist the prior four years of the Biden administration, the
Biden dj and But if you listen to fake Jake Tapper,
you know the guy that they have ribed as the
RNC DNC pipe bomb suspect, this is him saying, even
(27:05):
though we now have a picture of him as an
African American, he's a white man.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Brian Cole Junior, a thirty year old white man from
the DC suburbs, is charted with transporting an explosive device
in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosions.
Seeing an observed local and federal law enforcement outside his
home in Woodbridge, Virginia this morning.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You know this pipe bomber in court today. Democrats media
try to spin when you know when Biden's FBI didn't
catch the guy, they didn't even try, you know, Dan Goldman,
Biden's FBI didn't mess up by not getting the pipe
on suspect that that dreadful Trump FBI did dreadful They
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got the pipe bomb suspect and apparently had parts that
they discovered that he was looking to build other bombs.
You know, this other guy, what's the named Meddi Hassan?
Even know this guy? Why does he show up in
the news all the time as if he's authoritative in anyway?
You know, you know, he made the claim that the
January sixth pipe bomb bomber has not been caught because
the person is white.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Well, that's not the suspect that they have in custody,
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Then said if the bomber had been black or Muslim,
he would have already been caught. Well, it took eight
months of of great policing to get this guy, and
I'm pretty certain they wouldn't have arrested him if they
didn't have a lot of evidence to back up that.
It's right, the left hates Donald Trump so much it's
almost like they have sympathy for narco terrorists, and yet
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every small town in big city has experienced the loss
of young people because of opioid addiction and fentanyl that's
being trafficked into our country. It's pretty remarkable to me.
You have what Jack Reid, Senator Democrat New Jersey, most
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arcro traffickers are not in those boats. They pay people
to do it. It's how they make money. Oh, they're
drug traffickers. They're being paid to kill Americans. What do
you think it is? Democratic Representative Adam Smith thinks it's
okay for narco terrorists to smuggle drugs and in the US,
but it's only cocaine. Well, we're only talking about cocaine here. Okay,
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do you want your kids snorting cocaine? Your dumbass. These
people are so dumb.
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