E41 Government Waste

In this episode, Graves Baker, with a special guest, Sam Biafore, talks about government waste, liberals being mad at Musk for finding fraud, the Department of Education, and the 2026 elections.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, Welcome back to the Conservative Colonel podcast. This is
not Harrison once again. I'll be your co host today,
Graves Baker. I've got Sam Beafour back with me again.
It seems like this is becoming a trend. If Harrison
can't make it, it's us, you.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Know, I'm I'm back up. So that's that. It is
what it is. But you know, I haven't been on
here since. I think the last one I was on
was election. The election. Yeah, we were talking about like
the recaps of election day and like state I was
still counting the votes, like Arizona, California.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
It probably was the November sixth, the next day. I
remember that because I was not feeling great that day,
and I'll leave it there.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
But yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, but you know that was that was a very
happy day. And you've been on before that, and especially
when it's like this where you know he's trusting me
to get an episode done for him and you come
into help. I definitely appreciate it because your job is research.

(01:12):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Right. So well, what's honestly kind of crazy is that
even after you know, winning the election, awesome, great, you
think it would slow down, No, it's been crazy since
because Donald Trump is inhuman and he.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Does not sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
He does not sleep, he does not slow down. He's
just moving, moving, moving, moving, moving, And yesterday was his
one month in office. Mm hmm. So it's kind of
crazy how the month already went by and it's just
been this, this, this, this, this, it's been insane.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I bet you've been really busy.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
The speed that everything has moved, it's it's unheard of.
I don't think government never moves this fast ever.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, No, they like to sit around and not do anything.
And you know, part of what we wanted to talk
about first kind of has to do with that. They'll
sit around and not do anything to help you, but
they'll send all of our taxes overseas for dumb things.
And then when we start to root that out and

(02:26):
we start to look into it, you know, where's this
money actually going? Is it actually showing up to the
places that we're saying it's going. You know, who's getting kickbacks,
who's doing this or that? And why are we spending
money on this? The Democrats who have been in charge
the last four years, they're freaking out, and so are

(02:48):
the citizens, you know, saying that oh, Elon Musk is
not an elected official. Well, neither is or are any
of the cabinet members. Neither is George Soros, who gets
so many attorney you know, district attorneys that try to
stop Trump elected. I mean, the bureaucracy goes extremely deep.

(03:13):
But when it's not them that's rooting out all this
fraud and whatever else is happening, they get extremely mad
and are protesting all around the country when it's it's
offering you a chance at maybe getting a five thousand
dollars maybe even more than that check possibly, But why

(03:35):
not get rid of all this stuff? Why are they
mad because they're corrupt?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, I mean it kind of goes into like you said,
why are more people not mad about the actual waste
than they are at like Elon in Doge. Yeah, you know,
say what you want about Elon whatever, say which one
about dogs, whatever. People can have their opinions, but the

(04:04):
actual waste itself, this is what our taxpayer dollars went towards.
There's a bunch of dumb pet projects like two million
dollars promoting tourism to Lebanon, one point five million dollars
for Dei in Serbia, seventy k for a Dei musical

(04:24):
in Ireland, millions of dollars for people to become climate leaders,
twenty million for Sesame Street and Iraq. That's still the
funniest one, and like it. I should be mad that
that's what my taxpayer dollars went to, but it's also

(04:46):
funny at the same time. But again, that's what our
money went to. We spent money on stuff like that.
We didn't but the government did, right. It's all these
pet projects that they think is a good idea or
that they just want to do. You know, the government
gets money, they're going to spend it. Now. It doesn't

(05:06):
matter that I am. You know, government gets money. They
just want to spend it on.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Whatever, and have people maybe trying to stop that and
they're mad. I mean they also print it, you know,
if they don't get the funding out of taxes, they'll
print it. But we're not doing that anymore and we're losing.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't know if it will necessarily lead to like
a balanced budget, but it could certainly be the start
of one. This mean you actually have a budget and
we actually have our finances under control for once, you know,
within the last you know, how however many decades essentially, I.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Would have to look that up. It's been a long time.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's ridiculous. And the fact that more people are mad
about elon in Doge finding out the waste than they
are about the actual waste, it's astronomical. Uh. You even
had truck Surer saying like, yeah, you know there's waste,
but there's better ways to know about it. Okay, how
government does not shrink itself. The government will never shrink itself.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, if he thinks that, and he's a senator, he's
been there for forever. If he thinks that the Senate
or the Congress or mean sorry, the House because they're
both Congress. If he thinks the Senate or House is
going to get that done by itself, that you know
he he doesn't even believe that. That's what he would think.

(06:39):
The other way about going to do this would be is,
you know, Congress gets it done itself. They were never
going to look into that. They're the ones that are
letting it happen. They're the ones that make the spending bills.
So we had to have something like this to even
get it done.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I think it's again having an outside person come
in and looking at everything and just being this is stupid,
This is stupid, This is stupid, this is stupid. Get
rid of it. Just you don't need it, Just get
rid of it. And even the idea of getting you know,

(07:19):
I don't know if you would call it a reimbursement check,
but all the money that dog is saved from not
spending all this money on again pet projects and stupid
goals or whatever they were trying to go. Giving that
money back to taxpayers. It's like five grand, right, five grand,

(07:41):
a lot of money, and you have people in Congress
like Jasmine Crockett saying, oh, well, we're not in the
business of giving out money. You had no problem giving
money to other countries and no no legal immigrants. You
had no problem giving money to legal immigrants, and no
problem within me of that. They spend billions on all that,

(08:02):
but actual American tax payers give a five thousand dollars check,
and then you saying, well, you know what's people gonna
What are people gonna do with five thousand dollars? That's
literally like five months of my rent. That's literally like
that could be my rent, that could just be savings.
Maybe I could put that in the stock market and

(08:22):
everything else. You may and be a capitalist. You know,
there's you have opportunities and options. But the only time
that you ever give Americans any kind of money or
anything is seven hundred dollars to North people in North
Carolina getting affected by hurricanes, or seven hundred dollars to

(08:44):
Hawaii after the fires. You have no problem giving you know,
as little money as you possibly can. The barrel mentalum probably, Uh,
it's ridiculous. You know, we we we finally have a
government that wants to do something, that actually wants to
get stuff done again. It's been a month. It's really

(09:05):
been a month, right, we had another four years to go.
It's it's it's astronomical. And you have people in Congress,
between both the House and Senate that just hate everything
about it, and you have an administration that wants to
get things done. Pam Bondy says she's got the Epstein

(09:26):
files on her desk. Director of urb or Housing urban
Development is getting rid of a bunch of the DEI contracts, projects,
whatever you want to call them, out of out of
her Housing urban Development uh p haggstef wanting to root
out DEI within the Department.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Of defense, and we also officially banned transgender people from
joining the military.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
See I saw that. I saw that too. And then
we also now have an executive order banning transgender keeping
men out of women's sports and vice versa. You know,
we we have that also, and that was a big
well celebration.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
For two, the governor of Maine is trying to go
against that, which we saw the clip of, you know,
Trump literally asking her face to face, are you going
to go against that? And she basically said yes, And
then she said she would see him in court, and
he said, okay, that's fine, I'll see you in court.

(10:35):
You know that'll be an easy one. And I hope
you enjoy your in literal quotes here, I hope you
enjoy the rest of your life, governor, because after I
don't think you're gonna be an elected politics.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
But finally, she's she's already turned limited in twenty six.
That governor's already term limited, So.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
What else is she going to do? Right?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
He's not wrong? Actually yeah, it's really funny. But again,
why you have elected officials being mad that you're finding
the waste and wanting to get rid of it from
ridiculous projects like completely gutting USA and actually you know,

(11:20):
fixing the Department.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's over a trillion dollars now that if Congress actually
acts that we the American people support cutting over a
trillion dollars from what we have heard and they have found.
If Congress actually acts, Look, we're talking about roughly a
two trillion budget deficit every single year, and it could

(11:44):
be less because you know, we're probably not printing as
much money under Trump, you know, compared to COVID we
had to at that point. Yeah, what's going to happen
now is we're going to cut back spending, say all
this money and even before we send it back to
the people. I hope that does happen. Everybody would love that.

(12:05):
But the American people already support Congress cutting this stuff
that we've been talking about. So if they don't do it,
then that's just another reason to Hey, get these rhinos
out vote against these Democrats. Especially the Democrats are the
ones that are mostly yelling and screaming about finding this stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
So well, it's funny whenever you talk about voting people
out and everything. Obviously, you know midterms will be in
twenty six and not only are there several offices that
are term limited. Anyway, you have people that have been

(12:46):
in Congress, between the House and the Senate, they've been
in politics, been in the government for over like a
couple of decades. Once you hit like that, over a
couple of decades, mark, what are you doing? Especially in
the case of Mitch McConnell, who I believe is the
longest serving Senator I think ever. He got elected in

(13:06):
eighty four. We're in twenty twenty five now, so he's
been in there forty years, and he finally just said
he's retiring. How do you get how do you stay
there for that long? Why would you want to stay
there that long? For forty years to deal with the
government for forty years, That's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
And there's people who have been there longer. But Mitch,
you know, back in like the early twenty tens, he
was kind of seen as a force, like someone who
could kind of get stuff done and would really push
hard for what he wanted to do. And really, even
before he started to freeze up and fall down all

(13:48):
over the place, he kind of lost that, like he
turned into something else. So we've been wanting him to
go for a long time. He just wasn't going to
lose his seat.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
No, it's it's Kentucky we're talking about. It's a solid
red state, even though they have a democratic governor because
he's a Nepo baby, because his dad was a governor,
so of course he got to be a governor. So
it's just finally that era's kind of ending, and you
still have a couple of people there kind of like that,
Lisa Murkowski being one of them. And she's also a

(14:23):
Nepo baby. She her dad was a governor, had to
appoint a senator. He appointed her. That's how she became
a senator and she's been winning ever since. And she
also protects the ranked choice voting in Alaska, which is
basically kind of like a built in popularity contest. So
that's how people know the name. So they vote for her,

(14:45):
they vote for her dad, they vote for her. You
still have the problem, the problem children like that. You know,
you've got Murkowski, You've got Susan Collins from Maine. They're
not gonna always vote, They're not gonna always vote with you,
just is what it is with Maine Alaska. Her seats
up in twenty eight and of all the people still

(15:08):
in the Senate. It's her Collins and Bill Cassidy from
Louisiana that are the only senators around that voted to
impeach Trump. They're the only ones left. Everyone else is.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Gone, so that kind of blows my mind. I'm not
gonna lie that a guy from Louisiana voted to impeach Trump,
because that's that's a really good state.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
The blood or red state, and they finally just got it.
They just now got a Democrat governor, or not Democrat governor,
but a Republican governor back in twenty three, so they
they now have a supermajority between their state house, Senate
and the governorship. You know.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
So well for him did it. He'll probably lose this
next time.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
We'll see what happens. I think. I just think it's
gonna be interesting. On the flip side too, you have
also Democrats that will be there for you, Like Bernie
Sanders is a clear example of someone that's probably like
just staying a senator and ending as a senator, you
know what I mean. He he died. Dianne Feinstein died

(16:12):
in office and she was there for like thirty years.
She slipt, you know, her mind was just gone. She
was just old. She was in her nineties, and she
passed away in office. And the people want to leave,
especially in like a solid seat or something. They just
want to die in office.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, you know quickly that. You know, we already talked
about Mitch and then now you talked about her. You know,
I think term limits continue to need to be brought
up because we can't have people that are almost dying
and falling down everywhere and can't speak, that are running

(16:53):
or making huge decisions really, especially if they're in the
Senate for our government.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
You know, especially there's like, uh, there's more than likely
along that timeline you're gonna be like a completive interest somewhere,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, you know, like the lieutenant governor of Mississippi passing
out while he's presiding over the Senate.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Man, I saw that too. I was quatrocastic. I was like,
what's going on down in Mississippi? I said it to
like a couple of you guys down and that I'm like,
what is happening in Mississipile?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
That was the way that I found out about it.
And but you know, we we have talked badly. Harrison
and U about Gilbert Hoseman, the lieutenant governor here quite often.
But you know, you don't wish that on anybody. And
you know, the rumors are that he may have had

(17:55):
a heart attack after the fact. He was you know,
something happened and wasn't that serious. He walked out of
the building when it was all over. He was attended
to and seem fine. He even made a joke I
believe when he walked out. But the rumors are that

(18:16):
he had a heart attack later on and was hospitalized again.
Like I said, rumor, I cannot confirm that. But he
is the same age as the mayor of Batesville. He
is one year younger than Donald Trump. Some people are
able to be that age without that happening, but some

(18:40):
people are not. And you know, at some point, if
that is the case, maybe this should be his last term.
We don't need people dying in office and haven't had
special elections and stuff. If your health is deteriorating, you
should probably get out, and we need to have term
limits anyway. I don't care if it's state level needed

(19:00):
in Congress, but you know, we needed everywhere. Most state
levels at least do have some retort anyway. Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Obviously, like how you said, like Mitch McConnell's like a force,
you can get things done. Nancy Pelosi was kind of
like that with the Democrats. She has so much poll
in the House, like she was just able to work
with everyone speaker obviously, and she's not even the minority
leader anymore as the King Jeffers now. But as soon

(19:36):
as the twenty four election was over, she filed the
run again in twenty six. And she's been there since
the eighties and now look with out she's foll she
filled downstairs. I think she's falling down twice now. She's
in her she's in her eighties. Actually seen her in person.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Is she wearing a boot on her foot for like a.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Day something like that? I think I think she was
wearing something like that. If it wasn't to the point
of like Mitch McConnell, he was in like a wheelchair.
I don't know if you ever saw that video. He's
in a wheelchair. He had to get easily helped into
like his car or like the transport vehicle. Whatever. Yeah,
I don't think it was necessarily that bad or to

(20:20):
that point. But she's also not doing good herself either,
it's just it's just he catches up with you. They're cold,
they're in the raighties. Go be like Go be a grandpa,
Go be a grandma. Go retire, spend time with your grandkids,
Go bird watch, do something. Go have hobbies outside of

(20:42):
sending trillions of dollars to four countries, right coaches, something else.
Go feed the ducks, not feed missiles to Iraq.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Or billions of dollars to Afghanistan, who's now run by
the Taliban since we had that disastrous retreat.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
I can only imagine being in the in the halls
of Congress, between the House and the Senate, I can
only imagine.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
They would they would censor me. The first week I
was there, I would lay into every single liberal, like
more than I'm doing here. You know, I try to.
It's not my podcast. You know. I can't get Harrison
flagged more than I already have.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
But I was in Congress, Graves, you'd be on the list.
I don't know. It's just as we both I don't
know what would happened to me, man, I couldn't tell.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
You we'd both be on the list. If we were there.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh man, Nah, that's uh. But kind of goes back
into the the point of what we're trying to make is,
once you hit a certain age, just why do you
want to keep continuing to be in politics? Why do
you want to be in the federal even state government?
Like I can see being involved in like your state,

(22:17):
you know, doing like community service activities or helping maybe
the next generation of people, help them, you know, paved
the way and get elected and help to have them
learn from you. When it comes to the federal government,
it's just always people just get weird. They never want
to get to the federal government. They never want to leave.
You have the cases of like senators or congressmen, you know,

(22:39):
wanting to go in to run for something on the
state level, like like Mike Mike Ron who's a senator
from Indiana, he just became the governor of Indiana. He
just wanted won the election. You know, there's stuff like that.
You know, you want to go back to your state
and leave the federal government. Yeah, it's shocking people actually
want to leave the federal government.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's not supposed to be a place where you you know,
spend your entire life there.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
It was that way. It was never intended to be
that way, right, But you know, it's also.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
It's also weird to me that not only are the
Democrats freaking out about you know, what we're finding was
being spent on or you know, money that never arrived anywhere,
but it's also funny to me that these people make
one hundred and eighty thousands they keep giving themselves, you know,
pay increases, but they're also worth millions or hundreds of

(23:41):
millions of dollars, even if they've only been in Congress
for a couple of years. It does not add up. Yeah,
there's especially when.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Like there's certainly been people on both sides of the
Aisle Republican Democrat that I've wanted pay increases because their
example is just valuable. Like DC is expensive to you know,
live in. I have a place here in d C,
but I also have my place back home in my
district that I or state that I represent. Okay, then

(24:14):
make d C affordable what no one was supposed to
live in d C. You weren't supposed to live in
d C. You just work in d C.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
And and week now it's almost got like a million people
in the population it's not as you know, it's it's
big sort of, but it's not as big as people
would think. You know, I think it's less than a
million people. Maybe if you bring in the suburbs and stuff,
it's different. But I think it's like last time I looked,
it was probably eight hundred thousand people that live there.

(24:42):
It should not be a state. That is why we
moved the central part of the federal government to a
place that is not, you know, an actual state. This
is something that the founding fathers wanted so hard.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
On your point, the I've got the population in DC
right here, according to the census from twenty three. This
is when the population is taken. It's six hundred and
seventy eight thousand people.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, so I even I was even.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
More like, like, sure, it's more than Wyoming. It's more
than Wyoming, but Wyoming's like the least populated state in
all the US. But it goes back to my point.
DC was never supposed to be that like a state
or anything. People weren't supposed to live in d C.
They were just supposed to work there and leave. You
weren't supposed to be in DC for the rest of

(25:34):
your life. And that's just what I guess ended up happening.
People just stayed and didn't want to leave, and they've
been there since. And that's not the way it should
have been. If you want to, you know, talk about
a pay increase, make DC more affordable to live. Actually,
do something about crime in DC, Do something about pricing
in DC. Don't make it expensive to live. Lower the taxes,

(25:57):
do something to make them more affordable. Then, you know,
then we can talk all taxes are. The minimum wages
in DC now is like twenty bucks an hour. Twenty
dollars an hour for a minimum wage in DC?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
When are you're paying fifteen dollars for a cheeseburger?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Bout so the cheeseburger is easily like twenty five dollars.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
What are you talking about twenty five dollars?

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Dude? I guarantee you just drinks at a bar of
fifteen bucks. Just the drinks. Oh a drink, that's a
that's a cocktail at a bar in DC. Yeah wow,
I'm telling you, man, it's an expensive place for no reason.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Look, I mean I think that the minimum wage should
be raised from seven dollars to twenty five cents. Nobody
can live on that. But if you're gonna put it
to twenty or twenty five immediately, yeah, you're gonna end
up with prices like that.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
It's ridiculous. But I mean, that's not what I do,
so I guess I can't complain. I don't live there,
so well, not anymore, not my monkey, not my serviants.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Not anymore, thank goodness. But We've got a couple more
things to talk about. I'm going to take a commercial
break real quick so that Harrison doesn't get in trouble
with his sponsors. So we'll be right back, and uh,
if I can figure out how to actually is this, Yeah,

(27:26):
there we go.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Cool, great guy.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
All right, welcome back to the Conservative Colonel Podcast. You're
here with Graves Baker and Sam Viafore, and we got
a couple more things to talk about. You're going to
start off with the Department of Education. My mother was
a public school teacher for most of her work life,
and this is something I grew up around with her

(27:55):
being a teacher. Uh Now I went to private school,
but I've always had some pretty strong thoughts about the
Department of Education. I don't think from what I'm hearing recently,
we're going to be able to get rid of it,
at least not anytime soon. Hopefully in the second half
it might be possible. But the Department of Education, a

(28:18):
lot of people are saying was created by Jimmy Carter
through in executive order. It's actually created through Congress. Now
that was something he pushed, but Congress is the ones
that actually got it done. So we would have to
actually get Congress to go through with it, which means
we would probably have to win the twenty twenty six

(28:39):
mid term elections again because we have to do stuff
in process before that. Now that's the twenty six elections
we're going to get into in a little bit. But
the Department of Education was created officially in nineteen seventy nine.
America was number one in the world in education. By

(29:01):
I mean pretty much every country would have admitted that
back then. Since then, I believe we're in the twenties
now I could look that up, but I have other
things since then. Not only is the cost of college
going up one hundred and eighty percent since the inception
of the Department of Education, math scores are basically the

(29:24):
exact same and have fluctuated between being worse and a
tiny bit better science has consistently been a little bit
below what it was in nineteen seventy nine. The cost
of all this stuff is not worth the education that

(29:46):
people are getting. I hope we can get rid of it,
because fourteen billion dollars was the budget of it when
it was created. It's up to two hundred and thirty
eight billion, and it's only gotten worse. The reading scores
are the worst that they have ever. My mom did
not like No Child Left Behind at all, which was
pushed by the Bush administration. She did not like that

(30:09):
at all. She says that, you know, the Department of
Education never really did what it was, you know, promised
to do or anything. But when Bush started pushing that
was really the downfall. That's when it really started to
get worse, according to her. And this is a public
school teacher of thirty five years. But today we are

(30:34):
seeing in Mississippi we've kind of gotten away from the
federal government government in Mississippi just by stuff that we're
doing here legislatively. And Mississippi last year was the only
state in the country to have an improvement on their
fourth grade reading scores and mass scores. We were number

(30:56):
one in the country in both of that in fourth grade.
In eighth grade, we were the only state, sorry, tide
for first with I don't know what other state it was,
but tied for first in science scores. So Mississippi while
everybody talks about forty ninth in the country. You know,

(31:17):
if you get away from the Department of Education legislatively
and start trying to do things through your own state,
which if we get rid of it, will allow that
to happen in every state. The improvement is there because
we were number one in the whole world before and
now we've just substantially dropped. Mississippi and Florida even are

(31:41):
great examples of what you can do if it's not federalized.
So that's kind of my speel on the Department of Education.
That's just some number statistics and stuff, but it's just
mind blowing that people are freaking out over the fact
that we might get rid of it when it was so

(32:01):
much better beforehand, and all this.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Did nothing well, you know, you bring that up into conversation.
I knew before the Department of Education, I at least
had an idea that we were a little bit better
off with that the Department of Education, because of course
once the government got its hands and everything, it ended
up being you know what the government does best, and

(32:28):
you know, just completely taking control of it and it
going down the train.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, that's what happened.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
It's just with like the part of education and even
you go you can even go into the teachers you
need to, they just push stuff that you don't need
to know. It's things that you who cares if you
learn like like the history of the LGBT, or if

(32:58):
you learn that history of some random species that will
never ever, you know, be existing ever. Again, it's ridiculous.
We've goes to spending and it goes back into actually
appropriating money towards useful projects and things like that. You

(33:20):
don't need anything any of the stupid stuff that no one,
no other country is doing. You think, uh, like China
or like Asian countries, Hispanic countries teach the history of
like LGBT or allyeship or anything like that. No, they
teach math, they teach science, they teach history.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
And now they move here. They become the most successful
and wealthiest group of people because they were taught normal
things that actually make them smarter. Not Hey, you can
be one of any you know, one thousand pronouns or
four hundred genders. You know, if you're a boy, and
I mean you have to be a boy, you can
be a girl. No, they don't teach that anywhere else.

(34:04):
People laugh at us because of that. And also you
see all these people even out of college. Now, you know,
people in public school and high school or middle school,
junior high whatever, they're not as liberal. They go to
college and become extremely liberal. You don't need the federal

(34:26):
government pushing what we should be teaching people, because look,
if California wants to teach their people to be transgender,
let them. I'm not going to be there. I'm my
kids are not going to go there. But guess what
Mississippi's not doing that. Texas isn't gonna do it, Florida,
you know, you name it. Leave it up to the states.

(34:47):
Don't let the federal government say that Mississippi should be
teaching you can change your gender.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Well, I have nothing enough to say. You kind of
just took the words out of my mouth. Actually grabs up.
I'm gonna give it a five something now you hit
it on the head. But what it bainly comes down
to is, you know what's gonna be able to happen

(35:14):
within the next couple of years. We've obviously got midterms
next year, so we've got this year to really get
things hammered out within you know, the first one hundred days. Obviously,
you know, we're thirty down, got seventy more to go,
thirty one now as of today and right now the

(35:37):
twenty six midterms, Democrats have more seats to defend than
we do, which is a good thing. It's kind of like,
I think, it's kind of how it was for twenty
four even though we still have a slim majority in
like the House. I think, yeah, we still have a
very slim majority, which I mean, we still have a

(35:58):
couple of special elections to go through. So we're gonna
get some more bodies in Congress in Florida because Matt
Gates his seat is vacant. Mike Waltz's seat is also
vacant because Matt Gates resigned and Mike Waltz's in the
servant in the Trump administration. They just need to figure

(36:19):
out New York and figure out that seat because Staffanic
also has to go serve in the administration at some point.
Mm hmm. So they got to figure that out. But
there's also a few seats you could pick up that
are being right now being held by Democrats. But these

(36:41):
districts voted for Trump, and I think what mainly happened
is some of the down Mainly one of them was
a down ticket issue, being in North Carolina, even though
Trump won that state their governor's race, and the down
ticket really screwed over everybody else. So there's one district

(37:03):
there that voted for Trump that is being held by
a Democrat, so maybe this time around you could flip it.
There's another district that voted for Trump, but Democrat has
been there for forty years. It's Martie Captor in Ohio.
Basically it's like the Toledo area, and she's been there

(37:23):
for forty years. She's been in the eighties. It's hard
to get rid of her. And Maine's second district because
Maine is one of the states. Maine in Nebraska, those
are the only two states that do this, but one
of their districts can split out an electoral vote towards someone,
and this district in particular splits out their vote to Republican.

(37:47):
So it's just also got a Democrat there right now.
Maine is just a weird states. Maine has a Democrat governor,
a Republican senator, and their other senators, an independent that
compasses with Democrats. Weird state. And Washington's third district it
had a Republican there before, but that Republican was one

(38:09):
of the ten that impeachs Trump. So think she got
booted out in that primary. But then the candidate that
beat her lost in the general to a Democrat. So
and that it's the same guy that ran in twenty
four lost to her again. And so maybe in twenty six,
if we have someone else, you can finally flip that seat.

(38:32):
But that's enough ranting about that.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Well, I mean, we need to flip more seats. And
you know, if the Democrats keep back in the way
that they are about the things that we've pointed out
earlier in the episode, they're not gonna win for a while.
You know, they have a better chance of winning a
midterm they do a presidential election right now, which is
weird to say, but that's because it's at the state level.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
But I think it's also kind of trippy too, is
that Democrats, I think are completely in disarray. I don't
think they know what direction they want to go in
They they went so far left. You know, how are
you going to bring those people in the middle.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
They have seen them in the middle.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
No, they just went through a new election for the
d n C, So the DNC has a new chair,
co chair whatever. The DNC chair was talking about all
these different states. Of course, he brought up to the
swing states like North Carolina, Nevada, Wisconsin, o those states,
what they want to do there, But then he brought

(39:40):
up Illinois. Why do you need to bring up Illinois?
Illinois is a blue state. It has been for a
long time now. It's something's going on in Illinois that
maybe we don't know about. Is there a right word
shift in Illinois? We saw a graph where the entire country,
a lot of the country moved to was the right.
This this fight.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Every single state actually it was all fifty states had
a you know, whether it was zero point one percent
or more, every single state still had a somewhat of
a shift to the right.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Like Texas went the most right this time around. This
is Texas talking about even California went right. The entire
right half of the state was red.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, what Trump won Texas by like twenty eight Democrats
were like, it's gonna get.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
A blue if it's certainly not happening the way they
think it.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
No, all these illegal immigrants, you let them in, they're
gonna vote Democrat. I'm telling you something. I had a
lot of Mexican people who were legal but still Mexican
people on my team. It was in Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia,

(41:03):
you know, New Mexico. It didn't matter where I was at.
A lot of Mexican people working for me. They do
not want illegal immigration Texas just because you bring in
a lot of Mexicans or not, It's not gonna go
blue just because of that. But that was their strategy.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
They police socialism, they don't want socialism.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, and they hate these and you know people that
commit grounds all the time, they don't. It's just like
white people. But we're racist if we don't want illegal immigrants.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
So well, you know what's really funny now that you're
bringing that up, there is a they did a clip
on I think it was Thoughts where they said, like
illegal border crossings have been so low now that there's
more border patrol agents than there art profits good.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
The winning just doesn't stop the winnings just doesn't up.
But when it comes to the Senate, there's a couple
good opportunities for us to pick up Georgia, I think,
being like the main one if their governor run. They've
done polling a couple different poles. Now where it's him

(42:18):
in the Democrat that's currently in that seat, John Ossoff.
I think he's say his last name, the governor, Brian
Kemp would beat ass Off. He's got the name. Him
and Trump made up, you know, they they had some
tips before, but they made up. And then Michigan now

(42:39):
that senator is retiring, so that's another good one to
pick up too. Minnesota that senator is also retiring. But
I still I still see it being blue. I looked
today Minnesota. A president has a Republican president candidate hasn't
won Minnesota since seventy two, and that was Nixon, So

(43:00):
it's been Democrat president. It's voted for voted Democrat for
president since the seventies. And I think it's clearly because
of like the top area of Minnesota and then Minneapolis
that's like the blue spots h and that state.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Close to Canada, and then the big cities.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Exactly and I think the only seats that Republicans really
have to worry about is Maine and North Carolina. North Carolina,
you know, it's a swing state. The seat still kind
of leans red right now, but it's just a state. Well,
we have to defend it. It is what it is,
samym Maine, it is what it is. But there's a

(43:42):
good there's a couple of good pickups in Georgia and Michigan.
This cycle flipping four seats was which is wild because
we flipped the seat in West Virginia, so my home state.
It's really funny because like that seat, whenever Mansion was
still there, the Democrat, whenever he was there, it was

(44:05):
a toss up, like he didn't really know who's gonna win.
As soon as he said he was retiring, the seat
immediately went to like a solid red seat. It was
just a missing like the.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Rest of the state. What was very much what was
the election result there? Like did he run against or
whoever it is, run against the Democrat?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, so Jim Justice ran against the Democrat was Glenn Elliott,
who was the mayor of Wheeling, but nobody really knew
who he was. He ut blown out and that's the
question you're asking. It was a yeah, it was a
blown out. It took me West Virginia like ten fifteen
minutes to like certify their results on election night. But

(44:46):
we flipped Ohio. We have a Republican Ohio with Shared Brown,
or with Bernie Marino beating Shared Brown. Montana Tim she
he beat John Tester, So you know, you flip that seat.
And I mean the last one, which I was kind
of surprised by, was Dave McCormick beating Bob Casey Jr.

(45:07):
And Dave McCormick there they were trying to fight those results. Yeah,
Dave McCory, like Bob Casey just refused to concede, like
two weeks he did not conceive whatsoever. They got to
the point where like even the governor was like, I
think the governor Tomas said, Okay, we gotta we gotta
end this, you know, just getting out of hand and

(45:28):
democratic governor exactly. It was very light speaking of governors
in those seats. Anyway, there's toss ups on both sides.
Kansas is gonna probably lean read this time, so maybe
we can finally get rid of the Kansas Democrat governor

(45:51):
who she recently had a bill brought to her desk,
and it was a a bill that would basically it
was something about like gender affirming care for miners. It
passed to like try to get rid of it or
anything like that. So it went to the State House

(46:12):
and state Senate. She killed the bill, but then the
House vetoed her veto it was it was about banning
gender affirming care for miners. Of course she didn't like
it because she's a Democrat and Democrats want to trans
kids for some reason. But anyways, it got vetoed. She's

(46:35):
harm limited, so hopefully we can so we should hopefully
be able to put that seap well. See, I would
hope the main the main one that I'm very curious
about is Arizona because Arizona, Arizona and Wisconsin they have
Democrat governors and they're up for reelection.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Hubbs is you know, Katie how she.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Also vetoed a bill that basically would have sped up
election counting to be able to find out elections the same.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Day that it just happened, right it did.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
This week she went again, went through the State House
and went through the state Senate. Republicans controlled those chambers,
got Ardashkin she killed it. It was it's to make
the elections more efficient and to find out things on
not that night, but she killed it. Stupid.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
She is extremely correl I actually believe again for YouTube, etc.
This is my opinion the illegitimate governor. It's an opinion,
so you can't. It's my first amendment. But yeah, there

(47:52):
was so much going on in Arizona. Well, we wanted
about five percent this time. Arizona was regular. I'm Tony twenty.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
I think it was like the highest margin of the
swing states, if I'm I believe it was.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Yeah, because I was in we had the lowest.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Mm hmmm. That governor's up the reelection. Republicans again control
both those chambers, and he just introduced a bill or
something today that he wants to basically change the word
mother to.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Oh my gosh, I'm a brthing person.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Something like something stupid like that. It was, it was
something a lot along the time. It was, okay, it
removes the term mother. Introduces bill to remove the term
mother from state law and it would change it to
inseminated person. What that means, whatever that means.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
That is crazy.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
It's as Tony evers, it doesn't, it doesn't make any sense.
And then Michigan is also open. Gretcha Whimer's term limited.
She's just crazy. She's just got crazy eyes. She she
scares me.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Most liberals do have big.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Gretch, big gretch feeding that one podcaster that was on
her knees like a dorito or something like that. Do
you remember that video?

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Tell them up when they were trying to get people
to take the COVID vaccine or what.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
No, this was like she was on like the campaign
trail for Kamala Harris. She had like the Kamala the
Harris Walls hat, the Harris Walls Camo hat, you know,
and she was like feeding this one, this one podcaster
was on her knees and she's like feeding the podcaster
that's on her knees like chips or something, and it
just pants back. I'll set I'll thought, I'll find the video,

(49:50):
I'll send it to you. It was wild and sometimes
thought that was gonna make people vote for Kamala Harris.
I don't know, but.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
They felt that bringing up Rihanna or Beyonce or whoever
it was, and Cardi B and stuff, that that was
gonna make people vote for Taylor Swift crying about Donald
Trump possibly winning again back in like twenty two or something,
you know. I mean, it's they're so out of touch
and that's why they keep losing. That's why that if

(50:20):
we now here's the thing twenty twenty six elections. We
can't just say, well, if they keep aacking like that,
they're gonna lose, you know, or they're still out of touch,
they're gonna lose. We have to actually prove it to people,
show it to people, talk to people about it. We
still have to fight to win these elections.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
We can't just get you It's like they're just gonna
throw money. I think is what their game plan probably
will be is just throw money at it. They've got
all the money, they've got the money, they have the resources.
But then you have to be like Scott Pressler honestly
doing a lot of work with voter registrations. Arguably the

(51:00):
guy flipped Pennsylvania or helped Trump win Pennsylvania, and he's
still doing voter registered registration in Pennsylvania. He wants to Florida.
Pennsylvania essentially makes it like a Republican stronghold, and he's
doing trying to do the same thing in New Jersey
because even New Jersey was within swing state odds this election,

(51:24):
which it went from like a Biden went in by
like over ten percent to within you know, swing state
odds this cycle. So I guess he sees potential there
in New Jersey and that's why he's there. And the
only states that we have to really worry about is
Virginia has an election this year in twenty five. Right

(51:44):
now it's a toss up. Then Georgia is a toss up.
And George is only a toss because of Atlanta, Atlanta
and Savannah. So in blue parts of it really probably
some other you know, a couple of small little areas too,
but that's what.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Columbus. But but it doesn't even really have that big
of a population. It's it's just a very blue city.
So you know, I mean like two hundred thousand max.
Maybe less than this is probably less than that, maybe
a hundred thousands.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
But and then the last toss up is Nevada, which
there's now more Republicans in Nevada than Democrats, and that's
how much the state is trending that far red. They
just need to they just need to figure out a
way to get the state legislature figured out. And even
though I think that they're Supreme Court, to their Supreme Court,

(52:37):
I think is a little messed up. On the state level, Well,
it's just it's the jerry mandering of Clark County. That's it.
That's why Democrats have three seats. It's because they you could,
aren't like their first district with denatitis. Yeah, it's pretty blue.
That's Henderson.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
There's a there's a district in Nevada that takes up
like over half of the state.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
That's the second. That's the second district. It's literally the
top half of the state. It's all the desert.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
It's all rural and like nobody lives there.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, and then Horsford. Horseford has a that's four. He
just has North Vegas.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
And you and I had some involvement in a race
against horse for Sam Peters was running.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yeah. Oh yeah, good to good old days. But like
where we lived at we lived, I think believe in
Suzie Lee's district to at one point in time, and man,
I want to see her go. Man I don't like her.
They actually were all pulled up together. They're all essentially
they were mad that Trump was supporting the whole No
tax on tips thing, and they're like, oh, he's just

(53:45):
jumping on the bandwagon. We've been wanting this forever. Okay,
the why didn't you do it? M stupid. Speaking of
the DNC, I forgot to mention that one of their coachairs,
David Ogg, got caught, I will say, allegedly funneling money
using the DNC donor list or email list, getting donations

(54:09):
to a pack that he has that he gets paid with.
So like, that's what the Democrats are already doing. You
have a guy talking about doing stuff in Illinois for
the chair, and then the vice chair is allegedly stealing money.
So this guy's limit for Democrats, I think at this
point and then at least this time around, we I

(54:34):
believe anyway that we have an RNC that wants to
win there. They actually want to go to win under
the the oversight of Michael Wattley, who's the chair. And
they just looked at a new co chair La Laura
Trump left the co chair position and they have a

(54:56):
new coachair. Now I think I think it's just from Tennessee.
I forget her name, but they haven't she there is
another chair now. She seems good too, while he he's
doing his thing. Basically, Once Rona McDaniel kind of left,
I think that's when things picked up a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Oh yeah, I mean again, we have.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
We have an rn C that wants to win. We
we finally have an r and C that like we
we like winning now, so we can actually do things.
We're not just content with like winning every once in
a while anymore. Now, it's let's keep it going.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Rn C has been notoriously bad at fundraising and stuff,
but also execution. You know, it's unbelievable how brookee they
were at like the beginning of last year. It's unbelievable.
I think they're like twenty million dollars.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
The list of.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
The DNC has got like a billion dollar ward chips
because they're all corrupt and they take all these kickbacks
we talked about at the beginning of the show.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Because the DNC a cultured a party that's pro censorship,
pro pro anti free speech, pro censorship, very far left ideals,
borderline socialism, not even liberal anymore. Liberal. You can't call

(56:35):
them liberals anymore. It's just leftists. Can't say liberal anymore.
But Bill Bill Maher is liberal. Bill Maher is like
the liberal.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Well so its Peers Morgan and Peers Morgan is even like,
what is wrong with these people?

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Exactly like, actually, Peers Morgan and Riley Gaines get an
interview with this with this transactivist. They did an interview
with this transactivist and they basically the transactor is essentially said, yeah,
let's combine the of the Olympics and the para Olympics.
It's it's ideas of nonsense and ideas that you who

(57:14):
would think of something like this makes no sense. No
rational person would think of something like that. But and
again we're not talking about liberals anymore. We're talking about leftists,
very social like very socialist, borderlining into communism. Just let
the government take care of everything. But then someone comes
in to check the government, like Musk and Doge, and

(57:37):
they get mad. They get more mad at them than
they are about what's actually the money is actually being
spent on. It's ridiculous and it's stupid. These people are
stupid graves they are. And do you know how I
feel about stupid people? Yes, it's very similar to you.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
I was gonna say, as do I you know, I
feel a certain way. And here's the thing. I actually
try and enjoy debating liberals. I'll see a comment on
TikTok or you know, on Twitter. I don't really see
them in person, but I'm constantly debating liberals in some

(58:19):
way pretty much. And you know what they do. They
say that we don't have the facts, that we are uneducated,
and then when you actually bring out the facts, even
without insulting them, they go straight to insults or just
stop responding.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
That's like, like, I've had very much friends that are
definitely left, and like I've talked to them a couple
of things, and they kind of know my stances on everything,
but we can at least talk about it. We may
not agree, but we talk about it, which I mean,
I give credit where credits due. But you get to

(59:01):
other people that they they set up a debate, you
go to debate, they get mad your debating and then
shut down the debate. Yeah, it's uh, it's it's it's backwards.
But I digress at the end of the day, at

(59:23):
least so far right now, when we go into midterms,
obviously it's still very early. We don't have everything that
we would need to be able to determine everything. But
so far we don't have as many seats to defend
as Democrats do, which is which is a good thing.

(59:44):
There's a few seats in the House we could flip,
a couple of seats in the Senate we can flip,
and maybe a governor seat or two that we can flip.
It's just it's it's going to take a lot of
effort and a lot of time to convince people and

(01:00:09):
to inform voters what policies are going are good and
what policies are bad. Do you want to have the
policies of lower taxes the government doesn't take all your
money as much, or do you want to have policies
where the government just takes your money and sends it
to fun sesame straight and iraq? Okay, why don't we

(01:00:29):
talk about that one more. That's the one that I'm
the most mad at at.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
It's so funny, it's so funny.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
It's so stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
No, it is. And you know, as we hit this
one hour mark, I'm gonna hit one more commercial break
and then we will wrap this episode up and talk
about stuff like that and welcome back from our less
commercial break. We just got a couple more things to

(01:01:03):
talk about and I'm really just gonna kind of let
Sam bring us into that, and Sam let you go.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
You know, we definitely went way over than we originally
projected for this episode. Grade. I hope you realize that
just like I did.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
It was like, let's just go like thirty minutes or
something that's been an hour, right, But I mean that's
just kind of like what happens with us anyway. But honestly,
with this election and kind of like what I believe
is gonna happen in the future is that this election
had so much outside media playing a part in it.
Like Kamala Harris went on Call Her Daddy, for example,

(01:01:46):
went on a podcast, a popular, very popular podcast within
like the top ten top five of Spotify, and Trump
was doing anything. He was basically any everywhere that he
could be. He went on Joe, he went on the
Vaughn Jadie Vancid, the same thing Trump was had opened

(01:02:07):
the doors for all these alternative interview platforms that weren't
mainstream media. You know. He was on like Twitter, spaces,
he did one with Elon and I think he did
another one with a crypto person something like that. He
did Logan Paul's impulsive podcasts, he leaned, he leaned into TikTok,

(01:02:33):
he leaned into social media of gen z, because we're
becoming a voting age and trying to reach us in
a different way. Obviously people are our rage. We don't
watch spots, we don't want to see it. Then we're
on Twitter all day and Twitter is becoming part of
that media landscape now. And his administration opened the door

(01:02:57):
in their press room for alternative media. You have people
I think Tim Poole was applying to get into the
briefing room. You have what American News Daily Wire as
a person in there. It's a lot of the alternative
media is now playing a part. Not only do to

(01:03:17):
play a part in this election, it's going to play
a part and all the elections I think going forward.
And it's it's crazy. I think it's crazy to think about.
That's what's That's just the reality of the situation now.
It's all this alternative media and all the influencers are
playing a part. The DNC, you know, they had their
influencers too, just as the same as Republicans and Conservatives. Yeah,

(01:03:41):
Harry Sisson and Chris Maury and Dean Withers and a
couple of the other guys that Paul Parker. Yeah, you
had all those fools trying to reach, like the trying
to men, you know, for men, it's not cool to
be a leftist. It's not cool to be a Democrat. Now.

(01:04:02):
It was maybe cool, you know, ten years ago, whenever
you wanted to rubell against your parents. But the new
rebellion is being conservative and going against that culture. They
tried to foster that culture, and being conservative is now counterculture.
It's it's crazy to think about. You know. That's why
Democrats had to build up a white dudes for Harris

(01:04:23):
coalition and of the Republicans for Harris. Whatever that means.
I think it just means you're I think it just
means you're a rhino and you just want to go
vote for a Democrat because you probably get a kick back.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Well, I wonder how many of those actual members of
that were actual Republicans.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
See I said, I thought the same thing too, because
you had like former like people like congressman like like
Joe Walsh and Adam Kissinger and Liz Cheney joining the
Kamala campaign. And it's really funny because I saw his
tweet from Adam Kissinger. He was talking about Trump and

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talking about Putin or something. It's like, you're standing with Putin.
And then I basically tweeted and Adam Kissinger stands with
a guy who's running against Josh Holly. By the way,
Adam Kissinger stood with a guy that shot a reporter.
So oh yeah, they were at like a firing range
and a bullet the shrapnel bounced back and like hit

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someone in the like hit him in the arm. It
like graze them. But still the candidate shot a guy.
At the end of the day, the dem candidate Missouri
shot a guy, and Josh Holly tweeted about it. It
was like, guns don't shoot people. My opponent shoots people.

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You know. That's that's kind of what that leads to.
And you had Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney endorsing Kamalin
hit a trail with them. You had people like Jeff Duncan,
who was the former lieutenant governor of Georgia, voting for
Kamala Harris and actually the Republican Party in Georgia kicked
him out. You just had all these different people playing

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these different roles, and Republicans just seemed to be more
consistent in this election whenever it came to the culture
and then the new media landscape and how we just
you know, put our message out there versus the Democrats
who tried to solve money by just try to solve

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problems by just throwing money at it. Kamala built Kamala
Airis blew over a billion dollars and still somehow ended
up in debt.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Yeah, she what twenty million dollars in debt after.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
She blew like a billion billion and a half or something,
and she ended up with twenty million in debt. I
don't even know how that's possible.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
They wanted her to run the whole.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Country and Trump had what four or five hundred million.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
I mean it was definitely at least half. I mean,
you know, it could have been lower than five hundred mil.
But he also has his own money, which you know
he used some of but not a whole lot, because
the man was raking in I think before they did
a corrupt fundraising event for Kamala, Trump set the record

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for donations in one night with like twenty thirty million
in one day or something, and then they had a
corrupt one with all their you know, billionaires and people
from overseas with their shell accounts and you know, wire transfers.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
But uh, you know, it is what it is. But
I think to you know, trying to hammer my point
in a little bit, is that Republicans conservatives won this
time because we understood the culture and we understood what

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actually mattered and having to stick to the issues that
mattered of inflation and lowering costs, securing the border, cracking
down on crime. And you know, it's it's not stuff
that it's going to happen immediately. It's going to take
a little bit of time for all this stuff to
you know, kicking and going into an effect. But we

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had just common sense issues. And Democrats were worried about
pronouns and pushing for gun control and commonly even admitting
that we would have to raise passes, and they wanted
to her in charge of a country, in charge of
a whole country.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Yeah. And you know how Democrats say that Trump only
wants to do tax cuts for the rich. Well, look,
I'm at least old enough to remember that when he
did the tax cuts the first time. Yeah, the rich
got a little bit of a tax cut, but so
did the middle class. The middle class also got a
little bit more in benefits, like there were more programs.

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You know that people with children, what the child tax
credit went up. I mean so people in the middle class,
along with getting tax cuts, also still got those benefits.
So it's just you know why the Democrats went from
rage against the machine to let's raise taxes and make

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it harder for everybody, and we're going to ignore inflation.
And yeah, men can play in women's sports, and yeah,
you can change you know, your gender. You can be
a cat if you want to. If you want to
be a moose, go ahead. I mean they've gone so
far left and they still don't even see why they lost.

(01:09:55):
It's not about oh the fact that eggs have gone
up under drumk you know, you know while they went up,
one is the bird flu. Two is Biden the administration there.
I guess the E p A or whatever would do
that said let's kill one hundred million chickens because of
this bird flu. Eggs are gonna keep going up. That

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happened in like November.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
So yes, it's gonna take a little bit before they
come back down. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
Yeah, do you think that those chickens can just or
I guess they not you, but I guess they think
those chickens just magically reappear, they respawn, and at.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
This point they can maybe think I lay an egg
because if I have a chicken or something like that.
I think that's. Yeah, the reality of the Democrat Party
is you can be whatever you want as long as
you just ignore any science. I think of it as possible.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Yeah, and that's that's kind of my What my last
point was, you know, was just that the Democrats are
at this way. It's why they lost because they've gone
so far left and then not even to mention the
spending that they were doing, the fraud, the kickbags, whatever
else you want to say. It's also that they haven't

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learned anything. But we can't use that as fuel to
just say, all right, they're so bad, they're so out
of touch that we can't do anything. We have to
legitimately keep fighting for it in every state, especially New Jersey, Virginia,
places that we've made gains in. But then even in

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the red states that are solidly red usually don't just
give up there either.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Mississippi, by the way, is in uh I think number
eleven in the country in future economic you know, opportunities. Yeah,
opportunity like just like future economic growth. We're number eleven
in the state or in the country. So these Red

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states that are starting to do better and people are
starting to wake up, keep doing the stuff that we've
been doing. Don't just give up because we're comfortable. We
can never be comfortable. I'm telling you. Those people are
a machine. That's why they got a billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Well, I think to hammering your point a little bit more.
It's funny because you talk about the Red States opening
up opportunities. The headquarters of in and out Burger chain
out West. You obviously, you and I we lived out West.
We don't in and out very well. They their headquarters

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was leaving San Diego. I think they're going to like
Texas or something. They moved their headquarters. They're moving their headquarters.
They're a company that started on the West coast. And
mind you, they're not the only company that I've done that,
either SpaceX and Tesla I think both of them. Anyway,
they left Texas or they left California and went to Texas.
There's another company that I have left. Jeff Bezos got

(01:12:59):
out of seatle at all, went down south. It's all
the red states that have the opportunity and all these
blue states are dying because of high taxes and high
crime and just overall just horrible leadership on the state level. Yeah,
the federal level also they're bad too, but the state

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level especially is where they die. It's just how like
the wildfires in California, you could have easily been prevented
had they actually you know, cleared all the all the
brush and everything. And you had insurance companies leaving because hey,
we can't guarantee this policy because this could easily catch fire.
We need you to do something about this, and they

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just wouldn't do it. And that's why the companies left
because it's like, we're not We're gonna lose money. So
everything's a business. True, it's blue state policies that will
drive down your state, but that's what they want. But
they keep pushing because you know, then I'll just let
the state take care of it. Let's government take care
of it. You know, it's about it's the same thing

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as being complacent. Don't be complacent. So if you want
to get involved and you know, make sure your state
continues that red trend and continues the a trend of
lowering taxes and lowering costs and you know, increasing safety,
cracking down on crime. Get involved, Go volunteer with your

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local GOP state party. Go volunteer, help registered voters. Scott
Brusser again, like I said earlier, kind of helped Trump
win Pennsylvania. And that's just because he was doing voter
registration in Pennsylvania. Now he's doing the same thing in
Jersey and Pennsylvania still at the same time. Will help
register people, inform voters of the policies that matter. And

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that's how you win is just by being aggressive. Don't
be complacent. Be aggressive. If you're going to be a bear,
be a grizzly bear. That's the coolest bear, that's the strongest.
And one so.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
You know who said it perfectly is Ronald Reagan because
he said, if fascism ever comes to America, it will
come in the form of liberalism. I'll tell you something
else that people don't really know. In the two thousands,
in Germany itself, they change the definition of and this

(01:15:26):
is going around the world too. It started there, but
it's it's you know, part of it'll make sense when
I finished. But they said the definition of fascism is
right wing. You know how many times you've heard that
you can only be a fascist if your right wing
hitler was a left wing he was socialist. They changed

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the definition of fascism. Now people don't want to talk
about the socialism part because it's so easy to understand,
but they want to talk about the exact definition where
they say it's only right wing that can authoritarian and fascism.
You know, okay, well, left wing socialism, left wing Marxism,
left wing communism. What are we doing here? We are

(01:16:12):
a constitutional republic, you know, and we have been brainwashed.
Not us, but America has been brainwashed by the Department
of Education, going back to what we've been saying earlier,
thanks to changes that originated in Germany. And now everybody
thinks that, oh, yeah, we're all Nazis. You know how
many times I've been called that it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Probably a good amount, I would say.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Anyway, Yeah, regular debate, you know, just just tell them,
like you could say, we shouldn't be sending money to
Israel or Palestine. Oh so you're a you're a Nazi?
What that makes sense?

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
You know, America's got a lot of problems, and I understand,
you know, we got to help people out, but we
also help ourselves out too, And that's where I think
I want to try to end my thoughts on any
of that, is we've got our problems too. You know,
we can't always help everybody. We can try, certainly try to,
you know, be there for people, but it's time America

(01:17:19):
puts itself first for a change. And that's the whole
point of America First. Is putting America first.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Yeah, it's pretty simple.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
So people don't get I don't know why. You know,
they're busy sending twenty million dollars for destiny streaming their
app and in the case of state like California, asking
money for high relief, which again could have prevented. But
you spend all your money to help the legal immigrants.
But again that's just my point or my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
Well, we agree on that, and.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
I would assume we would grades, especially after having you know,
we lived together. I would assume we agree on most
things anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
But yeah, and on the West Coast, you know, we
had to endure that when Clark County was even more
blue than it is now, so exactly. But well, gentlemen,
I feel like it's been a pretty good episode. If
you did listen this far into it, we appreciate it,

(01:18:30):
you know, Sam and I we try to do the
best we can and we have to do it alone.
We're kind of used to having Harrison to prompt us
into things, so we do appreciate all the support. Share
it to all your friends. Keep fighting for this country. Sam,
as always, I appreciate you coming on helping me out.

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And uh, you know we're just getting started. We're only
a month into the Trump presidency. We got another almost
four years ago, so let's keep it going. Let's keep
making America great. And thank you for tuning in to
the Conservative Colonel Podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
Great to have been here, Thanks for having me. Everybody
bring me back.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Hey, you'll be back. You will be back soon, be back.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
I'll get a text message. It'll be good. And it's
always fun though.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
Just like tonight, just randomly was like, yo, can you
help me?

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
And again, you know, we definitely doubled over than what
we originally intended. But I think I honestly just kind
of once you start riffing with everything and you get
in these topics and you go on these tangents, come
back to the point whatever was going on in the
first place, it's organic, and you can't you can't fake organic.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
Yeah, I mean, we have the talking points, but we
end up you know, you remember what else happened, and
you just keep going so exactly. But for the people,
y'all need to listen to everything that we said. None
of this is rooted in, you know, false information. Sam

(01:20:14):
does this for a living, and I do somewhat, just
not on the research side necessarily.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
But.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
I still do my research. So we went a lot
to you YouTube, don't flag us. But again, thank y'all
for tuning in, and we will see y'all next week.