August 4, 2025 • 39 mins
This is the full show for July 31, 2025. We ask the American Mamas why leftists are losing their minds over the American Eagle ad with Sidney Sweeney. We Dig Deep into a special session to redraw districts for Congressional seats in Texas. Plus, President Trump is reinstating the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, and that's a Bright Spot!
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Speaker 5 (01:00):
This is American ground Radiom, Stephen Povard, Lewis sar Well,
Senator Chuck Grassley. I mean what he released is nothing
short of a bombshell. He has released this newly declassified
annex to the Durham Report. It is look, it is
echoing far beyond political circles.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean, right through the far beyond political what's that mean?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
That just means it's right to the core of our
American democracy Because for years, the whole Trump Russia collusion
narrative was the dominant story in US politics.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right for the first three and a half years of
President Trump's presidency until COVID came around. Yes, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
but that Russia.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Ruc that cast a very dark shadow on the legitimacy
for some folks, those on the left, at least for
about half the country of Donald Trump's presidency, and still
to this day, a majority of Democrats believe that Donald
Trump colluded with Russia when all of it was one
made up by Hillary Clinton, by Hillary Clinton's campaign, and
then propagated by Barack Obama. John Clapper, James Clapper, John Brennan,
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James Comy, that the entire apparatus of government, they turned
the CIA, the FBI, the domestics, they turned international spying
agencies against our own government. No, absolutely, And so what
Senator Grassley's unveiling here of these documents indicate is that
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it was a deliberate Clinton campaign scheme. Yes, we need this,
but it was it was approved, It was all approved
personally by Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
But we knew this. We knew this because you know
who the very first person who said on television that
Donald Trump was being investigated by the FBI for Rush
occlusion was do you know who? The very first person
said that was?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Hillary shed exactly Clinton, but this course she made but
here too four that was conjecture for the most part. Well,
these documents the okay logic, but you're you're certainly still
but you're making some leap of that. But we knew
A plus B plus C, you know, equals whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But we knew Hillary Clinton was running the Hillary Clinton campaign.
This got her name on it. The Hillary Clinton campaign
hired Perkins Coy and said, get us some dirt on
Donald Trump. Perkins Coy, this supposed law firm, goes and
hires Christopher Steele, a British spy. They say, hey, get
us some dirt on Donald Trump. Christopher Steele goes around
and just makes stuff up whole cloth and pays other
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people to make stuff up whole cloth. Now started with
Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
But the reason this is a bombshell is because now
you have the corroborating documentation. It's not just one person's
testimony or word against another.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So you've got documents that proved.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
So now you have basically not basically that Hillary Clinton
herself gave the green light to the plan. She approved
these proposals to Tye Putin to Trump and Russian hackers,
and according to intercepted communications and intelligence from US agencies
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in July of twenty sixteen. This is where all of
this information now is coming from. It is our US
intelligence from that time. So it's not like associates saying, well,
of course it was Hillary, and it was the Clinton Foundation,
and it was the Steele dossier all of that. Now
you've got the receipts.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, and this is but if Chuck Grassley has these receipts,
these receipts came from Durham, right the Durham report well possibly,
which means Durham had these receipts. Why didn't Durham publicize
these Why didn't Durham? He was job was to find
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out for the American people how the whole Russia collusion started.
And we did find out some stuff. We found out
the Perkinskoy hired Christopher Steele, and that Perkins Coy was
hired by Hillary Clinton's campaign. We heard we found that
out from Durham. But why weren't these documents released at
the time.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Well, part of it, just to kind of put a
exclamation mark on all of this, the FBI Kosh Pateel,
remember he recently found all of these documents, much of
these documents that Chuck Grassley, Senator Grassley has released.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Now the burn bags.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
He found them in these burn bags, which were in
a hidden room at FBI headquarters.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It makes it look like someone was charged with burning
those bags and didn't and didn't because and hid them
and because they probably got cold feet, because of the
consequences they could be looking whomever it was that was
tasked with that job. What did the person just wanted
to do the right thing and knew that Joe Biden's
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people would not be president forever and that if this
person could just hide them for long enough that it
would come out. Because look, Coshpitel wasn't wandering around the
halls of the FBI headquarters just opening up every door
and looking for burn bags. Someone had to point him
to where those burn bags were. I mean that's a
logical assumption. Yes, sure, I mean, it's not like he's
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a member of the Scooby Doo gang just going and
opening doors all throughout FBI headquarters. Someone knew that they
were there, pointed Coshpitel in that direction. Kosh Betel says, oh, look,
I found these burn bags. Well, yeah, you found them
because someone showed them to you. So that suggests that
whoever showed Cospitel these bags may have been the person
who put them there in the first place. That person
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should be given an award for being an American hero
for not burning government documents that implicated the governments in
its own conspiracy. Right.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I mean, but these burn bags, I think there's a
lot in there. And I think it's not just Hillary Clinton.
I don't think I think there's smoking guns. They are
not just affecting Hillary Clinton the or even President Bill Clinton.
To what extent did he know? What did he know
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and when did he know it?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I get the feeling though that Bill Clinton wasn't as
involved in Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen campaign as one as
he wanted to be. He wanted to be in charge
of the campaign. He wanted to be involved, and he
was mad that her people weren't involving him. He felt
at the time, there's all these reports that came out
saying Bill Clinton felt like he wasn't being involved in
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Hillary's campaign as much as he should have been, and
he felt that they were doing things wrong. And remember
when she wrote that memoir after her campaign, Like Kamala
Harris is now doing. She's doing the post morte memoir
on her campaign. Hillary wrote the what Happened? Remember that book?
What Happened? The word is that when Bill Clinton read
the book, he threw it in the trash. So Bill
Clinton was not on board. As you know, as much
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as I disliked Bill Clinton, the evidence suggests Bill Clinton
was not on board with most of the stuff that
was going on in the Hillary Clinton campaign. That it
was Hillary who was doing it, Hillary who was leading it.
Hillary making your own decisions without even consulting Bill, which
I think is political malpractice because say what you want
about him, Bill Clinton's a heck of a politician.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
But this information, these receipts, so to speak, I mean,
it's difficult to overstate the implications, though, because they told
you for years that Trump was Putin's puppet. They rigged investigations,
they rigged the coverage, and now it turns out the
only thing getting fabricated was the narrative against Trump, hatched
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right at the top of the Clinton campaign and the FBI.
They didn't stop the hoax. They joined the parade.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yes, the FBI was part of it, and the FBI
lied to the FISA Court, which was supposed to prevent
the spying on Americans. They lied to the court over
and over and over. And this is what's so infuriating.
You know. Chuck Schumer went on and warned Donald Trump
against saying anything bad about the intelligence agencies because they've got,
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as he said, six ways to Sunday to come back
at you. Well, what did Chuck Schumer know, because that's
exactly what the intelligence agencies were doing. They were turning
their state craft against Donald Trump. Let's get the top
thy things. You need no before tomorrow. Firsting you need
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no be fomorrow. President Trump announced two big trade deals.
The first was with Pakistan. The agreement oil allow for
American companies to drill for oil in Pakistan and then
sell that oil around the world. The second deal was
with South Korea. And that deal, South Korea agreed to
completely open their markets to US goods without a tariff.
The US will charge Korea eight fifteen percent tariff in return.
In addition, South Korea is planning on investing three hundred
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and fifty billion dollars in the US and will purchase
one hundred billion dollars worth of liquified natural gas.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
What do you think about that.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's just winning.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Man, you're not tired of winning.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm not tired of winning.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I'm telling you gotta pay yourself.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Second thing you needed before. While the Arab League is
calling on Hamas to disarm, return all hostages to Israel,
and give up all power in the Gaza strip. It's
part of what's called the New York Declaration that was
negotiated at the UN by France, the Arab League, Cotter
and Egypt. It specifically says Hamas quote must end its
rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the
Palestinian authority. This is the first time the Arab League
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has publicly denounced Hamas and called for it to give
up power. The goal of the declaration is to create
a two state solution in Israel.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Okay, whatever that goal is. The hostages need to be released.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I mean. But for you to hold those hostages that
that is an act of war.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But for yet of all these Arabs countries like Saudi
Arabia and all these others that have always been hostile
to Israel to say to Hamas, you're the problem. The
problem is you stop it. That's the first time in
world history that's ever happened, and the third thing you
need know. But from tomorrow, the North Carolina Legislature overrode
a veto by Democrat Governor Josh Stein of a bill
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defining what a woman is. The bill HB eight h
five officially recognizes there are only two sexes, male and female.
It bans transgender drugs and medical procedures on miners, allows
parents to opt their kids out of sexually charged classroom activities, discussions,
or library books, prevents boys from sleeping with girls on
school trips, and prevents the sexual exploitation of women and miners.
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The veto override pass North Carolina House seventy two to
forty eight and in the Senate thirty to nineteen. Only
one Democrat voted for the bill in the House, none
did in the Senate. No Republican voted against it in
either house. Stein is in his first year as governor
of North Carolina, taking office back in January.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Oh my goodness, for a.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
First year governor to already be overridden on a veto
that's going to make the rest of his administration pretty hard.
We'll be back.
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Speaker 5 (12:46):
Okay, so, ladies and gentlemen, I have a big round,
or let's have a very big round of applause for
Kamala Harris here. Oh thank you, thank you, thank you.
Well she should be saying thank you. Why she's not here?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Why?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I mean, she's the only residential candidate in history whose
campaign lasted barely longer than the NFL postseason. Okay, and
now she thinks the whole country is lined up at
Barnes and Noble to relive this fiasco. She's she's announcing
her memoirs, her memoirs based on her run for president.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I mean, what, so she's writing. So she just announced
this week that she's not running for governor California, but
instead she's putting out the Kamala Harris memoirs. Are these
just the memoirs of the campaign.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah, apparently. I mean, if this book tour is anything
like her campaign, I mean, I think she'll announce that
she's coming to your city and quietly leave after three
people show up and half of them are our lost
door dash drivers. I mean, this is utterly I mean,
she couldn't get folks to show up at her rallies
in the middle of a presidential campaign, and now she's
announcing this book tour.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean, they had some people at her rallies. It
wasn't as bad as Hill's all. Okay, it may be manufactured,
but I'm trying to be factual here. There were some
people at her rallies. There were more people at Kamala
Harris's rallies than there were at Joe Biden's in twenty
twenty or Hillary Clinton's in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So her book is called one hundred and seven Days,
one hundred and seven days the quickest, I mean, what
it should be called is one hundred and seven days
the quickest presidential flameout ever. Okay, I mean you thought
Michael Bloomberg's campaign was brief.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, Michael Bloomberg's campaign was the most expensive campaign per
vote in American history because he flamed out pretty quickly.
But he spent what a billion dollars? It was just
it was a massive amount and it was almost all
self fun.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
And here's what we're promised in this book, all right,
and I quote a candid, reflective, behind the scenes narrative.
I guess, unburd by what has been Oh no, no,
certainly unburdened by facts. I mean what yeah, And what
does the title mean? One hundred and seven days? Well,
that's how longer campaign was. So she's blaming she's going
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to be blaming her loss to Donald Trump on the
fact that she didn't have a whole bunch of time
to actually run the campaign. One hundred and seven days
was not enough time to get people to vote for
It's certainly not. And look, this book is three hundred
and twenty pages.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
But see that whole narrative is wrong though, because it's
not like people didn't know who Kamala Harris was. She
had been vice president for four years, she had run
for president. Before that, she was a senator from California.
She was the Attorney general from California. People knew who
she was. We got a question for American mama's, Dear mamas,
why are leftists losing their minds over the American Eagle
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ad with Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Well, let's ask our American mama's.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Mamma, she said, and joining is now are American mama's
Terry Edeville and Kimberly Burls, And so Sidney Sweeney's doing
an at is this American Eagles the brand of jeans,
and uh, you know they're they're doing that lingering long
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shot going up her legs and upper torso into her face,
and she's talking somewhat seductively, and she says, you know,
it's it's in my genes, you know, I get I get,
I get my blue eyes from my parents, and that
the tagline is Sidney Sweeney has good genes and they're
playing off the genetic right. She's a good looking person,
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you know.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
With the blue jeans because she says, my jeans are
blue like the blue jans exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So then people on the left have gotten very upset
about this, saying now Sidney Sweeney is like Hitler.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
They've lost their minds. You know, when I first saw
the do you remember when Brooke Shields did the Blue Jaens.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I was thinking of Brookshields.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
It was that same kind of monotone voice that she
used and then she said nothing comes between me and
mine exactly. It was kind of reminiscent of that. And
so we all know this about Sydney Sweeney. She's got
those big, voluptuous boobs that are natural. She's got this
thin body, she's got this great look, and you know
she's like that. She's kind of like the little sex
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kitten of now she is like a Marilyn Monroe but now, yes,
and so it was a playoff of that, like they
kind of played off the word genes g E n
E s compared to the genes blue genes.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right, and because she is objectively a good looking exactly, yeah, yes, exactly,
it's it's what started her career.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Yes, well, somehow, some way, immediately the leftist, the lefty
lefts all of a sudden, they're saying, this is a
dog whistle, this is a Nazi cried, this is she
is Clearly they are inherently American eagle is absolutely basically
saluting the white man.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, look, I gotta say they're American eagle, right, yeah,
well there was an eagle as part of the symbol
for the Nazi part. Are you so there?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
You have it?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We got objective, let's go there.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
It's so crazy because you know, this is where I
kind of get upset. I was talking to you know,
Kimberly Lindsay and I have her own little sister thread
and I said, you know, this is this is what's
so bothersome, and I think that we're kind of tired
of it all of these these last four years especially.
You can say, you know, gay is beautiful, black is beautiful,
you know, transgender. You should be free to express how
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much you love being Everybody could say whatever they want.
But if you're white, you better not say I love
being white.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
What if we've done a commercial saying Beyonce has good genes?
Would anybody? I'm not one person.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
That's the part that's frustrating. She had nothing. She did
not say anything about her race. She's just talking about
her looks. And it's a subjective thing. You know, if
you were in Africa, what would they think is beautiful?
You know whatever, China, it's all about what she think,
so what, so what if she is beautiful? Nobody said
anything about the color of her skin, but they take it.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
There's my genes are blue.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
And let me just say, let me just make this
very clear. It's not the black population, the black community
that's even griping about this true if not nobody is,
in fact, I think they're out there going what y'll doing,
this is ridiculous. It's the white liberal women that are
just I don't know what their problem is. There are
a bunch of Karens who are just like looking for
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a way to virtue signal. They are looking for a
way to be virtuous, Like look at me, I'm in
a white apologist.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I am so happy with who I am. I couldn't
change it if I wouldn't. I love my ancestors because
they everything led to me being who I am today,
Just like I hope that if I was black, I'd
say the same exact thing if I was Jewish, if
I was Asian, you should be very proud of who
you came from, where he came from, and not apologize.
I'm so tired of that. So it's I think it's
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going to take and this is happening more and more
those in the black community stepping up to these white
Karens and saying, are you crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's one of those things that whatever you look for,
you'll find it. Right, whatever you're looking for, you will
find it. If you are looking for grace, you'll find grace.
It's it's that old mister Rogers his mother said in
the times of trouble, look for the helpers, because if
you look for the helpers, you will find it, and
that will build you up. Whatever you look for, you
will find it. If you are looking for a reason
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to be offended, you will find it. And if you're
really looking for a reason to be offended, what I
just said will offend you exactly.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
And there's no Like we've said before, if you're offended,
so what get over it?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You just move on. Nothing happens.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Yeah, there's nothing. But then you have these PhDs like
the one that I sent you, that clip of that
woman and she looked like a hash.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
She was on the Today Show. Yeah she did not
shed Morning America.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
And so she's coming from this expert level and she's
spewing all of this stuff to start some sort of controversy,
some sort of drama. We're so over that now.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I call them Roman fools because in the Book of
Romans says professing themselves to be wise, they become fools.
There you go, this is what this is. If you
are if you are a professor in I don't know offense,
if you're a professor of offensive offensiveness, yes, and you're like,
oh well, this quite clearly is. There's Sydney Sweeney's now
the offspring of it off Hitler.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Yeah, you fool, you fools, got to backfire all of it,
and guess what it has. American Eagle Hoole stocks they
have shot up. People are buying jeans. They don't even
wear jeans because they want to prove a point.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
If you like to ask our American Mama's a question,
go to our website americanground Rader dot com sash mamas
and click on the ass the mama's button tearing out
of OK. Kimberly, Brothersten, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
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Welcome back to American ground Radio. Stephen Park with the
wissaw Well.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
President Trump, I think made a deal with Mexico that
he had to make, okay, And basically he's extending the
current arrangements. You know, there was a temporary trade agreement
between the United States and Mexico, and he's extending it
another ninety days, all right, But he says, you know
this is a very unique situation because of the border
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right with Mexico. And he said, look, you know, Mexico
has been helping in securing our border. Yes, but he
says it's not enough. He says, Mexico is not stopping
the drug cartels as much as they could, which these
drug cartels still remain a major threat to our country.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, they are a massive threat to Mexico's country, and politicians,
any politician that tries to speak out against the cartels,
the cartels go and murder. I mean that Mexico is
just one step away from being a drug state, from
being an arco state.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
So, as President Trump put it, you know, basically Mexico
can he used to fail in blocking the cartel's activities
and basically turning all of North America into this narco
trafficking playground. And so anyway, this deal, he calls it.
President Trump calls this deal a pause rather than a resolution,
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explaining that Mexico will continue paying tariffs such as a
twenty five percent fentanyl tariff, twenty five percent tariff on cars,
higher tariffs on steel, aluminum.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And copper, and.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Both sides agreed to all of this. I mean, Mexico
agreed to all of this basically to extend the negotiations
with the goal of signing a longer term and certainly
more beneficial agreement with the United States.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, and look, Donald Trump's done an amazing job with
these negotiations. We were talking about Pakistan, South Korea. He's
gotten the Philippines right, Japan, He's had the EU that
those deals. He's had a huge number of trade deals
Britain and it's he's had a lot of success with it.
And so we've we're having a tough time getting Canada
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and Mexico on board with this. And I still trust
President Trump to get the job done eventually.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah, well, he's being consistent. At least he's using this
pattern of combining pressure and public declarations and hard ball negotiations.
And it's across the board with everyone.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Let's stick deep, going down, down down. So the state
of Texas is doing something a little bit unusual. They
are calling a special session to draw new districts for
congressional seats. This is usually only done after the census
is updated every decade, but Texas is doing it in
the middle of the decade. What's more, redrawing the districts
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in Texas is likely to give Republicans five more seats
in the House, and that would double the advantage Republicans
currently have the House that they're successful. Just from the
Daily Wire, Representatives in the Quaar and Vincente Gonzales, who
narrowly won re election twenty twenty four despy Trump carrying
both districts, would see their districts redrawn to favor Republicans
by ten point margins. The map also eliminates three Democrat
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held seats in San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas, replacing them
with districts that Trump won by fifteen or more points.
In Houston, Leftist Rep. Al Green's ninth congressional district would
be combined with vacant Democrat held eighteenth, creating a new
sixty one percent Hispanic district further east that Trump would
have carried by fifteen points. According to Politico Now Speaker
Mike Johnson, we were at the actually at this town
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hall earlier this week. He was at a town hall,
and then he was on CNN afterward, and he was
asked by Jake Tapper on CNN, Well, the questions full
of errors. We'll get to that. But Tapper was like, hey,
why not just keep the districts as they are. Take
a listen, But instead.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Of having an arms race on redistricting, which is what
it looks like we're about to have, would it not
theoretically be better for every state have an independent commission
so that voters get to pick their members of Congress
instead of members of Congress getting to pick their voters.
Wouldn't that theoretically be a better goal?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Well, the Devil's always into details, Jake. I mean, some
of these blue states have had commissions and they have
worked out so that they've eliminated Republican seats in their states.
We've already seen that in some of the some of
the states around the country. So I'm not sure that's
the solution either. I tell you what, I will work
with whatever we have. At the end of the day,
we have a solid, hard working Republican majority in the
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House right now and the Senate. We're delivering for the people,
and I'm very excited to go out and tell that story.
I'm very excited about the midterm election.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
You know that we're going to so I do think
Republicans are going to hold on to control in the
House in the mid in the midterms that are coming up,
and that's what the polling is showing, even without Texas's redistrict.
But Tapra's question gets a couple of things wrong. He says,
should shouldn't shouldn't we have people choose their congressmen? Not
congressmen choose their people. Congressmen aren't choosing their voters. The
state legislatures choose the voters from members of Congress, and
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Tappers should know that he either doesn't have a strong
enough foundation in civics to be a national anchor, or
he was intentionally trying to make a false point, or
he just wasn't thinking clearly on national TV. But congressmen
aren't picking their voters. This is the Texas legislature doing this,
not congress. Cappra's off. He's wrong. Moreover, his idea of
a state commission hasn't solved jerrymandery. So take California. California
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created a redistricting commission, and that commission ended up creating
more districts for Democrats, more for Democrat friendly districts through
the commission. So it's not that they created a balanced map.
They created one that heavily favored Democrats. The commission wasn't unbiased.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
No, And look that the whole deal about jerry mandering, right,
which is for those of you who don't know, and
I know most of our audience already knows. It's the
practice of like drawing these electoral district boundaries to advantage
a political particular particle, party, or a group. And I
think it is very destructive gerrymandering, that is, to representative democracy.
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I agree, because when you manipulate, when you manipulate these
district maps, lawmakers undermine the core democratic principles of fair representation,
right of equal voting power, electoral competition, and accountability. And
that's what's so dangerous here. And as Speaker Johnson pointed out,
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you know, Democrats have been doing this for decades in
all of our fifty states, more than a century. I mean,
we've had gerrymandering going back to the eighteen hundreds when
the first salamander shaped district was made and they called
that the gerrymander. Now, look Gavin Newsom, governor gave Newsom California.
He's threatening to retaliate for texas As redistricting. He says, well,
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if Texas redistricts to create five new Republican districts. We're
going to redistrict in California to create five new Democrat districts. Well,
two reasons he can't do that. One because of the Commission.
So California took the power to redistrict away from its
state legislature gave it to the Commission. So Gavin Newsom
can't just threaten we're going to redraw. The Commission has
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to do it.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
More the point, I'm not sure he could draw a
more Democrat friendly map in California if he tried. Vice
President Ja d Vance made that point on Twitter. He said,
of their fifty two congressional districts, nine of them are Republican.
That means seventeen percent of the delegation is Republican when
Republicans regularly win forty percent of the vote in that state.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
And you know what's so offensive and really just disgusting
is that those who are in favor of redistricting based
on race.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
For example, well like they did in Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
What they're basically saying is and Democrats are saying this
part out loud, yes, is that they aren't adequately represented
by a white congressman.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yes, that's the whole premise behind it.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
So if you have black congressmen and women, are you
saying white people aren't properly represented?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
That's a great less So let's go back to Texas.
You've got you know, Wesley Hunt, Congressman Wesley Hunt, West
Point Graduate, he's now in Congress, been re elected, and
his district is majority white. He happens to be black.
His district's majority white. Are you telling me the white
people in his district have no one to vote for?
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I mean, if you say that a black person is
no one to vote for unless they're black.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
It's just flawed logic.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
It's absolutely flawed logic. So look, Texas is simply threatening
to do what California has already done. And once again
we have the left screaming about something they're currently doing,
but in reverse, it's the Party of Projection. They accuse
you of jerrymandering, know that they've been doing that already,
and it's part of why Congress is so close right
now when the vote was much more Republican.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Paul with Lewis
sar Avalonaide.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
So there is a new Pew Research poll that just dropped,
and it is a total game changer because I think
we are witnessing nothing short of a political earthquake among
the youth in America because for decades the Democrats have
taken young voters for granted, right, counting them as rock solid,
you know, pillar of their coalition. Well surprised that pillar
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is crumbling faster than you can say socialism because back
in twenty twenty three, sixty two percent of men aged
eighteen to twenty nine said they were Democrats.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Is sixty two percent of men young men eighteen to
twenty nine in twenty twenty three, in twenty twenty three eight, yes, yes, correct,
But now yeah, twenty twenty five, two years later, just
thirty four percent, thirty four percent. So you went from
sixty two percent two years ago, yeah, to thirty four
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percent now because say they're who say they're Democrats. That's
a huge That is a twenty eight point nose dive
in just two years. Meanwhile, Republicans, well they have surged
really from thirty six percent okay two years ago to
fifty two percent, and that's in the same age group.
They've almost flopped positions.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
That's a sixteen point jump, a seismic shift, and that
is the kind you don't see every election cycle.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
No, that's that's actually the last time I think you
saw something similar to that would have been in the
nineteen sixties when it went from conservative to Democrat among
young people. But you know, young people have actually been
much more leftist than conservative for a very long time.
There's that old saying, you know, show me a young
man who's a conservative, will show you a man with
no heart. Show me an old man who's a leftist
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or a liberal, and I'll show you a man with
no So you've had that general transition that's kind of
been well.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I think they're learning that. I think now young people
are learning those lessons at a much younger age.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well, and the left doesn't really have the heart that
the left used to have. Instead of being bleeding hearts,
they're now proto fascists.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Let's see. I think the Democrat Party has burned through
their credibility with the young generation because they've had to
live through skyrocketing inflation, yes, ballooning crime, and cities that
are run by Democratic mayors.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Anti democratic campaigns run by the Democratic Party. Again, no
one voted for Kamala before she became the nominee of
that party.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
So anyway, it's good news because these young people are
rejecting those policies that have left them worse off.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, especially men, especially men. The Democrat Party has been
very hostile to men for a.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
While, and they're waking up, I think, to a Republican
party that is more welcoming, more aligned with their hopes
and dreams.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Let's get to a brid spot.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
I'm doing all right, getting good grace. I got a shame.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
So back in the nineteen fifties, President Eisenhower wanted to
improve the physical fitness of American children, so he created
the President's Council on Youth Fitness, which then created the
Youth Fitness Project. President Kennedy expanded that program into the
Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Kennedy wrote an op ed in
Sports illustrated the harsh fact of the matter is that
there is also increasingly large number of young Americans who
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are neglecting their bodies, whose physical fitness is not what
it should be, and who are getting soft. And such
softness on the part of the individual citizen can help
to strip and destroy the vitality of a nation sounds
kind of like what's going on even more so today? Right, absolutely,
So what happened? Do you remember taking the Presidential Physical
Fitness Test in elementary school? You remember doing that?
Speaker 5 (35:56):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Maybe I remember getting that gun.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Wasn't particularly fit growing up.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So Barack Obama happened. In twenty twelve, President Barack Obama
killed the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, and since then, more
and more children have become obese. Now I'm not saying
Obama is the cause of youth obesity, but getting rid
of the rigorous standards of the Presidential Physical fitness help
certainly didn't The fitness test certainly didn't help turn that around. Well,
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here's the bright spot. This week, President Trump announced he's
reinstating the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Carolyn Levitt released a
statement saying, quote, President Trump wants every young American to
have the opportunity to emphasize healthy, active lifestyles, creating a
culture of strength and excellence for years to come. I
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love that we're going to create a culture of strength
and excellence in this country.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Absolutely, But you know, and I think it is true,
we have had declining physical fitness and overall health but
I think some of that, or maybe much of that,
it's not just what we're eating, right, it's not exercising.
I think the younger.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Generation there's a big part of not exercising.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
But I think the younger generation spends excessive time in
front of their screens. I mean, and you say the
younger generation, I'm not necessarily part of the younger generation.
I spend a ton of time every day behind the screen.
But habits get formed early. So if you're creating healthy
habits early, habits like exercise, it's easier to keep those
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going for a lifetime. Whereas if you're trying to start
those habits when you're in your thirties, forties, or fifties,
it's harder to change the habit of not exercise. But
if you look back at the nineteen fifties in the
nineteen sixties, that was an era that was marked by
more regular physical activity, particularly among the youth, and I
think the country as a whole was healthier. Chronic illnesses
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obesity like obesity, maybe diabetes.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Imagine how healthy the country would have been have we
ended up been smoking cigarettes back in the.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Nineteen fifties and sixty But today, though sixty percent of
Americans suffer from chronic illnesses.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Now, the exact standards of this new test have not
yet been announced. President Trump is establishing a committee to
come up with what those standards are. In the nineteen fifties,
the standards basically you were competing against other kids. To
get the awards, you had to be in the top
eighty five percent that was compared to other students. In
the nineteen eighties, that was changed. Basically you were then
competing against a standard set of fitness. So many sit
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ups and push ups in a minute, and you either
reach that level or you didn't. And it did improve
the number of kids scoring over the standards. So I
think that's probably a better way to go. Have the
kids go after a set standard. Not necessarily a percentage
of health across the country, but here's the set standard.
Reach the standard, you'd get the Presidential Fitness Award.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
And it's not going to all come in at once. No,
little by little, little by little, it's a bridespot. We
should have never gotten rid of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.
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American ground Radio with Lewis r Avalone and Stephen Prokol.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
This is American ground Radiom, Stephen Povard, Lewis sar Well,
Senator Chuck Grassley. I mean what he released is nothing
short of a bombshell. He has released this newly declassified
annex to the Durham Report. It is look, it is
echoing far beyond political circles.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean, right through the far beyond political what's that mean?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
That just means it's right to the core of our
American democracy Because for years, the whole Trump Russia collusion
narrative was the dominant story in US politics.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right for the first three and a half years of
President Trump's presidency until COVID came around. Yes, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
but that Russia.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Ruc that cast a very dark shadow on the legitimacy
for some folks, those on the left, at least for
about half the country of Donald Trump's presidency, and still
to this day, a majority of Democrats believe that Donald
Trump colluded with Russia when all of it was one
made up by Hillary Clinton, by Hillary Clinton's campaign, and
then propagated by Barack Obama. John Clapper, James Clapper, John Brennan,
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James Comy, that the entire apparatus of government, they turned
the CIA, the FBI, the domestics, they turned international spying
agencies against our own government. No, absolutely, And so what
Senator Grassley's unveiling here of these documents indicate is that
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it was a deliberate Clinton campaign scheme. Yes, we need this,
but it was it was approved, It was all approved
personally by Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
But we knew this. We knew this because you know
who the very first person who said on television that
Donald Trump was being investigated by the FBI for Rush
occlusion was do you know who? The very first person
said that was?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Hillary shed exactly Clinton, but this course she made but
here too four that was conjecture for the most part. Well,
these documents the okay logic, but you're you're certainly still
but you're making some leap of that. But we knew
A plus B plus C, you know, equals whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But we knew Hillary Clinton was running the Hillary Clinton campaign.
This got her name on it. The Hillary Clinton campaign
hired Perkins Coy and said, get us some dirt on
Donald Trump. Perkins Coy, this supposed law firm, goes and
hires Christopher Steele, a British spy. They say, hey, get
us some dirt on Donald Trump. Christopher Steele goes around
and just makes stuff up whole cloth and pays other
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people to make stuff up whole cloth. Now started with
Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
But the reason this is a bombshell is because now
you have the corroborating documentation. It's not just one person's
testimony or word against another.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So you've got documents that proved.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
So now you have basically not basically that Hillary Clinton
herself gave the green light to the plan. She approved
these proposals to Tye Putin to Trump and Russian hackers,
and according to intercepted communications and intelligence from US agencies
(04:18):
in July of twenty sixteen. This is where all of
this information now is coming from. It is our US
intelligence from that time. So it's not like associates saying, well,
of course it was Hillary, and it was the Clinton Foundation,
and it was the Steele dossier all of that. Now
you've got the receipts.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, and this is but if Chuck Grassley has these receipts,
these receipts came from Durham, right the Durham report well possibly,
which means Durham had these receipts. Why didn't Durham publicize
these Why didn't Durham? He was job was to find
(05:00):
out for the American people how the whole Russia collusion started.
And we did find out some stuff. We found out
the Perkinskoy hired Christopher Steele, and that Perkins Coy was
hired by Hillary Clinton's campaign. We heard we found that
out from Durham. But why weren't these documents released at
the time.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Well, part of it, just to kind of put a
exclamation mark on all of this, the FBI Kosh Pateel,
remember he recently found all of these documents, much of
these documents that Chuck Grassley, Senator Grassley has released.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Now the burn bags.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
He found them in these burn bags, which were in
a hidden room at FBI headquarters.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It makes it look like someone was charged with burning
those bags and didn't and didn't because and hid them
and because they probably got cold feet, because of the
consequences they could be looking whomever it was that was
tasked with that job. What did the person just wanted
to do the right thing and knew that Joe Biden's
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people would not be president forever and that if this
person could just hide them for long enough that it
would come out. Because look, Coshpitel wasn't wandering around the
halls of the FBI headquarters just opening up every door
and looking for burn bags. Someone had to point him
to where those burn bags were. I mean that's a
logical assumption. Yes, sure, I mean, it's not like he's
(06:25):
a member of the Scooby Doo gang just going and
opening doors all throughout FBI headquarters. Someone knew that they
were there, pointed Coshpitel in that direction. Kosh Betel says, oh, look,
I found these burn bags. Well, yeah, you found them
because someone showed them to you. So that suggests that
whoever showed Cospitel these bags may have been the person
who put them there in the first place. That person
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should be given an award for being an American hero
for not burning government documents that implicated the governments in
its own conspiracy. Right.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I mean, but these burn bags, I think there's a
lot in there. And I think it's not just Hillary Clinton.
I don't think I think there's smoking guns. They are
not just affecting Hillary Clinton the or even President Bill Clinton.
To what extent did he know? What did he know
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and when did he know it?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I get the feeling though that Bill Clinton wasn't as
involved in Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen campaign as one as
he wanted to be. He wanted to be in charge
of the campaign. He wanted to be involved, and he
was mad that her people weren't involving him. He felt
at the time, there's all these reports that came out
saying Bill Clinton felt like he wasn't being involved in
(07:43):
Hillary's campaign as much as he should have been, and
he felt that they were doing things wrong. And remember
when she wrote that memoir after her campaign, Like Kamala
Harris is now doing. She's doing the post morte memoir
on her campaign. Hillary wrote the what Happened? Remember that book?
What Happened? The word is that when Bill Clinton read
the book, he threw it in the trash. So Bill
Clinton was not on board. As you know, as much
(08:04):
as I disliked Bill Clinton, the evidence suggests Bill Clinton
was not on board with most of the stuff that
was going on in the Hillary Clinton campaign. That it
was Hillary who was doing it, Hillary who was leading it.
Hillary making your own decisions without even consulting Bill, which
I think is political malpractice because say what you want
about him, Bill Clinton's a heck of a politician.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
But this information, these receipts, so to speak, I mean,
it's difficult to overstate the implications, though, because they told
you for years that Trump was Putin's puppet. They rigged investigations,
they rigged the coverage, and now it turns out the
only thing getting fabricated was the narrative against Trump, hatched
(08:45):
right at the top of the Clinton campaign and the FBI.
They didn't stop the hoax. They joined the parade.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yes, the FBI was part of it, and the FBI
lied to the FISA Court, which was supposed to prevent
the spying on Americans. They lied to the court over
and over and over. And this is what's so infuriating.
You know. Chuck Schumer went on and warned Donald Trump
against saying anything bad about the intelligence agencies because they've got,
(09:12):
as he said, six ways to Sunday to come back
at you. Well, what did Chuck Schumer know, because that's
exactly what the intelligence agencies were doing. They were turning
their state craft against Donald Trump. Let's get the top
thy things. You need no before tomorrow. Firsting you need
(09:36):
no be fomorrow. President Trump announced two big trade deals.
The first was with Pakistan. The agreement oil allow for
American companies to drill for oil in Pakistan and then
sell that oil around the world. The second deal was
with South Korea. And that deal, South Korea agreed to
completely open their markets to US goods without a tariff.
The US will charge Korea eight fifteen percent tariff in return.
In addition, South Korea is planning on investing three hundred
(09:57):
and fifty billion dollars in the US and will purchase
one hundred billion dollars worth of liquified natural gas.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
What do you think about that.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's just winning.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Man, you're not tired of winning.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm not tired of winning.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I'm telling you gotta pay yourself.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Second thing you needed before. While the Arab League is
calling on Hamas to disarm, return all hostages to Israel,
and give up all power in the Gaza strip. It's
part of what's called the New York Declaration that was
negotiated at the UN by France, the Arab League, Cotter
and Egypt. It specifically says Hamas quote must end its
rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the
Palestinian authority. This is the first time the Arab League
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has publicly denounced Hamas and called for it to give
up power. The goal of the declaration is to create
a two state solution in Israel.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Okay, whatever that goal is. The hostages need to be released.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I mean. But for you to hold those hostages that
that is an act of war.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But for yet of all these Arabs countries like Saudi
Arabia and all these others that have always been hostile
to Israel to say to Hamas, you're the problem. The
problem is you stop it. That's the first time in
world history that's ever happened, and the third thing you
need know. But from tomorrow, the North Carolina Legislature overrode
a veto by Democrat Governor Josh Stein of a bill
(11:07):
defining what a woman is. The bill HB eight h
five officially recognizes there are only two sexes, male and female.
It bans transgender drugs and medical procedures on miners, allows
parents to opt their kids out of sexually charged classroom activities, discussions,
or library books, prevents boys from sleeping with girls on
school trips, and prevents the sexual exploitation of women and miners.
(11:29):
The veto override pass North Carolina House seventy two to
forty eight and in the Senate thirty to nineteen. Only
one Democrat voted for the bill in the House, none
did in the Senate. No Republican voted against it in
either house. Stein is in his first year as governor
of North Carolina, taking office back in January.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Oh my goodness, for a.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
First year governor to already be overridden on a veto
that's going to make the rest of his administration pretty hard.
We'll be back.
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio Stephen Pop with lewissar Avaloney.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Okay, so, ladies and gentlemen, I have a big round,
or let's have a very big round of applause for
Kamala Harris here. Oh thank you, thank you, thank you.
Well she should be saying thank you. Why she's not here?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Why?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I mean, she's the only residential candidate in history whose
campaign lasted barely longer than the NFL postseason. Okay, and
now she thinks the whole country is lined up at
Barnes and Noble to relive this fiasco. She's she's announcing
her memoirs, her memoirs based on her run for president.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I mean, what, so she's writing. So she just announced
this week that she's not running for governor California, but
instead she's putting out the Kamala Harris memoirs. Are these
just the memoirs of the campaign.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah, apparently. I mean, if this book tour is anything
like her campaign, I mean, I think she'll announce that
she's coming to your city and quietly leave after three
people show up and half of them are our lost
door dash drivers. I mean, this is utterly I mean,
she couldn't get folks to show up at her rallies
in the middle of a presidential campaign, and now she's
announcing this book tour.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean, they had some people at her rallies. It
wasn't as bad as Hill's all. Okay, it may be manufactured,
but I'm trying to be factual here. There were some
people at her rallies. There were more people at Kamala
Harris's rallies than there were at Joe Biden's in twenty
twenty or Hillary Clinton's in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So her book is called one hundred and seven Days,
one hundred and seven days the quickest, I mean, what
it should be called is one hundred and seven days
the quickest presidential flameout ever. Okay, I mean you thought
Michael Bloomberg's campaign was brief.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, Michael Bloomberg's campaign was the most expensive campaign per
vote in American history because he flamed out pretty quickly.
But he spent what a billion dollars? It was just
it was a massive amount and it was almost all
self fun.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
And here's what we're promised in this book, all right,
and I quote a candid, reflective, behind the scenes narrative.
I guess, unburd by what has been Oh no, no,
certainly unburdened by facts. I mean what yeah, And what
does the title mean? One hundred and seven days? Well,
that's how longer campaign was. So she's blaming she's going
(15:12):
to be blaming her loss to Donald Trump on the
fact that she didn't have a whole bunch of time
to actually run the campaign. One hundred and seven days
was not enough time to get people to vote for
It's certainly not. And look, this book is three hundred
and twenty pages.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
But see that whole narrative is wrong though, because it's
not like people didn't know who Kamala Harris was. She
had been vice president for four years, she had run
for president. Before that, she was a senator from California.
She was the Attorney general from California. People knew who
she was. We got a question for American mama's, Dear mamas,
why are leftists losing their minds over the American Eagle
(15:47):
ad with Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Well, let's ask our American mama's.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Mamma, she said, and joining is now are American mama's
Terry Edeville and Kimberly Burls, And so Sidney Sweeney's doing
an at is this American Eagles the brand of jeans,
and uh, you know they're they're doing that lingering long
(16:14):
shot going up her legs and upper torso into her face,
and she's talking somewhat seductively, and she says, you know,
it's it's in my genes, you know, I get I get,
I get my blue eyes from my parents, and that
the tagline is Sidney Sweeney has good genes and they're
playing off the genetic right. She's a good looking person,
(16:34):
you know.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
With the blue jeans because she says, my jeans are
blue like the blue jans exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So then people on the left have gotten very upset
about this, saying now Sidney Sweeney is like Hitler.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
They've lost their minds. You know, when I first saw
the do you remember when Brooke Shields did the Blue Jaens.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I was thinking of Brookshields.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
It was that same kind of monotone voice that she
used and then she said nothing comes between me and
mine exactly. It was kind of reminiscent of that. And
so we all know this about Sydney Sweeney. She's got
those big, voluptuous boobs that are natural. She's got this
thin body, she's got this great look, and you know
she's like that. She's kind of like the little sex
(17:16):
kitten of now she is like a Marilyn Monroe but now, yes,
and so it was a playoff of that, like they
kind of played off the word genes g E n
E s compared to the genes blue genes.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right, and because she is objectively a good looking exactly, yeah, yes, exactly,
it's it's what started her career.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Yes, well, somehow, some way, immediately the leftist, the lefty
lefts all of a sudden, they're saying, this is a
dog whistle, this is a Nazi cried, this is she
is Clearly they are inherently American eagle is absolutely basically
saluting the white man.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, look, I gotta say they're American eagle, right, yeah,
well there was an eagle as part of the symbol
for the Nazi part. Are you so there?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
You have it?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We got objective, let's go there.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
It's so crazy because you know, this is where I
kind of get upset. I was talking to you know,
Kimberly Lindsay and I have her own little sister thread
and I said, you know, this is this is what's
so bothersome, and I think that we're kind of tired
of it all of these these last four years especially.
You can say, you know, gay is beautiful, black is beautiful,
you know, transgender. You should be free to express how
(18:25):
much you love being Everybody could say whatever they want.
But if you're white, you better not say I love
being white.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
What if we've done a commercial saying Beyonce has good genes?
Would anybody? I'm not one person.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
That's the part that's frustrating. She had nothing. She did
not say anything about her race. She's just talking about
her looks. And it's a subjective thing. You know, if
you were in Africa, what would they think is beautiful?
You know whatever, China, it's all about what she think,
so what, so what if she is beautiful? Nobody said
anything about the color of her skin, but they take it.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
There's my genes are blue.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
And let me just say, let me just make this
very clear. It's not the black population, the black community
that's even griping about this true if not nobody is,
in fact, I think they're out there going what y'll doing,
this is ridiculous. It's the white liberal women that are
just I don't know what their problem is. There are
a bunch of Karens who are just like looking for
(19:23):
a way to virtue signal. They are looking for a
way to be virtuous, Like look at me, I'm in
a white apologist.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I am so happy with who I am. I couldn't
change it if I wouldn't. I love my ancestors because
they everything led to me being who I am today,
Just like I hope that if I was black, I'd
say the same exact thing if I was Jewish, if
I was Asian, you should be very proud of who
you came from, where he came from, and not apologize.
I'm so tired of that. So it's I think it's
(19:52):
going to take and this is happening more and more
those in the black community stepping up to these white
Karens and saying, are you crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's one of those things that whatever you look for,
you'll find it. Right, whatever you're looking for, you will
find it. If you are looking for grace, you'll find grace.
It's it's that old mister Rogers his mother said in
the times of trouble, look for the helpers, because if
you look for the helpers, you will find it, and
that will build you up. Whatever you look for, you
will find it. If you are looking for a reason
(20:21):
to be offended, you will find it. And if you're
really looking for a reason to be offended, what I
just said will offend you exactly.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
And there's no Like we've said before, if you're offended,
so what get over it?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You just move on. Nothing happens.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Yeah, there's nothing. But then you have these PhDs like
the one that I sent you, that clip of that
woman and she looked like a hash.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
She was on the Today Show. Yeah she did not
shed Morning America.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
And so she's coming from this expert level and she's
spewing all of this stuff to start some sort of controversy,
some sort of drama. We're so over that now.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I call them Roman fools because in the Book of
Romans says professing themselves to be wise, they become fools.
There you go, this is what this is. If you
are if you are a professor in I don't know offense,
if you're a professor of offensive offensiveness, yes, and you're like,
oh well, this quite clearly is. There's Sydney Sweeney's now
the offspring of it off Hitler.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Yeah, you fool, you fools, got to backfire all of it,
and guess what it has. American Eagle Hoole stocks they
have shot up. People are buying jeans. They don't even
wear jeans because they want to prove a point.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
If you like to ask our American Mama's a question,
go to our website americanground Rader dot com sash mamas
and click on the ass the mama's button tearing out
of OK. Kimberly, Brothersten, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Thank you.
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Speaker 5 (23:01):
President Trump, I think made a deal with Mexico that
he had to make, okay, And basically he's extending the
current arrangements. You know, there was a temporary trade agreement
between the United States and Mexico, and he's extending it
another ninety days, all right, But he says, you know
this is a very unique situation because of the border
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right with Mexico. And he said, look, you know, Mexico
has been helping in securing our border. Yes, but he
says it's not enough. He says, Mexico is not stopping
the drug cartels as much as they could, which these
drug cartels still remain a major threat to our country.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, they are a massive threat to Mexico's country, and politicians,
any politician that tries to speak out against the cartels,
the cartels go and murder. I mean that Mexico is
just one step away from being a drug state, from
being an arco state.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
So, as President Trump put it, you know, basically Mexico
can he used to fail in blocking the cartel's activities
and basically turning all of North America into this narco
trafficking playground. And so anyway, this deal, he calls it.
President Trump calls this deal a pause rather than a resolution,
(24:20):
explaining that Mexico will continue paying tariffs such as a
twenty five percent fentanyl tariff, twenty five percent tariff on cars,
higher tariffs on steel, aluminum.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And copper, and.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Both sides agreed to all of this. I mean, Mexico
agreed to all of this basically to extend the negotiations
with the goal of signing a longer term and certainly
more beneficial agreement with the United States.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, and look, Donald Trump's done an amazing job with
these negotiations. We were talking about Pakistan, South Korea. He's
gotten the Philippines right, Japan, He's had the EU that
those deals. He's had a huge number of trade deals
Britain and it's he's had a lot of success with it.
And so we've we're having a tough time getting Canada
(25:13):
and Mexico on board with this. And I still trust
President Trump to get the job done eventually.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah, well, he's being consistent. At least he's using this
pattern of combining pressure and public declarations and hard ball negotiations.
And it's across the board with everyone.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Let's stick deep, going down, down down. So the state
of Texas is doing something a little bit unusual. They
are calling a special session to draw new districts for
congressional seats. This is usually only done after the census
is updated every decade, but Texas is doing it in
the middle of the decade. What's more, redrawing the districts
(25:53):
in Texas is likely to give Republicans five more seats
in the House, and that would double the advantage Republicans
currently have the House that they're successful. Just from the
Daily Wire, Representatives in the Quaar and Vincente Gonzales, who
narrowly won re election twenty twenty four despy Trump carrying
both districts, would see their districts redrawn to favor Republicans
by ten point margins. The map also eliminates three Democrat
(26:15):
held seats in San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas, replacing them
with districts that Trump won by fifteen or more points.
In Houston, Leftist Rep. Al Green's ninth congressional district would
be combined with vacant Democrat held eighteenth, creating a new
sixty one percent Hispanic district further east that Trump would
have carried by fifteen points. According to Politico Now Speaker
Mike Johnson, we were at the actually at this town
(26:37):
hall earlier this week. He was at a town hall,
and then he was on CNN afterward, and he was
asked by Jake Tapper on CNN, Well, the questions full
of errors. We'll get to that. But Tapper was like, hey,
why not just keep the districts as they are. Take
a listen, But instead.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Of having an arms race on redistricting, which is what
it looks like we're about to have, would it not
theoretically be better for every state have an independent commission
so that voters get to pick their members of Congress
instead of members of Congress getting to pick their voters.
Wouldn't that theoretically be a better goal?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Well, the Devil's always into details, Jake. I mean, some
of these blue states have had commissions and they have
worked out so that they've eliminated Republican seats in their states.
We've already seen that in some of the some of
the states around the country. So I'm not sure that's
the solution either. I tell you what, I will work
with whatever we have. At the end of the day,
we have a solid, hard working Republican majority in the
(27:30):
House right now and the Senate. We're delivering for the people,
and I'm very excited to go out and tell that story.
I'm very excited about the midterm election.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
You know that we're going to so I do think
Republicans are going to hold on to control in the
House in the mid in the midterms that are coming up,
and that's what the polling is showing, even without Texas's redistrict.
But Tapra's question gets a couple of things wrong. He says,
should shouldn't shouldn't we have people choose their congressmen? Not
congressmen choose their people. Congressmen aren't choosing their voters. The
state legislatures choose the voters from members of Congress, and
(28:01):
Tappers should know that he either doesn't have a strong
enough foundation in civics to be a national anchor, or
he was intentionally trying to make a false point, or
he just wasn't thinking clearly on national TV. But congressmen
aren't picking their voters. This is the Texas legislature doing this,
not congress. Cappra's off. He's wrong. Moreover, his idea of
a state commission hasn't solved jerrymandery. So take California. California
(28:24):
created a redistricting commission, and that commission ended up creating
more districts for Democrats, more for Democrat friendly districts through
the commission. So it's not that they created a balanced map.
They created one that heavily favored Democrats. The commission wasn't unbiased.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
No, And look that the whole deal about jerry mandering, right,
which is for those of you who don't know, and
I know most of our audience already knows. It's the
practice of like drawing these electoral district boundaries to advantage
a political particular particle, party, or a group. And I
think it is very destructive gerrymandering, that is, to representative democracy.
(29:07):
I agree, because when you manipulate, when you manipulate these
district maps, lawmakers undermine the core democratic principles of fair representation,
right of equal voting power, electoral competition, and accountability. And
that's what's so dangerous here. And as Speaker Johnson pointed out,
(29:28):
you know, Democrats have been doing this for decades in
all of our fifty states, more than a century. I mean,
we've had gerrymandering going back to the eighteen hundreds when
the first salamander shaped district was made and they called
that the gerrymander. Now, look Gavin Newsom, governor gave Newsom California.
He's threatening to retaliate for texas As redistricting. He says, well,
(29:51):
if Texas redistricts to create five new Republican districts. We're
going to redistrict in California to create five new Democrat districts. Well,
two reasons he can't do that. One because of the Commission.
So California took the power to redistrict away from its
state legislature gave it to the Commission. So Gavin Newsom
can't just threaten we're going to redraw. The Commission has
(30:13):
to do it.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
More the point, I'm not sure he could draw a
more Democrat friendly map in California if he tried. Vice
President Ja d Vance made that point on Twitter. He said,
of their fifty two congressional districts, nine of them are Republican.
That means seventeen percent of the delegation is Republican when
Republicans regularly win forty percent of the vote in that state.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
And you know what's so offensive and really just disgusting
is that those who are in favor of redistricting based
on race.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
For example, well like they did in Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
What they're basically saying is and Democrats are saying this
part out loud, yes, is that they aren't adequately represented
by a white congressman.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yes, that's the whole premise behind it.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
So if you have black congressmen and women, are you
saying white people aren't properly represented?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
That's a great less So let's go back to Texas.
You've got you know, Wesley Hunt, Congressman Wesley Hunt, West
Point Graduate, he's now in Congress, been re elected, and
his district is majority white. He happens to be black.
His district's majority white. Are you telling me the white
people in his district have no one to vote for?
(31:28):
I mean, if you say that a black person is
no one to vote for unless they're black.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
It's just flawed logic.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
It's absolutely flawed logic. So look, Texas is simply threatening
to do what California has already done. And once again
we have the left screaming about something they're currently doing,
but in reverse, it's the Party of Projection. They accuse
you of jerrymandering, know that they've been doing that already,
and it's part of why Congress is so close right
now when the vote was much more Republican.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
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Speaker 1 (32:11):
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Speaker 5 (32:14):
So there is a new Pew Research poll that just dropped,
and it is a total game changer because I think
we are witnessing nothing short of a political earthquake among
the youth in America because for decades the Democrats have
taken young voters for granted, right, counting them as rock solid,
you know, pillar of their coalition. Well surprised that pillar
(32:37):
is crumbling faster than you can say socialism because back
in twenty twenty three, sixty two percent of men aged
eighteen to twenty nine said they were Democrats.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Is sixty two percent of men young men eighteen to
twenty nine in twenty twenty three, in twenty twenty three eight, yes, yes, correct,
But now yeah, twenty twenty five, two years later, just
thirty four percent, thirty four percent. So you went from
sixty two percent two years ago, yeah, to thirty four
(33:10):
percent now because say they're who say they're Democrats. That's
a huge That is a twenty eight point nose dive
in just two years. Meanwhile, Republicans, well they have surged
really from thirty six percent okay two years ago to
fifty two percent, and that's in the same age group.
They've almost flopped positions.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
That's a sixteen point jump, a seismic shift, and that
is the kind you don't see every election cycle.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
No, that's that's actually the last time I think you
saw something similar to that would have been in the
nineteen sixties when it went from conservative to Democrat among
young people. But you know, young people have actually been
much more leftist than conservative for a very long time.
There's that old saying, you know, show me a young
man who's a conservative, will show you a man with
no heart. Show me an old man who's a leftist
(33:58):
or a liberal, and I'll show you a man with
no So you've had that general transition that's kind of
been well.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I think they're learning that. I think now young people
are learning those lessons at a much younger age.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well, and the left doesn't really have the heart that
the left used to have. Instead of being bleeding hearts,
they're now proto fascists.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Let's see. I think the Democrat Party has burned through
their credibility with the young generation because they've had to
live through skyrocketing inflation, yes, ballooning crime, and cities that
are run by Democratic mayors.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Anti democratic campaigns run by the Democratic Party. Again, no
one voted for Kamala before she became the nominee of
that party.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
So anyway, it's good news because these young people are
rejecting those policies that have left them worse off.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, especially men, especially men. The Democrat Party has been
very hostile to men for a.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
While, and they're waking up, I think, to a Republican
party that is more welcoming, more aligned with their hopes
and dreams.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Let's get to a brid spot.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
I'm doing all right, getting good grace. I got a shame.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
So back in the nineteen fifties, President Eisenhower wanted to
improve the physical fitness of American children, so he created
the President's Council on Youth Fitness, which then created the
Youth Fitness Project. President Kennedy expanded that program into the
Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Kennedy wrote an op ed in
Sports illustrated the harsh fact of the matter is that
there is also increasingly large number of young Americans who
(35:35):
are neglecting their bodies, whose physical fitness is not what
it should be, and who are getting soft. And such
softness on the part of the individual citizen can help
to strip and destroy the vitality of a nation sounds
kind of like what's going on even more so today? Right, absolutely,
So what happened? Do you remember taking the Presidential Physical
Fitness Test in elementary school? You remember doing that?
Speaker 5 (35:56):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Maybe I remember getting that gun.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Wasn't particularly fit growing up.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So Barack Obama happened. In twenty twelve, President Barack Obama
killed the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, and since then, more
and more children have become obese. Now I'm not saying
Obama is the cause of youth obesity, but getting rid
of the rigorous standards of the Presidential Physical fitness help
certainly didn't The fitness test certainly didn't help turn that around. Well,
(36:25):
here's the bright spot. This week, President Trump announced he's
reinstating the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Carolyn Levitt released a
statement saying, quote, President Trump wants every young American to
have the opportunity to emphasize healthy, active lifestyles, creating a
culture of strength and excellence for years to come. I
(36:48):
love that we're going to create a culture of strength
and excellence in this country.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Absolutely, But you know, and I think it is true,
we have had declining physical fitness and overall health but
I think some of that, or maybe much of that,
it's not just what we're eating, right, it's not exercising.
I think the younger.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Generation there's a big part of not exercising.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
But I think the younger generation spends excessive time in
front of their screens. I mean, and you say the
younger generation, I'm not necessarily part of the younger generation.
I spend a ton of time every day behind the screen.
But habits get formed early. So if you're creating healthy
habits early, habits like exercise, it's easier to keep those
(37:35):
going for a lifetime. Whereas if you're trying to start
those habits when you're in your thirties, forties, or fifties,
it's harder to change the habit of not exercise. But
if you look back at the nineteen fifties in the
nineteen sixties, that was an era that was marked by
more regular physical activity, particularly among the youth, and I
think the country as a whole was healthier. Chronic illnesses
(37:56):
obesity like obesity, maybe diabetes.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Imagine how healthy the country would have been have we
ended up been smoking cigarettes back in the.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Nineteen fifties and sixty But today, though sixty percent of
Americans suffer from chronic illnesses.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Now, the exact standards of this new test have not
yet been announced. President Trump is establishing a committee to
come up with what those standards are. In the nineteen fifties,
the standards basically you were competing against other kids. To
get the awards, you had to be in the top
eighty five percent that was compared to other students. In
the nineteen eighties, that was changed. Basically you were then
competing against a standard set of fitness. So many sit
(38:31):
ups and push ups in a minute, and you either
reach that level or you didn't. And it did improve
the number of kids scoring over the standards. So I
think that's probably a better way to go. Have the
kids go after a set standard. Not necessarily a percentage
of health across the country, but here's the set standard.
Reach the standard, you'd get the Presidential Fitness Award.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
And it's not going to all come in at once. No,
little by little, little by little, it's a bridespot. We
should have never gotten rid of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
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